Relying on the advice of Sima Yi, Guo Jia, Zhong Yao and others, Liu Xie finally escaped from the siege and pursuit of Li Jue and Guo Si, passed Ji Pass safely, and then headed south to prepare to cross the river and enter Luoyang.

At this time, the remaining troops of Baibo's army, who were rushing to come one after another, continued to protect the King's Division. It seemed that Liu Xie's safety was more secure.

However, at this critical moment when we were about to arrive in Luoyang, everyone had different thoughts in their hearts:

After arriving in Luoyang, who is the number one hero? Who should be the one who deserves the most rewards?

The cooperative alliance established in the past is quietly emerging without realizing it...

After the army set up camp, Dong Cheng, Yang Feng and others were discussing the reconstruction matters after entering Luoyang Palace, but did not inform the Bai Bo army of Han Xian and Li Le and other generals. It was just that the meeting in their tent reached Han Xian, and he was immediately furious:

"We stood up to protect our Majesty when he was isolated and helpless. We were born and died and many soldiers were killed and injured. Today, as the great achievements were about to be completed, some people couldn't wait to monopolize the great achievements and exclude us!"

Although Li Le complained about Dong Cheng's slightly domineering behavior, he was not like Han Xian's roar that lost his mind. He calmly analyzed the situation and advised Han Xian: "Our Bai Bo army was originally a rebel. This time he followed Guo Fengxiao's advice to protect the emperor, so he easily took off the hat of the 'rebel'. However, the ministers in the court were still worried about us, and it was normal to prevent us. Now we should still focus on tolerance and we must not have a head-on conflict with Dong Cheng."

In fact, it was far more than Bai Bo's army. Even the suggestion that Zhang Yang wanted to protect Liu Xie and return to Luoyang was rejected by Dong Cheng, but Zhang Yang was not angry, but led his army back to the garrison of the Wild King. At this time, the army was short of food. At the same time, Zhang Yang brought a large amount of food from Hanoi County out of loyalty. On the way back to Luoyang, Liu Xie was grateful for his kindness and gave it to Dong Cheng to distribute. In order to target the generals and soldiers of the Bai Bo's army, Dong Cheng deliberately distributed small amounts of food in small quantities, and the morale of the Bai Bo's army was greatly affected.

Dong Cheng's secret suppression of Bai Bo's army soon made Han Xian unbearable. Finally, he sent troops to capture and kill Dong Cheng in anger. Dong Cheng fled to the wild king for help without success. Zhang Yang took him in and mediated in the middle, and the situation eased slightly. After this, Han Xian and his status obviously surpassed Dong Cheng. In addition, Yang Feng was originally an old general of Bai Bo's army, so he did not interfere too much. Fu Wan and Sima Fang had no military power in their hands, and Han Xian's reputation reached a new height for a while.

In July of the third year of Xingping, the down-and-out Liu Xie finally returned to the Luoyang Palace surrounded by ministers. Looking at the devastated palace, almost unable to find the majestic and magnificent figure of the past, Liu Xie couldn't help but feel very sad.

At the same time, after quelling the grief of losing Xi Zhicai, Cao Cao, who relied on a genius in the world, made up for the vacancy of Xi Zhicai and basically rectified the internal affairs of Yanzhou, adopted Mao Jie's suggestions and acted quickly, defeated the old Huang Turban Party entrenched in Runan and Yingchuan, and surrendered He Yi. Therefore, he obtained most of the territory of Sizhou and expanded his strength to get close to the emperor, thus further moving from Mao Jie's grand blueprint of "subjecting the emperor has ordered him to be denied" planned by Mao Jie.

For a time, Cao Cao became the closest prince around Emperor Xian, and the only prince who had enough determination to support Emperor Xian of Han.

At first, Cao Cao wanted to take advantage of the situation to enter Luoyang, so he ordered Cao Hong to lead his army westward. However, Dong Cheng and Yang Feng were afraid of Cao Cao's forces and sent troops to guard the important pass of the official road. Although they did not conflict with Cao Cao's army, they were treated politely by Cao Hong's arrival, but they refused Cao's army to enter Luoyang on the grounds that the capital had not yet recovered its vitality and that His Majesty had no time to receive government affairs, and that the rash move to the princes' army would cause chaos.

"What? You dare to leave us outside!"

Cao Hong, who was reckless by nature, was furious after hearing this. Yu Jin, who was beside him, seemed to be dissatisfied with Dong Cheng's style and said:

"The lord specially sent troops to guard Luoyang. Dong Cheng and other villains dared to stop him. General, why don't we attack and kill these defeated generals in one go, so that those rats dare not underestimate the lord!"

Before the order was issued, Mao Jie knew about it and rushed to Cao Hong's tent to dissuade him:

"If the general goes to war with the Luoyang defenders, it will not be just the general's own problem. At that time, Dong Cheng and others will definitely declare that Cao Cao is going to rebel, and the princes will definitely have some abnormal movements. This move is to bring unrighteousness to the lord!"

Cao Hong, who had awakened, then took back the order to send troops. Seeing that Cao Hong had stabilized, Mao Jie quickly returned the situation here. Cao Cao praised Mao Jie's calmness, so he also roughly understood the situation in the capital and decided to wait and see. According to the results of Cao Cao's discussion with the three strategists, the factional struggle in Luoyang is relatively fierce. At present, Han Xian, the leader of the Baibo army, relies on the advantage of the troops at hand, and gains a little advantage in the competition with Dong Cheng. Dong Cheng and others who opposed him will never sit still and wait for death. They will definitely take corresponding measures to fight. In this way, one of them should be at a disadvantage and move closer to him, and unite to expel and suppress the other side in one fell swoop. This is the best strategy.

The consequences were as they expected. Han Xian slowly wanted to control the sovereignty of the court, and he was arrogant and did whatever he wanted.

Dong Cheng suffered from Han Xian's arrogant contributions and arbitrarily and domineering barbaric practices such as the government affairs, but he was helpless. He had no choice but to contact Cao Cao from Puyang and asked him to lead his army into Luoyang in the name of going to Beijing to serve the king.

After Cao Cao entered Beijing, he immediately reached a tacit understanding with Dong Cheng and took the opportunity to report the various crimes of Emperor Han Xian. Han Xian was dissatisfied with him and argued with him. He even ignored the serious illness Li Le to persuade him to fight with him. Seeing that the situation was about to collapse, Zhang Yang accepted Han Xian's request and stood on the same front with him to argue with Cao Cao.

In order to make Zhang Yang retreat and Cao Cao also participated in Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang found that this would lead to a greater conflict with Cao Cao, so he decided to stay out of the matter and withdrew all the troops and returned to the Ye Wang. Although Han Xian stayed hard, he still did not receive Zhang Yang's actual assistance.

On the other hand, Cao Cao secretly mobilized the Cao army stationed in Chenliu to march westward, which was already rumored that it was very irresistible. In the fright, Han Xian knew it was unstoppable, so Yang Feng, who fled to Liang County overnight, hid.

However, Liu Xie told Cao Cao that he helped him at a critical moment and did not adopt Cao Cao's memorial to imprison him or even behead him. Instead, he sent an envoy to comfort him and told them that the emperor would make the decision for them, which dispelled Yang Feng and Han Xian's intention to raise troops to fight.

Although Cao Cao's decisive actions were like cutting off one of Han Xian's arms and leaving him alone, after all, the main force of the Bai Bo army in the middle and outside the city of Luoyang was still the power of the Bai Bo army. If the generals were in trouble, Han Xian would definitely hold the emperor hostage like Dong Zhuo. Cao Cao did not dare to take Han Xian down in one fell swoop, so he proposed to Dong Cheng to welcome the emperor to Xu County.
Chapter completed!