Although Dong Zhuo had to bear a lot of responsibilities in this matter, Huangfu Song was actually quite responsible. After all, the reason why Liu Zheng rose was because he did not wipe out the Yellow Turban Army in Runan before, which gave Liu Zheng a chance to take a breath and thus grew stronger.

So if you really want to investigate it in depth, Huangfu Song will naturally have the responsibility, and he will not be blamed.

On the contrary, Lu Zhi was quite arrogant.

"A mere tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Party have made you like this. In my opinion, we don't have to worry about the Yellow Turban thieves in Runan. Instead, we will first jointly wipe out Zhang Jiao, who was killed by Julu. The situation is decided. Those Yellow Turban Party can be dealt with at any time. As long as the dragons have no heads, they will not be able to make any waves."

"You can't say that. Now the Yellow Turban thieves in Runan have already reached Hulao Pass. If Hulao Pass is really broken by them, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Huangfu Song disagrees with Lu Zhi's contempt. Although Huangfu Song has never fought head-on with Liu Zheng, he has already become very interested in Liu Zheng based on the recent situation shown by Liu Zheng.

In particular, Huangfu Song also heard from his subordinate Cao Cao that when Liu Zheng first met him, he was just a personal soldier of the Yellow Turban Little Qus. Now, in just three months, he has become the largest Yellow Turban Little Qus in Runan and Yingchuan.

He has even replaced his former position as Bocai and became the upstart among the Yellow Turban Army.

Now it has developed to the extent that it can attack Hulao Pass and attack Luoyang, which has forced Huangfu Song to place Liu Zheng in a relatively conspicuous position.

"Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo, you are too tall and look at the Yellow Turban thief. There are only 50,000 Yellow Turban thieves who can really fight, but I'm afraid there are not even 10,000 people. Do you think that relying on these people can lead to the tiger prison?"

"Even if he can defeat Hulao Pass, will there really be no one in Luoyang? Not to mention the general's troops, even Lang Wei led by Guangluxun, guards led by Weiwei, the capital garrison troops led by Jinwu, and the city gate soldiers led by the city gate lieutenant, were not those Yellow Turban thieves who could fight."

Lu Zhi was the humble minister of the Han court and had a thorough understanding of the deployment of the Han army.

"Brother Lu Zhi, the court is no longer the time of Emperor Wu. Now the court has greatly weakened the central army. The five Northern Army schools led by us have taken away. There are a large number of central troops and horses, and now there are at most 30,000 people in Luoyang. If Liu Zheng's men can really break the Hulao Pass, it will still pose a great threat to Luoyang."

"I understand all these, but now we have to give up the advantage we have finally won and run to deal with Liu Zheng?"

Lu Zhi raised his eyebrows and asked back, leaving Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song speechless.

"This is unlikely. Now we can only eliminate Zhang Jiao as soon as possible and then return to the court."

"Well, that's right. That guy Zhang Jiao fought with us the day before yesterday and lost 30,000 people again. Now there are not many people in Jizhou. We can take this opportunity to defeat Julu City in one fell swoop."

"Julu City is the old nest of the Yellow Turban thieves after all. If we can drive the Yellow Turban thieves away from Julu City, it will inevitably slash the morale of the Yellow Turban thieves. At that time, it will be much easier for us to pursue those Yellow Turban troops."

Lu Zhi quickly directed the topic to how to deal with Zhang Jiao.

Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo no longer continued to discuss with Lu Zhi about dealing with Liu Zheng. Instead, they began to formulate corresponding strategies for Zhang Jiao in Julu City.

Liu Zheng, who was outside Hulao Pass, was drinking wine and barbecue with Xu Huang and Zhou Cang, and his life was leisurely.

Liu Zheng, who rushed to Hulao Pass from Hongnong County, did not rush to attack Hulao Pass.

For Liu Zheng, his purpose here was not to attack Hulao Pass. Attacking Hulao Pass was of no benefit to Liu Zheng. On the contrary, he would also lose troops and lose generals.

The Hulao Pass, which is several feet high, cannot be easily penetrated by people. The majestic city wall alone is intimidating. If someone hadn't opened the door directly from inside and wanted to break the city wall and the city gate and break into it, with his current technology, Liu Zheng would not believe that he could break the pass.

If you want to not walk from Hulao Pass and divert to Luoyang, you can take the water route, and the other is to bypass Hulao Pass and take the mountain stream path.

But both methods are difficult to work.

The Yellow River is north of Hulao Pass. The water of the Yellow River is not only turbulent, but also the terrain is dangerous. It is too unlikely to ferry up.

The south is full of mountainous areas, with rugged terrain and difficult to move around. There may be no problem for three or five people to pass through, but Liu Zheng has 50,000 soldiers and 50,000 people climbing the mountain together, which is not a small matter.

Not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, but even military rations may not be able to keep up, I am afraid that I will starve to death before I arrive in Luoyang.

This is why Zhuge Liang did not follow Wei Yan's plan to attack Ziwu Valley later. Because from Chengdu to Ziwu Valley, the mountain road was rugged and difficult to walk, and it was not suitable for a large number of troops to pass through. Moreover, the food could not be supplied and there was no food and grass, so how could we talk about fighting?

Therefore, if Liu Zheng wanted to fight Luoyang, Hulao Pass would be the first hurdle before him.

However, he didn't want to fight Luoyang, so he naturally didn't fight Hulao Pass anymore. The reason why he brought his own people to gradually surround Hulao Pass was just to force the three major Zhonglang generals in Jizhou to give some pressure to those Zhonglang generals.

"Ship Qu, our troops have been surrounding Hulao Pass for two days, but they only surround and not fight. My brothers under my command are complaining now."

Zhou Cang picked up the wine in front of him, drank it all in one gulp, then ripped off a lamb leg before him, and ate it voraciously, chewing it while speaking at Liu Zheng.

"Write, what's the complaint?"

"Of course I feel that I have lived a leisurely life these two days and there is no battle to fight. Wouldn't they have no merits? Without merits, there will naturally be no rewards."

In the past few days, Liu Zheng followed the commendation system of later generations and formulated a series of reward and punishment measures for his troops.

He gave great rewards to soldiers who were brave and fearless in fighting, and the purpose was to cultivate the brave fighting character of these Yellow Turban soldiers under his command.

Of course, this is all based on the fact that Liu Zheng had enough prestige and was able to give them a lot of rewards.

With the gold that Liu Zheng had obtained from Cai Mao before as his confidence, Liu Zheng rewarded the group of people he had followed in one breath.
Chapter completed!