Chapter 145: A temporary staffer

The live stream chat exploded.

"Whoa, this makes my blood boil. Fighting in the age of cold weapons is just so lively!"

"Yuan Shao has so much charisma. No wonder the Yuan family likes him and dislikes Yuan Shu!"

"The Big-Eared Thief looks so young in there, and he's the most handsome one too!"

"To the one above, can handsomeness be eaten as a meal?"

"Look at these warlords acting all smug. If you didn't know better, you'd think they'd already taken Luoyang!"

Indian netizens mocked them. Since they belonged to Dong Zhuo's camp, they naturally hoped these warlords would all be finished off!

This group was naturally mocked by the crowd in return!

Luoyang City.

Dong Zhuo stood on the high platform of the imperial court, furious.

"They are all rebels, traitors!"

"Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu are all rebels!"

"Your Majesty, I have exhausted myself for the sake of the Great Han, yet Liu Bei even wants to assassinate me!"

Liu Xie rolled his eyes in secret, but on the surface, he still said in a childish voice,

"The Chancellor has worked hard."

Dong Zhuo looked at the assembled officials again.

"Nineteen warlords? In my eyes, they are just a pile of loose sand!"

"As long as I take the field, a single charge will send them into a rout. Do you believe me or not!"

The officials naturally kept saying they believed, they had to believe; if they didn't, they would die!

Lu Bu stepped out of the ranks.

"Foster Father, I view the warlords outside the pass as mere grass. I request to lead the expedition!"

Dong Zhuo laughed loudly.

"Good! With Fengxian here, I can sleep soundly!"

Hua Xiong stepped out of the ranks.

"Chancellor, why use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken? I am willing to go and take the heads of those warlords!"

Dong Zhuo nodded. He did not want Lu Bu to go into battle. Ever since the consecutive assassination attempts by Cao Cao and Liu Bei, he had to keep Lu Bu guarding the gate to sleep peacefully.

"Good! General Hua, I shall wait in Luoyang for your good news."

Dong Zhuo sent Hua Xiong, Li Ru, Hu Zhen, and Zhao Cen to lead fifty thousand elite troops to Sishui Pass to meet the enemy.

At Sishui Pass.

Hua Xiong sat upright in the main seat, laughing wantonly.

"The Allied forces are truly trash!"

He hadn't expected that he would achieve merit one after another as soon as he arrived at Sishui Pass.

Bao Xin, fearing that the vanguard, Sun Jian, the Prefect of Changsha, would snatch the primary merit, had sent his younger brother Bao Zhong to take a side path to attack Sishui Pass.

As a result, Hua Xiong raised his hand and swung his blade, cleaving Bao Zhong to death with a single strike!

Later, Sun Jian's bravery in killing Hu Zhen had indeed given Hua Xiong a fright!

Fortunately, Hua Xiong's luck was extremely good. Sun Jian's camp was short on grain and the morale of his troops was unstable, so Hua Xiong raided the camp in the middle of the night and crushed them!

"The warlords of Guandong are all trash!"

Hua Xiong drank a bowl of wine and laughed heartily.

Dong Zhuo had just promoted him to Commandant.

"I heard Liu Bei is also among the Allied forces. If I kill him, the Chancellor will be overjoyed, and appointing me as an Inspector is definitely possible!"

"As long as I work a little harder, being enfeoffed as a Marquis and appointed as a General is just around the corner!"

Hua Xiong fell into his own fantasies, unable to extricate himself!

"Report! ~"

A scout came to report.

"General, the main force of the Allied army has arrived and is setting up camp ten miles outside the pass!"

Hua Xiong's eyes lit up. Wasn't this merit about to come his way again!

He picked up his nine-foot long blade, strode down the city tower, and mustered five thousand Xiliang iron cavalry.

"Follow me to meet these Guandong warlords!"

The Xiliang iron cavalry also revealed joyful expressions. The previous consecutive victories had made them realize that the soldiers of the Guandong warlords lacked training and their generals were mediocre; military merit was coming especially easily!

In the Allied central camp.

Sun Jian walked angrily to Yuan Shu's desk.

"Yuan Gonglu, what is the meaning of this!"

Yuan Shu was still quite wary of the valiant Sun Jian and retreated a few steps.

"Sun Wentai, what are you doing? Don't take your anger out on me just because you lost a battle!"

Li Shunchen and two Korean warriors hurriedly protected Yuan Shu!

Sun Jian roared,

"Yuan Gonglu, our army's situation was originally excellent, and Cheng Pu even beheaded Hu Zhen. It was you who kept withholding grain and fodder, leading to unstable morale, which is why Hua Xiong's sneak attack succeeded!"

Yuan Shu was actually just suffering from a bout of jealousy. His relationship with Sun Jian had originally been quite good.

He just wasn't happy that Sun Jian had achieved merit, so he was sabotaging him behind his back!

Sun Jian cupped his hands toward Yuan Shao.

"Alliance Leader, tell me what to do!"

Yuan Shao glanced at Yuan Shu with disgust. Trash!

He said in a deep voice,

"Wentai, with a great enemy currently at the gates, we should first deal with Dong Zhuo's army at Sishui Pass."

Sun Jian laughed out of extreme anger.

"Does the Alliance Leader mean that I am the one who doesn't understand the big picture?"

Fire seemed to be spewing from his eyes!

It looked like a fight was about to break out inside the tent!

Liu Bei spoke up at this moment.

"Alliance Leader, I feel this matter must be handled. If everyone is fighting at the front later, what happens if Yuan Gonglu withholds grain and fodder again?"

Yuan Shu...

"Liu Bei, you!"

Everyone agreed, especially Han Fu; he was now very happy to strike at the Yuan family's reputation!

Sun Jian gave Liu Bei a grateful look.

Yuan Shu had no choice and pointed at the staffer behind him.

"It was he who sabotaged things behind my back! I only just found out myself."

A staffer?! This Yuan Shu was truly shameless; just a few days ago, he had said his plan was good!

Yuan Shao waved his hand and had the temporary staffer dragged out and beheaded!

Liu Bei shook his head in secret. A temporary staffer taking the fall? This Yuan Shu was going to chill the hearts of his subordinates!

Yuan Shao continued, ===== CHAPTER 146 =====