Not long after Guo Dian's envoy left, when Liu Chang was still busy promoting new farm tools, the men sent by Dong Zhuo came to Dingzhou City.

Liu Chang received Liu Bei and said, "Brother Xuande is meeting again. Are General Dong ready?"

Liu Bei said to Liu Chang: "Report to General Liu, General Dong has already brought a large group of troops to the city of Quyang County, and has gotten along with Guo Dian, the prefect of Julu. Now I'm waiting for you to go there. General Dong specially sent me to inform you."

After hearing these words, Liu Chang said to Liu Bei: "Since that's the case, then we will set off immediately after I order the troops."

After hearing this, Liu Bei said, "In this way, I will live up to General Dong's entrustedness."

"Then please wait for me for a day, and I will settle all the affairs in the city. We will set off tomorrow."

"I should obey General Liu's words."

Liu Chang called Zhao Xin to come and said to him: "Take Brother Xuande to rest."

Zhao Xin said to Liu Bei: "Person Liu, please come with me."

"Then I'll be disturbing." After that, he followed Zhao Xin out.

Liu Chang called Zhao Di again: "You go and gather people, we will set out to Quyang County tomorrow."

"Brother, how many people will we bring this time?"

“How many people do we have now?”

"We have trained now, more than 500 cavalry, 500 infantry, and more than 1,000 archers. If we summon some rebels, we should be able to reach more than 10,000."

Liu Chang thought for a while and said, "The strength is more expensive than the strength. It may not be possible to bring any training hands over. What's more, the main force in the past was not me. I don't need to bring too many people. If you go out this time, don't go, and train some soldiers well. Yide and I will just take two thousand infantrymen."

Zhao Di said with some concern: "Will the eldest brother bring only these people and horses have too few staff?"

Liu Chang explained: "The key to siege this time is Dong Zhuo. I just took the opportunity to pick up cheap people. It would be unbeautiful to bring too many people."

So Zhao Di replied, "Then brother, don't worry, I will definitely take this time to train the soldiers."

Liu Chang smiled and nodded and said, "Very good."

When Liu Chang led his men to Quyang County, he saw his army surrounding Quyang County. Dong Zhuo and Guo Dian greeted Liu Chang at the entrance of the camp.

When Guo Dian saw Liu Chang's troops wearing armor, sharp swords and guns, and neat military appearance, he couldn't help but exclaim: "I heard before that General Liu was full of elite soldiers and was well-known when he saw this today."

Liu Chang quickly turned over and dismounted and said to the two of them, "I have seen General Dong and Prefect Guo, so I have been late, so I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Dong Zhuo smiled and said, "We made an agreement before, and we sent someone to invite General Liu after I arrived. How could there be a long wait? Let's go to the camp and rest first."

The three of them sat in the tent and began to discuss plans.

Dong Zhuo first asked: "Now Zhang Bao can't hold on to the city, do you two have any good ideas?"

Guo Dian suggested: "Now that Zhang Bao is besieged in Quyang City, they are numerous, so there will definitely be no sufficient food and grass. We just need to dig trenches around the city, and then we can trap them in the city. In this way, they will definitely surrender without fighting within half a year. After all, people have to eat."

When Liu Chang heard this, he felt it was very reasonable and said in agreement: "Prince Guo's words are reasonable. We just need to trap them and defeat them easily without a single soldier. It is really the best choice."

After hearing this, Dong Zhuo said with some displeasure: "The emperor will hand over the important task of eliminating the Yellow Turban bandits to us, so we will share the worries of the emperor. How can we put the emperor's will behind the mind because of pity on the lives of the soldiers? Therefore, I will definitely lead the soldiers to attack the city first, so you two will make your own decision."

Guo Dian began to suggest hard again: "General Dong, we are all thanks to the emperor, so we want to destroy the bandits for the country. If we forcefully attack the city, we may not be able to take down this city. If so, wouldn't we let the emperor down for our trust in us?"

Dong Zhuo shouted at him angrily and said, "Before we have attacked the city, you are talking nonsense here. Did you have any strange intentions? We just stayed under the city wall like this, will God give heavenly punishment to punish these Yellow Turban bandits?"

Guo Dian said with a trembling tone and sad expression: "It's not that I'm exaggerating. Sun Tzu's Art of War once said: Therefore, victory is a victory in every battle, not a good person; defeating others' soldiers without fighting is a good person. Therefore, the superior soldiers attack plan, secondly attacking diplomatic relations, secondly attacking troops, and below attacking the city. The method of attacking the city is a last resort. It can be seen that siege is the last helpless move. I hope General Dong will think twice about the national affairs."

Seeing that the two of them were arguing hard, Liu Chang kept watching them silently without saying anything. He just thought to himself: "If Dong Zhuo invites himself to attack the city, he will definitely not go."

Dong Zhuo looked at Liu Chang with such a dispute, and asked, "What do General Liu think?"

Liu Chang thought for a while and said, "General Dong and Prefect Guo's words make sense, but if they forcefully attack the city, I am afraid that Zhang Jiao, who is in Guangzong County, will take the opportunity to attack us. I am not under a large number of people, and I think there will be no key role in siege. If General Dong insists on siegeing the city, please let me station in the southeast direction to prevent Zhang Jiao from leading people north to attack us."

Dong Zhuo heard that since Liu Chang was not opposed to his siege, he was just unwilling to do his best. What's more, he had no right to control Liu Chang, and he brought not many people, so it would be unrealistic to force him to attack the city. However, if he captured the city, he would not need to share the great contribution of Liu Chang. So he immediately agreed to this suggestion and said heroically to Liu Chang: "Okay, if so, we will attack Quyang County here. General Liu will defend the enemy from the south for us. The important task of guarding Zhang Jiao depends entirely on General Liu."

After saying these words, Dong Zhuo said to Guo Dian: "Since General Liu does not object to my plan, then we should act as siege to the death to repay the emperor's kindness."

Guo Dian wanted to say something, but he was interrupted by Dong Zhuo as soon as he opened his mouth: "I have decided, don't talk anymore. Go and prepare the siege equipment quickly. We will start attacking this city immediately to repay the emperor's great kindness."

Guo Dian sighed and then swayed his sleeves and walked out of the tent.

Dong Zhuo said to Liu Chang again: "If Zhang Jiao from the south takes the opportunity to attack, General Liu will help us block them."

Liu Chang replied solemnly: "We should do our best for the country to repay the emperor's kindness."
Chapter completed!