Chapter Twenty-Seven: The North and the South Are in Emergency
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The long-term confrontation between the revolving gate and Xingyang began.
Xingyang Jiancheng, during which more than 30,000 troops were stationed, not to mention that the princes of the east were stationed in each county, no matter who Dong Zhuo's army came, it was thankless to capture this city. The same is true of the revolving gate on the other side, Xu Rong's 20,000 soldiers and horses are strictly guarded, making the princes from all walks of life stop moving.
However, during this period of confrontation, many major events occurred within the two opposing military camps in the world, and no one was idle.
Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, became more and more dissatisfied with Qiao Mao, who was too guarded by Dongjun, and took the opportunity of entering Yin, Henan Province to break through his camp and kill Qiao Mao. After collecting all the soldiers and horses under his command, he raised the general Wang Qiu as the Taishou of Dongjun.
Sun Jian, who went north, killed Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou, and marched into Nanyang. Nanyang Taishou Zhang Zhi did not intend to provide grain and grass to Linjun Taishou Sun Jian, and the short-tempered Sun Jian had no edict in his hand, so he had to think of some ways by himself, so after Zhang Zhi refused to provide military rations to Sun Jian, he still came to the door with gifts. According to the custom, people come to visit with gifts, and they have to return to visit after a few days.
So Zhang Jian visited Sun Jian the next day, and was killed by Sun Jian's subordinates on the charge of not building roads in Nanyang County and blocking the soldiers and horses who went north to fight for Dong soldiers and horses. The old technique was repeated, and all the soldiers and horses of Nanyang County were collected, and their military rations and armaments were taken to the north along the way to Luyang.
At this point, Sun Jian's evil spirit of killing two state and county governors all the way made the officials along the way fearful, and from then on, Sun Jian had whatever he wanted. The number of soldiers and horses under his command has also expanded from 5,000 soldiers in Changsha County to more than 30,000 today, until Luyang and Yuan Shu have joined forces.
Dong Zhuo, on the other side, was forced to go crazy by the rebellion of the Kwantung princes. Dong Zhongying is not afraid of any anti-thieves, nor is he afraid of many enemies. He has experienced more than 100 battles in his life, the Qiang people, the Hu people, the Huns, and the Han people, which one has not been beaten down by him?
But the rebellion of the Kwantung princes made him chest and depression for a long time.
Those Taishou and generals are all state and county chiefs appointed by him personally!
It's all reversed!
Dong Zhuo's most disgusting thing is betrayal, betrayal!
These people in the imperial court have been appeasing him, and a righteous gentleman with courage like Lu Zhi has been hunted down and driven away by him. But how much Dong Zhuo misses Lu Zhi now! He would rather have someone say disrespectful things to him than see these men flatter him in the face of him, telling him that his prestige is as bright as the sun and the moon, and then turn the wolf-hearted men and horses to attack him.
Is there anything more disgusting in the world?
No!
No one could bear the anger of Dong Zhuo after falling into madness, and an edict was sent to Chang'an, and more than 50 people from Yuan Kui were all sentenced to the south of Chang'an, and the heads were rolling.
If Dong Zhuo still had a little conscience in his heart to save the Han family, then after that, that little bit disappeared.
fabricated charges to kill and plunder large households in Luoyang and take all their assets; Carry the prime minister to lead the military and political power of the world; Collect copper coins and copper people, mint small coins to change circulation...... Then, drive the people of Luoyang.
At this point, Sanfu is completely messed up. In the past, the relocation of the capital was only a hundred officials and ministers, court books and other things, but now, Dong Zhuo ordered that no one was allowed in the two hundred miles of Luoyang, and all of them were moved to Chang'an.
Once the battle at Revolving Gate Pass and Luoyang is frustrated, he will retreat westward, leaving nothing to the Kwantung princes.
By the way, there is also the imperial mausoleum in Luoyang!
So Dong Zhuo ordered Lu Bu to lead the troops to send the emperor's tombs, the six tombs of Yanshi and the nine tombs of Chang'an...... For a time, the tomb excavation of Sanfu was raised, and the emperor's mausoleum since the Han Dynasty was counted as one, and all those who could be dug were dug up and destroyed to take away the burial.
So far, no one can imagine the result.
Even Dong Zhuo, before entering Luoyang, would not have thought that the situation would be so bad as it is now, and his general Yu Luoyang wanted to fight with the Kwantung coalition army. What court and what the world does, it doesn't seem to matter so much.
Dong Zhuo just wanted to let out a bad breath.
In addition to the chaos in the Central Plains, this year Liu Biao rode down Jingzhou and relied on the local wealthy clan to jointly crush the Jingnan sect thieves...... In fact, these were the evil consequences of Sun Jian's killing of court officials in the north, but they were left to Liu Biao to clean up one by one.
Immediately afterwards, Xu Rong of the revolving gate pass was useless, so he could only guard Dong Zhuo disliked, and transferred Yang Ding to guard the revolving gate pass; Xu Rong went to Liangxian south of Luoyang to guard Sun Jian, the Jiangdong Tiger who was heading north.
Among the heroes of the Kwantung region, the most hated by Dong Zhuo was Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, who not only betrayed him, but also incited the princes from all walks of life to raise troops. But what Dong Zhuo feared the most was Wucheng Hou Sun Jian!
The two of them have a great relationship, as early as the crusade against Xiqiang, Sun Jian persuaded the Lord to kill Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo, on the other hand, felt a sense of sympathy for Sun Jian because of his tactics for treating the enemy. It's just that today's different identities and statuses have made the sympathy in his heart a strong sense of jealousy.
Of course, Dong Zhuo was also more jealous of Yanbei, who defeated the Liangzhou soldiers for the first time, but he was far from catching up with Sun Jian.
Dong Zhuo thinks very highly of himself, but puts Sun Jian in a position equal to his art of war, since he heard that Sun Jian raised troops, he sent Hu Zhen to replace Qiao Mao's position as the Taishou of Dongjun, and ordered him to march to Liang County with more than 10,000 soldiers. As for Yanbei, Dong Zhuo just felt in his heart that Yanbei's ability might be better than that of Xu Rong under his command.
In Yan Bei's heart, he thought that he had not actually fought against Xu Rong, and it was nonsense to defeat Xu Rong. Xu Rong's strategy of guarding himself is the most correct, relying on Xiongguan, why don't you go to defend it? Those who do not guard the pass are fools!
They are tied to the death, and in terms of battle strategy, neither of them can hurt the other party's roots. As for the battle outside Xingyang City, it was a big victory supported by the courage of his subordinate Sun Qingtai Shi Ci Su Fuyan.
Yanbei didn't have much credit, and his only credit was just to decisively march and successfully capture Xingyang City.
Of course, the capture of Xingyang City was a decisive victory for the coalition forces, giving them the ability to threaten the Revolving Gate Pass and even Luoyang, so that the Chinese army in Yanbei, Wang Kuang's northern route, and Yuan Shu's southern route could smoothly form a three-sided encirclement of Luoyang.
However, the capture of Xingyang City also made Yanbei lose the opportunity to fight with Xu Rong, there was no decisive battle, and Xu Rong was helpless when he entered the revolving door and locked it.
But he had just obtained the 6,000 high-headed horses from Liangzhou left behind by Huaxiong in Xingyang, but he didn't have the opportunity to rely on these war horses and armed soldiers to fight for 300 miles, who wouldn't feel discouraged in his heart?
In any case, Dong Zhuo was prompted to change generals, and when the Yangzi banner was planted at the head of the revolving gate, Yanbei felt extremely excited...... Xu Rong is a difficult opponent, if you change this general surnamed Yang, hey!
It may not be long before this battle will turn around!
The turnaround did occur in June, and there were accidents on the north and south roads one after another.
It's just that for Yanbei, this is not a turnaround but bad news.
Wang Kuang of the soldiers and horses on the north road was stationed in Wushejin, and guarded the enemy who might cross east from the Yellow River to Yanbei, the vanguard of the coalition army, but Wang Kuang's generals were too tendoned, and it was expected that Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses would fight him from Wushejin. After all, the five shrines on the other side of the strait were waving flags all day long, making a move that could attack at any time, which made him nervous. But in fact, Dong Zhuo sent Guo Yan to lead 3,000 Qiang Hu to ride from Pingjin in the northwest of Luoyang, quietly crossed the Yellow River, swept over Heyang and Wen County, and ran all the way to the east.
A surprise attack broke out on the opposite bank of Wushejin, Wang Kuang's strong crossbowmen thought they were at ease when the flag was waving on the other side, but they were frightened by the Liangzhou cavalry who came at night, and the tall horses smashed the camp, and Wang Kuang's strong crossbowmen suffered heavy casualties!
Yanbei became more and more worried about the military skills of his allies...... That's the Yellow River, the Yellow River that runs thousands of miles! Wang Kuang was able to not do a little more defense on the flanks, was he stupid or did he think that the enemy's long-seasoned generals were stupid?
didn't make a little defense on the flanks, so he was stewed by Guo Yan.
For a while, the north was empty, and there was no flank protection, so Yanbei was worried about the wide river at any time, and there was a gap in the blockade surrounded by three sides. Subsequently, Yanbei ordered Cao Cao to lead his headquarters to garrison the north of Xingyang to guard the river pass to guard against the enemy army that might attack.
Thanks to the help of Bao Xin's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, otherwise Yanbei would have lost the ability to defend Xingyang alone.
However, although Wang Kuang was defeated in Hejin, he was not discouraged, and turned around and returned to his hometown to continue to recruit soldiers and horses with great fanfare in the hope of fighting again.
Immediately afterwards, the battle on the South Road also changed.
Sun Jian's soldiers went to Luyang to rest for a while, and reached a consensus with Yuan Shu and formed an alliance, and Yuan Shu made Sun Jian a general who broke the captivity. Then Sun Poyu sent Sun Qiu, the prince of Changshi, to urge Yuan Shu to urge the soldiers to eat food, and toasted outside the city to see off Changshi.
At this time, Hu Zhen led his troops to the north of Luyang City and surrounded the men and horses outside the city. Sun Jian continued to drink unhurriedly, as if he had not seen the enemy, as if he was luring them to attack. Hu Zhen was worried that Sun Jian was deceitful and did not dare to enter the army, so Sun Jian slowly let his subordinates enter the city one by one. Only then did Hu Zhen find out...... There were no ambushes.
But he had missed the best opportunity to attack Sun Jian, and had no choice but to lead the army to retreat.
After this, Yuan Shu requisitioned the grain and grass of Nanyang County to supply Sun Jian, and guarded the grain route behind him. In July, Sun Jian officially marched to Liang County.
But...... He underestimated Xu Rong's talent in the art of war.
Tens of thousands of Liangzhou soldiers surrounded Sun Jian's army in Liang County, and then outflanked and divided the attack, so that these rabble forcibly recruited from various counties quickly routed, and Sun Jian escaped with his life.
The north and south roads are in a hurry!