Chapter 41: The Second Year of the First Peace
The dispatch of troops and horses of the Kwantung princes was not mentioned for the time being, and the deployment of Dong Zhuo, a heroic man in the northwest, did not stop because of the arrival of the winter of the first year of the first year of the first peace. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The world has fallen apart, and since Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, this huge but long-term confrontation war has begun to stop excessively.
"Xiangguo, now the thieves in the Kanto region have retreated eastward, and they have not settled in Luoyang before the arrival of winter."
Burning Luoyang, Dong Zhuo left the army in Tongguan. In the last few months of the first year of the first peace, taking advantage of the unstable situation when hundreds of officials in the court moved to Chang'an, he ordered the court Guanglu Xun to go to Luoyang to take the throne of Taishi, whose status was higher than that of the princes and kings, and worshiped the marquis of Yi County, becoming a powerful minister above 10,000 people under one person in the world.
When the winter snow came, Dong Zhuo was reluctant to continue to garrison Luoyang, and instead stationed in Tongguan.
"Tell Ma Shoucheng to make an appointment with Han Wen, you don't have to lead the army to the east first, and stay in Longguan this winter. Now that the Kwantung princes began to retreat, they were no longer needed. ”
Tongguan, Dong Zhuo, who has been seriously blessed in the past two years, sat on the couch, squinted his eyes and asked slowly to Li Dao beside him: "The princes of Kwantung are all planning to retire, what about the two happiest thieves in Yanbei and Sun Jian?" ”
"They didn't retreat." Li Dao was afraid that his words would attract Dong Zhuo's dislike, so he lowered his head and said slowly: "Sun Jian is still stationed in Yangren, and he is facing off against Zhonglang General Xu Rong with his back to Liang County; As for Yanbei, he is eager to try at the revolving gate. Listening to the report of the scouts sent to Hedong by Captain Niu, before the snow fell, some of the thieves in Hedong waved the Yanzi flag in the camp...... He may have instigated the White Wave Thief. ”
"White wave thief, well, those bastard dogs, don't you think it's too late to fall to Yanbei now?" Dong Zhuo was not angry when he heard the news that Yanbei might have instigated the White Wave Thief, but his fierce face was a little contemptuous, and he said with a bit of guidance between his words: "The best time for the White Wave Thieves to send troops has passed, although they have a lot of soldiers and horses, they do not pose any threat to the imperial court, but the tenacity of these two thieves is beyond Dong's expectations, but it doesn't hurt." ”
The best time for the Baibo army to attack was when Yanbei invited them to send troops for the first time, and cut off Dong Zhuo's retreat to Chang'an. At that time, if they and the Kwantung princes could work together, even if Dong Zhuo had more than 100,000 soldiers in Luoyang, they would be tortured. But now? Dong Zhuo didn't plan to ask for it at all, even if the White Wave thieves sent troops, what could they do? A Tongguan Xiongcheng, even if there are siege weapons, they can't take it down.
"Childish, wait until February, you go out and see if you can persuade Yanbei and Sun Jian to surrender with the high-ranking official Houlu, even if you use the position of Jiuqing to lure you, it doesn't matter." Dong Zhuo chuckled, and let Jiuqing go to the imperial court, and the tigers and jackals that can be beaten can be pinched to death without being a crime. Of course, Dong Zhuo also knew that this possibility was very small, so he said: "Even if they don't get it, it doesn't matter, it's just another battle." Without Luoyang, there is no strong city and no grain and grass for 200 miles, and they are only more than moths and thieves. ”
Li Dao nodded with a little flattery, and then listened to Dong Zhuo continue: "As soon as the Kwantung Alliance is dispersed, they don't respect the imperial court and do their own thing, and they are not of the same mind, they will have civil strife sooner or later, so there is no need to worry. The key at the moment is Chang'an, and there are always those villains around the emperor who are talking about Dong Mou being a powerful minister and a traitor...... Now if there is no Dong in charge, the world is not like Kanto, it will be chaotic! ”
"Dong wants to go back to Chang'an, and the east of Tongguan will be handed over to you and Guo Aduo, and Xu Zhonglang will watch, relying on the strong army and the geography of Luoyang, and take care of these two boys who don't know the height of the sky."
Li Dao promised, he thought the same as Dong Zhuo, and did not think that Yanbei and Sun Jian would accept surrender, although the current situation is not optimistic enough for the Kwantung princes, but if even this situation and the two of them still have to be on a par with the western soldiers, the method of persuasion to surrender will never be accepted by them.
In this way, there is really such a big battle to be fought next spring.
A battle is enough to separate the male and female!
Not long after explaining the future matters to Li Dao and others, Dong Zhuo braved the wind and snow and went all the way west to Chang'an under the escort of his own army. At present, the Kwantung princes only have two soldiers and horses left in Yanbei and Sun Jian and plan to move westward, no matter what, their soldiers and horses have suffered a lot of losses, and there are only fifty or sixty thousand enemies left, and Dong Zhuo no longer regards them as the primary enemy.
Even, from the beginning of the army, Dong Zhuo never regarded the Kwantung Coalition Army as the main enemy, it was just a group of rabble, compared with them, the importance of stabilizing the imperial court is self-evident. Before Dong Zhuo personally went into battle, he would never face up to the enemy from the Kanto region.
There are countless generals in this era, but when it comes to military talent, Dong Zhuo deservedly ranks among the top five in the world. Dong Zhuo is not afraid of external enemies, he is only afraid of the blade from behind.
The longer he has been in charge of the government, Dong Zhuo is a rumor, and the ministers of the DPRK and China are as fierce as tigers in Dong Zhuo's opinion, far superior to the external threat of Sun Jian in Yanbei.
As for the White Wave Thief? Dong Zhuocai is not worried about them, that place in Hedong is Dong Zhongying's old territory, on the eve of the coup in Luoyang, he took three thousand elites in Hedong to watch the situation of the imperial court. The only thing that Hedong County can threaten at the moment is Luo ***, who is burned to ruins, and he can't disturb Sanfu.
For Dong Zhuo, the rebellion of the Kwantung princes never made him afraid and worried, and did not even cause him any substantial harm. But on the inner level, whether Dong Zhuo is willing to admit it or not, this massive uprising has changed his character, and even rewritten his life in the years to come.
Take control of the troops, speculate on coups, move from the frontier to the center, and grab enough political capital. This is the road of the famous minister arranged by Dong Zhuo for himself, if there is no accident, if everything goes well, maybe Dong Zhuo's wisdom will still be passed on in people's mouths after thousands of years.
For this reason, he did not hesitate to refuse the imperial court's conscription twice when the first emperor was seriously ill, and led the army to be stationed in Hedong County to wait and see the current situation. When the court fell into chaos, he crashed into the center of power in the world with the most fierce and majestic appearance, and secretly controlled the courtiers to exempt Liu Hong, who did not have much prestige and weight, from being the boss.
After that, the incompetent emperor Liu Wei was abolished and the talented Liu Xie was replaced. At least at that time, he didn't intend to be a powerful minister, whether it was to buy people's hearts or be dissatisfied with the previous court situation, he appointed talents, his cronies were no more than generals, and the three princes and nine secretaries of the court and the local Taishou assassin history and other real vacancies were left to scholars with political talents.
Dong Zhuo's sincerity to the world is there.
But what did his sincerity get in exchange? The scholars and samurai appointed by himself raised an army to rebel against him...... The capital was moved to Chang'an and Luoyang was burned. This is a clever move strategically, but politically it stinks, doesn't Dong Zhuo know it?
From Luoyang to Chang'an, Dong Zhuo personally burned down not only the majestic imperial city of the imperial court, but also the high self in his heart who was willing to work with others to clear the whole day.
The rest is not only the ruins of Chang'an and Luoyang, the new capitals of prosperity, which are smoking, but also Dong Zhuo's superstitious and violent addiction to desire after abandoning his high self.
Since the relocation of the capital, Lu Bu and others have been digging up the imperial tombs; arbitrarily fabricated charges to kill and plunder the wealthy family in Guanzhong, and whipped Zhang Wen to death; The widow of the strong overlord Fu Gui, Ma, is not a counter-harm and carries the position of the Grand Master; clan brothers, nephews, and nephews, from the ninety-year-old mother to the granddaughter who just knew how to run, all of them were feudal lords; The corpses of the soldiers were killed and eaten to deter the officials...... There are many crimes, and it is difficult to write a list.
Dong Zhuo no longer believed in those thankless things, he shook hands with Ma Tenghan, the anti-thief in Kansai, and discussed marching east to clean up the mountains and rivers.
It was not a mistake for the Kwantung princes to raise an army, the wicked would always be wicked, and the environment would only change to the extent of evil...... And the rise of the Kwantung princes created a giant thief and evil leader who was familiar thousands of years later.
The second year of the first peace came as scheduled in the snowstorm.
Dong Zhuo returned to Chang'an, in the fiefdom of Yiwu, called Long Live Wu, the city is seven feet high. Nearly tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were deployed in the land of Sanfu, and Ma Tenghan and 70,000 Liangzhou soldiers were stationed in Longguan, west of Chang'an, waiting for the order. Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Xu Rong led the troops to the east of Tongguan and confronted the remaining soldiers and horses of the Kwantung princes.
Before Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he was just a servant Wang Yun, who was quickly promoted to the imperial servant by him in two years, and then served as Shangshuling, and then served as Situ, Baiwenhou, and 5,000 households...... He is only one step away from the peak of his life.
As for the other protagonist of that big drama, Lu Bu was quickly promoted from the head of the subordinate book of the Bingzhou Assassin to the cavalry captain, Zhonglang General, and Du Tinghou, at this time, he was stationing 5,000 Bingzhou troops in Yanshi City, which was closest to the Revolving Gate Pass east of Luoyang, to confront Yanbei Yaoyao.
They are Dong Zhuo's most trusted Yiwen and Wuwu except for the Liangzhou generals, Lu Bu did hook up with Dong Zhuo's maidservant, and Dong Zhuo did throw a halberd at Lu Bu...... But how intimate do people have to be to get to this point?
The human heart is the strangest thing in the world.
Military dispatches were extremely frequent, and the two major military blocs in the eastern and western regions of the Kwantung and Western regions mobilized more than 300,000 troops and nearly one million logistical personnel.
But in Jizhou, Yuan Shao, who failed to unite with Han Fu, insisted on going his own way and ordered Lelang Taishou Zhang Qi to meet Liu Yu in person and persuade him to advance; Gongsun Zhan, the general of Fenwu, presented himself as Liu Bei as the assassin of Qingzhou, and he led his troops and horses all the way west to the revolving gate; Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, withdrew his troops and no longer supplied grain and grass to the former army, but a steady stream of grain and grass was still sent from Jizhou to Xuanmen Pass, Dongjun, Chenliu, Jibeiguo and other places, and tens of thousands of people rushed to the siege ordnance and the wooden fence of the camp to deliver it to the revolving gate.
A huge decisive battle, ready to go.