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Wang Kuang was defeated, and he lost very quickly and very badly.

In the face of the army led by Li Dao, Guo Yan and Zhang Ji, Wang Kuang was quite lucky to be able to barely escape, and the pressure on him from the big man in Zhang Ji's army was too great. His number one general, Fang Yue, fought with him before he was beaten and fell off his horse. If it weren't for Fang Yue's personal guards who swore to protect him, he was afraid that he would die on the spot.

As for Wang De, the relative general who guarded Wang Kuang's escape, he was surrounded by Li Dao's leading troops, and seeing that the lord had broken away, he chose the most tragic way of fighting. It's a pity that all the guards around him died in battle, and they passively killed Li Dao with a joint force.

And Han Hao, who originally led his troops to attack Mengjin Pass, knew that something was wrong as soon as he heard the news that Dong Zhuo had crossed the river from Pingjin Pass, but what he didn't expect was that Dong Zhuojun's speed of action was far beyond his imagination, and before his urgent messenger arrived at Wang Kuang's camp, Dong Zhuojun had already begun to move.

Han Hao originally planned to follow behind Dong Zhuojun, firstly, once Wang Kuang was defeated, he could respond, and secondly, if Wang Kuang could hold it (although Han Hao himself felt that the possibility was too low), then he could lead his troops to form a flanking attack on Dong Zhuojun in the rear.

It's just that although he successfully picked up Wang Kuang, who fled in a hurry, most of the thousands of people and horses he brought with him became meat buns thrown at the wild dogs, and he really couldn't go home. It also marked the disappearance of the last combatable army in Hanoi County.

Dong Zhuo just used the two tactics of bluffing and attacking the east and the west to completely wipe out Wang Kuangjun, whose strength can also rank in the middle among the princes, which is undoubtedly a very morale-boosting thing for Dong Zhuojun.

However, when Dong Zhuo received the herald from Li Dao and others, he didn't show much joy, but just nodded slightly to indicate that he already knew about the matter and asked the herald to retreat. If the generals in the tent observed carefully, they would find that there was not the slightest joy of victory in Dong Zhuo's eyes at this time. Yes, it's just calm and a few subtle strange emotions buried under the calm. It's a pity that Dong Zhuo's reputation in the Xiliang Army is too great, and no one wants to offend his majesty.

The news of Wang Kuang's fiasco soon flew all over the north and south of the Han Dynasty with the scattered rout. Ordinary people, officers and soldiers and even some princes who were more good at administration secretly smacked their tongues at Dong Zhuojun's combat effectiveness, and they had a clearer understanding of Dong Zhuojun's ferocity, so that for a while, there were fluctuations in the feelings of soldiers in many places.

However, in the eyes of professionals who know a lot about military affairs, the technical content of this war is far from as high as it appears on the surface.

Dong Zhuo has as many as 200,000 combatable soldiers in his hands, and even after deducting the troops needed to defend the Quartet and Niu Fu to clear the White Wave Thieves, Dong Zhuo still has nearly 150,000 mobilization capabilities in his hands. After all, Han Sui in the northwest reached a reconciliation with Dong Zhuo, Liu Yan in Yizhou in the south could not enter the pass as long as he held the pass, and the princes of Kwantung were all in the preparation stage, so Dong Zhuo's defensive pressure was really light. That's why he has so much at hand.

On the other hand, Wang Kuang, in just Hanoi County, although he can recruit a large number of soldiers by virtue of his population advantage, first, Wang Kuang does not have such a rich family background, and second, even if he recruits, he is still a group of new soldiers, and it is not of much use except for sending him to death and causing the vast sea of people's war, but it is possible to collapse first when the war is unfavorable.

Therefore, even if Wang Kuang absorbed some veterans who withdrew from the northwest and recruited a lot of Taishan crossbows from his hometown Taishan, the total strength did not exceed 30,000. Compared with Dong Zhuojun's more than 100,000 available soldiers, Wang Kuang's family background is even more thin.

Of course, this is still a conclusion made on the basis of not calculating the individual combat effectiveness of soldiers on both sides.

Although Hanoi and Henan are separated by a natural danger of the Yellow River, which can theoretically allow the defenders to play the role of one to ten, but when there are many soldiers attacking and defending to a certain extent, this original advantage becomes a disadvantage that makes people collapse.

Dong Zhuo has a lot of soldiers, there are too many, casually throw out tens of thousands of people as bait, Wang Kuang has to take the bait obediently, otherwise the fragrant bait will become an extremely ferocious blade in the blink of an eye, and he will not stop if he doesn't poke a few holes. What's more, now that Dong Zhuo is even more willing to sacrifice his blood and carry himself out, Wang Kuang really has no other way to choose except to take the bait obediently.

Of course, the most important thing is that although the weather is getting warmer, the originally frozen Yellow River is beginning to thaw. Even if you can't run a horse, but for an ordinary soldier, if you don't kick on it together, then the ice will be enough to withstand it. This is also the biggest reason why the troops of Li Dao and others crossed the Yellow River so quickly.

Such a Yellow River can be said to have weakened Wang Kuang's original geographical advantage to a minimum. And these disadvantages are superimposed, as long as Dong Zhuo is not stupid as a pig, and only knows that pigs are advancing by leaps and bounds, then it is really not easy to lose.

However, there are also a lot of things revealed in this battle, but because of the different angles, their views are also different, so I won't list them all here. All in all: sacrificed Wang Kuang's ego and achieved a lot of people's big you.

Of course, the most important point is that Wang Kuang used his defeat to send a clear signal to the princes of the world, that is: If you want to defeat Dong Zhuo, then it is definitely not possible to fight alone, otherwise you will only be defeated by Dong Zhuo.

Since the princes want to unite, what kind of means will Dong Zhuo use to deal with it?

"Hedong Taishou and Hanoi Taishou, Dong Zhongying's handwriting is not small. It's just that what do you think he has in peace? ”

Li Shushi, who had returned to Jinyang City from the Yin Pavilion in Yanmen, immediately summoned his subordinates to his governor's mansion for a meeting. Because the position had been agreed upon, Guo Yi, the Taishou of Yanmen, and Zhang Yang, the Taishou of Shangdang, did not attend this meeting, and still handled official business in the places they managed. After the Spring Festival, as the soil thaws, the new year's farming season is about to begin, and there is a lot of work to be done. Even if the scale is small, it will reduce the reputation of officials.

As soon as the meeting began, Li Shushi spread the edict sent by Dong Zhuo to everyone attending the meeting.

In addition to those official articles, the meaning of the edict is very simple - Hedong and Hexi are handled by Li Shushi, and Li Shushi can recommend two people to serve as the taishou of the two places, as long as it conforms to the laws of the imperial court, Dong Zhuo will not obstruct it. Of course, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and as long as Li Shushi decides to gain control of these two counties, then he will have to bear corresponding obligations, including exterminating the stubborn White Wave thieves and being responsible for resisting the attack of the Kwantung princes from north of the Yellow River, and ensuring the safety of Luoyang's northern flank.

The price offered by Dong Zhuo is not low, and it is even a little beyond Li Shushi's imagination in a certain way. However, although the price is not low, it is not easy to eat it in your mouth first, and it can be said that this multiple-choice question is not very easy to do.

The common feature of Hanoi and Ha Dong is the fertile land. One is located on the north bank of the Yellow River, with a large alluvial plain, and at the same time, there are large and medium-sized rivers such as Jishui and Qinshui; The other is located in the valley of the Fen River, downstream of the Fen River, an important tributary of the Yellow River, and has the most fertile alluvial soil, and one of the Fen rivers provides the vast majority of the irrigation water to the east of the river.

It can be said that as long as these two counties are owned, as long as there is no major disaster, Li Shushi's annexed state army will not have to worry about military rations. Even if some savings or new planting techniques are adopted, perhaps Li Shushi, the military ration in Shuozhou, can also solve a large share. At that time, Lu Zhi may not need to be so careful when deciding on strategy.

Of course, food is only one aspect, and more importantly, as the former Taishou of Hedong, Li Shushi knows very well what kind of wealth he has there - Hedong has a large-scale salt mine that is rare in the north of the Han Dynasty.

The significance of salt as a commodity to mankind and the wealth it can create can be described as terrifying. Although the extraction of rock salt is more cumbersome than sea salt, it can still be called a profitable commodity in terms of cost. One of the big reasons why Yidun, a famous businessman in Hedong, was able to become a super-giant businessman looked up to by the world was his mining of Hedong salt mines.

Even if we don't mention the huge tax revenue that the salt mines can bring, the money saved by importing salt from the state every year in the future is a considerable figure, and this will also become another benevolent policy that Li Shushi implements to the people of the state.

In addition, Hanoi and Ha Dong are also very rich in minerals. Others may not be able to be used effectively at the level of smelting at this time, but with the coal resources of the state, it is not a problem to at least smelt iron ore and convert it into fine steel ingots. Whether it is Linxi County in Hanoi County or Pishi County, Binh Yang County and An Yi County in Hedong, there are qualified iron ore production.

With high-quality steel ingots, coupled with the outstanding craftsmen and their heirs that Li Shushi brought back from Luoyang, not to mention anything else, Li Shushi may be able to accumulate a wealth that will not be spent for several generations just as an arms dealer in the future.

Other activities such as fruit trade, water transportation, and handicraft processing in Hanoi could effectively enrich the economic activities of Li Shushi's territory, allowing him to implement his previous plan to promote population development through economy more effectively, and at the same time ensuring that he had more funds for foreign wars.

Well, it's really just thinking about it that makes people's mouths water.

Therefore, it is precisely because of the fact that the two counties of Hedong and Hanoi are not large, but they are extremely rich in resources, and since the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, these two counties have always belonged to the land of Gyeonggi and are directly controlled by the state.

This is really drooling the more you think about it, so much so that when Dong Zhuo's holy decree was circulated, except for a few people who were quite sane, most of the people's eyes were full of blood-red color, after all, most of the people here had been in Hedong for a short time.

It's just that Dong Zhuo threw such a tempting bait, is it really so easy to eat?

ps: I went to see the box of dragons during the low tide period, and I was really looking for death......

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