Episode 211: The Battle of Chang'an
Did you win? Have you completely defeated the enemy army? Dian Wei glanced around with some hindsight, and as far as the eye could see, all he saw were the soldiers of the Jizhou Coalition who had put down their swords and were being guarded, and next to them, the soldiers of the Taiping Army were full of excitement and joy, and when they talked about the great battle, they were full of showing off.
Xiao Lan is right, it is true that he has already won, but who knows how many Taiping soldiers have been killed in the bloody battle behind this victory, and he can't help but sigh in his mouth, Dian Wei only felt a little tired at this time, after all, even if he has the courage of the ancient evil, in the huge battle array of hundreds of thousands of troops, it is only an insignificant force after all.
Such a huge war, even if it is victorious, the casualties of the Taiping army are not a small number, looking around, most of the soldiers who rushed to kill together with him have disappeared, leaving behind a lot of scars, Rao is Dian Wei heart, and he can't help but sigh for a while.
Zhao Yun was captured, and the remaining Bai Ma Yi naturally couldn't escape this fate, and on the battlefield, the last stubborn enemy finally gave up resistance, and the war stopped.
In this battle, the two sides invested a total of 780,000 troops, and the fierce battle lasted for more than five or six hours, and the Jizhou coalition army of more than 300,000 troops, lost nearly 100,000, and captured nearly 100,000, and the rest fled with the retreat of Yuan Shao and others.
Yuan Yi, Liu Roll and other princes died in battle, Kong Rong was captured, the former Kwantung princes can be regarded as about to disappear, and many generals under Yuan Shao were killed and wounded, especially after Lu Bu was defeated in the hands of Xiao Lan, and most of the generals under Lu Bu such as Zhang Liao and Gao Shun of the state army were regarded as outcasts and became prisoners of the Taiping army.
Chun Yuqiong and Jiang Yiqu died in the chaos, because the army was trampled by their own cavalry when they retreated, Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan led the army to cut off his uncle. When he wanted to escape, he was chased and killed by Tai Shici.
In this battle, nearly 100 generals of the Jizhou coalition army were killed and wounded, most of them were killed by Dian Wei, which shows their fierceness and bravery. It's really appalling.
After this fiasco, the Jizhou coalition army is no longer able to compete with the Taiping army, and even, even the capital to hold on is gone, and today, there are few generals under Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, except for Yan Liangwen and Chou, there are almost few generals who can take charge alone.
On the other hand, the Taiping army, although it lost nearly 30,000 soldiers in this battle. However, the real leading general did not suffer much damage, and such a record is enough to shock the world.
Compared with the loud cheers of the soldiers of the Taiping Army, Xiao Lan is much calmer, but no matter how happy he is in his heart, he will not easily show it in front of the soldiers, which is the most basic cultivation of a hero. Obviously, today's Xiao Lan. It has really gradually completed the transformation.
At dusk, Xu Chu, Chen Zhi, and Zhou Tai led the troops back, and when the battle broke out in front, they sneaked into the rear, although they did not completely burn all the grain and grass of the Jizhou coalition army, but they also destroyed most of it. However, because the Jizhou coalition army lost more than 200,000 soldiers, the remaining grain and grass were also enough, and the results were obtained. On the contrary, it seems limited.
"Order Chen Dao, Xu Chu, Tai Shici, and Zhou Tai to lead 50,000 troops and go out of the Bohai Sea to attack Youzhou!"
"Ordered Guo Jia, Huang Zhong, and Gao Ran to lead 100,000 troops to Luoyang, send a letter to Guguan to enter Chang'an, and take down the emperor of the Han Dynasty."
There was no pause, that night, Xiao Lan once again ordered the division of the army to attack, and early the next morning, he personally led his troops across the border bridge, and launched the most fierce attack on Jizhou by virtue of the great victory.
Just when Xiao Lan divided the army and marched into the army, Cao Cao was leading his troops to fight with Xu Rong, Zhang Ji, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, Cao Cao had Cheng Yu as a strategy, plus Xiahou Brothers, Cao Ren, Le Jin, Li Dian and other brave generals, the army was more than 100,000, and the soldiers were strong, but Xu Rong and others were not weak, plus Jia Xu gave advice, for a while, the two sides were evenly matched, but the battle was hot.
It's just that the Xiliang army has just undergone a change, and the people's hearts are loose, Xu Rong, Zhang Ji, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others are also dissatisfied with each other, when they fight, they are often at a disadvantage, after a few battles, Xu Rong simply listened to Jia Xu's strategy, and helped to take advantage of the tall and strong Chang'an city, and he couldn't hold out.
Guo Yan was originally just a groom for Duan Xuan, the general of Dong Zhuo's account, but relying on his extraordinary talent, he was gradually reused by Dong Zhuo, he was sleek, although he was not angry with Xu Rong's attitude, but he never had the slightest objection.
But Li Dao couldn't accept it, and couldn't help but scold: "He can, when Lord Xiangguo was here, General Niu, General Dong and General Duan were so majestic, if they were there, how could he Xu Rong be so rampant!" ”
The three people mentioned by Li Wei are Niu Fu, Dong Yue and Duan Xuan, Niu Fu is Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, and Dong Yue and Duan Xuan are both veterans who followed Dong Zhuo back then, and these three people are Dong Zhuo's most trusted three generals!
However, Niu Fu and Duan Xuan were in charge of guarding Liangzhou and were now fighting against Ma Teng, while Dong Yue had already died during the Chang'an Rebellion.
In all fairness, if you use this talent, Xu Rong's ability is definitely above these three people, and Xu Rong's only deficiency compared to these three people is that he is different from Dong Zhuo's intimacy, so when Dong Zhuo was there, although Xu Rong also had to be reused, his status was far below the three of them.
Therefore, as soon as Li Dao's words came out, even if he was approved by everyone around him, everyone followed Li Dao and cursed for a while, and finally, Guo Yan couldn't help but ask: "Everyone should stop arguing, now that the enemy is current, although Xu Rong's gang is hateful, his ability is really not bad, and we still need to unite as one to fight against Cao Cao." ”
At this time, Zhang Ji, the general of the Xiliang Army, who had been standing next to him without making a sound, suddenly spoke: "Everyone! There's no way to go on like this! We have to listen to him Xu Rong for everything, and sooner or later we will be swallowed up by him, which is definitely not a good thing for us. ”
"Not bad." Hearing Zhang Ji's words, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others couldn't help but change their faces greatly, after Dong Zhuo's death, they occupied Chang'an and suppressed the hundred officials of the imperial court, but in fact, no one obeyed anyone, and now, Xu Rong gradually has the intention of taking the lead, which is definitely not the result they want: "If this Xu Rong is allowed to be so dominant, the forces of our people will be swallowed up by him sooner or later." ”
Yang Feng duly proposed: "If we take the opportunity to go out of the city tonight and attack Cao Cao's camp, if we defeat Cao Cao, then Xu Rong's prestige in the army will be weakened, and when the time comes, it will not be so easy for him to annex us." ”
"But by doing this, wouldn't we have violated General Xu Rong's military order?!" Yang Feng's voice fell, and even if there was a tall young general under his command, his brows furrowed.
Yang Feng couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the young general's question, and then immediately asked, "Xu Huang, what do you mean by this?" ”
Xu Huang had a straight face, and said in a deep voice: "General, now that we have elected General Xu Rong as the director, we should obey the military order, and the general openly disobeys General Xu Rong's military order, wouldn't it make General Xu Rong lose face, and it is very likely to cause the soldiers in the city to be unstable, which is not conducive to dealing with Cao Cao's army in the future!" ”
Hearing Xu Huang's advice, Yang Feng was only silent for a moment, and finally shook his head, and said coldly: "Although what you said is true, there are still many things you don't understand, this time we have to go out of the city, as long as the Cao army is defeated, all problems will not exist, you don't need to say more, just follow me out of the customs and kill the enemy!" ”
"This ...... The last will obey. "After all, he is still just a young general, and it is impossible to influence the decision of the battle situation, in the end, Yang Feng's proposal was unanimously agreed by Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji and others, and after nightfall, they led 50,000 troops and rushed straight to Cao's camp.
However, when they attacked the Cao camp violently, they unexpectedly found that the huge Cao camp turned out to be empty, Zhang Ji and the others looked at each other with puzzled faces, and it was not until half a sound that they woke up, and even a shout of exclamation was in their mouths: "Ah! Oh no, we've got it! (To be continued......)