Sun Jian's hunch was not wrong at all.

In the autumn of the second year of Zhongping, Zhang Wen led the Han army with a total of more than 100,000 infantry and cavalry to fight in Meiyang and fought with Han Sui.

Due to the discord between the generals of the Han army, the unevenness of the army's heart, and Han Sui knew that the Han army was false and real, Zhang Wen was defeated in successive battles, and Zhang Wen was forced to hold on to the camp.

Although Han Sui won, but Liangzhou is really poor, although he can gather more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, but can not gather enough food and grass for these soldiers and horses, as time goes by, Han Sui began to make plans to withdraw the army.

At this moment, it was probably Liu Xiu's spirit in the sky, and a meteor crossed the sky and smashed directly to the edge of Han Sui's military camp, which scared Han Sui's army up and down enough.

After all, as long as it is a Han person, who doesn't know that Liu Xiu used the trick of meteorite sky to defeat Wang Yi and become an army, and now the Han army can't win Wang Mang, so he actually directly invites God, so is there still a fight? Let's withdraw our troops quickly!

Han Sui's Xiliang army already had a large number of former Han army troops, and when they saw Liu Xiu in the sky, someone immediately ran to the Han army to report the news.

Dong Zhuo, who received the letter, was pushed in front by Zhang Wen, Dong Zhuo made a quick decision, and took Bao Hong and other soldiers and horses who came to support to fight overnight, killing Han Sui's people on their backs, and Dong Zhuo's army beheaded thousands and won a complete victory.

Dong Zhuo looked at the battlefield and laughed, this time, he is going to be famous all over the world! Don't seek to be on the same level as Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, second only to Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, there should be no problem in being the third in the world.

"General! Zhang Cheqi sent an order from the general, ordering our army to immediately retreat and repair, there must be no mistake! Li Wei rode up with a herald and asked, "General, what shall we do?" ”

Dong Zhuo's eyes were about to pop out when he heard this, he snorted and scolded, "Thief, your mother!" Ben has just won and is about to take advantage of the victory, why do you want me to withdraw my troops? ”

"My general asks you! If you don't say anything, leave your dog's head behind! Li Dao said that the sword was already on the shoulder of the herald, and the herald immediately shouted, "I heard that Zhang Cheqi has ordered Zhou Dangkou to lead 30,000 troops and horses, and is pulling out the camp to the west..."

"General, Zhang Wen is the commander after all, and he has the right to fake festivals, if he openly disobeys the military order, I'm afraid it's not appropriate." Li Ru persuaded in a low voice.

"Then let this old puppet insult the old man's head? What kind of thing is he Zhang Wen! A dog of the Yuan family! Also worthy of being handsome! ”

Dong Zhuo scolded angrily here, but he pressed everything on the Xiliang battlefield.

But when I thought of Zhang Wen's festival, my heart was also a little empty.

Zhang Wen, who held the festival, had the right to cut Dong Zhuo without reporting it to the imperial court.

"Father-in-law, my son-in-law thinks it's better to give up this battle to Zhou Dangkou."

"Huh?"

Dong Zhuo knew Li Ru's ability, and Li Ru said this, there must be a reason, so he asked, "Why is this?" ”

"Although Han Sui was defeated, but he was defeated but not chaotic, it can be seen that there is already a preparation for withdrawing the army, at this time the pursuit, nine times out of ten there will be losses, our army can follow behind, and after Zhou Dangkou is defeated, and then send troops, this victory and defeat, doesn't it show more of our means?"

Dong Zhuo touched his beard, rolled his eyes, and said with a smile, "Okay!" The pioneer will give it to Zhou Shen to see if he has the ability! ”

Dong Zhuo withdrew his troops and returned to the camp, and asked Zhang Wen to follow Zhou Shen, Zhang Wen was worried that Dong Zhuo would deceive, so he did not allow it, but asked him to crusade against Xian Lingqiang, who followed Han Sui's rebellion.

"Virtuous son-in-law, isn't this Zhang Wen stupid, what should we do now?" As soon as Dong Zhuo came out of the military tent, he immediately grabbed Li Ru and asked for advice.

"I just inquired and learned that Sun Jian followed Zhou Shen to fight, Zhou Shen will be defeated in this battle, as long as our army protects the whole army, it will be the first achievement!"

Dong Zhuo asked puzzledly, "This Sun Jian is known as the Jiangdong Tiger, and he is the first fierce general under Zhu Jun, with him, why does Zhou Shen worship instead?" ”

Li Ru smiled and said, "Uncle Yue doesn't know, Sun Jian was born poor, who is Zhou Shen?" Born in the Zhou clan of Runan, he has always been above the top, how can he follow Sun Jian's strategy, if I think correctly, it will be Sun Jian who said that he wants to go east, and he prefers to go west, so how can he be undefeated? ”

Dong Zhuo took a breath, shook his head and said, "These Kanto children, good officials are not appropriate, they want to fight with us, since this is the case, let's go and fight Lingqiang first!" ”

Li Ru, a poisoner who is known in history as not inferior to Jia Xu, has an extremely good grasp of people's hearts.

Zhou Shen led the army to pursue all the way, and saw that he was about to arrive at Yuzhong, the former station of Han Sui's old nest Jincheng, Sun Jian saw that there were many soldiers and horses in Yuzhong City, and under his own pursuit, most of the grain and grass carried by Han Sui were lost on the road, and judged that there was a shortage of food in the city, so he said to Zhou Shen, "General, "The Art of War" has a cloud: Therefore, the enemy can work hard, be hungry, and be able to move. The thief army has more grain and less grain, and the grain and grass must be transported from Huangzhong, please ask the general to give me 10,000 soldiers and horses, and I will take the small road and detour to the west of Jincheng, cut off the thief army's grain road, don't ten days, the thief army will be chaotic! ”

As soon as Zhou Shen heard what Sun Jian said about Sun Tzu's Art of War, he immediately became angry, you are not a poor person, and what is Sun Tzu's Art of War to tell me, you really think that you are Sun Wu's rebirth!

Zhou Shen rejected Sun Jian's proposal at the moment, and instead ordered the whole army to surround Yuzhong, in his opinion, Sun Jian's judgment was right, there is indeed little food in the city, since there is little food, then it would be good to besiege the city directly, what is the use of so many bells and whistles!

Han Sui, who withdrew to Jincheng, learned of Zhou Shen's arrangement, and almost lost his teeth with joy, you know, the terrain of Yuzhong is a basin, and the road into Yuzhong is only one Kuiyuan Gorge, the stone walls on both sides of this canyon are steep, the rocks on the mountain are craggy and peculiar, about ten miles long, and the waterway at the narrowest point is only more than 70 steps.

Han Sui immediately let Bian Zhang take the path that Sun Jian wanted to take before, and after making a detour to Zhou Shenjun, he controlled Kwaiyuan Gorge in one fell swoop, but cut off Zhou Shen's grain route.

This time, Zhou Shen panicked, and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of the army, the poor Han army in this ten-mile canyon, was smashed by the rain of arrows and stones in the sky and had no power to fight back, and in the end, only Sun Jian took Huang Gai and waited less than 30 horsemen to protect Zhou Shen to escape, and the rest of the 30,000 troops were wiped out in the Kwai Yuan Gorge.

You must know that these 30,000 troops are not ordinary troops, including the Tiger Army, the Tun Cavalry Battalion, the Liyang Battalion, the Sili Knights, and the Yanzhou Elite.

And on the other side of Dong Zhuo is not good, his more than 20,000 soldiers and horses are surrounded by tens of thousands of Qiang people, Huns, Liangzhou, where he used to be like a fish in water, this time he does not seem to welcome him much, and finally used Li Ru's strategy, in the Weishui to block the water and build an embankment, falsely claiming to fight fish, but in fact, he withdrew from the embankment by night, and then the whole army returned.

Zhang Wen's western expedition can be described as a great defeat, and Dong Zhuo's entire army retreated, which immediately became the only bright spot in this battle.

Dong Fatzi's spring has finally begun!