Chapter 40: Lu Bu of the main battle
The two of them were happy when they left the camp, this was the second time they went deep into the enemy camp together to say surrender, and in the end, they both turned the danger into a disaster, leaving an unforgettable experience.
In the end, the two made a slight summary and found that Xu Rong and others mainly had three difficulties that were difficult to convince.
The first is responsibility. Xu Rong cares very much about the name and regards his duties as more important than his life. This is also likely to be the reason why he has become a famous general in Xiliang step by step from an outsider.
The second is resolute not to surrender. In the end, they only defended the place temporarily, not surrendered and joined our army.
The third is safety. This is mainly because Xu Rong is not a descendant of Xiliang, and his strength and prestige are far above Li Dao and Guo Yan, plus Xu Rong once supported Wang Yun and others, so it is unrealistic not to be liquidated. Without the protection of Weiyang Jun, they would have been killed if they surrendered.
All in all, it's off to a winning start. received Xu Rong and Hu Zhen's two divisions of 4,000 soldiers and horses, transferred them back to 500 people each, and swallowed the rest. Of course, more than 100 of them who did a lot of evil were all put on display to the public, and they asked for an explanation for the people who died in Ya County.
Of course, Hu Zhen was dissatisfied, but because of the situation, he dared not speak out. Xu Rong led nearly 1,000 men and horses to garrison Yaxian County, repair damaged bridges and roads, and rectify public order.
However, Dong Bai had a fight with Tong Yuan again, and what about the fight? This girl has taken out the meteor hammer and polished it, and you have solved it, and you are almost angry.
Two days later, the Qiang tribe, seeing that Dong Bai was powerful, hurriedly sent more than 1,000 Hu cavalry to support. Zhang Ji, Xu Rong and others still stayed in Xiayang and Yaxian, and Dong Bai led tens of thousands of horses to Chang'an to kill.
Where did so many centaurs come from?
Now the four or five thousand cavalry led by Zhang Xiu are opening the way in front. Tong Yuan led his old troops, the soldiers of the county and the county of the subordinate county, as well as the cavalry of the Hu Zhen soldiers and horses and the unseeded Qiang tribe, a total of four or five thousand people accompanied Dong Bai in the center. Zhang Lu led more than 2,000 people from the old department, soldiers and county soldiers.
Of course, Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses still belonged to Zhang Ji, but Zhang Ji specifically instructed Zhang Xiu to respect Weiyang Jun and try his best to support her soldiers and horses, so he would not leave until he arrived in Chang'an.
Three days later, the army arrived in Chang'an, where the city was still holding out, but the surrounding area was in a depression. Wars sometimes do not destroy everything directly, but cause prolonged destruction of production, which leads to widespread famine and pestilence.
Li Dao and others were able to follow Jia Xu's advice and try not to hurt the innocent, but they still pulled coolies to work in the war, and the people's grain was still "borrowed" as military rations.
This is only the third day of Chang'an's perseverance.
However, due to the transfer of LΓΌ Bu's Bingzhou Army and Xu Rong's and Hu Zhen's Xiliang Army, Chang'an was even more vulnerable than in history.
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Three days ago, Chang'an City.
LΓΌ Bu, who returned to Chang'an alone, arrived before the armies of Li Dao and Guo Yan approached Chang'an City.
Chang'an City now has less than 30,000 soldiers and horses, although the blades, armor, food and grass are readily available, but most of the soldiers are old and weak.
Originally, the Xiliang army was scattered in various places, and all the soldiers and horses left near Chang'an were also assigned to Huangfu Song, Xu Rong, Hu Zhen and others to take away, except for a very small number of forbidden troops and Shu soldiers, there were really no elite soldiers who could fight, and it can be said that Chang'an happened to be in the stage of lax defense.
Although Wang Yun appointed his fellow villagers Song Yi and Wang Hong as the left Feng Yi and the right Fufeng respectively, he took office for less than half a month, and he sent county soldiers to participate in the expedition to Xiliang, Sili and Xiayang, so he was forced to recruit 5,000 old and weak to supplement the Chang'an garrison.
Wang Yun changed his contempt for Huangfu Song and rejected Lu Bu, and sent people to urgently ask for help, but unfortunately the distant water could not quench the thirst of the near, except for Lu Bu who relied on the red rabbit horse to arrive overnight, no other reinforcements could arrive.
At this moment, in Wang Yun's mansion, monkey brain, bear's paw, deer tail, roast mutton, boiled mutton and other most expensive and tonic foods of this era, and then with honey milk, tempeh, leeks, coriander, wheat sauce, jam, meat sauce, fine salt and other condiments are readily available. These are the feasts that Wang Yun prepared for Lu Bu alone.
Lu Bu saw that he had such a sumptuous delicacy but was not half polite, and directly began to gobble it up, after all, he was in a hurry for a day and a night, and he ate a little bread to deal with it, of course he would not be polite at this moment.
Wang Yun urgently asked Lu Bu for the situation, so that he would buy the noble food that the family loved to enjoy in this era. This Lu Bu is really shameless to eat like this, Wang Yun shook his head when he saw it, and felt sorry for the high-grade food he had carefully prepared for the tiger wolf who had no good manners.
Wang Yun asked, "What does the virtuous nephew think of eating?" β
"It tastes good, but it's a little light, and it's better to be dipped in salt. There was no alcohol to cheer up, but I was going into battle right away, and it was not convenient for me to drink. β
Because of the perennial fighting, Lu Bu prefers salt in his diet to provide support for function and strength, but his intake is still less than that of modern people.
Wang Yun said: "The virtuous nephew doesn't need to be in a hurry, I already have a way to break the enemy." In the past few days, our army has defended the city first, and waited for a decisive battle after the return of your Bingzhou army and Huangfu Song's Xiliang army. β
"The old man will arm all the officials, families, clansmen, family members, doormen, slaves and maids as soon as a few days, and as far as I know, the total number of these people in Chang'an City is no less than 70,000 or 80,000."
Although Wang Yun has been in a high position for a long time, he thought that he had personally led his troops to defeat the Yellow Turban Army in the area of Yuzhou. And when he was young, he lived in the wartime more wartime states, although he was born in a big family, but he respected Wei Qing and Huo Quai, so he was very enthusiastic about the military.
However, enthusiasm does not mean that the performance is stable, and in the past half a month, he first refused Lu Bu to kill the leader of the Xiliang Army, and then changed the hexagram to kill to the end, and sent all the soldiers and horses of Chang'an, and a series of stupid tricks, Chang'an will be so weak.
However, this time it turned out to be Lu Bu's stupid move.
"Situ is so confused, then Huangfu Song's subordinates are also the Xiliang Army, aren't you afraid that they will also rebel? The reason why the situation is so depressed is because they didn't listen to me. I know very well the strength of Li Dao and Guo Yan, they are really general, and I can defeat them directly tomorrow. β
"Don't be impulsive, the enemy army is very large."
Wang Yun has experienced the previous mistakes, and now he has become more conservative and prudent.
Lu Bu said disdainfully: "The enemy army is just a rabble, although Li Dao is a little strategic, his martial arts are sparse and ordinary." That Guo Yan, Guo Aduo, is just a horse thief, and if our army can't defend it, it will boost the enemy's morale. β
"Also, we can't let the disciples and subordinates of the noble clan go to the city to defend or fight, these people may collude with the enemy to make a deal, but endanger our army."
Lu Bu's attitude was very resolute, and he didn't want the scholars to interfere with the soldiers.
Lu Bu was born as a border official, and he had no good impression of the Shi clan, if it weren't for the Wang family of Qi County, Taiyuan County, and Lu Bu from the same state, otherwise it would be difficult for Lu Bu to come together with Wang Yun to oppose Dong Zhuo.
In the end, the discussion broke up unhappily, and Wang Yun really had no strength to rely on, so he could only hand over the Chang'an soldiers and horses to Lu Bu to command, and let him arrange to deal with it.