Chapter 171: Dong Zhuo Makes a Move
Dong Zhuo's army entered Luoyang. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Dong Zhuo did not bring many troops this time, and his troops in Liangzhou would take almost ten days to reach Luoyang.
During this time, it is easy to happen something that Dong Zhuo does not want to see.
Li Ru gave Dong Zhuo a plan, dividing the army he brought into several parts, going out of the city at night and entering the city during the day, showing others that his strength was strong, so that others did not dare to move, as long as he spent these ten days, then the major event could be decided.
Dong Zhuo adopted Li Ru's strategy. Sure enough, just as Li Ru thought, Lu Zhi and the others were originally going to attack and snatch back Liu Wei and Liu Xie by force, but they found that Dong Zhuo's soldiers kept daring to come from Liangzhou, which frightened Lu Zhi and the others and dispelled their thoughts. Seeing that Lu Zhi and the others were safe, Dong Zhuo did not embarrass them.
Ten days later, Dong Zhuo's follow-up army finally came to Luoyang.
With soldiers in hand, Dong Zhuo began to do it.
Dong Zhuo appointed himself prime minister and re-established the prime minister system. And the sword went to the palace, and the palace was nameless, although the ministers of the court and the central government were opposed, but they were forced by Dong Zhuo's obscenity, and they dared not speak out. But there was one person who was resolutely opposed, he was the ruling Jinwu Ding Yuan, and he had a conflict with Dong Zhuo on the spot.
Ding Yuan has a lot of influence in Luoyang, and at the same time, he has the Bingzhou cavalry whose combat power is no less than that of the Liangzhou cavalry, which is also the basis for Ding Yuan to gain a firm foothold in Luoyang, a place where dragons and snakes are mixed. Dong Zhuo tried to win over Ding Yuan, but Ding Yuan was loyal to the Han Dynasty and naturally refused to cooperate with Dong Zhuo, who was a wolf with ambitions.
Since we can't talk about it, we can only start fighting.
Ding Yuan led his subordinates and the Liangzhou cavalry led by Dong Zhuo to start a cavalry confrontation in the suburbs of Luoyang.
Dong Zhuo noticed the strength of the Bingzhou soldiers as early as when he pacified the Yellow Turbans, and the Bingzhou wolf cavalry led by Liu Yu at that time was a huge attacking force on the battlefield. Dong Zhuo is also a veteran general in the army, and he knows the horror of Bingzhou soldiers and is full of desire for such an army. Therefore, he was very cautious in the battle with Ding Yuan, and almost used up all the elite cavalry of Liangzhou.
At the beginning of the battle, the cavalry showed their strong combat effectiveness.
Although Dong Zhuo had reminded his generals of the strength of the Hezhou cavalry before, the unruly Liangzhou cavalry didn't care at all. Therefore, the Bingzhou cavalry caused great losses to the Liangzhou cavalry.
Dong Zhuo scolded his subordinates for being incompetent, and he told them again and again, but these bastards still didn't listen.
In order to avoid excessive losses and affect the next plan, Dong Zhuo directly opened up and attacked with Hua Xiong, the most courageous military general under his command.
Ding Yuan's subordinates did not have generals like Lu Bu to sit in the formation, they were all some unpopular generals, and they were not Huaxiong's opponents at all.
Seeing Hua Xiong slaughtering his own soldiers like a tiger descending from the mountain, Ding Yuan was in a hurry. Ding Yuan secretly hated that if he had fierce generals like Lu Bu and Huang Zhong, where would Hua Xiong be so arrogant.
In desperation, Ding Yuan could only order a retreat.
Dong Zhuo was overjoyed and ordered all the Liangzhou cavalry to pursue and kill with all their might, killing countless people.
Ding Yuan was defeated and retreated to the ferry, taking advantage of the terrain to reluctantly repel Dong Zhuo's pursuit.
Ding Yuan, who breathed a sigh of relief, immediately left Luoyang and returned to Bingzhou to join Liu Yu. However, in order to paralyze Dong Zhuo, Ding Yuan ordered all his troops to make a posture of attack, secretly collect boats, and cross the Yellow River at night.
Dong Zhuo has already surrounded Ding Yuan on three sides, and Ding Yuan can be destroyed at any time, but considering that Ding Yuan is now fighting against the water, if he attacks strongly, I am afraid that it will arouse the will to die of the soldiers of the state, and the losses will be even greater at that time.
The two sides confronted each other until nightfall.
When Hua Xiong was patrolling the camp, he found that although a lot of torches were lit in the camp of the Ding Yuan army in the direction of the ferry, he did not find any figures. Hua Xiong felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly reported the situation to Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo had already fallen asleep, and was doing a beautiful picture of hugging left and right, when he was suddenly disturbed by Hua Xiong, he was very unhappy, and listened to Hua Xiong's report patiently.
Dong Zhuo thought about it carefully, if he was in Ding Yuan's position, what would he do next?
According to Dong Zhuo's character, when encountering such a situation, he will definitely choose to escape.
At the thought of escaping, Dong Zhuo scolded: "It's not good! Ding Yuan's old thing is going to run away, chase after him, if he crosses the river, we will be helpless against him. "Treat others with himself, Dong Zhuo believes very much that Ding Yuan will definitely be a choice with him.
Hua Xiong hurriedly went down to count the troops and horses on the hour and assaulted the ferry.
Dong Zhuo took advantage of the moonlight to see from a distance that Ding Yuan's troops were boarding the ferry one after another, and he knew that his guess was not wrong, so he immediately ordered the whole army to attack, and Ding Yuan could not be allowed to escape.
Ding Yuan didn't expect Dong Zhuo to find out that he was going to escape, and ordered the whole army to speed up, if it was slow, don't blame Ding Yuan for being ruthless.
In fact, there is no need for Ding Yuan to give an order at all, and the state soldiers all know that if they don't get on the boat now, all that awaits them is the fate of being killed.
Just as Dong Zhuo was about to kill, all of Ding Yuan's troops got on the ferry and traveled beyond the range of bows and arrows.
Ding Yuan looked at Dong Zhuo on the shore and laughed loudly: "Dong Zhongying, the old man left first, no need to send it." ”
The state soldiers also laughed a lot.
Dong Zhuo panted and looked at Ding Yuan in the distance, secretly hating that he hadn't caught up with Ding Yuan, an old horseman.
Dong Zhuo wanted to get more angry, and finally broke out, looked up to the sky and roared, and scolded: "Ding Yuan, I must kill you." ”
After scolding angrily for a while, Dong Zhuo could only give up his plan to hunt down Ding Yuan and return to Luoyang.
All forces in Luoyang are watching this big war. They don't want either side to win, and they want to see Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan lose both. It's a pity that Dong Zhuo returned to Luoyang perfectly, which frightened all forces, and even the powerful Ding Yuan ran away, so who else in Luoyang can suppress Dong Zhuo, there is no more.
In order to protect themselves, all parties chose to remain silent. No one has any objection to Dong Zhuo's appointment as prime minister.
Dong Zhuo became a powerful minister under one person and above ten thousand people, with his own office space, and all affairs of the Han court had to be approved by him.
The first thing he did when he became prime minister was to issue an official document designating Ding Yuan as a heinous criminal, regardless of life or death, and a reward of thousands of dollars.
The Han Dynasty is about to become Dong Zhuo's word, but Dong Zhuo still feels dissatisfied with his current authority. What he wants is power over the world.
Dong Zhuo's strength contrasts sharply with Liu Wei's cowardice. Dong Zhuo looked at Liu Bi no matter how he looked at it. Li Ru proposed a bold idea to Dong Zhuo, that is, to abolish the emperor and set up another one.
From ancient times to the present, only Yi Yin and Huo Guang can abolish the emperor and set up another one, they are all famous ministers through the ages, and their decision to remove the Son of Heaven and choose another meritocracy was opposed at the time, but the final facts proved that their choice was right, no matter what their final fate was, the history books affirmed their move to abolish the emperor and set up another one.
And the most critical point is that Liu Wei is not the heir that Emperor Ling wants at all, but Liu Xie is.
Under the persuasion of Li Ru, Dong Zhuo decided to depose Liu Wei and let the younger Liu Xie ascend the throne as emperor.