Chapter 160: The Princes' Coalition Attack the Tiger Prison Li Ru had no choice but to ask for help
Let's say that Pan Feng entered the tiger prison, Li Ru lost 40,000 troops, and there were less than 90,000 soldiers left to defend the city.
The Yuan Shao coalition army surrounded the Tiger Prison Pass, and sent a large army to attack day and night, and Sun Jian, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Le Jin, Wei Chi Zhan and other generals had several achievements on the Tiger Prison Pass city wall.
However, Pan Feng and Zhang Xiu, the right fierce generals in the Tiger Prison Pass, so, they were also captured several times!
And Li Ru is worthy of being the top strategist in the world, and after thinking about it again, he has a strategy to break the enemy!
Since the alliance of princes belonged to more than a dozen different camps, they basically arranged for the princes of two or three towns to attack the Tiger Prison Pass every day.
The rest of the princes were put to rest. And Li Ru took a fancy to this, and when the princes' coalition army attacked the Tiger Pass, he took a different approach!
When Cao Cao, Zhong Xuan and other princes attacked the Tiger Pass, they only focused on defense and did not pursue the killing of living forces.
However, when the armies of Yuan Shu, Han Fu and others attacked the Tiger Prison, they adopted the strategy of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 yuan, mainly consuming the opponent's vital strength.
Since then, for a period of time, Yuan Shu'a, Han Fu, Kong Ling, Wang Kuang, Zhang Miao and other subordinates have suffered serious losses.
However, the soldiers under Cao Cao, Zhong Xuan, Sun Jian and others did not suffer much loss.
In this regard, Yuan Shu, Han Fu and others were extremely unbalanced in their hearts!
The reduction of the number of troops led to the reduction of the status of the Allied forces.
So Yuan Shu and others found Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance.
"At the beginning, your decision to turn forward was not correct, but now after two rounds, our soldiers have suffered serious losses, but Cao Mengde and them have not suffered much damage!
So I came to you today, and I proposed to Ben Chu that those like Cao Mengde, who have more troops, should attack for more time!
In this way, everyone's strength can be equal, after all, killing Dong Zhuo also requires everyone to work together to complete it! When Yuan Shu saw Yuan Shao, he spoke!
Yuan Shao became the leader of the alliance, and his majesty became stronger and stronger, and all the princes had to call Yuan Shao the leader of the alliance when they saw him.
But there is an exception, it is Yuan Shao's younger brother, Yuan Shu!
In terms of blood relationship, Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao are half-brothers, and Yuan Shu is Yuan Shao's younger brother;
In a legal sense, Yuan Shao was Yuan Shu's cousin, because Yuan Shao was passed on to Yuan Shu's uncle, Sikong Yuan Cheng.
In terms of family relations, Yuan Shu is a concubine, and Yuan Shao is a concubine. So Yuan Shu looked down on Yuan Shao.
More importantly, this alliance, Yuan Shu originally thought that he would become the leader of the alliance.
Because of the official rank, Yuan Shu is higher than Yuan Shao; In terms of family status, he is a son-in-law.
However, at that time, he did not buy Yuan Shu's account at all, and elected Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance, so Yuan Shu had a grudge against Yuan Shao.
So in the allies, Yuan Shu was not given face at all!
"The highway, which was originally discussed, the whole army was divided into three roads and attacked the Tiger Prison Pass respectively, but now it is going to be changed, I'm afraid it's not appropriate!" Yuan Shao had a bit of a headache when he saw that it was Yuan Shu!
"What's wrong, everyone had the same strength before, so I waited for it to agree, and now we are obviously weak in strength, if we still attack Tiger Prison Pass.
In this way, within a month, I will have no more soldiers to use, so will I wait to go home?
Or does the Alliance not need me to wait a few people to take the Tiger Prison? That way, we can leave early! Yuan Shu didn't give Yuan Shao at all, and said!
"Highway, since we are sending troops together to fight against Dong Zhuo, we will work together, how can we separate each other?
Besides, the fact that you and the rest of the army suffered such a huge loss in attacking the Tiger Prison Pass was not caused by us, but because the generals under you and the others did not coordinate well, how can you blame us and others? Yuan Shu also began to say a little angrily!
"Why, so you're not going to care? If you don't care, we won't attack the city anymore, and whoever you love will attack, and whoever you love will attack! After saying that, Yuan Shu left directly!
And Yuan Shu's behavior this time made Yuan Shao angry! wanted to get angry, but found that Yuan Shu had left.
So he shook his head helplessly, but he hoped that Yuan Shu was angry!
The attack on the Tiger Prison Pass continues, and the defense of the Tiger Prison Pass has never stopped!
On this day, it was the turn of Cao Cao, Zhong Xuan, Gongsun Zhan, Sun Jian, Tao Qian and others to attack the Tiger Prison, while Pan Feng, Zhang Xiu, Guo Yan and others who were guarding the pass had already received Li Ru's orders.
Today, under the condition of guarding the Tiger Pass, we must preserve our strength, and we cannot fight hard against the princes and rebels, and we do not need to chase and fight fiercely.
It was a one-day attack and defense, and although the battle was fierce, the two sides did not lose too much!
Unlike the day before, Yuan Shu and others retreated, but Pan Feng and Zhang Xiu also led the cavalry out of the customs to slash and kill for a while.
When Yuan Shu learned of this, he secretly hated Li Ru in his heart, and at the same time, he made up his mind not to attack the Tiger Prison Pass tomorrow!
So on the second day, all day, there was no battle in the entire Tiger Prison!
Therefore, Yuan Shao hurriedly beat the drum and summoned a group of princes to come to discuss the matter.
"How can the highway, the Wenjie, the Gongjie, etc. not attack the Tiger Prison Pass today, the defenders in the Tiger Prison Pass have also been consumed a lot by us in the past few days.
Although our coalition army lost 100,000 people, it also lost 40,000 or 50,000 in the Tiger Prison Pass.
In this way, as long as it goes down for another ten days, our army will be able to break through the Tiger Prison Pass! Yuan Shao said angrily.
"Yuan Benchu, I came to you two days ago and told you that I waited for a few casualties that were too great, so you ordered Cao Cao and others to fight for us for a few days, but you didn't agree, and now you blame me?" Yuan Shu said unyieldingly!
"Highway, we have already made a decision at this time, how can we change it now!" Yuan Shao said angrily.
"Then take a day off today, and you will continue tomorrow, one or two less days to attack, and the Tiger Prison Pass will not run!" Yuan Shu was not afraid at all.
"Today, if you lead an army to attack, I... I'll..."Yuan Shao was a little speechless angrily, and his eyes looked at Cao Cao from time to time!
Cao Cao saw Yuan Shao's eyes and said, "Alliance leader, don't be angry, we are discussing!" Cao Cao grabbed Yuan Shao at the same time!
"What, Yuan Benchu, do you still want to kill me as a model of the town?" Yuan Shao never said it, but Yuan Shu said without scruples.
"Yuan Benchu, I'm here, if you come to kill me!"
Yuan Shao was furious, pulled out the sword at his waist and wanted to slash Yuan Shu. The princes were shocked, hugged Yuan Shao one after another, and dragged Yuan Shu to persuade him, so that he would naturally not attack the Tiger Prison Pass today.
And this time the princes' deliberations broke up unhappily!
Zhong Xuan returned to the camp tent and saw Xi Zhong, and then smiled helplessly: "Zhicai, you are really a god operator, and even the matter of the infighting of the allies has been calculated by you!" ”
Xi Zhong smiled, and then said: "At this time, the gang will not be dispersed for the time being, Zhuo is still prepared, and after resting for two days, it will attack again, and if there is a problem again, the alliance will be unhappy!" ”
And at this time, the tiger prison is inside.
"Strategist, as you said, the coalition forces really didn't attack, and we can breathe!" Pan Feng said unexpectedly.
"Indeed, but I can't wait, there will be a fierce attack after that! We should be prepared! Li Ru smiled and said!
"It's just that the current losses of our army are too great, there were 90,000 troops before, and now due to the non-stop attacks of the Shandong rebels day and night for more than half a month, there are still 40,000 left.
If the rebels continue to attack day and night, the Tiger Prison Pass will be captured by the rebels in less than half a month! Zhang Xiu said on the side.
"Don't worry, the day before yesterday I sent someone to ask the prime minister for help, and the prime minister sent someone to reply that Liu Bei had been defeated, and he would lead the troops back to the tiger prison on a later day!" Li Ru said happily!
The Chinese army was overjoyed when they heard this, and then they arranged the defense of the Tiger Prison separately!
Besides, Liu Bei led the remnants of the army to slowly retreat to Tongguan, checking the casualties, and less than 20,000 of the 30,000 Black Flag troops were killed in this battle, and only 5,000 of the 10,000 tigers and leopards were left.
An army of 80,000 went out of Tongguan to fight Dong Zhuo. Due to the defection of the 40,000 Flying Tiger Army, there are now less than 20,000 troops left.
At the same time, it also lost eight generals such as Liang Xing and Yang Qiu.
But Dong Zhuo didn't give Liu Bei a chance, when Liu Bei's remnants had just entered Tongguan. Dong Zhuo ordered Xu Rong to lead the army to storm Tongguan day and night.
Liu Bei had no choice but to send the tiger and leopard to ride off his horse and stand on the city wall, and at the same time ordered a group of generals to pass the pass and assist the tiger and leopard to defend Tongguan.
Although the entire offensive and defensive battle was difficult, Dong Zhuo couldn't capture Tongguan at once!