Chapter Seventy-Six, Yuan Shao's Intent
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Dong Zhuo held the buttress with his hand and nodded hurriedly.
Li Ru immediately sent an order to Rongyang to guard Xu Rong, and even Fan Chou and Zhang Ji brought 30,000 elite soldiers to cooperate with Xu Rong to set up an ambush.
Yuan Shao and other princes of the Ten Roads were all killed by the Xiliang soldiers, except for Cao Cao, who led people to resist from the flanks for a while at the beginning, the rest of the princes of the Nine Roads, only one of them looked at each other, and fled in fright.
Lu Bu led people to chase and kill, where they passed, the heads of people were rolling, the blood flowed like a river, from the dark to the next day, and from the dawn to the afternoon, the first battle, the allies were killed and wounded no less than 80,000 people, and there were 40,000 or 50,000 people who fled halfway, and so Yuan Shao and others gathered the remnants together, and the soldiers and horses of the princes of the Ten Roads barely had 60,000 people.
The First World War lost more than 100,000 yuan, of which 80,000 were killed by the Xiliang soldiers, 50,000 or 60,000 escaped halfway, and some were either burned to death by fire or died under the hooves of the Xiliang soldiers.
"Alliance leader, this ...... What should we do now? β
Kong Rong stood up and asked Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao was also speechless, and said in his heart, you ask me, who will I ask?
The princes from all walks of life, all of them are gray-faced, disheveled, embarrassed and even as good as the beggars who fled, they have just luckily picked up a life from the ghost gate, and now, all of them have already become frightened birds, even when they gather together to speak, they are also trembling, and from time to time they prick up their ears and stare around with wide eyes and vigilance, for fear that Dong Zhuo Lu Bu will suddenly lead troops to kill.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Yuan Shao pondered for a while, and hurriedly comforted, "Don't worry, you princesses, I have already sent people to Pegasus to rush to Bishui Pass, presumably at this moment, Sun Jian and others have already led the troops and are going to the Tiger Prison Pass to support." β
Yuan Shao saw that his body was also smoky and burning, and he was extremely embarrassed, Yuan Shao hated to order someone to fetch water and wash up immediately, but now that the danger has not been lifted, the Xiliang soldiers may come at any time, and Yuan Shao does not dare to be careless.
After Lu Zhuo found the team, he hurriedly glanced at it, the Xuzhou soldiers barely had 3,000 people left, fortunately, the Xuzhou soldiers were at the back of the allied phalanx at that time, they were the first to flee, and the losses were not big, but the people who stayed behind Lu Zhuo were almost all dead.
The Xuzhou soldiers are better, the rest of the allied troops are in mourning, the momentum is unprecedentedly low, the soldiers are staggering one by one, hanging their heads, sighing incessantly, where is there still a little bit of military appearance?
In this battle, the soldiers and horses suffered serious losses, and the grain and grass were also burned clean by a fire, and several princes already had plans to retreat.
However, seeing that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao had no intention of retreating, everyone had to be patient and continue to 'sacrifice their lives'.
Yuan Shao would not retreat easily, and he couldn't bear to give up this prominent alliance leader alone.
If there was no such thing as Dong this time, Yuan Shao would just be a small Bohai Taishou, and he would not want to command the movements of the Kwantung princes, but now it is not the case, and the Kwantung princes are all looking at him.
Once he withdraws from the army, Yuan Shao will immediately return to the 'pre-liberation' and become his Bohai Taishou again, which is obviously not what Yuan Shao wants to see.
What's more, from the very beginning, Yuan Shao had his own abacus, the battle against Dong was better, and if he lost, it would not be a bad thing, just to gather all the princes to elect Liu Yu as emperor.
When the time comes, the whole world will be divided into two, and he will fight against Dong Zhuo, the general of the soldiers and horses in the Central Plains, and Dong Zhuo will continue to be the master of Dong Taishi in his Guanzhong, and no one will be bound by anyone, isn't it happy?
And Cao Cao, with Dong Zhuo's desperate determination, was far more decisive than other princes, and after being defeated for a while, he withdrew his troops in disgrace, which was not the result Cao Cao wanted.
However, in the turn of the day, the bad news came again, Sun Jian and his people had just reached the halfway point, and they were ambushed by Xu Rong, with nearly 40,000 dead and wounded in the first battle, and they could not support Yuan Shao at all.
"Ahh
Hearing this news, many princes all screamed in surprise.
In two battles in a row, Dong Zhuojie's reports were frequent, triumphant songs continued, and the momentum of the Xiliang army was even more victorious, on the other hand, the Allied army lost its troops, its morale plummeted, and the hope of courting Dong became more and more slim.
Yuan Shao gathered the princes together, intending to divide his troops and detour to Dong Zhuo's back, from the Mengjin ferry of the Yellow River directly into Dong Zhuo's hinterland, while Cao Cao and others continued to drag Dong Zhuo's army at Hugao Pass and Bishui Pass.
Yuan Shao took Wang Kuang and quietly rushed north to Mengjin, and the remaining princes of the Sixteenth Route continued to be half-dead 'Lai' in the Tiger Prison Pass and Bishui Pass.
Except for Cao Cao and Sun Jian, who were interested in continuing the decisive battle with Dong Zhuo, none of the remaining princes were willing to continue to entangle with Dong Zhuo, and they wished to withdraw as soon as possible.
The most miserable princes among them are Yingchuan Taishou Kong Ling and Jizhou Assassin Han Fu.
Because of the serious loss of grain and grass, they had to continue to send people to supply, as long as the allies did not retreat for a day, Kong Ling and Han Fu had to continue to supply grain and grass, although Yuan Shu was responsible for the dispatch of grain and grass, but he had never transported a cart of grain and grass from Nanyang, his jurisdiction, to the front.
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On this day, Li Ru came to Dong Zhuo's room in a hurry, and said with a solemn expression, "Lord, according to the report from the scout, Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang have secretly led troops around Mengjin behind us, and want to sneak attack us from behind. β
"Oh...... If so? β
Dong Zhuo was a little unconvinced, "It's all this time, Yuan Shao'er, dare to call a battle with the old man?" β
Li Ru smiled slightly, "I don't know if my estimate is accurate, but I will know the answer soon, the lord must send troops immediately, and he must not be negligent." β
Although since entering Luoyang, Dong Zhuo has been drunk and dreaming of death, spending all day drinking, and his behavior is extremely corrupt, but when it comes to commanding troops to fight, Dong Zhuo is by no means an incompetent straw bag.
Dong Zhuo was just about to lead the troops in person, but was persuaded by Li Ru waving his hand, "Lord, why do you lead the army in person, it is better to send Liu Guanzhang and the three to lead the troops, and then let Niu Fu cooperate from the side, it will definitely be successful." β
Dong Zhuo nodded approvingly and said, "This plan is very good, follow the plan." β
Since he received Liu Guanzhang, he naturally can't be worshiped as the God of Wealth, good steel is used on the blade, and now Liu Bei's arrow wound has basically improved, Dong Zhuo immediately ordered Liu Bei to lead his troops to the north quietly, while he himself continued to sit in the Tiger Prison Pass.
The current Kwantung princes, nine times out of ten, are looking forward to watching, even Cao Cao and Sun Jian dare not make up their minds to fight Dong Zhuo to the death.
Every time Dong Zhuo led his troops out of the city, the Kwantung princes would definitely retreat quickly, and once Dong Zhuo led his troops back to the city, these princes regrouped again.
The reason why it is so wasteful, in fact, everyone is waiting for news from Yuan Shao's side, even if there is little hope, at least, it is a hope.
However, a few days later, the bad news came again, Wang Kuang was ambushed by Liu Guanzhang, Wang Kuang was killed, Fang Yue was captured, but Yuan Shao escaped by luck.
It turned out that Yuan Shao was not with Wang Kuang, but stationed troops in Hanoi.
Wang Kuang became Yuan Shao's pawn and shield in a daze, and even Wang Kuang's soldiers and horses were all gathered by Yuan Shao by his side!