Chapter 242: The Battle of Martial Arts 26
When Liu Zhang's heart ached and he suffered huge casualties, Dong Zhuo also slapped the table for it, led by Li Dao, and a group of civil and military prostrated people on the ground, trembling deeply, only his henchman Li Ru was not affected, and waited quietly behind Dong Zhuo.
After counting, Dong Zhuo lost a total of more than 20,800 soldiers on this day, nearly 20,000 light and seriously wounded, after the first battle, Dong Zhuo only had about 83,000 people in his hands, which looked like a lot, but there were 30,000 wounded inside, but most of them were lightly wounded, barely able to fight.
"Li Dao, Dong Ming, Dong Rong......" Dong Zhuo almost shouted.
"The last general ......" Li Dao and the others suddenly threw themselves to the ground and said busily.
"Li Dao, you didn't know the enemy, you left your post without permission, and you were used by Liu Zhang's children, and the good situation collapsed, what do you say?"
"Xiang Ye, the last general saw that the enemy general Zhou Cang led his troops to offend Xiang Ye Huwei, lest Xiang Ye lose, the last general was anxious, so he personally led the army to protect Xiang Ye, who expected the enemy to be treacherous and abnormal, the last general was stupid, fell into his treacherous scheme, and lost a good situation, please Xiang Ye punished!"
Dong Zhuo glared at Li Dao for a long time, and after a long time, he said: "Li Dao expected that the enemy was unknown, and he delayed the fighter plane, causing heavy losses to our army...... This phase has always been rewarded for meritorious service, and if there is a fault, you will be removed from your post and retained, if you can return the merits, if there is a bad pool, several crimes will be punished, and severe punishment will not be lost, and you will never be so fooled today! Dong Zhuo was eager to cut Li Dao with a thousand knives at this time, but Li Dao was in a high position and had countless henchmen, so he said that there were more than 80,000 people in Dong Zhuo's hands at the moment, nearly half of which were in the hands of Li Dao.
Li Dao kowtowed three times, thanked him again and again, and assured Dong Zhuo that he would be brave and annihilate Liu Zhang.
"Dong Ming, Dong Rong ......"
"The end will be ......," Dong Ming and Dong Rong said uneasily.
"Tell me, what should I do with you?"
"The last general deserves death, no matter how the prime minister deals with the last general, the last general is willing!"
"Hmph......" Dong Zhuo snorted coldly: "I miss you two people who are my Dong family, and I have always been gracious, and I even handed over the two of you to the commander of the Guards, I saw that the two of you had some small contradictions in the past, and I didn't take it to heart, after all, my teeth also bite my tongue." I thought that as brothers of the same clan, a small turmoil would disappear in a blink of an eye, and you would be able to be brothers in the same heart when you encountered trouble, and fight for the glory of my Dong family...... I don't want it to be the connivance of the true appearance that has planted such a scourge. The two of you don't want to work together to fight the enemy, but you are in the same room...... Dong's face has been lost by you, why do you still have the face to stand here? Why not die outside? ”
Dong Rong and Dong Ming said in unison: "Xiangye forgives the sin, the last general and Ming (Rong) are uncles and brothers, if the brotherhood is stronger than Jin, he has always been dear and sincere, but the last general is not talented, there is no way to command the army, and he has not been able to * good soldiers, when he fights together, his soldiers actually kill for the sake of a small personal grudge in the past, because of private waste and self-inflicted killing, the last general has no way to govern the army, and mistakes the great cause of Xiangye, it is really an unforgivable crime, please surrender to Xiangye!" "It's so neatly said that it looks like it's a good line in advance.
Dong Zhuo's cold gaze swept over the two, his character is brutal and easy to kill, but he takes good care of the Dong family, if he changes others, he would have been beheaded by Dong Zhuo out of the gate, but the two of them are surnamed Dong, and they are also the best among the descendants of the Dong family, and the glory of the Dong family will be passed on to them in the future, if they are slashed, in the end it will be the loss of the Dong family, cannibalism is a taboo in the army, not to mention the fire before the battle? If it is not dealt with strictly, it will be difficult to convince the public.
In the end, Dong Zhuo took the same disposal method as Li Dao, picked it up high and put it down gently, Dong Ming and Dong Rong were exempted from the death penalty, and the living crime was inevitable, and there were twenty military sticks everywhere. The high-level escaped, and Dong Zhuo would not be so affectionate to the people below, Dong Zhuo secretly thought: "If you don't kill a few people, it will be difficult to bring this soldier in the future!" So more than 20 people under Dong Ming and Dong Rong were pushed out and carried the black cauldron, and Dong Zhuo gave an order, and dozens of bloody human heads immediately hung outside the gate.
"Wen You, what should I do right now?" Dong Zhuo lost his temper and turned to look at Li Ru worriedly.
Li Rubai said: "Xiangye, in this World War II, our army lost more than half of its troops, and the hurry of retreating in today's first battle is even more lost, and all the siege equipment will be lost, in the short term, I am afraid that I will not be able to fight again!" ”
"Wen You, do you think Benxiang still has a chance to win?"
"Back to Xiangye, Confucianism thinks that our army has suffered heavy losses, but Liu Zhang is the same, at this moment Weibei is still in the hands of our army, Liu Zhang is difficult to get replenishment, as long as our army rests for a few days, remanufactures siege equipment, and fights again in Japan, the victory or defeat is unknown!"
Dong Zhuo was still very confident in Li Ru's words, and when he heard this, he immediately swept away most of the gloom, and said happily: "Okay...... There is Wenyou, and the appearance is worry-free! Wenyou, tell me, what should I do now? ”
Li Ru gritted his teeth and said ruthlessly: "Xiangye, Confucianism thinks that our army has suffered setbacks and low morale, so the primary issue at the moment must restore morale as soon as possible, how to restore morale?" Confucianism thought that the soldiers in the army were nothing more than a military salary, two full meals, and the prime minister could reward the soldiers and improve the food to boost morale...... The soldier is far away from his family, and there is no way to solve his worries, so he can order people to plunder women to fill the camp prostitutes...... "Li Ru, as a disciple of Confucianism, would not have such a plan, but now Xiliangjun said that it is not an exaggeration to say that he is facing the danger of life and death, and he can't care about this, just leave the scolding and leave the infamy, as long as he can live, what is the scolding?"
On the contrary to Li Ru, for Dong Zhuo, it is a matter of course for Dong Zhuo to catch some women for the soldiers' lewd pleasure, after all, he is protecting the people of Guanzhong from Liu Zhang's "cruelty" (he only did it once two days ago, but most of those miserable women have been abused to death, so he has to arrest another batch)? But to let him take out a large amount of treasure to reward those lowly soldiers is equivalent to cutting meat from him, that is more than 80,000 people, a person is more than 80,000 yuan, but you can't only have one penny alone, right? What's the difference between that and sending Hanako? How can it be said that a person has to give money consistently, and those who are officials have to be a different matter, what a lot of money is calculated in this way? As for improving the food, it's nothing, just go to the people's homes to grab it, grab it until you have meat to eat, you can't grab it, you only blame yourself for not having the ability, and you can't blame others for eating bran vegetables!
Dong Zhuo, as a generation of heroes, can afford to put it down, and quickly agreed with Li Ru's opinion.
Li Ru said: "There is another point, before our army attacks again, we must prevent Liu Zhang from getting support, and to do this, we must defend two places, one is Weishui, and the other is Yiwu." It has been reported that the strength of the Weinan Yizhou Army has reached 30,000, and if it breaks through Weishui and Liu Zhang receives strong reinforcements, it will be difficult for our army to win again. Similarly, there are 40,000 enemy troops on the front line of Yiwu, and there are tens of thousands of elites west of Yiwu. On the Weishui front, our army has 3,000 infantry troops and 3,000 Qiang cavalry to defend, and Weishui is extremely close to here. ”
Dong Zhuo said: "There is no need to worry about Yiwu, Dong Min and Xu Rongtong have an army of 50,000 to guard Yiwu, and if the Yizhou army wants to break through, there is no doubt that it will be like ascending to the sky!" ”
"What Xiang Ye said is extremely true, Yiwu is built in imitation of Chang'an, which can be described as impregnable, and it is not easy for Wei Yan's 100,000 army to break through. Xiangye can give Xu Rong an order, ordering him not to think about returning to the martial arts, to be fully responsible for the defense of Yiwu, and never teach Wei Yan to cross Yixian County to support Liu Zhang! ”
"Okay, I'll do it later."
Li Ru looked at the first person who was about twenty years old and had dark skin, this person had an extremely handsome face, but a hideous scar on the left side of his face from his left ear to his nostrils completely ruined his face, and after pondering for a moment, he still held back.
This compound surname Beigong, a single name and a derivative character, is the eldest son of Beigong Boyu, the leader of the Xiliang Qiang clan, a few years ago, Han Sui launched a mutiny to kill Beigong Boyu, Bian Zhang and others, the young Beigong Yan fled to the death, but his face was seriously injured and he almost died. After recovering from his injury, Beigong Yan avenged his father and led his troops to take refuge in Dong Zhuo, in recent years, he has recruited tens of thousands of Qiang soldiers to join Dong Zhuo through his identity as the son of Beigong family, entered Luoyang, retired from the governor, and then attacked Han Sui and Ma Teng under the command of Li Dao, and now he is rushing to the aid of martial arts with Li Dao. After several years of conquest, Beigong Yan still has more than 20,000 Qiang soldiers in his hands, Dong Zhuo in order to prevent the tail from falling, the troops of Beigong Yan were cut and used by the march, leaving 2,000 for the new Wuwei Taishou Duan Xuan, Xu Rongchi took away 5,000 when he came to the aid of Yiwu, and Weishui divided another 1,000, and Beigong Yan was able to control only 12,000 people.
Dong Zhuo, like many Han people, pursued the creed of "not my race, its heart must be different", always thinking about how to weaken Beigong Yan, when Liu Zhang burned his 50,000 army, he immediately decided to let Beigong Yan's people be cannon fodder, and forced all Qiang to ride horses and horses to fight, after this battle, he lost about 2,000 soldiers, and in fact, Beigong Yan only had less than 10,000 people.
Li Ru originally wanted to ask Dong Zhuo to give up all the orders of the Qiang cavalry to dismount and fight on foot, but after thinking about it, Dong Zhuo really had no troops available, and if these more than 10,000 Qiang cavalry were allowed to re-mount the war horses, then it would be difficult for them to participate in the siege, so he dispelled this idea.
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