157 post-war
The defeat was like a mountain.
It is really a difficult thing to withdraw troops on the battlefield, or to withdraw troops in the situation that they are at a disadvantage and are beaten by the enemy to the Chinese army.
As Dong Zhuo and his cavalry withdrew from the battlefield, his infantry could no longer support them, and they immediately collapsed, and those who could escape scattered in a hurry, but most of them could not escape, so they had to surrender one after another.
"Come, set fire to the prime minister, and burn all these tents to stop the enemy." Dong Zhuo saw that he couldn't get away, so he had to order a fire to block Sun Jian's pursuit.
"Xiangguo, there are still our men and horses behind." Someone said.
When Dong Zhuo heard this, he paused and said, "It's too late, I can't take care of it so much, let's set it on fire." ”
Although Dong Zhuo withdrew his troops, he was also quite disciplined, and he had already prepared, so he ordered people to set the military camp on fire and use fire to block the combined forces of Sun and Liu.
Liu Bei looked back at Xi Zhicai and said with a smile: "Sure enough, as Mr. said, Dong Zhuo is really prepared." Looking at the fire burning in the distance, Liu Bei scolded with a smile, "This Dong Zhuo is simply a special arsonist, who first burned Luoyang City and then the barracks......"
Then, Liu Bei lowered his voice again, and in a voice that no one could hear, he whispered to himself: "Dong Zhuo has been beaten away, and the next is the era of the rise of the heroes, to be exact, this period is the era of the two Yuan brothers fighting, where should I go, now I have no historical experience for my reference, it tests my wisdom." ”
Relying on the cover of the fire, Dong Zhuo calmly retreated, Sun Jian and Liu Bei chased for a while, but they didn't catch Dong Zhuo, even Dong Yue, Duan Xuan, Niu Fu, Lu Bu, these famous figures in the Dong army, Sun and Liu Lianjun also failed to catch them, and they all fled with Dong Zhuo.
Sun Jian and Liu Bei defeated Dong Zhuo, ordering the three armies to repair while calculating the results. The two armies combined, about 10,000 beheaded, and captured 20,000 or 30,000 men and horses under Dong Zhuo's command, Sun Jian attacked Luoyang this time, he was originally ready to fight a hard battle, or even defeat, but he didn't expect that the victory would come so quickly and so easily, and he felt a little unreal in his heart.
Liu Bei thought of it, he knew that Sun Jian's victory in history was very easy, so he ran over and hugged his thigh, if it was really a hard fight, Liu Bei would not come to share the loss with Sun Jian.
Seeing that there were too many soldiers, Sun Jian discussed with Liu Bei to kill all these surrendered soldiers, which immediately frightened Liu Bei, and said in his heart that this Sun Jian was so murderous.
If he could persuade Sun Jian to kill fewer people, it would not be in vain for him to come once, Liu Bei persuaded Sun Jian: "If tens of thousands of people are killed together, in case of chaos, it will not be beautiful." It is better to kill all the Qianghu soldiers, and reduce the rest of the rebellious Han troops to hard labor, so as not to cause rebellion, and secondly, to save the manpower of our army. I don't know what Brother Wentai thinks. ”
Sun Jian said: "I heard that when Dong Zhuo was in Luoyang, he excavated the tombs of the first emperors and burned down the imperial palace, so that the bones of the first emperors were scattered everywhere. Since Xuande wanted to demote them to hard labor, he asked them to clean the temple and level the tombs, you and I can take this opportunity to repair the three armies, and then attack Hangu in the west, seek Chang'an, and welcome the Son of Heaven back to the old capital. ”
What to do after winning the battle, of course, is to eat a big meal first, this is called a big feast. With the arrival of a large number of captives, the combined forces of Sun and Liu sent men and horses to monitor them, first let them extinguish the fire, and then let them chop wood to burn the fire, and the men first cooked for the generals, and then ordered the captives to cook food, and the allied soldiers had a full meal. As for the captives who are working hard, of course, they can only drink the northwest wind.
After the coalition army had eaten and drunk enough, Sun Jian ordered people to pick out the Han soldiers among the captives, and then divided the captives into dozens of groups, digging pits in the ground, and the captives were all working there with their heads down, some soldiers were outside with swords, bows and arrows to watch, and some soldiers were holding leather whips.
Many of the captives were crying with snot and tears on their faces, and they all understood that after the pit was dug, it was when they were killed by the pit, but they were surrounded by stubborn coalition soldiers and horses, and these captives had been fighting since the morning, and they had not eaten for another day, and they wanted to resist, but they had no strength.
By the time the captives had dug all the pits, the cries of the captives had already resounded. Sun Jian suddenly ordered all the Qianghu soldiers to be buried alive, and suddenly, the faces of these captives seemed to glow, and the Qianghu army captives were in chaos.
Originally, the Qianghu soldiers, seeing that Sun Jian only ordered the Han captives to dig pits, thought that Sun Jian thought that the Qianghu soldiers were brave and wanted to subdue the Qianghu soldiers for his own use, but how did he know that he was actually killing himself. However, these Qianghu soldiers also did not eat for a day, had no strength to resist, and were all tied up, and were pushed into the pit by Sun Jian, and then Sun Jian ordered the prisoners who dug the pit to fill in the pit and bury the pit.
These captives thought they were digging a pit for themselves, but they were frightened and cried and shouted, and suddenly found that Sun Jian was actually going to trap Hu Bing, and they were immediately grateful. Everyone shouted: "The general and the marquis of Wandai, live a long life, the general and the marquis of Wandai, live a long life of a hundred years." "Desperately, a large amount of loess was dumped down.
"Stockholm syndrome," Liu Bei in the distance, looking at all this, said in a low voice, although there was no such term in the era of the late Han Dynasty, it does not mean that people do not know this truth. These captives, who had been starved by Sun Jian for a day, now actually shouted Sun Jian, "Princes and Marquises, live a long life," and they seemed to be sincere, just because they found out, Sun Jian had no intention of killing them for the time being.
The Qianghu soldiers were driven into the pit by Sun Jian and killed, one by one roaring and crying, but the Qianghu soldiers were mostly tied up, and they were inconvenient to move, and this pit was dug very deep, where they ran out, even if they ran out one or two, and where were the opponents of the heavily armed Sun and Liu coalition forces, they were immediately cut back. As the dirt toppled down, the roars and cries grew quieter and quieter, and finally disappeared.
Sun Jian also ordered the cavalry, riding horses on the earthen pit and galloping over, trampling the land firmly, leaving no possibility of life for the Qianghu soldiers.
Liu Bei on the side was surprised to see it, and secretly said in his heart that this Sun Jian is really powerful, and I don't know if it will be the same as in history, he will be killed by Liu Biao, in case Sun Jian is not dead, the rise of the old Sun family will be advanced, Sun Jian plus Sun Ce, Jiangdong Tiger and Jiangdong Xiaobawang, the father-son combination, this, really makes Yali Mountain big.
No, I've already cheated Cao Cao several times, and I have to dig a pit for Sun Jian.
After watching Sun Jian's killing of the prisoners, Liu Bei said to Sun Jian: "Brother Wentai, since you and I have recovered the old capital, we should spread it to the world and tell the world, especially the head of the Yuan League in Hanoi and the general of Nanyang, and we should send someone to inform you." ”