Section 6: The Battle of the Yangren

Since that day of parting with Yuan Shu, Sun Ce has put all his thoughts on the battle against Dong.

Time always seems to fly by when it accompanies the Jin Ge Iron Horse. In the blink of an eye, Sun's father and son have been confronting Dong Zhuo for a year.

During this year, Han Fu, who was responsible for supplying grain and grass, first cut off the supply of grain and grass for 180,000 coalition troops. The former Yuzhou assassin Shi Kong Ling, also took the initiative of Dong Zhuojun and unfortunately died in defeat.

As the saying goes: "A good bird chooses a tree to perch, and a virtuous minister chooses the master to do things." Kong Ling's guards who stayed in Yuzhou knew Sun Jian's prestige and Sun Jian's achievements in resisting Dong Zhuo, so they recognized Sun Jian as the new lord of Yuzhou.

Soon after, Cao Cao finally raised 10,000 soldiers and returned. This was a good time for him and Sun Jian to complement each other and work together to develop their ambitions, but unfortunately, at the same time, there was a tragedy of cannibalism within the coalition due to past grievances. Since then, the coalition of Dong has finally collapsed half a year after the alliance was formed. In just a few days, all the princes except Sun Jian withdrew from the front line of the fight against Dong one after another. Fortunately, with the baggage of Yuan Shu and the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou, the Sun father and son were able to fight against the powerful Dong army alone.

In February of the second year of Chuping (191 AD), Sun's father and son conquered the Yang people in one fell swoop. This made Dong Zhuo, who was far away in Chang'an, couldn't help but feel that the threat was close at hand. Then he sent the fierce general Lu Bu to lead more than 100,000 troops on the Jishui line, Xingyang line, Xuanmen and Yuyuan line to assist Hu Zhen who was guarding the Yique and Dagu lines to fight against the menacing Sun Jian's army.

Like such a decisive move, how could Sun Jian dare to be lazy, so he transferred a large number of Yuzhou defenders to Yuyang people to deal with the arrival of the decisive moment.

After many days of preparation, Lu Bu and Sun Jian finally lined up to confront each other under Yangren City on the morning of the 12th.

Sun Jianjun, who only has more than 80,000 people, is not as star-studded as Dong Zhuojun, who has 140,000 people, but in Sun Jian's army, the lineup of generals led by Sun Ce, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei is more star-studded than Dong Zhuojun, who is shining alone. Sun Jianzheng wanted to seize this weakness and give Dong Jun the power to dismount.

"Lu Bu, do you dare to fight with our army?" Sun Jian shouted.

Lu Bu, a brave person, fights alone and never admits defeat easily. Regarding Sun Jian's call for battle, Lu Bu only replied, "Why don't you dare", and he intended to go into battle in person. But the general on the side said: "Kill chickens with a knife, Hua Xiong is willing to win the first victory for the general." ”

Lu Bu wanted to take advantage of this battle to see the skills of these lower-level generals, so he agreed.

Hua Xiong pulled out the sword at his waist, said "General, please", and rode the horse under his crotch to the front of the two armies.

Sun Jian saw that Lu Bu had never fought in person, and he had some skills, so he also pulled out a sword at his waist and personally rode his horse into battle to meet the enemy. The sword in Sun Jian's hand, although the hilt and scabbard were mottled, the sword body exuded a cold light. Such a sword is not ordinary at first glance.

"What's the name of this sword?" Hua Xiong said, "Quickly report the name." ”

"This is an ancestral sword, the full name is 'Seven Star Longyuan Sword', referred to as 'Longyuan Sword'."

The "Seven Star Longyuan Sword" in Sun Jian's hand was cast by Ou Yezi, a sword-casting master of the Yue Kingdom, during the Spring and Autumn Period. Legend has it that Ou Yezi did not hesitate to chisel Kaici Mountain, lead the stream in the mountain, to the side of the sword furnace, and become the Big Dipper Seven Stars Ring Column, which is named "Seven Stars". After the sword is completed, look down at the sword body, such as climbing the high mountain and looking down at the abyss, ethereal and profound, if there is a giant dragon lying down, it is called "dragon abyss".

After Ou Yezi's death, this sword went through several tosses and turns, and finally fell into the hands of Wu Xiangguo and Wu Zixu. After Wu Zixu's death, this sword fell into the hands of Sun Wu and was passed down from generation to generation. Passed to Sun Jian, this sword has experienced more than 700 years of vicissitudes.

Compared with Sun Jian's famous sword, Hua Xiong's matching sword is much more ordinary. With the beating of war drums, I heard a scream of "ah", and then saw Hua Xiong's sword cut and died.

"The lord is heroic! The lord is heroic! ”

Compared with the cheers of Sun Jian's men, Lu Bu's men sighed one after another: "This sword is so sharp, one blow is enough to cut off the mortal sword!" ”

Lu Bu didn't dare to slack off, so he held the same inferior Fang Tian painting halberd, and drove the sweaty BMW named "Red Rabbit" to fight.

"Where is Guan Yu!"

With Sun Jian's order, Guan Yu carried the "Green Dragon Glaive Knife" that he was most good at using, and rode his horse to Lu Bu's face.

"Lu Bu Xiao'er, do you dare to fight with me?" Guan Yu said.

"How dare you call me a child!"

"If you don't call you Xiao'er, do you call you Lao'er?"

"You, how dare you humiliate me!"

Lu Bu was indignant, so he stabbed Guan Yu with his halberd. Guan Yu flashed sideways, then raised the knife and slashed straight at the top of Lu Bu's head. Seeing this, Lu Bu immediately hung the halberd above his head to defend himself.

Guan Yu originally wanted to use brute force to forcibly press the halberd to the side of Lu Bu's head with a knife, and then slash horizontally. I don't want Lu Bu to be a strong man who is born with divine power, no matter how Guan Yu uses his strength, Lu Bu's hands are always straight......

Hundreds of rounds later, Guan Yu was defeated. In a confrontation, the Qinglong Glaive in Guan Yu's hand was almost picked up by Lu Bu.

Zhang Fei saw Guan Yu's exhaustive state, so he lifted the "Zhangba Snake Spear" in his hand and shouted: "The second brother is not panicking, the third brother is coming." ”

Guan Yu said, "I'll leave it to you", then withdrew and rested for a while.

This battle is hundreds of rounds, and it is still not Lu Bu who is defeated.

It is said that the third person to go into battle is naturally Sun Ce, who is known as the "little overlord". The weapon used by Sun Ce was a lance weighing 100 catties - the lance, and the heavy spear also originated in the Han Dynasty, because of its great lethality, it was usually used by heavy cavalry.

Like Guan Yu at the beginning, the current Lu Bu also made the mistake of judging people by their appearance because of Sun Ce's immature face. If it weren't for the two warm-ups before, Lu Bu's reputation for the first generation was almost ruined by Sun Ce. After a few rounds, Lu Bu finally gradually adapted to Sun Ce's routine, so he waited for opportunities to counterattack from time to time.

After the consumption of the first two wheel battles, Lu Bu in the third battle obviously lost his extraordinary sharpness in the past. This time, the first defeat was finally replaced by Lu Bu.

"General Lu, the other party is a wheel war, you must not fall for the trick, come back quickly!" Xu Rong shouted.

Lu Meng snorted and said: "You rely on the large number of people, and use the more to bully the less, and it is not glorious to win." With that, he quickly withdrew to his camp.

What Sun Jian was looking for was this good opportunity, so he ordered the whole army to assault, intending to win the victory in one fell swoop.

Lu Bu was in a hurry, and he didn't have time to make corresponding military deployments, and the 140,000 Dong Zhuo army was eaten up little by little by Sun Jian's army, which came prepared.

"Mingjin retreats!" Lu Budao, "The whole army withdrew to Luoyang to rest. ”

"Give me chase."

This chase lasted hundreds of miles, and it was not until Luoyang, the eastern capital, that the two sides were able to breathe. LΓΌ Bu entrenched in the city, and Sun Jian camped outside the city, surrounding Luoyang.