Chapter Twenty-Seven: The First World War Became Fame, and the Invasion and Annexation of the State
Early this morning, after Liu Xuewu learned that Ji County had been won, he was in a good mood and walked leisurely in the barracks. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Suddenly, his scouts came to report that the cavalry under He Chong's department had an abnormal movement, and they no longer stopped in place and did not advance, but moved westward. Liu Xuewu hurriedly returned to the camp tent and opened the map, looked at the map and swiped all the way west with his hand to the location of He Chong's original station, and the target was about to be called out.
"The cunning fox actually moved closer to the west and wanted to fight Luo Li, but it also depends on whether Lao Tzu agrees." Liu Xuewu couldn't help but scold.
Liu Xuewu immediately ordered an immediate pursuit, but He Chong, who was on the other side the night before, saw Niu Geng who had escaped, and hurriedly asked: "Old Geng, what's the matter, why didn't you stick to Ji County, so embarrassed, could it be that Ji County has really been broken." ”
"Lao He, I don't know what's going on, there is no rumor at all, suddenly, there are seven in the eight counties of Hanzhong, and my brother and I have eight thousand soldiers left, and I am about to send someone to find out the news, but it turned out that there were a large number of enemy troops outside Jicheng, and I really had no way to defend it and had to give up Jicheng,"
"Lao Geng, Lao Geng, you are really confused, the big wall of Jicheng City is high and easy to defend and difficult to attack, not to mention that you still have 8,000 men and horses on hand, even if the enemy has an army of 100,000, it is very difficult to capture Jicheng, only if you defend until our army arrives inside and outside, you can definitely win." He Chong almost vomited blood when he heard that Niu Geng was abandoning the city and fleeing, if he knew that Niu Geng abandoned 8,000 elite soldiers and fled alone without letting go of an arrow, he didn't know if he would die of anger on the spot.
Niu Geng, who knew that he was at a loss, pretended to be suddenly enlightened and said: "Then what to do now, the other party has an army of 100,000, and the entire Hanyang has been lost." ”
"What else can I do, hurry up and join General Luo's army, and then make plans, otherwise I will use my more than 20,000 horses to deliver food to the other party." He Chong said helplessly.
The two of them arranged that night, and the next day the whole army went west, moving closer to Luo Li's headquarters. But after marching seventy or eighty miles, the scouts behind hurriedly ran to report, and a group of cavalry appeared behind, and it was the 20,000 cavalry that had attacked us before.
For Liu Xuewu's Black Iron Demon Rider, He Chong knew that his 30,000 Xiliang Wolf Rider was beaten and disabled, and more than 20,000 people remained. But if you don't fight, you will be caught up by them sooner or later, balancing the pros and cons, He Chong gritted his teeth and ordered the rear army to be the front army, the front army to be the rear army, and everyone was ready to fight.
But everything was ready, Liu Xuewu came up with 20,000 demon horses, but he stopped and did not attack, but instead set up a neat cavalry phalanx in front of He Chong's troops.
Just when He Chong and Niu Geng were puzzled, Liu Xuewu asked the deputy general to command the military flag, only to see the black devil chess dance, a wave of 5,000 people threw arrows, dancing twice, the second wave of 5,000 people threw arrows, three waves in a row, and 15,000 arrows came like raindrops. He Chong hurriedly shouted to form a shield for defense, but more than 20,000 people were cavalry, sitting on the horse and out of the equipped swords, horses, guns, bows and arrows, where did the shield come from, Niu Geng in front saw this, and immediately slapped his horse and ran back
So everyone wanted to turn around and run, but do you think, it was originally a cavalry charge formation, and suddenly wanted to turn around and run, is it so easy? One person or two people may be able to run away, now there are more than 20,000 people, and there are still people behind who don't know what happened, and are still waiting for the order to charge intently, this is good, the arrow has not yet been shot, and the horses here collide and fall off the horse's back and trample on each other, and countless people die under the horse's hooves.
Immediately after that, in the dense crowd, the screams that were shot one after another, and Liu Xuewu's side fired five consecutive salvos, and the dead on the opposite side were killed, wounded, and wailed one after another. Then Liu Xuewu ordered all the charges, the battle was a complete victory, He Chong died on the spot, Niu Geng saw quickly, with the remnants of hundreds of horses ran away, He Chong's department killed nearly 20,000 people, of which nearly 7,000 were originally seriously injured and dying and euthanized, more than 1,000 people were captured, everyone was wounded, Liu Xuewu's 20,000 black iron demon horses did not have any casualties.
This battle once again made Liu Xuewu and his Black Iron Demon Rider famous all over the world, and Dong Zhuo, who was fighting hard in the Tiger Prison Pass, was furious when he heard this, and drew his sword and slashed nearly ten guards in the camp. Shouting to the sky: "Is it really heaven that wants to die?" ”
Li Ru, who rushed to hear this, hurriedly comforted him when he saw this, "Don't worry, the plan now, to retreat as an advance, move the capital to Chang'an, withdraw the army to the west, let Luoyang and the group of greedy princes, in the division of its alliance, and free up your hands to deal with that Liu Xuewu together, to kill Liu Xuewu, take advantage of the situation to occupy the state, you can look east to Jizhou, go south to Zhili, when the time comes, first unify the north, the world can be obtained." ”
"Well, that's the only way to do it now." Dong Zhuo is not an ambiguous person, many years of conquest have cultivated his keen judgment, and he immediately set up, the main force withdrew to Luoyang to prepare to move the capital, and ordered Lu Bu to lead tens of thousands of Bingzhou troops after the tiger prison was closed.
Dong Zhuo naturally would not leave Luoyang intact to his enemies, and under the vicious attack of revenge, when "he sent five thousand iron horsemen, he went all over to arrest the rich households in Luoyang, a total of thousands, planted the flag on his head, and wrote the big book 'Anti-Ministers and Thieves Party', all of which were beheaded outside the city and took their money." Millions of people from Luoyang were driven to Chang'an. One team for each people, one team for the middle army, dragging each other; The number of people who died in the ravines is innumerable. Zhuo Linxing taught Zhumen to set fires, burn residents' houses, and set fire to the temples and palaces. The north and south palaces are connected by flames; The court of Changle is all scorched earth".
Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, and the Han Dynasty was declared dead. When Sun Jian forced into Luoyang, "looking at the flames from afar, black smoke covered the ground, two or three hundred miles, and there were no chickens and dogs."
Even when Cao Cao mentioned this matter later, he was still sentimental. "The people of the old land, the death and mourning are a little gone, and the country travels all day long, and I don't see what I know, which makes me sad and sad."
The capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the royal Luoyang, there are only a few hundred families left, isn't it sad!
After Dong Zhuo moved the capital, Sun Jian and the princes drove their troops into the pass one after another, and they should have pursued the victory. Yuan Shao and the princes did not move. Although Cao Cao was very provocative, he pointed out that Dong Zhuo burned the palace and robbed the Son of Heaven, which was the time of death. "Strongly pursued, Yuan Shao and the princes still said that they should not move lightly. Cao Cao had no choice but to lead his own army and horses to pursue, but he was ambushed by Dong Zhuo, and Cao's army was weak and was defeated.
When Sun Jian led his troops to extinguish the embers in the palace, he accidentally got the jade seal of the country. thought that he had the blessing of being the emperor, so he hid and asked Yuan Shao to "resign" the next day. Unexpectedly, he was told to Yuan Shao and testified in public, causing Sun Jian and Yuan Shao to almost kill each other, and as a result, Sun Jianqiang led the army back to Changsha. After Cao Cao returned, he was ashamed of the behavior of the princes and led his headquarters to Yangzhou. Gongsun Chan and other princes also gradually dispersed and returned to their old places. A mighty "alliance of princes" finally collapsed.
And our little Liu Zhang learned that his third brother finally made a move, and as soon as he made a move, he destroyed Dong Zhuo's 30,000 Xiliang wolf cavalry and Hanyang's 30,000 defenders to occupy Hanyang County, and then compared himself to do nothing except fight Lu Bu, and he fought on the fight, and he also fought a draw, and wondered in his heart, but Liu Xuewu wrote in advance to explain that when Dong Zhuo moved the capital, let Xiao Liu Zhang exterminate the Hun soldiers who assaulted and crossed the border. So the collapse of the alliance is not a matter for him at all, and the only thing he has to do now is to fight the Xiongnu and take his 50,000 Yizhou army all the way to the north.
Perhaps it was because Xiao Liu Zhang, in order to vent, not only repelled the Xiongnu army, but also followed the pursuit all the way, robbing the Xiongnu tribes along the way, forcing the Xiongnu royal court to gather 100,000 Xiongnu troops to the south for a decisive battle, but unfortunately no one could be found. It turned out that due to the lack of food and grass, Xiao Liu Zhang had already taken the people home for dinner.
The angry Huns Da Dan Yu was full of anger and had no way to vent, and Xianbei, who happened to be allied with the Huns, learned the news, and hurriedly sent people to lobby, saying that the robbery was the Liu Xuewu Department of Bingzhou, and also gave an example of the black iron demon rider who was bullied by his own department. Now everyone in the world knows that Liu Xuewu's cavalry in Bingzhou is called the Black Iron Demon Horseman.
So the two sides vented their bitterness like brothers and sisters, and then the two sides formed a coalition of 200,000 troops to the south to retaliate and attack the state.