Chapter Ninety-Six: The Tiger Prison Passes Down and Beheads Lu Bu
Early in the morning of the second day, Ouyang Xuan actually received an order from Yuan Shao to rest for a day and reward the three armies. Ouyang Xuan had no choice but to order all the troops to rest and stand by. Li Mu came with news that he had easily taken Hangu Pass and was marching towards Chang'an, and Chang'an would be captured in a few days. As for how to capture Chang'an, Li Mu has long been familiar with the road, and this is not the first time he has done this kind of thing, and now the entire Guanzhong area, under Dong Zhuo's nuisance, is sparsely populated, mainly Xianbei people. When Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, almost all of them were taken away, leaving only a small part of the garrison and soldiers and horses to guard against Tianshui and Gaoping stationed in Chencang.
Ouyang Xuan also took this opportunity to buy some time for Li Mu and cut off Dong Zhuo's back road. After a day's rest, Ouyang Xuan ordered the whole army to march quickly to the Tiger Prison Pass, things often do not fulfill people's wishes, and within half a day, Ouyang Xuan's army just arrived at the Tiger Prison Pass, and saw the soldiers and horses from all walks of life who had been defeated and fled. After inquiry, it was learned that Dong Zhuo personally led 200,000 Chinese troops to rush to the aid of Tiger Prison Pass in the starry night, and all kinds of soldiers and horses were defeated by Lu Bu under the pass. If it weren't for the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang who fought hard to intercept Lu Bu, all the soldiers and horses might have fallen short and suffered all the damage.
Cao Cao came to Ouyang Xuan with the rout, bowed down and said: "As the pivot said, this tiger prison is now impregnable, and with the help of Lu Fengxian and the Guanzhong Iron Cavalry, it is very difficult to win."
"It depends on who it is, if it is the Qingzhou army, this battle may not be lost." Immediately, Ouyang Xuan ordered the whole army to advance in battle formation, the infantry handed over the horses to the logistics, and the routs from all walks followed the army forward, collecting many routs along the way. In the afternoon, Gongsun Zhan led the rout, and after Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei broke off, he was defeated all the way down and joined Ouyang Xuan, which brought all the defeated troops of the princes together. Yuan Shao's troops suffered the least losses because they were the Chinese army. And Gongsun Zan and Sun Jian were almost wiped out because they were the vanguard, if it weren't for the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang blocking Lu Bu, I'm afraid these princes would have already been in different places, and all kinds of soldiers and horses were in the hands of Lu Bu and many generals. Ouyang Xuan ordered the whole army to camp twenty miles before the Tiger Prison Pass, in order to prevent the camp from being stolen and robbed at night, Ouyang Xuan adopted the method of deep ditch organ Gaozhai that was commonly used before, arranged the camp, and placed the soldiers and horses in the back of the Qingzhou military camp. The guard battalion was released ten miles away as a horse to clear the Dong army's horses.
At the end of the morning, Dong Zhuo's generals Li Wei and Guo Yan really came to steal the camp and rob the village with 30,000 horses. It's just that what they encountered was their evil star, and Tanma had already reported the movement of Dong Jun's soldiers and horses to Ouyang Xuan through the communicator, and when Dong Jun had not yet assembled, Ouyang Xuan arranged 100,000 ambush soldiers and ambushed Dong Jun's retreat route. When Dong Jun appeared in the dark field of vision, the dark sentry pulled down the suspension rope. When the first wave of Dong Jun stepped on the land in the first three miles of the camp, they felt a trace of weirdness, and then this weirdness became a nightmare, the land under their feet collapsed instantly, and then fell into the wide ditch deep between the two, because it was a stealing camp, the speed was very fast, and the Guanzhong army was dominated by cavalry, so what happened in front of it, the back did not have time to react to rush to the front, and then it was too late to stop. But the next scene made the princes and Dong Jun feel deeply afraid, just when Dong Jun gradually filled in the deep ditch, a fire suddenly broke out within three miles of the ditch and outside the ditch, instantly reflecting the dark night sky before dawn like day. The raging fire instantly engulfed 60,000 Dong troops, as a last resort, Li Dao Guo Yan chose to retreat, each with less than 10,000 people to retreat, but this is not over, the ambush on the road suddenly came out, and was once again covered up, Li Dao was carried by the guards and fled into the Tiger Prison Pass, Guo Wei tried his best to maintain the loyal subordinates, and also escaped back to the pass with several arrows, 60,000 Dong Jun who stole the camp, and only eight people came back in the end. Dong Zhuo was very frightened, and urgently convened the generals to discuss the matter, and everyone was not surprised by the failure of Li Dao Guo Yan to steal the camp. Li Ru said: "The success of the night attack on the camp has always been determined by many factors, and it is rare in the world to see the actions of the Xia King back then. The defeat of Li Guo's second general today is also common. The subordinates thought that the elite of our army was still there, and with Feng Xian's help, they could fight a decisive battle with Guanqian again tomorrow, and they would definitely kill the rebels like the day before."
"Prime Minister, Erchen is willing to lead 100,000 Guanzhong Iron Cavalry to fight to the death with the rebels today. In one fell swoop", Lu Bu stood up and said.
"Very good, today will be led by Bu'er in a decisive battle." Dong Zhuo swept away the gloom on his face just now, and returned to the evil domineering spirit of the past.
The sky was bright, the fire outside the ditch was gradually extinguished, and the princes from all walks of life sent people to clean up the battlefield, like hell, burning to death amounted to 50,000 people, and there were thousands of trampled dead people in the ditch. Ouyang Xuan ordered the corpses to be poured with fire oil and burned in a deep pit ten miles away from the back of the camp. Just when the coalition forces were still dealing with the battlefield, the gate of the Tiger Prison Pass was wide open, and a big banner of Lu Zi flashed out from the pass, and in less than half an hour, the 100,000 iron cavalry in the pass were completed, and Ouyang Xuan's side did not show weakness, and the 150,000 heavy cavalry also lined up with the ten miles in front of the pass, fighting against it. The Guanzhong Iron Rider is dressed in black clothes and black armor, holding a saber in his hand. The Qingzhou cavalry, horses and men are wearing bright silver armor made of aluminum alloy, with arm shields in their left hands, spears and crossbows in their hands, and a steel forged saber in their waists. Behind the formation, there were all the princes of the coalition army and dozens of war drums, which were far superior to the Dong army in terms of formation and momentum. Behind the cavalry formation, 50,000 hoplites stood by. Ouyang Xuan rode in front of the formation, followed by Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Tang De, Peng Fei and Tai Shici on both sides. Yuan Shao was also in the queue of princes at the back of the military formation, and he was also very dissatisfied with Ouyang Xuan not inviting him to the front. Standing on the high platform and watching the two armies face each other, I felt very helpless, such a great merit had nothing to do with me. Today's decisive battle may affect the trend of the world in the future, and he must not miss the opportunity, and he is planning countermeasures in his heart.
Before the battle, Lu Bu stepped forward and shouted: "The main general in front of the battle will quickly report his name, and Lu will not die under the halberd." Ouyang Xuan took Tang De to the front of Lu Bu's horse, and looked at Lu Bu, who was about the same height as Zhang Fei, burly, wearing a purple and gold crown, wearing a Shu brocade outside, a beast head chain armor, two animal heads protecting the shoulder armor, and a red red rabbit horse under the crotch. The bow and arrow bag is on the left, and he carries a carved green dragon sword on his waist, "You are Lu Bu'er with the third surname of the domestic slave?" A certain is Qingzhou Mu Zou Shiyuan, the word 掣pivot. There are no eyes on the swords and guns in the military formation, please take care of yourself." "A little Qingzhou Mu is so arrogant, he quickly returned to the formation and sent a general to fight with me. Let's wait to see what a certain means."
"Haha, let's protect ourselves. Say goodbye and see you in battle". Ouyang Xuan returned to the formation with Tang De.
"You have to be careful, Lu Bufei is not an idle person", Sun Jian reminded him.
"It's okay, today I want to meet this 10,000-strong enemy in person."
"The lord kills the chicken with a knife, and let De go to the first level", Tang De asked for his life on the side.
"Wen Shang watched the enemy for a certain person, and a certain person will meet this three-surnamed house slave."
"You have to be careful, Lu Bu is extraordinary, and the horse under his crotch is also a divine horse," Guan Yu said on the side.
"It's okay, when someone kills Lu Bu, the horse under his crotch will be sent to Yun Chang."
After speaking, Ouyang Xuan tightened his belt, took off the big knife on the victory hook, and the guards next to him quickly removed the silk knife cover for him. Ouyang Xuan's legs slammed, and Xuanyuan Ma ordered him to gallop forward like an arrow, and when he came to the front of the formation, he greeted Lu Bu without much courtesy. Lu Bu raised his halberd and stabbed Ouyang Xuan directly, Ouyang Xuan could have used the hail energy on the knife to behead him with a single sword, but Ouyang Xuan didn't want to do this, he wanted to learn the kung fu of the legendary number one general of the Three Kingdoms. The painting halberd came straight to the door, coupled with the speed of the horse, it was in front of him in the blink of an eye, Ouyang Xuan slammed the big knife in his hand outward, Ouyang Xuan felt that the halberd was very strong, but for Ouyang Xuan, this power was like a child, the back of the knife knocked the halberd directly away, making Lu Bu flash on the horse, Ouyang Xuan took advantage of the momentum, and the blade slashed at Lu Bu along the barrel of the gun with the speed of the horse. Lu Bu deserved to be the first fierce general of the Three Kingdoms, seeing the blade coming towards his waist and abdomen, he quickly retracted his halberd, leaned back on the horse, and held up the heavy big knife with the barrel of the gun to dodge the blade, Ouyang Xuan didn't want to kill Lu Bu in one round. The two horses staggered, Ouyang Xuan put the knife in his hand, his body suddenly leaned back, and stabbed the tip of the knife in his hand directly into Lu Bu's back, and when he heard a snap, the tip of the knife just smashed Lu Bu's bronze shield to protect his back. The standard armor of military generals in this era.
The distance between the two horses was opened, Ouyang Xuan turned the horse's head and hit the horse again to enter the battlefield, although Lu Bu's back shield was broken, it had no effect on it at all. He turned his horse's head and came again, but there was some fear in his heart. This time Ouyang Xuan didn't plan to leave a back hand, when the horse's heads intersected, Ouyang Xuan stabbed the knife straight into Lu Bu's waist and abdomen, and at the same time, his right wrist was quickly thrown hard, and the big knife was sharply picked up from the bottom to the top, Lu Bu had to put away the painting halberd that was stabbed in front of him, and blocked Ouyang Xuan's big knife with both hands. At the moment when the barrel of the gun touched the blade, Ouyang Xuan's right hand suddenly lost strength, and the big knife drew a graceful arc around the barrel of the halberd, and the barrel of the gun slashed towards Lu Bu's chest from the side. Lu Bu had to lie forward on the saddle bridge, his legs between the red rabbit horse, and only then did Ouyang Xuan notice that he actually didn't have stirrups. When Ouyang Xuan staggered the two horses, he retracted and pulled in his wrist, and the blade turned sharply, heading straight down to Lu Bu's neck. This time, Lu Bu couldn't run away no matter what, but he never expected that Lu Bu held the halberd with one hand and threw it back, and the gun just bumped into the blade, and then used a sticky word trick in the Taiji sword to stick to the blade with the halberd rod until the two horses separated. Ouyang Xuan did not continue to fight the horse, but when the two horses were about to separate, he pulled the reins, knocked his legs, Xuanyuan Ma's front legs were raised high in high speed, Ouyang Xuan pulled the reins to the side, and Xuanyuan Ma's hind limbs were the axis and directly made a 180-degree turn in the air. The forelimbs landed, and rushed forward, the horse's head was just at the hind limbs of the red rabbit horse, Xuanyuan horse hurriedly caught up with the red rabbit horse, Ouyang Xuan waved the big knife in his hand, and slashed the chest and abdomen obliquely from behind Lu Bu, no matter how brave Lu Bu was, he couldn't dodge this knife, the speed was extremely fast, according to common sense, it was impossible, but the blade had arrived, Lu Bu had turned the halberd back to his back when Ouyang Xuan's horse turned and swung the knife, but it was only a little slower, and he heard a poof, Lu Bu's head flew down to the side with half a shoulder, and a bloody sword rose into the sky. Xuanyuan Ma continued to move forward rapidly, dodging the blood sword jet, and walked to the head of the horse, Ouyang Xuan took the reins of the Red Rabbit Horse and returned to the formation with half of Lu Bu's body. Ouyang Xuan's blade pointed at the enemy formation, handed the red rabbit horse to Guan Yu and said: "A certain one lives up to the preface, that is, BMW will give it to the hero to show the merits of the day before yesterday."
At this time, Tang De has started with a large army, 150,000 war horses galloping, the scene is very spectacular, 10,000 horses galloping on the battlefield of ten miles wide, killing the opposite Guanzhong iron cavalry, because Lu Bu has just been beheaded, for a time the dragons have no leader, is at a loss, 150,000 heavy cavalry overwhelmingly come, the ground shakes the mountains, Rao is the Guanzhong iron cavalry who has seen the big scene, and now it is also two wars, astringent and shivering, with Peng Fei and Tai Shici taking the lead in killing the enemy formation, the Dong army was completely defeated like a tide, and retreated to the rear Tiger Prison Pass. Ouyang Xuan didn't give these Guanzhong Iron Cavalry a chance at all, the high-speed galloping sweat and blood BMW was not comparable to those northern horses, and he was chased into the formation by the Qingzhou Iron Cavalry in an instant, and Dong Zhuo and the others who were watching the battle on the city tower had not had time to react, and the rout army had reached the city gate and rushed in from the city gate. It was too late to order the gate to be closed, so he had to take a group of people to wait for the city tower to escape from the west gate.
Tang De brandished the broadsword in his hand and took the lead, followed by the rout army and rushed to the drawbridge first, followed by the Yulin guard battalion, which occupied the city gate with the fastest speed, and the subsequent cavalry once again entered the pass smoothly. The 100,000 defeated troops surrendered outside the pass, trampled on each other and killed and wounded, and the number of beheaded people was even more incalculable. The battle lasted from morning to evening, Ouyang Xuan had not participated in any battle since he killed Lu Bu, accompanied by five guards, and stood on the tower of the Tiger Prison Guandong City with Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Jian watching the battle develop step by step. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had already followed the Qingzhou Army to pursue the fleeing Dong Army, Dong Zhuo still escaped from Ascension, but under the pursuit of the Yulin guard battalion, he was finally killed by crossbow arrows and on the bank of the Bishui River, and a generation of traitors came to an end. Before Li Dao and Guo Yan could escape, they were captured by Sun Jian's subordinates Huang Gai and Cheng Pu. Of the 100,000 Guanzhong Iron Cavalry surrenderers, more than 20,000 were killed, and less than 3,000 fled back to Luoyang with Dong Zhuo's military division Li Ru, and together with Henan County Taishou led 50,000 troops to defend Luoyang.
The battle of Tiger Prison Pass did not end until noon on the second day, Dong Zhuo's body was hung in front of Tiger Prison Pass, and the other soldiers and horses of this battle were almost not moved, all of them were completed by the Qingzhou Army, especially Ouyang Xuan's battle of Lu Bu, which also gave enough deterrence to all soldiers and horses, plus several generals under Ouyang Xuan's command who looked polite and polite were all in a no-man's land, especially when everyone could not imagine that Tang De, who had always been Ouyang Xuan's military advisor, was not under the generals. After the battle, Ouyang Xuan directly bypassed Yuan Shao and directly led Sun Jian, Cao Cao, Gongsun Zan and Wang Kuang and other soldiers and horses to Luoyang quickly. Yuan Shao could only follow at this time, and there was no way that his military strength and military strategy were far inferior to others, so he could only follow the team to eat some scraps. A day later, the army was already under the city of Luoyang, Ouyang Xuan ordered the whole army to set up camp, and sent Tang De, Zhong Zhao and Kong Rong to Luoyang to persuade them to surrender. There was also news from Chang'an, with the assistance of the Zhongnanshan base, Li Mubing took Guanzhong bloodlessly and has been stationed in Chang'an. Ouyang Xuan ordered a final attack on Ma Teng and Han Sui to completely control the Guanzhong area. That night, Ouyang Xuan informed the princes of all walks of life that he had taken the area of Guanzhong and launched a final attack on Ma Teng Hansui.
It was like a bombshell, which made these princes dizzy, especially the two brothers Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao, who expressed extreme dissatisfaction with Ouyang Xuan's approach, and did not obey the orders of the coalition forces, and demanded that Ouyang Xuan withdraw his troops from Guanzhong. But dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and now it's really not these people who have the final say. Luoyang's persuasion effect is not bad, after all, Li Ru and Xu Rong also knew that Guanzhong was lost, and they could only be in a different place if they resisted, after two days of negotiations, Ouyang Xuan promised to protect the safety of Li Ru and Xu Rong's family, the gate of Luoyang City was opened, and Ouyang Xuan entered Luoyang City again. After entering the city, the first thing Ouyang Xuan presided over was to arrest the Dong Zhuo clan and his cronies. Ouyang Xuan carried out the punishment of the Dong Zhuo clan without the consent of the coalition forces, hung the corpse and the bazaar, and at the same time hung the corpse of Dong Zhuo, which was originally hung in the Tiger Prison Pass, to Luoyang East City, and I don't know who set the corpse on fire, and the fire was not extinguished for three days. However, in the treatment of Dong Zhuo's cronies, Yuan Shao strongly opposed the total killing, and after consultation with all parties, an agreement was finally reached, except for Li Dao and Guo Yan and other heinous people who were sentenced to death, the others were adopted by all the princes.
Because the emperor Liu Xie was still young, after the joint discussion of the princes of the coalition army, Cao Cao, the initiator of this discussion, was recommended as the prime minister, Yuan Shao as the Taifu, Qiao Mao as the Tai Lieutenant, Liu Dai as the Great Sima General, Kong Ling as the Great Situ, Han Fu as the Great Sikong, and other original official positions remained unchanged. Liu Bei served as the assassin of Yuzhou, Sun Jian served as the pastor of Yangzhou, Gongsun Zan served as the pastor of Youzhou, and other individuals had corresponding rewards. Only Ouyang Xuan, who had made immortal achievements, only added Kaiyang Hou on the basis of Qingzhou Mu, assigned Yanzhou Taishan County to Qingzhou, and Kong Rong was transferred to the post of Taichang. Ouyang Xuan didn't want to stay in Luoyang, so after the situation stabilized, Ouyang Xuan left the remaining money and grain to Cao Cao and Liu Bei in late June, and led his troops back to Qingzhou lightly. In this way, Ouyang Xuan owned both Qingzhou and Liangzhou, and after Tang De operated in the court, Li Mu served as the pastor of Liangzhou.
In July 190, the chaotic battle of the late Han Dynasty restored the apparent calm, but the undercurrent became more turbulent. A new round of war between the end of the Han Dynasty is quietly brewing, ready to set off a monstrous wave again.