[Post-Dong Zhuo's Western Liang Army Era]

Dong Zhuo led the army into Chang'an in the sixth year of Zhongping (189), abolished the Son of Heaven and finally took charge of the government, and only less than four years later, in the third year of Chuping (192), the arrogant and arrogant Dong Zhuo was killed by his righteous son Lu Bu. In the same year, Li Dao, Guo Yan and other old troops of the Western Liang Army led a large army to surround Chang'an, repelled Lü Bu, killed Wang Yun, and once again held Emperor Xian of Han hostage.

Three years later, in the second year of Xingping (195), the Xiliang army broke out many large-scale civil strife, first Li Dao killed Fan Chou and annexed his subordinates, and then Li Dao and Guo Yan attacked each other in Chang'an City, although they were finally mediated by Zhang Ji, but it also made Emperor Han Xian unable to stay in Chang'an City any longer.

In July of the same year, Emperor Han Xian began to return to the east, but although Emperor Han Xian fled from Chang'an City at this time, he was still under the control of the Western Liang Army, but with the intensification of internal contradictions in the Western Liang Army, Emperor Han Xian's journey was also destined to be uneven. But in the face of the continuous pursuit of Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, and the internal contradictions between Han Xian and Dong Cheng, they finally overcame many difficulties, and finally successfully returned to Luoyang a year later, that is, in July (196) of the first year of Jian'an, at this time for Emperor Xian, it has been seven years since Dong Zhuo abolished the young emperor Liu Wei and established himself as the emperor, he has gone from a drooping Zhengtai to the age of binding his hair, and he can finally get rid of the horror of the Xiliang army, although for him this is not actually the end.

In the second year of Jian'an (197), Guo Yan was killed by his own general Wu Xi, and a year later, Li Wei was also in a catastrophe and was defeated and executed by the imperial army. By this time, the three most important iconic figures in the Western Liang Army in the post-Dong Zhuo era, Fan Chou, Guo Yan, and Li Dao, had died one after another, and the eight- and nine-year-long reign of the Western Liang Army came to an end.

【Chaotic Times】

The era of the Western Liang Army after Dong Zhuo was a chaotic era, but we can still divide that era into three periods: before, middle and after the death of Fan Chou and the return of the emperor to the east.

In the early stage, although the captains of the Xiliang Army did not clearly elect the boss, they tacitly acquiesced to Li Dao and Guo Yan as the leaders, and after the death of Dong Zhuo and Niu Fu, everyone captured Chang'an in one fell swoop and recovered the disadvantages of the Xiliang Army. Then everyone shared the fruits of victory and avenged Dong Taishi. Everyone had a good relationship at the beginning and was very harmonious with each other, but this unity did not bring a good pattern, on the contrary, it brought more serious chaos to the imperial court than in Dong Zhuo's time.

Because there are too many powerful figures in the Xiliang Army, which one of Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and others is not a big power, even if Dong Zhuo is alive, there is only one Dong Zhuo, and now? Although Dong Zhuo himself is dead, the living "Dong Zhuo" is not a person. One Dong Zhuo can't bear the entire Han Dynasty, and how can a few "Dong Zhuo" be able to withstand it in the small Guanzhong region! As a result, the entire Guanzhong region's politics, economy, and order completely collapsed, and there was chaos. In the end, it was fed back to those Xiliang generals that there was no one to ask for food, and they couldn't stay here for about three years, so Fan Chou wanted to leave.

It's a pity that he didn't make it, Li Dao was too interested in his troops, so he left his troops behind, and by the way, his life. At this time, the relationship between the generals of the Xiliang Army can no longer be better, everyone has to protect their own lives, who knows if the other party is the second Li Dao. Guo Yan also cherished his life, so the war between him and Li Dao broke out, and they almost beat Chang'an City into ruins, Chang'an City became even more chaotic, and Emperor Han Xian was not disturbed by it, and he no longer wanted to stay in Chang'an City, so he also wanted to leave.

Li Dao did not keep Emperor Han Xian in the end, and although he soon regretted it and took remedial measures, it all seemed too late, and Emperor Han Xian eventually left Chang'an and left the Xiliang army. After losing Emperor Han Xian, the Dinghai Divine Needle, the Xiliang Army had no way to deter other princes. Facing the princes who were about to move, facing the internal contradictions, and facing the chaotic and barren land of Guanzhong, the Xiliang army finally went to ruin.

In the early stage, the misdeeds of the generals of the Xiliang Army made the fundamentals of the entire Guanzhong region collapse, and finally fed back the pressure to every general of the Xiliang Army, and there will always be generals of the Xiliang Army who can no longer bear this pressure, and have to break the balance within the Xiliang Army, so that the Xiliang Army began to collapse from the inside, causing the generals to distrust each other and begin to push the pressure on their teammates, and finally a vicious circle, which made the Xiliang Army go to extinction. What Xiliang Jun brought to others in the end was only chaos.

[Doomed Doom]

The demise of the Xiliang Army was doomed, but Li Dao, Guo Yan and others also "made great contributions".

1. The Xiliang Army was founded by Dong Zhuo, and it was also brought to the peak by Dong Zhuo. In history, due to Dong Zhuo's brutal indulgence, in fact, the Xiliang Army has long been intolerable to other princes, and it has also lost the hearts of the people in the world, so I say that the demise of the Xiliang Army is doomed.

2. After Dong Zhuo's death, the internal relations of the Xiliang Army were not clear, and there was no strong leader. As mentioned earlier, due to various reasons, the power within the Xiliang Army is very dispersed, although Li Dao is the leader, he has no way to punish other generals, because in essence, they are all captains of the same level appointed by Dong Zhuo, and everyone has their own troops, who is afraid of you! The result is that although they are teammates in name, they are in fact allies, and as a whole they are too loose to resist all kinds of strong pressures.

3. Although the military standards of these generals of the Western Liang Army are not bad, their political standards are too poor. Their original boss Dong Zhuo's political level is bad enough, but compared with Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, Dong Zhuo can call himself Zhuge Liang. said that they were scum of political level, and the scum was moved to cry. In a sense, they can make the Guanzhong area with a population of more than one million people uninhabited for hundreds of miles, which is also a kind of ability.

4. The level of Li Dao and Guo Yan is too low and their authority is not enough. The authority and influence of a few lieutenants are really a bit inadequate in front of a central court, although they can be accumulated through time, but this also makes the princes' recognition of them low.

Although the Western Liang Army did not escape the fate of destruction in the end, the curtain of the Three Kingdoms era had just been raised.