【The Beginning of the Alliance】

Dong Zhuo has no virtue and no way, and he abolished the king, and everyone in the world is indignant about him.

At the beginning of the first year of Chuping (190), the former Yanzhou Thorn Shi is now the Taishou Qiaomao (not Cao Cao) of the East County, pretending to be a letter from the three princes of the capital, and sent a letter to the princes of various towns, telling that Dong Zhuo was in trouble, and the Han Sheji was threatened, asking everyone to unite to protect the Han. Subsequently, various places responded, including the main ones: Bohai Taishou Yuan Shao, Later General Yuan Shu, Jizhou Mu Hanfu, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Ling, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai, Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang, Chen Liutai Shou Zhang Miao, Guangling Taishou Zhang Chao, Dongjun Taishou Qiao Mao, Shanyang Taishou Yuan Yi and Jibei Xiang Bao Xin.

At this time, our protagonists, Cao Cao was still under Zhang Miao, Sun Jian was Yuan Shu's subordinate, and Liu Bei didn't come at all.

At first, Han Fu was afraid that Yuan Shao would turn against him because of Yuan Shao's reputation, so Han Fu sent people to Yuan Shao's door to monitor him and restrict his freedom. At this time, Han Fu received the letter of the three princes from Qiao Mao, he hesitated for a while, not knowing whether to support Dong Zhuo or Yuan Shao, so he summoned everyone to discuss and ask how to do it, and Liu Zihui, who was engaged in the governance of his command, said loudly: "Xingbing is for the country, don't say anything about the Yuan family and the Dong family!" ”

Han Fu was so embarrassed at this time that he had to immediately turn to support Yuan Shao to raise troops against Dong, and finally provide food and grass support for the coalition army, but he still felt uneasy in his heart, so he often deducted. After Yuan Shao received Han Fu's support, he and Wang Kuang's allied forces were stationed in Hanoi County, and then Zhang Yang also led his troops to rendezvous.

At the same time, Zhang Miao, Liu Dai, Qiao Mao, Yuan Yi and Bao Xin also joined forces to garrison the Sujube Alliance. They set up an altar oath here, jointly elected Zang Hong to preside, and finally everyone ascended to the altar and swore a blood oath, and agreed to crusade against Dong Zhuo and restore the Han family. The rest of the people were Yuan Shutun's troops in Luyang, Sun Jian rushed from Changsha to join Yuan Shu, and Kong Ling's troops were stationed in Yingchuan (Note 1).

Among them, Yuan Shao has the most appeal, not only because he was born in the Yuan family of the fourth and third dukes, but also because of his great contribution to the destruction of eunuchs and his performance in not cooperating with Dong Zhuo, so everyone jointly elected Yuan Shao, who has the highest reputation, as the leader of the alliance, among which only Bao Xin has other ideas, he believes that Cao Cao is the most talented and most likely to defeat Dong Zhuo. After Yuan Shao became the leader of the alliance, he proclaimed himself the general of the chariot cavalry, and the rest of the people were also awarded official titles, and in this way, the Kwantung Coalition Army was officially established.

The first large-scale camp confrontation in the Three Kingdoms era (Dong Zhuo vs anti-Dong) also kicked off.

【Move the capital to Chang'an】

After the establishment of the Kwantung Coalition Army, Dong Zhuo was shocked, and at this time, the Hedong Baibo Army also defeated his son-in-law Niu Fu, Dong Zhuo felt that his rule had begun to waver, so he began to take measures to maintain his dominance. On the one hand, in order to prevent accidents, he immediately sent Li Ru to poison the young emperor Liu Wei, who had been deposed by him, and on the other hand, he convened a court meeting to prepare to send troops to attack the Kwantung army, but was dissuaded by Zheng Tai. Zheng Tai thought that the Kwantung Coalition Army had just been established and was still very weak, and Dong Zhuo's soldiers fought all year round, so he didn't want Dong Zhuo to send troops to fight, and he also put forward ten reasons to point out that the Kwantung Army was not Dong Zhuo's opponent at all, so we didn't need to send troops to fight, and then Dong Zhuo actually believed him, and even if it wasn't for the dissuasion of others, Dong Zhuo would even hand over the command of the army to Zheng Tai.

In history, Dong Zhuo almost asked Zheng Tai, who was about to kill him, to command his own troops, Dong Zhuo, you are enough!

Later, more and more people supported the Kwantung Army, and the power of the Dong coalition army became stronger and stronger, Dong Zhuo felt threatened, so he wanted to move the cumbersome imperial court to Chang'an and then start a war with the Kwantung Army. Sikong Yang Biao and Taiwei Huang Wan tried to dissuade them from moving the capital, but Dong Zhuo was not bothered by them, and casually found a reason to dismiss them. But Wu Qiong and Zhou Bi still thought that they couldn't move the capital, which reminded Dong Zhuo of the two people's recommendation of Han Fu, Liu Dai and others to him, as well as the matter of preventing him from wanting Yuan Shao, Dong Zhuo felt angry and thought that these two people were fornicating with foreign enemies, so he ordered Wu Qiong and Zhou Yu to be executed.

But soon Dong Zhuo regretted it again, at this time Yang Biao and Huang Wan may also be afraid of Wu Qiong and Zhou Bi's death, so they compromised with Dong Zhuo, and after Xun Shuang's mediation, Dong Zhuo soon reused Yang Biao and Huang Wan again.

But the move of the capital is unstoppable. Dong Zhuo first drove Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty west to Chang'an, followed by officials, and then forced millions of people from Luoyang to move to Chang'an with a large army, during which the common people were killed and wounded, and the roads were piled up. In Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo still did not forget to collect money, he ordered all the rich people to be killed, and then confiscated their property for his own property. What is even more immoral is that he was so mad that he sent Lu Bu to dig up the tombs of the first emperor and the tombs below the princes, and then took away all the treasures in the funeral goods inside. In the end, he burned down the entire city of Luoyang, destroying all the buildings, including the imperial palace, and leaving almost no chickens and dogs.

Dong Zhuo rebelled against Dong because of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and ordered all the Yuan clansmen in Luoyang and Chang'an to be killed, and neither Yuan Kui nor Yuan Ji escaped this catastrophe (Note 2). Dong Zhuo himself initially stayed near Luoyang, commanding troops against the coalition forces, and after Emperor Xian of Han and his officials arrived in Chang'an, Wang Yun temporarily presided over the government. After Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, the morale of the anti-Dong coalition army was greatly boosted, and the war was about to begin.

【First Battle】

After Cao Cao escaped from Luoyang, he returned to Chenliu, he scattered all his family wealth and with the help of Xiaolian Weizi, organized a righteous army of about 5,000 people to prepare to crusade against Dong Zhuo, although he did not pass on the world to call on the heroes to crusade against Dong Zhuo, but according to the existing materials, Cao Cao was still the first person to fight against Dong.

After Dong Zhuo forcibly moved the capital to Chang'an, although the momentum of all the princes was greatly improved, everyone was still afraid of Dong Zhuo's strength and was unwilling to send troops first to avoid losing their own strength.

At that time, Cao Cao said: "Our righteous army is crusading against rebellion, and now all the armies have converged, what doubts do you still have?" If Dong Zhuo had previously learned the news of the Taihang Shandong Army, relying on the holy power of the Son of Heaven, occupying the dangerous places in the Luoyang area, and sending troops eastward to control the world, although his actions were immoral, it would still be a great worry for us. Now he is burning the palace and holding the Son of Heaven hostage to move westward, the world is terrified, and the people do not know who to cling to, which is the opportunity for the will of heaven to destroy him. A war can stabilize the world, and the opportunity must not be lost. ”

He then led his own troops and horses and the reinforcements led by Zhang Miao sent Wei Zi to prepare to capture Chenggao County, marched to Xingyang Bianshui, and encountered Dong Zhuo's general Xu Rong. Xu Rong himself is good at leading troops and is full of strategy, and the Xiliang army he led has experienced a hundred battles, the elite is unstoppable, and it is also stronger than Cao Cao in terms of strength, as a result, Cao Cao was defeated, Wei Zi was killed in battle, and Cao's army was defeated by Xu Rong and fled.

Cao Cao in this battle, not only his own war horse was hit hard, but he was also hit by a stray arrow, at that time Cao Cao's cousin Cao Hong let his war horse to Cao Cao, Cao Cao did not accept it at first, Cao Hong loudly persuaded: "The world can be without me Cao Hong, but not without you Cao Cao." So Cao Cao hurriedly got on his horse, and Cao Hong followed, and finally escaped. Xu Rong also chased and killed for a whole day, until he chased to the area of Sujuju, at that time Xu Rong's army was already a little tired, and Sujube was the base camp of the coalition army and it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he retreated.

In this way, the first battle ended with the crushing defeat of Cao Cao of the coalition army.

Note 1: There are relatively few records of Kong Ling's official history, and according to "Zang Hong's Biography", he also participated in the Sour Jujube Alliance.

Note 2: Dong Zhuo's killing of Yuan Kui and Yuan Ji is said to have been after Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu raised troops, and it is said that it was after Yuan Shao captured Jizhou.