Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Burning of Hangu
Half a day later, after the battlefield and the prisoners were rectified, they escorted the prisoners, walked back, met the hundred officials who returned to Luoyang on the way, when they saw the Son of Heaven seemed to be excited to come to worship, and when they saw the dead Dong Zhuo, they wanted to get Dong Zhuo's body like the enemy who killed his father, if it were not for the protection of the Heavenly Wolf Army, Dong Zhuo was estimated to be muddy.
After Chen Zhi got Chu Xiong's order, he took the prepared army and spent more than a month, detouring from the trail to the front of Hangu Pass, which was usually guarded by 3,000 soldiers and horses, Chen Zhi just went into battle with the guards and killed Dong Huai, shouting, putting on a large army formation, scaring the officers and soldiers guarding the pass, in fact, these officers and soldiers are usually angry with Dong Huai, and they have long been angry that Dong Huai is Dong Zhuo's cronies, and he is overbearing, and now he is also happy to be killed, and he doesn't need Chen to threaten him. The adjutant general Ma Guan personally opened the city gate and surrendered.
After Chen arrived at the customs, he took care of the things in the pass, straightened out everything, and after some hard work, the soldier's tired body could no longer support it, so he left the guards on duty, and sent more than 100 heavenly wolves with good spirits to Luoyang to inquire about the news of the princes, and returned to the tent by himself, and slept with his armor.
A few days later, the hundred cavalry reported that Dong Zhuo had sent 200,000 troops to sweep all the way, and it was estimated that he was going back to Chang'an.
Chen Zhi thought that his 20,000 cavalry was used to defend the city, which was not very cost-effective, and it was also dangerous, and he was not as conceited as Lu Bu when he faced an enemy ten times as many as a few times as many as him. In the end, Chen Zhi and the two division commanders summed up, and felt that they could use a strategy to destroy Dong Zhuojun, and then after the calculation, they withdrew from Hangu Pass in the direction of Chang'an as planned, hid in the forests on both sides, and acted at the opportunity.
A day later, that Guo Yan led 200,000 Dong Zhuojun all the way, arrived at Hangu Pass, looked at the open city gate, and sent someone to check, the assassin came out to report, there was no one in the pass, everything in the pass was destroyed, and there was a mess everywhere, Guo Yan didn't care about this, and immediately sent people into the garrison to guard the gate of Chang'an.
Speaking of Sergeant Dong Zhuo, since he was ordered by General Guo Yan, he did not dare to slack off, he hurriedly sorted out the things in the pass, rectified everything, and after some hard work, the already tired body of the sergeant could no longer support it, and in desperation, Guo Bi had to send more than 1,000 sergeants to guard the direction of the princes, return to the tent by himself, and sleep with his armor.
Hanguguan was very quiet today, so quiet that only the snoring of the army could be heard. The sergeants were too tired, the rapid march was already hard, and the continuous news of defeat from the rear made them demoralized and mentally tired, and they fell into a deep sleep one by one, which was very sweet. Even the more than 1,000 sergeants who were in charge of guarding the gate nodded and saluted again and again.
However, at the time of the second watch, in the army of Guo Yan was all indulged in a sweet dream, from the jungle in the four directions of the pass, one after another out of the hundreds, carrying some things in their hands, sneakily came to the vicinity of the two city gates, as well as the other two directions, it seemed to know the terrain very well, along the way, they all found weeds everywhere, as well as the camp tent of the military camp, splashed the fire oil in their hands along the road, and then looked carefully at their feet, mostly scattered firewood and grass. After the fire oil in his hand was splashed clean, everyone took out an object from their arms one after another, and shook it in the wind, but a little spark flashed, which was actually a fire break - a fire fold! Carefully enlarged the flames, and without hesitation, they threw the fire folds onto the road where they had just been splashed, and then hurriedly withdrew to the forest, and in an instant, the flames were everywhere, and all the things that had been spilled were flammable materials such as fire oil, and the fire was very fast.
Guo Yan's army is tired from afar, not to mention that the princes' army is far away in the direction of Luoyang, of course he doesn't doubt it, he is too lazy to clean up the weeds and flammable materials on the ground, how can he think of today's disaster!
Now in winter, the weather is dry and dry, and most of the passes are flammable, but Chen Zhijun also specially prepared and made arrangements early. Walk the water! ”
But how can they know that the army is trapped and sleeping, and how can they wake them up from their dreams! More than 1,000 garrison soldiers tried to extinguish the flames while sending people to and from Guo Yan's tent.
With the fire, how can it be saved! Along the road, most of the sergeants Chen Zhi poured fire oil and other things, which burned when they caught fire, and even scattered firewood and grass everywhere, when Guo Yan was called by the soldiers, the fire had spread to the entire pass, and there was no possibility of saving!
"Hurry up and get on your horse and rush out of the city with General Ben!" Guo Yan saw that the fire was no longer controllable, and he had led the troops for many years, so he naturally knew what to abandon and what not to abandon. There is no possibility of Hangu Pass being saved, and if you don't run for your life, I'm afraid that your 200,000 troops will have to be explained here!
Guo Yan's war horse was tied to the outside of the tent, after speaking, jumped to the front of the war horse, stepped on the horse, the gun was in the left hand, waved the gun and cut off the reins, leading part of the army to look at the west direction and hurried away, waiting to lead the army to the gate of the wall, but saw that it was already the fire covering the sky, how can you still see the gate of the wall!
"With such a fire, we have no reason to rush through the walled gate!"
"Some of the sergeants who were still asleep were burned alive by the fire, and those who did not burn were also suffocated by the thick smoke, only a small number of people were relatively lucky, after all, the camp of 200,000 people, relying on hundreds of people, could not be all set on fire. This is only the first time Guo Yan has encountered this situation and is not calm, so he wants to run out of the camp.
If you go to a place where there is no fire, you can quickly dismantle a barrier and come out, so many people don't have to die.
Chen Zhi saw that those Dong Zhuojun were about to escape, and knew that he couldn't wait any longer, otherwise when the ignition oil burned out and the panic stopped, this plan would be meaningless, so Chen Zhi shouted on the hillock: "Where to go Guo Yan!" Youzhou Chen is here! Kill! ”
With a wave of the scythe in his hand, he said to the soldiers: "Brothers, we are about to face a great battle, and although there is a huge disparity in strength between us and the enemy, the situation in this battle is not optimistic. But we are the Celestial Wolf Army, the arrogant Celestial Wolf Army, and no matter how many enemies there are, they are nothing more than lambs to the slaughter in our eyes. Soldiers, the brave wins! ”
"When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins the !!" The twenty thousand heavenly wolf cavalry raised the weapons in their hands and shouted with Chen Zhi.
Chen Zhi shouted loudly: "Heavenly Wolf Army, advance!" Sirius! Kill!!! ”
"Sirius! Mighty! Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
The Celestial Wolf Army? How did they end up here? Guo Yan heard it clearly in the army, he remembered that the army of the King of Chu was the Heavenly Wolf Army, and sighed in his heart, the prestige of the Heavenly Wolf Army is close to the grassland, everyone knows that it can beat the people who grow on horseback and beg for mercy, and the combat power is by no means comparable to these ordinary Xilian cavalry, as for the elite Flying Bear Army of Xiliang, they don't know where it is, so Guo Yan is also very jealous of the Heavenly Wolf Army, and he can't win by charging head-on, not to mention that the chaotic army is even more vulnerable now. But he won't say this, he doesn't want to pour cold water on the momentum of his own soldiers when the big war comes.
The Celestial Wolf Army? The army of the king of Chu? The soldier was first startled, then turned to shock, "Ahhh......h Brothers, run! The wolf army that crisscrosses the grassland is coming, run, brothers, run!
The name of the Sky Wolf Army may not be familiar to the Central Plains, but no one knows the life on the edge of the grassland, and no one knows! In the minds of the soldiers, the Sky Wolf Army is the word "invincible"!
Suddenly, the low morale instantly became even lower, and the army of his own family seemed to be no longer huge, with the wolf army, his own army was not much different from 200,000 sheep! One by one, they screamed and ran away to the place where there was no fire, and they didn't want to fight back at all, but their lives were really saved.
"Drink!"
The overwhelming roar came, shocking and trembling, and the trembling Sergeant Dong Zhuo suddenly felt his feet soft, and the sound of "plopping ......" rang out.