Chapter 055: Zhangshui Realliance

Lu Bu left Yong'an with the army, and he walked so cleanly, without any hesitation or reluctance. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The return of the army to the state is the desire of the army, and there is no need to do any marching and mobilization.

This is also an important reason why Lu Bu always insists on returning to the north.

In this era when the concept of the countryside is extremely strong, it is very dangerous and inappropriate to let a unit go out to fight for a long time away from its homeland, no matter how sympathetic the generals who command this army are, no matter how strict the military discipline is.

The soldiers with the best will to fight in the world have always been those who defend their homeland, because people will only completely explode when they are faced with a situation from which there is no way out.

Of course, if Lü Bu can shape the national faith and loyal soul for his army in the future, then such an army will break away from the limitations of regional armies and become a truly invincible national army.

The army that represents the country, even if it is thousands of miles away from home, will shed the last drop of blood for the faith in their hearts. This is the essential difference between the national army and the local armed forces.

When the news of Lü Bu's departure from Hedong was transmitted back to Luoyang, Dong Zhuo immediately began to dispatch troops to meet the Kwantung coalition army according to Li Ru's suggestion.

First of all, Dong Zhuo sent people to Anyi to secretly contact Yang Feng, saying that the imperial court could appease Yang Feng's troops and let Yang Feng get rid of the identity of a rebel army.

Yang Feng had no power to resist such a temptation, which was the result he had ever dreamed of. Yang Feng agreed to Dong Zhuo's conditions, and secretly reached an understanding with Niu Fu, who was stationed in Hedong, and the two sides worked together to guard against Guo Da and Hu Cai in Xie County.

In order to show his determination to cooperate, Yang Feng used a plan to kill Li Le, who was in Anyi with him, and easily captured Li Le's soldiers and horses, and from then on completely controlled the territory from Anyi to Wenxi. After Guo Da learned the news of Li Le's killing, he wanted to send troops to clean up the portal, but was stopped by the military advisor Hu Cai.

Hu Cai reminded Guo Da that although Lu Bu had left Hedong, Niu Fu's troops were still there, and a force sent by Dong Zhuo from Luoyang was about to arrive in Hedong, and once Guo Da sent troops to attack Yang Feng, it was very likely that he would be attacked from both sides by Niu Fu and Yang Feng.

Yu Fuluo, the leader of the Southern Xiongnu who had just taken refuge in Guo Da, suggested that Guo Da abandon the defense of Xie County, cross the Yellow River with the remaining tens of thousands of people, and enter the area between Zuo Fengyi and Shangjun, which has complex terrain and is full of loess hills and ravines, to accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity.

Guo Da was a little reluctant to the salt pond in Hedong, but he felt that Yu Fuluo's suggestion was reasonable, so he didn't do anything for the time being and continued to stay in the Xie County area.

Just as Hu Cai dissuaded Guo Da and said, Dong Zhuo did send a force from Luoyang to Hedong, led by Li Dao, who was very brave and good at fighting under Dong Zhuo, but the army led by Li Dao was not to deal with Guo Da or Yang Feng, he was going to make a detour to Hedong and surprise the anti-Dong coalition army in Hanoi!

More than a month after the end of the Suo Jujube Alliance, Yuan Shao finally came to Ye County in Wei County, Jizhou with his team, but he did not cross the Yellow River to join the Kwantung Coalition Army in the area of Sour Zao, but personally made an oath on the edge of Zhangshui near Ye County, and personally took the oath on the altar and recited a large number of gorgeous words.

At the end of Yuan Shao's oath, there is such a sentence, "After I am allied, Bi Li will kill the fierce and ugly, award the royal family, and wear the son of heaven on the wings." There is this alliance between Chongqing, and the gods are dead, and they are falling into their divisions, and there is no country of Kezuo. ”

When Yuan Shao later intended to support Youzhou Mu Liu Yu as the puppet son of heaven, the oath he had made was fulfilled. Because he violated the oath of Zhangshui, the gods not only made him completely defeated in the battle with Cao Cao, but he himself died a death, and his sons did not die well.

The main people who came to Zhangshui to participate in the alliance were the people from all over the world, among which the soldiers and horses recruited by Yuan Shao from Bohai County and the soldiers and horses recruited by Wang Kuang in Hanoi were the main force, and the other two soy sauce troops were some soldiers and horses led by Cui Jun, the Taishou of Xihe County, and some crossbowmen brought by Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan on behalf of Jizhou.

In the previous sour jujube alliance, Wang Kuang also sent some people to go, which is very in line with his character of fighting righteousness and squandering money, and liking to join in the fun in everything. Han Fu also sent people to participate in the Sour Jujube Alliance, but he was only forced by the pressure of public opinion and did not send many people. Han Fu's main troops remained in Jizhou, always guarding against the ambitious Yuan Shao's occupation of Jizhou.

What made people feel surprised was that Xihe Taishou Cui Jun actually appeared at the scene of the Zhangshui oath.

Where is Xihe County? It is to the north of Hedong County and Zuo Fengyi, to the west of Taiyuan County, to the east of Shang County, and to the south of the four northern counties of Bingzhou. According to the normal route of the march, if Cui Jun really wanted to crusade against Dong Zhuo, he should enter Shangjun from Xihe County, and then go straight to Chang'an from Shangjun to cut off Dong Zhuo's retreat. Or he can also lead the army into Hedong and fight all the way south from Hedong, which can also cause great trouble to Dong Zhuo.

However, neither of the above routes of march was possible.

Last year, the Baibo Army led by Guo Da started from Xihe County, and Cui Jun was unable to suppress it at that time, so he fled directly to Taiyuan County with a little soldiers and horses. After Lu Bu occupied Yong'an and eyed Xihe County and Taiyuan County, Cui Jun felt that Taiyuan County was not safe, so he took more than 1,000 people and horses to Jizhou through Huguan in one go. When he heard that Yuan Shao was going to hold an alliance in Zhangshui, he hurriedly ran over to gather the number of people and brush up his prestige.

At the end of the Zhangshui oath, Yuan Shao proclaimed himself the general of the chariot cavalry, which was much more ugly than the general Lu Bu of Tiance. Yuan Shao was self-proclaimed, and Lu Bu was sealed by the imperial court, and the nature of the two is fundamentally different.

At the Sour Jujube Alliance, all coalition forces have already elected Yuan Shao as the leader of the Dong League, why does Yuan Shao want to fight again in Zhangshui?

The answer is self-explanatory.

Asking for the leader of the Dong League is just a false name, and the general of the chariot is the real power! Yuan Shao's sending troops to fight Dong is simply a pretense, his purpose is the entire Jizhou! If Yuan Shao argues with Jizhou Mu Han Fu as the Taishou of Bohai, Han Fu can immediately send troops to teach him how to behave. After all, Han Fu is the pastor of Jizhou and the official of Bohai Taishou.

Now, Yuan Shao has two big hats on his head, the lord of the Dong League and the general of the chariot cavalry who has not been sealed by the imperial court, which can form a great deterrent to Han Fu.

After the Zhangshui oath ended, Yuan Shao took 30,000 soldiers and horses gathered from all directions from Ye County to Hanoi, set up the camp in Yewang in Hanoi County, and then waited for the Kwantung coalition army to attack Tiger Pass first.

Yuan Shao, Wang Kuang and others didn't know that in order to deal with various anti-Dong forces, Dong Zhuo began to lay out soon after the end of the Sujube Alliance, and Hanoi, which is separated by a river from the Jingshi Luoyang, is a strategic place second only to Hedong, how could Dong Zhuo sit idly by?

In addition to military preparations, the envoys sent by Dong Zhuo also arrived at the location where the coalition commanders were stationed. The arrival of these ministers and celebrities will also cause an irreparable rift within the coalition forces.