(1st Update~)

In the early morning of May in the first year of Zhongping, when the morning light was slightly dewed, after a day and night march, the Dong coalition army still continued to walk firmly on the road west to Luoyang.

On this trip, they have no enemies, even if Dong Zhuojun is stuck in their logistics, what can they do?

The consumption of 200,000 troops is indeed very large, and because of the inconsistency of each other's military orders, their marching speed is very slow and the efficiency is very poor, and it is impossible to rush to Luo ** as much as possible, and Dong Zhuojun's army has basically cleared everything that can be called around (in fact, equivalent to looting) before the arrival of the coalition army, and it is directly a strong wall and a clear field, which makes them very depressed, but it is not so desperate that they despair.

Everyone knows how difficult this situation is, but if they survive it, it will be a victory, and you must know that even if they march so slowly from Hugao Pass to Luoyang, they will be able to reach Gongxian in less than two days.

And Yuan Shao also deliberately thought of a way, he secretly sent his cronies to find some carts covered under black cloth, and said to the outside world that this was a reserve of food, enough for their army to consume, but in terms of quantity, he repeatedly controlled zhì, which was a bit of a "later" Cao Cao let his subordinates look at Mei to quench their thirst.

Because of this plan, Yuan Shao's impression in the hearts of the princes has a certain bonus and rebound, but what he is most afraid of is what he is, it is at this time, the coalition army has not marched for more than a mile, and the news of the dismal encounter of the vanguard army in Gongxian County came, which suddenly made the coalition army suddenly sober up.

Guarding Gongxian County, it was Xu Rong, the general of Xiliang, who used a thousand Xiliang cavalry to break the vanguard army of Zhang Yang on the battlefield with 3,000 cavalry and 1,000 infantry, with cavalry to cavalry and infantry combination, and it was a pair of four, the first round of the coalition army reaped a fiasco, only more than half of the people fled back, and these defeated soldiers under Zhang Yang came back, and at the same time brought back the news that the Tiger Prison Pass was taken by Dong Zhuojun.

If the vanguard defeated Gongxian, it can be said that victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers, and whether it is the princes, generals or ordinary soldiers, they all believe that their army is definitely not something that Dong Zhuojun can stop; Then there is no doubt that the revelation of this latter news is the heaviest blow to the coalition army, obviously Li Ru has long thought that the princes of the coalition army will block and conceal the news, so he used this method to ruthlessly expose the scars of the coalition army.

Everyone knows what this means, because the military rations brought by the coalition army are simply not enough to consume the 200,000 troops, so it is equivalent to their logistics being cut off directly, in which case unless they return to take the tiger prison and food - this situation is directly ruled out, and no one will be stupid enough to make this choice; The other situation is to speed up the march and advance to the west until Luoyang is captured and Dong Zhuo is completely defeated.

But in the latter case, it is not so easy to tell the truth, especially now that the coalition forces are already panicking, the news has spread, if there is no definite evidence to prove that it is false, then its impact will not be eliminated one day, can it be reversed just by saying that this is not really the enemy's plan? Especially Yuan Shao's trick was exposed by some crazy coalition soldiers after the news came, which made those generals also suffer a certain crisis of confidence.

In addition, there is another news that Dong Zhuojun almost threw himself into the West Gate of the Tiger Prison Pass and repaid him with the same cut off the heads of those Cao Jun corpses and piled them up into Jingguan to respond to the same methods of the coalition forces before.

Of course, the coalition forces did not achieve any effect before, and even if they caused any reaction, they were suppressed by Li Ru and Lu Bu together; But now it is different for Dong Zhuojun to deal with the coalition army, because it is Li Ru and Lu Bu, the two people in Dong Zhuo's army who are "the most despicable and shameless" (Yuan Shaoyu), and the coalition army has also caused a great shock to this, those soldiers are indignant and frightened, the optimistic are no longer optimistic, and the pessimistic are even more pessimistic, as if the prospect has been covered with a thick layer of dust all of a sudden, and no one can say what the coalition army can do in this situation. …,

It can only be said that the coalition forces were indeed too anxious to leave the Tiger Prison Pass before, and did not carefully ensure that the safety of the Tiger Prison Pass remained in their hands, and this lack of attention was the main reason for such a defeat, which was a sin belonging to the decision-making power.

In addition, the prediction of the road ahead is also too optimistic, which is another main reason why the baggage and military rations are not sufficient, because they have not even carefully considered the difficulties they may encounter along the way, since Dong Zhuojun has been exposed in Cao Cao's battle, then they are obviously not without the strength of the first battle, but the princes of the coalition army selectively ignored it, and Xu Rong undoubtedly gave them a head start, telling them that even if the road ahead, it will never be smooth sailing. Is it really that Dong Zhuojun is gone?

And the princes thought about it again, thinking of the Tiger Prison Pass in the rear, and the thorn of Xu Rong in the front, thinking about it, that is to say, now Dong Zhuojun actually completed a perfect package of the coalition army with several times the number of them, which is really a little incredible, but it is true.

I have to say that when I first got the news, the princes themselves were in a big mess, and some time ago they had been panicked because of the news of Cao Cao's annihilation and Zhang Miao's death, such as Wang Kuang and Bao Xin had nightmares, the former always dreamed that he was stabbed to death by Dong Zhuo's sword, which was remembered of the banquet, and the latter thought of Bao Zhong, whose brother died tragically under Hua Xiong, this is not that they are cowardly but that the psychological pressure is too great.

They have so much pressure, but they don't have enough motivation to support it, so that the coalition forces paused, especially under the blow of a series of shocking news, although they moved forward again in the next but the speed was too slow, there is no doubt that Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and other troops are relatively stable, and the military spirit is relatively neat, but several other weaker ones such as Kong Rong, Wang Kuang, Zhang Chao and others are obviously suspected of dragging their feet, so that from a formal point of view, the coalition forces are almost in danger of falling apart.

It's just that they have almost no choice now, it's impossible to retreat, it's difficult to move forward, but at least there's hope, right?

And it was the hope of the coalition forces, and their march, that brought great pressure to Gongxian, or now it should be said that Yanshi.

The Yanshi guards are Yang Ding and Li Su, but at this time it is not only the two of them who are in charge of commanding here, but also Xu Rong who retreated from Gongxian sensibly, the former is good at defense, the other is anxious, and Xu Rong is offensive and defensive and it is not easy to win, if it is a Xiongguan like a tiger prison, there are a few more men and horses under his command, and the logistics can be guaranteed, even if it is not impossible to drag the coalition army outside for several months.

It's just that the situation is a little bad now, even if the coalition vanguard army was defeated by the weak and the strong, but this kind of battle is not so easy to replicate, and there are many influencing factors, after all, the essentially flamboyant Bingzhou cavalry is not much weaker than the Xiliang cavalry.

And Yanshi's city defense is much more stubborn than Gongxian, which is also the reason why Xu Rong made a direct choice.