On the banks of the Bianshui River, corpses were strewn all over the field, piled up corpses blocking the river, and the bright red blood stained the originally clear river water into a red stream.

The battle lasted for half a day, and finally ended with a defeat for both sides.

Cao Cao's department of 7,000 people, only less than 1,000 people remained, and Sun Jian's department was scattered and fled many times when the war began, so that after the war, there were still 3,000 people left.

Bao Xin's 5,000 cavalry lost more than 3,000 people, and the unit was almost disabled.

Han Lie's 4,000 men and horses, under this big battle, although they later participated in the battle, but as a new force to rush to the rescue, and finally repelled Lu Bu's soldiers and horses, the price paid was also huge, a full 2,000 people fell on the bank of the Bianshui River, and they could not wake up again.

More than 20,000 soldiers and horses, after the battle, seventy percent of the dead and wounded, more than 15,000 corpses lying on the battlefield, if you add Lu Bu's 4,000 soldiers' corpses, and war horses everywhere, the whole battlefield is like a slaughterhouse.

This battle was the most tragic battle since Han Lie joined the war, if it weren't for the fact that before he rushed into battle, he had an idea and arranged for Gao Ran to lead five hundred soldiers with the war horses in the army to the southeast corner to set up a large army to help, and it is really unknown who will die in this battle.

Although Han Lie's 3,500 men and horses entered from the flanks and disrupted Lü Bu's charging formation, they did not deal a fatal blow to Lü Bu's cavalry, but only played a role in diverting the local battlefield, and played an encouraging role in Sun Jian, Cao Cao, and Bao Xin's troops who were falling into weakness on the battlefield.

It was also this diversion effect that allowed Bao Xin's light cavalry to form a formation and launch a counterattack, thus stabilizing the defense line of Cao Cao's army, although Cao Cao was injured, but his general Cao Ren took over the command, and with the cooperation of Xiahou Yuan and other generals, he quickly stabilized the position.

And Sun Jian, on the other side, was even more of a pioneer, under the protection of the left and right generals Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang, he actually penetrated the encirclement and restrained the Lu Bu cavalry phalanx from the other side.

It was also the tacit cooperation of the people and horses of the Quartet, coupled with the smoke and dust raised by Gao Lan's headquarters in the southeast corner, that created a scene of a large army rushing to help, and frightened Lu Bu, and the result of this battle would obviously be even more tragic.

"General Han, if you hadn't arrived in time today, I would have waited." Sun Jian, who was covered in blood, came to greet Han Lie.

"General Sun is polite, if it weren't for the soldiers, how could Lie do anything?" After Han Lie stepped forward to salute, he looked around and found that he didn't see Cao Cao's figure, so he asked, "Why don't you see General Cao?" ”

"General Cao was hit by an arrow and was escorted out of the battlefield by his soldiers." Bao Xin, who was also stained with blood, led the horse over.

"This battle was too tragic." Han Lie looked at the corpses everywhere and sighed lightly, "I hope General Cao can get through this difficulty." ”

Although he was a little jealous of Cao Cao when he was in the sour jujube camp, after getting along with him for a while, Han Lie found that although Cao Cao was scheming, he was a wise commander, and he had no fight in the army, and he could also share weal and woe with his soldiers, so his subordinates were willing to serve him.

"Meng De has great ambitions and has always had the heart to serve the country, and I believe that he will overcome such difficulties." When Bao Xin was in Luoyang, he was originally close to Yuan Shao, but since Dong Zhuo's rebellion, he gradually saw that Yuan Shao was not a long-term person, but Cao Cao, who was weak, had realized that kind of ambition to keep the world in mind, so that since the coalition army entered the war, he has followed Cao Cao in everything, as if Cao Cao is the leader.

"Next, we will enter Luoyang, and will we return to Tiger Prison Pass to wait for reinforcements?" Sun Jian also raised concerns because of the heavy losses of the army.

"It will take at least a few days for reinforcements to arrive, so let's camp here, clean up the battlefield, bury the sacrificed soldiers, and send scouts to Luoyang to find out the news, so that we can arrange the next military operation." Although Han Lie knew that Dong Zhuo would definitely retreat north to Chang'an, he naturally couldn't know the specific time, and now they were just so few people, if they ventured to Luoyang, if they encountered the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry again, the result would be really tragic.

In today's battle, Han Lie finally saw the real elite Liangzhou Iron Cavalry, how amazing the combat effectiveness is, this is only the impact power of the cavalry limited by the riverside, if on the plain, the impact of 10,000 iron cavalry, even 50,000 foot soldiers can't stop the powerful impact force.

"General Han's words are reasonable, if the bones of so many soldiers are not buried, once a plague breaks out, it will inevitably bring boundless disasters to the people around Gyeonggi." When Bao Xin heard this, he couldn't help but echo.

"It's okay, by the way, clean up the battlefield, I see that a lot of weapons can be used, and there are those ownerless war horses, but they will also supplement the combat effectiveness of the army." Sun Jian looked up at the Xiliang war horses on the battlefield that had lost their owners, scattered alone on the battlefield, and nodded.

The scouts sent to Luoyang rushed back that night.

The news brought back by the scout surprised Sun Jian and Bao Xin, and Han Lie, who had already known the result, was not frightened.

"Dong Zhuo, that traitor, dared to dig up the imperial tomb and burn the palace, he really deserves to die." Hearing that Luoyang had been set on fire by Dong Zhuo this morning, and that the wealthy people near Luoyang, as well as the tomb of the first emperor, had been stolen and excavated by Dong Zhuo's subordinates, Sun Jian angrily scolded.

"Now that Luoyang is empty, the remaining people in the city will inevitably suffer, we should immediately set off and go to Luoyang to settle the people." Han Lie thought of the suffering of the people of Luoyang, if they didn't help at this time, those people who were looted by Dong Zhuojun would either starve to death or could only flee as beggars.

"In this way, I will lead the cavalry to Luoyang with grain and horse meat, and you will come later." Today, on the battlefield, when cleaning the battlefield, Han Lie and the others had collected a lot of horse meat that had died in battle, which would obviously come in handy.

"That's good, that's it." Sun Jian immediately nodded in agreement.

The two-hundred-year-old capital of the Han Dynasty, the majestic Nangong, has now become a ruin.

When Han Lie arrived at Luoyang City the next day, flames could still be seen everywhere in the city, a city that once had a population of hundreds of thousands was like a city of death at this moment.

As far as the eye can see, there are broken bricks and tiles everywhere, and the streets that were originally lively are uninhabited, and such a tragedy is the result of the war.

After Sun Jian led his troops into the city, he went directly to the imperial city, and Bao Xin, who arrived first, also set up a porridge shed under the Nangong Palace, and Han Lie led the army to take over the city defense of Luoyang, responsible for the security of the city and the statistics of the population in the city.

After arranging for Zhang He to lead his troops to inspect the security and population statistics in Luoyang City, Han Lie took Dian Wei and led a team of sergeants to take the lead in rushing to Cai Yong's mansion, although Cai Yong's mansion did not suffer a fire, but it was empty at this time.

Han Lie searched the side of the mansion, and after seeing that there was no trace, he turned back and went to Wang Yun's mansion.

Wang Yun's mansion is not as free from war as Cai Yong's mansion, only to see that the huge courtyard has collapsed at this moment, and a large number of houses and houses have also been destroyed by fire, walking into this familiar mansion, remembering the past in Wang Yun's mansion, drinking with Wang Ding, and talking to Diao Chan under the moon, Han Lie sighed that things are not human, and said: "Look around, there are no living people." ”

Wang Yun's mansion is very large, with three courtyards, but now after the burning of the fire, the appearance has changed greatly, and the various courtyards have become one after another, stepping on the ashes on the ground, Han Lie couldn't help but walk into the night after drinking with Wang Ding, looking for the sound of the qin to come to the corner pavilion where the sable cicada stroked the qin in the past.

At this moment, the corner pavilion had collapsed, leaving only three pillars, and Han Lie, who was standing in it, couldn't help but recall the lingering sound of the piano in his ears, as well as Diao Chan's seemingly pure, but actually full of melancholy heart.

"General, there seems to be a sound under the well in the East Cross Courtyard." Just as Han Lie was in reverie, the team leader hurried over.

"Let's go, let's see." Han Lie's eyebrows jumped, and then he beckoned Dian Wei to walk across the courtyard to the east.