Being caught between the Liangzhou rebel army and the Kwantung princes' army, the current situation can be regarded as extremely bad for Dong Zhuo, right?

However, this is not the worst part of Dong Zhuo's situation. The worst thing is that because Dong Zhuo brazenly killed Huangfu Gui's wife, it directly led to a complete break with his former comrade-in-arms and rival - Huangfu Song.

Huangfu Song can be called the first general of the Han Dynasty, who has been in the army for more than 20 years, and has won battles and conquered battles, and has rarely been defeated. His status in the Han Army is only higher than Dong Zhuolai. If Huang Fu Song wanted to challenge Dong Zhuo, as long as he said a word, his subordinates would not even ask, and would just follow Huang Fu Song's battle flag.

As a result, Dong Zhuo had to worry all the time that Huangfu Song, who was responsible for defending against the Xiliang rebels, launched a mutiny in Chang'an, Xijing, with an army of 30,000 in his hands, and joined forces with the Kwantung princes to oppose Dong Zhuo.

For a while, Dong Zhuo's side fell into turmoil, and the situation was so bad that outsiders lost confidence in him. Judging from the current state, Dong Zhuokong has the name of "Xiangguo", but he does not even have a "country" that can be governed. At about the same time, everyone in the world is secretly watching his liveliness, and it is estimated when Dong Zhuo will step down.

However, just when Dong Zhuo was almost in a situation where everyone was shouting and beating, there was a force that openly defied the public opinion of the people in the world and clearly expressed its support for the court controlled by Dong Zhuo.

This force that dares to provoke the world's corporal and openly expresses disdain for the Yuan family, whose protégés and former officials are all over the world, is the Taixing Army, which is commanded by the Yellow Turban remnants and arrogant!

Although the Taihang Army is called the "Taihang" Army, its actual power is far more than just occupying a mere Taihang Mountain Range. Since the year before last, the Taixing Army sent troops on a large scale and pacified the Southern Xiongnu rebel tribes in the area of Xihe County in one go, these bandits from the remnants of the Yellow Turban took the opportunity to control most of Xihe County.

Afterward. After defeating the nomadic cavalry of Xianbei in the north, the Taixing army took back Shuofang and Wuyuan two counties, which had been abandoned by the Han court for several years, from the hands of the Xianbei people. In addition, the Taixing army also went south to Hedong County and occupied the territory of a small half of the county in the northeast of Hedong.

Although these territories are mostly desolate, bitter cold, and barbaric corners. But. If these territories are added together, whether it is from the population or the territory, the leader of the Taixing army is arrogant, and he can be regarded as a real prince all the way by the people of the world.

Dong Zhuo didn't care too much about the support expressed by the Taixing army to his side. Because of the origin of the Taixing Army, when people all over the world mention them, they have always regarded them as the remnants of the Yellow Turban. Belongs to the bandits first-class. Being supported by such a group of notorious bandits, Dong Zhuo really has nothing to be proud of.

However, it is better to support the Taixing army than to oppose it.

Especially if the Taixing army Chen Bing was in the north of Luoyang, if they decided to go south, it would still make Dong Zhuo quite sad. In the past two years, the combat effectiveness shown by the Aether Marching Army in the battle, if Dong Zhuo did not send at least 10,000 elite soldiers. can't resist the opponent's big attack at all.

So, as a sign of goodwill to the arrogance. Dong Zhuo asked the imperial court to issue an edict and give Zhang Mad the title of Marquis of Ting. But that's not all there is to it. Before the Tai marching army did not take actual action to support the imperial court, Dong Zhuo would not be stupid enough to automatically send the real good things.

The arrogant overtures are just an episode. In addition to a little psychological comfort, the current situation of the Liangzhou Army. It didn't help. The Kwantung princes and the Xijing Huangfu were like two mountains, and the Liangzhou army that was oppressing Luoyang was about to be unable to move.

In the face of such a bad situation, Dong Zhuo did not lose heart. He has been fighting for decades. I don't know how many times I have experienced a dangerous moment. After accepting so many difficult temperings, Dong Zhuo has already cultivated in his heart the persistence that he will not give up easily. Benefiting from the difficult tempering of the past, the worse the situation to face, the more fierce Dong Zhuo's counterattack will be!

Dong Zhuo's first wave of counterattack was aimed at Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang.

Hanoi County is located in the east of Sili, bordering Yanzhou, Jizhou, and Bingzhou, and Yin, Henan, where the capital of the Han Dynasty was located, and is only separated by the Yellow River. This important place is one of the key points for the Kwantung princes' troops to directly threaten Luoyang. Although the Yellow River is a little difficult to cross, it can control the enemies in Hanoi, and even at night, you can see the lights of the imperial capital Luoyang from the bank of the Yellow River!

Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang was the former official of the great general He Jin. In order to firmly grasp the military power of Luoyang, Dong Zhuo removed He Jin's Sima Wu Kuang and his subordinates Zhang Zhang one after another. With the lessons of the past, Wang Kuang's attitude towards Dong Zhuo can be imagined.

When the call of the Yuan clan in the Kwantung region to raise troops against Dong was issued [that is, Qiao Mao's edict], Wang Kuangzheng was worried that after the death of the general, his family had no organization, and when he heard the news, he immediately took the initiative to join the army of Dong with great excitement.

After publishing a document against Dong Zhuo, Wang Kuang took the initiative to act in order to show his enthusiasm in front of the whole world, wanting to threaten Luoyang under Dong Zhuo's control. He first sent Han Hao in the county, led 2,000 county soldiers, stationed at Mengjin Ferry, and also placed the most elite "Taishan soldiers" in his hands 1,000 people, with his henchman Fang Yue as the commander, at Heyangjin Ferry.

For this kind of key position squatting at the door of the house, for Dong Zhuo, who has been in battle for a long time, he naturally cannot be grasped by the enemy. Especially in the place of Heyangjin, after the Yellow River is the Beibi Mountain, and then over the slightly higher Beibi Mountain, you can overlook the city wall of Luoyang City, which can be called a key defense base of the entire Luoyang city defense system.

Suppose that if the Kwantung Coalition Army kills from Heyangjin, it can directly abolish the defense line arranged by Dong Zhuo in Xingyang and Chenggao, and fight Dong Zhuo under Luoyang City. Once the soldiers are under the city, Dong Zhuo's ability to control the imperial court and Luoyang City will not dare to guarantee that there will be no problems.

Since Wang Kuang is so active, according to the saying of "shooting the first bird" in later generations, Dong Zhuo must certainly do something to show the opponents of the world......

Therefore, the unlucky Wang Kuang was attacked head-on by Dong Zhuo's army.

Although Dong Zhuo was suffering from the enemy on his back and was not stable internally, he had to use his main military strength to maintain order in Luoyang. But. After all, he is a veteran of the battlefield, and despite all the difficulties, he still overcame all kinds of constraints and mobilized thousands of mobile troops for the Hanoi strategy.

Under the command of the general Hua Xiong, the Liangzhou army used the tactics of attacking the east and the west, first attracting Wang Kuang's attention in Pingyin County, but the main force crossed the Yellow River at Xiaopingjin and annihilated all the "Taishan soldiers" commanded by Wang Kuang's general Fang Yue. This unexpected blow made Wang Kuang suddenly panic, and hurriedly transferred back to Han Hao's troops to guard the county seat, and at the same time alerted Yuan Shao.

At this time, Yuan Shao had already relied on the strong prestige of the Yuan clan to obtain seven or eight thousand soldiers from other state and county officials, as well as a large number of grain and straw. At the same time, relying on their great attraction to scholars, many scholars sent young sons to Yuan Shao's side to take up various positions in order to win a chance to stand out.

Just when Yuan Shao was proud, the news of Wang Kuangjun's defeat in Hanoi suddenly came. Yuan Shao is worthy of being a longitudinal. A generation of powerhouses in the former Three Kingdoms, when he heard the news, he was still calm and fearless.

After briefly discussing the situation with the staff around him, Yuan Shao decisively sent troops from Suozao in the starry night and went to Hanoi in person to rescue Wang Kuang and ensure that the route of attacking Luoyang from Hanoi would not be cut off by the enemy.

Due to Yuan Shao's quick reaction, when Hua Xiong led the main force of 5,000 elite soldiers to the city of Hanoi County, the total number of troops in the city had exceeded the number of Hua Xiong's troops due to the arrival of Yuan Shao's troops. In this case, even if Hua Xiong was brave, he could not continue to attack a fortified city.

As a result, Huaxiong had to lead his troops back to the area of Wenxian and Heyang Ferry, relying on the terrain of the ferry, to build a defensive walled city, and confront Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang's troops.

As a result, Dong Zhuo's first battle against the coalition forces of the Kwantung princes, although it achieved a tactical victory, but due to Yuan Shao's rapid response, it failed to achieve the strategic results that Dong Zhuo hoped for. The northern flank of Luoyang City is still under the threat of the Kwantung Coalition Army at this moment.

On the other hand, Yuan Shao, because the rescue of Wang Kuang was extremely timely, he successfully improved his prestige among the state and county officials who participated in the anti-Dong campaign. In this way, in the "Sour Jujube Alliance" held a few days later, the grateful Wang Kuangyi proposed, and the rest of the state and county officials expressed their support for Yuan Shao to take the position of leader of the alliance.

This scene made Baba's Yuan Shu, who rushed all the way from his hometown Runan to participate in the alliance, feel extremely unwilling. Therefore, Yuan Shu told the state and county officials who participated in the Sour Jujube Alliance that Yuan Shao's alliance was only attended by the northern princes, and the scale was not enough. He Yuan Shu will organize an army to fight against Dong in the direction of Wuguan in the south, and echo each other with the alliance leader Yuan Shao, one south and one north.

The princes who participated in the alliance were all old men who had been in the officialdom for many years, so why couldn't they hear the implied meaning in Yuan Shu's words?

Yuan Shu's words made it clear that he would not obey Yuan Shao's arrangements and commands, but would gather a large army in the south and participate in the battle against Dong Zhuo.

In the face of Yuan Shu's semi-public recklessness, not to mention the state and county officials such as Wang Kuang, even the alliance leader Yuan Shao was helpless.

After all, Yuan Shu is also the sister-in-law of the Yuan family, and his status in the Yuan family is not lower than that of Yuan Shao. And if it is mentioned that the relationship with the children of the various branches of the Yuan clan is mentioned, even Yuan Shao cannot compare with him.

It's actually easy to understand this.

Because Yuan Shao married the daughter of "Li Yuanli, the world's model", as his ex-wife, he has always been suspicious of eunuchs. The children of the Yuan clan, in order to avoid bad relations with the eunuchs, usually kept a certain distance from Yuan Shao and did not dare to interact too closely.

On the contrary, for Yuan Shu, he, a prodigal who is good at eating, drinking, and having fun, and flying eagles, is easy to get in touch with the rest of the younger generation of Yuan's children through various social activities.

In addition, Yuan Shu's newly arrived "post-general" official position is far above the princes who participated in the alliance, and if Yuan Shu wants to say something and do something, no one is really qualified to accuse him. (To be continued......)