Chapter Twenty-Nine: Moving the Capital to Chang'an
After Qiao Mao's death, Yuan Shao felt the crisis of the allies, and at the same time, because of the lack of food and grass, Yuan Shao waved his army to attack Bishui Pass for several days, hoping to break through Bishui Pass in a short time. Yuan Shao's attacks were frequent, Hu Zhen and Xu Rong complained bitterly, and they asked Dong Zhuo for help again and again, and Lu Bu and others asked for battle many times without Dong Zhuo's permission. Because Dong Zhuo had begun to agree with what Li Ru said before, Dong Zhuo not only did not let Lu Bu and other generals support Bishui Pass, but instead connived at the Xiliang soldiers and horses to rob the rich people of Luoyang, and even let Lu Bu lead the troops to excavate the tomb of the Han Emperor and collect all the treasures that accompanied the funeral as his own. At the same time, Dong Zhuo set up a banquet to invite hundreds of officials in Luoyang to be present, and he opened his mouth to move the capital, but those who did not obey were killed on the spot, and after killing several people one after another, all the civil and military dared to be angry and did not dare to speak. So Dong Zhuo immediately ordered Li Ru to handle the relocation of the capital, and at the same time to make preparations after the relocation of the capital.
Li Ru: "It is a wise move for the lord to order the relocation of the capital, and now our army has been pushed to the forefront by the Kwantung herdsman, and only by avoiding the limelight can this contradiction be resolved." After our army withdrew from Luoyang, the Kwantung army in Luoyang today will no longer dare to pursue our army, and at the same time, our army set up defense lines in Michi, Caoyang, Jia, Hangu Pass, and Tongguan in turn. The lord might as well drive the millions of people in Luoyang to Chang'an, and then I have tens of millions of people in Chang'an, so why not be afraid of the Kwantung army. Li Ru's simple words, Henan Yi 200,000 households and nearly one million people fell into dire straits. Dong Zhuo laughed, and then all the people in Henan Yi, regardless of whether they were rich or poor, moved to Chang'an, and a team of Xiliang rioters was sandwiched between a team of people, and the people were worried that they would go slowly, and they immediately provoked the knives of the rioters, and the corpses of the dead people were piled up in the ravines next to the mainland, and they were all over the mountains.
At this time, after Chen Lin returned to Xingyang, he came to see Yuan Shao fiercely attacking the city for a few days, and did not slack off, so Chen Lin discussed with Jia Xuyi, and then led the troops to Bishui Pass again, and these days also attacked Bishui Pass with Yuan Shao and others, and the Hanzhong army was only 8,000 left. On this day, Yuan Shao and the others were obviously a little slow to attack the city, and Chen Lin couldn't say anything, after all, after fighting for so long, anyone was tired, let alone Yuan Shao and others, who suffered heavy casualties. At least forty or fifty thousand allied corpses fell under the city of Bishui Pass, including one or two thousand Dong troops, but they just couldn't attack Bishui Pass. On this day, Yuan Shao sent people to the Hanzhong camp, saying that he had been attacking for days, and the army was tired and rested for three days. Chen Lin scolded secretly, but he was helpless, turned his head, Chen Lin looked north, and he didn't know if Sun Jian had gained anything in Hanoi, or if Sun Jian hadn't arrived in Hanoi yet.
Suddenly, the scouts rushed to report that there was movement at Bishui Pass, and it seemed that the army was assembled, Chen Lin was shocked, and hurriedly sent someone to inform Yuan Shao, and at the same time beat drums to gather the generals, and ordered the generals to immediately reorganize their armies for battle. When Yuan Shao and the others heard that there was movement in Bishui Pass, they were also very frightened, and hurriedly formed a formation to deploy troops, and finally rushed out of the camp together and came to Bishui Pass. But seeing the voices of the people in the pass boiling, the neighing of the war horses, Jia Xu looked at it, and saw from a distance that the sun was still red in the direction of Luoyang, Jia Xu exclaimed to Chen Lin: "Lord, it's not good, and look at the direction of Luoyang, there must be a change in Luoyang, the defenders of Bishui Pass want to return to Luoyang for first aid, the main public plane must not be lost and will not come again, and immediately attack Bishui Pass." ”
Chen Lin saw it, and hurriedly rushed over and said to Yuan Shao: "Alliance leader, there must be a change in Luoyang, and the army is disheartened at this time. Yuan Shao was a little moved, but he was afraid that this was a conspiracy of nonsense, and deliberately designed to lure the allies, Yuan Shao hesitated for a while. Chen Lin was in a hurry, and couldn't help but say that he had returned to his army in Hanzhong, and said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, Yuan Benchu was indecisive and determined to attack immediately. Jia Xu nodded, this is a great time, how can you give up. So Chen Lin shouted: "The Hanzhong army listened to the order, and the whole army attacked immediately in no particular order, and the wolf rode to protect a certain person." ”
The cavalry was useless until the gate was closed, so Chen Lin left Chen Ze. As soon as Gao Shun and the others got the generals, they rushed forward with a roar, especially Zhang Ba, who ran faster than the camp. Yang Ren, Zhou Tai, Huang Zhong, and Gao Shun also commanded the headquarters to attack in an orderly manner, and Chen Lin looked nervously at the Bishui Pass, only hoping that this was not Hu Zhen's strategy, otherwise this time the Hanzhong army would suffer a big loss. Chen Lin made up his mind, as long as there was a slight mistake in closing, he would immediately withdraw his troops.
Yuan Shao and the others were hesitating, but seeing that the Hanzhong army had begun to charge, Yuan Shao secretly scolded a non-stop order, but he didn't say it, but looked at the attacking Hanzhong army and horses, but he wanted to test the Hanzhong army. As long as there is really no resistance at the gate, Yuan Shao will immediately wave his army and rush forward, the credit cannot all belong to Chen Lin alone, but if Chen Lin is ambushed, it is Chen Lin's own business.
There was no ambush, no ambush, Chen Lin kept chattering in his heart, but he saw that Zhang Ba at the front had already begun to climb the ladder, and it was impossible to say that there was no trace of resistance, but Dong Jun, who appeared on the pass, made Chen Lin's heart happy, because this was obviously much less than in the past. Yuan Shao saw that the Hanzhong army had not been hit too hard, and couldn't help but be moved, was it really as Chen Lin said, when Yuan Shao hesitated, and saw that Liu Dai had already waved his army to follow, Yuan Shao scolded again, but he also immediately waved his whip and ordered: "Attack Bishui Pass." With Yuan Shao taking the lead, the rest of the allied forces were embarrassed not to move.
Chen Lin looked back at Jia Xu: "Wenhe, it's done, Luoyang has really changed, I don't know how the Han Emperor is now." Jia Xu hurriedly said: "Lord, if you can successfully attack Bishui Pass, it means that the situation in Luoyang is not optimistic, and the lord should rush to Luoyang as soon as possible, and it is best to be the first to reach Luoyang, that is, everyone in the world can see the heroism and loyalty of the lord." Chen Lin smiled helplessly, Jia Xu really didn't miss the big man in his heart, he only thought about the interests of Hanzhong, but Jia Xu was for his own good after all, so Chen Lin couldn't blame such a loyal subordinate.
Zhang Ba roared angrily and pushed the sergeant to climb the wall, Zhang Ba looked up, there were already some Hanzhong troops on the wall, Zhang Ba didn't say a word, pushed away a soldier who was about to go up the ladder, put the big knife in his hand, bit it on his mouth, grabbed the ladder with both hands, and began to climb up. His eyes widened, and he looked straight at the shut, as long as the defenders threw stones and crossbars at him, he could at least find it at the first time, but luck was very good. In the middle of the sound, Zhang Ba jumped on the wall with a roar, and quickly grabbed the knife with his right hand and slashed at a Dong Jun who rushed towards him. Zhang Ba shouted: "Form a formation, escort the sergeant to come up." More than a dozen people had already climbed the wall, and hurriedly gathered along Zhang Ba's voice, guarding a few ladders, and Hanzhong soldiers and horses climbed up one after another, gathering more and more. Zhang Ba saw that there were already more than 100 people, so he shouted again: "Rush down, open the door." Zhang Ba only cared about the battle in front of him, but he didn't see that there were not many Dong troops in the pass, and the red in the direction of Luoyang could be seen clearly at this time, not the fire.
Huang Zhong and the others saw that Zhang Ba had taken the lead, and the croaking ones also took the lead in rushing up. Chen Lin watched from a distance, and saw Zhang Ba personally entering the city, he was startled but saw that Zhang Ba was not in any big trouble, and ran down the city in a blink of an eye, presumably to attack the gate. Chen Lin turned around and signaled to Chen Ze, Chen Ze understood that when he returned to the wolf ride, he was about to rush in as soon as the door opened. Zhang Ba didn't expect it to go so smoothly, and the door was cleared in two clicks, and the sergeant was busy moving the crosswood away, and Zhang Ba kept shouting to hurry up. There was a creak, it was the sound of the door being closed, dozens of big men were trying to push the door, and the allies saw the door open, so they hurriedly turned around, did not go to the city wall, and rushed straight to the gate, thinking in their hearts, the Hanzhong army is really powerful, and an army can open the gate.
Chen Ze had already rushed over, Chen Lin looked at the allies who rushed in coaxing, there was nothing strange for a long time, Chen Lin said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, Bishui Pass has been captured, Luoyang has changed, our army should not stay here for a long time, so I will lead the wolf to ride first, can you." Jia Xu thought for a while and said, "It's okay, my lord, with General Gao Shun in commanding the army behind, it will be fine." ”
Chen Lin remembered that there were thousands of cavalry in the allies, so Chen Lin deliberately looked for Yuan Shao, and at this time he saw Yuan Shao on the wall of Bishui Pass, Chen Lin: "Alliance leader, Dong Jun abandoned the Bishui Pass, and everyone in Luoyang rushed to the sky, it must be a change in the Beijing Division, if we combine the cavalry into an army, and rush to Luoyang first." Yuan Shao now began to have some recognition of Chen Lin's judgment, after all, what Chen Lin said was basically right. So Yuan Shao hurriedly summoned all the shepherds and said: "The main thing of this alliance is to unify all the cavalry together, and immediately rush to Luoyang, and it will not take an hour to reach Luoyang, and the army will quickly follow behind." ”
A total of more than 5,000 cavalry, all led by their own commanders, Yuan Shao naturally did not let go of the first to rush to Luoyang at this time, and also followed in person, Yuan Shao is not stupid, and the other shepherds are not stupid, they have let the generals lead the foot soldiers behind, and they are all light cavalry first. On the way to gallop on the horse, Jia Xu: "Lord, you missed the opportunity, if our army rushes over directly, we will be the first to reach Luoyang, but now it's good, it's all here." Chen Lin smiled and said: "Dong Zhongying's more than 100,000 troops are in Luoyang, even if Luoyang changes, if our more than 1,000 cavalry encounter Dong Jun, they will just flee in embarrassment, even if they come to Luoyang, what can they do, it is better to unite with the allies, but they can take care of it, my Hanzhong army in Luoyang, but a passerby." ”
Jia Xu was shocked, this lord was no longer the one who had to ask him everything, Jia Xu couldn't help but feel relieved and a little lost. But thinking that there will be such a lord in Hanzhong in the future, Jia Xu's heart is clear, Luoyang, don't let someone down, Jia Xu thought in his heart.