Section 18 Dong Zhuosi's Current Situation [II]
- How many major events in the court have been corrupted in this way!
Thinking of this, Dong Zhuo was also extremely emotional in his heart.
At present, Dong Zhuo belongs to the peripheral forces of the Yuan clan in Runan in terms of position. Unlike ordinary scholars, the Runan Yuan clan has always held a neutral position in the imperial court, and is easily unwilling to join the major forces.
Whether it is the eunuch group or the scholar group, the Yuan family is inextricably linked with it. Because of the Yuan family's always clever policy of doing things, it has repeatedly chosen the right position in the struggle within the imperial court, creating the "Four Worlds and Three Dukes" that everyone envies.
Therefore, in the case of overthrowing Lu Zhi initiated by the "Ten Standing Servants", the Runan Yuan family was completely on the sidelines. However, it is sometimes not easy to avoid disputes. After Lu Zhi was released from office and imprisoned, Dong Zhuo, who was originally there, realized that he had fallen into a hornet's nest unintentionally!
In all fairness, Dong Zhuo admires Lu Zhi's military talent. Although Lu Zhi's ability to dispatch and capture fighters on the battlefield is far inferior to Dong Zhuo. However, when it comes to commanding the army, arranging camps, and dealing with various military affairs, Lu Zhi's methods are extremely old-fashioned, no less than "Liangzhou Sanming".
What's even more rare is that as a generation of Confucianism, Lu Zhi has a very high reputation in Jizhou and Youzhou. Many of the local powerful clans, brave generals and celebrities, responded to Lu Zhi's call and spontaneously joined the imperial court to counter-rebel army.
Among these warriors who joined the Jizhou Recruitment Army in the name of "volunteers", the most outstanding were Lu Zhi's two students. One is Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, the declining branches of the Han dynasty who were originally unknown. The other is Gongsun Zan and Gongsun Boqi, who are already well-known in Youzhou in the Northland.
Gongsun Zhan, who is famous among the Hu people in the north, is currently serving as the governor of Liaodong. After he heard that Lu Zhi led his troops north and was responsible for suppressing Zhang Jiao's rebellion, he immediately asked his boss Liaodong for leave, and took his subordinates to the "White Horse Righteous Servant" with the same name as the "Fierce Tiger Righteous Servant" of the "Jiangdong Tiger" Sun Jian, and traveled thousands of miles from Youzhou all the way to Jizhou to help in the war.
In addition, when Lu Zhi led the army out of Luoyang, he received the right to "hold the festival" given by the Son of Heaven, so that it was easy for him to dispatch local officials or subdue the soldiers of the Northern Army.
Such conditions gave Lu Zhi the strength to suppress the 150,000 Yellow Turban Army personally commanded by Zhang Jiao with 40,000 Han troops. Although Dong Zhuo is confident in the command of the battle array, he is by no means worse than Lu Zhi. But if he wants to achieve the level that Lu Zhi has reached, he really doesn't have this kind of confidence.
However, right now, even if Dong Zhuo doesn't have this ability, he has to be it!
The chief general was convicted, and Dong Zhuo, as a deputy general, took over the command. Such a thing would have been taken for granted. However, Dong Zhuoke never thought that he would take over the position of the main general at this time.
The current situation is really unfavorable for Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo was born in the Kansai martial arts, and when facing the Kanto scholars, it was naturally an unfavorable situation.
The local officials and Haoqiang in Jizhou will respectfully follow Lu Zhi's instructions. But when it was Dong Zhuo's turn to give orders, these Kanto Yankees disobeyed Dong Zhuo's orders. There were even many volunteer teams, as soon as Dong Zhuo came to power, they immediately broke away from the Han army camp and left on their own. One of Lu Zhi's students, Buyi Liu Bei, who likes to call himself a "clan member of the Han family", is one of them.
In addition, those proud generals in the Northern Army who were born in the Captain's Department of Sili naturally don't look down on Dong Zhuo, a martial artist from Liangzhou. Among these soldiers of the Northern Army, there are quite a few children of big families. In the face of Lu Zhi, a scholar with a high reputation, they will also express their respect. But it was Dong Zhuo's turn to be a veteran of the battlefield from a humble background, and those children of the big families showed a rather rebellious attitude.
What gave Dong Zhuo the most headache was that he was the same as Dong Zhuo, who was the "Wuhuan Zhonglang General" sect member of Lu Zhi's deputy general. This veteran frontier army general was originally of the same status as Dong Zhuo. But after a piece of edict, the sect member, who was also a "2,000 stone" general, actually became a subordinate of Dong Zhuo's "Liangzhou barbarian".
Therefore, the sect member who was not convinced in his heart bullied Dong Zhuo's position to be equal to himself, but he couldn't help himself, and the order to Dong Zhuo was completely completed with a perfunctory mentality. The so-called upward and downward effect, with him taking the lead, the other soldiers of the Northern Army became more and more unscrupulous.
In this way, the main general of the dignified Han Army's Jizhou Expeditionary Army, and the soldiers who can be smoothly mobilized without any scruples, are still only the 3,000 border troops brought by Dong Zhuo from Liangzhou!
- These damn guys!
Although as a martial artist, Dong Zhuo can completely understand the dissatisfaction in their hearts. To be honest, if Dong Zhuo encounters this situation, he can't say what he does, and he will be even more out of line than these guys. However, when Dong Zhuo encountered such a situation, he was naturally angry.
But that's not all.
The disobedience of the soldiers below is actually commonplace. As long as Dong Zhuo spends a month or two slowly pacifying and recuperating, he will have the confidence to make his subordinates more obedient. However, the thing that Dong Zhuo feels most tragic is:
- There is no time!
Those eunuchs, in order to bring down Lu Zhi, actually asked Xiaohuangmen Zuofeng to say to today's son:
"Guangzong thieves are easy to break their ears. Lu Zhonglang fortified the army and waited for the heavens to punish him. ”
- The Yellow Turban Thief in Guangzong is actually very easy to solve. It's just that Lu Zhizhonglang will let the army stay in the camp to rest, but he refuses to fight. He wants to wait until God wields his power and kills those Yellow Turban thieves!
Such a vicious provocation made the Son of Heaven angry in the court, and this is the scene where Lu Zhi was imprisoned. However, Dong Zhuo, who took over the army, if he didn't want to follow Lu Zhi's example, he could no longer stick to the camp, but must fight hard to drive the army to defeat the main force of the Yellow Turban Army directly under Zhang Jiao!
Thinking of this, Dong Zhuo couldn't help but groan.
——Use 40,000 people to attack the camp defended by 150,000 people, and win, really Lao Tzu is a god?
"Lord Taishan, are you worried about going to war again?"
A military general on the side asked with concern. This person's surname is Niu Mingfu, the word Gongzhuo, and he is the husband of Dong Zhuo's eldest daughter. Whether it is brave or governing the army, Niu Fu can have a hand. However, for Dong Zhuo, his most desirable thing is his loyalty to Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo pointed at Guangzong City with a horsewhip and shouted:
"Such a native chicken and tile dog, I can break them with a charge from the Liangzhou Iron Horse, why bother! I only hate those Kanto people, and they refuse to do their best. Otherwise, how would I be troubled by this? ”
Dong Zhuo is in a place where there are no outsiders around, so he can vent the depression in his heart like this. However, because Dong Zhuo's voice was loud enough and close enough to the city wall of Guangzong City, his loud remarks made the little marshal of the Yellow Turban Army at the head of Guangzong City stunned.
The Yellow Turban Army, who was responsible for the defense of this city wall, had as many as 3,000 troops under his command. Among them, there are 500 elite Yellow Turban wrestlers alone. For two days in a row, Dong Zhuo chose this piece of the city as a peep location, which naturally attracted the attention of the Yellow Turban Army.
However, seeing that Dong Zhuo and the others were riding good horses, the little marshal of the Yellow Turban Army thought that it was impossible for his two-legged infantry to catch up with the enemy's four-legged infantry. Therefore, in addition to asking his subordinates to strengthen surveillance, Xiaoshuai did not issue other measures.
However, now this Han army general is actually pointing at the city head at such a close distance, which makes the little marshal of the Yellow Turban Army a little unbearable.
He rolled his eyes, called out to the bravest warriors under his command, and after giving such and such an order, he smiled and put a Hu bed [i.e. chair] at the head of the city, ready to watch a good show.
Dong Zhuo is using a horse whip to point at the head of Guangzong City. Suddenly, the Yellow Turban Army at the head of the city made a movement, and many people poured in.
Immediately afterwards, dozens of agile Yellow Turban wrestlers, carrying bows and crossbows and holding ropes, slipped down from the city wall more than three feet high. After a little team, these elite Yellow Turban wrestlers shouted and rushed towards Dong Zhuo and his party!
"Enemy attack?"
Seeing this scene, Dong Zhuo stretched out his tongue, licked his lips, and muttered to himself. Looking at the six or seven knights beside him, none of them showed a nervous look. There was a cavalryman, on the other hand, with a sympathetic look on his face.
"Lord Taishan, are you interested in making a move?"
Niu Fu picked up the spear hanging on the horse with one hand and asked respectfully:
"Let's practice!"
Dong Zhuo stretched out his right hand, and the soldiers on the side hurriedly handed over a four-foot-long short bow to Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo didn't try the bow either, he took out a carved long arrow directly from the quiver on the horse, and was not in a hurry to shoot, but waited for the Yellow Turban Army to approach.
Dong Zhuo's performance, in the eyes of those yellow turban wrestlers who were eager to make meritorious contributions on the other side, was undoubtedly stupid. As a result, these Yellow Turban wrestlers, who were originally just planning to scare and scare the enemy and drive them away, were in great spirits. Many people took off the bows and crossbows behind their backs, intending to shoot these immobile Han soldiers into a group of hedgehogs as soon as they entered their own range.
A bunch of dead big hedgehogs!