There are two Dong armies within a radius of dozens of miles in this area, one is the one in Liang County, and the other is the one that sent out a thousand cavalry to test Wen Chou, this branch is near the Yangrenju and Guangchengju in the northwest of Liang County, forty or fifty miles away from Liang County, and the camp is on this side of the river, and the two Dong armies face each other across the river, responding from afar. Compared with the two, the latter group had more soldiers and horses, about several thousand.

In addition to these two Dong armies, another Dong army was stationed in Yique and Guangcheng Zhuguan, which were hundreds of miles away from Liang County.

In fact, the two Dong armies of Liangxian, Yangrenju and Guangchengju belonged to the Dong army in Yique and Guangcheng Guanzhong in terms of establishment and belonging, and they were the outposts and strongholds that the Dong army sent by the Guanzhong army to the outside.

In other words, this Dong army in Guanzhong is the fierce opponent that Wen Chou, Sun Jian and others will face, that is, the main opponent of this march. According to intelligence, there were about 20,000 or 30,000 people in this Dong army, and the main commander who led the troops was Hu Zhen.

Hu Zhenzi Wencai, like most of Dong Jun's generals, is also a native of Liangzhou, and Dong Zhuo is in the same state, he and another general under Dong Zhuo's account is named Yang Ding, the two are both famous in Liangzhou, both are the right surnames of the wealthy families in the state, and they are very influential in Liangzhou.

Hundreds of thousands of troops in the eastern part of the country, Dong Zhuo in addition to the political response, such as moving the capital, etc., also in the military to deal with the deployment, the military deployment is earlier than the political one, the first one, he sent the generals to be stationed in the west of Luoyang, in order to see his retreat to Chang'an, the second one, he sent the brave generals stationed in the north of Luoyang Mengjin, Xiao Mengjin, in order to resist the Jizhou rebels, and again, he sent Xu Rongtun to be stationed in Xingyang, Chenggao, Taigu, and Yuanyuan. In order to prepare for the sour jujube coalition army, in the end, he sent Hu Zhen to be stationed in Yique and Guangcheng Zhuguan, in order to block the rebel army in Nanyang from going north and the rebel army in Yingchuan to detour north through Liang County.

The two generals he sent to defend the armies of Suojube, Yingchuan, and Nanyang are very familiar with Wen Chou.

Wen Chou is most familiar with Xu Rong, but probably because the responsibilities of Xingyang, Chenggao, Taigu, and Yuyuan are too heavy. ——It is necessary to defend not only the sour dates, but also to assist in the defense of Jizhou, and also facing Yingchuan, which can be said to be a first-line block, so it is necessary to send a reliable, wise and brave general to garrison, so Xu Rong, who has stronger military ability, was sent by Dong Zhuo to garrison this line, and Hu Zhen, who was relatively inferior, became the main general of the defenders in front of Wen Chou.

Wen Chou is quite aware of Xu Rong's ability, and before he sent out the army, he specifically mentioned this matter in a letter to Cao Cao. told Cao Cao to be cautious and not to be careless, otherwise I am afraid that there is a very good possibility of defeat. After all, in history, it was Xu Rong who defeated Cao Cao.

Later, after Wen Chou returned to the Daoshang army, he sent people to invite Sun Jian and others to come over to discuss the military.

Sun Jian and the others stepped into the twilight and came to the Wenchou army.

At this time, the tent of the commander of the Chinese army had been built, and everyone entered the tent to discuss matters.

One of the three lieutenants in Yuzhou was also selected to go to the other side to set up camp.

This unit is already crossing the river, but as the commander in chief, he can't just look at the immediate point, he needs to understand the overall situation. So he didn't cross the river with the tribe for the time being, and also came to Wenchou to discuss the military.

The generals gathered. Wen Chou presided over the military meeting.

Some guards had already hung a map in their tents, which showed the topography, mountains and rivers, and the garrison situation of the enemy and our troops in the area of Sanfu in the west, Yingchuan in the east, Luyang in the south, and Luoyang in the north.

Outside, in the evening sky, a candle was lit in the tent early, and the inside of the tent and the map were clearly reflected.

Wen Chou came to the map, pointed to the map, and said to everyone: "Gentlemen, please see: this is Rushui." The north bank of the water is the place where our army is now paviliond, and the south bank of the water is Liang County. His finger slid a little distance from Liangxian to the north, and he paused at a place called "Zhucheng" on the north bank of Rushui on the map, and then said, "This is Zhucheng." His fingers went northwest along the city. He paused near Yangrenju and Guangchengju and said, "This is the main camp of the Dong army in the area of Liang County. ”

After briefly introducing the location of the enemy and us, Wen Chou turned to everyone, and introduced the strength of the enemy's various departments, and said: "After investigation, there are about two or three thousand Dong troops in Liangxian County, about five or six thousand foot cavalry in the main camp of Dong Army in Guangcheng and Yangren, and the number of Dong troops in Zhucheng City is the smallest, about 1,000 people,...... This is the general situation of the enemy that our army is facing now. ”

Although it is said that Wen Chou, Sun Jian and others have always attached importance to the two Dong armies in Liangxian and Guangchengju and Yangrenju areas, in fact, there are a total of three Dong armies on the north and south banks near Rushui, and this third army is the 1,000 Dong soldiers in Zhucheng City.

Note city in the Warring States period is a city in Korea, Wei Wenhou 33 years, Wei to Wu Qi as a general, hit Qin, once defeated the Qin army in this place, and then to Zhao Xiaocheng king, by Zhao with three big cities from Yan in exchange for Tian Dan led the Zhao army in this place and defeated the Han army in this place, captured the city. However, now, this place is no longer a county town, although it is still named after the "city", and now there are 1,000 Dong soldiers, but in fact it is just a Dong army stronghold across the river from Liang County, which is not worth paying special attention to.

Wen Chou returned to the table, looked at everyone, and said: "Our army has now left Yingchuan and entered Liang County, how to enter the battle next, please speak freely." ”

Zhou Lu said: "Today, our army and the Cao and Yuan armies are advancing together, although the momentum is strong, there are nearly 100,000 people, and there are many new soldiers, I secretly think that when the battle is fast, it cannot be delayed for a long time." ”

Sun Jian agreed with his point of view and said: "Most of our soldiers are new pawns, and if they don't fight, they are enough, and now that they are in battle, they should fight quickly, otherwise, if they delay for time, it will not only give Dong Jun time to calmly dispatch, but also cause our soldiers to lose their anger." ”

As the old saying goes: one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion.

The same is true for the old pawn, but what about the new pawn?

Dong Zhuo's army has many horses, and there are many veterans of hundreds of battles, originally for those new soldiers who have not been on the battlefield and have seen blood, there are many of them who are afraid of war, through various methods of encouragement before going out of the army, plus the victory that successfully annihilated thousands of Dong cavalry before, it is not easy to inspire their fighting spirit, but fighting spirit is sometimes the same as impulse, it comes and goes quickly, if you can't start a war with Dong Jun before "this fighting spirit" falls, then the soldiers are "impulsive" to pass, and "reason" is up, At the same time, the Dong army in front of him also made all kinds of precautions, and there may even be reinforcements coming, and at that time, the battle will not be easy to fight. (To be continued......)