Chapter 14 Yuan Shu is not bad for money
What kind of news can you say that can surprise Dong Shouye.
It turned out that the news that the fine workers heard was that Yuan Shu had sent his generals Chen Ji and Lei Bo to lead 30,000 horses to Luyang to wait for Sun Jian's dispatch.
This Yuan Shu seems to be going to move seriously, and it seems that he is determined to fight the Xiliang army to the end. If Chen Ji and Lei Bo arrived in Luyang with their soldiers and horses, then Sun Jian's army might reach between 65,000 and 70,000 people, and these horses and horses still have a tendency to increase. Originally, some of Dong Shouye's response strategies had to be adjusted, otherwise the shape would be very unfavorable to Dong Shouye.
To say that the least bad money among the princes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty is this Yuan Shu, and even Yuan Shao can't compare with it at the beginning. Yuan Shu relied on the foundation accumulated by the Yuan family for many years, had enough money and food, quickly expanded the troops, and his power grew extremely fast.
At this time, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others couldn't even get together 5,000 soldiers and horses, and they were still wandering everywhere, but this Yuan Shu easily pulled up a team of more than 100,000 horses, which can be said to be the prince with the fastest growth in power since the word group of heroes fought against Dong, and it is also the strongest prince in the world in addition to Dong Zhuo, even his brother Yuan Shao, and the white horse general Gongsun Zan can not be compared.
It can also be seen from this that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the strength of some big families.
According to Dong Shouye's speculation, since Yuan Shu worked so hard and supported Sun Jian with blood, the anti-Dong forces in Yuzhou and Nanyang, and even the anti-Dong forces in some other states and counties, may unite and belong to Yuan Shu's banner. If Yuan Shu can successfully integrate these forces and gather them for their use, then Yuan Shu's power will be enough to make the world look sideways and directly change the pattern of the world.
Although the Kwantung Coalition Army is also a group of heroes, it is still a scattered sand on the whole, and now many princes have left the sour jujube camp and gone their separate ways, and the Kwantung Princes' Coalition Army is also in name only, and there is always a danger of falling apart.
Now that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are still making a show for others, everyone else is thinking about preserving their strength or having the intention of leaving, after all, the Xiliang Army is not easy to mess with.
If Yuan Shu and Sun Jian successfully integrate this force, it will be tantamount to resetting off an anti-Dong Lang tide, and if the Lang tide is really formed this time, it will inevitably be dominated by Yuan Shu and Sun Jian, and the forces of the two will be in a dominant position, which will be much stronger than the previous scattered sand like the Kwantung princes' coalition army.
The current situation is that Dong Shouye must do his best to integrate the power in his hands to give Sun Jian a head-on blow, beat Sun Jian, the leading bird, defeat Sun Jian, and frustrate Yuan Shu's prestige, so that those forces that are wavering and waiting in the center will lose confidence in Yuan Shu and Sun Jian, so that Yuan Shu and Sun Jian will not be able to integrate those wavering wait-and-see forces, so that the people of the world can see the front of the Xiliang Army, so that they will not dare to raise troops to confront the Xiliang Army again.
Thinking of this, Dong Shouye decisively decided to rethink and revise the previous strategy.
Originally, Dong Shouye's strategy was to lead these 2,000 Huangzhong righteous followers, using their super mobility and unparalleled speed to constantly harass Sun Jian, so that Sun Jian could not go north along the way, and then wait for most of the cavalry, that is, the 8,000 cavalry to make peace with him, and then get in touch with the 10,000 horses of the Hu Zhen Department in Yangcheng, and then most of the infantry, that is, the more than 20,000 infantry, had almost arrived in Luoyang, and then ordered most of the infantry in Luoyang to go south to join the 10,000 cavalry led by himself.
At that time, Dong Shouye will have more than 30,000 foot cavalry and 10,000 foot cavalry under Hu Zhen's foot, with Dong Shouye as the main body, against Sun Jian's 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses, as long as it is steady and steady, as long as Dong Shouye is not a military idiot, then he will not be defeated if he closes his eyes, as long as Dong Shouye uses his brains a little, there should be no big problem in defeating Sun Jian, after all, the Xiliang Army is much more elite than Sun Jian's soldiers and horses.
Generally speaking, Dong Shouye has obvious advantages over Sun Jian, and there is no need to alarm Xu Rong's troops in the Yan Division, and Xu Rong will still be left in the Yan Division to stabilize the situation near Luoyang.
Now that the situation has deteriorated to this point, Sun Jian's troops have increased greatly, reaching 60,000 or 70,000 people, and at this time, it is estimated that it will be difficult to achieve any effect if he insists on harassing the army of 60,000 or 70,000 with 2,000 cavalry, and it is very likely that the gains outweigh the losses, or they will be eaten by Sun Jian's design.
Although the Xiliang Army under Dong Shouye is also a relatively elite force, and it is confident that it can resist Sun Jian's attack with the existing 30,000 soldiers and horses in its hands, but in that case, it can only adopt very conservative tactics and strictly defend to the death.
The Western Liang Army, which blindly defends and does not take the initiative to attack, can be regarded as the Western Liang Army.
The Xiliang Army in the turtle shell abandons the consistent tactics of the Xiliang Army, which must be laughed at by the people of the world. Even then, it may not be able to resist Sun Jian's attack 100%, after all, there is not much point in using cavalry to defend.
Moreover, Luoyang City and Henan Yin, where it is located, have basically not had many people since they moved west to Chang'an, and they are vast and thousands of miles, and it is difficult to see people, and there is no difference between them and empty cities.
Luoyang City has been abandoned by the Western Liang Army, but its existence is more significant than the actual significance, when Dong Shouye has a very clear understanding of the strategic objectives of this battle, this battle is mainly to break the two Yuan's pincer attack on Luoyang, the highest goal is not to let any of the forces of the Kwantung princes set foot in Luoyang, the lowest goal is to make it impossible to stand in Luoyang even if there are princes who successfully set foot in Luoyang.
To put it simply, Dong Shouye has to beat whoever he sees, and he must not let forces other than the Xiliang Army gain a firm foothold near Luoyang.
The setting of this strategic goal meant that Dong Shouye had to take the initiative to show the military might of the Western Liang Army to the Kwantung princes and deter the Kwantung princes.
The current situation is for Dong Shouye, if these two thousand Huang Zhongyi carry out a harassment strategy against Sun Jianjun, it will be difficult to achieve much success, after all, the number of opponents is too large, just like an ant biting an elephant.
Moreover, Dong Shouye has always had a high assessment of Sun Jian's strength, and the reason for this is that Dong Shouye's cheap son Dong Zhuo praised Sun Jian's ability in front of Dong Shouye many times, and asked Dong Shouye to be careful about this person.
Dong Zhuo is also an arrogant person, few of the Kwantung princes can enter his eyes, but they only look at Sun Jian differently. Dong Zhuo has always emphasized to Dong Shouye that Sun Jian is extremely brave and good at employing people, and he has fought side by side with Dong Zhuo for a long time, and is familiar with the characteristics of the tactics of the Xiliang Army, so he may have the tactics to restrain the Xiliang cavalry.
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