Chapter 20 Entry
Early in the morning of the second day, before dawn, Dong Shouye led Dian Wei and more than 100 knights who accompanied him to march north to Yiyun Pass.
Xincheng County is only more than 100 miles away from Yiyun Pass, and under normal circumstances, it can be reached in half a day.
Dong Shouye has been galloping all the way, and five hours later he arrived at Yiyun Pass.
After arriving at Yiyun Pass (now in Longmen Town, Luoyang City, Henan Province), Dong Shouye took out the customs clearance token and military order, and asked people to hand over to the soldiers in charge of the garrison.
After entering the customs, Dong Shouye briefly inquired about the current specific situation of Yiyun Pass, and learned that there were not many defenders on this pass, the old, weak, sick and disabled together were more than 500 people, and all kinds of materials and equipment were not complete, and the defense was relatively lax, which was much worse than before.
It is not difficult for Dong Shouye to imagine that once someone raises troops to attack Yiyun Pass, I am afraid that he will be able to capture this city without much effort. Although he was a little worried, Dong Shouye didn't have any good solutions.
After all, for the Xiliang Army, the current strategic focus is on Chang'an City, only Chang'an City is stable, is the most important, as for Luoyang City is now giving up, it is a great joy to be able to hold it, even if it can't hold it, there is no way, at that time, the troops near Luoyang City will be reduced, and all efforts will be made to guard Hangu Pass, so as not to let the enemy advance westward.
Although Luoyang City is no longer regarded as a strategic focus by the Xiliang Army in terms of strategy, Dong Shouye still hopes that the passes around Luoyang can be defended.
Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the imperial court has set up Hangu Pass, Yique Pass, Guangcheng Pass, Dagu Pass, Xuanyuan Pass, Revolving Gate Pass, Mengjin Pass, and Xiaopingjin Pass around Luoyang, with He Jin as the general, and set up the Eight Pass Captains to oversee the military and political affairs of the Eight Passes and guard the safety of Kyoto.
Since then, Luoyang's defense has been very strictly tightened, and Luoyang City can be described as impregnable. Of course, when Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, what was allowed to enter, it could not be regarded as Dong Zhuo leading his troops to attack Luoyang.
Now Dong Shouye's Yiyun Pass is also an important place for soldiers.
During the Warring States period, the Battle of Iyun took place here. At that time, in order to open the passage to the Central Plains in the east, the Qin army led by the general Bai Qi annihilated the combined forces of Korea, Wei and Eastern Zhou at Yique (now Longmen Town, Luoyang City, Henan Province).
During the war, the Qin general Bai Qi aimed at the weakness of the Han and Wei armies watching each other and not wanting to attack first, and pinned down the main Han army of the coalition army with a small number of troops, and attacked the weaker Wei army with the main force. The Wei army was unprepared, rushed to the battle, and was quickly defeated. The Han army was frightened, and its flanks were exposed, and it was flanked by the Qin army, and fled in defeat. Bai Qi took advantage of the victory and waved his army to pursue, completely annihilating 240,000 Han and Wei allied troops, capturing Yique, and capturing several Wei cities and most of the areas east of Anyi in Korea. Wei and South Korea ceded land and sued for peace.
After the war, South Korea's elite was lost. The state of Qin expanded to the Central Plains with an irresistible trend.
Since Dong Shouye's father, Dong Zhuo, led the Xiliang Army to move the capital of the Son of Heaven to Chang'an, the defense of Yiyun Pass has been declining day by day, and now it is almost useless.
After Dong Shouye entered the customs, he strictly ordered the soldiers guarding the customs to be strictly guarded, not to be negligent, and if someone tackles a problem, immediately ask for help.
The leader of the guard is a small colonel, and when he saw Dong Shouye in person, he was busy, and informed Dong Shouye that news came from near Luoyang today that a group of people who came to Luoyang from Chang'an to support had arrived, and it seemed that they were stationed near Henan County.
Henan County is located on the southwest side of Luoyang City, adjacent to Yiyun Pass.
Originally, this news was supposed to be kept secret and not let the general public know. However, due to the current shape of Luoyang, many rumors say that Dong Zhuo is going to give up Luoyang, Dong Shouye, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, only when he set out on the expedition, he ordered Li Dao, who commanded the 20,000 infantry army, to make a big splash, so that the people near Luoyang could get the news that reinforcements had arrived, so as to strengthen the confidence of the defenders near Luoyang.
Dong Shouye learned about it from the defenders on the Yiyun Pass. Li Wei led the troops to Henan County, which was the place agreed before the expedition, and he was immediately relieved, and the soldiers on the border prepared food for Dong Shouye's more than 100 people and horses, and rested for a while.
Dong Shouye was also unceremoniously, and comforted the soldiers guarding the pass, and immediately continued to go north.
Henan County, known as Yuyi when the Duke of Zhou was in power, was the royal capital at that time, and later in the Spring and Autumn Period, it was still used as a royal city. During the time of Emperor Guangwu, Luoyang was rebuilt, so it was changed to a county seat. Because of its geographical location in the south of Yushui, it is called Henan. Its geographical location is quite important compared to Luoyang, and it can be regarded as the acropolis on the southwest side of Luoyang City.
At that time, Dong Shouye and Li Wei planned to meet here, and it was precisely because of this that they took a fancy to this.
After being stationed in Henan County, it is very convenient to go south and north, and it is conducive to stabilizing the situation in Luoyang. To the south, it is out of Yiyun Pass, and the new city of Tunbing can be confronted with Sun Jian of Luyang, and can echo with Hu Zhen of Tunbing Yangcheng, forming a corner trend; If you go north, you can pass between Luoyang and Gucheng, reach Mengjin, Xiaopingjin and other places north of Luoyang, and garrison troops in Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang in Heyangjin, separated by a river, and the two banks are opposite.
Dong Shouye did not stop, and after a short rest, he immediately went to Henan County, speeding all the way.
After a while of dark, he had already arrived at the county seat of Henan County, and Li Dao stationed the soldiers and horses in the county seat.
The county seat is quite majestic, has its own momentum, and is worthy of being the famous capital in ancient times.
I saw that the city gate was majestic and majestic, and there was a plaque on the east city gate with two inscriptions, what words were written, Dong Shouye didn't know it at first glance, and he was immediately depressed. Fortunately, Dong Shouye also read a lot before, and once specifically looked for some information about the cities near Luoyang, scratched his ears and cheeks for a while, and finally remembered that the two inscriptions on the east city gate should be the word "Ding Gate", and the north city gate should also have a plaque, and there should also be a written inscription on it, which should be the word "dry sacrifice".
When he arrived at the city gate, Dong Shouye stopped the mount under him and motioned to Dian Wei to arrange for someone to call the city.
Dian Wei is also unceremonious, and he doesn't trouble others, relying on his loud voice, he has always taken the initiative to step forward for this kind of thing, and he is unwilling to bother others, but he saw this guy shouting at the top of his voice: "The guard general of Wuna City, the son is here, and he will not let your general go out to greet him quickly." ”
Looking at the momentum of the shape and listening to the sound of the broken gong, I suddenly felt extremely underwhelmed.