Chapter 101: Thunder
The southern line of Luoyang is broken!
The problem lies with Xu Rong, the Dongzhong Lang general Xu Rong who was defeated by Ji Ping in Xingyang.
After Yuan Shu arrived at Yique Pass, while resisting Dong Min's attack, he divided his troops to Taigu Pass, but he did not expect that Taigu Pass had already been occupied by Xu Rong who appeared out of nowhere.
Xu Rong led his troops to defeat Yuan Shu's troops, and suddenly attacked from behind during the fierce battle between Yuan Shu and Dong Min, defeating Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu fled in panic under the desperate protection of Ji Ling, and the remaining thousands of soldiers were scattered.
Yuan Shu lost Yique Pass, and according to the oath of the day, he chopped off a little finger by himself and gave it to King Shenwu, but he did not know where to go.
Xu Rong, it turned out to be Xu Rong!
People are not as good as the sky, Ji Ping is calculating, but he didn't expect a Xu Rong to be inserted in the horizontal, which ruined the overall situation. At this time, what he regretted most in his heart was that he did not force his way across the Bianshui River to pursue and kill Xu Rong that day.
A cloud of dark clouds slowly covered the bright sun, the sky darkened slightly, and Ji Ping was cold at this time, and his hand holding Fang Tian's halberd was exposed.
As soon as the southern line is broken, more than 200,000 people will be completely exposed to Dong Zhuojun's iron hooves!
Zhang Miao, Zhang, Cao Cao, Bao Xin, Zhang Liao, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, who are stationed in the West Garden, will face a desperate situation of being attacked before and after for the first time!
The military morale of Yuan Shao and other Kwantung princes will be completely chaotic, and Luoyang will also fall into chaos.
Even if Ji Ping took precautions as early as when Hangu Pass was down, and arranged for some people to evacuate from the Tiger Prison Pass in advance, there are still 600,000 people in Luoyang who have not been able to retreat!
Ji Ping felt an unprecedented tiredness, at this time he could completely give up Luoyang, and retreat to Hanoi and Hedong with a group of fierce soldiers under his command, slowly expanding and accumulating strength.
But looking at the old people who passed by with large bags and small bags, and women with children in their arms. The young girl holding the child, her eyes full of fear and confusion, passed by him. He looked at him with reverence and anticipation.
Ji Ping took a deep breath and clenched Fang Tian's halberd again.
What is a king. What is a hegemon, what is the emperor, not selfish and ruthless, not decisive, not to expand the territory, only dare to take responsibility, only dare to be the first in the world, is the king! Only then can it be domineering! It is the real emperor!
He quickly commanded: "Mu Yue." Send two flying shadows to Xiyuan and Bi Guiyuan as soon as possible, inform them of the news of the loss of the southern front, let them prepare, and then order Guan Yu to lead people south to block the attack. β
After a pause, he said: "Send someone to Xiaopingjin to give an order, the matter of Xiaopingjin will be presided over by Xun Di with full authority, and he will be transferred back to Mingong, and he will be fully responsible for the retreat of the people in the south of Luoshui, and tell SΓΉ Mingong." Let the people not carry anything, but only water and food, and travel lightly. β
He turned to look at Tang Fang, Zhu Ao and Shi A beside him: "You three." With 2,000 soldiers, he organized folk rangers and young and strong children to search for boats on both sides of the river, tied them into pieces with ropes, and crossed the river for the people to cross the river! β
The width of the water is no more than 100 steps, and the narrow place is only dozens of steps, which is much narrower than the Yellow River, and the water flow is also slow. As long as the boats are connected in large areas, they can be built into temporary pontoons.
Tang Fang and the others took the order and left. Ji Ping looked at the three hundred ghost shadows, four hundred flying shadows and the thousand soldiers left by Tang Fang around him, and said slowly: "Let's cross the water." Go to the southern route. β
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The southern city of Luoyang, starting from the first line of Yique Pass, crossed the Yishui with 6,000 Qiang Hu iron horses, galloping wantonly on the flat land, without encountering any resistance, and everywhere it passed, it was bloody.
Countless young and strong children fell in pools of blood, and their corpses were separated.
Countless old and weak women and children fell to the dust and were trampled into flesh.
Countless teenagers and girls fled in panic, but were killed by random arrows.
After the cavalry formation, there were more than 3,000 infantry, Dong Min looked at Xu Rong and laughed: "As long as the iron cavalry will drive these hundreds of thousands of Li Shu into Luoyang, it is enough to block the water, how can the Kwantung princes not be chaotic!" Xu Rong, you can also atone for your crimes. β
Xu Rong's mouth moved, he didn't say anything, his face was expressionless, and he couldn't see his joy or anger.
Dong Min was a little bored, a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes, and he turned his head and roared: "Sons, wave your saber, stab out a sharp spear, drive away Li Shu, destroy the princes of the Kwantung region, and help the country achieve great causes!" β
Before the cavalry, tens of thousands of people in all counties, townships, and pavilions were driven up, more and more, forming a crowd of people, surging to the north, and countless people were trampled to death by the crowd, but no one cared about it.
Ji Ping led 1,700 people across the water all the way to the south, in order to avoid causing a sensation, he took off the mask of the Shenwu King, and the people he encountered along the way became denser and denser, and a swarm of bees rushed towards the water.
There are more than 100 miles from Luoshui to Yique Pass, it is difficult to travel against the crowd, and the further south you go, the more chaotic it becomes, until it is dark, Ji Ping has traveled more than 60 miles.
The flying shadow who inquired about the news in front reported that Dong Zhuojun had a total of about 10,000 foot cavalry, and before dusk, he divided 3,000 cavalry to the northwest and went straight to Xiyuan and Biguiyuan on the western line of Luoyang, and nearly 6,000 cavalry were stationed in Nanxiang, six miles ahead.
It was already dark, and Ji Ping had no time to take care of the way to the northwest, and only hoped that Guan Yu could stop it for a while.
He was afraid that his soldiers would be scattered by the panicked people in the chaos, so he ordered the soldiers to take one tun and two hundred people as a group, led by the military marquis, to hide in a private house, and he took two hundred flying shadows to the front at night to inquire about the situation.
After traveling five or six miles, to Nanxiang in the south of Luoyang City, Ji Ping secretly investigated on all sides, but now the six thousand Dong Zhuo soldiers were extremely well defended, and the crying and wailing of women were faintly heard in the military camp and private houses, but the military camp was heavily guarded, and he faintly saw a big banner of Xu Zi waving, which was the tenacious Dongzhong Lang general Xu Rong.
The gap between the number and quality of soldiers and horses is too big, there is no hope of a strong attack, and a sneak attack at night will not work, Ji Ping can only grit his teeth and turn back.
On the way back, he was shocked again, and Xu Rong also sent a lot of scouts all the way to the north to investigate.
Ji Ping avoided those scouts, hurriedly retreated five or six miles, and returned to his own army, where the people basically fled except for the dead.
Similarly, news came later that Min Gong was already organizing the three elders of each township, Youzhi, Sifu, and Pavilion Chief, and arranged for the people to retreat north overnight.
Ji Ping immediately ordered his soldiers to search for clothes in various empty houses, disguised as ordinary people, and only tied black cloth to their weapons to identify each other.
At the same time, Ji Ping also asked the soldiers to search for flammable materials such as oil, cloth, and cotton in the empty house, and some of them made zuΓ² rockets. The rest of the oil is placed in a densely populated area.
After driving away some of the civilians who were still hiding in various places with a fluke mentality, Ji Ping asked the soldiers to throw some large debris on the road to stop the cavalry.
It's been busy for most of the night. Only then did it form a defensive line that stretched for several miles, and then Ji Ping asked a thousand soldiers to continue to retreat two miles with their horses. Deployed in the same way, he himself took the Ghost Shadow Department and the Flying Shadow Department of the Guard Battalion to ambush here.
He didn't have the luxury of defeating this elite cavalry now, but only hoped that he could delay as long as possible to allow the people to withdraw from the water.
At dawn, the ground rumbled and shook.
Dong Min and Xu Rong continued to march with their soldiers and horses, the cavalry charged along the avenues in front, and the infantry swept behind, and the people had fled. The progress of their line was greatly accelerated, and they soon appeared in Ji Ping's field of vision.
Seeing that the front group of cavalry was getting closer and closer, less than eight hundred paces away, Ji Ping immediately ordered the guards battalions scattered everywhere to shoot rockets.
As the rockets were fired, and the oil tanks that had been placed here and there last night, the house soon burned in several places and spread in all directions, soon forming a wall of fire several miles long.
The group of Qianghu cavalry who rushed to the front could not catch the momentum, rushed into the sea of fire, and became fire horses. Those who were lucky enough to rush over were also put down by the pro-guard battalion with crossbow arrows.
Behind the wall of fire came the shouting of the Qianghu soldiers, and the sound of gold. They were blocked by a wall of fire.
Ji Ping did not love fighting, but quickly retreated, and when he reached two miles away, he painted a gourd in the same way.
At the same time, in their northwest direction, Guan Yu led his army to encounter the 3,000 cavalry sent by Dong Min and killed them together, but the Qianghu cavalry was really elite and good at fighting, and Ren was Guan Yu brave. He was also killed and retreated.
West Garden, heard that the southern front was lost. In the face of another wave of attacks from Niu Fu, Zhang Miao, Zhang, Qiao Mao, and Kong Ling ignored Cao Cao and Zhang Liao's resistance. Prepare to retreat.
Bi Guiyuan, Yuan Shao's advisers Xu You and Feng Ji took the lead in retreating to the front line of the palace to guard, and Liu Dai and Yuan Yi also strongly agreed.
The Kwantung princes, under Dong Zhuo's all-out attack and encirclement, began to retreat again.
At this time, there were still nearly 60,000 people in the west city of Luoyang who had not completely withdrawn.
And in the Beibi Mountains in the north of Luoyang, Hu Zhen, the Zhonglang general who was defeated by Ji Ping, was leading 3,000 men and horses to march in the direction of Xiaopingjin.
On the four ancient bridges of Luoyang, and the six pontoon bridges temporarily erected by boats and wooden planks, hundreds of people flocked to the north bank of Luoshui, day and night, although there were soldiers in the channeling, there were still a large number of people who fell into the water, some were rescued, and more disappeared forever.
On March 28, 80,000 people crossed the river in the south of the river, and there were still 160,000 people in the south of the river, and in addition to the nearly 30,000 people who died in the area swept by Dong Zhuo's army, it is estimated that there are still 130,000 people who have not withdrawn.
Even though Min Gong was already busy and had not rested for several days, the area of Yunan was really vast, the time was too short, and many people did not know the news, or did not believe it, and it was difficult to gather for a while, spending a lot of time and energy, and with little effect.
Bang! Thundered!
On the afternoon of March 28, about 100,000 people had not yet withdrawn, but Luoyang ushered in the first spring thunder of the first year of the first peace.
Thirty miles south of the water, Ji Ping let the rain fall from the sky hit his face, but he looked at the wall of fire that was slowly extinguished by the rain with a pale face, and the six thousand Qiang Hu Bu riders who roared loudly six hundred steps away.
At this time, his soldiers were exhausted from laying out the defensive line day and night.
Ji Ping wiped the rain from his face, looked at the thousand soldiers behind him, and said sharply: "Hou Xun of each army led 200 people from each tun, divided into five parts, and scattered to various houses, relying on geographical advantages, to block the thieves!" The guard battalion left 100 ghosts and flying shadows to follow me, and the rest of the 100 people per song joined Wutun to help block the attack and act at the opportunity! β
"Remember, don't be in love! Don't storm it! Ji Ping said in a deep voice: "I will retreat when the enemy advances, I will chase after the enemy when he retreats, learn to hide, harass everywhere, and delay the progress of the enemy." β
"Yes!" More than 1,500 people quickly dispersed and disappeared into various houses. (To be continued)
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