hasn't moved the real thing yet, and the other side is withdrawing the troops?

Seeing that Han Sui's army left a Qu army and the rest of the troops evacuated from the battlefield in a hurry, Zhang Huang couldn't cry or laugh.

In fact, it was not only Zhang Huang, when Dong Zhuo held a celebration banquet afterwards, many of his generals expressed extreme shame against Han Sui's anticlimactic behavior.

Especially Duan Xuan and Xu Rong, the two generals who were the best at leading troops in Dong Zhuo's army, were under tremendous pressure on the battlefield, and finally defeated the Xiliang army, which far outnumbered them, and was about to pick the fruits of victory, but the result was good, Han Sui pouted his ass and ran away directly.

It was clear that Hu Daorong, who had almost no losses, rode on one side, and Dong Zhuojun's soldiers did not dare to chase the broken Xiliang army too much, and could only watch this war, which was originally a great victory, turn into a small victory.

However, in Zhang Huang's view, this small victory is already very remarkable, and it should be more accurate to say that it should be a narrow victory. Because Li Ru's use of troops is too strange, he took advantage of the time difference to pull the victory out of Han Sui's fingers, if Han Sui is replaced by a general with a strong personality, I am afraid that Li Ru will not be able to eat and walk around this time.

Regarding this issue, Li Ru explained to Zhang Huang with a smile: He made a dangerous move on the premise that Han Sui cherished his life, which seemed dangerous, but it was actually inevitable.

Zhang Huang thought about it carefully, and felt that Li Ru's judgment of Han Sui did have some truth: just imagine, a guy like Han Sui who turned his back on the country and took refuge in Wairong after being coerced either spared his life or took a fancy to Ronghua, so he would not rashly play with others if it was not necessary.

As for the threat from Hu Daorong's cavalry, Li Ru did not explain in detail. However, Zhang Huang thought about it carefully, with Dong Zhuo, a fierce general who could make Sun Jian back down with his strength, Li Ru's safety actually didn't need to worry much.

In the banquet. Li Ru proposed to the generals the tactical guidelines for the future. He solemnly reminded the generals not to despise Han Sui and the Xiliang rebels under his command because of today's insignificant victory. He said that the reason for today's small victory was because he calculated Han Sui from beginning to end, and this victory and defeat was not the real strength of the Xiliang rebels and the Longxi Dong army.

But unfortunately, except for a few generals such as Xu Rong and Zhang Ji, the rest of the generals like Duan Xuan and Hu Zhen who were in the limelight in this battle did not take Li Ru's admonition seriously. Although they kept saying that they would not take the enemy lightly, it could be seen from their contemptuous eyes that they were sneering at the Xiliang rebels who had the advantage in numbers but were still defeated to them.

"The general's mood is worrying!"

Afterwards. When there were only three people, Dong Zhuo, Li Ru, and Zhang Huang, Li Ru let out a long sigh. Obviously, in the middle of the banquet, the blind underestimation of the enemy by generals such as Duan Xuan and Hu Zhen made him feel bad.

Sure enough, in the next few days of confrontation, Dong Zhuo's Longxi army gradually gained the upper hand.

First of all, Duan Xuan's light enemy made him pay a heavy price: when he accepted Li Ru's general order and led his troops to camp outside, Han Sui sent people to attack his camp at night.

A full 2,000 Qiang soldiers made Duan Xuan jump in the entire camp. It is said that Duan Xuan actually cast a martial spirit on an ordinary Qiang soldier in a fit of rage that night, which was really unexpected.

To know. Casting the "Martial Spirit" will consume a large amount of qi, and the longer it lasts, the more serious the qi will be consumed, and even damage the original vitality in the body. It's definitely not something that can be recovered in just a few days, therefore. Generals with martial soul power basically do not use their most powerful power against ordinary soldiers, unless they urgently need to break the formation.

Generally speaking, it is only when they encounter an opponent of equal strength that the generals will use that powerful force that will make him wear out for a while.

And Duan Xuan was forced out of the martial soul by those Qiang soldiers. It can be guessed that either the situation was very critical at that time, or Duan Xuan was so angry that he almost lost his mind.

Then again. When the furious Duan Xuan displayed his martial spirit, he guarded the gate with a knife alone, which also frightened the fierce Qiang soldiers under Han Sui who participated in the night attack.

Only then did the Qiang soldiers realize that they were facing a fierce general who was a one-man man.

Afterwards, of course, Duan Xuan Lisuo was severely reprimanded by Li Ruti, and the expression on Dong Zhuo's face was not good-looking. According to Dong Zhuo's judgment, Duan Xuan, who consumed a lot of qi in the night attack incident, may not be able to recover to his peak within half a month, which means that in the next half a month, Duan Xuan can only play at the level of six or seven layers on his weekdays, and this level can even beat Zhang Huang without using his martial soul Yiwu.

Of course, in fact, Zhang Huang relies on "twisted steps" and "witchcraft", he can beat any so-called fierce general who can't use martial arts.

Dong Zhuo was a little disappointed in his heart.

It is undeniable that Dong Zhuo is the strongest general in the Longxi forces, so strong that Sun Jian has to back down, but as the lord of one party, Dong Zhuo can't charge into battle in person, right? It's too cheap!

Therefore, as the most powerful general in the Dong clan in Longxi except for Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo placed high expectations on Duan Xuan, and regarded Duan Xuan as the sharpest knife against Han Sui, as long as the time was ripe, Dong Zhuo would immediately pierce this sharp knife into Han Sui's heart and give the latter a fatal blow.

The occurrence of the night attack incident delayed Dong Zhuo's opportunity to counterattack Han Sui for at least half a month.

For half a month, under the current situation when the two teams are competing for more seconds to seize the advantageous terrain and set up the formation, how much advantage will Dong Zhuo lose in half a month?

Of course, Dong Zhuo is not without remedies, for example, he can use Zhang Huang to replace Duan Xuan, after all, in the same situation of not using martial arts, Zhang Huang is stronger than Duan Xuan. Even, even if Duan Xuan Shi showed his martial spirit, Zhang Huang did not necessarily have no room to fight back.

The only problem is that the current "Zhang Xiu" played by Zhang Huang is just an unknown young player who has just debuted, where is there any qualification to compare with Duan Xuan? Even if Dong Zhuo and Li Ru forcibly pushed Zhang Huang to the position, even if Duan Xuan understood the hidden situation and didn't care about it, the soldiers under Duan Xuan's hands would definitely not approve of it.

As for revealing Zhang Huang's terrifying true identity to gain the recognition of the soldiers, Dong Zhuo, Li Ru, and Zhang Huang will not think that their lives are long. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Zhang Huang's true identity is revealed, Dong Zhuo will immediately have to bear the capital crime of a "thief", who called Zhang Huang the third person in the imperial court who will never forgive him after the "great sage and good teacher" Zhang Jiao and the "Rengong General" Zhang Liang?

"Little Heavenly Master" Zhang Bai rides. This human head has a gold content of 50,000 taels of gold, which is enough to make most people in the world red-eyed.

In addition to Duan Xuan, to be honest, there are really no strong generals under Dong Zhuo's command, Xu Rong is okay to lead the troops to fight, but if you want to ask him to charge into battle, hehe, in Dong Zhuo's opinion, even if Xu Rong uses the martial soul, I am afraid that he will not be the opponent of Zhang Huang, who does not use the martial soul.

A good general has no outstanding achievements, Xu Rong is definitely the most proficient general under Dong Zhuo, but he is not destined to be as dazzling as a force-type fierce general who charges into battle.

Nonsense, so-so. Being a firefighting general is quite competent, but it is by no means a figure who can turn the tide.

Not to mention Dong Yue and Niu Fu, the reason why they are in high positions is nothing more than because one of them is Dong Zhuo's younger brother and the other is Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, and their skills are far inferior to Guo Yan and Li Dao, who are still only a small school under Niu Fu.

And when it comes to the real fierce generals of the Dong family's forces, "Wenhou" Lu Bu is probably still near Jiuyuan County at this time, and before Ding Yuan becomes the captain of Wu Meng and shoulders the "harm of Karasuma" in rectifying and merging states, this fierce tiger will not enter the territory of the Han Dynasty for the time being, let alone put it under Dong Zhuo's command; And Hua Xiong, a fierce general who is known as having a force value close to Lu Bu, this Kansai man is probably still fooling around in that army; As for Fan Chou. This fierce general is not far from being put under Dong Zhuo's command, but that will have to wait until Dong Zhuo returns to Jincheng a year later and forces Han Sui back to Wuwei County.

All in all, at present, Dong Zhuo has only such a highly valued force-type fierce general as Duan Xuan. Moreover, one of the "Liangzhou Sanming", the clansmen of Taiwei Duan Cheng have also made great achievements in leading troops. Therefore, Dong Zhuo was particularly disappointed in his gaffe.

Fortunately, Duan Xuan's anger that night also deterred Han Sui and many Qiang soldiers. So much so that Han Sui immediately changed his strategy, even if he knew that Duan Xuan would be difficult to show such terrifying strength in a short period of time, he tried to avoid confronting Duan Xuan.

Han Sui's consideration was very thoughtful. God knows when Duan Xuan will recover his qi and return to his heyday?

Although he changed the tactics of going head-to-head, Han Sui's overall strategy of gradually encroaching on the territory of the Longxi Army did not change, and he took advantage of the strength advantage of several times that of the Longxi Army to split the army under his command into three and turn it into three armies of about 40,000 people.

These three armies were along Di Daoxi, Di Daobei, and Di Daodong, among them, Di Daobei's army camped was undoubtedly to restrict Dong Zhuo's own team near Di Dao County, and Di Daodong's Qiang soldiers were used to divide the Longxi Army detachment on Baishi Mountain, and this Qiang army was rooted between Di Dao and Baishi Mountain like nails, making it difficult for Dong Zhuo's two armies to make contact. And Di Daoxi's Qiang soldiers were the most shocking to Li Ru in Han Sui's layout, because this army had a full 20,000 Hu Dao Rong cavalry.

As long as Dong Zhuo dared to send reinforcements from Di Dao when Han Sui attacked Baishi Mountain, then Di Daoxi's Hu Dao Rong cavalry might be waiting for an opportunity to bypass Di Dao and directly attack Angu County, two hundred miles away, and then wantonly invade the entire southern part of Longxi County in Guanzhong.

In the southern part of Longxi County, it is the condensation of Dong Zhuo's painstaking efforts for several years, if the wanton destruction of Hu Dao Rong Cavalry disrupts the spring ploughing of the new year, or is slaughtered by the people of several cities and counties, I am afraid that Dong Zhuo will have to vomit blood angrily.

In desperation, Dong Zhuo had no choice but to deploy limited troops to strengthen the defense line on the west side of Di Dao. He urgently recruited 8,000 Xinding from the southern part of Longxi County and brought them to Didao, and then transferred 10,000 men from Didao County to defend all the key passes from Didao County to Angu County.

Dong Zhuo, the garrison of Baishi Mountain, did not dare to transfer out easily, because the south side of Baishi Mountain is Shouyang County, although this mountain city is known as easy to defend and difficult to attack, but that is under the premise that Baishi Mountain and the birds and mice on the south side of the cave mountain are not lost. If Baishi Mountain is lost, Han Sui wants to capture the mountain city of Shouyang County, and it is not difficult to tell the truth.

And if Shouyang is lost, then the ending will be like losing Angu County, and the entire southern part of Longxi County will have to be exposed to Han Sui's eyes. The only difference is that because of the mountainous area of this path, eighty percent of the Qiang infantry will replace the Hu Dao Rong cavalry to invade and harass them.

"This is Han's strategy to take a step by step to suppress me!"

The worried Li Ru broke the calculation in Han Sui's heart in one mouth, which was nothing more than gradually encroaching on the activity space of the Longxi Army near Di Dao and putting pressure on the soldiers of the Longxi Army.

You must know that being forced to reduce the space for movement like this will cause most soldiers to have a wrong understanding in their minds, that is, their own army is not as strong as the enemy's army. Or that you can't defeat the enemy, otherwise, why not take the initiative to attack but let the enemy dump the territory?

When you think about it this way, the morale of the soldiers will be discharged, and once the morale falls to the bottom, then the battle will really be lost.

The so-called "potential warfare" refers to this: taking advantage of various favorable situations, or creating a favorable situation for one's own side, gradually disintegrating the fighting spirit and morale of the enemy army, and finally breaking it according to the situation! Or go a step further and win without a fight!

This kind of conspiracy. Even if Li Ru could see through Han Sui's purpose, there was no way to do it.

Because Han Sui made it clear that he was bullying the few soldiers in Longxi, he was very smart, and he did not gather superior forces to fight with the Longxi army in the land of Didao, because in such a place, the role of 50,000 soldiers and 100,000 soldiers is not great, and it cannot directly reflect the advantage of his Han Sui's 100,000 Qiang soldiers.

Therefore, Han Sui chose to divide his troops into three routes, and his team tended to defend steadily, and put pressure on the Longxi Army with the remaining two deputy divisions. Even if the timing is right. The two deputy divisions will immediately turn into two sharp knives, and they will be stabbed in Dong Zhuo's heart.

And Dong Zhuo was bitter because he couldn't divide his troops arbitrarily like Han Sui, because he didn't have enough troops. If he clenched his fists, he could still punch Han Sui hard, but if he spread out his palms. I'm afraid that I will be able to chop off my fingers one by one.

He didn't have another hand to swing his fist.

In this way, the two armies were in a stalemate for two whole months.

During this period, although Duan Xuan gradually recovered to his peak strength, it was no longer helpful. Due to a full two months of passive defense. The morale of the Longxi soldiers in Didao County has fallen very sharply, and even if the generals and generals of all battalions and strata boost their morale from time to time, it is difficult to recover the bad influence brought about by "the Longxi Army giving up the initiative to attack."

Especially the 8,000 new additions. Two months ago, they were only civilians, and their morale was particularly low, and they even deserted several times in a row.

Although Li Ru immediately took the opportunity to arrest all the fleeing soldiers and beheaded them, it only temporarily prevented the appearance of deserters, but it made the generally low morale in the city even lower.

Di Dao can't keep it!

Looking at those soldiers who had no fighting spirit, Zhang Huang shook his head secretly.

He didn't remind Li Ru that he was just a "guest" in Longxi, just to see if he had a chance to meet Huangfu Song, the famous general who swept his Yellow Turban Army, which did not mean that he had a position to offer advice to Dong Zhuo and Li Ru; Second, with Li Ru's ingenuity, he actually doesn't need to be reminded at all.

No, in the evening of the same day, an army was temporarily formed in the city, and the task was to move the households in Didao County to the south one after another.

There is no doubt that this means that after a series of ideological struggles, Li Ru finally gritted his teeth and admitted defeat, and was ready to move the people in Di Dao and give up this place to Han Sui.

There is no shame in this defeat, but on the contrary, it is wise.

In other words, Zhang Huang would never attack and fight the enemy under the condition of low morale in the army, and the so-called last battle was actually a very lucky and helpless tactic. If the sergeant and soldier are not of the same mind as you, the chance of winning rashly is almost zero.

Throughout history, how many times have we won a strong enemy? The vast majority are not the old regulations that honestly pay attention to "morale"? This is the king of soldiers who have been tempered thousands of times! It's just a treacherous battle.

Sure enough, when all the people evacuated, Li Ru issued an order to slowly withdraw the troops to the south.

Of course, before leaving, Li Ru ordered people to move all the materials in Didao County.

The grain was taken away, the granaries were torn down, the wells of the city were sealed, and the gates of the city gates were removed.

In the end, Li Ru directly ordered people to set fire to the city, burning down the entire city and the houses in the city.

It is no exaggeration to say that what Li Ru left to Han Sui in the end was nothing more than an empty city and ruins with only four sides of the city wall built with stones.

Zhang Huang secretly thought that if it weren't for the fact that the stones built into the city wall were quite hard, Li Ru might have asked the soldiers to smash the four city walls.

This is not the end, on the way to retreat, Li Ru ordered people to burn the woods within the pre-range along the way, pollute all the lakes, and remove all the people in the nearby villages. A "clearing" strategy, Li Ru did it very thoroughly, thinking that Han Sui stepped into this land one day, most of them would be dumbfounded by this place that had become a completely barren land within a radius of hundreds of miles.

Of course, even if Li Ru's trick was completely complete, Han Sui would not be dissatisfied.

Because Li Ru's move was to prevent Han Sui from continuing to invade the southern part of Longxi County, and Han Sui's goal was not the southern part of Longxi County, but the more fertile Sanfu land. The reason why he wanted to capture Di Dao was nothing more than that when he clashed with the Han court, Dong Zhuo would stab him in the back.

And now, although Li Ru has destroyed the entire Di Dao vicinity, which has added a lot of logistical troubles to Han Sui, it is also very unlikely that Dong Zhuo will stab him in the back.

Han Sui's goal was achieved, so he didn't care about the Longxi army where Dong Zhuo was still stationed on Baishi Mountain, so he took the large army to Hanyang County, and directly forced Chang'an from Hanyang County.

Because of morale, Dong Zhuo did not pursue, but sent an urgent report to the imperial court. This urgent report, written by Li Ru himself, naturally exaggerated the intensity of the confrontation between the Longxi army and the Xiliang rebels, and the small victory in the first battle of Di Dao and the small defeat of Duan Xuan due to the defeat of the light enemy, all the confrontations were exaggerated.

In short, I told the court that I, Dong Zhuo, had tried my best, but the rebels were too strong.

The imperial court had to believe it, because Dong Zhuo even lost Di Dao, which meant that if he wanted to recover the entire Longxi in the future, he would have to spend several times his strength. The imperial court did not think that Dong Zhuo was so generous as to cede such an important strategic point to the rebels just to retain power.

In April of the second year of Zhongping, the Xiliang rebels broke through Hanyang County, and in June, they attacked Youfufeng, captured more than ten county towns on the north bank of the Yellow River in the county, and fought all the way to Meiyang County.

Huangfu Song, who was stationed in Meiyang County, was stunned when he heard Dong Zhuo's defeat and wanted to save the situation, but found that Han Sui did not fight with him at all, but just let the Qiang soldiers under his command harass and loot on the right.

Thinking about it, with the Yellow Turban Army as a lesson from the past, how could Han Sui have the courage to fight hard with Huangfu Song, a famous general who swept the world in the Yellow Turbans?

Dong Zhuo was defeated and Huangfu Song was useless, which shocked the government and the opposition.

A month later, because he refused to pay bribes to the powerful eunuch officials after quelling the "Yellow Peril", the eunuchs headed by Zhao Zhong saw that the time was right to slander Liu Hong, the son of heaven, and the emperor Fu Song responded to the battle passively on the grounds of training and delayed the fighter, resulting in the erosion of the war situation, and the son of heaven was furious and cut off the post of the general of the left chariot cavalry of Huangfu Song.

During this period, Situ Cui Lie saw that Han Sui was powerful, and actually suggested that the imperial court give up Liangzhou, and the waiter Fu Xie debated in court, and finally persuaded Liu Hong, the son of heaven who was inclined to Cui Lie.

At the beginning of August, Fu Xie, the squire, was appointed as the Taishou of Hanyang, and the veteran Zhang Wen, the Sikong Zhang, stepped out again to replace the Huangfu Song to worship the general of the chariot cavalry.

During this period, Zhang Wen nominated several generals to the imperial court, and Liu Hong, the son of heaven, promised all of them and sealed them.

These generals are, the new general Dong Zhuo, the general Zhou Shen, the general of Dangkou, Xia Yu, the new captain of Huqiang, Shi Gaixun, the former magistrate of Hanyang, Sun Jian, who was personally recommended by Zhang Wen to participate in the military, and Huangfu Song, who is currently temporarily white and has made meritorious contributions.

In addition, Xinliangzhou Assassin Shi Geng and Hanyang County Taishou Fu Xie were also included in Zhang Wen's dispatch this time.

This lineup can be said to be luxurious in the world. (To be continued......)