The water originates from the Qinling Mountains in Guanzhong, passes through the deep mountains, flows from west to east, and flows close to the Pingchengmen Street outside the south gate of the Luoyang Palace.

Dong Zhuo's army was from west to east, and there were five roads to cross the palace and attack the eastern city.

One is through the northern Beibi Mountain, which goes directly to Xiaopingjin.

One is the Xiamen Avenue between the Imperial Palace and the Beibi Mountain.

One is to directly attack the palace and pass from the palace to guò.

One is the Pingchengmen Avenue between the Imperial Palace and the Yushui to the south.

Another way is to detour south from the two ancient bridges west of the palace.

Now Cui Jun led the army to guard the North Palace and blocked the Xiamen Avenue between the North Palace and the North Mountain.

Yuan Shao and Cao Cao led the army to defend the South Palace, although it was too late to deploy defenses on the Pingchengmen Avenue, but the Tang side had already been ordered by Ji Ping, after the people of Xicheng retreated, they blocked the Pingchengmen Avenue between the Nangong and the Luoshui.

At this time, in addition to breaking through the palace, Dong Zhuojun wanted to enter the eastern city, and there were only two roads left.

One is the Beibi Mountain, but the Beibi Mountain Road is narrow and not suitable for cavalry operations.

The remaining one is the two ancient bridges west of the palace.

On the evening of March 29, five or six miles west of the palace, there were originally two ancient bridges passing through the water, one mile apart, and they were being attacked by Dong Zhuo's army at this time.

To the south of the two ancient bridges, Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei led more than 2,000 soldiers to guard a bridgehead, and Zang Hong led nearly 3,000 men and horses to guard a bridgehead.

Although this Zang Hong is an elegant scribe, he is not as brave as Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei, but he has his own courage, standing on the bridge with the military flag, setting up a shield and a spear, and not retreating, which makes the hearts of his soldiers and soldiers greatly inspired.

Later, Dong Zhuo's soldiers began to cross the river with door panels and shoot with archers, but they were all killed again and again.

It was getting dark. Just when Dong Zhuo's army in the north of the bridge was unable to attack for a long time and slowly retreated, a Qianghu cavalry suddenly rushed from the southwest direction of Yushui.

This cavalry numbered about a thousand people, and it was the one that was split from the two thousand cavalry besieging Guan Yu.

Seeing reinforcements coming. Dong Zhuojun on the north bank of the water roared excitedly and attacked again.

On the south bank, Zhang Liao, Zhang Fei and Zang Hong changed their complexions abruptly. Even the soldiers under them are a little confused, the enemy is almost all cavalry, once they lose the geographical advantage of the bridgehead, they will inevitably fall into a desperate situation.

Especially Zang Hong, who is closest to that cavalry, is even more in danger when he is among them.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Feizhang had eight spears horizontal. yelled: "Wen Yuan, you are guarding here, I will take six hundred people to fight and kill these thieves!" ”

Guan Yu took almost all the cavalry with him when he went south, and now Zhang Fei only has 300 cavalry, but he has to go up.

Otherwise, as soon as Zang Hong is defeated, Dong Zhuo's army will be able to cross the water and sweep them together.

Seeing that the cavalry was about to rush towards Zang Hong, Zhang Fei took three hundred cavalry and three hundred infantry, quickly whipped his horse, and shouted: "Yanren Zhang Fei is here!" Thieves dare to fight! ”

Watch Zhang Fei come to help. Zang Hong, who was guarding the bridgehead, was sure and shouted: "Life, military Sima Yuxiang." Lead 400 soldiers to fight with General Zhang! The rest of the people, wait for me, and guard the bridge with me! ”

……

Late at night on the twenty-ninth day, Nangong.

Xu You and Feng Ji heard Yuan Shao's summons and hurried over, but saw Yuan Shao wearing a white filial piety suit with a sad face.

Before Feng Ji could speak, Xu You exclaimed, "Lord...... What is this filial piety suit? ”

Yuan Shao sighed and said sadly: "Last night, Hu Zhen attacked Xiao Pingjin, my uncle...... Martyrdom in misfortune. ”

Xu You and Feng Ji were both shocked when they heard this. Hurriedly took the filial piety belt from the hands of the guards on the side and tied it, and said in unison: "Please also ask the lord to mourn." ”

Yuan Shao nodded. After a long time, he said: "The blessing does not come again, but the disaster comes." Dong Zhuo's cavalry arrived in the south of the city, it must be the highway to withdraw from Yique Pass, now Zhang Liao and Zang Hong were attacked by the north and south in the south of the Luoshui Bridge, I am afraid it will be difficult to support for a long time, once Dong Zhuo's cavalry goes south, it can bypass the palace and cut off my back road, which is really worrying. ”

Feng Ji was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Lord, for today's plan, when you leave Luoyang, seize the Xiaopingjin pontoon bridge, retreat to Hebei, like a dragon into the sea, do a thunderous move, if you hesitate, I am afraid that a big disaster is coming." ”

"Capture Kohiratsu?" Yuan Shao's face was hesitant and looked at Xu You.

It's not that he doesn't want to seize the Xiaopingjin pontoon bridge, but there is a big problem in it.

The two Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and now Yuan Kui died in Xiaopingjin, and his brother Yuan Ji dealt with the aftermath, if he dared to take advantage of this to seize Xiaopingjin, I am afraid that he would be notorious immediately, and his subordinates would be scattered.

Seeing the soldiers approaching the city, Xu You also agreed to retreat, he seemed to guess Yuan Shao's concerns, and stroked his beard and said: "Lord, although the eldest prince is in Xiaopingjin, he doesn't need to worry too much, now the Yuan family is all small, the lord only needs to escort Taifu Lingshu and Yuan's family back to Hebei, if the eldest prince stops, then Taifu is responsible for the murder." ”

Yuan Shao didn't speak, just nodded slowly.

……

There are a total of five bridges over the water in the Luoyang area, one directly south of the palace, and two on the east and west.

Late at night, the rain stopped, and on the east side of the palace, on the Yushui pontoon bridge built by Ji Ping, the last group of people on the south bank crossed the river.

Tang Fang came to the exhausted Min Gong's side: "Uncle Zhong, I'm going to the south bank to pick up Gongzi, you ordered the soldiers and people to tear down the pontoon bridge overnight, and pull all the boats and boats onto the north bank, once we pick up Gongzi back, General Zhang will also retreat, if you keep this pontoon bridge, Dong Zhuo's army can easily cross the water from the south city and attack the east city in an instant." ”

Min Gong hesitated: "Young Fang, now that the Lord has not returned, is it too early to demolish the bridge?" ”

Tang Fang shook his head, his face solemn: "In addition to the pontoon bridge and the two bridges west of the palace, there are three ancient bridges in Yushui, Shi A has already led people to Nancheng to look for them, and Zhu Ao has brought people to support General Zhang...... This is also the arrangement when Childe goes south. ”

Min Gong nodded, and at this moment, a soldier came to report that Yuan Shao's army was withdrawing from Nangong in batches and retreating to Xiaopingjin.

Tang's complexion changed greatly, and Min Gong also shook his body, and then said hatefully: "Yuan Benchu is famous all over the world, but he is so incompetent!" ”

Tang Fang hurriedly said: "Nangong still has Cao Cao and Bao Xin's soldiers and horses, have you ever retreated?" He had heard Ji Ping talk about Cao Cao and his person, and he seemed to be quite respectful.

The soldier replied: "In the dark night, I only saw Yuan Shao's military flag. ”

Tang Fang looked at Min Gong: "Uncle Zhong, the shape is critical, I want to take all the soldiers here." You organized the people to dismantle the pontoon bridge, and now that the rain has stopped, I was ordered by my son earlier. Searched for oil, reeds, and saltpeter, all of which were piled up under the Taixue Xiping stele forest. At this time, it came in handy, if Dong Zhuo's army came, the pontoon bridge would not have time to be demolished, so the boat would be set on fire. ”

Tang Fang also instructed his military marquis: "Lead people to burn the wooden bridge four miles to the east." ”

This is also the back hand that Ji Ping ordered in advance, after the wooden bridge burned down, only the two stone bridges close to the palace remained, which could be defended by concentrating forces.

At this time, Tang Fang respected Ji Ping to the extreme, and he was less than a weak crown. There is such a vision, considering every step of the way.

He didn't know that although Ji Ping always acted impulsively, his personality was more cautious, and he was worried about defeat before he won or lost, which was the basis for Ji Ping's calculations of everything. Many things, he repeatedly calculated in the dead of night, and stayed awake all night, which made Yin Muyue feel heartache.

The seemingly wise vision of others actually contains too much effort.

Hear Tang Fang's words. Min Gong nodded, still with a worried face: "Now that Yuan Shao's whole army has withdrawn to Xiaopingjin, I don't know if there will be chaos in Xiaopingjin." ”

Tang was expressionless: "Xiao Pingjin has no time to take care of it." Take back Childe first, and then talk about it. ”

……

At dawn on March 30, Yuan Shao and Yuan Yu's 20,000 soldiers and horses completely withdrew from the palace, but Cao Cao and Bao Xin stayed behind and continued to garrison the South Palace.

To the west of the palace, a Dong Zhuo army found ships in Xicheng and crossed the river from the upper reaches of the Yushui River west of the ancient bridge, attacking on three sides.

Zhang Liao, Zhang Fei, Zang Hong, who fought hard all night, and Zhu Ao, who led troops to help, had to withdraw from the bridgehead and retreat step by step with less than 4,000 remnants.

More than 6,000 horsemen Dong Zhuojun frantically poured into the land of Nanan.

At this time, the southern city of Luoyang was basically an empty city. After Dong Zhuo's army poured into the south, it did not go south. Instead, it was divided into three parts, and one part continued to besiege the remnants of Zhang Liao and Zang Hong. Part of them directly pounced on the three thousand soldiers of the Tang side guarding the two ancient bridges, and some pounced on the pontoon bridges.

In the face of the repeated onslaught of the three thousand Qiang Hu cavalry, Zang Hong was hit by an arrow, Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei defended hard, if it were not for the two of them rushing to kill with their own soldiers, the army would have already collapsed.

There were more than 1,000 cavalry besieging the Tang side, and although the 3,000 soldiers of the Tang side had an advantage in terms of strength, more than 2,000 of them were new recruits.

Tang Fang personally waved his sword and beheaded two deserters, and shot two Qianghu cavalry generals one after another, and took six hundred spear and shield veterans to kill nearly a hundred Qianghu cavalry in a wave of counterattack, and only then did the general's heart settle down.

But they were infantry, far less mobile than cavalry, and could only gradually be on the defensive.

There were about 2,000 cavalry rushing to the pontoon bridge, and at this time only half of the pontoon bridge on the south bank was demolished, and the rest was too late to be demolished, so Min Gong hurriedly ordered to set it on fire.

As a wave of rockets was fired, the pontoon bridge, which had already placed reeds, nitrate, and fire oil, burst into flames in an instant, and the two thousand Qiang Hu cavalry could only stop on the south bank, scream strangely, and rush towards Tang Fang and Zhang Liao.

Most of Tang Fang's subordinates were new soldiers, and Zhang Liao was a tired army, how could he withstand the impact of these two thousand cavalry, and the shape was precarious.

At this time, a round of red sunrise rose from the east, but Zhang Liao, Zhang Fei, Zang Hong, and Tang Fang's army were bleak.

Min Gong on the north bank of the water looked at the sky-high fire, and there was no trace of joy on his face.

On the gate of the Imperial Palace, Cao Cao looked at the dangerous battle situation not far away, and clenched his fists, but it was difficult for him to assign a single soldier to help.

At this time, Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses in the west city of Luoyang had already attacked the palace again......

At this moment, the ground of Nancheng rumbled and shook.

Cao Cao, who was a little desperate, couldn't help but be surprised, took two steps forward, stood on a high place and raised his eyes, his face showed ecstasy, he slammed the head of the city, and laughed without an image: "King Shenwu!" Phoenix! Firmament! It's raining in time! ”

In the south of the water, Dong Zhuo's cavalry, who were besieging Zhang Liao and Tang Fang, also heard the sound of rumbling hooves behind them, and looked back one after another, but couldn't help but gasp.

I saw a big banner flying in the air under the morning sun.

After the flag, it is a full 5,000 paces to ride! (To be continued)

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