Chapter Ninety-One: Return to Luoyang
Dong Shouye defeated Wang Kuang's troops in Hanoi County, almost completely annihilating the other party, this battle was fought with great joy, and he did not give the other party a chance at all.
After the victory, Dong Shouye took care of all the affairs, and then left Hanoi County, crossed the Yellow River, and went to Xiaopingjin to meet the military advisors Jia Xu, Li Dao and others.
Originally, Jia Xu should have followed Dong Shouye into Hanoi County and attacked Wang Kuang, with him by his side, if something happens, there can also be a wise man who can discuss at any time, and later when crossing the river, Dong Shouye saw that the water was a little turbulent, and it was not as smooth as imagined, and crossing the river had a certain risk.
Therefore, for the sake of Jia Lao's fox's safety, Dong Shouye forcibly left Jia Xu behind.
Dong Shouye has always been very good to the people around him, and many soldiers say that Dong Shouye is amiable and approachable. Jia Xu, as the only strategist around Dong Shouye who can take action, his safety work has always been the top priority, in Dong Shouye's view, it is better not to win than to ensure Jia Xu's safety.
Maybe this is the surprise that Jia Xu saw from Dong Shouye, maybe it is the point that Jia Xu is most puzzled and valued, after all, I have never heard of how much Dong Zhuo respects his strategists before.
As the old saying goes, Lao Tzu is a hero, Dong Zhuo's rough character is not reflected in Dong Shouye's body, Jia Xu can be said to be very surprised by this, of course, this is also one of the reasons why Jia Xu is full of confidence in Dong Shouye's future.
After Dong Shouye met with Xiao Pingjin's men, he prepared to leave for Luoyang and waited for further instructions from his father Dong Zhuo. There was no new news from Dong Zhuo's side.
So, Dong Shouye led the army to leave Xiaopingjin and go to Luoyang. Now the threat from the Hanoi direction has been lifted, and Dong Shouye has also received news that Zhao Fu and Cheng Lian, who were in Han Fu's army who had been staying in Hanoi, have left Hanoi County and headed for Yecheng.
After Dong Shouye heard the news, he secretly guessed that it might be that Yuan Shao's plot to seize Jizhou had happened, but no matter how much Dong Shouye didn't want Yuan Shao to get Jizhou, it was beyond the reach of the whip and to no avail. Dong Shouye also discussed this matter with his subordinate Wenwu, Jia Xu and others thought that there must be a big change in Jizhou, and persuaded Dong Shouye to leave Xiaopingjin as soon as possible, so that the other party could fight each other without scruples.
Dong Shouye said secretly: "Buddies are very insidious!" ”
So he left Xiaopingjin without any scruples. And there were no soldiers and horses left in Xiaopingjin, just the original people stationed in Xiaopingjin. The defense of Xiaopingjin is subordinate to the Captain of Baguan, which has been set up since the time of the great general He Jin, but now it also exists in name only. Now stationed in Xiaopingjin, it is not the men and horses of the Baguan Commander, but a group of soldiers and horses transferred by Dong Zhuo, which is part of the Luoyang garrison, with about 1,000 people.
Before leaving, Dong Shouye gave a few words of encouragement to the leader in charge of Xiaopingjin's defense, and said some words of exhortation such as "work hard, and give you a salary increase in the future," and then left.
The direction in which the army marched was Luoyang. Luoyang City is actually not far from Xiaopingjin, that is, forty or fifty miles, less than a day's march, you can basically get there.
Entering Luoyang City, Dong Shouye also sighed a little emotionally, the originally prosperous Luoyang City has now become dilapidated, which is a man-made disaster and a natural disaster.
Dong Zhuo is the culprit, and no one in the Kwantung princes can get out of it.
History is always a confused account, unable to calculate who is right and who is wrong, and sometimes it is not even a chance to calculate, so it is written by the victors with an arrogant posture.
In the history written by the victors, the opponent is always all kinds of dirty, brutal, and bloody, while the own side is always all kinds of benevolence and morality, countless and countless. The truth of history is often submerged in the benevolence and morality of the victors.
Dong Shouye led the army to rest in Luoyang City for a few days, and had another horse meat hot pot with the soldiers under his command, and they were all very happy. During the previous war against Sun Jian, many horses were killed on both sides, and these horses after the battle were all gathered by Dong Shouye and dealt with in a unified manner.
There were many horses, about two thousand. Dong Shouye ordered the soldiers in charge of logistics to disembowel all the horses killed in the battle and obtain horse meat. Horses will produce toxins when they die normally, and horse meat will be poisonous and inedible, but war horses die on the battlefield, which is an irregular death that suddenly suffers from huge external trauma, so horse meat is not poisonous.
The average weight of the war horse is between 400 kg and 500 kg, the meat yield is between 50% and 60%, and the internal organs of the horse are poisonous, so they are all thrown away, so the horse meat obtained from each horse is about 400 catties to 600 catties.
It looks like a lot of horse meat, but in fact, once it is divided, there is not much, the horse meat in Dong Shouye's hand made two horse meat hot pot, and then distributed it to Xu Rong, Hu Zhen some, and there is not much left.
But even so, the oil and water in the stomachs of the soldiers under Dong Shouye during this period of time can be the envy of many people.
After circling in Luoyang City for a while, Dong Shouye received a secret letter from Xu Rong. The letter said that recently, Zhu Jun of Zhongmu County has been moving constantly, and he has always sent a detailed investigation to investigate Xu Rong.
Although Xu Rong successfully captured a group of spies, there are still many fish that have slipped through the net.
According to this situation, it is speculated that Xu Rong's large-scale reorganization of prisoners of war near Gongxian County may have been investigated by Zhu Jun, and it is estimated that he will take action next.
Dong Shouye's reply to Xu Rong was to ask him to try his best to put on some fake moves to confuse the enemy, so that the enemy could not distinguish the true from the false, and he would lead the army to arrive later, so that Xu Rong should not go out to fight lightly, so as not to affect the handling of prisoners of war.
At the same time, Dong Shouye announced that the troops had finished their rest and recuperated and drove to the vicinity of Gongxian where Xu Rong was stationed.
Dong Shouye led the army all the way through Yanshi County and arrived at Gong County.
Luoyang City to Gongxian is more than a hundred miles away, and it will be there soon. After Gongxian met Xu Rong, he discussed with Jia Xu, Xu Rong and others how to face Zhu Jun next.
Originally, Dong Shouye let Xu Rongtun's troops in Gongxian instead of Chenggao, mainly to put on a posture of giving up Luoyang and being unable to go east, so as to avoid too much stimulation of the Kwantung princes and avoid the occurrence of a big war. It seems that Dong Shouye's policy of deliberately avoiding war was misunderstood by the enemy as a kind of cowardice, and he began to provoke constantly.