Chapter 332: The Siege of the Princes (Continued 1)
"The most important thing at the moment is to repel the coalition of princes, not to mention that there are generals such as Zhang Liao in the Tiger Prison Pass, Jia Rong will not succeed so easily." Li Ru really didn't have a good way, so he comforted Dong Zhuo with good words.
Dong Zhuo said: "There are coalition soldiers in Mengjin Pass and Pingjin, and the people in Luoyang City are also unstable. ”
Li Ru's body was shocked, and he bowed his head and said, "No! Dong Zhuo's words brought Li Ru out of the cold palace and became a hot figure.
became Dong Zhuo's military advisor, Li Ru never thought of betrayal, and has always worked hard for Dong Zhuo's development.
"The lord doesn't need to worry, there is Xu Rong guarding the Mengjin Pass, which is foolproof, as for Pingjin, it will not be the place where the princes have the most troops, as for the Yique and other passes in the south of Luoyang, only a few hundred troops are needed to guard it, and it will be difficult for the princes to advance an inch." Li Ru talked about it.
Dong Zhuo was overjoyed and said: "I have excellent literature and no worries!" Matters in the army, Wen You can handle them at his discretion, just tell me afterwards. ”
A few days ago, some restless generals in the army, Li Ru had already secretly remembered in his heart, and the generals of the Dong Army who were familiar with Li Ru knew that once Li Ru regained power, it was the time when the bad luck of the powerful generals who jumped in the past came, and he was the former general of the Dong Army, no matter how frustrated Li Ru was, he was respectful when he saw him, and he did not dare to slack off in the slightest.
An imperceptible smile flashed at the corner of Li Ru's mouth.
With the assistance of Li Ru, Dong Zhuo once again resumed his free life, in the Dong army, Li Ru is an all-round talent, battlefield strategy, army management, all know.
Huang Wan, Yang Biao and others have recently been very close to Dong Zhuo, ranking among the three publics, and they are in collusion with Dong Zhuo in the court, and many officials bow their heads to the two of them on their faces, and say bad things behind their backs.
When Jia Rong left, there were 1,200 cavalry and 5,000 infantry in Luoyang City, and the princes knocked on the pass, and the Xiliang Army also had to divide their forces to assist the Dong army in guarding the pass.
Now there are only 1,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry in the city, and the Dong army has about 6,000 troops.
The gate of Luoyang is closed, and it is also a little difficult for Jia Xu to get information from all sides, but fortunately, Su Shuang's operation of Luoyang is not overnight, and the information is still rolling into Jia Xu's hands, including the restless families in the city.
Dong Zhuo got a lot of information provided to him by Jia Xu, borrowing a knife to kill people, and Dong Zhuo was responsible for the notoriety, why not do it, Jia Rong himself has no notoriety in Luoyang.
The Eighteenth Route Coalition Army is mighty and hundreds of thousands, and Dong Zhuo's heart is also mentioned highly, and the most unheard is that there are families in the city who collude with the coalition army, and his attitude is that he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go.
With this information, Jia Xu was able to predict the next move of the princes' army in advance.
There are generals such as Jiang Yu and Ma Teng in the city, and more importantly, Zhang Xiu also came to Luoyang to assist Jia Xu in handling intelligence.
Zhang Xiu is a lone wolf force, the ability to collect intelligence is relatively strong, but it is slower to sort out, and it is also used as Jia Xu's subordinate in Luoyang City, Zhang Xiu is quite happy about this, in the Han Dynasty, the identity of the literati has always been higher than that of the martial arts.
Gao Shun led the trapping camp and two hundred cavalry stationed in Hangu Pass, at that time the army retreated, Jia Rong only needed to hold Hangu Pass, so that the Kwantung princes could not advance an inch, and Jia Rong's men and horses were planted in the counties along the way, although there were not many, but they could play a key role, after all, there were not many standing troops in these counties, and supplies such as grain and grass had already been ordered by Dong Zhuo to be requisitioned to Luoyang.
The alliance of princes began the most fierce attack, and the Tiger Prison Pass bore the brunt, and the ways of attacking the city were endless.
Outside the Tiger Prison Pass, the princes' alliance army piled up two large earth mountains, which not only played the role of monitoring the defenders in the pass, but also provided cover for the soldiers besieging the city by shooting at the defenders when the soldiers were attacking the city, which greatly divided the attention of the defenders.
Dealing with the offensive means of the coalition army, Jia Rong was not weak at all, there were pieces of raw cowhide hanging outside the city, and most of the arrows of the coalition army were blocked by cowhide.
Yuan Kui's death really stimulated Yuan Shao a lot, and he drove up the rushing cars and ladders in the army day and night, and the surrounding trees were cut down.
For more than ten days, the Tiger Prison Pass could not be captured, and the initial sharpness of the princes' coalition army was also dispelled a lot, and sometimes the princes' army attacked the city, just to make Yuan Shao feel at ease, the death of the low-level soldiers was taken for granted in the eyes of the princes, for the future of the Han Dynasty, the soldiers should be sacrificed, but one by one the soldiers represent the strength of the princes.
No prince is stupid, just like Sun Jian, no matter how Yuan Shao persuaded him, he only symbolically sent hundreds of soldiers to participate in the battle.
Although the wall of the Tiger Prison Pass is thick, Jia Rong also has to deal with it carefully, in order to prevent the princes' army from digging tunnels to attack the city, one urn after another is buried in the ground, and there are soldiers on it who listen carefully, as long as there is movement, it will be reported to the generals as soon as possible.
There is a lot of oil piled up in the pass, in ancient times, boiling oil is an effective means to prevent soldiers from attacking the city, the boiling oil juice that falls from the sky is invincible, enough to make the siege soldiers liver and gall, Luoyang City is unconditionally supported Jia Rong's actions in the Tiger Prison Pass, arrows, knives and guns and other consumables, a steady stream of transport.
The soldiers of the princes' army outside the gate became the target of the Xiliang army to practice archery, especially the group of princes and soldiers on the mountain, the bowery of the soldiers of the Xiliang army made rapid progress, which was inseparable from their sacrifice, and the prestige of the magic arrow Lu Bu was widely spread among the soldiers of the two armies, as long as Lu Bu appeared in the city, the allied soldiers of Tushan had to climb down honestly.
Compared with Lu Bu, Hao Meng and Cao Xing, who are known as unparalleled in archery, are much inferior.
In the army of princes, Yuan Shao sat in the position of the head with a gloomy face, in terms of strength, the princes were more than ten times that of the defenders in the pass, but in terms of combat ability, they were not as good as the cavalry of the Xiliang army.
Just yesterday, Zhao Yun, Lu Bu, Hua Xiong, Zhang Liao and other generals came out, the cavalry came in a mighty way, killing the Chinese army, the coalition soldiers did not dare to come forward to stop them, and returned defeated, at the critical moment, if it were not for Gongsun Zan to lead Bai Ma Yi to help, the loss of the princes' army would be greater.
The princes outside the pass continued to attack, the defenders in the pass became unprecedentedly united, with the case of Jia Rong treating and consoling the wounded soldiers, the relationship between the Xiliang army and the Dong army and the Bingzhou army was no longer so tense, and the soldiers on both sides would sit together and chat in their spare time, in the final analysis, this was just a grievance between the upper generals, maybe the soldiers had long forgotten what Ding Yuanchang was like.
After Li Su and Zhang Liao received Dong Zhuo's order, they fully cooperated with Jia Rong.
"In your opinion, when will the Tiger Prison be broken?" Yuan Shao sat on the top seat with a gloomy face and said.
As the leader of the princes' army, 100,000 people couldn't capture the Tiger Prison Pass for half a month, and his face was always a little unbearable, not to mention that he still had family hatred on his body, Yuan Kui's kindness to him was like a movie playing back in Yuan Shao's mind every night.
Seeing that no one answered in the tent for a long time, Cao Cao hugged his fists and said: "Alliance leader, the road to Luoyang is not only the Tiger Prison Pass, our army can divide most of the troops to attack Pingjin or Mengjin, as long as one of these two passes is broken, the army can be under the city of Luoyang, there are eight passes around Luoyang, Dong Zhuo and Jia Rong are bound to divide their forces to guard, Luoyang is actually an empty city, when the army arrives, Luoyang is at your fingertips." ”
"At that time, with the cooperation of the families in the city, Dong Zhuo and the others in Luoyang City will be finished as soon as they rebel against the ministers, and as soon as Luoyang is broken, the defenders of the Tiger Prison Pass will lose the support of grain, grass and weapons, and they will definitely flee in embarrassment." Cao Cao talked about the money and created a great fantasy space for the princes in the account, and the purpose of the princes' alliance was to attack Luoyang.
Cao Cao's words won the support of many princes in the tent, but Yuan Shao still sat on the throne of the alliance leader with an unhappy face, Cao Cao's words were very reasonable, but Pingjin and Meng Jin put it bluntly are to take the small road into Luoyang, how can there be a tiger prison to be above board, the coalition army wants to Qingjun to punish the traitor, naturally the more legitimate the better.
"Our army has been attacking for many days, and the soldiers in the pass are probably already exhausted, so you don't need to be discouraged, and you will fight the tiger prison in the coming day." Yuan Shao comforted.
Cao Cao sighed lightly and looked elsewhere, since ancient times, he has become a king and a loser, others will not care how you won, they will only remember that you are a winner, Yuan Shao just loves fame too much, so he disdains to adopt Cao Cao's strategy, growing up together, what Yuan Shao thinks Of course, will not escape Cao Cao's eyes.
"Tomorrow's army will attack the Tiger Pass, you need to work together, and you must not slack off." Yuan Shao's voice suddenly raised an octave, causing the princes in the tent to tremble.
Yuan Shu on the tent turned his eyes and said: "Actually, our army does not have to use the battle of ascending the city, and it can enter the city from the underground. ”
Yuan Shao glanced at Yuan Shu in surprise and said in surprise: "Is there a good way to get on the highway?" ”
Seeing that the princes in the tent were looking at him, Yuan Shu felt very satisfied, and he liked the feeling of being valued.
"We can attack the city while digging tunnels to the pass, so that we can enter the pass unknowingly, and the inside should be combined with the outside, and the tiger prison will not be broken."
The princes heard the rumors and discussed, can become a prince, are not ordinary people, all have extraordinary minds and city government, Yuan Shu's words are very straightforward, is to maximize the advantage of manpower, so that the soldiers on the pass have no time to take care of the city, the inside should be combined with the outside, the tiger prison pass will be captured.
"Not only that, but the rushing ladder and the well also have to be covered together, and the Chinese army only needs to leave General Gongsun's white horse righteous servant." Yuan Shao added.
Gongsun Chan is so happy, the siege of the city is very expensive to the soldiers, he doesn't want to watch his good sons go to die, these soldiers are after the attack on Luoyang, the princes compete for fame and fortune between each other the biggest dependence, although Gongsun Chan looks rough and bold, in fact, the heart is as careful as a hair, the city is quite deep, the surface of Yuan Shao is respectful, but in fact he does not think so of this alliance leader, 100,000 troops can not win when attacking a small tiger prison pass.
I didn't finish writing, I only have to use 'continue', forgive me.