Chapter 254: Burning Sky
"What? Dong thief has returned to Luoyang? How can it be? Yuan Shao said with a look of surprise and disbelief.
Li Yang looked at Yuan Shao and the others with an incredulous look on their faces, and said indifferently: "That's right, when Dong Thief left, he also specially sent a message to Guo Yan and others in Bishui Pass, asking them to return to Luoyang with the elite of the Xiliang Army, otherwise Li would not have been able to take Bishui Pass so easily."
"Li captured Bishui Pass and did not let go of an enemy, so no one will know about the Tiger Prison Pass, and the Tiger Prison Pass is now without Dong Thief and Lu Bu, we only need to wait for us to storm the Tiger Prison and create an opportunity for the surprise attack troops, we can easily take the Tiger Prison, and when the time comes, we can go straight to Luoyang, kill Dong Thief, and save the Holy Driver."
When Li Yang said the end, 'kill Dong Thief and save the holy driver', Yuan Shao and all the princes showed excited looks on their faces, Yuan Shao even slapped the table and stood up, and ordered to start attacking the Tiger Prison Pass, as if he had forgotten the original intention of wanting to rectify Li Yang, in fact, even if Yuan Shao still wanted to rectify Li Yang, he couldn't come up with any reason or excuse.
It has been nearly two months since the princes attacked this Tiger Prison Pass, and since they learned that the Yuan family in Luoyang was beheaded by the whole door, Yuan Shao began to let them attack the Tiger Prison Pass frantically, but the Tiger Prison Pass is like a 'super south wall', and as many people as there are people who crash into it, how many people will die.
The major princes all wanted to take the lead in breaking through the tiger prison, and then the first to rush to Luoyang to welcome the saint and grab the great achievement, but after so many days, the princes' troops were seriously killed and wounded, and they had already been a little impatient after fighting for so many days.
When Dong Zhuo left, he took away all the senior generals in the Tiger Prison Pass, and now the guards of the Tiger Prison Pass are also famous generals but only have a low-level level.
The low-level celebrities are the lowest among the famous generals, and their abilities are already limited, let alone defending the Nineteenth Route Alliance! If he was guarding an ordinary level now, he would definitely be defeated in an instant.
However, he is now guarding the Tiger Prison, the first male pass in the world, and the Tiger Prison Pass has sufficient garrison equipment, although he suffered heavy losses for a while, but it can withstand the impact of the coalition army.
The princes were not in harmony, and no one wanted their men and horses to suffer too many casualties, so if they hadn't taken the Tiger Prison Pass several times as usual, the princes would have withdrawn their troops and rested.
However, this time it is different, now Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu and others are not in the Tiger Prison Pass, plus Li Yang said that he was looking for someone to ambush in the West Gate, so the princes all know that this Tiger Prison Pass will definitely be broken today, so everyone is working extra hard.
At the cost of heavy casualties, the Xiliang Army of the Tiger Prison Pass actually blocked the impact of the coalition army for nearly two hours, and the general guarding the pass was even more in a hurry, so that no one cared about the West Gate of the Tiger Pass, Xuanyuan Honglie and others in Xiliang military uniforms easily rushed into the West Gate of the Tiger Pass, and with the help of the three top armed forces, they successfully won the West Gate of the Tiger Pass in an instant.
The morale of the Xiliang Army, which was originally very low, was even lower to the extreme after the West Gate was breached, and even most of the Xiliang Army did not make any resistance, only knew how to flee everywhere.
So the next thing was much simpler, and in the end, it was only half an hour, and the Tiger Prison Pass completely fell into the hands of the coalition forces.
Tiger Prison Pass can now be said to be the only barrier between the coalition forces and Luoyang, and now that the Tiger Prison Pass has been breached, the gap between the coalition forces and Luoyang will be flat.
Therefore, the coalition army that had just taken the Tiger Prison Pass, under Yuan Shao's order, simply rested a few times, and then hurried to the direction of Luoyang.
Li Yang didn't want to march with the large army, but planned to take Zhao Yun and 10,000 Yanyun iron cavalry to Luoyang first, which is why Li Yang took all the Yanyun iron cavalry to the coalition camp.
Of course, there is another reason, that is, Yixue Dong Su and others want to rush to the vicinity of Luoyang, because of Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the Sulong Chamber of Commerce withdrew from Luoyang in advance, but after all, there are too many things, time is tight, and there are some things that are too late to evacuate Sili, so Dong Su hid some things in a county town in Sili, and Dong Su wanted to hurry up to transport these materials.
Yi Xue felt that the fiercest battle here was over, and wanted to go back to see the Qingzhou Reconquest with Tai Shici, and Dong Su and they would definitely go back before Li Yang's army, so she naturally followed Dong Su together.
Li Yang made his intentions clear to Yuan Shao, and immediately got Yuan Shao's consent, after all, Yuan Shao had no reason to disagree.
Let Li Yang go to explore the road first, if Li Yang and others encounter the ambush of the Xiliang Army, it is best to let Li Yang lose his troops and break the general, if Li Yang is lucky, there is no ambush of the Xiliang Army on the road, Li Yang and they will not be able to take Luoyang with 10,000 cavalry alone.
However, when Li Yang asked for his life, there was another person who took the initiative to ask to be a 'pioneer' with Li Yang, that was Cao Cao, although Cao Cao had not yet formed a tiger and leopard cavalry, but with his Cao family's huge financial resources and a strong 'protagonist' effect, he also formed a cavalry team of 5,000 people.
Yuan Shao didn't want to agree when he saw him asking for his life, but under Cao Cao's tough attitude, he finally agreed to Cao Cao's request, and in order to balance Li Yang, he even allocated 5,000 cavalry to Cao Cao, so that he could also gather enough 10,000 people.
Then the two of them rushed towards Luoyang with 20,000 cavalry, but they had not advanced long before they saw the red sky like a soldering iron in the direction of Luoyang.
Seeing this vision of heaven and earth, everyone couldn't help but stop, and at this time, even with Cao Cao's mentality, looking at the red sky in the distance, they couldn't help but shout loudly: "This, what's going on?" It's only been a short time since noon, why is there such a red 'sunset'? No, it's like the sky is burning! ”
Li Yang naturally knew what this was, but he was also shocked by the burning red sky in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh and muttered, "Sure enough, it's still a step too late."
Although there is little hope, Li Yang originally took 10,000 Yanyun iron horsemen, but he wanted to wait for the tiger prison to be broken and immediately lead people to Luoyang to see if he could save Luoyang, the thousand-year-old imperial capital! Now, it seems, it's too late.
Li Yang's exclamation was heard by Cao Cao on the side, and Cao Cao hurriedly asked, "Li Qingzhou, what do you mean by being late?" Whether it has anything to do with this 'sunset'. ”
Li Yang couldn't help but be slightly stunned when he heard Cao Cao's question, he couldn't say that he had read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and he already knew that Luoyang would be given a sentence! So he hurriedly said: "After I captured Bishui Pass, I learned from a Xiliang general that Dong Lao Thief knew that he was not the opponent of my righteous division, so he planned to move the capital to Chang'an, in order not to leave us anything, he planned to burn Luoyang, and the red light on the horizon was probably ......"
Cao Cao listened to Li Yang's explanation, and his face couldn't help but show an extremely shocked face, he turned his head to look at the 'Hongxia' in the distance and was stunned for a few seconds, and then the expression on his face began to distort, "Dong Zhuo old thief, how dare you, how dare you take me the thousand-year-old imperial capital of the Han Dynasty!" ”
Li Yang couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at Cao Cao, who gritted his teeth, it stands to reason that Cao Cao, who also coerced the princes of the Son of Heaven in the later period, shouldn't be like this! But then Li Yang remembered that Cao Cao seemed to be a 'die-hard fan' of the Han Dynasty now, and he was also relieved.
"Li Qingzhou, shouldn't we speed up!" At this time, Cao Cao suddenly turned his head and said to Li Yang.
"Oh!" Cao Cao suddenly turned his head and startled Li Yang, who was staring at him in a daze, "Oh! It's time to speed things up. ”
After receiving Li Yang's affirmative reply, Cao Cao called a herald and asked him to inform Yuan Shao and others behind him of the matter, and then rushed to Luoyang in the lead.
Li Yang looked at Cao Cao who was going away, and couldn't help but sigh, "Sure enough, it is worthy of Cao Mengde, even if he is angry like this, he has not lost his mind." After saying that, he also rushed out.