123 Coalition of Princes
Lu Haikong, this guy obviously has a hidden talent for mockery, and a handwritten letter directly shattered several glass hearts, so that the Lu Alliance, which was still in the stage of fighting a verbal war, immediately rolled up its sleeves and prepared to fight with Lu Haikong.
Beginning in late January 189, the people of all the princes of the world began to gather in Luoyang, and after two years, after the princes asked for Dong, they officially began to play the drama of the princes asking for land.
What's very interesting is that whether it was the last time to fight Dong or this time, the battlefields were in Luoyang both times.
What's even more dramatic is that the alliance leader of the last crusade against Dong became the target of this crusade, and the object of the last crusade became the leader of the crusade against the land, sea and air this time.
If this world still has a future and history, then these two wars of princes' crusades will definitely become the most colorful, and at the same time the most interesting one.
Of course, in fact, the princes didn't want Dong Zhuo to be the leader of the alliance at the beginning, but there was no way, this time the alliance they were pulling the orthodox banner of the Han family, and at this time, Dong Zhuo, who held this Liu Xie, was equivalent to holding this banner, so they had no choice.
And they didn't dare not take Dong Zhuo to play, after all, if they didn't take Dong Zhuo to play, on the one hand, it would be difficult for them to take the banner of righteous words, and on the other hand, they were also worried that Dong Zhuo would run to play with Lu Haikong, if that was the case, the princes would be in trouble.
In this case, even Liu Bei, the leader of the alliance this time, had to pinch his nose and admit Dong Zhuo's status as the leader of the alliance.
It is precisely because of the pressure of the land, sea and air, and the current special environment that Dong Zhuo can easily and directly whitewash his original stigma, and change his face and turn around to appear as the leader of the Lu Alliance.
However, it is still a big question whether Dong Zhuo's alliance leader can really do a good job, and the current alliance is essentially the same as the alliance that fought Lu a few years ago.
Although they have condensed into an alliance, the contradictions within them are still quite huge, and it is still a big problem to really unite the strength of this alliance.
In the last battle against Dong Alliance, if it weren't for the appearance of a strong figure such as Lu, Haikong and Air, who sat in the position of the leader of the alliance and used the power of the system to integrate the power of the alliance, they might not have been able to drive Dong Zhuo away in the last battle.
And this time, from a certain point of view, their situation will be more difficult than the last time.
Although after a few years of development, the strength of these guys has increased a lot, whether it is in terms of the strength of the generals under their respective commands, or the elite army, it has improved a lot compared to a few years ago.
But this time, they don't have a strong figure like Lu Haikong to take the lead, even Dong Zhuo may not be able to suppress those guys under his command at this time, and this time the system will not help them.
Under such a problematic situation, it is really unknown whether the land alliance can succeed.
The only thing that this alliance is better than the last time is that it has remembered a little lesson and knows the problems that arose the last time they fought Dong.
However, human beings are not the kind of creatures that do not know the lessons, but there are some lessons, even if they are unforgettable in putting you in the same situation, some mistakes are still inevitable.
Of course, there are no absolutes, and there is something different about this alliance than before.
Compared with the previous alliance, there are quite a lot of top strategists to join, Li Ru under Dong Zhuo, Ming Spiegel under Liu Bei, Xun Yu under Cao Cao, a teenager under Sun Jian, and Fu Zhu under Yuan Hong have joined this alliance.
And these top guys know that in this battle, maybe they are the only hope that will allow them to win, and they know better that there are things they must and cannot put aside for the time being.
With this awareness, they began to do ideological work for their lord before they set out, and the work was also sitting in various preparations.
Normally, on a battlefield, one top strategist is often enough to change the course of a war, but this time there are a lot of top strategists in the Land Seeking Alliance, and with so many top strategists gathered, maybe they really have a little hope.
In the preparation of these top strategists, the alliance of princes slowly converged on the side of Luoyang City.
In March 189, the alliance of the princes had already arrived.
However, due to the fact that the Sili School Department is now in the hands of the land, sea and air, those who come from Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou and Jizhou in the east do not dare to approach the Sili School Department, after all, the guy Luhai and Air is too powerful, and all forces, no matter who they are, do not have the courage to resist the land, sea and air alone.
Cao Cao, Yuan Hong and others were stationed near Yangcheng in Yuzhou, waiting for the princes in the east to arrive, and at the same time waiting for orders from Dong Zhuo's side, or rather waiting for Dong Zhuo's side to issue the orders they wanted.
And Dong Zhuo's side, in addition to Dong Zhuo himself, there are Ma Teng Han Sui in Liangzhou, as well as Liu Bei in Yizhou, Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and Sun Jian and others in Jiangdong, they have not yet come to Qi, but Dong Zhuo and Ma Teng Liu Bei They have already arrived, and they are currently hoarding in Yicheng, which is hundreds of miles away from Luoyang, waiting for this alliance to arrive.
It wasn't until the middle of March that the princes of all walks of life in the world were officially assembled.
Now hundreds of miles away from Luoyang, the Yangcheng side in the east has gathered a total of 500,000 elite troops of Cao Cao and others, while on the Yicheng side of the west, Dong Zhuo and the others have gathered an army of nearly one million, and the left and right sides add up to nearly one and a half million troops.
The number of such an army is exactly the same as that of all the legions under the command of the army, navy and air force combined, but the same number does not mean that the strength is comparable, this army of more than one million people is all the most elite existence among the legions under the command of various princes, and the combat effectiveness alone must be able to completely destroy the 1.5 million army of the land, sea and air.
And at this moment, most of the elite talents of the Three Kingdoms have gathered among the princes of all walks of life, whether it is a top military general or a top strategist, they are all grasping a lot at this time.
After such a terrifying lineup gathered, the princes who didn't have much confidence suddenly swelled up, and with the top strategists as the foundation, they began to feel that they could still beat the land, sea and air if they fought well in this battle.
As a result, these two front armies, under Dong Zhuo's order, began to approach Luoyang......