Chapter 616: Temptation
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On this day, Dong Zhuo suddenly got a piece of news that made him very angry, or a little frightened, that is, an army actually appeared in the west of Luoyang City, and its location was very strange, and it happened to be stationed on the road from Luoyang to Chang'an.
Dong Zhuo was naturally extremely cautious about this army of unknown origin, so he sent a lot of scouts to find out the news, at least to find out the truth of the other party.
However, those who were sent out were like meat buns beating dogs, all of them went and never returned, and no one sent the news back for most of the day, you must know that there are high-end talents with flying pets among the scouts sent out.
Dong Zhuo, who was stimulated, immediately called his henchman Li Ru over and asked him about his plan. Although Dong Zhuo still has a more capable strategist Jia Xu under his account, Dong Zhuo does not trust him very much, because Jia Xu was promoted from among the court officials after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing and took power, and does not belong to his Xiliang lineage. However, seeing that his wit is outstanding, he let him assist under the command of the general Niu Fu.
Li Ru believed that the army that appeared west of Luoyang at this time definitely did not belong to Dong Zhuo's forces, after all, if it belonged to Dong Zhuo's forces, then the other party would not deliberately kill those scouts. As for how the other party infiltrated to the west of Luoyang, this is not an unimaginable thing, because whether it is a waterway or a mountain road, as long as you are willing to take risks, there are many ways to cross the Tiger Prison Pass, but it is difficult to say how many people can survive in the past. Li Ru was not surprised that there were enemy troops there.
It's just that the other party's purpose is worth scrutinizing. Li Ru had already built Dong Zhuo and moved the capital to Chang'an. After hearing this, he naturally thought that the other party knew what he and the others thought, so he deliberately sent a small elite army to the west of Luoyang City to cut off their retreat. Of course, this small stock is only relative to the tens of millions of Dong troops outside the Tiger Prison Pass.
Therefore, Li Ru immediately thought that the other party was prepared, and sent troops to exterminate him.
This is exactly what Dong Zhuo wanted, and he immediately called the herald and asked him to send a message to Lu Bu, so that he could lead a team of 500,000 elite soldiers to return to Luoyang to destroy the mysterious enemy.
But at this time, Li Ru stopped it. His opinion was simple, that is, they did not know the reality of the enemy troops who had infiltrated the vicinity of Luoyang, and there was no guarantee that they would be able to wipe them out. And the transfer of troops from the front line will inevitably shake the morale of the troops at the front. Moreover, the Tiger Prison Pass has not many troops, and the withdrawal of these 500,000 elite troops can even be said to be wounded, in case it fails to make a contribution after coming back, anyway, the Tiger Prison Pass is lost, it is to lift a stone to hit one's own feet, and completely fall Luoyang City into the encirclement of the other party.
When Dong Zhuo heard it, he didn't understand! Since the army of the Tiger Prison Pass could not be withdrawn, and the situation at Bishui Pass was not better than that of the Tiger Prison Pass, so it was necessary to transfer troops from Luoyang City to encircle and suppress it.
Whether it is Dong Zhuo or Li Ru. They all believe that the number of troops on the other side is within a million. But the exact amount has not yet been found. In order to avoid rushing forward and ending up with the annihilation of the whole army, Li Rujian and Dong Zhuo first sent 100,000 troops to explore the truth and truth. In order to prevent the other side from eating these 100,000 people, it is better to send all the cavalry, and they do not engage the other side head-on. Just to explore the way, with the speed of cavalry, it is not easy for the other party to surround it, not to mention that this is still on the official road. Wait until you find out the reality. They then sent the corresponding army to ensure that nothing was lost.
Dong Zhuo immediately gave an order in accordance with Li Ru's advice.
However, the development of things is often a little unexpected, the place where the spies of Dong Zhuo's camp found the enemy's trace is almost five or six hundred kilometers away from Luoyang City, and it can be reached in four or five hours at most at the speed of cavalry, which is not much difficult. But when they rushed out of Luoyang City and ran all the way to the west for more than 400 kilometers, a cavalry unit also appeared in front, and the mounts of these cavalry were a little strange, although they were war horses, but they had a pair of horns on their heads, and they had never seen this strange horse.
But then, the curiosity in their hearts was replaced by anger, because the army, which numbered about 10,000 or so, was charging directly at them from afar, didn't they know that their side was 100,000 strong? Or are they confident enough to fight 10,000 against their own 100,000?
This is simply **naked contempt!
When they got closer, the anger in their hearts became even stronger, because the other party was actually an archer! Are there such archers who fight? I didn't want to distance myself from the enemy when I was engaged, but instead charged at the other side! Got kicked in the head by a donkey, right?
"Charge!" The commander of the 100,000 army immediately shouted, he wanted to leave these 10,000 foolish archers evacuated here!
However, when the distance between the two sides was only nearly 300 meters, the nearly 1,000 archers who rushed forward immediately bent their bows and shot, and a rain of arrows poured towards Dong Zhuojun
Many of the soldiers in Dong Zhuo's army secretly sneered in their hearts: I really thought that I was all marksmen! Three hundred meters, even a marksman can't shoot such a long distance. However, the commander saw that the situation was a little bad, although it seemed that the opponent was shooting from a distance of three hundred meters, but with the speed of the opponent's charge, the range of this bow and arrow would definitely increase, and at the same time, he and the others would also charge forward at full speed, and during the period of time when the arrow was flying, he and the others would definitely run forward at least forty or fifty meters.
The 10,000 troops on the other side are definitely eighth-order soldiers! The battle-hardened commander immediately analyzed the opponent's strength from this distance! Because only an eighth-order soldier could use a Sky Shooting Bow with a range of two hundred meters.
However, this commander was not frightened at all, although the other party was an eighth-order soldier, but his own side was also not weak, and they were all elite seventh-order soldiers, although they were one order lower, but the number was ten times that of the other party, plus the other party was an archer but charged towards his side, and they would definitely be abused by their own army if they lost the distance advantage! And the price paid by his side was only to be shot by the opponent at most three rounds of arrows before the hand-to-hand engagement, which was not worth mentioning for his own army of 100,000.
However, the next scene suddenly made the commander dumbfounded, in fact, his analysis was completely correct, but he only missed one point, that is, the mount under the crotch of the opponent's archers. If it is an ordinary war horse, it has to continue to rush forward at least thirty or forty meters from full speed to complete stopping, plus the time it takes to turn around, he is absolutely sure that he will leave the opponent behind. But what did he see now? Seeing that the opponent's war horses actually stopped abruptly after the archers shot arrows, and then turned around and ran! That speed! That flexibility, I'm afraid even ordinary BMW can't compare with it! (To be continued)