Chapter 654: The End
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Dong Zhuo's headache now is the news from Gao Shun, because the reason why they suffered defeat is because they were attacked by a large number of catapults, and the attacks of these catapults still came from the water.
Dong Zhuo knew that a huge fleet must have appeared in the Yellow River, and the ships of this fleet were still large ships capable of carrying catapults. As soon as he thought of large ships, Dong Zhuo naturally thought of Baiyun City, not to mention, Gao Shun and the others were originally going to intercept Baiyun City's army this time, and it was only natural to encounter Baiyun City's fleet.
Dong Zhuo will not feel distressed if he loses a trapped camp, but the key is that he went to Chang'an all the way, but he was advancing along the Yellow River, if the fleet of Baiyun City really recognized himself and chased him and threw stones, wouldn't it be a complete tragedy for himself? Although most of the official roads are still one or two kilometers away from the river, there are some places where the official roads are next to the river. How will that section of the road lead to guò then? Do you really want your team to stare at the boulder?
Let's not talk about whether the troops or people under his command are willing to take such a road of death, but let's just say that the huge loss is not something Dong Zhuo is willing to bear.
While Dong Zhuo had a headache, Li Ru, who was standing aside, also didn't feel relaxed, Baiyun City's move made it too cheap! Make them defenseless. It would be better if they had their own naval army, not to mention whether they were the opponent of the White Cloud City fleet, at least they could delay for a while, leaving enough time for their own team. Or directly let the navy sneak under the opponent's ship, and take advantage of the opponent's inattention, directly sink the opponent's ship, that is the best result.
But the actual situation is that Dong Zhuo does not have a naval army, not even an army that is proficient in water, and most of them are landlubbers. Let these people go into the water to scuttle boats? I'm afraid I don't have to do it with others. He drowned first.
How can we effectively deal with the fleet of White Cloud City? Li Ru didn't have a clue at all. When Dong Zhuo looked at him with hopeful eyes, Li Rudun was ashamed! This adviser is a little incompetent.
"Are there any other roads to Chang'an?" Dong Zhuo still asked the question he wanted to ask the most.
Li Ru sighed and said, "It's not that there are other roads, but they are not suitable for a team like ours. Those roads are small roads, and our army may be able to cross them, but the common people are not capable of that, and all the baggage has to be thrown away. It is still difficult to say how many of our troops will survive to cross these mountains and reach Chang'an. ”
Dong Zhuo's face was very bad. As far as the situation described by Li Ru is concerned, it is definitely greater than the loss of leading the army directly to brave the attack of catapults and go straight to the official road. Although those catapults are extremely powerful, the attack frequency and attack density cannot be very large, and the greater effect of this thing is a psychological pressure. Hundreds of millions of people, even if they arrive in Chang'an under such circumstances. At least there will be about 100 million left, and the army's estimated losses will not exceed 30%. Of course, except for the remaining 100 million people, the others were not completely killed, and many more fled in panic. But it's better than leaving the people and the baggage behind, right?
To be honest, Dong Zhuo didn't pity those people, he was reluctant to bring out those burdens from Luoyang City. Man can regenerate when he is gone, as long as he has enough food to feed him, but the value of those items is something he can't earn back in a hundred lifetimes.
"There's no better way?" Dong Zhuo didn't plan to just give up.
Li Ru said: "Unless we go to Yang Tian to negotiate and pay some price." Let him give up attacking us. ”
"No! That misguided me so much that I wanted to skin him, how could I negotiate with him? Dong Zhuo almost didn't even think about it, so he said categorically.
Li Ru did not answer Dong Zhuo's words. Maybe he knew that Dong Zhuo was just angry that he was teased by Yang Tian now, and he would not agree in the end. But we'll have to wait until he's calmed down a bit.
Although Lu Bu has always been eager to try and wants to ask Dong Zhuo for battle, he was suppressed by Dong Zhuo's eyes.
After a while, Dong Zhuo sighed, and suddenly aged a lot between his eyebrows, and only listened to him: "Wenyou, will the sunshine guy agree to our request for negotiation?" After all...... Ay! ”
Dong Zhuo didn't say the latter words, but everyone here could understand it, what he meant was that they were now like meat on the chopping block, and the sun could fight as much as he wanted, how could he give up such an opportunity because of some petty profits?
Li Ru said quite confidently: "Although the lord can rest assured, his subordinates believe in their eyes, as long as there are enough interests, this person will definitely not be our enemy." Coupled with the fact that it won't be long before Cao's army catches up with us, it is undoubtedly the best strategy for us to subtract one enemy now. And Cao Ah Conceal has a deep prejudice against Taishi, and the possibility of persuasion is very small. ”
Dong Zhuo said: "Then leave this matter to Wen You, you can deal with it!" Since Sunshine led the army to follow behind and take in the displaced people, it can be seen that he has a great need for the population, so we can give up some more people and keep the rest of the baggage. Now these five or six billion people are also a big burden for us, and if we can give some away in exchange for benefits, there is no loss. ”
Li Ru opened his mouth, looking like he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, and after receiving orders from Dong Zhuo, he stepped aside.
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Yang Tian has never broken the smile on his lips since the fleet marched west again, and the reason for this is naturally because of the group of Dong Zhuojun captured just now.
You must know that it was the elite army specially sent by Dong Zhuo in order to exterminate the Baiyun City army that followed closely behind, and the lowest ones were all seventh-order soldiers, and their qualifications were basically B-level, which was a big gain! Of the 500,000 troops, at least 400,000 can be replenished to the main army of Baiyun City. Before the crusade against Dong Zhuo, it took a lot of money for the boss to deduct more than 600,000 B-level qualified soldiers from their hands in front of Xuanyuan Jian and others, and he also took the matter of attacking national checkpoints. And now, it's good, without much effort, he let Jia Xu put a cigarette on the mountain, and he harvested more than 500,000 usable soldiers.
By the time the battle with Dong Zhuo is over this time, I am afraid that the number of soldiers of the main army of Baiyun City will be able to exceed two million, and if his requirements are a little lower, it is even possible to exceed three million. This can be regarded as a substantial change in the strength of Baiyun City. At that time, whether it is to expand its territory or to fight in a foreign country, it will have more room to play and be more flexible in strategic deployment.
Of course, another gain is to subdue a general, and this general is Gao Shun, who Yang Tian has long coveted. (To be continued)