Chapter 474: Defeat

"The whole army stops advancing-" Li Ru suddenly ordered not to let the Xiliang army continue to advance, he felt that this road was a little too quiet, according to this season, Luoyang Road should not be so quiet, according to the art of war, it is an abnormal thing and there is a demon, he said to Dong Zhuo, "Xiangguo - where do you see where is suitable for ambush here?" ”

"Wen You - if it were me, I would ambush the soldiers on both sides of the mountain, and wait until we start setting fire and rolling stones halfway through the aisle, and cut the large army in two and then intercept and kill. You mean there will be ambushes in these two places? "Dong Zhuo is also a person who has experienced a hundred battles, he was so little by Li Ru that the quietness on this mountain road is a little excessive, there are no birds flying out of the forest, so many Xiliang troops must be dusty on the road, no matter what kind of mountain insects and beasts dare not come out, let alone the birds in the forest-

Li Ru smiled and didn't speak, he beckoned over and asked Guo Yan to take three thousand men and horses back to the recess on the right, as long as he saw a banner appearing, then he would kill the enemy on the spot, and the same is that Li Dao went to the recess on the left. Dong Zhuo's side sent 5,000 men and horses to take the lead in passing without paying attention, and Li Ru still has a bad heart, that is, to let the army carry Dong Zhuo's banner, just like Dong Zhuo is in the vanguard army.

Cao Cao besieged Luoyang with 3,000 men and horses, but he obeyed Xi Zhicai's words and set up the camp into a camp of 20,000 horses, and from Luoyang City, there were endless banners everywhere, which scared the Xiliang army in the city and did not dare to go out of the city at all. After all, Li Ru is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and Sun Jian is destined to fail miserably.

"Kill - kill this group of dogs" Xiliang army really found Sun Jianbu in ambush in the jungle, and saw that his weak lamb was not raised with the butcher knife in his hand to kill, Sun Jian hurriedly resisted with the three generals under his command, but they only had less than 2,000 men and horses, and they couldn't beat the wolf-like Xiliang army at all, so they could only take the remnants and began to retreat in the direction of Luoyang.

Zhou Yu pretended to be a ghost and blew up the city gate with gunpowder, no one thought of such a powerful gunpowder at all, and they all thought that Zhou Yu was a god who made some thunder and fire. After the city gate was blown open, Bai Ma Yi under the command of Gongsun Zan took the lead in entering the city from all the raids, followed by the soldiers and horses under Liu Bei, there were fierce generals like Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, and they began to annihilate the Xiliang army on the city tower first according to the deployment. Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yi began to crisscross the streets of the city, and the Xiliang army in panic had only the share to resist at will.

"Someone - archery!" At this moment, Zhou Yu took 3,000 Yangzhou troops to quickly surround the county guard mansion, it stands to reason that the Tiger Prison Pass has shouted to kill the sky, Lu Bu should have come out to clean up the mess, but tonight Lu Bu returned to the mansion in order to have a good night's sleep and drank a lot of wine, no one dared to care about Lu Bu without Dong Zhuo's constraints, Lu Bu was already a little tired and slept a little heavy with the strength of the wine, and Hou Cheng in the mansion shouted Lu Bu couldn't wake up. Zhou Yu rode on the war horse and asked the archer to prepare the rocket, but now that Lu Bu did not appear, he felt a little unsure.

"Hou Cheng—what are you going to do?" Wei Xu watched Hou Cheng pick up a pot of tea and pour it towards Lu Bu's face, he hurriedly stopped this crazy move, they had followed Lu Bu for many years and knew Lu Bu's temper, if they annoyed this master, they would not be able to slap them to death.

"Old Wei, hurry up - now the city is in chaos, if we don't wake up the general again, the Kwantung princes will stew us in a while." Hou Cheng didn't say a word, took the tea and splashed it directly on Lu Bu's face, Lu Bu woke up suddenly after being here, but fortunately, the shouting and killing outside suppressed Lu Bu's anger. He passed the armor and said, "What's going on out there?" Where did the others go? ”

"General-Tiger Prison Pass was broken by the Kwantung Army, and now the city is full of their men and horses, let's withdraw quickly!" Hou Cheng said anxiously to Lu Bu, in the dark night, there were shouts of killing and fires everywhere, and he couldn't tell how to fight this battle between the enemy and me?

"What? What are you still doing here? Hurry up and kill me out-" Lu Bu finally made one thing clear, that is, the tiger prison was locked in his own sleep, and he lost it in such a daze, but he had already put it up neatly and lifted the Fang Tian painting halberd on the side as soon as he went out and ran into Zhou Yu who came in, this is the enemy who was very red when he saw him, Lu Bu waved Fang Tian's halberd to kill Lu Bu, and the night melee was all by firelight, Zhou Yu is now alone in Yangzhou's safety, Dian Wei, Huang Zhong, and Zhou An followed Zhou Yu at any time, and they saw Lu Bu killing frantically, Dian Wei suddenly greeted him with an iron halberd, while Huang Zhong and Zhou An killed Hou Cheng and Wei Xu. Zhou Yu became the most idle person instead, but the Xiliang army and the Bingzhou army in the city knew that the city gate was broken, and they moved closer to Lu Bu's city lord's mansion under the suppression of Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei. For a time, the three thousand Yangzhou army was counter-surrounded, Zhou Yu and they could only be forced to defend, and the current mood was very crisis for him, the Xiliang army saw that Lu Bu was fine, and gradually stabilized their emotions and began to counterattack, and for a while some of the war began to stalemate.

"Knock, knock, knock-" Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei's men and horses arrived one after another, and Yuan Shao and they paid close attention to the battle in Tiger Prison Pass, and when they saw Zhou Yu, they really killed it smoothly, and the princes of Kwantung also mobilized their men and horses to start seizing the city.

Dian Wei and Lu Bu fought for less than twenty rounds, and they heard that Hou Cheng was slashed in the shoulder by Zhou An, Lu Bu was shocked and took a closer look and found that they were about to be surrounded, he forced Dian Wei to save Hou Cheng with one move, and Lu Bu and others were not the enemy of a round at all, and soon the Xiliang army behind Lu Bu began to converge, and they began to flee towards the west gate of the Tiger Prison Pass, and met the remnants of the army led by Li Su on the way. The 30,000-strong army was wiped out overnight, and only less than 5,000 remnants escaped.

The pursuit speed of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was very fast, and they followed Sun Jian's remnants all the way, until Cao Cao received the news when he was outside Luoyang, but he did not have the troops to face Dong Zhuo's army at all. The same scene and the same result, after Zhou Yu, Gongsun Zhan, and Liu Bei handed over the city defense to Yuan Shao, they immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue Lu Bu, and the distance of fifty miles only took one day and one night to catch up. Although Dong Zhuo defeated Cao Cao, but the Tiger Prison Pass was also lost, there was no way, Dong Zhuo began to order the Xiliang army to loot Luoyang as soon as he returned to Luoyang, he had already had the intention of moving the capital to Chang'an, and the city of Luoyang was also full of smoke for a while, and the ghosts cried wolves.