This has always been the case in the era of cold weapons, and the breach of the city wall was a fatal blow to morale, and what followed was basically a one-sided rout.

At this moment, the north gate of Luoyang suddenly opened, and thousands of soldiers and horses rushed out of it, and then quickly galloped towards the west.

These soldiers and horses are all the Xiliang army under Dong Zhuo, in this battle, he ordered Luoyang's troops to defend to the death, and once the city is broken, he quickly fled from Luoyang with his descendants to Chang'an...... By the way, the Son of Heaven was also abducted to Chang'an.

Among the thousands of troops, there were dozens of luxurious carriages, Dong Zhuo rode on the carriage, and Liu Xie, the emperor of Han Xian, was naturally hijacked on a carriage next door, and the military general Zhang Liao was personally guarding him...... The Son of Heaven is Dong Zhuo's greatest reliance on controlling the government, and this time he fled from Luoyang, he would naturally take the Son of Heaven with him and continue to control the government under his name ((Cao cāo) cāo).

According to the previous arrangement, Xiao Qiuyu led the cavalry to immediately pursue the past. As for Yuan Shao himself, he did not continue to pursue, and continued to command the main force under his command to fight in Luoyang City.

For Yuan Shao, it doesn't matter whether Dong Zhuo escapes or not, and it doesn't matter whether the Son of Heaven was robbed by him, the key here is the "jade seal of the country", although this small jade seal is a dead thing, it represents the orthodoxy (sex xìng) and legitimacy (sex xìng) of imperial power.

The orthodox emperor Liu Wei of the Han Shaodi was deposed by Dong Zhuo, and the current Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, the son of heaven, was supported by Dong Zhuo, so there are very few people who are willing to recognize Liu Xie as the son of heaven...... That's why Dong Zhuo was determined to risk the world's condemnation to kill Emperor Shao of the Han Dynasty.

After the death of Emperor Shaodi of the Han Dynasty, everyone did not recognize Emperor Han Xian, including Cao ((Cao cāo)cāo) summoned the princes of the Eighteen Roads to raise troops, which was also a forged edict of Emperor Han Xian, and sent troops to King Qin in the name of Emperor Han Xian.

In the feudal era, under the education of Confucianism for hundreds of years, the orthodoxy and majesty of the Son of Heaven were extremely high, and there was absolutely no room for disobedience.

But after breaking Luoyang, this bad situation can be resolved, since Dong Zhuo can depose the emperor, he Yuan Shao can naturally ...... The royal family has been scattered for hundreds of years, and there are countless children of the clan, since Luoyang City has been broken now, just find a side branch and canonize him as the emperor.

For Yuan Shao, instead of making great efforts to snatch Emperor Han Xian from Dong Zhuo's hands, it is better to grab the jade seal of the country as soon as possible, and then use the jade seal as a certificate to set up a new puppet emperor.

Dong Zhuo is brutal and crazy, and uses the puppet emperor in his hand to cause trouble with the dynasty, so compared to Dong Zhuoli's puppet, everyone is probably more willing to admit him Yuan Shaoli's puppet.

What's more, if Yuan Shao holds the jade seal of the country, then the emperor he set up is probably much stronger in both orthodoxy (sex xìng) and legitimacy (sex xìng).

In history, before Yuan Shao fought the Battle of Tiger Pass, he had already planned to support Liu Yu as emperor and conquer Dong Zhuo in his name...... But because everyone got together in the name of King Qin, it was legally difficult to accept the establishment of another emperor, and there was opposition from too many princes, and in the end, Liu Yu himself was unwilling to be the emperor, so he had to give up.

After attacking the palace of Luoyang, Yuan Shao immediately went to the dry well south of the palace (hall diàn) according to Cao ((Cao cāo) cāo), but the well was empty.

Although according to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the jade seal of the country is indeed in this dry well, but this world is obviously deviated, and now the jade seal of the country is firmly nested in the hands of Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, and he even used this as a condition to let Xiao Qiuyu do the task for him.

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The troops led by Xiao Qiuyu were all cavalry, and if they galloped with all their might, the speed was very fast, but Xiao Qiuyu ordered the soldiers to dismount and lead the horses to walk, and slowly fell behind Dong Zhuo's army...... He doesn't chase after them, but he keeps an eye on them, preventing them from escaping from his detection.

In historical dramas, it is common to depict cavalry riding war horses when they set off, but in real history, when cavalry was on the road, they dismounted and led their horses, mainly to save horsepower...... If you keep riding a horse, the weight of the man and the weight of the armor are applied to the warhorse, and after a few hours, the horse is almost exhausted.

Under normal circumstances, the cavalry would only march in a hurry, and the cavalry would even switch horses back and forth between them, allowing them to rest separately.

Most of the Western Liang troops that Dong Zhuo led with him were only infantry, and they carried a lot of heavy grain and gold, silver, and jewelry looted from the palace, so they marched slower than Xiao Qiuyu, who had horses to transport goods, and under normal circumstances, it was easy to catch up with them.

It's just that Xiao Qiuyu deliberately suppressed the speed of the march, and tens of thousands of cavalry hung behind the Xiliang army (身shēn) like this, always maintaining a range of dozens of miles to avoid a head-on conflict with the Xiliang army.

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Dong Zhuo didn't understand the other party's intentions, but they just fell behind, it was better than rushing up and fighting; Since Xiao Qiuyu didn't take the initiative to attack, Dong Zhuo naturally had no interest in turning around and attacking Xiao Qiuyu.

At night, the sky was completely dark, there were no neon lights in this era, it was very inconvenient to walk in black, and the Xiliang army was also on the road for most of the day, and they were already sleepy and tired, so they began to bury pots and cook, and the soldiers set up camp tents one after another on the ground, Xiao Qiuyu also ordered the soldiers to stop and camp and cook and rest here.

The armies of both sides camped and kept a safe enough distance, and Dong Zhuo sent a large number of reconnaissance cavalry, staring at each other carefully, for fear that the other party would choose to attack the camp in the middle of the night...... And Xiao Qiuyu's side was the same, he sent a full sixty teams of light cavalry, each team of ten people, responsible for reconnoitring an area, and reporting immediately once he found the enemy's movements.

When Dong Zhuo was worried about Xiao Qiuyu's night attack, Xiao Qiuyu was also worried that Dong Zhuo's army would come to attack at night. This situation confirms the proverb, hemp rod beats wolf, and both ends are afraid.

In fact, in the final analysis, both sides were unwilling to break out into conflict, and the troops brought by Dong Zhuo from Xiliang suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Tiger Prison Pass, and could no longer withstand several losses; And Xiao Qiuyu was not willing to clash with Dong Zhuo immediately, he had to wait patiently and wait until the time was ripe before launching a thunderous attack.

The two sides remained eerily calm in this way, and the two armies marched through the land one after the other, neither of them taking the initiative to attack the counterpart, and this continued for three days.

Dong Zhuo really couldn't guess the other party's intentions, and that evening, he couldn't help but ask Li Ru under his command: "Li Ru, what do you think, what is the intention of this unit?"

Li Ru pondered for a moment and said: "Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses are still fighting in Luoyang, if I guess correctly, now the remnants of Luoyang's defeated generals have basically surrendered, but the time is still short, most people are detached from Germany, Yuan Shao will definitely not rest assured, and will inevitably be guarded by heavy troops."

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