After the merit is completed, everyone will return with a full load.

And Zhang Chong went back to the study alone to sort out the information that had been collected recently.

Thanks to the tilt of the power between Gyeonggi and Gyeonggi by the spy detection system of the Flying Army's foreign army, Zhang Chong has a better understanding of the war between the two capitals.

Zhang Chong never gave up his attention to the dispute between the two capitals, and he knew that he must take Hebei before the end of the battle between the two capitals, otherwise the current Taishan army would not be able to stop the subsequent counterattack of the Han dynasty.

The latest intelligence shows that at the time of the Northern Expedition of the Taishan Army, the Second Battle of Liangjing was also in full swing.

Zhang Chong referred to the First Battle of Luoyang Army at Guanwai and the subsequent Battle of Hedong as the First Battle of Liangjing. With Yuan Shao returning to Mengjin with the remnants of the army, Dong Zhuo, the Taishou of Hedong, officially joined the Xijing camp, and the strength between the two capitals was once again balanced.

After a series of dispatches, and after a group of Nanyang soldiers entered Luoyang, Luoyang once again made plans to attack the west.

After the violent death of Zhang Mancheng, the Yellow Turban Army on the Nanyang side finally failed under the joint strangulation of the Nanyang clan and Xu Xuan, the assassin of Jingzhou.

Zhao Hong felt that he was a son of Haoqiang, and felt that he could be tolerated by the local nobles, but he didn't know that these nobles couldn't tolerate 100,000 yellow scarves to sleep on the side couch.

In a premeditated attack, Zhao Hong was beheaded after drinking, and the remnants of the Yellow Turban elected Han Zhong as their commander and began to continue the struggle with the local Nanyang nobles.

But this place in Nanyang is too special. As an imperial township with a population of millions, the noble families in the territory are all over the four fields. Fan, Yin, Deng, Wu, Cen, Li, Zhuo, Zhu. Which of these is not from Guangwu to Xungui, and now which one is not a hundred and thousands of schemes?

Under the same voice of these big clans, the Nanyang Yellow Turbans led by Han Zhong were repeatedly defeated, and finally had no choice but to surrender. However, Nanyang was too guarded by Qin Jie, who did not dare to leave this army with a blood feud in the territory, and insisted on killing Han Zhong despite the opposition of Xu Xuan, the assassin of Jingzhou.

The Nanyang Yellow Turban Army, which was about to surrender, once again scattered and fled. It's just that after the defeat of several main battles, these Nanyang yellow scarves can only be scattered to all parts of Nanyang, and some even run to Funiu Mountain to fall into the grass.

Nanyang Yellow Turban became a grass coar, and Nanyang's military power was released. Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie and Jingzhou Thorn Shi Xu Xuan, one is from Nanjun in Jingzhou, and the other is from Guangling, Xuzhou, both of which are the periphery of the Ruyingshi clan.

So this time in the battle between the two capitals, they all stood on the side of Luoyang. The reason for this is that in addition to the fact that they are from the same Kwantung clan and want to be in the same spirit, they feel that the matter of the hypocrisy is in line with their Confucian ideal of governing the world.

Liu's son will be the emperor, but the slaughter of this world will be handed over to us scholars with moral sentiments.

They didn't have time to participate in the first battle of Liangjing, but this second battle of Liangjing, they Jingzhou people can't miss it.

As a result, Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie ordered Fan He, Zhu Dian, and Wen Ping to lead 3,000 Nanyang elite soldiers into Luo to participate in the follow-up war.

Fan He is a lineage of the Fan family in Nanyang, and he is also the current Fan Hou. And Zhu Dian came from Zhu You, the general of Jianyi in the Guangwu period, and was the most outstanding in the Nanyang Xungui family in recent years. And Wen Ping is a new generation of fighting generals revealed from this Pingding Yellow Turban.

In short, this time the Nanyang soldiers who went north this time were all represented, and the soldiers were also fierce soldiers on the bloody battlefield, which really improved the strength of Luoyang.

However, compared with these 3,000 Nanyang soldiers, the greater significance of the entire Jingzhou's joining the Tokyo camp is the opening of grain and straw. The money and grain tax revenue sent from the hinterland of Jingzhou continued to flow north from the Han River into Luo.

As a result, the Kwantung side once again accumulated material reserves for this western expedition.

After that, just three weeks after the Nanyang soldiers entered Luo, at the expedition meeting attended by Liu Wei himself, the Kwantung court executed the previous group of captured Guanxi officials and officially swore to go on the expedition.

This time, they learned the lesson of the first time when the generals were leaderless, and once again used the snow-hidden Huangfu Song, who was the general of the western conquest, and was fully responsible for the war.

And Huangfu Song also wore a helmet and armor, dressed in a military uniform, first rode into the palace, and then allowed his edict to be nameless, praise and worship, enter the court, and go to the palace with a sword.

After that, Yuan Kui, the great Situ, personally sang the edict, and named Huangfu Song as the Marquis of Huaili, eating 8,000 households, and being the top of the ministers.

It can be said that this time Luoyang also put a lot of blood on Huangfu Song.

And Huangfu Song also lived up to expectations, and after a short expedition, he took the valley city outside Hangu Pass in one fell swoop, and then directly sacked the city.

It was Huangfu Song who ordered the city to be cleaned, which on the one hand boosted the military morale of the Han army in Henan, but more importantly, on the other hand, he Huangfu Song took this opportunity to show his determination to the Kanto and Kansai sides, that is, he and the Kansai were incompatible.

In short, this expedition, with the dispatch of Huangfu Song, a famous marshal, the Tokyo Han Army showed its due level of combat power.

Since then, the pressure has been on Kansai.

After learning that Huangfu Song was the commander of the Western Expedition this time, the Guanxi side urgently ordered Dong Zhuo to go south, and many marshals in Guanxi, and only Dong Zhuo could make a decisive decision with Huangfu Song.

After Dong Zhuo got the edict, he first seized the military power of the reinforcements stationed in Hedong in the name of the edict, and after a little rectification, he led 12,000 elite soldiers, 40,000 to the south of the river, and joined the war outside Hangu Pass.

At the same time, Liu Hong also sent the Son of Heaven's pro-army, which had been formed and trained for three months, to the front line of Hangu Pass to enrich Yang Biao's strength.

So when Dong Zhuo led his troops south, the Second Great War between the eastern and western capitals officially broke out.

This time, Luoyang had a total of 50,000 soldiers and 4,000 horsemen. Kansai was slightly weaker, with 32,000 soldiers and 8,000 horsemen. If calculated according to the superiority of cavalry, the two sides are also considered evenly matched.

Obviously, this time, both sides have made a final decision, and they have taken out their strength at the bottom of the box.

But the situation is not rosy for Kansai.

One is the internal run-in.

Of the 40,000 horse infantry of the Kwantan Army this time, there were 12,000 soldiers alone, of which 4,000 were cavalry. The military discipline of these people is very worrisome, and they often beat and whip friendly soldiers for trivial matters. There are even some Qin Hu Yicong who directly slaughtered several Li She in order to pretend to be the first level of merit.

This matter was known to Yang Biao, the commander of Hangu Pass. Yang Biao urgently ordered Dong Zhuo to hand over the murderer and act in accordance with military law. And Dong Zhuo was so unruly that he directly ignored Yang Biao.

What's even more embarrassing is that Yang Biao really died down in the face of Dong Zhuo's actions.

And this also reveals the second big problem of the Kansai Army, that is, the commander is unknown.

This time, Liu Hong, the commander of the Kansai Army, did not confirm it. He only supplemented the Xiyuan Army to Yang Biao, but Yang Biao did not have the right to dispatch Dong Zhuo, which caused a systematic contradiction of discord between the generals and commanders.

In addition to the above, Yang Biaojun also had a big hole in the morale of the army, and in the first battle of Liangjing, he led his troops out of the customs battle and was defeated. Although he got a thief to atone for his crimes, it still couldn't change that his soldiers should be shorter when facing the Kwantung Army.

Yang Biao also knows this, otherwise he can let Dong Zhuo be arrogant and domineering? In the final analysis, a soldier is a general. The soldiers are not hard, and the general's waist cannot be straightened.

So this time, Yang Biao decided to defend instead of attacking, and chose Gushui outside Hangu Pass to establish a defense, relying on Gushui River defense to resist the Kwantung Army.

So, on March 8 of the first year of Chengtian, the Kwantung Army officially launched an attack on Yang Biao's army.

On the morning of 8 March, the Kwantung Army raid team, composed of Captain Zhao Rong of Changshui and Captain Zhang Chao of Yokono, wanted to take advantage of the slackness of the Kwantung Army to try to take the Gushui Bridge.

However, the attack was unsuccessful, and Captain Zhang Chao of Yokono was killed on the spot, and Zhao Rong, the commander of the battle, was also wounded by an arrow.

The original information was that the Kwantai Army had placed a battalion of 2,000 men at this bridge. And Zhao Rong and Zhang Chao had a total of 4,000 soldiers in their hands, and they were unprepared for a surprise attack.

But when Zhao Rong killed it, he knew that it was a trap, where was the size of two thousand enemy troops, only independent battalion flags, and he looked at six.

At that time, he knew that he and others would inevitably be betrayed.

So, Zhao Rong immediately retreated, but even so, Zhang Chao still died here.

Zhang Chao, who came from the Hebei clan, was supposed to stay in his hometown to defend his clansmen, but because of the mutiny of Cao Cao and others, he was seized power, and then he was coerced all the way to Gyeonggi.

This time out

Bing, or the first time after this Zhang Chao was captured, just this first time, and then died here.

When Zhao Rong, who was full of gloom, withdrew in embarrassment, he saw that the reinforcements of the soldiers behind him had come.

Seeing that the strong soldiers were killed so quickly, how could Zhao Rong not understand? He was used as a gun by Huangfu Song.

Seeing the dead and wounded brothers around him, Zhao Rong was so angry that he smashed his slap on the ground and scolded:

"Huangfu Song, *** your grandma."

The Kansai soldiers of Gushuijin Bridge had no idea that the enemy's reinforcements would come so quickly and so fiercely.

They were given the order that in the early hours of the day, about 4,000 enemy troops would attack the barricades, and then they would just wait for their work and catch turtles in the urns.

But who knows, they are obviously hanging their fish, and it is just bait.

Due to the huge asymmetry of military strength between the two sides, after two hours of fierce fighting, the large fortress set up at the Tanizutsu Bridge in Kansai was officially lost.

And Zhang Chong frowned when he looked at this piece of information.

It's not that he has doubts about this information, but that there is a person, two people to be exact.

Intelligence shows that at this time, the Kwantung Army was able to successfully take the Gushui Bridge, and the biggest credit was a young general named Liu Bei, who took a warrior named Zhang Fei and led an elite group of men and horses to swim across the river from more than three miles upstream of the valley, and then detoured back to the rear of the Gushuijin Bridge.

Until the two hours when the main force of the Kwantung Army rushed to attack Daqi, Liu Bei, who had been lurking, took Zhang Fei to attack from the rear, and Zhao Ang, the general of the Kansai who was in command and dispatch in Houqi at that time, happened to take off his throat armor for the convenience of command.

And Zhang Fei, who was at the forefront of the rush, saw this opportunity, and pulled an arrow and hit Zhao Ang's throat.

Zhao Ang's death in battle directly led to the defeat of the Kansai soldiers. After that, the Kwantung soldiers took the opportunity to cover up and kill, and finally broke the most important pass outside the Hanya Pass.

Zhang Chong didn't expect to see Liu Bei and Zhang Fei in this intelligence.

He knew from Zhao Zhao that Liu Bei and Zhang Fei had participated in the previous Youzhou Raid, and had also met him in the Battle of Xingyang.

But then Zhang Chong never heard from these two people again, and he didn't expect that these two people would run away to Gyeonggi. In this war, he won such an important military feat.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chong couldn't help but sigh that a person like Liu Bei and a 10,000-strong enemy like Zhang Fei really could shine wherever he went.

You must know that both of them are from Hebei, and it is not easy to mix up from the full number of Henan people.

Zhang Chong's emotion was indeed correct, but he was a little negligent, that is, Liu Bei did not receive the corresponding reward in this battle.

Because the Henan generals felt that Liu Bei dared to start an attack in the rear camp two hours after the general attack, this was clearly taking their Henan generals as a stepping stone, can this be endured?

So this time Liu Bei was guilty of public anger, if it wasn't for Cao Cao's cover, it would be really difficult for him.

In addition, there is a change that Zhang Chong does not know.

That is, Zhao Ang's death is not a trivial matter, it reflects a big change, that is, the struggle between the East and the West has become more and more cruel.

Because Zhao Ang's identity is said, although his family is Tianshui Haoqiang, it is actually closely related to Kanto.

For example, Zhao Rong, who attacked the fortress before, is from their family, and he is his uncle Zhao Ang in terms of seniority. Otherwise, why do you think Zhang Chao died in battle, and he Zhao Rong can go back alive?

Not only that, Zhao Ang's other clan uncle Zhao Yi is also a protégé of the Yuan family, and he can be regarded as a very core existence among the protégés of the Yuan family.

Because of these, the Tianshui Zhao family has always been regarded as the wall-riding faction among the powerful in the Kansai region.

That's how the information came this time.

Zhao Ang got information from the Kanto side and said that he would send him a military merit and let him get ready.

Of course, Zhao Ang is not surprised by this, there are always some people on both sides of them who are not liked by everyone, and often need to borrow the hand of the opponent to help them deal with it at this time.

This situation is not uncommon between the East and the West, and in the final analysis, it is that the connection between the Kanto and Kansai is too close and interrupted

Bones are connected to tendons.

So after Zhao Ang got the information, he deployed troops.

But who knows, grandma's, the other side is actually lying to him, and it is actually fishing for him.

This time, Zhao Ang died because of his innocence, but his death has changed very much.

That is, the original slightly warm struggle between the East and the West has directly intensified.

The Kansai side knew in their hearts that even the moderate Zhao Ang was dead, so they had no way out.

With the loss of the Gushui Bridge, on the night of March 8, more than 54,000 Kwantung troops crossed the Gushui, but because of the huge baggage, most of the baggage remained on the east bank of the Gushui.

And Huang Fusong didn't know about this.

On the morning of March 9, he led his army to a pavilion outside Hangu Pass.

This pavilion is also called Donggu Pavilion, and it is only less than three miles away from Hangu Pass.

Because there is a time limit for the opening and closing of Hangu Pass, business travelers who are generally unable to enter the customs in time will borrow to stay in Donggu Pavilion to facilitate the entry of the customs on the second day.

And now, this small Donggu Pavilion will break out the second decisive battle between the two capitals, which is also the Battle of Donggu.