Chapter 344: An Unpleasant First Meeting

However, Wei Xuan did not give Li Wei a chance to escape back to Chang'an, just when Li Wei took 15,000 infantry and the Son of Heaven out of Shaanxi County and headed towards Chang'an, a shocking news came that Wei Xuan's other cavalry had already walked in front of him, that is, Weitong from Shangjun, Weitong crossed Weishui under the leadership of Zhang Xiu and went straight to Chang'an after passing through Gaoling. Originally, Li Dao and Guo Yan in Chang'an left some soldiers to guard it, but after the Son of Heaven intended to cross the river to Hedong and was caught up by Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, the two of them dispatched all the soldiers who stayed behind to Shaanxi County, and Wade was nearby to see the Son of Heaven. Now that Weitong is approaching Chang'an, Chang'an is an empty city without defense, and all the families of the ministers and the families of the remaining soldiers of Li Wei are basically in Chang'an City.

Li Wei, who received the news, was completely panicked and immediately retreated back to Shaanxi County, and then another bad news came from the south, Wei Yan had already crossed Wuguan and went straight to Lantian when he sent troops from Nanyang. Due to the struggle for power between Li Dao and Guo Yan, plus Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji's defection to Wei Xuan, Wuguan, an important checkpoint in the southeast of Chang'an, was only garrisoned by only 1,000 people, and in the face of the fierce attack of 10,000 elite infantry of Wei Yan, they insisted on ???????????????? He surrendered in less than a morning, and then there was no one to stop him on the way from Wuguan to Chang'an, and if it weren't for the rugged mountain road, Wei Yan would have arrived earlier.

The family was detained by Weitong, Wei Yan appeared in the south, Shaanxi County was about to be surrounded by Wei Xuanjun, Li Dao finally couldn't sit still in Shaanxi County, because he knew that the arrival of Weitong and Wei Yan meant that his way back to Chang'an was completely cut off. At this moment, even if he can return to Chang'an safely, in the face of the sixty or seventy thousand people in Guanzhong now, he has no way to insist.

Although Li Dao did not enter Chang'an City, Weitong found that the Son of Heaven and the Manchu Dynasty were all carried by Li Dao Guosi and others, so he also sent troops from Chang'an to the east, preparing to join Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and others. On the other hand, when Wei Xuan learned that Li Dao had fled from Shaanxi County, he immediately ordered Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun's two-foot cavalry to chase after him, and as a result, the two men and horses caught up with Li Dao's combined infantry and cavalry at Duling. So the two sides fought again, this time Li Dao was more decisive, leaving the infantry to break off and want to flee directly with the Son of Heaven with his Xiliang cavalry.

But Dong Cheng and the others also knew the news of the defeat of Li Dao, Guo Yan and others to Wei Xuan, so they thought carefully, dressed up the Son of Heaven and the Three Princes, and took advantage of the chaotic situation of Li Dao's retreat to quietly break away from the team, and more than 2,000 people escorted the Son of Heaven and the Gongqing towards Chang'an.

Li Dao soon found out that the Son of Heaven was out of his control, so he hurriedly led people to chase after him. The two sides chased me all the way north, and met the Xiaocai Battalion Weitong.

Seeing the large number of cavalry led by Wei Tong, the Son of Heaven and others thought that the other Xiliang soldiers had arrived, so they could only stop in place and resign themselves to their fate, but when they arrived, they knew that it was Wei Xuan's three Weitong. And learned from Zhang Xiu's mouth that Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji had already taken refuge in General Wei Xuan.

The Son of Heaven was overjoyed, so he hurriedly ordered Weitong to escort him to Chang'an, and Weitong actually regretted it in his heart after asking about the situation, and now it is best to let Li Dao escape to Liangzhou with the Son of Heaven, if the Son of Heaven is killed, it is better. But just thinking about it, after seeing the Son of Heaven, he immediately bypassed Dong Cheng's team and went to meet Li Dao's pursuers.

The sudden selection of 10,000 elite cavalry made Li Dao startled, but when he saw clearly that it was just the same light cavalry as himself, Li Dao decided to stop and fight a decisive battle with the cavalry opposite, because in his opinion, the Son of Heaven could not be thrown away so early, and the people of Liangzhou who played cavalry were more skilled than the people in the Central Plains and Sanhe regions.

But soon Li Dao found out that something was wrong, because the oncoming enemy light cavalry was not only very fast, but also the cavalry on horseback kept shooting with bows and arrows, shooting fast and accurately, and after the two sides engaged, many of the enemy's cavalry stood up on horseback and waved the long weapon in their hands to fight condescendingly and occupy a great advantage.

Li Dao and the others all live on horseback all year round, of course, they know that this series of actions requires good equestrian skills, and he feels that the cavalry of the Weixuan fungus species is at most two or three years of training time, and there must not be many people who can be so proficient in horsemanship. But he was disappointed again, because all the soldiers of the cavalry battalion were very flexible in their fighting movements on horseback, and they completely overwhelmed the so-called elite cavalry of Xiliang.

Li Wei frowned,???????????????? Soon he discovered that the enemy cavalry was different from his own Xiliang cavalry, and that these people's war horses had bilateral stirrups on both sides. In the first few battles with Wei Xuan's cavalry, they either responded in a hurry or did not observe the enemy carefully at night, but now they found that the enemy basically relied on these bilateral stirrups to control the horses and maintain balance.

Li Wei had never used bilateral stirrups, but he could see at a glance that these bilateral stirrups were extraordinary. He carefully recalled that those cavalry of Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun seemed to have such equipment. No wonder Wei Xuan was able to defeat Lu Bu and the action, and was able to completely annihilate the Fuluo Division.

Finding that his equipment was inferior to others, and now the enemy still had two large forces of cavalry chasing him, Li Dao did not hesitate to give up the infantry and run away with the cavalry.

Wei Tong led people to chase and kill for a while, after all, he was worried that the Xiliang soldiers would make a detour to attack the Son of Heaven again, so he turned around and joined Dong Cheng.

Goodbye Son of Heaven, Wei Tong's etiquette is much more, after all, he is from the Hedong Wei family, and a large number of people in front of him are less than 2,000 soldiers, most of them are ministers with high and powerful positions than Wei Xuan.

Liu Xie, the son of heaven, was also very happy to see that Weitong had successfully repelled Li Dao, which meant that his return to Luoyang was finally about to be realized.

At the suggestion of Yang Biao, Zhu Jun and others, Dong Cheng escorted the Son of Heaven and Gongqing into Chang'an City, and Wei Tong guarded the two wings.

Back in Chang'an City, the Son of Heaven learned that Li Dao and Guo Yan's soldiers and other Xiliang soldiers were basically taken away, and his heart was naturally more happy, so he crowned Dong Cheng as a hussar general, Wei Xuan as a chariot general, and Wei Tong, who had a meritorious service, as a former general.

Weitong refused the seal of the Son of Heaven on the grounds that his brother had not arrived and the remnants of the rebels had not been cleared, but let 10,000 cavalry control the various gates of Chang'an.

Two days later, Zhang Liao, Tai Shici, Duan Xuan, Zhang Ji and Zhao Yunbu arrived in Chang'an one after another, but only Zhao Yun's infantry entered to strengthen the city defense, and Wei Tongya led his troops to withdraw from Chang'an.

Wei Xuan finally met the Son of Heaven for the first time, and the last time he saw the Son of Heaven was Liu Xie's father, Emperor Han Ling. After Yuan Shao killed the eunuchs, Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, and Wei Xuan, who was the captain of the thief school, did not have the opportunity to see the Son of Heaven, and was then jointly recommended by Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao and others as the Taishou of Yingchuan.

Although Wei Xuan saw the Son of Heaven for the first time, he was not excited, and the Son of Heaven seemed to have admired Wei Xuan for a long time, and pulled Wei Xuan to ask about Henan Yin's situation in detail.

Then the Son of Heaven once again canonized Wei Xuan as the general of the chariot and cavalry, and Wei Tong as the former general, Wei Tong refused, and Wei Xuan did not resign, and he was able to defeat the Xiliang Group led by Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, which he had worked hard for so many years to prepare for many generals. He needs to have a certain right to speak to show the civil and military under his command.

Tho Yu's contempt for imperial power in his heart, Wei Xuan took people back to the camp outside the city after meeting Wan Tianzi. However, the day after Wei Xuan returned to the military camp outside the city, the messenger of the Son of Heaven came again, this time bringing the three dukes of the new worship of the Son of Heaven, worshipping Yang Biao as the captain, and recording the Shangshu with the hussar general Dong Chengwei. Zhu Jun is Situ, and Huang Wan is Sikong.

After hearing this, Wei Xuan felt inexplicable, because he had a relationship with himself at all, why did the Son of Heaven send a special envoy here. When I asked, I knew that the Son of Heaven was hope???????????????? Wei Xuan reported the list of meritorious soldiers this time, and the court rewarded them for their meritorious deeds.

After the envoy left, Wei Xuan summoned Xi Zhicai, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Fa Zheng and the main generals to discuss the next situation. Because the rout of Li Dao and Guo Yan was faster than he imagined, and the attitude of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court also made Wei Xuan very embarrassed, he was the most resolute crusade against Dong Zhuo among the Eighteenth Route Alliance, and he was also the only prince who was able to lead his soldiers over the mountains and mountains to defeat the Xiliang Army in Chang'an within a few years. A dispensable general obviously could not satisfy the appetite of Wei Xuan and his men. I just don't know if the Son of Heaven is pretending to be stupid or being deceived by the Three Princes.

Weitong was the first to stand up and said angrily: "The princes of the Manchu Dynasty treat us as coolies, they are being pressed too hard by Dong Zhuo and Li Dao and others, and now they are in charge." But now the three princes and nine kings of the imperial court can be matched? What does the Son of Heaven think we are waiting for the reward of the rare court? ”

Everyone here is smart and knows the meaning of his words, if it is just for a chariot general, of course, he will not be able to move the army westward for thousands of miles, you must know that today's Nanyang and Yingchuan are only more than 10,000 people stationed in the army, and they may be attacked by Liu Biao and Yuan Shu at any time. The adventure of bringing troops to Chang'an is, of course, to welcome the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang. But if he returns to Luoyang in this state, then he Wei Xuan and everyone will not be busy in vain. And if Wei Xuan can't control the imperial court, as long as the Son of Heaven returns to Luoyang, he will definitely attract all the flies in Kanto like a piece of rotten meat.

At the beginning, Xi Zhicai, Jia Xu, Xun Yu and Zhang Zhao and others formulated the westward expansion policy for Wei Xuan, with the purpose of coercing the princes of the Son of Heaven, and now they are just sealing a chariot general.

After listening to Wei Tong's speech, Wei Xuan smiled bitterly in his heart, and the others fell into deep thought, how to break the current embarrassing situation does require a certain amount of wisdom, and if you deal with Wei Xuan and the subordinate martial arts, you will be able to get the greatest benefit from it, and if you don't handle it well, the Son of Heaven and the Manchu Dynasty will treat Wei Xuan as another Dong Zhuo. When the time comes, the three princes will come to an order, or the Son of Heaven will issue a secret edict, and it will be the turn of the Kanto heroes to crusade against Wei Xuan.