Chapter 34 Closing the Door and Beating the Dog
"No problem!"
Yuan Shao happily agreed to Zhao Cen's request.
Don't look at his woman being insulted by Dong Thief, but he is not very interested in the woman who insulted Dong Thief.
He is the heir of the Runan Yuan clan of the fourth and third dukes, and he will not blatantly insult other people's wives and daughters, let alone grab the spoils of war with a general!
He also has to pay attention to his image! The image of the fourth world and the third prince cannot be tarnished!
"My lord!"
As soon as Yuan Shao's words fell, Yuan Shao's war agent Zhang Da almost screamed!
That's a sable cicada! Do you know what it means to be a sable cicada? That's the closed moon of sinking fish and geese, you don't want me!
Thinking that Dong Huang had not only obtained Diao Chan's body, but also probably got a stunning attendant, Zhang Da was jealous and wanted to kill.
But Zhang Da finally held back.
Zhang Da is a smart person who knows when to say something! However, at this time, Zhang Da had already begun to think about how to kill Zhao Cen after the matter was completed, and monopolize Diao Chan and the jade seal of the country!
Even if Diao Chan has more manpower, Zhang Da doesn't care! On the contrary, I am still a little excited!
The XP of people is different, and Zhang Da's XP is Cao Thief and Cao Thief.
The princes unified their opinions and decided to send troops immediately.
The political significance of subduing Luoyang and returning it to the old capital is too great, and there is a feeling that the king of the first to enter the customs is the king. Not only Yuan Shao couldn't refuse, but the other princes who were about to prepare for the fire merger couldn't either.
The princes of sour jujube selected 100,000 elites, and they went straight to Bishui Pass.
Halfway through, Cao Cao, who got the news, didn't follow Gongsun Zan for some reason, but got together with Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Liu Biao's henchman Liu Hu, respectively, joined with the army; Yuan Shu also sent his subordinate Sun Jian to rush to the aid with a small number of cavalry.
Eventually, when the princes arrived at the Tiger Pass, there were already 160,000 people.
Yang Ding, the general of the Tiger Prison Pass, and Zhao Cen, the general of the Bishui Pass, showed their loyalty and personally followed Yuan Shao and other princes to the head of the Tiger Prison Pass.
Looking at the direction of Luoyang from the Tiger Pass, the princes saw the flames soaring into the sky, the black smoke covering the ground, and the apocalyptic scene after the military disaster.
At this moment, the princes no longer have any doubts about the defection of Yang Ding and Zhao Cen, and while deeply hating Dong Zhuo's destruction of the surroundings of Luoyang, the princes are gearing up one by one, not giving in to each other, and ordering their subordinates to hurry up and strive to be the first to recover Luoyang!
Liu Hu, who represented Liu Biao's independent leadership as a war agent, led 30,000 elites to fight Liu Biao's banner and run wildly.
In order to get the opportunity to capture Luoyang, Liu Hu not only brought the most elite 10,000 strong archers, but also 10,000 poor euphorbia, 5,000 heavy armor soldiers and 5,000 cavalry.
However, no matter how fast Liu Biao's troops were, they couldn't be as fast as Sun Jian and Liu Bei's troops of pure cavalry, although there were not many of them, they were really fast, and they were far away from the big army.
In order to attack, the remaining war agents also asked the lords to go to Luoyang as the vanguard.
It is not only the war agent who invites the war, but also other generals and even princes who can't wait to seize this greedy feat.
As a result, a strange situation appeared, in the case that the princes' armies did not give in to each other and only wanted to make great achievements, no one was willing to lead troops or divide troops to guard the rear road rover prison. The heavy responsibility of guarding the Tiger Prison finally fell to Yang Ding, who was a general.
There is no doubt that Yang Ding really wanted to surrender, because he was really forced by Dong Huang.
Dong Huang not only insulted him after getting drunk at a banquet, but also revealed that he wanted to annex the soldiers and horses of each ministry and replace the generals of each ministry with his henchmen, which made Yang Ding both angry and frightened. So, he really wanted to surrender.
As a newcomer, Yang Ding had no opinion on Yuan Shao's arrangement.
He knew very well that whether it was recovering Luoyang or defeating Dong Huang to seize the property that Dong Huang had looted, none of these good things had his share. It just so happened that the injury he was beaten by Dong Huang had not yet healed, and Yang Ding, who had the pleasure of revenge, was also happy at the moment, and just wanted to drink a little wine in his mansion and lie in the woman's arms for a while.
However, on his way back to the mansion, several sturdy sergeants suddenly approached.
"Which battalion are you from, get out, didn't you see General Yang's frame?"
Yang Ding's guards raised their whips and beat them.
However, the leading sergeant not only did not dodge or dodge, but accelerated suddenly, jumped high, and cut off Yang Ding's head with a single sword, which had no time to react at all.
Flying blood splashed the sergeant's body, making him look like a demon.
"The general Xu Chu under the command of the major general is here, the traitor Yang Ding has been awarded the head, and those who surrender on their knees will not die!"
Xu Chu roared and looked angrily at Yang Ding's guards around him.
Behind Xu Chu, his subordinates roared at the same time.
"Revenge for General Yang ......"
It was only at this time that the guards who were going to beat Xu Chu before reacted, and hurriedly drew their knives and wanted to hack Xu Chu to death, but they didn't expect Xu Chu to be stabbed again, and they directly split the guards and horses in half!
The powerful visual impact and Xu Chu's ghostly image completely broke the psychological defense line of the remaining guards, and they hurriedly dismounted and knelt down one by one, but no one dared to look at Xu Chu.
As a result, Xu Chu successfully surrendered the Tiger Prison Pass, which was originally Dong Zhuojun, and took Gao Shun's troops to the Tiger Pass.
The princes' army didn't expect that as soon as they left the Tiger Prison Pass with their front feet, the back feet of the Tiger Prison Pass were recaptured by Dong Zhuojun.
They would never have thought that from beginning to end, all this was Jia Xu's strategy, and they had fallen into Jia Xu's trap.
It turned out that Jia Xu's strategy to Dong Huang that day was a plan to kill two birds with one stone.
Jia Xu asked Dong Huang to deliberately annex the soldiers and horses of Dong Zhuo's generals such as Yang Ding and Zhao Cen, who held elite soldiers, and wantonly humiliated them and forced them to surrender to Yuan Shaojun. As long as they surrender, they can rightfully take their elite soldiers for themselves!
After Yang Ding, Zhao Cen and others surrendered, they would definitely sacrifice the Tiger Prison Pass and let the princes' armies advance westward.
At this time, Dong Huangjun's previous destruction and plundering of the surrounding counties came in handy.
As long as the princes' army is sure that Yang and Zhao are sincere in surrendering and that there is a scorched earth near Luoyang, there is a good chance that they will be confused by the false information that Dong Huang's army is scattered and looting and preparing to retreat to Chang'an, and will decide to recapture Luoyang before Dong Huang's army is assembled, and even capture the thief and capture the king first.
Since the princes' army is running all the way, it will inevitably not be able to carry much baggage, and the surrounding counties and counties have been fortified and cleared, and it is impossible for the princes' army to get supplies. At that time, as long as the Tiger Prison Pass is recaptured, the princes' army will be trapped between Luoyang and the Tiger Prison Pass, lacking food and clothing, and will collapse without a fight.
At that time, Dong Huang will not only reasonably incorporate the elite of Dong Zhuo's department, but also complete a great victory and remove the threat in the direction of sour jujube in one fell swoop.
Without the soldiers and horses of the sour date, whether Dong Huang's army wants to capture Nanyang or enter Hebei, there will be no obstacles.
Even if you can't recapture the Tiger Prison Pass, it doesn't matter, the main force of Dong Huang's army has already been assembled, and Dong Zhuo's army, which has an absolute advantage in cavalry, is absolutely devastating to deal with a group of long-distance raids and exhausted princes' troops trapped under Luoyang City!
The only drawback of this strategy is that several generals who forced Dong Zhuo to death, and the people of the nearby counties of Luoyang will suffer heavy losses.
But such a loss is not worth mentioning at all in Jia Xu's opinion. For Jia Xu, human life is really just a number!
Under the temptation of serving the main force of the Kwantung princes in a pot, Dong Huang, who was originally soft-hearted, also became ruthless. Although he did not kill wantonly, he also forced all the surrounding people to move to several fortified cities around them, and the walls were clear, leaving not a grain of grain or a single man!
Under the premeditated plan, all the movements of Yang Ding, Zhao Cen and Hu Prison Pass were under the surveillance of Dong Huangjun. Dong Huang even went through a series of military transfers early on, and successfully hid 500 uniformed tiger soldiers in the Tiger Prison.
These 500 elites were led by the tiger idiot Xu Chu, and the task was to wait for the princes' army to pass, and then cooperate with Gao Shun's troops hidden in the mountains and forests to seize the Tiger Prison Pass and block the retreat of the princes' army.
However, plans can't keep up with the rapid pace of change.
The princes' army was so careless that they sent Yang Ding, a general, to continue to guard the pass with the original Dong Zhuojun.
You know, these soldiers don't have any loyalty to the Kwantung princes!
Xu Chu keenly seized this opportunity, directly assassinated Yang Ding, forced down the soldiers guarding the pass, received Gao Shun's army into the pass in advance, and lit three puffs of wolf smoke!
This is the agreement between Xu Chu and Dong Huang, and lighting three puffs of wolf smoke means that the Tiger Prison Pass has been successfully recaptured.
"Wen and the clever plan!"
Dong Huang, who was standing on the city tower and watching the besieging army for a long time, took Jia Xu's hand and laughed.
In this way, the interlocking calculation of human nature and the arrangement of human nature can not be done by Dong Huang.
As for saying that the strategy is a little poisonous, it not only harms the innocent generals, but also harms the lives of many innocent people, and destroys their homes, Dong Huang can only leave crocodile tears.
"It's up to the Lord's decision!"
Jia Xu, who is very good at being a person, gave the main credit to Dong Huang, and he was one position behind Dong Huang and smiled at the princes' army under Luoyang Giant City, he knew that this battle was stable!