Chapter 488 Dong Zhuo’s counterattack, the final chapter of the first Battle of Hulao Pass!
Nearly half a month has passed since the Battle of Songshan. In the garrison of the allied forces of the princes in Chenggao, Gongsun Shu, the prince of Youzhou, led his army back to Youzhou to prepare for the invasion of the Tuoba clan.
On the eve of Gongsun Shu's withdrawal, the leader of the alliance Yuan Shu reached a secret deal with him privately to help him fight against the foreigners. Gongsun Shu only had to keep his general Zhao Yun in Yuan Shu's army. In contrast, Yuan Shu used his identity as the leader of the alliance to
For the time being, he handed over one-third of the food, grass and baggage of the coalition forces to him (the missing food, grass and baggage would be made up by Yuzhou), funded their march north to fight against the aliens, and promised that if Gongsun Shu was unable to resist the Tuoba Gui forces moving south, he would arrange
Wang Meng and Lan Li of the Yangzhou Legion respectively led a naval fleet to support Youzhou across the sea along the East China Sea-Yellow Sea-Bohai Sea!
Crossing the sea consumes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and all losses during this period will be reimbursed by Gongsun Shu's forces!
After Yuan Shu and Gongsun Shu reached an agreement, the leader of the alliance, Yuan Shu, held a brief meeting of the princes again and briefly informed everyone present about the crisis in Youzhou. Then, with the consent of all the princes, Gongsun Shu led his army northward that day.
The young general Zhao Yun originally wanted to continue to march north with the army, but he was dismissed by Gongsun Shu on the grounds of being dismissed from his post and assisting the leader in fighting against the Dong thieves. The young general Zhao Yun was left in despair. By chance, he met Yuan Shu's new general Tai Shi.
Ci, the two hit it off, so under Taishi Ci's intentional leadership, Zhao Yun successfully joined the alliance leader!
Zhao Yun, who surrendered to Yuan Shu, was eager to serve and took the initiative to ask Ying to lead his army to Hulao Pass to call for battle. However, Yuan Shu refused because it was not the right time. After that, Yuan Shu arranged for Zhao Yun to be his personal guard and told him to take his leisure time.
In addition, he spends more time with Tong Fei, who is under Cao Cao, and learns and hone his marksmanship as much as possible.
As time went by, Yuan Shu saw that the time was ripe, so he arranged for Zhao Yun to go to the coalition prison to persuade the captured Xiliang generals to surrender, including the famous Northland Spear King Zhang Xiu and his uncle Zhang Ji, and the Northland Spear King Zhang Xiu
Yuan Shu, together with Zhao Yun and Tong Fei, came from Tong Yuan's sect. It was Yuan Shu's thought-out idea to ask Zhao Yun to persuade him to surrender.
Sure enough, under Zhao Yun's hard work day after day, Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ji finally decided to surrender to Yuan Shu. However, they had one request before surrendering, that is, the coalition forces were not allowed to surrender in the subsequent battle against Dong.
Arrange them to fight against the Xiliang army!
Zhao Yun sent a message to the two uncles and nephews. After Yuan Shu learned about Zhang Xiu's request, he couldn't help but beam with joy and laugh to the sky. If they were not allowed to fight against Dong Zhuo, wouldn't they have nowhere to go? He agreed to Zhang Xiu's request.
Yuan Shu personally went to the prison to untie them, and after their uncle and nephew completely surrendered, he quickly called his confidant general Lu Fang over. Regarding the arrangements for their uncle and nephew, Yuan Shu directly asked Lu Fang to take them south to Yuzhou.
Then he selected 5,000 well-trained and combat-ready soldiers in Yuzhou, and continued to rush south to Yangzhou to assist Wang Meng and others in attacking the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In this way, they could not only support Yangzhou, but also allow them to avoid confrontation with the Xiliang Army, the best of both worlds!
While Yuan Shu was persuading Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew to surrender, Yanzhou Cao Cao was also persuading the four generals of the Demon family who were captured by Zhang Kui to surrender. The four generals of the Demon family had a strong temperament and were unwilling to surrender no matter what they said at first. Later, thanks to Cao Cao's military advisor Xun Yu, they surrendered.
Chen Gong and Guo Jia took action and used kindness and power to win the surrender of the four generals of the Demon Family.
In the coalition camp, all the princes were busy preparing for war. At the same time, in the Xiliang camp, Dong Zhuo of Luoyang was furious after learning that the Bull Demon King had been captured by the coalition forces, and killed more than ten people in a row that day.
A loyal minister loyal to the Han Dynasty, he then ordered his generals to go to Jiguan and ordered Nangong Changwan, who was responsible for guarding Jiguan, to lead his troops to withdraw from Jiguan and move the defense line back to Mengjin Port.
Then, Dong Zhuo transferred his adopted son An Lushan to Mengjin Port and asked him to assist Nangong Changwan in resisting the sudden advance of Zhao Kuangyin and Ma Teng's coalition forces!
After the northern defense line of the Xiliang camp was set up, Dong Zhongying ordered Wang Mang to gather the generals deployed in the southwest and go to Hulao Pass to assist Han Chu and Wu Wenhua; in Hulao Pass, Wang Mang's army would be strong to help.
Although it may not be able to completely defeat the alliance of princes, it is still no problem to stay in it for a year and a half!
As for the southwest side of the Xiliang camp, Dong Zhuo, after careful consideration with his military advisor Li Ru, finally chose to abandon Taigu Pass and transferred Shi Siming, the guard responsible for guarding Taigu Pass, to Yique Pass. Then they arranged for Er Zhurong to
He and his men went to Xuanyuan Pass and cooperated with Shi Siming of Yique Pass to intercept Liu Bang's troops. They must not let Liu Bang step into the thunder pool.
Speaking of Yique Pass and Xuanyuan Pass, these two passes are the more southerly passes among the eight passes of Sili. If you look at it from the map, you can find that Yique Pass is located due south of Luoyang, and Yique Pass is in the southeast direction.
It is Taigu Pass. Directly northeast of Taigu Pass is Xuanyuan Pass. If Xuanyuan Pass continues to the north, it will be the place where the allied princes captured the Bull Demon King alive, the Songshan Battlefield.
In other words, in Dong Zhuo and Li Ru's thinking, abandoning Taigu Pass can connect Yique Pass and Xuanyuan Pass into a line of defense. The two strongholds can look after each other and jointly fight against Liu Bang's troops who want to go north.
If there is a failure at Hulao Pass, a cavalry team can be dispatched from Xuanyuan Pass, cross Mount Song, and then go straight to the base camp of the Chenggao Allied Forces!
The general deployment of the Xiliang army was completed. Dong Zhuo was currently worried about the lack of generals under his command. In the battle of Hulao Pass, he lost the Niu Demon King, Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew, the four generals of the Mo family and many powerful generals. The so-called Thousand Army
It's easy to get, but it's hard to find a general. If Han Shui and Wu Wenhua hadn't caused the trouble, would he have shortened the defense line in the southwest and gathered soldiers to send to support Hulao Pass?
Dong Zhuo couldn't think of a good solution for the general problem, so he had no choice but to expand his army to prepare for war. He also arranged for his son-in-law Niu Fu to secretly go to Xiliang to ask for help from the local ethnic minorities in Xiliang. After that, he arranged for two generals, Li Jue and Guo Si, to
Contact the generals of the coalition forces privately, hoping to induce the coalition generals to rebel with huge profits.
In addition to these two methods to make up for the lack of generals and troops, Dong Zhuo also, at the suggestion of his son-in-law Li Ru, extensively attracted the local Red Turban forces in Sili, hoping to use the method of conferring official titles and titles to compete with the leaders of the Red Turban Army.
Han Shantong, Liu Futong, Xu Shouhui and others formed an alliance. Furthermore, Li Ru suggested that Dong Zhuo focus on the anti-thief forces in the states and counties of the Han Dynasty. Once the anti-thief forces can be drawn over, let them declare war on the rear areas of the princes.
, it can cause the coalition of princes to fall apart!
However, Dong Zhuo considered that there were many rebels and they were ambitious, and he was afraid that they would feed unfamiliar wolves, so he did not adopt Li Ru's suggestion...