Since he raised his troops in Guandong, Dong Zhuo has only used weapons against the prefectures and counties in Guandong twice. One was to attack Yingchuan in Yuzhou, and the other was to defeat Cao Cao in Xingyang with Bao Xin's 50,000 troops. The former was a robbery, and the latter was a defensive counterattack.
This is definitely not Dong Zhuo's style. He has been in charge of the army for twenty years and has ruled the roost through violence. How can he be a timid person?
There are... reasons for this. First, there are internal constraints. Although the emperor was separated from the Guandong prefectures and counties by moving the capital, Dong Zhuo was unable to return to Chang'an for a while, which caused many disturbances. Secondly, he was restrained by Gai Jun in the north, and the two sides fought fiercely in Hedong.
Dong Jun lost 20,000 elite soldiers, and Yang Feng rebelled, which can be said to be a serious injury. Thirdly, Mencius said that "it is not against the farming season", and it is forbidden to send troops during the farming season. If you don't see it, the Kwantung Jujube Allied Forces have gathered tens of thousands of people, and they are huge.
But in April, when the food is gone, it will disappear immediately.
At the end of autumn, after more than half a year of preparations, now that the interior was stable, the north was free of worries, and Sili had a bumper harvest, the food pressure was slightly relieved. Dong Zhuo naturally began to try to show his fangs. Since the dissolution of the Kwantung princes, there was no threat, and Huncheng was waiting for death.
At present, only two brothers, Yuan Shao from the north and Yuan Shu from the south, are quite threatening.
In November, Dong Zhuo gathered tens of thousands of people at the ferry in Pingyin County, and hundreds of warships, with a fierce momentum, seemed to want to cross the river to the north to attack Heyangjin where Wang Kuang, the first eagle dog under Yuan Shao's command, and the prefect of Hanoi, was entrenched.
"Is Dong Zhuo crazy?"
Huang Zhong, the lieutenant general of the Dian Army, was extremely confused by Dong Zhuo's actions. You must know that Zhi County controlled by Gai Junjun is in the northwest of Heyang. If Dong Zhuo passes through Pingyin, he can certainly avoid Jizhou stationed in Mengjin to engage in Zhao Fu.
Cheng Huan had more than 10,000 halberds, but he could easily draw Gai Junjun into the war. He was confident that he could deal with the hussar generals and the chariot generals at the same time? Zhang Yang, the captain of Li Feng, was gearing up and vowed that if Dong Zhuojun dared to come,
Just leave them all in Hebei.
Is Dong Zhuo crazy? No, on the contrary, he was more awake than ever. He ordered Hu Zhen to take a boat from Pingyin to the north and attack Heyang. At the moment he secretly sent Xu Rong, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and others to attack thousands of elite infantrymen at night.
On the other side, Xiao* Pingjin crossed the river and surrounded Wang Kuang's back.
That's right, a plan to attack the east and attack the west.
There's just one thing. When crossing the river from Pingjin from a young age, there are Wang Kuang's tribe in Heyang in the west, and Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan's tribe in Mengjin and Jizhou in the east. If there is a slight mistake, they will face a flanking attack from two sides. Even Gai Jun's army went south to help and was attacked from three sides.
Dong Zhuo certainly had every reason to dare to do this. In his opinion, Jizhou Mu Han Fu didn't want to go against him at all, but was forced by the situation and had to respond. Just like the Zhangshui alliance outside Yecheng in March, Han Fu gathered
There were more than 100,000 troops in the ten counties of Jizhou, but when the troops were dispatched, only Jizhou was sent to attack Zhao Fu, and Cheng Huan sent more than 10,000 troops to help Yuan Shao. The purpose of perfunctory was very obvious. Therefore, Dong Zhuo had the certainty that the Jizhou soldiers on Mengjin's side would not act rashly.
Facts have proved that Dong Zhuo's military vision is much stronger than his political vision. The movement of thousands of troops crossing the river was not small, even in the dark night. However, when the Jizhou scout reported Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan, they asked Dong Zhuo's army the direction of march.
, the scout said to the west, the two nodded, ordered the camp to step up their vigilance, and then assumed that nothing had happened and continued to sleep.
Wang Kuang of Heyang did not realize at all that Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan acted out of conscience and left the cave door wide open behind them, trying their best to resist Dong Zhuo's army trying to cross the river. Since most of the troops were concentrated in Jin, Xu Rong, Lu Bu,
Zhang Liao and other generals broke into Wang Kuang's camp in Jinbei, Heyang with almost no effort.
Hearing the deafening shouts of death and the raging fire behind him, Wang Kuang, who was commanding the battle in Jinnei, shuddered violently. If he didn't know what was happening, then he would be an idiot.
Wang Kuang cursed Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan for being a shameless villain, and fled eastward with more than a dozen personal guards. He passed Mengjin on the way but failed to enter. He was not sure whether Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan would kill him and annex Hanoi.
, fled all the way back to Zhisuohuai County.
The 20,000-strong army that had been assembled through painstaking efforts was completely destroyed in Heyangjin. Now there are only more than a thousand old and weak soldiers left in Huai County. Wang Kuang believed that the troops were not enough to rely on, so he sent people to quickly ask Huang Zhong and Zhang Yang for support, and then brought them with him.
The family ran away again and went to Chaoge, northeast of Hanoi, to discuss matters with Yuan Shao.
Huang Zhong was later than Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan learned that Dong Jun had sneaked out of Pingjin. He prepared his troops and horses, scouted around and observed changes in the times. During Zhang Yang's period, he asked for battle several times to attack Dong Jun, but Huang Zhong refused them all, saying that the time had not come yet.
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Soon the cavalry reported that Heyangjin had turned into a sea of fire. The 20,000 troops in Hanoi either died or surrendered, and the entire army was wiped out. The prefect Wang Kuang did not know whether he was alive or dead. Huang Zhong still had no intention of sending troops, and Zhang Yang, who was so angry that he was angry and scolded him for avoiding the battle,
, and wanted to tell General Hussar, Huang Zhong gave Zhang Yang a cold look and remained unmoved.
The next day, Huang Zhong received the definite news that Wang Kuang had abandoned Huai County, where he was in charge, and fled eastward. He immediately started riding seven thousand people and rode south quickly, and met thousands of Dong's troops who had looted near Zhancheng in Heyang County.
The so-called enemies are very jealous when they meet. As soon as Zhang Yang saw Lu Bu, his blood immediately rushed to the top of his head, his ears buzzed, he jumped out of the battle, and shouted loudly: "Lu Bu, how kind is Ding Shijun to you? You actually
Kill him cruelly, how can heaven and earth tolerate such an ungrateful beast like you? There is also Zhang Wenyuan, who is helping Zhou to commit evil..."
Originally, Lu Bu wanted to use the deep friendship between the two parties to see if a fight could be avoided. He didn't want Zhang Yang to come up and curse without explanation. In his impression, Zhang Yang has always been a good man, and it was hard to believe that he would say such fierce words.
, froze on the spot for a moment, a blush crept onto his cheeks for a while, and shouted back: "I am ordered by the emperor to kill thieves, why not?"
Zhang Yang sneered and said: "Which emperor issued an edict? Dong Zhuo's edict? Dong Zhuo's national thief also obeyed the national thief's order and killed his benefactor. It really disgraced the face of our good man Bingzhou."
As soon as Zhang Yang said this, Huang Zhong secretly yelled that it was too bad. This person had failed to achieve anything but failed. He really shouldn't have been brought here.
Xu Rong sighed, knowing that there was no way to escape, so he organized his army on the spot and prepared for war. Dong's army numbered about five thousand, including two thousand cavalry and three thousand infantry. It was a mixture of Dong Zhuo's old troops in Liangzhou and people from Bingzhou.
He was the essence of Dong's army. With this combat power, Xu Rong believed that even if he fought openly and openly, he could easily defeat Wang Kuang's 20,000-strong army.
However, facing the seven thousand Gai army, he was not sure of victory. Not to mention that the Gai army was always fierce, adept at fighting, and had never been defeated. Just talking about the coach Huang Zhong, he was one of the most powerful generals under the command of the hussar general Gai Jun.
He was the first to enter the battle, and his bravery was the best among the three armies. In the battle of Longxi in the past, Huang Zhong used 5,000 lone troops to fight among 100,000 Han Sui troops. He killed the general Yan He and then broke out. The remaining troops were besieged by the fierce general Ma Wan. Huang Zhong rode back alone.
, attacking and killing horses among thousands of troops, pulling out the remaining ones, showing such bravery, it is shocking. Xu Rong has never disdained the bravery of an ordinary man, but a person who takes the courage of an ordinary man to the extreme is terrifying.
Lu Bu called for battle and said: "Xu Zhonglang, give me two thousand cavalry, and we will defeat the entire army in an instant."
Xu Rong frowned tightly. In the battle at Hedong at the beginning of the year, Dong Jun's 20,000 elite troops suffered casualties. The coach Niu Fu lost face. In order to evade responsibility, he deliberately exaggerated the strength of the army and the impact of Yang Feng's escape before the battle. But privately, he still
He showed a hint of awe at the bravery of the Gaijun cavalry. It is said that everyone in the Gaijun cavalry can shoot at a distance of seventy or eighty steps. Xu Rong thinks this is an exaggeration. He comes from Youzhou, and Youzhou cavalry is known as the best in the world.
It is far from reaching the realm Niu Fu mentioned.
However, it is certain that the cavalry of Gai's army is better than that of Dong's army, but I don't know how much stronger it is. Let Lu Bu try it.
Xu Rong said: "Lü Zhonglang is so brave that he will definitely win the battle."
Lu Bu smiled proudly and immediately led two thousand cavalry towards Gai's army. Zhang Yang obtained Huang Zhong's consent and also rode out of the battle. As in the past, no matter how confident Zhang Yang was, he did not think he could defeat Lu Bu. However, the hussar general invented
The stirrup is very wonderful. If you step on it, your fighting power will be doubled. It is like divine help. You are confident that you can kill this horse with your own hands.
With this confidence, Zhang Yang didn't even bother to use horseback shooting, and directly rushed forward to fight hand-to-hand.
"Rumble..."
The two cavalry troops faced each other with needles facing each other, halberds facing spears, dense as a forest, fiercely stabbing each other. There was blood and wailing sounds everywhere, Zhang Yang ignored it and stared straight at Pegasus.
Lu Bu comes...
"Uncle Zhang Zhi, take your life..." Lu Bu roared like thunder, threw his arm hard, and the halberd reached Zhang Yang's chest like an electric shot. The blade of the halberd glowed with an ominous black light, making his scalp numb. Zhang Yang's scalp was numb.
Without fear, he shouted "open" and hit the opponent's halberd with the iron halberd in his hand. There was a huge difference in strength between Zhang Yang and Lu Bu, especially in arm strength. Although he successfully knocked away Lu Bu's weapon with the help of stirrups, his arms felt sore for a while, and he fought back slightly.
Appearing powerless.
Lu Bu pulled the horse's mane tightly with his left arm to stabilize his body, his face was full of doubts. There is no doubt that Zhang Yang's sudden increase in strength shocked him. Seeing that Zhang Yang still had the strength to fight back, he became even more confused and hurriedly blocked.
Two horses passed each other.
In a hurry, he killed two Gaijun knights. Lu Bu hung his halberd on the saddle, picked up his bow and set an arrow, and turned around to shoot.
Zhang Yang raised his halberd and cut the throat of a Bingzhou soldier, pulled back the bloody halberd, half-turned and swept it backwards. With a crisp "ping" sound, he successfully deflected the arrow, but Zhang Yang's eyes immediately exploded.
With a hint of shock, Lu Bu fired a series of arrows. It was too late to parry or dodge the second sharp arrow.
Lu Bu bent a bow of 300 kilograms, and one arrow was enough to shoot through a cow. The arrow cluster easily tore open Zhang Yang's breastplate, penetrated into the right chest, and broke out from the back. Thanks to Zhang Yang's feet in the stirrups, otherwise he would have turned around halfway.
The huge force attached to the arrow will definitely knock him off his horse.
"Ah..." Zhang Yang roared in pain.
At this time, Zhang Liao happened to come towards him and swung his iron halberd. However, when he saw Zhang Yang being severely injured by Lu Bu, thinking of his past friendship, he couldn't bear to kill him. With a flick of his wrist, the halberd deviated from its original trajectory, leaving only a mark on his shoulder.
The next wound.
How did Zhang Yang's bodyguards know this? They were eager to be the saviors and all waved their spurges and horses.
Zhang Liao snorted coldly. He was merciful to Zhang Yang because the two sides had old ties, and he would not be merciful to others, even if the other party was his fellow countryman from Bingzhou. So what if all the Gaijun knights equipped with stirrups had the strength of a village commander (a hundred men)?
Zhang Liao was the second best warrior in Bingzhou, second only to Lu Bu. His iron halberd would stab, tease or sweep one person off his horse with every blow.
There was a rapid and fierce fight, and both sides exploded into each other's positions.
Lu Bu turned his horse around, looked down at the criss-crossing sword marks on his chest, then looked back at his own knights, and finally at his opponent, his face was livid and his lips were white. He once led a hundred knights into a hundred thousand barbarian formation, but his face remained unchanged.
At this time, Lu Bu's right hand holding Fang Tian's painted halberd had green veins appearing on the back, showing his inner unrest.
Zhang Liao said with a solemn expression: "What Niu Zhonglang said is indeed true. Gai's army is so brave that we can't compare with it. A rough estimate shows that our side lost at least 600 horses, which is a loss of 31, while the opponent's only lost 2 to 300.
The impact is not big. Fortunately, the commander-in-chief, Uncle Zhi, is injured, and the morale of the army is bound to decline, so we can attack him quickly to avoid his assistance."
"Kill..." Lu Bu made a decisive decision, leapt on his horse and raised his halberd, and charged towards Gai's army. More than a thousand cavalry shouted in unison and followed bravely. The red rabbit flew with its hooves, like a ball of fire coming towards the pavement, and jumped into Gai's army quickly.
The army came from it.
The advantage of stirrups is that you can use your arms, chest, waist, etc. to achieve the unity of man and horse and exert maximum power. Without stirrups, you can only use the strength of your arms, or even the end of your arms. However, in Lu Bu's case, this is not a problem at all.
, he is born with amazing powers, and his arm strength alone is enough to kill 99% of the knights equipped with stirrups.
Wearing double armor and a heavy helmet, Lu Bu looked like a humanoid monster on the battlefield. Wherever Fang Tian's halberd passed, it brought up layers of blood-colored waves. Following a road paved with human corpses and horse corpses, Lu Bu once again
When he came to Zhang Yang, his eyes were as cold as ice, as if he were looking at a dead person.
This is not a lie. Zhang Yang's current attitude is indeed that of a dead man. The arrow penetrated his right chest. Every time he breathed, he had to endure unimaginable pain. Not to mention accepting the challenge, it was very difficult for him to stay awake at this time.
Lu Bu lightly knocked off the horse of the Gaijun knight who had inserted himself between the two of them. The red rabbit jumped into the air and stepped hard on the man's back with his hoofs. There was only a crisp "click" sound and his back was crushed to pieces. Lu Bu kept looking at him.
Without leaving Zhang Yang, he stabbed two more people with his halberd. There was almost no obstruction between the two sides.
"Uncle Zhang Zhi, there is only one word for anyone who insults me, Lu Bu, - death."
After saying that, the halberd arrived, faster than lightning, like a strike from the gods, leaving people unable to parry. Even in his prime, Zhang Yang might not have been able to escape unscathed, let alone in a semi-crippled state. However, Zhang Yang knew the danger and did not dodge it. How could he have no backup plan?
, raised his left hand, revealing a hand crossbow, and said with a ferocious face: "When Lu Bu's son reaches Huangquan Road, don't forget to repent to Commander Ding."
Lu Bu's eyes were full of sarcasm, and he thought to himself: "Uncle Zhang Zhi, your mistake is that you wanted to kill me too much. You only showed your crossbow within five steps. If it was ten steps away, I might not be able to hide. Hmph, you think I can."
Give you a chance to launch?"
The Fangtian painted halberd in Lu Bu's hand that was sliding forward suddenly accelerated and turned into a black light in an instant. The moment Zhang Yang was about to pull the trigger of the crossbow, the crossbow body shattered like a goddess scattering flowers. The blade of the halberd pressed against the inside of Zhang Yang's arm and reached
Heart.
Zhang Yang howled and fell backward suddenly. Although he narrowly avoided the sharp edge of the halberd, he could not avoid the branches. A half-foot-long gash was cut from the upper side of his atrium to his shoulder. When his back was pressed against the horse's back,
It happened to hit the arrow wound on his right chest, and he almost fainted from the pain.
Lu Bu was slightly surprised. He turned his halberd into a sword and turned it backwards, leaving a wound on Zhang Yang's back. When he tried to attack again, the knights from the army came to kill him one after another. Lu Bu had no choice but to let Zhang Yang go and concentrate on cleaning up the endless flies.
Zhang Yang clung to the horse's back, hugging the horse's neck with both hands, and rushed forward. In order to protect the general, the soldiers of the Gai army fought fiercely with their opponents, even at the cost of their lives. Chaos, extreme chaos, and soon
Later, Zhang Yang actually broke out of the formation alive, which can be called a miracle.
"Woo..." A low, sad horn horn sounded from Dong Jun's army. Lu Bu glanced left and right and retreated dejectedly. Two head-to-head encounters, although he killed Zhang Yang almost to death, but his two thousand cavalry were still with five dissatisfied men beside him.
Hundreds, and almost everyone was injured. The number of enemies killed is not clear, but Lu Bu guessed that it must be less than a thousand.
If you fail, there is no need to find any reason.
Xu Ronggao sat on his horse with gloomy eyes. When Lu Bu and others returned, he gave an order and the army slowly retreated southward. There were only 500 cavalry and 3,000 infantry left on his side, while the opponent's cavalry had more than 3,000. It was impossible to continue the fight.
Just humiliating yourself.
Huang Zhong looked at Zhang Yang, who had a face as pale as gold and was as unconscious as a dead man, and angrily blew the horn of attack. More than 3,000 cavalry moved with a roar, divided into two columns, and galloped to the two wings of Dong Jun. Just as he was about to shoot, suddenly
It was discovered that the two wings were surrounded by unarmed and frightened people. There was no doubt that these were Hanoi people whom Dong's army had plundered previously.
"Using the people as a shield is extremely shameless," Huang Zhong roared with rage.
Xu Rong disagreed. As long as he could bring these more than 3,000 brothers back safely, he would do anything shameless.
"To fight or not to fight?" Huang Zhong's expression changed drastically. Before he had gone five or six miles, a cloud of smoke and dust arose from the south. Dong Zhuo's reinforcements arrived. Judging from their size, there were at least tens of thousands of people. Huang Zhong secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't have to worry.
The decision has been made.
Huang Zhong led the cavalry back a few miles, and then followed Dong Jun to the north of Heyangjin.
Dong Zhuo mobilized his troops this time to get rid of Yuan Shao Yingquan and Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi, rather than start a war with Gai Jun. Since he had achieved his goal, it would be easy for Gai Jun and Yuan Shao to unite if he stayed in Hanoi, and the gain would outweigh the losses. The entire army that day and night
Return to Henan by boat.
Huang Zhong successfully took over Heyang County, and then moved eastward to take over Wen County. As for Jizhou in Mengjin within Wen County, there were more than 10,000 people engaged in Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan. Huang Zhong completely ignored them and did not even dare to let out a single fart even if they were considered.
After taking over two counties, Huang Zhong was not satisfied, so he continued eastward, and Zhouxian, Pinggao and Pinggao were successively included in his sphere of influence, and finally stopped outside Huai County, where Hanoi was governed.
Originally, Huang Zhong had no intention of entering the city. After all, although Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi, ran away, he learned that Dong Zhuo had retreated and would probably return. If he occupied Huai County, the meeting between the two parties would be awkward. However, what makes people laugh or cry is that the gate of Huai County
When the emperor opened his eyes, the county officials cried and shouted for him to take over Huai County.
"The people's hearts are like water, and it's hard to reject the kindness..."
Huang Zhong sighed with emotion. When he entered Huai County, he also included the three surrounding counties of Wude, Xiuwu, and Shanyang. As for Huojia, Ji County, and Gong County that were further away, he gave up because they were too close.
Chaoge County, where Yuan Shao was stationed, would be disastrous if disputes and conflicts arose.
So far, Hanoi's eighteen counties have been conquered by Jun, and two-thirds of them have been captured.