Hundreds of soldiers protected the Chinese army's tent on three levels inside and three outside. Xu Rong stood in front of the tent and frowned slightly as he looked at Dong Jun's camp, which was in a state of chaos as the flames soared into the sky.
Huangfu Song led tens of thousands of people into the bi camp. Dong Min was afraid that some of the generals had evil intentions, so he opened the gates to surrender, and ordered the clan generals to lead heavy troops to guard the camp, thinking that everything was safe. However, he did not expect Xu Rong to come and take the money from the bottom of the cauldron.
There is no doubt that the violence was directed by him, and he also used this to successfully force Dong Min to abandon the army and flee.
But it was obvious that the development of things was like a wild horse running wild, completely out of his control.
Xu Rong hated this feeling of being unable to grasp.
"Zhonglang..." his subordinate called.
"Let's go meet Master Wang." After saying this, Xu Rong jumped onto his horse and walked eastward, with the armor guards following suit.
Along the way, thousands of red-eyed luan soldiers rushed towards them brandishing weapons. Xu Rongbu faced an opponent twice as many as himself, without panic, and responded calmly. The entire team was like a sophisticated war machine, with the soldiers wielding spears.
The posts were made into a wall, and the crossbows were sandwiched between them. When the enemy came close, they fired all the bows and crossbows, and all of them hit the target. Those who hit the target fell down. In a few breaths, they killed more than a hundred people. Then the hundreds of cavalry came out from behind the formation and stabbed them diagonally.
He rushed into the massed soldiers and killed them in one round, leaving the corpses on his pillow.
The soldiers were frightened and dispersed.
Xu Rong looked calm from beginning to end. His experience was very similar to that of Qu Yi. The only difference was that Qu Yi led the Liangzhou soldiers to follow Huangfu Song into Guandong to conquer the Yellow Turban bandits, and then stayed in Jizhou.
And Xu Rong led the Youzhou soldiers to follow Huangfu Song into Guanxi to resist the Liangzhou rebels, and stayed in Sili. Both of them were under their command elite men who had been with them for nearly ten years. If they can't defeat the defeated army with their elites, they can't defeat them.
If he can win like this, then Xu Rong might as well go home and work in farming.
Situations like this happened several times. Later, Luan's military skills became smarter. When he saw the team from a distance, he knew how to avoid it.
Dong Jun's camp is located in the southwest suburbs of Chang'an, relying on the old site of Shanglinyuan. The camp is very strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It may not be as good as the pass fortress, but it is definitely not something Huangfu Songti's soldiers can defeat. So.
, Dong Cen was not so afraid of Huangfu Song's army outside the camp. In his opinion, it was just a strong force on the outside but a weak one on the inside. What really worried him was the internal chaos in the camp.
The Luan soldiers had begun to attack the camp from the inside, but because they had no commander for the time being and were just stragglers, they were easily defeated. However, Dong Cen did not dare to be optimistic and allowed it to develop and grow in scale. The unlucky one would be him.
Dong Cen never believed that he had a superior vision, but after Dong Zhuo died, it became clear that Chang'an was no longer able to do anything. Returning to Wansuiwu and joining forces with Fan Chou was the best choice now. Unfortunately, Uncle Dong Min didn't know what Xu Rong had given him.
Mihun Tang insisted on staying. Dong Cen saw that the overall situation was rotten and sighed in his heart: "Uncle Cong has listened to me a long time ago, why is it like this?"
Suddenly, Dong Cen's eyes gradually froze, and by the light of the fire, he saw a team of five or six hundred people approaching. Dong Cen realized that the coming person might be evil, so he ordered the soldiers to brace themselves for any eventuality.
On the other hand, he sent someone to investigate. When he learned that the person who came was none other than Xu Rong, the general he had talked about before, he secretly said that this son encouraged Dong Min to stay, and it turned out that he had bad intentions. Now that he was here, no need to ask, he must be
I want to open the camp gate and beg for mercy from Huangfu Song.
Hum yu opened the camp, unless they stepped over my corpse. Dong Cen made up his mind to fight to the death. However, Xu Rong had no intention of using force. He just calmly stated a fact. To put it bluntly, Dong Cen
Min ran away.
Dong Cen was stunned when he was shocked. He kept telling himself that this was Xu Rong's trick to open the door for him. How could Dong Min give up the camp, give up his soldiers... or even give up his relatives and become single?
Escape...
Xu Rong was not surprised by Dong Cen's reaction. He waved his hand and several Dong Min's personal guards came forward, saying that Dong Min had abandoned the army and fled. Dong Cen's expression changed drastically. Dong Min's personal guards, he naturally recognized, these people appeared here.
, there are only two situations, one, Dong Min did run away, and two, Dong Min was killed by Xu Rong, no matter which one, Dong Cen did not want to see.
"Dong Xiaowei, although you are a relative of Dong Gong, you have never done any evil deeds. If you offer your camp to surrender, you may be able to save your life. However, if you try to trap the beast and fight..." Xu Rong did not say anything else. He believed that Dong Cen could hear it.
Understand.
Dong Cen looked at the restless soldiers around him, knowing that he might die if he surrendered, but if he didn't surrender, he would be cut into pieces by the soldiers' swords. It seemed that there was no other choice. Dong Cen gave a wry smile and ordered the soldiers to open the camp.
men.
Seeing that his goal was achieved, Xu Rong smiled slightly...
"Creak, creak, creak..."
The several-inch-thick suspension bridge slowly lowered. The Han army, whose throats were filled with smoke from shouting, could not help but be stunned when they saw this. Of course they would not think that Dong Jun was going out of camp to fight to the death. The internal strife was enough for them. In other words...
Dong Jun, plan to surrender?
Lu Bu looked at Huangfu Song. The camp of tens of thousands of people had just succeeded. This victory came too easily?
Although Huangfu Song insisted on sending troops, he did not expect to win so quickly.
The sound of horse hooves "clack-clack-clack" came from far and near. As soon as he rode out of the camp, he came to the front of the Han army's formation. He was over forty years old, with a majestic torso and a face like copper. When he saw him, Huangfu
Song Lu gave an "I see" smile. Before Xu Rong could bow down, Huangfu Song stepped forward to help him up and said: "A good general in his prosperous age has given up the dark side and turned to the bright side. This is the blessing of the country."
Xu Rongdao didn't dare to say anything, and exchanged a few words with Lu Bu. They were both under Dong Zhuo's command, but they were not from the old Liangzhou tribe, and they had fought side by side in Hanoi. There was no talk of friendship. At least there was no bad blood between them, so it was okay.
passable.
Xu Rong briefly introduced the current situation in the camp, including his plan to oust Dong Min and persuade Dong Cen to open the door. It should be his credit. He has no reason to hide it. Likewise, if it is not his credit, he will not take advantage of it.
Huangfu Song was Xu Rong's immediate superior and knew his character very well. Without doubting his presence, he immediately ordered the Han army to enter the camp.
As more and more Han troops poured into it, guarding key areas, and with the cooperation of Xu Rong's troops, they launched rounds of attacks on the Dong army's luan soldiers. The luan soldiers collapsed at the first touch and fled in all directions. The soldiers guarding several other camps
Dong's generals soon learned that the Han army had breached the camp, and they did not dare to hesitate. They opened the doors and fled, followed by many rogue soldiers who followed them out of the camp and ran into the dark night.
By the time Huangfu Song, Lu Bu, and Xu Rong arrived at the Chinese army's tent, there were no large-scale Luan soldiers around the camp. There were only a few Xiaohunluan left, which were innocuous. However, Xiaohunluan had better concealment. Maybe they would have to wait until sunrise to completely calm down.
At this time, the cavalry sent by Xu Rong to pursue Dong Min returned.
When Huangfu Song saw Dong Min's head, he couldn't help but let out a long laugh. Dong Min was of average talent, but he was Dong Zhuo's younger brother after all. After the death of Dong Zhuo and Dong Huang, he became Dong Zhuo's natural successor. Once he was allowed to
Successfully escaping back to Wansuiwu and uniting all the old tribes is extremely bad for the court. Now that Dong Min dies, the court may not need to take action personally. Dong Zhuo's daughter-in-law Niu Fu and clan nephew Dong Yue will fight hard to compete for Dong Zhuo's successor.
Blood flow.
The first ray of light bloomed between the sky and the earth, and Dong Jun's camp completely returned to calm. After intense statistics, the number of Dong Jun in the camp, which originally numbered 30,000, dropped by nearly one-third, and only 21,000 were left injured.
More than a thousand people, of which more than three thousand died in the Luan army, fought internally and killed each other, two thousand died at the hands of the Han army, and another three or four thousand people took advantage of the Luan army to escape.
However, Huangfu Song was still very satisfied, because the more than 20,000 people were elite men who were well-received by Dong Zhuo. In addition, there were more than 10,000 Chang'an troops, Huangfu Li's 10,000 troops, and Duan Xuan who was stationed in Gaoling, where Zuofeng Yi was in charge, would also lead
Tens of thousands of soldiers surrendered, and the Chang'an court now had more than 50,000 troops, initially capable of self-protection and even counterattack.
Unfortunately, Huangfu Song's good mood was quickly ruined by reports from his cronies. Lu Bu actually hid it from him and killed more than ten Dong generals, including Dong Cen who had opened his door to surrender. Huangfu Song remained silent for a long time and sent
They went to invite Lü Bu and questioned him face to face. Lü Bu was prepared and took out the edict from his arms, saying that the emperor had an order and no minister dared to disobey it.
Huangfu Song looked at the edict and smiled bitterly. What is meant by the emperor's destiny? I'm afraid it was your and the prince's idea. If nothing else, after he left Chang'an, Wang Yun also started to purge the Dong family members and their deceased officials.
action.
Although Dong Zhuo's old troops such as You Fufeng Fan Chou, Hedong Niu Fu, Hongnong Dong Yue, and Wuguan Li Meng did not respect the imperial court, they were indeed a group of people who knew how to fight. Huangfu Song originally planned to adopt a strategy of using both political and military means against them, that is, first
Recruit them to surrender, and if they don't succeed, fight them. After fighting them, they will be conquered. Let them serve the country, charge into the battle, and conquer without peace. Now, Wang Yun and Lu Bu are killing people like this. Unless the Liangzhou people's brains are broken, they will not fight.
Even if he dies, he will not surrender to the imperial court.
Huangfu Song secretly sighed. Although he thought it was a foolish move, he couldn't say that the two of them did something wrong. They killed Dong Zhuo, so they were destined to be different from the generals of Liangzhou, but Huangfu Song was different.
He has unparalleled prestige among the frontier troops. If he surrenders the Liangzhou generals, who can be sure that he will not become the second Dong Zhuo?
Therefore, the two of them may have never planned to recruit the Liangzhou generals...
Huangfusong's guess was correct, and the two of them thought so.
Lu Bu stood in the tent, looking at Huangfu Song thoughtfully.
He saw that Huangfu Song entered Dong Jun's camp last night and immediately won the support of the generals. He had gradually become the leader and became more and more suspicious. Huangfu Song was a better person than Dong Zhuo and had more military morale.
If he was ambitious, he would be even more fierce than Dong Zhuo. He made up his mind to truthfully report to Wang Yun after returning to the capital and suggested reducing Huangfu's military power, so as not to regret it later.
Xu Rong sat aside and looked at the two of them silently. He shook his head secretly. There was internal fighting again and again. When the court first decided, they couldn't wait to start fighting. They completely forgot that there were wolves around them. This was not the case in the court.