When Sun Jian arrived, Han Dang had already held up his divination and returned to resume his orders. Seeing this, Sun Jian issued an order to his close followers who had been prepared: "Listen to my military orders and send them to the city to kill those who continue to resist! Anyone who kneels on the ground will not be killed.
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The overall situation was decided. Sun Jian suddenly looked to the north, looking forward to the war there. He wondered how it was going to go?
On that day, Sun Jian sent an envoy to Jinan to inform Qiao Mao, the governor of Dongjun, Jinan County, who had already fled there, that Yanzhou was at peace, and asked him to come back as soon as possible to take over the government affairs and take over the mess. He worked for two days again and harvested a large amount of grain.
, and no longer waited for the imperial general's order, the 20,000 troops went north again to Guangzong, hoping to continue to gain credit.
Jizhou, Guangzong.
As soon as Dong Zhuo entered the army, he changed the Han army's previous siege and defense attitude and ordered a fierce attack on Guangzong City. The reason why he did this was naturally because his predecessor Lu Zhibing's strategy of siege and delaying the attack was reprimanded by the Ling Emperor Liu Hong, which led to him being imprisoned.
He didn't want to make the same mistake again. Besides, ever since he became a general, he had to attack in battle and use offense instead of defense. Attacking fiercely was his fighting style.
But Zhang Jiao has been planning Guangzong City for a long time and has accumulated sufficient defense supplies. How can it be so easily defeated by Dong Zhuo? Every time Zhang Jiao appears, the rebel army seems to have taken stimulants and their combat power is doubled until they are chopped into pieces.
Just now it didn't move.
After several fierce sieges, the army also suffered heavy losses, and Dong Zhuo's tough face cast a shadow. This time he fought against the Yellow Turban, which was an opportunity he finally got. It was precisely to make a great contribution, to become famous in the world, and to be on the throne.
When I was in a high position, I thought that with the help of Liangzhou elite cavalry, I could easily destroy Guangzong. But after all, the Yellow Turbans are different from the Xiqiang. In the siege formation, Liangzhou elites did not have many advantages, and their usual fighting methods were not suitable.
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Looking at Guangzong City in the distance, Dong Zhuo let out a long sigh: "Lu Ziqian's plan is the best strategy!"
On August 2, steaming hot air drifted up from the ground in Guangzong, and layers of dust rose along with the hot air. The Yellow Turban Army once again left the city.
Hearing the knight's report, Dong Zhuo quickly gathered his troops and went out of the stronghold to observe the situation. Seeing the Yellow Turban soldiers walking out of the city gate in rows, Dong Zhuo was very confused. The Yellow Turbans without cavalry troops had been attacked by his Liangzhou soldiers last time.
The cavalryman hit him hard and then retreated again.
When the Yellow Turbans gathered nearly tens of thousands of people, Dong Zhuo decided to attack boldly. Although he didn't know what Zhang Jiao's plan was, if something went wrong, he would be a monster. Let's see what happens to your infantry and my cavalry.
After Dong Zhuo's front army charged, Zhang Jiao's front army's halberd soldiers formed a fish-scale formation to act as a barrier. After approaching a hundred steps, the Chinese army suddenly appeared in Dong Zhuo's field of vision with thousands of heavy crossbows.
"Whoosh whoosh."
The name of the crossbow first originated in Han and became famous throughout the world in Qin. The Qin Dynasty used it to dominate the world and defeat Zhao Mu's cavalry.
The elite cavalry charging into the formation were attacked by a sudden crossbow strike. While the front troops were mourning for casualties, the forward charge from the rear was also disturbed. For a time, the neighing sound of the war horses resounded through the officers and soldiers. After the crossbowmen fired the crossbows, the front troops
The halberdiers shouted "Peace!" and rushed towards the cavalry. Except for the crossbowmen, the entire army grabbed their swords one by one, followed them, and killed the cavalry.
After the Xiliang cavalry was attacked head-on by a powerful crossbow, a certain degree of confusion resulted from the lack of mutual coordination. The Yellow Turban Army rushed into the cavalry and took advantage of their long swords to massacre them on the battlefield. The cavalry lost their charge and gained the distance advantage.
Its power has also been greatly reduced.
After Zhang Jue's Yellow Turbans were brainwashed by him, they were as good as any elite soldier in the world. When they met on a narrow road, the brave would win. The cavalry, which was trapped in the infantry's life-threatening strangulation, could no longer build its merits, so they had to disperse left and right to break out of the encirclement and suppression, preparing to repair a little and start again.
Attack back.
"How could the ant thieves be equipped with so many crossbowmen? Mr. Lu Zhi mistook me!" When Dong Zhuo saw the cavalry being attacked and killed by the crossbowmen, Dong Zhuo's eyes exploded red, he drew out the long sword from his waist, and angrily cut off the small flag beside him...
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After Lu Zhi drove back to Luo, he left a letter to give Dong Zhuo a detailed introduction to the current general situation of Guangzong City. Lu Zhi mentioned in the letter that the Yellow Turbans lacked strong crossbows, and even the city walls only had a few large crossbows.
The reason why Dong Zhuo directly ordered the cavalry to charge was because of this consideration.
Zhang Jiao had saved up these powerful crossbows little by little over the past ten years and was reluctant to use them, just to take them by surprise and defeat the army.
Many people have the impression that "cavalry must be stronger than infantry", but this conclusion is very vague and arbitrary. In fact, if the cavalry loses the impact power of the horses, it will be easy for a few infantry to kill them.
As a last resort, Dong Zhuo's infantry from the Chinese army pressed forward together. He was not really afraid of the Yellow Turban army, but he did not want the Chinese army to join them. When the two sides were fighting fiercely, on the other side of the battlefield, yellow turban flags were suddenly raised, but it was the Ren Gong general.
Zhang Liang came to the rescue. It turned out that the two brothers had known each other for a long time, and they were killed by surprise.
Seeing that he couldn't do anything, his son-in-law Li Ru quickly advised him: "Father, retreat quickly, it's too late!"
Unexpectedly, after Dong Zhuo retreated, he was attacked again and again by the Yellow Turban Army. The large army was scattered and several personal guards escaped along the path under cover.
The official army was defeated, and all the rebels fled one after another. After the rebels defected to Lu Zhi, they were usually used as vanguard cannon fodder, but Dong Zhuo looked down on these sloppy people and sent away the logistics. Therefore, rebels like Liu Bei fled.
It went smoothly. I escaped from the small road early and killed many people along the way.
The three brothers led the remaining volunteers and retreated calmly. Unknowingly, they had retreated to the dense pine forest more than ten miles away. This place was a sharp turn. Due to the pine forest hillsides on both sides, the road narrowed sharply at the turn.
Even if hundreds of people are hiding there, it will be difficult to find them.
At the right time, a group of Yellow Turban soldiers chased Dong Zhuo, who was fleeing in embarrassment, and were about to be overtaken. In desperation, Dong Zhuo had no choice but to lead the Xiliang soldiers to resist.
"Does God want to kill me, Dong Zhuo? No, I can't die yet. My name has not yet spread throughout the world!"
This was Dong Zhuo's life-long dream, to be the fourth Ming Dynasty in Liangzhou and become famous all over the world.
In the pine forest, the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang naturally discovered the situation on the official road. The truth was unclear and they did not dare to move yet.
At this time, Zhang Fei shouted: "Brother, the person being surrounded seems to be a high official?"
When Liu Bei heard this, he quickly took a closer look and found that it was indeed Dong Zhuo. Among the three brothers, only Liu Bei had seen Dong Zhuo.
The second brother Guan Yu also found out, "Big brother, yes, he is a high official. Should I save him or not?"
"Brothers, get up quickly. That's General Zhonglang. How can we not save him?" Liu Bei exclaimed with a look of kindness and patriotic devotion. In fact, he had another thought in his heart. Lu Zhi was gone and he had no backer.
, hoping that through this, I can establish a relationship with Dong Zhuo, the new lieutenant general, so that I can take care of him when he gets credit for his achievements in the future.
Zhang Fei and Guan Yu were the first to rush out of the woods, with snake spears and green dragon knives flying up and down in their hands. They quickly cut a bloody path and rushed to Dong Zhuo's side with Liu Bei.
"General, rush out with Bei." Liu Bei said with a loyal look on his face.
His life was at stake, and suddenly someone came to his rescue. Dong Zhuo was naturally moved. Without thinking or saying much, under the protection of the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang, he fought his way back to the pine forest, escaped into it, and hid according to the terrain. I don't know that they hid here for one night.
The next day, I slowly walked out of the woods and looked at the situation of the battle.
The sentinel reported that Niu Fu, Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, and his generals Zhang Ji, Guo Si and others organized to stop the offensive, slowly gathered the remaining soldiers and retreated quickly.
However, the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Liang refused to let go and pressed forward step by step. At this time, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun's army, which had crossed the river from Guandu, finally arrived on the battlefield. With the addition of the new army of officers and soldiers, they counterattacked that night and defeated Zhang. Liang's 40,000 troops forced the Zhang brothers to retreat into the city again...
Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun once again besieged Guangzong.
Upon hearing the news, Dong Zhuo quickly asked Liu, Guan, and Zhang to escort him to the stronghold. After entering the stronghold, Dong Zhuo first went to meet Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun.
Guangzong's situation was almost defeated. Naturally, the two of them didn't have a good look towards Dong Zhuo. They just said coldly: "The general is defeated, the court has punished him, and the general has been prepared."
Dong Zhuo also knew that he had not received the credit this time, and his life might still be in danger. It was not easy to argue with the two of them now, so he hurried back to the camp and found his son-in-law Li Ru to ask for countermeasures.
"Father, at this time, we can only protect ourselves by dispersing all our money with the court officials, blaming Lu Zhimin and not using the crossbow."
Li Ru's analysis put him at ease and gave him full responsibility.
After a while, soldiers came to report that a man named Liu Bei asked to see him. Remembering that it was the man who saved him yesterday, he immediately got up and came out to camp.
Liu Bei had been thinking about how to establish a good relationship with Dong Zhuo all day today. When Dong Zhuo came back from Huangfu Song, the three brothers came to see him early.
His official position was not guaranteed, Dong Zhuo was in a bad mood, and now that he was safe, his attitude towards Liu Bei began to become colder, not as good as last night on the way.