The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 541 The Wolf's Ambition
In the first year of Chuping (190), May [-]th.

Hangu Pass was full of slaughter, armored soldiers lined up on the pass wall, and countless black banners stood on it.

The mountain wind howled, blowing from the pass wall, rolled up a large number of black and black banners, and the banners fluttered, revealing a big white character on the banners - Dong.

At this time, the Hangu Pass was full of traffic, people's voices, and the noise was unbearable.

Group after group of heavily armed soldiers marched forward slowly under the leadership of the general, and one after another a carriage loaded with weapons was sent from the west gate into the pass under the escort of the armored soldiers.

The generals on horseback ran back and forth and shouted loudly, the chief officers of each team shouted loudly and restrained the soldiers under their subordinates, and the overseers holding soft whips shouted angrily, reprimanding those who were carrying supplies and were arrested. The civilian husbands who came here by force walked to the Guancheng.

Hua Xiong rode a tall and handsome Xiliang BMW covered in black and walked slowly forward from the middle of the road. No matter the soldiers or generals along the road saw Hua Xiong's approach, they all avoided him one after another.

Now Hua Xiong is in Dong Zhuo's favor, and now he is serving as General Fenwu, guarding Hangu Pass. His status is slightly higher than that of Dong Yue, Duan Yan and other Zhonglang generals, and his status is close to that of Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu. Fu, and Dong Zhuo's younger brother Dong Min.

In the battle of Taigu Pass, Sun Jian originally wanted to chase after him, but in the end it was Hua Xiong who led the cavalry to the rear, so that the elite would not be wiped out and the entire army would be wiped out.

Afterwards, Hua Xiong led the army in Luoyang to serve as the rear guard again. Under the extremely critical situation where Zhang Yang and Jia Xu fled north, they still led three thousand Xiliang riders to escape successfully. General Wu.

The soldiers along the way saluted, Hua Xiong just nodded his head slightly to show his response, his mind was not on this, the current situation of Hangu Pass is not optimistic at all.

Hua Xiong led a dozen of his relatives all the way to the Guancheng from Jiabing.

"How's the situation?"

Hua Xiong walked slowly towards Zhonglang General Dong Yue who was standing on the Guancheng, leaning on the railing and looking down.

Dong Yue didn't look back, he stared at the scene outside Guancheng with a solemn expression.

"I'm afraid that in another seven to nine days, Sun Jian will tackle the problem."

Dong Yue stretched out his finger and pointed outside the pass, his tone was low and his expression was gloomy.

"That's Sun Jian's right battalion. Just this morning, Xuan Tingwei delivered information. Sun Jian has stockpiled a large number of siege equipment in the right battalion. Now that Sun Jian's follow-up reinforcements are arriving continuously, Sun Jian may be able to gather in this battle. More than [-] soldiers participated in the battle of Hangu Pass."

Hua Xiong's complexion also changed slightly, he had followed Dong Zhuo for more than ten years, and experienced countless battles, but none of them were as profound as the battle at Taigu Pass.

He still remembers Sun Jian's blood-stained, ferocious face. In the battle of Taigu Pass, Sun Jian's bravery really made all the generals of the Xiliang Army terrified.

They occupied the dangerous place of the checkpoint, but Sun Jianqiang took action to break through the pass city. They raised all their troops in the field, but they were also defeated by Sun Jianjian.

At the time of the fierce battle, Dong Zhuo's army slowly gained the upper hand, but Sun Jian led his soldiers to attack suddenly, penetrated into Dong Zhuo's army formation, and beheaded Yang Ding, the master of Liangzhou and Zhonglang general, which directly caused Dong Zhuo's attack. collapse.

"Thirty thousand soldiers..."

Hua Xiong looked at the outside of the pass worriedly. The former nine kingdoms of the Guandong with ten times the land and millions of people knocked on the pass and attacked Qin.

The Qin people switch and extend the enemy, the division of the nine countries, patrolling and fleeing but dare not enter.

Hangu Pass is very steep, more than several times steeper than Dagu Pass. The four passes in Guanzhong are all the most important passes in the world, and Hangu Pass can even be called the number one pass in the world now.

But Hua Xiong and Dong Yue didn't have any confidence in their hearts. Neither of them had the confidence to stop Sun Jian's soldiers at Hangu Pass.

Those Jiangdong disciples who shouted the local dialect of Wu, and those recruits from Jingzhou, had high morale, just like the yellow angels they encountered in the Yellow Turban Army when they suppressed the rebellion in Jizhou in the past. forward.

Hua Xiong and Dong Yue looked at each other, and they both saw worry in each other's eyes.

Nowadays, Dong Zhuo hardly cares about the government affairs. Most of the political affairs in the court are now presided over by Situ Wang Yun. Not only that, Wang Yun also serves as Shang Shuling. So it started to get restless.

Dong Zhuo's actions naturally inevitably made Dong Yue, Hua Xiong and others feel worried. Dong Zhuo's current behavior has almost completely lost his aggressiveness. It seems that he really wants to stay in this Guanzhong forever and be a happy and carefree Guanzhong king.

Now that Dong Zhuo lives in seclusion and lives in Heiwu almost all day long, Li Ru's repeated remonstrances have been ignored by Dong Zhuo, even now Li Ru is not allowed to enter Heiwu, everyone can see that Dong Zhuo Really is slowly alienating Li Ru.

Just when Hua Xiong and Dong Yue were helpless, a Xuan Tingwei wearing a black robe climbed up the city wall at this moment and handed a secret letter to Dong Yue.

……

"Okay, okay, what a Yuan Shao, what a Yuan Benchu!!!"

"A joke, what a joke, what a big joke!"

Sun Jian laughed back in rage, and kicked the desk in front of him in a rage.

In the big tent, Cheng Pu, Zhu Zhi, Wu Jing, Sun Jing, Sun Ben, Sun He, Xu Kun, Ji Ling, Gongsun Yue and other generals stood in the big tent. Sun Jian was furious, but they all bowed their heads in silence speechless.

"Dong Zhuo messed up the capital, arbitrarily abolished the establishment, wanted to usurp, first killed Zhu Zhongliang, moved the capital to Chang'an, and forced the emperor to oppress the world!"

Sun Jian drew out the sword from his waist, and cursed angrily with his bare eyes.

"Use righteous soldiers together to save the country. The rebels are broken and everyone is like this, who should I be and do my best!"

Sun Jian raised his head to the sky and sighed, weeping as he spoke, all the generals remained silent, and there was a dull atmosphere in the big tent.

The Kwantung Allied Forces had already collapsed. Cao Cao was defeated in Bianshui, Yuan Shao hesitated to advance, and the Suanzao Allied Forces collapsed.

Now Cao Cao and Bao Xin have no strength to advance westward, and they are all staying in their respective counties, while the rest of the Kanto heroes have long forgotten about this matter. Regard Chen Du's emperor as nothing.

Just as the people of the world stopped to watch, Sun Jian's solitary battle made Dong Zhuo, who despises the world, feel like he was on his back, so he could only flee westward in a hurry.

The heroes in the coalition army have their own ulterior motives and deliberately stand still. The trend of the world has changed from fighting Dong Zhuo together to opening up the territory of the heroes.

Now, Sun Jian is the only one left in the huge Han court who is still insisting on the Western Expedition, and is still leading the army to fight against Dong Zhuo.

After stationing in Luoyang for several months and recharging their energy for a long time, Sun Jian ordered Qi's three armies to march westward again to conquer Dong Zhuo. For this battle, Sun Jian even sold some property of Wu Jun's family to raise military expenses.

Yuan Shu also did not delay Sun Jian's hind legs at all as before. Under Yuan Shu's persuasion, the Yuan family took out part of the money to support the court of Chendu and Sun Jian's trilogy. Most of the elite soldiers in the county were handed over to Ji Ling, so that Ji Ling could continue to fight with Sun Jian.

The atmosphere in the tent was dull. Not long ago, a messenger in embroidered clothes covered in blood entered the camp on a fast horse.

Yuan Shao sent Zhou Ang to the south suddenly, led the army to take over Yangcheng under false orders, and took advantage of the chaos to control the four passes of Hulao Pass, Pingjin Pass, Mengjin Pass and Zhiyuan Pass.

And Yangcheng was the seat of the prefecture governed by Sun Jian as Yuzhou Muding. The original governing of Yuzhou was located in Qiao of Peiguo, but Sun Jian set the prefecture in Yangcheng in order to show his determination to never die with Dong Zhuo.

At the beginning, Sun Jianyang defeated Hu Zhen in the first battle, defeated one after another, and marched to Taigu.

Dong Zhuo was afraid of Sun Jian's strength, so he sent Li Jue and others as lobbyists, hoping to marry Sun Jian, and asked Sun Jian to make a list of his sons who could serve as governors and governors, and promised to recommend them for appointment.

But Sun Jian directly drove Li Jue and others back, angrily scolded: "Zhuo is against the heavens and has no way, and he overthrew the royal family. If you don't destroy the three clans of you today, and the county shows the world, then I will die without peace. How can I make peace with Nai?"

Sun Jian never imagined that Yuan Shao stabbed Dong Zhuo at this critical moment just as he was preparing his troops to mobilize his troops and Bing Gexi pointed out that he wanted to kill Dong Zhuo.

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The soaring fire ignited outside Hangu Pass, and even dyed the sunset glow in the sky into blood red.

Dong Yue's expression was extremely strange. Those siege equipment that terrified him were burned by Sun Jian just like that, and those siege equipment that took more than half a year to make were wiped out like this.

And it was not them who caused all this, but Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu, the former allies of the Kwantung Allied Forces. Dong Yue really felt a little ironic now.

Then Yuan Benchu ​​changed so fast, the confrontation with Dong Zhuo in Xianyang Garden in the past seems to be just an illusion.

Dong Yue was a little dazed, and murmured in a low voice: "The Yuan family, it seems that they are not satisfied with being just four generations and three fathers..."

In order to attack Hangu Pass, Sun Jian made a lot of siege equipment, and the fire burned until the sun was about to set and only a few corners remained, and then it slowly subsided.

Sun Jian had almost retreated. In a few days, most of the camps were burned by Sun Jian, leaving nothing to Dong Zhuojun.

Dong Yue also tentatively sent some chasing troops, but Sun Jian was no different. Sun Jian had already been prepared for him.

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In the first year of Chuping, on May [-]th, Sun Jian led the army to march back to Luyang City. After two days of rest, he sent his troops eastward to attack Yangcheng.

The result of the battle of Yangcheng is naturally no suspense, how the Jizhou army led by Zhou Ang can defeat Sun Jian's brave and wolf-like soldiers.

In less than three days, Yangcheng had already been breached by Sun Jian. Zhou Ang led the rout and fled northward, not even reaching the reinforcements of Zhang Miao in Chenliu County, Yanzhou.

But in this battle, there was an accident, a serious accident, all accidents that would cause an uproar.

An extremely important person died in this battle.

And this extremely important person is Gongsun Yue.

Gongsun Yue is Gongsun Zan's younger brother. He traveled all the way from Youzhou and was sent by Liu Yu to help Sun Jian.

When he led the cavalry to pursue Zhou Ang, he was shot and killed by Zhou Ang's ambushes.

Dong Zhuo lived in seclusion and stayed in Meiwu for a long time. The officials headed by Wang Yun also had other thoughts. Liu Yu's son escaped from Guanzhong under the cover of many parties and entered Nanyang County incognito. The court of Chen Du met with Liu Xie.

Yuan Shu believed that although Sun Jian's infantry was elite, he lacked cavalry, and that the Guanzhong Plain was conducive to cavalry operations, and Sun Jian's cavalry was scarce, so it was difficult for him to do his best, so he suggested that Liu He write to his father Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, so that Liu Yu sent some cavalry to support him.

Sun Jian also agreed with Yuan Shu's suggestion. He really lacked cavalry. If he had enough cavalry, maybe Dong Zhuo's army would suffer more casualties in the Taigu Pass battle, and the Han army's losses would be smaller.

Liu He quickly wrote a letter to Liu Yu, and Liu Yu did not refuse after receiving the letter. Together with Gongsun Zan, he sent [-] elite cavalry to the south to help, with Gongsun Zan's younger brother as the leader.

But in fact, Gongsun Zan was not so kind. He and Yuan Shao were at war with each other, and it was the time when soldiers were needed.

It's just that after Liu Yu received Liu He's letter, Gongsun Zan dissuaded Liu Yu from sending troops, thinking that Yuan Shao's wolfish ambitions, preparing the army for war in Jizhou, and lobbying everywhere, diplomatic party aid, and conspiring with each other, already had the heart of disobedience.

Yuan Shao is still in contact with the Chang'an court, and he neither expresses his support for Liu Xie nor Liu Bian. His attitude is very ambiguous, except for sending an envoy to meet Liu Xie for the first time, there is no further movement.

The Yellow Turban Army is also ready to move in the Taihang Mountain area and the Youzhou area. I am afraid that when they send cavalry troops south to Youzhou to empty the space, Yuan Shao and the Yellow Turban Army may take advantage of the vacancy.

But Liu Yu did not listen to Gongsun Zan's dissuasion in the end, and still dispatched troops to help Sun Jian go west.

Gongsun Zan was helpless, and Liu Yu refused to listen to his dissuasion and continued to send troops to help Sun Jian. If the court of Chen Du found out that he had stopped the incident, the court of Chen Du, Sun Jian, Yuan Shu and others might think that he had objected , So he also dispatched Gongsun Yue and his cavalry army to go south with Liu Yu's cavalry army to help.

Gongsun Yue has the highest official position, and by virtue of his own ability, he succeeded in controlling this army.

But after this incident, the conflict between Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu intensified again, and there were many conflicts.

However, the conflict between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao was extremely acute. Originally, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan planned Jizhou together, but after Yuan Shao occupied the entire Jizhou, he reaped all the benefits. Gongsun Zan not only took the blame, but also killed and injured many soldiers. A lot of money.

Naturally, Gongsun Zan couldn't tolerate Yuan Shao's actions. The two were now recruiting troops in the states and counties, hoarding them at the junction of states and borders.

This time Gongsun Yue was killed by Zhou Ang, which undoubtedly added fuel to the fire.

In the first year of Chuping, the first ten days of June.

Under the impetus of Sun Jian and Yuan Shu, the court of Chendu issued an appeal, calling on all states and counties to send troops to conquer Yuan Shao.

But after the announcement, a strange scene happened...

(End of this chapter)