The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 673

Chuping three years, autumn, August [-]th.

Luoyang, which had been the capital of the Han Empire for hundreds of years, changed hands in just ten months.

First, Xu An led the Yellow Turban Army to conquer Luoyang, and Luoyang has since fallen into the hands of the Yellow Turban Army. The Yellow Turban Army swept through Guanzhong and defeated the two capitals.
But then, Yuan Shao betrayed his faith because he was always under the threat of the Yellow Turban Army in the west and north, and Xu An led the army to attack Yuanyuan Pass, which also brought Yuan Shao an excellent opportunity. In order to cut off this threat, Yuan Shao chose A brief union with Nanting.

Yuan Shao ordered envoys to sneak into Sun Jian's camp, and reached a conspiracy with Sun Jian.

The inside of the revolving door pass was broken by the Han army, revealing gaps, and the two passes from Luoyang to Hanoi County, Mengjin and Xiaopingjin also fell one after another. Yuan Shao led the army to attack Hanoi County in person.

Yu Du's soldiers were too small to resist, and he was almost trapped to death in Huai County. Fortunately, Guo Tai arrived in time, and the reinforcements of the Yellow Turban Army from Shangdang County also joined in, and Yu Du was successfully rescued.

Yu Du led the remaining trilogy under his command, as well as the supporting trilogy of Shangdang County, retreated all the way north, retreated to Taihang Xingzhong to defend Tiandu Pass, and dispatched some of the local garrison trilogy, as well as Shangdang County's garrison soldiers to Taihang Gaodu in the north of Xing was used as a backup.

Yu Po commanded the Taihang Military Region, and now he is serving as a soldier.

Xu An previously changed the defense area to a military area and led the military area with military equipment.

The nine-rank classification system is implemented in Taiping Road, and official positions are divided into nine ranks and eighteen ranks.

Among them, the generals of Sizheng and Sizhen are the fourth rank, and the generals of Si'an and Siping are the fourth rank.

Since the development of Taipingdao, it has gone through countless fierce battles and laid down a large amount of territory, but that's it. Among the current Yellow Turban Army, the highest official position is only from the fourth rank.

At present, only four of the Yellow Turban Army's military positions are from the fourth rank.

General Gong Du of Pingnan, General Lu Bu of Pingxi, General Ma Teng of Pingdong, and Jia Xu, the magistrate of the Chinese Army.

Yan Zhong is now the State Shepherd of Liangzhou, and the position of State Shepherd is temporarily designated as the third rank.

In the Taiping Tao, the former general and the rear general are the third rank, and the right general and the left general are the third rank.

In the front hall of Yingtian Mansion, Xu An accepted everyone's advice, and was promoted to General of Chariots and Marquis of Jin.

The military system of the Yellow Turban Army imitated the Han system. Above the front, rear, left, and right generals, there were chariot and cavalry generals, hussar generals, and guard generals.

The first rank has not been established yet, but it corresponds to the Sangong and the general of the Han Empire.

The official rank of Bing Bei Dao is set by Xu An as the fourth rank, which is enough to see the importance of Bing Bei Dao.

Yu Du served as Taihang's military equipment, and was qualified to dispatch all local troops within the Taihang military region and even local soldiers in the field under the state of war.

Shangdang County belonged to the Taihang Military Region, and all the soldiers in the county were under the control of the Poison Commander during the war.

Guo Tai retreated all the way to the west and retreated to Zhiguan Xingzhong.

Guo Tai used to be the Bingbei Dao of Shangjun, but after occupying Guanzhong, he was re-appointed as the Hedong Bingbei Dao.

After returning to Zhiguanxing, Guo Tai also immediately mobilized the field soldiers from Hedong County to help in the battle.

Yuan Shao sent troops to attack Zhiguan Xing and Taihang Xing tentatively several times, but they all failed. After deduction, if they want to conquer the two passes, they must suffer heavy losses, and the gains outweigh the losses.

The local field soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army have to receive military training once a week, and they have to accept an assessment every three months. Although they lack combat experience, they are more than enough to help defend the pass as supplementary soldiers.

However, Guo Tai and Yu Du could only save two passes, and Hanoi County was still completely occupied by Yuan Shao after all.

However, although Yuan Shao occupied Hanoi County, he still inevitably fell into the trap set by Jia Xu.

After the Yellow Turban Army made a gesture of cutting off the retreat route of the Han Army in the Southern Court, Liu Bei did not dare to stay in Xiaopingjin for a long time. After all, Yuan Shao and them were not real allies, but only temporarily united because of the threat of Taipingdao.

Liu Bei had no doubts that if the Yellow Turban Army really cut off his retreat, Yuan Shao would definitely attack him.

After the Yellow Turban Army made a gesture, Liu Bei didn't waste any time, and directly led more than [-] cavalrymen under his command to rush on the starry night, and hurried all the way back to the Rotary Gate Pass.

And this means that all Nanting's troops in the Luoyang area have withdrawn.

After driving away Liu Bei's cavalry and all the Nanting troops, Xu An sent someone to release the news to "魑魔" in advance, saying that because of the battle at Yuanyuan Pass, the Yellow Turban Army suffered heavy losses and lost Hanoi as a barrier. Pass, as well as the revolving door pass in the east, the Yellow Turban Army has already started to retreat and is preparing to withdraw from Luoyang.

Then Xu An directly ordered the evacuation time to be on August [-]th. Soon Mei also got the news that the Yellow Turban Army did not keep it secret at all, and then quickly spread it to Hanoi County.

When Yuan Shao heard the news, his first reaction was to be skeptical, but no matter how suspicious he was, he ordered to quickly gather a lot of troops at Mengjin and Xiaopingjin Pass.

After Xu An released the news, he ordered Xu Huang to lead the army to withdraw from the Shuyuan Pass. Although the Shuyuan Pass could be breached immediately, it is meaningless to break through the Shuyuan Pass now.

However, when Xu An withdrew from Zhiyuan Pass, he also left a gift for Huangfusong.

The seventh pass in the middle section of Shenyuan Pass was successfully smashed into ruins under the indiscriminate bombardment of dozens of counterweight catapults, and soldiers were arranged to demolish some buildings to block the mountain road.

If the Nanting army wanted to go out again, it would take at least half a month to clear these obstacles, and just this half month was enough for Yuan Shao to occupy Luoyang.

On August [-], according to the plan, Xu An asked Jia Xu to lead the infantry and the Bingzhou and Shanggu battalions to leave Luoyang first, and retreat towards Hangu Pass first.

Then Xu An personally led the Xiaoqi Battalion to evacuate to the southwest of Luoyang, sent the Xiliang Battalion to guard the Mengjin and Xiaopingjin Passes in the north of Luoyang area, and finally ordered to evacuate from Guangcheng Pass, and Gong Du, who was guarding the Yique Pass, evacuated.

Xu An led the Xiaoqi and Xiliang Battalions to the southwest of Luoyang City, covering Gong Du's withdrawal from the Yique and Dagu Passes.

At noon on August [-]th, the entire Yellow Turban Army marched in a hurry, and the last Yellow Turban Army had already arrived at Hangu Pass.

Luoyang is not far from Hangu Pass. The straight-line distance is only more than fifty miles. Of course, the distance from the official road must be much longer than the straight-line distance, but the marching speed of the Yellow Turban Army is also very fast.

At [-]:[-] p.m. on August [-]th, Xu An walked at the back of the team, leading the horse and entered Hangu Pass as the last person. The tall gate of Hangu Pass closed behind Xu An.

At this moment, the Taipingdao forces completely withdrew from the Luoyang area.

After Yuan Shao confirmed that Xu An really gave up the Luoyang area, he gave the order to march without hesitation.

The evening of August nineteenth.

Ju Yi led the Wuhuan cavalry from the three counties and the Xiandeng Battalion under his command to quickly march southward, followed by Gao Lan who led the Qiangnu Battalion and Wuwei Battalion.

Many of the news that Qi Mei snooped were intentionally released by the Yellow Turban Army, which also allowed Yuan Shao to have a very high level of understanding of the Luoyang area.

Yuan Shao knew that the Yellow Turban Army had just abandoned the Yique and Dagu Passes, and also learned that the middle section of the Zhiyuan Pass had been destroyed.

So under Yuan Shao's instruction, after Ju Yi entered Luoyang, he only left hundreds of soldiers to stabilize the order in Luoyang, and then divided his troops into three groups, sending people to take over Yique, Dagu, and Shenyuan.

In the early hours of August [-]th, Ju Yi led his subordinates to go to the camp first and hurried on the starry night, and successfully arrived at Dagu Pass, which was already unguarded.

August [-]th.

Good news came from the Yique and Zhiyuan passes, and they were successfully occupied.

When Yuan Shaojun occupied the six western passes of Zhiyuan Pass, the Nanting Army could only stand behind the ruins of the seventh pass and watch Yuan Shaojun's soldiers occupy the six western passes of Shenyuan Pass.

August twenty-first.

Nanting received the news a step later than Yuan Shao. Although the embroidered clothes messenger had been operating in Luoyang for almost a year, the information was definitely not as fast as what Xu An sent directly to Qi Mei. Nanting was slower than Yuan Shao after all. step.

After Nanting received the news, he immediately asked Gai Xun to lead his troops northward to collect the Yique and Dagu passes.

Gai Xun believed that Yuan Shao was closer to Luoyang. After receiving the news of Xu An's retreat, he might send troops out of Luoyang immediately. Yuan Shao controlled Luoyang, so he would definitely want to collect the checkpoints around Luoyang, and he would definitely reach Yique and Guangcheng first.

But now the soldiers under his command are neither elite nor veterans, and many of them even have no combat experience other than Guangchengguan
But the edict was issued, and it was difficult to disobey. Gai Xun could only lead his army of more than [-] people to advance northward.

At this time, Ju Yi had already dispersed his scouts and discovered the whereabouts of Gai Xunjun.

Gai Xun led about [-] soldiers. Except for the soldiers from the families of the two counties and the soldiers who followed all the way from Chang'an City, the rest of the soldiers were all local soldiers recruited temporarily.

After Ju Yi occupied the two passes of Yique and Taigu, he did not order to replace the banners, but ordered the army to hide and set up an ambush outside the pass.

Gai Xun is a cautious person, he first sent a lot of cavalry to scout first, and led the army behind him.

And these reconnaissance cavalry were all focused on the pass, and they didn't pay attention to the ambushes outside the pass.

They told Gai Xun the news that the two passes were not occupied for the time being. Although Gai Xun was still hesitant, the two passes were close at hand. If they were in their hands, even if Yuan Shao occupied Luoyang, he would have trouble sleeping and eating. Useless.

So although Gai Xun was still hesitating, he still issued a military order, and the soldiers divided into two groups and quickly advanced towards the two passes, preparing to receive the two passes.

And all this is in Ju Yi's arms.

Gai Xun led the army to rush forward all the way, but he still did not relax his vigilance and sent a large number of scouts to explore the road.

And this move also successfully discovered the ambush of Yuan Shaojun who had relaxed his vigilance.

Seeing that the ambush was discovered, Ju Yi stopped hiding and ordered the army to go out.

Three thousand first boarded the camp and two thousand infantry stood in front of the official road, blocking Gai Xun's army from going north.

In fact, Gai Xun was already on the verge of riding a tiger. If the army under his command was still the original Liangzhou soldiers, then he could choose to retreat.

But it is impossible to retreat now. Now his subordinates are no longer those brave frontier soldiers, but a group of peasants and soldiers who have just taken up arms for less than a month. Then it will fall to the bottom, which will trigger a chain reaction and turn into a big rout.

Gai Xun thought about the quality of the soldiers under his command, but he never imagined that these soldiers would be so unbearable. It wasn't because they were ambushed, but because they discovered that there was an ambush in front of them, there was already a commotion.

If it weren't for the extremely strong city walls of Guangcheng Pass, and the soldiers dispatched by those powerful families, just relying on these farmers and soldiers, Guangcheng Pass might have already been breached by the Yellow Turban Army.

Although Ju Yi's army had only [-] infantry and [-] cavalry, they had no fear at all.

Among the [-] soldiers, [-] were Ju Yi's direct line troops-first boarded the camp, and the other [-] were veterans who had experienced the Battle of Dongjun and the Battle of Hanoi.

And the [-] cavalry army was also the brave Youzhou Tuqi under Gongsun Zan's command. After Gongsun Zan's defeat, many cavalry troops joined Yuan Shao's command.

The two armies fell into a fierce battle, Gai Xun could only reluctantly command the soldiers to defend, [-] against [-], but he could only parry.

When the fierce battle continued until dusk, Ju Yi boarded the mound to observe the situation of Gai Xun's army, and soon he discovered the weakness of Gai Xun's army.

The front and center of Gai Xun's army are composed of old soldiers, and the military appearance is fairly well-organized, but the left and right wings and the rear army are in chaotic formation. There are only a few places that are still well-organized, and they should be the old soldiers who are in charge of maintaining stability.

Seeing this, Ju Yi did not hesitate. He summoned the cavalry under his command and divided them into two teams. One team was handed over to his general, and the other team was led by himself, and the banner was agreed upon.

It was getting late, and when Gai Xun relaxed his vigilance a little due to the weather, Ju Yi led the cavalry under his command to charge out suddenly, attacking the two wings of Gai Xun's army.

The fierce battle during the day has already made Ju Yi figure out how the temporarily recruited county soldiers on the outskirts can stop the once famous Youzhou cavalry, especially when these cavalry are equipped with new harnesses. The power is even more frightening.

The emergence of new harnesses gave cavalry greater impact and more terrifying destructive power.

Soon the left and right wings were broken through, and the veteran army formation responsible for maintaining the army formation was also broken. The troops on the left and right wings of the Han army collapsed in an instant.

Gai Xun dispatched reinforcements back to the left and right wings, but it was too late. Ju Yi broke through the left and right wings of the Han army, taking advantage of the situation to cover up the kill.

Gai Xun was defeated, and finally only a few thousand people fled back to Guangcheng Pass.

Another Han army marching towards Yiqueguan was also ambushed by Yuan Shaojun, but they were not as lucky as Gai Xun, and the entire army was wiped out in the end.

Since then, except for Hangu Pass in the west, Guangcheng Pass in the south, and Revolving Gate Pass in the east, the other eight passes in Luoyang have all been under the control of Yuan Shaojun.

On August [-], the Battle of Luoyang lasted for more than a month.

In the game between the three parties, it was not Nan Ting or Xu An who got the biggest profit in the end, but Yuan Shao, who was originally the weakest among the three parties.

The western part of Shenyuan Pass was in Yuan Shao's hands, while the eastern part was in the hands of Nanting. The two sides had no interest in attacking each other, so no one cleared up the ruins blocked by the central part.

Although the easternmost revolving door pass is occupied by the South Court, it is actually acceptable. After all, the revolving door pass needs to go through a long corridor to the west to reach Luoyang. It only needs to be stationed in Gong County and Yanshi. Can cut off the attack from the direction of the rotary door.

As for Hangu Pass, although I heard the news that the Yellow Turban Army suffered heavy losses, and I am afraid that they will not go out of the pass for a short time, Yuan Shao still ordered his general Lu Zhao to lead troops to garrison in Gucheng on the main road west of Luoyang to guard the pass. Yellow Turban Army.

Moreover, the most important thing is that Yuan Shaojun not only won the battle of Luoyang, but also broke through two of the Taihang Eight Xings that had been occupied by the Yellow Turban Army for a long time-Fukouxing and Baixing.

After defeating Fukouxing and Baixing, although Yuan Shao was unable to attack the hinterland of Bingzhou controlled by Taiping Road to the west, he relieved the threat of the Yellow Turban Army to the northern part of Hanoi County and Wei County, and reduced the number of troops that needed to be stationed. , liberated part of the troops, allowing Yuan Shao to concentrate more energy on other places.

However, although Yuan Shao won the battle of Luoyang, he suffered a great defeat on another battlefield.

Another battlefield is Qingzhou.

Under the leadership of Lu Sheng, the Taishan Yellow Turban Army finally defeated Pingshou's Qingzhou soldiers.

Tian Feng led the Jizhou soldiers in pursuit all the way, and finally encountered the Taishan Yellow Turban Army on August [-]th.

But at this time, the Taishan Yellow Turban Army had already joined forces with the Yingzhou soldiers led by Yingzhou Governor Tai Shici.

Under Tian Feng's command, there are [-] soldiers from Jizhou, [-] soldiers from Qingzhou, [-] soldiers from Taishan Yellow Turban Army, [-] soldiers from Taishan Battalion, and [-] soldiers from Yingzhou Army.

The difference in military strength is quite wide.

The two sides fought fiercely twenty miles north of Pingshou City.

After three days of fierce fighting, both sides won and lost. Jizhou had few soldiers, but because it was in the hinterland of Qingzhou, reinforcements from all over the country continued to flow into Tian Feng's command. In fact, the scale of victory was tilting towards the Jizhou soldiers.

Tai Shici knew that he couldn't delay any longer, and let the people and ordinary young and strong in the Yellow Turban Army of Mount Tai go first, while looking for opportunities to fight.

After three consecutive days of fighting, Tai Shici became familiar with some of the tactics of the Jizhou army, so he deliberately opened a gap, and the Jizhou army took the bait.

Tai Shici was waiting for this opportunity, and Tai Shici had already handed over the right to command the army to Lu Sheng.

Tai Shici took the bow and shot the bow, and single-handedly jumped out of the formation, bent the bow and set the arrow, all in one go.

When everyone came back to their senses, Su You was killed on the spot with an arrow in his throat.

Taishi Ci broke through the encirclement and charged towards Gu Chi, holding a long spear and killing several people in a row. When the Jizhou soldiers reacted, Taishi Ci had already killed several people in a row, broke out of the siege single-handedly, and was invincible.

During the chaotic battle, many cavalry troops of the Han army wanted to intercept Tai Shici, but as soon as the horse moved, the knight on the horse was already under the horse's hooves. And pour.

Tai Shici rushed into the Jizhou army's cavalry formation, beheaded Su You and returned, but none of the hundreds of cavalry troops in the Jizhou army's front line dared to pursue.

Lu Sheng took advantage of the situation to hide and kill, Tian Feng was defeated, so he could only fight and retreat, and finally retreated to Pingshou City, no longer able to pursue.

On August [-]th, the [-] Taishan Yellow Turban Army finally arrived in Yingzhou under the escort of Yingzhou soldiers. In more than ten days, more than [-] people died on the road...

When the news reached Luoyang, Guo Tu took the opportunity to remonstrate Tian Feng's faults, and Yuan Shao was furious.

Yuan Tan is the shepherd of Qingzhou. He knew that the reason why the Taishan Yellow Turban Army escaped was that Qingzhou soldiers were too weak. He was afraid that Tian Feng would write a letter to inform Yuan Shao of the details of Qingzhou, so he wrote a letter to blame Tian Feng and fabricated a crime plan On Tian Feng's head.

The document punishing Tian Feng had just passed the Yellow River. After Yuan Shao received Yuan Tan's letter, he was even more furious, so he directly asked Shen Yu to send a demon to take Tian Fengshou into prison.

The successive battles not only fueled Yuan Shao's power, but also fueled his arrogance and arrogance.

The arrogance and arrogance in his heart grew vigorously in this big victory...

August twenty-seventh.

Light rain patters.

Yuan Shao drove slowly on the streets of Luoyang in a luxurious car.

The sanitation guards in heavy armor were around the car.

The rain falling on the canopy above the car made a slight sound, which made Yuan Shao feel quite at ease.

Although the streets on both sides have been repaired several times, they have not yet returned to their former prosperity.

The wheels rolled slowly, and the car drove all the way in the direction of Luoyang Taimiao.

Yuan Shao at this time was at a time when he was full of ambition.

It's just that he didn't know that when he was patrolling Luoyang and demonstrating his martial arts, a huge storm was brewing against him in Chendu, Yuzhou...

(End of this chapter)