Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turbans finally revolt

Chapter 424 Songshan Mountain in Desperation, Bohai King Appears

"Rainbows, dragons absorb water, and often come and go after the rain." Liu Qing said, walked out of the house, stood in the corridor, looked up at the gray sky, "Luoyang has been washed by blood and rain, and the people should welcome it in the future." Have a good day!"

Guo Jia followed to the corridor, "Master, is it too fast?"

"It's strange to you. Other people's advisers are trying their best to encourage their lords to forge ahead, even taking risks. You and Wen Ruodao have repeatedly told this king to slow down, slow down. At this time, there are only a few powerful people in the world. Even if you separate yourself and become king, it won't make much progress. You know, if five or ten years pass, when I'm ready for everything, the imperial power will be completely lost, and the hearts of the people will be against each other. It's even harder."

Guo Jia listened, and suddenly bowed and said: "My lord's words are reasonable, what exactly is it, Wen Ruo and I should obey the lord's order."

"The purpose of this trip to Sili is Yuan Shu. It would be even better if we can easily solve the Xiliang army's stubborn illness. Let's continue to wait and see. If this battle is really not good for Dong Zhuo, the reason is that he has sacrificed a lot for the king. Save his life."

"The subordinate understands!" Guo Jia said, took a few steps back, and left.

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To the west of Yanshi is Dong Zhuo's camp.

After Huaxiong was beheaded, Dong Zhuo gave up the complete siege of Yanshi. Instead, he followed Li Ru's advice and concentrated his forces relatively, forming three camps in the north, south, and west to contain Yanshi.

In addition, in the west, Dong Zhuo's army also encountered Han Sui and Yan Xing's Qiang-Liang coalition forces. It does not reduce the cruelty of the battle, but rather increases it.

When the cavalry of both sides fought, both sides often got stuck in the mud. The final result was that the horses were abandoned, and the cavalry fought on foot, mixed together, close combat, hand-to-hand combat, and in the end, any grasping and biting could become an attack method.

Dong Zhuo's face was gloomy, just like this gloomy weather, and Li Ru, Dong Min and Tian Jing beside him did not speak.

"There has been no progress in the attack from the west, and Sun Jian has repeatedly attacked Yanshi. Now we are in a very passive position. Tianjing, how long will the army be able to support?"

Tian Jing stepped forward and said softly, "It's less than ten days."

Hearing this number, the faces of several people changed.

Dong Min said bluntly: "Brother, it's less than ten days, what should I do?"

Dong Zhuo glanced at Li Ru, sighed suddenly, and thought in his heart, it would be great if Wenhe was there, Wenhe must have a way, although Li Ru is talented, but Wenhe's calculations are not a failure, only things , After experiencing failure, you can tell the difference.

"My lord, I look at the sky, and there are signs of the sky blooming in the past two days, maybe the rain will stop." Li Ru said.

"Mr. Li, even if the rain stops, the cavalry will only have room to deploy the cavalry when the ground is completely dry. Our army can't wait for that time." Tian Jing reminded.

Unless it's out in the sun for a few days.

"My lord, as long as the rain stops, our army can march along the official road and take Luoyang directly!" Li Ru said.

Dong Zhuo nodded, there was no other way.

Dong Min suddenly stepped forward and leaned into Dong Zhuo's ear and said, "Brother, I heard that King Bohai is already in Xingyang, why don't you send troops to ask King Bohai for help?"

Dong Zhuo frowned, and replied: "Shuying doesn't know something. We owe the King of Bohai a long time ago. Now that we are powerful and determined to win, we still ask for help?"

"Brother, if there is any good or bad in this battle, isn't it the end of the game for us? Let's go and beg the King of Bohai!" Dong Min persuaded again.

Dong Zhuo was still struggling and glanced at Li Ru.

His idea was obviously not to bother the King of Bohai, because the King of Bohai wanted to deal with Yuan Shao, and he had not just left the trouble of Yanzhou to the King of Bohai.

"Brother! If something happens, the Dong family will be finished!" Dong Min refused to let go, and now the emperor, the empress dowager, and Dong's family members all disappeared without a trace, and the nephew Dong Huang who was in Luoyang was dead. After being imprisoned, the Dong family has only their two brothers now.

Dong Zhuo pondered for a while.

"Forget it, send someone to inform the king!" Dong Zhuo compromised.

Three days later.

Sure enough, the weather cleared up as Li Ru said, and Dong Jun sent another army to attack along the official road.

At the beginning, the progress was very smooth. Han Suijun seemed to have not recovered from the embarrassment of the heavy rain. He met Dong Zhuo who was attacking suddenly, and retreated steadily. Dong Zhuojun advanced ten miles in half a day, and Luoyang was only a stone's throw away.

Dong Zhuo's face, which had been gloomy for many days, finally brightened up when he heard the news that Han Sui's army was defeated in Luoyang.

"My lord, the best of Yuan's army is in Yanshi County, Zhu Jun is in the north, and Han Sui is defeated. Take advantage of this time to attack Luoyang!" Li Ru suggested.

"Okay! The army presses forward and attacks Luoyang!" Dong Zhuo ordered.

"The army presses up and attacks Luoyang!" General Li Ru repeated the order again and again solemnly.

Next, he continued to wait for the news from the front line. Dong Zhuo still had a lot of worries, and often asked Li Ru, "Wen You, how is this victory calculated?" and so on.

Li Ru knew that this opportunity was rare. If Luoyang could not be captured, he might really end up with a good future. How easy is it to go this way? He even did the king-killing thing, Luoyang is just a mere thing, and he is bound to win!

"Don't worry, my lord, the victory in this battle will definitely belong to my lord!" Li Ru swore on his lips, but he also secretly felt ruthless in his heart, no matter how much he paid, he would get Luo Yang back!

For this reason, Li Ru left the Chinese army tent and rushed to the front line together.

The next day, Dong Zhuo was notified by Li Ru that the army had successfully advanced, and the army was on the verge of approaching the city of Luoyang Dongmen.

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "This is only a few miles away, and we can run back and forth in a day on weekdays, but this battle is progressing so difficult, fortunately we have finally reached Luoyang!
"My lord, it is still very difficult to attack Luoyang, so don't slack off." Tian Jing reminded.

"What the master said is true! Let's be happy, this time the military adviser leads the army personally, we should go and see." Dong Zhuo laughed.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside.

"Not good!"

"It's not good!" Dong Min rushed into the account, "Brother, the big thing is not good, the Hulao Pass has been lost!"

"What? Say it again!" Dong Zhuo looked at Dong Min in disbelief, obviously not believing what he said.

Dong Min paused and took a deep breath.

"Brother, Yin, Daoqiang and the gentry of Henan have put together a lot of soldiers and horses. The spies came to report that Hulao Pass has been lost!"

Dong Zhuo immediately understood that it was because of the "raising" of food.

"Hurry up, call Niu Fu back to help Hulao Pass!" Dong Zhuo hurriedly ordered, sweat dripping from his forehead.

The way ahead is unclear, the way back has been cut off, Dong Zhuo's anxiety is getting more and more intense...

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"My lord, something is wrong. The allied forces of the gentry have captured Hulao Pass, and Dong Zhuo is in a dilemma."

Guo Jia brought a big news to Liu Qing who was basking in the sun.

Those gentry tyrants who had been robbed of food and grass by the Xiliang army united together. The big families produced thousands of plays, and the small ones also had dozens of hundreds. At the moment, the joining of 3 to [-] people suddenly tilted the balance of the war.

The Xiliang army that lost Hulao Pass is equivalent to losing the rear. If the front army learns that the rear has been lost, the morale of the front army will plummet at least, and it will cause soldiers to mutiny.

"It seems that the moment that the lord said is coming soon." Guo Jia said.

"At first, I thought that this battle would be won by Luoyang, but I never thought, Feng Xiao, this incident once again proves that the one who wins the hearts of the people wins the world!"

"What the Xiliang army has done is not worthy of sympathy. Will my lord maintain the original plan?"

Liu Qing originally wanted Guo Jia to arrange an army to rescue Dong Zhuo directly. Now that he thought about it, Dong Zhuo was defeated faster than he expected. Perhaps it was not surprising that Dong Zhuo died on the battlefield with Dong Zhuo's temperament.

"Dong Zhuo's mother and granddaughter, have you taken over yet?"

"We arrived in Xingyang two days ago."

"Okay, take someone with you, the king will go there himself!"

"My lord, if Dong Zhuo returns to the army, Zhu Jun is in the north, Sun Jian is fighting out from Yanshi in the west, and there is an allied army of powerful gentry in the east. Dong Zhuo will have to flee to the southern mountains."

"where?"

"South of Gong County, Mount Song."

Liu Qing suddenly thought of a cold joke: Did you go to Songshan to become a monk after being defeated?

But at that time, there was no Shaolin.

"The victory or defeat of a soldier depends not only on the strength and performance of both sides, but also on the right time, place, and harmony between people. This can be said to be vividly reflected in Dong Zhuo's battle. Dong Zhuo first lost his time, then lost his harmony, and the army was defeated. Like a mountain, let's go!"

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Since the news of the fall of Hulao spread, Dong Jun must retreat every battle, and Sun Jianjun has already left Yanshi to pursue him, seeking to take the initiative to fight.

Sun Jian's first army broke out from Yanshi, directly cutting off the connection between Dong Zhuo and Li Ru's former army.

Dong Jun continued to be defeated, and the group of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses was gradually divided and eroded.

"Brother, the mountains to the south are dead!" Dong Min raised a different opinion.

"Where else can I go besides this place?"

Dong Zhuo's rhetorical question made Dong Min speechless.

"I asked you to send someone to seek help from King Bohai, did you send someone?"

"Sent! But in the current situation, if the King of Bohai wants to save him, it will be beyond his reach..." Dong Min's words were full of frustration.

"Shu Ying, cheer up, if there is no way ahead, then turn around and fight, we brothers die together, and we are worthy of being a man!"

Dong Min is obviously not as open as Dong Zhuo, and he has a heavy burden. Dong Zhuo has had ups and downs all his life, and he is used to strong winds and waves. However, under Dong Zhuo's protection, Dong Min has gradually become powerful. If one day he suddenly loses, It's hard to accept.

"I never thought that our brother would be buried in this nameless mountain."

"The general's words are wrong. You can see that this battle is full of mountains and mountains, and the rocks are green. The "Book of Songs" says: It is as high as the sky, and this mountain is the famous mountain Songshan in the Central Plains!" Tian Jing, who has read the book, introduced.

Dong Min stopped and looked up, it was indeed majestic, but to pessimistic people, it was still a dead end.

"Great! Difficult to climb! Dead Mountain!" Dong Min said.

"Hahaha!" Dong Zhuo smiled rarely, but he couldn't even laugh along the way, "Our life has been full of ups and downs, and I haven't seen any scenes. If the King of Bohai hadn't killed Zhang Jiao to help me escape, I'm afraid I would have died in exile. The road is over, how come this year has been wonderful, aftertaste, enough!"

Dong Zhuo gradually recognized the reality, the burden in his heart became lighter and lighter, and his words became more and more bold.

"Report-"

"Report to the General, the coalition forces of the Northeast Gentlemen are only five miles away!"

"Bah!" Dong Zhuo spat, "A bunch of villains who were fawning on us before, just asked them to borrow some food, so they took the opportunity to make trouble. Soldiers, let me kill you, count as many as you can kill!"

Dong Zhuo just wanted to draw his sword, but was stopped by Tian Jing, "Don't do it, Mr. Dong!"

"Dong Gong calm down, let's go into the mountain!" Tian Jing said.

Dong Zhuo glanced at the towering peaks of Songshan Mountain, and sighed: "Forget it, if you die outside, it's better to choose a place with good geomantic omen to die. Landlord, please pay attention to your theory of geomantic omen and water, and find a good place for us!"

Tian Jing was a little dumbfounded, Dong Gong is really open-minded, at this time, he is still in the mood to joke.

As the speed of going up the mountain became slower and slower, the coalition forces quickly caught up. Dong Jun fought and retreated, constantly reducing the number of people. Soon, from the more than a thousand people at the foot of the mountain, after climbing hundreds of steps, only a few people remained. [-], and it is still decreasing.

"Master, this place is good!" Tian Jing who was climbing the mountain said suddenly.

Dong Zhuo took a look and found that this place is much flatter than other places, but the terrain is not low. There is a high cliff in front, and there is a trickle on the south side, ding dong.

"Okay, let's stop here! Go get some water!" Dong Zhuo ordered, and he began to count the troops, counting, and suddenly burst into tears.

"Ten tens of thousands of Xiliang brothers have followed me, but it has only been three years, but they have ended up in such a field, only a few hundred people are left, woo woo woo!"

Perhaps it was because Dong Zhuo's wail was so miserable that everyone around him began to cry.

"Hahaha, Dong thief is crying for himself in advance?"

A voice of sarcasm suddenly came, and a group of people and horses went up slowly. Although the mountain road was rough, the mounts were still barely able to get on.

coming!

"Hmph!" Dong Zhuo snorted coldly, "When I was a great general, you would only flatter me, but now that we are in trouble, we just make trouble. It's a pity that we will die at the hands of your idiots!"

The leader of the gentry laughed and said: "Thanks to General Sun's promotion, give me a chance to revenge, Dong thief, you are domineering, when you were in the fish and meat village, did you ever think that you would have today!"

"Stop talking nonsense, fight if you want!" Dong Zhuo snorted, drew out his saber, stared at Gunyuan, and stared at a certain kind of scholar.

"Mice, Dong Zhuo's head is here, who dares to take it!"

"I'll try!"

A horse sprang out from the crowd, went up the slope, and when it came to the flat ground, it accelerated towards Dong Zhuo, and aimed a spear straight at Dong Zhuo's face.

"Brother be careful!"

Dong Min was shocked, but just as he finished speaking, he saw that the man had fallen off his horse. Dong Zhuo was holding his horse with one hand, and slashed at his shoulder and neck with a knife in the other. Blood was gushing from the wound, and his body was still shaking twitch.

"Bah! Dirty our treasure land!" Dong Zhuo spat, and immediately kicked the corpse off the cliff.

The scholars were shocked when they saw this, they didn't expect Dong Zhuo to be obese, but still have such fighting power.

"Tie Dong still has a bit of force, don't fight alone, let's fight together!" The leader of the scholars shouted.

"Yes, let's go together and hack him to death!"

It can be seen that these people have no ordinary hatred for Dong Zhuo.

There were bursts of war horses neighing, and the allied forces of the gentry clans rushed to the platform, intending to accumulate strength and wipe out Dong Zhuo's remnants in one go.

"Everyone, today is the day to get rid of the evil. Bandit Dong and his Xiliang rebels will all bow down on Songshan Mountain! Kill—"

Before the killing order was over, just as the coalition forces were ready to go, a loud but lazy voice suddenly came from the sky.

"You want to kill the big man's general, have you asked the king?"

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