Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 26

Yixihu, Yixihu, the vast desert will not return.

Guyan looks at the edge of Baicheng from a distance, the sun is dim when the hundred riders return to the frost, the iron horse is like snow, and the flames of the war are filled with smoke.

The whole life is drunk and accompanied, the wild sun divides the sword and the shadow, the sky and the stars unite the sword writing, and the bones are buried by the river, and the enemy's soul is smashed with a single shot.

In the past decades, Huangyan has never been sad, and there is no hope for thousands of miles, and I no longer have a youthful heart.

Even if you look at the smoke in the desert alone, and the smoke on the Momo of the falling flag, go back, go back, the Guanshan Mountains are full, the temples are slightly frosty, and the four hundred states are broken.

Xiang Yu rode his horse in front, and even looking back for a moment, he couldn't see the thousands of miles of desert and thousands of miles of meadows.

The Huns were originally a nation on horseback, and their ancestors lived a life of chasing water and grass for generations. However, in order to survive, they could only be willing to become a vassal of the Eastern Han Dynasty, cross the Yin Mountains, leave the large grasslands, and live in an enclosed area inside.

The fertility of the grassland is very limited, and the speed at which a large number of cattle, sheep and livestock consume green grass is astonishing. The conditions of the grassland are very different in different climates and seasons, so nomads often need to migrate continuously. Looking for a place suitable for grazing and living, and once they are enclosed in an area that is not large enough, the grassland degradation caused by livestock will seriously affect their production and survival ability, which forces them to find alternatives or A partial replacement for animal husbandry.

So some southern Huns learned from the Han people and planted grain in the land, but the climate and environment in Bingzhou is not very good. Although it is better than the north of Yinshan Mountain, it is only better. They still need the Eastern Han Dynasty The Dynasty provides them with a considerable amount of various materials every year, including food such as grain, cattle and sheep, and some daily necessities such as pots and bowls.

Obviously, these southern Huns who chose to rebel were not satisfied with this kind of life at all. In the eyes of many of them, this was a rather humiliating way of life. Domesticated dogs live a life of wagging their tails and begging for food. This is a kind of wildness hidden deep in their blood.

Of course, Xiang Yu chose to take them in, and one of the most important reasons was because of the wild nature of their blood. Xiang Yu knew that such a team, after careful training by himself, would surely become a team that would frighten the enemy. , the tiger and wolf division who fled watching the wind, but there are still two critical issues before Xiang Yu. One is the appointment and dismissal of officers in the army where the Southern Huns have become the majority, and the other is the issue of food supplies.

After receiving the letter from Dong Zhuo, Xiang Yu also wrote a letter to Dong Zhuo, briefly reporting in his own words the process of his battle with the Southern Huns rebels and the rebels who surrendered later. It is very likely that Dong Zhuo knew about these situations a long time ago, but after Xiang Yu reported these, he also mentioned that he must first meet with the county government for a short repair, and then go to support Dong Zhuo after replenishing enough food.

Xiang Yu led his troops to station in the north of Chang'an, and at the same time replenished food supplies. During this period, Dong Zhuo sent a letter back to Xiang Yu, saying that he had told the emperor about Xiang Yu's meritorious service in suppressing the rebellion, and the emperor's reward edict would arrive soon. The letter also told Xiang Yu not to be in a hurry, those Yellow Turban soldiers were nothing to worry about, and he was completely able to handle it.

A few days later, the emperor's edict arrived. Xiang Yu was named "General Pinghu" by the emperor because of his meritorious service in suppressing the Southern Huns rebels, and he was ordered to set off immediately with Dong Zhuo to crusade against the Yellow Turban Army. However, what Xiang Yu did not expect was that , he couldn't take his troops there because he didn't know the military system of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the military system of the Eastern Han Dynasty, except for the general "Dianjingcheng Military Guard", the number of soldiers the other generals led depended on the needs.It's not that when you are a general, you have soldiers, but "as soon as you have something to appoint, just let it go", so "soldiers have no permanent generals, and generals have no permanent soldiers".

This time Xiang Yu was awarded the title of "General Pinghu", but he could only transfer the Central Army sent to him by the Eastern Han Dynasty. The troops arranged for him.

Speaking of both ends, the reason why Dong Zhuo was called by the emperor (Emperor Han Ling) to fight the Yellow Turban Army this time is that the Zhonglang General Lu Zhi sent by the Emperor was not effective in destroying the bandits. Lu Zhi was originally fighting the Yellow Turban Army. The time went very well. Although the Yellow Turban Army had a large number of people, they were all mobs after all, and their overall strength was very limited. Lu Zhi fought and won victoriously all the way until he surrounded a large group of Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong.

However, when the eunuch sent from the imperial court to supervise the army asked Lu Zhi for a bribe, he was sternly rejected by Lu Zhi, so the eunuch who supervised the army reported to the emperor after returning: "The thief of Guangzong is easy to break his ears, Zhonglang solidified his base and rested his army, waiting for Heaven to punish him."

It means that the Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong is already cooked ducks, and it is difficult to fly. Originally, Lu Zhi could attack them all with a little attack, but this Lu Zhi was quite slack, and he was reluctant to attack. People are very problematic!

So the emperor was very angry, and soon called Lu Zhi back to the court to give him a heavy responsibility, and then appointed Dong Zhuo as the general of Dongzhong Lang, asking him to replace Lu Zhi to attack the Yellow Turban Army who had been besieged in Guangzong.

Dong Zhuo was happy when he first heard this order. After all, according to the emperor’s tone, those Yellow Turbans were already in his pocket, and it would be easy to deal with them. Accepting this order by himself was simply a piece of cake from the sky. It was a great thing, so he gladly accepted the emperor's edict.

However, after Dong Zhuo really came to Jizhou, after on-the-spot investigation and a comprehensive understanding of the battlefield situation, Dong Zhuo, who is very experienced in combat, discovered that this was not only a pie that fell from the sky, but a trap that fell from the sky. This Guangzong is by no means a good place to fight.

Whether it is Lu Zhi or Dong Zhuo, they are all experts in leading troops to fight. They all know that the reason why the Yellow Turban Army was killed and defeated again and again is because although they have a large number, the peasant army lacks actual combat experience. They don't know how to use battle formations on a large-scale battlefield, and they don't have excellent generals to command in real time. Therefore, they are easily defeated when they encounter a regular army on a broad battlefield, and then a large-scale army rout occurs.

But now the Yellow Turban Army is besieged in Guangzong City, and has changed from a large-scale field battlefield to an urban offensive and defensive battle. War is often a meat grinder battlefield, and the fight is who has more troops and who has stronger willpower.

The number of the Yellow Turban Army is still very large. Now they are forced to a desperate situation and have no way to retreat. They will inevitably rise up to resist and defend the city to the death. Therefore, it must be quite difficult to force an attack under such circumstances, even if they can win in the end. There must be a heavy price to pay, so it seems that Lu Zhi encircled and did not attack, cut off the food supply in the city, and finally forced the Yellow Turban Army to either desperately break through or surrender. This is undoubtedly the best strategy.

But what is helpless is that the hateful eunuch has offered slander to the emperor, making the emperor believe that this battle is very easy to fight, and that Lu Zhi's siege and not attacking is entirely a matter of Lu Zhi's personal command. In this case, Dong Zhuo took over This task is really a hot potato, if I can't handle it well, maybe I will fall here too.

The current situation is neither to attack nor not to attack, so Dong Zhuo began to plan to attack Quyang, which is located in the northwest of Guangzong, anyway. Beat it down, so that the emperor would at least have an explanation when he asked.

(End of this chapter)