Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 88 The situation is critical

But he said that the general under Sun Jian who was fighting the battle was not an ordinary person. Although he was not Sun Jian's original direct subordinate, he was also a ruthless man who followed Sun Jian's men from the fight against the rebellion all the way. At the beginning, he was just a relatively ordinary person. He was just a corporal commander, but with his bravery, he was promoted all the way up by Sun Jian, and finally he was promoted by Sun Jian to serve as an important general among the most elite troops around him. He can be regarded as one of the few people Sun Jian trusted the most. .

So Sun Jian saw that he was willing to fight, so he just went down the donkey and stopped forcing himself to continue fighting. In fact, this general also has a large proportion of Qiang and Hu blood. His body shape is not that of a Han Chinese at all, and his tone of voice and personality also have obvious Qianghu characteristics.

Of course, this is very normal in this era. The use of Qianghu to control Qianghu has almost become a basic national policy of the Eastern Han Dynasty for a long time, such as many policies of the Southern Huns and Xiliang. manifestation of the situation.

However, although this partially alleviated the difficulty of the Eastern Han central government's defense of the frontier, it also buried many hidden dangers. The expanding border rebellion in recent years is the manifestation of this problem after the escalation, but the Eastern Han Dynasty has already It is no longer able to make fundamental changes. When a country's territory is too large, sometimes there will be a lot of problems, especially in such an era when transportation and information transmission are extremely difficult, the central government controls the entire huge empire. It needs to rely on the centralized system established by Qin Shihuang and then inherited and gradually improved by the Han Dynasty.

Although the Han Dynasty inherited the unified and centralized political system of the Qin Dynasty, it also partially retained the enfeoffment system of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. Ling and other series of policies to disintegrate the power of the enfeoffed princes were implemented. This kind of enfeoffment system actually existed in name only by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and many remaining powers of enfeoffing the princes were already very weak.

However, under such circumstances, the centralization of power based on the system of prefectures and counties in the Eastern Han Dynasty has not been fully established. There are various problems and deficiencies in many places. The real central government in ancient China The maturity of centralization has to wait until the Ming Dynasty more than 1000 years later. At that time, it will be the complete body of the unified dynasty under the centralization of power in the true sense.

It is a pity that by that time, the Western world has gradually stepped out of the haze of the Middle Ages and entered a new era through the Renaissance. However, the Ming and Qing dynasties in China reached their peak due to this unified centralization of power, and they were separated from the entire West and even the rest of the world. It was separated from the development of the whole world, and gradually embarked on a road of closing the country.

Now the generals from both sides are coming forward. The general on Sun Jian's side is very tall and mighty, with the typical tiger general shape, but the slight disadvantage is that his left hand was also seriously injured in the previous battle. His combat ability has declined a bit, and he can't use weapons in a balanced way with both hands like before he was injured.

And the generals sent by Han Sui are also burly Qiang generals, but his face is very fierce, especially his eyes are like wolves and tigers, and he has a terrible feeling that he seems to want to swallow people alive. If a person sees him like this, he will be scared to the ground in an instant, and if a child sees him, he will probably be so scared that he will cry out loud.

The two generals spread out in front of the formation of the two armies, exchanged some trash talk to each other to greet their respective ancestors, and then began to charge each other unceremoniously. The general on Han Sui's side was extremely fierce, and he used both A huge tomahawk, unlike ordinary generals who like to use long-handled weapons, this guy can swing a two-handed ax with one hand, and can constantly switch the tomahawk back and forth between the left hand and the right hand. His strength is truly terrifying.

The general Sun Jian sent out still held the more commonly used halberd. He was planning to use the halberd's advantage in attack distance to launch a battle, but he soon discovered that the opponent's attack was too brave , It is difficult for him to parry at all. The most important point is that his left hand can't fully exert its strength, which makes it very difficult for him to hard-press the opponent's attack.

He didn't dare to fight head-on, so he had no choice but to avoid his edge, looking for opportunities to use the attack distance to try to stab the opponent directly, but there were not many opportunities left for him, he had to seize it as much as possible.

Seeing the battle before the formation, Sun Jian couldn't help feeling a little annoyed, because he could clearly see that the general on his side was at a disadvantage, and the face of the other general was too fierce, even if he saw him from a long distance away It makes people involuntarily produce a kind of fear.

Many of the soldiers in Sun Jian's formation had uncontrollable panic expressions on their faces, and Sun Jian noticed all of this, and he said to himself that today's attack seemed a bit unsmooth.

Soon Sun Jian discovered that the situation was not as simple as going smoothly. His generals did not seize the opportunity to kill the opponent. It was about to be split in half, and he lost his breath when he fell off the horse.

Han Sui was overjoyed, so he asked Sun Jian before the battle if he wanted to send generals to fight. Sun Jian was very annoyed, but he couldn't do anything. The morale of the entire army has been shaken by the tiger general's few tricks, and Sun Jian couldn't help feeling a little bit withdrawn.

Seeing that Sun Jian was silent, Han Sui waved his hand and ordered the whole army to charge towards Sun Jian, led mainly by Xiliang cavalry, but the number of Xiliang cavalry on Han Sui's side was obviously more than that on Sun Jian's side. At the beginning, this situation didn't seem very obvious, but Sun Jian soon discovered that the number of enemies rushing out of Yunwu City was too many.

Sun Jian's side was also mainly cavalry, so he immediately ordered to retreat, not to fight head-to-head with Han Sui's troops. Although the retreat may cause certain non-combat casualties, at least it can preserve a certain amount of vitality.

Seeing Sun Jian's retreat, Han Sui also personally led the army to cover up and kill him. When Sun Jian was retreating, he was surprised to find that many Xiliang cavalrymen had been killed in the mountains beside him. The Xiliang cavalry stationed in the mountains came out halfway, and they were about to intercept Sun Jian's way.

(End of this chapter)