Three Kingdoms: Starting from the Replacement of Shaodi

April of the first year of Chuping, early summer.

Dong Zhuo’s strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the field brought great resistance to the allied forces of the princes, making it almost difficult for the allied forces of the princes to advance after the start of the war.

On the northern front battlefield at the junction of Hanoi and Jizhou and Yanzhou, Dong Zhuo’s general Hua Xiong led his troops out of Hanoi to disrupt the border between Hebei and Yandi, and Han Fu and Wang Kuang were difficult to deal with, and the grain route of the combined forces of the princes was cut off many times, so that Yuan Shao had to send Qiao Yao and Bao Xin to lead tens of thousands of elites to support Han Fu and Wang Kuang to deal with the disturbance of Huaxiong’s army.

But Hua Xiong was brave and good at fighting, and more than 10,000 of his subordinates were cavalry, and instead of fighting a decisive battle with the combined forces of the princes, he adopted the tactic of disturbing the attack with one blow and retreat, which forced Han Fu, Wang Kuang, Qiao Yao, and Bao Xin nearly 100,000 troops to exhaust and suffer heavy losses.

The northern line is rotten, Yuan Shao is helpless, and the central line Yuan Shao’s headquarters is no better.

The battlefield on the central front was mainly located in Yin, Henan, which was adjacent to Chen Liujun, and the Yin war in Henan was continuous, and Dong Zhuobu fought with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other Kwantung coalition forces for two or three months, winning and losing each other.

It’s just that Dong Zhuo’s general Lü Bu led the Hezhou cavalry to wander in the Yin land boundary of Henan, and repeatedly harassed the combined forces of the princes, most of the combined forces of the princes were pawns, and the gap in mobility made them miserable, and many times it was clearly an advantageous battle, but because of the attack on the back road, or the burning of grain and grass, etc., they had to give up the victory that was imminent.

Therefore, the battlefield on the central line was also extremely unsuccessful, and Yuan Shao was very distressed by this. In addition, the grain route in Jizhou was cut off many times, resulting in a shortage of food and grass for the coalition forces on the central line, and in desperation, Yuan Shao could only send people to borrow grain from Tao Qian, who was far away in Xuzhou, and by the way, he wanted to win Tao Qian to join the battle against Dong.

It’s a pity that Tao Qian is also an old fritters, and when he saw the stalemate in wartime, his attitude became ambiguous ~ ambiguous. There was food, but not much, but some were given.

As for personally participating in the battle against Dong?

Tao Qian said that the remnants of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban could go south to Xuzhou at any time, and Tao Qian wanted to protect the territory and the people, and could not mobilize the army Yunyun without authorization.

Looking at Tao Qian’s messengers and letters, Yuan Shao almost wanted to cut people in anger, but he still endured it, at least Tao Qian let people send a lot of food, which can be regarded as a statement.

As for the southern route, the southern line, which was given high hopes by Yuan Shao, was also not smooth at this time.

And Sun Jianbu, who can fight the most on the southern front, also drinks hatred under the Otani Pass.

It seems that Dong Zhuo learned the lesson of the defeat under Hangu Pass, so he gave the death order, and the general of Otani Pass was changed several times, and finally replaced by Xu Rong, and firmly held Otani Pass with a momentum of immobility. Coupled with Dong Zhuo’s support tilt, there is no shortage of ordnance and supplies in Ogu Pass, and the soldiers are rich in food to deal with Sun Jianbu who came from afar, as long as he does not go out of the city to fight, Sun Jianbu will not be able to help Xu Rong.

Therefore, the southern front was also in a stalemate at this time.

Yuan Shu and Sun Jian saw that the Great Valley Pass was difficult to take and that after losing tens of thousands of soldiers, they planned to change direction and want to bypass the Great Valley Pass.

There are two roads that can bypass Otani Pass.

The first is to move to Henan Yin, join Yuan Shao, and start from Zhongmu and other counties together, advancing step by step by city and pool, which can be described as a frontal attack on Luoyang.

This road is feasible, but the loss is extremely large, Yuan Shu not only has to take credit, but also to retain strength, don’t capture Luoyang at that time, but there are few of his own people left, so not by that Shuzi crushed head?

Besides, if you really want to go to Chen Liuhe Army, you must definitely obey the dispatch of that son, and Yuan Shu said that it was completely unacceptable.

And maybe that Shuzi will deliberately let his Yuan Shu’s subordinates rush to the front to send them to death.

So this path was denied by Yuan Shu.

And the second road is to detour through Hongnong County.

Starting from outside the Great Valley Pass, enter the Luhun Pass in Hongnong County, pass through Yiyang County, and then go out of the Hangu Pass, and then attack Gucheng, the last barrier west of Luoyang, once the valley city is broken, or bypassing Gucheng, you can directly attack Luoyang City.

It was only when Yuan Shu and Sun Jian listened that they knew that Hongnong County had changed hands a long time ago.

Hongnong County is now in the hands of King Hongnong, but the guard general is an unknown person.

Yuan Shu and Sun Jian were surprised, and they also led troops to station in Xincheng County, east of Luhun Pass, and sent scouts to Luhun Pass to report.

Unfortunately, the final response was ‘no’.

Yes, there is only the word ‘no’.

And these two characters were sent by Lu Hunguan to send light horses and throw cloth with the two characters written on it in front of the military camp of Yuan Shu and Sun Jian.

This move of not even entering the camp made Yuan Shu furious, and directly attacked Lu Hunguan with his army.

Sun Jian thought that this was inappropriate, after all, it was King Hongnong’s subordinate, and Hongnong County was still King Hongnong’s fief, so it was untenable in righteousness.

Besides, the princes of the coalition army had previously sent a letter to Chang’an, saying that they wanted to jointly support King Hongnong and ascend to the throne of the Son of Heaven, but King Hongnong made it clear that now he was only King Hongnong, and he was even more unwilling to participate in the coalition army.

Since it has been clearly stated, if you start under King Hongnong now, won’t it be equivalent to pushing King Hongnong to Dong Zhuo’s side?

Although Sun Jian persuaded him many times, Yuan Shu did not listen, believing that Lu Hunguan’s defender surnamed Meng had humiliated him and forcibly ordered Sun Jian to lead the elite to attack the city.

Sun Jian had no choice but to obey orders.

However, soon, both Yuan Shu and Sun Jian had to swallow their anger and withdraw from the Luhun Pass Realm, and dispelled the idea of detouring to Hongnong County.

Because they were severely educated by the nameless man surnamed Meng.

Less than an hour after the battle began, Yuan Shu and Sun Jianbu dropped thousands of corpses in front of Luhun Pass, not to mention the heavy casualties, and they couldn’t even get close to the city wall.

Yuan Shu and Sun Jian were not brainless fools, knowing that the garrison of Lu Hunguan was several times stronger than that of Daguguan under Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu and Sun Jian discussed a little, and then withdrew from Xincheng County in ashes, returned to Luyang, Jingzhou, and found another way to rest and find another way.

At this point, the combined forces of the princes against Dong Zhuo lasted about three months, but almost achieved nothing, so that the two sides officially entered a stalemate.

Just when the princes were begging Dong for a stalemate, Chen Qingzhi and Wei Rui entered the southern part of Liangzhou, starting from Wudu County for more than two months, attacking the city all the way, breaking Hanyang County, Pinglongxi County, and then using stratagems in Jincheng County, pretending that the expeditionary army was tired of fighting for months, and the food and grass were poor, leading Han Sui to a decisive battle with the momentum of a declining army.

Of course, Han Sui is not a fool, but from the normal logic point of view, Chen Qingzhi and Wei Rui have more than 10,000 people, attacking the city for more than two months in a row, and they have never stopped, while Liangzhou is sparsely populated, and it is already difficult to supply from the Sanfu expedition, so in Han Sui’s opinion, the more than 10,000 people led by Chen Qingzhi and Wei Rui are all tired divisions, and they really have a great chance to break these more than 10,000 elites in one fell swoop.

It’s just that Han Sui didn’t expect that what Chen Qingzhi was best at was fighting deep behind enemy lines.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the 7,000 white-robed army led by Chen Qingzhi went thousands of miles behind enemy lines without supplies at all, fought in enemy territory, and set a miracle of annihilating more than 500,000 enemies and capturing dozens of cities in about a year. Even a huge city like Luoyang, the white-robed army led by Chen Qingzhi could take it, not to mention the barren and dilapidated southern Liangzhou.

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