Faced with more than 800 comrades, Zhang Yang's personal soldiers didn't know what to do. They couldn't possibly shoot crossbows at the villagers, and it wasn't a good idea to continue to maintain the spear formation and let the villagers hit their spears. These people were all our fellow villagers!
For a moment, everyone hesitated and put away their weapons, allowing the crowd to crash into them and break up their formation. Zhang Yang's voice was almost hoarse, and he asked these defeated soldiers to turn around immediately and face the outside world with him, but the effect was very poor. These new recruits were already scared and no one listened to him.
Seeing that the eight hundred people had disrupted Zhang Yang's army formation, Dong Zhuo immediately rode on the Dayuan dragon and appeared above Zhang Yang's head like a nightmare. The dragon circled in the sky, and its red scales sparkled with scarlet luster, like a raging fire in the dark night.
Suddenly, the Dayuan demon dragon howled to the sky. The terrifying dragon roar shook the earth and frightened the soldiers on the ground. She opened her bloody mouth and took a deep breath. Then, an extremely hot dragon flame of destruction gushed out of her mouth, like a majestic galaxy of flames, roaring down from the sky to the earth! The dragon flame was like hot lava, carrying a breath of destruction. It instantly engulfed everything around it in a sea of flames, burning the entire night into a terrifying red color! ! !
The army on the ground was instantly enveloped by this sudden disaster. The soldiers were terrified and tried to flee, but the dragon's fire breath, as terrifying as a roaring flame tide that burst a dam, followed closely behind them. The Brahma flames instantly engulfed the soldiers in fire, and the blazing light illuminated the entire battlefield, making the soldiers' figures look extremely small and helpless.
Wherever the dragon flames passed, everything turned to ashes. The shouts and screams of the soldiers echoed in the sea of fire, as if they were the mockery of Yama. The camp was completely destroyed, and the tents, weapons, and horses were all turned to ashes in the sea of fire!
The Dayuan demon dragon tumbled in the sky, and after pausing for twelve seconds, it spewed dragon flames for the second time, burning Zhang Yang's army to the ground. Its eyes flashed with evil light, enjoying this feast of destruction.
After two bursts of dragon flames directly broke down Zhang Yang's defense, a large number of Hu cavalry also fearlessly rushed into the sea of dragon flames that had not yet been completely extinguished. They roared, roared, and laughed, crushing and trampling the eight hundred refugees, three hundred armored soldiers, and the charred corpses on the ground.
Chapter 218: Jiangdong White Tiger
In Henei in the north, Dong Zhuo annihilated the harassing troops of Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang in one battle, and only the two princes escaped. All the troops recruited during this period were wiped out, and he fled back to the north alone in an extremely embarrassed manner. The northern front line carefully deployed by Yuan Shao was directly destroyed by Dong Zhuo, and there was no danger north of Luoyang anymore.
At Hulao Pass in the east, Yuan Shao's main force first assembled in Suanzao and then began to march towards Hulao Pass. Generals Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu held their ground and refused to come out. Yuan Shao's main force fought for several days but was unable to capture such a strong pass.
The losses from the siege were too great, especially for a pass like Hulao Pass that defended the capital of Luoyang. None of the princes were willing to let their private troops bear such terrible siege losses and weaken their own strength in vain. Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance, had no way to effectively control the princes and force them to attack the city.
Therefore, the main force of the Guandong coalition stopped attacking, and the two sides began to confront each other at Hulao Pass, neither of them could do anything to the other. Yuan Shao was worried, as everything at the moment was too much like the "On the Qin" written by Jia Yi in the early Han Dynasty. That book was originally in the Yuan family's library, and all the Yuan family members had studied it when they were young.
The princes of Guandong once attacked Qin with ten times the land and millions of people. The Qin people opened the gates to delay the enemy, and the armies of the nine countries hesitated and did not dare to advance; Qin had no expenses for lost arrows and arrowheads, and the princes of the world were already trapped. So they broke the agreement and ceded land to bribe Qin. Qin had spare strength to control its weaknesses, chasing the enemy to the north, leaving millions of corpses and blood flowing; taking advantage of the opportunity, slaughtering the world and splitting the mountains and rivers. Strong countries asked for submission, and weak countries came to the court.
What is certain is that Dong Zhuo does not even need to fight himself. As long as he cannot capture the eight passes of Luoyang and enter the Luoyang Basin, his allies will immediately collapse and disintegrate once the food is eaten up. If he continues like this, Dong Zhuo may really be able to secure his position as the Grand Master and once again replicate the process of Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Gaozu conquering the world.
Yuan Shao had a splitting headache and covered his fair and beautiful forehead with both hands, but his golden hair was still slipping from his slender fingers.
She found that although she had read a lot of books and had a high level of theoretical knowledge, there was still a difference between practice and theory. These allies gathered under her command were not trustworthy at all. Each of them only wanted to send others to death and retain their own strength. The slogans they shouted were louder than the other, and they were more cowardly than the other when fighting at Hulao Pass, even the bravest Gongsun Zan... She brought thousands of Youzhou cavalry and Wuhuan Hu cavalry, but they were all cavalry and could not fight a siege.
It seems that I must find a way to build a huge army that only obeys my own orders, and have the territory and food to support this army, so that I can dominate the troubled times.
Ma Teng in the west remained neutral and lived in peace with Dong Zhuo.
Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang in the north were defeated.
Yuan Shao in the east could not break into Hulao Pass.
One troublesome thing after another cast a shadow of failure on the Guandong coalition forces. However, in the south, Sun Jian blew the horn of victory, rekindling hope for the entire alliance.
Xu Rong's Northern Army's five battalions of 5,000 men were the key to victory and were marching behind the main army. Hu Zhen and Hua Xiong, with more than 12,000 men from the five battalions of Guanxi, dispersed to scout the specific locations of Yuan Shu and Sun Jian.
These fierce generals from Xiliang also served under Dong Zhuo and had fought side by side with Sun Jian. They were very afraid of this tigress, but they looked down on the soldiers under her command - you only took a few months to recruit new soldiers in Jingzhou and Yuzhou, and what combat effectiveness do they have?
I admit that you, Sun Jian, are very powerful and no one can beat you. But it's useless if you can only fight by yourself. If you want to survive in the world, you need a background and power. I would like to see how strong the new recruits you recruited in Jingzhou are.
There are many grasslands and cavalry in Xiliang, and even children can shoot arrows with bows. If the scouts have low combat effectiveness, they will be beaten away by the enemy scouts as soon as they meet, and they will not be able to detect anything. If the training level is a little worse, they may be eaten up by the enemy scouts. Therefore, the tradition of the entire Liangzhou is to use the army's sharp knives, elite troops, or even generals to lead reconnaissance in person to ensure that effective intelligence can be obtained as soon as possible.
Hu Zhen still retained the Xiliang tradition of personally leading cavalry reconnaissance at this time. After Sun Jian fought in Xiliang for three or four years, he found that the scouts he sent out were always killed by the enemy's elite. He also developed the habit of personally leading the elite reconnaissance.
So, the generals of both sides met each other during a reconnaissance.
Hu Zhen was shocked to find that Sun Jian had no newly recruited soldiers from Jingzhou and Yuzhou, but a large number of people from Xiliang with sunburned necks and faces, Qiang people with sheep's hooves and horns, quite a few Wuhuan troops, and Youzhou cavalry generals with northern accents, such as Cheng Pu and Han Dang.
When the Han Emperor transferred this guy away from the Liangzhou battlefield, he took away the Liangzhou cavalry that she had privately recruited in Liangzhou! And he also took in some of the Youzhou border troops that came to Liangzhou for support? !
"Hu Zhen! Give me your life!!!"
Sun Jian looked at his old colleague and his eyes lit up immediately. He ordered a cavalryman to go back and report the news. He brought more than 50 cavalrymen to come and attack Hu Zhen's scout team directly! Sun Jian was tall and beautiful. He wore a black iron armor with a basin collar and a black and white tiger skin. He held a long spear in his hand. He looked majestic like a black armored pagoda. His helmet was wrapped in an extremely bright red headscarf. He rode a ferocious saber-toothed tiger as big as a rhinoceros!
The ferocious saber-toothed tiger is almost extinct. It is a living fossil that can only be seen in the North Sea or the Western Regions. It is an antique. This ancestor of the cat family is larger and more terrifying than a tiger.
The muscles of an ordinary tiger are as graceful and smooth as flowing water.
But you can't see the elegance of cats in the ferocious saber-toothed tiger at all, only the ruthlessness and brutality of prehistoric carnivores. Its body is extremely sturdy and strong, like a moving tower, with muscles as angular as hills, full of explosive power. Its front paws are obviously more sturdy and huge than its hind paws, and the tiger's paws are several times larger than a human head.
The tiger skin with white fur and black stripes was like a gorgeous battle robe, draped over its terrifying body, and every hair shone with a bloody luster.
Its head was extremely hideous and terrifying, giving people a bloodthirsty and cruel feeling. Its pair of apricot-yellow eyes were like two bright stars, flashing with a bloodthirsty light of choosing its prey to devour. The row of fangs in its bloody mouth were as sharp as knives, as if they could easily tear into pieces any prey that blocked its way. The two terrifying saber-teeth on its upper jaw were as long as two sharp swords that could cut through iron like mud, flashing a terrifying halo in the sun.
Hu Zhen shuddered when he saw Sun Jian riding on a ferocious saber-toothed tiger. He immediately sent a messenger back to report the news and ask for help. Then, relying on the large number of rare items and magical equipment he had looted from the Luoyang treasury, he came to fight Sun Jian!
Chapter 219: Little Overlord
"Sacrifice blood to the emperor! Offer the head to the Grand Master!!!"
Hu Zhen roared the new battle cry of the Guanxi Army, his eyes dragged two terrifying blood-red arcs behind him as his warhorse galloped. He bent his bow and arrows on horseback, and shot three arrows at Sun Jian! Each feather arrow was wrapped with extremely terrifying dark blue Confucian fire, like three dark blue flaming meteors, screaming across the sky!
The dark blue fire of Confucianism, this is the supreme dark blue magic flame that Lu Zhi can use only after he advances to become a great Confucian scholar. It represents the supreme control of magic. But now, Hu Zhen, who is not a Confucian scholar at all, can easily produce the effect of Confucian fire with a bow and arrow.
After becoming the Grand Tutor, the first thing Dong Zhuo did was to reward the troops in Guanxi. He used the treasury in Luoyang, the treasury of the previous emperor, the collections of aristocratic families, and even various magical equipment buried with the emperor in the tomb to arm all of his own generals to make them more brave and elite, and used money to make the soldiers more loyal and aggressive.
At this moment, Hu Zhen's Ruhuo War Bow was a burial object dug out from the tomb of the Han Emperor. It is said that this was a killing weapon once used by General Li Guangli.
Sun Jian raised a leather shield to defend himself, but the three arrows of Confucian Fire burned through like meteors, melting the shield! They hit Sun Jian's right chest! The terrifying dark blue Confucian Fire gradually burned the black iron sheet of the collar armor into a blazing white color, and even melted it into molten iron! Burning, corroding Sun Jian's right chest.
Faced with such a terrible injury, Sun Jian said nothing, threw away his shield, pulled out three burning arrows from his right chest with his left hand, and threw them fiercely at Hu Zhen, who was less than 30 meters away from him. Hu Zhen was startled and quickly dodged the dark blue fire that was so hot that it could melt steel in seconds.
At this moment, the tiger under Sun Jian's crotch pounced fiercely and rushed to Hu Zhen like lightning. The wound on her right chest did not affect Sun Jian's movements at all. She stabbed Hu Zhen to death with a spear! Her movements were vigorous and neat, without any drag.
"Wow--"
Hu Zhen vomited blood and rolled several times after falling off the saddle before getting up. He was frightened. Fortunately, his armor was also a high-end product from the Luoyang treasury, which provided a high damage reduction, so that Sun Jian's spear could not penetrate him, otherwise he would have been dead by now!
The precious horse he got in Luoyang even dodged the ferocious saber-tooth tiger's pounce. It raised its long and strong hind hooves high and kicked backwards like two battering rams, beating Sun Jian back. Then it ran to Hu Zhen and let the Xiliang general jump back on the horse for a second fight with Sun Jian!
Long spears clashed, tigers and horses neighed, and Hu Zhen became much more cautious after suffering a loss. Although he could not defeat Sun Jian, he could still hold him here with his magic equipment and top-quality precious horse.
Sun Jian frowned. Dong Zhuo's growth in the past few months since he entered Luoyang was somewhat terrifying. Not only did he consume the terrifying five battalions of the Northern Army, he even obtained a large number of treasures and magical equipment by digging up imperial tombs and destroying aristocratic families.
In Liangzhou, I could kill a character like Hu Zhen within ten rounds. If I was lucky, I could just charge him. But now, he could even hold me back?!
The news of the battle between Hu Zhen and Sun Jian was instantly transmitted to their own military camp by scouts. The veteran army that Sun Jian brought from Xiliang, the newly recruited militiamen in Jingzhou and Yuzhou, and Hu Zhen's Guanxi Army were all rushing here frantically!
If you look down from the sky, the place where the battle broke out between the two seemed like the center of a vortex, with groups of soldiers constantly converging here like a torrent of steel.
After fighting for twenty rounds, Hu Zhen was left with only the strength to defend himself against Sun Jian and had no chance to fight back. He was sweating all over and his arms were numb. Even with the bonus of such a miraculous item, he was unable to bridge such a desperate gap. But at this moment, reinforcements from the Guanxi Legion arrived first.
"General Zhonglang, please step back for now. Let me kill this thief!"
With a violent and bloodthirsty war cry, a girl who was not wearing iron armor but shorts came riding a horse to meet Hu Zhen. Countless rivers of blood gushed out from the girl's seven orifices and heart! Surrounded by eight rivers of blood, the girl's body quickly expanded and turned into a bloodthirsty demon with muscles as terrifying as a hill and skin as strangely red as a mountain!
"boom!!!"
The five-meter-tall bloodthirsty demon landed steadily on the ground, causing the entire battlefield to tremble. She had the body of a giant, the hooves of a goat, the wings of a bat, and the head of a demon. All the hideous and ominous things in the world were perfectly integrated into this demon! The transformed demon was like a scarlet mountain, giving others a huge sense of oppression.
What's even more terrifying is that she has no eyeballs and no blood, as if this terrifying and burly appearance is just a scarlet empty shell, and inside the shell is the abyss flames from hell, which are bursting and burning in tissues such as blood vessels. Clusters of hell flames burst out from her empty eyes, nostrils, and bloody mouth, burning everything into a horrible ashes. The giant's arms are holding two brass killing axes.
The bloodthirsty Great Daemon of Khorne is a Chaos Demon that embodies concepts such as war, killing, blood, and death. Ever since the Qin people signed a contract of war and victory with Khorne, all the people in Kansas have had eyes that are a terrifying blood red since birth. The best among them can even use the power of the warp to directly transform into demons, temporarily turning into the embodiment of concepts such as war, blood, victory, and killing - the bloodthirsty Great Daemon.
"Hua Xiong? You're here too!"
Sun Jian showed no fear in the face of the giant monster over five meters tall. He brandished his long spear and fought with it! His body did not seem small in front of the five-meter monster. The long spear whistled out like a storm, stirring up the clouds and rain in the air.
Hua Xiong was not willing to be outdone. He swung two giant brass axes, burning with scarlet hellfire, like a torrential rain and smashed them hard on Sun Jian's head. The spear and two axes struck and collided with each other with the clanging sound of metal, splashing sparks all over the sky!
"Where did Dong Zhuo find these two axes as a reward for you? I haven't seen them for a few months. Your kung fu hasn't improved, but your equipment has been greatly updated?!"
Sun Jian mocked Hua Xiong, while the fierce general from Xiliang who had transformed into a bloodthirsty demon just let out a series of terrifying roars in a duel, and fought bloody battles with Sun Jian. The two of them fought faster and harder, and their three weapons almost left afterimages in the air. Every collision would produce a violent shock wave, tearing the ground apart, and knocking soldiers away. Ordinary people couldn't even get close to the two of them.
While the two were fighting fiercely with no clear winner, Sun Jian's troops arrived from all directions and fought with the Xiliang cavalry. Most of the first group to arrive were people from Guanxi who were recruited by Sun Jian during his battle in Xiliang. Although they were not very willing to go to war with Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian was their benefactor and it was difficult for them to betray him.
One of the young generals was particularly eye-catching. She was two meters tall, with a handsome face. She wore a black armor with a basin collar, danced with an ancient long spear, and rode a black Pegasus.
The tall and majestic body of the Pegasus is handsome and agile, as if it is a work of art carefully carved by nature; its muscle lines are elegant and smooth, and each muscle is full of explosive power; its black hair is shiny and glossy, exuding a healthy luster, only its four hooves are whiter than snow, and a pair of huge black wings stretch out from the ribs of the warhorse, carrying the young general soaring above the sky, and swooping down towards Hua Xiong rapidly!
Hua Xiong calmed himself, swung the giant axe with his left hand and swept it across. With pure brute force, he temporarily repelled Sun Jian. He spun the giant axe with his right hand, took a defensive stance, and confidently faced the Pegasus Knight.
However, when her attention shifted from Sun Jian to the young general Tianma, she was stunned - she had clearly come alone to charge into the battle, but she had managed to charge out with the momentum of a dominant force against thousands of troops!
The violent storm airflow transformed into countless endless ghosts behind her. Countless long-dead souls, wearing ancient armor from hundreds of years ago, gathered around, cheered, and followed the girl forward!
Thousands of illusory bloodthirsty ghosts densely occupied most of the sky, like thousands of troops covering the sky, or like the death cloak of the Pegasus general sweeping across the sky. The terrifying feeling of oppression even made Hua Xiong feel suffocated!
Who is this person? Sun Ce? How come this little girl has become so scary after not seeing her for a few years? ? ?
"Roar!!!"
Hua Xiong let out a terrifying bloodthirsty roar to give himself courage and faced Sun Ce's dive charge. However, when Sun Ce dived to within thirty meters of her, he suddenly accelerated and disappeared from Hua Xiong's sight along with the thousands of troops behind him.
No, it’s not disappearing, but it’s moving so fast that I can’t even see it anymore!
When Hua Xiong saw Sun Ce and the ghostly army behind him again, he felt a sharp pain on his forehead. His forehead had been hit by Sun Ce's spear! The five-meter-tall Khorne demon lost his balance after being stabbed by Sun Ce's spear, and fell heavily backwards to the ground. The earth trembled, a deafening roar, and a cloud of dust rose up!
In the smoke and dust, Sun Ce looked down at the entire Guanxi army like a ghost, riding his black horse, wanting to kill Hua Xiong, but was stopped by a large number of Xiliang guards with their numerical advantage. After suffering huge casualties, he finally rescued the seriously injured and unconscious Hua Xiong.
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Chapter 220: Cao-Liu Alliance
In a battlefield like this where cavalry engage in small-scale fighting, personal bravery is more likely to influence the outcome of a battle than command ability. The Western Liang army led by Hu Zhen and Hua Xiong could hold out for a while when facing Sun Jian, but they had no power to fight back against Sun Ce's cavalry, and were beaten back step by step by the little tyrant of Jiangdong. Sun Ce single-handedly killed and pierced through the Western Liang cavalry's formation, tearing a terrifying gap in the dense sea of cavalry.
Sun Jian immediately organized the cavalry to charge after his daughter. Four captains, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Cheng Pu and Zu Mao, accompanied Sun Jian and rushed into the gap in the battle line torn by Sun Ce. They charged left and right, unstoppable, widening the rift in the Western Liang army and tearing them in half alive.
Not only that, the guy turned his spear around and charged from the end to the beginning for the second time, killing his own cavalry formation again! Cutting it into three pieces, Hu Zhen and Hua Xiong, who was rescued by the Confucian scholars from Guanxi, realized that the situation was hopeless, so they could only give orders directly, and the whole army dispersed, fled for their lives, and regrouped in the camp.
At this moment, Sun Jian seized the opportunity and led all the veteran soldiers of Xiliang and his newly trained cavalry in Jingzhou to pursue! When the other Xiliang cavalry who heard the news came, they saw Hu Zhen and Hua Xiong, and were surprised to find that the two had been defeated and were being chased by Sun Jian. They immediately lost their will to fight and fled backwards with the Zhonglang Jiang and the champion warriors - the boss is running away, what are we fighting for?
The cavalry could still escape, after all, there was no shortage of war horses in Guanxi. Even if these direct subordinates of Dong Zhuo could not ride three horses each, they could at least ride two horses each, and each one could run faster than the other.
Although Sun Jian's cavalry was elite, the number of horses they had was really small. In Jingzhou, it was good enough to have one horse for each person.
However, those Guanxi infantry were in bad luck. After Sun Jian realized that these Guanxi soldiers were running very fast and it was difficult for him to catch up with them, he gave up his plan to kill Hu Zhen and Hua Xiong in battle. Instead, he led more than a thousand cavalrymen in pursuit and caught up with Hu Zhen's infantry and beat them up.
In the end, more than 2,000 soldiers of Hu Zhen's Five Battalions in Guanxi were killed or wounded by Sun Jian's 1,000 cavalrymen. In the end, only more than 10,000 soldiers retreated back to Xu Rong's Five Battalions in the North. Their morale was greatly damaged, and the soldiers were all afraid of Sun Jian's troops.
But at this moment, Sun Jian and Sun Ce did not dare to advance rashly and expand their victory, so they stopped temporarily in Luyang - what is behind Hu Zhen and his men? The Five Battalions of the Northern Army? ? ?
Is this true? I, Sun Jian, am just a feint attack force in the south of Luoyang. Why would the five battalions of the Northern Army appear in front of me? Why would they attack me instead of attacking Yuan Shao's main force? ? ?
Sun Jian did not dare to engage in a field battle with the Five Battalions of the Northern Army, and immediately wrote a letter to the leader of the alliance Yuan Shao: Leader, the Five Battalions of the Northern Army are now in Luyang in the south. I have pinned down Dong Zhuo's main force, you must act quickly in the east!
At this moment, the main force of the Guandong Alliance failed to capture Hulao Pass after a long siege and withdrew to Suanzao. The thirteen princes who occupied most of the alliance's forces were arguing with each other and were reluctant to move forward. Everyone wanted to preserve their strength and no one was willing to fight to the death with Dong Zhuo and let their private troops suffer losses. The coalition army had a total of more than 100,000 people, and they were feasting day and night, wasting food and grass.
At this moment, Gongsun Zan also saw through the thoughts of this group of people - they, like Ding Yuan, were pure warlords, all thinking about preserving their strength. If I go out to fight alone at this time, wouldn't it be only my strength that would be damaged? Who knows if these princes will take advantage of the situation and invade my territory after I suffer heavy losses? Military strength?
Thinking of this, even Gongsun Zan lost his ambition to make progress. He hung out with Yuan Shao and others, holding a small banquet a day and a big banquet every three days, spending his days in emptiness. After seeing Sun Jian's letter for help, no one responded, which made Cao Cao anxious.
In the end, out of the thirteen allied forces and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, only Cao Cao agreed to Sun Jian's request to send troops. He took the Cao and Xiahou generals, as well as 5,000 new soldiers recruited with his family funds, and went out alone to fight against Dong Zhuo and cooperate with Sun Jian in the south.
Liu Bei was also very annoyed at this moment. He saw that his senior sister Gongsun Zan, like other princes, had fallen into the same warlord mentality. She led her 2,500 troops from Youzhou and Wuhuan, who had fought with her since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, to temporarily leave Gongsun Zan's command and cooperate with Cao Cao.
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At this moment, the entire battle situation has become that Sun Jian, Yuan Shu's 15,000 troops, plus Cao Cao, Liu Bei's 7,000 people, a total of 20,000 people; against Hu Zhen, Xu Rong's more than 15,000 people, the allied forces only have three princes to fight, although they still have the advantage in quantity, but the quality is far inferior to the Guanxi army.
Dong Zhuo's more than 10,000 Hu cavalry were still in Hanoi. They had just defeated Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang and were now retreating.
There was no other way. Liu Zhuang of Hedong was too scary. In order to prevent that guy from crossing the Yellow River directly and invading Guanzhong, Dong Zhuo had to deploy his 25,000 direct troops on the Yellow River line in Guanzhong. In order to prevent the neutral Ma Teng from rebelling, the defense troops in Longshan and Chang'an also had 5,000 people.
All her 30,000 direct troops were deployed in Guanzhong, so the force against the Guandong coalition was very stretched, which made Dong Zhuo very annoyed. An idea became more and more deeply rooted in her mind - Luoyang was not suitable to be the imperial capital. As the center of the world and a transportation hub, it was too conveniently connected.
When the dynasty was strong, the royal army could naturally reach any corner of the empire quickly from Luoyang.
And when the dynasty was weak, the princes could quickly reach Luoyang from any corner of the empire, and there were too many fronts to consider as the troops had to be divided.
How about I move the capital back to Chang'an and move all the more than one million people in Luoyang to Guanzhong, the country with four barriers! Reduce the pressure on my front and supply lines!
Not only that, I can also burn Luoyang into an uninhabited area, turning this prosperous ancient capital directly into a purely military fortress, so that the Guandong coalition forces will not be able to find any supplies after entering the Luoyang Basin, and it will be like a fool's dream to continue advancing westward and attack Hangu and Tongguan. In this way, I can rest assured in Guanzhong.
Not only that, as long as I succeed in moving the capital, I can use Gaozu and Qin Shihuang as templates, occupy Guanzhong, observe the changes in the world, wait for an opportunity to return to Hangu Pass and sweep the world!
Once the idea of moving the capital came up, it could not be erased. After Dong Zhuo broke into the camps of Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang in Henei, he accepted a large amount of their food and supplies for military use. He also sent cavalry to the extremely rich Henei County with a population of 800,000 to plunder food and supplies to make up for the shortfall in the army. He was delayed in Henei County for a few days and has not yet returned to Luoyang.
Afterwards, a Qiang scout rushed into Dong Zhuo's tent in terror, screaming loudly.
"Grand Master! It's bad! Liu Zhuang and his Bingzhou army appeared fifty miles away! They are rushing towards us! They didn't attack Guanzhong to the west at all, but instead attacked Hanoi and Luoyang to the east! Judging from the flags, Liu Zhuang, the General of the North, and Lu Bu, the General of the Protectorate of the Xiongnu, are both here!!!"
Chapter 221: Red Rabbit Demon Dragon
Dong Zhuo started and stood up suddenly from the bed. Once he left the prosperous Luoyang and led the army to the battlefield again, she transformed from the plump and beautiful prime minister into a heroic and bloodthirsty female general in a very short time.
No? Liu Zhuang came to Hanoi, preparing to attack Luoyang???
At the meeting before the war, everyone thought that Liu Zhuang would go directly into Guanzhong, connect Qin's Guanzhong with Jin's Bingzhou, and thus dominate the world. That's why they deployed ten battalions of troops on the Yellow River defense line to defend Guanzhong's old nest.
