Chapter 190 All the way to the west
"What? Ao Cang lost?" Dong Zhuo was shocked and asked anxiously: "What's going on?"
Li Ru frowned, and his two small beards were torn apart by a shocked hand. He reported to the horse: "Our troops were looking for it in the back as usual. Ao Cang defenders who were interested in the prime minister fell to the city and fled. He said that early this morning, four or five thousand soldiers of the Eastern thief army suddenly appeared outside Ao Cang City, pretending to be the minister's subordinates to collect grain. Ao Cang ordered to surrender without fighting."
"Four, five thousand men? Where did so many thieves come from? Could it be the thieves in Hanoi? Why is there no one in Mengjin and Xiaopingjin reporting?" Dong Zhuo was angry and wanted to kill someone.
The hijacked horse reported: "It is not a thief in Hanoi, but the thief in Aocang is carrying the flag of the Beihai soldiers in Qingzhou. It seems that he forcibly landed from a dangerous shoal on the Yellow River."
Dong Zhuo was furious and shouted, "Qingzhou Beihai soldiers? It's He Bai again. If he had known this son was so difficult, he shouldn't have let him out of the capital."
Li Ru coughed lightly and said, "Prime Minister, Ao Cang's grain has been lost. Our army only has ten days of food. We should make a decision quickly."
Dong Zhuo was very angry and shouted: "I sent an order to protect Hulao Pass by Wang Fang, and Zhao Cen, who led 10,000 people to guard the pass. Don't hold on for ten days, and then withdraw your troops by camera. The entire army retreated to Hangu Pass and ordered Lu Bu to burn Luoyang, and not leave any grass or tree for the thieves in Guandong. I am not easy to live, and I will make it difficult for you..."
The news of Huang Zhong's attack on Ao Cang was returned. He Bai was overjoyed and sent people to inform all the coalition forces. The morale of the coalition forces was greatly boosted and they stepped up the attacks on the two passes of Sishui and Hulao. After hearing the news, Xu Rong from Xingyang broke through Xingyang that night. After losing half of his troops, he finally transferred from Jingxian to Daoyang City and escaped from Xuanyuan Pass.
The Xiliang army retreated westward, and Huang Zhong led 3,000 troops and horses to intercept and kill. Dong Zhuo ordered the three generals of Lu Bu, Li Jue and Guo Si to cut off the rear, but Huang Zhong failed to succeed and beheaded more than a thousand levels. After Dong Zhuo retreated, Huang Zhong led his troops to attack the rear of Hulao Pass.
Wang Fang could not resist the front and back of Hulao Pass. Five days later, he finally opened the switch and led 7,000 remaining troops to surrender to He Bai's army. When Zhao Cen heard about Sishui Pass, he led his troops to abandon the pass and fled. Yuan Shao also took advantage of the opportunity to occupy Sishui Pass. Ao Cang's guards took the opportunity to intercept Zhao Cen and surrendered more than 2,000 troops again.
At this time, the fires surged into the sky in Luoyang, and the princes were shocked and hurriedly sent people to visit. Soon, the meteor horses reported that the Xiliang army carried out a large-scale burning and destruction of the capital area of Luoyang City. What's more, they also dug up the tombs of emperors and princes everywhere, and stole precious burial objects. Luoyang has now become a world of chaos.
He Bai and Cao Cao suggested that Yuan Shao take advantage of the victory and not let Dong Zhuo continue to be arrogant. Yuan Shao said that the soldiers were tired and difficult, and it might be useless to advance. Moreover, there were too many coalition forces and insufficient military and food. Even if there were more than 800,000 stones of grain from Ao Cang, it was only enough for the coalition forces of the princes to eat for two months.
Moreover, the strength of Hangu Pass is no less than that of Sishui and Hulao. During the pre-Qin period, it was extraordinary. After Hangu Pass, the roads were even more dangerous and difficult to advance, so we will make a long-term plan.
Seeing that the other princes were indifferent, Cao Cao had no soldiers, and after hearing this, he could only sigh helplessly. Gongsun Zan privately told He Bai that Yuan Shao could not accomplish great things, so he led his troops with Tao Qian to withdraw his skills.
Before leaving, He Bai gave Zhang Fei a lot of good wine, and finally got along well with Zhang Fei. He was friendly with Liu Bei, but as for Guan Yu, he was indifferent to himself and didn't want to say a word. He Bai was embarrassed.
Sun Jian, who was in the south, was once again in a powerful way to fight against Hu Zhen and conquer the three passes. Yuan Shu also wrote to him that he intended to support Sun Jian to continue his march and maintain his suppression of Dong Zhuo's army in Hangu Pass, so that Kanto can be truly stable. I hope He Bai can give up Yingchuan to prepare for Sun Jian's contribution.
He Bai thought and Dong Zhuo retreated, and Luoyang had no more contributions. At this time, the unowned Yuzhou and Yingchuan had become popular in the eyes of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Sun Jian and others, and were about to fight for the rule of Yuzhou. Yingchuan was the first place to be in trouble, and He Bai did not want to participate, so he prepared to ask Lu Zhi to withdraw his troops and return to China.
However, the scholars summoned by Yingchuan, led by Chen Qun, the staff officer of the Five Army, all went to He Bai to petition, saying: "Since the general's promotion of the Yi army to support the world, he has repeatedly defeated the Dong bandits, which has shocked the world, making the bandits frightened when they heard about it. However, the princes were unworthy and retreated. But this is not the reason for the general to retreat. The general was too arrogant to the masses, so he should not be afraid of the bandits. Now Ao Cang has nearly one million stones of grain, which is enough to support the general's army to attack and fight for a year. I hope the general can continue to march into Luoyang, maintain the suppression of the Dong bandits' Xiliang army, and be loyal to the country. The Dong bandits will not leave the court for a day, and the general will not return to the rule of the country."
He Bai wanted the scholars of Yingchuan to be loyal to him, so he had to compromise with them. Lu Zhi also hoped that He Bai could express his feelings to the Han Dynasty and went back to Donglai to recuperate. After thinking for a few days, He Bai rectified his troops and headed towards Luoyang. He also sent an envoy back to Qingzhou and told Luo Pei that it was Yi and that the Killing Wolf could reach the final process.
All the way west, the fields were silent, and there was no people in a radius of thousands of miles, and no rooster crowing. From Gongxian time, there were traces of fire burning. Along the way, all the tombs that were slightly larger were dug up by the Xiliang army, and their treasures were taken away, and the corpses were abandoned at will. When they arrived at Yanshi, they saw a few Xiliang army digging tombs. When they saw the Beihai soldiers arrived, they immediately fled.
When I came to the suburbs of Luoyang City, the magnificent Luoyang City, which was the last two years ago, was now a broken tiles and jade. All exquisite ancient buildings were destroyed. The prosperous Mi City, Ma City, and Nan City, which were once prosperous, disappeared and became an open space.
After more than a hundred years of development and establishment, Ruoda Luoyang City was completely destroyed. People who were rich in emotions and yearned for the Strong Han Dynasty could not help but cry in hatred and cursed Dong Zhuo for not being able to die a good death.
He Bai also sighed in his heart that it would take at least a hundred years to restore Luoyang City, which was destroyed in one day. But a hundred years later, the Five Barbarians invaded China. The tragic situation in China was that it was connected by two. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, and the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Chinese civilization has almost been cut off.
It seems that we have fought for the world, not only to change the world's tyrannical ideas, but also to set a rule. It is okay to fight for dominance of the world, but we must not destroy agricultural production and various large-scale buildings in various places, and we must not kill the people. But will anyone obey?
He Bai was about to lead his troops into the remnant city of Luoyang, but Lu Bu led three thousand troops to fight. He Bai had originally 18,000 troops, and successively gathered Ao Cang defenders, Wang Fang surrendered his troops, and the Sishui deserters had 30,000 troops at this time. The army with a strong morale was very obvious to fight against the remnant army. Even if Lu Bu had great skills, he could not really fight ten thousand.
He Bai slapped out of the battle and shouted, "Fengxian, the situation is obvious, why should you force yourself to block the chariot by a mantis arm? If you surrender, I can accept you. If you do not surrender, you can lead your troops away."
Lu Bu looked at He Bai with a complicated face. Even if Dong Zhuo was defeated, he was also the prime minister in the court. He still had an army of nearly 200,000. The lean camel was bigger than a horse. Moreover, his wife and children were all in Chang'an at this time. How could he surrender, who had always been to Gu's family?
Besides, Dong Zhuo's orders have been completed, and it is time to leave. So he immediately bowed to He Bai and led his troops westward. All the Bingzhou generals under Lu Bu regretted the powerful He Bai. If he were still under He Bai's command, he would probably be the famous generals of He Jun who were so powerful that they were now.
After Lu Bu's army left, He Bai led his army into Luoyang City from the east gate and ordered the soldiers to clean up the rubble and garbage in the entire Luoyang City. He then went to Luoyang to bury the excavated emperor's tombs, and all the tombs dug by Dong thief were closed. On the foundation of the Taimiao of the Han Dynasty, three halls were built, and all the scholars of Yingchuan were invited to list the throne of the emperors of the East and West Han Dynasty, and kill three animals for sacrifice.
That night, He Bai set up a main tent on the Jianzhang Hall, and the army was stationed in the south, near the two palaces in the north. The stars and the moon shone brightly, He Bai sat in the open space by pressing the sword dew. He saw five-colored lights rising from the well in the south of the hall. He Bai was always inexplicably feeling about the jade seal of the country.
According to the ideas of later generations, any ambitious person first develops his own strength. If he is strong, he will have a certain reputation and be justified in his reputation.
But at this time, China was not able to do so before the Five Barbarians invaded China. Looking through the whole chapter, from the two emperors of Yan and Huang, the emperors, kings, princes, and nobles of Xia, Shang, Zhou and Qin were all after Emperor Huang of Xuanyuan. There was no other common people or slaves, and Liu Bang was the first person to create the common people to proclaim himself emperor.
Even if Liu Bang was called emperor, he would have no heroic lord in the bloodline of Emperor Huang. Before that, Chen She, the first person to be called kings, was the shocking "kings, princes, generals and ministers, who made them cry out loudly. In addition, the world was exhausted at that time, and the world had no intention of chaoticism. It was the legend that Liu Bang created the "Chin Emperor's Son Beheaded the White Emperor's Son" and proclaimed the emperor and founded the country.
Although the Han Dynasty is now in decline, people's hearts are still there. There are many capable descendants of the Liu family, and there are even more ambitious ones. He Bai has no noble blood. Even though the He family, the queen of Nanyang, wanted to lead the people of the world to submit to themselves, it was probably not easy.
If you want to succeed, in addition to having the strength to dominate the world, you must also have a justification. In the past, Chen She rebelled and called a fox and was in the belly of a carp. Today, He Bai wanted to create a mythical story with the jade seal of the kingdom to see how the results were and whether he could subdue the scholars of Yingchuan. If it could succeed, it could gradually spread in the future. If it failed, he might learn from Cao Cao and make future generations become emperors.
He Bai ordered to beat the drum in the middle of the night to raise the tent, and called the officers above the generals under his command, and nearly 2,000 Yingchuan scholars. After everyone got up, they did not hear the sound of the enemy attacking at night, so they could only come to He Bai in surprise to obey the order.
He Bai looked at everyone but did not speak until Dian Wei and Huang Zhong went out to ask. He Bai cleared his throat and said, "In August of the previous year, I was leading my army to fight against Dong Zhuo because the people in the Sunset Pavilion were robbed by the Xiliang army. In the army, I had two dreams, which were inexplicable, but also horrifying, and I was frightened. Later, I heard that Luoyang City was on fire, which was somewhat similar to the dream situation. I couldn't help but be shocked, and even ignored the rescue of the car and walked towards the North Sea in a panic. I didn't want to stay here today and have two dreams again, and I felt uneasy. So I summoned you all to gather crowdfunding to explain my dreams."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but they were amused by He Bai's surprise call to nearly two thousand people to interpret the dream. However, as the main general, He Bai was all subordinates, and this move was not too excessive. However, what kind of magical dream was that He Bai, who was famous all over the world, was also frightened and anxious. Everyone's curiosity couldn't help but make them tilted their ears and sounded.
Chapter completed!