According to the news sent back, after several days of fierce fighting, Chang'an City was still unable to withstand the attack from the Xiliang Army.
In the end, perhaps out of despair or for some other reason, Wang Yun finally had to sacrifice his own life to protect the safety of the titular emperor of the Han Dynasty in Chang'an City. He had no choice.
That day was the last day that Wang Yun's life remained in this world.
The stubborn old man had tears streaming down his face when he faced the swarming army outside Chang'an City.
Whether he is lamenting his unfinished career or lamenting the end of the great man's destiny, perhaps only he himself will know.
This man, who had only one way to choose, slashed his neck with the sharp sword in his hand, and then fell headfirst from the high wall of Chang'an City.
I don’t know if he was already dead when he fell. If he didn’t die immediately, what was he thinking about? Did he recall his own life and past, and did he recall his former close friends and former enemies.
Unfortunately, the life of Wang Yun was about to end. Dozens of greedy jackals were already barking at the base of the city wall, impatiently waiting for their delicious food.
The bloody fighting scene made the Xiliang army outside the city feel extremely happy. The war skills of the beasts obviously cannot be compared with humans, but the primitive impulses they display under the control of instinct can more arouse the hidden hidden desires of humans.
The violence factor in the blood.
What's more, for most people in Xiliang, they may prefer to be one of those jackals, so that they can complete their venting of "eating his flesh" against Wang Yun.
At this time, in Chang'an City behind Wang Yun, there were the corpses of countless war dead. Among them were the private soldiers of various courtiers, as well as those who were temporarily recruited and issued weapons and were driven to the city wall without even having time to change jobs.
performed by ordinary people.
Some of these corpses were injured in the front, and some were stabbed in the back. However, where were the injuries? The expressions of these people when they died were all terrifying and desperate. Perhaps before they died, they thought of the shadow that once shrouded Chang'an City.
The terror in the sky.
In a palace behind these corpses, Han Emperor Liu Xie was sitting on the throne and waiting quietly.
At this moment, the young man's eyes flashed with a calm, almost cold gaze.
For what?
Is it because he hates Wang Yun for putting himself in danger? Or is it because of the audacity of the remnants of the Xiliang Army?
The answer to this question is no longer known, because the people who can see what is behind these eyes are either dead or waiting tremblingly behind the city walls, waiting for the victory to judge them.
The most important thing is that when the heavy and chaotic footsteps sounded outside the palace, the coldness in the eyes of this great man had disappeared, replaced by truly calm eyes, quietly waiting for the winner.
arrival.
And what he needs to do will not be much different from when Dong Zhuo was still around.
He vindicated Dong Zhuo as required, and then presided over a grand burial ceremony. However, the gorgeous coffin contained not Dong Zhuo's bones, but a human figure carved from fragrant wood. After all, Dong Zhuo's body was
Most of it had been burned by sky lanterns long ago, and the remaining residue became food for wild dogs and rats in the city.
In this way, the fate of the political enemies Dong Zhuo and Wang Yun was quite the same, which should be said to be ridiculous or deplorable.
All in all, when he saw this, Li Shu actually put down the information in his hands and remained silent for a long time.
However, such complicated feelings could not stop him from continuing to read.
Li Jue got the general of cavalry, Guo Bin got the general of hussar, and the other participating generals also got high positions that they could not have imagined before. It can be said that everyone is happy.
After all, when Dong Zhuo was still there, although the Xiliang army was subject to limited restrictions, Dong Zhuo did not show as generous as the rewards he gave in official positions. Instead, he was promoted based on his past merits and abilities.
, so except for a few such as Li Jue and Guo Si who climbed to the position of general through merit, most of the senior generals of the Xiliang Army still stayed at the extreme of miscellaneous captains, and in terms of rank, they were only the lowest among the generals.
That level.
The only thing worth noting is that there is a special group among the people who have been rewarded.
These people are the generals from Bingzhou who originally belonged to the Northern Army, a group of old fried dough sticks who are like duckweeds drifting with the tide but seem to be more lively and nourished.
Because of Dong Zhuo's favor, they became the first group of people in the Northern Army in Luoyang to defect, and used their connections in the Northern Army to trigger a chain reaction. Later, when faced with Wang Yue's threat, they did not choose to resist, and directly became
Wang Yunshou
The hawks and dogs under them, and indirectly killed Niu Fu, one of Dong Zhuo's sons-in-law. Later, facing the Xiliang army that got rid of Liu Yan and Zhang Lu's entanglement and came in force, this group of people once again opened the door to San Fu and became
Li Jue, Guo Si and others led the way.
During this wavering again and again, their official positions became higher and higher, and the number of soldiers and horses under their command also increased. Although they could not compare with the elite soldiers under Dong Zhuo's direct control under Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou and others,
However, no matter how easy it is to deal with this group of people, there is no way to think about it. They have become a force that cannot be ignored and can influence the situation of the third auxiliary.
Not to mention that among this group of people, Wei Xu's brother-in-law was Lu Xiaoqiang, the undisputed number one general in the Bingzhou Army. The leader of this group was Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, the generals in the Bingzhou Army who now had military power. With this,
They are still inextricably linked to Bingzhou. As long as they don't make the choice to commit suicide, even the Xiliang army must be cautious in treating them.
As a result, those guys in the Sanfu who jumped out to commit suicide after Dong Zhuo's death were wiped out. The Xiliang people once again started the construction of the "Xiliang people's country" that had been interrupted because of Dong Zhuo's murder. And this time the Xiliang people's
Determination becomes stronger.
However, what is different from the history in the plane that Li Shushi is familiar with is that the actions of the Xiliang people this time are obviously more orderly, and the generals seem to be much closer than the one he was familiar with.
many.
Except for Hongnong Duan Xuan, Jincheng Ma Teng, and Bian Zhang, who had an ambiguous attitude after Dong Zhuo's death, the discipline of the Xiliang people was so high that all the onlookers' jaws dropped.
And there is only one person who can unite this group of proud soldiers from Xiliang. He is the only man hidden in the Xiliang army who did not receive a promotion in this great reward and even resigned from all official positions.
Under this man's strategizing, the Xiliang army seemed to be undergoing some unpredictable changes.
However, the specific changes that will occur cannot be seen now. Li Shushi is not willing to waste too many brain cells on it. Anyway, at least within five years, even if there is no civil strife in Xiliang, there will be no eastward departure.
desire.
As long as this can be confirmed, it is enough for Li Shushi.
His eyes began to shift eastward.
Because of the unsettling danger from the north, Li Shushi realized that perhaps his step-by-step development might not be enough to withstand the impact of the man he regarded as a rare hero. After all, the vast grassland has a huge population and economic strength.
None of them can compete with the Central Plains Dynasty, but they are enough to pose a huge threat to the Bingzhou which does not have much strategic depth and is only a small part of the Central Plains Dynasty in terms of economy and population.
The most important thing is that he does not have many means to directly participate in the civil strife on the grassland. All he can do is some indirect methods. Although it can produce some effects, neither he nor his subordinates have enough means to how big the effect can be.
grasp.
Then, finding opportunities to continue to strengthen Bingzhou's strength will become very important to resist possible changes in the future.
only……
Looking around, Li Shushi was surprised to find that he didn't seem to have many opportunities to eat.
Nowadays, except for the area occupied by Li Shushi, the rest of Hebei has become a battlefield full of wars.
Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan fully displayed their talents on this land.
The overall situation seems to be more favorable to Yuan Shao, but it is extremely difficult for Yuan Shao to turn his advantage into victory.
I don’t know what methods Yuan Shao used to make what conditions. All in all, Liu Yu’s support for Gongsun Zan was gradually declining, or perhaps Liu Yu’s so-called “support” for Gongsun Zan at this time was just to help Yuan Shao clean up the internal wallflowers and ambitious people.
Idiot, as for things like money and food, he found an excuse to cut off the supply, which suddenly increased the logistical pressure on Gongsun Zan's side.
You must know that after the Battle of Qinghe, two larger-scale battles and more than a dozen smaller-scale battles broke out between the two sides.
Among them, after the Battle of Qinghe, he was unwilling to be blocked by Liu Yu and was unable to completely weaken Yuan Shao, so he privately assigned troops to attack Longcuo City, an important place at the junction of the Bohai Sea and the plains. There was also the reason why Yuan Shao sent his favorite Cui Xun and Cui Juye.
The Zhongshan Kingdom attacked Gu'an City next to the Juma River in Zhuojun, hoping to threaten Gongsun Zan's new base camp, Hejian Yixian, located in the middle reaches of the Juma River.
In each of these two large-scale battles, the total number of troops invested by both sides exceeded 50,000, and the battles were fought fiercely. The result was that each side won one and lost, and both sides suffered more than two losses.
Wan, it can be said that all of them have lost their vitality.
If we just look at the results of these two battles, it seems that the situation faced by Yuan Shao is a little better. After all, the fertile land and population of Jizhou under Yuan Shao's rule far exceed that of Youzhou, and the ability to recover from the war is stronger than that of Liu Yu who was held back.
Gongsun Zan.
But the fact is that Yuan Shao did have some advantages in comparison, but he was unable to expand this advantage and completely defeat Gongsun Zan. Even the two counties of Bohai and Hejian were lost again.
It had a certain impact on his reputation.
What made Yuan Shao anxious was the group of Yellow Turban troops that spread like locusts from the Central Plains.
Well, although Zhang Jiao has been wiped out for several years, the force he created still has a huge influence, and this influence even Li Shushi had never imagined.
Originally, it was just a scene staged by a group of Yellow Turban generals who felt that their future was uncertain and a restless soul who was planning to take some evil ways. Those who responded at first just wanted to use them to increase the momentum, and at the same time also make the surrounding people more popular.
The princes were confused about the situation. Although they found that the situation was snowballing out of control, they saw that it could not affect their own plans, so no matter which side they were in, they simply turned a blind eye.
This is really like a flood outside my territory.
But what Li Shushi didn't expect was that what was originally just a move to "cleanse" a county would turn into a massive avalanche during this constant "rolling".
It is true that the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was either eliminated or incorporated by the conquering troops. It can be said that with the Black Mountain Army headed by Zhang Niujiao and the White Wave Army headed by Guo Tai being recruited and incorporated, the Yellow Turban Army, which was officially established on a large scale, has disappeared.
On the territory of the Han Dynasty, what was left was either occupying one or two mountaintops among the mountains and becoming king, or living in seclusion on some island and hanging offshore.
However, neither Li Shushi nor anyone else realized at the beginning what kind of results they had sown would bear now - the people who originally obtained land during the Yellow Turban Rebellion were left behind because of the emergence of the "Returning Corps"
And helplessly lost the treasure they just obtained. If the situation is still stable, they will naturally have no choice but to swallow their anger. After all, they have no capital to fight against those behemoths. But what if one day such an opportunity comes to them?
Those people who had never joined the Yellow Turban Army also entered the resistance camp with resentment, and the destructive power caused by these people was even higher than those of the real remnants of the Yellow Turban Army who survived the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Because
Most of the latter have experienced or at least heard of the brutal suppression by the government and army, while most of the former are ignorant and therefore fearless.
Therefore, as Jizhou is close to Yanzhou and Qingzhou, the areas hardest hit by the Yellow Turban Army, it is naturally not small.
In particular, Jizhou was the core area for Zhang Jiao's promotion of Taiping Road. Even though a large number of supporters were taken away by the Heishan and Baibo armies, they were influenced by Huangfu Song and Jia Cong to give up the tyranny in their hearts and live a stable life.
On the surface, it seems that all traces left by Zhang Jiao have been erased.
However, as long as life changes slightly and the situation gets out of control, Zhang Jiao's shadow will strike again.
In fact, it was not that Yuan Shao did not understand the power of the Yellow Turban Army. After all, even though the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were generally remnants with low combat effectiveness that could not be compared with the regular army, the number of those soldiers was still enough to make any general jealous.
After all, as long as you train a little and go to the battlefield a few times, those who survive will naturally become veterans and then become elites.
Think about the elite Jizhou troops who returned from the northwest. In fact, when they were in Jizhou, most of them were either county soldiers with a lazy style or powerful private troops whose combat effectiveness could not be compared with the border troops. But what about now?
Just like the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army brought back from Youzhou, their combat effectiveness was indeed terrible. Even the physical fitness of these soldiers was not as good as those of the wealthy farmers in the countryside of Jizhou. However, under Yuan Fang's dispatch, they still brought unsatisfactory consequences to the Gongsun Army.
With less trouble, you can know that if these people receive half a year of training and nutritional intake, Yuan Shao can once again widen the gap between him and Gongsun Zan by a large margin.
It's a pity that as Yuan Shao's army fought against Gongsun's army, these people did not stop to receive training and grow into elite soldiers and generals. In fact, because the outcome of the Battle of Qinghe was slightly unfavorable to Yuan Shao, in order to leave a certain amount of time for himself
During the period of respite, those Yellow Turban troops from Youzhou were treated as bait and abandoned by Yuan Shao and thrown to Gongsun Zan.
The result was that corpses littered the fields under the city of Lecheng. Thousands of people died along the Hutuo River north of Lecheng. The river was a bright red and the water of the Hutuo River stopped flowing. The rest surrendered and became cannon fodder for Gongsun Zan's men.
The destruction of the Yellow Turban Army in Youzhou was expected by Yuan Shao, so he calmly used a large amount of gold, pearls, and silk to persuade another Yellow Turban Army from Qingzhou, so Gongsun Zan, who had just fought in Lecheng, had no time to rest.
Then they had to face the Yellow Turban Army, which was said to be about 300,000 strong from Qingzhou and Xuzhou.
Of course, in the face of such a huge army, Gongsun Zan is indeed worthy of being a famous general in the late Han Dynasty. Even after the Battle of Qinghe, which resulted in heavy losses for middle-level generals, he was still able to lead more than 20,000 infantry and cavalry troops once again with his personal command ability.
Several beautiful annihilation battles were fought in the southern part of Dongguang County in Bohai County. In the final count, more than 50,000 enemy troops were killed, more than 70,000 people were gained, and countless wealth was gained. Danshui, the largest river in southern Dongguang, was also contaminated.
It must be red and red.
After the two battles, Gongsun Zan also became a murderous god in the eyes of the Yellow Turban Army.
In this way, in the subsequent negotiations, even if the Yellow Turban Army accepted Yuan Shao's "employment" on the surface, they were obviously unwilling to directly face Gongsun Zan's troops. After all, no matter how much money they were given, they still needed their lives.
Take it.
More importantly, Gongsun Zan seemed to be inspired by the methods used by Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Zan also began to seek private contact with the Yellow Turban Army. Although these miscellaneous troops were nothing more than local chickens and dogs in Gongsun Zan's eyes, they could still fight with too many ants.
Having killed the elephant, Gongsun Zan's vitality is severely damaged. If he continues to bleed like this, collapse will be a matter of time.
The contact between Gongsun Zan and the Yellow Turban Army went very smoothly, and the two sides soon reached an intention to cooperate in private.
The reason why the two sides were able to reach an agreement so quickly was not only because Gongsun Zan's image of the "God of Killing" had been deeply engraved in the minds of the Yellow Turban generals.
More importantly, the Yellow Turban Army and Yuan Shao have already cooperated, so the cake that is already full of wings and available for distribution has been basically divided. The most important thing is that Yuan Shao values the family background more. After several battles, his wings have withered and he
The strength is also slightly lower than that of Yuan Shao. The most important thing is that Gongsun Zan, who was born in the fortress and employs people more casually, obviously has more appetite for those Yellow Turban generals who are of low origin.
After all, providing help in times of need is always better than adding icing on the cake, and it can still be respected, so why not do it.
Of course, there is another factor that cannot be ignored, and that is the attitude of someone thousands of miles away but who has always been extremely concerned about the struggle in Hebei.
And this person is the most dangerous opponent in Yuan Shao's heart - Yuan Shu and Yuan Gongdao.
The degree of danger of this person is definitely the first in Yuan Shao's mind, and there is no other person.
Pan Sen: This is from yesterday. I overslept again... (To be continued.)
