The Han army was defeated, this is an indisputable fact.
Because of their eagerness to strive for merit, many generals, especially those who failed to get a vote from Yumi, devoted 120% of their enthusiasm to the pursuit of the Qiang army, and correspondingly, the Qiang people continued to retreat.
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In comparison, Sun Jian's luck should be slightly better. The troops dominated by his and Zhou Shen's soldiers and horses blocked Beigong Boyu and others, who had few soldiers and horses, at the junction of Jincheng County and Hanyang County.
Zhongxian area. Dong Zhuo may have felt that the remnants of more than a thousand people could not bring him much credit, or he may have admired Duan Jue's style, so he chose the target of Xianling Qiang.
Although the main force of the Xianling Qiang has been trapped in the Wugong area, in Jincheng, because many old and weak Xianling Qiang have moved back to their homeland from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Dong Zhuo obviously feels that this group should be called to continue the rebellion.
More than a dozen Qiang people were completely eradicated.
There seemed to be more than one person who had the same idea as Dong Zhuo, so the Han army was divided into two groups. One group surrounded Yuzhong, targeting the heads in Yuzhong City. The other group went deep into the hinterland of Jincheng County, preparing to wipe out the stubborn people there.
Zero Qiang first.
It's just that the swimming speed of these sharks that smell the smell of blood is too fast. Even if Sun Jian and Zhou Shen stopped at the foot of Yuzhong City, they would be out of touch with the troops behind them, let alone catch them.
Dong Zhuo from Jincheng County went straight to Huangzhong.
So, the next story is a bit disappointing. Dong Zhuo's group plunged into the Qiang's lair and were surrounded by Qiang people. Zhou Shen and Sun Jian were also surrounded by Qiang people who didn't know where they gathered.
People's escape has been cut off.
It is also interesting to say that Zhou Shen may not have deserved his death. Before, he and Sun Jian besieged Yuzhong City. Sun Jian didn't know that something was wrong. Although there were only more than a thousand defenders in the city, Sun Jian
They were still planning to bypass Yuzhong City to cut off the opponent's food route and return route. They probably planned to catch turtles in a jar or see if there were any hidden enemies.
After all, their opponent is Huangzhong Yicong. Although the pursuit battle has traveled nearly a thousand miles, it is not surprising that the opponent has collapsed. However, Qi Juqi had retreated from Wugong to Hanyang before and the opponent showed no signs of collapse, but when they arrived in Hanyang,
The opponent's disintegration was as fast as a mountain falling apart. However, this place was far away from their home base in Huangzhong. As an excellent commander, Sun Jian could instinctively sense a hint of conspiracy.
However, Zhou Shen stopped Sun Jian's actions. Although Sun Jian was as unruly as a fierce horse, his goal was to work hard after all, so he was bound to be restricted by the Han bureaucracy. As a third-grade miscellaneous general and a general of the Northern Army, Zhou Shen, regardless of
He was much higher than Sun Jian in terms of seniority and status, so when the two of them were together, Sun Jian had to obey the other's command.
As for Dong Zhuo, his status is very special. On the one hand, Dong Zhuo's defeat in the Yellow Turban Battle is so shameful, so he can be said to have fought to the end. He has no official title, and the soldiers and generals under him are all in the form of troops.
exists. But Dong Zhuo
After all, the years of conquests in the north and south were not in vain. In terms of qualifications and achievements, it was completely okay for him to suppress others. So don't think Dong Zhuo is just a white man who committed crimes and performed meritorious services, but on the battlefield in the northwest, in the army,
It's still vaguely centered on him.
But after all, Dong Zhuo was still a white man, and the imperial court did not restore his official position, so Sun Jian had no pressure at all to argue with him, because Sun Jian seemed to have a slightly higher official position than Dong Zhuo, and there was no psychological pressure to conflict with the superior.
Of course, this is also the reason why Dong Zhuo deliberately set things off with Zhang Wen, but Sun Jian immediately said that Dong Zhuo could be killed.
Zhou Shen had Sun Jian by his side. Although the two of them were surrounded together, at least Zhou Shen was not as panicked as he was when he was surrounded. After all, the combat power of Sun Jian and Sun Jian's troops was there. Breaking through the encirclement seemed to be impossible.
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As for Dong Zhuo's side, they were basically divided and surrounded. What's even worse is that because they rushed too quickly, they carried even less food and grass than Sun Jian's side. In addition, the Qiang people's high-intensity attacks
, it is difficult to save food and spend and wait for help. Therefore, when it comes to the choice of maintaining physical strength or saving food and grass, everyone chooses the former, which also causes all the food and grass of the besieged troops to be quickly consumed within a few days.
, the destruction was almost instantaneous.
But just when the Qiang people thought that the cups of the Han army would be covered with titanium alloy and the uncooked rice would be cooked into rice, they were shocked to discover that the cups could also be used to wash their faces, and if the uncooked rice was not used
If you use a rice cooker, it will also turn into uncooked rice.
Just when Sun Jian and Zhou Shen were attacked from both sides and desperately preparing to break out, they suddenly discovered that the Qiang coalition forces that had originally blocked their retreat were in commotion. Sun Jian was indeed an experienced commander.
Caught it immediately
With a fleeting opportunity, they joined forces with Zhou Shen and moved forward regardless of the situation behind them. They finally succeeded in defeating the Qiang coalition forces who were also attacked from both sides and successfully rendezvoused with Tao Qian who came for reinforcements. Unfortunately, Beigong Boyu and others found the momentum.
When it was wrong, he would have already run away.
However, although the Yuzhong area was finally captured, as the main target of the Qiang coalition forces, Zhou Shen and Sun Jian's troops suffered heavy losses in terms of physical strength, mental strength and strength, and were unable to continue fighting. And the troops brought by Tao Qian
Many of the reinforcements were drawn from the powerful troops of Shangjun and Feng Yi, and their combat effectiveness was limited. In fact, if it weren't for Sun Jian's desperate assault and the Qiang people's misjudgment of the opponent's strength due to the surprise attack, the outcome of this battle would still be uncertain.
Unknown.
But no matter what, Bian Zhang and Han Sui's strategy can only be said to be a small part of the success. In addition to giving them a chance to breathe, the impact on the overall battle situation is still limited. After all, the Han army has not been completely defeated, and the Han army can continue to flow.
from Xiliang
They were recruited from the powerful tribes of Feng Yi. The combat effectiveness of these tribes is obviously not as lacking in combat training as the powerful tribes from Feng Yi. They are all elites who fought with the Qiang people. Many of them are even
The story of a former Han general.
The most conspicuous among them is obviously the troops of Guzang Duan family who immediately went south after receiving Zhang Wen's request for help.
As for Dong Zhuo, it completely shows the truth - when a guy who usually presents himself as a reckless man once uses a strategy, it is really more shocking than Zhuge Kongming. For example, Zhang Fei in the future
, such as Dong Zhuo now.
Faced with the Qiang people's siege, Dong Zhuo, who was calm and experienced in the battlefield, did not panic under such circumstances. He ordered his soldiers to build a high dam in the river to cut off the flow of water upstream.
The Qiang people were baffled by this. However, soon the Qiang scouts came back and reported that the Eastern Han army had been catching fish and shrimps in the dam all day long. Combined with the situation of other besieged Han armies, the Qiang generals unanimously believed that Dong Zhuo's army rations had been exhausted.
They had no choice but to catch fish and shrimp to satisfy their hunger. So they relaxed their vigilance and only besieged but not attacked, hoping to trap Dong Zhuo's army. After all, Dong Zhuo's army was really famous in Xiliang
It is too big, and the fighting style is as fierce as that of the Qiang people. The Qiang army generals obviously do not want to use up their troops needlessly when victory is within easy reach. What's more, Lao Dong has a good relationship with the Qiang commanders and can
It is much better to force old Dong to surrender than to fight to the death on the battlefield. Even if Dong Zhuo is stubborn for the sake of his own future, it will always be easier for Dong Zhuo, who has no physical strength, to deal with it.
It's a pity that Dong Zhuo wanted to create this illusion for the other party. You must know that with Dong Zhuo damming the river, the water level of the downstream river has become easy for the army to travel, and Dong Zhuo's troops can withdraw at any time. Seeing that the Qiang people began to express their disapproval of the Han
The army surrounded them without fighting. Surprisingly, Dong Zhuo did not lead the army to retreat alone. Instead, he immediately used his unique advantages to launch a surprise attack on the Qiang people.
In addition to the powerful tribes and horse thieves and rangers from Liangzhou, the tribes under Dong Zhuo also had many foreign troops from the Qiang Di tribe who formed separate armies. These people are no different from the Qiang people who live mixed with the Han people, except for their clothing.
Or the accent difference is too big, otherwise these people would have no problem blending into the ranks of the Qiang coalition forces.
If you can rely on sufficient light to identify strangers by their faces during the day, then at night, especially when the Qiang coalition forces think they have a chance to win, these Qiang and Di people who serve Dong Zhuo mix into them.
The Qiang coalition camp opposite is too easy.
The Qiang people were already accustomed to Dong Zhuo, who would not retreat even if they were fighting against them head-on on the battlefield, so they had no idea what the effect would be if Dong Zhuo used tactics, so they were all waiting for the decisive battle with the pure man Dong Zhuo.
one day.
However, in Li Shushi's view, even if Dong Zhuo is just a stupid, thick, thick, human-skinned gorilla, don't forget that there is also Li Ru, who has as much evil in his mind as Jia Xu, a poisonous person. As I said before
, when barbarians master the power of wisdom, they are absolutely the most invincible, especially in the cold weapon age, an era that pays more attention to physical fitness.
So, on a dark and windy night, a breakout operation began with Dong Zhuo's army as the main force and other trapped Han troops.
Dong Zhuo used the Qiang troops in his unit to successfully open a gap in the encirclement of the Qiang coalition forces, and then crushed the Qiang army from the outside in. However, the Han army, who discovered that the Qiang army was in chaos, took advantage of the situation and broke out from the inside.
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Although the design direction of the tactics was in the opposite direction, and it was smooth sailing when it was first implemented, there was one flaw that turned this breakout into a cruel war of attrition, and that was the physical strength of the besieged Han army.
Although Dong Zhuo did not dare to take action easily because of his reputation, so he was able to hunt fish and shrimps leisurely for a few days. However, after several days of high-intensity fighting, the other Han troops had exhausted their food and grass. If they had not returned,
If there were some war horses to share the food with, they probably wouldn't even have the physical strength to stand up and fight.
The problem is that although the army and horses killed a lot of people, they were all injured. The uninjured war horses are good helpers in breaking out. Unless they are completely desperate, no one will kill them. This also allows the Han army to continue to fight.
It's hovering near the hunger line. It's fine if I don't exercise, but when I encounter high-intensity battles, the problem of insufficient battery life immediately becomes apparent.
Therefore, although Dong Zhuo finally led his soldiers to break through the encirclement of the Qiang coalition forces and inflicted moderate trauma on the opponent, except for Dong Zhuo's troops, the remaining Han troops were basically unable to break out much.
Generally speaking, the Qiang people are unable to counterattack, and the Han army is even more unable to advance westward. Both sides still have the potential to continue attacking. Now it depends on who has stronger recovery power and who has faster recovery power. However,
It seems that the Han army, which has a vast territory and abundant resources, should have the upper hand, but is it really that simple?
