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Chapter 165 What to do with those who enter Luoyang first

"Hahaha, Zhao Yun and his son can actually be famous all over the world? That's all. With such martial arts, it must be because the eunuch guards in Qingsou Sect was too weak, so he became famous.

If the Prime Minister had already led troops to the capital and let us take the credit for snatching the door and rescuing the driver, maybe my position is higher than that of the Changshui Captain! Zhao Yun was really lucky to get the opportunity to get credit for it."

When Hua Xiong was chasing Guan Yu, Li Meng, with some of Hua Xiong's cavalry and a thousand cavalry in his own headquarters, were continuing to hunt down Zhao Yun.

When Zhao Yun saw the Huaxiong flag formation going south and seemed to be about to collide with Guan Yu's flag formation, he also realized that Guan Yu was at risk of being besieged and had to give up his attitude of continuing to ride and shoot and fight, and instead let all the Youzhou thunder cavalry be ready for melee. Zhao Yun himself was the first to turn back and fight, dragging Li Meng away from Li Meng and preventing Li Meng from bringing the remaining troops back to Huaxiong.

Zhao Yun and Guan Yu did a pretty good job in pre-war intelligence. Knowing that Li Meng's status was not high, killing or not killing would have little impact on the morale of the enemy's entire army.

So when we first started fighting, in order to better hold the enemy back, Zhao Yun chose to temporarily stabilize his move so as not to scare the enemy away if he killed too hard, and rushed back to Guan Yu on the way back.

Fortunately, Zhao Yun was the one who was the one who had the most experience in pretending to lose, and his martial arts skills were much better than Li Meng. So he was very comfortable in acting for a while, and always gave Li Meng the illusion that "I will have the chance to pick Zhao Yun up after working hard."

But in fact, Zhao Yun did not only hit Li Meng, but after feeding Li Meng a few moves, he pretended to flee to both sides. When he met other warrior generals of the Western Liang Army, he stabbed him to death within a few moves.

He killed someone and pretended to "I ran away to seize the road. This person blocked my way, causing me to be caught by Li Meng, so I had to kill him."

Who made Li Meng's number of troops was much more than Zhao Yun? This was not an appointment to fight one-on-one, and the others could not fight each other. Of course, Zhao Yun had to cherish the lives of his subordinates. While holding Li Meng down, he also killed more tough thorns.

In this way, Li Meng chased Zhao Yun and fled. The two of them were plundering in front of the battle line between the two armies several times. After being killed by Zhao Yun, dozens of Western Liang warriors finally erupted in the battlefield on the south side. The two armies were slightly distracted and paid attention to the other side, wanting to know what was going on, but soon they saw chaos in the Western Liang cavalry led by Hua Xiong and scattered away.

Guan Yu's army shouted in unison: "The thief Hua Xiong has been killed!"

Soon, Hua Xiong's banner also fell, and there was no doubt now.

Li Meng's heart trembled. Just as he was about to take it seriously, considering whether to withdraw the troops temporarily, Zhao Yun had already stabbed him with a tricky shot.

Li Meng used his experience of feeding the moves just now to block it, but found that his spear seemed to have encountered a spiral force and was swept away. In a daze, he was already stabbed to a cold heart by a shot.

"This... how could Zhao Yun's martial arts improve so much at once? Didn't he be chased and cut off for several miles..." With this unwilling question, Li Meng died in anger.

"Li Meng's husband has been awarded the title! All the soldiers, kill!" Zhao Yun shouted loudly, and with a spear, he took the lead in fighting into the Xiliang cavalry formation.

The surrounding Youzhou cavalry witnessed the real victory of killing generals and their morale was also high. They rushed to the scene while shouting Hua Xiong, and Li Meng had been killed, which disintegrated the morale of the people of Xiliang.

The turning point of a battle is always the bloodiest time. After a short and fierce battle to death, about half a stick of incense, the main force of the infantry led by Sun Jian and Xu Huang also arrived and joined the battlefield. The Xiliang cavalry completely collapsed in an instant.

They relied on their cavalry, and felt that they could not defeat them, and they could run away completely, scattered and fled westward, hoping to escape from the way they crossed the river last night and then back to the north bank of Yingchuan.

"Don't steal the horses, chase them quickly, there will be more horses after chasing them for a while!" Sun Jian, who was panting, rushed to urge his subordinates to move forward, and was very dissatisfied with the soldiers who slowed down and tried to seize the spoils.

Sun Jian also knew in his heart that pursuit battles are the easiest to produce results, and infantry marching is slow. If he does not strive for a while as soon as possible, his troops will cover a larger battlefield area, and if he divides the spoils in a while, he will not be able to loot much.

The infantry could only bite the tail of the enemy brigade, and the Xiliang soldiers who were fleeing in all directions could only be given to Guan Yu and Zhao Yun's cavalry.

Although Sun Jian's troops did not have large-scale cavalry, they also had scout cavalry of more than a hundred cavalry. The generals and senior officers also had war horses, and they could gather about two or three hundred cavalry in total. Sun Jian has always liked to lead the way, so he certainly had to rush forward when he was robbing the head.

Fortunately, Hua Xiong and Li Meng's death, the Xiliang Army would not be able to organize an uproar and counterattack. Otherwise, if they encounter an enemy-like general of Lu Gong, they will be unable to defeat Sun Jian, but the personal safety of the general is hard to say.

The pursuit lasted for more than half an hour, and it was not until the remnants of the Xiliang cavalry rushed through Yingchuan from multiple shallow sections, which ended. Most of the Xiliang cavalry eventually crossed the north to escape, but at least hundreds of cavalrymen were surrounded by congestion due to congestion, and after a series of hacking and slaughtering, they surrendered in an organized manner.

Not everyone in the Xiliang army was not good at swimming. About hundreds of defeated soldiers who could swim finally chose to abandon their horses and swim across the river. The war horses left on the south bank were also captured by Sun Jian and Guan Yu.

At the end of the battle, Sun Jian saw that the victory was decided, but Huang Gai sent a messenger to report to him, saying that Hu Zhen and Lu Bu were in a strong attack, and asked Sun Jian to return to the rescue as soon as possible. Sun Jian also knew that there were no more infantry on the front battlefield, so he divided half of the people back to defend.

It is estimated that Hu Zhen and Lu Bu will not really force the crossing and be attacked halfway when the enemy is unknown, that is, support Hua Xiong. After all, they do not know about Hua Xiong's situation. As long as they see some of Sun Jian's troops being attracted back to the camp, Hu Zhen and Lu Bu should stop.

...

The day's fight ended like this.

When the setting sun was as bloody as the battlefield was almost cleaned, and the spoils and prisoners were also roughly counted.

Dong Zhuo's army's Xiliang Iron Cavalry should have suffered losses of about 4,000 people, but less than half of them were casualties, that is, about five or six hundred people were killed in battle and more than one thousand were injured.

More than a thousand people were blocked by the river and surrendered when they fled north.

The captured prisoners and the deserters who went westward into the depths of Songshan Mountain, each had hundreds of people.

The 3,000 cavalry of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun had a total of more than 500 casualties, but the vast majority were injured, with more than 100 dead, and dozens of them were seriously injured and dozens of them were not cured.

This is mainly because the most resistant to pressure in the bloody battle just now was Guan Yu's 1,000 iron armored cavalry. These cavalry had excellent protection. Even if they were injured by swords, guns and arrows, most of them could survive. Many of them were directly hit by the guns and the horses were hit hard during the charge, and the tendons and bones broke, and their hands and feet were broken, but few of them were killed in iron armor.

Zhao Yun was not very good at it, so he sent a cavalry from the garrison to carefully check all the horses of Sun Jian's army, and found all the war horses on his side that might have exposed the stirrups on both sides. He searched for two hundred Xiliang horses. This matter was over.

Zhao Yun remembered that before he left Chengdu, Li Su explained some reminders from him as early as the beginning of the twelfth lunar month last year and decided to sell his face with this favor.

He said to Sun Jian: "Premier Sun, let's forget about it today. I will take back these more than 200 horses, not even more. We must have redistributed weapons and armor. We will not care about you because you are attacking Sili in the first place, and we will not care about you.

However, you should also see that our army is a kind and righteous army who works hard to make a king's affairs. I want to make an appointment with you for a gentleman's agreement to divide the profits in the future."

Sun Jian was still very proud. Seeing Zhao Yun giving him face in his words, he didn't care and said proudly: "General Zhao, please speak!"

Zhao Yun took a deep breath: "Last twelfth lunar month, before I was about to leave Sichuan, the general of the Central Army Li Su Zeng told me: Since Dong Zhuo moved the emperor and dug the imperial tomb, he has become crazy and has lost his human nature, and he can do anything.

Therefore, he tried to challenge Dong, and he always advised the generals of the Western Expedition not to participate in it personally. Otherwise, if Dong Zhuo wanted to burn both jade and stone one day, he might be killed by the emperor in the east and west capitals.

When we attack Luoyang this time, Dong Zhuo may not give up Luoyang. It is just based on Li Zhonglang's analysis of Dong Zhuo's recent behavior that he may cause greater damage before leaving. I hope that once such a trend occurs, Sun Taishou will not care about the plunder of war, but will work together with our army to rescue disasters, and whoever rescues will be the one who will be."

When Sun Jian heard Zhao Yun say so righteously, he was squeezed up and down the moral stairs, and he couldn't help but question: "If this is true, of course, it is best to save the people and eliminate disasters. I, Sun Jian, can still distinguish the severity of this!

However, I am bluntly saying that most of the people in Yin in Henan have been moved. The imperial palace treasury, the wealthy people from the people, and the treasures of the imperial tombs have been plundered by Dong Zhuo. Some of the broken houses and old palaces are empty. How can Dong Zhuo commit atrocities before leaving? Could it be that even the houses and uteruses have been demolished and burned all?"

Zhao Yun smiled with compassion and bitter smile: "With Dong Zhuo's cruelty, it may not be so."

Sun Jian: "Okay, I promise you - General Guan, General Zhao's meaning just now also represents your meaning, right? Don't put forward any new conditions then."

Guan Yu stroked his beard proudly: "Zilong agreed, of course I agreed. Zilong's proposal was taught by Boya, and most of the older brother thought so."

Sun Jian: "Okay, you all mean this. Why should I be a villain in vain? This matter is decided. Today, I will only annihilate 4,000 enemy cavalry and kill Hua Xiong Li Meng. Now I will talk about the conditions for entering Luoyang. I may not laugh too early and be too proud. Let's consider how to defeat Lu Bu, Hu Zhen, and Fan Chou first, and return to the camp!"

The two armies slowly moved back to the camp in southern Sichuan. The remnants of the cavalry of Huaxiong on the north bank had also fled back to the Huzhen camp one after another.
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