Mang Mountain lies across the north of Luoyang, with two gaps in the east and west, Gong County to the east and Pingyin County to the west.

The Yellow River Ferry in Gong County is Shejin Ferry (Wushejin). The Mengjin Ferry is ten miles west of Shejin Ferry is Mengjin Ferry, and the Mengjin Ferry is Xiaopingjin Ferry is Xiaopingjin Ferry. Xiaopingjin is a sandbank alluvial of the Yellow River, and to the south is Pingxian.

The Mengjin Ferry of the Han Dynasty was not the same place as the Mengjin Ferry, which was well known to later generations, but was sandwiched between Xiaoping Jin Ferry and Shejin Ferry. The strategic location was far less than that of Xiaoping Jin Ferry supported by Ping County and the Shejin Ferry supported by Gong County.

The Han Dynasty was a stronger dynasty than the Tang Dynasty, and it was stronger for a long time than the Tang Dynasty. It had been strong for nearly four hundred years. Except for the early Huns, the Han Dynasty had always been kicked by others, and few passes were set up in the territory. Most of them replaced passes in the form of county towns, rather than setting up important city fortresses in the mountains.

Gong County is the most important defensive city on the east side of Luoyang. To the north of Gong County is Shejin Ferry, the gap on the east side of Mangshan into Luoyang. Forty or fifty miles east of Mangshan is Arc deputies, and ten miles east of Arc deputies are Hulao Pass. After passing Hulao Pass, it is a flat eastern plain in Henan.

There were few passes in the Han Dynasty. Even the passes built during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were completely abandoned at this time. If the Yellow Turban Thiefs had not rebelled suddenly, the emperor and the court would not have established the commander of the Eight Pass of Luoyang. But even so, it would not have been possible to suddenly repair the already destroyed defensive fortress in the middle of winter. For example, the Hulao Pass, which should have been the Eight Pass of Luoyang, was actually only replaced by the Arc descent of a cave tunnel.

A north-south-north Songshan Mountain Range split Henan into two, near the Yellow River Arc departing. Hulao Pass is the northern junction where it splits. From Gongxian to Arc departing, there is a 40-50-mile Laojianbei (Changyeling). Arc departing like a mound on a valley road, only 10 to 20 meters, but this mound is very steep, and the people dug a tunnel under the mound, like a city gate.

The Arc depart is very small, and at most a thousand people can be stationed. To the east is Hulao Pass, and the straight distance between Hulao Pass and Arc departs is only a few miles away. However, the valley path between the two passes is not a straight valley path, but a detoured valley path that is ten miles long and a hundred steps wide.

Hulao Pass has existed since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is a strategic fortress city far more important than Arc destined. It can be a strategic city that replaces Arc destined for hundreds of years. However, due to the lack of wars in the territory of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, this strategic city was also seriously damaged due to long-term disrepair. It is not as convenient as defending against a tunnel-like Arc destined.

After this disaster, will the Han Dynasty focus on restoring the Hulao Pass? Dong Hu is not clear, but he thinks that the court will repair it. If it is not restored, where will the three heroes fight against Lu Bu in the later generations?

Since Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Dong Zhuo sent the news of their defeat again, Dong Hu had to resign with Xiao Liu, the "Brother of Huwa", and had to take the deadly little princess eastward to cross Gong County, Arc deputies and Hulao Pass.

Whether it was infantry and cavalry, Dong Buyi was riding horses and crossed the Hulao Pass after years of disrepair in just two days. Dong Hu was very brave and reorganized ten thousand soldiers. A thousand-person cavalry battalion paired with a thousand-person cavalry battalion, and 10,000 people formed five mixed battalions. Dong Hu personally led the third mixed battalion in the center, with two mixed battalions on the left and right. The five mixed battalions lined up from west to east, each battalion lined up twenty miles apart, and the five battalions controlled hundreds of miles horizontally from east to west, and the lined up and advanced rapidly to the south.

The five mixed battalions form a huge goose-shaped formation spanning hundreds of miles. It is a combination of two diagonal formations, similar to the grassland hunting army formation. It opens the two wings forward and advances forward, wraps all prey together, and swallows all prey that surrounds them in one fell swoop.

First, the fifth two mixed battalions at the edge of the east and west directions advanced forward, the second and fourth two mixed battalions had a slightly slower propulsion speed, and the bottom line was the third mixed battalion led by Dong Hu, which was also the strongest heavy armored cavalry and heavy infantry mixed battalion with the strongest combat power.

Dong Hu was extremely bold and boldly let Guo Sheng, Gao Wang, the little princess Liu Yan, and the general's commander Wang Qian were all frightened...

"Tiger, isn't it too risky for you to do this? Although the Yellow Turban thieves are mud-legged, they... but there are many people."

Guo Sheng saw the five battalions lined up and pushed forward like a comb. What if he encountered a large army of thieves?

Dong Hu did not ride horses with the soldiers to fight, but instead used a huge carriage he had specially found to serve as a temporary central army tent.

In addition to Dong Hu, there were two small eunuchs in green in the huge carriage, who were the small eunuchs beside Empress He sent by Gao Wang, the Central Constable. The three were sorting out the military information sent by each battalion. The curtains of the car were lifted by Guo Sheng, and the little princess Liu Yan, Gao Wang, and Wang Qian also followed them onto the carriage. Seeing that Dong Hu had no big reaction, except for Liu Yan, who was curious about everything, Yuzhe and the three looked helpless.

When Dong Hu left Luoyang, he had already made it clear that they could interfere in other matters, but how to fight was his business, and they could not interfere in specific combat matters.

"Tiger, isn't it too dangerous to disperse the soldiers?"

Guo Sheng spoke again, and Dong Hu looked up from a pile of letters. After thinking about it, he was about to speak, but when he saw the curiosity in the eyes of the little princess wearing a mask, he smiled bitterly.

"You are really good at Gong Gao. You are not afraid that the princess will have an accident. The courtiers will chop you and me in the head? Even if there is no accident, do you think it's really okay?"

Dong Hu blamed Guo Sheng again and said with a high voice. He just joked in the palace, and the two sent the little princess into the army, not afraid that the little princess would get sick or be in danger. But the court officials did not object, and they didn't know whether they wanted to control Dong Buyicon, or wanted the little princess to have an accident, and took the opportunity to kill Dong Zhuo, Dong Hu and a group of eunuchs in the inner court.

After complaining, looking at the speechless old bastards, Dong Hu delivered the compiled report to Guo Sheng. Seeing the little princess leaning slightly towards the paper, she felt a little bitter again.

"The numbers on the report are numbers used by the people of the Qin Dynasty. We have changed them to a little simpler because their strokes are a little more complicated. Just like the seal script used by the Qin Dynasty before, because the strokes are round and difficult to write on bamboo sheets, it gradually became straight and became the current official script. We have also slightly changed the appearance of the numbers of the people of the Qin Dynasty."

Dong Hu explained a little, but did not explain why he wrote the numbers of the people of the Qin Dynasty. I believe that the few people in the carriage must also know a little about his past.

Dong Hu pointed at the numbers on the paper.

"The five battalions of our army lined up from Chenggao County to Longcheng. Ten thousand soldiers controlled a 100-mile range and advanced a hundred miles southward. There were three counties in a radius of 100 miles, including Chenggao, Xingyang, Jingxian, and Guoting, Longcheng, and Guancheng. More than hundreds of villages were cleared..."

"How many thieves reported to the court by Chenggao, Xingyang and Jingxian?"

"More than 160,000."

“How many are there actually?”

"Ten thousand soldiers swept across a radius of hundreds of miles and captured only two thousand people who were bewitched by the thieves. They were the kind of thieves who could drive two thousand people to run around with just three or five hundred cavalry."

Dong Hu pointed to the reports of the thief people arrested on paper on the three counties.

"The two thousand prisoners did not gather in one place, but were scattered within a hundred miles of the three counties. The largest one was Guancheng. But even so, there were only 527 thieves in Guancheng, the second one was 300 thieves outside the county, and the remaining ones were at most 100. They were scattered soldiers who were used by the thieves to disturb the people."

"So few and scattered thieves, can't the three counties even temporarily recruit 500 people and smugglers? The hundred and ten thieves can block them in the city and dare not come out. They are obviously scared by the thieves and swept them like a comb. What's more, it is to enhance the confidence of some people and tell them that we have cleared the thieves within a hundred miles."

Dong Hu sighed and said, "Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you be targeted. One by one, you are scared by the thieves and hide in the city. Only a hundred thieves run over from time to time, thinking that there are enemies everywhere outside the city, officials and soldiers, so what should the people do?"

"It's almost May, and the wheat is about to be harvested, and the autumn grain planting season is about to pass. If the people cannot recover their confidence as soon as possible and cannot give them a sense of security, Henan, which has a large population, will fall into famine because the food cannot be harvested and cannot be cultivated."

When Dong Hu saw a few people nodded, he said, "Although our army has 5,000 infantrymen, they also came on horseback. They fight as much as they want, and leave as they want. Even if they suffer large-scale thieves, they can quickly leave the battlefield, or gather two to three battalions of elite troops to siege the thieves within one day."

"The danger my father-in-law said is not without, but this danger is very low. It is very cost-effective to exchange the livelihood rations of tens of millions of people for a very low risk."

"If the people's hearts are stable, the country will be safe. Without food, even if the thieves are pacified, the people's hearts will not be safe."

As he said that, Dong Hu took out a simple map of the Han Dynasty from a pile of chaos and gestured in front of everyone...

"The five battalions of our army have a total of 10,000 people. The five battalions have controlled a hundred miles from Chenggao to Xingyang. The five battalions have controlled a hundred miles across the line. With such a large section, if the thief is a person who does not know the soldiers, or if the thief knows the soldiers, they may not feel anything. But if the thief sees such a large cross-section and pushes forward, they will feel that we are not coming to 10,000 soldiers, but a hundred thousand troops. As the governor is worried, they will also feel... When we have few people, it is impossible for us to control a hundred miles so arrogantly!"

"What will happen?"

"First, they will panic and feel that their troops are not enough to resist our '100,000' army. Some people deceived by the rebels will hesitate and be afraid, and will calm down and flee."

"Secondly, they will withdraw their troops. The rebels did not take any county town in Yingchuan County. The '100,000' imperial army fought with them who had only sticks and 150,000 sticks and Mucha. Anyone with a discerning eye knew the final result. No one would know that they would die and wait for death. So they would withdraw their troops from Yangdi, Yingyin, and Changshe to Runan County to avoid us from being attacked by General Huangfu, General Zhu and his uncle when we came."

Guo Sheng, Gao Wang and Wang Qian were greatly inspired, and Dong Hu pointed to the counties under Yingchuan County and continued to speak.

"Yingchuan County is not only a place where our dynasty has a prosperous literary style, but also can pass through Yangcheng and enter the imperial capital Luoyang. Once the bandits take Yingchuan County, the bandits can directly threaten the capital of the imperial capital and shock the whole world. This is why General Huangfu and General Zhu led their troops to attack Bocai and Peng Tuo."

"The two generals are both soldiers and soldiers, but the two generals can only trap the city and defend. Although the troops of the enemy and us are different in size, it can also be seen that Bo Cai and Peng Tuo are not really ignorant of soldiers. When the two learned that our army occupied a hundred miles of cross-section and advanced forward, what would they do if they didn't know how many soldiers our army had?"
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