Chapter 147 Force the thieves out of the city to fight
Do more and make more mistakes, do less and make less mistakes, and do not do well.
If others want to cause trouble for you, the more you do, the more you are more likely to be grabbed by others. But if you do nothing, it becomes a "no desire to be tough". Instead, it is not easy for others to find trouble, but there is another saying...
Only a thousand days are thieves, but not a thousand days are thieves.
Dong Hu was very cautious and minimized the troubles of others as much as possible. He was unwilling to affect more than 10,000 Dong Buyi Cong on the front line because of himself. For him, stability in the rear was the most important thing, and as for power, etc.... he got it at this time.
The tree wants to be quiet, but the wind does not stop.
Hua Xiong, Dong Xiaoyi, Dong Chong, Liu Qi, and Dong Gu each led more than a thousand cavalry to attack everywhere. Five thousand cavalry were scattered a hundred miles apart. One man and two cavalry went back and forth, sweeping across the entire Yuzhou plain within half a month. There were only a few hundred thousand "Yellow Turban Thieves" captured.
In more than half a month, every day, thousands of elderly, weak women and children were driven to the city of Dingying by hundreds of soldiers. Seeing the prison camp outside the city grow bigger little by little, Guo Sheng looked sad instead.
"Zhongying, are there too many prisoners? If... if you suddenly cooperate with the thieves in the city, what should you do?"
Dong Zhuo waved his hand without caring, and smiled: "Eunuch Guo, don't worry too much. They are just old, weak, women and children who are bewitched. Only a thousand people are enough to take them into custody!"
Dong Zhuo was very proud. Just by arresting so many thieves, they were supreme merits, not to mention that these were all sieges to kill the city. If they sent them away, wouldn’t they want their elite soldiers to attack the city?
Niu Fu and others knew Dong Zhuo’s intentions, clasped their fists and smiled at Guo Sheng: “Don’t worry, father-in-law, we will definitely be careful. If father-in-law is really worried, we can let them choose another camp.”
At this moment, a sudden sound of displeasure sounded in the central army's tent.
"Dong Zhonglang, you have already carried dozens of heads outside the city. The thieves in the city should be depressed, and you should also attack the city?"
Everyone turned around to see that it was a young general next to Yuan Shao. When they saw that he didn't know the young general, Dong Zhuo's face instantly drooped.
"snort!"
"How can I fight, a little Quhou dares to talk too much, throw it out for us!"
The young general was furious and was about to get up and curse. Yuan Shao grabbed the person, but his eyes looked at Dong Zhuo, who was angry with cold faces, and then looked at Zhang Wen on the main seat, looking at Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, who were cold faces and silent...
"There are many rumors in these days that Dong Duwei deliberately abducted the thief. If Dong Zhonglang stayed in the process of stopping..."
"hehe……"
Niu Fu couldn't help but smile and clasped his fists to Yuan Shao.
"Niu has something unknown and wants to ask Yuan for advice. Where did the 100,000 prisoners of thieves come from outside the tent? Why can the people of Yuzhou be able to harvest wheat grains with stability?"
"you……"
Yuan Shao was still furious, and Cao Cao grabbed the man...
"Cao Ah, you are blindly... don't you know about the thief in Nanyang--"
Hearing Yuan Shao's roar, there was silence in the tent...
"hehe……"
Dong Zhuo suddenly chuckled and everyone turned their heads together.
"Don't worry too much in the first place. Governor Xu and Prefect Qin can join forces to kill the thief leader Zhang Mancheng, and they can definitely block the thief in the city..."
When Dong Zhuo said this, he suddenly frowned and looked at Cao Cao.
"Meng De, we seem to hear people say that when Huwa ran to Luoyang that day, what did he say... ten times surrounded him, and five times attacked him..."
"oops……"
"Looking at Huwa's stupid and stupid look, you may not know that Huwa has read a lot of books since he was a child. Of course, we don't know when he read some military books. However, Huwa's words are a bit correct. Whether it is a thousand or a hundred thousand, as long as he is strong enough, he can block the thief in the city!"
"Governor Xu, the prefect of Qin can join forces to kill the thief leader Zhang Mancheng. Although there are fewer soldiers, they can definitely block the thief in the city. As long as the thief cannot cause harm, just like us, we can first eliminate the thief in the countryside, stabilize the counties and counties first, and then destroy the thief in one fell swoop!"
Sikong Zhang Wen, the left central general Huangfu Song, the right central general Zhu Jun and others breathed a heavy breath. One letter of help from Wancheng, Nanyang, asked for help one after another. Although the governor of Jingzhou, Xu Yu, and the prefect of Nanyang, Qin Jie, worked together to kill Zhang Mancheng, the two had too few troops. They were later defeated by Zhao Hong, the successor of the Yellow Turban Army, and more than 100,000 Yellow Turban Army guarded Wancheng to death.
According to the ruts that Dong Hu knew, in May, Huangfu Song set fire to Bo Cai to death in Changshe, and Bo Cai fled to Yangdi City, because there were still tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army that besieged Yangdi City. However, Huangfu Song set off a fire too much. The Yellow Turban Army was originally farmers, and the battle was still successful. Once it was at a disadvantage, the morale would collapse and it would be unbelievable.
According to the ruts that Dong Hu knew, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun would kill Bo Cai under Yangdi City, Peng Tuohui would retreat with a part of the Yellow Turban Army, and eventually died in Xihua. After that, Huangfu Song led his troops north to Yanzhou, first clearing out the troops of Bu Si, Zhang Bo, and Liang Zhongning, the troops of Yanzhou flanks of Jizhou, and then surrounded Zhang Jiao, the troops of Zhang Liang, who were trapped by Lu Zhi... and Zhu Jun, the right general of the Central Army, turned from the battlefield of Yuzhou to enter the battlefield of Nanyang.
If it weren't for Dong Hu's interference, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Cao Cao would have killed Bo Cai in May and June. Peng Tuo's troops would have led 10,000 soldiers to fight in Nanyang. It's June and the wheat has been put into the warehouse. Bo Cai, Peng Tuo was still alive and hid in Dingying County.
Logically speaking, more than 100,000 Yellow Turban thieves were blocked in the city, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun could still go to Jizhou or Nanyang to quell the rebellion. The key is that Dong Zhuo’s nest is in the battlefield in Yuzhou or in the base camp of major families in the court. Zhang Wen, Huangfu Song and Zhu Junruo left, what can Dong Zhuoru do to do?
Not only because Dong Zhuo was lying in the lair of wealthy families of various aristocratic families, but also because Dong Zhuo took the elite troops of the court. The 50,000 Yingchuan Army was a farmer who had only been recruited for half a month and had not even learned how to stab someone with a knife. How can you fight in a short period of time?
Whether Huangfu Song ran to Jizhou to quell the rebellion or Zhu Jun turned to Nanyang, the two of them rely on the 40,000 soldiers and horses brought from Luoyang, the fifth battalion of the Northern Army, the Hu Ben Army, Yu Linlang, and the elite troops of the twelve city gates. However, when these soldiers were besieging the princess camp, they were all captured and reorganized by Dong Buyicong and reorganized, and they all became soldiers and horses in Dong Zhuo's hands.
Dong Zhuo had a total of 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers, all of them were elite. They were either Dong Buyi or the elites of the court. All the people who left Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were 50,000 new recruits in Yingchuan Army. Of course, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and the various families in Yuzhou also sent three or four thousand Ding Minzhuang, which looked like they dared to fight for warriors, but these people were new recruits who had never fought before.
Just because of these new recruits who have never been on the battlefield are standing on the same starting line as the farmers and soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army. If the troops are superior, it would be better. The key is that the Yellow Turban Army has superior strength, which would be fatal.
Dong Zhuo made it clear that he would first consume the Yellow Turban thieves in Dingying City. Didn’t Huwa say that he should not give the thieves too much experience in defending the city. To attack the city, he had to make a concerted effort and he had to go down in one go.
The generals of the Liangzhou army were all cold-faced, and the generals of the imperial court all had gloomy faces. Just as Zhang Wen wanted to use the name of the imperial court to suppress Dong Zhuo and attack Dingying City...
"Report!"
Scout captain Dong Hou strode into the tent and clasped his fists at Taiwei Zhang Wen.
"The first thief can be found, Peng Tuo led 100,000 thieves out of the city."
"What--"
The generals stood up with a loud bang, and Niu Fu asked in surprise.
"The thieves want to leave the city and fight to the death with our army? They won't go crazy, are they?"
Dong Zhuochu was also surprised when he heard that "100,000 thieves left the city". After coming to his senses, he waved his hand again and raised his eyebrows very disdainfully.
"The command to retreat three miles."
Dong Hou was about to hold his fist and take the order...
"Slow down!"
Zhu Jun looked at Dong Zhuo with a cold face.
"What does Dong Zhonglang retreat mean? Don't you know how to make a move? This is the time when our army defeats the thieves with one blow. How can we be afraid of retreating?"
Everyone nodded silently, but Dong Zhuo looked unhappy.
"How Dong fights, that's Dong's business, so there is no need for Zhu Zhonglang to ask about it!"
"snort!"
Dong Zhuo snorted coldly and turned to look at a group of Dong Boyi Generals.
"Sun Niu, Dong Xin, Dong Yao, Xing Yong, Hu San."
Five big steps will come forward and cross your hands and hold your fists.
"The last general (the last general) is in!"
"The troops in charge are in front of us to meet the enemy, fight and retreat!"
"promise!"
Dong Zhuo waved his hand, and Dong Buyi clasped his fists from the five infantry deputy generals, turned around and strode away from the central army's tent.
"Yao Shan, Yao Yong, Yang Yi, Dong San, Dong Si."
The former white horse Qiang Yi came forward from the veterans and clasped his fists together.
"The last general (the last general) is in!"
"Teach five thousand Lintao Erlang to cover the five thousand armored infantry arrows."
The five veterans clasped their fists together.
"promise!"
...
"Hua Xiong, Dong Xiaoyi, Liu Qi, Dong Gu."
The four major cavalry generals stepped forward and clasped their fists.
"The last general (the last general) is in!"
"Living three miles behind the two wings of Sunniu's troops, no war is allowed without military orders!"
The four cavalry generals were just like others and they held their fists and left the tent, and they needed to organize their military formations to meet the enemy.
Everyone watched Dong Zhuo use Dong Buyicong, but no one spoke, but after a while, they didn't see him continuing to mobilize soldiers, which was a little unclear.
The crowd looked at each other, and even Niu Fu and others wanted Dong Buyi to take the lead, and did not object to Dong Zhuo's military order. But why didn't Dong Zhuo speak up and continue to mobilize others?
Seeing others looking at each other, Zhang Wen did not speak, and hesitated and said, "Dong Zhonglang, the thieves left the city with 100,000 soldiers... Isn't it too risky?"
Dong Zhuo raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't worry, Lord Sikong, Huwa has made a decision on this matter."
Everyone was stunned, all of them were a little confused, so Dong Zhuo smashed his lips twice...
"Master Sikong also knew Huwa's words that day, so he first cleared out the thieves in the countryside of Yuzhou, so that the people could harvest wheat valleys in the fields with peace of mind. This is just one of them."
"The second is to shake the morale of the thief. The fake leader of the thief was cut and killed by us, and the morale of the thief. There are nearly 100,000 prisoners outside. Huwa is to cause our troops to grow more and more. If they come out to fight us, they may also defeat us, and may also let the 100,000 prisoners disperse our army. But if they still hide in the city, a month later, reinforcements from each county come, and there will be hundreds of thousands of troops outside Dingying City, and they will not even have a chance."
Dong Zhuo smiled and said, "Thuwa concluded half a month ago that the thieves would leave the city and fight with our army with all their might. Sun Niu's troops fought and retreated, and led the thieves out for several miles. Hua Xiong could take the opportunity to enter the city or cut off the retreat of 100,000 thieves. As for those women, children, elderly and weak who were bewitched by the thieves, Xu Rong, Guo Sheng, Li Jue and others led tens of thousands of soldiers to guard them, and they could not be confused even if they wanted to."
Chapter completed!