After the meritorious service is completed, all the generals will return home with a full load.
Zhang Chong, on the other hand, returned to the study alone to sort out the recently received information.
Thanks to the Feijun foreign military espionage system's tilt towards the power between the two capitals, Zhang Chong had a better understanding of the war between the two capitals.
Zhang Chong never gave up paying attention to the battle between the two capitals. He knew that he must capture Hebei before the battle between the two capitals was over. Otherwise, the current Taishan Army would be completely unable to stop the Han Dynasty's subsequent counterattack.
The latest intelligence shows that at the time of the Taishan Army's Northern Expedition, the second battle between the two capitals was also in full swing.
Zhang Chong collectively referred to the first battle of the Luoyang Army outside the Pass and the subsequent battle in Hedong as the First Battle of Two Capitals. As Yuan Shao returned to Mengjin with his remaining troops, Dong Zhuo, the governor of Hedong, officially joined the Xijing camp, and the strength between the two capitals was once again balanced.
After a series of arrangements, and after a group of Nanyang soldiers entered Luoyang, Luoyang once again made plans to attack westward.
After the violent death of Zhang Mancheng, the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang finally failed under the joint strangulation of the Nanyang clan and Jingzhou governor Xu Xu.
Zhao Hong felt that he was a son of a powerful man and felt that he could be tolerated by the local nobles, but little did he know that these nobles could not tolerate a hundred thousand yellow turbans sleeping on the side beds.
In a premeditated attack, Zhao Hong was killed by the formation after drinking. The remaining Yellow Turbans elected Han Zhong as their commander and began to continue the struggle with the local Nanyang nobles.
But Nanyang is such a special place. As an imperial town with a population of millions, the homes of nobles and nobles are spread throughout the country. Fan, Yin, Deng, Wu, Cen, Li, Zhuo, Zhu. Which one of these has either been a warrior or a distinguished person since ancient times, and which one of them has not been a disciple of hundreds of thousands of people now?
Under the unanimous support of these powerful clans, the Nanyang Yellow Turbans led by Han Zhong were defeated repeatedly, and finally had no choice but to surrender. However, Qin Jie, the prefect of Nanyang, did not dare to keep this group of surrendered troops with a blood feud in the territory. He insisted on killing Han Zhong despite the objections of Xu Zhuan, the governor of Jingzhou.
The Nanyang Yellow Turban Army, who was about to surrender, once again scattered and fled. However, after several main battles failed, these Nanyang Yellow Turbans could only disperse to various parts of Nanyang, and some even went to Funiu Mountain to fall into the grass.
The Nanyang Yellow Turbans became grass bandits, and Nanyang's military power was released. Qin Jie, the governor of Nanyang, and Xu Qiu, the governor of Jingzhou, were from Nanjun, Jingzhou and Guangling, Xuzhou, and they were both peripheral to the Ruying clan.
So this time in the dispute between the two capitals, they all sided with Luoyang. The reason was not only that the nobles from Guandong wanted to be united, but also that they felt that the Xujun issue was in line with their Confucian ideals of world governance.
The Liu family can be the emperor, but leave the control of the world to us scholar-bureaucrats with moral sentiments.
They didn't have time to participate in the first battle between the two capitals, but they, the Jingzhou people, couldn't miss this second battle between the two capitals.
Therefore, Qin Jie, the prefect of Nanyang, ordered Fan He, Zhu Dian, and Wenpin to lead 3,000 Nanyang elite troops into Luo to participate in the subsequent war.
Fan He is a member of the Nanyang Fan family and is also the current Marquis of Fan. Zhu Dian comes from Zhu You, the general of Jianyi during the Guangwu period, and is the most outstanding among the Nanyang Xungui line in recent years. Wenpin is a new generation of fighting generals who emerged from the pacification of the Yellow Turban.
In short, the Nanyang soldiers who went north this time were all represented by old, middle-aged and young people, and the soldiers were also fierce soldiers on the bloody battlefield, which really improved the strength of Luoyang a lot.
However, compared to these three thousand Nanyang soldiers, the greater significance of the entire Jingzhou joining the Tokyo camp is to open up food and fodder. Money, grain, and taxes from the hinterland of Jingzhou flowed northward from the Han River into Luo.
This allowed the Kanto side to once again accumulate material reserves for this Western Expedition.
Later, just three weeks after the Nanyang troops entered Luo, at the expedition meeting that Liu Bian personally attended, the Kanto court executed a group of previously captured Kansai officials and officially swore to go on the expedition.
This time they learned the lesson of the first time when the generals were leaderless, and once again used Huangfu Song, who had been hiding in the snow, to show that he was the general in charge of the western expedition and was fully responsible for the war.
Huangfu Song also wore a helmet and armor, and was dressed in military uniform. He first entered the palace on horseback, and then allowed his edicts to be unknown, his praises to be unknown, his entry to the court to be unremarkable, and his sword and footwear to go to the palace.
Later, Yuan Wei, the chief minister, personally issued an edict and conferred the title of Marquis of Huaili on Huangfu Song, with a household of 8,000 households and a high official position.
It can be said that this time Luoyang also poured blood on Huangfu Song.
And Huangfu Song lived up to expectations. Not long after the expedition, he captured Gucheng outside Hangu Pass in one fell swoop, and then directly looted the city.
It was Huangfu Song who ordered the city to be washed. On the one hand, this could boost the military morale of the Han army in Henan, but more importantly, Huangfu Song used this to express his determination to both the eastern and western parts of the country, that is, He is at odds with Kansai.
In short, during this expedition, under the control of the famous general Huangfu Song, the Han army in Tokyo showed its due level of combat power.
Since then, the pressure has been on Kansai.
After learning that Huangfu Song was the commander-in-chief of the Western Expedition, the people in Kansai hurriedly ordered Dong Zhuo, the governor of Hedong, to go south. After looking at many generals in Kansai, only Dong Zhuo could face Huangfu Song in a decisive battle.
After Dong Zhuo received the edict, he first seized the military power of the Bingzhou reinforcements stationed in the east of Hedong in the name of the edict. After a little reorganization, he led 12,000 elite troops and 40,000 troops to go south to the river and joined the troops outside Hangu Pass. fighting.
At the same time, Liu Hong also sent the emperor's personal army of the 54th Xiyuan Division, which had been trained for three months, to the front line of Hangu Pass in turn to enrich Yang Biao's strength.
So when Dong Zhuo led his troops south, the second war between the east and west capitals officially broke out.
This time, Luoyang had a total of 50,000 soldiers and 4,000 horsemen. Kansai is slightly weaker, with 32,000 soldiers and 8,000 horsemen. If calculated based on the superiority of cavalry, both sides are evenly matched.
Obviously, this time both sides made the final decision and brought out their best strength.
But the situation is not optimistic for Kansai.
One is internal running-in.
Among the 40,000 horse infantry of the Kansai Army this time, there were 12,000 state soldiers alone, of which 4,000 were cavalry. The military discipline of these people is very worrying, and they often beat and flog friendly troops for trivial matters. There were even some Qin and Hu Yicongs who directly massacred several li communities in order to pretend to claim their first-level merit.
Yang Biao, the commander-in-chief of Hangu Pass, knew about this. Yang Biao urgently ordered Dong Zhuo to hand over the murderer and follow military law. Dong Zhuo was so stubborn that he ignored Yang Biao.
What's even more shameful is that Yang Biao actually ceased his activities in the face of Dong Zhuo's actions.
And this also reveals the second big problem of the Kansai Army, which is that the commander is unknown.
This time Liu Hong, the commander-in-chief of the Kansai Army, did not confirm it. He only replenished the Xiyuan Army to Yang Biao, but Yang Biao had no dispatching power over Dong Zhuo, which caused a systemic conflict between generals and generals.
In addition to the above, Yang Biao's army also had a big hole in the morale of the army. In the first battle between the two capitals, he led his troops out of the pass and was defeated. Although he later made atonement by making a plan to defeat the enemy, it still could not change the fact that his soldiers were inferior when facing the Kwantung Army.
Yang Biao also knew this, otherwise he could let Dong Zhuo become so arrogant and domineering? After all, soldiers are brave generals. If the soldiers are not strong, the general's waist cannot be straightened.
So this time Yang Biao decided to replace the attack with defense, and chose to build a defense in Gushui outside Hangu Pass, relying on Gushui river defense to resist the Kwantung Army.
Therefore, on March 8, the first year of Chengtian, the Kwantung Army officially launched an attack on Yang Biao's army.
On the morning of March 8, the Kwantung Army raiding team composed of Changshui Colonel Zhao Rong and Yokoye Colonel Zhang Chao took advantage of the Kwansai Army's slack to try to capture the Gushui Bridge.
However, the attack was unsuccessful. Hengye Colonel Zhang Chao was killed on the spot, and Changshui Colonel Zhao Rong, the leader of the battle, was also wounded by an arrow.
The original intelligence was that the Kansai Army had deployed a 2,000-man battalion at this bridge crossing. Zhao Rong and Zhang Chao had a total of 4,000 soldiers, so they could not be prepared for a surprise attack, and they could hit each one accurately. But when Zhao Rong rushed in, he realized that it was a trap. There were two thousand enemy troops inside, but only independent camp flags. He looked at six of them.
He knew at that time that he and others must have been betrayed.
Therefore, Zhao Rong immediately retreated, but even so, Zhang Chao still died here.
Zhang Chao, who came from a wealthy family in Hebei, was supposed to stay in his hometown to defend his people, but was seized of power due to a mutiny by Cao Cao and others, and was then coerced all the way to the capital.
This time the troops were sent out, it was the first time since Zhang Chao was captured, just the first time, and then he died here.
When Zhao Rong, who had a sinister look on his face, withdrew in embarrassment, he saw reinforcements coming from behind.
Seeing the strong soldiers and horses killing him so quickly, how could Zhao Rong not understand? He was used as a gun by Huangfu Song.
Seeing the dead and injured brothers around him, Zhao Rong was so angry that he smashed his bag on the ground and cursed:
"Huangfu Song, I'll fuck your grandma."
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The Guanxi soldiers at Gushui Jinqiao Dazhai did not expect the enemy's reinforcements to come so fast and fiercely.
The military order they received was that approximately 4,000 enemy troops would attack the military stronghold early this morning, and then they would just wait for work and catch turtles in the urn.
But who knew, they were obviously trying to catch their fish, and it was just bait.
Due to the huge imbalance in military strength between the two sides, after two hours of fierce fighting, Kansai's Dazhai at Gushuijin Bridge was officially lost.
When Zhang Chong read this piece of information, he frowned.
It's not that he has doubts about this information, but that a person appears in this information, two people to be precise.
Intelligence showed that at this time in the battle to seize the bridge, the Kwantung Army was able to successfully capture the Gushui Bridge. The greatest contribution was a young general named Liu Bei. He led a warrior named Zhang Fei and led an elite force three miles upstream from the Gushui Bridge. We swam across the river at many places, and then took a circuitous route back to the back of Dazhai at Gushuijin Bridge.
It was not until two hours before the main force of the Kwantung Army rushed to attack Dazhai that Liu Bei, who had been lurking, led Zhang Fei to attack the stronghold from the rear. At that time, the Kansai general Zhao Ang, who was commanding the rear stronghold, happened to take off his clothes for the convenience of command. Throat armor.
Zhang Fei, who was at the forefront, saw this opportunity, drew back and hit Zhao Ang in the throat with an arrow.
Zhao Ang's death in battle directly led to the defeat of the Guanxi soldiers. After that, the Kwantung soldiers took the opportunity to cover up the attack and finally broke through the most important pass outside Hangu Pass.
Zhang Chong did not expect to see Liu Bei and Zhang Fei in this intelligence.
He had previously learned from Qianzhao that Liu Bei and Zhang Fei had participated in the previous Youzhou Cavalry, and had also met him in the Battle of Xingyang.
But Zhang Chong never heard from these two people again. Unexpectedly, these two people actually went to Gyeonggi Province. In this war, he won such an important military honor.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chong couldn't help but sigh that heroes like Liu Bei and enemies like Zhang Fei can really shine wherever they go.
You must know that they are both from Hebei, so it is not easy to stand out among all the Henan people.
Zhang Chong's emotion was indeed correct, but he neglected to mention that Liu Bei did not receive a corresponding reward for this battle.
Because the Henan generals felt that Liu Bei dared to launch an attack in the rear camp only two hours after the general attack. This was clearly using their Henan generals as a stepping stone. Can they bear this?
So this time Liu Bei was guilty of public outrage, and it would have been really difficult for him had it not been for Cao Cao's protection.
In addition, there is another change that Zhang Chong doesn't know about.
That is, Zhao Ang's death is no small matter. It reflects a big change, that is, the struggle between the East and the West has become more and more cruel.
Because Zhao Ang's identity is unknown, although his family is powerful in Tianshui, it is actually relatively close to Guandong.
For example, Zhao Rong, who made a sneak attack on the stronghold before, was from their family, and he was Zhao Ang's uncle in terms of seniority. Otherwise, why do you think Zhang Chao died in the battle and Zhao Rong could come back alive?
Not only that, Zhao Ang's other clan uncle, Zhao Yi, is also a disciple of the Yuan family, and is considered a very core existence among the Yuan family's disciples.
Because of this, the Tianshui Zhao family has always been regarded as a fence-sitter among the powerful people in Kansai.
This time the information came in the same way.
Zhao Ang received information from Guandong and said that he would give him a military award and ask him to prepare it.
Zhao Ang is certainly not surprised by this. There are always some people on both sides of them who are not liked by everyone, and often at this time, they need to borrow the help of their opponents to deal with them.
This situation is not uncommon between East and West. In the final analysis, the connection between Kanto and Kansai is too close, breaking the bones and connecting the tendons.
So Zhao Ang deployed his troops after getting the information.
But who knew, grandma, the other person was actually lying to him and trying to catch him fish.
This time, Zhao Ang died in battle because of his innocence, but his death had a very big change.
That is to say, the originally gentle struggle between East and West has become intense.
The Kansai side knew in their hearts that even the moderate Zhao Ang was dead, so they had no way out.
With the fall of Gushui Bridge, more than 54,000 Kwantung troops crossed Gushui on the night of March 8. However, due to the huge baggage, most of the baggage remained on the east bank of Gushui.
But Huangfusong didn't know this.
On the morning of March 9, he led his army to a pavilion outside Hangu Pass.
This pavilion is also called Donggu Pavilion, which is less than three miles away from Hangu Pass.
Because the opening and closing of Hangu Pass are regulated by time, business travelers who are unable to enter the customs in time will usually stay in Donggu Pavilion to facilitate their entry the next day.
And now, in this small Donggu Pavilion, the second decisive battle between the two capitals will break out, also known as the Battle of Donggu.
The current plan is not to write much about the second battle between the two capitals, but mainly to write about the main line of Hebei, and occasionally intersperse the developments here from an intelligence perspective. But if anyone wants to see more about the war between the two capitals, you can leave a message and let me know, and I will add more based on the situation. Forget it if you don’t have it.