Chapter 998 - The 19 Princes

It wasn't until the dawn of the next day that Sun Jian led a group of remnants and defeated generals to join the main force of the coalition forces. When he went out, he had an elite army of 300,000 soldiers, and when he returned, only 120,000 were left!

This is also the result of the timely response of the main force of the coalition forces after the flying phoenix fire cavalry discovered the trace of Sun Jian's army, otherwise the loss would have been even more severe.

The loss of the army is only one aspect, and the loss of the generals made Sun Jian heartbroken.

According to statistics, in the melee last night, six historical generals, Sun Ben (nephew of Sun Jian), Sun He (son of Sun Jian's clan), Wu Jing (brother-in-law of Sun Jian), Lu Fan, Zhou Chao, and Su Ma, died in battle, and one Zhu He was seriously injured and dying.

As for the non-historical generals who died in battle, there are more. It can be said that because of this big defeat, Sun Jian was directly injured.

Gongsun Zan's army on the other side was not much better. Similar to the situation of Sun Jian's army, Gongsun Zan was also attacked by Dong Zhuo's army, and escaped from the encirclement after paying a heavy price.

Gongsun Zan's main generals didn't suffer any losses, but the army lost a lot. Less than 60,000 of the 150,000 Baima Yi came back alive. The other Xianbei Qingqi, Youzhou Tuqi, Youzhou Tough Soldiers, etc. were almost wiped out. Ten thousand.

Of course, compared to the other one, the result of Sun Jian and Gongsun Zan is much better!

Yuan Yi, the vanguard and prefect of Sanyo after the coalition forces, was wiped out, and his life and death are unknown.

Dong Zhuo's army had already retreated when Feifeng Huqi found out, leaving only corpses all over the ground to prove that a fierce battle had taken place here.

Feifeng Huoqi relied on the flag and the remaining armor to prove that this was Yuan Yi's army. As for whether Yuan Yi himself died in the rebellion, disappeared or was captured, it is unknown.

The nineteenth princes officially changed their name to the eighteenth princes!

In fact, it is also possible to change the name to the seventeen princes. Zhang Chao, the prefect of Guangling, died in the battle. Most of the Guangling Army died in the battle, and some of them collapsed.

The five vanguards all suffered setbacks, and the coalition forces no longer had the joy and encouragement they had before, and instead began to feel depressed.

Even some princes were shocked by Dong Zhuojun's brutality, and began to retreat.

"The demonic flames are raging, and Dong Bandit's arrogance is in full swing. There is a saying in the military to 'avoid his edge'. We can't wait to march, and wait for Dong Bandit's arrogance to subside before we start the crusade?"

In the camp of the coalition commander,

Seeing that everyone was silent, Tao Qian hesitated, and said with an embarrassed expression.

"That's right, what Mr. Gong Zu said is true. Dong Bandit has no way, and it will not last long. I just need to sit back and watch Dong Bandit kill himself. After Dong Bandit's luck is over, I will send troops again. Isn't it wrong? Can you kill Dong with little effort?"

Kong Rong, the governor of Qingzhou who spoke out this time.

These two are staunch "compromiseists", or to put it mildly, they can also be called surrenderists.

They advocated that all armies retreat and not confront Dong Zhuo head-on. It is believed that Dong Zhuo's killing of soldiers and harming the people must not last long, and he will attack after his arrogance passes.

And these two people have two very obvious things in common-one, the literati background, two, the site is far away from Dong Zhuo.

Tao Qian also served in the military when he was young and had a lot of military exploits, but unfortunately now he is old and has lost his courage. It was okay for the coalition forces to be so strong before, but now that all the princes of the five routes were defeated suddenly, Tao Qian was a little frightened.

As for Kong Rong, well, this is a "king with a strong mouth", with first-rate writing, an upright personality, and good governance, but his military skills are close to zero.

Kong Rong is more than enough to serve as the county governor in peacetime, but it is too difficult to make a difference in troubled times!

A more important reason is that Tao Qian's base is in Xuzhou, Kong Rong's territory is in Qingzhou, which is far away from Dong Zhuo, and there are a large number of princes in the middle as human shields, so naturally they are not afraid of withdrawing their troops. v3 academy

But the other group of people were not happy, and they only listened to Cao Cao: "No, no, Dong thief is arrogant, and hundreds of millions of Li people have suffered from it, and the people in the pass are in dire straits. Sit back and watch Dong Zhuo do evil?"

"That's right, Brother Meng De is right. If we punish Dong one day later, the common people will suffer one more day. Brother Wen Ju and Brother Gongzu are great Confucian scholars in the world, how can they just sit back and watch Dong steal the common people?"

Liu Bei also stood up, scolding Tao Qian and Kong Rong with a righteous face.

"Bu Yijie is a martial artist. He only knows that Thief Dong is inseparable from a certain one. There are Dongs and no Lus in the world, and there are Lus and no Dongs!!"

"What you two said is wrong. If Dong Bandit doesn't get rid of the world's troubles, how can you tell the time to get rid of the bandit?"

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Kong Ni, governor of Yuzhou, Liu Dai, governor of Yanzhou, and others successively joined the lineup to speak out. Gongsun Zan, who had just suffered a defeat and was about to speak out in support of Tao Qian, swallowed the words that came to his lips.

It is said that after yesterday's defeat, he also had the intention to back down. It's just that the face-saving Gongsun Zan was too embarrassed to mention it when he saw the excitement of the crowd.

Well, these people are not necessarily serving the country and the people. A glance at the map shows that Chenliu, Runan, Taishan, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Bingzhou, etc. are all areas close to Dong Zhuo's control area. Once the coalition forces withdrew, these people would suffer immediately under Dong Zhuo's counterattack.

Looking at the noisy princes in front of him, Yuan Shao wanted to die!

"At the beginning, I was really out of my mind, and wanted to compete for the leader of the coalition army!"

He cursed himself fiercely in his heart, and then Yuan Shao had no choice but to stand up and persuade: "Everyone, everyone, everyone is a loyal person who raised troops to kill thieves, and it is proper to make noise and make noise?"

As soon as Yuan Shao made a sound, everyone's eyes focused on him.

"Leader, you are the leader of the coalition army. If this is a battle or retreat, you should say something!" Wang Kuang asked a little anxiously.

Yuan Shao hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Shang Ji, the current situation was very clear. Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Liu Dai, Lu Bu and other princes closest to Dong Zhuo all insisted on continuing the crusade. Tao Qian and Kong Rong insisted on retreating, while Han Fu, Gongsun Zan and others hesitated, so Shang Ji's choice is very important!

If Shang Ji also withdrew, Gongsun Zan, Han Fu, Yuan Shao, Kong Rong and others would have to retreat, and they were worried that Shang Ji would be free to copy their lair later.

If Shang Ji insists on fighting, the coalition forces may continue to maintain it.

After being silent for two seconds, Shang Ji said slowly: "Tie Dong committed an atrocious killing of heaven and man, and this general vowed to carry out the hunt for the thief to the end!"

Now everyone turned their attention to Yuan Shao again, and Yuan Shao's expression was uncertain. His territory is in the Bohai Sea, and he is very far away from Dong Zhuo, so he is not only worried about Dong Zhuo's military threat.

However, as the leader of the coalition forces, Yuan Shao was already a little bit hard to get off.

At this time, disbanding the coalition forces and returning to their respective homes, wouldn't he be a joke as the leader of the alliance? Yuan Shao knew very well that his greatest advantage was the popularity accumulated by the four generations and the three princes. Once he lost these, it would be impossible to talk about hegemony.

In addition, Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo have a deep blood feud, which is well known in the world. If Yuan Shao retreats, what will others think of him?

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao's eyes gradually became firmer, he looked around at the princes, pulled out the sword on his waist, and slashed at the corner of the table: "Pu Dong! The lord of the alliance has made up his mind, and there is such a case for those who want to quit!"

As soon as the words were spoken, Shang Ji felt Yuan Shao's temperament suddenly changed, and a majesty unique to the king burst out from Yuan Shao.

Tao Qian and the others, who were about to refute just now, suddenly felt stuffy in their hearts, and were so shocked that they couldn't speak for a while.

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