Chapter 215

"My Lord, the vanguard of Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang has already fought with Dong Zhuo's army."

"Right at Heyang Jin."

"It seems they are quite eager."

Su Fan, hearing this, didn't care.

Their Henei legion, with more than eight hundred thousand people, could be divided into two groups: one was the northern feudal lords led by Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang, and the other was the small Central Plains group led by Su Fan, Tao Qian, and Kong Zhou.

Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang were eager to make contributions, and even the contradictions between them were temporarily suppressed, wholeheartedly heading to Heyang Jin, preparing to break through and kill into the Luoyang boundary.

But Su Fan was not optimistic about the two. They had more than three hundred thousand troops.

There were quite a few troops, but the real elites were probably less than one-tenth. Most were new soldiers who had not experienced the battlefield. Facing Dong Zhuo's elites, they would definitely not return.

"By the way, Zhicai, do you know who is commanding the border army of Xiliang?"

Dong Zhuo rose step by step from a border general, and the generals under his command were not bad. Maybe there were no famous commanders.

But there were quite a few great generals, especially in the early period of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, few feudal lords in the world could compare with them.

After all, martial generals, especially those commanding troops, besides a few monsters, most martial generals, if they wanted to become famous generals, had to experience countless trials.

Even Cao Cao, this military strategist, had quite a few failures in commanding troops in the early stages.

Fortunately, his talent was strong enough, and then after summarizing failures one after another, he finally became a famous general and military strategist of a generation.

The feudal lords of the coalition were mostly civil officials of the Prefect and Inspector type. The martial generals under their command were even rarer. Many were just martial artists with decent strength, and most were unqualified as martial generals.

They had almost no ability to command troops. When two armies fought, they mostly took the lead in charging.

Compared with Dong Zhuo's large army, the gap was still very large.

After all, Dong Zhuo's Xiliang large army was a border army. They had experienced wars countless times. Whether it was the small soldiers at the bottom or the generals at the middle and high levels, they had a lot of experience.

Even if there were no famous generals born under Dong Zhuo, in the early stages, people like Li Jue and Guo Si might be stronger in commanding troops than the great generals under the coalition.

Maybe many generals under the coalition feudal lords had the opportunity to become great generals and famous generals in the future, but without experiencing many wars, it was difficult for them, who were immature, to be opponents of Dong Zhuo's large army.

And under Dong Zhuo, it was not all wine bags and rice sacks.

At least in Su Fan's eyes, there were two people under Dong Zhuo who could become commander-in-chief: one was Xu Rong, and the other was Duan Wei.

Their personal martial strength might not rank high under Dong Zhuo, but commanding battles, they were even more powerful than Lv Bu.

Lv Bu was very strong; Su Fan did not deny this.

Lv Bu commanded the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, which could be said to be almost invincible in the world. Lv Bu could be a general, but as a commander, he was much worse.

The difference between a general and a commander, the simplest comparison was the number of troops commanded. Some people commanded thousands of troops in a great battle, maybe they could be invincible, and once the number of troops increased, they would be finished.

And Xu Rong was a commander-in-chief under Dong Zhuo who had the ability to command three armies.

It was just a pity that Xu Rong's status under Dong Zhuo was not very high, at least much worse than Li Jue and Guo Si, let alone compared with Niu Fu.

At most, his status was equivalent to Zhang Ji and Fan Chou.

But no matter what, the generals under Dong Zhuo had combat experience that was bound to be stronger than the generals under the Guandong feudal lords.

So Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang went to die first, and Su Fan didn't care.

He came here just to make a name for himself. If he really wanted to restore the Han, he wouldn't have chosen this path.

Of course, he competed for hegemony in the world, more just to "feed" the Mirror of the Universe. He didn't care about power at all.

Otherwise, in his previous life, he conquered the world in the *Datang*, and when his descendants came of age, he handed over the world to the other party the first time, without any nostalgia.

It was the same in this life.

Participating in the alliance and attacking Dong Zhuo, in this battle, he had to grasp the degree. He couldn't show too much strength, nor could he show too little.

And choosing this route of Henei was also planned by him and Xi Zhicai.

From the beginning, he and Xi Zhicai had made it clear that it was difficult for the Guandong feudal lords to break into Luoyang.

The army and military strength under Dong Zhuo were indeed stronger than the Guandong feudal lords, don't look at how aggressive the Guandong feudal lords were now.

However, this was just on the surface.

In the historical romance, Dong Zhuo retreated. Su Fan didn't know why, but if it were him, as long as he defended a few passes, he would wait for the Guandong feudal lords to retreat.

Su Fan didn't care how Dong Zhuo would choose in the future, and whether he would exit Luoyang as in the historical romance, taking the emperor to Chang'an.

But he didn't intend to break into Luoyang City. Su Fan was naturally interested in the Imperial Jade Seal, but he also understood that this thing was a divine artifact. Neither the Liu clan nor Dong Zhuo, nor other feudal lords of Guandong, would easily let him take it away.

Therefore, the attraction of Luoyang City to him was gone.

Not breaking into Luoyang City, but at least he had to approach and threaten it to make a name for themselves. In this way, this route of Henei was very suitable.

Originally, if Yuan Shao didn't divide the troops, he would also take the initiative to ask for battle. As a result, Yuan Shao cooperated quite well, so he naturally chose this route.

And the real surprise was that Tao Qian also followed, and now he handed over his 150,000 large army to him.

Of course, of those 150,000 large armies, only 30,000 were Danyang soldiers, and the others were ordinary strong men with no combat effectiveness.

However, even so, he could command an army of 200,000, and the plan would be even easier.

Now Zhang Yang and the others fought with Dong Zhuo's army first, and they could also observe how powerful Dong Zhuo's large army was.

Zang Ba and the others had all run to the front line. Now there were only him and Xi Zhicai in the army.

And Xi Zhicai actually went to the front line one step earlier, and only returned now.

Regarding the war situation, Su Fan didn't need Xi Zhicai to say much, and he had some guesses.

So when Xi Zhicai talked about Zhang Yang and the others losing troops and generals, he was not surprised. Instead, he was more curious about who Dong Zhuo sent to defend against the Henei large army this time.

"My Lord, the main general of Dong Zhuo's large army is Niu Fu, and there is also the great general Xu Rong."

"Niu Fu, Xu Rong."

Su Fan's face instantly became serious.

Regarding Dong Zhuo's large army, he feared two people the most: one was Lv Bu, and the second was Xu Rong.

Lv Bu didn't need to be said. His invincible combat power was actually very troublesome, and coupled with the tens of thousands of Bingzhou troops under his command, especially the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, under Lv Bu's command, it was probably unstoppable.

Even Su Fan couldn't guarantee it.