Since Dong Zhuo took control of the government, he lacked morality and did not do less. Deposed the emperor, poisoned Empress He and Emperor Shao, and connived with his subordinates to openly rob the residences of powerful ministers and arbitrarily kill and plunder the people.
Dong Zhuo's misdeeds and made people angry. The Kwantung princes formed a coalition to attack Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo's five generals were sent out to meet the Kwantung princes.
Niu Fu garrisoned troops in Anyi, Duan Simmer garrisoned troops in Huayin, and Dong Yue garrisoned troops in Shichi. These were the only ways for the Kwantung princes' armies to advance westward. Hu Zhen and Xu Rong took the initiative to face the Kwantung Coalition Army.
However, the Kwantung Coalition army was afraid of the strength of the Western Liang Iron Horse, did not dare to go to war, and counted on others to play with their lives first, and they picked up the cheap behind themselves. Only Cao Cao and Sun Jian took the initiative to face the Western Liang cavalry.
Hu Zhen led the army to attack and was defeated by Sun Jian, making Sun Jian famous in the first battle. Xu Rong also led an attack and defeated Cao Cao. After Hu Zhen's defeat, Xu Rong defeated Sun Jian again.
The Kwantung princes' armies had been disbanded since the defeat of Sun Jian and Cao Cao, because they found that the Western Liang Iron Horse was too strong to fight, so it was better to attack allies and seize territory.
These princes in the Kwantung were unreliable, but there were still people loyal to the imperial court. The famous Eastern Han general Zhu Juan recruited troops in Henan and played the banner of currying favor with Dong, and since none of you did it, then I would come myself.
When the Kwantung princes rebelled against Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo felt that the capital Luoyang was too unsafe, so he took the emperor and hundreds of officials hostage and moved the capital to Chang'an.
Dong Zhuo was also quite prescient, and Zhu Juan was worthy of a generation of famous generals, leading the newly formed team and attacking Luoyang for a time.
In order to stop Zhu Juan, Dong Zhuo sent Niu Fu (Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, the most trusted) to lead a heavy army to meet the battle. He also handed over Duan Sheng's army to Niu Fu's command, so that most of the elite of the Western Liang cavalry was in Niu Fu's hands.
Niu Fu temporarily blocked Zhu Juan's attack, and the two sides were deadlocked.
But at this time, something happened, and Dong Zhuo died. Situ Wang Yun used beautiful women to win over fellow villager Lü Bu and assassinated Dong Zhuo.
Lü Bu was an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf. Having already done this once, the former boss Ding Yuan was particularly kind to Lü Bu. Dong Zhuo used high-ranking officials to win Lü Bu over, and Lü Bu killed Ding Yuan. Dong Zhuo liked Lü Bu's bravery and martial arts, and when he traveled, he took Lü Bu as a guard, and as a result, the guard shot out.
After Dong Zhuo's death, the five Zhonglang generals under him soon split. Wang Yun and Lü Bu jointly took charge of the imperial government, and Xu Rong, Duan Sheng, and Hu Zhen had few soldiers and horses in their hands, and simply surrendered to Wang Yun.
However, most of the elite of the Western Liang army was in the hands of Niu Fu and Dong Yue. Niu Fu has not had a backer since the death of his father-in-law Dong Zhuo, and his IQ has not been online.
Dong Yue ran to discuss what to do with Niu Fu, and as a result, Niu Fu directly took charge of him and annexed Dong Yue's troops.
After Niu Fu killed Dong Yue, he always felt that his subordinates would rebel and avenge Dong Yue, so why kill Dong Yue in the first place.
Later, some soldiers felt that Niu Fu would liquidate himself and run away in order to save his life, and the military camp was a little chaotic. Niu Fu saw that someone was running, and he also ran, and he didn't know what he was running blindly.
Niu Fu's cronies coveted the gold and silver he brought, so they robbed Niu Fu, robbed it, and killed Niu Fu, took the head of the person to Chang'an to receive the reward, and did not know the person Niu Fu had chosen. At that time, the biggest leader of the Western Liang Army died in such a vague way.
As soon as he died, Wang Yun, who was in charge of the government, felt that Dong Zhuo's generals were either dead or surrendered, and the Western Liang army was leaderless, so he wanted to send the Kwantung generals to receive the Western Liang soldiers and horses, disband them on the spot, and let them go back to their hometown.
Some of the remaining lieutenants of the Liangzhou soldiers were also planning to pack up their things and return to their hometowns, but as soon as the news came, let the Kwantung generals come to receive them, and a few days ago, everyone was still fighting and dying, so that they could receive them.
At that time, Xi Liangbing was led by lieutenants Li Yu, Guo Feng, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and others. Jia Xu, a strategist on the Side of Xiliang, suggested that if you do those immoral deeds and abandon the army and flee back to your hometown, a village official can take care of you. It is better to lead troops to attack Chang'an, become a hostage to the emperor, control the government, even if defeated, you can grab something and go back to your hometown.
So Li Yu and Guo Feng and others gathered the remnants of the army and attacked All the way to Chang'an. Wang Yun panicked this time, and really did not expect that the two lieutenants would also dare to lead the army to rebel. Hurriedly let the Zhonglang generals Hu Zhen and Xu Rong, who had surrendered before, lead their troops to resist. However, the difference in strength was too great, and in the end Xu Rong was defeated and killed, and Hu Zhen surrendered.
The Western Liang soldiers invaded Chang'an, Lü Bu ran away, and Wang Yun was forced to commit suicide. Li Yu and others forced Emperor Xian of Han to give everyone the title of official.
The Kwantung princes have become a pot of porridge, all fighting for territory, and no one cares about Chang'an. Li Yu, Guo Feng, and Fan Chou jointly took charge of the imperial government, and Zhang Ji, because of his small number of soldiers and no part of the government, led the troops stationed in Hongnong.
These people were all from military backgrounds, they didn't know anything but fighting wars, their governance level was far worse than Dong Zhuo's, and Guanzhong shengsheng was tossed into hell on earth by them.
There were also a cluster of contradictions between the three of them, first Li Yu suspected that Fan Chou was secretly communicating with Ma Tenghan Sui in the northwest, and then he was jealous of Fan Chou's bravery, so he assassinated him. Li Yu was left, and Guo Feng was in charge.
Later, the two also broke up. At first, in order to co-opt Guo Feng, Li Yu often invited Guo Feng to drink at home, and when he drank too much, he naturally wanted to find beautiful women. However, this incident caused the dissatisfaction of Guo Feng's wife, in case he got back one day.
So in order not to let her husband drink and find beautiful women, Mrs. Guo Feng created rumors that Li Yu was going to poison you. Guo Feng gradually became suspicious, and later went to the banquet, the more Li Yu poured him wine, the more he felt that he wanted to harm him, and when he returned home, he induced vomiting.
The generals were always happy, and Guo Feng immediately dispatched troops to attack Li Yu. Li Yu was also not ambiguous and immediately started fighting. The two sides fought for a while before they remembered that they had to stand on the moral high ground when they started the war, and Guo Feng then remembered to rob the Han Emperor and use the name of the emperor to make himself famous.
But Guo Feng was too rough and the plan leaked. Li Yu preemptively took the lead and snatched Emperor Xian of Han into his barracks. When Guo Feng saw that he could not grab the emperor, he detained the civil and military officials who had come to persuade him to make peace in the military camp.
The two fought for more than 50 days without winning or losing, and Zhang Ji, who was in the field, rushed back to mediate, and the two sides stopped. After mediation, the two sides exchanged their sons as hostages to reach a reconciliation, and later they were reluctant to exchange sons and changed to exchanging daughters as hostages to reconcile.
Chang'an City had been completely destroyed by war. After Emperor Xian of Han came out, he had no place to live, so he wanted to lead the remaining Wenwu hundred officials to return to Luoyang. Li Yu and others had no political acumen to agree.
In July of the same year, Emperor Xian of Han returned to the east. Li Yu garrisoned Chi Yang, Zhang Ji, Guo Feng, and some of Dong Zhuo's former subordinates to escort Emperor Xian of Han back to the east. Along the way, there will be constant disputes.
Later, some of the generals repented and did not allow Emperor Xian of Han to return to the east. The two sides fought each other. During the melee, Guo Feng was killed by his own general Wu Xi, and Li Yu annexed his men.
Emperor Xian of Han took advantage of the chaos and ran to Luoyang first, where he found that it was also a ruin, and finally Emperor Xiandi of Han was welcomed to Xudu by Cao Cao.
Because of the shortage of grain in the army, Zhang Ji went to Liu Biao's territory to grab grain, and as a result, he was killed by Liu Biao. The troops were led by his nephew Zhang Xiu.
Since surrendering to Wang Yun, Duan Sheng had been loyal to the imperial court, followed Emperor Xian of Han to the east, and finally arrived at Xu Capital. After Cao Cao welcomed Emperor Xian of Han, he ordered Duan Sheng to follow Pei Mao to hunt down and kill Li Yu.
Since Li Yu had lost Emperor Xian of Han, his strength had declined day by day. Many talents ran away, and Jia Xu took advantage of the chaos to run at this time, first to Duan Simmer, and then to Zhang Xiu.
In the end, Li Yu retreated to Huangbaicheng and was defeated and killed, and Cao Cao ordered the killing of Li Yu's three tribes and showed Li Yu's head to the public.
The unknown death of Hu Zhen, who had earlier surrendered to Li Yu, was said to be a debt of wronged souls. Duan Simmer stayed with Cao Cao, always honestly, and finally got a good death.
Hundreds of thousands of strong soldiers and strong Horses of the Western Liang Iron Horse died out in this way.