Chapter 63: Mounted Iron Rider
Liu He's 200,000 Youzhou strong soldiers were stationed on the Great Wall of Jizhou, and they did not advance to the south, so that the soldiers and horses of the commander of Guan Ping could only be stationed in Changshan County. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
They want to fight in the field, and only in the field can they rely on the smallest casualties in exchange for the greatest results.
Blindly attacking the Great Wall will only bring death to the sergeants.
However, Liu He was extremely fierce when he came out of Youzhou, and after occupying the Great Wall, he seemed to lack stamina and no longer threatened to the south...... This made Guan Yu, who was sitting in Yecheng, sense a trace of bad information.
Liu He is waiting, what is he waiting for?
Just when Guan Yu was puzzled, the news that Jiangdong soldiers and horses were approaching Xuzhou came over.
At this time, even if Guan Yu was sluggish, he understood that Liu He was waiting for a change in the world, and they had made a plan to jointly attack Liangguo long before the war began.
Xuzhou is a terra nullius, whether it is Liangguo or Jiangdong, once the war unfolds in this land, the follow-up soldiers and horses need to have continuous strength to suppress the other party.
And Xu Huang's rear is Qingzhou and Jizhou.
Liu He's 200,000 soldiers and horses were to drag Guan Yu's Jizhou army so that he would not dare to move lightly, so that the Jiangdong army could achieve enough results on the battlefield in Xuzhou.
The enemy wants to weaken Liang Guo from all sides, Guan Yu is very clear.
But in fact, regardless of whether Liu He participated in this battle or not, Guan Yu had no intention of transferring the Jizhou sergeants to the Xuzhou battlefield.
In Guan Yu's mind, the biggest enemy of Liang Guo is not Sun Jian of Xuzhou, maybe Jiangdong can deal enough blows to Liang Guo, but it has always been the imperial court that worries Guan Yu.
There is only an ambiguous court.
Although most people in the upper echelons of the Liang Kingdom took the imperial court lightly, believing that the power of the imperial court had been weakened to the weakest moment of the Han dynasty in hundreds of years, Guan Yu always felt that the imperial court would pull the back legs of the Liang Kingdom at the most critical moment!
Others don't know the strength of the imperial court, but Guan Yunchang, who is sitting in Jizhou, is clear about this.
Not to mention the nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Luoyang, the important significance of the imperial court is that the treasury has sufficient armaments, which can arm 300,000 people, which is no less than that of Liangguo. What's more, there is Yanzhou, and Prime Minister Cao Cao's Yanzhou still has more than 50,000 troops. And these 50,000 strong soldiers can attack Yuzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou controlled by Liang at any time because of their geographical location.
It's just that Longdu doesn't plan to tear his face with Cao Cao yet.
Because once the face is torn with the imperial court, the popular support accumulated by the Liang Kingdom for more than ten years will be hit hard.
Therefore, even if the enemy army in the north pressed the border, Guan Yu did not order the most elite Liangwang armored army in his hand to march north...... Instead, he ordered Wanning to lead 80,000 troops to be stationed in Wei County in the south of Jizhou, ostensibly pointing to the Xuzhou battlefield in order to reinforce Xu Huang at any time.
In fact, Guan Yu had only one order for Wanning, that is, to keep an eye on the movements of the imperial court, and once there was an accident, he would immediately go to Hanoi County, enter Henan Yin, and cut off all ties between Si Li and Yanzhou.
For Youzhou Liu and that junior, Guan Yu really has nothing to worry about, 200,000 troops have entered Jizhou, how many people are left in his old nest Youzhou? Although the 200,000 soldiers and horses were heavy, he concluded that Liu He would not dare to press the whole army into Jizhou, at least when the battlefield of Xuzhou did not distinguish the winner and the loser...... If he throws a rat bogey, Guan Ping will not be the slightest soft.
Liu He's subordinates, except for that Yan Rou, were all unknown generals, who were once beaten by Gongsun Zhan and ran into chaos, and finally even fled to the territory of the Xianbei people to take refuge, and Guan Yu was very suspicious of their strength.
rushed to them under Liu Yu's command to defeat 100,000 of Gongsun Zhan's more than 1,000 people...... Guan Yu is looking forward to this battle so that Guan Ping can get enough combat exploits, and when the time comes, wouldn't it be happy to have two marquises?
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Guan Yu aimed at Luoyang with a bow and arrows like a hunter in the deep mountains and old forests, but he didn't know that the Luodu Imperial Court had already attacked Liangguo before...... For the first time, start with Tongguan!
The so-called Luoyang Rebellion was just a one-man show sung by several generals under Cao Cao.
A year earlier, Cao Cao had ordered Zhang Liao to recruit soldiers in Sizhou and Yanzhou, and in order not to arouse the suspicion of the Liang State, these soldiers did not have a regular army, but were all led by the military marquis of the imperial court, and they were all preserved in the form of bandits between the Luodu and Huaisi.
If there is a change today, Zhang Liao will become a general with 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command, calling for a tiger and attacking Luoyang.
Of course, this is not to attack Luoyang, but to receive their baggage and ordnance.
The two armies of the north and south outside the city of Luoyang had just removed the armor available for 50,000 troops in the name of replacing damaged ordnance, and the Xiahou Yuan brothers knew about this matter, and when the two armies engaged in a battle for a short time, they withdrew into the city on the grounds of guarding the Gyeonggi event, and the armor was heavy, and even the grain and grass became ownerless, allowing the rebels to snatch it.
All this happened quietly in front of the emperor, but he didn't know anything, he just thought that the rebels were so powerful that even the brave and warlike generals of the northern and southern armies could not resist.
Then, Cao Cao, the prime minister who participated in the court meeting, was furious, and immediately ordered Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan to supervise the northern and southern armies, and commanded more than 10,000 troops to pursue the rebels. On the other hand, he ordered Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Yu Ban and others to go to Yanzhou to recruit troops, and on the grounds that Luoyang was difficult to protect by the two armies of the north and the south, he greatly promoted the recruitment of troops and horses.
Zhang Liao commanded the soldiers and horses into several ways, and ordered a cronie to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to Tongguan Jingi, and he didn't even need to challenge, the gate of Tongguan was directly opened, and the soldiers and horses with red armor had already rushed out.
Among the soldiers and horses under the battle of Tongguan City, the banner hunted, and the first Chinese character fluttered.
Looking at the big characters of the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing, Zhang Liao squinted his eyes on the hillside south of Tongguan, and his heart was happy.
"Hua ...... But Huaxiong? Holding the long knife in his hand tightly, Zhang Liao calmly ordered on the hillside: "General Hua, the general of Tongguan, is a brainless martial artist, seeing that his formation is only about 8,000 men and horses, if the front army is defeated later, he will press another 3,000 people up, just to gain an advantage...... What Zhang wants is for the Tongguan defenders to come out, can you understand? ”
Zhang Liao didn't plan to compete with Hua Xiong in person, Hua Xiong's brave name was once unknown to anyone in the state army? When Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan snatched and merged the state, many people suffered from Huaxiong...... If in normal times, he still has the heart to fight Hua Xiong in the last game.
But now?
Zhang Wenyuan has a more important mission!
Capture Tongguan and take this opportunity to change the status quo of the imperial court being blocked by the Liang Kingdom!
In this large area of land in Sizhou, whoever captures Tongguan means that whoever has the ability to rule Sanfu, if he can force the soldiers and horses of Liangguo back to Longguan...... The imperial court was the biggest winner of the Civil War!
Zhang Liao's 5,000-strong army saw the soldiers and horses rushing out of Tongguan, and suddenly the formation was chaotic, some people retreated and some walked forward, looking like a plate of loose sand from a distance.
Zhang Liao was wrong, the leader of the army under Tongguan City was not Hua Xiong, but his only son Hua Ye, although he inherited his father's muscles into his brain, but he was also the son of the upper noble general of the Liang Kingdom, especially as Dong Zhuo's cronies, he was more treated in the Liang Kingdom.
General Huaye is the first batch of students of Longdu Academy, and he is the same student as Guan Ping, Wanning, and Wang Shuang, and the things on the battle battlefield are no worse than any of his peers.
With just one glance, Hua Ye could see that the enemy's chaotic army was a pretended strategy to lure the enemy.
At that moment, Hua Ye held the newly cast long knife of Liangguo in one hand, and spread the reins with the other hand, and swayed his back towards Tongguan a few times.
Hua Xiong, who was watching the battle in the city, frowned, his son's gesture clearly said that the enemy army had ambushes, and asked him to send troops and horses out of the pass later!
However, his son was too confident, proud like a master on the battlefield, gesticulating regardless of whether the city responded or not, and immediately clamped his legs between the horse's belly, and the five thousand Liang troops suddenly scattered in formation, and rushed towards the 'rebels' equipped with the Han army's standard armor in front of them.
Hua Yecai doesn't care about the rebels or the Han army, in his concept, the whole world is the king of Liang, the so-called emperor is just a small character who relies on the breath of the king of Liang to survive, and if he dares to drive troops into Tongguan, he is looking for death!
In the Liang Kingdom, there are not a few young people who think like Hua Ye, and it is inevitable that there are some people who do work for the Liang King while having the Han family in mind, but those who have such thoughts are just grass on the wall.
It's really time for King Liang and the emperor to live and die...... Their preference must be for their parents.
If you want to be convinced, you need to show the same strength!
The imperial court's own messenger can't even reach Sanfu, can this still be called the imperial court?
The two armies were 200 paces apart, and Hua Ye led the Liangguo Iron Cavalry to charge and tear apart the enemy's infantry line.
Ten years ago, such a method of warfare was to seek death, but now it is different, the fully equipped cavalry has become a nightmare for foot soldiers like a fortress running on the battlefield, not to mention that in this kind of war with equal numbers, it is a joke that foot soldiers resist cavalry!
In the past, most of the cavalry were behind the infantry, and when the infantry engaged, they went around the enemy's flank to charge, or used their cavalry skills to intrude on the enemy's formation from a distance, until the enemy army broke and fled, and then relied on extremely high mobility to kill the enemy.
But now, under the comprehensive armored cavalry strategy of Liangguo, any enemy who dares to block the Liangzhou horse has only one fate to be trampled by the armored cavalry!
The horse armor of Liangguo has too much restraint against the spears of this era.
The horse's chest is connected by two pieces of forged steel, protruding nearly seven inches, forming an edge, and the spear can only be offset to the sides when poked on it, and it cannot hurt the horse's body at all, not to mention that there is a fine-wrought steel plate in this prismatic chest to protect the horse's chest...... The cavalry of Liang Guo could only be pressed by the armor and kept running, and they were exhausted to death.
It is almost impossible to die under the guns of the enemy.
After another improvement of the blower, although the steam engine had not yet been fully developed, Ryokuni's wrought iron technology was once again improved, the temperature of the forge was higher, and the forged armor was stronger, and the blades were sharper.
When he saw that the distance between the two armies was two hundred paces, and those cavalry who were running relatively slowly launched a charge, Zhang Liao realized that he had miscalculated!
With the same strength, how can the newly recruited soldiers and horses who have not been trained in the regular army for half a year be able to defeat such an army composed of monsters?