Liu Bei hadn't spoken yet, but Zhang Fei was annoyed when he heard it, and shouted, "Are you looking down on us?!" Tell you, if it's true, don't say it's Lu Bu and Gao Shun, even if you Cao Ying will be together, I'm not afraid! ”

Liu Bei immediately stopped and said: "Third brother, you don't know anything, Duke Cao and General Xiahou are very friendly to us, how can you talk like this." ”

Guan Yu also hurriedly stopped Zhang Fei, stepped forward and said: "This Lu Bu is not in Xiaopei, otherwise, with his character, he will definitely have a good time with me and the third brother." ”

Xiahoudun remembered Cao Cao's entrustment, if Lu Bu came in person, he would guard with Cheng Yu and Liu Bei everywhere and consume each other. If Lu Bu is not there, then simply attack from the north and south, and if he fights well, he is likely to achieve the achievements of the Battle of Chen Guo.

He said: "That's good, then please ask Liu Tingshi to stay at the border for a while, and I will raise troops to recapture Xiaopei and take Xuzhou." ”

Guan Yu was a person who attached great importance to righteousness, and he saw that Xiahoudun had personally received them, and he had to send troops for them. It just so happened that the fight was not good enough before, so why not counterattack together.

He was just about to speak, but the eldest brother Liu Bei seemed to know his thoughts, and preemptively spoke: "Then I will wait for General Xiahou to open the banner to victory, but our department needs to repair for a few days first, and it is a pity that we cannot cooperate with the battle." ”

Xiahoudun didn't care, and the matter of the counterattack was decided.

On the side of Xiaopeicheng, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao inspected the city defense together.

Zhang Liao said: "This time, the lord handed over tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to the command of the senior brother, and it seems that the days of not being trusted have passed. ”

Gao Shun's face was serious, and he replied after a while: "I must have doubts about what happened to Hao Meng at that time." This time, with the help of Wen Yuan, Zang Ba Zang Xuangao and that person, I can regain the trust of the lord, and I will definitely beat the enemy army and reassure the lord. ”

Zhang Liao sighed and said: "Two years ago, Hao Meng, who was deeply trusted by the lord, made trouble, and the most critical moment for the lord was to take temporary refuge in the camp of the elder brother. However, even Chen Gong was involved, and his own face showed an expression of conspiracy being exposed. ”

Gao Shun said: "The lord experienced this incident and was touched a little, and once believed in Wei Xu and them. However, after all, he still had a scale in his heart, so he didn't question Chen Gong suspiciously at that time, but continued to appoint, and finally continued to reuse me."

Suddenly, the scout came to report that Xiahou Dun, the general of the Cao battalion, led 30,000 troops to attack.

Gao Shun and Zhang Liao glanced at each other, and their eyes were burning with fierce fighting spirit. Maybe in the eyes of Cao Ying's generals, they are probably Lu Bu's followers. However, these two people know very well that each other is a general who can take charge of each other, no, even ancient and modern famous generals.

Xiahoudun led an army of 30,000 people, including Xiahou Yuan, Yu Ban, Lu Qian, and Han Hao, to attack Xiaopei, who had not yet gained a stable foothold. Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Hou Cheng, Cao Xing, etc., led 10,000 troops,

This battle between Cao Jun and Lu Bujun, although the commanders of the two sides are not there, is also a very representative comparison between the two. From the generals of the two sides to the military system, their respective characteristics are displayed everywhere.

Xiahoudun was the direct commander of the Caoying Tuntian Army, that is, the Qingzhou Army, and he had long shared weal and woe with the soldiers and was loved by the soldiers.

On the other hand, when he was young, he killed people who dared to insult his master's reputation, and was considered a loyal and chivalrous man in his time. He also has a good relationship with some scholars and heroes, and is one of the few generals in this era who can not only treat the soldiers well, but also love and respect the gentleman.

However, when fighting, he would let the Tuntian army maintain the battle line, put pressure on the other side, expose the weaknesses of the front and the position of the commander, and then lead a small number of elite assaults to smash the Yellow Dragon. This coincides with the two generals he just met.

And Gao Shun is a completely different kind of general, he is not smiling on weekdays, and he pursues an inhuman life and training with his 800 soldiers in the camp. For example, the general county soldiers and tuntian soldiers spend most of their time farming, and some elite troops will also live in towns and cities.

However, the Gao Shun and Trap camps never went to live in the city, nor did they work in agriculture, they lived in special camps, and repeatedly trained in various terrains and walled cities.

When fighting, he is known for being particularly calm and decisive in commanding the trapped camp, and he always maintains the overall posture and tactical choice of the trapped camp, and rarely attacks and fights in person. This is very rare in this land of this era.

In terms of the military systems of both sides, there are exactly two types.

In the three years of Jian'an, Cao Jun was mainly composed of two parts. The first part is the huge Qingzhou Army based on Tuntian, which is also a soldier and a farmer. The second part, the various generals, the powerful troops, and the private soldiers.

The former is a huge number and does not work out of production, but after special training and rectification by Xiahoudun and others, its combat effectiveness is better than that of other county and county soldiers in areas that have lost control over the grassroots.

The latter are less numerous, but well-armed and can become professional armaments. These troops, with the obligatory military merit awards and the almost inevitable land annexation, rose more and more to become the main combat force of Cao's army.

It is said that the combination of this conscription system and the world military system is almost the norm of the armed forces of various dynasties, and it is generally gradually transformed from the former to the latter with the annexation of land, the mastery of the grassroots for the nobles, and the strong and powerful. However, this was not the case for Lu Bujun.

The Lü Bu Army, because its backbone consisted of the Merge State Army, which had been away from their homeland for a long time, had to become a kind of professional arm.

However, this kind of professional armament, and some mercenary nature, has become a mobile armed force, which has successively fought for Zhang Yang, Yuan Shao, Yanzhou Shizu, Xuzhou Haoqiang and other forces.

Of course, due to Lu Bu's strength, they were not hired by the above-mentioned forces.

Specifically, they are professional armed forces that rely on the taxes of the local nobles, the powerful, and the common people to maintain their production and training. They are strong, but they are far from the junta.

Therefore, the backbone of Lu Bu's army is thousands of merging state troops and absorbing Cao Bao Danyang soldiers. The rest of the county soldiers were only a supplement to maintain numbers and battle lines.

The Tuntian army plus the troops, the battle against the professional soldiers and the county soldiers, this confrontation is full of too much content, and it is really interesting.

Xiahoudun's 30,000-strong army had a large number of logistics materials to be transferred and guarded. He adhered to Cao Cao's enthusiasm for attacking the opponent's grain road, and attached great importance to the protection of his own grain and grass, and directly assigned Han Hao to lead 10,000 Tuntian troops to build a strong camp and strictly guard the grain road.

Gao Shunbu stored the grain in Xiaopei, led 3,000 soldiers from the state and 5,000 soldiers from the county and county, and brought five days of dry food and cured meat to face Xiahoudun head-on.

The two sides fought in array on a vast plain twenty miles northwest of Xiaopei.