Chapter 208: Before the Tiger Prison Pass
It took three days for the last of Yuan Shu's troops to arrive at the Tiger Prison Pass.
Early the next morning, the princes of the coalition army, together with the generals, went out of the camp together, came to the front of the pass to check, and asked the tiger prison to ask for the enemy's curse.
When Lu Bu heard that the Kwantung coalition army was coming to challenge, he was also quite interested, and ordered him to go out of the city to face the battle.
The Kwantung Coalition Army dispatched 30,000 Jizhou troops and 30,000 Yanzhou troops to stand and cheer.
The Jizhou army is wearing yellow brass armor, shining golden in the sun, and Yuan Shao, who is so happy, is just like this, with a bit of a feeling of golden armor.
Cao Cao's Yanzhou army was all black armor, all iron helmets and iron armor, including hoplites with large shields, spearmen and crossbowmen wearing chain armor, and the military formation was obviously more neat than the Jizhou army.
Accompanied by their own generals, the princes of all walks of life stood in a row in front of the formation, and all the princes were from military backgrounds, all dressed in military uniforms, and they were also majestic. The generals of all the princes together also have hundreds of generals, which is very lively.
Although it is still more than ten miles away from the city wall of Tiger Prison Pass, you can still feel its majesty, with lofty mountains on one side and the Yellow River on the other.
All the princes at the scene, except for Sun Ce, have all been in Luoyang City, and the height of the Hugao Pass city wall is not less than the city wall of Luoyang.
While the coalition army was still lining up, there were suddenly three earth-shattering loud noises from the direction of Tiger Prison Pass, followed by a long horn.
The door was wide open, and a group of cavalry of the Central Army galloped out first, standing on the left and right flanks.
Then came the hoplites, lined up in a neat phalanx, shouting slogans, marching in unison, flapping their shields in their hands in harmony with the sound of the slogans.
The hoplites were separated from the left and right, and behind them were rows of spearmen, whose spears were like a forest, and they were also very neatly arranged.
The spearmen were followed by a group of soldiers armed with swords, all of them with large shoulders and round waists, and burly bodies, similar in size to the shield soldiers.
The Kwantung princes had never seen a strange sword, it was very novel, and they thought it was a long-handled broadsword that was used immediately!
The generals of the Central Army came out of the battle behind the Mo Dao soldiers, and Lu Bu was in the center of the crowd, and the silver armor and red horses were very eye-catching.
Behind the generals were a group of crossbowmen, but they were all on horses, these people were not ordinary crossbowmen, they were all sharpshooters of the special operations brigade.
Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and others had all seen Lu Bu himself, but Tang Zhou, Liu Bei and Sun Ce saw Lu Bu for the first time, so they naturally had to take a closer look.
The two armies were arrayed 300 zhang apart, and in the past, the two armies were 200 zhang apart, and one stone's throw was enough, but after Lu Bu's army was equipped with a series of cannons, this array interval changed.
The speed of the Central Army's formation is terrifying, the Kwantung Coalition Army has just finished arranging, and the Central Army that came out later has also completed the formation, and the queue is much more neat than that of the Coalition Army, and the princes from all walks of life who have dealt with the Bingzhou Army are not surprised.
Yuan Shao nodded and smiled at Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and the others, "Everyone, let's go up and say hello to General Lu Bu!" ”
Everyone nodded, and then the six princes all came to the front of the battle.
Lu Bu looked left and right, "Lao Dian, Gao Shun, you two will accompany me to meet them, the six princes!" It's not often that you can see such a grand occasion! ”
The two complied with the order and accompanied Lu Bu to take a few steps forward, and the two sides stood a hundred feet apart, this distance was actually a matter of minutes for Lu Bu's archery.
Lu Bu didn't salute them, but asked with a smile, "Your Excellency, don't come unharmed!" Brother Benchu, Brother Highway, Brother Mengde, when Luoyang said goodbye, I didn't think that we would meet again here. ”
looked at Liu Bei again, "This is Liu Bei, Liu Xuande, right?" Uncle Liu's name, I have admired him for a long time! ”
turned to the youngest Sun Ce again, "This young general, I'm afraid it's Sun Ce and Sun Bofu, right?" Sure enough, it is a tiger father without a dog son, and General Sun Jian knows that he can also smile. ”
"As for this adult, his face is very raw, it should be Lord Tang Zhou of Qingzhou Thorn History, but you and I are meeting for the first time."
Lu Bu greeted everyone one by one, and it was very light.
Yuan Shao and others also have to admire this Lu Bu, who is becoming more and more extraordinary, and his gestures are the self-confidence of those who have been in the top position for a long time.
Thinking about it, in the northwest and Guanzhong, resisting the princes of the eastern part of the country, it is more than a star and a half stronger than Dong Zhuo's power back then.
Especially Cao Cao, when he was begging Dong Zhuo, the Bingzhou army once saved him and Bao Xin, and he witnessed how the infantry division of the Bingzhou army completely abused the Xiliang cavalry.
Therefore, in the past few years, he has spared no expense to build and improve equipment, train the army, and do everything possible to collect the training methods of the state army, which is to learn and imitate the state army as much as he can.
He didn't share the battle with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others, he hid his selfishness.
Only he knows that among the coalition forces, only his army and the Qingzhou army can compete with the central army, and the others, hum...
Guo Jia has always refused to believe the Qingzhou Army, thinking that they must have something to do with the Central Army and Lu Bu, so this time the secret use of troops did not use the Qingzhou Army, and the troop movement was also concealed from the Qingzhou Army.
Among the Kwantung coalition forces, only Cao Cao personally experienced the battle scene of the Qingzhou Army and the Bingzhou Army, and he clearly saw that the Qingzhou Army had a deep imprint of the Bingzhou Army.
Except for the possible gap in equipment, everything else is very similar, and according to his observation, this time the 50,000 Qingzhou army is also equipped with a lot of repeating crossbows.
The Kwantung princes spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources, but they never succeeded in copying it, and the source of the Qingzhou army's crossbow was very suspicious.
Yuan Shao, as the leader of the alliance, was naturally the first to stand up and speak, "General Fengxian, don't come unharmed!" We are also acting according to orders this time, and we also hope that General Fengxian will not make mistakes and act well according to orders, so as not to make a big move! ”
Cao Cao said: "General Fengxian, you and I have been ministers in the same palace, and we have suppressed the Yellow Turban thieves and Dong Zhuo side by side, you can rest assured, as long as you are willing to return the emperor to us, withdraw from Luoyang, and return to the state, we can also ask the emperor to issue a new edict and pardon you." ”
Lu Bu looked at them and said with a smile: "My lords, your so-called edict is true or false, you know it, so you don't have to do this war of tongues." ”
"I also have an edict written by His Majesty the Emperor, you can listen to it, as long as you hand over the person who forged the edict, pay the court of Chang'an, and send hostages to Chang'an in exchange for His Majesty's trust in you."
"The court can also pardon you for the crime of rebellion, and continue to be your assassin and county guard, how about it? Generous enough, right? ”
Yuan Shu sneered, "Lu Bu, the emperor is in your hands, you say black is black, white is white, don't talk nonsense, let's see the real chapter on the battlefield!" ”
"Let's see you Northwest warriors in Kanto! Let's send generals to compete for a few rounds, and then the two armies will fight, do you dare to fight? ”