The guard brigade is very well understood, that is, the original guard regiment has been expanded, the guard battalion has been upgraded to a guard regiment, the reconnaissance battalion has been upgraded to a reconnaissance regiment, and the communications battalion has been upgraded to a special service regiment.

Zhao Yun's heavy brigade is not a new thing, it is composed of the first regiment of the wolf cavalry and the second regiment plus the chariot regiment.

With the expansion of trade routes and the development of border trade, the state army obtained a large number of high-headed horses in the northern grasslands and the Western Regions and even Central Asia, and even Dian Wei rode a giant war horse from the north.

The heavy cavalry regiment had 1,500 heavily armored knights per regiment, and the chariot regiment consisted of 300 chariots, but the chariots had been upgraded to three-horse chariots.

This time, Lu Bu took out all his family resources in Guanzhong and Liangzhou, so as to succeed in the first battle.

The Bingzhou army marched into Hongnong County and Hedong County one after another, and such a large-scale personnel transfer naturally alarmed the Chang'an Imperial Court, especially Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, who spontaneously gathered in Li Dao's mansion to discuss this matter.

"I heard that the Bingzhou army is going out this time, 100,000 elites, or Lu Bu is personally in charge, Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, those two wall grasses, have already dedicated Hongnong, I knew that I shouldn't have taken them in the first place, Lao Li, what do you say we should do?" Guo Yan shouted first.

Li Dao is now the backbone of these people, he sat in the center, and when he heard Guo Yan's words, he also frowned slightly, he hadn't been a big general yet, so Lu Bu came to intervene.

"What else can I do? Hit! He has 100,000 troops and state troops, and we also have more than 100,000 Xiliang elites, who is afraid of whom? But let's listen to what the military advisor has to say? Li Dao responded.

So everyone present looked at the middle-aged Confucian beside Li Dao, who looked more obscene, and this was naturally Li Ru.

Li Ru stroked his beard and said, "Two generals, you must fight, but you must know yourself and your opponent before you can win a hundred battles!" ”

"Of the generals here, only General Fan Chou has fought with the Bingzhou Army, so let's listen to General Fan's introduction to the Bingzhou Army first, and then talk about anything else."

Li Dao nodded, "What the military advisor said is right, Lao Fan, tell me what the combat strength of the Bingzhou army is?" ”

Fan Chou took a sip of tea, he didn't want to recall the bloody and terrifying scene.

"At that time, Zhang Ji and I brought 20,000 cavalry, and had just defeated Cao Cao and Bao Xin's Kwantung coalition army, and we were chasing happily when we encountered the interception of the Bingzhou army, they only had less than 10,000 infantry, and I heard that this was the number of their two brigades."

"That scene still makes me wake up in a nightmare, a dense stream of crossbow arrows rushing at you, and the distance must be eighty to a hundred feet, and the first wave alone overturned thousands of horsemen."

"What's even more terrifying is that their crossbow bolts don't seem to need to be rewound, and if they change their crossbow arrows, they can immediately shoot a second wave of crossbow arrows, or so much. As soon as Zhang Ji and I saw that the situation was not right, we quickly ordered the withdrawal of troops. ”

"With only three waves of crossbow arrows, at least more than 3,000 horsemen have been put down, and if they continue to charge, I am afraid that 20,000 cavalry may not be able to rush to their front. This is the strength of the infantry of the Bingzhou Army, and I have not encountered the cavalry. ”

After listening to Fan Chou's description, the generals of the Xiliang army in the tent all took a big breath, 10,000 infantry defeated 20,000 cavalry, and the casualty ratio was 0 to 3,000, how could this be fought?

Li Ru saw that everyone was depressed, and hurriedly spoke, "Their crossbow bow, I know a little, it should be called a repeating crossbow, I heard that it is a box of ten arrows, and ten arrows can be fired in a row, and there is no need to rewind it in the middle." ”

"Huh? And this crossbow? Isn't this specifically for restraining cavalry? Guo Yan said.

Li Ru nodded, "So the best choice to deal with the repeating crossbows of the Bingzhou army is the heavy armored cavalry and heavy armored infantry, especially the heavy armored infantry equipped with large shields, plus a large number of crossbowmen to shoot at them, in order to compete with them." ”

Li Ru turned to Li Dao again, "General, the top priority should be to make peace with Gongzi Huang, Han Sui, and Ma Teng as soon as possible, and it is best to combine a force with us to jointly fight against Lu Bu's Bingzhou army, so you can be more sure." ”

"Peace? Surely this is a good thing? But will they be able to say yes? ”

"General, what they want is nothing more than fame and fortune, I am willing to go to their camp and persuade them to come to submission, as long as the general can let me be the master and meet the conditions they put forward." Li Ru smiled, looking confident.

"Good, the military advisor is willing to go, it must be a success, the conditions are up to them, the military advisor can call the shots, and I will say two more good words in front of the emperor when I turn around." Be sure to let them join hands with us to deal with Lu Bu together, no matter what, everyone is from Liangzhou! ”

Li Ru happily accepted the order to prepare, he naturally had great confidence, so he took the initiative to take this errand, after Dong Zhuo's death, he had to find a big tree to rely on, Li Dao was naturally the best choice, and he also needed to show enough ability to increase his weight.

Late at night, there is no moonlight tonight.

On the outskirts of Chang'an, Huaili.

Twenty miles west of the county seat, there is a large area of brightly lit camps, which are more than ten miles long.

A large camp in the easternmost part, there is a big banner with the word "Dong" hanging high in the camp gate, which is the camp of Dong Huang, one of the rebels in Liangzhou.

A few sentries yawned at the door and gathered together to make a fire. In Guanzhong in March, the night was still very cold.

Suddenly, a faint sound of horses' hooves was heard from far and near, apparently only a lone horse came slowly, and several sentries were staring into the darkness with their weapons in hand.

Gradually, the sound of the horses' hooves came closer, and indeed one of the horses appeared on the edge of the fire.

"Stop, don't move forward, get closer, Lao Tzu will shoot you!" A longbowman accurately shoots an arrow at the visitor's horse.

The man jumped off his horse, but he was wearing a black cloak and a hat that covered his face. He raised his hands high, indicating that he had no hostile intentions, "Please pass the word for me, and say that Chang'an's old friend asked to see Gongzi." ”

So saying, he threw something over and threw it on the ground in front of the guards, startling a few of them, but they soon saw that there was a piece of silver on the ground, four or five taels.

A small leader stepped forward to pick up the silver, and after making sure of it, he chuckled and said, "Okay, you wait, I'll go and tell you first!" With that, he asked his companion to continue to monitor the comer, and went in to report the news.

The effort was not great, and a person dressed as an officer came out, and when several guards saw the comer, they all bent down and saluted, "Lord Sima!" ”

"What about people? Who wants to see Childe? It's a big night. Lord Sima asked the guards with a big grin.

Someone pointed to the person who came from a distance to Lord Sima, and Lord Sima stepped forward and shone the torch in his hand forward, "From Chang'an?" Who are you? ”

When the visitor saw the officer who came out, he took a few steps forward unhurriedly, and as he went, he put down the hat of his cloak, and with the help of the light of the torches, Lord Sima saw the person who was coming.

"Ahh It's the military division, the junior general Sima Tong, who has given the military advisor a salute. ”

"Hehe, I haven't seen you for a few years, your kid has come out, you have become Master Sima, take me to see Gongzi, I have something important to discuss with him." Li Ru quipped him.

"Don't dare, the young general will show you the way, and the son doesn't know that you are coming, otherwise, he has to come out to greet you."

(End of chapter)