The army that Lu Bu inherited from Ding Yuan was originally the Bingzhou army, which was dominated by the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry.

It can be said that Ding Yuan relied on his own Bingzhou Iron Cavalry to dare to argue with Dong Zhuo, who had the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and Lu Bu was able to be valued by Dong Zhuo under Dong Zhuo's account precisely because he controlled this Bingzhou Iron Cavalry.

It was only later that with the chaos in Chang'an, Lu Bu was driven out of Chang'an by Li Dao, Guo Yan and other Western Liang generals.

However, when Lu Bu fled from Chang'an, he actually took 3,000 Bingzhou iron cavalry with him, but unfortunately with the subsequent battle of Gunzhou and a series of battles in Xuzhou, there were not many cavalry left of the 3,000 Bingzhou iron cavalry brought out by Lu Bu.

This is not only the consumption on the battlefield, but also the problem that Lu Bu can't raise.

Bingzhou Iron Cavalry is a heavy armored cavalry, Lu Bu does not know how to nail the horse's shoe to maintain the horse's hooves, so many of the war horses of the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry are constantly participating in the war, resulting in the consumption of horse hooves damage, so that Lu Bu's war horses can gradually not meet the needs of his cavalry, so Lu Bu has to reduce the number of cavalry.

In addition, it is necessary to raise a heavy cavalry unit, but it needs to spend a lot of money and grain, and in the situation after Lu Bu arrived in Xuzhou, where is there enough grain and grass to feed a large number of cavalry troops.

(Wancheng Zhang Xiu relied on the support of Liu Biao in Jingzhou to save the four thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but because of this, he also had to become Liu Biao's vassal, after Lu Bu arrived in Xuzhou, Liu Bei naturally could not support him, and after Lu Bu himself occupied Xuzhou, he also had no money and food to raise troops.) ）

As a result, Lu Bu gradually changed from a cavalry unit to an infantry-based army, and many war horses after the horse's hooves were worn out, and they were even traded to Zhu Wei's side before.

Anyway, Zhu Wei is used as a stallion, but he is not worried about the damage to the horse's hooves and cannot be used as a military horse.

Therefore, when Lu Bu participated in the three alliances to attack Yuan Shu, he also brought one or two hundred Bingzhou cavalry with him, and most of the elite old troops of Bingzhou also became infantry, that is, Cheng Lian, Hao Meng and Zhu Wei's troops.

In fact, the full-body heavy armor used by Gao Shun to train the trap camp was the equipment base of the original Bingzhou Iron Cavalry, but the equipment of the Heavy Armored Cavalry was turned into the equipment of the Heavy Armored Infantry Soldiers.

It can be said that the two most elite troops in Lu Bu's army are Gao Shun's trapping camp and Lu Bu's personal command of the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry, but the number of both did not exceed 1,000.

Gao Shun's trapping camp was only 800 people, and the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry personally led by Lu Bu actually only had about 500 left.

Zhang Liao was originally a cavalry general under Lu Bu's account, and he was a general who helped Lu Bu train and lead the cavalry troops, so in addition to the Bingzhou iron cavalry that Lu Bu took away before, there are now about 300 Bingzhou iron cavalry under Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao set up camp outside Pengcheng this time, that is, he thought that he could lead about 300 iron cavalry to use guerrilla warfare, and when necessary, he also used the strong combat power of heavy cavalry to charge into battle, but he could also be regarded as a surprise army.

Of course, the other more than 2,700 former soldiers under Zhang Liao are also foot soldiers, but they are also veterans with a certain combat effectiveness.

Therefore, Zhang Liao really didn't want these troops under his command to waste in defensive battles, this elite army should be a combat unit that took the initiative to attack, and only in this way could they give full play to their combat effectiveness.

Then tonight's raid on Liu Bei and Zang Ba's military village is the time for this army to contribute.

As long as the infantry can open the camp wall of Liu Bei and Zang Ba's military village, Zhang Liao can lead 300 Bingzhou iron cavalry to break into the military village, like a sharp knife to stir up the intestines in the stomach, smashing the inner belly of Liu Bei and Zang Ba's camp.

Moreover, the speed of the cavalry troops is very fast, if they really encounter an ambush or something, they may be able to break out in time, as a cavalry veteran, Zhang Liao is also quite sure of this.

Zhang Liao also thought about it, if he failed to succeed in the night attack tonight, then tomorrow he would leave the camp with these 3,000 old soldiers from the state, and continue to find ways to guerrilla Liu Bei and Zang Ba's troops outside, instead of staying in the camp and consuming them in vain.

In this way, he said such an arrangement to Song Xian, who stayed in the camp, but he really had the heart to fight to the death and never return.

After listening to Zhang Liao's words, Hou Cheng and Song Xian understood a little, Hou Cheng felt a lot more relieved, he was also good at this kind of guerrilla tactics, although he mainly led the foot soldiers at that time, but at least there was no problem in saving his life.

On the contrary, Song Xian was a little worried, which was tantamount to letting him stick to this military village alone, although Zhang Liao left him more than 5,000 Xuzhou recruits who had been trained for some time, but compared to Liu Bei and Zang Ba's coalition army, he was not sure that he could hold it.

"Wen Yuan, this..., what if you can't keep it tomorrow? I'm afraid I can't retreat to Pengcheng! ”

Song Xian asked with some hesitation, he was just a reckless man who was fighting, the type with a tendon in his brain, but he was a little less brainy about this kind of plan.

Zhang Liao sighed secretly in his heart, now that Lu Bu is dead, Hou Cheng and Song Xian, who were originally fierce generals under Lu Bu's account, obviously have no heart to fight to the death, and they are thinking about how to save their lives before the war starts, but he is also helpless, so he can only say again, "It's okay, if you really can't hold it, then you will cross the river and leave, and you will prepare some rafts near the river, and then you only need to set fire to the camp and block the pursuit of Liu Bei and Zang Ba's army, and then you can cross the river first, and then you will come to the rescue and you!" ”

"Okay, Wen Yuan is really resourceful, haha, when the lord was here, he told us that Wen Yuan is a general, no wonder the lord guild let Wen Yuan lead the army to join the state elite cavalry, this is to put Wen Yuan and Gao Lang side by side!"

Song Xian was overjoyed when he heard this, and couldn't help but compliment Zhang Liao in his mouth, but judging from the situation in Lu Bu's army, it really seemed that Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were leading the two elite main forces under Lu Bu's tent respectively.

It's just that the cavalry is directly under Lu Bu, so Zhang Liao didn't have the right to directly command the army like Gao Shun, but if it continues to develop like this, it can't be said that Lu Bu didn't have the intention of cultivating Zhang Liao.

But at this moment, Zhang Liao didn't care much about this, but said indifferently, "In this case, do you have any opinions?" ”

"Since you should follow Wenyuan's plan! Ha ha! "I am willing to listen to Wenyuan's plan! ”

Song Xian and Hou Cheng felt that they had a safe guarantee, so naturally they had no opinions, and they promised Zhang Liao to use a plan.

Then Zhang Liao asked people to prepare dry food and horse food in the military village, which could be carried with him for at least ten days, and he was ready to lead the troops to fight abroad, and then he also gave the soldiers in the army a good meal, so that the three thousand elite soldiers of the state could cultivate their spirit first, and wait for the night to fight.

At the same time, Zhang Liao also sent his tactical arrangements to Lu Lingqi in Pengcheng, so that Lu Lingqi knew his actions here, and also informed Lu Lingqi that if Liu Bei and Zang Ba's combined forces attacked Zhang Liao's military village tomorrow, there was no need to send troops to respond, as long as he used bows and arrows to help shoot the enemy soldiers.

After Lu Lingqi learned about Zhang Liao's arrangement, she didn't put forward any opinions, and in her opinion, Zhang Liao's plan was more appropriate......