Lu Bu underestimated the danger faced by Mayi City, because the Xianbei people who were dispatched this time were not 10,000 people, but a full 20,000 people!

How many defenders were there in the city?

Fifteen hundred soldiers!

The Xianbei people also know the strength of the Han army's crossbowmen, especially the Han soldiers who rely on the city to defend it, and it seems that they have a variety of methods and means, which can always beat the Xianbei people who are besieging the city to the point of bloodshed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Xianbei people have not fought with Guo Yi, the Taishou of Yanmen, not once or twice, although they have gradually controlled a large area of land outside Yanmen Pass through cannibalization, but they have never bargained for anything from Guo Yi.

This time, 20,000 Xianbei people suddenly went south to attack Mayi City like a convulsion, because the eastern Xianbei caused great pressure to the small Xianbei in the north of Bingzhou, and the small Xianbei was eager to invade Taiyuan, and wanted to capture a group of craftsmen and farmers from Taiyuan and Shangdang, and bring them back to Monan to build weapons and cultivate the fields for them.

Mayi is located in the north of Yanmen Pass, and it is a necessary place to invade and merge through Yanmen Pass, so it will naturally be listed as the first target by the Xianbei people.

Yanmen Taishou Guo Yi frowned, standing on the city tower and looking south, he didn't know if he could wait for reinforcements. He knew very little about the Tiance Army, and if it wasn't for someone reminding him, he wouldn't have thought of asking the Tiance Army for help.

This time, the Xianbei people came south very suddenly, if it weren't for his quick reaction at the time, regardless of the life and death of the Han people outside the city, he ordered to seal the four gates with boulders and soil, I am afraid that at this time Mayi City would have already fallen into the hands of the Xianbei people.

When Guo Yi stood on the city wall and watched the Xianbei people on horseback and treat the Han people outside the city like cattle, his heart was dripping blood. But he remained indifferent, and coldly gave a cruel order to shoot all Han Chinese who dared to approach under the city walls.

In order to prevent the soldiers from escaping from the city at night, Guo Yi sealed the four gates, showing his determination to fight to the death.

The Xianbei people also tried to use ladders to attack the city, but their level of making ladders was too poor, and many ladders had fallen apart before they reached the city wall, and those that did not fall apart were also burned by Guo Yi's soldiers with rockets.

As for the more complex carts, door-smashing carts, well fences, and trebuchets, the Xianbei people with developed limbs have never even seen them, and they are even more impossible to build.

Fortunately, they couldn't build it, otherwise the more than 1,000 people defending the city would not have been able to withstand the siege of large siege equipment.

When Lü Bu led his army to approach twenty miles southwest of Mayi City, he temporarily halted his troops. Before finding out the specific number of Xianbei people, it was definitely a fool to rush to the city of Mayi with the army.

After several days of rapid marching, the physical strength of the men and horses has decreased a lot, and it is very necessary to take a temporary rest and adjust.

Soon, the scattered Tanma returned to report to Lu Bu on the number and size of the Xianbei people outside the city. The figure of more than 20,000 surprised Lu Bu.

Lu Bu said to Xu Rong: "Now that the weather is getting warmer, it is a good season for the grass to grow and the warbler to fly, and the Xianbei people do not raise horses and graze on the grassland, but they come to attack Mayi City, which is really strange." ”

Xu Rong said with some concern: "Looking at the posture of the Xianbei people outside the city, if you don't take Mayi City this time, you probably won't be able to collect troops." ”

Lu Bu raised his eyebrows and snorted coldly: "Hey, let them occupy Ma Yi today, tomorrow it should be Lou Fu, and the day after tomorrow it should be Jinyang!" The nomadic people in the north are all virtuous and greedy, as long as they can be obtained by force of robbery, they will definitely not be honestly exchanged for fair trade! ”

Xu Rong said: "The strength of the Xianbei people is ten times that of our side, but this battle is not easy. ”

Lu Bu said with a resolute face: "This battle, no matter how difficult it is, it must be fought!" There are thousands of soldiers and civilians in Mayi City who are looking forward to it, and at this time, the Tiance Army has no choice! ”

Since Lu Bu decided to fight, Xu Rong helped to make suggestions. He proposed: "If you want to win more with less, the best way is to break the confidence of the Xianbei people as quickly as possible, and I think that as soon as the war starts, send out armored cavalry, and use the lethality of armored cavalry to make Xianbei people feel desperate and afraid!" ”

"Your thoughts coincide with mine. Our forces are limited, and it is an impossible task to completely annihilate the Xianbei people, who are also mainly cavalry. Although there are only three hundred armored cavalry we brought this time, the Xianbei people do not know about it, as long as a charge causes huge damage to them, the Xianbei people will inevitably collapse. When they break up and flee north, I will personally lead the army to chase and kill, and drive the Xianbei people to the north of Baideng City in one go! ”

After some deliberation, the two assigned tasks, and then prepared to get started.

At the beginning, when Lu Bu burned down the arsenal directed and acted by himself in Luoyang, he had already asked Gao Shun to empty the arsenal, and there were about 400 sets of equipment in it. This kind of horse armor made of pure steel is definitely the most expensive military equipment in this era, and with the national strength of the Han Dynasty, it is only a few hundred sets.

In order to give full play to the power of the equipment, Lu Bu and Gao Shun kept this secret until the army met in Yong'an and the flying cavalry battalion was formed, Gao Shun secretly selected loyal and reliable knights to secretly train armored cavalry.

Under the cover of the flying cavalry battalion, this heavy cavalry unit with only 500 people has never stopped training, and now it has been half a year, and the cooperation between them has gradually reached the tacit understanding, reaching the standard of going into battle.

This time, when they came to reinforce Mayi, the 2,000 people of the flying cavalry battalion dispatched 5,000 war horses, including war horses equipped with special pack transport equipment, and some of them were loaded with dry food and bean feed.

Of the four hundred armored cavalry, Lu Bu brought three hundred out, and the one responsible for commanding these three hundred heavy cavalry was the little-known Wei Yue.

Compared with Cheng Lian, Wei Yue often looks like a shadow of Cheng Lian, but Wei Yue once accompanied Lu Bu and Cheng Lian to fight against Zhang Yan's troops of the Montenegrin Army in historical records.

The later "Zizhi Tongjian" records as follows: In the third year of the first peace, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan fought for Jizhou, and Lü Bu led Chenglian, Wei Yue and others to help Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan's general Du Chang to start a war. At that time, Wei Yue followed Lu Bu and Cheng Lian into a breakthrough and broke through the Yan army.

Wei Yue is not Wei Xu, Wei Xu is Zhang Miao's subordinate, and Wei Yue is Lu Bu's subordinate when he started.

In this battle with the Xianbei people, Wei Yue was responsible for leading the armored cavalry to give the Xianbei people a blow, Xu Rong was responsible for coordinating and commanding the cooperation of the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry, and Lü Bu was mainly responsible for chasing the dead and chasing the north.

In the evening of the same day, the flying cavalry battalion approached five miles to the southwest of Mayi City again, and the whole battalion was hidden in a hilly ravine, and the soldiers fed the war horses with bean feed that people are usually reluctant to eat, and the beans were mixed with salt powder, so that the physical strength of the war horses could be restored in the shortest possible time.

Lü Bu ordered his subordinates to take down dozens of bags of horseshoes carried on the back of pack horses, and then brought some soldiers who had been secretly trained to put on "shoes" for the horses of the whole battalion.

The reason why the horseshoe was not nailed before setting off was mainly because the road from Lishi to Mayi was dominated by loess fine sand roads, and the damage to the horse's hooves was not serious. Gadgets like horseshoes that don't have much technical content can be easily copied once they are found on the road.

When Lu Bu arrived near Mayi, he knew that there were a lot of Xianbei people coming this time, so he decided not to hide it anymore and nailed the horseshoe to the whole battalion overnight to further improve the combat power of the troops.

When it comes to crunch time, something like a horseshoe comes into play.