Last time, it was said that Hua Xiong boasted about Haikou in front of Dong Zhuo, but just as Hua Xiong was proud to leave the Luoyang City Gate, he unexpectedly met Lu Bu and got Lu Bu's advice. Lu Bu advised Hua Xiong to retreat when he encountered a red-faced military general with a sword in the battle of Bishui Pass, but would Hua Xiong follow Lu Bu's advice?

Not to mention Hua Xiong's tangled mood after listening to Lu Bu's words, he said that the princes of the Eighteenth Route of the Kwantung were discussing how to attack Dong Zhuo.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Cao once stooped to serve the thief in order to assassinate the Dong thief, and he asked himself if he knew a little about the Xiliang army of the Dong thief. Among its hundreds of thousands of Xiliang troops, the more than 10,000 flying bear heavy cavalry led by Li Xun and Guo Yan were the most elite, followed by the thousands of battle iron cavalry led by Zhang Ji and Fan Chou, and finally the cavalry troops composed of the brave Xiqiang people. Most of these armies were cavalry, and according to legend, Dong Zhuo saw the power of Lü Bu's elite cavalry when he and Lü Bu fought against the Xiqiang rebellion that year. If our coalition forces want to defeat Dong Thief, then we must first find a way to destroy his Xiliang cavalry. Cao Ying sat at the top of Yuan Shao's left hand and slowly said Dong Zhuo's advantages.

"Then, in Meng De's opinion, what do we need to do to defeat Dong Zhuo's Xiliang cavalry?" Yuan Shao asked Cao Ying with a worried face.

"The cavalry is the best soldier in the world, and it is absolutely impossible to completely suppress it. But we can build more pikemen, and pikemen can defeat ordinary cavalry in some special terrain areas. In addition to pikemen, we also need to build a large number of crossbowmen, as long as the strong crossbow forms a scale, its power sometimes even exceeds that of cavalry, you must know that the strong Qin who swept away the six countries of the Kwantung region in one fell swoop is to dominate the crossbow array.

At that time, as long as we try not to have a big battle with Dong Zhuo on the open battlefield, then it is not impossible to defeat Dong Zhuo's cavalry troops. Cao Ying had obviously already thought of a way to deal with Dong Zhuo's hundreds of thousands of cavalry, so when Yuan Shao asked him, he didn't think about it at all and said the countermeasure.

"It's a good idea, but our allied pikemen are good to say, but there aren't many crossbowmen at all. After all, the crossbow is too expensive and not easy to carry, so there are basically not many crossbowmen when the alliance is met this time. Yuan Shao said with joy and then sorrow, "Can you not form a crossbow array?" If you rely on pikemen alone and archers, can you defeat Dong Zhuo's cavalry troops? ”

Cao Ying shook his head and said, "Although the pikemen are very restrained by ordinary cavalry, Dong Zhuo once imitated Lu Bu's 'Iron Floating Tu' troops in Bingzhou and built a group of heavy armored cavalry, called the Flying Bear Heavy Cavalry. This type of heavy cavalry is expensive, but its defense is outstanding. After careful investigation, Cao found that although these flying bear heavy cavalry were inferior to the 'Iron Floating Tu' cavalry founded by Lu Bu in terms of armor protection and refinement. But they were still much better defensive than ordinary cavalry, and were basically not afraid of the combination of pikemen and archers. Once the war starts, if there are not enough crossbowmen to snipe, the spear array will basically rush away when it encounters this kind of cavalry wearing heavy armor, and it is impossible to defeat the Xiliang army of Dong thieves. ”

"Then we will immediately mobilize strong crossbows from all over the country to send them to Chen Liu, and as for Dong Zhuo's side, we will simply send a front army to deal with them. When we have formed a large number of crossbow arrays, we will fight Dong Zhuo again! Yuan Shao said decisively.

"Then who will be sent to deal with Dong Zhuo's Tiger Prison guards? You must know that Dong Zhuo's army is coming, and if anything goes wrong, this army will be in danger of being wiped out! Cao Ying did not agree with Yuan Shao's plan, and in Cao's opinion, such behavior was likely to damage the strength and morale of the coalition forces.

"This" Yuan Shao was dumbfounded, who would be willing to accept such a dangerous task? It's not that Yuan Shao didn't want to gather all his troops in Chenliu and wait for the formation of the crossbow force to be completed before attacking Dong Zhuo, but it has been nearly two months since they sent out the message begging for thieves. It was already March of the first year of Chuping, and if they still didn't make any moves, Yuan Shao was afraid that the coalition army would be abused by the Confucian scholars in the world.

"Don't worry! I, Sun Jian, am willing to lead tens of thousands of my Jiangdong children to Tiger Prison Pass! "Just when all the princes below were watching from the wall, and Yuan Shao was embarrassed, Changsha Taishou Sun Jian stepped forward and took this 'hot potato'.

Yuan Shao was overjoyed when he heard this, Sun Jian took over this task, and whether he succeeded or failed, on behalf of Yuan Shao's princes' army, he expressed his attitude to the people of the world: "Wentai is worthy of being the world-famous 'Tiger of Jiangdong', come to invite Wentai to drink this glass of wine before going out, just when I Yuan Shao wishes Wentai in advance the first merit of our coalition army!" ”

"Then borrow the auspicious words of the alliance leader, Sun Mou will leave!" Sun Jian drank a glass of wine handed over by Yuan Shao in one gulp, and left the big tent in the army with Han Dang, Cheng Pu, and Huang Gai beside him.

When Sun Jian brought more than 20,000 Jiangdong children in white robes to the Tiger Prison Pass, (also known as Bishui Pass, these two are actually the same place.) The reinforcements sent by Dong Zhuo to the Tiger Prison Pass had already been led by Hua Xiong to the Pass.

Hua Xiong climbed the pass and looked at the extraordinary military momentum underground, and said: "Isn't this the Jiangdong Tiger Sun Jian Sun Wentai, who fought against Xiqiang with the lord back then?" Why did the princes of the Eighteenth Route of Kwantung only send his army here? ”

Li Su, the deputy general next to him, thought for a while and said, "Isn't it that he wants to take the first place, so he took these tens of thousands of people to come to the challenge first?" ”

"No matter what Sun Jian thinks, let's first organize the army and fight him. If we can attack and kill this fierce general known as the 'Jiangdong Tiger' in one fell swoop, we will definitely be rewarded when the lord comes! Hua Xiong has now begun to think about how to make contributions, which is the reason why Hua Xiong has been aggrieved for too long and has not been reused by Dong Zhuo.

The sturdy gate of the Tiger Prison slowly opened, and Hua Xiong took the lead in killing out the gate and shouted: "I am the brave general Hua Xiong under Dong Xiangguo's account!" Are you waiting for no reason to commit my tiger prison and intend to rebel? ”

"Humph! Dong thieves deceived the heavens and the earth, destroyed the country and killed the king. Mess with the palace and forbid and mutilate living beings. Everybody gets it! My Kwantung million coalition army is about to come to the city, if you don't get off the horse and surrender quickly, when will you wait? Sun Jian shouted with disdain.

"Don't be wordy, and see if your 'Jiangdong Tiger' can beat my Xiliang Iron Cavalry!" Because this was Hua Xiong's first time leading the army alone, he did not ask Da to play heads-up with the prestigious Sun Jian, but directly waved the big sword in his hand to direct the Xiliang Iron Cavalry that had been prepared behind him to charge.

"Cheng Demou went to lead the Blue Dragon Array, Huang Gong led the Vermilion Bird Array, Han Yi led the Xuanwu Array, and I personally led the White Tiger Array. Cloth four elephants iron wall array to defend against the enemy! "Sun Jiannai was a great military strategist Sun Wu during the Warring States Period, and he inherited the ancestral "Sun Tzu Formation" from his father when he was young, and this book and the "Sun Tzu Art of War" that was later passed on to the world were written by Sun Wu, but "Sun Tzu Formation" is more about the essence of the formation. The reason why Sun Jian dared to take over the task promulgated by Yuan Shao was precisely because he had tens of thousands of well-trained Jiangdong disciples and the "Sun Tzu Formation" he had learned.

A few simple horns blew over, and more than 20,000 Jiangdong troops began to form a large formation composed of four small formations under the leadership of Sun Jian, Cheng Pu and others. At the same time, the Xiliang cavalry led by Hua Xiong crashed headlong into the Xuanwu array led by Han Yigong. Most of the swords and axes in the Xuanwu array were sword and axe hands with strong shields and sharp blades, and after they encountered the collision of the Xiliang cavalry, they slowly retreated to the center of the formation while desperately resisting the cavalry's charge.

When Hua Xiong led his army deep into the heart of the Four Elephant Array, the Qinglong Formation, which was full of pikemen on the left, and the Vermilion Bird Formation, which was full of halberd soldiers on the right, began to kill the two wings of Hua Xiong's army formation. Hua Xiong didn't care about just trying to quickly crush the Xuanwu Array in front of him and tear apart the structure of the Four Elephant Array, but the Xuanwu Array, which was about to be about to hold on, suddenly split into two halves from the middle to give way to Hua Xiong's army to pass through, but Hua Xiong didn't show joy, because at the other end of the passage was the White Tiger Formation that had already begun to charge!

The White Tiger Formation is all cavalry, and it is absolutely impossible to save so many cavalry in terms of the geographical conditions in the south, but after seeing the irreplaceable position of cavalry on the battlefield in the war to exterminate Xiqiang, Sun Jian secretly found Dong Zhuo, who had the most war horses, and bought a batch of excellent Xiliang war horses, and now Sun Jian has accumulated over the past few years, so he has enough cavalry troops to form the White Tiger Formation.

Although Hua Xiong's cavalry of the Western Liang Army had an absolute advantage, they had already wiped out the most important speed advantage of the cavalry in their entanglement with the Xuanwu Array, and when Hua Xiong saw Sun Jian leading thousands of elite cavalry that had begun to accelerate towards him, with his bravery, he could only turn his horse's head and shout to retreat.

But how can an army simply withdraw and withdraw? Huaxiong's cavalry troops were in a panic but were killed by the Blue Dragon Formation, the Vermilion Bird Formation, and the White Tiger Formation, and Zhao Cen was stabbed in the throat by Cheng Pu's Iron Spine Snake Spear, and Zhao Cen was trampled into a ball of flesh by the chaotic army in an instant after falling off the horse.

In this fierce war, because Sun Jian borrowed the ancient battle formation 'Four Elephants Iron Wall Array' from the 'Soldier Saint' Sun Wu, he finally defeated Hua Xiong, the defender of the Tiger Prison, with fewer victories and more victories. In the battle, Sun Jian first used the Xuanwu Array to offset the impact of the cavalry of the Western Liang Army, and then used the Vermilion Bird and Qinglong Formation to flank the two wings of the Huaxiong Army, and finally relied on the long-standing White Tiger Formation to completely defeat the Huaxiong Army, which had lost its horse speed. After the war, Sun Jian sent people to clean up the battlefield, killing Zhao Cen, the deputy general of Huaxiong, and more than 13,000 Xiliang cavalry, and capturing countless soldiers, horses, ordnance and banners. These are not too important, the most important thing is that Sun Jian won the first victory in the battle between the princes' army and Dong Zhuo's army, and made the name of the Jiangdong Tiger famous all over the world!

ps: The Battle of Tiger Prison Pass has started as promised, and there are no tears to ask for recommendations and click to collect ~~~~~

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