Chapter 214: Changle Camp
When Liu Bang arrived at Gaonu, the Changle camp in Lutai had already been stationed outside the city.
As early as more than half a year ago, Lu Ze had returned to the county guard of Sanchuan County, but Lu Ze's eldest son Lu Tai was left in Xianyang by Liu Bang, and was appointed by Liu Bang as the captain of Changle
The Changle Battalion is not only the Praetorian Guard Cavalry to protect Changle Palace, but also Liu Bang's personal guard cavalry.
After more than half a year of arduous training, nearly half of the nearly 10,000 young men have been eliminated, and only more than 5,000 horsemen remain.
Due to the stimulation of Xiang Zhuang, Liu Bang began to spend great efforts to train cavalry, the Han army trained three main cavalry, one is the eight thousand cavalry army of the infant, usually stationed in the north, mainly to defend against the harassment of the Yue clan, one is the Changle camp of Lutai, and the remaining one is the Longxi camp where Liu Bang personally sits, the largest number, with 20,000 cavalry.
This time sent troops to the county to fight against the Huns, in addition to the infant cavalry, Lutai's Changle battalion, Liu Bang also transferred 5,000 elite cavalry from the Longxi battalion, a total of more than 18,000 cavalry, although the strength is still at a disadvantage, but this is a battle in Guanzhong, the Han army can get the support of infantry, but also has an advantage in intelligence, so the disadvantage is not obvious.
As soon as Lu Tai gave an order, all the departments and songs quickly assembled, and soon formed a neat cavalry queue.
When Liu Bang slowly walked in front of the queue of Changle Camp surrounded by Zhang Liang, Chen Ping and dozens of generals, what was presented in front of them was definitely an elite army with high spirits and high spirits.
However, as soon as Liu Bang changed his mind, he thought of his sons again.
Compared with the children of the Lu family, Liu Bang's sons, whether it is Liu Fei born to Cao Ji, Liu Ying born to Lu Pheasant, or Liu Ruyi born to Mrs. Qi, are either mediocre and unbearable, or cowardly and weak, and cannot be on the stage, but Liu Fei, the second son born to the second brother Liu Xi, is quite a tiger and wolf, and will be a character in the future.
Thinking of this, Liu Bang couldn't help but turn around and find Liu Bi from the accompanying queue.
Among Liu Bang's dozens of entourage generals, Liu Bi is like standing out from the crowd, but seeing him wearing a white robe, a white horse under his crotch, holding a silver spear, and a purple and gold crown on his head, he looks even more sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and his face is like Fu Fan, especially rarely, although Liu Bi is only sixteen years old, he has grown into a big man with a height of eight feet.
"The Mighty King of Han"
"The Mighty King of Han"
"The Mighty King of Han"
The sudden roar pulled Liu Bang's thoughts back.
Suddenly turned around, only to see that the five thousand elite horsemen of the Changle camp were under the order of Lu Tai, neatly and uniformly with halberds to tease the sky, or with swords to hit the shield, while also shouting the mighty slogan of the Han King very rhythmically, its situation, like a tiger calf that had just grown up was roaring in the mountains and forests, and a strong high-spirited spirit came to the face in an instant.
"Good, good, good, hehe." Liu Bang nodded happily.
The Han army general who followed Liu Bang was a little disdainful, and said coldly: "It's just a show, what's the use of practicing well?" When you get to the battlefield, you can scare the Huns away with a loud voice? ”
Unexpectedly, Lu Tai's ears were extremely pointed, and he actually heard the words of the baby, and immediately sneered at each other: "The old general of the baby, is our Changle Battalion a useless flowery shelf, but it is not up to you to have the final say, if the old general is not convinced, you might as well pull out your cavalry and try to compete with our Changle Battalion, how about it?" ”
"I'm more afraid of you stinky boy?" Guan Ying was furious, he was originally a hot temper, Lu Tai this kid was wilted, just call him an old general, and deliberately aggravated the tone of the "old" word in the middle, making him feel like he was already an old man on the verge of death, how could this make Guan Ying stand it? …,
Lu Tai smiled coldly, and immediately turned around and made a move, and a deputy general had already shouted: "Changle Camp is mighty"
"Changle Camp Mighty"
"Changle Camp Mighty"
"Changle Camp Mighty"
The 5,000 soldiers of the Changle Camp immediately responded with arrogance.
Liu Bang frowned, instinctively wanted to drink to stop, but was stopped by Chen Ping with his eyes, Zhang Liang stepped forward again, leaned over to Liu Bang's side and whispered a few words.
Liu Bang nodded and beckoned to Lu Tai at the moment.
Lu Tai immediately raised his right hand high, and suddenly clenched into a fist, the mountain cry of the five thousand soldiers suddenly stopped as if cut off by a knife, seeing this scene, Guan Ying couldn't help but change his face slightly, how to behave on the battlefield Don't say it first, just say that this forbidden posture, Changle Camp is indeed worthy of the word elite.
Liu Bang stroked his long beard under his chin, and said loudly: "The Changle Battalion has only been in the army for more than half a year, but it dares to challenge the elite cavalry of General Guan Ying, the spirit is commendable, and the morale can be drummed. ”
"It's like killing the head of the Huns" Guan Ying faced Lu Tai and said sharply, "Lu Tai, do you dare?" ”
"Why don't you dare?" Lu Tai smiled faintly and said proudly, "This competition, our Changle camp has taken it"
"Okay" Liu Bang nodded, and said, "From now on, it is limited to three days, and the one who kills the head of the Huns will win, but the widow does not know where the Hun cavalry is now, so how to fight this battle has to be thought by yourself, if it is fought well, if it is won, the widow will be rewarded, and if it is broken, if it is lost, it will be severely punished."
"Oh" to irrigate the baby, Lu Tai suddenly agreed, and then immediately Le Ma walked away.
Seeing Guan Ying and Lu Tai each surging away with their cavalry, Liu Bang asked Zhang Liang with some anxiety: "Ovary, we don't know much about the Huns, we don't know the exact number of the Huns, let alone the habits and combat strength of the Huns, Guan Ying and Lu Tai only bring a few thousand cavalry to go, will it be too risky?" ”
"The king is too worried." Zhang Liang shook his head and said indifferently, "If the battlefield is in Mobei, let alone thousands of cavalry, even if you let Lutai and Guan Ying go with tens of thousands of cavalry, I am afraid that they will be defeated, but now in Shangjun, our cavalry can get the help of the main infantry, and can get food and grass supplies along the way, and a few thousand cavalry is enough." ”
Chen Ping also said: "Judging from the battle report submitted by General Zhou Bo, the equipment of the Huns is actually very poor, they are equipped with very few iron weapons, and most of the arrow clusters are also cast in bronze, and their penetrating power cannot be compared with our iron arrow clusters, and the Huns basically have no heavy equipment, except for digging the city wall by soil methods, there is basically no other means of attacking fortifications." ”
"Chen Ping, isn't that right? A lot of words" Xiahou Ying behind Liu Bang said disapprehantly, "If the equipment of the Huns is really so poor, and if the means of attacking the fortifications are really so weak, then how did they break through the city of Fushi?" It is necessary to know that Fushi County is a large county in the upper county, not to mention the high and deep ditches of the city, and there are still 500 civilian troops stationed in the city. ”
Chen Ping waved his hand and said with a smile: "General Xiahou doesn't know, the reason why Fushi City will be attacked by the Huns is entirely because we have never dealt with the Huns before, and I didn't expect that the Hun cavalry was still in Yuzhong yesterday, and suddenly appeared in Shangjun today, and was caught off guard by the Huns." ”
Zhang Liang tightened the tiger skin on his body, and said leisurely: "In short, the king can relax as much as possible, with the current strength of the Huns, if you want to covet the land of Guanzhong, it is wishful thinking, the Huns went south this time, just to plunder, never dare to go too deep into Guanzhong, if nothing else, the Huns should have turned back now." ”…,
"Really?". Liu Bang suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "That's good." ”
To be honest, the Huns who suddenly went south really made Liu Bang nervous for a while, mainly because he was too unfamiliar with the Huns, Liu Bang had never dealt with him before, especially the Huns' Mao Dunshan Yu, I heard that it was still a difficult master to deal with, but let Zhang Liang say this, Liu Bang was relieved.
As long as the Huns do not have the strength to go south, the problem is not big, the Huns only burn and kill and plunder in Shangjun and Beidi, which is nothing more than a disease of scabies for the Han Kingdom, Liu Bang can even use the Huns' attacks to train his own cavalry, just like the 100,000 elite cavalry under the command of Zhao Li Mu, isn't this how it was fought?
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Besides, Lu Tai is surging north along the straight road with 5,000 light horsemen.
After more than 300 miles of Gaonu, there is a fork in the road, and you can go directly to Fushi along the straight road to the north, and there is another path to reach the Baiyu Pass.
"Huh" Lu Tai reined in the war horse and suddenly raised his right hand.
The five thousand light horsemen who followed behind Lu Tai stopped one after another.
A general had already stepped forward and asked, "General, why did you stop the march?" ”
"Yes, General, if you don't go any longer, the cavalry will catch up," the other general chimed in.
"Don't worry, let me think about it first." Lu Tai waved his hand, then looked at the path leading to Bai Yu Pass and fell into contemplation, after a long time, when the infant cavalry also appeared in the south in the dust, Lu Tai finally came back to his senses from his contemplation, and immediately reined in his horse to the west, and said in a deep voice, "Order the whole army, turn to the west, and go to Bai Yu Mountain Pass"
"Huh? Go to the white mountain pass? ”
"What? Aren't the Huns giving in the skin? ”
"General, this, this, this is not a joke."
More than a dozen generals gathered around Lu Tai immediately looked at each other.
Lu Tai snorted, first glanced at the generals murderously, and then said calmly: "What, do you need this general to say it a second time?" ”。
"Wow" more than a dozen generals suddenly shuddered, and then immediately responded.
The Changle camp originally had nearly 10,000 people, but when it became an army, there were only more than 5,000 people left, and among the 4,000 people who were eliminated, at least nearly 1,000 people were executed because of disobeying Lu Tai's military orders
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PS: There is no content of Xiang Zhuang in this chapter, but since it is a historical novel, Shuo's rebellion is a must, and Lu Tai is a very important character ......in the later part of the book.