On February 20 of the second year of Chuping, the weather was fine, and the marshal of the Xiyuan Army of the Han Dynasty, the military captain, the general of Beizhonglang, Dong Bai, Dong Shouye, Wucheng Hou, the general of Poyu, and Sun Jian, Sun Wentai, the assassin of Yuzhou, each led the army to fight a decisive battle in the east of Liang County.

It is said that last night, the three brothers Sun Ce, Sun Ben, and Sun Sheng came to attack the camp, but they fell into an ambush set up by the Xiliang army not far from the camp gate.

A group of 200 cavalrymen in Dong Shouye's army went out to check, and the result was quite a lot, killing more than 400 people and capturing more than 800 people. After the victory, even the horses that had fallen into the pit were not spared, and all the twenty or so horses were packed up to improve their food.

Originally, as a cavalryman, he was reluctant to kill horses and eat horse meat, after all, the mount was accompanied by himself day and night, and he was very emotional.

But since the horses belong to the enemy, there is no obstacle to eating.

At that time, horses generally weighed more than 1,000 catties (today's horses are usually eight or nine hundred catties), and some tall horses such as Dawan horses even weighed more than 3,000 catties. These more than 20 war horses are also more than 10,000 catties of meat, and they can eat a lot after they are cleaned, which is enough for the army to have a full meal, so the army eats horse meat, drinks horse broth, and horse bone broth, which is very happy!

After the whole army had a full meal, Dong Shouye commanded the army to enter the predetermined battlefield, and set up a three-talent formation of heaven and earth, with 5,000 cavalry on the left and right wings, and 36,000 infantry in the large phalanx of the Chinese army (including some cavalry, which will be explained later), and another 2,500 people stayed in the camp, guarding the grain and grass baggage, and finally reserved 5,000 people as reserves, with a total of 53,500 infantry and horses, and 51,000 infantry and cavalry actually participated in the battle.

And the opponent Sun Jian, although his son and nephew did not listen to the order last night and went out to fight without authorization, which made him annoyed, but this small setback definitely could not cause any trouble to Sun Jian.

Sun Jian also attaches great importance to these nephews, and after scolding them, he still lets these three little guys participate in the battle and grow up as much as possible.

Judging from Sun Jian's early experience, his way of educating his children is still relatively open-minded, advocating that his children and nephews can grow up in the experience of blood and fire like himself, rather than being a flower in a greenhouse like those poor literati.

Sun Jian's side also put on a three-army formation, and he went toe-to-toe with Dong Shouye. In the past nearly a year, Sun Jian has worked hard to get less than 6,000 war horses, and the quality of many war horses is far from meeting Sun Jian's requirements, but there is no way at all, it is better than nothing!

However, since the contact with Dong Shouye during this time, nearly 1,000 war horses have been lost, and now there are only a little more than 5,000 cavalry left in the whole army.

Now Sun Jian finally reacted: "Dong Baixiao'er didn't have a good heart when he said that he wanted to fight from the beginning, and he has always been the idea of fighting his own war horse, the biggest advantage of the Xiliang army over himself is the cavalry, the less cavalry on his side, the greater the advantage of the other party." I didn't expect that I was fighting geese all day long, but I was still pecked in the eye by the geese, and I fell into Dong Bai'er's calculations, but fortunately I still had a hand, otherwise the victory would be as easy as Dong Baixiaoer imagined. ”

Sun Jian was also relatively depressed, this Dong Shouye quietly killed his 5,000 men and horses and nearly 1,000 war horses before the decisive battle between the two armies. I originally rode 85,000 people, but now there are only 80,000 people left, although it has not reached the point of breaking my muscles and bones, but Dong Bai, this kid is indeed black enough!

The most annoying thing is that the other party basically has no loss! You say depressed or not depressed!

Sun Jian's formation was that all the 5,000 cavalry on the left flank, 10,000 spearmen on the right flank, 58,000 infantry from the Chinese army, 5,000 men and horses as reserves, and the remaining 2,000 men guarded the grain and grass in the camp.

After the men and horses of the two sides set up their respective positions, the battlefield spread out, and there were people in a radius of dozens of miles. If you look down from the sky, it's called a sea of people!

Dong Shouye was not polite to the other party, and after seeing that his subordinates arranged for archers to shoot at the position, he directly returned to the Chinese army to command the battle.

Now the terrain of the battlefield is hilly terrain, Dong Shouye found a place with a wide field of vision in the Chinese army, so as to facilitate himself to command the battle, at this time the old fox Jia Xu was also next to him as a tactical adviser, and Xu Rong, the general of the Xiliang Army, was also by Dong Shouye's side as a technical consultant.

At this time, it was a dignified and upright soldier, a frontal decisive battle, and at this time, Xu Rong's preservation was very important, and he was like Dong Shouye's deputy general to assist Dong Shouye.

This makes Dong Shouye feel a lot more at ease, at this time Xu Rong's role can be said to be greater than Jia Xu's role, with Xu Rong staying under his hands, Dong Shouye is like holding a Dinghaishen needle in his hand, so he is full of confidence and calm.

To say that Dong Shouye is only a nineteen-year-old young man now, although he is in charge of a party with the support of his father Dong Zhuo, but after all, he has limited experience and has never seen such a big scene, and Xu Rong is different, if there is no Dong Shouye's survival, Xu Rong will defeat Sun Jian almost perfectly with extremely excellent means, and Sun Jian will be almost wiped out.

Thinking about having such a great god by his side to help him, what else is Dong Shouye afraid of.

In the so-called battle, there will always be an attack and a defense.

Sun Jian has a large number of men and horses, and his troops are superior, so he puts on an offensive posture. As far as Sun Jian is concerned, cavalry is his weakness and is most likely to cause his defeat, so Sun Jian's core combat idea is to drag the opponent on both wings, win a certain amount of time for the Chinese army, and then use the main force of the Chinese army to break through the center and defeat the enemy.

The core combat idea of Dong Shouye's Xiliang Army is just the opposite of the opponent, mainly the main force of the Chinese army holds on to the opponent, drags the opponent, and then uses the advantage of its own cavalry to quickly open the situation on both flanks, tear apart the opponent's two flank defense lines, and the cavalry on both wings goes around the back of the enemy's main force of the Chinese army, completes the encirclement of the enemy, and then flanks the opponent's main force before and after, so as to defeat the opponent. Therefore, Dong Shouye's operational idea is to defend in the center and counterattack on both flanks.

Sun Jian commanded the army to advance slowly, and when the two armies were three hundred meters apart, the crossbowmen under Dong Shouye began to shoot.

There are two kinds of crossbowmen in Dong Shouye's army, one is the crossbow, and the other is the crossbow, the crossbow has a longer range, which is farther than the bow and arrow, and the crossbow has a closer range than the bow and arrow.

Now Dong Shouye has allocated 2,500 crossbows to Zhang Liao's command, this guy is currently the longest-range weapon in the army, and the effective range can reach about 350 meters.