Chapter 266: Approaching Chang'an
A sober understanding of the future, let him see the hope and goal ahead, but also made a rational analysis of the difficulties and challenges in the future, it is precisely because of this that he can sit still and not be chaotic, not to be a little rich that is full of stagnation, it can be said that as a soldier, he not only has his own military quality is excellent, he also maintains a fine military style, some excellent ideological style, push himself and others, at this time he suddenly has a new idea, what idea? That is, he is ready to formulate a whole set of military ideology and policies to guide the regularization of the army and to motivate the troops to fight, which is included in the future military construction plan together with the construction of the naval army and the implementation of the military rank system.
Guan Yu stood on Feng Yicheng, adhering to the west wind of the slightest coolness, the next step he is ready to attack the western capital of Chang'an, this time he is ready to pull out all the teams he has built to test their combat effectiveness, if the door to the west of Chang'an is opened, you can take the opportunity to take Xiliang, the entire western capital Chang'an and the eastern capital Luoyang are connected, the entire Guanzhong region is owned by him, and he can use it as a capital to dominate the world in the future, Guanzhong has a developed agriculture and a large population, It is enough to provide him with funds for future hegemony.
On this day, the autumn breeze was cool, the wind and the sun were beautiful, but I saw Feng Yi's military flags fluttering outside the city, crowds of people, war horses neighing, armor was lined up, the chariots and horses were rearranged into a team, the flags swept all over the sky, the whole picture scroll of people, Guan Yu was wearing a green robe, a red rabbit horse under his crotch, and a green dragon glaive knife in his hand, he jumped out first, Zhang Liao, Li Yan, Gao Shun, and Xu Huang came out one after another, and the horn of the Western Expedition sounded again, and Guan Yu embarked on the journey of the Western Expedition again. This time the ambition is in Chang'an.
The army was quickly assembled and set off to the west, Guan Yu did not choose a surprise attack of a thousand miles with light equipment and simplicity this time, but marched towards Chang'an with great momentum. The hoplites and hoplites, light cavalry and special forces all pulled out and rushed towards Chang'an with great fanfare. No longer hidden, changed the low-key of the past, and the army marched towards Chang'an in a high-profile manner
However, it was said that Yang Feng had fled back to Chang'an after the defeat of the previous battle, and reported Feng Yi's situation to Li Dao, Li Dao was shocked when he heard it, Feng Yi was occupied by Guan Yu, and the generals Xu Rong and Yang Fu were all killed in battle, and the entire eastern gateway of Chang'an was gone, and Chang'an became a lonely city. He has no way to retreat, but Li Dao did not flinch, ready to be a trapped beast to fight, relying on Chang'an's favorable terrain and city defense and Guan Yu to continue to maneuver, there are still 50,000 horses in Chang'an City, relying on the strong city defense Li Dao is ready to consume with Guan Yu, until the East Window incident and then forced Guan Yu to retreat, ready to do so, Li Dao began to prepare.
Guan Yu's army soon approached Chang'an City, although Chang'an City was the capital at this time. However, as the capital of the kings of the past dynasties, the city here is still huge, and the fortifications are quite complete, so it is solid, and Guan Yu joined hands with 100,000 troops to come to Chang'an City. Li Dao saw it, so he led his troops out of Chang'an and confronted Guan Yu.
Yang Feng saw Guan Yu killed under the city, so he said to Li Dao: "Guan Yu came from afar, the soldiers and horses are tired, we can go out of the city to kill him by surprise!" ”
Li Wei nodded after hearing this. After the two discussed, they opened the city gate and came out with 30,000 horses, and Li Wei wanted to give Guan Yu a head-on blow this time. There was a surprise attack, and Guan Yu's army had just arrived in the city. Guan Yu saw that Li Dao and the army suddenly rushed out, ready to give himself a head-on blow, so he ordered the heavy cavalry: "Heavy cavalry prepare!" ”
The bannerman immediately commanded, at this time the heavy cavalry was ready, before coming to Chang'an City, it was ready, until it arrived at the city of Chang'an, Li Dao and the army suddenly killed, the heavy cavalry had already lined up, Li Dao's army rushed to Guan Yu's army desperately, ready to wait for the labor to kill Guan Yu by surprise, at the same time Guan Yu's heavy cavalry had already prepared, the others retreated to the back, and the heavy cavalry soon formed a copper wall.
Li Dao, Yang Feng and other brigades of men and horses desperately rushed towards Guan Yu's heavy cavalry, Li Dao did not take these heavy cavalry seriously at all, thinking that it was Guan Yu's cavalry, the army struggled forward and quickly rushed to the front of the heavy cavalry, but then heard the war drums suddenly sounded behind them, at the same time the flag bearer began to dance the trumpet flag, the heavy cavalry immediately understood when they saw this, and rushed forward to kill without saying anything, and suddenly tens of thousands of heavily armed heavy cavalry rushed to Li Wei's army, and the heavy cavalry was all armed from head to toe. Even the horses were covered with armor, and the heavy cavalry armed with shields and weapons quickly fought with Li Wei's army.
Li Dao killed until the hoplite cavalry was close to the front only to find that this was a special force, the whole soldier was tightly packed, armed with armor from top to bottom, holding a shield in one hand and a sword or short weapon in the other, even the war horse was armed, and the whole rushed over like a heavily armed hill to move over, and this army was not fighting alone but collectively rushing forward to kill, like a copper wall and iron wall and like a hill pressed towards his own army, Li Dao saw that this "iron wall" swept over the mountains and seas, Suddenly the dust was flying, and these iron horsemen didn't care about the situation of the enemy in front of them, and only rushed forward to kill, and Li Dao's army not only panicked a little when he saw the other party's lineup
How did Li Dao see such a lineup of troops, but he heard the sound of armor getting closer and closer, but since there was no reason to retreat, Li Dao ordered the army to rush towards the hoplites, and Li Dao's cavalry quickly fought with the hoplites, and the hoplites collectively rushed into Li Dao's army, slashing and slashing, "Ah! Yes! Yes! With a burst of painful shouts, Li Dao's army was cut down by the heavy cavalry, letting out a burst of wails, the heavy cavalry rushed into Li Dao's army as if destroying the ancient and like chopping vegetables and chopping mud to continuously slash Li Dao's soldiers, and Li Dao's soldiers also attacked the heavy cavalry, but listened to the sound of "bang", Li Dao's soldiers cut on the armor of the heavy cavalry, but the heavy cavalry was not injured at all, and turned back to Li Dao's soldiers is an axe, and cut the soldier down from his horse.
In this way, the heavy cavalry continued to trample on the Li Dao army, as if entering a no-man's land, the attack of the Li Dao army had no effect in the eyes of the heavy cavalry, and the attack launched by the heavy cavalry was like a broken bamboo, and the Li Dao army could not resist at all, this attack forced the Li Dao army to retreat one after another, the heavy cavalry was like an executioner executing himself for the Li Dao army, as long as they caught it, they would be killed immediately, and the entire Li Dao army was confused by this heavy cavalry, The heavy cavalry was not affected in any way, and the formation remained unchanged and continued to move forward, and where Li Dao's soldiers fell to the ground.
This disproportionate battle made Li Dao's army suffer heavy losses, and the heavy cavalry hit Li Dao's army at a small price, and countless people were killed by the heavy cavalry, originally Li Dao's army wanted to give Guan Yu a surprise attack, but unexpectedly ran into a stubble all of a sudden, and met Guan Yu's heavy cavalry, which was completely paralyzed, in front of the heavy cavalry, Li Dao's army was a live target, and was chopped around, even Li Dao was almost injured by the heavy cavalry, Li Dao tried his best to kill two heavy cavalry, Seeing that the heavy cavalry was unable to resist Li Dao had to retreat, and was forced by the heavy cavalry to retreat to the city again, the heavy cavalry fought hard to kill, and won a lot, and the Li Dao army retreated into Chang'an City, and the heavy cavalry went straight to Chang'an City
Guan Yu originally wanted to try the power of the heavy infantry, but what he never expected was that a single heavy cavalry would run away in a hurry to beat Li Dao, it seems that the power of this heavy cavalry is indeed amazing, invincible, the enemy army can not resist at all, the enemy's attack has no effect on the heavily armed heavy cavalry, because the armor on the heavy cavalry is made of all steel, and the sword cannot be penetrated at all, even if it penetrates, the degree of injury is greatly reduced, and it will not be killed. At most, if you get an internal injury, you won't be killed at all.
Therefore, the lethality of the heavy cavalry is quite strong, and to deal with such a copper wall and iron wall, it is impossible to compete with it with conventional strength alone, Li Dao's army is just a conventional type of troops, to fight against such a strong force is not an opponent at all, it was immediately crushed and forced to retreat into Chang'an City, this battle made Guan Yu completely see the power of the heavy cavalry, and of course also made Li Dao know the power of this heavy cavalry.
Li Dao's army suffered heavy losses this time, folding thousands of men and horses, and then looking at the casualties of other people's heavy cavalry is only a few dozen, what a big gap it is, Li Dao was completely thundered by Guan Yu's push out of this army, and he couldn't help but have a fear and didn't dare to go out of the city to meet the battle, so he had to stick to Chang'an, Guan Yu won the first battle, and the heavy cavalry also retreated, Guan Yu set up camp 30 miles away from Chang'an City, preparing to attack the city in the coming day.
Li Wei suffered a defeat and returned to the city in his heart, it seems that he is not able to fight against Guan Yu at all, he can only make defensive preparations, now there are only more than 40,000 troops in the city, it is enough to hold Chang'an City, the fortifications of Chang'an City can be said to be relatively complete, after all, it is the former imperial capital, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, it is not easy to easily take Chang'an City, as long as he sticks to it, drag him for a year and a half, and wait until Guan Yu's grain and grass can not be helped, or the war in the East breaks out, it is strange that he does not withdraw his troops, Li Dao made up his mind and decided to have a protracted battle with Guan Yu. (To be continued......)