87 Mighty Tiger Prison. Each has its own agenda
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Lu Bu didn't know that he had become the target of the Kwantung coalition's conspiracy.
Similarly, Yuan Shao, the leader of the Kwantung Coalition Army, was plotting against Lu Bu at the same time, but he also knew that he had also become the target of the Western Liang Army's plot.
Today's Lu Bu seems to have become the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Xiliang Army, and with him, it will become a joke if the Kwantung Coalition Army wants to fight generals.
And Yuan Shao, the leader of the Kwantung Coalition Army, although in private, among the princes of all walks of life, some people do not obey his orders, but how to say it, he is the leader of the Kwantung Coalition Army, the nominal commander, once he is killed or captured, the blow to the Kwantung Coalition Army is also fatal.
At least, after the absence of the alliance leader, the princes of the Kwantung Coalition Army, in order to compete for the position of the alliance leader, will inevitably have a dragon and tiger fight, and at that time, even if the Kwantung Coalition Army does not fall apart, it is bound to have no deterrent effect.
The generals of the Xiliang Army, together together, discussed the strategy, with a strong brand of military generals, very simple, very feasible.
However, the actual effectiveness must be tested by practice.
They are also ready to take advantage of the opportunity of the two armies to fight, but the only difference is that they plan to give full play to the power of the elite cavalry of the Xiliang army.
With each riding crossbow loaded with three crossbow arrows, in a short period of time, a total of nearly 10,000 crossbow arrows poured into a small area, even if Yuan Shao had three heads and six arms, he would not be spared.
In fact, when everyone saw Xiliang Jingqi's spear-throwing skills, they had a lot of confidence in shooting Yuan Shao.
The spear-throwing stunt of the Xiliang Jingqi, Lu Bu had never seen it on the horse super-led Jingqi before, even in the repeated battles with Sun Jian, the Xiliang Jingqi did not use this stunt, and even the cavalry could not find the shadow of the spear-throwing.
But Lu Bu knew that Ma Teng, Ma Chao's father and son were in the same lineage, and the Ma Legion absorbed Roman military thought, and recruited many Roman soldiers who had been localized, with high noses and deep eyes, and strong physique, which were obviously taller than the soldiers under Sun Jian's command and the soldiers under the Kwantung Coalition Army.
Only such a well-qualified horseman can have enough arm strength to throw a few rounds of throwing spears while galloping his horse.
Today's riding crossbows, because of their small size, can be carried by the cavalry, but the lethality is much weaker than the huge hard crossbow, against the unprotected light foot soldiers, the lethality is good, but once the princes of all walks of life begin to pay attention to army construction, to the light infantry equipped with leather armor, the lethality of this riding crossbow will be weakened again.
The throwing gun is different, it is heavy, it is thrown by arm strength, and it is thrown in the gallop of a war horse, once it is densely covered, the lethality will be very amazing.
It's just that the only weakness is that the range is not enough.
The strategy set by the Zuihou crowd was that Xiliang Jingcai would take on the heavy task of shooting Yuan Shao, riding a crossbow and throwing a gun, and striving to be effective as soon as he attacked.
All this, Lu Bu remained silent, saw it in his eyes, and remembered it in his heart.
Throwing guns, Ma Teng obviously deliberately hid it, but when everyone discussed, he was shouted out in public by his son Ma Chao, who was not deeply involved in the world, so that he could only use the excuse of a long journey, and the gun was heavy and inconvenient to carry, so Xiliang Jingqi did not bring it with the army.
In this way, if you need to throw a gun, you have to rush to make it, and it will take at least 20 days.
Coincidentally, the schemes of both sides will take a long time to implement. The Kwantung Coalition Army needs to transfer generals from Sour Zao, and needs to wait for the completion of the supervision of siege equipment, while the Western Liang Army needs to wait for the completion of the throwing of guns.
During this time, the two sides have a very tacit understanding, every day or two, you come and go, either the Kwantung Coalition Army fights in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, or the Xiliang Army fights in front of the Kwantung Coalition Army camp, a pair of Jiashi, they all think that they can use this to not make the other party suspicious, but in fact, they are all in full swing preparing to give the other party the most fatal blow.
Lu Bu will also fight, every time he fights, it must be Liu Bei's three brothers who come forward to greet him, after such a period of tempering, the cooperation between Liu Bei and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei is becoming more and more tacit, and Lu Bu has gained more and more benefits from it.
Compared with the improvement of personal strength, Lu Bu paid more attention to the reflection on the rebuilding of his elite cavalry during this period of time, inspired by the spear-throwing tactics of Xiliang Jingcai.
Previously, when he was in Jinyang, his attention was mainly on the construction of the inner formation of the state, and the construction of the army was also based on the overall construction, and it had not yet been subdivided into the cavalry.
Now, with the example of Xiliang Jingqi in front of him, he feels that it is necessary to rebuild his Jingqi.
First of all, the riding gun can be discarded, and when the fine cavalry rushes to kill, the lethality of the riding gun is good, it can be easily broken, and the damage rate is the highest.
The second is the long knife, which is the same as the long knife used by the foot soldiers, and when chopping, it cannot exert the full power of the cavalry, and can be improved to suit the use of the cavalry.
If you re-equip it, you can divide it into two routes.
A route is light and finely ridden, heavy maneuverable, and light protection, which is used for long-distance raids and battlefield plundering. The equipment is far superior to weapons, such as throwing spears, riding crossbows, or throwing axes, etc., with melee slashing weapons, and improved sabers.
The other route is heavy cavalry, heavy protection, light mobility, dedicated to the battlefield to charge into battle, at a critical moment, to break through the enemy's defense line. The weapons equipped are long weapons, riding spears, long lances, or halberds, and equipped with sabers.
Dividing the cavalry in two in this way and focusing on different combat occasions can bring out the best combat effectiveness.
In addition, vigorously developing hard crossbows, as well as riding crossbows, to increase the lethality and range, has become an important topic.
Lu Bu went out to battle with the cavalry general Li Dao and others during the day, and fought with Liu Bei's three brothers, and at night he was concentrating on these problems alone, and consciously thought about it, so he wrote it down carefully, and specially sent Hou Cheng with more than ten personal guards to send the letter to Gaodu in Bingzhou, and the garrison general Han Hao sent people to the garrison generals in various places to let them participate in the discussion.
As for the improvement of the crossbow, as early as when Lu Bu led the army to leave Jinyang, the task had been assigned to the craftsmen, and several groups of craftsmen were still working on it at the same time.
With the advent of summer, the sun is getting hotter and hotter day by day, and the battle in front of the Tiger Prison Pass has fallen silent, and the armies on both sides are still moving, only fighting generals, and it is still continuing.
It's just that both sides invariably choose to go out in the morning to fight, and when the sun rises and the sun starts to heat up, both sides will collect their troops and return to their camps.
Even so, a big battle every two or three days, not to mention wearing leather armor, even if you go into battle shirtless, you are sweating like rain.
In the early morning of this day, after Lu Bu had breakfast, he thought that according to the usual practice, this trip should be the Kwantung Coalition Army coming to fight in front of the Pass, but after waiting for a while, the Kwantung Coalition Army has not moved.
The next day, the Kwantung Coalition Army still had no movement, which couldn't help but make everyone secretly wonder in their hearts, could it be that Yuan Shao had seen through the plot of the Xiliang Army?
The throwing guns needed by the Xiliang Jingcai have arrived at the Tiger Prison Pass two days ago, and according to the original plan, they are only waiting for the Kwantung coalition forces to come to fight, which is the time to carry out the decapitation operation.
On the third day, Li Dao couldn't sit still anymore, and made up his mind that since Yuan Shao didn't come, he would go to the door to see if he couldn't get out.
In the morning, the sun has not yet risen, and in front of the tiger prison, it is a rare moment of quiet, and the birdsong in the forest is also exceptionally crisp and pleasant.
Suddenly, the war drums rang out frequently, the gate was wide open, and a team of elite horsemen galloped out, lined up in the open space in front of the pass, and rolled up the dust in the sky and went to the Kwantung coalition army camp ten miles away.
Five miles away from the camp, the elite cavalry lined up neatly, and outside Lixu, the Kwantung coalition army was also the original team to meet the battle.
It's just that today's battle is very different from the past, and the generals of the Xiliang Army know it, but what they don't know is that the Kwantung Coalition Army thinks the same way.
The breeze was blowing, the dust was blown away, and the two armies were facing each other neatly in the air, Li Wei saw that Yuan Shao was still in the middle of the military formation as he wished, and whispered a few words to Ma Teng beside him, that is, urged the horse to step forward.
This has become a practice before every battle, the cavalry general Li Dao stepped forward and called the self-proclaimed cavalry general Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao ignored it, and the general Wen Chou went to war, and then the Xiliang army was Wen Chou's old friend, Hu Che'er stalked his neck, carried a double-headed mace, and fought against Wen Chou.
Several times in the past, both of them went into battle shirtless, but this time, they were both dressed neatly, even wearing leather armor.
Anyone who cares can see some dissonance in themselves, but now that the arrow is on the string, it is impossible to suspend the long-planned operation based on some speculation.
Lu Bu is different, he also sees that something is wrong, he knows about the actions on his side, but he can see Wen Chou's reaction, and the Kwantung Coalition Army has not moved for three days, as if it is waiting for the Xiliang Army to come up here to fight, no matter how you look at it, it is not right.
Therefore, Lu Bu did not move, and when the generals of the two sides fought one after another, catching and killing each other, Lu Bu still immediately stepped forward and did not fight.
Those who have already fought are Hu Che'er, Ma Chao, Pang De, Zhang Xiu, Hua Xiong, and the other party is Wen Chou, Tai Shici, Yan Liang, Cao Hong, Xiahou Dun, these people have all fought several times before, and they have their own winners and losers, but if they can kill each other in a short period of time, it is still impossible.
As Li Su and Li Dao also fought separately, facing Xiahou Yuan and Lu Yi respectively, the suspicion in Lu Bu's heart became stronger and stronger.
Lu Yi, he remembered this name, it should be Yuan Shao's general, he had never seen this person before, and today it seems that it is the first time to fight. In addition, in the opponent's formation, there are Liu Bei's three brothers, as well as Zhao Yun, as for whether there are other snow hidden generals, Lu Bu does not know.
What Lu Bu didn't know was that Lu Yi was under the account of Mu Hanfu of Jizhou at the moment, and later, he was put into Yuan Shao's account.
Just when Lu Bu was still pondering, three people galloped out of the opposite formation, and with just one glance, Lu Bu knew that it was Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.
They came for me.
Lu Bu thought thoughtfully, his eyes swept the formation, so many people were fighting there, and suddenly, a wave of pride surged, and he immediately mentioned Fang Tian's halberd, lightly knocked the red rabbit horse, and galloped out.