Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

"Cao Cao sent you here, why?" Liu Zhang looked at the messenger in front of the Gucheng County Yamen.

"My lord sent me to send a letter of war to Da Sima!" Cao Cao's envoy took out a roll of bamboo slips from his arms after finishing speaking.

This bamboo slip is thin and short, so it can be seen that there is not much content inside.

Without waiting for Liu Zhang to speak, Liu Ye quickly walked up to the envoy, took the bamboo slips with both hands, and inspected them carefully.

After finding out nothing wrong, he turned around and handed the bamboo slips to Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang took the bamboo slips and started beating slowly.

Soon, he gently placed the bamboo slips on the table in front of him, thought for a moment in silence, and knew Cao Cao's plan.

Gucheng is only 54 miles away from Luoyang City, and it takes about [-] miles to march in an hour without waiting for the luggage to march.It takes about two hours to reach the battlefield, but Cao Cao only needs half an hour.

After marching for two hours, the soldiers must be exhausted. If Cao Cao suddenly led his troops to attack at this time, his soldiers would suffer a great loss in physical strength.

Knowing Cao Cao's plan, Liu Zhang of course couldn't do what he wanted, so he said, "You can go back and report to me. I agree to the decisive battle, but it will be [-] miles to the west of Luoyang City. Let's have dinner before returning to the city. If Cao Cao doesn't agree, then Let's play slowly, I have plenty of food!"

Although it was hostile, Liu Zhang followed the etiquette and asked the envoy to go down for dinner.

After the envoy left, Liu Zhang just told the generals the content of Cao Cao's gauntlet.

To put it simply, it will be a decisive battle ten miles west of Luoyang City in three days.

However, I did not agree.

Soon, Liu Ye and Fazheng figured out why.

They all expressed that Liu Zhang was wise.

54 miles, more than an hour on a fast horse.

Cao Cao learned of Liu Zhang's request from his envoy, so he knew his little trick. He was not angry when Liu Zhang saw through it, but he sent another envoy to convey his thoughts.

He agreed to Liu Zhang's request and fought a decisive battle twenty miles west of Luoyang City three days later.

After the two sides agreed on the time and place of the decisive battle, they began to prepare for the decisive battle.

The deployment of soldiers, the selection of formations, the selection of generals, and the use of tactics all require detailed calculations.

After Fazheng became Liu Zhang's counselor, he has been paying attention to the princes of the world. Sooner or later, these princes will become Liu Zhang's opponents. Only by knowing themselves and the enemy can they win a hundred battles.

Fa Zhengdao: "Xu Gong once said that Cao Cao is 'a capable minister in the world, and a traitor in troubled times!' Everyone knows that Cao Cao is extremely treacherous. Although he promised his master to fight in three days, he will definitely send troops to attack our army. We should prepare early!"

Liu Zhang agreed and encouraged Fazheng to continue talking.

Fazheng continued: "There are only two possibilities for Cao Cao to send troops to attack. One is to take advantage of our decisive battle to attack Gucheng and cut off our army's stronghold. The other is to attack Luhun Pass and Hangu Pass and cut off our army's food road."

Liu Zhang thought about it, and felt that both possibilities were great, and Cao Cao could really do it.

The art of war is based on righteousness and victory by surprise.

Cao Cao has repeatedly won more with less, because various methods have emerged in an endless stream.

Looking at the military map, Liu Zhang discussed in detail with Liu Ye and Fazheng, and then ordered Hangu Pass and Luhun Pass to be closed tightly, and the defenders were not allowed to go out of the city to fight without authorization, so as not to lose the pass.

At the same time, scouts were widely deployed to check the surrounding situation to prevent Cao Cao from sending troops to attack.

During the period, some people also proposed to send surprise soldiers to attack Cao Cao, but Liu Zhang felt that Cao Cao was a veteran of sneak attacks, so he sent partial troops to attack, I am afraid there would be no results.

At the end of March 197, I got up at 3:[-] am, had dinner at [-]:[-] am, and set off for Luoyang at [-]:[-] am.

Almost at the same time, the same was true for Cao Cao's side in Luoyang City.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Liu Zhang's 5000 troops appeared on the battlefield, of which 5000 were left at Hangu Pass, 1 at Luhun Pass, 2 at Gucheng, and [-] others. Thousands of people did not appear on the battlefield.

These 2 people were the Qiang cavalry and the Hun cavalry.

Cao Cao arrived at the battlefield half an hour earlier than Liu Zhang. They lined up, and when Liu Zhang's generals lined up, Cao Cao did not send troops to attack.

It was about eleven o'clock, and Liu Zhang did a good job here.

The two armies were two miles apart, and they could only see the figure on the opposite side, but they couldn't see their faces clearly.

Both sides sent hundreds of soldiers with loud voices to spread the word, and after a beep, the two sides started fighting.

Liu Zhang and Cao Cao were sitting at the main hall of the Chinese Army respectively, watching the overall situation of the battlefield.

The generals of all armies and ministries began to lead the attack.

For such a large-scale battle, it is certain that all the troops will not be invested at one time, which will only waste the soldiers' physical strength.

The front row is only so big that all soldiers cannot use it.

In the formation of troops, Cao Cao and Liu Zhang are very well-behaved.

All the soldiers are divided into the front army, the middle army and the rear army, and each army is divided into left, middle and right wings, a total of nine large square formations.

Hundreds of generals commanded, and military orders were passed on layer by layer, so that there would be no confusion.

Standing on the chariot, Liu Zhang looked ahead from a distance. Beside the chariot were rows of messengers.

They rode on war horses with command flags on their backs, waiting for Liu Zhang's orders at any time.

"Send the order, order the iron wall shield guards to move forward three hundred steps, and the crossbowmen follow up and shoot!"

The three messengers immediately rode away to deliver Liu Zhang's military orders.

Soon, the four thousand iron shield guards in the front row began to move forward, followed by five thousand crossbowmen.

The front army moves forward, while the central army does not move.

At the same time, Cao Cao also issued a military order, ordering his subordinates to move forward to resist.

Both sides have large shield soldiers in the front row, and archers behind the large shield soldiers.

The large shield soldiers on both sides stopped moving forward a hundred steps apart, but put their large shields on the ground to form a shield array.

Behind the big shield soldiers, the crossbowmen began to draw their bows and set their arrows, and then turned 45 degrees to the sky.

Under the command of the general, crossbowmen from both sides started a salvo.

Arrows rained heavily towards the opponent, some were blocked by the big shield, some landed in the open space, and some shot at people.

Throwing can shoot the farthest distance.

But the projectile has a fatal weakness, that is, the accuracy is extremely low, but under the salvo, this weakness is not important.

The crossbowmen on both sides must shoot all the arrows in the quiver within the shortest possible time.

And throwing is also the most physically demanding.

After a pot of arrows, the arms of these crossbowmen were sore and weak, and they had to retreat to the back to rest for a while before they could continue fighting.

Before the decisive battle between the two sides, the battle between the scouts began.

Outside the battlefield of the decisive battle, scouts from both sides fought each other. Although the numbers were small, the battle was more intense.

"Report, a large number of enemy troops were found in the north of Gucheng, about 5000 people."

"Hmph, Cao Cao is really treacherous. He even sent troops to Pingyin first, and then went south to attack Gucheng." Liu Zhang thought for a moment, then asked the soldiers to retreat.

There are 5000 defenders in Gucheng. As long as they can't hold on, Cao Cao's [-] men will not be able to break through the city anyway.

The guard of Gucheng is none other than Li Fang, Liu Zhang's old subordinate.

"Report, 3000 enemy soldiers were found [-] miles away from Luhun Pass!"