The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 508 The Great Battle in Guanzhong

Cao Ren, as a famous general of a generation, also knows this truth. If you have few people, you can stick to the city and wait for reinforcements. Now that the two sides have about the same strength, if you still keep retreating and dare not fight, maybe the soldiers below will feel dissatisfied and look down on you. commander in chief.

The soldiers of the Wei army have fought for so many years and killed one prince after another. They were once invincible in the world. They also have self-esteem. They are not afraid of death, but they just don't want to be so aggrieved.

Besides, on this vast Guanzhong Plain, it is the place where the cavalry of the Wei army showed their power. The cavalry of the Wei army is still stronger than the Chu army in terms of overall strength.The infantry can defend the city, but can these cavalry only hide behind the infantry and waste food, or serve as guards for the food transport team?
As a result, nearly 60 troops from both sides launched a decisive battle on the vast Guanzhong Plain. This is exactly what Zhang Wu expected. It has been 19 years since the crossing. Wu didn't want to procrastinate any longer.

The cavalry of the Wei army is still very powerful. After all, the cavalry of the Chu army developed late, but the generals of the Chu army are generally stronger than the Wei army.

Now there are Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, and Cao Zhang among Wei's super generals, but Xu Chu guards Cao Pi in Luoyang, Zhang Liao defends Ding Feng in Yuzhou, and Cao Zhang is idle in his fief.

Therefore, the Wei army did not even have a super-class general in Guanzhong, while the Chu army not only had five super-class generals Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, and Pang De, but also Wei Yan, Zhang Ren, Li Yan, Chen Dao and other first-class generals.In addition, there are three super generals who did not come.One is Guan Yu who guards Fancheng and protects Xiangyang; the other is Gan Ning who leads the East China Sea Navy to harass the coast of Wei State; the other is Zhou Tai who protects Sun Shao in the South China Sea Navy.

The generals of the two sides on the Guanzhong battlefield are too far apart, let alone Zhang Wu, an invincible pervert.

Therefore, although the Wei army also fought bravely, they were always at a disadvantage. Yu Jin, Zhang He, Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Xiahouba and others expressed that they were under a lot of pressure, and maybe they could not beat Ma Chao together.

The battle of Guanzhong was related to the life and death of the country. In order to fight against the luxurious generals of the Chu army, Wei Wendi Cao Pi sent Xu Chu and the Huwei battalion to Chang'an, and then activated Cao Zhang, ordered him to rush from the fief to Chang'an, and then transferred Li from Yuzhou. Code.

Cao Zhen also recommended Wang Shuang, a native of Longxi, as his general. Wang Shuang wields a sixty-jin sword that can open a two-stone iron fetal bow, and has three meteor hammers hidden in his body.

In this way, Wei Jun was finally able to stabilize the situation a little bit.Cao Zhang and Cao Xiu led the cavalry. Although they did not dare to single out Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, Pang De and others, they were able to block their charge on the battlefield.

In order to prevent the Wei army from re-deploying troops to support, Zhang Wu ordered the South China Sea Navy to suspend its activities in Nanyang, gather troops to go north to join Ganning, and increase the raids on Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou and other coastal areas of Wei State. Ding Feng and Jianye in Huainan Wenpin also cooperated with Gan Ning to launch an offensive to contain Wei's troops on the east front.

The Great Wei Iron Cavalry was still the most elite cavalry in the world, especially the cavalry who guarded the border all the year round. They often fought against the northern nomads, and their personal combat effectiveness was higher than that of the ordinary cavalry of the Chu army.

The advantage of the cavalry of the Chu army lies in the equipment and the leading generals. The three thousand heavy cavalry are all wearing iron armor, even their men and horses, showing only their sight.Heavy cavalry has poor reaction ability, weak combat endurance, less maneuverability than ordinary cavalry, and is very expensive, but heavy cavalry has a very useful place on the battlefield, that is, it is used to break formations.

In the era of cold weapons, a solid formation is the basis for ensuring victory, and high morale is the key to victory. Once the enemy's psychological balance and organizational foundation are destroyed, it is equivalent to victory.Therefore, heavy cavalry used to be the most expensive, most important and most glorious unit.

The heavy cavalry in Chinese history first appeared from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Cao Cao once said before the Battle of Guandu: "In the beginning, there were three hundred horse armors, but I can't have ten." There are relatively few, but in the head-to-head battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Cao Cao is usually defeated.

During the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao did not have Tiger and Leopard Riders. Later, when Cao Cao beheaded Yuan Tan in the Battle of Nanpi, Tiger and Leopard Riders appeared. This is because Cao Cao captured these horse armors after defeating Yuan Shao. The equipment formed a Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

In the later Song Dynasty, Xixia had iron harriers, and Jin State had iron pagodas, both of which were heavy cavalry.Although the Northern Song Dynasty was not short of money, it never recovered the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and lacked war horses.

In front of heavy cavalry, all formations are like paper, even heavy infantry, because a heavy cavalry plus horses, cavalry, armor, and weapons weigh a thousand catties, and the impact force when running is unimaginable Yes, it is equivalent to a tank in the cold weapon era.

The state of Chu is richer than the state of Wei, so the cavalry of the Chu army, whether it is heavy cavalry or light cavalry, is much better equipped than the cavalry of the state of Wei, which makes up for the gap in personal combat effectiveness.

In terms of cavalry generals, Wei State is still much worse than Chu State.

Cao Zhang and Cao Xiu are considered to be relatively outstanding cavalry generals of this era, but compared to Ma Chao, Zhao Yun and Pang De, there are some gaps in terms of personal force and troop command ability.If it is necessary to possess both personal force and the ability to command troops, Cao Zhang is one of the top cavalry generals in Cao Wei, but the most outstanding ones are Xia Houyuan and Zhang Liao.It's a pity that Xia Houyuan is dead and Zhang Liao cannot escape in Yuzhou.

The so-called "thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find". In the world of the Three Kingdoms, it is unimaginable that a super-powerful general will play a role. Back then, Ma Chao beat Cao Cao in his heyday by himself.

And Zhao Yun was a god general among the Three Kingdoms. During the Battle of Hanzhong, he rescued Huang Zhong, who was heavily surrounded by Cao's army, with [-] soldiers and horses, and then returned to rescue his deputy general Zhang Zhang. He rushed left and right, as if he was in a deserted land. General Cao Jun dared not meet the enemy.Later, Zhao Yun stood alone in front of the camp, and Zhang Jia and Xu Huang were scared away.

The armies of both sides fought from midsummer to the end of autumn. Although the Chu army had the upper hand, the Wei army also fought tenaciously. The Chu army was still unable to defeat the Wei army, and both sides lost a large number of soldiers.

Seeing that winter is about to enter, most of the soldiers of the Chu army are from the south, especially the infantry, which are mainly Yizhou soldiers and Jingzhou soldiers, who are not used to fighting in the severe winter.Most of the Wei army are from the north, especially those elite cavalry who have been fighting at the border for a long time, and they have long been accustomed to fighting in cold weather.

Xu Shu, Fazheng and the others were more worried that once winter entered, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers would drop. Even if the Chu army's logistics support work was done well and the soldiers would not freeze to death, they would definitely not be suitable for fighting anymore. .

Either defeat the Wei army in one fell swoop before winter comes, occupy Chang'an, and the army enters the city for the winter; or the army retreats to Tianshui, leaving only a part of the troops to guard Chencang, and then fight again when it gets warmer next year.

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