Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 655
The army that Lu Bu inherited from Bingzhou Dingyuan was originally the Bingzhou Army mainly composed of Bingzhou cavalry.

It can be said that Ding Yuan relied on his Bingzhou cavalry to dare to challenge Dong Zhuo, who owned the Xiliang cavalry, and it was precisely because of his control of the Bingzhou cavalry that Lu Bu was valued by Dong Zhuo under Dong Zhuo's account.

However, following the Chang'an incident, Lu Bu was expelled from Chang'an by Li Jue, Guo Si and other Xiliang generals.

However, when Lu Bu fled from Chang'an, he actually took the [-] Bingzhou cavalry with him. Unfortunately, following the subsequent Battle of Gunzhou and a series of wars in Xuzhou, the remaining cavalry of the [-] Bingzhou cavalry that Lu Bu brought out were not enough. too much.

This is not only the consumption on the battlefield, but also the problem that Lu Bu cannot afford it.

The Bingzhou iron cavalry is a heavy armored cavalry. Lu Bu doesn't know how to nail the horseshoes to maintain the horseshoes. Therefore, many war horses of the Bingzhou iron cavalry are constantly participating in the battle, which leads to the consumption of horseshoe damage. Lu Bu's war horses are gradually unable to meet the needs of his cavalry. Therefore, Lu Bu had to reduce the number of cavalry.

In addition, it takes a lot of money and food to raise a heavy cavalry unit. Given the situation after Lu Bu arrived in Xuzhou, how can there be enough food and grass to feed a large number of cavalry units.

(Zhang Xiu in Wancheng relied entirely on the support of Liu Biao in Jingzhou to preserve the four thousand Xiliang cavalry, but because of this he had to become Liu Biao's vassal. After Lu Bu arrived in Xuzhou, it was naturally impossible for Liu Bei to support him. Lu Bu himself occupied After Xuzhou, there was no money or food to support soldiers.)
As a result, Lu Bu transformed the main elite troops from the former Bingzhou Ministry, and gradually changed from a cavalry unit to an infantry-based unit. Many horses with worn out horseshoes were even traded to Zhu Wei before.

Anyway, Zhu Wei used it as a stallion, so he didn't worry about the horse's hoof being damaged, and he couldn't be a military horse.

Therefore, when Lu Bu participated in the three alliances to attack Yuan Shu, he brought one or two hundred Bingzhou cavalry with him, and most of the old elite troops of Bingzhou also became infantry, that is, Cheng Lian and Hao Meng led the soldiers who surrendered to Zhu. Guard's troops.

In fact, the full-body heavy armor used by Gao Shun to train the camp was the original equipment of the Bingzhou iron cavalry, but it just changed the heavy armored cavalry equipment into the heavy armored infantry equipment.

It can be said that the two most elite troops in Lu Bu's army are Gao Shun's trapped camp and the Bingzhou cavalry led by Lu Bu himself, but neither of them exceeds a thousand in number.

Gao Shun's camp has only 800 people, and the Bingzhou iron cavalry under Lu Bu's personal command actually only has about [-] left.

Zhang Liao was originally a cavalry general under Lv Bu's account, a general who helped Lv Bu train and command the cavalry, so apart from the Bingzhou cavalry that Lv Bu had taken away before, Zhang Liao now has about [-] Bingzhou cavalry under his command.

Zhang Liao set up camp outside Pengcheng this time, thinking that he could lead about [-] Bingzhou iron cavalry for guerrilla use, and also use the powerful combat power of the heavy armored cavalry to charge forward when necessary, but it can be regarded as a surprise soldier.

Of course, Zhang Liao's other more than 700 Bingzhou old soldiers are also infantry, but they are also composed of veterans with certain combat effectiveness.

So Zhang Liao really didn't want his troops to be wasted in defensive battles. This elite force should be an active combat force. Only in this way can they exert their combat effectiveness.

Then tonight's raid on Liu Bei and Zang Ba's army stronghold is the time for this army to contribute.

As long as the infantry can open the camp wall of Liu Bei and Zang Ba's camp, Zhang Liao can lead [-] Bingzhou cavalry into the camp, smashing Liu Bei and Zang Ba's camp like a sharp knife.

Moreover, the cavalry troops were very fast. If they encountered an ambush or something, they might be able to break out in time. As a veteran cavalry soldier, Zhang Liao was quite sure of this.

Zhang Liao also thought about it, if he failed to attack tonight, he would leave the camp tomorrow with the three thousand soldiers from Bingzhou, and continue to think of ways to guerrilla Liu Bei and Zang Ba's army outside, instead of staying in the camp in vain Use up.

That's why he said such an arrangement to Song Xian who was staying in the camp, but it wasn't because he really had the heart to fight to the death and never return.

After listening to Zhang Liao's words, Hou Cheng and Song Xian finally understood. Hou Cheng felt a lot more at ease. He was also good at this kind of guerrilla tactics. Although he would mainly lead the infantry at that time, at least there was nothing to save his life. questionable.

On the contrary, Song Xian became a little worried. This was equivalent to leaving him to defend this military stronghold alone. Although Zhang Liao left him more than 5000 Xuzhou recruits who had been trained for some time, compared to the coalition forces of Liu Bei and Zang Ba, But he wasn't sure he could keep it.

"Wen Yuan, this..., what if someone can't hold on tomorrow? I'm afraid I can't retreat into Pengcheng!"

Song Xian asked hesitantly, he was just a reckless man who fights, with a single-minded type, but he lacked a bit of brain for such schemes.

Zhang Liao secretly sighed in his heart. Now that Lv Bu died, Hou Cheng and Song Xian, who were originally powerful generals under Lv Bu's camp, obviously lost the will to fight to the death. Helpless, I could only say again, "It's okay, if you really can't hold it, then cross the river and go. Someone has prepared some rafts near the river. Then you only need to set fire to the camp to prevent Liu Bei and Zang Ba's army from pursuing. Then you can cross the river first, and then someone will come to rescue you!"

"Okay, Wen Yuan is really resourceful, haha, when the lord was here, he told us that Wen Yuan is a great general, no wonder the lord let Wen Yuan lead the Bingzhou Jingqi in the army, this is the general Wen Yuan and Gao Lang will be tied!"

Song Xian was overjoyed when he heard the words, and couldn't help complimenting Zhang Liao, but judging from the situation in Lv Bu's army, it really seemed that Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were leading the two elite main forces under Lv Bu's tent.

It's just that the cavalry is directly under Lu Bu, so Zhang Liao didn't have the direct command of the army like Gao Shun did, but if it continues like this, it can't be said that Lu Bu didn't mean to train Zhang Liao.

But at the moment Zhang Liao didn't care much about it, he just said indifferently, "Since that's the case, do you two have any opinions?"

"We should follow Wenyuan's plan! Haha!", "I would like to listen to Wenyuan's plan!"

Song Xian and Hou Cheng felt that they had a guarantee of safety, so naturally they had no objections, and promised Zhang Liao to use it.

Then Zhang Liao asked people to prepare dry rations and horse rations in the army camp, which could be carried with him for at least ten days, and he was ready to lead his troops to go guerrilla outside. The three thousand Bingzhou elites first cultivated their spirits and waited for the battle at night.

At the same time, Zhang Liao also sent his tactical plan to Lu Lingqi in Pengcheng, letting Lu Lingqi know his actions, and also told Lu Lingqi that if Liu Bei and Zang Ba's coalition forces attacked Zhang Liao's army camp tomorrow, there would be no need to send troops to respond, as long as they used bows and arrows Assist in shooting enemy soldiers.

After Lu Lingqi learned of Zhang Liao's arrangement, she didn't raise any opinions. In her opinion, Zhang Liao's plan was more appropriate...

(End of this chapter)