Xiaoqi

What Zhang Ji didn't expect was that the Wuwei army under Li Li's command actually occupied Lintao City first. Not only did they recruit tens of thousands of soldiers from Longyou, but they also occupied Lintao Racecourse.If the general of the Wuwei Army occupying Lintao City was Li Li himself, then Zhang Ji would definitely turn around and leave.Even if there are fewer defenders in Lintao City and no matter how many gold, silver and treasures there are, Zhang Ji will not miss it.

But the general stationed in Lintao turned out to be the little-known black ghost Teng Yu, so Zhang Ji was unwilling to return empty-handed.In addition, he also had [-] soldiers from Li Jue's direct line led by Li Meng on this trip, so if he didn't make good use of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, wouldn't he have lived most of his life in vain.

Under various plans, things developed as Zhang Ji expected.

As soon as the siege battle started, Teng Yu on the top of the city led thousands of defenders to actively defend the city, and [-] mighty cavalry from below the city rushed out from both sides, and went straight to the hesitant Li Meng's troops.

When the battle started, Li Meng led [-] Li family troops and [-] Wuwei iron cavalry to fight inextricably.The [-] siege soldiers under Zhang Ji's command, after the initial tentative and violent attack, found that the Wuwei army was extremely well defended and powerful.Immediately, the siege of the army dropped sharply, and the shouts of the soldiers were loud, but in fact they pretended to be attacking the city, waiting for an opportunity to move to the east.Once Zhang Ji gave the order to retreat, they withdrew their troops from the east and left the battlefield as soon as possible.

"Da da da"

Just as the Lintao City battle was in full swing, there was the rumbling sound of galloping horses from the post road in the east, and then the deep black golden beast king's battle flag greeted Zhang Ji's eyes.

Suddenly Zhang Ji's face turned pale, his whole body trembled, and the corners of his mouth twitched violently.Immediately, he waved his hands vigorously and shouted anxiously: "Retreat, retreat quickly! Xiu'er, lead the army to retreat immediately, retreat from the mountain road to the east, Wuwei reinforcements are here!"

Shouting at the top of his voice to retreat, Zhang Ji led hundreds of soldiers around him with horses and whips, bypassing the main battlefield of Wuwei cavalry and Li Meng's army, and fled to the southeast in a panic.

Zhang Xiu under the city wall has been paying attention to the orders of his uncle Zhang Ji. After hearing the order to withdraw the troops, he immediately shouted loudly, and led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to discard the siege weapons and quickly left the battlefield.Immediately, Zhang Xiuyue raised his spear and led the troops to break through Yang Qiu's camp in the east, and shouted at the army to rush towards the mountain path in the southeast.

Half an hour later, on the post road to Chang'an, Li Meng caught up with Zhang Ji's troops with more than two thousand remnants.

"Li Meng, I've been waiting for you. God bless you, you finally came back intact! Uh, only 2000 of the [-] cavalry under your account are left?" Seeing that Li Meng led the cavalry to chase after him quickly Coming up, Zhang Ji and his nephew Zhang Xiu rode up to meet him. He greeted Li Meng hypocritically, and then asked with a surprised expression.

"Hmph!" Li Meng's cheeks flushed upon hearing this, and he glared at Zhang Ji and his uncle and nephew angrily.

Zhang Ji watched the remnants of Li Meng go forward, with a strange smile on his brows, but he said loudly pretending to be sad: "The ten thousand cavalry who followed General Li Meng in the southern and northern wars, are so cowardly. Eight thousand people died in battle, the Wuwei army is too cruel, Li Li is ungrateful!"

Chapter 287

Within half a month after the Battle of Longyou ended.

The land of Sansuke and the counties of Liangzhou suddenly fell silent, and this abnormal atmosphere spread to the entire land of Xiliang.

Therefore, when the scorching sun came in early summer, the counties in Xiliang suddenly calmed down.

The peace this time is peace in the true sense.

Suddenly, the fighting in various counties and counties disappeared, and the grassroots bandits and robbers also hid themselves one after another. Even the refugees fleeing famine around Chang'an City quietly left Chang'an in the dead of night.

Quiet, quiet during the day, quiet at night, the whole of Xiliang seems to be quiet.

Quiet, there is movement in the stillness.

In the past half a month, there are only two major forces in Xiliang that are frequently mobilizing troops.Because of this, the whole of Xiliang was extremely quiet, and the various forces and bandit leaders shrank their troops and retreated.

Wuwei Army.

Under the protection of Huan Fei, Li Ru went to Fufeng County to surrender to Dong Yue and Hu Zhen's troops. Things didn't go well at first, and Hu Zhen doubted Li Li's strength and ability.On the contrary, Dong Yue was very forthright, he didn't need Li Ru to state his interests, he persuaded him earnestly, and he immediately expressed his willingness to lead nine thousand flying bear soldiers to surrender to Li Li.However, he also put forward a condition, that is, he asked Li Li to give priority to him continuing to serve as the general of the heavy cavalry.The implication is that he is naturally unwilling to give up the Feixiong soldiers, and he still wants to continue to command the only heavy cavalry battalion in Xiliang.

For Dong Yue's request, which was actually a request, Li Ru agreed without hesitation.He immediately expressed his willingness to guarantee that he would recommend Dong Yue to the lord Li Li to continue to serve as the commander of Feixiong soldiers, and he would never break his promise.Then Dong Yue no longer had any worries, and joined forces with Hu Xiaoying under Huan Fei, while Li Ru turned his head and tried to talk about surrendering Hu Zhen again.However.Hu Zhen is still hesitating, or he is still waiting for a price, waiting for Changan Li Jue to offer him more favorable conditions.

During this period, Hu Zhen's good friend Yang Ding also kept persuading Hu Zhen to join Li Li's command, which caused Hu Zhen to hesitate and weigh the pros and cons repeatedly.Until Guo Si and Duan Yan's army moved outside the camp, Hu Zhen became more and more vacillating, looking forward and backward, but still unable to make up his mind.Afterwards, news of the Battle of Longyou spread to Hu Zhen's camp.At this time, Chang'an Li Jue also officially broke with Li Li who was stationed in Meiwu.At this point, Hu Zhen finally made up his mind to lead more than [-] troops to Li Li's command.

Of course, Hu Zhen put forward far more conditions than Dong Yue, and the picture was huge.He asked Li Li to give him General Pingxi and the prefect of Wudu County after he took power.In addition, I asked for a thousand taels of gold, three hundred pieces of silk and satin, and ten court ladies and virgins.But he was also very smart.There was no clear statement that he would not hand over military power.Obviously, he is willing to be a rich man who sits in a county and worships a general as a marquis.

In this regard, Li Ru only thought about it for a while, and then expressed his position on behalf of Li Li, agreeing to all the conditions proposed by Hu Zhen.Afterwards, Hu Zhen's troops joined forces with Huan Fei's and Dong Yue's troops, with more than [-] troops.And the two generals Guo Si and Duan Yao stationed outside the camp.Seeing that Hu Zhen and Dong Yue had defected to Wuwei Army and the situation was irreversible, they immediately led their troops back to Chang'an.

Guo Si and Duan Yan are naturally not like Zhang Ji, and they don't have so many dirty thoughts.For Li Jue and Li Li's uncle and nephew.They are currently generals under Li Jue's command, so naturally they will not change course suddenly.But they also had a good impression of Li Li and the Wuwei Army. They would not engage in a large-scale fight with the Wuwei Army until they received Li Jue's order to attack.

After the [-] troops under Guo Si and Duan Wei withdrew to Chang'an, Teng Yu of Longyou took [-] Xiutu iron cavalry and [-] surrendered troops, joined forces with the reinforcements led by Xu Rong and Dian Wei, and then went to Meiwu .In Longyou County, [-] newly reorganized soldiers led by Huan Lang were stationed to guard the Lintao Racecourse.At the same time, Li Ru and Huan Fei also led Dong Yue and Hu Zhen's more than [-] troops to retreat from Youfufeng, and went to Wuwei to join Wuwei's army.

So far, Li Li has successively surrendered more than [-] troops from Xu Rong and Yang Ding's troops, more than [-] troops from Hu Zhen, [-] flying bear heavy armored cavalry under Dong Yue's tent, and more than [-] soldiers from Longyou Niufu. Pawn, about [-] troops.

Afterwards, except for the 10 troops stationed at Wuguan who stayed at the pass, the remaining 15 troops arrived at Meiwu one after another and joined forces with the Wuwei army.And the [-] Wuwei troops scattered all over the country assembled for the first time, making the huge Mei Wu instantly overcrowded, and [-] troops were stationed in a short period of time.All of a sudden, three large camps stretching for more than ten miles were set up in the wilderness outside the city of Meiwu. There were as many as a thousand military tents densely packed, and the lights were brightly lit all night.

At the same time that the Wuwei Army assembled Qi Wu, Li Jue, Guo Si and other generals stationed in Chang'an also dispatched troops urgently.All the generals mobilized troops from their garrisons one after another, and added their private soldiers and retinues to their tents. Within half a month, 17 garrisons from Anyi, Tongguan, Huayin and other passes were recruited to Chang'an.However, the generals had more than [-] private soldiers and retinues. Li Jue, Guo Si, Duan Yan, and Zhang Ji alone had more than [-] retinues, and these retinues were all elites.Afterwards, these [-] retinues and the Huben battalion jointly controlled by Li Jue and Guo Si joined forces to form the [-] Huben Army of elite iron cavalry among the [-] Xiliang army.

The Huben Battalion, the Longxiang Battalion, and the Flying Bear Soldier were originally the three most valiant and skilled cavalry under Dong Zhuo's command.Earlier, the Longxiang Camp and the Huben Camp each had 5000 troops, which were in the hands of Li Jue and Guo Si respectively, and together they were [-] Xiliang cavalry.The number of Feixiong soldiers has always been small. At the beginning, there were only [-] heavy armored cavalry, and then slowly expanded to [-].In the past, Dong Zhuo dominated Luoyang, the eastern capital, with these three iron cavalry, he watched Kyushu as a tiger, and his power shook the world.

However, in the ensuing crusade against the feudal lords, the Xiliang Army lost a lot of soldiers and horses in the battle with the vassal coalition forces, among which the Longxiang Battalion suffered the most heavy losses.At that time, when Li Jue and Guo Si led the Xiyuan soldiers and horses to conquer the remnants of the Yellow Scarves in the east of the river, the Huben camp was temporarily under the tent of Lu Bu, while the Longxiang camp was in the hands of Hu Zhen and Hua Xiong.As a result, in a big battle, the Longxiang Battalion lost more than half, leaving only more than 3 cavalry, and the Huben Battalion also lost nearly 3000 soldiers and horses.After the war, Dong Zhuo moved his capital to Chang'an, and the Huben camp re-selected soldiers from the infantry to rebuild, and finally fixed at [-] horses.However, the Longxiang Battalion lost too much and was not replenished. In a fit of anger, Li Jue removed [-] soldiers from the Longxiang Battalion and turned them into followers of the Li family, leaving only the [-] soldiers in the Longxiang Battalion when Li Li took over. People and horses.

Among the three Xiliang iron cavalry in the past, only the Feixiong soldiers continued to grow, because it was Dong Zhuo's personal guard.It's a pity that during the Chang'an Rebellion, thousands of flying bear soldiers who followed Dong Zhuo all died in battle, and the two thousand flying bear soldiers guarding the palace and Taishi's mansion also died, and those who fled fled, and another two thousand flying bear soldiers died In the battle of Lu Bu's attack on Mei Wu.Now the remaining [-] people are in the hands of Dong Yue, and they are the only remaining cavalry with a complete system among the three elite cavalry in the past.

In the first battle of Luoyang, the Xiliang Army under Dong Zhuo's command was no longer a pure Xiliang army.There are also a large number of Xiyuan soldiers and horses and He Jin and He Miao brothers who control the East and West Battalions, Zhongbai Battalion, Yulin Army and Sili soldiers and horses, plus some Bingzhou Army and Huangfu Song under Ding Yuan's command. , Zhu Jun and other veteran soldiers and horses.At that time, Dong Zhuo claimed to have 50 soldiers, but in fact there were only 10,000+ troops stationed in Xiliang. After the crusade by the princes, Dong Zhuo still had more than [-] troops.

Less than two years later, the Xiliang Army, which used to dominate the world, gathered in Chang'an again.

It's just that this time the Xiliang Army is divided into two, and one side is still the old Xiliang Army, and the other is the newly-emerged and reorganized Wuwei Army.

Before the war, it always seemed extraordinarily calm, like a moment of silence before the storm.

Mei Wu, in the lobby of the main hall.

In the lobby, all the generals gathered together, Li Xuan, Li Ru, Jia Xu and other counselors also took their seats.

After exchanging pleasantries, Li Xuan took the lead in reporting: "My lord, Li Jue, Guo Si and others have mobilized troops and horses wantonly these days, even the retinues of former emperors and veterans in the city and the private soldiers of the generals. 18 troops! If this continues, the decisive battle between our army and the Xiliang army is imminent, and the big battle is imminent!"

Li Li, who sits high on the throne, since the Battle of Longyou broke out and Li Jue angrily reprimanded the Wuwei Army, his sunny and hearty smile disappeared, and his face was full of solemnity, seemingly calm, but actually gloomy.

Li Li turned a blind eye to the battle of Longyou and Jia Xu's dispatch of troops to Longyou without asking for instructions, and neither pursued nor praised it afterwards.

Afterwards, Dong Yue and Hu Zhen led troops to surrender, and Li Li hosted a banquet in the lobby to welcome them, and publicly agreed to their invitation.After the banquet, he announced the establishment of a 5000-strong Feixiong heavy cavalry battalion, appointed Dong Yue as the commander, Huan Fei as the deputy commander, and the Huxiao battalion was merged into the Feixiong battalion.Because Li Li already had 5000 sets of heavy armored cavalry equipment given by Dong Zhuo and the heavy armor captured by Mei Wu, plus the [-] sets of golden armor gifted by Li Ru, it was more than enough to form a heavy armored cavalry of [-] men.As for Hu Zhen's request for a thousand taels of gold, three hundred pieces of silk and ten beauties, Li Li also fulfilled his promise on the spot. As for the post of marquis and prefect of Wudu County, he can only be rewarded in the future.

Today is the first time since Mei Wu gathered an army of 15, all the generals gathered together to discuss the upcoming battle.

At the very beginning of the discussion, Li Xuan's words undoubtedly pointed out the current serious situation, and focused the thoughts of all the generals in the hall on the battle.

Li Li, who was sitting upright in the hall, looked solemn, his face as calm as water, and he was noncommittal to Li Xuan's exclamation.

Seeing that Li Li was not silent, Jia Xu stood up and said, "The 18 Xiliang army assembled by Li Jue and Guo Bang this time is quite powerful. Most of these soldiers are the elite soldiers left by Dong Xiang. Among them The [-] tiger and ben battalion iron cavalry led by Li Jue and Guo Si are the most powerful. They are all strong and skilled horsemen forming an army, and their combat power may still be higher than my Wuwei iron cavalry. As for the rest There is nothing special about the more than [-] infantry. The military discipline is lax, and they have been neglecting the war for more than a year. Even though they were elite soldiers in hundreds of battles before, their combat power is extremely limited now. Now the army of Chang'an City is ready to fight , it is possible to go out of the city to fight our army at any time. This Xiliang battle is really inevitable. This battle will determine the ownership of the two states of Xiliang and the power of the world. Please make a quick decision, my lord!"

Chapter 288

"Decision? The battle is imminent, why make a decision!"

Li Li looked down at the generals in the hall with deep eyes, groaned, stood up, and walked to the middle of the hall.

"In the Battle of Longyou, although Zhang Ji took the lead in provoking the battle and ordered the forcible siege of the city, our army suffered little loss, and neither did the soldiers and horses under Zhang Ji's tent, but they alone surrounded and wiped out the troops under my uncle Li Jue's command. Eight thousand war cavalry! You have all seen the follow-up battle triggered by this battle. My uncle was furious and mobilized a large army to fight our army. The lives of eight thousand Qing cavalry were exchanged for more than [-] Xiliang soldiers who were about to start the battle. The decisive battle of the army!"

"The [-] cavalry only killed more than [-] people, and the other [-] captives were incorporated into the Jinyi Guard by the lord?" In the lobby, before Li Li finished speaking, Teng Yu said to himself Soliloquy muttering.

"Teng Yu, what are you mumbling about?" Mu Ran, Li Li stared at Teng Yu with a stern face, his sword eyebrows were like bows, and his tiger's eyes were like arrows, Teng Yu's neck shrank in fright, and his whole body couldn't help trembling.

Immediately Teng Yu sat upright and quickly waved his hands in denial, "The last general didn't say anything. Hehehe, he didn't say anything."

"Hmph!" Li Li glared at Teng Yu and snorted coldly, then turned around and said in a deep voice, "Military Master Wenhe has introduced just now that the most elite cavalry of the Xiliang Army is the 10 Tiger Camp In a decisive battle of tens of [-] people, it is impossible for so many soldiers to enter the battle at the same time. It is the elite cavalry that fights, and the morale and morale of the army. As long as the most elite cavalry of the Xiliang Army are defeated, the morale of the army will naturally be chaotic and morale will be low. Therefore, our army must form the most powerful cavalry to compete with the Xiliang Army's Huben Battalion!"

Speaking of this, Li Li paused for a moment, and said sharply: "For this battle, our army has a total of [-] cavalry and [-] infantry. I agree. Xiutu Cavalry, Flying Bear Camp, Qinglong Camp, and Pegasus Camp are temporarily merged. Form an army, and then select [-] elite war cavalry from Hu Zhen's troops, Lantian Daying and Longyou troops, and form [-] Wuwei cavalry. Xu Rong will be the chief general, Bo Cai will be the deputy general, and Dong Yue and Huan Fei's troops will The Feixiong Battalion was the vanguard commander, and eight generals including Teng Yu, Pang De, Talu, Ma Chao, Meng Chong, Yingu, Tiegu and Tie Xiao each led [-] cavalry into battle.