Chapter 1,222 Cavalry Battle

Now that Lu Bu has arrived in Huguan County in person, there is no need for Huangfu Chaobo to inspect the situation in Huguan County. As soon as Lu Bu arrives, his 30,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry must have arrived, plus With the 10,000 infantry initially led by Li Feng, the 10,000 infantry of the county soldiers and the 2,000 soldiers and 1,000 personal guards gathered in the city by Zhang Yang, there are now 73,000 Zhao troops in Huguan City.

Huguan City is originally a small city. If Zhang Yang had not moved all the people in the city, there would certainly not be so many soldiers and horses stationed in the city. Even so, Lu Bu's 30,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry and 10,000 infantry would still be stationed in the city. Stationed outside the city, they are at odds with the more than 30,000 infantrymen inside the city.

With so many soldiers and horses, it is no wonder that Lu Bu would say that Bingzhou is in his hands and let Huangfu Chaobo take it himself if he has the ability.

At this time, the Tang army had also assembled tens of thousands of troops. In addition to Huangfu Chaobo's Guards' Iron Eagle Ruins, Yuanrong Crossbowmen and Cavalry, each of which was 10,000, there were also Zhao Yun's 10,000 white horse followers and Huang Wudie's 10,000 Ten thousand tiger camp, Dong Fang's fifteen thousand leopard camp, Tian Yu's fifteen thousand Ying Yang camp, and 20,000 garrison soldiers transferred from Hanoi, a total of more than 100,000 troops.

Now the defense of the Zhuchengchi Pass in the central and southern parts of Shangdang County has been handed over to Hujie Camp, the battle barracks of Shangdang County. At present, the chief general of Hujie Camp, Huangfu Jianshou, has led two schools of soldiers to station in Changzi City, and the defenders of Shangdang Zhucheng Military camps have also been established one after another, completely taking over the defense of counties and passes.

After careful selection, the more than 10,000 Zhao troops who surrendered in several battles were all incorporated into the combat barracks with better qualifications. They were then broken up and mixed with the two schools of combat soldiers formed by Huangfu Jianshou from Luoyang to form a Three schools of soldiers were recruited. Among them, those with ordinary qualifications were dispersed among the garrison guards in various cities, while the nearly 10,000 Zhao soldiers who were captured were all initially escorted to the Huguan front line and would be used as cannon fodder.

Compared with the Zhao Army's 30,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry, and the Tang Army's 25,000 cavalry and 75,000 infantry, the Tang Army did not have much advantage in terms of quantity, but in terms of quality, the Zhao Army had Too far apart.

Zhao State originally had a small number of infantry, and even fewer elite soldiers. For example, in Shangdang County, the number of real elite soldiers and infantry was only more than 10,000. Five thousand of them guard the county city, three thousand each at Tianjing Pass and Mengmen Pass, and two thousand each at Hukou Pass and Dongyang Pass. But now all the 5,000 people in the county were lost in the battle. The 8,000 people in Tianjing Pass, Mengmen Pass and Dongyang Pass had surrendered to the Tang army. Only the 2,000 people in Hukou Pass retreated to Huguan County when Zhang Yang saw that the situation was not good. Now the entire There are only three thousand soldiers left in Shangdang County.

Taiyuan County actually has 30,000 people, but Queshu Valley has deployed 10,000 people, and 15,000 people were taken away by Zhang Liao. They are still in the clouds. Only the last 5,000 people are left to guard the royal city. Chen Gong and Wei Xu It was impossible to let these five thousand people leave the royal city. Therefore, although there are 40,000 infantry inside and outside Huguan County, there are only 3,000 combat soldiers, not even 10%.

On the contrary, the Tang army only had 2,000 defenders, and the remaining 55,000 infantry were all elite soldiers, so its combat power was not the same as that of the Zhao army's infantry.

Early the next morning, Huangfu Chaobo left 20,000 guards to guard the three camps, and then gathered the rest of his troops to guard more than 10,000 prisoners and a large number of siege equipment, and headed towards Huguan County.

Under Huguan City, one mile away, nearly 100,000 Tang army soldiers and horses stood quietly. Zhao Yun led 25,000 cavalry on the left side of the army, monitoring the Zhao army's cavalry in the west camp of Huguan City.

At this time, Lu Bu left 10,000 infantry to guard the camp. He himself led 30,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry to appear in the northwest of the Tang army. With Lu Bu's 30,000 cavalry peeping on one side, Huangfu Chaobo did not dare to attack with confidence. City, ordered Zhao Yun to lead the cavalry to be ready to deal with Zhao Jun's cavalry, and then sent 10,000 yuan of crossbow troops to Zhao Yun's army.

You must know that all the soldiers in Huangfu Chaobo's Guards have intermediate or above-level riding skills, so the Yuanrong crossbowmen cannot fight in close combat on horseback, but there is no problem in firing crossbow arrows at the Zhao army's cavalry. However, as a result, there were only more than 45,000 soldiers and horses participating in the siege.

As the Chinese army's war drums sounded, the 10,000 Zhao army prisoners who had been well prepared began to advance toward the city wall. They all carried cloth bags filled with soil on their bodies.

At the same time, a few miles west of Huguan City, the cavalry of Tang and Zhao also started a battle.

Zhao Yun led 11,000 white horse Yi Cong and fought together with Lu Bu's 10,000 elite wolf cavalry; Hu Yandu led 10,000 assault cavalry and 10,000 ordinary wolf cavalry, and fought hard, while Hedong Yingyang's 5,000 cavalry Then he joined forces with 10,000 yuan of crossbow soldiers and killed 10,000 ordinary wolf cavalry on the other side.

On the Chinese Army Watchtower, Huangfu Chaobo looked at the prisoners in front of him filling the moat south of Huguan City, and from time to time he cast his gaze to the west, where the cavalry battlefield was.

Guo Jia, who was standing next to him, smiled and said, "Is the king worried about General Zhao Yun?"

Huangfu Chaobo nodded and said meaningfully: "That's the Red Rabbit among horses and Lu Bu among men!"

At this time, Zhao Yun was already covered in blood. Baima Yicong was indeed one of the best cavalrymen in the world, but facing him was Lu Bu, known as the God of War of the Three Kingdoms, and the Wan Bingzhou wolf cavalry he led was the most elite wolf cavalry of the Zhao army. , is on par with Zhao Yun's most elite Qian Baima Yi, but the number is ten times greater. Therefore, even though Zhao Yun has a thousand more cavalry in terms of number, he is still almost overwhelmed by Lu Bu's wolf cavalry. Hit.

Fortunately, after several years of training, he was no longer a rookie. He led the remaining white horse volunteers to constantly provoke Lu Bu, and gradually moved the 10,000 most elite wolf cavalry away from the main battlefield of cavalry.

On the other two battlefields, Hu Yandu led 10,000 cavalry to fight against 10,000 ordinary wolf cavalry; while Zhao Lu led 15,000 cavalry against 10,000 wolf cavalry, and gradually gained the upper hand.

Zhao Lu was originally a general of Xiliang, good at leading cavalry. Although he had no chance to lead cavalry after surrendering, he did not lose his capital for making a living. As early as the beginning of the war, Zhao Yun had already communicated his ideas with the two of them. So at this time, Zhao Lu directly put 5,000 Yingyang Camp cavalry in the front to withstand the attack of 10,000 wolf cavalry, while 10,000 Rong crossbowmen killed and injured a large number of wolf cavalry in the back. When the captain of the wolf cavalry found something wrong, although the Yingyang Camp cavalry lost nearly 2,000 people, the 10,000 wolf cavalry were also 2,000 cavalry.

Therefore, the commander of the Wolf Cavalry ordered a captain under him to lead 5,000 Wolf Cavalry to bypass the battle formation of both sides and charge towards the Yuanrong Crossbowmen. They thought that the Yuanrong Crossbowmen would turn around and flee, but Zhao Lu did not order the crossbowmen to retreat. Instead, he ordered 10,000 Yuanrong Crossbowmen to abandon the Yingyang Camp Cavalry and concentrate on dealing with the 5,000 Wolf Cavalry that were charging towards his own army.