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On the third day of June, the wind is tight and the sun is fierce, before Hangu Pass.↖

At the beginning of Chen Shi, it seemed like a date, with drums and rumbling steps, and the enemy and our army beating the drums and sending troops at the same time.

Three thousand White Wolf Army came out one after another from the long Hangu Certificate Gate and arranged troops three miles in front of the pass.

The two camps of the Xiliang Army were left with only a few hundred people to defend the camp, and the army almost came out in full swing - it seems that Li Jue and Guo Si were planning to carry out the intimidation to the end.

The three thousand horses of the horses are strictly speaking, the real White Wolf Army has only 2,000 troops, and is officially divided into two standard infantry and cavalry divisions (a part of the Han Dynasty is about 1,000 to 1,500 soldiers, including the chief and auxiliary soldiers). Among them, 1,500 soldiers are his main combat soldiers, well-equipped and well-trained, and nearly half of them are old soldiers who have seen blood.

The army was led by Ma Han; the squad was the left wing and Zhou Cang was the lieutenant. Another selected 500 Xiliang Qianghu and Baibo soldiers from the 4,000 Luoyang new army, and formed a formation to serve as the right wing of the army, commanded by Xu Huang.

There were another thousand auxiliary soldiers, medical workers, craftsmen, and servants, who were on standby behind the formation.

Under the rising sun, the mountains and fields are colorful, the peaks and the water is green. It is a beautiful summer travel season, but it turns into a bloody sky.

On the White Wolf Army, under the command of the troops and the commander of the garrison, the soldiers skillfully and quickly began to arrange the formation according to their daily training and repeated positions on this terrain during this period. According to the White Wolf Army's teachings, the sword and shield soldiers were in front, followed by the spear soldiers, the archers and crossbow soldiers were in the middle, the axes and hammer soldiers were behind, and they lined up in formation in turn.

The auxiliary soldiers and the servants carried various obstacles such as deer forts, horses, caltrops, wooden stakes and other obstacles from the ox carts down and placed them in front of the military formation. The wooden carts also blocked the periphery as obstacles.

In the cavalry camp of the central army, except for more than a hundred heavy cavalry and three hundred light cavalry to protect the commander's big flag. The other three hundred wolf-fanged flying cavalry led the horses and scattered on the left and right wings of the formation to suppress the formation.

The main force of the White Wolf Army is the left-wing infantry battalion, which is laid a square formation. The outer periphery is a guardrail surrounded by two sharp wooden stakes at the back. The guardrail is equipped with doors every 100 steps, and behind the railing is a modified chariot with a baffle that can protect arrows. The baffle is connected like a battlement. Behind the car wall are long-range killing and output troops. Between the car wall and the Huohong Fort are swords, shield soldiers and spearmen who are waiting for battle. The rear of the palace of the array are more than a hundred axe and hammer soldiers. The axe and hammer soldiers are elites of the White Wolf infantry and are placed behind the formation. They can not only protect the crossbow soldiers, but also serve as a means of supervising battles.

There are walkways between the various formations of the military formation for attack and retreat, and the central cavalry formation has left three wide horse-drawn paths.

There are five zhang (Han zhang) flying towers in the middle of the army, and there are flag bearers, trumpeters and watchers on the flying towers, conveying military information and military orders at any time.

Ma Han sat upright on a two-meter square earth platform that was raised up, wearing an eagle-edged helmet and bright armor, majestic and murderous intent. The two guards on both sides, a handful of demonic eye bows and a domineering gun. They were like two generals of Hum and Ha, setting off the horse Mar Han in the middle, like a king coming. Jia Xu, who was accompanying him, had a long blue shirt and a long shirt with his hands flying, standing among the thousands of troops with a firm grace.

More than a hundred heavy cavalry and drummers were surrounded by armored soldiers and drummers, and the general flag and red-eyed wolf flag behind them. The red and yellow light shines, like waves spreading in the rising sun, and the sound of the flies.

The two White Wolf Army have distinct arrays, with light reflected in the sun, and the atmosphere is brilliant, and its momentum is no less than that of the troops in the fight. This is the infantry and cavalry attack formation that has been practiced countless times outside the White Wolf Camp, and used its disadvantages to kill Gongsun Xu's Youzhou Army with heavy losses.

Compared with the White Wolf Army, the Xiliang Army's formation was much simpler. The Xiliang Army was divided into two camps, with the left and right wings being the Li Jue Army formation and the right wings being the Guo Si Army formation.

Li Jue's army had about 2,300 soldiers, about 1,300 soldiers, and 400 cavalrymen. The rest were infantrymen. The cavalry camp was led by his nephew Li Xian, and they were all light cavalry, either leading horses or cavalry to wander hundreds of steps away from the side of the formation; the camp was led by his general, Wang Chang, the former general of the Hu Ben, and they were also arranged in the order of swords, shields, spears, halberds, and archers, but the formation was obviously not as strict and orderly as the Bailang Army. This was not only a matter of training and quality, but also a factor of excessive proportion of Qiang and Hu people in the Western Liang army and a dispersed military discipline - the Hu people were always inferior to the Han people in this regard.

Guo Si's army had about 3,000 troops, with 1,500 soldiers, of which 700 were cavalry and nearly 1,000 infantry. Guo Si was a horse thief and attached great importance to cavalry and was also good at commanding cavalry. In addition, he always had the personality of charging forward, so he personally led 700 cavalry; and the infantry army formation was led by his confidant commander Wu Xi.

From this perspective, the proportion of the Western Liang Army's regular soldiers and cavalry ratio is also quite high, close to the White Wolf Army, which is an inherent characteristic of the army in the northeast and northwest border areas, and is beyond the reach of the army in the Central Plains and Jinghuai.

The Western Liang army has more troops, but another thing that has an impact on the outcome of the battle is no less than that of the military force - equipment. The Western Liang army is just a little short of that.

Let’s look at the White Wolf Army first, let alone heavy cavalry, axe and hammer soldiers, crossbow soldiers, wolf teeth flying cavalry and other four-in-one elite troops that are enough to match the elite troops of the Three American countries, tiger and leopard cavalry, halberd cavalry, halberd soldiers, and white horse Yicong. Even the same light cavalry, spear soldiers, sword and shield soldiers, and White Wolf Army also have unique advantages.

Light cavalry mainly fights on horseback. The new stirrups add three-point combat power, and the horseshoes are enough to support the long-term battle of the horses without sagging their hooves. At the same time, they have more advantages in fighting in complex terrain. In other words, even if the Western Liang Iron Cavalry is twice as strong as the White Wolf Light Cavalry, the White Wolf Light Cavalry can draw with the advantage of horse harness. Can the Western Liang Iron Cavalry be twice as strong? If the Western Liang Army in Dong Zhuo's era might be so strong, but the Western Liang army in the Jian'an period has changed a few times. The first-class and strong army of the Han Dynasty has been exhausted from many attacks and has been consumed in internal strife, and it is no longer as strong as it was back then.

The ace force of the Western Liang Army: Cavalry, so what about the infantry?

The Xiliang army, which robbed the arsenal of the two capitals of the Han Dynasty, was once the best equipment for the Han army. However, weapons and armor were consumables. After a big battle, no matter how sharp the sword and halberd were, it would break, and no matter how strong the armor would be, it would be broken. If there was no strong logistics base support, repair and replenishment, no matter how good the weapon would be used, it would not be used.

The good equipment of the Xiliang Army was stolen from Luoyang and Chang'an Arsenals. They were all disposable consumables. If they were broken, they would be replenished. If they were repaired, they would be used. If they were broken, they would be gone. After so many years, except for the entourage guards of generals and schools at all levels, the equipment was still acceptable, and the rest of ordinary soldiers could only be haha.

The Western Liang army was mainly Qiang and Hu cavalry. The source of its infantry was the Han people in Guanxi, and the other was Qing Qiang in Shu. These Qing Qiang soldiers were also called "Southern Soldiers". I don't know what they mean. These old soldiers' customs were very different from those of the Han people. They were fighting by nature and were rebellious. They often rubbed with Han soldiers in the military camps and even made trouble.

During the Chang'an Rebellion, Jia Xu used these old soldiers to make Lu Bu suffer a great loss. After Dong Zhuo's death, Situ Wang Yun was preparing to liquidate the Xiliang army. Just as the generals of Xiliang were frightened and were about to abandon their troops and run away, it was Jia Xu who offered a poisonous plan to collapse the Han Dynasty. So Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou, Li Meng and other powerful generals of the Xiliang army counterattacked Chang'an. In the end, Wang Chong was appointed as the head, Lu Bu fled, and the emperor became a prisoner, and the two hundred years of the Han Dynasty ended here.

Although the result is well known, there is a crucial variable among them that is often overlooked. In fact, Chang'an City was strictly defended at that time, and the defending general Lu Bu used the prestige to kill the traitors to supervise the battle. The Xiliang army, which lacked siege equipment, failed to attack for more than ten days. If it was delayed for ten days and eight days, the Xiliang army would be exhausted and the food would be exhausted, and history would be rewritten. But at this turning point in history, Jia Xu played the trick he was best at attacking. As a result, when Yesou soldiers opened the Chang'an city gate, the Xiliang army rushed in... Even the god of war could only run away.

Such old soldiers are really a love and hate for the generals of Xiliang, but they cannot be ignored. But what is certain is that even if they dare not deduct their food and salary, they should not think about their good equipment, and even their equipment is difficult to guarantee. A considerable number of old soldiers use weapons, sword gaps, spears and halberds, and their armor and shields. The bow strings are not replaced all year round. They can only take their own animal tendons and make their own replacements. The quality can be imagined.

With such equipment, the gap between the spear soldiers who used steel spear tips and the sword and shield soldiers who used new swords and swords and shields in the White Wolf Army cannot be considered.

The White Wolf Army has abandoned the spear-halberd-like conventional infantry weapons since the Qin and Han Dynasties, and uniformly equipped the spear (three meters) long spear. The spear head is one foot long and is made of iron. It only uses steel at the tip of the spear. The soldiers stabbed it hard, which can break most infantry leather armor and wooden shields in this era.

The White Wolf Army also eliminated the ring-headed sword. This kind of sword-like straight sword is more like a sword. The blade is narrow and straight, which is very inconsistent with mechanics. It has weak chopping and killing, and is more suitable for assassination. But in terms of stabbing, how can the sword be compared to the gun? Ma Han used the hand knife, which is the most common type of big blade, in the Song Dynasty in later generations.

The new big sword of the White Wolf Sword and Shield Soldier has an iron body, a wide body as wide as a palm, a thick back, a thin blade, a four-foot long (Han ruler), a slightly curved arc, a handle that can be held with both hands, and a ring at the tail, which can be tied with strips to prevent slipping and falling off. In the battlefield encounters, close forces are connected. In addition to the big axe and iron hammer, what short weapons can be compared to the big blade?

Compared with the number of people, the Xiliang army was the dominant; when the equipment was fought, the White Wolf Army won the entire victory.

According to the comprehensive combat power assessment, the ratio of the Xiliang Army and the White Wolf Army is 5:5, which will be a even showdown.

At the end of Chen, the two armies were platooned.

The mountain wind is howling, thousands of horses are bleak, people are silent, and the world is full of murderous death.
Chapter completed!