Demon of the Three Kingdoms

"Yuan Chang, what is the situation of the Xiliang Army outside Chang'an?" After Cao Cao held a reception banquet with all the civil and military personnel, he left Zhong Yao, the main generals and advisers behind, and began to discuss how to fight against the Xiliang Army.

"This......?"

"Please forgive me, Lord Sikong. All the spies we sent were wiped out by the Xiliang army. Now there is no stronghold of our army outside Chang'an City, so our army does not know the movements of the Xiliang army."

"What! Didn't I, Sikong, send troops to reinforce Chang'an? Why is our army still blind now?" Cao Cao glared at Chang'an's civil and military forces. He thought that Chang'an was short of troops and was wiped out of the strongholds outside the city by the Xiliang army, but he sent a vanguard. Support, unexpectedly the spies sent were wiped out!

"This...?" All the civil and military personnel in Chang'an looked at Zhong Yao without saying a word.

"Lord Sikong, it's not that our Chang'an sergeants don't do their best, it's just that the Xiliang army is brave, and the retreating soldiers all said that the formation is strange, and our army is really hard to resist."

"The formation is strange?" Cao Cao glanced at Zhong Yao, and even Zhong Yuanchang said the same. Could it be that the Xiliang Army's formation is really so powerful?

"Lord Sikong, our army's intelligence seems to have made a mistake. The Xiliang army may have tens of thousands of troops, not just the tens of thousands of people mentioned in the intelligence." Zhu Ling cupped his hands and reported back to Cao Cao.

"Bong Xiao?" Cao Cao glanced at Guo Jia. Could it be that Guo Jia's information was also wrong?

"Report to my lord, my subordinates will verify it immediately, and I will give an answer to lord Sikong tomorrow." Guo Jia was also taken aback for a moment, Zhu Ling should not talk nonsense in front of everyone, so is there a mistake in his work?There is a big difference between tens of thousands of people and more than ten thousand people!

"Well, Feng Xiao should find out about this as soon as possible. This is a major military matter. If Feng Xiao is at fault, I, Sikong, will not forgive me lightly!"

"Yes, my lord!" Guo Jia knew in his heart that if something went wrong, he would definitely have a big butt.

"Okay, everyone, step back, let the Xiliang army figure out the reality of the Xiliang army, and then our army will move."

"promise!"

"Report! Sir Sikong, the Xiliang Army is here to call for battle!" Early the next morning.Just as Cao Cao summoned civil and military officials to the prefect's mansion, his own soldiers came to report.

"Oh? How dare the Xiliang army come to call for battle? Ladies and gentlemen, follow me out to have a look!" Cao Cao put on his helmet and went straight out of the prefect's mansion, followed closely by the rest of the civil and military forces.

Soon, Cao Cao and his party came to the top of the tower. Looking around, there were about tens of thousands of Xiliang troops under the tower. The troops were neat and mighty.

"Bong Xiao?" Cao Cao glanced at Guo Jia.Sure enough, the Xiliang army numbered in the tens of thousands, and this formation was definitely not the tens of thousands of Xiliang army.Cao Cao has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he is still very good at judging the number of sergeants.

"This subordinate is dereliction of duty, please be punished by the lord!" Guo Jia was startled, the number on the information was too different from the actual number, what is going on?

"Could this be a Roman army formation?" Lu Rui was taken aback when he saw the formation of the Xiliang Army. This is not an ancient Chinese army formation.

"My lord, my subordinates think that Guo Junshi's intelligence is not wrong, but our army has ignored the characteristics of the Xiliang Army." Seeing all this, Lu Rui suddenly understood in his heart that there was a problem with Guo Jia's intelligence analysis method, and he ignored one Important question, slavery!

"Oh? What is the basis for what Bufan said?"

"Please look, my lord. The uniforms of the soldiers in the Xiliang Army are different from those of our army and mine, but the colors are different. This should be the main force of the Xiliang Army, and it is also a registered soldier. Our army analyzes the intelligence of the princes from all walks of life. It is based on the analysis of the statistical data of the states in the imperial palace during the middle peace period, and its number is close to the main force of the Xiliang Army."

Lu Rui explained the reason why Guo Jia's information went wrong. In Xudu, there were military registers of various states and counties left by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. Cao Cao's brain trust generally relied on these materials and spies from various places to speculate on the strength of various princes. .But the Xiliang Army is a little different. Due to the influence of the Western Regions, some ancient Western military concepts will be used in the Xiliang Army. The current main force of the Xiliang Army is equivalent to European knights, and each knight will be equipped with slaves to assist. fighting.

"Oh?" Cao Cao looked at the soldiers in khaki military uniforms with Chinese characters printed on them.There are indeed only a few of them in the Xiliang army, and the rest are mostly soldiers wearing animal skins or some strange costumes.

"Then those soldiers in strange clothes are not soldiers from Xiliang?"

"Could it be a foreign army?" Cao Cao looked at Lu Rui suspiciously. Could it be that the Xiliang Army invited foreigners to help?

"My lord, those soldiers in strange costumes should not be Han Chinese. To be precise, they are mercenaries from Xiliang. The Xiliang army used property to hire foreigners to enrich the army."

"Mercenaries?" Cao Cao was stunned for a moment. This was something he had never heard of before. Could it be possible to recruit sergeants like this?

"Exactly, my lord, this should be the Xiliang army learning the method of recruiting soldiers from the countries of the Western Regions, and recruiting soldiers with money and food."

"Oh? Bufan really is proficient in obscene skills, and Bufan doesn't want to understand such weird things."

"My lord, Miao Zan!"

"My lord, my subordinates invite you to fight." After Cao Chun saw the army of Xiliang, he was immediately ready to lead his soldiers to test the strength of the Xiliang army.

"Okay, Zihe, you lead a team of cavalry to test the strength of the Xiliang army!"

"No!" Cao Chun cupped his hands and left the city.

"My lord, it seems that Cao Jun wants to test the strength of our army?" Pang De raised his sword and glanced at Ma Teng.

"Father commander, children please fight!" Ma Tie and Ma Xiu immediately wanted to lead troops to fight Cao Chun.

"It's up to you? Let's learn from Ling Ming!"

"Ling Ming, take your troops to meet Cao Jun!"

"promise!"

Pound cupped his hands, and led the five thousand troops from the headquarters to meet him.

"My lord, the formation of the Xiliang army has begun." Xun You pointed with his finger to a group of sergeants in the phalanx advancing forward.

"En!" Cao Cao stroked his beard, and saw that the front troops of the phalanx spread out to both sides, deliberately letting go of a gap, and the cavalry in the phalanx rushed out.

"General, the enemy's cavalry rushed over?" Cao Chun's soldiers pointed to the front.

"Okay! Brothers, follow me!" Cao Chun whipped his whip hard and rushed forward.

"Retract the formation!" Seeing Cao Chun's cavalry rushing into the formation, Pang De immediately ordered the formation to be closed.

"My lord, what an exquisite archery skill!" Zhu Ling pointed to the outer crossbowmen of the Xiliang Army in surprise.

Pound's cavalry entangled Cao Chun's cavalry in the army formation, and many crossbowmen on the outside shot arrows inward, shooting and killing Cao Jun's sergeant. Surprisingly, none of Xiliang's bows and arrows accidentally injured Xiliang's sergeant !

"My lord, do you want General Cao to come back? The Xiliang army is starting to close up their formation!" Lu Rui saw that the Xiliang army on the outskirts began to move closer to Pound's army, trying to eat Cao Chun.

"Ming Jin withdraws troops!" Cao Cao frowned and gave the military order to retreat. (To be continued..)

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