The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 52 Chapter 052
The spring snow has melted and all things have recovered. In this sunny spring, the newly built Pengcheng is also full of vitality.

Three city walls and three moats outline Pengcheng. The outer city, inner city, and mansion are intertwined. The main buildings in the city have also risen from the ground. The people have moved into their new homes smoothly according to the areas that have been divided. , The soldiers also moved into the new barracks one after another.

The only fly in the ointment is that the city is too big, and the population living in Pengcheng is too small, which makes this newly built city look a little deserted.

However, Zhang Yan believes that Pengcheng will flourish in the near future.

In March of Yangchun, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and Zhang Yan's wedding is less than a few days away in a blink of an eye.

For this reason, Zhang Yan has also made preparations, and ordered people to buy all the things for the wedding in advance, and spread invitations widely, from Mu Taoqian in Xuzhou to the people in Pengcheng, all of whom were invited. Hold a grand wedding in Pengcheng.

Zhang Yan entrusted Chen Deng with all these series of tasks, while he sneaked away from his busy schedule to go to the school field to train soldiers.

According to reports from scouts, Cao Cao has been in Yanzhou for a whole winter and has been intensively training his troops. Recently, he has collected food and grass from various counties, and the army has been mobilized frequently, and has been gathering in Gaoping County, Shanyang County.

Cao Cao was about to move, which made Zhang Yan restless, so he had to speed up the training of the army. In addition, he specially transferred [-] soldiers from Xiapi to increase the strength of Pengcheng, and sent Chen Qun, Chen Ying, Lu Dai, Deng Yi He and Wang Bo were transferred to Pengcheng together, and Zhou Kui was given full responsibility for Xiapi.

But Zhang Yan didn't think it was enough, so he specially wrote a letter to Tao Qian, informing Tao Qian of Cao Cao's actions in Yanzhou, and hoped to mobilize some more troops from Tancheng to guard against Cao Cao's attack.

After Tao Qian heard the news, he was also extremely shocked. He was extremely afraid of Cao Cao, and immediately mobilized [-] soldiers and horses, all of which were handed over to Zhang Yan. The crowd is enough for Zhang Yan to defend Cao Cao.

Just in case, Zhang Yan adopted the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness. Due to the surprise attack of Cao Jun years ago, Qixian, Guangqi, and Liuxian, which are adjacent to Pengcheng and Yanzhou, were severely damaged, and the population was basically slaughtered. Those who survived by chance also fled to other places. In just half a year, these three places have become ruins, which are most suitable for implementing the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness.

But just in case, Zhang Yan still sent people to search in three places. If there were still people in the territory, they would all be brought to Pengcheng.

The news of Cao Jun brought invisible pressure to everyone in Pengcheng.For this reason, the army on the school field also trained more intensively.

However, in a team of 3 people, there are only [-] cavalry, and the rest are all infantry.

Among the 2000 cavalry, more than [-] were Zhang Yan's old troops, Danyang soldiers given to him by Tao Qian before, and the rest were carefully selected from the army.

Zhang Yan only had so many cavalry in his hands, so he regarded these cavalry as very important and trained them himself.

As for the training of infantry, Zhang Yan mainly focuses on discipline, formation and mutual cooperation.

According to reliable sources, Cao Cao assembled about [-] cavalry in Gaoping County alone.

In ancient times, compared with tanks in this era, cavalry was more decisive in warfare.The number of cavalry can better demonstrate the strength of a legion.

From the number of cavalry alone, it is not difficult to see the advantage of Cao Cao's army.

For this reason, Zhang Yan specially trained [-] archers, [-] spearmen, and [-] school swordsmen in response to this situation.

Needless to say, archers are a must for every army, and they are an indispensable part of long-range attacks. Moreover, training them is also very simple. You only need to keep practicing archery, and completely entrust these training tasks to Chen. should be responsible.

However, the training of spearmen is extremely difficult, and it is also the top priority of Zhang Yan's training program. In order to deal with cavalry, he specially ordered a batch of five-meter-long spears, and distributed them all to the spearmen. Spearman.

When Zhang Yan personally trained these spearmen, he learned from the experience of the Western Macedonian phalanx, taught these spearmen the formation of troops, and the transition between offense and defense, and handed over all the relevant details to the leader of the phalanx. Army Sima Ludai and Wang Bo.

The school swordsmen are shield soldiers. In addition to a saber, each of them will also be issued a pair of round shields. Then Zhang Yan personally taught them how to attack, how to defend, and the arrangement of the formation.And inform Mi Fang and Deng Yi, who are in charge of the school swordsmen, all the details that need to be paid attention to.

The soldiers started training last winter until February of this year. They have been training for several months. The army has gone from being uncoordinated at the beginning to now cooperating very tacitly. It is not difficult to see the efforts they have made.

Afterwards, Zhang Yan began to train the large corps, gathering all [-] soldiers together, what should the cavalry, archers, spearmen, and school swordsmen do in this corps, how to defend and attack, and how to defend and attack. Facing the enemy's sneak attack, counterattack when flanking, etc.

In short, this winter, Zhang Yan's busy work was not in vain, and the military training was also impressive. For this reason, Zhang Yan conducted simulation training from time to time, demonstrating all possible situations that might happen in the entire war.

Today, when Zhang Yan came to the school field again, the [-] troops had already cooperated quite tacitly.

Zhang Yan was very satisfied after reading it, but whether such a training method can achieve excellent results in the war is still unknown.

He trained the army in this way, but it was actually a helpless move.After all, the physical fitness of Xuzhou soldiers is completely incomparable with Cao Cao's army. Except for those Danyang soldiers who are slightly better, the rest of Xuzhou soldiers are recruited from ordinary people. After the battlefield, if you want to use them to deal with Cao Jun, the only way is to train the cooperation between their various arms.

As time passed, Zhang Yan became more and more restless, not because of the marriage, but because of Cao Cao's movements.

The scouts sent by Zhang Yan were all dead soldiers Xu Sheng rescued from the Futu Temple.With Zhang Yan's full support, Fan A successfully developed the antidote and completely eradicated the toxins on these dead men. These people, including Xu Sheng, were very grateful to Zhang Yan and swore allegiance.

These dead soldiers are agile killers. Usually, these people are used to being unrestrained, but the way they are in the army will make them unable to adapt.

For this reason, Zhang Yan specially asked Xu Sheng to form a special scout team, all of which were filled by them. They were directly responsible to Xu Sheng, and Xu Sheng was directly responsible to Zhang Yan.

In this way, Zhang Yan can safely send these scouts to various places to inquire about news.

According to the latest information from the scouts, Cao Cao arrived at Gaoping County in Shanyang County on the third day of March. About [-] Cao troops had gathered in Gaoping County alone, and Cao troops were still flocking to Gaoping County from all over the country.

This latest news made Zhang Yan feel uneasy. Judging from the current strength of troops, the strength of Cao Jun is already twice his. It may exceed 10 people.

This also proves that Cao Cao is bound to win Xuzhou this time.

Zhang Yan secretly blocked the news, for fear that if the news got out, it would cause panic in Pengcheng.But he himself was also worried.

After all, Cao Cao's men are full of talents, with many soldiers and generals, but Zhang Yan's men are very few.Although Chen Deng, Chen Qun, Chen Ying, Mi Fang, Xu Sheng, Lu Dai, etc. were all heroes of the moment, they are nothing compared to the talents under Cao Cao.

I don't know why, but Zhang Yan, who was always not afraid of the sky and the earth, felt a little bit afraid at this moment, because Cao Cao was so powerful.

In history, Cao Cao, a traitor in troubled times, has defeated many enemies stronger than him, but compared with Cao Cao, he is indeed a bit insignificant.

All he can do now is to try his best and fight Cao Cao. Even if he loses, it will be an honor to lose.

When Zhang Yan was restless, Xu Sheng walked in from the door, holding a secret letter in his hand, and walked over in a panic.

"My lord, this is news from Yanzhou, please read it over, my lord!"

Zhang Yan took the secret letter from Xu Sheng, opened it and skimmed through it quickly, the sorrow on his face disappeared immediately, he suddenly burst out laughing, and shouted cheerfully: "God helped me! I was so immersed in the pressure brought by Cao Cao that I couldn't extricate myself, but I forgot that this person existed in history!"

Seeing that Zhang Yan was so happy, Xu Sheng quickly asked, "My lord, is there any good news from Yanzhou?"

Zhang Yan nodded, and hurriedly said: "The Wenhou Lu Bu, who used to be famous for a while, recently led his troops to go south due to discord with Yuan Shao. He has nowhere to return and is wandering around..."

"Master, who is Lu Bu?" Xu Sheng asked.

Hearing Xu Sheng's question, Zhang Yan just smiled and told Xu Sheng that Lu Bu is a very powerful person.After all, Xu Sheng has been staying in the Futu Temple all the time, so it's normal for him to know nothing about the outside world.

Although there is only so much news about this, it solved Zhang Yan's worries at once.

Because not long after, Chen Gong, the prefect of Dongjun under Cao Cao's tent, Zhang Miao, the prefect of Chenliu, Xu Si, Wang Kai, and Zhang Miao's younger brother Zhang Chao, under Cao Cao's account, will unite together to support Lu Bu as the prince. Occupy Yanzhou.

At this time, Zhang Yan no longer had the initial worries, and seemed to not care about how many troops Cao Cao assembled in Gaoping County, because no matter how many troops Cao Cao came, sooner or later, they would eventually retreat because of Yanzhou's rebellion.

However, Zhang Yan did not relax, and continued to let the army train, and he officially started to deal with his wedding...

(End of this chapter)