At the end of the summer of the fourteenth year of Daye, on the official road from Luoyang, the eastern capital, to Luokou, there was the Eastern Expedition army as far as the eye could see.
There are as many as 50,000 people in the front, middle and rear armies.
Among them, the vanguard army was the three thousand Xiaoguo Imperial Guards led by Shen Guang.
There were a large number of scouts on patrol and reconnaissance within a few miles of the official road where the army was marching.
Li Mi, who had already gotten the news, had begun to mobilize the Wagang Army in Henan and Yan half a month ago.
Even the Wagang Army in Qingzhou was mobilized under his urgent order.
Nowadays, nearly 400,000 people of the Wagang Army have gathered in Luoyang and Xingyang, almost the entire main force of the Wagang Army.
It is only more than 150 miles from Dongdu to Luokou.
The cavalry could arrive in a day.
The Wagang Army had already deployed multiple lines of defense along the route of more than 100 miles.
There are a large number of reconnaissance cavalry on each line of defense to investigate day and night.
Behind each line of defense is a large camp with tens of thousands of troops.
They can rush out from the camp at any time to intercept the Sui army.
After discussing with the generals, Li Mi concluded that both sides had assembled their main forces between Heluo and Heluo.
It's better to just give it a try and simply give up the previous strategy of defending instead of attacking, and instead take the strategic goal of attacking Luoyang.
Therefore, Li Mi adopted the strategy of relying on his own strength and attacking at multiple points of defense.
In addition to setting up defenses along the possible advance routes of the Sui army.
He also took the initiative to attack and sent several groups of soldiers and horses to bypass the east capital from both wings, waiting for opportunities to harass and capture the east capital.
Wei Zheng even suggested that Li Mi personally lead the army, bypass the eastern capital Luoyang along the Yellow River, pass through Tongguan, attack directly at Guanzhong, where the army was empty, and take Chang'an.
Li Mi thought about it again and again, but still did not dare to adopt such a radical and risky strategy.
Shen Guang, the vanguard of the Eastern Expedition army, rode forward on horseback.
Behind him were more than 2,000 Xiaoguo Imperial Guard infantry and 500 cavalry.
There were also 500 Xiaoguo cavalry among the troops he commanded, who were divided into ten groups and sent to the front as scout horses to conduct reconnaissance.
The Xiaoguo Imperial Guards lined up in a neat queue, riding left and right, and a group of people came galloping from a distance.
Shen Guang glanced around and saw that it was a group of Xiaoguo cavalry sent by Shen Guang.
Their armors were covered in blood and sweat was evident on their faces.
It was obvious that they had just gone through a fierce fight.
As the team approached, the centurion of the Fruit Cavalry jumped off his horse and reported: "Report to General, our team found a small group of enemy patrols due north here.
We launched an interception and defeated them.
Thirteen thieves were captured."
After saying this, he waved his hand and his men escorted the thirteen prisoners forward.
Shen Guang made a gesture, and one of his generals stepped forward to interrogate the dozen prisoners.
In a few words, with coercion and inducement, he quickly found out the general deployment of the Wagang Army in the vicinity.
The location of the camp.
At this time, another cloud of dust rose up from the north, and another reconnaissance cavalry from Shen Guang returned.
Before the horse arrived, they began to shout loudly: "There is an enemy attack from the front, with a total strength of more than 3,000 infantry and cavalry."
Shen Guang immediately shouted loudly: "Prepare the army to fire the sounding arrows and call back the scouts outside."
Several sounding arrows with dazzling tail flames stabbed into the sky one after another.
These signal arrows can be fired within a radius of five miles.
See.
But the first to be found following these sounding arrows were the three thousand soldiers and horses of the Wagang Army.
The person in charge of the army was General Meng Rang, Zuo Houlang of the Wagang Army.
His task is to patrol daily along the defense line and report to the main camp when enemy troops are discovered.
If it is a small group of enemy troops, they will be annihilated.
If it is a large group of enemy troops, they will be harassed and slowed down, waiting for the large army to come to join them before intercepting them.
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After a moment, these three thousand troops came into Shen Guang's sight.
One thousand of the cavalry began to form a cavalry formation and attack the Sui army.
Two thousand infantrymen also came to cover them up.
This was an encounter, and neither side could arrange such elaborate military formations in a hurry.
They are all adapting to circumstances, making a simple arrangement for the army and starting to face the enemy.
Shen Guang took the telescope away from his eyes and directly ordered 600 cavalry to flank the enemy formation from the left wing, and let the remaining 2,000 infantry form a phalanx to defend the cavalry.
Because he could see clearly from the telescope that the Wagang army led directly with the cavalry, followed by the infantry.
Meng Rang didn't have a telescope, so of course he didn't know that Shen Guang had temporarily moved the Six Hundred Cavalry away from him and moved sideways towards him.
But he knew that Shen Guang's ringing arrow must be summoning the nearby Sui army, so he had to seize the time to kill Shen Guang's Sui army in one fell swoop.
When Shen Guang's Sui army entered his sight, he only saw two thousand infantry hurriedly advancing in formation.
Although these infantry were all capable Xiaoguo guards, they were infantry after all, and their strength was far away.
Less than yourself.
This further enhanced Meng Rang's confidence in annihilating the opponent quickly.
He immediately ordered the cavalry in front to charge with all their strength, and the infantry behind to follow and kill them.
When the cavalry broke away from the opponent's formation, the infantry could cover up and kill them, and the victory of this battle would be established.
When Meng Rang's cavalry approached, the Xiaoguo guards raised their swords and spears without fear.
The large shields with tiger heads and swallow tails in the front row formed a row of shield walls.
A nearly four-meter long spear protruded from the gap between the shields, and the back end was pressed into a small hole in the ground.
The crossbowmen lying in the back row had already opened their bows and fired their crossbows, ready to shoot.
The rear and sides are guarded by sword and shield hands.
"Let go!"
Following Shen Guang's loud shout, the crossbowmen stood upright and appeared behind the shield wall, shooting arrows at the Wagang cavalry who were charging forward.
These Wagang cavalry were all heavily armored cavalry, but there were still many who were shot in the face and dismounted on the spot.
Most of the people were slightly injured by arrows that penetrated the armor and penetrated the flesh.
The injured horse began to neigh, but still sprinted forward.
The crossbowmen of Xiaoguo Army only fired two or three rounds of arrows before these Waggang heavy cavalry rushed to the front of the formation.
Some horses hit the shield wall heavily, immediately "smashing" a gap in the shield wall.
The spears that emerged from the shield wall had been pierced into the bodies of the horses or the knights on the horses, and the spear shafts were smashed by the huge The force presses it into a bow shape.
The Wagang cavalry who rolled down from their horses were immediately hacked to death by the Xiaoguo Swordsmen and Shieldmen who came up from behind the formation.
Meng Rang was also in the charging ranks with his galloping horses.
When he saw the heavy cavalry in front of him crashing into a gap in the shield wall, he galloped towards the gap with his spear.
His horse passed over a horse corpse, crushed the head of a fallen Wagang cavalryman, and rushed into the enemy formation.
At this time, several spears stabbed at him from different angles within a 180-degree range in front of him.
Meng Rang swung his lance fiercely and pushed away the spearheads of the two spears, but one of the spears still pierced his breastplate.
Before Su Xin's spear blade penetrated deeply into his flesh, a Wagang heavy cavalryman nearby had already knocked the Sui army spearman to the ground.
Meng Rang stabbed quickly with his spear.
In an instant, the spear penetrated the eye socket of a Xiaoguo guard.
When he pulled out the spear from the eye socket of the opponent's corpse, the Wagang heavy man who saved his life The rider had been stabbed to death by several spears
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