Chapter 115: Praetorian Guard
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With the 20,000 Hun cavalry and the 30,000 Xianbei cavalry fighting in a stalemate, the 20,000 Hun cavalry still had the upper hand, and Liu Bei ordered the Praetorian Guard led by Yu Ban to attack.
There are three elites in Lucheng: white soldiers, scout soldiers, and special forces. In addition to these three elites, there is also one, that is, Yu Ban's personal guards, or military police who enforce military discipline.
Since the expansion of the Bai Yu soldiers and the merger of scouts and special forces, Liu Bei formed a new third elite based on the forbidden gendarmes and gave it the name Praetorian Guard.
There happened to be a forbidden word in Yu Ban's name, and everyone thought that Liu Bei was in recognition of Yu Ban's silent training over the years, and even Yu Ban himself thought so, but only Liu Bei himself knew that this was just a casual move from later generations.
But this misunderstanding greatly increased the morale of the generals of the Lucheng army, and if an army takes its own name, even if it dies, as long as the army is there, the number will not be lost, and its reputation will definitely be passed on for a long time.
The number can promote the collective sense of honor of the soldiers, and the current generals of Lucheng are holding their breath and preparing to make their troops the number named after themselves.
That is, the Praetorian Guard, the equipment is naturally the highest priority, a water of bright light armor, a brute lion helmet, a white ash iron gun in his hand, a sharp war saber in his waist, an iron tire bow on his back, in addition to two pots of wolf tooth heavy arrows on the saddle, there is also a pot of slender javelin.
If you want to say that the actual combat experience of the Praetorian Guard is almost there, but in terms of theory and training, no army can compare with the Praetorian Guard, and he is not like Gao Shun's hoplites, who are all trained from striking iron.
The Praetorian Guards are all trained in real combat, so the eighteen martial arts are all complete, and they may be able to call them special forces, each of which is the best seedling selected by Yu Ban from the recruits, and everyone's material can be compared with the white soldiers.
Therefore, he is qualified to become the three elites of the Lucheng Army together with the white soldiers and the scouts who fought in a hundred battles.
As for Gao Shun's trapping camp, it is purely Gao Shun's private soldiers, fighting iron and training together, that kind of situation cannot be replicated at all, and it is difficult to even replenish it.
The Praetorian Guard not only wears armor, but even the horses are carefully selected, extremely load-bearing, explosive, and the most important thing is that there is also armor on the horse, and then linked together is the ironclad chain horse, which is synonymous with invincibility in this era.
Fifteen hundred Janissaries were dispatched together, and the formation was like ten thousand horsemen.
After Bu Dugen saw it, he did not hesitate to order Murong Deng to lead 10,000 horsemen to kill him, mainly because all the small marshals under Bu Dugen were shocked by the ironclad chain horse formation and did not want to send them to death, of course, the main reason was that the Xianbei cavalry did not win when they met the land city army?
Budugen asked Murong Deng to temporarily replace the commander of ten thousand horsemen composed of many small tribes, and supervise this ten thousand horsemen who gave Budugen a headache.
In Budugen's thoughts, it wouldn't be a problem to use 10,000 cavalry to resist the 1,500 cavalry of the Lu Cheng army, right?
However, the fact is that the two armies only compared the arrows, and the Xianbei cavalry fell behind, and the three thousand Xianbei cavalry fell under the accurate arrow rain and javelins of the Praetorian Guard.
Murong Deng's heart tightened, and he desperately shouted for the Xianbei cavalry to rush forward, and he and his henchmen and hundreds of cavalry quietly slowed down, and then watched a large group of Xianbei cavalry crash into the steel torrent of the Praetorian Guard.
The ash spear was directly hit by the Praetorian Guards on the Xianbei cavalry, and the Xianbei cavalry was suddenly picked off the horse, and the Xianbei cavalry was killed several rounds before they got close.
The steps on the high slope were tightened by the naked eye, and he was half killed by Lu Chengjun before he could fight back, how can this battle be fought?
Budugen has plans to retreat, anyway, there are 30,000 Xianbei cavalry by his side, and these 30,000 Xianbei cavalry are his own family.
The white paper fan seemed to see Budugen's retreat, and said: "My lord, this army must be built in imitation of the trapped camp, it must be the elite of the Lucheng army, and it is easy to get out, if the lord does not take this opportunity to annihilate it, once it merges with the trapped camp and attacks the surrendered city, how can the lord stop it?"
Budugen's spirit was shocked, yes! In his impression, the Han army rarely went out of the fortress, but after all, Xia Yu, Zang Min, and Tian Yan killed the Xianbei cavalry and fled for more than 2,000 miles, and then the three elite people were killed by the Great Khan of Tanshi Huai.
"Second brother, you lead the headquarters of the iron cavalry to help Murong Deng, a certain head of the headquarters of 20,000 cavalry to help Tuoba Yang, once a certain defeat of the Hun cavalry, then return to the aid of the brother, if the battle defeats the Lucheng army, the brother is willing to help the brother ascend to the position of the Great Khan."
Bu Dugen watched Tuoba Xuan's 30,000 cavalry being beaten back by the Hun cavalry and finally couldn't sit still, so he followed the advice of the white paper fan and ordered his brother to help Luo Han help Murong Deng, and he led his troops to help Tuoba Xuan.
Xianbei cavalry dispatched, Liu Bei naturally responded, he decided to lead the troops and Budugen decisive battle, one is to collect the heart of the Huns, in case Yu Luo has the heart of self-protection to retreat, he only has more than 10,000 horses, besieged by tens of thousands of Xianbei iron cavalry, even if the Lucheng army is elite, no matter how sophisticated the armor is, it will also suffer heavy losses, once the Lucheng army loses a lot, it is difficult to ensure that the Huns can not think of another thing, once the Huns are in chaos, Taiyuan will inevitably be implicated, Taiyuan is already in danger of millions of displaced people, if the Huns are in chaos, Lu Chengjun will be swallowed up by millions of people in the blink of an eye, even if Liu Bei quells the war, there will be no foundation for hegemony in the world?
The second is a decisive battle with Budugen, which can kill and injure the Xianbei cavalry to the greatest extent, which can make Liu Bei's battle out of the fortress not so difficult.
Yu Fuluo was immediately injured by the blow of Bu Dugen's 20,000 elite horsemen, and looked back at Liu Bei, if Liu Bei didn't come to support, he really had the heart to fight and retreat.
"The reinforcements are coming, the sons and daughters are supporting, and Liu Hou personally led a large army to help."
Yu Fuluo's confidence increased greatly at a glance, it seems that Liu Bei is not simply using the Hun cavalry as a spearman, as for being a gunman, who in the troubled times does not survive by being a gunman?
Do you see that after he took refuge in Xianbei, he was not stabbed by the Xianbei cavalry as a spear?
I have to say that the reputation of the fall is high, as soon as he appeared, several thousand cavalry commanders were ready to take refuge in the past, but they were all killed by the Hun cavalry.
Because Jia Xu's policy was to give wealth to ordinary Huns and try his best to deprive the Xiongnu nobles of their privileges, Jia Xu stared at the name of the butcher while winning the hearts of the ordinary Huns.
When the Hun cavalry heard that Liu Bei personally came to help, their morale was shocked, and their already tired strength increased a few points, and they killed the Xianbei cavalry beside them.
Although they are not heavy cavalry like the Praetorian Guard, the defense of the bright light armor on their bodies is still not low, and the equipment has been mainly light equipment, and there is no shortage of war sabers and ash guns.
As soon as the two guards entered, the Xianbei cavalry was defeated and retreated, and even the armored cavalry made by Budugen was also killed and retreated.
As for the periphery, there were also Zhao Yun's archers, each of whom was dressed in leather armor, a war saber for each person, a big yellow bow, and the rest were quivers and javelin pots.
Since Zhao Yun led the archers, he humbly consulted many people, especially Liu Bei's theory of swimming without attacking, which deeply inspired him.
Two thousand cavalry archers used bows and arrows to shoot a group of Xianbei unarmored cavalry on the periphery, and once the Xianbei cavalry pursued, Zhao Yun led his troops to flee.
The horses of the archers are all explosive horses, but after a long time, the archers naturally let the Xianbei cavalry suffer enough from the rain of bows and arrows.
Zhao Yun's archers became elves on the battlefield for a while, and he shouted: "Strangled him, strangled him, strangled him."
Once Budugen was angry, the white paper fan persuaded: "My lord, the overall situation is important."