【Chapter 231】 Others look at the stars, but I only look at the moon

Dusk falls, and the night slowly begins.

Longxiang Li Mansion.

In the main hall, the generals of the Wuwei army who came to Chang'an, except for Bo Cai, who was ordered to stay in Dongyang Valley, the others gathered together.

On the main seat, Li Li has not returned, and it is temporarily vacant.

Behind the left side of the main seat, Li Zhi stood quietly on the side in armor; A temporary seat was added on the right side, which was specially added for Yunnan Wufang. There was also an empty seat at the bottom of her, where Tie Tuo, the deputy commander of the Golden Guard, stood.

On the left side of the lobby, Li Xuan sat in the first place, and under him sat Jia Xu, the military advisor who came from Dongyang Valley, and the two were whispering about the shape of Chang'an at this time. Under Jia Xu, there are also generals such as Yin Yu, Tie Yu, Ma Chao and Tie Xiao.

On the right, Dian Wei sat in the first place, followed by Huan Fei, Teng Yu, Pang De, Hu Che'er, Huan Yi, Huan Quan and other generals. In addition, Pound's next seat was vacant, and that was reserved for Tarrus.

At this moment, all the generals in the hall were already seated left and right, and Dian Wufang was sitting high in a silver battle armor, which was particularly conspicuous. The commander Li Li, Talu and Tietuo had not yet returned home, so everyone whispered one after another in private, and the central topic was the battle between the Wuwei army and the wolf cavalry camp under Lu Bu during the day.

"Oooo

"The lord is back!"

Hearing the sound of horses stepping outside the mansion gate, all the generals were shocked, and they all stood up and stood on both sides to welcome the lord Li Li back to the mansion.

Under the gaze of everyone, Li Lilong walked into the lobby in a hurry, and the two generals Tatar and Tietuo who followed him quickly returned to their positions. After Li Li sat down on the main seat, all the generals gathered in the center of the hall and bowed down in unison, which was quite loud.

"The last general (subordinate) will wait to meet the lord!"

Li Lihu swept over the generals with deep eyes, bowed his head slightly, and said softly: "No need to be polite. Let you wait a long time, get up and take your seats! ”

After watching the generals sit down, Li Li asked Li Xuan with concern: "Yuan Zhong, how is the injury on Jin Xuan's leg, there is no danger to his life, right?" ”

"My lord, the injury on the left leg of the deputy commander of Jin Gu is quite serious, but fortunately, the lord bandaged him in time, and his life is worry-free. But???? He needed at least three months to recuperate, and by the time he recovered, his left leg was crippled. It is not advisable to go on expeditions with the army. Li Xuan replied in a deep voice.

Li Li nodded slightly with a heavy expression and said, "As long as the person is fine." Jin Gu is brave, loyal and righteous. Today, in front of the two armies, he beheaded Song Xian and inflicted heavy losses on Hou Cheng. Then he sacrificed his life to seriously injure Lu Bu, although he was defeated, he was still glorious. It deserves to be rewarded.

Listen to orders. appointed Jin Gu as the defender of Wushuang City, controlled by Zhang Ye's guard general Teng Xiao, and Yu Lu was equal to the commander; Three hundred taels of gold, two hundred pieces of silk, and five maids. Also, after he recovers from his injuries. Ben will personally officiate for his marriage, and only after the marriage can he go to Wushuang City to take up his post! ”

"The two brothers and I will thank the lord for the gift on behalf of the brothers!" In the hall, the two brothers, Yinyu and Tieyu, got up and knelt down in gratitude.

Li Li waved his hand to signal the two of them to get up, and said loudly: "This is the reward that Jin Gu deserves. His left leg was crippled. But he is a general on horseback, and after he recovers from his wounds, he can still gallop on horseback, and the majestic wind is still there. For the time being, let him guard the Wushuang Horse Farm, so that he can take this opportunity to start a family, and wait for him to adapt for a period of time, and then fight in the Central Plains with the army! ”

"Thank you, my lord!" The two brothers, Yin Yu and Tie Yu, bowed down again, and then returned to their seats.

"Where is Ma Chao?" Li Li said in a solemn voice.

Ma Chao came out in response, bowed down and said, "Please make it public." ”

Li Li bowed his head slightly and said, "Hmm." You briefed the generals on today's battle and aftermath. ”

"No!" Ma Chao complimented. He then gave a general account of the previous battle between the two armies, and then said: "According to post-war statistics, our army suffered more than 3,400 casualties in this battle, of which more than 2,600 were killed, more than 800 officers and soldiers were wounded, and more than 300 were seriously injured or disabled. The specific casualties were: Jin Yiwei killed 1,835 people in battle, and Tiger Roar Battalion killed 782 people.

The battle losses of the wolf cavalry under Lu Bu were: more than 2,300 killed and about 1,300 wounded, with a total of more than 3,600 casualties. Among them, more than 600 heavy cavalry and more than 1,700 light cavalry were killed.

At the end of this article, I will emphasize that the reason why our army was able to draw with the wolf cavalry battalion was due to the fact that the lord ordered 500 archers to shoot more than 300 wolf cavalry battalion soldiers in one fell swoop on the occasion of the truce. Otherwise, the casualties of the Wolf Cavalry will be much lower than ours.

After the war, our army cleaned up the battlefield and captured more than 300 sets of heavy armor, and the remaining 300 sets were in tatters and needed to be repaired before they could be reused. More than 1,000 horses and a number of weapons were captured. All captured and wounded soldiers have now been transferred to Dongyang Valley, where they will be taken over by the commander of Bocai. At present, the Tiger Roar Camp and the more than 6,000 soldiers of Jin Yiwei are all re-encamped in Xicheng, which is only five miles away from Longxiang Li Mansion.

The lord, the lord, the military advisor and the rank commander, this is the situation in this battle. ”

After Ma Chao finished speaking, Li Li motioned for him to return to his seat.

Then Li Li said in a deep voice: "What do you think after listening to the beginning and end of this battle? Wenhe, you know the advantages and disadvantages of our army and the Xiliang army under the command of Xiangguo, let's talk about it, is our army winning or losing in this battle, where is the victory, and where is the defeat? ”

"This ??????" Jia Xu was slightly stunned, watching all the generals focus their eyes on him, and suddenly felt quite embarrassed.

"It doesn't hurt to be blunt. Our Wuwei Army was first established, and it has only been a year since the formation of the army, and since the successive battles, there have been many victories and few losses, and most people in the army are a little arrogant and arrogant. This battle is a wake-up call for us, today's battle, our army's two battalions of men and horses totaled more than 10,000 iron cavalry to surround and kill 6,000 wolf cavalry, actually fought like this, there are many things worth thinking about. Please speak up! Li Li said in a calm voice.

"Subordinates receive orders." Jia Xu gladly accepted the order. He really didn't know how to answer just now, and if he was not careful, he would offend the many generals present. Now that Li Li has expressed his attitude, he has the bottom in his heart.

After a pause in Jia Xu's tone, he said: "In this battle, there is no doubt that our army won, and Lu Bu's army was defeated. Our army won because the generals were brave, and they killed and injured many generals of Lu Bu's army before the battle, which greatly boosted the morale of the whole army and attacked the arrogance of Lu Bu's army head-on. It's just that our army is a crushing victory this time, and it is also a narrow victory, and it can even be said that it is a tragic victory. If there is no lord who brazenly orders at the last moment to kill and wound the enemy soldiers. I am afraid that it will be difficult for our army to win this battle, and at most it will be on a par with Lu Bu's army, and both sides will be defeated.

The reason why it was a fiasco was because the number of soldiers killed by our army was still higher than that of Lu Bu's army, and it was only slightly better than them on the whole, nothing more.

As far as I know, Dong Xiangguo has two of the most elite iron cavalry under his command, one is the Flying Bear Battalion under the command of General Dong Yue, and the other is the Tiger Battalion. There was also an elite iron cavalry before, that is, the Longxiang Battalion under the command of the lord. However, the Longxiang battalion is compared to the first two iron cavalry. The difference in numbers and equipment is huge, so it cannot be compared to these two elite iron horses.

The Flying Bear Battalion is composed of 10,000 heavily armored iron cavalry and 5,000 light cavalry, which is Dong Xiangguo's personal guard, stationed in Taishifu and Yiwu, and is controlled by Dong Yue and Dong Min respectively. The Tiger Camp is actually the wolf cavalry under Lu Bu's command. Because Lu Bu previously held the position of Tiger Ben Zhonglang General. It's just that the Tiger Ben battalion only has 5,000 iron cavalry in the hands of Lu Bu, and nearly 8,000 iron cavalry is in the hands of the two generals, Li Dao and Guo Yan. Furthermore. Lu Bu didn't seem to value the Tiger Camp. Instead, he secretly changed the armor of the soldiers of the Tiger Camp to the wolf cavalry under his command.

Therefore, a large part of the reason why our army fought so fiercely in this battle is that the armor and weapons of our soldiers are not as good as those of the wolf cavalry. In addition, the skills of our officers and men in cooperating with each other to kill the enemy still need to be strengthened, otherwise our army would not have killed so many soldiers in battle. Although the number of casualties among the wolf cavalry is higher than that of our army, they have killed fewer soldiers than us. This is the reason why their battle formation and fighting skills are stronger than those of our army. ”

Jia Xu talked eloquently, which sounded very reasonable, but Li Li knew that Jia Xu was avoiding the important and trivial, and did not want to offend the generals in the army. However, Jia Xu also pointed out the key to this battle. In this regard, Li Li didn't want to say more, the drum didn't need a heavy hammer, just stop when it was pointed.

"Who else has an opinion on this battle, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it." Li Li said in a deep voice.

Before the words fell, Huan Fei got up and said, "My lord, there will be something unclear in the end. Why does our army have to fight to the death with Lu Bujun? If it was just a battle of will, the general would think that our army should not fight. Please make it clear. ”

Huan Fei's words can be said to have stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and asked the voices of many generals in the hall.

In fact, they couldn't understand why the lord fought so fiercely with the wolf cavalry under Lu Bu's command. Could it really be as the rumors in the market said that the lord and Lu Bu fought for Diao Chan?

For a while, there was silence in the lobby, and Li Li, who was sitting on the main seat, was even more face-sank, and there seemed to be a look of anger between his eyebrows.

After a while, Li Li said with a solemn face: "Not long ago, Zhang Ji took his nephew and the generals to the door to provoke, and actually dared to ask General Ben for a maid, claiming that he wanted to marry him as a concubine. He Zhang Ji is nothing, but he is just a lieutenant, and there are no more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, but he dares to be so presumptuous.

Why didn't he take General Ben seriously?

So General Ben humiliated their uncles and nephews and drove them out. Unexpectedly, not two days after Zhang Ji left, Lu Bu came to the door again to provoke.

Lu Bu is extremely brave, his prestige is spread all over the world, and he is known as the invincible god general in the world. The wolf cavalry of the state is fierce, and it is the eastern capital of Luoyang, and the army of the princes of the world is powerful; In the battle of Xingyang, the wolf cavalry was even more frightened that Cao Mengde threw away his armor and fled.

Compared with Lu Bu and the wolf cavalry, what is the Wuwei army led by Ben Jiang and Er, how can it be compared?

Originally, our Wuwei army and Lu Bujun's well water did not interfere with the river water, they were thousands of miles apart, and they did not communicate with each other. However, don't forget, we are now in the same city as Lu Bujun, and we are also the Xiliang Army under Dong Xiangguo!

One mountain does not tolerate two tigers. If the general wants to establish a prestige among the hundreds of thousands of Xiliang troops and deter many generals in the army, then he must show everyone the strength of our Wuwei army.

If our Wuwei Army wants to show its military might, who should we choose as our opponent? Ben will not know who he will choose, but when others look at the stars at night, Ben will always only look at the moon, and when he eats meat, he will only pick the biggest meat bones!

If the Wuwei army wants to gain a foothold in the Xiliang army, occupy a place, or even stand on their heads, then they have to defeat Lu Bu! ”

Speaking of this, Li Li's tone paused, and he looked around at the generals in the hall, and continued: "There are rumors in the market that I, Li Li and Lu Bu, are competing for Diao Chan? What a big joke, who dares to fight for my Li Li's woman! Just Lu Bu, others are afraid of him, but Li has never taken him seriously. Just because he is also worthy of competing with me for a woman?

In the battle on the banks of the Bashui River, I just want the generals in the entire Xiliang Army to open their eyes and see clearly, the Wuwei Army under my Li Li is invincible, and the military prestige is inviolable! In addition, I want everyone in the world to know that I, Li Wenchang, am not a chick or seedling hiding under the wings of my uncle Li Dao, but an eagle soaring in the sky, a big tree that soars into the sky!

Therefore, in the battle of Bashui, even if he was defeated, General Ben would never back down. The result? We won, even if it was a miserable victory, but we defeated Lu Bu and his wolf cavalry, there is no doubt about it!

After this battle, who else in the entire Xiliang army dares to provoke our Wuwei army, and who dares to be disrespectful to me Li Li? No, not only now, but not in the future!

That's why I insisted on fighting to the death with Lu Bu's army. If Wu Weijun wants to make a name for himself, he has to find a hard bone to prove his strength, smash it, and smash it. The first battle became famous, the first war shocked the princes of the world, and let the names of Wu Weijun and my Li Li spread all over the world! ”

?????? (To be continued)(To be continued......