Liu Mao stood on a mound and looked at the approaching enemy troops from afar.

The number of enemy troops seems to be quite large, with tens of thousands of people, but the queue is not strict. Except for the more than 10,000 people in the central army, it looks quite elite, and the other soldiers do not look well-trained at all.

Liu Mao originally thought that there were many elite soldiers in Chang'an City. After all, they were imperial guards to protect the emperor, so they should naturally be stronger than other troops. But the team in front of him did not give people the feeling of elite soldiers, but instead they were like temporary pieces of troops.

Liu Mao didn't know that he had guessed the truth by accident, and this army was indeed pieced together.

Shortly after the Red Eyebrow Army entered Guanzhong, the Gengshi regime had internal conflicts. Liu Xuanhe and several of his important officials began to fight, Zhang Jue, Liao Zhan, Hu Yin, Shen Tu Jian and others wanted to hijack the emperor by force, return to Nanyang, and be thieves again. Unexpectedly, Liu Xuan learned the news in advance that a counter-killing shattered everyone's conspiracy. So these real power factions each led their troops to fight with Emperor Gengshi. Later, Wang Kuang was also forced to get involved. Chang'an City changed hands several times, and blood flowed into a river. In the end, Wang Kuang, Zhang Ju and others were defeated and rushed out of the city to join the Red Eyebrow Army.

The civil strife in the past few months not only caused Liu Xuan to lose a large number of soldiers, but also caused the morale of the army in the city to be dispersed and the soldiers fled seriously. Now, there can be said to be a shortage of soldiers in Chang'an City, and the Gengshi regime is only one step away from collapse.

Liu Xuan urgently needed a victory to boost morale, stabilize the morale of the army, and save his throne as emperor. He decided to destroy his vanguard before the main force of the Red Eyebrow Army arrived.

He began to catch strong men in the city, summoned men over 18 to the army, distributed weapons to him, pardoned all the prisoners in the prison, changed into a dress, picked up swords and guns and became a regular army of the Han Dynasty.

The leader of the army this time was Li Song, the Prime Minister of Gengshi.

Li Song was originally a powerful man in Wan County, Nanyang. He followed Liu Yan with his cousins ​​Li Tong and Li Yi. The Liu Xiu brothers rose up. After Liu Xuan ascended the throne and Liu Yan died, he gradually gained the trust of Emperor Gengshi, became his confidant general, and was appointed as prime minister.

Now in Chang'an City, Prime Minister Li Song and Grand Marshal Zhao Meng are the two pillars of Emperor Gengshi Liu Xuan, both of whom hold heavy troops. Today, Li Song went to fight, and Zhao Meng stayed to defend the city.

Li Song, with more than 10,000 elite troops from the Northern Army as the main force, and with tens of thousands of temporary recruits, he went out of the city to meet the enemy in a mighty manner. He looked at the formation of the Red Eyebrow Army from afar, feeling that it was quite different from what he had seen before.

He and the Red Eyebrow Army are old opponents. They fought several times and knew each other well. Today's Red Eyebrow Army looks very strange, mainly because it is too neat and too much like a regular army, which makes people feel extremely uncomfortable to watch.

Li Song asked: "Whose subordinate is the Red Eyebrow Thief opposite?"

"I heard it was Yingyang Camp led by Liu Mao, the second brother of the pseudo-emperor."

Li Song said: "The brother of the pseudo-emperor is Liu Gong's brother!"

Liu Gong was the eldest brother of Liu Penzi and Liu Mao. He was appointed as the minister of the Gengshi Emperor and was named Shihou. Since Liu Penzi became emperor, Liu Gong has been frightened and took the initiative to apologize to Emperor Gengshi. If you want to say that Liu Xuan was really good to Liu Gong, he did not blame him for it, but he always trusted him very much. Liu Gong was grateful and threw himself into prison for his own thoughts.

Liu Gong often served by Emperor Gengshi. Of course Li Song knew him, but he had no contact. He was remembered as a respectful and upright person, with a natural gentleman look.

Now that Li Song is moving in his mind, he may have something to use for Liu Gong, but it depends on what Emperor Gengshi means.

Now it seems that the Liu brothers are not simple. Liu Gong is very knowledgeable and is appointed as the minister of the Ming Jing; and Liu Mao seems to have a leading talent. Although it is said that the Yulin Army is a child soldier, it should not be underestimated when it comes to military appearance.

Li Song pointed with a horse whip and said, "Sorry the Northern Army to break forward, attack the opponent's central army, and defeat those baby soldiers!"

The Northern Army was named after it was usually stationed north of Weiyang Palace. It has always been the main force of the court. There were eight lieutenants in the army and directly obeyed the emperor. Because Liu Xuan was indulging in wine and sex and ignored political affairs, the Northern Army was led by Li Song, Zhang Su and others, and another major military force in the capital, the Southern Army was in the hands of Grand Sima Zhao Meng.

Zhang Ju surrendered and took away part of the army. Now Li Song has only Yue cavalry, infantry and Shooting Battalion, with a number of about 14,000 people.

The Southern Army and the Northern Army have always been the main force of the Han Dynasty. Although their combat effectiveness has declined after the Wu Emperor Dynasty, they are still the main military reliance of the court. After Liu Xuan entered Chang'an, he selected elite soldiers and rebuilt the two armies. It can be said that this is the last ace of Xuan Han, and the impact is very strong. Li Song felt that those baby soldiers could not withstand the attacks of the third battalions of the Northern Army. Once they defeated the Longxiang Camp of the Yulin Army, the rest of the thieves would inevitably scatter.

Li Song was calculating his own plan, and his opponent Liu Mao had already made some mistakes.

Seeing the elite of the opponent's central army, he sent Erqu, who was regarded as a reserve team, and joined forces with Yiqu and Sanqu to form a central army to form a close formation in order to resist the enemy's attack. However, he asked the two battalions of Puyang and Wenyang to come out together to attack the relatively weak enemy wings.

General Wenyang went to reorganize the army without saying a word, but General Puyang Fangdan hesitated and said to Liu Mao: "General Liu, what should I do to block the enemy's central army from Puyang Camp, and the general led Yingyang Camp to raid the flanking enemy."

Liu Mao said: "Can General Fang trust Yingyang Camp?"

"I dare not, but Yingyang Camp is a child of each camp. If there is a mistake, Fang will not be able to explain to all generals."

Puyang Camp is an alien in the Red Eyebrow Army. Fangdan is a family of aristocratic families. He is not as bandit-like as the other generals. Puyang Camp is more disciplined and has relatively strong combat power compared to each battalion. Now he has become a partial army of a group of baby soldiers, which makes him very dissatisfied. Fangdan conceited that only Puyang Camp can compete with the opponent's elite.

Liu Mao pointed to the battlefield and said, "There are two defeats in this battle. One is that the frontal team can withstand the enemy's assault, and the other is that the flanks can defeat the enemy's flanks as soon as possible, and one attack and one defense are indispensable. General Fang defeating the enemy's wings is very important and not easy to fight the entire battle situation. According to my opinion, the enemy's left wing is stronger, so I want to entrust it to the general, but I don't know if the general has the confidence to defeat the enemy."

"These rats, Puyang Camp is easy to break!" Fangdan said with great confidence: "I am worried that the new recruits of Yingyang Camp will destroy our army's morale if they collapse too quickly, and the outcome will be unpredictable. Therefore, please ask General Liu to defend it. As long as I defend it until I defeat the enemy's left wing, I will move closer to the central army. If the third battalion attacks together, the Gengshi army will definitely be in a desperate situation. This battle will be a complete success!"

Liu Mao raised his eyebrows and said, "In our Yingyang Camp, there is no word for defending. We can only move forward, continue to advance, defeat the enemy, and wipe out the enemy. General Fang, your Puyang Camp should be faster and do not fall behind the new recruits in Yingyang Camp!"

After saying that, he turned over and whipped it down hard, and the war horse carried him away.

Fangdan snorted coldly and whispered: "Young people are not very angry, but unfortunately they are not talking about their words in war... I want to see who will fall behind."

Fangdan’s worries are actually not unreasonable. Compared with the Longxiang Camp, which is mainly veterans, the majority of new recruits in Yingyang Camp are.

Some of the people in the camp were the first group of Yulin Lang, the veterans who followed the emperor to go to Shiliwu. Most of the remaining were new recruits, including the children of the camp, the hungry people in Zheng County and the children of powerful families.

A military order was passed down, and ten thousand people were arranged in a formation, with veterans in front and new soldiers behind. The front row of soldiers covered their shields to block the enemy's arrows.

Cui Xiu, the second Ququ Chang, said softly to the Ququ Chang Wang Hu: "The recruits this time are really new. If the brothers in the camp are okay, at least they have been following the army and are used to fighting and bleeding. But half of the recruits are locals. They have never been on the battlefield and don't know what will happen in a while."

Wang Hu said: "I will pass this level sooner or later, will the veteran come here like this?"

The biggest shortage of Yingyang Camp is the lack of actual combat. The children in the camp are not bad, but the most unpredictable are those locals who have never seen the battlefield at all. Although the training of the entire camp is very strict, the military discipline is strictly enforced, and the orders are prohibited, the actual combat power will eventually be tested on the battlefield.

Wang Hu looked back at his team. Everyone arrived at the designated position. The formation was arranged in a regular manner. Although the soldiers' expressions were a little nervous, their morale was maintained very well. It was obvious that these teenagers were eager to try.

Suddenly, a long crossbow arrow broke through the air and penetrated deeply into the soil in front of them. The tail of the arrow could not stop shaking slightly.

Choi Soo was startled and cursed: "TMD is still hundreds of steps away from each other, and it takes a few stones of crossbow to shoot so far!"

"Ten Stones of Great Yellow Crossbow." Wang Hu replied, standing there as steady as a big stone, and whispered: "It's going to start!"

"Strong crossbow, prepare!"

The enemy has helped them determine the range, and the two sides will soon start long-range combat, with crossbows and arrows shooting each other.

The yellow crossbow was put on the strings, and both sides began to shoot at each other. Two rounds of powerful crossbows shot, and then they entered the range of ordinary bows and arrows. The rain of arrows flew through the air, and people on both sides successively shot arrows.

Wang Hu felt that Yingyang Camp had met an opponent this time.

In the several battles he participated in, the Yulin Army's crossbow soldiers had the advantage. This time, when he met the elite soldiers of the Northern Army, it was indeed not comparable to those bandits and county soldiers. Not only was the crossbow power strong, but the bow and arrow density was also high, and Yingyang Camp was at a disadvantage compared to it. This was because the opponent had the famous shooting sound camp in history.

Those who shoot sounds are those who shoot skillfully. If you hear sounds in the dark, you will be called, so you will be named.

The shooting camps are all good at shooting people. They are excellent shooters who are selected carefully through layers of exercises through autumn shooting. Almost everyone is proficient in bows and crossbows.

The archers in Yingyang Camp were all sluts, and they would be pulled up as long as they could shoot archers. Of course, the Liang family who actively signed up to join the army were not bad at riding and shooting skills, and they were the best source of soldiers, but they were still not as good as these people who played crossbows all year round.

Fortunately, large-scale shooting only requires the area of ​​attack and not the accuracy of shooting. Fortunately, the archers in Yingyang Camp practice rapid shooting with Mu Hong every day, and the archery speed has been greatly improved, so the gap between the two sides is not that big.
Chapter completed!