It is said that the relationship between Gongsun Zan and Youzhou Mu Liu Yu was not harmonious to begin with. With Zheng Xiaoming's current reputation, it should not be too difficult to conquer this person.

Especially after Zheng Xiaoming took control of Luoyang, this kind of thing will not be difficult!

When Zheng Xiaoming reached this stage, it was difficult to focus all his energy on the war. Most of his energy was focused on other aspects of things.

Although the outcome of the war is the most important!

As Zheng Xiaoming's four armies arrived in Luoyang, Luoyang was shocked.

Huge turmoil also occurred in Luoyang City. At this time, Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou soldiers and horses and Bingzhou soldiers and horses fell into great panic due to military failure, causing the military academy to become unstable.

And because of the successive betrayals of the Luoyang Forbidden Army, they could not believe the remaining Luoyang Forbidden Army. It even reached the point where Liangzhou soldiers and horses, and even Bingzhou soldiers and horses could not believe it.

Because of the military failure, the authority was shaken. Even among the Liangzhou generals, some wanted to take refuge with Zheng Xiaoming privately.

In any case, Zheng Xiaoming also fought against the Qiang and Hu in Liangzhou. He had many contacts with the Liangzhou army and even had some friendship with some Liangzhou generals.

Of course, the more important war was a war between the top officials of the imperial court in order to fight for power and obtain the supreme ruling power of the imperial court.

Now it's just the grudge between Zheng Xiaoming and Dong Zhuo. It has nothing to do with the people below them.

Not to mention a life-and-death war!

If it had developed like that in the original historical time and space, after several years of chaotic fighting, the Liangzhou army would attack everywhere, burning, killing, looting, and finally burning down Luoyang.

At that time, it is possible for both sides to create a fight to the death!

But now, the Liangzhou army has not committed any serious evil deeds.

Even if Zheng Xiaoming came to power, he would probably only target Dong Zhuo himself and his hardcore cronies. Other generals would mainly win over him!

This is the case for the Liangzhou Army. There must be more Bingzhou Army in Luoyang who want to join Zheng Xiaoming!

At this time, no one had confidence that the mere defense of Luoyang City could withstand Zheng Xiaoming's more than 200,000 troops. Dong Zhuo, including himself, felt extremely frustrated.

However, as a tycoon who has fought his way from the bottom to his current position, Dong Zhuo is not someone who is willing to tie his hands. Just because he deposed the emperor, Zheng Xiaoming would not be able to spare him!

So Dong Zhuo gathered his army, took the initiative to fight, and had a field battle with Zheng Xiaoming's Xuzhou army outside Luoyang City.

This time, Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army came out with all its elite troops. The number of elite cavalry alone was as high as more than 10,000, including many Hu cavalry and armored cavalry from the Northern Army's Cavalry School.

It was because he had such a large number of cavalry troops that he had the confidence to have a decisive battle with Zheng Xiaoming in the wild.

Faced with this kind of scene, Zheng Xiaoming really had a headache. Although he also worked hard to develop cavalry in Xuzhou and bought a lot of war horses from Youzhou.

But the time was short and the number was small. He only had two to three thousand cavalry under his command. Most of them were infantry.

Moreover, most of the more than 200,000 men under his command are still rabble-rousers without much training.

If there is a conflict with the cavalry and it collapses directly, it may be that the whole army will be annihilated!

Fortunately, Zheng Xiaoming had already been on guard against this move. The Xiliang cavalry was famous all over the world, how could Zheng Xiaoming not take any precautions?

Large vehicles were quickly pushed out one after another, forming a vehicle formation in front of the military formation to block the cavalry from rushing forward.

When Dong Zhuo's army charged forward, facing the galloping horses, an overwhelming barrage of bows and crossbows were fired.

During the Pre-Han Dynasty, Li Ling led five thousand Jingchu swordsmen and wizards out of the fortress, but was surrounded by the Xiongnu and killed tens of thousands of Xiongnu cavalry.

The strategy of using carts as a fortress, with the infantry in the front holding halberds and shields, and the rear using bows and crossbows, resulted in an extremely brilliant victory. Although they were defeated and surrendered in the end...

The core element of this strategy is one word - money!

Not to mention anything else, just saying that Li Ling's men fired half a million crossbow arrows in one day... This kind of attack density was completely made possible by money!

In the end, Li Ling was completely surrounded in the valley and ran out of ammunition and food before finally failing.

The reason why no one in later generations can recreate this scene is that few people can achieve Li Ling's inhumane scene!

The scale of the Han family's arsenal was extremely large. For example, the Donghai County arsenal unearthed in later generations showed that all weapons could equip an army of 500,000 people.

If the total number of crossbows reaches

537,707 pieces, the total number of spears reached 52,555, and the number of spear weapons reached 78,392.

However, even so, it is absolutely impossible for an ordinary Han army to be equipped with so many crossbows. It must be the crossbow materials purchased by the Li family with their own money.

Now, Zheng Xiaoming is preparing to repeat this scene. Although Xuzhou's soldiers and horses are not too strong, the land of Qingxu is rich.

In addition, while Zheng Xiaoming attached great importance to agriculture, he never relaxed his focus on business and handicrafts. Therefore, the amount of weapons Zheng Xiaoming prepared was beyond everyone's imagination.

At this moment, facing the impact of the Xiliang cavalry, Zheng Xiaoming could still laugh and said: "The number is much less than I imagined!"

You know, Zheng Xiaoming made war preparations based on the goal of more than 50,000 Liangzhou cavalry.

At this moment, there were only more than 10,000 cavalrymen, so they were not even in Zheng Xiaoming's eyes.

Facing the cavalry attack, the first thing to do is to drop arrows from the sky... Crossbows can only shoot straight, and only archers can throw them like this.

The iron feather arrows shot into the air, and then fell with huge kinetic energy. They easily penetrated the leather armor of the Qiang and Hu soldiers inside the Liangzhou army, or the iron armor of the general Han army.

It has to be said that although the armor wearing rate was extremely high in the Han Dynasty, the protective area of ​​the armor was not very large. It mainly protected important parts such as the chest, back, and head. The defense of other parts was unsatisfactory.

Therefore, even if the armor can block arrows, exposed areas such as arms, legs, and even neck and face are easily hit by arrows.

Not to mention most of the unprotected war horses!

Facing the dense rain of arrows, at least two to three hundred cavalrymen fell in a pool of blood in just one wave.

And this was just the first wave of projectiles. Then they faced direct fire from ten-stone crossbows. Thousands of heavy crossbows could even easily penetrate iron armor within two hundred meters.

Not to mention that there are five-stone crossbows and three-stone crossbows in the back, and the number is increasing.

Coupled with the projectile attack of bows and arrows, the battlefield was almost covered by feathers and arrows. It almost made people think that there was a locust plague. If you like Futian in My Heart, please collect it: (https://www.haimawx.com) Search and read novels in My Heart There is Futian
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