Looking at the soldiers and soldiers of Lu Bu’s soldiers and soldiers outside the palace city, Wu Xi asked Duan Wei: “What should we do now?” Duan Wei said with a gloomy face: “It’s a bit late to surrender now, we can only stand by and wait for reinforcements. Otherwise, your and my lives will be difficult to protect.”

After Duan Wei finished speaking, he turned his gaze to the outside of the palace city, but did not notice the murderous intent flashing in Wu Xi's eyes. Wu Xi took a spear from his personal soldiers beside him, quietly came to Duan Wei's back, and stabbed the spear out silently.

The personal soldiers next to Duan Wei discovered the abnormality and shouted, "General, be careful!", but it was too late. A spear pierced Duan Wei's armor and pierced his chest. Duan Wei watched a spear blade appear on his chest, and then a severe pain, then his eyes turned black and he fell to the ground.

Wu Xi pulled out his spear and stabbed at the shouting Duan Wei personal soldiers, and shouted loudly, "Take it!" Wu Xi's personal soldiers drew their swords and rushed towards the other side, and soon killed Duan Wei's personal soldiers. A moment later, the palace gate in Chang'an City opened wide, and the soldiers in the city raised white flags and surrendered.

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Zhang Liao rode his horse on the streets of Chang'an City. Now Chang'an is no longer what it used to be. Except for Duan Wei and Wu Xi's troops and soldiers, there is no other civilian population in the city. The original people in the city were either displaced or died in this chaotic world. A considerable part of them were taken into corps by the warlords who occupied the city one after another. They were settled outside the city on weekdays and arrived at wartime.

After occupying Chang'an, Zhang Liao followed Lu Bu's strategy and did not make any further moves. He only urged the logistics supplies to Chang'an and Tongguan to seize the time to transport strategic materials for food and grass. From Zhuan Gu to Chang'an, Tongguan was thousands of miles away, and transportation of supplies was not easy. The Soxin Viking fleet and shuttle ships could bear 75% of the transportation route through the Danshui Channel.

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In the suburbs of Long County, Tianshui County, a young general with silver helmet and silver armor inspected a large area of ​​newly cultivated land under the escort of his personal soldiers. This person was Lu Bu. Since he led his army to enter Longyou, Tianshui, Anding and Nan'an counties in Longyou have surrendered.

It is five or six hundred miles from Hanzhong to this place, and the roads are mostly mountain roads, so it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to transport food, grass and supplies. It is difficult to support 30,000 troops by relying solely on the people's strength of the three counties. Therefore, Lu Bu ordered 20,000 garrison soldiers to farm in Tianshui on site to plant corn brought with the army. This is the western edge of the Guanzhong Plain, with dense hills and cool and dry climate, which is very suitable for corn, such as drought-resistant grains.

Lu Bu himself stayed in Tianshui for the opportunity to fight against Ma Teng and Han Sui in Liangzhou. If he could annihilate the main force of Ma Teng and Han Sui, then there would be no pressure in the west of Guanzhong, and there would be no need to deploy heavy troops to garrison, and it would clear obstacles for further westward to Liangzhou in the future.

In the distance, a cavalry rushed towards Lu Bu. When he got closer, he realized that it was a scout from Lu Bu's army. He jumped off his horse and ran towards Lu Bu, "Report to the general, a large number of troops were found in the west of Tianshui County, and he was coming towards Long County."

"Can we find out who is the one?"

"According to the comprehensive investigation and analysis of the scout generals, the other party should be the coalition forces of Ma Teng and Han Sui."

Lu Bu thought to himself: [I stationed my army in Longxian to facilitate the convenience of Mahan and Han intercepting their main force and fighting with him when they entered Guanzhong east. Unexpectedly, they directly asked me for a decisive battle. This is really a matter of no need.]

At this time, Ma Teng and Han Sui were leading the army eastward, and they rode their horses side by side. During the Eastern Expedition to Lu Bu, Ma Teng brought 30,000 infantry and Han Sui brought 20,000 infantry and cavalry. Although the cavalry could not be deployed in the mountains and hilly areas at the junction of Liangzhou and Guanzhong, they were an indispensable group of troops after entering the Guanzhong Plain. Therefore, the proportion of cavalry was higher than usual.

"Brother, why do we have to fight Lu Bu directly, instead of bypassing Longxian and taking Guanzhong?" Han Sui asked Ma Teng.

"If we don't defeat Lu Bu's main force, he can pursue or attack us based on Longyou. He can even take advantage of our main force entering Guanzhong and he will attack our old nest in Xiliang. So we must completely defeat it. There is another reason. Our current Xiliang infantry uses long spears as the main combat weapon. The more we concentrate this kind of weapon, the more we can play our advantages. If we fight on a scattered and small scale, it will have a great disadvantage compared to short weapons."

Han Sui nodded and said, "It depends on whether they are willing to fight us in a decisive battle."

Of course, Lu Bu wanted to fight them in a decisive battle, too much. Since the Xiliang Mahayana and South Korean coalition entered Tianshui County, waves of scouts led the reconnaissance and scouts took turns to monitor and check the other party's latest eastward direction. Ma Teng and Han Sui saw it and sent a large number of scouts to investigate the other party in turn, confirming that Lu Bu's main force had not left Long County.

Finally, the main force of the two armies encountered a ridge of ridge twenty miles west of Longxian. After scouts from both sides detected each other, both sides quickly built their own camps. After a few days of confrontation, on a sunny day, both sides formed an array to fight.

Lu Bu urged the Red Rabbit Horse to leap in front of the formation, and set up a pergola to observe the enemy army formation. He found that the Xiliang infantry all held spears more than five meters, and were arranged as dense square formations with spears, with a depth of twelve rows. The two wings were Xiliang Iron Cavalry, mixed with a small number of swords and card players.

Lu Bu knew in his heart why the infantry of the Western Liang Army was good at using it and liked to use five-meter spear. That was because the Western Liang Army had been dealing with various forces in the Western Regions for a long time, and the Western Regions countries had inherited the Macedonian dense spear phalanx tactics brought by Alexander hundreds of years ago. The Western Liang Army, which was stained with ears and eyes, would naturally be affected by it.

However, at this time, Lu Bu didn't care. He believed that although the spear dense array similar to the Macedonian phalanx was powerful, it was something from hundreds of years ago. When the form of war, scale of war, war equipment, and war terrain had undergone tremendous changes, it was better to copy this kind of old antique from hundreds of years ago, just to find abuse].

Lu Bu himself no longer used the spear soldiers as the Tiger Army, but replaced them with the Mo Dao War. Moreover, the Mo Dao War was not mainly used to fight against enemy infantry, but to defend against enemy cavalry charges.

In the time and space history of the Soul Lord of Lu Bu, Cao Cao used a large number of crossbow soldiers to intensively shoot the spear formation of the Western Liang Army, but Lu Bu could not use this method now, because the proportion of shooters in the army is not high.

If the crossbowman is configured at a high proportion, the logistics supply of arrows will be a considerable problem. Moreover, in the future, when fighting against other forces in Guanzhong, such a high proportion of crossbowman configuration will expose the shortcomings of unbalanced military configuration. However, now, Lu Bu has his own way to crack the spear formation of the Xiliang Army.
Chapter completed!