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Chapter 89: Wine and Sex Mislead People
Currently, Dong Zhuo has about 200,000 soldiers and horses under his command, of which 30,000 are under Lu Bu, and the remaining 170,000 are scattered among various military leaders.

Several major military leaders of the Xiliang Army each had troops ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers under their command. As Dong Bai, the only granddaughter of Dong Zhuo, also took over a direct guard of 3,000 people last year.

Although there are only 3,000 people, 500 of them are light cavalry, and the remaining 2,500 are all equipped with exquisite leather armor. They can definitely be regarded as the elite in the world today!
Li Qingyuan had witnessed the combat effectiveness of the coalition forces of the princes outside Hulao Pass some time ago. In fact, most of them were similar to the wars in medieval Europe. Almost all of the miscellaneous soldiers under his command were originally farmers who were captured to make up the numbers. They were all wearing linen or cloth clothes, and their weapons were just a bamboo with a spear head stuck in the front.

As for their fighting effectiveness?

It should be equivalent to the atmosphere group that you rent for a hundred dollars when you arrange a fight in the future. They are good at verbal quarrels, but if they use physical fights, you will be lucky if you don't let them stab their own family members.

The so-called regular army wore light leather armor and held machetes or exquisite spears. Just looking at their equipment, they were much stronger than the cannon fodder!

This kind of regular army is the basic base of all the warlords. Not only do they need to train once every ten days, but they also have to ensure two meals a day on weekdays. Their combat effectiveness is basically equivalent to those thugs in the Young and Dangerous series who dare to fight and kill. Compared with ordinary people, they are definitely extremely brutal.

People like Dong Bai's subordinates, who all have exquisite leather armor, are considered the elite among the elite even in the hands of major military leaders. Dong Bai dared to cause trouble for Li Qingyuan with more than a dozen people because he believed in the combat effectiveness of his elite soldiers.

Of the 30,000 Bingzhou Wolf Riders under Lu Bu's command, in fact only 5,000 were of this level, and the remaining 20,000 or so were all second-tier regular troops.

However, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry of Cao Cao, the Black Armor Army of Li Shimin in later generations, and the Iron Pagoda of the Jin Dynasty were all heavily armored cavalry. Even if the whole country was supported, it would only be enough to support a few thousand people, and no more!

As for the hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen in novels directed at women, given the productivity in ancient times, it is estimated that even if the entire world was conquered, it would not be enough to sustain the consumption of these cavalrymen.

Not to mention ancient times, even in modern times, when the Russians first started fighting, they launched all kinds of missiles, tanks, and planes, but in the end they found that infantry was the cheapest!

There is no way. No matter what era, cattle and horses are the cheapest war consumables. Compared with equipment, cattle and horses are not worth mentioning at all.

"Tianxuan, the allied forces are building battering rams and well barriers. If there is no reinforcement, Hulao Pass may not be able to be defended!"

Standing on the Guanlou, Lu Bu pointed at the coalition forces of princes who were building large-scale projects and said to Li Qingyuan.

Although the Romance of the Three Kingdoms makes Hulao Pass seem like the most dangerous place in the world, in fact, it is not easy to find any dangerous terrain in Henan.

Hulao Pass was built against the Yellow River and Mount Song. The height of the pass tower is only 30 meters, not much higher than the city wall of Luoyang.

Especially since there are open plains both in front of and behind the pass, once the coalition forces of the princes have built the siege equipment, Hulao Pass can only hold out for two more days at best. Whether it can hold out on the third day depends entirely on luck!
The best way is for Lu Bu to take people out to smash all those heavy siege equipment, because those huge machines that are tens of meters long are considered large machines even in later generations. In this era that relies purely on manpower, the time and manpower costs of building a siege equipment are astronomical.

It took hundreds of people dozens of days to build a qualified siege engine, and it was a defective product with a durability of three. The real battlefield is not like the costume drama where you just put two bamboo poles together to build a ladder and let the soldiers rush up. If a commander is so stupid, let alone the generals on the other side, it is estimated that his own soldiers will be the first to rebel.

Although the fate of soldiers was not told in ancient times, we can’t really treat them as NPCs!
A real ladder is actually a huge thing. The base below is at least as big as a bus, and the ladder on top is similar to a fire ladder. Not only is it made of mortise and tenon joints made of wood as thick as arms, but there is also a shield underneath. When attacking, hundreds of soldiers push the ladder to the bottom of the city against the falling rocks and rolling logs, and then the elite death squads rush directly to the city wall with swords and shields in hand.

Of the so-called four great military merits, Xiandeng ranks second, even ahead of beheading generals and breaking through the enemy lines, and second only to capturing the flag!

There were only two flag-grabbing battles in the entire Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely the two fires of Chibi and Yiling. One of these two battles turned the unified world into three parts, and the other directly emptied the wealth of Shu Han.

As for Zhao Yun's chopping down of two large flags at Changbanpo, it was not a real flag-grabbing at all. The flag-grabbing refers to the commander's flag, and Zhao Yun only chopped down the flag of a small team. The value of the two is completely different.

When Dong Zhuo sent Lu Bu to guard Hulao Pass, he wanted to rely on Lu Bu's unrivaled military strength to complete the simplest of the four great military exploits, which is to directly rush into the enemy's formation and destroy it, and destroy the siege machinery that was being built.

It doesn't take much. Lu Bu only needs to lead his men to cause damage two or three times, and the morale of the allied princes will drop and they will retreat on their own.

Without siege equipment, could they really use corpses to pile up at Hulao Pass like in the ancient costume dramas? Wouldn't that be hilarious!

But Lu Bu was now being targeted. As soon as he left the city, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei would rush up to stop him. Without a powerful master like Lu Bu to create a gap, it would be impossible to break through the coalition forces' defense.

So everyone could only stand on the gate tower and stare at the other side assembling the siege weapons bit by bit!
"Wen Hou, do you dare to give it a try?"

Although Lu Bu's personality is unpleasant both in history and in the novel, in fact, his personality is similar to that of a working man in later generations.

He did the hardest work and fought the most dangerous battles under Ding Yuan, but his official position was just an office director. At this time, Dong Zhuo sent someone to give him a global limited edition mount worth hundreds of millions, and at the same time guaranteed that as long as Lu Bu surrendered, he would be promoted ten levels. If you were in his place, would you do it?
Of course, the fact that he got rid of his former employer when he changed jobs was indeed an indelible stain, but Li Qingyuan did not think that Lu Bu did anything wrong.

Ask yourself, when you were working for a stupid boss, did you think about killing him many times?

As for the second time Dong Zhuo was killed?

correct!

Thinking of this, Li Qingyuan was shocked to realize that he had been busy practicing wrestling with Dong Zhuo in the palace these days and had forgotten his original intention of coming to Luoyang.

Damn, it's true that alcohol and sex can lead to misleading people!
Starting tomorrow! Stop drinking!
(End of this chapter)