Chapter 208, ambushes on three sides are stuck in the quagmire, and the four sides scatter and return to danger

.

Qi Han sweated on his forehead, bit his lip and thought, when he saw Ma Chao jumping down from the mountain, leading the troops to rush forward, brave and indomitable, the white robe flew in the wind, as if he would never surrender to anyone and admit defeat, with a youthful and vigorous momentum. For some reason, Qi Han's heart moved slightly, and he suddenly didn't want to see Ma Chao die in this desert like this.

What's more, during the day, Ma Chao did not treat him harshly, and even agreed to his request, giving a prisoner of war who had no human rights a bag of water that was regarded as gold, and it was he who gave the water to others, but it was no wonder that Ma Chao. "That's it, help him. Qi Han thought to himself, "That Yan Xing is black-hearted, and he is bound to kill all the people who participated in this battle." His feint defeat in Yuanquan, and the use of weak soldiers to set up an ambush and calculate Ma Chao, to avoid a duel with him in a dignified duel, in the eyes of the Northwesterners, may not be a glorious thing, and he will never leave a living. If I didn't help Ma Chao, I would have to wait for death here, and I didn't want to stay in Yan Marching for a long time. ”

After thinking about it, Qi Han gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, got out from under the mountain rock, picked up an iron shield that was smashed and was somewhat deformed and bent, and flew through the human limbs and horse corpses. His limbs were very flexible, and his movements and reactions were extremely agile and quick, and he avoided most of the rolling stones and arrows, and only two stones were blocked by him with an iron shield, and smashed heavily on the shield, which shook his right arm in severe pain, half of his body was numb, and his hands and feet were sore.

Qi Han shuttled nimbly from both sides of the wall, and his speed was even faster than the cavalry who were walking in a group, and he quickly chased to the front of the team, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Ma Mengqi! Don't rush forward, stop ——!."

He didn't know if Ma Chao heard it, anyway, the speed of the team was not slowing down at all, and there were people around him cursing and waving their blades at him, if it weren't for these cavalry fleeing, I am afraid that they would rush up and cut him into pulp for disrupting the order.

Ma Chao rode on the horse, his figure paused slightly, and he frowned and said to Ma Tie: "Did you hear it too?"

It was the young man's hissing voice, not far away, very close to them, otherwise they would not have heard his cries in such a noisy and chaotic noise.

Thinking of the appearance of the young man who was not afraid of danger and calmly analyzed during the day, Ma Chao suddenly hesitated in his heart, and began to wonder if his order was wrong, and the reins in his hand couldn't help but tighten, controlling the horse's speed.

Ma Tie said angrily: "Big brother, don't listen to him, how can you stop at this time! That stinky boy doesn't know anything, at the moment we are full of enemies in the east, west, and south, and the number is more than ten times that of our army, and he is pressing himself to come, if he doesn't rush forward, will he retreat? Big brother don't care about him, although this kid is a little clever, he has been completely frightened stupid, he is in the game, and he can't see the situation clearly. ”

Ma Chao frowned, glanced back, but did not see the black-faced young man, so he continued to order: "Everyone obey the order and continue to move forward at full speed!"

The herald waved his banner, and the cavalry, having received the order, plucked up their courage and rushed forward in an orderly manner.

Qi Han saw that they were about to rush to the mouth of the canyon, his heart palpitated, and he hurriedly snatched an unmanned horse, turned over and stepped up.

The team rushed towards the gap in the north, and in the confusion, the cavalry at the front suddenly exclaimed in unison, and then a small colonel rushed to Ma Chao and shouted: "It's not good! General, it's not good, it's a muddy ground ahead!"

"What are you talking about!" Ma Chao's eyes were red, he came out of the crowd, galloped to the vanguard, and looked at it from afar—only to see the mud rolling in the grass of the canyon in front of him, and the green grass was hidden, and it was really a big muddy field!

Originally, the Shule River basin was vast, but it could not enter the sea, and all kinds of lakes converged on the desert and the Hetao plain all the year round. There are some mud puddles covered with grass, a radius of more than ten miles, the soft mud quicksand is dozens of zhang deep, especially terrifying, usually even the beasts and birds do not dare to step on it easily, let alone people and horses.

But this place belongs to the hinterland of the deep desert, far away from people, no one knows that there is such a large terrible quagmire hidden here, perhaps, Yan Xing also accidentally learned about it, so he set up an ambush and killing machine here, wanting to put Ma Chao in a desperate situation.

There were nearly 100 people in the vanguard cavalry, and these brave people escaped from the Kip Road, but they fell into the quagmire, and after the fall, they desperately tried to go back, but they fell deeper. The horses were frightened, trampling on each other, and involuntarily looked into the depths of the mud and fell. The mud and sand seeped rapidly from under the shallow grass stubble, first engulfing the frantically struggling horses, then annihilating the legs and knees of the cavalrymen, and slowly rising to the thighs and finally reaching the waist in their exclamations and wails, and biting the men completely.

The cavalrymen who followed closely behind were so frightened that they did not dare to move forward, and looked at their comrades who had been swallowed up by that strange land, and when they heard the loud and frantic shouts, they only felt miserable and frightened.

After Ma Chao saw the bad news, he was stunned for a moment, and then immediately made a decision.

His eyes burst into blood, and he gave an order, ordering everyone to rush to the west immediately. In fact, after falling into the quagmire, he could have rescued him, but at this time there was not enough time to go over and save people. The enemy on three sides is outflanking, and they cannot stay, so they can only abandon these brothers who followed him from birth to death.

Ma Chao shouted: "Whoever doesn't want to die, rush out with me and take me to kill it out of a bloody road!"

Seeing Ma Chao raise his arms, the Xiliang Jian riders shouted angrily, their eyebrows were angry, their momentum was awe-inspiring, and their hearts tightened, so they regained a little courage, shouted in unison, followed him, and rushed towards the west!

Qi Han was secretly worried, but when he saw that Lingqi was pointing to the west, his heart suddenly became relieved. secretly thought, it turns out that Ma Chao is not stupid, on the contrary, he reacts very quickly and judges accurately, which can be regarded as a general.

Because, the enemy in the west is actually the strongest.

Ma Chao chooses to conflict with the West and confront them head-on, and the battle situation will become extremely tragic, but if Ma Chao takes the lead, he is brave, like an incomparably sharp blade, and under the handover of the enemy's vanguard, he will definitely be able to greatly dampen the opponent's spirit, and in the case of being caught off guard, he will quickly break through the defense line of the cavalry and infantry, and lead the remnants to rush out all the way. Once the strongest line of defense in the West is broken, the other two sides will not be afraid, the resistance to pursuit will be smaller, and the escape will be more easy.

On the contrary, it would be the most unwise for Ma Chao to choose to break through from the weaker sides.

When the time comes, the back will be left to the most formidable enemy, the cavalry and heavy infantry from the west. When forcibly breaking through, the rear will suffer from it, and the soldiers will not be able to rush and kill with their hearts, and the rear will be in chaos, and they will be eaten away by the strong soldiers, and it is very easy to be completely defeated and fall into a place of no return.

Qi Han let out a sigh, picked up a few weapons, put them in his horse's backpack, tied a shield to his arm, picked up an iron sword in his right hand, and followed these cavalrymen who sacrificed their lives to rush all the way to the west.

On this night, Yan Xing personally commanded, divided the troops, and surrounded the remnants of Sanyong who were chasing Ma Chao, but they rushed desperately, galloped away, and lost their traces until dawn.

Yan Xing listened to the return, smiled coldly, and said confidently on the horse: "I set up an ambush here, so I already expected that Ma Chao would chase and lure the soldiers here, and he must have been exhausted, and the grass and grain would be exhausted, and he would not be able to get out of this vast desert." Everyone will return to the camp for the time being, and after the morning meal rests, they will search carefully in all directions, and they will definitely find the remnants of Ma Chao's soldiers, and at that time, I will personally kill him. ”

He gave the order, and the three armies immediately thundered with joy, chanting in unison, and the crowd was excited.

In fact, when Ma Chao broke through, he also lost a lot of Yan Xing's cavalry and infantry, but Yan Xing didn't care about this casualty. After all, he has been calculating this battle for a long time, and he has indeed beaten the horses beyond his surprise, with heavy casualties, and only a few hundred elite horsemen are left, and they are all tired and tired, lacking food and food, and it is difficult to be brave anymore - Yan Xing smiled on his lips, thinking in his heart, I am afraid that before he finds Ma Chao and strangles him, these defeated generals who fled from the desert will die in this desert first because of the shortage of food and water.

.

The next morning, a white fog arose.

Rows of ghostly cavalrymen galloped in, most of them disheveled, wounded, and bloodstained with blood, and they gathered from all directions, entered the Kip Road, gathered in this pass where they had suffered great losses, and waited with bated breath.

Each horse was covered with a thick cloth on its hooves, and its mouth was tightened, and a stick was attached to it, so that they were not allowed to neigh, and make any noise.

The cavalrymen who were familiar with each other jumped off their horses and gathered in one place, squatting in the kip road, surrounded by a strong smell of blood, and the corpses of their comrades were all over them, some of them were crushed to death by rolling stones and woods, and some were injured and killed directly by Yan Xing's people when they cleaned up the battlefield.

More and more people gathered, and finally, slowly, no one came.

All the people gathered together, looking at the blood-stained young general in the white robe in the center, waiting for his orders.

It turned out that before the breakthrough last night, Ma Chao had passed down the flag order, when everyone broke through, they could wait for the opportunity to flee in all directions to distract the enemy's attention, but no matter which direction they fled, they would eventually come here at three o'clock the next day to count the remnants.

Yan Xing never expected that under the fiasco, Ma Chao would actually calculate him and teach the cavalry to come here to hide his whereabouts. The most dangerous place is the safest place, Yan Xing set up a killing array and ambush here, after the incident, this place was empty, his soldiers went in all directions to search for the traces of Ma Chao's remnants, but no one would have thought that Ma Chao's men and horses did not actually flee far, but turned back one after another, potentially this quagmire they had just escaped, Kip 166 Reading Network