Chapter Forty-Five: The Poor Chase Doesn't Chase

The army left Hanoi and headed straight for Julu County.

On the march to the open Jizhou Plain, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the long road of the march came to an end.

Along the way, Ma Yue pondered why Liu Hong placed him in Lu Zhi's army...... He has known Liu Hong, the notorious emperor, for a year, and he knows very well that this emperor may not know about political affairs, but he is definitely not a fool, and he is much smarter than ordinary people.

There is a reason why he was placed in Lu Zhi's army...... Most of the generals in this army have an unclear relationship with him, at least, it is a relationship that Liu Hong can see.

Lu Zhi, the general of Beizhonglang, was a student of Ma Rong and twice put down the rebellion without blood.

Ma Riyan, the captain of the shooting voice, is the grandson of Ma Rong and has a great reputation among Confucian scholars.

Cao Poshi, the captain of the Yue Cavalry, has a great reputation in the eunuch party, and his elder brother Cao Jie once welcomed Liu Hong to the throne and made meritorious contributions, and later helped Liu Hong kill his relative Dou Wu, Liu Hong relied on him very much.

Ma Yue tapped his forehead in annoyance, but ...... Can such a group of people really fight?

Although Lu Zhi had experience in leading troops, the previous two counterinsurgents were bloodless and did not really fight. Ma Riyan has studied Confucian classics all his life, and may have only read military books once or twice and never been on the battlefield. Cao Poshi ...... Don't mention it.

Ma Yue heard that Cao Poshi had asked for it because of the beautiful wife of the army commander, and finally forced the wife of his subordinates to death.

Just when the platoon of the army was marching in a long snake formation, suddenly a sentry horse rushed back to report to Lu Zhihui: "General, a small group of enemy troops was found in the front, numbering about 1,000 thieves wearing yellow turbans, camping ten miles ahead, are you pursuing?" ”

Lu Zhisheng is eight feet tall, and he stands like a green pine on top of the chariot. Hearing this, he laughed like a Hongzhong, and said with a smile: "Camping in the plains, the thieves don't know the five soldiers, and the second battalion of Changshui and Yueqi is ordered to jointly strangle and shoot the thieves, and then chase after the cavalry!" ”

The second battalion of Changshui and Yue cavalry are mostly skilled in riding and shooting, and the horses are selected from Youzhou fast horses, which are most suitable for long-range shooting of the war of attrition, the second battalion is light cavalry, but the more cavalry is more elite, the more cavalry is not only proficient in riding and shooting, but also equipped with a saber round shield, and the battle array charge is also first-class. The horses of the Tun Cavalry Battalion are all Xiliang horses with thick bones, and the sergeants are also heavily armoured, which is suitable for charging and fighting.

After receiving the order, Ma Yue and Cao Poshi did not hesitate, and the two led their troops to deviate from the official road, and Cao Poshi was on the left and Ma Yue was on the right, galloping away.

It was said to be galloping, but it was not a charge, but it was advancing at a slightly faster speed than the pacing army, and seeing that it was three miles away from the enemy, Ma Yue and Cao Poshi glanced at each other, nodded and then launched a charge.

The best distance for a horse to charge, that is, the distance between three and eight miles, beyond which the speed of the horse will definitely slow down, even the best blood of the horse. Horses are not human beings, they do not know how to calculate physical strength, once they are urged by their masters to charge, if they do not stop, they will be exhausted.

When Ma Yue and the two troops launched a charge, they were already discovered by the Yellow Turbans who were camped on the spot, and the thieves did not resist, turned over and immediately retreated in a mess.

Ma Yue hung Changge on his horse, grabbed three short spears from behind his left hand and buckled the reins, and took out a strong horse with his right hand to charge.

Behind him, more than 700 Changshuihu people held bows on horseback, and the longbows were raised with flat eyebrows.

Cao Poshi's subordinates are also general, Shanyue people are good at shooting since ancient times, and the art of riding and shooting on horses is very exquisite, only with two legs to make the horse, bend the bow and pull the full shot yellow scarf.

And the Yellow Turban Army was as if they were frightened, and they only cared about the queen retreating.

The horse galloped and broke the camp tent, Ma Yue shook his lips with disdain, what kind of things are the camp tents of the Yellow Turban Army, which is not in line with the art of war at all.

Looks like ...... It's like a tent built to build it.

While chasing and killing, he fled in a hurry, but in a moment he chased for eight or nine miles, and suddenly Ma Yue reacted and pursued too deeply!

"Lerma! Stop it! ”

Although there were no casualties on the way, the other side was the same, and they were hung for more than a mile from a distance, although some arrows hit the enemy, at most nearly 100 people fell off their horses.

It's a lure for the enemy!

"Captain Cao, stop! Poor Kou Mo Chase! ”

However, it was too late, and suddenly stood up under the half-man-high canopy grass in the vast wilderness, and everywhere were thieves with yellow scarves, and there was no edge in sight.

Cao Poshi only realized that something was wrong at this time, but the Yue cavalry camp was already alone, and thousands of yellow turbans surrounded him in the center with a faint encirclement, and there were yellow turban thieves in all directions except for Ma Yue, and the figures flickered in farther places, so I was afraid that the thieves had exceeded 10,000.

Ma Yue's Changshui camp was slightly better, because the earlier order did not fall into the encirclement of the Yellow Turban thieves.

Looking back, the cavalry camp led by Bao Hong was still three miles away, and Ma Yue was Cao Poshi's only friendly army within a radius of five miles.

Yue cavalry battalion, the life and death of more than 700 Han soldiers are in Ma Yue's thoughts!

Ma Yue immediately made a decision, and shouted loudly: "The Changshui battalion listens to the order and helps the friendly army!" Long-range harassment shoots a way out for the Yue Cavalry Battalion! ”

Cao Poshi was trapped in the enemy formation and had long lost his prestige, seeing that the enemy was gathering more and more, he gritted his teeth and glanced at the Changshui camp in the distance, and shouted back with the reins: "Kill back, kill back!" ”

Panic is inevitable, although the more than 700 Han troops are elite, they are inevitably demoralized by thieves ten times their size, and they are chaotic and retreating.

Ma Yue roared, patted the horse and got up, Guan Yu and others immediately followed behind him, and more than 700 Hu cavalry from the Changshui Battalion pulled out a long formation of nearly a mile on the grassland and went straight to the Yue Cavalry Camp.

Within a hundred paces of the Yellow Turbans, Ma Yue raised a spear from his mount and threw it, then let out a scream, and turned his horse away from the thieves.

The Changshui battalion lined up in a line of long snakes and threw away.

Hundreds of arrows rose from the sky like locusts to the head of the Yellow Turban Thief, and the Yellow Turban Army did not have a large number of bow and crossbow equipment, so it was impossible to form a strong counterattack against the Changshui Battalion.

What's more, they seemed to have made up their minds to swallow the 700 Han troops of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, and the encirclement became more and more intense, leaving Cao Poshi with a gap of less than 400 steps.

The Yue cavalry department saw the charge of the friendly army and immediately boosted their morale, and Cao Poshi, who was wrapped in the middle, also laughed wildly, raised his saber and shouted: "With the help of Changshui, the sky will not die, and we will fight a bloody way for the captain of this school, and the kings will be rewarded!" ”

Cavalry warfare has not been a heavy assault force since ancient times, their advantage is the mobility that comes and goes like the wind, and no matter how strong the cavalry is in the enemy's formation, if it cannot cut the local formation, it will only fall into the dilemma of encroachment.

Ma Yue led the Changshui battalion to and fro like the wind, but in a matter of moments, thousands of arrows had already been thrown at the heads of the Yellow Turban Army located in the pocket, and hundreds of enemies were killed and wounded by the arrows.

However, seeing that Cao Poshi was about to break out of the encirclement and was only less than a hundred steps away from escaping, the Yellow Turban Army sealed the pocket of the encirclement.

Yue cavalry battalion, into a bitter battle.