There was a dense shout from the west, and then Ma Dai saw smoke and dust rise from the sky in the distance. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This kind of smoke and dust made his heart wake up immediately.

As a young man who grew up in the grasslands and deserts of Liangzhou, he was very familiar with the smoke and dust brought up by the galloping horses.

"Le Ma, advance three miles, line up!"

He chose this path to mourn his father, knowing that he would encounter the threat of the enemy, and he and his soldiers had long been ready for battle.

The descendants of the Ma clan have a fine tradition inherited from Ma Yue, the king of Liang, who will check the surrounding terrain wherever he goes, and even if there are three or five people behind him, they will be ready to face battle anytime and anywhere on the road they walk.

Ma Yue has experienced too many encounters in his life, so he hopes that his juniors will remember this habit that has benefited him so much.

A man surnamed Ma was born to fight!

Six miles ahead, there is a vertical and horizontal ravine, which is a natural deer for Ma Dai, which can minimize the impact of the enemy's cavalry on his own army.

Although the weeds there are now swelling wildly, and it is impossible to see the appearance clearly, Ma Dai remembers it clearly, because when he first came to Luoyang as a proton of Liangguo, the horse was mixed there, and the leg of the good Xianbei BMW was broken in the middle, and later in the days when he lived in Luoyang, although he was carefully recuperated, he could no longer gallop with him on the battlefield.

At that time, he didn't think that he would fight a battle of his own in this place, but now, the experience of the past will really help him.

Three thousand foot soldiers put their helmets and armor on their heads, and quickly moved to the position where Ma Dai needed them to be, and the foot soldiers formed a four-facing formation, in which two of them were in front of one and one behind, and the three foot soldiers formed a formation in layers, two sword and shield men in front, and one foot soldier with a spear of five zhang followed. With the swing of Ma Dai's iron spear, the fiercest iron cavalry of the Liang Kingdom spread out and wandered around the formation, and more than 10,000 cavalry took a small team of 1,000 people, waiting for the opportunity to move.

More of it, crossbowmen.

Yuzhou is the production place of high-quality bow materials in the Han Dynasty, although Ma Bozhan has not led Yuzhou for a long time, but he has not pulled down these materials at all, and the people still accept him as a herd in Yuzhou, so in the shortest possible time he has raised tens of thousands of strong bows and crossbows, although Yuzhou does not have the world's famous craftsmen like the Liangguo Iron Smelting Division to supervise the manufacture of ordnance, but the effectiveness of these bows and crossbows is also extremely high.

Among Ma Dai's 30,000 mourners, there were tens of thousands of crossbowmen.

In fact, in each state of the world, the composition of each army is different, and the advantages and disadvantages of each state are also different.

For example, in Liangzhou, because of the abundance of horses and the mixed living of the Qiang and Han, the cavalry of the Liangzhou army usually accounted for six or seven out of ten, and a small number of foot soldiers served as a baggage army most of the time, although they did not take anything.

Because the products of Liangzhou were scarce in the past, suitable for raising horses but not suitable for living people, Liangzhou people will always give people a feeling of robbers like villages when they go out to fight, like locusts sweeping all the land, because they do not bring food to fight, and they go out to fight by robbing. Just like Han Sui gathered 100,000 rebels back then, it was easy to take all those Qiang tribes out of Liangzhou one by one, but where did he get enough grain and grass for 100,000 people to eat?

You can only hit where you can grab it.

And Emperor Wu of the first Han Dynasty went on an expedition, thousands of horses, thousands of knights with superb horsemanship, and the rest were tens of thousands of strong bows and crossbows.

But that kind of consumption was built on the strength of the powerful Western Han Dynasty at the cost of a terrifying rate.

Even in the Eastern Han Dynasty, how did Taiwei Duan Ying eliminate the Qiang trouble in Liangzhou? The emperor said that there are troubles every year, and more than one billion dollars are consumed every year, so it is better to directly allocate three billion military expenses to me, and I will take people to kill them, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and ensure peace for thirty years.

Killing people is like cutting rice, stubble by stubble.

At that time, Duan Ying had mobilized less than 100,000 Han troops.

What is the consumption of these 30,000 people in Ma Dai?

Each person made a bow and shot an arrow, and it cost a hundred gold.

Money is not money at all when it is in war, it is swept away by strong winds.

Therefore, in fact, it is still the most frugal composition of soldiers and horses in the Yizhou Mountains, with bamboo bows and bamboo spears, the cost is low and the effect is obvious, and it is a few steps uphill that does not use any strong bow to shoot a hundred steps away, and it is enough to shoot at close range.

Ma Dai spread out the formation, seeing that the dust raised by the enemy army was only a few thousand soldiers and horses, he had enough confidence to eat this group of enemies, and he didn't even need to pay much casualties, including the enemy who was hanging far away in the north with a big banner with a dictionary character, he didn't care.

What really made him feel bottomless was Liu Bei, who was hanging far behind.

That's an army of 70,000, that is, 70,000 pigs lit a fire behind them and rushed over, and it was difficult for his 30,000 people to resist, let alone the 70,000 Jingzhou army.

Although he didn't fight Liu Bei, he was also quite fascinated by the generals under his command.

Zhang Yide, who was called the tiger general of the world by his uncle, will not talk about it, like Zhao Zilong after the battle of Xiakou was broken alone, Huang Hansheng who led his troops to defeat the little overlord, and Wei Wenchang, who fought alone with three generals on the battle array...... Which is not a fierce warrior like a tiger.

It is precisely because of this that Ma Dai placed most of his foot soldiers and archers in the direction of the east to guard against them.

It was the middle of a summer day, and the sky that should have been sunny was gathering dark clouds, and it was about to rain heavily in the land.

During the rainy season, the battle will be much more difficult, and the crossbow possessed by Ma Dai will lose its accuracy and range.

"Attack, shoot with a crossbow!"

Ma Dai couldn't wait any longer, and took the lead in ordering his subordinates to launch an attack on Cao Ang's troops.

With the shouting of his subordinates, tens of thousands of strong crossbows adjusted their directions, raised their heads and opened their bows and pulled crossbows, and for a while arrows rained down like locusts.

"Shield, charge!"

Cao Ang did not panic in the face of the arrows that came in pieces, and after several battles, the son of the Cao clan had become a veteran of the battle, raising his arm shield and brandishing the general's sword to urge the horses and shouting: "Charge, charge!" ”

The faster you pass through this rain of arrows, the faster you engage the enemy, and the lower the casualties.

And he also knew that once his side launched a charge, Dianting Hou's side would also launch a charge, and the pressure on both sides would be less.

The victory or defeat of this war is not in their hands, and both sides know very well that the victory or defeat of the war is tightly held in Liu Xuande's hands.

But Cao Ang did not have the nervousness to charge at the enemy army ten times his size, and he knew that no matter what Liu Bei did, he would eventually join the battlefield.

Because of him!

Liu Bei would not see his friendly army annihilated by the enemy and not save him, Liu Xuande is not that kind of person.

Although Cao Ang also knew that Liu Bei would not be willing to join the battlefield, if he used himself as bait, the result would be different.

He wants to force Liu Bei to show his banner!

Ma Dai didn't need to look up to see those big flags with Cao characters waving in the wind, and he could see those Cao soldiers running wildly with ring knives and braving the rain of arrows.

The reason why he could see clearly was because he was also galloping with spears, and the soldiers and horses of the Liang Kingdom in plain clothes and armor gathered into a torrent, as if they were going to meet Cao Jun in the most decisive appearance!

Here we go!

Ma Dai clearly felt that Cao's cavalry suffocated on the way to the charge, and the speed of the horse's gallop suddenly decreased, and even caused a lot of confusion among the cavalry.

The small ditches that crisscrossed and crisscrossed were not much of a problem for foot soldiers who were one foot deep and one foot shallow, but for the four-legged cavalry, it was simply the most terrible nightmare.

The cavalry in front of them got stuck in the ditch, and the cavalry behind followed them, some fell off their horses, some declined, and thousands of the most elite tiger and leopard cavalry of the Cao army became cheap consumables in this battle, and the arrows of the Liang Kingdom were then thrown down.

There were no horses, no shields, and the armor of the cavalry had too many gaps, and their arms and thighs were shot by an endless rain of arrows, and they were dead on the ground.

As the inexperienced Cao Angdu's soldiers and horses were trapped in a ditch under the weeds, Ma Dai swung his spear, reined in his steed, and headed north.

Immediately afterwards, this Liangguo Iron Cavalry, which seemed to be charging frantically, suddenly turned its horse's head in unison, and left Cao Ang's group of soldiers and horses to rush to the Dian Wei Department in the north.

It's a trap!

Cao Ang fell off his horse without exception, and he didn't know where to fly, and one leg was crushed by the fallen horse and he couldn't move, but the soldiers beside him couldn't help him at all.

The sea of bitterness is vast, and even the most elite tiger and leopard riders can't stop their hearts.

Cao Ang watched as a tiger and leopard rider fell off his horse and was trampled into meat sauce by his own cavalry who ran after him, and the armor that had been saving his life became a prison that trapped them, and was trampled into strange pieces of iron.

It was only at this time that Cao Ang learned that the truth of the matter was often extremely terrifying.

From beginning to end, Ma Dai didn't treat him as an enemy at all, it was he who thought too highly of himself.

Thousands of Liang infantry soldiers then ran, sharp spears encircling them in the ditch, and a rain of arrows fell accurately on the heads of the soldiers and horses, shooting one of the best soldiers of the imperial court into a sieve.

After dragging their armor full of arrows and rushing out of the range of the rain of arrows, the dejected tiger and leopard cavalry immediately met the merciless spears of the Liang people.

One general tired three armies.

And to the north of the battlefield, the Liang country's infantry formation slowly advanced to the north, and the tiger guard infantry of Dian Wei was in full swing, Dian Wei was wearing a double layer of armor and holding a halberd on the front to rush left and right, and the Liang soldiers were invincible.

The infantry under the command of Dian Wei was the most elite formation breaker under Cao Cao for a long time, and as long as they appeared on the battlefield, there was no possibility of the enemy army winning.

His formation was like an open umbrella, and Dian Wei was the point at the front of the arc, slowly tearing apart the enemy's line.

But this time, things seem to have changed.

A high-spirited Liang cavalry stabbed diagonally into his formation from the west side of the battlefield, and the strong hooves of the horses trampled on his soldiers without evasion, tearing through his line.

Ma Bozhan, who was dressed in linen but killed red, held a spear through a Han soldier who tried to stop him, and smashed his body down the battlefield.

Blood rained down, and spears roared.

"Ma Bozhan is here, who dares to fight!"