Chapter Seventy-One: Victory
A lot of things...... It's predestined.
Ma Yue looked at the Black Mountain Army under the city who were not afraid of death, and thought silently in his heart.
Zhang Yan was carried away by anger, and the rebellion of the pneumatic mountains and rivers was huge, but how could the 100,000 army be used at will overnight? It is nothing more than an increase in iniquity.
Just like the black mountain leader below with a very loud voice, he doesn't have the ability to storm the palace at all, but he still insists on going his own way...... In addition to the stump and broken arm under the wall of Luoyang Palace, which is dark red, what else can be left?
He could see that these Montenegrin troops were in a hurry.
They can't be in a hurry, the battle song of the armored army in the distance has sounded, although there are only more than 100 armored horses, but there are countless soldiers, cavalry, and soldiers and horses from all directions waving various military flags, slowly approaching the imperial city.
The rain of arrows at the head of the city once again forced back the surging Montenegrin army.
In the cheers of the defenders at the head of the city, Ma Yue looked at the Xuanjia figure surrounded by the entourage with torches more than a thousand steps away, Ma Yue did not speak, but the deputy general beside him could clearly detect a trace of a smile on his cold face.
Ma Yue just felt that the burden on his shoulders seemed to be a little lighter.
He knew that the figure was Ma Dai, his second brother's sister-in-law, Ma Dai Ma Bozhan. Although he didn't know how Ma Dai gathered these scattered forces in the city, and even the cavalry and those soldiers who looked like village warriors, he didn't even want to know. He saw the result...... His nephew came to the aid of a thousand troops.
Ma Dai glanced high at the head of the city, in the night of the city can only see sporadic torches and those Luoyang Lang official uniforms and bright clothes, among those unclear figures, he can't find a familiar figure, but he knows that his uncle is at the head of the city, watching him.
"Raise the flag, give the order, shout together." Ma Dai lowered his head and looked at the scattered Black Mountain Army in front of him, overlapping and overlapping, far outnumbering his own, but he had nothing to fear at all. "Respect the majesty of His Majesty the Emperor, respect the general of the auxiliary country, the Liangzhou armored army comes to beg for thieves, and those who surrender may be spared death!"
There are no soldiers and horses in Luoyang City, the most elite subordinates of the Xuzhou Army were killed and scattered by the Liangzhou Army, and the generals fled to death, and there were only more than 40 people who could still fight, and now all of them have been incorporated by Ma Dai as private soldiers. The Bingzhou army was on the left flank, the Yanzhou army was on the right flank, and the front army was a large number of soldiers and cavalry of the Great Clan...... The few hundred or so armoured troops followed behind Ma Dai.
In Ma Dai's opinion, even if most of the Montenegrin army had fled by the end of the strong crossbow, they could not persuade them to defect in a few words.
In the battle with the Montenegrin army, what impressed him the most was the spirit of those soldiers who were not afraid of death with simple armor and curled blades. But he is not afraid of death...... In Ma Dai's view, when used on samurai, it is praised, and when it is used in the army...... But it's derogatory. How incompetent must the generals be to rely on the blood of the soldiers of the robes to win battles again and again?
What's more, the Montenegrin army never won a battle against the armored army, although it was not afraid of death.
On the contrary, it has harmed a great life in vain.
Therefore, when the Montenegrin army surrounding Chengyang Gate turned the formation towards his side, Ma Dai did not panic, but had already expected it, pointing to the front army and shouting to the armored army in charge of the order: "Those who can be subdued are temperamental, send orders to the front army, keep the formation and crash into it!" Shoot left and right! β
Ma Dai knew that he had to rely on the soldiers of the front army, even though they were just a rabble in his eyes, and even five or six hundred people were no match for the more than 100 armored troops behind him, but he had to rely on them.
The teaching of the art of war in Shanglin Yuan's official school made him remember that the taboo of cavalry was to charge into battle with fierce men and fierce horses and a large number of foot soldiers. As a connoisseur of cavalry charges, Ma Dai refuted Guan Yu at the time, for example, his uncle Ma Yue often charged with cavalry, thus winning great victories again and again.
Guan Yu just laughed at that time and told him that Ma Yue was not a cavalry charge, but an armored army.
The Armored Army is an independent army composed of Heavy Infantry Soldiers, Light Cavalry Soldiers, and Heavy Cavalry Soldiers. What's more, Guan Yu also said at the time that Ma Yue was the soul of the armored army and even the Liangzhou army, and he was the god of the Liangzhou people. Every Liangzhou man longs to die in battle under his Xu, burying his bones on Zhangshan, even if he charges from the sun to Jiuquan, as long as they are still under the black and red face, they are fearless. But others can't, unknown generals, soldiers are even worried about whether you will die in front of them, where dare to rush with you? The most important thing in the hedge between the two armies is morale, once people are afraid, their lives will naturally be gone.
He didn't have a reputation for running rampant in the world, so he could only make promises to his soldiers...... Before rushing to the palace, he promised those soldiers of the big clan that those who cut more than three heads in this battle would be exempted from slavery, and if they were lucky, they would be able to get some land for Sanfu...... It is more difficult to get rid of slavery, but if Ma Yue enters Luoyang, I think those big families will not be able to get along with him because of some slaves, as for Sanfu's field, it is not a reward at all, Cheng Li has been busy with this matter this year, and he has reclaimed wasteland in Sanfu, just let these people go over to open up wasteland.
Therefore, in this battle, the real performance is the cavalry and family soldiers of the front army, and the left and right flanks are nothing more than to prevent the formation from collapsing. More than 100 armored troops behind him? Their task today is to escort the captives.
In the rear army, more than 100 people tied up and down the Yuan mansion in strings, and they were all escorted here by Ma Dai, waiting for the conclusion after the war.
The two armies engaged, and the cavalry of the state spread their bows and arrows on horseback and gathered arrows on the left flank in a roundabout way, constantly striking at the flanks of the Montenegrin army. The Yanzhou army was not bad, although it was greatly injured by the previous defeat of the Bingzhou army, and at this time, the remaining hundred or so horsemen also stretched their bows and threw them on the right flank.
The rain of arrows like locusts, although it can only hit the flanks, is enough. Although the archers of the Montenegrin army were also firing back, they could not resist the cavalry on horseback, and gradually the two wings and the Chinese army opened up. Soldiers who do not have flank protection on the battlefield are easily frightened and distracted, lest the enemy take advantage of the weakness and be killed by the enemy in front of them.
Those family soldiers are all trying to kill him to get ahead, who wants to be a slave for life, who doesn't want to change their fate? What's more, the most terrible thing about slavery is that Lao Tzu is a slave, and his son can only grovel in the future. At the moment, there is a chance to get ahead in front of them, so all the family soldiers are crazy and fight with the Montenegrin army on the opposite side with their weapons, even if they exchange their lives for injuries.
Slowly, Ma Dai frowned.
Although the Montenegrin army was nothing more than a rabble in the eyes of the major general of Liangzhou, several encounters made him very clear that these rabble were by no means greedy for life and afraid of death. Even if they never won a battle at the hands of the Liangzhou people, they were always admired by Ma Dai.
But at this moment, the Montenegrin army he is facing is a little different. Many of them were dressed in sackcloth robes, like ordinary soldiers of Luoyang, and they were very brave, but there were also many people wearing gray burqas, although they were holding weapons, but they could not be called 'men' at all. From the beginning of the engagement between the two armies, they kept retreating, only a few knew how to move forward, and many more were scurrying around in the array like trembling rats, hugging in front and squeezing in the back...... The disconnection of the Montenegrin army array was not due to the bravery of the family soldiers, but was mostly caused by these real rabble.
"Command the cavalry, prepare to charge from the disconnection between the enemy's two wings and the Chinese army, and the two cavalry will charge left and right, and chisel through the enemy formation!"
Ma Dai didn't know the clothes on those people, he didn't know them, but Ma Yue on the palace wall was deeply impressed by the clothes. The famous auxiliary general not only knew him, but also personally wore such clothes, and the gray robe was the Han prison uniform priced at one hundred and twenty yuan. Just as Ma Dai ordered Tiqi to prepare to charge under the city, Ma Yue also hooked the corners of his mouth at the head of the city.
"If this Black Mountain Qu Shuai is smart, he can still have a little way to survive if he takes advantage of the chaos to get out of the city." Ma Yue shook his head and smiled: "This person actually robbed Luoyang Prison and used the power of prisoners to attack the palace in vain, it is simply wishful thinking. β
Saying that, Ma Yue looked around at the current situation, although Ma Dai's soldiers and horses were not many, he could stalemate with the Montenegrin army for a while, and this moment was his opportunity. At that moment, he said to the people in the city: "Order, gather under the gate of the Tiger Benlang Palace, all the monarchs are good at fighting, this is a good time to counterattack the rebels, Ma will not say more, and the banner will be victorious!" β
"Victory!"
In the shouts of a group of warriors, the Luoyang Tiger Army gathered under the city, and in addition, the guards brought by the princes of various departments when they came to the palace for a banquet were gathered together, just waiting for Ma Yue to give an order to rush out of the palace to give the Montenegrin army a fatal blow from behind.
At this moment, across the palace Ma Yue saw that outside the hall in the distance, Ma Chao got a horse out of nowhere, and the Han sword on his waist and crotch protected Liu Xie's Luan driving all the way to this side, followed by various ministers, Ma Yue had to stop the idea of opening the palace door, and strode down the city to wait for His Majesty to arrive. The princes and military attachΓ©s stood in a row, Dong Zhuoli occupied the position of three people next to Ma Yue, and touched his elbow Ma Yue looked at Luan Jia and smiled: "Look at this posture, Your Majesty is going to take those old men to drive the expedition in person!" β
Ma Yue glared at Dong Zhuo and respectfully arched his hand: "Your Majesty, why are you here?" β
Liu Xie smiled, jumped off the Luan car, waved his hand and said, "Sir, go and fight, I will cheer for the heavenly army!" β
After only a moment's delay, when the gates of the palace were wide open and the tiger warriors lined up to rush out, they were greeted by a rider covered in armor leading a horse like a war beast and walking firmly step by step.
"General Yu Fuguo, his subordinate Ma Dai did not disgrace his mission, and did his best to destroy the thieves and the outside of the palace." Kneeling on one knee, Ma Dai lifted his mask and clenched his fists and said, "The thieves have surrendered more than a thousand, what should be done?" β
Ma Yue looked out, and the soldiers and cavalry of the family gathered the weapons of the surrendered traitors proudly, and the rebels who were still besieging the palace in the ring all knelt in the middle...... In the distance, the sound of a large number of soldiers and horses entering the city was clearly heard in the palace, and Ma Yue knew that his Liangzhou armored army had entered the city.