Chapter 1205: The Right Choice Doesn't Have the Right Result
Gan Feng stretched out the horse lance steadily, and didn't care about the Xueliang war knife of the Xiliang cavalry that he cut at himself, because Gan Feng knew that in horse warfare, an inch long is an inch strong, and no matter how much strength the other party has, his horse lance will definitely be faster than the opponent's war knife!
"Poof!"
Just like piercing a thick cowhide bag, Gan Feng stabbed the Xiliang cavalry in front of him off the horse with a lance, and the elastic horse lance rod bent violently, and the sharp tip of the eight-sided and octagonal lance slashed across the face of another Xiliang cavalry in a blink of an eye, almost cutting his head in half!
In terms of the ability to fight in the battle array, although Gan Feng is brave, he is not a terrifying figure like Lu Bu and other martial arts superhumans, but he has been in the army since he was a child, and he is already a veteran ruffian at the age of ten. The experience of the battle formation is rich, but I am afraid that ordinary first-class generals may not be able to compare.
The more you are in a melee situation, the more important the experience on the battlefield becomes, and sometimes the nerves in the brain have not yet reacted to the command, and the instincts of the body have begun to come into play.
In the midst of the flying knives and guns, it is inevitable that there will be times when the protection is not thorough, but Gan Feng can always use small injuries and those least lethal points in exchange for heavy injuries, and then seize the opportunity to fight!
Gan Feng has long hands and long feet, plus a well-made horse lance, the range of control is very large, and the one who can break into the circle of the horse lance also has a war knife to protect himself, at the moment of handover with the chasing troops on the right wing, he picked down and cut down five or six Xiliang cavalrymen one after another in one breath, and for a while these Xiliang cavalry took a breath of cool air, and they couldn't help but subconsciously avoid this fierce man!
Seeing that Gan Feng was so brave, one of the leaders of the Xiliang cavalry, a Qiang man named Wuliu, waved a long-handled iron hammer with more than 20 catties to buzz and came to meet Gan Feng.
Ganfeng came suddenly, the long lance stood out, and knocked over a Xiliang cavalry off the horse, the lance bent violently and quickly bounced straight, and the snow was bright and sharp, pointing directly at the face of Wuliu!
Uriu jerked on his horse's back, and with a lightning hand reached out, and grabbed the mallet with the other.
Almost at the same time, the two of them quickly turned their wrists, trying to let each other go, but they didn't expect that the almost simultaneous action caused both sides to get stuck, and the sound of tooth-aching friction sounded in both hands, and for a while they were deadlocked, and the long horse lance was bent, so that both of them leaned back a little.
"Want? Here you go! Gan Feng laughed, and his hand instantly loosened.
Saying that, Gan Feng had already let go quickly, and before Wuliu, whose brain was slow, could react, Gan Feng had already ridden his horse and swept past him, and the cold light of the war knife in his hand flashed, and he slashed Wuliu's neck with a single sword!
Blood splattered, Uliu's head rolled off, the long knife was still castrated, and a huge wound was deeply cut on the back of the war horse beneath. The war horse was in pain, and the long neighing stood up, and it drove the headless body of Wuliu to rise high on the horse's back, sprinkling the blood rain all over the sky!
As Wuliu's corpse landed, the panicked warning horn sounded, and I saw the tricolor banner raised high on the flank of the Xiliang cavalry, and the cavalry led by Jia Xu had already rushed out from one side and approached the Xiliang cavalry!
Arrows are thrown in the air, war horses are running, the speed of the four hooves has been pushed to the limit, the tricolor banner of the Western cavalry and the Xiliang cavalry are chasing at high speed on the land of Longyou, in the chaotic situation, constantly closing the distance!
"Turn around! Turn—"
Cheng Gongying shouted loudly in the gallop, and the standard-bearer and the horn-bearer conveyed the instructions almost at the same time, but the cavalry is not a machine after all, even in the highway, there are often various accidents in the car that turns sharply, not to mention the cavalry with extremely high requirements for the coordination of people and horses?
When he found a small-scale Ganfeng people, Cheng Gongying thought that he had captured the elusive Zhengxi scout team, and in order to obtain the exact position of the Zhengxi cavalry, he ordered the Xiliang cavalry to chase and hunt down Ganfeng's people, but he didn't expect that when he really led out the large army of the Zhengxi cavalry, his cavalry position was indeed in such an awkward position......
Because for a long time, the scout sentry sent to the street pavilion to investigate was intercepted and blocked by the soldiers of Zhengxi, so the Xiliang tribes, including Cheng Gongying, have always thought that the cavalry reinforcements of General Zhengxi are still hovering near the street pavilion at Fanxu Daokou, and there are a large number of Xiliang soldiers and horses gathered here in Tianshui, and the reinforcements from Zhengxi may not have the courage to go deep into Longyou, but they never thought that the cavalry of Zhengxi had unknowingly approached Shangqi!
The Xiliang cavalry in the front of the left wing, a few reckless soldiers heard the horn of the turning, and subconsciously pulled the reins on the side of the horse's head, trying to make the horse turn, but the war horse in the high-speed gallop could not quickly adjust its body center of gravity, was pulled violently, and suddenly the four hooves lost their balance, fell to the ground, and the bodies of people and horses rolled, twisted, and thrown out of the distance.
And the safer way is to reduce some speed, and then pull the reins to turn, and not too fierce all at once, at least to give the war horse a certain amount of reaction time to complete the safe turn.
"Left Wing Turn! Right flank flank! Fast! Fast! Cheng Gongying shouted loudly, and the sudden change made his voice involuntarily a little split and hoarse.
Cheng Gongying is not an incompetent general, and the original situation should not be like this.
At around the end of yesterday afternoon, Han Sui's herald soldiers arrived in Tianshui.
Under Han Sui's reputation for more than ten years, the Xiliang tribes finally ended the fight and agreed to cooperate with the battle, some of them went to search for reinforcements from the cavalry led by Jia Xu, and some of them went south to Qishan to cooperate with Han Sui to fight.
However, the battle plan has been drawn up, but it is still somewhat unrealistic to immediately set out as a whole army.
Cheng Gongying was also helpless, and because of the previous defeat, he was already a little uneasy in his heart, so he no longer had to deal with these Xiliang tribes about those Chen sesame rotten grains, and took the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to the south first, but he didn't expect that before he could reach Qishan, he first encountered the Ganfeng team, and then encountered the attack of the cavalry led by Jia Xu!
These rushing cavalry, or a group of five, or a group of ten, although there were also flying arrows on the way, but when they got closer, the gap between the two sides suddenly became very large, the first few horses of the high-speed collision, Cheng Gongying did not notice anything wrong, but with the follow-up soldiers fighting each other, Cheng Gongying's disadvantage was unconsciously expanding.
Because Cheng Gongying divided the left and right wings in order to outflank Gan Feng, and Jia Xu brought the cavalry to conquer the west, but they were concentrated together, as if it was a feeling of one hand on both hands, although Cheng Gongying's right wing gave up the chase for Gan Feng and rushed to the rescue with all his might, but after all, there was still a distance, and in the high-speed cavalry battle, the consequences of such a distance were more obvious and terrible than the starting soldier battle array.
Normally speaking, as long as there are still sensible people, they will not take the initiative to seek death, even if they are soldiers above the battle array, otherwise there would not be a war from the beginning of the war, there will be a superintendent team, a gendarmerie team, a political commissar team or something......
When it is found that the whole battle situation begins to collapse, the instinct to avoid death will appear, and the biggest drawback of the recruitment system is finally exposed, since it is for money, then the greatest wealth in life is nothing more than your own life, and if you don't have a life, you will have no money, so you can move forward bravely when you win, but once you decline, it is easier to lose your resilience and flee.
In addition, at this moment, although it is said that the Xiliang tribes have unified their opinions and agreed to fight according to Han Sui's arrangement, but the people who went to Qishan were only the vanguard of Cheng Gongying's part, and most of the men and horses were still in Tianshui, and they had just started to open, and some of them had not even been allocated, so locally, compared with Jia Xu, the number of Cheng Gongying's troops did not have any advantage at all.
Before Cheng Gongying's right flank had time to outflank it, the left wing had lost its array form under the impact of the cavalry led by Jia Xu, and even began to collapse and scatter.
Soon, the collapse of the left flank led to chaos on the right flank, and Cheng Gongying had to blow the trumpet, take the initiative to withdraw from the battle sequence, retreat to Tianshui, and seek support from the Xiliang Tribes.
For Cheng Gongying, this choice is actually not wrong, after all, all the Xiliang tribes are still in Tianshui, if the western reinforcements are too deep, even if they get out of the way to Qishan, there is still a chance to block it in Qishan with Han Sui and exterminate it, so there is no problem with repairing it temporarily after the battle line is rout.
But in fact, it was the Xiliang people, including Cheng Gongying, who made such a choice that seemed to have no problem again and again, but caused the entire battle situation to slowly slide into a direction that the Xiliang tribes could not control......
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Is the right choice necessarily the right outcome?
When Ma Chao was faced with a choice, he also chose not to march bravely, but to stop and observe the situation, preparing to give Fei Qian a cruel knife at the most critical moment of the battle between Han Sui and Fei Qian.
Is this a wrong choice?
Normally, there is no problem at all.
But Ma Chao didn't expect that because he wanted to prevent the exposure of his own news, the very common practice of killing Di people along the way attracted the troops of Di people Wang Yi......
When the army marches secretly, generally speaking, slaughtering non-own villages along the way is a normal choice, even if it is not Ma Chao, if it is replaced by other people, most of them will use the same method, but the problem is very unfortunate, this time it is not the Han people who are killed, but the Di people.
Maybe the population base of the Han people is too large, so there are dozens of hundreds of deaths, for the Han officials, basically there is no feeling, anyway, don't die under their own manor, but for the original number of people, the whole debate is only about 3,000 people, suddenly dozens of people died, which naturally aroused the vigilance of the Di people.
When Ma Chao focused all his attention on the battle situation in the Feiqian camp in front, Wang Yi, who came from the tail, had already followed the imprint and tracked Ma Chao here.
Of course, if Ma Chao launched an attack on Fei Qian as soon as possible, it would naturally be possible to avoid the pursuit of Wang Qian, but the problem is that Ma Chao just chose to wait and see, which led to Wang Qian's troops finally catching up with Ma Chao.
Moreover, if Ma Chao hadn't chosen a hidden team, not hiding between the hillsides and woodlands, and relying on the two legs of the Di people, he might not have been able to defeat the Xiliang soldiers who got on the horse, but ......
What did Ma Chao do wrong?
No, all of Ma Chao's choices are decent and reasonable, but it seems that all the right choices have ushered in the worst result.
Holding a battle axe and a shield, Wang Yi shouted a word that he didn't know what the meaning was, and then rushed out of the forest like a wild bull and rushed towards Ma Chao's soldiers first. And behind him, the figure of the man in the forest also continued to jump out, and the sound of crackling footsteps resounded throughout the woods.
The arrows shot by Ma Chao's soldiers in a hurry were either shot at the trunk of the tree or blocked by the shield in the hands of the Di people, and there was not much obvious killing effect at all, but the Di people leaned out from behind the trunk and shot cold arrows one after another to harvest the lives of Ma Chao's soldiers.
After seeing the Qiang troops led by Ma Chao, an idea naturally came to mind in an instant - before killing people and seizing horses, and then although he came to apologize, Wang Yi also didn't care about Han Sui's face, but it was obvious that Ma Chao didn't realize his mistake, but he didn't give up, and took people back secretly to retaliate!
Then the choice of Wang Yi is very simple......
Can this be endured?!
Wang Yi was naturally unceremonious, and directly ignored the persuasion of the five clan chiefs, so he surrounded him with his men and launched an offensive directly.
The mountain forest was originally the home of the Di people!
A game paradise for the people!
Di people are jumping in the bushes in the forest, brandishing knives and guns, or jumping or shouting, not so much killing the enemy, but like dancing, sometimes obviously in front of Ma Chao's soldiers to cut a few times, without waiting for Ma Chao's soldiers to fight back, they have already jumped and ran to the other side to do somersaults......
Then he was a little stunned, holding a war knife, and he didn't know whether it was better to chase and cut it, or take this opportunity to run away from the better Ma Chao soldier, and he was stabbed by another Di man who came over next to him.
"Kill! Kill out, get on the horse, get on the horse! "In the woodland, it is inconvenient to use a spear, so Ma Chao can only carry a gun in one hand and a knife in the other, and give orders loudly while slashing and killing.
"Kill these thieves!" Wang Yi also brandished a double-sided battle axe, shouting loudly, "Avenge our brother!" ”
Waves of blood are pouring out on the front!
A Di man rushed head-on, Ma Chao stabbed down, felt that he should have cut the skull, and then the second knife hit his body, blood splashed, Ma Chao kicked the dead Di people away, took the time to look around, only to see Di people jumping out of the bushes, jumping out of the shadows of the trees, it seems that the surroundings are the fanatical shouts of the Di people, and their soldiers here, but in the shouts of the Di people one after another, they lost their sense of direction, and someone did not rush to the flat ground for the first time, and ran headlong into the more dangerous woodland......
Di people are brave and good at mountain warfare, but they are not good at fighting, this is a thing recognized by most people, so entangled with Di people in the mountains and forests is undoubtedly an act of looking for death by themselves, but in the panic of the sudden attack, Ma Chao's soldiers may not be able to calm everyone down, so chaos and disorder are inevitable.
Ma Chao shouted loudly, trying to lead more soldiers to rush to the war horse, and then took the war horse to the flat ground, as long as it was on the flat ground, once the war horse run, whether it was fighting or withdrawing, the initiative was in the hands of Ma Chao.
When Ma Chao killed several people who were rushing towards him, he snatched out of the woodland, and before he could run to the Tibetan horse land, he heard the screams and wails of the war horses!
The blood on Ma Chao's face suddenly disappeared, and he knew in his heart that this time, things were in trouble......