Ma Chao was originally galloping on a horse, so although he used his war horse to block the crossbow bolts shot and was not shot on the spot, he also fell extremely badly when he fell, and he couldn't get up with a half-bang on his face.

Ma Dai pounced on Ma Chao's side, his right arm seemed to be shot through by a crossbow arrow, or hung up, anyway, the flesh and blood hung blurred, and he couldn't even hold the blade, and the blood had already flowed half of his body, so he could only barely hold a shield with his left arm to block Ma Chao in front.

"Major General! Can't rush through! Ma Dai yelled at Ma Chao, "Retreat!" Let's retreat! ”

In fact, there is no need for Ma Dai to talk about it, Ma Chao also saw it.

Under the powerful crossbow arrows in turn, for the flesh-and-blood war horses and soldiers, the lethality is undoubtedly huge, even if there are more than a dozen lucky fish that have not been shot, there is no way in front of the Fei Qian's army array, or they are stabbed by spears, or cut into the horse's feet by swords and shields, they can't cause much damage to Fei Qian's formation, let alone disrupt and break the formation.

"Buzz! Airplanes! ”

The crossbow roared happily, drinking and eating flesh and blood, but Ma Chao's heart sank to the bottom in such a sharp roar.

The trip to Chang'an was a failure!

According to the current situation, yes, choosing to avoid its edge and retreating and regrouping is the best choice, but ......

But once he retreats, the prestige he has built up with great difficulty is undoubtedly a huge loss!

Ma Chao is young, unlike other famous veterans, he is already a meritorious service, a defeat of two is harmless, for Ma Chao, this is the first time to command such a large-scale army, once defeated and retreated, others will no longer say that this is the descendant of General Fubo, but the madman who was defeated in Chang'an!

The heroic career is all in vain!

Why, why?

Lying behind the horse corpse, Ma Chao felt that the noisy sounds around him were far and near, big and small, and the situation in front of him was also up and down, left and right, and his brain was buzzing and hurting......

How can there be such an army?

How could you have allowed yourself to run into such an army?

Just looking at the strong crossbow soldiers in the Fei Qian army formation on the opposite side, standing up and squatting down in an orderly manner, even if they saw a cavalry rushing to the front, there was still not much rhythm disorder, and they seemed to trust the guards of the most cutting-edge sword and shield men and pikemen, how could Ma Chao not know that this was obviously a well-trained Han elite comparable to the Han family's elite of the Northern and Southern Forbidden Army of the Han Dynasty!

Such an elite Han army, isn't it already gone when Emperor Han Ling was gone?

In the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, who was originally known as the elite of the world's central forbidden army, was already in vain, and there were really no soldiers available, so he could only transfer Huangfu Song and others from the Xiliang border soldiers to quell the rebellion......

And now, why did such an elite strong army suddenly emerge?

"......" Ma Dai's face suddenly dilated in Ma Chao's pupils, and he didn't know what he was shouting with his mouth open.

Ma Chao closed his eyes and shook his head, and the surrounding sounds "buzzed" back to his ears, shaking his eardrums a little painful!

“…… The Qiang people can't stop it! Major General! ”

"Qiang?!" Ma Chao turned his head violently to look, and his pupils couldn't help shrinking. Since he was a child, Ma Chao has basically spent time on horseback, and when he saw the situation in front of him, how could he not know what this meeting meant?

This is like a group of sheep that have been broken into the sheepfold by tigers and leopards, and the Qiang people let out miserable and helpless shouts, subconsciously scattering and running wildly, and have completely lost any fighting spirit and courage to resist. These Qiang people thought that they were all about letting the personnel of other tribes resist the impact of the Han army, and then buy themselves time to adjust, but everyone thought like this, so naturally no one was willing to step forward to resist the Han army.

Without fighting spirit and courage, how can you still compete with this strong Han army?

What the hell is going on here?

Ma Chao was at a loss in his heart and had no answer.

Ma Dai's bloody face came to the front, and he roared with foam: "Young General! Major General! Decide now! ”

Several guards rode their horses and blocked in front of Ma Chao regardless of life and death, but under the roar of the crossbow arrows, these flesh and blood bodies were useless, and they fell heavily in front of Ma Chao in a blink of an eye!

The war horse, which was hit by the crossbow arrow but did not die on the spot, howled miserably, tried to raise its neck, supported its body, and tried to stand up again, but was shot in the neck by the next round of crossbow arrows, and fell to the ground again with a wailing......

The soldiers do not have such a strong vitality, as long as the crossbow bolt is hit by the head-on point, it is basically dead on the spot, with very few exceptions, only the hands, feet, limbs, etc. are hit by the crossbow arrow, and there are still some people who are struggling to survive......

"Less...... Ahem...... Major General...... Retreat......" Ma Dai shook his body and gritted his teeth to urge Ma Chao.

Ma Chao turned his head sharply, grabbed a shield from the side that he didn't know who had fallen, and blocked behind him: "Retreat!" Fall back! I swore that if I didn't take my son, I wouldn't take revenge, and heaven and earth would not tolerate it! ”

After Ma Chao roared, under the cover of several guards, he bent down and walked two steps, but suddenly found that Ma Dai did not follow, and when he suddenly looked back, he saw that Ma Dai did not know when a crossbow arrow had been revealed between his chest and abdomen, and he was half kneeling on the ground motionless......

Then Ma Dai slowly lowered his head, could no longer support it, and fell to the ground, only raising a layer of smoke and dust.

At this moment, Ma Chao's eyes finally welled up with big tears, no hysterical shouts, no other crazy actions, not even wiping them, just a deep glance at the flag fluttering in the Feiqian army array, like a dog that had been torn off its back, running away with its tail between its legs.

Tears dripped down, and in the blink of an eye, they were swallowed up by the yellow sand, leaving only a faint mark......

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"Kill it!"

At the city wall, the head of the yak Qiang with his subordinates was also killed covered in blood, a heavy war knife opened and closed, I don't know how many defenders of the city head were cut down, no matter how bravely the soldiers of Chong Shao rushed towards him, he always cut it down more fiercely.

Later, even if the guards who had regained some vitality because of the arrival of reinforcements, they retreated step by step in front of the head of the yak Qiang, and even shouted, turned around and ran!

Another group of Qiang people followed behind the yak Qiang people, climbed the ladder, jumped closer, and jumped into a city that seemed to have been completely soaked in blood.

The people on the city wall who had lost their strength, in the face of more and more Qiang people, just shrunk their bodies, hid in the pile of corpses and shivered, muttering the names of the gods, as to whether they could live, or what they would face in the future, these people had completely given up any action, just evaded and handed over their fate to the illusory gods.

The yak Qiangtou man roared wildly, and when he saw that a lot of his subordinates had come up, he rushed straight to the place where Shao was planted!

At this time, Chong Shao had already retreated into the corner tower, more than a dozen guards stopped at the door of the corner tower, and several archers leaned out half of their bodies from the corner tower lookout.

"Shoot! Shoot fast! ”

The last bit of archers and guards, all remained here as a hope in case of emergency. Anyway, if there were no reinforcements, the city would have been pulled down, and now, naturally, it would be delayed as long as possible, and if it died before the dawn, wouldn't it be too aggrieved?

As for whether the Qiang would abandon them and rush into the city to loot or something, Chong Shao didn't care at all.

Anyway, as long as you leave your life behind, it will be considered a ruined fortune!

Everywhere the arrow passed, the Qiang people around the yak Qiang were shot down a few people, these Qiang people originally had no armor, so the protection of the bow and arrow was basically equal to zero, and even the yak Qiang man was hit by an arrow on the forearm!

But the head of the yak Qiang didn't hum, raised his hand and folded the arrow shaft, and then slapped it hard with his hand at the broken pole, and half of the arrow was completely revealed from the other side with flesh and blood, and it was pulled out directly with a bang, and was thrown aside bloody!

"Up!"

The yak-headed man picked up a spear and threw it with all his might, and immediately stuck to an archer who was trying to shoot again at the corner tower's lookout, nailing it directly to the window!

Dozens of Qiang people swarmed up, surrounding the guards who were blocking the gate of the corner tower with knives and guns, desperately slashing and killing.

The guards standing outside the corner tower blocked the knives from this side, but they couldn't stop the guns from the other side, and after a few rounds, they howled miserably and were slashed to the ground.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining plantation guards hurriedly retracted into the corner tower, and then the situation turned around.

The Qiang people who tried to rush into the corner tower, in the narrow area of the door, could not guard against the stabbing of more than a dozen spears at all, and fell to the door one after another, and suddenly the corpses were stacked in several layers, and almost all of them were knee-high, which added to the difficulty of the attack, and there was a stalemate for a while......

"Open the gates! Open the gates! The leader of the yak Qiang asked the guards to help him bandage his arms and shouted, "Let all the sons and daughters outside the city come in!" ”

"Chief! Headman! A guard stood on the edge of the city, pointing to the battlefield in the distance with a little panic and shouting, "Look, the leader! Tsing Yi Qiang retired! Yes! Baimaqiang is also retreating! ”

"What?!" The yak Qiangtou rushed to the edge of the battlement in a few steps, and with a fist of resentment, he hammered the battlement, not caring at all about the blood from the wound splashing everywhere, and roared angrily, "These cowardly pigs! This bunch of mongrel dogs! We've already beaten it! It's down, why retreat! Why do you want to retreat! ”

"Chief, what are we going to do?!"

The Yak Qiang itself is not a big tribe, there are not many people and horses, and now the White Horse Qiang and Tsing Yi Qiang have retreated, and the Wolf Qiang and Ran Lu Qiang may not be able to resist for long, leaving little time for the Yak Qiang to do so......

It is impossible to defend the city, not to mention that there are still some defenders who have not been completely cleared, and they want to defend the city with these horses under their own command, which is basically delusional, not to mention that even the big tribe Baimaqiang and these people have retreated, why should they fight to the death here?

If you insist on being here, you can only let these clansmen in your hands be wiped out!

"Open the gates!" The yak Qiangtou man roared.

"Chief!"

"I said, "Open the gates! Tell the people of the other tribes that the city is broken, and take as much as you can! They can take as much as they want! The yak Qiang man said, "...... When they dismounted, they entered the city...... We're going to get on the horse and go......"

"......" The guard glanced at the yak Qiangtou man with a complicated expression, didn't say anything more, and immediately turned around to give the order.

"Damn! Damn! Yak Qiang turned his head and stared angrily at the houses and streets in the city, like a hungry wolf, staring at the fat and oily sheep, "It's almost, it's almost ......."

"Otherwise, let's go in and get some, and we can take as much as we can......" Someone on the side was a little greedy and couldn't help but suggest.

“…… No, there's no time......" The yak Qiangtou looked at the battlefield again, shook his head and vetoed, "Defeated too quickly...... There is no time left...... We have to go faster, otherwise we ......"

"But before that...... the yak Qiang man turned his head to look at the corner tower, gritted his teeth and pointed with his bloody arm, "Come on, find some fire and wood, throw it in, and burn it for Lao Tzu!" Burn them! Damn, if these guys hadn't been holding back Lao Tzu for so long, how would we not have extra time! ”

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“…… ......On the hill far away from the battlefield, Li Ru looked at the changes in the battlefield and said to Jia Xu, "...... It's really an outlier...... Tsk, straight to the point, crisp and neat......"

Fei Qian's strategy and Li Ru's original plan are basically the same, they are all about the same as the chaos of the commander of the Ma Chao Legion, although there are empty numbers, but there is not much cohesion, and directly give the most ferocious blow, which eventually caused the entire Ma Chao Legion to lose control and flee separately, just like a herd of dozens or hundreds of cattle being driven by one or two tigers and leopards to run around.

If this herd gathers in one place and the horns of the cattle resist together, one or two tigers and leopards may not be able to occupy the advantage in a short period of time and win, but in a scene like now, every cow is running wildly, just wanting other cattle to fill the appetite of the tiger and leopard, so that they can escape, even if the number of cattle is doubled, it is useless.

Li Ru is relatively less manpowered, so the original plan was to only wait at night, when Ma Chao and others were lax in their defense, that is, after the city of Chang'an was broken, whether it was the Qiang people or Ma Chao's people, when their attention was in the city, they suddenly launched a surprise attack, drove away the chaos, and seized the war horses left by these people outside the city, so that they could be like wolves on the grassland, they didn't need to fight head-on, they just needed to follow not far away, keep making wounds on the prey, exert pressure, and wait until the prey itself was tired and bleeding and collapsed. Then it's time for a delicious meal.

As a result, before Li Ru launched, the general of the expedition to the west, Fei Qian, came, and the offensive was so fierce that it was like a giant hammer, smashing the huge Ma Chao army.

This was completely beyond Li Ru's expectations......

"How?" Jia Xu laughed twice and said, "That's not bad, right?" ”

"Alas......" Li Ru sighed, waved his hand with a complicated expression, and said, "Come on...... was originally a good table of dishes, but it was disrupted by Haw Par...... If you don't go up, you won't have to eat......"