Chapter 271: Riding God's Posture
Jiang Wei just waited for Ma Chao to appear; And the strong side also has the idea of delaying time.
In his calculations, Cao Zhendang had received the news from Muba, and he should have sent troops to the military capital at this moment. As long as he dragged the Han and Qiang coalition forces for a few days, then what awaited them was a fatal blow from Cao Wei's army.
As a result, the two armies seemed to have a tacit understanding, separated by a white water, only to wait for the battle, and no one easily attacked again, but the flags of both sides waved, and the tense atmosphere was even more pervasive.
After facing each other for about half an hour, the red sun finally broke out of the thick clouds, sprinkling a layer of golden light on all things in heaven and earth.
Suddenly, but hearing a thunderclap on the ground, the sound of hurried and heavy horses' hooves sounded behind the Di army, as if a military horse flew from far and near.
Qiang Duan's heart froze, and he subconsciously turned around and looked behind, but when he saw the mountains and green grass in the distance, he couldn't see anything at first glance.
Fu Shuang had already turned over and dismounted, put his ear to the ground, and only listened to it roughly, and his face had changed greatly.
"Listen to the sound of hooves, it seems that thousands of horses are galloping towards us! This... Where did this come from? ”
As soon as he finished saying this, the earth trembled even more violently, and even the soldiers on the front line felt this strange movement, and while whispering, they turned back to look at the rear.
Qiang Duan's face turned pale, and his cold eyes swept the soldiers in the front row, and shouted angrily: "Hold your own position, don't be distracted!" ”
After speaking, he turned to Fu Shuang again and urged: "There is no time to guess, you quickly lead the brothers of the guards to step forward and block it, and this king will immediately bring people to support!" ”
"Yes!" Fu Shuang didn't say a word, and immediately galloped to the left of the strong end of the cavalry team, and shouted: "Brothers, follow me to meet the enemy!" ”
This cavalry is the ace elite in the hands of the strong end, everyone is wearing leather armor, all holding steel knives, before resting for a long time, at this moment at first hearing that the main generals have drawn their knives out of the sheath, shouted in response, for a time the sound of horses' hooves rumbled, earth-shattering.
Fu Shuang took the lead, galloped out of the rear for less than a mile, turned a corner, and saw two hundred paces away, a group of black-pressed cavalry was rushing at high speed. Looking at its number and movements, I am afraid that there are thousands of people.
The cavalry team was the first general, holding a spear, a lion helmet and beast belt, silver armor and white robes, full of strong killing intent, and it was the Jinma Chao.
Fu Shuang was shocked when he saw it, and said in his heart, how did Ma Chao cross the river and go around behind our army?
But he knew that this was not the time to speculate, and the top priority was to stop Ma Chao's offensive in order to buy the army a little time to react.
The idea was set, Fu Shuangma's speed did not decrease, the knife pointed obliquely ahead, and shouted:
"Brothers, charge with me!"
"Woo-woo-woo-"
The low, hurried sound of trumpets echoed in the field, and the horsemen of both sides shouted in unison and accelerated at the same time, and the dust suddenly flew in the wilderness, obscuring the sky and the sun!
Knights of black or gray appeared and disappeared in the dust, and the two cavalry teams were like two dragons, swallowing clouds and spitting fog in the yellow dust of the sky, approaching at high speed.
This cavalry of the Di people is a strong end of several years, it took countless efforts to create a strong force, the leather armor on the body is sewn by two layers of heavy armor cowhide, and the steel knives in the hands are given by the Wei State, although there are only 1,000 people, but in Yinping, Wudu can be said to be invincible, so Fu Shuang is not afraid of the famous Ma Chao and his Xiliang Iron Cavalry this time.
"Hmph, we Diren warriors are by no means easy to mess with!"
In just the blink of an eye, the cavalry led by Fu Shuang was already within a distance of more than twenty zhang from the horse, and the horse speed had already been pushed to the extreme.
Just as he was about to collide, Ma Chao in the Han cavalry team was full of anger, waved his spear, and shouted: "Lift!"
As he gave the order, the riders behind him held their spears over their right shoulders, the barrels almost parallel to the ground.
After a few more moments, the two sides got closer and closer, and the distance was less than ten zhang.
"Cast!"
With a loud shout, Ma Chao straightened his back, his right arm suddenly exerted force, and threw the spear in his hand like lightning, heading straight for the enemy general Fu Shuang, who was clearly armored.
The soldiers behind him did not hesitate to throw their spears at the enemy formation.
For a while, the spears flew one after another, and only the sound of sharp punctures was heard in the air, cutting through the air and cutting the waves, and the momentum was extremely terrifying.
Fu Shuang obviously didn't expect Ma Chao to have such a tactic, the spear was menacing, and the two sides were so close that they couldn't dodge, so they hurriedly rolled down the war horse in exclamation.
He narrowly escaped with his life, but his war horse couldn't dodge, and was pierced through the neck by Ma Chao with a shot, neighing, and died!
At the same time, hundreds of spears volleyed into the air, and the people couldn't dodge, and the first row of knights were all killed by the flying spears, and the screams of crying father and mother broke through the sky.
Speaking of which, this type of close-range throwing spear is the unique skill of Xiliang Iron Cavalry. When two teams charge at the same time, if one side suffers a sudden blow, the offensive and speed will inevitably slow down; Once the cavalry slowed down, the only way that awaited them was to be hanged.
Ma Chao was powerful in Liangzhou back then, and even Cao Cao could fight head-to-head, firstly, by relying on his own soldiers, and secondly, this type of tactics of attacking his unpreparedness was enough to make the opponent lose first without a fight.
Sure enough, the knights in the back row of the Diren cavalry were all frightened when they saw this, and they couldn't help but reduce their horses' speed and try to dodge the edge, and the cavalry charged and collapsed.
Ma Chao sneered, stretched out his hand to draw his knife, and then kicked the horse in the belly fiercely, bursting into the enemy formation like a gale.
But seeing that he carried a knife like flying, as fast as lightning, and every swing could take away a life, it made people feel that they could not resist it; The rider behind him took advantage of the situation to follow, drawing his sword and harvesting.
As soon as the cavalry of the two sides came into contact, the proud cavalry of the strong end instantly collapsed like a landslide, and the riders were frightened, screamed in shock, and scattered to dodge.
"Vulnerable!"
Ma Chao sneered and didn't drive away, he knew that in this case, this cavalry team was in ruins, and it was almost difficult to organize a decent resistance.
There were a few drops of blood on his handsome face, but he didn't care at all, turned around and pulled out the tiger's head Zhan golden spear inserted in the horse's neck, half raised it in the air, and said: "Soldiers, follow me to kill the strong end!" ”
After that, he rode his horse again and took the strong end of the river bank a mile away.
The riders behind him tried their skills a little, and at the moment their blood was boiling, their fighting spirit was high, and they all shouted loudly.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
A mile away from the Di army's main formation, Qiangduan's face was pale, and large pieces of sweat could not stop dripping down his cheeks, for him, the situation in front of him could be described as extremely urgent.
He had hoped that Fu Shuang would delay for half an hour, so that he could calmly arrange the riverbank defenses, and then draw his infantry to flank the incoming enemy. But he really didn't expect Fu Shuang to lose so quickly, barely surviving a cup of tea!
There was not much time left for him.
Qiang Duan didn't have time to feel distressed, stretched out his hand and swiped forward, shouting: "You five thousand people, turn around to meet the enemy!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, dust and smoke billowed up behind him, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and a cavalry team holding high the banner of the word "horse" rushed like a whirlwind.
Under the urging of the strong and unbearable, the 5,000 Di people raised their weapons in fear, stepped forward in formation, and met the Ma Chao cavalry who was killing like a storm.
When they were about to collide, but when they heard the sound of breaking through the sky, they sneered, and the horse super cavalry threw a spear that meant death again.
The 5,000 people were caught off guard, shot into a mist of blood, and their corpses were strewn all over the field, and the wails resounded through the riverside.
Before they could come to their senses, the sound of hooves rumbled, and the horse super cavalry had already entered the formation like a whirlwind. This group of Di people held out for only a moment, and soon showed a tendency to be overwhelmed, and fled in rout.
Seeing this, the strong end didn't care about anything else, and commanded the foot soldiers defending on the river to encircle and suppress.
However, it was said that Jiang Wei had heard the movement on the other side of the river, saw the banner of the word "horse" waving in the wind from a distance, and saw the chaos on the opposite bank, so he resolutely ordered: "Cross the river and kill the enemy!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Qiang rode for a long time, already impetuous, at first hearing the order of the lord, immediately began to cross the river in a loud shout, for a time stirred up waves.
Jiang Wei was concerned about Ma Chao, urging the horse to cross the river, but his eyes never left the Xiliang Cavalry.
But seeing that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was like a heavy and sharp spear, it killed through the three-layer Diren phalanx in a row, hacked and slashed countless Diren, leaving only a corpse.
The Di people tried to flank the left and right, but Ma Chao, who was the sharp knife of the cavalry, had an extremely sensitive sense of smell on the battlefield, leading the cavalry non-stop, interspersed back and forth, not giving the Di people any chance to trap them, but instead dragged them to chase left and right, tired of running.
In a short time, the Diren Front was already scattered, and it was difficult to form a team.
"I don't want General Ma to be so strong, this battle is almost certain." Jiang Wei couldn't help but nodded.
The attainments of the five tiger generals on the battlefield, he has already seen three. If Guan Yu is a highly skilled commander; Then Ma Chao can be said to be the only fierce general who takes the lead and charges into battle.
He is not good at governing the army and military strategy, and he also stumbles in positional warfare and siege warfare, and is often unsatisfactory; But there's no doubt that his fighting style is wild and hot, making him a top fighter in wilderness encounters.
This may have something to do with his background.
As the saying goes, "To fight a tiger, you need brothers, and you can't leave your father and son when you go into battle."
The only remaining 2,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry under Ma Chao's command are composed of the old troops who followed him to the north and south, and this group of middle-level and low-level commanders and generals who have survived a hundred battles are familiar with the fighting style of the main general, and can point where to fight; He also has the determination to share the same hatred with the main general, and can follow to the death in the chaotic battlefield, and follow him with the sacrifice of life when the general takes the lead in the charge, and closely guard the left and right.
In front of such a strong army with intimate soldiers, extremely outstanding personal martial arts, and unique tactics, even Cao Cao did not dare to take his edge lightly, let alone rush to the army?
"It is worthy of the mighty and cool Shenwei Tian General!" Jiang Wei sighed softly: "When I was in Jingzhou, I thought that Yulinwei was strong enough, but compared with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in front of me, it was still a lot worse...... I don't know who can be better than Cao Wei Tiger and Leopard riding......"
Suddenly, he sighed again: "If General Ma joins forces with the lord in his heyday, pacifying Yongliang is just around the corner, but it's a pity that there was a big battle in Guanzhong and Longxi, and the Xiliang Legion was wiped out, and now these two thousand people are the only remaining strength of the Ma clan......"
The shouts on the river were like thunder, and the Han and Qiang coalition forces had already crossed halfway. The camp of the Di people was disrupted by Ma Chao, and only a shallow row of Di people archers were on guard on the river, and only a few waves of arrows were shot sparsely.
Although it caused some damage to the Qiang cavalry, it was difficult to stop the Qiang cavalry from crossing the river.
Most of the Qiang cavalry tended to rely on personal martial arts to fight alone, which was completely different from Ma Chao's neat and uniform style of advancing and retreating, and as the first rider squeezed onto the land on the opposite bank, more and more Qiang cavalry completed the breakthrough and began to charge.
The Qiang charge looked more like a group fight, but the way they raised their eyebrows and shouted in battle was enough to startle the archers.
So, it collapsed at the first touch!
The Qiang cavalry tasted the results of the battle, no matter how difficult it was to restrain it, it did not form a formation, and pursued it bravely.
On the other side, Ma Dai and the soldiers of the cavalry battalion have also completed the crossing of the river and are forming a team to assemble, as if they are going to fight with Ma Chao to attack the main force of the Diren foot soldiers who are being led by the nose.
People roared and neighed, armor was sonorous, spears were poked out, machetes were broken, and the sound of fighting shook the heavens.
In the end, due to the completion of the Qiang cavalry crossing the river, the momentum of the coalition army has been formed, and the morale of the Di army has fallen sharply.
Ma Chao and Ma Dai's cavalry reunited into a torrent, trampled vertically and horizontally, and began to sweep everything on the battlefield. They were covered in blood and looked terrible, so that the Di people had no intention of resisting, so they could only abandon their armor and drag their soldiers away.
To sum it up in one sentence - defeat is like a mountain!
At this point in the battle, although there were many soldiers, they could no longer organize effective resistance, and they couldn't look up to the sky and sigh, so they turned around and fled.
This scene happened to fall into Ma Chao's eyes, and he only heard a loud shout: "Where to run!" ”
Suddenly, the horse reined on the ground, and the war horse under his crotch neighed in pain, raised his front hooves, and made a stand.
Ma Chao's body was slightly oblique, and the horse's hind legs were pulled to the ground, and he suddenly completed the horizontal turn.
He did not stop at all, as soon as the horse's front hooves hit the ground, and then he slammed the horse's belly, and the horse's hooves flew up and down, and one man and one horse suddenly flew like an arrow from the string, and went straight to the direction of the strong end.
Jiang Wei boasted that his riding skills were quite good, but when he saw Ma Chao's smooth and smooth horse control skills in one go, and his demeanor like chasing stars and chasing the moon, Rao was arrogant, and he couldn't help but admire it at this time.
The name of the riding god is well deserved!
The two of them approached one after the other, gradually approaching; After more than 30 breaths, the distance shrank smaller and smaller, and the front and back were only ten zhang apart.
Ma Chao raised his gun on his shoulder and suddenly exerted force.
After a scream, the spear struck the strong end in the back with the same precision as if it had an eye, and the strong end flew away from the horse's back and landed in the open space half a foot away.
Blood gushed down the spear god, and a generation of Di kings was killed.
Ma Chao slowly slowed down his horse, pulled out the spear from the corpse, flipped his wrist and shook it slightly, and the blood on the spear body scattered along the red tassels.
His face turned red and he muttered, "Brother Lei Ding, General Wu Lan, I, Ma Chao, have finally avenged you!" ”
The strong end died, officially announcing the defeat of the Di army, Yang Wan jumped out in time and shouted in the Di language: "Those who kneel on the ground and beg for mercy will not die!" ”
In order to save their lives, the remnants of the Di people knelt on the ground and asked to surrender.
On that day, the allied forces won a great victory in Baishui, killing 3,000 enemies, capturing nearly 10,000 strong people, and collecting hundreds of war horses.
Yin is flat, and it is already within reach.