725, Ma Chao's curiosity
Faced with the appearance of the light cavalry of Zhu Weijun led by Zhang Liao, Han Suijun immediately lost his will to fight and directly began to flee again.
When Han Suijun's cavalry faced the cavalry of Ma Teng's army, it was natural that they could still fight hard with the other party, but in the face of the light cavalry of the Zhu Weijun who liked to hide in the distance and shoot arrows, Han Suijun's cavalry really had no means of countermeasures.
Therefore, if the light cavalry of the Zhu Wei army led by Zhang Liao is surrounded, and there is an impact of Ma Teng's army, then the cavalry of Han Sui's army is afraid that the whole army will be wiped out here.
Han Sui could quickly figure out the pros and cons in his heart, so he led his troops to retreat without hesitation, although now the war horses of his cavalry were also very tired, but the current terrain on this side was absolutely unable to confront the light cavalry of Zhu Wei's army, even if he wanted to fight, he needed to find a suitable terrain.
Although the terrain of this Feng Yi Mansion is basically plain terrain, Han Sui also knows where some rivers are, maybe he can take his cavalry to retreat to a river, and then find a place to cross the river to defend, then he can at least use a small number of troops to block the pursuit of Zhu Wei's light cavalry and Ma Teng's army, so that most of his troops can take a temporary rest.
As long as his cavalry and war horses recover their strength, he can run away with the remaining soldiers and horses under his command, even if he doesn't return to the old base camp in Liangzhou first, he can escape to Bingzhou, and he can go to find the familiar Qiang tribe for rescue.
It's a pity that although Han Sui's thoughts in his heart are clear, the cavalry under his command is really a little unable to run.
However, the light cavalry of Zhu Wei's army, because of the "Lu" famous horse bonus controlled by Zhang Liao, had a speed that surpassed that of ordinary cavalry troops, so soon Zhang Liao and the light cavalry had caught up with Han Sui's army.
One by one, the feather arrows flew towards the cavalry of Han Sui's army with the charge of Zhu Wei's light cavalry, and from time to time you could see Han Sui's cavalry arrows falling from their horses.
Of course, at this time, Ma Tengjun's side naturally did not stop in place to watch the play, so Ma Chao, Ma Dai, Pang De and other Ma generals also took the cavalry and caught up behind Han Suijun.
Seeing such a scene, Cheng Yi, Ma Play, and the candidates naturally did not participate, so Ma Tengjun also bit tightly behind Han Suijun again.
And the morale of Han Sui's army finally collapsed completely, it can be said that Han Sui gathered the defeated troops and prepared to fight to the death, which was already the last breath of Han Sui's cavalry, but this gas was completely discharged because of the appearance of Zhu Weijun's light cavalry.
Seeing the light cavalry of the Zhu Wei Army rushing up from all around, seeing the feather arrows shot by the other side, and seeing the cavalry of the Ma Teng Army chasing after them in the rear, many Han Sui cavalry couldn't help but stop their horses, lost the courage to fight again, and simply surrendered to the Ma Teng Army.
At least the surrendered Ma Tengjun can still live at this moment, otherwise he can only become the soul of the Zhu Weijun light cavalry.
This also includes Li Kan and Cheng Yin's forces, who were originally only dependent on Han Suijun, and in today's situation, of course they are not willing to follow Han Sui all the way to the end.
Besides, they originally fell behind the retreat of Han Sui's army, even if they fled with Han Sui's army, I am afraid that they will fall behind and become cannon fodder.
So driven by the surrender of nearly 1,000 cavalry led by Li Kan and Cheng Yin, many of the cavalry of Han Sui's army, which was originally in front of Ma Teng's army, surrendered, and only Yan Xing with hundreds of cavalry still fled in the direction of Han Sui's army's retreat.
It can be said that now Ma Teng's army has completely become a reserve army to receive Han Suijun's surrender, and Ma Teng's army has been chasing and killing Han Sui's army all the way to this side, and has not been able to make Han Sui's army afraid of surrender, but now with the appearance of Zhu Weijun's light cavalry, Han Sui's army finally began to surrender in large numbers.
For this reason, Ma Chao was also a little surprised, but at this time, these surrendered Han Sui army cavalry naturally could not be ignored, so he sent Cheng Yi, Ma Play, and candidates to be responsible for sheltering these surrendered Han Sui army cavalry, as for himself, he still took Ma Dai, Pang De and other Ma Tengjun descendants, and continued to follow and kill Han Suijun.
In fact, Ma Chao still had a careful thought in his heart, that is, he wanted to see how the light cavalry of Zhu Weijun fought, because he saw that this light cavalry of Zhu Weijun was a little unusual.
Ma Chao was originally a good cavalry general, and he grew up on horseback with Ma Teng since he was a child, but he had never seen the cavalry tactics of Zhu Weijun's light cavalry that could use bows and arrows as the main means of attack on rushing war horses.
Ma Chao could clearly see that when the light cavalry of the Zhu Wei Army in front of him was chasing and killing the cavalry of Han Sui's army, they used a feather arrow to collect the lives of Han Sui's cavalry, this kind of cavalry shooting tactics really surprised Ma Chao.
Ma Chao felt in his heart that if he faced such a cavalry, it seemed that he could only be beaten, but he had no way to fight back at all.
Originally, in the pursuit battle between the cavalry, if they couldn't catch up with the opponent, they could only watch the opponent flee, which is why Ma Teng's army pursued Han Sui's army and lost the army before, but it didn't reap much results.
But now the light cavalry of the Zhu Wei army is chasing and killing the cavalry of Han Sui's army, even if the cavalry of Han Suijun gallops on horseback, they will be chased by Zhu Weijun's light cavalry with bows and arrows and shot a large number of shots, which almost makes Han Sui's cavalry unable to escape.
It is no wonder that when Ma Teng's army pursued and killed Han Sui's army before, not many people in Han Sui's army surrendered, but now as soon as the light cavalry of Zhu Weijun appeared, a large number of Han Sui's cavalry took the initiative to surrender.
Ma Chao naturally also saw the special saddle and two-foot horse pedal equipped by Zhu Weijun's light cavalry on the war horse, as Ma Chao, who was very familiar with the characteristics of cavalry, quickly understood the meaning of this equipment for cavalry.
No wonder the light cavalry of the Zhu Wei Army can shoot arrows in the rush, it turns out that there is such special equipment.
At the same time, Ma Chao also found that the war horses driven by Zhu Weijun's light cavalry seemed to have special performances, and when the war horses driven by these light cavalry ran, the sound of horse hooves seemed to be a little strange.
Ma Chao naturally couldn't know about the existence of the horseshoe now, but Ma Chao already felt in his heart that there must be something strange under the feet of these war horses, and this was not a normal sound of horses' hooves.
Everything made Ma Chao a little curious about Zhu Weijun's cavalry.
Although the heavy armored cavalry led by Ma Tengjun and Zhang Xiu arrived in Yunyang County together, the armies of both sides still went their own way after all, so Ma Chao did not have much chance to see the horse equipment of those heavy armored cavalry.
Or Ma Chao was just a little shocked by the iron-clad armor equipped by the heavy cavalry and the armor that put iron armor on the war horses, but he didn't pay too much attention to the high saddle and double horse pedal.
But now that he really saw the light cavalry of Zhu Weijun's army, Ma Chao felt that these two types of cavalry equipment were unusual.
Now Ma Chao is really a little surprised by Zhu Weijun, he already knows that he and Pang De were named by Zhu Wei to be transferred, of course, now Ma Chao also feels that he may be taken as a hostage, but he still hopes that in addition to being a hostage, he can observe Zhu Weijun's situation in Zhu Weijun.
Therefore, Ma Chao also has some expectations for going to Zhu Wei's side to call in the future, he only hopes that he will not be placed under house arrest somewhere after being transferred, then he may not be able to stop it......