The reason why Sun Ce dared to gamble with Ma Chao was not completely uncertain, as we all know, there are few horses in the south, and naturally there is a shortage of cavalry, and the most common in the south is foot soldiers, and there are few cavalry. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There are not many cavalry under the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion, and after Sun Ce served as the Metropolitan Governor, he has been trying how to use the advantage of infantry to resist the cavalry charge, and after so many years of exploration, he finally found a way, that is, to use the phalanx to resist the powerful impact of the cavalry.

Sun Ce's phalanx is composed of three kinds of soldiers, the first is the sword and shield soldiers, one hand holds the ring head knife, the other hand holds the shield, the shield can block the attack of the cavalry, followed by the spear and shield soldiers, the same is one hand with a gun, the other hand holds the shield, and finally the super long pikeman, the spear and spear in the hands of this kind of soldier are very long, mainly under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, to block the attack of the cavalry.

The most effective number of such a phalanx is 30,000 people, the reason why Sun Ce figured out this phalanx on his mobile phone was also that once Su Chen inadvertently said about the Macedonian phalanx, and then Sun Ce secretly remembered this matter, under his command, the sword and shield soldiers, the spear and shield soldiers are all ready-made, as for the super long spear, there are also in the army, this time he gambled with Ma Chao, it really made him test the power of his phalanx.

The three days passed in a flash, and during these three days, Sun Ce gathered 30,000 people together and conducted queue training, fortunately, these soldiers had a good queue training on weekdays, just a little training, and the tacit understanding between them could be practiced.

Three days later, Sun Ce led an army of 30,000 to wait for Ma Chao outside Huayin City, and when Ma Chao arrived with 30,000 iron cavalry, he saw that Sun Ce really only brought 30,000 foot soldiers, and couldn't help laughing: "Sun Ce, you dare to be so big, or let you understand the real Xiliang Iron Cavalry today." ”

Ma Chao's 30,000 Xiliang iron cavalry is not an ordinary cavalry, but a combination of the Roman legion and the Eastern Han Dynasty cavalry.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

Three drums sounded, Ma Chao raised his gun and ordered, and five thousand cavalry carriers with javelins crossed out of the formation and directly rushed to Sun Ce's front of the formation at the maximum horse speed.

"Raise your gun! Throw! ”

When Sun Ce was a hundred paces away, the leader of the cavalry led by him gave an order, and the cavalry behind him raised the javelins on horseback one after another, and threw them into Sun Ce's formation in unison.

When Sun Ce saw it, he secretly screamed badly, and immediately ordered: "Raise the shield!" ”

"Boom! Jingling! Sonor! ……”

In the first round of javelins, although Sun Ce had ordered to raise his shield for defense, there were still a few unfortunate soldiers who were shot by the javelins.

Five thousand lancers began to shoot from a hundred paces, five times in a row, Sun Ce's side suffered a lot of casualties, as the distance of the lancers became tighter and tighter, the range of the projectile became farther and farther, and the soldiers who were not prepared in time behind could not escape the doom.

The impact of the cavalry was very strong, just when Sun Ce thought that the five thousand lancers would continue to impact his formation after the projectile, but he did not expect that the five thousand lancers were divided into two columns, detouring from both wings, and did not impact Sun Ce's formation.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw a rain of arrows falling from the sky, but fortunately, the shield was hard enough, and a powerful turtle shell finally blocked the enemy's arrow rain.

After firing a few rounds of arrows, this group of cavalry also did not attack Sun Ce's formation, and retreated from both flanks in a roundabout way, just like the previous lancers.

"Boom, boom!"

Sun Ce didn't take a breath, this time, he saw Ma Chao personally rushing over with the rest of the cavalry, these cavalry are different from Fang Cai, these cavalry are not only fully armored, even the war horses are also covered with simple armor, although not as luxurious as the wolf horse, but it is enough to beat the light cavalry like Yun Ying.

Sun Ce didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ordered: "Raise your shield!" Spearmen step forward! ”

Under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, the super pikemen raised their spears through the gaps in the shield, forming a spear wall composed of spears in front of the shield, and whether they could withstand the impact of Ma Chao depended on now.

The Xiliang cavalry became tighter and tighter, and when the distance was a hundred paces, Sun Ce gave the Chinese army an order again: "Shoot!" ”

The shield soldiers of the Chinese army suddenly withdrew their shields, the archers pulled the strings and shot arrows, and the rain of arrows in the sky was a gift from Sun Ce to Ma Chao in return, although the damage caused by these waves of arrow rain to the Xiliang cavalry was limited, but it still blocked the speed of the Xiliang cavalry's advance.

"Boom ......"

Approaching, Ma Chao's cavalry entered, and one by one the knights took the lead and began to attack Sun Ce's formation, but the protruding spear became their nightmare, and countless knights were stabbed by the spear and then turned on their backs, which also brought some panic to the defensive formation.

Sun Ce deserved to be a commander with a degree, he hurriedly let the spearmen and shield soldiers who were scattered retreat, and the soldiers in the back row immediately did not go, after Ma Chaojun paid hundreds of casualties, Sun Cejun's formation was still as strong as a fortress.

With a wave of Ma Chao's hand, the cavalry who had been holding the meteor hammer came out of the crowd and threw the meteor hammer directly on the shield, and the shield soldiers were smashed to death and injured, and the formation was finally torn open due to the mixed wheel.

"Retreat!" With Sun Ce's order, the shield soldiers gave way to a small path, and after the cavalry rushed in, countless spears emerged on both sides, the spears did not hurt the knights, only harvested the horse's legs, and after losing their horses, those knights fell to the ground one after another, and were stabbed to death by the spearmen and spearmen who emerged.

More and more cavalry rushed into the formation, and the opening for the shield soldiers to give way became wider and wider, and at the same time, the road where the cavalry could charge became wider and wider. ”

Suddenly, the entrance was sealed, and the cavalry was surrounded, but the cavalry charge did not stop, and under the command of the cavalry general, they continued to gouge through the action, but they underestimated the perseverance of this army, and countless pikemen continued to harvest the lives of the cavalry, and the cavalry gradually slowed down, lost its strong mobility, and the cavalry had lost his advantage.

Ma Chao saw that his cavalry was surrounded in the middle, and immediately ordered the previous lancers and archers to attack the formation, but no matter how these cavalry charged, Sun Ce's turtle shell had not been broken.

And time passed minute by minute, and the cavalry surrounded in the middle had become lambs to the slaughter, although Sun Ce's side also suffered heavy casualties, but finally maintained the formation and was not scattered.

Looking at the knights who kept dying, Ma Chao finally accepted his fate, he didn't want more cavalry to die, and then admitted defeat to Sun Ce: "Sun Ce, I lost this battle!" ”

As Ma Chao loudly admitted defeat, the surrounded cavalry also laid down their weapons, Ma Chao was a man, willing to gamble and lose, he had nothing to say, he didn't expect that the cavalry he had high hopes for was really not the opponent of the infantry.

What Ma Chao didn't know was that Sun Ce couldn't hold out for long, the reason why this army was able to maintain an inconvenient formation was that their individual soldiers were very strong in quality and perseverance, which was related to the training of soldiers' endurance and collective tactics formulated by Su Chen, Sun Ce was the one who carried out Su Chen's orders to the letter, so the soldiers under him were very collective.

Sun Ce rode his horse to Ma Chao and said, "Ma Chao, since you admit defeat, then you will fulfill your promise, right?" ”

"Don't worry, I, Ma Chao, am not a person who can't afford to lose, from today on, I am willing to return to Yanguo!" It seems that Ma Chao feels that it is not a bad thing to return to Yanguo.

"Good!"

After counting the results of the battle, it was found that the cavalry casualties of Ma Chao in this war exceeded 8,000, and the casualties of Sun Ce's infantry exceeded 10,000.

Sun Ce immediately reported the news of Ma Chao's surrender to Zhou Yu, the general of the Western Expedition, and Zhou Yu, the general, immediately became the one who helped Sun Ce collect and reorganize the prisoners.

After Ma Chao surrendered, Sun Ce led his army into Chang'an first, and took control of the Chang'an city gate, and soon Zhou Yu also rushed to Chang'an to sit in the town.

Broke through Chang'an, the army of the Western Expedition finally achieved the first important result, Ma Chao's identity is not ordinary, after the news of his surrender reached Luoyang, Su Chen in order to make Ma Chao sincerely loyal, directly named Ma Chao as the Duke of Liangguo, the general of the expedition to the west, temporarily obeying the orders of the general Zhou Yu.

Ma Chao also knows the weight of the Duke of the country, and he was entrusted with a heavy task by Su Chen as soon as he surrendered, Ma Chao was very useful in his heart, the title of the Great Yan Kingdom is different from that of the Great Han, Ma Chao's own Liang King is in name only, but this Liang Guo Duke is real, and Ma Chao also recognized the Yan Kingdom from the bottom of his heart.

Wealth does not return to the hometown, such as brocade clothes night walking, since Ma Chao really surrendered to the Yan Kingdom, he immediately asked him to lead troops to recover Beidi County, Beidi County is the old nest of his Ma family, Ma Teng has been operating here for many years, and Ma Chao has no problem leading troops to recover Beidi County.

However, for the sake of insurance, Zhou Yu asked Sun Ce and Ma Chao to command 100,000 troops, first recover Beidi County, and then send troops from Beidi County to attack Anding Wuwei, as for Zhou Yu, he will personally lead the army from Hanyang to attack Jincheng, Jincheng's Han Sui is the controller of the Han Emperor, this is a very unstable factor, he must destroy Han Sui.

At the same time, Zhou Yu also sent people to Longxi to say surrender, Longxi is the territory of the Dong family, if the Dong family and Han Sui go to the dark, it will be crushed by Zhou Yu's army sooner or later, as for this person who said surrender, it is Su Chen's old friend, Li Su, the county guard of Wudu County.

When Han and Ma fought, Li Su imitated Zhang Ji's previous practice, and invited himself to be the Taishou of Wudu County, which is very close to Chang'an, and at the same time has the advantage that Chang'an does not have, that is, he is in charge of taxes, money, grain, and territory.

Su Chen ascended the throne as the emperor and established the Yan State, Gao Shun and others who followed Su Chen were all crowned princes, Li Su is now repentant, but there is no way, now, he can only surrender, and is eager to make a contribution to the pacification of Xiliang, and gain a firm foothold in Yan in the future, so Li Su asked for orders to go to Longxi to persuade Dong Yu.