Chapter 12 Ma Chao's first battle
The two cavalry crashed together like a flood that burst the embankment, and the soldiers who rushed to the front were torn apart by the huge impact and the enemy's weapons, even the war horses were not spared, and there was a thick blood mist on the battlefield, and the soldiers on both sides roared in low voices, waving the horses in their hands, and while manipulating the war horses to run forward, they slashed and killed the enemy soldiers who passed by. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The fighting between the two sides was extremely tragic, only a burst of killing, and both sides paid the price of hundreds of deaths, but the Flying Bear Army had just rushed past the White Horse Righteous Servant, and in a blink of an eye, they encountered the follow-up troops of the coalition army behind, and the situation of the White Horse Righteous was the same, and they were immediately blocked by the other Xiliang Iron Cavalry who followed behind the Flying Bear Army.
These ordinary cavalry are really not worth mentioning in the eyes of these two most elite cavalry, they quickly cut through the formation of their respective enemies and rushed out of the encirclement of the other party, and the number of the coalition army is more, even if the Flying Bear Army can be one enemy and two, it is still difficult to make up for the numerical inferiority, so the Xiliang army retreated into Guancheng after charging and killing again.
The coalition forces were naturally going to chase after them, but they were fiercely blocked by the Xiliang army defending the city and were forced to stop.
Neither side of this battle has taken a big advantage, relatively speaking, Bai Ma Yi's casualties from this side are more than those of the Flying Bear Army, this is mainly because they are a light cavalry, and they have no advantage in dealing with heavy cavalry like the Flying Bear Army, and the ordinary cavalry troops of the coalition army are simply vulnerable compared to the Flying Bear Army, even compared with the general Xiliang Army, there is a gap, after all, they are a temporary force.
Because the Xiliang Army took the initiative to attack, not only did it greatly disrupt the offensive rhythm of the coalition army, but also destroyed a large number of siege equipment prepared by the coalition army in the battle just now, which made the coalition army have to spend more time to prepare, and the rhythm of the offensive slowed down a lot.
In the afternoon of the same day, Dong Zhuo rushed from Luoyang to the Tiger Prison Pass, Luoyang was only more than 50 miles away from the Tiger Prison Pass, which was just a matter of more than an hour for the cavalry, but because Dong Zhuo was traveling in a carriage, it took four hours on the road.
As soon as Dong Zhuo came, Li Dao and Guo Yan naturally wanted to explain the battle situation to him, and Lu Bu, who had recently been defeated, had to ask Dong Zhuo for his guilt.
Early the next morning, the coalition forces went and returned, and came to the Tiger Prison Pass again to call for battle, this time because they did not have siege equipment, so they could not carry out a strong attack, so they chose to call for battle.
The two armies are facing each other, and the duel between the main generals is also the tradition of this era, and if one party challenges and the other side does not fight, then it will fall behind in morale, which is why Dong Zhuo sent Lu Bu to challenge in front of the coalition camp, just to frustrate the morale of the coalition army, but at this time it was used by Yuan Shao on his head.
In this battle, Yuan Shao sent Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng of the Xiliang Army, to fight, and this suggestion was also put forward by Liu Zhi to Yuan Shao, the reason why he wanted to send Ma Chao to fight was because Ma Chao was still young and not famous, and he was not ashamed to lose, the other party was not martial, and he won more morale, and Dong Zhuo's command did not seem to have any generals who could fight in particular, except for one Lu Bu, there were really not many people who could beat Ma Chao in heads-up.
Dong Zhuo was on the city tower at this time, and when he saw that the other party had sent a young general to scold under the city pass, his angry beard was blowing up, so he said to Li Ru beside him: "Where is Wen Hou, why don't you fight?" ”
Because of Liu Zhi's reasons, and in order to appease the injured Lu Bu, the first thing Dong Zhuo did when he came to the Tiger Prison Pass was to seal Lu Bu as Wen Hou.
Li Ru was released by Liu Zhi before, and he was waiting for Dong Zhuo's arrival in the Tiger Prison, he saw Dong Zhuo ask about Lu Bu, so he glanced at Lu Bu standing on the city wall, and saw the battle intent on his face, obviously he also wanted to fight, but Li Ru swept the challenger under the city wall, and instantly understood the other party's intentions.
So he said to Dong Zhuo: "Wen Hou fights, the victory is not martial, since the other party has sent a young general, we might as well do the same, even if we lose, it will not damage the morale of the army." ”
Dong Zhuo thought so, so he agreed to Li Ru's suggestion.
And Li Ru immediately sent someone to inform Lu Bu and asked him to arrange for people to fight, Lu Bu originally saw that the other party had someone to challenge, and he wanted to play by himself, but after seeing that the challenger was not the person he wanted to fight, he was not interested, since Li Ru asked him to arrange for his generals to fight, then send one of his eight strong generals.
Lu Bu's eight strong generals are Zhang Liao, Zang Ba, Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian and Hou Cheng, in addition to Gao Shun, who is trapped in the camp, is also under his control, Lu Bu's martial arts can be said to be unparalleled in the world if he talks about heads-up, so he also knows his own family affairs, and he also knows more about these generals under his hands.
Among the nine generals, Zhang Liao, Zang Ba, and Gao Shun belong to the quasi-first-class generals, and Zang Ba's martial arts are slightly higher among the three, but he is the oldest, and he is now over twenty-eight years old.
Among the remaining Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, the martial arts of the two are equal, but Gao Shun is a foot general, and he is a perennial commander of the hoplite combat like the camp, his foot combat is very powerful, but the cavalry is not a strength, the coalition army is known as a million army, and there will naturally be a lot of talents in the army, since the other party dares to send such a young general to challenge, it is naturally relied on.
At this moment when Lu Bu was thinking, the army of the princes of the Eighteenth Road below saw that the Xiliang Army was reluctant to send people to meet the battle, and they all began to make noise, and the silver-armored young general below actually took out his bow and arrow, and one arrow broke a battle flag of the Xiliang Army on the gate, and it was also the battle flag of Lu Bu that he was waiting for, which attracted a lot of applause from the coalition army, and the morale of the Xiliang Army was obviously hit hard, and he Lu Bu did such a slap in the face not long ago, but he didn't expect to be returned so soon.
Lu Bu was in Ma Chao's heart when he shot this arrow, the other party was still a hundred steps away from Guancheng, and he shot from the bottom to the top, and he could also shoot the thick flagpole, this skill should not be underestimated, this person is only afraid that he is a difficult opponent, fortunately, he did not send Hao Meng, Cao Xing and the like to meet the battle, otherwise it may not be the result of shooting the flagpole.
That's good, since you're so strong, then let Zhang Liao meet you! Lu Bu has made up his mind!