Chapter 386: A Difficult Battle

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This coalition army is the main force of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, not the ordinary rabble can be compared, the two armies can be described as the tip of the needle, the Ma super army with excellent equipment and personal quality quickly gained the upper hand, especially the ironclad chain horse and the trap camp of the two elite troops caused great casualties to the Yuan army. It's a pity that the army crossed the river in a hurry, and the bed for killing the enemy has not yet been in place, otherwise it will be able to give the coalition army a head-on blow.

Cao Cao fought with Ma Chao's army for the first time, and at this moment he couldn't help frowning when he saw the one-sided situation on the battlefield, especially Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Gao Shun, the four generals were simply like gods descending from the heavens, invincible all the way, and the coalition army was defeated and retreated. Seeing that Ma Chao personally killed the Chinese army, he hurriedly asked Lu Yi to send Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang to lead the army to block Ma Chao.

After receiving the order, the two hurriedly brought 3,000 swords and axes to meet them, and the two brothers joined forces to take Ma Chao himself. Ma Chao was able to kill, covered in blood, and at the moment, regardless of whether the enemy was a soldier or a general, he was ruthless, and he had killed nearly 100 enemies with the advantage of weapons and war horses. Seeing that the Lu brothers came up with guns, they shouted, "It's a good time!" I will let you thieves know the consequences of following Yuan Shao today! "Let's pick up the halberd and go straight to the door of Lu Kuangding.

Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang glanced at each other, and immediately raised their guns to parry, while Lu Xiang took the opportunity to stab Ma Chao's throat with a gun. The two brothers attacked and defended, and they cooperated very tacitly.

Ma Chao is not chaotic in the face of danger, his halberd method integrates the principles of Tai Chi, and he is very good at the transformation of virtual and real. At that moment, with the strength of his arms, the one hundred and twenty-nine pound halberd turned in the air and slashed towards Lu Xiang's shoulder, and the sharp axe blade killed the faint cold light. Lu Xiang was shocked, he wanted to close the momentum but didn't have the ability of Ma Chao, so he could only throw the spear in his hand in desperation, trying to force Ma Chao to return to the halberd to save himself.

Ma Chao had already prepared, and at the moment he dodged Lu Xiang's dying blow with his body sideways, and the next moment he only heard a miserable scream, and the Tianlong City Breaking Halberd split Lu Xiang in half from his shoulder without any suspense, and his death was unbearable.

As soon as Lu Xiang died, the uncertain Lu Kuang immediately messed up, and it was not until this moment that he learned that Ma Chao's brave reputation was not false, and he was stunned and left. How could Ma Chao let him go? handed over the halberd to his left hand, and took out the meteor hammer with his right hand, and the thunder under his crotch seemed to understand the master's intentions, and he caught up with Lu Kuang in a few leaps. The meteor hammer was swung out, and Lu Kuang was smashed and died before he knew what was going on.

All this happened between two breaths, and the soldiers who came with Lu Kuang couldn't help but be frightened when they saw Ma Chao so brave, and the Pu knife in their hands was not a sharp weapon against the cavalry, so some people immediately threw down their weapons and began to flee for their lives.

At first, there were only a few people, but as Ma Chao led the pro-army team to rush and kill, more and more people fled, and there were thousands of them. Despite this, a very small number of routs were not enough to affect the entire battle situation, Ma Chao was moved when he saw this, and immediately shouted: "Put down your arms, surrender and get a reward!" ”

The rest of the pro-soldiers also shouted: "Lay down your arms, surrender and get a reward!" When the nearby elite soldiers heard this, they immediately echoed it, and soon the entire battlefield shouted loudly, and there were voices of persuasion everywhere.

As a result, the morale of the coalition army suddenly plummeted, and the generals leading the army in the chaos had nothing to do. The morale of Ma Chao's army became more and more high, although he drank loudly, his hands were not soft at all, and the coalition army was defeated and retreated.

Ma Chao couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that this plan was effective, and hurriedly whispered a few words to several pro-soldier generals around him, and after hearing this, several people immediately took off their black iron helmets, and each led a small group of soldiers and horses to scatter, shouting in his mouth: "Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang were beheaded, everyone run for their lives!" ”

"Wen Chou is defeated, there is no corpse to die, and it will be too late if you don't leave!"

"Xiahou was hit by an arrow, the Cao army is about to be destroyed, and the brothers still haven't fled for their lives?"

It is difficult to distinguish between the true and the false in the chaotic army, and when hundreds of people are mixed up like this, the morale of the coalition army is completely collapsed, and immediately a large number of soldiers began to scatter and flee for their lives, and the encircled coalition soldiers put down their weapons and knelt on the ground to ask for surrender. Huang Zhong and Cao Xing commanded the cavalry infantry to then cover up and reunite, beheading more than 10,000 people, while Zhao Yun's ironclad cavalry smashed the coalition army.

Cao Cao and Koji Yi, who were watching the battle, were shocked when they saw this, the battlefield was changing rapidly, how could they have thought that the army was still fighting hard just now, how could they say that they were defeated so quickly. And Zhao Yun's iron-armored chain horse can't resist at all, once it falls into the impact range of five thousand iron horses, even if there is Lu Bu's bravery, he can only dodge, otherwise he will be trampled into a meat pie.

The defeat was like a mountain, and seeing that the defeat was irretrievable, the two simply discussed a few words and ordered Mingjin to withdraw the troops. Now that there is no hope of victory, it is better to gather the remnants of the strength and retreat into Jiyin City before making a plan.

The idea is very good, but Cao Cao neglected the most important point, Ma Chao started with cavalry, and the main trump card in his hand is the cavalry, there are 40,000 cavalry in the 100,000 army, once the coalition army is defeated and retreated, it will be covered by the cavalry and killed, no matter how fast people run, can they be faster than horses?

In a hurry, even Cao Cao was negligent, not to mention the other generals and sergeants, the 200,000 army after an hour of fierce fighting, died, fled, and then except for those who surrendered, there were less than 100,000 people left, and the chaos was incomparable, and the army could not be defeated. The rest of the soldiers were already frightened, but at this moment, they suddenly heard the sound of Mingjin like a heavenly sound, jumped out of the battle group and began to run.

Ma Chao was overjoyed, and immediately ordered: "Chase and kill with all your might, try to live!" One living man on top of two dead heads! ”

The officers and men in the army fought for a long time, and at this moment finally looked forward to the opportunity to beat the water dogs, whether it was cavalry or infantry, as long as the injuries were not serious, they all joined the pursuit. In particular, Huang Zhong and Cao Xing, as soon as they saw Yuan Jun Mingjin, they launched another charge, trying to cut off the retreat of the coalition army. Zhao Yunbu, who rushed to the front, also divided into several squads to kill left and right, faintly forming an encirclement, with nearly 100,000 allied troops in the middle.

Although the situation is extremely unfavorable to the coalition army, there are also many brave and good fighters in the coalition army, Cao's generals Xiahoudun and Gao Ran each led a team of men and horses to rush and kill, coupled with the full cooperation of Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan, they soon led more than 20,000 rout soldiers out of the encirclement. The Yuan army was led by Wen Chou, and all the generals led their headquarters to rush and kill, and after paying a heavy price, they also fought out of the encirclement.

Ma Chao's cavalry is only 40,000, and excluding the dead, the remaining more than 30,000 people can't maintain such a large defensive line at all. Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong were also unable to take care of each other, so they had to continue to encircle and suppress the remaining rout.

The remaining soldiers saw that the general situation had gone and there was no hope of escape, so they disarmed and surrendered, and took tens of thousands of prisoners. A big battle was fought from noon to dusk before the dust settled, and after the light count of the number of people, Ma Chao was mixed. After this battle, nearly 40,000 enemies were killed, more than 50,000 people were captured, and countless weapons, armor and other items were collected. Yuan Cao's 200,000 army lost more than half on the spot, and half of the remaining 100,000 people were deserters and disappeared, and only more than 50,000 people were left when they returned to Jiyin City.

Although the results were brilliant, Ma Chao's losses were also extremely heavy, and it can be said that it was the first hard battle in several years. Nearly 10,000 of the 40,000 cavalry were killed, and the number of infantry troops also reached 8,000, and with the addition of seriously wounded and lightly wounded soldiers, the 100,000-strong army immediately shrank by 30%. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe (this site), reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )