Chapter 259: Heavenly General Ma Chao
Seeing that Sun Jian's cavalry was about to be crushed. Suddenly, Sun Jian's cavalry pulled up a series of tripstrings. Seeing that Sun Jianjun's cavalry could not compete with the turquoise cavalry, he simply scattered to both sides! The turks did not anticipate the trap of the other side, thinking that they had broken through the enemy's interception and surged towards the west. Ma Chao, who was running in the front, suddenly saw the tripping horse rope close at hand, and hurriedly reined in the war horse, but the others did not have such a reaction as him, and rushed to send it in a swarm, and in an instant I saw people turning over on their backs, and the scene was chaotic, and the cavalry behind hurriedly reined in the horse, and everyone was huddled together.
At this moment, the cavalry of Sun Jian's army, which had originally spread out to both sides, came back to kill. Due to the loss of speed, the turks were overturned by their opponents for a while. However, Sun Jianjun's cavalry was only happy for a moment, and when their speed disappeared, they fell into a scuffle, and were cut down one by one by the fierce assault cavalry!
However, a large number of infantry of Sun Jian's army came up, heavy with guns, layers of battle formations, and mountains and seas. The Turks were in a desperate situation.
Ma Chao frowned, turned his head and yelled at the generals beside him: "You cut off the tripping horses and lead the brothers to kill them!" ”
Several generals hurriedly agreed. At this time, Ma Chao had already ridden out, and he single-handedly faced the opponent's infantry and killed him!
All the soldiers of Sun Jianjun were stunned, staring blankly at the fierce general in silver helmet and white armor. When he reacted, the shadow horse under Ma Chao's crotch jumped and took off into the enemy's array. The enemy infantry surged in, and the groves of guns converged on Ma Chao. Ma Chao danced the iron horse lance like a swimming dragon, blood flew all over the sky, and Sun Jianjun's soldiers fell to the ground one by one. Four Sun Jianjun generals rushed head-on. Ma Chaoma did not slow down, and pierced through the four people, and the iron horse lance in his hand stabbed four times in a very short time. Ma Chao rushed out from among the four, and the four generals behind him fell off the war horse at the same time.
Ma Chao rode alone to kill the enemy soldiers on their backs, and they were like no one in the midst of thousands of horses. The prancing horse was killed, Jiang Qin swung his knife to meet him, and the knife came and went for three rounds, Ma Chao swept away the opponent's big knife with a lance to open the door wide, and then turned the horse lance around and stabbed him in the chest. Jiang Qin was shocked and hurriedly dodged, but the speed of the horse lance was too fast, Jiang Qin couldn't completely take it at all, and with a pop, the horse lance stabbed into Jiang Qing's right shoulder! The big knife fell immediately, Jiang Qin was frightened and didn't dare to fight again, so he hurriedly beat his horse and fled!
Ma Chao did not chase after him, but rushed to the general's banner to kill the army, and then swept over with a lance, smashing Jiang Qin's general flag. The flag fell down violently, and the soldiers of the infantry army were flustered when they saw this, and they didn't know what to do!
At this time, the turquoise cavalry and the cavalry that had defeated Sun Jian's army cut off the stumbling rope, and the army surged out.
Ma Chao caught a glimpse that the army under his command had broken out of the trap, so he stopped fighting, rushed out of the large formation, and chased after his own team and left.
Zhou Yu on the hill was so angry that he was smoking, and he had arranged all the arrangements properly, but he didn't expect Ma Chao to be so brave, causing all the arrangements to fall short!
Jiang Qin rode his horse to Zhou Yu, turned over, covered his wounds and knelt down to plead guilty: "The last general is incompetent, please supervise the crime!" ”
Zhou Yu hurriedly helped Jiang Qin up and comforted: "The general doesn't have to blame himself, the general has done his best!" It's that I didn't think it through! Jiang Qin's heart was moved.
Zhou Yu hurriedly called his own soldiers and asked them to help Jiang Qin go down to heal his injuries.
Cheng Pu came up and said with a regretful face: "If it weren't for Ma Chao, Lu Bu's Blue Wolf Army would be wiped out here today!" ”
Zhou Yu looked at the smoke and dust in the west, frowned, and said, "Ma Chao! I didn't expect that there would be such a brave and invincible general in the world besides Lu Bu?! What's even more hateful is that he actually belongs to Lu Bu! ”
Cheng Pu clenched his fists and asked, "Governor, what should we do now?" ”
Zhou Yu thought for a moment, "We have lost our best chance to capture Hanzhong. Our task now is not to capture Hanzhong, but to garrison Hanzhong in order to prevent Lu Bu's army from moving south for reinforcements! As long as the situation does not change significantly, our army will still have the chance to win! ”
At the same time, Huang Zhong and Zhu Rong were struggling to resist the offensive of Sun Jian's army in Linjiang, west of Kuiguan, and the battle was fierce, and the situation was very unfavorable for Lu Bu's army, and Sun Jian's army put great pressure on Lu Bu's army by virtue of the huge advantage of the naval army!
Just when Zhang Lang was fighting with Sun Jian's army on his side, Cao Cao's army in the east was launching a fierce attack on Liyang! Although Yuan Shao still had 300,000 troops, they were already frightened birds, and in the face of the Taotao offensive of Cao's army from three sides, Yuan Shao's side was extremely difficult to resist. Finally three days later, Yuan Shao's army defense line was forced to break through by Xu Chu led by the infantry tiger warriors, and then Yuan Shao's whole line collapsed, the army broke and fled, Yuan Shao was carried by the rout to the north, vomiting blood several times along the way, unconscious, which made Yuan Shao's army even more turbulent, under the pursuit of Cao Cao's cavalry, the physical defense was low-grade, and they collapsed, killed and wounded, and countless prisoners were captured.
Yuan Shao fled all the way for seven or eight hundred miles until he fled into Jizhou City before stopping, and only a few hundred horsemen fled back with him. Nearly a million armies were wiped out!
As soon as Yuan Shao returned to Jizhou, he couldn't afford to fall ill, and the whole Jizhou was panicked.
At this time, Cao Cao was stationed in Qinghe, two hundred miles south of Jizhou City, to rest the army, and at the same time collect or capture or surrender nearly 500,000 Yuan Shao's army! Now Cao Cao's total strength has exceeded one million, and he is definitely the number one prince who deserves to be the most powerful today.
Cao Cao stood on the hill outside Qinghe City with his hands behind his back, looking at the vast land in the north, and couldn't help but be full of pride. Today is the most comfortable day for him since he started the army.
Guo Jia and Xu Yu rode their horses behind Cao Cao, turned over and dismounted, and immediately had their own soldiers lead the horses of the two. The two stepped forward and clasped their fists and bowed, "Prime Minister." ”
Cao Cao turned around and said with a smile: "The two gentlemen are here?" Is there something wrong? ”
Guo Jiadao: "I just received news that Lu Bu has completely controlled the state and captured Hukou Pass. ”
"Didn't the Karasuma people cause him any trouble?"
Guo Jia said: "Karasuma Khan Bandun gathered nearly 200,000 wolf cavalry and Lu Bu's 50,000 battle banners to fight in the territory of Yanmen, and was defeated by Lu Bu in a battle, almost all the army was wiped out, and now Bandun has fled outside the Great Wall with the remnants of the defeated army!" Cao Cao said angrily: "Karasuma people are really a bunch of rice buckets!" ”
Guo Jia frowned and said, "It's not the Karasuma people's rice bucket, it's really Lu Bu's army that is too strong!" 20,000 armored iron cavalry charged head-on, no one could stop them, and although the wolf cavalry of the Karasuma people could also be called fierce, they were slaughtered like chickens and dogs! Lord, to put it mildly, our army cannot be the opponent of Lu Bu's army when the number is equal! ”