Chapter 344 [But the Enemy]
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On the thirteenth day of August in the third year of Jian'an, in the early morning, Ma Han led 500 elite horsemen to launch a surprise attack on Wuchao. Caught off guard by Yuan's army, five hundred iron horsemen broke through the camp and entered. With heavy cavalry to open the way, archers and cavalry to attack wildly, light cavalry to mend the sword, like an indestructible heavy hammer, smashed the Wuchao camp to pieces.
Yuan's army had 3,000 soldiers and 2,000 servants in the Wuchao camp, and in the face of the most powerful 500 cavalry of this era, let alone resisting, even escaping became a luxury - how could two legs outrun four legs? How can a melee sword and spear withstand a furious arrow that kills from a distance?
What's even more terrifying is that arrows not only kill people, but also create disasters! Bundles of firewood and grass were thrown indiscriminately, and fire arrows were shot out, from the camp tent, to the granary, to the vehicle, and the smoke was billowing everywhere in the fire.
The Wuchao camp guard will be Chun Yuqiong, an absolute unlucky egg. When he hurriedly organized a few hundred soldiers and prepared to counterattack the incoming enemy, he was ramming into the middle commando of the horse. There were the most heavy cavalry on this road, and there was a full team.
As a result, when the soldiers of Yuan saw that their whole bodies were shrouded in heavy armor, they stopped showing their eyes, holding wolf teeth, chain hammers and other heavy weapons, like ironclad horsemen killed from the fire hell, and all of them were scattered. None of them dared to fight, and they scattered in a hurry. Chun Yuqiong couldn't escape, and was trampled by dozens of ironclad heavy horses, and her own mother couldn't recognize it......
Two moments later, the dragon and wolf horsemen who were divided into three groups to set fire to the enemy in batches came out of the camp and rejoined, and the black nest camp behind them had become a sea of fire.
After Ma Han counted the number of people, he found that only five people were missing, and three of them were confirmed dead. At such a small cost, the task of burning the camp was completed, which is much stronger than Cao Cao's attack on the black nest in history. In history, Cao Cao's attack on Wuchao was in a desperate crisis situation that could be attacked from both sides at any time, concentrating his forces, regardless of a qiÄ, and attacking the Wuchao camp with all his might, so that before the arrival of Yuan's reinforcements, he was able to take Wuchao.
There are three reasons why Ma Han was able to achieve Cao Cao's strength in just two moments: first, the dragon and wolf cavalry broke through from the west, while Yuan's army focused on defense in the east and south, and the resistance was different from Cao Cao's. The second is that Ma Han accurately cleared all the light and dark posts in the west of the Wuchao camp, so that the defenders of the west camp were deaf and blind, and completely undefended, until the dragon and wolf rode into the camp, Yuan Jun did not react. Cao Cao couldn't do this even if he was killed. The third is that Ma Han adopts an all-cavalry assault and an absolute blitzkrieg. This speed is by no means comparable to Cao Cao's "5,000 steps ride" in history.
The smaller the number of people, the faster the speed, and the stronger the combat power, the better the effect achieved, and the larger the number of people can sometimes be counterproductive.
However, next, it is time to verify that the dragon wolf rider has another ability in addition to the ability to break through quickly - head-on hard shock.
Yuan's reinforcements are coming.
In another time and space, after Wuchao was attacked, Yuan Shao did not accept Zhang He's rescue and built a yƬ, but attacked Cao Ying, intending to surround Wei to save Zhao, but the result was that the chickens flew and the eggs were beaten, and the two ends failed. But in this time and space, it was Ma Han who raided the black nest. Therefore, Yuan Shao soon sent reinforcements: Zhang He and Gao Lan's 8,000-foot cavalry.
It's a pity that his opponent is much stronger than Cao Cao, burning Wuchao with a blitzkrieg, killing Chun Yuqiong, and breaking the 3,000 Yuan army of Wuchao's battalion.
The army of the horsemen is cavalry, and the cavalry will never stay stupid and wait for the enemy to attack, and like a pack of steppe wolves, they will go around and hide, hiding and peeping.
Therefore, when Zhang He and Gao Ran's 3,000 vanguard troops arrived, what they saw was the background of the battalion fence beeping and the smoke billowing into the air, a group of about 100 ironclad cavalry, surrounded by the wolf's head, waited quietly, as if there was something to fear. And the rest of the soldiers and horses are nowhere to be found.
Zhang He and Gao Ran gasped for scorching breath, they were all burned like this, is there still a value in rescuing? Also, what about General Chunyu? The defeats encountered along the way, no one can understand. What made them even more frightened was that, according to the words of the defeated soldiers, the incoming enemies were all iron horses, and there were thousands of them. But there are only a hundred horsemen in front of him, and where are the rest of the thousand horsemen?
Zhang He and Gao Ran both knew what the defeated pawn said, and it was inevitable to exaggerate, according to past experience, cutting off half would be almost the same - but they never imagined that the enemy who attacked was only 500 horsemen.
A war horse as red as a flame came out in a row, and under the escort of four cavalry guards, galloped close to the Yuan army in front of the formation, and immediately the knight lifted his mask and said in a loud voice: "I am the hussar general Ma Qiang, Zhang Junyi, Gao Yuanbo, so why not meet in front of the battle?" ā
Ma Han reported himself to his home, and there was a commotion in front of Yuan Jun's formation. After a while, under the two flags, more than ten horses galloped out, escorting the two generals out of the battle.
The general on the left, dressed in brown armor, has a yellow-maned horse on his crotch, thick eyebrows, a pair of powerful eyes under his eyes, a beard and a hedgehog, thick facial muscles, broad shoulders, and strong muscles and bones in both arms, giving people a sense of strength and strength. It was Gao Ran, who was a lieutenant at the time.
The general on the right, with a white horse and silver armor, holding a long lance, has a resolute face, sharp eyes, and is somewhat similar to Zhao Yun in terms of outfit, weapons and appearance.
When these two generals of the Yuan army galloped nearly fifty steps, they finally saw that it was indeed a horse, and if it was fake, the two generals shook wildly. At this time, I finally believed what the rout said, the enemy really had thousands of horsemen - with the proportion of the cavalry of the dragon wolf army, and the dragon wolf commander personally dispatched, the thousands of cavalry assault was not abrupt at all, on the contrary, it was not surprising.
Ma Han only left a hundred horsemen to fight the enemy head-on, which seemed to be risky, but it was actually a very clever strategy. The more this happens, the more suspicious and unsettling the enemy becomes. Especially at the stop before Ma Hu's battle, if you want to say that the overlord of the Central Plains with ten thousand troops in his hands only led a night attack with only 500 horsemen, no one would believe it. It's deceptive, it's ridiculous.
Ma Han nodded to the second general: "In the past, I didn't want to see each other here, but it was fate." ā
Zhang He took a deep breath and said angrily: "The general's covenant with the lord is still there, but he ignored it and blatantly violated it, and ...... such an act."
Ma Han shook his finger and interrupted Zhang He's speech: "Jun Yi may not know that Xu Ziyuan has surrendered to me, accusing Yuan Benchu of sending assassins to assassinate my Ma Han. I might as well tell you two that I was lucky enough to return from a circle before the ghost gate closed. Since the moment Yuan Benchu sent the assassins, the covenant had been torn up for him, and our Dragon Wolf Army and the Hebei Army were already in a state of war. Therefore, Jun Yi's words can be applied to your lord. ā
Zhang He and Gao Ran were dumbfounded when they heard it, but they didn't dare not believe it, after all, no one would use this kind of thing to spread rumors, especially with the identity of Ma Han, it was even more impossible.
Ma Han pointed his thumb to the sky behind him: "Now the black nest has been burned, the military funds have been destroyed, in a few days, the people's hearts will be scattered, this battle, Yuan Shao has been defeated; In this defeat, the Yuan family will not recover. Junyi, Yuanbo, good birds still know how to choose wood and perch, with the talents of the two gentlemen, where to go, when to know the trade-offs. ā
Zhang He and Gao Ran flatly refused almost at the same time.
The horse warrior didn't care, and rode closer. He was empty-handed, his expression calm, and he was not hostile. Zhang He and Gao Ran were naturally not to be outdone, and stood still at the moment, signaling that the left and right should not be ridden.
Ma Hanchi approached Gao and said in a low voice: "Does Uncle Yuan remember what happened to Quyang back then?" ā
Even if he was in hostility, Gao Ran had to give up: "The virtue of the general's help, the grace of saving his life, Lan will never forget." ā
What Ma Han said was the old story of Lu Bu in the First Battle of Changshan during the Battle of Changshan. The fuse of the fire with Lu Bu that day was to save Gao Lan. Without Ma Han's arrow, Gao Ran would have become a ghost under Lu Bu's halberd. Gao Ran has always remembered Ma Han's life-saving grace, so when Ma Han approached, Gao Ran was not hostile, but was very respectful.
Ma Han nodded, reached out and patted Gao Ran's shoulder, laughing and returning the horse.
When Zhang He saw it, his face changed suddenly, and he couldn't help but gallop closer to Gao Lan, and said in a low voice: "Uncle Yuan, what did Ma Jinglong tell you?" ā
Gao Ran said honestly: "I only talked about the old things in Quyang back then. ā
"Nothing else?"
"What else?" Gao Lan is inexplicable.
Zhang He sighed: "It's a disaster, it's a trick of Ma Jinglong." ā
Seeing that Gao Ran was still confused, Zhang He only whispered a name: "He Mao." ā
Now Gao Yan understands. He Mao is the Tunqi Sima, Zhang He's general, and he is in the army at the moment. This He Mao has another identity, he is the cousin and confidant of the lord Yuan Shao. Fang Cai's conversation with Ma Han and respect, coupled with patting his shoulders and arms, fell into the eyes of the other party, and at this sensitive moment......
The high temperature in front of him, the heat wave was rolling, but Gao Ran's back was covered with a layer of white sweat, and he stayed for a long time, and sighed: "The clear one is self-purifying......"
At this time, more than a dozen horsemen came from afar, all of them were Yuan Jun's sentry horses who were sent to investigate everywhere. The news brought back by the sentry cavalry was: ten miles east and west, there are ambushes in the mountains and forests, and there are a large number of obvious horseshoe prints, and it is estimated that there are no less than a thousand horsemen - this is not to blame for the sentry cavalry of the Yuan army, although the cavalry of the horse warrior is only 500, but the horses are more than 1,000, and it is not false to say that there are 1,000 horses.
There are a thousand horsemen ten miles away, and how many are farther away?
At this moment, another gallop came from the opposite side, leading a horse behind him. The knight patted the horse's buttocks, drove the horse over, and said in a loud voice: "The general confesses, I can only find this armor, and give it to Yuan Jun, and the two of you can be regarded as having an explanation." ā
The second general saw that there was a pair of deformed armor on the back of the horse, all of which did not change color, this was clearly Chun Yuqiong's armor, and the armor was like this, did the person still need to say?
The black nest has become a nest of fire, the guards have also died, and there are no less than thousands of cavalry ambushes around, not to mention fighting, it will be dangerous to stay for a while.
The two generals will order at the same time to withdraw.
The wolf cavalry warrior who gave the armor said loudly: "The general has a word to give, but the two gentlemen have needs, they can go to Yangwu, and they can be happy and humble." āR1152