Chapter 257: A Short Fierce Battle
On the march, Ma Chao has sighed more than once, for Ma Chao, his greatest wish is to gallop on the battlefield with a spear, defeat a strong enemy with absolute force, and make immortal feats, so that he can face failure, which is more uncomfortable than killing him, not to mention defeat.
But the military order is like a mountain, and Ma Chao has no way to avoid it, so he can only vent the anger in his heart by sighing. The distance of fifty miles, after an hour's march, had arrived, Ma Chao suppressed the resentment in his heart, and ordered the 10,000 recruits accompanying him to set up camp on the road. The rest is to wait for Hu Chuquan to lead the troops to come, and then give him five defeats in a row in three days, Ma Chao thought boredly.
Ma Chao did not hide his tracks, and in the desert, there was no good way to hide his tracks. Therefore, the movements of Ma Chao and others were soon learned by the Huns and sent back to Huchuquan.
Hu Chuquan is the more shrewd of the Huns, in addition to the inevitable Hun brave and ruthless nature, can be called a civil and military figure. After hearing the return of the Tanma, Hu Chuquan neither fully believed what the Tanma saw, nor did he believe it at all. He knew that what the Tanma saw with their eyes were appearances, and he wanted to analyze the inner intentions of the Han army through these appearances.
After thinking for a while, Hu Chuquan immediately ordered the whole army to advance and set up camp fifty miles away from Ma Chao's camp, and he wanted to personally survey the terrain to see what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the Han army. Under Hu Chuquan's orders, the well-trained 70,000 tribal warriors quickly moved into action, and the forward troops left the army first. Rush to the front to carry out a range of reconnaissance and do a good job of safeguarding the safety of the main army.
In the evening of the same day, the Huchuquan Department had already settled down in the camp, facing the unique sunset scenery of the desert, Huchuquan stood on the lookout platform a few miles away from the Ma Chao camp, quietly observing the movements in the Han military camp. The five-zhang high lookout platform was not enough for him to overlook the entire Han camp, and he could only see about one-third of the position, judging by the one-third of the Han camp within his line of sight, the Han army was surprisingly calm. It seems that this division of the Han army. Just like an extremely ordinary conventional military operation, judging by the smoke rising from the Han camp, this Han army was only about 10,000 people, and if we say that they were the vanguard of the main force of the Han army. It is very much in line with the combat habits of the Han people. But Hu Chuquan was still a little worried. Not for anything else. Because the commander of the Han army this time is Ao Lie! At any time, we must not underestimate Ao Lie's bravery and stratagem, which is a number of ethnic minorities in Xianbei and Wuhuan. With the experience gained from the end of being wiped out, it is impossible for Hu Chuquan to be more cautious.
Suddenly, the door of the Han army camp opened, and Ma Chao, who was in lion helmet and brute armor, rushed out first, followed by about a thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry troops behind him, and rushed straight towards the place where Huchuquan was. The desert terrain is bland, except for the places where the various tribes live, most of the rest of the places are endless sand seas, the field of vision is extremely vast, someone erected a lookout near their own military camp, no need to ask, it must be the Huns, so Ma Chao immediately led the troops to kill it.
Ma Chao's movements, but let Hu Chuquan's heart settle down a little, it seems that this Han army is indeed the vanguard of the army, judging from the number and speed of Ma Chao's battle, they want to eliminate the hidden dangers nearby, for the successor army to do a good job, just like Hu Chuquan's own vanguard troops, the same task.
Unhurriedly, he stepped down from the lookout, Hu Chuquan turned over and rode his favorite war horse, and even had the leisure to reach out and stroke the mane of the war horse. This horse, among the good horses of the Xiongnu specialty, is one in a million BMW, the whole body is pure black fur, like a good brocade, exuding a bright color. At the beginning, it took half a year's harvest for the entire tribe to buy these BMWs back from other tribal leaders, and he also gave this dark horse a name - chasing the wind. It means that the horse runs with all its might, and even the wind can catch up with it. Although the name is a bit cheesy and exaggerated, its speed is definitely in the ranks of Maxima, which is comparable to that of Sha Lifei, where Ma Chao is sitting.
After stepping on the chasing wind, Hu Chuquan glanced behind him, and saw that Ma Chao had led the army to approach less than two miles, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he muttered to himself: "It is said that the little overlord is unparalleled in the world, the martial arts are as brave as Xiang Yu, and the strategy is like Han Xin. ”
Immediately, Hu Chuquan shook the horsewhip and let the chasing wind carry him to the way home. Guarding Hu Chuquan's side, there are only 500 guards, they are all carefully selected pawns of Hu Chuquan among hundreds of thousands of tribal people, everyone is extremely good at ejaculation and martial arts. After these five hundred elite horsemen saw Hu Chuquan's movements, they immediately twitched their horsewhips at the same time without his command, let the war horse they sat down run on, and followed Hu Chuquan neatly.
Ma Chao saw that Hu Chuquan was about to run away, and immediately shouted: "Rats! Do you dare to fight with Xiliang Jinma Chao! At the same time, Ma Chao stomped on the belly of the horse twice, making it run faster.
Hu Chuquan heard Ma Chao's shout while running, looked back at Ma Chao with a playful face, and sneered in a low voice: "It's just the courage of the horseman, the little overlord is really a bit wasteful, and he actually sent such a reckless man to be a pioneer general." At that moment, Hu Chuquan ignored Ma Chao, led the crowd to speed up, and ran in the direction of his own camp. Five miles away, Hu Chuquan has already buried two ambush soldiers, as long as they hear the sound of their own and others' horses' hooves, they will rush to meet him, if Ma Chao is in hot pursuit, Hu Chuquan does not mind giving Ma Chao a counter-charge, first kill Ma Chao's sharpness.
Ma Chao was trying to bite the back of Hu Chuquan's team as Hu Chuquan expected, chasing after him. This made Hu Chuquan think even more that Ma Chao was just a brave and unscrupulous man.
The distance of five miles was soon there, and Hu Chuquan had already seen the two cavalry that he had arranged in advance. They waved their sabers and flanked them from both wings, preparing to cut off the retreat of Ma Chao's department. Hu Chuquan deliberately glanced back, he wanted to see how Ma Chao would deal with it, if it was a witty person. After seeing that the opponent has a backhand, he will definitely suspend the pursuit and observe the situation before deciding to advance or retreat.
As a result, Ma Chao carried out the image of a reckless man to the end, he ignored the cavalry on both wings, raised the tiger's head Zhan golden spear, and shouted in the direction of Huchuquan: "Soldiers, with a certain meritorious service, cutting off the head of Huchuquan is a great achievement!" ”
In Hu Chuquan's eyes, Ma Chao has been characterized as a complete reckless man. It's relying on its own martial arts. The kind of person who wants to kill the enemy. The horsewhip in his hand was regularly swiped in the air, and Hu Chuquan conveyed his orders to his subordinates in this way, so that the cavalry teams on both wings could move forward and backward. A thousand cavalry surrounded Ma Chao. Perform an interception.
Ma Chao brought out 3,000 people, yes. However, there were 2,000 infantry troops, and they had already been thrown far behind by the galloping horses, and they could not catch up for a moment. And Hu Chuquan's two cavalry teams each have 2,000 people, plus his 500 elite cavalry, the number is five times that of Ma Chao, no matter how brave Ma Chao is, Hu Chuquan is sure to defeat Ma Chao.
The two cavalry teams in the gallop immediately changed, no longer outflanking the two wings, but changing to one front and one behind, cutting off Ma Chao's front road to pursue Hu Chuquan, and at the same time cutting off the back road for his withdrawal. After seeing the change of formation of the Hun cavalry, Ma Chao shouted in a panic: "It's not good, the Huns will actually line up in battle, withdraw, retreat!" ”
Dare to be affectionate, Ma Chao thinks that the Huns are used to being casual, and they will not be so unscrupulous at all? After hearing Ma Chao's shout, Hu Chuquan thought so. Not to mention, it is really impossible for the Huns of other tribes to form a battle formation, but Huchuquan's troops are different, those basic formations are not a problem at all, and even some intermediate-level battle formations can be smoothly arranged.
"Want to retreat? It's late! Hu Chuquan coldly spat out these words, and then led five hundred guards to join the battle. Didn't Ma Chao want to cut off his own head to make a contribution? Then, let yourself cut off Ma Chao's head first to sacrifice to the bar.
Before Ma Chao could turn the horse's head, the two Hun cavalry had already completed the truncation and surrounded the 1,000 cavalry brought by Ma Chao in the core. Seeing that there was no way to retreat, Ma Chao seemed to be annoyed and angry, and shouted vigorously: "Kill out!" As he spoke, the tiger's head Zhan golden spear suddenly stabbed out, and a Hun cavalryman fell off his horse, and his chest was pierced by Ma Chao into a transparent hole before and after, and he was no longer alive.
With a successful blow, Ma Chao unreservedly swung out a shot again, this shot was different from the straight stab just now, and the technique of transporting the gun was changed to a horizontal slash. Three screams accompanied by the click of broken bones and tendons sounded at the same time, and the three Hun cavalrymen were pulled away from the horse's back by Ma Chao, the leather armor on their bodies was smashed, blood sprayed wildly in their mouths, and they flew upside down, smashing more than a dozen companions who were riding their horses to kill.
Under the leadership of Ma Chaoyong, the cavalry of the 1,000 Han Army also burst out with super will and combat effectiveness, waving the weapons in their hands, and slashing at the Huns. Although these Han soldiers are all new soldiers, and there are no martial arts such as bloody killing eight slashes and dragon xiang nine styles, they are all regular troops trained by Gao Shun and Xu Rong, and their martial arts also follow Gao Shun and Xu Rong's simple, direct, but quite lethal path. At this moment when they were really facing the battlefield, they forgot the fear in their hearts, and in order to survive, they had only one choice, which was to wield their weapons, use all their strength and a few martial arts, and kill and injure the enemy as much as possible.
I didn't expect Ma Chao and the Han army to be so brave, Hu Chuquan in the sprint immediately slowed down the horse's speed and stopped at the edge of the battlefield, he didn't want to be Ma Chao's ghost under the gun, and the idea of cutting off Ma Chao's head was immediately thrown out of his mind, and he began to fight under the command on the edge of the battlefield, through the change of the horse whip in his hand.
"Ahh Ma Chao shook the blood beads on the gun, and saw that the cavalry under his command had all turned their horses' heads, so he shouted loudly: "Retreat, rush in the direction of the camp!" "A thousand Han cavalry, under the leadership of Ma Chao, used him as an arrow to form a sharp arrow formation, rushing towards the way back.
In the process of rushing and killing, from time to time, there are Han soldiers or Huns, under the collision of each other, fall off the horse, the next second, it is impossible to distinguish whether it is a friend or foe, trampled into a pile of meat paste. The weapons of both sides also slashed together fiercely in the process of rushing and killing, and the sound of sharp blades entering the body sounded every second, blood splattered, and screams were endless. In a scuffle, it is not uncommon for someone to kill an enemy with a single sword, and before they even have time to rejoice, they will be cut off by another enemy. Such a situation appeared among the Han army and the Huns at the same time.
The tiger's head Zhan golden spear expanded and contracted like electricity, carrying bursts of whistling sounds, taking away the lives of one Hun after another. Ma Chao is really a little red-eyed, if he hadn't always maintained a trace of clarity in his heart and forced himself to pretend to be defeated, he would never have been able to bear to see the sergeants he led being beaten passively. However, seeing his subordinates being cut down one after another, Ma Chao's patience was almost close to the limit.
Just when Ma Chao was about to break out, two thousand Han army foot soldiers arrived. After seeing that the reinforcements of the Han army had arrived, Hu Chuquan immediately issued an order to collect the troops, and now his strength is no longer overwhelming, and he has no determination to defeat the brave Ma Chao. With a small victory and a slight misalignment of the Han army, his goal has been achieved.
There was a tacit understanding, and the two sides began to retreat at the same time, and the well water between each other did not interfere with the river water, as if the short fierce battle just now had not happened at all. In this battle, more than 400 cavalry casualties were killed and wounded by Ma Chao, and the Huns only suffered more than 200 casualties because of their numerical advantage. (To be continued......)