Chapter 392: Falling Courage
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When Cao Cao had 500 people, even if he hid in the reeds with a height of Qi people, Ma Han could still pull him out repeatedly.
When Cao Cao had 200 people, even if he lurked in the mountains and forests and wanted to play a sneak attack, Ma Han could still plan and use himself as bait to ambush and burn him.
However, when Cao Cao only had a few people left, Ma Han lost his sharpest "eyes", and it was difficult to find the traces of these fish that slipped through the net.
Ma Han led 300 guards to search for three days in a row, spanning 200 miles, and missed Cao Cao several times. The closest time, Ma Han and the guards entered through the entrance of the village, while Cao Cao and the others had just left from the end of the village......
Although the chase is getting farther and farther, the opportunity is getting smaller and smaller, but Ma Han still did not give up. This is the best time to eradicate this number one strong enemy, this opportunity is too rare, if you stop here, you are really unwilling.
On the fourth day, the search party came to the shores of the water. The river originates in the Dabie Mountains in the south and flows into the northeast into Huai Shui. Dozens of miles to the west is Xiyang County, which is a sensitive area. Geographically, Xiyang belongs to Jingzhou, but it is in Jiangxia County. It is far away from Jiangxia County's Xiling Tomb, and far away from the mountains, but it is very close to Nanyang, Jingzhou. Whether it is Huang Zu, the overlord of Jiangxia, or Liu Biao of Jingzhou, they all adopt a condominium strategy for this territory. In other words, the tax was paid in two parts, and both sides could levy and levy conscription in the area. Naturally, if threatened, both sides are also obliged to send troops to each other's aid.
Ma Han did not come here at random, but after three days of dragnet searching, offering rewards along the way, and collecting information. There are all kinds of indications that Cao Cao and others are very likely to escape here.
"I can only search here, the front is Weishui, and after Weishui is Xiyang, I can't go further west, so as not to cause unnecessary disputes." Ma Han assigned tasks and habitually scanned them, although he did not have expectations, but always hoped for a miracle.
A miracle didn't happen, but there was a trick - the edge of the video. The presence of a large red zone of harmony indicates that a large number of people are gathering at a distance of one kilometer.
This situation has also happened in the past few days, and it was later found that most of them were displaced people and defeated soldiers. However, this time it is the most, and unless there is war or natural disaster in the vicinity, there is no reason for such a dense crowd.
"Wait." Ma Han stopped Chen Dao and patted the horse to wade through the shallow water to cross the river. Keep closing the distance, scanning and positioning. Finally, it was confirmed that the Red Zone was located in a dense forest to the southwest, with a preliminary estimate of no less than 2,000 people.
Mahola horses. Beckoning back, Chen Zhi immediately led the remaining more than 200 riders, stepping on shallow water, and rushing across the river beach.
Ma Haunt pointed to the woods: "There." A large number of unknown people were gathered, and two people were sent to inquire about it. Be careful, we're looking for someone. It may well be in the middle of it. ”
Aso and another loud knight led the way.
When the two of them rode to the edge of the woods about a stone's throw away, the loud warriors shouted: "Listen to the people in the woods, call a few leaders to come out, and my general has something to ask." The Titan only said "general", not "general", for fear of frightening the people in the forest, but also afraid that people would not believe it.
There was no movement in the forest, and Asu couldn't help but scream: "If you know each other, show up quickly, don't make a mistake!" Give you a moment, exceed the time limit, and the rocket is waiting! ”
This time, there was finally a reaction in the woods - buzz! A mess of arrows shot out, fearing that there would be hundreds of arrows, shrouding the two of them in a rain of arrows.
Aso and the noisy knight had already taken precautions, and together with the familiar sound of arrows, the two immediately turned their horses' heads around and fled for their lives. Because the two of them calculated the distance, and although the unkempt arrow was dense, it was obviously shot with a soft bow, and it flew forty or fifty steps before falling to the ground softly, and it didn't even touch the smoke and dust brought up by the two galloping horses.
With the sound of a bang, the sound of killing in the forest shook the sky, and more than 2,000 soldiers and horses rushed out suddenly. The first general, riding a claw yellow flying lightning, wrapped in a green scarf on his head, wearing scale armor, holding a long-bladed knife, a big flag flying behind him, and a big character "Guan" was written on it.
Ma Han's eyebrows were raised high, it was actually Guan Yu!
Although it was a bit unexpected, if you think about it, it makes sense.
After the duel between Ma Han and Sun Ce, Guan Yu led his army back to Xinye, and the route he took was to go west along the south bank of Huaishui, passing through Anfeng, Yangquan, and Tatexian, and then crossing Huaishui, entering Runan, and finally returning to Nanyang.
Since it was a large army, this speed was naturally not fast, and the area passed along the way also had to negotiate with the local defenders to avoid misunderstandings. As a result, half a month later, as soon as he arrived at the ferry at the junction of Huaishui and Rushui, and was about to cross the river, he received Cao Cao's request for help.
"Besiege and kill the horse, the world is peaceful."
There is no long talk in the letter for help, sensational and demagoguery, just the big characters of the eight-character red fruit fruit, all the dark hearts of the princes who are facing the coercion of Ma Han and **, Chiguo Guo are exposed.
Guan Yu didn't say a word, on the one hand, he asked Jian Yong to return to Xinye quickly, and made it clear to his eldest brother, while leading two thousand steps to ride, turning around and killing Shouchun.
Unfortunately, Cao Cao was defeated too quickly. Guan Yu's army was only halfway when he encountered many defeated soldiers of Cao's army and learned the news of Cao Cao's fiasco. Guan Yu sighed, so he had to take the defeated soldiers into the army and turn around and return the same way. In the end, he met Cao Cao and Xiahou Yuan who were on the run—to be precise, Cao Cao came to the door and sought refuge.
If it is replaced by the relationship between Cao Cao and Liu Guanzhang during the Battle of Guandu, it is the rhythm of eager to cut each other. But times are changing, and now they are all difficult brothers, and they need to huddle together to keep warm, so Guan Yu naturally takes on the responsibility of guarding Cao Cao.
Guan Yu originally wanted to take advantage of the information asymmetry between the two sides to fight a horse and ambush, but he didn't expect it...... Only then did he deeply understand what Cao Cao said: "Ma Jinglong has divine sense, and there is nothing to hide from any ambush." ”
"Who should I be, it turned out to be Yun Chang." Facing nearly seven times the enemy, Ma Han didn't care, drove his horse closer, and asked in a loud voice, "What about Cao Cao and his gang?" In the military, no? ”
Guan Yu's long knife pointed to the west: "So that the general will know that Cao Gong and his party have gone to Xiyang City, and they must have crossed the water now, and the general will have time to send each other at this moment." ”
Ma Han squinted his eyes, and there was something in his words: "Is it still too late?" ”
"It's too late, but you have to break through Guan's army first."
Ma Han smiled brightly: "In this way, then it is better to be respectful than to obey your fate." The arm was slightly raised, and the five fingers were together. After a slight pause, he slashed downward.
A hundred archers rode out of formation, spreading out from the wings like two curved sickles, and the knights took arrows with bows and arrows, and pointed obliquely at the strings.
At this time, the Xinye Army had just lined up a circular formation, with sword and shield soldiers on the periphery, protected by wooden shields, spear and halberd soldiers on the second layer, and in the middle of the formation were the baggage auxiliaries with the weakest fighting will and the defeated Cao army in containment.
Hundreds of gallops. Smoke and dust billowed and the horse's mane fluttered in the wind, and the knight's body rose and fell rhythmically with the horse's bumps, adjusting his shooting posture and opening the bow. When the two "giant sickles" flew by from a hundred paces away from the two wings of the Xinye Army Formation, the sound of dense string flipping was like rain hitting the residual lotus.
Dapeng's powerful arrows flew from the outside of the military formation along the heads of the shield-wielding soldiers, and shot solidly into the center of the formation. For a while, the screams were endless. The wolf rushed and the formation was chaotic.
Guan Yu didn't expect his 2,000 pawns to defeat 300 elite cavalry, he only hoped to resist for a while, first, to save some face. The second is to let Cao Cao and his party escape farther, but I didn't expect it...... As a result, he fell under his jaw, and he could shoot into the center of the formation from a hundred paces away, so why should he still fight this battle?
It's really not necessary. The dragon wolf archers were raging back and forth, and the new field army was completely beaten and unable to fight back. Many of the soldiers squeezed to the shield soldiers in front of the formation, squeezing a circle at the end of the formation into a polygonal matrix. There is no defense. Flying arrows are like locusts, such as the third, Shengsheng took out a "hollow" in the middle of the Xinye army array.
When the two hundred light horsemen rushed, the endurance of the Xinye soldiers had reached the limit, the arrows above their heads were like rain, the horses in front were like walls, and the soldiers' will collapsed and scattered.
At this time, it was less than a moment before and after Ma Han's split.
Guan Yu never thought that he would lose so quickly and so miserably, all the previous command experience was useless, and all that could be used was escape experience.
With the famous horse "Claw Huang Feidian" won by gambling from Cao Hong, Guan Yu ran so fast that no dragon and wolf warrior could catch up with him - except for Ma Qiang.
Chitu sprint speed is the first in the world, plus a sniper in the world, Guan Yu is in danger!
The horses rushed through the rebels, through the woods, and to the water, and finally saw the green turban.
"Guan Yu! Remember what I said? Ma Han drew an armor-piercing arrow and aimed at his bow, "See you next time, you will take your life!" ”
Boom!
Guan Yu is worthy of being the top military general of the Three Kingdoms, he can predict the shooting part of the arrow, turn his body and block it with a vertical knife, and use the knife to block an arrow shot by the super strong bow power of the twelve stones. The arrow pierced through the iron knife, only two inches away from Guan Yu's eyes, Guan Yu's entire arm was numb, and he could no longer hold the knife.
"Not bad! One more arrow! "Ma Han changed to a chisel arrow this time, and the target was Guan Yu's thigh - the upper body can also dodge, the thigh is fixed, you see how you dodge. This is the rhythm of unloading one leg of Guan Lao Er.
I have to say that Guan Yu's sensitivity to fighting has reached the level of Cheng Dù, who has not moved the cicada before the autumn wind. Ma Hao's killing machine locked on a certain part of his body, and he immediately reacted, without thinking about throwing stirrups, holding the saddle, and jumping, and the whole action was done in one go.
Phew-poof! Like a chisel arrow of a small shovel, it disembowels a famous horse alive, and blood splatters five feet.
In the mournful roar of the war horse, Guan Yu jumped into the water with the attitude of spreading his wings as a peng. After a while, a pair of scales "floated" on the surface of the water, and it floated towards the opposite shore. Of course, the iron armor will not float, let alone flutter, unless it ......
Ma Han immediately landed on the river bank and fired three arrows at the iron armor, and the arrows broke the armor, but after the arrows entered the water, the resistance was hundreds of times greater than that in the air, and it was unknown whether they could kill or injure the target. In the end, I could only watch the iron armor rise and fall with the waves, gradually moving away.
Ma Hanzhuo stood on the shore, quiet, and smiled to himself - well, what do you want to do if you force a so-called "martial saint" to be like this? With Guan Er's arrogant mentality, today's actions are really no different from killing him, and in the future, this second child will probably never be able to lift it in front of him. (To be continued......)