Chapter 258: Losing streak lures the enemy

After returning to the camp, Ma Chao's depressed mood was overflowing. Defeat is simply taking people's lives inside, it can't go on like this, and after four more defeats, maybe two or three thousand lives will be lost, Ma Chao has to think about it seriously, how to complete the task of defeat, and at the same time reduce casualties as much as possible. For the first time in his life, Ma Chao began to run his muscular brain.

After thinking about it in the middle of the night, Ma Chao finally came up with a way, whether it is a fighting soldier or a fighting formation, as long as it loses to the other party, it will be considered as having completed the goal. It just so happened that the performance of Huchuquan's department yesterday gave Ma Chao such an excuse, wouldn't the Huns be arrayed? Then fight them! Even if you lose, you won't lose many soldiers. Ma Chao is still quite confident in his means of arranging the formation.

As soon as the sun climbed into the sky, the entire desert was rendered golden. Ma Chao led 5,000 men and horses, stepping on the golden desert, to the front of the Huchuquan camp, and sent a small colonel to challenge the camp, saying that he would fight with Huchuquan.

After receiving the news of Ma Chao's challenge, Hu Chuquan smiled, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that Ma Chao was a brave and unscrupulous horseman, who lost a battle yesterday because he underestimated the ability of his subordinates to fight, and he couldn't wait to come to the battle today. A typical mentality of getting up from where you fall. In fact, it's no wonder that Hu Chuquan thinks like this, Ma Chao's performance is simply his true colors, not to mention Hu Chuquan who doesn't know Ma Chao, but someone who knows a little about Ma Chao. may not be able to tell that Ma Chao is acting.

Also lit up 5,000 people, Hu Chuquan left the camp with great confidence and came to Ma Chao's battle array.

Seeing Hu Chuquan out of the camp, Ma Chao immediately raised his gun and shouted: "Hu Chuquan, do you know the battle formation of the general?" Dare to break the formation! "Ma Chao's battle formation is not a profound formation at all, but a relatively common fish scale formation in the army, this formation is simple, but it can effectively protect the soldiers, even if it is a defeated formation. It won't cause too much damage to the sergeants in the formation. This is also an important reason why Ma Chao uses the fish scale array.

Hu Chuquan after hearing Ma Chao's shout. pursed his lips disdainfully, and then said loudly: "It's just a fish scale array, why is it difficult to break it?" Look at this king to teach you another lesson today! After speaking, Hu Chuquan shook the horsewhip in his hand. Commanded 5,000 Hun cavalry divided into four teams. Two horizontal and two vertical. At the very front of each cavalry team, there is a general as an arrow. Hu Chuquan is also really amazing, and it actually follows the way of the yoke array. used the charm of the Blade Array, which shows that he used the battle formation below the intermediate level very smoothly.

Ma Chao muttered in his heart: "Yoke Array plus Arrow Array? It's kind of interesting, but that's all, if you don't have a military order, you will definitely be killed and blood will flow. "Come to think of it, Ma Chao can't do that, he will still be defeated. Commanding his subordinates to operate the fish scale array, Ma Chao concentrated on observing the formation of Hu Chuquan's department, and his brain was running at high speed, he wanted to minimize the damage of this deceitful battle. For Ma Chao, it is much more difficult to achieve the set goal with wisdom than to achieve victory by force, but there is no other way at the moment, and he can only reluctantly do so, which is also one of Zhuge Liang's wishes to arrange Ma Chao as a pioneer general, hoping to hone Ma Chao.

The two men approached quickly, and then collided violently. As soon as they came into contact, the Han army's fish scale array almost collapsed, after all, it was still a little difficult to fight against the combination of the yoke array and the arrow array with a single fish scale array. Ma Chao made adjustments in time, commanding the fish scale array to run at high speed, and the interlocking fish scale array immediately turned away, and hundreds of small fish scale arrays echoed each other, canceling the impact of the Hun cavalry layer by layer, and forming a traction force, so that the Hun cavalry who rushed into the formation immediately became sluggish and could not give full play to the advantages of war horses.

"Huh? Is there such a wonderful use for the fish scale array? It seems that the Han people are more clever in the use of battle arrays, but unfortunately, the one who leads the troops is a reckless man! After seeing the change of the fish scale array, Hu Chuquan whispered to himself in surprise, and at the same time did not forget to greatly disparage Ma Chao. The horsewhip in his hand shook rapidly, and Hu Chuquan gave the order to chisel through the Hun cavalry who rushed into the formation.

The five thousand Hun cavalry who were sluggish in the fish scale formation by traction, after seeing the change of Huchuquan's horsewhip, immediately turned the horse's head, and then automatically disbanded the yoke array and transformed into a single arrow array, like four huge arrows, which bloomed in the center of the Han army array, piercing in four different directions. With the speed of the war horses, these four cavalry teams quickly penetrated the Han army's fish scale array, and then re-formed a yoke array and a forward arrow formation on the periphery, and launched a charge against the Han army's fish scale array.

In the gouging just now, the Hun cavalry caused a certain amount of chaos to the Han army, and now this confusion has not been completely eliminated, the battle formation has not had time to change, the Hun cavalry has once again rushed back from the periphery, for the Han army, the defeat has been decided. Ma Chao waved the tiger head Zhan golden gun vigorously, and shouted loudly: "Spread out the formation and avoid the Huns' sprint!" At the same time, Ma Chao jumped on his horse and rushed to one of the Hun cavalry, creating conditions for his subordinates to avoid smoothly.

Under the sharpness of the tiger's head and golden spear, the heads of the two Hun cavalrymen flew high, and the blood in their necks spurted out, and their lives were ruthlessly ended by Ma Chao. After killing the two Hun cavalrymen, Ma Chao's marksmanship changed, changed to a horizontal slash, and the war horses carrying the two headless corpses were fiercely rotated out, and the two war horses flew out upside down and smashed into a Hun cavalry that was charging, causing a chaos.

Taking advantage of this short-term chaos, Ma Chao no longer loved to fight, turned around and killed another Hun cavalry, with the speed of Shali Fei, in the gap in front of the Han army, the Huns once again concocted the second Hun cavalry to contain the chisel penetration. However, there is only so much Ma Chao can do.

The other two Hun cavalry still fiercely entered the Han army from two directions. The Huns were the world's first-class cavalry on war horses, and they once conquered half of Europe with sharp swords. In the face of the Huns' rush to kill, the Han recruits seemed somewhat weak, but fortunately, more than a year of training, so that they would not collapse instantly, in the face of the crisis, they made the warrior's due response, automatically changed the formation, to avoid the Huns' blades at the same time, many people also bravely stabbed out of the spear, to the Huns counterattack.

In the collision, most of the recruits of the Han army avoided the rush of the Huns, only a very few people were hit by the Huns' war horses and broke their bones, and the Han army because the weapons were longer than the sabers of the Huns, while avoiding them, some spears fiercely pierced into the thin leather armor of the Huns, stabbing them off their horses, and the two sides failed to take advantage of this collision, and there were some casualties. Of course, if it weren't for Ma Chao's martial bravery, which temporarily contained the charging of the two Hun cavalry, the result of the Han army would have been worse than now.

Seeing that most of his subordinates survived this collision, Ma Chao did not hesitate and shouted loudly: "Withdraw, withdraw quickly!" Under Ma Chao's shouting, the Han soldiers quickly retreated, and Ma Chao broke off his subordinates with a gun. Taken by Ma Chao's bravery, Hu Chuquan did not order the pursuit, and coldly watched the defeat of the Han army.

In this battle, the soldiers and horses on both sides did not have much loss, only in the last collision, there were more than 100 injuries respectively, but when the Han army stabbed the Hun cavalry with a spear, some people's weapons were stabbed by the Huns, but they did not have time to take back, and they were taken off by the high-speed running war horses and left on the Huns, therefore, the Han army lost hundreds of spears in this battle, strictly speaking, the Han army lost. Moreover, this battle formation was proposed by Ma Chao, but the result was that the troops were beaten and withdrawn on their own initiative, which was also an adverse impact on the morale of the Han army.

Based on the above two points, Hu Chuquan unceremoniously believes that this battle is naturally another small victory for his side. After smiling and ordering his subordinates to clean up the battlefield and collect the weapons left by the Han army and the iron armor on the dead soldiers of the Han army, Hu Chuquan turned around and returned to the camp with the joy of victory.

In the next two days, Ma Chao racked his brains and painstakingly thought about the battle plan, not only to ensure that Hu Chuquan took it for granted that the Huns had been defeated, but also to ensure that his subordinate recruits could not suffer too much damage. In this process, Ma Chao's resistance to fraud and defeat from the beginning has gradually changed, and now he has no intention of complaining, and everything he thinks in his heart is from the perspective of reducing the battle losses of recruits as much as possible. Through these two days of meditation, Ma Chao realized that it is not easy to be a commander, before he only knew that Lu Dao fought bravely to kill the enemy, and would not think about other problems at all, but now, Ma Chao understood a truth, personal martial arts and bravery, far less important than the unity of the whole army, and it was also at this moment that Ma Chao suddenly realized the painstaking work of Zhuge Liang to send himself, Zhuge Liang is to build himself into a commander.

With this insight, Ma Chao formulated a combat plan, and it became more refined. The next three fraudulent defeats, each of which was carefully planned by Ma Chao, minimized the battle damage, and did not even have much negative impact on morale, and also made Hu Chuquan fail to see any clues, thinking that Ma Chao was a real defeat and defeat. It's just that in this process, Ma Chao's image in the eyes of Hu Chuquan has become more reckless. In this regard, not to mention that Ma Chao doesn't know the way, even if he knows the way, with his mentality at the moment, he will only laugh at it, which shows that his performance is quite successful, and he has completely induced Hu Chuquan. (To be continued......)

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