Chapter 298: Riding step by step, the way of heaven is constant
It was Ma Chao's 3,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry who tore through the defense line by the thousands of Wei troops in Matai.
There is no distinction between the infantry and the cavalry, and as long as the infantry is properly arranged, it can also defeat the invincible cavalry.
It's just that in order for the infantry army to do this, it must have a crucial foundation - that is, to have a tight and invincible formation.
For the infantry army, the formation is the foundation of their survival.
And when the thousands of Wei troops led by Ma Tai lost this at all, all that awaited them was the ruthless slaughter from the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
After Ma Chao led three thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry and slaughtered everywhere in the chaotic Wei army formation, a moment later, hundreds of panicked Wei troops died under the spears of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
But Ma Chao knew that Guan Yu wanted him to achieve more than that.
Besides, Xiliang Iron Riding is not used like this.
After using the lance in his hand to kill a Wei soldier again, Ma Chao seized the opportunity of the Wei army's scattered formation, and he commanded three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry to rush out of the Wei army's formation.
After the three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry rushed out from the Wei army's formation, Ma Chao led the three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry to run quickly towards the open space a mile away.
Then, after the three thousand Xiliang Iron Horsemen arrived at the plain a mile away, they turned their horses' heads at a very fast speed under the leadership of Ma Chao.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry, whose speed had not slowed down at all, slammed into the already collapsed Wei army formation again.
How powerful is the all-out assault of the 3,000-armed heavy cavalry?
This powerful impact alone can knock several Wei soldiers in front of him into the air.
The most important thing is that the place where the three thousand iron cavalry collided was the weakest point of the Wei army's defense line that they had just hit.
Therefore, after the three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry slammed into the Wei army's formation again, the wails and panic of thousands of Wei troops had already resounded.
A kind of fear for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in front of him, which was wrapped in iron armor, was completely wrapping the hearts of these thousands of Wei troops at an extremely fast speed.
No matter how elite the thousands of Wei troops led by Ma Tai are, they can't help the ferocious Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which is as fierce as a beast, to hit them three times and twice.
And worst of all, when Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry launched a fierce assault on them, thousands of Wei troops were still engaged with thousands of Han troops.
Such a situation has undoubtedly brought the situation they are facing to the point of being out of control all of a sudden.
Just when Ma Chao led the three thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry to withdraw again, intending to launch another ferocious assault, the thousands of Wei troops led by Ma Tai could no longer support it.
When one of the Wei soldiers began to throw away their armor and try to escape from the slaughterhouse in front of them, they would start to do the same.
An expected collapse is spreading throughout the army at an unimaginable rate.
However, a few moments later, the thousands of Wei troops in Matai had completely collapsed.
Thousands of Wei troops, under the extreme fear and panic in their hearts, all wanted to flee from this battlefield immediately.
It's just that although the formation of the Wei army is chaotic, under the chaotic formation, the crowd between the Wei army is more dense.
So when thousands of Wei troops were like headless flies, completely out of command and scurrying around trying to escape, an even more terrible thing began to arise.
Thousands of people collided together in an orderly manner, causing a stampede on a massive scale.
When this incident happened, in addition to the louder wails among the thousands of Wei troops, there were also many malicious insults.
Every Wei army was insulting their comrades who were still fighting side by side with them, because the former comrades had become an obstacle to their escape at this time.
In the face of the search for vitality, most of human nature is ugly.
The ugly human nature allowed the mass stampede of thousands of Wei troops to develop at an uncontrollable speed.
Many Wei soldiers fell to the ground while pushing each other, and then were trampled to death by their own comrades.
Looking at the tragic scene in front of him, Ma Chao's eyes showed a look of satisfaction.
It's brutal, but it's a battlefield.
Either you die or I die.
Is there a more effective way to quickly defeat thousands of infantry troops with the iron cavalry under his command than to let them kill each other?
Just that's not enough!
When the thousands of Wei troops led by Ma Tai had a large stampede time due to different escape directions, Ma Chao led his Xiliang Iron Cavalry to point out a clear way for these thousands of Wei troops.
Under the command of Ma Chao, the three thousand Xiliang Iron Riders formed a semicircle surrounded on three sides, slowly approaching the thousands of Wei troops who were trampling on each other.
When the thousands of Wei troops saw that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which they feared the most, was surrounding them, almost instantly, an idea came to the minds of the thousands of Wei troops who were still surviving.
Escape!
Flee to a place where you can't see these killing gods.
Under the influence of this thought, the movements of thousands of Wei troops immediately became unified.
They walked towards the side that Ma Chao deliberately let go, and ran away abandoning everything.
When there is only one option left, everyone knows how to choose.
And that direction was where Sun Li's thousands of Wei troops were.
When the thousands of Wei troops in Matai fled towards Sun Li's place, they took off their armor one after another because of the fear of death in their hearts.
They even discarded their weapons so that they could lighten their burdens a little more and escape a little faster.
And when thousands of Wei troops quickly fled from this battlefield, because they decisively gave up, they now left a lot of baggage weapons in the battlefield.
Many of the ordnance was in an extremely chaotic state and was discarded on the battlefield.
If in the past, in the face of these sophisticated ordnance, Ding Feng and Ding Feng's subordinates, who cooperated with the Xiliang cavalry to pursue behind, would definitely stop and fight.
But under Mi Yang's strict military regulations, this scene did not appear among the thousands of Han troops.
Under Ding Feng's fierce shouting, thousands of Han soldiers only quickly picked up the ring-headed knives on the ground and replaced the weapons that had been cut in their hands.
After a quick replacement, these thousands of Han troops, led by Ding Feng and Ding Feng, pursued the extremely fast Wei army that fled ahead.
The quality of the Wei army's ring-headed sword was first-class in the world, and the first-class knife had to be used to cut first-class enemies.
At the time just now, the thousands of Wei troops led by Ma Tai had already dispersed from Sun Li's more than 10,000 Wei troops.
Therefore, according to common sense, even if the thousands of Wei troops in Matai were wiped out under the impact of more than 3,000 Xiliang iron cavalry, it should not cause much damage to Sun Li's thousands of Wei troops.
It's just that this is in general.
The tactics of Xiliang Tieqi are to break the surface with points, and after breaking the surface with points, of course, it is necessary to use points to reach the surface.
Thousands of Wei troops, which had been defeated by the Han army's infantry and Xiliang iron cavalry, were coming towards Sun Li's thousands of Wei troops at a very fast speed.
And the distance between the two Wei armies was not far apart, so after Sun Li saw this scene, his face could no longer remain calm.
Just now, whether it was the appearance of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, or the Xiliang Iron Cavalry defeating Xu Chu's cavalry at a very fast speed.
Although Sun Li was panicked and frightened, he at least kept his face calm in order to stabilize the army's morale.
Only now when he saw the thousands of collapsed Wei troops, like a large field of locusts rapidly attacking him, any pretense disappeared on Sun Li's face.
Sun Li's most feared scene happened.
When a person runs for his life, his speed becomes very fast.
In addition, the Wei armies on both sides were not far away, so the thousands of Wei troops who fled for their lives soon came to the front.
In order to guard against the charge of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Sun Li placed a lot of pikemen on the flanks of his Wei army.
Now the thousands of pikemen, looking at their comrades with great fear on their faces, rushed towards them, and their hands holding spears trembled.
If it was Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry that appeared in front of them now, then they would not hesitate to rush forward, but now those thousands of people are their comrades!
When Sun Li saw that the pikemen he had arranged were reluctant to rush away in the face of the thousands of Wei troops who were about to rush into the formation, he panicked and hurriedly gave orders and urged him many times.
It is better for them to die than to die themselves.
When Sun Li gave the order, he also sent a warlord to the back of thousands of pikemen to intimidate them.
Under Sun Li's repeated urging, even if the thousands of pikemen were reluctant in their hearts, they could only raise the spears in their hands and stab at their comrades in front of them.
And with the thrust of thousands of pikemen, many Wei troops who fled to the front of the battle died under the spears of their comrades.
Originally, Sun Li thought that his actions could intimidate the rout of the Wei army that was rapidly attacking him, but he underestimated people's will to survive.
As the saying goes, don't stop returning to the teacher, for the thousands of Wei troops who fled for their lives, what is blocking them at this moment is no longer their comrades, and it is the enemy who blocks their way of life.
Besides, even if the Wei army in front wants to stop, can the Wei army in the rear, who are desperate to flee for their lives, allow it?
There are only a thousand pikemen ahead, and they may have a chance to survive if they rush hard.
But if they stopped, once they were caught up by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry behind them, then they would have no way out.
Therefore, even though many of the defeated Wei troops died under the spears of their comrades, under the strong will to survive, thousands of Wei troops still rushed towards Sun Li's Wei army formation "fearless of death".
Under the influence of Cao Wei's erroneous service system, most of the Wei troops who could be organized into the same army were people from the same state or county.
Under the strong local concept, the thousands of pikemen did not want to attack their comrades in front of them.
Under this unbearable situation, the formation of thousands of pikemen became precarious under the impact of the rout of thousands of Wei troops.
After Sun Li realized this, he immediately dispatched a large part of the Wei army to stop the rout of thousands of Wei troops.
It's just that the Wei army led by Sun Li was already facing the attack of the Han army with high morale in Miyang.
Therefore, under the circumstance that he took care of one thing and the other, after the thousands of Han troops led by Ding Feng joined forces with Mi Yang, they successfully tore apart the other front of the Wei army.
What's even worse is that just when Sun Li was still thinking about making up for the situation, the three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry led by Ma Chao from the other flank and fiercely inserted into the Wei army's formation.
When this happened, Sun Li's current situation was equivalent to facing the enemy on three sides, and his two lines of defense had been completely torn apart.
The situation that Sun Li is facing now is even worse than what Ma Tai faced just now.
And such a sinister situation, even if Sun Li is a general, there is no way to save it.
The scene that happened just now in the rout and escape of the Wei army led by Ma Tai is swallowing up Sun Li's Wei army with an irretrievable trend.
When thousands of Wei troops successfully rushed into the formation of the Wei army led by Sun Li, Sun Li's formation of thousands of Wei troops collapsed instantly.
And under the coercion of the previous thousands of Wei army routs, more and more Wei troops joined it.
At last they formed a rout force of tens of thousands of men, and they were fleeing in the direction they had set.
That direction is exactly where Cao Wei's army is!
Sun Li, who was in the midst of the chaotic soldiers, could only helplessly follow the crowd and run forward.
But after he saw the direction in which the more than 10,000 defeated soldiers were fleeing, a look of despair appeared on his face.
It's all over.
And after Mi Yang saw this scene, great happiness appeared on his face.
The scene in front of him was very similar to the day that lingered in his mind.
In the Battle of Dangyang that year, the reason why Liu Bei's army was defeated so badly was not because Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and other famous generals did not know how to form a formation against the cavalry.
It was because the original 5,000 Cao Army Iron Cavalry was like today's Ma Chao driving the people fleeing for their lives and attacking their arrays.
Under the impact of the torrent of ordinary people, any famous generals and formations are useless.
In that battle, many of the children of Liu Bei and others were either killed or captured by Cao's army.
If it weren't for the desperate guards of Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Chen Zhi, the battle back then would almost make the second generation of Ji Han die now!
With such a tragic battle situation, how could Mi Yang not be impressed.
His brothers and sisters died in that battle.
Now Mi Yang saw that Cao Wei's Zhongjun was about to face this tragic scene, how could this not make him feel great joy.
Heaven is constant, and retribution is unpleasant.
It's just that Mi Yang did not continue to lead the army to pursue the more than 10,000 Wei troops.
Because in the high-intensity battle just now, the physical exertion of the Han army led by him was huge, and there was no way to launch a high-speed pursuit at present.
And Wenqin's thousands of Wei troops have not yet been wiped out!
While Wen Qin was still frightened and shocked by the rapid rout of the two friendly armies, he saw the world-shattering Mi Yang, and led thousands of Han troops to turn towards his place full of momentum.
Wen Qin, who was still brave, instantly fell into great fear.
Don't come here.
Xu Chu was not a deserter, after the more than 2,000 cavalry he led was defeated by Ma Chao, he knew that Sun Li's three Wei troops would definitely end badly.
So he did not return to Sun Li to assist him, and he fled back to the location of Cao Wei's army alone.
After Xu Chu returned to this battlefield, he anxiously looked for Zhang Liao's figure.
He must tell Zhang Liao everything he knows as soon as possible.
But because Zhang Liao was fighting desperately in the formation of the army, Xu Chu couldn't find Zhang Liao for a while.
Even if Xu Chu found Zhang Liao's figure, in the crowded battlefield, it would not be easy for him to get close to Zhang Liao and tell him about it.
And just when Xu Chu finally found Zhang Liao's figure, he walked towards him with excitement on his face.
More than 10,000 Wei troops also came to the vicinity of this battlefield where tens of thousands of people were fighting at a very fast speed.
And the direction in which the rout of more than 10,000 Wei troops appeared was the back of tens of thousands of Cao Wei's Chinese army.
As a first-class rider in the world, Ma Chao's sense of direction is excellent.
A group of Han generals, the opportunity to avenge the revenge of the sun has come.
The chapter in the early morning will not stay up late tonight to write, and will be sent early tomorrow during the day.
Good night everybody.
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