Chapter 36: The Fierce Battle (Part II)
Seeing that the situation was not good, Ma Chao knew that the forced landing was no longer possible, and it could only be a living force to kill and injure the rebels. So he personally led ten troops, that is, 10,000 cavalry, to rush towards Han Sui, and ordered the three generals Duan Xuan, Ma Dai and Pang De to lead the remaining 20,000 cavalry to rush and kill the surrounded Cheng Gongying Division.
The besieged Cheng Gongying Department saw that Han Sui led the army to come to the rescue, and their morale soared. However, Ma Chao's army occupied the advantage of encirclement, and rushed from all sides to kill the 50,000 cavalry of the Chenggong Ying Division, they could not resist at all, and thousands of cavalry were killed. Rao is like this, they are still fierce and fearless of death, desperately stopping the Ma Chao tribe who rushed into the formation, and fighting with them anxiously, and the battle immediately became tragic.
On the other side, Ma Chao led the army and collided with Han Sui's main rebel army, and both armies suffered heavy losses, and from time to time you could see the screaming people being knocked into the air. Ma Chao didn't care, he led the army to gallop at full speed, knowing that if the 10,000 horsemen stopped, they would not be able to stop Han Sui, and he intended to pass through the formation of Han Sui's army.
Because of Ma Chao, his subordinates are also unstoppable. But when he entered Han Sui's formation, Ma Chao suddenly saw a foot soldier protruding from the formation. There were tens of thousands of foot soldiers, led by Han Sui himself, and under the command of Han Sui Lingqi, this foot soldier stopped Ma Chao's offensive with a shield spear.
Han Sui laughed when he saw Ma Chao stop under the foot soldiers, he had long known that relying on cavalry to collide with Ma Chao would not stop him, and he could only use foot soldiers who did not move like a mountain. Therefore, he ordered the infantry to sneak into the cavalry early, and waited for Ma Chao to lead the crowd to kill, stop it, and then surround it.
Seeing that Ma Chao's trilogy was really stopped, Han Sui ordered the crossbowmen hiding behind the shield to fire a volley at Ma Chao's trilogy. Arrows rained down, and one fell.
Ma Chao wielded a silver spear to knock away all the arrows flying at him, but his troops did not have the ability to dodge arrows, especially at such close range. Ma Chao saw that the casualties were not light, and he saw that the rebel troops behind him were being rectified, intending to surround him, and knew that he was invincible, so he decided to turn around and escape.
Han Sui thought that Ma Chao would be like yesterday, and he would face difficulties when he was surrounded, but he didn't expect to see Ma Chao decisively lead the army to retreat. However, because he didn't expect Ma Chao to retreat, he didn't arrange the foot soldiers with shields after Ma Chao's trilogy, all of them were light cavalry, so instead he let Ma Chao rush out easily, and cut off more than 2,000 heads by the way, knocking his formation into chaos again, Han Sui was very annoyed.
Ma Chao successfully led the army to break through, but saw that Pang De and the others could no longer stop the surrounded Cheng Gongying Department. Most of the besieged Chenggong Ying Department was about to converge with Han Sui's main force, and only a small part was still fighting.
The horse was super annoyed, and the boiled duck flew! simply didn't do anything, so Ma Chao led his troops to rush to those Cheng Gongying who were breaking through and joining with the main force. These rebel troops had just fought a fierce battle with Pang De and other troops, and after breaking through, the formation was in chaos. Ma Chao led the army to rush through, and then rushed and defeated this defeated army.
Pang De and others saw that Ma Chao led the army to attack the rebels again, and they also led the troops to meet them. The two phases were flanked, and the rebels were squeezed and hit with heavy casualties, and the corpses increased sharply.
At this point, the battlefield has become a mess. Originally, it was Ma Chao who successfully surrounded a rebel army, that is, the Gongying Department, but he didn't think that Han Sui dared to lead the main force to rescue; So 10,000 horsemen were sent to attack Han Sui, but 20,000 horsemen fought fiercely with the surrounded Chenggong Ying Department; But Ma Chao's 10,000 horsemen were too few after all, and he was surrounded by Han Sui; Ma Chao took advantage of Han Sui's failure to transfer away from the shield-wielding foot soldiers to surround his rear, killed from the rear, and defeated the rebels again; And the troops of Pang De and others only have 20,000 horsemen, so naturally they can't stop the breakthrough of the Chenggong Ying department; Seeing that 50,000 horsemen were about to converge with the main force, it happened that Ma Chao was killing from the main force of the rebels, and just happened to rush and kill, and the convergence of the two rebels was contained.........
Han Sui saw that his side had lost a lot, and he was furious, and led the main force to press, intending to form a flank attack on Ma Chao with the Cheng Gongying Department who was flanked.
At this point, the battlefield was basically divided into four pieces. Han Sui's department, Ma Chao's department, Cheng Gongying's department, and Pang De's department overlapped each other in turn. Ma Chao's department is fighting with Pang De and other departments to attack Cheng Gongying's department. Cheng Gongying commanded desperately, but he couldn't stop Ma Chao's two men and horses from the front and back, and his troops suffered many casualties.
But Han Sui's department immediately chased after him, on the one hand, to rescue Cheng Gongying's department, and on the other hand, to surround and attack Ma Chao's department between Han Sui's department and Cheng Gongying's department.
Ma Chao was killing hard, and the guards around him shouted: "Lord, the Han thief is killing from behind!" ”
Ma Chao looked back, and Han Sui's hundreds of thousands of horses were under heavy pressure. Ma Chao thought that once Han Sui's troops came, they would just form a flanking attack with Cheng Gongying's department, and the situation would fall to Han Sui again.
But at present, Cheng Gongying's troops are squeezed in the heart of the city by the troops led by him, Pang De and others, and the men and horses are dense, and it is impossible to pass through it and escape the danger of being surrounded by a flank. As for the Han Sui Division, which has more people penetrating, it is even more fantastical.
Han Sui killed in front with light cavalry, and the advance speed was extremely fast, and Ma Chao could not afford to hesitate any longer. Ma Chao had an idea, and thought that he could escape from the two rebel divisions while the two divisions had not converged and the Han Sui division had not been close to each other.
So Ma Chao ordered his troops to fight and retreat with Cheng Gongying's department, and fled to the left, while escaping, he shot at Han Sui's department.
Han Sui saw that his subordinates were only fifty steps away from Ma Chao's department, and his subordinates were lined up with a wall more than four miles long, and killed Ma Chao's department with the momentum of Mount Tai's overwhelming; Cheng Gongying will also be concerned, and has been shrinking people and horses to squeeze together, so that Ma Chao can't break through and escape: no matter how you look at Ma Chao, it's impossible to escape. was rejoicing, but saw Ma Chao's head turned around and ran towards the right side of the battlefield, not fighting with his two men.
Han Sui thought to himself, this Ma Chao is really agile, and he knows that if he penetrates the formation again, he will be sent to death in vain and fall into the encirclement, so he chose to break away from the two parts, and escaped from the gap between the two parts when they were still dozens of steps apart.
However, Han Sui was not worried, his troops were fierce, and he was only dozens of steps away from Cheng Gongying's department, no matter how Han Sui looked, he could stop and surround Ma Chao before Ma Chao escaped.
Ma Chao watched Han Sui's hundreds of thousands of horses approaching rapidly, pressing like a high wall, and he was very uneasy. He wasn't sure that he could stop so many men and horses with galloping.
But now, there is only this trick. Ma Chao shouted: "Listen to the order: Run!" ”
The subordinate is experienced in a hundred battles and is well-trained. Hearing Ma Chao's order, they put down their swords and guns, drew their bows and arrows, and waited for Ma Chao's order.
Ma Chao saw that the trilogy had already raised the bow and the arrow was on the string, and shouted again: "Release the arrow!" ”