Chapter 37: The Fierce Battle (Part II)
As soon as the shouts fell, the cavalry of Ma Chaojun's cavalry let go of the thumbs that were wearing wrenches and hooking the bowstrings with their wrenches, and the bowstrings immediately bounced the arrows away, and the arrows were like meteors and lightning, cutting through the sky and flying towards the Han Sui cavalry running on the opposite side.
Han Sui's light cavalry knew that Ma Chao's army was proficient in galloping skills, but Han Sui led them to charge, and they were not prepared. As soon as the arrows rained, they immediately shot down a piece. Han Sui's front army, the men and horses flew over, and after some of the horses were shot, they threw the cavalry off their backs in pain; Some of the horses were shot dead and immediately fell, and the cavalry on their backs also fell to the ground; Some of the cavalry were shot, the horses were fine, and the cavalry fell off their horses alone...... Once they fell off their horses, the rebel hussars that followed were trampled to death.
Han Sui's offensive immediately stalled. Seeing that it was really effective, Ma Chao ordered his troops to speed up and escape towards the gap between the two rebels while continuing to mount and shoot.
The war horse was fast, and Ma Chaobu ran through most of the distance, escaping from the two attacks, which was already close at hand. But at this time, Cheng Gongying also realized Ma Chao's intentions, and commanded Qu to withstand the attack of Pang De and others on the one hand, and at the same time drew out more than 10,000 light cavalry to shoot arrows at Ma Chao. Because Cheng Gongying's troops were all pinched and stationed on their horses, the arrows were very accurate, and the rear army of Ma Chao's troops fell hundreds of horses. Fortunately, Ma Chao's department had already gone to the range of thirty bows and arrows, so there were no heavier casualties.
Han Sui was furious, last night the craftsman made stirrups overnight, and his troops were also equipped at this time. He also gave the order for the trophies to gallop and shoot. Before the order was given, Ma Chao's division fired another volley, overturning hundreds of cavalry shots off their horses, and the offensive momentum was further delayed.
At this time, Ma Chao's part was already approaching the gap between the two parts, and he was about to escape from the two parts. Han Sui's troops launched gallop shots, and also shot dozens of horsemen from the rear army of Ma Chao's department.
But Ma Chaobu immediately passed out of the gap and escaped from between the two attacks. Ma Chao saw that most of his troops had escaped through the gap, but when he saw that Cheng Gongying's troops immediately surrounded him, dozens of his rear troops were entangled to death, and they fought fiercely.
Ma Chao was shocked. Seeing that Han Sui's side also divided hundreds of horses, with the dozens of horses sent by Cheng Gongying's department, he surrounded his remaining fifty horses.
Ma Chao looked at the dozens of horses that were surrounded, his heart was numb, and he was undecided. Seeing Ma Chao's hesitation, the trilogy persuaded: "Lord, those dozens of horsemen will definitely not be able to escape, so it's better to forget it!" ”
"Yes, it's normal to be killed and wounded in war."
"The lord might as well go and join General Pang De and General Ma Dai, otherwise after Han Sui and Cheng Gongying converge, General Pang De and them will be in danger."
Ma Chao was still staring at the dozens of horsemen, who were struggling in the encirclement, and many of them were staring at him while resisting the siege of the rebels.
Ma Chao immediately understood his choice, and said loudly: "Listen to the order: follow me back to the army to fight back and rescue the robe!" ”
As soon as he heard this, the parts that had just been killed from Han Sui's two parts were very frightened, and a guard said: "Lord, Han Sui's troops are too many, and if we go back, we will be sent to death!" ”
Ma Chao raised his hand and slapped the guard. A loud slap that shocked all the parts. Ma Chao said: "So that you know: I Ma Chao knows that you were thieves before, but since you are under my account, I regard you as my robe and my siblings, and there is no ambition!" I should live and die with the officers and men of the whole army, advance and retreat together, and never let anyone fall into the enemy's encirclement and sit idly by! Now, those soldiers who are surrounded by the enemy are my brothers and sisters, and I should save them! ”
Saying that, Ma Chao didn't care about the shocked, moved and adoring expressions on the faces of the rest of the soldiers, immediately turned the horse's head and rushed towards the encirclement without hesitation.
The rest of the soldiers were all moved by Ma Chao, but they didn't expect Ma Chao to regard them as siblings, so they all clamored and caught up with Ma Chao.
The horse was super fast, and immediately rushed to the outside of the encirclement, and with a wave of his gun, the two horses flew off the horse, and with Xiaobai's momentum, he immediately broke a big hole in the encirclement. The dozens of horsemen who were caught in the encirclement saw Ma Chao come to the rescue alone, and they were moved to tears.
Ma Chao immediately let these soldiers escape from the encirclement, but he didn't expect these soldiers to insist on leaving after being rescued, and everyone shouted that they would fight side by side with Ma Chao and defeat the enemy army that surrounded them.
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and it turned out that the rest of the cavalry had come to kill, and soon the encircled rebels were scattered, and the encirclement was immediately gone.
As soon as they converged, the besieged and the troops who came to the rescue shed tears for this robe, and they all clamored to rush and kill the rebel formation again.
At this time, Han Sui's ministry was rescuing Cheng Gongying's department, and the pressure on Pang De and others increased a lot. Ma Chao thought to himself, if he led the army to join Pang De, the number was too small, and he would not be able to stop the fierce attack of Han Sui's rebels. And if you rush again, it is easy to fall into a heavy encirclement.
It seems that because of the large number of Han Sui's rebels, today's battle is undoubtedly lost. At this time, Ma Chao suddenly saw that everyone in his tribe was carrying five or six quivers, and there were plenty of arrows. Looking at the rebels, they generally do not carry quivers, or only a few quivers, and the rebels with little stirrup equipment only rely on charging into battle to win.
Ma Chao had a plan, and led his troops to rush against the rebels.
Han Sui is commanding with Cheng Gongying to fight with the Pound Ministry. Seeing Ma Chao on the periphery of the battlefield, he led his troops to rush, but he didn't immediately rush to fight side by side with Pang De and the others, and he didn't know what medicine Ma Chao was selling in the gourd.
Ma Chao's idea was to give full play to the ability of the troop to shoot and shoot arrows around the rebels' formation to disrupt the rebels; See where the rebels have weaknesses, and then lead the army to charge into battle, so as to support Pound and other troops.
He led his army and came twenty paces closer to the rebels, which was the best distance to shoot at gallop. Ma Chao waved his silver spear, and his troops immediately rushed towards the rebels, shooting down hundreds of horsemen. The rebels who were shot immediately divided into 2,000 cavalry to pursue Ma Chao's troops, but Ma Chao waved his gun again, and the rebels fled suddenly, and the rebels could not catch up.
Immediately, Ma Chao led his troops to stick up, chose the side of the rebels to rain arrows, and shot down hundreds of horsemen. The rebels had another detachment of troops and horses to pursue Ma Chao. Ma Chao saw that the army was no more than 1,000 horses, so he led his troops to engage it, and defeated the rebel army.
Then Ma Chao didn't love war at all, and immediately led the army away after killing enough people. On the one hand, the rebels wanted to line up to obey Han Sui's command, but they were afraid that too many people would be eaten by Ma Chao, so they did not dare to divide the formation to pursue Ma Chao.
Ma Chao was able to harass the rebels with agility and ease, and kept leading the army to keep close to the rebels' formation.