Chapter XXXVIII

Fighting so far, half a day has passed, Han Sui led the army to storm the troops led by Pang De and others, fortunately, Ma Chao's soldiers all had the idea of atonement and a firm will to fight, so they were not defeated under the onslaught of Han Sui's tens of thousands and several times the troops, and they still resisted to the death, and the two armies with great disparity in numbers could not hold each other.

However, Ma Chao led the army to give full play to the advantages of mobility and cavalry archery to disrupt the rebels and support the hold of Pang De and others.

Ma Chao led his troops to constantly get close to the rebels, firing arrows, each time shooting hundreds of horsemen. The number of rebels killed by arrows was much higher than the casualties of the troops led by Pound and others. Fifteen consecutive shots were fired at three or four thousand of the rebels.

When he led the army to the rebel army, Ma Chao found that the rear army was Han Sui's more than 20,000 infantry troops. These infantry troops were naturally not enough to deal with the cavalry led by Pound and others, so they were placed in the rear.

However, when these infantry soldiers saw that they were all cavalry fighting with Ma Chao's army, they were left out in the cold, and they were a little slack, thinking that Ma Chao would not have a chance to kill the rear army. Ma Chao saw that these infantry formations were untidy and a little messy, and knew that this was a place that could be broken through, so he hurriedly led his troops to kill.

It was Yang Qiu who led the infantry army, and when he saw that Ma Chao was actually killing his subordinates, he hastily ordered his troops to form a phalanx. But Ma Chao's troops came suddenly, and the infantry army was extremely slow, and before the infantry army could form a formation, Ma Chao entered the infantry formation and waved his gun to shoot several people. Behind the troops are all light cavalry, once they are charged, how can the rebels' infantry resist? Hundreds of people were hacked to death and trampled to death in an instant.

Yang Qiu was shocked, knowing that this horse was super brave and invincible, but he was afraid that he would follow in the footsteps of Cheng Yi and the horse, and he didn't care whether he was alive or dead, so he hurriedly ran away.

As soon as the main general left, the rest of the infantry also lost their fighting spirit, and they just struggled to resist the rush of Ma Chao's troops. Ma Chao's troops were like wolves driving sheep, and they won a lot, and the rebels' rear army was in chaos.

Han Sui, Cheng Gongying, Yan Xing and others were supervising the army to fight with Pang De, and Ma Chao's army was extremely tenacious and did not retreat. At this time, there were bursts of screams from the rear, and Han Sui looked back and saw that Ma Chao was leading his troops to harass his formation, casting mounted shots, and each time he shot down.

Yan Xing had already pulled out the sword on his arm at this time and persuaded: "Lord, if you allow Ma Chao to shoot at a gallop, our army will suffer a lot of damage sooner or later, and it will already be defeated. ”

Cheng Gongying also said: "What General Yan said is extremely true, and sending other troops to pursue it is easy to teach Ma Chao to annex." For now, I can only resist it with all my might. ”

Han Sui's eyes were always fixed on the front, where his rebels were fighting with the troops of Pang De, Duan Xuan, Ma Dai and others, and the battle was so fierce that even people from both armies dismounted and fought on foot.

Han Sui looked at it for a long time and said, "No! The army led by Ma Chao's brother is Ma Chao's main force. As long as his main force is broken, what does Ma Chao have to rely on? ”

After hearing this, the two stopped persuading and carefully supervised and commanded the army to fight with Pang De and others.

However, at this time, there was an even more tragic scream from behind, and the three of them looked back and saw that it was Ma Chao who led his troops to trample on their infantry army, which had been defeated and suffered heavy casualties.

Yan Xing hurriedly said: "Lord, if Ma Chao defeats the infantry army, not only will the rear of our army be threatened, but the soldiers will also suffer heavy casualties!" ”

Han Sui said angrily: "No matter how heavy the old man is killed or injured, he will definitely break Ma Chao's main force in one fell swoop!" If you don't save the infantry army, don't save it! ”

Cheng Gongying persuaded bitterly: "Lord, there are only dozens of horses in the encirclement, and he has done his best to save him. When his subordinates looked at the expressions of his subordinates, they knew that the soldiers were extremely impressed by his actions. And the lord now has tens of thousands of soldiers suffering, if the lord does not save him, the army's heart will be lost, and he will definitely not be able to defeat Ma Chao. ”

Han Sui turned his head to look at the soldiers around him, and they all really looked at Han Sui with blank eyes.

After thinking for a moment, Han Sui said: "The old man is confused, immediately transfer the troops and horses and go to attack Ma Chao!" ”

Yan Xing and Cheng Gongying were overjoyed and said, "The lord is wise! ”

Immediately, the rebels moved, separated from Pang De and others, and the whole army went to kill Ma Chao's troops.

Ma Chao saw from a distance that the rebels had abandoned Pang De and the others, and were rushing towards him, knowing that it was not advisable to fight hard, he immediately led the army to break away from the rebels, and retreated after another gallop. Ma Chao hoped that after he had demonstrated mobile combat for so long, Pang De, Ma Dai and Duan Xuan would be able to understand it.

Pang De, Duan Xuan and Ma Dai are really good generals, and when Han Sui and others led the rebels back, and saw that Ma Chao had been wandering, they all understood what Ma Chao meant.

The three generals also took advantage of the rebels' attack to the rear and charged the rebels and harassed them.

Han Sui had just instigated the army to go back to deal with Ma Chao, and the previous army had not yet caught up with Ma Chao's troops, but they were attacked by Pang De and other troops behind him. Han Sui was furious, and ordered the army to turn around and attack Pang De and other troops. But he didn't want the army to turn around and pursue, and the Pang De Department just killed dozens of horsemen, so he immediately ran away.

Han Sui thought that Pang De and the others would not come again, so he ordered the army to turn back again. Before he turned around, Ma Chao actually led his troops to stick it again, and his troops swept away dozens of his soldiers. Han Sui began to feel that something was wrong.

By the time the rebels reorganized themselves and pursued Ma Chao, Ma Chao had already led his troops to flee early; At this time, Pound and other troops came from behind, and they defeated dozens of horsemen; When Han Sui hurriedly ordered the army to turn back to chase Pang De again, it happened that Ma Chao came again, and brought dozens of casualties to the rebels.

At this time, Han Sui didn't understand that he was not the Jiuqu Yellow River, it turned out that this was Ma Chao's plan: divided into two parts, harassing each other's army attacking him, if he attacked Pang De, Pang De fled, Ma Chao attacked; If he attacks Ma Chao, Ma Chao will flee and Pang De will attack. In this way, the casualties caused are nothing, but they can make him tired and tired to deal with. When the army is tired, Ma Chao and Pang De lead their troops to attack, and he will definitely be defeated.

After understanding this, Han Sui knew that he must not let Ma Chao play and pull his nose away again. Han Sui said: "Yan Xing, how is the injury?" ”

Yan Xingdao: "It's no big deal. ”

"Okay, the old man divides the army into two parts, you lead the remnants of the foot soldiers to block Ma Chao, and the old man leads the main light cavalry to destroy Pang De Ma Dai first!"

Yan Xing also knew that now that the rebels were being attacked from both sides, they had to resist one army and storm the other; Wait until one army is wiped out, and then attack the other army to win, Han Sui is right. Yan Xing said, "Yes!" ”

Yan Xing rode to the rear army, and while Ma Chao's troops had just retreated, he ordered the foot soldiers to form a large formation and stop Ma Chao with a solid formation.

Ma Chao heard the sound of horses' hooves weakening when he heard the rebels, and judged that this was Pang De leading his troops to retreat, so he let the sound of horses' hooves weaken overall, and then led his troops to stick to the rebels' rear army.