Chapter Seventy-One: Encirclement and Encirclement
Ma Chao took the lead and rushed towards Liang Xingbu in the rear.
The rebel soldiers, together with Liang Xing, were worried about Ma Chaojun, who was about to catch up, how could they pay attention to Ma Chao's more than 40 horsemen?
As soon as Ma Chao entered, Liang Xing's subordinates didn't have time to draw their bows and arrows, and more than 40 horsemen also rushed into Liang Xing's right flank formation.
Ma Chao danced the silver spear desperately, he knew that his negligence had caused more than 2,000 deaths, and his conscience told him that he must not let these last forty or so people die. He was determined to make a way for them.
Under his silver spear, no one survived. Anyone within ten steps of him, Ma Chao's silver spear stabbed out as fast as lightning, and no one was spared. After Xiaobai, the corpses left behind in one place have also become a road because the people have died. The forty or so surviving horsemen were able to safely follow Ma Chao and weave swiftly among the rebels.
Seeing that Ma Chao had run, Cheng Gongying was very angry, if he hadn't relented just now, where would Ma Chao have escaped? Now pour well, the cooked duck flies.
When he was annoyed, the soldiers and horses of Pang De, Zhang Xiu, Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji had already approached the rebels, and they were violent. Cheng Gongying knew that Ma Chao's army was menacing and his troops were exhausted by the long-distance attack and the great battle of Fang Cai, and this battle was bound to be lost, so he hurriedly led the rebels to escape.
But Cheng Gongying is not a general after all, he is a strategist; He is good at strategy, not good at leading troops, and he doesn't know the specifics of marching and fighting. He naturally knew that the rebels were exhausted and would lose this battle, so he had to flee and avoid their edge; But I didn't expect that under the exhaustion of the rebels, where could they still outrun the fierce Ma Chaojun?
As soon as the rebels escaped a mile, Zhang Xiu took the lead in leading the tribe to bite up, and the hundred birds stabbed several horsemen to death with the phoenix spear, and his troops also killed the rebels. Ma Chao also happened to go through the formation, and happened to meet Zhang Xiu, so he chased after the rebels together. Zhang Xiu had the intention to compare with Ma Chao, and he and Ma Chao assassinated the rebels with a gun. But he found that Ma Chao's marksmanship was more exquisite than his Hundred Birds Chaofeng Gun. Every time he used his marksmanship, Ma Chao could stab more than a dozen rebel soldiers in the back and knock him off the horse; And he could only stab a few horses. Zhang Xiu was determined that he must ask Ma Chao for advice in the future to improve his marksmanship.
When Cheng Gongying was panicking, Pang De and Duan Xuan did not directly attack the rebels, but pursued both sides of the rebels, and the three armies advanced together.
Cheng Gongying was desperate, Ma Chaojun was going to catch up and block and surround all his troops. Sure enough, Pound was on the left and Duan was on the right, and after the front rushed in front of the rebels, the two armies suddenly approached the rebels between the two armies. Cheng Gongying didn't know what Ma Chaojun was going to do, but the next moment, the rain of arrows from the two parts came with a head and face, which answered the doubts in Cheng Gongying's heart very well.
After the gallop, the rebels slowed down a little. Holding the rebels, Pang De and Duan Xuan, the soldiers withdrew their bows and arrows one after another. Now that Ma Chao is not in command, it seems to be extremely difficult for Pang De to encircle the rebels by flanking and encircling the rebels through the rebels. Pound had an idea, and he took the lead in leading the troops to charge and kill the rebels, and the weak side of the rebels was broken.
Duan Xuan on this side heard the movement of the rebels and guessed that Pang De had already led his troops to attack the rebels, so he also led his troops to attack the rebels' flank.
An army composed solely of cavalry was characterized by a particularly rapid front, but extremely weak on the flanks and in the rear. Pound De and Duan Xuan's flanking attack was like two sharp knives cutting into the flesh, and the rebels immediately lost thousands of men and horses, and at the same time taught the two divisions to achieve a meeting in the rebels.
This convergence stopped the fleeing rebels. The rebels could not break through the Pang De Department and Duan Xuan Department, so they had to stop. At the same time, Zhang Xiubu and Zhang Jibu also chased up from the rear and blocked the last gap in the encirclement, and the encirclement was tight.
The rebels are like a reef in the vast ocean, and Ma Chaojun rushes to kill in all directions, just like the waves violently hitting the reef.
Ma Chao wanted to laugh at him in front of Cheng Gongying at this time, just now Cheng Gongying surrounded him, but now he surrounded Cheng Gongying in turn, this is really the present life, what an afterlife?
Cheng Gongying didn't want to sit still, he wanted to lead the army to break out. But he is not a general, and he doesn't know how to motivate the soldiers of the whole army, let them fight to the death, and desperately break through the encirclement of Ma Chao's army; Moreover, he was still making a fool of himself in front of the two armies, and his majesty was swept away, where were the soldiers willing to obey him; He lost to Ma Chao again in this battle, and even if the soldiers obeyed him, they had no confidence in him.
Liang Xing and Yan Xing gathered towards Cheng Gongying. Although Yan Xing hated Han Sui, he didn't want to join Ma Chao, he was not disappointed in Han Sui to the extent that he wanted to betray, but he was just restrained from time to time; Ma Chao hasn't won his heart yet.
So Yan Xing said: "Military division, now that our army is surrounded, most of the soldiers are panicked, and they can only choose some elite soldiers to break through. ”
Cheng Gongying was surprised: "If the three of me break through and leave, won't the remaining soldiers surrender to Ma Chao?" ”
Yan Xing said impatiently: "Strategist, now is not the time to feel sorry for the soldiers. If we don't break through and lose our lives, those soldiers will still surrender. ”
Cheng Gongying was tempted, and Liang Xing also wanted to live, but he didn't want to surrender, so he also persuaded: "Yes, military advisor, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood." If you are resourceful and have you, then you are better than a million soldiers. Why pity this mere 20,000 riders? ”
That's right! Lord! My lord still needs me! Cheng Gongying woke up in shock.
Cheng Gongying said: "Okay, the two generals hurry up and select two thousand elite soldiers, and we will break through here." ”
"Strategist, where do you break through?" Yan Xing asked.
Cheng Gongying looked at the encirclement around him, Ma Chao was commanding the whole army to storm the rebels, there were shouts of killing between heaven and earth, and arrows and feathers were flying around. In the encirclement in the distance, that is, between Ma Chaojun and the rebels, the killing was going on, and Ma Chaojun continued to attack the rebels like a wolf, but fortunately, the rebels were surrounded and huddled together, so they did not let Ma Chaojun rush into the formation.
Cheng Gongying looked at the generals of Ma Chao's army in the encirclement and said, "You can't go to the rear, Ma Chao is there; The left side is also not available, and it is rumored that Pound is a fierce general; Only Duan Xuan, who betrayed our army, is weaker and is a good place to go. ”
"Okay, just break out from Duan Xuan."
The three of them quickly and secretly slipped to the two thousand elites. But the rebels were all huddled together, and the three of them were the highest commanders, so their every move was naturally seen by the rebels.
The three of them led two thousand elites to squeeze through the rest of the tribe and headed towards Duan Xuan's side.