Chapter Seventy-Eight: Fierce Battle
Han Sui smiled and said, "The horse is so angry! When you say this, you are not afraid to flash your tongue. ”
Ma Chao smiled: "Does the old thief still want to fight again?" ”
Han Sui also smiled: "As long as the old man is still alive, I will fight to the death with you, a thief!" ”
"Okay, I'll fulfill you!" Ma Chaodao.
Han Sui ordered the drum to be beaten, and the drum beat three times, and the 60,000 knights of the rebel army were boosted. In order to lure Ma Chao to the bait, Han Sui led the rebel army to go first and rushed towards Ma Chao's army on the opposite side, and its left and right wings followed closely and also rushed with it. The rebels, with 60,000 horsemen, were unstoppable as they charged like three rhinoceros.
Ma Chao also ordered the drumming to be beaten, and the army was exhausted, and the three armies carried the aftermath of the great victory, and the momentum was even more victorious.
Like Mars hitting the earth, the two armies are rushing in opposite directions, and they are about to collide violently, which is bound to cause countless casualties among men and horses.
Ma Chao saw that the two armies were approaching, and the distance was appropriate, and saw that Ma Teng, who was leading the right flank, had begun to detour to the enemy's left flank, intending to attack from the side, and he immediately led the Chinese army no longer to kill the enemy's Chinese army, but turned around and also killed the enemy's left flank. At the same time, Duan Xuan took the lead, and the left flank was killed by the enemy's Chinese army.
Han Sui showed a sly smile that the conspiracy had succeeded. He ordered the flag bearer behind him to wave the flag and send the flag, and ordered the left flank to resist Ma Chao and Ma Teng's middle army and right flank, and he led the middle army and right wing to attack Ma Chao's left flank.
Ma Chao's left wing and Han Sui's left wing have become the key to both sides. Once defeated, the flanks of the weak Chinese army will be unreservedly exposed to the enemy's iron hooves, and as soon as the enemy rushes in, the most important Chinese army of the three armies will surely be trampled into dust. As soon as the Chinese army is defeated, the victory and defeat will be divided. So the key to this battle is who will crush the enemy's left flank first.
Ma Chao was confident that with his bravery and the rising morale of his troops, and with more soldiers and horses than Han Sui's left flank of 10,000 horses, it would not be difficult to quickly defeat his left flank.
The cavalry charge was only a matter of moments. Within a few seconds, the right flank led by Ma Teng and the Chinese army led by Ma Chao were infinitely close to the left flank led by Ma Wan, and the distance was soon less than forty paces.
Ma Chao ordered the Chinese army to mount and shoot at the enemy's left flank, intending to hit the front of the left flank with cavalry first, in preparation for the rapid defeat of the enemy's left flank. The Chinese army fired thousands of arrows in unison, and the arrows rained down, and the incalculable arrow feathers even temporarily obscured the daylight, leaving a shadow on the earth.
Ma Chao waited to see the tragic situation of the left wing falling. But to Ma Chao's surprise, the enemy's left wing Wan cavalry saw him order to mount and shoot, and the sergeants raised their riding shields one after another. Ma Chao also saw that it turned out that the left wing of ten thousand horsemen, not only the cavalry were covered with armor, but even the war horses were covered with armor on their chests and heads, which were easy to be shot by arrows.
Arrows rained down, and many of them were shot but their armor flew away, and only a few dozen fell from their horses, or their horses fell to the ground after being shot in the abdomen; Or the arrow hit the mounted shield, but did not penetrate the shield, and could not hurt the rebel soldiers hiding under the shield.
How so? Ma Chao was anxious.
At this moment, Ma Wan gave an order, but the enemy's left wing Wan Qi lost his riding shield, picked up his bow and arrow, drew his bow and arrows, and also shot at Ma Chao's cavalry.
Ma Chao's subordinates did not expect that the enemy's left flank would be like this, and the body was covered with light leather armor or fish scale armor, and the war horse was unarmored. After a rain of arrows, more than a thousand horsemen fell, and the losses were heavy. After the sergeant's body was shot by an arrow, the sound of "poof" piercing into the flesh sounded, and the sergeant's screams also immediately resounded on the battlefield; Then there was the muffled sound of the human body falling heavily to the ground.
Ma Chao instinctively looked towards his left flank and saw Han Sui and Zhang Hengzheng leading the Chinese army and the right flank engaged in a battle with the right flank led by Duan Xuan. Han Sui also ordered a cavalry shot, which caused the left wing led by Duan Xuan to fall, and the sound of screams and neighing horses was heard.
If Ma Chao hadn't woken up by this time, then he wouldn't be Ma Chao. When Ma Chao saw this scene, he quickly thought that the Chinese army and the right wing led by Han Sui and Zhang Heng would definitely defeat the left wing led by Duan Xuan before the Chinese army and the right wing led by him and Ma Teng defeated the left wing led by Ma Wan. As soon as the left flank was broken, the flank of his Chinese army was exposed to Han Sui, and he would definitely be defeated at that time.
Thinking about this clearly, Ma Chao immediately thought about getting out of the battle with the left flank led by Ma Wansuo and avoiding the attacks of Han Sui and Zhang Heng. But it was too late, the cavalry charged rapidly, and the Chinese army led by him and the left flank led by Ma Teng had already put away their bows and arrows, collided together, and fought with real swords and guns.
Since the enemy's left flank was a relatively sophisticated elite army, the Chinese army led by Ma Chao and the right flank led by Ma Teng fell into disadvantage as soon as they fought with it. It was only because of the numerical advantage that it did not lose too badly. Ma Chao was very anxious in his heart, Duan Xuan's side was full of good and bad soldiers, and there was no difference between elite soldiers and ordinary soldiers, and his combat power was relatively poor. And more importantly, Duan Xuan only had 10,000 horsemen under his command, while Han Sui and Zhang Heng had 50,000 horsemen.
Sure enough, Duan Xuan led the left wing to catch up, and collided with the Chinese army led by Han Sui and the right wing led by Zhang Hengsuo. Because of the disparity between the outnumbered and infinitely magnified the comparison between the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides, the left wing led by Duan Xuan suffered heavy losses.
Ma Chao was sweating all over, if he couldn't come up with a way to deal with it immediately, in less than half a pillar of incense, Han Sui and Zhang Heng would lead the army to completely defeat the left flank led by Duan Xuan, and then rush towards him. At that time, he was fighting fiercely with the left wing led by the horse playhouse, where could he take care of the safety of the side?
But at this moment, when Ma Chao was observing the battle between the left wing led by Duan Xuan and Han Sui and Zhang Heng, he saw that there was a high hill raised high on the flat ground for half a mile, that is, about two hundred meters, in Han Sui's Chinese army formation.
The sharpest thing about the cavalry is its incomparable impact power, if it rushes down from a high place, the impact will increase exponentially. Right now, that Takaoka is his only hope of victory.
Ma Chao really wanted to personally transfer a piece of the song, but he was in the horse play formation at this time, and he couldn't get away. Ma Chao looked back and saw that it was Zhang Xiu who led the rear of the Chinese army, so he sent a horse back to give Zhang Xiu an order, ordering him to transfer 5,000 cavalry from the rear, immediately bypass the battlefield, run to the back of the Chinese army led by Han Sui, climb above Gaogang, and launch a fierce attack on the rear of the Chinese army led by Han Sui.
After Zhang Xiu received the order, he immediately drew five thousand horsemen as ordered, turned the horse's head, and ran in the direction behind him.
At this time, the battlefield has been divided into two parts, on this side, the middle army and the right wing of Ma Chao's army are fighting fiercely with the left flank of Han Sui's army; On that side, Han Sui's army's central army and right wing were beating Ma Chaojun's left flank without any power to fight back. It's just that the left flank is still desperately resisting, and although it retreats again and again, it does not allow the central army and the right flank of Han Sui's army to break through.