Chapter 986?

At midnight, the scout reported to Ma Chao that the heavy team camped in a mountain pass ten miles ahead. Ma Chao immediately ordered the whole army to string the bow, pick the hook, and remove the shield from its back, hold it in his hand, and turn into a state of war. I have to say that it is so good for Us to command this Roman soldier. After ordering, those high-nosed Roman slave corps quickly and silently completed the request, showing extremely high military literacy.

At the same time, the horse's iron horse also held the horse, and people were silenced. Ma Chao couldn't help nodding: after the militarization of the Han people, their reaction was no worse than those of the Romans. After all, this great nation learns everything quickly.

Then, 5,000-step riders quietly approached the heavy team camp.

However, it was not the heavy team of the Yuan family that was attacked first, but Ma Chao's back team. In the dark, the highly nervous soldiers focused on following the front team to avoid falling away, but ignored the movement behind them. A large number of cavalry suddenly swarmed from all directions and rushed into Ma Chao's rear team array. Many people could not see anything in the dark. I don't know how many enemies there were. Although they hurried to form a formation, there was inevitably chaos.

Ma Chao obviously fell out of Yuan Jun's trap. The heavy team from Jinyang City kept a moderate distance from the pursuers, which gave Ma Chao a fluke mentality of chasing at night. And 5,000 first to go deep into the rear of the enemy, how can they not be noticed by Gao Gan? Therefore, a large number of elite riders have been keeping a distance from the heavy team. After nightfall, they moved nearby under the cover of darkness. When Ma Chao put all his energy on the heavy camp, the real killing move came quietly from behind.

The assault of these cavalry is typical Youzhou-style. The biggest difference between Youzhou and Xiliang riding tactics is that the former does not rely entirely on the explosive power of horses, but emphasizes continuous attack during high-speed movement. Each cavalryman holds a crossbow shield and shoots arrows to shock the enemy before the battle. After one blow is effective, they take out a long knife for horse battle and swing down. At the same time, under the protection of the left shield, there is a little more security, so that they can continue to swim.

Although in contrast, the Youzhou-style charge is not as fast and powerful as the Xiliang style, the continuous stamina is difficult to stand. Therefore, under this sudden attack, Ma Jiajun could not react for a moment and was helpless to form a formation to fight against it. He could only desperately wave the weapons in his hand for a one-on-one confrontation. For a moment, many people were shot down by arrows or cut by long knives, and the dull sound of metal piercing flesh and blood and screams came one after another. Even if they lift their shields, it is useless. Without the cover of their comrades-in-arms, they are often shot by the bow and crossbows on the side. After losing their strength, they will be trampled to death by the subsequent turbulent army...

The leader of this team is Jiang Yiqu, a general under Yuan Shao. Since childhood, he likes to dance with guns and sticks. He is strong and ugly and ferocious. Although the light is covered under the name of the four-court pillar, he is also a skillful general, especially when he breaks through the fight and likes to take the lead.

However, this time he rarely led his troops to fight - not to shock Ma Chao's reputation. In fact, this time, he did not know who the enemy was the leader - he was very dissatisfied with this task and thought it was a means to judge and squeeze out the generals. Ma Chaojun is close at hand, how can he still play sneak attacks? It must be the end of being surrounded and beaten to death by heavy soldiers. But he never thought that he didn't know what strategy the trial had, which made Ma Chao's main force stagnate and only sent a force of thousands of people to intercept the grain and grass.

In this attack, Jiang Yiqu brought 10,000 Youzhou elite riders. At this time, he was reflecting on whether he had misunderstood the trial: in the case of victory and military merit, he lost his interest in fighting in person.

He stood on a high ground not far away and ordered him to shake the torch from time to time. The torch on this high side is particularly conspicuous in the whole battlefield. Youzhou elite cavalry watched the shaking of the torch, sometimes advancing, sometimes attacking together, besieging Ma Chao in an orderly manner in the dark, biting Ma Chao's troops little by little.

The initial attack was very smooth, and Ma Jiajun fell into chaos at once. Jiang Yiqu could clearly see that those poor guys could not even do the minimum vertical shield against the array. Without the spear array to stop the enemy, the infantry was just a lamb to be slaughtered for the cavalry!

Although those people later formed a strange and simple formation, the formation almost dispersed by the cavalry has deprived their strange formation of a favorable environment. From time to time, there are thrilling howls and killings resounding through the sky. Long guns are stabbed, machetes are chopped, sharp hand axes are flying all over the air, cold guns roaring down, and heavy shields are hitting wildly.

"Killing~~" Jiang Yiqu couldn't help shouting out from a high place. He saw those Ma soldiers screaming in horror with an incomprehensible voice before they were devouring their fate, infecting the panic to his comrades next to him. This is Jiang Yiqu's favorite enemy. Many Youzhou knights rushed in with long knives, killed two or three people, then roared into the darkness, reunited, and stepped in from another direction, making the Ma army at a loss. Jiang Yiqu saw that his eyes were full of enemy blood and blood, and he couldn't wait to give up the command here and go down to have fun in person.

In the deafening sound of killing, the Ma army fell down like a cut straw. At this time, there was no formation to speak of. The subsequent soldiers rushed forward fearlessly, endlessly filling the gap left by their companions, and there was no crazier strangulation than this.

Jiang Yiqu's hands and feet began to tremble excitedly. He saw the soldiers falling down in grief and dying in pain, and the blood in his body flowed unscrupulously. But that's it, but he didn't find that the 3,000 infantry of the Ma army howled under the slaughter of Youzhou elite cavalry, but his 2,000 cavalry ran there?

"Well, on this occasion, even if all his cavalry are gathered, he can't help me." Jiang Yiqu thought to himself. Now the two armies have formed a regiment and can't be entangled. Even if Ma Chao's cavalry launches an assault, they can only accidentally injure their own people. He shook his hand again and motioned his men to move faster and let him experience the visual feast more, but he heard some movement.

Jiang Yiqu got off his horse and put his ears on the ground to listen. He grinned and said, "The general of the Ma family is somewhat good. It turned out that he hid the cavalry outside and planned to kill a gun." But when he was about to raise his head, he suddenly put it on again. This time, he found that there was also a slight tremor in another direction. Jiang Yiqu dug his ear hole and pasted it to listen for the third time. When the third direction also sounded a tremor of the same intensity, he could no longer laugh: the dog's trial really let me die!

Jiang Yiqu heard clearly. Except for the first sound of 2,000 cavalry, the remaining two directions needed tens of thousands of iron horses to shake out the tremor! Especially in the third direction, although the hoof sound is small, the tremor is the largest, and it is very likely to be the most powerful and mysterious heavy armored iron horse of the Ma family!

Jiang Yiqu hurriedly got up and ordered the fire officer to issue a unified retreat order. At the same time, he ordered Jin and asked the cavalry to leave the battle as soon as possible and gather to the west. He realized that he might have been tricked, and the troops mobilized by the enemy were by no means just one in front of him. At this time, there were movements on the east, south and north. He could only retreat west as soon as possible and merge with Jinyang's heavy force, relying on the resistance of the cart to wait for the rescue of the high cadres.

He believes that although the bastard is a bastard, he will never be so short-sighted and let the grain be robbed by the Ma army!

Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that at this time, Tian Yu had led 20,000 troops to launch a raid in front of the two battalions. Although the shallow battle retreated, it also made the high-level camp panic, let alone dispatch troops to rescue the heavy troops.

"Ready, add another 20,000 people and make another raid." Tian Yu shook the flag and ordered with high interest, "Remember, just scare them, don't really rob the camp. The third raid, plus 10,000 people, until the lord comes back..."