Chapter 197 A Small Failure

Ma Chao looked at this helpless siege battle and was extremely angry.

He saw that the personal ability of his soldiers was quite good. While protecting the body, the shield can also carry a bag of sand. And he can run away from the moat unscathed and throw the sand down. When he came back, he also retreated and slowly ran back with a shield to protect his body...

But the problem is that these county soldiers are too strong in their personal ability, and they have no sense of cooperating with each other, and they are in their own control.

Ma Chao remembers that he saw a movie before he traveled through time. Is it called "Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" or 800 Warriors? The round shield in the hands of the Spartan soldiers can be formed into a round shield array, just like the turtle shell, with the front and back and left back tightly. But inside, the javelin is always on standby and moving steadily... If these people can form an impenetrable array with the shields in their hands, even those crossbowmen on the wall of Longxi County can't hurt the lives of these soldiers. Moreover, the people in the camp are responsible for filling sand, which will be several times more efficient.

Thinking about it, Ma Chao strengthened his determination to exercise the soldiers' array and cooperate with training in his heart: those who only know Qimen Dunjia and other formations in the Shenbumen will be assigned to the military training hall to be responsible for array teaching. In addition, although you are responsible for the county affairs of Hanqiang Trade Institute and Beidi County, you can't come to Fufeng to teach in person, so you have to write an array book for middle-class non-commissioned officers to learn and train...

After thinking about it, Ma Chao also felt that the siege was really boring, so he planned to come back for dinner. But just when the Ma family was not yet golden, there was a new movement in Longxi County.

After seeing that Brother Chou's knife and shield hands were a little exhausted, the suspension bridge at the head of Longxi County suddenly shook and creaked and slowly fell. Ma Chao was a little stunned. Before he could react, the suspension bridge had already fallen and the gate was wide open. Under the guidance of more than 100 cavalry, the cavalry of Longxi County launched a rebellion. After the attack and counterattack, the knives and shields in the city who were tired of filling the river were caught off guard, and because there was no formation cover, they were cut down and suffered heavy casualties.

Ma Chao's brain was blank for a while, and his chest was suddenly extremely irritable. First, he was heartbroken by the thousands of soldiers in the city, and secondly, he was annoyed that his army was beaten very passively under the cover of absolute firepower!

In particular, these moves of Longxi County soldiers are not a peerless must-kill skill, but the bad thing is that he did not do anything in advance. It seems that he has no way to deal with it now: if he sends some long gunners to be protected by knives and shields before attacking, and is responsible for filling the river. At this time, when the cavalry rushed out, the long shooters could also resist. But at present, Brother Chou's men are all knives and shields. They have no power to fight back against the cavalry.

Ma Chao hurriedly ordered Brother Chou's troops to withdraw. At the same time, the crossbow cannon suppressed the fire on the wall and did not let the crossbows of Longxi County take advantage of it.

When the cavalry commander of Longxi County tried to rely on the superiority of the arms and roundabout from the two wings of Brother Chou, Pound, who arranged in advance from the rear, also immediately reacted: joking, doing this in front of the Xiliang iron cavalry that dominates the world, is it true that the Ma army is dead? Pound took the lead in leading the front to the battlefield and attacked the Longxi cavalry from the two wings of Brother Chou.

I have to say that the combat power of Xiliang Iron Horse is indeed better than that of the Longxi cavalry. First, it threw a javelin and caught the Longxi cavalry off guard. Then Yuan Rong's crossbow showed his power and defeated the number and arrogance of Longxi cavalry before charging in front of the enemy. In particular, Pound's force value was very high. He first came up with the commander of the cavalry, and then led his subordinates to crush it with a three-foot wooden breakthrough, making the soldiers of Longxi County in a hurry and collapse.

But even so, in just a few breaths, the Longxi cavalry killed about 500 infantry. In addition to the 500 people previously lost in Nan'an County, the 2,000 infantry under the ugly have lost one-half.

"Ding... When..." Ma Chao's side is gold, and Longxi County's side is also beginning to sing gold. In this battle, the two sides fought very hard and had a tacit understanding, which was regarded as pulling down the curtain of this tentative attack.

But in fact, this is only Ma Chao's wishful thinking. Just as Pound and Brother Chou retreated, Ma Chao suddenly saw himself riot behind the array. From time to time, I heard the sound of people shouting horses, and then I saw the thick smoke of bears rise to the sky.

"That's where a certain army has heavy grain and grass!" The horse was in a hurry and quickly ordered the whole Xiliang iron to go out, and he rushed to the back of the battle first. Looking out, I saw that only about 500 Longxi cavalrymen came out of there and were burning their own army's grain and fodder!

The whole Xiliang iron horse immediately reacted quickly and effectively under the mobilization of Ma Chao. Under the charge of tens of thousands of people, the rumble of horses' hoofs seemed to break the ground, and the 500 Longxi cavalry saw that they really angered the Ma family army, and immediately ran away with the torch and blood-stained long gun knife in their hands... .

"Don't chase, put out the fire quickly!" Ma Chao gave a defeated order: He knew that this cavalry force was probably ambushed nearby for a long time. If I hadn't been afraid of being discovered for a long time, I wouldn't have just touched this little advantage.

I lost this battle for a while. At this time, Ma Chao sincerely felt that this war was really not that simple. He could not order to take action as soon as his head was hot. I'm lucky this time, and I'm not stupid enough to get home yet. And if he puts all his troops on the battlefield after being anxious, this cavalry of only 500 people may really be able to burn all his grain and fodder, make him lose all, and finally withdraw to Fufeng in confusion.

At this point, Ma Chao's heart gradually cooled down: if the governor of Longxi County is a straw bag, he may win; if the soldiers of Longxi County are depressed, he may also win; if Longxi City is not high and the wall is not thick, he can win! But the problem is that after this battle, Ma Chao clearly saw that the county guard of Longxi County is quite capable. In addition to the unknown political strategy, he is quite excellent in personnel, military literacy training and city defense. The quality and ability of his county soldiers under his command are no worse than that of the Ma family. Coupled with the dangerous terrain and high walls of Longxi County, I'm afraid that I really can't capture Longxi County in a short time.

"Investigate, check it hard! I didn't expect that there would be such a person in Longxi County!" At the military summary meeting in the account, Ma Chao was furious: his slogan shouted 'Know yourself and know your enemy', but up to now, he doesn't even know who Longxi County is!

He is not angry with these subordinates. To be honest, although he was defeated in today's battle, the level of his subordinates was normal.

Ma Chao was actually angry with himself at this time, hating himself for a moment of impulse, which made more than 700 elite veterans die in the tentative attack in vain.

After listening to Ma Chao's shouting, Brother Chou did not respond positively. He frowned, as if he had been thinking about a question since he entered the door.

"Brother Ug, can't the shadow penetrate Longxi County at all?" Seeing that Brother Chou did not return to his life, Ma Chao suppressed his anger and asked Brother Chou.

Ah? Not either. If it is said to investigate the deployment of troops and grain and materials in Longxi County, Shadow may be powerless. But if you just inquire about the resume of Longxi County, there is still no problem. Within a day, there will be news. Someone is just thinking..."

"What are you thinking about?" Ma Chao is very puzzled that this ugly brother is also thinking about fighting a war now. This is a good thing!

"Young master, we transported the sandbags of 50 cars and threw most of them down this afternoon. But I found that the moat of Longxi County had almost no response!"

Brother Ug's words aroused the interest of everyone in the account, while Ma Chao, Jia Xu, Fa Zheng and Yang Fu's eyes were brighter: Isn't it stagnant water, but living water?