Chapter 669: Violent Tiger
At this moment, on the Changpingting battlefield, Wu Fu also led the Changshui Ya soldiers to rush into the front line.
Unlike Xu Huang's slight sigh, his emotion was much stronger. To be honest, he never expected that the Taishan Army's sudden cavalry would be so strong.
You must know that the three thousand Han cavalry he brought with him were almost the entire property of the Guandong imperial court. They were tempered from countless battlefields. Although the Taishan cavalry opposite was large in number, how could they be as sharp as them?
But what now? At a glance, he concluded that the enemy's numbers must be inferior to his own, but what was the result? But it was so difficult to fight.
For example, what he saw at this time was that on the plain not far away, an enemy cavalry general with only more than ten cavalry dared to charge directly into a nearby Han cavalry formation.
The knight was fully armored and had a thick horse spear in his hand. When the Han soldiers saw a gap, he rushed in and screamed with every blow.
After stabbing three people in a row, the horse's pole in the knight's hand finally broke, but the man didn't panic at all. He first dragged a man riding with his bare hands, then took the man's horse's pole and used his horse to do so. He knocked the man to death.
Then, this man continued to attack Feng He, his horses swept across, and several people fell off their horses. It was not until he captured a man who clearly looked like a Han cavalry general in his hands, and rushed out of the cavalry formation by strangling him alive, that he walked away.
And during the whole process, the cavalry who followed the man into the battle were not injured at all, but they killed the Han cavalry and turned them upside down.
This was not over yet, after the cavalry general captured a Han general, he came back on horseback and shouted:
"Remember, those who rush into the battle, Fufeng Jinma Chao!"
Later, more than a dozen cavalrymen behind him also shouted:
"Those who rush into the battle, Fufeng Jinma Chao!"
Wu Fu in the distance was stunned. He was also a top-notch hero, but he had never seen a general so brave.
In fact, he had never heard of Ma Chao before, which showed that his status in the Taishan Army was not high, but such a middle- and low-level military official was so brave.
Could it be that this warrior of Taishan Army is really capable of fighting in a car?
In the end, Wu Fu just watched Ma Chao rush away without continuing the pursuit.
This battle cannot be fought like this, otherwise his elite cavalry will be ruined here sooner or later.
Therefore, Wu Fu, who had made his decision, planned to use his own cavalry as the main formation, constantly roaming the battlefield, and regrouping the Han cavalry scattered everywhere.
When the time comes, fight and leave, and retreat to Tianjing Pass.
But just when Wu Fu was about to blow the trumpet to mobilize the cavalry, Ma Chao, who had rushed away, actually circled back.
This time, the horsemen following him were no longer the dozen, but a hundred. Under the leadership of Ma Chao, they headed straight for Wu Fu.
In fact, before Ma Chao rushed into the battle, he saw the cavalry army in the distance. When he saw the flags of the army and the troops and horses in order, he knew that this army was difficult to deal with.
But the more this happened, Ma Chao was sure there was a big fish there, but no matter how conceited Ma Chao was, he knew that the dozen or so people wouldn't be able to get in by themselves.
So he decisively left here, planning to find friendly forces nearby and then fight back.
Ma Chao was very lucky. After he rushed out, he tortured the captured general and asked him who were in the cavalry group of hundreds of people just now?
The Han cavalry general did not intend to say anything at first, but after being beaten by Ma Chao, he finally replied with blood on his face:
"That's Captain Wu's Changshui Camp."
Ma Chao understood this and reacted immediately:
"Captain Changshui?"
The Han cavalry general nodded wearily. Just when he was about to speak, Ma Chao suddenly thrust a ring-headed knife into his hand.
Before he could recover, Ma Chao smashed his Tianling Cap with an iron bone, and then asked the knight behind to cut off his head and tie it to the horse's neck.
Yes, the Taishan Army is indeed prohibited from killing prisoners, but are those still holding a ring-headed sword considered a prisoner?
This is the gray between black and white.
After getting rid of this burden, Ma Chao spotted a place with the loudest killing sound and rushed towards him. Not long after he charged, he saw Baiqi rushing towards him from the opposite side.
Just by looking at the flags and military uniforms, they are one of our own.
Ma Chao was very lucky. The army he encountered happened to be Pang De, the left general of the right guard of the Flying Tiger Army.
The Flying Tiger Army is a pure cavalry army, with an organization of two thousand cavalry, divided into two guards on the left and right, each with a thousand cavalry. One of the guards was divided into two groups, the left and right, each with 500 riders.
It can be said that Pang De is the senior cavalry commander of the Flying Tiger Army.
Ma Chao was also on his back. He was seriously injured by Na Lu Bu during the battle in Jiexiu, and then missed the battle in Taiyuan.
The boys Pang De and Ma Dai gained great merit for sneaking into Taiyuan to act as internal agents. After that, Pang De was transferred to the Flying Tiger Army and became the left wing general of the right guard.
At this time, Ma Chao was still serving as a captain in the Hengchang General System. This time he was with the Flying Tiger Army because he wanted to pass on the king's orders to Xu Huang.
But don’t look at how many levels Ma Chao is lower than Pound at this time, but this time he met Pound, he was not polite and said directly:
"Ling Ming, take your troops and come with me quickly. There is a big fish."
The reason why Ma Chao trusted Pound was, on the one hand, because of his nature, and on the other hand, he believed that Pound was his father's old subordinate. Now that his father was no longer in the army, he naturally inherited this master-slave relationship.
Pang De had a sullen face and did not speak, but followed Ma Chao with his own army of hundreds of cavalry.
When Ma Chao saw that Baiqi was helping him, he roared and came back with the sudden cavalry to kill him.
The captain of Changshui, the Han family has two thousand stones, how can he let him go?
Looking at Ma Chao rushing ahead, a general next to Pound curled his lips and said dissatisfied with Pound:
"General, the horse can only surpass a group of generals. How dare he take advantage of you? He doesn't think we are his Ma family's private army, right?"
Pang De glared at the man and cursed:
"Are you going to kill Ma and his son? Can you say these things?"
Nashi's face froze and he realized that he had said the wrong thing.
In fact, this is also Ma Chao's own business. Different from his father's smooth and honest attitude, this Ma Chao is really too strong-willed and has offended many people in the army.
General Nashi only reacted to Ma Chao's true state among the generals, but he never thought of harming him.
After Pang De scolded his men, he glanced at Ma Chao worriedly and sighed in his heart:
"This Meng Qi is too arrogant by nature. It's okay for him to be in a low position now, that is, he is eager for success. But if he reaches a high position in the future, he will not be satisfied. Then I may really be in trouble."
Naturally, these words cannot be said to others, let alone Ma Chao. He has already planned to have a good chat with his old boss when he returns to Yecheng after the war.
Otherwise, it would be difficult for his old boss to take good care of himself in Yecheng in the future.
In his thoughts, Ma Chao had already led them to the front of the First Army.
Pang De calmed down, put down his mask, tensed his body, and rushed to Ma Chao's side.
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Ma Chao led Pound's Hundred Cavalry to attack again. This time he did not choose to charge directly into the formation, but kept running around Wu Fu's Changshui Knights.
In the flying dust, Ma Chao put up his visor and shouted loudly:
"Who is Captain Changshui? Do you dare to fight me?"
But no one on the other side responded, and Ma Chao was no exception. Under normal circumstances, direct battles between cavalry and commanders were very rare. While galloping, Ma Chao bent down to pick up the enemy general's head tied around his horse's neck, pulled his bun and threw it into the middle of the Changshui Knights.
The head hit a knight's shoulder, bounced off, and then rolled to the ground, causing the nearby war horses to panic.
Ma Chao laughed loudly and took the big flag handed over by the Hu Qi, with the word "Jinhu" written on it. This was a gift from the king himself after he captured the Queen of Korea in Liaodong.
At this moment, the flag was waving, and Ma Chao kept riding with his cavalry, but he refused to engage in battle.
This made the Changshui knights on the periphery hesitate for a while and looked towards the center of the formation, not knowing whether to fight or to leave.
In fact, Wu Fu was also hesitating at this time.
At this time, the Changshui Knights had just been stationed because they were about to move. In other words, when Ma Chao led more than a hundred cavalry to rush over, they didn't even start running.
If you collide with those Taishan Army knights in this state, you will definitely suffer a big loss.
After thinking for a while, Wu Fu ordered to move to the east. The flat land there was more open and there was enough space for maneuvers. At the same time, there were more subordinates there and they could respond in time.
So, under the sound of Wu Fu's trumpeter and flag bearer's drums, more than 300 riders of the Changshui Knights moved towards the east.
Wu Fu's idea was good, but he overlooked one thing, that is, despite having the advantage in strength, in the face of the enemy's provocation, the general asked them to run eastward.
This shows how low the morale of the peripheral Changshui Knights has fallen.
To the sound of drums and horns, they turned eastward as the hooves of the enemy's horses came closer behind them.
Sometimes people are very strange, that is, they often scare themselves. Especially when you hear footsteps approaching from behind, people will always fall into an inexplicable panic.
This is just like people walking at night. They are walking without incident at first, but as soon as they think about whether there is any movement behind them, a kind of fear will first arise in their hearts. And at this time, if there is really any movement behind them, people will be afraid. Will start running subconsciously.
And now, these long water knights are like this too.
It was clear that Wu Fu's order was to move towards the east, but as he moved, the long water knights actually began to run away quickly, almost in a panic.
Ma Chao, who was hurrying behind them, was overjoyed when he saw this scene. Without saying a word, he carried the flag behind his back, then with a loud roar, he thrust his horse into the formation of the Changshui Knights from an inclined plane.
Needless to say, Pound also crossed his arms with one arm and rushed in following the big flag.
As a result, more than a hundred Taishan troops rose up and directly launched a general attack.
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Fighting is all about momentum.
One man fights to the death, and ten thousand men are invincible. In military formations, especially cavalry assaults, people's martial arts are actually just that.
It all depends on whose horse is fast, whose spear is long, and whose armor is strong.
And if these conditions are similar for both parties, it depends on who dares to fight first.
If you dare to point your finger at someone's neck and the other person hesitates and doesn't know what to do, life or death will be the difference.
And there is one thing to say, no matter how bad Ma Chao's personal ethics and temperament are, there is one thing that no one can refute, that is, this man is really fierce and desperate enough.
In the eyes of these sudden riders, the sight of Ma Chao and Pang De rushing into battle alone, almost brought their morale to a climax. On the battlefield, there are emotions, and with the leader taking the lead and fighting for his life, the brothers will naturally not hesitate to die.
So they leveled the horses one after another, stepped firmly on the stirrups with their feet, held the horses' backs between themselves, and rushed in with shouts.
Almost in an instant, the waist formation of the Changshui Knights dented into a large group, and collapsed to both sides at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This is certainly due to Ma Chao's leading charge, but it is also due to the Han knight's horse losing control.
A war horse is not a dead thing. It has its own consciousness and its own emotions of fear. Just like two cars heading towards each other, who will turn the steering wheel first? That must be the one who is most afraid of death.
Because the horses of the Han army were not blindfolded, they were more frightened than the horses of the Taishan army, so when they saw those similar horses rushing towards them desperately, they all fled to the back.
As a result, the originally well-organized Changshui Knights collapsed.
The rumbling battlefield was filled with screams, wails and curses.
Ma Chao's horse was broken again, and now he was hitting the Han cavalry with the iron bone.
But the battle situation was not as one-sided as imagined, because Wu Fu's Longwater Knights were also professional warriors, and these people also crawled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Before, they would have been at a disadvantage due to hesitation, but now that they were forced to a dead end, they began to fight tooth and nail.
And with this desperate effort, Ma Chao became the person they must kill. Is your Ma Chao the best? What, so what if you are brave? Can you stop the knife? Can you block so many knives from your brothers?
So, with tacit understanding, the Changshui warriors near Ma Chao came closer one after another, preparing to surround and kill him.
The first person to attack Ma Chao was a fat warrior. He used a long-handled bronze sword in his hand and whizzed at Ma Chao's head.
Ma Chao didn't have a long-handled weapon to block, so he could only jump on his horse to dodge.
Then he heard the cry of a war horse, and Ma Chao saw that his horse had been smashed by the warrior and collapsed to the ground.
Ma Chao landed and jumped next to the fat warrior. Taking advantage of the old man's moves, Ma Chao smashed the man's facial bones with a single bone.
After that, Ma Chao pulled another Han rider, got on his horse, and rushed out of the encirclement without any hesitation.
Why don't you run even if the situation is unfavorable? That's a fool.
When Ma Chao walked slightly around here and was about to take a moment to take a look at where the Captain Changshui was, he saw a cavalry general and dozens of cavalry coming over to kill him under a large crimson banner.
This cavalry general is Wu Fu, the captain of Changshui School.
It turned out that he was leading the team just now, but suddenly found that the second half of the team was intercepted by Taishan's army. Without thinking, he led another team to kill them.
Wu Fu's martial prowess was also unparalleled. Every blow from the thick horse in his hand blew off a person's head. On the way back, eight knights of the Taishan Army died in his hands alone.
He immediately saw Ma Chao, who was roaring in front of his formation, and immediately led his men to kill him.
When Ma Chao looked over, he was shocked.
It wasn't that he was shocked by Wu Fu's martial prowess, but that he saw a Taishan Army Knights marching toward him from a distance, and the heavy sound of horse hooves directly hit Ma Chao's heart.
The nightmares of the past are once again hanging over his mind. Is he here to steal Naigong's military glory again?
Ma Chao shouted loudly and rushed directly in front of Wu Fu. Then when Wu Fu was stunned, he knocked Wu Fu unconscious with a bag of horseshoes. Then he grabbed Wu Fu's belt with one arm and beat the horse away.
"We want to see who can take away our military glory."