Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1155 No time

  Ma Chao was originally galloping on a horse, so although he blocked the incoming crossbow arrows with his horse and was not shot dead on the spot, he fell very badly when he fell, and he couldn't get up after a long time in disgrace.

Ma Dai rushed to Ma Chao's side, his right arm seemed to be pierced by the crossbow arrow, or wounded, anyway, the blood was hanging down, and he couldn't even hold the weapon, the blood was already flowing all over his body, so he could only use Holding a shield reluctantly with his left arm, he stood in front of Ma Chao.

   "Major General! We can't rush through!" Ma Dai yelled at Ma Chao, "Retreat! Let's retreat!"

  In fact, Ma Dai didn't need to talk about it, Ma Chao also saw it.

Under the powerful crossbow arrows firing in turn, the lethality is undoubtedly huge for the flesh and blood horses and soldiers. Even if there are a dozen fish that escaped the net that were lucky not to be shot, Fei Qian who was waiting in full swing There was nothing to do in front of the army formation, either they were stabbed by spears or cut to the feet by swords and shields, which could not cause much damage to Fei Qian's army formation, let alone disrupt and break the formation.

   "Om! Om!"

  Nushi roared happily, drinking and feasting on flesh and blood, but Ma Chao felt as if his heart had sunk to the bottom of the valley amidst such a sharp roar.

  The trip to Chang'an was a failure!

  According to the current situation, yes, choosing to avoid the edge and retreating to reorganize the team is the best choice, but...

   But once they retreat, it will undoubtedly be a huge loss to the prestige that they have finally built up!

Ma Chao is young, unlike other famous veterans, he has already made great achievements. The defeat in one or two games is harmless. For Ma Chao, this is the first time he has commanded such a large-scale army. I will no longer say that this is the descendant of General Fubo, but the madman who was defeated in Chang'an!

  Heroic career, all in vain!

why why?

  Louching behind the horse corpse, Ma Chao felt the noisy sounds around him fluctuate from far and near, loud and small, and the situation in front of him also went up and down, left and right, and his brain was buzzing with pain...

  How could there be such an army?

  How could he meet such an army?

Just looking at the strong crossbowmen in the Fei Qian army formation on the opposite side, they stood up and squatted down in an orderly manner. Even if they saw cavalry rushing to the front, there was still not much rhythm disorder, and they seemed to trust the cutting-edge swords and shields. How could Ma Chao not know about the spearman's guard? This is obviously a well-trained Han family elite comparable to the Han family's northern and southern imperial guards!

   Such elites of the Han army, didn’t they disappear when Emperor Han Ling died?

  During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Emperor Ling of Han’s formerly known as the world’s elite Central Forbidden Army was useless, and there were really no soldiers to use. They had to mobilize Huangfusong and others from Xiliang’s frontier soldiers to suppress the rebellion...

  And now, why did such an elite army suddenly appear?

   "..." Ma Dai's face suddenly enlarged in Ma Chao's pupils, and he opened his mouth and didn't know what he was shouting.

   Ma Chao closed his eyes and shook his head, only then did the surrounding sounds hum back to his ears, making his eardrums ache a bit!

   "...the Qiang people can't stop it! Major General!"

   "Qiang people?!" Ma Chao suddenly turned his head to look, his pupils shrank involuntarily. Since he was a child, Ma Chao basically lived on horseback. After seeing the situation in front of him, how could he not know what this scene meant?

   It was like a group of sheep that had been broken into the sheepfold by tigers and leopards. The Qiang people screamed miserably and helplessly, and ran around subconsciously, completely losing any fighting spirit and courage to resist. These Qiang people thought that they would let the members of other tribes resist the impact of the Han army, and then buy themselves time to adjust, but everyone thought this way, so naturally no one was willing to go forward to resist the Han army.

   Without fighting spirit and courage, how can you still compete with this mighty Han army?

What exactly happened here?

   Ma Chao was at a loss and had no answer.

   Ma Dai's **** face came close to his face, and he shouted frothyly, "Young General! Major General! Please make a quick decision!"

  Several personal guards came on horseback, blocking Ma Chao's front regardless of life and death, but under the howling of the crossbow arrows, these flesh and blood bodies were useless, and fell heavily in front of Ma Chao in a blink of an eye!

The horse, which was hit by the crossbow arrow but did not die on the spot, howled miserably, raised its neck hard, propped up its body, and tried to stand up again, but was shot in the neck by the next round of crossbow arrows, and fell down on the ground again with a wail. land…

  The soldiers don’t have such strong vitality. As long as they are hit by the crossbow arrows in the front, they are basically extinct on the spot. There are very few exceptions.

   "Master... cough cough... major general... retreat..." Ma Dai shook his body, gritted his teeth and urged Ma Chao.

   Ma Chao turned his head abruptly, grabbed a shield from the side who didn't know who dropped it, and blocked it behind him: "Retreat! Retreat! I swear, if I don't take my son with me, and I don't take revenge, the world will not tolerate it!"

After Ma Chao shouted, under the cover of several guards, he bent over and walked two steps, but suddenly found that Ma Dai hadn't followed. A crossbow arrow had been revealed, half kneeling on the original ground, motionless, seeing Ma Chao looking back, Ma Dai opened his mouth, not knowing whether to cry or laugh, or to say something...

  Then Ma Dai lowered his head slowly, unable to hold on any longer, fell to the ground, only a faint layer of smoke and dust rose up.

At this moment, big tears finally welled up in Ma Chao's eyes, there was no hysterical yelling, no other crazy actions, and he didn't even wipe it off. He just took a deep look at the Fei Qianjun formation The flag fluttering in the middle was like a dog with its spine broken, running away with its tail between its legs and its head bowed.

  Tears dripped, and was swallowed by yellow sand in a blink of an eye, leaving only a faint mark...

  ………………

   "Get in!"

At the city wall, the leader of the Yak and Qiang led his men, and they were covered in blood. With a heavy saber, they opened and closed, and cut down many city guards. No matter how bravely Zhong Shao's soldiers fought When he rushed, he always chopped it down more fiercely.

  After the fight, even the defenders who regained some vitality because of the arrival of reinforcements retreated step by step in front of the Yak Qiang leader, even uttered a shout, turned around and ran away!

   Another group of Qiang people followed behind the Yak Qiang headman, climbed up the ladder, jumped closer, and jumped into this city that seemed to have been completely soaked in blood.

Facing more and more Qiang people coming up, the peasants who had already lost their strength on the city wall just shrank their bodies, hid in the pile of corpses and shivered, murmuring the names of gods, whether they could To survive, or to say what they will face in the future, these people have completely given up any action, and just escaped and handed over their fate to the illusory gods.

  The yak and Qiang headman roared wildly, seeing that many of his subordinates had also come up, he rushed straight to Zhong Shao's place with him!

  Chong Shao had already retreated into the turret at this time, a dozen guards blocked the door of the turret, and several archers leaned half of their bodies from the mouth of the turret.

   "Shoot! Shoot!"

  The last archers and guards stayed here as a hope in case. Anyway, if there is no reinforcements, the city will be brought down to the death, but now, it is natural to delay as long as possible. If you die before the dawn, isn't it too aggrieved?

   As for whether the Qiang people would abandon them and rush into the city to loot or something, Zhong Shao didn't care at all.

  Anyway, as long as there is life left, it will be considered as a waste of money and disaster relief!

Wherever the arrow passed, the Qiang people around the Yak Qiang were shot down. These Qiang people had no armor, so the protection against bows and arrows was basically zero. Even the Yak Qiang headmen An arrow was also shot in the forearm!

But the leader of the Yak Qiang did not hum, he raised his hand and broke the shaft of the arrow, and then slapped **** the broken shaft, and half of the arrow came out from the other side with flesh and blood. Pull it out, and throw it aside bloody!

"superior!"

  The yak and Qiang headman picked up a long spear casually, threw it vigorously, and immediately hit an archer who was trying to shoot again at the mouth of the turret, and nailed it directly to the window!

  Dozens of Qiang people swarmed up, surrounding the guards of the Zhong family who stood in front of the gate of the turret, with swords and guns at the same time, desperately hacking and killing.

  The guards standing outside the turret blocked the knife from this side, but couldn't block the gun from the other side. After a few rounds, they howled miserably and were hacked to the ground.

   Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining guards of the Zhong family quickly retreated into the turret, and then the situation changed.

The Qiang people who tried to rush into the turret were unable to defend against the stabs of more than a dozen spears in the narrow area of ​​the door, and fell to the door one after another. Suddenly, the corpses were piled up in several layers, almost knee-high in all directions. , making the attack more difficult, and there was a stalemate for a while...

   "Open the city gate! Open the city gate!" the head of Yak Qiang asked the guards to help bandage his arm while shouting, "Let all the sons outside the city come in!"

"Headman! Headman!" A guard stood on the edge of the city, pointing to the distant battlefield in a little panic and shouted, "Headman, look! Qingyi Qiang is retreating! Ah! Baima Qiang is also retreating !"

"What?!" The yak and Qiang headman rushed to the edge of the battlements in a few steps, and hammered on the battlements with an angry fist, not paying attention to the blood from the wound, and roared angrily, "This group of cowardly pigs ! This group of mongrel dogs! We have already shot them down! We have shot them down, why should we retreat! Why should we retreat!”

   "Leader, what should we do?!"

The Yak Qiang itself is not a big tribe, and there were not many people in the first place. Now that the Baima Qiang and Qingyi Qiang have retreated, the Shenlang Qiang, and the Ran Dang Qiang may not be able to resist for a long time. There is not much time left for the Yak Qiang. …

It is absolutely impossible to defend the city, not to mention that there are still some defenders who have not been completely eliminated. It is basically delusional to want to defend the city by relying on these troops, not to mention that even the people of the big tribe Baima Qiang have retreated. Why are they fighting to the death here?

   Persevering here can only make these clansmen in his hands wiped out!

   "Open the city gate!" Yak and Qiang headman shouted.

   "Headman!"

"I said, open the city gate! Tell the people of other tribes that if the city is broken, they can take as much as they can! They can take as much as they want!" said the Yak and Qiang headman, "...when they get off their horses and enter the city ...we'll get on our horses right away..."

   "..." The guard glanced at the Yak and Qiang headman with a complicated expression, and immediately turned around to deliver the order without saying anything.

"Damn it! Damn it!" Yak Niu Qiang turned his head and stared angrily at the houses and streets in the city, like a very hungry wolf staring at fat and oily sheep, "Just a little bit, just a little bit... "

   "How about, let's go in and get some, we can count as much as we can..." Someone was a little greedy and couldn't help suggesting.

   "...No, there is no time..." The Yak and Qiang head looked at the battlefield again, shook his head and rejected, "We lost too fast...There is no time...We can only go faster, otherwise..."

"But before that..." the yak and Qiang head turned his head to look at the turret, gritted his teeth and pointed with his **** arm, "Come here, find some firewood, throw it in, and burn it for me! Burn them to death Damn it, if these guys hadn't blocked me for so long, how could we have no extra time!"

  ………………

   "...This General Zhengxi..." On the hill far away from the battlefield, Li Ru looked at the changes in the battlefield and said to Jia Xu, "...that's really an odd number... Tsk tsk, hit the vital point directly, simply and neatly..."

The strategy adopted by Fei Qian and Li Ru's original plan are basically the same. They are both fastened to Ma Chao's regiment commander's chaos. The attack eventually caused the entire Ma Chao army to lose control and flee separately, just like a herd of dozens or hundreds of cattle being driven away by one or two tigers and leopards.

If these herds of cattle gather together and their horns point out to defend together, one or two tigers and leopards may not necessarily be able to gain an advantage in a short time and win, but in a scene like this, every cow is running wildly, just thinking about it. It is useless to let other cattle fill the appetite of tigers and leopards, so that they can escape for their lives, even if the number of cattle is doubled.

Li Ru had relatively few people, so the original plan was to wait until Ma Chao and the others relaxed their defenses at night, that is, after the city of Chang'an was broken, when both the Qiang people and Ma Chao's people were focused on the city. Launch a surprise attack suddenly, drive away the chaos, and seize the horses left by these people outside the city. You can be like a wolf on the grassland. You don't need to fight head-on, you just need to follow at a distance and keep making prey. Cut the wound, apply pressure, and wait until the prey itself bleeds and collapses from exhaustion, and then it's time for a delicious meal.

   As a result, before Li Ru launched, Fei Qian, the general of the Western Expedition, came, and the attack was so violent that it was like a giant hammer, smashing the huge Ma Chao army to pieces.

  This is completely beyond Li Ru's expectations...

   "How is it?" Jia Xu laughed a few times, and said, "What did you say is not bad?"

   "Alas..." Li Ru sighed, waved his hand with a complicated expression, and said, "Go ahead... It was a good table of dishes, but it was spoiled by tigers and leopards... If you don't serve it, you won't have anything to eat..."

  (end of this chapter)