When Tadun died, the morale of Karasuma's cavalry plummeted.
After barely holding on for half an hour, they could no longer hold on.
They were beaten by Zhang Liao and retreated.
When Nanlou saw that something was not going well, he immediately turned around and fled, with a shot behind him.
Daqi also ran away with him.
Pound was in the mood to kill a Karasuma cavalryman.
He found a Karasuma flag not far away and was retreating forward.
At a glance, he knew that the person under the flag should be a Karasuma-sama, so he immediately hung the sword on the victory hook.
He grabbed a long bow and nocked an arrow, then fired three arrows in a row, two of which hit Nanlou's back.
Nanlou screamed and fell off his horse, and his body was trampled by the escaping Karasuma cavalry into a human shape.
"Tadun is dead, please follow me to kill him," Zhang Liao shouted, leading his soldiers to pursue Karasuma and defeat him.
Both of Karasuma's flags fell down, indicating that both leaders were dead.
Karasuma's cavalry still had the courage to continue fighting and fled one after another.
But turning around is not that easy.
The people in front are running away, but the people behind are...
Advancing, the two sides crowded each other and could not advance or retreat.
Han cavalry came from behind, making the chaos even more chaotic.
Countless people were pushed down and trampled to death.
Some people slashed at their own people with knives in order to clear a way to escape.
Karasuma's troops were defeated everywhere, and the Han cavalry behind them was still pursuing them.
After all, the Han army and horses had rested all night.
The Karasuma men and horses had been running for two and an hour in the morning.
Naturally, their horse power was not as good as that of the Han cavalry.
Many Karasuma cavalry were overtaken and killed by the Han cavalry, and some were shot to death.
I knew that Unable to escape, the Karasuma cavalry jumped off their horses and knelt down to surrender.
The pursuit lasted from morning to afternoon and ended in the afternoon.
More than 14,000 Karasuma cavalry were killed or wounded, about 4,000 were captured, and more than 1,000 others fled without a trace, some hiding in the mountains and forests.
Zhang Liao met Pound with a bloody halberd and said to him: "General Pang, you are responsible for gathering the prisoners.
I will interrogate the prisoners."
"Okay" Pound agreed.
Zhang Liao sent people to capture a relatively high-status leader from among the prisoners for interrogation.
The soldiers made the Wuwan leader kneel down in front of Zhang Liao.
Zhang Liao asked: "Tell me why you are here.
How did you know that our army would come?"
The man was afraid of being killed, so he quickly said: "Our herdsmen found a Han army cavalry in the northeast.
Tadun Shanyu ordered King Wuyan to take his own troops to meet the Han army, and asked Su Puyan to lead it.
With his troops staying in Liucheng, he and King Nanlou each took their troops and wanted to bypass the flank attack of the Han army in the northeast, but I didn't expect to meet you here."
Only then did Zhang Liao realize that Tadun and Nanlou with their 20,000 troops were not heading for him, but for Ma Chao, and they had just accidentally encountered his middle route army.
"It's so dangerous.
Fortunately, we sent a guard post ten miles ahead.
Otherwise, we would only be discovered if the Karasuma people rush up to us."
Zhang Liao couldn't help but feel lucky when he thought of this.
Zhang Liao asked again: "Do you know how to flank the Han cavalry in the northeast from here?
Which way to take?"
The Wuwantou man pointed to the north and said: "Just go from here.
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There is a river valley five miles to the north.
Walk northeast along the river valley.
It will take at most half a day to get there."
Zhang Liao asked again: "How many troops did Wu Yan bring?"
"Fifteen thousand men riding" Zhang Liao thought, Ma Chao only had 10,000 cavalry under his command, and he was slightly inferior in terms of strength.
If the battlefield was like the environment here, it would not be suitable for large-scale cavalry groups to charge intensively.
In such an environment, the rapid speed of the light cavalry Flexible tactics are the way to go.
Zhang Liao quickly sent people to find several other captured Wuwantou men for interrogation, and found that there was not much difference in the situation.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Liao sent someone to Pound to explain the situation.
Pound became a little anxious.
After all, Ma Chao was his young master in the past.
He immediately said: "General, I'm afraid Meng Qi's situation is not good.
The general will ask for orders to lead his troops to support."
Zhang Liao thought for a while and said, "Okay, it's safer for you to go there.
How about you take five thousand people with you?"
Pang De cupped his fists and said, "Thank you very much, General.
I will order my troops and horses to set off now."
Pang De set off soon.
Zhang Liao looked at the more than 4,000 Karasuma prisoners who were in trouble.
After weighing the situation, he locked these prisoners in the camp and surrounded them with tall and strong fences.
With two thousand men and horses under strict supervision, he continued to set off to Liucheng with 11,000 men.
Liucheng was the Shan Yuting of the Wuwan people.
Although Tadun was the Chan Yu, he was actually just the trustee.
The real Chan Yu's heir was Qiu Liju's son Lou Ban, but Lou Ban was still young at this time and was still young.
Unable to control the various tribes in Karasuma, Qiu Liju temporarily asked his nephew Tadun to take charge of his affairs, and told him to wait until Lou Ban came of age before he could succeed to the throne.
At this time, Lou Ban was in Liucheng, and Su Puyan and his more than 12,000 troops were also in Liucheng.
Zhang Liao continued to march for half a day the next day.
On the way, he encountered Gao Shun's troops of the Right Route Army.
By this time, they were not far from Liucheng.
The two exchanged news and learned that the Wuwan people had sent 15,000 people to fight Ma Chao.
Gao Shun said: "No matter what the battle situation is with General Ma and General Pang, we must rush to Liucheng as soon as possible.
On the one hand, It can stop the Karasuma people from Liucheng from reinforcing Wuyan.
On the other hand, because of our appearance, Wuyan will also feel that his nest may be taken away, making him unable to concentrate on dealing with General Ma and General Pang."
Zhang Liao nodded and said: "You are right.
Without further ado, let's set off quickly."
In fact, the situation on Ma Chao's side is similar to what Zhang Liao and Pang De expected.
On the northern grasslands, the Qiang cavalry commanded by Ma Chao can launch a group charge against the enemy in an extremely dense formation.
The destructive power and lethality are extremely amazing.
The average cavalry There is simply no way to stop such a large-scale cavalry group from charging.
However, in the environment here, Ma Chao's Qiang cavalry could not give full play to its advantages, and his group charge tactics could not be launched.
After his troops started running, the formation quickly dispersed due to the restrictions of the terrain.
Wu Yan, on the other hand, commanded his cavalry to fight Ma Chao in an extremely flexible mobile fighting style.
They used a large number of mounted shooting tactics.
Ma Chao's Qiang cavalry had no way to deal with it.
After losing two thousand people, he had to lead The men and horses took advantage of the darkness to retreat twenty miles and hide in the mountains and forests.
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But the next morning, he found that the Karasuma cavalry had surrounded the mountain, and there were scattered Karasuma cavalry everywhere under the mountain.
Faced with this situation, Ma Chao understood that the other party was trying to prevent him from launching a group charge.
Just when Ma Chao was at a loss what to do, Pang De arrived with 5,000 men and horses, and immediately launched an attack on Wu Yan's men.
Both sides used mounted archery tactics, shooting each other with bows and arrows, and after shooting the arrows, they rushed up to get close with their swords.
Fight hard.
After fighting for half a day, the two sides reached a draw.
At this time, Ma Chao led his men to rush down the mountain forest.
Wu Yan did not have much advantage in terms of strength, and Pang De's cavalry restrained him tactically, so he could not gain much advantage.
Hei Qian chose to retreat.
The next day, both sides sent small groups of cavalry to each other to harass, and the battle became a stalemate.
Wu Yan's heart was beating drums all the time.
Why did Tadun and Nanlou's men and horses not arrive before they should have arrived long ago, but they were nowhere to be seen.
Instead, reinforcements from the Han army came.
Just when Wu Yan was in a state of confusion, news came from the rear that tens of thousands of Han cavalry had arrived at Liucheng.
Wu Yan couldn't sit still anymore and immediately ordered all ministries to assemble as quickly as possible.
Rushing back to Liucheng, he couldn't let Liucheng's Shan Yuting, a Wuwan native, be taken over by the Han army.
Wu Yan rushed back with his men and horses in time.
Lou Ban and Su Buyan took all Shan Yuting's soldiers and horses to confront the Han army and were preparing to start a battle, so he rushed back.
Zhang Liao saw Wu Yan's army coming from the northeast.
After weighing it, he raised his palm and ordered: "Send orders to all the troops to retreat to Gaoshun slowly, and take two thousand people to cut off the rear."
"Accepting the order" Gao Shun agreed and personally led 2,000 men to cut off the rear.
The rest of the army slowly retreated backwards under the leadership of Zhang Liao.
Upon seeing this, Lou Ban, who was still young, was eager to try and said to Su Buyan: "Su Buyan, you see the Han army has withdrawn.
If we chase them, we will definitely defeat them."
Su Puyan quickly stopped him and said: "No, look at the Han army's formation when they retreated.
I suspect they have an ambush in the rear.
If our army rushes to catch up, it will be destroyed if it encounters an ambush."
Lou Ban said angrily: "Forget it, send someone to follow them and tell them where to stay."
"yes" The Han army retreated twenty miles and set up camp.
Zhang Liao looked worried.
He was very worried about the situation of Ma Chao and Pang De.
Seeing that Wu Yan came back with a large number of troops, there was no loss.
He also didn't know about Ma Chao and Pang De.
What's the situation?
The people sent out to contact Ma Chao and Pang De have not returned yet.
Zhang Liao has not been able to find out the situation of Ma Chao and Pang De, and has been feeling uneasy.
Gao Shun saw his worries and advised: "Wen Yuan, I believe that General Ma and General Pang are lucky people and have their own destiny.
It is useless for us to worry here.
What are you going to do next?"
Zhang Liao stood up and thought for a long time, then said: "I plan to attack with all the troops tomorrow and fight to the death with the Wuwan people.
If there is no serious problem with General Ma and General Pang, they should arrive at Liucheng soon.
Our move will definitely cause a stir."
Their attention.
If we don't move here, I'm worried that the Karasuma people will concentrate their forces to besiege Ma Chao and Pang De."
Gao Shun thought for a while and expressed his support: "Your concerns are not unreasonable.
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If the Karasuma people use a small number of cavalry to contain us, and then use a large number of people to besiege Ma Chao and Pang De, they will indeed be in danger."
Zhang Liao immediately issued an order: "Go ahead and send out all the horse-detecting sentries tonight to prevent the Karasuma people from attacking at night.
Tomorrow morning at Mao o'clock, light a fire to make food, let the soldiers have a good meal, and set off at Chen o'clock to attack Karasuma's lair."
"Follow orders":