At midnight, the scout reported to Ma Chao that the baggage team was encamped in a mountain col ten miles ahead.
Ma Chao immediately ordered the entire army to unstring their bows, unhook their spears, remove their shields from their backs, hold them in their hands, and prepare for battle.
What I have to say is that having Us command this Roman army really complements each other very well.
After giving the order, the Roman slave regiments with tall noses and deep eyes quickly and silently completed the request, showing extremely high military quality.
At the same time, the Ma family's cavalry also had their horses in their mouths, and everyone was silent.
At this point, Ma Chao couldn't help but nodded: after the Han people became militarized, their reaction was no worse than those of the Romans.
After all, this great nation learns everything very quickly.
Then, five thousand cavalry quietly approached the camp where the baggage team was camping.
However, it was not the Yuan family's baggage team that was attacked first, but the rear team.
In the darkness, the highly nervous soldiers concentrated on following the front group to avoid getting separated, but ignored the movement behind them.
A large number of cavalry suddenly swarmed in from all directions and rushed into Ma Chao's rear formation.
Many people could not see in the darkness and did not know how many enemies there were.
Although the formation was hastily formed, chaos inevitably occurred.
Ma Chao obviously fell into Yuan Jun's trap.
The baggage team coming out of Jinyang City kept a moderate distance from the pursuers, which gave Ma Chao a sense of luck that he could miss the night to pursue.
How could the five thousand pioneers go deep into the enemy's rear without being noticed by the senior officials.
Therefore, a large number of elite cavalry of the senior officials kept a distance from the baggage train, and only moved nearby under the cover of darkness after nightfall.
When Ma Chao focused all his energy on the baggage camp, the real killer move quietly struck from behind.
The assault of these cavalry is typical of Youzhou style.
The biggest difference between Youzhou style and Xiliang style riding tactics is that the former does not completely rely on the explosive power of the horse, but emphasizes continuous attack during high-speed movement.
Each cavalryman holds a crossbow and a shield.
Before engaging in battle, he shoots an arrow to shock the enemy.
After the first blow is effective, he then takes out a long sword specially designed for horse fighting and slashes downwards.
At the same time, under the protection of the shield in his left hand, he is a little more safe.
Guarantee so that they can continue to travel.
Although in comparison, the Youzhou style charge is not as fast and powerful as the Xiliang style, the continuous stamina is hard to bear.
Therefore, under such a sudden attack, they were unable to react for a moment and were helpless.
They could not form a formation to fight against it.
They could only wave their weapons desperately for a one-on-one confrontation.
For a time, many people were shot down by arrows or struck by long knives.
The dull sound of metal piercing flesh and blood and the screams of pain came one after another.
Even raising a shield is useless.
Without the cover of their comrades, they will often be shot by crossbows from the side.
After losing their strength, they will be trampled to death by the insurgents who follow.
Leading this army was Yuan Shao's general Jiang Yiqu.
He has been fond of dancing with guns and sticks since he was a child.
He has a powerful and strong body but an ugly and ferocious appearance.
Although he was overshadowed by the name of the Four Court Pillars, he was also a skilled general with bow and horse, especially in breaking through fights, and he liked to take the lead.
However, it was rare that he did not lead the troops to fight in person this time.
This was not because he was shocked by Ma Chao's reputation.
In fact, this time he had no idea who was leading the enemy army.
He was very dissatisfied with this task, thinking that he was squeezing out military commanders. means.
Ma Chao's army was so close, yet he still carried out a sneak attack.
He would definitely end up being surrounded by heavy troops and beaten to death.
But he never expected that some of Shen Pei's tactics would actually stop Ma Chao's main force from advancing, and only sent a force of several thousand people to intercept the grain and grass.
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In this attack, Jiang Yiqu brought a total of 10,000 Youzhou elite cavalry.
At this time, he was reflecting on whether he had misunderstood the trial match: only when he was sure to win and gain military merit did he lose interest in going to fight in person.
He stood on a high ground not far away, and from time to time he gave orders to those around him to shake the torch.
The torch on the high side is particularly conspicuous on the entire battlefield.
Watching the shaking of the torch, Youzhou's elite cavalry sometimes advanced and sometimes attacked together, besieging Ma Chao in an orderly manner in the darkness, eating away at Ma Chao's troops bit by bit.
The initial attack went very smoothly, but Ma Jiajun fell into chaos.
Jiang Yiqu could clearly see that those poor guys couldn't even form a basic vertical shield formation.
Without the spear formation to stop the enemy, the infantry were just lambs to be slaughtered compared to the cavalry.
Although those people later formed a strange and simple formation in threes and threes, the formation was almost broken up by the cavalry, which made their strange formation lose the favorable environment.
From time to time, there are soul-shaking screams and killing sounds that resound through the sky, spears stabbing, machetes chopping, sharp hand axes flying in the air, cold spears whizzing down, and heavy giant shields clashing wildly.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
Jiang Yiqu couldn't help shouting from a high place.
He saw those Ma Jiajun screaming in panic and incomprehensible voices before they suffered the fate of being devoured, spreading the panic to the comrades next to them.
This was Jiang Yiqu's favorite enemy.
Many Youzhou knights rushed in with long knives, killing two or three people, then roared into the darkness, regrouped, and then stepped in from another direction, leaving Ma Jiajun at a loss.
Jiang Yiqu saw the enemy's blood pouring out everywhere, and his blood was boiling.
He wanted to give up command here and go down to enjoy it himself.
Amidst the deafening sound of killing, the Ma Jiajun fell down one by one like straw.
At this time, there was no formation to speak of.
The soldiers who followed rushed forward fearlessly, filling the gap endlessly.
There is no more crazy strangulation than this in the gap left by the fall of his companion.
Jiang Yiqu's hands and feet began to tremble with excitement.
When he saw the soldiers falling down wailing and dying in pain, the hot blood in his body began to flow unbridled.
But just like that, he didn't realize that the three thousand infantry of Ma Jiajun howled miserably under the massacre of Youzhou Jingqi, but where did his two thousand cavalry go?
"Hmph, in this situation, even if all his cavalry are assembled, they can't do anything to me."
Jiang Yiqu thought to himself.
Now that the two armies are fighting together, they are inextricably entangled.
Even if Ma Chao's cavalry launches an assault, they will only accidentally injure their own people.
He waved his hand again, signaling his men to move faster so that he could experience this visual feast more, but when he heard some movement.
Jiang Yiqu dismounted, put his ear to the ground, listened, grinned and said: "The general of the Ma family is quite capable.
It turned out that he hid the cavalry outside and planned to kill him with his carbine."
But when he was about to raise his head, he suddenly replied He pressed it up again, and this time he found a slight tremor coming from the other direction.
Jiang Yiqu dug his ears and listened for the third time.
When a tremor of the same intensity also sounded from the third direction, he couldn't laugh anymore: After all, I still wanted to die after such a stupid matchmaking.
Jiang Yiqu heard it clearly.
Except for the first sound of two thousand cavalry, the remaining two directions were filled with tremors that required tens of thousands of cavalry, especially the tremors in the third direction.
Although the sound of hoofbeats was small, the tremors were strong.
It is the largest, most likely, the most powerful and mysterious heavy armored cavalry of the Ma family.
Jiang Yiqu hurriedly got up and asked the fire officer under his command to issue a unified retreat order.
At the same time, he ordered the cavalry to break away from the battle as soon as possible and assemble to the west.
He realized that he might have fallen into a trap.
The enemy had mobilized more troops than just what he saw.
At this time, there was movement in the east, south and north.
He could only retreat westward as soon as possible, merge with Jinyang's baggage team, rely on large vehicles to resist, and wait for the rescue of senior officials.
He believed that although the bastard in the trial match was a bastard, he would never let his food and grass be robbed by the Ma family army.
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Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that at this moment, Tian Yu had led an army of 20,000 to launch a surprise attack in front of the two opposing camps.
Although the battle was short-lived and retreated, it also caused panic among the high-ranking cadres' camp. , let alone dispatching troops and generals to rescue the baggage train.
"Get ready, add another 20,000 people for another raid."
Tian Yu waved the command flag and ordered without interest: "Remember, just scare them, don't actually rob the camp.
For the third raid, add one more Ten thousand people will go up until the Lord comes back”: