Chapter 1205 The right choice may not have the right result
Gan Feng steadily stretched out his horse's spear, not caring about the sharp swords of the Xiliang cavalry who were slashing at him, because Gan Feng knew that in a horse fight, an inch longer is an inch stronger, no matter how powerful the opponent is.
When it comes to cutting, your own horse will definitely be faster than the opponent's sword!
"Pfft!"
Just like piercing a thick cowhide bag, Gan Feng stabbed the Xiliang cavalry in front of him off his horse. The extremely elastic horse pole bent violently and bounced up, and the eight-sided and eight-pointed sharp tip flashed in the blink of an eye.
Then he slashed across the face of another Xiliang cavalry, almost cutting his head in half!
In terms of his ability to fight in battle formations, although Gan Feng is brave, he is not a terrifying figure like Lu Bu. However, he has been in the army since he was a child, and he is already a veteran ruffian at the age of ten. With rich experience in battle formations, he is probably first-rate.
Even military generals may not be able to compare with him.
The more melee the situation, the more important the experience on the battlefield is. Sometimes the nerves in the brain have not yet responded to the command, and the body's instinct has begun to take effect.
In the midst of the flying swords and guns, it is inevitable that there will be times when the protection is not complete, but Gan Feng can always use minor injuries and the least fatal parts in exchange for serious injuries, and then seize the opportunity to fight!
Gan Feng has long arms and legs, and a well-made horse pole, which allows him to control a large area. Those who can break into the circle of the horse pole also have a sword to protect themselves, and hand over the pursuers on the right wing.
In an instant, he picked down and chopped down five or six Xiliang cavalry in one breath. For a moment, these Xiliang cavalry took a breath of cold air and couldn't help but subconsciously avoid this fierce and grown-up man!
Seeing Gan Feng being so brave, one of the Xiliang cavalry leaders, a Qiang man named Wuliu, swung a long-handled hammer weighing more than twenty kilograms with a buzzing sound.
Come and fight Gan Feng.
The sweet wind came suddenly, and the long pole stretched out, knocking a Xiliang cavalry off his horse. The pole bent violently and then straightened rapidly. The sharp blade pointed directly at Wu Liu's face!
Wu Liu suddenly twisted on the horse's back, stretched out his hand like lightning, and grasped the pole.
Almost at the same time, the two people turned their wrists violently and quickly, trying to make the other party let go. However, they did not expect that the almost simultaneous movements caused both parties to get stuck. There was a tooth-piercing friction sound in their hands, and for a while
There was a stalemate, and the long horse's trunk was bent, causing both of them to lean back.
"Want it? Give it to you!" Gan Feng laughed and loosened his hand instantly.
As he spoke, Gan Feng quickly let go, but Wu Liu, who was thinking slowly, had not had time to react. Gan Feng had already galloped past him, the sword in his hand flashed with cold light, and he slashed Wu Liu's neck with one strike!
Blood splattered, Wu Liu's head rolled down, the castration of the sword was still there, and there was a huge deep wound on the back of the war horse. The horse was in pain, and stood up with a long neigh, and drove Wu Liu Wu
The head and body were raised high on the horse, and blood rained all over the sky!
As Wu Liu's body fell to the ground, a hasty warning horn sounded, and the three-color flag was raised high on the flank of the Xiliang cavalry. The cavalry led by Jia Xu had already rushed out from one side and approached the Xiliang cavalry!
Arrows were flying in the air, the horses were running, and their hooves were flying at the maximum speed. The Zhengxi Cavalry and the Xiliang Cavalry with the three-color flags were chasing each other at high speed on the land of Longyou. In the chaotic situation
, keep getting closer!
"Turn quickly! Turn—"
Cheng Gongying shouted loudly while running at high speed, and the flag bearer and trumpeter conveyed the instructions almost at the same time. However, the cavalry is not a machine after all. Even on the highway, various accidents often occur with rapidly turning cars, let alone against the opponent.
A cavalry that requires extremely high coordination between man and horse?
When a small group of Ganfeng troops were discovered, Cheng Gongying thought he had caught the elusive Zhengxi scout team. In order to obtain the exact location of the Zhengxi cavalry, he ordered the Xiliang cavalry to hunt down the Ganfeng troops, but he did not expect that it would actually happen.
When he led out the large army of Zhengxi Cavalry, his own cavalry position was indeed in such an awkward position...
Because the scouts sent to the street pavilion for investigation have been intercepted and intercepted by Zhengxi soldiers, the Xiliang tribes, including Cheng Gongying, have always believed that the cavalry reinforcements of General Zhengxi are still in Fanzhou.
Circling around the Xudaokou Street Pavilion, and there are a large number of Xiliang soldiers and horses gathered here in Tianshui, the Zhengxi reinforcements may not have the courage to go deep into Longyou, but they never thought that the Zhengxi cavalry had unknowingly approached Shanggui!
Some of the more reckless soldiers in the front line of the Xiliang cavalry on the left heard the sound of the horn horns turning, and subconsciously pulled the reins on one side of the horses' heads in an attempt to make the horses turn. However, the horses running at high speed could not move quickly.
After adjusting his body's center of gravity, he was suddenly pulled, and his four hooves suddenly lost their balance and fell to the ground. The bodies of the man and the horse rolled, twisted, and were thrown far away.
The only safer way is to slow down a bit, then pull the reins to turn, and it shouldn't be too strong all at once. At least the horse must be given a certain amount of reaction time to complete a safe turn.
"Turn to the left! Side attack with the right! Quick! Quick!" Cheng Gongying shouted loudly, and the sudden change made his voice involuntarily bifurcated and hoarse.
Cheng Gongying was not an incompetent general, and the original situation should not have been like this.
Yesterday afternoon around 1:00 p.m., Han Sui's troops arrived at Tianshui.
Under Han Sui's reputation for more than ten years, the Xiliang tribes finally ended their wrangling and agreed to cooperate in the battle. Some went to search for and meet the reinforcements of the Western Expedition Cavalry led by Jia Xu, and some went south to Qishan to cooperate with Han Sui.
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However, the battle plan has been drawn up, but it is still somewhat unrealistic to mobilize the army immediately.
Cheng Gongying was also helpless, and because of his previous defeat, he was already a little uneasy, so he stopped getting involved with the Xiliang tribes about the sesame seeds and millet, and went south first with his troops, but he didn't think of returning.
Before reaching Qishan in time, they first encountered Ganfeng's squad, and then were attacked by the Zhengxi Cavalry led by Jia Xu!
These Zhengxi cavalrymen who rushed over were either in groups of five or ten. Although some were shot down by flying arrows on the way, when they got close, the gap between the two sides suddenly became very large. At first
Cheng Gongying did not notice anything wrong with the high-speed collision between several cavalry, but as the subsequent soldiers fought against each other, the disadvantage of Cheng Gongying's men unknowingly expanded.
Because in order to outflank Gan Feng, Cheng Gongying separated his left and right wings, while Jia Xu brought the Zhengxi cavalry, but they were concentrated together, as if one hand was facing two hands. Although Cheng Gongying's right wing gave up, Gan Feng's
They chased and rushed to the rescue with all their strength, but after all, there was still a distance, and in a high-speed cavalry battle, the consequences of such a distance were more obvious and terrifying than in the starting battle formation.
Normally, as long as there is reason, people will not actively seek death, even for soldiers on the battlefield. Otherwise, there would not be war supervisors and military police since the beginning of the war.
, the political commissar team or something appeared...
When it is discovered that the entire war situation begins to collapse, the instinct to avoid death will appear, and the biggest drawback of the recruitment system is finally exposed. Since it is for money, the greatest wealth in life is nothing more than one's own life. Without life, it will be
There is no money left, so you can move forward bravely when you are winning, but once there is a downturn, it is easier to lose resilience and run away.
In addition, at this moment, although the Xiliang tribes have unified their opinions and agreed to fight according to Han Sui's arrangements, only the vanguard of Cheng Gongying's group went to Qishan, and most of the troops were still in Tianshui.
, has just started to be deployed, and some have not even been deployed yet, so from a local perspective, compared with Jia Xu's number of troops, Cheng Gongying has no advantage at all.
Before Cheng Gongying's right wing had time to outflank it, the left wing had already lost its array shape under the impact of the large group of cavalry led by Jia Xu, and even began to collapse and scatter. The fleeing Qiang Hu cavalry led the Xiliang Han cavalry.
, I saw under the tricolor flag, the Zhengxi cavalry rushed into Cheng Gongying's left wing like a broken bamboo!
Soon, the collapse of the left wing led to chaos on the right wing. Cheng Gongying had to blow the trumpet, voluntarily withdraw from the battle order, and retreated to Tianshui to seek support from the Xiliang tribes.
For Cheng Gongying, this choice is actually not wrong. After all, all the tribes of Xiliang are still in Tianshui. If the reinforcements from the Western Expedition go too deep, even if they open up the road to Qishan, they still have a chance to fight with Han Sui.
Together they blocked it at Qishan and destroyed it, so there was no problem in temporarily repairing it after the battle line collapsed.
But in fact, it was the people of Xiliang, including Cheng Gongying, who made seemingly unproblematic choices again and again, but it caused the entire war situation to slowly slide into a direction beyond the control of the Xiliang tribes...
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Will the right choice definitely lead to the right result?
When faced with the choice, Ma Chao also chose not to march forward immediately, but stopped to observe the situation, preparing to give Fei Qian Houbai a severe blow at the most critical moment of the fight between Han Sui and Fei Qian.
Is this a wrong choice?
Normally, there is no problem at all.
But Ma Chao did not expect that in order to prevent his own information from being exposed, this very common practice of killing Di people along the way would attract the troops of Di people Wang Hu...
When the army is marching in secret, generally speaking, it is a normal choice to massacre and kill villages that are not one's own along the way. Even if it were not Ma Chao, someone else would probably adopt the same method. But the problem is unfortunately.
This time the people killed were not Han people, but Di people.
Perhaps the population base of the Han people is too large, so for the Han officials, it is basically insignificant if dozens or hundreds of people die. Anyway, those who do not want to die are those under their own estates, but for the original number of people
On the other hand, there were only about three thousand Di people in Xiabian. Dozens of people died suddenly, which naturally aroused the alarm of the Di people.
When Ma Chao focused all his attention on the fighting situation in Fei Qian's camp ahead, the Di Ren Wang Ke who was coming from behind had already followed the traces to Ma Chao.
Of course, if Ma Chao had launched an attack on Fei Qian immediately, it would have been possible to avoid Di Ren Wang's pursuit. But the problem was that Ma Chao had just chosen to wait and see, which led to Di Ren Wang's pursuit.
The troops finally caught up with Ma Chao.
Furthermore, if Ma Chao had not chosen to hide his team or hide in the forest on the hillside, relying on Di Ren's two legs, he might not have been able to defeat the mounted Xiliang soldiers, but...
What did Ma Chao do wrong?
No, all of Ma Chao's choices were quite satisfactory and reasonable, but even the choices that seemed to be all correct led to the worst results.
The Di man Wang Ke held up his battle ax and shield, shouted something of unknown meaning, and rushed out of the forest like a wild bull, taking the lead in charging towards Ma Chao's soldiers. Behind him, Lin Nei also
Di Ren's figures kept jumping out, and the crackling footsteps resounded throughout the woods.
The arrows fired by Ma Chao's soldiers in a hurry either hit the tree trunk or were blocked by the shield in Di Ren's hand. They had no obvious killing effect at all. On the contrary, Di Ren leaned out from behind the tree trunk and shot cold arrows one after another.
Harvesting the lives of Ma Chao's soldiers.
Di Ren Wang Yu himself was not very good at strategy. After seeing the Qiang troops led by Ma Chao, a thought came to him in an instant - killing people and seizing horses before, and then even though he came to apologize, Di Ren
Wang Xiu also ignored Han Sui because of his face, but it was obvious that Ma Chao did not realize his mistake, but was unwilling to let him go and secretly came back with his men to take revenge!
Then the choice for Di Ren Wang Yu is very simple...
Can this be tolerated?!
Naturally, the Di man Wang Ke was not polite. He ignored the dissuasion of the leader of the inner five clans, surrounded them with his men, and launched an offensive directly.
The mountains and forests were originally the home ground of the Di people!
A game paradise for people!
The Di people were jumping around in the bushes in the forest, waving their swords and guns, jumping or shouting. It was more like dancing than killing the enemy. Sometimes they would chop several times in front of Ma Chao's soldiers without waiting for Ma Chao's soldiers.
When I fought back, I was already jumping to the other side and doing somersaults...
Then he was in a daze. He held up his sword and didn't know whether it would be better to chase after him and cut him down, or take advantage of the opportunity to run away. This Ma Chao soldier was stabbed by another Di man who came from the side.
"Kill! Fight out, mount up, mount up!" In the forest, it was inconvenient to use a spear, so Ma Chao could only hold a gun in one hand and a knife in the other, and shouted orders while slashing.
"Kill these thieves!" Di Ren Wang Ke also waved a double-sided battle ax and shouted loudly, "Avenge our brothers!"
Waves of blood surged out on the front line!
A Di man rushed towards him. Ma Chao struck him with a knife, thinking that he should have been hit in the head. Then he slashed his body with a second knife. Blood spattered everywhere. Ma Chao kicked the dead Di man away and took the time to look around.
For a moment, I saw the Di people leaping out of the bushes and jumping out of the shadows of the trees. It seemed that they were surrounded by the fanatical shouts of the Di people, but the soldiers here were lost in the shouts of the Di people.
Without a sense of direction, some people not only ran to the ground immediately, but also ran deeper into the more dangerous forest...
The Di people are brave and good at mountain fighting, but not good at formation fighting. This is recognized by most people. Therefore, entangled with the Di people in the mountains and forests is undoubtedly an act of seeking death. However, in the panic of the sudden attack, Ma Chao
Not all soldiers may be able to remain calm, so chaos and disorder are inevitable.
Ma Chao shouted loudly, trying to lead more soldiers to rush towards the war horses, and then took the war horses to the flat ground. As long as they were on the flat ground, once the war horses started running, whether fighting or retreating, the initiative would be in Ma Chao's hands.
After Ma Chaolian killed several Di people who were running towards him, he robbed the forest land. Before he could reach the Tibetan horse land, he heard the screams and whines of the war horses!
The blood drained from Ma Chao's face immediately. He knew in his heart that things were in trouble now...
