Just when the nearby officers and soldiers of the Kaixiao Army were frightened by Ma Wu, a large group of crossbowmen rushed up from behind. The people raised their crossbows, pointed them at Ma Wu, and fired crossbow arrows in unison.
Pah, pah, pah! The sound of the crossbow machine was a continuous one. Ma Wu shouted loudly and waved the nine-eared eight-ring knife like snow flakes. Ding, clank! Dots of fire flashed in front of Ma Wu.
A round of volley failed to injure Ma Wu at all. Immediately afterwards, another group of crossbowmen joined in. There were nearly a hundred crossbowmen, all pointing at Ma Wu.
Ma Wu clamped his legs on the horse's belly, shouted loudly, and the horse neighed and galloped forward.
Bang, bang, bang! More than a hundred crossbow arrows were fired at Ma Wu. Ma Wu immediately lay down on his horse, pop, pop, pop, the crossbow arrows were nailed to Ma Wu's shoulder, rubbing against his helmet, and there were more than ten crossbow arrows.
Deeply inserted into the chest of the war horse.
The war horse whined and fell forward. Ma Wu on the horse was also thrown forward and rolled forward, until it stopped in front of the crossbowmen. Ma Wu didn't even stand up from the ground, and the nine-eared eight-ringed sword had already
Sweep forward.
A series of crisp sounds were heard in the helix, and three crossbowmen were chopped off by Lazy Yao. Ma Wu stood up from the ground and slashed left and right with his long sword. Several more enemies were killed by his sword.
Taking advantage of the enemy's chaos, Ma Wu took a breath, handed the long sword to his left hand, raised his right hand, grabbed the crossbow arrow on his shoulder, and pulled it out with force. With a pop, the crossbow arrow was pulled out, and with it, a burst of
Blood spurted out.
The two soldiers who were closer to Ma Wu threw away their crossbows, drew out their swords, roared, and slashed at him with their swords. Ma Wu first took a step back to let go of the sharp edges of his swords, and then charged forward.
, leaped between the two soldiers.
Poof, poof! The nine-eared eight-ring knife in Ma Wu's left hand and the crossbow arrow in his right hand hit the two soldiers in the face almost at the same time. Neither of them said a word, and they were killed on the spot. Ma Wu held the knife in both hands and shouted:
Swinging the knife across all directions.
A circle of enemy soldiers' bellies were cut open, red and white blood flowed out, and they fell to the ground screaming.
At this time, the Han cavalry behind them followed up, whizzed past Yu Mawu, and crashed into the enemy crowd. Screams and wailings broke out everywhere.
Ma Wu held a long sword, ran quickly, and rushed forward on foot. The enemy was outnumbered and we were outnumbered. The only chance of victory was to capture the thief first and capture the king first, and capture the enemy's general.
However, Yang Yi was very cunning. He had already fled to the rear army, hid, and commanded the soldiers of the rear army to advance, unite with the Chinese army, and besiege Ma Wu and others.
As the battle continued, the front army charged backwards, the middle army charged inwards from the left and right, and the rear troops charged forward. The Han cavalry led by Ma Wu was already surrounded layer by layer by the enemy.
In the chaos of the battle, the cavalry were on horseback fighting the swarming enemy troops, but from time to time there were crossbow arrows among the enemy troops, and the arrows flew out, and the cavalrymen were hit by arrows from time to time and fell off their horses.
With two thousand against twenty thousand, even the brave and capable Han cavalry could not withstand it. The fierce battle between the two sides lasted for an hour. Most of the two thousand cavalry brought out by Ma Wu had fallen, and the remaining cavalry had already fallen.
Less than a thousand people.
Of course, the casualties of Kaixiao's army were greater, with no less than 4,000 or 5,000 killed and wounded, and the battle losses were much higher than that of Han cavalry. But one thing was that Kaixiao's army could afford it. Even if it lost 4,000 or 5,000, it could still be fought.
There are still fifteen or six thousand soldiers.
As the saying goes, one vigorous effort will weaken again, and three times it will be exhausted. At this stage of the battle, the momentum of the Han cavalry has been exhausted, and the rest is struggling to hold on.
Ma Wu looked around the battlefield, rushed to a lost war horse, jumped off, and shouted to the cavalry around him: "Brothers, charge into battle again!"
Following the words, Ma Wu took the lead and rushed towards the small enemy crowd. Before he could get close, two enemy soldiers ran out holding the bridle rope. Ma Wu could see clearly, he grabbed the horse's mane and lifted it up.
shouted: "Get up!"
The war horse jumped up and dodged the oncoming stumbling rope. Ma Wu urged the horse to rush into the crowd in front. The war horse kicked forward with both hooves, and the sound of screams pierced the long night.
Ma Wu swung the nine-eared and eight-ringed sword. Around him, lightning kept flashing and blood splashed out.
During the chaotic battle, cold arrows flew at Ma Wu from time to time. Ma Wu could only protect his vitals. His arms and thighs were hit by cold arrows from time to time.
Just as Ma Wu was fighting in a bloody battle, a shirtless burly man rushed out.
This man was holding two hammers, ran to Ma Wu's horse, raised his hands, hit Ma Wu with one hammer, and hit the horse's head with one hammer.
Ma Wu used his sword to block the hammer that hit him, but he couldn't resist the hammer that hit the horse's head.
Click!
This powerful and heavy hammer smashed the war horse's head on the spot, and the horse's head fell down. Ma Wu on the war horse was thrown away again.
He wheeled out three meters away and jumped up from the ground. As soon as he stood up, the opponent's double hammers hit him one after another.
Ma Wu raised his long sword and caught the opponent's hammers. With a clang, Ma Wu slid out more than a meter away with his feet close to the ground. Seeing this, the nearby Kaixiao soldiers all raised their spears. If Ma Wu continued to slide,
, the body would have to hit the tip of the spear.
He reacted very quickly and threw himself down on the spot. His sliding turned into rolling, and he rolled until he reached the feet of the soldiers.
Before all the soldiers could react, Ma Wu swept out the sword in his hand, and with a click, the calves of a row of soldiers were cut off by the blade. For a moment, people fell on their backs and screamed.
The shirtless man roared angrily, chased after Ma Wu with two hammers, and hit him with all his strength.
Ma Wu was also tough and parried with his sword. Bang! The moment he held the opponent's hammers, clouds of blood sprayed out from the arrow wounds on his body. Ma Wu gritted his teeth and struck back with a knife, slashing the opponent's head.
The big man raised his hammer to parry. Ma Wu missed the target and thrust the tip of the knife to the ground. With the support of the knife shaft, he kicked forward. The big man was shocked and hurriedly retracted his hammers and blocked his own.
Chest. Bang! Ma Wu's flying kick hit the head of the hammer, causing the big man to lean back and take three steps back. Before he could stand firm, Ma Wu had already caught up with him and passed him by.
In the meantime, hold the knife with one hand and chop forward, directly to the opponent's head.
Click! The shirtless man had no time to parry, so he was a little slow to dodge, and was hit in the shoulder by Ma Wu's sword.
This knife cut almost the entire blade into the opponent's shoulder. The big man screamed and lost consciousness in one arm. He swung his other arm forward and hit Ma Wu's temple with the hammer.
Ma Wu lowered his body, dodged the hammer head, and at the same time drew out the sword under his ribs, thrust the sword forward and inserted it into the opponent's chest.
The blade of the sword was exposed from the back of the big man, and blood flowed out along the blood groove on the sword. The big man's eyes were wide open, staring at Ma Wu in front of him, but his body could no longer stand, and he made a thud in front of Ma Wu.
Kneel down on the ground.
Just as Ma Wu drew his sword, two arrows flew diagonally towards him. Without thinking, he swung his sword to block.
Bang! He only deflected one arrow, and another arrow hit his side. Ma Wu was shocked, stuck his sword on the ground, and pulled out the arrow from his side.
Immediately afterwards, several more arrows flew from the side. Ma Wu turned around and ducked to the side of the big man's corpse, using the big man's kneeling corpse as a shield to block the side arrows.
He sheathed the sword, pulled out the nine-eared and eight-ringed sword from the opponent's body, and charged towards the crowd shooting arrows with the sword.
In this battle, Ma Wu did not expect to return alive. His only goal was to do his best to block the enemy's army and delay the enemy's army for a moment longer to buy time for his own soldiers to retreat.
Ma Wu broke into the enemy crowd and set off another bloody storm, followed by a charge by the Han cavalry.
The battle between the two sides has been going on for two hours unknowingly. By now, Ma Wu has been wounded by arrows in six or seven places. He has less than 500 cavalry brothers under his command.
Twenty thousand against two thousand, and after two hours of fighting, they still could not completely wipe out the opponent. This is quite unbelievable. If you look at the battle losses, it is even more unbelievable. The casualties of the Han army were 1,600 to 700.
, and the casualties on the side of Wei Xiao's army had climbed to more than 6,000.
For Wei Xiao's army, the only good news is that Ma Wu and others are at the end of their battle, and the remaining four hundred cavalry are all covered with arrow wounds, whether they are the knights on the horses or the horses below.
The arrows are all on the left and one on the right.
"Kill all the enemy troops, leave no one behind!" "Kill all the enemy troops, leave no one behind!" Seeing that Ma Wu and others had fought to the point of exhaustion, Wei Xiao's army formed a ring and surrounded them step by step.
Ma Wu gasped for air, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his face, and looked around.
Seeing the enemy's encirclement getting smaller and smaller, he withdrew his gaze, fell on the brothers around him, and asked: "Brothers, are you afraid?"
Everyone's eyes fell on Ma Wu and said: "We are lucky enough to follow the general, go into battle to kill the enemy, and drink the enemy's blood. We have lived our lives in vain!"
"We will follow the general to the death! If the general orders us, even if we are shattered to pieces, we will not hesitate!"
"Well done! All brothers are worthy of the Han Dynasty, worthy of Your Majesty, and worthy of the reputation of our Han army soldiers! Even if we cannot escape death today, we must let the enemy understand that even if our Han army soldiers fight to the death
Even a single pawn cannot be bullied!" Ma Wu took a deep breath and said loudly: "Brothers, follow me and charge into the formation again!"
The cavalry led by Ma Wu really took the concept of cavalry to its extreme.
The cavalry does not defend. The cavalry on defense is just a ball of flesh, a living target in the eyes of the enemy. The principle of cavalry is to attack.
Even if there is only the last cavalry left, even if they are facing thousands of enemy troops, they must attack. Even if they die, the cavalry must die on the way to charge. This is the creed of the cavalry.
Ma Wu led 2,000 cavalry to charge and kill 20,000 enemies. From the beginning to the end, they never retreated and defended. They kept charging into the formation and fought to the end, giving full play to the greatest advantage of the cavalry.
With only more than 400 Han cavalry left, under the leadership of Ma Wu, they once again launched an active attack on the enemy camp. Arrows flew from all directions like raindrops. The charging cavalry were hit by arrows from time to time, and some
The soldiers were directly killed from their horses. Some soldiers were shot into hedgehogs with their horses. Some soldiers were hit by several arrows but still gritted their teeth and continued to charge.
Yang Yi, who was hiding in the crowd and watching secretly, grinned secretly. The enemy only had 2,000 cavalry, but he defeated his own army of 20,000 to such an extent. It was incredible. The soldiers under Liu Xiu's command were very capable of fighting head-on.
When more than four hundred cavalry charged and entered the enemy's army, only three hundred were left. Ma Wu, who was covered in injuries, was shaky as he stood there. But once he came into contact with groups of enemy troops,
Becoming more energetic again.
A sword with nine ears and eight rings was like a tiger, and the surrounding officers and soldiers of Kaixiao Army were either cut down to the ground in rows, or were killed in pieces.
The fighting between the two sides turned into a life-and-death bloody battle.
Yang Yi took several deep breaths and shouted loudly: "Surround the enemy! Don't let any enemy escape! If you kill an enemy soldier, you will be rewarded with a hundred coins; if you kill an enemy general, you will be rewarded with a thousand coins!"
A heavy reward must be given to brave men. After hearing Yang Yi's words, the officers and soldiers of the Kaixiao army present were as if they had been beaten to death. More than 10,000 people surrounded Ma Wu and several hundred people.
Yang Yi thought that this battle was a sure thing and that the enemy troops would be completely wiped out. But just as he was waiting for the battle to end, suddenly, whistles and shouts of death were heard all around them.
Looking up, I saw patches of fire lighting up in the night.
