Chapter 51 Kill the Horse
After replacing the hostages, Ma Yue ordered Zhou Cang to lead 50 cavalry to drive the army and horses to go south first, while he led 200 cavalry to break the rear and go south personally.
"Report~~~"
It took more than an hour for Ma Yue to lead 200 riders, but it was less than ten miles away from Zhixian County. Suddenly, a loud shout mixed with the sound of hurried horse hooves sounded. Looking back, I saw a rider galloping from the north.
"Big leader, a large number of official and cavalry suddenly appeared 10 miles north!"
Ma Yue predicted that He Jin would not be so easy to deal with, and believed that the Han army would have arrangements, but when he heard the reward of the horse detection, he was still shocked and said in a deep voice: "What did you say! A large number of Han cavalry!?"
The horse gambled and answered with certainty: "Yes, there are more than a thousand riders!"
"More than a thousand riders!?"
Ma Yue was shocked again. He Jin really looked down on him. In order to deal with only 800 bandits, he actually mobilized thousands of cavalry! When Zhu Jun's army cleared out the Yellow Turban Army of Zhang Mancheng, he was only Dong Zhuo's command of 1,000 Western Liang cavalry. This time, in order to deal with 800 bandits, he actually dispatched a thousand cavalry!
"Report~~"
When Ma Yue was shocked, the sound of sarcastic horses sounded one after another in the east and west. The two riders rushed to Ma Yue almost at the same time.
"Big leader, the official army was found to the west, approaching our army, with a total of thousands of people!"
"Big leader, the official army was found in the east, approaching our army, with a total of thousands of people!"
What!? Official troops appeared at the east and west at the same time! And there were as many as a thousand people!? Ma Yue's heart began to pound. Since the official troops were found in the north, east and west directions at the same time, the Han army, which used to use the iron wall encirclement tactic, would never leave any flaws in the south. There must be a cavalry that was detouring from a certain direction, preparing to cut off its own way back.
According to this calculation, the Han army used at least 4,000 troops this time, and at least 2,000 cavalry! What is even more shocking is that this group of Han army is definitely not the Nanyang soldiers, and it must be the elite Central Army from Luoyang! What's the size of this? Could it be that He Jin personally led his army to suppress it? Just to deal with only 800 bandits, isn't it a bit too mobilized? Besides, is it useful to do this?
His mind is as simple as Mao San, and now he knows that he has been surrounded by the government army. You Mu looks at Ma Yue and said, "What should I do if the leader is? Will I fight?"
Ma Yue smiled and said in a silence: "Fuck you, go back to Wancheng immediately!"
By time, Zhou Cang drove away 2,000 military horses and had almost arrived in Wancheng. As for his 200 Qingzhou bandits, there were few people and small targets. Although the Han army has been pressing from three directions, it is far from a real siege. Any time he checks, he can pass through it. As long as he returns to Wancheng, the brothers will climb on the back of the horse. Hey, they will be all cavalry, and they have two horses, so they are still afraid of the official army. Even if He Jin comes in person, he will still give him a lot of dust.
"Walk!"
Ma Yue held the horse's belly hard with both legs and galloped towards Wancheng first. Behind him, Mao San and 200 Qingzhou bandits followed like shadows and swept away.
However, Ma Yue led 200 riders to travel south for less than twenty miles, and actually caught up with Zhou Cang and his party.
Seeing Ma Yue leading the crowd back, Zhou Cang came up with a sad face and anxiously.
Ma Yue was shocked and angry, and cursed at the slightest, "What did you do, Zhou Cang? Two hours have passed, and he has only walked such a little road?"
Zhou Cang wiped sweat on his forehead and said anxiously: "It's not that I won't leave, it's that the horse refuses to leave!"
Ma Yue said in a deep voice: "Ma refused to leave? What's going on?"
Zhou Cang said: "I don't know. Less than 10 miles away from Zhi County, these military horses started to get diarrhea, and they kept pulling, and their speed was getting slower and slower. When they arrived here, they simply stopped leaving. Look, many of them were already lying on the ground. Damn, it's really evil!"
Ma Yue's heart thumped. Looking around, he saw more than 50 cavalry bandits shouting loudly behind the horse team and driving them out hard, but the horse team had no response and just wandered in place. In just a while, dozens of more war horses fell down and lie on the ground and began to twitch.
Ma Yue pondered for a moment, then suddenly shouted loudly: "Kill the horse!"
The official army is approaching from the north, west and east directions. The cavalry that has not appeared in the south may also break out at any time. If there is a slight delay, it may be trapped in a siege and die without a burial place! At this time, there is no time to explore why these war horses are like this, and it is impossible to carry them back to Wancheng. The only way is to kill them all!
Even if the eight hundred bandits cannot get this group of horses, they must not be allowed to return to the hands of the Han army intact. Otherwise, the Han army will suddenly have 2,000 cavalry and face the pursuit of more than 4,000 cavalry. How can the eight hundred bandits live in the future? How can a person's two legs be able to jump over a four-legged beast?
"What?"
The bandits who were waiting for Ma Yue to make a decision were stunned when they heard this. They didn't expect Ma Yue to give such an order. These are 2,000 military horses. The brothers have a surplus. With this horse, they don't need to run away in the future. How easy would it be?
"Kill the horse!" Ma Yue shouted with murderous intent, "Who dares to disobey your life?"
"After... obey the order!"
Zhou Cang shivered with a chill, turned around and stabbed into the heart of a military horse. With the blood splattered, the war horse neighed in a sad way, and fell to the ground and began to twitch. The bandits next to him did not dare to be negligent, and they all picked up their waists and rushed into the horses like a ferocious evil spirit. In an instant, the tragic neigh of the war horse resounded through the sky, gathering into a tragic march of death.
In less than a cup of tea, all 2,000 military horses had fallen into a pool of blood, and more than 250 bandits were all stained with blood, as if they had just rushed out of thousands of troops.
At this moment, Ma Yue suddenly felt the ground under his feet tremble, and looked up in shock. He saw a black line rising from the northern horizon. In just a moment, the black line became much thicker, cavalry! The damn Han cavalry arrived at this critical moment!
"Mao San, Niu Si, lead 200 riders to follow me!" Ma Yue turned over and took off the thick-backed steel knife from his back, shouting, "Zhou Cang led the remaining brothers back to Wancheng, told Guan Hai and Pei Yuanshao, and immediately led all the brothers to evacuate Wancheng, cross Baishui and advance eastward, and turn towards Zhongyang Mountain!"
Zhou Cang seemed to have a premonition and shouted angrily: "Where are you, the leader!?"
Ma Yue said sternly: "If the brigade of Han cavalry is entangled, not only will everyone not be able to escape, but even the brothers in Wancheng may be eaten by the Han army in one go. Mao San and I will go up and resist for a while. We can hold on as long as we can. Zhou Cang, you can go!"
Zhou Cang said, "Big leader, I'll go!"
Ma Yue shouted: "Zhou Cang, how dare you disobey the military orders!?"
Zhou Cang turned over and shouted: "The eight hundred bandits can be without Zhou Cang, but they cannot be without a leader! Forgive me to disobey!"
"Zhou Cang, you're back!"
He turned around and gave Ma Yue a sad sneer, Zhou Cang said loudly: "Big leader, if Zhou Cang unfortunately dies in battle, don't forget to pour me some leftover water and wine during the Qingming Festival every year! Brothers, come with me~~"
"Kill~~"
Mao San and Niu Si's eyes were red, like crazy beasts, responding with wolf howling.
"Kill~~"
200 Qingzhou bandits waved their weapons frantically, and the chaotic aura surged and stirred between the world.
Zhou Cang led the steel knife in his hand forward and rode his horse towards the Han army cavalry sweeping from the north. Behind Zhou Cang, Mao San, Niu Si and more than 200 cavalry howled wildly, waving their weapons, like a group of trapped beasts forced into a desperate situation by hunters, with the will of desperate dying, he could not move forward.
"Walk!"
Ma Yue looked at Zhou Cang for the last time, led the steel knife in his hand south, and rode his horse towards Wancheng. Behind the horse, the remaining 50 riders were only one, and they followed each other in a lonely and sad manner.
"Hmph! Since you are here, do you still want to leave?"
As Ma Yue finished speaking, a dull hum suddenly came from the northwest direction. Although the sound was not loud, it pierced through hundreds of steps of space like a sharp sword, and it clearly reached the ears of Ma Yue and all the bandits. Ma Yue looked back in shock and saw a rider burning like flames, stepping on the afterglow of the setting sun, galloping like lightning. In just a moment, it was less than a hundred steps away from Ma Yue.
Ma Yue's pupils suddenly contracted. This guy's horse was so fast that he might not be able to run away.
Lili's murderous intent burned endlessly in Sun Jian's chest. He had never been as eager as he is now, eager to kill someone! Nothing for anything else, just for the words of the Zuo Zhonglang General Zhu Jun, just to return the bright world to the great man, and to return the people of the world to a peaceful and prosperous era. He would never allow people like Ma Yue to survive between heaven and earth.
"kill!"
Sun Jianhu roared, and the heavy ancient ingot sword had been raised high, and the cold light broke into the air and murderous aura was filled with the wild.
"die!"
The horse Yuehu roared, turned the horse's head, urged the horse to move forward quickly, and faced Sun Jian fearlessly. The originally bright black eyes were already bright red at this moment, and could almost drip blood, which was so ferocious that it was suffocating.
Chapter completed!