Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan went into battle with Cao Cao and went to Kansai to attack Han Sui and Ma Chao...
Cao Cao underestimated Ma Chao's ability. To be precise, it should be absolutely underestimated.
Cao Cao once asked Ma Teng about the qualifications of his son Ma Chao. Ma Teng was in Yecheng and was afraid that Cao Cao would pull his son over to serve as an official without real power on a whim, so he lied to Cao Cao about his son.
Extremely brave but lacking in strategy, he is just a general.
When Cao Cao saw Ma Teng, a father, speaking so highly of his son, he didn't have too much doubt.
Up to this point, Cao Cao had always believed that Ma Chao was a martial artist.
Ma Chao didn't know what his father said about him in front of Cao Cao. In fact, Ma Chao was not only extremely brave, but also quite strategic.
Standing on the top of the mountain, watching Cao Cao's rear leisurely marching towards the south bank, Ma Chao raised the corner of his mouth slightly, raised the galloping halberd in his hand, and shouted: "My lords, that old thief Cao is right in front of us.
, you will follow me to destroy and kill him! Kill him!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
Following the three kills of his generals, Ma Chao took the lead and rushed towards the rear of Cao's army.
...
Cao Cao curled his lips and stretched out on the bed.
Cao Cao borrowed this bed from Ma Xiaoquan, the Master of Shangxian, and put it on his specially made carriage. It was quite comfortable. Originally, Cao Cao wanted to take Mrs. Bian with him, but if Xu Huang, Sima Yi and others hadn't persuaded him, he would have done it.
Just brought it with me.
"Report!" A cavalryman stepped forward and said, "Report to the Prime Minister that there are enemy troops ten miles ahead."
Cao Cao sat up from the bed and waved his hand: "What are you afraid of? I'm afraid those who are coming are just Liang Xing and his like, so don't be afraid!"
"Prime Minister, according to the report from the spy, it seems to be Ma Chao..."
"Ma Chao?" Cao Cao was a man of old age, and his heart shuddered. He quickly said seriously: "Quick, send the order immediately for emergency deployment."
Cao Cao has never fought against Ma Chao, but Ma Teng said that Ma Chao is very brave, and Cao Cao cannot take it lightly. After all, being a coward in a soldier is not a coward in a general. Although Ma Chao lacks "strategy", he is brave, and his men must be too.
It is brave.
When fighting against brave men, you don't pay too much attention to strategy.
It's just that... the ten-mile road was too close for the Xiliang cavalry. As soon as Cao Cao issued the emergency deployment order, Ma Chao caught up with him.
Looking at Ma Chao's neat cavalry formation, Cao Cao shouted that he had been fooled by the old guy Ma Teng. How could such an formation be led by Wu Fu?
"Protect the Prime Minister!" Xu Chu took the lead, standing in front of Cao Cao with his newly equipped sword, and shouted loudly.
Zhang Zha and others were not idle, and urgently gathered a group of light cavalry to face Ma Chao, which was bound to give Cao Cao some time to retreat.
Zhang Jaw was definitely a fierce general. He led a group of light cavalry into the enemy's formation, and the two armies immediately engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
Ma Chao leads the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which combines offense and defense, and is highly maneuverable. He leads the Qing Cavalry with his open jaw. Although it is not as good as Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry in terms of defense, it is more dexterous and gives Ma Chao a headache.
Yes, each of the open-jawed light cavalry was equipped with a bow and arrow, and they plucked the bow and fired from a distance, causing Ma Chaojun some confusion.
It's just that this chaos didn't last long. After all... Ma Chaojun is a cavalryman.
Seeing that the harassment was unsuccessful, he immediately changed his battle formation from a cone to a circular formation and outflanked Ma Chao's army.
The effect of this formation change was immediate. While Ma Chao was cursing secretly in his heart, he had to make a quick deployment and ordered the battle formation to unfold in a y-shaped pattern.
He opened his jaw, stared hard, shouted loudly, drove his war horse to take the lead in overturning a Xiliang cavalry, and shouted: "All the light cavalry obey the order, disperse, and serve these sons of bitches with bows and arrows!"
After receiving the order, Cao Jun's Qingqi immediately dispersed into a state of no formation. However, since everyone was carrying bows and arrows on their backs, in an instant, everyone drew arrows from behind, stretched their bows and stringed arrows, and fired furiously.
"Whoosh whoosh..." The arrows rushed towards the Xiliang cavalry with a slight sound of breaking wind, followed by a clanking sound of metal collision. Needless to say, it must be those arrows that did not hit the vital points.
It came from the armor plate.
As soon as Ma Chao lowered his helmet slightly, he saw Zhang Jaw not far from the opposite side shooting an arrow at him.
This arrow hit Ma Chao directly in the eye.
"Damn it!" Is Ma Chao a mediocre person? With a curse, the galloping horse and the halberd blocked each other, and there was a "dang" sound, and the angry arrow with open jaws was deflected by Ma Chao.
"Huh?" Zhang Jia raised his eyebrows, sighing in his heart, but Zhang Jia did not hesitate, turned the horse's head and fired another angry shot.
"Are you still excited?" Ma Chao shouted in his heart, pulled out a short javelin from the horse's back, and threw it towards Zhang Jia.
This short javelin can be said to be an enlarged version of an arrow. Although it is not as accurate as an arrow, its power is definitely much greater than that of an arrow.
Ma Chao's arm strength was already amazing, and the distance between him and Zhang Jia was not too far. The short javelin rushed towards Zhang Jia's face like a deadly soul-locking cone, and Zhang Jia couldn't hide in time.
Looking at the short javelin getting closer and closer, Zhang Jia did not panic. At this moment, Zhang Jia waved his big hand, and only heard two "clang" sounds, and the short javelin broke into two parts from the middle.
This time Ma Chao raised his eyebrows.
Ma Chao stopped his horse, raised his galloping halberd, pointed it at his jaw and shouted: "I am Ma Chao, Ma Meng Qi from Xiliang, who are you?"
Zhang Jia snorted coldly and said: "I am Zhang Jia, Zhang Jun, the general under the Prime Minister's command!"
Ma Chao nodded: "You are a warrior, I... admire you!"
Zhang Jia also responded: "I admire you too, but you and I have different ambitions!"
Ma Chao laughed and said: "Interesting, I'll let you go today. When the time comes, you and I will fight again!"
There was no pretense in opening his jaw. Although Ma Chao had the upper hand in terms of words, in terms of the overall battle situation, his Cao army was indeed losing ground.
He opened his jaw, raised his gun, and cupped his hand, turned around and left.
...
After meeting his lord Cao Cao, Zhang Jia immediately gave a brief report on the battle situation. Only then did Cao Cao truly realize how powerful Ma Chao was.
Zhang Jia jumped off his horse, and together with Xu Chu, he lifted the short Cao Cao off the bed. Xu Chu then took Cao Cao with his big arms and carried him on his back.
At this time, Ma Chao had led his team to approach, and it seemed that he was too late. Xu Chu gritted his teeth, faced the escape boat three meters away, shouted, jumped on it with a big jump.
As soon as Xu Chu jumped up, Ma Chao led the Guanxi Army to the south bank.
Facing Cao Cao who was fleeing in panic, Ma Chao immediately ordered his men to release arrows and throw their spears.
Cao Cao's side is miserable, and his men have long been out of ideas. Those who can jump onto the escape boat are the best, and those who can't can just jump into the river.
The Yellow River was very fast, and most of Cao's soldiers who jumped into the river were landlubbers. After a while, many of Cao's soldiers were dead.
Fortunately for Cao Cao, the escape boat was the first to set off. However, due to the strong river water, the oarsman on the boat was shot to death again, so Xu Chu could only row the boat for him.
Xu Chu was also a landlubber, and he was no good at rowing. After almost using his hands and feet, the boat was still washed four or five miles downstream.
Ma Chao laughed loudly and led his cavalry to shoot at Cao Cao angrily along the bank, causing Cao Cao to curse his mother.
On the shore, Captain Ding Peiyi saw something was wrong and quickly dispersed the cattle and horses to lure the Xiliang army.
Ding Pei's treasure was right. Although the Xiliang army was extremely brave, its military discipline was very lax. There was a long-term shortage of this and that in the northwest region, which led to this group of people robbing everything they saw.
Seeing his men messing up their formation, Ma Chao shouted angrily to stop them, but... when he had nothing to do, he and his men would go out and rob them, of course, to rob the ethnic minorities outside the customs.
The restraint was ineffective, and Ma Chao had no choice but to watch Cao Cao's disappearing back helplessly.
"Hey!" Ma Chao shook his head helplessly, turned around, and immediately joined the plundering camp...
...
By the time Cao Cao's defeated troops fled to the north bank in embarrassment, it was already evening.
When the soldiers on the north bank saw that Cao Cao was fine, some of them burst into tears unconsciously.
Cao Cao disagreed, but laughed and said: "Damn it, I almost got caught by those brats today!"
Xu Chu and Zhang Jia looked at each other, and the two generals lamented in their hearts: Lord, Prime Minister, why are they trying to arrest you? They are trying to kill you...
During dinner, Cao Cao gnawed on a chicken leg and suddenly asked: "How is Gongmingzhi Xu Huang's current fighting situation?"
A young general said respectfully: "Prime Minister, General Xu Huang has successfully raided and is now on his way to join the lord."
"Oh" Cao Cao picked up another chicken leg and took a bite and asked, "What about the demon?"
"Back to Prime Minister, Master Shangxian suddenly disappeared after General Xu Huang's raid."
"Huh? This demon..." Cao Cao smiled, "Forget it, just ignore him..."
"Ah Zheng" Ma Zheng rubbed his nose and murmured to himself, "Dad, is someone talking about us?"
"Pa" Ma Xiaoquan slapped his son on the head, "Why are there so many people talking about it?"
"My mother said that whenever you sneeze, someone must be talking about it. She also said that this is what you said, dad."
Ma Xiaoquan: "..."
"Okay, let's leave quickly."
Ma Zheng was a little aggrieved. After all, he was still a ten-year-old baby. When he heard that he wanted to leave, he couldn't help but pursed his lips: "Dad, we have been gone for a day."
"Huh?" Ma Xiaoquan turned his head, looked at his son's dirty little face, and sighed: "Okay, then let's take a rest tonight. Seriously, it's cold outside. Do you blame dad?
Do you regret going out with dad?"
Xiao Ma Zheng looked determined: "No, if Zheng'er is willing, Zheng'er is willing to follow dad!"
"Okay!" Ma Xiaoquan patted his son on the shoulder, "You are indeed my son, Ma Xiaoquan!"