Chapter 508: Playing with ambushes
This kind of situation is very common in the flying horse, their only fun is to compare with each other in private, those who can enter the flying horse are not weak hands, give them enough opportunities, and the speed of improvement is also very fast, as for killing five enemy soldiers to become a captain, it is also the standard of flying horses in private, and the real measure of their military merit will be judged according to the strength of the enemy.
"I hope these ambushed Jizhou troops are not too weak." One of the horsemen muttered.
Zhang Liao, who happened to hear this, looked slightly sluggish, shouted, led the cavalry to kill the place where the Jizhou army was ambushed, and got along with the flying horse for a short time, Zhang Liao felt the fighting spirit exuded by the flying horse, and the wolf horse was only strong and not weak, I remembered that when the Huns were pacified, the flying horse could only be called an elite cavalry, but I didn't expect it to become such an elite after many years.
The Jizhou army in ambush didn't know that they were merit in the eyes of the Bingzhou army, nothing more, as for their combat effectiveness, they were not considered by the flying cavalry, and the flying cavalry equipped with scimitars and bows and arrows was not afraid of anyone in close combat or long-distance combat.
"Don't alarm the ambushes." Zhang Liao ordered.
A thousand Jizhou army soldiers ambushed in the shadows, holding their breath, staring at the flying cavalry an arrow away with blazing eyes, Hu Xuan, the Jizhou general in charge of the ambush, did not order the soldiers to attack, they were in order to cut off the retreat of the Bingzhou army, as long as the army can defeat the Bingzhou army, they will become a strange soldier, a strange army that can make the Bingzhou army rout.
At this moment, the flying horseman who was originally moving forward suddenly turned his horse's head and made a small turn, about a hundred steps away from the Jizhou army, and the same was true for the cavalry in the rear.
Hu Xuan saw that the flying cavalry did not mean to attack, and breathed a sigh of relief, even if the army was not far away, if the flying cavalry found them, they would be greeted by the pain of the cavalry, even if the army arrived, how many robes would fall under the cavalry's charge.
Hu Xuan was surprised to find that the flying horse did not go far away, but circled around them, even if Hu Xuan was stupid, he knew that the flying horse had found them.
"Shoot the arrows!" Zhang Liao shouted, and the flying horses, which had already been prepared, shot the arrows in their hands one after another.
The Jizhou army, which was watching the flying cavalry army, was completely defenseless, and the arrow rain of the flying cavalry came, and under surprise, the Jizhou army lost hundreds of people in this round of arrow rain.
"Kill!" Zhang Liao, who was armed with a hook and sickle, took the lead in killing the Jizhou army.
A distance of 100 paces, at the speed of the cavalry, arrived in a moment, and before the Jizhou army could wake up from the rain of arrows, the flying cavalry rushed in front of them.
Under the scimitar of the flying horse, the Jizhou army was damaged at a very fast speed.
Hu Xuan saw that the situation was not good, shouted, and led the soldiers to flee in a hurry, but the flying cavalry did not intend to let them go like this, and finally met the enemy, if the Jizhou army escaped so easily, would they still call the invincible flying cavalry, and besides, these ambushes of the Jizhou army are completely credited, and if they don't take it, they will be sorry for the Jizhou army's intentions.
At this time, the soldiers of the Jizhou army only hated their parents for giving them two legs, the ground was slippery, and the soldiers who accidentally fell down got up in embarrassment and fled in the direction of the army.
The flying cavalry admired the embarrassment of the Jizhou army in the rear of the Jizhou army, wielding the scimitar in his hand from time to time, harvesting the lives of the backward soldiers, and occasionally taking a bow and arrows to let the Jizhou army speed up.
Finally saw the army, Hu Xuan had the feeling of being bullied when he was a child and saw his family, but the flying horse behind him didn't seem to have the intention of retreating, and still followed the rear of the army with a bow and arrows.
After Tian Chou learned that the soldiers and horses in ambush had been discovered by the flying horsemen and were fleeing back to the army in embarrassment, he hurriedly led 3,000 people to meet them.
The flying horse arrived in Tian Chou, and after a short fight, he patted the horse and left.
Tian Chou's face was bitter, being spied on by a cavalry around, it would always make people feel uncomfortable, he asked Yu Xin Comment, this is also a good strategy, if the flying horse appears, let the flying horse go, when the flying horse retreats, it can have a surprise effect, the bad thing is that they don't know that there are flying eagle soldiers in the dark observing the actions of the army, and after the location and number of people in the ambush are all known, how can this army have a good end.
Pingbai lost more than 500 soldiers, Tian Chou was more cautious, even if there were flying horses harassing him on the side, he would ignore it after driving him away, as long as he arrived in Dangyin City, he would be safe.
The rain became heavier and heavier, and Zhang Liao led the wet flying horses back to the camp, and the army led by Zhang He also joined Tian Chou twenty miles east of the city.
Seeing that the army was fine, Zhang He also breathed a sigh of relief, the army went out of the city to meet, it seems to be a very simple job, but there is a great danger, through the siege of the city, the Jizhou army has once again realized the courage of the state army, and the Jizhou army that followed Zhang He out of the city has the first to die.
The same is the siege of the city, the loss of the Jizhou army reached three to one, and the siege of the state army, the loss of the number of people is probably roughly the same as that of the defenders, this is already a very terrifying number, and the best thing the state army is at is field warfare, in the field to meet the cavalry of the state army, Zhang He did not have enough confidence, and the first to follow the army came, so that Zhang He felt a lot more at ease.
It was already late at night when the army arrived in Dangyin City, and there was no time to rest, so Tian Chou hurried to the Chinese army and told Yuan Shao what happened along the way.
After Tian Chou finished speaking, Yuan Shao also nodded slightly, Tian Chou and Xin Ping's disposition can be said to be relatively good, neither delaying the speed of the army's march, but also letting the flying cavalry not succeed, as for the hundreds of soldiers lost, in Yuan Shao's opinion, it is not important, as long as this batch of baggage is transported to the city, he is confident enough to hold Dangyin, and even defeat the invincible Bingzhou army.
There are elite cavalry in Jizhou, Jizhou is also not weak, there are a full three hundred bed crossbows in this batch of baggage, since learning the news that Lu Bu gathered the army, Yuan Shao ordered the craftsman workshop in Yecheng to build bed crossbows day and night, and now Yuan Shao is only waiting to fight to the death with the Bingzhou army, with the bed crossbow and the first dead soldier in hand, Yuan Shao has full confidence to defeat the Bingzhou army.
During this time, the Jizhou army stayed in the city very poorly, and the morale of the army was also a little low because the Bingzhou army continued to attack the city, although Yuan Shao was anxious, but he did not go out of the city to fight with the Bingzhou army, one is that the troops are insufficient, and the other is that there are also hundreds of bed crossbows in the Bingzhou army, and the range of the bed crossbow owned by the Bingzhou army is farther than the range of the Jizhou bed crossbow, but Yuan Shaosheng is very close to Dangyin in Yecheng.
(End of chapter)