At midnight, the scouts reported to Ma Chao that the baggage team was camped in a col ten miles ahead. Ma Chao immediately ordered the whole army to wind their bows, take off their spears, and remove their shields from their backs, hold them in their hands, and turn into a state of imminent battle. I have to say that letting Uss command this Roman army is too complementary. With a command, those high-nosed and deep-eyed Roman slave regiments quickly and silently fulfilled the requirements, showing extremely high military quality.

At the same time, Ma Jiatie rode a horse, and people were silent. This made Ma Chao nod his head: after the militarization of the Han people, their reaction was no worse than that of those Romans. After all, this great nation learns everything very quickly.

Then, the 5,000-foot cavalry quietly approached the camp of the baggage team.

However, it was not the Yuan family's baggage team that was attacked first, but Ma Chao's rear team. In the darkness, the highly tense soldiers focused on following the front team to avoid separation, ignoring the movement behind them. A large number of cavalry suddenly swarmed from all directions, and rushed into Ma Chao's rear array at once, many people in the darkness could not see, and they did not know how many enemies there were.

Ma Chao obviously fell into Yuan Jun's trap. The baggage team from Jinyang City kept a moderate distance from the pursuers, which made Ma Chao have a fluke mentality that he could chase at night. And the 5,000 pioneers went deep into the rear of the enemy army, how could they not be discovered by the senior cadres? As a result, a large number of elite cavalry of the high cadres kept a distance from the baggage team, and only moved to the vicinity under the cover of darkness after nightfall. When Ma Chao put all his energy into the baggage camp, the real killer move quietly attacked from behind.

The assault of these cavalry was typical of the Youzhou style. The biggest difference between the Youzhou style and the Xiliang style of riding is that the former does not rely entirely on the explosive power of the horse, but emphasizes continuous attack at high speed. Each cavalryman is armed with a bow and crossbow shield, and before engaging the battle, he shoots arrows to shock the enemy, and after the blow is effective, he takes out a long knife for horse combat and swings downward, and at the same time, under the protection of the shield in his left hand, there is a little more security, so that they can continue to roam.

Although in comparison, the Youzhou-style charge is not as fast and powerful as the Xiliang style, but the continuous stamina is difficult to bear. As a result, under this kind of sudden attack, Ma Jiajun couldn't react for a while, and was helpless, unable to form a formation to confront it, so he could only desperately wave the weapons in his hand for one-on-one confrontation. For a time, many people were knocked down by arrows or slashed by long knives, and the dull sound and screams of metal piercing flesh and blood came one after another. Even if they raise their shields, it is useless, without the cover of their comrades, they will often be shot by the crossbows on the side, and after the whole person loses strength, they will be trampled to death by the ensuing rebels........

Leading this force was Jiang Yiqu, a general under Yuan Shao. Since childhood, he likes to dance with guns and sticks, his body is powerful and strong, and his appearance is ugly and hideous. Although it is covered up under the name of the Four Courtyard Pillars, he is also a skilled archer, especially when he breaks through the fight, and he likes to take the lead.

However, this time he rarely led his troops to fight in person—not to shock Ma Chao's prestige, in fact, this time he had no idea who the enemy was leading the team—he was very dissatisfied with this task, believing that it was a means of judging and crowding out the generals. Ma Chao's army is close at hand, and he still plays sneak attack? It must be the end of being surrounded and beaten to death by heavy soldiers. But he never expected that he didn't know what strategy the trial had put into his hands, so that Ma Chao's main force would stagnate, and only sent a force of thousands of people to intercept and kill the grain and grass.

In this sortie, Jiang Yiqu brought a full 10,000 Youzhou elite horsemen. At this time, he was reflecting on whether he had misunderstood the trial: when he was sure to win and won military merits, he lost the interest in going down to fight in person.

He stood on the high ground not far away, and from time to time he gave orders for his followers to shake the torch. The torches on this side are particularly conspicuous throughout the battlefield. The Youzhou elite cavalry watched the shaking of the torch, sometimes dividing and sometimes attacking, besieging Ma Chao in an orderly manner in the dark, eating away at Ma Chao's troops little by little.

The initial attack went very smoothly, and Ma Jiajun fell into a state of chaos at once. Jiang Yiqu could clearly see that those poor guys couldn't even do the minimum of erecting shields against their backs, and without the spear formation to block the enemy, the infantry was just a lamb to be slaughtered to the cavalry!

Although those men later formed a strange and simple small formation, the formation that was almost scattered by the cavalry had already deprived their strange formation of favorable circumstances. From time to time, there were soul-stirring howls and killing sounds, spears stabbing and machetes slashing, sharp hand axes flying in the air, cold throwing spears whistling and falling, and heavy huge shields crashing wildly.

"Kill, kill~~" Jiang Yiqu couldn't help but shout out from a high place, he saw those Ma Jiajun screaming in an incomprehensible voice in horror before suffering the fate of devouring, infecting the panic to the comrades next to him. This was Jiang Yiqu's favorite enemy, and many Youzhou knights rushed in with long knives, killing two or three people, and then roaring into the darkness, regrouping, and then stepping in from the other direction, leaving the Ma family at a loss. Jiang Yiqu saw that his eyes were full of enemy blood, and his blood was full of blood, and he wanted to give up the command here and go down to enjoy it himself.

In the deafening sound of killing, the Ma Jiajun fell down piece by piece like a cut straw, at this time there was no formation at all, and the follow-up soldiers rushed forward fearlessly to kill, endlessly filling the gap left by the fall of their companions, and there was no more crazy strangulation than this.

Jiang Yiqu's hands and feet began to tremble with excitement, and when he saw those soldiers wailing and falling, dying in pain, the blood in his body flowed unscrupulously. But that's it, he didn't find out that the 3,000 infantry of the Ma family army were howling miserably under the slaughter of the elite cavalry in Youzhou, but where did his 2,000 cavalry go?

"Hmph, on this occasion, even if all his cavalry is assembled, he can't help me." Jiang Yiqu thought to himself. Now that the two armies have fought together, they are entangled, and even if Ma Chao's cavalry launches a surprise attack, they can only injure their own people by mistake. He shook his hand again, signaling his men to move faster, so that he could experience this visual feast more, but he heard some movement.

Jiang Yiqu dismounted and put his ear to the ground to listen, and grinned: "The general of the Ma family is a bit level, it turned out that he hid the cavalry outside, and planned to kill the horse pistol." But when he was about to raise his head, he suddenly put it on again, and this time he noticed a slight tremor coming from the other direction. Jiang Yiqu dug the ear hole and posted it for the third time to listen. When the same intensity of tremor sounded in the third direction, he couldn't laugh anymore: the trial of the dog day, sure enough, let Lao Tzu come to die!

Jiang Yiqu heard it clearly, except for the first sound of two thousand cavalry, the remaining two directions were tremors that required tens of thousands of iron horsemen to shake! Especially the trembling in the third direction, although the sound of hooves is less, but the trembling is the largest, and it is very likely that it is the most fierce and mysterious heavy armored iron horse of the Ma family!

Jiang Yiqu hurriedly got up, asked his subordinates to order the fire officer to issue a unified retreat order, and at the same time ordered Ming Jin, beckoning the cavalry to leave the battle as soon as possible and assemble to the west. He realized that he might have been tricked, and the enemy's troops were by no means just in front of him. At this time, there was movement in the east, south, and north, and he could only retreat west as soon as possible, merge with Jinyang's baggage team, rely on the cart to resist, and wait for Gao Gan's rescue.

He believes that although the bastard who is judged is a bastard, he will never just be short-sighted and let the grain and grass be robbed by the Ma family's army!

It's a pity that what he didn't know was that at this time, in front of the two big battalions of the opposite party, Tian Yu had already led an army of 20,000 to launch a surprise attack.

"Prepare, add another 20,000 men, and another raid." Tian Yu waved the order flag, and ordered with low interest: "Remember, just scare them, don't really go to rob the camp." The third raid, plus 10,000 men, until the lord returns........"