Chapter 841: Counting the Tail
When he comes, he is like a vicious wolf, and when he retreats, he is like a smart ghost fox.
Seeing that Gan Ning was not attached to the battlefield at all, and led the wolf rider of Bingzhou to retreat like a tide, Li Dian felt that his lungs were about to be blown up!
Is this guy here on purpose to attack his pride?!
Li Dian couldn't bear this kind of humiliation, especially when he had already had an absolute advantage, and it seemed that he was only one step away from completely defeating and swallowing that enemy army. He couldn't stand the prey in his hands, so he just watched it slip away from his hands!
What's more, ahead, there is Ma Chao's good head waiting to be retrieved by himself!
The wind was whistling in his ears, and Li Dian's heart was burning and restless. He shouted and drove his men away, struggling to chase the enemy forces in front of him. At this time, where does he still have half of his usual elegant demeanor, he is completely a beast that has been enraged to the point of madness!
But as soon as he rushed out of only a few hundred steps, the darkness in front of Li Dian suddenly turned into a sea of fire: when those dog-day enemy soldiers were fleeing, they also threw all the torches in their hands into the cavalry formation, causing some war horses to neigh in fright, and the pursuit of the entire cavalry formation!
And with those torches came a lot of arrows! Losing the light of the torches, the arrows that merged with the night struck silently, and the five or six soldiers next to Li Dian were instantly hit by more than three arrows, rolling and falling off their horses.
Cursing loudly, Li Dian danced with a spear in his hand impermeable, the sound of subtle collisions was endless, and arrows fell one after another.
"You can shoot on horseback, and you can shoot back quickly!" Li Dian roared, his eyes had never left Gan Ning's arrogant and sturdy figure at this time.
However, just as Li Dian's words fell, countless arrows flew over together, and in an instant, his ears were filled with screams and falling horses. Immediately after that, the eardrums were filled with rumbling noises, and when I carefully distinguished, I found that it was the shouts of countless infantry charging from the woods on both sides!
Catering to this ambush was the sly sly smirk of the smart ghost fox ahead. I saw Gan Ning turn the horse's head suddenly, like a giant python turning over, and the momentum of fleeing in a hurry suddenly disappeared, and then he turned around and rushed back again!
Rushing to the forefront, Li Dian went up and down, left and right, and his vision was instantly occupied by enemy soldiers.
The sudden change immediately woke up Li Dian's sanity. He looked around abruptly, and howled miserably, "We have been tricked! Withdraw your troops quickly! ”
Unfortunately, it was too late, and if you look down at it from the night sky, you can see it. The entire Cao army was like a black plateau, instantly submerged and swallowed by the tide of the front, left, and right, and swept in three directions towards it!
The infantry generally did not defeat the cavalry, but the infantry who rushed out of the woods on both sides were obviously prepared. The sergeants in front of them knelt down sharply, blocking the spears in front of the horses, and the sharp spears stood like a forest, weaving the two forests of death on the left and right. The sergeant in the back row drew his bow and shot arrows, taking advantage of the narrow terrain to block the cavalry of the Cao army to the death.
Just one well-timed ambush salvo knocked down at least 400 elite cavalry of the Cao army. Seeing his heroic subordinates fall to his horse one after another, Li Dian's eyes suddenly turned blood-red, and his furious anger rolled endlessly in his chest like a raging fire.
And what's even more odious is that Li Dian also saw that Gan Ning in front of him once again launched his weird killing methods. Even, when he saw himself, he shouted arrogantly: "Li Dian, now you understand, who is a gutless rat, and who is a reckless stupid pig, right?!" Hahaha........."
His eyes were already burning, if there were only himself and that Gan Ning on the entire battlefield, Li Dian would be desperate to stab that arrogant guy under the horse. However, he couldn't, he was not only a military general at this time, but also the head of an army. Although there were not many soldiers who came out of the raid in the woods on both sides this time, they were prepared and unprepared, and they had firmly occupied the advantage. If you continue to consume yourself like this, sooner or later you will be exhausted by this hateful Gan Ning!
"Withdraw! Hurry up and retreat to Lihu City! Li Dian almost gritted his teeth, he understood the ancient adage of a gentleman to take revenge, ten years is not too late. But at this time, this kind of foolish nonsense, how can I make myself feel that there is no reason for fart!
Still, reason calmed him down. He gathered his own soldiers, led the large army to gather and arrange, and gathered his advantages little by little. Finally, on the basis of strong troops, he did not let this elite fall into chaos and panic. After spotting the gap in one side, Li Dian hatefully glanced at this place where his shame was recorded, and angrily retreated with his subordinates.
However, at this time, Li Dian's fierce turn of the head, he seemed to see the rear of the three thousand soldiers and horses, and played a big banner with the word 'horse'. Under that banner, there sat a young general in a brocade robe!
It's Ma Chao!
He, he actually appeared at this time?!
Li Dian almost clenched his fists out of the green tendons! At this time, there was both entanglement and anger in his heart, and the emotions of rolling and galloping almost broke his chest: at this time, there were less than 4,000 horsemen under his command, and there were at most 3,000 capable warriors on the opposite side. And half of them were infantry who had almost exhausted their bows and arrows...... As long as you turn around and kill back, you may have a chance of winning by six or seven points!
Taking off the head of Ma Chao, which is in full swing, such a temptation is not small.
However, after weighing it for a moment, Li Dian dejectedly sent his fist away. In the end, he gave up this idea: as far as he knew, Ma Chao still had 2,000 county soldiers under his command, and there was an assassination cavalry group of less than 100 people. Until now, these two troops have not appeared, who knows if the scheming Ma Chao has laid out any tricks?
With a stomach full of entanglement, regret and annoyance, under the rush of hard work, Li Dian still hated to get out of this battlefield. It's just that although others have escaped, his proud and paranoid heart has remained on that battlefield forever, smashed and crushed in the dust!
It's a pity that he didn't see the man in the brocade robe under the banner of the horse character with a resentful and helpless look. Otherwise, maybe he would be in a better mood........
"General Gan, you said that I pretended to be the lord, why didn't I get that Li Dian to be fooled?" Shan Qu took off his brocade robe and asked Gan Ning, who was covered in blood.
"Perhaps, it's because you're not as heroic as the lord, haha!" Gan Ning, who had fought a good fight, seemed to be in high spirits.
However, after mentioning Ma Chao, the single's resentful face became solemn, and he muttered to himself: "The lord plans to use only those 2,000 county soldiers......... I really hope that the lord can turn evil into good fortune and become auspicious in trouble........."
"Don't worry, Li Dian has brought six thousand soldiers and horses to fight this time, and the current Lihu City is probably an empty city." Gan Ning patted the single's shoulder, and said with a look of longing: "I, Gan Ning, have really never served anyone, even if it is that Feng Xiangong, I dare to fight with it." However, if the opponent is the lord........ hehe. ”
The single naturally understood what Gan Ning's last two 'hehe' sneers meant, and looking at Gan Ning, who was so arrogant and open-minded, the single couldn't help but be infected, and he also laughed: Yes, being the enemy of the lord, Li Dian really kicked the iron plate!
At this time, after the fast horse galloped for more than ten miles again, Li Dian suddenly found that a small army rushed out from both sides of the road, attacking on both sides. Li Dian, who was already frightened, hurriedly ordered everyone not to stay, fight for casualties, and fight to break through.
After just a dozen miles of travel, Li Dian already had a chill in his heart. From time to time, there are small groups of Ma Chao army raids, and they are not many in number, but they all use Yuanrong crossbows to attack from behind the grass and woods or rocks, and they can escape with one blow, and they are not greedy for war merits at all. If it weren't for the fact that this was not a valley, I was afraid that Li Dian's thousands of iron horsemen would have no hope of escaping.
However, that's it, when Li Dian saw the Lihu City Wall, it had already taken more than half an hour, and there were less than 3,000 remnants left. And approaching Lihu City, Li Dian clearly saw Cao Jun's dark banner falling from the city, and Ma Chao's fiery red battle flag rising from the city! ………
"No !!" Li Dian's eyes were cracked, and he roared wildly, like a wolf that had been robbed of his territory, miserable and desperate: How is it possible?! When did Ma Chao come to Lihu?!!