Chapter 258: Offensive and Defensive Situations Are Easy

Most of the Cao army outside Qi County was in crisis because of Ma Chao's soldiers and horses, and the north and south sides were deadlocked, in addition to the cavalry impact brought danger to their two wings, those thrown arrows were also terrifying.

And in the east, hundreds of heavy and powerful donkey carts crashed into the front army's formation, directly catching Cao's sergeants by surprise, no one expected that the Liangzhou army would actually use such a nondescript tactic - a donkey cart that is too simple to say that it is a chariot!

Chariots, in the Central Plains war arena has been developed for thousands of years, from the beginning to glory, from glory to decline, but the decline to decline, this kind of heavy weapons have never really left the stage of war, even even in the chaos of the world, most of the Kwantung princes who occupied the city and divided a place found many long-sealed chariots in the arsenal, so that this weapon saw the light of day.

However, the mobility of the chariot is not as good as that of the cavalry, and although it has unparalleled impact power, its disadvantages cannot be avoided - the chariot is too easily damaged, and after a battle, as long as the chariot is put into battle, it will lose 5 to 70%, and may even be completely destroyed.

The carriage and the war horse are valuable assets for every prince, a war horse is equal to a light horse that can be armed at any time, and a chariot means that the cattle and horses can be dragged to transport thousands of catties of baggage.

No one is reluctant.

Chariots were created to inflict maximum casualties on the enemy with minimal manpower. And when the princes are fighting, this practice undoubtedly seems to put the cart before the horse, human life is like a mustard, and the war horse materials are extremely valuable to the princes. No one cares about the deaths and injuries of the brave soldiers, but they attach importance to war horses, food, and baggage.

Because of these, the world can pull out a steady stream of soldiers and horses at any time.

Therefore, in the confrontation between Kansai and Kanto, most of those chariots were disassembled, and even when Yanbei dominated half of the world, the application of donkey carts was only as a tool for transporting baggage and soldiers, and no one would think of applying them to war in their minds.

Because he was reluctant, Yanbei was also reluctant.

Ma Chao is reluctant.

The cub has never been distressed by selling Yetian, but Ma Chao is distressed by these Qiang subordinates who are loyal to him, what is the donkey cart?

Four hundred donkey carts crashed into the forward formation of the Cao army in an unstoppable manner, coupled with the charge of more than 800 soldiers on it, the forward formation of the Cao army was rushed out of a big hole in an instant, causing casualties of at least half of the lieutenant's department, but the cavalry behind did not take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, nearly 2,000 cavalry under the command of Ma Tie threw a rain of arrows along the enemy formation, and finally led the cavalry to the rear of the right flank, and then converged towards the headquarters of Ma Chao, who was charging in the rear.

Seeing the huge enemy cavalry rushing from the rear, Cao Cao was shocked, he was not shocked that the enemy army rushed from the rear, he also had a tiger and leopard cavalry of nearly 1,000 at his disposal, which was enough to block the enemy army for a while, and really made Cao Cao's face change the overall result.

In terms of the overall situation, there was an extremely strange situation on the battlefield, because the Liangzhou army's 'donkey cart feint' in the front army of Cao's army caused most of Cao's army to squeeze in the front army and the two wings, but the front army did not have the enemy to deal with, which means that his subordinates did not fight the enemy except for the soldiers who were killed and injured by the impact of the chariot. This was not the case with the Liangzhou army, although they only had more than 6,000 people on the two flanks, but these 6,000 people were always fighting against the Cao army.

But how many soldiers can fight on the two wings of Cao's army? Less than five thousand.

In terms of the overall situation, the strength of the Liangzhou soldiers is far inferior to that of the Cao army, and even after the chariot array hit the Cao army and caused less than 2,000 casualties, the Cao army still has 13,000 people, and it still has an absolute advantage in terms of strength; But in the local area, it was caused by the Liangzhou Qiang cavalry under Ma Chao's subordinates who dared to fight and rush to fight more and fight less, which was the root cause of Cao Cao's bad feelings!

"Order the right flank, bend right and retreat, connect with the left flank, and let the enemy's right flank come and let the enemy horse come and collide!" Cao Cao said that the soldiers behind him hurriedly waved the order flag, and then listened to Cao Cao: "Order the front army to support the two wings, outflank them from their edges, and the enemy army has no follow-up troops!" ”

Cao Cao's biggest crisis did not come from Ma Chao in the rear, but from the front army that did not help the battle situation, and Cao Cao had to think of ways to send them to the battlefield to help Pao Ze in the shortest possible time, and then form a situation of fighting more and less on both flanks in order to turn the situation around.

With Cao Cao's order, the rear of the right flank was amnesty, they faced the most Liangzhou cavalry impact, and at the same time there was no rear army behind their flanks, seeing that the Liangzhou cavalry was charging from behind, the morale was almost about to collapse, at this time, when they heard the general's order, they immediately retreated, and even ran faster than the pursuit of the Liangzhou army!

The two wings converged in the rear, and the formation of the Cao army formed an inverted triangle from the phalanx of the rear army, and the tip of the arrow went straight to the direction that Ma Chao rushed from, in the face of this change, Ma Chao could only suddenly rein in his horse, and then turned his horse's head and galloped to the left flank - if he charged again, although he could bite the enemy's arrow, most of the soldiers and horses behind could not avoid crashing into the Qiang cavalry surrounded by the two wings.

The retreat of the two flanks of the Cao army, although they were changing formations, in the eyes of the Liangzhou Qiang cavalry, this was retreat, and even had the same meaning as the rout. Ordinary soldiers could not observe the battlefield from the overall situation, they could only feel that the enemy army in front of them had retreated, so they would chase and kill it, like maggots on tarsal bones. This caused Cao's two flanks to converge and suffer from enemies from both directions, but it also prevented them from being directly attacked by Ma Chao's troops.

At the same time, the front army was divided into two divisions to support the two wings of the front curve, which at the same time created a situation of fighting more and fighting less or even outflanking in the parts of the two wings, so as to encroach on the Liangzhou army.

Cao Cao's command, in the Cao army is a stroke of genius, the battlefield suddenly attacked the two convenient to fall, before the Cao army in the west, the Liangzhou army in the east, with three strong attacks. Then the Liangzhou army feinted from the east, and Ma Chao killed from the west, rushing at the empty rear of the Cao army. However, as Cao Cao changed his formation and turned his disadvantage into an advantage, now that Cao's army is in the east and the Liangzhou army is in the west, Cao's attacked rear army has become the forward arrow, forming a forward forward that tears apart the Liangzhou army's formation, and the rear of Cao's army is the damaged donkey cart abandoned by the Liangzhou army for the feint attack, which has become a natural barrier for their rear.

Then, the two wings of the Cao army went towards the two wings of the Liangzhou army against the outflanking and encirclement, and the offensive and defensive situation was easy in an instant, and the battle situation changed from the Liangzhou army to fight more and fight less, and the Cao army fought more and fought less, and got all the advantages!

"Tell Cao Chun that once the rear of the arrow is weak, the tiger and leopard cavalry will charge to tear apart and cut their military formation!"