Chapter 60: Jin Ma Chao
A large pit about 100 steps long brought a blow to the fierce Pegasus thieves, beating them dizzy, and even the main general Ma Jin was trapped in prison, almost dying on the spot.
Li Li is too yin!
Trapping was originally a very common method of defending against the enemy, and it was generally arranged at the camp gate or behind the antlers to keep the enemy out of the gate.
But Li Li didn't do it. Outside the gate and within a hundred paces of the gate, he almost did not defend himself, and put a few antlers for a show.
The previous time, at the foot of Changwei Mountain in Chenliu County, Li Li set up criss-crossing pits a hundred steps away from the Yuanmen, killing more than 1,000 elite soldiers of Xiahoudun in one fell swoop, and capturing nearly 2,000 Cao soldiers alive.
This time, due to the rush of time and no time to prepare, Li Li directly ordered Li Dian to dig only one big pit with thousands of soldiers, and dug it only fifteen steps away from the big tent of the Chinese army.
And here is a full two hundred paces away from Yuanmen, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of soldiers to gather in the open space in front.
Li Dian will never forget Chen Liucheng's tragic lesson, 3,500 elite soldiers, let Li Li dig seven or eight pits in advance, the past is unbearable!
This time it was finally his turn to dig a pit for others, although the time was short and the task was heavy, but he couldn't stand the fanaticism in his heart, and there were many people!
It took nearly two hours for 4,000 soldiers to dig a deep ditch and dig until they reached the rocks underground. Thus, a pit large enough to bury 5,000 light horsemen alive was thus completed.
If the Pegasus thieves attacked the camp during the day, this big pit would have been dug in vain, and there would be too many footprints around it, and there would be a lot of new soil that had not had time to be transported, so it would be easy to be discovered.
But what they are about to fight is a group of horse thieves who are crisscrossing and cooling two states, and the horse thieves can't change their nature, so they like to start when the lights are blind, and they are used to this kind of sneaky tricks.
Facts have proved that Li Li was right, and Li Dian worked hard to dig the haode pit, and it was not in vain.
This pit was dug and nearly 6,000 Pegasus thieves were buried alive in one go, and they were buried with people and horses; As long as you fall into it, you have to lose half your life if you don't die.
Originally, the effect of trapping the pit was not so great, and at most two or three thousand people and horses were killed, which was already unexpected.
How could the fire in the camp suddenly start, and it burned the company camp, and it was out of control.
A monstrous fire burned 20,000 Pegasus thieves to flee for their lives, people crowded, war horses collided with each other, people roared and jumped, and chaos was unbearable.
As a result, a pit in the middle of the camp became the best place to avoid congestion, and it definitely did not occupy any space, and it was impossible to go up if you went down.
The fence wall around Li Li's camp has also really worked hard.
Sturdy, too sturdy!
The thigh-thick, two-zhang long wooden stake is deeply embedded in the ground, and some stones are piled up outside the fence to support it, which is not much stronger than the gate.
The most important thing is that people generally like to rush out when they are running for their lives, and when they open windows and doors, they have never seen anyone pull the fence wall into their arms.
If someone had pulled the stake inside instead of rushing out, perhaps a gap in the fence wall would have been opened, adding a door to escape for the Pegasus thieves.
It's a pity that there is no if in the world, only when it is.
A large pit trampled on each other by Pegasus thieves, creating an incomparably brilliant record, killing more than 6,000 Pegasus thieves in one fell swoop.
Coupled with the sudden appearance of Li Li's army, the killing and wounding of 5,000 iron cavalry and five-wheeled cavalry, and the loss of troops under the pushing and trampling of each other by the Pegasus thieves, the 20,000 Pegasus thieves suddenly lost more than half, leaving only more than 10,000 light cavalry that could still fight. Thousands of wounded remained, and their horses may have been intact, but they themselves were powerless to fight. The weapon was lost, the horses fled in panic, and the wounded soldiers could only lie on the corners of the ditch and lick their wounds, hoping that in the end their own army would be victorious; Otherwise, you can only be a prisoner of the enemy.
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"Ma Dai! Beat the drums, gather the whole army, and fight to the death with Li Li today! ”
Ma Jin, who dodged the arrows again, saw Li Li's army rushing out, and suddenly new and old hatreds surged into his heart.
He stared at Li Li, who was on a rampage all the way and invincible, and suddenly shouted loudly, shouting to Ma Dai, who didn't know where to run, to regroup his team in order to fight again.
"Ma Dai? The nephew of Ma Teng of Right Fufeng County! Ma Jin, Jin Ma, Jin Ma Chao? ”
Ma Jin's shout woke up Li Li, who was fighting.
At first glance, when he heard Ma Dai's name, Li Li suddenly thought of the information that he had carefully investigated, and knew that the person besieging the camp this time was Ma Jin, the second leader of the Pegasus Thieves, nicknamed "Jin Ma".
At that time, he also made fun of this Ma Jin's name for being too vulgar and narcissistic; Take a name that is full of arrogance and narcissism!
I didn't think about it, but it became a prophecy.
This Ma Jin actually shouted Ma Dai's name loudly, and the tone was arrogant, it was obvious that this Ma Dai must be his follower, and he had long been used to being called around, so he called so smoothly and so justifiably.
Moreover, the image of Ma Jin is very recognizable, all the Pegasus thieves are wearing animal skin armor, only he and another personal soldier are wearing battle armor and white battle robes.
The most conspicuous thing is that Ma Jin was wearing silver armor and silver helmet, holding a silver spear, and his mount was also a pure white horse of thousands of miles, rushing for several miles to attack the camp, and he had been running in the front of the horse.
It's so conspicuous that you can't even know him!
Long before setting off for Liangzhou, Li Li carefully sorted out the well-known princes and generals in Liangzhou in history.
In the end, he found that the most strategic prince in Liangzhou was Han Sui, and the strongest combat power was the Ma Jiajun, and Ma Chao was the most dazzling general in the Ma Jiajun.
Ma Chao has many names, when he was a teenager, he was called "Jin Ma Chao", and when he was established, he had the reputation of "General Shenweitian", and Cao Cao gave him the name "Ma'er".
Ma Chao has a long reputation in Liangzhou and is extremely brave. The most dazzling battle in his life was the Battle of Tongguan, where he led 100,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry to kill Cao Cao to cut off his beard and abandon his robe, and fled for his life in a hurry, and has been famous all over the world since then......
"Ma Jin, Jin Ma, Jin Ma Chao! Hum! Ma Teng, who is so bold, actually sent his eldest son Ma Chao to collude with Pegasus thieves to besiege me, and this debt will be settled with Ma Jiajun sooner or later! ”
After sorting out his thoughts, Li Li was suddenly annoyed, and the big knife in his hand became more and more sharp, and the knife saw blood, and took away the lives of several Pegasus thieves with a wave of his hand.
Originally, Li Li still wanted to befriend Ma Teng, and it was best to unite with him to deal with Han Sui and the other princes, but now it seems that he still has some assumptions.
Although Ma Teng left a reputation for loyalty to the Han family in history, he was also capricious before this, surrendering to Dong Zhuo, attaching himself to Li Dao, and showing favor to Cao Cao, Zuihou wanted to murder Cao Cao instead, trying to take sole control of the young emperor Liu Xie, and coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes.
He is a very greedy person.
On the other hand, Ma Chao, although the force is strong, the ambition is also great, and he is not willing to be subordinated to others; Like his father, capricious, snake and rat at both ends.
The father and son of the Ma family are really raccoon dogs, and they really deserve to be father and son connected by blood.
In the romance, Ma Chao called Han Sui his uncle, but he repeatedly took the opportunity to provoke; When he led the army to avenge his father, because he was too suspicious, he took advantage of Han Sui's unpreparedness and cut off Han Sui's arm with a sword, causing Han Sui to have to fight him with Cao Cao.
After that, Ma Chao was defeated in Tongguan, and successively defected to Weikang, Yang Fu and others, but he rebelled, and finally had nowhere to gain a foothold in Liangzhou, defeated Hanzhong, and voted for Zhang Lu.
Soon after, because Zhang Lu was wary of him everywhere, he turned to Liu Bei and helped Liu Bei take Hanzhong.
However, how could he know that Liu Bei had been adrift for most of his life, and he was nearly fifty years old before he was able to gain a foothold in Bashu, read countless people, and won the skill of controlling people, and was extremely cunning.
After Ma Chao threw himself into Liu Bei, he was worshiped as the general of the Five Tigers, and he was made a marquis. However, Liu Bei hung him high, and then cut his military power, scattered the original people, and was trapped in Xichuan with name and power. After that, for nearly ten years, Ma Chao rarely had the opportunity to lead the troops to the battle, and he was not as reused as the veteran Huang Zhong, and Zuihou died depressed.
In fact, in Li Li's view, Ma Chao and Lu Bu are the same kind of people, self-sustaining and brave, proud of the world, and unwilling to be subordinate.
It's just that Ma Chao still has some conscience, and his methods are not as cruel as Lu Bu, so Lu Bu must not die well, and he died of illness in his forties, which is better than Lu Bu's fate.
Although there were many thoughts in his mind, under Li Li's leaping horse and raising his sword, the momentum of the charge was unabated, and with Dian Wei by his side, there was no danger or danger, and he was still invincible.
The moment he came back to his senses, Li Li found that Ma Chao was riding back on his horse and was running in the direction of the West Gate.
Suddenly, Li Li shouted: "The horse is gone!" Do you dare to fight with me Li Li? ”