Chapter 570: The Insidious Horse Thief
The 23,000 horsemen marched back to the ancient city of Dongsheng along the desert area of Dongtao, and Chang Wei told Ma Lie to stop his advance and summoned Batu and Chahan to discuss their next move. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Among the three cavalry teams on this expedition, Jinong Chahan Buhua had the highest status, but Sutai made Ma Lie the main general, mainly because Ma Lie was responsible for contacting the Ming army.
Chahan Buhua is Jinong, which is equal to Deputy Khan, and he is naturally unconvinced, "Why do you stop advancing? Don't you Han people pay attention to the speed of soldiers? Dongsheng's ancient city is only fifty miles away from the Ordos tribe gathering place, and it will be a short time to gallop on horseback, and you can destroy them in one fell swoop while those mongrels are defenseless!"
Ma Lie had already fully communicated with Chang Wei and Chang Ping in the Great Wall, and knew the intention of stopping, "Lord Jinong, I have already sent scout cavalry to explore the news of Ordos first, make specific plans, and then attack before it is too late!"
Chang Wei frowned, why did Ma Lie talk nonsense? According to the plan, when he arrived here, he should tell Chahan Buhua and Batu Baihu the specific tactics.
Chahan said disdainfully: "What kind of scouts are you sending in Fifty Miles? With that kung fu, the army has already rushed over, what if the scouts who catch you by the group of mongrels in Ordos are prepared?"
Ma Lie suddenly changed color, and shouted sharply: "I am the main general, and the march and battle are naturally at the behest of my military orders!"
Chahan didn't laugh angrily: "Boy, it turns out that you are putting up a fight with me and playing prestige? I want to wait for you, and I will lead the army to raid! Batu, you will lead the troops and follow me!"
Although Chang Wei was very dissatisfied with Ma Lie in his heart, he said with a smile: "Wait! General Ma is the commander of this expedition, and all military orders must be issued by him, Lord Jinong should not want to disobey the orders of the Great Khan and the Queen Mother, right?"
Chahan snorted coldly, "Naturally, I won't disobey orders, but I have the authority to command the warriors of my headquarters!"
Ma Lie waved his hand indifferently, "Since Lord Jinong insists on entering the army, then it is up to you, Batu, what about you? Do you listen to my military orders or listen to Lord Jinong?"
Although Batu is a brave and unscrupulous person, he understands the reason, he said angrily: "I am Hana Tumen Wanhu, under the command of the Queen Mother, when I come, the Queen Mother asked me to listen to General Ma's orders, I naturally have to obey the general's orders!"
Chahan glared at Batu Baihu fiercely, "You cowards just wait here!
After a short time, more than 10,000 cavalry under his command rolled up the yellow sand and went south, and Batu also rode back to his headquarters.
Chang Wei didn't understand a little, Ma Lie was cautious and usually calm, why did he get angry and take Chahan away at this critical juncture?
He said worriedly: "There are 200,000 people in the Ordos Department and 50,000 soldiers, our troops are not superior, and now we have divided our troops, this battle is not easy to fight!"
Ma Lie said confidently: "Alxa, Hangjinqi, and Etuoke have a total of 30,000 horsemen, we have 20,000 30,000 horses on these two roads, plus the army of Qin Guogong is at least 60,000 people, and the strength alone is not weaker than Ordos, besides, with the cooperation of the Ming army on the Great Wall, under the surprise attack and encirclement, this battle is nine out of ten!"
Chang Wei didn't say anything, looked at the far south, and sighed: "It depends on the speed of their march!"
Ma Lie said again: "It's okay, it doesn't matter if you're quick or slow, Chahan doesn't spend time exploring the way for us!"
Chang Wei's eyes lit up when he heard this, "The general is using a strategy to be arrogant? So you deliberately provoked Chahan Buhua?"
Ma Lie smiled coldly, "Chahan didn't spend any time pushing back our plans from the beginning, and keeping him by his side would get in the way, so it would be better to get rid of it by the hands of the enemy!"
Although the marching speed of Wuding and Changping was not slow, they could only walk a hundred miles a day, because their three thousand cavalry with three thousand servant troops and a hundred cannons were already fast!
Chang Wei's original plan was: to have the Seven Sons of the Big Dipper, Wang Ziyong, Fang Huan'er and other masters as secret spies, lead the way for the Volunteer Battalion, and raid the Wushen Banner. This small tribe has only more than 10,000 people, even if all the people are soldiers, it is impossible to be the opponent of the volunteer battalion; to defeat this tribe, the Ordos Department will naturally send troops to reinforce, at that time set up ambushes along the road, constantly encroaching on the opponent's troops, and in the end, 60,000 troops surrounded and leveled the Ordos Department in one fell swoop!
This is a normal way of playing, but Ma Lie's tactics are much more insidious: deliberately provoke Chahan Buhua, who is in the dark, and let him lead his troops to take the lead, if Chahan Buhua wins, Ma Lie will lead his troops to pursue, anyway, the fifty-mile road is really close to the cavalry; if Chahan Buhua is defeated, they will play hide and seek in the desert, and it is really difficult to catch a cavalry who is deliberately hiding; when the two sides are chasing, the volunteer battalion that eliminated the Wushen Banner and the army that quietly came from the west will become a nightmare for the Ordos cavalry!
In the previous plan, everyone did not suffer, and Chahan Buhua, the only one who suffered in this plan, was a stumbling block, and if he was killed, no one in the Khan Court would be able to oppose Ma Lie and Chang Wei in the future, and then only they would be the only people that Ezhe and Su Tai could rely on!
"What a sinister fellow, what a ruthless heart!"
In the afternoon, Chang Wei had just finished sighing, and in the evening, Ma Lie once again refreshed his cognition.
Marel told the soldiers to rest until dark, and then attacked south in the direction of Chahan Buhua. He divided the 13,000 cavalry into two divisions, with the 3,000 horse thieves in his headquarters leading the way, and the 10,000 cavalry of Batu Baihu turned to the west and lay in ambush on the edge of the desert and grassland.
There was still a long way to go before his destination, and Chang Wei heard an overwhelming shout and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, and the cavalry charge shocked the four fields like a stormy wave.
In the hot summer of August, under the quiet moonlight on the grassland, Ma Lie ordered his three thousand horse thieves to wrap the horses' hooves, turned the direction and killed them from the west, from here two or three hundred miles to the west is the territory of Hangjinqi, here dare to sneak attack the Ordos tribe except Hangjinqi There is no one else, Ma Lie did it on purpose!
Quietly touching the battlefield, Ma Lie waved the long-handled broadsword in his hand, which was eight feet long, and the three thousand cavalry immediately galloped, and the three thousand horse thieves were like a wriggling black line, like a dark cloud rolling out.
After a short time, he rushed to the battlefield at the end of his sight, Chang Wei, Tang Jinyi, and Hu Wenqing did not follow the army to charge, he wanted to observe how the combat power of this insidious and conceited Ma Lie was!
At first glance, it can be described as an eye-opener: Ma Lie's military discipline can be said to be very strict, or it can be said that there is no military discipline at all! When there is no order, you will kill at will, act wantonly, and no one will care about you; when you have an order, you will take care of everything, and you may be beheaded if you don't pay attention to anything!
Ma Lie's trick to governing the army is only one word - kill!
Those who do not obey military orders will be killed, those who do not advance in battle will be killed, those who abandon their weapons will be killed, those who retreat from the battle will be cut off by the commander, the commander will cut off the ears of the soldiers, the commanders will cut off the ears of the soldiers, the sentry officers will cut off the ears of the soldiers, and those who are still alive after the battle will be beheaded!
One person retreats and beheads the other, the whole team retreats and beheads the captain, and the captain dies in battle and beheads the whole team; if they do not obey the officials, they will not be able to obey the order, and they will not stop forbidding, and all of them will be beheaded.
With such strict military orders, why did Ma Lie still have 3,000 cavalry under his command? Because the treatment of horse thieves under his command was the best in the entire grassland, and even Houjin could not compare with it! The 3,000 men were the result of Ma Lie's deliberate control, and as long as he said that he would expand the army, it would be very easy to increase the manpower tenfold in an instant!
Ma Lie's tactics are also very simple, crush the enemy with a stormy charge!
The ant-like cavalry rushed out of the huge black line and rolled forward, the earth under his feet trembled violently, and the roaring cry became more and more intense, and finally resounded through the sky, resounding throughout the earth, and there was no other sound between heaven and earth.
Amid the suffocating sound of horses' hooves, the strange howls and crazy laughter sounded one after another, and the Ordos Division, which was suffering from the enemy, finally saw the rolling cavalry clearly.
They were dressed in a variety of costumes, and they were clearly a group of horse thieves, but they all wore Han hair accessories, and then looked at the fierce horses flying high in front of the battle, and the Ordos tribe immediately knew who was coming!
"Here comes the horses", "Here comes the ferocious horse", "Here comes the horse thief"
The knights of the Ordos tribe came back to their senses amid the screams, and a cavalry rushed up to meet them. But the surging horse thief cavalry was like an unstoppable angry wave, surging through the main battlefield of the two armies in an instant, with a beautiful detour, obliquely cut to the rear of the side of the Ordos department, the dazzling sword light reflected in the sky, and the sound of crazy fighting instantly resounded across the earth!
The first time the horse thief cavalry appeared in front of Chang Wei, he let him praise him, "Bypassing the strongest blade of the enemy cavalry and attacking its weakest point, it is really a sinister guy! )