Chapter 508 Leopard Tail(1/2)
The three thousand Yuyang Tuqi, located southward, have now become the eyes and ears of the Wei army. Most of the cavalry stayed in the edge of a forest with water. The horses were not particularly tired, but were covered with covers.
As far as thirty miles away, the panting figure of Xu Xuan's army in the Red Eyebrow Army and the various arrangements of Fan Chong's camps all fell into the eyes of the cavalrymen.
The scouts of the Red Eyebrow Army, in terms of their number and individual bravery, are no match for the Yuyang Tuqi. While reporting on the battlefield situation to the fifth relationship, they can also destroy the other party's communication, which is of great effect.
But Gai Yan was still unhappy. He rode under Ma Yuan and was always a striker who attacked the formation. Why did he have to do these easy jobs when he got to the emperor?
"Isn't this a knives killing a chicken?"
It can be seen that His Majesty, the Emperor who has used the power of Yuyang's simplified cavalry, is probably not a good soldier.
It seemed that Gai Yan looked impatient, and a young commander riding side by side with him smiled:
"Because Yuyang suddenly cavalry is exhausted, the horsepower is only enough to rush for a while, so the good knife will naturally be used at the most critical moment. I hope General Gai will not be anxious."
Of course, he was Zhang Yu, the chief lieutenant of the embroidered clothes, and was ordered by the emperor to supervise Gai Yan.
At this moment, a scout hurriedly came to report: "General Gai, contact Ma Guowei!"
"The Red Eyebrows' team has been lifted out of its siege, and more than 40,000 people are heading north. The National Guard asked me to tell General Gai that when he was surrounded at the beginning, he wanted to wait for the army to arrive to wipe out Fan Chong, so he has not yet broken the siege. Now the time has come, I hope the general will help the battle with a cavalry!"
Gai Yan was immediately overjoyed and was about to agree, but Zhang Yu interrupted him coldly.
"General, don't forget Your Majesty's words, follow the Central Army flag, and move the zither!"
Gai Yan was immersed in Ma Yuan's response and was very excited about fighting side by side with him. He said in a daze: "But this is the order of the National Guard."
Zhang Yu did not want to harm Ma Yuan, so he did not say such words as "Your Majesty is the great or the great National Guard". He only said with a calm face: "As a general of the country, of course, he has the right to make decisions on his own, but as a false general who made meritorious service, he can only follow His Majesty's orders."
Zhang Yu knew very well that the Yuyang thunder must be quite important in the emperor's strategy, otherwise he would not be allowed to supervise himself. He just wanted to stare at Gai Yan and do not let the Yan man beat him casually.
This "fake general" made Gai Yan wake up suddenly, and don't forget what happened before. He violated the agreement with friendly forces and almost got them removed from their posts in a dangerous situation. If he doesn't report to the emperor, he will directly move troops. Wouldn't the consequences be even more serious?
Although the general was not allowed to accept foreign military orders, the emperor was only a few miles away and sent a scout to communicate for only half a moment. Gai Yan could only endure it and look at the battlefield anxiously.
The matter was urgent, and Ma Yuan did not wait for Gai Yan's cooperation, nor did he wait for the fifth edict. He led the seven or eight thousand people under his command who could still fight, pushed the cartel away and started chasing Chimei in the form of a horizontal team.
All units of the Wei army had unique banners. Ma Yuan's flag was the leopard-text flag. The fifth reunion personally gave the leopard tail to hang it on it. Even among the generals who were named Ma Yuan, Ma Yuan alone had such honor, which shows how high his status was.
The leopard tail flag was originally wilted in the encirclement for many days, but now it is fluttering again under the turmoil of the wind! Then it penetrates directly into the Red Eyebrow rear team!
Yang Yin, the fifth male red eyebrows, arranged 10,000 people to set up a dispersed formation in the west to guard against the Yuyang cavalry. The other three battalions of 10,000 people were pulled into loose teams and moved north, but their tails were caught up by Ma Yuan personally and had to stop and fight with them.
"I fought hard for several days and was trapped for several days. Almost everyone was injured. Why can I chase after me?"
Gai Yan was deeply moved to see it. In his eyes, Ma Yuan was like a horned man with blood beaten to death. After being forced to the base of the wall, he fell down. But just as the other party turned around and was about to leave, he stood up and chased after him! Then he clenched his fist, slashed and hit the enemy's back with a heavy blow!
Gai Yan watched Ma Yuan's army fight with the Red Eyebrow Army, which was several times more numerous than it was. The soldiers of Yan and Henan were fighting bravely with their lives and their last strength. Their life-threatening posture even Yuyang Tuqi, who had always looked down on other troops, couldn't help but admire him.
Time passed by bit by bit. Seeing Ma Yuan fighting against three, Gai Yan couldn't help it. He wanted to send people to support him several times, but he was stopped by Zhang Yu.
Gai Yan was furious and was delayed by these blind commanders: "Emperor Zhang, do you know how to fight? The current situation is that Fan Chong and His Majesty's main force are in stalemate. The reason why Ma Guowei attacked was to hold the Red Eyebrows back team so that he could not join the battlefield. As long as His Majesty had a reserve team, he could defeat Fan Chong. I was in a hurry to follow the power!"
They were scolding Zhang Yu in public, but they were actually scolding the fifth reunion! Their missions and Ma Yuan should be to do their best to stop Yang Yin’s troops. What else can I hesitate about?
"I don't know much about military struggle."
Zhang Yu always stared at the central army. According to the rules, after receiving a specific report, the fifth reunion would make people raise a long green kite as a signal in the command position facing the Yuyang Kuqi.
"But I understand that your destiny is like a mountain!"
Seeing Gaiyan getting more and more anxious, Zhang Yu only told him one story.
"I met Ma Guowei much earlier than General Gai."
"Six years ago in Xinqin, I accompanied His Majesty to the side and accompanied him into the mountains at night. When I saw the National Guard and General Wan who were still a bandit, I was the drunkard next to me when the three of them were drinking and talking.
During his days in the northern part of the Seychelles, Zhang Yu often traveled to and from the military camps and mountains as a messenger. Ma Yuan also taught him to shoot bows and archery, and even paid money in a bad way, allowing someone to take Zhang Yu into the girl's neighborhood to "be a man".
Different generals have different styles. Ma Yuan is casual and straightforward, making everyone who has been by his side feel like spring breeze, and even conquering them with his own charm. Zhang Yu also understands Gai Yan's mood.
In terms of relationships, Zhang Yu regarded Ma Yuan as a respected teacher. Later, Ma Yuan was stationed in the east and had great power. Occasionally, there would be ignorant scholars in the capital who would make a slander. Whenever Zhang Yu, who was responsible for supervising the public opinion of various states, would pursue and investigate them repeatedly, and give those people the crime of "discriminating the monarch and ministers."
The situation is critical now, and Zhang Yu doesn't care about his personal grudges with the Yuyang system, and only talks to Gai Yan's heart. This rough man in Youzhou may just be able to take this trick.
"I am more willing to help the National Guard than to be a general!"
"But friendship is friendship, rules are rules."
"With military orders, even the abyss of water and fire, we have to go."
"Without military orders, even if you have a flat horse and endless benefits, you will not be able to go!"
What if Gai Yan doesn't listen and insists on his own initiative? The followers behind Zhang Yu are indeed carrying the "Shangshu's Horse-killing Sword". Not to mention the fake general, the real general can be killed!
But the question is, can he and his few subordinates subjugate subjugating the tall and big Gai Juqing, and can he suppress his Yuyang Chuqi? Zhang Yu was not sure, so he could only stare at Gai Yan with a powerful force, betting that he was a loyal minister of the Great Wei like himself.
Gai Yan almost got angry, but in the end he stopped. He looked at the battlefield ahead silently and held the reins tightly with both hands so that he could hold back and not beat Zhang Yu.
At this moment, the sharp-eyed follower shouted: "It's been raised, the signal zither has been raised! Your Majesty has agreed to the Yuyang Tuqi's request!"
After identification, it was indeed the case. Gai Yan's request was to personally send two thousand horses to help, leaving one thousand horses in place, waiting for His Majesty the Emperor to call.
Zhang Yu and Gai Yan both breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. When the two looked at each other, Zhang Yu bowed to him: "I stay here, I hope the general will be invincible!"
Gai Yan didn't like it, and even hated Zhang Yu, the emperor's close minister, but he still bowed to him, then drove the fierce horse and rushed out!
Yuyang Chuqi did have a hard time yesterday. Fortunately, he ate the beans and wheat assigned by the fifth reunion from the rear army in the morning, and his horsepower was slightly restored. Although the person was tired and unresolved, he still cheered up with the whistling sound and followed Gai Yan out of the horse.
Two thousand rode to the front of the Red Eyebrow Army, and when they stopped to assemble for the last time and prepared for the battle, Gai Yan passed by them. His loud voice, without the help of a local loudspeaker, could make everyone hear his heart.
"There are no ambushes today waiting for the thunder cavalry in the forest!"
"We don't have to rush and shoot again, and we'll pull it through."
He pulled out his ring knife and pointed at the tens of thousands of red eyebrows who were specifically guarding against the thunder. Now, they are the only enemies between Ma Yuan and Gai Yan.
"This time, you just need to get into a trap and collapse! Go forward!"
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Ma Yuan's leopard tail flag has been deeply integrated into the Red Eyebrow Army's rear team.
He did not sit calmly behind today, but instead personally carried his helmet and armor, held his spear and sword, and led the Yu Yan soldiers to fight against the enemy.
Ma Yuan knew very well that his side was absolutely fighting against the masses, and he shouted to inspire morale before the fight. The soldiers' desire to avenge their robes would eventually fade away when the situation was unfavorable. At this time, he could only act as a big banner to unite everyone by his side!
Ma Yuan fought with tens of thousands of people who broke the enemy first, and the situation was completely chaotic. The Red Eyebrow was impatient and the Wei army was also tired. The speed of waving the spear and drawing the bow was not as fast as before. Most places were in stalemate, but Ma Yuan's two thousand guards attacked him successively defeated the enemy formation, leaving countless corpses at his feet.
After a bloody storm, with the light in front of him, Ma Yuan killed through the enemy's broken rear troops and ran across the enemy. In front was Yang Yin who stopped to respond after hearing the news, looking at them incredibly.
Including the failed siege, Yang Yin has been defeated by Ma Yuan four times. Seeing that the leopard tail flag, which had become his nightmare, was chasing him again, Yang Yin was simply crazy. Regardless of the "attack the fifth formation of the formation and dragging its frontal main force" that Fan Chong had agreed with him, he directly turned around.
"The Red Eyebrow can lose in this battle."
"But Ma Yuan must die!"
But the Wei army, which should have been exhausted, was still fearless and brave, and could not resist the many people of Red Eyebrows. They were still approaching Ma Yuan's leopard tail flag little by little.
Ma Yuan also personally joined the battle because he was too conspicuous on the horse and fought in a staircase battle, forming a round formation with his personal guards, making a round and guard!
In the distance, the Red Eyebrow warriors swung their arms and threw stones. They relied on their number to fight against the Wei army's crossbows. In the near distance, the dead soldiers kept rushing over with their spears. Even if the two of them changed to the Wei army, they could still win.
There were constant personal guards falling down beside Ma Yuan. They could have rested in the trap until the end of the war, but they paid their young lives here for Ma Yuan's face?
"No, it's for victory!"
Ma Yuan didn't think about the things that would make him feel guilty. When the spear was broken, he used a sword instead. Everything was difficult to start and end well. He was too proud, too lazy to control his troops, and looked down on the enemy, so he was attacked by the enemy and failed to be a good commander.
But now, he has to make up for the loss and be a good "general". He uses his own strength to maximize the victory of this war! Otherwise, he will be even more sorry for the soldiers under the underworld.
As soon as he thought of this, Ma Yuan killed another man and shouted with a sword.
"Kill the thief!"
As Ma Yuan shouted, his personal guards were inspired by him and fought bravely. Although they had no strength, they suddenly felt like they had divine help. Although the armor was covered with knife marks, they still fought desperately with the waves of the Red Eyebrow Army, which was surging like a tide. The bodies of hundreds of Red Eyebrow soldiers fell down in front of their feet.
This bravery and fierceness made the red eyebrows timid and frightened. No one dared to step forward again.
But Ma Yuan's personal guard group could no longer rush, and only leaned against Gejiu and Pang Ze's body, panting, and the injuries were even worse. Even Ma Yuan's calf was hit by a spear, and when he touched the wound, it was covered in blood.
At this moment when the battle was temporarily stagnant, with a sharp sound of Hu flutes, the Red Eyebrow Army, which surrounded Ma Yuan's troops, suddenly separated from each other, one after another.
As a series of people and horses fell over, dozens of cavalry rushed into the formation!
The first person, wearing armor and holding a spear, was extremely heroic and powerful, and it was Gai Yan himself.
It turned out that in just a moment, the Yuyang Rider had penetrated the enemy formation that blocked him. Gai Yan, regardless of the fierce battle between his subordinates behind him and Chimei, rushed over with his men!
This scene made Yang Yin very scared and almost thought that he was dreaming, which was a recurrence of Ao Cang's nightmare!
However, this time Gai Yan brought more cavalry, hundreds of cavalry followed closely behind, and the flat spear and halberd pierced heavily into the Red Eyebrow. Then, they either drew their swords and slashed hard, or held a bow with a string crossbow. They were as brave as tigers, and the ones who blocked them were invincible, and all the red eyebrows they encountered were dispersed.
Taking advantage of this moment, under Ma Yuan's order, the personal guard group of nearly a thousand people once again changed the round formation into a square formation, and the leopard tail flag attacked forward again with difficulty! Finally, after the red eyebrows retreated like a tide, they successfully met with Gai Yan!
Gai Yan came to Ma Yuan's side, which was similar to Ao Cang's battle, but very different. I still remember that it was his first meeting with Ma Guowei. Although he had a big battle with Chimei, Ma Yuan was elegant and heroic at that time, and he did not get a drop of blood from the hundreds of swords and the Mingguang Armor, which showed that the battle was calm and relaxed, and he could still sit on the Hu bench carried by his personal guard to meet him.
However, today, Ma Yuan not only had a large concave of stones on his iron helmet, but there were also many broken arrows on his armor, with blood stains. The steel sword and sword in his hand had been folded. What's more serious is that he was injured on his feet and even stood unsteadily, and he was only leaning on a halberd.
The only thing that remains unchanged is the smile that always exists on the face.
"National Lieutenant."
Gai Yan almost cried, walked to Ma Yuan, regardless of the armor and said, "I will be in danger in the future."
To be continued...