It was Ma Tai's thousands of Wei troops who tore open the defense line with Ma Chao's three thousand Xiliang cavalry.
There is no distinction between infantry and cavalry. As long as the infantry is properly deployed, it can defeat the arrogant cavalry.
But if the infantry wants to do this, it must have a crucial foundation - a tight and invincible formation.
For the infantry, formation is the foundation for their survival.
And when the thousands of Wei troops led by Ma Tai lost this foundation, all that was waiting for them was the ruthless massacre from the Xiliang cavalry.
Ma Chao led 3,000 Xiliang cavalry and slaughtered the chaotic Wei army for a while. A moment later, hundreds of panicked Wei troops died under the spears of the Xiliang cavalry.
But Ma Chao knew that this was not the only result Guan Yu wanted him to achieve.
Besides, Xiliang Iron Cavalry is not used like this.
After using the long sword in his hand to pick another Wei army to death, Ma Chao seized the opportunity when the Wei army's formation was scattered. He commanded three thousand Xiliang cavalry to charge out from the Wei army's formation.
After the three thousand Xiliang cavalry broke out from the Wei army's formation, Ma Chao led the three thousand Xiliang cavalry and ran quickly towards the open space one mile away.
Then, after the three thousand Xiliang cavalry reached the plain one mile away, they all turned their horses' heads at an extremely fast speed under the leadership of Ma Chao.
The Xiliang cavalry, whose speed did not slow down at all, slammed into the already collapsed Wei army's formation again.
How powerful is the full impact of a heavily armored cavalry force of three thousand men and horses?
This powerful impact alone can knock several Wei soldiers in front of them away.
The most important thing is that the place where the three thousand cavalry collided was the weakest point of the Wei army's defense line that they had just collided with.
So after the three thousand Xiliang cavalry slammed into the Wei army's formation again, the wails and panic of thousands of Wei soldiers had already been heard.
A kind of fear towards the Xiliang cavalry who was wrapped in iron armor in front of them was completely wrapping the hearts of thousands of Wei soldiers at an extremely fast speed.
No matter how elite the thousands of Wei troops led by Ma Tai were, they could not withstand the brutal beast-like Xiliang cavalry, which were struck again and again.
And the worst thing is that when Ma Chao's Xiliang cavalry launched a fierce attack on them, thousands of Wei troops were still fighting with thousands of Han troops.
Such a situation undoubtedly made the situation they faced reach an uncontrollable point.
Just when Ma Chao led the three thousand Xiliang cavalry to withdraw again, intending to launch another fierce attack, the thousands of Wei troops led by Ma Tai could no longer hold on.
When a Wei soldier starts to abandon his helmet and armor and wants to escape from the slaughterhouse in front of him that he doesn't want to stay in for a moment anymore, more and more Wei soldiers will start to do the same.
An unexpected collapse is spreading to the entire army at an unimaginable speed.
But a few moments later, the thousands of Wei troops in Ma Tai had completely collapsed.
Thousands of Wei soldiers were in extreme fear and panic, and they all wanted to escape from the battlefield immediately.
It's just that although the formation of the Wei army is messy, the crowd between the Wei army is denser under the messy formation.
So when thousands of Wei troops were like headless flies, completely losing their command and running around trying to escape, a more terrifying thing began to happen.
Thousands of people collided with each other in an disorderly manner, causing a large-scale stampede.
When this incident occurred, in addition to increasingly louder wails, many extremely malicious insults were heard among the thousands of Wei troops.
Every Wei soldier was insulting the comrades who were fighting side by side with them just now, because their former comrades had now become an obstacle to their escape.
In the face of the pursuit of life, most human nature is ugly.
The ugly human nature caused the massive stampede of thousands of Wei troops to develop at an uncontrollable speed.
Many Wei soldiers fell to the ground after pushing each other, and were then trampled to death by their comrades.
Looking at the tragic scene in front of him, Ma Chao had a look of satisfaction in his eyes.
Although it is cruel, this is a battlefield.
Either you die or I die.
If you want to quickly defeat thousands of infantry troops with your cavalry, is there any more effective way than letting them kill each other?
But this is not enough!
When thousands of Wei troops led by Ma Tai were stampeded over a large area due to different escape directions, Ma Chao led his Xiliang cavalry to point out a clear path for these thousands of Wei troops.
Three thousand Xiliang cavalry, under the command of Ma Chao, formed a semicircle and were surrounded on three sides and slowly approached the thousands of Wei troops who were trampling each other.
When thousands of Wei troops saw the Xiliang cavalry that they feared the most, approaching them, almost instantly, an idea suddenly appeared in the minds of the thousands of surviving Wei troops.
escape!
Escape to a place where you can't see these murderous gods.
Under the influence of this idea, the actions of thousands of Wei troops immediately became unified.
They ran towards the side where Ma Chao deliberately let go, abandoning everything.
When there is only one option left, everyone knows what to choose.
And that direction was where Sun Li's thousands of Wei troops were.
When the thousands of Wei troops in Ma Tai fled towards Sun Li's position, they all took off their armor as they fled, out of fear of death.
They even discarded the weapons in their hands so that they could lighten their burden and escape faster.
And when thousands of Wei troops fled the battlefield quickly, because of their decisive abandonment, they now left a lot of equipment and equipment on the battlefield.
Many ordnances were in an extremely messy state and were abandoned on the battlefield.
If in the past, facing these sophisticated ordnance, Ding Feng and Ding Feng's troops, who were cooperating with the Xiliang cavalry in pursuit, would definitely stop and fight for it.
However, under Mi Yang's strict military regulations, this scene did not appear among the thousands of Han troops.
Under Ding Feng's fierce shouts, thousands of Han soldiers quickly picked up the Huanshou swords on the ground and replaced the sharpened weapons in their hands.
After a quick replacement, these thousands of Han troops, led by Ding Feng and Ding Feng, pursued the Wei troops who were fleeing very fast ahead.
The quality of Wei Jun's Huanshou sword was first-class in the world, and a first-class sword should of course be used to kill first-class enemies.
Just now, the thousands of Wei troops led by Ma Tai had dispersed from the tens of thousands of Wei troops led by Sun Li.
Therefore, according to common sense, even if the thousands of Wei troops in Ma Tai were completely wiped out by the impact of more than 3,000 Xiliang cavalry, they should not cause much harm to the thousands of Wei troops in Sun Li's army.
Just that in general.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry's tactic is to use point to break the surface, and after using point to break the surface, of course it is necessary to use point to reach the surface.
Thousands of defeated Wei troops were deliberately driven away by the Han infantry and Xiliang cavalry, and were moving towards Sun Li's thousands of Wei troops at an extremely fast speed.
The distance between the two Wei armies was not far apart, so when Sun Li saw this scene, his expression could no longer remain calm.
Whether it was the appearance of the Xiliang cavalry just now or the extremely fast speed of the Xiliang cavalry that defeated Xu Chu's cavalry.
Although Sun Li was panicked and frightened, he at least kept a calm face in order to stabilize the morale of the army.
But now when he saw the thousands of collapsed Wei troops attacking him quickly like a large swarm of locusts, any pretense disappeared from Sun Li's face.
The scene that Sun Li feared most happened.
When a person is running for his life, his speed becomes very fast.
In addition, the Wei troops on both sides were not far apart, so the thousands of fleeing Wei troops quickly came closer.
Just now, in order to guard against the charge of the Xiliang cavalry, Sun Li placed many spearmen on the flanks of his Wei army.
Now the thousands of spearmen looked at their comrades running towards them quickly with great fear on their faces, and their hands holding the spears began to tremble.
If what appeared in front of them now was Ma Chao's Xiliang cavalry, they would rush forward without hesitation, but now those thousands of people are their comrades!
When Sun Li saw that the spearmen he had deployed were reluctant to rush towards the thousands of defeated Wei troops who were about to rush into the formation, he was so panicked that he hurriedly issued multiple orders to urge them.
It would be better for them to die at this time than to die themselves.
When Sun Li gave the order to urge him, he also sent a supervising team to go behind thousands of spearmen to intimidate them.
Under Sun Li's repeated urging, the thousands of spearmen could only raise their spears and stab their comrades in front, no matter how reluctant they were.
With the sudden thrust of thousands of spearmen, many Wei soldiers who fled to the front of the formation died under the spears of their comrades.
Originally, Sun Li thought that his actions could scare the Wei army, which was rapidly attacking him, into defeat, but he underestimated people's will to survive.
As the saying goes, don't stop after returning to the army. For the thousands of Wei troops who were fleeing for their lives, what stood in front of them at this moment was no longer their comrades, but the enemy blocking their way of survival.
Moreover, even if the Wei army in the front wants to stop, can the Wei army in the rear, who is eager to escape, allow it?
There are only thousands of spearmen in front, and they may have a chance of survival if they charge forward.
But if they stop, once they are overtaken by the Xiliang cavalry behind them, there will be no way for them to survive.
Therefore, even though many defeated Wei troops died under the spears of their own comrades, with a strong will to survive, thousands of Wei troops still charged towards Sun Li's Wei formation without fear of death.
Under the influence of Cao Wei's mixed service system, most of the Wei troops who could be organized into the same army were from the same state or county.
With their strong sense of country, the thousands of spearmen didn't really want to attack their comrades at the front.
In this situation where they couldn't bear to take action, the formation of thousands of spearmen became precarious under the impact of thousands of defeated Wei troops.
After Sun Li realized this, he immediately dispatched a large part of the Wei army to stop the defeat of thousands of Wei troops.
It's just that the Wei army led by Sun Li was already facing the attack of Mi Yang's high-morale Han army.
Therefore, when he focused on one thing and lost the other, after thousands of Han troops led by Ding Feng joined forces with Mi Yang, they successfully tore apart the other front of the Wei army.
What's even more terrible is that just when Sun Li was still thinking about making up for the situation, three thousand Xiliang cavalry led by Ma Chao fiercely inserted into the Wei army's formation from the other side.
When this scene happened, Sun Li was currently facing the enemy on three sides, and his defense lines on both sides had been completely torn apart.
The situation Sun Li faced now was even worse than what Ma Tai had just faced.
As for such a dangerous situation, even if Sun Li was a veteran, there was nothing he could do to save it.
The scene that just happened when the Wei army led by Ma Tai was defeated and fled, is engulfing Sun Li's side of the Wei army in an irreversible trend.
When thousands of defeated Wei troops successfully rushed into the formation of Wei troops led by Sun Li, Sun Li's formation of thousands of Wei troops collapsed instantly.
And under the coercion of the thousands of Wei troops who were defeated before, more and more Wei troops joined them.
By the time they finally formed a rout of tens of thousands of troops, they were fleeing in their intended direction.
That direction is exactly where Cao Wei's army is!
Sun Li, who was in the chaos of soldiers, could only helplessly follow the crowd and run forward.
But after he saw the direction in which more than 10,000 defeated troops were fleeing, a look of despair appeared on his face.
All is lost.
When Mi Yang saw this, he felt great joy on his face.
The scene before him was very similar to that day that lingered in his mind.
In the Battle of Dangyang that year, the reason why Liu Bei's army was defeated so miserably was not because famous generals such as Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun did not know how to form formations to fight against the cavalry.
It's because the five thousand cavalry of Cao's army at the beginning were like Ma Chao today, driving the people fleeing for their lives and attacking their arrayed military formation.
Under the onslaught of the torrent of common people, all famous generals and formations are useless.
In that battle, many of the children of Liu Bei and others were killed or captured by Cao's army.
If it weren't for the desperate guards of Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Chen Dao, the battle that year would have almost killed the second generation of Ji Han!
How could Mi Yang not be deeply impressed by such a tragic battle situation.
His brothers and sisters died in that battle.
Now that Mi Yang saw that Cao Wei's army was about to face this tragic scene, how could he not feel great pleasure?
The law of heaven is constant, and retribution will not be satisfactory.
However, Mi Yang did not continue to lead the army to pursue the defeated Wei army of more than 10,000 people.
Because in the high-intensity battle just now, the Han army he led had exhausted a lot of physical strength, and it was currently impossible to launch a high-speed pursuit.
And Wen Qin's thousands of Wei troops have not yet been wiped out!
While Wen Qin was still frightened and shocked by the rapid defeat of the two friendly armies, he saw the world-famous Mi Yang leading thousands of Han troops to turn towards his location with great momentum.
Wen Qin, who had been so brave just now, instantly fell into great fear.
Don't come over here.
Xu Chu was not a deserter. After the more than 2,000 cavalry he led were defeated by Ma Chao, he knew that Sun Li's three Wei troops would end badly.
So he did not return to Sun Li to assist him. He fled back to Cao Wei's central army alone and on one horse.
After Xu Chu returned to this battlefield, he anxiously looked for Zhang Liao's figure.
He must tell Zhang Liao everything he knows as soon as possible.
But because Zhang Liao was fighting desperately in the formation of the army, Xu Chu could not find Zhang Liao for a while.
Even if Xu Chu found Zhang Liao, it would be very difficult for him to approach Zhang Liao and tell him about it in a crowded battlefield.
And just when Xu Chu finally found Zhang Liao's figure, he headed towards him with excitement on his face.
The defeated Wei army of more than 10,000 people also arrived at a very fast speed near the battlefield where tens of thousands of people were fighting.
The direction in which these more than 10,000 defeated Wei troops appeared was exactly behind the tens of thousands of Cao Wei's central troops.
As a world-class cavalryman, Ma Chao has an excellent sense of direction.
The opportunity for a group of Han generals to avenge Dangyang came.
I won’t stay up late tonight to write the early morning chapter, and I’ll post it early during the day tomorrow.
good night everybody.
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