【Chapter 241】Infernal Affairs at the end of the Han Dynasty
"Don't slaughter the Iron Cavalry?" Li Dian pondered in shock.
Huan Lang looked at the Hanma war cavalry that kept pouring into the city gate with a fierce look on his face, and nodded, "Yes, don't slaughter the Iron Cavalry!"
"But the more than 13,000 prisoners were all surrendered to our army? Why haven't I heard anyone mention it before? When did it happen?" Li Dian asked with surprise.
"Hahaha!" Huan Lang said with a smile: "I can't explain the specific situation. Before tonight, I knew nothing about this and thought that the prisoners were still serving labor in the county town. But Huan Bao just told me that this time, Han Sui and Ma Teng sneaked into Xiu Tucheng as expected. The more than 13,800 Xiu Tu prisoners left the county town a month ago and were stationed on the northern border of Wuwei.
From this, it is not difficult for Brother Man Cheng to imagine that since the lord had already been lying under heavy troops on the northern border, how could he not find the traces of Han Sui and Ma Teng marching? Therefore, the last general concluded that this time, the two thieves of Han Ma attacked the Xiu Ma Slaughter Field at night, but the mantis stalked the cicada oriole behind. Xiu Ma Iron Cavalry followed them and killed the Han Ma army in one fell swoop!"
When Li Dian heard the joy between his eyebrows, he said, "In this way, we can defend the city without slaughtering the city, and the horse farm is safe and sound. However, Han Sui and Ma Teng are coming fiercely. We must not be careless and guard the main street of Beimen. Otherwise, even if we have reinforcements to help, we are afraid that the casualties of the soldiers and the people in the city will not be small."
After hearing this, Huan Lang nodded with conscientious words and said, "What the general said is very much. If 30,000 enemy troops break through the street corner, the consequences will be unimaginable. Even if we finally repel them, the city will be in a mess and the people will suffer heavy casualties. Since this is the case, we will immediately separate our actions. The last general and Huan Lang led 3,000 soldiers to guard the North Street corner. The general led the army to defend the city. We must not let the enemy climb the city wall, otherwise we will be wasted all our efforts!"
"Okay, that's it!" Li Dian agreed happily and said with a sigh: "Li originally wanted to kill himself and fulfill his life. He apologized for his death, but he didn't expect his lord to expect the enemy to be the first, and let Li survive by chance. The lord is really a god. How lucky is it to be able to follow the lord!"
After hearing this, Huan Lang looked slightly stunned, and then he focused his attention and expressed his agreement.
In fact, Huan Lang did not believe in Li Li before. When he defected to the Wuwei Army, he had to defect to Li Li. He and the other five brothers were originally the leaders of the horse thieves under Huan Fei, and all his martial arts were taught by Huan Fei, which was equivalent to Huan Fei's family general. Huan Fei led all the Pegasus thieves to surrender to Li Li, and the six brothers could only follow Huan Fei to join Li Li, but they had complaints in their hearts. Especially Li Li was the leader of Huan Fei's two BMW Fire Cloud Divine Horses and the blood horses of the wind and wind to Dian Wei and Teng Yu. This made their six brothers extremely angry. However, as long as Huan Fei did not leave the Wuwei Army, even if they had complaints, they could only hide them in their hearts and obey Li's military orders.
In nearly a year, they followed Li Li to fight the Western Expedition and gradually discovered that Li Li was indeed extraordinary. He was rigorous in the military, had clear rewards and punishments, and he would win every battle, and was invincible. Over time, the six brothers unknowingly changed their original intentions, truly regarded Li Li as the lord, and willingly obeyed the order.
However, the grudges that were once hidden in their hearts were still hidden in their hearts and have never been able to be resolved.
At this time, when he heard Li Dian's sincere admiration, Huan Lang felt inexplicably moved and felt a sense of cheerfulness. The scene of Li Dian swaying his sword and committing suicide just now touched him, and the lord Li Li's complete ability of ghosts and gods made him in awe. Only then did he untied his knot in his heart. He was convinced by his lord Li Li and respected him as a god.
"Precaution, General, let's take a break for the time being!" Huan Lang bowed and quickly left the city.
Li Dian watched Huan Lang leave and said to himself: "Huan Lang, Huan Bao brothers are calm and moderate in the face of danger, and have good martial arts skills. They are indeed very talented. After the lord is fair in Liangzhou, it is best to transfer them back to the army to listen and follow the army to conquer the Central Plains. Otherwise, staying on the horse farm to raise horses for a long time will really bury their talents."
While sighing, Li Dian immediately regained his fighting spirit and led the defenders to guard the city heads on both sides of the north gate, put on bows and strings, and shot and killed the enemy troops under the city.
At the same time, the battle at the entrance of Beijie was extremely fierce. Tens of thousands of enemy cavalry were blocked in a narrow alley two meters wide and five miles long. The cavalry behind them were still rushing in continuously, but the exit of the alley was blocked by Huan Lang and Huan Bao, leading the three thousand horse farm soldiers, causing the Hanma army that rushed into the north gate to be blocked, and there were crowds of congestion and dilemma.
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"Hurry, hurry up, rush in!"
Outside the city gate, Ma Teng rode his war horse again, holding a big knife and shouted loudly as the soldiers rushed into the city and captured the city.
Although Ma Teng shouted so vigorously and shouted loudly, he seemed to be impatient. But he himself stopped at the dead corner of the city gate, and just avoided the arrows flying down from the city. He did not follow the army into the city, but instead called on the soldiers to rush in.
Until tens of thousands of soldiers rushed into the city gate, Ma Teng still led hundreds of personal soldiers to guard the dilapidated city gate, without any intention of rushing into the city.
Two hundred steps away from the city gate, Han Sui laughed loudly after seeing Ma Teng finally breaking open the city gate, looking extremely happy.
"Enjoyed father, the city gate is broken. Now I will lead the army in!" Yan Yan, who was standing behind Han Sui, said anxiously.
"Let's wait!" Seeing Yan Yan eagerly trying to lead the army into the city, Han Sui immediately stopped and said, "Yanming, don't be impulsive, don't be impatient, let's wait and talk about it."
"Enjoyed Father, why is this? The city gate has been broken, and Xu Mausoleum is under the iron hooves of our army. If the army is not dispatched at this time, when will we wait?" Yan Yan asked in confusion.
Han Sui showed an unfathomable smile on his face when he heard this, and said sly: "Yanming, be calm when encountering things. The more you are sure to win, the more you should keep calm. Look at what Ma Teng is doing?"
"Uh, General Ma Teng is commanding the army to enter the city. Is there anything wrong with this?" Yan Yan glanced at Ma Teng who was shouting loudly at the city gate, and said in amazement.
Han Sui smiled and shook his head and said, "No, you only saw the appearance, but you didn't see Ma Shoucheng's real intention. Yanming, you are still too young!
Since ancient times, most of the brave and war-going generals have not died on the front battlefield, but have died inexplicably and unjustly. Do you know why? Because they all died under the arrows of the arrows, they are competitive and eager to achieve success. Before they can figure out the situation in the city or camp, they rushed in, and as a result, they are wise and confused for a lifetime and lose their lives.
Look at Ma Shoucheng, this guy is worthy of being an old fox who has been fighting on the battlefield for a long time. He is brave and good at fighting but not reckless. He seems to be rough, but in fact he is thick and thin, and is extremely cunning! Look at him whip and whip, he looks anxious, but the reins in his hand are pulled tightly, so that the war horse under his crotch cannot move forward at all, and can only stay in place. He is afraid of ambushing the city and dare not take risks personally. He hides under the city gate and shouts desperately that the soldiers rush in, but he himself is afraid of life and death, pretends to be stubborn and stops.
Ma Shoucheng cherishes his life!”
"Uh?" Yan Yan was shocked when he heard this, and then carefully looked at the distance of horse Teng jumping to try. It was as Han Sui said. The horse Teng jumped and stood at the city gate with a whip for a while, but he had not taken a step forward, and was pretending to be a bluff.
Suddenly, Yan Yan asked in surprise: "Enjoyed Father, General Ma Teng led the army and personally led his army to hit the city gate. Why can't he stop moving forward? Could he be a greedy person who is afraid of death?"
Han Sui smiled and said, "Yanming, this is where you should learn from Ma Shoucheng. He led his army to attack the city gate just now, in order to boost morale and inspire the soldiers' fighting spirit to be fearless, and he broke open the city gate in one fell swoop. He turned over and dismounted, hid in the giant shield, and did not personally go into battle to hit the city gate. Now that the city gate is broken, he still acted as he ordered the army to rush in and fight.
This is how Ma Shoucheng has been a general for many years! But he can deceive ordinary soldiers and generals, but he can't escape my Han Sui's eyes.
Having said that, in fact, I was deceived by him several times before. At the beginning, I really thought that Ma Teng was a martial artist, and only knew how to fight without any scheming. However, in the battle of Dongshankou last year, Ma Teng almost died on the spot, but Ma Teng was safe and sound. After the war, his soldiers under him also lost much fewer soldiers than us, and their strength was not much weakened, while our Jincheng soldiers suffered heavy losses and their strength was greatly reduced.
Afterwards, I thought hard while recuperating and finally figured out the whole story. Ma Teng looked reckless on the outside but was cunning on the inside. During the war, he was eager to save his son, but he tried his best to fight with Li Li's army. However, after the defeat, he led his army to run ahead of us. Nominally, he fled with us, but in fact he asked our army to give him the rear of the Ma family army. Then he detoured through Jincheng and circled for half a month before leading his army back to the nest of Beidi County. As a result, we sent 40,000 troops to end up with only more than 10,000 people, while his horse freed up 30,000 troops, and there were still 20,000 troops after the war.
That battle was really a profound lesson, which allowed me to truly see Ma Teng's cunning nature. Therefore, this night attack on Xiu Ma City, our father and son did not rush to enter the city, let his Ma family army rush in and fight! After capturing this city and occupying the Xiu Ma Ma Slaughter Field, Ma Teng must serve the war horse that belongs to us honestly, otherwise my 20,000 Jincheng soldiers would not be vegetarians!"
Yan Yan listened to Han Sui's detailed explanation, a complex look flashed in her eyes, and was immediately replaced by a cold light. This complex look contained a little gratitude for Han Sui, because Han Sui was indeed patiently teaching him the way of war and explaining the sinister truths of people's hearts. It's a pity that he and Han Sui are incompatible, and deep hatred have been planted. Even if he has such a hint of gratitude, it cannot make up for his hatred for Han Sui.
Hundreds of people from the Yan family in Hanyang died at the hands of Han Sui, and Yan Yan is the one who has not yet died in the Yan family. How could such a deep blood hatred be offset by a trace of gratitude?
At this point, Yan Yan turned her head and looked behind her, feeling very anxious, and thought to herself: "I asked someone to send messages to my cousin Li Xian ten days ago. Why haven't they come yet? Cousin Wenchang, your subordinates are marching too slowly. When can't you get married, why are you rushing to this time? If you are late, you may have a huge loss!" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!