: Survival in a desperate situation

Pang De's eyes widened, and he raised his long sword and tried to cut, but unfortunately, this sword could never be cut off. The dense wolf-toothed arrows like locusts shot him and his riding into a hedgehog. Although he had been angry for a long time, the bodies of Pang De and his mount stood strangely, blocking the middle of the official road like a mountain, firmly blocking the way of Xu Rong's army.

Xu Rong sighed and said in a calm voice: "Zhang Heng, lead two thousand cavalry to leave behind the aftermath, and the entire army is not allowed to desecrate the bodies of the soldiers of the enemy and our army. Pang De, the two hundred rebels who died in battle and more than a thousand soldiers who died in battle! Although they are rebellious, they are real soldiers, and real soldiers are always worthy of our respect."

Zhang Heng said helplessly: "The last general will take the order."

Xu Rong turned his head again, glanced at Beidijun deeply, and said quickly: "The rest of the soldiers, follow me to continue pursuing!"

Xu Rong led his sword forward again, and the remaining five thousand cavalry responded with a loud bang, following Xu Rong and surging towards the Beidi County.

Northland County.

After several hours of fleeing in a hurry, Ma Teng's remaining troops finally fled to Niyang Jinxiao at noon. Niyang is located in the southern part of Beidi County. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, General Li Guangli of Ershi built a Tucheng here to garrison troops. Since then, people have moved here one after another, gradually forming a small city of thousands of people. However, by the end of the Han Dynasty, the adobe walls of Niyang City were already dilapidated and even wild animals could not resist.

Ma Teng wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked the personal soldiers beside him, "Where has he been?"

A personal soldier who was familiar with the North came forward and replied: "General, Niyang is not far ahead."

"Niyang?" Ma Teng's heart sank when he heard this and asked instinctively, "How many official troops are there to guard?"

The Liangzhou army is now a frightened bird, with only more than a thousand troops left, and the horses are almost gone and they can no longer withstand the attacks of the official army. If there are a large number of officials in Niyang City, they will take a detour early. As for where to go around Niyang, Ma Teng has never thought about it and is unwilling to think about it. At this point, he can only take one step at a time.

The personal soldier replied: "When the general returned to the throne, when the villain left Niyang, there were only more than a hundred county soldiers in the city."

"Oh? There are only more than a hundred county soldiers!"

Ma Teng's expression moved immediately after hearing this. He looked back at the remaining troops under his command. He saw that the soldiers all looked hungry and looked sad. They needed to find a place to rest and have a good meal. Niyang, which was guarded by more than a hundred county soldiers, was naturally the best choice. Thinking of this, Ma Teng did not hesitate anymore and said loudly: "Brothers, there is Niyang ahead. Everyone beat Niyang in one go, and then have a good meal in the city and have a good rest for a few days..."

"Report~~"

Before Ma Teng finished speaking, he was interrupted by the shrill sound of the probing horse. Ma Teng and more than a thousand remaining soldiers turned around in shock and saw a piece of dust rising from the official road behind, and a fast horse was galloping towards him. It was the probing horse sent by Ma Teng.

"The general is not good, the official cavalry is catching up!"

"Ah! I'm catching up so soon?"

Ma Teng looked sad when he heard this, and he sighed silently in his heart, Ling Ming, I am sorry to you.

"Look at General, cavalry, large groups of cavalry!"

When Ma Teng was sad, suddenly a sharp-eyed soldier shouted shrillly. Ma Teng looked up in shock and saw that the vast horizon in front of him had already rolled up smoke and dust, and a faint black line was floating from the horizon. In a flash, the black line had spread toward the two wings and became obvious.

"Run, run!" Ma Teng was filled with a heart and shouted loudly, "Brothers, hurry up and escape into Niyang City and use the walls of Niyang City to counter the cavalry of the official army, hurry up~~"

In fact, without Ma Teng's order, these more than a thousand remaining soldiers were already running forward like wild horses that had taken off their reins. The speed was even faster than the sprint speed when pursuing the enemy. However, it is regrettable that while this remaining soldiers were desperately escaping their lives, they also abandoned the weapons and armor that depended on for survival.

"General, it's not good!" When Ma Teng was riding his horse, his personal soldiers suddenly shouted in silence, "There are cavalry in front!"

"Ah?" Ma Teng was shocked and looked up quickly. Sure enough, he saw that the smoke and dust in the sky were rolled up in the direction of Ni Yang. Among the smoke and dust that covered the sky, there was also a black cavalry sweeping towards the southwest direction, forming a cross-bone with the pursuers behind him, blocking Ma Teng's remaining troops in the middle.

"General, we are surrounded!"

"There is no way to escape."

"It's over, it's all over~~"

More than a thousand remaining soldiers were in a panic and gathered around Ma Teng at a loss. There were blockages in front and pursuers behind. On the left is Jingshui and on the right is an endless wilderness. It is truly a place to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth! Ma Teng looked up at the sky, sighed Haoran and said sadly: "I, Ma Teng, died here for a lifetime, Alas~~"

"Father!" Ma Chao struggled to sit up from the stretcher, and said to Ma Teng, "Father can cross the river quickly and block the pursuers based on the river. The child is willing to leave behind the rear and fight to the death~~"

"Silly boy." Ma Teng sighed, turned over and got off the horse and came to Ma Chao's stretcher, reached out to hold Ma Chao's head and said, "How can you leave behind you and the soldiers of the three armies alone to escape alone? Now, you can only fight the death to the official army."

After saying this, Ma Teng faced the more than a thousand remaining soldiers with a look of sad emperor and said sternly: "Brothers, you are all dead, so it's better to fight against the official army and dog thieves!"

"Fight ~~"

As the saying goes, trapped beasts are still fighting. These more than a thousand remaining soldiers were forced into a dead end, but instead inspired high fighting spirit. With the order of Ma Teng, he began to line up by the Jingshui River, preparing to attack the east and west, and to fight to the death.

"Report~~ I found whereabouts of Ma Teng's rebels ten miles ahead."

"Report~~Ma Teng's rebels are heading towards Niyang."

"Report~~Ma Teng's rebels have given up escaping and formed a formation by the Jingshui River."

The horse explorer sent the news back like a flowing stream. When the last news came back, Xu Rong's army had approached Ma Teng's remaining army less than three miles away. Xu Rong and the generals around him had clearly seen Ma Teng's remaining soldiers waiting for battle on the river beach. Xu Rong rode his horse and raised his whip, pointing to the front from a distance and laughed: "Ma Teng is going to trap the beasts and still fighting."

"Just relying on more than a thousand remaining soldiers and defeated generals, I want to fight the beasts? It's just to destroy themselves."

"It seems that the general will soon be able to wipe out Ma Teng's rebels and achieve great achievements."

"When Ma Teng dies, who else can resist our army's military attack when he looks at Liangzhou? The capture of ten counties in Liangzhou can be said to be a leap to take advantage of the situation."

As Xu Rong finished speaking, the generals around him laughed and responded.

"Huh?" Xu Rong suddenly exclaimed in surprise, pointed to the rolling smoke and dust rising in the sky in front of him, and asked the generals beside him, "Which cavalry is ahead? Could it be that General Li Kuo has succeeded in attacking the Shandan Army horse farm and led his troops back to the rescue?"

General Hu Zhen stared at him for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, it's not like General Li Kuo's army."

Xu Rong said in a voice: "Is it the Liangzhou cavalry?"

"It's not like it." Hu Zhen said, "After Yan Xing's destruction, except for Ma Teng's rebels, where were there such powerful cavalry in the ten counties of Liangzhou?"

"Yeah!" Xu Rongning said in a voice, "No matter which cavalry it is, at least one thing is certain that they cannot be the lord's army."

Hu Zhen said: "General's clarification."

"The whole army obeys the order~~" Xu Rong raised the long sword in his hand and said quickly, "Deploy in a sprint formation~~ prepare for attack!"

With the order of Xu Rong, the five thousand cavalry behind him slowly spread towards their wings, and set off charges that were several miles away.

In front of the cavalry that swept from the direction of Niyang.

A man covered in thick iron armor, as thick as an iron tower, suddenly raised his long sword in his hand and said loudly: "Ao~~"

"Clang clang clang~~"

Amid the harsh metal friction, the two hundred cavalrymen who were galloping in the front suddenly spread out toward their wings. Each cavalry was ten steps away from each other, forming a wide front, and then two extended slashing sabers were drawn from behind the saddle. The handles of the knife were opposite each other, and the blade was placed forward in a special groove in front of the saddle, and in an instant it formed a cold sword array.

"Aoha~~"

The big man, who was like an iron tower, looked up at the sky again. Two hundred cavalrymen raised more than three feet of spears from their saddles, and then slowly pressed down towards the front. In an instant, a fluent spear forest formed, and pierced forward with the momentum of piercing everything. Behind the two hundred cavalry, eight hundred cavalry suddenly broke from the middle, divided into two strands, and began to circle the two wings. Eight hundred sharp spears with cold light were already on their hands, level with the cavalry's ears, and threw them.

Ma Teng's remaining soldiers in front of the formation.

"Huh~~" A general suddenly exclaimed in surprise, looking back at Ma Teng behind him and said, "General, this group of cavalry did not seem to be coming for us. They actually went to the pursuers opposite."
Chapter completed!