Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 724 Why use him?
Sporadic battles are still going on, but on the vast plain, the real main action is already a chase.Li Yan's Han army was running desperately, while Guo Yuan and his army were desperately chasing them.

Li Yan's breakthrough speed was very fast, which made Guo Yuan furious.But in such an anxious mood, Guo Yuan still had nothing to fear: in the terrain like a plain, no matter how fast Li Yan's breakthrough was, it would not help at all.A soldier with two legs can never outrun a war horse with four legs.

At this time, Li Yan was like a dying rat in Guo Yuan's mind.Although it ran happily at this time, Guo Yuan promised that once his cavalry caught up with Li Yan, he must rack his brains to teach Li Yan a profound lesson, so as to vent his anger at the moment!

Soon, as Guo Yuan expected.After more than half an hour of chasing, they finally shortened the distance with the Han army, and they could launch a charge as much as they wanted.

"Damn it, I didn't expect this group of Han soldiers to run so well..." Guo Yuan complained, but his eyes became more excited.At this moment, he only had Li Yan in his eyes, completely ignoring that Li Yan's troops had already run to a forest.

Finally, when Guo Yuan found out about this situation, he suddenly became worried: once Li Yan ran into the woods, his cavalry unit would be completely useless.And the army behind him has long been in disarray due to the previous siege, and in terms of physical strength, he is no match for Li Yan's elite soldiers, so there is no possibility of leaving Li Yan behind.

"Come on! Kill all these Han soldiers in one go, and never let these people escape into the forest!" Guo Yuan roared. At this moment, he had already made a decision in his heart: Even if Li Yan ran into the forest, he would It's going to burn down the whole forest!
But at this moment, Guo Yuan suddenly discovered that Li Yan's troops were no longer running away.They changed from the rear team to the front team very strangely. For a while, the formation of the Han army seemed to be going head-on.Li Yan, in particular, steadied his horse and turned around slowly, panting and smiling at Guo Yuan, and said with great interest: "General Guo, do you know where this place is?"

Guo Yuan smiled contemptuously, he didn't dare to know where it was.At this moment, the only thing he was thinking about was whether his cavalry charge could defeat the weird tactics of Li Yan, an elite soldier.

The answer is of course yes.

For infantry to fight cavalry, the best weapon is the bow and crossbow, and the best formation is to reject the horse.Li Yan has the bow and crossbow here, but the speed of Karasuma's war horse allows him to easily enter Li Yan's formation after paying some casualties.After that, it was completely the process of cavalry slaughtering infantry.What's more, Li Yan has bows and arrows here, and his own cavalry is not lacking!

After all, Guo Yuan's cavalry was the real elite of northern Xinjiang, and they all possessed the riding and archery skills of nomads.It is even more able to cooperate with Ma Li to complete a perfect charge.

"There is a saying in "Erya": outside the city is called the suburbs, outside the suburbs is called the pasture, outside the pasture is called the wild, and the wild is called the forest." After breathing heavily, Li Yan looked at Guo Yuan's horse archer. If there is nothing, he explained to Guo Yuan like a gentleman: "That's why this place is called Muye. In the last years of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, eight hundred princes formed an alliance to help Zhou defeat Zhou. The battle of Muye took place here. Therefore, there are wild people here. , there are mountains, and there are forests..."

Li Yan's calm performance finally made Guo Yuan realize that something was wrong: a person who is not afraid of death will not have such a weird behavior before the battle of life and death.unless……

Sure enough, in the next moment, Li Yan Youran raised a command flag in his arms.The blood-red banner seemed to come alive under the sunlight, like a floating and chilling cloud, which was emitting a monstrous blood mist, enveloping Guo Yuan's army.

But Guo Yuan was still confused at this moment, he didn't understand what Li Yan was doing.In the past, the signals on the battlefield were either sound or fire and smoke. What is the use of that little flag?Could it be that the ambush soldiers lying in ambush a few miles away have eyes that can see thousands of miles away?
But the reality gave Guo Yuan a slap in the face, and there was a sound of horseshoes rumbling from behind the foot of the mountain in the distance.A capable cavalry unit rushed forward like an ancient monster. Judging from the smoke and dust, it was at least a cavalry unit of 5000 people!
"It's Zhang Xiu? But who is the other one?" Guo Yuan naturally knew that Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu were the only ones in charge of the Xiliang iron cavalry in the Han Dynasty.Ma Chao is now in Yongzhou, so it is impossible for him to appear here. Only Zhangxiu in Nanyang, where there is no war, will be recruited here by the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

However, another general was riding a Liangzhou horse and wearing a fish-scale armor with excellent protection.Behind the battle armor, he wore a splendid battle robe, and on his head was a bright silver lion head pocket.This attire was obviously the appearance of Ma Chao in Xiliang Brocade, but that man had a majestic body, a crab-blue complexion, and a black and shiny beard, which obviously did not match the image of Ma Chao, a handsome and handsome man.

But that man's cavalry command skill does not seem to be inferior to Ma Chao's!
Guo Yuan only saw that the Xiliang iron cavalry who shouted down from the mountain quickly split into two groups.A wave of more than [-] people led by Zhang Xiu rushed like a flood that opened the gate, breaking through the fragmented formation of the self-army, and killing Yuan Jun helplessly.But the other general is an unstoppable master. At this time, with a fresh army, he rushed straight towards him by taking advantage of the terrain.The treasured sword flew like a dragon entering the sea, and no one could beat it, breaking through sporadic obstacles in the blink of an eye.

At this time, Guo Yuan didn't know that he had been tricked by the Han army.But in desperation, he did not lose his general qualities, and gave the order with a loud roar: "Continue to charge and lead the enemy into Li Yan's formation!"

However, as soon as the sound fell, Li Yan shook his head in contempt, and said to himself: "Really, why are there such stupid people in the world? Knowing that I have been tricked by the Han army, I thought I could escape and ascend to heaven." ?"

So, Li Yan didn't even move, but quietly raised another black flag in his arms.

In an instant, the sound of the bow and crossbow unstringing gathered into a gust of wind.Guo Yuan looked up in astonishment, and saw that his head seemed to be black: a rain of death composed of arrows was about to rain down!

"Damn it! It's a waist-drawing crossbow, and it's a waist-drawing crossbow fired by thousands of people at the same time!" Guo Yuan roared, desperately waving the big knife in his hand, trying to push those arrows away: Li Yan's light crossbows don't matter! Fear, six or seven hundred light crossbowmen will not cause too much damage to the cavalry formation.However, even if these extremely lethal crossbow arrows were fired in the woods five hundred paces away, their power could still pierce a war horse!

"Iron cavalry from Xiliang, drawing crossbows from the waist...Damn it, how many killing moves did the Han army prepare! So many people came from there!" Guo Yuan roared, his ears filled with the miserable howls behind him, He didn't dare to look back.At this time, he had already seen that those crossbow arrows were coming from the woods.But he couldn't figure it out, when did the Han army have a large army here?
Soon, Guo Yuan knew the answer, because a large group of strange soldiers rushed out of the woods.They are strange because the leading generals are all wearing excellent armor, and their bodyguards are also like regular Han troops.But most of the people behind these people rushed out holding farm tools and sharpened wooden poles.

"Yes, it's the Black Mountain Bandit?!" Guo Yuan yelled, and when he saw Zhang Yan, he finally confirmed it.

"No, from today onwards, we are the Black Mountain Army of the Han Dynasty!" Zhang Yan replied sternly, then nodded to a young man beside him, and rushed into Guo Yuan's [-]th Army like a tiger out of the gate. Fragmented military formation: According to this Mr. Meng Da, the Han army rewarded with military merits, and Zhang Yan was unwilling to give up Guo Yuan's head to others.

But Zhang Yan appeared a bit late after all, and the Xiliang iron cavalry rushing from the mountain at this time had already charged in front of Guo Yuan after dropping the crossbow from his waist.Facing Guo Yuan's head, the general with superb military strength only shouted: "Break it!"

Only then did Guo Yuan turn his head in panic, and hastily placed the round shield in his hand horizontally above his head.However, when the general swung his fixed saber down, it seemed to have the power of a thousand catties. Not only did it easily split Guo Yuan's round shield, but it also kept going, cutting the man and the shield in two.Guo Yuan's entire arm was chopped off, and he was spitting blood from his mouth. He stared at the general with both eyes, as if he was asking: Who are you?

At this moment in Chang'an Xuanshi Hall, Xun You also shook his head puzzled by this question: "Your Majesty, there are many strong generals in our army who can defeat Guo Yuan, but why did you choose to transfer General Ma's confidant Pang Depang Lingming here?"

The emperor Liu Xie could only smile mysteriously, took out the panacea statement, and said leisurely: "Ten days ago, I suddenly had a dream. In the dream, a general with a white horse and a brocade robe rushed down from the mountain and beheaded Yuan Shao's general Guo Yuan. At first , I thought this person was Jin Ma Chao from Xiliang, but I didn't expect that the general was using a knife, and after turning around suddenly, I realized that the person was Pang Defat Lingming..."

"It's God's will, Guo Yuan is destined to die in the hands of Pang De, how can I go against the sky? Hahaha..." Liu Xie laughed wantonly, as if he was really lucky to have received an oracle.

But the court was full of civil and military officials, but they were all extremely embarrassed: Your Majesty, you are too good at nonsense, right?
(End of this chapter)