Chapter 431 Everyone Is Here to Play the Dungeon, Attack Wuhuan
Xu Rong, as a general who had followed Gu Rubing early on, had a much weaker presence after Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, and Zhang He joined Gu Rubing one after another, because he was not needed in many major battles, and others could easily solve them. Compared with the Five Tiger Generals, Zhang Liao, and Zhang He, these all-round generals, his military strength was lower, but the bonus he provided to his subordinates was not inferior at all.
This time, Gu Rubing naturally did not forget Xu Rong, and sent Xu Rong to suppress the restless Goguryeo and Buyeo tribes on the peninsula. With Xu Rong's strength, it was no problem to deal with the two small tribes, and Xu Rong's famous general points were only 17 points away from promotion. Even if the two tribes did not have first-class generals, relying only on the victory of two wars, it was enough for Xu Rong to be promoted to a famous general.
As for Wei Yan, training soldiers is really inseparable from Wei Yan, so Wei Yan had to be kept. It is worth mentioning that all the generals who went out to fight this time brought soldiers trained by Wei Yan. In other words, these soldiers have a high probability of triggering the job transfer task on the way to the expedition and can be transferred to special soldiers.
Not to mention too much, even if only two or three teams can trigger the job transfer, it will be a huge improvement for Gu Rubing. These are all special soldiers who can fight ten people with one. If it is really as Gu Rubing imagined, after the end of the Three Kingdoms, it will be the world hegemony. At that time, these special soldiers will be the real treasures.
With a small number of people and strong combat effectiveness, they do not need too much supplies, and they do not need to have a baggage camp equipped with food and grass to support their expedition. It can only be said that except for the small number of people, all are advantages. Of course, these are just Gu Rubing's guesses. Now Gu Rubing is just simply to improve his own strength, so that he can always maintain a strength far beyond others in the next hegemony, and finally dominate the thirteen states of the Central Plains.
Zhao Yun was the last one to leave. He was supposed to go with Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao, but he was always worried about Gu Rubing's safety. After all, he had always been Gu Rubing's personal bodyguard. He was still a little worried about leaving for such a long time this time. It was not until Guan Yu, who had something to deal with in Bingzhou, rushed back to Qingzhou that Zhao Yun left with peace of mind and headed north to catch up with Zhang Fei and his men.
At this moment, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong had already left Bingzhou and arrived at the Wuhuan territory. As soon as they entered the Wuhuan territory, thousands of cavalrymen began to surround them from all directions. Huang Zhong and Ma Chao only brought 5,000 cavalrymen in total. After all, Wuhuan was the weakest of the three northern tribes. While harassing the border of Bingzhou, they also needed to be on guard against the invasion of the Xiongnu and Xianbei at any time, so that the Wuhuan, who were originally short of troops, could only set up defenses of thousands of people on the border, and even less than 10,000 people in total.
However, this is also because the Han Dynasty was in serious internal turmoil, and there were few precedents of actively attacking them. They often attacked small counties near Bingzhou, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil, while the Bingzhou army just drove them away. Before Guan Yu entered Bingzhou, the Bingzhou army and Yuan Shao's response to the invasion of Wuhuan was just to expel them from the territory, and they would not kill them all.
This has also led to the Wuhuan soldiers' fear of the Han Dynasty becoming less and less in recent years, and they have not taken the Han Dynasty seriously until now. Before and after Guan Yu became the governor of Jingzhou, Guan Yu cleared the border of Bingzhou, reinforced some military towns and county towns on the border of Bingzhou, and added garrisons. Later, he repelled several invasions of Wuhuan soldiers, which hurt Wuhuan and made them no longer dare to invade Bingzhou, and only dare to wander outside Bingzhou.
So when the Wuhuan generals found out that the Han army had invaded their territory, they were immediately angry. Before, they had only invaded Bingzhou territory, and there was no precedent for the Han army to attack the Wuhuan army. They immediately began to surround the 5,000 cavalry.
It only took half a quarter of an hour for the 6,000 Wuhuan cavalry to surround Ma Chao and Huang Zhong. There were a total of six thousand captains, each of whom had been leading troops to wander around the border for a long time, and would burn, kill, plunder, and commit many crimes whenever they had the chance.
Ma Chao and Huang Zhong looked at each other. It was just a drop in the bucket for them. These six thousand captains were all second-rate generals, and they met the requirements for obtaining famous general points. So the two immediately stopped moving forward and quietly waited for the 6,000 cavalry to surround them all.
"Han army! Get out of our Wuhuan territory now!"
The leading captain shouted in pure Bingzhou dialect. Years of looting have made them learn Bingzhou dialect. At this moment, he shouted arrogantly in front of the battle. The other captains laughed loudly and did not comment on the captain's ridicule.
"You weak people are worthy of coming to our Wuhuan territory? If you don't retreat quickly, I will kill you all here today!"
The captain saw that his colleagues were laughing, so he became more excited and wanted to show off in front of them. The others didn't take Huang Zhong and Ma Chao seriously. In their opinion, they might not be able to attack the city, but on the grassland, they are natural hunters.
But the next moment, the foul-mouthed centurion regretted being the first to stick his head out, because in his sight, one of the two leaders on the opposite side took off the huge bow and arrow on his back, swung his ape arms, drew the bow as if full of blood, and the skill of shooting arrows was fully charged. With the sound of the bowstring bang, the arrow flew out.
The arrow flew towards the centurion like a meteor. The centurion didn't have time to see what it was. His sight only stayed at the moment when the last leading general pulled the bowstring, and then he lost consciousness.
In the sight of the other centurions, they only saw a flash of blue light, and then the centurion who was just chatting and laughing with them was dead. Behind the centurion, there was a strange space cleared like an arrow.
In the arrow-shaped range, all the Wuhuan cavalry had turned into corpses. The centurion in the front was even left with only a pool of thick blood. The soldiers behind him were also like this, all annihilated by the arrow.
The remaining five centurions didn't even react before they heard another general holding a spear raise his spear and roar.
Then the enemy's several thousand cavalrymen began to charge. The arrow just now had frightened them all. After all, they were soldiers who had been fighting on the border for a long time and had seen some things in the world, but they had never seen such a scene. Including when Guan Yu ordered his subordinates to expel them before, he only asked Zhou Cang and others to go, and never personally took action, because Guan Yu was mainly keeping an eye on Cao Cao and expelling the Tartars, and Zhou Cang and others were enough.
Therefore, they had not really seen the gap between the generals, and now they finally saw the real gap between the generals. The 6,000 cavalrymen who were originally going to surround them were only 5,500 in an instant. The biggest impact was the soldiers who faced Huang Zhong's meteor arrow. They were so scared that they didn't even have the courage to stay where they were. They turned their horses around and began to flee frantically.
The other five centurions and their cavalry were not much better. They had fought with archers on the grassland before, but they had never seen such terrifying archers who could kill hundreds of people with one arrow. Not to mention nuclear bombs, this was almost as lethal as a catapult.
To be precise, when fighting on flat ground, the lethality of popular arrows was indeed higher than that of catapults. Catapults rely on splash damage. If they did not hit the city wall, there would be no broken stones, and naturally no splash.
The frightened five centurions and their many cavalry also turned their horses around and fled into the distance, not daring to stay for half a step.
Ma Chao selected three thousand cavalry units fleeing to the northeast, and began to rush forward quickly. Li Feisha rushed out like a white lightning, leaving a white afterimage on the grassland, chasing the three cavalry units fleeing in the distance.
When one of the fleeing centurions turned around and saw that only Ma Chao was catching up, he immediately wanted to kill him.
"Only one young man has caught up with us. Should we kill him?"
His eyes were full of heat. It was obvious that the young man who caught up with them was not simple. He was wearing a white robe, white armor and a white horse. He must be a young man from a noble family who had come out to experience. If they killed a man of this status, it would not be as simple as getting promoted and making money. He might even be conferred a title.
If this young man from a noble family was involved in some Han nobles, it was not impossible for them to be directly conferred the title of Chanyu of a small tribe. Thinking of this, several people turned their heads with shining eyes and looked at Ma Chao behind them. In their eyes, Ma Chao was now like a moving military merit, a military merit that could make them rise to prominence in the second half of their lives.
"This kid in white clothes and armor looks like a young man who has come to the army to get gilded. It shouldn't be too difficult to kill him."
"Kill him! He's just a little brat."
The three of them quickly made the corresponding decision and began to slowly slow down their pace, deliberately letting Ma Chao get closer and closer to them. Ma Chao narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the three generals and hundreds of cavalrymen getting closer and closer to him. Ma Chao immediately guessed the real thoughts of these people, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, full of disdain.
Ma Chao could kill all these three people with his eyes blindfolded. When the three people were only a hundred meters away from Ma Chao, they suddenly turned their horses and rushed towards Ma Chao to kill him. In addition to the three people, the hundreds of cavalrymen behind them also turned around and rushed towards Ma Chao, wanting to wipe out Ma Chao with human wave tactics.
Ma Chao held his spear tightly and stared at the three people in the front. The three people were already dizzy with the impact of the military merits they imagined they would get. They only had Ma Chao in their eyes, nothing else. They didn't even care about the spear in Ma Chao's hand. Their eyes never left Ma Chao's head.
"Die!"
The general who rushed to the front, because he was in the front and closest to Ma Chao, his face became particularly ferocious due to intense excitement.
He seemed to have seen himself cutting off the head of the young man in white robe in front of him, and then carrying the head back to the Chanyu, receiving rewards according to merit, being promoted to a higher position, and then he would live a stable life in the tribe. A good life had appeared before his eyes.
But the next moment, a spear head appeared in his pupils, and then went straight through his head. The spear head carried a huge force and wrapped the body of the centurion and smashed it into the two people behind him. The two centurions behind him were smashed and flew backwards. The leading centurion died on the spot, and the rhythm of the attack of the two people behind him was also disrupted.
The two men had just fallen to the ground, and before they could get up, they saw a flash of cold light, and then two heads rolled into the grass nearby, and the blood dyed the nearby grassland red, adding a touch of bright red to the originally green grass.
"That's it? Are you worthy of taking my life?"
Ma Chao didn't even look at the three people who became corpses in just two moves, and continued to rush forward. The hundreds of cavalrymen who came to surround him were even more unbearable. Ma Chao's gun would often cause a large number of enemies to fall. The more than 2,000 cavalrymen who had never turned back and fled forward seemed to know that their commander had died. They actually gave up the opportunity to escape and turned to rush towards Ma Chao, shouting loudly that they wanted revenge.
On the other side, Huang Zhong, who killed the last two thousand captains with the Red Blood Knife, also encountered a similar thing. The Wuhuan cavalrymen who had a chance to escape returned here.
What Ma Chao and Huang Zhong didn't know was that these six people came from two tribes. They were carefully selected by the tribes and represented the face and strength of the tribes. The soldiers were also drawn from their tribes. The three khans of the Wuhuan tribe would not provide troops, but would only provide numbers and other things that could prove their identities to the existing troops.
Now, all their generals were dead. If they escaped like this, what awaited them might not only be destruction, but also the destruction of their tribes, which they absolutely could not accept. Therefore, they all hid their deep fears and restrained themselves to step onto the battlefield again.
Even so, they were still not the cavalry led by Ma Chao and Huang Zhong. Their courage alone could not provide these Wuhuan soldiers with a bonus comparable to that of the cavalry under Gu Rubing, but could only cause them to suffer more casualties.
Huang Zhong and Ma Chao each killed three thousand captains, which is the level of a second-rate general. A first-rate general killing a second-rate general can also get a considerable bonus of famous general points, but the bonus is relatively small. The two are still a little far from being promoted to famous generals. This level of victory will not provide them with famous general points. I am afraid that only a battle to annihilate the Wuhuan tribe will increase some famous general points.
According to their intelligence, the Wuhuan tribe has two first-rate generals, namely the two younger brothers of the Great Chanyu, the Second Chanyu and the Third Chanyu, who command all the soldiers of the Wuhuan tribe.