Chapter 598 Two Thousand Vs. Sixty Thousand

On a morning just after dawn, 60,000 Wei troops suddenly filed out of the camp in a foggy day.

With the whole army dressed in uniform, crossbows strung, and swords unsheathed, they did not go straight to the Han army's camp. Instead, under the cover of the fog, the whole army was divided into three groups and quietly retreated towards Yanzhou.

Fei Yao was extremely pragmatic. Even if Gao Rou firmly opposed it, it still could not change his determination to retreat. Even because Gao Rou's opposition was too intense, Fei Yao directly sent someone to put this Situ under house arrest to ensure the smooth retreat.

"TMD, Situ Gao is really drunk. What's the situation? He is still stubborn and stubborn... If he knows about Ma Su's record, he will understand that there is no point in defending in front of him."

Fei Yao looked at the hazy Han army camp in the distance, ordered the soldiers to withdraw quietly, and muttered dissatisfiedly.

Over the years, Ma Su relied on frontal attacks, but under their noses, he had taken down one natural barrier after another in Guanxi. At present, the dangers in Guandong are far less than those in Guanxi, so Fei Yao would not stay and die.

Rather than fighting Ma Su to death under Hulao Pass and losing his troops in vain, it is better to withdraw the entire army to Yanzhou and rely on the home advantage to slowly consume Ma Su.

This time, Fei Yao seized the opportunity very timely. On the previous day, the Han army retreated to the inside of the pass because there was no suitable pasture outside Hulao Pass, and let the horses rest on the banks of the Yellow River.

The Han army had 10,000 cavalrymen, and all of them were equipped with two horses per person. It is obviously not a matter that can be solved in one or two days to graze such a large number of horses.

And it happened that there was heavy fog in the morning of this day, and the vision was blocked. Under Fei Yao's deployment, the entire army was armed with a night attack configuration, and then quickly retreated along the road while the Han army had not yet discovered it.

Along the way, Fei Yao was terrified, fearing that he would be discovered by Ma Su in advance and then the whole army would be ambushed. If he was ambushed in this situation, his troops would definitely be wiped out.

"Damn old man Tian, ​​if he hadn't insisted on doing it himself, we would have enough cavalry to cover us..."

Looking at the large army marching cautiously, Fei Yao still couldn't help cursing Tian Yu. If he hadn't sent all the Youzhou cavalry away, he wouldn't have been so scared to retreat.

But after cursing, Fei Yao couldn't help but sigh. At this moment, as a Guanzhong person, he had been fighting with the Shu army since the battle of Liangzhou, and he could no longer see hope for the future.

Once upon a time, the Wei Dynasty was so powerful that half of the Guanxi belonged to them. At that time, he could use cavalry tactics against Ma Su, and that was their richest moment.

On the other hand, the Western Shu at that time had few soldiers and a serious lack of cavalry, and it was all thanks to Ma Su's Longwu Yi Cong that they were holding on. If they had been as cautious as they are now, there wouldn't have been so many problems.

Unlike now, they were suppressed by the enemy's cavalry in their own home ground. So much so that when Fei Yao withdrew his troops, there were not enough cavalry to act as scouts!

Fei Yao led the army to retreat all the way until noon. Fortunately, although they were nervous all the way, they did not encounter an ambush by the Han army.

This means that Ma Su did not notice it, at least they are safe.

For the time being...

However, just when Fei Yao felt that he was about to be killed, suddenly there was a lot of smoke and dust on the side and rear. A group of Han cavalry stepped on the flying dust and caught up!

"It's bad! Is Ma Su reacting so quickly?" Fei Yao's face suddenly changed, and his heart sank suddenly.

He made a deployment when retreating, hanging a few sheep on the drum to maintain the sound of the war drum for a long time. But obviously, Ma Su was not fooled by his deployment and still caught up as soon as possible.

"This is bad news... The whole army is ready to fight!" Fei Yao gritted his teeth and quickly ordered the whole army to form a battle array to resist the Han army.

Soon, the Han cavalry had already chased after them, led by the old rival Ma Su.

"At least I caught up with you, Fei Yao, I swear I won't be a human being if I don't capture you alive today!" Ma Su was obviously a little angry, because he was almost deceived by Fei Yao.

If Liu Yin hadn't noticed something wrong and felt that the war drums of the Wei army were beating a little frequently today, he would have really let Fei Yao run away.

Fortunately, although the Longwu Yicong was a heavy cavalry, they could still go into battle without armor. So the whole army took off their armor and followed Ma Su to chase, and at least they caught up with the Wei army before they retreated to Chenggao.

However, although Ma Su caught up with the Wei army, he did not take action immediately. After all, the Wei army was already in a state of alert, and charging now would most likely result in heavy losses.

"All troops, listen to the order, patrol around here, threaten the Wei army's front as much as possible, and delay them here!" Ma Su snorted coldly, turned around and ordered the generals.

At the same time, Fei Yao also found that although Ma Su had caught up, he did not have many troops. The cavalry under his command was only two thousand people, and they were not wearing heavy armor.

This was obviously an opportunity. If he could take advantage of this opportunity to forcefully escape from the battle, he might have a chance to escape.

But... the fear of Ma Su for many years has been engraved into his bones. Faced with this situation, Fei Yao began to be unsure.

If they fight on the spot, they will definitely lose when the main force of the Han army catches up. But if they forcefully leave now, Ma Su will suddenly charge into the battle, and maybe his losses may be greater.

And if he forcefully escapes, he will naturally leave his troops to cover the rear. And the troops under his command are the Hebei Army. If he really leaves people to cover the rear, he needs to discuss it separately.

"What should we do..." Fei Yao's eyes flashed with hesitation, and finally he decided to hold a meeting to discuss it.

The troops at the moment are not Guanxi's core troops, so if they want to split up and guard the rear, they have to see what the generals mean.

The confrontation between the two sides began to stalemate. The Wei army dared not move, and the Han army was also unsure of the timing of the attack.

The two sides confronted here for an hour. Under the sunshine at noon, the soldiers on both sides were a little tired.

But at this time, Ma Su found that gaps had begun to appear in the Wei army's formation. Although many of the soldiers were still highly alert, their movements had unconsciously begun to slack off.

"It seems that the march for a morning has made the Wei army tired..." Ma Su touched his chin, pondered for a while, and suddenly turned his head to Ma Zhong.

"You lead 300 cavalrymen to detour from the front to the right wing of the Wei army and see how they react!"

Ma Zhong was a little surprised by this, but he immediately took the order. He rode a horse, holding Ma Su's big flag and leading 300 Longwu Yicong, and began to detour in front of the Wei army.

The reaction of the Wei army made Ma Su overjoyed. After the front army saw the movement of the Han cavalry, its army formation began to shift to the right wing unconsciously!

"Very good! Now! All troops attack!"