Chapter 430 The ambition to trap the enemy
Outside Tongguan City, Ma Su was ambushed in an extremely rare event, which was extremely surprising.
With Xin Pi shouting and Wang Ji shouting excitedly, tens of thousands of Wei troops surrounded him from both sides. The Han army didn't even have time to retreat, but was quickly surrounded by the Wei army in the middle.
"Tsk...it's really strange that an old man like Xinpi can be clever sometimes." Ma Su frowned, but he soon relaxed.
Although he was accidentally ambushed, Ma Su didn't think it was very dangerous.
That's right, I only have a thousand pieces, and they're all infantry. Surrounded by dozens of soldiers and horses, the situation is indeed quite embarrassing, but what can you do?
"Assemble the entire army and form a circle!"
As the only one on horseback in the Han army, Ma Di was better than all the soldiers. Basically every soldier could directly see Ma Di himself.
So when Ma Di waved his banner, all the Han soldiers responded quickly. Thousands of soldiers transformed from a square formation into a circular formation in a very short time, with shield soldiers in front and infantry hiding behind to form a defensive formation.
The speed at which the Han army changed its formation was obviously beyond Xinpi's expectation. It seemed that in just a flash of lightning, the Han army had completed its formation change. By the time the Wei army was surrounded on all sides, more than a thousand Han troops had already formed a defensive circle and were waiting.
"Why do these Shu troops change formations so quickly? Do they not work every day in Yizhou and only practice military formations?" Seeing this situation, Xinpi's face became a little ugly.
His official position in the central government of Cao Wei was Weiwei, and his job was in Luoyang army training. But even Cao Wei's most elite Tiger Guard camp in Luoyang was far inferior to Ma Di and his group in terms of formation changes.
You must know that they are the most elite troops of Cao Wei, and the Shu army under Ma Di was temporarily transferred. The side effects of this situation were enough to frighten Xinpi.
This is not good news for a small, separatist regime that is relatively peaceful but has such terrifying military strength. One of the most critical figures is Ma Su, who is surrounded in the center!
"Ma Youchang! You have been surrounded, and it is impossible for even you to escape." Xin Pi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he deployed the Wei army to surround him on all sides, and rode out in person, intending to persuade Ma Su to surrender again.
If such a great talent can join Cao Wei, it is not impossible to unify the world.
"Now you have no choice but to surrender as soon as possible and don't resist in vain!"
"If you think so, then Xin Weiwei is probably wrong." Ma Di saw Xin Pi appear again to persuade him to surrender, and said with a mocking smile,
"You are strong and I am weak, which can be called resistance, but for people like you, I don't think you are that strong."
"Okay, okay! You've already reached this point and you're still being stubborn, right? You are indeed a Xishu die-hard!" Xinpi's face darkened slightly, and he laughed angrily.
"You will be hacked to death later and you will be among the rebels. Don't blame me for not giving you a chance!"
"Wang Shuang said this, Hao Zhao said it, Guo Huai said it, Chen Tai and Cao Zhen also said it, who do you think you are?"
When Ma Di heard Xin Pi's murderous threat, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. He pointed at his head arrogantly and said,
"My Ma Su's head is right here. Come and get it if you can! But can you?"
"Okay! Since you are seeking death, I will allow you to go down and meet that old thief Liu Bei!" Xin Pi waved his hand and ordered with a cold expression.
"Set me an arrow! Anyone who can kill Ma Su will be promoted to the fifth level! Your Majesty will personally make you a Marquis of Ten Thousand Houses!"
As soon as these words came out, all the soldiers in the Wei army's formation breathed a little heavier, and many soldiers looked at Ma Su in the army's formation with a little more fiery eyes!
"Soldiers, form a formation to meet the enemy. Today we will fight with the Wei people to win! Let the world see that my big man is not a coward!"
Ma Su also waved the military flag and shouted. Han soldiers from all over the place quickly moved closer together, forming a solid defensive formation.
"The ambition to trap the enemy! There will be death but no life!"
All the Han troops shouted in unison. Surrounded by thousands of troops, their morale not only did not drop, but also rose rapidly!
"Fire the arrow!!"
At the order of the general of the Wei army, the Wei army, surrounded on all sides, fired arrows at the Han army's formation with all their strength. Countless arrows flew into the formation, most of which were blocked by shields.
But some arrows still shot into the Han army's formation, and some soldiers died on the spot. But immediately some Han soldiers rushed forward, almost seamlessly, not giving the Wei army any chance at all.
However, what surprised Xin Pi was that Ma Su did not react at all when faced with the suppression of the Wei army's arrows. The Han army has always maintained a formation like a bastard shell, maintaining a passive posture of being beaten.
The Wei army fired more than ten rounds of arrow rain, but the Han army's formation remained motionless. Xin Pi couldn't help but become impatient.
There were only a thousand people in the Shu army, and Simpi thought it would be a stupid decision to continue delaying it. If the Shu army reacts and comes to support, the cooked horse will fly away.
Wang Ji has a different view on this. He believes that it is best to play it safe. However, because Xinpi was the commander-in-chief, Wang Ji chose to remain silent.
"Come on with the whole army! Fight quickly and decide quickly!" Xinpi gave the order, and the Wei army, which was surrounded on all sides, began to shrink the encirclement, preparing to fight directly with the Han army.
The movements of the Wei army were also reported to the Han army, and the guards immediately reported to Ma Su, who had been waiting for a long time.
"General Shenwei, the Wei army has begun to shrink the encirclement and gradually encircle it. Shall we fight back?"
"Now is not the time! Let me know when the enemy reaches fifty steps!" Ma Su looked calm and slipped through the gap in the armor. Ma Su's eyes were fixed on the position of Wei Jun's commander's flag.
"General! The Wei army is fifty steps away!"
"Tell me after twenty-five steps!" Ma Su said again.
Soon, the guard reported again, "It's the twenty-fifth step!"
"It's now!"
Following Ma Su's order, the Han army's shield formation suddenly opened wide, and more than a hundred crossbowmen who had been waiting for a long time fired arrows together.
The distance between the two sides was only twenty-five steps, and the shield carried by the Wei army's vanguard could not block it at all. With just one round of flat fire, dozens of Wei army vanguards were quickly shot dead, and riots broke out in the formation!
Taking advantage of this moment, Ma Di, who had been waiting for a long time, suddenly appeared and led dozens of personal guards to attack the slightly chaotic Wei army formation.
The distance between the two sides was less than twenty steps, and Ma Su suddenly reached the front of the Wei army's formation with one swift step. The vanguard of the Wei army was shocked. Facing the approaching Han army, several of them were killed on the spot.
"Ma Youchang is here! Anyone who stands in my way will die!" Ma Di frowned, with a ferocious look on his face, roaring and charging with a gun. The dozens of personal guards behind him all moved forward with all their might and fought bravely to kill the enemy.
The Wei army did not expect that the Han army would dare to launch a counterattack with so few soldiers. In addition, Ma Di personally charged into the formation, causing chaos in the formation for a while. Under Ma Di's own infantry fighting, the Wei army's vanguard formation was broken through, and Ma Di personally led the Han army straight to the direction of the Wei army's commander's flag, running all the way to kill Xinbi.
"Xinpipifu! How dare you fight me!"