The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 720 719 Breaking Through the Line of Defense
Under the leadership of Ma Chao, a hundred elite soldiers left Jiameng Pass and headed west all the way. Although the mountain road was narrow and rugged, it was no problem for Ma Chao and the hundred elite soldiers.

Holding a big bow, Ma Chao bears the brunt of the brunt, standing at the front of the team, and on his left and right sides, there are two soldiers standing on each side. The shield, if he is in danger, as long as he raises the shield in his hand, he can cover himself, Ma Chao and another soldier inside.

The soldier on the right, although short in stature, was very sturdy. He was one of Ma Chao's guards. He had superb sword skills, and his sharp eyes were looking around at everything around him.

Accompanied by the two people on the left and the right, Ma Chao approached bit by bit, and after a while he approached the pile of rocks blocking the mountain path.

Huge rocks blocked the entire mountain path. If you want to pass through here, you must first remove these big rocks, or turn over these big rocks.

But no matter which method is used, there is a certain degree of danger, because behind these big rocks, there are those Sichuan soldiers hiding behind these big rocks. As long as anyone appears, they will definitely be shot through by arrows.

Since Ma Chao was here to open the way, of course he was aware of the dangers involved, and his subordinates were also carefully selected dead soldiers, and they were all ready to sacrifice at any time.

The huge boulders blocking the road are one foot wide, as tall as a person, at least seven to eight hundred catties, and they are piled up in twos and threes, completely blocking the road. If you want to move these boulders, no one can do it without a hundred or ten people .

But the key point is that even if Ma Chao now has 100 people, he still cannot move the boulder, because the road here is too narrow for 100 people to work together.

After thinking about it, Ma Chao decided not to remove these boulders for the time being, but let them lie here obediently. As long as he clears up the Sichuan soldiers ambushing on this mountain road, someone will find a way to remove these boulders. move away.

The 100 people led by Ma Chao came to the vicinity of the blocked boulder one after another, three people in a row, and went out all the way to the back.

But seeing that Ma Chao didn't even think about it, he casually pointed to a few shield bearers, and said to them: "Climb up first, protect your body with shields, and watch out for incoming arrows."

The three shieldmen nodded, holding the huge shield in their hands, and carefully climbed up the rock. As soon as they appeared, they heard the sound of more than a dozen bowstrings, and more than a dozen arrows pierced the sky, whistling in the wind He shot over.

Ma Chao closed his eyes tightly, but kept his ears upright, listening carefully to the sound of the bowstring when the arrow was shot, trying to judge the position of the enemy archers from this, and kept counting in his mouth: "One, two , three, four..."

More than a dozen arrows were blocked from the shield one after another, and the second wave of arrows shot over again. What Ma Chao heard was still the sound of thirteen bowstrings, and he knew exactly where they were. Chu.

I saw Ma Chao suddenly opened his eyes, took out a feathered arrow from his quiver, put it on the bowstring, and easily pulled the bowstring of the longbow he was holding in his hand with both arms, turned his body to the left, and stepped on it with one foot. When he got on a rock, his whole body jumped up, and at this moment, Ma Chao's eyes were like shooting stars, and the arrow shot out, aiming at an archer among the Sichuan soldiers. shot out.

With a sound of "whoosh", Ma Chao's feathered arrow was like a flash of lightning, and it hit the throat of one of the archers. The archer fell into a pool of blood without screaming.

Ma Chao's archery skills are superb, and one arrow pierced the enemy's throat. Before the enemy could react, Ma Chao's second and third arrows shot out, roaring towards the other two archers. .At the same time, Ma Chao was constantly gesturing to the archers under his command, telling them where the enemy archers were.

"Puff, puff" were two more muffled sounds, and the two archers of the Sichuan army were shot in the throat by Ma Chao again, and they fell silently in a pool of blood.

This time, the soldiers of the Sichuan Army were surprised for a while before they realized the strength of the enemy. When the archers were about to change their positions, they suddenly saw some people jumping up one after another behind the boulder, and the arrows shot one after another. They shot over, but the flying angles were quite different and intricate, making it impossible to guard against.

"what……"

A few screams from the soldiers suddenly sounded out. Six of the remaining ten archers were shot in the throat by arrows and were killed on the spot, but four archers were wounded and screamed.

Although the archers under Ma Chao's subordinates are all good at archery, not everyone can achieve the same level of accuracy as Ma Chao, who pierces the throat with one arrow.

However, if this is the case, Ma Chao is still very satisfied, after all, he has given the enemy a blow.

"General, the enemy is retreating!" The shield soldier standing on the boulder to attract the attention of the enemy's archers lowered his head and said to Ma Chao.

Ma Chao immediately gave the order to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and all his subordinates climbed over these boulders.The shield player climbed over the boulder first, and the moment he jumped off the ground, he still did not forget to protect his body with the shield. Ma Chao then climbed onto the boulder, looked down from a high position, and looked forward, but saw several injured archers standing next to his companions. Backed up with support, he drew out three arrows, opened his bow and shot three arrows, the arrows flew over quickly, and hit the three fleeing archers respectively, all of which shot through the back of the neck, and the body was also shot. Suddenly fell to the ground.

Ma Chao's initiative to come in immediately drew a strong response from the enemy. Hearing the Sichuan army yelling, a group of archers rushed over from the corner of the mountain road. Just shoot.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

A burst of arrows shot over in a hurry. Ma Chao just jumped off the rock and saw dense arrows shooting from the air, so he immediately shouted: "Be careful!"

As soon as it fell, the shield bearers raised their shields one after another, while the rest leaned behind the shields, and those who hadn't flipped through the boulder also dodged.After all, they were only more than 50 steps away from the Sichuan Army.

A burst of arrows was blocked by shields one after another. Ma Chao looked out through the gaps in the shields, but saw that there were more than 60 archers who were shooting arrows this time. The corner of the mountain road.

It seems that the Sichuan army has deployed a lot of troops here. It will take a lot of effort to get over the boulder obstacle. At least the archers within a hundred steps must be cleaned up, right?

However, the greater the challenge, the more Ma Chao likes it. He never fights unprepared battles. The 100 men he brought this time are all the most elite soldiers under his command. The bunker shouldn't take much damage.

For a while, arrows came and went on the narrow mountain road, and people were killed by arrows constantly. There were corpses all over the mountain road. Although there were a large number of Sichuan soldiers, they could not resist the elite troops led by Ma Chao. When they died, the rest of the people were forced to retreat because they couldn't resist the arrows of Ma Chao and others, and retreated to the corner of the mountain road, not daring to show their heads.

At this time, Ma Chao ordered his subordinates to take advantage of this opportunity to quickly climb over the boulder obstacle, and 100 people were unscathed.After a short rest, Ma Chao ordered the shield soldiers to move forward, and he followed behind the shield soldiers.

The shield soldiers kept moving forward, and the archers hiding in the corner kept shooting, but the arrows were all blocked by the shield, which did not have the effect of blocking at all. On the contrary, Ma Chao and others saw the need and kept shooting. Arrows, Sichuan soldiers basically fell in response to the string.

The mountain road was narrow and there were not enough people to gather. The Sichuan soldiers simply gave up shooting with bows and arrows. Holding knives and guns, they mustered up the courage to rush forward, wanting to fight Ma Chao and others in close quarters.

In this way, instead, Ma Chao was caught in the arms. The shield soldier at the front held the shield in one hand, and drew out the steel knife hanging from his waist with the other.

Seeing the Sichuan soldiers rushing over, the shield hand yelled, and rushed over with the shield. There was a loud "bang". As soon as he threw it away, the right hand holding the steel knife started to dance, and together with the short and stalwart school swordsman beside him, they rushed towards the enemy. Splashing, screaming again and again, with the knife in hand and the heads flying around, all of them are equal to a hundred.

At the same time, the archers behind Ma Chao kept shooting arrows from a distance, and under the double attack of the shield soldiers, the dozens of Sichuan soldiers blocking the mountain road were powerless to fight back.

Ma Chao also had itchy hands, but the road here was narrow and could only accommodate three people side by side. Although there were only a shield soldier and a school swordsman standing in front of him, the coordination of the two swords was very tacit, and there was no room for a third person.

Ma Chao continued to shoot and kill Sichuan soldiers with bows and arrows, and cooperated with the battle of the two elite soldiers in front.

In a short time, all the Sichuan soldiers within a hundred steps were killed by Ma Chao and others, and the two soldiers who rushed to the front were already covered in blood, but they were not injured at all. The level of bravery.

According to Fazheng's suggestion, Zhang Fei deployed heavy troops on the mountain road here, and would pile up some huge stones to block the road every [-] steps, and within [-] steps, he also deployed [-] soldiers, which can be called one step. a soldier.But even with such a tight defense, they couldn't stop Ma Chao's attack at all, because they ignored one of the most fundamental reasons.

The soldiers placed here are not elite soldiers. If the opponent attacks with elite soldiers, then these soldiers may not be able to survive. The most important thing is that the road behind is blocked, but the soldiers a hundred steps away cannot Reinforcement has no real effect except to slow down the enemy's attack speed and delay time.

Ma Chao didn't see through the loopholes here, he just relied on his courage to avenge his dead subordinates as soon as possible, but when he broke through the first [-]-man team of Sichuan soldiers, he suddenly had an epiphany, as if he saw hope .

Therefore, Ma Chao boosted his morale, replaced the soldiers at the front, continued to use the strategy just now, and bit by bit devoured the defensive forces arranged by Zhang Fei, and he wanted to let Zhang Fei know how powerful he was.

On the tower of Jiameng Pass, Pound had been watching the city wall. When he saw that Ma Chao had advanced a hundred steps and killed the soldiers there, and the army was unscathed, he was also inexplicably excited.

Suddenly, Pang De realized something, turned around and went down the tower, and quickly ran to the official office.

"Military division, General Ma won the first battle. He has broken through the enemy's first layer of defense. Now he is launching a fierce attack on the enemy's second layer of defense. If this continues, it will not be a problem to break through the enemy's layers of defense. It's just General Ma's soldiers Not many, and the physical strength of his subordinates is also extremely exhausted, the final general suggests that some more elite soldiers be summoned to support General Ma at any time, so as to help General Ma open the road to the heart of Shu!" As soon as Pang De entered the official office, he saw Pang Tong standing there, Immediately report to Pang Tong.

Pang Tong had just sent the memorial away, when he suddenly heard Pound's report, his eyes lit up, and he said to Pound, "Let's go to the tower to have a look!"

(End of this chapter)