Chapter 201 Cavalry Maneuvering (1/2)
Chapter 201 – Cavalry Maneuvering
Zhang Yang's face paled, seeing two of his battalions got slaughtered by an ambush.
”Ambush!”
”The enemies are on the cliff!”
The surviving soldiers scrammed away from the eastern cliff in a panic. Ninety percent of the men in the ambushed platoons were either crippled or dead by the continuous arrow rain.
Zhang Yang screamed, ”Get away from the cliff! Have the scouts look for a pathway to the top of the mountain! Heavy cavalries, head back to help the reserve troops!”
Finished sending orders, Zhang Yang bit his thumb while he was sweating bullets despite the cold temperature. He regretted not noticing the strategic terrain around his own city.
He was just appointed as the governor of Shangdang recently to help Ding Yuan suppress the Xiangnu tribes in Bing Province. Because Zhang Yang was too focus on collecting wealth, slaves, and expanding his influence in this city to make it his permanent root, he did not pay attention to the surrounding geography around his territory.
Zhang Yang always believed that there would not be any crazy bastard who would siege his city as it was closed to the Capital. The warlord would be branded as rebels if he dared to do so.
Alas, his prediction was wrong. Jia Xu and Ju Shou were those crazy bastards to come up with this plan.
The arrow barrages did not last long. It stopped after half a minute, but the damages it caused was significant as it withered down Zhang Yang's personal force by almost 20%.
Feeling impatient, Zhang Yang decided to head toward his heavy cavalry unit. He would join them in the hunt. Before he left, he called a messenger and told him.
”Tell Wang Kuang, I'll give him my right to command my army, but I want him to siege the city, NOW!”
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Lu Bu observed the entire event from start to finish. He shook his head as he disapproved Zhang He's style of fighting.
”What a disappointment. He's just another coward.”
Li Feihong rolled his eyes. Gao Shun let out a dry laugh, and Zhang Liao put his palm on top of his forehand. They did not agree with Lu Bu as it was a logical choice to use a hit-and-run tactic against an overwhelming force.
Yet, their boss was the abnormal one.
'Who in the right mind would fight directly against a 100,000-man army with only a few thousand men?' Gao Shun retorted in his mind.
'Not everybody has your brute strength, damn you,' Li Feihong thought.
'He would have been on the legendary Xiang Yu's level if he was a bit more open-minded,' Sighed Zhang Liao.
Fortunately, Lu Bu could not read a human's mind. If he could hear what his subordinates' thought, he would have beaten them black and blue.
”You are wrong, Fengxian. Look carefully, they are back, aren't they?”
Zhang Liao pointed at the light horsemen that were rushing down from the same slope again.
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Mu Shun, the commanding general of Zhang Yang, led the heavy cavalry unit to follow the trail of Zhang He and his men. By the order of Zhang Yang, Mu Shun took all 30,000 heavy cavalries from both Wang Kuang and Zhang Yang Army to chase after the raiders.
Zhang Yang also tagged along with the troop, wanting to revenge for the losses of his men.
Mu Shun had sent a scout team to follow the footprints beforehand, and they found out that Zhang He had fled north. It took them thirty minutes to locate a suspicious path. Among the eastern mountain range of the valley road, there was an area where bushes and glasses did not grow, which was similar to a road in a forest.
”General, look! They have passed through this passage here!” Mu Shun pointed at the ground. Several footprints of horses could be seen by naked eyes. ”The path is wide, and the footprints are still fresh. They should have passed through here a moment ago!”
Zhang Yang nodded, ”We'll follow them!”
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Meanwhile, Zhang He gazed at the pursuers from the top of the cliff on a distance away. His pupils expanded as if they were the eyes of a cat when it's looking at a toy.
'Catch me if you can!'
Zhang He decided to not fight with this group of heavy cavalries. Although he was running away from them, he had not finished what he had come here to do yet.
The 10,000 light cavalries gathered at the slope where they charged down from the top of the cliff again. Zhang He returned to his men after brief scouting as he had thought of a new plan.
”Men, we'll rush down the mountain again!”
The previous soldiers, who had followed Zhang He down the mountain, grinned as they enjoyed the sensation of galloping a horse downhill. However, the others looked at Zhang He with a wry smile.
One of the experienced soldiers patted the shoulder of a horseman who had yet to try, ”Don't worry. It's scary at first, but you'll like it once it passes. It's like giving your butthole to a man for the first time.”
The others turned around and locked their eyes at the speaker in fright and shock.
”It's like what!?”
”You slept with a man!?”
”Don't you dare to sleep in my tent!”
”Don't worry, you can always sleep in my private tent. But we'll sleep naked, of course.”
”Dafuq was wrong with you two!”
”Go get a room, both of you.”
The soldiers still messed around with their comrades. They did not have the tension of being on a battlefield.