Chapter 164 Ashes
When Hong Piao led the 1,200 horse thieves to the battlefield, the scene in front of them was unforgettable for their lives. The Rouran Iron Cavalry, known as the most elite in the Southern Dynasty, built a Jingguan with dead bodies. The white-armored cavalry made the horse thieves feel strange and shocked. There are also knowledgeable people among the horse thieves. It can be seen that the configuration of this cavalry is between heavy cavalry and light cavalry, with one person and two cavalry or even three cavalry. However, compared with the Youzhou cavalry led by Yu Luandao, it is obviously more "magnificent" because each cavalry has a heavy spear hanging, and in terms of armor, it is in the style of "small armor" for all people and horses. After the horse thieves entered the battlefield, they were ordered to cut off the heads of the Rouran cavalry and continue to pile up corpses into tombs, and those "white cavalry" began to unload their armor.
Hanging on the back of a war horse that was not riding, preparing to withdraw from the battlefield. When the horse thief chopped off the heads of the Rouran cavalry, most of them would subconsciously stare at one of the horses. The one sitting high on the horse's back, without wearing a helmet, carried a long spear, and was tall. This rider came to Xu Fengnian, and did not dismount. He looked south with Xu Fengnian, regretfully: "It's a pity that Hong Jingyan ran back to the gourd mouth with hundreds of guards. Otherwise, as long as he died here, the remaining Rouran iron cavalry was not worth mentioning. Yang Yuanzan lost all the troops that could flexibly and maneuver combat. We could directly enter the gourd mouth and compete with Beimang who formed an encirclement earlier. Now it is not possible, the two 7,000 elite cavalry of Nabo are still watching the east."
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, "Things cannot be perfect. If you hadn't arrived in time, the Beimang Taiping Order would have joined forces with Hong Jingyan, Zhongliang and Murong Baoding. Not to mention Yu Luan Dao and more than 3,000 Youqi, it would be difficult for me to leave. Song Diaoer's rebellion is nothing, but the Tuoba spirit who guessed early that I would appear outside the gourd's mouth should not be underestimated. His ability to convince the Emperor of Beimang to come here means that he has a terrible voice in the Beimang Center. Brother Yuan, we must be more careful when confronting him in the future."
It was Yuan Zuozong, the commander of the Northern Liang cavalry, who narrowed his lying eyebrows and nodded, "Beiliang paid more attention to Dong Zhuo before, and he really ignored Tuoba's aura."
Xu Fengnian looked around for a week, "Where are she?"
Yuan Zuozong smiled and said, "Emperor Wang took a crossbowman with a flag. He probably didn't dare to see you."
Xu Fengnian was a little helpless. Qingniao, the second-class maid and dead soldier in Wutongyuan, returned from Beimang with the instant gun of Wang Xiu's relics, and entered the Daxue Dragon Cavalry Army. With his military achievements, he was promoted to become a crossbowman commander. This time she rushed to Hulukou to "rescue the horse", and she was more anxious than anyone else. She took a crossbowman first and could set off nearly a hundred miles from the main army. If she followed the Beiliang military rules, she would have been scolded by the main general and expelled from the army. As a result, after the war ended, she disappeared immediately. Yuan Zuozong's remains of the gun immortal king Xiu
Gu, who gave her the greatest trust and tolerance, not because she was a "famous minister" but because although she was a woman, she was the best soldier on the battlefield. The first to the eighth Rouran Iron Cavalry's heads were all broken in one breath. Xu Fengnian looked back and saw that the third disciple Lu Yun, who had been reunited in the distance for a long time, was next to his eldest disciple Yu Dilong. It seemed that Lu Yun was splashing everywhere, and Yu Dilong didn't say a word. Xu Fengnian sighed, not knowing whether the girl Wang Sheng, who followed the white fox face to Beimang to practice swordsmanship, had any chance of her belonging to her.
Yuan Zuozong whispered: "It's time to leave."
Xu Fengnian nodded and said, "Yes."
Yu Luandao came to Xu Fengnian and Yuan Zuozong. Yuan Zuozong asked with a smile: "General Yu, the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry still lacks a deputy general. Are you interested? Although I do not have the power to appoint, the prince is here. If you agree, I promise that the prince will not refuse, but will only follow the flow."
Xu Fengnian smiled with a sense of understanding. Several personal troops in the border army of Northern Liang were all the "family property" left by Xu Xiao for his children, and it can be regarded as the most luxurious work in the world. In addition to Xu Fengnian's eight hundred white horses, the "private army" of youngest son Xu Longxiang has increased from 10,000 cavalry to 30,000, becoming the mainstay of protecting Liuzhou. Xu Fengnian's two sisters Xu Zhihu and Xu Weixiong also have personal troops, and nearly 10,000 heavy cavalry in Northern Liang came from these two cavalry. The Northern Liang Protectorate can all dispatch these personal troops under the names of the children of General Xu Xiao, but the specific military service is generally not involved.
Yu Luandao said calmly: "The Great Snow Dragon Cavalry is good, but my Youzhou Cavalry is not bad at all."
Yuan Zuozong smiled but did not say anything, and did not care about Yu Luandao's "unawareness" and on the contrary, he had a little more sincere admiration for the persistence of this outsider in Beiliang.
Xu Fengnian suddenly said: "Cai Nan, who was the general in charge of the military affairs of Heji Prefectures, stopped him. The 30,000 cavalry troops in Youzhou could only send 10,000 cavalry out of the country. The veteran general Tian Heng was angry at the Beiliang Protectorate, or to be precise, I was not tough enough, so angry that I was unwilling to be that general. I took off my armor and returned to Tian Han to play with my grandchildren. It is said that Xu Fengnian's courage was used up in that resistance to the imperial edict."
Yu Luandao's heart tightened, "Although General Tian's anger was inappropriate, Tian Heng was very serious and used his troops very well. The Youzhou cavalry must not miss this Dinghai Sword Needle. If the prince was going to be guilty, Yu Luandao was willing to use all his military achievements to atone for Tian Heng's sins."
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, "I don't mean to settle the score in the autumn. I just hope that after you return to Youzhou, you will bring me a message to Tian Heng, so that he will not be angry. I don't know what happened to his family. Both sons died in battle before the crown. Where did the old general come from? The old general come to play with his grandson? The 30,000 cavalry troops in Youzhou, and he will be the chief general. You Yu Lundao are the deputy general. Shi Yulu and Su Wenyao respectively gave edicts to the cavalry general and the cavalry general, each leading 10,000 You cavalry. At that time, the old general will most likely refuse to be the chief general. You just say it was the order of me and the Protectorate's Office. He will either be the chief general or continue to play with his grandson."
Yu Luandao immediately smiled and clasped his fists and said, "The last general will take the order!"
Xu Fengnian said in a deep voice: "These 3,200 cavalry will be set up to 'not retreat', and you, Yu Luandao, will serve as the first lieutenant of this camp! I, Xu Fengnian, also have a name for the soldiers in the camp, but it is not considered as the active cavalry."
Yu Luan bit her lip, her eyes turned red, and she suddenly turned around, galloped out for hundreds of steps, took a Xu flag from a Youzhou cavalryman, and faced the 3,200 Youzhou cavalry, and roared: "The general has an order. I have 3,200 Youzhou cavalry, and set up a 'no retreat'!"
Yu Luandao raised the blood-soaked flag high, "Don't retreat! Set the flag today!"
Three thousand two hundred cavalrymen, collectively drawing out the Northern Sword.
All the heavy snow dragon cavalrymen also boarded their horses and drew their swords, willing to strengthen their power for the first brave cavalryman to win the reputation of the "battlefield" in the Youzhou border army.
As a "veteran" of Northern Liang who had personally participated in a series of Spring and Autumn wars, Yuan Zuozong subconsciously glanced at Xu Fengnian after drawing his sword.
Yuan Zuozong did not see the kind of passion and desire that young generals would appear. Yuan Zuozong whispered: "It is inevitable that people will die in war."
Xu Feng said in a young voice: "Let's go."
The cavalry quickly moved westward, leaving behind them the terrifying Beijing Temple with soft iron cavalry piled up in mountains outside the gourd mouth.
About half an hour later, more than a hundred cavalry slowly came to this tragic battlefield. The two cavalry led by two Beimang generals in their thirties. One of them looked at the Jingguan with a complicated expression, "When the number of people is equivalent, can you really not fight if you encounter those ten thousand cavalry?"
Another cavalry said calmly: "In terms of combat power, our two king-level heavy cavalry in Yelu Murong are actually not inferior. In the battlefield where both sides invest more than 100,000 troops, the heavy cavalry is still a bit advantage in the matter of drilling through formations. But if you say you have to choose a place to play a one-on-one fight with these 10,000 riders, there is no suspense. There is no way, the top elites of the entire Beiliang cavalry are in the snow dragon cavalry. The cavalry are between 20 and 30 years old, and the middle and low-level generals are all forty years old.
On the right, all the high-level generals who fought the old battles of the Spring and Autumn Period, and each horse was a horse of the Northern Liang A. We, Beimang, really want to build our own heavy snow dragon cavalry, not that we can't stand it, but the key is who will be the chief general? Dong Zhuo is in line, but he already has more than 100,000 Dong family troops. Even if His Majesty rests with peace of mind, no one even wants to even the Southern Dynasties. Liu Gui and Yang Yuanzan, these generals who are familiar with the officialdom, are unwilling to take over this hot potato from the bottom of their hearts."
The first cavalry general dismounted, squatted on the ground and picked up a Rouran scimitar with bloodlessness, wiped the blood off the armor, and sneered: "Hong Jingyan is really miserable. He is his elite soldiers in the entire Rouran Mountains. He still couldn't get the King of the South Court and was also appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of War of Xijing. He finally thought that the gourd mouth was easy to bully, and wanted to lead 20,000 horses to start a massacre in Youzhou. As for attacking both cities of Wagong Luanhe, Yang Yuanzan and Zhong Tan started to attack the sunlight. Finally, they had the opportunity to make contributions, and they turned around and ran out of the gourd mouth. Well, they defeated half of the troops of the Daxue Dragon Cavalry in an instant. The key is that this guy didn't dare to go into battle. I really don't know if he can still sit in the seat of the "Roran Co-lord". As for what to compete with Dong Zhuo in the future, I think he should understand that there is no chance."
The other rider did not dismount and shook his head and said, "Hong Jingyan is not that simple."
The squatting general gently touched the blade of the Rouran sword with his thumb, "I'm curious why that guy didn't fight with Taiping Ling. If he could kill the medicine jar, Tuoba Qiyun, and the woman who was about to be taken away by Zhongtan, and then he died bravely at Zhongliang's hands, how great would it be."
Another smiled and said, "It can be seen that this guy was really injured in the battle in Liuzhou."
The squatting general Beimang stood up, looked at the person on the horse's back, and smiled and said, "Mr. Dongnabo, Yuan Tingshan of Jizhou forced Wei Jingtang out of the city and fought with us. At that time, I was stunned. Seven or eight hundred cavalry and 4,000 infantrymen dared to fight against nearly ten thousand cavalrymen from our city, which made me think that there were tens of thousands of ambush troops in Liyang, or that there were large cavalry troops on our tail in western Liaoning. As a result, in half an hour, all the men and horses of Wei Jingtang died, and Yuan Tingshan and his father-in-law's family didn't fart. If I hadn't seen the Jingguan built by these tens of thousands of Rouran cavalry today, I would have thought that our Beimang would just take out 100,000 cavalry and circumvent Beiliang and slant the Central Plains."
The general known as Dong Nabo said in a deep voice: "The Jibei Cavalry and the private army of the Li family in Yanbao, which were gathered up in Yuan Tingshan, must be waiting patiently for us to return to the eastern front somewhere, so you and I should not be careless."
Qiu Nabo curled his lips, and after getting on the horse, he threw out the soft scimitar and inserted it on the top of a Jingguan. "The mad dog Yuan Tingshan really didn't take it into my eyes. But the remnants of the Western Chu on Guangling Road were two people named Kou Jianghuai and Xie Xiqiu, who were very interested. After Kou Jianghuai gave up, Zhao Yi's lucky general Song Li quickly led his troops to easily recover the territory. The good situation on the eastern front of them has now fallen to the point of suppressing Song Li and not daring to show their heads. It is said that all the faces in the small court in Western Chu have changed. Earlier, the snowflakes used to impeach Kou Jianghuai who were respectful, were all stunned now, so they began to praise Kou Jianghuai."
Dong Nabo whispered: "As long as Cao Changqing has not taken action, it means that even if Xi Chu has no victory, it means that there is no disadvantage."
Qiu Nabo laughed and said, "Anyway, the more chaotic the better."
Suddenly, the Qiu Nabo turned his head and looked at his peers who were one of the four Nabos. "Wang Jingchong, do you think one day, Xie Xiqiu and Kou Jianghuai will appear in Beiliang?"
King Jing Chong of Dongnabo was stunned for a moment, with a serious expression and said in a deep voice: "As the Greatest Shi Wei, do you have this kind of intuition?"
Qiu Nabo's big or Zhe Shi Wei touched his chin, "That's fun. But I like it."
When Wang Jingchong was in the middle of his 10s, he was still a survivor of the Spring and Autumn Period in Hong Jiabei. He followed the teacher in the family's private school to recite the books of sages and enter Beimang. He had long forgotten the environment he lived in childhood, but on the road of wandering, the sound of books in the neighboring convoys was heard everywhere. Even after entering Gusai Prefecture, the Qiu Nabo, who still insisted on farming and reading, was deeply remembered. Wang Jingchong fell into deep thought on the horse's back and said to himself: "Restoring the country for one surname will cause another Central Plains Lu Shen, Cao Changqing, are you very painful in your heart? Since you know you, Cao Changqing, what are you trying to do?"
Daruzhe Shi Wei glanced at the Qiu Nabo, feeling complicated. The two were about the same age, but the arrogance of the military achievements accumulated over the past ten years, and the arrogant Daruzhe Shi Wei had to admit that Wang Jingchong was not only more than himself, but also more than the female wolf Yelu Yuhu on the grassland. Of course, there were more than the Baishen who had just made a big splash in the Hulukou battlefield in Youzhou. Baishen Shi only joined the army, became a pioneer general, and captured the city of Wogong. He was already said to be the more veritable Beimangxia Nabo, while Wang Jingchong needed to start step by step from the lower-level soldiers, commander of the sergeant, commander of the centurion, commander of thousands, commander of ten thousand men, but in the end he was able to become Qiu Nabo, thanks to his family of the Southern Dynasty, who married the surname A, as his backer. Daruzhe Shi Wei's complex attitude towards Wang Jingchong was largely representative of the entire Beimang's left to these Spring and Autumn remnants.
The right person is in a dilemma. His Majesty is so open and so broad. He still started a bloody case when he ascended the throne. The cause of the tragedy is ridiculous. It turned out to be a jar of ashes from the old master of a gentry with a character named B. Originally, Beiting was too lazy to take a look at the life and death of such a person, but a memorial suddenly appeared on His Majesty's desk. Then His Majesty ordered that all the elderly in the family would not want to be buried.
In addition to beheadings in the Southern Dynasties, all the clans were reduced to one level! Even more than ten years after the tragedy, elderly survivors would die from time to time, hoping to bury the ashes in the Central Plains and build tombs in Beimang, and then be exposed. It was not until the Taiping Order became the Emperor of Beimang that this ban began to loosen. Beiting allowed the Southern Dynasties to set up only clothes and tombs after their deaths, leaving ashes waiting for the horse hooves of the Beimang army to strait the Central Plains.
Daruzhe Shi Wei asked with a smile: "Wang Jingchong, our Beimang also has a place known as the Jiangnan outside the Great Wall. How is it different from the real Central Plains customs?"
Wang Jingchong said calmly: "Forgot."
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Xu Fengnian and Yuan Zuozong were resting in the middle of the army, squatting side by side on the top of a hill. Xu Fengnian turned his head and said, "If the 300,000 border troops in Beiliang today are not surnamed Xu, but surnamed Chen, then Beiliang will definitely die fewer people."
Yuan Zuozong did not deny it, "Many people think so in their hearts, and I am no exception."
Xu Fengnian stretched out his palm and placed it on the sand, "But Li Yishan said that once Beiliang is handed over to Chen Zhibao, there is only one situation, that is, Beiliang is better and the world is worse."
Yuan Zuozong was a little confused.
Xu Feng laughed young and said, "Brother Yuan, let me keep it a secret first. I hope that one day I can help my master prove that he is not wrong."
Yuan Zuozong smiled and said, "I'll wait, no hurry."
Remembering the withered scholar who lived in the Tingchao Pavilion before his death and scattered ashes on the border after his death, Xu Fengnian closed his eyes and said in his heart: "Master, don't worry."
Chapter completed!