Chapter 108 – The Great Battle is Imminent

In the morning mist, a group of people rode out from the south gate of Hutou City, and then went their separate ways.

Kilowood Longguan changed body Beiliang light cavalry armor and knives, but also get a brand new household ultimatum, the name also changed to Kilowood Longguan, from today onwards he is a member of the Beiliang Border Army, out of the city, rebel out of the northern Mang young people always go to touch a few times the waist of the cool knife, the Beiliang sword, known as the “magnificent Xu sample”, means that the world’s war sword casting, all to the Xu family sword as a style. The Xu family sword as a style. Kilowood Long Guan is clear that if this sword is sold in the royal court side, no 500 taels of silver simply do not want to take, and there is no market, countless members of the royal family and grassland Sydney tick are to be able to collect all the Xu-like cool knife as an honor. Poor habitual beggar Longguan has such a knife, waist straightened a few points, always feel that they are now also counted as a waist ten thousand slam rich people! But there is a secret, more than the Liang sword light crossbow and household identity to make the young knight feel ecstatic, that the Northern Liang King taught him a nameless sword manual and a set of Wudang heart method. Kilfu Longguan was now filled with great pride and was willing to fight in the sand for the young new Liang King.

He followed the Northern Liang King’s order to escort County Lord Hong Yan to Liuzhou, as long as he threw this bitch surnamed Yelu to the border he could leave it alone, at that time he was able to directly defect to the Dragon Elephant Army, after this in the Liangmang war whether to live or die, it was up to his own destiny.

Yelu Hong Cai hesitated for a moment, dialed his horse’s head, sped up, stopped his horse to stop the road after catching up with Xu Feng Nian, and said in a deep voice: “You’re just going to let me go back to Northern Mang?”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “Or else? Let the Jade Cicada Prefecture’s Order Bearer bring a mountain of gold and silver to ransom you? Even if your father is willing to pay, you are not destined to go back alive. A proper county princess captured as a prisoner for Northern Liang, I’m afraid the Yelu family can’t afford to lose this face.”

Yelu Hongcai wanted to speak.

Xu Fengyen waved his hand and said, “Your death or life is irrelevant, don’t take yourself too seriously.”

Yelu Hongcai laughed playfully, “I originally wanted to reveal some of the North Mang army movements to you, but since you don’t want to listen to my projections and guesses, then forget it.”

Xu Fengyin was still not half as curious and blandly said, “Continuing to block the road, aren’t you afraid that I’ll back out?”

This sable-covered forehead woman narrowed her eyes and her face sank like water, slamming her horse whip fiercely and brushing past this repulsive-looking fellow.

Xu Fengyen and Tantai Calm continued on their way to Huaiyang Pass, seeing the inquiring sight of this Qi Practitioner Patriarch, Xu Fengyen laughed softly, “With Yelu Hongcai’s mind and heart, I can’t expect her to say anything truthful, maybe she will even misrepresent the military information to undermine me for once, instead of being tossed around by her words and being suspicious, it would be better to not listen to them at all.”

Tantai calmly smiled, “Intuition tells me that once this woman opens her mouth, it will be the truth.”

Xu Fenian laughed to himself with a “Sounds like a big loss?” But without thus shouting back to that perhaps once in a while Bodhisattva hearted Hongyan county princess, Tantai Calm smiled and stopped talking. She is tall, a hundred years old, but the face of a child forever, and dressed in a snow-white clothes, when she galloped, the clothes fluttering, as a large white lotus bloomed in the desert above. At this time, when this scene, when the “amazing as heavenly beings” said.

After a few moments of silence, Tantai calmly and suddenly asked curiously, “North Mang has a big debate about whether to fight the western line of Beiliang or the eastern line of the Liyang Dynasty, if it is not for the mysterious Imperial Master from the Chess and Sword House of Music and the new King of the Southern Court Dong Zhuo, both of them insisted on going down to Beiliang first, I’m afraid that it is now the time for you, North Mang, to look at Gu Jiantang’s jokes. In addition, the vast majority of the North Mang generals and hold section order, as well as the grasslands of the most powerful of those Sydney, think that go to fight the eastern front is more cost-effective, after all, defeat the two Liao defense line, can be pushed to the city of Tai’an, and is even expected to be able to and the restoration of Western Chu in the Guangling Road echo, so that the Liyang army is tired of running for their lives, and the first and the last can not be echoed, the two dynasties, this is not the same as the long term. Why the North Mang female empress will force the public opinion, promised that two people with the North Liang dead? Isn’t this exactly what Emperor Zhao wants to do? What’s more, even after defeating Northern Liang, there is still Chen Zhi Bao’s Western Shu as a buffer ……”

Xu Fengyen smiled and interrupted Tantai’s calm words, “It’s very simple, Beimang can attack Beiliang with all their strength, but they definitely don’t dare to kill the eastern line of Liyang with such a brain, because they don’t dare to show their asses to Beiliang’s 300,000 border troops, the Beiliang cavalry which has been through hundreds of battles not only possesses unparalleled mobility but also is incredibly familiar with desert terrains and long-distance raids. North Mang dares to take 200,000 soldiers and horses to sit with Gu Jiantang and drink wine and eat meat and drink tea and enjoy the moon, if it were North Liang, it would have been eaten to the bone, and then strutted into the long drive, the entire South Dynasty will have to suffer. It is not that the Taiping order and Fatty Dong do not know the small calculations of the court of Liyang, but they do not have a choice, not a bite to eat the northern Liang, to play the seemingly simple actually by Zhang Julu, Gu Jiantang and Chen Zhi Bao successive three people operating in the east line, then the northern Mang is equal to Liyang consume the national strength, and the most critical is …… ”

Tantai calmly drifted off, nodded his head and interjected, “I see, as long as the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry stays in the Northwest for a day, that would mean that the Liyang Dynasty, even if it loses the Eastern Front, or even leads to the Tai’an City being trapped, still holds the initiative that is enough to change the stalemate. But if Beimang succeeded in defeating Beiliang in one fell swoop, the initiative would change to the hands of the Beimang Empress. Especially if the Beiliang Iron Horsemen, who were known as the most powerful horsemen in the world, were all annihilated, no matter how much the people of the Central Plains disliked the Beiliang Xu Clan, half of their souls had already been lost. Even Bei Liang couldn’t stop the iron hooves of North Mang’s southward march, so who could?”

Xu Fengnian lamented, “Since Zhang Julu came to power, he has not been much supportive of the military affairs at the Northwest border, but he has never been too restrictive either, and this is what makes Lord Chief Minister so powerful. Seemingly quiet and inactive, there is the suspicion of condoning Northern Liang to raise a tiger, but in fact, it is helping the Liyang Zhao Room to win the day to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.”

Tantai calmly looked towards Tai’an City in the east and murmured, “The Zhao family’s son of heaven has already made a trade-off between his family and country. Liyang committed suicide for its deer.”

Xu Fengnian sneered, “So the court waited until the opening of the good show, but the biggest behind the scenes won’t see this day. It is not afraid that the new emperor can not suppress the old chief minister, afraid of too many cold carp jumped over the dragon gate, when these wild carp among the temple gradually embraced the group, that can be barefoot not afraid to wear shoes of the guy, death will die, anyway, alone, unlike the luxury valves born of the world’s children, but also have to consider for the interests of the huge family behind them. Even if most of the ten people in this group of poor soldiers coveted the feeling of being rich in boots, as long as there were two or three people who did not obey the rules and dared to stiffen their necks against the emperor and plead for the people all day long, that would be enough to make the Zhao Emperor, who was the king of the family world, eat a lot of pots of food. Zhao Zhuan, the next one to sit on the dragon chair, has neither the military achievements of the former emperor to unify the Central Plains, nor the twenty years of experience of the current emperor in checking and suppressing the civil and military officials such as Xu Snapdragon, Zhang Julu, and Gu Jiantang, so how can Zhao Zhuan’s father feel confident in handing over the whole world to Zhao Zhuan if he doesn’t do something before his dying day? So, he painstakingly invited a half of the body has been in the yellow earth of Qi Yanglong to do the emperor, until the old man stabilized the situation, almost also died of old age, by then Zhao Zhuan has also been full of wings, the feudal lords and generals have also been cut down on the military power, coupled with Yin Maochun, these foundation is not deep enough to support the minister, and then promote the grandchildren of the royal family to check and balance the former, do not have to be as diligent as today’s son of heaven, lying comfortably when the The emperor is. There are times when I think about that blue-eyed child, I really feel unworthy for him.”

Tantai calmly sighed.

Xu Fengnian laughed to himself, “I just don’t know if the Chief Minister will feel unworthy for Northern Liang?”

Tantai Calm asked with a smile, “Have a grudge?”

Xu Fenian exhaled and said in a deep voice, “Old me has a lot of grievances!”

Tantai Calm said, “It just so happens that Northern Mang bumped into the tip of Northern Liang’s sword.”

Xu Fengnian glanced at the sky, perhaps this year’s heavy snowfall could not cover the blood.

Huaiyang Pass inside the Northern Liang capital protection house is still simple and unlike, which makes Huaiyang Lieutenant Huang Laifu is very apprehensive, although it can not be said that sleep and food is difficult to eat, but every time you go to the Lord Protector to participate in the military affairs, feel that it is not so much, some of the generals and colonels of the friends and adversaries like to take this shit to stab him a few times. Said what he Huang Lai Fu now raised eyebrows ah, living in the place than Chu Du Gui also elegant, it is a pity that the king did not get a general to him, otherwise it is really a real big man. Huang Lai Fu even the opportunity to talk back, can only be resigned, over time, he became the number one big joke of the northern border of Liangzhou. However, with the atmosphere of the imminent war on the border is more and more intense, these harmless flirting will soon dissipate, today Huang Lai Fu routine to go to the Palace of Protection, the recent several marshals and commanders are in the House, the group, together to discuss the deployment of the North Mang’s troops and the direction of the main attack, Huang Lai Fu is a will fight, but is not good at moving the lips of the rough, can not intervene, but listening to those old generals and commanders of the dispute, it is very comfortable, feel that as long as there is a good fight, the army will not be able to take the lead. Feel very comfortable, think as long as they are sitting at the border command and control, not to mention that today’s Beiliang border troops strong and unharmed, is the front of the Tiger City accidentally lost, let him Huang Laifu to snatch it back, that is also absolutely no second thoughts.

When Huang Laifu walked into the lobby of the capital of that hung with the size of the situation map, obviously noticed some differences, the center of the lobby placed a six-foot-long huge yellow pear wood table, in the table on both sides of the many fresh faces, the commander of the infantry Yan Wenluan, the Spring and Autumn veteran should be the first time to come to Huaiyangguan, the cavalry commander Yuan Zuozong has also arrived, but also Gu Dazu Zhoukang Hezhong neglected the four old and new vice marshals Chen Yuntui also! For the first time ever, Qi Dangguo, one of the Great General’s righteous sons and the new White Feather Cavalry Commander, also stood on one side. Youzhou assassin Hu Kui and Youzhou general Huangfu Ping stood side by side in some position, and only from the Youzhou assassin promoted half a step higher Liangzhou assassin Wang Peifang, trembling, this can be said to be successful and famous Northern Liang readers, standing alone in the most remote corner, obviously in this kind of occasions, any one of the other cloaked generals to let out a fart, than than he is this civil official to pull open his voice and shouting is more useful.

But the one figure that shocked Huang Laifu the most was Second County Princess Xu Weixiong!

She sat in her wheelchair, her hands interlaced with her ten fingers, staring intently at the map of the border situation on the table.

Beiliang Capital Protector Lord with one hand resting on an inkstone and one hand lifting a pen, the ink in the inkstone is red ink, Chu Lushan stood beside Xu Weixiong, stooping down to draw a red line on the map, and constantly speaking softly.

Huang Laifu tiptoe close to the past, a few cases on both sides of the early stood more than twenty people, he can only see the needle to find a position, just in time to hear Chu Lushan said in a low voice: “Earlier we have a standard traveling crossbowmen inserted into the hinterland of Gusei State, found Liu Gui army has already started, now can be determined, is running to the flow of the state. In addition to Liu Gui’s 30,000 elite troops, there are also four military towns in the south of the country, including Wazhu Junzikan, that have also poured out their troops, and several of the old Long Guan nobles have also pulled out 30,000 foot soldiers from their old pockets, as well as Gusei Prefecture’s 8,000 Qiang Rider pro-army that holds the order of the festival that needs attention. Together, all of these 100,000 troops rushed to the present-day state capital of Liuzhou, Qingcang City.”

Chu Lushan used a vermilion pen to make a point somewhere north of Qingcang City on the map, “It is plain to see that those 30,000 foot soldiers of the Longguan nobles are used as the main force to attack the city.”

Then in the Qingcang City and Lin Rumor military town between gently wiped a stroke, “no accident, will be the eight thousand Qiang horsemen here to wait for a rabbit, used to hold the flow of state western line of reinforcements of the siege, fight, but not to escape, Qiang horsemen other skills have no, run away the ability of the first-class, more than a dozen years ago, I’ve long since been taught.”

The room will smile, when the first Liyang North Mang battle, the world knows that in that smoke in the glory of Chu Lushan has two regrets, one is not slaughtered the same fat man Dong Zhuo, and then there is a surprisingly failed to chase and kill the routed Qiang riders.

The tip of Chu Lu Shan s pen shifted, heavily drawing a line between Liangzhou and Qingcang City in Liuzhou, “Liu Gui s army, which is the main force, should be interspersed here …….”

Xu Weixiong frowned, directly interrupting Chu Lushan’s words after hearing this, “Is it just a matter of retreating and allowing Liu Gui to penetrate within Liuzhou? Even if Liuzhou only has 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army, there is absolutely no need to be so passive.”

Gu Dazu, who had his hands behind his back, bent down to look at the map and also slowly spoke, “If we say that the Liangzhou-Youzhou border can be waited for, Liuzhou really doesn’t have the need for this, the 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army only needs to find the main force of Liu Gui’s army and crush it in one fell swoop, and the rest of those stragglers are not enough to be feared. Outside the gates of the Warring States, Northern Liang has the ability to do this.”

Vice Commander of the Cavalry Army, He Zhong, neglected to speak up, “Don’t look at Liu Gui’s side as superior in numbers, but just this much strength isn’t really enough to stuff your teeth. Even if Dong Zhuo has a backhand, according to their current deployment, two days of warhorse feet away, it’s too late to collect the corpse.”

Chu Lushan stretched out two fingers, pinched the scarlet nib, ignored it, just gazed at the fingertips dipped in some ink, calmly said, “The bait is too small to catch the big fish.”

Chu Lushan suddenly laughed out loud, appearing particularly striking in the silent room.

Only to hear this Lord Protector extend his thumb and forefinger glued together, lifting his hand and laughing, “Our Northern Liang Iron Cavalry is too powerful, we always need to give our opponents such a tiny bit of thought before we can do so.”