Chapter 219 – The Four Battles of Northern Liang (I)

Liangzhou tiger’s head city, just like a second fishing platform in the Central Plains.

Only that time is in the middle of the plains of the earth is like a bamboo, the Xu family iron cavalry is blocked, this time is the North Mang horse hooves densely clustered in the city outside of the dragon’s eye child plains.

South court king Dong Zhuo personally with a standard raven columns, patrolling in the rear of the momentum waiting to start a siege infantry, in the fat man beside a pair of noble identity of young men and women, which is like a sickly young man’s identity has a lot of weight, each one is not simple, the North Mang four big press bowl in the spring press bowl, the South Dynasty curtain before the leader of the military machine Lang, chess sword music House of the divination slow, of course the most fundamental identity, is the toppatsu Bodhisattvas The most fundamental identity, of course, is Tuoba Bodhisattva’s eldest son, Tuoba Qiyun. That woman who has just been officially taken away from the title of summer press bowl by Hulukou vanguard master general Seedan, is called Yelu Yuwu. This pair of men and women, almost outside of Hulukou, managed to calculate Xu Fengyen who was deep into the hinterland of the border between the two countries, but unfortunately, Yuan Zuozong led 10,000 Daxue Dragon Cavalry to the battlefield, so that they and that Order of the Peace were undone.

Dong Zhuo took his horsewhip and pointed to Hutou City, saying: “Hutou City, which claimed that its armor and equipment could support ten years of warfare, in less than half a year, the wooden logs of the winches have been exhausted, the brick logs and mud logs have been used up for the most part, and the iron owls, abducting spears, and patting poles that have been cut by our side are countless. City bed crossbow only three left is still intact, has been damaged crossbow is already piled up, of course, the city of small and medium-sized crossbows and crossbows must still have a lot of light crossbows, stockpile of arrows is still hundreds of thousands of more. But compared to Xiangfan City, which had not more than 100,000 soldiers but 300,000 people, Hutou City has a fatal flaw, too few people. Bows and crossbows are dead, broken, you can go to the inventory to carry brand new, Hutou City’s Northern Liang border troops are not immortals, arm strength has been far inferior to the early days, if you two have the opportunity to watch the battle, you should be able to see the vast majority of the city’s bowmen used to draw the bow of the arm, are tied up with a strong bandage. To put it bluntly, as long as you give me three more months, if I stand a hundred paces outside the city, I don’t think there are many divine archers who can kill me through my armor.”

Tuoba Qiyun, whose body exuded a faint medicinal odor, looked grave and noncommittal.

To his majesty personally deprived of Xia Press Bowl, so Yelu Yu Wat bet on the anger to run to Tiger Head City “to relax”. She glanced at this fat man, who was also heard of in the royal court, thirty-five years old, the king of the southern court, holding millions of troops, equal to the old Liang King Xu Snap and the two Liao Gu Jiantang combined strength is almost the same. It is this guy insisted on hitting Northern Liang first, made such a big commotion, causing His Majesty and the Order of the Peace to bear great pressure, as a result, in addition to the eastern front Yang Yuanzan barely belongs to the merits and demerits of the rest of the two fronts are eclipsed, especially Fatty Dong himself, hard to be a tiger’s head city blocked outside the Liangzhou Pass. Even Liu Gui, who lost but a few thousand men, has already given a scolding as an old dog in the temple hall of Xijing, still for the time being no one has the guts to impeach the commander-in-chief Dong Zhuo, and Yelu Yuwu is very curious about how much longer this fat man, who privately calls His Majesty the Emperor’s Sister, will be able to carry the load.

Dong Zhuo seemingly casually mentioned three months, on the temple rules door door clear Yelu Yu Wat door heart sneer, has fallen to the point of wanting her and Tuoba qiyun to help pass the message to some people? Or is it that His Majesty the Emperor and the Order of the Peace, who have placed great expectations on Dong Zhuo, have begun to be unable to hold back?

Tuoba Qiyun finally spoke, “General Dong, I’ve been to the northwestern camp on the Dragon’s Eye Plain.”

Dong Zhuo gave a hmmm.

When he thought of that so-called Northwest Camp, Yelu Yu Wat immediately felt a bit nauseous, what a camp, it is a place where sick people and corpses are piled up, just piled up! South Korea for twenty years to accumulate strength, are a brain tilted in the attack, especially siege supplies, otherwise it can not be a breath of time to pull out nearly a thousand large and small stone-throwing car, but the treatment of the battlefield wounded, the North Mang is never good at it, and do not pay attention to it. The blazing sun, wearing a gorgeous gold armor Yeluyu Wat has been drenched in sweat, she was born with a yearning for war, yearning for the kind of life on horseback, yearning for the kind of life on horseback, yearning for the kind of arrow nailed into the back of the enemy’s head to penetrate the sense of the enemy’s head, Yeluyu Wat is used to seeing the dead, can be as firm as her mind to the northwestern camp, is still almost can’t help but vomit, a carload of corpses from the battlefield dragged down, and all thrown into the digging of a good Large pits, may be wounded soldiers lying not far outside the pit wailing in pain, many wounded soldiers who were made bloody by the defending equipment, bitterly begging to give themselves a painful death.

At that time, Tuoba Qiyun stood at the edge of a new pit that already had seven to eight hundred bodies stacked on it, and asked the soldier in charge of splashing lime for a pot. Yelu Yuwu, who had covered her mouth and nose with a heavy cotton cloth, watched this Chunzhi Bowtie expressionlessly sprinkle out handfuls of lime.

She suddenly realized that she, who had been more hard-hearted than a grassland boy since childhood, was unprecedentedly a little sad after seeing that scene.

Tuoba Qiyun’s mind jumped around a lot, changing the topic and saying slowly, “General Dong fought Beiliang and was in a hurry, but he fought Hutou City and slowed down.”

Nomadic people’s own toughness and combat habits, so that the low need for grain and grass in Beimang, far beyond the imagination of the Central Plains cavalry, at least Beimang is still not a shortage of grain and grass. But if you can autumn high horse fat season to raise troops to the south, into a stalemate situation, North Mang can be more comfortable. Tuoba Qiyun does not want to say too much horse hindsight, not to mention why Dong Zhuo and Taiping order to go south at the beginning of spring, has its own reasoning. What Tuoba Qiyun really wants to say is the second half of the sentence, if Dong Zhuo’s eastern line had recklessly attacked the city from the beginning, and took Hutou City in one go, the situation would not be so difficult to ride the tiger today. This is not a case of Tuoba Qiyun accusing Dong Zhuo of not putting forth any effort in fighting Tiger’s Head City, in fact, there is no problem with Dong Zhuo’s deployment, but since Dong Zhuo is the Grand King of the Southern Courtyard and the commander-in-chief of the million-strong army, he should have put forth more heavenly battle results.

Dong Zhuo nodded his head and said, “At first, I did suspect that there was an iron cavalry hidden within Hutou City in addition to the thousands of elite cavalry on the spy report, such as the 6,000 iron buccaneers that belonged to the old Dianxiong Animal that was later divided among the Qi Dangguo, and I even suspected that the two true heavy cavalry armies of Beiliang that totaled 9,000 or more would have at least one of them hidden within Hutou City. Because I think that since Chu Lushan dared to place the capital at Huaiyang Pass behind Hutou City, he must have wanted to come with me for a big hard-fought battle. To fight a big battle with me where both light and heavy cavalry will be present, south of Hutou City and north of Willow Bud Poria.”

Dong Zhuo said in a deep voice: “Until that ambush battle of each mind, I first used four thousand cavalry in the teeth slope as a bait, Poria army town main general Wei Liang really greedy and adventurous, was eight thousand cavalry ambush army rushed to disorganize the formation, if it is not that the small Beiliang lieutenant begged to be bad off the dragon, too heroic, froze to give him to help the Poria cavalry to open up the breakthroughs, or else the next ambush of the Beiliang should also be on time into the battlefield, and my Dong family cavalry will also move with it, and eventually on that battlefield, I was able to take a breath of Poring Liuya’s two towns’ soldiers and horses plus Huaiyangguan’s living forces, and even Hutou City’s cavalry are all hooked up together, in this way, it will become a situation where the two sides’ cavalry armies will be exchanged, and even if I, Dong Zhuo, am even more at a disadvantage, as long as I beat off the mobility of that Beiliang cavalry’s line of defense to the south of Hutou City, and whether or not Hutou City is fought or not, it’s all not a problem anymore.”

Dong Zhuo laughed to himself, “Perhaps many people in the Northern Liang Capital will curse that little lieutenant of Begong Longguan in their hearts for using his strength in the wrong place, but it was actually a lucky escape for Liangzhou. A tiger’s head city is not scary, what’s scary is the flexible cavalry behind it that doesn’t seek to kill the enemy but only to hold them back. I, Dong Zhuo, am now unsure if I’m thinking too much, or if Chu Lushan is just lucky, or if it’s actually just more than I’m thinking.”

Yelu Yu Wat frowned, “Can’t we just press on with the whole line and attack even the two towns of Porin Liu Bud together? Anyway, we have an absolute advantage in terms of troop strength, so it’s a waste of time not to fight!”

Dong Zhuo laughed it off without explaining anything. Tuoba Qiyun shook his head and said, “It’s not that we can’t throw our weight around, but it doesn’t make much sense ……”

Just as Tuoba Qiyun was about to explain the specifics of the mystery to Yelu Yuwu, Dong Zhuo galloped his horse along the fringe of the back of the infantry square formation towards a dusty caravan, and the captain of the thousand who was responsible for overseeing his men’s removal of the corpses from the battlefield quickly rolled over and dismounted when he saw the Great King of the Southern Courtyard to report the battle situation to Dong Zhuo. It turned out that these bodies were dragged out from the tunnels into the city, the North Mang attack on the city of the attack on the stone car attack there are intermittent, but this “on the stage” siege initiative has not stopped, but there has never been a significant effect, in addition to the early stage of a 500 troops and horses into the city of the tiger’s head, but quickly to the city patrol soldiers intercepted, the rest are dead in the tunnels within the narrow path. The rest were killed in the narrow path in the tunnel, or to the guardian easily blocked in the hole. It is reported that the main general of the city guard Liu Yunu has prepared, in all parts of the city in advance dug out more than ten deep holes up to three feet deep, so that the ear sharp soldiers to stay in them, as long as the North Mang cave divisions and soldiers in the surrounding hundreds or even within a thousand paces of the movement, can be the first time to capture the opportunity to fight, and after that it is a horizontal hole set up an ambush or to the fan with windmills and smoke and lime, are very easy to do.

The thousand captain because in the charge of ants in the loss of an arm, only retired to the second line to take this position, one-armed man in the report after the general situation and the number of deaths, eyes slightly red, lowered his head and then said softly: “General, successive sixteen tunnels, coupled with this set of brothers have died in the ground almost 5000 people, is it worth it? It’s good to die on that Tiger’s Head City.”

Dong Zhuo blandly said, “You guys go to the northwest camp.”

The one-armed thousand-man commander raised the only remaining arm and wiped his eyes, mounted his horse and led the caravan piled with corpses gradually far away.

Yelu Yu Wat’s heart bubbled up with anger for no reason, took a deep breath, and asked this South Court King, “When Northern Liang fought Xiangfan City in Qingzhou, it was an expert at digging tunnels, and since it can attack, it is naturally not a fledgling when it comes to defense. Not to mention that the several thousand Northern Liang cavalry troops in the city, obviously have all gone up to the top of the city, even if there are a few hundred of them who live to enter the ground inside the city, what can they do?”

Dong Zhuo smiled, seemingly deliberately not wanting to mention the five thousand dead men who failed to establish an inch of success, and said, “Two days ago there was a unit of cavalry inside the city, which had already had to board the city to participate in the defense, and their strength in dismounted combat was indeed a great deal more than that of the weary foot soldiers, and I had two of my thousand captains who had already led an attack on the city’s head, and with the two troops separated by only four hundred paces, they were almost able to gain a foothold at the city’s head.”

Dong Zhuo put his thumb and forefinger together, “Just a little bit short.”

Tuoba Qiyun said helplessly, “This little chance was obtained at such a huge cost by General Dong’s order that each one of our thousand captains must suffer casualties amounting to almost four hundred men before retreating.”

Dong Zhuo laughed, “It’s not even halfway through.”

Yelu Yu Wat asked nonchalantly in an almost questioning tone, “Dare I ask Great General, how many of the prairie sons and daughters have died under the swords of their own people?”

Dong Zhuo thought carefully and replied, “There are three thousand captains, and many more hundred captains, and together with the ordinary soldiers, if I remember correctly, as of yesterday, there were two thousand seven hundred.”

Yelu Yufu angrily said, “Aren’t you afraid of triggering a mutiny?!”

Dong Zhuo asked rhetorically, “You’re going to mutiny after killing such a small number of wastrels who retreated from the battlefield?”

Yelu Yu Wat sneered, “Indeed, General holds 100,000 of the Dong family’s private army that has barely suffered any damage, and is himself a renowned general who utilizes the military like a god of meticulousness, so he can surely stifle the first signs of it.”

Tuoba Qiyun spoke up, “Stop talking.”

Yelu Yu Wat was about to say something, but after seeing the displeased expression on the face of Chunzhi Bowls, she finally stopped provoking that great king of the southern courtyard who was not worthy of his name in her own opinion.

The two riders bid farewell to Dong Zhuo and left.

Yelu Yu Wat turned his head to look at the burly figure that stopped his horse in place and whispered: “This fat man, leading soldiers is so much, when the official is really capable, the war has been fought to this point, but still do not forget to comply with someone’s wishes, under the tiger’s head of the city of the grasslands Sydney forces to fight bit by bit. A thousand captain consumed the strength of the first line of soldiers brought from the clan, but under the rapid rotation, where will the follow-up soldiers come from? Either from the south dynasty military town supplement draw off, give mixed sand, or simply two branches of the remnants of confuse together. According to this method of fighting on, the big Sietch can not become a small Sietch?”

Yeluyu Wat face gloomy, gritted teeth: “are those of the southern dynasty of the Central Plains remnants of the wind, away from the Yang Zhao room is to take the Guangling Road used to recover military power from the hands of the local feudal kings and generals, we are not so bad, the grasslands Sydney ticks each in the bones, even if the future step through the Northern Liang into the Central Plains, the hand can still be left a few of their own people!”

Tuoba gas rhyme laughed, “you ah, whining too much to prevent intestinal break.”

Yelu Yu Wat glared angrily at him, “You can still laugh? You think your Tuoba family name can stay out of this?!”

Tuoba Qiyun shook his head and smiled without saying anything.

The fat man who was alone in the crow’s fence escort looking towards Tiger’s Head City had a view of the attacking infantry like a constant tide surging away, then the tide roiled upwards after stirring up waves along the walls of the city.

He beckoned for a young Shogun’s military strategist who was accompanying him and said, “Pass the order down, one, stop digging tunnels from today. Two, the infantry increase their efforts in attacking the city, only withdrawing if they suffer more than half casualties during the day, and attacking the city at night without using battle losses as a prerequisite for retreating, with each captain of a thousand only needing to hold on to the attack for one hour under Tiger’s Head City. Three, pass the message to the western capital, the entire southern dynasty, regardless of the family name is A B C D, as long as the family above the character spectrum, should come up with all the cellar wine, used to treat the wounds of the wounded army of the eastern front, remember, is all the family of the southern dynasty of all the wine, if someone is hiding a altar, once uncovered indeed, the family character from the word of the word of the word of the word of the word of the word of the word of the downgrade, and so on. Four, tonight I’m going to summon all the Ten Thousand Masters and Thousand Masters on the Eastern Front who are not on the battlefield.”

That military strategist quickly left to convey the military order.

Dong Zhuo said in a deep voice, “Yelu Chusai!”

A tiger-backed lieutenant who temporarily acted as the head of the crow’s fence rushed his horse and approached, this time this military general who was both a member of the Northern Mang’s royal tent and the brother-in-law of the Southern Courtyard’s great king didn’t dare to be playful, as long as his brother-in-law called him by his real name, it meant that something big was about to happen. His Yelu Chucai’s sister is Dong Zhuo’s eldest daughter-in-law, the same Yelu surname, compared to Yelu Yu Wat but to be a lot of golden branches, but the brother and sister than that heard to run away from the sun in the Central Plains of the Yelu Dong bed, the distance from the chair is going to be more far away from some of the Yelu Chucai has never had the luxury of that, since childhood, I wanted to be a galloping the battlefield of the pure military generals, Dong Zhuo has a very appetizing brother-in-law, the last few years in the Dongjia The army can be said to be like a fish in water. However, this time the southern expedition to the northern Liang, always very good to talk to the brother-in-law refused to agree to him to be the vanguard, which makes Yelu Chu Cai is very hurt. Even a short time ago, Dong’s army to Liuzhou also did not have his things, Yelu Chu Cai this time grumbling like a widowed woman.

Dong Zhuo glanced at this brother-in-law, smiled and said: “Give you a job, is the road a little far, take it or not?”

Yelu Chu Cai asked cautiously, “Is there any military honor to take?”

Dong Zhuo said, “Not necessarily.”

Yelu Chu Cai said decisively, “Then don’t go!”

Dong Zhuo laughed, “It’s fine if you don’t go, you’ll have the same chance to attack the city tomorrow anyway. I’ll just switch.”

Yelu Chu Cai was filled with confusion, “Attack the city?”

Dong Zhuo nodded, “My Dong family’s twelve thousand foot soldiers, all of them will be given to you to start attacking Hutou City tomorrow.”

Yelu Chu Cai was so surprised that he opened his mouth wide, with his figure, it was really a bloody mouth, with his sister’s flowery face is really a hundred thousand miles difference, it really does not seem to be born from the same father and mother. Yelu Chu Cai’s eyes suddenly sizzled, and did not address Dong Zhuo as his brother-in-law, but respectfully shouted out a great general, “The last will be the cavalry origin, let me go off the horse to attack the city or forget about it, the last will have decided, will take the first job!”

Dong Zhuo gazed at this guy and calmly said, “All 80,000 Dong family cavalry are given to you, rush to the outside of Hulukou as fast as you can, even though I’ve arranged for men and horses to keep an eye on the other side long ago, I’m still not at ease there. Also, before you go, write a good suicide note, if you die, I also have an explanation to your sister.”

Yelu Chu Cai, who was famous for his cynicism in North Mang, grinned, clenched his fist and pounded it heavily on his chest, “Great General, if …… I mean if I don’t make it back, and don’t have the chance to see Great General and my sister’s children, I’ll tell them later that their uncle, whose only regret is that he didn’t let them to ride on the neck to play.”

Dong Zhuo hesitated, “If it’s the same with or without you over at Hulukou, don’t be a hero. Since you like children, marry a daughter-in-law and have them yourself.”

Yelu Chu Cai nodded and steered his horse away.

Dong Zhuo remained motionless no one could hear this fat man talking to himself, he was repeatedly reciting a number, “Thirty eight, thirty eight ……”

Hutou city, against the north location of the most lofty several buildings lookout tower arrows, became the focus of the North Mang stone throwing car target, and the main general Liu Yunu is located in the building location to be more back, the threat caused by the stone throwing car is not enough to fatal, but to participate in the siege of the city to be able to approach the head of the city of North Mang archery, are due to their own arrow shot this building proud, although it will not be counted in the battlefield, but after the withdrawal from the battlefield will be treated as a hero. The heroes will be treated as heroes after they leave the battlefield.

Liu Yunu stood beside the table with the map of Hutou City, on which various details of the battlefield had been marked, such as the extent of the destruction of the city walls, the areas that had lost their bed crossbows, the dangerous battlements that had been filled in several times in a hurry, etc. Liu Yunu stared at the defense map. Liu Yunu is staring at the northeastern part of the city defense map, after the destruction of bed crossbows in this area, in the last half a decade, North Mang has increased the density and thickness of the attack here while not giving up on the attack in the north direction, a large number of siege equipment has begun to shift from the north-west to the north-east.

A city patrol lieutenant strides into the floor, loudly laughed: “General, this gang of North Mang barbarians really don’t have a long memory, today more than seven hundred ‘rats’ died again, smothered a small half, and when the last general led the people down there, didn’t even spend much effort to slaughter them all. The old rules, that tunnel is also filled in tightly for us, and in the nearby area, there will also be two cave masters and a standard of cavalry keeping an eye on it day and night.”

Liu Yunu nods, looks up and asks, “The Answering Thunder hanging outside the wall of the watchtower of the Citadel, have they all been used up?”

Answer Thunder is a special soft curtain that the Central Plains used to cope with sieges, made of thick hemp tightly woven and coated with mud to prevent fire, it is very effective against stone throwing and rockets. Although the walls of Tiger’s Head City were exceptionally strong, without a large number of Answering Thunder to slow down the tremendous impact of flying stones, Tiger’s Head City would not be so easy to patch up today.

A vice general helplessly said: ”Yes, I didn’t expect these barbarians to be able to get so many stone throwers, fortunately General had prepared for this, otherwise it would really hang in the balance. Moreover, our water bags are also running out of water, not only the city gates, but all sections of the city walls are also having headaches. There is no problem with the water source, it is the water bag made of cattle and horse animal fur and offal and cellulose, some can not keep up, that gang of barbarians desperately pouring oil to the city, supplemented by the arrows like a rain of fire, it is really crazy. It’s a good thing that our mud-stained brooms for fire attacks can be reused.”

Liu Yunu, who hadn’t closed his eyes for two days and nights, picked up an arrow on the table and handed it to a lieutenant beside him, “You all take a closer look.”

The arrow retrieved from the city was passed around, Liu Yunu said, “In the past, the Northern Mang attacked the city with this kind of arrow, but it was not on a large scale, and it was only in the past two days that it started to appear in large quantities. Previously, half of the arrows matched the current configuration of the North Mang elite cavalry, with longer arrows in pursuit of penetrating my Beiliang armor, but the remaining half of the arrows are interspersed with obsolete styles of cast bronze arrows, as well as cast iron arrows from the Dafeng Dynasty, a flat four-pronged shape. It’s different now, more refined and subdivided, so even cone arrows and iron spine arrows have appeared.”

Liu Yunu put down that arrow, “The reason why I say this is because in connection with the articulation of the recent Beimang attack on the city, I dare to assert that Beimang is exchanging breaths, kind of like a jianghu masters dueling, before Beimang launches the next wave of attack, this will be an opportunity for us, of course, it could also be a trap. But no matter what, we should try it once. That’s why these past few days, I’ve intentionally let the cavalry go up to the city to remedy the situation, giving the guarding foot soldiers a breather while at the same time, it’s to let our cavalry take the initiative to go out of the city by surprise.”

A lieutenant in charge of the city gate guards, who had given the Northern Mang barbarians a scoop on his head two days ago, asked, “Do we need our city foot soldiers to cooperate and fight a little more aggressively?”

Liu Yunu shook his head and said, “No need, just in case we add to the snake.”

Liu Shunu slowly closes his eyes, not sure if he is sleepy and has to rest for a moment, or if he is searching for battle opportunities in his mind.

Liu Shunu snapped his eyes open and pressed both fists on the desktop, staring at the two leaping city cavalry lieutenants, “The North Mang is responsible for protecting the cavalry that echoes the infantry’s two flanks, and after a long time of watching the show, they are now slacking off. Tonight! Just this night, place two thousand cavalry troops behind the main north gate and charge out of the city at will. One thousand cavalry at each of the east and west gates to storm the flanks. Remember! Only half an hour, I will only give the three cavalry armies a maximum of half an hour, no matter how many North Mang foot soldiers you kill or injure, you must return immediately, you must not be fond of the battle and not retreat, after half an hour I will open the gates of Hutou City once again.”

Liu Yunu suddenly calls out to the two lieutenants who led the order to retire, “Tell the brothers beforehand, perhaps the Northern Mang will not even give us a chance to reopen the gates of Hutou City!”

A tall captain with gray hair nodded, “Understood!”

The two cavalry lieutenants who were a generation apart walked out of the house, and the younger lieutenant looked behind him furtively before saying to the old lieutenant, “Old Standard Bearer, what should we say? Do you really want to make it clear?”

The old man stopped, hands on the railing, silent.

The middle-aged lieutenant understood, so he stopped talking, he himself actually meant the same thing.

The old man turned his head and laughed: “Xiao Song, although we both have the same rank, but your kid has been under my hand for three years as a captain, not to mention that today is a lieutenant, or a general, is also my soldier. So this trip out of the city to kill the enemy, I’ll do it, you stay in the city and continue to preside over the affairs of the cavalry.”

The middle-aged lieutenant turned around and left, “Then I’ll reason with General Liu.”

The old man kicked the guy in the ass and cursed with a soft laugh, “Roll back! Listen to me finish my sentence.”

Waiting for Lieutenant Song to turn around again, the old man pointed to the north and softly said, “I only have one son and one daughter, my son died in the hinterland of North Mang in the first year of the Yong Hui era, and that son-in-law, who was also the head of the army under my command as you were back then, later died outside of Liangzhou Pass eight years ago, but fortunately, my grandchildren are all there, and the fragrance of the He family has not been broken after all. But it’s really not a good feeling to send a black hair to a black hair.”

The old man smiled, “I know that you fought with my son-in-law back then, and also complained that I finally chose him as my son-in-law and not you. So all these years in Tiger’s Head City, your kid didn’t have a lot of trouble with me, just my temper, if I were to change into thirty years ago, I would have beaten you to death.”

The middle-aged lieutenant rolled his eyes and muttered, “Beat me.”

The old man is also too lazy to bother with this kid, heartfelt emotion: “Not counting the many years of war in the Central Plains, in the Northern Liang roots for almost twenty years, there is a home, living a peaceful life, even if a family member died, the children can still wear mourning, unlike the Spring and Autumn chaos when I was young, the living is more difficult than the dead. This old man of mine occasionally returns to his hometown, watching the children practicing their calligraphy every day, that posture, with style, holding the brush more skillfully than this grandfather of mine holding a gun and spear, listening to their reading outside the study, nowadays this Northern Liang’s world, ah, it’s really good.”

The old man patted Lieutenant Song’s shoulder, “Such a good world, a few more days is a few more days. As for me, no matter if the city gates can still be opened for the second time this night, I don’t intend to return. If you want me to get off my horse and go to the city to fight the Northern Mang barbarians, I won’t be able to kill many people, so I might as well kill more on horseback. Little Song, with that said, are you still grabbing out of the city with the old standard bearer?”

The middle-aged lieutenant slowly clasped his fists, but there were many words that he never managed to say.

The old man laughed and walked away in stride.

As a result, his buttocks gave a kick to the guy surnamed Song, who ran downstairs in a gust of wind, only leaving a sentence, “Old Standard Bearer, when I didn’t snatch your daughter back then, I swore that I would kick you in this life, don’t be angry!”

The old man casually patted his armor behind him and laughed, “Little son of a bitch thing! Luckily I didn’t choose you as my son-in-law back then.”

The Northern Mang attacked the city day and night, and the battlefield outside the city was burning with piles of huge bonfires arranged in an orderly manner.

The two sides of Liang and Mang, inside and outside of Hu Tou City, have long since become accustomed to it.

It was precisely the hour of dawn.

In the Taoist alchemy books, it is regarded as “the beginning of Yang’s life, the time of fire”.

Hutou City through the three gates of the three squares, each of the cavalry began to hang on, saddle hanging lance, waist wear Liang knife, not burdened with a bow and crossbow.

The old general at the head of the square in the north position, reached out to hold the lance that was taken from the hands of one of the Xichu generals from the west base wall back then, and laughed: “Old man, after taking my surname He, it didn’t aggravate you, did it?”

When that creaking sound of the gate slowly opening came, the old man violently clipped his horse’s belly and started charging.

In order to match the three cavalry armies, especially the due north cavalry army’s exit from the city without giving away signs too early, the rain of arrows from the north gate’s head at the moment before the stroke of dawn was especially targeted at the North Mang barbarians near the city’s entrance.

Therefore, when the North Mang infantry troops who were caught off guard found that the city gates actually rose on their own initiative, they were all a bit confused for a while, and even the mounted scouts who were in charge of supervising the battle and wandering a few hundred paces behind the city gate didn’t come back to their senses right away. When they saw with their own eyes a cavalry army whistling out from the main gate, the rangers were all a bit dumbfounded, but soon some people turned their horses and whipped their horses frantically, and galloped away from a gap deliberately left by the three infantry formations.

By the time they turned around to pass on this urgent military message, the Northern Mang soldiers near the city entrance had their heads smashed by a shot from this cavalry army, or were sent flying backwards by a direct shot.

When the cavalry faced the infantry without formation, killing them was just like cutting wheat with a knife.

If the armored cavalry were to face each other head-on, both sides could use the huge inertia of the charging horses to cause huge damage to the lances themselves and the arms of the cavalrymen, but now?

Again familiar with the battlefield killing but the old lieutenant at the beginning to pay attention to their own breathing, not too fast and not too slow, will not be as rash as hate to kill the enemy in one breath dozens of, the old lieutenant did not too much pursuit of the speed of the warhorse charge, as a conical cavalry of a few leaders, should be so, otherwise it will lead to the bad pace of the whole cavalry attack, and even lead to the cavalry formations cut apart, although the cavalry war step this The situation is negligible, but the old man as a solid lieutenant of the Liangzhou border cavalry, who has fought on horseback for most of his life, will naturally act in this way.

On the right hand side of the city gate, a thousand-man squad of Northern Mang barbarians was in full swing, the rear thousand-man squad had not yet moved up to take their turn at attacking the city, and on the left hand side, there happened to be two thousand-man squadrons of soldiers and horses that were exchanging blows.

The old lieutenant murmured to his cavalry deputy, “Each lead a thousand horsemen to break out of the formation, and you go sideways around the city!”

The two thousand horsemen quickly separated from left to right, sliding apart like a stream meeting a rock.

The old man led a thousand riders straight towards that full strength Northern Mang thousand-man squad.

Six or seven Northern Mang soldiers clad in leather armor saw that there was no escape for them, and together they gritted their teeth and swung their swords forward.

The old lieutenant directly rushed through, the spear tip slightly tilted downward, aimed at the neck of a North Mang soldier, the huge penetrating force will be the soldier who raised his sword high, directly impacted the feet off the ground. And the old man in the lance will be nailed into the enemy’s neck at the moment before, hands imperceptibly loose the lance, the next moment, once again quickly hold the gun, hold the position is just offset less than an inch, but is to loose the lance to create this short one inch distance, but the old man is able to unload the lance sprinting to kill the resistance of five or six percent.

The old man gently tugged the lance backward, pulling it out of the corpse’s neck and continuing to charge forward.

This is still the old man when he was young as a member of the Xu family iron horsemen, in the central plains of the land galloped into battle to ride through the foot accumulated valuable experience, the younger generation of the Northern Liang cavalry know are aware of this trick, but generally speaking can not be used, after all, the Northern Mang is also the cavalry, can not be used in this kind of “flashy” trick. But now it makes sense. This kind of a few cavalry against a large number of foot soldiers in the trap, the later the lance off, naturally the more kills.

The six or seven Northern Mang soldiers were rushed through and died instantly.

Some of the pawns further away on both sides were also unable to escape after this thousand-man cavalry quickly spread out their charging line.

The most tragic one, after narrowly dodging the lance of one rider, gave the second rider of Tiger’s Head City after him an on-the-spot death by running over him with his warhorse.

In the eyes of the thousand-man squad of foot soldiers not far away, they saw that this conical cavalry out of the city had already circled around the arc in almost a few blinks of an eye, and instantly extended their front line to a row of more than a hundred riders.

The North Mang’s Thousand Husbandman roared, “Front row erect shields! Archers get ready!”

The old lieutenant snorted, “Without spears and horses, without heavy armor, with just two or three rows of scattered shield soldiers, you want to block the charge of my Beimang cavalry?

I, He Lianshan, am a veteran soldier of Northern Liang who has charged even Western Chu halberdiers!

You’ve been attacking the city for half a year, haven’t you?

Today, my Tiger’s Head City cavalry will teach you to behave!

When this ride of his suddenly accelerated.

First, the elite Northern Liang cavalry in this row all charged with speed one after another out of the corner of their eyes, and soon continued to maintain that perfect front line that was almost completely straight.

And the cavalry after this platoon did the same.

A thousand riders, all of them.

This is the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry!

The old school captain casually plucked away an oncoming arrow, and as for the one that shot at his shoulder armor, he didn’t even bother.

In the moment when the riding steps touched, heaven and earth seemed to stand still.

Only to see a large Northern Liang horse leaping high above that line, above the heads of the first row of Northern Mang soldiers who were bending their knees and raising their shields, it was a spectacular sight to behold!

When the horses’ hooves finally landed with a neat thud, it was the time of death.

A Tiger’s Head City lieutenant with amazing brawn, his lance viciously stabbed into the chest of a Beimang back row archer, dragging the blood spurting corpse all the way backward and sliding backwards, through the chest the lance head slammed into the abdomen of a second Beimang soldier behind the same column, the cavalry lieutenant fiercely pushed his lance, then released his hand, in the moment when the horse rushed to reach the two corpses, this lieutenant bent down to clench the head of the lance, and pulled it out from the corpse in one breath, the Like a telepathic Northern Liang warhorse violently erupted into an astonishing second charge, knocking the third Northern Mang barbarian who attempted to slash at his master’s arm viciously out of the way.

With only a few shield pawns, a certain number of archers and most of the city-climbing swordsmen, there was no thickness to speak of in the thousand-man infantry square, and it was just one thousand of those thousand men and one thousand horses, rushing through.

Tiger’s Head City’s nine hundred or so horsemen did not stop for anything.

It simply didn’t care about the dead and wounded Northern Mang’s thousand-man squad that was all over the ground.

Continuing to run to the second infantry square with a distance of 1,000 paces, unlike the first square which was in a mess, the bowmen of the next square had more abundant opportunities to shoot, and even the commander urgently borrowed nearly a hundred shield soldiers from the rear, with a dozen or so spears that were not very useful, which was really difficult for the commander who had to make a temporary effort to do so. But further away, a neighboring flanking cavalry had already begun to reinforce along the gap between the infantry at a rapid pace.

The old lieutenant who had pinned that arrow into his shoulder began to slow down his horse’s speed intentionally or unintentionally, breathing softly with the rise and fall of the horse’s back.

The old man’s sight crossed the second infantry formation and looked further away, while the corner of his eyes paid attention to the movements on the left and right sides, the number of cavalrymen on the right flank of the Northern Mang that put out the fire from afar numbered roughly around two thousand men.

The old lieutenant shouted, “Break through the left hand half of the infantry formation in front of us, then just charge to the left, let that North Mang reinforcement cavalry eat dust behind our ass!”

Less than 500 paces apart, this cavalry army began to accelerate its charge.

The front line began to shift to the left.

After several sets of dense arrows, the seven hundred Tiger’s Head City cavalry thinned out half of its infantry formation and successfully charged to the left, this time crashing into the third large formation without any reservations.

After the collision, except for 50-60 riders who still had their lances, this cavalry army that was like nobody’s business started to change into Northern Liang swords.

But this time, the lances were replaced by swords, and the damage brought to the Beimang infantry formation was even more exaggerated than the second infantry formation before the Beiliang cavalry crashed through it.

The vast majority of those lances pierced into the chests of the Beimang foot soldiers.

The Liang cavalry had an iron law that those who could not kill the enemy with their off-hand spears before switching swords would be counted as having no inch of merit after the battle!

In the midst of the late night firelight, this large glistening snowy blade was particularly eye-catching!

Even the main general Liu Yunu, who was far away on that high building in Hutou City, could see it clearly.

This Lieutenant He Lianshan, including the cavalry, did not intend to return to Hutou City alive, Liu Yunu is even more clear.

Liu Yunu and the lieutenants who were deliberating in the building were all standing in front of the railing at this moment.

Liu Yunu’s face did not have any mournful look, but only silently recited in his heart, “Go well, turn around and brothers together, look for the Great General to drink in the ground.”

Liu Shunu turned around and walked back into the building with a limp.

I remember that time when the bloodstained young lord of the clan returned to Hutou City with two dozen riders of Wu family swordsmen, the young man casually asked a question, asking him if Liu Sunu was unable to defend the Central Plains without Northern Liang.

Liu Funu told the young man’s answer is not, just twenty years, the blood of the Central Plains is still there. Really to the day of retreat, many people will find themselves originally also able to defiantly, can frankly to death. Just like our Northern Liang.

Finally, Liu Yunu smiled and added a sentence, only outside the Northern Liang Central Plains, can not be afraid of death is one thing, but want to kill him with our Northern Liang hundreds of thousands or even a million barbarians, don’t think about it.

At that time, Liu Yunu saw the young man trying to laugh and holding back his laughter.

Liu Shunu suddenly turned around and ran outside the building.

A tall but meticulous lieutenant hugged this Tiger Head City guard without saying a word and angrily said, ”General, we made a military order with the king, Tiger Head City will be defended for at least three more months! It’s at least! What, General, are you going to give up? It’s easy to die! Don’t say like Captain He to go out to kill the enemy, General, you just casually to the city, not one hour, safe horizontal back!”

Liu Yunu said, “I’m going to sleep!”

The tall captain doubted: “Really?”

Several lieutenants who are obviously uneasy with Liu Yunu said in unison, “I’ll send General!”

Liu Yunu thought about it and broke away from the tall lieutenant’s hands, “Forget it, the sleepiness is gone again. Come on, let’s hurry up and discuss how to bring back the other few city cavalry. Looking at the movement outside the city, the Northern Mang cavalry is starting to try to raise their nets, faster than we thought, we must come up with a solution within a quarter of an hour. If we can’t, we should let them go back to the city immediately, we can’t wait until the first half hour that was set ……”

The tall lieutenant couldn’t help but whisper a heck of a lot.

Liu Yunu turned his head but didn’t stop, “Say that again?!”

The tall lieutenant immediately shut up.

Liu Yunu glares, “Bear-like!”

Tall lieutenant turned his head and skimmed his mouth, “Is not will bear bear a nest regardless, anyway, I am general you bring out, bear or not bear ……”

Liu Yunu suddenly stopped and said in a deep voice: “Not right! Bring over the entire Liangmang border map!”

When the map is spread out on the table, Liu Yunu falls into deep thought, and the bystanders in the building don’t dare to breathe.

Liu Yunu’s eyes traveled quickly across the borders of the three states, and eventually narrowed his eyes to re-stare at Tiger’s Head City, where he was, and slowly said, “Nowadays, North Mang’s real goal is not to eat the Dragon Elephant Army in Liuju, not to break down Xiaguang City in Youzhou, and not our Tiger’s Head City.”

Everyone was baffled.

Is it hard to believe that it’s Lingshou?

But this is too absurd.

Liu Yunu stretched out his finger against a military town, “It’s Huaiyang Pass after Hutou City! To be precise, it’s the entire Liangzhou behind Capital Protector Chu Lushan!”

Someone asked: “But as long as the tiger’s head city is still there, Huaiyang Pass is originally a dangerous pass that can be attacked and defended, and on the surface there are a few of my northern Liang’s most elite cavalry army can be supported at any time, although we have just received a secret report, these cavalry troops have now …… been, but the northern Mang barbarians are certainly not clear about the 20,000 people’s where to go, under this premise, what will North Mang take to fight Huaiyang Pass?”

Someone said, “It doesn’t matter if Liuzhou is lost or not, as long as the Longxiang Army can save half of its strength, plus the encirclement that can surely be formed by the Hulukou in Youzhou, and then our Hutou City can hold on for three months, we, Beiliang, even if it is a counterattack on the two states of North Mang’s Gusei Longwai, are all possible.”

Liu Yunu was silent.