Chapter 283 – Wind and Snow Iron Cavalry Goes Down to Jiangnan (V)

At the border of Hezhou, the battle is about to start.

The earth in the direction of Youzhou is like a muffled thunder, the two Huai Festival Minister Cai Nan is clad in iron armor, gripping the iron spear, this border general is full of sadness, tens of thousands of Northwest elite under their command, but not with the North Mang barbarians in the battlefield to the end, but died of internal strife?

The two Huai army foot soldiers in the center of the horse, the cavalry on both wings echo, very mediocre arrangement, not Cai Nan does not want to ride against the horse, and the Northern Liang iron horsemen to come to a square battle, the fact is that the arrogance of the Gu party such as him, even if the strength of the superiority of the troops, still do not have the courage to play tricks with that army. Cai Nan does not expect his own two Huaihuai can stop the young king, can only hope that as much as possible to leave the Xu family cavalry, two thousand, or three thousand? As for how many people the court will be able to stop in the several passes bordering Jizhou and the Central Plains by virtue of the heavenly dangers and geographical advantages, that is really Cai Nan’s “afterlife”, not only on the territory of the afterlife, but also the afterlife of Cai Nan’s death in battle and martyrdom.

Cai Nan raised his eyes and looked around, the terrain is flat, undulating, not obvious, large pieces of white snow, he did not come to think of a very scenic words, the bones are not cold. Thinking about his own corpse in a few hours, it should be quickly chilled, right?

Northwest snow and big, cold place out of the healthy children, the two Huai Road Jizhou will have Yang Shen apricot Jinan foot soldiers, known as a unique step in the world, and the promotion of the Cai Nan Festival Minister of the near water tower, under the banner of the two Huai Border Army was soon regarded as the second only to the two Liao Liao of the Liyang court of a first-class fighting force, with the following Tang Tiehshang and then a few of the same Gu Department of the old generals of the local members of the new into the capital as a major position, Cai Nan, instead of not how much to celebrate, but rather, smelled A few hints of danger, in the final analysis, those are the king to the yellow and purple uniforms in exchange for the local military power of the capital trade, the reason why the wrist gentle, so affectionate, but also because their common benefactor of the great pillar Gu Jiantang is still standing in the border? As well as the hundreds of thousands of border army power held in the hands of the great general?

Cai Nan exhaled heavily, the young emperor regarded as the heart of the Secretary Han Lin sent out of the battlefield, and then led his own army to die here, is not to the general, to the court to the son of heaven, are considered to be a good account of this, this is the so-called loyalty and righteousness in the history of the two?

Live in the peace and quiet for a long time in the world, become a blessed for many years of feudal officials, Cai Nan until this moment, only to find that year that followed the general’s heart behind the death of the rash, in fact, began to be a little afraid of death, especially the death of the unexplained.

The hooves of the Northern Liang iron horsemen are like drums, beating heavily on Cai Nan’s heart drums, one by one, making it difficult for the Festival Minister to catch his breath.

Without the report of the distant sentry, Cai Nan could see with his naked eyes that the cavalry was right at the edge of the optimal charge spacing, stopping their horses, with one rider taking the lead in the formation, and then about a hundred riders followed by their escorts to steer their horses forward.

Heartstrings taut Cai Nan confused, more and more apprehensive, the two armies on the battlefield is not a child’s play in the novels, what the two sides of the main generals alone, a sound battle hundreds of rounds, are all bullshit. But in front of us there are indeed more than a hundred riders alone to leave the Northern Liang army, is it that the surname Xu in order to win the hearts of the army, by virtue of their own strength of the land gods, to take the head of the general in the army? Cai Nan was a bit angry when he thought of this, he really thought that the bed crossbow formation of his side was just for show? In order to target Xu Fengyen this battlefield ten thousand enemies of the churning formation, Cai Nan specially sent people with the section ministers talisman in the whole of the two Huai Road scavenging land, almost all the northern defense line outside the bed crossbow or requisitioned or borrowed over a breath of more than 50 bed crossbows, the two Huai Road’s home base are clearly placed in the back of the Cai Nan, not only to cope with the kind of riding several horsemen single-handedly in the trap, on the iron horsemen of the collective charge! It is also a great deterrent to the collective charge of the iron horsemen.

A ride first, the hooves do not stop, until Cai Nan front of the formation of 300 paces before stopping forward momentum, not only in the body of the small master cultivation of the main general Cai Nan, around the elite guards and two infantry generals can vaguely see that the horse’s majestic posture.

It was none other than the famous Northern Liang King Xu Fengnian!

This young feudal king who followed the human butcher’s surname Xu, killed no less than ten top masters of the Jianghu Lake, killed the North Mang army even more than 300,000, hands of blood, killed all the way to today, killed here.

Even in a hostile camp, the face of this person, there are still a few points have to admit admiration and awe, away from the old generation of double word vassal king’s son, this young man can be said to be riding in the dust, Jing’an moral Zhao Xun also hereditary recklessly replaced the father’s king, but low-brow obediently like a tianzi home watchdog, was originally hailed as away from the Yang’s son of the first person of the Zhao cast, but in the Guangling Road is criticized, the JiaoDong king Zhao Suo’s eldest son Zhao wing in the Zhao Yi, the eldest son of Jiaodong King Zhao Suo, was also not considered to be outstanding in the war between the two Liao, and as for Zhao Pei, the son of the King of Guangling, there is even less need to bring it out to show his face. Cai Nan casually waved his hand, the sweaty elite scouts night do not guard hurriedly retired, Cai Nan stared at the young man in the middle of the two armies, behind him a hundred riders, not armor, not wearing a sword, a person only back a sword, must be in the last year in the Central Plains of the rivers and lakes uploaded a lot of buzz about the Wu family of a hundred swords, as the court for the town of one side of the leading general, Cai Nan has always been very little interest in the jianghu things, a body of skills are in the battlefield on the All his skills are sharpened in the battlefield in the blood and water to kill people, and in the early years with the jurisdiction of the realm of a comparable martial arts celebrities have had a private sparring session, easy to win after Cai Nan’s feeling is only one word, soft.

But the one hundred riders in front of him, Cai Nan did not dare to underestimate, as for the young feudal lord in the lead, Cai Nan naturally did not dare to take it lightly. If Xu Fengyen had not stopped his horse at 300 paces, Cai Nan would not have cared about his manners, and without saying anything, he would have ordered the bed crossbow to shoot on the spot, and the jianghu grasshoppers were afraid of the military crossbow, and the martial arts experts were afraid of the bed crossbow, which was a bloody lesson that countless people had taken their lives in exchange for, especially with the heavy-duty bed crossbow, which has the reputation of “flying swords within half a hundred”, and Cai Nan thought that he would not dare to face the giant crossbow with several bolts. Cai Nan thinks that he does not dare to face the bed crossbow with several crossbows and arrows as big as a gun. If not, last year, the North Mang outside of Hutou City will not be the same bed crossbow to greet the King of Beiliang.

The Wu Family’s hundred horsemen and hundred swords stopped their horses solemnly.

This is their first time to return to the Central Plains after leaving the Wu Family’s Sword Mound and entering Northern Liang. The devil Zhu behind the Sword Crown Wu Liuding and the Sword Servant Cuihua even closed his eyes and sniffed vigorously, his face full of intoxication, tsked: “After smelling the smell of blood and horse manure outside the Liang Zhou Guan, it’s still the air here that makes people feel more comfortable. I just don’t know if I can smell the scent of wine and cosmetics when I’m really in Jiangnan, Central Plains.”

Only two horses away from the Wu family swordsman whose real name is Zhu Huang, Xu Fengyen smiled and said, “According to the previous agreement, this time, as long as you follow this king all the way south, to the place where you can see the wall of the capital city of Western Chu, a hundred of you will be able to regain your freedom, and after that, no matter whether you want to go to the rivers and lakes to rise up again, or find a place with beautiful scenery and anonymous, this king does not care, and the Wu family will not care…… .”

When in the Wu family sword mound also incomparable kill Zhu big devil Jiejie strange laugh: “the king, this is useful to others, to the old Zhu I can not talk about generous, when in that ghost place but more than a few kill a few guys surnamed Wu, Wu old man himself is not capable, with people together in my body knocked into the sixty bundled auger nails, the means is not very clever, but unfortunately, the technique is quite unique, not Wu family lineage can not pull out those things, the old Zhu is never rather do chicken head not to do the phoenix tail temperament, the first time into the Central Plains Jianghu, not to get a martial arts assessment of the four masters when it is no longer with Deng Tai’a over strokes, I am sorry for myself in the Wu family suffered more than forty years of crime, so the body of these nails, but also have to bother the king with the old man Wu old man to talk to the king as long as he is willing to open the mouth, although the old Zhu said I never know what the jianghu morality, but also is not the kind of person who forgets, at that time even if the king wants me to go to Tai’an City to kill a person, the old zhu also can beat his chest to agree to down, the king, this deal how, do not do?”

The heavy yin gas Zhu Huang, and Deng Tai’a were Wu family illegitimate son, early thrown to the sword mountain self-sustaining outcasts, only that year, a battle, winning Deng Tai’a into the jianghu became the Peach Blossom Sword God, the losing Zhu Huang, because of the overly heavy heart of the killers, especially the killers almost killed the Wu family a side house chopped off, was furious Wu family ancestor to the untransmitted secret under the confinement, if not a hundred swords to cool, the cultivation of If not for the hundred swords that went to Liang, the cultivation of Zhu Huang, who can be called a god, is destined to be unable to let the world know that there is still such a number of sword fairy characters under the sky. As for leading the Wu Family’s Hundred Swords to Guangling Road this time, not only Xu Weixiong, but even Chu Lushan had objections, because Xu Fengyen promised them freedom, which was not a negligible loss to Northern Liang. In a stalemated battlefield, this Wu family’s one hundred men and one hundred swords, once thrown into the battlefield, could definitely become the key victor to turn the tide. Can’t kill Tuoba Bodhisattva, but strength as strong as Hong Jingyan Murong Baoding, I’m afraid to be scared.

Without waiting for Xu Fengyen to speak, Wu Liuding, who regarded Zhu Huang as an enemy, turned his head and said angrily, “Surnamed Zhu, if you can pull out sixty nails, I can help you stuff in sixty more!”

Zhu Huang lazily sneered, “Just by your kid? That’s a bit tougher than you even if it’s said by the pussy next to you. Haha, your Wu family is really interesting, these two generations, all of them are better with a handle than without.”

Sword Servant Cui Hua’s fingers moved slightly.

The short old man carrying an extremely long and thin ancient sword frowned, “Zhu Huang, don’t give an inch.”

This old man was also in a superior position in the Wu Family Sword Graveyard where countless swords were buried and countless secret manuals were published. Because he was an obsessive swordsman, Wu Liuding had helped give him the funny nickname of “Old Grandpa Marrying Swords” when he was a child, unlike Zhu Huang, who had never left the Wu Family, and Zhang Luantai, Gongsun Xiu Shui, and Nalan Huai Yu, who were famous swordsmen who still had hopes of returning to the jianghu. Eighty-year-old old man this life is only obsessed with the sword, only limited by their own bones and cultivation, empty brain full of unique insights into the sword and a stomach full of knowledge of the sword, always unable to personally lift the sword to practice, when the old man into the north of Liang, twice with the young king of the sword talk about the sword of the matter of the trick of the gas of the struggle, such as meeting a confidant, there is a mantle down the north of Liang’s idea, as for the literati and military men are valued by the state of the country The world, the old man has always been very indifferent.

Xu Fengyen did not turn around, softly said: ”Everything will be said again when we arrive at the capital of Western Chu, not surprisingly, there should be one or two battles to be fought, fighting for us, one of the Northern Liang Great Snow Dragon Riders will not die, of course, you also do not die. The great rivers and lakes are waiting for you seniors to make a name for yourselves.”

Wu Liuding didn’t have the good sense to say, “Leave some seeds for the Jianghu, right? I’m surprised, this kind of swollen face, how outsiders look like a fool’s hook, how come on your side, doing it seems extraordinarily heroic?”

Xu Fengyen turned his head and glanced at this young sword crown who was at loggerheads with himself from beginning to end, not being catty.

On the contrary, it was Hong Shuwen, an old member of Feng Zi Battalion who followed the Northern Liang King to travel together again this time, who sneered, “Our King is more handsome than you, and his hands are a few floors higher than yours, are you boy not convinced?”

Wu Liuding smiled and said, “What’s wrong with being unconvinced?”

Hong Shuwen said, “You’re not convinced? Then why don’t you fight with our king?”

Xu Fengyen ignored the two men’s bickering and shouted to the army of the Two Huai Roads, “Cai Nan, a meeting in front of the formation?”

Cai Nan heard the voice without much hesitation, single rider out of the line, infantry generals want to block, naturally do not want their own generals to risk their lives, after all, not far away from the young feudal king is a real martial arts evaluation of one of the four, but the Lord of the Festival Minister lightly put down a sentence, “Xu Fengyen wants to kill people, not so underhanded”.

The two riders each took more than a hundred steps forward, stopped their horses and looked at each other, Cai Nan took a deep breath, looked at Xu Fengyen in front of him, and said in a deep voice: “If the king wants this general to retreat, there is no need to waste words!”

Slanting his iron spear, Cai Nan saw that the young vassal king seemed to be blocked by himself and had nothing to say, his sight just crossed over himself to look at the two Huai border troops, Cai Nan was silent for a moment, and continued, “Let you, Xu Fengnian, be a martial evaluation master whose cultivation is one head higher than that of Great General Gu, but after all, you’re not your father, you’re not the Great General Xu Snapdragon, and you still don’t deserve to be dismounted and avoided by me, Cai Nan! ”

Xu Fengyen retracted his sight and asked, “If I remember correctly, this king has already asked the Whisking Water Room Spy to send a message to General Cai, it’s fine for the general to block the road today, but try to place your elites on the two flanks and let our cavalry charge through, less deaths for us, less deaths for you guys even more so. Is this not good?”

Cai Nan said in a cold voice: “This general will pretend that he did not receive that message, as a military general presiding over the military affairs of the border gate ……”

Xu Fengnian suddenly interrupted Cai Nan’s words, “General you didn’t receive the imperial decree, did you?”

Cai Nan’s face was cold.

Xu Fengyen laughed, “General Cai is thinking that my Northern Liang cavalry army has made a sudden move and the Tai’an City side was caught off guard? Does General really think that the Zhao Hook spies planted in Hezhou are so unbearable? Even if the Northern Liang cavalry advances even more slowly, that holy decree is not destined to be sent to this Hezhou ‘on time’, it will always be neither faster nor slower than this battle, just one step later.”

Cai Nan said expressionlessly, “So what? The imperial court has its own princes, lords, and ministers to advocate, I, Cai Nan, only need to act in a way that is worthy of this Liyang Iron Armor on my body!”

Xu Fengyen pulled the corner of his mouth, “Don’t worry, this king offered to catch up with you Cai Nan, didn’t think to ask your army to make way, the reason why I gave you a message earlier was because I was thinking that the general gave a certain old guy a piece of face back in the day, and the reason why I am talking nonsense with you today is because there is an old man who is a big official in Tai’an City who spoke to the king from his heart. ”

Xu Fengyen turned his horse’s head and slowly left, not light or heavy words, into Cai Nan’s ears, “Since you are unwilling to make an appearance, and the Two Huai Border Army is bent on doing their duty for the country, then Bei Liang will fulfill your wishes. On the sands, against my Bei Liang iron horsemen, how hard is it to die if you want to?”

Cai Nan returned to his side’s formation with a pale face.

Spring of the third year of Xiangfu.

The Great Snow Dragon Riders surged through like a tidal wave, and the two Huai elites with a strength of nearly 40,000 were routed.