Chapter 126 – The Sound of Thunder

Northern Liang fifty people as a standard.

A standard crossbowman’s combat power is far better than the ordinary 300 soldiers, Northern Liang crossbowman can be used as a scout, but not all scouts can become a thousand people choose one crossbowman. This time, the standard leader does not need to speak, Li Hanlin and the standard within the brother noticed unusual, not the usual deep into the hinterland of the Long Waist State of the skirmish, Li October a few will be the seed of the children are eager to try. They all know in their hearts, heck, waiting for several years, finally waiting for the big battle.

Soldiers and horses have not yet moved food and grass first, in addition to food and grass, there is bound to be a large number of scouts to detect the military situation, like scattering beans generally scattered in front of the army, to hide their tracks, quietly chopping grass. As the elite crossbowmen who are the favorites of Beiliang army, they are qualified to wear the sharpest Beiliang swords, hold the most invasive light crossbow, and ride the cooked horses with the best explosive power. All the crossbow riders were wrapping their hooves in cloth, lowered their heads and crouched their backs to the north, Li October was impatient, accelerated his horse’s speed, only half a horse’s length slower than the commander, and asked quietly: “Commander, in the direction of Wazhu? That’s the number one military town in Long Wa Province, how many tens of thousands of brothers are following us?”

The chief turned his head and glared, not wanting to answer, but after some thought, he said in a deep voice: “Cut the crap, remember, when we meet the northern barbarians’ horsemen, we don’t need to leave any survivors. Heads do not have to cut, do not delay the military situation! When we meet the army, we will return, and the rest, not to mention the columns, is a three to four hundred people of the North Mang formed cavalry, we also have to fight off. Fear of death, fear of death quickly get out.”

Li October scolded, “Fear you!”

Rongma twenty years of the standard-bearer is obviously in an excellent mood, unprecedented smile, jokingly said one more sentence: “I really is your grandfather, these years to you brats and as a father and mother.”

Even the standard chief of that let a person open the flesh of the whip are accustomed to, not to mention the standard chief of the cursing, and then the standard chief actually did not say wrong, Li October where this was once taunted as a playboy standard crossbow standard, the standard within the light cavalry, before enlisting in the army, few good people are warm and gentle and thrifty, are local counties and counties on the power to make the blessing inertia will be the descendants of the family, and occasional and harmless, in the bones of the arrogance, into the standard, the same as pick up to the rules, the same way, the standard, the same way, the same way. Even if the standard director put a fart, are more useful than those who are in high official positions of the old man’s bitter words. Li October eyes glittering, do not dare to chatter with the standard long, slowed down the speed of the horse, and Li Hanlin and the heavy pupil Lu Dou side by side, hey, said: “to our guess, it is really a big battle.”

Li Hanlin did not have the good sense to say: “Shut up, do you want to reward you a piece of bamboo?”

Li October said sharply: “Do you think I am a child, this thing is the new scouts can not control the mouth to use, I can not afford to lose face!”

“You are not far from a child.” Lu Dou said coldly.

Li October’s face turned red and he was about to curse, but he quickly lost his temper. The standard within the accumulation of military service, this heavy pupil has long been on a par with the standard deputy standard, only Li Hanlin can be compared to a comparison. After a few real battles, Lu Dou battle successes, has been fully integrated into the standard, although still silent, but even the first Wang Bark stares at the green beans of Li October are attracted to the brotherhood, can not wait to give his sister both hands, Lu Dou and Li Hanlin Li October and other people’s relationship is considered excellent, his saddle hanging a spear bag, inserted dozens of short spears, crossbowmen are manpower a crossbow evening, even the standard chief were curious about asking Lu Dou, that stubbornness, every time, pretending to be a short spear. Even the commander was curious to ask about it, but Lu Dou was so stubborn that he pretended to be stupid and didn’t know what he was talking about.

Li October is no longer playful, reached out to tighten the soft leather helmet on the neck rope, deep into the flesh, but not the feeling of diaphragm bones, but a kind of ironic sense of familiarity. I remember when I first entered the Northern Liang Army, I was not yet qualified to ride a horse and rehearse, and I only familiarized myself with the military formation as a foot soldier, and I fell apart in one day, and on the second day, I put on the armor that weighs less than twenty pounds, and it was really a hot and painful pain all over my body, and Li October pulled the corners of his mouth, and how did he become a crossbowman in a haphazard way? When I was in the county rely on the force of lawlessness, often injured, although not afraid of pain, but ultimately still afraid of death. Probably because of the father personally sent into the military, see him to the general who is said to be the relationship between the family fawned over everything, before parting father and son a talk, Li October also scolded his father no interest, are the four officials, how to be a grandson. At that moment, the dead face of the life of the father actually did not refute, just patted the shoulders of Li October. Who is not afraid of death, but Li October is more afraid of shame. Maybe from that moment on, Li October wanted to get a general home in style, the least, also want to die in style on the battlefield.

Li October exhaled a breath, his eyes resolute.

The western line of Liangmang’s border is notorious for being loose on the outside and tight on the inside, forming a pocket for each other and luring the enemy into the jar. It all depends on who has the guts to go to that large piece of land of 100 battles to cut off the head and save the military honor.

Li October this standard finally met the northern barbarians, is a stream of elite cavalry, compared to the North Mang fierce general Dong Zhuo single-handedly trained crows columns, the key is to deal with the number of people to reach two hundred, the head of a rider freshly covered with heavy armor, hand without guns and spears, only with a gorgeous Mang knife. With Li Hanlin Lu Dou three horsemen lurking Li October know this is the North Mang lieutenant patrol to the border, North Mang royal tent clan members and the royal court as long as the relationship is hard enough, will be pressed on a fancy title, with a few generals borrowed horses and horses to the south of the vertical horse, go back to the future is good to brag about with the people, as for the number of soldiers with the thickness of the family background, the North Liang crossbowmen most like this kind of vase role, bumped into it is! A chopping and killing, but often less than a hundred riders to escort the driver, today this a leisurely young son of the family is obviously from an extremely prestigious background. The first to find out the news three riders do not dare to act rashly, Li Hanlin is the chief of the army, ordered Li October a ride back to report the military situation, he and Lu Dou continue to far from the stakeout.

Liang Mang both sides of the unusual scouts have their own code, whistles similar to birdsong, but this twenty years of mutual confrontation, the bottom of the probe has also been almost, contact has to be strange, compared to the Spring and Autumn period of many lame scouts made jokes, can not be compared to the same day, for example, the two sides of the surprise attack, has long been dogfighting, due to the code is the same, until the close to see each other with their own eyes, but also almost when they were their own people. Liang Mang border on the travel crossbowmen and horse fence, is deservedly the most cunning under the sky is also the most warlike scouts. Li October sent back to the standard commander of the military orders: since the enemy insisted on continuing south, the mouth fat meat, either eat all, or choke themselves to death, there is no other choice!

They said they were northern barbarians, but in fact, the two states of Gusei and Longwai were mostly remnants of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the faces of their soldiers were almost the same as those of Northern Liang.

In the face of an unsuspecting and silent sneak attack, two hundred Beimang light cavalry did not mess up, the vice general turned his horse and came to the side of the young royal clansman, whispered and exchanged in the royal court language, the young man raised his eyebrows, his face was covered with sarcasm, and he seemed to have shaken his head to stop the vice general’s suggestion. The first time to see the Northern Liang crossbowmen to sparse line of troops to present a siege situation, strong crossbow such as flying locusts, the young general’s mouth corner sneer thicker, remove the rapid two sets of crossbow shooting, when several directions at the same time short military exchanges, their own cavalry to the batch of Northern Liang riding without exception to draw the knife cleave kill, he frowned, but still no retreat idea, a hand pressed on the back of the horse, gently pacify smell the smell of blood after the hostility of the war horse, the vice-general is worried about! In addition to his bright armor, which is different from ordinary soldiers, the rest of the battlefield equipment is the same, single-handed spear, waist knife, a shelf in front of the saddle, used to place weapons, if it is a long-distance march, the saddle side or the back of the hooks can be added to the hanging objects, bows and arrows will be placed here.

The young man was so excited to see this, he didn’t mind at all that his two hundred horsemen didn’t have the advantage. Even let the vice general, including the soldiers go to kill, he stayed alone, watching this horse speed faster death faster bloody strangulation.

Real cavalry battle is not the battle of those who are attached to the play, neither the two generals of the army brain was kicked by a donkey only to go to the front of the battle to kill some, who lost who was defeated, and very few generals in the formation of the horse stops horse not to go forward to the siege is still on horseback guns and spears such as a rain of assassination of the enemy’s scene, thousands of riders, especially 10,000 people at the same time charging the move of the magnificent cavalry battle, in addition to spilling the rain of arrows, and then is a kind of penetrating penetrate each other as a Knife cut great damage, a ride swept through, we must try to run forward to kill, even if the horse can pull out more than one step distance also want to desperately forward, after a spear stabbing, because the spear is not easy to pull out, we must give up the spear for the knife, speed in order to win the impact of the formation of the rapid transfer, if one of the party’s riders stagnation for no apparent reason, to become the stakes, is the culprit.

Such as scouts such a small-scale riding battle, the purpose remains the same, regardless of the pursuit or retreat, is still the first speed, but the scouts have more room to play individual force.

Generals iron armor is too distinctive is a big taboo, one is most of the armor with gold and silver is very flashy, two is too striking, with the enemy to kill the same, this is not surnamed Yelu is surnamed Muyong members of the royal tent simply do not have this awareness, soon there are two northern Liang Wu Chang looks like a crossbow traveler to tear this is not a thick line, rushed to kill. The young cavalry general is not in a hurry to draw his sword, wait until a Northern Liang knife splits to, this is to draw the knife like a rainbow, reckless knife crash flying Liang knife, along the way to cut off the arm of the crossbowman Wu Chang, and then lifted up, cut through the neck, the blood flow like a stream of blood, throw not stop, cut off the cheek, his ride is immovable, instantly die of the Wu Chang a rider to wipe the body, he did not forget to take the tip of the knife gently poke before the closing of the knife, the 100 battles have not died of the body of the Wu Chang pushed down the back of the horse, he did not look at a corpse, he did not look at a corpse, he did not look at a corpse. He did not even look at the corpse.

The series of continuous moves were fancy, but in the end, he still killed the man, and he was qualified to do so with a high level of skillful martial arts, much beyond the realm of a cavalryman.

He shook his wrist and juggled a beautiful spinning blade, smiling blandly in the language of the Southern Dynasties, “The same is the world’s most famous curved spine blade, it turns out that the Northern Liang blade is nothing more than that.”

Horse fighting focus on speed, also lies in the abandonment of the sword with a knife, especially Liang Mang both sides of the army standard knife, both knives are curved back slightly bent, with the help of the impact brought about by the horse running, push and split, contact with the enemy’s body, the blade instantly can be brought out of a huge and continuous curved surface sliding, cutting power is amazing, and even if the accidental cut armor is not easy to get out of the hand, easy to collect the knife and then fight again, this is the same weight of the straight blade can never achieve the same effect, this is also the Northern Liang knife to be famous, but also the most famous sword in the world is the curved back knife. This is also the reason why the Northern Liang Sword can be famous all over the world. The curvature, thickness, and weight of a Beiliang sword are almost perfect. The Beimang sword is almost a complete copy of the Beiliang sword and into the system to build, but the blade is longer, more curvature. Infantry battle is of course the straight spine knife is better, but no matter whether it is Beiliang 300,000 iron horsemen or men can control the string of the North Mang, who is not to ride to solve all the battle?

Battle is imminent, no one can be spared, the two sides but a total of more than three hundred people, the formation is far from thick, because the Northern Liang crossbowmen to get a sneak attack first opportunity, a set of sharp exchanges, managed to kill more than three dozen Northern Mang cavalry, and the latter can not be in the first line of the first time to gather troops, the second set of contact when the war occurred there are still about sixty Northern Mang riders can not be effective out of the knife, so the subsequent killing, is still the Northern Liang crossbowmen! The advantage is still in favor of the Northern Liang crossbowmen. According to Chen Zhi Bao’s popular art of war, the advantage is accumulated in dribs and drabs, as long as the late generals do not appear to be a big mistake in planning, the opening can be doomed to the end.

The North Mang royal a clip horse belly, the horse is extremely good, the explosive force is amazing, instantly enter the peak sprint state, a knife will be a North Liang crossbowman even with a horse split in half, the knife momentum of the swiftness, swinging the knife amplitude of the large, can be seen.

The killing did not have the clamor that the civilians imagined, only the dead silence, killing and wounding so, falling horse killed in battle is even more so.

Li October completely killed red eyes.

In terms of personal combat power comparison, the crossbowmen steadily won a chip, but the young general of the North Mang involved in the battle, wherever he went, easily left seven or eight Northern Liang cavalry corpses.

The traveling crossbowman standard bearer drew his sword from one of the heads and rushed towards that young North Mang cavalry general without hesitation.

In every deadly battle, the general dies first, then the lieutenant, and then the standard bearer.

This was the iron law of Northern Liang.

Here was his official biggest, there was no reason not to go and die.

If these years just for the official hat and wrestle, he could have long ago become a general retired beyond the border of the northern Liang state counties pension to enjoy the blessings.

Once rubbing shoulders, the young man who crushed everything by virtue of force eeped.

This Northern Liang cavalryman actually did not die?

The standard bearer not only had blood seeping from his tiger’s mouth, but his shoulder was even cut off by the Northern Mang’s sword to remove large chunks of flesh, but this old soldier still slashed the Northern Mang cavalry behind the young man in the same direction, and after rushing out a few dozen paces, he turned his head and continued to launch his charge.

The second time the two horses brushed shoulders, the standard bearer was slashed through his armor, his belly and intestines hanging all over the saddle.

Before the standard bearer turned around and charged again, he tore off a piece of his shirt, twisted and juggled it, tied it around his waist, and continued to charge with an expressionless face.

Li Hanlin, who had already killed four enemy riders, saw this scene and gritted his teeth, ignoring the surrounding pursuit, galloping his horse.

Northern Mang’s young Huang Hao cut the standard bearer off at the waist with a single slash, turned his head to look at the corpse rolling to the ground, and laughed fiercely, “Waste of space, this time, master won’t play with you.”

He then raised his head and looked at the whole situation, thinking about picking a few more guys worth playing with, as for how many of the two hundred riders accompanying him could be left behind, he was indifferent.

Ten paces apart, Li Hanlin jumped up high on his horse, holding his sword in both hands, and slashed at the son of a bitch.

The man lightly raised his sword to block, even people with horses together retreated a few steps, but also limited to this, snorted, not bully the opponent did not have a horse, simply rolled over and dismounted, a synchronized battle, there are Northern Liang crossbow arrows shot in the face, was his head did not turn a hand to grab, twisted and thrown to the ground.

Li Hanlin spat out a mouthful of blood, staring at this formidable enemy.

A horse leaped over, Li Hanlin showed a touch of dismay, but it was the heavy pupil surnamed Lu. Li Hanlin was bent over by Lu Dou and carried onto the back of the horse, while Lu Dou himself dismounted from his horse with his backpack and fought on foot, running wildly towards that northern barbarian.

At the same time, a short spear was thrown out.

The short spear was so aggressive that the young man who killed the crossbowman’s standard bearer carried a sword but didn’t use it, he was extremely conceited and reached out to try to hold the small spear. Unfortunately, he was not able to do so, the short spear cut through his palm and stabbed him in the eye with blood, and when he turned his head in a hurry, it rubbed his cheek again.

Lu Dou did not bully close combat, always wandering twenty paces away, squeezing out a grim smile, said stiffly, “I’ll play with you.”

The second spear was thrown, and his voice rose even higher.

No longer dare to be arrogant, the dismounted riding general took the Northern Mang sword to slap off the short spear, his arm was actually a burst of sourness and numbness that was very strange to him.

The damned Northern Liang pawn negative bag and fight, the bag of short spears not only fly to him, but also have the leisure to nail into the body of the surrounding Northern Mang cavalry, without exception are broken skull murder, more capable of twenty paces outside the circle of leisurely start hunting, and by the way back to the pull back a few short spears.

Did not take advantage of half a point of advantage of the North Mang clan youth has been angry, do not care about the style, bent on close combat, this nameless pawn chopped to pieces.

In the end, he was a martial artist brought out by a top master teacher expert, exchanging the painful price of a spear through his shoulder for a chance to get in close, and when he was ten paces away the Mang Blade’s aura skyrocketed, and he was no longer given a chance to throw his spear.

Only to see that the scout pawn was shocked and laughed.

Pretend to be surprised.

Then a morose smile of triumphant intrigue.

The young Imperial Tent member with a not so bad brain knew that it was not good, but he just didn’t want to believe that a traveling crossbowman with some carving skills would be able to have heavenly skills again, and he still insisted on getting close, and made his sword swiftly.

Lu Dou no longer go to the bag to pick up a short spear, one hand to meet that can be sharp armor of the North Mang knife, the palm of the hand is actually holding the blade, the young man from the royal court royal tent heart a happy, suddenly pouring force to chop down, not moving?

Lu Dou wrist twist, will be that carefully built North Mang knife to hard crash, and then a fist smashed in the opponent’s abdomen, directly to the smashed belly.

Originally should be in the family under the shelter of the young people of the North Mang Pingyun on the spot to lose all the combat power.

Lu Dou’s hands spread out, each pulling the enemy’s arm, and violently tearing it, ripping this unknown young martial arts general into two halves alive!

Blood sprayed all over the heavy pupil.

Lu Dou kicked away the dead body, he did not wave his hand to wipe away the blood, nor did he pay attention to the newly dead person, he returned and continued to step into the battlefield.

This bloody battle, the standard deputy standard three people died together. None of the two hundred riders from North Mang escaped, and there was no time to send a message.

Li Hanlin, the leader of the army, became the temporary leader.

Lu Dou silently retrieved all the short spears, and then buried the standard bearer together with Li October, and then stood behind Li Hanlin.

Li Hanlin calmly said, “Return the wounded south and bring back military information. The remaining thirty-six men and I will choose our horses and continue to the north. If I die, then Lu Dou will lead you north.”

This kind of battle of scouts where one side was destined to be completely wiped out happened one after another on the border front.

Three days later, the 18,000 Wazhu Army, the first major town in North Mang’s southern border, led by Hong Guan, a prime general of the young and strong faction who has a hidden tendency to be on par with Dong Zhuo this year, went out of the city and started a large-scale cavalry battle with the Dragon Elephant Army in the vast Qinghua Basin.

Hong Guan is just over forty, elegant and elegant, but his troops are extremely ruthless and determined, unwilling to defend the city and wait for reinforcements, vowing to eliminate the incoming enemy in one fell swoop.

Soldiers near the Wazhu thirty miles away, Hong Guan learned that it was 10,000 Dragon Elephant Army, but the Confucian general after planning, said to the leading generals under his command to wait for the good news. Then he sat down at the top of the city and set up a chess game, talking and laughing with a chess player.

The Wazhu army was twice as strong as the Longxiang army.

How could they not win?

Hong Guan was sure that once he won the chess game, he would also win outside the city, and it would surely become a story for the ages.

Green Tile Basin is extremely conducive to cavalry charging.

Both sides were very vocal.

Most of the Spring and Autumn Northern Ben survivors have already had the next generation of heirs, and the old men are lamenting the strength of the Northern Mang’s national power and military might, gradually forgetting the sound of hooves brought by those Northern Liang iron horsemen. These newcomers have never heard of the sound of horses’ hooves.

The Northern Liang Iron Horsemen once trampled all the way through Spring and Autumn.

But isn’t that an old debt?

Wazhu city people first heard of the war, there is a slight panic, but did not fear for a long time, then began to joke together Beiliang less than pathetic 10,000 people dare to come to Wazhu to hit the stone with the egg.

The two armies are like two torrents colliding and rushing.

Wazhu cavalry whistling heaven, seemingly the momentum far over the charge is still silent Northern Liang cavalry.

Only when they were five hundred paces apart.

The Northern Liang army shouted out one word at the same time.

“Kill!”

The eyes of Hong Guan at the city head jumped.

The chessboard in front of his eyes trembled, the amplitude increasing, and later, it was already jumping with pieces.

A black-clothed, barefooted teenager ran at the forefront along with Black Tiger.

Behind them, the Northern Liang elite cavalrymen running like thunder were left far behind.

The withered yellow teenager tied his hair into a braid, grabbed the huge black tiger and smashed it into the enemy army.

Then bending his knees, the whole person pulled up into the sky and crashed into the enemy line.

It was horrifying to the extreme!

Is this foolish boy trying to be the enemy of ten thousand people?

The black tiger fell down and killed more than thirty cavalrymen in a flash.

Without weapons or armor, the black-clothed boy just ran in a straight line, and those who collided with him were all killed.

Wazhu army cultivate a special kill enemy generals and courageous martial cavalry, the number of people in the three hundred or so, all the clothes and armor ordinary, but the body stout, strong and healthy fast, from a famous family of rivers and lakes, extremely good at fighting, but even if it is divided into ten teams scattered in the army of the three hundred people urgently transferred to a place, or to block or chase the black-clothed teenager, is still useless to let him penetrate the majority of the wazhu army, the two armies after the mixing of the teenager’s pressure force plummet, and the teenager is like a fish out of water. After the mixing of the two armies, the teenager’s pressure was suddenly reduced, and he was like a fish in water, rushing straight towards the city gate on the high ground in the north of the Green Tile Basin. A man and a tiger ran to the city, the teenager stepped on the back of the black tiger, jumped up to the city, asked the jaw-dropping Hong Guan a sentence, then pulled his head from the body.

This time, the battle of Qing Wa Basin.

The second son of the human butcher Xu Longxiang debuted on the stage, will be away from the Yang Dynasty are regarded as a tiger coiled majestic town Wazhu, slaughtered into an empty city.

The hooves of the Northern Liang iron horsemen sounded like thunder.

Ten thousand Dragon Elephant Army is ten thousand thunder.

Eighteen thousand Wazhu army, which is called the iron army of Beimang, half of them were killed in battle, and the surrendered soldiers were pitted to death, so the whole army died.

Beimang heard the thunder.