Chapter 027: No Life, Only Death

The two armies are facing each other on the west basement wall, only after surviving the damned rainy season, the muddy ground is hardening, an imperial decree from Tai’an City was somehow made public and widely disseminated, just like a summer thunder, suddenly exploding on the earth, making people’s hearts shake.

Liyang Xu Snapdragon before it was not easy to use half of the Xu family elite iron horsemen to win the Jinghe battle, spelled out the Chu called the world’s invincible halberdiers, is at the time of the momentum of the rainbow, just short of a suitable time in the western wall of the hammer, and then the holy decree, the loss of a basket of salt, the encirclement of the formation of the Chu was not completely complete, at this time more and more loosened.

With hundreds of thousands of Xu family generals life in exchange for a balance of power, turned into a moment of danger.

Northeastern defense line is still good, after all, Gu Jiantang has destroyed the East Vietnam, without effort, the vast majority of Gu Department of the elite is still there, even if not according to the appointment of the south to respond to the Xu Snapdragon army, after all, on the Chu is still a blade hanging over the head. But from beginning to end of the southern expedition has been avoiding the front battlefield of the general Zhao Bodang, even if it is only responsible for building the northwest defense line so easy burden, as a handful of high-ranking generals with a royal family background, even at the critical moment to give up, a breath of retreat a whole six hundred miles, seems to have made up his mind to watch the fire from the other side of the bank, which is undoubtedly a battle of the Jinghe huge battlefield results with both hands, Zhao Bodang compared to the south! West base wall battlefield exhaustive Xu Snapdragon, obviously earlier to contact the imperial decree, so when his army overnight fire retreated to the consort’s grave six hundred miles away from the lead mountain pass, clear-sighted people are clear, the real meaning of the two countries Ding Ding battle, has surfaced in advance!

At that time, the troops still occupy the advantage of the Chu as long as the recapture along the consort’s grave, can not affect the battlefield of the western base wall of the troops to obtain a greater strategic depth, as long as the inferior Xu Snapdragon dares to divide the consort’s grave, the Sage of Soldiering Ye Baikui can be the first to blow in the western base wall of the battlefield, never defeated Ye Baikui how will the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to turn a blind eye to this? The reason why Chu has fallen into the current predicament, lies in Xu Snapdragon played a series of almost desperate quick battle, the reputation of the righteous son Chu Lushan is in these battles to stand out, it is this good at killing the enemy a thousand since the loss of eight hundred fat Chu, with a kind of brutal and irrational venomous wrist Chu northern army to the confusion, which helped Chen Zhi Bao clear all the periphery of the northern line, and ultimately led to the great victory of the Jinghe, forcing Chu had to hunker down in the west base wall, so empty people and, but lost the geographical advantage. Ye Baikui as the sea god pin of Chu, known as a person can be a country of the art of war, at this time made a decision for the later generations of history debate, he gave up on the fledgling on the display of stunning military talent of Cao Changqing, but choose seniority, outstanding military achievements at the same time the character of the stability of the heart of the generals Meng Guan, sent this person to lead an elite troops to the consort’s grave.

In contrast, the Xu family army before they had to go out, there was a confined to a small area of heated argument, has always worked well together between the two masters Zhao Changling Li Yishan, finally produced the first violent disagreement, the Yang Cai Zhao Changling decided that since our side lost the pattern of a drum, and the Zhao family emperor and the decree of the war is not to retreat, then to the great general as the commander in chief of the three hundred thousand troops, will retreat to the Liyang to see a look at the large Can openly retreat to the consort’s grave, or even retreat to Zhao Bo when stationed, and then “eat” this troop horse, and then let Gu Jiantang also bowed to obey the order, to solve the rear “Gu” worry, and then come to fight with Da Chu and Ye Bai Kui. Li Yishan, on the other hand, believes that this retreat is to let only half a breath of Chu back to a breath of air, so Li Yishan suggests decisively split the troops, but at the same time absolutely not much, 20,000 is the limit number. Zhao Changling has been gentle and elegant anger, directly reprimanded Li Yishan child’s play, Ye Baikui was obviously earlier than the general was informed of the imperial decree and Zhao Bo Dang’s withdrawal, Da Chu from the already crowded west base wall of the east side of the split out of 40,000 to 50,000 people, will not hurt, but the general’s side of the 20,000, not only undermined the general’s chances of victory in the two armies, but also a cup of water is not enough for the dimwitted initiative, more like to go to the consort’s grave to send death for nothing. Sending death.

In the heavy atmosphere of the tent, there is a map of the situation in Chu, which is circled by a red and black color symbolizing attack and defense, and the arrow funnel on the table used to accurately time the march is slowly dripping water.

Inside the tent, stood thirty-something years old can already be related to the world belongs to Xu Snapdragon, has been in the tent in the tent planning Zhao Changling and Li Yishan, emergency summoned into the tent of the three sons, Chen Zhi Bao, Yuan Zuozong and Chu Lushan, and a group of infantry and cavalry army of meritorious commanders, with his sister from the Wu Family Sword mound of the swordsman Wu Qi, who is considered to be Chen Zhi Bao’s half of the master of military science, as well as the cavalry army in the popularity of the great general’s brother-in-law! Wu Qi’s Xu Pu, a rare Confucian general in the Xu family’s army, General Zhong Hongwu, as well as the newly nicknamed “step by step” of the infantry’s newest Yan Wenluan, as well as Liu Yuanji Tieshan’s generals. It can be said that if these dozens of people in the tent were successfully assassinated, only half of them would need to die, and the whole world would be in the pocket of Chu.

Xu Fengyen turned around and looked at these familiar and unfamiliar faces, it was they who had laid down the kingdom for Xu Snapdragon.

None of them saw a young man standing under the map, his finger gently wiping along those strips of red and black marching routes. At the top of Wudang’s Lotus Peak, one heart, two minds, dreaming of Spring and Autumn, three “people” each entering Spring and Autumn to see Spring and Autumn, of which this “he” appeared in the tragic battle of Jinghe, and then followed it all the way to the West Basement Wall. Only in his eyes, the people and things in the Spring and Autumn, the color is only divided into black and white, his joy and anger, will not affect the Spring and Autumn Bureau of the people in the slightest. At this time, Zhong Hongwu is not yet single-handedly in charge of the Northern Liang cavalry, before him there are still Wu Qi Xu Pu two mountains, Yan Wenluan has been blind, but within the tent number he is the most newcomer new face. Chu Lushan compared to the later Lu Qiuer, seems to be a few dozen pounds thinner, hostile, unlike a decade or so that hangs a fawning smile at times. The long-established white bear Yuan Zuozong probably couldn’t care less about taking care of his beard, his scruff is thick and dense, and he is more and more heroic.

Veteran general Hong Ze had not yet died of illness outside Xiangfan City, and great general Su Hengqu had not been killed in battle in the territory of Western Sichuan.

Xu Fengyen looked at Zhao Changling standing beside Xu Snapdragon, looking at the side of the face of this strategist from the Zhao clan of Guangling Luting in Chu, clear and resolute, Zhao Changling was the kind of scholar who could make the king and ministers fall in love with him at first sight. Attacking Chu, where his family’s country is located, Zhao Changling did not show any mercy, on the contrary, most of the Xu family’s iron horsemen’s strategy of Chu came from his handwriting and planning, with Zhao Changling as the main and Li Yishan as the supporting force, the two strategists always complement each other well.

Xu Fengyen slightly deviated his sight, that cold family strategist who had always been willingly covered by Zhao Changling’s sharpness, under Zhao Changling’s aggressive questioning, his expression was calm.

At this time, the master’s face, was still good.

Li Yishan, who rarely argued with others, still did not refute Zhao Changling to his face, but walked to the map, stretched out his hand and pointed at the consort’s grave, looked at the people in the tent, and said: ”Ye Baikui has long since dispatched his troops to this place, and it’s obvious that, if you put yourself in his shoes, I will successively send out two armies, a light cavalry in order to cope with our galloping support, and a heavy cavalry which marches relatively slow I would have used them as a back-up. West Chu treasury head of silver to countless, the world knows, otherwise our great general will not day after day chanting to win the war, must go to the gold mountain silver mountain lying beautiful sleep ……”

Li Yishan said here, even Zhao Changling also face ease a few points, Xu Snapu snappy grin, the rest of the generals are all heart smile.

Li Yishan continued: “Da Chu has two gold lumps, that more than 100,000 halberdiers has been proved to be outdated chicken ribs, but Ye Baikui under the command of 60,000 heavy horsemen, whether it belongs to the cumbersome, is still debatable. Raising heavy cavalry is naturally very expensive, ordinary a ride is probably at least equal to the price of fattening three to four elite light cavalry, the advantages and disadvantages are very significant, the disadvantage is that the heavy horse and heavy armor, in the battle before the real opening, inconvenient to move, armor slow, slow to mount, can be said that in addition to all the proper mounted charge, what is slow, and turn around even slower, in a successful charge to kill the enemy through the enemy’s formations, but still can not be stopped, you have to circle out a huge radius to cushion before they could turn around smoothly to start a second charge. In the right battlefield, by many light cavalry generals ridiculed as can only do a hammer deal of heavy cavalry, in fact, is deservedly the king of the battlefield, and the terrain is wide and easy to charge and kill the consort’s grave, is Chu heavy cavalry to facilitate the play of the right battlefield, Changling said that our side to split up to go, as long as there is no more than 50,000 men, are all sent to their deaths.”

Li Yishan spoke sharply, obviously not wanting to waste an inch of time, but still paused here subconsciously before saying, “Of course it’s going to send death.”

Li Yishan quickly made a gesture of turning over his hand, and continued, “As long as we beat down Da Chu, the next step is to beat Shu and Tang and Nanzhao, and that is a small matter of pushing the boat down the river, as easy as a slap in the face! We have no doubt about this, and it is our Xu family iron horsemen who fight to the head, and battle to the front, and only then hit the western bastion wall with a bang. But if we choose to retreat at this point, to avoid the front, the next not to mention whether we can win over the Chu, the general can continue to hold the power of the army, it is difficult to say. We have died many people, and we will die next as usual, but if 20,000 less people die at this point in the consort’s grave, all the Xu family robes we died before will have died in vain!”

Li Yishan didn’t go to look at Zhao Changling, just stared at Xu Snapdragon and said in a deep voice, “I implore you, Great General, to let one man lead 20,000 light cavalry to their deaths!”

Chen Zhi Bao who came to the tent dusty from various battlefield patrols said flatly, “Righteous father, don’t use 20,000 people, give me 15,000 riders, but I want the best war horses with the best stamina, the best spears and the best bows and crossbows, and I’ll go and guard the consort’s grave.”

Zhao Changling stared at this extremely valued young general with a complicated expression.

Yuan Zuozong stretched out his palm and stroked the scruff on his chin and laughed, “Zhi Bao still has to find out the skills and habits of the lieutenants of the various armies in order to be able to do the last big battle as if it were a big battle, after all, there are still so many foreign soldiers and horses and many descended generals, so there can’t be any delays. It’s better for me, the great idler, to go to the consort’s grave.”

Chu Lushan suddenly hemmed and hawed and laughed, “This kind of deadly battle where everyone dies together, Yuan Baixiong are you as familiar with it as I am? Robbing with me, you are not ashamed?”

Li Yishan said flatly: “Consort grave this battle, Ye Bai Kui has a successive hand, we also have to divide into two groups, is considered to be successive death, the former death to be slow, the slower the better, the best is to consume all the light cavalry of the big Chu, and even make sure to let the heavy cavalry of the big Chu to carry out a round of charging, Zuozong is good at preserving the strength of the cavalry battle.”

Yuan Zuozong nodded.

Chu Lushan glared, “Then the troops and horses in the rear, should always be mine, right?”

Li Yishan shook his head and said, “If you seek a lose-lose situation, there is no harm for you to go, but in that case, Da Chu still wins in the final analysis, Ye Bai Kui can send a steady stream of troops to the Concubine’s Tomb, and it becomes a war of attrition there that is very unfavorable to our side, in addition to depleting the Great General’s strength, it depletes the patience of Tai’an City even more, and it’s a pity that we can’t afford to lose any of these points. ”

Chen Zhi Bao laughed: “I’ll go well. Fifteen thousand riders for Zuo Zong, I only need the subsequent five thousand riders, as long as Zuo Zong drags it out until the heavy cavalry of Da Chu is committed to the battlefield, I can make sure that I eat them up, so that Ye Bai Kui will no longer dare to touch the consort’s grave with a single soldier or a single pawn.”

Zhao Changling worriedly said, “If Ye Baikui suddenly starts a duel at this time?”

Commander Xu Snap gently patted the shoulder of this strategist, who is known for his “watertight and comprehensive strategy”, and laughed cheerfully, “Didn’t the spy report say that that big trouble Cao Changqing is still in the south? Since Ye Baikui didn’t use this person, it means that he probably doesn’t dare to start a duel too soon, and besides, he is still in an advantageous position. A big man who is the backbone of Chu, there is no need to gamble with our group of barefooted paupers.”

The corners of the suave Zhao Changling’s mouth flushed with a bitter smile, but he finally stopped insisting on his own views.

It is said that before the troops and horses move, the food and grass go first, but this time the 20,000 light cavalry’s quiet long-distance run, in addition to carrying a few food and grass, there is not a trace of superfluous action.

In order to hide people’s ears, Chen Zhi Bao even deliberately steered his horse to the battlefield at the front of the western base wall, white horse with a long spear, riding alone.

The front army of Da Chu could all clearly see this man’s elegance.

Yuan Zuozong led 15,000 horsemen to take the lead in rushing to the consort’s grave, with the route being north then east.

Before mounting his horse, Li Yishan stepped forward, his lips trembling slightly, but he did not speak.

Yuan Zuozong violently clasped his fist and arched his hand, his eyes clear and resolute, also did not speak.

Xu Snap walked forward and said softly, ”Zuo Zong ah, righteous father will not say anything good, just say one sentence. Even if you die, at least try to leave a whole body, and when you enter the coffin in the future, righteous father will also help you wear a pair of hand-sewn cloth shoes.”

Yuan Zuozong listened to the words of mourning, but did not have half a bit of indignation, and laughed: “No, just keep it for Xiaonian to wear. Consider it as a gift from Zuozong to him, he hasn’t given him anything for so many years, and he is always upset in his heart.”

Xu Snap waved his hand and said, “Go.”

Fifteen thousand light cavalry quietly left the western base wall in the dead of night.

Xu Snapdragon stood in place, on his left was Zhao Changling, behind him was Li Yishan, exactly like Great General Xu Snapdragon’s left arm and right arm.

Chu Lushan squatted in front of his righteous father and sulked, pulling up a weed that was lucky not to be trampled by the horse’s hooves and chewing on it with the grass and mud.

Xu Snapdragon squatted down beside this nominal son, raised his hand and patted Chu Lushan’s head, smiled and said, “As long as we can eat Da Chu this time, by you to be the pioneer of the opening of the Shu, righteous father had already promised to Zuo Zong, if he died, it just so happens that you come to count on his share.”

In the Xu family army to grab military service than who all flip-flop dead fat, unprecedented not half happy, drooping fat head.

Xu family iron horsemen, a set of old people walk new people come, but since following Xu Snapdragon out of the two Liao since, hit this western wall, there is no life away, only death!

“Xu Fengnian squatted beside Xu Snapdragon and wanted to tell Chu Lushan and Xu Snapdragon, whose back was not yet hunchbacked, that Yuan Zuozong would not die, and that he would not lose the battle of Xibibei.

But after that, wait until the king of the split North Liang to fight the North Mang, began to live away from more and more, less and less goodbye to death.

Until he Xu Fengnian carried the flag of the Xu family, and once again directly faced the North Mang millions of string-controlling soldiers.