Chapter 102 next year spring hair flower

In the winter season, the water outside the plug withered grass yellow, can meet that little bit of tenacious green is very pleasing, the three people holding the horse stopped at a water source, and then straight to the north of the horse three days can see that the Wazhu city. Xu Fengyen squatted down, scooped up a handful of water, patted it on his face, and let out a long breath.

Not versed in military affairs, Sui Shiaogu casually asked: “these northern barbarians brain into the water is not, why not in the early fall when the troops on the border, the history of these nomadic barbarians living on horseback by the water, are not in the fall to kill into the Central Plains looting the autumn harvest? When it comes to the freezing winter, what’s the point of looting?”

Xu Fengyen couldn’t help but laugh, Tantai calmly explained, “What you said is just the general situation, in history, several nomadic tribes brought great trauma to the Central Plains of the havoc, in fact, most of them were in the winter to the south, taking advantage of the river ice, cavalry unimpeded, at the end of the Dafeng Dynasty, the northern barbarians are based on this to kill the hinterland of the Central Plains.”

Xu Fengyen continued, “the grassland nomads and the central plains farming dynasty is the relationship between the wolf and the tiger, the initiative has always been in the hands of the latter, the latter whenever the rise and fall alternately show fatigue, is a young tiger sick tiger or about to die of old age tiger, the northern barbarians become the most powerful, so every time the central plains civil unrest, the northern barbarians will invade the transit of the south to take advantage of some of the fire. But in the end, from the beginning of Qin to Liyang, or the Central Plains dynasty pressed the northern barbarians to fight mostly, we must know that at the time of Qin’s official history is recorded ‘barbarian soldiers five when the Qin soldiers one’, the peak of the Dafeng dynasty official history also said ‘barbarians quite get the Qin trick, as if the three when a’, that is to say that even if the northern nomads have gained a lot of power, the northern barbarians will become the most powerful time. That is to say that at that time even if the northern nomadic gained a lot of Qin dynasty casting technology, three barbarians can only be equivalent to the strength of a Dafeng armor. Just to this day, the Northern Mang relies on the Southern Dynasty that has absorbed countless Spring and Autumn legacies, and over in the Central Plains the powerful brigade that dares to claim that it can fight with the Northern Mang and be equal in number without being defeated is estimated to be only the elite forces of King Zhao Yi of Guangling and King Zhao Bing of Yanzhi.”

Sui Shiaogu couldn’t help but ask, “Isn’t the Liyang Dynasty strong enough to unify the Central Plains? Don’t they all say that Liyang’s strength is far beyond Dabing to catch up with Great Qin?”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “If the current Son of Heaven, when he first ascended to the throne, did not rush to show the world his great talent, did not fight with the Northern Mang, and instead, he was contentedly digesting the strength of the eight Spring and Autumn states, then in the next battle of the tigers and wolves of Liyang and the Northern Mang, whether my 300,000 armored soldiers in Beiliang have, or do not have, or even has been completely unimportant, at most, it is just icing on the cake…. .”

Sui Shiaogu glared: “That surnamed Zhao’s emperor boy brain into water? There was no strategist to dissuade him at that time?”

Xu Fengyen helplessly said, “At that time, the victory or defeat between Liyang and Beimang was just a matter of fifty-fifty, who dared to talk to him recklessly? Besides, in the heart of the Zhao family’s son, he wanted to use his military achievements to suppress a large number of famous generals in the Spring and Autumn period, led by my father and Gu Jiantang. There’s no such thing as a clear-cut right and wrong in the world. Like me, I am the son of Xu Snapdragon, in my eyes, Xu Snapdragon is naturally the king of a different surname who has no big mistakes and no big wrongs, but has countless big achievements, then in the eyes of Prince Zhao Zhuan and these princes, I think that today’s Prince of Heaven is even the most diligent and loving emperor in the history of Liyang. Back then, Zhao Kai was going to intercept me at the reed swings, and I was going to go to the Iron Gate Pass to intercept and kill him, me and him both, and no one is the guy who is the most sinful and evil, just can’t help it, at that time, they are all pawns, and still being pushed across the river pawns.”

Sui diagonal valley sneered: “Yo, listen to the tone, dare to today you kid will change, become a chess player?”

In response to the sarcasm of the sword-eating old ancestor, Xu Fengyen smiled and kept quiet, standing up and then looking to the north, where on a line, there was the Wazhu military town, the Western Capital, the Golden Toad State, and further north, there was the Northern Mang Royal Court.

Tantai Calm, who was dressed in the white clothes of a Qi Practitioner, suddenly said, ”For the nomadic people, how can a strong and stable Central Plains dynasty not be a disaster? Once the person at the helm of this dynasty honors border achievements, surrounded by a group of talented generals who wish to whip the desert at the same time. And vice versa. The tussle between nomadic tribes and farming dynasties will not change even if the Liyang Dynasty is overthrown and changes one surname monarch after another ……”

Xu Fengnian shook his head, “It can!”

Tantai Calm was incredulous, “Can?”

Xu Fenian stretched out a finger, pointing to the north, “As long as we are able to fight our way through this land, and then create several direct Qin routes there that run through Northern Mang!”

Tantai Calm had a look of disbelief, “Are you crazy?”

Xu Fengnian narrowed his eyes and said softly, “I’m not crazy, if you really want to say crazy, it was also the young chief minister who was only in charge of the country at that time, back then, in Xu Snapdragon and Gu Jiantang chose who to guard the northwest gateway, the debate was endless, on the surface, the two chief ministers of the son-in-laws were adamantly opposed to my father to seal the borders of the country and make the king of the different surnames, but I learned of an inside story very late in the night, in the opposition, some people convinced the then resigned to the post But I realized an inside story very late, among the opponents, someone convinced the old chief minister, who was still in official authority at that time, to return to his hometown. This person was Zhang Julu. Because this civil official, who had never joined the military, had ambitions that all military generals could not even imagine, the young chief minister wanted to use Beiliang as an outpost for attacking Beimang, and use the Beiliang iron cavalry as the main force for attacking Beimang, so as to minimize the loss of troops and the pressure on supplies in Liyang. Under this premise, First Counselor Zhang will have the court acquiesce to the Xu family’s measured infiltration of Western Shu and Southern Zhao.”

Xu Fengnian slowly said, “In this situation that both the young chief minister and Beiliang know only too well, many things are irresistible. One of the loyal Han family is too stubborn and conservative, but also do not want to take the entire family foundation for the Northern Liang Xu family as a dowry, once compromised, the Han family as the northern military pillar of the status will disappear, then generations with the northern nomads fighting the Han family, but also will soon turn into a passing cloud of smoke. To know when the Xu family to cool, Han family head of the family also with my father, two close friends still wine talk happy to come, if I remember correctly, my first pile of matchmaking, is not the back of the side horse harnessed by the side of a team, but the Han family at that time a still tie the goat horns of a little girl. More behind his father, showing half a face, making a face at me.”

Xu Fengnian shrunk his hands in his sleeves, “At first, things hadn’t yet fallen apart, and the Han family made a lot of efforts, then Yuan Benxi intervened, and ruthlessly shaded Zhang Julu a bit. By the time my father mobilized his iron cavalry and crossed the border to rescue the Han family’s children, everything was already too late.”

Xu Fengyen looked towards the sky, “When I was young, I would still often dream of that goat-horned girl that I had only met halfway, half of her face was covered in blood, crying all the time, telling me that it hurt.”

Xu Fengnian laughed to himself, “I used to be most afraid of dreaming about her in nightmares, by the time I wanted to dream about her once more later on, there was no way to do so.”

Xu Fengnian’s waist bent slightly, seemingly overwhelmed and seemingly remembering someone.

“When I was young, I didn’t know any better, I said a lot of angry words, and even said a sentence to Xu Snapdragon’s face, probably meaning that it was bad luck for me to become your Xu Snapdragon’s son, I was like this, and my mother was like this as well.”

“When I grew up, I realized that Xu Snapdragon actually couldn’t have done a better job, what he could give me, he as a father gave me. His mouth always talked about how spirited he was in his youth, how many victories he had won after leading his troops to war, and how much scenery he enjoyed. At that time, I always had no patience to listen to him talk about these old sesame seeds, and when I got impatient, I would say Xu Snapdragon, ah, a good man does not mention the courage of the past, let’s not whine about it, okay.”

“The whole world’s bright-eyed smart people are laughing at Xu Snapdragon stupid, helped the late emperor to fight the world, the result is to give people’s sons like a thief defense for twenty years. In fact, everyone knows that Xu Snapdragon is not going to rebel, if he wants to rebel, the Central Plains has long appeared in the north and south of the river to rule the scene. But the more so, the more the sun will get an inch, so Zhao family son of heaven will let Zhao Kai hold bottle to the western region, let Chen Zhi Bao cut off to the north of Liang retreat, forcing the Xu family 300,000 iron riders family to go with the north of Mang fight light. The Zhao family’s son used such tactics to help his son put on the dragon robe, Zhao Zhuan’s temple, among the courtiers, there will not be Xu Snap, a martial artist who has made great achievements, there will not be Zhang Julu, a man of letters who cares about the people of the world, and within the territory, there will not be any feudal officials with big tails and no feudal lords who covet the dragon chair. There will only be a greatly wounded Northern Mang left behind, left behind for his son to accomplish the greatness that the two great dynasties of Qin and Dafeng failed to do.”

“Xu Snap once said that the current son of heaven is far less powerful than his predecessor, but he can indeed be considered a good emperor.”

As Xu Fengnian spoke, he squatted down and grabbed a handful of yellow sand, holding it tightly in his hand.

Sui Xiangu sighed softly.

Tantai Calm turned around violently and looked into the distance, a dozen or so riders arrived in the dust.

Iron armor stained with blood, swords and crossbows broken.

Xu Fengyin stood up, when the ten or so riders who originally thought of borrowing this side of the precious water source to quickly resupply found the three of them, it seemed that the heavenly beings were at war, if there was no water, neither they nor their war horses would be able to carry the pursuit of the enemy’s Black Fox Fence from a distance of a few miles away.

After the leader of the rider waved a big hand and rushed towards the water source, the exhausted fourteen riders rolled over and dismounted, while filling water into their pouches as well as the horses drinking and brushing their noses, there were people who carefully kept an eye on Xu Fengyen’s trio in case of any mishaps. This place is already considered to be far away from the border of Northern Liang, the probability of encountering one of their own people is similar to encountering Northern barbarians in the territory of Northern Liang. These fourteen riders are light armor and light crossbow elite riders, everyone’s stature is stout and horsemanship is exquisite, waist and all hanging with the latest generation of Liang knife, it is visible that is the most outstanding crossbowmen in the Beiliang border army. But this time is supposed to meet the enemy at least a hundred cavalry more than the siege to catch up, everyone was wounded, one of the horses in the water, shaking a few times on the spot fell dead, the cavalry hold back tears, not to look at the beloved horse, do not need to say half a word, beside the two riders on the exchange of a lighter loss of a crossbow to him, and this no mount is doomed to not be able to live to return to the border of the crossbow traveler, more likely to ride a horse back with his comrades, but also the crossbow, the crossbow, the crossbow, the crossbow and the crossbow. He was destined not to return to the border alive without his mount, much less with his comrades, which would have only killed one more of his comrades. This mounted soldier put his light crossbow back on his back, touched the cool sword on his waist, grinned at all the other crossbowmen, and then turned around to meet the black foxes that were chasing them to intercept the military information.

Just then, the leader of the traveling crossbow rider who had already mounted his horse saw that young male with extraordinary demeanor smiled and said, “I’ll take three horses and exchange them with you guys for a cool sword, how about it?”

The traveling crossbow rider standard bearer looking man froze for a moment and asked, “You are also a Liang man?”

Xu Fengyen nodded, “An authentic Liangzhou man.”

That standard-bearer said in a quick tone, “In that case, the Liang sword can be lent to you, but I hope that you can turn around and go to Fengwang Pass to look for me, my name is Zhu Keng, this time my brothers and I owe you a life! Your Excellency’s mounts are all worth a thousand gold, you can’t afford to buy them even if you sell your pots and pans, Zhu Keng can’t afford to repay this favor in this lifetime, Zhu Keng is not a pretentious person, he only dares to say that he will kill thirty more Northern Barbarians columns in the future for your Excellency!”

Zhu Geng turned towards the cavalryman who had clearly gone to his death earlier, “Li Tingji, roll back and get on your horse with me to return to Fengwang Pass!”

Xu Fengyen gave all three horses to Zhu Geng, handing over the reins with a speech that Zhu Geng didn’t understand but it was too late to think deeply about, “Traveling crossbowmen with a standard of fifty riders, it’s me who owes you thirty-six lives.”

The fourteen riders clasped their fists on the back of their horses and thanked them, Zhu Keng didn’t forget to remind, “Your Excellency be careful, at most two miles behind, there are sixty Black Fox Fences and three hundred Northern Mang light cavalry.”

Xu Fengnian nodded and waited until the fourteen traveling crossbowmen were far away, looking at the two scarred war horses, he turned his head to Tantai Calm and Sui Shianggu and said, “I’ll trouble the two seniors to send these two horses to the Seal Wolf Pass, and then go to the capital to wait for me.”

Sui Shiaogu was about to speak, but by Tantai Calm’s cold glance, he could only swallow his words back into his stomach.

Xu Fengyen carried the borrowed Beiliang sword in his right hand and slowly walked forward.

The left hand that had been holding the cupped gravel loosened its five fingers and the yellow sand scattered across the sky and earth.

Alone, he slowly walked towards those more than three hundred riders.

Next spring, the loquat tree in some small courtyard will have new buds and flowers again.

The spring after that will still be the same, I just don’t know if I can see it with my own eyes.