Chapter 111: No Snow in the Sky

Although the sky is cold, there is no snow yet.

Not really personally to the border to walk through, it is difficult to experience that kind of star hanging flat field wide mood. Xu Fengyen accompanied Xu Weixiong out of the capital, out of Huaiyang Pass, to a few miles outside the pass, accompanied by only Chu Lushan. Veteran Yan Wenluan and the new Dragon Gate Yu Luan knife these people have rushed to Youzhou to preside over the military affairs, the latter before leaving to Xu Fengyen a folding, specializing in elaborating on the Guangling Road side of the battle analysis, focusing on the Kou Jianghuai this person that a series of point and face of the battle raids. Large-scale riding battle in the wild, this has been the border sand field will only have picture, in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the size of the city scattered, and there are rivers blocking, the cavalry is extremely difficult to play, to be precise, it is extremely difficult to play a “one gas” battle, playing a or a few wonderful battles is not difficult, but from the end of the day, abandoning the pawns, but the maximum digging out of the Cavalry’s combat power, this is a very test of the ability to lead the main general. Chu Lushan on the way through the vague starlight lowered his head to carefully browse this envelope, love, from time to time tsk, wait until Xu Fengyen and Xu Weixiong stopped in a small broken ground, Chu Lushan carefully put away the stack of thousands of dollars worth of rice paper, looked at the sky, softly lamented: “Lu Shengxiang’s best work of his life is that snowy night down Luzhou, help Gu Jiantang is considered to be a bloodless battle Took down the entire East Vietnam, I, when a thousand riders open Shu, also considered fortunate, these two battles, these more than ten years in the Shangyin Palace and the Imperial College, was teaching the old pedants of the art of war upside down deduced countless times. But if I look at this unruly and untamed Kou Jianghuai in the new temple hall of Western Chu, compared to me and that Squire Lu, are a lot stronger, it is no wonder that Yu Luan knife so high-minded and proud of the son of a powerful warlord, willing to be unstinting in his praise for another son of the same age of the family.”

Xu Weixiong reached out his hand and asked Chu Lushan for the stack of rice paper, placing it on his knee, casually pulling out a page, and said flatly, “Kou Jianghuai is recognized as a generalist in the Shangyin Palace of Learning, only that before he fell into the eyes of certain learned masters, and was also slightly miscellaneous and unrefined. I have played a few games of chess with him ……”

Xu Fengnian couldn’t help but interject and ask, “Second sister, this kid can still beat you in a game of chess?”

Xu Weixiong looked up straight at Xu Fengyuan, Xu Fengyuan snapped and smiled, hurriedly shut up, Chu Lushan glimpsed this scene, today’s world, can let us this young king of Beilang defeated characters, a handful of, at the moment a little bit can’t help but laugh, the results of Xu Fengyuan eat soft and afraid of hard, picking up soft persimmon to pinch, fiercely glared at the gloating Chu Lushan, the Lord of the Du Gui and only have to resentfully converge on the laughter, we must know that can let him Lukuo’er defeated Guys, two court, is not the same as a lantern hard to find? Xu Weixiong continued: “with my game of people, more than the chess world of the national players, which undoubtedly Kou Jianghuai’s chess hand tendons are the weakest, but this person’s idea of the most wild, the chess is not fixed, not only can play a person creepy strong hand, but also can play the bullshit stupefying moves, but also can be cheeky irrational hand all the way to the end, these are not worth the surprise, Kou Jianghuai really let a person impressed point Kou Jianghuai is really impressive, is that he has the lightest heart of victory and defeat. This kind of opponent, put on the battlefield of the army against the battlefield, will be very difficult to deal with, Guangling King Zhao Yi has obviously eaten enough suffering. West Chu on the eastern front, Kou Jianghuai with inferior strength within two decades of consecutively hit the Huangyan Pass ground jinze six dangerous passes within the city, get the city and do not defend, give up a moment of a place of contention, and strive to achieve in a single battlefield on the enemy’s overwhelming strength advantage, little by little nibble reinforcements, big transfer, long raids, this seemingly ‘irrational’ method of using the military, it is really worth it! us to borrow from Northern Liang which is at a disadvantage compared to Northern Mang.”

Chu Lushan is probably too tired to stand, sit on his butt on the grass next to Xu Weixiong wheelchair, the height of his head is still about the same as Xu Weixiong, it can be seen that the head of the Northern Liang officials Luqiuer’s body type is huge, after the winter, withered grass is sparse, and he does not feel cackling, laughed: “After the restoration of the West Chu’s situation, and our Northern Liang is quite like, have become the same disease of the brotherhood of the difficult, Western Chu In the two southern armies and several major feudal lords of the joint siege, really snail shell do do do ah, if Cao Changqing personally, forcing Yang Shenxing power can not make, Yan Zhenchun died in battle, is also considered reasonable, but now the West Chu but let two members of the small generals out, has been to let the Zhao room the court burnt to a crisp, Zhao Yi had to even that the spring snow building Fu generals have moved out of the stage, think of the battle of the Guangling, is not away from the sun the Department of the army lords Anticipated short as March long as half a year, even not the year and a half that we Beiliang expected at that time, until the last wisp of smoke clears, I’m afraid it will take two years.”

Xu Fengnian sneered, “Zhao family heavenly prince used the new year number auspicious symbol, the intention is to have some new atmosphere, new atmosphere is new atmosphere, but just can’t talk about half a bit of joy. The suppression of Northern Liang and the indulgence of Guangling are all situations created by him, and I don’t know if he will be a bit remorseful. In addition to handing over the dragon robe and dragon chair to Crown Prince Zhao Zhuan, there is still such a big mess.”

Xu Weixiong shook his head and said in a deep voice, “The Zhao family is already good at mucking around in the middle game and closing with a hammer blow, and with a loss of the first hand, the Zhao family is even more family-oriented and can afford to lose than the isolated Liyang back then. The only difference is that back then, the court had our Xu family as their pawns, and the previous emperor, no matter how anxious he was in his heart, still trusted our father and the Xu family’s iron cavalry on the surface. If not for the fact that the current emperor is determined to nail the Xu family to death at the Northwest border, who would dare to rise up and seek their own deaths, he, Cao Changqing, and the Western Chu remnants? As long as the Northern Liang Border Army draws out 50,000 men to quell the rebellion, how would Yang Shenxing and Yan Zhenchun fail to protect themselves later in life?”

Chu Lushan said: “This is also something that can’t be done, the Zhao family son of heaven is determined to be the enemy of the world, the feudal lords of the borders, gradually embracing the new nobility of the civil officials, the local cut off the military generals, in his opinion there is no one is a good thing, want to help his son to solve the trouble before he dies, the chessboard is too small to accommodate so many big chess pieces. If he really made it, Prince Zhao Zhuan can really be a not important martial arts peace of mind in the rule of the Emperor of enjoyment, Gu Jiantang has Chen Zhibao constraints, the civilian ministers without Zhang Julu, the group leaderless, then busy trying to understand the emperor’s heart is not too late, where to care about the rule of the country and the whole world, and then the world is at peace, the generals are discharged to return to the field, and it is even less the turn of the civilian ministers to go to fish for the credit. After Yong Hui Xiangfu years of courtiers, in addition to pleasing the king, there is really nothing to do. Not to mention, Yuan Benxi’s old man played this calculator neatly.”

Xu Fengyen waved his hand and said, “Saying all this won’t help, right now Dong Zhuo’s specific troop movements, except for the direction of Liuzhou, there is no detailed spy report yet. Lu Qiu’er, how long do you think Liuzhou can hold back Liu Gui’s army? And after that, how many Northern Mang border troops can be pulled to throw themselves into this pocket of Liuzhou?”

Chu Lushan smiled and said, “With Junior Prince’s 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army helping to defend Liuzhou, Liu Gui’s 100,000 or so disorganized soldiers alone wouldn’t be able to fight them off for a hundred years. We and the North Mang this unprecedented war, in later generations, no matter how the early stage of the fight, in fact, no one has the upper and lower strategies, depending on who can be in a divided battlefield to the advantage of accumulating less into more. As of now, Dong Zhuo obviously didn’t put too much thought into this side of Liuzhou, he invited Liu Gui, the most prestigious of the thirteen great generals and also the youngest border marshal, over there, because he didn’t want Liu Gui to take advantage of the situation in the future strategy of the Central Plains, and at the very least he didn’t want Liu Gui to get up too fast and too strong. What worries me most is that Dong Zhuo went to fight Youzhou with a bang and killed the Youzhou defense line regardless of losses, during which he placed the most elite Tuoba Bodhisattva and Hong Jingyan on the northern line of Liangzhou to hold back the main force of our cavalry.”

Xu Weixiong nodded his head and said, “Fighting Youzhou words, as far as the short term is concerned, it is the most unrewarding dimwitted fighting method of Beimang, but in the long run, it is a method that can best preserve the national strength of Beimang, after all, Beiliang is not the Central Plains that possesses a great depth, and even if there are a number of cities and ponds in Youzhou to be fortified, and there are pieces of fortresses south of Hulukou that have a group of military towns, that Hulukou alone can eat up Beimang’s 160,000 Soldiers and horses, although there is no water, but as long as the North Mang have the courage to pay the next 100,000 troops, Youzhou is equal to the abolition of the next to rely on the main force of Liangzhou to support the territory of the Youzhou, once this situation is formed, the flow of the state to guard or not to guard, has nothing to do with the big picture, this is also Yan Wenluan insisted on Yu Luan knife led 30,000 light cavalry to go to Jizhou the root cause of the state, he was determined to a state of Youzhou for the whole of the North Liang to win more time and space, but this is, after all, not the same thing. and space, but this is, after all, a helpless move, the ultimate end is just a matter of losing more or less, the Liyang court is happy to see it, but Beiliang can’t afford it.”

Xu Weixiong folded his hands on the lap of rice paper, looking into the distance, “Chu guards insisted on letting the flow of state into a stalemate, to attract the full attention of the north and south of the North Mang two dynastic halls, hoping that the North Mang border army to the flow of state to divide the troops, but also worried about the Dong Zhuo one mind to attack the state of Youzhou. In these ten years, father has poured countless heart and soul into Youzhou, spent countless soldiers’ pay, and even in that leading raid seven years ago in which the Dragon’s Waist State held the section order, deliberately let the Liangzhou border army not go to rescue Youzhou, and watched as the 30,000 Youzhou defenders threw away a city, pool and e-burger, and then the northern barbarians exchanged their lives, that is, he wanted to make the North Mang fearful of the border defenses of Youzhou, and he hoped that there would be a time in the future when it would be possible to make Youzhou not become a fatal soft underbelly.”

Chu Lushan whispered, “Mercy doesn’t control soldiers.”

Chu Lushan violently and heavily exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, “That old woman has been purging the jianghu forces of North Mang for many years, and now it is finally put to use, on the border line, those masters are dead set on the large and small passes and intersections, and as long as they meet someone who quietly passes through the passes, regardless of their identity, all of them are beheaded on the spot. Many of our dead spies who have been lurking around for years have had a hard time passing on important military information. This time, the Chess Sword and Music House and the Princess Tomb, all of these great clans, have come out in force to blockade news at the border and cooperate with Dong Zhuo’s border troop movements. This hand can be really ruthless, whisking the water room in the northern mang side was so followed, can be described as a heavy loss, many states of the years of operation were uprooted.”

Squatting on the ground Chu Lushan’s reached out and rubbed his cheeks, “This is not enough, not long ago there was a spy who was intentionally released back by the North Mang, with sixteen heads of fellow whisking water room members in his traveling bag. When the spy saw me, he cried and said that if he didn’t want the Water Flushing Room to take back these heads, he would rather die than return to Northern Liang. After that spy put down his traveling bag, he borrowed a Liang knife and killed himself that night, with no last words, no suicide note, and nothing left behind.”

Chu Lushan said sullenly, “Our new Liang knife, which has not yet opened to kill the northern barbarians, heck is first used by their own people as a suicide. If I keep holding this bad breath, my lungs will explode.”

Xu Fengyen was silent, his hands folded in the large cuffs of his purple and gold python robe.

After the winter, Guangling Road side of the prolonged war temporarily come to an end, began to turn to the Northern Liang smoke.

This year’s winter has not yet snow.

I don’t know when the snow will fall.

Just three hundred thousand border army waist cool knife sheath, then is anytime and anywhere thing.