Chapter 112 – Sword Sheathed

More than 8,000 tough Qiang riders, from the Guseizhou border straight into the Qingcang Lin Ballad between the two cities, as Chu Lushan expected, fast horses and light armor of the Qiang riders by Liu Gui used to cut off the two military towns.

The Qiang race has been a thorn in the side of successive Central Plains overlords, and the Dafeng Dynasty has been harassed by Qiang wizards who come and go like the wind for two hundred years, and each Qiang person rides a sheep and shoots birds and rats as a child, and then rides a horse and shoots foxes and rabbits when he is a little bit older and stronger, and he was born to be a sharp warrior on horseback, and the light cavalry of the Central Plains countries has gradually taken to the stage and can be said to have been forced by Qiang cavalry in a large extent to deal with the Qiang horsemen are the “master teacher” of the Chinese cavalry. The Qiang cavalry was also one of the “teachers” of the Chinese cavalry. Xu Snapdragon before and after the entry into the northern Liang, the Qiang dwindling, especially Xu family iron horsemen often take large shares of the Qiang horsemen to maneuver and practice, this is undoubtedly the Qiang is a tragic thing to add to the misery of the Qiang, so the Qiang is a natural ally of the North Mang, this time the southern invasion of the Central Plains, Qiang various tribal leaders of all sizes have to resolve the hatred of the hostages and enter into an oath, and even in the North Mang’s lead, the association of the other species, with a number of other Northwest tribal tribes suppressed by Xu’s border army, this is the This is the only way to get close to 9,000 horses and more than 20,000 horses, under the banner of the Qiang Riders, to take revenge on the Xu family in Beiliang.

This originally in the long border line of poor and desperate Qiang horsemen, in the North Mang South Dynasty’s strong support, finally be able to realize hundreds of years has been dreaming of all the men and horses in armor, and ordinary cavalry slightly different, Qiang horsemen saber use has been out of the war stage of the ring arm sword, sword and arm ring armor binding system connected to a body, unless cut off the whole arm, otherwise the knife does not leave the hand. In addition to the ring-armed sword, the Qiang horsemen also have the name of “pat thigh” Qiang traditional short sword, hanging on the outside of the thigh, like the village man cutting rice in the fall harvest, they use this thing to cut the enemy’s ears and head to serve as trophies.

More than 8,000 Qiang horsemen galloped south, the leader of a strong man bent down, reached out and rubbed the thighs of the ancestral generations, this ten thousand chiefs of the eyes cruel, filled with hatred.

When that surname Xu’s Central Plains massacre broke into the northwest, all the local disobedient adults were killed on the spot, even those who are not high enough to horseback children, but also hard to escape, although not decapitated, but also by the Xu family cavalry cut off the thumbs of both hands! This meant that even if these children survived, they were unable to hold their weapons firmly, unable to swing their swords at the Northern Liang border troops. This middle-aged Wanfu’s family name is Jin, when his tribe was flattened by Xu Clan’s hooves, he was lucky to be a teenager and followed his small group of young men to hunt outside to stock up on food for the winter. When they returned to the tribe, in addition to the ground full of dead people, there are only those hands dripping with blood crying children, children’s feet, is the corpse of their parents.

He swore that he would personally use this beat thigh to cut off the thumbs of all those surnamed Xu within the territory of Beiliang, as long as the surname Xu, even a baby in swaddling clothes would not be spared one! Especially the son of that human butcher, the hereditary and reckless new Liang King guy, he not only wanted to cut off that young man’s thumb, but Xu Fengyen’s head, limbs, and ten fingers, he wanted to cut and take them off one by one!

This Mrs. Wan slowly straightened her back and looked towards the vast land with an open view to the south, full of sardonic smiles.

I heard that there is a young son of a human butcher named Xu Longxiang within the territory of Liuzhou, who is very famous on the side of the southern dynasty’s powerful lords, and last year had once beaten several military towns in Gusei Prefecture with holes all over his body. He did not have the luxury of capturing this man alone with less than 9,000 cavalry, but before cooperating with Great General Liu Gui to completely level Liuzhou, he must drink the blood of those Northern Liang people, and make the young man with the dirty blood of a human butcher flowing in his body suffer. The Dragon Elephant Army under the youngster’s command was only 30,000 riders, and he wanted to defend the entire Liuzhou? In the view of the chief of ten thousand, that is just the old Central Plains drama of the brothers gap, clearly is the young feudal king jealous of his brother’s huge border achievements, only deliberately let Xu Longxiang and teenager all the first line waiting for death.

Winter water withered grass yellow, the war horse is far less fat than the fall and summer, in the eyes of the people in the Central Plains, especially in the south of the Yangtze River is not suitable for military affairs, but for a long time in the border familiar with the cold cold Liang Mang both sides, as long as the iron heart wants to fight, even if the snowy damn weather, that can be in any piece of the battlefield to fight to the death.

Instead, the Qiang cavalry commander Jin Cheng liked the killing in the late winter the most, that kind of scene with the spear into the enemy’s chest, and then in the snow dragged out a scarlet road of blood, it is really more than drinking wine is more sound.

Qiang cavalry raiding has always been known for its speed and momentum, praise at the same time, but also reveals the weakness of the Qiang cavalry, that is, can only do “a hammer deal” on the battlefield, although free to move in and out, but before obtaining the absolute advantage to start the pursuit, it is very difficult to expand the results of the war in the balance of power, there is no foot soldiers square, and even more so, there is no pressure on the formation of the heavy cavalry. This time, the North Mang’s messenger to them this Qiang ride will be extremely disrespectful, even if there is a request, the same eye above the top, in the price before, and even said to their faces that they are just the icing on the cake, dare to open up a big mouth to ask for the price of the sky, beware of the head is not guaranteed. He also threatened that if he didn’t act according to General Liu Gui’s orders, he wouldn’t have to return to the country, and that the North Mang army would regard them as enemy troops.

Jin multiplied hard grinding teeth, Laozi if not thinking of revenge to the Xu family, who fucking like to deal with you a bunch of pig-headed fat intestines of the civil servants old man!

Jin Cheng raised his eyes to look into the distance, suddenly some inexplicable uneasiness.

More than 8,000 Qiang horsemen to the south, cut off the two cities of Qingcang Lin Rumor, so that as the flow of the state of the city of Qingcang city isolated, in his view is indeed a surprise strategy, Qiang horsemen do not have to take any risks, but he is on the way south, or constantly let the two dozen ranger scouts to explore the road ahead, each horsemen have to run out of the Qiang horsemen outside the army of ten miles away, regardless of whether the contact with the enemy, have to be folded back, by the second horsemen behind to fill in the position. On the position, this way between the cavalry repeated, forming a meticulous cycle. According to reason this time there should be a rover back to the front of the army is right, not to mention this time the army flow state, the north manganese side of the special to give him a gift of a scout, is a body exudes a dangerous atmosphere of the old guy, the waist wearing a sword, the breath of the long, where it is what the military horse fence, he thought with the buttocks know that it is a deep hidden jianghu masters, can see that the north manganese this time the attack on the north of the Liang, is indeed under the blood of the capital, even tamed twenty years of jianghu power are not spared! The jianghu forces have not hesitated to give up all of them.

Jin multiplied is not the kind of revenge and obsessed with the crazy, he knows the importance, otherwise also can not be this Wanfuche, he is running to assist Liu Gui army to take advantage of the fire, the most afraid of the situation is directly with the main force of the Dragon Elephant Cavalry collision, but the clothes and decorations and the Central Plains family of the North Mangzhong son of the North Mangzhong messenger gave a guarantee that the thirty-thousand Dragon Elephant Army in addition to a small number of people may be traipsing along the route, the vast majority of the The vast majority of them will be held back in Qingcang City and the area east of Qingcang, otherwise Bei Liang would be like directly treating Liuzhou as an abandoned child, burying the Dragon Elephant Army, an elite cavalry army that has been through hundreds of battles, for nothing.

But Jin Rong, who was not a madman, began to worry that he would meet a madman Beiliang King who would do anything to secure his throne, and a heartless commander of the Dragon Elephant Army who would become an outcast.

After waiting for a few more moments, there was still no wait for the ranger scouts.

Frowning tightly, Jin multiplied raised his arm and swung it back and forth in a small range, signaling the cavalry behind him to slow down their forward speed.

About half an incense burner later, the Qiang cavalry army vision finally appeared in the figure of a scout, horse galloped wildly to, Jin multiplied and a few horse accelerated to the front of the commander of the thousands only to be shocked to find that the scouts behind the back of the crossbow inserted a number of arrows!

Before he died, the seriously wounded scout tried his best to tell the valuable information that he had discovered with the lives of more than two dozen Qiang Rangers.

Eight miles ahead, there are 3,000 Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry of the enemy.

Ten thousand chief Jin multiplied both happy and worried, happy is the other side is only three thousand riders, not the main force of the Dragon Elephant Army, worried is their own army is a trip to fish in troubled waters, rather than just on the battlefield to show their heads with that claim to be invincible at the border of the Dragon Elephant Army death match. Now in front of the Qiang horsemen there are two ways to go, continue to the south, with the strength advantage to eat the three thousand horsemen, continue to bite the teeth to complete the duty of cutting off the entire flow state, but the Qiang horsemen will be serious casualties, and in the future to lay down the flow state victory and then go to the north of the Mang bargaining with the bottom of the weak. The second way is to avoid its front, not to play with the three thousand dragon elephant light cavalry, but also do not retreat, but the circuitous advance, and then there is the inevitable contact war, the big deal is to symbolize a few tangled, with the qiang riders over the centuries the world’s first transfer speed, can be fought or retreated.

Jin multiplied a little thought, decided to choose the latter, their Qiang ride is not the national strength enough to wrestle with the entire Liyang dynasty of the North Mang millions of troops, compared to that uncle does not hurt grandma does not love the wretch Beiliang, Qiang also have to be more in the cracks in the struggle for survival. When Jin multiplied to make a choice, two of the other tribal origin of the chief of the thousands of soldiers apparently also showed a relieved expression. A young Qiang commander named Ke was extremely indignant at the cowardly and timid behavior of his general Jin multiplied, and loudly rebuked him from horseback, threatening to lead his 1,600 or so native Qiang riders to fight against him. Jin multiplied gloomy face, patiently told this rash young man, that the dragon elephant light cavalry although inferior to the starting family’s heavy cavalry, but also is definitely not easy to clean up the enemy, in case in addition to the three thousand soldiers and horses and the dragon elephant army distant reception, then their more than 8000 people do not want to live out of the flow of the state.

But that young man who had seen all the male elders of his family chopped off their heads by the Xu family’s cool knife, he simply could not listen to it and insisted on meeting the enemy and killing them in the end, not forgetting to sneer at Jin multiplied, saying that he, the 10,000 husband chief, had disgraced all the Qiang men’s faces.

Jin Cheng sneered in his heart, and gently turned his horse’s head to make way, “Ke Chuan, if you want to die, I won’t stop you.”

The young thousand husband chief raised his arm and called out, behind him, more than a thousand Qiang riders hissed in unison, vigorously waving the arm-binding war sword.

The young man named Ke Choke’s face calmed down a bit as his mount crossed Jin Ride’s warhorse’s body, sneering, “I’m willing to use my clan’s 1,600 riders as the vanguard of the dead, if Lord Wanwufu still wants to obtain the first military credit of the Liangmang Great War, how to do it must be clear to Lord Wanwufu, given his shrewdness.”

Jin Cheng narrowed his eyes, not caring about this fool’s barbed words, and instead began to weigh the pros and cons.

If Ke Chieh used his life to weaken the sharpness of the 3,000 Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry, then if he won this hard battle, the Qiang cavalry army other than Ke Chieh, in fact, the loss of all of them would not be too great.

This is a deal that can be done!

The expressionless Jin Riding watched the 1,600 riders take the lead in breaking away from the army and rushing out.

Looking at those faces many childishness has not yet faded cavalry further and further away, Jin multiply suddenly some anachronistic feeling, he is not used to these years, wine and women’s comfortable days, the heart of the hatred is not as deep as he imagined?

Jin multiplied shook his head, trying to shake off this kind of damned superfluous thoughts, his eyes gradually hardened and cold, turned his head to the several thousand captains around him who were eager to try and said, “Let’s follow Ke Choke, but we have to pull away from a distance of one mile.”

The five or six Thousand Husbandmen all nodded their heads in leaps and bounds, their eyes sizzling.

Jin Cheng suddenly laughed, “Brothers, don’t forget about those Sydney ticks on the prairie who are willing to offer several hundred taels of silver for a coolie. Hey, coincidence! There are more than 3,000 of them waiting for us to pick them up right in front of us, as for who can get a few more, it depends on who can slaughter a few more Northern Liang cavalrymen! I, Jin Ride, will not break this rule just because I am the commander of ten thousand soldiers, so brothers can feel free to kill and go!”

Six miles away from the 1,600 cavalry of the Qiang Riders’ Ke Chian Department.

The clear black armor and black horses of the three thousand horsemen were silent as they slowly pushed forward, evenly and powerfully.

A huge black tiger ran recklessly around the outer edge of the cavalry formation.

At the head of the leading cavalry was a black-clothed young man without armor, with a cool sword resting on the horse’s back in front of his chest, not yet sheathed.

This ride half a horse behind the general is a scar-faced man, diagonally upward lifting a rod of iron spear, spear head hanging a fresh head, it is that mixed in the Qiang riding army of the nomadic scouts, wearing a sword, sword skills high or low don’t know, in any case, see the opportunity is not good after abandoning the horse to run away from the speed of the speed of the fast, but unfortunately faster than the black-clothed teenager threw out of the iron spear, scar-faced with the body before brushing past, feel that in any case idly also nothing to do, pulling out the plug in the horse, the sword is not a good thing to do, but the black-clothed young man, the black-clothed young man, the black-clothed boy, the iron spear. What can be done, pulled out the iron spear inserted in the corpse, and then gently cut off the head, poked in the tip of the spear.

The scar-faced man was the Dragon Elephant Army general Wang Lingbao, who had distinguished himself in battle.

He should not have appeared here, but with the same vice general Li Mor Fan honestly stayed in the vicinity of Qing Cang City, can only be simmered with impatience slowly waiting for that bad old man surnamed Liu, with a bunch of flowery fists of the North Mang waste to come to show off their strength.

However, the commander-in-chief somehow learned from which guy with a bad mouth that an 8,000-man Qiang cavalry was the first to break through the border line and came in a hurry to send death.

Wang Lingbao would like to poke these Qiang riders to death, but there was an urgent military letter sent to the governor’s mansion in Liuzhou, asking them to keep their troops in place. The governor Yang Guangdou even took the initiative to go out of the city to visit the camp, smiling in his and Li Morfan’s ears croaked some kind reminder.

Wang Lingbao naturally do not dare to disobey the military order, not to mention that is the new Liang Wang’s orders, even if the light is Chu Lushan Chu Du Gui’s command, he Wang Lingbao no longer unruly, but also do not dare to take the initiative to mobilize the soldiers and horses.

But since his own commander-in-chief to kill, the sky collapsed also have commander-in-chief to carry it, he Wang Lingbao and how can miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

In order to intercept and kill this group of Qiang cavalry with hidden route to the south in the vast area, more than 10,000 Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry that quietly started had to be divided into three batches, which searched for the enemy between Qing Cang Prefecture City and Lin Rumor Military Town respectively.

When 10,000 troops started, Yang Guangdou and the young scholar called Chen Xiliang fast horse blocked the road, seems to want to discourage, anyway, Wang Lingbao hiding in the back of the army to pull out his ears, pretending to hear nothing and see nothing.

As for the 10,000 Dragon Elephant Army’s three-way military law taboo, Wang Lingbao really do not take it seriously, the Dragon Elephant Army disregard for the big picture of the flow of the state of the big hat is true, but to say that three thousand Dragon Elephant Army will be in the eight thousand Qiang riders to suffer, Wang Lingbao the first to cut off their own head as a urinal for people.

Wang Lingbao then saw that the assassin adults angry, if it is not really can not beat our commander-in-chief, estimated that certainly want to hit people, that seems to be very respected by the king of the readers is not to see what obvious expression.

Wang Lingbao actually know, after returning to Qingcang City, the news of the Dragon Elephant Army’s violation of military orders will certainly be the first time to the Huaiyang Pass, then even if there is a Dragon Elephant Army Commander in Chief, he Wang Lingbao as a vice general will not be able to eat, but this is what?

More than ten years later, the real meaning of the Liangmang war finally waited, fucking mother belly to give birth to a child is only pregnant in October only, he and Li Mor Fan these brown men are waiting for a whole decade ah!

This first battle, he Wang Lingbao do not play on the front, the first will be sorry for themselves!

And why the young commander in front of him insisted on fighting the Qiang horsemen, Wang Lingbao was too lazy to care.

Wang Lingbao let out a long breath, flicked his wrist, shook off the head that was in the way, and looked into the distance, both sides were less than two miles apart, and he could already see the enemy cavalry starting to accelerate.

Wang Lingbao murmured softly, “Bei Liang has us to guard it, Great General, don’t worry about walking well.”

Xu Longxiang slowly drew out that Northern Liang sword.

Under the sunlight, it flashed with a snowy brightness.

At the same time, the three thousand Dragon Elephant cavalry began to raise their spears!