Chapter 164: Ashes

When Hong Pei led the 1,200 horse thieves rushed to the battlefield, the scene in front of them unforgettable, known as the first elite of the southern dynasty’s Ruo Ran Iron Cavalry, the dead bodies built up a capital, and the white armor snow bright cavalry let horse thieves feel strange and shocked, there are horse thieves have seen a lot of knowledge of the generation, I can see that this cavalry configuration is between the heavy cavalry and light cavalry, a person double or even triple cavalry, but more than Yu Luanjie led by the But compared to the Yu Luan Dao led Yuzhou cavalry, obviously more “majestic”, because each horse has a heavy spear hanging, and in terms of armor, are horses and men are “small full armor” style. After the horse thieves entered the battlefield, they were ordered to cut off the head of a Zoran cavalryman and continue to pile up the corpse as a mound, while those “white cavalrymen” began to dismount their armor and hang on the backs of the horses that were not mounted, preparing to withdraw from the battlefield. When the horse thieves were chopping off the heads of the Zojiran cavalrymen, most of them would subconsciously gaze at one of the riders, who was sitting on the back of a horse without a helmet, carrying a long spear with a sturdy figure. This rider came to Xu Feng Nian’s side, did not dismount, looked to the south together with Xu Feng Nian, regretfully said: ”It is a pity that Hong Jing Yan ran back to Hulukou with a few hundred of his own guards, otherwise, as long as he died here, the rest of the Zoroastrian cavalry would not be worth mentioning, Yang Yuanzan has lost all the troops capable of maneuvering and fighting flexibly, so that we can directly kill the Hulukou, and compete with the Northern Mang to form an encirclement earlier. We can then kill our way into Hulukou and compete with North Mang to see who can form an encirclement earlier. Now it won’t work, the seven thousand elite cavalry of the two pressurized soldiers are still watching from the east.”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, “Things can’t be perfect, if you guys hadn’t arrived in time, the Northern Mang Taiping Order would have teamed up with Hong Jingyan, Seed Liang and Murong Baoding, not to mention Yu Luanjie and the more than 3,000 Yu Cavalry, it would have been difficult for even me to leave. That Song Sable’s backwash is nothing, but that early guessed I would appear outside the gourd mouth of the Tuoba qiyun, this person should not be underestimated, he can persuade the hall of the North Mang imperial master to come here, that he has a weight in the center of the North Mang to the dreadful right to speak. Second Brother Yuan, in the future when we confront him, we have to keep a few more eyes open.”

Yuan Zuozong, who was none other than the current commander of the Northern Liang Cavalry, narrowed his pair of recumbent eyebrows and nodded, “Northern Liang previously paid more attention to Dong Zhuo, and indeed neglected Topaz Qiyun.”

Xu Fengnian looked around, “Where is she?”

Yuan Zuozong laughed, “Captain Wang took a standard of traveling crossbowmen and traveled west first. Probably not daring to see you.”

Xu Fengnian was somewhat helpless. Green Bird, the second class maid and dead soldier of Wutong courtyard, after returning from the Northern Mang training with the Shakura gun which was a relic of Wang Xiu, she entered the Da Xue Dragon Cavalry, and was promoted to become a traveling crossbowman lieutenant by virtue of her battle merit, and she was more anxious than anyone else to rush to Hulukou to “save the driver”. If in accordance with the military law of Northern Liang, she should have been scolded by the general and then expelled from the army. As a result, she disappeared immediately after the battle. Yuan Zuozong to this gun fairy Wang Xiu’s orphan, gave the greatest trust and tolerance, not because she is what “vassal vassal”, only because she is a woman, but is the best soldier on the battlefield, the first to the eighth Zoran iron horsemen’s head, they are all her use of brake “arc gun The first to the eighth heads of the Zoran iron horsemen were all crushed by her with the “Arc Lance” in a single breath. Xu Fengyen glanced back, far away from the third disciple Lu Yunchang reunited for a long time is next to the eldest disciple Yu Di Long, it looks like Lu Yunchang is spitting in the air, Yu Di Long did not say a word. Xu Fengnian sighed, he also did not know if that girl Wang Sheng who followed White Fox’s face to North Mang to practice sword practice, had any encounters that belonged to her.

Yuan Zuozong softly said, “It’s time to go.”

Xu Fenian nodded, “Yes.”

Yu Luan Dao came to the side of Xu Fenian and Yuan Zuozong, Yuan Zuozong smiled and asked, “General Yu, the Great Snow Dragon Riders are still lacking a vice general, is there any interest? Although I don’t have the power to appoint, the king is right here, if you say yes, I guarantee that the king won’t refuse and will just go along with it.”

Xu Fengnian would smile. The several troops of the Northern Liang Border Army were the “family assets” Xu Snapdragon left to his children, which could be considered as the most extravagant handouts under the sky. In addition to his Xu Fengnian’s 800 White Horsemen, who have been outnumbered, his youngest son Xu Longxiang’s “private army” has increased from 10,000 to 30,000 riders, and has become the mainstay of the effort to keep Liuzhou from being lost. Xu Fengnian’s two sisters, Xu Liphu and Xu Weixiong, also have their own armies, and the nearly 10,000 heavy cavalry in Beiliang are all from these two cavalry armies. Beiliang capital of these hung in the name of the children of general Xu Snapdragon’s personal army can be deployed, but the specific military affairs, generally does not interfere.

Yu Luan Dao calmly said, “The Great Snow Dragon Riders are good, but my Youzhou Cavalry is not bad at all.”

Yuan Zuozong laughed without saying anything, he did not take Yu Luanjie’s “not knowing what is good and bad” seriously, on the contrary, he had a little more admiration for this Northern Liang outsider’s persistence.

Xu Fengyen suddenly said: “At that time for the general leader of the river and artichoke two states military power Cai Nan blocked, Youzhou 30,000 cavalry ultimately can only send out 10,000 riders out of the country, the old general Tian Heng angry Beiliang capital, or to be precise is that I’m not tough enough, angry not willing to be the vice general, discharged his armor to return to the field with a grandchildren to go, it is said that privately also scolded me Xu Fengyen’s guts are in the resistance to the imperial decree that time to run out of gas. ”

Yu Luan Dao’s heart tightened, “Although General Tian’s gamble was inappropriate, but Tian Heng’s old age, the use of the army is extremely positive, the Youzhou cavalry can’t afford to have less of this sea defining pin, if the king is to ask for the crime, Yu Luan Dao is willing to take all the military service to atone for Tian Heng’s crime.”

Xu Feng Nian shook his head and said, “I have no intention of settling scores, I just hope that when you return to Youzhou, help me bring a message to Tian Heng, so that he doesn’t sulk, I’m not unaware of his family’s situation, both of his sons died in the war before he was crowned, where does the old general get grandchildren to enjoy his grandchildren. Youzhou 30,000 cavalry, he came to do the main general, you Yu Luan knife do vice general. Shi Yulu Su Wenyao was awarded the title of Cavalry General and Hussar General, each leading 10,000 cavalrymen. When the time comes, the old general will most likely refuse to be the main general, so you can say that it is an order from me and the capital government, and that he can either be the main general or continue to ‘enjoy his grandchildren’.”

Yu Luan Blade immediately smiled and cupped his fists, “The last general will lead the way!”

Xu Fengyen said in a deep voice: “These 3,200 cavalry, set up a ‘non-retreating battalion’, and you, Yu Luanjie, will be the first captain of this battalion! The soldiers in the battalion, I, Xu Fengyen, will also put up a name, but will not be counted as active cavalrymen.”

Yu Luan Dao bit his lips, red eyes, violently turned around on his horse, galloped out several hundred paces, took a Xu character flag from a Youzhou cavalryman, faced the 3,200 Youzhou cavalry, and angrily roared, “The Great General has decreed that I, the 3,000,200 cavalrymen of Youzhou, will set up the ‘Non-retreating Battalion’! ”

Yu Luan Dao raised that blood-soaked flag high, “No Retreat Camp! Set up the flag today!”

Three thousand two hundred riders, collectively drew their Northern Liang swords.

All the Great Snow Dragon cavalry also mounted their horses and drew their swords, willingly bracing for this brave cavalry that was the first of the Youzhou border army to win the “battalion name”.

Yuan Zuozong, as a “veteran general” of Beiliang who had personally participated in a series of spring and autumn battles, subconsciously glanced at Xu Fengyen after he also drew his sword.

Yuan Zuozong did not see the kind of enthusiasm and desire that would be seen in a young general, Yuan Zuozong softly said: “Death in battle is inevitable.”

Xu Fengnian said softly, “Let’s go.”

This cavalry army quickly shifted to the west, leaving behind them a lurid Beijing view of a mountain of Zojiran iron horsemen piled up outside Hulukou.

About half an hour later, more than a hundred riders slowly came to this tragic battlefield, the first two riders were two Northern Mang generals in their thirties, one of them looked at that one capital view, with a complex expression, “In the case of equal numbers, when we meet those ten thousand riders, is there really no fight?”

Another rider blandly said: “Purely in terms of combat power, our Yelu Murong two heavy cavalry of the king’s tent, in fact, is not inferior, in the two sides invested more than 100,000 troops in the battlefield, in the chiseling through the formation, the heavy cavalry is still a bit of an advantage, but you have to say that with this 10,000 cavalry to pick a place to play a one-on-one battle, there is really not half a point of suspense. There is no way, the entire Northern Liang cavalry elite are in this big snow dragon cavalry army, cavalrymen are between twenty to thirty years old, the middle and lower military generals are about forty years old, high-level generals are not the generals who have fought the old wars of spring and autumn, and the horses are all the Northern Liang class A horses. We North Mang really want to build our own Great Snow Dragon Riders, not to hold up, but the key lies in who will be the main general? Dong Zhuo fits the bill, but he already has more than 100,000 Dong family troops, and even if His Majesty is assured of that, not to mention the Northern Court’s scruples, no one in the Southern Dynasty is willing to do so. Liu Gui Yang Yuanzan, these great generals who are well-versed in officialdom, on the other hand, are not willing to take over this hot potato from the bottom of their hearts.”

That first riding general dashingly dismounted, squatting on the ground to pick up a bloodstained undried Zojiran scimitar, wiping off the blood with a wipe on his armor, snickering, “Hong Jingyan is also really miserable, the entire Zojiran mountain range of elite soldiers are his, but the result is still not able to snatch the hand of that South Yard King, but also was appointed as a minister of war of the Western Capital. It is not easy to think that the mouth of the gourd is good to bully, want to lead 20,000 riders in the territory of Youzhou killing, the results of the attack on the lying bow luanhe two cities did not have his things, Yang Yuanzan and seed sandalwood this began to play Xiaguang, finally had the opportunity to make a success, the ass turned around and ran out of the mouth of the gourd, well, all of a sudden to the big snow dragon rider down half of the troops, the key is that the guy didn’t dare to go on the battlefield, I really don’t know if he can still sit still that! I really don’t know if he can still sit firmly on the seat of ‘Zo Ran Co-Lord’, as for what he wants to fight with Dong Zhuo again in the future, I think he himself should understand that it’s hopeless.”

The other rider did not dismount and shook his head, “This person, Hong Jingyan, is not that simple.”

The squatting military general’s thumb gently touched the blade of the Zojiran war sword, “I’m curious as to how that guy didn’t have a big fight with the Order of the Taiping, it would have been so nice to kill the medicine pot Tuoba Qiyun, and that bitch who was about to lose her title of Xia Pressing Bowl to Seedan, and then he died heroically at the hands of Seedan Rang.”

Another person laughed, “From this, it can be seen that in that battle in Liuzhou, this dude was really badly injured.”

The squatting Northern Mang general stood up, looked at the one on horseback, and laughed, “Lord Winter Bowl, that Yuan Tingshan from Jizhou personally forced Wei Jingtang to fight us out of the city, at that time, I was confused, with 700 to 800 cavalry troops and 4,000 foot soldiers, he dared to fight against our nearly 10,000 cavalry troops out of the city, causing me to think that there were still several tens of thousands of ambush troops in Liyang, or that there was a large cavalry army in LiaoXi on our I thought there were still tens of thousands of ambushes in Liyang, or a large cavalry force in western Liaoning on our tail. As a result, in half an hour, Wei Jingtang’s men and horses were all dead, and Yuan Tingshan and his father-in-law’s family’s 7,000 private cavalry didn’t put up a fight. If it wasn’t for the fact that today I was shown this 10,000 sets of Zoran iron cavalry built up in the capital city, I would have thought that we in North Mang could just carry out a 100,000 cavalry army and bypass Beiliang to step down to the Central Plains in one fell swoop.”

The military general known as Winter Pressure Bowls said in a deep voice, “Yuan Tingshan’s Jibei Cavalry and the private army of the Li Family of Yanbao must be waiting patiently somewhere for us to return to the Eastern Front at this time, you and I must not be careless.”

Autumn Pressure Bowl skimmed his lips, mounted his horse and threw out the Zojiran Scimitar, sticking it on the top of a Jing Guan, “Crazy Dog Yuan Tingshan is not really in my eyes, but that the remaining Western Chu on the Guangling Road, there are two named Kou Jianghuai and Xie Xijian, are very interested. After Kou Jianghuai put down, Zhao Yi’s blessed general Song Kasa, soon led the troops to easily recover the territory, originally their eastern front of the situation, now reduced to Song Kasa pressure to fight to dare not show his head, it is said that all the mouths of that small dynastic court of Western Chu have changed, earlier snowflakes general impeachment of Kou Jianghuai embracing the self importance of the army, and now all the stupid eyes, so began to Kou Jianghuai singing praises. ”

Winter press bowl softly said: “As long as Cao Changqing has not yet made a move, means that even if Western Chu does not have a winning position, it also means that it has not lost the wind.”

The Autumn Pressure Bowl heatedly laughed, “Anyway, the more chaos, the better.”

Suddenly, this Autumn Pressure Bowl turned his head to look at his peer who was also one of the Four Great Pressure Bowls, “Wang Jing Chong, do you think there will be a day when Xie Xijian and Kou Jianghuai will appear in Northern Liang?”

Winter Presser Mantle Wang Jing Chong froze for a moment, looked grave, and said in a deep voice, “Da Ru Shi Muro Wei, do you also have this intuition?”

Autumn Pressure Bowl Da Ru Shi Muro Wei stroked his chin, “That would be fun. But I like it.”

Wang Jing Chong was still a ten-year-old early spring and autumn relic in Hong Jia’s northern run in those years, was followed by the family private school teaching teacher reciting the holy books into the northern Mang, he has long forgotten the environment of childhood life, but in that kind of upheaval on the road, the neighboring caravan between the incessant sound of the books, so far, let this family into the Gusai state after the family is still insisting on the cultivation and reading of the family of the autumn捺钵 deep memory. Wang Jing Chong fell into deep thought on the back of his horse and said to himself: ”To restore the country for the sake of a family name, but to cause yet another land sinking of the Central Plains, Cao Chang Qing, aren’t you suffering deep down inside? Since you know that you can’t do it but you do it, what exactly do you, Cao Changqing, want?”

Da Ru Shi Muro Wei glanced at this Qiu Press Bowl with mixed emotions. The two men are of equal age, but the battle achievements accumulated over these ten years, the arrogant and conceited Da Ruzhi Room Wei, also had to admit that Wang Jing Chong is not only more than himself, more than the steppe she-wolf Yelu Yu Wat, of course, more than the one who just made a splash on the battlefield of Hulukou in Youzhou, Seed Tan, Seed Tan, however, only just got into the military, and then leapt to become a vanguard general, and only just fought down the Wolu Bow City, and then it is already being said by some that it is a much more The name of the North Mang Xiazhongbao, while Wang Jingchong need to start from the bottom of the pawn step by step, Wu, centurion, thousand, ten thousand, but ultimately able to become a Qiuzhongbao, but also thanks to the fact that he has a marriage with the A family name of the South Dynasty B family as a backer. The complicated attitude of the Great Ruler, Murowe, towards Wang Jingchong largely represented the dilemma of the entire North Mang towards these Spring and Autumn legacies. His Majesty the Emperor is so enlightened, so broad-minded, but still when he ascended the throne, he personally set off a bloodshed that was secretly described by the literati of the Southern Dynasty as “Gua Man Copy”, the cause of the tragedy is laughable, but it is the ashes of the old head of an old clan of the C character, the death of such a person originally Bei Ting did not bother to take a glance at it, but there was a zhang folded on His Majesty’s desk, and then His Majesty appeared on the desk of His Majesty. His Majesty’s desk, and then His Majesty ordered that all clans with old men in the family who did not want to be buried in the Southern Dynasty, in addition to beheading them, the clan’s rank was all lowered by one grade! Even more than ten years after the tragedy, from time to time, there are still elderly survivors who die, still hoping to bury their ashes in the Central Plains but building false graves in Beimang, and then being exposed. Until the Taiping order to become the North Mang emperor, this ban began to loosen, the North Court permitted the South Dynasty survivors in the death of only set up a crown mound, leaving the ashes to wait for the hooves of the North Mang army to trample on the Central Plains.

Da Ru Shi Room Wei opened his mouth and asked with a smile, “Wang Jing Chong, our North Mang also has a place known as the south of the river outside the plug, and the real Central Plains terroir, what is the difference?”

Wang Jing Chong said flatly, “Forgotten.”

Xu Fengyen and Yuan Zuozong were crouching side by side on top of a hill while the whole army was resting midway, Xu Fengyen turned his head and said, “If today’s 300,000 border troops of Beimang are not surnamed Xu, but Chen, then Beimang could definitely have fewer deaths.”

Yuan Zuozong did not deny it, “Many people think so in their hearts, I am no exception.”

Xu Fengnian stretched out his palm and placed it on the sand, “But Li Yishan said that once Beiliang is handed over to Chen Zhi Bao, there is only one scenario, and that is that Beiliang is better and the world is worse.”

Yuan Zuozong was a bit puzzled.

Xu Fengyen laughed softly, “Second Brother Yuan, let me sell a secret first. I hope that one day, I can help Master prove that he is not wrong.”

Yuan Zuozong smiled and hmmmed, “I’ll just wait, there’s no rush.”

Remembering the withered scholar who lived at the top of the Listening Tide Pavilion in his life and scattered his ashes at the border after his death, Xu Fengnian closed his eyes and said in his heart, “Master, don’t worry.”