Chapter 177 – Equalization, Wolf Guards the Central Plains

Compared to the two states of Youliang where wolf smoke is imminent, Lingzhou as the backyard of Northern Liang, at this green season of willow buds, there are still many handsome men and beautiful women who join hands in trekking and playing, many children in the city fly kites cheerfully, and the children of rich families will also string colorful lanterns all over the kite line, like near their compound, there are no less than ten kites flying in the sky, and the children’s laughter invariably diluted the tense atmosphere after the meeting of the two groups of people. The laughter of the children invariably lightened the tense atmosphere after the two groups of people met, but Xu Fengyen’s unexpected opening remarks seemed to be a bit of a scene-stealer. As the western Shu twenty years of the most beautiful women, spring posting hall of thank you, she was fourteen years old on the list of rouge evaluation, to “skin such as lamb fat jade, cupped hands like a lotus bud,” known in the world, ten years after the reigning rouge evaluation, the real age of twenty-six years old, but look at said she is two eight beautiful girl, is not too much. Thank you for the body such as most of the Shu women in general, thin and delicate, waist extremely thin. Thank you especially white skin, no wonder there is the nickname of the Moon Palace Immortal, I do not know how many Shu men for the soul, Xu Fengyen far away in Beilang, have heard of the Western Shu Road Secretary Secretary to its coveted for a long time, if not Chen Zhi Bao feudal Western Shu, become a guest of the spring posting of the Hall of Grass, I’m afraid that year, Xie Lingzheng in the Spring God Lake died in the hands of Xu Fengyen, she will be reduced to the Secretary of the House of the caged sparrow.

Xu Fengyen flirted with thank you, leading the horse forward, did not immediately look at the door standing in the middle of the three men in white, but looked at the middle-aged Confucian Xie Guanying, the word Shuyang, the self-titled Flying Fish, was once called “North Xie and South Li” with Li Yishan, commenting on the spring and autumn style, of course the most interesting to Xu Fengyen, is not that this person catching the scullion to raise the real dragons. Of course, the most interesting thing to Xu Fengyen is not the man’s ability to capture and raise a dragon, but one of his identities, White Fox Face’s father. White Fox face somehow said that he had died, and also not with Xie Guanying surname Xie, but surnamed Nangong, which is naturally a difficult to read the muddled account.

In Xu Fengyen’s opinion, now the Liyang dynasty is said to be in the role of luck, there are only three people, the emperor Zhao Zhuan of course counts as one, and then there is not far in front of Xie Guanying’s efforts to assist the Chen Zhi Bao, living in the southwest of Shu, eyeing the Central Plains, and now has turned back from the Prince of the West Shu, which is supposed to be part of the camp of the Northern Liang, Su Su Su and the old man, Zhao Tingxiu, with the Nanzhao as a support, so that it can be described as a feathered wing, only waiting for the The wind and clouds are just changing. This time, why Chen Zhi Bao want to meet, Xu Fengyen guessed a little bit of clues, because the third is expected to sit in the dragon chair of the son of heaven’s pride, is the Yan Zhi Wang Shi Zi Zi His Royal Highness Zhao Zhui, that year’s little beggar. Then the next pattern and the first emperor Zhao Dun eight dragons for the first wife have the same wonder, the Northern Liang do not need to be involved in it, can play a pivotal role, Chen Zhi Bao want to walk out of Xishu in the name of the inevitable use of Western Chu restoration of the momentum, to become the first in the southern border army broke the capital of the Western Chu Ding Ding figure, the Northern Liang in this matter will have to play the role of “not enough to make things happen to make things happen! “If Xu Fengyen is determined to hold back the troops of Western Sichuan, then the possibility of Zhao’s success will be far greater than that of Chen Zhi Bao, of course, Western Sichuan this time is definitely not a low-eye to ask for help, but to make a hidden exchange, as long as the Northern Liang does not drag the legs of Western Sichuan into the Central Plains, then I think the Western Sichuan will not be in the Liangmang war in the Northern Liang’s backyard fire, this is to test the Shu-Liang both sides, and to make the Northern Liang’s backyard fire. This is to test the tacit understanding of both Shu Liang, both agreed, then all happy, but as long as Xu Fengyen and Chen Zhi Bao one of them is not willing to step back, then it will be after today, the two sides completely tore their faces, immortal, Beiliang belly to belly, West Shu will also miss the opportunity to lose a good chance to chase the stag in the Central Plains, may be the embarrassing situation of a step slow step slow step.

This deal, most likely will decide the belonging of the entire Central Plains, and even will be the entire world’s surname. Otherwise, with Chen Zhi Bao’s temperament, would not return to Beiliang to actively meet with Xu Feng Nian? And more than likely it is Xie Guanying from the middle of the flirtation, it is not easy to persuade this white soldier saint out of Shu into Liang.

Probably Xie Guan Ying is really Chen Zhi Bao’s beloved, knows the importance of this meeting, so even if Xu Fengyen flirted with her, gave her a hammer on her seven inches, still did not how to throw a face.

A group of people entered this Jiangnan style mansion of sheltered extravagance, Xu Fengyen and Chen Zhi Bao at the forefront side by side, followed by Tantai Calm and Xie, and finally Xie Guanying and Xu Yanbing. Huyan Daguan and Tiemu Dier did not follow, Huyan Daguan said that it does not look like immediately to start the momentum, he had to go to the streets of this big city in the north of the ling to buy some curious objects to bring to his daughter-in-law and daughter, and then this northern mang martial arts great masters will go directly. In fact, this trip to Lingshou, Huyan Daguan has already made it clear to Xu Fenian before in Qingliang Mountain that he will not help the Northern Mang to kill anyone, but if Xu Fenian’s life is in danger, he will come to his rescue, and of course, Xu Fenian will not ask for anything in this regard. To Huyan Daguan this kind of incomparably close to the realm of Wang Xianzhi martial arts, unless Xu Yan Bing Cao Changqing this kind of too much to let go of the attachment, otherwise who will not care about how the world, such as Deng Ta’a, although with Xu Fengyen at least there is a kinship status, the same unwillingness to pay no attention to the trend of the Liangmang war, Sui Shiaogu is the same, the reason why the stay in Northern Liang, I am afraid that in the final analysis, or thinking of Tantai calm side occasionally show a The reason why he stayed in Beilang, I’m afraid that in the end, he still wants to show his face beside Tantai Calm occasionally to ask for a scolding.

Throwing aside the weak and unattractive thank you, the Northern Liang side is the realm of the damaged Xu Fenian, “only half a step away” Xu Yanbing and Tantai Calm who is the number one qi practitioner, and on the Western Sichuan side, Chen Zhi Bao who is not sure if he has already transcended into sainthood and Xie Guanying, who is ranked at the top of the list of the map of the Land Immortals.

They should be evenly matched.

Six people seated in the quiet courtyard, thank you as twice on the list of rouge assessment of women, there are too many worthy of praise “unique expertise”, which she cooks tea will have “feather tea”, thank you hands have been Lotus Bracts reputation, and is proficient in the tea ceremony, Shu countless Taoism Real people have praised its tea “in the tanya leisure clean, rhyme high to quiet, drink the two armpits of the wind, as if the FeiHua ascension”. Thank you at this time to cook tea used tea, it is riding fire the first treasures of the pre-mingqian spring god tea, she carried from the spring posting hall tea tea ware tea utensils, scattered, surprisingly up to eighteen pieces, must be that a full set of valuable eighteen bachelors. Rao Xu Feng Nian also had to admit that the Xishu woman in front of the cooking tea, really pleasing to the eye, raise their hands and feet are style, the most important thing is that it contains a kind of sitting in oblivion, no wonder that the Xishu Taoist priests have been to her in high esteem.

Xie Guan should be the first to drink a mouthful of tea, put the cup, the first to break the silence, without any painless pleasantries polite, but straight to the point, “Cao Changqing know very well, Western Chu to drum to Tai’an city, a battle can not be lost, otherwise the entire situation in the Guangling Road will take a sharp turn for the worse. Currently out of the halberd warriors of the stranger’s sword array has surfaced, several as the main force of the field cavalry are also present, in addition to the water division 60,000 people, Western Chu land force of 170,000, in the surface with the north Lu Shengxiang led by the imperial army, as well as the southern border of 100,000 troops, can be considered equal. But war is never a battle of how many or how few numbers are on paper, Zhao Bing’s southern border army, the overall battle strength is far better than Western Chu.”

Xu Fengyen took a sip of tea, it was really refreshing, his fingers swirled the rim of the cup, smiled and said, “The situation is still even, Cao Changqing’s navy will definitely annex Guangling King Zhao Yi’s navy, after the merging of the rivers, the Guangling River with Guangling’s navy will largely block the footsteps of the southern frontier army. Xie western frontier has western Chu 170,000, with the inferior strength of Lu Shengxiang, the chance of victory is great. Then it depends on whether the Qingzhou sailors can help the southern frontier soldiers and horses to cross that moat, otherwise Cao Changqing will fight all the way to Tai’an City, and Gu Jiantang’s two Liao Border Army will follow the trend to the south……. This is also the root of why the Taiping Order has allowed the two easternmost lines of the Northern Mang to hold down their bowls, and why it is necessary to show the enemy’s weakness to Yuan Tingshan in the northern part of the Ji River. In this rapidly developing situation, in addition to Gu Jiantang, the rest of the forces, in the court’s view, are distant water can not quench the thirst of the near.”

Xie Guan Ying seemed to have a good idea, shaking his head blandly, “Qingzhou sailors may not be unbeatable, and Lu Shengxiang is by no means an idle person.”

Xu Fengyen looked at this middle-aged man with frosty temples, and for a while, he was a bit mesmerized, worthy of being the White Fox Face’s old man, he is still very capable of making women’s hearts flutter at a very old age. As far as the outstanding temperament is concerned, it seems that only the great official son Cao Changqing can compete with it. The saying that a man’s heart is full of poetry is really not a lie. On the contrary, those authentic jianghu people, sheepskin fur old man, Deng Tai’a, Huyan Daguan, can be worse than a hundred thousand miles, of course, the young old man Li, whether sword or person, since the world without peer.

Xie Guan coped with such a hallowed young vassal king who was lost in thought, some dumbfounded, glanced at the side of the white man who was always calm, and thought to himself that no wonder Zhao Changling chose him surnamed Chen instead of His Highness, the Shizi who was surnamed Xu.

Xu Fengnian smiled apologetically, then asked curiously, ”It is not strange that Mr. Xie had planned early in the Qingzhou navy, but if I remember correctly, Lu Shengxiang’s departure from Guangling Chunxue House at that time was at the behest of Yuan Benshi, and he would have agreed to let in and out of the city’s credits by that time? That is means whether Lu Shengxiang can turn from the Liyang great general into the minister of war, after all, in the future dynasty, what great general is just a good point, the hands of the actual power of the minister is the meat and potatoes.”

Xie Guan Ying smiled and asked rhetorically, “Even if he Lu Shengxiang wants to be the king of Beilang who settled the Central Plains in one fell swoop, can he do it if he wants to? Not to mention that times are different nowadays, even if he succeeds in besieging the city, he will need to be busy doing a snipe fight with that young son of the Southern Border.”

Thankfully, the man who was keenly aware of her heart’s desire and admiration quietly frowned.

When making tea, she was able to forget about me, but ultimately she could not forget him ah.

Women in the world, most of them are like this, no matter how fairy out of the dust, there is a man to let them back to earth, willingly for his hands spoon red sleeve fragrance.

Xu Fengyen laughed softly, “In that case, the late Emperor Zhao Dun died early, otherwise Mr. Xie don’t even need to be so hurt.”

Xie Guan Ying nodded, “If the late emperor was alive, I would not be in Lingzhou now, but in the Qingzhou navy.”

The world knows that Zhao Dun was very fond of Chen Zhi Bao, so naturally, if Zhao Dun had not died, he would not have politely refused Chen Zhi Bao’s request for a mere 10,000 men to go to Shu to fight against the rebellion, as Zhao Zhuan, the son of the Emperor, did.

The Zhao family had two successive emperors, some things are passed on from one generation to the next, such as Zhao Zhuan’s treatment of Beiliang as his predecessor, always on the premise of not affecting the stability of the Central Plains, and to maximize the consumption of the military power of Beiliang, otherwise, as long as the Beiliang Xu family is still in the country, the cut-off of the feudalism will be a big joke. But some things have quietly changed course, such as the attitude of the king of Shu Chen Zhi Bao, Zhao Dun is the kind of almost paranoid trust and admiration, as self-confessed enlightened emperor, immensely intoxicated by the kind of “state of a pair of good generals, for me to drive” the knot emotion, and Zhao Zhuan is to turn into a scruple and suspicion.

Previously has been as old friends reunion speech mild Xie Guanying, shook his head refused to thank the continued pouring of tea, a sudden change in momentum, tone gradually cold, “Earlier I and Shu Wang projected the Northern Liang war situation, if you take the king as an ordinary official to make the assessment, but it is just the middle and lower. If not for the fact that Your Highness did not build a large city in the north of Liangzhou, south of the heavy mound, then it would not even be lower middle.”

Xu Fengnian smiled and did not say anything.

Xie Guanying continued, “Northern Liang’s top strategy is only to achieve success in one battle with more than 100,000 of the world’s most elite field cavalry!”

Xu Fengnian asked with his face as usual, “Mr. Xie is saying that letting all of Northern Mang’s one million troops to be stationed north of Liangzhou’s Hutou City, and reenacting a battle of Xibeiwei?”

Xie Guan Ying smiled without saying anything.

Acting as the icing on the cake, Xie was a little surprised in his heart, this repulsive looking young vassal king wasn’t too stupid. Mr. Xie was not intentionally alarmist, but had an all-night sand table deduction with him by his side, only that the basis of the deduction at that time was that he was sitting in Northern Liang, not this young man surnamed Xu presiding over the big picture. In this premise, the North Mang simply do not dare to split the army three ways to press the whole line, will only also dare to do their work in one battle, and the North Liang bet a game, to be precise, is with him, and thanks to the side of the Chen Zhi Bao did not say a word to throw a bet. Mr. Xie played Dong Zhuo, Chen Zhibao as the North Liang defenders, the two sides deployed troops, extremely similar to the original West Basement wall battle, both sides continue to reduce the number of troops, and constantly increase the number of troops, competing who was dragged down earlier, and ultimately, Mr. Xie did his best, but still lost to the hand of only 30,000 cavalry army and infantry army wiped out of the North Liang. In that shocking paper battle, Liuzhou, Youzhou and Lingzhou, were all reduced to watching the show. All the grueling, treacherous and exciting battles took place only north of Liangzhou. But this is only the first hand of that deduction, not even the middle game, the next will be the North Liang to force the greatly wounded North Mang spearhead to turn to the two Liao, North Liang from the Liyang pawns into a few years of time to recuperate the “idle”, in the integration of the refugees of the Liuzhou, the combined vertical and horizontal, a breath of the Western Region, the collection of Western Sichuan South Zhao, in the same In the same three-legged tripod, Liyang North Mang constantly consume, North Liang after regrouping will quickly recover to hand in hand 150,000 pure cavalry strength, and then the South Imperial Palace of Western Sichuan rise more than 150,000 foot soldiers, once again with a total of 300,000 troops to participate in the world’s struggle. At that time, thank you for observing the deduction, in the middle of the plate near the end, she had thought that he would take advantage of the weakness, leading the army straight to Tai’an City, after becoming the orthodoxy of the Central Plains in one fell swoop, and then with the North Mang finally in the closing battle, but he let her guess wrong, at that time he chose to go north by Liangzhou and Jizhou, chose to step on the level of North Mang South Dynasty before coveting the Central Plains, and ultimately in the end after becoming the North Liang, the South Dynasty, the West, West Sichuan South imperial edict six large version of the common masters The first thing I want to do is to take the high ground, directly bypass the Gu Jiantang two Liao defense line which has already suffered a heavy blow, and fight with the Liyang army in the territory of Huainan Road, and then go south to Guangling Road, and do not have to pay attention to the Tai’an City at all, and then fight with the southern border army, and at that time, Gu Jiantang’s two Liao border army, war or no war, have nothing to do with the big picture.

Thank you happy smile. You Xu Fengnian can probably only think of the first hand of that push, how can you guess the swashbuckling of the midgame and finale after that?

Then she was dumbfounded, only to hear that guy smile and ask, “According to Mr. Xie’s rules of deduction, wouldn’t Gu Jiantang have to be the Minister of Military Affairs of the new dynasty for another twenty years?”

Tantai Calm glanced at Xie, and this Qi Practitioner Grand Master smiled back.

The King of Shu, who had been acting as if he was completely out of the picture, finally looked squarely at Xu Fengnian, the King of Northern Liang who could be considered to be the one he, Chen Zhi Bao, had watched coldly for many years and watched grow up bit by bit.

Xie Guan Ying raised his hand, thank immediately poured tea, he smiled and sipped the tea.

This tea, it seems that the flavor came out.

Only in this way can both sides be considered barely on an equal footing.

Before this, he, Xie Guanying, did not even see Xu Fengnian as a true opponent.