Chapter 218: Underneath Those Magnificent (Next)

Inside a Youzhou military camp less than two hundred miles away from Hulukou, a thin one-eyed old general slowly walked up to the parade stage, before the old man formally showed his face, there were already Beiliang Infantry Vice Commander Chen Yuntui, Youzhou General Huangfu Pink, and Assassin Hu Kui, etc. on the stage, the unimpressive old man walked up to the center of the stage, and strangely enough, even laymen unfamiliar with the military of Youzhou would, if they saw the scene in front of them, see the old man at the center as a natural thing. the old man’s centered position as the leader as a matter of course. Iron armor clanking old general hands on the sword and stood, looking at those under the stage under the scorching sun exposure of the school lieutenant soldiers, long did not say anything. The old man did not say anything, seems to want to this within the nearly ten thousand will soon go out to war foot soldiers are over to see once, one pole Youzhou infantry old word battalion flag are recognized clearly.

The old general’s face did not look too good, finally slowly opened his mouth, “The great general passed away, the king is not in our Youzhou, I Yan Wenluan, even if I don’t die in the battlefield, I don’t think there are a few years to live, so take advantage of today’s opportunity to say something in my heart that has been saved up for nearly twenty years.”

The old general picked up that Northern Liang sword with one hand and pointed to the second-in-command of the Northern Liang Infantry, Chen Yuntui, by his side, “Old Chen, our Chen Vice Commander, you all surely recognize him, I remember sixteen years ago, this guy accompanied me to drink at the King’s Mansion in Qingliang Mountain, at that time, Chen Yuntui was still only a general of the third rank, and the great general joked that you, Chen Yuntui, with a 40,000 to 50,000 infantry troops in You Zhou, it was a waste of talent, why don’t we go to Liangzhou Pass and give you 30,000 cavalry, do you want to do it?”

Yan Wenluan didn’t look at this old friend who had known him for most of his life, and only took that cool knife and pointed at Chen Yuntui who was embarrassed, “This old bastard can’t drink well, and his taste in alcohol is even worse, he was pretending to be drunk at that time, but as soon as the general threw out this sentence, he immediately stood up, and that pair of eye strokes ah, bright and shiny! Guess what the deputy commander of the infantry army in Northern Liang said? He said ah, dry, why not? Of course, in the end, the General didn’t succeed in digging up the wall, why? Did Chen Yuntui back out? No, it was me, Yan Wenluan, who almost had to fight with the General! What I said at that time, I still remember clearly, I smashed the wine glass and got up to say to the Great General, the Northern Liang Infantry is just a little bit of the old base, these two years have been given to the Liangzhou Cavalry to cheat and steal, and get away so much by all means, the old ones are almost picked, even some young good seedlings have not been spared, so I, Yan Wenluan, is still a fart of the Northern Liang Infantry Commander-in-Chief! Chen Yuntui wants to go to Liangzhou cavalry, not no, but the general has to Yuan Zuozong Chu Lushan Qi Dangguo these three righteous sons, all to my Northern Liang infantry, all to throw to our Youzhou!”

Veteran general Chen Yunzhui eyes and nose, as if ignoring, but to Yan Wenluan so unforgiving to reveal the bottom, must want to dig a hole in the ground to drill down.

Yan Wenluan pointed to Hu Kui, the governor of Youzhou, “This governor is the founder of the predecessor of the Northern Liang crossbowmen, the most serious general of the cavalry, and at that time, Mr. Hu replaced Wang Peifang to become the governor of Youzhou, and came to find me Yan Wenluan to set up a relationship with me according to the rules of the officialdom to talk to me as an old man to be polite and so on, and then I asked him a question, “Do you have a problem with this? I asked him one question: How does it feel for Hu Kui to be an official in Youzhou, where there weren’t as many warhorses as in Lingzhou some years ago? Assassin Hu is a sincere person, so he honestly told me that it was quite stifling, saying that he had thought he had the opportunity to go to Hutou City to serve as Liu Yunu’s deputy, or else to go to Liuzhou’s Dragon Elephant Army to hang out with his old subordinate, Li Morfan Wang Lingbao, which is not bad at all.”

Yan Wenluan rearmed his hands on his sword and looked at the 10,000 or so foot soldiers, “We have 300,000 border troops in Northern Liang, so on the Liyang side, for so many years I never heard of the ‘300,000 iron cavalry of Northern Liang majestically’, so I’m just surprised! Bei Liang’s cavalry has never been more than half of the border army, how did it become 300,000 iron horsemen? Does Liyang think we don’t exist? It seems like Northern Liang itself doesn’t take our infantry army seriously.”

The one-eyed old general’s chin skimmed the east, coldly laughed: “There is a guy named Yang Shenxing in Jizhou, that is, later in the Guangling Road over there to a few young people playing in the palm of their hands, think of that year that is to the old man’s shoes are not even worthy of the stuff, hey, under the hands of so many tens of thousands of the old Northern Han left behind the foot soldiers, made a what the name of Jixi South foot soldiers, and then more than ten years in the Liyang up and down are known as the ‘one step forward and backward’, and the foot soldiers are also called ‘one step backward’. In addition to that, there’s also the Wufeng Army led by Wang Tongshan, the first fierce general under King Yanzhi of the Southern Border, as well as Wu Chongxuan’s Dajia, all of which are not small in terms of fame, but all said and done, there’s no part for us, the Youzhou Foot Soldiers.”

The old man paused slightly, “If it’s just this, I, Yan Wenluan, can tolerate it, anyway, it’s not like we’re going to run off to Jizhou or the Southern Border to fight with them, and moving our mouths has never been our Northern Liang people’s forte. But! Not to talk about outside of Northern Liang, let’s talk about our Northern Liang, not to talk about Liangzhou Lingshu, not even to talk about Liuzhou, let’s talk about our Youzhou itself! Luanhe City, my infantry old word battalion to take off the battalion number, who is in the crossing of the river state into Jizhou, and finally in the Hulukou will be 10,000 people to fight to only more than 3,000 people left? Thousands of miles of running and tossing, a succession of great battles to the death, killing nearly thirty thousand enemies! Beat the eastern supply of the Northern Mang barbarians to almost complete paralysis!”

Yan Wenluan laughs to himself, “Why, do you think there are heroes and heroines in our Youzhou army?”

Yan Wenluan laughed, “This is of course, but it’s a pity that the 3,400-man ‘Non-Retreating Battalion’ is the first cavalry battalion in Youzhou! The king who fought side by side with these ten thousand riders in Youzhou, he himself became an ordinary soldier by name in the Non-retreating Battalion! Haha, it has nothing to do with you bunch of wretches who don’t have a warhorse and only have two legs, not half a copper penny!”

The old man’s face is a bit grim, “Let’s not talk about the Yu Luan knife, the vice general of the Yuzhou cavalry, not to mention the outstanding achievements of the war, were promoted to the diabolical cavalry general hussar general Shi Yulu and Fan Wenyao, just say that Tian Heng, the new 30,000 Yuzhou cavalry’s main general, the old man at that time, he disliked the king did not dare to die in the battle, and said that the king’s guts in the resistance to the imperial decree to enter the cool after the use of the whole, so early discharged his armor and returned to the field to go, which made Yu Luan knife become the same general of 10,000 Yu cavalry, just Tian Heng such a bastard who didn’t go to Jibei much less outside of Huloukou, and now when he sees me, he dares to beat his chest and say Old Yan ah, don’t worry, I Tian Heng promise to get you another cavalry army with a battalion number.”

The old man re-suspended that cool sword at his waist, reached out and rubbed his cheeks fiercely, took a few steps forward, and asked in a deep voice, “When did I, the foot soldiers of Youzhou, already fall to this point?”

The room was filled with silence, but everyone’s eyes were red.

Yan Wen Luan reached out and pointed at himself, “Since I entered the Xu Family Army, I have been following the Great General’s southern campaign for thirty-six years, from day one I have been a foot soldier, to today I am a full second ranked military general, and in the final analysis, I am just a foot soldier who has gotten older. I don’t dare to speak of the entire Northern Liang foot soldier army, but your Youzhou foot soldier army, it was all brought up by me, Yan Wenluan!”

The one-eyed old man casually nodded his hand in the direction of Xiaguang City behind him, “Over there, and then all the way to the north, it’s all Northern Mang Barbarians, claiming a whole 200,000 troops, Crouching Bow City is gone, Luanhe City is gone, and the Northern Mang Barbarians have put out the word that Xiaguang City is just as much as a matter of days away.”

The old man turned around and put down a sentence, “But I, Yan Wenluan, do not agree!”

At the northern border bordering the River State of You, a huge scarlet flag hunted in the gale.

The main general of the You Riders, Tian Heng, his vice general Yu Luan Blade, the diabolic riding general Shi Yulu, the hussar general Fan Wenyao, and more than a dozen riding generals had their warhorses lined up side by side.

Behind them were the 30,000 light cavalry of Youzhou.

The old general Tian Heng has a rough appearance, unlike a general who holds great power, if he is not wearing armor, he looks like an old farmer who has been plowing in the fields for many years. This old man, then resentful of the young king’s “inaction”, resigned from his post and returned to his hometown, with the excuse that he was too old to withstand the torture, so he could return home to his grandchildren, which allowed Yu Luanjie to have the opportunity to lead an army to the north of Jibei. But in fact the whole Youzhou know where the old general where the heir, have long been killed in battle outside the pass. Later Xu Fengyen and Yu Luanjie teamed up to appear outside the Hulukou, 10,000 riders eventually came back to more than 3,000 people, the seniority in the army is not much worse than Yan Wenluan Chen Yuntui and others, the old man learned of the news, that day the night rushed to the Yan Wenluan barracks tent, the latter did not see. Tian Heng is blocked outside, wait until the Huai Yang Guan Palace a paper order to restore Tian Heng’s general status, Yan Wen Luan is still not buy, is the last Xu Feng Nian had to personally write a letter to Yan Wen Luan, the Youzhou only reluctantly recognized Tian Heng as the Youzhou cavalry as a handful of the official body.

The old man pressed one hand on the hilt of his sword, turned his head to Yu Luan blade and laughed: “Old Yan head this time must be angry by me, but this can’t be blamed on me, who let this guy even half a lifetime of friendship are disregarded, to see me refused to see one side.”

Yu Luan Blade and the others smiled heartily. Tian Heng and the general Yan Wenluan that is the old brother for life friendship, in the early years of a person is the infantry lieutenant a person is the cavalry lieutenant, Tian Heng in order to save the Yan Wenluan trapped in the enemy’s large formation, disobedience of the military order to take the initiative to save the Yan Wenluan, the great general in a fit of rage, Tian Heng this is from the lieutenant to the direct depreciation of the ordinary cavalry pawns in the fierce competition in the Xu family army, Tian Heng this step is slow, that is, slow step, those who are the younger generation as the cavalry The rising star Xu Pu, Wang Fei’s own brother Wu Qi and Yuan Zuozong Hu Kui this set of people, are at that time more than Tian Heng to become the main general of the cavalry, and so on the Xu family into the cool, Tian Heng is only when the general from the fourth rank, is Yan Wenluan personally with the general to ask for people, Tian Heng only official promotion from the cool state to the state of You, but more than ten years of time, compared to the high level of resignation and honor return to their homes of Wei Tieshuan streams, or the current Cavalry deputy marshal Jin partridge Zhou Kang of these military big brother, Tian Heng can be considered very depressed and uninspired northern Liang army old man.

Tian Heng put away his smile and said to Yu Luan Dao: “General Yu, the 50,000 elite cavalry on the eastern front of the Northern Mang said that they were going to fight in Jizhou, but in fact, we all know that this group of barbarians are running directly to Youzhou, and they are going to cooperate with Yang Yuanzan at the mouth of the gourd to take down Xiaguang City and attack the territory of Youzhou in one breath. Our original plan was for you and I to split our forces into two, one way to intercept those 50,000 people at the border of the You River, and one way to continue north along the outer edges of the Hulukou, and at that time, before we started, it was said that you and Shi Yulu would lead 15,000 cavalry here to wait for the North Mang army, and I would take 15,000 cavalry with Fan Wenyao to go north to the non-retreating battalion under you, General Yu, to take it as a vanguard. But I want to ah ……”

Yu Luan Dao smiled and interrupted, “General don’t but, since it was agreed in advance that this is the way to use the army, there is no reason to change it on the fly.”

Tian Heng glared: “Youzhou 30,000 cavalry, is my Tian Heng is the main general, or you Yu Luan knife is the main general?”

Compared to Fan Wenyao, who has the demeanor of a Confucian general, Shi Yulu, who is the first to receive the title of general in the new Northern Liang, is a bit more rough, and can’t help but laugh out loud, this is yes yes yes is also quite awkward.

Yu Luan knife some helpless.

Tian Heng looked at the distant sands, “Although the top did not explicitly say, but this time the flow of state so big a crisis, even the king personally rushed to, the northern Liang territory of the various garrison cavalry forces are followed by the flow of state, then our Youzhou cavalry at this juncture in the opposite direction, is bound to be uncomplicated, with the words of Fan Wen Yao this kid is …… What’s the big idea? North Mang 50,000 elite cavalry, not to mention that East Vietnam extra horse harnessed by the side of a team, Wang Sui, the eastern line of the two press bowl of autumn and winter is also not simple.”

Tian Heng suddenly laughed, “You Yu Luan knife don’t think that in Jizhou and Hulukou fought two big victories, dare not put me Tian Heng in the eye, I picked up the first generation of the Xu family knife, your kid is still eating milk.”

Shi Yulu is the old general Tian Heng “a handful of shit and a handful of urine” from the small Wu Chang to diabolical riding general, so there are no taboos in speech, joked: “old general, words can not be said so, General Yu young to young, fighting can be really not ambiguous, not more than the old general you! ……”

Tian Heng violently raised his voice, “Huh?!”

Shi Yu Lu hurriedly swallowed that “poor” word, he said, “No better than the old general you.”

Tian Heng heavy cold snort, but there is a smile in his eyes, “so it’s settled, Yu Luan knife, Shi Yulu, and Fan Wenyao you three, with 20,000 men and horses together to go to the outside of the gourd mouth. I will bring 10,000 people to guard here, I don’t expect any great destruction of the enemy cavalry, ultimately, if we delay their footsteps into Youzhou.”

Fan Wenyao frowned tightly, want to speak but stop, gave Shi Yulu a look, the latter understood, whispered: “Old general, not you so indiscriminately change the established marching strategy well ……”

Tian Heng waved his hand and said: “The gourd mouth is the most important, in the end can not catch a turtle in a jar, depending on your 20,000 riders can grasp the mouth of the pocket!”

Although Huai Yang Guan Capital Office only had one secret military order passed to You Zhou Cavalry, several people present could guess a few bits of the truth, and although they were all shocked, who wasn’t passionate about it?

You North Mang Dong Zhuo want to take Liuzhou as a breakthrough, then we North Liang Iron Horsemen will take your east line Hulukou army to the pot!

Tian Heng looked at these faces that were far younger than his own, and softly said: ”They are all our own people, and we don’t talk about falsehoods, 30,000 Yuzhou cavalry, the 15,000 that said they were going north to rush to Hulukou at that time, the young people are mostly young, why? The reason is that if you are not able to survive the attack on Wang Sui’s army, even if you have a military honor, it is not big enough to be compared with going to Hulukou. In my life, Tian Heng was able to become a third-grade general, and that was enough. When I enlisted in the army, not compared to you Yu Luan knife is a scholarly spirit, I ah, that year is to starve to death, really can not survive, only the head chained to the waistband of the pants to join the army, where can I think of their own one day can be a general? Couldn’t have imagined it.”

Tian Heng laughed happily, “You don’t need to talk nonsense to me, you don’t know what kind of temper I, Tian Heng, have? What I have recognized, not to mention old Yan Tou can’t twist back, back then even in front of the Great General, what should be done is still what should be done.”

At this time a team of scouts galloped, is the lieutenant Fan Fen led by a standard horsemen, and Fan Fen alongside a ride is a child, waist hanging two slightly disproportionate Beiliang knife, just so stand on horseback, hands together in the sleeve, very master style. Fan Fen and several generals report back to the military situation, fifty miles ahead of all the North Mang horse fence figure.

Tian Heng called out to stop the scout who was about to turn around and go north, and asked the boy with a smile, “Are you the young general Yu Dilong of our Youzhou cavalry? I heard that you alone killed hundreds of Northern Mang barbarians outside of Hulukou?”

The child nodded with a stern face.

Fan Fen couldn’t help but break it down, “General Tian, this kid is actually just thin-skinned in front of outsiders, and not just now asked me um, saying that when he’s finished paying off his debt and has made some more merit, if he can be an official scout as well. This child that two cool knife, one is other people send him, another is still our standard temporarily lent to him, this is not thinking of can rightfully own the second cool knife.”

Tian Heng laughed brightly, “From now on, you will be the leader of the eighth standard scout of my Youzhou cavalry army!”

Yu Di Long asked, “Your words work? My master said that I have to follow the rules, or else he won’t let me stay in the Youzhou Non-Retreat Camp.”

Tian Heng was speechless, somewhat unable to get off the stage, he dared to play tricks with Yan Wenluan who was a friend in life and death, but he really didn’t dare to get sloppy with that young king.

Yu Luan Blade smiled and relieved himself, “All the military affairs of the Youzhou Cavalry Army, General Tian said it all works. And don’t forget, your master is still an ordinary soldier of our non-retreating battalion, so there is no need for General Tian to give the word, I, Yu Luan Dao, as the main general lieutenant of the non-retreating battalion, will allow you, Yu Di Long, to serve as the eighth standard scout’s chief of staff, which is just as good as ever!”

The child standing on the horse’s back gripped the cool sword at his waist and said seriously, “Generals please rest assured, I will definitely kill more enemies this time than last time!”

Tian Heng smiled and waved his hand as the child and the scout captain Fan Fen and his group galloped away.

Then Tian Heng said to the Yu Luan Blade trio with a straight face, “I, Tian Heng, am an old man who broke out from that Spring and Autumn battle, nowadays my qi isn’t as good as it was back then after all, so in the future, Northern Liang will be relying on you guys.”

Tian Heng lowered his head and looked at the sixth generation of Xu family knife on his waist, raised his head and then suddenly said, “General Yu, I have not left anything in my life, just a broken mansion that is not worth a few dollars, but there are still five war knives in my home, if …… then it will be handed over to you Yu Luan Knife to keep it for me. In the future, there is an opportunity to talk to the younger generation, mention a few words in passing about the story of that old general of Youzhou, how?”

Yu Luan knife Shi Yu Lu Fan Wen Yao three people, all silent.

Tian Heng clasped his hands and smiled broadly, “Farewell!”

The Tiger Head City attack and defense battle was in full swing.

A cavalry army that only numbered around ten thousand people, with the momentum of a lion fighting a rabbit, quietly left the garrison and headed east.

The leading cavalry general was none other than Northern Liang Cavalry Commander Yuan Zuozong!

The momentum was like a rainbow.

Almost at the same time, two cavalry armies that had never been seen on the battlefield before were heading to two dangerous passes at the northern border of Liang and You.

Both passes were heavily guarded by elite Yuzhou foot soldiers.

In the vicinity of the passes for a hundred miles, the security is tight, and there has always been an iron rule that once anyone unrelated appears, they will be killed without amnesty.

A few months ago, with the addition of a large number of sealed items in the two passes, these two places are beginning to have a large number of Beiliang first-class crossbowmen secretly wandering.

The two cavalry armies, together, numbered just over nine thousand men.

A person double horse may not be strange, but enough to make people jaw-dropping is these horses, surprisingly every horse is Beiliang grade A war horse!

One must know that in the entire Northern Liang, only three thousand Dragon Elephant Cavalry in Liuzhou could be equipped with Grade A warhorses, and there were only three to four hundred in Youzhou! Lingzhou did not even have a single horse!

These strange cavalrymen who clearly don’t wear cool swords or carry bows and crossbows, but none of them are the elite of the border army with robust body and outstanding brawn, and their robust body and that swarthy temperament, even if they don’t even wear light armor, are still intimidating to the people.

One is the rouge army.

One is the Wei Xiong Army.

When they were on the battlefield, all of their men and horses were clad in armor.

That is the Rouge Heavy Cavalry Army and the Wei Xiong Heavy Cavalry Army!

At the time of the Tiger’s Head City battle, at the time of the emergency in Liuzhou, at the time when Yan Wenluan had to mobilize 10,000 dead foot soldiers to reinforce Xiaguang City.

Twenty thousand Youzhou light cavalry!

Ten thousand Great Snow Dragon Cavalry!

The Iron Horsemen of the Northern Liang Iron Horsemen, nine thousand truly heavy cavalry!

Will appear together outside Hulukou!