Chapter 229: The Xu Family of the Past and Now Northern Liang

Tiger head city’s sudden fall, so that the north mang army in the south end of the dragon’s eye child plains, laying a very comfortable offensive posture, resulting in waiyang pass and willow buds fu ling two towns of the whole line of emergency, at this time of crisis, north liang infantry vice marshal gu dazu forcefully rows the crowd, did not disperse the troops reinforcement of the front line, but in the back of waiyang pass in the heavy mound military town around the rally, and the cavalry army vice marshal zhou kang gathered up that the large border riding army urgent convergence, so as the capital residence of the north liang government is located in the Huai Yang pass and willow buds fu ling two towns, but in the past Xu family now, but now the north liang family is now the second tiger head city. In this way, as the Beiliang capital of the residence of Huaiyangguan, and willow buds Poria two towns invariably take over as the second tiger city, but because of the nominal Beiliang border army first in command, Chu Lushan insisted on personally guarding Huaiyangguan, Gu Dazu such a death suspicion of behavior, the old Southern Tang origin of the outsiders of the veteran generals pushed to the tip of the storm, not only the cavalry generals, and even the border army foot system, also quite interested in the Gu Dazu, but the border army is also a very good idea. Inside the border army infantry system, there are also a lot of complaints about Gu Dazu, especially after Chen Yuntui, who is also the vice commander of the infantry army, temporarily brought troops from Youzhou to assist Liangzhou, the two generals of the Beiliang infantry army, whose hats are equal in weight, have also had a lot of disagreements, coupled with the fact that Zhou Kang, a partridge, is himself a typical commander of the Beiliang army who is full of aggressiveness, Gu Dazu has for a time become a traitor to his own family in the town of Hezhuang army, and the veteran general He Zhonghuo, who has a higher level of both authority and seniority than Zhou Kang, has become an important figure in the army of the cavalry. He Zhonghu, a veteran general in the cavalry who was superior to Zhou Kang in terms of both prestige and seniority, fell ill at this time, adding insult to injury. Outside the Liangzhou Pass, there were internal and external problems, and the entire situation in Northern Liang became precarious.

In the heavy mound military town temporarily set up in the general’s residence council hall, and broke out a almost completely torn face of the dispute, those relatively low official lieutenant lieutenant are a little numb, at this time the heavy mound and the tiger’s head behind the city of Huaiyang pass defense line has been completely out of contact, before this, there have been no less than a hundred elite crossbowmen in the transmission of military information on the way to death, in fact, Huaiyang pass and willow buds Poria two towns are considered to be alone! In fact, Huaiyang Pass and Willow Bud Poria towns have been left alone, submerged in the flood of iron horsemen of the North Mang army. Inside the hall, originally placed about ten chairs, Gu Dazu, Zhou Kang, came from afar to Chen Yuntui, six thousand iron pontoon iron cavalry general Qi Dangguo, White Feather Guards commander Yuan Nanting and so on, each had a seat, but the day before yesterday Zhou Kang in front of Gu Dazu angrily got up, kicked the chair and left the council hall, in the subsequent deliberations, these chairs originally symbolize the status of the chair has become a decorative device.

Today, Zhou Kang and Gu Dazu for the next heavy mound military town positioning, there is an indelible dispute, the partridge reputation of the cavalry general stood on the side of the table with a sand table, left hand a fist slammed hard on the desktop, directly out of the right hand with a finger pointing at the other side of the Gu Dazu, angrily said: “guard guard guard! Do you know how to cower in defense? Is that the best you can do? I really don’t know what the King’s use was when he invited you from the Central Plains to our Northern Liang Border Army! If it wasn’t for the fact that you wrote a book called The Ashes Collection, and if it wasn’t for the fact that the Great General and Mr. Li also praised you for your theories on the situation back then, I would have to wonder if you’re a spy for the Northern Mang barbarians!”

This words, not to mention the Iron Fudu vice general Ning Emei these compared to the veteran generals can only belong to the rising star of the young strong faction of the generals, felt a burst of trepidation, that is, the silent Chen Yuntui also listened to a trembling eyelids, Zhou Kang these words is obviously over, Chen Yuntui corner of the eye glanced at the Gu Dazu, who is still impassive look, and Zhou Kang did not have the slightest sign of mercy under the mouth, intensifying the use of a finger pointing at the Gu Dazu, “Even Hutou City can’t defend, can Huaiyang Pass hold? The Liu Bud Poria, which relies on the flexibility of the cavalry to actively look for battle opportunities, can it hold? You Gu Dazu is the commander of the infantry army, but this will be the deputy commander of the Northern Liang cavalry army, can not see the willow buds Poring two towns of more than 10,000 cavalry because of your own opinion, can only dismounted on foot to fight, and ultimately can only be suffocated to die in the city on top of the head! More than that, I can’t see the tens of thousands of cavalry under my command can only be crowded in the vicinity of this heavy mound every day, watching the front line every day there are robes died, but can’t ask for a fight!”

Toward the end, Zhou Kang’s eyes almost caught fire as he rebuked, “It’s just that you, Gu Dazu, are afraid of death, and it’s none of my business if your infantry likes to be the grandchildren, but on what basis do you want us, the cavalry, to have to wait for our deaths here as well?!”

Gu Dazu said blandly, “Because without the support of Commander Zhou’s cavalry, the heavy mound cannot be defended. Cities are dead, without the peripheral hold of the cavalry, there is no city under the sky that cannot be breached. Similarly, without the cooperation of a solid city, the cavalry army is water without a source, it is not difficult to win a few battles, but it is unrealistic to win the entire battle.”

Zhou Kang laughed coldly, “Then your infantry will obediently stay within the heavy mound military town, just cooperate with our cavalry and watch us kill the enemy, this is not too much to ask, is it? Now Dong Zhuo’s army has not yet really established itself, but our cavalry can stroll through our own defense zone with their eyes closed, not to mention running attacks and killings, even if it is a night battle, we can also fight cleanly and efficiently, and the disadvantage of strength can be compensated for by our familiarity with the geographic situation. Gu Da Zu, you said that you want to wait for the news of the two battlefields of Qing Cang City in Liuzhou and Xia Guang City in Youzhou, and it is better to delay until the new city is built on the border of Liangzhou, but you at least are a person who has led a soldier and fought in a war, will you not know the reason that the opportunity of battle in the sand field is fleeting? How, it would not be thinking to wait until Chu Dugu died in Huaiyang Pass, you surnamed Gu so that you can go to that new city to be your next Dugu Lord, right?”

Gu Dazu’s face did not change color, he just stared at this mouthy Northern Liang Cavalry’s third-in-command and slowly said, “Zhou Kang, there is no drama in the military, there are some words that I can tolerate, but there are some words that aren’t treated as if they were farting and that’s the end of it.”

Zhou Kang narrowed his eyes and smiled grimly, “Finally you can’t tolerate it? Outside the city, there are 30,000 riders of my general’s Northern Liang Right Army, do you still dare to kill me in the heavy mound?”

Then Zhou Kang smiled and pretended to look around, “In the novels, there is a funny story about throwing a cup as a signal, saying that as long as you throw a cup of wine, hundreds of axemen will come out to kill you and cut you into pieces of meat, but there is no cup of wine in your hand, and it seems that these generals in the room may not listen to your orders either, right?”

Gu Dazu laughed, “you and I know, in the heavy mound military town, you Zhou commander of the house arrest me is more or less, all the generals here, now more or less look at me Gu Dazu are not too good.”

Fear of adding fuel to the fire so has not been much interjection of the veteran general Chen Yunzhui sighed, how things have come to this point? If Chu Lushan was present on the good, or else replaced with Yan Wenluan or Yuan Zuozong any one of them can also ah, this is the result of the group of dragons without a leader, if it is not the face of the people of this kind of influence on the trend of Beiliang, and even the whole world pattern of the big event, the room Gu Da Zu, Zhou Kang also, and even Qi Dangguo Ning Emei, these Beiliang military young leaders, also can be a unique, enough to determine the victory or defeat of the war in a state, will not be so tricky headache. It won’t be such a difficult headache at all. Chen Yuntui thought of here, suddenly some sadness, remembered that he was once young that period of military years, that time is also like this fierce generals such as clouds of strategists such as rain Jizi, Li Yishan, Zhao Changling, Yan Wenluan, Wu Yu, Xu Pu, Yu Tieshans, Liu Yuanji, Zhong Hongwu, Chen Zhi Bao, Yuan Zuozong, Chu Lushan …… just that time, the end will have a person to decide the final word, but not the final word, the final decision will be made. There will be a person to hammer, absolutely will not appear this strange situation of near infighting.

It is a pity that the king has to personally rush to Liuzhou to put out the fire.

The number one figure of the border army, Chu Lushan, who is guarding the Huaiyang Pass, has somehow not made any predetermined decision on the complicated military affairs of the heavy mound behind him.

Chen Yuntui knew that if he did not do a peacemaker, today the council hall may have to fight. Although Chen Yuntui heart more inclined to Zhou Kang’s initiative, but after all, Gu Dazu is the head of the infantry line in Liangzhou, for the Jin Partridge unscrupulous insults suppression, Chen Yuntui inevitably also have some heart, in the final analysis, this is not what Zhou Gu’s dispute, but the natural differences between the Northern Liang cavalry and the infantry for a long time, this contradiction even if it is Yan Wenluan can not be changed, the number of infantry in the Northern Liang is the majority, but the main role in the war with the Northern Mang, the main role in the war with the Northern Liang, the main role in the war with the Northern Mang. In the war with Beimang, the protagonist has never been the Beiliang cavalry, the final decision is also the cavalry, just like the previous Beiliang old and new, the Dragon Elephant Army and the Great Snow Dragon Riders of the respective attacks on Beimang, the great splendor, as well as after that known as the Beiliang infantry base camp of the state of Youzhou, the real world of fame, but also the young general Yu Luan knife led by the ten thousand people of You Riders.

Chen Yunzhui took a few steps closer to the table and gently pressed his hands on the tabletop, softly saying, ”The war situation in Liangzhou is unfavorable, and the same goes for Liuzhou, even His Highness had to personally go over there to face Liu Gui’s army head on, and maybe he’ll even take on that Topaz Bodhisattva. Let’s not add to the king’s chaos, have a good conversation and say less angry words ……”

Chen Yunzhui paused for a moment, looked at the left and right confrontation of Zhou Kang and Gu Dazu, “Gentlemen, allow me to remind a word of caution, here is the specification is second only to the Beiliang capital of the Border Army Council Hall, here is not the civil officials move their mouths and military officials to run through the legs of the temple of the Leiyang, we are more than a group of people outside the beautifully named tent of the civilian ministers, you and I are the lead soldiers to fight, maybe tomorrow who We will personally go to the battlefield, maybe …… maybe today is my Chen Yuntui and your last meeting. I believe that General Gu’s prudence, but also believe that General Zhou’s boldness, heavy mound cavalry is war or defense, at present, it seems that there are advantages and disadvantages, General Gu and General Zhou have already said a lot, now Huaiyang Pass can not be contacted, Yuan Commander is not in Liangzhou, the king has also gone to the urgent war situation of the flow of the state, so we retreat to the next best thing, can the heavy mound to discuss a compromise to play the law? Can we use both offense and defense? For example, if General Gu thinks that it is too aggressive for General Zhou’s left army of 30,000 horsemen, and General Qi’s 6,000 iron buccaneers, as well as General Yuan’s White Feather Guards, to pour out their nests in a single wave of brains and seek to achieve the huge battle success of killing more than 100,000 of the enemy in a large battle, then ……”

Gu Dazu hesitated for a moment, but still said in a firm tone, “Commander Chen, truth be told, not only do we need to defend the heavy mound, but more importantly, we need to leave a sufficient number of cavalry forces alive for Beiliang, this is not at all a matter of being radical or conservative, but rather, we can’t fight this battle in the first place, taking a step back, even if the cavalry kills more than one hundred thousand enemies, even if our own side is damaged by more than 30,000, causing the Even if the cavalry kills more than 100,000 enemies, but even if our side suffers more than 30,000 damages, resulting in the whole left cavalry army not being able to form an absolute battle force within a year, then we, Beiliang, have actually lost. Furthermore, in the face of Dong Zhuo’s army, which came prepared, and Dong Zhuo’s cavalry, which has been building up its strength for a long time, can the 30,000 Left Cavalry and the two elite cavalry armies under General Qi’s and General Yuan’s commands really guarantee that they will win a great victory without injuring their vitality?”

Gu Dazhu picked up the special bamboo pole and drew a big circle south of the heavy mound and north of the Liangzhou border, “He Zhonghu’s 40,000 right cavalry troops, why are they still standing still at this point? Why did He Zhonghu’s army of 40,000 right horsemen remain still until now, and why did he go north to Chongzuka in anger without hearing the bad news about Hutou City? The reason is very simple, that cost me half of the new city of Northern Liang can be successfully completed, determines whether Northern Liang can once again fight in the Guanwai, under this premise, Huaiyang Pass can be lost, even where we are in the heavy mound can be lost, but we must be in the city as far as possible before the breakthrough of the North Mang army’s footsteps in the northern part of the new city, as long as possible the better! It doesn’t matter how many enemies my Northern Liang Border Army kills in the meantime, or how much military credit they get! It can even be said that whether Chu Dugu dies or not, whether I, Gu Dazu, die or not, whether you, Chen Yunzhi, die or not, whether he, Zhou Kang, dies or not, is just as unimportant!”

Gu Dazu laughed bitterly, “Dong Zhuo hates the fact that our cavalry army is taking the initiative to fight with him, exchanging forces, and he, the King of the Southern Court, is happy! To put it bluntly, the Western Capital and Northern Court of their Northern Mang barbarians will only care about how many Northern Liang border troops he Dong Zhuo has killed, and won’t think too much about how many Northern Mang pawns have died… Look at Huloukou on the Eastern Front, how many Northern Mang siege foot soldiers has that young military general named Seed Tan forced to die? Regardless of how many people died, as long as he broke through the lying bow city and luanhe city, not the same by that Murong old woman to increase the title, a leap to become the new North Mang Xia捺钵? I might as well assert here that as long as the Left Cavalry is deployed, even if more than ten thousand people die in battle, the seat of the Southern Yard King sitting under his Dong Zhuo’s buttocks, which was so hard for us to shake, can immediately be stabilized for another half a year!”

Gu Dazu looked down at the sand table, his voice hoarse, “I know, I’m afraid that everyone in the room, except for me, Gu Dazu, feels that since Heavy Mound has so many troops, but chooses to avoid a battle, can’t afford the Northern Liang border troops who died in the battle at Hulukou in Youzhou, and even more so, can’t afford to Hutou City and Liu Yunu …… ”

Right at this moment, a slightly indifferent voice came from the main entrance of the council hall, “Enough.”

Not only did Gu Dazu jerk his head up, but all the generals, along with Zhou Kang Chen Yuntui, quickly turned their heads to look at the slender figure.

The young man was dusty, but on the contrary, he made people feel an incomparable peace of mind.

This person was Xu Fengyen who rushed from Tianjing Ranch to Heavy Mound Military Town alone, in order to rush to the front line of Huaiyang Pass as fast as possible, and also in order to bring more troops to Liushu for Liangzhou General Shi Fu, who had regained the power, Xu Fengyen didn’t even bring a single White Horse Boxer with him. Reckless rushing, the body had already suppressed those Qijiajie planted sword qi again stupid, which makes as one of the four great masters Xu Fengyen’s face is not good, but really let Xu Fengyen feel angry or the council hall of this dark storm. Liangzhou tiger head city fell, Liu Yunu died in battle, Liuzhou is very likely to be the bad situation of the Longxiang army was wiped out, Youzhou Hulukou can Yang Yuanzhan army dumplings are still two say, Liangzhou border on the new city has not yet been built, and then there is no giant city to rely on no dangerous passes reliable Liangzhou pass, already had to face the long drive into the Dong Zhuo center line army, and Liangzhou cavalry one of the mainstay of the He Zhonghu is suddenly sick, Xu Fengyen himself! He Zhonghu, one of the pillars of Liangzhou cavalry army, is suddenly sick and Xu Fengnian himself is unable to participate in the war, so it can be imagined that Xu Fengyen’s mood at this moment is how bad, but the young feudal lord who strides into the council hall is still trying his best to hold his tongue, but even so, Xu Fengyen didn’t show his intention of asking for blame from anyone, and Zhou Kang, who is the vice marshal of the cavalry army, who is not afraid of the earth and the sky, was also instantly losing his temper, and unprecedentedly had a little bit of a weak heart.

Xu Fengyen gently exhaled a breath, silent for a moment, then slowly opened his mouth: ”I also want to go outside Qingcang city in Liuzhou, catch Tuoba Bodhisattva and beat him to death, it’s best to kill Liu Gui too, but for one thing I can’t do it nowadays, furthermore Liangzhou is more important than Liuzhou, so I can only not dare to stop for one step and run here, well, and then stood outside the door to listen to you guys quarrel! It was almost a quarter of an hour. It’s a pity that I didn’t get to see Commander Gu and Commander Zhou have a big fight, some regret.”

With an embarrassed face, Zhou Kang coughed a few times.

Some of the young lieutenants saw this scene and forced themselves to hold back their laughter, enduring it with great difficulty.

Xu Fengyen did not continue to dig at the several veteran generals and walked to the north of the table, facing the south, the left and right factions of military generals all naturally held their breaths and stood in silence.

Xu Fengyen said, “To give up without a fight, that is the skill of the civil lords, we in Beiliang are not practicing this, the barbarians of North Mang want to go south, then we will fight and win, and beat them so much that they can’t even go back to North Mang.”

“Battle and win, this has always been the self-confidence of our Beiliang or Xu family’s iron cavalry, not conceit, but even Xu Primrose has never felt that there is anything to be happy about fighting a smooth victory, which battle was the one that established the position of our Beiliang Border Army as the number one military unit in the Spring and Autumn Warfare? Xu Snapdragon himself told me that he fought the hardest, most tragic and deadliest battle in his life, so much so that several times he couldn’t even see the hope and almost wanted to give up the battle of Xibei wall! So now we, Northern Liang, are going to face the second Battle of the Western Basement Wall, with Xu Snap gone, and with Li Yishan, Zhao Changling, Chen Zhi Bao, Wu Qi, Xu Pu, Zhong Hongwu, and so on, all gone and dead, but!”

“But now I side, there were present at the time you Chen Yuntui, Zhou Kang, Yuan Nanting, Qi Dangguo, Ning Emei, and the new into the northern Liang Gu Dazu, a little to the north, Huaiyang Pass and Chu Lushan, to the east, the Youzhou have Yan Wenluan’s infantry and Yu Luan blade of the cavalry army, there are Hu Kui and Huangfu Pink, Hulu Kou inside even more of my northern Liang by the Yuan Zuo Zong personally led by two heavy cavalry army, to the west, there are Xu Longxiang Li Mo Fan Wang Lingbao’s Dragon Elephant Army, there are Yang Guangdou and Chen Xiliang’s Liuzhou Assassin’s Office, and to the south, there are even more, not to mention Beiliang’s native civil and military officials, but even the foreign scholars number in the thousands!”

“The already retired Yu Tieshan Liu Yuanji and the rest of the crowd, among them, there is also the old pawn Lin Doufang, all of them have already made it clear that they want to comeback and return to the Beiliang Border Army.”

Xu Fengnian suddenly laughed: “In the future, there is no such a story in the history books about Beiliang fighting a country with one land, that is the matter of the civil officials of Liyang, it’s out of our hands, how they like to write how they write, but at least I feel that in a few years, all of you here, try to survive, and nag your own children, grandchildren and juniors about their military careers back then, it’s always a good thing. ”

“It’s probably just like what Xu Primrose nagged me about all those years ago.”

“If in case anyone here dies in battle, there won’t be this blessing of showing off and bragging with the younger generation.”

Xu Fengyen said here, looking towards Zhou Kang, “For example, if you Zhou Kang died in battle, I believe that in the future, there will be an old man surnamed Gu, if he meets a young man surnamed Zhou, he may sit down and casually chat for a few moments, sipping his wine, and say that back then, the old man in your family, named Zhou Kang, was always bad in his words, but …… was a hero who was willing to die generously for Northern Liang.”

Xu Fengnian’s complexion appeared in a trance for a moment, then laughed, “If I die in battle and any of you survive, then please tell your children and grandchildren that Northern Liang was defeated in a deadly battle, not without a fight.”