Chapter 327 – Autumn Winds Raise Spring Winds

Huai Yang Pass temporarily held an emergency military meeting, in addition to leading the light cavalry traipsing outside the gourd mouth of the Northern Liang cavalry commander Yuan Zuo Zong, Yan Wen Luan, He Zhong Hu, Chen Yun Li, Gu Da Zu, Zhou Kang, these five border army in the highest ranked infantry and cavalry generals, together with the capital guard Chu Lushan, plus Liang Zhou Pass outside the left and right two cavalry vice generals, Liang Zhou general Shi Fu and You Zhou general Huang Fu Pink, and Poria Willow Buds Heavy Grave as well as the Qingyuan The main generals of the four military towns, as well as more than twenty powerful lieutenants like Huang Laifu, more than thirty Bei Liang military generals were jointly present at the proceedings. If according to the North Mang female emperor to count the price of military service by the number of heads, who can break through this pass at this time, it is really a monstrous war merit.

Originally seldom directly to the border affairs of Xu Fengyen this time to convene all the people, open the door to put forward a bold tactics, far more radical than the previously established strategy, not only “Youzhou infantry to the west tilt, Lingshou cavalry to the north tilt,” so simple, but to the flow of the state as a real decision of the second Liangmang war victory or defeat of the key! Battlefield, its status even vaguely more than that not yet built refused to the north of the city and the entire Liangzhou Pass, He Zhonghu Chen Yunzhui two vice marshals are opposed to the views of the seniority to be a little younger Jin partridge Zhou Kang, clearly in favor of the views of the young king, Yan Wenluan and Gu Dazu did not take a position, because so, it is really too risky, their king of the northern Liang, but it is clear that they want to be with the north of the Mang to come to a fierce attack! Great War!

You use heavy troops to hit me outside the Liangzhou Pass, then I will smash your Northern Mang Southern Dynasty!

Gu Dazu, as the current deputy commander of the Northern Liang Infantry who was the pillar of the Southern Tang in the past, at the end of the Spring and Autumn War, had proposed that “in order to defend the border, we must fight outside the country’s gates”, and according to the theory that Xu Fengyen’s policy should be very much to the veteran’s liking, but Gu Dazu couldn’t help but once again look down at the Liang-Mang confrontation situation on the table after weighing the pros and cons of the map. Figure, worried: “Your Majesty, this move may not be appropriate ah, not to mention the flow of state side of our cavalry can advance all the way to the hinterland of the South Dynasty, refused to the north of the city, even if the willow buds Poria heavy mounds of the first line of the Youzhou infantry to help guard the city, but in contrast to the strength of the army, we are obviously still at an absolute disadvantage, this disadvantage, not a few walls can be made up for, once you let Yu Luan knife, and Ning Emei led the troops together westward, the disparity in strength will be even more exaggerated, Huaiyang Pass, these passes are not unable to lose, afraid of losing too fast, resulting in the loss of He, Zhou two generals of the cavalry to rely on, pulling one hair affects the whole body, in haste, hanging outside the pass of the city of the refusal of the North, how to hold back the North Mang’s main force of the army? Without Reject North City, even if half of North Mang’s southern dynasty is smashed by the Liuzhou cavalry, it will not help the overall situation.”

Yan Wenluan puts one hand behind his back and points to the map with one hand, “We might as well look at this matter the other way around, let’s first assume that there is no fighting at Hulukou, and that the main force of my Youzhou infantry army is simply all transferred into Liangzhou Pass, all of them, not the original 30,000, then the effect of Poria Willow Buds and other military towns in blocking the enemy army will be greater, for example, let me stay here at Huaiyang Pass, and you, Gu Dazu, lead your troops to the Heavy Mound military town to assist with the defense of the city. Chen Yuntui chose to articulate Liangzhou Liuzhou’s Qingyuan military town, in this way, the overall defense line north of Rejecting North City, dare not say how a brick wall, well at least can also give the Liuzhou cavalry to win two to three months of time ……”

The two infantry vice marshals under Yan Wenluan’s command hadn’t yet spoken, but it was the left cavalry’s main general, He Zhonghu, who said in a fiery voice: “No, absolutely not! Everyone here is their own people, some words I say do not say everyone understands in his heart, refused to north of the city north of the zone, Huaiyang Pass is still destined to guard, let alone willow bud Poria several towns, the three of you, do not want to give the North Mang barbarians three times the opportunity to seal the feudal king for nothing?

Said here, He Zhonghu hesitated, looked to Xu Fengyen and Chu Lushan standing side by side, “Your Highness, not I He Zhonghu underestimated those young generals of Liuzhou, in fact, the so-called double wall of Western Chu, Kou Jianghuai Xie Xijian, or Cao Wei and Yu Luan knife, I am very much appreciated, with time, I may give them shoes are not worthy, just the next big war can not be lost, the Northern Mang Dongzhuo Huangzhuo. There is a loss, the North Mang Dong Zhuo Huang Song Pu that gang of barbarians can make some mistakes, but unfortunately we can not be the slightest mistake in Northern Liang! Those young people after all …… are too young ah! What’s more, the flow of the state there is an old and respected Huang Song Pu sitting in town, and now Rotten Mountain fell, the flow of the state cavalry is not much, and in addition to the Dragon Elephant Army is considered the old battalion origin, the rest of the cavalry can be into the army not long ago, each other, there is no only after a battle can be cultivated out of the tacit understanding, if a certain part of the error, a careless, will not be a full plate all lose?”

Zhou Kang frowned, some undercurrent of advice: “If old General He is worried about the flow of the state does not have a backbone, or simply let Commander Yuan personally to preside over the situation?”

Chu Lushan shook his head and said, “Yuan Zuozong is indispensable for the battle of the cavalry outside the Liangzhou Pass, we need a cavalry general who must be able to utilize the cavalry to reach the realm of ‘quenching the thirst of the near even with distant water’, this kind of thing, only Yuan Zuozong can do it in Northern Liang and I, Chu Lushan, can’t do it either. That’s why those young cavalry generals in Liuzhou are mostly going to be fighting on their own, from start to finish!”

When the world of soldiers recognized the decision of the Western Wall Armageddon of the Princess Tomb battle, Yuan Zuozong is deservedly the biggest contributor, so can even say that there is no Yuan Zuozong’s lead army long-distance raids, now the Central Plains surnamed Zhao surnamed Jiang is still two say.

Chu Lushan once made a thousand riders to open Shu feat, and Lu Shengxiang snowy night down Luzhou, and known as the Spring and Autumn war in the two classic riding battle, but compared to Yuan Zuozong improvised unauthorized raid on the Princess Tomb, undoubtedly inferior, know that even Chen Zhi Bao admitted afterwards, he was later than Yuan Zuozong realized the significance of the Princess Tomb battlefield. So Xu Fengyen hereditary replacement after the first thing is to let Yuan Zuozong as the cavalry commander, and Chu Lushan is only as the nominal first person of the Northern Liang generals, the facts have proved that this kind of a virtual and a real match, at that time is still not really able to convince the public of the new king of the Liang did not choose the wrong person, but also this is also this move, so that there is no big shake-up in the Northern Liang border army.

Xu Beihao, who has just secretly returned to Beiliang from the residence of the strategic ambassador of the Lianghuai Road, stood in the corner and did not say a word, the long-distance traveling made him a bit exhausted, simply stood there and closed his eyes to rest his mind.

The short and thin body aura but steadily pressed all the generals in the hall Yan Wenluan bent his fingers, knocked on the table, turned his head and asked: “Chu Dugu, Cao Wei from the border army at that time, Yu Luan knife drawn out 10,000 horses, Yu Luan knife 10,000 ghost riders, Kou Jianghuai interspersed with a considerable number of flow of the state of the young and strong cavalry army, plus a temporary takeover of the Lin Rhyme Fengxiang towns total of six thousand cavalry army of the Xie Xiyuan, as well as the Ning Emei The Iron Buttons, which were replenished in a hurry after they were badly wounded, are five young cavalry generals whose combined age is only two Yan Wenluan’s, so do you really want to bet on them to save the day? We, the old men of Liangzhou-Youzhou, aren’t we being too harsh on them?”

The root of this argument actually lies in whether those few young men can take up the big responsibility, whether they can afford to die generously for the Liangzhou border troops. If you can’t make the North Mang Southern Dynasty hurt, can’t force the North Mang middle road army into the “lone army deep” situation, even if the Liuzhou cavalry kills more enemies, even if the Xijing Temple Hall of the civil and military officials killed a clean, as Gu Dazu said, in fact, is not beneficial to the overall situation, refusing to lose the North City, the empty strength of Liangzhou is bound to be lost, the war is also The battle will not be necessary to fight.

Chu Lushan rubbed his hands together, hemmed and hawed, and out of the corner of his eye surveyed the young feudal lord.

Xu Fengyen was about to speak out, just at this moment, Xu Beihao finally spoke, ”Back then, the great general led the Xu family army to fight in the north and south, trampling on the six kingdoms, I remember at that time, the king of Shu Chen Zhi Bao, Chu Dugu, Yuan Commander of the group of people are all extremely young, right, Xu Pu Wu Qi and others, the age of the people is not really that big, and even General Yan at that time was considered to be the youthful generals, that is why at that time, Li Yang Ministry of the army will have a ‘Doll lieutenant, and crown general’ sour irony. Whether it is Kou Jianghuai Xie Xijian, or Cao Wei Yu Luan knife Ning Emei, is not the kind of paper military ‘everyone’, in addition to Cao Wei has not yet established a large military success, the rest of everyone has outstanding achievements, for example, the original reputation of the Kou Xie two people, Cao Changqing still dared to appoint them to serve as the main generals of the east and west of the western Chu two fronts, why do we Beiliang on the not feel at ease?”

Xu Beihuan asked with a smile, “Could it be that our Liuzhou cavalry’s combat power is too worthless? It’s still no match for the Western Chu Cavalry that was put together?”

Without waiting for anyone to give an answer, Xu Beihuan took a few steps out and walked to the table, continuing, “The Northern Mang Taiping Order has come up with this next strategy, and is camping step by step, only wanting to eat up the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry bit by bit on the battlefields outside of the Liangzhou Pass, and in fact is forcing us to accompany the Northern Mang and act according to the ‘next strategy’, to put it bluntly, the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry is not as good as ours, and we are not as good as the Western Chu Cavalry. To put it bluntly, as long as the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry chooses to spend the end with the Northern Mang barbarians in the north of the Rejected North City, then even if we do not take the risk of military action, do not rely on the flow of the state war to risk breaking the game, everyone in the room, but also difficult to escape the fate of the battle deaths, only sooner or later, I would say that we do not always think of how to lose less ugly, not only think of the spelling out of the border army, only to kill 100,000 or hundreds of thousands of the Northern Mang cavalry, but we have to think of how to win, to win so that the Northern Mang and Liyang are all in the same situation. Win so that both Beimang and Liyang are convinced.”

Xu Beihao reached out and pointed to the tabletop, suddenly collected his laughter and said in a deep voice, “Now the opportunity has come! It’s right in front of us!”

Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at this fellow and smiled slightly.

Yan Wenluan He Zhonghu this set of spring and autumn veterans, is not a bloodthirsty rash, after listening to Xu Beihao’s remarks, did not appear too much heart and soul stirring, on the contrary, became more and more cautious and prudent.

Jin partridge Zhou Kang is recognized as the northern Liang border army in the head of the violent character of the generals, always respected the best defense is attack, probably also clear today’s deliberations may decide the survival of the northern Liang, did not go along with the trend of adding fuel to the fire, but instead of the words and phrases: “those young people’s talent to lead the army is beyond doubt, and now I would like to confirm that one thing, and that is that the group of dragons without a head of the flow of the state of the several cavalry army, really can hold Huang Song Pu’s nose?”

As the only Beiliang civilian courtier, Xu Beihao suddenly made a move that made the room full of meritorious military generals cry and laugh, pointing to the Beiliang King not far away, “This has to be asked of him, today’s quarrels are all tossed out by this one.”

Xu Fengyen, who had a few pale and sickly looks on his face, lost his smile and slowly said, “Kou Jianghuai Xie Xijian’s two men’s military habits, I believe that all of you have seen the whisking water room spies and imperial assassins level diaries, have been roughly understood, each with its own peculiarities and positive aspects, the turning point of the battle of the Guangling Road, the West Chu’s national power from strength to strength, in fact, in the Kou Jianghuai’s initial departure from the battlefield in a fit of pique, and the cause of this matter, not in the scope of today’s discussion, also involves the King of Beilang. In the scope of today’s discussion, also involves Kou Jianghuai’s privacy, but we look back to see that let the imperial army anxious about the war, it is not difficult to find that this pair of Western Chu double wall a left and a right, the arch of the Western Chu, the opponent has Yan Zhenchun, Yang Shenxiang, Lu Shengxiang, Wu Chongxuan, Chen Zhibao, etc., none of them is the world’s art of war everyone, although the late war began to tilt away from the sun, of course, there are also some factors outside the sand field, make the Lu Shengxiang Chen Zhi Bao two did not pour out troops, but Western Chu is still able to maintain parity by and large, it is not easy to say, so that Kou Xie two people in Liuju once again join forces, I’m looking forward to it.”

Xu Fengnian laughed, “If the opponent in Liuzhou is Dong Zhuo who specializes in surprise troops, instead of Huang Song Pu who holds the military in high regard, I will be as uneasy as many others, in fact, on the side of Liuzhou, the character that I truly regard as a great danger to my heart, is that Xiazhubo Seedan who caused Ruodu Mountain to fall to the Northern Mang.”

Chu Lushan said conspiratorially, “That’s why the king has specially arranged a big meal for that bastard Seed Sandan this time, the ninety cavalry of the Wu family that stayed outside the Liangzhou pass will run to the western region under the leadership of Xu Yanbing, and work together with Cao Wei to intercept and kill Seed Sandan.”

Xu Fengyen looked down at the map of North Mang’s southern dynasty territory, softly said, “North Mang’s military is extremely powerful, otherwise it will not let us North Liang such a headache, but North Mang’s temple side, all kinds of ills, the accumulation of heavy and difficult to come back, far more than we North Liang imagined to be more turbulent, the reason why this time the desperate to flow state as a breakthrough, the real significance of the battlefield is not in the Liang Mang borders, and the internal, I want to let North Mang to be the best in the world, I want to let the North Mang to be the most powerful in the world. Beimang internal, I want to let the confrontation between the two surnames of Beimang Yelu Murong, the two officialdom of the Northern Court of the Southern Dynasty, from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, so that the old woman who threatened to sell our heads according to the catty, no longer able to suppress the situation with an iron fist bullet.”

Yan Wenluan nodded after deep thought, “This thought …… is very interesting.”

Then Yan Wenluan looked complex, looked at Chen Yunzhui, He Zhonghu these old guys with their own military career, “We are old, although we still ride a horse and draw a bow to kill people, but compared to the young people of the Yu Luan knife, after all, it is still old.”

Outside the house, the autumn winds are picking up.

The old general Yan Wenluan, who was in his twilight years, looked out of the house for some reason, lost in thought, and muttered, “Old is old, so let’s help the young people one last time.”

Xu Fengyen looked at the crowd and smiled, “I believe that those young people in Liuzhou are able to bring surprises, and I also believe that all of you in the house are able to defend the Reject North City.”

Xu Fengyen made a slight pause, stretched out his hand, and heavily pressed it on the Liangmang situation map on the table, “If there must be a reason, it’s that I, the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, have the world at my fingertips!”