Chapter 383 – The Backbone of the Northern Liang Iron Horsemen

Lingshou Longqing County people, used to be the most conceited group of people in the entire Northern Liang Road, whether it is here to go out of the border soldiers, or scholars and merchants, the waist is particularly straight, because this is the original Huaihua General Zhong Hongwu’s hometown, and Zhong Hongwu as the commander of the Northern Liang cavalry for more than a decade, accumulation of prestige, the disciples of the old officials throughout the Northern Liang, coupled with Zhong Hongwu that year, and has always been known for short-term protection of the world, the promotion of the military generals is even more blatant! The promotion of military generals was even more blatant, so the people of Longqing County were self-conscious of their superiority.

Before Xiang Fu, Long Qing County is undoubtedly the meat and potatoes, Lingshou large and small portals of the marriage object, are from Long Qing County as the first choice, just after the death of Zhong Hongwu, is the river is declining in the dismal light, especially the original Long Qing County County, Zhong Hongwu’s first eldest son, Zhong Chengxin, in the promotion into the state as an official, many times in the government office, not to hide the rejection of hometown officials, and more so that the Long Qing County has completely lost the main backbone.

In this way, in the past years, the most beautiful three counties in Beiliang, marrying and marrying Long Qing County, the golden house to hide the beautiful rouge county, study and worship Huang Nan County, there are only two other counties left, like this time refused to the north of the city of the big construction, the military households, such as artisan households, and other version of the Beiliang people, as long as they are willing to go to the Liangzhou customs to participate in the construction of the money can be obtained a lot of money, all over the state of Lingzhou there are people in poverty flocked to the customs, but only the Long Qing County responded to the voice of a few people! This is certainly related to the fact that most of the people in Longqing County are well off, but the knot that everyone knows about the Northern Liang Road is even more crucial.

Northern Liang folk style since ancient tough martial arts, although Lingzhou rich, but will be planted in the family as many as hair, naturally, not lose Liang You two states, when the official scene in Lingzhou over the clouds of His Highness, no matter what the original intention, in the end, in the end, from the root of the eradication of the Zhong family this shade of the county’s tree, the people of Longqing County are both fear and resentment, can be described as a complex mind, a couple of words can not be told and can not be explained.

So when a Longqing County County in the ordinary middle-aged man, intends to go to the north of the city to get a meal, neighbors began to spit and despise, especially heard that the man intends to let his daughter-in-law and son are moved out of the north of the Liang, this is not just those unpleasant gossip, some people want to poke him in the face and cursed him, cursing without regard to more than ten years of living together to save the face of love. The Then soon someone turned up the old accounts, said this guy called Lu Dayuan originally is not Northern Liang people, is later married to their Longqing County women as a daughter-in-law, which went to the Yamen to turn the version of the registration, it is in the Longqing County landed and put down roots. These years he did in Longqing County to kill pigs and sell meat butcher, in fact, has been trading fair, did not earn any conscience of the silver, just this time to reject the North City, committed the anger, causing a family of four have become street rats, I do not know which is the broken mouth of the idle man, remembered the son of a bitch surnamed Lu at a time of drinking and chatting, said the leakage of words, threatened that our North Liang second game to fight the North Mang barbarians not a good chance to win, which can be a moment! Fried nest, Lu Dayuan’s pork store, that small hundred pounds of a whole pig, for three days, froze a catty and a half two have not been able to sell, had to be in their own home every day stewed meat every day of the New Year. Lu Dayuan during to a live in the end of the street lonely widow, sent a large piece of the best tenderloin, even to the old man directly thrown out of the door, the nature of the simple Lu Dayuan just muffled to pick up and take home.

This day, the family made a large pot of aromatic stew, Lu Dayuan squatted on the threshold of the house looking toward the courtyard door, patiently waiting for his youngest son to come home from private school to eat.

The two sons, the eldest son has reached sixteen years old, is now in Huangnan County, a rich collection of books in the home of the readers, often send letters back to report safety, Lu Dayuan and his daughter-in-law are illiterate, used to take the letter of the family to the youngest son’s private school, and the unsmiling Mr. Monk to ask for advice on the content of the old Mr. will be read word by word to the Lu Dayuan, and then Lu Dayuan home to his daughter-in-law to say the general meaning of the trip. The trip back and forth, is Lu Dayuan most contented time, Lu Dayuan still remember in the eldest son when he was a child, but also often complained about their own father as why not the Northern Liang Border Army, so that he grew up in his peers can not raise his head to do, and then wait until the child grew up, reading more and more outstanding, became known as a small talent, the child in the family’s smile and laughter more and more, although the youngest son also has a similar Complaints, but there is a brother who can help himself to support the long face, for the father’s honest and unproductive, but also not like the brother as a child so stifled and dull, has been a cheerful disposition like grinning happy child, is occasionally heard from the same window of the children to say and which of their relatives outside the Northern Liang Pass made a war hero rose to the rank, only to return home to crouch in the courtyard sighing, or pick up the father to him to do out of the wooden short sword, running madly all over the yard, the strength to run out, the gas will be eliminated, the meal to eat, the reading reading, generally speaking, a family of four days, is getting better and better, as for what the first Liangmang war Youzhou Hulu mouth built up within the capital of the view, what Liangzhou Hu Tou City battle was tragic, what the Qingliang Mountain erected hundreds of thousands of unnamed stone monuments, what the young king reacquired the title of the Great Pillar of the State, are and they are this family None of it had anything to do with them.

His daughter-in-law walked up to him at some point, hesitated, and asked softly, “Is Mr. Liu unwilling to help us read that letter?”

Lu Dayuan scratched his head and gave a hmmm, his face full of guilt.

The unattractive but gentle natured woman smiled and did not say anything.

Suddenly a Montessori child ran into the yard crying his nose, and after seeing his parents squatting and standing, he stopped and raised his arm to wipe his tears while sobbing heartbreakingly, “I don’t have a father like you! I have no talent and no backbone! I’m not going to leave Beiliang with my mother!”

Lu Dayuan froze.

The woman said angrily, “Xiangzhu! Mother won’t allow you to talk to father like that!”

The child had never seen his mother angry, and was so dumbfounded that he forgot to cry.

Lu Dayuan secretly tugged on his daughter-in-law’s sleeve and whispered, “Xiu’er, don’t be angry at the child.”

The woman was still angry and glared, “No rules! Mr. Liu taught you to read and write, is that what he taught you to use to curse?”

The child is more and more aggrieved and complaining, simply holding his head and squatting on the ground, whimpering, very pitiful and helpless.

The man stood up, gently picked up the child, carried back to the house and sat on the bench, rubbed the child’s little head, smiled and said, “Xiangzhu, you can scold dad like this, dad is actually not angry, on the contrary, very happy.”

The child wiped his face carelessly, secretly glanced at his mother sitting across the table, see her still sullen face, the child will continue to sulk, anyway, the neighbors all joked about his father is Lu big sulk, he today as a zucchini, but also can only blame his father, not to blame him Lu Xiangzhu.

The man was about to say something to his daughter-in-law, she softly said: “Dayuan, you are the man of the house, what you say is what. But to the customs, can remember to wear warmer, cold weather, to the winter snow and big, you have to work often, after all, is not in their own home, at any time there is a shelter to hide from the wind and rain, right, cotton shoes I help you to prepare more than three pairs of, do not sole plate is too thick …….”

Listening to the woman’s almost endless chatter, the man did not have the slightest impatience, one by one, smiled and answered, and occasionally lowered his head to help sit in his arms to eat the bowl of the child clip a piece of meat.

After all, the child is not able to remember the nature of revenge, on the small fights with peers are still so, let alone to their own parents.

Soon the child raised his head and swore: “Father, I can tell you ah, Mr. Liu told us, according to the Northern Liang military law! Those who retreat from the battlefield will be beheaded! You, it’s fortunate that you’re not one of our border generals, otherwise, humph!”

The man cried and laughed, the woman leaned forward and gave the child another piece of meat in his bowl, laughing in exasperation, “Can’t stop your mouth! Every night when you read your books and do your homework, you often doze off, I haven’t seen you so energized!”

The child made a face, ate the fragrant stew with his mouth full of oil, turned his head to look at his father, and asked in all seriousness, “Father, do you know how many beheadings there are in the Northern Liang military law?”

The man asked, “You know?”

The Ling Hui child’s eyes rolled, “Munchkin many anyway!”

The Northern Liang Xu family’s military rule has always been famous for its harshness.

It is said that that man-tu once in the Wuying Hall monarchs and ministers play right, laughingly said I Xu primrose a bucket big words can not read the big old man, only one of the most stupid method, that is to kill people, kill the enemy is not ambiguous, kill the pawns under the command is never soft, in order to have today’s soldiers and horses.

The person who retreats from the battlefield, kill!

Those who are greedy to kill Liang, kill!

Ambush early, kill!

Those who abandon their swords and horses without a reason will be killed!

If a captain dies in battle and the whole unit survives, the whole unit will be beheaded!

If a captain is killed and the whole army survives, the whole army will be beheaded!

Of course, in addition to these blood-soaked iron laws, the Northern Liang Border Army, but also the lower level of merit not rewarded, regardless of the main general of the chief, the barracks decapitation! Corruption of military pay and pensioners, no matter how much or how little, all beheaded!

The man laughed out loud when he heard the child’s words.

The child suddenly said, “Father, after Mother and I go to that place called Songbai County in the Central Plains, will our family have the money to buy a bigger mansion?”

The middle-aged man laughed, “This can be difficult, father hasn’t saved much silver over the years, the Central Plains side can be even richer than our Ling Zhou.”

The child let out a cry, a little lost.

The man continued to smile, “But don’t worry, when father arrives in the North Rejecting City, he won’t forget to send you money in the future.”

The child shook his head in an old-fashioned manner and said, “The gentleman said that the son said, rich and noble cannot be lustful, poor and lowly cannot be shifted, and the mighty and the powerful cannot be bent, and that is what a great man is also called a great man!”

The man asked curiously, “What do you mean by Mr. Zi Zi? Give father said said?”

The child hemmed and hawed a smile, “is ‘Mr. Liu said Zhang family sage said’ meaning well, this also do not understand, father you really do not learn!”

The man said with relief, “It’s okay that dad is uneducated, it’s good that you and your brother are educated.”

A mention of his brother, the child immediately full of pride: “I’m far worse than my brother, my brother even Mr. Liu said great it!”

The man laughed cheerfully and said, “Then it’s not all father’s son ah?!”

The woman looked at the father and son with a gentle smile.

She did not know what to fight nor what to learn, just with so many years of firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar, and tea, saw many people and things, and understood a crude truth, some men, will only put the most ruthless words, are said to the closest people. But there are some men, but the best temper is reserved for their own family.

Her man, was the latter.

So no matter if it’s been more than ten years of mediocrity, or now the neighbors’ gossip, she doesn’t feel that marrying this man in the first place was the wrong thing to do.

The child asked, “Father, where was your former hometown? Is it that Pine County?”

The man nodded his head and said, “Yes, but when dad was your age, the times were bad, and there was no one else in the family, and it was about to be impossible to survive, so that’s why he left his hometown.”

The child didn’t laugh loudly and said, “No wonder the neighbors said that mother could look at you, really blind.”

This time the woman was not angry, but just covered her mouth and snickered.

The man was even less angry and looked at his daughter-in-law, “That’s not true!”

The child asked worriedly, “Father, my brother really wants to go to Jiangnan Road to study? When will he meet us in Songbai County?”

The man said softly: “Father also do not know, father’s life, ah, when I was very young, swore that his son, must be read, always think that the readers are considered to be outstanding, and other things to do, no matter how much money to earn, are not very good. Father, very early without parents, only to know the last dozen generations, are croppers, so to the north of Liang here, met Xiangzhu your mother, really lucky, otherwise if you and your brother are with Dad, which can be reading that piece of material!”

The child muttered: “Then you still don’t know to be better to mom!”

The man said helplessly, “Dad’s only got a few skills, so I can’t do anything about it.”

The woman arched her eyebrows, the man said he was lucky, she felt happy.

On the day when the two of them left Longqing County with their luggage, the man slowly returned to the city along the stagecoach road, back to the small streets and alleys, and after thinking about it, the man carried the only two pig legs left at home, and went to two places successively, one was secretly placed in front of the old man’s house at the end of the street, and the other one was sent to Mr. Liu’s house.

In the process, the man did not know how many stares and spit.

In the end, the man returned home and carried out the dusty wooden box from under the bed, which he never opened and his daughter-in-law was kind enough never to ask.

The man, who had been silent for more than a decade living on the side streets, carried the heavy wooden box out into the yard, squatted down, and wiped away the dust with all his might.

The man mumbled to himself: “Two old fellows, when you accompanied me just to the north of Liang not long, the great general led us in the north of Mang to fight that battle, really suffocated ah, victory and retreat, I and many people in a fit of rage quit the border army, and later realized that it was that the old emperor of the Liyang tactics, the original is afraid that we breath to exterminate the north of Mang, his dragon chair is really not to sit down! …… these years I really do not have the face to see you …… Hey, as for the war, I Lu Dayuan 14 years old to join the army, the second year as a captain, 16 years old as a lieutenant, 18 years old to a battalion of vice generals to follow the general to the cool, when I was afraid of? I also quit the border army early, or else Wang Lingbao Li Mor Fan these little brats see me, not all have to clip their tails and do people?”

The people of this street are a bit puzzled, after the hoof beats, they saw seven or eight horsemen with armor and swords, actually stopped in front of Lu Dayuan’s house.

This makes the people a little worried, for Lu Dayuan that foreign coward, they scolded to scold, but after all is more than ten years of neighbors, Lu Dayuan is not a bad person, we have deep feelings it, otherwise where they will scold people face to face?

This Lu big boring gourd can not be to annoy the government garrison ah!

The leader of the elite cavalry is a sturdy man in his forties, now the main general of the local garrison in Longqing County, and has been a powerful cavalry lieutenant for more than ten years!

The people of Longqing County may not recognize him personally, but they know that this man is deeply respected by General Han Laoshan of Lingzhou, and it is said that with the root of the red phoenix character camp origin of Hong Shuwen, that can be called brother!

In the future, a powerful lieutenant or a state vice general, can run away?

One of the officers under this lieutenant’s command asked in a low voice: “Lieutenant, who are we sending off, and why do we need your old man to come personally? Normally, you wouldn’t even be in the mood to take a look at those generals close to the Zhong family, but is there such a bullish guy in Long Qing County?”

The captain laughed coldly: “Those embroidered pillows are not even worthy of feeding the horse to the man in the room!”

Then the lieutenant smugly said, “I was the one who fed him the horses back in the day!”

How can you brag about such a thing?

The cavalrymen looked at each other in disbelief.

Did our captain’s head get caught in the door recently? He wasn’t like this in the past, he was very arrogant!

When the horsemen managed to see the man with the bag on his back step out of the courtyard gate, they were all a bit stunned, only that his body was quite sturdy and tall, they didn’t see that he was a three-headed and six-armed master.

The lieutenant quickly rolled over and dismounted, then led an unridden warhorse forward, cupped his fists and said in a deep voice, “Long Qing County Cavalry Lieutenant Ma Yunjing! See you old Vice General!”

The man carrying the traveling bag still carried a long object wrapped tightly in cotton in his hand, glanced at Ma Yunjing, who had been deliberately refraining from dealing with him for more than a decade, and said in a nonchalant manner, “Addressing someone else with the word vice in their official position, you’re cursing, aren’t you? Do you think you’re a great general, your favorite way to greet those military generals with the word vice and the civil officials who are second-in-command in Tai’an City?”

Ma Yunjing shrunk his neck, not daring to reply.

The man called Lu Dayuan looked around, straightened his back, clasped his fists and said, “I, Lu Dayuan, thank you all for taking care of me all these years!”

All the commoners on both sides of the street were bewildered and at a loss for words.

Lu Dayuan hung his armor pouch on the side of the saddle, and then skillfully rolled over onto his horse.

Regardless of whether he won or lost the battle outside Liangzhou Pass, Lu Dayuan had no intention of returning to Lingzhou within the Pass alive.

More than ten years of not wearing armor and not touching the sword, not to kill a return how to line!

Ma Yunjing gently reminded, “Old soldiers of Northern Liang, according to the law, can wear swords on the streets.”

Lu Dayuan raised his eyebrows and finally removed the cotton cloth wrapped around the long strip, revealing the old style of the sword, carefully, hanging in the waist.

Lu Dayuan turned his head to look at Ma Yunjing, who was unlikely to follow him to the Guanwai, “If we lose the fight, everything is off the table. If we win the fight, in the future, if my two sons still return to Lingzhou, you will tell them that their father is both a pig killer, but even more so, he is one of the Xu family’s iron horsemen!”

Ma Yunjing nodded vigorously, a thousand words, only two words to say, “Take care!”

Lu Dayuan squinted, “Little brat, back then I knew that you had no future, and sure enough, only today did you become a ragtag lieutenant.”

Ma Yunjing reddened.

Lu Dayuan suddenly took off the sword, threw it to Ma Yunjing, laughed and said, “Forget it, I have to use the new Liang sword to kill the enemy anyway, see in that year you fed the horse for so long, this one, send you!”

Ma Yunjing was like a treasure, such a man, actually in tears.

This sword, is the first generation of the Xu family sword!

Symbolizing the rise of the Xu family’s iron horsemen in the Spring and Autumn, symbolizing the Xu family’s iron horsemen in the Central Plains version of the invincible.

It is also the first Xu family old word riding military camp, will have today’s Beiliang Iron Cavalry A world!

This man was born in one of the Xu family’s old battalions, the Full Armor Battalion!

The first ranked cavalryman, Lu Dayuan!

The people on this street naturally don’t know that the Great General Xu Snapdragon, in his old age, has repeatedly lamented to the civil and military forces in the Qingliang Mountain Council Hall that the boy named Lu Dayuan fought the fiercest battles in the old days, and that he was as fierce as Luk Kauer, and that he really wasn’t a coward.

Chu Lushan always want to complain, but the guy surnamed Lu every time rely on the front of the dead rush ah, never pay attention to the art of war, certainly still not as good as me.

Yuan Zuozong will be demolished and said, but people hard have not lost once.

The human butcher will nod his head and say, right, like me.

Then a certain young son of his highness will speak out and ridicule a bit.

Around the beginning of fall this year.

Many old soldiers of the Xu family like Lu Dayuan began to run to the Guanwai.

And they are the backbone of the Northern Liang Iron Horsemen.

At this moment, Lu Dayuan and Ma Yunjing jointly steered their horses out of the city, reciting words in their mouths.

The young cavalrymen could only hear broken voices, which were not very clear.

After sending Lu Dayuan to the post road outside the city, Ma Yunjing saw him off and remained speechless for a long time.

When he finally turned his horse’s head, Ma Yunjing also silently recited, “My Xu family full armor battalion, scouting riders roaming in all directions, that is, spreading the dials, and knotting up the battalion without moving as a racking beam …….”