Chapter 387 – Western Chu Twins (II)

The autumn wind was austere.

Liuzhou General Kou Jianghuai sat high on the back of his horse, squinting as he looked northward.

He and Xu Longxiang had once made a military order to the capital government, that is, before Huang Song Pu’s army advances to the bottom of Qing Cang City, at least three vigorous blocking attacks on North Mang’s western line army!

Ten days ago the 10,000 horsemen attack, in fact, from both sides of the battle losses, seemingly outstanding results of the Dragon Elephant Army and did not take any advantage of the North Mang 6,000 vanguard cavalry may be counted in the South Korean border army elite, but Liuzhou is different from the North Mang western army, the North Ryang Road is never likely to be drawn from elsewhere to support, that is to say, in the flow of this table, the Kou Jianghuai table so much silver, less a coin is also less, but Huang Songpu, but the North Mang western army, the North Mang western army, the North Riang Road can not be drawn from elsewhere, that is to say in this table, the Kou Jianghuai table so much silver, less a copper is also less. But the North Mang Huang Song Pu is able to a steady stream of silver from home, there is enough money, completely able to small bets for pleasure, as long as the big win once on the big success. So Kou Jianghuai’s previous temptation, there must be its deep meaning, that is, let Huang Songpu the North Mang meritorious veteran originally taut heartstrings, more and more taut, and then dry and sharp directly bet on a big, betting on the yellow Songpu a loose a slack between that slack. Then there is Liangzhou crossbowmen, although tough, but in the end, it is impossible to bypass so many Huang Song Pu under the banner of the grass columns, spying on the specific details of the North Mang camp, Kou Jianghuai can only use the Dragon Elephant Army to rely on the life of the military intelligence, he had been prepared to be Xu Longxiang and Li Mo Fan harshly rejected the mental preparation, just did not expect Xu Longxiang and Li Mo Fan did not raise objections, and even extremely good at military affairs, Li Mo Fan also personally led 10,000 dragon elephant rider went to charge, afterward kou jianghuai bluntly, to huangsong pu and longguan military horse that rough and unpleasant camping, three thousand dragon elephant army generals, death is not worth it.

At that time Xu Longxiang squatting next to the huge black tiger, just grinned, did not say anything, covered in blood Li Mofan is a bit gloomy face, but also did not take anger Kou Jianghuai this Liuzhou general.

Kou Jianghuai closed his eyes, in his mind quickly spread out the camp setup of the western front army of the Northern Mang, 150,000 troops, divided into five camps, the commander-in-chief Huang Song Pu’s 30,000 troops camped in the center, mixed with horseback and footsteps. Long Guan a word of a valve’s direct line of soldiers and horses into a separate camp, although only 20,000 riders, but the fighting force is not bad, are considered a typical North Mang Laozi soldiers, almost everyone in armor, and even hundreds of healthy riders is even horses and men are armored, with a heavy cavalry in the embryonic form of the army, the key is no matter whether it is the maintenance or supply wagons are responsible for their own, undoubtedly a chiseling array of sharp tools. Then there are three b word high gate gathered into 40,000 cavalry army, these three camps are located in the first line, behind the two camps are from the southern dynasty border six or seven military towns drawn from 40,000 soldiers and horses, there is a North Mang nearly two decades before the rise of the supply wagon camp. According to the original Li Mo clan department of trapped dragon elephant army lookout, roughly one hundred and twenty carriages, a total of about eight hundred stones of grain and grass, black beans for war horses in one thousand four hundred stones or so. However, due to the North Mang cavalry to the south to knock on the customs always carry their own supplies, coupled with a large number of mares accompanying each large-scale march, so the existence of this supply wagon battalion is only far from the southern border Qingcang city, the army attacked the city for a long time could not be attacked, and then it will come in handy, in case of emergency only.

Historically, the grassland cavalry loitering Central Plains borderland, especially in the fall, has always been very few fatal supply problems, on the contrary, the peak of the national strength of the Central Plains cavalry each time to take the initiative to the north, need to rely on the strength of the country to support the fragile supply line, the real change of this embarrassing situation in the Central Plains monarch, it is the unification of Central Plains of the old emperor of the Liyang Zhao Li, two of his decisions to create today’s Central Plains cavalry’s heyday, a With the reason that the king should guard the gate of the country, he rejected the proposal of a large group of civil ministers to move the capital to Guangling Road, and continued to use the old Tai’an City as the capital of the country, and at the same time set up an extremely bold national policy, spared no effort to support the border army of the two Liao’s and spared no effort to invest in the north of Liyang with the huge taxes from Guangling Road and Jiangnan Road, and the second decision was to let the highly successful Xu Snapdragon take the troops out of the capital, and to make him the king of the northwestern region where the big horses were abundant, and let him face the north mang directly! The second decision was to let Xu Snap out of the capital with his highly accomplished troops!

Located in the northernmost part of Liyang’s vast territory, both the eastern and western borders are heavily guarded by one of the country’s most elite cavalry, plus the middle zone of Jizhou is surrounded by heavenly dangers, and the veteran general Yang Shenxeng had once cultivated the Jixinan foot soldiers who were known as “unique in the world”, so it would not be as simple as simply fighting with Yan Wenluan of Beiliang? The reason is very simple, Jizhou border defense, simply do not need a large number of cavalry, so even if Yang Shenxeng to cavalry love, can only go with the flow.

Kou Jianghuai subconsciously put his palm against the hilt of the cool knife on his waist and slowly twisted it.

According to the spy, the North Mang camp shoddy to the extreme, hastily dug out three trenches around the camp, respectively, located in the back of the thin fence can be described as the wind blowing that is down, hemp rope tied wooden poles, rope knots can not be talked about at all, between the camps of the channel should be neat and solemn, not unauthorized soldiers to walk around the string of camps, but the five barracks of the people between the people in disarray, there is no rule to speak of. Before Li Mo Fan under the banner of hundreds of front raid elite cavalry, once all the way to open formation to the North Mang Chinese army camp less than one hundred and fifty paces, witnessed the left and right two camps in a hurry, resulting in the camp road above the congestion is unbearable, chickens flying and dogs jumping. Not to mention the strict military discipline of the Northern Liang border army, Kou Jianghuai thinks that the Western Chu army should also do better than the Northern Mang.

Of course, this does not mean that the North Mang cavalry weak, on the contrary, just because the North Mang grassland used to the cavalry of the fast and furious, for this almost cumbersome military affairs of the Central Plains habits, it is difficult to such as the Central Plains generals as engraved in the heart.

In exchange for any army from the Central Plains against the North Mang hundreds of thousands of iron hooves, who can have the heart to explore the North Mang cavalry camping mistakes? They can only rely on dangerous passes, or rely on the death of the huge city, even if they dare to go out of the city to fight, they can only rely on heavily armored soldiers to form a formation to reject the horses, and rely on the dense bow and crossbow to kill and injure the enemy riders.

Kou Jianghuai so much effort, are based on a premise.

Even against the superior number of North Mang cavalry, the Northern Liang iron horsemen dare to fight, can fight, and can win the battle!

Kou Jianghuai snapped his eyes open and laughed coldly, “Your grassland cavalry has been knocking on the northern border since Dafeng’s decline, bullying the Central Plains for more than four hundred years, and treating the big cities and passes as if they were nothing, so you come and go as if the wind is blowing!”

Behind Kou Jianghuai, 10,000 riders began to advance forward, not in a hurry.

These ten thousand riders, extremely odd, had a particularly majestic aura.

North Mang army camp handsome tent, Huang Song Pu armor according to the sword and stood, calm and relaxed, looking at the tent that dozens of age disparity of the ten thousand chiefs, both hand-raised up the heart of the people, but also a few big south dynasty Longguan mansion words of the people, and the background of a simple by virtue of the successes of the battle to climb to the high position of the young and strong military generals.

Huang Song Pu said in a deep voice: “This time, the 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army of Liuzhou have all appeared, probably knowing that they can’t defend Qingcang City, and unwilling to expose the Qingyuan military town at the western gate of Liangzhou under our noses, so they want to throw their weight around, which saves them a lot of trouble! All of you are experienced in a hundred battles, do not need to nag the will of those trivial, only need to remember one thing, we have an absolute advantage in strength, it should be utilized, remove the rear supply wagon battalion, the rest of the four battalions, the fire after the battalion, after the cavalry line can not be stretched over the length of time, make sure to mutual support, never take the liberty of venturing into the flow of the state, the Pacific Order of the gift of the four words, a small loss is a victory! ”

Huang Song Pu looked to the crowd, then to the north a cupped fist said: “all of you! I Huang Song Pu is nearly old, when even the king of the South Court also resigned, if not the war is unfavorable, today will not appear here, I have nothing to ask for in this life, but all of you, the oldest person is only fifty, the highest official but the South Dynasty is the third grade! After defeating Liuzhou, the one with the most merits, regardless of how His Majesty rewards him, I, Huang Songpu’s title of Great General, please take it first!”

All the people in the tent immediately looked excited.

Set aside in the Central Plains, the emergency mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops, never a moment can be on the battlefield.

But the Northern Mang Cavalry is different, when those Wanfu chiefs each hurriedly returned to the camp, four camps, the huge horn sound resounded lazily.

Only because the appearance of 30,000 Liuzhou elite cavalry is too unbelievable, the speed of the sudden advance is also too rapid, the front three battalions of the formation is still slightly lagging behind, to a certain extent, lost a little bit of a head start.

Cavalry charge, that by virtue of the weight of the horse and running speed to bring a huge penetrating force, as well as for the cavalry in the hands of swords and iron spears to bring the horror of the penetrating force, need to be quite a distance to brew.

Even further, when both sides have enough time to start charging, if one side is able to start crashing at the peak of its strength, and the other side is slightly exhausted due to over-exertion, the latter side will have to suffer a great loss.

The strength of each battalion is visible at a glance at this moment.

Huang Song Pu’s elite cavalry is the fastest to complete the reorganization, in the front of the middle road in order to spread out layers of front line.

The Longguan the A-word valor’s direct line of troops and horses followed, but hundreds of horseback riding equipment can be said to be heavy horseback riding first-class elite, did not show up.

Several southern dynasty b word high gate gathered together the cavalry army, have messy, although no fear of war, but the great war is imminent, this kind of messy and unorganized spirit, it is very easy to affect the pace of the war horse.

The reason why the cavalry is the cavalry.

Horses are vital!

For the lax military discipline of the Northern Mang cavalry, the former Northern Liang capital guard Chen Zhi Bao has been ridiculed as “foot soldiers on horseback”!

In Beiliang, every horse, every sword, every spear seems to be infused with the old rules that Xu Snap, the human butcher, has accumulated over his lifetime of military service.

On the sands, military generals regardless of how much merit, regardless of seniority, are not allowed to use the halberd horse lance without permission, not without permission to hang gold and silver armor, not alone out of the front line before!

A vast expanse of yellow sand.

Northern Liang iron horsemen such as Guangling river line tide, surging progress.

Already armored on horse Huang Song Pu looking into the distance, holding the iron spear in his hand, gently sigh of relief.

Fortunately, there are still four hundred green grass columns scattered around the periphery, otherwise, once the flow of state cavalry and then quietly forward three miles, I’m afraid that they will not be so well organized out of the camp array of opportunities, perhaps thousands of more riders will have to be casualties.

Huang Song Pu turned his head and glanced.

Now the situation is acceptable, although still some haste, especially their right wing cavalry is difficult to keep up with the center and left flank, but the North Mang cavalry has always had a tradition, 30,000 riders into an army, that is, on the battlefield, three 10,000 captains led 30,000 cavalry, forming a field force, can be enough to cope with all emergencies, is the war is withdrawn, how to fight how to withdraw, who lured the enemy who disturbed the array who chiseled the array, or staggered back, and heavy and light cavalry cover each other, and the heavy and light cavalry. As well as the mutual cover between heavy and light cavalry, can be said to be well versed in the heart.

If the Northern Liang Cavalry is like a private school teacher with strict rules, then the Central Plains Cavalry is the natural cleverness of the marketplace, in Huang Song Pu’s opinion, both have reached the ultimate of their respective combat power, there is no difference between the high and low on the battlefield, only to see the respective general’s response to the fast and slow!

Huang Song Pu raised his iron spear, clamped his horse’s belly, and roared: “Sons and daughters, follow me to break the flow of the state, and kill into Liangzhou!”

Great General Huang Song Pu took the lead.

All the ten thousand captains, one thousand captains, and one hundred captains of the battalions of North Mang’s western front army are the same.

The fearlessness of death is by no means unique to Northern Liang!

In the eyes of the North Mang, as if far away from the sky of the Central Plains Liyang soldiers, is not a thing, only close to the eyes of the North Liang border troops, only worthy of fighting with my North Mang iron horsemen!

The first Liang Mang war, to attack the city mostly, the North Mang also did break through the Liangzhou tiger city, Youzhou lying bow city and Luanhe city.

The main force of the cavalry on both sides of Liang and Mang will probably feel that it is not sound enough.

Then the second Liang-Mang battle.

Starting from Miyun Pass in the Western Region, to the current Liuzhou, and the hinterland of the Southern Dynasty, and then outside the Liangzhou Pass in the future.

The cavalry battle was non-stop!

The enemy and us, roaring, dying on horses as much as possible!