Chapter 405 – The Final Battle of Liuzhou

Liuzhou was on the verge of breaking out.

At that time, both Liang and Mang did not realize that this would be a far-reaching battle to set the stage, catching up with the Battle of Xibi Bi that ended the chaos of the Spring and Autumn Period.

North Mang all the way commander-in-chief Huang Song Pu after a great victory, wrapped in the momentum of the long drive down to the flow of the state center Qing Cang City, at the same time, the heart of the North Mang emperor attempted to hammer the strength of the Gusei state military towns at the expense of emptying the deployment of 40,000 South Korean border troops to reinforce the main force of the Huang Song Pu, the two strings of more than 30 large and small military towns passes on the main post road, overcrowded, non-stop hoofs and speed south.

Both armies gathered in the vast plains to the left of the Crone Mountain, which is only seventy miles away from the low-walled Qingcang City, where General Kou Jianghuai of Liushu had recently handed North Mang a great victory in the northern battlefield, which greatly boosted the morale of the northern and southern capitals of North Mang. However, neither the Beiliang Capital Office nor the North Rejecting City Residence has ever relegated Kou Jianghuai for this reason, so Kou Jianghuai is still the main general of this battle, leading 10,000 full-fledged Liushu young and strong cavalry troops, 20,000 Dragon Elephant Army which is one step beyond the Liushu Cavalry in terms of the specification of the border army, as well as 16,000 monks of Ruodong Mountain under the command of Xie Xijian. Probably because it is clear that the trend of this battle will decide the belonging of the whole Liuzhou, Qingcang City also tried its best to send out the 3,000 cavalry troops originally under the jurisdiction of the assassin’s mansion, and the four Liuzhou forces with different strengths, totaling close to 50,000 troops and horses in the territory of Liuzhou, can be said to be a desperate move, and put it under the full disposal of Kou Jianghuai.

Although LiangMang both sides compared to the initial strength comparison, HuangSongPu main force in fact, the advantage of the gradual reduction, but the number of people still steadily prevails in the grassland cavalry morale is not low, mainly due to the KouJiangHuai previous that the mediocre transfer, to assist the flow of the state of the Ragged Mountain monks and the flow of the state of the side of the horsemen out of step with the seriousness of the Dragon Elephant Army appeared to be the first time since the establishment of the tragic deaths and injuries, so this military horse military heart is greatly invigorated, after the three blockade war, the HuangSongPu full-fledged The elite cavalry is still left with 12,000 cavalry, if you count the almost exhaustive casualties of the green grass column, the loss of more than half, this can be seen, the flow of the state to break through the war, is a well-deserved bitter war, this 10,000 or so outstanding elite cavalry is undoubtedly the next big battle of the sea pin.

Wanyan Yinjiang, who was born in the Longguan A word of the great valor, lost his face in the second battle, because of his mistake, the North Mang could not form a tight encirclement, so that the main force of Kou Jianghuai Department easily broke through the siege and left. His elder brother, Wanyan Jinliang, who is the first person of power and nobility in the Southern Dynasty, sent a secret letter to reprimand his Majesty, the Emperor, for arriving at the army before the King’s Tent of the Northern Court, and the wording was extremely harsh, and the implication was to tell Wanyan Yinjiang that if he could not save his family’s face in Liujhou, then the family would have to close the door to Wanyan Yinjiang. Before the third battle in Liuzhou, Wanyan Yinjiang not only summoned all the military generals, even the centurion a not fall also shouted to the open space outside the tent, so that all the people set up a military order, on the battlefield, each ten people, if no one can kill the enemy within the first one, the shi long and the leading centurion and decapitation! The commander of a thousand men was reduced to the rank of centurion! So in the third battle, the Wanyan Yinjiang cavalrymen are brave and fearless, after the battle statistics, it is true that every Sh have been captured, the richness of the military achievements, is more than the main force of the Ministry of Huang Song Pu, but also far from a few large B word high door gathered together the family base of the cavalry, when this seal by the old marshal Huang Song Pu handwritten report back to the grassland two capitals, Wanyan cavalry sensational South Korea, the old woman’s face is very happy, to the Wanyan family gave a full eighteen Xianbei buckle belt, which means that the Wanyan children more than eighteen timid Xuewei quota, more importantly, this campaign to ensure that the Wanyan family name to sit firmly in the throne of the South Dynasty’s first big name.

Only the aftermath is that after that battle, the number of Wanyan private cavalry has been reduced to 14,000, plus the head of the family, Wanyan Jinliang, needs to sit on the second line of the Liangzhou Pass, and the same war is imminent, the Wanyan children have already come out of their nests, and there is no cavalry belonging to the Wanyan family name among the ranks of the South Korean army’s Zhen Bian Jun who rushed to support the Crone Mountain battlefield, and now there is no cavalry belonging to the Wanyan family name on the Gusai and Longwai states on the southern border of the Northern Mang, except for those participating in the southward knocking on the pass, which is the largest in the South China Sea. Participate in the south knocking soldiers, the rest of the size of the army stationed in place, saturated with Hongjia north to run the remains of the people brought to the immersion, has long known the truth of the strange goods, especially the importance of Gusei State is slightly less important than the North Mang Central Army where the Dragon Waist State, coinciding with the critical moment of the south to aid, but also the price of the ground, almost all the military towns and passes to guard the cavalry privately shouted out a price, after all, to the south to the crone mountain is the trend of the general trend, who can not refuse His Majesty the Emperor’s will, the Emperor’s will to the Crone Mountain. Can not refuse His Majesty’s will, but in this there are a lot of under the table, for example, the Wanyan family lest Wanyan Yinjiang in the next battle because of the problem of troop strength and mistakes, they secretly to the size of the two major towns second only to the two towns of Wazhuji Junzikan Ligu Maolong towns respectively to make a price, trying to persuade the two cavalry in the crone mountain battle to take care of the Wanyan cavalry, but two towns of the main generals are resolute in the stance of politely refused, the original same In the front line of Liuzhou that a few B high family, has long been the first to spend a lot of money with them to reach a temporary alliance, and the price is far more sincere than the reserved Wanyan family, for example, “bought” Maolong 5,000 border riders of a B family, not only promised the family’s first daughter will be the first son of the first son of the cavalry general marriage, just a box of real money, to the town of Maolong army Smashed down 400,000 taels of silver!

According to reasoning after three consecutive heroic killings, the weakest troops of the B word cavalry should be the heaviest battle losses, but the results are incredible, before the south expedition of more than 40,000 miscellaneous cavalry, survived to follow the commander-in-chief of the Huang Song Pu together with the advancement of the crone mountain battlefield troops, there are still 34,000 riders of the more! Together with the Guseizhou military town forces that are moving southward at a rapid pace, the 40,000 South Korean cavalry troops that have been saving up in the rear from beginning to end have been “chartered” by these B-word high families, except for the 20,000 cavalry troops that belonged to the old South King Huang Songpu’s old troops long ago, which will obviously be only the old marshal’s head, but the rest of the 20,000 cavalry troops are all being “chartered” by these B-word families. Eight Immortals across the sea to show their abilities to divide up, which has lost the king of the South House chair Huang Song Pu is helpless, sitting in the dragon chair above the heart of the Central Plains of the old woman is to turn a blind eye.

Have a large number of reinforcements of Huang Song Pu did not greedy for success, otherwise this immediately opened the curtain of the magnificent battle, the main battlefield will be under the city of Qingcang, rather than as a small island hanging overseas crone mountain.

The area to the right of the crone mountain tens of miles, high winds and sand, a large piece of rugged terrain, the cavalry is naturally very difficult to ride, the first Liangmang war Liu Gui Department of cavalry is from the crone mountain left flank of the plains smoothly south, but at that time, the flow of the state’s border army is only based on the city of the dead, the strength of the troops is relatively weak, stray people have not yet a large-scale young people to join the army, the Longxiang army is difficult to support the lone tree, the main force of the field is not enough to support a large-scale cavalry battle away from the city of Qingcang, so did not choose to actively intercept and intercept the army. So did not choose to take the initiative to intercept. However, it is obvious that times are different nowadays, after Kou Jianghuai gained the complete military power of a state, coupled with the extra attention paid to Liushu by the Northern Liang Capital and the young king, Kou Jianghuai not only fought three breathtaking interception battles, but also resolutely chose the flat and vast Crone Mountain as the final battlefield, and if he wins, the North Mang cavalry will never see a glimpse of the Qingcang City’s city walls, and if he loses, then not to mention that a city is destined to be a bag of the North Mang cavalry. I’m afraid that Liuzhou will be reduced to a new state of the North Mang Southern Dynasty.

The Crone Mountain is not high and steep, but only like a big mound with a gentle slope, and the north and south slopes are even enough to allow a small team of cavalry to climb to the top with their horses.

Even a stupid general would think that occupying Crone Mountain overlooking the battlefield would be good for judging the situation and deploying troops. Kou Jianghuai was one of the famous Chu Twins, and Huang Songpu was a meritorious general who once became the King of the Southern Court by virtue of his outstanding achievements in battle, so the competition for the high point of Crone Mountain had already been intense even before the official battle between the two cavalry armies, and without any selfishness of consuming the other’s elites, Huang Songpu decisively dispatched The only remaining four hundred green grass columns dismounted and climbed the mountain, carrying shields and swords, green grass columns in the southern border, has always been with Dong Zhuo’s command crow columns and general Liu Gui’s black fox columns, together ranked the top three, although the horse combat, but everyone’s physique is strong and brawn is amazing, good at contact battle of the fight against each other.

As expected, the Liuzhou side scrambled to send out six hundred white horse crossbowmen, also armed only with swords and shields, and almost simultaneously and brazenly climbed the mountain.

Both sides entered the battlefield of Crone Mountain almost at the same time, and started to fight for Crone Mountain almost at the same time, which is probably the so-called coincidence of heaven’s will.

Huang Song Pu naturally will not think that four hundred green grass columns can take the top of the crone mountain, after this set of elite horse columns, from the ministries of the six hundred drawn out of the dead, there are green grass columns on the board of the death of the crone mountain, Wanyan Yinjiang and the rest of the several b word high door of the power of the noble generals did not have any hesitation, the old marshal Huang Song Pu in the three big battles, the performance and the first Liangmang battle in the diametrically opposed to the dong zhuo, there are no any Weakening the other part of the military power of the initiative, time and again in the first dead battle, dead people in the front, successive three hard battles, the old marshal to report to His Majesty the emperor military situation, but also more care, two times all the way to take down the charges, the third time generously send out the military, if this premise but also want to give an inch, a flavor of preservation of strength, even the temperament of the gloomy Wanyan Yinjiang can not bear to see, all the six hundred dead, Wanyan Yinjiang sent out three hundred Wanyan children. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a small contact.

As expected, the skirmish, no more horses to bring room for maneuver, the death of people faster, four hundred grass columns quickly die out, from the foot of the mountain looked up to the top of the crone mountain are the remaining white horse crossbowmen figure, six hundred south dynasty dead into the battlefield with vigor, Liuzhou side seems to be the white horse crossbowmen as a preemptive use, never to let all the crossbowmen to stay in the crone mountain meaning, this is also reasonable. It makes sense that the ownership of the Crone Mountain, of course, important, but not vital, said not around the battlefield victory or defeat situation, if Liang Mang two sides is the Central Plains version of the rhythm of the relatively slower pace of riding wars on the infantry battles, the loss of the Crone Mountain, the significance of the greater, but in the riding wars, especially to reach the two sides of this cumulative strength of more than one hundred thousand large-scale riding battles, and the two sides are well-versed in the horseback combat elite, the opportunity to fight is often A little fleeting, plus the crone mountain is not located in the center of the battlefield, just in the side of the battlefield, when the loss of the crone mountain side, can take the initiative to the main battlefield to withdraw from the crone mountain, then the crone mountain to facilitate the observation of the battlefield situation of the geographic location, it will be weakened. So both sides know very well that the battle for the Crone Mountain, bloody and tragic, to a large extent can be said to be used to enhance the morale of the foot of the mountain generals.

Liuzhou reinforcements soon arrived at the top of the crone mountain, is nearly a thousand people of the Ragged Mountain monks, from Liangzhou pass has been killed to the flow of state border crossbowmen, compared to the defeat of the sands of the enemy of the grass columns, the loss of the same is not small, close to three hundred people died on the spot at the top of the mountain.

Deviated from the main battlefield crone mountain south slope foot, as the leading general of the kou jianghuai surprisingly in the list, 10,000 flow state young strong cavalry troop right, the flow state general has been completely handed over to the beguiling Longguan, as for the 20,000 Longxiang army, and the main force of the North Mang confronted the sands of that above, naturally Xu Longxiang and Li Mor fan each led 10,000 riders, kou jianghuai only said how to win the battle, how to deploy in detail how to roughly scheduling, but definitely will not interfere with the Dragon Elephant army into the battlefield, after the death of the enemy, the white horse crossbow. Kou Jianghuai only said how to win the battle, how to deploy in detail how to roughly dispatch, but absolutely will not interfere with the Longxiang army into the battlefield after the killing, jurisdiction in the Liuzhou assassin’s residence of the 3,000 riders also did not appear here, but followed in the Kilowongguan 10,000 riders, a total of all the way into the center of the army, left and right flanks are more powerful Longxiang 10,000 cavalry.

Huang Song Pu did not like Kou Jianghuai this kind of leisure to go to the foot of the northern slope of the crone mountain, sitting in his side of the army, when the old general vaguely see the Rotten Mountain monks appeared in the top of the mountain, the face of the old man gruff finally gently sigh of relief, before the third battle, Xie Xibian’s monks even worse than the chicken ribs, is simply dragging the foot of the burden, so that the great general of the southern dynasty to win a even the order of the Taiping did not think of a great victory, the war work of the great. Shake the grassland, but Huang Song Pu deep down, but on the North Liang rely on winning the battle of Miyun mountain pass to income under the banner of the Rotten Mountain monks, more scrupulous, unlike many of the South Dynasty border generals so optimistic that the root cause of the loss of that flow of the state border army, Kou Jianghuai intentionally suppressed the Miyun battle of the world-famous peer Xie Xijian, Huang Song Pu firmly believe that this is Kou Jianghuai teamed up with Xie Xijian to give themselves a set, one is not careful, be If you’re not careful, you’ll be strangled by tens of thousands of prairie boys and girls.

Wanyan Yinjiang, who is wearing a heavy armor with an iron gun in his hand, steered his horse and asked loudly, “Great General, when will you charge?”

Huang Song Pu glanced in the direction of Crone Mountain and calmly said, “Wait a little longer.”

Wanyan Yinjiang, who knows the inside of the military machine, is a bit puzzled, in addition to four hundred grass columns and six hundred dead soldiers of the South Dynasty, the old marshal still has a backhand, the whole fifteen hundred border army soldiers, with these top elite to fight for the crone mountain, the degree of importance can be seen, but even the talent of the army is not as good as the life of Wanyan Yinjiang knows a little, I’m afraid that the strength of the army is still a little less to the North Ryang border army has always been a dead man can lose the battlefield can’t be a dead face of the urine, the least we have to add a thousand more people, the most important is that we have to add a thousand more. The most bad thing is to add another thousand people, in order to slightly guarantee to eat the crone mountain high point, a crone mountain, only worth this price, put more troops, in the mountain dead more people, on both sides of the Liang Mang generals, is a loss of business. The old marshal Huang Song Pu obviously did not intend to take the crone mountain at the beginning, but more like a kind of test, Wanyan Yinjiang after three wars, self-knowledge catty, arrogant character has long been smoothed out the edges of the old general’s ability to use the army to the heart of the sincerity of conviction, since the yellow Song Pu said to wait, and the old marshal of the honor of a loss of a loss of the Wanyan Yinjiang did not say anything.

Monk soldiers figure unceasingly floating out of the water, these outstanding Rotten Mountain monks, in the top of Crone Mountain is particularly eye-catching, one thousand five hundred North Mang South Dynasty border soldiers have been generous to die.

In the end, on the top of Crone Mountain, there are still two hundred monks of Rotten Mountain whose robes are getting more and more scarlet and blinding, and there is a tendency for the soldiers and horses of Liuzhou to keep on stacking up and increasing, posing as if they are determined to eat the Crone Mountain, this “old lady” fierce posture.

Wanyan Yinjiang quietly stopped his horse at the side of the old marshal, frowning tightly, with the last backhand all died in battle, which also means that the crone mountain is considered to be the forbidden domain of the flow of state cavalry.

Huang Song Pu hesitated for a moment and turned his head to ask, “General Wanyan, how many people do you think the Rotten Mountain monks and soldiers probably deployed for that Crone Mountain?”

Wanyan Yinjiang subconsciously replied, “It looks like a thousand people died in battle.”

Huang Song Pu laughed it off, not caring about this Northern Mang Magnificent Valve Junyan’s answer, raised his head to look at the clear sky, nodded his head, and said to himself, “In any case, we can start the fight.”

Along the not-so-steep southern slope of Crone Mountain, three young men led their horses slowly, Liuzhou General Kou Jiangjun, Northern Liang’s only remaining White Horse Traveling Crossbowman Lieutenant Li Hanlin, and Liuzhou Farewell Driver Chen Xiliang, who had personally brought 3,000 reinforcements for Kou Jianghuai.

Apart from the hundreds of monks and soldiers waiting at the top of the mountain, at the foot of the mountain behind the three of them, apart from the White Horse Crossbowmen who were resting and reorganizing on the spot, there were no soldiers and horses at all.

Li Hanlin was the first to leave the group, and together with his robes, he carried the bodies of those who died in battle down the mountain.

Not far away from Li Hanlin, there was always a tall man wearing ordinary border army attire but not wearing a sword, and even more strangely, everyone turned a blind eye to this man.

Near the top of the mountain, Chen Xiliang asked softly, “General Kou, how did you guess that Huang Song Pu would only use less than three thousand people to fight for Crone Mountain?”

Kou Jianghuai smiled, “After fighting three battles with him, I know Huang Songpu’s temperament well, he is an old and prudent general, he knows that the Crone Mountain will not determine the trend of the battlefield, if he didn’t have any confirmation of the trace of the monks and soldiers from Rotten Mountain, he wouldn’t have sent out the last 1,500 people to die. Now finally let him see I want to use the rotten mountain monks take the crone mountain determination, estimate the old man can almost as a relief, because I started on the dead order, never allow any one of the North Mang dead at the top of this mountain in, see the bottom of the southern foothills, to be able to live to pass out the military intelligence, so much so that had to trouble Li Hanlin side of the follower of the master secretly help, in order to let the yellow song Pu guess could not figure out how many monks were actually stationed on the southern slope.”

Finally stepping up to the top of the mountain, Chen Xiliang looked at the north and bitterly said, “Even if I know that there are only 1,500 monks on the south side of Crone Mountain, I believe that Huang Songpu will never be able to guess where the main force of monks is going. Because even I, Chen Xiliang, still find it unbelievable even now.”

This Liuzhou general face expressionless said, “Life and death have life, wealth and fortune, he appeared in that battlefield, both Xie Xijian own choice, and I Kou Jianghuai …… also do not want to stop him.”

Complicated Chen Xiliang only have a sigh.

In the battle of Miyun, Xie Xijian died defending the mountain pass.

Next, Xie Xiyan will have to personally lead more than 10,000 monks and soldiers to resist 60,000 southern border reinforcements alone.

In order for the Liuzhou cavalry to join forces with the Qingyuan military town, swallowing the main force of Huang Songpu.

Spare Chen Xiliang this kind of military affairs layman, also know, some battlefield, can put the dead land and then live, some battlefield, no.

Chen Xiliang can not understand, obviously Kou Jianghuai did not personally open the order, Xie Xijian has taken the initiative to raise this matter, at that time, together with Xu Longxiang Li Mofan and Liushu assassin Yang Guangdou, all people are hesitant.

Because everyone knows one thing, even if the complete 20,000 monks and soldiers of Ruodu Mountain together, in the heart of the young king of the refusal of the north, are not as important as a Xie Xijian, who was taken away from Xichu by his own hands.

Only Kou Jianghuai dared to nod his head and agree to let Xie Xijian go to his death.

In the uninhabited rugged area west of Crone Mountain, Xie Xijian stopped his horse, behind him were more than 10,000 monks and soldiers, all of them abandoning their swords and carrying big shields, holding spears.

Waiting for the middle-aged monks who acted as scouts to swept back and informed that there were no Northern Mang scouts ten miles ahead, after the general Xie Xijian’s arm was lifted forward, this troop of soldiers and horses continued to move forward quickly.

Xie Xijian with dry lips grinned, gently exhaled, for no reason thought of squatting on the steps sunbathing in his youth, that often lowered his head and walked quickly past the door of his house, the pretty little lady.

South of Northern Liang, there is her.

Reason enough!