Chapter 406 – Geese Fly South, Iron Hooves Go North

In the vast plains north of Crone Mountain, the horns whimpered and the sound shook the sky.

Huang Song Pu Department of 12,000 riders, 14,000 Wanyan elite riders, 34,000 riders B riders, which is also mixed with five or six hundred horses and men with armor of the rare heavy riders. The North Mang cavalry army is ready to start the formation dragged out five or six miles deep, continuous. Compared to the Beiliang Liuzhou border army in the front battlefield only 30,000 or so cavalry, the North Mang high morale is not inferior, the strength is far better. The commander-in-chief Huang Song Pu did not intentionally pursue a surprise victory formation, although the battlefield here is extremely vast, but this steadily sitting on the first person of the southern dynasty for more than a decade of meritorious generals did not make every effort to spread out the front line, obviously do not intend to go to fight an unprecedented large-scale chaotic war, not like the flow of state border army that is divided into the left, center and right three army formations, but their own line as the vanguard, the Wanyan elite cavalry followed by the greatest number of b word cavalry army rear! In this way, the maximum degree of weakening the North Liang border riders have the advantage of natural armor caused by the chiseling formation strength, to ensure the thickness of their own formation at the same time, will be able to force the Liuzhou cavalry into the mud, reduce the number of repeated charges.

On the other hand, can let the spring and autumn history books that “the western frontier northern frontier more primus iron hooves, conflict gallop, come and go like the wind, gathering and dispersing uncertainty, the central plains non-high cities and strong passes by no means can be blocked” of the grassland iron horsemen, had to choose this kind of solid formation to ride the battle, in itself, set off the northern liang cavalry’s outstanding combat power.

Kou Jianghuai and Chen Xiliang stood on the top of Crone Mountain with an excellent view, overlooking the battlefield, they could see that the Liang and Mang cavalry forces, after simultaneously launching their charge, collided with each other like two floods violently breaking the embankment.

Chen Xiliang never to be good at military affairs of the soldiers themselves, to treat the battlefield from the military generals that kind of blood from the bottom of the heart, and even can say that this amazingly talented listening to the second generation of Xu family strategist, for the killing of the sands hold a kind of instinctive aversion to the readers, Confucianism advocates cultivation of the body and the family to rule the country and peace in the world, the essence or root lies in the rule of the two words of peace, so the world is ruled by the world is at peace, the world, only is the real readers! The only place where the scholar can really feel at ease is when the world is in peace and the world is at peace.

Chen Xiliang subconsciously turned his head and saw Kou Jianghuai, who was holding a horse with one hand and a sword with the other, looking calm. Chen Xiliang is often used to compare with Xu Beihao, who is also a strategist of Qingliang Mountain, which is just like the Western Chu Temple Hall always likes to comment on Kou Jianghuai Xie Xie Xijian of the Chu Twin Bikers according to their own preferences, in the end, who is using the military to be more skillful, and it’s the same reason. In the northern Liang Guan internal officialdom and outside the border army, Liuzhou special driving Chen Xiliang and a higher rank of a transit ambassador Xu Beihao, high and low advantages and disadvantages, diametrically opposed, the northern Liang border army more recognized personally experienced the first Liangmang war Chen Xiliang, Chen Xiliang that Chen Xiliang really took over the mantle of listening to the tide of the pavilion Li Yishan, the future is not without opportunity to reach a height of the transcendent to compete with it. However, the three states’ official circles, especially the Liangzhou Lingzhou where Xu Beihao has stayed, hold Xu Beihao in higher regard, and regard him as a pillar of the Northern Liang Road who can truly rival the Liyang Premier Zhang Julu, with the chancellor’s ability to be the only one in a generation, while Chen Xiliang is probably just a frontier strategic envoy or a minister of the central government’s talent.

Chen Xiliang for these in Beiliang high-level dark current of the wind, and do not think that, this is the nature of the root of the natural, although born in Jiangnan Road cold common people, once even to participate in the celebrities talk with the qualification of the seat, but compared to the Liyang court many through the imperial examinations and the first as if overnight suddenly purple officials, Chen Xiliang to be more open-minded, but there are often people half-jokingly told him that Xu Beihao heart of the high and low competition, and even the assassin Yang Guangdou also bluntly said Even Yang Guangdou, the governor of the assassination, also said bluntly that the gentleman to fight or not to fight, depending on the timing, cautioned him that Chen Xiliang must not be taken seriously, not to fight for everything, just give in. For now the same in the flow of state to lead the army to fight the double Chu, Chen Xiliang self-confessed to the flow of state after Xie Xijian slightly better perception, their own and this person a civil and a military, can be the same life, are the bottom of the city, and Xie Xijian compared to the arrogant arrogance of the Guangling Road, the son of the big families Kou Jianghuai, more in line with the impression of the readers of the gentleman such as jade, with which to interact with, such as spring breeze, Kou Jianghuai, is always as the summer midday in the air sun, dazzling, but also blinding! Kou Jianghuai, on the other hand, is always like the blazing sun in the summer noon, dazzling and blinding.

But even so, with the deeper the interaction, Chen Xiliang Kou Jianghuai also gradually from the bottom of the admiration up, I remember the young read history, read to “victory is not delusional joy, defeat is not afraid of discouragement, the chest has a thunder and face such as a flat lake, can be worshiped on the general”, quite fascinating. At this point in time, Chen Xiliang looked at Kou Jianghuai’s resolute face, and the feeling of “everyone in the art of war should be like this” arose in his heart.

Kou Jianghuai didn’t turn his head and suddenly opened his mouth, “If I win this battle, but Xie Xijian dies in the battle, then for me, it will be a win for Northern Liang and a loss for me.”

Chen Xiliang, who had already been immersed in the official world for many years, naturally knew the mystery, and queried, “If that’s the case, why did Kou Jianghuai still promise General Xie to generously go to the north?”

Kou Jianghuai smiled, with an expression of natural justice, and slowly said, “In the Spring and Autumn Battle of the Western Wall, do you know how many cavalrymen the two sides really put into the battlefield? In fact, one after another accumulated less than 140,000, far less than the battlefield in the middle and late both sides are still readily one-time reinforcement of 40,000 to 50,000 infantry, both because of the closing battle before the two countries are greatly depleted, the cavalry is even more early on a large number of casualties, but also because of the territory of the Guangling Road is not suitable for large-scale cavalry gathered combat. So not to mention me and Xie Xijian, even Cao Changqing, or all of the Central Plains military people, there will be a knot in the heart, that is, with the so-called Dafeng after the world’s invincible steppe cavalry army, to come to a square riding battle, not relying on the danger of the passes, did not die defending the majestic city, in the terrain of the battlefield on top of a flat, war horse to war horse, sword to sword … … …”

Said here, Kou Jianghuai slightly pause, both hands respectively loosened the horse reins and hilt of the sword, violently clenched his fists and heavily smashed together, “Hard to touch, come to a hall of collision!”

Kou Jianghuai’s eyes were hot, “And! My Central Plains Cavalry will win in a big way!”

Even Chen Xiliang, a civil official who rejected the deaths and injuries in the sand, could not help but feel a strong emotion when he heard these words.

Kou Jianghuai stretched out an arm and pointed remotely towards the battlefield at the foot of the mountain where the two armies were about to collide, “As it happens, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is right in front of Xie Xijian and I. I want to win, and he wants to win, so no matter what or who he is for, he can’t lose! Only Xie Xijian is more ruthless, he is willing to pay the price of his life for this great battle. I’m not as good as him, only willing to bear the cost of the future in the Northern Liang career dim. Lords emphasize success and failure, heroes do not hesitate to die. Perhaps in the future, Xie Xijian will be praised more than me in history.”

Chen Xiliang was speechless.

Above the battlefield on the right side of Crone Mountain, the battle between the two sides with a strength of 100,000 cavalry was spectacular and tragic.

In order to increase the strength of the chiseling formation, the three cavalry armies of Liuzhou in the center of the stragglers’ young and strong cavalry army, and then six thousand straight crash battalion took the lead in accelerating the charge, leaping out of the original front line.

In the first set of charge, Huang Song Pu did not use that real iron armor heavy cavalry, but will be hidden in the battlefield outside, is still the old marshal himself led the full-fledged elite cavalry, is still this once official to the south of the court king of the old generals a horse at the head.

Abandoning the baiting and wandering tactics of the cavalry battle, the cavalry clashed with the formation, is to exchange lives.

As the tip of the cone formation, the 6,000 straight battalion gradually reduced the width of the front line as they accelerated, and collided with the 12,000 full-blooded cavalry under Huang Song Pu’s command, who were lined up in a well-organized manner.

The iron hooves of Liuzhou cut through the formation, like a big cone opening up a mountain.

Including the Straight Impact Battalion, there were a total of 10,000 riders from Liuzhou charging to the death.

By cutting deeper into the formation, they were able to make it easier for the two Dragon Elephant armies on the two wings of the cone formation to tear through the thickness of the North Mang cavalry.

The front, center and rear stacked formations deployed by Huang Song Pu played out amazingly well in this fancy-free crashing formation.

The 12,000 horsemen led by the old marshal is the first-class border elite that has been in battle for a long time, which is better than the Liuzhou border horsemen that is built by the migrant youths.

The two sides mutually open front five hundred paces, constantly flow state cavalry was stabbed off the back of the horse, straight into the camp cone head of the first two thousand riders, on the spot deaths of five or six, falling horse in the thickness of this cavalry line of sustained collision, often even to the North Mang enemy cavalry caused by the speed of the stagnation of the luxury of the North Mang cavalry do not even have to intentionally cut off the head of the horse, the war horse is straight and a collision is.

Fourteen thousand Wanyan elite cavalry did not follow the Huang Song Pu Department of the full-fledged cavalry, but between the two armies intentionally and gradually opened up a sharp gap of six or seven hundred paces, so that the Wanyan Yinjiang under the banner of the family’s private army of good physical strength will be able to launch a second charge.

When the remaining 7,000 or so Liuzhou cavalry chiseled out of Huang Song Pu’s cavalry formation, they were directly confronted by the Wanyan elite cavalry, whose speed had been increased to the extreme.

One side’s speed and momentum are declining, one side’s momentum is at its peak, the result of the collision is obvious.

Fourteen thousand Wanyan fine horsemen holding spears and spears galloped wildly, relying on the impact brought about by the charge of the horses, incomparably powerful.

Five hundred riders Liuzhou side riding was actually a photo once rubbed shoulders on the back of the horse.

So much so that the rear Wanyan cavalry, even have the leisure to seize the opportunity to slightly stoop, a gun stabbed those unfortunate landing Liuzhou cavalry.

When this Liuzhou cavalry that broke out of the formation twice finally encountered the largest number of B-character cavalry, they had already suffered heavy battle losses.

Fortunately, their sacrifice reduced the pressure on the Dragon Elephant Army on the left and right flanks.

No matter how the geese fly north and cross south, it is never the head goose that suffers the most.

It is even more so when the sand field cones formation as the geese fly.

South dynasty b word high gate pulled together the cavalry, although the formation is the thickest, the longest depth, in turn, did not pose too much of a threat to the flow state cavalry, in the face of the battle damage is not big dragon elephant army rushing, obviously suffered a lot of losses.

But it was an exchange of battlefield positions.

On both sides of Liang and Mang, corpses and horses were all over the place.

But the two sides’ riding formations still each maintained a relatively stable formation, which meant that in the next charge, there would be more dead people and it would be easier.

Chen Xiliang stood at the top of the hill, silent after witnessing this tragic collision.

If one were to judge only by the Crone Mountain battlefield, if this dynamic continued, the ultimate winning party would only be North Mang.

Kou Jianghuai was indifferent from beginning to end.

There are not enough dead people here, the North Mang does not feel that the war is within reach, or let Huang Song Pu realize that the situation is not right, then the final encirclement of the Crone Mountain can not be blocked by the North Mang’s main force, after all, this is not a unique geographical situation of the Huloukou of Youzhou, and there is no Great Snow Dragon Cavalry Army and the two heavy cavalry army of the North Liang such a horrific soldiers and horses are responsible for blocking the way of retreat.

Kou Jianghuai turned his head to look in the southeast direction.