Chapter 410: Thunder and Rain are All Heaven’s Will

After the fall equinox, the war outside the Liangzhou Pass suddenly tightened.

Previously, Liang and Mang scouts on both sides of the Guanwai zone in the scattering of tours, the force is roughly equal, although the number of Northern Mang horse columns dominate, but due to the battle of the Dragon’s Eye Plains, the most familiar with the terrain of the border army and at the same time, the two elite scouts of the most outstanding combat effectiveness, Dong Zhuo’s crow columns and the General Liu Gui’s Black Fox columns are almost exhausted, and the follow-up to follow the army to the south of the Hu Tou City of the horse columns, I can not say that it is a clueless fly bumping into the, but Compared to the Liangzhou second class scouts who are very familiar with the geographical situation, they still can’t take advantage of the situation, once the two sides encountered a sudden contact battle, the Liangzhou Guanwai scouts have been ordered not to tangle without authorization, but the Northern Mang horse fences were ordered to make sure that they don’t care about the casualties and take the initiative to attack, and in many narrow encounters, even if the Northern Mang horse fences have inferior strength in the local battlegrounds, they still bravely and fearlessly charge, even if it’s three for one, but also do not hesitate to do it. The rich and generous Murong Baoding personally promised that as long as the advance to the front line of the horse fence, regardless of the subordinates of the direct line or other parts of the troops and horses, can be not only to chop the number of heads on the military honor, but also by virtue of their own side of the battlefield losses in exchange for the war effort!

In the North Mang this kind of incomprehensible fierce attack posture, the North Liang scouts in a single battle did not appear major casualties, but one after another losses continue to add up, just two decades, refused to the North City Residence from the left and right side of the cavalry side of the spies were informed that there have been more than seven hundred people killed in action!

Liangzhou border troops had to start gathering small groups of scouts, while shrinking the width and depth of the scouting defense line, decisively giving up the kind of a few one-wood scouts will dare to wander a wide range of large depth in and out of the risky initiative. When Northern Liang chose to emphasize the Liuzhou battlefield, the aftermath of tilting troops to the west at all costs, for example, Li Hanlin led all the White Horse crossbowmen to transfer into Liuzhou, gradually came to the fore. Not to mention the refusal of the north city of Huaiyangguan willow buds Poria heavy mound within a pass three towns that border defense line control, in the north mang mang horse fence large-scale frantic infiltration of the situation to the south, and the left and right cavalry connection is also getting thinner and thinner, this is definitely not a good omen, the left and right cavalry as the north liang border army as the first major field main force, the main role in itself does not lie in the killing of the enemy, but as a refusal of the north city and the Huaiyangguan line of defense connection, to prevent the north mang Cavalry army completely divided Liangzhou pass outside the battlefield, but at present, unless Murong Baoding embracing soldiers, unwilling to lose winter thunder elite cavalry and Zuo Ran iron cavalry, slow down the speed of the hoofs of the south, Liangzhou scouts to take advantage of the opportunity to recapture the initiative, or else in terms of the chessboard, the two sides of the middle belly of the force confrontation, the general situation has been determined. In the meantime, refused to the north of the city that the northern Liang Road only one official in the second grade of the feudal officials, the Secretary Li Gongde proposed to let Li Hanlin lead the flow state remaining white horse tour crossbowmen all return to the Liangzhou pass outside the battlefield, but by the young feudal king and deputy section minister Yang Shenxing at the same time refused.

Liuzhou crone mountain that destined to go down in history the magnificent riding battle, how the end of the Liangzhou pass outside the refusal of the northern city has not yet received accurate spy reports, the last general of Liangzhou Shi Fu scouts under the six hundred miles of expedited military documents, is still placed in the signing room next door to the desk of a small study, even if it is known to the new Liang King of the accumulation of prestige, the Chu Double Biker extraordinarily important, no less than the two members of the heart of the native generals of the north Liang Yu Luan The knife Cao Wei, but Shi Fu handwritten the military text, still worded bluntly, through the unique cruelty of the battlefield: “Xie Xijian Department of monks in the corridor of no danger to rely on no way to retreat, with 15,000 foot soldiers to block 50,000 cavalry, forgive me for not being able to rescue. I will only follow the established strategy to block the south of the South Dynasty remnants of the border riders of the road to the south, join hands with Ning Emei four thousand iron pontoons, will certainly cut off the main force of the Huang Song Pu Department of the road to the north, Xie Xijian and Ragdoll Mountain monks and soldiers are dead or alive, I Qingyuan army town cavalry love can not help.”

In fact, the real ruthlessness of the sand field, more in stone Fu Bing Wen’s words: that is, I stone Fu Department of cavalry even in time to the corridor battlefield, as long as Xie Xijian Department of infantry if there is still spare capacity to block the main force of the South Korean border cavalry, then the Qingyuan Army Town Cavalry will be a distant stop far away from the choice of death to save! In order to prevent the main force of the South Korean cavalry to give up to support the crone mountain, but decisively flee to the north, return to the South Korea to re-scatter into the large and small military towns and passes.

The young feudal king did not call the generals to discuss this matter in the council hall, and did not even send this military document, which was instructed in advance by the stone talisman to “go straight to the study room”, to the military room to browse and circulate. That dusk, Xu Fengyen sat quietly in his study for a moment, then put pen to paper and wrote a letter back to Liangzhou General Shi Fu, the content of the same brief and concise, roughly saying that the subsequent disposition of the battlefield in the corridor, Shi Fu, you are a state general, naturally act cheaply, do not have to report everything to the North Refusal City. When the young feudal king finally stamped the official seal of “King of Northern Liang” on the large blank space on the letter, the green-shirted Counselor Lang turned around and hurriedly left with the official document, and the young feudal king sat alone in the study, silent for a long time.

The night is as cool as water, refuses the northern city clan residence is still brightly lit, a burst of footsteps like dense drums, endless, has long been accustomed to.

Xu Fengyen was in his study gazing down at the two situation maps on his desk with Crone Mountain and Huaiyang Pass as the main focus, he looked up sharply and saw Yang Shenxing, Gu Dazu and Bai Yu walking together, their faces were grave to the extreme, Gu Dazu’s voice was hoarse, he opened his mouth and said in a deep voice: “We just got the news, Murong Baoding personally led the Winter Thunder elite cavalry and the Zoran cavalry which had a strength of 20,000 troops each, together with the 30,000 reinforcements of Bao Bao Prefecture’s ordering officer Wang Yong, they successively attacked the city of Bao Bao. The 30,000 reinforcements from Bao Bao Prefecture have attacked Lu Dayuan’s left cavalry force of 24,000 men, and Zhou Kang and Li Yanchao were unable to rescue them!”

Yang Shenxing said bitterly: “In this case, it seems that the 10,000 Zoroastrian iron cavalry that fought with Li Yanchao of the right cavalry army was just a bait, the remaining 20,000 Zoroastrian cavalry army has long been merged with Murong Baoding’s direct line of troops and horses, and from the very beginning, it was heading straight to the left cavalry army. The so-called split two ways to 30,000 Zoran cavalry straight to my Liangzhou right cavalry, Murong Baoding sitting in the camp of 20,000 infantry troops not moving, are all a front, the fact is that the 20,000 infantry troops pretending to be the Zoran iron cavalry, and ultimately with the Wang Yong joint forces to encircle the left cavalry.”

Xu Fengyen’s face turned slightly white as he murmured, “20,000 Winter Thunder private cavalry, 20,000 Zojiran Iron Cavalry, and adding 30,000 elite cavalry of Baobao Prefecture, the whole 70,000 North Mang first class cavalry ah.”

Yang Shenxing was just about to open his mouth, when Bai Yu tugged on the cuff of this Spring and Autumn veteran, his eyes signaling the old man to keep his mouth shut for the time being.

The young feudal king, who was sitting behind his bookcase, slowly raised his head and asked, “How are the casualties of the Northern Mang barbarians?”

Yang Shenxing tried to calm the intense emotions in his heart and replied, “Murong Baoding did not invest all of his troops at once, and after more than nine thousand people were lost in the battle of the Winter Thunder private army, he still did not withdraw from the battlefield, and then in one breath he invested 20,000 Zojiran iron cavalry, and the Lu Danyuan …… Left Cavalry Army fought until the cavalry army of the Ministry of Wang Yong was killed in the battlefield, and at that time, the remaining Winter Thunder Cavalry has had to stand by and watch, above the battlefield, there is almost no Zoran Iron Cavalry, Baobao State Cavalry still lost more than six thousand people. The left cavalry only had 800 cavalrymen to kill their way out of the siege and return to Rebel North City. The first vice marshal of the left cavalry, Lu Dayuan, along with the remaining two vice marshals, were all killed in battle.”

In the early fall, there was a left cavalry soldier who set off an eagle with his arms outside of Rebel North City, which is still fresh in his mind.

Gu Dazu suddenly said bluntly, “With the left cavalry gone, the right cavalry is unable to support itself, and is no longer able to contain the situation outside Liangzhou Pass to the south of the heavy mound north of Reject North City. Your Majesty absolutely cannot agree to Zhou Kang and Li Yanchao’s initiative to seek war!”

Xu Fengnian nodded, “Immediately pass the order to both Zhou Kang and Li Yanchao that the Right Cavalry do their best to avoid North Mang’s next main force to the south!”

Bai Yu said somewhat helplessly, “That Jin Partridge’s military order actually arrived at the Yang Festival Minister’s barracks, from the commander-in-chief to the three vice-commanders and all of the lieutenants, all of them signed bloody handprints requesting for a deadly battle, guaranteeing to at least wipe out the Winter Thunder Cavalry of Murong Baoding’s ministry and the main force of Wang Yong’s ministry.”

Xu Fengnian stood up and said sternly, “Then add one more sentence, clearly tell Zhou Kang and Li Yanchao that it’s easy to want to die, and if they dare to disobey the military order of Rejecting the North City, I, Xu Fengnian, will personally go outside the pass to wring off their heads!”

Yang Shenxing, who had never seen a young feudal king shocked in front of his face, was horrified, Gu Dazu sighed softly, Bai Yu was calm and smiled, “Refuse North City replying to the Right Cavalry in this way, Old General Yang and I, the Assassin of Liangzhou, will be much more relaxed.”

The three Refuse North City bigwigs each had their own thoughts and quickly left, Wang Priest Wine who was on duty in the courtesy room carried two jugs of green ant wine and walked into the study, and saw that the young feudal king had yet to take his seat, and at this time was standing behind the book case, looking down at the table with two large seals, one side was naturally the famous Liang King’s seal which moved the world, and was regarded as the most important small object of the world’s authority by the entire Li Yang Yong Hui year, and during the twenty years, in the northwestern borderlands, as long as it involved more than 5,000 people During the twenty years, as long as the northwest border area involves more than five thousand people, the deployment of troops and generals, all need to be stamped with this seal. The shape of this seal is the same as that of the Zhao court today, modeled after the style of the orthodox Chu in the Spring and Autumn period, and belongs to the jade chopsticks seal script jade seal, the seal script strokes are even and even, and the end of the brush does not pick up the sharpness, which is well versed in Confucianism’s idea of neutrality and calmness, and it has always been regarded as an authentic calligraphic style. However, next to this seal of the king of Liang, there is also a large seal that has long been withdrawn from the official field of Northern Liang, Xu family iron horsemen followed the king of the feudal lord of Northern Liang’s people slaughtered Xu Snapdragon into Northern Liang, this is customarily referred to as the seal of the general of the rustic copper seal, and occasionally meet in some important Guanwai military documents, along with the son of Xu Fengyi formal hereditary reckoning of the king of Northern Liang, completely left the field of vision of the border army. General seal with willow leaf text, copper seal tiger button, square three inches and three minutes, nine minutes thick, shaped like a tiger crouching on the dragon disk, now the Liyang army army levies Zhenping three words at the beginning of the permanent power generals, has long switched to chi ding text of the silver seal, will be the font as a knife of the willow leaf text to abandon and do not use. Qingliang Mountain in fact there is also a large seal, mainly used for the North Liang Road officials promotion scheduling, Xu Fengyen exceptionally left to the Deputy Secretary Song Dongming, allowed to official documents approved after the red stamp this seal, in order to recognize its “sole control of the authority” of the supreme status.

After the king priest took his seat, he opened two pots of wine and leaned forward to hand a pot to the young king, which is better than the happiness of all.

The old Confucianist tilted his head back and poured a mouthful of strong wine, exclaiming in pain, then squinted at Xu Fengnian, “I have heard about the Left Cavalry. There are some words that have been accumulating in my stomach for a small twenty years, and I won’t be happy until I spit them out, you don’t need to say anything, just drink and listen to what I have to say.”

Xu Fengnian gently sat back in his chair and nodded.

This renowned leader of the literary world Shilin slowly said, “I have always been a seven-knowledge, six-knowledge, one-knowledge soldier on the battlefield. So in addition to bringing some readers to your northern Liang, is still a small merit, but also not much to get out of the merit, can only be at ease to stay in the poor countryside of the academy to do learning, so many years, I have many times secretly traveled to the northern Liang, and Xu primrose met a few times, and listen to the tide of the pavilion in the Li Yishan met a few times, Xu primrose is a famous stinky basket of chess, chess skill is the world’s last stream, repentance of the chess kung fu is the world’s first-class, so I don’t love to I don’t like to deal with him ……”

Noticing the young feudal lord’s odd expression, the old master continued shamelessly, “Li Yishan is a rare figure who transcends the commonplace, so it’s only natural that he would have his eyes set high above the commonplace, except for me, who he regards as his confidant.”

Xu Fengnian finally couldn’t help but speak, “Almost enough.”

This old master about choked on his drink and coughed a few times, the pot of green ants spilled all over his lapel, the old man casually patted his robe, “Li Yishan, who is in seclusion on the top floor of the Listening Tide Pavilion, stood too high and looked too far away, so it’s hard to avoid loneliness. All ancient sages are like this, there is no escaping it. Every time I go there to pay a visit to the door, don’t see Li Yishan did not give a good face, but in fact I know, this guy’s heart is certainly some joy, there are a few times to drink high, Li Yishan will also tell me some words from the bottom of my heart, never say how to leave the Yang dynasty side of the court, said scheming master Xu Snapdragon less, said that the northwestern side of the matter more …… ”

Said here, very old suspicion of old man pause, drank a big mouth of green ant wine, first smothered in the mouth, and then violently raised his neck, instantly poured into the stomach, aged body can not help but tremble, vicissitudes of the cheeks of a few points of redness, only then continue to say: “For the literati’s planning, the readers of the military strategy, I do not serve away from the Yang Yuanbenxi, and even more so, the South Border! Nalan Yuanci, even Huang Longshi, as for Zhao Changling, who pressed Li Yishan even after his death, hey, let’s not even mention it. As for why Zhao Changling why can life after death than Li Yishan’s fame is greater, Li Yishan himself or, in fact, the stomach of the door clear Xu Snap also, all have bitter feelings, Li Yishan is a humble origins, the grandchildren of the great Ch’u valve Zhao Changling, almost the identity of today’s Western Ch’u Song Maolin that ‘Song family tree’, Zhao Changling when he chose to assist the fall of the broken When Zhao Changling chose to assist Xu Snapdragon on the occasion of the collapse, what kind of battle was it? Eight hundred family servants, can you imagine? Anyway, I don’t want to think about it, the more I think about it, the more envious and jealous I am. Xu Snapdragon wants to win over the clans in the north and south of the Yangtze River, Zhao Changling is an eye-catching banner, otherwise Xu Snapdragon would have said that ‘the whole army can die in battle, but Mr. Zhao must live’ this kind of bastard words?”

The old man smiled, “Of course, Zhao Changling’s ability is also great, in Xu Snap’s middle and late wars to destroy the six kingdoms in the Spring and Autumn, Zhao Changling contributed a lot, and his reputation was so good that even the old Emperor Zhao Li of Liyang wanted to be invited into the center of the temple to be a vassal and worship the prime minister, and Li Yishan? The old emperor Zhao Li never mentioned it, in fact, every time Xu Snap reported his military achievements, he held Zhao Changling in high esteem, and wrote a flowery report of his successes, but as long as it was about Li Yishan’s scheming, he didn’t mention a word about it. Your Highness, do you know why?”

Xu Fengnian said flatly, “I only know that those gorgeously worded brocade articles were all authorized by Xu Snapdragon and then written by my master’s hand.”

The old man nodded, “So well, the old emperor and Xu Snap actually have a heart to heart, Mr. Zhao, the Liyang court can swing a hoe to dig out the foot of the wall, that Xu Snap admits it, but the relatively unknown Li Yishan in the imperial court, don’t think about it, or else it’s out of bounds, Xu Snap is likely to really rise up and rebel.”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “Rise against the army, overstated, my master is the first to oppose.”

The old man hit a drunken gap and stared in dismay, “Give me an example, don’t you understand?”

Xu Fengnian finally picked up the pot of fragrant green ant wine and gently took a sip, “Old sir, please continue to point out the mountains.”

The old man suddenly asked, “What was I trying to say at the very beginning?”

Xu Fengyen put down the wine pot, “Talking about how you two often talk about the Northwest border affairs.”

The old man suddenly realized, “Yes, yes, yes, Li Yishan once spilled the beans to me when he was drunk, saying that in order for Beiliang to beat Beimang in the worst case scenario, a situation must be created first!”

Halfway through his words, the old man stopped talking, narrowed his eyes and smiled, out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the many objects on the bookcase, when the old man’s eyes rested on the big seal of the Liang King, Xu Fengyen asked with a smile, “Even if I’m willing to give it to Mr., Mr. Dare to accept it?”

The old man’s eyes shifted slightly to the bronze seal of the great general, which only has symbolic significance nowadays, Xu Fengyen looked at him angrily and said nonchalantly, “No way!”

The old man, who had originally planned to take advantage of the fire, muttered regretfully, “That kind of Willow Leaf Text that contains Dafeng’s border style is not common.”

Then the old man picked his chin, saw the white jade seed material next to the young feudal king’s pot of green ant wine, his eyes lit up, this poor new Liang King, even left a piece of stuff worth a little silver?

Xu Fengyen put away the piece of seed material and sneered, “Mr. Wang has the ability to snatch it away, otherwise don’t be a fool to dream.”

The old man bristled, with a martial arts evaluation great master to grab something, with Mr. Wang’s martial arts qualification, I’m afraid to give the old man another thousand years of martial arts practice will be useless, not so young people bully the old man.

Xu Fengyen gently hold the white jade seeds, straight to the point: “I actually guessed what the master said, our Northern Liang iron horsemen the only chance to win the Northern Mang, only the first Northern Mang South Dynasty first-class border troops and grassland elite private army are consumed, then the Northern Mang even if the exhaustion of its national strength can still support the third Liang Mang war, but at that time it seems to be the same powerful hundreds of thousands of cavalry in the Northern Mang, but it will be more difficult than when Liu Shunu was defending the city. Compared to Liu Yunu when he was defending Tiger Head City, compared to my current defense of the North City, the North Mang cavalry army, in fact, is not useful to look at the embroidered pillows. From the first Liangmang battle of Li Dongzhuo’s private cavalry, within the gourd mouth of Yang Yuanzan’s full-fledged cavalry, Liu Gui’s beloved cavalry, to now the second battle of the Qiang cavalry, in the past, Hong Jingyan’s Zojiran Iron Cavalry and Murong Baoding’s Winter Thunder Fine Cavalry, the 20,000 cavalry of the Liushu Huangsong Pu Zhongjun, the Longguan powerful warlord Wanyan family’s cavalry, and so on, are all included in this list!”

Xu Fengyen said in a calm tone, “For example, now as long as we take the Crone Mountain battle in Liuzhou, in fact, not only is the Guseizhou border army elite all gone, in fact, half of the Southern Dynasties have been lost to us, and this is the potential advantage brought by the first Liangmang battle for Northern Liang.”

The old man asked doubtfully, “Do you mean to say that the Northern Mang Taiping Order’s planning had a fatal mistake?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head, “Only half right.”

The old man was so confused that he almost had to scratch his ears.

Xu Fengyen thought for a moment, picked up the wine pot and slowly tilted it, seemingly wanting to place it horizontally in front of his eyes, “So far, it’s still Beimang that has a better chance of winning, but Beiliang has killed so many people in order to tilt this wine pot a little bit. At that time, the more powerful North Mang is, the more drastic the collapse will be.”

When the tilt of the wine pot was getting bigger and bigger and the wine was about to cascade out of the mouth, Xu Fengyen gently put it away and put it back to the book case.

Xu Fengyen suddenly said for no reason, “Now I’m afraid that the old woman and the Order of Taiping will be willing to break the pot, and not only a Western Capital, but even this half of the Southern Dynasty will not be needed, and will be determined to break through the Refusal of the Northern City.”

The old man’s face turned pale, and he tentatively asked, “North Mang is not so madly determined, right?”

Xu Fengnian looked out the window into the night, “Heaven knows.”

The old man only thought that it was a casual remark made by the young feudal lord, but he did not know that the three words “Heaven knows” were exactly as they were meant to be.

Tuoba Bodhisattva inexplicably obtained a celestial body, martial arts cultivation directly after the peak of Wang Xianzhi, and in critical moments, it is even better than ever.

Since even Tuoba Bodhisattva was so lucky, wouldn’t the old woman from Northern Mang, who occupied half of the world’s destiny, be even more gracious?

Thunder and rain are all favors of the king.

Even more so, it was authorized by heaven!

Priest Wang left with the empty wine pot.

The young Vassal King gazed at the map of Liangzhou’s situation on his desk again.

Meanwhile, inside a heavily guarded tent in Beimang, a candle flame as thick as a baby’s arm swayed gently, and the Order of the Peace, standing alone in front of the table, was also overlooking a picture of the situation in the four states of Beiliang, which had an even larger territory, and laughed softly and said, “The Chinese chess players say that the gold corner and silver edge are grass and belly, is it really so?”