Chapter 416: Northern Liang Dare Not Fight

Xiangfu three years, fall.

Yin Qi is getting heavier, dew condenses into white.

The coolness of the Central Plains, but also the northwestern border is the heaviest.

In the twilight, outside the refusal of the northern city, the vast 400,000 grassland cavalry army camped, stretched endlessly, war horse neighing, convergence like thunder.

There are constantly dozens of hundreds of horses of small groups of cavalry out of the formation of wandering, quickly close to the refusal of the north city, and then in the bow range of the edge of the area, look up and watch, to the head of the city with the whip and saber pointing, arrogance.

Just refuse north city north head, expensive by successive generations of military experts known as the national weapon of the big bed crossbow, will be up to more than forty, the range of the long distance, the power of the huge, absolutely beyond the grassland imagination, spring and autumn soldier Ye Bai Kui in the western base wall battlefield had heartfelt emotion, “nine ox crossbow, an arrow destroys the mountain, three hundred paces, can kill the patriarch!”

But for some reason, in the face of the North Mang cavalry, which is located beyond the range of ordinary crossbows, the bed crossbow at the head of Beiliang City has always remained motionless, without the slightest sign of building up its power with this first-class weapon of the military family.

North Mang has actually long been taught the power of the tiger’s head city bed crossbow, but that set of grassland responsible for the attack on the city of the grassland big Xie Tick, when the South King Dong Zhuo attacked the tiger’s head city regardless of casualties, so that the other part of the main casualties, the vitality of a great deal of injuries, and now almost all are still in the grassland jurisdiction to lick their wounds, did not participate in this southern expedition. The first Liang-Mang war led the army to attack the Youzhou Hulukou general Yang Yuanzan, died in battle, if not for the Northern Liang to use the head of this old southern dynasty marshal in exchange for the body of Liu Yunu in Hutou City, I’m afraid that Yang Yuanzan’s can only continue to become the Hulukou of a certain capital view of one of the tired bones, as for the attack on the Wolonghe Luan two cities of the meritorious vice-general of the seed sandalwood, in the battle of the Miyun defeat captured, and now is still being held prisoner in the refusal of the north city, and Dong Zhuo in the North main attack Huaiyang Pass, did not follow the army south to reject the North City, so the North Mang army on the impression of the Northern Liang, still stay in the iron horsemen on the word, which is naturally attributable to the use of the plan to break the tiger city of Dong Zhuo, even if Dong Zhuo in the resignation of the South Court after the post of the king, many times in the South Dynasty Temple to remind his colleagues, in the past years, the first town of the Northwest frontier of the tiger city, has been extremely difficult to attack, outside the Liangzhou Pass, the pouring out of the Xu family of the Northern Liang two decades of the family base! The majestic new city built by the Xu family in Liangzhou Pass is by no means short-term to break through, and the grassland cavalry’s path southward is like a horse leaping over a moat, so be prepared to lose a dozen pennants of the worst intentions. It is a pity that Dong Zhuo has lost the South Court of the king of the Xuanhuan official body, speak a lot of light weight, the second in the first Liangmang war Dong Zhuo deliberately retain the strength for that old woman to consume the prairie Sydney ticking forces, in the north and south of the two capitals of the reputation worse and worse, and finally is the two temples on top of the officialdom, feel that Fatty Dong deliberately exaggerated, the attack on the Northern Liang New City said that the difficulty of the sky, is nothing more than wanting to for already He was trying to show off his own military achievements by taking down a Tiger’s Head City, and he still hoped that one day he would be able to take over the reins of power and once again ride on the necks of all the great generals with their knuckle-draggers and give them orders.

There were constantly grassland dignitaries galloping their horses outside the city, domineering and clamoring, “Grandpa is here! That cowardly son of Northern Liang surnamed Xu, can you dare to come out of the city to fight?!”

Some prairie generals with amazing brawn even drew their bows like a full moon and ran forward on their horses, their bowstrings tightened, and after a thumping sound, the arrows shot towards the gates of North Liang, nailing them into the gates so swiftly that the arrow feathers trembled.

These renowned prairie archers won the cheers from the front of the North Mang camp when they turned their horses back.

It turns out that behind the cavalry, a stone thrower, constantly along the camp gap path to the south, a total of nine hundred, plus the Baobao State holding order Wang Yong will be escorted before dawn to the battlefield of 1,400, so just the stone thrower there are two thousand three hundred, and the abundance of boulders in reserve, said that hollowed out the southern dragon waist state territory of the two confrontation peaks, rumor has it that his majesty the emperor of the North Mang and the order of the Taiping personally take time out of time Go to that place, the old woman wearing a dragon robe with a heavenly constitution in her mouth, personally appointed the two mountains as the town of mountain gods, promising that in the future to break through the refusal of the northern city, the grasslands finally unified the Central Plains at the time of the two temporarily lost the foundation of the mountain gods will be able to enter the master of the east and west mountains respectively.

Siege equipment, in addition to the South Dynasty Weaponry Supervisor carefully built these stone-throwing cars, not hesitate to exhaust its national strength to fight this big battle of the North Mang, but also in the countless provisions, equipped with the refusal of the North City of more than a hundred buildings with the height of the building car, due to the building car originally built for the Hu Tou City, in the more majestic towering refusal of the North City was built, had to be temporarily heightened, for which the emergency employment of nearly 10,000 young and strong craftsmen and craftsmen, overnight construction, so as to avoid Because of the magnitude of the project, the Southern Dynasty was not able to achieve its goal. Because of the project is huge, the South Dynasty court to give the military weapons supervision of the pressure is huge, so that the military weapons supervision from the top to the bottom of the officials appear to be thin bones, but in the purchase of stone-throwing car and raise the car two things, rumor has it that the military weapons supervision of the officials rely only on this extra income, everyone earns pots of money to win, was a depressed Hongjia remnants of the poem ridicule, which has a line of “skinny bones Money bag drum, two sleeves originally not wind” widely circulated, specifically to satirize the military weaponry supervision officials to enrich their own pockets, the great wealth of the country. North Mang South Dynasty under the armament supervisor set up armor, crossbow and boarding three departments, building cars and other siege equipment are subordinate to the boarding of the Department, the officer did not expect this matter will be spread so much inside and outside of the court, fear, almost to take the initiative to resign to thank the crime, but unexpectedly has always been lenient treatment of the South Dynasty survivors of his Majesty’s Emperor even a paper order, will be born in the South Dynasty, the small tribe of the dingzhi book arrested, to the crime of bewilderment and decapitation. Really let the official as a relief, or the chief officer of the weapons supervisor of a private talk, said His Majesty the emperor has seen my supervisor to build things, that there is no error, the material is good, quite good, in that case, it has been a great success in the grassland, some night grass cross money, no harm.

In addition, this is imitation of the Central Plains to open up the post road of the South China, only the Long Waist State a state, within six months and built a horizontal and vertical three post road for the transportation of grain and provisions, the Long Waist State to the north of the states, although not as Long Waist this is not hesitate to dry up and fish the general depletion of the treasury’s financial resources, but also to increase the number of a longitudinal straight to the Long Waist of the post road, the northern grasslands are often hundreds of thousands of counts of sheep and cows, following the grassland children of the war horse Iron hooves together with the south. All of this is undoubtedly for the refusal of the northern city of the attack and defense war to make the padding, at the same time, almost the entire southern dynasty of all the resources to the border with the Liangzhou outside the border of the dragon waist state tilt, Dong Zhuo can easily get a large number of grassland youths to besiege the Huaiyang Pass, but also attributed to this. Before the first North Mang war, Tuoba Bodhisattva purged the grasslands of the North Court forces, a large number of migrant sinners who lost Sydney Tick shelter, only to go to the battlefield by virtue of military achievements to restore their identity, because Yang Yuanzan’s main force of the southern expedition was unexpectedly wiped out, resulting in the breakthrough of Hu Tou City of the North Mang Chinese army was also a lost cause, which gave the Beilang border army some respite, I believe that this time, the North Mang will never retreat easily, even if the Liuzhou battlefield Huang Song Pu have been killed in action, fell with Yang Yuanzan the same miserable end, become the highest official body of the North Mang war dead military generals, the bad news spread throughout the South, the temple a mourning, His Majesty, the Emperor of the North Mang is still no hesitation to let His Royal Highness Yelu Hongcai line of supervisors, leading the army south to reject the North City, she is personally sit down in the Western Capital to appease the people.

This war, North Mang is bound to win!

Probably the northern Liang refused to the north of the city of silence, more boosted the grassland generals of the arrogance, coupled with the Royal Palace of the Crown Prince did not order the constraints under the banner of the fierce generals, leading the elite Hu Riding out of the camp tour, as if into the south of the border generals and grasslands of the northern court of Sydney unwritten rules, as if not go to the refused to the north of the city of the city side of the head of the walk is the cowardice behavior. Beginning to say nothing of those silent and hideous large bed crossbow, even the ordinary guarding bow is also treated as nothing, to risk his life and horse forward, just hate can’t steer the horse to jump on the city, some young generals from the northern court of the high family clad in gold and silver armor, in the setting sun under the light of the glory. For these young from the timid Xuewei transferred to an army centurion or even a thousand captain of the grassland power young people, playing a small child is tired of listening to that self-supporting Liyang border army, the ears are cocooned, and they even slander very much, and think that his majesty the emperor in the south of the dynasty of the people, in addition to the fat man Dong is still a little bit of patience, Huang Song Pu Yang Yuanzan Liu Gui a few old man, is really worth not mentioning, if his majesty that year to meet the If not for the fact that his majesty greeted those who ran to the prairie to seek refuge in the north of Hongjia to survive the loss of the dog, inexplicably entered into a covenant of the South to govern the South, Huang Song Pu, these vain old man where to be a great general?

There are two riders out of the camp did not go straight to the refusal of the North City, but along the periphery of the camp slowly riding, these two riders are young people, hanging armor hanging Pei sword is also ordinary, but one of the rider’s waist of the belt of the Xianbei buckle jade belt, so that the two unimpeded, the young man is the North Mang members of the king’s tent Yelu Dongbed, the North Mang Xianbei buckle is also divided into high and low, in accordance with the number of jade belt above the gemstone inlaid on the number of Yelu Muyong two surnames of the son mostly Can set two or three, and then to the size of military service increments, Murong Baoding, such as high positions in the hands of the military power of the royal relatives, or the three dynasty ministers of the Gu Ming Yelu rainbow material, that is, Yelu Dongbed’s grandfather, able to set eight, Yelu Dongbed’s fresh inferiority buckle on the original only six, was appointed as a general of the state of Zhenguo and led by the Western Capital Ministry of War Ministers, the control of the junzikan wazhuju within the four military towns one, it adds a large cat’s eye, he was originally supposed to stay in the Temple Hall of the Western Capital, he is a young man of the Northern Mang royal tent members. Originally should stay in the western capital temple, or in one of the four military towns Gusei state border, but this time exceptionally with the army to the refusal of the north city, and beside the young knight are in the middle of the road supervisor identity, high power is not heavy, the icing on the cake only.

Yelu Dongbed is short, dark skin, but full of pugnacious atmosphere like the steppe wolves, turned his head to the side of the young man laughed: “Tuoba qiyun, the great work in front of you and me, but you can only stare at, hold not suffocate?”

Another young man is the Northern Mang military god Tuoba Bodhisattva’s eldest son of Tuoba qiyun, the grasslands in the first of the four major bowls of the spring bowls, than the summer bowls of seed sandalwood, autumn bowls of the end of the Marco Polo back to the return of the winter bowls of the King King Jingchong three, are more deep background, the original seed sandalwood is the most optimistic, not only experienced the first Liangmang war, and the hand has held the Youzhou lying bow crane luan two cities of the uncommon battle, as long as the success of the western region of the Buddhist forces, in the South China Sea, the Ragged Mountain, the Buddha’s power, the Buddha’s power in the South China Sea. As long as the successful recruitment of the Western Rutuo Mountain of Buddhist forces, in the South Dynasty is a nail in the coffin, coupled with the deep family heritage, the father of the kind of Shentong is one of the fourteen generals of the North Mang, the kind of sandalwood is even expected to become the next no clan king of the name but have the reality of the clan king of the generals of the dong zhuo, in the future of the Central Plains on top of the map, a surname of the two clans of the king, is not an extravagant hope. Now kind of sandalwood in the western region do not know where to go, life and death do not know, the spring press bowl top trekking qiyun and less a natural enemy.

Tuoba qiyun flatly said: “to you and my father’s family identity, as long as the fight down the refusal of the north city, even if we are on horseback from beginning to end are napping, why worry about no military achievements themselves run into the bag.”

Yelu Dongbed frowned and said, “Listening to the tone of Chun捺钵, do you think that there are still variables in defeating Rejecting the North City?”

Tuoba Qiyun hesitated for a moment, and through the light of the setting sun, turned his head to look sideways at the tall majestic city, “Forcing the main force of Northern Liang to dismount and fight may not be all good.”

Yelu Dongbed laughed loudly: “you these readers, learned more, a little bad, like to be afraid of this and that, but the battle is always to fight.”

Tuoba qi rhyme a smile, “the central plains celebrities like to talk about the game, which has a gold horn silver edge grass belly, said earlier that three lines of battle, north Liang just Youzhou gourd mouth victory, let Dong Zhuo middle road army regret north retreat, is proof.”

Yelu Dongbed wrist twist, gently waving the horse whip, “Now our old crone mountain is again a big defeat, even went to reinforce the southern dynasty border army 50,000 elite cavalry, were all wrapped up in dumplings, does it mean that we have to repeat the same mistake?”

Tuoba qiyun shook his head and said: “on the contrary, we should go south to attack the refusal of the north city, this is actually the order of the peace intentionally, to the south of the western capital of the south dynasty in exchange for the refusal of the north city, those who fled from the central plains to the prairie of the spring and autumn relics, after twenty years of rooting and growing, and gradually establish a firm footing, there has been a trend of the tail is not big enough to fall off, in fact, his majesty the emperor is not no concern, the whole of the four states of south dynasty The emperor is not without concern, the entire south dynasty four states, civil forces intertwined, even always xenophobic to the extreme Longguan valiant valves have to put down the price of marriage with, in order to solidify its position, can be seen that those of the central plains of the influence of the great scholars, for a long time, the south dynasty remnants of the south dynasty, I am afraid that it will be from the knife into a sword, although there is still a front to injure people, but a front to be careless will hurt themselves.”

Yelu east bed grin, such as the wolf bared teeth, extraordinarily eerie oozing, “in that case, as long as the northern Liang have the courage to use the Qingyuan area of the Liangzhou field force, rushed to the flow of the state, might as well let them like a crackerjack into the hinterland of the southern dynasty that is, in any case, the deaths of some of the Spring and Autumn legacy of people inextricably linked to the soldiers and horses, when we help us to weed out the grasslands of some of the hidden dangers, wrongly killed on the wrong kill, not bad! The release can be, in the end, the western capital of the temple becomes clean, equal to the northern Liang cavalry to help our emperor as an executioner, but also to ensure that the vast battlefield outside the Liangzhou pass less to some variables, the best of both worlds. The Order of Taiping is really ruthless.”

Tuoba Qiyun whispered with emotion, “This kind of sleight of hand, probably learned from the Central Plains.”

Yelu Dongbed skimmed his lips, “In the future, when we become the master of the Central Plains, I will make those scholars and literati suffer and teach them to lose their civilization!”

The spring press bowl did not reply, just glanced at the refusal of the majestic and silent silhouette of the northern city, like a mainstay standing in the grasslands before the flood of iron riders, it quietly cohesion of the Central Plains eight hundred years of thick qi.

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Inside the Western Capital of Northern Mang, a hunchbacked old woman walks under the wall, her slow and delicate steps stepping on the line between the setting sun and the dense shadows.

Beside the old woman, there was a silent peace officer of the Chess Sword and Music House, an emperor’s teacher, an old man whose ambition was not a northwestern city, but a city of Tai’an in the Central Plains.

The old man suddenly said, ”Why does your majesty refuse to let Yelu Dongbed stay in Gusei Prefecture to fend off the Liuzhou cavalry? Winter Press Bowl King Jing Chong pulled back 10,000 border riders from the Liyang two Liao borderline, enough to maneuver with Yu Luan blade’s Yuzhou cavalry before the Crone Mountain defeat, but now it will inevitably be a bit out of reach. Although the southern dynasty broken does not affect the overall situation, but after all, his majesty’s face, a little too much. Those old generation Hongjia remnants, even if they have withdrawn from the officialdom, there is no lack of smart people who might be wary because of this.”

Did not let anyone help the old woman hobbling forward, indifference: “Listen to Li Mibi said that Wang Dug peaceful twenty years, recently also do not know whether it is back to the light or for the children and grandchildren, even with a number of big shots secretly come and go, not afraid of 10,000 for fear of the eventuality of a small Wang Jing Chong, so that he will give up his life for the country, anyway, the big thing is that I will give a dozen of freshly buttoned, to the old man of Wang Dug a What’s the harm in giving Wang Duk a posthumous honor? Wang Dug this kind of living to this day of the old generation of spring and autumn relics, compared to the younger generation of relics, really belong to the old but not dead is a thief, when I have been very attention to their subtle influence on the southern officialdom, not expected to still can not stop their infiltration, I was kindly to take them in, to give them a bowl of rice to hang on for dear life, the result is that they will leave me such a mess!”

The old woman’s tone gradually heavier, snappy words: “I grassland iron horsemen south and north for hundreds of years, since Dafeng will be invincible, relying on the very heart to kill the enemy, if there are selfish desires, but also in the post-war division of the fruits of war when, how ever such as the Youzhou Hulukou and the flow of state crone this, before the war will be their own calculations, selfishness blinded? If not the Longguan valor fortunately also out of a Wanyan Yinjiang, I borrowed the flow of the state cavalry to help the South scrape the pus, certainly even the Wanyan family, these generations grow in the grasslands above the Longguan assholes, who will not be spared! Damn! Should be killed!”

Order of the Peace sighed softly.

The agitated old woman slowly collected her emotions, narrowed her eyes and looked at the foot of the bright and dark boundary, such as the border between the two countries, but also like the yin and yang.

The old woman slowly said: “There is a good grandfather to help advise the Yelu Dongbed or, I that believe that people do not own heaven and earth, my cousin Murong Baoding also, and even with the great general seed Shentong, are all wolves and ambitions, seemingly deep city, in fact, in the eyes of me, are not as smart as Dong Zhuo, the only fat man is full of oil Dong most can afford to put it down. Heavenly danger Wyoming Pass who are not willing to fight, military success is not great, and even if you fight down, only Chu Lushan a head on the stage, when the time is sure to be wounded, at least a hundred thousand dead or wounded, so that, even if I promise to Royal Edict in accordance with the military achievements for the princes and vassals, under the banner of the army without the horses, the general population can not sit in a stable position, so the previous to Muyong Bao Ding to fight the Wyoming Pass, the Orange State Holding Festival Order with dead parents! Almost, the lion’s mouth, with me for nothing to ask for so many Zojiran iron horsemen still think not enough, think of the work not to contribute, what the big picture, he clearly know the importance of, but just do not want to go to the management, hateful to the extreme!”

The old woman sneered, “As long as Dong Zhuo is able to take down Huaiyang Pass, even if he is unable to participate in the attack on Rejecting North City, at that time, I will give him back a Grand King of the Southern Courtyard, and he will lead the army into the Northern Liang Pass.”

Order of Taiping frowned: “That would be Chen Zhi Bao who was made king by Liyang to be a vassal in Western Shu, letting the tiger return to the mountain, a great legacy.”

The old woman laughed in a low voice, “A posthumous disaster? I myself don’t have a few days to live, still care whether the white-eyed wolf of the two surnames of Yelu Murong is dead or alive?”

Order of the Peace was silent.

The old woman comforted: “Sir, as long as the hooves of the prairie iron horse stepped on the city of Tai’an, stepped into the Guangling Road, stepped on the southernmost land of the Central Plains, the history of the world, can not forget the two of you and me, as for the final dragon chair is who will sit, is the surname of the Yehlü, or the surname of the Muyong, or the surname of the Dong, and so what?”

Order of the Peace smiled bitterly, “If we can unify the world, then it is always a good thing to have fewer deaths.”

The old woman laughed out loud and waved her big sleeve, “Then you’ll have to simmer down and live some more years!”

The Northern Mang Imperial Master stopped where he was, his figure sullen.

The old woman walked forward alone with her hands folded, and the afterglow gradually disappeared under her feet.

In the gloom, the old woman murmured, “Next year, the heavy snow in Jinzhou, Liaodong, your old home, maybe I can’t see it. You say, back then if I did not return to my hometown, but stayed by your side, now there is no …… children and grandchildren?”

The sky will be bright before dawn, refused the north city clan residence, the back hall mansion, a house candlelight brilliant.

A cool knife rested on the table, and a young man began to silently put on that feudal python robe.

Outside the house, a young woman, dressed in onyx and holding a rosewood sword case, looked resolute as she waited quietly for him to leave the house.

Inside the same feudal residence, Xue Songguan, who hadn’t slept for a night, slowly sat up, put on his boots, picked up the ancient zither, and gently pushed open the door of his room.

Wudang Mountain old real person Yu Xingrui, just in the small courtyard to play that set of boxing created from the younger brother Hong Chuxiang, refreshing, negative sword left the courtyard.

A white clothes, white hair, white eyebrows of the old man sitting on a stone bench, the table sword box wide open, the old man a hand holding the sword, two fingers an inch crushed sword, gently thrown into the mouth, such as chewing soy beans, the old man casually threw away only the remaining hilt of the sword, glanced at the empty sword box, slowly got up, smiled. Hundreds of years of sword qi full of belly between, it is time to spit it out.

On the stone steps of a small courtyard, the young swordsman who was the contemporary sword crown of the Wu family’s sword mound, squatting there, got up violently, turned his head and looked at the sword attendant Cuihua who had an ancient sword Su Wang on his back, the latter unprecedentedly opened his eyes and smiled sweetly at him.

There is a small courtyard, Wudi City master and brother two people, at the same time out of the room door, jade-like Wang Xianzhi big apprentice took off the waist of a cool sword, threw high to the other person, and the latter also will smile, will be delivered to the hand of the two famous swords yesterday Shudao Fu medium, one threw to the senior brother. Two people

One person hanging the cool knife and the other person hanging the famous swords, the movements were the same, and finally each of them hanging the swords, striding out of the courtyard side by side.

A middle-aged man with a white cloth binding his legs turned around after going out and waved to the Miao daughter-in-law standing in the doorway, and she smiled and stuck out her thumb at him.

In the same elegant and quiet small courtyard, the aged Confucian scholar put down the holy book in his hand inside the house and was rising with his coat on. The aged swordsman sitting aside raised his cup and drank half of the wine in it before pouring it on top of that sheathed long sword. Outside the room, the stout old man stood holding his sword, his eyes closed as he waited for his two old friends.

Before the council hall of the feudal residence in Reject North City, under that wooden pagoda, someone was carrying an iron spear diagonally, and beside him stood the patriarch of the East Vietnam Sword Pool.

In a place inside Reject North City, the woman in purple crouched down and tied her skirt in a small knot.

At the southern head of Refuse North City, the plain-looking middle-aged swordsman sat cross-legged, crossed his sword over his knee, and looked into the distance, seemingly waiting for the sun to rise over the East Sea.

Not far from this city head, there stood a white-robed man who was tilting his head back and drinking painfully, and the vermillion-robed woman beside him, looking serene.

After the young feudal king put on that python robe, he wore his cool sword, and when he was about to open the door of the house, he paused for a moment and then pulled it open violently.

The Northern Mang army was about to attack the city, just waiting for dawn.

There was a rider who suddenly rushed out, this Northern Mang Ten Thousand Horseman steered his horse to less than a hundred paces away from the city wall and laughed wildly, ”Bullshit Northern Liang Iron Cavalry A world! Until now, no one has dared to come out of the city for a battle?”