In the cold sky, a goshawk is flying. It is not afraid of the human arrow feathers below. It slides down fearlessly, and slides across the battlefield for miles. It clearly sees those who died under the enemy's swords and arrows The dead body of the Hu clan son Lang, the blood that gradually soaked into the gravel and red soil, and the very pungent smell of iron and blood. The Qing army who set up an ambush at Hongshan Pass began to clean up the battlefield, organize their formations, and fought a battle with the main force of the grassland. Even the most elite Dingzhou army still paid a very, very tragic price.
The goshawk flapped its wings and flew a little higher. Then, it was alarmed to find that from the Shituhai meadow in the northeast, a light cavalry force from the Qing Kingdom had quietly attacked. The number of this force was at least More than 4,000 people, along the natural undulating lower edge of the sand dunes and meadows, silently marched toward the depths of the grassland.
With a strange cry, the goshawk seemed to feel the chill and terror of the light cavalry, and flew towards a higher cold cloud. After flying for an unknown amount of time, it finally broke through the cold cloud and lowered itself towards a hill next to a lake. go away.
There are thousands of prairie Xihu soldiers on this hill, among them are some northern warriors who moved from the northern snowfield, but this group of soldiers is obviously the people who escaped from the Red Mountain Pass War, and their morale is very low. And there are many people who have been injured.
Shanyu Subida's lips were a little dry, but there was no blood stain on his body. He looked indifferently in the direction of the Hongshan Pass in the distance, knowing that the Dingzhou Army there was reorganizing and could not rush over in a short time. I dare not go deep into the grassland to pursue.
He glanced at the warriors of the royal court around him, looked at the wounds on these boys, and thought of the previous battle at the Red Mountain Pass, his eyes turned cold.
As soon as winter came on the grassland, soldiers were rarely used. This was something Xihu and Qingguo were used to. The biggest reason was because of the freezing weather and lack of food and grass, it was difficult for the barbarians to use their methods of coming and going like lightning. But this winter, this Shan Yu followed Hu Geyi's suggestion, gathered the most elite knights in his hands, and started to attack Xiliang Road. The bleak situation seems to confirm this point even more.
But who is Shanyu Speed? Thirty years ago, Shanyu Wangting, who was declining day by day, came out of a character like him, who was able to survive and grow in the gap between the left and right kings, and very wisely accepted the barbarian knights from the ice and snow in the north, broadening his own horizon. Heart, absorbing people from the Central Plains into your tent...
If it weren't for such an era, if there weren't such a few amazingly talented people on the Eastern Continent, Shan Yu Su Bida would undoubtedly grow up to be the wise master of the grassland, a powerful figure everywhere.
How could he make such a low-level mistake? Speeding his gaze across the hill, he landed on the bearded girl on the horse at the top of the hill, his expression became extremely complicated and downcast.
The reason why he chose to take the risk of attacking Xiliang Road in the Qing Dynasty in the cold winter this time is that Shanyu Speed has his own way of thinking, because he knows that the Nanqing court is currently in civil turmoil, and there is a cold war between the emperor and his favorite officials , and Hu Ge...
Shan Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, looking towards the direction of the Red Mountain Pass in the distance like an eagle, thinking in his heart, that Hu Ge who dared to betray the grassland and colluded with the Overwatch Council should be dead, what a stupid idiot People, how many people who deal with the Overwatch Council can survive smoothly
This year, Hu Ge's rise on the grassland, what was he secretly relying on, Shan Yu had already investigated some rumors, so he also guessed why Hu Ge chose to invade Xiliang Road in such a winter. Shan Yu Speed was very concerned about the political rumors in the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and he only needed to do some calculations to figure out that it must have something to do with that little Master Fan who lost power.
The last time Fan Xian entered the grassland, he cleaned out most of the secret spies in Xiliang Road and the eyeliner sent by the grassland. Qi Shi ran away, this fact made Su Bida feel infinite humiliation, especially every time he looked at Songzhi Xianling, this humiliation was even more unbearable.
Hu Ge's false attack on Xiliang Road this winter was an opportunity for Shan Yu. After a long conversation with Songzhi Xianling, he rejected the princess's suggestion to be cautious, and wanted to take this opportunity to use his plan Taking advantage of Fan Xian's momentum of using foreign troops to help Dingzhou's position as a general, he gathered all the forces on the grassland and attacked Xiliang with decisive momentum!
This was a clever strategy. Presumably the general in the state, Li Hongcheng, also got the news about Fan Xian, and would only think that Hu Ge was pretending to attack. How could he have expected that Shan Yu would take advantage of the situation and attack on a large scale, catching him by surprise!
Who would have expected that more than 100,000 Qing Dynasty elites gathered around Hongshan Pass!
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This was the most shameless ambush. After this battle, Hu Ge was laid down to death, Wang Ting and You Xian Wang suffered heavy casualties, at least more than 20,000 grassland youths died on the red soil!
Thinking of the pain of the previous battle, Shan Yu's eyes narrowed even more, and his mood became colder. He clamped his horse's belly and came to Songzhi Xianling's side, and said coldly: "You said, he just borrowed my grassland soldiers to help Li Hongcheng stabilize his position."
Haitangduoduo didn't turn around, and the leather jacket on her body was shivering in the cold wind: "As Shan Yu, such a risky gamble should never be done. I never really trusted him... But I think this time I will be with you." He has nothing to do, and he is just a poor pawn who was counted dead."
The two of them fell silent at the same time. They were able to figure out Fan Xian's response and the strategy of the barbarians in the grassland. They had planned it long ago, and thus achieved a fiasco that the grassland hadn't seen in thirty years. Qing Kingdom can only have one character.
In front of His Majesty the Qing Emperor, it seemed that all the conspiracies and tricks were just the foreplay of the killer moves on his chessboard.
The goshawk finally landed, and landed on the outstretched arm of Speedida indifferently. It was freezing cold. After flying in the cold cloud for a while, the animal shivered from the cold, and the color of the feathers on its body was particularly dull.
Su Bida's pupils shrank, and said in a deep voice: "Thousands of Qingqi are covering up from the northeast..." He said coldly: "The Qing people's plan this time is huge. I don't know which general is here. After a big battle, they dare to send another strong army deep into the grassland, in such cold weather, do these Qing people dare to hope to wipe out Wang Ting in one go?"
Having said that, Shan Yu was also extremely shocked by the strength of the Qing army and their determination to destroy everything. At this time, although there were thousands of prairie men around the lake, they had just experienced a big battle and were exhausted. When he was depressed, he would charge head-on with the four thousand Qingqi who had been preparing for a long time, and the outcome would be clear.
Su Bida cursed viciously in his heart that Qingren was despicable, he didn't give himself a chance to rest, but as a king, how dare he let his anger wash away his reason, and in the first time, he had already rushed to the bottom of the hillside. The subordinates issued a warning, and the warriors of the king's court around the lake immediately started to move. The speed of action was extremely fast, and the previous injuries and depressed emotions could not be seen at all.
"Go with me?" Shan Yu turned his horse's head and looked back at the Hu woman on the hill.
"I'm going to Nanqing." Haitang Duoduo lowered her head slightly, her eyes never left the direction of Hongshan Pass, her face was calm, but her voice revealed a trace of self-blame and introspection.
She could see countless resentful souls rising there, because of Hu Ge's trust in someone, because of her trust in someone, and because of Shan Yu's trust in herself, tens of thousands of soldiers on the grassland fell into the Qing Kingdom's iron cavalry. The siege caused heavy casualties, and the severed limbs and heads lay on the ground like dead wood in a rotting swamp.
Even she couldn't help being shaken by this hellish sand scene. At that moment, the current head of Tianyi realized that among thousands of troops, one person's strength is actually very powerful. Small, nothing can change.
"I want an explanation. If I can't, I have to give you and these dead people an explanation." After Haitang said this, she lightly clamped the horse's belly, turned into a puff of smoke, and galloped down the hill towards the sun. Drove in the opposite direction.
Fan Xian asked Hong Yiqing to bring her a message, and this message has already been brought, but because of the matter between Xiliang and the grassland, Haitang can't get away for a while, and at this moment, she has to go to the capital.
Shan Yu Su Bida didn't turn around to look at the smoke and dust again, shouted loudly, and led the remnant soldiers of his subordinates to the depths of the grassland. He believed that as long as he returned to his real hometown, those wolf cubs behind him would The light cavalry of the Qing Dynasty who rushed over also no longer posed any threat to him. And in the west of the grassland, there are still 7,000 of the 10,000 northern barbarian cavalry who only obeyed the order of Songzhi Xianling and the princess, waiting for him.
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Compared with the inexplicable war in the north-central part of the mainland, the war with the Hu people that took place on Xiliang Road in Qing State undoubtedly had a far-reaching and important historical influence. The start of this war was actually just the order after order that Fan Xian asked the Qi Nian team to issue in a small courtyard bought for more than one hundred taels of silver in the capital of Qing Dynasty.
It was precisely because of these orders that Hu Ge led Zuo Xianwang's old subordinates to launch an offensive on Xiliang Road, but Shan Yu Su Bida's hawk-like eyes saw the relationship between Hu Ge and Fan Xian of the Overwatch Council. However, all of this was within the expectation of the Dingzhou military.
The big net at the Red Mountain Pass has harvested countless barbarian lives. After this battle, the Zuo Xian King's family was completely lost, the royal court and the You Xian King's family were seriously injured, and all their prestige was lost. All the tribes on the grassland began to move around. Shan Yu Su Bida's initial ambition to build a country with the help of the princess Songzhi Xianling and Bei Qi Tianyi was shattered. Within decades, the grassland was in chaos, and there was no opportunity for unification.
In this battle, Xihu was defeated and had a far-reaching impact. It is known as the Qingzhou Victory in history.
Apart from the Battle of Hongshan Pass, another extremely important reason for the constant turmoil on the grassland was the four thousand light cavalry discovered by Goshawk. A young general planned the Dingzhou Army's ambush of the Xihu elite, and this general left the Hongshan Pass battlefield when the battle started very abruptly. As the commander, he led the army hidden in the east The four thousand light cavalry launched a continuous pursuit for half a year towards the remnant soldiers of the royal court.
This pursuit was carried out in the snow and ice, galloping on the wasteland, no matter whether it was a pursuer or a deserter, they all lived an extremely cruel life. However, it was impossible to contact Nasa's seven thousand northern barbarian cavalry in the far west.
Through winter, through spring, through wind, snow and long grass, this jaw-dropping pursuit lasted for a total of five months. When Shanyu Wangting's last remaining strength finally contacted Begonia Duoduo After the last 7,000 cavalry on the grassland, those brave and heroic light cavalry from the Qing Kingdom finally withdrew from the grassland.
During the five months in the grassland, this light cavalry with only 4,000 men burned, killed and looted all the way, destroying countless barbarian tribes. When they returned to Qingzhou City in the spring of the second year, only 800 of the 4,000 people remained.
The iron cavalry that completely changed the situation in the west of the Qing Dynasty and completely dispelled the Western Hus in the grasslands from invading the Central Plains. Their commander was actually the commander of the Qingzhou victory. As a high-ranking general who was supposed to guide the country in the camp, he bravely stepped down into the grassland to pursue him. The victory in Qingzhou, apart from the exhaustive plan of Emperor Qing, this young general is the real one. For such a powerful character, Shan Yu Speed was defeated by this person, it was not wronged at all.
This young general is called Ye Wan, the eldest son of Marshal Ye Zhong, the envoy of the Nanqing Privy Council, and the brother of the Second Princess Ye Linger, who left the Dingzhou Army at the age of seventeen and went to the front line of Nanzhao, and has been gradually forgotten by the people of Kyoto. A character who was also forgotten by Fan Xian.
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When Ye Wan was in Qingzhou and commanded the deployment of the Red Mountain Pass campaign, and the murdered barbarians were screaming, the nominally highest military officer of Qingguo Xiliang Road, General Li Hongcheng, was placed under house arrest in Dingzhou. House.
With him in the mansion was Gong Dian who had left the commanding position of the Forbidden Army and came to Dingzhou to take over. Military reports from Qingzhou were delivered to the General's residence continuously. Gong Dian and Li Hong sat on two sides, silently watching the military reports, without saying a word.
The troops that went into battle near Qingzhou were basically the headquarters of the Dingzhou Army on Xiliang Road. In addition to influence, the Ye family is waiting to be the emperor of the Dingzhou army. Now His Majesty the Emperor has transferred Ye's parents and sons back to Dingzhou, and led these Dingzhou veterans to attack fiercely. Of course, there is no problem in cooperating.
However, the half of the Nanzhao frontier army that made Fan Xian's heart palpitate did not actually pour into Dingzhou City as he imagined, but only stopped in the west of Kyoto to the north of Cangshan Mountain, and then selected one of them to enter Dingzhou City. Not much, but enough to control the Grand General's Mansion.
The transfer of military power in Dingzhou this time was not actually a transfer of sergeants, but a transfer of generals. The eldest son of the Ye family entered Dingzhou. snatched it from his hand.
If everything had been arranged by Fan Xian, if there hadn't been a sudden addition of a young general Ye Wan who used soldiers like a god and regarded Dingzhou Army as his own, then when Hu Ge led the crowd to attack in a false manner, Li Hongcheng could take advantage of this opportunity to The time I stay in office will be delayed for another year and a half.
The General's Mansion was very quiet. After a long silence, Li Hongcheng said calmly, "I am not as good as Ye Wan in marching and fighting."
Gong Dian raised his head, glanced at him, and answered in a rough voice after a while: "Ye Wan grew up in the Dingzhou Army since he was a child. He has been practicing martial arts on horseback since he was three years old, and he is in charge of battle formations. Unhappy with his father's suppression of his achievements, he abandoned Dingzhou City and voted for Nanzhao."
"No wonder you rarely hear about this person in Beijing." Li Hongcheng nodded.
Gong Dian sighed, and said: "Ye Shuai suppressed his meritorious deeds back then because he thought that he was too young and his military achievements were too great, so he might be feared by others. After all, the eldest son of Mr. Qin was in the death camp."
"Qin Heng is not as good as him." Li Hongcheng looked at the military newspaper in front of him, shook his head and said, "Ye Shuai is well aware of the art of harmony with light, no wonder he was able to hide such an outstanding son for so long."
"My Dingzhou Army's dream in this life is to pacify Xihu." Gong Dian was also a general from the Dingzhou Army. He looked at Li Hongcheng and said, "Loyalty to His Majesty is a matter of course. What is the opinion of the Dingzhou Army, but for the benefit of His Majesty and Qing Kingdom, we are willing to do anything."
Li Hongcheng smiled wryly, knowing that this sentence was referring to Ye Linger marrying the second prince back then, but the Dingzhou Army finally got cold feet during the Kyoto rebellion and dealt the second prince the heaviest blow.
"I don't know what Fan Xian said to you in private, but if the foreign thieves invade this time, he just wants to protect your position as a great general..." Gong Dian narrowed his eyes, and said with a chill, "I am extremely Don't be ashamed of Fan Xian's move."
Li Hongcheng raised his face, looked at Gong Dian calmly, and said, "Who do you think I am? Who is Fan Xian? Since I dare to let Hu Ge come, I have my means. Come on, don't you think I'll let the barbarians take advantage of me?"
"After all, it's something that didn't happen, and there's still room for turning around." Gong Dian said, "But I think His Majesty must be extremely disappointed in Mr. Fan..."
He paused, and then said: "After the son returns to the capital, please take a word for Mr. Fan. I have always admired him, but this time I am a little disappointed. A man was born between heaven and earth, so how can he take the officers and men with him?" blood as a bargaining chip?"
Li Hongcheng took a deep breath, looked at Gong Dian with a half-smile, and said calmly after a long silence: "After all, you still don't understand Fan Xian. He didn't take the lives of the soldiers of the Qing Kingdom seriously. Today, Daqing... I'm afraid it has already turned into a rag full of holes. Tear this shirt? You underestimated his ability, and you also underestimated his character."
Gong Dian was silent, but there was a chill in his heart, he didn't know that in front of His Majesty, that little Master Fan had already suffered such a big injury, so how could he have any counterattack
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The Battle of the Red Mountain Pass, although it was an ambush battle, faced tens of thousands of prairie cavalry like wolves and tigers. The Qing Dynasty court, more precisely, His Majesty the Qing Emperor, put a lot of effort into this. One secret decree removed Li Hongcheng's military power, and the other secret decree gave Ye Fu's eldest son Ye complete command power. The so-called employing people is not suspicious, and suspecting people is not necessary. His Majesty's confidence in that young general, or gambling, will eventually be won. An overall victory.
Victory requires a foundation and soldiers. In order to defeat the barbarians on the grassland, the soldiers in several large barracks inside and outside Dingzhou City were all emptied. As a result of the battle, in today's Dingzhou City, the soldiers brought by Gong Dian himself and the small number of Nanzhao frontier troops left by Ye Wan are maintaining order and security.
Li Hongcheng returned to the mansion in silence, stared at the big map in the study in a daze, and then said to the doorman who had been with him all the time: "I will return to the capital soon, and I will send you out of Dingzhou. How to escape depends on your ability."
After a moment of silence, the guest said, "Ziyue thanked the general for your lord's kindness." This person was Fan Xian's confidant Deng Ziyue, who was fully in charge of the Overwatch Council's stationing in Xiliang. The captured character, no one thought that this person was so bold that he actually hid in the General's Mansion.
"For this Qingzhou victory, in addition to His Majesty's holy eyes and General Xiaoye's use of troops like a god, the Overwatch Council has also activated all of them. Yan Bingyun has been in Dingzhou City, and the capital probably doesn't know about it." Deng Ziyue sighed and said: " Master Xiao Fan's plans all fall into His Majesty's plan, and when things come to an end, I will never betray Daqing's interests and inform those barbarians... I believe Master Xiao Fan and his subordinates should have the same idea."
After a moment of silence, Li Hongcheng said, "I suddenly felt that Gong Dian's words made sense. No matter how hard Fan Xian struggled, he was no match for His Majesty, and he was reluctant to let the people of Daqing fall into a miserable situation. If that's the case, why bother?"
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