In the Yellow Sand Desert, five hundred cavalry versus five hundred cavalry.
The opposing sides were all lightly armored and fine cavalry, without bows or crossbows, and only a wooden pole in their hands.
One side is the elite cavalry soldiers selected by Yuan Zuozong's Jibei Camp, and the other side is He Zhonghu's direct descendant of the Iron Monument Camp. The reason why the two sides are performing martial arts here is not because the gang of Beiliang bosses in the distance want to see Beiliang's combat power with their own eyes, but because it is a reason that would be unimaginable outside of Beiliang Road. Compete for horses! Northern Liang is the most important horse management, and the large and small pastures are scattered all over the place. Among them, the Yanzhi pasture produces the most horses, with more than 1,600 horses per year, of which about 300 cavalry can be supplied. This is a shocking number for the Liyang court. You must know that although Nanjing Ji has a total of seven supervisors and pastors in three states, it is barely equal to this number. Of course, the lack of pastures in the south of Gyeonggi and the decline of horse administration are important reasons. Beiliang's Youxianli Ranch is the best. The number of horses allocated to the various cavalry troops in Beiliang has not been changed over the years, but the quality of the horses dispatched from the major ranches is very particular. Even if Zhong Hongwu, the general of Huaihua, held the power of the cavalry at the time, he could not control the specific distribution of the good horses on the ranch. He had to follow a rule, that is, every cavalry in Beiliang had to fight against each other. Good horse, if you lose, you can only eat the leftovers left by others. Several cavalry armies with a total of more than 10,000 people selected 800 cavalry each time, and another cavalry army with roughly the same combat power selected elite soldiers to fight each other. Between two hundred and three hundred people. Beiliang claims to have 300,000 iron cavalry, which means the total force. Of course, it cannot be true that they are all cavalry. In fact, the total number of Beiliang cavalry has been hovering between 100,000 and 150,000. Only by sending them to Beiliang Road will it be possible to support the Xu family's cavalry army. According to historical records, the Dafeng Dynasty, which has always been dubbed "the most prosperous horse service after the Great Qin Dynasty", had only "800,000 horses" in the whole country in the 30 years from Zhenyuan to Linde. What's more, the most elite cavalry in Beiliang always guarantees one man with two horses or even three horses. This is also an extremely exaggerated thing in Liangliao, where horse sources are relatively abundant.
The horse is the foundation of armored soldiers and the most important weapon of the country.
The current cavalry commanders in Beiliang are Yuan Zuozong, the veteran deputy commander He Zhonghu, and the "Zhou Partridge" Zhou Kang who was promoted last year. Among the 140,000 cavalry of the Xu family, Yuan Zuozong existed before Xu Xiao became the king of Beiliang except for three. The old-style battalion did not lead the "pro-army" and eliminated the Daxue Dragon Knights and Dragon Elephant Army. He Zhonghu led the left cavalry army of 40,000, and Zhou Kang led the right cavalry army of 30,000. One of the camps is directly under the command of Yuan Zuozong. The naming of Jibei Camp has a deep origin. After Xu Xiao granted the domain to Beiliang, Jizhou, which was governed by the Han family, was originally the largest source of horses in Beiliang outside the country. Xu Xiao formed an alliance with the loyal Han family during the Spring and Autumn War. I have had many good fortunes. Later, the Han family was ransacked and beheaded, not only because the Han family offended the old chief minister of the former court, but also because the Liyang court had long coveted the vast pastures of Jizhou in order to justifiably put high-quality war horses into the northern defense line. In Jizhou's political affairs, he kept his promises, and never manipulated the number, but sent good horses to Beiliang intentionally or unintentionally. Although the Han family and the Xu family had a bad relationship in the later period, they had already been regarded as a thorn in the side of the Zhao family in Liyang. At that time, Zhang Julu's chief assistant seat was able to sit firmly, and the Han family can be described as "indispensible".
The two armies rushed to ride, and the sky was full of dust.
A rider from Jibeiying tilted his head, dodging a wooden pole that looked like a spear without a spear, and put the long pole in his hand against the chest of a rider opposite him, knocking him off the horse's back, only to get hit by the Qingqi from the Iron Monument Camp. , Before the body fell to the ground, he grabbed the shoulders of the robe beside him, threw it back on the horse, and continued to charge, tearing apart the enemy's line.
In addition, Jibei Yiqi and Tiebei Yiqi stabbed each other's chest with wooden poles almost at the same time. With the momentum of the horses, the resilient poles bent into an astonishing arc, and those with weaker physical strength were knocked off their horses on the spot.
No matter how superb the cavalry is with marksmanship and spear skills, there is no such thing as the fancy technique of "shooting" the enemy with the head of the club. Always relying on the impact force of the cavalry's charged charge, the cavalry is so clean and neat.
After each penetrated the formation, the two sides changed positions, but the back-to-back Jibei Camp and the Iron Monument Camp did not slow down their horseshoes, let alone stop their horses and turn around stiffly to charge again. Instead, after the cavalry team successfully pierced through the enemy camp, The two circled a precise large arc almost at the same time, both striving to obtain more penetrating power brought by the collision faster. During this period, the person who falls from the horse must lead the horse and run away from the battlefield immediately. After all, it is not a real fight, and the person who falls from the horse is "death".
Chen Yunchui, the deputy commander of the Beiliang infantry, squinted his eyes at the exit situation on the battlefield, and said with a smile: "Old He, the 120 first-class war horses from Xianli Ranch, and the more than 400 second-class horses from Kouer Ranch Good horse, there should be nothing wrong with your Iron Monument camp."
The old god He Zhonghu was there, and said calmly: "This is just a charge. If you are inferior in the early stage, you will lose. You, Chen Yunchui, have died seven or eight times in the battle of Xileibi."
Chen Yunchui laughed and said, "Can this be the same? The Iron Monument Camp is facing the elite Jibei Camp in Beiliang, and it's not the stupid young people from Xichu back then."
He Zhonghu sneered and said, "Brother, why don't we make a bet? If I win, you can give me that yellow Gu scout, how about it?"
Chen Yunchui laughed and scolded: "I have only four yellow Gu scouts in total, and they are all darlings. If you don't make this bet, you will definitely not make it! Also, why don't you say you lost?"
He Zhonghu said calmly: "The soldiers brought out by me will not lose in the first place."
Chen Yunchui turned his head to look at the young King of Beiliang, who sat on a horse and stared at the battle carefully, and said with a smile, "My lord, take a look, isn't our Commander He as thick-skinned as a city wall?"
Xu Fengnian smiled and said nothing.
He Zhonghu has a long-standing tradition of leading and managing soldiers. He must do everything by himself, just like a mother-in-law taking shit and piss with her own cubs. Even a high-ranking deputy cavalry commander eats and sleeps just like ordinary soldiers. Suddenly, he had no family, wife and children, so he raised a few lame old horses. This veteran of the Spring and Autumn Period made up his mind to live in the border and die in the border. In terms of military merits and seniority, Zhong Hongwu would not be able to take the position of cavalry commander at all, but He Zhonghu never formed cliques, and he had always been gentlemen with Wei Tieshan and those veterans who had withdrawn from the border, and he didn't like it. Win over a large number of young and strong generals as disciples. He is the one who sat in the deputy commander's chair for the longest time in the Beiliang Army, not one of them. He Zhonghu did not have a distinct style of leading his troops, and he seldom won great victories in huge battles. However, in the past thirty years of his military career, He Zhonghu has almost never suffered a disastrous defeat. Li Maozhen, Li Maozhen, the captain of Huanghuaguan Ruoxian, who is known for his maturity and prudence, was once He Zhonghu's subordinate. It's just that Li Maozhen is notoriously addicted to officials, has been with He Zhonghu for many years, and is often manipulated by Zhong Hongwu's confidants. In a fit of anger, Li Maozhen left the frontier army and returned to Beiliang, where she asked Xu Xiao for a guerrilla general.
Chen Yunchui continued to fan the flames and joked to Yuan Zuozong: "Commander Yuan, can this be tolerated?"
Yuan Zuozong smiled and said: "It's not a matter of victory or defeat. I'm not too good at clamoring for a one-on-one horse battle with Old General He. After all, the old general is getting old and will inevitably lose his strength."
The leopard-headed and tiger-bearded He Zhonghu glared and said: "Yuan Zuozong, twenty years younger, believe it or not, I will knock you down with one hand!"
Yan Wenluan, the commander of the infantry who seemed to be thin and thin, laughed and said: "Fuck your mother, no matter whether you are fighting on horseback or on foot, even if He Zhonghu has three heads and six arms, you can't beat Commander Yuan."
In the Northern Liang Army, He Zhonghu respected Yan Wenluan the most, who joined the army at the same time. After being exposed, he didn't have any refutation.
Chu Lushan had four hundred catties of fat, so he didn't ride a horse. Standing beside Xu Fengnian's war horse, he said, "I just got the intelligence that the great general's supernatural powers and the rituals of the two states of Gusai Longyao appeared in the temple of the Southern Dynasty." In fact, it was a farewell to Huang Songpu, who had resigned as the Great King of the Southern Courtyard, and the replacement was neither Tuoba Bodhisattva or Murong Baoding as originally expected, nor Liu Gui, the great general who was called half a foster father by the Empress Bei Mang. , but that Dong Zhuo who likes to raise crows. Huang Songpu even blatantly said that Beimang is going to use all of his national power this time to smash all the millions of troops on our Beiliang. This Beimang did not deliberately The emperor of the Zhao family and Gu Jiantang must have been overjoyed when they heard the news about Zangye."
Zhou Kang, the deputy commander of the cavalry army, said with a smile: "Dong Zhuo? Isn't he your defeated general, Lord Protector?"
He was the only standing fat pig rubbing his hands, and said with a chuckle: "There was still a little bit of luck back then."
Yan Wenluan thought for a while, and said with a sneer: "The king's account in Beiting is both important and cautious."
Chu Lushan nodded, and said slowly: "Fatty Dong has always been treated like a half-son by that old woman, so it is more reassuring to entrust the military power of the Southern Dynasty to a young man with no deep roots like him. But this guy holds a whole One hundred thousand elite soldiers who recognize Dong's character but not Beimang, even old women, have to weigh it. Dong Zhuo's nature is slippery, if he doesn't become the king of the Southern Court who is a bird in his early years, once the war starts, he will not see rabbits or scatter eagles Even if he is forced to play, he will definitely not work hard. When the time comes to fight back and forth, both Liangmang and Lumang will suffer serious damage. In the end, Beimang will count their Dong family army as the most powerful. In this way, Dong Zhuo has no ambition. Be ambitious."
Xu Fengnian said: "I heard that Dong Zhuo has always regarded you as a life and death enemy with a sworn enemy."
Dong Zhuo laughed happily: "That little fat man thinks so, but Lu Qiuer doesn't think so about him."
Gu Dazu, who was once the mainstay of the Southern Tang Dynasty, smiled knowingly: "If Dong Zhuo hadn't become the King of the South Courtyard, I would have almost forgotten the miraculous achievements of our Master Duhu."
Chu Lushan raised his fat arm and waved it lightly, pretending to be shy and saying: "A good man doesn't mention his bravery."
Xu Fengnian, who really couldn't stand it anymore, raised his foot, lightly kicked Chu Lushan on the shoulder, and said, "The Iron Stele Battalion has won, but there are only twenty-one cavalry left on horseback."
Everyone looked at it, and it was true.
The cavalrymen of the 21st Iron Monument Battalion raised one arm at the same time, calmly accepting the loud cheers.
He Zhonghu laughed heartily, and out of the corner of his eye, he looked at Yuan Zuozong who was not far away. The latter had clear eyes and nodded to the old man.
Then He Zhonghu stepped forward and shouted loudly to the sons and daughters: "Come on, old rules, take your daughter-in-law away!"
The elite war horses from Xianli Ranch and Kouer Ranch, led by the shepherds and herdsmen, slowly ran out from the side of the dusty battlefield.
The five hundred cavalry cheered and yelled, dismounted one after another, and greeted the new wives.
Some cavalry soldiers of the Iron Monument Battalion ran forward and turned over a series of dizzying somersaults, and some of them were kicked on the buttocks with a smile by the robe Ze behind them, and fell like shit. The five hundred people were just fighting and making noise like this, happily.
Beiliang Dama has always been the daughter-in-law of Beiliang's fierce soldiers.
Who would have too many war horses, which were even rarer than the Shui Ling girls? !
Xu Fengnian looked at the five hundred cavalry in the Jibei camp, everyone stood with their horses, silent.
Xu Fengnian clamped his horse's belly and went out alone. First, he went to the Iron Monument Camp, which was busy selecting horses, and signaled that they don't need to salute, and asked them to continue to receive their "daughter-in-law". Only then did he look at one of the cavalry pawns who "killed the most enemies", Xu Fengnian took off the new cold knife from his waist, and threw it high.
After the young and burly cavalryman caught the cold knife, he was dumbfounded at first, then his face was flushed, tears welled up in his eyes, he yelled, and held it up high.
In the end, Xu Fengnian rode forward one by one. When he came to the front of the Jibei battalion formation, he got off his horse, led the horse forward, and handed over the reins to the leading cavalryman.