In the northwest frontier, the isolated city is surrounded by moraine, filled with clouds and sand.
At dawn, the hooves of the horse were light, and the tall master of Qi training reined in the horse, looking at this desolate picture with the sky high and the earth wide, his mood was particularly peaceful. There were only two cavalry beside her. Wu Liuding and the Baiqi of the Wu family, led by the female sword attendant, parted ways with them a day ago. Under the escort of Baima Yicong, they went to the residence of Beiliang Duhu Mansion where Chu Lushan was in town. No accidents. This group of top sword wielders in the world will be used as the most hidden and sharp "knife tip" of the Beiliang Frontier Army. As for the young and important minister Xu Beizhi, he had already turned back on his own. But she, Xu Fengnian and Sui Xiegu continued to go north, directly passed through the border defense line at the junction of Liangmang, and swaggered to the territory of Longyao Prefecture in the Southern Dynasty. Tantai calmly bent down and stretched out her hands to stroke the soft mane. This war horse is very handsome. Indeed, only Beiliang can raise such a strong horse. She raised her head and glanced at the young King Liang who sat tall and silent on the back of the horse. , On the way, letters of intelligence and military information were sent to him one after another. Xu Fengnian burned them after reading them. It seemed that he never intervened in border military affairs. Such a hands-off shopkeeper looks very relaxed and comfortable to do, as if anyone who sits in his position can be competent. However, Tantai is not so peaceful. Since Beiliang claims to hold 300,000 iron cavalry, if it is in a world of singing and dancing, it can be the Prince of Taiping without the surname Xu. The Liyang Zhao family has long been cunning What's more, it's still the current chaotic situation. Beimang's millions of troops are suppressing the border. If any mediocre lord who can't convince the crowd owns the Northwest Gate, before the Beimang army shows its troops, Beiliang will already be in chaos. No matter how many troops there are, as long as the army's morale is slackened, even if they give Beiliang another 300,000 soldiers, they will still be unable to stop the Beimang tiger and wolf army who was released from the cage by the old woman.
Xu Fengnian subconsciously rubbed the rough rein with his thumb and index finger, stopped on the hillside of the horse, and looked up.
The smoke from the fire sinks to the right and the west pole, and the valley is quiet and the mountains are empty and the left is Beiping. But to enable the general to fight a hundred battles, the emperor does not need to build the Great Wall.
This is a frontier poem that is very popular in the Central Plains. The poet was originally a poor man with a bright future, but the misfortune came out of his mouth. It is precisely because this poem has always been suspected of "charming Xu" in the literary world. After the poet returned to the Central Plains as an official, After spending more than ten years in the local officialdom, he was still unable to be promoted, and finally resigned from office in depression, and he fell silent. When Xu Fengnian first visited the rivers and lakes with Lao Huang, he once visited the poet’s hometown. Although he was very shy at the time, it was no problem to buy a pot of wine to visit with a swollen face, but it’s a pity that there were only moss and no one. . Xu Fengnian let out a breath of turbid air. At that time, he only thought that the emperor of the Zhao family must have moved his hands and feet. Later, after experiencing some official rules, he gradually realized that it might not be the man sitting on the dragon chair who is so narrow-minded. The local snake officials are just observing the situation. Don't talk about the distance, just talk about Beiliang, which is close at hand. How many officials, in order to curry favor with themselves, would take thousands of dollars worth of antique calligraphy and paintings to have a relationship with the Qingzhou Lu family who became in-laws in Beiliang? How many unknown back doors have been opened for the Lu family's children to be unimpeded in the officialdom in Beiliang? Even some of the academies who can be called the cleanest in Beiliang, have a fondness for the mediocre Lu family's children, hoping to form a romantic relationship with the Lu family and then with the Xu family. If it weren't for Lu Chengyan's assertiveness, Lu Feichi, the patriarch of the Lu family, would have taken advantage of this to become the suzerain of the literary world in Beiliang. Xu Fengnian was inevitably a little sentimental. He still remembered the ordinary bamboo lantern that the ancestor of the Lu family gave to Lu Feichi before his death. . Obviously, Lu Feichi, who had long complained about the relocation of his family to the impoverished Northern Liang, took root in Beiliang too smoothly, and suddenly found that the Lu family had a great reputation in Beiliang, not only Lu Feichi Well, the entire Lu family gets carried away too quickly, far from being as clumsy as the old fox Wang Linquan who is a "relative of the emperor". But what really made Xu Fengnian feel depressed was Wang Linquan's self-discipline. The more the Chunshen Lake Wang family deliberately tolerated the scholarly Lu family, why didn't they deliberately dig a hole for Lu to jump in? Wang Linquan's scheming actually caused Xu Fengnian more headaches than the Lu family's ignorance.
However, these sages’ indisputable embarrassment can’t be explained or explained clearly. As the son-in-law of two families, Xu Fengnian can’t use his status as the king of Beiliang to bully others. , I can't escape the saying that one favors the other and favors the other.
Fortunately, these difficult matters are not urgent, and Lu Chengyan's handling of the woman is also appropriate, even the second sister Xu Weixiong admits that she can't pick out Lu Chengyan's flaws. Between women and women, between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, sister-in-law and sister-in-law, these relationships are all bloodless swords and swords. It is natural for a man to suffer incomparably.
Xu Fengnian, or Beiliang's catastrophe, has not changed a day since Xu Xiao became the king and became a fan of Beiliang.
As long as Beiliang can be wiped out and bypass the eastern frontier where Gu Jiantang sits, then the fertile Central Plains is a woman who can be slaughtered. How can Beimang, a hungry and thirsty man, not desperately attack Beiliang
In the past, under the planning of Xu Xiao and his master Li Yishan, although Beiliang did not have the problem of whether to defend or not, how to defend, is to defend alive, there is still enough room for Beiliang's cavalry to move around, and they can take the refugees to retreat to the Western Regions , can also retreat to Xishu with Nanzhao as the support, enough to fight the army of Beimang to the end. Even if Beimang defeated Beiliang, which took the initiative to withdraw its troops after the war was unfavorable, it was still a lonely place with strong walls and clear fields, but it promoted the army of Beimang Beiliang can continue to confront Beimang on the border of Western Shu, and even harass Beimang, who has an overly long front line, in the vast Western Regions. However, because of Chen Zhibao's enfeoffment as king and entering Shu, the entire vertical western line of Beiliang, Xishu and Nanzhao was cut off in the middle. In this way, Xu Fengnian and Beiliang had no strategic depth and could only stick to it.
Deep down in Xu Fengnian's heart was an unspeakable guilt, not to mention being ashamed of the people of Beiliang, but just feeling ashamed of Li Yishan.
The Beiliang army was too optimistic about the fire in the backyard of the Northern Mang royal court. Xu Fengnian didn't think it could restrain the fighting power of the Northern Mang army. Ji, on the one hand, was suppressed by Tuoba Bodhisattva's army, and on the other hand, he was granted the title of marquis and knighthood promised by the Central Plains.
Sui Xiegu is a hundred years old, he has traveled all over the world, the emperors, generals, merchants, husbands and soldiers. It is difficult to arouse the feelings of this one-armed old man. He is really boring beside Xu Fengnian who is dazed. , asked casually: "When I was young, I didn't understand why those generals and soldiers liked to fight. Are they really not afraid of death? The Spring and Autumn Wars are easy to understand. People in troubled times are not as good as peace dogs. Life is worthless. Forcing everyone not to take their lives as their own, now that Beiliang has been at peace for a long time, can it really stop Beimang's million-strong army?"
Xu Fengnian said calmly: "It's a very simple truth. She sacrifices her family for the country and sacrifices her life for her family. No one is not afraid of death, but everyone has an account in their hearts. Our Northern Liang cavalry are not afraid of death, except for the brave people in Beiliang. In addition, many people are well aware that they have no way out, and their home is in Beiliang. Once they retreat, the frontier army will disperse, and the northern barbarian cavalry will go south. Even if they escape from Beiliang, they will lose their legs It can't run on the four legs of Beimang's war horse."
Sui Xiegu curled his lips and said sarcastically, "None of you officials are good people."
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, "Isn't there no way out for me?"
Sui Xiegu rolled his eyes and said: "With your skill, if you really want to kill someone, why don't you go to Longyao Prefecture alone and kill it seven times in and out? Could it be that Tuoba Bodhisattva and Hong Jingyan can still follow your ass every day? Watching from behind?"
Xu Fengnian said indifferently: "I can kill like this, but the characters in Beimang Wujuan can also be killed like this. The two countries are at war. Such an action cannot be said to be meaningless, but it really has little meaning. Of course, If one day Beiliang can no longer keep the northwest gate, I will definitely do this."
Sui Xiegu wanted to speak, but Tantai let out a calm and cold snort, and the old sword-eating monster with swaying eyebrows immediately shut its mouth.
At this moment, a cloud of dust rose up in the distance. It seemed that the route was going to drive southward for a long time, probably because they saw three abrupt riders on the small sandy slope. These guys with excellent riding skills came straight to the hillside, but they did not act rashly, but Fifty feet away from the bottom of the slope, the horse stopped, and the three of them faced Xu Fengnian at the top of the slope.
It was an elite scout from Beimang, looking at the armor and clothing, it wasn't the Wuya Lanzi who was as famous as the crossbowmen in Beiliang, but he should be the direct descendant of the great general Liu Gui of the Southern Dynasty.
Liu Gui was once praised by the Northern Mang empress as half Xu Xiao. Originally, he was expected to be one of the candidates to succeed Huang Songpu as the King of the South Campus, but the old woman's "Fatty Dong" got ahead of him.
As scouts, whether they are from Beimang or Beiliang, they are the most particular about rules. Unless it is a narrow encounter between colleagues, collecting military information under the premise of not revealing their whereabouts is the top priority.
However, if you can take off a few enemy heads at will, no one will refuse.
One of the standard scouts rushed out and shot an arrow with a bow a hundred paces away, with excellent aim, it pierced the head of Xu Fengnian who was in the middle of the three riders on the slope. This savage probably wanted to confirm the strength of the three cavalry, if it was not easy to provoke, he would retreat, and if it was an embroidered pillow, he would kill and seize the horse.
Now that the reckless and reckless armies are facing each other, the scouts must be the first to start exchanging lives.
Xu Fengnian turned his head to avoid the arrow.
The scout quickly turned his horse's head and retreated.
Sui Xiegu stared wide-eyed and asked, "You don't even eat the meat that comes to your mouth? Isn't mosquito meat meat?"
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said: "Naturally there will be top Beiliang crossbowmen secretly watching. Now Beimang's harassment seems inexplicable. In order to obtain Beimang's exact motive, I have paid incalculable losses. These Beimang spies The marching route has become the most precious clue. As for who is the real bait, it depends on the strength and luck of both parties."
Sui Xiegu said carelessly: "Wendy intestines, it's really uncomfortable!"
Xu Fengnian laughed and said, "Would it be cool to ask Beimang's millions of troops to hoard one place obediently, and then have a one-off fight with our thirty cavalry?"
Sui Xiegu asked back: "You save trouble and he saves trouble, everyone is happy, whoever loses gets out, what's the matter?"
Xu Fengnian couldn't help laughing, "Bei Manzi really wants Bei Liang to do this. To be honest, I really want to."
What the old swordsman said sounds very amateurish and absurd, but if Liang Mang can really be so decisive and relentless, everyone will be happy. Bei Mang has the hope of eating up the obstacles on his way to the south, and Bei Liang has no hope of defeating Bei Mang's army in one fell swoop. Beimang's advantage is obvious, the number of people occupies an absolute advantage, but Beiliang's advantage lies in the fact that the Beimang army is temporarily leaderless. Although Dong Zhuo is already the commander-in-chief of the army in name, but besides the more than 100,000 Dong's troops under his command, Hong Jingyan's Rouran cavalry , the Wu Army of Gusai Prefecture in Longyao Prefecture, the pro-army of several generals including Liu Gui and Yang Yuanzan, he, the king of the South Court, can mobilize, but he can never do it like an arm, but Beiliang is different, Chu Lushan and Yuan Zuozong It can achieve absolute control over Beiliang's army, and this is Beiliang's opportunity in the confrontation between the winner and the loser. It's just that this "war of spirits", which is tantamount to betting on the two dynasties, is too extravagant for both parties.
Xu Fengnian watched those Beimang scouts retreat north, and said softly, "Half Xu Xiao? No matter who wins or loses in this big battle, your 40,000 troops in Liu Gui will definitely die."
Tantai asked calmly: "What should I say next? Should I go to the Protectorate's Mansion or continue north?"
"Go and take a look at the millions of soldiers in Beimang."
Xu Fengnian rode his horse downhill and galloped north.
Sui Xiegu, who could only follow behind, said angrily: "Didn't you just say that this kind of behavior is meaningless?!"
Xu Fengnian smiled and squinted his eyes, turned his head to look at the tall woman, pretended to be stupid and asked: "Senior Tantai, did I say something?"
Tantai calmly said with a blank expression: "No."
Sui Xiegu hesitated to speak, holding back until he felt uncomfortable.
Xu Fengnian hummed a little tune to himself.
Your Majesty asked me to patrol the mountains, after visiting the northern mountains and the southern mountains...
Patrol the east mountain to kill passers-by, patrol the west mountain to watch the sun. My king has three heads and six arms, I snatched my little mother and carried it on my back. I am so pitiful that I can’t swallow the fat in my mouth. When will I be able to stand up and become a king...