The existence of Xu Fengnian is like a reef in a river, although it has stirred up huge waves, it cannot stop the turbulent torrent after all.
On the battlefield in the north of Hutou City, the cavalry on the two wings of the infantry phalanx, with their skilled archery, had already carried out several rounds of throwing and suppressing the top of the city. The platoon of archers also braved the rain of arrows at the top of the city to launch the first round of upward shots. During the attack and defense of the shield pawns and archers, those ladders and opposite buildings also suddenly accelerated in the gap between the phalanxes, and the latter attracted more attention from Beiliang bows and crossbows. When they were fighting hard, the archers under the cover of the shield pawns kept shooting upwards, and the Beimang pawns who acted as dead soldiers began to run wildly. All of them did not wear heavy iron armor, but only wore lighter leather armor. Armed with reckless knives, these dead soldiers who have been keeping their energy and energy during the advance of the phalanx began to charge after more than 150 steps from the city. They will play the bloodiest role in the history of war, with Ants, people are like ants climbing the city wall.
Almost at the same time, hundreds of ladders that were about to be lifted high by the soldiers of Beimang were set up in the gaps between the battlements, and the more than ten towering towers that were almost as high as the top of the city, as the name suggests, formed a confrontation with the city after they stopped. At this time, it was like showing a ferocious face. The thick cowhide that was called a mask by the adherents of the Spring and Autumn Period in the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties was torn off suddenly with a clatter. The archers hidden in the building were all sharp archers on the grassland. Compared with the archers who were behind the shield pawns and created a rain of arrows, their accuracy is far better, in order to maximize the damage to those defenders of Hutou City who can hide in the dead corner of the upward attack.
Between the opposite buildings, the ladder with iron hooks on the top is like a tarsal maggot, biting the body of Hutou City, a giant in the northwest border. At the same time, the ordinary soldiers who were the first to push the ladder began to carry their shields to climb the ladder. The shields in their hands were smaller than those of the shield soldiers, and stronger than those of the dead soldiers who had rushed to the city with them. The duty of the soldiers is to open the way for the dead behind them, and they don't expect them to be able to reach the top of the city at all, so they don't hold weapons at all, and they just exchange their flesh and blood or even their lives for that little bit of siege height.
In the distance, an elite cavalry team appeared beside Dong Zhuo at some point. The iron armor was particularly bright, but it was not the kind of flashy embroidered pillow. They had a big bow, a light crossbow and a sword, and there was an iron rod hanging on the side of the saddle. The spear is the elite bodyguard who is qualified to be equipped by Yelu Murong, the royal court of Northern Mang, Xue Tiewei. Beimang's only heavy cavalry army that has never been seen in the world is all selected from the cowardly guards, which fully shows Beimang's exceptional reliance on this army.
Two hundred cowardly cavalry guarded a pair of young men and women. The man was wearing a light yellow python suit. He was born with a rough appearance, but he seemed sick and pale. He sat on the back of a sweaty horse, bent slightly, and looked bound . On the contrary, the graceful and generous woman next to him seemed to be more adapted to the atmosphere on the battlefield than his own man. She always squinted her eyes in the direction of the city, and occasionally looked back at the figure that kept breaking the formation and getting closer, showing a deep look. There is a gloomy atmosphere, the chess and sword Yuefu where she is, except for the Taiping order, she is still the emperor teacher, Hong Jingyan fought in Hulukou, and the rest of the names of the famous poems, the ancestor of the bronze figure is missing, Da Yuefu died in battle, and Jianqi near Huang Qing also died up. That's why she, who won the title of "Hangu" as the name of the two-character word board of Chess Sword and Yuefu, and the princess of Beimang who has always been regarded as a graceful temperament, almost forced her man to rush here. She hopes to see with her own eyes the one who can make her The chief culprit for the collapse of half of the sect.
Prince Yeluhong of Bei Mang said in a low voice: "King of the Southern Courtyard, that guy is still breaking through the formation, should we retreat later?"
Dong Zhuo laughed and said nothing, Fatty Dong's wife Wu Wuhu frowned. I heard that the woman in my family who always competed with her for being a big wife said that Yelu Hongcai seemed to be frightened when she was a child. Now On the contrary, he looks very similar to the first emperor, but his courage is really lacking, and he even faints blood. Every time he goes on a hunting tour with His Majesty the Empress, he can only rely on the prey caught by his personal guards to get by. The fifth fox quickly felt relieved, if Yelu Hongcai was as talented and powerful as his father, he would have died young like many other sons and grandsons named Yelu.
Yelu Hongcai probably also realized that his proposal was a bit unsustainable, so he quickly found a way for himself, pretending to be calm and said: "King of the Southern Courtyard, don't we have to wait for the God of Army? If our position is too far ahead, won’t the person surnamed Xu have to run into a wall and return immediately? By then, the person surnamed Xu has suffered a lot and ended up huddled in Hutou City and unable to come out Wouldn't it ruin the great event of the Great King of the South Courtyard?"
Dong Zhuo finally turned his head slowly, looked squarely at the burly man with the most distinguished status in Bei Mang, and said with a smile, "What His Royal Highness said is very true, if you are well versed in the art of war to lure the enemy deep, then do as His Highness said. How about retreating five hundred steps?"
Yelu Hongcai said softly, "Wouldn't it be safer to take 800 steps?"
Dong Zhuo laughed and said, "Your Highness can do whatever you want."
The Dong family's army and the crown prince's cowardly Xue Tiewei began to retreat, and those top masters who concealed their aura and the bed crossbow formation also moved. Yelu Hongcai suddenly smiled, and subconsciously straightened his back a little. I don't know if His Royal Highness, who is like a puppet in the Beimang royal court, is glad that he is out of danger, or enjoying the kind of respect brought by Fatty Dong. great sense of accomplishment. Yeluhong reined in his horse and turned around, and was about to spur the horse vigorously, when he suddenly heard Dong Zhuo coughing a few times, the inexplicable His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stared at the King of the South Court with a puzzled expression, Fatty Dong quietly twitched his chin, Yeluhong It was only then that Hong Cai realized that his daughter-in-law was still standing where he was, and had no intention of retreating with him at all. The Prince of Beimang, who had almost no deeds in the Liyang court, sighed softly, and signaled his cowardly Xue Tiewei to move on. , turned the horse's head alone, came to her side, and asked softly: "What's wrong?"
She picked up the horsewhip, pointed to Hutou City, and said coldly: "On that battlefield, my tens of thousands of young men are all marching forward to die."
Yeluhong rubbed his chin with his hand, nodded and said, "Yes, Beiliang is indeed brave to fight, but I, a prairie athlete, have never been afraid of death."
She slowly turned her head and looked at the man who had shared the same bed but dreamed differently for many years. Her eyes were full of complex meanings of anger for indisputability and sorrow for his misfortune. The man of the future owner of the grassland: The son of the grassland is not afraid of death, even the king of Beiliang dares to fight himself, so what about you, Yelu Hongcai
Yelu Hongcai didn't seem to dare to look directly at the Crown Princess, bowed his head and said, "Let's go."
She put down her whip and said with a sneer, "It's not enough to take eight hundred steps back, I'd better go back to Xijing directly."
After turning her horse's head, she took the lead and rode away towards the north. Yeluhong looked at her back, moved his lips slightly, but finally did not make a sound.
Behind the couple, further south of the lone figure, beyond Hutou City, the battle is raging.
Hutou City's fortified defense line, which can be said to be unparalleled in the world, is a boundary line separating yin and yang.
On the line of defense in the north, the city wall is five and a half feet high, and the upper part of the filling layer is sealed and compacted with mortar mixed with tung oil, glutinous rice, and lime. This part alone can be as high as more than ten feet, and seven layers of bricks are added. On the city wall, apart from the main archery tower above the main city gate, there are twelve piers, eight large crossbow platforms, and two turrets on the east and west sections. The battlements are facing each other, and there are more than 2,000 arrow stacks in Hutou City for archery and observation. This city, located in the most northwestern part of the Liyang Dynasty, even has seals on every brick. Clearly mark the names of kilns and craftsmen in the era to prevent craftsmen from dereliction of duty. And in the north direction of Hutou City, there are three subdivided gates, the main gate, the archery tower and the gate tower. The lord of Hutou City, Liu Jinu, stood on the top floor of the tallest archery tower, overlooking the whole situation from a condescending height.
Because of the Hong Jia who brought many scholars and craftsmen to Beimang back then, in the history of war, there has never been a nomadic people's southward and downstream plunder, which was able to attack the city so well that it made many natives of the Central Plains in history Dynasties were eclipsed. More importantly, Bei Mang has never been so determined to abandon his horse on his own initiative, and he is still so brave after dismounting to fight. Hutou City claims to have the richest and most complete reserves in Liyang, and is the largest weapon storage place in Beiliang. However, in less than two months of defense, more than 4,000 bows and crossbows were damaged. Half of them were destroyed, and more than 20 winches used to retract and release the ring were destroyed, so that Hutou City had to replace it with a brick and mud ring with greatly reduced power.
More than half of the thousands of dead men who ascended the tower in Beimang by a hundred ladders were killed or injured. Although more than a dozen dead men on ladders finally climbed to the top of the city, they still failed to gain a firm foothold. Those wounded who hadn't had time to be dragged out of the battlefield, the former was silent, while the latter howled. Their casualties, apart from the arrows pouring down from their heads, might also be caused by a whole country's boiling oil, one by one, or even Similar to the stick used in naval ship battles, a single shot can cause a ladder to collapse instantly, and the strong soldiers of Beimang clinging to the ladder were as fragile as mosquitoes, and were slapped to death on the city wall.
Compared with the generosity of the Yunti soldiers to die, the Beimang archers in the giant building outside the city caused a lot of damage to the defenders of Hutou City. The Northern Mang soldiers with heavy armor and heavy price, the armor on the former is tougher and firmer. Previously, the upward shots of the Northern Mang two-winged cavalry and the archers behind the shield soldiers seemed to be intensive, but unless they hit the vital point, they were unlikely to cause real damage. meaningful battle damage. But Beimang can almost be called face-to-face close-range shooting, especially in the case of everyone's archer, the defenders of Hutou City were shot through their throats and eye sockets with arrows, and even many Beiliang The soldiers even penetrated their armor on the spot.
The ladders in the infantry phalanx were erected continuously on the top of the city. After more than a thousand light-armored soldiers took their lives to open the way to buy time for the rear, Beimang would not give Hutou City a chance to breathe. Beimang fighters with iron helmets on their heads and chain mail began to climb the stairs brazenly. If the first group of dead soldiers were all agile Beimang infantry, then this group of particularly strong infantry could be said to be changed at will. On a battlefield, wearing heavy armor in the true sense can be compared to the kind of Central Plains heavy infantry that almost ruined the cavalry in history.
The ascension of these warriors, even if the arrows shot down from the top of the city close at hand, only made them pause slightly when they raised their shields. Occasionally, archers with amazing physical strength from Beiliang shot through the shield with an arrow The sharp arrows were directly nailed into the arms, and they would never flinch. Amidst the sound of fighting that pierced the eardrums, four or five arrows had been nailed into the shield covered by a Beimang tower climber. He was in his prime, and he was a man from a small tribe on the northern grassland. , There is no such thing as Wang Ting, what Aquarius State, this time he was enlisted to follow the army to the south, just thinking about accumulating enough military merits during the winter this year, so that his son who is getting taller can eat enough meat, and follow him to increase his household registration by one level, he I hope that my son will be able to walk out of the snowy grassland in the future, and have the opportunity to take his place in Liyang Central Plains. As for himself, he does not expect to leave the battlefield alive. This Tiger Head City is too difficult to shake. The rumors when he joined the army were very different, but he was not annoyed by being deceived. Even if he died in battle, the pension was enough to make his son grow up, and let his son grow into a prairie man who would not lose to him.
Out of the corner of the eye of the warrior wearing iron armor and a shield on his head, he caught a glimpse of an opposite building being heavily photographed with a pole on the top of the city. Opposite buildings merge into one. He breathed heavily, gritted his teeth and continued to climb up, and then he got off the ladder in an instant. Not only him, but also the three or four warriors behind him also had the same fate. His heart was suddenly ashamed, and the next moment, he and several Beimang fighters hit the backs of the city wall near the ladder almost at the same time, like a string of poor grasshoppers strung together by ropes, falling all over the place. He firmly held the shield, raised his arms to cover his head, and as expected, a light crossbow shot down from the top of the city the next moment. Having escaped temporarily, he knew that the real danger was yet to come. The group of them were hooked by the flying owls of the Beiliang garrison. This kind of weapon specially used to deal with the strong warriors was a seven-foot-long iron There are sharp flying hooks on the iron chain every three feet. Once the ladder warriors are hooked, they can't help themselves, and they will be dragged up soon. What greet them are spears . He had seen many wrestlers die tragically under the flying owl, and it would be unrealistic if he hurriedly removed his armor at this time and tried to fall into the city to escape, hanging on the top of the chain, he lowered his head and roared angrily: "Hold on to the saber! "
The chained flying owl was dragged back by several Beiliang warriors at the top of the city, and the iron armor of the four Beiman warriors rubbed against the wall and made a hissing sound. Among the four, he was the first to "climb" to the top of the city in this embarrassing way. His mind was almost blank. He turned around instinctively and faced the top of the city. After he was pulled out of the city wall, he held the shield in front of him. He was hit by the spearhead and hit his chest hard, but just after he tried to swing the knife indiscriminately, a guard from Beiliang who held a strange straight horizontal knife hit his head on the top of the city, blood Splattered and killed on the spot. As for the three warriors who were dragged into the city one after another after his death, they either died from this kind of axe, or died from a spear. Throw the head of the city heavily.
On the front of Hutou City, one side is attached to the ants, and the other side is killing the ants. It is true that the lives of both sides are like ants.
Xu Fengnian, who was deeply trapped in the enemy's hinterland, continued to move forward, like a broken bamboo.
Invincible, there is no single enemy. However, Xu Fengnian clearly felt a few groups of strong aura coveting him, following his figure and moving quietly. These people are undoubtedly Beimang martial arts masters who are waiting for the opportunity, most of them are in the realm of small masters, and they hide two hundred steps away. There are two top masters, one is King Kong and the other is Zhixuan. Xu Fengnian moved forward in a straight line, killing people without any fancy moves, most likely because the spear fairy king realized the two marksmanship of the collapse character and the arc character in the four-character formula, especially the arc gun, which is most suitable for chaotic battles with few enemies , Arriving in the arc gun style, mixed with the Qi movement of the word collapse, no one survived within two feet of Xu Fengnian.
But Xu Fengnian, who drove straight in, didn't feel complacent at all. On the contrary, his mind became more and more heavy. He went straight to Dong Zhuo's banner. Everyone knew that the only characters who could really stop him were those martial arts masters. Ordinary soldiers were meaningless, but The advancement of the Beimang infantry phalanx was meticulous and did not change in any way. Once they met themselves unfortunately, they would die or die.
In history, most of the large-scale southward invasions of prairie knights bypassed dangerous passes and large towns, or surrounded them without fighting, leaving them alone in the army of cavalry, forcing them to surrender. In the true sense of the battle, firstly, the nomads on horseback are not good at it, and secondly, the gain outweighs the loss. Instead of fighting against the solid defenders on the border, it is better to go around the city, in the hinterland with low walls and low morale. Looting. Although Xu Fengnian knew very early on that Bei Mang had a bad strategy, and that he had to take Beiliang first, it was a last resort, but Dong Zhuo and Taiping Ling were obviously ambitious in their bad strategy, and they wanted to use Beiliang's 300,000 frontier troops as a grind Daoshi, this is just like the reason why Xu Fengnian used Tuoba Bodhisattva to gain momentum not long ago. If he can win, it will be a scene of a flat river in the future. Once Beiliang falls, Beimang, which seems to have suffered heavy casualties, can win the most precious general situation, just like when the Xu family's iron cavalry defeated Western Chu, won a battle at Xileibi, and then fought against Western Shu and Southern Tang, just to clean up the mess Just icing on the cake. The key point that makes Xu Fengnian feel heavy is that at the beginning of Beimang, Dong Zhuo Taiping ordered a few people to have such ambitions, but with the fierce battle between the two battlefields of Hutou City and Hulukou, the soldiers of Beimang have quickly put aside their horses and started fighting. Feeling uncomfortable, Xu Fengnian led Youqi to fight with the Beimang cavalry outside Hulukou. At that time, he didn't see Zhongtan leading the army to attack the city. He didn't have a deep impression. Only when he was on the scene and saw their strength with his own eyes After advancing in sequence and attacking the city in rotation, it was discovered that Beimang's million-strong army was putting all their eggs in one basket, and the odds of winning were really great.
Xu Fengnian suddenly felt angry.
Beiliang is a narrow place with few people, every time Qingliang Mountain recruits a small grandmaster, he has to be careful with it, even Xu Fengnian treats Mi Fengjie, the master of swordsmanship in the Profound Realm, with courtesy. But on this battlefield, several little grandmasters have already died. The three who showed up earlier, and the two who blocked the road later, were discovered by themselves, and they threw an arrow to kill them on the spot. There is also one. In the blink of an eye, there were six of them. On the other hand, in the entire Qingliang Mountain and the entire Fushui House, how many of the six little grandmasters could be present together
Just when Xu Fengnian was about to kill the hidden masters, those martial arts masters with long aura suddenly withdrew from the battlefield at the same time.
Xu Fengnian looked up, and it turned out that Dong Zhuo's banner of the King of the South Court began to move to the rear.
Lure the enemy to go deep
Xu Fengnian, who wanted to advance quickly, stopped suddenly. In order to prevent accidents on the battlefield, the cavalry troops of Liuya Fuling and the two towns of Liuya and Fuling made corresponding mobilizations. He himself and the cavalry troops of the two towns even made the worst plans for entering the battle. Even Liu Jinu also stated that the cavalry troops in the city can leave the city to charge at any time. Xu Fengnian kept his eyes on the moment and place of Hutou City, so he was confident that he could enter the battle alone and have the ability to leave the battlefield, but at this time Xu Fengnian suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
Dong Zhuo's breakthrough point, or Beimang's breakthrough point, is not Hutou City, not Calabashkou, but Liuzhou, which both sides of Beimang were eyeing at first but abandoned with tacit understanding as the situation changed!
I was in danger at the time, and suggested that Chu Lushan and Yuan Zuozong launch an astonishing strategy. They should use the Daxue Dragon Cavalry and a genuine heavy cavalry army as the main force to transfer troops on a large scale and eat the gourd mouth led by Yang Yuanzan in one bite. Please enter the urn, and then catch the turtle in the urn.
So is it possible that Beimang also changed its strategy before this, trying to eat Liuzhou in one bite
Although Xu Fengnian had already followed the established plan before he arrived at Huaiyang Pass, he asked Chu Lushan to give Kou Jianghuai the title of Liuzhou General, and led 3,000 cavalry and 6,000 Liangzhou infantry to help Liuzhou, and cooperated with the 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army Guard the Liuzhou battlefield where Tuoba Bodhisattva joined the battlefield.
Xu Fengnian stood where he was, looking to the west, towards the distant Liuzhou.
At this time, more than twenty cavalry followed him, the king of Beiliang, into the battlefield without knowing when, and everyone carried their swords.
The two leading riders are none other than Wu Liuding, the sword crown of the contemporary Wu family's sword mound, and Cuihua, the female sword attendant.
Even breaking the formation and killing people can't hide the foolish Wu Liuding riding his horse to Xu Fengnian's side. The young swordsman said with a playful smile, "So you don't dare to move forward?"
Xu Fengnian kept silent, Cuihua, the sword servant who habitually closed his eyes and meditated, frowned and said in a low voice, "Speak the business."
Wu Liuding immediately fell silent, and said helplessly: "Chu Duhu asked me to pass a message, saying that he felt that Dong Zhuo was uneasy and kind, so he had already taken his own initiative and rushed to Liuzhou with hundreds of personal guards last night. At the junction of the two prefectures, he already had 8,000 ambush soldiers waiting for Bei Mang to come. Oh, Chu Duhu also said that those 8,000 soldiers were all urgently recruited from the frontier troops from various places not long ago. Without him personally leading the troops, no one can control the gang of veterans."
Xu Fengnian laughed heartily without warning, and couldn't stop no matter what.
Wu Liuding turned to Cuihua and asked, "Did you lose your mind and go crazy?"
Xu Fengnian finally stopped laughing, looked at the banner of Dong Zhuo in the distance to the north, and asked with a smile: "Do you dare to break the formation with me for two miles?"
Wu Liuding said without hesitation: "I'm just a messenger, I dare not!"
The female sword attendant opened her eyes, and calmly said to Xu Fengnian: "My lord, please rest assured."
Xu Fengnian nodded.
The eight thousand veterans that were improvised.
In fact, before the Xu family entered Liang, it was already unorganized. Even earlier, when a certain fat man Qianqi drove to Shu, there was no such thing as a direct descendant of soldiers and horses. No matter what battle, the soldiers under his command are either the fastest to die in the Xu family army, or the fastest to be promoted. If one had to be given a name, there would be one. It was a famous battle he led as a young man. It was by a river. At that time, the 8,000 cavalry troops under his command only lived for 400. people. After Xu Fengnian's hereditary succession as King of Northern Liang, he casually chatted with Fatty, who was the Protector of Northern Liang last time at Huaiyang Pass, and realized that since Fatty led troops as the chief general and fought more than 70 battles, he barely Even if he served as a soldier under his command and did not die, there are more than ten thousand people left in Beiliang. The elders have become the heads of the family of generals, and most of them are young and strong in the army in their forties. The group that is the most unpromising has the lowest rank and should be a standard length.
That river, if Xu Fengnian remembers correctly, is called the Yeluo River.
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The cool current borders the border.
A fat man who had just put on his armor and rode on a big horse looked at the familiar faces of the cavalry army in front of him, and asked with a loud smile: "Everyone, from a general, a lieutenant or at least a captain, to becoming a cavalry man again." How do you feel, my little soldier under Chu Lushan's command?"
The cavalry formation roared with laughter.
The fat man smiled and said: "I heard that there are still many people who came from the infantry to make up for it. I, Chu Lushan, miss the old days, so I don't care about it with you. Thinking about it, I haven't lost too many bows and horses over the years."
The knights laughed even louder.
The fat man suddenly had a murderous look on his face, and he said viciously: "Most of you know an old rule. If you fight the enemy with me, as long as you don't die, you can be promoted later. This time, you will be disappointed. It's hard to say whether you will die, but even if you don't die, There is no promotion! It was agreed in advance that the enemy this time is Dong Zhuo’s direct cavalry in Beimang, at least 20,000 people! We only have 8,000 people, what should we do?”
The audience was solemn and silent.
Chu Lushan suddenly clasped his fists and said, "Then I would like to invite you all to take another trip to Yaoluohe with me, Chu Lushan!"