In a Youzhou military camp less than two hundred miles away from Hulukou, a thin, one-eyed veteran slowly walked onto the parade stand. Before the old man officially showed up, there were already Chen Yunchui, the deputy commander of the Northern Liang Infantry, and Huangfu, the general of Youzhou. Ping, Inspector Hu Kui and others stood on the stage, and the unattractive old man walked to the center of the stage. The strange thing is that even laymen who are not familiar with the Youzhou army, if they see the scene in front of them, they will put the old man in the center. Taking the lead as a matter of course. The veteran in iron armor stood with his sword in both hands, looking at the school lieutenants and soldiers who were motionless under the scorching sun, he didn't speak for a long time. The old man didn't speak, as if he wanted to take a look at the nearly ten thousand infantrymen who were about to go to battle, and recognize all the flags of the Old Battalion of Youzhou Infantry.
The veteran's complexion was not very good, and he finally spoke slowly, "The general passed away, and the prince is not in our Youzhou. As for me, Yan Wenluan, even if I don't die on the battlefield, I guess I won't have a good life for a few years. Today is an opportunity to say something in my heart that I have accumulated for nearly twenty years."
The veteran picked up the Beiliang knife with one hand, and pointed to Chen Yunchui, the second in command of the Beiliang infantry beside him, "Old Chen, our Deputy Commander Chen, you must all recognize me, remember sixteen years ago, this guy accompanied me Went to Qingliangshan Prince's Mansion for a drink. At that time, Chen Yunchui was only a third-rank general. The general joked that you, Chen Yunchui, led 40,000 to 50,000 infantry in Youzhou. It was a waste of talent. Why not go outside Liangzhou Pass and give you 30,000 horsemen? Army, do you want to do it?"
Yan Wenluan didn't take a good look at this old friend who had known him for most of his life, but just took the cold knife and nodded the embarrassed Chen Yunchui, "This old bastard can't drink, and the wine quality is even worse. He was pretending to be drunk at the time. Well, as a result, as soon as the general said these words, he immediately stood up. That eye-catching trick is so bright! Guess what our current deputy commander of the infantry in Beiliang said? He said, Do it, why don’t you do it?! Of course, the general didn’t succeed in poaching the wall in the end. Why? Did Chen Yunchui go back on his word? No, it was me, Yan Wenluan, who was impatient and almost got into a fight with the general! I said at the time What, I still remember it clearly. As soon as I smashed the wine glass, I got up and told the general that the Beiliang infantry is so old-fashioned. It has been cheated and stolen by the Liangzhou cavalry for the past two years. There are many, the old ones are almost picked, and even a lot of young and good seedlings are not let go, so I, Yan Wenluan, will still be the commander of the Beiliang infantry! Chen Yunchui is going to Liangzhou cavalry, it is not impossible, but everyone The general has to give the three adopted sons of Yuanzuo Zong, Chu Lushan and Qi Dangguo to my Beiliang infantry, and throw them all to our Youzhou!"
Veteran Chen Yun lowered his eyes and looked at his heart, as if turning a deaf ear to him, but Yan Wenluan must have wanted to dig a hole to go down when Yan Wenluan exposed his old truth so mercilessly.
Yan Wenluan pointed at Youzhou Inspector Hu Kui again with a sharp knife, "This Inspector is the founder of our Northern Liang crossbowmen's predecessor, and the most serious cavalry general. At that time, Lord Hu Replaced Wang Peifang as the governor of Youzhou, came to Yan Wenluan to set up a relationship with me, and said polite words to an old man like me according to official rules, and then I asked him a question, you Hu Kui came here a few years ago. How does it feel to be an official in Youzhou, which is not as numerous as Lingzhou? Governor Hu is an honest person, so he told me honestly that he was aggrieved, saying that he thought he had a chance to go to Hutou City to serve as Liu Jinu's deputy , or go to Liuzhou Dragon Elephant Army to hang out with the old subordinate Li Mofan Wang Lingbao, that would be good."
Yan Wenluan rested his saber on both hands, looking at the ten thousand infantry, "We have 300,000 frontier troops in Beiliang, so over the years in Liyang, it has been heard that '300,000 cavalry in Beiliang are the strongest in the world', I'm so surprised! Beiliang's cavalry never made up more than half of the frontier army, so why did they become 300,000 cavalry? Does Liyang think that our Beiliang infantry doesn't exist? It seems that Beiliang doesn't treat us Take the infantry seriously."
The one-eyed veteran turned his chin to the east, and said with a sneer: "There is a guy in Jizhou named Yang Shenxing, who was the idiot who was played by a few young people on Guangling Road later. Hey, there are tens of thousands of infantry left by the old Northern Han Dynasty under his command, and they have come up with the name of Jinan infantry, and for more than ten years, they have been called "Jinan infantry" in Liyang. In addition to the first-class elite infantry of "Unrivaled in the World", there are also the Wufeng Army led by Wang Tongshan, the number one fierce general under the command of King Yanchi in Southern Xinjiang, and Wu Chongxuan's Da Jia, who are not small. Go, because we don't have the share of our Youzhou infantry."
The old man paused slightly, "If it's just like this, I, Yan Wenluan, can bear it. Anyway, we can't go to Jizhou or Southern Xinjiang to fight with them, and it's never our Northern Liang people's strength to talk. Item. But! Don’t talk about other than Beiliang, just talk about our Beiliang, don’t talk about Liangzhou Lingzhou, don’t even talk about Liuzhou, just talk about our Youzhou itself! Luanhe City, our old infantry battalion has been removed No, who entered Jizhou in Guohezhou, and finally beat 10,000 people to only 3,000 people at Hulukou?! After thousands of miles of raids and battles, they killed nearly 30,000 enemies! The supply on the Eastern Front was almost completely paralyzed!"
Yan Wenluan laughed at himself: "Why, do you think our Youzhou Army also has heroes?"
Yan Wenluan smiled and said: "Of course, but it's a pity, the 'non-retirement battalion' of 3,400 people is the first cavalry battalion in Youzhou! The prince who fought side by side with the ten thousand cavalry in Youzhou, himself Become an ordinary soldier in the non-retirement camp! Haha, it has nothing to do with you poor wretches who have no horses and only two legs!"
The old man's face was a little grim, "Let's not talk about Yu Luandao, the deputy general of the Youzhou Cavalry Army, or Shi Yulu and Fan Wenyao, who made outstanding military exploits and were promoted to General Hussars respectively, but Tian Heng, the new third general. The chief general of the Wanyou State Cavalry Army, this old fellow disliked the prince at the time and did not dare to fight to the death. He also said that the prince's courage was exhausted after resisting the imperial decree, so he disarmed and returned to the field early, which is why Yu Luan took the sword The same general of Ten Thousand Youqi, just a bastard like Tian Heng who didn't go to Jibei, let alone go outside Hulukou, now seeing me, dare to pat his chest and say Lao Yan, don't worry, I, Tian Heng, promise to make it for you again. A cavalry with a battalion number is coming."
The old man hung the cold knife on his waist again, stretched out his hand and rubbed his cheeks fiercely, took a few steps forward, and asked in a deep voice: "When did my Youzhou pawns fall to this point?"
The audience was silent, but everyone's eyes were red.
Yan Wenluan pointed to himself, "I, Yan Wenluan, have been in the Xu Family Army for thirty-six years. I have been a pawn since the first day, and now I am a general of the second rank. In the final analysis , that is, an elderly infantry. I dare not say the entire Beiliang infantry, but your Youzhou infantry was brought out by me, Yan Wenluan!"
The one-eyed old man casually pointed to the direction of Xiaguang City behind him, "Over there, and then all the way to the north, there are all the barbarians of Beimang. Manzi said that Xiaguang City is just around the corner."
The old man turned around and said, "But I, Yan Wenluan, don't agree!"
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On the northern border of Youzhou Hezhou, a huge scarlet flag fluttered in the strong wind.
Youqi's chief general Tian Heng, his deputy Yu Luandao, Xiqi general Shi Yulu, Hussar general Fan Wenyao, and more than a dozen cavalry generals lined up side by side.
Behind them are 30,000 Youzhou Qingqi who came out in full force.
Veteran Tian Heng has a rough appearance, he doesn't look like a general who holds great power, if he is not wearing armor, he looks like an old farmer who has been working in the fields all year round. The old man, who was resentful at the young vassal's "inaction" at the time, resigned and returned to his hometown in a fit of anger, using the excuse that he could go home to feed his grandchildren when he was too old. Had the opportunity to lead an army alone to conquer Jibei. But in fact, the whole Youzhou knew where the veteran's heirs came from, and they had already died outside the pass. Later, Xu Fengnian and Yu Luandao joined hands to appear outside the gourd mouth. In the end, more than 3,000 people came back from 10,000 riders. The seniors in the army were not much worse than Yan Wenluan, Chen Yunchui and others. After hearing the news, they rushed to Yanwen overnight. The big tent of the Luan army camp, the latter is missing. Tian Heng blocked the outside, and when Huaiyangguan Dufu issued an order to restore Tian Heng's status as a general, Yan Wenluan still refused to buy it. In the end, Xu Fengnian had to write a letter to Yan Wenluan himself, and Youzhou Reluctantly admitted Tian Heng's official position as the leader of the Youzhou Cavalry Army.
Holding the handle of the knife with one hand, the old man turned his head and smiled at Yu Luan knife: "Old Yantou will definitely be pissed off by me this time, but it's not my fault, who made this guy ignore half his life's friendship and just see me?" None."
Yu Luandao and the others smiled knowingly. Tian Heng and general Yan Wenluan are old brothers who exchanged life and friendship. In the early years, one was a captain of the infantry and the other was a captain of the cavalry. After Yan Wenluan was defeated, the general was furious, and Tian Heng was directly demoted from a school lieutenant to an ordinary cavalry pawn. In the fiercely competitive Xu family army, Tian Heng's slow step, that is, slow step by step, those juniors are like Xu Pu, the rising star of the cavalry army, Wu Qi, the younger brother of the princess, and Hu Kui, Yuan Zuozong, all surpassed Tian Heng at that time to become the sole commander of the cavalry army. General, it was Yan Wenluan who personally followed the important person of the general. Tian Heng came to Youzhou from Liangzhou after being promoted to a higher level. For the big men in the army, such as Deputy Commander Jin Zhegu Zhou Kang, Tian Heng can be regarded as a very depressed and hopeless old man of the Northern Liang Army.
Tian Heng put away his smile, and said to Yu Luandao: "General Yu, the 50,000 fine riders on the eastern front of Beimang said they were going to attack Jizhou, but we all know that these barbarians came directly to Youzhou. We need to cooperate with Yang Yuanzan from Hulukou to take down Xiaguang City and invade Youzhou in one go. Our original plan was that you and I would divide our troops into two groups, one way to stop the fifty thousand people at the border of Youhe, and the other way to continue northward along the outer edge of Hulukou At that time, before the departure, it was said that you and Shi Yulu led 15,000 riders to wait for the Beimang army, and Fan Wenyao and I led 15,000 riders to the north, with General Yu as the vanguard. But I think …”
Yu Luandao interrupted with a smile: "Don't worry about it, General. Since it was agreed in advance that this is the use of troops, there is no reason to temporarily change it."
Tian Heng stared and said: "Youzhou's 30,000 cavalry army, is it me, Tian Heng, who is the chief general, or your Yu Luan knife?"
Compared with Fan Wenyao, who has the demeanor of a Confucian general, Shi Yulu, who was the first to be awarded the title of general in Xinbeiliang, is a bit rough-tempered.
Yu Luandao was a little helpless.
Tian Heng looked at the wind and sand in the distance, "Although the above didn't say it clearly, but this time Liuzhou is such a big crisis, even the prince rushed there in person, and the cavalry forces of all the garrisons in Beiliang followed closely behind. State, then our Youzhou cavalry army is going against the grain at this juncture, it must not be easy. In the words of this kid Fan Wenyao... the plan is very big? The 50,000 fine riders in Beimang, not to mention the king of Dongyue Therefore, the autumn and winter two Nabo on the east line are not easy."
Tian Heng laughed suddenly, "Don't think that you, Yu Luan Dao, won two big victories in Jizhou and Hulukou, so you dare not take me, Tian Heng, seriously. When I picked up the first generation of Xu Family Dao, Your kid is still breastfeeding."
Shi Yulu was brought by the veteran Tian Heng "a handful of feces and urine" from the young corporal commander to General Xiqi, so there is no taboo in talking, and he joked: "Old general, you can't say that. General Yu is young and young. It’s really unambiguous at all, no better than you, old general…”
Tian Heng suddenly raised his voice, "Huh?!"
Shi Yulu hurriedly swallowed the word "bad", and he said, "It's no better than you, old general."
Tian Heng snorted heavily, but there was a smile in his eyes, "That's it, Yu Luan Dao, Shi Yulu, and Fan Wenyao, you three, take 20,000 people to go out of the gourd mouth. I will take 10,000 people to guard Here, we don't expect to defeat the enemy's cavalry, after all, if we stop them from entering Youzhou."
Fan Wenyao frowned, hesitated to speak, and gave Shi Yulu a look. The latter understood, and whispered: "Old General, you didn't change the established marching strategy so randomly..."
Tian Heng waved his hands and said: "The mouth of the gourd is the most important thing. Whether you can catch the turtle in the urn depends on whether you two thousand riders can grasp the opening of the pocket!"
Although there was only a secret military order delivered to the Youzhou Cavalry from Huaiyangguan Duhu Mansion, several people present could guess the truth. Although they were all shocked, who wasn't excited about it
You Beimang Dong Zhuo want to use Liuzhou as a breakthrough, then our Beiliang cavalry will give you the Hulukou army on the east line!
Tian Heng looked at these faces who were much younger than himself, and said softly: "They are all from our own, and we don't say anything false. The 30,000 Youzhou cavalry troops, the 15,000 people who promised to go north to go to Hulukou, Most of them are young people, why? Because they beat Wang Sui’s army to death, and even if they survived, they won’t have much military merit. When I joined the army, I was not as angry as a scholar like you Yu Luandao. I, I wanted my whole family to starve to death, and I couldn’t survive, so I tied my head to the waistband of my trousers and joined the army. How could I have thought that I would one day be a soldier A general? Unexpected."
Tian Heng smiled happily, "Don't talk nonsense with me, you don't know what kind of temper I am, Tian Heng? Don't say that the old Yan's head can't be screwed back. It was in front of the general back then, so what should I do? "
At this time, a team of scouts came galloping, and it was a team led by Captain Fan Fen. The rider who was riding alongside Fan Fen turned out to be a child, with two slightly disproportionate Beiliang knives hanging from his waist, standing just like that. On horseback, with his hands folded in his sleeves, he looks like a master. Fan Fen and several generals reported the military situation, and there was no sign of Beimang Ma Lanzi within fifty miles ahead.
Tian Heng stopped the scout who was about to turn around and go north, and asked the child with a smile: "You are Yu Dilong, the young general of our Youzhou cavalry army? I heard that you killed hundreds of Beibei outside Hulukou by yourself A savage?"
The child nodded grimly.
Fan Fen couldn't help breaking the stage and said: "General Tian, this kid is actually thin-skinned in front of outsiders. Didn't he ask me just now, saying that he can be an official scout after he pays off his debts and makes meritorious deeds?" Of the kid's two cold knives, one was given to him by someone else, and the other was temporarily lent to him by us, so we just want to have a second cold knife."
Tian Heng smiled heartily: "From now on, you are the corporal leader of the eighth scout of the Youzhou Cavalry Army!"
Yu Dilong asked: "Your words are effective? My master must follow the rules, otherwise he will not let me stay in Youzhou and not leave the camp."
Tian Heng was speechless at once, he was a bit embarrassed to step down, he dared to play tricks on Yan Wenluan who had a life and death relationship, but he really didn't dare to play sloppy with that young prince.
Yu Luandao smiled and said: "All the military affairs of the Youzhou Cavalry Army, what General Tian said will work. And don't forget, your master is still an ordinary soldier of ours who will not retreat, so there is no need for General Tian to speak. Don’t retire the battalion master, general and lieutenant, let you Yu Dilong be the corps leader of the eighth standard scout, it will still work!"
The child standing on the horse's back tightly grasped the cold knife at his waist, and said seriously: "Generals, please rest assured, I will definitely kill more enemies this time than last time!"
Tian Heng waved his hand with a smile, and the child and scout captain Fan Fen rode away.
Then Tian Heng said seriously to Yu Luandao and the three of them: "I, Tian Heng, am an old guy who broke out from the Spring and Autumn War. After all, my strength is not as good as it was back then, so Beiliang will depend on you from now on."
Tian Heng looked down at the sixth-generation Xu Family Knife on his waist, raised his head and said suddenly: "General Yu, I have left nothing in my life, just a dilapidated house that is not worth much, but there are still five in my family. Handle a sword, if...then I will leave it to you, Yu Luan Dao, to keep it for me. When I have a chance to talk to the younger generation, how about a few stories about the old general from Youzhou?"
Yu Luan, Dao Shi, Yulu, Fan Wenyao and the others were all silent.
Tian Heng clasped his fists and laughed loudly, "Farewell!"
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The offensive and defensive battle of Hutou City is in full swing.
A cavalry army with a number of only about 10,000 people quietly left the station and headed east with the momentum of a lion fighting a rabbit.
The leading cavalry general is Yuan Zuozong, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Liang Cavalry Army!
The momentum is like a rainbow.
Almost at the same time, two cavalry troops, which had never been fully present on the battlefield, went to two dangerous passes at the northern junction of Liangyou respectively.
Both passes are heavily guarded, all elite Youzhou infantry.
The surrounding pass has a radius of hundreds of miles and is heavily guarded. There has always been an iron law that once anyone who has nothing to do with them appears, they will be killed without mercy.
A few months ago, as a large number of sealed items were added to the two passes, a large number of Beiliang's top crossbowmen began to roam secretly in these two passes.
The combined number of the two cavalry armies is no more than 9,000.
One man with two horses may not be strange, but what is enough to make people dumbfounded is that each of these war horses is a first-class war horse in Beiliang!
You must know that in the whole of Beiliang, there are only 3,000 dragon elephant cavalry in Liuzhou that can be equipped with first-class war horses, and there are only 300 to 400 horses in Youzhou! Lingzhou didn't even have a single horse!
These eccentric cavalrymen who obviously don't wear cold swords or bows and crossbows are all elite frontier soldiers with strong bodies and outstanding physical strength. With their vigorous physique and fierce arrogance, even if they have never even put on light armor, they are still elite soldiers. daunting.
One is the Rouge Army.
One is the Wei Xiong Army.
When they are on the battlefield, all men and horses wear armor.
That is the Rouge Heavy Cavalry, Weixiong Heavy Cavalry!
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During the battle at Hutou City, when Liuzhou was in an emergency, and when Yan Wenluan had to mobilize 10,000 dead infantry to reinforce Xiaguang City.
Twenty thousand Youzhou Qingqi!
Ten thousand snow dragon cavalry!
The iron cavalry among the Beiliang iron cavalry, nine thousand heavy cavalry in the true sense!
They will appear outside the gourd mouth together!