Beiliang iron cavalry broke into the hinterland of Jiangnan Road. There are tens of thousands of troops on the border of the Huaihe River. It gave Zhao Shi and the court a step up.
If you look at the current Liyang territory, Jiangnan Road, which is located north of Guangling River, is actually called a misnomer. However, in the early Spring and Autumn Period, the territory south of Guangling was always regarded as a land of barbarians full of miasma. In the old Southern Tang Dynasty with most of the territory in the south, in addition to fighting a few soul-stirring battles under the leadership of Gu Dazu, it caused a lot of trouble to the Liyang army led by General Gu Jiantang at that time. The ridiculous conclusion is that the soldiers and horses in Liyang who died of diseases were roughly equal to the number of casualties on the battlefield. It is said that after the old emperor of Liyang established the empire, he said to the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty who was surrendered to Beijing, that people are in the Western Chu, and the location is in you. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, only the right time is in Liyang. Everyone in the world says that the right time is not as good as the right place, and the harmony between people is not as good as the right place. Therefore, in my opinion, this statement cannot be true.
Later, Liyang merged with the state under the hands of the late emperor Zhao Dun, and when Jiangnan Dao was set up, it was not that there were no civil servants who raised objections, suggesting that Jiangbei Dao was more appropriate, but Zhao Dun, who was known as the best of all emperors in terms of literature, governance and martial arts, smiled. The reason for the refusal is that it is full of a legendary color of unofficial history. Zhao Dun took a large-scale collection of poems recently compiled by the Imperial Academy at the court meeting, and joked that how many literati and refined scholars have written about the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times. It is difficult for future generations to read it At the time of this book, do you want them to turn a corner? I had to shift my gaze to look at a note that reads "Jiangnan in ancient times is Jiangbei today", and the charm of the word "North" is too strong, which is too disturbing.
Jiangnan Dao, where the flourishing style of writing has been cultivated for thousands of miles in fertile soil, this Beiliang cavalry army with iron armor and strong horses is particularly abrupt. Hong Shuwen, a group of young northern Liang barbarians who were born and raised in the northwest, were particularly unaccustomed to the water and soil. They said that the ground here is soft and uncomfortable, and there is no sound when the horse's hooves step on it, let alone in the desert outside the pass. Hong Shuwen and the others didn't feel pleasing to the eye at all, but felt a suffocation in their chests, and they couldn't use their hands and feet. Compared with these young warriors who were used to the yellow sand and snow in the northwest, Yuan Zuozong and a group of heavy snow dragon cavalry who had experienced wars in the Spring and Autumn period when they were young were much calmer.
This iron cavalry marched day and night, and did not deliberately pursue speed in Jizhou, Hezhou, Youzhou, but it became extremely fast when it went south to the Central Plains. The cavalry, strong soldiers, iron armor, horses, food, military law, and battlefield are all indispensable. In the past twenty years, the whetstones riding on the Beiliang side have always been only the Beimang army. For example, the opponents of the crossbowmen in Liangzhou are mostly brave enemies such as Dong Zhuo's Wuyalanzi. This is a very interesting illusion, that is, to a large extent, the overall combat power of the soldiers and horses in the world is greatly overestimated. This is exactly the opposite of the so-called elite soldiers and horses in Liyang, especially in the Central Plains. For example, Yang Shenxing's Jizhou infantry has always looked down on them Yan Wenluan's infantry and Guangling King Zhao Yi's cavalry firmly believed that they could compete with Beiliang's cavalry. The Qingzhou Army of Jing'an Road never took Beiliang's cavalry seriously. A leader once said, what kind of cavalry? For those who don't ride iron, how many catties of iron hang on their body is the iron ride? What's more, in Beiliang, a poor place where birds don't shit, can half of the soldiers wear armor
Then when this big snow dragon cavalry army appeared in the sight of the Central Plains at a glance, the government and the opposition, closed the door, closed the city, closed the camp, and of course shut up by the way.
In the deep night, near a scenic spot called Shuangluan Pond in Wucai County, Jiangnan Road, the brigade of cavalry stopped their horses and rested on the spot for three hours. Returning, before reconnaissance wandering, each ranger corporal will receive a topographic map from the leader, the drawing is extremely precise and rigorous, not only the names of the mountains and rivers are marked in detail, in many cases even the outposts of small and small villages They are all recorded. It is obvious that this is definitely not a map collected temporarily, and it is even more impossible to borrow it from the local government army. It can only be something that Beiliang has long recorded in the confidential files of the frontier army. Look at those map papers The new and old, the earliest was only about three years ago, what does this mean? It means that the Beiliang Frontier Army, which has been entrenched in the northwest and overlooked the Central Plains for 20 years, has never been truly indifferent to the Central Plains! This kind of clues that are not obvious in words and on the table makes the entire cavalry army, from scouts to main force, from corporal commanders to generals, from top to bottom, there is a kind of unbearable depression and heat, like a stove in the snow.
The army was quiet and purged, but a group of people walked slowly on this snowy night, quietly left the station, and rode to the famous scenic spot in the south of the Yangtze River, Hanshan Temple, a thousand-year-old temple. Two locals, one is the spy chief who Fushuifang placed in Jiangnan Road, even Xu Fengnian only knows that this person is called Song Shanshui. Nearly sixty years old, wearing linen and straw sandals, he looks like an old farmer working in the fields all year round, but this person is the veteran who founded Fushuifang, and Chu Lushan regards him as his confidant. The other person is about the same age as the spy, and his surname is Zhang Longjing, but his demeanor is completely opposite to that of the former. He is full of wealth and nobility. He is the richest man in Wucai County. It is no different from the chief assistant of the first dynasty. The Zhang family is not an outsider in Wucai County, but it really started 20 years ago. Before that, it was only a wealthy gentry family within a county. Don't forget to give back to his hometown, generously donated money to support nearly a hundred poor scholars, more than a dozen of them are now powerful figures with high official rank, and the two most outstanding are officials to the Ministry of Household Doctor and Yizhou Biejia respectively .
In order to take care of Zhang Longjing, who hadn't ridden for many years, the group walked unhappily, which made Zhang Shoufu very uneasy. He originally arranged for his confidants to come by car, but the young vassal suddenly decided to go to Hanshan Temple to enjoy the scenery. Yuan Zuozong, the head coach of the Northern Liang Cavalry Army, also rode on horseback. How could Zhang Longjing dare to go there by himself. Back then, he had transformed from a brave young captain in the Xu family army. He had been immersed in official circles in Wucai County for more than 20 years. The edges and corners have all been worn away, not to mention that it has been a generation since the incense was fired back then, Zhang Longjing dared not lose his manners in front of the famous Xinliang King.
This time, his identity was leaked, and he funded food and grass for the Beiliang Cavalry Army of the former owner Xu's family. Zhang Longjing, who has a lot of children and grandchildren, is not without worries, and it affects his whole body. Let’s just say that the Zhang family’s Hanshu children who gave charcoal in the snow and offered a helping hand in the early years, now they have become officials dressed in green scarlet, must send letters of renunciation to the Zhang family’s house, and they may miss the Zhang family the most in the future. It is this group of people who have copied and beheaded all over the family. Zhang Longjing, who is familiar with people and the world, still feels a little bitter when he thinks of this. But if you want to talk about regret, it is absolutely impossible to talk about it. Zhang Longjing knows better than anyone else that the Zhang family can have today's status, whether it is officialdom or Jianghu status. At this moment, Song Shanshui, an old spy who has never appeared in front of him, this The old man behind the scenes who hides in the deep shadows has made great contributions.
Zhang Longjing felt a burning pain on both sides of his legs, and was in a trance for a while. As a veteran cavalry soldier, he thought back then that he fought with the general in the north and south, and even dozed off on the bumpy horseback without falling off the horse, not to mention his incomparable proficiency. I never thought that twenty years later, even traveling on horseback would be so difficult, so I am really old.
The young vassal's words interrupted Zhang Shoufu's mind-wandering, "Zhang Longjing, when my Beiliang cavalry army returns from the original route, will there be any twists and turns in the Zhang family's moving to Beiliang with us? If there are any difficulties , you can bring it up now, plan ahead, it’s better to be in a hurry when the time comes. Also, let me say something ugly, even if the Beiliang cavalry went to the Guangling Road battlefield, as long as they stayed in the Central Plains, generally speaking, no one would Dare to touch your Zhang family, but if you don't move to Liang, the whole family will be in a severe situation of making enemies on all sides. Don't expect the old friends to miss the old love. When the time comes, the court will not speak out, and the local government and local garrisons will also be concerned. Therefore, if there are young children in your clan who are lucky, you'd better explain the truth to them. If you don't understand, you have to fight to understand. After all, a temporary family disharmony is better than a future family ruin. Of course, Just like the previous sixteen families, I can guarantee that after the Zhang family arrives in Beiliang, I dare not say that life is more comfortable than in the original place, but it is certainly not much worse. They will open the door to convenience. I have already said hello to Chu Lushan and Song Dongming. The officialdom and the military will squeeze out more than 50 positions for you, and share them. A family can get about three at least, and the lowest official status is real power. From the fifth grade."
Speaking of this, Xu Fengnian laughed at himself: "From the fifth rank, even if it is a little higher, it is indeed a bit shabby for you prefects, so I can also promise you privately, if it is not for the garrison in places like Lingzhou, It is the border army outside the Guan, the official rank can be higher by one level, if it is not Liangzhou officialdom, but Liuzhou Yamen, it can also be higher by an extra level. The second battle of Liangmang is coming soon, the trade-offs here are up to you to see for yourself manage."
Zhang Longjing was about to speak, when Xu Fengnian suddenly turned his head and looked at the old soldier who had never forgotten Xu's family with a smile, and said first: "In addition to your Zhang family in Wucai County, my Beiliang cavalry army came all the way, and it took seventeen years I, Xu Fengnian, are very grateful to you, and I will try my best to defeat Beimang, so that you will have no worries."
Zhang Longjing was silent, with a complicated expression on his face.
The Zhang family has been successful in Wucai County and even the entire state road for many years. This time, as the head of the family, he insists on going his own way, there will definitely be violent rebounds inside and outside the family, but in the final analysis, the Zhang family has nowhere to go back in Liyang, and it is no longer alive. It is not a question of nourishment or not, but if you want to live, you can only retreat to Beiliang step by step. Zhang Longjing often asks himself recently, if the Zhang family's children set up a new family in a completely unfamiliar place, even if the young feudal lord and Beiliang officials are willing to open the back door and let the younger generation of the family take a shortcut, whether it goes smoothly or not, it will go far It's close, it's hard to say.
The old spy Song Shanshui is also silent. Compared with Zhang Longjing who only lives in a corner after all, he needs to know more secrets. In fact, after Beiliang Iron Cavalry left the domain of the vassal king, the family that was cared for and supported by Fushuifang along the way was not Seventeen, but twenty-four, the four families in Jizhou, Hezhou, stepped forward without hesitation, and broke with the court completely, but further south, there began to be repeated people, such as the two families in the north of Jiangnan Road. The family, because the former head of the old Xu family had passed away for many years, chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb this time. After that, the family secretly contacted Zhao Gou through the government, trying to draw a line with Beiliang, and the latter's old head Still alive, what is the reason for it, whether it is greed for wealth or consideration for the future of children and grandchildren, it is unknown. Afterwards, another six families made similar choices one after another. Song Shanshui believed that the farther away from Beiliang Road, the more families would betray their faith and protect their lives. The old spy thought that he would deal with these white-eyed wolves in the future, but after seeing and hearing with King Xinliang tonight, the ruthless old spy suddenly became a little uncertain, and told himself intuitively that it should be possible to never violate the river. more sexual.
Song Shanshui, who was originally a scout, felt a little regretful in his heart, because he felt aggrieved for Beiliang. But for Beiliang, especially the young man, the old spy was not disappointed at all. Song Shanshui felt a little familiar with this young feudal lord who was now in Liyang like a thunderbolt.
Leaving aside the robed soldiers who died in the battle earlier, why did General Xu Xiao treat all the living people badly? Have you ever thought about it? For so many years, there have been as many general families in Beiliang, and there have never been fewer dudes who have done evil. Until the death of the general, these moths and families were not touched. The teacher, patrolling the border again and again, was more or less suspicious of turning a blind eye to the smog behind him, especially in Lingzhou, and finally kept his promise from the early years from the beginning to the end, "I, Xu Xiao, became rich in his early years, so I must keep it." The old brothers under my hand will enjoy the blessings with me!"
Could it be that if Lu Mang hadn't fought, Xinliang King Xu Fengnian wouldn't have gone to war in Lingzhou official circles
Originally, the old spy was very curious about this matter, but now he couldn't ask.
As for whether the Beiliang iron cavalry will go south to the Central Plains next time, and whether the king of Xinliang has the idea of sitting on the dragon chair. For some reason, the old spy suddenly lost his mind.
In the ensuing chat between the King of Xinliang and Commander Yuan, the two old men learned that not only the Jizhou army was going south to intercept, but 20,000 Shu elites were also going out of Shu to pursue the east, and Jing'an Road, which is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, seemed to be ready to move. .
Once a war breaks out, Xu Gong, the Minister of War who is really responsible for blocking the Northern Liang cavalry, will definitely carefully select a place that is not conducive to the formation of the cavalry.
In Zhang Longjing's eyes, the Liyang court wanted to invite the king into the urn.
Zhang Longjing had to be worried, because after all, he had been away from the Xu family cavalry for over twenty years.
I haven't even seen Hutou City in Liangzhou, Hulukou in Youzhou, or Qingcang City in Liuzhou.
For the first time, the old spy took the initiative to chat with Zhang Longjing, who was neck and neck, and asked in a low voice, "Are you afraid?"
Zhang Longjing, who had been exposed, did not become angry, but just sighed: "It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that I'm worried. I'm worried that the tiger will fall into peace."
The old spy sneered and said, "The tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by the dog? The tiger roared in the Central Plains, and a farting dog barked?!"
Zhang Longjing felt resentful.
The warm voice of the young vassal king suddenly came from the front, "Old Song, I accept flattery, but there is no guarantee that you will be promoted in Fushuifang. That is Chu Lushan's territory, and his words are more effective than mine."
The old spy, who was used to not showing any emotions, smiled.
Zhang Longjing turned his head and glared at the old bastard who made fun of him, "Your surname is Song, you will never even think of me buying you a drink in this life!"
The inconspicuous old spy replied softly, "I will stay here all my life and will not move. Even if you want to invite Zhang Shoufu, there is nothing you can do."
Zhang Longjing asked curiously, "Why didn't you come back?"
The old spy twitched the corners of his mouth, "I'm old, staying in the Central Plains, relying on the little experience I have accumulated, maybe it will be useful. I went to the battlefield outside the pass, and I can't afford to lose this old face. The younger generations look down on our Xu family veterans."
Zhang Longjing was speechless, only sighed.
Suddenly, the old spy opened his voice and shouted: "My lord, allow me to flatter you again?"
The young vassal king in front turned his head and smiled and said, "It's okay to talk about it, but if you talk about breaking the sky, you still won't be rewarded."
The old man straightened up a little, and the spy who hadn’t used his real name for twenty years said the three words that he almost forgot, and said: “If I, Song Hetian, can be twenty years younger, I will kill you with the prince.” Go barbarian! It's like following the great general back then. Every time I rushed to the battlefield, I only had one thought. When I died in battle, I was surrounded by robes, and there were brothers who survived to help me live. It's not a loss if you die!"
Xu Fengnian continued to ride forward.
But Yuan Zuozong slowed down slowly, took off the saber at his waist, threw it over, and said with a smile: "Old Song, the prince has sent out a lot of new cold knives this trip, and I didn't bring it with me this time, so I will give it to you on behalf of the prince." .”
The old spy caught the saber that killed 300,000 barbarians from Beimang outside Beiliang Pass, and said with a bright smile: "Commander Yuan, I don't want the knife, a spy who can't see the light doesn't need it, and it's not appropriate to keep it. "
Zhang Longjing was at a loss and wondered: "Then why are you hugging so tightly?"
I saw the old spy carefully hanging the saber by his waist.
The old soldier wears a new knife.
Only the old man said in a deep voice: "Just let me, an old soldier, wear a cold sword for ten miles!"