The Western Regions are dotted with large and small basins, and it is very easy for an army to gallop freely and fortify. Therefore, only in the heyday of the Central Plains Dynasty in history can it "stretch to the west". The existence of the three towns of Linyao and Fengxiang in Qingcang is to connect the two places in the Central Plains of the Western Regions, and in the vast area west of Linyaojun Town, Miyun Mountain Pass is the main throat. Landa Mountain is located in the mountain range on the left side of the pass. , Naturally, it is beneficial to station troops and store funds.
Two cavalry troops walked eastward along this wide horizontal pass. The latter is a typical Beimang light cavalry system. Except for the centurion and thousand commanders wearing iron armor, they are no different from the Central Plains cavalry generals. Most cavalry are made of leather. The light and tough battle armor is equipped with various configurations, such as sabers, spears, riding bows, and even many maces and lassoes hanging on both sides of the auxiliary horses. The leading cavalry army is obviously more "heavier". In order not to hurt the horse's leg strength, there are also two auxiliary horses. The armor bag, the almost cumbersome set of armor is covered with leather, scales or chain mail, and the weapons are relatively more neat. They are all three types of spears, riding bows and sabers, all of which are hung on soldiers and horses. And the cavalry army with a number of about 3,000 cavalry under the crotch is also covered with leather armor on horses. Just from the scale of the three cavalry of this person, it can be known that these 3,000 cavalry, regardless of their combat power, are Among the Beimang frontier army, it must be the "Lao Tzu Army" who ranks first.
According to the ridicule of the Beiliang frontier army, the confidant of Beimang, the Beiliang frontier army is roughly divided into three types. The cavalry, nicknamed the son army, belonged to the elite of the Southern Dynasty. There is no shortage, excellent horses and excellent armor. The cavalry in important military towns such as Wazhu Junziguan are on this list. As for Sun Tzu's army, they are much inferior. His military exploits are almost the same, vulnerable to a single blow. There is also a strong cavalry called the Laozi army, which should not be underestimated. There are as many as three, four or even five auxiliary horses, such as Dong Zhuo's private cavalry, Hong Jingyan's Rouran cavalry, and Liu Gui, Yang Yuanzan and other northern cavalry. This is true of General Mang's veteran troops. They are small in number, but their combat power is extremely strong. There is no situation where they dare not fight to the death due to the disparity in their strength. If they win, they will be invincible. dominate the situation.
This large Beimang cavalry army with a total of 10,000 people is the decree army that successfully helped Zhongtan ascend Mount Lanta. The high gates of the Southern Dynasty who were placed on the two battlefields of Liuzhou and Youzhou were greatly hurt. Since Liu Gui and Yang Yuanzan, the veterans of the Southern Dynasty frontier army who have been famous for a long time, are unreliable, this time the six or seven like-minded Southern Dynasty A and B clans have learned their lesson. , the bet was placed on Xia Nabo Zhongtan, who had become famous. Of course, Zhongtan, who was backed by a big tree to enjoy the shade, also took out a lot of family money. Half of Zhongtan, even the general Zhong Shentong has only three thousand private riders, which shows that the Zhong family attaches great importance to this eldest son, but it is not surprising, after all, Zhongtan is even the empress himself in the court. The underachievers who are praised have been watching the officialdom in Beimang for twenty years. This honor is probably only Liu Gui and Dong Zhuo among the seniors in the temple.
Zhong Tan was riding on a hard-earned horse nicknamed "Beauty". The young general who should have been complacent looked gloomy and looked towards the distance of the mountain pass. A confidant commander beside him said curiously: "Young master, eighty All the fences for riding horses have been thrown out, and they are all their own sons, so nothing can go wrong, I reckon that there will be no wars before we reach Fengxiang Army Town in Liuzhou, what is the young master worried about?"
Zhong Tan heard the familiar sound of horseshoes and camel bells in the army, and frowned, "It's too peaceful."
The commander-in-chief who came from a family stretched out his hand to scratch the big bald head, and said with a grin: "Young master's trip to Mount Lantuo was unexpected, and it's normal for the Beiliang frontier army to react too late. Just the poor cavalry in Liuzhou , Just dealing with Huang Songpu's soldiers and horses is enough to eat a big pot, how can we take care of us?"
Zhong Tan sighed and said worriedly: "Dong Zhuo had already captured Hutou City in Liangzhou in the last battle, and Liuzhou also maintained a balance of power, but in the end he lost the whole battle because Youzhou lost too badly. This battle is in the north of Jubei City, but the key to victory lies in Liuzhou. I am afraid of the two wars, because wherever I live, I will lose there... "
The commander hurriedly interrupted Zhong Tan's unlucky words, and said angrily: "Young master, don't want a crow's mouth!"
Zhong Tan laughed at himself, then his eyes were firm, and he said in a deep voice: "Keep an eye on the movement of the horse fence in front of you all the time, and the information sent back is a little strangely stagnant. Our vanguard three thousand riders will enter the wartime preparations and rush out of Miyun at the fastest speed." Yamaguchi, make sure that the 6,000 cavalry behind you can spread out the formation on a flat area."
The reason why this Xia Nabo led three thousand kinds of cavalry to open the way was that he was worried that people would be blocked in the Miyun Mountain Pass, and the six thousand cavalry behind him who came from different sources might not be able to successfully block the sudden arrival of a large number of Beiliang cavalry The impact is very likely to force the enemy to the point where the sea water pours in. At that time, there will be a one-sided massacre in the Miyun Mountain Pass. Even if the monks and soldiers of Mount Landa are close at hand, the outcome of the war will be fleeting. As far as the cavalry battle is concerned, it is actually of little significance. Zhong Tan, who has experienced the tragic battle in Hulukou from the beginning to the end, knows very well that the strengths and weaknesses of the troops on paper are all false. The two young men, Xie Xizhen and Kou Jianghuai, also proved this point with unimaginable victories.
Although Zhong Tan had a discussion with his father Zhong Shentong and his uncle Zhong Liang beforehand, they believed that Liuzhou's precarious situation did not allow Beiliang to dispatch 20,000 cavalry to intercept them. The Wanqi army and the monks and soldiers from Wanlanda Mountain who are about to leave for the battlefield are firmly invincible on any battlefield west of Liuzhou, but Zhong Tan never feels that there is any inevitable trend on the battlefield. In the Q&A session with the monarch and his ministers, Her Majesty the Empress was full of praise for this young man in front of the court full of important officials. She didn't say much, and claimed that "there is nothing outstanding, and the only thing to do is to be cautious in using troops." This was not just taking care of Liu Gui. The faces of Dong Zhuo's "defeated generals" are more of a true portrayal of Zhong Tan dispatching troops.
Zhong Tan said to himself: "As long as I get out of this Miyun Mountain Pass, it doesn't matter if you Xu Fengnian has the tricks to turn clouds and rain in Liuzhou. But even if you have the courage to come and intercept me, you can really stop me ?”
Although there is still a long way to go near the exit, and the latest military information from Ma Lanzi in front of him is no different, Zhong Tan suddenly narrowed his eyes and issued an inexplicable military order, "Three thousand vanguards, change horses! Put on armor! "
Zhong Tan took the lead and charged forward.
If there is no Beiliang cavalry waiting outside the mountain pass, then it will be regarded as a martial arts exercise.
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In the art of war, there has always been a saying of hitting halfway, and it varies with time and place.
A young and elegant cavalry general raised his arm, and two towns of six thousand cavalry stopped suddenly behind him.
He looked up at the Miyun Mountain Pass about three miles away. Behind him, the 6,000 troops were all dusty and exhausted. One man rode in two, and both men and horses were exhausted. It stands to reason that a cavalry army in such a situation would not have half an hour to rest and recuperate. , Combat power will never return to its peak state. The best horse in the world can probably run three hundred miles a day. The so-called expedited 600-mile or even 800-mile rush is all bought at the huge price of changing horses at post stations and killing people without crime. In fact, the real key to determine the speed of a cavalry army is The stamina of the cavalry's first-class war horses, those famous long-distance cavalry battles that have gone down in history, are all based on the premise that the horses will suffer heavy losses. Otherwise, how can a cavalry army that is exhausted after two or three charges can cause lethality to the enemy
This time when they raided the Western Regions, the established strategy of Beiliang Duhu Mansion and Liuzhou Governor's Mansion required him and another cavalry army to try their best to intercept Zhongtan Wanqi, and then force the monks behind him to enter Liuzhou as soon as possible. Qingcang is the main battlefield, so in the final analysis, this blocking battle is not about the size of the battle, but it is just trying to buy time for Yu Luan's lone cavalry army to go deep and the main dragon elephant army. It is easy to fight, but it is also very difficult to fight. The conservative way of fighting is to ignore the infantry and monk soldiers of Mount Landa, and only need to entangle with the cavalry who opened the way by planting sandalwood. In this way, the mission will be completed. However, while the two cavalry armies were driving side by side, he proposed a very risky idea, a radical policy that made it difficult for the two cavalry armies to fight. He thought that the young man nicknamed Cao Shorty Winter Melon would categorically reject it. He would bring up the saying of "focusing on the overall situation", but the young Beiliang cavalry general, who was fighting side by side with him for the first time, agreed without saying a word. The reason is that he has more troops under Cao Wei's command, and his general Cao Wei is more capable of marching and fighting. This makes him dumbfounded, but at the same time, he also feels a little unclear. He was used to working alone in Guangling Road. Picking up all the burdens, I am used to the heaviness of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops, whose life and death are all tied to one body.
This battle, before it started, made him feel very strange.
He Xie Xizhen turned his head to look at the cavalry troops belonging to the two military towns of Linyao and Fengxiang, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to hold the saber that he had just obtained not long ago, the sixth-generation Xu Dao.
He only started to understand many things and details after he entered the frontier army in the northwest, such as the sword in his hand. It turns out that there are two special attentions to the opening of the cold sword, one is sharpened in the workshop, and the other is to kill people and drink blood on the battlefield, otherwise That saber, if there was only the previous one, it would not be called a cold sword.
Xie Xifeng smiled.
It's cold and bitter in the north, but the poor are so particular about it.
But he likes it, likes it a lot.
The 6,000 horses behind him have a complicated "origin", including the origin of a powerful horse thief who used to claim the king in the two towns, and the young and strong refugees from Liuzhou who fought for their household registration, and the woman named Chai Dongdi. Riding in the Western Regions.
To be precise, like Xie Xizhen, compared to the Beiliang frontier army who has experienced many battles with the Northern Mang barbarians, they are all young people. This is true for people, especially for the newly issued cold knife around their waists.
Cutting off the head of the barbarian from the North Mang to start the bloody sword is no worse than breaking melons for those juicy aunts and aunts of Yanzhi County!
This statement is very crude and vulgar, and I don't know who said it first.
Although Xie Xizhen, who studied under Cao Changqing in Western Chu but was born in a market lane, naturally he likes it very much.
Xie Xizhen's military orders were accurately conveyed one by one, and the six thousand cavalry were divided into three divisions according to the source. The army launched a charge and collided with the enemy's formation. If it was profitable, the whole army would advance together. If it failed, as long as it stabilized its position so that the Beimang cavalry could not successfully spread out the formation outside the mountain pass, they would retreat after a small battle, and the second group of refugees Qianqi Charged as a substitute, and then changed to Chai Dongdi's two thousand cavalry troops, retreating and advancing. He personally led five hundred elite Dragon Elephant Army to stand by, once the Northern Mang Cavalry appeared
If there is a sign of breaking out, Xie Xizhen will let the 500 dead soldiers ride finely, and even if they die in battle, they will block the exit of Miyun Mountain Pass with their own corpses.
After parting ways with Cao Wei Wanqi, the latter had handed over most of the crossbows and cavalry bows to Xie Xizhen's cavalry army.
The best situation is, of course, that the elite cavalry of the Zhongtan tribe will rush out of the Miyun Mountain Pass first, but Xie Xizhen believes that the corpse of the Northern Liang frontier army from the two cities of Luanhe and Luanhe, who rested on the mouth of the gourd, should be The young people who went to Xia Na Bo would definitely not be so careless.
Even if Zhong Tan really did not live up to the name, then Xie Xizhen is more confident that on the real battlefield, he will get back the exploits that his own team missed by making mistakes first.
Xie Xizhen gave the order almost at the same time as Zhong Tan in the mountain pass, and then said the same words, "Change horses! Put on armor!"
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After Cao Wei's 10,000 riders separated from Xie Xizhen, he began a long-distance raid as fast as thunder, regardless of the physical damage of the horse.
Directly bypassed the Miyun Pass!
He wanted to break in through an entrance near the west end of the Miyun Mountain Pass, then plunge himself into death, and run quickly east along the mountain pass, and finally he was between the Zhongtan cavalry army and the monk soldiers of Mount Landa. Be able to guard the east gate! Can wait until he is able to stab Tan Tan cavalry in the ass!
So when Cao Wei parted with Xie Xizhen, he made a half-truth and half-fake joke: The surname is Xie, and I, General Cao, was determined to become a man like the old Liang Wang Xu Xiao, but this time it was tantamount to tying his head. It's on your Xie Xizhen's waistband, don't let me die young!
Xie Xizhen didn't say any bold words at that time, but just nodded.
When Xie Xizhen saw the little general galloping away, he turned his back to him, raised his arm, and stretched out his thumb.
I don't know what is the unique meaning of Cao Wei, or what is the strange and particular about the Beiliang frontier army.
Wanqi rushed forward, and its momentum was like a landslide.
Cao Wei's lips were chapped and bloody, but his face was full of smiles, and he roared angrily: "I want to make the battle of Miyun Mountain Pass a heroic cavalry battle that will not lose to Lu Shengxiang going to Luzhou on a snowy night, and Chulu Mountain to open Shu with a thousand riders! Cao Wei can die, but he can't die without a name!"
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Although the Miyun Mountain Pass showed a restraining trend, like a woman's slender waist, after all, it was still possible for more than twenty riders to rush out side by side.
Previously, Xie Xizhen could see several riders on the northern mang horse running back to the mountain pass to convey the military information with just his eyesight.
The war is imminent.
But the cavalry of the Tantan tribe rushed out faster and more violently than expected.
So much so that the fifty cavalry in the lead of the two towns of Fengxiang and Linyao were swept away almost instantly.
Although the light crossbows and cavalry bows in Beiliang had already fired salvos, and the arrows rained towards the exit, and soon shot down twenty or thirty Beimang barbarians, but the overall momentum of the Beimang cavalry remained undiminished.
Xie Xizhen immediately changed his strategy and immediately ordered the 500 Dragon Elephant Army's dead cavalry to cull them away.
There are not enough corpses on both sides, far from enough to form a natural barrier!
Xie Xijun stopped his horse half a mile outside the mountain pass, with only dozens of cavalry guards and six orderly cavalry around him.
He was not the kind of fierce general who charged into the battle. When he came to the battlefield in person and wiped out the entire army of Liyang Spring and Autumn veteran Yan Zhenchun, Xie Xizhen also never went into battle to kill the enemy.
It's not that Xie Xizhen doesn't have the kind of courage to kill in a fit of anger, but that he, who is mediocre in force, knows very well that only a general who lives to give orders accurately can lead his army to kill Yingye.
Xie Xizhen not only let the 500 elite riders go to death, but even issued a military order, if they fall off their horses and survive the fight, please try your best to kill the horses in the battle!
Xie Xizhen thought of those faces with firm eyes. After hearing this order, almost everyone's eyes were filled with pain, and finally they all rode away silently.
After the five hundred dragon and elephant riders galloped to the battlefield,
Xie Xizhen ordered the cavalry of the two towns that had retreated a little to form a semi-fan formation with a blank expression. Once the five hundred cavalry showed signs of retreat, or when only fifty cavalry were left standing on the battlefield, they had to attack Miyun Mountain Pass. Shoot regardless of enemy or friend.
The lieutenants of the cavalry army of the two towns of Linyao and Fengxiang hesitated to speak, and gritted their teeth to accept orders.
Then Xie Xizhen asked Linyao Fengxiang cavalry at the top of the arc of the fan to create a passage for twenty cavalry to charge forward side by side, so that a thousand cavalry, young and strong, were ready to line up and concentrate all the spears and spears in the army. Give these refugees with outstanding physical strength young and strong cavalry.
And temporarily selected 600 people who are good at cavalry, archery and infantry to form an army alone, located in front of the fan of the cavalry army of the two towns.
Sitting on the horseback, Xie Xizhen looked at the narrow battlefield that couldn't be narrower, and it was a strange battlefield where everyone died.
Although he couldn't see the scene inside the Miyun Mountain Pass clearly, he could fully imagine the dense iron armor there, constantly squeezing and clustering together, like a swarm of locusts, like a nest of ant nests.
If the Fushuifang's espionage leaked, the monks and soldiers of Mount Landa didn't need to be rectified, they would have already gathered with the Sandalwood Cavalry Army.
If the advance of Cao Wei's cavalry is not fast enough, or it is already at the end of its strength when it appears on the battlefield.
If he Xie Xibing can't hold this opening.
As long as one of them comes true, then the battle in Liuzhou will already be in an extremely corrupt situation.
At this moment, for some reason, Xie Xizhen thought of the young man who always seemed to have a gentle smile, the young man who personally suggested to him outside the Liangzhou Pass to go and see more.
Xie Xizhen took a deep breath, and said to himself in a voice that he could only hear: "You left five hundred reading seeds for me, Dachu, why would Xie Xizhen repay it with his death?"
From today onwards, there is no longer the Great Chu General Xie Xizhen, only Beiliang Frontier Army Xie Xizhen.