Autumn is tall, horses are fat, and water and grass are luxuriant.
But going further south from North Manggu Sai Prefecture, the scene looks a bit desolate and boring.
It's all yellow sand.
As expected of Beiliang, it is so cold and barren that even the wild horse, which is regarded as the closest to a camel, is not used to it.
However, I heard that the pastures in the Lianglong area of Liangzhou Guannei are the treasures of Fengshui that produce the world's first-class horses. Because the word "Long" happened to be on it, all the civil officials and generals of the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties missed it and regarded it as their pocket. The few big figures who can stand upright and speak loudly in the Xijing court are eager to speak out before going out, and are willing to use the valuable heads on the shoulders of Yang Guangdou, Chen Xiliang and Kou Jianghuai, which are more expensive than princes. , in exchange for the ownership of several ranches over there, such as the famous Xianli Ranch and Patio Ranch.
It's just that this Southern Expedition was indeed a bit unlucky. Xijing only heard good news not long ago, saying that the eldest grandson of the Zhong family who was promoted to Xia Nabo by virtue of his military exploits successfully persuaded the gang of bald donkeys in Mount Landuo to surrender. Beimang, but when the horseshoes of the army just stepped into the Liuzhou border, the bad news came immediately. First, a certain Beiliang Qingqi that was born out of nowhere was driven straight in from the Liuzhou border, bypassing a series of buildings such as the tile building of the Gentleman's Pavilion The heavily guarded army town went straight to Xijing, shaking the government and the public. Then, 10,000 fine riders from the Zhongtan tribe were blocked to death at the Miyun Mountain Pass, and the life and death of Zhongtan is still unknown. The general Zhong Shentong, who sits on the second line of the middle road, quickly made an apology to the king of Beiting. His Majesty the emperor was not polite to the Zhong family at all, and directly sent an order to the middle road to send Zhong Shentong's younger brother, that is, the Xia Nabo's uncle, Zhong Liang, led eight thousand fine cavalry to leave the station, and rushed to Gusai Prefecture to intercept the Northern Liang cavalry army that had penetrated into the hinterland. In name, they were dispatched by the coach Huang Songpu. If you are a family descendant and corrupt, then use the lives of 8,000 family members to pay off the debt. If you stop it, let the past go, if you can’t stop it, then continue to use the family name to fill it. It's time for you to use your supernatural powers to do it yourself, so you don't have to get involved in the war outside Liangzhou Pass, and just go to Gusai Prefecture to clean up the mess.
Hong Jingyan died inexplicably behind the Longyaner Plain. Tens of thousands of Rouran cavalry were leaderless, and they were divided up by the major forces on the front line in an instant.
The northern prairie masters, who suffered losses in the first battle of recklessness, have almost begun to make small calculations, how many veterans of various families can they get after the fall of the great general Zhong Shentong.
On the prairie, like those literati in the Southern Dynasties who liked romance, everyone felt awkward, and everyone was familiar with it.
The army on the western front of Beimang advanced southward step by step, and the speed was not fast. Ten days ago, this army was suddenly blocked by 10,000 Beiliang dragon and elephant cavalry. In just half an hour, Huang Songpu's troops The 6,000 vanguard cavalry just threw their corpses on the battlefield like that. From the hand-to-hand combat to the end of the battle to the sloppy collection of corpses, many Longguan dignitaries who had ambitions in Liangzhou felt that they hadn't slowed down yet.
In fact, it cannot be said that there were no signs at all. After the army crossed the border from Gusai Prefecture in the Southern Dynasty and entered the bordering Liuzhou territory, Ma Lanzi head-to-head with the Northern Liang scouts, and soon the generals of Beimang who learned the truth jumped their feet. Damn, it's so hard to die, it turned out that the white horse crossbowman from outside Liangzhou Pass came here to play wild! Although he has already moved south to stay away from the temple, whether it is the commander Huang Songpu or the general of Longguan who holds the elite cavalry army of the Southern Dynasty, he has to pay attention to the movements in his backyard and prevent them from being seen in the area of Hutou City. The figure of a crossbowman riding in Beiliang was His Majesty's personal order in the Xijing court hall. What happened? Fatty Dong's crow fence is dead, and General Liu Gui's black fox fence is also dead. It is even said that Dong Zhuo's brother-in-law also lost his life in the Longyaner Plain, and in the end, the Beiliang young man surnamed Li was in vain. The captain became famous in the grassland overnight, and now he is showing off his power in the northern part of Liuzhou in a big way!
Huang Songpu is a well-known veteran of the battlefield, so when reports of Ma Lanzi's casualties continued to spread to the commander's account, he had already started to shrink the front line and slowed down the speed of advancing southward. , the backbone of this army is Huang Songpu, the king of the old Southern Courtyard, and even the wealthy Longguan lord who was accustomed to lawlessness in the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties. direct descendant. Although Huang Songpu still holds the title of one of the thirteen generals of Beimang, the hat of the king of the South Court has long been taken off, and he is also an old man who has retired. In the final analysis, he can barely be called a soldier of Huang Songpu's direct line , but there are more than 30,000 riders, which is not as good as Liu Gui who is now relegated to the Youzhou battlefield.
To be honest, in the first battle of recklessness, Fatty Dong personally presided over the overall situation on the center line, which was a sure victory. Even Hutou City was defeated, and the body of Liu Jinu, the general of Beiliang, was sent back to the Southern Dynasty in a coffin. The situation is very good, and Liu Gui's battlefield in Liuzhou is considered balanced. Although the battle damage is not small, after all, even Wang Lingbao, the deputy general of the Dragon Elephant Army, has died in battle. When he was old, he was reduced to the situation where the whole army was wiped out. He made dumplings in the mouth of the gourd, and in the end only one Rouran cavalry escaped. From a small wealthy family, I don't think the Northern Liang army is really scary, especially the Liuzhou soldiers and horses who are naturally shorter than the Liangzhou cavalry and Youzhou infantry. The boneless Dragon Elephant Army, is there any first-class elite? No matter how hard you look with your eyes wide open, it’s gone. So almost everyone of these guys was holding back a bad breath, especially the lingering Liangzhou crossbowmen, who became more and more annoying.
At dawn, an old man who stayed overnight, accompanied by several strong followers, slowly walked out of the heavily fortified cowhide camp, came to a small slope and climbed up to look south. Among the accompanying people, a well-dressed For example, the middle-aged men of the Confucian scholars in the Central Plains are particularly eye-catching. They are not at all restrained when facing the old man who is still in power. They are a generation apart, and they have the same momentum. The old man is Huang Song Pu, one of the few great generals in the Southern Dynasty, and the man with the appearance of a Confucian scholar is Zhong Liang, who is not well-known in the Northern Mang army. I have never heard of a history of leading troops in battle. This time, I was supposed to lead the elite cavalry of the eight thousand families to go straight to Gusai Prefecture to fight the fire. I don’t know why they made a detour here alone. When it comes to the rise and fall of a family, planting colds seems to be too child's play.
By chance, I saw the demise of the 6,000 Beimang vanguard cavalry with my own eyes, and then I made up my mind not to move. I stayed with the army south for so many days. The four-character description of Bei Mang's master of martial arts also made two shots in person in a very leisurely manner, beheading forty or fifty horse crossbowmen from Liangzhou who had already left the battlefield. The Ma Lanzi trained by Huang Songpu himself was quite famous in the Southern Frontier Army, but it was still much inferior to the crow Lanzi of the younger generation Dong Zhuo or the Black Fox Lanzi of Liu Gui of the same generation. It's not that Huang Songpu lost to those two in terms of military management. Since the old man has been able to control the military affairs of Xijing for so many years, and can share the north and south with Xu Huainan, the king of the Northern Academy, he is naturally not an ordinary person. It's just that Huang Songpu is here. In the past twenty years, the status of the king of the Southern Courtyard has been far more important than that of the great general, so he has no choice but to lean towards the temple. Since he has become the head of the Southern Dynasty, he has to seek benefits for the entire Xijing, for both the Longguan surname and the official battlefield. Calling out colleagues and subordinates to fight for status, as time goes by, it is difficult to go to the frontier army to do it yourself, so Huang Songpu couldn't help but feel mixed feelings when he led the army south this time. It worked just like it did back then.
If it was me more than ten years ago, the six thousand vanguard cavalry would never dare to rush forward and collide with the ten thousand dragon elephant army without authorization, but this is not what really makes the old man feel tired, it is not Some of the known inside stories, on the surface, are that the disciples of Longguan are rebellious and unruly, greedy for meritorious deeds, so that they are unfavorable, but the fact is that Huang Songpu originally intended to use the vanguard cavalry army with less than satisfactory combat power as bait to lure the Liuzhou cavalry army. Deep in the mud, the old man had already prepared 10,000 pro-army fine cavalry ready to go, and only waited for a slight stalemate in the war, he would be able to reinforce the battlefield at a critical moment, and finally made a final decision to eat up the 10,000 dragon elephant army, even if it was 20,000 If soldiers and horses were exchanged for 10,000 dragon and elephant cavalry, Huang Songpu would win a big victory, no matter if it was an imposing manner or a real situation.
However, compared to those soul-stirring battles between the main force in field battles, Huang Songpu found himself somewhat powerless in this small-scale contact battle that can only be called fleeting. The combat power of the cavalry army underestimated the strength of the Dragon Elephant Army's charge, so that when 10,000 pro-army troops entered the battlefield, the original praying mantis catching cicadas became pure rescue, and what was even more deadly in the next battle situation During the forecast, Huang Songpu believed that the chief general of the Liuzhou cavalry army who launched the raid also had the idea of luring the enemy into the depths, so Huang Songpu, who was prudent in using troops, hesitated for a while, although he let the 10,000 elite troops launch a decisive pursuit , but the cavalry is strictly ordered not to leave the main force for fifty miles, which means that the military exploits are only within fifty miles. The last cavalry brought the old man a dumbfounding truth. The enemy rode away, except for dozens of crossbowmen on white horses wandering far away on the battlefield, this dragon elephant army, which had eaten the hearts of bears and leopards, did not have any reinforcements at all!
How can there be such a war
The Beiliang Bianguan General who had dealt with Huang Songpu, Liu Jinu of Hutou City, and the former Huaihua General Zhong Hongwu, no matter how Zhong Hu and his like, they were not so mad!
Huang Songpu was worried, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, frowning in silence.
The great devil of Beimang, dressed in a Confucian shirt, glanced at the expression of the old general, and said with a smile: "General Huang, as long as the vast western regions where Linyao and Fengxiang are located are aside, Liuzhou is actually that big. No matter how amazing Beiliang’s military use is, it’s a dojo built in a snail’s shell, which can’t withstand big storms. Even if the Battle of Miyun Mountain Pass added 20,000 monk soldiers from Mount Landa to Beiliang, it’s still just a drop in the bucket.”
Huang Songpu shook his head and said: "Qingcang City in Liuzhou has several elite border troops from the Xu family in Qingyuan Army Town to support them from a distance, and Youzhou Qingqi with Yu Luan Dao to help tear the front line. No matter in terms of strategic depth or comparison of troops, we are not as powerful as us. Such a disadvantage in imagination. What's more..."
Zhong Liang took over the conversation and smiled even more, "Why, the old general is also worried about Xi Chu and Xi Jun and Kou Jianghuai, both of whom are really giving advice to Bei Liang on the Liuzhou battlefield?"
The old man said frankly: "I believe that no general in this world can underestimate the cooperation of these two people, right?"
His handsome demeanor was like that of a fairy in the mountains and forests on the picture scroll, and he said with a sneer: "As long as Liuzhou's troops never converge in one place, I believe they will not be the opponent of the old general. The current 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army compared with the first battle , although the number has not decreased, they are also elite cavalry pawns drawn from the left and right cavalry in Liangzhou, but their combat power is still a bit weak. Such a tough battle, Xie Xizhen's remnant soldiers are not worth mentioning, otherwise Qingliang Mountain and the Duhu Mansion would not have handed over 20,000 monk soldiers from Landa Mountain to him. The local army in Liuzhou is 70,000, under the old general's command But there are as many as 150,000, and they can get reinforcements from the southern border at any time, as long as they don't collapse in a single battle... "
Having said that, Zhong Liang laughed at himself and did not continue.
Firstly, these words are a bit unlucky, and secondly, this view is too absurd.
Liuzhou is not the Hulukou of Youzhou, where the battlefield is unique, and Huang Songpu is not Yang Yuanzan, and the Liangzhou frontier army, which is too busy to take care of itself, can no longer spare so many strange soldiers to join the Liuzhou battlefield.
The old man laughed it off, and said: "Just two young people, Xie Xizhen and Kou Jianghuai, have caused Yan Zhenchun and Yang Shenxing, veterans of this age, to suffer a lot. Now there are more young people in Liuzhou. How can an old fellow like me feel so bad. "
Thinking of that secret incident, Zhong Liang sighed sincerely: "Ginger is still old and spicy."
Zhong Liang turned his gaze to the area west of Qingcang City.
The first-class infantry troops of the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties were temporarily dispatched from various military towns, a total of more than 30,000 soldiers, and went straight to the Western Regions.
At this time, Fengxiang and Linyao towns had probably been invaded.
The two cavalry troops of Cao Wei and Yu Luan Dao in Beiliang had no way out.
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Just not to mention the temples of the Northern Mang and the Southern Dynasties and this army on the western front, in fact, even Qingliangshan and Huaiyangguan Dufu did not expect that Xie Xizhen, the new deputy general of Liuzhou who was supposed to lead 20,000 monks and soldiers to Qingcang City, The troops were divided into two groups, and they quietly settled in Fengxiang and Linyao towns, waiting for work at leisure.
And General Kou Jianghuai of Liuzhou, at this time, was leading 10,000 miscellaneous Qingqi under his command, rushing northward with the momentum of thunder, and then stopped suddenly at the limit distance that might appear in Huangsong Puma Lanzi.
And the cavalry army that continued to charge forward after a short rest was none other than Xu Longxiang's 30,000 fine cavalry.
The field force of the Liuzhou Frontier Army is fully deployed!