The two post roads newly built on Beiliang Road in Liuzhou are both horizontal, leading to Liangling and Liangling prefectures respectively. It is far less rigorous than the three prefectures in Guannei. This is also a helpless move. There are only three military towns in Liuzhou with a vast territory Relying on it, but it is bordered by most of Gusai Prefecture, which has a strong military force in Beimang. Therefore, building a longitudinal post road in Liuzhou can only facilitate the long drive of the prairie cavalry to the south. Even if the young feudal lord was inexplicably dazed and over-restrained, he would rebel at the Dajian Post Road in Liuzhou, the Governor's Mansion of Qingcang City, the Duhu Mansion of Huaiyang Pass, and Qingliang Mountain at the same time. The plain area on the right side of Laowo Mountain is the most suitable terrain for cavalry combat outside of Qingcang City.
Kou Jianghuai chose the location for the third interception battle after two great victories in a yellow sand plain more than 200 miles north of Laowo Mountain. There is a huge north-south corridor between that place and the plain terrain of Laowo Mountain. The road, generally presents the trend of a woman's slender waist. If the prairie cavalry advances from north to south, although this place is not the only way to the Laowoshan battlefield, it can be shortened by more than 60 miles compared to the detour The distance, and this corridor is not narrow and precipitous, it is definitely not a narrow path, and it is impossible to set up ambush on both sides. On the contrary, the mountains on both sides of the corridor are gentle, and the width of the entire corridor is always roughly the same, about one and a half miles. The army gallops, it can be said that there is no hindrance. The so-called corridor is shaped like a woman's waist, but it is compared to the entire Liuzhou territory. Therefore, from the Liu Gui cavalry army going south in the first battle of Liangmang, to the three blocking battles of Kou Jianghuai in the second battle, Neither side took a fancy to this place that was once named "grasshopper's legs" by refugees.
But in the mighty 50,000 southward side riders galloping to aid the Laowoshan battlefield, when almost everyone can see the north entrance of this corridor, a Liuzhou soldier and horse has already appeared in the middle of the corridor, waiting for a long time !
After Ma Lanzi hurriedly reported the military situation, several Beimang generals of the 50,000 cavalry army fell into an awkward dilemma. The monks and soldiers in the Landa Mountain in the Western Regions were also mixed with two or three thousand Liuzhou local soldiers and horses. The bad news is that this corridor is used as a battlefield, and the cavalry can't swim left and right. The good news is that the infantry, which is waiting in formation, does not carry any large horse-repelling equipment, and its strength is absolutely superior. Once the Japanese cavalry broke through the infantry and forced them to retreat in a hurry, let alone 17,000 infantry, even if their strength was doubled, it would not be enough for this cavalry to slash and kill.
The combat power of the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties cavalry against the Northern Liang cavalry, or the strength of the Youzhou infantry under Yan Wenluan's command, has been slammed at the frontier for twenty years, and I dare not underestimate it. Soldiers and horses really don't take it seriously. This is not blind conceit, but the huge self-confidence accumulated by the grassland cavalry relying on countless border crossings to plunder the Central Plains for four hundred years since the end of the Dafeng period. In addition, the real embarrassment for the several Southern Dynasty cavalry commanders was that they left the station and crossed the sideline to enter the Laowoshan battlefield, whether it was the king's tent in the North Court, or the Xijing Temple that was close at hand, or the south. The head coach Huang Songpu, who was in the middle of the battle, was strictly ordered to join the battle on time. At the critical moment, he made a final decision on the entire battle and completely wiped out all the main field forces in Liuzhou. Therefore, the 50,000 cavalry army must not miss the slightest opportunity! Now the problem facing these military generals in the Southern Dynasties is not just whether to detour or not, because the monk soldiers who are in the middle of the corridor and refuse to ride horses can also quickly retreat southward. Perhaps changing the battlefield, the Northern Mang Cavalry Army can change Break through the formation quickly, but the consumption of the extra 60 miles of galloping horses is by no means a price that these generals of all sizes in the military towns of the Southern Dynasties can bear. Moreover, the military exploits of more than 10,000 monks and soldiers in the Western Regions, especially the leader of the army, is very likely to be a star. Xie Xizhen, who can exchange his head for feudal feats, is so tempting!
Do you want to fight
Of course!
Be it public or private, the cavalry army of Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties felt that they would fight a battle in this corridor, so as to gain a lot of military exploits. The eighteen Xianbei buckled jade belts that His Majesty the Emperor bestowed on the Wanyan family recently are the best example!
With great achievements ahead, the 50,000 cavalry, whose physical strength and spirit are at the peak, can't break through the formation of more than 10,000 infantry
On the other side of the corridor, Xie Xizhen, wearing an iron armor and wearing a saber, was sitting on horseback, looking up to the north.
The strong wind was blowing, as if he could already smell blood.
This Liuzhou lieutenant general, who is known as one of the two jades of the Great Chu, has firm eyes and a calm face at this time.
Cao Changqing and the empress of Western Chu, Jiang Si, once commented privately on famous generals and officials of the dynasty. The horoscope is the most important, but at the end I added a comment that seems to be just a digression: Xie Xizhen is more tenacious than Kou Jianghuai.
Xie Xizhen slowly closed his eyes. This young man, who even the young emperor of Liyang wanted to lure into Tai'an City, is now a subjugated man of Great Chu, but a general of Beiliang.
Great Chu was invincible in the past two hundred years in the Spring and Autumn Period. There are three people who can defeat the enemy, strong armor and strong bow, long lance and big halberd, and the military order system. When the Jiang family of Great Chu was at its peak, the Liyang, Dongyue and Dongyue countries that once fought to the north of the border had no temper, just like a strong man punching a child. Even though the military strength of the Great Chu has turned from prosperity to decline, Liyang, located in the northern corner of the Nine Kingdoms in the Spring and Autumn Period, began to pay attention to the training of cavalry, but before the 120,000 euphorbia soldiers were wiped out in the Battle of Jinghe, the entire Central Plains still firmly believed that they could form a certain scale of cavalry. The combat strength of the Liyang Cavalry Army, against this heavy armored infantry known as the most powerful in history, will definitely not take advantage of it. In fact, there are not enough cavalry to support the heavily armored infantry. No matter how many there are, they can only wait to die. They may not lose, but they will definitely not win a big victory. The classic cavalry battle, which was far inferior to the West Wall in the history books, has been underestimated intentionally or unintentionally by Liyang historians and military strategists. In the first three battles, there were not many real dead troops on both sides, only 30,000, and secondly, cavalry In order to prevent mistakes in the key battles that followed, the Xu family army, who had won a complete victory with the combination of step and step, chose to brutally kill more than 80,000 soldiers. In addition, the old emperor Zhao Li of Liyang at that time sent a meritorious veteran and two Zhao Shizong He personally participated in coordinated operations, so after Zhao Dun ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he was a taboo, and it was inconvenient to exaggerate. However, the Battle of the Scene River had a great impact on the Xu family on the winning side. When Xu Xiao visited the battlefield with his subordinates, he squatted down and stared at the fine iron armor of a great Chu halberd warrior, chopping with a long knife, spearing After being stabbed, it was still largely intact, and he sighed, "People are dead and armor is intact. If I have such an armor, how many people can die? We can't be so poor anymore."
From then on, no matter how tragic the battle was, the Xu family, who only wanted military merit but not money, began to seize the gold and silver of weapons and equipment privately every time they broke the camp and the city. Of course Rentu Xu Xiao never denied it, especially at the end of the Battle of Xileibi, Xu Xiao made a rebellious move. Xu Pu and his two sons, Chen Zhibao and Yuan Zuozong, issued a secret order. The three of them joined forces and managed to make the Xu family gather 10,000 troops in secret. They took the lead in smashing the capital of Western Chu overnight earlier than Liyang's appointed candidates, and then even more aggressively. Collect all the treasures, gold and silver that can be moved away in boxes. Xu Xiao's popular and criticized "shit is good to eat but not tasty". When he went to inquire about the crime, Xu Laizi cut to the chase and said, "The food has already arrived in my stomach. If you want it, I can only give it to you. Do you want to eat it?" It is said that the old emperor Zhao Li was so angry that he couldn't laugh or cry after hearing the report. In the end, Xu Xiao just gave out some spoils to the imperial army in a symbolic way, and let it go.
After Feng Wangjiu Fan's northwest border, Xu Xiao's obsession with the use of equipment has intensified. Rather than saying that Beiliang's iron cavalry is the best in the world, it is better to say that the best soldiers and horses are the best in the world.
In the past twenty years, the smuggling of ironware to the Beimang Grassland has been repeatedly prohibited on the long border of Liyang. He and Gu Jiantang left the capital to sit in the north in person, and the two military leaders with the most military power cooperated closely in this matter, which made it successful. Even in the Beiliang frontier army with strict military laws, several lieutenants with real power were beheaded on the spot because of this, and the entanglement was extensive. Nearly a hundred heads will drop.
The prairie cavalry has never lacked war horses but lacked armor. Beimang has greatly changed after the old woman ascended the throne. With the help of Hongjia's northward rush, the whole country, from iron smelting skills to military distribution, is like this . However, certain things that are deeply rooted in the nomads, even if they have been in the ears and eyes for 20 years, are still difficult to change, just like the Southern Attack Qingqi that was destroyed in the northwest of Liuzhou, the Qiangqi that moved the Northern Mang and the Southern Dynasties, and the Rouran that Hong Jingyan ruled. Iron cavalry is also known as "the most important border cavalry army". With the foresight of the old lady and the attention of the temples in Xijing in the Southern Dynasties, how could they not even have the foundation and courage to equip thousands of Qiang cavalry with high-quality equipment? However, that Qiang cavalry has always maintained the light cavalry route of leather armor, fast horses, short knives and short spears.
The sound of the horseshoes of Beimang's cavalry army was getting louder and louder, coupled with the natural echo of the corridor, plus the roar of Beimang's self-confident victory, it was like a thunderbolt on the ground, and the momentum was extremely majestic.
Xie Xizhen suddenly opened his eyes, drew out the cold knife from his waist, and shouted angrily: "Fix the formation! Reject the horse!"
This time, Xie Xizhen used infantry to stop the 50,000 Beimang cavalry army. In addition to the 5,000 hard bows and crossbows that Xie Xizhen was eligible to distribute from the governor's residence in Liuzhou, he also asked the Liangzhou frontier army for 800 horses. Qianmo Dao!
The Mo Dao originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Southern Tang Dynasty. It weighs more than 50 catties. It is made of fine iron. Non-military top-ranking elite soldiers are not allowed to hold it. At that time, there were more than 70,000 soldiers and horses in the 16 towns on the border of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the Mo Dao had no more than 2,000 soldiers. Yu Ren, with strong combat power, was once hailed as the king of white swords by the whole country in the Southern Tang Dynasty. They believed that if they could gather 10,000 moswords to guard the country's gates, they could stop 100,000 southern cavalry from invading. Gu Dazu, the number one general in the old Southern Tang Dynasty, followed Xu Fengnian, the heir of Beiliang at that time, into Beiliang. In addition to serving as the deputy commander of the infantry, with the strong support of the young vassal king, Gu Dazu begged Gu Dazu to help Mohist Jizi create a new style of Mo Dao, so that it can be distributed to Beiliang in the future. Liangbian army, compared with the fifty catties Modao of the Southern Tang Dynasty soldiers in history, because the men in Beiliang are more robust and have greater physical strength, the well-deserved horse-cutting sword in Beiliang is heavier. Named "Knife Sixty". It's a pity that they started to be made before the first battle of Lu Mang, and only managed to cast more than a thousand of them so far, and it was difficult to use them in the battlefield outside Liangzhou Pass, so Xie Xizhen asked for them all.
In addition, there are the thousand long spears, these spears are more expensive than the Mo knife, and the rarity is enough to make people speechless. It is an iron rule that horse lances have been in existence since the birth of horse lances. First, both horse lances and lances are extremely long and extremely difficult to use. The use of ordinary cavalry will only be superfluous. The second is that it takes a long time, and the workmanship is so excellent that it is unimaginable. It is said that it will be built once every three years. It has always been the first-class favorite of the Central Plains cavaliers. looking for.
The eight hundred spears were ordered by the young feudal lord himself, and it was almost equal to the amount gathered after the Xu family's wealth was wiped out. If it weren't for the military law in Beiliang that forbids cavalry generals to use spears because of their status, and they are used to hard times Xu Xiao, who was also poor and afraid, deliberately collected long spears from the people of Hyogo in the later period of the Spring and Autumn War, otherwise it would be wishful thinking.
In the corridor, the Liuzhou infantry, composed of monks and soldiers from Mount Landa, fought hard against horses.
The first one is Zanlong who is extroverted, cold as snow!
Three hundred people form a horizontal team, arranged in three rows.
The first team sat on their knees holding a lance, while the long lance was raised obliquely forward. The second team has a long spear with a flat end and points forward, and the third team puts the spear on the shoulders of the soldiers in the front team, also leaning forward.
In front of the three rows of spears covered by a forest, there are actually two rows of strong monk soldiers with their hands and shoulders firmly pressed against the huge shield.
After Ma Leng rejected the horse, there were four rows of tall monk soldiers with two hundred people in each row, holding eight hundred horse-cutting knives.
The battle was imminent, and the 800 people sat on the ground to rest, and even the Beimang cavalry blew the charging horn. Before receiving the order from the general, the 800 Mo swordsmen were still not allowed to stand up with their swords, and they had to conserve their energy to the greatest extent.
Once all the monks and soldiers of Changzhao Juma are dead, the eight hundred Mo Dao monks and soldiers will be required to march forward against the wall.
Gu Dazu once boasted that before my Southern Tang Mo Dao, people and horses were destroyed!
After that, there were 2,000 Liuzhou frontier troops accompanied by monk soldiers, plus 3,000 monks from Mount Landa, equipped with 5,000 hard bows and crossbows.
When the infantry fights against the enemy cavalry, it is actually the five thousand crossbowmen who are behind the formation and block the cavalry's charge first.
Xie Xizhen did not continue to stop his horse at the end of the formation after he gave the order to refuse to form a formation.
Instead, he dismounted and walked to the crossbowman, took off the shield hanging on the side of the saddle, and then he held a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, and stood at the forefront of the infantry formed by the remaining monks and soldiers.
The roaring Beimang cavalry army, and the silent Liuzhou infantry.
Divide life and death in this unknown corridor.
The history books of later generations, no matter whether they are thickly written or understated, without exception, will conclude this battle with "six battles and six defeats".
The brutality of the war is beyond words in just four words!