After Bei Mang served as the imperial teacher of the dynasty under the Taiping Order, how to attack the huge and powerful towns that are difficult to leap for horses is no longer what it used to be. In the first battle of Liang Mang, Dong Zhuo broke through Hutou City, the first town on the border of Liyang. , planting sandalwood and even breaking the two cities of Youzhou's gourd mouth, lying on bow, luan and crane are all proofs. Not only that, the prairie cavalry army, which aims to annex the Central Plains, has also studied deeply in recent years on how to break through the dense infantry formation. Chun Nabo Tuoba Qiyun is very knowledgeable about this. The emperor and his ministers in the gray discussion discussed the battle, and they were eloquent and meticulous about the battle of cavalry, which amazed the empress of Beimang who was familiar with military affairs.
Under the promotion of the Taiping Order, the frontier army of the Southern Dynasties will have one or two more military staff members from the Xijing Cardinal Hall beside almost every ten thousand commander. For the Spring and Autumn Remains of the Southern Dynasties, they can be regarded as the third generation of scholars whose families took root in the grasslands to farm and study. There are also young and cowardly Xue Wei who came from the North Court of the grassland, but not many. Most of the generals of the frontier army scoffed at this, and regarded it as the role of supervising the embroidered pillows, the top dignitaries in the temples of the Southern Dynasty who were really willing to value this group of young people. At that time, Yang Yuanzan was accompanied by a large number of young handsome men who were trained for the first time by the Xijing Cardinal Hall, as many as a hundred of them, but they were all reduced to a pile of bones that had been built in the capital. Several heads including Yang Yuanzan, but with regard to Yang Yuanzan's posthumous title after being martyred in the battlefield, he showed a rare stinginess and meanness. He didn't even do a symbolic order to appease Yang's children. Pointing to the old man's head in the lime box, he said frankly to Tai Ping Ling who was standing beside him that Old Man Yang really deserved to die for ruining my ten-year foundation!
When the five chiefs of the Southern Dynasties met to decide whether to fight this battle, a low-ranking cardinal, relying on the description of the horse fence, tried his best to divide the troops into two groups, with 30,000 cavalry attacking the corridor and 20,000 cavalry going around. The road goes south to help Laowo Mountain. Only one of the five Beimang military generals from different military towns agreed, and the other four rejected this overly conservative proposal. The middle-aged cavalry general from Maolong Military Town was known for his violent personality in the Southern Dynasty, so he directly leaned over and used The horsewhip pointed at the young man's nose, and called him a bastard that hadn't even grown all its eggs. He also asked the young man in a strange way, could you be a spy placed by the Northern Liang frontier army in the territory of our Southern Dynasty? The elderly Wan Fuchang, who was the only one who recognized the young man's prudent proposal, couldn't bear it. He was about to speak up to smooth things over when he heard the other three Wan Fuzhang, who had more official positions and more powerful power, burst out laughing. He has always believed in being able to be killed but not humiliated. The young man whose parents died in battle outside Beiliang Pass was so angry that his eyes were red and he almost gritted his teeth. In the end, he offered to be the vanguard of the cavalry. Before he mounted his horse and left, he sneered and said, "I After death, I will watch how the generals die in the underworld.
The four ambitious chiefs didn't care at all. The young man who had read a few tattered books and didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth wanted to die by himself. But only after the two thousand vanguard cavalry hit a wall, all the ten thousand captains began to realize that the situation was not good. It's not that they don't understand the natural mobility brought by the abandonment of war horses. It's no trick to break through the infantry with the cavalry. The cavalry who open the way will inevitably die on the way to the formation. No one thought that the defense of that infantry formation could be so amazing.
If it is reasonable to say that the 5,000 step-fighting strong bows and Liangzhou crossbows hiding behind the horse-rejection formation are like a pouring rain after the volley, then there are still more than 1,000 of the 2,000 cavalry. After rushing to the wall, the bloody picture of all the men and horses being killed in an instant, still shocks the elders who have seen too much blood on the battlefield. The two thousand elite cavalry are undoubtedly two thousand dead soldiers, and almost everyone is heartbroken. Knowing that charging will kill them, they began to accelerate forward at the edge of the bow and crossbow range. The more than a thousand riders who escaped the rain of arrows collided with each other. The inertia of coming, the horror of that huge momentum is self-evident.
As a result, more than a thousand riders, men and horses, all died under the long spear!
No less than six hundred war horses were directly pierced by the long spear.
The most frightening thing is that the second wave of cavalry is almost visible to the naked eye. Those extremely long "spears" with strange shapes showed incredible terrifying toughness. Before leaving the corpse, they were only bent but not broken. Most of the ordinary cavalry troops like the Southern Frontier Army were equipped with a riding spear, which would often break after one or two charges and assassinations. The iron spear cavalry spears in the formation are made of excellent material, so they can repeatedly collide with the formation without breaking. However, as the grassland cavalry who is familiar with bow horses, they all know that even the Donglei fine cavalry under the command of Murong Baoding, the governor of the Orange State , the spears are definitely not as good as the ones in the hands of this Liuzhou monk infantry... unreasonable!
Although the two thousand riders were a little timid, no one dared to turn the horse's head and retreat before the horn of withdrawing troops sounded behind them.
It's not that this group of cavalry soldiers did not spare their lives, nor was it that they were not afraid of death at all, but that although the frontier troops of the Southern Dynasty were not as skilled as the Xu family in Beiliang, their retreat on the battlefield would not only hurt their superiors, but also their entire family. Their cowardice and their lives cannot be tolerated.
During the charge of the two thousand cavalry, the Liuzhou infantry in sight slowly and neatly moved back a dozen steps, the shield array remained like a wall, the forest of spears remained like a forest, and the shooting was still like rain.
The young Xijing staff member who died on the battlefield when he was weak, both the man and the horse happened to hang his body on a slanting spear before the step retreated.
Like a scarlet candied haws, it is both funny and tragic.
Before he died, his chest and the head of the mount were pierced through by the spear, the young man stretched out his hand to hold the spear with all his might, the corners of his mouth twitched, as if he wanted to speak, but he couldn't speak.
If he can go back alive, he will definitely insist on detouring southward even more, and will tell the five commanders of the frontier army who mistakenly thought that the victory of the Great War is at their fingertips. This thing is called a long lance. Extremely sharp! Sharp knives and heavy axes slash with the sound of gold and stone, and they will never crack or break. It has always been the sharpest weapon that countless cavalry generals in the Central Plains have dreamed of. The tradition of "father dies and son inherits the lance" means that a good lance that is extremely difficult to damage is far more suitable as a family heirloom than a good knife that cuts hair and cuts iron like mud. Killing the enemy on horseback, holding a long lance in hand, is invincible, and the cavalry general who holds the lance hardly has to worry about hurting his arm with the force of stabbing the enemy. How far can it go if it is used to reject horses in footsteps
The second group of 2,000 riders still had no survivors, but in the end, the infantry repelling horse array was loosened. A hundred riders killed the shield-standing monks in the first row in Liuzhou, and died of blood spattering. After rejecting the horse twice, the 1,000-step spear also broke a total of more than 300 rods.
The poet sage of the Dafeng Dynasty once had a frontier poem that has been handed down to this day.
The word "but" is the finishing touch.
A Commander Wan who was sitting on horseback involuntarily raised his buttocks and looked at the battlefield in the distance, dumbfounded and unable to utter a word.
People are not afraid of the dead, but if they die so quickly, how can they fight battles? Even if it were two cavalry armies fighting, how long would it take for a short three-hundred-step charge
The general of the Maolong Army Town, who had previously ridiculed the staff of the Xijing Cardinal Hall, swallowed secretly, turned his head stiffly, and said to the elderly Wanfu: "Should we withdraw from this place and take a sixty-mile detour to Laowo Mountain?" ?”
The veteran who actually only had 6,000 cavalry under his command shook his head and said in a deep voice: "The most difficult part of the cavalry breaking the infantry formation is at the beginning. This Liuzhou monk soldier's refusal is the most powerful, causing serious damage to our side. It is reasonable, I believe As long as you break through those rows of spears, it will naturally go much smoother afterwards."
The faces of the other ten thousand commanders were uncertain, and the veteran said calmly: "Although it is not impossible to divide the troops and take a detour to the Laowoshan battlefield, or even withdraw the whole army from here, and detour south together, but with this Liuzhou step The army did not hesitate to get into a dead end to block our speed going south. I think the Beiliang frontier army had a conspiracy on the Laowoshan battlefield, or it was afraid that we would form an encirclement circle. In short, we can pass through this corridor as quickly as possible. The best choice. There is no reason why people can't die in a war, and the next charge will be up to me."
This veteran was once a centurion with mediocre intelligence under Huang Songpu's command. After Huang Songpu left the army and entered the temple of Xijing, he rose step by step until he became the king of the South Court. The leader of a modest military town in the hinterland is different from the other four chiefs who secretly received boxes of gold and silver before going into battle. Since Laowoshan does not seek wealth, in the eyes of outsiders, it is probably a person who is old-hearted and unscrupulous in seeking military merit.
When the four ten thousand commanders saw the veteran riding his horse forward, the cavalry of the Maolong Army Township looked astonished and said: "The old general wants to break the formation himself?"
The gray-haired veteran turned around and said with a light smile: "Many of my sons are about the same age as my grandson. As the chief general of a town, of course..."
A young and strong captain interrupted the old man's words with a frown, persuading him: "Old general, according to the military law of the border, the chief general will die first in battle, and once the battle is defeated, all the commanders of thousands and centurions will be beheaded afterward."
The veteran laughed it off, and glanced at the infantry formation in the southern corridor, "Six thousand riders are definitely not enough to open this formation. My town is eight thousand sons, and those who are not afraid of death have followed me, an old guy, to come here."
Maybe this is the old man's last words.
The six thousand riders were divided into three groups, charging successively.
After two heroic charges, he finally broke through the Liuzhou shield for two battles. The veteran took the lead, soaked in blood, and crashed in front of the eight hundred Mo knife!
The monks and soldiers holding Beiliang's special Mo Dao are all the most majestic among the monks and soldiers of Mount Landa, and they wear cassocks and iron armor.
Including the veteran, all 1,200 riders were killed by Mo Dao, who appeared on the battlefield for the first time.
Northern Mang cavalry army, defeated in one battle, fought again and again!
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The Laowoshan battlefield has already experienced two battles.
Of the 10,000 riders in Liuzhou, there are only 4,000 riders left, of which there are 6,000 riders in the newly built direct battalion, which is less than 1,500.
In terms of the proportion of battle damage, the two-winged dragon and elephant army suffered relatively small casualties, and there were still 13,000 cavalry still capable of fighting.
The Northern Mang and Southern Expedition Army led by coach Huang Songpu had 60,000 riders at first, but now there are still as many as 48,000 riders on horseback.
This kind of exchange, which seems to be better than Liuzhou side riders, is the most anticipated "Liuzhou battlefield, a small loss for the main force of the Southern Expedition will win a big victory" by the Northern Mang emperor.
If there were no accidents, if there were two more exchanges like this, the Dragon Elephant Army, which had a strength of 30,000 troops at its peak, and the direct battalion that had just been able to erect the battalion flag and fight, would become a thing of the past.
Kou Jianghuai, the general of Liuzhou who has always stood on the top of Laowo Mountain, did not make any changes to turn decay into magic at this critical moment. The Thousand Cavalry Army, following the main force in the field who had returned to their original positions after the two battles, lined up behind Qifu Longguan and participated in the third round of charge.
Huang Songpu also ordered the heavy cavalry army with only five or six hundred people to prepare for the battlefield.
The old man's only worry is that the battle has reached this point. In Beiliang, the Liuzhou cavalry suffered heavy casualties, while on his own side, his direct descendants and Wanyan Jingqi had far higher casualties than the B cavalry. If not, he wouldn't even use the heavy cavalry army that was originally used to cut off one of the heads of Kou Jianghuai or Xu Longxiang.
Chen Xiliang couldn't help but asked: "If we charge again, the Liuzhou cavalry army will be dead in name only. Kou Jiang army, should you slow down?"
Kou Jianghuai shook his head and said: "I can't wait, it's a matter of one breath. Don't say that Yuan Nanting's White Feather Qingqi and Ning Emei's Iron Futu can't rush to Laowo Mountain for the time being, even if I can enter the battlefield immediately, I will fight again Let the Liuzhou Cavalry Army and the Dragon Elephant Army charge two more times. Otherwise, even if Xie Xizhen's monks can block 50,000 reinforcements from the Southern Dynasty, with Huang Songpu's military skills, they can escape at least 20,000 cavalry. Dao's remaining cavalry troops converge, and our previous three battles, together with this one, are for nothing, even if I, Kou Jianghuai, dragged the three soldiers and horses from Qingyuan Army Town into the quagmire of Liuzhou Battlefield .”
Chen Xiliang sighed and did not continue speaking.
Kou Jianghuai turned his head suddenly, and said softly: "In the offensive and defensive battle of Fengxiang Army Town, the defender publicly impeached Xie Xizhen through the Liuzhou Governor's Mansion. You wrote a sentence of 'not against military law, but against reason'. I want to tell you Thank you very much."
Kou Jianghuai said it very directly and clearly, he wanted to say goodbye to this Liuzhou, not Xie Xizhen. In fact, although Xie Xizhen's peaceful comments were far less harsh than the governor Yang Guangdou's, they were still unfavorable to Xie Xizhen, who was on the cusp at that time, but the fact was on the contrary. Chen Xiliang, who must speak with weight, is deliberately protecting the lieutenant general of Liuzhou who has committed public outrage. Once he speaks in favor of Xie Xizhen, it will only arouse the violent rebound of Liangzhou border cavalry and the entire Youzhou infantry. It was extremely difficult for the young feudal lord to protect Xie Xizhen himself. In the final analysis, once Xie Xizhen becomes a rat crossing the street in the eyes of the Northern Liang frontier army, not only Kou Jianghuai, who is also a young man and a foreigner, but even Yu Luan Dao, who has already won recognition but has similar roots, will be affected by Chi Yu .
Chen Xiliang shook his head with a wry smile, and said with emotion: "These are the situations created by the lord's hard work. You don't need to thank me. You really need to thank me. If you have a chance, go to the North City next time to thank the lord."
Kou Jianghuai curled his lips, "Thank you for his surname Xu, since he became the king of Beiliang, these should be his hard-working duties. I will refuse the residence of the Beicheng vassal next time, and I will not ask him for a Beiliang cavalry." The commander of the army is kind."
Kou Jianghuai suddenly laughed at himself: "But I guess I can't beat Yuan Baixiong. It's not good to count this in Beiliang. The soldiers who lead the battle are stronger than each other. There are a lot of martial arts masters. They were on Guangling Road before. My swordsmanship is not bad, and I have the confidence to quarrel and fight in the temple, but now, I can't do it."
With a heavy heart, Chen Xiliang finally smiled a little.
The two of them looked around and saw that the leader of the Dragon Elephant Army, Xu Longxiang, had personally killed 300 enemies on the Laowo Mountain battlefield. This was on the premise that he ensured the cavalry's charge formation. The chief generals of the cavalry are about to collapse.
Kou Jianghuai shifted his gaze to the B-shaped cavalry formation with the largest number, and with a cold smile, he muttered to himself, "Faturize before killing."
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Three cavalry troops entered the battlefield of Liuzhou. Among them, General Shi Fu of Liangzhou personally led 8,000 cavalry in Qingyuan Army Town. Instead of going to Laowo Mountain, they went straight to the corridor, not to save people, but to block passage through the corridor. The number of cavalry troops from the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties that continued to go south may be 30,000, or 20,000.
From Shi Fu's point of view, Xie Xizhen and those monks and soldiers on Mount Landa must surely die.
Tiefutu under Ning Emei’s command had suffered heavy losses in the Longan’er Plain before, and his vitality was greatly injured, but the young vassal king allocated all eight hundred white horses to Tiefutu, and even ordered all generals above the fourth rank outside the Liangzhou Pass to call out their own guards Riding, this allowed the Iron Buddha to recover to the scale of 4,000 riding in just one month!
Ning Emei held a big halberd and led 4,000 cavalry to gallop. He wanted to take the back road and go straight into the area between Laowo Mountain and the corridor in the north. , then he needs to cut off the north retreat route of the main force of Huang Song Pu's southern expedition.
The last cavalry army belonged to light cavalry in the absolute sense, full of elegant wind, everyone carried bows and light crossbows, quivers were hung on both sides of the saddle, and only a Beiliang sword was hung on the waist. The arrow feathers protruding from the quiver are white, like two balls of white snow. When the horses are galloping, they are very beautiful.
The chief general, Yuan Nanting, led 20,000 white-feathered light cavalry, and headed straight for Laowo Mountain!
Just imagine, when the wind blows, a dense salvo of 20,000 cavalry is like a torrential rain, and the 20,000 rain falls on the enemy's heads.
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A group of eight thousand cavalry that had penetrated into Gusai Prefecture suddenly turned south, crossed the border line, drew an oblique arc, and galloped desperately towards the corridor battlefield.
A young cavalry general with a short stature and a tired face kept saying in his heart, don't die, don't die.
It is said that there are only three things. Even if you add the battle of Miyun Mountain Pass, you are only two times. Lord Yan will definitely not be willing to accept you.
I don't care about other people looking for death, but you, Xie Xizhen, are the only ones who can't think about it. I have to beat you face to face.
This person is Cao Wei.
Nicknamed Cao Benlei!