Chapter 686 Song Diaoer’s brain is rebellious, and Taiping Ling returns without success
Shi Yulu whispered: “General, I didn’t dare to tell you before that Liu Tao, who died on the battlefield the day before yesterday, was the young scout who was waiting for you in Jibei Village. Before this child died, he said that if he had time in the future, I hope the general could pour a bowl of wine for their sergeant in front of the tombstone in Qingliang Mountain; if he could help him with another bowl, it would be the best.”
Commander Fan Fen stretched out his hand and wiped his face, unable to see clearly: “This child did not drink wine during his lifetime.”
Xu Fengnian nodded.
I remembered the young scout. When I waited in the village until I returned, I wanted to speak but didn’t dare to say it. In the end, I didn’t say it, just smiled shyly.
Xu Fengnian suddenly grabbed the horse’s belly, picked up his spear, and headed straight for the ten thousand Rouran Iron Cavalry and Hong Jingyan.
When Hong Piao led the 1,200 horse thieves to the battlefield, the scene in front of them was unforgettable for their lives. The Rouran Iron Cavalry, known as the most elite in the Southern Dynasty, built a series of capitals in battle, and the white-armored cavalry made the horse thieves feel strange and shocked. There are also knowledgeable people among the horse thieves. It can be seen that the configuration of this cavalry is between heavy and light cavalry, with one person and two or even three cavalry. However, compared with the Youzhou cavalry led by Yu Luandao, it is obviously more “magnificent” because each cavalry has a heavy spear hanging, and in terms of armor, it is the style of “small full armor” for all people and horses. After entering the battlefield, the horse thief was ordered to cut off the heads of the Rouran cavalry and continue to pile up corpses into tombs. The “white cavalry” began to remove their armor and hang them on the backs of unridden war horses, preparing to withdraw from the battlefield. When the horse thief chopped off the head of the Rouran rider, most of them would subconsciously stare at one of the riders. The rider sat high on the back without wearing a helmet, and carried a spear, and was burly. This cavalry came to Xu Fengnian, but did not dismount. He looked south with Xu Fengnian and said regretfully: “It’s a pity that Hong Jingyan ran back to the gourd mouth with hundreds of personal guards. Otherwise, as long as he died here, the remaining Rouran Iron Cavalry would not be worth mentioning. Yang Yuanzan lost all the troops that could flexibly and maneuver. We can directly enter the gourd mouth and compete with Beimang who formed an encirclement earlier. Now it’s not possible, the two 7,000 elite cavalry of Nabo are still watching from the east.”
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, “Things cannot be perfect. If you hadn’t arrived in time, the Beimang Taiping Order would have joined forces with Hong Jingyan, Zhongliang and Murong Baoding. Not to mention Yu Luan Dao and more than 3,000 Youqi, it would be difficult for me to leave. Then Song Diaoer’s rebellion is nothing, but the Tuoba Qiyun who guessed that I would appear outside the gourd mouth early on, this person should not be underestimated. His ability to convince the emperor of the Beimang to come here means that he has a terrible voice in the Beimang Center. Second Brother Yuan, we will confront him in the future, so we have to be more careful.”
It was Yuan Zuozong, who is now the commander of the Beiliang Cavalry, who narrowed his lying eyebrows and nodded: “Beiliang paid more attention to Dong Zhuo before, and he really ignored Tuoba Qiyun.”
Xu Fengnian looked around for a week: “Where are she?”
Yuan Zuozong smiled and said, “Emperor Wang took a crossbowman to travel west first. Maybe he dared not see you.”
Xu Fengnian was a little helpless. Qingbird, a second-class maid and a dead soldier from Wutongyuan, returned from Beimang with the instant gun of the King’s embroidery relics, and entered the Daxue Dragon Cavalry Army and was promoted to a vagabond commander with his military achievements. This trip to Hulukou to “rescue the horse”, she was more anxious than anyone else. She took a crossbowman first and could travel nearly a hundred miles away from the main army. If she followed the Beiliang military rules, she would have been scolded by the main general and expelled from the army. As a result, she disappeared immediately after the war was over. Yuan Zuozong gave the greatest trust and tolerance to the orphan of the Gun Immortal King Xiu. It’s not because she is a “close minister of the vassal king”, but because although she is a woman, she is the best soldier on the battlefield. The heads of the first to the eighth Rouran Iron Cavalry were all broken in one breath with a “arc spear”. Xu Fengnian looked back and saw that the third disciple Lu Yunchang, who had been reunited in the distance for a long time, was beside his eldest disciple Yu Dilong. It seemed that Lu Yunchang was splashing everywhere, while Yu Dilong didn’t say a word. Xu Fengnian sighed, wondering if the girl Wang Sheng, who followed Bai Hu’er’s face to practice swordsmanship in Beimang, had any chance to belong to her.
Yuan Zuozong whispered, “It’s time to leave.”
Xu Fengnian nodded and said, “Yes.”
Yu Luandao came to Xu Fengnian and Yuan Zuozong. Yuan Zuozong asked with a smile: “General Yu, the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry still lacks a deputy general. Are you interested? Although I don’t have the power to appoint, the prince is here. If you agree, I promise that the prince will not refuse, but will only go with the flow.”
Xu Fengnian smiled knowingly. Several personal troops in the border army of Northern Liang were all “family property” left by Xu Xiao for his children, and it can be regarded as the most luxurious work in the world. In addition to Xu Fengnian’s eight hundred white horses, the number of people has always been in short supply, the “private army” of his youngest son Xu Longxiang has increased from 10,000 cavalry to 30,000, becoming the mainstay of protecting Liuzhou. Xu Fengnian’s two sisters, Xu Zhihu and Xu Weixiong, also have their own personal troops. Nearly 10,000 heavy cavalry in Beiliang all came from these two cavalry troops. The Northern Liang Protectorate can all dispatch these personal troops under the name of General Xu Xiao’s children, but the specific military service is generally not involved.
Yu Luandao said calmly: “The Dragon Cavalry of the Great Snow is good, but my Youzhou cavalry is not bad at all.”
Yuan Zuozong smiled without saying anything, and did not care about Yu Luandao’s “unawareness” and on the contrary, he had a little more sincere admiration for the persistence of this outsider in Northern Liang.
Xu Fengnian suddenly said: “Cai Nan, who was the general in charge of military affairs in Heji Prefectures, stopped him. The 30,000 cavalry troops in Youzhou could only send 10,000 cavalry out of the country. The veteran general Tian Heng was angry at the Beiliang Protectorate, or to be precise, I was not tough enough, so angry that I was unwilling to be that deputy general, and went to Tian Han to play with my grandchildren. It is said that Xu Fengnian’s courage was used up in that resistance to the imperial edict.”br>
Yu Luandao’s heart tightened: “Although General Tian’s anger was inappropriate, Tian Heng was very serious and used his troops very well. The Youzhou cavalry must not miss this Dinghai Sword Needle. If the prince was going to be guilty, Yu Luandao was willing to use all his military achievements to atone for Tian Heng’s sins.”
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, “I don’t mean to settle the score in the autumn. I just hope that after you return to Youzhou, you will bring me a message to Tian Heng, so that he will not be angry. I don’t know what happened to his family. Both sons died in battle before the crown. Where did the old general come from? The old general come to play with his grandson? There are 30,000 cavalry troops in Youzhou, and you will be the chief general. You Yuluandao is the deputy general. Shi Yulu and Su Wenyao respectively awarded the cavalry general and the cavalry general, each leading 10,000 Youqi. At that time, the old general will most likely refuse to be the chief general. You just say it was the order of me and the Protectorate. He will either be the chief general or continue to play with his grandson.”
Yuluandao smiled and clasped his fists and said, “The last general will be the order!”
Xu Fengnian said in a deep voice: “These 3,200 cavalry will be set up to ‘not retreat’, and you, Yu Luan Dao, will serve as the first lieutenant of this camp! I, Xu Fengnian, also have a name for the soldiers in the camp, but it is not counted as the active cavalry.”
Yu Luan Dao bit her lip, her eyes turned red, and she suddenly turned around, galloped out for hundreds of steps, took a Xu flag from a Youzhou cavalry, and faced the 3,200 Youzhou cavalry, and roared: “The general has an order, and I have 3,200 Youzhou cavalry, and set up a ‘not retreat’!”
Yu Luan Dao raised the blood-soaked flag high: “Don’t retreat! Set the flag today!”