Chapter 774: The four sides of Beiliang Road are fighting, and the Dragon Elephant Army fights hard in Liuzhou
In the night sky, a convoy quietly entered Liangzhou City and passed through the strictly prohibited city gate without any obstacles. Qingliang Mountain immediately opened the Yimen Gate, and the Beiliang Palace opened the door to welcome guests with such a high-level specification that originally only treats kings and ministers.
Three carriages, a family of three in white monks, plus the young monks from north and south, four of them rode in the first carriage. Bai Yu, Mr. Bai Lian of Longhu Mountain, and Han Gui, Qingshanguan, Wudang Mountain, and Master and Apprentice, took the next carriage, and the last carriage was seated in Shangyin Xuegong Chang Sui, Xu Huang and others.
Xu Weixiong led a large group of people to welcome the group of distinguished guests. Behind Song Dongming, deputy commander of Beiliangdao, stood a group of curious aides and assistants. The official residence built by Song Dongming in the middle of the mountain is known as the “Dragon Gate” of Northern Liang, and the Wutong Courtyard where Xu Fengnian lives is called “Feng Pavilion”, which shows Song Dongming’s current transcendent status in the officialdom of Northern Liang.
Only Li Dongxi and the young monks from the north and north can be regarded as revisiting the old place. Li Dong was sharp-eyed and suddenly saw Song Yu, the butler of the royal palace, jogged over and asked about his warmth. Song Yu, who had been in charge of the Xu family for most of his life, was also happy to see this little girl. This stereotyped old man who privately called “cold-faced Yan Luo” to Liangzhou officials actually squeezed out a smile for the first time. Maybe he was really not used to smiling at others, and he looked a little stiff, but the old man still smiled and said that he would accompany Miss Li to visit the cosmetic shop tomorrow, which made the little girl very happy. Neither Lu Chengyan nor Wang Chudong showed up in public. After all, as two female qualifying princesses, it is unethical to go out to welcome guests.
Xu Weixiong first greeted the monk in white and Mr. Bai Lian, and walked to Chang Sui and others. Chang Sui raised the empty wine gourd and shook it, and said with a smile, “Green ant wine, no more or less, one pot a day, junior sister, your family has a great career, there is no problem.”
Xu Weixiong nodded and said, “It’s okay to drink, but senior brother remember not to go to the Chaohu Lake to drink in the middle of the night. If water falls, just wait to feed the fish.”
Jinbaoshi shouted at senior sister with red eyes, choking.
Xu Weixiong laughed softly, “I haven’t seen you for only a few years, and I have become a big girl. Do you want your senior sister to help you become a matchmaker? Although the men here in Beiliang are used to drinking the northwest wind and eating too much yellow sand in the desert, they are not as good as those of the Central Plains scholars, but after dealing with them for a long time, you will know that they can take on the burden more than scholars who write like gods. Especially the men who keep the guard there, ride the best horse, wear the best knife, drink the strongest wine, and kill Beimang. I guess they will be tempted by the taste of junior sister.”
Jinbaoshi grabbed Xu Weixiong’s hand and hugged it in his arms, and smiled like a spoiled person, “Senior sister, you are not married, why am I in a hurry!”
Xu Weixiong turned around and greeted Xu Huang, Sima Can and Liu Duanmao, without any extra words, just shouting “Senior Brother”.
The monk in white stood next to his wife and watched Bai Yu and Song Dongming hit it off at first sight. One is a Taoist real person who was highly valued by the late emperor, and the other is a scholar who was expected to be a great minister in the temple. These two scholars who were only a handful of scholars who looked at the entire Liyang Dynasty and had a great conversation. But Li Dangxin recalled the previous secret talk about Zhao Gou in Wudang Mountain, and felt a little tired. He couldn’t help but sigh softly, ignoring the conversation between Bai Yu and Song Dongming, and after entering the palace, he looked at the scenery around him. In the early years, there was a saying that “millions of households have suffered and a family has become rich”, which means that the Xu family, who occupied the mountains and occupied Tingchao Lake, plundered the people’s wealth in Beiliang Road, which is truly a wealth that is rich enough to rival the country.
Soon, a staff member who worked in the “Longmen” lined up to Li Dangxin. Perhaps it was the deputy guided person who had been advising the White-clothed monks for a long time, they did not dare to talk about the family matters. They all respectfully signed up for the home, and at most they added one or two compliments. The White-clothed monks smiled and nodded and regarded returning the courtesy. Everyone did not think that the abbot of the Two Zen Temple was making a fuss. Who wouldn’t know that after the monk in white traveled thousands of miles to return to Tai’an City, even when he saw the emperor who was holding his horse for him, he only clasped his hands together and even did not turn over and dismount! These officials who skipped the Longmen of Beiliang were already in the officialdom who practiced a certain level of Taoism in the public sect. They would not neglect the famous Wudang Mountain master Han Gui. They sincerely consulted some Taoist health techniques. Not to mention anything else, Han Gui, who is extremely hopeful to become the next Wudang sect leader, can’t be considered a cold stove. In the future, it will be the Feather-in-Clothing Prime Minister who is the same as the six ministers. Who dares to neglect?
Except for the white-clothed monk and his wife who led the house to the housekeeper Song Yu, the East and West girls and the North and South monks left the team early and started to wander around in a familiar way. When she saw the maid along the way, she could accurately call out her name and add a sister based on her memory. The clever maid from Qingliangshan still remembers this little girl very vividly. She was able to make His Royal Highness a doting character like a sister. The little girl is very kind and it is difficult to not like her. Bai Yu, Chang Sui and his group followed Xu Weixiong and Song Dongming to the unique official residence located halfway up the mountain. It is said that it is the official residence of the Deputy Strategic Commander, but it is actually a small courtyard with continuous connections. A Deputy Strategic Commander and more than 30 auxiliary officials are here to deal with government affairs, food, clothing, housing and transportation. Those Longmen civil servants who were like Huangmen Lang of Liyang court dispersed their abilities and went back to their own homes to continue to work on the affairs summarized from the governor’s office of the three prefectures of Northern Liang.
In the last room, in addition to Xu Weixiong sitting in a wheelchair, the Liyang court had to pinch his nose and admit that Song Dongming, the important minister of the second-rank frontier, had temporarily entered Qingliang Mountain as a guest official such as the head of the royal palace, Xu Huang, a military master who was about to go to the Huaiyang Pass Protectorate, actually Sima Can, the prefect of Tieyou County, Lingzhou, was about to enter the Lingzhou Governor’s Office as Xu Beizhi’s aide, and Liu Duanmao, who wanted to enter the Jinbao room where Wutongyuan, sat down respectively.
Xu Weixiong said straight to the point: “As Mr. Bailian expected, the battle situation on the Western Front was extremely unfavorable to our Northern Liang. The prince had already gone to Liuzhou in person. Judging from the latest spies sent during the day, all the cavalry garrisons in Liangzhou had received military orders and began to be dispatched urgently. However, except for the two soldiers and 6,000 horses that were originally in the western part of Liangzhou, who only waited in place and did not have to travel long distances, the soldiers who had followed the prince and the eight hundred white horses, except for the one thousand soldiers who were adjacent to Wudang Mountain at that time, led by Luo Hongcai, who was close to Wudang Mountain at that time. The Kad Eagle Cavalry, as well as the two lieutenants who passed there, totaled 2,300 cavalry. The other Liangzhou cavalry, the fastest, was one day later than the prince to reach the borders of Liangliu and the slowest one would take four days. This was still the premise of completely ignoring the physical strength of the war horses, because the Beiliang Road was second only to the courtyard horse farm, which was just not far from the gathering place where the prince was. It was able to draw 600 Class A war horses and 4,000 Class B war horses. This is probably our only good news.”
Xu Weixiong paused and said with a serious expression: “To be honest, Wang Sui has already easily captured Jibei and Hengshui cities with 50,000 cavalry. The most elite cavalry confronting Liyang and Liaoliao was heading towards the east gate of Youzhou. The purpose was to cooperate with Yang Yuanzan’s army in Hulukou to try to destroy half of Youzhou in one go.”
Xu Huang asked slowly: “Even if the Youzhou infantry of General Yan Wenluan’s troops were divided into one army to support Xiaguang City, it would not be difficult to defend the last line of defense and the eastern border of Hulukou at the same time, under the premise that Youzhou itself had 30,000 cavalrymen.”
Xu Weixiong smiled bitterly and said, “It was originally like this, but we had two whimsical leaders. Under the insistence of the two of them, not only did they let 30,000 Youzhou cavalry go north from Hezhou to outside Hulukou, but even 10,000 Heavy Snow Dragon Cavalry and two heavy cavalrymen leave their respective garrisons and rushed outside Hulukou. So now not only is the situation in Liangzhou Hutou City, but in fact, the rear of Huaiyang Pass, Liuya and Fuling Towns is empty. In addition, the cavalry in Liangzhou is now rushing to Liuzhou to put out the fire. Once Hutou City is lost, our Liangzhou will be in an unimaginable and terrible situation. The two deputy commanders of the cavalry, He Zhonghu and Zhou Kang, and the deputy commander of the infantry Gu Dazu, currently the three of them are obviously not enough to support the situation caused by the loss of Hutou City. Therefore, another deputy commander of the infantry, Chen Yunchui, has led 30,000 elite infantrymen to Liangzhou. “
Xu Huang’s expression moved slightly and began to quickly calculate the gains and losses in his heart. Chang Sui’s wine gourd was filled with green ant wine, and he drank it alone and was completely lost. Song Dongming sat upright, Bai Yu squinted his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
Xu Weixiong said in a deep voice: “Now we can only hope that Liuzhou will not lose, and Huaiyang Pass cannot be thrown away. In this way, Beiliang can successfully fight an unprecedented siege and annihilation battle in Hulukou. Otherwise, even if Hulukou wins, let alone the fall of Huaiyang Pass, even if Beiliang Liuzhou and Beimang Hulukou each have their own troops, we can’t afford it.After all, Beiliang only fights against the power of a country with the power of one place. Beimang can afford it, but we can’t afford it. “
Xu Huang whispered: “In this way, it is crucial whether the prince’s Liangzhou reinforcements can change the situation in Liuzhou; whether Chu Duhu can protect the front line of the Northern Liang border formed by Hutou City and Huaiyang Pass Liuya and Fuling Towns; it is crucial whether Commander Yuan can block the Youzhou cavalry and eat up all the more than 200,000 troops in the mouth of the gourd. “
Xu Huang repeated three crucial things.
This means that Beiliang wants to win this shocking gamble, one after another, and there must be no major mistakes in each link, otherwise it will be a loss.
Chang Sui wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth and asked with a smile: “Then I will only ask the battlefield where Beiliang is most confident, the gourd mouth, Yuan Zuozong’s heavy snow dragon cavalry, plus the two heavy cavalry troops that had been missing for twenty years, and the Youzhou cavalry troops with Tian Heng and Yu Luandao, how sure is it to catch Yang Yuanzan’s old turtle in the jar.”
Xu Weixiong smiled and stretched out a hand.
Chang Sui rubbed his chin and said regretfully, “It’s only 50%, that’s hanging. I had to think about finding a way out for myself, otherwise the chair under Qingliang Mountain would have been warmed up before it could be heard. ”
Xu Weixiong slowly turned his palm again.