Chapter 777: The four fronts of Beiliang Road are fighting, and the Dragon and Elephant Army fight hard in Liuzhou
Li Mofan, who has experienced many battles, is not surprised at all. Of course, there are few people in the world who are not afraid of death, but on the battlefield, especially on the battlefield where Liangmang confrontation, the more you are afraid of death, the faster you die. This is the first thing that every new soldier will be told solemnly by the old soldiers after entering the Beiliang border army. The Beimang barbarians will not show mercy because of your cowardice. Perhaps many new soldiers in Beiliang were not deeply touched at first, but when they experienced the battle on the battlefield, they would soon find that it was really a very simple thing to die. They were penetrated by arrows, killed by swords, and stabbed by guns and spears. Over time, the new soldiers who can survive will naturally become old soldiers. Perhaps they are still afraid of death deep down, but at least they already know how to prevent themselves from weakening their combat power due to fear. In such a huge battlefield, no one can tolerate any sorrow in spring and autumn. As long as you are covered in blood and watch your robes fall down one by one, sometimes even die for you, how can you be afraid of death! How to be worthy of those brothers who fight side by side and don’t hesitate to let yourself die in battle and exchange for your survival!
Li Mofan weighed the heavy iron spear in his hand, looked down, and then turned to look at the direction of Liangzhou.
General, I, Li Mofan, have a weird temper. To put it nicely, I am arrogant because of my talent, but to put it bluntly, I am arrogant because of my arrogantness. In recent years, I have done uncommon things on the border. If I were in the Liyang army, I would never make a fortune in my life. As a result, he was able to serve as a third-rank military general with real power among the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, holding the best sword and riding the fastest horse. On this vast northwest desert, he took ten thousand horses in the yellow sand for thousands of miles. Under the horse’s hooves, he was even more experiencing the wonderful ups and downs of his life, which were beyond the accumulation of his life.
In this magnificent era, let those heroes die vigorously on their respective battlefields. Let those heroes be intrigued and conspired in the temple and do all the mechanisms. Seeking fame, profit, benevolence, righteousness, everyone has their own desires and gains, and they all have their own desires but not. All the romantic figures, regardless of their enemies, show their romantic character.
This sentence was said by Li Yishan.
Li Mofan felt that it was worth it that a guy like him who was notorious in the Central Plains could be a hero who was unswerving. He picked up his spear and said softly, “Then let’s die calmly.”
The group walked on the grass of the patio ranch. The ground was soft, and occasionally water would slowly overflow from around the boots, which showed that the water and grass in the ranch here in Longxi were abundant. As the Beiliangdao horse farm, second only to Xianli Pasture, Longxi, which has no boundaries in winter and spring, connected in summer and autumn, and has unique climatic conditions. Since ancient times, it has been the main source of horses in every prosperous dynasty. The Dafeng Dynasty raised 300,000 horses in Longdong and Longxi area, and set up the position of Longyou Horse Herder. Liu Ze, the king of Zhongxing, who was known as the founding emperor of Dafeng, and once collected 160,000 war horses here. The nobles of the Longguan in Beimang were actually the first to be in the battle of the Qin Dynasty eight hundred years ago.The remnants who migrated northward during the chaos, traced to the roots, were once the people of the Qin Dynasty from Longxi to Tongguan.
Among the group, Zhao Luyuan, the head of the courtyard ranch, seemed particularly trembling. There is no way, the number five or six people behind him who are temporarily used as a foil for green leaves, who have official positions, just like the Captain Eagle Captain Luo Hongcai, who are all fourteen real power captains in Beiliang without exception. As for the only one who has no official position, Shi Fu, the general of the Northern Liang army who had been a general in Liangzhou for several years, was a pity that he was dragging down the label of “the capital of Beiliang to protect his confidant”. Before the new Liang king was inherited, Shi Fu himself tactfully resigned and removed from his armor. For some reason, he took it out again this time. Zhao Luyuan didn’t know whether Shi Fu was going to settle the score in the autumn or make a comeback. Zhao Luyuan was nervous. In addition to the young man around him, he was more likely to be ordered by the Temple Ranch this time, but he could only draw less than 5,000 war horses, and there were only more than 600 war horses of A, which was still a lot less than the request of the King of Northern Liang. But Zhao Luyuan knew that if the prince had been in the past six months earlier, he would have asked for horses this time, not to mention the eight thousand war horses of no grade, even the eight thousand A-grade Beiliang horses would have given them. Previously, the Northern Liang Protectorate urgently drew 10,000 war horses from here. These six hundred horses were the last of his own assets left behind. The “Imperial Commissioner” of Huaiyang Pass who came to the ranch to ask for horses was blushed and scolded the man for fishing in the waters. He also said that there was nothing great about the Protectorate’s Mansion. Zhao Luyuan slapped the table and threatened to “report the emperor” to the prince’s Wutong Courtyard in Qingliang Mountain. However, now that King Liang Xu Fengnian has come to his side, Zhao Luyuan really dares not say bad things about the Northern Liang Protectorate in Huaiyang Pass in person, and can only talk nonsense about being humble and incompetent. Zhao Luyuan is not stupid. Not to mention Beiliang, everyone in the world knows the relationship between Chu Dupu and Xinliang King, but it is just a real family with different surnames.
Xu Fengnian and Zhao Luyuan walked side by side on the grassland of the pasture. Behind him were the stone talisman who was in his prime but was silent all year round, as well as the horned eagle captain Luo Hongcai and others, including Zhao Rongguang, the Longxi captain who was responsible for the safety of the western gate of Liangzhou. The courtyard pasture has a vast terrain and beautiful scenery. Longxi has long winter and no summer, and has a unique climate of cold and frost in June, so nowadays, it is much cooler than other places. But except for Xu Fengnian, who had no expression on his face, Luo Hongcai and others looked anxious. Even Shi Fu, who had been withdrawing from the army for nearly two years, frowned.
Xu Fengnian looked at the plump grass in front of her and felt a lot of emotion. From the Dafeng period, which extended its territory to the Western Regions, half of the military horses in the world came out of the two lunar calendars here, many royal relatives, princes, generals and ministers raised horses here, and liked to compare the number of horses to raise horses. The Beiliang Dao Zhengzhi, who made money, proposed in his early years whether he could open the horse ban and sell horses below the war horses to Tai’an City and Central Plains high-ranking officials and nobles. This would definitely be a huge income, which would reduce the pressure on the taxes of Beiliang, but was directly rejected by Xu Xiao. After scholars went to Liang, many scholars proposed the same strategy, making a big fuss about the cold horses, and without reducing the reserves of A, B, C, andHowever, being able to increase taxes, increase military salaries, make friends with prominent people in the capital, and show that they are good at the Zhaoshi in Liyang can be said to be beneficial but not harmful. Song Dongming’s Longmen and Xu Weixiong’s Wutongyuan did not dare to decide on this without authorization. After leaving it to Xu Fengnian for decision-making, he also thought about it for a while, but finally put the matter aside.
Xu Fengnian stopped on the top of a hillside with a soothing slope. Looking up, he saw green. He suddenly turned his head to Zhao Luyuan, who was nearly fifty years old and looked old, and said, “Mr. Zhao, this is actually the second time we have met. I was still young and accompanied Xu Xiao to escape the summer heat. I remember that at that time, Lord Zhao had just retired from the border army in Liangzhou and took office in the courtyard ranch. At that time, the horse farm was in trouble. Lord Zhao patted his chest and promised Xu Xiao that Longxi would become the largest horse farm in Liyang in less than ten years. I don’t know if Lord Zhao still remembers it, and promised Xu Xiao that one day he would take out a world-leading horse horse to celebrate the crown prince’s ceremony.”
The old man who had been dealing with war horses for a lifetime was immediately excited and said tremblingly: “Your Majesty still remembers, remembers… How dare you forget the humble position? Not to mention that the Taijing Ranch has worked diligently to cultivate good horses, and has been entrusting the border generals and crossbowmen for so many years. As long as you see the handsome king of wild horses on the desert grassland, you must send it to the Taijing Ranch after being captured. In fact, there was a divine horse sent to the ranch four years ago. However, when the prince and the crown gift, the old man mistakenly thought that the prince forgot this matter, and was afraid that he would be said to be a bastard official who was not doing his job and only knew how to flatter the horse. After hesitating for a few days, he still did not send it to the Qingliangshan Palace. In the end, I couldn’t resist the request of our cavalry deputy commander Zhou, so I had to send it out. If I had known this… Alas, I really regretted it!”
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, “It doesn’t matter. Our Beiliang Iron Cavalry can have all the big and small horse farms, including the Tianjing Ranch and Xianli Ranch, which are of great contribution. To this day, I have only been to the battlefield a few times to say that there are two B-class horses for riding, which is barely worthy. Along with a A-class horse, it would be a waste of resources.”
Perhaps because he knew that Zhao Luyuan was going to stand up for him, Xu Fengnian waved his hand and said, “You go back first, I will talk to General Shi.”
Everyone left, leaving behind the stone talisman that Beiliang recognized as having a rough career. This person and Youzhou Governor Hu Kui were known as the “Two Birds of Liangzhou” in the past. They were both young and outstanding “old men” of the border army. The term “double walls” was originally about the two cavalry generals who emerged in the Spring and Autumn War. At that time, Xu Xiao was still fighting in the Spring and Autumn Period and was not appointed as a vassal, so the two were known as the “Two Bises of the Xu family”. Now one of them is hidden in Dunhuang City, Beimang, and the other goes to Western Shu to assist Chen Zhibao. Chen Zhibao’s Li Liang entered Shu, and Xu Fengnian’s hereditary replacement of the Northern Liang King became a watershed between Shi Fu and Hu Kui in the officialdom. The latter rose again and served as a chief official in the border area. The stone talisman with a higher rank was overshadowed and was dismissed and returned to the field. But strangely, for Shi Fu’s resignation, whether it is Qingliang Mountain or the Huaiyang Pass Protectorate set up later, they both have the following responsibilities.He treated him with an ignorant attitude, and even though Chu Lushan served as the general of Liangzhou later, he did not clearly inform Liangzhou that the stone talisman had withdrawn from the army, and the military information residence report would still be sent to the stone talisman of the “General of Liangzhou” who was recuperating at home every half a dozen times as usual.
Xu Feng asked in a young voice: “General Shi, this time, 10,000 elite soldiers from Xishu Road rushed to Guangling Road. Wei Fucheng and Dian Xiongzuo were only deputy generals, and a foreigner Hu Yanqian was handed over to the main general. On the border between Beiliang and Western Shu, Chen Zhibao asked a young man named Cheye to guard the northern gate of Xishu. What do General Shi think about these two things?”