Chapter 839 The old abbot asked King Liang, and Cai Jiedu was hiding the world.
The Northern Liang cavalry broke into the hinterland of Jiangnan Road, and there were tens of thousands of Huai border troops. This cavalry that fought against the Jingnan Dynasty and quelled the rebellion was unobstructed all the way. In addition, the cavalry did not violate the places they passed through, so it barely gave the Zhao court a step.
If we look at the current Liyang territory, Jiangnan Road, located north of the Guangling River, is actually not worthy of its name, but in the early Spring and Autumn Period, the territory south of Guangling was always regarded as a barbarian land full of miasma. The Old Southern Tang, which occupied most of the territory south of the Guangling River, had fought several soul-stirring battles under the leadership of Gu Dazu, causing considerable trouble to the Liyang army led by the general Gu Jiantang at that time. Afterwards, the Ministry of War and Revenue of the Court jointly counted the loss of troops and found an extremely ridiculous conclusion: the Liyang soldiers who died of illness were almost the same as the number of casualties on the battlefield! According to legend, after the old emperor Liyang established the world, he said to the monarch of the Southern Tang who surrendered to the capital: People are harmonious in Western Chu, and the geographical advantage is in your Southern Tang, but the time of heaven is in my Liyang. Everyone in the world said that the time of heaven is not as good as the place, and the place of heaven is not as good as the place of peace. But in my opinion, this statement cannot be true.
Later, Li Yang entered the Dao in Bingzhou in the hands of the late emperor Zhao Dun. When Jiangnan Road was set up, it was not that there were no civil officials who raised objections, but that Jiangbei Road was more appropriate. However, Zhao Dun, who was known as the best among the monarchs of all dynasties, rejected it with a smile, and the reason was a legendary color of unofficial history: Zhao Dun took a large collection of poems recently compiled by the Hanlin Academy at the court meeting, laughing and saying that since ancient times, many literati and scholars wrote about the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan. Could it be that when later generations read this book, they had to turn a corner and look at a note that “Jiangnan was today Jiangbei” was too strong, and it would be too bad.
In Jiangnan Road, which has raised a prosperous literary style for thousands of miles of fertile soil, this Northern Liang cavalry with strong armor and strong horses seems particularly abrupt. Hong Shuwen, the young Northern Liang barbarians who were born and raised in the northwest, were particularly unacceptable. They said that the ground here was soft and unhappy, and there was no sound when the horse’s hooves stepped on them, not to mention the dust flying when they rode their horses and whipped them. On both sides of the official road of the post road were the beautiful scenery of long grass and flying birds and green willows, which made Hong Shuwen and others not feel pleasing at all. They just felt that they were holding their chests and couldn’t even use their hands and feet. Compared to these young warriors who are accustomed to the yellow sand, wind and snow in the northwest, Yuan Zuozong and a group of heavy snow dragon cavalry who had experienced the Spring and Autumn Wars when they were young should be much more calm.
This iron cavalry marched day and night, and did not deliberately pursue speed in Youzhou, Hezhou and Jizhou. However, it became extremely rapid when it went south to the Central Plains, but the cumbersome rules set by the Northern Liang border army were still unstoppable. If you want to form an invincible cavalry, you can have strong soldiers, iron armor, horses, food and grass, military laws, and battlefields. For twenty years, the Beimang army has never been the only whetstones riding on the border of Beiliang. For example, the opponents of Liangzhou crossbowmen are mostly brave enough to be Dong Zhuo’s Crow Roof.enemy. This made the Northern Liang border army have a very interesting illusion, that is, to a large extent, overestimate the overall combat power of the world’s soldiers and horses. This is exactly the opposite of the so-called elite soldiers and horses in Liyang, especially in the Central Plains. For example, Yang Shenxing’s Jizhou infantry has always looked down on Yan Wenluan’s infantry, and Zhao Yi’s cavalry, the cavalry of Guangling King Zhao Yi firmly believed that he had the power to fight with the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry. The Qingzhou army of Jing’an Road never took the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry seriously. There was a leading general who once spoke, “What kind of iron cavalry is not an iron cavalry?” What a few kilograms of iron are the iron cavalry, let alone the poor place where birds do not shit, can the proportion of soldiers wearing armor reach half?
Then when this heavy snow dragon cavalry appeared in the Central Plains’ vision, the court and the country were up and down, closed the city and camp, and of course, they also shut up.
In the deep night, near a scenic spot called Shuangluanchi, Wucai County, Jiangnan Road, the cavalry team stopped horses and rested on the spot for three hours. The scouts of the Beiliang cavalry still cast a net around in a system of one line and returned ten miles. Before reconnaissance and cruising, each Ranger commander would take a terrain map from the commander. The drawings were extremely precise and rigorous. Not only did they mark the names of mountains and rivers, but they were often recorded in even village outposts. Obviously, this is definitely not a map collected temporarily, and it is even more impossible to borrow from local government troops. That is only something that Beiliang has long recorded in the confidential archives of the border army. Looking at the old and new map papers, it was only about three years ago at the earliest. What does this mean means that the Northern Liang border army, which has been entrenched in the northwest and overlooked the Central Plains for twenty years, has never truly ignored the Central Plains! This clue that is not visible to words or the table makes the entire cavalry, from scouts to main force, from sergeant to generals, from top to bottom, appear as a kind of suppressed heat that is unstoppable, like a stove in the snow.
The army was quiet and stern, but the group walked slowly on this snowy night, quietly left the station, and rode horses to the famous thousand-year-old Hanshan Temple, the famous scenic spot in Shuangluanchi, in the south of the Yangtze River. The group was Xu Fengnian, Yuan Zuozong, Xu Yanbing and two locals. One person is the intelligence leader who was installed in Jiangnan Road in Fushuifang. Even Xu Fengnian only knows that this person is called “Song Shanshui”. This person is nearly 60 years old and has straw sandals. At a glance, he looks like an old farmer who has worked in the fields all year round, but he is an old man who founded the Fushuifang and is regarded as his confidant by Chu Lushan. The other person is about the same age as the spy, with his surname Zhang and his name is Longjing, but his aura is completely opposite to the former. He is full of wealth and honor. He is the well-deserved richest man in Wucai County. He is both black and white and nicknamed “Zhang Shoufu”, which means that he is in Wucai County, Jiangnan Road, and is no different from the first assistant in one dynasty. The Zhang family is not an outsider in Wucai County, but it really emerged twenty years ago. It was only considered a gentry family within a county. The family began to make great achievements at Zhang Longjing. After being rich and wealthy, they did not forget to give back to their hometown and generously donated funds to support nearly 100 poor scholars. More than ten of them are now real power figures with great official qualities, and the two most outstanding ones even served as doctors of the Ministry of Revenue and a state-owned leader respectively.
In order to take care of Zhang Longjing, who had not ridden for many years, the group of peopleThe unhappy walk made “Shoufu Zhang” very nervous. He originally arranged for his confidant escort to come by car, but the young vassal king temporarily decided to go to Hanshan Temple to enjoy the scenery. The nobles, like the commander of the Northern Liang cavalry, Yuan Zuozong, also rode a horse. Zhang Longjing dared not go by car alone. The young and strong captain who was brave and good at fighting in the Xu family army turned into a transformation. He was immersed in the officialdom in Wucai County for more than 20 years, and many corners of the battlefield have been worn out. Moreover, the incense has been separated by a generation since the incense that year, and Zhang Longjing dared not lose etiquette in front of the famous Xinliang King.
This time, the identity was leaked and the Northern Liang cavalry of the former master Xu’s family was funded with food and supplies. Zhang Longjing, who had a lot of descendants, was not without worries. It moves the whole body with one move, but in fact, all aspects inside and outside the family have ripples. Not to mention the recent ones, the Han Sang children who had helped the Zhang family in the early years have now become officials wearing Qingfei. They must have sent letters of breaking up their relationship to the Zhang family’s house. Maybe this group of people will be the ones who want to be executed by the Zhang family the most in the future. Zhang Longjing, who is familiar with the worldly style, still felt a little bitter when he thought about this. But it is absolutely impossible to say that I regret it. Zhang Longjing knew better than anyone else that the Zhang family could have today’s status, whether it was their officialdom or their status in the martial arts world. Song Shanshui, the old spy who had never appeared in front of him, and the old man behind the scenes who hid in the deep shadow, had great achievements.
Zhang Longjing felt a scorching pain on both sides of his legs, and he was a little dazed for a moment. As a cavalryman from the old-fashioned camp, I remember that I was able to doze on the bumpy horse’s back without falling off the horse, not to mention the extremely skillful fighting of riding horses. I don’t expect that even riding a horse will be so difficult in twenty years. It turns out that I am really old.
The words of the young vassal king interrupted the Zhang Shoufu’s travels for thousands of miles: “Zhang Longjing, when our Beiliang cavalry returns on the same road, will the Zhang family follow us to move to Beiliang? If there are any difficulties, you can raise it now. It is better to prepare for the future than to be in a hurry. Also, I am ugly in front of you. Even if the Beiliang cavalry goes to the battlefield of Guangling Road, as long as it remains in the Central Plains, generally no one dares to touch your Zhang family. But if you don’t move into Liang, the entire family will be in a serious situation of making enemies on all sides. Don’t expect that friends from the past will be nostalgic. When the court does not speak out, the local government and local garrisons will also be moved. So you If there are young children in the clan who are lucky, you’d better explain the truth to them. If you don’t understand, you must also fight. After all, the family is not harmonious for a while, it will be better than the destruction of the family in the future. Of course, just like the previous sixteen families, I can guarantee that after the Zhang family arrives in Beiliang, I dare not say that life is more comfortable than being in the original place, but it is definitely not much worse. Whether the family’s children are from literature or military, Beiliang will open a door of convenience. I have already greeted Chu Lushan and Song Dongming. The officialdom and the army will squeeze out more than fifty positions for you and divide it. A family can get about three, and the lowest official position is also a fifth-rank of real power.”
Speaking of this, Xu Fengnian mocked himself: “Fifth rank, even if it is a little higher, it is indeed a bit shabby for you county lords, so I can also agree to you privately that if it is not a local garrison like Lingzhou, but a military outside the pass, the official rank can be higher. If it is not the officialdom of Liangzhou, it is the Liuzhou yamen, it can be higher than the extra level. The second battle between Liangmang is about to be up, and you can decide the pros and cons of the pros and cons of this place.”
Zhang Longjing was about to speak, but Xu Fengnian suddenly turned his head and smiled at the old soldier who had never forgotten the Xu family for twenty years, and spoke first: “In addition to your Wucai County Zhang family, my Beiliang cavalry has come all the way, and I, Xu Fengnian, walked to the front of the curtain with a total of seventeen families, and I, Xu Fengnian, are very grateful to you and will try my best to defeat Beimang so that you have no worries.”
Zhang Longjing was silent and looked complicated.
The Zhang family has been in Wucai County and even the entire state road for many years. This time, the head of the family insists on his own. There will definitely be no less violent rebounds inside and outside the family. But in the final analysis, the Zhang family is already in the Yang world, which is no longer a matter of whether they can live a prosperous life, but if they want to live, they can only retreat to Beiliang step by step. Zhang Longjing often asked himself recently that the children of the Zhang family set up a new door in a completely unfamiliar place. Even if the young vassal kings and the officialdom of Beiliang are willing to open the back door and let the younger generation of the family take a shortcut, it is hard to say whether they go smoothly or not, whether they go far or near.
The old spy Song Shanshui was also silent. Compared to Zhang Longjing, who is only a part-by-side, he needs to know more secret inside stories. In fact, after the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry left the jurisdiction of the vassal king, the families who were guarded by the Fushuifang along the way were not seventeen, but twenty-four! The four families in Hezhou and Jizhou stood up without hesitation and broke with the court completely, but when they walked south, there were repetitive people. For example, two families in the northern part of Jiangnan Road, one of whom the former head of the Xu family, had passed away for many years, chose to act deaf and dumb this time; then the family secretly contacted Zhao Gou through the government, trying to draw a clear line with Northern Liang. The latter’s hometown owner is still alive, and it is unknown what the reason is, whether it is greedy for wealth or taking into account the future of their descendants. After that, six families made similar choices one after another. Song Shanshui believed that the more far away from Beiliang Road, the more families they would be treacherous and self-protection would be. But what made Song Shanshui strange was that the Fushui room in various places was still in control. Originally, the old spy thought he would deal with these ungrateful wolves in the future, but after following the King of Xinliang tonight, the ruthless old spy suddenly felt a little unsure. He intuition told himself that it should be more likely that the well water will not interfere with the river from now on.
Song Shanshui, who was a scout, felt a little regretful and felt aggrieved for Beiliang. But the old spy was not disappointed with Beiliang, especially the young man. Song Shanshui felt that he should have been so familiar with this young vassal king who is now well-known in Liyang.
The soldiers who had died in the battlefield before will not talk about it, butThere are living people, General Xu Xiao has never treated him badly, and has never been petty for so many years. Over the years, there have been many gangs in Beiliang. He has never had these borers and families until the general passed away. He has only tried his best to build the elite army of the Beiliang border army, which guards the gateway. He patrols again and again, and more or less turned a blind eye to the smoky and chaotic behind him, especially Lingzhou. Finally, he kept his promise from the early years from beginning to end: “I, Xu Xiao, have gained wealth in his later years, and I must keep my old brothers under my command and enjoy the happiness with me!”
If Liangmang did not fight, Xu Fengnian, the new Liang king, would not have made a big fight in the Lingzhou officialdom
The old spy was originally very curious about this matter, but now he can’t ask.
As for whether the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry will go south to the Central Plains next time and whether the New Liang King will have the idea of sitting on the dragon throne, the old spy suddenly stopped thinking about it.