Chapter 844 Lu Dantian’s flying swords were provoking, Xu Fengnian crossed south to demonstrate
Going south, except for those steep mountains, there was almost no snow.
The coldest bones are in the chilly spring.
The Beiliang Cavalry advanced more than 120 miles to the southeast, which was equivalent to entering Guangling Road. Although it is still a long way from the real battlefield to the confrontation between the army under the new Minister of War Wu Chongxuan of Liyang and the main force of Xi Chu to break through the westward siege, even if the generals and chief lieutenants who do not need to grasp the first-hand combat situation give a reminder, just because the more and more scouts and reconnaissance cavalry appear around the marching route is enough to make this Northern Liang cavalry army introduce the general situation. Even if the intimate movement of washing and feeding horses, which usually only has the intimate movement, it can’t help but exude a sense of murderousness. At dawn, half an hour before the army was drawn. Xu Fengnian, the king of Northern Liang, who temporarily acted as the leader of this iron cavalry, summoned all the generals and lieutenants in the temporary simple military tent, including Yuan Zuozong, Ning Emei and Hong Shuwen, a total of sixteen people. There was no table in the big tent. The half-meter-high Guangling Road map was hung on the curtain wall. The main passes had been clearly recorded. Even the number of troops garrisons in various places was carefully marked with meticulous vermilion and small calligraphy, which was accurate to a hundred people.
Xu Fengnian stood sideways under the map, still wearing the famous sword that he had snatched from Jiang Fu Ding’s hand, but he just took off the scorch. Xu Fengnian looked at the cavalry generals standing in the arc, raised his sword, drew a route on the map that was enough to shock the Liyang Military Department’s Office, and smiled and said, “Next, we will pass Luhe County, pass through Weishui and Baxia counties, and officially enter Guangling Road. Maybe we walked too slowly in Huaibei and then walked too fast in Huainan Road, which caught the imperial army off guard, so we failed to keep up with our steps, otherwise the Jizhou cavalry should have arrived at the Duoshanling trail two days ago. In the area of Shanyin County, we were blocked first, and used the Wufang and Songyun cities as support to defend and wait for assistance. When the army of Xu Gong of the Ministry of War, we joined forces with local troops to defend this natural defense line with good geographical location, forcing our army to advance more than 80 miles southward and detour eastward into Guangling. But in this way, we must collide with the Qingzhou troops heading northward. As long as we delay a little, Western Shu, which is known as a 20,000 army, will arrive in a mighty manner.”
Xu Fengnian said this, paused a little and curled his lips: “It’s a pity that the furious son-in-law of the Gu family ran a little slower, so I guess Mr. Xu had pointed at the nose of General Jizhou at this time and spit out. But if I had the chance to stand in front of Mr. Xu, I must plead for General Jizhou, ‘Damn you, Xu Gong, hides in Jizhou’s right wing, slowly sways slowly. Why do we want our Jizhou cavalry, who is as tired as a dog, to hurry up and be beaten by the Beiliang Iron Cavalry, who doesn’t know that the snow dragon rode on the horse and became a cavalry in Beiliang, and his horse was not inferior to the Youzhou infantry, who came to the Central Plains to make contributions, and they are not in a hurry to reincarnate!'”
Except for the serious Yuan ZuoThe generals in the tent burst into laughter, especially the veterans of the cavalry who had fought the Spring and Autumn War, and they were even more grinning. Although most of this group of people were generals and officers from the border of Northern Liang, when they were still young soldiers before they went to Liang, most of them had heard the boasts of the old lieutenants in their respective army, saying that the generals would always make fun of the enemy before the war. It is said that when the Western Barrier Battle was the most difficult time, Ye Baikui, known as the Spring and Autumn Army, could not escape the disaster.
When the laughter stopped, Xu Fengnian restrained his relaxed expression and said in a deep voice: “Our heavy snow dragon cavalry still has more than 10,000 troops, but the real combat power is so strong that his family knows his family’s affairs. Hulukou wiped out Yang Yuanzan’s army in the Western Front. My heavy snow dragon cavalry made the greatest achievements, but the casualties were definitely not a small number. There were 3,400 people who died on the battlefield! Because of the injury, there were more than 1,200 soldiers who had to withdraw from the border army afterwards! In the end, there were almost half of the old soldiers left. I might as well say here if I offended those two heavy cavalry troops. Their casualties were also heavy, but relatively speaking, I dared to let these two cavalry troops go from the left and right cavalry of Liangzhou. Selecting people, even from the elite cavalry in Youzhou and a few garrisons in Lingzhou, but for the heavy snow dragon cavalry, let alone Lingzhou, I didn’t even draw even one cavalry! All of them were selected from outside Liangzhou Pass. I, Xu Fengnian, can I pat my chest and say that every new soldier’s addition has been screened by the double screening of Qingliangshan and the Protectorate. Every new commander, their battlefield resume, was even seen with my own eyes. I must nodded and agreed with Chu Lushan and Yuan Zuozong to take the post. But even so, compared to the heavy snow dragon cavalry that rushed to Hulukou, it is obvious that the current heavy snow dragon cavalry…”
All the generals in the tent who had made great achievements outside the pass felt a dull suffocation, not only the title of King of Northern Liang on the young man, nor the land gods of the rivers and lakes, but also the personal prestige that Xu Fengnian slowly accumulated bit by bit through his actions in recent years. To become the commander of the first army, there is no need to be the kind of enemy who charges in the battle. Not only Xu Xiao is like this, but even Gu Jiantang, as a grandmaster, did not lead the way in the Spring and Autumn Wars in his early years, and Chen Zhibao is even more like this. It is actually enough to win a battle and to afford to lose a battle. The young vassal king in front of everyone seemed to have never lost on the battlefield, temple, and world. Of course, it is said that in a certain battlefield, our King of Beiliang had suffered a great defeat. Even the great generals such as Yan Wenluan and Chen Yunchui, who were outstandingly motivated, occasionally heard their subordinates mention this matter in surprise, and never scolded them. On the contrary, they showed a knowing smile that only the masters knew.
After selling a small secret, Xu Fengnian said seriously: “It is obvious that the heavy snow dragon cavalry army is still not difficult to crush the Jizhou elite cavalry army.”
This time even Yuan Zuozong couldn’t help laughing.
Xu Fengnian said: “This time I will take you to Guangling Road to wade into the muddy waters, generally in BeiliangThe people definitely don’t know the truth, but you have heard more or less some of them in the account. In fact, as you have heard and guessed, that is the truth. “
Without waiting for everyone to express their opinions, Xu Fengnian said in a deep voice: “No matter what, whoever complains or even wants to scold me, will wait until he returns to Beiliang before he talks. This time we went south, except for Cai Nan’s border troops in the Huaihe River, we had to show off. Next, before facing Wu Chongxuan’s northern army, my purpose is to avoid fighting without fighting. Even if my Daxue Dragon Cavalry defeats a hundred imperial troops here, it will be a loss-making deal! Of course, if Xu Gong and Yuan Tingshan insist on blocking them to the end, then they will beat them, and they will be afraid of them if they are beaten once! Before this, I have something to explain to you. The real evil battle is to compete with Wu Chongxuan. Because this trip broke into Guangling Road, in addition to picking up someone, you should also take the opportunity to absorb a certain number of Western Chu’s “defeated troops”. It is initially estimated that it is between 200 and 300 years old, and most of them are young and strong. On the battlefield, they will appear as a small team of fleeing cavalry. At that time, we will provide them with Northern Liang war horses and light armor, and of course, as well as sauvous swords, and quickly break up and integrate this army into our army. After that, Commander Yuan will lead you out of the Western Front battlefield. I will meet you in one day at most. ”
Xu Fengnian pointed heavily on the map with a scorch: “Anyway, Xu Gong’s troops in the capital and the Jizhou cavalry in Yuan Tingshan will meet here. Xu Gong will use the high-city walls of Chasang County as a stronghold, and the Western Shu infantry and Qingzhou army in Cheye were located behind and south of our army, each with city passes as a support. The entire enemy’s front line showed an arc and a half. Although the terrain on both sides of Chaisang is flat, the water net is not conducive to the brigade of cavalry passing, because only a wide official road has been driven by the Chaisang government to jointly destroy the people, especially when every two hundred steps, digging out gullies of more than meter-width width. If there is another slightly larger spring rain, it will be even more unfavorable to our progress. It is reported that Xu Gong’s army carries a large number of heavy crossbows in stock in the Ministry of War, and has 1,700 heavy armor pairs, of which the Dagong Camp Shenbing Battalion has a total of 4,000 people. Naturally, they want to defend Chaisang while forcing us to dismount and fight. If we choose to bypass Chaisang City and stagnate on that official road, we are very likely to completely lose our original initiative as a cavalry. Then, the 10,000 people who were surrounded and lost their positions will face more than 60,000 people who can easily stretch the front line. Moreover, the opponent’s head coach is Xu Gong, a famous general who is worthy of Li Yangshu. Therefore, for us, whether to fight Chaisang City or not is just a bad idea. “
Hong Shuwen said carefully: “Prince, I will look at the geographical situation near Chaisang. If you take a detour north, you will have to make a big circle. There is also a Beigu City similar to Chaisang. However, if we change the established marching route, go south quickly, and then make the Qingzhou army that has not yet arrived in Chaisang, and then look like we are facing Jing’an Road, it will be more interesting. Now everyone knows that Jing’an Road, from King Zhao Xun of Jing’an to the governor of the military, all have a rift with our Beiliang, even if Xu Gong knew that our original intention was to change the battlefield., he could not afford the risk of wars everywhere on Jing’an Road, and could only be led by us. As long as they leave Chaisang, especially the Jizhou cavalry and the Jingji army are disconnected, our chance will come, but the only thing to pay attention to is that our dragged crossbowmen should kill more enemy scouts hanging on their tails. “
Xu Fengnian said innocently, “Am I like the kind of person who does not hesitate to fight for personal revenge?”
Hong Shuwen said in a disgust.
Yuan Zuozong was the first to laugh strangely, “Don’t it look like it?”
The generals looked at each other in front, and then burst into laughter with disrespect.
Xu Fengnian had expected this and quickly laughed, “Since that’s the case, then do it to the end. Niu Qianzhu, you lead Qianqi to intercept the army of Western Shu, and even if you release news along the way, under the banner of “reminiscing the past”! Anyway, no one believed that we were here to suppress the rebellion, and this just confirmed their random thoughts. “
A man with dark skin and burly body asked in a muffled voice: “Prince, is there a little less than a thousand riders?”