Chapter 892 Chen Zhibao asked King Liang to be guilty of the war in Huaiyang Pass
When Xu Fengnian woke up, she opened her eyes and turned her head to look at it. She found that the sun was bright outside the window. Under the light, the dust near the window was revealed, but the room was a little dim. Xu Fengnian withdrew his gaze from a little distance and saw the fat man sitting by the bed like a hill, the capital of Northern Liang, who was protecting Chu Lushan. It turned out that it was this guy who blocked the sunlight.
Chu Lushan, whose back was facing the sun, had a hoarse voice: “Mr. Nangong took the prince to Huaiyang Pass and left without saying goodbye. I can’t stop him.”
Xu Fengnian, with dry lips, sat up slowly, breathing poorly. A person’s back is actually extremely thin, and the so-called back heart is extremely close. After being hit by Tuoba Bodhisattva with all his strength, he is naturally far from being injured. Fortunately, Xu Fengnian is too familiar with the fact that he was injured and became a doctor for a long time. He followed the Wudang Dahuang Ting’s heart method and roughly understood the degree of his body and mind healed, and asked, “Where is the iron spear?”
Chu Lushan said softly, “It’s placed in the coffin.”
Xu Fengnian nodded: “Tell me to Brother Yuan, let the Daxue Dragon Cavalry take off the flag of the big flag and send it here. As for the Daxue Dragon Cavalry, he said that a brand new flag needs to be replaced. If someone obstructs it, he doesn’t have to act tough. I will go to explain to those cavalry generals in person.”
Chu Lushan said, “Your Majesty, Yuan Baixiong set out to go outside the mouth of Youzhou gourd. As for the replacement of the big banner, the prince doesn’t have to worry too much. Lao Qi is an old man from the Daxue Dragon Cavalry. Now that the spies that Lao Qi died in battle have spread throughout the border army, I believe no one will say anything.”
Xu Fengnian put his hands in his abdomen and did not look at Chu Lushan: “If I had arrived at the Longyan’er Plain battlefield a moment ago, he would not have died.”
Chu Lushan shook his head and said, “If then, if the Protectorate’s Mansion did not pass the proposal of the three white horse crossbowman, would it not even be Sun Ji and Wei Musheng? The battlefield changes rapidly, and there are no resentment in life and death, and there are not so many ‘if’. If you die, you will die.”
If you die, you will die.
A very light sentence.
Xu Fengnian turned her head to look at this notorious man. The Xu family was the king of the northwest for twenty years. It was not the separatist rule of the vassal states. Chu Lushan had a lot of bad deeds and was in a high position in Northern Liang. Later historians would definitely not be stingy with his pen and ink to criticize him. Maybe it would be even more infamous than Xu Fengnian, the Communist Party of Northern Liang, the Communist Party of the Iron Cavalry of Northern Liang. Xu Fengnian was not furious because of Chu Lushan’s heartless words. This was not only because the fate of this man who slaughtered his adopted son Lu Qiuer was destined to be related to the honor and disgrace of Beiliang, but also because this man was considered by Xu Xiao and Li Yishan to be the closest talent in military use, and he was the real handsome candidate in Beiliang. It can even be said that if it were not Chu Lushan’s open flattery back then, the young and strong sects of the Beiliang border army would probably have turned to Chen Zhibao one side, and Xu Fengnian’s inheritance would definitely be the process of hereditary succession.It won’t be easy, and at the least it will take more blood to shed. A Huaihua General Zhong Hongwu is definitely not enough. But the real reason why Xu Fengnian chose to remain silent is that the towering man in front of him, who had once opened Shu for thousands of cavalry, and had also turned the tide in the first battle outside the pass between Liyang and Beimang. He had personally led the Eight Thousand Yiluohe Cavalry to strangle Dong Zhuo’s plan. Therefore, this man surnamed Chu, who has been in the military for nearly 30 years, has a far more say in the battlefield than Xu Fengnian, even if Xu Fengnian is the great master of martial arts, and even if Xu Fengnian is the King of Northern Liang.
Chu Lushan clenched his fists on his knees: “Life and death, there is no banquet that will never end in the world.”
Xu Fengnian pulled the corners of his mouth, his eyes were dazed, as if he remembered the 300,000 stele forest behind Qingliang Mountain, and said slowly: “Don’t comfort me, I know that those whose names are engraved on the stele have relatives, just like Qi Dangguo. So no matter who dies, there will be someone sad. It is not necessarily me, Xu Fengnian.”
Xu Fengnian paused: “It’s just that when I think about next Spring Festival, I wrote so many couplets and so many characters of spring, as in previous years, but the person who asks me for every year is gone. Even if I want to give it away, I can’t deliver it, and my heart feels a little empty.”
Xu Fengnian raised his head: “Before traveling to the rivers and lakes for the second time, Xu Xiao took me to the bottom of Tingchao Pavilion. When he saw that there were many spiritual positions there, he didn’t quite understand Xu Xiao’s mood at that time, but now he understands it. In fact, when Liu Jinu and Chu Hanqing died in Hutou City, he understood a little.”
Chu Lushan quietly listened to the young vassal king’s words to himself, expressionless.
Xu Fengnian got out of bed and was staggering. Chu Lushan wanted to help him. Xu Fengnian waved his hand with a smile, but Chu Lushan did not insist.
Chu Lushan led Xu Fengnian to a quiet yard not far away and stepped into the inner room. Seeing the cypress coffin, Chu Lushan took a few steps closer and said with a smile: “I can’t find the best nanmu in Huaiyang Pass, so I can only let Lao Qi sleep on it. Fortunately, Lao Qi has never been a particular person in my life. I still remember that at the West Wall, this guy was able to sleep as a pillow. Several times when we went to find him, we had to look for him, a living person from the pile of dead people. The princess said that he didn’t work many times. Later, when we arrived in the northwest, the house of six of us, the princess only helped Lao Qi. I personally arranged it, for fear that this guy would fool me by just building a house the size of a sparrow nest. Later, even marrying a wife was a matchmaker for the princess. Lao Qile agreed without saying a word. It was probably the first time I saw my wife when she got married. Fortunately, Lao Qi’s life was very enjoyable. He served as the lieutenant of the Zhechong Prison for more than ten years, and the fourth-rank official who was the size of sesame and mung beans, never complained. If I were me, I would have gone to my adoptive father and princess to make a fuss.”
Chu Lushan suddenly slapped the lid of the coffin: “Old Qi, stop sleeping, the prince is here to see you!”
Xu Fengnian glared at Chu Lushan.
The latter smiled embarrassedly, retracted his hand, glanced at the coffin, and whispered, “Sleep, sleep, Lao Qi, you are more sleepy than the sky, and you can’t wake you up even if you thunder, only the six words “War is in war, carry a big penis” are the most useful.”
Xu Fengnian stood next to the coffin, looking at the sunshine outside the house on the ground in the yard, as if a layer of golden lichen was covered, and asked softly, “What’s wrong with Hutou City and Liuzhou in the north?”
Involving military affairs, the Beiliang guardian Chu Lushan was much more serious and said in a deep voice: “This time, the Longyaner Plain War unexpectedly, Beimang was suffering heavy casualties, and he lost all the elite scouts, including the Crow Roof and the Black Fox Roof, which led to the middle army led by Dong Zhuo and Murong Baoding becoming blind. Eight thousand Dongjia private cavalry ran back more than one thousand people. Only more than two thousand Rouran cavalry were left on the battlefield. People, mainly after Hong Jingyan’s death, the Rouran cavalry had no leader, and they would probably be divided up by the major forces of the Beimang soon. An unorganized cavalry cannot be said to have combat power. The most important thing is that the destruction of the Dongjia private cavalry and the Rouran Iron Cavalry greatly affected the flexibility of the Beimang Middle Army. In contrast, in our Beiliang, Yuan Nanting’s white-feather light cavalry has preserved its combat power well, but it’s a pity that Lao Qi’s Iron Pagoda…”
Chu Lushan hesitated for a moment: “Ning Emei, the deputy general of Tiefutu, stayed at the garrison in the Qingyuan Army Town under the order of Lao Qi. He had only a few hundred troops on hand. Even with the remaining cavalry on the Longyan Plain, there were only two thousand cavalry. Now that the war is imminent, it is not suitable to draw troops from the left and right cavalry of He Zhonghu and Zhou Kang, otherwise the two old generals who had already been angry would really rebel. In this way, it would be difficult for Tiefutu to fight alone in the second battle. This is not good news. After all, precious cavalry like Tiefutu is definitely not the same as the two thousand and four thousand people on the battlefield.”
Seeing Xu Fengnian’s meditative expression, Chu Lushan continued, “According to the current spy, Dong Zhuo and Murong Baoding both chose to remain silent, which is reasonable. The anger of the old woman in Beimang is enough for them to drink a pot. On the Liuzhou side, everything is in the established strategy. The only variable is that Zhong Tan, who served as the deputy general of the Western Front, does not know where to end. The southward route of the 170,000 to 80,000 elite Southern Dynasties in Huang Songpu’s hands is exactly the same as Liu Gui’s troops were facing Qingcang City. Now it depends on whether the attack on Jianghuai has the ability to make Huang Songpu lose his composure. Otherwise, Huang Songpu will be able to advance to Qingcang City smoothly. By fighting head-on, we have little chance of victory. In the battle of Liuzhou, we can only fight outside Qingcang City.”
Xu Fengnian suddenly said, “I will let the eight hundred white horses enter Tiefutu. From me, all the fourth-rank and above generals will draw some of their personal guards and cavalry. I will let Tiefutu restore to the scale of 4,000 people within one month, and then follow the Youzhou cavalry of Yu Luandao and join the Liuzhou battlefield.”