Chapter 928 Qingcang City is waiting for guests to plant sandalwood, and the masters of the escaped summer town gather together
When the three convoys entered Qingcang City from east to west, not long after, a group of people rushed into the city from west to east. In addition to Liuzhou Governor Yang Guangdou, a total of seven border officials went out to welcome him together. In Beiliang Road, regardless of military and political affairs, this is an extremely rare and high standard.
The city gate has more than 80 cavalry with swords on everyone, Xu Yanbing carrying a spear diagonally, two of Fushuifang’s big crotch head Mi Fengjie and Fan Xiaochai, and for some reason, more than 20 cavalry without armor or swords.
The horse team stopped outside the city gate, lifted the curtain for the first carriage, and jumped off a dusty young civil servant. After smiling and greeting the governors and generals, he turned his head to look at the second carriage and greeted him, “It’s here.”
Following the young civil servants’ eyes, these senior officials from Beiliang Road who secretly met in Qingcang City saw a pair of men and women who slowly got off the car. They were not old and had outstanding appearances and appearances. The man is tall and has a Xianbei-headed jade belt unique to the powerful and powerful in Beimang; the woman is plump and has a delicate sachet that looks like a fumigation and filth removal on her waist, embroidered with a half-faced pipa makeup for women, but it’s a pity that it’s very damaged. He looked at the gate of the Xicheng City, which was not majestic in Qingcang City, with a weak expression.
The twenty horsemen surrounding this carriage were as if they were facing a great enemy, and each of them looked alert. Although these unknown cavalrymen were unarmed, as veterans who had experienced many battles, they still chose to sit on the back of the horse and acted as a resolute attitude to charge at any time.
A cavalryman died on a horse’s back, which means he died well.
The young man with a Xianbei head lace buckle on his waist said calmly in Beimang dialect: “Drop off the horse.”
Although the horsemen were unwilling to accept their faces, they still got off the horse and landed on the ground without hesitation. Many people were obviously injured, but everyone was straight.
The two young people of the same age are both from Beimang and have prominent backgrounds, but their fates are completely opposite in the end. The former is the grandson of Xu Huainan, the former King of Beimang North Court, and now he visits Xu Beizhi, who is the deputy governor of Beiliangdao; while the latter is only informed in the General’s spy on the governor’s official report: Beimangxia Nabo Chuangtan, the eldest grandson of the planting family, and a new generation of famous generals in the Beimang temple.
In response to the old saying, you can escape the first day of the lunar month and the fifteenth day of the lunar month. The Zantan, who had previously broken through the encirclement at the Hulukou in Youzhou, was led by Xu Yanbing to the Wu family’s sword tomb and successfully intercepted the border of Gusai Prefecture with Xu Beizhi, and then met with Xu Beizhi in Linyao Army Town and came to Qingcang City together.
When Zhong Tan identified the characters at the city gate with Zhu Wang’s spies, his already heavy mood became more and more heavy. The reason why he assisted Huang Songpu in commanding the battle situation in Liuzhou seemed to be a sequelae of the failure of the Hulukou Battle. He was abandoned by the Beimang court and was best outside the main battlefield where military merits were the most powerful. However, this time, not only did the Zhong family have high hopes for his comeback, but even the Taiping Order was also very concerned about it. And in MiyunBefore the Yamaguchi Battle was decided, Zhongtan was only one line away from the completion of the great achievements. Once tens of thousands of monks from Lanta Mountain surrendered to Beimang, it echoed the left head of Huang Songpu army, which means that the pattern of Liangmang and the two sides on the Liuzhou battlefield was not just a huge gap in military strength, but Beimang took the lead in achieving the “great trend” on some battlefields. Eating the Dragon Elephant Army in one bite is an inevitable result, and it will create a huge deterrence for the western border of Liangzhou supported by the Qingyuan Army Town, and even directly to the entire Lingzhou, which was outside the first Liangmang Battle. No matter how tragic Huang Songpu won in Liuzhou, he only needed 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry to be left to drive straight into the northwest area of Lingzhou. If Lingzhou is destroyed, it will disperse the vitality of the Northern Liang border army, and the strategic depth of the Xu family’s iron cavalry will inevitably shrink sharply.
But these have become ridiculous “ifs”. Not only that, Zhong Tan also saw these top officials in Beiliang gathered here. It was not until this moment that Zhong Tan was completely sure that Beiliang was determined to make a big move in Liuzhou, so the battle of Miyun Mountain Pass was definitely not the temporary intention of the two young Beiliang generals.
If you seek wealth and honor in danger, you will often be a great fortune.
Zhongtan sighed slightly. I am the same, but his luck in planting sandalwood is really bad. Afterwards, he learned that after discovering the cavalry of Caowei, Rantu Mountain did not watch the fire from the other side of the river. Instead, he quickly gathered 20,000 monks to rush to the battlefield. Even three thousand cavalry left the main army and almost bit the tail of the cavalry of Caowei. Randuo Mountain is undecisive. As long as he planted sandals for another half an hour, he could break through the bloody defense line accumulated by the corpses outside the Miyun Mountain Pass, or as long as Cao Wei waited for a moment, he would be completely entangled by the three thousand Randuo Mountain monks. Zhongtan really couldn’t figure it out, it would be fine if Cao Wei was, after all, he was a native general of Northern Liang, but why did Xie Xiqin be willing to fight for Northern Liang so hard, and why did he even give his life to Cao Wei?
Zhongtan only felt that the defeat was unfairly lost, and it was not unfairly lost at all.
Zhong Tan is still unclear at this moment. His joint efforts to lose to Cao Wei and Xie Xiqiu will be praised by later historians as a honor even though they are defeated, because Cao Xie and Xie have firmly occupied the top ten famous generals for the entire three hundred years after Xiangfu. Many years later, Zhongtan became the first Beimang man to enter the center of the Central Plains temple, and each became the left-hand ministers of the Ministry of War. At that time, Xie Xiqiu, who was most qualified to compete with Kou Jianghuai for the position of Minister of War, chose the latter among the high temple and the distant world. Later generations laughed at me and said that if Xie Xiqian had not given up his career in officialdom, then the Ministry of War could be called Miyun Mountain Pass.
On the way to Qingcangcheng, Zhuangtan and Xu Beizhi, two two Wu and Yiwen, who belonged to different camps, had several open and honest conversations. Zhuangtan roughly knew that after becoming a prisoner, his head would not be used by the Iron Cavalry of the Beiliang Border Pass to sacrifice flags, or cut it down and throw it to the mouth of the gourd to “add bricks and tiles” to those huge capitals.
Zhongtan never believes in the saying that life is worse than death. As long as people are still alive, there is hope for rekindled.
So along the way, Zhongtan did not make any self-inflicted little moves. Of course, this was also because he knew very well that unless the Northern Mang army god Tuoba Bodhisattva personally led the army, he would be unable to save the terrifying combat power of Xu Yanbing and the eighty-knight Wu family swordsmen.
At this moment, a carriage drove out from the city gate and walked down from the carriage. The three major figures in Beiliang Road who were taller than those governors and generals – Song Dongming, deputy governor of Beiliang Road, and Yang Shenxing, deputy governor; and King of Beiliang, Xu Fengnian.
After a little greeting with Yang Guangdou and others, the young vassal king came to Xu Beizhi and Zong Tan, looked at the Beimangxia Nabo and his personal maid, and spoke in the authentic and sophisticated Beimang official accent: “We will meet again after we parted with the Hexi Prefecture Mansion.”
Zhong Tan said calmly: “If I had known the prince’s identity, I would have left the prince at that time.”
Xu Fengnian shook his head and smiled: “Although I was not at that time, even if you and this master from Princess’s Tomb tried their best to stop me, they might not be able to stop me from running away.”
Zhong Tan sneered: “Don’t forget, my father and uncle were both nearby at that time.”
Xu Fengnian said something inexplicable: “It was said in advance, there was no other meaning. I was just curious. Your name is Zongtan, your younger brother is Zonggui, and your uncle is Zongliang. They are all two-character names. Why is your father called Zong Shentong?”
Zongtan frowned and did not answer this question.
Xu Fengnian asked Song Dongming, Yang Shenxing and the governors to go to the Liuzhou governor’s residence first, while he took Zongtan and Xu Beizhi into the city.
The young vassal king and Liyang’s youngest deputy governor walked side by side, and Zhongtan and his maid Liu Daogu followed closely behind.
Zhongtan looked at the back and asked straight to the point: “I dare to ask the prince, whether I die or live, when will I die, and how long can I live?”
Xu Fengnian did not turn around and smiled and said, “It depends on yourself.”
Zhongtan said in a deep voice: “If the prince wants me to persuade the Zong family to turn against me, then he will not only look up to my Chong Tan’s weight, but also underestimate the family tradition of my Chong’s family.”
Xu Fengnian couldn’t help but stop, turned to look at the resolute Xia Nabo, and smiled strangely, “It’s too early to say this.”
Zhongtan was puzzled by this, and was too lazy to ask the bottom of the matter. He hesitated for a moment and asked, “Who should Beiliang use to target Huang Songpu’s army in Liuzhou, and who will use to go straight to Xijing alone?”
Xu Fengnian slowed down and walked side by side with Zongtan, saying frankly: “Originally, I used my brother Huang Man’er and Liuzhou General to attack Jianghuai, but now I have to add the monks of the Lantu Mountain led by Xie Xiqi. Yu Luan DaoThe Youzhou cavalry will also have the Caowei cavalry to echo each other from afar and enter your southern dynasty together. “
Zhong Tan nodded: “The war in Liuzhou is invincible. You Beiliang were able to fight, but now you can barely win. We have a great situation and failed. “
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, “General Zhong is a great hero. “
Zhong Tan looked calm, but his personal maid did not have the old monk’s concentration and was full of murderous intent.
Xu Fengnian remained indifferent and continued, “I said you too early before, which means you don’t have to worry. If the war outside Beiliang Pass is unfavorable, such as the loss of the Beicheng, then you will definitely die if you plant the sandalwood. But if the trend of war outside the pass is unexpected, for example, our Beiliang Iron Cavalry can retake Hutou City next year, then you will naturally have the ‘weight’. “
Zhongtan said with expressionless face: “Then I will wait and see. ”