Chapter 966 Old Shuai He bid farewell to the army, Lu Dongjiang visited King Liang
In the summer, the heat ended here, the autumn air gradually became soaring, and the eagle felt its air and caught the birds.
The Northern Liang Border Army will hold a long-standing ceremony every year at this time of the year, which is to sacrifice to the eagle. Some eagles and falcons carefully raised for the crossbow handrails of border troops will be released outside Liangzhou Pass, hundreds of cavalry will come out of the formation, and groups of eagles will fly high, and the scene will be extremely spectacular.
Because the white horse crossbowmen outside Liangzhou Pass had all moved to the Liuzhou battlefield, the elite cavalry of He Zhonghu’s troops from the left cavalry were asked to do it for him. First, the old coach was seriously ill, but he was nominally given the title of commander of the Left Cavalry. This sacrifice to the eagle was also the end of the battlefield for the meritorious old coach; second, a new deputy commander of the Left Cavalry, named Lu Dayuan, who had been away from the border army for more than ten years, happened to personally lead the hundred cavalry in the area north of Jubei City, raising his arms and releasing the eagle.
On the day of the eagle sacrifice, the sun sets, and the horse-drawn road in the north city is crowded with people. The commander of the right cavalry, Jin Queqiao Zhou Kang, slowly walked up to the top of the city accompanied by Li Yanchao, with a stern face. When he saw the old coach He Zhonghu who had to wear a thick fur to keep the cold after removing his armor, his face improved a little.
Li Yanchao, the fierce general of the border army who “rebels” the left cavalry and turned to the right cavalry, looked indifferent. Only in the depths of his dark eyes could he feel a little guilty, but he still felt ashamed and did not regret it.
The young vassal king with a cool knife on his waist stood in the middle of the city. He looked up at the distance and saw a group of eagles flying, feeling relaxed and happy.
After seeing Lu Dayuan leading hundreds of cavalry back to Jubei City, Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at He Zhonghu beside him. My old body is already unable to withstand the bumps of the horse’s back, and even hanging a knife and armor has become a luxury. After the eagle sacrifice today, the old man will officially leave the battlefield. However, the old man has no children and no houses in the pass. Xu Fengnian thought that according to the temperament of a veteran, he would choose to stay in Jubeicheng for retirement. After all, he could hear the familiar sound of horse hooves closer. Xu Fengnian even personally left a quiet house near the vassal residence, but in the end the old man actually said that he would be served on the sickbed before he lay down, and to go to Lingzhou while he had some energy left. Lingzhou is the south of Jiangnan outside the border of Beiliang Road. I have heard of the wealth there. I have been dealing with horse manure outside the pass for twenty years. I should have gone there to enjoy a few good meals.
Xu Fengnian knew it was fake that the old man said he wanted to enjoy his happiness, and he did not want the next commander of the Left Cavalry Army to meet him, the Supreme Emperor, from time to time. This is the truth. Even if the successor would not think so, nor would he feel restricted, the old man still insisted on his own opinion. Xu Fengnian had to let Chen Yunchui and Lin Doufang, the old man of the Xu family, who were of the same seniority as the old coach, come forward to persuade him, but it was also useless. He Zhong, who had been thrown into the battlefield for his whole life, was determined to leave.
He Zhonghu noticed the sight of the young vassal king and smiled and said, “Prince, don’t persuade me. I, He Zhonghu, claimed that I was mediocre in leading the army to fight. The reason why I was able to win those battles was because of the former Xu family’s old soldiers and the current Beiliang border.Jun relies on being able to listen to other people’s opinions. To be ashamed, I have been in the military for nearly fifty years. I dare not say that I will lead the way in the Spring and Autumn Wars, but I am no less frequent than the old guys such as Liu Yuanji and Wei Tieshan. For some reason, in the end, he was injured the least, even more so than the general. I remember when the general brought us to Beiliang, everyone had a good relationship, but in order to compete for the position of a strong general, they really didn’t even want to be ashamed. Did the prince know how Wei Tieshan buried me with the general back then?”
Xu Fengnian smiled and shook his head.
The old man laughed and said, “Liu Yuanji and Wei Tieshan were actually focused on my position back then. Liu Yuanji, who had been reading for a few days, had a lot of bad water in his stomach. He was unwilling to be a villain, so he instigated the rude Wei Tieshan to tell the general that He Zhonghu was injured very little on the battlefield, but he had minor illnesses and no major disasters. The guy who never got sick may simply not get sick when he got sick. So, next time, he will not let He Zhonghu lead the cavalry to charge into battle. If he accidentally dies, not only will he lose his life, but he will also lose his face. Of course I can tolerate this, so I found the general in anger, pulled out the third-generation Xu family sword that was hanging on his shoulder at that time, and said a harsh sentence: either let me be the deputy commander of the cavalry, or I would carry the knife to kill the turtle grandson of Wei Tieshan. The general had no choice but to agree. ”
Xu Fengnian laughed in silence.
The terminally ill old man Chi Mu stopped talking and looked out to the north with the young vassal king who was not yet thirty.
At that time, Zhao Gou carefully collected a large amount of Northwest Frontier Army-related intelligence. The Liyang Ministry of War once came to a conclusion: the Northern Liang iron cavalry was surrounded by mountains, and the cavalry and infantry were full of conflicts. The cavalry outside the Liangzhou Pass and the Liangzhou Cavalry were even more rigid. The generals outside the pass and the military officers who were in power within the pass were also mediocre. Therefore, the so-called 300,000 Northern Liang iron cavalry were able to be united because they were not killed by Xu Xiao, which was enough to shock the heroes, and behind the old man was a Chen Zhibao with great prestige. However, in the transition of military power by the two generations of iron cavalry rulers, the military power transition of the two generations of iron cavalry rulers. During this period, there is a great possibility of great turmoil. The large mountain of the Northern Liang infantry, led by Yan Wenluan, should firmly support the Northern Liang governor Chen Zhibao ascended the throne, and several important mountainous mountains that govern the cavalry outside Liangzhou Pass, including Zhong Hongwu and He Zhonghu, may not be willing to bow their heads. Liu Jinu, Hutou City, will unswervingly obey the will of others. Li Yanchao, Li Mofan, Cao Xiaojiao and others are known for their rebelliousness and difficulty in dealing with the young and strong generals of the Northern Liang Dynasty, have little faction. Between the Northern Liang governor Chen Zhibao and the Crown Prince Xu Fengnian, they should mostly look at the dishes.
Among these mountain troops, the existence of the old man He Zhonghu in the Spring and Autumn Period is quite special. Although he was once a general of the Fulong Sect of Zhao Changling with Yan Wenluan and was very optimistic about Chen Zhibao, he was also recognized as having the most loyalty and the least selfishness to Lao Liang Wang Xu Xiao.
Even the Tai’an City War Department, which is thousands of miles away, can see this lightThe Tingchao Pavilion was naturally more realistic, so the two direct deputy commanders under Yan Wenluan, Wei Tieshan and Liu Yuanji, both left the infantry one after another. The veterans of the Spring and Autumn Period, including Zhong Hongwu and He Zhonghu, who were of similar age and of age, always firmly controlled the power of the border cavalry. Then Chen Zhibao rode alone to Shu and rebeled out of Northern Liang. Zhong Hongwu, who was arrogant and arrogant, lost his integrity in the evening, and the power of the entire Northern Liang cavalry was transferred to the hands of Yuan Zuozong, Jin Queqiao Zhou Kang and others. At the same time, the foreigner Gu Dazu was like a nail to the top of the infantry army and served as the deputy commander. Then, with the instruction of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the secret support of Qingliangshan, Chen Liangxi, a poor scholar from Jiangnan Road, suddenly took power. Although there was great resistance to the reform of salt and iron, Chen Liangxi stumbled and died in vain. However, some people did not have time to applaud, and then Chen Liangxi began to set up the fourteen real power lieutenant in the pass. Xu Fengnian, who had just inherited the King of Northern Liang, was particularly decisive about this. Yan Wenluan remained silent after paying homage to Xu Fengnian, which also made the military power reform involving half of the Northern Liang Road go smoothly.
The Liyang court, who had lost the Prime Minister Zhang Julu, was helpless in the expectation of the anticipated sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and in the end he could not intervene.
But in the final analysis, the changes in the Northern Liang border army were all due to a sentence from Li Yishan during his lifetime: Just using 300,000 troops from the Xu family against the Northern Mang and Southern Border Army is enough. However, if we face the grassland cavalry that invaded the whole country, we will not be able to catch it, and the outcome will not be changed by the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, the world’s largest, so our Northern Liang border army needs a group of new people to create a new atmosphere.
If Xu Fengnian may be inclined toward Xu Beizhi between the two young strategists, Xu Beizhi and Chen Liangxi, in Li Yishan’s heart, his expectations for Chen Liangxi during his lifetime were vaguely higher than Xu Beizhi.
Nowadays, Xu and Chen and Chen Liangxi are among the Northern Liang border army, especially the refugee young and strong and Liuzhou cavalry. They are no less famous than the governor Yang Guangdou and Liuzhou general Kou Jianghuai, and are even more closely related to young military generals such as Yu Luandao and Cao Wei. Xu Beizhi, who also served as the transfer envoy of Beiliangdao and deputy governor, was at its peak in the officialdom in the pass. During his tenure as the governor of Lingzhou, he also had a deep relationship with General Han Laoshan, Lingzhou and Huang Xiaokuai, the real-powered lieutenant in the territory.
Lu Dayuan, an old soldier of the Xu family who had great power when he returned to the border, led more than a hundred elite cavalry to appear outside the city. The old coach, who had originally pressed his hands on the cold arrows, turned sideways, and did not call the young man a prince, but just held one of Xu Fengnian’s hands. The old man with mixed feelings said softly, “Thank you for your hard work.”
Xu Fengnian turned around and held the old man’s hand: “It’s a little hard work, but it’s not hard.”
The old man with a kind and kind face asked with a smile, “Then I’m relieved.”
Xu Fengnian nodded and smiled, “Young General, don’t worry!”