Chapter 988: The army in Beicheng was approaching, and the great masters rushed to the battlefield together.
The third year of Xiangfu, autumn.
The yin energy gradually becomes heavier, and the dew condenses into white.
The coolness of the Central Plains is also the heaviest in the northwest border.
In the dusk, outside the northern city, 400,000 grassland cavalry formed camps and camps, stretching endlessly, war horses neighed, gathering like thunder.
There were dozens of cavalry and hundreds of cavalry cruising out of the formation, quickly approaching Jubei City, and then on the edge of the range of the crossbow, looking up and watching, pointing at the top of the city with a horse whip and a knife, arrogant.
The large-bed crossbow that was only rejected the north city of the north city, and was expensive and praised by military strategists as the country’s most important weapon, had more than 40 large-bed crossbows. The range was long and the power was absolutely beyond the imagination of the grassland. The soldiers of the Spring and Autumn Period, Ye Baikui, once sincerely sighed on the battlefield of the west wall: “The nine-ox large crossbow, one arrow destroys the mountain, and three hundred steps can kill the master!”
But for some reason, facing the Beimang cavalry outside the range of ordinary crossbows, the crossbows at the Beiliang city were still motionless, and there was no sign of making contributions and making power with this top weapon.
Beimang had actually experienced the power of the bed crossbow in Hutou City, but the grasslands responsible for siege were all very clear. At that time, the king of the South Courtyard Dong Zhuo attacked Hutou City without any casualties, causing heavy casualties among the main forces of other departments to suffer heavy casualties and severe energy. Now almost all are still licking their wounds silently in the jurisdiction of the grassland and do not participate in this southern expedition. In the first Liangmang War, Yang Yuanzan, the general who led his army to attack Hulukou, Youzhou, died in battle and died for his country. If Beiliang had not used the head of this old general of the Southern Dynasty to exchange the corpse of Liu Jinu of Hutou City, Yang Yuanzan’s body would have to continue to be one of the many bones of a certain Jingguan in Hulukou. As for the meritorious deputy general Zhong Tan who captured the two cities of Wogong and Heluan, he was defeated and captured in the Miyun battle, and is now imprisoned in the Subei City. Dong Zhuo was mainly attacking Huaiyang Pass in the north and did not follow the army south to resist Beicheng. Therefore, the Beimang army’s impression of Beiliang still stayed above the word “Iron Cavalry”, which is naturally due to Dong Zhuo who used a plan to defeat Hutou City. Even after resigning from the position of King of the South Court, Dong Zhuo reminded his colleagues many times in the Southern Dynasty temple that Hutou City, the largest town in the northwest border, was extremely difficult to attack. The magnificent new city outside Liangzhou Pass that had been built for 20 years of wealth in the Northern Liang Xu family was by no means able to be broken in the short term. The road to the south of the grassland cavalry is like a horse leaping through the sky, and the worst plan is to lose more than a dozen large shovels. It’s a pity that Dong Zhuo had lost the glorious official position of the King of the South Court and spoke much lighter. Secondly, in the first Liangmang battle, Dong Zhuo deliberately retained his strength and consumed the grasslands and eliminated the power of the old woman. His reputation in the north and south capitals became worse and worse. Finally, in the officialdom of the two temples, they all felt that Fatty Dong deliberately exaggerated the words and said it was difficult to attack Beiliang New City. They simply wanted to show their military achievements for themselves who had already won a Hutou City. They still hoped to one day take over the power and once again ride on the necks of all the generals holding the orders.
There were constantly rushing horses outside the city, shouting domineeringly: “Grandpa is here! The cowardly child surnamed Xu in Beiliang dared to go out of the city to fight!”
Some of the stunning grassland generals even pulled their bows like a full moon, galloping forward with their horses, with their bow strings tense. After a bang, the arrow shot towards the gate of Jibeicheng, and quickly nailed into the gate, and the arrow feathers trembled continuously.
When these prairie-renowned sharpshooters returned, they won the roaring cheers in front of the Beimang Camp.
It turned out that the catapults that landed behind the cavalry continued to advance south along the gap path of the camp, with a total of as many as 900. In addition, the 1,400 catapults that Wang Yong, who was escorted to the battlefield before dawn, would have 2,300 catapults alone, and the reserves of huge rocks were said to have hollowed out two confrontational peaks in Longyao Prefecture, the Southern Dynasty. According to legend, Emperor Beimang and Taiping Ling personally took time to go there. The old woman in a dragon robe and a mouth with Tianxian was personally appointed as the mountain gods of Zhenguo, promising to break through the Jubei City in the future and the grasslands were finally unified in the Central Plains, the two mountain gods who temporarily lost their foundation could enter the east and west mountain mountains respectively.
Among the siege equipment, in addition to the catapults carefully created by the Southern Dynasties military weapon supervisor, Beimang, who was willing to spend his national strength to fight this big battle, was equipped with more than a hundred buildings of the same height as Jubeicheng in countless supplies. Since the building car was originally built for Hutou City, after the more majestic and towering Jubei City was built, it had to be temporarily raised. For this reason, nearly 10,000 young and strong craftsmen were urgently hired to start work overnight to avoid delaying the opportunity to fight and be vented by His Majesty the Emperor. Because of the huge project, the pressure on the military weapon surveillance was even greater, making the officials from the top to bottom of the military weapon surveillance look skinny. However, in the matter of adding stone throwing cars and adding high-rise cars, it is rumored that the military weapon supervisors’ officials made a fortune with this extra income alone. They were ridiculed by a poem written by a depressed Hong Jia remnant. One of the sentences “Skinny and skinny, the sleeves were not clear” was widely circulated, specifically using this to satirize the military weapon supervisors’ officials to make money and make a fortune in the national crisis. The Northern Mang Southern Dynasties had three departments under the military weapons supervision of the Southern Dynasties. The tower carriage and other siege equipment were all affiliated with the Dengcheng Office. The officials did not expect that this matter would be so sensational throughout the court. They were worried that they would almost resign and apologize. Unexpectedly, His Majesty, who had always been lenient to the gentry of the Southern Dynasties, arrested the scholar who was born in the Ding clan of the Southern Dynasties and executed the crime of confusing the public with a traitor. What really made the bureau chief relieved was a private heart-to-heart talk with the chief officer of the military weapon supervisor, saying that His Majesty the Emperor had seen the things created by our supervisor with his own eyes, and believed that there was no mistake, the material was excellent, and it was quite good. Since this was the case, it was a great contribution to the grassland, and some money was not harmful to the night grass.
In addition, the Southern Dynasty, which imitated the Central Plains to open up post roads, was built in Longyaozhou alone, within half a year, three post roads, horizontal and vertical to transport food and supplies. Although the states north of Longyao Prefecture are not as consuming the national treasury financial resources as if they were not willing to exhaust the lake and fishing, they have also created one.The road that reaches Longyao vertically, hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep on the plump grassland in the north will follow the iron hooves of the war horses of the grassland. All of this is undoubtedly a prelude to the offensive and defensive battle against Beicheng. At the same time, almost all the resources of the Southern Dynasties were tilted towards Longyaozhou, which bordered the border outside Liangzhou Pass. Dong Zhuo was able to easily obtain a large number of young and strong grasslands to siege Huaiyang Pass, which is also due to this. Before the first Beimang Battle, Tuoba Bodhisattva cleared the forces of Beiting on the grassland, and a large number of wandering criminals who had lost their protection appeared. They had to go to the battlefield to restore their identity through military merits. At that time, because the main force of Yang Yuanzan’s southern expedition unexpectedly destroyed the entire army, the Beimang Central Army, which had broken through Hutou City, also failed. This gave the Beimang border army some respite. I believe that this time, Beimang would never retreat easily. Even Huang Songpu on the Liuzhou battlefield had been killed in battle, and ended up with the same miserable end as Yang Yuanzan. He became the highest-ranking Beimang general who died in battle. Bad news spread throughout the Southern Dynasties, and the temple was filled with mourning. His Majesty the Emperor of Beimang still did not hesitate to let the Crown Prince Yelu Hongcai take the position of supervising the country and lead the army south to resist Beicheng. She personally sits in Xijing to comfort the people.
Beimang is determined to win this battle!
Perhaps it was the silence of Beiliang’s reverence in the Northern Liang Dynasty, which further encouraged the rebelliousness of the grassland military generals. In addition, the Crown Prince, who was in charge of the expedition, did not order to restrain the powerful generals under his command, and led elite cavalry out of the camp to cruise, which seemed to have become an unwritten rule that the generals of the Southern Dynasties and the grassland Beiting. It seemed that he would be a coward if he didn’t go to the top of the city of Beicheng. At first, some people didn’t mention those silent and ferocious large bed crossbows, even the ordinary city guards were as if nothing was needed, and they walked forward with their bodies, and they only regretted that they could not leap to the top of the city. Some young generals from Beiting High School were wearing gold and silver armor, and were dazzling under the sunset. For these powerful young people on the grassland who had been transferred from Qiexue Wei to the centurion or even the commander of a thousand men at a young age, they had been tired of hearing the Liyang border army that had established their own family since childhood, and their ears were calloused. They even complained a lot, thinking that the people who His Majesty the Emperor valued in the Southern Dynasty were a bit capable except for Fatty Dong, and the old men such as Huang Songpu, Yang Yuanzan, and Liu Gui were really not worth mentioning. If His Majesty had not welcomed Hong Jiabei to the stray dogs who ran to the grassland to take refuge and survive, and inexplicably signed a covenant to govern the southerners, Huang Songpu and other old guys with false reputations would not be the general.
After leaving the camp, two cavalry did not go straight to Jubei City, but slowly rode along the periphery of the camp. Both of these two riders are young, and they are wearing armor and hanging swords. However, the Xianbei buckle jade belt tied to the waist of one of the riders allowed the two to move freely. This young man is Yelu Dongshu, a member of the Beimang King’s tent. The Beimang Xianbei deducted the same score. According to the number of gems inlaid on the jade belt, most of the children of Yelu and Murong can inlaid two or three pieces, and then increase the size of military merits. Murong Baoding, a royal relative who held military power in a high position, or Yelu Hongcai, the grandfather of Yelu Dongpu, who was inscribed with military power in three dynasties, could have eight inlaid. There were only six Xianbei buttons on Yelu DongbedAfter being appointed as the General of the State and the Minister of the Ministry of War of Xijing, he controlled one of the four military towns, including the Junzi Pavilion and the Wazhu, and added a huge cat’s eye stone. He should have stayed in the Xijing Temple or was at the border of Gusai Prefecture, one of the four military towns. However, this time he made an exception and came to Jubei City with the army. He and the young knight beside him were both a middle-level military supervisor. He had a high position and no power, so he was just a bonus.
Yelu Dongpu was short and dark in skin, but full of a tough aura like a wild wolf in the grassland. He turned to smile at the young man who was running side by side and said, “Tuoba is so powerful that he is ahead, but you and I can only stare at me, whether it is a frustrating or not.”