The Northern Liang cavalry broke into the hinterland of Jiangnan Road, and there were tens of thousands of Huai border troops from the past. This cavalry that fought against the Jingnan Dynasty and quelled the rebellion was unobstructed. In addition, the cavalry did not violate the places they passed by, so it barely gave the Zhao court a step.

If we look at the current Liyang territory, Jiangnan Road, located north of the Guangling River, is actually not worthy of its name. However, in the early Spring and Autumn Period, the territory south of Guangling was always regarded as a barbarian land full of miasma. The old Southern Tang, which occupied most of the territory south of the Guangling River, had fought several soul-stirring battles under the leadership of Gu Dazu, causing considerable trouble to the Liyang army led by the then general Gu Jiantang. Afterwards, the Ministry of War of the Court was the Ministry of War.

The Ministry of Revenue jointly counted the loss of troops and found an extremely ridiculous conclusion that the Liyang soldiers who died of illness were almost the same as the number of casualties on the battlefield. According to legend, after the old emperor Liyang decided to rule the world, he said to the monarch of the Southern Tang who was surrendered to the capital, "The harmony of people is in Western Chu, and the geographical advantage is in Southern Tang, but the time of heaven is in my Liyang. Everyone says that the time of heaven is not as good as the place of land, but the right place is not as good as the people, so in my opinion, this statement cannot be true.

Later, Li Yang entered the Dao of Bingzhou in the hands of the late emperor Zhao Dun. When Jiangnan Road was set up, it was not that there were no civil officials who raised objections, but that Jiangbei Road was more appropriate. However, Zhao Dun, who was known as the best among the monarchs of all dynasties, rejected it with a smile, and the reason was that it was a legendary color of unofficial history. Zhao Dun took a large collection of poems recently compiled by the Hanlin Academy at the court meeting, laughing and saying that since ancient times, many literati and scholars have used to express the beauty of Jiangnan scenery. Could it be that when future generations read this book, they still want them to turn a corner? They had to look at a note that "Jiangnan was today in ancient times, Jiangbei was today". Moreover, the character "Bei" was too strong, which was too bad.

On Jiangnan Road, which has raised a strong literary style for thousands of miles of fertile soil, this Beiliang cavalry with strong armor and strong horses seems particularly abrupt. Hong Shuwen, the young Beiliang barbarians who are born and raised in the northwest, are particularly unacceptable. The ground here is soft and unpleasant, and there is no sound when the horse's hooves are stepped on, not to mention the dusty scenery when riding a horse and whipping it. On both sides of the official road of the post road are grass and birds flying in the wilderness, which makes Hong Shuwen and others feel no pleasure at all, but they feel that they are holding their chests and cannot even use their hands and feet. Compared with these young warriors who are used to the yellow sand, wind and snow in the northwest, Yuan Zuozong and a group of heavy snow dragon cavalry who have experienced the Spring and Autumn Wars when they were young, should be much more calm.

This iron cavalry marched day and night, and did not deliberately pursue speed in Jizhou, Youzhou, Hezhou, Jizhou, but it became extremely rapid when it went south to the Central Plains. However, the cumbersome rules established by the Beiliang border army were still unstoppable. It wanted to form an invincible cavalry, strong soldiers, iron armor, horses, food, military rules, and battlefields. For twenty years, the whetstones of the Beiliang border cavalry have never been the Beimang army. For example, the opponents of Liangzhou crossbowmen were mostly brave enemies such as the Crow Lanzi under Dong Zhuo, which made the Beiliang border army a very interesting mistake.

I think that it is a largely overestimated the overall combat power of the soldiers and horses in the world. This is exactly the opposite of the so-called elite soldiers and horses in Liyang, especially in the Central Plains. For example, Yang Shenxing's Jizhou infantry has always looked down on Yan Wenluan's infantry, and Zhao Yi's cavalry, the cavalry of Guangling King Zhao Yi firmly believed that he could have the power to fight against the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry. The Qingzhou army of Jing'an Road never took the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry seriously. There was once a leading general who made the words, what kind of iron cavalry is not an iron cavalry, and a few kilograms of iron on his body are iron cavalry? What's more, in the poor place where birds do not shit, can the proportion of soldiers wearing armor reach half?

Then when the heavy snow dragon cavalry appeared in the Central Plains' vision, the court and the country were all in the city and the city were closed, and of course they even shut up.

In the deep night, near a scenic spot called Shuangluanchi, Wucai County, Jiangnan Road, the cavalry stopped horses and rested on the spot for three hours. The scouts of the Beiliang cavalry still cast nets around in one line and returned ten miles. Before reconnaissance, each cavalry commander would take a terrain map from the commander. The drawing was extremely precise and rigorous. Not only did the names of mountains and rivers be marked in detail, but even the outposts of large and small villages were recorded. It is obvious that this is definitely not a temporary map.

It is impossible to borrow it from the local government troops, so it can only be something that Beiliang has recorded in the confidential archives of the border army. Looking at the new and old map papers, it was only about three years ago. What does this mean? It means that the Beiliang border army, which has been entrenched in the northwest and overlooked the Central Plains for twenty years, has never truly ignored the Central Plains! This clue that is not visible in words and tables has caused the entire cavalry to have a kind of suppressed heat from scouts to main forces, from sergeant to generals, from top to bottom, to endure, and like a stove in the snow.

The army was quiet and silenced, but the group walked slowly on this snowy night, quietly left the station, and rode horses to the famous Hanshan Temple, the famous thousand-year-old temple of Shuangluanchi, the famous scenic spot in Jiangnan. It was Xu Fengnian, Yuan Zuozong, Xu Yanbing and two locals. One was the leader of the spy installed in the Jiangnan Road of Fushui House. Even Xu Fengnian only knew that this person was named Song Shanshui. He was nearly 60 years old and had straw sandals. At a glance, he looked like an old farmer who worked in the fields all year round, but this person was an old man who created the Fushui House and was confidant by Chu Lushanyi. The other person was about the same age as a spy, with his surname Zhang and Longjing, but his temperament was

The former is completely opposite, full of wealth and honor, and is the well-deserved richest man in Wucai County. He is both black and white, nicknamed Zhang Shoufu, which means that he is in Wucai County, Jiangnan Road, and is no different from the first minister. The Zhang family is not an outsider in Wucai County. It just rose twenty years ago. It was only considered a gentry family in one county. It began to become famous in Zhang Longjing. After being rich and generous, he did not forget to give back to his hometown and generously donated funds to nearly 100 poor scholars. More than ten of them are now real power figures with great official qualities. The two most outstanding ones even served as doctors in the Ministry of Revenue and a state-owned master.

In order to take care of Zhang Longjing, who had not ridden for many years, the group was not fast, which made Zhang Shougong very nervous. He had arranged for his confidant entourage to come to take a car, but the young vassal king temporarily wanted to go to Hanshan Temple to enjoy the scenery. Yuan Zuozong, the commander of the Northern Liang cavalry, also rode a horse. Zhang Longjing did not dare to go there alone by himself. He transformed from a brave and combative young lieutenant in the Xu family army. He was immersed in the officialdom in Wucai County for more than 20 years. Many of the edges and corners of the battlefield have been worn out. Moreover, there has been a generation since the incense that year, and Zhang Longjing did not dare to lose etiquette in front of the famous Xinliang King.

This time, Zhang Longjing, who had a lot of children and grandchildren, was not without concerns, but was rippling all over the family. In fact, there were ripples in the inside and outside of the family. Not to mention the recent, the Han Sang children who had helped the Zhang family in the early years have now become officials wearing Qingfei. I guess they will send letters of breaking up their relationship to the Zhang family's house. I wonder if the person who wanted to be executed by the whole family was this group of people. Zhang Longjing, who was familiar with the world, was still a little bitter when he thought about this. But if he regretted it, it was absolutely impossible to say that Zhang Longjing knew better than anyone else that the Zhang family could have the status today, whether it was the ability of the officialdom or the status in the martial arts world. At this moment, the old spy next to him, Song Shanshui, who had never appeared in front of him, and the old man behind the scenes who had hidden in the deep shadow, made great contributions.

Zhang Longjing felt a scorching pain on both sides of his legs, and he was a little dazed for a moment. As a cavalryman from the old-fashioned camp, he remembered that he was able to doze off on the bumpy horse's back without falling off his horse, not to mention the extremely skillful fighting of horses. He never thought that even riding a horse would be so difficult in twenty years. It turned out that he was really old.

The words of the young vassal king interrupted the Zhang Shoufu's travel thousands of miles, "Zhang Longjing, when our Beiliang cavalry returns on the same road, will the Zhang family follow us to move to Beiliang? If there are any difficulties, you can raise it now. It is better to prepare for the future than to be in a hurry. Also, I am ugly saying ahead. Even if the Beiliang cavalry has gone to the battlefield of Guangling Road, as long as it remains in the Central Plains, generally no one dares to touch your Zhang family. But if we don't move to Liang, the entire family will be in a grim situation of making enemies on all sides. Don't expect that friends from the past will be nostalgic. When the court does not speak out, the local government and local garrisons will also be moved.

If there are young children in your clan who are lucky, you'd better explain the truth to them. If you don't understand, you should also understand it. After all, a temporary family disagreement will be better than a destruction of the family in the future. Of course, just like the previous sixteen families, I can guarantee that after the Zhang family arrives in Beiliang, I dare not say that life is more comfortable than being in the original place, but it is definitely not much worse. Whether the family children are from literature or martial arts, Beiliang will open a door of convenience. I have already greeted Chu Lushan and Song Dongming. The officialdom and the army will squeeze out more than fifty positions for you and divide it. A family can get about three, and the lowest official position is also a fifth-rank of real power."

Speaking of this, Xu Fengnian said self-deprecatingly: "Five ranks, even if it is a little higher, it is indeed a bit shabby for you, the county lords, so I can also agree to you privately that if it is not a local garrison like Lingzhou, but a military outside the pass, the official rank can be higher. If it is not a Liangzhou officialdom or a Liuzhou yamen, it can be higher than the extra level. Liangmang's second battle is about to be impressed, and you can handle the pros and cons of the trade-offs here."

Zhang Longjing was about to speak, but Xu Fengnian suddenly turned his head and smiled at the old soldier who had never forgotten the Xu family for twenty years, and spoke first: "In addition to your Wucai County Zhang family, my Beiliang cavalry has been traveling all the way, and I, Xu Fengnian, walked to the front of the curtain with a serious crime of beheading. I, Xu Fengnian, are very grateful to you and will try my best to defeat Beimang, so that you have no worries."

Zhang Longjing was silent and looked complicated.

The Zhang family has been in Wucai County and even the entire state road for many years. This time, the head of the family insisted on his own. There will definitely be no shortage of violent rebounds inside and outside the family. But in the final analysis, the Zhang family is already in the Yang Dynasty and is no longer a matter of whether to live a prosperous life. Instead, if you want to live, you can only retreat to Beiliang step by step. Zhang Longjing often asked himself recently that the children of the Zhang family set up a new door in a completely unfamiliar place. Even if the young vassal kings and the officialdom of Beiliang are willing to open the back door and let the younger generation of the family take a shortcut, it is hard to say whether they go smoothly or not, whether they go far or near.

The old spy Song Shanshui was also silent. Compared to Zhang Longjing, who was only living in a corner, he had to know more secret inside information. In fact, after the cavalry of the Northern Liang left the jurisdiction of the vassal king, the family supported by the Fushuifang along the way was not seventeen, but twenty-four. The four families in Jizhou, Hezhou stood up without hesitation and broke with the court completely. However, when we walked south, there were repetitions. For example, two families in the northern part of Jiangnan Road. One of them chose to act deaf and dumb because of the death of the former head of the Xu family's old soldier for many years. Later, the family secretly contacted Zhao Gou through the government, trying to draw a clear line with Beiliang.

The latter's hometown owner is still alive, and it is unknown what the reason is, whether it is greedy for wealth or the future of his descendants. After that, six families made similar choices one after another. Song Shanshui believed that the more far away from Beiliang Road, there would only be more and more families who would be treacherous and protect themselves. However, what made Song Shanshui strange was that the Fushui room in various places was that the old spies would not move. Originally, the old spies thought they would deal with these ungrateful wolves in the future, but after following the King of Xinliang tonight, the ruthless old spies suddenly felt a little unsure. They intuition told themselves that the possibility of the well water not breaking the river water from now on is greater.

Song Shanshui, who was a scout, felt a little regretful and felt aggrieved for Beiliang. But he was not disappointed with Beiliang, especially the young man, and Song Shanshui felt that he should have been so familiar with this young vassal king who is well-known in Liyang.

Not to mention the robed soldiers who died on the battlefield before, General Xu Xiao has never treated all the living people? He has never been petty? Over the years, there have been many generals in Beiliang, and there have been few playboys who have done evil. Until the general's death, they did not touch these borers and families. They just tried their best to build the elite army of the Beiliang border army, which guarded the gateway, patrolled the border again and again, and turned a blind eye to the smoky and smoky behind him, especially Lingzhou. Finally, they kept their promise from the early years from beginning to end, "I, Xu Xiao, have gained wealth in the year, and I must keep my old brothers under my command and enjoy the happiness with me!"

Is it true that if Liangmang did not fight, Xinliang King Xu Fengnian would not have made a big fight in the Lingzhou officialdom?

The old spy was originally very curious about this matter, but now he can't ask.

As for whether the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry will go south to the Central Plains next time, and whether the New Liang King will have the idea of ​​sitting on the dragon throne. For some reason, the old spy suddenly stopped thinking about it.

During the next chat between King Xinliang and Commander Yuan, the two old men learned that not only the Jizhou army went south to block the enemy, but 20,000 elite troops from Shu also went out of Shu to pursue the east, and the Jing'an Road located in the heart of the Central Plains seemed to be ready to move.

Once a war breaks out and is truly responsible for blocking the backbone of the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, Xu Gong, the Minister of War, will definitely carefully select a place that is not conducive to the formation of the cavalry.

In Zhang Longjing's eyes, the Liyang imperial court wanted to invite you into the trap.

Zhang Longjing had to worry because he had been away from the Xu family's iron cavalry for more than 20 years.

I have never even seen the Hutou City in Liangzhou, the Hulukou City in Youzhou, and the Qingcang City in Liuzhou.

The old spy took the initiative to chat with Zhang Longjing who was running side by side for the first time, and asked in a low voice: "Are you scared?"

Zhang Longjing, who was exposed, was not angry and embarrassed, but just sighed: "It's not that he is afraid, he is just worried, he is worried that the tiger will fall into the sun."

The old spy sneered: "The tiger falls into the Pingyang and is bullied by a dog? The tiger roars in the Central Plains, and there is a dog barking?!"

Zhang Longjing was disappointed.

Suddenly, the gentle voice of the young vassal king came from the front, "Old Song, I have accepted the flattery, but I don't guarantee that you can be promoted in the Fushui Room. That is Chu Lushan's territory, and he speaks more effectively than me."

The old spy who is used to being happy and unrestrained smiled.

Zhang Longjing turned around and glared at the old bastard who cheated him, "The surname of Song, I will never give you a drink in my life!"

The inconspicuous old spy replied softly, "I will stay here for the rest of my life. Even if you, Shou Guardian Zhang, can't help."

Zhang Longjing asked curiously: "Why don't you reply?"

The old spy pulled the corner of his mouth, "I am old and stayed in the Central Plains. With the accumulated experience, it may be of some use. After going to the battlefield outside the pass, I can't afford to lose this old face, for fear of giving the young man from the Beiliang border army a low profile, our Xu family's old soldiers."

Zhang Longjing was speechless, only sighing.

Suddenly, the old spy shouted: "Prince, let me flatter again?"

The young vassal king in front turned around and smiled, "But it's okay to say it, but I'll go out of the sky, but I still have no rewards."

The old man straightened his back slightly. The spy who had not used his real name for twenty years reported the three words that he had almost forgotten and said, "If I, Song Hetian, could be twenty years younger, I, would go with the prince to kill the barbarians! Just like when I followed the general, every time I rushed to the battlefield, I had only one thought. When I died in battle, I was surrounded by robes, and there were brothers who would survive to help me. I would not lose if I died!"

Xu Fengnian continued to ride a horse forward.

But Yuan Zuozong slowly slowed down, took off his sword from his waist, threw it over, and said with a smile: "Old Song, the prince has already sent a lot of new swords this time, and I didn't bring it on this trip, just think I gave you it to the prince."

The old spy caught the sword that killed 300,000 Beimang barbarians outside Beiliang Pass and smiled brightly: "Master Yuan, I don't want the knife. A spy who is shameless is not needed, and it is not appropriate to keep it."

Zhang Longjing was confused and wondered: "Then why are you holding it so tightly?"

The old spy carefully hung the sword on his waist.

The old pawn wears a new sword.
Chapter completed!