As we headed south, we almost saw no snow above the mountains and ridges.

The coldest bones are the chilly spring.

The Northern Liang cavalry advanced more than 120 miles southeast, which is equivalent to entering Guangling Road. Although it is far from the real battlefield, the army under the command of the new Minister of War Wu Chongxuan of Liyang, the Minister of War, and the confrontation line between Xi Chu and Xi Chu to the west is still a long way to break through the main force. However, even if the generals and chief lieutenants who do not need to grasp the first-hand combat situation reminded that the appearance of more and more scouts and reconnaissance cavalry in Liyang is enough to allow the Northern Liang cavalry to introduce the general situation, which is usually the only intimate spirit of washing and feeding horses.

The action could not help but reveal a sense of murderousness. At dawn, there was still half an hour before the army was drawn. Xu Fengnian, the king of Northern Liang, who temporarily acted as the leader of this iron cavalry, summoned all the generals and lieutenants in the simple military tent set up temporarily. A total of sixteen people, including Yuan Zuozongning Emei Hong Shuwen, had no tables in the tent. The half-meter-high Guangling Road map was hung on the curtain wall. The main pass cities had been clearly recorded, and even the number of troops garrisons in various places was carefully marked with meticulous vermilion small calligraphy, which was accurate to a hundred people.

Xu Fengnian stood on the side under the map, still wearing the famous sword that he had snatched from Jiangfu Ding's hand, but took off the scorch. Xu Fengnian looked at the cavalry generals standing in an arc and raised his sword, drew a route on the map that was enough to shock the Liyang Military Department's Office, and smiled and said, "Next, we will pass Luhe County, pass through Weishui and Baxia counties, and officially enter Guangling Road. Maybe we walked too slowly in the two prefectures of Huaibei and then walked too fast in Huainan Road, which caught the imperial army off guard, so we could not keep up with us.

In their steps, otherwise the Jizhou cavalry should have arrived in the Shanyin County area of ​​the mountain trail two days ago to block us, and use the five sides and Songyun cities as support to defend and wait for assistance. When the army Xu Gong of the Ministry of War, they will join forces with local troops to defend this natural defense line with good geographical location, forcing our army to advance more than 80 miles southward and detour eastward into Guangling. However, in this way, we must collide with the Qingzhou troops heading northward. As long as we delay a little, Western Shu, which is known as a 20,000 army, will also arrive in a mighty manner."

Xu Fengnian said this, paused a little and curled his lips, "It's a pity that the furious son-in-law of the Gu family ran a little slower, so I guess Mr. Xu had pointed at the nose of General Jizhou at this time and spit out. But if I had the opportunity to stand in front of Mr. Xu, I must plead for General Jizhou, 'Damn you, Xu Gong, hides on the right wing of Jizhou, slowly sways slowly. Why do we want our Jizhou cavalry, who is as tired as a dog, to hurry up and fight the Beiliang cavalry? Who doesn't know that the snow dragon riding on the horse and becoming a cavalry in Beiliang, is not inferior to the Youzhou infantry at all? I came to the Central Plains to make a contribution, and I am not in a hurry to reincarnate!'"

In addition to the serious Yuan Zuozong, the generals in the tent burst into laughter, especially the veteran cavalry who fought the Spring and Autumn War, and were even more grinning. Although most of this group of people were generals and officers from the Northern Liang border, when they were still small soldiers before they went to Liang, most of them had heard the boasting of the old lieutenants in their respective army, saying that the generals would always make fun of the enemy before the war. It is said that even when the Western Barrier Battle was fighting the most difficult time, Ye Baikui, known as the Spring and Autumn Army, could not escape the disaster.

When the laughter stopped, Xu Fengnian restrained his relaxed expression and said in a deep voice: "Our heavy snow dragon cavalry still has more than 10,000 troops, but the real combat power is what? My family knows his family's affairs. Hulukou wiped out Yang Yuanzan's army in the Western Front. My heavy snow dragon cavalry made the greatest military achievements, but the casualties were definitely not a small number. There were 3,400 people who died on the battlefield! Because of the injury, there were more than 1,200 soldiers who had to withdraw from the border army afterwards! In the end, there were almost half of the old soldiers left. I might as well say here if I offended those two heavy cavalry troops. Their casualties were also heavy, but relatively speaking, I dare to let these two cavalry cavalry cavalry from Liangzhou.

The selection of people in the army was even drawn from the elite cavalry of Youzhou and a few local garrisons in Lingzhou. However, for the heavy snow dragon cavalry, let alone Lingzhou, I didn’t even draw even one cavalry! I will select people from outside Liangzhou Pass. I, Xu Fengnian, can say that the addition of new soldiers has been screened by the dual screening of Qingliangshan and the Protectorate. Every new commander and their battlefield resume, I, Xu Fengnian, have seen with my own eyes. After I nodded, Chu Lushan and Yuan Zuozong agreed to the agreement to take office. But even so, compared to the heavy snow dragon cavalry that rushed to Hulukou, it is obvious that the current heavy snow dragon cavalry..."

All the generals in the tent who had made great achievements outside the pass felt a dull suffocation. They were not only the title of King of Northern Liang on the young man, nor were they just the land god of the martial arts masters of the rivers and lakes, but also the personal prestige that Xu Fengnian slowly accumulated bit by bit through what he did in recent years. To become the commander of the first army, there is no need to be the kind of enemy who charges and fights. Not only Xu Xiao is this, but even Gu Jiantang, who is the great master, was in the Spring and Autumn War in his early years.

The number of times leading the way is not frequent, and Chen Zhibao is even more so. If he can win a battle or defeat a battle, it is actually enough. The young vassal king in front of everyone seems to have never lost in the battlefield, the temple, and the world. Of course, it is said that in a certain battlefield, our King of Beiliang had suffered great defeats. Even the great generals such as Yan Wenluan and Chen Yunchui occasionally heard their subordinates mention this matter in secret, and never scolded them. On the contrary, they showed a knowing smile that only the masters knew.

After selling a small secret, Xu Fengnian said seriously: "It is obvious that there is still no difficulty in crushing the Jizhou Jingji army to death."

This time, even Yuan Zuozong couldn't help laughing.

Xu Fengnian said: "This time I will take you to Guangling Road to wading into the muddy waters. Generally, the people of Northern Liang must not know the truth, but you have heard more or less in the tent. In fact, as you have heard and guessed, it is true."

Before everyone could express their opinions, Xu Fengnian said in a deep voice: "No matter what, whoever complains or even wants to scold me, I will wait until I return to Beiliang. This time, in addition to Cai Nan's border troops in the two Huai Rivers, we have to fight. Next, before facing Wu Chongxuan's northern border army, my purpose is to not fight without fighting. Even if my Daxue Dragon Cavalry defeats a hundred imperial troops here, it will be a loss-making business. Of course, Xu Gong and Yuan Tingshan insist on blocking the people to the end, then fight, and be afraid of them once! Before that, I have something else to do.

I want to explain to you first that the real evil battle is to compete with Wu Chongxuan. Because this trip broke into Guangling Road, in addition to picking up someone, you should also take the opportunity to absorb a certain number of Western Chu ‘defeaters’. It is initially estimated that it is between 200 and 300 years old, and most of them are young and strong. On the battlefield, we will appear as a team of fleeing cavalry. At that time, we will provide them with Northern Liang war horses and light armor, and of course, as well as sauvous swords, and quickly break up and integrate this army into our army. After that, Commander Yuan will lead you out of the Western Front battlefield. I will meet with you in one day at most."

Xu Fengnian pointed his sword heavily on the map, "No surprise, Xu Gong's troops in the capital and the Jizhou cavalry of Yuan Tingshan will meet here. Xu Gong will use the high-city city of Chaisang County as a stronghold, and the Western Shu infantry and Qingzhou army in Cheyeye are located behind and south of our army, each with city passes as a support. The entire enemy's front line shows an arc and a half arc. Although the terrain on both sides of Chaisang is flat, the water net is horizontal, which is not conducive to the brigade of cavalry passing, because only a wide official road has been driven by the Chaisang government to jointly destroy the people, especially every two hundred steps, digging out gullies of more than meter-wide width. If another battle occurs,

A little heavy spring rain will be even more unfavorable to our advancement. It is reported that Xu Gong's army carries a large number of heavy crossbows in stock in the Ministry of War, and has 1,700 heavy armored mates, of which 4,000 people in the Dagong Camp Shenbing Battalion, so naturally, they will defend Chaisang while forcing us to dismount and fight. If we choose to bypass Chaisang City and stagnate on that official road, we will most likely completely lose our original initiative as the cavalry. Then, the 10,000 people who were surrounded and lost their stance will be able to expand and contract the battle line against more than 60,000 people who can stretch and contract freely, and the opponent's head coach is Xu Gong, a famous general who is worthy of Li Yangshu. So for us, whether to fight Chaisang City or not is just a bad strategy."

Hong Shuwen said carefully: "Prince, I will look at the geographical situation near Chaisang. If you take a detour north, you will have to make a big circle. There is also a Beigu City similar to Chaisang. However, if we change the established marching route, quickly go south, and make the Qingzhou army that has not yet arrived in Chaisang, and then make the troops to the Jing'an Road, it will be more interesting. Now everyone knows that Jing'an Road has gone from King Zhao Xun of Jing'an to the Military Commander and the Military Commander.

The three masters all have a great gap with our Beiliang. Even though Xu Gong knew that our original intention was to change the battlefield, he could not afford the risk of wars everywhere on Jing'an Road and could only be led by us. As long as they left Chaisang, especially the Jizhou cavalry and the Jingji army were disconnected, our chance would come. However, the only thing to pay attention to is that our dragged crossbowmen should kill more enemy scouts hanging on their tails."

Xu Fengnian said innocently: "I am like the kind of person who does not hesitate to fight for personal revenge?"

Hong Shuwen said nothing in disappointment.

Yuan Zuozong was the first to laugh strangely and said, "Don't it look like it?"

The generals looked at each other in front, and then laughed out loudly without any shame.

Xu Fengnian had expected this and quickly laughed: "Since that's the case, then do it to the end. Niu Qianzhu, you lead Qianqi to intercept the army of Western Shu. Even if you release news along the way, under the banner of "reminiscing the past"! Anyway, no one in the middle believed that we were here to suppress the rebellion, and this just confirmed their random thoughts."

A man with dark skin and burly body asked in a muffled voice: "Prince, is there a little less than a thousand riders?"

Xu Fengnian thought for a moment and nodded, "Then let Pang Jianrui lead the thousand cavalry to support him to strengthen his momentum."

The man like black charcoal waved his hand and said, "Your Majesty, that's not what you mean. I've never taken over two thousand soldiers in my life. I can't take advantage of this opportunity to follow the prince to visit the Central Plains, so I can't take the opportunity to take on the general. I dare not compete with the prince. As long as there are two thousand riders, it's enough. If it really doesn't work, I can ask Lao Pang to lend me five hundred riders..."

The more the man spoke, the lower his voice became, and he was obviously a little guilty.

Xu Fengnian raised his foot and tried to kick him, while Niu Qianzhu, a captain of the Daxue Dragon Cavalry, hurriedly hid behind Pang Jianrui.

Xu Fengnian pointed at the Captain Niu with a scabbard, and said angrily: "Okay, I'll give you two thousand cavalry, and I'll lend you my Feng Cang together. How about it? If you are not satisfied, I'll lend you Commander Yuan to you."

Niu Qianzhu smiled awkwardly and said, "Forget it, Commander Yuan, he will only steal my limelight. It's enough to have two thousand cavalry and the prince's Fengzi camp, it's enough."

If he could escape the first day of the lunar month, he would not escape the fifteenth day of the lunar month, he kicked Yuan Zuozong who was standing not far away.

The short and strong captain Pang Jianrui asked, "Prince, the Qingzhou cavalry has lost almost all the losses in the battle of Zhao Xun rushing to assist King Zhao Ying of Huainan. Now the infantry and military commission with about 8,000 people is not worth mentioning. Finally, the general is willing to lead the thousand cavalry as a vanguard to open the way for the army."

Niu Qianzhu said anxiously: "Old Pang, the prince has promised to lend me all your thousand people!"

Pang Jianrui turned his head and glared fiercely, scaring Niu Qianzhu to shrink his neck. Niu Qianzhu's body size looked like two Pang Jianrui, but in the Daxue Dragon Cavalry Army, he was also the captain who commanded Qianqi. Niu Qianzhu was always like a young wife meeting a bad mother-in-law in front of Pang Jianrui.

At this moment, Yuan Zuozong suddenly spoke, "I am a vanguard, five hundred cavalry is enough."

Pang Jianrui scratched his head and gave him ten courage to compete for merit with the commander. What's more, as long as the old man from the Daxue Dragon Cavalry, he knew about the ten-year offensive and defensive battle in Xiangfan City, Qingzhou. Yuan Zuozong, as the second generation of cavalry commander after Wu Qi and Xu Pu, was in Xiangfan City. At that time, the battle was so hard that the cavalry under his command had to be used as infantrymen. Ant attached to attack the city. In the end, there were no ten cavalry left. This was the feat of Chu Lushan's thousand cavalry driving to Sichuan. It was not that the Xu family's cavalry did not want to draw more cavalry, but that there were no cavalry available, both cavalry and war horses.

Xu Fengnian nodded, then raised his sword and pointed out at the two battlefields of Guangling Road where the two armies were stalemate, "After crossing Xu Gong's troops, the Western Chu cavalry we are going to respond to will break out of the formation here, located thirty miles south of Guazizhou. The general of Wu's troops in charge of this battlefield is Zhou Ran, with a total force of 20,000, which should not be underestimated. Zhou Ran is a veteran, good at positional warfare, and has never been greedy for advancement. He has two thousand cavalry under his command. At that time, our main force will be about twenty miles northwest of Guazizhou, here, the Xiangwei River area, and temporarily suspended the horse and garrison. Zhou Ran will inevitably send a large number of scouts to monitor the movements of our army. Not only that, because of our arrival, Wu Chongxuan will inevitably order the northern Lai County front to tilt moderately southward. Although the main general Yuan Jiade has less than 10,000 troops, the cavalry accounts for almost half.

More than 1,500 cavalry, this unit was once the vanguard of the southern army going north to quell the rebellion, and its combat power was obviously not weak. Yuan Zuozong, you lead the main force to push the eastward along the Xiangwei River to Guazizhou 30 miles eastward, reaching Zhou Ran's headquarters, Wang Boyuan, you will lead two thousand cavalry directly between Lai County and Xiangwei River, cut off the main cavalry of Yuanjiade to the south to reinforce, cooperate with the main force, and show that we must first swallow Zhou Ran's 20,000 troops, Song Jinshan, you will lead

The one thousand cavalry kept a three- or four-mile distance between the right wing of the central army and slowed down. The main responsibility was to keep an eye on Zhou Ran's two thousand cavalry and sweep Zhou Ran's scouts and detectives in the south. Once the whereabouts of the Fengzi Camp went south to meet the horse team leaked, or if the Wu troops chased the front line, if Zhou Ran's two thousand cavalry got the news and intercepted them south, you must bite them. Be sure to win the space for Fengzi Camp to receive the entire reception of hundreds of people!"

Yuan Zuozong and two cavalry generals both held their fists and took the order.

Suddenly, a crossbowman came to report the military situation, and then Xu Fengnian and the generals were a little amused and crying.

The military orders passed by Xu Gong's scouts to Qingzhou were intercepted, and he ordered him to retreat to Huangqiu City, a big town on the northern border of Jing'an Road according to the original route, and he was not allowed to leave the city and go north without authorization.

Xu Fengnian said helplessly: "If there were no accidents, the Western Shu side would be similar. It seems that Xu Gong is not willing to give us a chance to bluff."

Xu Fengnian did not think that the task was completed because of intercepting a secret letter. Such military orders that were not afraid of leaking secrets would naturally not be sent to send a single cavalry to pass on it. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the more it is better.

But Xu Fengnian quickly sarcastically said: "It is hard to say in Western Shu. Maybe they will retreat after obey orders. They will retreat tacitly and wait for an opportunity to move. However, the dignified King Jing'an should be more effective than what a minister said. The Qingzhou army may not obey Xu Gong's 'unreasonable' order. Zhao Xun used troops on the battlefield, regardless of victory or defeat, but only expressed loyalty. The chief general of this army was from a confidant general of the Jing'an Palace. Before sending troops, he must have received Zhao Xun's secret order. It was nothing more than that even if he was suspected of being greedy for merit and prosper, he would never leave the court with the impression of being greedy for life and death. This young King Jing'an is worthy of being the most praised virtuous vassal king of the court and the public."

Niu Qianzhu and other generals were a little confused. After all, the situation in the Central Plains was too lazy to care about and not pay attention to the Beiliang generals who had been fighting outside the pass for a long time.

Only Yuan Zuozong nodded and sneered: "There is a high possibility that the Qingzhou army will insist on going north. In the future, Zhao Xun's nickname of "sending death to the vassal king" will be worthy of his name."

Song Jinshan, a veteran who had experienced the battle of Xiangfan City like the commander Yuan Zuozong, sighed and said with emotion: "I heard that the Qingzhou Navy is very unreasonable now, but judging from the flash in the Qingzhou cavalry on the Guangling battlefield last year, regardless of the combat power, it is just about its courage and strength, which is quite similar to that of the time. I think no matter how much we hated Qingzhou and Xiangfan City, we still had to give a thumbs up to the Qingzhou soldiers. Such an opponent is worthy of admiration. As a result, it is a pity to be such a prodigal king."

A moment of silence appeared in the tent, and Xu Fengnian suddenly joked: "General Song, are you not insinuating, right?"

Song Jinshan suddenly tilted his head and spitted on the ground.

This bold move made Niu Qianzhu and Pang Jianrui and others so nervous.

Soon Song Jinshan smiled and said with a bright smile: "That little bastard Zhao Xun is not worthy of carrying shoes to the prince!"

Xu Fengnian patted the old general's shoulder heavily, "It's worthy of being an old soldier brought out by Xu Xiao. He has nothing to say about fighting, and he has to flatter him!"

Song Jinshan smiled so much that his old face was so exaggerated. He even raised his eyebrows at Niu Qianzhu's young junior. The old man looked like he was a little worthy of beating. He was obviously telling the younger cavalry captain to learn something. This is the real flattery. You are still too young!

Xu Yanbing lifted the curtain of the camp, and Xu Fengnian nodded at him.

Xu Fengnian asked all the generals in the tent to disperse, and then stood side by side outside the tent with Xu Yanbing.

Xu Fengnian frowned and had an ominous premonition.

Some guests come from afar.
Chapter completed!