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- The two new post roads built by Beiliang Road in Liuzhou are both horizontal, leading to the two prefectures of Liangling respectively. They are far less sophisticated than the three prefectures in the pass. This is also a helpless move. There are only three military towns in Liuzhou, which has a vast territory. However, it is bordered by most of Gusai Prefecture, which has a strong military force in Beimang. Therefore, building a longitudinal post road in Liuzhou can only facilitate the grassland cavalry's long drive south. This is a move that will destroy the border defense. To say the least, Even if the young vassal king gets carried away inexplicably, goes militarily and builds a post road in Liuzhou, I believe that Qingcang City Governor's Office, Huaiyang Pass Protector's Office and Qingliang Mountain will all rebel at the same time. The plain area on the right side of Laohu Mountain is the most suitable terrain for cavalry operations outside of Qingcang City.
The location chosen for the third interception battle after Kou Jianghuai's two great victories was a yellow sand plain more than two hundred miles north of Laohu Mountain. Between that place and the plain terrain of Laohu Mountain, there was a huge north-south corridor. The road generally shows the tightening trend of a woman's slender waist. If the prairie cavalry advances from north to south, the novel Although this place cannot be called the only way to the battlefield of Old Woman Mountain, it can be shortened by more than 60 times compared with the detour. It is a mile journey, and this corridor is not narrow and steep. It is definitely not a small trail and cannot be ambushed on both sides. On the contrary, the mountains on both sides of the corridor are gentle. The width of the entire corridor is roughly the same, both about one and a half miles. The brigade The cavalry galloped without any hindrance. The so-called corridor is shaped like a woman's waist, but it is compared to the entire territory of Liuzhou. Therefore, from the southward movement of Liu Gui's cavalry in the first Liangmang battle to the three blocking battles of Kou Jianghuai in the second battle, Neither party took a fancy to this place, which was once named "Grasshopper's Leg" by the refugees.
However, when the fifty thousand Southern Dynasty side cavalry were rushing to support the Laonu Mountain battlefield, when almost everyone could see the north entrance of the corridor, a Liuzhou army appeared in the middle of the corridor. They had been waiting for a long time. !
When Ma Lanzi hurriedly reported the military situation, several Beimang generals of the 50,000 cavalry army were in an embarrassing dilemma. All the Liuzhou infantry troops were in a posture of guarding the corridor. The number was about 14,000. The main force was The monk soldiers from Landa Mountain in the Western Region were also mixed with two to three thousand local Liuzhou soldiers and horses. The bad news is that this corridor is used as a battlefield, and the cavalry cannot move left and right to thin its formation. The good news is that the infantry waiting in formation does not carry any large-scale horse-repelling equipment, and its strength is absolutely superior. Once the cavalry broke into the infantry formation and forced them to retreat in a panic, even if the strength were doubled, let alone 17,000 or 8,000 infantry, it would not be enough for the cavalry to kill with a sword.
The Northern Mang and Southern Dynasty cavalry did not dare to underestimate the fighting power of the Northern Liang cavalry or the strength of the Youzhou infantry under Yan Wenluan. After twenty years of fighting on the border, they no longer dared to underestimate them. Soldiers and horses are really not taken seriously. This is not blind pride, but the huge self-confidence accumulated by the steppe cavalry in the four hundred years since the end of Dafeng by relying on countless border crossings and raids in the Central Plains. In addition, the real embarrassment for several Southern Dynasties cavalry captains was that they left the station and crossed the border to enter the Laohu Mountain battlefield, whether it was the royal tent in the North Courtyard, the nearby Xijing temple, or the south The commander-in-chief Huang Songpu, who was in the middle of the war, strictly ordered to join the battle on time, to make the final decision on the entire battle at the critical moment, and to completely eliminate all the main field forces in Liuzhou. Therefore, the 50,000 cavalry troops must not miss the slightest opportunity! The problem now facing these generals with military power in the Southern Dynasties is not only whether to take a long detour, because the monk soldiers in the middle of the corridor who are holding back their horses can also withdraw south quickly. Maybe the battlefield is changed, and the Beimang cavalry can move more quickly. The formation is about to be broken, but the cost of galloping an extra sixty miles is definitely not a price that these Southern Dynasties military town pass generals can bear. Furthermore, with the military merits of more than 10,000 Western Region monk soldiers, especially the leading general, it is very likely that he is a star. Xie Xiqiao, who can exchange his head for war achievements, is so tempting!
Fight or not?
Of course I¡¯ll fight!
For both public and private reasons, the cavalrymen of the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties all felt that they wanted to have a big battle in this corridor so as to gain a lot of military exploits. The eighteen Xianbei jade belts that His Majesty the Emperor recently bestowed upon the Wanyan family are the best example!
In front of merit, the 50,000 Cavaliers who are at the apex of physical strength and spirit are still not breaking the formation of more than 10,000 steps?
On the other side of the corridor, Xie Xiqiao, wearing iron armor and a sword, was sitting on horseback, looking up to the north.
The strong wind blew against my face, and I could already smell the smell of blood.
This Liuzhou lieutenant general, who is known as one of the two heroes of Chu, has firm eyes and a calm face at this time.
Cao Changqing once privately commented with Jiang Si, the empress of the Western Chu Dynasty, on the famous generals and ministers of the dynasty. Most of them were mediocre, but when talking about Xie Xiqiao, his proud disciple, he was unprecedentedly generous with his kind words, especially "Using soldiers on the battlefield, turning stones into gold." The eight characters carry the most weight, but at the end, I added a comment that seems to be just an off-topic: Xie Xijie's perseverance is especially better than Kou Jianghuai's.
??Will.
In the past, Da Chu was invincible for two hundred years in the Spring and Autumn Period. There were three things that defeated the enemy: strong armor and strong bows, long spears and halberds, and the military order system. When the national power of the Great Chu and Jiang clan was at its peak, Liyang and Dongyue, which had once fought to the north of the border, had no temper, just like a strong man punching a child. Even though the military strength of Da Chu turned from prosperity to decline, Liyang, located in the northern corner of the Nine Kingdoms in the Spring and Autumn Period, began to attach importance to cultivating the cavalry. However, before the entire army of 120,000 Euphorbia warriors was destroyed in the Battle of Jinghe, the entire Central Plains still believed that it was necessary to form a certain scale of cavalry. The combat power of the Liyang Cavalry would not be able to gain the slightest advantage against this heavy armored infantry, which is known as the most powerful in history. However, the battle of Jinghe, which had three battles, proved that as long as it was fought on the right battlefield, On the battlefield, if there are not enough cavalry to support the heavily armored infantry, no matter how large the number is, they can only wait to be killed. They may not lose, but they will definitely not win a big victory. That classic cavalry battle, which has a far lower historical record than the Western Barrier Wall, has been underestimated and despised by Liyang historians and military strategists intentionally or unintentionally. In the first three battles, the actual number of casualties on both sides was not many, only 30,000, and in the second, the cavalry In order to prevent mistakes in the key battle that followed, the Xu family army, who had won a complete victory through step-by-step combination, chose to brutally kill more than 80,000 surrendered soldiers. In addition, at that time, the old emperor of Liyang, Zhao Li, had sent a meritorious veteran and two Zhao family clan members. Since Zhao Dun personally participated in the coordinated operations, it is not convenient to exaggerate the fact that Zhao Dun became the emperor after he ascended the throne and became the emperor. But the Battle of Scene River had a great impact on the winning side of the Xu family. When Xu Xiao visited the battlefield with his men, he squatted down and stared at the fine iron armor of a great Chu halberd warrior, slashing with long swords, and spears. After stabbing him, he was still roughly intact, and he sighed, "People are dead but their armor is still intact. If I had such armor, how many people could die? We can't continue to be so poor."
From then on, the Xu family, who only wanted military merit rather than money after a brutal and deadly battle, began to seize weapons, gold and silver on a large scale every time they broke into the camp and the city. Countless officials in Liyang criticized and enriched their own pockets. It was by no means unjust. Of course, Xu Xiao never denied the fact that Xu Xiao was slaughtered, especially at the end of the Battle of West Barrier, Xu Xiao made a treasonous act. It was this incident that cost most of the love between the Xu and Zhao families, and Xu Xiao was ridden by his subordinates. General Xu Pu and two prot¨¦g¨¦s, Chen Zhibao and Yuan Zuozong, issued a secret order. The three of them joined forces and succeeded in secretly gathering 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Xu family. They took the lead in defeating the capital city of Western Chu overnight earlier than Liyang's appointed candidates, and then even more violently. Collecting all the treasures, gold and silver that can be moved away in boxes, Xu Xiao's widely criticized saying "Shit is easy to poop, but it doesn't taste good." This famous saying originated from the fact that after that search, the Liyang military sent envoys to lead troops When he went to question him, Xu Laizi said straight to the point, "The food is already in my stomach. If you want it, I can only poop it for you. Do you want to eat it?" It is said that the old emperor Zhao Li was so angry that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing the report. In the end, Xu Xiao just buckled the rope symbolically and spit out some trophies to the imperial army, and let it go.
After being granted the title of king and moving to the northwest border of the vassal, Xu Xiao's obsession with the advantages of weapons and equipment has become even more intense. It is not so much that the Northern Liang cavalry is the best in the world, but that it is the superiority of soldiers and horses that is the best in the world.
In the past twenty years, the smuggling of iron tools to the Beimang grassland has been banned repeatedly on the long border line of Liyang. The border troops of the two Liao Dynasties, which enjoyed half-national tax tilt, continued to make small moves, which was extremely difficult to stop until Chen Zhibao briefly became the Minister of the Ministry of War. He and Gu Jiantang left the capital to take charge in the north in person. The two most powerful military bosses worked closely together on this matter, and this was how they succeeded. Even in the Beiliang Border Army, which has strict military laws, several powerful captains were beheaded on the spot because of this. The implication was wide, from the generals inside the pass to the powerful generals outside the pass to the pass captains and finally to the big and small beacons, often in one incident. Nearly a hundred heads will fall.
The prairie cavalry has always been short of horses but armor. Beimang has greatly changed after the old woman came to the throne. With the east wind of Hong Jia's north run, the whole country has been like this, from iron smelting skills to military distribution. . However, some deep-rooted things of the nomadic people are still difficult to change even if they have been exposed to them for twenty years, just like the southern attacking Qingqi that was destroyed in the northwest of Liuzhou, the Qiang cavalry that became famous in the Southern Dynasties of Beimang, and the Rouran that Hong Jingyan took over The cavalry is also known as "the most important cavalry at the border". With the foresight of the old woman and the attention paid by the Xijing temple in the Southern Dynasties, how could she not even have the foundation and courage to equip tens of thousands of Qiang cavalry with excellent equipment? However, the Qiang cavalry always maintained the light cavalry route of using leather armor, fast horses, short swords and short spears, and was unstoppable. This cannot simply be regarded as the sect of the Beimang cavalry, but more a result of the times that make heroes.
The sound of Beimang's cavalry's hoofbeats was getting louder and louder, coupled with the natural echo of the corridor, and the roar of Beimang's cavalrymen after they believed they were sure of victory, it was like thunder on the ground, extremely majestic.
Xie Xiqiao suddenly opened his eyes, drew out the cold knife from his waist, and shouted angrily: "Form up a formation! Reject the horses!"
This time, they used an infantry formation to block the 50,000 Beimang cavalry. In addition to the 5,000 hard-bowed crossbows that the Liuzhou governor's mansion was eligible to allocate, Xiexi Frontier also begged for 800 horse guns from the Liangzhou frontier army. Qianmo Dao!
The Mo Dao emerged in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Southern Tang Dynasty. It weighed more than fifty kilograms and was made of fine iron. It was not allowed to be held by non-military elites. At that time, the Southern Tang Dynasty?There are more than 70,000 soldiers and horses in the sixteen towns on the border. The Mo Dao soldiers are only more than 2,000. They are so powerful that they were once hailed as the King of White Blades by the whole country in the Southern Tang Dynasty. They thought that if they could gather 10,000 Mo Dao soldiers to form a formation, Guarding the country's gates can stop a hundred thousand cavalry from invading from the south. After Gu Dazu, the first general of the old Southern Tang Dynasty, followed Xu Fengnian, the prince of Northern Liang, into Northern Liang, he not only served as the deputy commander of the infantry, but also with the strong support of the young vassal king, he implored Gu Dazu to help the Mohist Juzi build a new type of Modao for future distribution in Northern Liang. The Liangbian Army, compared with the fifty-jin Mo Dao used by the strong soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty in history, because the men of the Northern Liang were more muscular and had greater physical strength, the well-deserved beheading-saber of the Northern Liang was heavier, and was praised by the Mohist scholar Song Changsui. It was named "Sixty Swordsmen". It's a pity that we started building them before the first Liangmang war started, and we have only tried our best to cast more than a thousand of them so far. Moreover, it is difficult to use them on the battlefield outside the Liangzhou Pass. Then Xie Xijie asked for them all.
In addition, there are the Thousand Long Steps. These steps are more expensive than the Mo Dao, and their rarity is staggering. Anyone who is not a member of a military family cannot use horse horses. This is an iron rule that has existed since the birth of horse horses. First, the horse horses are extremely long and difficult to use. For ordinary cavalry to use them, it will only be superfluous. Second, it takes a very long time, and the workmanship is so sophisticated that it is unbelievable. It is said that it takes at least three years to build a horse. It has always been the first-class favorite of the Central Plains cavalry commanders in the past dynasties. It is even more difficult to obtain than a good horse worth thousands of gold. Search.
Eight hundred rifles were ordered by the young vassal king personally, which is almost equivalent to the amount that was collected after spending all the Xu family's wealth. If it weren't for the military law of Beiliang that did not allow the cavalry generals to rely on their status to use rifles, and they were used to living a hard life. Xu Xiao, who was also frightened of poverty, intended to collect Changshu among the people in Hyogo during the late Spring and Autumn War. Otherwise, it was simply wishful thinking.
In the corridor, this Liuzhou infantry army composed of monks from Landa Mountain formed a tight formation to resist the horses.
The one at the front is Cuan Zhang, who is outgoing and as cold as snow!
Three hundred people formed a horizontal team, arranged in three rows.
The first team sits on their knees with their long spears raised diagonally forward. The second team has long spears with flat ends pointing forward, and the third team rests on the shoulders of the soldiers in the front team, also leaning forward.
In the front, covered by a forest of three rows of tree branches, there are actually two rows of strong monk soldiers with their hands and shoulders firmly pressed against the huge shield.
After Ma Shan resisted the horse, there were two hundred men in each row divided into four columns of tall monk soldiers, holding eight hundred horse-killing knives.
The battle is about to begin, and the eight hundred people are sitting on the ground to rest. Even the Beimang cavalry blows the charge horn. The eight hundred swordsmen are still not allowed to stand up with their swords before receiving the order from the general. They must conserve their energy to the maximum extent.
Once the long -term rejection of the monks and soldiers died, they asked the 800 Modern monks to launch the wall.
?????????? Gu Dazu once boasted that before our Southern Tang Dynasty Mo Dao, both men and horses were broken into pieces!
After this, there were two thousand Liuzhou frontier troops accompanying the monk soldiers, plus three thousand monks from Lando Mountain, equipped with five thousand hard bows and powerful crossbows.
When facing the enemy's cavalry in an infantry formation, it is actually these five thousand crossbowmen who are behind the formation and hinder the cavalry's charge.
After Xie Xiqiao ordered the horse to stop and form a formation, he did not continue to stop the horse at the rear of the formation.
Instead, he dismounted and walked behind the crossbowman, took off the shield hanging on the side of the saddle, then held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, standing at the front of the formation formed by the remaining monk soldiers.
The Beimang cavalry roared like thunder, and the Liuzhou infantry formation was as silent as a mountain.
It is in this unknown corridor that life and death are divided.
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