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    After Beimang became the emperor's division in the Taiping Order, he had no idea how to attack Xiongzhen, a huge city that was difficult for war horses to jump. In the first Liangmang battle, Dong Zhuo attacked Hutou City, the first town on the border of Liyang.  , Zhongtan even destroyed the two cities of Hulukou and Wogongluanhe in Youzhou, which is clear evidence.  Not only that, the prairie cavalry army who aims to annex the Central Plains has also studied deeply how to break through dense infantry formations over the years. Chun Nabo Tuoba Qiyun has great experience in this. This person had a battle before officially surrendering to the army.  The emperor and his ministers in Huahui's discussion spoke eloquently and meticulously about the cavalry battle, which greatly impressed Empress Beimang, who was familiar with military affairs.

    Under the overwhelming promotion of the Taiping Order, almost every captain of the Southern Dynasty's frontier army would have one or two military aides from the Xijing Cardinal Hall. Most of these figures were young and not old, and belonged to the kind of Hong-Jia north-running army.  The descendants of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Southern Dynasty can be regarded as the third generation of scholars whose family took root in the grassland and then farmed and studied. There are also young, strong and timid Xue Wei who came from the northern court of the grassland, but not many.  Most of the frontier generals sneered at this and regarded them as supervisors of embroidered pillows. The top dignitaries in the Southern Dynasty temples who were really willing to pay attention to this group of young people were actually General Yang Yuanzan, who unfortunately died in Hulukou, Youzhou.  At that time, Yang Yuanzan brought with him a large number of young talents who were first trained by the Xijing Cardinal Hall, as many as a hundred of them, but they were all reduced to the bones of the Jingguan. Although the old woman finally exchanged the body of Liu Jinu from Hutou City for the  Several heads including Yang Yuanzan, but regarding the posthumous title of Yang Yuanzan after he died on the battlefield, he showed rare stinginess and meanness, and did not even do the symbolic decree to appease the Yang family's children. Rumor has it that the emperor even  Pointing to the dead handsome head in the lime box, he confessed to Tai Ping Ling standing next to him that Mr. Yang really deserves to die for ruining my ten-year foundation!

    When the five captains of the Southern Dynasties met to decide whether to fight this battle, a cardinal of low rank strongly suggested dividing the troops into two groups based on the description of the horse fence, with 30,000 cavalry attacking the corridor and 20,000 cavalry going around.  The road goes south to support Lao Crone Mountain.  Only one of the five Beimang military generals from different military towns agreed, and the other four rejected this too conservative proposal. The middle-aged cavalry general from Maolong Military Town, who was known for his violent personality in the Southern Dynasties, directly leaned over and used  He pointed the riding crop at the young man's nose and scolded him for being a bastard who didn't understand the importance of military speed.  He also asked the young man in strange words, could you be a spy planted by the Northern Liang border army in our Southern Dynasty?  The elderly captain of ten thousand who was the only one who recognized the young man's prudent proposal couldn't bear it. Just when he was about to speak to smooth things over, he heard the other three captains of ten thousand who had more powerful official positions burst into laughter. The men of the grassland, especially the athletes in the army,  The young man who had always believed that he could be killed but not humiliated, and whose father had died in battle outside Beiliang Pass, was so angry that his eyes were red and he almost gritted his teeth. In the end, he actually asked to be the vanguard of the cavalry. Before he mounted his horse and left, he sneered and said, "I  After death, I will watch how the generals died in the underworld.

    The four ambitious captains of ten thousand men did not take it seriously at all. The young man who had read a few tattered books and did not know how high the world was, wanted to die. They, the generals on the battlefield who had no connection with him, were too lazy to stop him.  But only after the two thousand vanguard cavalry hit the formation and hit the wall, all the captains began to realize that the situation was not good.  They didn't know that abandoning the natural mobility brought by the war horses and using the cavalry to break through the formation was not a coincidence. The cavalry who opened the way would definitely die in the collision. However, including the oldest captain of ten thousand men,  They didn't expect that the defense of that infantry formation could be so amazing.

    If it is reasonable to say that the five thousand strong infantry bows and Liangzhou powerful crossbows hiding behind the horse-rejecting formation are like a downpour of arrows after the volley, then there are still more than a thousand of the two thousand cavalry.  After rushing to the wall, the bloody scene of men and horses being killed in an instant was still extremely shocking to the captains who had seen too many bloody battlefields. Those two thousand elite cavalry were undoubtedly two thousand dead soldiers, and almost everyone's heart was  Knowing that charging would lead to death, they began to accelerate forward at the edge of the range of the bow and crossbow. More than a thousand riders who had escaped the rain of arrows were actually at their strongest and fastest when they collided with the formation. As soon as they collided with the formation, their horses galloped to lead the way.  The inertia and the terror of the huge momentum are self-evident.

    As a result, more than a thousand dead knights, men and horses, were all killed under Changsha!

    No less than six hundred war horses were directly pierced through the body by the long spear.

    The most terrifying thing is that the second wave of cavalry is almost visible to the naked eye. Those strange and extremely long "lances" show incredible terrifying toughness. After piercing through the corpses of the horses that are tantamount to committing suicide, most of them are drawn out.  Before leaving the body, it was only bent but not broken. For example, most of the cavalrymen in the Southern Dynasty's frontier armies were provided with a spear, which was often broken after one or two charges and assassinations. Only the elite direct descendants of the generals, such as Dong Zhuo, Liu Gui, and Yang Yuanzan, could use it to chisel.  The formation's iron lances and cavalry spears are made of extremely high quality, which is why they can hit the formation many times without breaking. However, as prairie cavalrymen who are familiar with bows and horses, they all know that even the Donglei elite cavalry under the command of Murong Baoding, the commander of the Orange Prefecture,  , the spears and spears are definitely not as good as the ones in the hands of this Liuzhou monk infantry army It's unreasonable.reason!

    Although the two thousand cavalry were a little timid, no one dared to turn their horses' heads and retreat before the withdrawal horn sounded behind them.

    It's not that this group of cavalry soldiers didn't care about their lives, nor that they were completely unafraid of death, but that although the Southern Dynasty border troops were not as skilled as the Xu family in Northern Liang, their retreat on the battlefield not only affected their superiors directly under the jurisdiction, but also the whole family.  We cannot tolerate their cowardice and risking their lives.

    During the charge of the two thousand cavalry, the Liuzhou infantry array in the field of vision slowly moved back ten steps in an orderly manner. The shield formation remained the same as the wall, the steps remained the same as the forest, and the shooting array remained the same as the rain.

    The body of the young Xijing staff member who died on the battlefield at a young age, both man and horse, happened to be hung on an upward-sloping walking stick before retreating from the formation.

    Like a scarlet candied haws, it is both funny and tragic at the same time.

    Before he died, his chest and the head of his mount were pierced by a long spear. The young man tried his best to reach out and hold the pole. The corners of his mouth twitched, as if he had words, but he could not speak.

    If he could go back alive, he would definitely insist on taking a detour to the south, and would tell the five frontier army commanders who mistakenly thought that the victory of the great war was within easy reach.  Extremely sharp!  The sharp knife and heavy ax struck with a clanging sound, never cracking or breaking. It has always been the most powerful weapon coveted by countless cavalry generals in the Central Plains. The Han family of Jizhou, which has been competing with their prairie cavalry for nearly four hundred years, has always had the "  The tradition of "a father's death and a son's death" means that a good spear that is extremely difficult to damage is far more suitable as a family heirloom than a good knife that blows away hair and cuts iron like mud.  Killing the enemy on horseback, holding a long spear in hand, he is invincible. The cavalryman holding the spear almost does not have to worry about hurting his arm with the force of stabbing the enemy.  How can it be worse if it is used to resist horses with foot formation?

    The second wave of 2,000 cavalry still had no survivors, but in the end, the infantry and horse-repelling formation was loosened, and a hundred cavalry hit and killed Liuzhou's shield monk soldiers in the first row, and their blood spattered to death.  After rejecting the horse twice, the 1,000-step girder broke more than 300 rods in total.

    The poet saint of the Dafeng Dynasty once had a frontier fortress poem that has been circulated to this day. It describes the illustrious military exploits of famous frontier generals, but the enemy was chatting and laughing in front of the battle. This sentence is simple and straightforward, but quite expressive.

    The word "que" is the finishing touch.

    A captain of ten thousand men sitting on horseback involuntarily raised his buttocks and looked at the battlefield in the distance, dumbfounded and unable to say a word.

    We are not afraid of the dead, but if we die so quickly, how can we still fight the war?  Even if it were two cavalry armies fighting, how long would it take to charge and build a formation in just 300 steps?

    The chief general of Maolong Army Town, who had previously ridiculed the staff of the Xijing Cardinal Hall, swallowed secretly, stiffly turned his head and said to the old captain of ten thousand, "Should we evacuate this place and take a sixty-mile detour to Laohu Mountain?"  ?¡±

    The veteran who actually only had 6,000 cavalry under his command shook his head and said solemnly: "The most difficult thing for the cavalry to break the infantry formation is at the beginning. The Liuzhou monk soldiers were the most powerful in resisting the horses, which caused serious losses to our side. It is reasonable, I believe  As long as we break through those rows of spears, things will be much smoother from now on."

    The expressions of the other ten thousand captains were gloomy, and the veteran general said calmly: "Although it is not impossible to divide the troops and take a detour to Laonu Mountain battlefield, or even withdraw the entire army from here and detour south together, but with this Liuzhou infantry  The army did not hesitate to risk their lives to block our speed going south. I think it is because the Beiliang border army has a conspiracy on the Laomu Mountain battlefield, or they are afraid that we will form an encirclement. In short, the fastest way for us to pass through this corridor is to go up.  The best choice. There is no way to kill someone in a battle. The next charge will be mine."

    This veteran was once a centurion of average intelligence under Huang Songpu. After Huang Songpu left the army and joined the Xijing temple, he rose step by step until he became the king of the South Academy. The veteran has risen to the top and is worthy of serving as the commander-in-chief of the central Gusai Prefecture.  The leader of a medium-sized military town in the hinterland was different from the other four captains who secretly received boxes of gold and silver before going into battle. The veteran general refused the kind invitation of the three high-ranking envoys with the word "B", but took the initiative to go there.  Since Old Woman Mountain does not seek wealth, in the eyes of outsiders, it is probably just an old-hearted man who seeks military merit.

    When the four captains of ten thousand men saw the veteran general riding forward, the Maolong army's cavalrymen looked astonished and said, "The veteran general wants to break the formation himself?"

    The white-haired veteran turned around and smiled calmly: "Many of my subordinates are as old as my grandsons. As the general of a town, of course I have to"

    A young and strong captain of ten thousand frowned, interrupted the old man's words, and persuaded: "Old general, according to the military law of the border, the leader dies in battle. Once defeated, all captains of thousands and centurions will be beheaded afterwards."

    The veteran laughed it off and glanced at the foot formation in the southern corridor. "To open this formation, six thousand cavalry will definitely not be enough. I have eight thousand soldiers in my town. Those who are not afraid of death have already followed this old guy here."

    Maybe this is the old man¡¯s last legacy?.

    The six thousand cavalry were divided into three groups and charged one after another.

    After two heroic charges, the two formations of Liuzhou Shield were finally broken. The veteran took the lead, covered in blood, and crashed in front of the Eight Hundred Mo Dao!

    The monk soldiers holding Beiliang's specially made Mo Dao are all the most powerful monk soldiers in Landa Mountain. They are also wearing iron armor in addition to cassocks. They line up in front and slash horses with their swords. They are unparalleled in speed!

    With the veteran, the 1,200 riders died under the Motimo Knife, who first appeared at the Liangmang battlefield.

    ??The Beimang Cavalry Army was defeated in one battle, and then defeated again and again!

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    The battlefield of Old Woman Mountain has already experienced two mutual formations.

    There are only 4,000 cavalry left in Liuzhou's 10,000 cavalry. Among them, there are 6,000 cavalry in the newly built direct collision camp and less than 1,500 people.

    In terms of the proportion of battle losses, the two-winged dragon and elephant armies suffered relatively small casualties, and there were still 13,000 cavalry that still had fighting strength.

    ??The Northern Mang Southern Expedition Army led by coach Huang Songpu initially had 60,000 horses. At this time, there were still as many as 48,000 horses on horseback.

    This exchange, which seems to be superior to the Liuzhou side cavalry, is what the Beimang emperor's division is most looking forward to: "On the Liuzhou battlefield, the main force of the Southern Expedition will win a big victory after a small loss."

    If there are no accidents, if there are two more exchanges like this, the Dragon Elephant Army, which had a strength of 30,000 at its peak, and the Direct Impact Battalion, which had just been able to erect the camp flag and fight, will become a thing of the past.

    The Liuzhou general Kou Jianghuai, who always stood on the top of Laomu Mountain, did not make any magical changes at this extremely serious moment. He just sent someone to pass on the order and let the three people under the control of the governor's mansion who were originally staying outside the battlefield.  Thousands of cavalry troops, following the main field force who returned to their original positions after two formations, lined up behind Qifu Longguan to participate in the third round of charge.

    Huang Songpu also ordered the heavy cavalry army, which numbered only five to six hundred, to prepare for the battlefield.

    The only worry for the old commander is that the battle has reached this point. On the Beiliang side, Liuzhou Cavalry suffered heavy casualties, while on his own side, his direct lineage and Wanyan Jingqi suffered far more casualties than the Yizi Cavalry.  If not, he would not even use the heavy cavalry army originally used to cut off the heads of Kou Jianghuai or Xu Longxiang.

    Chen Xiliang couldn't help but ask: "If we charge again, the Liuzhou Cavalry Army will cease to exist in name only. Kou Jiangjun, should you please slow down?"

    Kou Jianghuai shook his head and said: "There is no time to wait. Fighting like this is just a matter of one breath. Not to mention that Yuan Nanting's Baiyu Qingqi and Ning Emei's Iron Buddha are unable to reach Laohu Mountain for the time being. Even if they can be put into the battlefield immediately, I will continue  Let the Liuzhou Cavalry and the Longxiang Army charge twice more. Otherwise, even if the monk soldiers in Xiexi Frontier can block the 50,000 Southern Dynasty reinforcements, Huang Songpu's military skills will be able to escape at least 20,000 cavalry. Once they encounter the northern corridor,  Dao's remaining cavalry gathered together. Our previous three battles, together with this one, were all in vain. It was even equivalent to our Kou Jianghuai dragging the three soldiers and horses from Qingyuan Army Town into the quagmire of the Liuzhou battlefield.  .¡±

    Chen Xiliang sighed and did not continue speaking.

    Kou Jianghuai suddenly turned his head and said softly: "During the offensive and defensive battle at Fengxiang Military Town, the general publicly impeached Xie Xijie through the Liuzhou Governor's Office. You wrote an article 'It does not violate military law, it violates reason'. I want to follow you."  Say thanks."

    Kou Jianghuai said very directly and clearly that he wanted to say farewell to Liuzhou to express his gratitude, not to express his gratitude to Xiqiao.  In fact, Xie Xifeng's peaceful comments, although far less harsh than those of the governor Yang Guangdou, were still unfavorable to Xie Xifeng who was at the cusp of the storm at that time. However, the fact is exactly the opposite.  Chen Xiliang, who must have spoken with some weight, was deliberately protecting the Liuzhou lieutenant general who had offended the public. Once he spoke in favor of Xie Xijie, it would only further arouse a violent backlash from the Liangzhou border cavalry and the entire Youzhou infantry.  It is extremely difficult for the young vassal king to personally protect Xiexi Frontier.  In the final analysis, once Xie Xijie becomes a street rat in the eyes of the Beiliang border army, not only Kou Jianghuai, who is also a young man and a foreigner, but even Yu Luan Dao, who has already won recognition but has similar roots, will be affected.  .

    Chen Xiliang smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said with emotion: "These are the situations that the prince has worked hard to create. There is no need to thank me. You really want to thank me. If you have a chance, go to Jubeicheng next time to thank the prince."

    Kou Jianghuai curled his lips and said, "Thank you for your surname Xu. Since he has become the king of Beiliang, these should be his hard-working duties. I will refuse the Beicheng feudal residence next time and don't ask him for a Beiliang cavalry."  The military commander is considered kind."

    Kou Jianghuai suddenly laughed at himself: "But I guess I can't beat Yuan Baixiong. This is not the case here in Beiliang. The soldiers who lead the battle are more powerful than the others. There are a lot of martial arts masters who were on Guangling Road before.  My swordsmanship is okay, and I am confident enough to quarrel and fight in the temple, but now, I can¡¯t do it.¡±

    Chen Xiliang, who was feeling heavy, finally smiled a little.

    The two of them looked at each other?, on the Laowu Mountain battlefield, Xu Longxiang, the leader of the Longxiang Army, had already killed three hundred enemies with his own hands. This was under the premise that he ensured the cavalry charge formation. If he continued to fight without hesitation, I am afraid that those of the Beimang Cavalry Army would be killed.  The general is about to collapse.

    Kou Jianghuai¡¯s gaze shifted towards the B-shaped cavalry formation with the largest number of people. He smiled coldly and murmured to himself: ¡°Kill them after you¡¯ve fattened them up.¡±

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    Three cavalry armies entered the Liuzhou battlefield. Among them, General Shi Fu of Liangzhou personally led eight thousand cavalrymen from the Qingyuan Army. Instead of going to Laohu Mountain, they went straight to the corridor, not to save people, but to block the passage.  The Beimang and Southern Dynasty cavalry that continued southward might be thirty thousand or twenty thousand.

    In Shi Fu¡¯s view, Xie Xiqiao and those monk soldiers from Mount Landuo will definitely die.

    Tiefutu under Ning Emei had suffered heavy losses in the Longyaner Plain and was severely weakened. However, the young vassal king allocated all 800 white horses to Tiefutu, and even ordered all generals above the fourth rank outside the Liangzhou Pass to deploy personal guards.  Riding, this allowed Tiefu Tu to recover to the size of 4,000 riding in just one month!

    Ning Emei held a big halberd and led four thousand cavalry to gallop. He wanted to take a back road and penetrate directly into the area between Laohu Mountain and the corridor in the north. If the stone talisman was to block the southward cavalry from going south,  , then he needs to cut off the northern retreat route of the main force of Huang Song Pu's southern expedition.

    The last cavalry army is a light cavalry in the absolute sense, full of elegant wind. Everyone carries a horse bow and a light crossbow. There are quivers on both sides of the saddle, and then only a Northern Liangdao hangs on the waist.  The arrow feathers showing through the quiver are as white as two clumps of white snow. When the horse is galloping, it is very beautiful.

    General Yuan Nanting led 20,000 white feathered light cavalry and headed straight for Laohu Mountain!

    ¡°Just imagine, when the wind blows up, a dense volley of 20,000 riders is like a majestic heavy rain, with 20,000 rain falling on the enemy¡¯s heads.

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    A group of 8,000 elite cavalry that had already infiltrated into Gusai Prefecture suddenly turned around and headed south, crossed the border, drew an oblique arc, and galloped toward the battlefield in the corridor.

    A young knight with a short stature and a tired face kept thinking silently in his heart, don't die, don't die.

    It is said that only three things can happen. Even if you include the battle at Miyun Mountain Pass, you have only done it twice. The Lord of Hell will definitely not be happy to accept you.

    "I can't control others who seek death on their own, but you, Xie Xiqiao, are the only one who can't think of it, so I have to beat you up in front of you.

    This person is Cao Wei.

    Nicknamed Cao Benlei!
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