Beiliang Road in Liuzhou newly built two post roads are horizontal, respectively leading to Liangling two states, far less than the Guannai three states system is meticulous, this is also a helpless move, the vast territory of Liuzhou only three military towns as a reliance, but with the Beimang army is strong most of the Gusai Prefecture border, so in Liuzhou to build a longitudinal post road, can only facilitate the grassland cavalry to drive south, this is a self-destructive border defense measures, 10,000 steps back said, even if the young vassal king inexplicably carried away, not self-sufficient poor soldiers, in Liuzhou to build a post road, It is believed that Qingcangcheng Thorn Mansion, Huaiyang Guandu Hufu and Qingliangshan will all rebel at the same time.
The plain area on the right side of Lao Fei Mountain is the most suitable terrain for cavalry battles outside the city of Qingcang City.
The location chosen for the third interception battle after the two great victories of Kou Jianghuai is in a yellow sand flat more than 200 miles north of Lao Yu Mountain, and between that place and the plain terrain of Lao Yu Mountain, there is a huge corridor in a north-south direction, which generally presents the trend of the restraint of the woman's slender waist, if the grassland cavalry advances from north to south, although this place in the novel is not the only way to go to the battlefield of Lao Yu Mountain, but compared with the detour, it can shorten the distance by more than 60 miles, and this corridor is not narrow and steep, it is by no means a sheep intestine path, and it is impossible to ambush both sides, on the contrary, The mountains on both sides of the corridor are gentle, and the width of the whole corridor is always roughly the same, all about one and a half miles, and the cavalry gallops in a large group, which can be said to be unhindered.
The so-called corridor is shaped like a woman's waist, but compared to the entire territory of Liuzhou, so from the first Liangmang battle of the Liu Qi cavalry south, to the second war of Kou Jianghuai three interception battles, both sides did not look at this place that was once named "grasshopper legs" by the homeless.
However, when almost everyone could see the north entrance of this corridor, there was already a Liuzhou soldier and horse in the middle of the corridor, and they had been waiting for a long time When Ma Lanzi hurriedly returned to the military situation, several Beimang generals of the 50,000 cavalry army were in an embarrassing dilemma, and the Liuzhou infantry army put on a posture of defending the corridor, the number was about 14,000, and the main force was the monks of the Western Regions Landa Mountain, and there were two or three thousand local soldiers and horses in Liuzhou.
The bad news is that this corridor is used as a battlefield, and the cavalry cannot move left and right, but the good news is that the infantry army that is waiting in formation does not carry any large horse-rejecting equipment, and once the cavalry army, which is absolutely superior in strength, crashes into the infantry formation and forces the queen to retreat, let alone 17,800 foot soldiers, even if the strength is doubled, it is not enough for this cavalry to swing a knife and slash.
The cavalry of the Northern Mang Southern Dynasty for the combat power of the Northern Liang cavalry, or the strength of the Youzhou infantry under the command of Yan Wenluan, has been stumbling on the border for twenty years, and has not dared to underestimate it, but it is really not a matter of taking it seriously if it is replaced by other soldiers and horses, this is not blind conceit, but since the end of the Dafeng period, four hundred years ago, the grassland iron cavalry has relied on countless knocks on the border to travel the Central Plains, and has continuously accumulated great self-confidence.
In addition, the reason that really made several Southern Dynasty cavalry commanders feel embarrassed was that they left the garrison and crossed the border line to enter the Laoyu Mountain battlefield, whether it was the Beiting Wang's Tent, or the Xijing Temple close at hand, or the commander Huang Songpu who was in the middle of the war in the south, they were all strictly ordered to participate in the battle on time, and at the critical moment to make a final decision on the entire campaign, completely eliminate all the main field forces in Liuzhou, so the 50,000 cavalry must not miss the slightest opportunity Now the problem that is now placed in front of these Southern Dynasty generals with military power is not just whether to take a detour.
Because the monks and soldiers who are located in the middle of the corridor can retreat south quickly, maybe change the battlefield, and the Northern Mang cavalry can break the formation faster, but the consumption of the extra distance of sixty miles on fast horses is by no means the price that these generals of the Southern Dynasties can bear, and moreover, the military exploits of more than 10,000 monks and soldiers in the Western Regions, especially the leading general, are very likely to be Xie Xichen, who can exchange his head for the merits of the marquis, is too tempting Fight or not Of course hit In public and private, the cavalry of the Northern and Southern Dynasties all felt that they wanted to fight a big battle in this corridor and make a lot of achievements.
The eighteen Xianbei buckle jade belts that His Majesty the Emperor recently gave to the Wanyan family are the best examples The 50,000 cavalry troops, whose physical strength and mental strength were at the peak, could not break through the formation of more than 10,000 infantry troops On the other side of the corridor formation, Xie Xichen, who was wearing iron armor and a sword, sat on horseback and raised his eyes to look north.
The wind was blowing, and it seemed that I could already smell blood.
This deputy general of Liuzhou, who is known as one of the two masters of Great Chu, has a firm look in his eyes and a calm face at this time.
Cao Changqing once privately commented on the military generals and famous ministers of a dynasty with Jiang Xi, the empress of Western Chu, most of them were mediocre, but when it came to Xie Xichen, a proud disciple, he was unprecedentedly unsparing in his kind words, especially with the heaviest weight of "using soldiers on the battlefield, turning stones into gold", but in the end, he added an evaluation that seemed to be just a digression: Xie Xichen's perseverance is especially better than Kou Jianghuai.
Xie Xichen slowly closed his eyes, this young man who even the young emperor of Liyang was eager to recruit into Tai'an City, is now a native of the Great Chu Dynasty, but he is a general of Beiliang.
Great Chu was invincible in the Spring and Autumn Period for two hundred years in the past, and there were three people who broke the enemy, strong armor and strong bows, long lance halberds, and military order systems.
At the peak of the national strength of the Great Chu Jiang Chamber, the two countries of Liyang and Dongyue, which had once fought the north of the border, had no temper, just like a strong man punching a child.
Even if the military strength of the Great Chu turned from prosperity to decline, Liyang, which was located in the northern corner of the Spring and Autumn Nine Kingdoms, began to pay attention to cultivating cavalry, but before the 120,000 halberd soldiers were wiped out in the Battle of Jinghe, the entire Central Plains still firmly believed that with the formation of a certain scale of Liyang cavalry combat power, against this army, which was known as the most powerful heavy infantry in history, it would definitely not take the slightest advantage, but the battle of Jinghe, which had three major battles, proved that as long as it was on the right battlefield, there was not enough cavalry to support the heavy armored infantry soldiers, even if there were many of them, they could only be restrained.
You may not lose, but you will definitely not win.
The classic battle of cavalry that is far inferior to the height of the West Fortress in the history books, has been underestimated and despised by the Liyang historians and soldiers intentionally or unintentionally, one to three battles, the two sides really killed not many troops, only 30,000 only, and the second to the cavalry combined with the victorious Xu Jiajun, in order to prevent mistakes in the subsequent key battles, chose to kill more than 80,000 soldiers in the tragic pit, and the old emperor Zhao Li of Liyang at that time had sent a meritorious veteran to participate in the coordinated battle with two Zhao clan relatives, so Zhao Dian ascended the throne and called the emperor the venerable, and it was inconvenient to exaggerate.
But the battle of the scene river had a great impact on the Xu family on the victorious side, Xu Xiao squatted down and stared at the excellent iron armor of a great Chu halberd soldier when he visited the battlefield with his subordinates, the long knife chopped, the spear stabbed, it was still roughly intact, and sighed, "People are dead and the armor is still complete, if I have such iron armor, how many people can die, we can't be so poor anymore." ” Since then, no matter how tragic the battle to the death, the Xu family, as long as the military merits do not need silver, every time the camp is broken and the city is broken, they begin to detain the gold and silver of the equipment privately, and the countless officials in Liyang have criticized the private pockets, which is by no means wronged, of course, the slaughter of Xu Xiao has never denied it, especially at the end of the battle of Xileibi, Xu Xiao made a big rebellious move, and it is this matter that makes most of the incense of the Xu and Zhao families used up, Xu Xiao gave a secret order to his cavalry general Xu Pu and the two nominal sons Chen Zhibao and Yuan Zuozong, and the three joined forces, Success made the Xu family secretly gather 10,000 soldiers and horses, earlier than the established candidates of Liyang, took the lead in breaking the capital of Western Chu overnight, and then wantonly collected all the treasures and gold and silver that could be moved away in boxes, Xu Xiao's popular sentence "is not delicious", the source of this famous saying, after that raid, the Liyang military sent an envoy to lead the troops to ask for the guilt, Xu lame man went straight to the point and said, "The thing has reached Lao Tzu's stomach, if you want it, you can only for you, do you want to eat it" It is said that the old emperor Zhao Li was so angry that he couldn't cry or laugh after hearing the report, and in the end, Xu Xiao just symbolically buckled the rope and spit out some loot to the imperial army, and it was over.
After the king became the northwest frontier of the domain, Xu Xiao's obsession with the benefits of equipment can be said to have intensified, not so much the Beiliang Iron Cavalry World, but the excellent soldiers and horses in the world.
In the past 20 years, the smuggling of iron tools to the Beimang grassland, the long border line from Yang has been repeatedly banned, and the small movements of the two Liao border armies who enjoy the tilt of the tax lean of the half country have continued, and it is extremely difficult to stop, until Chen Zhibao briefly served as Shangshu of the Ministry of War and Gu Jiantang left the capital to personally sit in the north, and the two military bosses with the heaviest military power cooperated closely in this matter, which was successful.
Even in the Beiliang Border Army, where military law is strict, there are still several captains with real power who have been beheaded on the spot, and the implication is widespread, from the general in the pass to the general outside the pass to the commander of the pass and finally to the big and small beacons, often nearly 100 heads will be lost in one incident.
The grassland cavalry has never lacked war horses and lack armor, Beimang has been greatly improved after the old woman ascended the throne, with the east wind of Hongjia running north, the whole country, from the iron smelting skills to the military distribution, are the same.
However, some deep-rooted things of the nomads, even if they have been exposed to it for 20 years, are still difficult to change, just like the previous southern attack light cavalry that was destroyed in the northwest of Liuzhou, the Qiang cavalry of the Northern Mangnan Dynasty, and the Rouran Iron Cavalry of Hong Jingyan's mastery and called "the most important of the border cavalry", with the vision of the old woman and the attention of the Xijing temple of the Southern Dynasty, how could it not even be equipped with excellent equipment for the 10,000 Qiang cavalry, but the Qiang cavalry has always maintained the light cavalry route of leather armor, fast horses, short knives and short spears, and the thunder cannot be moved.
This cannot simply be regarded as the gateway view of the Northern Mang Cavalry, but more because the times create heroes.
The sound of the horses' hooves of the Beimang cavalry is getting heavier and heavier, coupled with the natural echo of the corridor, coupled with the whistling sound of Beimang after he thinks he is sure of victory, it is like a thunderstorm on the flat ground, and the sound is extremely majestic.
Xie Xichen suddenly opened his eyes, pulled out the cold knife on his waist, and shouted angrily: "Resist the horse in formation" This time, he used an infantry formation to block the 50,000 Beimang cavalry, and in addition to the 5,000 hard bows and crossbows that Xie Xichen was qualified to allocate from the Liuzhou Assassin Mansion, he also asked for 800 horse lances and 1,000 Mo knives from the Liangzhou border army Mo knife rose in the Spring and Autumn Southern Tang Dynasty, weighing more than 50 catties, fine iron casting, non-military first-class sharp soldiers can not be held, when the Southern Tang border 16 towns, more than 70,000 soldiers and horses, Mo knife pawns but more than 2,000 people, strong combat power, once known as the king of white blades by the whole country of the Southern Tang Dynasty, that if there can be gathered 10,000 Mo knife formation to guard the country, can block 100,000 southern invasion of iron horses.
After Gu Dazu, the first general of the old Southern Tang Dynasty, followed Xu Fengnian, the son of Beiliang at that time, into Beiliang, in addition to serving as the deputy marshal of the infantry army, with the strong support of the young vassal king, he implored Gu Dazu to help Mojia Juzi build a new type of Mo knife, so that it could be distributed to the Beiliang border army in the future.
It's a pity that it was built from the time when the first Liang Mang War didn't start, and so far it has tried its best to cast more than a thousand, and it is difficult to use it on the battlefield outside Liangzhou Pass, and then Xie Xichen asked for it all.
In addition, there are also the thousand long lances, these rifles are more expensive than the Mo knife, and the rarity is enough to make people stagger.
Non-Rong horse family can not use the horse lance, this is an iron law that the horse lance has since its birth, one is that no matter the horse lance is extremely long, it is extremely difficult to use, and the ordinary cavalry will only add to the snake.
The second is that it takes a long time, the workmanship is excellent, unbelievable, known as at least three years to build a lance, has always been the first class of the Central Plains riders in the past dynasties, more difficult to find than a good horse worth a thousand gold.
Eight hundred foot lances, was ordered by the young vassal king himself, almost equivalent to a number of people gathered together after digging out the Xu family's wealth, if it weren't for the Beiliang military law not allowing the cavalry to use the lance for his own identity, plus Xu Xiao, who was used to living a hard life, was also poor and scared in the late Spring and Autumn War, he intended to collect long lances in the Hyogo people, otherwise it would be wishful thinking.
In the corridor, the Liuzhou infantry army composed of monks and soldiers of Langtuo Mountain strictly resisted the horses.
The first is to accumulate extroverts, and the cold light is like snow Three hundred people were in a horizontal line, and three columns were discharged.
The first team sits on their knees with a lance, and the lance is raised diagonally forward.
The second team has a long lance at the front finger, and the third team has a lance on the shoulder of the former soldier, also tilting forward.
In front of the three columns of lances under the cover of the forest, there were actually two rows of sturdy monks with their hands and shoulders firmly against the huge shields.
After the horse lance rejected the horse, there were four columns of tall monk soldiers with two hundred people in each row, holding eight hundred horse mochi knives.
The battle is imminent, 800 people sit on the ground to rest, and even the Beimang cavalry blows the horn of the charge, before getting the order of the main general, the 800 Mo swordsmen are still not allowed to get up with their swords, and they must save their physical strength to the greatest extent.
Once the monks and soldiers of the long lance are all killed, these eight hundred Mo sword monks and soldiers will be asked to line up and move forward.
Gu Dazu once said that before my Southern Tang Mo knife, everyone was broken After that, there were 2,000 Liuzhou border troops accompanied by monks, plus 3,000 monks from Landa Mountain, equipped with 5,000 hard bows and crossbows.
The infantry formation against the enemy cavalry, the first thing to really stop the cavalry charge was actually these 5,000 crossbowmen who were behind the formation.
After Xie Xicheng ordered the rejection of the horses to form a formation, he did not continue to stop his horses at the rear of the infantry formation.
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Instead, he dismounted and walked to the crossbowman, took off the shield that hung from the side of the saddle, and then he stood at the front of the infantry formation formed by the rest of the monks with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other.
The roaring Beimang cavalry, the silent Liuzhou infantry formation.
Divide life and death in this unknown corridor.
The history books of later generations, whether they are heavily rendered or understated, without exception, will be concluded with "six battles and six buts" for this battle.
The tragedy of the war, with only four words, is beyond words: