Chapter 18 Welcome
If it weren't for seeing the smoke and dust coming from the direction of Qinzhou, I was afraid that Ma Chengwang, who was standing on the city tower, would have ordered the door to be closed to the enemy, Rao was so, most of the people were stunned by what they saw in front of them, even the head of Qiu Zizhen was no exception, his heart was shaking, he involuntarily climbed the stack with both hands, and his fingertips were deeply sunk into the cracks in the wall, and he could suppress the agitation and uneasiness in his heart with the strength of his feet. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The reason is simple, they are all cavalry!
To say that they have never seen horses, this is too wrongful for everyone, not to mention that with their identity, mounts are indispensable, let's just say that Yongzhou City under their feet is not only a border defense place, but also a place for mutual markets. Not to mention the Hengshanzhai besieged by the Yuan people, it is the only horse market in the southwest border of the Great Song Dynasty, but what shocked Ma Chengwang is that he is not only well-trained, but even the horses under the crotch are unusual, which is by no means the Guangma he is familiar with, but a serious Mongolian war horse.
The knight on horseback, the top of the red-clothed and light armor, the black and heavy iron helmet, a cluster of tassels is as beautiful as fire, and the parallel columns of the two horses gradually emerged from the dust and fog in the sky, and they rushed straight to the city gate with neat steps, and began to slow down until they slowly stopped, almost under the noses of everyone, and Ma Chengwang, who knew the soldiers, understood that this distance was just on the edge of the divine arm bow, and the crossbow arrows shot out could only hit if they hit the big luck, which was almost negligible.
This is not over, the column that stopped under the city, retreated to both sides, and then pulled the horses and turned back, forming a single column with the heads of the two horses facing each other, leaving in the middle the width of the road, and the knights standing on the horses were like stone statues erected on both sides of the road, and in the speculation of everyone, the situation below changed again.
The second group of cavalry rushed out from the end of the column, marched forward along both sides, as if it had been calculated, still stopped at a distance of about 100 paces from the city, and then turned their horses' heads together, and stood in the rear row of the two previous columns of cavalry, followed by the third and fourth teams...... Stretching towards both sides of the city gate, everyone on the tower watched as all this slowly took shape, and the smoke and dust behind them still did not dissipate, as if endlessly!
At this moment, the words left in everyone's hearts were only shocking, once upon a time, in such a remote place, there would be such a strict cavalry army? There were not thousands of them, but soon they knew the answer, for the next thing that emerged from the dust and mist was a pair of horsemen, except that they did not go to the side, but rode along the road separated by two opposing formations, and they carried neither long spears nor swords and crossbows, but a sign of wood, a sign of wood with words carved into it.
In order to see the font on it, Qiu Zizhen almost subconsciously stretched his upper body out of the city wall, but it wasn't until he rode under the city gate that he vaguely debated what was written on it, and the sign on the left was five big black characters...... 'Fuwenge Straight Bachelor', and the one on the right was one less, and the simple four words ......'Bingbu Shilang', he only felt a dizziness in his head, and almost fell from the city, but fortunately, Ma Chengwang behind him knew the opportunity and grabbed his arm.
"Quick, open the city gate, Lu Shuai has arrived." Standing still, Qiu Zizhen gasped and waved his hand, everyone was stunned when they heard it, and no one moved their feet for a while, even Ma Chengwang and his son were the same, they had not recovered from the shock of Fang Cai, and they did not understand the meaning of this sentence at all.
"Let's go." Qiu Zizhen saw that he was lawless, he shouted a sentence, pushed everyone away, and ran towards the city tower, seeing that he was so excited, everyone came back one by one, where did they dare to say anything, they all crowded behind, and the narrow ladder was overcrowded all of a sudden, and you refused to give in to me to grab the land, and almost killed people.
Fortunately, the city gate was not far away, and after getting down the ladder, with the help of the defenders, the iron-clad gate was slowly opened, and the high drawbridge was slowly lowered, spanning the moat that was thirty steps wide.
The Song Dynasty was different from the later Ming and Qing dynasties, strictly speaking, there was no supervision system similar to that of later generations, and Lu Chen was far from reaching the kind of prestige that made people kneel thirty miles out of the city, but this does not mean that they can be contemptuous! You must know that a high-ranking official in purple clothes from the third grade, in this kind of border place where birds don't, in this kind of exile place where even literati are unwilling to go to work, it is already an unattainable existence.
Walking through the moat, Qiu Zizhen, who was in the forefront, saw clearly the intention of the entire formation, on both sides of the road leading to the city gate, there were two cavalry phalanxes of almost equal length, about fifty steps in depth, one horse per step, and behind them, twenty rows were neatly discharged, and the two military formations of no more than a thousand people gave people such a shocking feeling, just because they were cavalry, holding spears in their hands, and the Great Song cavalry was solemn.
At this time, the two columns of knights passing through the middle road had already lined up at the entrance of the suspension bridge, and on the left and right were the names of 'Fuwen Pavilion Straight Scholar', 'Bingbu Shilang', 'Zhulu Recruitment', 'Jinghu Policy Envoy', 'Guannei Yingtian Ambassador', 'Zhijingjiang Mansion', 'Mabu Military Governor' and so on, and only one of the most important ones was missing, could this be an omission? Qiu Zizhen and the others didn't dare to think about it, until they found that there was no movement on the empty road separated by the military formation, of course they knew what to do.
Ma Chengwang deliberately kept a real distance from the enemy, only half a position behind him, so that he would not appear too prominent, and at the same time, he would not disappear into the crowd. led everyone to the long and narrow empty road, except for the sound of the wind, only the occasional low gasps of the war horses were in the ears, and the spears of the forest covered the sky, and the aura of slaughter came to the face. Walking in such a steel jungle, this oppressive atmosphere is breathless, no one dares to look up, but a distance of one hundred and fifty steps, it feels like they have walked for a long time, and they can't finish walking, and what makes them stop suddenly is a rough voice.
"Whoever comes, stop, report the name." Qiu Zizhen actually breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this almost rude rebuke, and by saluting, he arched his hand upward, and a young face wrapped in a vermilion purple aura appeared in his sight, and what surprised him was that the young handsome ministers on Gao Ju's horse were not on their bodies at all, but looking into the distance.
Before he saluted, he was once again shocked by what he saw, he thought that the military formations on both sides were already the limit, but he never thought that behind the marshal ministers who were currently surrounded by a group of generals, the slaughtered cavalry column could not be seen at a glance, and what caught his eye was a forest of shining guns, and the huge festival flag fluttering above his head made up for the last notice board that was missing before, 'Guangnan West Road Passing through the Slightly Pacifying Envoy'...... Liu.
Is it good or bad for a young and excessively young Sanpin Road Marshal to go to the front line with a formidable army of vitality and face the army of Tartars? In fact, it is difficult to say, if the other party knows the soldiers, once it is an embroidered pillow on paper, and young and vigorous and refuses to listen to people, for the Song army gathered under the city of Yongzhou, it is not hesitant to be a disaster, and he does not know what the court will consider, but if it is calculated according to the schedule, when this new road marshal left Beijing, the Yuan people had not entered the prison at all, so would he have this psychological preparation? Still just to show his prestige, Qiu Zizhen turned seven or eight brains in the blink of an eye, and each of them gave him a headache.
"Xiaguan knows that Qingyuan Mansion Qiu Zizhen ...... See Fu Shuai. ”
After only hesitating for a moment, he decided to choose to believe all this, even if he skipped the seal verification link and made up for the previous faux pas first, as for whether this would be a scam? I believe that none of them have such a mind. Not to mention anything else, such a cavalry army, if it is not from the Jingshi Imperial Camp, then it can only be conjured out of thin air, this kind of person is usually called 'immortals' by the world, so may I ask, can the immortals offend?
"The subordinate Yongzhou recruited Ma Chengwang to see Fu Shuai."
"The last general, Ma Yinglin, the commander of Yongzhou, will see Fu Shuai."
"The last general, Leizhou, the capital of Zhang Yingke, see Fu Shuai."
"Small Gaozhou Terracotta ......"
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One after another, the spontaneous roll call came and went, Liu Yu suddenly felt that looking at the tall city tower in the distance, he didn't have such a plan, who knew that the crossing point that was carefully selected was too far away, and Yongzhou in this time and space was too small, so that it would be delayed for half a day in vain, and he could only make a mistake.
In fact, when he heard the first name, he paid attention, there are not many celebrities in Guangxi in this time and space, and he asked Su Wei to collect information from later generations, in addition to the Ma Duguan who had a conflict with the former Luchen, this person is still a little famous, and his fame is not a record, but he led his troops to Lin'an Mansion to go to King Qin.
Perhaps because of the Battle of Jiankang, the Jingshi was not really threatened, so this person did not take action, but led the troops here. When everyone signed up, he swept over the horse one by one, needless to say, the civil official in a scarlet robe must be Qiu Zizhen, as for the others? No matter if it was voluntary or what, ninety percent of them finally descended to the Yuan people, how could they still put it in his heart.
"Everyone's hard work, follow Ben Shuai into the city."
With that, he waved his hand, and without waiting for them to answer, he rode forward, and waited until the men stood up and hid aside to make way for them, leaving only the dust that had been kicked up by the horses' hooves all the way, and the backs of the group that had gradually faded away.