Chapter Thirty-Six: The Breeze Blows on the Hills
The east wind rises in Kuiyin, the geese cross the thousands of mountains and sing in the sky, and half a load of time passes!
The heart is like an arrow, the moon is hazy in Xiguan Shuyi, who leads the bow?
But when it comes to expeditions, the smoke is thousands of miles away, the wind and the snow are sleepy, and the world is tired and broken, and I still remember the courage of the year. The world is a dream, only in the river.
Watching the market wither, dreaming of the world is the same; Listening to the slang on the Mo is also full of charm.
The song "Mo Shangsang" sang how many tears flowed from people, and the fireworks and willow alleys in Taikang City competed to sing Cui Lang's words.
In Cui Tanhua's words, the Confucian scholars are looking for the desolation outside the battle, and in the deep boudoir attic, the beautiful woman is looking forward to it
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It was a blue sky, the sun was shining, and the brilliant and soft sunlight woke up the sleeping earth.
Emperor Jialong in the big tent of the Chinese army received the report of the victory of Lok Ma Chau on the Western Front, rushed out of the tent, looked up to the sky and shouted: "Zhu Erguo does not live up to me, it does not live up to me, it ...... me."
The victory of the first decisive battle of the main force of the Shenguang Northern Expedition, the king of Pingkang defeated the strong with the weak, and the dragon cavalry army of the king of the account was completely annihilated, and the haze of the Gabu Lake Ranch tragedy was swept away, and the good news flew all over the mountains and rivers, the people's hearts were inspired, and the morale was high.
For a while, the grassland tribes were in turmoil, and the troops in the Gabu Lake corridor were empty, and they were no longer able to control the northwest of the empire for the time being, and the alien tribes that had been suppressed for a long time were ready to move.
After hearing about the Battle of Luomazhou, the second son of Motuo, who was far away in the royal court, led his own soldiers to flee to the west overnight, but was beheaded by Tuoba Tianyang's own uncle at Yandangkou, and the Black Water Cavalry stationed on the periphery was directly incorporated into the King's Tent Dragoon.
Although the Northern Expedition of Shenguang in the 21st year of the road took the initiative to attack and advance from Jiatong Pass to the north, the other two roads were mostly passive and unfavorable except for the middle route army, especially the troops and supplies could not be continuously supplied, and they fled everywhere chased and killed by the Beihu army, but the battle of the left route army of the Western Front completely wiped out the Wang Tent dragoon army that went out to chase and kill, reversed the situation of the Western Front, and destroyed the strategic goal of the three main forces of the Northern Hu to join Youyun City and directly kill the Shenguang Middle Route Army.
The greatest strategic significance of the Battle of Lok Ma Chau was to completely expose the Beihu Royal Court to the attack range of the Shenguang Pingkang Royal Army, and the Wang Tent Dragon Cavalry was no longer able to go out to chase and kill, let alone go to Youyun City to join the Xiuhu Murong Yanran Division, while the Demon Cowardly Army under the command of Huan Tan was entangled by Liu Zhilun's Department on the right side. The balance of the entire Northern Expedition War had been tilted in favor of the Shenguang Dynasty, and at this time, Emperor Jialong was relaxed and refreshed. Ordered to increase the firepower to attack, the dead bodies of men and horses filled the outer moat, once climbed the outer city wall, the North Hu side sent an elite counterattack, the corpses of the soldiers on both sides crowded the city, and the fierce battle was reluctant to withdraw after half a day, but the soldiers and horses of the two sides fought at the head of the city and under the corner, and bought a lot of time for the Mojia organ camp.
The level of the battle is often broken at an inadvertent moment, but the commanders of both sides are very clear in their hearts, no matter how tragic the side fight is, it is also the main dragon before the end of the battle is just the color head, nothing more than the color head has a size, the golden horn and silver edge grass belly pay attention to the starting momentum, but the battle to fight for national strength must be the decisive battle of the big dragon in the middle of the road, Emperor Jialong took the lead in the black, but did not seize the opportunity, and even the destruction of the Lingwu Marquis made him lose, but the chess to the middle game, King Pingkang Mu was forced to pull it back, and after he encircled the Motuo tribe, he split the national integration trend of the Beihu Empire from within, and cut off the endless potential reserve army in the Beihu army in a way.
It is true that the elite soldiers of the main force of Beihu were defeated in Mazhou, and the burial of tens of thousands of people of the king's tent dragoon army hit the morale of the Beihu iron cavalry, but Youyun City is still unbreakable, and the national strength of Beihu has not been greatly damaged. She knew that the decisive battle between the two sides was far from coming, and the letter from the senior brother Huan Tan had already explained that he would first eliminate the dog skin plaster behind him, and then come to the teacher.
The Beihu Bingsheng, who has always been gentle and elegant, has a smile on his face, and it is rare for him to be angry and reprimand the ministers above the royal court:
Do you princes think that the fortunes of our empire have collapsed in a hundred years?
Do you have doubts about the combat strength of my empire's elite cavalry?
Are you worried about the ambition of the children to defend the country?
The three questions of the old valley lord Mu were like thunder in the clear sky, and the quarrel and worry in the hall of the royal court were blown up to ashes. The national strength has not been damaged, the elite troops are still alive, and all ethnic groups are determined, so what is there to fear?
The unexpected defeat of Luomazhou instead twisted the Beihu Empire into a rope, and in the face of the battle of annihilation and annihilation, he put aside all grievances and grievances.
It rains rapidly in summer, and there is the sound of a waterfall.
Often a moment ago the sky is clear, in the blink of an eye, thunder and lightning rainstorm poured down without warning, the two sides in the fierce battle can only hastily withdraw the troops, the grassland soil is loose, after the rainstorm is relatively soft, after several rainstorms the people and horses trampled on the ground and fell into several big holes, the result is that the Mojia organ camp digging tunnels of the people and horses buried in the ground.
The appearance of the Mo family's organ camp really scared the embroidered fox Murong Yanran into a cold sweat, regardless of whether to dig a tunnel into the city, as long as the organ camp dug under the root of the city wall, a round of midsummer rainstorms, I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand the collision of people and horses a few times, and the root of the outer wall will be punched out of a gap, and if you want to block it at that time, I am afraid it will be difficult to reach the sky. It is not terrible to lose the outer city, but once the military heart is lost, the inner city is in danger.
Boss Murong risked his life to lead the elite out of the city, cleaned up the corpses of people and horses in the moat, and then continued to dredge and dig deeply, completely cutting off the wishful thinking of the Shenguang Organ Camp to dig tunnels. Shenguang couldn't attack for a long time, and the two armies could only stalemate, but the heartstrings of the opposing army were getting tighter and tighter, and any movement would trigger a round of arrow rain shooting.
The people who were recuperating in Jiatong Pass had rushed back to the barracks one after another to report, but Mingwei's body was getting worse, and the golden needle crossing acupoint had little effect, so anxious that Hanzhang was like an ant on a hot pot, and Mingtang, who had gone to the far north to find the antidote, had not returned. On the contrary, Mingwei often comforts everyone at this time, life and death are certain, and she can get her wish before she dies, and she has no regrets in life. If you insist on it again, it will be rejected by heaven and earth.
This night lightning is intertwined, thunder is like a drum, the sky and the earth are covered in the rain curtain, Mingwei leaned on her husband Cui Hanzhang's chest, whispering in her ear, the two are full of memories of the grass and trees at the mouth of the stream, Mingwei quietly looked at the eyebrows and eyes of the man in front of her, like the wind and frost carving, silently prayed in her heart, and wished to keep him safe in his life with the reincarnation of the tenth life.
Such a woman like a bright spring left quietly, leaving the world completely with infinite regrets, and maybe she will not have a chance to see her again in the next reincarnation.........
The thunder and lightning roared, the rain fell and poured, the heavy rain in Jiatong Pass continued, and the corpses of Youyun City were all over the field.
Cui Hanzhang was not hoarse, nor was he at a loss, everything in the house was so quiet, separated by a door, two worlds, yin and yang farewell.
The sun rose as usual in the early morning, Cui Yun covered her mouth and forcibly endured her crying, her eyes were red and swollen, and she pounced on Mingwei and refused to leave.
Cui Hanzhang helped her to help his wife clean up, came naked, and walked cleanly, and the two of them wiped carefully, for fear that a little dust would stain the flawless jade body.
Within three days, Cui Hanzhang stayed awake, drank quietly, and quietly accompanied Mingwei to the last journey, the more he drank, the more sober he became, and the more he drank, the more sad he became.
There will be an end to it, and since you can't get drunk, there is no escape. He asked Cui Yun to bring the ashes back to Taikang first, and then personally bring them back to Jianyang Xikou after the Northern Expedition to be buried in the ancestral grave.
After that, he looked at the moon, and there was Mingwei on the moon; He looks at the stars, and the stars are Mingwei's smiling eyes; He could feel Mingwei's murmur in the spring breeze of the grassland, and he knew that Mingwei was not on the moon, nor on the stars, nor in the spring breeze, but just lived in his heart.
The dead are gone, and the living are like this.
The front-line brothers are still throwing their heads and spilling blood, Cui Hanzhang has no reason to continue to escape, he has never been bloodthirsty and killing like this moment, and resolutely jumped on his horse and rushed to Youyun City.
At the head of the city, Cui Yun watched the two horses go away, gradually moving away, and finally even the back was blurred, quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, she stood there stubbornly to see them off, letting the wind and sand blow on her face.........
The wind was strong, I couldn't see, and I couldn't stop crying.
The ranger general Li Qingshan and the captain Cui Hanzhang returned to the battlefield of Youyun City again, and the ranger battalion was expanded to 6,000 people, and the independent formation could be directly reported to Emperor Jialong. The Ranger Battalion has been upgraded many times, and its weapons and equipment are second only to the Divine Light Euphorbia, although the frontal impact is not as strong as the heavy armored cavalry, but the mobility and flexibility are better, and the first task after becoming an army is to cut off all communication links between Youyun City and the outside world.
Cui Hanzhang's rapid growth made Li Qingshan full of praise, the fist technique was strong and heavy, the strength penetrated the armor, and the dancing halberd had the potential to sweep thousands of troops. The field is sharpened, the heart is fused, and Mingwei's death makes him more aware of the unkindness of heaven and earth, the crepe of all things, the obstacles in his heart are reduced by one point, and the punching speed is one point faster.
The light in his eyes is like an ancient well without waves, his fist prints are fierce, his palm is sharp, and his knees and elbows are stirring, all these changes Li Qingshan sees in his eyes, and he remembers them even more in his heart. Although the time is still short, Cui Hanzhang has a first glimpse of boxing, and the kiln style is even smaller, and he has officially taken steps on the road of boxing.
In Li Qingshan's words, he summed it up: "Those who are high in skill live, those who are light in fist die, and those who are high in the sky are at a loss." ”
The two of them each led a team of 1,000 people to patrol three times a day, sweeping away the stragglers who were wandering outside, and even sneaking up on the tribes near the flanks of Youyun City from time to time.
Youyun City is built on the mountain, located on the bank of the Heishui River, with a population of 200,000, the largest city in the north, and the first important town leading to the Beihu Palace. The nomads are scattered, and the cities are usually small in size, dotted across the vast steppes.
But Youyun City is after hundreds of years of non-stop development, has become the scale of the nine-fold city, the inner city and the outer city each have three walls, eight hundred years of history Youyun City has changed hands several times, the big end of the dynasty and the Tuoba clan to the death, the outside of the storm changes, Xiqiang Beihu and other major races appear in turn, any force after the expansion of the expansion, it can be said that the size of the city and the depth of the city defense, are beyond the Jiatong Pass too much, although the Beihu Tuoba clan is in the royal court, but it is also after winning the Youyun City to really gain a foothold in the north, And then swept the entire north, and the slaughter of the tribe was like a devastating one.
Youyun City was heavily influenced by the culture of the Central Plains scholars, and in the last years of the Daduan war, the king of Yanbei and the ancestor of Shenguang fought in the dark, and many big clans had no choice but to migrate. The king of Yanbei was defeated and died, and the famous clans supported behind him were even more intolerant of the new Shenguang Dynasty, so he could only choose to run north, claiming to be Qingliu Tracing to the north.
After a hundred years of development, Youyun City and the twelve sub-cities in the rear, gradually formed a unique cultural atmosphere, collectively known as the twelve states of Youyun in the north, especially the border trade opened by the Beihu Wangting, many businessmen such as the three major commercial houses of Shenguang have set up shops in the twelve states of Youyun, for a time the commerce and trade are developed, the north and south licensed goods can be seen everywhere, and the crowds are surging one after another.
The other two sides of Youyun City are open and flat, suitable for the main army to face each other, and has always been a strategic base and rear fortress for the northern nomadic iron cavalry to go south, and it is also the biggest obstacle to the development of southern agricultural civilization to the north.
The annual trading volume of the horse market in Youyun City alone reached 50,000 horses, and when the two countries were not at war, Youyun City once became the largest trade center in the entire northern border, and it was also the largest distribution center for southern goods in the Beihu Empire. At that time, the Cui family of Xikou Dragon Kiln had also sold Yao porcelain to Youyun City with the help of the Xiao caravan, and Cui Mingtang was even sent to Hejian Mansion to open up the market, not thinking of using Hejian Mansion as a springboard to one day really enter the vast northern market.
The northern border is developed in commerce and trade, which naturally drives the cultural prosperity, and the famous Qingliu has also brought a large number of classics after tracing back to the north, the literary style and folk customs of the twelve states of Youyun are quite tough, and there are similarities with the literary style between the rivers, and after integrating the customs of the northern Hu nomads, it is known for its heroism, of course, Shenguang orthodoxy denounces it as the Huyi trail, and the class is just an axe.
Cui Hanzhang flipped through the poems of Youyun in his spare time, "The black water is turbulent, and the confluence is indiscriminate." Falling and multiplying, the soil type state. The black water is flooding, and the mountains are surging. Running to the river and falling rainbows, drinking horses and blue skies. The black water source is long, the sun and the moon are prosperous, the strange situation is repeated, and its way is bright. This kind of catchy but majestic poem is very suitable for the bitter cold of the north, and at this time it also made him feel the culture of the twelve states of Youyun, which is indeed unique, and there is tenacity in the toughness.
The army was overwhelmed, the dark clouds covered the sun, the people in Youyun City were panicked, and Murong Yanran lost sleep all night for the first time. The spies sent to the royal court for help never heard back, and they put great pressure on the military and people of Youyun City psychologically, if it weren't for the strong support of the six surnames in the twelve states behind them, I am afraid that there would have been a riot at this time, and the situation would be even more critical.
It was purely a competition to consume, and Youyun City was not able to catch it, and Jiatong Pass, the rear of the Shenguang army, continued to transport supplies, and devoted its strength to attack Youyun City, besieging it for more than a month, and the entire Beihu Empire felt Emperor Jialong's determination to break the city. Emperor Jialong in the daily offensive of the uninterrupted situation, opened the heart of the battle, ordered the archers to shoot the recruitment book into the city, all out of the city to take refuge, are the people of the gods, all give the field of cattle and sheep, never tax, gold and silver generous.
Although Murong Yanran responded in a timely manner and ordered someone to collect the recruitment book, there was already an undercurrent in Youyun City, coupled with the instigation of the spies left behind by the three major trading houses of Shenguang at the beginning, the cattle and horse fence spread secretly, and it seemed that there was a fire in the backyard.
Emperor Jialong discussed with the generals in the big tent, Cui Hanzhang and Li Qingshan, Yao Daguan and other young Zhuang factions were able to observe, and there were generals to offer advice, and it was better to take Youyun City directly than to pull out the twelve states behind him first, making it a lonely city, leaving the material support of the twelve states, Youyun City is just a larger city, and it will inevitably run out of ammunition and food under a long-term siege. Moreover, if Youyun City divides troops to rescue, it will inevitably fall into the trap of our army, and when the time comes, it will be broken one by one, which is better than losing troops and forcibly attacking the city.
"If you want to pull out the twelve states, you have to go around the black water, and under the elongated battle line, material supply and military command are big problems." The other generals questioned.
"Is it advisable to let the Pingkang royal army withdraw from the northwest and attack the twelve states?"
"No, the Pingkang royal department is like a nail piercing into the northwest, so that Beihu is like a fish in the throat but does not dare to relax his vigilance, it is very important to contain the king's tent dragon horse. We must not give the three main forces of Beihu a chance to converge, otherwise, we can only temporarily avoid the edge and retreat to Jiatong Pass. Yao Yu clearly objected, he guarded the border all the year round, and knew the strength of the three main forces of Beihu.
"Increase the delivery of recruitment letters, and order the cattle and horses to keep an eye on Murong Yanran, and behead Murong directly once there is a chance." Emperor Jialong sat on the couch, staring at the situation map in front of him, and ordered to give the shadow behind the screen.
In the Marshal Mansion of Youyun City, Murong Yanran summoned the city lords of the twelve states and the six surnames to discuss the dispatch of materials, and everyone unanimously agreed that the royal court should support as soon as possible, otherwise with such a tragic competition between the two sides, I am afraid that Youyun City will not be able to support this summer, once it is the autumn harvest season, it is still besieged in Youyun City, how can the grain and grass continue? The people in the cities of the twelve states have complained that the situation is unstable and easy to cause riots under the pressure of bullets.
Murong Yanran sat high in the hall, watching everyone babble and blow their beards and stare at each other, as if watching a shadow puppet show that had nothing to do with him.
In fact, she has a bigger plan in her heart, Shenguang Jialong Lao'er hopes to eat Youyun City in one bite, and the embroidered fox Murong Yanran wants to put it to death and live in the future, no matter how bad the main force of Beihu Ace is, it will not retreat again and again, she shows the enemy to be weak, using Youyun City as a bait, as long as the other two armies come, once the counter-encirclement is formed, under the internal and external attacks, the Shenguang army will be defeated, and the Shenguang Emperor will also be reduced to a prisoner.
The top priority is to appease and stabilize the city lords of these twelve states, at this time, there must be no fire in the backyard, how to make Youyun City and the twelve states into an iron bucket is the key to the victory or defeat of this battle, and the attitude of the six surnames is the key to the key.
It is true that Murong Yanran, as a handsome woman, eats and lives with the soldiers, and often goes to the city to beat drums and cheer in person, winning the support of the soldiers. But in the face of the old men with the six surnames of the twelve states, they often feel that they have more than enough heart and not enough strength, and they are thieves who are old and immortal, all of them are as slippery as loaches. Now someone took the opportunity to participate in the royal court, and the coach Murong Yanran was not effective in commanding, resulting in heavy losses in Youyun City.
The rivers and lakes of the Twelve Prefectures of Youyun are bottomless, and although Murong Yanran is the dragon crossing the river in the Bingzu Valley, it is not yet known whether he can suppress many land snakes.
This night is rare and quiet, until the third watch of the night did not see the Shenguang army attacking the city, the embroidered fox Murong Yanran climbed the city alone, the soldiers standing guard were accustomed to it, and no one disturbed the commander's lonely.
The heat dissipated, and the stars he saw when he looked up, Murong Yanran missed his senior brother Huan Tan; "Have you gotten rid of the entanglement of the divine light ghost Liu Zhilun, my junior sister is alone in Youyun City, and I am very lonely in my heart."
The starry night was silent, only the breeze blowing from the hill behind Youyun City blew by, and a red shirt isolated the head of the city, and the black hair flew wantonly......