Chapter 46: A Dilemma
According to the calculation of Pang Yan, the yin and yang scholar, even Haichao and Cui Hanzhang, the two generals of Wenwu are regarded as the pride of the sky, the spirit of Zhong Tiandi, and the blessing of luck in the underworld. Now that the two escaped from the battlefield, the aftermath of the Northern Expedition has nothing to do with them, but they have been able to save their lives. Nowadays, I watch the wind and listen to the rain in Taikang City every day, and I don't ask about the world.
When they can get out of bed and walk around, the two of them will be taken out of the city by Cui Xuan to hang out, and the people of the September Frost shop under Yimao Peak go to the empty building, at this time Cui Hanzhang's vision is so vicious, he can see that the shop has experienced the scourge of swords, and the knife and axe slash marks on the window lattice counter are obvious.
Half a month later, Cui Hanzhang, who could sit up, decided to take everyone back to Jianyang Xikou, judging from the recovery of the injuries of the two, don't expect to return to the top in less than a year and a half, the shepherd doctor said very bluntly, "If you go north, you will die", that is to say, the two of them will never have a chance to go into battle in the battle of the Northern Expedition, whether it is to go to the front line to earn military merits, or to take revenge, these things are far away from them.
Relying on Jun Mo's words to seal the marquis, these two are people who crawled back from the ghost gate, and at this time, they have a deep understanding of the ruthlessness of a general who has achieved ten thousand bones.
Now, the entire Taikang City is in the joy of the Shenguang Northern Expeditionary Army seizing Youyun City, and even manic, no one cares about the two wounded soldiers who retreated from the front line. During this period, only Princess Yunlan's personal maidservant came more diligently, and brought some rare things in the palace, saying that it was to replenish Cui Tanhua's body.
The well-informed nobles of the capital family, after hearing that he was far away from the front line due to injury, all sighed for Cui Tanhua, let go of his military exploits in vain, and then killed the capital of Beihu Wang, the day of the city, maybe it was when the king worshiped the prime minister, and all the provinces were vying for the front line.
Recalling the thrilling thrill of fighting three thousand miles and assassinating the embroidered fox in Liuluan City, now these flies and dogs are really not interested, but he hopes that this battle will be settled in Shenzhou and return the world to a peaceful and prosperous world.
Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are dogs.
This world is like a quagmire, there is mud everywhere, it is difficult to walk, it is difficult to go astray, who walks in this mud is not mud legs? They are all sentient beings who are begging for a living in the quagmire, and all sentient beings are suffering, the difference is that some are wearing shoes and some are barefoot......
In fact, with the original information transmission efficiency, the children of the family who wanted to go to the front line to get military merits in Taikang City could not have imagined that the situation would change so quickly, after a few battles, there were heavy casualties, and the Shenguang army had gradually been unable to resist the attack of the king's tent dragoons and the ghost cowardly army, and Liuluan City, Xiushui City, etc. were all handed back, and now the army retreated to Youyun City, and it is unknown whether it can stabilize its position.
The cold wave in the north struck, the air pressure was heavy, and the sky was freezing and the clouds were not flowing.
The situation on the battlefield is changing, and it was also a coincidence that the original attack on Youyun City was also a coincidence, some tricks, internal and external joint attacks, and burned Youyun City, resulting in 100,000 iron cavalry unable to start a battle in formation, especially when they encountered the Shenguang heavy armor troops who tried the edge for the first time, the combat power of the Euphorbia was really amazing, and the light cavalry showed a devastating sweeping situation, and the commander Murong Yanran was unclear about life and death, and the group of dragons had no leader, which led to some generals thinking that the general trend had gone, and they could only abandon the city, which was a whole tens of thousands of cavalry who had no choice but to give up Youyun City, Therefore, there are large groups of flowing troops that Huan Tan has collected along the way, and now these cavalry troops have once again been incorporated into the camp of the ghost cowardly army, turning from light to darkness, and attacking the Shenguang army from all directions.
Moreover, Old Man Mu went out to coerce the king this time to order all the tribes, with the purpose of desperate betting, to fight all the family resources of the Beihu Empire, and he did not hesitate to take away all the elites who could go into battle in the royal capital, which means that the current imperial capital is equivalent to an undefended empty city.
Old man Mu is the most elite heavy armor unit in the iron cavalry of the Beihu Empire, the king tent dragon cavalry heavy armor army, in the first battle with the halberd warriors, the effect is amazing, whether it is the cavalry strength or the explosive power of the war horse is better, what makes Emperor Jialong even more depressed is that the king tent dragon cavalry heavy armor has 10,000 people, far beyond the scale of the Shenguang Euphorbia, this army of 10,000 people every time the uniform charge, with the help of the familiar field war of the ghost cowardly army to cut the road, the heavy armored cavalry chiseled the formation so that the Shenguang army is quite difficult to resist.
In terms of cavalry combat, Shenguang was restricted by the number of high-quality horses and the lack of instantaneous explosiveness, and the family funds that he had worked hard for more than 20 years to form the Euphorbia Heavy Armored Force, but there were only 8,000 of them, and these 8,000 heavy armored cavalry were also the limit of what they could currently support. For many years, Shenguang Kaihu Market intends to introduce cool horses for cross-breeding and enhance the explosiveness of southern horses, but due to the geographical environment and the strict restrictions on Malaysian breed trade, it has not achieved good results.
According to the records that can be found in the historical books, the heavy armored cavalry of the northern nomads has not been defeated since its inception, especially against the light cavalry troops trained by the agricultural civilization in the south, which is basically crushed head-on within fifty miles, and if it encounters the infantry army, it can be defeated in a charging round.
If it weren't for the extremely high requirements of the heavy armored cavalry for horses and cavalry, the full coverage of armor, the extravagant cost of support, and the inability to fight for a long time could not be overcome, the nomadic regime in the north would have dominated the world long ago, even if Shenguang Taizu had the ability to reach the sky, he would have no power to resist in the face of this kind of frontal crushing heavy armor troops.
Youyun City leans on the green mountains on the left, the black water on the right, the whole city presents an oppressive defense form facing south, but it is an undefended zone in the communication area with the northern cities, when Beihu took over Youyun City from the previous dynasty, and is committed to building the integration of attack and defense of the twelve states of Youyun, but also with the help of the racial mixing here, the advantages of economic and trade development, trying to transition to the development of agricultural economy in the twelve states, and then supporting the northern royal capital, the folk saying spreads the saying of "Little Nanting", so Youyun City is easy to defend and difficult to attack for the Shenguang Dynasty, but for Beihu, Contrary.
If Emperor Jialong is given ten years, with the supply of materials from Hejian Mansion and Jiatong Pass, he may be able to transform the city defense facilities, and connect them with Jiatong Pass, Shuofang and other cities to build an integrated defense system.
However, time waits for no one, and the Northern Hu Soldier Saint calculated that the Shenguang army could not confront the heavily armored dragoons head-on, and the city defense facilities of Youyun City could not resist the attack from the north, and the Shenguang generals who fought this battle were very depressed.
As the saying goes, one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion.
At this time, the momentum of the Beihu Iron Cavalry was like a rainbow, and it was even rumored that the embroidered fox Murong Yanran appeared in the army, which made the remnants of the Southern Expedition who were full of anger all compete desperately, and Emperor Jialong and others naturally knew that this was the morale of the Beihu side, so they were just suspicious.
The holy general of the Beihu soldiers, Wang Shang, took the stage and confessed to the soldiers of the three armies: "The whole territory of the rear, until the king's capital is empty, if I die, my wife and children will be slaves, and the country will be destroyed." ”
"There is no way out, only to fight to the death."
The king raised his arms and shouted, and the more than 100,000 troops in the audience echoed loudly:
"Fight to the death!"
"Fight to the death!"
"Fight to the death!"
The sound enters the sky, and the clouds move from the shadow.
Those who are put to death will be reborn. There is no way back for the Beihu Empire, and if it does not drive the invading enemy out of the territory, it will surely disappear in the long river of history, and the land of Shenzhou will be a situation of great unification.
In this battle, the old man Mu was staked on the entire empire, and the king's garrison was all old and weak soldiers, almost undefended, and the old queen mother of Beihu had a knee-to-knee conversation before leaving was even more transparent.
"If the empire can't pour everything it has and recover its decline, I'm afraid it will no longer be able to maintain the pattern of confrontation between the north and the south, and if the twelve states of Youyun are lost, the king will inevitably not be able to hold it, even if it holds the royal capital, it will be a lonely city, and sooner or later it will be trapped in the city." Old man Mu said it lightly, but the old lady was shocked when she heard it.
"Could it be that the powerful empire and the invincible army of the steppe have no room to turn around?" The old queen asked rhetorically.
"We nomads live in pursuit of water and grass, watch the sky and eat, your old man's discerning eyes, can't you see that the grassland has become more and more arid in recent years, and there is a serious shortage of water and grass. Moreover, in the development of a hundred years, population reproduction is far better than the output of cattle and sheep, and our iron cavalry seems invincible, sweeping all parts of the grassland, but this is also a helpless move to fish with all our might. ”
"If it weren't for the support of the twelve states of Youyun in the past twenty years, I'm afraid that these hundreds of thousands of invincible divisions would have dragged down the empire, and the fifteen states of the Shenguang Dynasty in the south are rich and prosperous places, compared to them, our northern border can only be regarded as a bitter cold border stopper, a large area of land is a desert, and half a year is full of wind and snow, without the invasion of foreign enemies, just the internal friction of fighting for grain and grass is enough to crush the empire."
"This war god light dynasty has accumulated more than 20 years, the army is strong, it is bound to win, they cut off the border trade, the closure of the mutual market is equivalent to blocking our development of the road, the empire can only preemptively, this is to send the little fox to lead the army to attack Jiatong Pass, in fact, the purpose is to seize the Hejian Mansion, ten years of operation, when the time comes, the Hejian Mansion will be used as a springboard, and gradually encroach on the boundary north of Taikang City, slowly Tuzhi, less than twenty years, you can destroy the Shenguang Dynasty."
"Heaven is not as good as people, that Shenguang Jialong Emperor is a hero, twenty years of Taoguang and obscurity, but secretly training the army, you see that Shenguang heavy armor halberd warrior has outstanding combat power, it should be imitated by our heavy armor dragoon, but he runs the Hejian Mansion like an iron pass, and our country's infiltration plan has been repeatedly frustrated, but he intends to take the empire after seizing Youyun City, and force the empire back to the bitter cold polar region further north step by step, and finally wipe it out."
"The empire has lost for a while, and the plan to seize Hejian Mansion has been unable to be implemented, the spy report of the Green Water Battalion shows that the three armies of Shenguang have invaded our territory respectively, and if the Gabu Lake Horse Farm is not followed by the king's tent dragoon, I am afraid that it will also be caught off guard, without the supply of excellent horses, what is the Beihu Iron Cavalry?"
"Behind us is a cliff, if we advance steadily according to the strategic intentions of the Divine Light Emperor, we can only do the battle of trapped beasts. At this time, it is to disrupt the wishful thinking of the Shenguang Emperor, he wants to take advantage of the disaster of the grassland, and consume us with the rich national strength of the Shenguang Dynasty, then we will give him a desperate effort, since we can't win, we can only strive not to lose, the king is gone to rebuild, as long as you and the king are still there, this grassland is still the Yelu family. ”
"Elder Mu, how sure are you?" The old queen mother is not a fool, but she is shrewd and capable, otherwise she would not control the military power and listen to the government.
"Five-five, our empire covets the rich land in the south, and their divine light is even more reluctant to settle down on the foundation of their lives, and only by fighting the jade with a broken heart can they fight for a glimmer of life." After taking a sip of tea, Beihu Bingsheng said leisurely.
If she hadn't listened to these words, the old queen mother would not have agreed to evacuate the royal capital, and now the king of Beihu led all his troops to fight to the death with the Shenguang Dynasty, but the victory or defeat was five or five.
Nowadays, the entire Beihu Empire is like a tight bowstring, which cannot be loosened, and the consequence of loosening is to first break the bow-puller, but as the saying goes, the bowstring cannot be too full, and if it is too full, it is easy to break.
On the second night of the fierce battle between the two sides in Youyun City, Beihu finally attacked at the cost of throwing down tens of thousands of corpses, and the Shenguang army had no choice but to give up the battle for the outer city, retreat to Weng City, and desperately defend it with the help of terrain and city walls.
The vanguard ranger reported: "Fifty miles outside the city, I found a large army fighting fiercely, and the military flag looks like Liu Zhilun, the commander of the Right Route Army, the Zekang Wangbu and the elite ghost cowardly army of Beihu. ”
It turned out that after the right army transferred half of the ghost cowardly army in Huantan, Liu Zhilun quickly captured the fighter plane, gathered all the war departments to launch a counterattack against the remaining enemy, and the two armies chased and fought all the way, Zekang Wang was unconscious from the arrow, and he had been separated from the large army. Liu Zhilun gathered his troops and wrestled with the ghost cowardly army for half a moon, although he held on to it, but the enemy general scrupulously abided by the military order and never rushed forward, resulting in the right army being like a fish in the throat, but it was unable to annihilate the 30,000 or 40,000 ghost cowardly army.
In the later period, the general of the enemy's unified army turned the horse's head and led his troops to kill directly in the direction of Youyun City, and waited until Liu Zhilun's men and horses reacted and hurried to catch up, and they must not let it converge with the large army of Youyun Twelve Prefectures, otherwise they would form a pincer attack on the middle army, which would inevitably break the balance of the decisive battle in Youyun City.
Now that this ghost cowardly army has finally been intercepted in the fifty miles outside the green mountains of Youyun City, at this time, for the two armies fighting in the city, they have already known that there are two armies fighting desperately in the fifty miles outside the city in the east, and whether to save or not to save is in a thought, and who saves first is even more crucial.
"Come, give the order, tie the tail of a thousand cavalry with branches, and help all the military flags on horseback, and go to support the ghost cowardly army outside the city, be sure to support loudly, the louder the better." Old man Mu sat on the big tent bed, wrapped around the sheepskin futon, shrunk into a ball.
"Master, is there a little less than a thousand soldiers and horses, give me 10,000 and I will definitely bring back 40,000 elites of the Ghost Cowardly Army." Huan Tan listened to the master's military order and asked uneasily.
"Not a lot, a thousand people are enough. You hurry up and hurry up the offensive, as soon as it gets dark, I'm going to go into the inner city to eat hot pot mutton in the guard's mansion, and the cold wave is chasing after us. Old man Mu shook his head nonchalantly and explained the task to the eldest apprentice.
"Holy Lord, the army fighting outside the city is confirmed to be the right army Liu Zhilun's department, and it seems that both armies have signs of the end of the crossbow."
"Report, the Beihu Empire sent reinforcements to the fifty miles of Qingshan outside the city, and I couldn't see the specific number of people, but I saw smoke and dust billowing and war horses neighing, I'm afraid it was 10,000 people." There was a discussion in the tent, and another rider came in and knelt down.
"The reaction is so fast, it seems that King Beihu attaches great importance to these tens of thousands of ghost cowardly troops outside the city? Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Zekang is also in the right army, fighting all the way from the northern foot of Kuiyin Mountain to the outside of Youyun City, I am afraid that both sides are desperately holding out, it depends on which side of the reinforcements arrive first. Yao Yu has always been old-fashioned, and he was shocked when he heard this military report.
"Ladies and gentlemen, who is willing to go out of the city to destroy this demon cowardly army." Emperor Jialong frowned and asked the generals present directly.
"The last general is willing to lead 10,000 troops to support Lun Shuai." Yao Daguan was the first to come out and ask for his life.
"Give you 30,000 elites, bring good food and grass equipment, be sure to bring them back safely, you don't have to enter the city, your troops are reorganized into the camp of the right army in situ, and continue to defend the middle army as a flank, remember to tell Liu Zhilun to maintain the formation."
"The Right Route Army has made great contributions to the great cause of the Northern Expedition, and I want them to return safely." Emperor Jialong was more worried about the situation of Zekang Wang Youyin in his heart, half a month ago, Niu Ma Lan had sent back the news that Youyin was hit by an arrow, and now the closer it is, the more worried he is.
"Order." Yao Daguan strode out of the account, counted the soldiers and horses, and rushed out from the back door to support the right army.
"It seems that the Holy Lord is worried that Youyun City will not be able to hold it." Yao Yu is so shrewd, he can see at a glance that Emperor Jialong's military deployment, if it is said that the Yao family's border army is not offensive enough, but in the entire Shenguang army, there is no one who can stand like the other.
"For today's plan, only Youqi is the only one in the three-way army that has variables, and the battle situation of the two roads in front of him is already clear, and only by defending Youyun City can we win the Northern Expedition." Emperor Jialong saw the overall situation clearly, and naturally understood that today's battle was very important, and sent orders to the generals to stabilize the morale of the army.
"Qi Qi Mu Shuai, the Shenguang army has been divided into a large force to rescue fifty miles outside the city, and from the green hills, there should be as many as twenty or thirty thousand." The scout hurried into the tent, carrying a cold wind.
"Okay, pass on Huan Tan, gather all the elites to attack the city, attack with fire, use all the saltpeter sulfur, and blow it up for me, be sure to take Weng City." The eyes of the old valley lord Mu flashed, he gambled that Emperor Jialong loved his son, and he dared to divide 30,000 troops to go out to rescue him, which was really a godsend.
"Soldiers, treacherous ways, lure them for profit, take them in chaos, attack them unprepared, and surprise them." The Beihu soldiers and saints use the soldiers in a virtual and real way, and the ghosts and gods are unpredictable.
It is said that on the battlefield fifty miles outside the green mountains of Youyun City, Liu Zhilun dragged his stump leg to fight first, and when he saw the smoke and dust billowing behind the ghost cowardly army, his heart was half cold, thinking that even if he died in battle today, he would be loyal to the country.
Who knew that the situation suddenly turned around, only to see the opposite side of the banner waving, smoke and dust billowing, but did not see the army rushing over, but then Yao Daguan led 30,000 troops to kill, the situation changed instantly, the ghost cowardly army was defeated at the touch of a touch, and immediately defeated, the two forces of Shenguang merged into one, and took advantage of the situation to cover up for thirty miles.
When they chased and killed the ghost cowardly army for thirty miles, the fire in Youyun City was once again in the sky, and the huge fireball was blasted into the city by the stone bullet machine, and it was accompanied by endless rain of arrows, the cold wave and the murderous aura were mixed together, the killing sound shook the sky, and the heaven and earth were filled with the breath of death.
After Yao Daguan and Liu Zhilun passed the word, they led the army to reorganize in situ,
"Stop the pursuit, the forward will become the rear of the military guard hall, the flank guard of the border army, bring the horse rejection stakes, the high fence, and move closer to the main force of the Shengshang Middle Army." Liu Zhilun is worthy of being a military genius, and his judgment of the battlefield situation is accurate, since he understood the suspicious formation of the ghost cowardly army, to Yao Daguan's 30,000 border troops rushed to support the joint attack and kill, he basically understood Emperor Jialong's concerns, and also understood the arrival of the key turning point of the Northern Expedition.
Looking through the historical records, it is difficult to find an example of Youyun City being exchanged by the armies of the two countries in a very short period of time, and it has always been one side singing, one side appearing, each leading the way for decades, like now the Shenguang Northern Expedition army has not yet been taken from the hands of the Beihu Iron Cavalry, and then it has changed hands again and handed it back is unique.
Later generations of soldiers racked their brains and repeatedly deduced, and in the face of this unsolvable situation, they could only sigh and sigh, the sky will not die in Beihu.
A Northern Expedition battle, which lasted for more than half a year, finally returned to the original point. The Shenguang army retreated to Jiatong Pass, and the Beihu Iron Cavalry was stationed in Youyun City, and the situation of confrontation between the two countries, when Emperor Jialong was unwilling to finally order the burning of Weng City, the rear army had completely emptied the materials in Youyun City, and the walls were clear, leaving Beihu Bingsheng an empty Youyun City.
Shenguang's Northern Expedition is victorious but not victorious......
The Northern Hu Southern Expedition was undefeated and defeated......