Chapter 47: A Black Robe
For thousands of years, whenever they heard of the invasion of the northern Huyi, all parts of the Central Plains were regarded as the time when the nation was in danger, and the controversy was put aside and turned the gun to the outside world. Speaking of which, the king of Yanbei relied on the mixed-race cavalry to succeed back then, and he was defeated by the cavalry, and he dared to try to get involved in the orthodoxy of the Central Plains.
The various forces in the Central Plains were tired of internal friction, and they had no heart for the Northern Expedition. I have never heard that the orthodox dynasty of the Central Plains will go north to rob, but the Shenguang Northern Expeditionary Army of Jialong 21 years, after half a year of hard fighting, rushed to the three main forces of the Beihu Empire, although after capturing Youyun City, stopped at Liuluan City, helplessly retreated again and again, and finally retreated to Jiatong Pass, the two countries returned to the confrontation pattern, but this expedition was a large-scale looting, everywhere they went, such as locusts transiting, not a single inch of grass, looting and looting all kinds of materials, cattle, sheep and horses, arrows, bows and crossbows, treasures and property filled the entire Jiatong Pass.
Although the morale of the Shenguang Northern Expeditionary Army was frustrated in the battle with the King's Tent Dragoon Heavy Armored Army, and the soldiers were defeated, the people who planned the overall situation did not care about the gains and losses of a son, and the harvest of the short capture of Youyun City was enough to support the border garrison for ten years, and the impact on the Beihu Empire was so far-reaching that the old valley lord Mu could only smile helplessly, and the old queen mother, who was far away in the extreme north, beat her chest and stomped her feet.
More far-reaching, the development and evolution of the confrontation pattern between the two countries is also closely related to this battle, in the more than 100 years of later generations, the changes in the land of Shenzhou are beyond everyone's expectations, generations of generals and commanders review the chess game, and the Mingshi Yaji Qing Talk is also a deduction and analysis, which led to the turn of the situation is the three assassinations that occurred in Liuluan City, and the ending was actually on a secret guard assassin, and the world commented that Emperor Jialong gave a fairy hand, and the name of the bull and horse fence shocked the world.
The price paid by Shenguang for the Northern Expedition was not insignificant, the main army was damaged by more than half, and the children of the family in Taikang City who came to make military achievements in the later period were killed and wounded. Even Emperor Jialong was shot in the left waist in the final battle for Wengcheng, if it were not for the armor body, it would have penetrated, and the consequences were unimaginable.
The two armies were fighting, and in the scorching stalemate stage, the commander was suddenly assassinated, which was bound to accelerate the process of the offensive and defensive battle in Youyun City. In the past, every time the offensive and defensive battles, the embroidered fox Murong Yanran must sit in the Chinese army and personally lead the main force out of the city to meet the battle, firmly resist the horse pile, the spear and shield are in front, the rear row of light armored cavalry on both sides, there are trebuchets, powerful crossbows and archers to suppress, and there are more tall city walls in the rear. Even the elite troops of the Divine Light Vanguard are also psychologically clear, before the final battle, the battle between the two sides ends at ten miles outside the city wall, and within ten miles is the full field of firepower coverage of trebuchets and crossbow machines, as the so-called easy to defend the city, but difficult to attack the city.
Therefore, the longer Youyun City drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for the Northern Expeditionary Army, Murong Yanran is consuming the enemy's morale on the one hand, as the so-called one drum, then decline, and three exhaustion; On the other hand, it is accumulating the general trend, and after the rear is cleared and stabilized, it will be able to converge with the senior brother ghost cowardly army, and it will be able to turn the tide in one fell swoop. ”
The commander of the Left Route Army, Bai Juque, and a cadre of lieutenant generals are all in different places, the right Route Army does not survive three, the coach Liu Zhilun was hit by an arrow in the knee of his right leg, and the arrow was stuck in the bone crack, delaying treatment, leaving him with a lifelong disability, known as Liu Cripple, and the rainy days on both sides of the Longyuan River every year are the days when Liu Zhilun suffers. In the battle at the northern foot of Kuiyin Mountain, King Zekang was already unconscious from an arrow, separated from the large army, and has not yet found his whereabouts.
At this time, the battle was already scorching and white-hot, and the Shenguang Euphorbia fought to less than two thousand left, even the surviving Euphorbia could not fight again, and there was no excellent war horse to charge with heavy loads, and the heavy armored cavalry was a living target on the battlefield.
The Great Demon God Huan Tan of Beihu has unparalleled combat power, and he has killed several Shenguang generals under the horse, and the head of Youyun City has a long roar, and the mountain and valley should be terrifying, and he is the first to chase and kill Emperor Jialong.
Without the cover of the heavy cavalry, it was extremely difficult to resist the chiseling charge of the Beihu Dragoons, and every minute and second of time was fought out by the soldiers of the rangers with flesh and blood.
The vanguard general Li Qingshan and the Beihu Great Demon God Huan Tan encountered, like a comet hitting the earth, the fight between the two generals was more like the fateful duel between the orthodox descendants and the northern soldiers.
Huan Tan is imposing, and the cold light silver spear is sometimes like a dragon going to sea, sometimes slashing and sweeping, and the front is brutally suppressed; Li Qingshan is Zhongzheng Qinghe, the glaive long knife is like a spiritual snake spitting out letters, attacking the place where it must be saved, and the Shenguang army saw that Li Qingshan's commander actually resisted the Great Demon God of Beihu, and they couldn't help but applaud, and finally came out with a vicious breath that was suppressed and beaten.
I saw these two people come and go, fight to the sunset, hit to the dark, the war horse under the seat changed and changed, what is a half catty and eight taels, how can the two of them have infinite energy, not tired at all, the more brave they fight, the farther and farther, until the end of the war, they did not see the two return to the camp, and then there were rumors that some people saw the two of them die on the bank of the Heishui River, and the bodies were washed away by the water............
Although the two countries once again formed a confrontation situation between Jiatong Pass and Youyun City, the situation was favorable to the Shenguang Dynasty, reversing the previous offensive and defensive momentum, and in the following ten years, the defenders of Jiatong Pass took the initiative to attack, forcing Youyun City to be unable to expand outward, and could only hold the gate and defend passively.
Compared with the tragedy of the middle and right route armies, the left route army passed the difficult period early, and even in the later stage of the Northern Expedition, the wind and water were full of flavor, and it was a clear wonder in the battlefield massacre like Shura hell, which was a dazzling color in the history of the Northern Expedition.
Under the leadership of King Pingkang Mu, the Left Route Army, which was defeated first and then victorious, took Lok Ma Chau as the base, reorganized and integrated the Motuo Black Horse, the left hand shield and the right hand scimitar, and promoted the combat skills on the back of the Motuo tribe to the whole army, and the army erected a black gold-inlaid dragon flag, which was called the Black Dragon Army by the world.
The Black Dragon Army crisscrossed the snow-capped mountains and deserts, elusive, mainly raided and swept away, never stationed in nostalgia, and controlled the entire Gabu Lake Corridor area, it was they who often attacked the Gabu Lake Horse Farm, which made the supply of horses for the follow-up King Tent Dragoon Army and the Ghost Cowardly Army stretched thin and restricted everywhere.
During the most critical battle between the two countries, the Black Flag Army also had the fiercest quarrel since the expedition.
"What else is there to consider? When the time comes for the decisive battle between the two armies, let's immediately turn our horses' heads and kill to support the Holy Lord in Youyun City. Lingwu Hou Bai Yanqiu patted the table and said fiercely.
"Little Hou Ye's words are wrong, Beihu Bingsheng uses soldiers like gods, unpredictable, let's fight with him so far, do we suffer less losses? How could such a scheming person choose to change his son with the emperor? The left army was like a sharp knife into the area near Beihu's heart, and he was like a fish in the throat. ”
"If he transferred all the troops of Beihu to rob Youyun City with the emperor, then what would the Golden Horde court do? must be empty, isn't it a God-given opportunity, if you don't copy his lair at this time, when will it be? The Thirteen Princes disagreed, spitting excitedly, and their eyes showed a hint of disdain.
"Big brother, after this village, there is no such shop. We should have confidence in our father, his old man is a brilliant and upright soldier, and he is assisted by Yao Shuai, he can be described as a large number of generals, steady and steady, and he will definitely not lose to the Beihu Bingsheng. ”
"Could it be that the Northern Hu Bingsheng is in the Youyun Twelve Prefectures and is in a suspicious formation, leading us and others to support, but in fact, the purpose is to sweep the Gabu Lake corridor, which is intended to be in Lok Ma Chau? As the so-called Xiang Zhuang sword dance is intended for Pei Gong, some time ago, more than 10,000 of our horses were quietly eaten a hundred miles outside the royal capital. At this time, Qin Siyang cautiously analyzed, thinking that he was a lawless prince of Luyang, and after the baptism of ruthless war, he became more and more cautious.
"No matter what attention Mu Lao Fox pays attention to, Tiange only knows that Luomazhou is the home of our Motuo clan, and Motuo Erlang is like a wandering child when he leaves home, and he can't find a direction."
Mo Tu Tiange said in a low voice, her two brothers were high-spirited at the beginning, and later broke away from Luomazhou and joined the Beihu Wangdu, saying that the trend of grassland integration is irreversible, and now they are not in a different place, smiling and generous?
King Pingkang Mu sat quietly on the main seat, watching the generals in the tent arguing, in fact, he was even more irritable. Thinking that he was ordered to pull the left army back from the brink of annihilation, and now with the help of the power of the Motuo tribe, he has regained a foothold and firmly restrained the northwest, and at the same time, he has continuously transported war horses, grain and grass for the middle army, which has been explained to the country and the people.
But who knows his hardships and sufferings, and often feels haggard when he is walking on thin ice, who dares to say that he has done better than him? The dilemma at hand is to support the war in the Twelve Prefectures of Youyun, or to go straight to Huanglong and take the capital of Beihu?
I'm afraid that no one can understand his heart, and heart disease requires heart medicine. His heart disease is the Beihu Bingsheng, and the heart medicine is still the Beihu Bingsheng.
The generals in the big tent are arguing into a pot of porridge, but it can't solve the problem, his mind is drifting far away, the fall of the old Lingwu Hou is vivid, he is the commander of an army, tens of thousands of lives are tied to one, and now he is tying the Motuo clan to the chariot, he must think about weighing the pros and cons of various deployments.
In a way, this is the biggest problem since he led the army, whether to support the rescue or go straight to the Yellow Dragon, the two options make him unable to choose, he feels as if a layer of smoke is shrouded in front of him, and he can't see the situation clearly.
"What the thirteenth brother said is not completely unreasonable, the father and the emperor are using soldiers to be bright and bright, and they are in harmony, while the Beihu soldiers are unpredictable and win with wonders. I think that my Black Flag Army firmly controls the Gabu Lake Corridor, and the Chiyan area is enough to contain part of the troops of the Beihu side, and the father and emperor are not afraid of domineering tactics with the royal road. "King Pingkang and the Thirteen Princes have the same confidence in Emperor Jialong, which comes from the trust of the natural bloodline.
Soldiers, treacherous ways. The will be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, and no one can fully control the rapidly changing situation, since Emperor Jialong absolutely trusts the two wing coaches, he will fully delegate power.
It is inevitable that there will be people in the review of the future generations, so it is a slight delay, the fighter plane is fleeting, King Pingkang Mu still does not have the ruthlessness of the steppe wolf clan, he can't imagine the situation that the Golden Horde court is abandoned, and the royal capital, as the political center of the nomadic empire, is actually singing empty city plans.
Suspicion, scruples, and temptations, resulting in the Black Flag Army has missed the best opportunity to support the decisive battle of the twelve states of Youyun, and when Niu Malan sent the heavy armor dragoon army to fight the decisive battle of Youyun City, as well as the fierce battle intelligence of Liu Zhilun's army and the ghost cowardly army in the fifty miles of Qingshan outside the city, he finally understood that the old fox of Beihu Bingsheng actually took his king to gamble with his father, where the Beihu army is, where the king's tent is, and now the king of Beihu led the army to personally conquer and was stationed at the forefront of Youyun City.
The unpredictable and scheming Beihu Bingsheng actually used Emperor Jialong's royal tactics, and even more domineering, fighting for his family's background, and gambling his life in a dignified manner.
No wonder he tried the capital of Beihu again and again, but it was silent, the army led by King Pingkang Mu was like a cat that wanted to steal fish, wanted to stretch out his claws but was afraid of being beaten, looking at the fresh fish in front of him, his heart was itchy and uncomfortable, and he was in a hurry.
Before Niu Ma Lan finished saying all the information, You Qi rushed out of the account directly and shouted:
"Beat the drum and blow the trumpet, gather the vanguard army, go into battle in light armor, one person and three horsemen, and follow the king to break through the Golden Horde."
Since the Battle of Lok Ma Chau, the Black Dragon Army has been convinced of King Pingkang Mu, and its prestige is as high as that of the old patriarch alive, and the Motuo tribe is worshiped and looked up to. Seeing that the commander was half-clad and shouted orders in person, the vanguard light cavalry acted quickly, and many soldiers were driven to get on their horses and set off without even wearing armor.
"Big brother, it seems that we have all been deceived by Old Man Mu, he is really ruthless, and the king doesn't want it." The Thirteen Princes turned their heads to speak while whipping their horses.
"It's too late to kill Youyun City, let's go to Beihu's lair, my father and emperor use soldiers far beyond you and me, the right handsome Liu Zhilun has already joined Gongwei, this will not cause chaos, I want to make Beihu Bingsheng, this old boy, homeless." King Pingkang Mu rarely showed anger, and gritted his teeth with hatred.
The general Qin Siyang Bai Yanqiu led 5,000 people to each as the vanguard, and the king of Pingkang led 10,000 people as the central army.
The operation was carried out in a hurry, and only a few generals knew about it, and most of the soldiers did not know the true purpose of the operation.
The army marched a hundred miles north and arrived at the Duoyan tribe, and the vanguard took advantage of the defenselessness of the defenders to break the camp in an instant, annihilating the defenders and the soldiers responsible for the beacon alarm.
The troops did not do a rest, continue to move forward, the weather suddenly dark, the wind and snow combined with a surprise attack, the flag cracked, the people and horses froze to death looked at each other, the more north, the more difficult it was, the soldiers of the Black Flag Army were difficult to move forward in the snow, the prince gave an order, "the king will not be sworn to return", this battle will be attacked by the heart of death.
"Sons, after entering the city, set fire directly, but all the live livestock will be killed for me, and all the men over the age of thirty will be killed, and the women and children will be captured and returned to the camp." King Pingkang Mu hated Old Man Mu very much, and he used the desperate plan, he didn't believe that Old Man Mu dared to make the plan of the empty city public, and it was inevitable that most of the princes and ministers, and the chief officials of the Yamen were left in the capital, otherwise how could they deceive the detection of the ranger scouts.
After explaining the deployment of this battle, the king of Pingkang was facing the blade, the army attacked the city, set up a ladder, threw iron locks, and the dead soldiers of the Black Flag Army attacked the city quietly and climbed the city wall, and the soldiers guarding the gate were all beheaded in their sleep, leaving the people who fought the watch to continue the vigil.
The soldiers who entered the city opened the city gate, the people and horses closed their voices, and quietly touched the city, the soldiers in the city were unaware of it, until they attacked the inner city, there was a fierce exchange of fire, the royal capital was originally empty of troops, and now the outer city was lost, and the inner city defense was vulnerable in front of the elite of the Black Flag Army, and the inner and outer cities were all lost in less than three hours.
When the rooster crowed, the heavy snow stopped, and the Black Flag soldier Ma Chang drove straight into the Golden Horde's court, and a small part of the Golden Horde defenders resisted to the death, but what attracted more bloody killings, flesh and blood built the city through thousands of arrows, and the armor was stained with blood and reflected the moonlight.
"Send an order to Niu Ma Lan, if my father's side has enough troops, transfer me another 50,000 people to expand the garrison in Shuofang City." King Pingkang Mu galloped on his horse, and did not forget to turn around and order his relatives to pass the order.
In this way, the king of Beihu suffered the biggest catastrophe since the founding of the country, and all the government offices in the royal capital, the descendants of the large and small tribes were all pulled out of the warm kang, and they were tied to both sides of the street like two-legged sheep, shivering in the cold wind, wailing and crying.
Motuo was the best at robbing houses, killing people and setting fire to the gold belt, and the entire king was burned to the ground and completely burned into ruins.
Especially when they entered the Golden Horde royal court, they found that in addition to the eunuchs and palace maids, the guards in the entire royal court were less than one-third of the usual, not to mention the old queen mother and other royal family members of the harem, there was no trace of them. The left army rushed to Wang Duru and punched the cotton, and there was nowhere to vent his hatred, so he could only loot property everywhere, kill people and set fires.
"Tiange, you first lead 10,000 black horsemen to quickly return to Mazhou to pack up, take everything you can with you, and go back to Shuofang City directly." King Pingkang Mu set fire to the city, but he knew in his heart that since Old Man Mu chose to gamble with his life, he had to guard against it, in case they won the battle in the Twelve Prefectures of Youyun, the first one to encircle and suppress was Luomazhou, and he had to make arrangements in advance.
"Isn't there any other choice?" Mo Tu Tiange was naturally unhappy in her heart, Lok Ma Chau was the homeland where she was born and raised, and for her, the feelings were deep and she couldn't bear to give up.
"Plan ahead, just in case, the Gabu Lake corridor area is a battleground for the two armies." King Pingkangmu's face was solemn, and his words revealed unquestionable determination.
Bai Yanqiu continued to go out of the city to the north to pursue and sweep, and the old Empress Dowager Beihu and other royal families may be hiding nearby. The rest of the people waited with the king, and searched from house to house, remembering what the king said, and all the men were killed, and the women and children were captured and returned to Shuofang City. ”
"The last general commands."
Bai Yanqiu waved his hand and quickly left the city with 5,000 men and horses to pursue further north. Bai Yanqiu carried the coffin into Beihu, so he didn't plan to go back alive, how aggrieved his uncle's death was, and it was a stepping stone to achieve the holy prestige of the Beihu soldiers, Lingwu Houfu couldn't stand this humiliation, and he couldn't swallow this breath.
Bai Yanqiu's first words when he saw King Pingkang Mu were: "There are only ghosts who died in battle in Lingwu Houfu, and there are no cowards who steal life." His hatred for the enemies of Beihu is like a surging river, endless.
King Pingkang Mu often wears a satin black robe, and leads the black dragon army across the vast grassland of the northwest, repeatedly raiding the large and small tribes around the royal capital, and now he is personally leading the army into the capital, burning the Golden Horde royal court, killing the huge capital chicken and dog without leaving a living thing, seeing women and children will rob, tens of thousands of black horsemen every time they go out to sweep all over the place such as dark clouds overpowering, all the tribes of the grassland are afraid of it, not to mention taking the initiative to face the battle, over time will avoid him, it is really thousands of troops and horses to avoid the black robe.
The various legends of the black-robed killing god King Pingkang are all strange, and they are falsely rumored that he has three heads and six arms. What's more, in the northern state capitals, every time a child cries at night, he threatens and cries with a black robe to kill the gods, and the results are immediate. The news came back to Shenguang Taikang City, and Cui Yun and the others all teased the eldest prince Youqi with the black-robed killing god: "The reputation of the prince is completely bad in the north." ”
The facts also proved that King Pingkangmu's inference about the number of troops used by the Beihu soldiers was correct, and after the Beihu army recaptured Youyun City, it was not reinforced and repaired, and then it was non-stop to kill to Luomazhou, and the side of the couch did not allow others to snore.
The scout rangers who went out for three hundred miles along the way of King Pingkang Mu took turns to report the military situation, although he wanted to fight head-on, but he finally restrained his impulse, at this time, the Beihu army was violent, and with the might of the Youyun War, it was not suitable to fight head-on, and the main army of Shenguang had retreated to Youyun City, if the Black Dragon Army went deep into the enemy territory to fight alone, it was really a taboo for soldiers.
King Pingkang Mu is really ruthless, and when he left, he also played a trick, leaving the Beihu army with 10,000 heads of Beihu people, hanging on the high ground on both sides of the entrance of Lok Ma Chau, the expression of fright and helplessness on the head is vivid, the entire Beihu vanguard army is as quiet as death, the dark clouds are pressing, the sky is cold, and the air is frozen............