The four words that Li Yanzhi spit out softly made Li Bai feel shocked. His mind then began to wander. I still remember that when Yongjia was in the second year, he was not yet thirty years old, but he was just a cavalry captain under the supervision of Beigong Chun's account.

In the spring of the second year, Liu Cong and Wang Mikou Luoyang. More than 100,000 of them came violently, besieging the city for months. At that time, Zhang Liang, the assassin of Liangzhou, sent Beigong Chun to lead 3,000 Western Liang troops into Luoyang. Among the 3,000 Xiliang troops, there are 2,000 foot soldiers and soldiers.

At dawn, the Xiliang army, which arrived on the outskirts of Luoyang, was encamped by foot soldiers and garrisons. Li Bai was in the army, and he saw with his own eyes that the cavalry wore the armor escorted by the soldiers on the horses. Each of them was dressed in iron armor, holding a lance in his hand, and stepped on a war horse. In the sound of horses' hooves like a tsunami in the mountains, they rushed towards the main army of Liu Cong and Wang Mi who were besieging Luoyang.

These soldiers who rushed to Luoyang were all elite troops belonging to Liangzhou Prefecture. The two rescued Luoyang, and they were both led by Beigong Chun. The armored rider galloped, the horse's hooves pounding heavily on the ground. The iron blades of the vest collided with each other, and there was a sonorous sound. The cavalry on horseback lay their lances horizontally, and with an endless breath of death, they broke through the hastily arranged military formations of the assembled Zahu. Beigong Chunyi took the lead, the horse lance in his hand flew up and down, coupled with the powerful impact of the armored horse, the Zahu army formation was quickly torn out of a gap.

After the victory, the armored cavalry chased and killed the undefeated Zahu with expressionless faces. The fearful wails of the warrior before his death contrasted with the muffled sound of the horse's lance stabbing into the human body. These murderous and unblinking Liangzhou troops pursued and killed separately, tearing apart the outer defense line of Wang Mi's army. Under the attack of the powerful Liangzhou army, the resistance on the periphery was gradually crushed.

During that battle, Li Bai personally felt the horror of armored cavalry. Under the repeated killing of more than 1,000 Liangzhou cavalry and tearing back and forth, whether it is the Zahu army array, or the beggar army dominated by the Jin people, or even the elite light cavalry of the Huns under the leadership of Liu Cong, they are all vulnerable. With the destruction of this formation, the Jin army in the city also responded in a timely manner. Wang Mi and Liu Cong finally packed up their remnants and retreated in embarrassment.

The deeds of Liangzhou reinforcements to save Luoyang gradually spread in the Central Plains. People began to sing songs in the streets and alleys: "Liangzhou Malaysia is rampant all over the world." Liangzhou is a wolf, and the thieves are eliminated; Dancing and terrifying. ”

Although Luoyang has fallen for more than ten years now, Beigong Chun, who led the armor to break through the siege of Luoyang, has also been killed in the Jin Zhun Rebellion that broke out within Liu Zhao. The Liangzhou horse that is rampant in the world seems to have become ancient with the death of Beigong Chun. Although Li Bai was in the Western Regions, he was no stranger to the war on the Eastern Front. Whether it was the eleventh year or the fifteenth year of the war, when he saw the military reports and the detective reports, this general who had saved Luoyang with Beigong Chun in the past also recalled the glorious moment when thousands of iron cavalry rushed into battle in endless sighs.

"Li Changshi, Li Changshi?" A Sima beside Li Bai interrupted his thoughts. He looked at Li Yanzhi, who was bowing down and clenching his fists in front of him, but he didn't know what to say. After thinking about it for a long time, he asked: "The weight of the equipment is not light." Iron cavalry also requires everyone to wear iron armor. But I don't know if Dingdong's cavalry can support it......"

"Changshi rest assured. Our military horses are all selected from Xiping, Jinxing and other places to produce healthy horses. After training and training, he was filled into the army. The cavalry of the department is also brave and endurant. There are more than 300 cavalry, except for the reconnaissance cavalry, please Changshi allocate 200 pairs of equipment to temporarily lend our army. And send ten guides. Our cavalry can bring their own iron armor, and there is no need to worry about the long history. ”

Li Bai looked at the young general in front of him who had risen in bloody battles again and again, and recalled that when they first met, it was this person who poured himself on the wine table. At this time, his resolute expression couldn't help but make Li Bai trust him a little. He still remembered that the last time he saw this kind of resolute expression, it was probably the moment when Beigong Chun got on his horse with his gun and led them to attack Liu and Wang's camp.

Li Bai immediately patted his palm on the military table where the map was placed, and asked: "I will lend these 200 pairs of equipment to Dingdong, how many days can Dingdong block Zhao Zhen's headquarters stationed in Gaochang?" ”

Li Yanzhi lowered his head, looked at the map seriously, and then raised his head and said firmly: "Our department will go out of Yumen first, and two days later, the department of Changshi will go west out of Yangguan." Our unit should have crossed the White Dragon Pile. From Gaochang to the sea, the only way to cross the mountains is to cross the mountains. And I should spread the whistle and ride the eyeliner in the north-south thoroughfare of the mountains. Zhao Zhen couldn't shrink out, so my department went north over the mountain. If Zhao Zhen comes to the rescue, I will be ambushed halfway and annihilate his troops! ”

Li Yanzhi explained the principles and strategies, which made Li Bai couldn't help but be amazed. As for the combat policy of the Western Regions, he and Zhang Jun also discussed it back and forth. The strategy of dividing the troops into two routes is in line with the current situation. And the tacit understanding between the two is undoubtedly to take the south road as the right and go out of Yangguan to capture the Haitou of the Western Regions Changshi Mansion. and used the partial division to contain Zhao Zhen, the captain of Wuji stationed in Gaochang.

Among the plans proposed by Li Yanzhi, Qi Zheng is compatible, it seems that Li Bai's main force attacking Haitou is positive, and Li Yanzhi's department is strange when he goes west out of Yumen. In fact, it is based on Li Yanzhi's partiality as a teacher. If the main force of Zhao Zhen's subordinates can be annihilated in the field battle, the Western Regions will basically be in the bag. Even if Zhao Zhen retreated to Gaochang County, he would have a complete disadvantage.

Li Yanzhi had no doubts about the combat effectiveness of the long-fought division under his command. If it is compared, Zhao Zhen's department, which has been peaceful for a long time and has been temporarily recruited, is basically not a concern.

After Li Baisan, he found the military officials in the camp and ordered him to go to the warehouse to check the two hundred pairs of equipment and hand them over to Li Yanzhi. After a bunch of cumbersome procedures, Li Yanzhi finally loaded two hundred pairs of heavy equipment onto the cart with the auxiliary soldiers who came to carry the equipment, and dragged them back to the camp of the Lingju County Military Station.

Li Bai gave Li Yanzhi seven days to prepare for the subsequent expedition. He was also granted a warrant that allowed him to give priority to the selection of various materials, grains, grasses, and instruments in the Dunhuang treasury. Li Yanzhi first transported more than 7,000 stone of grain from the government treasury. He also ordered the auxiliary soldiers to set off immediately and escorted 5,000 stone to Yumen Pass.

In addition, Li Yanzhi rushed to produce and transfer more than 400 large vehicles from Dunhuang and Zuojin County. Whether it was the equipment borrowed by Li Bai, or the iron armor, long knives and other bows, arrows, knives and guns of the Zhanfeng Battalion, as well as tents, medicine and other military materials, they were all loaded into trucks and ready to be transported. In addition, before he came, Li Yanzhi ordered the county workshop to rush to make hundreds of small cars that could be used for defense, all of which were full.

Li Bai promised that more than a dozen guides assigned to Li Yanzhi also went to report to Li's army. After placing the guide properly, Li Yanzhi summoned Liu Jiwu, Cao Jian, Tao Heng, Wang Cheng, Wei Xu and other senior generals into the big tent. In the days when Dunhuang was stationed to train troops, Li Yanzhi's cavalry had already explored the terrain within 100 miles outside the Yumen Gate and submitted a sketch map. Li Yanzhi compared the sketches of the sentry riders and redrew them by himself. The terrain outside the Yumen Pass is already on paper.

Judging from the situation detected by the sentinel horse, outside the Yumen Pass, there is a vast desert. After walking for about 70 miles, you can reach a nameless bald mountain group with bare rocks and soil. According to the report of the sentinels, most of the bald mountains in this group of bald mountains are strange rocky landforms, with ravines and ravines, and they are extremely desolate.

Marching and fighting in such an almost no-man's land, what made Li Yanzhi feel uneasy was that he was afraid that the logistics and supplies would not be able to keep up. Fortunately, his troops are small, and the amount of grain and grass he needs is not large after all. The total of 7,000 stone of grain transferred from the treasury of Dunhuang was enough for more than three months for the 2,000 soldiers under his command.

Haitou's weak forces were estimated to be difficult to resist the attack of Li Bai's troops. And the first priority of these soldiers under his command is to block the possible reinforcements of Zhao Zhen's troops. Although Li Yanzhi has set his goal as annihilating the main force of Zhao Zhen's army. However, if you go out of the customs to fight in the desolate and barren territory of another country, any mistake in the logistics supply is not timely, and may lead to the defeat and collapse of these soldiers led by you, or even the total annihilation of the army.

Therefore, Li Yanzhi did not dare to be careless at all. Not only did he send auxiliaries to transport the grain early, but he also made the remaining 2,000 stone of grain left in the camp into dry food such as Hu Cake and Fried Noodles, which were easy to carry and preserve. A few days ago, Li Bai ordered the transfer of pigs, sheep and other livestock to the soldiers of Lingju County to improve their lives, but they were also slaughtered and made into jerky.

In the fifteenth year of Jianxing, Li Yanzhi led the army from Dunhuang County, and after a day and night of rapid travel, he had already arrived at the Yumen Pass.

Yumen Pass is a small gate city that is no more than three zhang high and less than three miles in radius. Guancheng is located on the border between Liangzhou and the Western Regions. If you stand on the small dirt hill near the Liangzhou side of the gate, you can see this gate, and the territory before and after it is physically divided into two parts: although the side near Liangzhou is still covered by wind and sand, the verdant turf and vegetation on the surface of the ground are in stark contrast to the long yellow sand outside the gate.

The jade gate is closed, and there is a guard captain stationed here. When the auxiliaries had transported the stored military rations to Guancheng, they had already handed over Li Bai's warrants to the lieutenant for inspection. At this time, seeing that this well-groomed army came to the inside of Guancheng, the soldiers under the commander hurriedly stepped forward, opened the gate of the inner side of Guancheng, and let Li Yanzhi's headquarters enter Guancheng.

"Master Li is going to go out on an expedition, and he will prepare a little wine and food to eat, thinking that he is a labor army." As soon as Li Yanzhi's subordinate soldiers entered the city, Li Yanzhi, who was riding on a tall horse, saw a table full of wine and food prepared by the captain stationed in Jieguan City behind the inner city gate. Du Wei personally held a glass of wine and served it to Li Yanzhi's horse.

"This out of the jade gate, the long yellow sand, the journey is treacherous, please drink this cup of the main book, the villain's responsibilities are related, can not follow the expedition, it is convenient to close the city, waiting for the master book to return triumphantly!"

Li Yanzhi got off the horse and took the wine. Since the Battle of Lingju, he has also become famous. used to be silently buried in his own business, but this year he was pushed to the forefront because of his insistence on Lingju. No matter where he goes now, whether it is the high gate of the scholar clan who was eager to look up to the sky and look at people with his nostrils in the past, or the middle and grassroots generals who conscientiously guard one place, there is no lack of friendship, which makes Li Yanzhi himself sometimes feel quite confused.

He tilted his neck and finished taking a sip of the wine in the cup, stopped the captain's soldiers who were about to pour the wine, and said, "I will go out on the expedition today, so I should not drink too much." Du Wei is kind enough to understand Li's heart. When the next day leads the army to triumph, then come to Guancheng and talk to you about the wine......"

Na Duwei is also a cool person, and when he heard Li Yanzhi say so, it was not good to forcibly persuade him to drink. had to return the wine glass to the guard beside him, and said, "Since Master Li is entangled in military affairs, I will no longer persuade him." When the coming day triumphed, a certain self-sweeping couch greeted him. At that time, I hope that the main book must be appreciated! ”

"That's nature." Li Yanzhi solemnly bowed his hand: "The captain is kind, and I don't dare to forget it." In the coming day, I will conspire with you to get drunk. After that, he turned to look at the gate of Guancheng, which had slowly opened the gate, waved his big hand, and shouted: "Get out of the customs!" ”