――March of the fifth year of Jingzhi of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Anping Kingdom, Boling――

Anpyeongguo, that is, the land of Gyeonggi of the Great Zhou.

As the gateway to the north of the capital, Boling has less than 2,000 households in the city, but there are 5,000 permanent troops, which is not so much a county town as a guard against threats from the north.

I remember that ten years ago, the warrior of the grassland tribe, Gu Tuhachi, led 100,000 foreign soldiers into the territory of Kou Dazhou, which caused the entire territory of Youzhou to fall in just a few months, and even once ignited the flames of war to the north of Jizhou, causing the government and the opposition in Jijing to shake, and the army and people were panicked.

But in the end, the matter of moving the capital was suppressed, because Boling, a military stronghold that served as a barrier to the north of Jijing, had not yet been breached.

The warrior of the steppe tribe, Gutu Hachi, did not break through the fortified city of Boling in the end, but on the contrary, the Zhou soldiers launched counterattacks one after another on this side.

But it is undeniable that the Battle of Boling in Jizhou was a rare thrilling battle in the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it did not know how many people in the world were affected at that time.

And now, after ten years, another army from the north is knocking on this city, which can be called the gate of Anping State in Gyeonggi, but the difference is that this time it is not the Great Zhou resisting foreign invasions, but the real civil war, the civil war provoked by the lord of the northern Xinjiang and the son of the Li royal family of the Great Zhou [Yan Wangmao]!

Li Mao, the king of Yan, is the fourth son of Li Ji, the former emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, has outstanding martial arts talent since childhood, and once worshiped one of the four towns of Jijing Liangqiu's family in the Donggong Mansion to refine martial arts, and was once praised by his father Li Ji as the first warrior of the Li royal family, which is a great hero who is famous all over the world, and is also a hero who resists the threat from the northern grassland in the eyes of the people of the Great Zhou.

There is no shortage of warriors in northern Xinjiang, and the generals who guard northern Xinjiang are heroes in the eyes of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. is like the general of Zhenrong and the Hou Liang Qiu Gong of Dongzhen, this person is the great hero and hero who is still remembered in the hearts of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the land of Youyan in the north.

Liang Qiu Gong is the eldest son of Liang Qiu Gong of the Dongzhu Kingdom, and the elder brother of Liang Qiu Jing, the former Marquis of Dongzhen. The biological father of Liang Qiuhao, the third generation commander of the Taiping Army, and the uncle of Liang Qiuwu, who was only fifteen years old, followed his father Liang Qiugong to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty as a pioneer general, experienced the entire campaign of destroying the Southern Tang Dynasty, and made great contributions in the wars, and was repeatedly praised by Li Ji, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty at that time. Therefore, after the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Ji made an exception to promote Liang Qiugong to the general of Zhenbei and asked him to sit in Yuyang, a military stronghold in northern Xinjiang, to guard the country for the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven personally taught him to guard the country, what an honor!

At that time, Liang Qiugong was not as old as a weak crown, therefore. The imperial court is not very optimistic about this young Zhenbei general, but Liang Qiu Gong used his follow-up outstanding military exploits to let the Jijing Imperial Court and the world appreciate what it means to be a tiger general of the Liangqiu family!

In the short six years of Liang Qiugong's career in northern Xinjiang, he fought 37 wars with the grassland tribes, and 13 large-scale battles of more than 50,000 people, and never tasted defeat!

I remember when I heard about it. Xie An was also shocked and gasped, he could hardly imagine that Liang Qiugong, who was gentle and elegant and looked like a Confucian general, in the portraits of the children of the Liang Qiu family, was actually a famous general who won all battles.

At that time, everyone in the world respected this great hero of the world as the tiger of the northern frontier, even twenty years after the death of Liang Qiugong, the people of Youyan still remembered this tiger general who guarded the country for the Son of Heaven and the Great Zhou.

By the way. Thirty years later, there were five warlike generals under Li Mao, and the local soldiers and civilians respectfully called them the Five Tigers of Northern Xinjiang, which was also to commemorate this Zhenbei general and the tiger of Northern Xinjiang Liang Qiu Gong.

However, what made the people of Youyan sigh was that this great hero who died young died too early, and died of illness at the age of only twenty-two on the way back from the expedition to the grassland. It is said that he is not accustomed to the water and soil and died of disease, but in fact, Liang Qiugong died violently at the celebration banquet after killing the enemy chieftain. Like his younger brother Liang Qiujing, who was also famous in Jiangnan in the future, these two natural tiger generals finally died from the sequelae of the family's peerless fog flame.

Although he has only guarded the country for Da Zhou for six years, it is undeniable. Liang Qiugong's great contribution to the northern Xinjiang is understandable, and the Yuyang Iron Cavalry he formed once became a nightmare in the hearts of the grassland tribes. Even, after the death of Liang Qiu Gong, the imperial court begged Liang Qiu Gong not to inform the world of the death of his eldest son, so as not to attack again after Wai Rong learned of his son's death.

So, ten years after the death of Liang Qiu Gong, the flag with the word [Liang Qiu] was still hanging high above the Yuyang City for several years. In the past few years, everyone in the grassland tribe was frightened and avoided retreating, until the death of this great hero was really unconcealable, and the grassland tribe learned that the latter dared to gather people to invade the south again, which attracted the then son of heaven Li Ji to send the prince Li Yong to the north of Xinjiang, several triumphs.

It can be said that although it is true that the prince Li Yong is both civil and military, if it were not for his predecessor, Liang Qiugong, the general of Zhenbei, who laid a solid foundation for him, this prince may not be able to become the crown prince who is superior in Chinese and martial arts in the world.

However, it is worth mentioning that Li Yong's attitude towards Wairong did not completely follow Liang Qiugong's strategy, compared to Liang Qiugong, His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan's attitude was more mild, and rarely went to war unless necessary, he adopted the method of winning the hearts of the people, giving the grassland tribes fields, teaching them cultivation methods, teaching them to read and write, and other gentle methods, gradually dividing the grassland forces and strengthening the dominance of the northern Zhou Dynasty.

However, it is a pity that the environment in northern Xinjiang is too harsh, and Li Yong, the prince who is pampered on weekdays, can hardly reach the harsh environment of northern Xinjiang, coupled with the anxiety and illness, and finally died of illness on the way to victory, and he has not completed his strategy of gradually educating the grassland residents and making them submit to the Great Zhou.

Afterwards, the Son of Heaven Li Ji was sad, and he did not forget to send Liang Qiugong and Li Yong's successors, but compared with the first two, the successors were obviously not talented, not as strong as Liang Qiugong, and Huairou was not as good as Li Yong, so that he gradually returned to the embarrassing cycle of being repeatedly invaded by foreign forces, until after the Battle of Boling in Jizhou, Li Ji's fourth son Li Mao became the fifth general of Northern Xinjiang after Liang Qiugong.

It may be that he has admired the relationship between the tiger generals of the Liangqiu family since he was a child, and after Li Mao took office, he removed the northern Xinjiang strategy set by Li Yong before his death, and once again used the drastic methods implemented by Liang Qiugong, so that the northern Xinjiang changed the Huairou strategy of soft ability and overcoming rigidity during Li Yong's reign, and launched an attack on the grassland tribes again, so that the grassland tribes once again revisited the period when Liang Qiugong was in charge of the northern Xinjiang and the majesty of the Great Zhou as a great power.

Even, Li Mao's cruelty to Wairong is far above Liang Qiugong, and the grassland people who fell into his hands. But anyone who is taller than a wheel and kills them all, often every time he conquers a steppe tribe, there are corpses all over the field and rivers of blood. Over time, the grassland people's fear of Li Mao gradually overrode the fear of Liang Qiugong. made Li Mao worthy of the name of the lord of the northern frontier, but wherever his banner was hung. No grassland tribe dared to attack and plunder, after all, Li Mao once said that if someone killed a soldier under his command, he would definitely use the entire tribe to repay the blood debt, although it was far away, he would be punished!

After several large tribes of more than 10,000 people were baptized in blood, the grassland people no longer dared to question the words of this great hero of northern Xinjiang after Liang Qiugong. Moved hundreds of miles north, and did not dare to touch the tiger whiskers of Yan Wang Mao.

However, now, the army of Li Mao, the king of Yan, a great hero in northern Xinjiang, is actually in Boling, the gate of Anping State, and cannot enter an inch for several months, if this matter spreads to the grassland, I am afraid that many people will be shocked.

Could it be that Boling also has a great hero comparable to Li Mao, the king of Yan?

The answer is yes!

Faced with the rebellion of Li Mao, the king of Yan, who waved his army south. The Jijing Imperial Court invited the first combat force in the DPRK, a heroine who is better than Li Mao in martial arts and courage, the general of the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army, the Marquis of Dongzhen, and the Yanhu Ji Liangqiu dance.

"Dingding, ding! Bang ”

It was the time when the rooster crowed, and the sky was still bright, but in the camp of the northern Xinjiang army, which was more than 100 miles wide, there was a wake-up call.

I saw that in the camp, the soldiers of the northern Xinjiang ran back and forth in horror, shouting words like defending against the enemy.

"Eastern Army! The Eastern Army is coming! ”

"All battalions and armies are on alert. Prepare to face the enemy! ”

At this time, the curtain of a tent was raised, and a dark-skinned, tiger-backed general walked out, glanced in the direction of the noise, and muttered and scolded, "That damn Xiang Qing, it's clear that you won't tell me to wait for a good night's sleep!" -- More than 100 attacks on our military camps in March. That's going crazy! ”

This general is the general under the command of Li Mao, the king of Yan, and one of the five tigers in northern Xinjiang, Cao Da.

"That Xiang Qing was already good at cavalry raids, and we couldn't catch him. Just let him make trouble! With a joke, a general in armor walked in the distance, this person was the general under the command of Li Mao, the king of Yan, and one of the five tigers in northern Xinjiang, Zhang Qi.

Four years ago, this person had defeated Wen Qin, one of the four towns, in the palace with martial arts, and he was a fierce general who was stronger than Fei Guo.

"What's that called?!" Cao Da glanced at Zhang Qi unhappily, and snorted, "How can our army of 100,000 people not be able to catch him with more than a thousand?" ”

"Use 100,000 to catch more than 1,000 people?" Zhang Qi's ridiculous tone made Cao Da's face flushed with anger.

"That'...... So what do you say? Cao Da asked with a dark face.

"Just ignore it?" Yawning lazily, Zhang Qi said disappreciatively, "No matter what you say, that Xiang Qing didn't dare to take it seriously and attacked our army's camp deeply, and repeatedly attacked at night, but it was just a tired tactic...... Tell the soldiers to guard the camp and ignore it! ”

"How does this work?" Cao Da's eyes widened in displeasure, and he snorted, "I don't care, I'm going to catch that Xiang Qing today!" ”

"You're going out of the camp to pursue?" Glancing at Cao Da, Zhang Qi jokingly said, "Then you have to be careful, Xiang Qing and Luo Chao are the two generals in the Shenwu camp of the Eastern Army, and they have always been focused on Meng and Meng in the war, you lead your troops out of the camp to pursue Xiang Qing, and you may bump into Luo Chao halfway, with the martial arts of Xiang Qing and Luo Chao, you may not be able to come back alive......"

Cao Da was silent when he heard this, although Xiang Qing and Luo Chaojun were only deputy generals, but as we all know, both of them were fierce generals with outstanding martial arts, and it was already difficult for him Cao Da to defeat one of them, let alone two?

"It's good to meet Luo Chao......" Probably noticing Cao Da's expression, Zhang Qi continued to strike with a grin, "If you meet that Yanhu Ji......"

Cao Da's eyes couldn't help but flash a hint of surprise.

And at this moment, there was a commotion near the gate, which made Cao Da and Zhang Qi frown unconsciously.

"Report! ――General Xiao Huo went out of the camp to pursue Zhou General Xiang Qing! ”

"What?" Zhang Qi was stunned and patted his forehead helplessly, and at this time, another general in the distance frowned and asked, "Cao Da, Zhang Qi, where is Xiao Huo's kid?" ”

This person is the fierce general under Li Mao who once provoked Liangqiu Dance in the palace and was finally defeated by Liangqiu Dance who used all his strength. The highest martial arts general among the Five Tigers of Northern Xinjiang, Youdou.

"Whoa!" Glancing at the herald beside him, Zhang Qi shrugged his shoulders and chuckled and said, "I just led the troops out of the camp to chase Xiang Qing!" - Is that kid really good? There is no consciousness of the five tigers of Northern Xinjiang at all! ”

"What?" You Dou frowned when he heard this, and reprimanded with displeasure on his face, "That bastard thing, didn't tell him to stay in the barracks obediently. Don't you want to be provoked by Xiang Qing?! - Cao Da, Zhang Qi, what are you two doing looking at Ben Shuai like this? ”

Cao Da and Zhang Qi glanced at each other tacitly, secretly amused in their hearts.

In their opinion, Xiao Huo, the young general who replaced the traitor Wu Heng as the Five Tigers of Northern Xinjiang, was also perverse and untamable. But compared to the former Youdou, it can definitely be called humble and cautious. After all, Youdou's personality three years ago was extremely rampant, and he was the only one who dared to openly provoke Liangqiu Dance, but after being defeated by Liangqiu Dance once, he gradually converged his personality, and with his own martial arts and good talent, he became the most trusted general by Li Mao, the king of Yan.

Maybe he guessed what the second general was thinking. You Dou couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed in his heart, compared to thinking about it now, he himself was indeed very unbearable in the past, and he didn't know how thick the sky was.

"Mingjin, tell Xiao Huo's rabbit cub to return to camp! The cavalry of the Eastern Army is fierce and fierce above our Yuyang Iron Cavalry, fighting head-on, and our army is not necessarily an enemy...... If you want to win steadily, you can only rely on quantity! -- Wait a few days for the snow to melt. If we fight again, when the time comes, the 20,000 cavalry of the Eastern Army will definitely not be the opponent of my 60,000 Yuyang Iron Cavalry! ”

Hearing this, Cao Da and Zhang Qi nodded secretly, after all, having confidence is one thing, but if it is blindly conceited. That's another thing, the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army, known as the first cavalry of the Great Zhou, is not in vain.

Merely......

"I'm afraid that kid won't be willing to come back like this, right? ――Changed to the former handsome...... Hey! Zhang Qi squeezed his eyes towards Youdou, and looked at Youdou's eyelids.

And at this very moment. Suddenly, I heard an exclamation in the distance.

"Report ...... Report! -- Outside the camp...... Outside the camp, there was a cavalry with the name [Liangqiu]...... The number of people, about 500 riders! ”

"Huh?!" General Youdou, Cao Da, and Zhang Qisan's faces changed drastically when they heard this.

[Liangqiu Banner ...... Yanhu Ji Liangqiu dance! ]

Glancing at each other, the three generals hurriedly led five thousand elite cavalry out of the camp.

In all fairness, although Liang Qiuwu personally led the troops to come, it is really unimaginable that You Dou and the other three generals were so enthusiastic and led ten times the number of troops to aid Xiao Huo, one of the five tigers in northern Xinjiang.

But in the eyes of Youdou and others, how much is 5,000 cavalry? In fact, if it weren't for the urgency, they really wanted to bring 50,000 cavalry to deal with the Liangqiu dance. Although Liang Qiu Wu only brought 500 soldiers this time, it is not difficult to see from the bravery of the world's great heroes such as Liang Qiu Hao and Zhen Lei that for these battlefield martial gods, sometimes ten times the strength of the troops is not incomparable.

"Huh? It's so fast......" Noticing the abnormal movement from the military camp of the Northern Xinjiang Army, Xiang Qing, who was assisting Liang Qiuwu to annihilate the chasing soldiers behind him, pursed his lips and said angrily, "Hey, hey, do you want this?" It was hard to lure a reckless fool ......"

As soon as the words fell, a shout was heard in the distance.

"What did you say?!" Xiao Huo, a young general with a personality similar to Youdou back then, scolded angrily.

Glancing at the young general with strong blood, Xiang Qing pursed his lips, and was about to step forward to behead this person, but saw a long knife stretched out from the side, a treasure knife called wolf slash.

"General?" Xiang Qing looked suspiciously at the twelfth generation of the Liangqiu family to whom he was loyal, Liangqiu Dance.

Glancing at Youdou and the others who quickly came to support in the distance, Liang Qiu Wu shook his head and said in a low voice, "It's too late...... Remove! ”

"Yes!"

With an order, 1,500 cavalry of the Eastern Army quickly retreated, and it was really as rumored, coming and going like a swift wind, so that when You Dou and others arrived with their troops, they only saw the corpses of the Northern Xinjiang cavalry all over the ground, as well as Xiao Huo, a young Northern Xinjiang tiger general with a sullen face.

A rough calculation shows that because Xiao Huo led his troops out of the camp privately, the northern Xinjiang side lost more than 300 cavalry, while the eastern army only lost more than 40 cavalry.

Of course, the reason for such a gap is naturally inseparable from the factor that Liang Qiuwu personally led the troops to ambush.

"Report! -- There is a letter from the general's family! ”

During the withdrawal of Liang Qiu Wu and Xiang Qing, several cavalry from Boling hurriedly arrived and handed a letter to their own general Liang Qiu Wu.

"Is it my husband's letter?"

Liang Qiuwu's beautiful eyes, which were still expressionless, were filled with thoughts and affection, and he happily took the letter in his heart, and couldn't help but say, "Count the days, my husband will almost arrive in Jiangdong......"

Xiang Qing beside him heard it and said with a smile, "Our aunt is really a noble soldier, destroy Li Shen, and in a while, I will reinforce Jiangdong...... General, my uncle is on the same level as you this time! ”

Liang Qiu smiled, after all, a few days ago, Li Shou, the Son of Heaven, issued an edict to reward the heroes who quelled the rebellion of the Three Kings, and her husband Xie An was named Marquis of Anping.

In Liang Qiuwu's opinion, this is even happier than her own canonization.

"Finally on top of the concubine, An ......"

Liang Qiu Wu murmured happily, the husband of a cloth cloth back then, now has the same title as her, and the official position is two orders higher than her, which makes Liang Qiu Wu extremely happy.

And more importantly, the Son of Heaven canonized her husband with the title of knighthood.

Anping Hou......

You must know that the word Anping is a title once used by Li Shou, the Son of Heaven, and it is conceivable that Li Shou attaches great importance and trust to Xie An.

With excitement, Liang Qiuwu gently stroked the envelope, and suddenly, her face changed slightly, because she noticed that this letter was not written to her by Xie An, but by a woman in the family who made her hateful teeth itch......

After opening the letter and glancing at it, Liang Qiuwu's face suddenly turned pale.

The contents of the epistle, it is a portrait. The woman in the gorgeous costume in the painting made Liang Qiuwu feel extremely familiar, and in addition to being familiar, he hated itchy. This saw sitting on the side of the bed, holding a baby in his arms, with a smile on his face, smiling as if he was looking at the Liangqiu dance outside the painting.

And next to the baby, there are three small characters written and deliberately underlined......

[eldest son]

"......" Liang Qiu Wumei's eyes were bruised, and after half a ring, he bit his lip and tore the letter paper in his hand with hatred, and said with a heavy breath, "Xiang Qing, turn back and attack the Northern Xinjiang Army again!" ”

"Yes...... Be! Glancing at Liang Qiuwu's angry expression, Xiang Qing shrank his head and replied.

Because of his sharp eyes, in fact, he had just glimpsed the content on the letter, and he was probably clear and specific, how could he dare to touch the anger in Liang Qiuwu's heart at this time.

"Unexpectedly...... even sent a book to show off...... I'm ...... There's a war going on on my side! - That abominable woman! ”

Under Xiang Qing's expression as if he was facing a great enemy, Liang Qiuwu's face was full of anger, and he shook the horsewhip in his hand fiercely, only to hear a snap on the ground, and a tree on the way was interrupted by her blow.

How can this be...... Outrageous! ”

Unexpectedly, the letter written by a new mother, which was obviously ostentatious, drove another heroine who had no children yet mad......