In a Youzhou military camp less than two hundred miles away from Hulukou, a thin one-eyed veteran slowly walked onto the parade platform, before the old man officially appeared, there were already Chen Yunchui, deputy commander of the Beiliang Infantry Army, Youzhou General Huangfu Fang, Thorn Shi Hu Kui and others standing on the stage, the old man who did not look amazing walked to the center of the stage, the strange thing is that even if the layman who is not familiar with the Youzhou army, if he sees the scene in front of him, he will regard the old man's centering as a matter of course. The ironclad veteran stood with his hands on his sword, looking at the captains and soldiers who did not move under the scorching sun, and did not speak for a long time. The old man didn't speak, as if he wanted to take a look at the nearly 10,000 foot soldiers who were about to go out and recognize the flags of the old battalion of the Youzhou Infantry Army.

The veteran's face was not very good-looking, and he finally spoke slowly, "The general has passed away, and the prince is not in our Youzhou, what about my Yan Wenluan, even if I don't die on the battlefield, I guess I won't have a few years to live, so I take this opportunity today to say something from my heart that has been accumulated for nearly twenty years." ”

The veteran picked up the Beiliang knife with one hand, and pointed to Chen Yunchui, the second-in-command of the Beiliang Infantry Army beside him, "Old Chen, our Deputy Commander Chen, you must all know each other, remember that sixteen years ago, this guy accompanied me to Qingliangshan Wangfu to drink, at that time Chen Yunchui was only a general of the third grade, and the general joked that you Chen Yunchui led 40,000 or 50,000 infantry troops in Youzhou, a waste of talents, why don't you go to Liangzhou Pass and give you 30,000 cavalry, do you want to do it?"

Yan Wenluan didn't take a straight look at this old friend who had known him for most of his life, but just took the cool knife and nodded at Chen Yunchui who looked embarrassed, "This old bastard can't drink well, the wine is even worse, and he was pretending to be drunk at the time, but as soon as the general's words came out, he immediately stood up, that pair of eyes, thief bright thief bright! Do you guess what the deputy commander of our Beiliang current infantry army said? He said, "Do it, why don't you do it?" Of course, in the end, the general didn't succeed in digging the foot of the wall, why? Is Chen Yunchui repenting? No, it's me Yan Wenluan who is in a hurry, and I'm almost going to fight with the general! What I said at the time, I still remember it clearly, I got up and told the general as soon as I smashed the wine glass, the Northern Liangbu Army is so old, it has been abducted and stolen by the Liangzhou Cavalry in the past two years, and it has changed its methods to get so many away, the old ones are almost picked, and even many young good seedlings have not been spared, then I, Yan Wenluan, am still a fart commander of the Northern Liangbu Army! Chen Yunchui wants to go to Liangzhou to cavalry, it's not impossible, but the general has to give Yuan Zuozong, Chu Lushan, Qi Dangguo, the three righteous sons, all to me in the Northern Liangbu Army, and throw them all to our Youzhou!"

The veteran Chen Yun lowered his eyes and looked at his nose and nose, as if he had turned a deaf ear, but he must have wanted to dig a hole in the ground to expose Yan Wenluan so ruthlessly.

Yan Wenluan took a cool knife and pointed at Hu Kui, the assassin of Youzhou, "This Lord of the Assassin is the founder of the predecessor of our Beiliang crossbowman, and the most serious cavalry general, at that time, Lord Hu replaced Wang Peifang as the assassin of Youzhou, and came to me Yan Wenluan to set up a relationship, and said kind words to me, an old man, according to the rules of officialdom, and then I asked him a question, how do you feel when you Hu Kui came to Youzhou, where there were not as many war horses in the territory as Lingzhou a few years ago?" Hu Tingshi is a sincere person, so he told me honestly, he was quite aggrieved, saying that he thought he had the opportunity to go to Hutou City to be Liu Jinu's deputy, otherwise he would go to Liuzhou Longxiangjun to mix with his old subordinate Li Mo Fan Wang Lingbao, which would be good. ”

Yan Wenluan re-leaned on his knife with both hands and looked at the more than 10,000 infantry troops, "We have 300,000 border troops in Beiliang, so I have never heard of '300,000 iron cavalry in Beiliang's armor in the world for so many years', and I am surprised! The Beiliang cavalry has never had more than half of the border army, how can it become 300,000 iron cavalry? ”

The one-eyed veteran pouted his chin to the east, and sneered: "There is a guy named Yang Shenxing in Jizhou, who is a fool who later played with a few young people on Guangling Road, thinking that it was a thing that was not worthy of Lao Tzu's shoes, hey, there are so many tens of thousands of foot soldiers left by the old Northern Han Dynasty under his hands, and he has made a name for the Jinan foot soldiers, and then for more than ten years, he has been called ' up and down Liyang' In addition, there is also the Wufeng army led by Wang Tongshan, the first fierce general under the command of King Yan of Southern Xinjiang, and Wu Chongxuan's big armor, which is not small, to put it mildly, it is not our Youzhou infantry army. ”

The old man paused slightly, "If it's just like this, I, Yan Wenluan, can bear it, anyway, it's impossible for us to go to Jizhou or Southern Xinjiang to fight with them, and it's never been our Beiliang people's forte." However, let's not talk about Beiliang, let's just say that we are Beiliang, not Liangzhou Lingzhou, not even Liuzhou, let's just say that we are Youzhou ourselves! The old battalion of our infantry army in Luanhe City has taken off the battalion number, who crossed the river to Jizhou, and finally beat 10,000 people to only 3,000 people at Hulukou?

Yan Wenluan laughed at himself: "What, do you think that our Youzhou Army also has heroes?"

Yan Wenluan said with a smile: "Of course, this is a pity, the 'non-retreat camp' of 3,400 people is the first cavalry battalion in Youzhou! The prince who fought side by side with the 10,000 horsemen in Youzhou, he himself became an ordinary soldier without retreating from the camp! Haha, it has nothing to do with you poor worms who have no war horses and only two legs, and have nothing to do with half a copper coin!"

The old man's face was a little hideous, " Let's not talk about Yu Luandao, the deputy general of the Youzhou cavalry, not to mention Shi Yulu and Fan Wenyao, who made outstanding military exploits and were promoted to the general of the cavalry and the hussar general, respectively, let's say that Tian Heng, the new commander of the 30,000 Youzhou cavalry, this old guy disliked the prince at that time and did not dare to fight to the death, and also said that the prince's courage was used up after resisting the holy decree and falling into the cold, so he unloaded his armor and returned to Tian early, which made Yu Luandao the same general of 10,000 Youcai, Tian Heng is such a bastard who did not go to Jibei and did not go to the mouth of the gourd, and now when he sees me, he dares to pat his chest and say Lao Yan, you can rest assured, I Tian Heng promised to make you a cavalry army with a battalion number。 ”

The old man hung the cool knife on his waist again, reached out and rubbed his cheeks fiercely, took a few steps forward, and asked in a deep voice, "When did my Youzhou foot pawn fall to this point?"

There was silence, but everyone's eyes were red.

Yan Wenluan stretched out his finger and pointed at himself, "I, Yan Wenluan, have been following the general in the southern and northern wars for thirty-six years since I entered the Xu Family Army, and I have been a foot soldier since the first day, and today I am a military general of the second grade, in the final analysis, I am an elderly foot soldier." I don't dare to say that the entire Beiliang Infantry Army, but your Youzhou Infantry Army was brought out by me Yan Wenluan!"

The one-eyed old man casually nodded in the direction of Xiaguang City behind him, "Over there, and then all the way to the north, there are all Northern Mangmang barbarians, known as a full 200,000 army, Wogong City is gone, Luanhe City is also gone, and the North Mangmang barbarians say that Xiaguang City is just around the corner." ”

The old man turned around and left a sentence, "But I, Yan Wenluan, don't agree!"

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On the northern border bordering Youzhou Hezhou, a huge scarlet flag hunted in the gale.

The main general Tian Heng, the deputy general Yu Luandao, the cavalry general Shi Yulu, the hussar general Fan Wenyao, and the war horses of more than ten cavalry generals are side by side.

Behind him was 30,000 Youzhou light horsemen pouring out of the nest.

The veteran Tian Heng has a rough appearance, not like a general who holds great power, if he is not wearing armor, he looks like an old farmer who has been working in the fields all year round. This old man, who was indignant at the "inaction" of the young vassal king, resigned in a fit of anger and returned to his hometown, under the pretext that he was too old to withstand the toss, so he could go home and make fun of his grandson, which gave Yu Luandao the opportunity to lead an army to Jibei alone. But in fact, the entire Youzhou knows where the veteran's heirs came from, and they have all died in battle. Later, Xu Fengnian and Yu Luandao teamed up to appear outside the gourd, and 10,000 horsemen finally came back more than 3,000 people, and the old man who was not much worse than Yan Wenluan, Chen Yunchui and others in the army learned the news, and rushed to the big tent of Yan Wenluan's military camp overnight that day, and the latter was gone. Tian Heng was blocked outside, and waited until the Huaiyang Pass Protectorate issued an order to restore Tian Heng's status as a general, Yan Wenluan still didn't buy it, and in the end, Xu Fengnian had to write to Yan Wenluan in person, and Youzhou reluctantly recognized Tian Heng's official status as the leader of the Youzhou cavalry.

The old man held down the handle of the knife with one hand, turned his head and laughed at Yu Luandao: "Old Yantou will definitely be angry with me this time, but it's no wonder to me, who let this guy even care about half his life's friendship, and he won't see me." ”

Yu Luandao and the others smiled. Tian Heng and the general Yan Wenluan are old brothers who have exchanged their lives, in the early years, one was a foot military captain and one was a cavalry captain, Tian Heng in order to save Yan Wenluan, who was deeply trapped in the enemy's array, disobeyed the military order and took the initiative to save Yan Wenluan, the general was angry, Tian Heng was directly demoted from a lieutenant to an ordinary cavalryman, in the fiercely competitive Xu family army, Tian Heng's step is slow, that is, the step is slow, those juniors are like the rising star of the cavalry Xu Pu, The princess's younger brother Wu Qi and Yuan Zuozong Hu Kui all surpassed Tian Heng at that time to become the main general of the cavalry, and when the Xu family was cold, Tian Heng only became a general from the fourth grade, Yan Wenluan personally asked the general, Tian Heng was promoted to a level from Liangzhou to Youzhou, but for more than ten years, compared to the likes of Wei Tieshan who had already resigned from a high position and returned to his hometown, or the current deputy marshal of the cavalry, Zhou Kang, Tian Heng can be regarded as a very depressed old man of the Northern Liang Army.

Tian Heng put away his smile and said to Yu Luandao: "General Yu, the 50,000 elite horsemen on the eastern front of Beimang said that they were going to fight Jizhou, in fact, we all know that these barbarians came directly to Youzhou, and they want to cooperate with Yang Yuanzan of Hulukou to take Xiaguang City and attack Youzhou in one go." Our original plan was for you and me to divide our troops into two routes, all the way to intercept the 50,000 people at the border of Youhe, and continue to go north along the outer edge of Hulukou, at that time, before the pullout, it was said that you and Shi Yulu led 15,000 horsemen to wait for the Beimang army here, and I and Fan Wenyao took 15,000 horsemen to the north, with General Yu's non-retreating battalion as the vanguard. But I thought......"

Yu Luandao interrupted with a smile: "Don't wait, general, since it was said in advance that it was such a use of troops, there is no reason to change it temporarily." ”

Tian Heng glared and said: "Youzhou 30,000 cavalry, is it me Tian Heng is the main general, or are you Yu Luandao the main general?"

Compared with Fan Wenyao, who has the demeanor of a Confucian general, Shi Yulu, who won the title of general in the first batch of New Taipei Liang, has a rougher temperament, and can't help laughing, yes, yes, it's quite embarrassing.

Yu Luan Dao was a little helpless.

Tian Heng looked at the wind and sand in the distance, "Although it is not explicitly stated above, but this time Liuzhou is such a big crisis, even the prince personally rushed to it, and the cavalry forces of all the garrisons in Beiliang followed closely to Liuzhou, so our Youzhou cavalry will go the opposite way at this juncture, it must not be simple, in the words of Fan Wenyao...... Beimang's 50,000 elite horsemen, not to mention the Dongyue horse master Wang Sui, the two bowls in autumn and winter on the eastern front are not simple. ”

Tian Heng suddenly laughed, "You Yu Luan knife, don't think that you have won two big battles in Jizhou and Hulukou, so you dare not take me Tian Heng in your eyes, when I picked up the first generation of Xu family knife, your kid was still breastfeeding." ”

Shi Yulu was brought by the veteran Tian Heng to the cavalry general from the young commander "a handful of and a handful of urine", so there is no taboo in talking, joking: "Old general, you can't say that, General Yu is young and young, and the war is really not ambiguous at all, no ...... than the old general."

Tian Heng suddenly raised his voice, "Huh?!"

Shi Yulu hurriedly swallowed the word "poor", and said, "It's no better than the old general." ”

Tian Heng snorted coldly, but there was a smile in his eyes, "That's it, Yu Luandao, Shi Yulu, and Fan Wenyao, the three of you, take 20,000 horses to the outside of the gourd." I will take 10,000 people to guard here, and I don't expect to break the enemy's cavalry, after all, if I drag them into Youzhou. ”

Fan Wenyao frowned, stopped talking, and gave Shi Yulu a look, the latter understood, and whispered: "Old general, don't you change the established marching strategy so indiscriminately......"

Tian Heng waved his hand and said: "The mouth of the gourd is the most important, whether you can catch the turtle in the urn depends on whether your 20,000 horsemen can grasp the mouth of the pocket!"

Although there was only a secret military order from the Huaiyang Guandu Protectorate to the Youzhou Cavalry, several people present could guess a little bit of the truth, although they were all shocked, but who was not enthusiastic about it?

If you Beimang Dong Zhuo wants to use Liuzhou as a breakthrough, then our Beiliang Iron Cavalry will give you a pot of Hulukou army on the eastern front!

Tian Heng looked at these faces that were far younger than himself, and said softly: "They are all their own people, and they don't say anything, the 30,000 Youzhou cavalry army, the 15,000 people who said that they would go north to Hulukou at that time, most of them were young people, why? Because after surviving the army of Wang Sui, even if they have military merits, they are not big, and they must not be compared with going to Hulukou." I, Tian Heng, can be a third-grade military general in my life, which is enough. When I enlisted in the army, I was no more angry than you Yu Luandao is a scholar, I, I just wanted my family to starve to death back then, and I couldn't live anymore, so I tied my head to the army with my head on my belt, where could I have thought that I could become a general one day? ”

Tian Heng smiled happily, "Don't talk nonsense with me, you don't know what kind of temper my Tian Heng has? ”

At this time, a team of scouts galloped over, it was a standard of men and horses led by Captain Fan Fen, and the horse that was neck and neck with Fan Fen turned out to be a child, with two slightly disproportionate Beiliang knives hanging from his waist, just standing on horseback, with his hands in his sleeves, very mastery. Fan Fen returned to the military situation with several generals, and there was no figure of Beimang Horse Fence within fifty miles ahead.

Tian Heng shouted at the scout who was about to turn around and go north, and asked the kid with a smile: "You are the little general of our Youzhou cavalry, Yu Dilong? I heard that you alone killed hundreds of northern barbarians outside the mouth of the gourd?"

The child nodded with a straight face.

Fan Fen couldn't help but dismantle the stage and said: "General Tian, this kid is actually thin-skinned in front of outsiders, didn't he ask me just now, saying that when he finishes his debts and makes meritorious contributions, can he also be an official scout." This kid's two cool knives, one was given to him by others, and the other was temporarily lent to him by us, so he wanted to have a second cool knife in the name of it. ”

Tian Heng smiled heartily: "From now on, you will be the captain of the eighth standard scout of my Youzhou Cavalry Army!"

Yu Dilong asked: "What you say works? My master must follow the rules, otherwise he won't let me stay in Youzhou and not leave the camp." ”

Tian Heng was speechless for a moment, he couldn't get off the stage, he dared to play tricks with Yan Wenluan, who intersected with life and death, and he really didn't dare to play sloppy with the young prince.

Yu Luandao smiled and said: "The Youzhou cavalry army is a qiē military affairs, and what General Tian said will work. And don't forget, your master is still an ordinary soldier of our non-retreating battalion, so there is no need for General Tian to speak, I, Yu Luandao, as the commander of the non-retreating battalion, let you Yu Dilong serve as the commander of the eighth standard scout, it will still work!"

The child standing on horseback clenched the cool knife at his waist and said seriously: "Generals, please rest assured, I will definitely kill more enemies this time than last time!"

Tian Heng smiled and waved his hand, and the child and the scout captain Fan Fen and his party rode away.

Then Tian Heng said to Yu Luandao and the three of them: "I, Tian Heng, am an old guy who broke out of the Spring and Autumn War, and now my strength is not as good as it was back then, so Beiliang will rely on you in the future." ”

Tian Heng looked down at the sixth-generation Xu family knife on his waist, and after raising his head, he suddenly said: "General Yu, I haven't left anything in my life, just a broken house that is not worth a few dollars, but there are still five war knives at home, what if ...... Then I'll hand it over to you Yu Luan Dao for me to keep it. In the future, I will have the opportunity to talk to the juniors and mention a few stories about the veteran of Youzhou, how about it?"

Yu Luan, Dao Shi, Yu Lu, Fan Wenyao, and the three of them were all silent.

Tian Heng clasped his hands into fists and laughed: "Farewell!"

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The offensive and defensive battle of Hutou City is in full swing.

A cavalry army of only about 10,000 people, with the momentum of a lion fighting a rabbit, quietly left the garrison and headed east.

The first cavalry general is Yuan Zuozong, the commander of the Northern Liang Cavalry!

The momentum is like a rainbow.

Almost at the same time, two cavalry armies, who had never been fully present on the battlefield, went to two dangerous passes at the junction of the cool and quiet north.

The passes of the two places are heavily guarded, and they are all elite Youzhou foot soldiers.

The vicinity of the pass is a hundred miles in circumference, heavily guarded, and there has always been an iron law that no one will be killed once it appears.

A few months ago, with the addition of a large number of sealed items to the two passes, a large number of Beiliang first-class crossbowmen began to roam secretly.

The combined number of the two cavalry armies was only more than 9,000 people.

It may not be strange for one person and two horses, but what is enough to make people jaw-dropping is that these war horses, each of them is a war horse of the Northern Liangjia class!

You must know that in the entire Beiliang, there are only 3,000 dragon elephant cavalry in Liuzhou that can be equipped with first-class war horses, and there are only three or four hundred horses in Youzhou!

These strange horsemen who clearly do not wear cool knives and crossbows are all the elite of the border army with strong bodies and outstanding strength, and their strong physique and fierce arrogance, even if they have never even worn light armor, are still daunting.

One is the Rouge Army.

One is the Wei Xiong Army.

When they are on the battlefield, all men and horses are armoured.

That is the Rouge Heavy Cavalry, the Wei Bear Heavy Cavalry!

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At the time of the Battle of Hutou City, at the time of the emergency in Liuzhou, when Yan Wenluan had to mobilize 10,000 dead soldiers to reinforce Xiaguang City.

20,000 Youzhou light rides!

10,000 Snow Dragoons!

The iron cavalry in the Beiliang Iron Cavalry, the heavy cavalry army in the true sense of the nine thousand!

will appear together outside the mouth of the gourd!