When that sword swept towards the summer town from thousands of miles away, before Mr. White Lotus broke through the sky.

Liuzhou is already on the verge of a major war.

Two Wen and one Wu three Liuzhou officials walked on the head of the city, close to the side of the daughter wall, which was slightly lower than the outer wall, because outside the city, there were constantly small groups of Beimang rangers whistling by, as little as thirty or more than two hundred, from time to time to ride and shoot, so as not to cause damage to the soldiers guarding the city, in fact, it was similar to coming to this city for sightseeing and enjoying the scenery, full of strong provocation.

The only old man among the three, wearing a three-grade purple robe civil official uniform, embroidered peacock official complement, just now there were a few sharp arrows swept over the old man's head, the old man smiled: "The evil guest is coming, I like to throw shoes in other people's doors, if I turn back, I will seize the opportunity......

Speaking of this, the old man paused, turned his head and looked at the young man with armor on the outside of the military attaché's robe with a smile, "General Kou, can this official have such a chance?"

Cai Junchen, the self-proclaimed Dragon King of the Western Regions, was thrown by the King of Beiliang to Huangnan County, Lingzhou as a county guard, and lived the life of a fairy couple with his daughter-in-law Yu Rourou.

This old man is the highest-ranking civil official in Liuzhou, assassinating Yang Guangdou, and the staff of the old man is Chen Xiliang, a cold man from Jiangnan Province who took root in Liuzhou and was unwilling to leave.

When Qingcangcheng sensed the siege intentions of Liu Jue's army, there was a fierce dispute in the Assassin's Mansion all night, for whether to defend or withdraw, evolved into two sharply opposed camps, the older Liuzhou officials, all advocated that Qingshan should be left without worrying about no firewood, might as well give up Qingcang City directly, and go to Linyu Military Town under the escort of the Dragon Elephant Army, as long as people are still alive, there will be no problems with the operation of Liuzhou's military and political affairs. And the officials of the younger generation, whether they were born in the court of the generals or the scholars of the Central Plains who went to the cool from other places, strongly demanded to defend Qingcang City and fight for the Dragon Elephant Army for the best fighter in Dingliu Prefecture in the First World War. Originally, as long as the two of them reached an agreement, this quarrel would not get worse, but the problem was that Yang Guangdou, the old and serious assassin Shi, unexpectedly supported the defense of the city to the end, while Chen Xiliang, whose prestige among the Liuzhou refugees was almost a lot higher than that of the young vassal king, was diametrically opposite, and Jian yì transferred the Thorn Shi Mansion to Linyu, so that the two sides were at a stalemate.

Then the new general of Liuzhou entered Qingcang City at such a moment.

Kou Jianghuai stretched out his hand and gently pressed against the rough daughter's wall, without making a big statement, and did not pat his chest and promise anything to the old thorn history.

At the foot of this Dafeng Dynasty to control the vast Western Regions of the ancient military town, as the closest to Liangzhou Liuzhou the first military town, this city wall is a decoration, although it was included in the territory of the North Liangdao after the emergency reinforcement, but it is still used to seeing the Central Plains Xiongcheng Kou Jianghuai feel ridiculous, this young Liuzhou general with hundreds of horsemen rushed here, temporarily in the assassin mansion near a house to perform his duties, but a huge territory comparable to the entire old Beiliang Road Liuzhou, really for Kou Jianghuai to transfer troops, there are only a handful, such as the most deterrent combat power in Liuzhou today, 30,000 dragon elephant army, directly under the capital of the palace, the main general Xu Longxiang and the two deputy generals Li Mofan and Wang Lingbao, no one can be moved by him, if Kou Jianghuai dares to interfere in the specific rise and fall of the Dragon Elephant Army, I am afraid that General Liuzhou will also be able to do it. The generals and soldiers of the two towns of Fengxiang and Fengxiang, Kou Jianghuai has not known anyone from beginning to end, and now he only has 4,000 Qingcang troops in Qingcang City, and Chen Xiliang has more than 10,000 homeless people and young men to drive, although the individual combat is not bad, and the defense of the city is barely okay, but put it on a large battlefield to fight, Kou Jianghuai does not know what else to do except give Liu Qi military merits.

Therefore, he, the general of Liuzhou who is determined to show his ambitions in the Western Regions, is worse than a good woman who is difficult to cook without rice, and he doesn't even have a decent stove at the moment.

Kou Jianghuai walked near the outer wall, looked at the flying dust of a Beimang ranger galloping away, and said softly: "Lord Assassin Shi wants to defend to the death, because he thinks that this retreat, Liuzhou will change from a balance of power to a disadvantage with no initiative at all, and the whole body will be moved, and the connection between Liuzhou and Liangzhou will be torn out of a big hole, and the military town of Beimang and the Southern Dynasty and Dong Zhuo's middle line can continuously transport troops here, which will affect the entire Liangzhou layout." Mr. Chen wanted to retreat because he was worried that the Dragon Elephant Army would fall into a trap and fight with Liu Jue's army outside Qingcang City, and once the Dragon Elephant Army lost its role in containing the army on the western front of Beimang......"

Chen Xiliang interrupted Kou Jianghuai's words very unceremoniously, "Although I can't be said to be familiar with military affairs, I also know that Liu Qi can endure so far, and he must fight a decisive battle, Qingcang City is the bait, I can even be sure that Liu Qi's army will attack Qingcang, at first it will not be too fast, but will only induce and force the Dragon Elephant Army to increase its strength little by little, until the 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army is all in the quagmire." And I don't advocate that Qingcang City not be defended, but that all the officials of the Assassin Mansion retreat to Linyu Military Town, and Qingcang City still has me and the 14,000 people who will defend it to the end. In this way, the Dragon Elephant Army can attack or retreat, and it will not be stuck in the quagmire and unable to get out. ”

Today's Chen Xiliang has dark skin, and he no longer has the slightest breeze of the weak scholar in Baoguo Temple back then, simply put, he was originally a handsome scholar who could have taken a look at the fox spirit in the barren mountain ancient temple, but now even if there is a fox spirit in the world, he is not willing to pay attention to this scholar who works all day and his hands are calloused all day.

Yang Guangdou, who had been full of anger for the past two days, snorted coldly: "Don't talk about me Beiliang, almost the entire Liyang knows that in the heart of the King of Beiliang, you Chen Xiliang alone is worth the entire Thorn History Mansion!"

Chen Xiliang frowned and said, "Then tell the Dragon Elephant Army who is in charge of escorting, and I, Chen Xiliang, will also withdraw to Linyu Military Town." ”

Yang Guangdou laughed angrily: "You are the king of Li Mo Domain, Lingbao, those guys who can become generals are fools, all of them are fine! I, Yang Guangdou, is dead, it's good to say, if you Chen Xiliang die in Qingcang City, die under the noses of the two dignified dragon elephant army lieutenants of Li Mo Domain, King Lingbao, do they still want to climb in the Beiliangbian army?!"

Kou Jianghuai interrupted the dispute between the two with a smile, "Make good use of soldiers, don't worry about victory and defeat first, this is indeed a golden and jade good word in the military book." ”

To tell the truth, Yang Guangdou is very curious about this young Western Chu remnant who almost became a general, according to Kou Jianghuai's temperament shown in a series of battles in Guangling Road, he is not a general who accounts for gains and losses in one place at a time, on the contrary, Kou Jianghuai, who is inferior in overall strength, is the best at large-scale long-distance raids, and always allows himself to occupy superior forces on the local battlefield, so that the entire eastern front of the Guangling Army is in a sieve, and Zhao Yi's several elite armies are all in a hurry, and finally he doesn't even have the courage to go out of the city to rescue, I am afraid that he will take the initiative to crash into the trap again, and then be annihilated by Kou Jianghuai after annihilating all the main field armies of Zhao Yi's eastern front, the cities and passes have completely lost contact, and they are useless. Yang Guangdou originally thought that after Kou Jianghuai came to Qingcang City, he would support Chen Xiliang and the civil officials of the Thorn Shi Mansion who were bent on seeking stability, and thought about it privately, Yang Guangdou was also worried that this was the young Kou Jianghuai who was eager to establish his prestige in Liuzhou, and wanted to use the Qingcang City offensive and defensive battles to accumulate military merits for himself.

Yang Guangdou hesitated for a moment, decided not to hide it anymore, and asked bluntly: "How sure is General Kou, can you give this official a thorough understanding?"

Kou Jianghuai looked at the Beimang camp in the distance, "If Qingcang City is just Qingcang City, and the variables are only inside and outside Qingcang City, without interference from the outside world, and the soldiers and horses on both sides are these people on the surface, then I can only be sure that the situation in Liuzhou will become better." ”

Chen Xiliang smiled bitterly and was silent.

Kou Jianghuai continued: " The situation in Liuzhou is different from the eastern line of Guangling Road where I was at the beginning, where it seems that there are many passes in the city, but they are all dead, just like the chessboard that takes root and does not move, the generals of the Guangling army of the Liyang Imperial Court have gone to a dead end, as if there is no city and there is no soul, in Liuzhou, it is very different, this is the battlefield that is destined to only be decided by the cavalry。 ”

Kou Jianghuai pointed to the east, which was further east than the barracks of Liu Jue's army, "The real variable, in fact, is in the hands of our Beiliang, as long as there are 10,000 cavalry in Liangzhou to go to Liuzhou, it doesn't need to be a big snow dragon horse, nor does it need to be the 6,000 Tiefutu of Qi Dangguo, as long as it is the most ordinary Liangzhou border pass cavalry, it is enough." ”

Yang Guangdou shook his head and said: "Although this official advocates defending Qingcang City, he also knows that the survival of Qingcang City cannot wait for the Liangzhou cavalry to come when he hears the news, we can only rely on the 14,000 people in Qingcang City and the 30,000 dragon elephant army outside the city, at most plus the seven or eight thousand cavalry troops temporarily drawn out of the two towns of Linyu Fengxiang." ”

Kou Jianghuai laughed and said: "Anyway, it's already a situation of defending Qingcang City, and it's not a bad thing for us to think about it more." ”

Kou Jianghuai turned his head and smiled at the worried Chen Xiliang: "In order to appease the people's hearts and not collapse in the first battle, I was going to bother Mr. Lao and those homeless young people to 'lie about the military situation', so as to say that the iron cavalry of Beiliangbian Guan is on the way to come, as long as Qingcang City holds on for five days and is not broken, this Liuzhou will not even have a place for a northern barbarian." ”

Chen Xiliang's face was a little angry.

Kou Jianghuai deliberately turned a blind eye and asked with a smile: "What, Mr. can't bear it? Do you think it's against your heart? In fact, if you think about it from another angle, it's simple, since you have to defend the city with or without Liangzhou reinforcements, there are always fewer people to die in high morale than low morale." Mr. always does not want Qingcang City to be attacked in a day or two, and the 14,000 people scattered everywhere can withstand the red-eyed Beimang army several times? Mr. is a serious reader, and may not know much about military affairs, and the battlefield with the most dead people and the fastest is often not during the siege of the city, not the cavalry colliding or the cavalry breaking the infantry formation, but the slaughter of the city after the city is broken, and it is the pursuit and defeat of the army in the field. ”

Chen Xiliang asked two questions, "General Kou is willing to fight to the death with Qingcang City to the end, and is he really willing to die in this military town in the Western Regions?"

Kou Jianghuai seemed to be suspected of avoiding the important and trivial, and said in a flat tone: "I, Kou Jianghuai, came to Liuzhou to win the battle as a general in Liuzhou. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm also very willing to die. ”

Chen Xiliang said goodbye and left.

Kou Jianghuai smiled, unimpressed.

Yang Guangdou didn't follow Chen Xiliang down the city together, and sighed: "General Kou should be able to see that Chen Xiliang has already regarded Liuzhou and Qingcang City as his home, why do you still sprinkle salt on his wounds." And with Chen Xiliang's temperament, once he has a bad impression of someone, I am afraid it will be difficult to change it for the rest of his life. General Kou is not a hammer deal in Liuzhou, he wants to make contributions here, in that case, why do you want to make enemies with Chen Xiliang?"

Kou Jianghuai asked rhetorically: "Is Chen Xiliang just a gentleman who would rather take it in the straight?"

Yang Guangdou shook his head and said: "That's too much to look down on him, Chen Xiliang may not be the next Li Yishan." Compared with Xu Beitong, who is prosperous in Lingzhou, I am more optimistic about Chen Xiliang. ”

Kou Jianghuai stretched out his hand and slid over the slightly hot arrow stacks on the wall, and said softly: "The spy report sent by Liuzhou to Liangzhou is just to obey the destiny of heaven, and I am betting that Liangzhou has such a person who has insight into opportunities...... In short, this time Liuzhou will either lose everything or make a lot of money. ”

Yang Guangdou said with emotion: "As long as I am given another half a year to create a rough beacon system on the southern line of Liuzhou, I will not be so passive, but it's a pity that time will not wait for me!"

Kou Jianghuai's eyes were complicated, and no one knew what this Liuzhou general, who took over the hot potato as soon as he took office, was planning.

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The camp of the Dragon Elephant Army, which is stationed south of Qingcang City, is different from the resentful Liu Jue army, and it is also different from the hesitation of Qingcang City.

From top to bottom, the entire Dragon Elephant Army has no distractions, last year it drove straight into Beimang, almost swept most of Gusai Prefecture, and beat the four military towns of Wazhu Junziguan and Ligu Maolong, and finally even Dong Zhuo had to go into battle in person, and still lost about 5,000 elite private troops. In the spring of this year, they even ate the more than 8,000 Qiang cavalry troops known as the ghosts of the desert in one go, and the military heart of the Dragon Elephant Army was accumulated in such a hard battle and victory. Before Xu Longxiang joined the Dragon Elephant Cavalry, the deputy general Li Mofan and the scarface Wang Lingbao were already the border army generals who were in charge of the army.

The black-clothed boy sat on a small dirt slope, and beside him lay the amazing black tiger, which was lazily dozing, occasionally shaking its body, and it was a big burst of dust and yellow sand.

Li Mofan and Wang Lingbao each led their horses and stood not far away, and the fierce and vicious Scarface asked softly: "Depending on the situation, the Northern Mangmang Barbarian will do it tomorrow." We must fight this battle, but how to fight, Lao Li, do you have any rules?"

Li Mofan's war horse was like a mobile arsenal, not to mention hanging an iron spear, as well as a riding bow and two light crossbows, and a halberd bag full of halberds, and Li Mofan himself hung a sword. After hearing Wang Lingbao's inquiry, the deputy general of the Dragon Elephant Army, who had always had a mixed reputation in terms of character, said angrily: "The 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army is all cavalry, isn't it the same as riding against each other and riding against each other? What other tricks can be played? The old man of Liu Qi made it clear that he was using Qingcang City as bait and fishing for the big fish of our Dragon Elephant Army, so let's bite the hook, but if we want to tear this fisherman into the water, it is not so easy to tell them that it is not so easy to take chestnuts from the fire, and it is easy to become playing with fire and immolating themselves." ”

Wang Lingbao said with a smile: "Our Vice General Li also has a nervous time, in the past, when you talked about how to use soldiers, it was the head of the way, and I can't wait to use every standard cavalry on the blade, if I don't interrupt, you can say the last hour without breathing." ”

Li Mofan's face was gloomy and he didn't refute.

Wang Lingbao leaned over and asked quietly, "Are you worried that you won't be able to stop Tuoba Bodhisattva?"

Li Mofan shook his head, "The two sides together have almost 150,000 troops, such a huge battlefield, a martial arts evaluation grand master is not so important, Tuoba Bodhisattva, who has no say in this army of the Northern Mang's Western Front, even if he participates in the war, although he can influence the battle situation to a certain extent, he cannot really decide the battle situation." ”

Wang Lingbao rolled his eyes and said: "Then what are you worried about? What kind of birds do the cavalry in the four towns of Gusai Prefecture, you don't know, unless Liu Jue Lao'er uses heavy armor infantry as the middle army, arranges a horse rejection array to the death, and then places all the cavalry on both wings, and uses this most rigid shrinking turtle tactic to deal with the Dragon Elephant Army, we will have no chance to speak." ”

Li Mofan still shook his head, "Such a Beimang will casually bring out a mediocre general's style of play, then it's not Liu Jue." ”

Wang Lingbao was also a little irritable, suddenly remembered something, and asked curiously: "The Liuzhou general surnamed Kou said that he wanted us to leave 5,000 elite troops for him, and no matter what the situation is, he is not allowed to use it, what is the way?

Li Mofan said helplessly: "Anyway, the general has already agreed, you can do it." ”

There was a long silence.

Wang Lingbao suddenly smiled and said: "Lao Li, I didn't expect that a large group of civil officials in Qingcang City didn't go to the rumor in the end, you said that in this world, is it only us in Beiliang that has such a situation? But it's really not that I Wang Lingbao has no conscience, as long as I think that this group of officials who dance and write ink may appear in the city to learn how to bend the bow and shoot arrows or something, I really want to laugh." ”

Li Mofan also had a little smile on his face.

Wang Lingbao subconsciously touched the scar on his face, and asked again: "Lao Li, how many years have we been fighting side by side together?"

Li Mofan was stunned for a moment, but replied, "I forgot." ”

Wang Lingbao laughed, "I forgot too." ”

In short, many years.