Liangzhou Hutou City has become the second Central Plains Diaoyu Tai.

It's just that that time it was the Xu family's iron cavalry that was overwhelming on the land of the Central Plains was blocked, and this time it was the Longyaner Plain where the hooves of the Beimang horses were densely clustered outside the city.

Dong Zhuo, the king of the Southern Courtyard, personally took a crow fence to inspect a siege infantry army that was ready to attack in the rear, and there was a pair of young men and women with noble status beside this fat man, among which the young man who was like a sick man had a lot of identity, and all of them were not simple. The woman who had just been officially robbed of the title of Xia Bowl by the Hulukou Pioneer General Tan was called Yelu Yuwat. This pair of men and women, almost outside the mouth of the gourd, successfully calculated Xu Fengnian, who was deep in the hinterland of the border between the two countries, but unfortunately Yuan Zuozong led 10,000 snow dragoons to the battlefield, so that they and the Taiping Ling fell short.

Dong Zhuo pointed at Hutou City with a horsewhip and said: "Hutou City, which is known to the outside world as being able to support a ten-year war with armor and equipment, has been exhausted in less than half a year, and most of the bricks and mud have been used. There are only three crossbows left at the head of the city that are still complete, and the bows and crossbows that have been damaged have been piled up, of course, there must be a lot of small and medium-sized tread-crossbows and light crossbows in the city, and there are still hundreds of thousands of arrows in stock. However, compared with Xiangfan City, which did not exceed 100,000 soldiers but had 300,000 people, Hutou City had a fatal flaw, there were too few people. The bow and crossbow are dead, broken, you can go to the inventory to carry the brand new, the Beiliangbian army in Hutou City is not a god, and the arm strength is far inferior to the early stage, if the two of you have the opportunity to watch the battle closely, you should be able to see that the arm that most of the city's head archers use to hold the bow is tied with a strong bandage. To put it mildly, as long as I am given another three months, I, Dong Zhuo, will stand a hundred steps outside the city with a swagger, and it is estimated that few archers will be able to kill me through the armor. ”

Tuoba Yun, who exuded a faint smell of medicine on his body, looked solemn and noncommittal.

He personally deprived His Majesty of the Xia bowl, so Yelu Yuwat came to Hutou City to "relax" in anger. She glanced at this fat man who was also thunderous in the royal court, the thirty-five-year-old king of the Southern Courtyard, who held a million troops in his hands, which was equivalent to the combined strength of Xu Xiao, the old Liang king, and Gu Jiantang, the two Liaos. It was this guy who insisted on fighting Beiliang first, and made such a big move, which caused His Majesty and Taiping Ling to bear great pressure, and as a result, except for Yang Yuanzan on the eastern front, who barely offended his merits and demerits, the other two fronts were overshadowed, especially Dong Fatzi himself, who was blocked by a tiger head city outside Liangzhou Pass. Even Liu Jue, who has lost thousands of people, has already scolded people as an old dog in the Xijing temple, and no one has the courage to impeach the coach Dong Zhuo for the time being, Yelu Yuwat is very curious about how long this fat man, who privately calls His Majesty Xià the emperor's sister, can carry it.

Dong Zhuo seemed to mention it casually for three months, and sneered in his heart at Yelu Yuhut, who had clear rules in the temple, had he been reduced to the point of asking her and Tuoba Qiyun to help pass on the message to some people?

Tuoba Qiyun finally spoke: "General Dong, I have been to the northwest camp in the Longyaner Plain. ”

Dong Zhuo snorted.

As soon as he thought of the so-called Northwest Battalion, Yelu Yuwat suddenly felt a little disgusted, what a large camp is a place where the sick and corpses are piled up, that is, they are stacked! The Southern Dynasties have accumulated strength for 20 years, and they have all leaned their minds on attacking, especially siege materials, otherwise they would not have been able to take out nearly 1,000 large and small catapults in one go, but Beimang has never been good at dealing with the wounded in battle, and he is not particular about it. The scorching sun is on the head, wearing a gorgeous gold armor Yelu Yuwat has been drenched in sweat, she is born with a yearning for war, yearning for the pleasure of exchanging lives on horseback, yearning for the sense of penetration of an arrow into the back of the enemy's head, Yelu Yuwat is used to seeing dead people, but her heart is as firm as she arrived at the northwest camp, she still almost can't help vomiting, a car of corpses dragged down from the battlefield, all thrown into the dug pit, maybe the wounded soldiers lie not far outside the pit and wail in pain, many wounded soldiers who were blurred by the city's defense equipment, begging for a happy death。

At that time, Tuoba Qiyun was standing on the edge of a new pit with seven or eight hundred corpses stacked on top of each other, and asked the soldier in charge of sprinkling lime for a basin. Yelu Yuwat, who covered his mouth and nose with a heavy cotton cloth, watched this spring bowl sprinkle handfuls of lime expressionlessly.

She suddenly found that she had been more hard-hearted than a prairie boy since she was a child, and after seeing that scene, she was a little sad for the first time.

Tuoba Qiyun's thinking jumped very strongly, and he changed the topic and said slowly: "General Dong is in a hurry to fight Beiliang, but he is in a hurry to fight Hutou City." ”

The resilience and combat habits of the nomads themselves have made Beimang's low demand for grain and grass far beyond the imagination of the Central Plains cavalry, at least Beimang is still not short of grain and grass. However, if he can raise troops to the south in the autumn season and fall into a stalemate, Beimang can be more comfortable. Tuoba Qiyun doesn't want to say too much afterthought, not to mention why Dong Zhuo and Taiping Ling want to go south at the beginning of spring, there is a reason. What Tuoba Qiyun really wants to say is the second half of the sentence, if Dong Zhuo's eastern front had attacked the city recklessly at the beginning, and first took Hutou City in one go, the situation would not be so difficult to ride a tiger now. This is not Tuoba Qiyun accusing Dong Zhuo of not contributing to the fight against Tiger Head City, in fact, there is no problem with Dong Zhuo's deployment, but since Dong Zhuo is the king of the Southern Courtyard and the commander of the million-strong army, he should come up with more justified results.

Dong Zhuo nodded and said: "At the beginning, I suspected that in addition to the thousands of elite cavalry on the spy report, there was also an iron cavalry hidden in Hutou City, such as the 6,000 Iron Floating Slaughter that was later assigned to Qi Dangguo by the old Dianxiong Beast, and I even suspected that the two real heavy cavalry armies in Beiliang with a total number of about 9,000 people would at least have at least one hidden in Hutou City." Because I think that since Chu Lushan dares to put the Duhu Mansion in Huaiyang Pass behind Hutou City, he must have a tough battle with me. To the south of Hutou City and the north of Liuya Poria Cocos, fight me a big battle with both light and heavy cavalry. ”

Dong Zhuo said in a deep voice: " Until that ambush battle, I first used four thousand cavalry on the tooth slope as bait, the main general of the Poria Army Wei Liang was really greedy for merit, and was rushed by the eight thousand cavalry ambush army to disrupt the formation, if it wasn't for the Beiliang Xiaodu Lieutenant begging Fu Longguan bad thing, too heroic, stunned to help him open a breakthrough for the Poria cavalry, otherwise the next Beiliang ambush soldiers should also enter the battlefield on time, and my Dong family cavalry will also move, and finally on that battlefield, I can seduce the soldiers and horses of the two towns of Poria and Liuya in one breath plus the living force of Huaiyang Pass, and even the Hutou City cavalry are seduced out, so that it will become a situation where the cavalry of the two sides is exchanged, even if I Dong Zhuo is more at a loss, but as long as the mobility of the Northern Liang cavalry defense line south of Hutou City is defeated, it will not be a problem whether Hutou City is fought or not. ”

Dong Zhuo laughed at himself: "Maybe many people in the Northern Liangdu Protectorate will scold the little lieutenant who begs for Longguan in their hearts, and used his strength in the wrong place, but in fact, Liangzhou escaped by luck." A tiger head city is not terrible, what is terrible is the flexible cavalry behind it that does not seek to kill the enemy but only to contain it. I, Dong Zhuo, are not sure if I am thinking too much, or Chu Lushan is lucky, or if I am actually thinking more than I think. ”

Yelu Yuwat frowned and said: "Can't we press on the whole line, and attack the two towns of Poria and Liuya together?" Anyway, we have an absolute advantage in troops, and we won't fight in vain!"

Dong Zhuo laughed and didn't explain anything. Tuoba Qiyun shook his head and said, "It's not that you can't make a desperate bet, but it doesn't mean much......"

Just when Tuoba Qiyun was about to explain the specific mystery to Yelu Yuwat, Dong Zhuo rode along the edge of the rear of the infantry army and galloped towards a disgraced convoy. It turned out that these corpses were dragged out of the tunnel into the city, and there was an interval in the attack of the Beimang siege catapult, but this "no table" siege measure has not stopped, but there has been no significant effect, except for the initial period of a team of 500 soldiers and horses entered the tiger head city, but soon to the patrol armor to intercept and kill, the rest are dead in the tunnel of the narrow road encounter, or for the guard to wait for the rabbit to easily block the hole at the entrance of the hole. It is reported that the lord of the city, Liu Jinu, had already prepared, and dug more than ten deep holes up to three zhang deep in advance in various important places in the city, so that the soldiers with keen ears stayed in them, as long as the Beimang cave division and the armor soldiers moved within hundreds or even thousands of steps around, they could capture the fighters at the first time, and then it was easy to dig holes horizontally to set up ambushes or use windmills to fan the thick smoke and lime.

The commander of the thousand was relegated to the second line to take up this position because he lost an arm in the charging ant annex, and the one-armed man lowered his head after reporting the general battle situation and the number of deaths, his eyes were slightly red, and he lowered his head and said softly: "General, there are sixteen tunnels successively, plus this batch, our brothers who died underground are almost 5,000 people, is it worth it? It would be good to die on the head of the city of Tiger Head City." ”

Dong Zhuo said indifferently: "You go to the Northwest Camp." ”

The one-armed commander raised his remaining arm and wiped his eyes, and after getting on his horse, he drifted away with the convoy full of corpses.

Yelu Yuwat felt a wave of anger in his heart for no reason, took a deep breath, and asked the king of the Southern Courtyard: "When Bei Liang fought Xiangfan City in Qingzhou back then, he was an expert in digging tunnels. What's more, the thousands of well-retained Beiliang cavalry in the city have obviously been on the top of the city, even if a few hundred people enter the ground in the city alive, what can they do?"

Dong Zhuo smiled, as if he deliberately didn't want to mention the five thousand dead people who failed to establish an inch of strength, and said: "Two days ago, there was a cavalry unit in the city, and they had to go to the city to participate in the defense, and their strength in dismounting and fighting was indeed a lot more than the tired foot soldiers. ”

Dong Zhuo's thumb and index finger were pressed together, "It's just a little bit close." ”

Tuoba Qiyun said helplessly: "This little opportunity was obtained by General Dong ordering that the casualties under the command of every commander on our side reach almost four hundred before retreating, and it was obtained at such a huge price." ”

Dong Zhuo smiled: "It's not more than halfway through." ”

Yelu Yuwat asked unceremoniously in an almost questioning tone: "Dare to ask the general, how many grassland children have died under the knife of their own people?"

Dong Zhuo thought about it seriously and replied: "There are three thousand commanders, and there are more centurions, together with ordinary soldiers, if I remember correctly, as of yesterday, there are two thousand seven hundred. ”

Yelu Yuwat said angrily: "You're not afraid of triggering a mutiny?!"

Dong Zhuo asked rhetorically: "If you kill such a little bit of waste that is retreating, you will mutiny?"

Yelu Yuwat sneered: "Indeed, the general has 100,000 Dong family's private army with almost no damage, and he is a famous general who uses soldiers like a god and is meticulous, so he will definitely be able to stifle the signs." ”

Tuoba Qiyun spoke: "Don't say it. ”

Yelu Yuwat wanted to speak and stopped, and after seeing Chun Bao's displeased expression, she finally stopped provoking the king of the Southern Courtyard who was unworthy of her name.

The two horsemen said goodbye to Dong Zhuo and left.

Yelu Yuwat turned his head to look at the sturdy figure who stopped his horse on the spot, and said in a low voice: "This fat man, that's all it takes to lead the troops, the official is really capable, and the battle has been fought to this extent, and he has not forgotten to follow someone's wishes and beat those grassland forces little by little under Hutou City." A commander of a thousand has consumed the troops of the descendants brought from the tribe, but under the rapid rotation, where will the follow-up soldiers and horses come from? Either they are replenished and withdrawn from the military towns of the Southern Dynasties, mixed with sand, or the remnants of the two armies are simply mixed together. If we continue to fight in this way, will the big Sicha become the little Sicha?"

Yelu Yuwat's face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said: "It's all the atmosphere brought by those remnants of the Central Plains in the Southern Dynasty, and the Liyang Zhao family is using Guangling Dao to take back military power from the hands of local vassal kings and generals, let's not be bad, the grasslands are all broken here, even if they break through Beiliang and enter the Central Plains in the future, there are still a few of their own people left!"

Tuoba Qiyun smiled, "You, complain too much to prevent bowel breaks." ”

Yelu Yuwat glared angrily, "You can still laugh?!Do you think you can stay out of the matter by Tuoba surname?!"

Tuoba Qiyun shook his head, smiled and did not speak.

The fat man who looked at the tiger head city alone in the crow fence guard, in his field of vision, the siege infantry army was like a continuous tide surging away, and then the tide was stirring up the waves along the city wall, and then spreading upward.

He beckoned to a young military fighter in front of the curtain and said, "Pass the order, one, stop digging tunnels from today." Second, the infantry army increased the siege efforts, and the casualties during the day were more than half before they could withdraw, and the night siege did not take the battle damage as the premise of retreating, and each commander only needed to insist on attacking under the tiger head city for one hour. Third, send the news to Xijing, the entire Southern Dynasty, regardless of whether the surname is A, B, C and Ding, as long as the family is on the pedigree, must take out all the cellar wine, and use it to treat the wounds of the wounded of the Eastern Front army, remember, it is all the wine of all the families in the Southern Dynasty, if someone secretly hides a jar, once it is revealed, the family product will be reduced from A to B, and so on. Fourth, tonight I will summon all the commanders and commanders of the Eastern Front who are not on the battlefield. ”

The military fighter quickly left to deliver the order.

Dong Zhuo said in a deep voice: "Yelu Chucai!"

A captain who temporarily acted as the leader of the crow fence hurriedly rode his horse closer, this time this military general who was both a member of the Beimang Emperor's tent and the brother-in-law of the king of the Southern Courtyard, did not dare to smile, as long as his brother-in-law called his real name, it meant that something big was about to happen. His Yelu Chucai's sister is Dong Zhuo's eldest daughter-in-law, both with Yelu's surname, compared to Yelu Yuwat but it is much more golden, but the brother and sister are farther away from the chair than the Yelu East bed who heard that he ran away from the Yangzhong Plains to be idle, Yelu Chucai has never had that luxury, he has wanted to be a pure military general galloping on the battlefield since he was a child, and after having Dong Zhuo's brother-in-law who has a very good appetite, he has been like a fish in water in the Dong family army in recent years. However, this time in the south and in the north, his brother-in-law, who has always been very talkative, refused to agree to him to be a pioneer, which made Yelu Chucai very hurt. Even not long ago, the Dong family's pro-army went to Liuzhou, and there was nothing about him, and Yelu Chucai was resentful like a widow during this time.

Dong Zhuo glanced at this brother-in-law, and said with a smile: "Give you a job, but the road is a little far, can you pick it up?"

Yelu Chucai asked cautiously, "Do you have military merits?"

Dong Zhuo said: "Not necessarily. ”

Yelu Chucai said decisively: "Then don't go!"

Dong Zhuo smiled: "It's okay if you don't go, anyway, you will have a chance to attack the city tomorrow." I'm just going to change people. ”

Yelu Chucai was confused, "Siege?"

Dong Zhuo nodded, "I, the Dong family's 12,000 foot soldiers, will be handed over to you, and I will start attacking Hutou City tomorrow." ”

Yelu Chucai opened his mouth wide in surprise, with his figure, it was really a bloody mouth, and it was really 108,000 miles different from his sister's flower and moon appearance, it really didn't look like he was born from the same father and mother. Yelu Chucai's eyes suddenly became hot, and he didn't call Dong Zhuo his brother-in-law, but shouted the general respectfully, "The last general is from a cavalry army, let me go and dismount to attack the city, forget it, the last general has decided, and I will take the first job!"

Dong Zhuo stared at this guy and said calmly: "Eighty thousand Dong family cavalry are handed over to you, and rush to the outside of the gourd mouth as quickly as possible, although I have already arranged for people to keep an eye on it, but I still don't worry about it." Also, before you leave, write a suicide note, and if you die, I will have an explanation for your sister. ”

Yelu Chucai, who was reckless in the name of cynicism, grinned, clenched his fists and slammed his chest, "General, what if...... The last general said that if he didn't come back, he wouldn't have a chance to see the children of the general and my sister, and that he would tell them, their uncle, that the only regret was that he couldn't let them play on their necks. ”

Dong Zhuo hesitated, "If you are the same as you and you on the gourd mouth, don't be strong." Since he likes children, he will marry a daughter-in-law and give birth to him. ”

Yelu Chucai nodded, and rode away.

Dong Zhuo was still motionless, no one could hear the fat man's self-talk, he was repeating a number, "Thirty-eight, thirty-eight......"

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Hutou City, the most majestic observation tower in the north, has become the focus of the Beimang catapult, and the building where the main general Liu Jinu is located is further back, the threat caused by the catapult is not fatal enough, but those Beimang archers who participated in the siege to be close to the city are proud of their own arrows that hit this building, although they will not be counted in the battle, but after withdrawing from the battlefield, they will be treated as heroes.

Liu Jinu stood at the table with a map of Hutou City, which had already marked out various battlefield details, such as the destruction of the city walls, the area where the bed crossbow had been lost, the dangerous battlements that had been hastily filled several times, and so on. Liu Jinu stared at the northeast area of the city defense map, after the bed crossbow was destroyed first, in the past half a decade, Beimang has not given up the attack in the north direction while focusing on increasing the density and thickness of the attack here, and a large number of siege equipment began to shift from the northwest to the northeast.

A captain who patrolled the city strode into the floor and laughed loudly: "General, these Northern Barbarians really don't have a long memory, more than 700 'rats' died today, and half of them were suffocated. According to the old rules, the tunnel has also been filled in tightly, and in the nearby area, there will be two cave masters and a standard cavalry army watching day and night. ”

Liu Jinu nodded, raised his head and asked, "The thunder hanging outside the wall of the watchtower of the city tower has been used up?"

Answering is a special soft curtain for the Central Plains to cope with siege, which is tightly woven from coarse linen, coated with mud to prevent fire, and has a great effect on dealing with stone-throwing and rockets. Although the walls of Hutou City are unusually strong, if there is no large number of lightning bolts to slow down the huge impact of the flying stones, Hutou City is not so easy to mend the seams now.

An adjutant general said helplessly: "Yes, I didn't expect these barbarians to get so many catapults, fortunately, the general had already prepared, otherwise it would really be hanging." And our water bags are also in a hurry, not only the city gates, but also the various sections of the city wall have a headache. There was no problem with the water source, it was the water bag made of the skins and internal organs of the cows, horses, livestock, and internal organs, some of which could not keep up, and the barbarians desperately poured oil on the city, supplemented by arrows like fire and rain, which was really crazy. Fortunately, the mud broom we use to deal with fire attacks can be reused. ”

Liu Jinu, who hadn't closed his eyes much for two days and two nights, picked up an arrow on the table and handed it to a lieutenant beside him, "You all take a closer look." ”

The arrow retrieved from the city passed around, and Liu Jinu said: "There were such arrows in the Beimang siege before, but they were not on a large scale, and they only began to appear in large numbers in the past two days. Half of the previous arrows were consistent with the current configuration of the elite cavalry of Beimang, and the elongated arrows pursued to penetrate our Beiliang armor, but the remaining half were mixed with old bronze arrows, as well as iron arrows born from the Dafeng Dynasty, all flat quadrangular in one color. Now it's different, it's more elaborate and subdivided, so even the Cone Arrow and the Iron Spine Arrow have appeared. ”

Liu Jinu put down the arrow, "The reason why I say this is because of the connection with the recent attack of Beimang, I dare to assert that Beimang is ventilating, a bit like a duel between masters of the rivers and lakes, before Beimang launches the next wave of offensive, this will be an opportunity for us, of course, it may also be a trap." But one way or another, we should try it once. Therefore, in the past few days, I have deliberately let the cavalry go to the city to make amends, and at the same time give the foot guards a respite, I want to let our cavalry take the initiative to go out of the city by surprise. ”

A lieutenant who was in charge of guarding the city gate and who had opened a scoop on his head two days ago asked, "Do you need our city head foot guards to cooperate and fight a little more fiercely?"

Liu Jinu shook his head and said, "No, just in case the snake is too much." ”

Liu Jinu slowly closed his eyes, not knowing whether he was extremely sleepy and had to rest for a while, or if he was looking for a fighter in his head.

Liu Jinu suddenly opened his eyes, pressed his fists on the table, and stared at the two eager cavalry captains in the city, "Beimang is responsible for protecting the cavalry that echoes the two wings of the infantry army, and after watching the show for a long time, he has now slackened. Tonight, two thousand cavalry troops were placed behind the north gate, and they rushed and killed at will after leaving the city. A thousand cavalry troops from each of the east and west gates, attacking the flanks. Remember! There is only half an hour, I only give the three cavalry troops a maximum of half an hour, no matter how many Beimang infantry are killed or wounded, they must return immediately, and they must not fall in love with the battle and not retreat, and after half an hour, my Hutou City will open the gate again. ”

Liu Jinu suddenly shouted to the two lieutenants who had been ordered to retire, "Tell the brothers in advance, maybe Beimang won't even give us a chance to reopen Hutou City!"

A tall captain with gray hair nodded and said, "Understood!"

The two cavalry captains of one generation walked out of the house, and the younger captain looked behind him, and then said to the old captain: "Old captain, what do you say?

The old man stopped, held on to the railing with both hands, and remained silent.

The middle-aged lieutenant understood and stopped talking, which he actually meant.

The old man turned his head and smiled: "Xiao Song, although we both have the same rank, but your kid has been a captain under me for three years, not to mention that today is a captain, a general, and my soldier." Therefore, this trip out of the city to kill the enemy, I will come, and you will stay in the city and continue to preside over the affairs of the cavalry. ”

The middle-aged lieutenant turned around and left, "Then I'll reason with General Liu." ”

The old man kicked the guy in the ass and laughed softly, "Get back!" ”

When Captain Song turned around again, the old man pointed to the north and said softly: "I only have one son and one daughter, my son died in the hinterland of Beimang in the first year of Yonghui, and the son-in-law who was also my commander with you back then also died outside Liangzhou Pass eight years ago, fortunately, my grandchildren are all there, and the incense of the He family has not been broken after all." But the taste of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person is really uncomfortable. ”

The old man smiled, "I know that you fought with my son-in-law back then, and I also complained that I finally chose him as my son-in-law, but not you." So all these years in Hutou City, you kid has not been with me for a long time, with my temper, if it were changed to thirty years ago, you would have been beaten all over the ground looking for teeth. ”

The middle-aged lieutenant rolled his eyes and muttered, "You can beat me." ”

The old man didn't bother to bother with this kid, and said with heartfelt emotion: "Not counting the southern and northern wars in the Central Plains for so many years, it has been almost twenty years since I took root in Beiliang, I have a home, and I live a peaceful life, even if my relatives die in the family, the children can still wear linen and filial piety after all, unlike the Spring and Autumn Turbulent Times when I was young, it was more difficult to live than to die." I, an old man, occasionally return to my hometown, watching the children practice words every day, that posture, there is a shape, holding a brush than my grandfather with a gun and spear is more skillful, listening to their reading outside the study, now this Beiliang world, it's really good. ”

The old man patted Captain Song's shoulder, "Such a good world, a few more days is a few days." As for me, whether or not the city gate can be opened a second time tonight, I don't plan to go back. You asked me to get off my horse and go to the city to fight with the northern barbarians in the future, and if I can't kill a few people, it's better to kill more on horseback. Xiao Song, having said that, are you still rushing out of the city with the old standard chief?"

The middle-aged lieutenant slowly clenched his fists, but he never said a lot of words.

The old man laughed and strode away.

As a result, the guy surnamed Song was kicked in the buttocks, and the latter ran downstairs like a gust of wind, leaving only one sentence, "Old Biao Chang, I didn't snatch your daughter back then, I swore that I would kick you in this life, don't be angry!"

The old man patted the armor behind him casually, and said with a smile: "Little bastard! Fortunately, I didn't choose you as my son-in-law back then." ”

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Beimang attacked the city day and night, and huge bonfires were burning on the battlefield outside the city.

Both the cold and reckless sides inside and outside Hutou City have long been accustomed to it.

When it is positive.

In the Taoist alchemy classics, it is regarded as "the beginning of yang life, the time of fire".

On the three squares leading directly to the three gates of Hutou City, each of them had a cavalry army that began to go into battle, with spears hanging from the saddle, and cool knives at the waist, and bows and crossbows.

The veteran who was in the north reached out and grabbed the spear that he had snatched from General Xichu, a member of the Xilei Wall, and said with a smile: "Old guy, after congratulating me with my surname, I didn't wronged you, right?"

When the creak of the gate slowly opening was heard, the old man suddenly grabbed the horse's belly and began to charge.

In order to cooperate with the three cavalry armies, especially the Zhengbei cavalry, to go out of the city, and not to leak signs too soon, the arrow rain at the head of the north gate was specially targeted at the northern barbarians near the city gate.

Therefore, when the unprepared Beimang infantry army found out that the city gate actually took the initiative to rise, they were a little stunned for a while, and even the ranger scouts who were responsible for supervising the battle and traveling hundreds of steps behind the city did not immediately come back to their senses. The rangers were a little dumbfounded when they saw a cavalry roaring out of the gate, but soon someone turned their horses' heads and whipped their horses frantically, galloping away through a gap specially left by the three infantry formations.

At the same time as they turned around to deliver this urgent military information, the Beimang soldiers near the city gate were smashed in the head by this cavalry with a single shot, or they were directly hit by a shot and flew upside down.

The cavalry faced an infantry army without a formation, and killing people was actually like cutting wheat with a knife.

If the well-armored cavalry were to fight head-on, both sides could use the huge inertia of the war horse charge to cause great damage to the spear itself and the horseman's arm, but now?

The old lieutenant, who is familiar with the battle formation, pays attention to his breathing at the beginning, is not in a hurry, and will definitely not be as eager to kill dozens of enemies in one breath as stunned Qing, and the old captain does not pursue the speed of the war horse charge too much, as the leaders of a cone-shaped cavalry army, they should be like this, otherwise it will lead the offensive pace of the entire cavalry army, and even lead the cavalry formation to be separated, although the situation of riding and fighting is negligible, but the old man, as a real captain of Liangzhou side riding, has fought on horseback for most of his life, and will naturally act like this。

A thousand-man team on the right hand of the city gate is in full swing, and the thousand-man team in the rear has not yet stepped forward to take turns to attack the city, and there are just two thousand-strong soldiers and horses in the left hand who are handing over.

The old lieutenant said in a deep voice to the deputy of the cavalry: "Each leader leads a thousand cavalry to break through the formation, and you go around the city!"

The 2,000-man cavalry quickly separated from the left and right, like a stream of water sliding away against a rock.

The old man led a thousand horsemen straight to the Beimang thousand-man team with a complete army.

Seeing that they could not escape, six or seven Beimang soldiers in leather armor gritted their teeth and waved their knives together.

The old lieutenant rushed directly, the tip of the spear tilted slightly downward, aimed at the neck of a Beimang soldier, and the huge penetrating force directly hit the soldier who was holding the knife high and his feet off the ground. And the old man in the moment before the spear was about to nail into the enemy's neck, both hands imperceptibly let go of the spear, the next moment, again quickly held the body of the spear, the position of the grip was only less than an inch, but it was the short inch distance created by the release of the spear, but it was able to let the old man unload the spear and sprint to kill the five or sixty percent of the resistance.

The old man gently pulled his spear back, pulled the head of the spear from the corpse's neck, and continued to charge forward.

This is still the old man when he was young as a member of the Xu family iron cavalry, galloping in the Central Plains to fight in the middle of the country to ride the precious experience accumulated by the step, the younger generation of the Beiliang cavalry knows that they all know this trick, but generally speaking, they don't need it, after all, Beimang is also a cavalry, and they don't need this kind of "flashy" tricks. But it makes a lot of sense right now. This small number of cavalry soldiers faced a large number of foot soldiers, and the later the spear was removed, the more enemies would be killed.

The six or seven Beimang soldiers were rushed over and died instantly.

Some of the soldiers farther on both sides could not escape after this thousand-man cavalry quickly spread out the charging line.

The worst one was that after narrowly escaping the spear of a horse, he was killed on the spot by the second horseman of Hutou City.

In the eyes of the thousand-strong infantry not far away, I saw that this cone-shaped cavalry out of the city had already come around in an arc almost in the blink of an eye, and instantly stretched the front line to a row of more than 100 horsemen.

The commander of the Beimang roared angrily: "Stand in the front row! Archers prepare!"

The old lieutenant sneered, without a spear to resist the horse formation, without heavy armor, with two or three rows of scattered shield soldiers, he wanted to block the charge of my Beiliang cavalry?

I, He Lianshan, am a Beiliang veteran who even the Western Chu Euphorbia has rushed!

Haven't you worked hard to siege the city for most of the past six months?

Today, Lao Tzu's Hutou City Cavalry will teach you how to be a man!

When he rode abruptly, he accelerated.

First of all, the elite Beiliang cavalry in this platoon all relied on the corner of their eyes to speed up their charges, and soon continued to maintain that perfect front line that was almost completely straight.

And the same is true of the cavalry after this platoon.

A thousand rides, all the same.

This is the Beiliang Iron Ride!

The old lieutenant casually swept away an oncoming arrow, and as for the one that shot at the armor on his shoulder, he didn't even care.

At the moment of the ride's touch, the heavens and the earth seemed to stand still.

I saw a Beiliang horse jumping high, on that line, above the head of the Beimang soldiers who bent their knees and raised their shields in the first row of Beimang, which was spectacular!

When the horse's hooves finally hit the ground neatly, it was time for the dead.

A captain of Tiger Head City with amazing strength, the spear stabbed into the chest of a Beimang rear row archer, dragging the blood-gushing corpse all the way backwards, and through the head of the spear in the chest hit the abdomen of the second Beimang soldier behind the same column, the cavalry captain suddenly pushed the spear, and then let go of his hand, at the moment when the war horse rushed to the two corpses, the captain bent down and grabbed the head of the spear, and pulled it out of the corpse in one breath, like a heart of the Beiliang war horse suddenly burst out of an astonishing second charge, slamming the third Beimang barbarian who tried to cut the master's arm away。

Only a few shield soldiers, a certain number of archers, and most of the swordsmen who climbed the city, and the thousand-step military array without any thickness to speak of, was rushed by the thousand men and a thousand horses.

More than 900 riders in Hutou City did not stop at all.

didn't care about the Beimang Thousand Men who were all over the ground.

Continuing to run to the second infantry phalanx with a distance of a thousand paces, unlike the first one, the archers of the next phalanx had more ample throwing opportunities, and even the commander urgently seconded nearly a hundred shield soldiers from the rear, sparsely mixed with a dozen spears of little use, it was really difficult for this commander who had to temporarily hold on to his feet. But further afield, a nearby flank cavalry had begun to reinforce along the gap between the infantry.

The old lieutenant, who had the arrow in his shoulder, began to slow his horse, consciously or unconsciously, breathing softly as the horse's back rose and fell.

The old man's gaze crossed the second infantry formation and looked farther away, and the corner of his eye paid attention to the movements on the left and right sides, the number of cavalry troops fighting the fire in the far water on the right flank of Beimang was about two thousand.

The old lieutenant shouted loudly: "Break through the left half of the infantry formation in front of you, and then just charge to the left, and let that Beimang reinforcement cavalry eat ashes behind our butts!"

Less than five hundred paces away, the cavalry began to accelerate its charge.

The front line began to shift to the left.

After several rounds of dense arrow rain, the seven hundred Hutou City cavalry troops were thin by half of their infantry formation, and successfully rushed to the left, this time slamming into the third large formation without reservation.

After the collision, except for fifty or sixty horsemen who still held spears, this cavalry army that seemed to be in a no-man's land began to change into Beiliang swords.

But this time, the heavy damage brought to this Beimang infantry formation by abandoning the gun and replacing the knife was even more exaggerated than the second infantry formation before the Beiliang cavalry smashed away.

Most of those spears pierced into the chests of the Northern Mang's foot soldiers.

The Liangzhou cavalry has an iron law, if you take off the pistol and spear before changing the knife, you can't kill the enemy, and you will be counted as defenseless after the war!

In the middle of the night, this large piece of shining snow blades is particularly eye-catching!

Even Liu Jinu, the main general on the high-rise building in Hutou City, can see it clearly.

The cavalry army, including Captain He Lianshan, had no intention of returning to Hutou City alive, and Liu Jinu was even clearer.

Liu Jinu and the lieutenants who were discussing in the building were standing in front of the railing at this moment.

Liu Jinu didn't have any sad look on his face, but said silently in his heart: "Let's go, go back and brothers together, and go underground to find the general to drink." ”

Liu Jinu limped around and walked back to the building.

I remember that when the bloodstained young vassal king returned to Hutou City with more than 20 Wu family swordsmen, the young man casually asked a question and asked him if Liu Jinu would not be able to defend the Central Plains without Beiliang.

Liu Jinu's answer to this young man's message is no, in just twenty years, the Central Plains is still bloody. When the day comes when there is no way back, many people will find that they can also die without hesitation. Just like our North Liang.

In the end, Liu Jinu added with a smile, it's just that the Central Plains other than Beiliang can not be afraid of death, but if you want to kill him like us Beiliang, don't think about it.

At that time, Liu Jinu saw the young man's appearance of wanting to laugh but not smiling.

Liu Jinu suddenly turned around and ran outside the building.

Without saying a word, a tall but meticulous lieutenant hugged the defender of Hutou City, and said angrily: "General, we have issued a military order with the prince, and Hutou City will be held for at least three months! Yes, at least! What's the matter, general, you have to pick a son? It's not easy to die? Not to mention going out of the city to kill the enemy like Captain He, general, you just need to stand on the head of the city casually, and you won't need an hour, and you will come back sideways!"

Liu Jinu said angrily: "Lao Tzu wants to sleep!"

Captain Gao was puzzled, "Really?"

Several lieutenants who were obviously not worried about Liu Jinu said in unison: "I'll send the general!"

Liu Jinu thought for a while, and broke free of the tall captain's hands, "Forget it, the drowsiness is gone." Come, let's quickly discuss how to bring back the other cavalry troops who have left the city. Looking at the movement outside the city, the Beimang cavalry began to try to set up the net, faster than we had imagined, and we had to come up with a solution in a quarter of an hour. It really can't be done, they should be allowed to go back to the city immediately, and they can't wait until the first half hour......"

The tall lieutenant couldn't help but whisper a damn word.

Liu Jinu turned his head but didn't stop, "Say it again?!"

Captain Tall shut up immediately.

Liu Jinu glared and said, "Bear-like!"

Captain Gao turned his head and pouted: "Do you care about Xiong Xiong, anyway, I am the general and you brought it out, Xiong is not Xiong ......"

Liu Jinu suddenly stopped and said in a deep voice: "No!

After the map was spread out on the table, Liu Jinu fell into deep thought, and the people in the building didn't dare to breathe.

Liu Jinu's gaze quickly wandered across the border of Sanzhou, and finally squinted his eyes to re-stare at the Hutou City where he was, and said slowly: "Now Beimang's real goal is not to eat the Dragon Elephant Army in Liuzhou, not to break through Xiaguang City in Youzhou, nor to our Hutou City. ”

Everyone was baffled.

Could it be Lingzhou?

But that's ridiculous, isn't it?

Liu Jinu stretched out his finger and pressed it against a military town, "It's Huaiyang Pass behind Hutou City!" To be precise, it's the entire Liangzhou behind Chu Lushan!"

Someone asked: "But as long as Hutou City is still there, Huaiyang Pass is originally a dangerous pass that can be attacked and defended, and on the surface, there are those most elite cavalry troops in my Beiliang who can support at any time, although we have just received a secret report, these cavalry are now ...... But the Beimang barbarians definitely don't know the whereabouts of the 20,000 people, under this premise, what will Beimang do to fight Huaiyang Pass?

Someone said: "It doesn't matter if Liuzhou is lost or not, as long as the Dragon Elephant Army can preserve half of its strength, plus the encirclement that can definitely be formed at the mouth of the Hulukou in Youzhou, and then our Hutou City can hold it for three months, even if our Beiliang counterattacks the two states of Beimanggu and Longjiao, it is possible." ”

Liu Jinu was silent.