The sound of horses' hooves of the army on the middle line of Beimang has appeared in the area south of Hutou City, directly hitting the first line of Huaiyangguan and Poria Liuya, and Murong Baoding's horse lanzi is even as far as Chongzuka Military Town, after the Liangzhou white horse crossbowmen transferred to Liuzhou, these are far inferior to the Beimang scouts of the crow fence wandering in all directions.

The two generals who sat in the Beimang Chinese Army were Dong Zhuo and Murong Baoding, the Orange Prefecture Commander who did not participate in the first Liangmang War. I don't know why, Murong Baoding, who was originally responsible for the task of attacking Huaiyang Pass, temporarily turned to besiege the two towns of Poria and Liuya, Dong Zhuo personally led the army to Huaiyang Pass, where the Beiliang Protectorate is located, although there is a suspicion of being angry, but the two temples of Beimang Wangting and Xijing have no objections, the reason is very simple, first, Dong Zhuo's brother-in-law died in the Longyaner Plain in an abrupt battle, no one wants to compete with Dong Fatzi who must report at this pass, and secondly, Huaiyang Pass is the only place outside Beiliang Pass that is famous for its danger in the world, and it is a well-deserved Xiongguan natural danger, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack。

Although Murong Baoding's descendants had 20,000 infantry troops, this imperial relative obviously did not have the confidence to use 20,000 horses to capture Huaiyang Pass, which was garrisoned by no less than 30,000 Beiliang border troops.

At the beginning, Emperor Beimang personally presided over the Xijing proceedings, and decided to let Murong Baoding's troops attack Huaiyang Pass, and the old woman's surname was the same as the Orange Prefecture Decree almost got angry on the spot, and then Hong Jingyan and Dong Zhuo's brother-in-law Yelu Chucai died at the same time in the scout battle in the north of Hutou City, and the Rouran Iron Cavalry suddenly had no leader, and Murong Baoding was able to absorb a full 30,000 Rouran cavalry, which was a little relieved, which did not have the compensation of Emperor Beimang, otherwise Murong Baoding wanted to talk to Dong Zhuo, who was recognized as liking to eat alone, In the Aquarius Prefecture, which has deep roots in Beiting, Wang Yong is in a hurry, and he has to fight with so many big fat steppes who are staring at Rouran Iron Riding that has fallen from the sky, and the beads are already red, even if Murong Baoding can get a piece of the pie, at most, he will be able to hold on to the death and take four or five thousand horsemen into his pocket. So when Murong Baoding took advantage of the big money, Dong Fatzi actually took the initiative to ask to attack Huaiyang Pass, which made the entire grassland envy the shit luck of the Orange Prefecture with the festival, it was simply sleeping the number one Oiran in the world, and after pulling out the bird, he was distressed about spending wine money, but someone stupidly came up to help put on his pants, and said that the account had been settled.

Dong Zhuo, the youngest general of Beimang, and Beiliang both protect Chu Lushan, and are called "North Dong Nanchu", the grievances and grievances of these two people are not only famous, but even the officialdom of the Central Plains has heard of it.

If it weren't for Dong Zhuo, a genius in the art of war, perhaps the Xu family's cavalry would have broken through the northern courtyard of the grassland back then, making the already precarious usurper empress a prisoner of the Liyang Zhao family. Dong Zhuo's only defeat was due to Chu Lushan, Chu Lushan's eight thousand Luohe iron cavalry, and it was in that interception battle that shined, before the two sides each ran four hundred miles, Dong Zhuo's cavalry had completely broken away from the encirclement of the Liyang cavalry, but was still bitten by Chu Lushan, who attacked without authorization, and finally hit head-on, with heavy casualties, and the two sides could not talk about victory or defeat, but Dong Zhuo was heavily injured and was stabbed off the horse by Chu Lushan.

It has always been rumored in the Central Plains that Chu Lushan left a sentence to the young Beimang General who was rescued in a hurry, and it was this sentence that made the Beiliang Iron Cavalry criticized, "There are only two kinds of cavalry in the world, not your grassland cavalry and the Central Plains cavalry, but our Xu family iron cavalry and all other cavalry!"

Longyaner Plain, the place where Yelu Chucai, the main general of the temporary crow bar, died in battle.

An unusually strong but unusually bloated Northern Mang military general squatted down, his upper and lower teeth gently and habitually tapping each other, squinting to the south.

Beside him stood a crying little girl, and the handsome pony with a snow-white body circled around the girl at a loss, touching the little master with the horse's head from time to time.

Two young women dressed in vegetarian clothes, one standing with a sword, with a beautiful face and a cold temperament. Another woman with a graceful temperament held the ashes in her hand, grabbed them one by one, and sprinkled them one by one between heaven and earth.

They are the only daughter of the fifth raccoon dog of Beimang Tibing Mountain, the fifth fox, and the sister of Yelu Chucai, the lord of Beimang County of Jinzhi Yuye.

The fifth raccoon dog died at the hands of the new Liang King, and Yelu Chucai died on the battlefield outside the Liangzhou Pass where the young vassal king once went in person. are all directly related to the young vassal king surnamed Xu.

The little girl named Tao Manwu, although she is not very old, is now like a tender willow drawer, and she can vaguely see the beauty embryo, and her father's name is Tao Qianzhi, after quitting the border army in Gusai Prefecture, she went to Longjiao Prefecture to stay in the city as a city pastor, and died violently in a yellow paper Qingming Festival a few years ago.

Tao Qianzhi and Dong Zhuo are the border army robes that can be exchanged for life and death, especially when they first joined the army, the friendship is naturally heavier, so after Tao Qianzhi's death, Tao Manwu became the heart and soul of Dong Zhuo, who was famous for his cold-blooded iron fist in the Southern Dynasty, and this fat man even told his two daughters-in-law bluntly that even if they have a son and daughter in the future, they will never be as close to them as Xiao Manwu.

Tao Manwu always likes to pick up his little uncle who her cheek with a beard, and jokes to the young elder who likes to joke that when she grows up, she must marry her as a little daughter-in-law.

Tao Manwu watched the eldest aunt surnamed Yelu splash the ashes, crying so that her eyes were red and swollen, and she couldn't cry, so she had to cover her mouth with both hands, for fear that she would have no end to crying, which would make the already very sad uncle and aunt even more annoyed.

As if realizing that the girl's cry was quieter, the fat man wearing an iron armor and a vegetarian coat turned his head, and after seeing Xiao Manwu's pitiful appearance, he gently pulled away her slender hands, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's okay, cry if you want to cry, women in the world, other things are not easy to say, you can always cry if you want to cry." ”

This military general, who is famous in Beimang and is not inferior to the military god Tuoba Bodhisattva, can look at the level of the little girl even if he is squatting, it is hard to imagine that this majestic man who has become the king of the Southern Courtyard in just twenty years of his career as a horse warrior will show such a gentle look.

After scattering a jar of ashes, the lord of Beimang raised his arms high, and casually threw the urn into the distance, allowing the rustic pottery altar from the hands of the remnants of the Central Plains to shatter.

Fifth, the fox's eyelids trembled quietly.

The county lord of Beimang turned his head to look at his man, and said in an indifferent tone: "Qiu, as the brother-in-law of Yelu Chucai, and the first person in the southern expedition of my Damang Dynasty, you will definitely be rewarded." ”

The fifth fox frowned, but did not speak.

Dong Zhuo rubbed Tao Manwu's head, and said in a deep voice: "Of course! When I married you back then, I promised you that as long as my brother-in-law did not become the fourth general of the Southern Dynasty, he would definitely not die on the battlefield. ”

She turned her head to look north at her distant hometown, and said softly: "However, Dong Zhuo, as my husband, you can't die." ”

Dong Zhuo grinned, propped his hands on his knees, and slowly stood up, "The Beiliang Iron Cavalry is known as the best in the world, but it's really not easy for me to die." ”

She smiled miserably and murmured, "You've broken your trust once, don't have a second time." When the time comes, even if I want to find someone to scold, who can I find?"

Her family's forces on the side of the grassland royal court are intertwined, and the reason why Dong Zhuo was able to disrupt the deployment of the Liyang Northern Expedition was that the elite cavalry under her command at that time was one of the dowries she paid to marry this man. The combat strength of the two armies of the Dong family infantry and cavalry is the first in the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties, and there are nearly 150,000 private troops, how can Dong Zhuo afford it? Especially in the early days, it was still supported by her dowry. On the other hand, her younger brother Yelu Chucai, as the eldest grandson, is the pillar of the future, after leaving the Wang Tent and Xue Wei, who must participate in the two young children of Yelu Murong, she has to enter the brother-in-law's army, and she has to start from an ordinary chief, and as a result, she has been in the army for 20 years, and when she dies, she is just a general who is between a thousand commanders and ten thousand commanders.

She hesitated for a moment, and said to herself with a sad face: " After experiencing the battle of Hulukou, he was ordered by you to lead the cavalry to aid Yang Yuanzan, I was very worried about the safety of this tendon, so behind your back, I successfully persuaded my father, who was also worried, to convince his father who was also worried, and planned to make him enter one of the two royal tent iron cavalry and serve as the chief general of the Yelu heavy cavalry, but in the end, the operation of the father's side had already had an eyebrow, but Yelu Chucai, the bastard, refused to agree, saying that if he was forced to move him away from his brother-in-law, he would run away from home, simply take off his armor, and ride to the Central Plains rivers and lakes alone。 ”

Dong Zhuo clenched his hands into fists, "I only know about this now." ”

Dong Zhuo raised his eyes and looked into the distance, "But if I had known it a long time ago, and if Yelu Chucai promised you, I would definitely not stop him, but if he was unwilling to leave, I would not persuade him." ”

Dong Zhuo continued: "My son of Dong Jiajun is the most sought-after person in the entire grassland, no one is worried about the future, as long as he wants to move his nest, at least he will be promoted to one level. But for so many years, after only one big battle after another, outsiders sharpened their heads and entered my Dong family's army, and they were proud to be a sergeant of the Dong family. No one has ever left and chosen to leave this army......"

Dong Zhuo suddenly smiled and changed his words: "I said it wrong, in fact, there are, and there are many of them! Just like my brother-in-law, who died in battle." ”

Dong Jiaerlang immediately stabbed and speared, next to the dead horse. Don't cry and break your bowels at home, and the children at home will be Dong Jialang again!

She suddenly walked towards him and slammed him in the chest, and in the end, Dong Zhuo, who was rough-skinned and thick-skinned and covered in iron armor, didn't feel anything, and her fists were instantly red and swollen.

After that, she didn't cry or make trouble, took a deep breath, and said softly: "Don't die in Huaiyang Pass, don't die in Beicheng, if you really want to die, just die on the coast of the Central Plains and the South China Sea, which is the farthest away from the grassland, so that I can be out of sight and out of mind." ”

Dong Zhuo grinned and said, "Okay!"

She turned to leave, "I'll go back to Beiting, don't send it." ”

Probably the same as the little girl Tao Manwu, this resolute woman who once threatened at a young age that "I only hate not a man's body, otherwise I must be the Marquis of Wanhu", this Beimang county lord who made the Beimang Empress laugh and said three good words with this word, also did not dare to cry in person.

When she walked away alone, the fifth fox said worriedly: "Why do you want to gnaw on Huaiyang Guan, a hard bone with no flesh, isn't it good to leave it to Murong Baoding for a headache?"

Dong Zhuo laughed at himself: "In a tough battle to the death, someone must fight, and the remaining family of His Majesty the Emperor, if you still want to make a difference in the Central Plains, you can't fight a child's play like the first reckless war." Prairie children, in the end, are not aquatic plants that grow again every spring, and they have been cut and stubble. Now that the size of the grassland has hurt its vitality, once the North Court gains another inch, I am afraid that there will be internal strife. Such a big mess, the gods can't remedy it, and it will be me Dong Zhuo who will suffer at that time, and let the Beiliang border army sit on the profits of the fishermen in vain and make immortal achievements. ”

Dong Zhuo looked south, it was the Hutou City that was destroyed after he personally broke through, and further south, it is Huaiyang Pass, which has a dangerous geographical advantage, it is ridiculous to say, the grassland million army, and Beiliang fought for 20 years, when the old man Tu was alive, the border army of the Southern Dynasty even saw the number of times Hutou City was only a handful, until the death of Xu Xiao, he Dong Zhuo finally held the power, and Beimang's horseshoe stepped on the ground to the south, but it was only a little advanced. But now, the 10,000 light cavalry of the Northern Liang Yuluan Knife Division, following the Great Snow Dragoon Army in the early years, once again penetrated into the hinterland of the Southern Dynasties, treating the fortresses of the large and small military towns in Gusai Prefecture as nothing.

Dong Zhuo stretched out his hand and pointed to the south, and said to the little daughter-in-law: "In the Huaiyang Pass Metropolitan Protector's Mansion, there is a fat man who is fatter than me, it is said that the Liyang Imperial Court has always claimed that at the end of the battle between me and Chu Fatzi, this person Tu Yizi said such a rebellious rhetoric, saying that it is the cavalry of the world, and it is only divided into the Xu family iron cavalry and all other cavalry. In fact, the truth is not like this, but the Beiliang border army is so conceited that they gladly accepted the dirty water splashed by the civil officials of Liyang, but regarded it as a compliment. ”

Dong Zhuo didn't withdraw his arm, kept pointing to the south, smiled gloomily, and said slowly: "Chu Lushan did leave some words at that time, I remember that guy was sitting on horseback, pointing at me with the tip of an iron gun, and laughed, 'I heard that your kid is called Dong Zhuo? My father-in-law is not good at going all out because of some concerns, so Chen Zhibao and Yuan Zuozong are too lazy to play with you, and I, Chu Lushan, am really idle and panicked, so I came over to fight with you, otherwise it would be with your ability, plus the little bit of sparse soldiers and horses you have at hand......"

Dong Zhuo was speechless for a long time.

The fifth fox asked curiously, "What about next?"

Dong Zhuo withdrew his hand and said stupidly: "Then I fainted when I was seriously injured." ”

seemed to feel a little embarrassed, Dong Zhuo lowered his head and grimaced at the little girl Tao Manwu.

The little girl with tears on her face clenched Dong Zhuo's wrist hard, not being amused, but crying more and more.

The little girl raised her head and choked up, "Uncle Dong, don't die!"

In the mind of this child with a rough background, he is like the kind of broom star rumored in the market, always killing the people closest to him, from his father Tao Qianzhi to Yelu Chucai, who is next?

So she was scared.

Dong Zhuo squatted down, stretched out his big hand that was used to killing people with knives and was covered with calluses, and helped the little girl wipe away her tears, "Xiao Manwu, don't cry, a bad person like Uncle Dong has the longest life, and Lord Yama is not willing to accept it." ”

As soon as she heard this, the little girl burst into tears.

Because in her mind, in addition to her father, Uncle Dong has always been the second best good person in the world.

And the guy who was once regarded as the best by her can now only be quietly reduced to second.

Dong Zhuo didn't know how to persuade her, so he let her ride on his shoulder, stood up and looked south together, Dong Zhuo said softly: "Don't worry, Uncle Dong will take you to see him for the last time." ”

Tao Manwu rested his little head on Dong Zhuo's big head.

Dong Zhuo asked softly: "Xiao Manwu, why is that ballad humming, Uncle Dong always can't remember the words, your little uncle used to sing in front of me, and he sang it to death." Xiao Manwu, why don't you teach him one last time?"

The little girl hummed heavily, but there were too many tears and too many tears, and she didn't speak immediately.

Dong Zhuo was not in a hurry, and remembered a scripture for no reason, the murderous Beimang general, folded his hands, bowed his head and recited sincerely: "Self-refuge in the Buddha, not subject to all reincarnation suffering." Self-conversion in accordance with the law, enjoy the blessings of the ten directions and the three worlds. Self-refuge in the Sangha, do not fall into the evil path of rebirth......"

At the same time, Tao Manwu's immature voice also sounded softly above Dong Zhuo's head.

The grass grows next year, and the geese go and come back. The spring breeze is blowing this year, will the son return? The bluestone slab is green and the grass is green, and the Qingyi Lang on the bluestone bridge is humming the Jinling tune.

Whose daughter bows her head and smiles?

The yellow leaves fall this year, year after year. The autumn wind will start next year, the lady is not there, the Yellow River is yellow and yellow, and the yellow flower girl in the Yellow River city is fluttering with yellow butterflies.

Whose son's knife is in the sheath?

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The sword is still in its sheath.

Childe has no return.

This is true for many living people on both sides.

It's just that in the eyes of the Central Plains, the three vassal kings joined forces to rebel, and their war seemed to come for no reason, but those Northern Liang barbarians and Northern Mang barbarians, the dead people there died as a matter of course, and it was justified.

On the yellow sand of the Longyaner Plain, the fat man who was still carrying Xiao Manwu on his back put down his hands and said in a deep voice: "Chu Lushan, since you are bent on death, then I will accept your three hundred catties of meat generously!"

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Huaiyang Pass is divided into inner and outer cities, built by the mountain, the overall terrain increases to the south, especially the inner city is built on the mountain cliff, the city walls are made of stones, when Beiliang strives to build the first male city Hutou City outside the Northwest Pass, most of the stones used are taken from Canglang Mountain in Lingzhou, and it is found afterwards that there are still three or four out of ten boulders left, so they all move south to Huaiyang Pass that is far from reaching today's scale at that time, after more than 10 years of continuous reinforcement and accumulation, a large number of equipment grain and grass have been hoarded, as long as the outer city is not lost, the water source is also worry-free. In addition to losing to Hutou City in terms of strategic significance, Huaiyang Pass is difficult to break, in fact, it has surpassed the first city of Liyang Border Pass before the completion of the North Rejection City.

Therefore, Chu Lushan insisted on setting up the capital protection mansion in Huaiyang Pass, which is far away from Liangzhou City, and Xu Fengnian did not have too many objections.

However, after the fragmented Hutou City lost its defensive significance, Xu Fengnian and Qingliangshan both asked Chu Lushan to retreat to the North City, but Chu Lushan still insisted on defending the first line of Huaiyang Pass.

It is hard to imagine that Tu Yizi, a person who has had a thousand feats of riding to open Shu, led a fierce general who has led 8,000 iron horsemen who dragged the river, after taking root in Beiliang, he has always had a low official quality and no complaints, and he is bent on living a wasted life of drunkenness and gold.

After becoming the protector of Beiliang, he changed again, and outside the barren and desolate pass, he did not move at all.

Probably after the death of the old man Tu Xu Xiao, in today's world, no one can really see through this fat man.

On the tower of the inner city of Huaiyang Pass, a fat man as bloated as a hill held his hands on the arrow battlement, silent.

Enemies are all over the world, and there is no confidant.

He rubbed his neck and said with a smile, "What a great head." ”