Auspicious three years, autumn.

The yin qi gradually became heavier, and the dew condensed into white.

The Central Plains is cool, and the northwest border is the heaviest.

In the twilight, outside the northern city, the mighty 400,000 grassland cavalry formed camps, stretching endlessly, and the war horses neighed, gathering like thunder.

There were constantly dozens of small groups of cavalry and hundreds of horsemen out of the formation, quickly approaching the city of Beibei, and then at the edge of the range of the bow and crossbow, looking up, pointing at the head of the city with a whip and sword, arrogant.

Just reject the north city of the north of the city, the cost is expensive and the soldiers of the past dynasties are praised as the country's heavy weapons of the big bed crossbow, there are as many as more than 40 pieces, the range is far, the power is huge, absolutely beyond the imagination of the grassland, the Spring and Autumn Soldier Jia Ye Baikui has been sincerely sighed on the battlefield of the West Fortress, "Nine oxen crossbow, one arrow destroys the mountain, three hundred big steps, can kill the grandmaster!"

But for some reason, in the face of those Beimang cavalry who were outside the range of ordinary bows and crossbows, the Beiliang Chengtou bed crossbow never moved, and there was no sign of taking the lead in making meritorious contributions with this first-class weapon of the soldiers.

Beimang had actually already learned the power of the bed crossbow in Hutou City, but the grassland Da Xi who was responsible for the siege of the city, when Dong Zhuo, the king of the Southern Courtyard, attacked Hutou City regardless of casualties, which caused heavy casualties and great damage to the main forces of other departments, and now almost all of them are still licking their wounds silently in the grassland jurisdiction, and did not participate in the southern expedition. Yang Yuanzan, the general who led the army to attack Hulukou in Youzhou in the first Liang Mang War, died and was martyred, if it weren't for the fact that Bei Liang wanted to exchange the head of the old commander of the Southern Dynasty for the corpse of Liu Jinu in Hutou City, I am afraid that Yang Yuanzan could only continue to become one of the accumulated white bones of a certain Jingguan in Hulukou, as for the meritorious deputy general Chong Tan who broke through the two cities of Wogong and Heluan, he was defeated and captured in the battle of Miyun, and now he is still imprisoned in the North City, and Dong Zhuo attacked Huaiyang Pass in the north, and did not follow the army to the south to reject the North City, so the impression of the North Mang army on Beiliang is still on the word iron cavalry, which is naturally thanks to Dong Zhuo who broke the Tiger Head City with a plan, even if Dong Zhuo resigned from the post of king of the Southern Courtyard, many times in the temple of the Southern Dynasty reminded colleagues that the Hutou City, the first town in the northwest frontier in the past, was extremely difficult to attack, and the majestic new city outside the Liangzhou Pass that was built by the Xu family in the Northern Liang for 20 years was by no means able to be broken in the short term. It's a pity that Dong Zhuo has lost the official body of the king of the Southern Courtyard, and his words are much lighter, and secondly, in the first Liang Reckless War, Dong Zhuo deliberately retained his strength, and wantonly consumed the power of the grassland for the old woman, and his reputation in the north and south capitals became worse and worse, and finally the officialdom of the two temples felt that Dong Fatzi deliberately exaggerated and said that it was difficult to attack Beiliang New Town, which was nothing more than wanting to show his military merits for himself who had already won a tiger head city, and still hoped that one day he would be able to dominate the power, and once again ride on the neck of all the generals holding the order to give orders。

There are constantly grassland magnates galloping outside the city, shouting: "Grandpa is here!

Some of the amazing grassland generals are even more bows like a full moon, galloping forward, the bowstring is tight, after a sudden sound, the arrows shoot towards the gate of the North City, and quickly nail into the city gate, the arrow feathers tremble.

These well-known steppe marksmen won the roaring cheers of the Beimang camp as they turned their horses back.

It turned out that the catapults that fell behind the cavalry continued to advance to the south along the gap path of the camp, totaling as many as nine hundred, plus the 1,400 catapults that Wang Yong would escort to the battlefield before dawn in the Aquarius Prefecture, then there were 2,300 catapults alone, and the boulder reserves were abundant, claiming to have hollowed out the two confrontation peaks in the Longjiao Prefecture of the Southern Dynasty, according to legend, His Majesty the Emperor Beimang and Taiping Ling personally took the time to go there, the old woman wearing a dragon robe and holding the Tianxian in her mouth, personally enshrined the two mountains as the mountain gods of the town and country, and promised to break through the northern city in the future, and when the grassland finally unified the Central Plains, the two mountain gods who temporarily lost their foundation could enter the east and west mountains respectively。

Among the siege equipment, in addition to these catapults carefully built by the Southern Dynasty Military Weapons Superintendent, Beimang, who did not hesitate to exhaust his national strength to fight this big battle, was also equipped with more than 100 buildings and cars of the same height as the North Rejection City in countless baggage loads, because the building cars were originally built for the Tiger Head City, after the completion of the more majestic and towering Refusal North City, it had to be temporarily heightened, so as to urgently hire nearly 10,000 young and strong men and craftsmen, and start work overnight, so as not to delay the fighter plane and be angered by His Majesty the Emperor. Because of the huge project, the pressure on the ordnance supervisor of the Southern Dynasty court was even greater, making the officials of the ordnance superintendent from top to bottom look skinny, but on top of the two things of adding a stone-throwing car and a high-rise building car, it was rumored that the ordnance superintendent officials only relied on this extra income, and everyone made a lot of money, and was ridiculed by a certain depressed Hongjia remnant, among which there was a sentence "skinny and bulging money, and the sleeves were not clear" was widely circulated, specifically to satirize the ordnance prison officials to fill their pockets and make a fortune. The military supervision of the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties set up three departments of armor, bows and crossbows and Dengcheng, and the siege equipment such as buildings and cars were all subordinate to the Dengcheng Bureau, and the officials did not expect that this matter would be so boiling and spread throughout the court, and they were so worried that they almost took the initiative to resign and apologize, but His Majesty the Emperor, who has always treated the remnants of the Southern Dynasty with leniency, actually issued an order to arrest the scholar who was born in the T-shaped clan of the Southern Dynasty, and was sentenced to death for the crime of bewitching the public. What really relieved the acting officer was a private conversation with the chief of the ordnance superintendent, saying that His Majesty the Emperor had seen the things made by our superintendent with his own eyes, and thought that there was no mistake, the material was good, and it was quite good.

In addition, the Southern Dynasty, which imitated the Central Plains to open up post roads, was only a state in Longjiao Prefecture, and within half a year, three post roads were built to transport grain and grass. All this is undoubtedly to pave the way for the offensive and defensive battle against the northern city, and at the same time, almost all the resources of the entire Southern Dynasty are inclined to Longjiao Prefecture, which borders the border outside the Liangzhou Pass, and Dong Zhuo was able to easily obtain a large number of grassland youths to besiege Huaiyang Pass, which is also due to this. Before the first Beimang War, Tuoba Bodhisattva cleared the grassland Beiting forces, and there were a large number of displaced criminals who lost the protection of Xixuan, so they had to go to the battlefield to restore their identity with military merits, at that time, because the main force of Yang Yuanzan's southern expedition was unexpectedly annihilated, resulting in the destruction of the Beimang Chinese army that broke through the Hutou City, which gave the Beiliang border army some respite, I believe that this time, Beimang will never easily retreat, even if Huang Songpu has died in the Liuzhou battlefield, and ended up with the same miserable end as Yang Yuanzan, becoming the highest Beimang official Beimang died in battle, the bad news spread throughout the Southern Dynasties, the temple was full of mourning, and His Majesty the Beimang Emperor still did not hesitate, let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Yeluhong perform the duties of supervising the country, lead the army south to reject the northern city, and she personally sat in Xijing to appease the people.

In this war, Beimang is bound to win!

Probably because of the silence of Beiliang's rejection of Beicheng, which further fueled the rebelliousness of the grassland generals, and His Royal Highness the Prince, who drove the expedition in person, did not order to restrain the fierce generals under his command, and led the elite cavalry out of the camp to parade, as if it had become an unwritten rule that the generals of the border army of the Southern Dynasty and the northern court of the grassland were clear, as if it was a cowardly act not to refuse the head of the northern city. At first, some people did not talk about those silent and hideous large bed crossbows, even the ordinary city guard bow was nothing, and the horse moved forward with his body in danger, only hated that he could not ride his horse and jump to the city, and some young generals from the high gate of the North Court were dressed in gold and silver armor, and they were dazzling in the sunset. For these young grassland magnates who changed from cowardly Xue Wei to a centurion or even a thousand-commander in the army, they were tired of hearing the Liyang border army that stood on their own when they were young, and their ears were calloused, and they even slandered a lot, and felt that His Majesty the Emperor valued the people in the Southern Dynasty, in addition to Dong Fatzi, they were still somewhat capable, Huang Songpu, Yang Yuanzan, Liu Qi, these old men, were really not worth mentioning, if it weren't for His Majesty's greeting of Hong Jia Beiben and those lost dogs who ran to the grassland for refuge and survival, and inexplicably made a covenant for the southerners to govern the southerners, where would Huang Songpu be a general？

There are two horsemen out of the camp did not go straight to the north of the city, but along the periphery of the camp slowly ride, these two horses are young people, wearing armor and hanging with a war knife is also ordinary, but one of the horses is tied around the waist of the Xianbei buckle jade belt, so that the two of them can go unimpeded, this young man is the Beimang Wang Tent member Yelu East bed, Beimang Xianbei buckle is also divided into high and low, according to the number of gems inlaid on the jade belt, Yelu Murong two surnamed children can mostly be inlaid with two or three, and then increase in the size of military merits, Murong Baoding, such a high-ranking imperial relative who holds military power, or the three dynasties Gu Ming Minister Yelu Hongcai, that is, Yelu Dong's grandfather, can be inlaid with eight, Yelu East bed of Xianbei buckled originally only six, was named the general of the Zhenguo and the leader of the Xijing military department, the temperance of the gentleman pavilion tile built in one of the four military towns, then added a huge opal, he was supposed to stay in the Xijing temple, or in one of the four military towns of Gusai Prefecture border pass, but this time made an exception with the army to the north of the city, and the young knight next to him was the identity of the middle road supervisor, the position is not heavy, the icing on the cake.

Yelu Dong's bed was short in stature and dark in skin, but it was full of a fierce aura like a steppe wolf, and he turned his head to the young man beside him and smiled: "Tuoba Qiyun, great achievements are ahead, but you and I can only stare dryly, can we hold back our grievances?"

Another young man is the Tuoba Qiyun of the eldest son of the Beimang military god Tuoba Bodhisattva, the spring bowl that ranks first among the four major bowls of the grassland, and the spring bowl is more sandalwood than the summer bowl. Autumn bowl Duan Er's return and winter bowl Wang Jingchong, all three of them have a deeper background, the original Tan is the most optimistic, not only experienced the first Liang Mang War, but also has the good military exploits of the two cities of Youzhou Lying Bow and Crane Luan, as long as they successfully recruit the Buddhist forces of the Western Regions of Langtuo Mountain, it is a sure thing to make steady progress in the Southern Dynasty, plus the family has a deep heritage, and his father is one of the fourteen generals in Beimang, and Tan is even expected to become the next general Dong Zhuo who has no name but is a vassal king, and in the future of the Central Plains, one surname and two feudal kings is not an extravagant hope。 Now that the sandalwood is nowhere to be found in the Western Regions, and life and death are unknown, there is one less natural rival in the spring bowl Tuoba Qiyun.

Tuoba said calmly: "With the identity of your and my father's family, as long as we defeat the North City, even if we are napping on horseback from beginning to end, why worry about running into the bag without military merits." ”

Yelu Dongbed frowned and said, "Listening to the tone of the spring bowl, do you think there are still variables in defeating the North City?"

Tuoba Qiyun hesitated for a moment, and took advantage of the afterglow of the setting sun to turn his head to look at the tall and majestic city, "It may not be all a good thing to force the main force of Beiliang to dismount and fight." ”

Yelu Dong laughed: "You scholars, you have a lot of knowledge, and if you are a little bad, you like to be afraid of this and that, but you always have to fight." ”

Tuoba Qiyun smiled, "The Central Plains celebrities like to talk about games, including the golden horn and silver edge grass belly, the previous three-line battle, Beiliang was only a big victory in Youzhou Hulukou, which made Dong Zhuo's army retreat north with regret, which is proof." ”

Yelu Dong's wrist twisted and waved his horsewhip lightly, "Now our old woman mountain is defeated again, and even the 50,000 elite horsemen of the Southern Korean border army who went to reinforce have been made dumplings, can it be said that we want to repeat the mistakes of the past?"

Tuoba shook his head and said, " On the contrary, we should go south to attack the rejection of the northern city, this is actually the intention of the Taiping Order, to exchange the southern dynasty Xijing for the rejection of the northern city, those who fled from the Central Plains to the grassland of the Spring and Autumn Remnants, after 20 years of rooted growth, gradually gained a foothold, has a vague tail of the momentum, in fact, His Majesty the Emperor is not without concern about this, the entire four major states of the Southern Dynasties, the civil and official forces are intertwined, and even the Longguan tyrants, who have always been xenophobic, have to lower their prices to marry with them, in order to consolidate their positions, it can be seen that the influence of those Central Plains scholars is great, for a long time, the remnants of the Southern Dynasties are afraid that they will change from swords to swords, although there is still a blade to hurt people, but a blade will hurt themselves if they are not careful。 ”

Yelu Dong grinned, like a wild wolf baring his teeth, extraordinarily-eerie and infiltrating," In this case, as long as Beiliang has the courage to use the main force of the Liangzhou field in the Qingyuan area to rush to Liuzhou, it is better to let them attack the hinterland of the Southern Dynasties like a bamboo, anyway, they are all soldiers and horses that are inextricably linked with the remnants of the Spring and Autumn Period, so we should help us eliminate some hidden dangers in the grassland, and kill by mistake, if you kill by mistake, you can just put it, and in the end, the Xijing temple will become completely clean, which is equivalent to the Northern Liang cavalry army helping our Emperor Majesty to be the executioner, and it can also ensure that the vast battlefield outside Liangzhou Pass has fewer variables, the best of both worlds. The Taiping Order is really ruthless. ”

Tuoba Qiyun sighed in a low voice: "This kind of technique may have been learned from the people of the Central Plains." ”

Yelu Dongbed pursed his lips, "In the future, when we enter the Central Plains, I will definitely make those scholars and literati suffer enough and teach them to sweep the floor!"

The spring bowl did not answer, but only glanced at the majestic and silent outline of the northern city, like the mainstay standing before the grassland iron horse flood, it quietly condensed the eight hundred years of the Central Plains.

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In the siege of Beimang Xijing, an old woman with a slender figure walked under the wall, and her small and slow steps just stepped on the boundary between the afterglow of the setting sun and the rich shadows.

The old woman silently followed the Taiping Order of the Chess and Sword Le Mansion, an emperor, an old man whose ambition was not in a northwest city but in Tai'an City in the Central Plains.

The old man said suddenly: "Why doesn't Your Majesty refuse to let Yelu Dongbed stay in Gusai Prefecture to resist the Liuzhou cavalry? Although the fragmentation of the Southern Dynasty does not affect the overall situation, after all, His Majesty's face is a little unwilling. Those remnants of the older generation of Hong Jia, even if they have withdrawn from officialdom, there is no shortage of smart people, and they may be wary of this. ”

The old woman who didn't have anyone to support her staggered forward, and said indifferently: "I heard Li Mibi say that Wang Du'an has been guarding himself for 20 years, and recently I don't know whether to return to the light or seek for his descendants, and he actually secretly interacted with many big people, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, little Wang Jingchong, let him sacrifice his life for the country, anyway, it's a big deal that I will give more than a dozen Xianbei buckles at that time, why not give Wang Du'er a great favor?" Wang Du and the older generation of remnants of the Spring and Autumn Period, compared to the remnants of the younger generation, are really old and immortal are thieves, I have paid great attention to their subtle influence on the officialdom of the Southern Dynasties, but I still can't stop their infiltration, I was kind enough to take them in and give them a bowl of rice to hang their lives, but they left me such a mess!"

The old woman's tone became heavier, and she said sharply: "I have been fighting in the south and north for hundreds of years, and I have been invincible since I was arrogant, and I rely on killing the enemy with all my heart, if I have selfish desires, it is also when I divide the results of the war after the war. Damn it!"

Taiping Ling sighed softly.

The old woman who was in a mood slowly gathered her emotions and squinted at the bright and dark boundary under her feet, like the border between the two countries, and like the separation of yin and yang.

The old woman said slowly: "Whether it is Yelu Dong's bed with a good grandfather to help him make suggestions, or my cousin Murong Baoding, who believes that people will not be destroyed for themselves, and even together with the general's supernatural powers, they are all wolf ambitions, and they seem to be deep in the city, but in my eyes, they are not as smart as Dong Zhuo, only this fat Dong who is full of oil can afford to put it down." No one wants to fight Huaiyang Pass, the military merits are not big, and even if it is defeated, only Chu Lushan has a head on the table, and when the time comes, he will definitely hurt his muscles and bones, at least hundreds of thousands of casualties, so that even if I promise to be crowned a prince according to his military merits, there are no soldiers and horses under his command, and ordinary people can't sit in that position, so he asked Murong Baoding to fight Huaiyang Pass before, this orange state holding the festival order is almost like a dead father, the lion opened his mouth, and I asked for so many Rouran iron horses in vain and felt that it was not enough, so he thought about not working hard, what the overall situation, he knew the severity, but he just didn't want to care, hateful！”

The old woman sneered: "As long as Dong Zhuo can take Huaiyang Pass, even if he can't participate in the attack on Beicheng, I will give him a king of the Southern Courtyard at that time, and he will lead the army into Beiliang Pass." ”

Taiping Ling frowned and said: "That is Chen Zhibao, who was crowned king by Liyang and was vassed in Xishu. ”

The old woman smiled in a low voice: "I don't have a few days to live, and I can still care whether the white-eyed wolf surnamed Yelu Murong is dead or alive?"

Taiping Ling was silent.

The old woman comforted: "Sir, as long as the hooves of the grassland iron rider step on Tai'an City, step into Guangling Road, and step on the southernmost land of the Central Plains, in the Qing History, I will not forget you and me, as for who will sit on the dragon chair in the end, whether it is surnamed Yelu, or surnamed Murong, or surnamed Dong, what?"

Taiping Ling smiled bitterly: "If you can dominate the world, it is always a good thing that fewer people will die." ”

The old woman laughed and waved her sleeves, "Then you will have to live for a few more years!"

Emperor Beimang stopped in place, and his figure was gloomy.

The old woman walked alone, the afterglow fading at her feet.

In the darkness, the old woman muttered to herself, "Next year, the heavy snow in your hometown in Jinzhou, Liaodong, maybe I won't be able to see it." You say that if I didn't return to my hometown, but stayed with you, I don't have ...... now A house full of children and grandchildren?"

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The sky will not dawn, reject the North City Mansion, the back hall house, and the candlelight in a house is brilliant.

A cool knife rested on the table, and a young man began to silently put on the vassal king's python robe.

Outside, a young woman dressed in a vegetarian dress and holding a red sandalwood sword box with a resolute expression waited quietly for him to go out.

In the same mansion, Xue Songguan, who had not slept all night, slowly sat up, put on his boots, picked up the guqin, and gently pushed open the door.

Yu Xingrui, an old man in Wudang Mountain, happened to play the boxing technique created by his junior brother Hong Xixiang in the small courtyard, and he was refreshed and left the courtyard with a sword.

An old man in white clothes, white hair and white eyebrows sat on the stone bench, the sword box on the table was wide open, the old man held the sword in one hand, and his two fingers shattered the sword body inch by inch, and gently threw it into his mouth, like chewing soybeans, the old man casually threw away only the hilt of the sword, glanced at the empty sword box, slowly got up, and smiled. A hundred years of sword qi is full of belly, and it's time to vomit quickly.

On the stone steps of a small courtyard, the young swordsman who was the contemporary sword crown of the Wu family's sword mound squatted there, got up suddenly, turned his head and looked at Cuihua, the sword servant of the ancient sword Su King, who opened his eyes for the first time and smiled at him.

There is a small courtyard, the two brothers of Emperor Wu City, walked out of the door at the same time, Wang Xianzhi's eldest apprentice in Yushu Linfeng took off a cool knife at his waist and threw it high to another person, and the latter would also smile and throw the two famous swords Shu Dao Fu Ping that were sent to his hand yesterday, and one of them was thrown to the senior brother. Two people

One person hung a cool knife and the other hung a famous sword, the movements were the same, and finally they each hung their swords and swords, and strode out of the courtyard side by side.

After going out, a middle-aged man with white cloth leggings turned around and waved to the Miao daughter-in-law standing at the door, and she smiled and extended a thumbs up to him.

In the same elegant courtyard, the elderly Confucian put down the book of sages in his hand in the house, and stood up in his clothes. The old swordsman sitting next to him raised his glass and drank half of the wine, then poured it on top of the unsheathed sword. Outside the house, the burly old man stood with a knife in his hand, closed his eyes and stared, waiting for the two old friends.

In front of the council hall of the Beicheng Domain, under the wooden archway, someone was carrying an iron spear, and the suzerain of Dongyue Jianchi was standing beside him.

In a place in the northern city, the woman in purple squatted down and tied her skirt in a small knot.

At the head of the south city of the north city, the middle-aged swordsman with a mediocre appearance sat cross-legged, with a horizontal sword on his knees, looking into the distance, as if waiting for the sunrise in the East China Sea.

Not far from the head of this city, there was a man in white, who was looking up and drinking, and the woman in the red robe next to him looked peaceful.

After the young feudal king put on the python robe, he put on his cool knife, and when he was about to open the door, he paused slightly, and then pulled it away abruptly.

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The Beimang army is about to attack the city, just waiting for dawn.

A horse rushed out suddenly, and the captain of the Beimang Wanfu rode his horse to less than 100 steps away from the city wall, and laughed wildly: "The bullshit Beiliang Iron Cavalry is in the world! Until now, no one has dared to go out of the city to fight?!"