For this attack on the Western Regions, the Beiliang Protectorate and the Liuzhou Provincial Governor's Office both required him and the other cavalry to do their best to intercept Zhong Tan's ten thousand cavalry and force the monk soldiers of Mount Lantuo behind him to enter the Qingcang main battlefield in Liuzhou as late as possible. Thus, in the final analysis, this interception battle did not require great or great results. It was just to buy time for the Yu Luan Dao cavalry to penetrate deep into the enemy territory and the main Long Xiang Army. It was easy to fight, but it was also not easy to fight. The conservative way of fighting was to ignore the Mount Lantuo infantry and monk soldiers. They only needed to endlessly tangle with Zhong Tan's cavalry to open the way. In this way, the mission would be considered complete. But as the two cavalry forces traveled side by side, he proposed an extremely risky idea, a radical plan that would make it difficult for the two cavalry forces to fight. He originally thought that the young man nicknamed Cao Shorty and Winter Melon would resolutely reject the idea and bring up the idea of "looking at the big picture." However, this young Beiliang cavalry general, who was fighting side by side with him for the first time, actually agreed without a second word. Not only that, he took the initiative to take on an even more "suicidal" mission. His reasoning was that Cao Wei had more men under his command and that General Cao's ability to lead and fight was greater. At the same time, he did not know whether to laugh or cry. At the same time, he also had a somewhat inexplicable feeling. When he was in Guangling Road, he was used to shouldering all the burdens alone. He was used to the heaviness of having tens or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers all tied to his shoulders.
This battle, before it even began, made him feel very unfamiliar.
He turned his head to look at the cavalry forces belonging to the two towns of Linyao and Fengxiang. Unconsciously, he reached out to grasp the war blade he had obtained not long ago, the sixth generation Xu Dao.
He had only begun to understand many things and details after truly coming to the northwest and entering the border army. For example, the war blade in his hand. It turned out that the cold blade had to be sharpened twice. The first time was to sharpen the blade in the workshop, and the second time was to kill and drink blood on the battlefield. Otherwise, if the war blade only had the first time, it could not be called a cold blade.
Xie Xibian smiled.
Beiliang was cold and bitter, but there were many things to pay attention to.
But he liked it, liked it very much.
The six thousand cavalrymen behind him had a complicated background. Some of them were originally strong horse bandits who had ruled over the two towns, some were young and strong refugees from Liuzhou who had fought for their household registration, and some were Western Region cavalrymen who had been roped in by the woman called Chai Dongdi.
Accurately speaking, they were like Xie Xibian. Compared to the Beimang barbarians, the Beiliang Frontier Army, they were all fledglings. The people were like this, and the newly issued cold blades at their waists were even more so.
Cutting off the heads of the Northern Mang barbarians and using them as a blade to bleed and sharpen, it wasn't the slightest bit inferior to those beautiful Yanzhi County women!
It was unknown who first, who was the first person who said, Xie Xibian.
Although his master was Cao Changqing from West Chu, he was born in the streets and alleys of Xie Xibian. Naturally, he liked it very much.
Xie Xibian's military orders were accurately passed down one by one. He divided the six thousand cavalry into three groups according to their origins. The 2,500 cavalrymen from the two towns were the vanguard. They charged at Zhong Tan's cavalry that had appeared outside the Miyun exit. If they succeeded, the whole army would advance. If they failed, as long as they could stabilize their position and prevent the Beimang cavalry from successfully spreading out their formation outside the mountain pass, they would retreat after a small battle. The second group of 1,000 cavalrymen would take their place. Then, it would be Chai Dongdi's 2,000 cavalrymen who would retreat and advance. He personally led 500 Long Xiang Army elites to hold the line. Once the Beimang cavalry appeared, Xie Xibian would retreat.
If there were any signs of them breaking out of the formation, Xie Xibian would order the five hundred elite cavalrymen to block the exit of Miyun Pass even if they died in battle.
After parting ways with Cao Wei's ten thousand cavalry, the latter had already passed most of the crossbows and cavalry bows to Xie Xibian's cavalry.
The best case scenario would naturally be the elite cavalry of Zhongtan tribe bringing up the rear, while the ordinary cavalry would be the first to charge out of Mount Miyun. However, Xie Xibang believed that the young man, who relied on the mouth of the bottle gourd and the corpses of Crouching Bow and Luan He, two cities' Northern Liang Border Army, to become Xia Jubo, would definitely not be this careless.
Even if Zhong Tan really did not live up to his name, Xie Xibian was even more confident that he would be able to take back the merit that he had missed out on.
Xie Xibian and Zhong Tan in the mountain pass gave the order at almost the same time. Then, they said the exact same words, "Change horses! Put on armor! "
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After Cao Wei's ten thousand cavalrymen separated from Xie Xibian, they began a lightning-fast long-distance raid without caring about the injuries of the war horses.
They directly went around Miyun Mountain Pass!
He wanted to charge in through an entrance near the west end of Miyun Mountain Pass, and then quickly rush east along the mountain pass. In the end, he would be between Zhong Tan's cavalry and Lantuo Mountain's monk soldiers. He wanted to see if Xie Xibian's six thousand cavalrymen could defend the east gate! He wanted to wait until he could viciously stab Zhong Tan's cavalry in the ass!
Therefore, when Cao Wei parted with Xie Xibian, he half-jokingly said, "Surnamed Xie, I, General Cao, will definitely become a man like Old Liang Wang Xu Xiao. In the end, this time, my head is tied to your belt. Please don't let me die young!"
Xie Xibian did not say any heroic words at that time. He only nodded.
When Xie Xibian saw the short general galloping away, he raised his arm and gave him a thumbs up.
He did not know what kind of unique meaning Cao Wei had, or what kind of strange rules the Beiliang Frontier Army had.
Ten thousand cavalrymen rushed forward with great momentum.
Cao Wei's lips were cracked and some blood seeped out. However, his face was full of smiles as he roared, "I want the battle of Miyun Mountain Pass to be no less heroic than Lu Shengxiang's battle of Luzhou in the snow and Chu Lushan's thousand cavalrymen opening Shu! Cao Wei can die, but I can't die a nameless death! "
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Although Miyun Mountain Pass appeared to be narrowed, like a woman's slender waist, it was still able to allow more than twenty cavalrymen to rush out side by side.
Previously, Xie Xibian could see several Beimang cavalrymen rushing back to the mountain pass to pass on military intelligence.
The battle was about to start.
However, Zhong Tan's cavalry rushed out faster and fiercer than expected.
As a result, the 50 cavalry in front of the Phoenix Legion and Lin Yao Legion were scattered in an instant.
Even though Northern Liang's light crossbows and cavalry archers already fired in unison, arrows scattering towards the exit like rain, quickly shooting down twenty to thirty Northern Mang barbarians, the Northern Mang cavalry's overall momentum didn't decrease.
Xie Xibian immediately changed his strategy, immediately ordering the five hundred Long Xiang Army soldiers to charge forward.
There were not enough corpses on both sides, far from enough to form a natural barrier.
Xie Xibian stopped his horse half a mile away from the mountain pass. Beside him were dozens of personal guards and six messengers.
He was not a fierce general who charged into battle. When he personally wiped out Liyang Chunqiu's old general Yan Zhenchun, Xie Xibian also did not go up to kill the enemy.
It was not that Xie Xibian did not have the courage to kill people in anger, but he knew that only a general who was alive to give out orders could lead an army to kill the enemy.
Not only did Xie Xibian send those five hundred elite cavalrymen to their deaths, he even gave a military order. If they fell off their horses and did not die, please do your best to kill the horses!
Xie Xibian thought back to those resolute faces. After hearing this order, almost everyone's eyes were filled with pain. In the end, they all silently rode their horses away.
After the five hundred Long Xiang elite cavalrymen rushed to the battlefield,
Xie Xibian expressionlessly ordered the cavalry of the two towns to spread out in a semi-circular formation. Once the five hundred cavalry showed signs of retreating, or when there were only fifty cavalry left standing on the battlefield, they had to fire at Miyun Pass without distinguishing between friend and foe.
The deputy generals of Lin Yao and Feng Xiang wanted to say something but stopped. They gritted their teeth and accepted the order.
Then, Xie Xibian had Lin Yao and Feng Xiang open up a path for twenty cavalrymen to charge forward side by side at the top of the fan. He had a thousand young vagabond cavalrymen get ready, gathering all the spears in the army and distributing them to these young vagabond cavalrymen.
He also picked out six hundred people who were good at archery to form an army in front of the fan between the two towns.
Xie Xibian sat on his horse and looked at the battlefield that could not be any narrower. It was a weird battlefield where both men and horses died.
Although he could not see the situation within Miyun Mountain Pass, he could imagine the dense iron armor squeezing together like a swarm of locusts, like a nest of ants.
If the Fu Shui Room's report had a mistake, the monk soldiers of Lantuo Mountain did not need to be reorganized. They would have gathered together with Zhong Tan's cavalry.
If Cao Wei's cavalry did not advance quickly enough, or if they appeared on the battlefield, they were already at the end of their rope.
If Xie Xibian could not defend this pass.
As long as one of those was true, then the Battle of Liuzhou would be in a terrible state.
At this moment, for some reason, Xie Xibian thought back to that young man who always seemed to smile warmly. That young man who personally suggested to him to walk around and see more things.
Xie Xibian took in a deep breath and muttered to himself in a voice that only he could hear, "You left five hundred seeds for Da Chu. How can I not repay you with my life?"
From today onwards, there was no more General Da Chu Xie Xibian. Only the Beiliang Frontier Army Xie Xibian.
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