Before the Six-pearl Bodhisattva parted ways with Xie Xibian, he had asked this deputy general of Liuzhou a question.
Were you not afraid that Qingcang City would be lost because the twenty thousand monk soldiers did not arrive in time to reinforce Liuzhou after the two of us defended Linyao and Fengxiang?
At that time, Xie Xibian's answer was very interesting: With Kou Jianghuai there, it would be impossible.
The Beiliang Frontier Army had always had the habit of being xenophobic. The deputy general of the infantry, Great Ancestor Gu, had already won a great reputation in the Spring and Autumn War. However, outside Liangzhou, he had never reached the level he should have. It was obvious that he had the support of the young Feudal Lord, but he could not change that awkward situation. Jin Partridge Zhou Kang once had a falling out with him in the military town of Grave Tomb. For example, as the deputy general of the infantry, if Chen Yunchui had something to discuss with the left and right cavalry of Liangzhou, or if he needed to borrow people, perhaps he did not even need to come personally. A letter would suffice. Even if he wanted to poach the cavalry, from Yuan Zuozong to He Zhonghu and Zhou Kang, everyone would probably endure it. At most, they would laugh and scold him when they met. However, when it came to Great Ancestor Gu, even if he was a veteran general of the Spring and Autumn War who had a stable place in the military history and was known as the founder of the world situation theory, he would definitely not receive such treatment in the Beiliang Frontier Army.
Not only Great Ancestor Gu, in fact, the younger generation Yu Luandao was also in a bad situation at the beginning. Therefore, he could only go from Liuzhou to Youzhou, which was regarded as a cavalry general, and not directly climb up the ranks in Liangzhou. It should be known that before the Youzhou Cavalry won the series of battles outside Gourd Mouth, the Youzhou Cavalry had always been ridiculed by the arrogant Liangzhou Frontier Cavalry as the embroidered cavalry. In private, they laughed that they were the daughter of the old general Yan Wenluan.
After the first battle of Liang Mang, General Kou Jianghuai of Liuzhou who was the neighbor of the Long Xiang Army, the Long Xiang Army needed to replenish its troops. Whether it was He Zhonghu, Zhou Kang, or even the young cavalry general Cao Wei, who had never been to the border, all of the Liangzhou Frontier Cavalry had to do as the young lord wished. Although the entire Beiliang officialdom knew that this person was a genius in the art of war who had made great achievements in Guangling, in the end, most of the troops and horses under his command were young and strong. It was also said that after Kou Jianghuai managed to gather a cavalry of ten thousand people, neither the Xianli Pasture nor the Tianjing Pasture in Lianglong were willing to give them good warhorses. It was only because of the young lord's strict military order from Mount Qingliang that they did not give him inferior warhorses.
Kou Jianghuai was like this. In fact, Xie Xibian, who was also one of the Twin Jade Annals of Da Chu, was not much better. Before he was temporarily promoted to the position of deputy general of Liuzhou, he had rushed to Miyun Pass with Cao Wei's elite cavalry. At that time, the cavalry under his command was of mixed origins. Most of them were the cavalry of Feng Xiang and Lin Yao, who were originally Horse Bandits of the Western Regions. Adding on the two to three thousand cavalry recruited by Chai Dongdi and Han Wenbao, this kind of mixed group of soldiers and horses was something that even the Youzhou cavalry, who were looked down upon by the Liangzhou Frontier Cavalry, looked down upon.
Whether or not this kind of deep-rooted habit could be changed was related to the prestige of the new Liang Prince. However, the relationship was not so big that it could be changed overnight.
Moreover, the young lord seemed to have a confidence that bordered on arrogance.
In reality, whether it was Yu Luandao, who had been promoted by He Zhonghu to be the second deputy general of the Left Cavalry, or Kou Jianghuai, who was not so worthy of the title of Liuzhou General, neither of them disappointed Beiliang.
Xie Xibian, who had already helped Cao Wei take Miyun Pass, was even more so.
Before Xie Xibian led his troops into the Feng Xiang town, there were two thousand soldiers guarding the town, half of them were refugees and half were Youzhou infantry. Compared to the low walls of Qingcang City, the Da Feng Dynasty clearly placed more importance on the Feng Xiang town, which could be the first to reinforce the Protectorate of the Western Regions. The city walls were definitely on the same scale as the prefectural cities of the Central Plains. Moreover, compared to the two ancient towns of Qingcang and Lin Yao, the Feng Xiang town, which had the same rank as the other two town officials, had more than two hundred people, far more than the one hundred and twenty people of Lin Yao and Qingcang City. Once the Protectorate of the Western Regions further west could not control the forty or so countries under its jurisdiction, every time there was a war, the nobles of the Western Regions would have to pass through the Feng Xiang town before choosing to enter the Central Plains through the old Beiliang or turn southeast to seek refuge in Shu Zhao.
Therefore, the history of the Feng Xiang town was like its city walls, much thicker than Qingcang and Lin Yao.
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