The faces of the other captains were uncertain. The old general calmly said, "Although it's not that we can't split up the troops to go to the Crone Mountain battlefield, or even withdraw the entire army from this place and take a detour to the south, I feel that the Northern Liang Border Army must be plotting something on the Crone Mountain battlefield, or they are afraid that we will encircle them. In any case, the fastest way for us to pass through this corridor is the best choice. How can there be no deaths in a war? Let me be the one leading the charge next. "
This old general used to be a centurion under Huang Songpu with mediocre intelligence. After Huang Songpu left the army and entered the imperial court in the Western Capital, he was promoted step by step until he became the King of the Southern Courtyard. Only then did the old general rise in status and become the head of a medium-sized military town in the hinterland of Gusai State. Unlike the other four captains who secretly received boxes of gold and silver before they went to war, the old general rejected the invitation of the three Second Class Noble Sects. However, he volunteered to go to the Crone Mountain. Since he was not here for money, in the eyes of outsiders, it was probably because he was old but not old at heart.
When the four Generals saw the old general urging his horse forward, the Maolong Army cavalry was stunned. "Old General, are you going to break the formation yourself?"
The white-haired old general turned around and smiled faintly. "Many of my men are about the same age as my grandson. As the main general of a town, of course I have to …"
One of the young Generals frowned and interrupted the old man's words. "Old General, according to the military law of the border, the main general must die in battle. Once he is defeated, all the chiliarchs and centurions will be executed."
The old general dismissed it with a smile and glanced at the infantry formation in the South Corridor. "To open this formation, six thousand cavalry is definitely not enough. The eight thousand men in my town who are not afraid of death have already followed me here. "
Perhaps these were the old man's last words.
The six thousand cavalry split into three groups and began to charge one after another.
After two heroic charges, they finally broke through Liuzhou's shield and lance formations. The old general took the lead, his entire body bathed in blood. He crashed into the eight hundred Mo Sabers!
The monk soldiers wielding Beiliang's special modao were the strongest among the monk soldiers of Mount Lantuo. Furthermore, they were clad in iron armor over their kasayas. They moved forward in formation and brandished their sabers to chop down the horses. Their speed was unparalleled!
Including the old general, one thousand two hundred cavalry died under the Mo Saber, which appeared for the first time on the battlefield of Liang Mang.
The Beimang cavalry was defeated in one battle, and defeated again in another battle!
— —
The Old Woman Mountain battlefield had already experienced two mutual chiseling formations.
Out of the ten thousand cavalry in Liu Province, only four thousand remained. Of the six thousand cavalry in the newly built Direct Crash Battalion, there were less than one thousand five hundred.
In terms of casualties, the two wings of the Long Xiang Army suffered fewer casualties, with 13,000 of them still able to fight.
The Beimang south conquering army led by Huang Songpu had sixty thousand cavalry at the start. At this moment, there were still forty-eight thousand cavalry on horseback.
This seemingly superior exchange of cavalry was what the Beimang teacher looked forward to the most: 'Liuzhou battlefield, a small loss for the main force of the south conquering army is a great victory.'
If there were no accidents, after two more such exchanges, the Long Xiang army that had reached thirty thousand men at its peak and the Direct Crash Battalion that had just raised their camp flag would become a thing of the past.
Liu Province's main general Kou Jianghuai who stood at the peak of Old Woman Mountain from beginning to end, in this type of extremely grim situation, didn't change the formation at all. He only sent someone to pass down the order for the three thousand cavalry under the command of the Provincial Governor's manor that was originally outside the battlefield to follow the main force that returned to their original positions after the two chiseling attacks, to enter the formation behind Qi Fulong Pass and participate in the third round of attacks.
Huang Songpu also ordered the five to six hundred heavy cavalry to prepare to enter the battlefield.
The old commander's only worry was that the battle had reached such a stage. On the Beimang side, the Liuzhou cavalry had suffered heavy casualties, while on his side, the Wanyan elite cavalry under his command had suffered even more casualties than the 'B' cavalry. If not for this, he would not even use the heavy cavalry that was originally used to take the head of either Kou Jianghuai or Xu Longxiang.
Chen Xiliang could not help but ask, "If we charge again, the Liuzhou cavalry will only exist in name. Kou Jiangjun, shouldn't we slow down? "
Kou Jianghuai shook his head and said, "We cannot slow down. At this stage, it is a matter of one breath. Let alone the fact that Yuan Nanting's White Feather Light Cavalry and Ning Emei's Iron Stupa cannot hurry to Old Woman Mountain for now, even if they can immediately enter the battlefield, I will have the Liuzhou cavalry and Long Xiang army charge two more times. Otherwise, even if the monk soldiers on the western border can stop the fifty thousand southern reinforcements, with Huang Songpu's ability, at least twenty thousand cavalry will be able to escape. Once they meet up with the remaining cavalry on the northern corridor, our previous three battles, including this one, will have been for nothing. It is even equivalent to me, Kou Jianghuai, dragging the three armies of Qingyuan Army Town into the quagmire that is Liuzhou. "
Chen Xiliang sighed and did not continue to speak.
Kou Jianghuai suddenly turned his head and said softly, "During the battle of Phoenix Army Town, the defending general used the Liuzhou Provincial Governor's Office to publicly impeach Xie Xibian. You wrote 'not against military law, but against reason'. I want to thank you."
Kou Jianghuai's words were very direct and clear. He wanted to say goodbye to Liuzhou and thank him, not to thank the Western Frontier. In reality, although Xie Xibian's neutral and peaceful comments were not as harsh as Provincial Governor Yang Guangdou's, it was still not beneficial to Xie Xibian, who was at the heart of the storm at the time. However, the truth was the opposite. Chen Xiliang, who already had a certain amount of weight in the Beiliang Frontier Army, was intentionally protecting the Liuzhou deputy general who had angered the public. Once his words sided with Xie Xibian, it would only provoke a fierce backlash from the Liangzhou cavalry and the entire Youzhou infantry. At that time, it would be extremely difficult for the young feudal lord to personally protect Xie Xibian. In the end, once Xie Xibian became a rat crossing the street in the eyes of the Beiliang Frontier Army, then not only Kou Jianghuai, who was also a young man and a foreigner, but even Yu Luandao, who had won the approval of the Beiliang Frontier Army, would be implicated.
Chen Xiliang smiled bitterly and shook his head. He said emotionally, "This situation was created by the efforts of the Prince. No need to thank me. If you really want to thank me, next time go to Beicheng to thank the Prince."
Kou Jianghuai curled his lips. "Why should I thank him? Since he is the King of Beiliang, these are the things he should do. The next time I go to Beicheng, I will be kind if I don't ask him to be the commander-in-chief of the Beiliang cavalry. "
Kou Jianghuai suddenly said self-deprecatingly, "But I don't think I can beat Yuan Baixiong. This is the bad thing about being in Beiliang. The people who lead the army to war are fiercer than the other. There are so many martial arts grandmasters. Before, when I was in Guangling, my swordsmanship was passable. I was confident in fighting in the court. Now, I can't."
With a heavy heart, Chen Xiliang finally smiled a little.
The two looked around. On the battlefield of Crone Mountain, the commander-in-chief of the Long Xiang Army, Xu Longxiang, had killed 300 enemies. This was under the premise that he ensured the charging formation of the cavalry. If he did not care about anything else and went all out to kill, the commander-in-chief of the Beimang cavalry would probably collapse.
Kou Jianghuai's gaze shifted to the "B" cavalry formation, which had the largest number of enemies. He smiled coldly and muttered to himself, "I will kill them after I fatten them up."
— —
Three cavalry armies entered the battlefield of Liuzhou. Among them, the General of Liangzhou, Shi Fu, led the 8,000 cavalry of the Qingyuan Army. They did not go to Crone Mountain. Instead, they went straight to the corridor. They were not there to save people, but to stop the Southern Beimang cavalry that continued south through the corridor. There might be 30,000, or 20,000.
From Shi Fu's point of view, Xie Xibian and the monk soldiers of Lantuo Mountain would definitely die.
Ning Emei's Iron Stupa had suffered heavy losses in the Dragon Eye Plain. However, the young lord had allocated all eight hundred White Horses to the Iron Stupa. He even ordered all the generals of the fourth rank and above outside the Liangzhou Pass to transfer their personal guards. That was how the Iron Stupa recovered to four thousand riders in just one month!
With a big halberd in his hand, Ning Emei led the four thousand Iron Cavalry to gallop wildly. He wanted to take a shortcut from the rear, straight to the area between the Old Woman Mountain and the corridor in the north. If the Stone Talisman was to block the Southern Dynasties' side cavalry's route to the south, then he needed to cut off the Huang Songpu's main force's route of retreat to the north.
The last cavalry was a light cavalry in the absolute sense, full of elegance. Every one of them carried bows and light crossbows, with quivers of arrows hanging on both sides of the saddle, and only a Northern Cold Saber hanging from their waists. The arrows that peeked out of the quivers were white like two balls of snow. When the horses galloped, it was very beautiful.
The main general, Yuan Nanting, led 20,000 White Feather Light Cavalry straight to Crone Mountain.
Think about it, when the wind rises, a round of concentrated fire from twenty thousand cavalry would be like a majestic downpour, twenty thousand raindrops falling on the enemy's head.
— —
The 8,000 elite cavalry that had already entered Gusai Prefecture suddenly turned around and went south. They passed through the border, drawing a diagonal arc as they galloped towards the corridor battlefield.
A short and tired young general kept praying in his heart, "Don't die, don't die."
They all say that you can't do anything more than three times. Even if you count the battle of Miyun Pass, you have only done it twice. King Yama will definitely not be willing to accept you.
If others want to die, I don't care. But you, Xie Xibian, are the only one who wants to die. I have to beat you up.
This person was Cao Wei.
His nickname was Cao Benlei.
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