The two generals on the left and right flanks of Beimang, each with five thousand cavalry, almost went crazy. They were able to participate in the siege as cavalry and obtain this kind of easy merit. Although the merit was not destined to be great, it was easy to win. They did not have to risk their lives like the first group of thirty thousand infantry to push to the bottom of the city wall and then risk their lives to besiege the city. As the two flanks of cavalry, in fact, they were just shooting a few rounds on horseback symbolically, trying their best to help the elite infantry of the Southern Dynasty suppress the rain of arrows on the city wall. In addition, Beimang itself had crossbows and more than two thousand catapults as the main projectile force, so the two cavalry forces did not have to bear any responsibility at all.
The Beiliang cavalry had long figured out a pattern. Whether the Beimang barbarians' border army was the old army, the children's army, or the sun's army, one just had to look at the status of their general. Generals from Norland who were stationed at the border of the Southern Dynasty were usually not too bad, but also definitely not too high. Therefore, the soldiers and horses under their command were usually in the upper middle, and the majority of them were the children's army. First, the nobles of Norland and the Great Devi did not care about the Western Capital's imperial court. In the eyes of these arrogant people of the grassland, there were probably not many people who could be considered as officials other than Huang Songpu, Dong Zhuo, and Liu Gui, who were Great Generals and Officials. Furthermore, His Majesty had always carried out the strategy of the remnants of the Spring and Autumn Period and the nobles of Longguan jointly ruling the Southern Dynasty, and did not support the important people of Norland getting involved in the Southern Dynasty. As for the local generals of the Southern Dynasty, it was generally based on the status of their family. The descendants of the Longguan nobles were the most valuable. For example, Wanyan Yinjiang, who had personally rushed to the battlefield at Laolu Mountain in Liuzhou, and his elite cavalry was the old army of the Southern Dynasty. Whether it was in terms of combat strength or equipment, they were second to none. Then there were the Jia and Yi families outside of the Longguan nobles. They were also deeply rooted in the Southern Dynasty's military and politics, and were often very familiar with the main field cavalry forces of Beiliang. They could not be underestimated.
These two cavalry troops were typical of the Southern Dynasty's border army. Their ancestors had already secretly relied on their connections to pull strings. It wasn't easy for them to rely on the Crown Prince, who had personally led the army into battle. Only then did they obtain this treatment that was similar to lying down and taking credit.
Who would have thought that before they even entered the range of the horse bow, each of them would be hit by two iron nails. Their flesh was badly mangled, and their hearts and livers were in pain!
Two cavalry armies had suffered heavy casualties of nearly a thousand riders, yet none of them managed to pull out a single arrow from their quivers. In the end, they didn't even touch the walls of North Resisting City. How could the general not be frightened?
On the rightmost battlefield of North Jue City, two people were blocking their horses.
Wei Miao of Nanzhao and Chai Qingshan of Dongyue Sword Pool were two grandmasters of the Central Plains. They had never met each other before, so naturally, they had no chance to spar with each other. However, their cooperation was flawless!
Wei Miao fought the Beimang cavalry with his bare hands. His moves were bold and decisive. Every time he punched, the momentum of his fist was heavy and powerful. Often, a charging horseman would have his arm and blade broken. The high-quality scimitar in the hands of a Beimang horseman was as fragile as a piece of paper.
On the other hand, Chai Qingshan had always been known for his exquisite swordsmanship and profound sword aura, which perfectly complemented Wei Miao's firm and fierce fists. Very soon, this grandmaster of swordsmanship no longer deliberately pursued killing moves that were as imposing as a rainbow. Instead, he mostly used two styles to kill the enemy. The sword light emitted from the tip of his sword was no more than two chi long, but it was already as if he was holding a five-chi long sword. It was just enough for him to stand on the ground and accurately stab the Beimang horsemen in the chest, or lightly slash the horsemen's neck. His long sword was never dyed scarlet.
At this time, Wei Miao suddenly changed from his previous vicious fist wind that could kill the enemy with one or two moves. Instead, he began to move in an arc, or perhaps he began to walk in the mud that didn't even reach his knees. His figure quickly moved about, twisting his waist and shaking his armor. Each time he faced the Northern Mang cavalry's warhorses with his shoulder and back, relying on his Vajra Physique, he didn't have to worry about the hacking of warblades at all, instantly sending a border army warhorse flying. Because of Wei Miao's hurried footsteps, he was always able to find a gap between several riders. Even though Northern Mang consciously spread out the width of their charge, immediately forming a line of seven, eight, or even more than ten riders in an attempt to break the stable formation of the two Central Plains' grandmasters, doing their best to not give the two a chance to switch auras, Wei Miao's fast advance, fast retreat, fast attack, and fast retreat still stopped wave after wave of cavalry formation. Even though the Northern Mang cavalry already realized that they had to exchange the lives of ten riders for a breath of air, only wishing to slowly exhaust these two Central Plains' grandmasters to death, under this type of dangerous situation, Wei Miao's attacks that only targeted the mounts and not the Northern Mang soldiers began to contain powerful spiraling hidden energy, creating exaggerated and absurd scenes one after another. Many of the Northern Mang warhorses flew in directions that were simply inconceivable. They might fly to the sides, might fly backwards, might even fly upwards at an angle. These 'massive' hidden weapons made it impossible for the same line of Northern Mang cavalry and the cavalry behind them to guard against, greatly restricting the Northern Mang cavalry's attempts to quickly advance and form two encirclement rings.
Even if there were some who slipped through the net and wanted to bypass Wei Miao and flank him from both sides, Chai Qingshan naturally wouldn't rigidly adhere to the rule of "you in front and I in back". As the master of a sect whose swordsmanship was the best in the southeast of Liyang, did they really think that the old man's sword energy was only two feet long?
After losing two to three hundred riders, the Beimang cavalry was unwilling to retreat, and they didn't dare to cower from the battle.
After losing five to six hundred riders, the chiliarch gritted his teeth and hoped that he could drag out the two martial arts masters to death by taking turns to fight them.
After losing more than a thousand riders, the commander of the cavalry, who had never dared to charge into the battle himself, was already in a killing frenzy. Knowing that there was no way out for him, he ordered all the cavalry under his command to abandon their sabers! They could only charge forward as fast as they could and use their warhorses to ram the two masters!
After that, a total of five hundred warhorses charged forward madly, as if they were committing suicide in front of the two grandmasters of the Central Plains. As long as the Beimang cavalry didn't pass out or die on the spot, they all stood up and pulled out their sabers to fight.
The Beimang cavalry was indeed not the only elite in the world who didn't fear death.
In the first battle of Liang Mang, in Liangzhou's Hutou City, Youzhou's Gourd Pass, and Liuzhou's Qingcang City, the Beiliang Frontier Army didn't care about their own safety, and the Beimang soldiers also died in a spectacular fashion!
In the second battle of Liang Mang, from the Miyun Pass in the Western Regions, to the northern corridor in Liuzhou, to the battlefield of Crone Mountain, and then to the Left Cavalry against the Winter Thunder Elite Cavalry and the Rouran Cavalry outside the Liangzhou Pass. In every battlefield, both sides of the enemy and their side killed each other to the core!
Therefore, the Beimang had always believed that as long as they conquered Beiliang, they would have conquered the vast Central Plains.
And the Beiliang had always believed that it really wasn't that they looked down on the elites of the Central Plains or the Two Liao Iron Cavalry on purpose. As long as they were in a vast area where cavalry could gallop freely, once they encountered a large-scale grassland cavalry, no matter how many heads the Liyang army had, they wouldn't be enough to be chopped off by the Beimang barbarians.
In the middle of a conversation that was destined to be buried in the dust of history, Tantanon laughed and asked a certain close friend who always had his hands on the handle, "If we annoy the Xu family, they might as well rebel and join hands with the Beimang to invade the Central Plains, then what should we do? Won't we become sinners for all eternity? You, Bi Yan 'er, will be ranked first, and I, Huan Wen, will be ranked second?"
That Grand Secretary, who was like the sun in the midday sky in the Liyang court, had an indifferent expression and gave a humorous answer that didn't match the horse's mouth, "I only hope that when the time comes, all the officials in the court won't feel that the water of martyrdom for the country is too cold and the Liang family has no rope."
Huan Wen was still in that court, still standing tall as the Tantanon. However, after autumn this year, he had gradually faded out of the court's view and almost didn't participate in the small court meetings. The old man lived in seclusion and became more and more silent, unwilling to speak with others.
As a result, Grand Secretary Zhang Julu's opinion of the Beiliang Xu family in the depths of his heart was even more unknown.
In any case, as the battle between the Jiangnan aristocratic families and the Liaodong aristocratic families in the Liyang court became more and more intense, some scholars, who were clean but carried righteousness on their shoulders, after gaining a firm foothold in Taian City, began to speak out. Their words shocked people to death, saying that the old traitor Zhang Julu not only dominated the court, he even secretly colluded with the Northwest Border Army and purposely raised a tiger to cause trouble in order to solidify his position.
Although there weren't many of these people, their statuses were often not ordinary. They were seen as having a body of knowledge and ambition but could only be suppressed and ostracized by Zhang Lu, who was led by Bi Yan 'er, who was jealous of their ability during the reign of Yong Hui. Now that the clouds had finally parted and the moon could see the light, they should speak out for justice and speak out for the common people.
For a time, there was praise everywhere. They had the strength of a scholar, a master of morality, and a pillar of the country.
These scholars, who were like carps jumping over the dragon's gate, or famous scholars who were born in the families of generals and ministers, were not many compared to the vast majority of normal scholars, but their voices were the loudest, and they had the most audiences.
After this auspicious third year of autumn, at the highest point of the Taian City court, even the Ministry of War yamen that had fought with the Northwest Xu family for so many years, did not purposely hide the tragic victory at the Battle of Miyun. In addition to the news of the victory at Old Woman Mountain in Liuzhou that was sent to the capital via the Lianghuai Path's posthouse, as well as the complete annihilation of Lu Dayuan's Liangzhou Left Cavalry, the new Administrator of the Lianghuai Path, Han Lin, and Jiedushi Xu Gong, reported everything to the court without missing a word. However, it was still very strange that the entire Taian City, from the large families deep in their courtyards to the noisy streets and alleys, did not discuss this matter from beginning to end. It was probably because the former were not willing to speak, and the latter could not hear.
The common people of Liyang at most heard that the Beiliang Xu family had won a few small battles in Liuzhou and suffered a great defeat outside the Liangzhou Pass. Then, very quickly, they were surrounded by the hundreds of thousands of Beiliang's army and that Beijue City.
No wonder this Taian City that had been used to watching clouds rise and fall for twenty years could not stop the rebel army of the three vassal kings advancing north. Its most urgent situation was that the Southern Expedition General Wu Zhongxuan, who was the Minister of War, personally led a hundred thousand strong southern troops.
The two border armies of the great pillar state Gu Jiantang did not move.
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