Chapter 49: Under the Tieyu Mountain
After laughing, Bai Yi continued to tell the past.
After spending three years of enviable time with the king and his wife, Zhao Xingzong, the founding emperor of the Southern Zhao Kingdom, died because of his age. It seemed like a curse. The Zhao family lineage was always small, and the only prince naturally sat on the dragon throne, which is now Zhao Lingzong.
While Zhao Lingzong had not yet stabilized his stance in the Dabao Dynasty, Xiliang and Northern Yan led a total of 300,000 troops south, and the military peaks were directed to Fanning City. Zhao Xingzong insisted on the imperial commander's personal expedition, defending the enemy outside the country's gate, and then put together 150,000 troops to Fanning.
When the Southern Zhao army arrived at the city of Fanning, the two-national coalition forces had been besieging the city wall for half a month, and the situation was in danger. Seeing this, Zhao Lingzong did not adopt the suggestion that Shi Tianci, the then general of Huaihua, was supporting the enemy at the city, and insisted on fighting the enemy in the wild.
The emperor's order was difficult to disobey, and the generals had no choice but to obey the order. Three days after arriving in Fanning City, they confronted the enemy at the foot of the Iron Oak Mountain northwest of Fanning City. Perhaps Zhao Lingzong was a little happy about his first ascension to the throne, and even launched a charge in a straight face regardless of the enemy that was several times more than his.
Originally, the journey from Jinling to Fanning City was long, and the army had only rested for three days and did not recover its vitality. In addition, the two-country coalition forces worked hard for half a month to attack the enemy's strengths with their own shortcomings. Zhao Lingzong, who violated the military taboo, was naturally defeated like a mountain.
Fortunately, General Shi Tianci, Huaihua, fought to protect the enemy and fled to Tieyu Mountain with his remaining defeated generals. However, the troops in his hand were only 30,000. The coalition did not need to attack. As long as the water source was cut off, the Southern Zhao army would be defeated without attacking.
Looking at the miserable situation of corpses everywhere at the foot of the mountain, no one knew what Zhao Lingzong was thinking at this time, and after handing over the command power to Shi Tianci, he did not take a step out of the dragon tent.
The entire Nan Zhao was anxiously waiting for news on the battlefield ahead. When he heard that Zhao Lingzong was defeated and trapped in Tieyu Mountain, he was wailing everywhere inside and outside the court and the country, and he felt that Nan Zhao was about to destroy his country if nothing unexpected happened.
However, after Zhao Xuance, who was training troops in Shouchun, learned the bad news, he ignored the orders of the emperor to let him station in Shouchun and personally led the Huang cavalry of the Northern Prefecture, who was still a new army, to advance westward to support Zhao Lingzong. The princess, who stood side by side, insisted on following the army despite repeated dissuasions by the king.
Five days later, Zhao Xuance led 10,000 Northern Prefecture Huang cavalry to station in the dense forest fifty miles east of Tieyu Mountain. Zhao Xuance's righteous brother Chen Yinshan made suggestions and judged that the coalition forces were in a strong sense of arrogance because they were sure of victory and would definitely neglect to prevent them, so they decided to attack the enemy camp at night at three o'clock in the next day.
At midnight when the camp attacked the camp, the horse's hooves were wrapped in cloth, with a chewing condom, and the gun blade also touched the thick juice squeezed from the branches and leaves to prevent reflection from shocking the enemy. After reaching the enemy's camp without any trace, Zhao Xuance's troops divided into three groups to charge from three directions in the southeast, north and south. One was led by Zhao Xuance, and the other two were Bai Yi and Chen Yinshan.
The ugly moment was three times, and it was when the coalition forces were sleeping soundly. The sentry would never have expected that there would be troops attacking the camp. When they realized the faint roar of the earth, it was too late to call the gold warning again.
In addition to the cavalry and spear in his hand, the Huang cavalry in the Northern Mansion lit torches when charging. After rushing into the enemy camp like raging waves, they first burned food, grass and supplies, and then searched for the enemy to kill the enemy. The coalition forces did not expect the enemy to descend like a magic weapon, and only thought it was the backup weapon left by the Southern Zhao Kingdom. They were very chaotic for a while, except for those who were killed by the Huang cavalry in the Northern Mansion, countless people were burned to death and trampled to death.
The Huang cavalry of the Northern Mansion rushed for a whole night, and Zhao Xuance even killed in and out countless times. By the early morning, he was already dark red like a blood gourd. When counting the casualties, no one expected that the Huang cavalry of the Northern Mansion of the Northern Mansion had only suffered a hundred casualties!
Of course, Zhao Lingzong and Shi Tianci on the Iron Mountain witnessed everything, but because it was late at night, they were afraid that the enemy would use to deceive the enemy, so they did not act rashly. When Zhao Xuance, who was covered in blood, fell to Zhao Lingzong, the emperor knew who was coming to rescue him and who had retreated from the 300,000 army with 10,000 cavalry!
Although everyone was happy, the coalition forces quickly gathered the remaining troops, and the total number was 200,000, and their strength was still far above that of Southern Zhao. At this moment, Zhao Lingzong made the most correct decision in his life, handing over the remaining troops to Zhao Xuance, and then using Shi Tianci as his deputy, without killing the enemy, just retreating.
At noon, it was supposed to be the time when the sun was shining brightly, and the sky suddenly darkened, and the world was dark. The remnants of the Southern Zhao army confronted the two defeated soldiers from the north and south, and the atmosphere was bleak!
As the head coach, Zhao Xuance did not sit in the commander's tent to plan, but stood in front of the army formation with Tianfeng Ge in his hand. He slowly took out an evil ghost mask and attached it to his face. He did not say anything bold and inspire the morale of the army. He just stood in front and slowly raised Tianfeng Ge, pointing the tip of his gun directly to the enemy formation.
Seeing this scene, the soldiers were already full of blood and morale!
Then, a wide drum platform was pushed from behind, with three huge snare drums about ten feet wide standing on it.
When everyone was confused, a sound of breaking through the air sounded, and the princess side by side fell from the air like a flying fairy from the sky on the drum platform.
‘dong’ ‘dong’ ‘dong’ ‘dong’
I don’t know who was the first to recognize the identity of the princess, and then it quickly spread throughout the army like sparks. After hearing the heavy sound of war drums, Zhao Xuance was the first to charge!
No military orders.
No sign.
There was no even a trace of shouting to kill.
Apart from the rumbling drums echoing on the battlefield, there are only the footsteps of the infantry charging and the sound of horse hooves of the cavalry.
Looking at the strange but murderous army of the Southern Zhao army, some timid soldiers in the coalition could not hold the sword in their hands. When they saw the leader as dark as an evil ghost, many soldiers were even scared to death, thinking that the evil ghost had killed him from the Jiuyou Purgatory.
The Southern Zhao army still cried out without anyone shouting, but their eyes were like the scorching sun. They followed Zhao Xuance's footsteps and ran towards the enemy desperately.
The Huang cavalry in the Northern Prefecture was divided into two parts until a hundred feet away. The front was followed by Zhao Xuance, and the back was two rows detoured to the enemy's flank, with 30,000 infantry following closely.
‘dong’ ‘dong’ ‘dong’ ‘dong’
The general of the coalition army, Yi Ya, looked at the silent charge of the Southern Zhao army in the formation, and felt a little scared. Although he was familiar with military books, he had never had such an army in ancient times. They seemed to have transformed into a man-eating demon after hearing the sound of drums.
Zhao Xuance took the lead in the formation!
The sky wind in his hand was like an invincible red lightning, which instantly penetrated the horse-resisting formation. Then, the five thousand Northern Prefecture Huangqi pressed a fiery red soldering iron on a candle, quickly disintegrating the defense line of the coalition forces.
‘dong’ ‘dong’ ‘dong’ ‘dong’
Zhao Xuance was so slapped by the crossbow that he had been shooting out, leading the Huang cavalry of the Northern Palace to fight towards the central army. At this time, the 30,000 infantry had already arrived, and the horizontal sword in his hand drank the blood of the enemy with the sound of the princess's war drums.
The Huang cavalry on both sides also collided with the enemy cavalry, but the enemy was like rotten yellow paper and collapsed at once.
Even though the coalition forces were several times that of Southern Zhao, the entire formation was now like a cat's claws scratched the paper, and was hit by the remnants of Southern Zhao.
‘dong’ ‘dong’ ‘dong’ ‘dong’
The simple clothes are like immortals, and the war drums are like thunder.
A spear is like lightning, and a blood is like a demon.
Zhao Xuance had no other thoughts, and the gun shot directly pointed at the enemy commander.
Yi Zhi knew that morale was lost and it was only a matter of time before the defeat. When he saw the demon coming straight to him and could already see the cold eyes of the other party, Yi Zhi did not hesitate to flee north with his personal soldiers.
The main general's escape at the last battle became the last straw that crushed the psychological defense line of the coalition forces. Everyone threw away their armor and rushed to the north.
Zhao Xuance made a quick decision, and the infantry kept it here to harvest the enemy's remnants, and personally led the Huang cavalry of the Northern Prefecture to pursue the enemy.
Kill from Tieyu Mountain to the west of Fanning City.
Kill from the west of Fanning City to Caiyang County.
Killed from Caiyang County to Nanyang County.
Kill until the end of Wuguan!
Looking back, there were already corpses all over the world along the way, and the red color dyed the earth.
When counting the enemy's heads, the statistics were not completed for three days. Zhao Xuance decided not to count them anymore and built all the enemy's heads into Jingguans with more than ten miles of continuous land under Wuguan.
When he led his army back to Fanning City to present a good news, Zhao Lingzong refused to oppose the people and did not need the former to inherit the title of King Chu and personally named him the King of Sides along the side, with the greatest honor of one person and above ten thousand people.
At this point, the two northern countries have no longer had the courage to go south within 20 years. Everyone in the world knows Zhao Xuance's reputation.
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After being silent for a long time, Qing Yan escaped from the battlefield where corpses were everywhere in his mind. He let out a heavy sigh and sighed: "I thought Dong Yan was more or less exaggerated, but when I heard Uncle Bai's statement in my own ear, I realized that what Dong Yan said before was not enough to describe this shocking battle."
Bai Yi narrowed his eyes slightly and recalled very much, "Yes, if you hadn't experienced that battle personally, you would definitely not have experienced the hardships and dangers of this battle just by telling others."
"I almost forgot that Uncle Bai hasn't told me how you and your father met."
Hearing this, Bai Yi smiled warmly and replied, "Actually, there is not much to say. My hometown is Qiongzhou, the junction of Beiyan and Nanzhao. When he was four years old, the locust plague was not harvested. My parents could only take me to the south to make a living."
"When we arrived outside Jinling City, our parents unfortunately died of hunger. Perhaps God was sympathetic. When Mo Jiang was holding their bodies and crying helplessly, the old King of Chu and the prince passed by. The prince personally pulled Mo Jiang up, and then worked together to bury Mo Jiang's parents. During this period, there was no third person to help, and the old King of Chu just watched calmly."
"When everything was over, the old King Chu asked the prince that he had chosen the road to Gangmo Jiang, so he would not turn back the rest of the road. After hearing this, the prince nodded and took General Mo to the carriage himself. In the days that followed, General Mo followed the prince." After that, Bai Yi took a sip of herbal tea.
Qing Yan sighed slightly, "If Uncle Bai's parents knew about it, they would probably be very pleased that their children would have achieved such success." He smiled and said, "After that, I call Uncle Bai, it's really right. With your relationship with your father, even if I call him that in front of outsiders, I think there is nothing wrong with it."
Bai Yi waved his hand, "Your Highness, you think that the last general is the blessing of the last general, but you respect your identity and will officially inherit the title in less than a year..."
"Uncle Bai, these are all trivial matters. What I am very curious about is why you call yourself a humble position in front of grandmother and Ling'er, but call yourself a last general in front of me?" Qing Yan interrupted Bai Yi and asked.
‘Click’
A crisp sound.
The teacup in Bai Yi's hand was actually crushed by him, but the expression on his face was extremely heavy.
"Binfu Huangqi!"
Chapter completed!