Jingxing Pass, surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing plains, with natural barriers and grounds, guarding the narrow passage from Hebei to Jinzhong.

This pass was destroyed and not yet repaired since it was captured by Wanyan Zongwang in the first year of Jingkang. It was not until the winter of Jianyan that the Tianzhu Army annihilated the invading Jinzhonglu Army and completely controlled Jingxing that it began to renovate this pass.

The key repairs are naturally the Tumen East Loft, which is made of stone foundations and arched door holes. There are brick and stone mixed pavilions on the door holes. The city wall is five meters high and three meters wide. There are gate towers, women's walls, pheasant saucers, and looking towers.

It can be said to be fully prepared. The Tianzhu Army always has a battalion here to prepare for the Zhending enemy.

The troops stationed at Jingxing Pass are the third battalion of the first supplementary brigade, which is the left. The battalion commander has just been pulled to the headquarters of the supplementary brigade and serves as the training instructor for the newly formed recruits of each brigade. The guard is temporarily held by the deputy commander.

The agent, and the deputy commander of the Third Battalion, was Xu Laosan.

Xu Laosan led the soldiers of Yidu to station at Maling Pass that day, but was almost wiped out by Han Chang alone. Xu Laosan was the only survivor. Although he was punished for losing his life, he was pardoned soon (Liang Jun).

The Lord himself suffered a great loss from Han Chang, so how could he do to Han Chang?), and because the Tianzhu Army expanded rapidly and lacked grassroots non-commissioned officers, Xu Laosan was promoted and was later transferred to guard Jingxing Pass.

It was almost dusk, and the deputy garrison of Jingxing, Xu Laosan, was standing behind the pheasant plate, looking into the distance with Zhao Ne, the recorder.

At dusk in winter, under the faint light and shadow, more than ten cavalry appeared in front of Jingxing Pass. Xu Laosan asked Zhao Ne nervously: "How is it? Do you see clearly? Is it right?"

Zhao Ne put on a pergola in his hand and looked around for a long time. He looked excited as he looked at the person who was getting closer and closer: "It's really General Fan! The one in front must be Mr. Du, no doubt the deputy garrison, and the person who came was the magistrate of the current dynasty.

A second-rank high-ranking official is not under the city lord and is an ally of the city. Don’t neglect it. We should leave the city quickly to welcome it."

Although Xu Laosan had fought with the military leader before, the military leader did not feel like a high-ranking official, but like a military leader. There is no lack of affinity in his majesty and no sense of being unattainable.

Prime Minister, that's a big difference.

Xu Laosan didn't expect to see the prime minister in this life and greet him personally. It was so... so at a loss.

When Xu Laosan and Zhao Ne came to Jingxing Pass to welcome him, the more than ten cavalry also came to the gate. The leader of the cavalry was the leader and said from afar: "The Shangshu's right servant She was in Pingzhang, Jianghuai Xuanfu

The envoy, Jiankang stayed behind Du Chong, came to visit Lord Di."

The two cavalry generals on both sides also bowed and said:

"The former general of the sanctioned enemy, Fan Qiong, the commander of the Imperial Camp Commander, came to visit Lord Di."

"Kong Yanzhou, the governor of Qihuang, came to visit Lord Di."

Zhao Ne admitted his mistake when the recorder was Du Chong, Fan Qiong and Kong Yanzhou.

The three led ten cavalry to come. As soon as they arrived at Baodu Village, they were discovered by the secret whistle of the Jingxing Governor. They immediately intercepted and warned. Du Chong showed his identity, presented the copy of the Tokyo Covenant and the signature and seal that proved his identity, and explained his purpose.

: Visited Di City Lord to consolidate the friendship between the two armies and discuss the joint protest against Jin.

The Tianzhu Shouguards were illiterate, but they all recognized the only "signature" of the military commander in the world.

Di Lie's signature was created by him, similar to the signature style commonly used by celebrities in later generations, such as dragons and phoenixes, and it is written with a homemade goose feather hard pen, which is hard to imitate. Tianshu City has a large number of new notice regulations and the final signing and detention centers of the notice.

With Di Lie's unique signature and seal, even the illiterate officers and soldiers knew each other well.

The alliance between Tianshu City and Tokyo was known to everyone as the autumn of the second year of Jianyan.

When the Tianzhu sentry guard heard this, he did not dare to neglect it. He quickly submitted the copy of the alliance and Du Chong's signature and seal to the Jingxing Governor.

Deputy left-behind Xu Laosan also refused to read. But it doesn’t matter. In the army above the Tianzhu Army, there are staff officers similar to documents, such as Du Yuhou, Records, Counselors, etc.

The record of Jingxing Guard Camp was that one of the descendants of the royal family members who joined the army was named Zhao Ne. Most of the more than 100 descendants of the royal family members who joined the army on that day were like Zhao Ne, in the capital and camp.

He served as a staff officer, mainly responsible for drafting and interpreting military orders and newspapers, and did not take charge of the troops.

Although Zhao Ne is also a child of a branch, he is closer to the current royal family than Anyuan man Zhao Neng. At least he does not have to move thousands of miles away, but lives in the city of Bianliang, Tokyo.

Zhao Ne confirmed that the alliance and signing were true, and said that he recognized Fan Qiong, after all, Fan Qiong was the inspector of the four walls of the capital during the Jingkang period. When the Jin army surrounded Tokyo, everyone was in the past.

The despised bandits and soldiers became saviors, but they were particularly eye-catching when they had anti-enemy generals. Fan Qiong was also famous in the capital because of his move to attack the enemy at snowy night, and everyone knew it at that time.

When more than ten cavalry of Du Chong appeared, Zhao Ne recognized at a glance that the cavalry general in the left head was indeed Fan Qiong. In this way, it was undoubtedly the envoy from Jianyan Dynasty, and it was led by the prime minister. This specification is really not ordinary.

Gao, Xu and Zhao rushed forward to greet each other in a panic and asked a team of soldiers in the pass to line up to welcome him.

The reason why Xu Laosan and Zhao Ne have such an attitude towards Du Chong and others is related to the failure of the senior executives of Tianshu City to become clear about Tokyo.

After understanding the process of signing the Tokyo Alliance Contract, the senior civil and military officials in Tianshu City basically reached such an understanding: the Tokyo forces headed by Du Chong are enemies but not friends. However, due to some special reasons, this understanding does not exist.

It is conveyed to the entire army.

Strictly speaking, this is a strategic mistake, but it is a helpless mistake.

First of all, the two sides have signed an alliance, and at least on the surface, they cannot openly declare Du Chong as the enemy. Du Chong also did not dare to openly attack Deng Zhao for this reason, but secretly sent someone to attack.

Secondly, Tianshu City's diplomatic strategy has always been good at making good things, so the Song forces are shown to others, such as the Jinning Army and the Zhe Family Army. From this point of view, the Tokyo forces cannot be rashly erected as opposing sides.

Furthermore, this time, many former Tokyo left-behind soldiers joined the Tianzhu Army. Just starting from the point of appeasement, they should not promote their hostility towards Tokyo in the army.

Because of this series of reasons, although the senior officials of the Tianzhu Army clearly realized that this so-called covenant will sooner or later be torn apart, it must not be torn apart by one side of Tianshu City. The Jianyan Dynasty will not announce that this covenant will be invalidated in one day, or

If a hostile move is made, the Tianzhu Army will not publicly announce that the Tokyo Left-behind Office represented by Du Chong is the enemy in one day.

No one would have thought that when Jianyan huddled south of the Yangtze River and shivered in the face of the powerful offensive of the Jin army, he could send a surprise soldier to cross the Jin army's heavy blockade and appear outside Jingxing Pass...

Xu Laosan and Zhao Ne, who had no idea that the disaster was about to come, went out to welcome the Jinning Army and the Zhe Family Army in person. They invited them to take a break in the garrison house - the person who came was noble and friendly, and they were not

Thirteen riders are naturally unavoidable outside the pass. Otherwise, Tianshu City will seem too rude.

Du Chong and his party obviously understand the rules very well. Each person only brought short soldiers such as swords and other short soldiers, and the rest of the long soldiers and bows and crossbows were not brought, which showed the meaning of "friendliness". It made the guards feel relieved.

Since he was here, of course he would bring gifts, and there were two carts of gifts behind the cavalry team. What was the gift? Xu Laosan didn't dare to ask, nor was he qualified to ask, but the Qihuang peace envoy Kong Yanzhou put it in it.

A cart of several jars of fine wine was shot all, and Xu Laosan was invited to drink with the defenders.

Xu Laosan was a wine lover, and the most irresistible thing was fine wine. Zhao Ne persuaded him, but with the invitation of Du Chong, his husband, Zhao Ne finally became a guest on the table - the prime minister.

Drink, what a great deal of face it is! Who can refuse?

Therefore, except for the soldiers on duty on various sections of the city walls and pavilions, and the soldiers resting in the barracks, the other leaders and above all the leaders joined the banquet.

As night fell, the cold wind yelled outside the garrison house, but inside the house was a fire, warm wine and meat were cut, and the guests and hosts were very happy to talk.

Xu Laosan and Kong Yanzhou, if you discuss it in detail, they are also from Taihang Mountain. They are half of their fellow villagers (Kong Yanzhou was born in Longlu Mountain, Linlu County, and also belong to the Taihang branch). Moreover, their experiences are very similar. They are both born into bandits.

After working hard on my own, I have now become a government army. There is really not too much common language.

Just as the guests and guests in the house were having fun, there was a drastic change outside the house.

The ten Song army cavalry guards who were guarding outside the house sent four people to take advantage of the night to find a bunch of "gifts" from the bottom of the vehicle where the gifts were served: a large bow, a crossbow and an arrow. Then they quickly returned to the ground.

On the road outside the house, a sudden attack occurred and killed all the eight garrison soldiers who were also guarding outside the house with bows and crossbows and swords.

The muffled groan sounded outside the house, Kong Yanzhou inside the house threw his cup and pulled his sword to put it on Xu Laosan's neck. Fan Qiong also pulled out the sharp sword and pressed against Zhao Ne's chest. The latter immediately looked dissatisfied and said something he had originally talked about.

, swallow it into your stomach.

Xu Laosan narrowed his drunken eyes and said in a vague way: "Kong Zhenfu, why are you... throwing the cup? You are also using a knife to gesture, uh, hurry up... take it back quickly, don't hurt people..."

Kong Yanzhou grinned: "Okay, I'll take it back." When the blade was pulled back, Xu Laosan suddenly felt blood flowing from the back of his neck. He couldn't help but scream, and his alcoholic spirit disappeared.

The more than ten capital leaders, deputy capital leaders and team chiefs were all shocked by this sudden scene. Shao Qing, and soon some officers reacted and wanted to run to the base of the wall to get weapons (before the generals and ministers,

The blade is disrespectful, so the weapons are stored at the foot of the wall). At this moment, the door was kicked open, and ten selected strong cavalry guards held long bows and crossbows, opened their bows and strings, and all

More than ten officers from the garrison camp were stationed together...

Less than a moment ago, Du Chong, Fan Qiong and Kong Yanzhou's actions of taking risks were greatly successful. They controlled more than half of the leaders of Jingxing garrison battalions, including the second person in the garrison battalion - actually the number one person.

Xu Laosan.

Xu Laosan stared at his unbelievable eyes and murmured: "You, you actually want to seize my Jingxing Pass with just a dozen people? It's simply a delusion."

"Do you want to go up to the city wall to take a look." Du Chong calmly paused his wine glass on the table, "But before that, you must summon the patrol guarding the East City Wall."

Xu Laosan bit his cheek and said nothing.

Kong Yanzhou slowly turned the blade to Xu Laosan's throat. After exerting a little force, he pressed a shallow concave on the cervical muscle, and blood overflowed. Xu Laosan's facial muscles were thrusting straight, but he still didn't say anything.

Du Chong said lightly: "This is just a small request. If you can't do it, it proves that you are useless. A useless person might as well turn into a corpse. Then I will continue to ask until

Someone is willing to satisfy the requirements of the original person. Well, it is possible for this Zhao Lushi to look at it..."

Zhao Ne's face was reflected in a miserable green color by the Qingfeng pressing against his chest. He heard this and said bitterly: "It's so that Mr. Du learned that he was just a military officer in charge of copying and had no right to order the troops to be dispatched.

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Du Chong shook his head and sighed, "Look, where does this Di Lie place the royal family? With the talent and background of Zuochen (Zhao Ne), if he was in our dynasty, he could at least have a herdsmanship in a county or even a state.

What a pity..."

Zhao Ne lowered her head and said nothing.

Xu Laosan finally surrendered. He couldn't see more than ten brothers being shot and killed. He didn't believe that just a few dozen people could make a big wave. He summoned the two patrols on the East City Wall.

These patrols entering the hall in batches were naturally controlled. Fortunately, they did not kill anyone, but were just tied to the foot of the wall on the side of the hall.

Then, Kong Yanzhou escorted Xu Laosan to the east city wall. After typing a secret code in the distance with a torch, about half an hour. Stars lit up in the distance. More and more, more and more densely, and finally, they formed a

The fast moving fire dragon...

Looking at the sea of ​​fire in the distance, Xu Laosan sat on the ground and said in silence: "Impossible! Impossible! Is there so many military soldiers who can fly over..."

On the seventh day of the third month of Jianyan, at the green light of the Jin army, the Jin envoy opened the road. With the help of "honest" along the way, the 3,300 Song army (long-distance march, fell behind, fled, and disappeared 200 people), which took nearly one

After a month, I traveled thousands of miles to Jingxing Pass.

Whether it is Xu Laosan or Zhao Ne, there are two small characters who can never play with such ruthless civil and military people as Du Chong, Fan Qiong, and Kong Yanzhou. They are also unprepared for their own mistakes, so they are not unfair to defeat them.
To be continued...