At the moment when the situation in Chang'an City changed abruptly, Shuoxue Pass, the northernmost part of Eastern Qin, a battle would stop at dawn.

The cold snowflakes were mixed with the pungent smell of blood, which made the slaughter brought by Shuofeng a little more indescribably depressing.

As soon as the snow in Shuoxue Pass fell very much, the white expanse covered it, and it covered the corpses of his comrades in an instant. The general guarding the pass is still very young, he is one of the descendants of the Jinju Ji family's army, not only because he is a soldier from the Ji family's martial arts hall, he himself was originally from the Ji family's side lineage, and he has only been able to change his guard to Shuoxue Pass for a few months, and he has not been able to have a clear understanding of the pass he guards.

Shuoxue Pass is a very small place, sandwiched between two ridges, where snow falls for more than four months of the year, and directly across the pass is a snowfield, empty and a few lonely fir firs can be seen.

Although the pass is small, there are a lot of sergeants guarding here, there are 3,000 are the descendants of the Jinzhou Ji family, there are 5,000 are the Jinzhou garrison, from Shuoxue Pass to nearly a thousand miles behind are endless plains, and the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty is fierce, once Shuoxue Pass can not be defended, it means that the next will be a horse Pingchuan.

"Aren't the barbarians of the Northern Wei Dynasty crazy this year? In previous years, those who came down to loot never dared to work so hard!" In the barracks in the pass, the soldiers who had fought all night did not rest, they needed to go out of the customs to clean the battlefield and snatch back the body of the robe, and those barbarians who were used to living in the ice and snow would burn the corpses directly as fuel for their heating when they lacked firewood.

"Who knows? Fortunately, our general is not a bad breed, and he desperately defended it. Lang Jun, who spoke, came in from outside the tent and stretched out his hand to breathe, and a white mist spat out from his mouth.

"I heard that the general has sent a letter back to Yongning City to report to our assassin history, but unfortunately this year is the birthday of the saint, and the assassination history is still in Chang'an. Lang Jun, who was talking, took off the Ge beside him, and used his hands to straighten the cotton clothes that were spread on the felt as pillows, and smiled, "Wang Datou, have you ever been to Chang'an?" I heard that the little lady there is very good-looking, just like the fairy in the painting, if I can marry a little lady in Chang'an City in the future, it will be beautiful!"

"If you want to marry, what's so difficult, there are a lot of exiled officials, as long as you save a few more dollars, what else can't you find?" Lang Jun, who spoke first, yawned, "Sleep, maybe when those barbarians will attack the city again, I still think that when this battle is over, I will go to Guanli Fan Butcher to cut a few taels of meat and beat the tooth sacrifice, not to mention that the kid is only eighteen this year, that figure is really scary, almost nine feet." ”

"It's a pity that that kid only wants to be a butcher wholeheartedly, if he can join the army, isn't it just a stubble to cut people down with his ability to kill pigs? If he is literate and enters the Ji family's martial arts hall and learns the art of war, maybe he can become a general in the future!" Lang Jun in the back lay down on his back, stretched out his hand to pull the blanket and wrapped it around his body, and soon there was a flurry of undulating snoring in the tent.

At the same time, many passes bordering the Northern Wei Dynasty were also attacked by the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and some towns were held like Shuoxue Pass, but there were more towns as if the other party had gained insight into the Eastern Qin Bufeng in advance, and the defensive line of the border line was quickly torn apart, and the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty was like a black whirlwind bypassing the difficult towns and going straight to Chang'an!

The county lieutenant and the taishou who defended the city were surprised to find that they seemed to be full of fleeing victims, and when asked where the soldiers and horses came from, no one could tell clearly.

When the county commander of Changping Town, which was close to Datong, was deceived into opening the city gate and died in the chaos, the situation in Jinju was even more deadlocked, everyone knew that there was a thief, but they didn't know who the thief was, and every fellow in the robe around him became the object of suspicion.

In addition, the Jinju army will change the guard for a month, and the soldiers will run in, and the soldiers at the bottom can not quickly understand the instructions issued by the unfamiliar Shangfeng, which leads to the loss in their eyes, and this is just the manifestation of Shangfeng's incompetence in the former, and when they charge again, they can't help but question Shangfeng's order, and it is a moment of hesitation, which leads to a more tragic defeat, and almost falls into an extremely bad cycle and can't get out.

The high-level leaders who stayed in Jinju were extremely desperate to look forward to Ji Can's timely return, and the originally small suspicions between each other have also become the source of endless disputes.

And at this time, the news of Ji Can's death from a horse came from Chang'an.

All of a sudden, the estrangement between the three armies, which was originally only between the high-ranking generals in Jinju, finally spread in the barracks, and all kinds of rumors were confused and unnoticed, and morale was low for a while, and the county lieutenants and garrison generals in each town had to go their separate ways, just to keep the peace of the towns they were guarding.

Since the first confrontation at the border pass, there have been messengers to Chang'an, but what is surprising is that the center of the empire seems to have fallen into a deep sleep and has not given Jinju any response.

"General, when will the reinforcements come?" the Northern Wei Dynasty attacked the city again this evening, Ji Shan had never felt so tired, since he entered the military camp at the age of seventeen, for the first time in ten years, he had not left his armor for more than ten days, even though the thin armor had already been covered with dirt, sweat and blood, mixed together to give off a dizzying smell.

"I'm afraid something big has happened in Yongning City. Ji Shan looked at the tired robe beside him, the latter's surname was Zhao Dan, his name was Rui, he was his classmate when he was teaching martial arts, and when he was a teenager, he used to dislike this sparse companion who rode a bow and horse, but he didn't expect to end up in the military camp and become the best partner.

"Without reinforcements, the starry night is slow, and if you stick to Shuoxue Pass, we can't hold it even if we fight to the death. Zhao Rui calmly looked sideways at the robe that was wiping the long knife on the side, and his tone was calm.

"If you don't give it a try, how do you know if you can hold it or not?" Ji Shan smiled slightly, he is twenty-seven years old this year, has not yet married a wife and had children, for this Ji Can is not less anxious for him, that is, the Liang family has also looked at him several times, but Ji Shan is unwilling, one day did not level the Northern Wei Dynasty royal court one day he did not want to become his own son, he can not forget the Northern Wei Dynasty looted when he was a child, Daddy died in battle and Auntie pushed him into the dry well to lead the pursuers away, that year he was seven years old, his eyes were full of dust, and his ears were full of howling, and then he was saved by luck, and he was single-mindedly killed in the Northern Wei Dynasty to comfort his father's soul in the sky.

"Ji Shan, you're a madman!" Zhao Rui couldn't help but get up, and the next moment he reached out and picked up the remaining half of the rice wine in the camp tent, "I, Zhao Shuqi, will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman today, and die with you, a madman, and swear not to retreat as long as there is one person." ”

"Report!" another spy came to me.

"Smack!" Ji Shan took the letter and couldn't help but sit on the ground, two lines of tears rolling out of his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Rui had known him for the first time in ten years, and couldn't help but step forward and grab the letter, but what he sent was a letter of Bu Wen, which was the news that Ji Can had died and was posthumously named Wen Xianggong.

"Someone, pass the order, gather at the school in a quarter of an hour!" Ji Shan's heart was very painful, after the death of his parents, he returned to the Ji family in Yongning City to receive a lot of favors from Ji Canliang's family, Ji Can regarded him as a parent, and he also regarded Ji Can as his biological father, but now he is eternally separated from heaven and man, teach him how not to regret, how not to be sad, "The court is not sure who is in charge, this time it is really to the point of breaking the kettle, only ten deaths and no life." ”

"If you don't tell the truth about the robes in the army, those who go to the dead should die, but if there is a high hall at home and a child to raise, it is better to send them back to their hometowns. "There are few sergeants in the Jinzhou military camp who do not admire Ji Can, and Zhao Rui also feels sad in his heart, but now that the Northern Wei Dynasty is menacing, he doesn't even leave time for them to be sad," and then there is a notice to post in Guanzhong, and if there are people who want to leave together, they can leave the city before today's unitary time. ”

"Uncle Qi is very kind to say, but there is still an instruction from the side?" Ji Shan is a battle-hardened Langjun in the end, and he suppressed his grief for a while and said in a deep voice.

"The general is newly mourned, the commander is undecided, and the general is asked to send a letter back to Chang'an, one bright and one dark to describe the current situation of Jinzhou, the Ji family army has been stationed in the frontier for hundreds of years, but it can't be caused by a momentary omission to cause my Jinzhou to fall into the hands of the enemy. Zhao Rui thought for a while and said, "This open-faced letter official also invites the Ji family army to come out, and this secret letter official must be a brave person." ”

"In this way, I also ask Shuqi to part ways with me. Hearing this, Ji Shan nodded, "There is a butcher Fan Jin in Shuoxue Pass, who is seventeen years old, quite brave, and well-thought-by, and can be a secret envoy. I go to the school, Uncle Qi can find Fan Jin, without further ado, there is Uncle Lao in the letter. ”

"You and my comrades should be like this!" Zhao Rui nodded when he heard this, "When Wenyuan returns from the school, you and I will drink together." ”

The two of them decided to act separately, Ji Shan went to the school in uniform, Shuo Xueguan originally had 8,000 soldiers, but after these ten days of death, more than half of the dead and wounded, only three or four thousand people could stand in this school field, and there were countless wounded.

"Our robes are born to enjoy the worship of the country, and we should also defend the country to the death, and the commander of our three armies unfortunately collapsed, and now I will comfort my marshal in the spirit of the sky with the blood of the Northern Wei Dynasty!"

"Now there is no news from Yongning City, the boss is undecided, we should defend Shuoxue Pass to the death, but the grain and grass will be exhausted, and there will be no reinforcements later, so the drums are beaten to gather the robes here. Ji Shan said loudly, "All obey the order: father and son are in the army, the father returns, brothers are in the army, the brother returns, and the only son has no brothers, return." ”

Under Ji Shan's order, the school was empty for a while, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and no one came out.

"We will follow the general with death!" said a sergeant with great audacity.

"Swear to the death!" everyone spoke in unison.

"Good!" Ji Shan shouted loudly when he saw this, and walked under the snare drum himself, beat the drum with his hands, and sang loudly,

"Do you say that you have no clothes? Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son!

How can you say that you have no clothes? Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. Work with the son!

Do you say that you have no clothes, and you are clothed with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Let's go with my son!"

All the soldiers listened to it and sang in unison, the sound pierced the sky, and shook the snow piled up around the school yard, only to hear the tone of "No Clothes" is vast and tragic!