At first, Qin Jin was not in a hurry to rush to Shaanxi County to Gao Xianzhi, but after witnessing the tens of thousands of corpses of Tang soldiers in the ice lake, he was eager to give birth to wings and fly over. Since the fall of Luoyang, the Tang army has been like a frightened bird in the face of the An Lushan rebels.

Shaanxi County is open, located in the south of the mighty Yellow River, Chang'an to Luoyang's post road out of Tongguan, Hongnong County runs through this place, Taiyuan Cang is located here is the water and land transportation is developed, convenient to communicate between the north and the south, which is naturally very convenient in the peaceful and prosperous times, but once the war comes, the rebel army presses the border, only relying on the Tang army that the market dealers temporarily put together, and how many days can they hold?

Now that Cui Qianyou has killed tens of thousands of Tang troops in the first battle of Kundi, Gao Xianzhi will have a great possibility of transferring the army in order to preserve his strength. Since the army is leaving, the mountains of grain piled up in the Taiyuan warehouse must not be left to the An Lushan rebels, and burning it has become the only option.

In the history that the Qin and Jin dynasties were familiar with, Gao Xianzhi did make this choice when facing the aggressive Cui Qianyou army, and burned down the Taiyuan warehouse, which had been operated by the Tang Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, and retreated to Tongguan. This is certainly understandable in terms of military strategy, but its influence on the hearts and minds of the DPRK will bring extremely bad consequences. At the same time, it also gave Li Longji an excellent excuse to kill Feng Gao and the others.

Qin Jin was afraid that Gao Xianzhi had already made this decision, and the current situation was very different from before, even if Cui Qianyou killed tens of thousands of Tang troops in the first battle of Kundi, but he suddenly used strange soldiers and went deep into Hongnong County alone, and after the grain and grass in Da Xian Mountain were burned, he would face a difficult situation of running out of grain. As long as Gao Xianzhi can mobilize the army and stabilize the situation, there is no need to fight a decisive battle with him, and only rely on Kunshan to trap him in Hongnong County, within seven days, the rebels will inevitably collapse without a fight.

However, the idea is good, but the information is asymmetrical. I'm afraid that Gao Xianzhi didn't know the news that the grain and grass in Da Xian Mountain were burned, and with Cui Qianyou's intelligence, he would definitely block the news strictly. Maybe if you take a step slower, you may be slow at the same time.

Qin Jin frequently urged the war horse under his crotch, but the snow was deep and the grass was dense, and the war horse had long been exhausted after continuous running, and he was tired and kept snorting. Soon, there were already war horses that were tired and died, but he couldn't care about feeling sorry for the war horses, nothing was as important as sending the news to Gao Xianzhi's army as soon as possible.

"Qin Changshi, let's take a break, if we continue to run like this, the war horse will be exhausted to death!"

Bian Lingcheng once introduced Qin Jin to be appointed by the Son of Heaven as the governor of Hongnong County, so Wuhu Huaizhong has always been commensurate with the long history. He looked at the war horses that kept falling and his heart was like dripping blood, the Hu people were mostly born in the Gobi steppe, and the war horses were their lifeblood.

"Brother Wuhu, hold on a little longer, how many war horses have died with the Luo Division, and Qin will double it for you at that time!"

The sky was gray and gloomy, and there had been no drifting snow, but at this time, it suddenly became larger, and the goose feather snow also made the visibility drop to the extreme, which made it even more difficult for Qin Jin and the others to walk an inch among the dense grass in the snow.

Qin Jin resolutely ordered, "Go to the post road!"

Although the heavy snow made the march difficult, it also provided natural cover and shelter for the cavalry on a smooth road, and it was difficult for the rebel rangers to find their sights as long as they were outside the mile.

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Tongshui was a big river in the Qin and Han dynasties, starting from the Qinling Mountains and flowing into the Tangtang Weishui, after hundreds of years this big river gradually dried up and shrunk, leaving only a river valley with the Yellow River in the north and the Qinling Mountains in the south. Tongguan, which replaced Hangu Pass, rose over this river valley.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty Cao Wei era to the present hundreds of years, although the Tongguan Guancheng has been displaced several times, the status of the "three Qin locks" has never been shaken, when the Sui and Tang dynasties, Chang'an City located in the Wei Plain has become the center of the country, and this Guancheng has also deservedly become the first Guancheng in the world.

In the prosperous era of Kaiyuan Tianbao, Tongguan once opened and closed the city all day long, for the passage of business travelers who went to the west through the east of the Guandong. It's only been three or two months, and Tongguan outside has changed its appearance at this time.

It is more than ten steps wide, and the deep ditch that is more than a foot deep lies in front of the majestic gate, blocking the east-west road. In addition to the deep ditch that had already been repaired, the people dug a second ditch to strengthen the defense of Tongguan to resist the possible arrival of rebel troops. Hordes of men were reprimanded by the overseers, and they laboriously scraped the ground with iron pickaxes, which had been frozen to stone.

"What do thieves and beggars think, and they want to dig a ditch?"

The people were tired and miserable, but there were still hundreds of envious eyes on them, after all, after doing this public work, at least they could have food every day, and they would not starve to death. For many refugees who have fled westward, this is already a rare blessing. And those who are frail and old and disabled are screened and eliminated, and they are unwilling to leave, so they can only watch the others take the next round of iron picks, which can be exchanged for two or three cold buns a day.

The overseer reprimanded an old beggar who tried to get close to him and retreated, this kind of beggar is seen more every day, and if he does not give them a whip, he will always come up and wag his tail and beg for mercy when he tastes pain.

But the old beggar in front of him couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"A certain is the general of the prison gate, Bian Lingcheng is also!"

"Haha! Are you the general of the prison gate? I am still Yang Xianggong!" Yang Xianggong is referring to Yang Guozhong, the favorite minister of the Son of Heaven, who has more than 40 positions, is this old beggar crazy, thinking that he can change his mouth to eat cold buns by pretending to be General Bian? "Get out, make noise again, and tell you to eat the whip!"

The old beggar took a few steps back, but he refused to give up, and continued: "Let the Tongguan guard Tian Jianye come out and see it, and it will naturally confirm the identity of so-and-so!"

The overseer sneered twice, who didn't know that the Tong Guan guard would be Tian Jianye, thinking that if he could call out his name, he would get preferential treatment? The overseer lost his patience and whipped him fiercely, and the filthy and tattered clothes on the old beggar's body immediately broke into two cuts, and then a scream like killing a pig sounded.

However, the old beggar was not frightened away, but lifted his unkempt gray hair and revealed a beardless face.

"Dog thing with long eyes, you see if Lao Tzu is the general of the prison gate, do you see if Lao Tzu has a beard?"

The overseer took a closer look, and the man had no beard and a chin as clean as a woman's. In this era, except for eunuchs, men had to grow beards after being crowned. As we all know, the general Bian Lingcheng is the eunuch next to the Son of Heaven, and the general of the prison gate who is one of the chief officers of the Sixteen Guards of the Son of Heaven with his military merits.

A few days ago, when the general of the prison gate showed off his might and walked out of Tongguan, he did look at it from a distance, not to mention that this person's face was really a little similar. But after thinking about it, the general of the prison gate is the messenger of the Son of Heaven, and there are hundreds of guards around him, how can he be reduced to the appearance of an old beggar in front of him?

The overseer suddenly sneered, and was almost deceived by the old beggar.

"Lao Er cheated on eating and drinking, thinking that he could deceive people by shaving his beard?" said this, the overseer suddenly showed a narrow smile on his face, and an idea suddenly rose, watching these people work all day long is boring, why not have some fun.

"Brother came over to see the excitement, this old man said that he didn't have that word below, can you believe it?"

Another soldier, who was also an overseer, laughed and looked at the crotch of the old beggar's pants.

"Then old man, you take off your pants and let us see what it looks like without them...... How is it different from the woman's place......"

The overseer laughed, but a wicked smile appeared on his face.

After being humiliated in public, the old beggar's endurance seemed to be squeezed to the extreme, "Are you tired of being crooked? If you dare to humiliate the Son of Heaven's close ministers, you are not afraid of losing the dog's head?"

"Listen, the old man is scaring people!"

"What nonsense, I pulled out Lao Er's pants and made him appear in his original form!"

The burly overseer immediately pounced on him like a wolf, and one of them pressed the old beggar to the ground, and the other took off his trousers. The old beggar struggled desperately, spitting and cursing indistinctly, his voice angry and sharp, even mixed with a little fear.

The laughter and shouting stopped abruptly, and the overseer who pulled the old beggar's pants was petrified, and his mouth stuttered incoherently. Holding down the old beggar, the man said, "Why is there no sound?" and then stretched out his head curiously......

"Really, really, really?"

The overseer was dumbfounded, and the old beggar, with all his strength to feed, tore him off his body, and hurriedly lifted his trousers again, his face distorted in a terrible way.

"Kill Cai, this time you replied, don't you call Tian Jianye out!"

The two of them stared at each other with wide eyes, and their hearts were inexplicably horrified, ordinary people would definitely not be gone, could it be that this person was really the general of the prison gate? Even if he was not the general of the prison gate, if he was involved with the general of the prison gate, wouldn't what he did today be begging for death?

Fortunately, one of them reacted quickly and ran towards Tongguan City at a trot, while the other was stunned on the spot, and asked tentatively: "Old, Lao Er is really the general of the prison gate?"

The old beggar was furious, and only snorted contemptuously, and then ignored him.

Tian Jianye, the general of Tongguan, was inspecting the city defense outside the city gate, and when he heard the news, someone claiming to be Bian Lingcheng, the general of the prison gate, was suddenly shocked in his heart, "Bring him to see me." Then he said, "No, lead the way, Ben will go to meet him." ”

The day before, Wang Xiaoxuan, the general of Youwei Weizhonglang, had returned to Tongguan, claiming that the general of Jianmen had been attacked, and was ordered to come back to send reinforcements. However, Tian Jianye, as the general of Tongguan, did not dare to make his own decisions, and traveled to Shangshu Province overnight, and Shangshu Province reported to the Son of Heaven after consultation, and then went to Menxia Province for deliberation, this set of processes is extremely cumbersome, and it is impossible to get a palindrome without three or two days. Wang Xiaoxuan was so anxious that he hurried to Chang'an and personally asked the Son of Heaven for his life.

Knowing this joint, and then hearing that someone claimed to be Bian Lingcheng, Tian Jianye had already believed eighty percent of it.

And when the overseer saw the main general's expression, he immediately realized that he had caused a big disaster, in case the old beggar was really the general of the prison gate, and he had just whipped and picked up his pants, and humiliated others, could he still have his own way of life?

Tian Jianye roared over the two trenches under the escort of the sergeant, and finally saw the filthy and sloppy old beggar, and looked carefully, was it not the prison gate general Bian Lingcheng or who was it?

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