When the sky was about to dawn, Dugu Yanjing arrived at the Iron Gate Pass, and with a ray of golden sunlight shining through the surface, he saw clearly the * battle flag hanging high on the Guancheng, and his heart that was originally holding on to it finally let go. The * battle flag hanging on the gate city means that this gate city is still under the control of *.

Since they are all *, it will be much easier to contact, and he has already prepared a copy of the customs clearance document, even if there is no basis for his words, the bright red Hexi Jiedu will make the handsome seal will not be fake. Due to the burning of Yanqi City, it is likely that the Iron Gate Pass is in a bad mood, and out of prudence, another envoy was sent to negotiate with the people in the pass.

After more than an hour of back and forth, the Iron Gate Pass finally sent an envoy, and the main purpose of the envoy was to verify the integrity of these so-called Shazhou troops. Hexi Jiedu makes all the armies under his command all the military towns in Anxi familiar with it, but I have never heard of the Shazhou army, and it will not be wrong to test it in case of falsehood.

"Sima Fangxing, the contemptible Iron Gate Pass marcher, came to meet with the general......"

Dugu Yanjing repaid great tolerance and cooperation with this, while explaining the origin of the Shazhou army, how Zhou Mi, the deputy envoy of Hexi Jiedu, was temporarily recruited, and how Huang Xuan was ordered in danger.

"So that's the case, but have you been deceived? Zheng Jiedu is indeed on the march, but Qiuzi City is good, and there is no disaster in the army!"

Fang Xing's sudden words completely confused Dugu Yanjing, and he didn't know what the problem was.

"Why, what? Qiuzi was not besieged? How is this possible, Anxi's messengers have passed through Hexi five or six times in a row, is it all fake?"

"I don't dare to assert the truth of those messengers, but Qiuci did not suffer from the war, this is also an indisputable fact, there are people in the customs who only returned from Qiuci yesterday, if you don't believe it, the general can follow me to the city of Guancheng and ask!"

Hearing the news suddenly, Dugu Yanjing was confused, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he said:

"A certain person was ordered to go to the Iron Gate Pass to investigate the situation, and he was not allowed to enter the city without an order. Dare to ask, dare to ask why Yanqi was destroyed?"

I saw Fang Xing shaking his head and sighing.

"It's not the bane that Liang Jiedu planted back then, he insisted on using that Khitan person as the general of Yanqi Town, now it's okay, this thief took advantage of Zheng Jiedu to lead an expedition, and he intended to rebel, and the rebellion was not successful and ruined Yanqi, his body can be punished, and his heart can be punished!"

Fang Xing is obviously a scholar, and he speaks gently, and he talked about the situation in Chang'an with Dugu Yanjing, and his eyes unabashedly revealed a sense of homesickness.

Homesick and homesick, but it is also the pursuit of the husband to make contributions outside the Saiwai, and he must always mix up his appearance to return home. After talking for a while, the messenger sighed.

"The political situation in Chang'an is chaotic, and you will break your house and kill people at two ends in three days, but it is better to stay in Anxi and live freely!"

This remark also touched Dugu Yanjing, the lords and nobles of Chang'an were unlucky after Qin and Jin came to power, and the three thousand exiled prisoners were only part of them, and there will be more nobles and relatives to come to Anxi in the future. Half a year ago, he was still a gentleman who was rampant in Chang'an City, who would have thought that at this time today, he would be the chief of the Shazhou Army as a prisoner.

The Shazhou army was controlled by the envoys of Hexi, and all supplies were also supplied by Hexi, but since they left Yumen Pass, no trucks and horses from Hexi arrived.

On the one hand, Dugu Yanjing ordered people to go back to send a letter to Huang Xuan to report his safety, and on the other hand, he ordered all the soldiers to camp on the spot, wait for the arrival of the team, and then further discuss whether it is necessary to rush to Qiuzi.

"The contemptible and the general hit it off at first sight, it's better to go into the customs, let's talk about it!"

Fang Xing warmly invited, hoping that Dugu Yanjing could go to the city to rest, and he could also use wine and meat to entertain him. However, Dugu Yanjing knew that Huang Xuanzhi's army, like the Shenwu army, was extremely strict, and once the military order was violated, all previous efforts might come to naught.

For this reason, Dugu Yanjing wanted to enter the city very much, but he still had to refuse. However, although he refused, he still cheekily made a request.

"The soldiers don't smell meat for more than a month, can Fang Sima get a few live sheep to ......?"

Hearing this, Fang Xing laughed.

"What's the matter, isn't it just a few sheep, and it's on me at this time!"

Fang Xing swore and pat his chest to reassure, and then left the barracks. After about an hour, when Fang Xing returned again, there were already more than a dozen sheep behind him, which was several times more than Dugu Yanjing's request.

Dugu Yanjing is naturally very grateful, after experiencing the wind and food along the way, and the shortage of food, he has understood the value of food, especially the meat that is difficult to eat, and he can't help but salivate just by looking at it.

Burying the pot to boil water and slaughtering sheep, this series of work is like flowing water, and it is still slightly not enough for three hundred people to eat more than a dozen sheep, but the mutton soup stewed in dozens of large pots, even if it is soaked in mutton soup and eaten with cold naan, it is also extremely satisfying.

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It was already past noon when Huang Xuan got the news, and when he learned a series of news about Qiuzi, his mouth opened wide in surprise. If it is said that Qiuzi was not subjected to military disasters, then what happened to the envoys who frequently reported to Chang'an via Hexi? As for the burning of Yanqi, the people sent back by Dugu Yanjing could not say clearly, but only said that it was because of the rebellion of the town generals. 、

All this is too weird, before this Huang Xuan predicted all kinds of possibilities, but he didn't expect that the Iron Gate Pass was just an unbelievable beginning, and the turtle became a cloud of confusing black fog, which one is true and which one is false, it's really hard to say.

At this time, Huang Xuan couldn't wait to fly to the iron gate, and carefully understood the reasons for the past and back of Qiuzi and Yanqi. However, he glanced at the Turkic women and children with their families, and knew that it would be difficult for him to reach the Iron Gate Pass before noon tomorrow.

These Turks were originally the Tang people who settled near Yanqi, and after learning that Huang Xuan's subordinates had no malicious intentions, they begged Huang Xuan not to abandon them. There was really no way, so Huang Xuan had to reluctantly agree and help them find a suitable place to settle.

If the news brought back by Dugu Yanjing is true, it is not a good destination to place these Turkic old and young near Tiemen Pass.

To this end, Huang Xuan specially summoned several respected elders among the Turks, informed them of the situation at the Iron Gate Pass, and reassured them that soon their people would live as peaceful as before. Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the Turkic elders shook their heads one after another, saying that they did not believe Huang Xuan's words no matter what, and even had a quick temper and directly accused Huang Xuan of deceiving them.

Huang Xuan was also very helpless, so he had to spread his hands.

"This is the news that my subordinate brought back after personally going to investigate, how can it be fake?"

The two sides communicated for a while, but the Turkic elders still insisted on not believing it, and warned Huang Xuan:

"General, Yanqi has been burned down to ruins, and the Iron Gate Pass is just a palm-sized place, how can it be spared? If the general insists on going to the Iron Gate Pass, be sure to be prepared to fight! The people who occupy the Iron Gate Pass are not easy to mess with!"

This sentence just touched Huang Xuan's deep worries, everything happened too unbelievable, and the news he got later was diametrically opposed to the news he got before, without any factual basis, he could only speculate out of thin air about which was true and which was false.

However, no matter what the result and the truth are, Huang Xuan must go to Tiemen Pass, no matter whether Qiuci has suffered a military disaster or not, he must arrive at Qiuci with his five thousand Shazhou troops, only in this way can the merit be successfully completed The character, whether it is to Doctor Qin who is far away in Chang'an, or Zhou Yu, the deputy envoy of Hexi Jiedu, has a suitable explanation.

What was even more surprising to Huang Xuan was that after learning of his resolute attitude towards Tiemen Pass, these Turkic elders unanimously expressed their willingness to follow the Shazhou army to Tiemen Pass, and if they needed to fight, anyone who could hold weapons would also fight with the Shazhou army.

For a while, Huang Xuan felt that he couldn't see through these Turkic people, their original nature was greedy for life and afraid of death, but they showed heroism in an instant.

In any case, at least one thing Huang Xuan is certain of is that these Turks have no ill will towards *, and are even very dependent and trusting, which may explain their willingness to fight alongside them at the risk of death.

When the army marched slowly until dark, Huang Xuan finally realized that something might be wrong. Because according to the agreement between him and Dugu Yanjing, he would send back messengers every other hour to report to him. Nearly three hours had passed since noon, and no messenger had come.

This is difficult to explain by accidents and mistakes, and perhaps the most appropriate explanation is that Dugu Yanjing is in danger and has no time or is unable to send the messenger back.

In view of this, Huang Xuan temporarily decided that after dinner, the whole army would no longer camp and rest, and rushed to Tiemen Pass overnight. He was afraid that after a night's delay, he didn't know what accident was going to happen.

The Turks, old and young, walked slowly, and they didn't care about waiting for them, so they only let them follow far behind, and if they could catch up, they could catch up, and if they couldn't catch up, they could find another way out.

Huang Xuan's heart is like a mirror, the Turkic old and young follow him just to be stable, and now they are likely to face danger, so why force them to face it with him?

After a brief exchange with the Turkic elders, Huang Xuan asked himself to express his intentions very clearly, and then got on his horse and urged the brigade to march westward.

When they were about ten miles away from Tiemen Pass, they finally met a group of cavalry of the Shazhou Army, who were hiding on a hill with their backs to the main road, but they were still discovered by the horses.

The surroundings reflected by the torches were bright and bright, looking at the embarrassed cavalry soldiers in front of him, Huang Xun only felt that his heart seemed to be falling rapidly, falling into the abyss!