When Chen Hai and Wu Xiong led their troops to approach Qintong Pass, they rode their horses up a ridge ridge at dusk, and they could see from a distance that the Qintong Great Gallop Road stretched from east to west, extending into a large rift valley. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It does not take twenty or thirty miles to enter from the Great Rift Valley, which is the Qintong Pass, which controls the entry into Gyeonggi in the east and the gateway to Qintong in the west; Qintong Pass is more than 100 meters high, like a stone gate embedded in the mountain wall on both sides that is more than 10,000 feet high.

Although Qin Tong Pass was in sight, Chen Hai and the others had no way to directly lead their troops to approach in front of Qin Tong Pass.

The entrance of the Great Rift Valley is only two or three thousand steps wide, and on both sides are 10,000 high cliffs, and the peaks and cliffs are like swords and halberds, with strange shapes, and it is difficult for birds to cross.

Chen Hai and the others thought that before approaching Qintong Pass, there was no other shortcut to detour, and they could only enter the Shixia, but at this time, there were already many homeless rebels holding rudimentary soldiers there to form an array.

The outcasts rebels should also know that they did not have the strength to fight with the elite cavalry of the Tiger Ben in the open area, so they huddled in formation on the inside of the valley mouth.

In front of the loose and chaotic array, the displaced rebels also cut down some trees and moved some fallen rocks, piled them up on the gallop road, set up obstacles, and the cliffs on both sides still faintly had the light of prohibition and leakage, it seemed that their main intention was to delay the pace of the counterattack of the Jingying army from Yanjing City to Qintong Pass.

Chen Hai guessed that it was likely that the guards of Qintong Pass and some of them resisted stubbornly in the city, and the Wandering Army had not completely taken Qintong Pass, so it was necessary to extend the defense line to the gorge twenty or thirty miles away.

Although the outcasts in Taniguchi had poor armor, they were all strong, presumably the elite of martial arts selected from the homeless, and there were hundreds of red-eyed disciples wearing black robes on the left, standing among the rebels and staring at them.

Even if they were miles apart, Chen Hai could still feel the sinister look in the eyes of these red-eyebrow disciples.

Seeing this scene, Chen Hai also gasped, secretly thinking that there were hundreds of Red Mei Sect disciples leading tens of thousands of rebel troops to form a formation at the mouth of the valley, and presumably the number of Red Mei Sect disciples who stayed in Qintong Pass City to encircle and suppress the remnants of the defenders would never be small.

Whether it was a rebellion by the homeless people in Yulong Mountain or a surprise attack on Chishan City, Chen Hai had seen the outcasts of the Red Mei Sect, but they were just three or five people hiding behind the scenes to instigate chaos, but he didn't expect that so many Red Mei Sectists would appear inside and outside Qintong Pass today, and it was almost concluded that the raid on Qintong Pass should be something that the Red Mei Sect had been secretly planning for a long time.

Chen Hai looked at Tu Chongjin, and Tu Chongjin's face was ugly.

At the beginning of the year, when the Hexi Advance Mission passed through Qintong Pass, Ge Xuanqiao and Chen Lie both mentioned the scourge of the displaced people during the banquet, but Tu Chongjin and the other generals did not care, thinking that the displaced people and the Red Mei Sect were just suffering from ringworm, and he would never have thought that he would become the first sacrifice of the scourge of the displaced people.

Chen Hai and Wu Xiong led their troops to escort Tu Chongjin to the west to collect the rout, and at this time 12,300 people had returned to Tu Chongjin's command, but seeing that the mouth of the gorge had been completely closed by the rebels of the displaced people, it meant that Qin Tong had closed the elite of 10,000 tigers, and these 1,200 or 300 people could escape the catastrophe.

Chen Hai and the others did not have a strong enough force, and the new army of the Seventh Capital of Xiyuan could not be called at will, and at the same time, they did not have a Dao Dan Realm powerhouse on their side, let alone the details of the displaced rebels, so it was impossible to rashly storm the gorge.

It is possible that the Taiwei Mansion will call on the Xiyuan Army to recapture Qintong Pass this time, but everything will have to wait for the Taiwei Mansion to make a decision before Chen Hai can move with the army.

"Tu Shuai will take care of everything!"

Chen Hai arched his hand towards Tu Chongjin and said.

"Great grace is not grateful!" said Tu Chongjinji.

Chen Hai and Wu Xiong led his troops to help him collect the remnants of the army, which was already a great favor, and even lent him more than 400 good horses and more than 20 light chariots to reload.

Chen Hai and Wu Xiong rode four or five hundred fine horses, and they couldn't be left alone for a long time, and they didn't have this need and obligation, they had done everything they should do, and they had to go back to Meiwu Fort to observe the situation, but Tu Chongjin wanted to lead the remnants to stay outside the Qintong Gorge at this time to "atone for their crimes".

At least until the Taiwei Mansion has a clear decision to ask for guilt, Tu Chongjin can't easily go back and send people to the head, and there is enough buffer time for the Tu clan to operate secretly and reduce Tu Chongjin's culpability.

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Chen Hai and Wu Xiong led their troops back to Meiwu Fort, and it was already early the next morning.

During this time, there were several small groups of scouts in Yanjing City to monitor the movements of the displaced rebels in Qintong Pass, but when they returned to Meiwu Fort, Chen Hai did not see a large army gathering in the direction of Qintong Pass.

In addition to the disciples who had already served in the military camp and the imperial court, Dong Ning, the lord of Yuecheng County, and nearly 100 disciples from Hexi who were studying in the Xue Palace, had already rushed to Meiwu Fort to stand by in order to deal with this sudden change.

"What resolution has come down from the Taiwei Mansion, has it been decided who to use as the general to clean up the civil unrest?"

Chen Hai and Wu Xiong walked into the hall and saw Dong Pan, Pei Jinhua, Dong Ning and others all in the hall, and it seemed that they had not slept day and night, and they couldn't wait to ask about the movements of the Taiwei Mansion.

Different from the civil unrest that occurred outside the five passes in the past, this time the rebels of the displaced people directly attacked and seized the key places in the western part of Beijing, and the millions of rebels entered the capital foothills, and it was inevitable that the court would be shocked, Chen Hai wanted to know whether the Taiwei Mansion would call the Xiyuan Army nearby, or transfer an elite tiger army from the Qinglongyu camp to the west to suppress the rebels and recapture Qintong Pass.

"......" Dong Pan shook his head with a wry smile, and told Chen Hai and them in detail about the changes in the court that came this night, "Above the court, all the ministers advocated severely punishing Tu Chongjin and others for the crime of dereliction of duty, and unanimously decided to send troops to suppress the civil unrest as soon as possible. Yuhe Palace reprimanded it, but it did not promulgate further imperial decrees, and the prince was also angry, and he no longer paid attention to this matter, but completely handed over the suppression of civil unrest to the officials of the Taiwei Mansion for decision......"

"There are also endless disputes within the Taiwei Mansion over who to send and which troops and horses to use, and there is no conclusion at this time. Pei Jinhua said helplessly.

"......" Chen Hai opened his mouth and didn't say anything other than a long sigh.

"It's all burning eyebrows, what is the Taiwei Mansion still fighting for?" Wu Xiong thought that the Taiwei Mansion had already begun to assemble a large army, but he didn't think that it was all at this time, and he was still arguing about who to use as a general and which troops and horses to deploy.

Dong Pan, as a descendant of the Dong family in Hexi, knew that the Wuwei Army was separating Hexi, and Yanjing was the weaker the better, but the others also cried and laughed at the infighting in the court at this time.

"No matter when the Taiwei Mansion can come up with a resolution, I will go back to Fujiaoling to stand by now, so I won't delay here......" Chen Hai saw that Meiwubao was waiting for a tight battle, there should be no chaos, he had a general position, and he couldn't stay in Meiwubao, so he stood up and said goodbye to Dong Pan.

Chen Hai said goodbye to Dong Ning, the lord of Yuecheng County, and the others, and when he saw Dong Ning avoiding his gaze, he sighed slightly in his heart, and didn't say anything more, and withdrew from the hall.

Chen Hai returned to Taohuawu first, and he planned to arrange for Ge Tong to lead a hundred troops to garrison Taohuawu, and at the same time organize the craftsmen and craftsmen.

Although the possibility of the rebels attacking Yanjing is very small, it is always necessary for Meiwu Fort and Taohuawu to make more preparations, once the situation is chaotic, in addition to the rebels of the exiles, the forces lurking in Hexi may be ready to move.

Fortunately, the dock forts of Taohuawu and Meiwubao have been expanded before winter.

In addition to pouring molten iron juice into the fort walls to strengthen it, Meiwu Fort also laid a defensive array, which was not afraid of the strong attack of the homeless rebels in a short time. Although the overall defense of Taohuawu is much worse, and there is no strong enough force, it is only two miles away from Meiwu Fort, forming a horn trend, and the situation is bad.

"Why do you have to take this step, there is still infighting in the court, what are they thinking about in their heads?"

In Meiwu Fort, Wu Meng, Ge and others were not qualified to speak, and even Sun Buregret was inconvenient to interject, but when they returned to Taohuawu, they couldn't hold back anymore and asked incomprehensibly.

Chen Hai shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Maybe those people standing above the court still think that the rebels and the Red Eyebrow Sect are just a rabble, and it is just too stupid for Tu Chongjin and the others to lose Qintong Pass." ”

"All the eyebrows are burning, and the ministers of the two factions still have to fight for merit?" Wu Meng, Ge and the others asked in disbelief.

"The loss of Qin Tong Pass is a big crime, and the loss and recovery is a great achievement, if this great function is gained, the two factions will naturally have to fight," Chen Hai smiled bitterly, and said to Zhou Jingyuan, "You send someone to invite Cao Feng over, I have something to say to him." ”

At the end of last year, a large group of displaced people gathered in the north of Taohuawu, and after the year, they built embankments and beaches and cultivated fields. In order to prevent this group of displaced people from causing a catastrophe, Chen Hai had no right to drive them away, so he could only secretly fund 780,000 displaced people to settle down in the northern part of Taohuawu.

Chen Hai wasn't worried about what these displaced people who had settled down would cause trouble, but now it's hard to say.

He also didn't know whether Cao Feng and the leaders of the exiles secretly contacted the Red Mei Sect behind their backs, nor did he know if Cao Feng and the others would become ready to move after the fall of Qintong Pass, and he was now going to call Cao Feng over to find out his truth.

"What if Cao Feng can't come?" Zhou Jingyuan asked hesitantly.

Everyone also looked at Chen Hai, Cao Feng, the leader of the exiles, was likely to refuse to enter the Taohuawu at this time, and I don't know if Chen Hai has a follow-up strategy.

"Send someone to invite first. Chen Hai waved his hand, everything depends on Cao Feng's reaction first, and then he will make the next step, there is no need to think about what is there at this time.