Thistle Town.

After the war, there was a sense of depression in the whole of Ji Town. Occasionally, a cloud of smoke rises, and those who survive pay tribute to their deceased loved ones, and then continue to live and wait for the next fate.

Tang Jie rode his horse across the official road, and when he looked at it, he felt a desolation in his heart.

He knew that the cause of this desolate scene was also his own sins.

He has followed Tang Zhongyuan to kill officials and rebel since he was a child, and after killing countless people, he is finally qualified to decide the life and death of tens of thousands of people with one word, and he is already different from those ant-like people.

All this may not be what Tang Jie wanted from the beginning. At first, he just wanted to live like everyone else.

When he was five years old, he was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, and finally couldn't help but tell Tang Zhongyuan: "Dad, the child is dying of hunger......"

That day, Tang Zhongyuan actually brought him a steamed bun, and also started the turbulent and vigorous life of their father and son.

When the world is broken, people can't live if they don't earn it.

Tang Jie thought about this, and a thought became clearer and clearer in his mind.

- If this troubled world is caused by oneself, it should end in one's own hands.

He has become more and more clearly aware that one day he will sweep away the turmoil in the world and achieve a peaceful and prosperous world.

It was a bit ridiculous, but he felt the power in his arm as he held the lance, and felt that he could.

It's almost ......

Suddenly, several fast horses galloped and rushed to Tang Jie.

"Dashuai, there is a group of men and horses near Gubeikou, with nearly 10,000 people, all of them are cavalry......"

Tang Jie was escorting the money and grain back to Juyongguan, and he was a little surprised when he heard this.

"Is Jiannu here again?!"

"It hasn't been explored yet, and from a distance, Yijia is not Jiannu."

Tang Jie was still groaning, but he heard a neighing of horses in the team, and Tang Qianqian had already led people to run straight to Gubeikou.

- "This old seven, who has always been calm, has become more and more composable recently. ”

Tang Jie complained in his heart, and suddenly reacted.

"Is Wang Xiao's person back?"

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The Chaohe River was called Baoqiushui in ancient times, flowing through Yanshan, cutting the mountain range into a canyon, forming an important place for soldiers to communicate between the north and the south - Gubeikou.

Tang Jie led people to stand on the Great Wall, looked north, and saw a cavalry of about 8,000 people coming from afar.

He turned his head to look at Tang Qianqian again, only to see her hands on the battlements, looking quite calm on the surface, but there was a look of hope in her eyes.

"Is Wang Xiao back?" Tang Jie asked.

Eight thousand cavalry is still a cavalry that has been tempered by vicious battles, this is a combat force that should not be underestimated, and its role on the battlefield is sometimes stronger than that of thirty or fifty thousand foot soldiers.

Thinking of this, even Tang Jie was a little excited.

Tang Qianqian responded: "I don't know yet." ”

Tang Jie ordered the soldiers to guard the Great Wall......

Tang Jie recently discovered: If it is really about national strength, compared to the Chu Dynasty, the righteous army is still dwarfed.

Although the rebels were able to gather hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to fight around, most of them were miscellaneous soldiers with no combat power. If you want to send troops to guard the border like the Chu Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of people will not be enough at all, let alone the supply of grain and grass.

It's easy to fight the world, but it's hard to defend the world - he has felt a lot of this sentence recently.

Now most of the soldiers and horses of his old battalion are placed in Shanhaiguan, and he has to arrange manpower to transport silver grain, and in a hurry, he can only draw out 7,000 soldiers and horses to guard the Great Wall. If it really starts, it will obviously be a loss.

In the distance, the cavalry was getting closer.

Tang Xiuguang looked at it, only to see that the other party was wearing Chu armor and holding Chu flags, but the outfit was mixed, including the armor of the Beijing soldiers of the Chu Dynasty, the black armor of the Ning Iron Cavalry, and there were 2,000 Mongols mixed in it......

"Sure enough, it's Wang Xiao."

With a word, Tang Jie breathed a sigh of relief.

He turned his head to look at Tang Qianqian again, and said, "It's up to you, persuade the king to smile and surrender." ”

Tang Qianqian did not answer him, but withdrew the hand that was pressing on the battlement, the expression on her face became calm again, and her eyes were pensive.

The Chu cavalry over there stopped far away, and a few fast horses galloped to the city pass.

"A certain is General Chu Xuanwei, Deputy General of Jinzhou, and Qin Shanhu, the son of Ning Yuanbo! Quickly close the door and let it go! ”

Tang Xiuguang looked at it and saw that the other party was as strong as an ox and majestic, and he was indeed a fierce general. There was a bit of appreciation in his eyes, but he stood on the battlements, pointed to the banner of the Rui Dynasty on the Great Wall, and shouted: "Can't you see it?!" Your Chu Dynasty is dead!

Now the world has changed dynasties. Remembering you and other loyal ministers and good generals, you have meritorious service in the fierce battle and building slaves, and if you are willing to serve, you will be rewarded. From then on, I Han people are united to create a prosperous ......"

A loud shout rang out outside the Great Wall.

"Dog mongrel, who are you?!"

When Tang Jie heard this, he was slightly silent.

He has been mixed in a bunch of three religions and nine streams for half his life, and he asks himself who he will not lose to. A while ago, he fought with Hauge, and he could always scold Hauge and couldn't speak.

But today it is clear that we have encountered a fierce opponent in the scolding war.

The other party first scolds a 'dog mongrel' and then asks who he is, which is a common technique in the scolding battle. If Tang Jie responds, he will admit that he is a mongrel, and he should not be able to show the majesty of the third son of Emperor Da Rui.

"Why is General Qin so irritable?" Tang Jie shouted: "I created the world in the Rui Dynasty, and now it is also a state of etiquette......"

"Lao Tzu is most annoying about the state of etiquette, don't talk nonsense, or let me wait for the customs, or fight with your father and me!"

Tang Jie was slightly annoyed.

Where did the vulgar man come from? More horizontal than Lao Tzu.

He turned his head to look at Tang Qianqian and asked in a low voice, "You don't come forward?" I'm giving you face right now, and if they don't know what to do, I'll beat them to death. ”

Tang Qianqian's eyes swept the team outside the Great Wall, and said lightly: "This battle is not easy to fight. ”

Tang Jie was stunned.

- Of course I know it's not easy to fight, otherwise I would have beaten him a long time ago. That's why I asked you......

Seeing that Tang Qianqian had no intention of coming forward, Tang Jie was helpless, so he had to shout outside again.

"I am the third son of the Emperor of the Rui Dynasty and the general of the Eastern Expedition, Tang Jie. The Marquis of Chu is smiling in the army, why don't you come forward to meet? ”

"Dog thief, what did you do when you saw my lord?!"

"If the Marquis of Chu is in person, he can listen to me, what if you are allowed to enter the customs?"

Over there, Qinshan Lake turned the horse's head and ran back.

Tang Jie saw it, clapped his hands and jumped off the battlements, and raised his eyebrows at Tang Qianqian.

Tang Qianqian's reaction was very strange, her expression was light, but there was some low emotion in her eyes.

"Heh, you dare to ask for someone in front of your father, but now that people are really here, you are still ashamed?" Tang Jie laughed.

After a while, I saw a few more riders coming forward.

Tang Xiuguang looked over, and saw one of them wearing armor, so far away that he could see his reluctant face, vaguely with red lips and white teeth, his body was not tall, but he was a little extraordinary.

"But the Marquis of Chu smiled in front of him?" Tang Jie shouted.

"Yes. Without further ado, are you going to let me wait for the customs or to fight? ”

Tang Jie laughed and shouted: "Chu Hou killed the slave chieftain, and shocked the Quartet, now that you have returned from Liaodong, it is definitely not my wish to kill you." ”

"It's not certain who kills whom."

"Good! There is anger. Looking at the current situation, the East is rampant, and the people are suffering from war and displacement. We are all Han Chinese, so why bother killing each other? The hero of the Hou Shi of Chu, he should know the general trend, it is better to join hands with Tang to restore the stability of the people......"

Tang Jie stood on the Great Wall and shouted, and his eloquence was also very average. Saying these words is nothing more than knowing the relationship between Wang Xiao and Tang Qianqian, and thinking that he will be able to convince Wang Xiao.

~~

Outside the Great Wall, Qin Xiaozhu listened to this persuasion and slowly became impatient......

She was wounded and fainted in the Qing army camp, only remembering that she was rescued by Wang Xiao, and when she opened her eyes, she had already arrived at the Wulianghai grassland.

After learning that it was Wang Xiao and Qin Chengye who attracted the Qing soldiers, they let the more than 4,000 Guanning iron horsemen escape, Qin Xiaozhu hated to rush back to save Wang Xiao and his grandfather, but in the end he was brought back by Qin Shanhai, Qin Shanhu and others.

They passed through the Horqin grassland, rested in Daqinggou, and waited for five days, but after all, they still didn't wait for Wang Xiao.

Naturally, the way back was not smooth, and they were attacked by the Mongol guerrillas several times, and they fought and fled, but fortunately they were not surrounded.

After tasting the wind, frost, hunger and cold, 4,000 people fled to the Karaqin grassland, and met Liu Yikou and Xia Xiangwei.

After Liu Yikou and Xia Xiangwei led two thousand escort horses on the order of Wang Xiao and took Iled back to Karaqin, they did something in the name of the descendants of the Golden Family......

When the Later Jin conquered Lin Dan Khan, the population owned by the leader of the Golden Family Banner of the Karaqin Province was killed and captured. Huang Taiji took away nearly 10,000 strong men from Karaqin and included them in the Mongolian Eight Banners. The remaining strong men were divided into three league flags, left, center, and right in Karaqin.

Among the three alliance flags of Karaqin, the most powerful is the left banner of Seleng, with 5,000 strong men, and the middle banner and the right banner are 2,000 strong men each.

Liu Yikou and Xia Xiangwei's goal is this Karaqin Three Alliance Flag.

They did not show hostility at first, but occupied a piece of land in Machanggou, west of Karaqin, where they could not be grazed, and began to provide medicine to the herdsmen, disperse the supplies they had brought from Jinzhou to the herdsmen, teach them farming, and explain Buddhist teachings to them.

Slowly, Ilad, the descendant of the Golden Family Banner, regained support among the herdsmen, and more and more herdsmen took refuge in Machanggou.

Naturally, Se Ling would not let them do this, and he transferred troops to fight several times, but they were all driven back by Liu Yikou by taking advantage of the terrain. In the end, Seleng had no choice but to unite with the whole army of the Karaqin Three Alliance Banners to encircle and suppress.

For Xia Xiangwei, this visit to Karaqin was actually an 'experiment to establish a base area behind enemy lines' given to him by Wang Xiao, and it didn't matter if the experiment was unsuccessful.

At that time, they had already recruited 1,000 herdsmen, and they planned to move to a place beyond the reach of the Qing army for the next experiment.

But unexpectedly, during the battle, a Chu army suddenly attacked the rear of the Karaqin Three Banners. Selene was caught off guard and was beaten to the point that the whole army was defeated......

Only then did Xia Xiangwei know that it was Shi Niang...... No, Qin Xiaozhu came back with his troops.

After the war, they selected 2,000 Karaqin strong men, and 2,000 guard cavalry and 4,000 Guanning iron cavalry to break up and reorganize, Qin Shanhai had a very good means to govern the army, and after half a month's rest, the 4,000 Guanning iron cavalry that fled in a hurry became 8,000 capable cavalry.

Qin Shanhai commanded the whole army, and there were Dong Jihe and Xia Xiangwei; Wu has Lin Shaoyuan, Qinshan Lake, Qinshan Canal, Qin Shanshui, Qin Xuanming, Liu Yikou, Yiled...... Although the armor of the eight thousand horsemen is not bright, and there is wind and frost on their faces, the awe-inspiring murderous aura is unstoppable.

At this time, these eight thousand horsemen stood outside the Gubei Pass, and the generals surrounded Qin Xiaozhu, and there was only one thought in their hearts - this Tang Festival was willing to let it go, and if they were unwilling, they would kill it directly.

And Qin Xiaozhu pretended to be Wang Xiao again this time, and he didn't have the same mind of playing around as before.

She just wants to go back to the capital as soon as possible to see if Wang Xiao and her grandfather are back.

They have been going around the grassland for so long, counting the time, if Wang Xiao and they return to Beijing by sea, they should have arrived at this time.

Qin Xiaozhu also knew that it was almost impossible for Wang Xiao and Qin Chengye's men to break through the encirclement, but ...... After all, there is still hope in my heart.

On the Great Wall, the Tang Festival that is still painstakingly persuaded to surrender is very annoying. Qin Xiaozhu turned his head to look at Qin Shanhai and asked, "Uncle, rush over?" ”

Qin Shanhai was looking up at the Great Wall, estimating Tang Jie's troops, and when he heard this, he responded: "Don't worry. ”

"The capital has not been captured yet." Dong Jihe said, "If the Tang thieves have broken through the capital, they should not be here as Tang Jie." ”

"Not bad." Xia Xiangwei said: "There are not many defenders on the Great Wall, so they can rush over." ”

Dong Jihe said: "The Tang thieves are not strong enough to hold all the Great Wall of Jizhen, and we will take a detour from other passes. ”

Xia Xiangwei thought for a while and said: "It's okay to fight with them, Guan Ning Iron Cavalry killed the slave chieftain and returned, and his reputation is good." If the Tang thief dares to stop him, he will see whose side the hearts of the people in the world are. ”

Qin Shanhai pondered for a while, made a final decision, and said: "We are all cavalry, and the casualties of attacking the Great Wall will be not small, so let's take a detour." ”

If it was before, Qin Xiaozhu would have pretended to be Wang Xiao and put a few cruel words, such as "If you don't let me pass, I will kill you sooner or later", but now he is not in this mood.

They were about to leave, when suddenly they heard a clear cry from the city.

"Let them get through ......"