Tongguan.

Originally, it was the hardest hit area of the plague, but with the passage of time, the virus that likes warm and humid slowly defeated in the face of dry and cold nature, and at the same time, the cleanup, burial, and burning of the corpses gradually brought back life to the vicinity of Tongguan.

Although Yang Biao left Guanzhong, it was naturally impossible to dummy people in a dangerous pass like Tongguan, so he left two thousand soldiers, with Yang Tong and Yang Ziran as the main generals, and Li Xian and Li Boren as deputy generals.

Yang Tong is naturally a member of the Hongnong Yang family, while Li Xian is the queen of the Li family in Longxi.

I have to say that the Li family in Longxi started with Li Guang, which was a complete tragedy. According to later generations, Li Guang is not only a complete road idiot, but even his luck value is negative......

But Li Guang is not the end of the tragedy, but the beginning of the tragedy for the Li family in Longxi.

After Li Guang, there is also Li Ling.

Although this unlucky child is not as miserable as Li Guang in recognizing the way, he is better than Li Guang in other aspects. Just when Li Ling was conquering the Xiongnu, when he returned, when he was less than a thousand miles away from the Han realm, he encountered the main force of the Xiongnu and was besieged. Li Ling fought several times, but he couldn't get out, and there were no reinforcements for a long time, so when he was ready to break through, he made an appointment to beat the drum in the middle of the night as a trumpet, and broke through separately, but the war drum was damp and couldn't be beaten......

Li Ling was finally captured by the Xiongnu, at first did not surrender, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked Fang Shi to check the faces of Li Ling's mother and wife, saying that there was no "color of death and mourning", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty became suspicious, and later listened to Gongsun Ao's exculpation, saying that it was because Li Ling was training soldiers for the Xiongnu, which led to the defeat, so he was furious and directly ordered the Li Ling family to be beheaded.

Li Ling learned from the Xiongnu that he vomited blood several times and finally surrendered to the Xiongnu......

The Li family in Longxi has been in a slump since then, and has not been able to recover until today.

Tongguan is the gateway between Guanzhong and Hongnong, but now Hongnong is the Yang family, Zhao Wen in Guanzhong is also a friendly party, and General Zhengxi's troops are far away near Diaoyin, so Yang Tong slowly slacked off after spending a period of caution in the early stage.

Especially when this cold winter day is coming.

According to the Han law, all important military passes must be inspected once every three hours, and the deputy generals in the army must patrol once every three hours. Although Yang Tong is the main general, most of the time Yang Tong does not patrol the customs, but often nests in the Tongguan Mansion and is at ease, so for most of the military affairs in Tongguan today, Li Xian is in charge.

Patrolling the customs once an hour, then it almost means that there is no way to go down the city wall to rest, so Li Xian simply moved the bedding to the corner tower, and when he was tired, he was confused at will.

The winter sun also seems to be lazy, and every day when I come out to show my face, make a card, and deal with an errand, I lazily fall westward, ready to get off work.

Because Tongguan is close to the big river, it is not only cold, but also three points more humid than other places. If you stand on top of the city, without shelter, your clothes will be wet at the end of the night, and if you blow a cold wind all night, even if you are not sick, it is estimated that you will be sick, so after nightfall, the soldiers on duty will nest together and curl up in shelter from the wind.

In fact, I can't complain that Yang Tong is lazy, Shoutongguan is a place like a place where there is no store in front of the village and no store, if you stay for a long time, everyone will feel bored, and you will not be able to lift much energy......

After the lazy sun slid down the western mountain, the sky soon darkened, the cold wind began to howl, and the chirping of wild beasts and birds was faintly heard on the surrounding cliffs, which seemed to be grasping the last glimmer of light.

The little food in the afternoon could not resist for long, and before the night came, the food and hot soup had been digested, and waiting for these Tongguan guards was a long dark night and a difficult morning.

In the distance, in the dim darkness of the night, there were some sounds.

"Attention! Someone's coming! ”

The defenders above Tongguan shouted loudly.

A war horse rushed out of the night, and a small flag was hung behind the cavalry on horseback, although the night was dark, but it could vaguely be determined that it belonged to the Chang'an Forbidden Army.

The cavalry reined in the war horse under the city, and the war horse was panting heavily, turning in circles in place, looking a little tired, "The Tongguan defenders listened!" On the order of Jingzhao Yin Zhao Zhaojun, he came to labor with cattle, wine, grain and grass! The baggage has reached ten miles away! Get ready to go! ”

After turning around a few times, the cavalry repeated the shout a few times, and then returned with his horse......

"What does that mean?"

"It sounds like who's coming, asking for labor?"

"So, there is meat to eat and wine to drink? Ahaha, this relationship is good......"

"Come on, you're beautiful, you can eat wine and meat? There are two coarse cakes, add some marinated meat strips, and it is good! ”

"Alas, there are coarse cakes, too......"

While chattering, the guards didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly reported to Li Xian.

"Captain Yang, this inexplicable labor army...... It's a bit weird......"

On the Tongguan Mansion, Li Xian arched his hand and said.

Yang Tong frowned and said, "What's wrong? Zhao Yuanjun has always been friendly with the head of the family, and Lao Jun is also the right thing...... And we have been suffering for a long time in this remote and bitter cold place, and this labor army material should have been sent a long time ago......"

"Captain Yang......" Li Xian was still waiting to be persuaded again, but was intercepted by Yang Tong.

"That's it! Got it! Let Erlang be on guard! If it is a real labor army, it will naturally be fine, and if it is a fake person, it will be intercepted and killed! Yang Tong waved his hand and ended the conversation with some impatience.

"......" Li Xian had no choice but to retreat.

Under the anticipation of the defenders of Tongguan, the squeaky baggage convoy finally came closer.

There were fifteen baggage trucks in total, and about 100 soldiers were escorted.

The banner is indeed the banner of the Zhao family, but a middle-aged man who led the team, Li Xian didn't recognize it.

Of course, it's normal not to recognize it, there are nearly 10,000 forbidden troops in Chang'an, Guanzhong, who can recognize it?

"A certain is under the command of Jing Zhao Yin Zhao Zhao Envoy Jun! Special escort supplies to the labor army! Please open the city gate quickly, so that you can hand over the errand! The middle-aged strong man shouted loudly at Tongguan.

Li Xian looked at the convoy carefully, but he couldn't see it very clearly in the dim light, and naturally he couldn't distinguish whether it was true or fake, so he had to shout: "There are moving texts and printing ribbons, take a look!" ”

The middle-aged man did not hesitate, took out a piece of wood and a square seal from the cloth bag on the horse's back, and asked people to put them in the bamboo basket hanging down from Tongguan.

Li Xian handed the bronze seal and the text to Yang Tong.

"Jun Sima Zhao?"

Yang Tong flipped the copper seal, there was a lot of patina on the copper seal, and there were some traces of wear and bump, which had obviously been used for a while, not new.

However, the fire paint on the top cover is indeed the mark of Jing Zhaoyin, but the handwriting is a little blurry, some of the words may be because they touched the water, or they were touched without waiting for the ink to dry when they were written, anyway, they can only roughly see that they sent fifty jars of wine, fifteen cows, and some cured meat, corn or something......

“…… The formalities are also complete...... Well...... Hundred people......" Yang Tong pondered for a while and said, "Open the door and let them in!" ”

Li Xian was a little surprised, and hurriedly said: "Captain, according to the custom, you will not open the door after nightfall!" ”

Yang Tong let out a "heh", waved his hand and said, "Isn't it still night...... How else? Let these people stay up all night outside the city? Just a hundred people, why do you need to be like this! ”

The supplies of the labor army were in front of him, and seeing that he was about to be able to eat and drink spicy food, Tongguan was suddenly very excited, and he was a lot more diligent, and hurriedly removed the huge door latch, and squeaked and pushed the heavy city gate open, so that the baggage carts could enter the pass.

During this period of time, Tongguan was busy with anxiety, and had to clean up the periphery, and repaired the city wall, and finally got into winter, and the work was less, but every day I watched the captain eat and drink spicy food and spicy food in the government office, and I couldn't say that there could be some camp prostitutes to help the fun, and the big-headed soldiers could only gnaw on coarse cakes, suffering in the cold wind, which was inevitably a little muttering in my heart, and now it is rare to have labor and army materials delivered, that is, I can't even close my mouth with a smile, and the captain eats a big head, but how can I share a bowl of soup to drink, and they are all people who lick blood from the knife edge to survive, A rare opportunity to relax and unwind.

In the sound of squeaky wheels rolling, a middle-aged strong man outside the city crossed the drawbridge with his soldiers and entered the city gate.

On both sides of the road, there were already a lot of Tongguan defenders who heard the news and stood and waited, and the Tongguan soldiers who were responsible for opening the city gate came up, hehe smiled, and greeted the soldiers who entered the city, while touching the cloth of the baggage truck. These are all old oilmen in the army, and they are all types that are uncomfortable if they are cheap and do not get a little bit. Generally speaking, the baggage cart must be full of large and small materials, and just two handfuls are enough for yourself to chew one or two meals, and besides, if you can pull a root of marinated meat or something, wouldn't it make a lot of money?

Li Xian walked down the gallop of the city, but saw the soldiers who had entered the city standing next to the baggage cart one by one, driving away the old oilmen who tried to touch the baggage trucks, causing those soldiers to mutter, and they didn't say anything good anyway......

Li Xian suddenly stood still, looked at the middle-aged man at the front, frowned, and said loudly: "Since you have entered the city, why don't you dismount?" ”

The middle-aged man smiled, then took the horse's head and said to Li Xian: "More reminders!" It's a bit sluggish to walk tiredly...... Boys, hahaha......"

"Let's do it!"

In the midst of the laughter, the middle-aged man had already knocked on the belly of the horse, waved his spear, and went straight to the gallop where Li Xian was, and the soldiers next to the baggage cart also drew their blades when they heard the sound, and immediately slashed at the surrounding Tongguan defenders without a head!

"No ......" is an old oilman who wants to take advantage of something, and before he can finish talking about a "bad", a war knife has been cut to the head, and with a "Kala" sound, a canopy of blood donation was suddenly sprayed in the air!

A head that was still wide-eyed flew up, mixed with blood light and fell on the cloth of the baggage cart, and the bones just swirled, and the first panic was still frozen in a pair of eyes!

"Kill!"

The cloth of the baggage cart was lifted violently, and the soldiers hiding in the car rose up one after another, jumped out of the vehicle, and rushed towards these Tongguan defenders.

Some of the rice and straw bags that had been used for disguise were overturned, and some yellow and white beans and corn were scattered on the ground, but no one was looking at them anymore......

Suddenly encountering such a change, the Tongguan defenders didn't have time to react at all, and were rushed into the crowd by these fierce soldiers, slashing left and right, streams of blood shot out, and the screams became a one.

The Tongguan defenders were originally happily waiting to accept the labor supplies, many people didn't even take the blades, just pondering and imagining the next things to eat and drink, and when the middle-aged man took the men and horses to storm up, and the killing was over, it was really like a tiger entering the flock, killing the Tongguan guards had no ability to resist!

In the face of the sudden attack, these Tongguan defenders screamed, fled, disorganized, some rolled and crawled on the ground, dizzy and wanted to touch out, but were rushed over I don't know whose footboard stepped on, after a few hits, there was not much breath; Although some of them were carrying their blades, the other guards around them were fleeing, so they had no intention of resisting, so they could only run along the flow of people, shouting in panic......

"Don't run! Don't run around! Li Xian was on the gallop road, and was suddenly hit by the surging Tongguan guards, and his body was unstable, "Formation!" Formation! ”

"Oops! Hit the trick! Yang Tong was on the city wall, shocked, and shouted repeatedly, "Drumming! Drumming! Whole team, whole team, block them! ”

The middle-aged man who led the team, the spear red cherry blossom was already drenched in blood, I don't know how many people's blood he had drunk, seeing such a situation, he just raised his gun and shouted: "Kill!" Grab the bridge! Take the level! ”

As the middle-aged man's voice fell, several rockets were ignited and shot diagonally into the air.

With the rocket drawing arcs in the night sky, outside Tongguan, there was a faint thunderous sound......

On the city wall, the Tongguan defenders lying on the battlements pointed to the outside of the gate with one hand, and opened their mouths to shout something, but their throats were so frightened that they couldn't speak.

Yang Tong's face turned pale, looking at the open city gate, and just as he wanted to let people forcibly twist the drawbridge, he heard a sound of axe chisel, and then "boom" twice, the two iron cables pulling the drawbridge were cut off, and they floated back and hit the wall......

In the last glimmer of light in the sky, Yang Tong saw countless cavalry rushing out of the darkness, urging the horses to gallop towards Tongguan, seemingly endlessly. In the midst of the cavalry, the tricolor flag fluttering in the wind was so dazzling!

"It's over! Expedition to the West...... It's a ...... to the West It's coming......" Yang Tong made a voice like crying, and muttered and repeated, "Zhengxi is here, here ......"