From the Liangyi Zibing Station to the Guangping Post Station at the mouth of Nanchuan, there are about 30 miles, and a pipeline from Beizheng to Ruqizhai connects the two together. Because this official road is the only passage for Yanshanwei to support Ruqizhai, it has high strategic value, so the road is built wide and flat, and it looks like a yellow ribbon floating in the green of the sky and ground, extending in the river along the clear Youliang River.

On weekdays, on such a road, it would be a trivial matter for Shang Cheng and Zhao Shishi, two horse-driving men, and perhaps they would be able to leisurely go back and forth between the military station and the post station in an afternoon without even sweating. But today is different, the smoke and dust on the official road are waving flags, and the cavalry of the Sudden Exhaustion is one team after another, with no end in sight, and there seems to be no end to it. In such a situation, where did they dare to reveal their secrets, they could only rely on the cover of the woods and shrubs, and quietly ran to Guangping Station far away from the official road.

These thirty miles of land have made the two of them suffer a lot. By the time they arrived at Nanchuankou hungry, thirsty and tormented, the sky was already full of stars.

Because there were some people on the road who were walking at night with torches, they did not dare to show their heads on the flat ground, and there was still a mile or two from the mouth of the river, so they quietly went around to the small village of Guangping Fort opposite the post station by a dense peach forest.

Night had already fallen, but there were not many lights in the fort, and it was unusually quiet; But the neighing of horses was heard from time to time. Through a bonfire at the gate of the village, you can clearly see the figures of the Tuqi people walking back and forth. The cold night wind was filled not only with the sour smell of livestock manure, but also with the smell of sheep and a hint of blood. A terrible scream suddenly jumped out of the dark night sky, and the heart's heart twitched violently; I don't know where there was a burst of wild laughter, vaguely mixed with the almost inaudible cry of a woman......

…… Quang Binh Fort did not escape the doom of destruction.

The two of them lingered in the darkness by the peach forest for a long time before turning their eyes to Guangping Station, which was guarding the Chuandaokou.

Judging from the place name, Quang Binh is a post station, but in fact, this place should be called Quang Binh Pass. An earthen city wall more than 50 steps wide and six or seven people high, the cliffs on both sides of the river road are tightly connected together, the narrow city gate hole can only accommodate a carriage with two horses to pass through, once the police are encountered, the two city gates in front of and behind fall down, and suddenly it is a copper wall and iron wall. And because this is the north gate of the northeast of Yanshan, it is located in an incomparably important place, so in addition to the four shops guarding the pass and one outpost border army, there are also two sentry guards and archers stationed behind the city wall all the year round.

On the way before Shang Cheng and the others came, they had repeatedly imagined and discussed the safety of Guangping, in their opinion, there was a treacherous terrain in front of Guangping Pass, four huge bed crossbows on the city wall, and a total of nearly 500 elite soldiers, with these advantages, even in the face of the thousands of troops and horses of the Tu Tu people, at least they could hold out for three or two days. But when they saw a few figures who were touching the closed door in the dark and being mercilessly shot by the arrows on the gate, they realized that the truth was always the opposite of people's expectations, and now Guangping Station had also fallen into the hands of the Tuqi people.

The two of them looked at it quietly for a long time, and saw that there were two groups of people who wanted to escape from the pass, but without exception sent their lives under the wall, so they gave up the idea of climbing the wall to escape, and quietly retreated to the depths of the woods, discussing in a whisper what to do next.

The opinion of the stone is to escape from the mountain overnight. He believed that the Turks had just occupied Quang Binh and must not have had time to search the vicinity, but after dawn, the Turks would definitely mobilize their manpower to check on the left and right in front of the pass. "If you don't run away at this time, when the day dawns, I'm afraid that if you want to escape, you won't have a chance."

Shang Cheng, who was the first to propose to flee the mountain for his life, now disagrees with the stone's suggestion.

"It's too dark, it's too dangerous to climb the cliff, and the cliff is dozens of meters high, and if you're not careful, you'll fall to pieces." He explained to the stone, "And we have just walked so far, the physical exertion is too great, and we can only lose our lives if we go to climb the mountain without resting." He didn't care whether the stone could understand his words, but said to himself, "Looking at the situation in Guangpingbao, there shouldn't be many people in Tujici......" He made this judgment because the neighing of horses in the village was too sparse, and there were only three or two people sitting by the fire at the entrance of the village. He thought that Guangping Fort was only a small village of about a dozen families, and it was absolutely impossible for the brigade to have so many houses for the brigade to rest, and if there was a brigade of Turks stationed here, then they would either have to set up tents outside the village, or they could only sleep in the open, whether it was tents or camps, there could not be only two or three campfires, which meant that there was no large group of Turks here. Moreover, according to his previous speculation about the purpose of the Tuqi people going south this time, their target was either Duanzhou or Yixian, so now most of their strikers have arrived in Beizheng County, and this has become the rear; Since it was the rear of the large army, and there were dangerous passes to defend, and there was no large force of enemy in the vicinity to harass them, then there was no reason for the Turks to station heavy troops here. In the end, he came to the conclusion that the Turbidians in the post station and the village together may be a hundred men, which is only equivalent to a sentry of the border army or the guard. The sparse arrows shot from the city wall of the pass also proved his judgment from another side: there were very few people here, at most more than 100 people.

“…… Because it is enough for them to only need to hold Guangping Station, they will definitely not take the initiative to come out to search; It is precisely because Guangping Yi is extremely important to the army of the Turbidians that the Turbidians here will not divide their troops......"

After saying these words, even Shang Cheng himself felt a little strange, why was he unusually calm at this time.

Maybe he was moved by Shang Cheng's judgment, maybe he was persuaded by Shang Cheng's calmness, and of course, it was more likely that Zhao Shishi didn't understand Shang Cheng's words at all, and finally he agreed with Shang Cheng's opinion and decided to wait until dawn to see the movements of the Tu Ji people.

After discussing the results, both of them felt too tired to do anything, so Shang Cheng took the initiative to put forward and keep the stone for the first half of the night and the second half of the night.

Nothing special happened in the first half of the night, except for a few more screams from the direction of the station. One of them screamed and cried for a long time, until Shang Chengmu woke up with a wooden face and pushed the stone, and the person was still in pain one after another.

Shang Cheng slept so deeply that he didn't even have a dream, and when he was woken up by the sunlight through the branches and leaves of the treetops, he found that he didn't know when there were dozens of more people in the peach forest.

His first instinct was to pull out the short knife from his waist.

Immediately afterwards, he found that these dozens of people were all the same faces and appearances as him, and they were not wearing jackets and shoes like the Tuchuts, rather than wearing narrow-sleeved collared leather robes and leather boots like the Tuchuts. Most of the newcomers were dressed in cooked cowhide armor with pieces of iron embedded in them, and they carried either knives and spears or longbows, and even one soldier carried a long knife used by the Thorts.

This is most likely a rout somewhere, and they also want to try their luck at Guangping Station.

"They are all soldiers." The man who sat near him with his legs bent said, "If the village was broken by the Tuqi people in the morning, the people were scattered......

Shang Cheng stared at Jiang Si in surprise. Strange, in the afternoon, when the outpost of the Tuqi people attacked the military station, he saw Jiang Si fleeing north with a group of people, why did he come here now?

After asking Jiang Si, Shang Cheng knew the whole story. Jiang Si and they escaped soon after they ran head-on into the Tuqi people, a bow and arrow shot down, the packman who fled north to Ruqi Village died, the reason why he was able to escape a catastrophe, in addition to his thirteen years of experience in the countryside let him practice a good ability, more importantly, because he had participated in two border disputes between Yanshanwei and the Tuqi people, although he had not done it with the real swords and guns of the Tuqi people, but he had seen it twice and had some actual combat experience, so he just caught a glimpse of the cavalry of the Tuqi people and drilled into the artemisia grass on the side of the road, Then he spread his legs and ran straight into the nearest woods, and in this way he escaped a catastrophe.

"What about the others?"

"And they escaped with me." Jiang Si stretched out his hand and pointed to a tree on the other side, and the two packers were sitting on the ground back to back on the trunk, both with their heads and bodies bent, and they couldn't tell whether they were asleep or pretending to sleep. Another man knelt on the ground, carefully pulled a blade of grass, plucked a grass root from the dirt, stuffed it into his mouth and smacked his lips, and then went to look for ......

"Someone else ......"

Shang Cheng didn't finish his sentence. Looking at Jiang Si's gloomy expression, he knew that most of those companions had either given their lives or were captured by the Turpents; Those who gave their lives may be happier, because they no longer have to endure long years of torment, while those who have been taken are doomed to die slowly on the steppe, in pain and suffering, and in despair.

After a pause, he asked again, "...... they," he gestured with his gaze to the soldiers. "What's going on with them?"

"The border soldiers of the village were broken one by one, they fought desperately, many people died, and they also robbed a small grain team of the Tuqi people on the road, but they were scattered by the Tuqi people, and there were only more than 60 people left."

"That'...... What are they discussing now? Under the cover of the branches of the trees, he saw four or five officers-like men arguing together, and seemed to be arguing fiercely. He tried to listen quietly, but all he could hear was "...... There are not many people", "it's not worth it" and "if you don't go out, it's a dead end".

Jiang Si glanced at the group of officers, frowned and said, "It is estimated that Yiyi is either discussing how to break through now, or discussing the raid on Guangping Post in the middle of the night today." ”

"Raid on Quang Binh?"

Shang Cheng's eyes immediately widened.

Are these people crazy?