"How do you know they're Qin?" Zhu Lihua interrupted An Xuzhi and asked.

An Xuzhi didn't blame anyone for interrupting his words, and hurriedly explained: "Because he said the words of my Qin State, let's not release arrows, and ask the guard to come out to answer, and one person threw a token." ”

"Tokens?" Everyone asked questions in unison.

"Yes, it's a token, because then Wen Zhaoyuan got the token and said three words." After An Xuzhi looked at everyone, he said slowly, word by word: "Black Ice Platform!" ”

Hearing these three words, everyone held their breath, because the Black Ice Platform has been too mysterious for hundreds of years, and those Iron Eagle Swordsmen have mostly seen the head and tail of the dragon, but everyone didn't know why there were Iron Eagle Swordsmen under the Wooden Prison Pass, so they had to look at An Xuzhi with expectant eyes.

An Xuzhi didn't bother to adjust everyone's appetite, and hurriedly said: "At that time, I was standing next to Wen Zhaoyuan, so what he said was only heard by me and Han Baijiang. But after a moment of silence, he still ordered the shooting of arrows to kill the people under the pass.

Han Baijiang felt that something was wrong, and persuaded Wen Zhaoyuan to put those Iron Eagle swordsmen into the customs for investigation and then consider it in the long run, but Wen Zhaoyuan only said that it must be the work of the Rong people, and it was enough to kill them, no need to say more.

Subsequently, General Han Bai and I watched with our own eyes that the people who were still waiting for Guan to reply were caught off guard and killed by the sudden arrows, but unfortunately they didn't even have time to run.

After the shooting, we went out to cut off the head.

Han Bai and I will deliberately find the body of the person who threw out the token, although the person's skin is a little pale, but it is still a little colored compared to other Rong people, more like us Qin people, especially the face is no different from our Qin people, although he has several arrow wounds on his body, but the fatal is indeed a few tooth marks on his neck, he was bitten to death by the Rong people!

The two of us felt that something was wrong, so we found a letter on that person, and at that time, I was afraid that others would find out, so Han Bai would hide it on my body.

When we returned to the pass, the two of us found a no-man's house and opened the letter, and when we opened it, we found that the deceased was really an Iron Eagle swordsman, named Jiang Weizhe, who was a spy sent to Rongguo two years ago.

According to the letter, after Jiang Weizhe left Xiaoguan, he had been active in the mountains and forests around Rongguo, secretly observing the movements of the Rong people in the mountains, and by chance, he got acquainted with some mountain people of Rongguo.

Surprisingly, these people did not conflict with Jiang Weizhe and others after discovering them, and the reason was not written in the letter. It is only said that he has been with the Rong people day and night for nearly two years, and after gaining the trust of the mountain people, Jiang Weizhe learned a big secret from the Rong people, and he quickly mobilized the mountain people to return to Qin with him, and promised to guarantee their safety.

What was said in the letter was very important, and he was afraid that he would come back and report that no one would believe him, so he wanted to bring some Rong people to testify, and the words of the Rong people were also learned by Jiang Wei's philosophy. After going through many difficulties and dangers, they and their group rushed to the wooden prison pass, and their tense spirit was a little relaxed, but they did not expect that the sergeant guarding the pass would take advantage of his own unpreparedness to suddenly use cold arrows.

Although the letter did not mention the contents of the secret, Han Baijiang and I both felt that this letter was very important, so we had to report the letter to Wen Zhaoyuan, because at that time we felt that he was a nobleman sent from Xijing and a general of the wooden prison, so it was not wrong for him to report such an important letter to him.

What I never expected was that Wen Zhaoyuan tore up the letter after reading it, and let the two of me not tell the fourth person to know, and promised to give the two of us high-ranking officials. ”

Hearing this, the four of them looked at each other, such a big news was obtained by the Iron Eagle Swordsman from the Rong people with his life and will, and he was completely wiped out out of thin air by a small guard.

They seemed to see in front of their eyes how unbelievable, angry, and desperate the man named Jiang Weizhe was when he was dying.

What a humiliating thing it is to be bitten to death by the Rong people who trust him. He did not resist, his heart was dead, he died under the pass of the motherland.

I only heard An Xuzhi continue to say: "After Wen Zhaoyuan got these more than 100 heads, he was rewarded by the monarch by one level, and Han Baijiang and I were also promoted by one level. Han Qianren and I switched to this Yuxiao Pass.

Wen Zhaoyuan also returned to Xijing a year later, served as a public doctor, and served as a squire in the military department. Han Qianren and I originally thought that this matter would end here, although from the bottom of our hearts, we were a little sorry for Jiang Yingwei, but with our status, we couldn't do anything at all.

Until a year ago, Xijing Hei Bing Tai sent people to Yuxiao Pass to talk to Han Qianren and the four customs and hundred generals, to investigate whether there was any information about the Iron Eagle Guardian in each pass in recent years, just the day before the people from Hei Bingtai came to Yuxiao Pass, Han Qianjiang and I received a letter from Wen Zhaoyuan, instructing us not to say anything about Mu Prison Pass, and said that I and Han Qianren's family had been sent to Xijing to enjoy happiness. ”

Speaking of this, An Xuzhi's eyes couldn't help but turn red again, adjusted his breath a little, and said:

"Han Qianren and I know that this is clearly Wen Zhaoyuan holding me and other family members hostage, afraid that we will confide in the matter. But what can I do if I am a fish and meat, so in the face of the inquiry from the Black Ice Table, the two of us can only answer according to Wen Zhaoyuan's request.

I didn't expect this Wen Zhaoyuan to be ruthless, he wanted to borrow a knife to kill me, three months ago, the Rong people came to invade the pass, and at first they were just tentatively attacking the city, so I sent someone to Han Qianjiang to transfer reinforcements, but I didn't see reinforcements coming.

I thought it might be that the other three passes may also have Rong people attacking the city, until the soldiers at the head of the city were killed and wounded more than 20 people, so I was in a hurry and sent people to Han Qianren several times, but I didn't expect that only more than 10 reinforcements came in the end.

At that time, I didn't think much about it, I just stayed at the gate wholeheartedly, and I just wanted to wait until after the war to find Han Qianren theory.

Unexpectedly, the more than ten reinforcements suddenly opened the gate, and then ran back to Yuxiao Pass. Nearly a thousand soldiers poured into the pass, my brothers, ah, brothers. ”

Speaking of this, An Xuzhi actually howled loudly.

The four of them looked at the man in front of them and cried, and it was not a taste in their hearts, but what really surprised the four of them was that the squire named Wen Zhaoyuan was so bold as to put his own interests above state affairs, and the Iron Eagle Guard named Jiang Weizhe died under the selfish interests of these nobles.

And Zhu Lihua is also constantly thinking about the secrets behind what An Xuzhi said is too important, and he intuitively feels that this matter is by no means simple.

One question after another plagued him, and he felt that if he couldn't figure out this matter, maybe not only himself and Gao Yunce and the others would be in crisis, but the Qin State would also face a catastrophe.

A small guard of thousands of people will tear it apart, and it will change the fate of countless people in Daqin.

He sighed and asked An Xuzhi, who had turned from crying to sobbing in a low voice: "General An Bai, how did you and the other hundred people resist the enemy after the Rong people broke through?" Why was the Wooden Hedgehog Pass lost and regained? ”

An Xuzhi raised his head and replied: "After the Rong people rushed in, the brothers were cut down several people in an instant, and I originally thought that I might die here, but in desperation, I suddenly found that there were too many Rong people, and I rushed to be the first when I entered the customs.

It was the end of August, it had been raining for a few days, the Rong people who were besieging the city were muddy and slippery under their feet, and some of the Rong people who rushed to the pass fell to the ground and couldn't get up, and the Rong people who followed behind and the Rong people who fell to the ground in front of them were crowded in the narrow gate and couldn't move, but there were only more than 20 Rong people who really rushed in.

I asked the archers on the tower to keep shooting arrows at the Rong people stuck in the city gate, and I led the remaining brothers to fight to the death against the Rong people who entered the gate.

Seeing that there are fewer and fewer brothers around him, there are constantly Rong people squeezing out to fight with us in the closed door. At that time, I just thought about killing another cushion back, and then died of exhaustion.

But at this time, I saw that there were still some fire oil in the courtyard to defend the city, and I was overjoyed to ask a few brothers to carry the fire oil up the gate and sprinkle it into the closed crowd, but how could the fire oil be sprinkled in the crowd and light it all at once, let alone rain.

Guan Shangshang tried several times, and most of the fire folds that were thrown down had been extinguished in mid-air, and even if they were thrown into the crowd, they were extinguished by those Rong people with their hands.

Then one of the brothers poured oil on himself, lit the fire, and jumped from the building, one, two, three, four......."

After speaking, An Xuzhi stood up and slowly walked to the edge of the house, as if recalling the scene at that time, he was tired and cried.

After that battle, he never cried, and today he was completely released.

These past events that pressed on my heart, those brothers who fought together, the smiling faces after the victory, the soldiers who lit themselves one by one and jumped off the gate and shouted to their mothers, and even those Rong people who were burned and cried in the gate, when the gate was closed again, when Yuxiao Pass finally sent reinforcements, when Han Qianren stood in front of him and hugged him, when he could no longer support it and fainted.

In his daily dreams, more than 100 brothers are handing over to the original guards of Jimu Pass under their own leadership; Every time there is a conflict with the Rong people, everyone fights the enemy together, buries the brothers who died in battle together after the war, and ushers in the new people who are replenished; After the newcomers came, An Xuzhi also took the lead in teasing them, and the brothers also followed him to tease them; After a war, the new man becomes the old man, and the brothers join hands to defend against the enemy, until the end of the dream, when the brothers call their mother to die in the flames.

"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son. How can you say that you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. Work with the child. How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Walk with the son. ”

Standing on top of the wooden deer gate, the west of the mountain is motionless, the cold wind of the night continues to blow on his body, driving the scarf and black scarf of the Lihua to crackle, but the people standing in the wind seem to be not afraid of this biting bone.

Are you really not afraid?

No, but at this moment, Zhu Lihua felt even colder in his heart.

After listening to An Xuzhi's story, he was silent, and came to this wooden deer gate building alone and stood for a whole day.

He kept thinking about it, and vaguely felt that he had been involved in a huge whirlpool, no reason, no process, no end, so he was pulled into the whirlpool, and he began to struggle in this whirlpool.

Aristocrats, cloth, princes, royal families, Qin people, Rong Di, Heibing Tai, as well as those big nobles and wealthy families who gather in the court and turn the clouds and rain...... He thought about it a lot, a lot.

With his intelligence, he certainly understood that what happened in the Wooden Badge Pass was nothing more than a small whirlpool of these power groups colliding again and again, and the seemingly occasional individual events constituted the inevitability of these power collisions, and he was just the smallest one who stepped into these whirlpools by mistake.

How could he not know that this was a predestined thing, something that he would always have to face as a member of the aristocratic group, whether he wanted it or not.

He thought of Jieyuan again, thought of his mother, remembered the bits and pieces of growing up, remembered the smile on his father who looked at him when he was dying, what should be faced is always to be faced, didn't he do such a difficult thing as killing people a few days ago.

Looking up at the bright moon that became clearer and clearer, Zhu Lihua whispered: "The snow on the top of Mount Meru is like sand, and the moon outside the wooden deer pass is like frost. ”