More than 100 miles to the west of Xixian County, it is Wuguan East Road, which is the road opened up along the Danshui River Valley, the east is connected to the Bears Ear Mountains, from the Nanyang Basin to here, the more west the road is, the narrower it is, within hundreds of miles, it is generally a big mountain and a long valley, narrow and difficult to walk.

On the 10th day of the fourth month, 50,000 Northern Expeditionary Army, together with 10,000 selected prisoners, were marching on this road.

Looking to the north, Heifu can faintly see the verdant peaks of the Funiu Mountains, and to the southwest is the remnants of the Daba Mountains.

The farther west, the closer the two mountain systems become, and at the closest pass of the two mountains, there is a majestic pass......

Wuguan is built on a relatively flat plateau between the canyons, with the lofty Shaoxi Mountain in the north and Danshui in the south. The city is built of rammed earth, and there are also bricks and stones as the base, and the wall is two miles long, stretching along the mountainside, and the road into the pass is almost completely blocked!

The west of Wuguan, the mountain of Shangluo and the end of the south, in order to reach Yulong; In the east of Wuguan, it is connected to the mountains of bear's ears and horses, and it ends in Yique. The mountains and valleys are long, moving thousands of miles, and it can be said that it is a place where soldiers must fight.

However, in the Spring and Autumn Period, this place was not owned by Qin, Qin did not get the military pass, and could not control Chu, until the early years of the Warring States period seized this place, and the pass was set up to garrison.

"Strangled the friendship of Qin and Chu, according to the danger of mountains and rivers. Dao Nanyang and the east moves, into the blue field and the right danger. Wuguan huge defense, one man guards, thousands of people stagnation, in one fell swoop, the weight is divided, honestly! ”

Looking at this Xiongguan, Heifu suddenly sighed.

"Twelve years."

It has been 12 years since he first entered Xianyang through Wuguan. At that time, Heifu was only in his early twenties, and he was only the chief of the left, and because of his great exploits in the unification war, he was named by Qin Shi Huang to be a Lang official - behind him, there was also a cart of brown sugar.

At that time, Heifu also had a longing in his heart, hoping that after he arrived in the heart of the empire, he would be able to change something somewhat.

Heifu did change his fate, as well as the ups and downs of many people, but he couldn't change the first emperor after all.

"Your Majesty, you are really like iron......" Looking back on the past, Heifu's eyes were full of resentment.

What has not changed is the general trend of the world towards chaos.

He whispered, "Now, I have come back to redeem, to redeem this slippery abyssal world, and to redeem my own faults, for those things that are selfish, because of hesitation, and fail to persevere to the end!" ”

"Since the minister's way is not good, he will take the military way and the treacherous way!"

Except for the craftsmen sent by the Shaofu to rebuild a part of the wall with Sanhe soil, Wuguan is not much different from 12 years ago, except that the merchants and officials who were waiting to pass the customs at that time sweated into clouds and rain, and the cars and horses raised dust, so it was not lively.

But now, the front of the pass is empty, and the crazy forest, the resting pavilions, have been burned and cut down, and several deep ravines have been dug to cut off the road, which is to prevent the siege equipment from approaching the gate.

The head of the city was full of soldiers with crossbows, vigilantly guarding against the Northern Expeditionary Army, which stopped advancing seven or eight miles away and camped on the spot.

Sima Lao Wu, who was ordered to come here in advance to reconnoitre, came to report to Heifu: "There are at least 30,000 guards at the head of the city, and there is more dust rising after the pass, and the birds dare not fall, so the army should be stationed ......."

Heifu smiled: "Wang Ben died of illness, the news of the loss of Nanyang should have spread to Xianyang a long time ago, there are less than 100,000 people to guard Wuguan, can Hu Hai and Zhao Gao sleep?" ”

But he didn't come this time to fight.

"The way to conquer the country is to attack the heart and attack the city; The heart wins for the top, and the soldiers win for the bottom. Therefore, the saint's kingdom attacks the enemy, and it is necessary to serve his heart first. ”

After that, Heifu let the three armies advance to a distance of three miles from Wuguan, and when he was close enough to see the banner of the city, he waved his hand and gave an order to everyone:

"Wuguan is three miles away in the first place, and it will be there in a moment, and if you pass the pass, you will be in the pass!"

"A gentleman is in service, I don't know the period, who doesn't have a home...... The second and third sons, and get out of the way, and tell those Guanzhong people who are unwilling to join the Northern Expeditionary Army to go home! ”

……

"Marquis Wuzhong keeps his promise, let you and others enter the customs and return home!"

The riders shouted everywhere, and the 10,000 captives who followed were in an uproar.

"I didn't expect it to be true, Marquis Wuzhong really kept his promise......

Luo Jia muttered to himself, he is the five hundred lord of the cavalry, a native of Longxi County, it is said that the ancestor is the great-great-grandson of the evil Da Luo, the same ancestor as the Qin clan, and the old Qin people.

Qin annihilated the Six Kingdoms, Luo Jia in Wang Ben's army, promoted his title, earned hundreds of acres of fertile land, this time the southern rebellion, he also enlisted in the army, served as five hundred lords, but was captured in Sui County......

But what was different from what was expected was that in the past few days as prisoners, their food was no different from usual, and for ordinary soldiers, it was even better than before they were captured-when it was the most difficult time in spring, the low-level soldiers could only eat a quarter of a bucket of brown rice.

Luo Jia began to feel that these rebels seemed to be different from the tainted cannibals promoted by Guanzhong.

And Marquis Wu Zhonghou is not a vicious person.

The officials of the "rebel army" did not abuse them, but every day before dinner, they had to use the non-standard Guanzhong dialect mixed with Nanyin to publicize the edict of the first emperor, the righteousness of the Marquis of Wuzhong's army, and the repentance of the Marquis of Tongwu before his death......

Listening to it every day, the captives' ears are calloused, but at least half of them really believe these things - after all, the new emperor in Guanzhong has done too many bastard things in the past year.

But even so, the anxiety in the hearts of the captives was still there, and the Qin law was strict, and after the second succeeded to the throne, all taxes and levies, and the punishment for crimes became more and more severe, and it was also called "the art of supervision".

In Qin, surrendering to the enemy is a big crime, enough to make the whole family join the family, more than 100 elders to surrender to the enemy, and it is enough to be condemned as a "military thief", the body is disabled, and the men and women are in the official, that is, they are subordinate concubines......

Luo Jia's family is not big, but it is not small, he is afraid that he will be able to survive, but what about his family, his old mother is over sixty years old, gray hair, and his young son is only three years old......

In this case, when the Northern Expeditionary Army announced that those who did not want to join could be released back to the pass one after another, for Luo Jia and tens of thousands of Qin soldiers, there was no doubt that it was a heavenly sound!

They were grateful to the broad-minded, benevolent and selfless Marquis of Wuzhong, and thoroughly agreed that his cause was just.

But this recognition did not affect everyone to stand silently in the team of "willing to return to Guanzhong", and the military judge of the Northern Expeditionary Army selected a group of people from various units and pieced them together as the first batch of returnees.

Luo Jia was lucky, he was selected, but after the establishment was dispersed, he didn't know much about the people next to him.

"In this, will there be a fine work that Marquis Wu Zhong has mixed in?" He thought so, but after arriving at Wuguan on the road, this thought had dissipated, and the only thing left in his mind was to go home......

"Five thousand people from Sui County will return first!"

The military judge shouted loudly, Luo Jia and the other five thousand people stood up, and at the same time looked at the Xixian soldier standing next to him, and nodded at a burly martial knight with a long beard.

"Li Bi, I'll go first."

Li Bi is also a native of Lantian in the Inner History, and he met Luo Jia during the Unification War, but it is a pity that this time the rebellion was not divided into one unit.

"Luo Jia, be careful."

Li Bi looked at Luo Jia with some envy and arched his hand at him:

"See you in Guanzhong!"

"See you in Guanzhong! I invite you to eat and drink! Luo Jia didn't have time to return the salute, and he didn't know if Li Bi heard his voice, so he was pushed forward by the people behind him - the door of the house was in front, and everyone was like an arrow.

The soldiers of the Northern Expedition got out of the way, Luo Jia and the others walked forward in fear, glancing at their sharp blades from time to time, the captives had already been unarmed, and their weapons were collected, and now they were unarmed, as long as the other party wanted, they could carry out a massacre at any time.

But no, the soldiers of the Northern Expedition just indifferently watched the prisoners leave the military formation and walk towards the open space in front of the Wuguan.

After leaving the Northern Expeditionary Army's front, at first, Luo Jia and the others walked slowly, for fear that a burst of arrows would suddenly shoot from behind and kill everyone!

But it was extremely quiet behind him, except for the military judge's sudden shout of "Let's go", there was nothing

After walking a mile and completely leaving the range of the Northern Expeditionary Army, everyone ran as if they had made an appointment!

Five thousand people spread their legs, jumped over the deep ravine, stepped on the muddy ground after the rain, and rushed towards the Wuguan at the end of the road!

……

"Is this the soles of your feet greased? How come you didn't run so fast when you charged against us? ”

The lieutenant scolded and looked at Heifu again.

"Do you think the pass will be opened?"

Heifu shook his head, noncommittal.

"First, even twelve years ago, when there was nothing going on in the world, the officials had to check the pass before entering the customs, let alone a group of captives who had surrendered to the enemy and behaved suspiciously?"

"Second, whether it is the temporary commander Sima Ying, or the Wuguan City Guard, he must not be ordered by Xianyang, and dare to rashly switch it on?"

"Third, even if the news comes back, do the puppet emperors and princes of Xianyang have the courage and courage to switch?"

Well, Li Si has a reason to switch it off, but the old hamster is such a shrewd person, it shouldn't be exposed so early, after all, the Li family has almost no influence in the army.

Heifu pointed to the captives who were rushing towards Wuguan: "Believe me, even if these soldiers kneel in front of the pass for three days and three nights, crying out to the sky and the ground, and drying their tears, no one will be moved by compassion and take the risk to let them enter the customs!" ”

And if it is not opened......

As soon as the people who hit the wall returned to the county and the county to preach, they completely cut off the return of 50,000 captives, and Heifu's battle to attack the heart was a complete victory!

"But what if it really opens?" The lieutenant admitted death and felt that this possibility could not be ruled out.

Heifu smiled: "You don't know, the establishment of five thousand people has long been disrupted, the lieutenant does not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the lieutenants, at least one or two thousand of them are actually my people." If it is opened, they will take the opportunity to seize the gate, and take advantage of the moment of chaos at the city gate, the three armies in the rear will rush in and go down to the Wuguan in a battle, it is not impossible......"

If the other party's mind is hot, then Heifu can wake up with a smile in his dreams!

The switch is going to take the risk of fighting with the Northern Expeditionary Army in front of the pass, isn't it that Heifu is bragging, Wang Ben is dead, Li Xin is not returning, Meng Tian is imprisoned, and there are still generals in the DPRK? Who would dare to fight him?

There are no tigers in the mountains, and the monkeys are kings.

Anyway, there is no solution to this strategy.

"Bad things are done by others, good people, I should decide!"

……

While Heifu was talking to the lieutenant, the fastest group of prisoners had reached a hundred steps away from Wuguan City!

Their sweaty faces showed a smile, the gentleman is in service, I don't know the period, the parents at home have ever been on crutches, looking at the inner door for a long time? After the wife and concubine put down the weaving cart, did they ever look at the mulberry tree outside the window and sigh slightly?

And the child who was young when he left home, but can he still remember his father's face?

The chickens are perched, the cattle and sheep are down, and this long conscription is finally over.

It's here!

But what greeted this group of wanderers was the sharp sound of the crossbow bolts breaking through the air!

The arrows are like flying locusts, so dense that they knock down the soldiers running towards home to the ground!

Some people never got up again, while many more, struggling to raise their heads, cried out in tears:

"We are Qin pawns!"

"We are from Guanzhong, and we are the emperor's people!"

Why?

But Wu Guan's answer was a more ruthless shot with the wave of the captain's hand!

There were a few more white feathers on the body of the person who shouted before.

After there was no more life at the gate, and after falling into silence, a cold voice sounded from the head of Wuguan City.

"The second emperor has a system, and those who dare to approach a hundred steps before the pass will die!"

The arrow that shot the farthest was inserted in a hundred paces, right in front of Luo Jia.

Luo Jia's legs trembled slightly, if he ran a little faster, he was afraid that he would also become a ghost under the arrow.

Like Luo Jia, more than 4,000 people stopped more than 100 miles away, looking at the corpses of their comrades who had fallen outside the gate, at the closed city gate, at the unattainable city wall, their eyes were full of despair.

Then, there is anger!

They, abandoned.

Guanzhong turned her son away in this way.

Wuguan, don't open!

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PS: It's dark so early tonight, good night.