Chapter 283: Night Knock Tongguan

Tongguan

Since ancient times, this is the place where Qin, Jin and Henan provinces are strong, there are Qinling Mountains in the south, Wei and Luoerchuan in the north will be the Yellow River and go down, and the west is near Huayue.

The surrounding mountains are even mountains, peaks and peaks, valleys are deep and precipices are absolute, the mountains are high and the roads are narrow, a narrow sheep intestine path is passed through, only one car and one horse can be accommodated, the so-called "narrow bicycles, difficult to fight for a long halberd, and a husband is used for eternity." It is Du Zimei's words and phrases that are steep.

Before the end of the Han Dynasty, Tongguan was the last barrier of Gongwei Jingshi; After the end of the Han Dynasty, until the Great Xia Dynasty, this Xiongguan became a door to knock on the Central Plains!

Relying on the steepness of the pass, although the general soldier Zou Shilong only has more than 10,000 elite soldiers in his hands, whether it is to blockade the king of Germany internally or intercept the northwest army externally, it will be an insurmountable wall that makes people desperate.

The towering city tower plunged straight into the thick night, so that the northwestern refugees who were constantly gathering under the city could not even see the four fierce beasts on the cornice, but with the help of the light of the torches of the rows of defenders in the city, they could see the pale face of the guard general Zou Commander clearly.

"Let's go inside! Let's get inside! ”

Compared to the daytime, the shouts of the city have been weakened too much, but there are still a few young men with good physical strength, constantly repeating their futile requests to the city.

"Let them shout, shout enough, not a bird will be allowed to let me in without my order." Zou Shilong glanced coldly at the city and commanded the soldiers beside him.

The dark night color and the red firelight in front of his face failed to hide the white and somewhat penetrating complexion on Zou Shilong's face.

His whiteness is not the same as the "big smoker" style of Huai Wanggao's kindness, he shouldn't know what to smear, just like the kind of paper man's face when someone's family did a white funeral.

That's right, miserable white!

"General, there are a few men coming down from the city, and the one led by the one who said that it was General Zheng, the Yangtze River Sailor, said that he had negotiated with you before, and he would take his family through the customs."

Listening to the report of the soldiers who hurried up from the city behind him, Zou Shilong withdrew his gaze from the homeless people under the city, turned his head and asked, "Is it Liu Can, the chief of the water division?" ”

The pro-soldier nodded, "Yes, the self-proclaimed surname is indeed Liu." ”

"Well, got it, let's go, take me there."

As he spoke, Zou Shilong followed the two of his own soldiers and turned around and walked one after the other.

However, the two of them did not go down to the city gate, but walked quickly along the city wall to the south.

Here, Liu Can took a few carefully selected sturdy sergeants, followed by An Yi and Gao Ciyi, who were disguised as family members, and a few people followed Liu Can without going directly to the city gate, they also came to the south city wall.

"Thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, yes! This is it. Liu Can took the torches on the city wall and counted the battlements of the city wall with his mouth in his mouth.

"Where did you make an appointment? This Tongguan is just the gate in front of it, right? How are we going to get up to the south? ”

An Yi was dressed as a servant in a cyan short soap coat, looked at the displaced people in front of the city gate in the north, and then looked at the towering city wall in front of him, and couldn't help but wonder.

Liu Can made a reassuring gesture to him with confidence, nodded and said, "That's right, this is it, from the left forty teeth, they have a rope ladder in the city, which can pull us up." ”

"Rope ladder?"

Gao Ciyi, like An Yi, is also a family Ding, but she is born with a noble atmosphere, and I feel that this Ding is bigger than Liu Can's old man's spectrum.

"But it's the kind of thing the size of a few fences, pulled by ropes at both ends, and can be lowered to hang people up?"

Speaking of which, Gao Ciyi had seen it in Wang Jingzhong, and briefly described it with his impression, causing Liu Can to nod again and again: "That's right, that's it, it's that kind of thing, and there were it in Xi'an City before." ”

It's because there is no such thing in Lanzhou City, so Anyi has never seen it.

"Can you put it down? Pull people up? How much power is that? ”

"There's a winch on it."

As the head of the Yangtze River Naval Division, Liu Can is no stranger to this thing, as long as the winch is big enough, let alone a person, the boat can be pulled up.

He was explaining with his hand and foot when he heard a "squeak" sound overhead, which sounded like someone was sawing a rotten old wood with an old and rusty saw.

Liu Can pointed his hand up, "Look, that's it!" ”

In the end, it is a Xiongguan, the rope ladder is much larger than the average place, plus there are a total of seven people in Anyi Gao Ciyi, standing on this fence is actually more than wide, it seems that there is no problem with three or five more.

Liu Can raised the torch in his hand and waved it three times at the city wall very skillfully.

The defenders on the city wall understood, and began to manipulate the winch, pulling the seven big men up to the city little by little, if it weren't for the thick night and the surrounding scene couldn't be seen clearly, An Yi felt that this scenery looking at the northwest must be good.

After a while, the rope ladder took these people from the city to the city wall, and the chief soldier Zou Shilong seemed to be waiting here.

He looked at Liu Can and smiled and arched his hand: "Mr. Liu Qian, let's meet again." ”

Liu Can also politely replied: "This matter, I really bothered the general." Then he took out a stack of silver tickets prepared in advance from his cuirass and handed it over with a smile.

"General, this is the price we negotiated before, you order."

Zou Shilong nodded but didn't nod, but took it and handed it directly to the hand of the soldier next to him, "Since General Liu is the person introduced by General Zheng, Zou can naturally trust it." ”

"In this way, General Zou Bing's Tongguan is now a good cash cow?" Gao Ciyi, who was standing behind Liu Can, suddenly said with some ridicule.

Zou Shilong's face, which was still smiling just now, suddenly became fierce after hearing this, and stared at Gao Ciyi.

"Who is this?"

An Yi knew that Zou Shilong definitely didn't know him, he was originally a new Tongguan general soldier, how could he know himself who grew up in Sichuan,

But how do these people from Wang Jingli know whether they know Gao Ciyi, the king of Huai?

However, Liu Can hurriedly wanted to divert Zou Shilong's attention, so he pretended to be angry and scolded: "Presumptuous! I talk to Mr. Zou, how can you interject? ”

Then he turned his face and smiled at Zou Shilong very apologetically, "Don't blame the chief soldier, this is the house slave in my house, and the old lady in the family has always connived and spoiled it." ”

Zou Shilong really didn't know Gao Ciyi, or he still didn't think about it, in short, he just looked up and down carefully, and then took his eyes back, his face was still the same smile just now, and waved his hand and said: "It's okay, hehehe, as the saying goes, this backer eats the mountain and the water depends on the water, and I always have to earn some extra money to support my family." If General Liu knew the rich families in Xi'an City, if he introduced them to me and got the silver ticket when the time came, I would not forget Brother Ren. ”

Liu Can hurriedly waved his hand and said, "That's it, I only take care of my own house, and I can't take care of that much." ”

Saying this, Zou Shilong looked behind him and said suspiciously: "General Liu, didn't you say before that the whole family of Liufu would pass the customs together?" Why did you only bring these few guards and house slaves up? ”

"I'll tell you the truth."

Liu Can looked a little flustered and leaned in front of Zou Shilong with a little mystery, and whispered a few words in his ear according to the previous comfortable explanation,

As soon as these few words were not tightened, the shocked Zou Shilong's face also changed color, and his brows were tightly furrowed for a long time before he spoke: "This ...... Isn't that a trivial matter? Is what General Liu said true? ”

Liu Can looked like you still didn't believe me, nodded his head a few times, and then pointed to his left armarm: "It's true, the prince's will is still in my hands, can the general take a look?" ”

"Slow down."

Zou Shilong saw that Liu Can's posture was about to take out the things in his sleeve, and hurriedly held him down with one hand, and then reached out and pointed behind him, "Go, General Liu, and tell me in the house." ”

"Okay, the chief soldier first, please."

Gao Ciyi and An Yi behind him looked at each other and smiled knowingly, followed Liu Can, led by Zou Shilong, and walked towards the city gate.

The gate tower of Tongguan is indeed big enough, and there are only three or four small compartments in it.

This Zou Shilong retreated his own soldiers, took Liu Can and his party of three people, and looked for a secluded place in all directions, then closed the door, pointed to An Yi and Gao Ciyi behind Liu Can and said: "General Liu, these two are the envoys of King Yongwang you said?" ”

"That's right."

Liu Can nodded, "King Yong knows that Zheng Yuan has always been anti-minded, and this time he came to ask General Zou to cooperate and take his head!" ”

What King Yong means, Zou Shilong is naturally one hundred and twenty obedient, but although he and Zheng Yuan are not good friends, they are still more familiar than Liu Can, and he is a water master governor, so if you want to do it, you naturally have to have a warrant from Lord Yong.

And he also knew that the matter was confidential, so he didn't even bring his own soldiers in.

"General Liu, can you show me the prince's edict?"

"No problem."

But Liu Can said that there was no problem, and after taking out the roll of yellow silk in the armour, he did not hand it to Zou Shilong, who was looking forward to it in front of him, but handed it to An Yi behind him.

"General Yi come and read it."

This action made Zou Shilong a little confused, I felt that this Liu Can was a thousand generals, and the score was quite big, and the edict like the prince had to be read, and it was ......

That envoy of King Yong, what else does Liu Can call him....... General Yi?

He was thinking that An Yi had already taken the yellow silk, unfolded it and read it aloud,

"King Yong has an order ......!"

An Yi paused when he thought of this, raised his eyes and looked at Zou Shilong in front of him, Zou Shilong also just raised his head to look at An Yi, and when his eyes met, he felt that An Yi's eyes were already filled with killing intent! After shooting, he shivered at the back of his spine for no reason.

“...... Kill the thief! ”

Kill thieves?!

Before Zou Shilong could react to where the thief was, a roll of yellow silk in An Yi's hand had already been thrown towards his face, and there was a word that seemed to come from the underworld.

"Kill!"

"Boom!"

Almost between lightning and fire, Gao Ciyi, who was standing quietly beside Anyi, pulled out the crotch knife on his waist, flew up and stood on the edge of the table, holding the handle of the knife with both hands as if he had condensed the strength of a thousand jun, and slashed through the void with the cold knife, stabbing away at Zou Shilong's chest,

Zou Shilong was still puzzled just now, and when he saw a ball of yellow silk flying over, he subconsciously used his hand to cover it, but can this flesh and blood body block the edict and the steel knife?

"Poof!"

The strength in Gao Ciyi's hand is not the slightest ambiguity when it collides with Guo Muer, where is Zou Shilong's arm and the thin heart goggles on his chest that can resist?

In an instant, the blade that stabbed out with momentum did not lag at all, and pierced through Zou Shilong's fragile chest in one fell swoop, and the red and sweet blood quickly flowed out backwards and poured into his mouth.

"Uh...... You ......"

The blade in Gao Ciyi's hand almost completely advanced Zou Shilong's body, so that the speed of life passed so fast that he couldn't even finish the last sentence, and he died on the spot!

Liu Can, who was next to him, was also secretly a little frightened when he saw this scene, looking at the dragon who was always lying in a pool of blood, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva unnaturally,

"This ...... Is this dead? ”

An Yi raised his eyes and glanced at Liu Can coldly, "What?" It sounds like General Liu is still a little sorry for the thief. ”

"What did General Yi say, I always felt that this guy was not a good thing." Liu Can was so frightened that he hurriedly refuted himself, and his eyes subconsciously glanced at Gao Ciyi,

"Hehe, General Liu is the loyalty and courage of the country, this is what the prince praised before, I'm just joking, the general is not allowed to go to his heart."

An Yi's face became faster, and then he was smiling again,

"How dare you." Liu Can pinched his sweat,

"Okay, since Zou Shilong has already subdued the law, then the rest of the matter depends on General Liu. The old lady and the family members of the Liu Mansion are in the camp, and I will focus on the protection of people, General Liu can rest assured, when the time comes, the prince and I will take them to Wuchang together and make peace with the general. ”

"Yes, the Admiral understands! The last general will make some preparations now, and set off on the road tonight, and he will definitely live up to his mission. ”

Of course, Liu Can also agreed, and then turned around and left, preparing to leave overnight.

However, Gao Ciyi looked at Liu Can's back, and asked An Yi with some concern: "Brother, if he goes, if he directly replaces Zheng Yuan on the spot, and then turns against King Geyong, what should we do?" ”

An Yi smiled very indifferently, "You can rest assured, even if he doesn't want it in the whole house, he has to turn back to pick up the old lady of his family, without the eldest lady of their family, he is on his own, I am afraid that if it is not for the Yangtze River Sailor, he will have to change his course again in three days." ”