It was a gloomy day, and although it had not rained, the clouds in the sky were quite thick.

Now it is only the early spring of mid-February, Sili Luoyang belongs to the northwest land, so the weather is often a few degrees below zero at this time, and many of the guards in Dagu Pass are holding spears, hiding in the wall to avoid the wind, stomping their feet to keep warm.

In addition to the five hundred old soldiers of Xiliang, who are wearing thick cloth clothes and leather armor, as well as warm things such as fur and shoulders, the other more than 1,500 new soldiers are not treated so well, most of them are wrapped in old cloth clothes, even the clothes and armor are not neat.

And the five hundred Xiliang old soldiers, as the elite soldiers under Wu Xi's tent, although they are responsible for the main responsibility of taking care of Dagu Pass, their status on weekdays is often higher than that of other ordinary new soldiers, most of them only need to hide in the inner wing of the pass to drink wine and eat meat, roast charcoal fire, as for the daily guarding of the gate, they are all handed over to the more than 1,500 new soldiers to guard.

As a result, those new pawns who have not been on duty can still have four or five people around the corner of the wall in Dagu Pass to burn a bonfire to keep warm, but those new pawns on duty on duty can only rely on their bodies to resist the spring cold in front of the gate and on the wall of Dagu Pass.

There is no sun today, and the weather is even more gloomy.

Therefore, the soldiers who were in charge of guarding the Dagu Pass in turn only wanted the time to pass quickly, so that they could go back to the fire to keep warm, eat some fire-baked cakes, and fill their cold stomachs.

It was also near noon on this day, and there seemed to be a large caravan from the south of Dagu Pass, with more than two hundred servants pushing dozens of carts in the middle, surrounded by two or three hundred guards armed with swords.

This movement naturally attracted the attention of the defenders of Otani Pass, not only the defenders on the wall of Otani Pass looked at this caravan from afar, but also the soldiers at the gate also probed their brains to watch.

To be honest, Guanzhong is barren now, and most of the people who come to Luoyang through Dagu Pass are also returning homeless people, although there are also some small businessmen who come to Guanzhong to seek business opportunities, but the real big caravans still rarely come to Guanzhong.

On the one hand, Guanzhong has gone through the disaster of Dong Zhuo's rebellion and the Xiliang rebellion, and has almost become a place of ruins.

On the other hand, Guanzhong is still a place where warlords are divided, that is, there are caravans of large trading companies that have arrived in Guanzhong, and they may not be able to do any business, so they will be looted by these warlord forces pretending to be thieves.

Therefore, even if the large caravan entering the customs has hundreds of guards, it is naturally impossible to resist the warlord forces on this side of the Guanzhong.

At least in this period of time, there are still very few big caravans to risk in Guanzhong, and now this caravan to Dagu Pass seems to be quite large, which is a rare thing.

The guards guarding the gate could not help but feel a little curious, wondering where the caravan came from, what kind of goods it had, and how much it was worth.

It's just that it seems that the guards of this caravan are really unusual, all of them are young and strong men, and they are all equipped with military-made ring swords around their waists, but they are not wearing armor on their bodies, otherwise they really have the taste of regular soldiers.

Even those servants who are in charge of pushing and pulling the wagons seem to be young and strong men, and they should be the type who can fight with knives when something happens.

But after thinking about it, this seems to be normal, in today's chaotic situation, if there is really a caravan that wants to go to Guanzhong to find business opportunities to do business, it is natural to have the power of self-preservation, and it is normal for the people sent by the caravan to be so young and strong.

To be honest, the soldiers guarding the pass here didn't think about other possibilities at all, after all, even their main general Wu Xi didn't expect that someone would come to attack Luoyang, so these ordinary soldiers naturally didn't think that these people were here to seize the pass.

They were just curious about where this trading company came from and what family it belonged to, but no matter what, as small soldiers, they were afraid that they would not dare to embarrass a caravan of this size, this should not be a force they could provoke.

As the caravan approached, the soldiers guarding the pass finally saw the banner of the caravan, which seemed to be a "Xun" character, but they still didn't know what the origin was.

So a tun chief located in front of the South Gate of Dagu Pass went up to stop him first, "Stop, stop, where is the caravan coming from, where do you want to go?" ”

Seeing that there were soldiers guarding the gate stepping forward to block the way, a young steward came out of the caravan, slowly rode his horse to the gate, and looked at the defenders above the gate and the wall, and a hint of relief flashed in his eyes.

The guards guarding the caravan goods behind him also followed before closing the door at this time, staring at the guards in front of the door one by one, as if with a hint of ferocity, which inevitably made the guards guarding the door panic.

"We are the people of the Yingyin Xun Clan, why, you dare to stop it! Don't hurry up and get out of the way, let us in! ”

The young steward turned his head to look behind him, but he stopped the movements of the guards behind him, obviously he saw that although the defenders of Dagu Pass were loose, there seemed to be several iron grates hanging in the air in the city gate of Dagu Pass, which could be lowered at any time to close the gate.

Therefore, he still wanted to be safer, and did not want to start a siege battle now, so he stopped the soldiers in the rear who were pretending to be caravan guards, so that they could restrain their killing intent a little.

This young steward is naturally pretended to be Wei Yan, although he does not have a lance weapon in his hand at this moment, he only has a ring-headed knife at his waist, but he has seen the soldiers guarding the city here, as long as he can enter the customs, it is not a problem to kill a hundred people by himself.

However, Wei Yan deliberately played the banner of the Yingyin Xun clan, this Xun Yu and Xun Yu of the Xun clan are all important advisers under Cao Cao's account, and now they can be regarded as hot figures in Xu Du, so the caravan sent by the Xun family is naturally not so easy to stop.

When the tun chief guarding the gate heard this, he couldn't help but look at Wei Yan, hesitated for a moment, and then looked behind Wei Yan, at this time, the soldiers who were pushing the trucks in the rear also pretended to be servants and pushed more than 20 carts that seemed to be full of supplies to the front of the gate.

This can be regarded as covering up the killing intent of the soldiers who had left the caravan and moved behind Wei Yan to seize the pass, so the tun chief still didn't suspect anything else, just looked at Wei Yan's momentum, and responded with a whisper, "Yes, yes, don't dare to stop it, don't dare to stop it!" ”

Then the tun commander took a few steps back, and assigned more than fifty soldiers guarding the gate to make way for Wei Yan's caravan to enter the gate.

Wei Yan was overjoyed when he saw this, and took the lead in driving his horse into the city gate cave of Dagu Pass, and then the trucks pushing materials behind him also followed, just blocking the city gate hole......