"Tongguan guard Li Tan takes the order!"

"Wow, wow, wow, ......" "The last general Li Tan takes the order!"

In the customs clearance, suddenly there were three fiery red war horses, galloping directly to the gate of the Guan General's Mansion. And the knight on horseback did not dismount, and shouted loudly directly on horseback: "Prime Minister's military order, after three days, there will be a large army path Tongguan, and when the Tongguan gate is opened, the passage of the army must not be delayed!" ”

"The Last General's Order!" Li Tan, the guard of Tongguan, took a military order, read it again, and said to the three knights outside the door: "The three brothers have come from afar, drink a glass of wine and then return to Chang'an." ”

"Thank you, General, for your kindness. Now that the military order has been delivered, I will not stay long. Besides, we have to go to Hanguguan to give an order. There will be a period later! After the knight spoke, he flicked his whip directly, and the three horses galloped again.

And Li Tan looked at the back of the departing knight, and said to the people around him: "Immediately tidy up the pass." Get out of the way of everything that gets in your way. In addition, from now on, prepare food, my brother in Hanzhong is going to go on the expedition again! ”

"No! General, it's business as usual! ”

"Yes!"

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Three days later, as soon as the sky was bright, the three gates of Tongguan in the west were opened at the same time. Six teams of sixty soldiers dressed in bright light armor trotted out as soon as the door was opened, and stood in their respective positions, forming sixty statues with the halberds in their hands.

In less than half an hour, suddenly the defenders who were on duty at Tongguan rushed to the scene and shook the sky, and Li Tan, who was resting on the side, also stood up immediately and walked quickly to the back of the female wall.

"It's the White Tiger Army, beating the drums! Brave for the brothers! ”

"Knock, knock, knock......"

As the war drums on the head of Tongguan City began to roar, the soldiers who had been resting and waiting in place immediately stood up from the ground. Suddenly, an avenue of soldiers was dotted.

"General, there is Tongguan ahead. The brothers of Tongguan are beating the drums for us again! ”

"Well, tell the brethren, line up and get through!"

Every time, when a large army needs to get out of Tongguan, the war drums in Tongguan have to be changed collectively, why? Because, as soon as these war drums start to roar, they must last for at least three days!

"Oo......oo

The crisp and chaotic sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the knights of the White Tiger Army finally revealed their figures. At the front, flying is the flag of the White Tiger Army, and then the riding flag of the White Tiger Army, and behind is a row of four knights, and the long line seems to be at the end of heaven and earth.

At the gate of Tongguan Pass, since the military flag of the White Tiger rode into Tongguan, the neat three rows of knights passed through the three gates of Tongguan at the same time, and then in the gate, they converged again into a single force and headed east.

And when the knight at the front had walked half the distance, suddenly countless soldiers appeared from both sides of the road, and they had no weapons in their hands, but baskets one by one, and the baskets were covered with white cloths.

After "brushing", the white cloth was uncovered, and there were actually large cakes inside. Every soldier with a basket handed a knight to him, and until the basket was empty, the soldier behind him picked it up. This has become a habit to send a big pie to the soldiers who go out on the expedition. Every time, Li Tan baked hundreds of thousands of flatbreads in advance, as long as it was a soldier who passed through Tongguan, Zhang Tan would send one, and this flatbread, almost all the soldiers would take a bite of it at the first time, brothers, thank you.

Although Zhang Tan's entire advancing team looked so busy when he was delivering the bread, the advance speed of the soldiers who needed to go out was not affected at all. The neat White Tiger Army is still advancing, and the banners of the White Tiger Army in front have already walked out of Tongguan, and the tail of the White Tiger Army can be seen in the back that is the west of Tongguan.

And not long after the White Tiger Army left Tongguan, only two quarters of an hour later, a big flag appeared again, the Flying Wolf Army!

After the Flying Wolf Army, there was the Five Elements Army, followed by the Five Guards Army, and then the Vermilion Bird Army and the Tianrui Army......

When the White Tiger Army at the front arrived at Hangu Pass, the Xuanwu Army at the back also showed its figure. At this time, the war drums in Tongguan had been roaring for three days in a row. In three days, the 400 war drums never stopped, and the drummers changed for an unknown number of rounds, the drumsticks did not know how many heels were broken, and the drumsticks did not know how many sides were broken.

When the last knight of the Suzaku rode away from the gate of Tongguan on his war horse, Li Tan couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, can it finally be over? But before Li Tan could take a sip of water, a soldier hurried over. "General, General Li, the prime minister is here!"

"Quick, don't stop drumming, keep going! All go down to the city with me to greet the Prime Minister! ”

In the past, when the soldiers of the various armies were passing through Tongguan, Li Tan only stood at the head of the city because of his position, paying attention to the huge team, and now that Cao De actually came in person, Li Tan had to go down to the city to greet him.

"Greetings Prime Minister! Because of his subordinate position, he was unable to welcome the prime minister from afar, and asked the prime minister to atone for his sins. "It stands to reason that Cao De personally arrived at Tongguan, and he had to meet him five or ten miles from the city, but Li Tan walked three hundred steps. It's just that these three hundred steps are the maximum range of movement for Li Tan to wear this armor.

"Alright, let the soldiers rest. I don't need such a big battle. ”

"Prime Minister Xie!" After Li Tan received the order, he waved his hand to the soldiers behind him, and the two soldiers immediately trotted away, and in less than a cup of tea, the original deafening drum beat stopped abruptly.

"Li Tan, go and get me a flatbread. I haven't eaten the flatbread for a long time. ”

Now, this Tongguan cake seems to have become a kind of glory, and whenever a new recruit joins the army, the customs clearance cake often becomes the hottest topic.

Alas, this big brother, how many customs clearance flatbreads have you eaten?

I? Not much, not much, just three!

Three of them! I've only eaten one!

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Tongguan has the war drums of the big cake to cheer on, and Li Han of Hangu Pass is naturally not far behind, but Li Han's approach is much more low-key.

Li Han just pasted a slogan on each side of the east gate of Tongguan.

On the west side of the East Gate, there are only twelve words, "Brothers, kill one more enemy for us"

And on the east side of the East Gate, there are only four words, "Welcome home"

Welcome home, what a simple four words, but how many of the 290,000 soldiers who passed through Hangu Pass this time can no longer see these four words.

When Cao De's carriage drove to the east with the words "welcome home" on his back, half a month had passed since Zhao Yun withdrew to Kaifeng.

At this time, it was the end of the summer of the seventeenth year of Jian'an, and after a month and a half, Cao Cao's whereabouts were still unknown, but the news of Cao Cao's disappearance had reached Luoyang. In the entire Luoyang City, there was already a panic. Fortunately, there is still Cao Hong in Kaifeng City who rushed in time to preside over the overall situation, coupled with Zhao Yun's assistance, Liu Bei has never been able to move forward, and in the south, Cao Ren and Xu Huang have also defeated Cai Mao several times in a row, and now Cai Mao and Jing Yue are already passive defense.

External troubles are no longer the main threat, but the internal troubles in Luoyang City are not something that Xiahoudun can control.