Chapter Fifty-Six: Pingjing Pass

"Three levels of enlightenment?" Li Tingyu stared at the map for a long time, then looked up blankly and said, "Where is it?" ”

Wang Huan patted his head, and then remembered that Dawu was the name of the place in later generations, no one had heard of it in this era, and the map would naturally not be marked, so he hurriedly explained: "That, it is another name for three of the thirteen levels of Dabie Mountain, when my master taught me geography, he said so." ”

Li Tingyu, Li Yan, and Zu Bian's "oh" Qi statement came over, it turned out that it was said by the immortal sage, no wonder it was unheard of. Zu Bian couldn't help but admire: "The master of the Senate is very tight, and the names of this place are all different. ”

Wang Huan sweated on his head, and hurriedly interjected: "This Dawu Three Passes are actually the three closest passes to Xinyang in the Dabie Mountain Pass, and in terms of the position we are in now, the Pingjing Pass is the closest, and from here to the south, it is the pass. ”

Li Tingyu said: "But from the various passes of Dabie Mountain to Xiangyang, it is close to the point, but the road is difficult to walk, it is drilled back and forth in the mountains, and the official road is narrow, why can't you go to Nanyang?" ”

Wang Huan blurted out: "Nanyang Road is not good!" It is now the beginning of May, and it has now become a military city, and the rear grain road hoarding place where the Azig army pursued Li Zicheng is in Nanyang, and the road from Nanyang to Xiangyang is full of checkpoints, and from there it is a moth to fight the fire. ”

Li Tingyu and the others listened, looked at Wang Huan fixedly, their eyes were strange, and after a while, Li Tingyu was surprised and asked, "Senator, how do you know?" ”

Li Yan also said: "Yes, the movements of the Qing army, our eyes are black, we can only know a rough idea from the mouths of the villagers in the past, how can the senators understand it so clearly?" ”

Wang Huan looked at the gazes of several people, and the sweat on his face came down, how to explain this kind of historical information that later generations of time-travelers would understand? I had to pretend to be unfathomable: "Where the army is arranged, the place where the military food is hoarded must not be placed on the front line, nor can it be placed too far away from the army, and now that the Azig army has broken Wuchang, just a little calculation, you can know that the place where his military food is hoarded must be in Nanyang!" ”

The people present listened to the clouds and looked at each other, and did not dare to make a sound for a long time, and finally Li Tingyu licked his lips and said to Wang Huan with a fascination: "Senator, can you teach me this method of calculation?" ”

Wang Huan said stubbornly: "Okay, it's just that the time is too tight now, let's talk about it when we get out of danger later." ”

Li Tingyu was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Okay, it's decided!" ”

Everyone was overjoyed, and looked down at the map again, Wang Huan secretly wiped his sweat, and secretly said in his heart that it was dangerous, and he must pay attention to it in the future, so as not to be unable to justify himself.

Several people discussed for a while, and they all felt that as Wang Huan said, the army of Nanyang Road gathered, and it must be extremely dangerous to pass rashly, and the geography of the Dabie Mountain Pass is dangerous, and Li Zicheng's Dashun army has already left HN and entered Huguang, and the Qing army has no main force to guard, and it is safe to go from there, and unanimously agreed, enter Dabie Mountain, go Pingjing Pass into Lishan County, and go from Wuchang Road to Xiangyang.

The plan was decided, and everyone began to pack up their things, and divided into eight teams according to the plan, each team was led by a thousand generals, and set off in the first place, while Li Tingyu and Li Yan, Zu Bian and Wang Huan and other small monks were all in the same team and walked in the middle.

Everyone rested in the woods for a while, and only at the beginning of the unitary hour, when the sun was waning, did the first team set off.

Li Tingyu patted the shoulder of the first team leader Qianzong, and said in a deep voice: "As the pioneer of the first team, you must be calm and careful in case of trouble, and you must not take risks and impulsively. Take care and see you again in Kuimen! ”

Mr. Qian nodded and clenched his fists in agreement, and Li Yan handed him a fireworks, which was actually a firework, a bit like a slender short stick, with built-in gunpowder and a lead extending out, as long as it was ignited with fire, it could go straight to the sky, which was a warning and message from the army of the Ming Dynasty.

The first team left in the twilight, Li Tingyu stood in the shadow of the tree, calculated the time, and after a quarter of an hour, released the second team, followed by the third team, and after the third team walked for a quarter of an hour, the fourth team, which is Li Tingyu's own team, also set off.

Out of the woods, the official road has been completely devoid of pedestrians, the sky has not yet darkened, the passing merchants have disappeared, and the two groups of people in front of them can no longer see the shadow. Li Tingyu and the others were relieved and bold to speed on the official road, all the way straight to the mountains in the distance.

Thirty miles of road, when the time is not over, everyone has already arrived, Wang Huan gasped, and saw the Dabie Mountain in front of him like a huge city wall.

Dabie Mountain is a natural danger in ancient times, standing across the heart of the Central Plains, cutting off the north and south, it is the boundary between HN Lake and Guangzhou, SX connects Tongbai SD to extend to Tianzhu Mountain, Zhang Baling, the Huai River and the Yangtze River flow north and south in this mountain, it is the watershed of two big rivers, the water of the southern foot of the mountain flows into the Yangtze River, and the water of the northern foot flows into the Huai River. The mountain is thick and steep, and wide and stretched, many low hills, deep valleys and steep slopes, the terrain is complex, there are thirteen passable valley passes from west to east, it is the main road of soldiers since the Warring States period, so there are thirteen passes, and countless ancient battlefields are buried deep in the mountains and rocks.

"It's really dangerous, and it deserves to be the key to it." Zu Bian praised that he was a native of Liaodong, and when he came to the Central Plains Mountains for the first time, he couldn't help but feel emotional.

"This is nothing, Shuzhong Sword Pavilion, that is the real Xiongguan Heavenly Danger." Li Yan said with a smile: "As the saying goes, one husband is the key, and ten thousand people are not open, and there is no one dangerous place in the world." ”

Li Tingyu turned his head and glared and said, "Don't brag and fart, hurry up and follow, there is still a long way to go." ”

The two of them quickly shut up and followed closely with each other.

Fifty mermaids walked one after another, taking advantage of the fact that the sky was not dark, and entered the Dabie Mountains. After entering the mountain, it is even more extinct, the shadows of the trees are swaying, the mountain wind is blowing, echoing at the bottom of the empty valley, like ghost sounds. And on the official road winding in the hills and mountains, in addition to the insects and birds in the mountains and forests, there is not even a ghost shadow in the four places, and the straw sandals and military boots on everyone's feet step on the leafy path, making a slight "click" sound, in the lonely valley, it is like a hundred ghosts walking at night, which makes people's hearts palpitate.

In order to cover up, Li Tingyu did not dare to light more torches, only at one end and one at the end, two torches were lit, and most of the people in the team had night blindness, and only a few people did not have this disease. So the team is very tight, one after the other.

Wang Huan crossed over, but somehow, there was no such symptom that was very common in this era, so he walked in the middle of the team, and Chen Ergou and others followed him step by step.

While walking, Wang Huan kept looking up at the sky, he had been hanging in his heart, for fear that a firework would suddenly explode in the night sky, the fireworks were gorgeous, but it marked a huge danger, the front team encountered an enemy attack, in any emergency, it would explode the fireworks, and the police would be sent to the back, and the team behind would immediately stop and turn to avoid danger on his way.

This road is the only choice in desperation, in fact, it is very dangerous, if there are Qing soldiers at the checkpoint to set up an ambush or see through their disguise, there is no place to escape, the road is chosen by Wang Huan, and the natural responsibility is also on him.

Fortunately, along the way, although the wind and grass were blowing, the night was dark, but there was no danger, except for the mountain wind in the dark mountains, there was no sound, and there were no fireworks in the sky, which made everyone's hearts lighter and lighter.

After walking for most of the night, the team had gone deep into the mountains, and Li Tingyu, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, opened his arms, and stopped the people behind, and the whole team immediately stopped very disciplined, quietly hidden in the night.

Wang Huan hurriedly ran to the front, but saw Li Tingyu raising his eyes to look forward, squinting along his gaze, Wang Huan immediately saw a gate tower standing majestically on the narrow official road.