In the conference hall, Changsun Sheng was giving Yang Guang and others a detailed introduction to the latest developments of the Turks, and suddenly saw a sergeant come to report, saying that there were 10 horsemen and horses from outside the south city gate, and the first person claimed to be the commander of the hussar battalion of the king of Jin, surnamed Duan Mingda, and wanted to open the city gate to the soldiers guarding the city gate and let them into the city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At that time, Wang Shao, Zhang Heng and others had gone to the states under the rule of Hebei Province to urge grain and grass, and lobbied the local wealthy families to go, and only Zhang Wei, the left servant of Xingtai, accompanied Yang Guang. Zhang Wei listened to the sergeant's report, and felt strange in his heart: King Ming of Jin and the hussar battalion under his command have arrived in Bingzhou for more than ten days, why did the commander of the hussar battalion appear today? While pondering, Zhang Wei took the lead in asking: "Can someone come to show proof that he is indeed the general next to the prince?" ”

The sergeant shook his head and replied, "If you shoot back, this group of people looks like a gang of bandits blocking the road and robbing them, and it is for this reason that the brothers at the city gate do not dare to make an argument and let them into the city." ”

Zhang Wei wanted to ask again, so he heard Yang Guang say: "Let them go into the city." Tell Duan Da to come directly to the council hall to see me and talk back. ”

Changsun Sheng sat on the side, and had already heard that there must be a secret that Yang Guang didn't want others to know, so he hurriedly stood up and said goodbye to Yang Guang.

"Sir, you and I have reunited after a long absence, please go to the hall to rest for a while, and this evening, I will personally set up a banquet for Mr. to receive the wind and wash the dust. Zhang Servant, please accompany Mr. Changsun to the pavilion and settle down first. Yang Guang really didn't want his private deeds to be heard by others, so he stood up immediately and took Zhang Wei away slightly.

Although Zhang Wei was dissatisfied in his heart, he was dissatisfied with Yang Guang because he had not worked with Yang Guang for a long time, so he did not violate his order in person, so he had to reluctantly get up and lead Changsun Sheng to go.

After about half an hour, I heard a familiar voice from outside the conference hall: "The last general Duan Da asks to see His Royal Highness the King of Jin." ”

"Come in." Yang Guang felt quite proud that his party had been able to successfully get rid of Duan Da's pursuit all the way these days, and he felt complacent about arriving in Bingzhou after so many days, and today he finally waited for the commander of the hussar battalion in Bingzhou City, so he deliberately pretended not to know what to do, and lightly ordered outside the hall.

When Duan Da was ordered to walk into the conference hall, Yang Guang looked at him in a flash, and almost didn't laugh out loud on the spot: I saw that this young forbidden army general who was in the fourth rank of the official residence was only draped in two broken sacks, his bare head was not wearing a hat, and his face was full of bruises and bruises, which made people mistakenly think of him as a down-and-out person begging on the street at first glance.

"You, how did you become like this?" Lifting his nose and smelling the stench emanating from Duan Da's body, Yang Guangqiang endured the disgust in his heart and covered his nose and asked.

"Lord Wang." Duan Da saw that it was really Yang Guang himself sitting in the center of the chamber, he couldn't help but feel sad and joyful, screamed heartbreakingly, turned over and fell to the ground, and was so choked up for a while that he couldn't say a word anymore.

Yang Guang didn't expect him to react so violently when he saw him, and hurriedly ordered the sergeant standing on the side to take Duan Da down first, freshen up, change into a clean robe, and then come back to see him talk.

"Lord Wang, you can make the last general think so hard." Duan Da struggled to shake off the sergeant who had come to help him go down to change his clothes and freshen up, knelt down and climbed forward two steps, raising his head and staring at Yang Guang in a daze, as if he was extremely reluctant to disappear from his eyes again.

"Wait, let's stand down first. They shall not be summoned by the king, nor shall they enter the hall. Yang Guang saw that Duan Da's behavior was abnormal, which was very different from before he left Beijing, and he knew that there was a difference, so he hurriedly retired the sergeant, leaving Duan Da alone in the conference hall, and asked in a low voice, "Why did you come so slowly, what happened along the way?" And sit on the side and take your time. ”

Duan Da's eyes were still fixed on Yang Guang, reluctant to move away, struggling to get up from the ground, but he didn't dare to follow Yang Guang's instructions, bowed down and stood in front of Yang Guang, and told Yang Guang with grievances about what happened to him on the way from the eastern capital to Bingzhou.

It turned out that Yang Guang and his entourage unintentionally saw Duan Da and the twenty elite horsemen he led on the streets of Luoyang that day. Duan Da, as the number one general of the hussar battalion who escorted Yang Guang out of the town, naturally knew that if he couldn't catch up with Yang Guang in time, if he made a mistake on the way, the consequences would be unimaginable for both him and the three hundred soldiers up and down the hussar battalion. Therefore, he personally led twenty elite horsemen, galloped all the way, and it only took two days and one night to chase to Luoyang, the eastern capital.

However, as soon as he entered the Eastern Capital, Duan Da was dumbfounded, facing a huge and prosperous Luoyang City, with only the twenty cavalry led by him, it was as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack to find the traces of Yang Guang and his party in the city.

So, after leading twenty elite cavalry around the eastern capital of Luoyang, but still found nothing, Duan Da had no choice but to take twenty cavalry to find an inn in Luoyang City and live first. According to his calculations, the reason why Yang Guang made a detour to the eastern capital to rush to Bingzhou was probably because he was envious of the prosperity of Luoyang City, and he would not just pass through the city, but would most likely stay in the city for two more days, take a good look at Luoyang City, and then continue to go north. Therefore, he made up his mind to stay in Luoyang City and block Yang Guang and his party.

If it weren't for Yang Guang and his entourage who inadvertently found that there were pursuers arriving behind them on the street, hurriedly changed their itinerary, and went out of the city to the west on the same day, detouring back to the original road and crossing the river north, Duan Da's plan would probably not have failed. However, when Duan Da and his subordinates lived in Luoyang City for three days in a row, leaving early and returning late every day, they searched almost every street and alley in Luoyang City, hundreds of inns and restaurants, and failed to find Yang Guang and others.

Finally, Duan Da made a change after repeated entanglements, immediately went out of the city, and pushed the location blocking Yang Guang and his party north to Luzhou under the rule of Hebei Province.

On the morning of the fourth day, Duan Da led twenty elite horsemen out of the north gate of Luoyang, all the way north, crossing the river, and two roads leading to Luzhou City appeared in front of him: one was a flat official road, but the distance was long; The other is that you need to pass through the mountains and take the ancient plank road of transporting troops - Taihang Cheng, the distance is shorter than the official road by almost one-third. After weighing the two phases, Duan Da decided to divide the troops into two routes: one of the accompanying commanders led ten cavalry to the official road to continue the pursuit to the north, and he himself led the other ten cavalry to take the Taihang Road and rush to Luzhou City by mountain road. He was sure that among these two roads, Yang Guang and his entourage would take one of them.

However, when he led ten cavalry into the reckless Taihang Mountain Range, before he could find the ancient plank road Taihang Mountain, he lost his way in the mountains, and became more and more confused, so that he walked dizzily for six or seven days in the deep mountains and dense forests, and failed to find a way out of the mountain to the north.

Just when Duan Da and the others got lost in the deep mountains and old forests next to Taihang Mountain, they relied on shooting a few pheasants and hares every day to survive the crisis, but suddenly met a middle-aged man who came unexpectedly in the mountains and took them out of the mountains by Taihang Mountain.