"Stretch your neck and sigh, and travel a lot. My heart is so depressed that I want to return to the east. The bridge is deep in water, and the middle road is wandering. Confused and lost, there is no shelter in the twilight. The day of travel is far away, and the people and horses are hungry at the same time. Carry the bag to get paid, and the axe and ice are held as minc. The poem "Dongshan" makes me mourn. ”

Cao Cao couldn't help but weep after listening to the whole poem of "Bitter Cold Xing" from Luan Yi's mouth, "Ziqi's mood is so similar to Cao, Bo Yazi is just like this!" At this time, it was meal time, and some of the church guards in sight were collecting firewood and preparing to make a fire, while others were digging pits and burying pots with shovels, but the ground was so hard that they could not be dug at all. So you can only use a spear and a sword to dig out a few pieces of soil on the ground, and then make a fire in a small pit to heat the ground to enlarge the pit and put the pot on it.

During the war on the plains, the rations of the Church Defenders were always good due to the ease of transportation of supplies. Nowadays, it is difficult to transport even grain and grass, let alone meat and vegetables. Therefore, most of the time, the soldiers gnawed on dry food that had no taste at all, and then with some gruel, and occasionally they could eat some pickled cucumbers and pickled cabbage specially cooked by Luan Yi. The suffering can only be tasted by those who have actually experienced it.

Seeing the difficult status quo of the guards, Cao Cao couldn't help but think of himself and Luan Yi. Ay...... Who wants to leave his wife and children at home and go to Taihang Mountain in this cold winter to suffer? Could it be that Ziqi and I naturally like to kill and attack? People like to be comfortable, warm and quiet.

When I was young, I once asked Ziqi what life he wanted to live the most, and Ziqi replied: a beautiful room, a childhood sweetheart's beloved wife, several acres of fertile land outside the hospital, and healthy parents at home.

He longed for an idyllic life outside the world. As for me, Cao...... Although he is not as free and easy as him, he just wants to live a simple life for his wife and wife after completing daily politics for one of his parents.

However, the world makes people, the world is chaotic, year after year, you attack me, I attack you, and the people suffer from "hanging upside down". Ziqi, as a savior talent, takes saving the world as his own responsibility, and stands up at this time to let the world know that the word "savior" in the savior is not groundless. In order to let the people live a good life in peace and contentment, he went to the east and west to create peace with his fists.

But when the people of the parish were enjoying themselves, who knew what Ziqi had paid. It's been two years...... Ziqi has not returned home for two years since he went to Hebei.

He hadn't even seen his newborn in person, but he only got the news that his wife Yang Wan was pregnant before he set out for the expedition. Later, his son was born, and Anping's war was in a scorching state. He didn't have time to name his child, so he could only be replaced by Mao Jue, who stayed in Jinan, and named it "Ping", which is a metaphor for the early pacification of Anping City.

Now, the war in Youzhou is over, Luan Ping is one and a half years old, but he still hasn't been able to meet his biological father.

Cao Cao knew that although Luan Yi didn't say it, he was still eager to see his eldest son when he was about to usher in his first year. This can be seen in Luan Yi's daily behavior.

For a while, Luan Yi would save a small carving knife and carve it on a small piece of wood.

It's just that Luan Yi has too many things to deal with every day, and from time to time when he was carving, he accidentally cut his hands because his thoughts wandered to government affairs, so that his hands are now full of scars and scars.

Cao Cao still can't forget the appearance of his hands when he first met Luan Yi in the past. It was a pair of hands with great artistic talent, with slender fingers, white and soft, like a lifelike white jade handicraft. Looking at the hands now covered with calluses and scars, it is enough to witness the vicissitudes that Luan Yi has experienced over the years.

Cao Cao asked Luan Yi what he had carved.

Luan Yi grinned with chapped lips and smiled, saying that he was carving a wooden horse, and he would see Luan Ping as a meeting gift in the future.

Cao Cao looked at the frozen marks on Luan Yi's face, choked up for a while, and didn't know what to say. He remembered reading the Book of Songs when he was a teenager, and when he saw "the scorpion, the scorpion is in the mulberry field; Dunbi sleeps alone, and is also under the car", completely ignorant of what to do. Now I can really get a taste of it.

The pain of the march is not only in the body, but also in the heart.

To Cao Cao's great surprise, on such a difficult march, none of the 80,000 church guards reported even the slightest complaint. Cao Cao knew that the Church of Our Lady played a crucial role in this. Whenever the guards could not bear the suffering, they would close their eyes and pray, and when they could not bear it anymore, they would go to the priest and pour bitter water on them.

At this time, the priest will always patiently enlighten him, telling him that the suffering before him is a test for the Virgin. As long as he can survive the Taihang Mountain, the sect leader will not only reward them greatly, but also record their contributions to the church in this act and store them in the lecture hall for record. At the same time, another copy was made, soaked and dried in the holy spring water, and then burned to heaven by the holy fire. In this way, Our Lady of Heaven will learn of their efforts to proclaim the gospel of God and rejoice in it, and in the next hundred years they will receive the gospel of God and become happy people in heaven.

Hearing this, the sorrow on the faces of the church guards instantly disappeared, and their eyes suddenly burst with determination, and then they silently returned to their posts and continued to do what they had to do.

With the power of this faith, the 80,000 church army broke through all difficulties, lasted for three months, and finally crossed the Taihang Trench and arrived at the border of Shangdang County in the spring of the ninth year of the Holy Dynasty.

It is said that Shangdang has been an important town in the northern part of the Han Dynasty since ancient times, and it is another strategic point outside the Great Wall and the state to prevent the Huns from outside the Saiwai from invading the hinterland of the Central Plains. In order to strengthen the military defense force of this important place, since the beginning of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, four Xiongguan were built according to the mountain terrain on the road from Shangdang to Jizhou, namely Tianjing Pass, Shangdang Pass, Hukou Pass and Shiyan Pass.

Over the past few hundred years, the Han Dynasty has used these majestic passes to break the conspiracy of the Saiwaihu people to invade the Central Plains more than once. Now, in the face of the surging army of the Church, the senior cadres turned around and used them as a barrier to block the Church's Northern Expedition.

Among the four passes of Tianjing Pass, Shangdang Pass, Hukou Pass and Shiyan Pass, Hukou Pass is the most famous and the most solid. Gao Gan then set up the Chinese army here, and ordered the general Ju Yishuai to guard Tianjing Pass with 10,000 people as the vanguard, and ordered Ju Yi to only stick to it and not send troops, and strive to exhaust Luan Yi's army rations and let him retreat without a fight.

Receiving such an instruction, Ju Yi was very stunned. According to the reliable information he received, Luan Yi used a device that could trigger large-scale explosions in the past battles of Anping and Yijing. He didn't know exactly what it was, and he had only recently figured out what an explosion was.

A city turned to dust for no apparent reason, accompanied by a pungent smell.

Combined with the thunderbolts that the church had used many times in past wars, Ju Yi had every reason to believe that Luan Yi's church guards could throw the kind of "explosion" from a hundred paces away onto the city wall, causing huge casualties to his own army stationed in the city.

In this way, sticking to the pass is purely self-defeating. If you want to stop Luan Yi's Northern Expedition, you can only outwit ......

Outsmart? Thinking of the strategists under Luan Yi's account, and then thinking about the generals under him who can fight well, Ju Yi couldn't help but shake his head, which of them is not an expert in scheming, and playing outwitting in front of them is purely self-inflicted.

Outwitting is not possible, and there is one last way that is not an option - to garrison a group of men in front of the city, and if they find that the Church army is going to use a thunderbolt, they will meet it head-on. If the church soldiers and horses come to attack with a crowd, they should go to the edge of the city and take cover with bows and crossbows on the city walls.

However, such shortcomings are also obvious, Ju Yi divided a large number of troops and horses to garrison outside the city, and will inevitably engage in a large number of white-knuckle battles with the main force of the church army, resulting in huge casualties. Ju Yi only had more than 10,000 people in his hands, which was only one-eighth of the total number of the church's army. I can't afford it.

However, at present, there is no other countermeasure for Ju Yi to choose, so he has to delay it for a day.

In the early morning of the next day, an urgent report came from the Tanma that the church army was less than twenty miles away from Tianjing Pass.

Ju Yi did not dare to hesitate, and immediately divided seven thousand troops to form a battle in front of the pass. Two hours later, billowing dust and smoke rose from the end of the horizon, and human figures were faintly visible in the mist.

The figures marched in neat steps among the gray and yellow dust, their silver armor glowing golden in the sunlight. The spears in their hands were uniformly slanted forward, their steps were uniform, and the rumbling footsteps and drums sounded in unison, and the momentum alone made the soldiers and horses under Guan Qian Juyi's men shudder.

The church army stopped at 300 paces in front of the pass, and a silver-armored young general rushed out of the formation, pointed his unique meteor hammer at Ju Yi under the banner, and asked: "The leader of the Great Han Protector God Sect, Yanzhou Assassin Shi Luan Yi came to Bingzhou to crusade against the rebellious party senior cadres by the order of our emperor. You are a rebel and a strategist, and you should be beheaded according to the law, but you are deceived by the villain, which is understandable. If you take the initiative to surrender, you can avoid the death penalty. When will you wait if you don't drop at this time? ”

"He's Luan Yi?" The name of the shadow man of the tree. Although Ju Yi had long heard that the actual controller of the six states and four countries of the Han Dynasty in front of him was only twenty-nine years old, after really seeing Luan Yi with his own eyes, he still couldn't help but sigh that Luan Yi was so young. He looked like he was in his early twenties, and the beard on his chin was only an inch, which was in stark contrast to his beard.

But he didn't know that the ancients paid attention to the body, and the hair and beard could not be easily trimmed. Otherwise, it is a great unfilial piety.

But Luan Yi didn't pay attention to these, in order to avoid the appearance of a big beard, he would secretly trim his beard in the middle of the night when no one was around, and deliberately trim the beard to make a very elegant goatee.