In the early morning, there was silence in the four fields.

A faint mist covered the field, bringing a hint of coolness, and the dew swirled on the blades of grass. It is an undulating hill with undulating weeds, green and yellow, and sometimes low forests of various sizes.

Early birds hop in the grass, searching for grass seeds and bugs. Occasionally, the morning breeze blows, the weeds rise and fall, and there are serpentine rats.

It's a peaceful and tranquil natural scenery.

Suddenly, the ground trembled violently, and the birds threw up their wings and flew away, and the little beasts let out a rapid cry and hid in the grass.

The galloping of war horses shattered the tranquility of the early morning, countless banners tore through the morning mist, and countless cavalry galloped past, galloping along the wide official road between the hills, and continuing to march into the distance.

The cavalry wearing the big red cotton armor, the cavalry wearing the rotten silver plate armor, the cavalry wearing the big red cloak, countless officers and soldiers, gathered into a red steel torrent, rumbling forward!

These cavalry are in units of hundreds of households, and there are dozens of steps between each hundred households, and the official road is wide enough to accommodate eight horsemen in parallel, but this steel torrent still seems to be endless, there is no end, the front has disappeared from sight, and the back is still coming.

Lian Zining and the others stood on a hill, looking down at the rolling torrent below, surrounded by fifty dragoons, Kang Lu, Wang Yancheng, and Zhao Maxiang were also beside him.

Lian Zining sighed, took out the map from his arms, unfolded it on the horse, looked at it for a while, and said to the generals around him: "Everyone, we have just passed Luancheng, and it is only fifty miles to Jingcheng Pass. When you arrive at Jingcheng Pass, you will definitely let everyone have a good rest! ”

"Yes, sir!" Shi Dazhu was ordered to go, but was stopped by Zhao Maxiang waving his hand: "Wait!" ”

He arched his hand to Lian Zining and said: "My lord, when Huo went to the sick and sealed the wolf Juxu, he traveled thousands of miles in six days, and the total night was only one hundred and sixty or seventy miles, and the Huns thought it was a miracle. We have been running for 300 miles in one night, and the soldiers are already exhausted, so why don't we rest and recuperate before moving forward? ”

What he said was also the same old words, but Lian Zining shook his head and said, "It's so inappropriate." ”

"What's wrong?" Zhao Maxiang thinks that he is old and his talent is no worse than him, but he has to obey his command all the way, and he has long been angry in his heart, and at this time he feels that he is blindly commanding, and the firepower completely burst out, and said angrily: "My lord, you want to act arbitrarily and alone, when will you not do it, do you have to take our brother's surname as a child's play?" ”

"Presumptuous!" Shi Dazhu let out a low roar and raised the giant stick in his hand.

With a bang, Yang Husheng took the horse knife out of his waist and pointed at Zhao Maxiang and said, "Old horseman, dare to talk to our adults like this, are you tired of being crooked?" ”

The other dragoons were also unsheathed, and there were even a few of them, who even put up the crossbow with the crossbow bolts flat, pointing at Zhao Maxiang, their eyes sharp and cold.

Kang Lu was taken aback, he didn't expect that these guys from the Wu Yi Army were too unscrupulous, and they didn't agree with each other, they were so violent, a little soldier and leper dared to point at a third-grade general, and directly threatened each other with their surnames. Sure enough, he is worthy of Lian Zining's soldiers, and he has a virtue with their boss, and he doesn't agree with a word, so he immediately turns his face and shows a spicy appearance! What a lawlessness!

Zhao Maxiang's personal soldiers reacted at this time, and just wanted to move, but found that they had been surrounded by the dragoons, and the knife was on their necks, and they didn't dare to move.

Seeing that as long as Lian Zining gave an order, Zhao Maxiang would immediately be in a different place, and he couldn't even run away with his own soldiers.

Zhao Maxiang was surnamed Ganglie, not afraid at all, ignoring the strong crossbow blades around him, and said angrily: "Lianchengbi, if you don't give this general an explanation, unless you will behead this general here, otherwise, we have something to say in front of the handsome!" ”

The corners of Wang Yancheng's mouth twitched slightly, and he hid aside and didn't speak, just watched coldly. I made up my mind in my heart, I will definitely not anger Lian Zining this time, and I will not give him any excuse to clean himself up.

Kang Lu hurriedly pulled Zhao Maxiang's armor, but he knew Lian Zining's surname, if he really provoked him, now behead you, and when the time comes, give An a name to die on the spot, who can come out with one, two, three? The marshal appreciates him so much, and the future father-in-law is also an official of the military department, if he really kills you, he will make trouble in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and make trouble in the military department, who cares about you?

Kang Lu came out to play a round and said: "Even my lord, you know Zhao Yan's character, and he is straightforward, so don't worry about him." ”

He said to Zhao Maxiang again: "Zhao Yanshi, hurry up and apologize to the adults, accompany the ceremony, at this time, it can be regarded as exposed, how so?" ”

It can be called funny to ask a commander from the third rank to apologize to a deputy thousand households of the fifth grade, but everyone present felt strange. Zhao Maxiang didn't appreciate it, his neck was stalked, and he wanted to speak. Lian Zining waved his hand to interrupt him, and Wen Yan asked: "Zhao Yanshi, do you want to save your strength, it is best to wait until the white-robed army arrives at Jingcheng Pass, and we will arrive when the army is attacking the city, and then we can just join forces with the defenders in the city and break the white robe, am I right?" ”

Facing Lian Zining's eyes that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts, Zhao Maxiang felt a chill in his heart and blurted out: "How do you know? ”

Lian Zining smiled faintly: "But Lord Zhao, have you ever thought about what will happen if the guard of the Jingcheng Pass has been bought off and colluded with the anti-thieves?" ”

"What?" Not only Zhao Maxiang, but the others also changed their faces greatly, and Qi Qi exclaimed: "How is it possible? ”

"How could it be?" Lian Zining asked rhetorically: "This is Taihang, hundreds of miles away, no matter how slow we react, we should follow behind the butt of the white-robed army to catch up, this point, if you are as shrewd as the white robe, it is impossible to think of it!" Although the Jingcheng Pass is not big, it is a dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the white-robed army is lightly armed, and it is impossible to carry siege equipment, haven't they thought that if they are blocked by the defenders of the Jingcheng Pass, our army will chase after them, what kind of predicament will they fall into? Annihilated! Lord Zhao, if you were the commander of the white-robed army, would you take such a risk? It's better to be trapped in the lonely city of Haifeng, at least it can support a few more days! ”

Zhao Maxiang was sweating profusely, his face was pale, and he couldn't say a word.

Lian Zining sighed: "The White Lotus traitor, the best at demagoguery, has worked hard for the past twenty years, and this sudden attack must be completely certain!" Therefore, if you can't reach Jingcheng before the white-robed army, I'm afraid that the big thing will be over! ”

"Command the whole army, full speed ahead!" Lian Zining said lightly again, this time, everyone was convinced, and there was nothing to say.

An hour and a half later, you can already see the towering towers in the mountains.

Jingcheng Pass is one of the nine stops in the ancient world, and it is also worthy of the name of the Taihang Eight Mountains. Stretching for thousands of miles, the majestic and handsome Taihang Mountain stretches from north to south, from the Inner Mongolia Plateau to the hinterland of the Central Plains, and also separates the Great Plain of North China from the land of Shanxi.

If you want to enter the boundless Taihang Mountain, there is not only one path in Jingcheng Pass, and further north of Longquan Pass, Baoma Pass and even further north Bauhinia Pass, you can enter Taihang Mountain, but the white-robed army is impossible, and it does not have the strength to go north again. They fled in a hurry, and the only place they chose was Jingcheng Pass.

Yesterday morning, I set out early in the morning, hurried slowly, marched more than 400 miles at night, and finally arrived here.

"My lord, a hundred steps ahead is the Taiping River!" The soldiers in front of them came over and shouted a loud message.

The mountain road here was already rugged, and the speed of the horses slowed down, so Lian Zining ordered the whole army to suspend the advance, and took the generals and his own soldiers to beat the horses forward, and came to the front to observe.

When he came to the front of the battle, when he saw this well pass, Lian Zining couldn't help but be secretly shocked in his heart, what a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack!

In front of everyone is a wide river, the river is turbulent, the flow is very fast, more importantly, the river is more than 100 steps wide, there is only a chain bridge on the river can pass, people and horses can never swim across. And after the big river, there is the reckless and endless ten thousand mountains, the pass of the Jingcheng Pass, is about 500 steps away after the Taiping River, and what is more troublesome is that in front of the pass of the Jingcheng Pass, there is a valley road sandwiched between two mountains, which is 200 steps long, but only about two zhang wide!

Kang Lu and the others frowned, and said in their hearts, if this Jingcheng Pass guard is really an enemy, then it will really take a lot of effort to defeat this strong pass!

Looking at the quiet Guancheng as usual, Lian Zining breathed a long sigh of relief, hurried and hurried, and finally arrived one step early!

At this time, there was already movement on the upper floor of the pass, obviously seeing the arrival of these obviously imperial court soldiers and horses, and the figures on the city tower were shaking, far away, and they couldn't really see it. After a while, the gate was opened, and a small group of horsemen galloped from it. The cavalry crossed the chain bridge, and the leader was just a general flag, and from a distance, I saw these generals wearing mountain character armor and being surrounded by everyone, and then looked at the large armies behind the other party, and knew that these were all noble officials, and the most feared one was only a thousand households!

The Ming Dynasty is the dynasty with the most distinct costumes of generals and sergeants in all dynasties, and the really high-level military attachés, such as Zhang Yanchang and other super generals, are wearing python robes and unicorn robes given by the emperor, and few wear armor. The general generals are wearing mountain-shaped armor, which is naturally inferior to plate armor, but it is also similar, and it is better to create exquisite, light and flexible. So at a glance, you can be separated from ordinary soldiers wearing fat jackets or cotton armor.

The general flag rolled the saddle and dismounted after a dozen steps, knelt on the ground and said loudly: "The money for the general flag of the small Jingcheng Pass Qianhu has to be used, I have seen all the big masters, the generals, Wu Qianhu ordered the small ones, ask the big masters why they came, do you have a military department?" ”

"Wu Qianhu? Wu Fen, right? Lian Zining was prepared, and said with a faint smile: "You get up and speak first, this general is Lian Zining, the president of the Wuyi Army, this is Lord Zhao, the commander of the Shenyang Zhongtun Guard, this is Wang Qianhu, the avant-garde of the government army, and this is the personal soldier Qianhu of the Marquis of Shouning (I wrote it wrong before, and now it is corrected), we are here by the order of the marshal." ”

(To be continued)