Dasanguan is located at the junction of Fufeng County and Tianshui County, here is just the watershed of Longshan Mountain Range and Qinling Mountain Range, the mountains are undulating, the terrain is dangerous, like a screen separating Guanzhong and Longxi, and Dasanguan is built on the only place of this screen on the subsidence zone. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Dasanguan is built on the mountainside, low on both sides and high in the middle, which is a dangerous pass both internally and externally.

On this morning, a Taoist priest riding a donkey slowly went up along the official road, and after walking along the ramp for three miles, the Taoist priest came to a high city, the Taoist priest was Wei Zheng, the tragic death of his friend Wang Qi made him completely chilled by the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty also offered a reward of 10,000 to arrest him, except for defecting to the Zhou Dynasty He has no way out.

This time he volunteered to surrender to the Dasan Pass guard Zhou Wenzhong, which was a letter of surrender he handed over to Zhang Xuan, Wei Zheng glanced at the high Guancheng, and couldn't help but secretly shake his head, this Guancheng is tall and majestic, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Liu Lancheng's 20,000 cavalry can not be attacked, at least more than 30,000 troops, carrying large siege weapons, and thousands of casualties are possible to take this city.

"Stop!"

Wei Zheng was still dozens of steps away from the city gate, and several soldiers standing guard stopped him, and a soldier rushed up, looked him up and down, and asked, "Where did you come from, this Taoist priest, and where are you going?" ”

"Please report to General Zhou, his old man is visiting!"

Hearing that it was the old man of the main general, the soldier's tone immediately became polite, "What is the name of the Taoist chief?" ”

"Let's just say that the Changyang Daoist asks to see you!"

"Please wait, I will go and report to the general."

The soldiers galloped into the city, Wei Zheng led the donkey and waited at the city gate, at this time, he suddenly saw his own reward notice posted on the wall of the city gate, the portrait was a civil official, and he was not at all like him now, this reward notice was meaningless to people who did not know him, less than five feet away from the notice, Wei Zheng suddenly had a very absurd feeling.

At this time, the soldier just now ran back, saluted, and said, "My general asks the Taoist chief to come over and speak." ”

Wei Zheng was a little surprised in his heart, Zhou Wenzhong didn't come out to greet him, the relationship between Wei Zheng and Zhou Wenzhong had nothing to do with the crown prince, but Wei Zheng's medical skills, he had saved Zhou Wenzhong's mother's life, Zhou Wenzhong had always been very grateful to him, so Wei Zheng was able to escape from the Great Dispersion Pass, so Zhou Wenzhong took the risk of letting him go.

Zhou Wenzhong is about 356 years old this year, the official is the general of Zuo Wuwei, in the faction, he is a person of Li Shentong, and he followed Li Yuan to raise troops in Taiyuan, and he is more senior, so he is also more respected, and he is sent to guard the Dasanguan.

Zhou Wenzhong's mother lives in Taiyuan with his brother Zhou Wensheng, he is filial to his mother, but he has not seen his mother for three years, which makes him miss him very much, and he hopes that the world will be unified as soon as possible, so that he can take care of his mother.

At this time, the soldiers led Wei Zheng into the room, Zhou Wenzhong hurriedly stepped forward and asked the soldiers to retreat, and then said in a low voice: "How dare Wei Envoy Jun come to Dasanguan again, someone who knows you is here." ”

"Who?"

"A new overseer, named Ma Zhong."

Wei Zheng had vaguely heard of this name, but he was not familiar with it, but since it was a prison army, it must be a eunuch sent by Li Yuan, Wei Zheng saw that Zhou Wenzhong was worried, so he asked with a smile: "Is the general in trouble?" ”

Zhou Wenzhong sighed and said: "At noon today, Ma Jian Jun invited me to drink, and sure enough, there was no good wine, he actually proposed to sell half of the military rations, and he was responsible for making up the military rations, and then the money he got was four or six cents, and half of it was 30,000 stone of grain!" ”

Wei Zheng said with a smile: "He is a prison army, he said that it is okay, the Son of Heaven will definitely listen to him, there should be no risk!" ”

Zhou Wenzhong shook his head, "There is no risk, but how can I explain to my dead father in this way?" And what face to see mother? This is a matter of being a human being, and I won't do this kind of thing, so I rejected Ma Jianjun in one go. ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a shrill voice from outside the door, "I have such a good relationship with General Zhou, what else do I need to report, and if you dare to say it, I will screw your heads." ”

This is the prison army Ma Zhong came, Zhou Wen was in a hurry, pointed to the back room, Wei Zheng understood, and hurriedly dodged into the back room.

The door curtain opened, and Ma Zhong walked in directly, and two of Zhou Wenzhong's personal soldiers followed behind him, with helpless faces.

"Does General Zhou have any guests?" Ma Zhong looked at the two cups of tea on the table and asked suspiciously.

"It's the afternoon when Yang joins the army and comes to me to chat, and the cup hasn't been collected yet."

The two pro-soldiers moved quickly, stepped forward to take away the teacup, and fortunately Ma Zhong's mind was not on the teacup, otherwise if he touched it, he would find that Zhou Wenzhong was lying, and the teacup was still warm.

Zhou Wen asked him to sit down, and Ma Zhong saw that there was no one in the room, so he said: "I think there are some things that may not be clear about the incident at noon, so I want to talk to the general again." ”

Zhou Wenzhong said coldly: "I have made it clear at noon, I don't think there is anything to say." ”

Ma Zhong stared at the table and said with a half-loud sneer: "Don't hide it from General Zhou, I wrote a report to the Holy Lord this afternoon, and I told the Holy Lord that the General has not only secretly surrendered to the Zhou army, but also secretly let Wei Zheng go. ”

"Nonsense!"

Zhou Wen was so angry that he slapped the table heavily, "When will I secretly surrender to the Zhou army?" You don't want to spew blood. ”

Ma Zhong sneered, "General Zhou thinks that the Holy Lord will listen to me, or will listen to you, besides, let Wei Zheng go privately, it's not my bloody mouth!" ”

"I don't know any Wei Zheng, if you want to tell the saint, then you can go as you like, I tell you clearly, I, Zhou Wenzhong, will never sell military rations with you privately!"

"Good! Since General Zhou refuses to drink my Ma's toast, then I have to change to a second general. ”

Ma Zhong snorted twice, turned around and left, as soon as he left the room, Wei Zheng came out and hurriedly said: "General, he has the right to kill at the battlefield, and he can't let him leave." ”

Zhou Wenzhong was stunned, but still shook his head, "He can't kill me in Dasanguan, I'm not afraid of him, he reports to the saint, and I will expose it to the general, see if the saint believes him or believes in the general." ”

"The general is really confused! As long as the person who is replaced is still Li Shentong's person, will Li Shentong offend the eunuch of the Son of Heaven for you? ”

Zhou Wenzhong was stunned for a moment, he hesitated a little, his only hope was that Li Shentong spoke for him, but Wei Zheng ruthlessly extinguished his hope with a word, Li Shentong really wouldn't offend the eunuchs of the Son of Heaven for his own sake, so what should he do?

At this moment, Ma Zhong's shrill voice came from outside the door again, "I forgot my things here, I'll take them." ”

Zhou Wenzhong hurriedly gave Wei Zheng a look and asked him to hurry to the back room, but Wei Zheng took two steps back, hid behind the door, and pulled out a dagger from his waist. He went out and walked on both sides, and he came to his senses.

The footsteps sounded, and the prison army Ma Zhong broke in again, and as soon as he entered the door, he smiled dryly at Zhou Wenzhong: "General Zhou, my jade pendant may have fallen from you just now, I'll look for it." ”

"I don't have any jade pendants here!"

"Not necessarily, maybe it fell to the ground."

He bent down to look under the table, but his eyes glanced to the inner room, at this moment, Wei Zheng stepped forward, and the sharp dagger stabbed into Ma Zhong's back from behind, Ma Zhong screamed, his body bent back violently, just when he saw Wei Zheng, his eyes suddenly widened, "It turned out to be you!" ”

"It's me!"

Wei Zheng pulled out his dagger and stabbed him in the back again, this time piercing the heart, killing Ma Zhong instantly.

Zhou Wenzhong thought that Wei Zheng would slip away from behind, and when he thought that Wei Zheng had actually killed Ma Zhong, he was stunned, and Ma Zhong had already fallen to the ground and died when he came over.

Zhou Wenzhong pulled out his sword and shouted, "You are not allowed to move!" ”

At this time, five or six of his own soldiers heard the movement and ran in, only to find Ma Jianjun lying in a pool of blood, and they were shocked and surrounded Wei Zhengtuan.

Wei Zheng dropped the dagger and said lightly: "Ma Zhong is dead, no matter whether the general hands me over or not, the Son of Heaven will not spare the general, if the general is still willing to listen to me, then the general has one last chance." ”

Zhou Wenzhong's face was cloudy, he remembered that his mother was seriously ill and incurable many years ago, thanks to Wei Zheng's wonderful rejuvenation, he pulled his mother back from the ghost gate, and with this grace of saving his mother, he couldn't hand over Wei Zheng, but ..... Ma Jianjun died, how could he explain to the Son of Heaven?

Zhou Wenzhong's heart was in a mess, but he could hear Wei Zheng's last words, 'The general still has one last chance!' He hesitated and asked, "What chance?" ”

Wei Zheng pointed to the back room, "Let's go in and say!" ”

Zhou Wen nodded emphatically and ordered his soldiers to dig a pit on the spot to bury Ma Zhong's body, and he entered the inner room with Wei Zheng.