Wuguan is an important pass on the northwest border during the Great Song Dynasty, tightly guarding the throat road leading to the Great Song Dynasty in Western Xia, guarding the pass is a force of 800 people, they are under the leadership of a soldier and horse supervisor named Tong Fei, facing the wind and sand in the northwest all year round, shouldering the task of defending the border town.

Wuguan is also a prosperous town with a population of more than six or seven thousand, and out of the pass is a vast wilderness, and through the wilderness is the territory of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Although it is located in the northwest, Wu still has the prosperity that should be in the Northern Song Dynasty, hotels, teahouses, grocery stores everything, after four days of running, Lu Da came here all the way.

When I stepped into Wuguan, it was noon. Hungry, Lu Da stepped into a hotel on the side of the road. Seeing the guest shopkeeper coming, Xiao Er stepped forward and said, "This guest officer, what are you doing?" ”

Lu Dadao: "Give the Sprinkle family two catties of cooked beef, two baked cakes, and a pot of wine." ”

The shopkeeper said, "Okay, guest officer, wait a minute." After a while, the food and drinks were served.

Lu Da picked up the chopsticks and put a large piece of beef in his mouth, and when he chewed it, the taste was not ordinary, and it was authentic yellow beef when he ate it. Taking another sip of wine is also very different, Lu Da divided the wine and meat on the table by two, eating and drinking.

Lu Dadian came out, walking aimlessly along the street, and suddenly felt as if someone was following him behind, he was afraid that he was misjudged, so he deliberately took a few steps in a hurry, and slowed down, he found that the three behind him were also fast, and the three people behind him were also slow, oh it was really coming for himself.

Lu Da can come if he wants to, he is just full of food and uncomfortable, and it is good to take these guys to move their hands and feet. Thinking of this, Lu Da deliberately walked towards a remote alley, and the three guys hurriedly followed.

After entering the alley, the three guys quickened their pace and caught up, surrounded Lu Da on three sides, and a strong man led by him said: "Acquaintance hand over the silver." ”

Ha, I met a robber.

Lu Da took a closer look, weren't these three guys the ones at the next table when he was eating just now. It must have been when they checked out the bill, revealing the silver, and they were eyeing themselves.

Lu Dajiang leaned his back against the wall, reached out and patted the burden on his back and said, "The silver is here, I have the ability to come and get it myself." ”

As soon as the strong man led by him opened his mouth, a sharp-beaked monkey cheek man stepped forward and reached out to grab the burden on Lu Da's shoulder, Lu Da turned sideways, and hit the man's chin with an uppercut, and the guy fell to the ground on his back.

The strong man at the head saw that the opponent was so good, and shouted: "Go!" At the same time as the yellow-haired accomplice, he flashed his knife and rushed up left and right.

Lu Da took a big step to the left, let go of the yellow hair, stretched out his hand and grabbed the strong man's chest with the knife, and broke it fiercely, the strong man screamed, the knife fell to the ground, and then lifted his knees, and the guy covered his crotch with both hands and fell to the ground and rolled.

Huang Mao saw that things were not good, so he turned around and ran, and Lu shouted loudly: "Stop." The guy just ran out of two steps, his legs bent and knelt on the ground, his head was like pouring garlic, and he begged for mercy while shouting: "The hero spares his life, the villain deserves to die, the villain has eyes and does not know Mount Tai." ”

At this time, the two guys who fell to the ground also crawled over and said, "The good man spares his life." A good man spares his life. ”

Lu Da gently flicked the soil on his body and smiled slightly: "Fortunately, you didn't hurt me, the strong man led by him said: "Thank you for raising your noble hand, the heroes will follow you in the future." ”

Lu Dadao: "What's the name of the three of you?" ”

The strong man said: "My name is Xue Yong, everyone calls me a sick worm when they see me grow up, this thin and villainous apprentice is called Gibbon Hou Jian, and the yellow-haired one is called Golden Retriever Duan Jingzhu." ”

At this time, the servant was saying again: Hero, just accept us. It's not bad for Lu Da to take a few younger brothers to play, but he is lonely and lonely, so he said: "Okay! ”

The servant said happily: "Thank you, big brother." ”

A few people were talking, when suddenly there was a gong sound, and then someone shouted: "Recruit, recruit, the capital eunuch has recruited." ”

Lu Da looked at the servants and said, "Let's go, take a look." ”

There is a tall archway at the east end of the street, and two big characters are written on the top of the archway: Wuguan. The upper couplet reads: Xiongguan is like iron and listens to the wind howling, and the lower couplet reads: Erlang Zhiyong is safe for the people. Under the archway, there is a large Song Dynasty military flag, and a big child character is written on it.

Beneath the banner was a large long table, behind which several soldiers armed with knives and guns occupied a clerk, on which was a book that looked like a roster, and was shouting: "Be a soldier and eat food, be a soldier and eat food." But after shouting for a while, no one signed up.

Lu Da's heart moved, and he said to the three brothers he had just met: "I'll sign up for the army, whether you go or not." ”

The three said: "We listen to the eldest brother." ”

Lu Da separated the crowd and walked over and said, "We want to join the army." ”

The clerk was very happy when he saw that someone had come to sign up, and said, "Okay, young man, what is your name, and what is the name of the person there?" ”

Lu Dadao: "Sir, my name is Lu Da, a native of Luzhou." Then Xue Yong, Hou Jian, and Duan Jingzhu also registered, and as soon as the onlookers saw that someone had signed up, many people also stepped forward, and after a while, fifteen middle-aged men were recruited.

The clerk looked very happy, stood up, patted Lu Da on the shoulder with his hand, and said: "Young man, thank you for taking a good lead, otherwise I don't know when this soldier will be recruited. ”

Lu Da saw that no one was paying attention, took out five taels of silver from his pocket, quietly stuffed it into the clerk's hand, clenched his fists and said, "Then I will thank the chief here." ”

The clerk held the silver in his hand, and said with a smile: "It's easy to say." ”

Seeing that it was getting late, the clerk told the captain of the first life squad to bring the whole team of fifteen recruits back to the barracks. The so-called camp was built under the city pass with two long wooden huts, and seven or eight beds were placed in each room, on which simple luggage was placed. Lu Da entered the room, picked a bed by the window and put it on heavily, after a day of running really felt a little tired, he closed his eyes, and lay there in a daze.

After a while, I heard someone shouting, "New brothers, it's time to eat." ”

The first meal on the first day of being a soldier was really good, pork stewed cabbage, and some small pickles to accompany the meal, and the staple food was white flour flatbread. After tossing for a long time, Lu Da really felt hungry, he ate two large bowls of pork stewed cabbage and four large cakes in a row, and did not put down his rice bowl until his belly was round.

Looking at the other dozen or so recruits, they were all similar to him, eating with their mouths full of oil and sweating profusely.

The gibbon Hou Jian said while eating: "It's so fragrant, it's so fragrant, it's been a long time since I've eaten such a fragrant meal." ”

The remnant sun, the wind, the yellow sand.

In this vast land, there is a team first, and this is the team where Lu Da is.

I have been a soldier for more than three years, and today is the first time I have gone out of the customs to carry out a mission.

Lu Da's task is to be responsible for escorting the twelve carts of grain and grass back to Wuguan.

Early this morning, Lu Da and his two teams of 30 people, under the leadership of a ti shi, walked on the rugged mountain road from Hua'an Zhou with grain and grass. After a whole day's march, they had come to Jiagou, which was only twenty miles away from their garrison, and if they had hastened, they would have been able to get back to their garrison before dark.

Sandwich ditch, as the name suggests, is two mountains sandwiched by a ditch. As they were approaching the station, the strings in everyone's minds were relaxed along the way, and although the magistrate was reminding, everyone's spirit was still relaxed. The convoy, the people and horses soon entered the bottom of the ditch, along the bottom of the ditch a wave of the road forward, suddenly walking in front of the five soldiers, found that in the middle of the mountain road put two chests painted with gold and phoenixes, everyone stopped, Ti Ha saw that the front stopped, hurriedly hit the horse over and asked, "Why did you stop?" ”

The soldier reported: "Tihath, two chests have been found in the middle of the road. ”

Tihar stepped forward, raised his foot and kicked the box, and ordered without thinking: "Open it and see, there is something inside." ”

The two soldiers stepped up in response, smashed the lock on the box with the knife in their hands, opened the box, and a dozen pigeons flew out of the box. It was only then that Tihar reacted and shouted, "It's not good, there is an enemy." Before he could finish speaking, he heard the sound of horns from the top of the mountain, followed by a rain of arrows, and the soldiers were shot down a dozen at once, and the rest hid under the grain and grass carts.

On the slopes on both sides, more than a hundred or so Tangut people rushed down, holding cold and shining scimitars in their hands, screaming and rushing towards the grain and grass carts. Tiha shouted, "The brethren have fought hard. Wielding the broadsword in his hand, he led the surviving brethren to meet him.

The sad wind is low, and the war horse neighses.

Halberds collide and swords collide.

A sword light, a sword shadow.

Stir up a stream of blood light, and one by one the fresh lives passed away in a blink of an eye.

The cries of the murderers, the screams of the slain, echoed in this eternal wilderness.

Lu Da and more than a dozen of their brothers, under the leadership of Tiha, gritted their teeth and tore apart with the troops of more than 300 Western Xia kings, and the brothers around him fell one by one, when Lu Da used his last strength, raised the iron gun in his hand and smashed the head of a Western Xia centurion, his tall body fell down violently......