In 183 A.D., in the fifth year of Han Guanghe, after the official start of the World Conference on December 2, Liu Tai swore in the Tiantai in the middle of Huacheng District the next day, hundreds of thousands of troops, and embarked on a new journey again, but the difference is that the first two times were active attacks, and this time it was indeed a defensive battle, a battle with a large number of two million troops on both sides!

A day later, the county guard of Shanggu County is Baotou, and there are only 30,000 elite iron cavalry in Shanggu County, as we all know, the iron cavalry is not suitable for defense, so the cavalry is not arranged on the Great Wall defense line, and now the defenders on the Great Wall defense line are all border troops, the number is about 5,000, and they are stationed on the Great Wall defense line in the north of Shanggu all the year round, which can be regarded as veterans.

Shanggu is located in the north, in today's December can be said to be dripping into frost, very cold, the temperature is about minus seven or eight degrees, but because of the preferential treatment of the sergeants in the north, the soldiers will not be frozen, every time the guard changes, the defenders can go to the warm barracks tent, enjoy the rare comfort.

But now it is impossible, because Liu Tai's urgent report has already been sent to Baotou, Baotou is a native of Shanggu, and the iron cavalry under his command is also very heroic, although there is no culture, but with a courage, in the northern Xinjiang military circles, it has also made a lot of fame, and is laughed at as the iron head bag, and there is a meaning of fighting regardless of life and death.

Today, Baotou did not have the grinning smiles of the sergeants, and he walked on the Great Wall defense line early in the morning to inspect, if someone observes carefully, you can see that behind the Great Wall defense line, the number of tents in the original military camp is six or seven times more, and there is the neighing of horses everywhere.

"General, is this Xianbei person crazy, in this cold day, he actually raised troops to go south, did Murong Feng hit his head with tofu, or what?" Baotou's lieutenant stood beside Baotou with a depressed face, stroked the frost on his eyebrows and asked.

Baotou's face was tense, he glanced at the adjutant general and said: "Don't talk nonsense, this is the lord's military order, whether Xianbei comes or not, we just need to do what we do within our duties." ”

The deputy general saw the expression of who owed him millions of dollars in Baotou, pursed his lips, sighed helplessly and said: "It's all to blame for this damn Xianbei, he doesn't even let people live a good year, hey, the lord is also tired, he has been marching south and north for the Han Dynasty all the year round, as a royal nobleman, but he can't rest in peace for a moment, those scholars and doctors still poke the backbone of the lord in the back every day, and look at it with humility, it's simply the opposite, who is not the emperor?" ”

"Shut up!!" Baotou turned around and shouted at the deputy general, and said angrily: "You are a flute goods, if you talk nonsense behind Lao Tzu's back, Lao Tzu will let you go home and drink ** today, you are full, can you gossip?" ”

When the deputy general saw that Baotou was not joking, he smiled brightly and covered his mouth, indicating that he was no longer talking nonsense.

In fact, the deputy general is not afraid of Baotou, because the deputy is Baotou's brother-in-law, of course, it is not Baotou's fake public and private, the reason why the deputy general can be a deputy general is because the deputy himself has enough ability.

Glancing at the deputy general's expression, Baotou turned his head solemnly, came to the city wall on the backrest, touched the cold city wall in his hand, looked at the north with his eyes, and said thoughtfully: "Third son, it's not that my brother-in-law has the heart to scold you, this time the five clans alliance army is not a joke, even if I can win in the north, it will be a tragic victory, how many brothers will be buried in this land at that time?" Does your brother-in-law have the heart to joke with you? Hey"

Hearing Baotou's sigh, the deputy general was a little sad, stepped forward and stood behind Baotou and said: "Brother-in-law, the lord is invincible, invincible since he was born, and he has been invincible and invincible. Did brother-in-law forget? In several major battles, under the leadership of the lord, how many men and horses did our army lose? ”

"Huh?" Baotou glanced at the deputy general, his expression was heavy, he nodded slightly and said, "Maybe, I hope that at this time in the coming year, most of the brothers are still there."

"Report to the general, Jinyiwei has sent an order!" A pawn ran quickly up the Great Wall and shouted at Baotou, who was still standing there looking at the north in a daze.

"Transmit, no, this general will personally pick up the Jinyi Wei herald, the identity in northern Xinjiang is Liu Tai's speaker, and his status is very high, although Baotou is high and powerful, and it can even be said that he is a feudal official, but he definitely does not dare to snub the herald.

"Wang Chen, the envoy of the lowly Jinyi Guard, has seen the general!" A brocade guard dressed in a flying fish suit, wearing a belt around his waist and a crown and hat, which can be said to be a peculiar dress in the Han Dynasty, walked up to the city under the guidance of the scholars, bowed to Baotou and shouted. (The dress of the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei, well, but I didn't understand that Jinyiwei had so many cumbersome work, and now the tiger group members who are responsible for secretly monitoring officials in northern Xinjiang, Jinyiwei is only responsible for passing orders and guarding the Shenhou Mansion) "The king ordered the envoy to be exempted, I don't know what instructions the Shenhou has to order the envoy to come and convey?" Baotou didn't have the slightest general's shelf, and arched his hand to the herald Wang Chen and said.

Wang Chen shook his head, took out a superstitious letter from his bosom and handed it to Baotou and said, "This is a letter from the lord who asked him to hand over his humble post to the general, please check it out for yourself." ”

"Huh?" Baotou nodded suspiciously, then opened the secret letter, left the crowd and walked towards the city wall, trying not to let people see the content of the secret letter.

In fact, the content of the secret letter is very simple, that is, Baotou led the cavalry to leave the defense line of the Great Wall, stationed in an ambush in a forest outside the Great Wall, and waited for Liu Tai's military order, and the defense of the Great Wall of Shanggu County was temporarily handed over to Wang Chen.

"Has the general finished reading?" Seeing Baotou put away the letter, Wang Chen, who had been standing there, asked.

Baotou secretly glanced at Wang Chen in disbelief, and after finding that Wang Chen was not suspicious, he nodded and said, "The lord's arrangement, does the envoy know?" ”

Wang Chen frowned, shook his head, and said out loud with a puzzled look: "Although I am a herald, I am not qualified to check the letter, how can I know the content of the secret letter?" ”

"En" Baotou nodded, knowing that Wang Chen's words were true, but the question was, how could Liu Tai let Baotou hand over the defense of the Great Wall to Wang Chen, and what was outstanding about Wang Chen? It's a crisis here now, what if Baotou just led the army to leave, and the Xianbei 400,000 army arrived? How long can the 5,000 frontier troops on the defense line of the Great Wall hold on? Baotou is a little uncertain, the current situation is that the slightest mistake cannot happen, even if the military order is disobeyed!

"If the general has no doubts, his subordinates will retire first, and then go back to report to the gods." Wang Chen frowned suspiciously when he saw Baotou's strange demeanor, and then arched his hand and said.

"Okay, huh? No, no, there is a task for the secret letter. Baotou saw that Wang Chen was about to leave, he didn't come back to his senses for a while, touched his nose with a wry smile, and said to the pawn and deputy general beside him: "Wait a minute, this general has a secret matter to talk to the envoy." ”

"No!!" When the lieutenant general and the pawns heard the Baotou military order, they did not have the slightest feeling, and after bowing their hands, they retreated directly.

"What does the general mean by this?" Wang Chen frowned, he really couldn't understand what Baotou meant, although there was no rule in the Jinyi Guard that the envoy could not talk to the person receiving the order, but he always had to avoid suspicion? What should I do if someone misunderstands that the person receiving the order bribes the order?

"Dare to ask the envoy, where is the lord's army now?" Baotou shook his head, and said out loud that he didn't answer the right question, still holding the secret letter in his hand, and his expression was a little hesitant.

Although Wang Chen didn't understand what Baotou meant, he still frowned and replied: "General Qiyu, the Chinese army commanded by Shenhou should have passed the county seat of Jusu in the south of Shanggu County, and the forward troops of the two generals Zhang Fei and Xu Chu should have passed the county of Xialuo, and there are still about fifty or sixty miles away from the county seat of Guangning. ”

Guangning is where the Baotou army is stationed, that is to say, Zhang Fei and Xu Chu's 30,000 Jinyi guards have already passed the county seat, and they can reach the Great Wall defense line and Baotou back to the division in the early morning of tomorrow at the latest, but the problem is that since they can return to the division so soon, why do they need Baotou to leave the Great Wall defense line and rush to a forest sea ambush in front?

"Okay, this general can't disobey the military order, the lord means that the last general will hand over the defense of Guangning County to the order envoy, and the commander is sure that before the two generals Zhang Fei and Xu Chu arrive, the defense line of the Guangning Great Wall is foolproof?" Baotou nodded, although there were some doubts in his heart, but it could also be explained, at least Baotou believed that within a day, the Guangning defense line would definitely not be lost, and there was no problem with the secret letter that Liu Tai asked Wang Chen to hand over, and the code words and seal letters on it were all real. ”

"Huh?" Wang Chen opened his mouth in a daze, his face was full of incredulity, since the establishment of Jinyiwei, no one has taken over the border defense, although Wang Chen is still confident in his ability, but after all, he has never been in charge of the army, and he was naturally shocked by Baotou's words.

The personnel of the Jinyi Guard are all selected from the most elite soldiers in the Erzhou army, and it can be said that every Jinyi Guard is an ace sergeant, although he is not proficient in everything, but he is definitely worthy of the four words of the ace elite soldier.

"Wang Ling's envoy, this is the general's Taishou seal letter, with this seal in hand, the king order envoy can mobilize 5,000 border troops and 3,000 county soldiers in Shanggu." Baotou saw Wang Chen's stunned look, shook his head with a wry smile, took out a piece of Taishou private seal from his arms and handed it to Wang Chen, who was still stunned, and said.

The Taishou seal letter is divided into positive seal and private seal, the positive seal is generally kept in the county government, and the private seal is carried around, nominally the positive seal is more authoritative than the private seal.

But in fact, in private, the private seal is the only seal that can mobilize the border army and the county soldiers in the county, the production pattern of the private seal, are too shou own ideas, it is engraved on the page, handed over to the Ministry of Industry to make, of course, the Ministry of Industry will burn the special symbols, and then in the dispatch of the border army guards, county officials to check, officials can not privately announce the pattern of the private seal of the Taishou, otherwise the crime is the same as the enemy, and the private seal is generally kept on the body of the Taishou for safekeeping, there will be no fake, and the positive seal is too ordinary, easy to imitate, and easy to steal.

I took the letter and turned it over to see that there was a grinning pig embroidered on it, and on top of the pig was a big bald head with a spear in his hand...

Seeing Yinxin's appearance, Wang Chen's eyes were indescribably weird, he glanced at the red-faced Baotou, wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, although Yinxin could design it himself, but it couldn't be so vulgar!

Baotou felt Wang Chen's gaze, and the corners of his mouth cracked, he really wanted to cry without tears, does Baotou like this pattern? I obviously don't like it, but this pattern was drawn by Baotou's favorite lady, who is a southerner

(To be continued)