Hua Xiuyan asked Wei Yan to reveal his identity with a word, and stood stunned on the spot.

Fan Wenlong saw it in his eyes, smiled in his heart, and secretly thought: The soldiers outside the Northern Tang Dynasty were in chaos, Hua Xiuyan dared to drive out of the city, there were many suspicious places, Zhao Jingyun was troubled by Xu Ruyu's injury and escaped, and he didn't pay much attention to Hua Xiuyan and his party. However, he had nothing to do and followed him, and accidentally discovered Xu Ruyu's hiding place.

The masters of Hulan, Nanping, Yaoguangdian and other forces probably couldn't have imagined that Xu Ruyu would first sneak back to the Northern Tang City, and then hide in the carriage that was inextricably linked to Hulan.

Xu Ruyu's wounds in his heart have not healed, and his vigilance is also heavy, Yan Lang and Hua Xiuyan are peeping around, and Fan Wenlong has no gaps to say what he means. found Zhao Jingyun and told Xu Ruyu where he was hiding.

Zhao Jingyun was cautious, and after Luo Boyuan and Mei Yingxue secretly determined that Xu Ruyu was hiding in the carriage, they decided that Fan Wenlong had no hostility here.

If Fan Wenlong was really sent by Fan Che to assassinate Xu Ruyu, he only needed to expose Xu Ruyu's identity on the spot, and Xu Ruyu could be caught in the encirclement of the Hulan warriors and him, and the biggest interest of the Fan family at this time was that Xu Ruyu died on the spot.

Although Wei Yan and the others were quite suspicious of Fan Wenlong's intentions, Zhao Jingyun insisted, and with the support of Mei Yingxue and Fang Su, they handed over Xu Ruyu's mount Qingjun to Fan Wenlong and secretly transmitted information to Xu Ruyu.

The soldiers outside the Northern Tang City were in chaos, but Hua Xiuyan was secretly followed by Hulan warriors, and the place he passed through was very easy. If it weren't for Xu Ruyu's personal decision, Zhao Jingyun would not have let Wei Yan attack the people of Huaxiu Yan and his party.

Hua Xiuyan and Yan Lang glanced at each other, and they could see the panic in each other's eyes that had not yet disappeared.

Wei Yan's cultivation may not be much higher than them, but their minds were initially controlled by Mei Yingxue's binding strength, Mei Yingxue retreated, Wei Yan took advantage of the weakness to enter, Wei Ling's momentum pressed, and the three of them were shocked a hundred times more than usual, Rui'er couldn't stand it, and spurted out a mouthful of blood to dissolve the murderous aura that invaded Ling's meridians, but there was nothing to do about the oncoming snow blade.

Hua Xiuyan looked at the corpses of the four Hulan warriors lying in the snow, and only then did she understand why they died quietly, and thought: If you insist on moving forward, I don't know how many warriors in the clan will be lost in the hands of everyone in Jiangning.

Qin Zhongshu stood there dejectedly, and at this time he could also think through the fact that Hua Xiuyan was a native of Hulan.

Hua Xiuyan smiled bitterly and said: "The future is blocked by the people of Jiangning, so we can only turn around here, from the Jingcheng passage, to Fanyang. ”

Taihang Mountain, called the big shape mountain in ancient times, named after the tall appearance, come from north to south, the mountains are stacked on top of each other, there is almost no interruption, the Taihang Mountain is the mountain of fold and fracture, the east foot is like a knife and an axe to split, it is steep and unstoppable, it is the heavenly obstacle between Jin and Hebei.

There is a deep valley in Taihang Mountain, the source of the river flows through here, from west to east, through the ridge, into the Youji Plain, the river gorge is the natural hole through the Taihang Mountain.

There are only eight places in Taihang that are called "陉", which can be connected from east to west, and are called Taihang Eight Mountains.

In the east of the North Tang Dynasty, there is the Mianhe River, a tributary of the Hutuo River, which flows out through the fault valley of the Taihang Mountain, and its pass along the river is the Jingcheng, the Jingcheng, which is ranked as the fifth of the eight Taihang and the sixth of the nine stops in the world, and is located in the Jingcheng Mountain at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, which is an important passage for the Fenshui River Valley in the west of Hebei Province, and is also an important passage to enter Zhaoyi from the Northern Tang Dynasty. The stone walls on both sides of the well are steep and narrow, a line is slightly passed, the wind is more than 100 miles, the car can not be square, the riding can not be parallel, and it is difficult to walk.

Taihang Eight Mountains, the North Three Mountains are the Flying Fox, the Military Capital, Puyang, the Seventh Flying Fox is located in the rift valley of Hengshan Cuiping Mountain, the Xun family builds the Flying Fox Fortress outside the fort mouth to guard the north entrance of the Flying Fox, from the Ulburg to the south, Cuiping Mountain is like a screen in front of the eyes, turning Xu, the mountain suddenly cracks, and the Flying Fox is here to zigzag forward. Flying Fox is north of Yanmen, Mayi, Pingcheng, is the throat of the north of Taihang, and is connected to the capital of the eighth army of Taihang in the east. Jundu Mountain is the southern branch of the Yanshan Mountain System, and the Wenyu River on the east side of Fanyang originates here, and the Jundu River is the Jundu along the river pass. Juyong Pass, an important town in Ji, is located in the military capital, and there are forty miles of ditch in the most dangerous place of the military capital, and the Fanyang Cai family builds five gates here, collectively referred to as Juyong Pass. The flying fox south is connected to the sixth Taihang thin yin, enters from the pass gate mountain gorge, takes the road between the rocks, and the road is only allowed to ride. The right wall is steep and inserts a thousand clouds, the left is hundreds of zhang of the absolute stream, there is angry turbulence under it, the name is Juma River, it is to start under the foot with clear thunder. The Bauhinia Pass, an important town in Hebei Province, controls the pass on the east side of Puyin.

Taihang North Sanshan, and called the Juyongguan Passage, if the Hulan Iron Horse enters the land of Youji from the northwest, and walks the nearest Juyongguan Passage, it only takes 300 miles to directly hit the heart of Youji in Fanyang City. However, the Cai family has been operating here for more than 100 years, and there are natural dangers of Juyong, Bauhinia, and the three passes of the inverted horse, even if the Hulan Iron Cavalry can cross the three passes of Yanmen, Ningwu, and the outer passes, but to attack the inner three passes, with five times the number of soldiers and horses, it may not be able to compete within a few years. This is the key to the power of the Cai clan to stop Hulan for a hundred years.

At this time, Xu Ruyu was almost certain that the 100,000-strong army of Hulan would bypass the Taihang North Sancheng, borrow the road from the Taihang South Wucheng, and detour back to the central and southern regions of Youji, where the defense was weak.

Xu Ruyu hid in the carriage and thought to himself: the Hulan soldiers are divided into three routes, and the south road goes straight to the north end of the river, and they will choose one of the three southern provinces, Taihang and Baicheng, and enter the southern region of Youji; The middle road will choose a passage from Jingcheng and Fukou to enter the central area of Youji; Its northern route, in the middle of the battle, will be sent from Pingcheng, from Yuguan or from Beigukou to Fanyang territory; I am afraid that in the end, there will be a last army that will directly invade the territory of Fanyang from Flying Fox, Jundu or Puyang.

As long as the army in the middle of Hulan is defeated, the big detour strategy can be broken. It's just that the Hulan Middle Route Army will exceed 100,000, and as expected, Chu Shize will be the commander of the Middle Route Army, and how can it be easily broken.

When Xu Ruyu thought of this, he couldn't help but show a desperate look on his face, and suddenly heard someone outside the car calling: "Li Sanyou." After being stunned for a long time, he suddenly realized that he was pseudonymous "Li Sanyou" at this time, lifted the curtain, looked out, and saw Hua Xiuyan say to him: "Li Gongzi, here to the north, the road is dangerous and long, we will abandon the car and ride horses, climb the mountain road, you see how it is"

Xu Ruyu saw her eyes fall on the four horses, and secretly thought: Fan Wenlong rode alone, and they didn't dare to provoke him, and the other six people only had four horses. He smiled and said: "Qin Xiaozi and Xiuyan girl ride together, I would also like to ride with Rui'er, Feng Ge'er and Yan Lao can each ride." ”

"You think it's beautiful...... Rui'er opened her lips and wanted to refuse, but Hua Xiuyan's sharp eyes stopped, and the black crystal pupils turned suddenly, and the crystal tears almost wanted to fall.

Brother Feng snorted coldly, took a step forward, arched his hand, and said: "Brother Feng doesn't know poetry and books, but he also knows that before righteousness, there is no room for pollution, Hulan people can not offend my realm, Brother Feng sacrificed his life to accompany you to Fanyang, there is nothing to do." It's just that at this moment, I quit. After that, his eyes were fixed on Qin Zhongshu and Xu Ruyu.

Xu Ruyu was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect Brother Feng to say this, hesitated for a while, and said: "Alas, if Brother Feng has a good place to go, it's just that Brother Feng is gone, Miss Xiuyan and Rui'er ride together, and the remaining three have to ride one ride each...... between the tones, but he complains that Brother Feng is bad for his plan to ride with the United States. Even when Hua Xiuyan heard this, she inevitably felt disdain in her heart, Rui'er glared at him a few times, but saw that he was quite useful, and turned away with a pale face.

Brother Feng'er was furious, glared at Xu Ruyu, sighed, looked at Qin Zhongshu fixedly, and said, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Qin Zhongshu looked at Hua Xiuyan, and then at Brother Feng, his face was ashamed and hesitant, and he stood there stunned, silent.

Brother Feng took a sip of hatred and turned around to leave. Yan Lang said: "I will give you a ride." "When he stepped forward, he asked for Feng Ge'er's hand.

Fan Wenlong had been watching from the side for a long time, seeing Xu Ruyu pretending to be a scoundrel, he barely suppressed his laughter in his heart, and saw that Yan Lang wanted to make a yin hand on Feng Ge'er, his figure flashed, and he squeezed into the two of them, and the sword pointed obliquely under Yan Lang's ribs, and laughed loudly: "Yan Lao really values affection, why don't you get close to me?" ”

Yan Lang only felt a trace of sharp cold breath piercing into his ribs like an ice pick, he was startled, dodged to avoid it, but saw Fan Wenlong squinting at himself on his shoulder.

Fan Wenlong said: "I have a battle with Luo Boyuan in Dongshan, so I might as well give Feng Ge'er a ride." Pointing to Qingjun, he said to Qin Zhongshu, "If you are not afraid that this horse will pull you off the deep gorge, I will borrow you to ride for the time being, and after tonight, I will come to look for you." With that, he stretched out his hand and put it on Feng Ge'er's shoulder, a few light verticals, and the figure was deep in the clouds.

Yan Lang smiled, glanced at Qin Zhongshu, but didn't speak, turned around to untie the bridles, took out the saddle stirrups from under the car and loaded them on the horses, and tied the bags to the backs of the four horses.

From the southeast turn of the Northern Tang Dynasty to the north, enter the Jingcheng passage, there is a cliff to go. The winding cliff between the two fortresses of the Northern Tang Dynasty and the Nanping Fort constitutes the Dongshan Canyon of the Northern Tang Dynasty, there is a village on the cliff, the name of the lord of its clan is Guo, the house is embedded between the cliffs, it is the victory of the Northern Tang Dynasty, everyone stays in Guo Village for a night, and the next day it is said that they continue to go on the road.

After Guo Village, climb over the cliff, it is the west foot of Taihang, the mountain road is more dangerous, but the scenery is particularly impressive.

The granite gneiss, sand shale and limestone in the canyon have been weathered and eroded for millions of years, forming a mountain canyon in a thousand forms, the momentum is like a rainbow, meandering, the cliffs are like cutting, and the cliffs of red sandstone are majestic and magnificent under the glow of morning and sunset.

Qin Zhongshu was depressed and emotionless, riding a green horse with his head down, only staring at a few feet in front of him.

Xu Ruyu looked at the deep ravine under his feet, and thought: If ordinary people encounter this situation, they are not panting and depressed, how dare they ride a horse over the cliff? Then he led the horse, and the man leaned against the cliff wall, and let the horse kick its hooves and walk outside. Seeing this, Rui'er's face became more and more disdainful, and she couldn't help but cry secretly when she thought that she couldn't escape the fate of marrying this person.

Resting on the way, Xu Ruyu leaned on the cliff and the stream, thinking that he still couldn't see through the attack of Chu Shize's middle route army at this time, he was depressed and puzzled, thinking of the cruelty and tyranny of the war, tormenting hundreds of millions of Li Shu, he felt in his heart, and blurted out:

"Go north to Taihang Mountain, it's difficult!

The sheep intestines are bent, and the wheels are destroyed.

The trees are gloomy, and the north wind is sad.

The bear squatted at me, and the tiger and leopard cried in the middle of the road.

There are few people in the valley, and the snow falls on He Feifei!

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 line 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 poems of the sad Dongshan make me mourn. ”

Hua Xiuyan thought: This person's character and surname are not worth mentioning, but his talent is extraordinary. sighed, and thought: If the character is commendable, it may not belong to me Hulan, but I am afraid that the third brother will not like this person.

Ruier thought to herself: But the road is dangerous, but she shouts to the sky, but I don't know why Miss only values this person?

Fan Wenlong stood between the dense forests on the mountain tops in the distance, listened to the reverberating songs between the mountains and gorges, and said: "Xu Ruyu's mind, there are few people in the world who can understand. He sighed softly and whispered, "The poem of the East Mountain makes me mourn." ”

Zhao Jingyun said movingly: "Peng Muqiu will find an opportunity to return to Jiangning with Mr. Kou. The meaning of the adult has been clear, General Fan can entrust the big thing, but General Fan's relatives are still in Yuhang, I will report to Jiangning, ask Tu Wenyong to make proper arrangements, and also ask General Fan to follow the adult, Fang Ye, General Wei, and Miss Mei can follow the trace, so that in case of accidents, I will lead the remaining 100 elites to enter the Youji from the Fukou Pass in the south. If there is no accident, I will lead a hundred people, say to travel a hundred miles, at an average speed, four days later, Zhao Yi, Fang Ye can deduce our location at any time, in case of accidents, Luo Boyuan will work harder, run between the mountains and fields, contact the two. ”

Zhao Jingyun saluted Wei Yan and asked, "General Wei, you think it's good to arrange it like this." ”

Wei Yan's rank is higher than Zhao Jingyun's, but the personnel who go north must obey the orders of the five northern county divisions, and Fang Su and Mei Yingxue are present to listen to the arrangement, Wei Yan has nothing awkward in his heart, and said in a muffled voice: "Mr. said, you are the leader here, and you will arrange it yourself." ”

Zhao Jingyun said to Fang Su again: "If Fang Ye's junior brothers and sisters are impatient to run in the mountains, they can go to Zhao Yi with us, and wait until Zhao Yi will meet Fang Ye." ”

Mei Yingxue stood beside a beautiful girl, in her twenties, in a white dress, with a green bamboo flute diagonally inserted behind her waist, smiling slightly, revealing shallow dimples, and said: "Together with my senior brother, the two junior brothers will follow General Zhao on the southern route." ”

Fang Su said with a smile: "Xuanji's talent, the teacher also has a lot of praise, follow us to the mountains, there is no hindrance." He looked at the two teenagers beside him and said, "Ge Jing and Zi Zhongnan, you follow Jingyun all the way to Zhaoyi and wait for us." ”

Zhao Jingyun said again: "Whether the Hulan Middle Route Army passes through Jingcheng or from Fukou, Zhaoyi will be the first city it attacks, Youji can't use the dangerous terrain of Shenkou to resist the enemy, only Zhaoyi City, I'm afraid that I can't stop the Hulan Iron Cavalry, if Fang Su can persuade the adults to avoid Zhaoyi City, it's better to avoid it." ”

Fang Su nodded, and understood what Zhao Jingyun meant: You can't use the dangerous terrain of the mouth to resist the enemy, and you can only prevent the Hulan soldiers and horses from entering the central part of Youji if you fight to the death with the Hulan Iron Cavalry in Zhaoyi.

Wei Yan laughed and said, "Mr. is seriously injured, if he doesn't leave, I will tie him up and go." What are you worried about? ”

Zhao Jingyun believed that Wei Yan had the courage to do this, and secretly thought: If it is then, it will only be like this, and he smiled at Fang Su and did not respond to his words.

Fan Wenlong smiled, feeling extremely relaxed in his heart.

The situation in the world is like this, Xu Ruyu's death in a different place will only cause chaos in the southeast, and it will not benefit the Fan clan at all. In the past two years, Fan Wenlong has been watching the water on the seashore to cultivate his mind, and Xu Ruyu has seen all the policies he has done in Yue County, but he doesn't know what Xu Ruyu thinks of him, and the clansmen are also detained by Fan Che in Yuhang City. The Battle of Fuzhou, Fan Wenlong was secretly ordered by Fan Che to let Yueqing out, Gongliang Xiaotian ordered the Kou soldiers to slaughter the city, although Zhang Xu arrived in time to defeat the slaughter of the Kou soldiers, but there were still thousands of innocent people who died under the knife of the Puji bandits, after the Battle of Fuzhou, Fan Che let him bear all the responsibility. But I didn't know that Xu Ruyu's cave candle was like a bright candle, and he had already seen the mystery of Yueqing's arsenal, and his heart was truly convinced.

At the beginning, Zhao Jingyun believed that he was just forced by the situation, he walked with Hua Xiuyan, Xu Ruyu and others, but Zhao Jingyun still let Mei Yingxue and Luo Boyuan stay away. When Fan Wenlong recounted the conversation with Xu Ruyu to everyone, the people in Jiangning really had nothing to do with him.

Fan Wenlong arched his hand with everyone and said, "Wenlong will go down." "Flying out of the forest, stepping on the branches and leaves of the mountains, swept towards the cliff mountain road.

Xu Ruyu squatted on the cliff rock, first saw Fan Wenlong's figure, stood up, and said with a smile: "General Fan must have made Luo Boyuan suffer enough." ”

Qin Zhongshu said: "Dare to ask General Fan, where did Brother Feng go?" ”

Fan Wenlong said: "He heard that Liu Gui recruited people in the mountain in front of the temple and went to the people's army. ”

Qin Zhongshu sighed and did not speak. Xu Ruyu looked at it and secretly thought: You may also guess that the exile army here is just a puppet controlled by people.

Although Hua Xiuyan didn't want Fan Wenlong to come back, she had nothing to do now. Fan Wenlong let Qingjun ride with Qin Zhongshu, and his hands were behind everyone. Because of Xu Ruyu's tiredness, the group walked very slowly, and only crossed the cliff in one day and one night, and passed through a narrow mountain like a screen, and a zigzag gorge appeared in front of everyone. This is the well-known principle that "the car can't be square-tracked, and the ride can't be parallel".

Xu Ruyu looked east at Cangyan Mountain. The peaks and peaks are undulating layer by layer, the precipice is precipitous, the heavy forest is lush, between the ancient trees at the foot of the mountain, the thatched hut and thatched hut, from the foot of the mountain along the stream into the mountain, the strange stones are craggy all the way, the roots of the trees are intertwined, the strange posture is strange, there are more than 360 steps of the stone road hanging to the foot of the mountain.

My father once said: Wuyue Qixiu is a mountain, and the peaks of Taihang are only Cangyan. Xu Ruyu sighed secretly: If the war is not ignited, this well is a beautiful place.

Everyone was about to turn into the Jingcheng Road, suddenly heard the horse's hooves in chaos, and looked north, but saw that the horses were crowded on the post road connecting the Jingcheng in Daiyi, and more than 100 Hulan iron horses galloped here. In the blink of an eye, more than 100 horses galloped in front of them, all of them gathered the horses, but the sound of hooves in the valley did not stop, faintly like rolling thunder, and there were tens of millions of horses galloping in the distance.

Xu Ruyu was shocked: the Hulan Striker Iron Cavalry had crossed the Yanmen Pass.

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