"This is the Yang family general of martial arts?"

On the Maquan Mountain in the west of the city, Zhong Laosi looked at a white marble tablet in front of him, which was about six feet high, and was engraved with nine big characters of "Song General Yang Liulang's refusal to guard".

The instructor of the dragoon gently stroked his beard, "I heard that Yang Liulang has been guarding the three passes for more than 20 years, and he is a model soldier of my generation......"

"What a model, Yang Liulang dares to fight hard with the Liao soldiers, I Zhong Laosi admires it, but I don't admire it if I don't fight out for more than 20 years, what Lord Chen said, the army is to attack, and any form of passive defense is not beneficial, unless it is for the ensuing counterattack."

The instructor was robbed of Zhong Laosi again, and looked at Zhong Laosi with some dissatisfaction: "Deputy Battalion Officer Zhong, this, Yang Liulang is just a general, Song Liao is fighting, it is a war between the two countries, not Yang Liulang can fight how he wants, there must be a big picture, there must be a ......"

"Alright." Zhong Laosi interrupted: "Let's not say those words today, we don't have to argue again, after worshipping Yang Liulang, let's hurry down the mountain, enter Shanxi tomorrow, and hold the last combat meeting today." ”

The instructor did not argue with Zhong Laosi, and a group of people took out beef and mutton and fruits, placed them in front of the Liulang Monument, and lit incense wax, and the instructor led the worship.

It is also the duty of the instructor to pay homage to the Chinese heroes in appropriate places, and as long as there is no urgent task, all officers and soldiers must participate in order to cultivate the sense of honor of the soldiers.

However, this mountain was two or three miles away from the camp, and Zhong Laosi thought that it was a waste of soldiers' bodies, so he only led the platoon commander and above.

After paying homage, Zhong Laosi and others prepared to go down the mountain, and walked east from the top of Maquan Mountain, and the majestic Maguan City appeared five or six miles to the east.

It is one of the three passes of the Inner Great Wall, and the Lingqiu Road crosses the Taihang Mountains along the valley of the Tang River (also known as Huangshui), and after the Guò Downhorse Pass is the Gyeonggi Plain. So it has always been a soldier to rush. As far as Guancheng is concerned, the Guancheng City of the Reverse Horse Pass is three feet high and five feet high, surrounded by water on three sides and surrounded by mountains on one side, it is not easy to take it down in ordinary times.

To the west of the Fallen Horse Pass, the peaks and peaks are like the sea, looming in the flying snowflakes. Beyond this mountain, it is the wolf smoke of Datong Mansion, perhaps they have reached the Taihang Mountain. The battlefield was approaching, but Zhong Laosi felt a little relaxed, which was different from his previous combat experience.

Zhong Laosi shook his head. Said to a few people behind him: "Put away all the flags, let the people of the trading company talk to the people guarding the customs, and no one else is allowed to go north out of the customs." In addition to the guards of the Fallen Horse Pass, they all said to everyone else that we are Henan Mao soldiers, and we can only play the banner of Dengzhou Town after leaving the customs. ”

The instructor did not interfere with Zhong Laosi's command, and only sighed, "Jiannu is next door." I don't know what these officials are doing. ”……

Pour the horse to pass the west gate, Lingqiu Road winds from the northwest mountains, and the road goes around a small circle outside the west gate, and enters the urn city gate of the west gate. Countless people who fled from Datong Mansion were blocked out of the city, filling the nearby roads, crying and asking the people in the city to open the door.

On the Ximen Urn City in the Fallen Horse Pass, Zhong Laosi met some military officials of Baoding Mansion. These people also know the importance of Gyeonggi, and if there is a mistake or omission, they will have to settle accounts after the autumn. So most of them can still defend at critical moments. But they are all officials, except for encouraging the people to defend the city, there is no other specialty, fortunately, there is a Baoding soldiers and horses to help, plus the soldiers and horses of Zhending Mansion, the defense near the Fallen Horse Pass is quite stable.

When this kind of Houjin army pressed the border, the officials of Zhending Mansion and Baoding Mansion were still more reliable than Gu'an Zhixian County, and in the face of the Dengzhou soldiers who suddenly appeared, they immediately provided five days of food and grass, hoping that this force could assist in the defense of Baoding Mansion.

"The official is Kong Wenshi, the deputy envoy of Jingjing Military Preparation Road, and the generals who come to the aid of Dengzhou Town can have the military department to pay for them." A dignified-looking official in a four-grade official uniform stood in front of him and said lukewarmly to Zhong Laosi.

A general manager of the side of the horse pass came over, this person is familiar with the trading company, he was afraid that Zhong Laosi would be reckless, and said respectfully to Zhong Laosi: "Kong Daotai is the sixty-second generation grandson of Kong Sage, the second year of the Apocalypse, he has always had a straight name, and he has served as a scholar and a clerk in the matter, and now he is the deputy envoy of Jingjing Military Garrison (true). ”

"Oh." To the surprise of the general, Zhong Laosi did not show any surprise, you must know that ordinary officials will be stunned on the spot when they hear this Confucian saint, they have only read books for many years, studied this person's words, and suddenly appeared in front of a saint's descendants, how surprised ordinary people should be.

However, Zhong Lao Sigen didn't read, he knew some common words at most, and he had heard the name of Confucius, but in the atmosphere of Dengzhou Town, even the senior officials of the court often called him by his name, and this distant Confucian sage was not so prestigious.

According to the level of the imperial court, Zhong Laosi is now on temporary duty as the general soldier of the regimental training in Dengzhou Town, and he is the commander of the Shandong Metropolitan Command, which is considered to be a member of the second grade, but this is only the second rank of the military guard system, and no one really takes it seriously.

In fact, even Zhong Laosi himself didn't know his imperial level, Liu Minyou didn't enter Beijing back then, Zhong Laosi didn't go to the fake guerrilla, Dengzhou Town has always been de-courtized, and the Military Affairs Department directly accepted the set of confessions, and didn't give Zhong Laosi at all, so Zhong Laosi didn't even know that he was still a guerrilla. It wasn't until he had to deal with others this time that the people from the Military Affairs Department found a column of remarks from the military register and dug out Zhong Laosi's official body.

Although Zhong Laosi did not approve of Guiwu cheaply, but now on other people's territory, he still saw Kong Wenshi with the following official salute, and he said directly: "Lord Kong, the military situation is urgent, we are from Henan, and we are dispatched by Zhu Daichun, the deputy chief soldier of the Dengzhou regiment training battalion, and the military department has not arrived in the army, but this is right, some soldiers and horses, after receiving the Zha Fu, they still refuse to leave, let's rush over like this, that is the real fight against the Tartars, please tell the lower officials about the situation near the Fallen Horse Pass." ”

Kong Wenshi snorted from his nostrils, obviously not very satisfied with the reckless general in front of him, first of all, the Dengzhou general did not show the slightest surprise at his identity, and seemed to have insufficient respect for the Shandong Confucian Mansion, and then there was a lack of etiquette.

However, Kong Wenshi still knew the general situation, so he was a little angry, and nodded to a guerrilla next to him, that guerrilla was from Zhendingfu. He said politely to Zhong Laosi: "Dengzhou Town is a strong army in the world, we can all be trusted, but please also ask General Zhong to think twice, some time ago, Datong was in a hurry to pass through a few batches, and they all said that there were as many as 100,000 Jiannu, and General Zhong was only a thousand, no matter how ......"

Zhong Laosi was a little impatient, he endured his temperament and arched his hand and said, "Please tell Lao Zhong quickly, a few adults." Let's decide how to fight. ”

The guerrilla finally said: "Yesterday, people from Hunyuan Prefecture and Lingqiu County fled, saying that some time ago, the Houjin soldiers gathered in Shuozhou, and the Mongols gathered in Datong to attack day and night, and there were two groups of slave soldiers in these days. I don't know whether to attack Taiyuan Mansion or enter Gyeonggi, just when all the heroes of Dengzhou Town arrived, you can help me really protect the soldiers and horses to defend the two passes of the Fallen Horse and Bauhinia, and protect the people of Beijing......"

Zhong Laosi patted the skirt armor on his legs, and laughed: "There is finally news of Tartar." Then we are going to Dengzhou Town just to drive them away, not to let them get close to the two passes, please give the order to open the door. ”

Kong Wenshi said angrily to Zhong Laosi: "This Zhong guerrilla is mixed in the city. How do you know that there is no slave in it? Once the door is opened and entered, if someone takes the opportunity to make trouble and endanger the safety of Gyeonggi, who can afford it. Just like Liaoyang, Shenyang, Tieling, Zunhua ......"

"It's not so strict. If the people don't let them stay in the gate, the west gate goes in and the east gate goes out. Each group of 200 people, a day can be over, as long as he is not in the city, he can help the city to close a single hair, Master Kong, are you not the descendant of the Confucian saint, your family Confucius saint said, 'The three armies can win the commander, the puppet can not win the ambition', let's hide as a shrinking turtle, the brave will have no ambition, the battle will be lost, let's Dengzhou Town go to the front to fight, the adults have to plan in the back, but also save the people under the city. ”……

Kong Wenshi and several Baoding officers discussed for a long time, and finally agreed to open the door and let Dengzhou Town go west, Zhong Laosi's last problem was solved, and there was no obstacle to Datong from here, except for those Houjin soldiers.

Under the watchful eyes of all the defenders of Daoma Pass, the Dengzhou cavalry of more than 1,000 people passed through the crowded group of refugees outside the city and hurried along the narrow Lingqiu Road.

"Fellow villagers of Datong Mansion, we are Henan soldiers from Lin County, the Tartars have destroyed your family, and our Henan soldiers will go to avenge you, and we have to pay for the blood debts of the Tartars." The instructors of the various ministries shouted as they walked, and the onlookers cheered in unison.

"If you have nowhere to go, you can go to Linxian Toujun Fort, we still have to recruit soldiers, and the guard also recruits tunhu, three miles southwest of Guancheng, there are our auxiliaries, everyone can go there to join the ......"

Those instructors shouted all the way, kept stopping, explaining to the homeless people on the side of the road, and soon surrounded by people, the dragoons blocked the road, and no one was allowed to return to the direction of Datong.

The homeless people listened happily, but in fact, this was also an idea of the trading company, which used the labor of the homeless people to carry grain and grass, and transported grain from various trading companies in the northern Naoli to the vicinity of Jindingfu to ensure the transportation in winter.

The city was full of people, and the defenders of the Guancheng took advantage of this opening of the door, Dengzhou Town blocked the avenue, no Tartars could rush over, and the refugees outside the city were able to enter the city in batches and escape through the Guancheng into Baoding Mansion.

Zhong Laosi's dragoons advanced northwest along the Tang River, and more than 20 sentinel horses belonging to the Thousand Headquarters were all released and reconnoitred in the direction of Lingqiu Road.

As long as there are people fleeing on the road, there are staff officers who choose some articulate inquiries, and the information they get is not accurate, but it can be determined that there is a group of Tartars attacking Lingqiu County, there are three kinds of flags: blue, yellow, and white, and several people claim to have seen it with their own eyes, but they don't remember whether there is a white edge.

They soon walked twenty miles to the Horse Station, where there were three forks in the road, one was the Lingqiu Road to Lingqiu, one was to Guangchang County, and the other was a remote path along the Xihe, a tributary of the Tang River.

Zhou Shao'er's company walked in the first position, he lightly occupied the horse post station that escaped only one post officer, Zhong Laosi came to the gate of the horse post, this post station wall is thick and the fort is high, and there is a tall platform inside, in fact, it was a frontier stronghold of the inverted horse pass when it was designed, and it was able to control the traffic artery, but now it was abandoned by the light yì, it can be seen that no matter how good the defense system is, there is no qualified army in vain.

Zhong Laosi looked around, the northwest of the horse post is open, is the Tang River and the West River impact of the plain, the northeast is the road to Guangchang.

Zhou Shao'er looked at the two roads and scratched his head a little, their intelligence base is a smear, most of the people who can escape here have actually never seen the Houjin soldiers, and many of the news they brought are spread by false rumors among the displaced people.

According to what Zhou Shao'er heard when he opened the road, there were twenty or thirty versions, the most exaggerated, it was said that Huang Taiji had arrived in Guangchang and was leading 100,000 soldiers and horses to the south.

Zhou Shao'er asked Zhong Laosi: "Let's hurry out of the customs, there is no information, this place is not easy to choose, if we want to go to Guangchang, but there is a Jiannu on Lingqiu Road, our retreat will be broken." ”

Zhong Laosi pointed to the horse post, "Bring a reserve company over, let's occupy this place first, hoard food here, and then take the first step, let's attack the Jiannu all the way to the nearby activities, and wait until we confirm the exact place where the Jiannu is active, and then we will set off." ”

Zhou Shao'er nodded, and was about to call all the companies to enter the horse post, when the horses' hooves in front of him sounded sharply, and three whistle horses ran in the direction of Lingqiu Road.