"Yes." Mai Tiezhu replied in a loud voice, "General, simply let a certain person go to Luyang Pass to welcome His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in person." ”

"It's okay, you take two regiments of men and horses, General Qian and General Meng go together, Luyang Pass is very important, I'm worried that Yang Xiu will send troops to rob it." Guo Zhen thought about it, and finally felt that it was better to send an additional 500 people.

"Yes." Qian Shixiong and Meng Jincha answered loudly together when they heard the order, and then the three of them strode down the city tower together.

At the foot of the city tower, Mai Tiezhu said to the two of them, "Hurry up and gather the two groups of people, let's rush to Luyang Pass, go to guard the pass, and welcome the prince." ”

Luyang Pass is in a north-south fracture canyon between Lushan and Nanzhao, known as the head of the Great Wall of 100 passes, since ancient times it is the ancient road of carriages and horses, and because the folk have the legend that the crow led the way to Guò Luyang Pass for Liu Xiu three times, and has the name of Sanya Road. This pass is an important passage for carriages and horses, and it is an important road from Bashu and Jinghu Lake to Luoyang.

"Yang Xiu has already left the martial arts pass and is approaching, shouldn't we stay in Nanyang City at this time and guard the city?" Qian Shixiong asked suspiciously.

"As far as you know." Mai Tiezhu snorted, "There are only 5,000 soldiers in Nanyang City, but do you know how many soldiers Yang Xiu brought here?" We will definitely not be able to hold Nanyang City alone, and since this is the case, we will have to count on the crown prince's soldiers and horses to help. If Yang Xiu sends troops to rob Luyang Pass, we will be isolated and helpless, and it will be a dead end. Now divide the troops to hold Luyang Pass, General Guo will not be a problem to hold the city for a few days, as long as the prince's soldiers arrive, we will have no worries. Go and gather the troops, we need to set off at once. ”

Qian Shixiong nodded hurriedly, "Yes." "Turn back. found that Meng Jincha had already left one step earlier to gather soldiers and horses, and hurriedly caught up at the moment.

The three of them quickly formed a team under the city. Two regiments of 1,000 soldiers and horses, after counting. Immediately march out of the north gate.

A thousand soldiers and horses were infantry, without horses, and had only a hundred mules to carry food and some equipment. The journey of nearly 300 miles will take about two days, even if it is a rapid march. And Wuguan is only five hundred miles away from Nanyang City. Although Wuguan is farther away from Luyang Pass, Yang Xiu must have cavalry, if he sends elite cavalry to Luyang. Maybe they'll be late.

Qian Shixiong said to Mai Tiecane with a smile on the road, "The prince will definitely send the forward cavalry to the south first, the prince has the most cavalry, it is said that their cavalry is one person and three horses, and even ordinary infantry soldiers also have horses, not ordinary dwarf horses, but a big horse stuffed with water." Even if it is a march on the main road, there is a big carriage to sit on. It's really luxurious. Look at us, a thousand horses, except for a few officers who have horses, the rest have to rely on two soles. Three hundred miles, how about we march a hundred miles a day? ”

Mai Tiezhu was not so relaxed, and said in a deep voice. "We can't put our hopes in anyone else, if the Prince's striker doesn't arrive in time. If Yang Xiu's soldiers and horses robbed Luyang Pass because of this, do you know how strict the consequences will be? Fighting a war is not child's play. We have to be careful. 300 miles, must be arrived within two days. We now have only 1,000 men and horses, and a hundred mules to carry heavy loads, and we are walking on the plain road, and it is normal to walk 120 to 150 miles a day. We are not marching in a large army, carrying a large amount of grain and grass, why do we still require us to only walk 100 miles a day? Don't just be greedy for that little ease, have you ever thought about what will happen if we are caught up by Yang Xiu's soldiers and horses on the way? If we encounter enemy cavalry on such a plain, even if there are two or three hundred horsemen, we will die without a place to bury. Therefore, no matter what the purpose, we should rush to Luyang Pass as much as possible. ”

"Well, I think you're all too worried, and I want me to say that there's nothing to worry about in this battle. As soon as the prince's soldiers and horses arrive, I dare to say that the Guanzhong army will collapse immediately. Yang Xiu is just a dying struggle now, but what flowers can he struggle for. Today, the crown prince is deeply popular among the people, and Yang Xiu is killing the king and usurping the throne, all kinds of unpopular, besides, the crown prince already owns most of the world, and Yang Xiu is just guarding a little place in Guanzhong. Besides, the crown prince commands the army to fight, have you ever heard of a time when you lose? Even Yang Su has already returned to the imperial court, and Yang Xiu is still fighting. Meng Jincha shook his head with a big grin and said nonchalantly.

Mai Tiezhu suddenly had a feeling that he couldn't refute it, which reminded him of Nan Chen back then. Ten years ago, the Sui sent troops to attack Nan Chen, at that time Nan Chen also thought that this was just another north-south exchange, in the end, Nan Chen will rely on the Yangtze River moat to block the attack of the Sui people, as a result, no one expected that the Sui Dynasty actually took only a short time to break through the capital Jiankang, and the entire Jiangdong surrendered one after another, and directly collapsed and perished. Mai Tiezhu is a native of Shixing, Jiangnan, and used to wear umbrellas in his early years. Because of his courage and strength, he can travel 500 miles a day, can run to catch up with galloping horses, is rough and debauched and good at drinking, likes to make friends and values faithfulness, usually makes a living by fishing and hunting, and does not own industry. The descendants partnered with others to be thieves, were arrested, and became official slaves from then on, and they gave Chen Houzhu umbrellas. Although he changed careers to work for the emperor, at that time, the wheat iron rod was still secretly running the old business. Every day after the queen of Chen retreated, he had to walk more than 100 miles, run to southern Xuzhou at night to rob and steal, and rush back to Jiankang the next morning, still holding an umbrella for the queen. After doing this for more than a dozen votes, someone recognized him and complained to Chen Houzhu, and many officials in the imperial court at that time said that they could see the wheat iron rod every morning, and they did not believe that he could run to Nanxuzhou to be a thief. As a result, Shangshu Cai Hui dug a pit, offered a reward with 100 gold, and recruited people to send an edict to the Southern Xuzhou Thorn History, but Mai Tiezhu was immediately fooled, and happily came out to respond, carrying the edict and leaving, and played it in time the next morning. As a result, the edict given by the Empress Chen to the assassin of Xuzhou actually asked him to prove that the Mai Tie Staff had arrived in Xuzhou, and then restored it to the book, and then handed it over to the Mai Tie Staff to bring back to the Hou Lord. Therefore, when the queen read the book, he knew that the wheat iron rod could indeed run, and that he was indeed the one who was a thief. However, Empress Chen did not deal with him, but after warning him, he took pity on his courage and agility, and let him go back to his hometown.

After returning to his hometown, Mai Tiezhu soon joined the Sui army, and after Chen's annihilation, Sui Yangsu suppressed the rebellion in Jiangnan. In Yang Su's army, Mai Tiecane also made many military exploits, and at that time, he was known as a brave man with another Jiangnan army. Once, Yang Su sent Mai Tiezhu to Jiangnan to reconnoitre, Mai Tiezhu wore a straw on his head, floated across the river at night, and reported back to Yang Su after figuring out all the situation of the thief camp. Later, he went to the thief camp again to spy and was caught by the thief soldiers, and the thief commander Li Ling sent thirty sergeants to escort him, tied up and prepared to give it to Gao Zhizhi. Escorted to the pavilion, the sergeants ate and rested, pitiful that he was hungry, and untied his tied hands to let him eat. Mai Tiecane grabbed the sergeant's knife, slashed the escorted sergeant until he was killed, and then cut off their noses one by one, and returned with his arms, Yang Su was very surprised. Later, he was rewarded for meritorious deeds, but there was no wheat iron rod, and Yang Su took a stagecoach back to Kyoto, and the iron rod followed Yang Su on foot, sleeping in the same store every night. Yang Su only understood the intentions of the wheat iron rod when he discovered the wheat iron staff, and specially asked Emperor Wen of Sui to give the iron rod as the third division of the ceremony. But because the wheat iron rod was illiterate, he was put back in the village. Yang Guang admired the bravery of the iron staff, and in the sixteenth year of the emperor's reign, he recruited the wheat iron rod to Yangzhou and appointed him as the general of the chariot cavalry.

Recalling most of his life, Mai Tiecane was not full of emotion. Think about the two Jiangdong generals in Yang Su's army, one came to protect the child and the other was a wheat iron cane, both of them joined the army when Sui destroyed Chen, and they were both brave and capable of fighting. But the circumstances of the two are very different, after coming to Hu'er because he is a famous family, he was quickly reused after his meritorious service, and he continued to rise, last year he was already the governor of Jianzhou, and he was crowned the prince of Yongning County, and now he heard that after being attached to the Luoyang Imperial Court, he was newly crowned as the commander of Fujian Province and commanded the military of a province. Even his sixth son came to the whole, at a young age, just because he met the prince on the road last year, saved the prince once, and then he married the prince and went north to Huai Famine together, and now he has been named a marquis and worshiped as a general, and has a marshal rank. As for himself, he made such a great contribution back then, and even because he had been a thief, he didn't even mention his work, and finally relied on Yang Su's invitation to be a loose official, and finally he was released back to his hometown because he was illiterate. Now that he comes out again, he is just a chariot general.

Originally, Yang Guang was a good lord and treated himself very well, if he hadn't been killed suddenly, maybe he would have been able to reuse it more.

Along the way, Mai Tiezhu's face was tense and his brows were furrowed.

Although he debuted for a long time, and even served the Sui Dynasty ten years ago, in fact, although he has a rugged appearance, he is only twenty-six years old this year, and he is not yet in his first place. Speaking of which, at this age, there is already a fifth-rank rank of a chariot general, which is not low. But during the time when he was idle in his hometown twice, he felt that it was difficult for him to endure that kind of leisure anymore, and what he longed for more was the battlefield, from death to death, galloping across the country, the kind of days when he was famous with swords and guns. I am not old yet, and I am not willing to be silent. Maybe this is an opportunity to follow the crown prince, cut thorns for him, charge into battle, and win a knighthood.

In his life, he has met two people who appreciate him, the first is Yang Su, and the second is Yang Guang. Now, he is full of great expectations for Yang Lin, the prince who is about to go south, and perhaps, Yang Lin can become the third person to appreciate him.

"Cheer up and march faster!" McIron Staff shouted. He really didn't find it difficult to travel a hundred and fifty miles a day. After all, this is a light march, and it is a march on the plain road, and there are mules and horses to carry the baggage. Thinking that he could go back and forth for 200 miles in one night, he had to do a few tickets to buy and sell, and he ran as fast as a horse. (To be continued......) R1292