The sky was completely dark, Li Xin was sitting at the desk to deal with the official documents accumulated throughout the day, Lu Jiu had nothing to do, so he moved a round stool and sat in front of the brazier to keep warm, and for a while the room was so quiet that even the needle fell on the ground and could be heard clearly. Suddenly, a soldier came to report that an unidentified horse team had entered the customs through the border wall of Baiyangkou, and the direction of movement was unknown.

This is not the first time this has happened, and it is not uncommon for ringing horses to roam inside and outside the border walls, plundering herders and robbing merchants. At first, they were nervously preparing for war after receiving the report, but after a long time, they found that no one would attack the acropolis, which had little oil and water.

Lu Jiu believed that he asked for some details, and the soldier replied one by one, but he didn't see anything abnormal, and just wanted him to retreat. The soldier seemed to remember something again, patted his head and said, "The brothers seem to have discovered Lord Zeng's guards." ”

Li Xin's head was stunned, and he dared to go out of the city? Just when he was suspicious, there was really a spy who came to report, and he dared to go out of the city and go straight to the wolf's mouth, and the scout followed him for several miles to confirm the direction of their march.

Lu Jiu saw that Li Xin had stopped the pen in his hand, and he actually pondered. Tentatively asked, "Is there anything wrong?" I once experienced that I was not afraid of death and was willing to go out of the city, so I let him go, what should we do with him? ”

Li Xin waved his hand to signal Lu Jiu not to speak, and he suddenly felt as if he had grasped some clue, but he didn't know the point. After pondering for a while, he slammed the table, "That Qian Tai, didn't you say that he went out of the city in a hurry in the afternoon, and now he is back?" He pointed to Lu Jiu and asked suddenly.

Lu Jiu was so frightened by Li Xin that he stood up from the round bench, his people did see Qian Tai leaving the city, and it seemed that he had met Zeng Dare before this. And until now, the residence where Qian Tai was only separated by a wall from Li Xin's courtyard was still dark.

"It looks like I won't be able to come back tonight, so I said I went to the right thousand households."

Li Xin only felt that his eyes suddenly opened up, and several seemingly unrelated people and things were strung together, which made him suddenly have an ominous premonition.

"It's not good, gather people and horses, and Lu Jiu reacted quickly when I went out of the city, and immediately noticed the strangeness in it, "How?" Could it be that the horse team outside the gate is aimed at what it has experienced? How did they get involved again? ”

Li Xin said coldly:

"They don't, but Gu Tong may have!" As a local snake, it is not strange for Gu Tong to hook up with the ringing horse.

If all the assumptions are true, the situation in Zhenwei will deteriorate further.

Li Xin secretly hated bad things, once he tore his face, he dared to have an inextricable relationship with him, and the opposition forces in the General Military Mansion and the Wei Division were Gu Tong's Zuo Qianhu, and if he couldn't say it, he would fight to the death, and the casualties and losses would be inevitable at that time, which was not what he was happy to see. What's more, violent resolution of internal disputes, although simple and effective, will plant the seeds of hatred in people's hearts, and he has already planned a more gentle way to eat away at the power in Gu Tong's hands little by little.

Now that Zeng Dare is secretly acting on his own in private, seeing that a qiē plan is about to go down the drain, how can he not worry Li Xin?

Li Xin called Lu Jiu to inquire about the news of Gu Tong, and after some confirmation, Gu Tong did leave Zuoqianhu with some of his cronies at noon, but his whereabouts were unknown.

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Now Zeng Dang is no longer the little Xiucai who only knows how to read, Gao Yang was displaced after the First World War, he took thousands of displaced people to drift straight to the Jinghai by the Wei River, and the wind and Lang were extremely dangerous along the way, fortunately every time the danger was saved. These experiences finally changed this reckless and direct little show, and it was this night that he could march fearlessly in the dark with hundreds of escorts.

Zeng Dare still has a little pride in his heart, Li Xin, Li Xin, don't look at you in the limelight in the first battle of Gaoyang and Jingshi City, but how can you be afraid when you reach this northwest border? Can a mere Gu Tong be ruthless over a Tartar? Why bother with it, just cut through the mess quickly. If he had been beheaded in the Acropolis that day, the entire town guard would have been under his command for a long time, and no one would dare to oppose him, so why would he risk the cold and danger to set up an ambush here tonight?

But that's okay, if Li Xin wants to make a difference, he will definitely not be able to get around himself!

Out of the need to hide their whereabouts, all the guards carried torches with them, but they did not light them, but moved forward in the dark.

According to Shi Datuo's information, Gu Tong will pass through the wild wolf's mouth early tomorrow morning, and this wolf's mouth is in the shape of a shuttle between the two mountains, with two narrow ends and a wide middle, which is a good ambush location.

After coming to Zhenyuwei, he dared to ask for the map of this hundred miles from the Weisi Yamen, and he had read it many times, and he was already familiar with it. As soon as Shi Datuo proposed that Gu Tong was going to go to the Houqianhu Office, he immediately concluded that the wolf's mouth was a necessary place, and if Gu Tong didn't go here, I am afraid that he would have to cross six more mountain beams, and I am afraid that it would take more than two days to go back and forth.

Soon, there were guards in front to report that it was less than three miles away from the wolf's mouth, should they settle on the spot outside the mouth, or should they enter the valley mouth and then decide?

After all, the field of vision outside the valley is broad, and the guards can easily expose the target by lighting a fire to keep warm, but it is different when entering the valley, as long as they hold the two ends, let the world turn upside down, and the people outside will not want to see the slightest trace.

"Enter the valley and set up camp, and rest the whole army!"

Although Zeng dared to be a civilian official, he had the experience of commanding a large army of displaced people before, and he was full of confidence in commanding hundreds of people. The guards let out a low cheer, after all, these people are all old soldiers from the capital, and they have never fought in a big battle on weekdays, so they are really a little unbearable for this kind of rapid march in the dark and cold.

When the guards have hope, they have motivation. The road of the wild wolf's mouth is not easy to walk, it belongs to the undulating terrain, just entering the valley mouth is a downhill road, and going out for about a mile is a section of uphill road.

This time the downhill broke through the uphill slope and squeezed out the last bit of the guards' body, and after driving into the valley, they were tired one by one. Zeng Dare also knew that the road was in a hurry tonight, so he ordered to rest for a while.

After receiving the order, the guards collapsed to the ground like mud, enjoying a rare relaxation, even if it was in the bitter cold of the wild snow, they were still comfortable and never wanted to get up.

With a sudden sound of beeping, dark red blood suddenly burst out from the chest of one of the guards, reflecting the torch that had just been lit, and a long arrow was nailed to the chest. A living man died on the spot, never to get up.

Zeng dared to be the first to react, the secret passage is not good, there is an ambush. In the face of such a crisis, how can he be allowed to do what he thinks again, there are only two roads in front of him. One is to retreat immediately, and the other is to organize a defensive counterattack.

But the terrain of the wolf's mouth is very clear to him before, and it is almost impossible to defend and counterattack, and he wants to escape? Since people have made it clear that the car is ambushed here, how can they let you leave lightly?

After the sound of the arrow, the feather arrows with fire were thrown into the ranks of the guards like rain, and many people were caught off guard by the arrows, and the ignition on the rockets was obviously soaked in fire oil...... But in the blink of an eye, the guards were in disarray, scurrying wildly, dodging the rain of feathered arrows in the darkness, while the ones on fire were struggling to roll on the snowy mountains, trying to extinguish the fire......

In the midst of lightning and fire, Zeng Dare had already made a decision, and retreating could only die worse. The only way to do this is to defend on the spot. So he shouted: "Don't panic, everyone, follow this official, find a shelter and find an opportunity to fight back!" ”

It is said that he will be a soldier, and he once dared to be a civil official, but when he encountered a catastrophe of life and death, he could still be so calm, which is not easy. The guards who were in turmoil calmed down after hearing Zeng Dare's words.

Everyone followed Zeng Dare to run to the foot of the mountain on the edge of the valley, and more than a dozen people were still shot and fell to the ground. Obviously, the sneak attackers did not continue to fight in the valley, perhaps they had to wait until they were exhausted from the torture of their prey before resorting to their final killing moves.

Fortunately, the terrain in the valley was not smooth, so Zeng Dare finally led some of his people to hide in a lowland depression, and the rest of the guards also looked for a place to hide their bodies. The feather arrow was fired for a while, and then the speed gradually slowed down.

Zeng dared to hide behind a bulge and shouted: "We are the official army of the Ming Dynasty, and we have military affairs passing by here." If it's a misunderstanding, please stay out of the way, otherwise you will attack the Ming official army, and you won't be afraid that the three guards will kill you? ”

These words were both soft and hard, which not only gave the other party a step, but also did not fall into the prestige of the Ming government. Unbeknownst to him, the response was an even more violent rain of arrows, and the guards had already extinguished their torches, and only a series of screams were heard in the darkness.

There was no scream, and Zeng Dare's heart trembled. At this moment, Zeng Dare was already cold from the inside out, and his heart gradually sank. Since they responded with a rain of arrows, it shows that this is not a misunderstanding, and they are not afraid of the retaliation of the Ming official army! He regretted his rash actions tonight a little, and hated Sta Tuo even more. Even a fool can guess that it must be that Shi Datuo colluded with Gu Tong to plot against him.

Zeng Da never imagined that Gu Tong was so bold that he dared to assassinate the imperial court officials. However, it is useless to regret it at this point, with the hundreds of guards around him, it may be even more difficult to escape, and an unprecedented despair arises. He couldn't help but let out a long sigh in his heart, thinking that he was full of ambition to serve the country, and he wanted to come to the northwest border town to show his strength and serve the country.

But when he heard it, the sound of crying and screaming converged, and the guards kept asking in his ears for instructions, what to do next, Zeng Dare was dumbfounded, as if the world had nothing to do with him......