Chapter 408: A Tooth for a Tooth

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Tianmen Pass, also known as Ghost Gate Pass, is one of the three passes in Taiyuan.

After the morning fog cleared, the wind was rare and the sun was beautiful. Yi Feng straddled the horse and overlooked the Tianmen Pass. Tianmen Pass, formerly known as the Valley of Dry Candles, has been the throat of this place since ancient times. Taiyuan is the center of the northern town since ancient times, its land and mountains are surrounded on three sides, the river is blocked on one side, the terrain is dangerous, there is like Qinshu. In ancient times, there were three roads of Xiongguan, in order to prevent the invasion of foreign troubles, it is the so-called three passes of Taiyuan, Tianmen Pass, Chitang Pass, Shiling Pass three passes, of which Tianmen Pass is the first pass in the north of Taiyuan. Among these three passes, the terrain of Tianmen Pass is also the most dangerous, and Shiling Pass and Chitang Pass are the most important.

Tianmen Pass is called Tianmen because of the two mountain rounds such as the door, in the dry side of the county. Twenty miles to the north of Tianmen Pass is the Lingjing Station, and then fifty miles to the north is the Po Sao Pass, also known as the Lingjing Pass, which is the key pass for the soldiers to be garrisoned. Lingjingkou is connected together, each other is the beginning and the end, the mountain is dangerous, the river valley is deep, and it is also called the candle valley. Between the cliffs on the east side of the valley, there is a plank road, named Yang Guang Road. It was originally called sheep intestine, and later Yang Guangwei was rebuilt when the governor of the state sat in Taiyuan.

"Why did King Jin build this plank road?" Yi Feng asked Liu Wenjing on the horse's side.

Liu Wenjing knew this, and said: "When this plank road was built, it was to go to the summer road of Fenyang Palace in Weishan Mountain. This plank road is ancient, but it has long been destroyed, and later the king of Jin rebuilt, the danger of this plank road is comparable to the plank road in Shuzhong, especially the two plank roads in front of the Tianzhan and Haobopo, which are the most dangerous and dangerous. The local people have a sentence to describe the danger of this plank road, falling to the death of the raccoon and bending the cow, and the pedestrians are afraid to worry about crossing the stack. ”

At this time, Wen Yanhong Wen Dayate came immediately, he was a native of Qi County, Bingzhou. is a native of Hedong, and he is obviously more familiar with this Tianmen Pass than Liu Wenjing. He took the initiative to introduce Yi Feng: "The terrain here is dangerous. And there is a rare unique scenery, known as Tianmen snow. Compared with the snow-capped mountains in other places, this place has unique characteristics and is known as one of the eight views of Taiyuan. A gorge of thirty miles, high and deep cold, so there is a lot of snow. Compared with Liu Wenjing, she paid more attention to the military and dangerous characteristics of Tianmen Pass, but Wen Daya paid more attention to the landscape of Tianmen Pass.

Tianmen Pass is built at the foot of Tianmen Mountain, which is a hump in Taiyuan in the territory of the Qianli Luliang Mountains. Behind the hump is a large canyon formed by an ice age orogeny. Two mountains and a valley, thirty miles deep. Locally, this canyon is called Lingjinggou, and the north mouth of the canyon is Lingjingkou. The western edge of the ditch is the main body of the Luliang Mountains. Whenever it rains heavily, flash floods and floods fall from the sky and pour into the valley like a sea of mountains. The valley water urges the mountains and rocks, the water and stones roll together, and the cattle roar and thunder, which is very dangerous. Whenever the flood passes, the bluestone washed at the bottom of the valley is craggy, clear and clear as a mirror. The locals call this valley water sweeping water. After sweeping the valley water out of the gate of heaven, it passes through the cypress realm, and flows eastward into Fenshui.

Tianmen Pass stands in the north of Taiyuan, and is the throat road leading to the northwest of Shanxi Province in Taiyuan Mansion, but no one dares to come to the bottom of the valley to take risks.

Yang Guang chiseled mountain frame wood on the east wall of the canyon. After the plank road was built, the ladder stone stacks were hooked together, but the road was dangerous. One husband is a pass, and ten thousand people are not open.

The snow stopped and the sky was clear. The earth is covered with silver, and the sky is a red sun. The sun shines on the earth. Falling on the snow-capped mountains and valleys, the thick snow glows brightly.

Standing in the snow under the sun, a cold wind came from the canyon, the cold air was bone-chilling, and the water vapor that was atomized under the sun did not come and flow, and then condensed into ice, wrapped in branches, weeds, and mountain rocks, and the entire hillside and canyon gradually turned into a crystal clear ice crystal world, and the dry branches became Qiongzhi jade leaves, crystal corals.

Yi Feng only looked at the blue sky, the white clouds, the mountains were bright and bright, and there was a beautiful Tianmen snow. No wonder Wen Daya praised the scenery of this place so much, it is indeed a rare beauty.

At this moment, an eagle flew out from behind the mountain, hovering high above the mountain, as if curiously looking at the army that had suddenly appeared here.

In this beautiful scenery, there is an incomparably dangerous one, which is really a thought of heaven and a ghost.

Yi Feng watched the infinite scenery for a long time, and then waved his hand with some unfinished feelings: "Enter the customs!" ”

The team continued to move forward, but Yi Feng did not move, but there was his banner in the team that continued to move into the canyon. Liu Wenjing stood next to Yi Feng, "Be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, let the stand-in cross the valley and enter the customs first, whether it is intentional or not, we can be foolproof." Your Highness only needs to be here and sit and watch the situation. ”

Although after careful analysis, the staff group has already believed that the information sent by Tekko is very credible, since the other party is ready to do it in Tianmen Pass, instead of arranging to do it in Lingjingyi in the north of Tianmen Pass or Lingjingkou further north, it means that the other party really has no intention of directly attacking the army, after all, to attack, there is no better way to do it than in the Grand Canyon of thirty miles, whether it is to take the canyon or the plank road, it is a dangerous and dangerous terrain, and the ambush is good, and it can be used as a ten. And now that the other party has put the place of action at the south entrance of the canyon, this worry can be completely avoided. However, Liu Wenjing and others still think that they are not afraid of 10,000 in case of danger, and before they get rid of those people, it is best to replace him in the army with a stand-in, and Yi Feng will follow in the back team in disguise, so as not to be in case.

"Let's hope those guys won't let us down." Yi Feng chuckled.

"If they could really make up their minds on the fly, I don't think they would have rushed into such a plan full of loopholes." Liu Wenjing is full of confidence in this plan to lure the snake out of the hole and catch it all. This is the first important task he presided over after joining Yi Feng's command, and he is now full of energy, and he hopes that Yang Liang's subordinates will make it bigger.

"I hope it's a misunderstanding." Wen Daya shook his head and said, once the information is true, and Yang Liang's people in Tianmen Pass really make a move, then the uncle and nephew of the imperial grandson and the king of Han will be incompatible, and one of them will have to fall. Wen Daya felt that now was not the time to engage in such a fierce conflict, even if he knew the other party's plan, it was best to let out some rumors and let the other party retreat, rather than completely tearing his face and having no place to turn around, after all, the emperor's grandson was newly canonized, and now it is the time to go out of Youzhou and lead the Northern Expedition of the Eastern Route Army, but at this time he is caught in such a battle with the King of Han, what will the emperor think, what will the hundred officials think? Jingshi has just had an unsolved assassination case. Now again? I have already trapped a Jin king before, do you want to trap a Han king? Kill a thousand. Losing three hundred to himself, he very much disapproves of this kind of enemy on all sides. The practice of firing everywhere. In his opinion, the most important thing for them is to maintain the current situation, focus on balance, and stabilize the status of the imperial grandson. After all, the position of the prince's father, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, is not stable, if the grandson is too powerful here, once the emperor is dissatisfied, the current good situation will be over.

It's a pity that Yi Feng didn't listen to his opinion on this matter. Since he entered the Taisun Mansion and became a bachelor. Many times, his opinions can be followed, but at this critical time, he is completely unwilling to listen to his advice.

"To be merciful to one's enemies is to be cruel to oneself. For those poisonous snakes, if we have the chance, we have to hit him with a stick on the top of seven inches and put him to death, or else. If you don't die, you will suffer endlessly. A viper is a viper, and he will never remember your kindness in letting him go. Yi Feng didn't have a good impression of Yang Liang at all, although he now vaguely felt that the assassination case in Jingzhong was not the mastermind behind Yang Liang, but even so. This can't change Yang Liang's malice towards him. Once he has the opportunity, Yang Liang will never let go of the opportunity to attack himself, just like this time in front of him. Yang Liang's plan is very crazy. The enemy respects me a foot, and I return him a foot. Yang Liang is such a madman. How can Yi Feng have a reason to forbear. It's okay that there is no chance, since there is a good opportunity to fight back against Yang Liang right now. Then he will never let it go.

Forbearance will not dispel the enemy's bad intentions, but will only make them think that you are cowardly and deceitful.

Yi Feng dismounted, dressed in ordinary officer clothes, and walked to the door with a team of elite guards, went to the temple on the mountain to climb high and watch the snow, and waited for the results of Guanzhong.

After Yi Feng climbed halfway up the mountain and entered a mountain temple that was not too large and very quiet, his mood was still a little difficult to calm down. The most ruthless imperial family, the royal power struggle can be said to be the fiercest struggle in the world, for the throne, once involved in it, it is a situation that will never die. The battle for the heir to the throne, those princes and grandchildren who are qualified and able to compete for the throne have completely lost such things as brotherhood. And there are many people and families who will stand in line around these princes and grandchildren, divide into one force after another to tear each other apart, and join forces until the final decision is made, and even sometimes, the losers will not be willing to fail, and they will fight in a battle.

In history, Yang Jian only had five sons, all of whom were sons-in-law. In the early years, the eldest son Yang Yong was appointed as the crown prince, but the nineteen-year-old prince was finally deposed and the second son Yang Guang was replaced. At that time, the third son, Yang Jun, had already died of the princess's poison. After Yang Guang succeeded as the prince, Yang Jian was still not worried about Yang Xiu, the fourth son who was the bravest of all the sons, and acquiesced in Yang Guang's attack on Yang Xiu, and finally sent the fourth son, who had been in Shuzhong for 20 years, back to the capital to be confined, relieved of military power, and cleared the way for Yang Guang. Only the youngest son was only a few years old because he had only been out of Beijing at that time, and Yang Jian doted on this son, so he didn't touch him. But when Yang Jian died, Yang Liang, the youngest son who Yang Jian thought that his foundation was not strong, still did not hesitate to raise the anti-flag and oppose his second brother succeeding to the throne. Think about Yang Guang again, as soon as he succeeded to the throne as emperor, he immediately poisoned the deposed former prince and eldest brother, and then even the ten sons of the eldest brother did not let go of any of them, saying that they were exiled, but on the way, he sent people to kill them all one by one. Not only did he kill his threatening brothers and nephews to get rid of future troubles, but Yang Guang even killed the son of his uncle Yang Shuang, the king of Wei, and several other clans that had not stood on his side to support him.

It's not that Yang Guang is ruthless, in fact, he believes that if another Yang Jian's son succeeds to the throne, it will basically be the same. If the two brothers Yang Xiu and Yang Liang are replaced, it is estimated that they will only be more ruthless than Yang Guang.

He couldn't help but think about what kind of trouble should he make when he counterattacked Yang Liang this time? In the previous assassination of Jingshi, he did not express the slightest intention to investigate, and even defended the suspected Yang Guangguang. This is not because he has a good temper, nor because of his secret relationship with Yang Guang, except because he feels that Yang Guang is not the mastermind behind the scenes, but also because he had an empty foundation in Beijing at that time and couldn't speak hard words.

But now it's different, he has gone out of Beijing and arrived in Taiyuan, and not far to the north, his base camp is deserted. If he makes things bigger, he doesn't have to worry too much about Yang Liang's counterattack, it's a big deal to listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement. Indeed, on a trip to Jingshi, Yi Feng got a lot of benefits that he didn't dare to imagine, but it also made him a little impetuous, and he became impatient, he didn't want to enter Jingshi again, unless he went with his army. He doesn't want to bow his head and be a turtle grandson anymore, and he doesn't want to be a pawn of others anymore and be at the mercy of others. He wants to make his own decisions, and he now has good strength to back it up.

Then, if he wants to make things bigger, then what he needs is to weigh and consider more comprehensively, plan and then act. It would be foolish to act rashly without being fully prepared in advance. As he himself just said, if you don't die if you fight a snake, there will be endless troubles.

"Find Liu Wenjing." He told Wei Chi Gong, "In addition, Li Mi is also called, and Feng Deyi, Du Yan, Wang Qi, and Li Baiyao are also called." Whatever they're doing, let them come over right away. Wei Chigong nodded and left.

Yi Feng didn't let people call Li Gang, Wang Tong, Bao Kai, Xiao Gai, Sanwen Sanyan and a group of people to come over, although these people are all great Confucian celebrities and talents, but what Yi Feng needs now are those who are good at scheming and proficient in means, and they are the kind of people who are not bound by general legal principles. Liu Wenjing, Yi Feng values this person very much, and thinks that although he is a reader, he is not the kind of person who clings to books, this person is very flexible, like a poisonous snake, he is steady and ruthless, and he has a bit of Yang Su's demeanor, which makes him like it very much. Another person under him who is very similar to Liu Wenjing is Feng Deyi, this guy is a tender version of Yang Su, full of bad water, and very good at disguise. Li Baiyao, Du Yan, and Wang Qi are not bad, but they are also very pragmatic. Among these people, Li Mi is a relatively tender one, but his brain is good enough to make it thorough, so it is very suitable for him to participate in secrets and be in charge of running errands, Yi Feng still likes to have a clever person like Li Mi as his secretary. Although Wei Chi Gongcheng and others around him are more loyal and reliable, they are still too young, the city government is not deep, and although the martial arts are good, they are only suitable for being a close guard, and in other aspects, they are still far behind.

Yi Feng asked people to call Jia Xiong and Liu Heimin again, one of them was the director of the Teke Hedong Division, and the other was the captain of the Flag Guard. Yi Feng plans to use his own way, give back to his body, and return blood to blood and tooth to tooth, and you are not the only one in the world Yang Liang will engage in conspiracy and assassination, Lao Tzu will also, and he will definitely play better than you. (To be continued......) R1292