More than 500 war horses climbed the gentle slope and marched slowly on the top of Rushan Mountain.

On horseback, all dragoons dressed in red robes and helmets with golden feathers stuck in their helmets.

As the commander of the Dragoon Guard, Deng Zhan had the privilege of wearing golden armor.

However, the golden armor on his body is somewhat different from Liu Wei's armor.

Liu Wei's armor is pure gold, and the armor on Deng Zhan's body is slightly dark gold.

Leading the dragoon guards up the hillside, Deng Zhan stood on the top of the slope and looked around.

Huang Sheng rode up to Deng Zhan's side, raised his hand and pointed to a deep ravine under the hillside, and said to Deng Zhan: "General, ahead is the ravine discovered by the scouts. ”

Following the direction of Huang Sheng's finger, Deng Zhan saw that there was indeed a deep and long ravine below.

The sides of the ravine are covered with green weeds and patches of trees, but under the deep ravine, not to mention the trees, not even a blade of grass can be seen.

"Rushan seems to be the soil, but it is not barren!" Looking at the deep ravine, Deng Zhan pulled a smile at the corner of his mouth and said to Huang Sheng: "If it weren't for the newly opened pathway, how could there not even be a single weed?" ”

Standing beside Deng Zhan, Huang Sheng nodded and said to Deng Zhan: "Subordinates and lead the soldiers to take a look!" ”

Deng Zhan didn't speak, staring at the ravine under the hillside, the corners of his mouth pulled up a slight smile, and his slightly narrowed eyes revealed a touch of coldness.

Waving behind him, Huang Sheng rode his horse down the hill first, and more than a dozen dragoon guards immediately followed and rushed down the hillside.

Standing on the top of the slope, Deng Zhan's eyes always followed Huang Sheng and others.

In his field of vision, the figures of Huang Sheng and the others gradually faded away, and soon reached the deep ravine.

Looking at Huang Sheng and the others, Deng Zhan found that more than a dozen fast horses that had come down the hillside suddenly stopped, and Huang Sheng and the others jumped off their horses one after another, lurking in a deep grass.

The body of the war horse was tall, and traces could be seen from afar, but Huang Sheng and the others suddenly hibernated in the grass, even if Deng Zhan was condescending, he couldn't see it really.

Seeing this scene, Deng Zhan's brows furrowed slightly.

Led more than a dozen dragoon guards to gallop towards the ravine, getting closer and closer to the ravine, and when he saw that he was about to reach the edge, a dragoon guard raised his hand and pointed ahead, shouting to Huang Sheng: "General, there seems to be someone in the ravine!" ”

Hearing the shouts of the dragoon, Huang Sheng took a closer look into the ravine, and sure enough, he saw two figures in the distance, climbing up from the ravine.

Digging this ravine, in order to facilitate the army to launch a sneak attack on the Qin army from behind, the Huainan army naturally would not build the exit too steep.

Although the exit is not too steep, it is steeper than the slope of the mountain.

Huang Sheng and the others were lurking in the grass, and he waved to the more than a dozen people behind him, and everyone immediately rushed towards the place far away from the war horse.

Crawling out of the ravine were two men, one old and one young, dressed in civilian clothes.

The two people climbed up the ravine, and the young man raised his hand and pointed at the war horse left by Huang Sheng and the others, and shouted to the old man beside him: "Grandpa, look! ”

Following the direction of the young man's finger and looking at the group of war horses, the old man was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly shouted to the young man: "It's not good, there is a Qin army nearby!" ”

Hearing the old man shout, the young man panicked in his heart, and asked the old man with a panicked face: "I heard that the Qin army kills people like mustard, if you really meet ......."

"The Qin army only kills those who should be killed!" Before the young man could finish speaking, he felt a chill in his neck, and a sharp dagger went around his neck from behind, and a cold voice said this to him.

The old and the young are villagers living nearby, the old is the grandfather, and the young is the grandson.

Seeing that his grandson was being held hostage, the old man was stunned for a moment, and was about to rush forward, when an arm wrapped around his neck from behind and pulled him to the ground.

It was the dragoon guard who knocked down the old man, and after throwing him to the ground, the soldier threw his short sword at his neck and whispered, "Don't move! ”

With a short sword on his neck, the old man really didn't move, but when he was pressed to the ground, he still pleaded with the dragoon guard who was pressing him: "The child is not sensible, the military master wants to kill me, don't embarrass the child!" ”

The dragoon guard who twisted the old and the young did not respond to the old man, and Huang Sheng pressed the hilt of the sword on his waist at this time, walked up to them, and asked them, "Why are you two here?" ”

When Huang Sheng asked, the young man hurriedly lowered his head in fright, and the old man said tremblingly: "The two of us went to this mountain to pick wild vegetables......

"Nonsense!" Before the old man's words were finished, Huang Sheng stopped him, turned to face the young man, and asked the young man: "You say, why are you two here?" ”

In the face of Huang Sheng's questioning, the young man trembled even more, but he did not make any answer.

"Take it to the general!" Seeing that the young man did not answer his question, Huang Sheng waved his hand and commanded in a low voice.

After receiving Huang Sheng's order, the two dragoon guards who twisted the old man and the young man answered, escorted the two ancestors and grandchildren who were controlled by them, and went up the hillside.

On the hillside, Huang Sheng turned over and jumped off the horse, walked quickly in front of Deng Zhan, hugged his fists and bowed to Deng Zhan and said, "General Qiyu, grab the two of you!" ”

Deng Zhan, who had almost seen the whole process clearly on the hillside but didn't hear Huang Sheng and the others talking at the bottom of the slope, heard that he had caught the fine work, nodded his head, and explained to Huang Sheng: "Bring the fine work up!" ”

Huang Sheng turned his head, waved behind him, and shouted, "The general is going to bring the fine work up!" ”

Hearing Huang Sheng call them to work carefully, the old man who was twisted by the dragon cavalry guard hurriedly shouted to Deng Zhan, who was wearing golden armor: "General Mingjian, the two of us are not meticulous!" ”

Although the old man shouted that they were not meticulous, the dragoon guards still pushed their ancestors and grandchildren in front of Deng Zhan.

When the soldiers escorted the ancestors and grandsons to him, Deng Zhan pressed the hilt of the sword with one hand, and walked around the two of them a few times, while looking at the old and the young who were wearing the people's deep clothes.

After looking at the old man and the young man standing in front of him for a while, Deng Zhan stretched out his hand violently, grabbed the young man's wrist, and dragged him to him.

His wrist was grabbed by Deng Zhan, and the young man stumbled forward, almost falling into his arms.

Pulling the young man over, Deng Zhan peeled off his hand, looked at his hand with a cold face, and said to Huang Sheng who was standing on the side: "The calluses on the palms are at the root of the fingers, not the fingers of the soldiers holding swords or spears, they are not the Huainan Army, let them go." ”

Deng Zhan said that they were not the Huainan Army and that he was going to let them go, the old man and the young man were relieved, and the previous tension was slightly eased.

Hearing that Deng Zhan was going to let the old and the young go, Huang Sheng did not immediately receive the order, but hugged his fists and bowed to Deng Zhan and said: "General Mingjian, these two people came out of the ravine, even if they are not the Huainan Army, they must have something to do with the Huainan Army!" ”

Turning his head to look at Huang Sheng, Deng Zhan's eyelids narrowed slightly, thought about it, and waved his hand at Huang Sheng and said, "That's it, let them go!" ”

Deng Zhan waved his hand and said again that he would let the old and the young go, Huang Sheng responded with a fist, and said unwillingly to the dragoon guards on the side: "Let them go!" ”

was captured by the dragoon guards, I thought I would die, but I didn't expect to be released when I saw Deng Zhan, and the old and the young didn't come back to their senses for a while.

It wasn't until the two dragoons who were escorting them gently pushed them on the shoulders that one of the dragoons said, "The general has let you two go, let's go", that the two hurriedly thanked Deng Zhan, hugged each other, and ran down the hill.

Looking at the backs of the ancestors and grandchildren who ran down the mountain, it was not until they ran far away that Deng Zhan gave an order to Huang Sheng, who was unwilling: "Send someone to follow them!" ”

Huang Sheng, who thought that there must be some problems with the two ancestors and grandchildren, heard Deng Zhan say that he would send someone to follow them, Huang Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed, and hurriedly waved his hand at several dragoons behind him and shouted: "Keep an eye on them!" ”

The dragoons answered and hurried down the hillside on foot, and then under the cover of the trees and weeds on the hillside, they pursued the two grandchildren.

"General ......" waited until a few dragoon guards followed the grandparents and grandchildren down the hill, and Huang Sheng turned his head to look at Deng Zhan, as if he wanted to say something.

As soon as he spoke, Deng Zhan waved his hand at him and said, "Needless to say, General Ben knows what you have to say!" ”

"The ravine is too long, and it's hidden underneath, so it's not easy to find an exit!" Turning his head to look at Huang Sheng, a faint smile hung on the corner of Deng Zhan's mouth, and he asked, "But do you want to say this?" ”

"Yes and no!" Huang Sheng shook his head and said to Deng Zhan: "There are no grass, trees and weeds in the ravine, but there are caves, and it is not difficult for us to find them." It's just that when I saw the old and the young, my subordinates remembered something more important. ”

"Shouchun grain and grass!" As soon as Huang Sheng said this, Deng Zhan's eyes suddenly opened, and he said to him: "Could it be that you suspect that the nearby villagers are transporting grain and grass to the city?" ”

With both hands clenched into fists, Huang Sheng bowed to Deng Zhan, although he did not speak, the silence showed that Deng Zhan really guessed what he wanted to say.

"Someone!" Staring at the ravine under the hillside, Deng Zhan frowned and shouted behind him.

A dragoon guard stood up in response, standing behind Deng Zhan with his fists clenched, waiting for him to give the order.

Without looking back, Deng Zhan tightly locked his brows, his eyes stayed in the ravines in the distance, and said to the dragoon guard who came out in response: "You immediately go to the outside of Shouchun City and inform Your Highness that we suspect that the nearby villagers are transporting grain and grass to Shouchun City, and I beg Your Highness to show me!" ”

"No!" After listening to Deng Zhan's order, the dragoon guard answered, trotted to his war horse, turned over and jumped on the horse's back, clamped his legs the horse's belly, shook the horse's whip, and rode the horse in the direction where Shouchun City was located.