Shi Xiu and Duan Jinzhu led the vanguard to open the way in front, Zhu Tong pressed in the middle, and Suo Chao was behind. Under the leadership of that Shi Xiu, the team set off in the dark.

Everyone walked on one foot and one foot shallow, and from time to time someone fell, but no one said a word. The person in the back stared at the white cloth on the arm of the person in front of him, silently speeding up his pace. People hardly walk on their toes, hardly with a footboard. Walking and walking, suddenly the mountain shadow covers the sky, the cliff is about to fall, a dark ancient winter, no one can tell which is the road and which is the cliff. The horses are looking for the way, and the others are feeling the way. I don't know when this road twists and turns to the edge of the cliff, probably the eagle's beak of the famous dangerous place here!

After a while, the brigade passed the mountain, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But at this moment, there was a sound of horses' hooves from behind. It turned out that just now Jin Bing found that someone was moving around and looked for a while, but there was no one in sight, so he sent cavalry to chase him.

Everyone hid on the spot, held their breath, held their weapons motionlessly, and waited for the golden soldiers to approach. It happened that the wheat had grown very tall at that time, and the wheat lang became the protective color of the Song army, and the Jin cavalry passed in an uproar.

At dawn, Zhu Tong led his troops to arrive safely at Wuyan Village and Nantao City east of Dongping, and Zhang Rong and Yang Xiong prepared dry food for thousands of people to wait here, and finally succeeded in breaking through.

Zhu Tong asked, "Didn't Brother Song come?" ”

Yang Xiong and Shi Xiu glanced at each other, but neither spoke, they were ordered to lurk under Song Jiang's hands, and they would not talk about Song Jiang recklessly. Shi Xiu saw that the momentum of the Song army was not good this time, so he reported to Yuncheng openly.

Song Jiang didn't know what to think, so he shouted a few times to rescue, but there was no movement, only Zhang Rong was impatient, he saw that Song Jiang had no movement, so he came out with his subordinates privately.

When Yang Xiong saw Zhang Rong running out, he went to tell Song Jiang, and Song Jiang said: "Zhang Rong, Zhang Rong's brother is too reckless." Others are weak, so isn't it a sheep in the mouth of a tiger? ”

Only then did Yang Xiong ask for his life: "Brother, don't panic, the younger brother is willing to respond." ”

"Brother is willing to go, that's the best, you must bring the children back."

Yang Xiong just got out of Yuncheng.

Yang Xiong and Shi Xiu didn't speak, but Zhang Rong was in a hurry, and he said with a big grin: "I Zhang Diwan came to join the army, and I can't respect it empty-handed, so I have more than 50 braided heads, please check it by Zhu Tingshi." ”

Zhu Tong was a little thinking about the old relationship with Song Jiang, first praised Zhang Rong, and then said: "Brother Song has agreed to recruit An, and when it comes to that day, my brother will have to be a captain." ”

Zhang Rong said: "I may not be able to wait, I will join the army now, and I am willing to train a pawn for the regiment." ”

Zhu Tong hurriedly said: "Brother, don't hurt your righteousness." ”

Suo Chao said on the side: "Zhang Diwan came to join the army, what did he say hurt righteousness. Although the two of them are mainly Zhu Tong, Suo Chao is the promotion of the regiment training division, and he is about to be promoted to the regiment training envoy, and the official rank is higher than Zhu Tong, as soon as he says this, Zhu Tong is not easy to stop Zhang Rong, just like that, Zhang Rong has become a deputy head under Suo Chao.

Wu Ge, Zhu Tong, Suo Chao and others, gradually gained a foothold in the west of Mount Tai, they were very worried about the war in Bianliang, and sent people to ask the Hebei Marching Division for instructions on how to support Bianliang.

It was not until late August that I waited for a reply from the marching division: "Steady development in Taixi, close to the canal, Bianliang is as stable as Mount Tai." ”

The marching division actually forwarded Hu Yan Geng's order, and Hu Yan Geng had already issued an order through the Privy Council: "Attract the main force of Jin soldiers with Bianliang, and the Hu family army in Hebei will take the opportunity to 'restore Jin, Hebei, Luyu'." The Tianxiong Army, one of the main forces of the six towns of Heshuo, had safely crossed the Taihang Mountain along the Hutuo River and reached the foot of Wutai Mountain.

"Ah, look at the top of the mountain, which is connected to the sky, and it is called Hongmen Rock." The villager said, "Dog days, there are also snowflakes." Fifty miles from the foot to Hongmen Rock, and fifty miles from Hongmen Rock down the mountain to Hehuai Town. ”

The procession began its ascent along a curvy gravel path. The road winds around the foot of the mountain, with sparse villages on both sides of the road, nestled in a col.

The villages in the mountains are not only scattered, but also generally very small, and the houses are adapted to local conditions, making full use of the situation of the mountains. They are all made of local materials, with stone masonry, mountain wood supports, and stone slabs on top. It is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the roofs of every house are piled with some freshly harvested things, and people's faces are filled with the joy of harvest.

Originally, life here was poor, and there were gold soldiers who plundered it. However, after two years of Jianyan, several major battles in Hedong, as well as Ma Kuo's perseverance in establishing Baojia and promoting Xuanyuan Dao, most of Hedong has been recovered by the Song Dynasty with Wutai as the center

The higher you climb, the less crowded it becomes, and the colder it gets. The mountains and wilderness, which were already very lonely, seemed even more solemn. However, the thatch, which has turned yellow and white, is still shaking in the autumn wind. There are also goshawks flying over the hills, and geese crying high in the sky.

As the soldiers marched through this desolate mountainous terrain, the steep mountain wind pierced their thin clothes, and the stones on the road wore out the straw sandals. Someone kicked up a stone and rolled down the deep ravine, and there was a rumbling sound. They walked very quickly and quickly, wiping their sweat with their hands from time to time. Sweat dripped down the stone road, and immediately formed a thin layer of ice.

But the hardships of this march could not suppress the enthusiasm for fighting, and walking on the foothills of Wutai Mountain was one of the main forces of the Hujia Army, Tianxiong Zhenfusi. Every soldier in this team knew that "restoring Jin, Hebei, Luyu" meant the beginning of a counteroffensive.

Caught by the enthusiasm of battle, they shouted trumpets from valley to valley, and the sparsely populated valleys were filled with the heroic roar of this hero. The smoke of the slate huts in the ravine, and the thin clouds drifting on the hills, were blown together by the wind, and it was no longer possible to distinguish which was light smoke and which was flowing clouds. The armies marched through the clouds.

When they arrived at Hongmen Rock, there were snowflakes. Turning over the Hongmen Rock, they suddenly saw green pines and cypresses. It is a large mountain bosom, surrounded by mountain peaks. They saw the golden turquoise roof of the temple's ridge and soon heard the rhythmic jingling of bells. They didn't know where the sound came from, but when they got closer, they saw that it was the temple's wind chimes, which were blown by the wind and made such a beautiful sound.

An elderly monk, walking out of the monastery and blocking the crossing, saluted the soldiers with clasped hands, smiled and asked the troops to rest and eat. A band of musicians dressed in the same black cracked suits welcomed the orchestra flute and beating the leather drum gong.

"Congratulations to the Ma Defense Envoy on his promotion to the Hedong Cheng Xuan Envoy." This old monk is one of the compilers of the Xuanyuan Dao scriptures, Elder Zhizhen.