Pushed by a group of Luoyang soldiers, following behind Guan Qing on horseback, Dong Xian staggered towards the front of the team.

At first, he dared to howl twice to express his dissatisfaction with Guan Qing and the group of Luoyang soldiers. But he didn't go far, Guan Qing, who was riding a horse in front, probably couldn't stand his noise, turned around and glared at him fiercely, which scared him all over, and looked at Guan Qing timidly, but he didn't dare to shout again.

With a group of soldiers, escorting Dong Xian, seeing that he was about to reach the front of the army, Guan Qing's legs clamped towards the horse's belly, urged the horse to speed up, caught up with Liu Bian, who was walking at the front of the queue, and said to Liu Bian: "Your Highness, the Xiliang thieves are clamoring to see His Highness in the back, and they also said wildly, saying that if His Highness does not see him, the army will die and have no place to be buried." The last general did not dare to despise him, so he brought him up and begged His Highness to drop it! ”

After listening to Guan Qing's report, Liu Wei turned around his horse, left the queue, first waved his hand at the army, signaled to move on, and then glanced at Dong Xian, who was being escorted towards him by a group of soldiers not far away, and said to Guan Qing: "Bring him up!" ”

Dong Xian, who was being escorted by a group of soldiers, was in a very embarrassed situation when he saw Liu Wei standing in front of him, and just hurriedly staggered towards Liu Wei.

The group of soldiers of the Luoyang Army who were escorting him were about to step forward to stop him, but they heard Guan Qing shouting to them: "Your Highness has an order, I want him to come forward and speak!" ”

As soon as Guan Qing shouted like this, the group of Luoyang soldiers did not continue to chase Dong Xian, and saw him run in front of Liu Wei's horse.

"Your Highness!" When he arrived in front of Liu Bian's horse, perhaps because he was too anxious in his heart, Dong Xian didn't give a fist salute to Liu Bian, but bent his legs, "poof", knelt in front of Liu Bian, looked up at Liu Bian, and shouted to him with endless pleading in his tone: "The last general begs His Highness to stop the army, don't go to Taihua Mountain!" ”

"Why?" Riding on horseback, the corners of Liu Wei's mouth pulled up a strange smile, looked down at Dong Xian who was kneeling in front of him, and said to him: "General Dong wants to delay the march of this king's army, so as to leave time for Li Dao and Guo Yan to calmly attack Chang'an?" ”

was stunned for a moment by Liu Bian's question, Dong Xian, who was kneeling on the ground, stared at the eyes that were still a little crowded together, and said to Liu Bian: "Your Highness Mingjian, the last general just wants to inform Your Highness that there is only one passage in this Taihua Mountain, and the passage has been cut off by my Xiliang army. The mountains are high and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack! If Your Highness wants to climb over this mountain, let alone 30,000 people, even if 300,000 people come, you can't break it if you are idle! ”

"More than 500 people are guarded, can you stop the 300,000 army?" As soon as Dong Xian's words fell, Liu Wei pursed his lips with disdain and said to him: "What General Dong said is inevitably a bit exaggerated. Under the whole world, natural dangers are everywhere, how can it be only this Taihua Mountain? The general only needs to follow the king's army, and the king will ensure that the general is thorough! ”

Dropping this sentence, Liu Wei didn't explain more to Dong Xian, turned his horse, and quickly chased after the front team.

The reason why Liu Wei was reminded that Taihua Mountain was difficult to cross was because Dong Xian did not want Liu Wei to launch a strong attack on Taihua Mountain.

Once Liu Wei's army storms Taihua Mountain, regardless of success or failure, the news will soon reach Zheng County. When Niu Fu got the news, he must have known that the peace talks had failed, although Niu Fu had promised not to kill Dong Xian's family, but Dong Xian, who knew Niu Fu well, was still a little afraid from the bottom of his heart. Niu Fu, who was born in a martial arts, is afraid that it will be difficult to know if he is angry and does not abide by the agreement.

To dissuade Liu Wei from approaching Taihua Mountain, Dong Xian was actually not thinking about Luoyang Army, but with a small calculation in his heart, he was thinking about the safety of his family.

Liu Wei said that there were only more than 500 Xiliang troops stationed on Taihua Mountain, and all Dong Xian could do was to be stunned. No matter how much he wanted to break his head, he would never dare to imagine that Liu Wei would quietly take out the Xiliang Army's defense on the mountain road of Taihua Mountain in the past two days.

When the army reached the foot of the mountain, Liu Wei led the team along the mountain road and slowly walked towards the mountain.

The mountain road is very rugged, and the road is not smooth, and the cavalry and infantry who do not carry much baggage on the mountain road do not feel anything, but the baggage caught in the middle of the team is in a lot of trouble when going up the mountain.

Due to the uneven road surface, the wooden wheels can easily get stuck in the pits, and the horses pulling the baggage carts are originally a little difficult to go uphill, and once the wheels are stuck in the road, it is difficult to move an inch.

A cart full of grain and grass, pulled by two small horses, was caught between the army and slowly climbed up the hillside, driven by a master.

There was a bend in front of him, and Mite was about to urge the horse to turn the corner, but the body shook violently, almost throwing Mite off the car, and the two horses pulling the cart also neighed, and the originally stable car was tilted to the side, no matter how hard the horse tried, it would not move.

The procession that followed slowly passed by the carriage, and many officers and men would turn their heads to look at the crooked carriage as they walked by.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that the baggage cart was stuck on the mountain road, an officer of the Luoyang Army who was walking behind ran up quickly and asked the royal hand, "Why did you stop?" ”

"The wheels are stuck!" He had already jumped out of the carriage and was squatting beside the carriage, looking at the small half of the wheel stuck in a crack in the dry ground, and the completely helpless Mide heard a question from someone beside him, raised his head and glanced at the officer, and replied helplessly.

Bending down to look at the jammed wheels, the officer also frowned.

The carriage was full of more than a dozen sacks of corn, weighing two or three thousand catties, and where the wheels were stuck, the cracks were thick and deep, and the wheels were stuck on both sides.

"Brothers, take a hand!" Squatting beside the carriage and watching for a while, the officer stood up and beckoned to a group of Luoyang soldiers who were slowly climbing the hillside as they passed by the carriage.

Twenty or thirty soldiers of the Luoyang Army saw him beckoning, and came to the side of the carriage, and all of them stretched out their heads to look at the wheels of the carriage that had fallen into the cracks.

"Help lift it!" Seeing twenty or thirty soldiers, the officer shouted at the soldiers, took the lead in pressing his shoulders against the high pile of grain bales, and pushed the car hard to the side that was skewed down.

The soldiers gathered around the carriage saw that the officer had already started to help carry the carriage, and without saying a word, they grabbed the frame of the carriage one after another, and dragged the carriage with its wheels stuck in the cracks.

Although twenty or thirty people were exerting themselves, the carriage with its wheels in the cracks was very heavy, and the hubs on both sides were also very strong, and they shook it several times, but they did not lift the carriage out of the cracks.

"A few more people to help!" The officer, who had exhausted all his strength and could not lift the carriage, straightened up and shouted again at another group of soldiers who were walking by.

Another group of people gathered around, and beside the carriage, which was not very large, there was a hand holding almost every inch of the frame.

"Listen to my slogan and work hard!" When everyone was ready, the officer shouted, "Get up!" ”

With his shout, all the people turned red, and with all their strength, they carried the carriage together and lifted it out of the crack.

There are many people, and the amount of force is large after all. This time, with a crisp sound of "pop", the carriage was really lifted by everyone.

Mite, who heard the crisp sound clearly, hurried to the wheels and examined it carefully after everyone had lifted the carriage and left.

At this inspection, he was suddenly full of depression. The car was lifted, but the wooden wheel was broken by a pin.

This kind of wooden pin is made of boxwood, the texture is very hard, not to mention that it is impossible to break under ordinary circumstances, even if it is soaked in water for a few days, it is very difficult to corrode and decay. Being able to break it shows how hard the officers and soldiers exerted just now to lift the carriage out.

Mide crouched aside, repairing the carriage that had broken its wooden pins and could not move forward for the time being, while the officer who had beckoned to help him carry the cart was busy fetching stones from the road to fill the crack that had just stuck the wheel.

The march of the army on the mountain road will not be as smooth as it is on the plains. The team marched along the mountain road towards the mountainside of Mount Taihua, and as the climbing height increased, the top of the mountain surrounded by white clouds in the distance was also as if it was right in front of them, as if as long as they stretched out their hands, they could pull down a white cloud.

Liu Wei, who had already dismounted from the war horse, walked in the middle of the team, and from time to time he would look up at the road above.

The mountain road with a cliff on one side and an endless abyss on the other side is not very narrow. It twists and turns on Mount Taihua, like a long belt, adding a bit of enchantment with human breath to this fertile Taihua Mountain.

"Your Highness!" Having already climbed halfway up the mountain, an officer ran down from the mountain road above, and when he approached Liu Wei, the officer bowed down to Liu Wei with his fists and said: "Less than 500 steps further, you can reach the mountainside station!" ”

Looking up, the road ahead was winding, and the road didn't extend far before it turned around and turned to the other side, and it was impossible to see what lay ahead.

As far as the eye can see, what appears in Liu Wei's field of vision is a vast green mountain and a white cloud that swirls between the mountains.

The verdant mountains and the blue sky and white clouds are connected, which makes it full of different spiritual beauty. But at this time, Liu Wei was not in the mood to appreciate this extremely beautiful scenery, what he cared about was whether the garrison in the mouth of the soldiers could accommodate a full 30,000 troops.

"Let's go!" After looking at the mountains in the distance for a while, Liu Wei waved to the team following behind him and continued to climb the mountain.

Along the mountain road, bypassing a ridge, Liu Wei saw that on the road ahead, there was a barricade that looked like a city wall, but was not a city wall.

The barricade is made of bluestone and is located on a slightly steeper slope of the mountain. When Liu Wei saw the roadblock, the battle flag of the Luoyang Army had been planted on the roadblock like a city wall.

"Your Highness, after passing here, you can reach the station!" The officer who had previously presented the road conditions to Liu Biao followed behind Liu Bian, raised his hand and pointed to the roadblock that lay across the mountain road, and said to Liu Bian: "We have already figured out the road, and after passing here, we can go down Taihua Mountain along the mountain road, and we can go straight to the boundary of Jingzhaoyin." ”

Looking at the group of officers and soldiers walking in front, walking from the open gate into the roadblock across the road, Liu Wei nodded silently, and the pace under his feet also quickened a little, and ran towards the roadblock.