From Pingyang to the west through Jiezhou, Puzhou can reach Tongguan, after Tongguan is the boundary of Shaanxi.

Tongguan has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, whether it is to seize the world or defend the world, Tongguan is very important.

The Qing court continued to fortify on the basis of the original ancient city of Tongguan in the Ming Dynasty, and repaired and built many new facilities, and directly set up Tongguan County here. During the Qianlong period, it was changed to Tongguan Hall, which was subordinate to the Tongshang Road of Shaanxi Province.

It began to snow on the way from Puzhou to Tongguan, and when it arrived at Tongguan, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the goose feathers were not enough to describe.

Of course, it was impossible to camp outside in such weather, and there were many vacant barracks in Xingtong Guancheng, and the Eight Banners team quickly settled down under the arrangement of local officials.

The Han army was divided into four rooms, all of which were similar to chariot and horse shops, and one could accommodate twenty or thirty people.

After Jia Liu assigned the house, he asked people to light charcoal fires for heating each room, and when he was paying attention to ventilation, someone came to inform the flag foremen to gather at the leader.

Meeting?!

Jia Liu, who was very conscious, hurriedly asked Chang Bingzhong to help arrange everyone, and he trotted all the way to "listen" to Master A's speech, so as to grasp the spirit of the boss in time, so that it could be implemented as soon as possible and flexibly.

When I arrived at the ground, I was told that due to heavy snow in Shaanxi, the roads in many places were blocked by snow, and although local officials had organized people to clear the snow, I was afraid that the team would not be able to go in the past two days.

"It's a bad thing, but it's also a good thing."

Alan Bao said this, and then told the flag foremen to restrain their subordinates from going out to cause trouble as before, so he motioned for everyone to go back, leaving Jia Liu alone.

This made the other seven foremen who left very jealous of Jia Liu, and of course they hated it so much.

"What do you mean?"

Jia Liu felt out the fire fold to light the leader, but he didn't want Alan Bao to wave his hand to signal that he didn't need it, and then he took out a snuffbox and put it between his noses, sniffed it violently, showing a satisfied and comfortable look.

This action reminded Jia Liu of the joke that Uncle Yu had heard in his previous life smoking a cigarette.

After taking a few breaths, Alan Bao sat down, and then looked at Jia Liu with a smile: "I heard that you are all first-class in the third test of Tang A, not bad, I didn't mistake you, you are really a talent." ”

If you want to say anything else, Jia Liu doesn't go up, but it can be said that this Jia Liu is suddenly full of energy, but his face is modest: "My subordinates are just lucky, but I don't dare to boast about being an adult!" ”

"Where is good luck without real skills?"

Alan Bao put the snuffbox on the table, and tapped his right index finger on the table, "That's it, it's okay anyway, you take someone to get some game, and I'll have two drinks with Lord Gui and them in the evening." ”

"Huh? ... Whew! ”

When Jia Liu came out, he served Alan Bao's mother: The snow is falling, you let the young master get game, you might as well let the young master get you directly.

Helplessly, the official level crushed people to death, not to mention that he Captain Jia is not an official.

Thinking that there might be some game sold in Tongguan City, I wanted to spend money to buy some, but when I went out to see what the shops on the street were selling, they were all fucking closed.

Is this the reason for the heavy snowfall, or the reason for the soldiers of the Eight Banners?

Jia Liu couldn't make up his mind, in order to complete the things explained by the leader, he had to go back and pull Zu Yingyuan and Chang Bingzhong up, and took two teams of Su La out of the city to hunt.

Tongguan is a place where mountains and peaks are peaks, and there will be no shortage of game.

As soon as they heard that they were going hunting, Chang Bingzhong was very motivated, and they marched for days, and the eggs were about to disperse, and they wished they could go out for activities.

Zu Yingyuan reminded Jia Liu that it was okay to go up the mountain to hunt, but they were not familiar with the terrain, so they had to find a local guide to avoid getting lost in the mountains.

Jia Liuyi thought right, this matter was very important, so he asked Zu Yingyuan to find a guide.

It didn't take long for the person to find it.

It is the son of a family on the edge of the barracks, who usually goes up the mountain with people to chop firewood, make traps and catch some game, and come back to make tooth sacrifices.

The cost of the road is not much, only thirty coppers.

Jia Liule directly threw a silver bean weighing three or four dollars to the kid surnamed Hu, which was his habit in his previous life - as long as he asked someone to do something, he must give an extra pack of cigarettes in addition to his salary, or give an extra thirty or fifty, so that the enthusiasm of the other party to work will be greatly improved, and the amount of work will be guaranteed, and you will not spend half a snack, and sometimes you can spend less money.

In this way, Jia Liuyi rode six horses and led two teams of Su Lahao out of the city.

I didn't think much of it in Tongguan City, but when I looked down from a high place on the surrounding mountains, Jia Liu really realized the importance of Tongguan.

It's a very dangerous place!

The valley is deep and the cliffs are exclusive, the mountains are high and the roads are narrow, and the road that can be passed is the small road when they came, and only one cart and one horse can be allowed to go back and forth.

It is no wonder that when I went to the city first, I saw the "first pass" inscribed by Qianlong on the city gate.

There must not be much game in the mountains and forests near Tongguan City, so if you want to hit the game, you have to go deeper.

The more Jia Liu walked, the more frightened he became, if it weren't for a guide, they would really get lost after entering the mountain, and even freeze to death in this ghost place.

Soon, Jia Liu, they found their first target in front of them - a pheasant with its head buried in the snow.

"I'm coming!"

Zu Yingyuan jumped over everyone, bent his bow and arrow, and hit the pheasant with an arrow of "whoosh".

The pheasant caught the arrow fluttered for a while, and finally landed under a pine tree. A Su La arrow stepped over and lifted it, and it was estimated that there were five or six catties.

Jia Liu was impressed by Zu Yingyuan, no wonder this kid spoke so well, he did have some ability.

Then there was nothing to discover, and after the guide surnamed Hu led everyone through the dense forest for about two or three miles, the front suddenly opened up and turned out to be a valley recessed in the mountains.

The surrounding peaks are covered with snow, and the valley is also white, which makes people feel relaxed and relaxed.

Jia Liu was also attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of him, and after throwing the horse to Yang Zhi, he slid down the hillside first. When he arrived in the valley, he grabbed a ball of snow and smashed it at Chang Bingzhong, who then slid down.

Chang Bingzhong was not to be outdone, and immediately caught a snowball to fight back, just like when he was a child.

After Zu Yingyuan and Wang Fu came down with the group of Su La, they also joined the snow battle, and had a lot of fun, and looked at the guide surnamed Hu a little stunned, and didn't understand how these Eight Banner soldiers acted like children.

"Alright, get down to business,"

After Jia Liu shoved a big snowball rolled up by Yang Zhi into Wang Fu's neck, he decisively ended the battle, and picked up a handful of snow from the ground and wiped it on his face with a thief's face.

I felt cold before, but now my hands and face are a little hot.

The guide surnamed Hu came over and said, "Master Jun, there are many wild beasts in the place ahead, if you are lucky, you may be able to hit the wild boar." ”

"If I can get a wild boar, I'll reward you with another one or two!"

Jia Liu laughed, took off his big bow from the horse, and was about to walk forward, when he heard Yang Zhi behind him exclaim: "Young master, step!" ”

This exclamation startled Jia Liu, he rose into the air on the spot, almost slipped when he landed, and then looked at the place where he was standing before, and his heart also jumped, it turned out that there was a skeleton in the snow.

"There's that too!"

"I've got that too!"

“......”

Everyone was horrified because they found a lot of dead human bones under the snow. Many have long since weathered, only to be extremely strong because of the ice.

"Where is this, why are there so many dead human bones!"

Zu Yingyuan grabbed the guide surnamed Hu, and the two older Su Lama also stepped forward to prevent the guide from breaking out and hurting people.

"Master Jun, this place was originally called the Valley of Thieves..."

The guide, surnamed Hu, was also frightened, and quickly explained that Li Zicheng's Dashun army had confronted the Qing army in Tongguan more than a hundred years ago, and the two sides fought here for many days, and many people died.

Later, Li Zicheng had a general surnamed Ma who pretended to surrender to the Qing soldiers, but was recognized by the commander of the Qing soldiers.

"Those who died before, plus those who were killed later, there are too many people who died, and there is no place to dig pits in the mountains and forests all over the area, so the Qing soldiers put all the corpses in this mountain stream... In fact, there is not much left in more than 100 years, and we have been playing in this place since we were young, and we don't feel anything afraid..."

After the guide surnamed Hu finished speaking, he stood there cautiously and didn't dare to move, lest the Eight Banners Military Master would be unhappy and turn him into another dry bone here.

"Team Jia, there seems to be such a thing."

Zu Yingyuan said in a low voice.

Jia Liu didn't squeak, looked around at the snow-covered valley, and suddenly squatted down and pulled the snow around him with a knife, revealing two leg bones that looked like white wooden sticks, one of which also had an arrow tied to it.

When the arrow was pulled, the frozen leg bone snapped and broke in two.

"Young Master?"

Yang Zhi didn't know what the young master was staring at the rusty arrowhead.

There seemed to be a banner at Zu Yingyuan's feet that had been fused with the soil.

Whether it's mud or flags, I can't tell the difference.

Jia Liu watched quietly, as if suddenly, he saw the scene of the peasant army soldiers rushing towards the Tartar camp more than a hundred years ago.

"Kill!"

The valley reverberated with the unyielding cry of the old Qin people...

..........

Time has traveled, and now it has been a hundred years, and the heroes of the past have become the rotten bones that no one cares about in the barren valley today.

A group of descendants of the Han people stood in braids on the battlefield where their ancestors rose up to resist.

What does it taste like?

Jia Liu didn't know, he only silently put the arrow in his pocket and said to the people who were looking at him, "Let's go." ”

Just as he was about to turn around, there was a "whoosh" sound, and a sharp arrow sank into the snow less than a foot away from Jia Liu.

The feathers at the end of the arrow were still vibrating violently.

"Young Master!"

Yang Zhi was so frightened that he stepped forward and stretched out his hands to block in front of Jia Liu, and Zu Yingyuan and the others also changed their faces and went to get their weapons one after another.

But it was too late, and dozens of horses rushed towards them in the valley to the north!

However, these knights on the horses did not shoot arrows again, let alone charge the Han army Zhenglan Banner and the gang, but only circled around them and stopped.

"Who's the devil six!"

A very young Manchurian Eight Banner disciple Yu Ma pointed contemptuously at the Han Army and the Blue Banner people surrounded by them with a horsewhip.

"I am."

Jia Liu looked at the full flag, and then at the arrow that had just been pulled out of the ground, "This arrow is yours?" ”

"Hmph, remember, my family's minions are also the masters of your Han army! This time, for the sake of the leader, I will spare you, and next time, I will shoot you with one arrow! ”

The reins of the horse, which was full of flags, were whipped away.

"Drive!"

"Drive!"

Dozens of Manchu and Mongolian disciples followed him, including Hong Chengchou's great-grandson Hong Jiadebiao, who was carried into the Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner.

As the sound of hooves faded away, countless hoof prints appeared on the valley, as well as countless bones of Dashun soldiers who were stirred out of the snow.

"Young Master?"

Yang Zhi looked at it blankly, he knew that this was someone who came to warn the young master, who let the young master do those shortcomings... Lack of virtue.

"It's okay, let's go, let's go hunting!"

Jia Liu didn't take this matter to heart at all, but there was a smile on his face.

It's just that after getting on the horse, he still glanced sideways at the Manmeng disciples who were far away, and the smile on his face instantly froze and disappeared.

In its place, it was gloomy and cold.