A large group of men and horses slowly marched on the road leading to Shuangying Pass.

Although there is a tributary of Qishui, it has been passing through the valley between the two mountains of Shuangyingguan. But the mountains are steep, the river narrows abruptly, and the rocks are craggy, which is not suitable for boating.

Xu Le and his entourage were still the same as when they first entered the Qin State, and they abandoned the boat and landed in Guchengdu, and the lord of Guchengdu had prepared a large number of carriages and horses to load their baggage, so that Xu Le and his party could go to Shuangying Pass.

This group is quite large, and Xu Le's own people alone have as many as five or six hundred. The boys and girls who were taken in in the Huanyi Yard naturally followed by all the subordinates. It turned out that fifteen or sixteen households in the grange followed Xu Le to Shuangying Pass. These people are slaves, and they can only follow their masters.

In addition to these teams, there is also a group of Northern Barbarians in the team. It was the cat-eared girl Che Li who successfully confessed to her relatives with that Wu Daya, and the more than fifty remaining Northern Barbarian fighters in the corner city happened to have nowhere to go, so they temporarily joined Xu Le with Che Li and Wu Daya, and also followed Xu Le to Shuangying Pass.

The Northern Barbarian warriors have always been subdued by the strong, and Xu Le's performance in the corner market that day was enough to deter them. Along the way, including the most courageous Wu Daya, he obeyed Xu Le's orders. These Northern Barbarian warriors are simple-minded, hard-working, and simple and straightforward, but they are good materials. But I can really eat a little, and one person's appetite is worth ten young boys and girls. No wonder Yandi is said to be wild, and the economy can't develop, it's all this kind of foodie, what kind of country can stand it?

In addition to Xu Le's team, he was accompanied by Shi Jiama. Shi Wuju Nangong set off with a safe number. The change of city lord at Shuangying Pass is a big deal. Although Shi Wuju decided to bet on Xu Le, a guy with great luck. But you can't simply throw the Double Eagle Pass to him, you have to help him get on the horse and give him a ride. After all, Shuangying Pass is the first dangerous pass of the Qin State guarding the northern passage!

Shi Wuju and Nangong An accompanied dozens of subordinates, and along the way, they mobilized a large number of people from the Shi lords from various places to ship grain, grass and military equipment. The team is getting bigger and bigger. It's not just Xu Le, several goods are privately discussed, and the historian has nothing to say to everyone.

Xu Le didn't say any words of gratitude, Xu Le was such a person, the more he felt the need to repay this favor, he didn't show anything on his face.

In addition to Shi Wuju and them, Shi Yao is also in the team. She was supposed to stay in Qiyang to help the Marquis Yan. Rectify the newly established Tiger Guards. But Shi Yao asked to go to Shuangying Pass. Shi Wuju persuaded two sentences, but he didn't say anything. Shi Yao has never asked for anything for herself, but this time she is extremely resolute. It just so happens that Shuangying Pass also needs manpower, if Shi Yao helps to take charge. Shi Wuju is more assured.

So Shi Yao came to the door to say goodbye to the Marquis Yan. Also go to Double Eagle Pass together. Qin Yan heard the news. I just smiled lightly, and I gave a lot of goodbye gifts very affectionately. As for what kind of thoughts this marquis has in her heart, it is unknown.

Anyway, when Xu Le set off from Qiyang. This former tiger guard Qu Chang, there are few people on the dock who are deserted to see him off. As far as Sun Yang came to show his face, most of them were still in the face of Shi Wuju and Nangong An.

However, Xu Le has left everything in Qiyang behind, and now he is looking forward to his own city! In that city, he can really be the master of the house and run it into the most stable place in Donghua!

From Guchengdu to Shuangying Pass, if you are a fast horse, one day is enough. But now the brigade with a lot of baggage will have to go for two or three days.

walked calmly all the way, and in the anticipation of Xu Le and everyone under his command all the way, Shuangying Pass finally appeared in front of him.

This is the second time Xu Le has seen the Double Eagle Pass, but after coming back, the feeling is completely different.

The last time I crossed it was not long ago, and I was still a tourist. But now this place is already its own city!

The group of people and horses was crossing a mountain pass, and a knight of the Shi Family's Yi'er Army stood on a high place and proudly raised his hand to the front: "This is the Shi Family's Double Eagle Pass!"

In front of me, a river valley winds through the mountains, the water is fast, and there are roads on both sides of the valley, which have been opened and repaired for decades, and these two roads are enough for a large group of people to cross.

And Shuangying Pass is in the narrowest part of the two mountains sandwiched by the river valley, it is the appearance of two castles, Gao Gaoxiong stands on the top of the mountain, each has a mountain road winding up. Between the two castles, a black flybridge is connected, swaying in the mountain breeze.

The boys and girls under Xu Le's command were so sore that their necks were sore, and their faces were full of amazement. Seeing the flybridge swaying in the air, each blow provoked a subconscious inhalation sound in the team.

The gate of the two castles firmly controls this passage through the valley of hundreds of miles. Behind it is the fertile field of the Qin State. If you want to bypass the Shuangying Pass, you can only call from the direction of the ghost side, and you don't know how many miles you have to detour.

My city, our city!

Shi Wuju rushed up from behind, looked at this Guancheng that belonged to the Shi family, and was also full of pride, and patted Xu Le on the shoulder: "Let's go, take a closer look after entering the city, and wipe the saliva away first." Don't let the people in the city see that the new city lord is so virtuous. ”

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As you climb all the way, you realize how steep the road to the two castles at the top of the mountain is. It is wide enough for one person to go up and down, and there are soldiers patrolling the wall that blocks the road at the twists and turns of the mountain road. The walls are stacked with warning matchsticks.

Along the way, there were seven guarded walls, each with simple structures behind them to accommodate dozens of defenders, and a few sporadic dwellings behind them. A small piece of flat land was carved out in the mountains for growing grain and vegetables, and dried meat and skins hung in front of the houses, presumably the owners of the houses were hunters who relied on the mountains to eat the mountains.

The defenders were all tied with strips of black cloth on their blades, and they opened the gates of the wall one by one, allowing Xu Le and Shi Wuju to pass through. The people of Shuangying Pass all bowed down and saluted to the Shuangying Pass and the new city lord and the head of the Shi family at a higher level.

After passing through the seven walls. I came to the castle west of the Twin Eagle Pass. Now you can see it more clearly.

The two castles are similar in shape and quality, and are completely built with black stone mixed with mortar, a common building material used by the Qin people. Each piece of black stone is large and heavy, full of traces of the vicissitudes of time. There are countless battle scars. These battle marks are all common, but the most shocking thing is that they look like the paw prints of a huge beast!

These paw prints crisscrossed the walls of the fort, some several feet deep. However, it was covered with moss, and some of them were covered with wild flowers, which dotted the walls of the castle in pure black. These paw prints have been left for hundreds of years.

And this mountain top is flat. The east and west sides all look exactly the same size. Flat as a mirror. I wonder who removed the tops of these peaks hundreds of years ago and built two majestic castles opposite each other!

Each castle is 123 meters high and square in shape. The length and width are seventy or eighty meters. Completely envelops the top of the mountain. Beyond the walls of the fort is a sloping hill. It also makes the fortress wall appear high, and along the mountain road, there is almost no place where siege equipment can be placed to attack the fortress wall.

It's so dangerous. It's immersive and even more dizzying.

At this time, the main gate of the fortress wall had been opened, and a figure who looked like a white-shirted sorcerer was waiting at the door with a sword and a black cloth strip. Facing Shi Wuju Nangong An and Xu Le, who came first, the sorcerer saluted Nangong An first, then Shi Wuju, and finally it was the turn of Xu Le, the new city lord.

Nangong An was also the first to speak: "Beiguo Tao, after Ji Gongshi passed away, is it your temporary regent, are you ready to hand over?"

The practitioner called Beiguo Tao was Nangong An's henchman, who assisted the former city lord Ji Chang here. There are very few lords around who are assisted by sorcerers sent by Nangong An, and Shuangying Pass is important enough to have such treatment.

Beiguo Tao said respectfully: "Young Master An, Ji Gongshi has no descendants to inherit, so I will temporarily take the position of power and preside over the handover." According to the orders of Deputy Lieutenant Shi and Young Master An, the population who is willing to move to Qiyin has been counted, and only their personal wealth is brought with them. The rest, whether it is grain, grass, ordnance, utensils and miscellaneous uses, are all left untouched, and the numbers have been counted and counted, just waiting for Xu Jun to receive them. ”

Xu Le smiled and nodded to indicate that he knew, and Shi Wuju and Nangong An let themselves almost leave Shuangyingguan's belongings intact. Those who moved away were compensated with the grange of Qiyin. This is another big favor. Since you owe a lot, just remember it in the same way.

Shi Wuju was a little impatient, so he entered the city first: "These things are counted, and then we will talk about it, we will be delayed here for a few days." With you Nangong here, I am afraid that this account is not clear? Now the important thing is to settle down and rest quickly, Xu Le has taken in so many half of the children, and after walking so far, beware of being tired. We can be regarded as having worked hard with Xu Le, let me tell you, now that you are the master, you have a treat tonight!"

Xu Le smiled, and also entered the city in Beiguo Tao's respectful greeting.

As soon as I entered the city, I saw that there were also houses in the city, which were almost built of black stone with Qiyin, but there were no canals around them. Only a few wells draw water.

The people went down the stairs in front of the porch to see what the new city lord looked like. It turned out that almost all of the slaves and private families directly led by the nobles in the city moved back to Qiyin with a few dukes in Shuangying Pass. Now there are at most four or five hundred people in the city.

In addition to Dongguan City, there are also houses attached to the wall along the way, and the people of Shuangying Pass are more than 1,000 people.

Although the radius of more than 100 miles is within the scope of the city lord of Shuangying Pass, but this is basically a mountainous area, and the only grange that can be cultivated is the fertile area of the river valley in the north of Guancheng, but Rouran often goes deep into this area, and the people dare not go down to cultivate, and more still open up a pitiful little field in the mountains to barely survive.

No matter how you look at this pair of eagle passes, they all look poor, and they all rely on the historian to make up for them year after year in order to maintain this precipitous and important pass.

It is no wonder that Shi Wuju compensated with Qiyin Grange, and those princes in Shuangying Pass were happily willing to give up their positions here. Handed over the two eagles to Xu Le completely.

Well, that's my city............ Our City ............

It's dangerous, but it's really poor!(To be continued......)

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