Chapter 162: Niangzi Pass
Two days later, in the county government of Yuanyang County, Hu Yanzhuo listened to the report of the soldiers, and smashed the teacup in his hand with a bang, and the newly appointed Hugh Tu King Xu An next to him fell to his knees in fright, trembling uncontrollably.
"A thousand Hun warriors died in such an unknown way, and there are four thousand Hugh slaughter soldiers, is he Amir a pig, he can't even beat the Yanmen Pass"
His eyes were red, like an angry leopard, choosing people to devour. Xu An was frightened and didn't dare to look up. It is no wonder that Hu Yanzhuo was angry, when the Xiongnu attacked Yuanyang County, they did not lose so many troops.
Last year, Prince Hutu was assassinated, and King Hutu also died in anger. Hugh Tu was plunged into endless civil strife. Several princes competed for the throne, and the fight was inextricable. Only then did the Huns have a chance. At that time, the Xiongnu general attacked Yuanyang County, and the little prince of King Hutu resisted with his troops, but his cousin Xu An led his troops to surrender and opened the city gate at night. When the Huns entered the city, they killed all the Jin clan of the king of Hutu and helped Xu An to become the new king of Hutu, and Xu An ordered all the departments to surrender to the Huns.
Xu An's father Xu Chen is the head of the Xu family in Yunzhong, the Xu family is the largest family among the Han people in Yunzhong, and he married King Hutu that year, Xu Chen married the sister of King Hutu as his wife, and the two families joined forces to completely control Yunzhong County. Yunzhong County was in turmoil, and several princes competed for the throne, and they all won over the Xu family, giving the Xu family a lot of benefits.
Xu Chen was scheming and calculating, so that the strength of several princes was balanced, so that he could profit from it. Thinking that when the time is ripe, he will take the throne of Hutu with a final blow, but people are not as good as heaven, and the Huns led a large army to kill, all the way like a bamboo, and it was unstoppable, and the Xu family surrendered to the Huns.
Although Xu An got his wish to become the king of Hugh Tu, the Huns were extremely strong, wielding knives to kill people at every turn, and Xu An was just a marionette.
"The marshal is angry, since the Han people don't know what to do, and lead the army to level Yanmen County, there are many Han people in Yanmen County than in Yunzhong, and when the time comes, they will all be arrested as slaves" Xu An stood up tremblingly and said.
"King, what you said is extreme" Hu Yanzhuo bit the word king very hard, and the color of ridicule was overflowing. This Xu An would say such a thing, as if he was not a Han person, yes, it is really despicable.
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, I listen to the big handsome, I'm the big handsome's pawn, what the big boss says, what do I do"
Hearing the ridicule in Hu Yanzhuo's tone, Xu An was even more frightened, he saw Hu Yanzhuo kill people more than once, that is, in an extremely cruel way, either picking his nose and heart, or cutting off his limbs and throwing them on the hill to feed the wild wolves. Every time he heard the cry of the wild wolf on the hill, Xu An was so frightened that his legs trembled.
"Since the king said so, then I am offended"
"Don't offend, don't offend, please command, marshal"
"Gather the slaughter of the people, and attack Yanmen County with the general" Hu Yanzhuo finished speaking, walked out of the county office, praised the war horse, and galloped towards the Xiongnu military camp.
Two days later, Hu Yanzhuo led 8,000 cavalry and 20,000 Xiu Tu soldiers to rush towards Yanmen County.
"General, out of Shangdang County in front, Wu Zhao sent someone to ask, whether to take the official road into Taiyuan County, or follow the mountain road directly into Yanmen County" Chu Yu rode a horse from the front team to Wang Gang, jumped off the war horse and asked.
After several days of rapid marching, the army led by Wang Gang finally walked out of Shangdang County. There is a fork in the road ahead, if you take the official road into Taiyuan County, the official road is wide, suitable for marching, but it is farther. If you take the mountain road, you can directly enter Yanmen County.
"Let's go, let's see"
Wang Gang followed Chu Yu to the fork in the road and raised his eyes. It is a winding mountain road that follows one side of the hill and on the other side is a canyon with a small river with babbling water. It seems that very few people pass by here, and there are many rocks. The roads are overgrown with weeds. By late autumn, the weeds had already withered and turned yellow. The mountain on the left is very steep, about 200 steps from the fork, and a small pass is established.
"General, that's Niangzi Pass," Wu Zhao said, pointing to the small pass.
{Niangzi Pass, formerly known as Weize Pass, there are many legends here, you don't have to worry about it, just think about it as a plot need, don't care about the details}
The three of them walked towards Niangzi Pass, came to the front, Niangzi Pass was built according to the mountain, condescending, the city wall was about two zhang high, and two gates were built. A large gate on the left has been blocked with stones, leaving a small gate about three feet wide on the right. There is a stone tablet inlaid on the stone wall, which is engraved with Zhili Niangzi Pass, five mottled characters. On the city wall, there are watchtowers and arrow towers, which are used to look out for the enemy.
Wang Gang was a little puzzled, they had already walked to the front of the pass, but they didn't see the soldiers in the pass coming, and the three of them walked through the small door and into the pass.
Perhaps hearing the footsteps of several people, an old man with staggering steps walked out of a low room on the side, and was startled when he saw Wang Gang, and then knelt in front of Wang Gang and said.
"Little Lao'er has seen a few generals"
Wang Gang hurriedly stepped forward to help the old man up.
"Uncle please, this general is the general of the Han Dynasty, General Anton, who was ordered to come to Yanmen to crusade against the Huns, I don't know if the old man knows, why there are no soldiers guarding this lady's pass"
The old man looked at Wang Gang, seeing that Wang Gang's age was only in his twenties, how could he be such a big general, and hurriedly said.
"I don't know that General Anton drove and collided with the general, and I ask for forgiveness" After the old man finished speaking, he looked up and saw Wang Gang showing a kind smile, and his heart was a little calm, and he continued.
"The Huns attacked Shangdang County, Zhang Taishou led the army to resist, and the guards of Niangzi Pass were also transferred back by Zhang Taishou. The people were afraid of the cruelty of the Huns, and most of them fled, so I followed the villagers to Taiyuan, accidentally broke my leg, and stayed here."
Wang Gang couldn't help sighing, this old man looks like he is over seventy years old, his legs and feet are inconvenient, and he is alone in this Niangzi Pass, I'm afraid he won't be able to survive this winter.
Wang Gang asked some more about the situation in the pass, and the old man told him everything he knew.
Niangzi Pass is very small, there is only one wall, the mountain road inside is wider than the outside, along the side of the mountain wall to build a few low houses, has collapsed a lot, is very dilapidated. Niangzi Pass is like a gourd mouth, there is a big valley in it, the small rivers in the canyon converge here, forming a lake, a waterfall slopes down, but there is no cave.
Wang Gang ordered people to send the old man to the distant Jingcheng Pass, Jingcheng Pass is to build the official road leading to Taiyuan County, is the throat of Taiyuan, since ancient times are the battleground of the soldiers, the city wall is very tall, much higher than Yanmen Pass and Tongguan, there are two thousand soldiers sent by Ding Yuan to guard.
Wang Gang ordered Wu Zhao to go to the camp and go down to the village, and took Chu Yu into the stone house of Niangziguan, the stone house was very small, and he had to bow down to get in, and there was only one zhang long and wide inside, and a small stone platform was located on the side of the stone house. Moved away from the stone platform and put the exchange device inside, and as the stone platform closed, the screen gradually lit up.