Even after several hard battles, counting the surrender army, there are still more than 1,000 Zu Que's troops. Such a large-scale private army of the palace, not to mention whether it can pass the Yanxing Pass or embrace the Snow Pass in a grand manner, and the amount of grain, grass and baggage required to march outside the Cypriot Fortress is also quite large, which goes against the original intention of light vehicles and simple obedience, and is more likely to arouse the snooping of some forces outside the Cypriot Fortress with ill intentions.

If you shake it out, the two princes of Yuzhang and Gaomi will not have such a good time in the court. Even a prince like the King of Hejian who sits on one side must be cautious in sending private troops, so as not to be truthful, let alone these two who have no real power.

Zu Cu only left more than 100 henchmen, all of whom were prepared with good horses, and accompanied Qingwei, Tang Yan and others to go to Saiwai together. In addition, the private army of the palace and more than 1,000 soldiers were led by the deputy generals of the two palaces, and returned to the palace with the spoils of war to receive rewards.

"According to the opinion of the virtuous brother, should we first go out of the Yanxing Pass, and then turn to the Eqi Inn, or go to Feiyun Prefecture from the Yongxue Pass and go straight to the Eqi Inn?"

The matter was light, and he was not in a hurry to hurry, and when a fire burned the ruins of the black mountain village, Zu Ke rode his horse slowly and asked Qingwei.

"It's both, now that the Black Mountain Village has been leveled, even if my whereabouts are exposed, no force of this scale will dare to pick up the tiger's whiskers again. ”

"Brother Xian's words are wrong, there may be no inside the gate, but not outside the gate. ”

"Brother Zu means...... Jingbian Sanzhai?"

"Exactly, these three villages are alone, although they are not as strong as the Black Mountain Cottage army in their heyday, but they are not something that our hundred horsemen can confront head-on. ”

Qing Wei frowned slightly when he heard this, and fell into deep thought. Zu Que's words are true, and no matter which side of these two paths, there are risks of encountering. If you go out of the pass from the snow pass, Bai Dengcheng will stand outside the pass; and from the Yanxing Pass, the whole road to the Banner Inn is in the hunting range of Yanran Cottage, and the slightly careless Yanran Mountain Dou Fu led the army to surround it, it is really difficult to fly.

"I thought it would be better to leave from the snow gate. ”

Liu Kun, who had been silent on the side, suddenly spoke, Qing Wei glanced at him sideways, did not answer, and waited for him to continue. For a person who reads like this, he can't finish his words at once, but always put some music out. Qingwei didn't bother to scold, anyway, he had a very bad impression of this Liu Kun.

"Although there are bandits on both sides, Bai Dengcheng is always closer to Yongxue Pass. My grandfather and I are officials, and if we were forced to identify ourselves, the defenders would have been saved, and we would never have watched us captured. In addition, my brother Liu Yu had some friendship with Xu Meng, the assassin of Feiyun Prefecture, and I could visit him and ask him to send a guard to escort him out of the customs. ”

"Xu Meng?" Qing Wei snorted coldly, "I am also one of the twenty-four friends of Zhongzhou, so I naturally make friends with your two brothers." ”

"Brother Xian, if you can pass Bai Dengcheng smoothly, it doesn't hurt to owe that Xu Meng a favor. Zu Ke patted Qingwei on the shoulder and persuaded him in his ear.

Qing Wei nodded, although he didn't want to have an intersection with a superficial and pretentious husband like Twenty-Four Friends, who was actually incorruptible, shameful, greedy, arrogant and extravagant, but after all, he wanted to get out of the customs smoothly. Fortunately, there is still a Liu Kun with whom he can be avoided, and it looks a little more pleasing to the eye at this time.

"The second brother is by no means as you think, he was just a teenager and lost his mind. Seeing that Qing Qing was not moved, Zu Que sighed lightly and did not say much.

Although the image of the twenty-four friends in the heart of Qing Wei is inferior, they are mostly influenced by their teacher Liuling. Liuling is known as a drunken immortal, one of the seven sages of the previous dynasty, and the only one who crowned the world and did not enter the court as an official, and chose to live in seclusion without being killed. The other six people all joined the imperial court before and after the founding of the Ben Dynasty and were killed one after another, and many of them were powerful. The deeds of the twenty-four friends were reported in the Xiaoyao Palace through the previous world, and then conveyed to the Qing Wei by the mouth of Liuling, which brought some personal views of Liuling.

At least after contact these days, although this Liu Kun also has the atmosphere of being full of decay and talking about metaphysics that Qing Wei hates, his open-mindedness also makes Qing Wei admire. No matter how cynical Ren Qingwei was, the other party was not the slightest impatient, as if what he said had nothing to do with him at all.

"Then go to Feiyunzhou and go out of the snow pass. ”

A few people made up their minds and rode their horses. More than 100 riders roamed, rolling up smoke and dust all the way.

On Bai Mountain, Zhao Li, the thief leader who called himself General Dangkou, did not sit in the village as usual, waiting for the people and horses who beat the grass valley every day to bring new harvests, but paced around like a lost soul. Bai Dengcheng has not had a team go out to fight Grass Valley for several days.

For no other reason, the entire Baishan Mountain was fenced off. The army of about 5,000 people, the water surrounding the front and back of Baishan Mountain is the private army of the palace led by Si Yu, the prince of Hejian.

From the moment he decided to recover Yuntai Guan, it meant that Si Yu had to get out of the Yongxue Pass, and Dou Fu, the general of Yanran Mountain, was naturally not on his route.

However, that Dou Fu was very knowledgeable, and learned about the wind and rain set off by Si Yu in the entire northern martial arts from some side doors, and also inquired about Si Yu's whereabouts, and immediately repaired a letter and sent it to show his obedience.

What's even more infuriating is that he even instigated Si Yu to directly pacify the other two villages of the three villages in Jingbian, and expressed his intention to send troops to help. This really made Zhao Li angry.

I didn't say that I must go against the meaning of the Hejian Palace, I just want to leave some time to think about it, and then make a decision on the day when the prince comes to the door, after all, I will be happy and happy on my own mountain, and if I can, no one wants to be a dog behind others.

But Dou Fu's appearance put himself in a very dangerous situation. It is said that the early fall is favored, and sure enough, this Dou Fu begged the prince to take him under his command with a shy face, which was enough to show his sincerity, and now he has cut off the back road between him and the white wolf village.

If you want to say that they are not as good as the Black Mountain Village, their power is not small, and there are also those three or five thousand people, and they should not be afraid of Si Yu's five thousand private army. Moreover, Bai Dengcheng is outside the Snow Pass in Feiyun Prefecture, and Wang Siyong of Hejian is in Xihe Prefecture, which is enough to separate Yandu and Cangyun Prefectures, even if he has 100,000 troops, he is powerless to threaten him. But Yan Ran Mountain came like this, and he wanted to attack Bai Dengcheng with the prince. The current intention of the White Wolf Village is unknown, but there is a lot of friction between the two families, and the previous Huangpu and his party almost killed his second master, Han Xiaochuan, and there is no possibility of an alliance, which is to make him one against two.

"General, don't be impatient, general, and listen to me. ”

Zhao Li raised his head when he heard the sound, but he was busy in the wasteland that day, and almost stopped Wang Huang, the deputy general of Qingwei.

"How can you understand this way of vertical and horizontal, a rural villager?"

Although he doesn't understand the way of vertical and horizontal, the rural villagers also know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Wang Huang was scolded, but he was not angry, he still squinted and smiled, like a dog.

"That's it, let's talk about it, how to use the law to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages?"

"The general doesn't want to be controlled by others, he wants to dominate the cottage, be the emperor of the soil outside the snow pass, and enjoy this blessing from God, but although this blessing is good, he has to save his life to enjoy it. ”

Wang Huang's words are all here, but Zhao Li suddenly realized that he is really a fan of the authorities and a bystander, and this truth could not be more simple.

Stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood.

The long and low horn sound outside the village sounded one after another, Zhao Li hurriedly straightened his clothes, squeezed out a smile on his face, and took Wang Huang to the gate of the village.

It was the prince of the palace between the rivers who arrived.