Compared with the Black Water Pass, the city wall is slightly shorter, but the city wall is mottled and the age is older, and there is a large open terrain in front of the city gate, which is not easy to hide.

Lu Yi and the four of them squatted down in a bush, looking at the guards who were cruising and dancing on the city wall, and felt a big headache.

"This Wei Ren Tu led the soldiers really has its own uniqueness, and there are almost no loopholes left for us. ”

Yun Chen said in a low voice: "After all, they are all veterans who have been on the battlefield, and the importance of fighting the Iron Pass to the Chiyan Army is not comparable to that of the Black Water Pass. ”

Lu Yi pointed to the mountain peak on the left, where there was also a faint fire: "It should be the highest place nearby, it seems that Wei Nan has also set up a guard there, it seems that we can only find a way to touch it from the other side." ”

"Let's go. ”

The four of them got up and used light skills to sneak towards the mountain forest on the right side of the pass, this side is a stone cliff, bare and there are no trees to shelter it, but fortunately there are some weeds half a waist deep, but there is no need to worry about being discovered.

Approaching the pass, the chatter of the patrolling soldiers on the city wall could already be clearly heard, most of them complaining about the cold weather.

A gust of night wind blows, the mountain wind whimpers, and the coolness is terrifying.

Two soldiers armed with torches walked to the edge of the wall where a few people were hiding, raised their torches and carefully looked at the grass on the slope not far away.

"Wang Laosan, I said that you were dazzled just now? Where did the shadow come from in the middle of the night?"

Wang Laosan was still looking around, and said with a smile: "It's always good to be careful, two days ago, I heard that Captain Zhou, who was sent by the prince to Liuyun Mountain to recruit An, ran back in disgrace, and we couldn't be careless next to Liuyun Mountain!"

Another soldier sneered and said, "That is, a group of bandits, is it still vulnerable in front of the Chiyan Army?" Wang Laosan, I find that your courage is getting smaller and smaller!"

Wang Laosan said with some emotion: "Having said that, even if a group of bandits really fight, it won't be us little minions who will die?" ”

"You're right, it's all our brothers who are in trouble. ”

The two chatted with torches in hand, and drifted apart.

The four people who were lying motionless in the grass were shocked into a cold sweat, and they all secretly screamed in their hearts that they were lucky, although it was not difficult to get out if they were discovered, they would definitely startle the snake.

Lu Yi took the lead in jumping onto the city wall, taking advantage of the opportunity to turn over and hide his figure in the dark, and then the other three jumped up smoothly.

The width of the city wall is more than a zhang, and the bravenile road is lit with copper basins with fire oil at intervals, and the fire is suddenly bright and dark in the night wind, except for the footsteps in the distance, everything is silent.

After the city wall, it is an open space, and through the open space is a dense military camp, and the living life of a thousand people also needs a lot of places, but at this time it has come to the third watch, the outside is tight and the inside is loose, except for the snoring and whispering in the ears along the way, I have not encountered and heard other movements.

After turning around, Lu Yi and the four finally saw the guards again on the side of the mountain wall on the right, it turned out that the warehouses were all reconstructed with the help of the original mine caves, and the mountains of sacks in the warehouse could be seen through the shadowy firelight at the entrance of the cave.

There is a row of stone houses at the back of the barracks, and a courtyard in the middle is quite magnificent, thinking that it should be the living place of Captain Wei Nan.

The east has turned white.

There is a small village not far behind the iron pass, at the beginning it was just some veterans who were homeless, and they took root here, and slowly many families migrated here, gradually forming a large-scale village, at this time the rooster began to report in all directions, and there will be a variety of needs when the population is more, and some people who get up early to make a living have come out of the curling smoke.

Lu Yi and the four did not enter the village, but bypassed the village and planned to go to the Yingchou Gorge to have a look.

In fact, Datieguan and Yingchou Gorge are on the same mine, and they live next to each other, so the four of them took advantage of the morning light to perform light skills and only took a stick of incense to arrive.

When I arrived at the place, I found that the so-called Yingchou Gorge was actually a cottage, and it is unknown why it was named Yingchou Gorge.

A few people climbed a small hill and took advantage of the rising sun to look at the cottage sandwiched between the two mountains not far away, there were no less than 100 overlapping houses, and there were already many disciples of the sect who got up early in the morning to exercise in the open space in the middle of the village.

"If you didn't come to see it, where would you have imagined that Eagle Sorrow Gorge would be like this?"

"I always thought it was a deserted canyon. ”

Yun Chen echoed: "That's true, and I heard that the Iron Lock Gang has been selling weapons for a living, and I'm afraid it is also inextricably linked with King Song's side." ”

"Then what excuse are you going to find to trouble them?"

Li Muran said disapprerovingly: "The affairs of the rivers and lakes are in the rivers and lakes, why don't you just come to the door to challenge it?" Anyway, colluding with King Song will definitely not be a good bird!"

Lu Yi gave a thumbs up: "It is worthy of being a prince! The method is simple and direct, and it really makes people unable to find fault!"

Yun Yuan said solemnly: "The prince goes first!"

Li Muran suddenly felt unladylike when he met someone, as if the majesty of his prince did not play any role in a few people.

"Let's go, let's go to Tieshan County first to see, what kind of situation is it or to feel it ourselves. ”

The county seat is also not too far from the pass, and the official road is very wide, and there are some broken means of transport and straw huts on both sides of the road, so you can imagine how busy this road was during iron mining.

It's just that along the way, I found that the entire Tieshan County seems to be covered with a thick layer of dust, and even the green mountains look gray, which looks particularly dirty.

"What's that?"

Li Muran pointed to several large chimneys that were emitting black smoke standing tall in the county seat, and asked curiously.

Yun Chen looked at it and said with a smile: "That's the chimney used for ironmaking, iron ore has to go through many processes and forging to turn iron into iron, do you see the dust around? ”

Lu Yi is also the first time to see such a tall chimney, and there is also a chimney in the blacksmith shop when he was in Fubo Town, but it is not much higher than that used by ordinary people for cooking at home.

There are a lot of soldiers with long knives on their waists at the gate of the city, and soldiers wearing vermilion military uniforms are checking the pedestrians entering the city, and there is a tea shop not far away, and there are seven or eight guests sitting scattered and eating, and the four of them just feel hungry in their stomachs and dry mouths after walking for a long time, so they go over and pick an empty table and sit down.

The refreshment shop has soy milk and fire, as well as some seasonal cold dishes, the price is really not affordable, and the shopkeeper is a smiling old couple, and the smile is a veteran in the business field.

Li Muran was not polite, ordered several cold dishes, and everyone asked for a bowl of soy milk and two fires, and did not forget to say to the other three people when he turned around...... People are in for a treat!"

Lu Yi and the three of them repeatedly explained that they should not talk about the prince, it is easy to cause unnecessary trouble.

The old shopkeeper looked at the heroic Li Muran, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, the world is difficult! There are fewer and fewer such good-looking and money-profligate rangers.

"The guest officer is really a good eye! Everything in this store is famous, and I don't regret eating it, and it's definitely worth the money. ”

A guest at another table not far away sneered: "Fooling the new guests here again, if it weren't for the unique position of your old one, who would want to come here and stretch your neck and be stabbed?"

The old shopkeeper blushed and argued to himself: "How is it possible? Our store has always been honest in doing business, and it all depends on the old customers!"

The guest who spoke was dressed in gray and cotton shoes, and did not answer when he heard the words, but shook his head with a smile.

Yun Chen looked at the old shopkeeper's expression, smiled secretly in his heart, and didn't break it: "I see that you are a real person, and the things must be good and cheap, why don't you sit down and eat some together?"

"How can this work? I have to call other guests. ”

Yun Yuan sighed and said, "It's a pity that there is no wine." ”

The old shopkeeper looked around, lowered his voice and said: "This son doesn't know that drinking is forbidden in Tieshan County during the day, and this is explained by the county magistrate himself!"

Lu Yi took a sip of soy milk and frowned slightly, the taste of soy milk is different from that of Jiangnan Province, the soy milk here is actually salty, but it has a different taste.

Hearing the words of the old shopkeeper, he stretched out his hand to pull out a bench and said with a smile: "The old shopkeeper, please sit, we are from Luoyang to visit relatives, I really don't know that Tieshan County has such rules, thanks to your old reminder, otherwise I may not know what to lose." ”

It just so happened that the store was not busy at this time, and the old shopkeeper sat down after some excuses, and said with a smile: "It turned out that they came to visit our relatives in Tieshan County, and the four sons saw that they were extraordinary, and they must be the dragons and phoenixes among the people. ”

Lu Yi groaned slightly, lowered his voice and said, "Iron Lock Gang, Dou Gang Master." ”

The sound is not high, but it is not too low either.

The guest who spoke first glanced at him in surprise, then shook his head and continued to drink soy milk.

Lu Yi silently looked at the expressions of some guests in his heart, and secretly thought that this iron lock gang is really not a good bird as Li Muran said!

"Oh?"

The old shopkeeper's eyes lit up, and he got up and saluted: "It turned out that the relatives of the Dou gang leader came to the shop, and the little one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and I ask for forgiveness." ”

Li Muran waved his hand and said lukewarmly: "Don't worry! What are we talking about with you? After a while, my brother asks you, you can answer honestly! If you answer well, you will be rewarded! If you can't answer, hum ......."

Originally, the old shopkeeper, who was still a little suspicious, saw Li Muran's sudden momentum, and no longer had any doubts in his heart, and said with a smile: "That's nature, that's natural! Lao Er must know everything, and he can't say anything! Just ask." ”

Lu Yi burst his stomach with a smile, but he didn't expect Li Muran's shelf to sometimes play such a role, and said quietly at the moment: "There are many people here, it's not a place to talk......

The old shopkeeper understood, nodded and said: "There are just two private rooms on the second floor of the shop, which are usually reserved for the military masters, and they happen to be free today, so please come upstairs for those distinguished guests?"

The four of them followed the old shopkeeper to the second floor, and when they went upstairs, Lu Yi found that some of the guests showed a vague look of contempt, and they were not particularly afraid of the eyes of the four people.

When he went upstairs and sat down, the shopkeeper rearranged a table of food and brought out two jugs of wine.

Yun Yuan pretended to be puzzled.

"Since he is a relative of the Dou Gang Master, the rules of the county magistrate naturally do not need to be followed, a few slow uses!

Lu Yi smiled and said: "Chatting for a long time, I haven't asked the shopkeeper's surname yet?"

The old shopkeeper said with a smile: "Second Zhang, if it is convenient in the future, just mention a word to the Dou Gang Master." ”

Li Muran nodded and said, "Don't worry!

"Your brother?"

Zhang Lao Er was taken aback, and his eyes were even hotter.

Li Muran snorted coldly: "It's not like that, that's my cousin who grew up together!"

"Like! Like! Like!

Zhang Lao Er had only seen the leader of the Iron Lock Gang from a distance, and he remembered a general appearance, where could he tell the truth from the fake.

"Forgive Lao Er, what do the sons do in Luoyang for a living? What is the situation over there now?"

Lu Yi knew that this cunning shopkeeper did not believe it all, and was still testing them.

So he smiled and said: "The shopkeeper is also a knowledgeable person, what else can we do? This time I said that I was coming back to visit relatives, and now the world is in chaos, and the best thing to sell is not some guys who eat?"

After speaking, he reached out and patted the Huangquan knife on his waist.

The old shopkeeper smiled: "Then you have come to the right place, there is nothing else in Tieshan County, these things still have channels." ”

"Old shopkeeper, would I like to ask you something?"

"Childe, you said. ”

"On the way back this time, I heard a lot of rumors about Liuyun Mountain, what is going on?"

Zhang Lao Er leaned over and whispered: "It's not strange that a few sons came from afar and don't know, two days ago I heard the military masters say that Liuyun Mountain seems to be building some kind of city wall!

Lu Yi slammed the table, startled a few people, and said angrily: "Isn't it just a gang of bandits? Captain Wei and my Iron Lock Gang are friends, why don't you just order three or five hundred people to step on the level? A few of us will go back and discuss with my cousin, and we are willing to help!"

Zhang Lao Er thought to himself, if it is really as simple as you think, it looks like a dog, it is actually a straw bag! That is, it is a good fate, knowing the famous Dou gang leader, mentioning Captain Wei, then there is no need to doubt the identity of several people.

However, there was no dissatisfaction in the words he spoke, and he said with a smile: "Childe Gaojian! But where will those timid bandits in Liuyun Mountain fight you? Captain Wei led the troops in, and they hid in the hole like rats, and it was not easy to clean up, right?"

Yun Chen pretended to be anxious and asked, "Is there no way? We have to purchase a large number of goods this time, so don't be targeted by these bandits when the time comes!"

The old shopkeeper shook his head and said: "That's not going to happen, they don't dare to cross the iron barrier with ten guts!"

Lu Yi's expression was faint: "Oh? ”