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It's approaching midnight.

Loushan Pass.

The pass is located on the backbone of the main vein of Da Lou Mountain.

This pass is a hundred miles from east to west, full of thousands of peaks, heavy cliffs stacked on top of each other, cliffs stand in absolute place, if the axe is like a halberd, piercing the sky.

A mountain road, from south to north, winds upwards along a mountain pass that was washed away by the sea and dissolved into a fissure hundreds of millions of years ago. Behind the mountains on both sides of the pass, there are thousands of cliffs, which are very steep.

As the old saying goes: "Loushan Pass, the north rejects Bashu, the south strangles Guizhou and Guizhou, one husband is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open." ”

The place is steep in the north and gentle in the south. The east and west mountains are steep and steep, the middle road is circling and rugged, the terrain is extremely dangerous, and it is the only way for Guizhou and Guizhou to enter Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Two large logs nailed with thistles are respectively laid in the middle of the north and south sides of the pass section. The checkpoints on both sides are also blocked by the rejection of horses and deer poles that are fixed with spears crossed. Almost blocked a mountain road. On both sides of the mountainside, there are also trenches, bunkers, and fortresses.

Garrisoned at the pass were officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion under the direct jurisdiction of the Guizhou Admiral. Originally, there was only one battalion of 1,000 generals (six ranks) and sentinels, with two generals (seven ranks), commanding more than 200 foot cavalry, artillery troops, and soldiers to guard the pass. Three days ago, General Chen Jingye of the Fubiao Chinese Army under the governor and Qiao Ping'an, the deputy general of the Chinese Army promoted by the Green Battalion, actually came to the pass to inspect and supervise the formation, and there were many more officers and soldiers on the pass than usual.

There are many lantern poles on both sides of the mountain road and outside the official barracks, and the lanterns hanging on the poles illuminate the pass as if it were day.

The mountain is high and the night is cold, and a total of more than a dozen soldiers who patrol the night are around a bonfire on a platform on the side of the road, laughing and talking.

The chief sentinel of Yingqian accompanied Chen Zhongjun in the living room in a cave west of the pass, munching chicken, duck, fish, and drinking wine under the oil lamp.

Vice Admiral Qiao was so drunk that he had fallen into the tent in the cave and was snoring evenly and fell asleep.

"It's been three days, and the fake Qincha that the adults want to catch are still nowhere to be found, will they have escaped from elsewhere, or have they been slaughtered in the middle of the road by other people who want to receive the bounty, and they can't come?" asked the sentinel as he poured wine for General Chen.

"It's hard to say, it's all possible. Fuck, if it weren't for them, Lao Tzu wouldn't have gone to this place where birds don't shit and made mountain mosquitoes itch all over their bodies!"

"My lord, is there really a reward of 100,000 silver for catching them?" This sentry is a veteran ruffian, who has been on the pass for a long time, has read countless people, and can be regarded as well-informed, and is the most adept at observing faces and pleasing the inspectors at all levels who come and go. "But from a small point of view, this reward is not easy to take. ”

"Why?" asked General Chen with some curiosity. He didn't expect a small sentinel to have his own opinions.

"My lord, this is knowingly asking, let's take the small test!"

"Tell me about it, and let the officer see if you are a manufacturable material. If your analysis is reasonable, to the point, it is a little interesting, and after this errand is over, this official will definitely reuse you to Lord Futai. ”

"The little one thanked the adults first! The little ones talked nonsense at the door, and I hope the adults are not to blame. The sentry was a little flattered.

"But it's okay to say. ”

"The adult official worships the general of the Futai Fubiao Chinese Army, is the third product, the guard officer of the Futai Lord, the adult's fists and feet and sword kung fu are naturally not weak, dealing with the general bandits and grass cowards, capturing a few green forest thieves, the adults don't need to make a big move at all, and work the checkpoint, right? But this time it seems to be a little unusual, the adults not only brought 100 iron cavalry fast swordsmen from the Fubiao Battalion directly under the jurisdiction of the Fu Ya, but also commanded 100 archers of the Admiral Green Battalion, and set up ambushes in shifts on the mountains on both sides of the pass, which shows that the people you want to catch are by no means idle. My lord, am I not wrong? Seeing that the adults have been eating and sleeping for several days, the little ones guessed that the adults had a tricky errand to do. ”

"Yes, this errand is not a little tricky, but very tricky! If you don't get it right, it will be small to lose your life in the future, and you may even be wiped out, and even the Nine Clans will be punished!" Listening to the sentry's words, General Chen nodded and said secretly in his heart.

He couldn't help but think of the scene when he was ordered to be appointed by the governor of Guizhou in front of the mountain pass checkpoint......