Zheng Chenggong's eyes suddenly gathered, and an imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He immediately walked up to Durd with his wine glass in his hand, and said with some hesitation: "Big brother, I want to ask you something." ”

Durd also raised his glass and said with a smile: "Your own brother is still so polite? Tell me quickly. ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded, "Thank you, big brother!" That's ......"

When he finished speaking, Durd smiled even more, "Haha, it turns out that brother, you still have such an affair." Congratulations for my brother! ”

"Big brother, don't make fun of me again."

"That's a good thing!" Durd drank the wine in his glass and waved his hand, "Since you have a noble son, you should go." He frowned again, "Quzhou has been decided, and the place is not peaceful, so it's better to go early." ”

Zheng Chenggong hurriedly said: "It's just that you need to go north to Quzhou and pass through Xianxia Pass......"

"Hey, it's a trifle!" Durd said nonchalantly, "Mulima has been friends with me for decades, just say hello to him." ”

This Mulima is the guard that Bolo left in Xianxia Pass.

Zheng Chenggong didn't expect it to be so smooth, just saying that he gave birth to a child in the outer room of Quzhou, he had already coaxed Durd to take him to Xianxia Pass, but the many excuses prepared before and the money to bribe the guards were not used.

The two drank for a while, and when Durd saw that Zheng Chenggong looked impatient, he went to Xianxia Pass with him that afternoon.

From Pucheng to Xianxia Pass only about 100 miles, a group of people are all horses on behalf of the walk, the next day at noon just after the pass has arrived at the pass.

Xianxia Pass is the first pass in Fujian and the only passage in Zhejiang and Fujian. In the almost vertical cliff that can be seen in the distance, stands a pass made of more than four zhang high stones, condescendingly looking down at the mountain pass, and at the end is a steep and majestic pass that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

There are three or four hundred stone steps at the pass, only five or six feet wide, and they are very steep, and if you want to squeeze into such a narrow place to attack the pass, you will definitely pay great casualties. Therefore, since ancient times, there have been "hundreds of people guarding the pass, and thousands of people can not pass." Comments.

Durd was about to order his soldiers to come forward to greet him, but he saw that the gate of Xianxia Pass was slowly opened, and a large number of soldiers and horses poured out, opening the way in front of the head, escorting twenty carts more than a foot high out of the pass.

Thousands of men followed, and at the back of the procession were ten horses covered with tarpaulins. During this period, the oilcloth was not tightly tied, revealing a corner of the items in it, Zheng Chenggong's eyes were like torches, and he recognized that it was a cannon!

When the team left, a soldier immediately stepped forward to surround Zheng Chenggong and his party, and after learning the identity of Durd, he hurriedly divided one person and ran into the pass.

Zheng Chenggong turned his head to look down the ridge again, and saw that the Qing troops who had left the pass had been divided into three routes. In the middle were dozens of carts carrying hundreds of people heading straight south. The other two teams had no less than 2,000 men each, but they were separated to the left and right, and they did not know where they were going.

In a moment, an officer in his forties came out of the gate with a red face, put his arm around Durd's shoulder, and laughed: "How can you have time to come to this barren mountain?" ”

Durde hurriedly told him what he meant, glanced back at Zheng Chenggong and the others, and continued: "There are only about thirty people, and they have brought some brocade and gold leaf, and they will go out of the north tomorrow morning." ”

Mulima also glanced at Zheng Chenggong and said in a low voice: "Guarding the customs is a heavy responsibility." Is this man reliable? ”

"A fateful friendship!" Durde immediately pulled Zheng Chenggong over and said with a smile, "Brother Zheng and I are indistinguishable from each other. ”

He then said that Zheng Chenggong sacrificed his life to save him, and Mu Lima was also frightened when he heard it, and he couldn't help nodding.

After entering the pass and walking out for a while, Zheng Chenggong only felt that the people who had just left the pass were a little strange, so he pretended to ask casually: "I just saw thousands of troops out of the pass, is there enough manpower above this pass?" On the way here, he heard Durde mention that there were more than 3,000 defenders in Xianxia Pass, but the Qing army he saw just now was far more than that.

"Most of those are Tong Peng's soldiers and the men and horses transferred from Quzhou, and they only drew nearly a thousand people from me." Mulima looked proud, "By the way, Brother Zheng came at the right time. There's a big battle tonight, and when you come back with something, you can take whatever you like. ”

Zheng Chenggong and King Chen's agreement was to start winning the pass tonight, and when he heard the words "There is a big battle tonight", he couldn't help but shrink his pupils suddenly, and peeked at Mulima again, but saw that he had no strange look, and he really looked like he wanted to be friendly with himself.

Could it be that His Royal Highness King Chen leaked his whereabouts? Zheng Chenggong was very anxious, Durd would send him north out of Quzhou early tomorrow morning, the opportunity was only tonight, do you want to do it?!

Tong Peng looked up at the sky, it should have been midnight, and the surrounding scenery was gradually becoming more and more clear.

He turned to the soldiers beside him and said, "How far is it from the customs?" ”

"Go back to your lordship, ten miles up."

Tong Peng nodded and ordered, "It's almost time, the herald is on guard." He looked at a sloping field not far in front of him, and raised his hand to point, "Camp right there." ”

"Huh!"

Tong Peng stroked the handle of the knife, stared at the twenty carts of grain and baggage in front of him, gritted his teeth and whispered to himself, "Come on, all of them are full of grain, rice, and weapons, come if you have a kind!" ”

Lord Tong said all the good things in front of Lord Belle, and patted his chest as a guarantee, so he asked for an errand to escort grain and grass for him. I thought that it was only three or four hundred miles from Xianxia Pass to Jian'an, and it was a "hinterland" that had been pacified, and this credit was as white as it was.

Unexpectedly, there were many anti-Qing rebel troops here, who sometimes attacked and harassed his grain convoys, robbing them if they could, and burning them if they couldn't, and they did it at any time day and night, often making him dare not close his eyes and sleep for several days during the escort.

Even so, he was still ruined a lot of food and salary, and he had been severely reprimanded by Lord Tong several times.

This time, Tong Peng spent a lot of money on the thieves to buy through the internal response, and learned that these thieves had gathered a large number of people, so he planned to do it in front of Xianxia Pass.

He immediately asked for 3,000 troops from his former friends stationed in Quzhou, and borrowed less than 1,000 men and horses from Xianxia Pass, gathering nearly 5,000 troops. Then use these 20 carts of materials as bait and set up a plan to lure the enemy into encirclement, and we will definitely be able to wipe out these chaotic troops.

He looked behind him, and the soldiers had removed the tarpaulins from the ten cannons and were moving ammunition. At this time, it was already dark, but he was not afraid of being discovered.

He said ruthlessly in his heart, he will not leave a single captive for a while, and he will dominate and vent the hatred in my heart!

Lin Yaotian lay behind a mound, his eyes fixed on the north side, patiently waiting for the large number of construction and baggage trucks mentioned in the informant.

An hour ago, the subordinates who were watching before the pass had just received the signal from Neiying and returned, and it had been confirmed that the car was full of real things, and there was even a half-car of firearms.

Suddenly, a tall figure came over, and his voice couldn't hide his excitement, "Kuang Ming, here, there are only seven or eight hundred people, a full twenty cars!" ”

"Good!" Lin Yaotian smiled and patted the somewhat thin young man beside him, "Alin, you have made a meritorious contribution this time!" ”"