(Thanks to the dream never fulfilled, bandit horses for their support, thank you!) ）

At the beginning of July of the first year of Guangming.

Yanmen Pass, the throat is all Jin, the outside is the same, and the inside is Taiyuan.

The natural boundary of the two states of Daishuo is even more dangerous, known as the first of the nine stops in the world, and the first of the northern dangers inside and outside. In the history of the Middle Ages, it has always been a decisive line used to distinguish Huayi. Before the Middle Ages, the Datong Basin outside Yanmen was easily occupied by the northern Hudi because of the low mouth of the northern mountains, so the dangerous barrier role of the Gouzhu Mountain became more and more important. If the Hu people in the north break through the danger again, they will go straight to the Central Plains.

Since Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Western Han Dynasty, was besieged by the Xiongnu at Baishan Mountain in Pingcheng, in the long years that followed, the Central Plains Dynasty believed in the defense of the north militarily. Many emperors and emperors sent troops to control the danger of Yanmen to stop the Hu people in the north. Yanmen Pass has always been an advance base for the Central Plains Dynasty to operate further north, as well as the north gate. At the beginning of the later period of the Northern Dynasties, the Turks dominated the north, and every time they sent troops to invade the south, the Northern Qi, Sui, and Tang all suffered greatly. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was besieged by Yanmen, and at the beginning of the founding of the Li and Tang dynasties, two generations of emperors were forced to pay tribute to the Turks.

After the Tang Dynasty became strong, it finally destroyed the Turks, and there were no strong tribes in the steppe after that, especially after the Uighurs, who had always had friendly relations with the Tang Dynasty, were destroyed, and the entire Yinshan line was attached to the Hu tribe of the Tang Dynasty. However, after the Middle Tang Dynasty, the late Tang Dynasty gradually weakened, and the place of Yanmen Pass was called the Tang Dynasty, but in fact it gradually became a place controlled by various tribes.

Under the sky of Yanmen Pass, the undulating danger of hooking the mountain makes people feel a kind of silent desolation.

The wild goose is located on the mountain. Hook the mountain. Twenty-five miles west of Daizhou. A Xicheng Mountain. Also known as Yanmen Mountain. Hook note to the mountain shape hook to turn the water potential flow injection name, also called the mountain ridge, from the south of Yanmen, called the south of the south, to the north of the north.

"The first pass of Jiusai respect" Xiongguan is close to the mountain, high on the mountain, and is one of the main central passages for the wild geese to go south and return to the north. There are two gates, east and west, all of which are stacked with huge bricks. Over the geese through the clouds, the magnanimity is high, and the door forehead is carved with two plaques of "natural risk" and "geographical advantage". There is a city tower built on the east and west two gates, towering in the sky, outside the east city gate, for the general of Zhao Guo Li Mujian ancestral hall to erect a monument.

The poet Li He's "Yanmen Tai Shou Xing" of this dynasty once wrote the heroic momentum of Xiongguan: "The black clouds crush the city and want to destroy it, and the light of the armor opens to the sun." The sound of horns fills the sky with autumn colors, stuffed with rouge and night purple. Half a roll of red flags is in the water, and the frost is heavy and the cold is silent. repay the king's will on the golden platform, and carry the jade dragon to die for the king. ”

The peaks here are tall and the terrain is dangerous. After the self-built Yanmen Gate. There is also a trend of "one husband is a pass, and ten thousand people are not open". From King Zhao Wuling during the Warring States Period. Throughout the ages, this place has been regarded as a strategic location. Zhao placed Yanmen County, and since then, Yanmen has been mostly guarded by the county, province and county. The name of Yanmen Pass began in the early Tang Dynasty. Due to the rise of the northern Turks, there were repeated internal crimes, and the Tang garrison was stationed in Yanmen Mountain, and the city was set up at the commanding heights of the Iron Wrapping Gate, and the soldiers defended it.

However, at this time, this important city was controlled by the Shatuo people.

At this time, in the north of Yanmen Mountain, Cheng Huaiyi, the general who stayed behind in Yanmen, finally did not hold on to Li Keyong's previous order to hold on, and in the voice of many subordinates asking for war, he raised all the soldiers and horses of Yanmen, 10,000 cavalry, 10,000 cavalry infantry, plus 50,000 newly recruited northern border Han Han, and fought out of Yanmen Pass, all the way to the north, preparing to recover Shuozhou in one fell swoop, and go to Yunzhou to meet with the Hu cavalry brought by Shi Yan.

From the moment they came out of Yanmen Pass, Zhang Zimian had already firmly stared at them.

Zhang Zimian is like a smart hunter, when he sees his prey out of the hole, he does not attack it at the first time. He sent scouts to hang far behind, ready to report their movements. And he continued to lead his troops to lurk in the Jieshi Valley under the Great Wall, allowing the Shatuo army to swagger through the north not far away.

He didn't plan to start a war here, this place was too close to Yanmen Pass, and once he used this place as a battlefield, those Shatuo people would most likely immediately flee back to the cave. If the prey hides back in the hole, it will be troublesome to try to lure them out. Therefore, Zhang Zimian's plan is very simple and clear, let the Shatuo people continue to go north first, and when they are not far from Yanmen Pass, it is also the time when they are most relaxed and paralyzed, and he will really launch a fatal blow.

After three days of careful marching north from Yanmen, the vanguard cavalry of the large army arrived at Shuozhou City. Shuozhou City was already an empty city at this time, and it was destroyed in a burn. After Cheng Huaiyi heard the news, he completely relaxed. The Qin army burned Shuozhou, which shows that they have indeed left. Along the way, they had seen too many burned villages, towns and villages, and some of the people they met also said that they had seen the army go north.

"Set up camp on the spot!"

Shuozhou City had been burned down and could not be stationed, so Cheng Huaiyi ordered that the forward cavalry battalion be stationed in Shuozhou City, while his Chinese army battalion and the 50,000 people behind him were stationed in Langya Village, twenty miles southeast of Shuozhou City.

Twenty miles southeast of Shuozhou City, on the east bank of the Grey River, a tributary of the upper reaches of the Sanggan River, Langya City is located in an open plain, bordering the river, and there is a dense forest here that stretches for several miles, which is an excellent place to camp in the hot summer.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, the night.

A half-moon that comes out of the west in the first half of the night, with half of the moon facing west, is also known as the first quarter moon.

The moonlight tonight was a little peculiar, and the half of the moonlight actually shone with a hint of red light, and the smoke shone dimly on the fields and treetops on both sides of the Greywater River.

In the middle of the night, an old man of fifty Han people in Daizhou, who had been forcibly conscripted, lay in the camp and looked up at the red moon, he couldn't help but be frightened, he pinched his fingers and kept calculating, and after a long time, his eyes showed shock.

"Blind, why are you so surprised?" A few people who were braided together next to him asked.

This old man is a fortune teller, because he usually likes to close his eyes and pinch his fingers to tell fortunes, so everyone calls him blind.

"The big murderer, the red moon, the rebellion, I count tonight as a big murderer, there is a military disaster!" The blind man said nervously.

"You're talking nonsense again, you were considered a rich and noble man a few days ago, and you will definitely be rich and wealthy in the future. But Lao Tzu is thirty-five years old and is still single, and the whole family is not hungry when he eats for one person. Originally, my father didn't love my mother for thirty-five years, but he was so blind and messed around. And still alive to this day. But that day, you pulled Lao Tzu on the street and calculated a hexagram. It is said that Lao Tzu is a symbol of great wealth and nobility. But Lao Tzu was forcibly pulled the next day, and now he is being dragged to Daibei, I heard that he is going to fight with the Qin army, isn't this fucking nine times out of ten that he won't be able to come back. So, blind man, you're a fucking bullshit, if you really know how to calculate, how can you not count that you will be pulled into a strong ding, why won't you run away earlier. A long, stout and vicious man next to the blind man snorted coldly. Said sarcastically.

In this hot summer, the grain cart dragged for a day during the day, and at night, although it was a little cooler, they didn't even have a tent, and countless mosquitoes in the wasteland pounced, and they couldn't drive it away with both hands left and right, and they slept early. This will be nonsense. It's also a joy in the midst of suffering.

Someone laughed and said, "Blind, show Lao Tzu." Maybe Lao Tzu is destined to be rich and rich, and he will be the head of the capital in the future. If you calculate for Lao Tzu, when Lao Tzu becomes the head of the capital in the future, Lao Tzu will let you be the deputy head of Lao Tzu. ”

But the blind man paid no attention to their taunts, but looked up at the sky from time to time, pinching his fingers and chanting words.

After a while, the blind man sighed, slapped his thigh, and without a sound began to clean up his little ragged clothes.

"Blind, what are you doing?"

"For the sake of traveling all the way, the old man will advise you, there is a military disaster tonight, if you don't want to give your life, you should run away quickly."

"Blind, are you really?" At the beginning, the fierce man in his thirties grabbed the blind man, "Are you going to die? There are Shatuo soldiers everywhere, where can they escape? If you are discovered, not only will your old bones be lost, but we big guys will also be affected by you. I haven't lived long enough, so I don't want to die here. ”

"If you don't want to die, then believe me, run, run away, time is running out."

"Where to run?"

The other people were a little uneasy by the blind man's posture, and asked worriedly.

The blind man looked left and right, and there were people everywhere, but he knew that there were Shatuo soldiers surrounding them on the periphery, and they had already escaped from preventing them.

"In this way, let's find a place to hide, and when the soldiers are in chaos for a while, we will act again."

The vicious man was also a little skeptical at this time, "Will you really fight in a while?" ”

"Listen to me."

"Who are you fighting against?" Another teenager asked.

The vicious man knocked a storm on his head and shouted softly: "Fool, according to what the blind man said, someone must have come to rob the camp, yes, it must be the Qin army." Who else but them. ”

The blind man glanced at the vicious man with some surprise, but he didn't expect that under his vicious face, he still had such a sober mind. When Shen Shen groaned, he said: "Actually, this is not all bad, it is said in ancient times that fortune and misfortune depend on each other, and the key depends on luck and ability." If everyone is willing to give it a try, it may not be an opportunity right now. ”

"What chance?" The ignorant young man asked, this is just a peasant child in the countryside, and he doesn't know anything at all.

"A chance to make a fortune, or even a chance to make meritorious contributions." But a fine light flashed in the eyes of the fierce man, and his gaze fell on the blind man, sweeping around him, as if he was surprised.

"What an opportunity to make a fortune, what an opportunity to make a meritorious service, what is it, what is it, Brother Dong, there is really such an opportunity, but I can't forget my brothers." The other few people were originally all ruffians, and when they first got together, they always wanted to yell at them and bully others. As a result, once when a guy snatched the young man's dry food, this vicious man named Song Wendong took action and taught them a hard lesson. Song Wendong beat all six guys down with one enemy and six, and he didn't make a fuss yet, but these scoundrels immediately served Song Wendong as the boss.

Song Wendong sneered, his eyes were still staring at the blind man, and he said lightly: "I advise a few of you, don't have that kind of thought, some money and wealth are expensive, but not everyone is blessed to earn it." Don't force it all the time, otherwise, you will regret it at that time. ”

It's just that his words not only did not dispel the thoughts of those guys, but made them more and more interested and energetic.

"Brother Dong, what is the matter, you tell us, anyway, now that it's all over, it's a rotten life, what else don't you dare."

"That's it, that's it, my brother just said it. If we really have that blessing and that life, we won't dare to get any benefits at that time, and we will definitely give some to my brother. ”

The blind man sat aside with his eyes half-closed and seemed to be smiling, which made Song Wendong very unhappy, and then saw those guys sticking to his side like dogs, and sighed at the moment: "Okay, maybe you really have that blessing." In that case, I'll show you the way. ”

"What way, what way?"

"Let the blind tell you." Song Wendong opened his mouth, but he didn't say any more, pointed at the old blind man, but turned away.

The few Laipi immediately turned around and said to the blind man, "Blind man, what is it, tell our brothers." ”

The blind man opened his eyes and glanced at a few people, still with the same expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and at this time there was still a little nervous appearance just now: "Okay, I will show you a rich and prosperous road, and after a while, you will tie a white cloth on your arm, and then set fire everywhere in the camp, shouting defeated, defeated, run away, just run away." ”

The few serious guys who were listening were all stunned on the spot, this, this is even more terrible than running away. Well, this old blind man, this is a joke.

"Damn, it's not funny at all, let's get down to business, where is the rich road?"

"The old man is not joking, this is the road of wealth. The surname Song just said that if you want to take this road, you have to be brave and lucky. Ability, courage, and luck are all indispensable. I have already pointed out the way, and the words have come to this, whether you dare to do it or not is your own business. ”

A couple of scoundrels gasped in unison, damn it, it's true. Is this old blind man a spy?

In fact, at this time, not only those scoundrels were doubting the identity of the blind man, but even Song Wentong suddenly turned his head and glared at the blind man.

"Sure enough, at the beginning, you were pretending to be a ghost, but in fact you were just Qin Jun's meticulous work. Aren't you afraid that someone will report to the Shatuo people and exchange your head for a reward? Song Wendong glared at the blind man.

The blind man sneered like a fox stealing chickens.

"Yes or no, whether you want to tell the truth or not, it's up to you." The blind man's eyes changed suddenly, "But you are not an ordinary person, if the old blind man guessed correctly, you are actually a deserter, where did you use to be a soldier to eat food?" Lu Long, Yiwu, or Chengde? ”

Song Wendong's face changed, and he coldly spit out a few words: "I really underestimate you, it's a bit of a Taoist, Lao Tzu used to be from the Boye Army in Chengde Town, and he was the head." ”

"Why are you running away?"

"Because I'm not going to hold on to a leaky ship that's about to sink, I'm just going to get off the boat early."

The blind man sneered again: "Now I am holding a small boat, but I can take you on a big ironclad ship, are you willing to get on my boat, although this small boat is a little broken, and it may be overturned by the upcoming big waves at any time, but if you can survive this storm, you can board an ironclad giant ship." ”

Song Wendong involuntarily clenched his fists, his eyes revealed a hesitant gaze, and after thinking for a long time, he finally waved his fist, "Damn, fuck it!" ”

"Brother Dong, what are you doing, what are you going to do?" The young man was confused and asked confusedly.

The scoundrels cursed in a low voice, "Idiot! (To be continued......)