The battle situation ahead was urgent, Tong Yan led hundreds of cavalry out of Sanshui City and ran all the way, even when it came to dinner, everyone did not stop at all, and finally arrived at the destination Xisha Pass at the ugly time.

Xisha Pass has a long history and is the first pass established after the founding of the Zhao State. This pass is built with the help of the mountain, more than 30 meters high, about 50 miles long on the left and right. There is a huge stone gate more than ten meters high at the pass, and every time there is a war, the stone gate will be closed, and foreign enemies will not be able to easily step into the Zhao country from here. Not only that, on the high walls on the left and right of the stone gate, there are also a number of beacon towers and lookouts, so that the guards can watch the movement of the enemy army at any time and light the wolf smoke to give timely warning.

On the Great Wall of our motherland, there are many beacon towers. This is an important military defense facility in ancient times, it is built to prevent the invasion of the enemy, if there is an enemy situation, it will smoke during the day, ignite the fire at night, and the platform is connected to each other, passing each other.

There are defenders patrolling Xisha Pass every moment, as the first pass in the southwest of Zhao State, if there is a slight mistake here, the direct result is that the enemy army enters the hinterland of Zhao State, and the imperial court does not know it. By the time the enemy arrives in the city, it will be too late. The importance of border gates has always been the top priority of national defense at any time. Back then, if it weren't for Wu Sangui's anger and leading the Manchu Qing Dynasty into the customs, perhaps the Ming Dynasty would not have perished so early.

Let's say that when Tong Yan led everyone to arrive here, the gate of Xisha Pass was closed, and there were torches on the high wall, and people were crowded.

There is a barracks below Xisha Pass, which is more like a small city. Because of the large number of soldiers defending the city, if they do not do a good job in logistics support, they really wait for the invasion of foreign enemies, how can these soldiers defending the city do their best to fight the enemy?

Tong Yan did not enter the military city, but decided to climb the high wall to see the situation first, only by knowing in his own heart can he make the right way to meet the enemy.

As soon as he led his entourage to a hundred meters in front of the military city, a patrol squad under the high wall of Xisha Pass quickly greeted him.

Because the soldiers guarding here basically haven't seen Tong Yan, they just heard the general who arrived here first said that His Royal Highness the prince will arrive soon, but as for when he will arrive, they don't know.

Although Tong Yan was wearing golden armor and a red cloak, for the sake of safety, the leader of the patrol still asked: "This general, we are ordered to patrol here, please show your military badge and let me check it!" ”

Before Tong Yan could speak, Wu Saburo beside him immediately scolded loudly: "Presumptuous, this is His Royal Highness the Prince." How can you be a little patrol leader who can check it? ”

Tong Yan looked at the patrol leader with interest, wanting to see what he would say. Unexpectedly, the patrol captain straightened his chest and said fearlessly: "This is the duty of my patrol, and it is the order of the general, even if it is His Royal Highness the Prince, it cannot be an exception." Besides, now that foreign enemies are eyeing you, who can guarantee that you are not enemy spies who have infiltrated this place over the mountains? In extraordinary times, you have to use extraordinary methods, no matter who you are, you have to cooperate! ”

When Wu Saburo heard this, his heart burned with anger, and he actually pulled out his sword with a "poof". "What a bold man, rude to His Highness, what crime should you be guilty of?"

When the patrol captain heard this, he replied loudly: "The state has national laws, and the army has military regulations, if His Royal Highness the prince can't set an example, how can he serve the public?" Even if I die today, I will not allow you to move forward. With that, he drew his sword from his waist. Seeing this, the patrolmen behind him pointed the finger at Wu Saburo, and they had the momentum of fighting to the death.

The cavalry who came with him was worried that Tong Yan would be in danger, and they also showed their weapons "poof", and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

However, Tong Yan didn't care about this, on the contrary, he was in a good mood at the moment.

"Alright, put away your weapons. You are all the elite soldiers and strong generals of my Zhao country, and your strength will be used on foreign enemies when the time comes, and you can't fight your own people with your own people. This general, you're right, even if I'm a prince, I'm no exception. But I'm sorry, I don't really have a military badge. Otherwise, I'll show it. General Wu, can you have a military badge on you? ”

Wu Saburo nodded a little reluctantly and said, "Your Highness, the military badge of the last general is on your body, do you mean to let me show it?" ”

Tong Yan smiled slightly: "That's right, take out your military badge!" ”

The prince had spoken, and Wu Saburo naturally didn't dare to say more, so he hurriedly took out his military badge. This military badge is actually a round wooden plaque engraved with the character Zhao. The pattern on the sign is very beautifully carved and should be specially made. According to the patrol captain, it may be that every military general in Zhao State has such a military badge on his body, and according to the rank of the officer, the military badge is also different. It's a bit like the epaulettes now, and it can also be used as an ID card, which can be described as a multi-purpose.

After Wu Saburo took out the military badge, he threw it directly to the patrol captain, and then said arrogantly: "I am the leader of the Imperial Forest Military Academy, take a closer look, is there a fake?" ”

The patrol leader stared at it for a while, and said with some embarrassment: "Your military badge, your military badge is a little different from ours, I have never seen it." So...... So please wait here, I'll go into the military city and make some inquiries, and then decide whether to let me go!" ”

When Wu Saburo heard this, he trembled with anger, he gritted his teeth and said, "Bastard, you deliberately blocked us from entering, right?" You doubted our identity, and now I doubt yours too. Come on, take them all down for me! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a group of people walking out of the military city. Although the group did not ride horses, their steps were quite fast, and in a short time they came to the front of everyone.

Illuminated by the torches in the hands of the patrol soldiers, Tong Yan saw the general at the forefront at a glance.

The general naturally also discovered Tong Yan, and he didn't dare to hesitate, he hurriedly knelt down on one knee and said: "The end will be late, let His Highness wait here for a long time." Please forgive your sins! ”

As soon as he knelt, the others hurriedly knelt down.

"I'll wait to see Your Highness!"

Tong Yan looked at everyone, immediately turned over and dismounted, and said, "Generals, please get up quickly!" You guarding the frontier are the heroes of my Zhao country. When you see me in the future, don't kneel down again. ”

These frontier guards didn't expect His Royal Highness to be so approachable, and their favorability towards His Highness was greatly enhanced.

After everyone got up, Tong Yan asked directly: "General, you came here two days before us, I don't know what the enemy army of the Flying Dragon Country has been doing in the past few days?" ”

When the general heard this, he was about to open his mouth to answer, but he didn't expect that a raging flame was burning on the beacon tower not far away, and the flames almost illuminated half of the sky.

Tong Yan swept away, and couldn't help frowning, "What's going on?" Could it be that the enemy is attacking? ”