Alas, the people of Rong are not in a tragedy, and Hunan is in a state of peace. I am now in great danger and have no hope of returning home. I go straight to Chang'an Road for 8,000.

"Wu Guanxi Fengliu Tufan" Tang Han Yu

——I am the dividing line—

Among the Qinling Mountains and mountains, Dou Quan, the handsome governor of Quan Shangzhou, also stood on the south gate of Wuguan, looking at the smoke and fire fighting fiercely in the sky in the distance, moving towards him little by little.

The former site of Yiguan at the northwest end of Shangzhou was also attacked by the Guanzhong bandit army from Lantianyu; it can be said that he, the last local guard of Shannan Road, who insisted on his duties, was also trapped in death with the attack on the front and tail.

The Shangyu Road, which split a river valley among the Qinling Mountains, is located in the strategic location connecting the Guanzhong Plain and the Nanyang Basin, is so important. Because Hangu Pass is really difficult to fight, the attacking parties often attack Hangu Pass head-on, and use surprise troops to attack Wuguan.

The most famous one is the battle between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang in the end of Qin. When the main force of the Qin army fought with Xiang Yu in Hebei, Hangu Pass was also guarded by heavy troops. Taking advantage of the empty defense of Xianyang and Wuguan, Liu Bang led an army of 20,000 to break through Wuguan, arrived at Bashang through Bailuyuan, and forced the Qin Prince Ziying to surrender.

For example, in the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of the Han Dynasty, Zhou Yafu did not go to Hangu Pass but went to Wuguan because of the rapidity of this path, and defeated the coalition of kings in Guandong. During the tenth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (354), Huan Wen led his army to attack the Fu clan of the Di tribe in Guanzhong, which was the way to Wuguan.

In the 12th year of Yixi (416), Liu Yu attacked the Later Qin Dynasty, and in the fourth year of Tianping (537), Prime Minister Gao Huan raised troops to attack the Western Wei, etc., and most of the battles were on the Wuguan Road. In the third year of Chengsheng of Liang (554), the Western Wei sent troops from Wuguan, passed through Xiangyang, captured Jiangling, and captured Emperor Yuan of Liang.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Wuguan Road was an important corridor leading to the capital from Jinghan and Jianghuai, and many scholars and officials went to school through this road to study or take office, so some people called Wuguan Road the "road of fame and fortune".

Many demoted officials, such as Han Yu, came to Tian, ​​Yan Zhenqing, Zhou Ziliang, Yang Zhicheng, Gu Shiyong, Wang Bo, etc., were demoted to Chaozhou, Jingxiang, Lingnan and other places, and they also walked on Wuguan Road.

Among them, from Lantian Post, which was specially sentenced to death and demoted officials in the northwest of Lantian City, to Yangcheng Post, which leads to Shan (South) East (Dao), He (South) Luo (Yang); there are as many as seventeen famous post houses in Wuguan Road.

Nowadays, Lantian, Qingni, Hangong, Lanqiao, Lanxi and other five Guanzhong offices in Shangbei, Qingyun and Yangcheng offices in Shangnan have all fallen one after another; and as the temporary guardian who took office for a short time, Dou Quan is certainly not the kind of minister who is particularly determined to serve the country.

He was a child of the Dou family, one of the national relatives. His ancestors also went abroad to study the censor and the minister of the Shangshu Pushe. However, more of them were selected by the polite officials; and then as the attendant, the scholar, the servant, the servant, the accompanying the palace, the secretary, or the palace.

When he bribed the inner minister and asked for a backer, he was able to ask himself to release the guards who were about to rush to Wuguan; he also wanted to avoid the war and war, and also wanted to guard a way out for his backer;

As a result, the situation in the court collapsed unexpectedly. His backer in the capital was even more imprisoned by the thief army without escaping. Then, the Shandong Jiedushi who relied on as the country's guardian was also ineffective, and he failed to launch a military force to fight against the thief but was defeated for granting it.

However, compared with the relatively well-informed guards of various states located in the Nanyang Basin, it was too late to get the news that Liu Jurong was defeated in Shannan, and found that he had cut off the north and south paths one after another and had nowhere to escape.

So he was trapped here in disguise and became a model of loyalty to his duties in danger. This is a great irony and sorrow for him. Fortunately, he is not without his support at the moment.

In addition to the two thousand regiments from Shangluo County, there were more than a thousand Shannan defeated troops who fled to Wuguan one after another; plus a Shence Zhen troops who retreated from Guanzhong, forming all the guard forces in Wuguan City today.

Outside Wuguan City is a mountainous valley that is winding through the valley. In front of the gate, there is even Dan water surrounding the wall, forming a narrow passage and ground; therefore, if the foreign troops want to attack the gate, there is not much room or gap to be used;

Instead, we must be exposed to the baptism of a long and long arrow rain in Guancheng, and endure the continuous casualties and perseverance, so that we can safely reach the city gate.

Then, he collected materials from Shangluo City, recruited civilians, and repaired and strengthened the disrepaired parts of the city. He also built many arrow towers and whistles behind the walls, and laid fences, horse-resisting and trenches on the narrow roads outside the city;

He also recruited travelers stranded between the two passes, and chose to choose from them and placed them in the rear camp of the pass as a backup choice for guarding the pass.

Although he was not good at military affairs, he at least knew how to hand over the matter to those who knew the knowledgeable; such as Li Jicong, the captain of the thief and Sima of the Shuofang border army, and Lu Guangxuan, the general of Fengtian Town of the Shence Army who retreated into Shangzhou.

He ordered him to separate the key points of Yuguan and Wuguan from north to south; he urged the local government in Shangluo County to raise money and grain, and he thought he would stick to the plan of waiting for change for a long time. However, it is true that human calculations are not as good as God's calculations.

Just yesterday, he suddenly received an urgent report in the city of his state, but it was Lu Guangxuan, the general of Shence Town who guarded Wu Pass in the south. He didn't know what he had gained and was crazy. He actually decided to take the initiative to fight against the vanguard of the thief army and led a group of people to the steep terrain to set up an ambush.

As a result, Dou Quan, as the governor, had to hurry over from Shangluo City to take charge of Wuguan himself to avoid any mistakes or mistakes. Just before it was completely dark, he confirmed the location of the beacon in the distance, and then returned to his residence to rest with all his heart.

Just as he tossed and turned, he fell asleep for a while and was suddenly pushed to his senses of anxiety and panic:

"Mingfu, wake up soon..."

"Mr., things are not going well..."

"Main Master, Lu Zhen General's troops have retreated overnight..."

In the cold night wind that makes people tremble, Dou Quan, wearing a heavy armor, hurriedly climbed the head of Guancheng, which was clear torch; just saw that there were still people's heads gurgling and shouting under the door;

And the fences, horse-rejecting and trenches where they came from have been overturned and filled up, and there were many tragic corpses that were dead and miserable. Dou Quan couldn't help but calm down and quickly asked at the city:

"Where is General Lu? Why did he retreat?..."

His words were like pouring a pot of hot oil into the crowd under the city, making more lingering sounds.

"Because there is a magic trick to attack the thief army... I also call out the Yin in the daytime."

"Why did we endure the wind blowing on the mountains for most of the day, but it was useless at all..."

"The thieves discovered our ambush from afar, and before they could get close, they would go to the men to guard the hills and shoot arrows and set fires."

"A lot of men were driven out before they even got into the battle, and the ambush was destroyed."

"General Lu Zhen personally led his people to kill the thieves, but he was not careful that those thieves had magic to summon thunder, so he was shocked and out of control at the moment."

"We have tried our best to come back to report the message to Mingzun... Poor Tianjian, please open the door quickly..."

"Open the portal and let them in..."

Although Dou Quan heard this, he was a little confused, but he ordered to his left and right.

"Master, this is probably going to disrupt the morale of the army, and you have to be careful of spies getting in."

A state subordinate officer quickly advised.

"If I don't let them in, I'm afraid the people in the city will be in chaos... Just put them in first, and then do supervision and screening."

Dou Quan said decisively at the panic-looking defenders on the city wall.

After this wave of defeated troops rushed into the city gate after terror, the sky began to slowly reveal a faint whiteness in the distance: At this time, on the mountain walls on both sides of the city, someone shouted again while ringing the alert gong and bronze flask;

After only a moment, the officials and generals of the Guancheng led by Dou Quan also saw the blue flag slowly emerging from the mountains, embroidered with a ferocious winged fish-shaped beast, and the army with a glittering light flashing like a large number of swimming scales under the rising sun.

But what made them even more disgusted was the strange-shaped ship that appeared on the Danshui with this army, without any need for the people and animals on the shore to pull up the boats against the rippling water.

On one of the strange ships, Bai Dulu, the artillery craftsman who had just finished reading a prayer of "Wishing the enemy to be reborn and enter the fire", also read again:

"The cannon is true and the range is just..."

——I am the dividing line—

Amid the faint roar and vibration, Du Guangting, who fled south but was trapped in the local worship of Linde Hall, also raised his head in confusion in a government office in Guancheng, but saw that the suede he had written had painted a lot of ink stains because of the wrong pen.

He was actually a Taoist priest, whose courtesy name was Shengbin and his pseudonym was Dongyingzi. Because he studied Confucianism in his early years, he was well-versed in the classics. However, he was not admitted to the Jinshi during the reign of Emperor Yizong, so he went to Tiantai Mountain to enter the Tao. As a result, he was appreciated by the current Polo Emperor because of his reputation in practicing Taoism and was recruited as an official.

However, compared with his usual poetry and bookmaking, the unknown achievements in Qingci are unique in another literary field. He has written Taoist classics such as "Guangcheng Collection" and "The Notes on the Sutra of Taishang Laojun's Talk of Changqingjing".

But what is even more famous is that he once wrote "The Legend of the Curly Bearded Guest"; he was also known as "Legend" (the Tang Dynasty novel is called "Legend" (the Tang Dynasty novel is called "Legend") written by Pei Yang, who is now a member of the imperial censor who is now in Shu.

However, no matter how well he wrote "Legend" and how thorough the classics were studied, it could not change the result of the fall of the emperor's capital in the West; it could not change the current situation where he was trapped here and was requisitioned to make some public notices.

But when he finally wrote the suede and took it out, he found that Zuojin was already in a mess, and the street market inside Wuguan was already full of panic and running; his clan brother who was traveling with him even crashed into the door and shouted loudly when he saw him.

"Brother, it's the Taiping thief in Shannan who attacked him overnight..."

"It is said that there is the method of thunder and fire passed down by the demon monk in his army. Anyone who has a thunder sound will shatter the city walls and the guards will turn into mud..."

"The whereabouts of the Governor Dou were buried under the rubble, and the guards had already begun to flee in all directions."

At the same time, among the defeated soldiers behind the city gate, Zhang Dong, a soldier from Jinzhou, Qianshan, who was waiting for inspection, borrowed the Long March garrison of Zhang Dong; he also quickly lit a wine gourd filled with gunpowder powder and broken iron pieces, and threw it into the densest place among the crowd.

There were several people who were thrown out, including water bags and clay pots. Only a sound of thunder followed one after another, and the ash smoke burst out and the waves rolled up, and the unexpected crowd suddenly fell down.

After the smoke and dust were blown away, they fell to the ground in a row. Although no one seemed to die directly because of this, they struggled and moaned bloodily, making it even more scary. Those who could still stand were trampling and scattered.

Then, Zhang Dong blew the whistle and shouted in unison.

"The city is broken..."

"The governor is dead..."

"Everyone ran away..."

While he was eased under the cover of smoke and dust, he picked up the abandoned swords and soldiers and touched the gate of Guancheng.

After another half a day, Du Guangting, who ran out of Wuguan and fled to Shangluo County, had not had time to breathe under the crowded door, but saw the cyan battle flag chasing the light cavalry on the distance of the road.
Chapter completed!