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The horse's hoof stepped on the stone slab and made a small sound. Brother Hei yawned boredly, and Gu Nan sat on it and pulled the rein.
The soldiers behind them followed silently, and the spears and daggers standing like a forest shimmered in the winter sun.
The grass beside the road looked dry and yellow, and all of them bowed their heads under the pressure of the wind.
The small flow made a soft sound, and a sparrow was parked beside the stone bridge above. When it saw the approaching army, it jumped twice, tilted its head, and then was startled, flapping its wings and flying towards the distance.
There were 30,000 defenders at Hangu Pass, so Gu Nan's army had only 1,000 soldiers in the battle, plus a general order to dispatch the defenders.
These thousand people can be mobilized at any time. After all, they are different from ordinary soldiers, and they cannot go home even during military leave. Ever since the previous generation's fall, Yingji had made a rule for Gu Nan.
The troops of the fallen army can only be restored to the status of good men after serving the military limit for five years, and the military merit reaches a hundred men. After that, those who stay in the army are directly promoted to a hundred generals. .
When Gu Nan led the army to the city gate, he met Ying Zheng and Li Si. According to their intentions, they came to see him off.
Gu Nan didn't refuse either, so it's okay to let them follow along.
"Mr. Gu, what is it like outside the customs?" Ying Zheng turned his head and asked Gu Nan. Although he came back from outside the customs, he never went out of the customs after he grew up. He was very curious about the outside of the customs.
"Outside the pass." Gu Nan raised his head as if thinking for a while, and looked at the child beside him with a smile.
"It's just a wasteland. There are man-eating beasts everywhere. They eat people without spitting out their bones. There are also carrion vultures, which specialize in eating dead bodies and children like you."
Ying Zheng shuddered at Gu Nan's laughter, shrank his neck and muttered.
"Sir lied to me again."
"Ha ha."
Gu Nan smiled and patted Ying Zheng's head, messing up his hair crown.
"I didn't lie to you."
"Stop patting my head, I'm not a child anymore." Ying Zheng shook his head complainingly, and looked at Li Si again.
"Mr. Li, do you think it's really like that outside the pass? My father told me that there are many great countries outside the pass, and there are vast mountains and rivers. How could it be such a barren land as Mr. Gu said?"
Li Si sat on the horse, sighed, and said with a smile: "You Mr. Gu are right."
How are the countries that the wolves look at and the tigers look at are not man-eating beasts that don't spit out their bones, how the soldiers and rioters are not carrion vultures, and how the dilapidated land that is full of wars is not a wasteland.
"Ah?" Ying Zheng's small face looked a little disappointed: "Then father lied to me?"
"No, your father didn't lie to you either."
Li Si shook his head.
"Father didn't lie to me?" Ying Zheng was taken aback, so what is it like outside the pass
He scratched his hair, bowed his head with a bitter expression on his face, unable to think.
Gu Nan and Li Si looked at Ying Zheng's appearance and smiled at each other.
"Don't think about it." Gu Nan said.
"You'll understand later."
After finishing speaking, Gu Nan turned to the two of them: "Let's send it here."
If you go any further, you will soon lose sight of Xianyang City.
The army stopped, and Li Si pulled his horse in front of the bridge and nodded: "So, Si will bid farewell to Mr. Gu, and see you tomorrow."
Ying Zheng also put on a serious look, and bowed to Gu Nan: "Student, goodbye sir."
"Okay, there's no need to be so serious."
Gu Nan patted Brother Hei, turned his horse's head, raised a hand and waved it: "Let's go."
The soldiers in the formation walked past Ying Zheng and Li Si, led by the white robes, going further and further.
"Young master, let's go too."
Li Si took a deep look at the leaving army.
Just turned over the rein.
Knowing that there are tens of thousands of people, but also going to them, are all those who are generals like this
Oh, what a group of crazy people.
"Mr. Li, what is Mr. Gu going to Hangu for this time?"
Ying Zheng frowned when he saw Gu Nan walking away, and looked at Li Si. Although he was young, he didn't know everything.
As early as the movement in the court, I saw a clue. This time, the army going outside the pass has reached 200,000 people, and all the generals outside seem to be doing something.
A thing that can make the world turbulent.
Li Si closed his eyes halfway, looked at Xianyang, opened his mouth, and said slowly.
"Chasing the tiger and chasing the wolf!"
The distant mountains were submerged in the night, and half-caged in the clouds and mist, they couldn't see clearly. The howling cold wind blew the grass and folded it, and it was endless, the moon was light and the clouds were sparse, but the bright stars were under the curtain.
In the wilderness, there is only one majestic pass standing between the mountains and rivers, like a giant beast crawling on the wilderness.
Entrenched there, the long river and mountains were divided into two sections.
At the head of Hangu City, the black flag of Qin Junda was blown by the wind and rattled.
Gu Nan was wearing a general's robe, sitting at the pass, looking at the long road on the side of the Hengduan cliff, which was like a chiseled knife.
There is a low table in front of him, with a pot and a cup.
Counting Meng Ao, Lu Buwei, and her, the Qin army mobilized 200,000 troops in one go, which doesn't seem like a lot, even less than half of the battle of Changping.
However, in the Battle of Changping, there were 600,000 people and hundreds of thousands of people.
Few people know about the 200,000 yuan this time, and there are almost no civilians, all of them are in the ranks.
Ying Zichu made a good plan, but others didn't take it seriously when they saw that Lu Buwei's attack on Dongyi City was only tens of thousands of people.
In fact, with 100,000 people in the tie, this force is enough to attack a country.
It's just that Lu Buwei is really credible
Gu Nan frowned.
She no longer knows that although Lu Buwei is the leader, he does not have a general order in his hand, and the general order is in the hands of another secret guard of Ying Zichu. If he dared to move lightly, all he wanted was his life.
Asking Lu Buwei to lead the army is just to make people look down on them and not pay attention to the boundaries of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
"General."
A person suddenly appeared behind Gu Nan: "What are your orders?"
The man was wearing tight black clothes, but his figure was invisible, and there was a wooden mask on his face.
The royal family's secret guard, Ying Zichu, lent Gu Nan alone for her to dispatch.
"You go to General Meng Ao, and from then on, tell me all the details of their military affairs. Especially the trend of Wei Guo."
"clear."
The secret guard nodded, retreated into the shadow under the gate and disappeared.
Gu Nan lowered his head, picked up the jug, tipped it slightly, the water in the jug poured into the cup, and twirled endlessly.
It was very quiet at night, without any sound.
"Gah."
A cry from nowhere broke the silence, like the cry of a crow.
Then a black feather fell from a height and landed on Gu Nan's desk.