Suojiang Pass, as the name suggests, means locking the river channel. This is a level that Yuan Dachu has tried his best to create. The purpose is not for military purposes, but for tax collection. The original river channel was covered with various obstacles set up manually. In addition to fish being able to swim, even if a small sampan is walking on it, he still has to risk a shipwreck. Because of these obstacles, the water flow here seems very strange, with turbulent flows and whirlpools spreading among them, which is daunting. If you want to pass here, you must turn a corner and pass a artificially built river channel.

Suojiang Pass was on this artificial river channel, crossing the river channel, completely locking down the ideas of anyone who wanted to go out of the customs privately and evade taxes. The entire checkpoint was originally built with stone, and such a project was indeed a great project for the original Chu State. After it was completed, it indeed made great contributions to the tax cause of Chu State at that time.

Of course, in the former Chu, especially in the later stages, many things changed. No matter how good the barrier is, it is controlled by people. As long as the person guarding the barrier is taken down, everything will be easier.

In the Ming Dynasty, Suojiang Pass finally restored its original function, and it was still monitoring tax evasion, but it was just no longer collecting taxes. After passing by the ships here, you only need to show a certificate of tax payment and you can pass through unimpeded.

Unlike the former Chu, the military role of Suojiang Pass has been amplified. The armed police stationed here are armed police. Although they are not regular field troops, the number of people is a full post, and the equipment is much better than that of ordinary armed police. On the post, there are even heavy objects such as thunder fires, crossbows, etc.

In addition to the officials of the Daming Taxation Department, there are 500 soldiers from a 500-man post guarding Suojiang Pass. In addition to guarding Suojiang Pass, these 500 people are usually responsible for patrolling the river embankment, in case someone is doing something trick on both sides of Suojiang Pass to bypass Suojiang Pass to achieve the purpose of smuggling.

Gao Yaguang never thought that Suojiang Pass would be besieged on a large scale.

The entire four counties in Jiangnan are now in a delicate situation. Although Wuzhou is not as contradictory as Huzhou, the storm is about to come and the wind is everywhere, and people with a little political sensitivity can smell it.

But Gao Yaguang didn't think there would be any danger here until he saw a group of mobs appearing in his sight.

At first, he did not take this place seriously, but sent a team of fifty soldiers to stop them and warned them not to approach Suojiang Pass.

But when these fifty armed policemen were surrounded and killed by the mobs, Gao Yaguang, who witnessed all this above the level, knew that something was wrong.

This is not a mob, it is simply a well-trained army.

Their purpose of coming here was to seize Suojiang Pass.

Gao Yaguang's teeth were clenched, because of one of his decisions, fifty brothers died worthless, but as a Zhenwu captain who retreated from the regular field army, he forced himself to calm down and made a judgment as soon as possible.

These people are the Qi army, and the formations they show now and the accents of shouting that burst out unconsciously when they kill their brothers have been clearly confirmed. Although I don’t know how these people appeared here, this is an unquestionable fact.

Gao Yaguang didn't need to know why this happened. He just knew that these people wanted to seize his Suojiang Pass, and he didn't know the purpose of the other party doing this. He just needed to know that he would never let the other party succeed.

The Qi army that came was afraid there were more than a thousand people. If they were all well-trained troops, then their command would never be opponents.

Now I am not the brothers in the field army. They are just armed policemen. They are older and have families and only a hundred people with war experience. After all, this place is not the land of the Ming Dynasty. On the land of the Ming Dynasty, if a shout in a village, maybe hundreds of iron-blooded warriors will emerge.

"Move all the crossbow machines here." Gao Yaguang stood at the gate and shouted. Unfortunately, the Thunderbolt Fire was fixed on the gate, and the aim was the river channel. If he could use the Thunderbolt Fire, he would have more confidence in keeping the level.

Under Gao Yaguang's command, some of the armed policemen stood on their posts in panic, while the other group were busy carrying crossbow machines. Several of them were weak and carrying crossbow boxes, and they fell to the ground with their crossbow arrows. The crossbow arrows fell all over the ground. Gao Yaguang was so angry that he couldn't do anything.

Seeing the dark enemy pounced on him, Gao Yaguang snatched a crossbow machine and raised a crossbow head, "Come on, come on, come and die!"

The sound of crossbow arrows suddenly sounded, and more than a dozen people rushed over from Qi Jun who were rushing to the bottom immediately fell. The people behind him were holding up the people as shields to block them, and they were still approaching quickly. Seeing this scene, Gao Yaguang felt even more chilled.

Not only are the fierce soldiers, but they are actually dead soldiers, but what are they doing to rob their own Suojiang Pass?

"Prepare for battle!" When he saw the flying grabs flying out of the Qi army and grabbing the city wall, Gao Ya couldn't take care of anything else and roared sternly.

Ordinary soldiers would not be equipped with such weapons. Gao Yahua had only seen them in the Navy Marines of the Ming army and the mysterious eagle falcon in black. When he thought of the bravery of the two troops, his back felt a little cold.

He threw away the crossbow machine, picked up the machete beside him, jumped up, and cut off one of them.

"Brothers of fighting!" Rows of soldiers rushed up beside him, stomping and stomping hard.

When Gao Yaguang cut off the second flying catch, he looked up at the direction of the county city. If reinforcements from the county city could not arrive in time, then Suo Jiangguan would inevitably fall. But the problem is that things happened so suddenly. When the county city received the news, they gathered troops to come. God knows when it was?

"Brothers of combat, the reinforcements from the county city are already on the road." Gao Yaguang tried hard to cut over a Qi army that had already landed on the top of the city, and exhaled his might to cheer the soldiers.

Gao Yahua actually had no hope. He just wanted to resist more time as a soldier. But in fact, Murong Yuan and his group were running towards Suojiang Pass at this moment.

There were less than 200 people with war horses, and basically all the cavalry were taken away by Han Huafeng. While running all the way, Murong Yuan had already figured out everything. The so-called Yangquan riot was just a trick of the Qi people, in order to attract the main force of Han Huafeng stationed in the county city to Yangquan more than a hundred miles away. The one in Yangquan must be just a small group of so-called pirates, and their real main force must be at Suojiang Pass.

Only when the merchant ships with steam engines can pass through the sea and enter the sea, their warships must be waiting on the sea at this moment.

"Hurry, hurry up!" Murong Yuan whipped the war horse that he usually regarded as treasures. It was a good horse his father personally picked up for him. He usually regarded it as a brother. He was beaten at this moment, and while neighing in grievance, he ran forward even harder.

Behind them, the infantry could only run on their legs.

Above the river, merchant ships flowed down the wind in the cold wind. Jiang Tong and Xu Fu were chatting and laughing.

"Shopkeeper Xu, at this moment, the main force of the Ming army is afraid that they are staring at Yangquan area and looking for the so-called pirates. Hahaha, when they come to their senses, we have passed Suojiang Pass, the sea is wide and the fish is swims, and the sky is high and the birds are flying."

"General Cao is really a clever plan and plays Mingren with applause." Xu Fu said sincerely. "A big thing was done with ease. I believe that Tian Kang from the Ministry of State Security of Mingren would definitely vomit blood afterwards."

"We're simple to say now, but to be honest, this is a big game of chess. You see Commander Cao strategizing while laughing, but you don't know how much hardship we have done behind it? Is Tian Kang not as easy to deal with as you imagine?"

"I didn't see what he has." Xu Fu said disdainfully.

Jiang Tong smiled and said, "Then you really underestimate Tian Kang. Commander Cao tried his best to weave this action with the violent riots that provoked Jiangnan's spinning workers, attracting Tian Kang's attention to places like Huzhou. This is why we have today's relaxation. We have won a great victory here, but in Huzhou, we will inevitably face a situation of defeat, and the price you pay is beyond your imagination."

Xu Fu was stunned for a while before saying, "Are these machines so important?"

"Of course it is so important. As long as you can get him, even if you lose thousands of elite troops, we will do whatever you want." Jiang Tong said coldly: "What's more, even if the Huzhou Rebellion fails in an all-round way, we will not be considered to have nothing to gain. At least it will become a mess. Ming people will lose the people's hearts wherever they are. It is not so easy to recover after the economy is severely damaged. If we can exchange these for human lives, then we Qi people will not be afraid of using human lives."

Xu Fu remained silent. But he couldn't help but feel a little worried about his future life. He had a cold boss and one day he sent himself into such a situation. What should he do? Unfortunately, he no longer has any way back now, and staying in Ming Kingdom will only be a dead end.

Jiang Tong glanced at him, smiling without saying a word.

In this world, except for a very small number of people, most of them have their destiny. Even as a master, he is no exception. Why not talk about a little Xu Fu?

The two stopped talking, but just stared silently at the white waves on the bow of the boat, and only went to the shore to wake them up from their thoughts.

Jiang Tong stood up suddenly, and hundreds of war horses were pulling into a straight line on the river bank in the distance, running towards Suojiang Pass.

"How far is we from Suojiang Pass?" He turned his head and asked Xu Fu, who was also shocked.

"Master Jiang, I'm afraid they will arrive in front of us." Xu Fu replied in fear.

On the bank and dike, Murong Yuan also saw the merchant ship moving alone, but at this time, he was out of reach. However, as long as he arrived at Suojiang Pass in time and kept it firmly, there would be no relationship.

People can leave, but things have to stay.
Chapter completed!