After Mei Cheng left Lei Yuan and others' team, he and several entourages returned to the Leigujian Pass.

The mountain path leading to the pass did not undulate and wind along several steep cliffs like the one in front, but rose violently, and rose in zigzag turns before him. Looking up, the peak on which the platform was attached blocked the sunlight, dark, as if it was about to collapse; looking down, the deep valley was surrounded by several steep cliffs, like a bottomless well.

The most difficult place to walk among the more than 20 miles of dangerous paths in Tianzhu Mountain is the so-called drumming pass in front of the platform. It is a road that extends almost vertically upwards. It doesn’t look like a road, but it looks like a stone staircase. The stone staircase is only more than three feet wide, and there is a cliff next to it.

At this time, the fog in the mountains had completely dissipated. Mei Cheng could vaguely see a narrower mountain road passing by several meters below the cliff; a few more meters below the cliff, and another one. Previously, several meters below the cliff cavalry had chased the refugee team in front through these two mountain roads, which was said to have caused some losses. Mei Cheng thought about it and planned to advise his uncle and sent more people to stare at it. When Cao's cavalry returned, they could either shoot arrows or throw stones, which could save several lives.

I heard that Lei Yuan, the young man from the Lei family, proposed to use elite troops to guard this place in the military discussion a few days ago. This idea was a secret relationship with his uncle. Lei Xuzhi only knew how to travel around the mountains and rivers, but he didn't expect that he had some knowledge at the critical moment.

Looking further down, there are many fragments scattered there, some like broken and decaying car bodies, some like food supplies, and some are split bones. Those are the journeys that have fallen off the cliff in danger over the years. Four days ago, when the evacuation teams stopped by the Jianghuai tyrants passed by this place one after another, they added new accumulations to the bottom of the cliff.

There were even losses yesterday... Mei Cheng moved his sight slightly and saw several new tragedy scenes. Last night, Lei Xiu retreated to the mountain road and sent someone to send the horses back. As a result, the reception staff sent by Mei Qian accidentally fell into two agile war horses here. The green horses that Lei Xiu himself rode were also among them, and now they have become a pool of blood and blood. It is said that the horse was captured by Lei Xiu when he blocked Cao's army a few days ago and was very popular with him. If this strong-minded young general knew about this news, he would probably not give up until the last fight.

Probably because he had been staring directly below for too long, Mei Cheng felt dizzy. He suddenly straightened his body and retreated to the inside of the mountain road.

"Let's go!" He shouted and began to climb the stone stairs.

After carefully crossing the stone stairs, Mei Cheng felt his knees a little sore. When he was about to reach the platform, someone above reached his palm.

"Thank you!" Mei Cheng held his palm tightly and jumped to the ground with great force.

When she saw the helper, Mei Cheng didn't care about breathing and quickly bowed deeply: "Uncle!"

The one who reached out to help was Mei Qian himself.

Outsiders usually think that the Mei family is a local tyrant family in Lujiang that is comparable to the Lei family. In fact, it is not. The Mei family came from Runan. Although it was claimed that the origin of Shangshuo could reach Mei Bo during Shangtang, it was not considered a big family. Mei Qian's father was once the main record room of the county and was killed for offending Shangguan. Mei Qian was also afraid of the crime and fled into the mountains with more than a dozen villagers and diners. In the following decades, Mei Qian sometimes became an official and sometimes a bandit in the Jianghuai area, and violated the major forces, and at the same time slowly recruited forces, so he gradually became one of the powerful clans.

The subordinates like Meicheng are said to be Meigan's nephews, but in fact they are orphans adopted by Meigan over the years. They all change their surname to Meigan to make their momentum. There are about dozens of young people from this kind of background. Meicheng is the most trusted and has the highest status among them. Because they treat people well, they have often represented Meigan in recent years to contact all parties.

The wind on the platform was very strong, and it whimpered across the cliff, making the clothes of the two of them flutter, and they couldn't even hear the sound of their words.

Meigan led Meicheng to a newly built arrow tower.

Previously, Mei Gan told Lei Yuan and others that he was busy building defense facilities and had no extra power to support Lei Xiu. This is true. In the past few days, he organized people to build fences, arrow towers, fortresses and other facilities in the front and back two platforms, and this arrow tower is just one of them.

The two of them sat down, and Mei Gan asked, "What's the situation with Lei Xiu?"

"War and retreat all the way, the losses are quite large. When I arrived ahead, I saw with my own eyes that they had just repelled Cao's pursuit. The scene was very terrifying. The young general might have the strength to spare, and the soldiers were all exhausted. I think if my uncle didn't send anyone to help, they would have to retreat here tonight. Even if they got the assistance, I'm afraid... I'm afraid I can't hold on for a long time, one day, or two days, at most." Mei Cheng replied.

"The battle over the past few days has been so fierce, and the Lei family still has the strength to do it?" Mei Gan shook his head and sighed.

Lei Xiu's bravery and strength are known to everyone in Huainan. Since Lei Bo, a general under Yuan Shu, passed away, Lei Xiu has been the sharp blade that the Lei clan relied on to intimidate all directions. Mei Gan originally thought that this sharp blade might suffer setbacks when fighting against Cao Gong, but he did not know that the young general was so powerful.

After thinking about it, he asked again: "Did you see Lei Xiu fight with your own eyes?"

Mei Cheng quickly replied: "The mountain road was broken and the snake was limited, and he had never seen it with his own eyes. He only heard the sound of killing and the soldiers were transported back in a row. According to Lei Xuzhi, the young general fought with Zhang Liao this morning and suffered a little loss. Therefore, he was extremely angry and fought in the front and did not retreat. He Song, Deng Tong and others repeatedly persuaded him and were scolded instead."

Mei Gan knew that Lei Xiu was strong, and this was indeed his style of conduct. Mei Gan nodded slightly and quickly turned his attention to the other side: "Lei Xuzhi? Is it Lei Yuan?"

"It's Lei Yuan." As the confidant subordinate of the leader Mei Gan, Mei Chuang did not take Lei Yuan seriously. After all, he was just a child who was not valued by Lei Xu. But after going to the mountain road ahead, Mei Cheng felt that Deng Tong, Ding Li and other powerful heads of Qu respected Lei Yuan quite respected Lei Yuan, and heard that Lei Xiu had entrusted all kinds of affairs to Lei Yuan, so he couldn't help but feel polite in his words: "Because the young general was fighting fiercely in the front, all the affairs of all the rear were now handed over to Lei Xuzhi. In my opinion, he was very supportive, and he was also very polite and appropriate in his actions."

He waved to his entourage and asked them to raise several cloth bags containing the heads of Cao army officers: "Uncle, please see, Lei Xuzhi also asked He Song to cut off the heads of Cao army officers to me. He said that these are the results of my personal fighting, and I will bring them back to see my uncle, and I will also have the same face."

Mei Gan laughed: "Lei Yuan is also interesting. Since he has good intentions, these brains will be considered your military achievements."

Mei Cheng saluted in surprise: "Thank you uncle."

Meigan ignored Meicheng and went to the camp behind the platform. When he turned around, the smile on his face quickly disappeared. It can even be said that his whole face collapsed, and every expression was filled with depression and loss.

Mei Gan is not the kind of thief leader who is good at fighting and fighting. He can occupy a high position among the heroes second only to Lei Xu and Chen Lan, relying on his qualifications and connections. Many years ago, he was even the main planner of Jianghuai Heroes and was a de facto think tank. The leaders including Lei Xu and Chen Lan once followed his advice... until the fifth year of Jian'an.

In the fifth year of Jian'an, the Jianghuai tyrants surrendered to the governor of Yangzhou Liu Fu, under the advice of Mei Gan.

At that time, Cao Gong newly surrendered the local tyrants of Qingxu and the leaders of the bandits Zang Ba, Wu Dun, Yin Li, Sun Guan, Sun Kang and others, and treated them with great courtesy. Not only did they meet them personally, they also called Zang Ba as the prime minister of Langya, Wu Dun as the prefect of Licheng, Yin Li as the prefect of Dongguan, Sun Guan as the prefect of Beihai, and Sun Kang as the prefect of Chengyang. This was almost the two prefectures of Qingxu, and they were entrusted to Zang Ba and others. Zang Ba himself was promoted to the governor of Xuzhou shortly afterwards and was powerful generals. The army, Duting Hou, was so favored by Cao Gong that he could not be further enhanced. In Mei Gan's view, the strength of the Jianghuai tyrants is no less than that of Qing Xu Haobao. Cao Gong's eagerness to stabilize Yangzhou is more than that of Qing Xuzhou. In addition, Yangzhou Governor Liu Fu built Hefei alone, and his subordinates could not even take out a hundred soldiers... At this time, he was leading tens of thousands of people to surrender. Shouldn't Liu Fu and even Cao Gong swept the bed to welcome him, and should he be treated with high officials and generous salaries?

No one expected that Meigan's expectations were ultimately completely lost. Perhaps because Yangzhou faced the power of the Eastern Wu, Hefei was even more in control of the Ruxu Water, Water Applied, and Feishui's key to the northbound route; it was never Cao Gong's choice to retain semi-independent forces like Qing Xu Haoba in this area. During the years Liu Fu's tenure in Yangzhou, he built cities, maintained water conservancy and large-scale military farming, and all recruited the power of the tyrants, but rarely gave rewards. Even the officials in the prefecture mostly served as scholars summoned, deliberately avoiding the recommendations of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the tyrants of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the lyrics of the

Therefore, the surrender of Liu Fu was a very dissatisfied decision by the tyrants. However, they had no power to fight back against Liu Fu, who had excellent political means, and had no courage to fight against Cao Gong, who was shaking the Central Plains, so they could only vent their resentment to the person who made suggestions. Mei Gan was attacked because of this and lost his dominance in the group.

Fortunately, the situation finally turned around. In the 13th year of Jian'an, Cao Gong's army was defeated by the coalition forces of Wuhou and Liu Yuzhou in Chibi, and his military strength was severely damaged; and Yangzhou Governor Liu Fu died of illness in the same year. At the end of the year, Wuhou took the opportunity to use his army to threaten Hefei. So Mei Gan came forward again. He ran around in a very short time, convinced the heroes to raise troops in Lujiang to respond to Wuhou, and tried his best to cut off the contact between the main force of Cao's army stationed in Nanyang and Hefei. If everything goes well, this move will not only be the beginning of the reversal of the Jianghuai heroes, but also the beginning of Mei Gan's success.

But what is the result?

The result is now, and the Jianghuai tyrants failed again. This time the failure was even more painful than the last time, so that everyone was chased by Cao's army and became a dog of a betrayal.

For Meigan, who is good at planning, the mistake of choosing the first time can be said to be luck; the second time is difficult to explain.

Plum sighed deeply.
Chapter completed!