From Pingyang to Jiezhou, you can reach Tongguan by Puzhou, and after passing Tongguan, you will be the boundary of Shaanxi.

Tongguan has always been a must-fight for military strategists. Whether it is to seize the world or defend the world, Tongguan is crucial.

The Qing court continued to set up defenses on the basis of the former Ming Tongguan ancient city, and repaired and built many new facilities, and directly established Tongguan County here. During the Qianlong period, it was changed to Tongguan Hall and was affiliated with Tongzhou Prefecture, Tongshang Road, Shaanxi.

It started to snow on the way from Puzhou to Tongguan. After arriving at Tongguan, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the goose feathers were not enough to describe it.

Of course, it is impossible to camp outside in such weather. Fortunately, there are many vacant barracks in Tongguan City, and the Eight Banners team was quickly settled under the arrangement of local officials.

The Han army's Zhenglan Banner was divided into four rooms, all of which were large shops similar to those of Chema Shop, one room could accommodate twenty or thirty people.

After Jia Liu assigned the house, he asked someone to make charcoal fires for each house to keep warm. When the ventilation matters were being paid attention to, someone came to inform the foreman of each banner to come to the team leader to meet.

Meeting?!

Jia Liu, who was very enlightened, quickly wanted Chang Bingzhong to help arrange everyone, and he ran all the way to "listen" Lord A's speech so that he could grasp the spirit of the superior in time so that he could implement it as soon as possible and be flexible and maneuverable.

When I arrived, I was told that due to heavy snow in Shaanxi, the roads in many places were blocked by snow. Although local officials have organized civilians to clean up the snow, I am afraid the team will not be able to leave in the past two days.

"This is a bad thing, it is a good thing."

After Alan Bao said this, he then told the foreman of each banner to restrain his subordinates from causing trouble as before, so he signaled everyone to go back and leave Jia Liu alone.

This made the other seven foremen who left were very jealous of Jia Liu, and of course they hated him so much that they hated him.

"What are you going to tell me!"

Jia Liu took out a fire note and wanted to ignite the leader. Unexpectedly, Alan Bao waved his hand and signaled not to use it. Then he took out a snuff bottle and placed it between his nose. He sniffed it "wavy", revealing a satisfied and comfortable look on his face.

This action reminded Jia Liu of the joke that Mr. Yu had heard in his previous life that he was so bored in smoking.

After savoring a few breaths, Alan Bao sat down and looked at Jia Liu with a smile: "I heard that you are all grade-level when you are accused of Tang A-san. It's not bad. I'm not wrong with you. You are really a talent."

If you want to say something else, Jia Liu was not upset. But Jia Liu was immediately energetic, but his face looked humble: "I am just lucky, so I dare not praise you!"

"How can you get good luck without real skills?"

Alan Bao put the snuff bottle on the table and gently knocked it on the table with his right index finger, "This is it, it's nothing to do anyway. Take someone to get some wild game. I'll have two drinks with Lord Gui and the others tonight."

"Ah?...ah!"

When Jia Liu came out, he served Alan Bao's mother: It was snowing heavily, and you might as well let the young master do you.

Helplessly, the senior official is a senior, not to mention that Captain Jia is not an official yet.

I thought that there might be someone selling wild game in Tongguan City, so I wanted to spend money to buy some, but when I went out, I saw that the shops on the street were closed, no matter what they were selling.

Is this the cause of heavy snow or the Eight Banners soldiers?

Jia Liu was not easy to make an attribution. In order to complete the instructions given by his leader, he had to go back and pull Zu Yingyuan, Chang Bingzhong and the others up, and took two teams of Su La out of the city to hunt.

Tongguan is surrounded by mountains, with peaks and wild game.

When they heard that they were going to hunt, Chang Bingzhong and the others were very motivated. They had almost dispersed their eggs when they marched for a few days, and they were eager to go out for activities.

Zu Yingyuan reminded Jia Liu to go up the mountain to hunt, but they were not familiar with the terrain, so they had to find a local person as a guide to avoid getting lost in the mountains.

Jia Liuyi thought it was right, and this matter was very important, so he asked Zu Yingyuan to find a guide.

After a while, the person was found.

It was the son of a family next to the military camp. He went up the mountain with people to chop firewood and did a pit to catch some wild game and come back to have a tooth-fighting ceremony.

The cost of leading the way is not much, only thirty copper coins.

Jia Liu happily threw a silver bean weighing three or four cents to the boy named Hu. This was his habit in his previous life. As long as he asked someone to do things, he must give him an extra pack of cigarettes in addition to his salary, or an extra thirty-fifty. In this way, the other party's enthusiasm for work will be greatly improved, and the worker will be guaranteed without any effort. Sometimes it will make you spend less money.

Just like that, Jia Liu and his party rode six horses and led two teams of Su Lahao out of the city.

I didn’t feel anything when I was in Tongguan City. When I went to the surrounding mountains and looked down from a high place, Jia Liu could truly understand the importance of Tongguan.

This place is extremely dangerous!

The valley is deep and the cliffs are vast, the mountains are high and the roads are narrow, and the roads are the paths they can pass through when they came, and only one cart and one horse can travel.

No wonder when I entered the city before, I saw the "First Pass" written by Qianlong hanging on the city gate. It was because the road on earth was blocking the dangerous road to Tongguan.

There must be not much wild game in the mountains and forests near Tongguan City, so if you want to get wild game, you have to go deeper.

Jia Liu became more and more frightened as he walked. If there were no guides, they would have lost their way after entering the mountain and even frozen to death in this ghost place.

Soon, Jia Liu and the others discovered the first target ahead - a pheasant with his head buried in the snow.

"I'll do it!"

Zu Yingyuan jumped over everyone, bent his bow and arrow, and shot the pheasant with a "whisper" arrow.

The pheasant caught in the arrow flew for a while and finally landed under a pine tree. Su La took a step forward and lifted it, which was estimated to be five or six kilograms.

Jia Liu looked at Zu Yingyuan with admiration. No wonder this kid speaks so fuckingly, he is indeed a little capable.

Then he found nothing. After the guide Hu, everyone walked through the dense forest about two or three miles away, his vision suddenly opened up in front, and it turned out to be a valley concave in the mountains.

The surrounding mountains are covered with snow and the valley is covered with white space, which makes people feel relaxed and relaxed.

Jia Liu was also attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of him. After throwing the horse to Yang Zhi, he first slid down the hillside. When he arrived in the valley, he grabbed a ball of snow and hit Chang Bingzhong who then slid down.

Chang Bingzhong was not willing to be outdone, so he immediately grabbed the snowball and fought back, just like when he was a child.

After seeing this, Zu Yingyuan, Wang Fu and Su La came down, they joined the snow war and had a lot of fun. They saw the guide surnamed Hu a little dazed, not understanding why these Eight Banners soldiers were like a child.

"Okay, do the serious business,"

Jia Liu stuffed a big snowball that Yang Zhi rolled up into Wang Fu's neck, and decisively ended the war. He held a handful of snow from the ground with a sensation on his face and wiped it on his face.

I felt cold before, but now my hands and face are a little warm.

The guide surnamed Hu came over and said, "June, there are many wild animals in the place ahead. If you are lucky, you might be able to hit the wild boar."

"If you can get a wild boar, I'll give you another liang!"

Jia Liu laughed and took off his big bow from the horse's back. He was about to walk forward when he heard Yang Zhi screaming behind him: "Young Master, under your feet!"

This scream scared Jia Liu, so he soared into the air in the air, almost slipped when he landed on the ground, and looked at the place where he was standing before, and his heart also jumped. It turned out that there was a skeleton in the snow.

“There are also here!”

"I have it too!"

“…”

Everyone was creepy because they found that there were many dead bones under the snow. Many of them had already weathered and became extremely strong due to freezing.

"Where is this place, why are there so many dead bones!"

Zu Yingyuan grabbed the guide named Hu, and the two older Su La also stepped forward to prevent the guide from suddenly hurting people.

"June, this place is originally called Thief Valley..."

The guide named Hu was also frightened and quickly explained that Li Zicheng's Dashun Army had confronted the Qing army in Tongguan more than a hundred years ago. The two sides fought here for many days and many people died.

Later, a general named Ma under Li Zicheng pretended to surrender to the Qing army, but was discovered by the commander of the Qing army. The prince led the Qing army to take action first and ambushed the general surnamed Ma and his subordinates and 7,000 people.

"There were too many people who died before, and those who were killed later. There were so many people who died. There were no pits in the mountains and forests in the radius. So the Qing soldiers placed their bodies in this mountain stream... In fact, there were not many left in more than a hundred years. We were playing here since we were young, and we didn't think we were afraid of anything..."

After the guide Hu said that, he stood there carefully and didn't dare to move, for fear that the Eight Banners Army Master would turn him into another dry bone here if he was unhappy.

"Squad Jia, it seems like this is the case."

Zu Yingyuan whispered.

Jia Liu did not say anything, looked around the snow-covered valley, and suddenly squatted down and slashed the snow around with a knife, revealing two leg bones that looked like white wooden sticks, and an arrow was tied to one of the leg bones.

When the arrow was pulled out, the frozen leg bone made a brisk cracking sound, breaking into two pieces at once.

"Young Master?"

Yang Zhi didn't know what the young master stared at the rusty arrow.

There seemed to be a flag under Zu Yingyuan's feet that had already merged with the soil.

It’s hard to tell whether it’s mud or a flag.

Jia Liu looked quietly, as if he saw the scene of peasant soldiers rushing towards the Tartar camp more than a hundred years ago.

"Kill!"

The valley echoed with the unyielding shouts of the old Qin people...

............

Time flies, and now it is a hundred years later. The heroes of the past have become rotten bones that are now unwelcome to the deserted valley.

A group of descendants of Han people stood on the battlefield where their ancestors rose up and resisted with braids.

How does it feel like?

Jia Liu didn't know that, he just silently put the arrow into his pocket and said to everyone who looked at him, "Let's go."

Just as he was about to turn around, with a "whisper", a sharp arrow penetrated into the snow less than a foot away from Jia Liu.

The feathers on the tail of the arrow are still vibrating violently.

"Young Master!"
To be continued...