Shuanglong Village is very simple, with houses made of soil and branches. Even the Juyi Hall, the storefront in the village, is built with rough wood. The soldiers are even more rudely equipped. The weapons in their hands are all inferior spears and battle knives. Most of them are wearing cloth armor. Many people hold bows and arrows, and each with vegetables. The open space in the village is full of vegetables. There is also a wheat field on the back hillside, and a group of chickens run around in the woods.

There were several rows of wooden racks on the open space, covered with various furs and brightly colored feathers. Several soldiers were slaughtering a wild boar that had just been hunted, surrounded by a group of children. In another wooden house without a wall, more than a dozen women were weaving cloth.

Yan Qing followed Guan Sheng to Juyi Hall. There was a rough homemade large table in the hall, with seven or eight wooden piers on both sides as chairs, and two large chairs were placed directly above, with a tiger skin on each top.

"The conditions are not good, just sit there!"

Guan Sheng asked Yan Qing to sit down and asked the soldiers to bring two bowls of water. He smiled bitterly and said, "There is no tea in the village, so I have to invite you to drink some mountain spring water. The taste is pretty good!"

Yan Qing picked up the pottery bowl and drank a sip of water. He was a little surprised. Since he was robbing merchants, how could there be nothing in the village?

Guan Sheng understood his thoughts and smiled and said, "Don't think this is still Liangshan. We intercepted the caravan and only took food and salt, and we did not rob any other property. We mainly rely on hunting to make a living, so the officers and soldiers no longer came to harass us, and everyone was at peace."

"Why is Brother Guan in Jingxing? I remember that my brother's house is in Zhaojun?" Yan Qing asked in confusion.

"It's hard to describe it!"

Guan Sheng sighed softly, "I was captured by Li Yanqing in Daming Mansion, and I was released. Then I returned to Zhao County to farm, support my mother and support my family. I spent two years peacefully. Later, Song Jiang rebelled again and sent people to Zhao County to find me out of the mountain. I did not agree. He reported to the government that I rebelled like he had done when he forced Lu Junyi. As a result, I was wanted by the government, and my mother died of illness. I was desperate and didn't want to surrender to Song Jiang, so I took my wife and children to Jingxing as a hunter. Later, my whereabouts were exposed, so I simply recruited more than a dozen poor hunters to go up the mountain to settle the grass."

"Why did Hua Rong come?"

"He followed Song Jiang to rebel, but the army was completely wiped out in Daming Mansion. Song Jiang committed suicide by taking poison. Hua Rong was desperate and ran to me. He heard that I was in Jingxing, so he also found her, so Yangjiao Village was renamed Shuanglong Village."

"Brother was the five tiger generals of the imperial guards in front of the palace back then! Are you willing to be a bandit for the rest of your life?"

After Gao Qiu took charge of the imperial guards in front of the palace, he liked to rank martial arts rankings and created a ranking of two dragons and five tiger generals. The two dragons refer to the iron stick Wang Jin and the copper bow and iron arrow Zhou Tong, while the five tiger generals refer to the leopard head Lin Chong, the golden spear general Xu Ning, the big sword Guan Sheng, the double spear general Dong Ping and the little Li Guanghua Rong.

Now, except for Xu Ning and Dong Ping, the imperial guards in front of the palace, all of them died and left. Guan Sheng and Hua Rong have always had a deep friendship. They were captured and surrendered when they followed Gao Qiu to attack Liangshan. After six or seven years, both of them were ruined and their families were destroyed, and their reputations were disgraced, and they had to become bandits.

Guan Sheng sighed and said, "Hua Rong and I were deeply hated by Gao Qiu. I did not participate in Song Jiang's rebellion again, but because of Gao Qiu's jealousy, I was also ranked among the 18th National Congress of the Bandits arrested by the court, and I was still ranked 14th. What other ideas do I have in my life?"

Yan Qing pondered for a moment and said, "To be honest, I am actually one of the big bandits wanted by the court. However, because of my meritorious service in attacking Yanjing, I have been pardoned by the court and I have also been granted the title of the seventh-rank Zhaowu Captain. I served as a minor general of the scout camp of the Jingzhao Army. The rewards I received for my military merits alone have exceeded 500 taels of gold and 1,500 acres of fertile land. I also bought a five-acre house in Hangzhou, and Hu Sanniang. She is now a minor general of the female barracks and Li Dutong's sister. Even I can make meritorious service and receive official positions. Besides, my brother and Hua Rong, you and Li Dutong have a good relationship, so why don't you join Li Dutong?"

Guan Sheng said for a while: "Actually, I have considered it, but because of Gao Qiu, I'm afraid Tong Dutong Li will not accept us."

"Brother Guan is very wrong to think this way. Li Dutong was promoted by Master Zhong. His backstage was a family of meritorious deeds, and it had nothing to do with Gao Qiu. Li Dutong is now eager to seek talents and lacks high-quality generals under his command. As long as he has real skills, he can be valued. With Brother Guan and Hua Rong's martial arts, he will definitely be valued by Dutong Li. Moreover, the Song Dynasty is fighting the invasion of the Jin soldiers with all its might. At this time, it is a great opportunity to make contributions to the country and be recognized by the court again. Even if he dies for the country, he can still meet his ancestors with confidence. Brother Guan wants to seize this opportunity!"

Life was really difficult. Guan Sheng considered finding another way out more than once, but he couldn't find a suitable opportunity. Today, he met Yan Qing, which made Guan Sheng see the opportunity to get rid of the current situation. He pondered for a moment: "Let me discuss with Hua Rong, and I will give you another answer!"

Yan Qing was still unsatisfied and advised Guan Sheng to say, "Now I am ordered to investigate the situation of the Jin soldiers at Tumen Pass. I am very likely to encounter the Jin soldiers patrols. This is actually Brother Guan's opportunity to make meritorious contributions. Don't hesitate anymore."

Guan Sheng nodded, got up and went out. After a while, Hua Rong and Guan Sheng walked in. Guan Sheng smiled and said, "We have a sentry post at Tumen Pass, which is usually used to pay attention to the caravan. Just now, a news came from the sentry post that a Jurchen cavalry with two thousand people rushed into Tumen Pass two hours ago."

Hua Rong said calmly: "Even if you don't come to persuade us today, we will ambush the Jurchen cavalry this time, and now we have the responsibility to do so."

Yan Qing was overjoyed. Although Guan Sheng and Hua Rong were very subtle, they were actually expressing their willingness to follow him and surrender to Li Dutong. Hua Rong's meaning was that the ambushing of the Jurchens was their letter of surrender.

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It is about 120 miles from Tumen Pass to Yangjiao Village. Even the cavalry takes one day. For Yan Qing and others, it is still a lot of time, but how to ambush this 2,000 cavalry made them think a little.

The other side was two thousand elite cavalry, while the Song army had only fifty scouts. Although they were well-equipped, the number was too small. Among the more than 150 Shuanglong people, there were more than 40 women and children. There were only a hundred young and strong men who could fight, and their weapons and equipment were extremely backward.

The only way to block the enemy's army as much as possible is the terrain. Of course, each scout brought three iron fire thunders and five sky-shaking thunders, but this igniter was not enough to annihilate two thousand enemy troops.

The soldiers of Shuanglongzhai are not useless. They also have one advantage, that is, they are familiar with the terrain and field battles. In addition, they are almost all hunters and have natural mountain combat advantages.

Guan Sheng found an excellent ambush place, which is a pass five miles northeast of Yangjiao, which is the famous Niangzi Pass.

Unfortunately, the pass has never been repaired since the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It is already very dilapidated and there is not even the gate of the pass. The Great Wall on the ridges on both sides have collapsed. However, the terrain on the east side of the Niangziguan is very beneficial to the Song army. The road is very narrow, the cavalry cannot be parallel, and the chariots cannot be intertwined.

If two caravans carrying cargoes traveled against each other, a caravan would definitely wait outside Niangziguanxi City, and they would only pass after the oncoming caravan cart passed Niangziguan.

This narrow mountain road is about twenty miles away, and Niangzi Pass is located at the only open area of ​​this narrow mountain road. After passing Niangzi Pass, you will walk west for a mile and then open Jingxing and enter the Taogu Basin.

At noon, the Song army scouts and a hundred soldiers arrived at Niangzi Pass. Niangzi Pass was built along the mountain. On one side was a cliff and on the other side was a deep abyss. On the west side was a relatively open flat bottom. There were originally some buildings, but the buildings were damaged, leaving only some ruins. A family in Yangjiao Village set up a snack stall here all year round, and the business was quite prosperous.

The pass is made of bluestone. Although it is old and covered with moss, it still looks very strong. However, the gate of the door and the city tower have disappeared, leaving only a bare stone city pass.

After arriving at Niangzi Pass, one hundred and fifty people immediately started to load sandbags. The ruins of the building became the best material for filling sandbags. There were a large number of sacks in Shuanglong Village. Soon, three sandbag walls were set up one hundred steps, seventy and forty steps from Guancheng. Tens of thousands of thorns were thrown into the 150 steps, and the city cave was also blocked by sacks filled with mud and sand.

The Song Dynasty scouts went to Guancheng, while the soldiers of Shuanglongzhai climbed up the cliff on the side, and were ambushed by lush shrubs.

It was slowly coming to dusk, and the stall selling snacks had already run back to the village to report the news. The Jin soldiers were about to come, which scared the people in the village to flee into the mountains in a hurry.

It was the hottest season of the year. The sun had already set, but the air was still stuffy and hot, as if it was stunned in a steamer. The mosquitoes in the mountains were raging, biting the soldiers. Just when the soldiers couldn't bear it, the sound of horse hooves came from afar. Everyone was shocked and they all set their bows and arrows, waiting for the fighter planes.
Chapter completed!