The Imperial City was four hundred miles away from Hutian Pass, and it took the army three full days to march in such a mighty and rapid manner.
Hutian Pass is located in the canyon of two mountains.
This canyon is ten miles long and less than five meters wide. It is difficult for large siege equipment to enter this canyon.
And the peaks on both sides of the canyon are definitely good ambush locations.
Hutian Pass stands in the middle of this long and narrow canyon. It is definitely an important pass that is easy to defend but difficult to attack!
This Guancheng is also the most important Guancheng in guarding the imperial capital of Tianyue Kingdom, no one else!
Even Hutian Pass and Banping Pass are not as important as this Guancheng.
This is also the reason why General Tianwei sent him here.
The army marched into the Hutian Grand Canyon.
Looking at the mountains on both sides, even Chu Ran couldn't help but feel a little shocked. No matter how many soldiers and horses there were in this canyon, they couldn't attack it at all.
Soon, the outline of Hutian Pass appeared in front of the army.
Seeing Hutian Pass, the soldiers who had been marching for three whole days finally breathed a long sigh of relief.
"stop!"
But at this moment, several masked figures suddenly rushed out from the forest on the right side of the canyon.
After the loud shouting, these figures fell directly in front of the army and stopped the army alive.
For a time, horses neighed continuously in the army.
Chu Ran couldn't help but frown slightly. Could this posture be a robbery?
Do you dare to rob the army?
And it’s an army of 50,000!
Without saying a word, one of them immediately took a step forward, pointed at Chu Ran and the others and shouted: "I planted this road, I planted this tree... Uh, something seems wrong, I planted this tree!"
"Get out of here!"
But before he could finish speaking, he was kicked to the side by someone behind him, and he groaned: "You can't even speak!"
Then he looked at the army and shouted: "I opened this mountain and planted this tree. If you want to live forever, I will leave money to buy the road!"
Immediately afterwards, several voices echoed: "Yes! Leave money to buy the way!"
"Hahaha... just like this, how about a big disaster?"
"If a catastrophe happens to the army, you are still a bull!"
Loud laughter immediately erupted among the soldiers behind Chu Ran.
Not only them, but even Chu Ran couldn't help but laugh.
Not only is the face smiling, but also the heart is laughing.
But his smile was not at all because of the other person’s words, but because of these people!
Smiling, he jumped off his horse and ran directly towards the people in the Great Tribulation.
Even when the soldiers behind him wanted to follow, they were stopped by Chu Ran.
In an instant, Chu Ran arrived at the front of the masked man and kicked him on the butt without saying a word: "It's just you, how can you still be in trouble?"
After saying that, he waved his hand and pulled off the other person's face towel.
The moment the towel fell, a slightly helpless voice came from the other party's mouth: "Boss, can't you be a little mysterious? You don't understand fun!"
This person is none other than Chu Ran’s good brother Mingyu!
Several people behind him also pulled off their scarves, shouting at each other: "Brother, you are really shameless. You agreed to take me to the imperial city, but you ended up running here on your own!"
The person who said this is clearly a Goudan.
"Boss, how do you see us?"
This sentence comes from Luo An.
"You boy, are you so majestic now? Have you led so many soldiers?"
Jiu Mengzi is also among them.
Mingyu, Goudan, Luo An, Yingsha, Tianmo, Jiu Mengzi!
Six people, a lot of them, all came!
Looking at these familiar figures, my heartstrings that have been tense for so many days have become more relaxed than ever.
These are all his brothers, good brothers who have faced life and death together!
"How's it going? Brother, don't you think we have any?"
Black Goudan ran directly to Chu Ran, raised his arm and straddled Chu Ran's shoulders, looking at Chu Ran with a smile.
"nonsense!"
Chu Ran moved Goudan's arm away, patted several people on the shoulders one by one, then looked at Mingyu and asked: "Why are you guys here?"
As he said that, he pointed at the black clothes of several people: "How did you do this? Do you think I am a fool, or do you think you are a fool?"
"Damn, it wasn't this guy Goudan's bad idea!"
Luo An cursed softly.
Mingyu said: "In Tianze Academy, we received a message from the old man Se, asking us to come and help you, so we are here!"
"Sexy old man?"
Chu Ran was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that it would be the perverted old man who asked them to come!
He originally thought that the old man and the general were both under house arrest in the palace!
But I didn’t expect that news could be spread outside!
This also means that the old man is not under house arrest at all, but he can't figure out why the old man doesn't come to see him!
Fortunately, he has been worried about the old man for so many days!
But now, it did bring him some surprises!
This surprise turned out to be Mingyu and others!
"What? Didn't the old man tell you?"
Mingyu looked at Chu Ran with some confusion.
"No, I have never seen the perverted old man when I came to the Imperial City!"
Chu Ran said and waved his hand directly: "Let's go, follow me into the city, this is not the place to talk!"
"good!"
Naturally, Mingyu and the others wouldn't say much.
Chu Ran asked someone to bring in a few war horses. After the group got on the horses, they drove directly to Hutian Pass.
The current guard of Hutian Pass is named Duan Ling, who is also a second-grade general.
The news that Chu Ran was leading his army had already reached Duanling's ears, and people had been sent to greet him outside Guancheng earlier.
After seeing Chu Ran appear with his troops, he personally went out of the city to greet him.
"General Duan Ling, I have been waiting for General Chu Ran for a long time!"
Duan Ling bowed and clasped his fists, while all the soldiers stood straight.
After Chu Ran dismounted, he also clasped his fists in return: "The enemy is now, General Duanling, there is no need to be polite!"
Duan Ling was slightly shocked at this return of the gift, and quickly stopped him: "General Chu Ran, don't do this, I don't dare to do it!"
Although his official position is the same as that of Chu Ran.
But now Chu Ran is the deputy general of the general. With this position alone, even if he is a first-class general, he can only salute.
This is both the emperor's privilege and the title of a general. Who dares to be rude!
What's more, Chu Ran is still the Marquis of Tianwu and has the status of a marquis!
"General Chu Ran, please enter the city!"
After Duan Ling said this, Chu Ran waved his hand directly to the army, mounted his horse and drove directly into Hutian Pass.
To be precise, Hutian Pass is not just a pass, but a city gate.
There are millions of people in the city.
There are all kinds of shops, and even the Tianwu Hall has a branch hall here.
At the beginning of the establishment of Hutian Pass, there were only garrison troops. Later, due to the permanent garrison, the families of the soldiers also moved into Hutian Pass.
After decades or hundreds of years of development, Hutian Pass has reached its current scale.
The folk customs in Hutian Pass are quite fierce. Although there are only 100,000 defenders in the city, once a war breaks out, at least 200,000 soldiers can be recruited at any time.
In fact, it is more than just Hutian Pass.
Almost all Guancheng in Tianyue are like this.
The same is true for the lost Jingshan Pass, the same is true for Ban Bing Pass, and the same is true for Hanshan City.