Chapter 1208

It's only 200 Li from tianjingguan to the eldest son's city. After getting Hu Cai's order, the rescue messenger immediately set out. He should be able to send the letter to tianjingguan before dark. After receiving the letter, four days later, the eldest son's reinforcements can arrive at tianjingguan.

Looking at the direction of the messenger's departure, Hu CAI was convinced. Then he turned to look at the Tang army outside the pass, and then turned to look at the soldiers who were closing the pass. He said in a loud voice, "soldiers, I have already sent someone to ask the governor for help. It only takes four days for the army to come to tianjingguan from the eldest son. So we only need to hold tianjingguan for four or five days, then we can wait for the governor You have confidence in the reinforcements sent by your excellency

The deputy general beside him laughed and said, "general, you look down on me too much, don't you? Tianjingguan is in danger. If the Tang army is more powerful, it can only send 800 people to attack at one time. Let alone keep it for four or five days, even for forty or fifty days

"Yes

"Not bad!"

"That is to say, the Tang thief is just two shoulders with a head on his head. Can he still fly to the wall?"

"Ha ha..."

When he saw that the taxi soldiers on the city pass were brought up, Hu CAI was relieved. He knew that the Tang army was famous all over the world for its bravery. He was afraid that his army would be demoralized, which would be troublesome. Thinking of this, he couldn't help nodding to the deputy general's approval.

"Well, when the Tang bandits are defeated, I will surely ask the archdeacon for help!"

"General Xie!"

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It's already noon. Although it's autumn now, the sunshine still makes the soldiers on duty feel dizzy. Just as the soldiers at the tower are ready to sneak into the tower to have a rest, suddenly several riders gallop from the south, and smoke rises all over the way.

When the soldiers looked up, they found that the messenger was the messenger with three red flags on his back. It seemed that something had happened in the south. Seeing this, he immediately called to the gate under the city building: "there is a red Ling messenger coming in the south, and the city should avoid it!"

On hearing this, the taxi driver at the gate of the city immediately yelled, "come on, come on, step aside. There's a red silk messenger coming, step aside!"

Fortunately, it was noon. Just now, there were not many pedestrians walking outside the gate of the city and in the streets of the city. As soon as we heard that the red Ling messenger arrived, we stood close to the street one by one in a hurry. When the red Ling messenger ran all the way into the city, straight to the direction of the county government in the city, after the fast horse passed, all the people stood out from both sides of the street with their mouths and noses covered, and they all whispered to each other He talked about what happened in the south, and even used the red silk messenger with three banners to deliver the news. Some smart people guessed what might have happened in tianjingguan. After all, in recent years, the relationship between Zhao and Tang is not as usual as before, and everyone has heard about it.

A moment later, the messenger arrived at the county government. After meeting the county magistrate and the county captain in the county government, he changed his horses from the post station in the city. Then he ran out of the north gate of the family and headed for the eldest son of the county city.

Soon, the county magistrate called together the city's Duwei, Qu Chang, Tun Chang and other generals to discuss the matter. At this time, everyone knew that it was the Tang army that launched an attack on tianjingguan. The county magistrate didn't say much. He just ordered the people to pay close attention to the situation in the south, and ordered them not to disclose the information. After that, he dismissed them.

After all, tianjingguan is hundreds of miles away from the south. It's a powerful pass that can't be opened by thousands of people. There are 5000 elite soldiers to defend it. No matter how brave the Tang army is, they can't take it down in a few days. Moreover, there is a high capital between tianjingguan and the family. If tianjingguan is not taken down, there will be news from Gaodu The county magistrate, the county captain, or a group of garrison generals did not take the news to heart.

What they did not know was that their danger did not come from the south, but from the West.

At the end of Shenshi, that is, at five o'clock in the afternoon, half an hour later, the gate will be closed. Looking at the gradually sparse flow of people, Sergeant Zhao, in charge of Ximen, couldn't help but feel happy. Finally, the day passed again. As soon as the gate was closed, he was handed over to the next garrison.

Just here, the city taxi driver suddenly called out to the people below: "village leader, there is a group of fat sheep coming to the West. There should be about 20 cars in the frame!"

When people at the gate heard this, they were all in spirits. The head of the village leader laughed: "zhiniang thief, there's a caravan coming. I'm thinking about it in my heart. Gao pingguan should be going to deliver goods to the city soon. Hehe, there are more than 20 cars coming. It seems that we will get a lot today! "

Speaking of this, the head of the village said to a group of soldiers around him, "everyone has a share in the entrance fee of this caravan."

"Ha, that's great. Thank you very much All the soldiers were very happy.

The reason why the head of the village said this was that his 100 people were on duty in two parts, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. If these 20 cars came into the city, and each car received a hundred and eighty copper, there would be one or two thousand copper. Even if each person sent ten copper, he only had to send five hundred copper out, and he still had nearly one thousand copper in his hand.As he spoke, the motorcade was dozens of steps away from the gate of the city. When the village leader looked towards the motorcade, he found that the motorcade was indeed a shopkeeper of Gao's shop in gaopingguan. Gao's shop was the shop of gaopingguan's general. Every month, Gao's shop had to send some goods back to gaopingguan or transport a lot of goods back to gaopingguan.

However, even if it's the business of gaoduwei's family, you can't mess with the rules. It's an iron rule that caravans have to pay for entering the city. If you break the rules, you will offend a large number of people. However, because of the background of Gao Duwei, no one dares to embarrass them.

However, what surprised the head of the village was that this time the caravan had more vehicles than usual. Besides, except that the head shopkeeper was an acquaintance, the rest of the coachman guards were all strangers. When the village leader was about to ask, the shopkeeper had stopped the motorcade and led a middle-aged guard up.

"I'll see you, general!" The shopkeeper also bowed his hand to the Tuen long several steps away;

"old man Li, why do you have so many cars this time? Business seems good!" "The general is joking. He's a small business. He's looking forward to the autumn harvest. Some of the old grain from last year was sent back to make room for the granary in the pass."

"Oh," said the head of the village. It was true, so he stopped asking and chatted, "by the way, why are all the guards you're taking this time fresh?"

"Hey, it's not that the old people have gone to the countryside outside the pass to stare at the autumn harvest. No, they have brought a new group of people here. Come here, this is shihuwei, shihuwei," he said. Shopkeeper Li winked at shihuwei beside him. Shihuwei nodded, reached into his arms, took out a small bag, and handed it to Tunchang, Cheng's surname. "Please give it back If there is no problem, the convoy will rush into the city and send all the goods to the warehouse. Please bear with general Cheng

"Easy to say, easy to say!" With a smile, Cheng Tuen Chang reached for the bag handed by guard Shi and weighed it in his hand. It seemed that it was at least two thousand copper. He said, "what's good? It's all old acquaintances. Hurry to the city!"

Then he waved to his subordinates, and immediately several soldiers came forward to move the horse in the way to make way for the motorcade.