Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 689
The sky was gloomy that day, although there was no rain, the clouds in the sky were quite thick.

It is now the early spring in mid-February, Sili Luoyang belongs to the northwest, so the weather is often several degrees below zero at this time. Many guards at Dagu Pass are holding spears and hiding in the pass wall to shelter from the wind. Stamping to keep warm.

Except for the 500 old Xiliang soldiers who wore thick cloth and leather armor and fur vests to keep them warm, the other [-] new soldiers were not treated so well, most of them were worn out. Clothes are wrapped around the body, even the armor is not neat.

As for the five hundred Xiliang old soldiers, as the elite soldiers under Wu Xi's tent, although they were mainly responsible for guarding the Dagu Pass, their status was often higher than other ordinary new soldiers on weekdays, and most of them only needed to hide in the side rooms inside the pass. Drinking and eating meat, roasting charcoal fire, as for the daily guards and closing the door, they are handed over to the more than 500 new recruits to be on duty.

As a result, those new recruits who were not on duty could still gather four or five people around the corner of Dagu Pass and burn a bonfire to keep warm, but those new recruits who were on duty in front of the closed gate and on the wall of Dagu Pass could only rely on their bones to resist the spring cold .

There is no sun today, so the weather is a bit colder.

So the soldiers who were in charge of guarding the Dagu Pass on duty just wanted the time to pass faster, so they could go back to the fire to keep warm, eat some fire-baked pancakes, and fill their cold bellies.

Just before noon on this day, a large-scale business team seemed to come from the south of Dagu Pass, with more than 200 servants pushing dozens of cars in the middle, surrounded by two or three hundred guards Accompanied by weapons in hand.

This movement naturally attracted the attention of the defenders of Dagu Pass. Not only the defenders on the city wall of Dagu Pass looked at the caravan from a distance, but also the soldiers at the gate were also watching.

To be honest, Guanzhong is now barren, and most of the people who come to Luoyang through Dagu Pass are returnees. Although there are some small businessmen who come to Guanzhong to find business opportunities, the real big caravans still rarely come to Guanzhong.

On the one hand, after Dong Zhuo's rebellion and Xiliang's rebellion, Guanzhong has almost become a land of ruins. The big families in Guanzhong were basically destroyed in the war, so naturally they have no financial resources to operate foreign businesses.

On the other hand, Guanzhong is still a place where the warlords ruled, even if the caravans of large trading companies arrived in Guanzhong, they might not be able to do business, but they were robbed by these warlord forces pretending to be thieves.

So even if the large caravan entering the pass has hundreds of guards, it is naturally irresistible to the warlord forces in the pass.

At least during this period of time, there are still very few large caravans taking risks in Guanzhong. Now this caravan coming to Daguguan seems to be quite large, which is considered a rare thing.

The guards guarding the closed gate also couldn't help feeling a little curious, wondering where this caravan came from, what kind of goods it brought, and how much it was worth.

It just seemed that the guards of this caravan were really unusual. They were all young and strong men with military-style knives around their waists, but they were not wearing armor, otherwise they would really look like regular soldiers.

Even the servants who are responsible for pushing and pulling the trucks seem to be young and strong men, and they should be the type who can fight with knives if something happens.

But after thinking about it, this seems to be normal. In such a chaotic situation, if there is a caravan that wants to go to Guanzhong to find business opportunities to do business, it will naturally have the power to protect itself. The people sent in the caravan are all It's normal to be so young.

To be honest, the soldiers guarding the pass did not think about other possibilities at all. After all, even their chief general Wu Xi did not expect that someone would attack Luoyang, so these ordinary soldiers naturally did not expect that these people would come to seize the pass.

They were just wondering where this business company came from, and what family it belonged to behind it, but no matter what, as small soldiers, they probably didn't dare to embarrass a caravan of this size. This should not be something they can provoke power.

As the caravan gradually approached, the soldiers guarding the pass finally saw the banner played by the caravan, which seemed to be a "Xun" character, but they still didn't know the origin of it.

So a head of the village in front of the south gate of Dagu Pass went up to stop him, "Stop, stop, where is the caravan coming from, and where do you want to go?"

Seeing the soldiers guarding the gate coming forward to block the way, a young steward came out from the caravan, and slowly drove his horse towards the closed gate. He looked at the gate and the guards on the closed wall with his eyes. A hint of ease.

Behind him, the guards guarding the caravan's goods also followed up before closing the door one after another, staring at the guards in front of the door one by one, as if with a hint of vicious intent, which inevitably made the guards stared at. Get flustered.

"We are from Yingyin Xun's Trading Co., how dare you stop us! Why don't you quickly get out of the way and let us in!"

The young steward turned his head and glanced behind him, but he stopped the movements of the guards behind him. Apparently, he saw that although the defenders of Dagu Pass were loose, there seemed to be several iron bars hanging in the city gate of Dagu Pass. It can be put down and closed at any time.

Therefore, he still wanted to be safer, and did not want to launch a siege battle right now. He stopped the soldiers pretending to be caravan guards in the rear, and made them restrain their killing intent.

This young steward was naturally Wei Yan pretending to be. Although he didn't have a lance weapon in his hand at the moment, he only had a ring-sword on his waist, but he had seen the soldiers guarding the city here. It is easy to kill hundreds of people.

However, Wei Yan deliberately played the banner of the Yingyin Xun family. Xun Yu and Xun You of the Xun family are important advisers under Cao Cao's account, and they can be regarded as the most popular figures in Xudu now, so the caravan sent by the Xun family is naturally not So easy to stop.

Hearing this, the head of the village guarding the closed gate couldn't help but look at Wei Yan, hesitated for a moment, and then looked behind Wei Yan. The cart filled with supplies was pushed to the door.

This can be regarded as covering up the murderous intentions of those who left the caravan before and went behind Wei Yan who were ready to seize the soldiers, so the village chief did not suspect anything else. "Yes, yes, dare not stop, dare not stop!"

Then the head of the village took a few steps back, and assigned more than 50 soldiers guarding the closed gate to make way for Wei Yan's pretend caravan to enter the closed gate.

Wei Yan was overjoyed when he saw this, and took the lead to drive his horse into the city gate of Daguguan, followed by the trucks pushing supplies behind him, which happened to be blocked in the city gate. Even if the gate is down, it can't be closed...

(End of this chapter)