"It's our team." Tian Qi shouted excitedly.
Under the firelight, several of his companions had the same excited expressions on their faces as he did.
At the city gate, the captives kneeling on the ground also noticed the long fire snakes in the distance, each of them drooping even lower, almost crawling on the ground.
tread! tread! tread!
Several fast horses appeared at the city gate, and with them came a team of soldiers behind them.
"Who is Ding Sanyou?" A man on horseback asked loudly as he looked at Ding and others standing at the city gate.
"I am." Dading stood up.
The man on horseback took a look at Da Ding who came out, and said with a smile: "I am Xiao Kui, the commander of the third battle barracks of the third battle division. I have been ordered to find some spies from the Foreign Intelligence Agency. These few That’s right too!”
He looked at Tian Qi and others behind Ding Sanyou.
"Yes, we are all spies arranged by the Foreign Intelligence Agency at Yanmen Pass." Ding Sanyou admitted frankly.
Xiao Kui got off his horse and came to Ding Sanyou with several guards. He said in his mouth: "In order to accurately confirm the identity, please cooperate with Brother Ding."
"You should." Ding Sanyou took out a bronze medal from his arms and handed it over, then turned around and said to Tian Qi and the others, "Take out all the identity tags you are wearing and let Xiao Yingzheng check them."
Tian Qi and others stepped forward and each took out signs from their bodies that could prove their identity.
The difference from Ding San is that the identity tags they took out were all iron medals, unlike Ding San's identity tag which was a bronze medal.
Xiao Kui personally took the bronze medal handed over by Ding Sanyou.
One of the guards around Xiao Kui went to check the bronze medal that Tian Qi and the others took out.
By the light of the fire, Xiao Kui confirmed that the bronze medal was correct, returned it to Ding Sanyou, and said enthusiastically: "Thanks to you guys, otherwise a lot of people would have to sacrifice to get to Yanmen Pass."
"This is what we should do." Ding San replied politely, and then said, "Now that the army has arrived, our mission has been completed. These people are Yanmen Pass guards who surrendered on their own initiative. They will be handed over to you now. .”
He pointed at the dozens of prisoners kneeling near the city gate.
Xiao Kui glanced at the prisoners and said with a smile: "Just teach us. You have worked hard tonight. Now that the army has arrived, you can rest assured. However, I received an order saying that there are six spies in Yanmen Pass." , where are the other two people?"
As he spoke, he looked behind Ding Sanyou.
Counting Tian Qi and others standing aside, he only saw four spies from the Foreign Intelligence Agency in total.
"In order to open the city gate smoothly, my other two companions set fire in Yanmen Pass. Now that you are here, we are going to find the remaining two companions. We also hope that Xiao Yingzheng can send a small team of soldiers and horses to follow. Let's act together." Ding Sanyou asked Xiao Kui to borrow troops.
There was chaos in Yanmen Pass.
With the clothes he, Tian Qi and others were wearing, if they re-entered Yanmen, they might have been captured by the soldiers of the Tiger Flag in Yanmen Pass before they found anyone.
Therefore, he wanted to borrow a team of soldiers to follow him, not only to prove the identity of himself and others, but also to make it easier for him to find people in Yanmen Pass.
Xiao Kui glanced at Yanmen Pass, where the flames were blazing, and said: "It may be a little chaotic inside at the moment. Let's do this. I will send one of my guards to follow you, Brother Ding, to look for people. It will be easier to deal with whatever happens."
"Thank you, Xiao Yingzheng." Ding San had a happy face.
With Xiao Kui's escort following him, even if he encounters some Tiger Flag officers entering Yanmen Pass, they will more or less give him some face, making his actions more convenient.
Xiao Kui said with a smile: "We are all a family, there is no need to be so polite. If you hadn't risked your lives to open Yanmen Pass, I don't know how many people would have died or injured before we could capture Yanmen Pass. To thank you, it is my battalion that is facing you." Say thank you, Tong Qing, you bring a squad of soldiers and go with Brother Ding to find the person, you must find the person."
"Yes." A guard standing next to Xiao Kui agreed.
Soon, a team of more than thirty soldiers was brought over, and followed Ding Sanyou and others into Yanmen Pass from the city gate.
"Leave a small team to guard the prisoners while the others enter Yanmen Pass." Xiao Kui gave the order and entered Yanmen Pass immediately.
Dozens of Yanmen Pass guards remained in front of the city gate.
Watching the neatly organized teams of Tiger Flag soldiers entering Yanmen Pass, many prisoners showed envy in their eyes.
"Look, sir, everyone in the rebels is wearing cotton armor. They look better than the general's soldiers." One of the prisoners said to others around him.
"Shut up, don't risk your life, you are talking about rebels, they are called rebels." The chief scolded the other party, and then glanced nervously at the guards standing around.
It was discovered that the guards left behind by the rebels did not hear what had just been said, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
When he looked at the cotton armor on the guard, he also showed envy.
Once upon a time, his father had such a piece of cotton armor that he was never allowed to touch. Later, when his father got old and could no longer go to the battlefield, he passed the cotton armor to him.
When he first got the cotton armor, even if it was damaged in several places, it was still a treasure to him. Once when he was attacking a bandit's stronghold, this cotton armor saved his life.
If the iron piece on the chest of the cotton armor hadn't blocked an arrow fired by a bandit, he would have been dead for an unknown period of time. It was precisely because of his luck in surviving that time that he gained a very long position.
It was a pity that several of his team mates who were attacking the bandits' cottage with him were shot to death by arrows shot by the bandits in the cottage because they were not wearing any armor.
If his companions could have worn cotton armor like the rebels in front of him, more than half of the people who died at that time would have had a chance to survive.
"What kind of rebel soldiers and horses are these? Compared with them, we people are more like rebel soldiers and horses." Someone in the captive crowd murmured in a low voice.
Nearly half of the soldiers and horses of Yanmen Institute did not have any armor. Even if they wore a piece of cotton armor, most of them were in tatters and barely maintained their appearance. It did not provide much protection for the person wearing the armor.
The sound came from a place not far away from this name.
The familiar voice made him recognize who the speaker was just by listening to the voice, but he didn't say anything.
Compared with the army of rebels who are entering Yanmen Pass, these imperial troops stationed at Yanmen Pass are more like a team of beggars.
"I heard that the rebels had three meals a day, all cooked, and they had meat to eat every day. I don't know if that's true."
Among the prisoners, some shared some of the news they had heard about the rebels in Datong with those around them.
"Really or not? How can the rebels be so good, not only do they cook three meals a day, but also give them meat?" A prisoner asked suspiciously, and he kept swallowing the saliva secreted from his mouth as he spoke. .
Not only him, but many people around him were similar to him, and they were all swallowing their saliva.
