Pan Xiguang's elder brother is the boy he grew up with.
When he first studied, he worked as a book boy for Pan Xiguang. Later, Pan Xiguang became an official and stayed with Pan Xiguang as his long-term follower. Pan Xiguang had the closest relationship with him and was also the most trusted person.
Pan Xiguang was very unhappy when his long follower woke him up from his sleep.
But he knew that his long-term follower would not come to him when he was sleeping.
Wearing only obscene clothes, he got out of bed and came to the lobby of the outhouse.
"Come in!" Pan Xiguang sat on a chair and said toward the outside of the room.
Soon, the door was pushed open, and the chief attendant walked in with someone.
"Master, something happened. General Jie has returned from Tianmen Pass." Chang Sui saw Pan Xiguang without any delay and directly stated the purpose of his request.
Upon hearing this, Pan Xiguang's confused eyes widened instantly and said, "What did you say? Say it again?"
"This man is a guard guarding the city. He just came over from the city gate. He was the one who sent the news about General Jie's return." The officer pulled out the messenger.
Pan Xiguang looked at the other party.
"My little greetings to Fujun." The messenger hurriedly knelt down and saluted Pan Xiguang.
Pan Xiguang asked in a deep voice: "Is the news about General Jie's return confirmed? Is there any misunderstanding?"
Mr. Jie Shigong was guarding Tianmen Pass and blocking the invading bandit army there. At this time, Mr. Jie Shigong came back from Tianmen Pass. There was only one possibility: something happened at Tianmen Pass.
"Reporting to Fujun, General Xie is outside the city gate with dozens of cavalry at the moment, and the general guarding the city tonight recognizes General Xie, so there is no mistake." The person who sent the letter said with great certainty.
Hearing this, Pan Xiguang's body softened and he collapsed on the Taishi chair.
"Master, are you okay?" Chang Sui saw this and hurriedly supported the other person to prevent him from slipping out of the Grand Master's chair.
The messenger knelt on the ground and was too frightened to speak.
Pan Xiguang waved his hand, slowly sat upright, and said, "Are there really only a few dozen riders? You couldn't have seen it wrong! Or maybe you have mistaken the person, someone is pretending to be General Jie."
"I don't know, but General Jie outside the city is clamoring to enter the city, saying he has something important to see Fujun." The messenger lowered his head and said.
Pan Xiguang was speechless for a long time.
He didn't want the person outside the city to call the city gate to be Mr. Jie Shi, because if Mr. Jie came back at this time, something would happen at Tianmen Pass, but he knew that the possibility of someone pretending to be Pan Xiguang was not high.
"Master, you have to make an idea. If the man outside the city is really Jiefang Bing, you can't let him stay outside the city all the time." Chang Sui reminded him in a low voice.
Pan Xiguang came back to his senses and said, "Take the man down first and prepare the sedan while I'm going to see him on the top of the city."
This person is naturally talking about Mr. Jie Shigong outside the city.
The commander took the soldier who delivered the message out of the room.
Pan Xiguang returned to the inner room and asked the concubine in the room to help him get dressed.
After getting dressed, he waited for Chang Sui to come back from finishing his work, and left the governor's Yamen accompanied by Chang Sui.
Outside the gate of the governor's office, there were already sedans and sedan bearers waiting outside. In addition, they were accompanied by a team of soldiers and horses.
Pan Xiguang was helped into the sedan by his long followers, and the soldiers who delivered the message were asked to lead the way to the city gate where Mr. Jie Shigong was.
This time we came out not to patrol the place, so there were no ceremonial guards arranged. Several bearers quickly trotted all the way to the foot of a city wall.
"Master, we are here."
The bearer stopped the sedan, the attendant lifted up the curtain, and helped Pan Xiguang out of the sedan.
It was dark all around, with only the light from the fire on the top of the city illuminated.
"Let's go up." Pan Xiguang let Chang Sui help him to the top of the city wall.
The bearer of the sedan chair stayed at the bottom of the city, while a group of officers and soldiers followed Pan Xiguang to the top of the city.
Such a large group of people followed the horse path up the city wall. When the military attache who guarded the city saw it, he recognized Pan Xiguang and hurriedly came up to greet him. He bowed respectfully and said, "I have seen Pan Fujun before."
"No need to be polite, take me to see the commander-in-chief." Pan Xiguang was anxious to see the sergeant.
The city defense attaché led Pan Xiguang to a crenel.
He pointed to a place under the city with his hand and said: "Pan Fujun, please look, General Jie and the others are there."
Pan Xiguang looked in the direction of his finger and did see some figures, but it was too dark to see clearly.
"Let Mr. Jie come over and talk." Pan Xiguang ordered the military attaché beside him, wanting to confirm Mr. Jie's identity.
The city guard military attache leaned out of the crenel and shouted loudly: "Please also ask General Jie to come closer and talk."
Under the city, dozens of cavalry were in confusion for a while. Only one cavalry was seen walking alone in front of the others. He looked in the direction of the city and said, "This general is the commander-in-chief of Taiyuan."
Pan Xiguang, who was on the city wall, heard the familiar voice below the city. He tightly grasped the blue bricks next to the crenellations with his fingers and whispered to the city guard military attache beside him: "Continue talking to him."
"Yes." The city guard military attache agreed, and then looked at the city and said loudly, "It's getting so late, why don't General Xie find a place to stay first, and wait for the city gate to be opened after dawn, wouldn't it be better before entering the city? good."
"I don't blame you, it would have been the same if I had gone there." Mr. Jie Shigong said with a wry smile.
He had already thought of this outcome after the city wall was collapsed by cannon.
"General, what should we do next?" the deputy general asked.
Governor Pan asked them to hold Tianmen Pass for at least half a month. To this end, he did not hesitate to send the Fubiao Battalion next to the governor to support them. However, Tianmen Pass only held in their hands for two days before it was captured by the rebels.
Without Tianmen Pass, the next one is Yangqu, and there is no dangerous pass like Tianmen Pass in the middle to defend.
Several important yamen in Shanxi are located in Yangqu. Not only are the governors there, but also the officials from the yamen who have been appointed as political envoys are also in Yangqu.
"Return to Yangqu first, then defend Yangqu, or retreat to Liaozhou or other places to Fujun." Jie Shigong said to him.
The lieutenant nodded.
Both of them knew in their hearts that there was no other choice but to retreat to Yangqu.
The two groups of soldiers and horses that escaped from Tianmen Pass came together, with a total of only three to four hundred people. Of course, there must be more than this number of soldiers and horses that escaped, but the two people can only control this few soldiers and horses now.
No one knew whether the thieves occupying Tianmen Pass would catch up. The two of them did not dare to waste time on the road. In order to escape faster, all the soldiers' armor was thrown away on the road.
"General, a large number of soldiers and horses were found ahead."
Just as Mr. Xie and others were fleeing, a large group of soldiers under the banner of Shanxi Fubiao Camp discovered Mr. Xie and the remaining soldiers around him.
"Thieves?" A guerrilla general in armor frowned slightly.
