Three battalions of cavalry, more than 20,000 new soldiers, plus 10,000 candidate recruits in Longhua Prefecture, nearly 40,000 troops marched together, the smoke and dust were billowing and the momentum was huge.

Taizhou is more than 500 miles north of Longhua Prefecture, and it is planned to arrive in five days. Everything was as usual for the first four days, and on the morning of the fifth day, after the army passed through a mountain pass, Wan Yankang noticed that there was a wolf smoke rising a few miles behind him, and he did not realize that a great warning was coming in his heart.

When the enemy is coming, the wolf smoke is raised, and it was originally a standing early warning means for the border army. But this place is in the territory of Dajin, Wan Yan Kang personally led the army to pass, and someone actually raised a cigarette to warn, which is really strange.

Wan Yankang felt a little uneasy in his heart, and immediately asked a platoon of cavalry to find out what was going on, and then ordered the front battalion to send a company of cavalry to speed up and rush to Taizhou City to find out if anything had happened.

After a while, the warriors who rushed to the place where the smoke rose reported that there was no one here, and there was no trace of it.

An hour and a half later, the Tanma who went to Taizhou City reported that the city gate was closed and the flag had not changed!

Wan Yankang frowned, the city gate was closed in broad daylight, and it was obvious that something was wrong. But the flag has not changed, and it must not be the invasion of the Northern Invaders to seize the city.

What could be the moth?

At two o'clock, the army was still thirty miles away from Taizhou City, and Wan Yankang suddenly ordered the army to stop advancing and camp on the spot.

As soon as the military order was given, all the soldiers immediately cheered and began to set up camp and bury pots to cook.

These four days of continuous marching were like a walk to warm up for the cavalry of the three battalions of White Horse City. For the soldiers elected by the state capitals, they have gradually become accustomed to traveling hundreds of miles a day. And among the 10,000 soldiers in Longhua Prefecture, there are still half of them who can hold out to this point, which is also commendable.

After a night's rest, more than 20,000 newly elected soldiers were in good spirits, and the 5,000 soldiers of Longhua Prefecture also recovered a lot of vitality.

Wanyan Kang personally led a battalion of cavalry in front, and the infantry formed three formations in the front, middle and rear, and then marched.

The soldiers of Linhuang Mansion and Dading Mansion, totaling more than 11,000 people, as the front army of infantry, more than 10,000 soldiers in the four state capitals of Xingzhongfu, Laizhou, Jinzhou, and Yikun Prefecture were listed as the Chinese army, and the 5,000 new troops of Longhua Prefecture ranked last. The remaining two battalions of cavalry guarded the army, and more than 30,000 troops, with Wan Yankang's order, rushed towards Taizhou City.

This way of marching, all the way to train soldiers, from Linhuang Mansion to now, has been more than a month. Except for the recruits in Longhua Prefecture, the other soldiers have been able to do the order and prohibition, and the march is solemn. Rushing to Taizhou City, it should have been an ordinary marching formation, but at this moment, the army put up a battle formation, but no one raised a word.

The north of Taizhou City is close to the Mingtong River, that is, the Songhua River in the future, and the Mingtong River flows from west to east in the north of Taizhou City. There is a large lake called Moon Bubble in the south of Taizhou, which is formed by the convergence of several small and medium-sized rivers from the west.

Taizhou City is surrounded by water on both sides, and the north and south gates are directly water, defending against the Mongolian Koubian, only facing the enemy in the west, which has created a unique geographical advantage of Taizhou City. Therefore, the city of Taizhou is governed by a mere state, but there are 60,000 garrisons. Xiong Tianbao, the governor of Taizhou City, also concurrently leads the Northeast Road to recruit the position of Xuanfu, and his official residence is from the second grade.

Wan Yankang led the army to march from the east of the moon bubble, and when he reached the next mile of the city, he ordered the whole army to stop and asked Tian Dali to come forward and call the door.

Tian Dali rode his horse to a hundred steps outside the city, and shouted: "Beijing Road is left, and the general of the expedition to the north is here, and you don't want to open the door quickly to greet you!" ”

A head poked out from the city wall and shouted back: "Lord Xuanfu is not here, we can't open the door!" ”

At this time, a hundred steps away from the city gate, he had a loud voice, and the people on the city wall could hear it, but Tian Dali couldn't hear the shouts on the city wall.

He rode forward dozens of paces and shouted again to open the door.

"Lord Xuanfu is here, we can't open the door!"

This Xia Tian Dali heard it clearly, and suddenly became furious, pointing to the city wall and scolding: "Dog, dare to use this set to play with your grandfather, ask Xiong Tianbao to appear in a quarter of an hour, otherwise my handsome family will not spare him!" ”

Wan Yankang took over the state capitals on Beijing Road all the way, except for a slight obstruction in Linhuang Mansion, the governors of other state capitals were all obedient. How do you know that when he arrived at the city of Taizhou, Xiong Tianbao avoided it, obviously not taking Wan Yankang in his eyes, how to make Tian Dali not angry.

"I told you, my family Xuanfu is not here, so I can't open the door!" The man on the wall spoke again.

Where Tian Dali was willing to believe, he began to scold.

When the guards on the city wall heard this, they came out and shouted: "You reckless man, if you dare to talk nonsense, be careful that the bow and arrow don't have long eyes!" With that, he shouted, and a line of archers stood up on the city wall.

"Xiong Tianbao is not here, just notify the deputy general to come over!" Wanyan Kang rode his horse to the front and motioned for Tian Dali not to speak anymore.

"My family Xuanfu is not here, so I can't open the door!" When the man on the wall saw this, he threw down another sentence.

Wan Yankang looked at it, and saw that the rough and unusually life of the person who spoke, his body was almost the same as Tian Dali's, he was wearing iron armor, but he was wearing a fur hat on his head. Judging from the accent between the words, it also seems a little weird.

Wan Yankang originally wanted to shoot this person with an arrow to force the city to surrender. Judging from the appearance of this person, it seems that he is a tiger general, so he has a little love for talent, so he patiently persuaded a few words.

I don't know that this guy comes and goes, it's just like that: "My family Xuanfu is not here, I can't open the door!" ”

The name of this person in the city is called Huqi, and it is a Mongolian man who was taken under Xiong Tianbao five years ago. This is very majestic, with well-developed limbs and a simple mind. In Taizhou City, except for Xiong Tianbao's words, everyone else instructed this person not to move.

Wan Yankang's anger continued to rise, and when he reached the peak, he suddenly calmed down.

Xiong Tianbao is indeed not in the city at the moment, Wan Yankang visited Taizhou alone at night last night, and learned that Xiong Tianbao had to report that there was an enemy in the west at noon yesterday, and took 20,000 cavalry out of the city to defend against the enemy.

If there is an enemy in the grassland, you only need to defend the city, and there is no reason to take the initiative to go out of the city to find the enemy. Wan Yankang originally thought to himself, could it be that this person was afraid that he would use him to open the knife, so he deliberately led the cavalry to hide out.

At this time, Wan Yankang understood that Xiong Tianbao was hiding, but made a procrastination!

It stands to reason that Xiong Tianbao is not here, and there should be no obstacle for Wan Yankang to lead the army into the city. His holy decree of staying behind on Beijing Road and conquering the general of Peking University has long been known to everyone in Zhou Street. Xiong Tianbao was not there, and the other officials and generals in the city, after seeing Yan Kang, still had to open the door and surrender.

But Xiong Tianbao used a snort!

Hu Chi obeys Xiong Tianbao's orders, and never discounts the execution of orders, he doesn't know any little prince or general!

Wan Yankang led the army forward, originally for the purpose of training, all the way to the battle lightly, the soldiers only carried seven days of rations. It was precisely because there was no food in the army that Xiong Tianbao used the trick of procrastination.

As long as the army can't enter Taizhou City and can't get supplies, the consequences are self-evident.

What happened afterwards, Xiong Tianbao only needs to use his absence in the city as an excuse to prevaricate the past, and it's a big deal to throw out the foolish thing of Huqi to take the blame!

Will be outside, the military order is not subject to it!

As long as Xiong Tianbao did not blatantly rebel, it would be impossible for the imperial court to open a knife on him, a man with heavy troops.

What's more, Xiong Tianbao dared to do this at this time, and it was self-evident who was behind him!

Now there are three ways in front of Wan Yankang: one is to return to the army quickly, although there is no big city along the way, you can also find a place to supply, and then kill back to Taizhou after the grain and grass are sufficient; the second is to lead a light horse around the moon bubble to the west gate of Taizhou, and enter the city from the west gate; The third is to kill the snorkel and forcibly break into the city.

In Xiong Tianbao's calculations, Wan Yankang had only two ways, one was to return to the army, and the other was to ride lightly to the west gate.

For Wan Yankang, there is more of a way to kill Hu Chi with superb martial arts. But he didn't want to choose this path, first, he was a little sorry for his talents, and the important thing was that Wan Yankang thought of two key questions.

Where did Xiong Tianbao go with those 20,000 fine horses?

If he seized Taizhou City, would Xiong Tianbao dare to come back?

Xiong Tianbao put such a scene, and he completely tore his face with Yan Kang. If Yan Kang successfully entered the city, Xiong Tianbao would definitely not dare to return to the city.

Then there were only two paths in front of him, one was to go south, and the other was to go west.

Xiong Tianbao did not get the king's order, if he dared to lead his troops south, he would be convicted of rebellion, and he would not have to run. With Wanyan Hongyan's influence in the court at this time, he will definitely not be able to keep him, and at that time, this person will only jump over the wall in a hurry to help Wanyan Hongyan rebel and seize the throne.

There are 100,000 forbidden troops in the central capital, divided into four battalions in the southeast, northwest and northwest. With the situation before Yan Hongyan, he could master at most one battalion, plus Xiong Tianbao's 20,000 cavalry, and it would be even more difficult to rebel and seize the throne.

At this time, although the old emperor was devoted to Wanyan Honglie's father and son, he had never passed on the throne for a day, and Wanyan Hongyan always had a few chances.

There was no hope of going south, so Xiong Tianbao had only one way to go, that is, to lead his troops to the west and surrender to the Mongols.

To the west of Taizhou, the Hongji Thorn tribe was originally the Hongji Thorn Tribe, and the tribe was constantly suppressed by the Gengyan tribe of Temujin, and the population was not as strong as before. Xiong Tianbao has been guarding Taizhou for many years, and he has also fought many times with the Hongji Thorn Department, and they have won and lost each other.

If Xiong Tianbao really surrendered to the Hongji Thorn Division, the first thing the Khan of this tribe thought about was to kill the surnamed Xiong!

His grandmother's, you are 20,000 when you come, and the number of warriors in my tribe is only like this, who will be the master and who will be the guest when the time comes?

Needless to say, if Xiong Tianbao goes west, he will definitely be merged. When the time comes, Temujin will not take the opportunity to take advantage of the fisherman, and he will call himself a generation of Tianjiao!

Of course, if Xiong Tianbao leads his troops west, Wan Yankang can also lead his army west to be a fisherman. can think about it carefully, this fisherman Temujin did it, but Wan Yankang couldn't do it at this time.

After Yan Kang took over Taizhou, the number of troops in his hands immediately exceeded 70,000, and the cavalry that could be used was only the three battalions of cavalry brought from White Horse City, but only three or four thousand people. In the vast grassland, only the cavalry dominates, and these 70,000 infantry go to the grassland, just to waste grain and grass.

The most important thing is that the 60,000 troops in Taizhou, whether it is the 40,000 infantry in the city or the 20,000 cavalry taken away by Xiong Tianbao, are all treasures belonging to Wan Yankang!

In addition to Xiong Tianbao, there is one more death, and Wan Yankang is distressed!

What to do?