The Night Assassin Mansion made a big move, except for the vicinity of the three houses that were attacked, and when they returned, although they met some people who got up early, they all hid aside when they saw the actions of the army, and although there were many discussions afterwards, it was only a small spread. After dawn, Yingzhou City was no different from usual, and two leather merchants and one medicinal herb merchant opened shops.

The big mansion that originally belonged to the medicinal herb dealer, in the morning, it was full of people watching the notice posted by the government in front of the gate, and the movement was too big last night, and the neighbors on the left and right heard the shouting and killing, but no one dared to get up in the dark to check, and hurriedly got up at dawn, and some people were still thinking about whether to report to the government.

It's just that the official notice in front of the door made everyone feel at ease, the owner of this house harbored thieves and was arrested by the government, Yingzhou has been under the rule of the Great Zhou for four years, although some people muttered that this medicinal herb merchant is usually not bad, but most people will not go to the notice of the government to investigate whether this medicinal herb merchant harbored thieves.

Dozens of meters away from this mansion, a woman wearing a fur hat and a light veil on her face has been standing, staring at the closed door of the house, she is the only woman who escaped from this house last night.

Although the woman's face was covered by a light veil, but judging from her slender figure, she must be a stunning beauty, at this time the beauty's face was full of tears, and she said softly in her mouth: "Brother, don't worry, I will definitely save you.

Although the woman wanted to go into the courtyard to check and see what was missing from the officers and soldiers last night, reason still restrained her steps, wiped her tears, and the woman resolutely blended into the ordinary Yingzhou citizens who got up early.

In the Yingzhou Thorn Mansion, Wei Shikang was chatting with Yang Yong without a word. The crackling of whips can be heard from time to time next door, mixed with the screams of prisoners and the shouts of interrogators, and dozens of people who were arrested last night are being tortured to extract confessions.

After half a ring, a pro-soldier walked in with a stack of confessions in his hand, and bowed to the two: "See Childe, see Lord Thorn.

Yang Yong smiled: "Look at your appearance, the other party can recruit.

The soldier replied: "Exactly, these two groups of Khitans have been recruited. One of them was working for Copherin, and the other was for the Tiele people.

Wei Shi Kang stood up suddenly: "Tiele people? How is that possible, could it be mistaken? ”

"Your Excellency, rest assured, under our interrogation, it is impossible for the other party to tell a lie. Many of the methods are taught by Yang Yong, these methods do not hurt ** much, but it is easy to destroy people's hearts, for this kind of fresh interrogation method, most people at this time are encountering it for the first time. Therefore there is no resistance even more.

"Master Wei, it seems that you think it is inconceivable that the Tiele people have a stronghold in Yingzhou, can you tell this official why you think so." Seeing that Wei Shikang was so excited, Yang Yong asked suspiciously.

Wei Shikang pondered for a moment before he said: "Lord Tsukasa Xin, the Tiele people have been conquered by the Turks for a hundred years, and they have always been regarded as slaves by the Turks. has always been friendly with Yingzhou, and the lower officials don't believe that Tiele will set up spies in Yingzhou, but they are just surprised. ”

"Why should Lord Wei be surprised, there have always been only interests between countries, and it is said that Tiele still belongs to the Turks, that is, one day Tiele will break away from the Turks. It is not impossible to become an ally with the Great Zhou and bury spies in the territory of the Great Zhou.

Wei Shikang carefully chewed Yang Yong's sentence that there are only interests between countries, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that a simple sentence exhausted the relationship between countries: "What the lord said is exact, the lower officials estimate that the Tiele tribes have no ill will towards my Da Zhou at present, and it is just a meeting to follow the adults yesterday, but the two sides have fought in front of them, and each has deaths and injuries, how to deal with it is a difficult matter." After speaking, Wei Shikang lowered his head. The manifestation is a contemplation of what to do with the matter of Tieler.

Yang Yong's mind was not on Tiele, and turned to his own soldiers: "Just now you said that two places have been recruited, don't those Goguryeo people have recruited.

"Hui Gongzi, most of them have been recruited, but they are all small roles, worthless, and the young man who looks like the leader of Goguryeo who was caught has hard bones and has refused to speak. His subordinates were afraid that if the punishment was too heavy, he would be crippled. So there's no good way to do it yet. ”

"Don't be in a hurry, then take your time, don't use the torture again, just keep interrogating, and don't let him rest until he can't stand it anymore."

"Yes." The soldiers put down the interrogation record and left respectfully.

Yang Yong picked up this interrogation record and browsed it, only to know why Wei Shikang's information was wrong, and the people who were not on the previous list in these two places had only recently infiltrated the fraud, that is, they confessed themselves, mainly because they were worried about whether they would use troops outside the country after the Great Zhou Rebellion.

"Huh." Yang Yong suddenly let out a surprised voice at a confession: "Wei Tingshi, Gao Baoning's camp is only two hundred and thirty miles away from Yingzhou? ”

Wei Shikang obviously knew the location of Gao Baoning's camp for a long time: "Lord Hui, exactly." ”

"Wei Tingshi, since you know Gao Baoning's location, why don't you try to eradicate it?" According to Yang Yong's knowledge, since Gao Baoning fled to the grassland, he has to invade the Great Zhou border several times a year, however, since two years ago, Gao Baoning has been unable to carry out large-scale violations on the Great Zhou border, but the number of violations has become more, Gao Baoning's strength has declined, and he is unable to invade on a large scale, so he can only make up for it with quantity.

Wei Shikang smiled bitterly, the so-called pull a hair and move the whole body, Gao Baoning's position is at the intersection of Khitan and Goguryeo, if you deal with Gao Baoning, it is difficult to ensure that Goguryeo and Khitan are involved, with the military strength of Yingzhou, there is naturally no problem to defend the city alone, and it is no problem to deal with Gao Baoning wholeheartedly, but if you divide the military force to deal with Gao Baoning, if there are more people, you are worried that Yingzhou will lose, and if the number is small, I am afraid that it is not Gao Baoning's opponent, Wei Shikang has to tell Yang Yong about the difficulties in the middle.

"My lord, why don't you want to deal with Gao Baoning, Gao Baoning has repeatedly entered the prison, which is really a big disaster in Yingzhou, if there is a chance, Xia Guan will definitely not let it go."

Yang Yong's fingers unconsciously tapped on the one beside him

Gao Baoning is the former assassin of Yingzhou, his threat is far greater than that of the people of all ethnic groups in the steppe, and he is also connected to Goguryeo, Khitan and even Turks, he didn't come, forget it, since he has reached the border, he must not let him go on any longer.

"Wei Tingshi, how many troops can be dispatched in Yingzhou City?"

"What did you say?" Wei Shikang was stunned for a moment.

Yang Yong repeated what he had just said, and Wei Shikang replied: "One thousand." Yingzhou City can only dispatch a thousand people, my lord, you don't want to ......"

"Yes, this official just wants to completely solve the problem of Gao Baoning, in fact, Wei Tingshi had too many concerns about Gao Baoning before, Gao Baoning currently only has more than 3,000 subordinates, this official only needs you to mobilize 800 elite cavalry in Yingzhou, and this official will personally lead the team to raid Gao Baoning, which is enough to make Gao Baoning's department collapse."

"Never." Wei Shikang was so startled that he almost jumped. With 800 cavalry to raid Gao Baoning, whether he could take it or not, Wei Shikang could not let Yang Yong take the risk. Risk, the lower official is willing to lead the team in person, and also invites the adults to sit in Yingzhou. ”

"The official has made up his mind, there is no need to persuade him, Wei Chong is very good, let him follow the official to the expedition."

"Yes, the lower official obeys the order." The official level crushed people to death. What's more, now Yang Yongda Wei Shikang is far more than the first level, Wei Shikang frowned, and finally couldn't help but say: "My lord, can you reconsider?" ”

Yang Yong shook his head, and when he saw Wei Shikang's sad face, he couldn't help but comfort him: "Wei Shishi rest assured." The 2,000 men of this official were not safe and sound against the 100,000 Turkic army, and Gao Baoning was far worse than the Turks. ”

Thinking that although Yang Yong was young, his last record was really brilliant, Wei Shikang was finally a little relieved, although most people thought that Yang Yong relied on luck last time, but he didn't have the courage and resourcefulness, even if he had luck, he couldn't grasp it.

"Since the lord has decided, then the lower official will prepare soldiers and horses for the lord, and the lower official will retire!"

Although the Goguryeo man was a hard bone, he was constantly under the fatigue and interrogation of Yang Yong's own soldiers. Three days later, he still opened his mouth to confess, and the result of the confession was surprising, this young man turned out to be Gao Jianwu, the second prince of Goguryeo.

A prince infiltrated Yingzhou, especially on the surface Goguryeo has just become a subject state of the Great Zhou, there is no doubt that there must be a major plan, Yang Yong's personal soldiers were greatly encouraged, and made persistent efforts, Gao Jianwu's spirit has collapsed after several days of sleepless interrogation, and the purpose of going to Yingzhou has also been confessed one by one.

At the beginning of the founding of Goguryeo, it only occupied a small piece of land in the middle reaches of the Hunjiang and Yalu rivers. Enemies on all sides: Han Liaodong and Xuan two counties in the west, and Lelang and Daifang two counties in the south. In the north is Fuyu, in the east there is Wofu, and later Goguryeo through the continuous annexation of the surrounding small countries, and take advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains, to encroach on the Han Xuanjun, Lelang and other four counties, to now Goguryeo is a large country with 300,000 armor and a territory of thousands of miles.

It's just that after the Zhou Dynasty destroyed Qi, Goguryeo has been worried that it will be attacked by the Central Plains, because two-thirds of Goguryeo's territory is the territory of the Han Dynasty, if the Central Plains Dynasty is unified, it will definitely find a way to regain the lost territory of the Han Dynasty, and the war between Goguryeo and the Central Plains Dynasty is inevitable, so Goguryeo has begun to accumulate military rations a few years ago, actively respond to the war, and lend troops to Gao Baoning, so as to weaken the strength of the Great Zhou.

Originally, Goguryeo was fighting with mussels and the idea of profiting from the fisherman, and thought that Yu Chi Hui was defeated too quickly, and before Goguryeo could figure out the situation, Yu Chi Hui had committed suicide in defeat, and Goguryeo had to die down.

Losing this opportunity, many ministers of Goguryeo were not reconciled, especially represented by Gao Jianwu, Gao Jianwu has always been ambitious, but he was naturally weak in the struggle for the throne with his brother Gao Yuan, and had to make up for it through meritorious service.

Since Goguryeo had this idea, Gao Baoning needed to be eliminated even more, Gao Baoning not only knew the terrain of Yingzhou well, but also still had a certain prestige among the remnants of Qi. Otherwise, if he invaded Yingzhou by Goguryeo, with Gao Baoning as a precursor, the Great Zhou would be even more unguardable.

In order to keep the raid from being detected by Gao Baoning, Wei Shikang spent five days, little by little to transfer the men and horses outside the city, he wanted to transfer more people, but was stopped by Yang Yong, after these few days of interrogation, plus the combination of the information obtained by Wei Shikuan before, Gao Baoning's strength is already very clear, his combatable soldiers are only about 2,600 people, there are 800 elite soldiers, plus Yang Yong's own personal soldiers of 100 people, the raid on Gao Baoning is enough, and the number of people is easy to expose, If Gao Baoning gets the news in advance, it will be even more wasted to flee.

Gao Baoning got the news that the stronghold in Yingzhou City had been removed on the third day, although he was angry, he didn't care very much, just gritted his teeth and scolded Wei Shikang a few words, and everything returned to normal, he didn't have more than one stronghold in Yingzhou.

In a secret place dozens of miles outside Yingzhou City, eight hundred elite horsemen have gathered, plus Yang Yong himself and his own soldiers, the whole army has a total of nine hundred and four people, everyone is looking at Yang Yong eagerly, Yang Yong's identity is not secret in front of these eight hundred people, can follow and defeat the young heroes of the Turkic land, today's Tokyo Tsukasin to kill the enemy together, this glory alone is rarely matched.

Yang Yong took out his saber and raised it high: "Soldiers, Gao Baoning's fang has repeatedly violated my Great Zhou border, and now it has become a tumor on the Great Zhou, Gao Baoning will not be removed, and the people of Yingzhou will never have peace, today is the time to remove this tumor, and swear to destroy Gao Baoning!" ”

"Swear to destroy Ko Boryeong! Swear to destroy Gao Baoning! The nine hundred soldiers pulled their swords in unison, pointed diagonally at the sky and shouted.

"Let's go!" Yang Yong's long knife forward, and suddenly the sound of rumbling hooves sounded, the dust flew, and nine hundred soldiers rushed towards the station where Gao Baoning was.

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