"Adult, it's Tong Xuanfu's banner! Tong Xuanfu came, and he also brought hundreds of iron horses! Taiyuan Mansion has been saved......"

At the head of Taiyuan City, Wang Di, who was recruited by his father Wang Yang to write the words of the Xuanfu Division, reported to his father Wang Yang in a cheerful voice.

A quarter of an hour ago, Wang Yang's personal soldiers, who were waiting at the head of Taiyuan City, came to report that an iron cavalry had arrived on the other side of the Fen River in the west of the city and was crossing the river.

Wang Yang and Wang Di, father and son, immediately realized that it was likely that the back-handed hero Tong Guan had arrived. What an eye-opener! The father and son almost hugged their heads and cried. Fortunately, Wang Yang and Wang Di, father and son, immediately led people to climb the west wall of Taiyuan City, and craned their necks to watch a boatload of ironclad knights being transported from the west bank of the Fen River to the east bank.

However, these ironclad knights who got off the boat did not immediately come to Taiyuan City, because between Taiyuan City and the east bank of the Fen River, there were 180 Khitan Yuan's horses moving. Seeing enemy cavalry crossing the river, they all gathered together and seemed to want to stop it. But those who crossed the river were all knights in full armor and riding Qingtang dragon stallions, and they quickly put on a terrifying shock formation. The Khitan people's distant barricades were not originally used to fight tough battles, so they naturally did not dare to approach, but just watched from afar.

When Wang Yang, Wang Di, and Cai Anzhi, the transfer envoy of Hedong Road, climbed the city wall together, Tong Guan himself also crossed the Fen River and played the banner. Then, surrounded by three hundred iron cavalry and hundreds of other retinues (including the retinue of iron cavalry), they came towards Taiyuan City. Originally, more than 100 Khitan horses who were blocking outside Taiyuan City did not dare to block them, but dodged one after another.

Seeing Tong Guan's majesty like this, the cultural relics officials of Taiyuan City at the head of the city also praised each other.

"It's really worthy of being the commander of the Northwest Overseer for many years, and it's really majestic!"

"What a powerful Tong Xuanfu in the northwest! Now Taiyuan Mansion is worry-free! ”

"I didn't expect Tong Xuanshuai's iron cavalry to be so strong, even the Khitan cavalry had to be avoided, not only Taiyuan is worry-free, but the entire Hedong can also be safe."

"Tong Xuanfu is almost at the gate of the city, let's hurry up and greet him."

"Hurry up, open the gates of the city......"

In the end, I don't know who shouted to wake up the Taiyuan officials who were in excitement. Tong Guan Tong Daxuanfu has arrived outside the city gate, hurry up and open the door to put the drawbridge! Taking advantage of the fact that the Liao brigade did not arrive, he hurriedly took Tong Guan into the city.

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Tong Guan entered Taiyuan City with a black face, not because he wanted to show anyone's face, but because he was in danger of fighting, he couldn't be happy.

was welcomed by Wang Yang into the Xuanfu Division, and he had not had time to handle the handover of the Xuanfu envoy and the seal letter of the Taiyuan Mansion (the Hedong Xuanfu envoy was the original Hedong Road Jingluo pacification envoy, in order to be on par with the northwest Xuanfu and Hebei Xuanfu, it was changed from pacification to Xuanfu, so this Xuanfu is also the Taiyuan prefect), Tong Guan hurriedly said: "There are no Khitan soldiers outside Taiyuan Mansion, only a few distant horses!" The Khitan army must have gone north to Xinzhou, I don't know how many defenders there are in Xinzhou? Who led the garrison? ”

Hearing him say this, Wang Yang's face changed slightly, and he said suspiciously: "Daofu has just arrived in Taiyuan Mansion, how do you know that there are no Khitan soldiers outside the city?" ”

"How don't you know?" Tong Guan said, "If there are soldiers here, how can our family enter the city without effort?" Moreover, there are no Khitan soldiers and horses to fortify the Fenhe wharf, and no one is digging a trench outside the city, and there is no Khitan camp. How can there be GIs? The Khitans just left some distant horses to guard the four roads, and the main force must have gone north to Xinzhou. How is the garrison of Xinzhou? ”

"Xinzhou is empty and unprepared!" Wang Yang replied in a low voice, "Who would have thought that the Khitan would come from the mouth of the well?" The soldiers and horses in Hedong were all deployed on the front line of Daizhou, Ninghua Army, Kelan Army, Volcano Army, Baode Army, Fuzhou and Fengzhou......"

"How is it deployed?" Tong Guan hurriedly asked.

"The Daizhou and Ninghua armies put six generals, and Yao Yifu was under the command of the Xuanfu Division. The Caulan Army, the Volcano Army, the Baode Army, Fuzhou and Fengzhou also had five generals on the front line, which were under the command of Zhezun Road on Linfu Road. ”

Tong Guan sighed in his heart. The deployment of the Xuanfu Division on Hedong Road was completely expected by him, that is, all the eleven generals of the new army (and one of them were taken to Hebei) on the northern front, divided the troops, and defended the danger. There were no reserves and no troops to guard the flanks and rear.

So Xinzhou must have been lost!

And Xinzhou was lost, even if there were generals of the Western Army Yao Xiong in Daizhou, they were powerless to prevent the fall of Yanmen Zhuguan.

As soon as Yanmen is lost, the Liao army will be able to drive straight into the city of Taiyuan.

This Taiyuan ...... I'm afraid it's really hard to protect!

Thinking that Taiyuan was difficult to protect, Tong Guan's heart suddenly shook violently. The reason why he entered Taiyuan was because he was afraid of death. Zhao Ji's urging talismans, who dares to disobey? Oh, there are many people who dare to disobey, but Tong Guan is definitely not one of them.

And after entering Taiyuan, he found that Taiyuan was also a dead place. If there is any difference, it is that if you do not enter Taiyuan, you will die ten times, and if you enter Taiyuan, you will die nine times and live a life.

"That'...... How many soldiers and horses are there in Taiyuan City? What about reserves? ”

"There are only thousands of old forbidden troops and box troops in Taiyuan City, and there are thousands of regimental training." Wang Yang said, "Although people are unbearable, there are still some armor weapons, but there are too few arrows, which has made people step up their construction." If you can train strictly, you should be able to fight. ”

Cai Anzhi, the transfer envoy of Hedong Road, also followed him to the Xuanfu Division, and immediately replied: "There are still some reserves in Taiyuan City, but many refugees from these two people have entered the city......

"What? Refugee? You can't let them into the city! Tong Guan knew it was bad when he heard it, "The Khitans are not good at attacking cities. They drove the refugees into Taiyuan, they must have wanted to increase the food consumption in Taiyuan City!

How many people are there in Taiyuan City now? How many old and weak women and children are there? Taking advantage of the fact that the Liao people did not besiege the city, hurry up and send it across the Fen River! ”

"There are Khitans outside the city," Cai Anzhi shook his head, "How can the people be willing to go out of the city?" ”

His life was at stake, and Tong Guan couldn't care about respecting the civil officials, so he hurriedly said: "It's better for the two of you to take the people out of the city!" Both of them are high-ranking officials of the imperial court, and they are quite popular, and personally escorting the people to evacuate Taiyuan is also a good deed that will go down in history! ”

"This ......" Wang Yang is still hesitating, running with the people, will he run slowly?

"This official is still Caochen, how can he leave the city?" Cai Anzhi asked rhetorically.

"It's because the bachelor is Cao Chen that he has to leave quickly!" Tong Guan said, "Taiyuan will soon be besieged, and if the bachelor and Cao Si don't leave, won't they be trapped and die in the city?" Moreover, there are many gold, silver, money, and silk in the Taiyuan Treasury, which have to be transported away with the bachelor before they can be used to reward soldiers and recruit strong men!

In addition, our family also asked Zhang Zhiping to recruit warriors and Ding Zhuang in Hexi, a total of 10,000 people, known as the Changsheng Army, and it will enter Hedong in the near future, and then it will also need Hedong Caosi to allocate food and salary. ”

The victorious army was a mercenary, and according to the agreement, a knight (including an auxiliary, two horses, two horses, and all the equipment) paid 400 taels for recruitment. In the future, 50,000 taels of military salaries will be given every month, and double salaries will be paid in case of war, and all the consumption of grain, grass and arrows will also be borne by the Song court.

In addition, a pension of 400 taels for one person killed in battle, and a reward of 50 taels for the first one killed, all captured by the soldiers.

Now 1.5 million of the 2 million yuan of the recruitment fee is given by the two Cao Si of Hexi and Shaanxi (according to Zhao Ji's will), and the rest of the expenses have to be allocated by the Cao Si of Hedong. If Taiyuan is breached, and Tong Guan is outside the city, of course, he can go to the official family to ask for money, and he will definitely get it.

But now that Taiyuan has not been breached, and Tong Guan has entered the city again, the funds of the Changsheng army should be the responsibility of Hedong Caosi.

If Cai Anzhi and Hedong Caosi's inventory are trapped in Taiyuan City, who will Chang Shengjun ask for money? If there is no money, this mercenary army will go to war? Dream on!

"No, no." Cai An shook his head again and again, stroked his beard and said, "The court has its own laws, and the old man is a minister all the way, how can he leave his post without permission?" Besides, the Hedong Treasury is a national reserve, how can it be moved without authorization? Even if you want to move, you have to ask the imperial court for instructions, and the household department will send someone to supervise it before you can move. ”

Hmm, if Yelu Yanxi comes, will you let him go into the treasury to get the money?

Tong Guan wanted to know the answer, but in the end he didn't ask.

Cai An didn't leave, and of course he didn't retreat. But after all, he is Tong Guan, one of the "six thieves" in history, and he is also a thief of the same level as Cai Jing among the six thieves, how can he sit still?

"Since Bachelor Cai is reluctant to go out of the city, it is better to join hands with our family to play a concert, and ask the imperial court to send important ministers to preside over the military and government affairs of Hedong outside Taiyuan City." Tong Guan said, "After all, Taiyuan is about to be trapped, although you and I are handsome ministers, but it is difficult for the government decree to get out of Taiyuan." ”

There is some truth to that.

Cai Anzhi nodded, "I don't know what kind of important minister does Senior Officer Tong want to preside over the military affairs of Hedong?" ”

Our family wants to make Wu Hao ancient, can you agree? Tong Guan sighed in his heart again, and said to Cai An: "It must be an important minister at the first level of the two prefectures, if you can let Cai Xianggong and Zheng Shuxiang go out of Beijing." ”

Hmm, everyone carries the black pot together!

"And so it should be." Cai Anzhi felt that it made sense, and now the highest-ranking military attachés in the Great Song Dynasty were Wu Haogu and Tong Guan, both of whom were Tai Lieutenants. Wu Haogu can't come, Tong Guan has already come. Then the next step is to let the leaders of the civil officials dispatch.

Wang Yang on the side also said on a whim: "Add the next official!" Let's play together, and we must ask for a life for the people of Hedong! ”

"Good! Pray for the lives of the people! Tong Guan said with a smile, "Bachelor Wang prepares, tomorrow our family will send the general Lu Qian to lead 100 cavalry to escort the bachelor out of the city." ”

Of course, letting Lu Qian out of the city is not only to escort Wang Yang, Wang Yang let the Liao people slaughter him on the road, and Tong Guan will not be sad. Lu Qian's real task is to meet Su Zhilian and Feng Mingshan and tell them that if they want to get the money, they have to enter Taiyuan City!