On the official road of Yongzhou, 5,000 forbidden troops are marching, followed by 15,000 people, the team is several kilometers long, and the daily march is less than 40 miles, which is still the elite marching speed.

Jiang Cheng is qualified to ride a horse as an offering, this distance is too easy for him, he is not a commander, and he is too lazy to worry about speed, so he follows the Chinese army and protects Li Yuanxiang and other senior generals.

"Dashuai, our speed is too slow, forty miles a day, at least twenty days to reach Tonghua City, Tonghua City is critical, 20 days may be broken by Liaogou, I suggest that we should abandon the people, the regular soldiers each bring five days of rations, go all out, travel 100 miles a day, and rush to the south ·····of Tonghua City as soon as possible."

When stopping to camp, a general suggested that the soldiers were fast, and the reason why they were slow was because they brought a large number of baggage and people, if they were to travel lightly with the forbidden army, they could travel a hundred miles a day, and they could reach the south of Tonghua City in five days.

"No, General Xu's suggestion is too risky, don't bring baggage, in case the enemy army sets up an ambush in the middle, we can't hold out for a few days at all, and the whole army will be annihilated"

"But if Tonghua City is lost, most of Tongzhou will fall into the hands of the enemy, and only one Tongzhou City will be left to hold on, and the enemy can attack in four directions, and there will be too many places for us to defend, and our troops are simply not enough."

"Tonghua City is a strong city, and it is enough to stick to it for half a year"

"Have you ever thought about King Pingliao, if King Pingliao breaks the Tianxia Pass and joins forces with Liao Dog, you can use elite infantry to attack the city..."

Several generals are constantly arguing, the Liao State is famous for its cavalry, the foot soldiers are not strong, and the engineering means are weak, but the King of Pingliao is not, the private army of the King of Pingliao is called the white-clothed army, because the whole army is named after the white cloak, the white-clothed army has 30,000 people, but 20,000 people are heavily armed foot soldiers, extremely elite.

"Master Jiang"

Jiang Cheng was listening to their discussion, and by the way, he was learning how to march and fight in ancient times, when suddenly someone called him, Jiang Cheng looked back and saw that it was a middle-aged man beside him.

"Lord Liu"

Jiang Cheng returned the salute, this person is called Liu Ruotang, he is the leader of their team, and he has a position of deputy hall master in the worship hall, which is Jiang Cheng's current leader.

"What is Master Jiang listening to?"

"Listening to them discuss the war, although we worship no military power, it is not wrong to learn more skills, and if we can understand orders on the battlefield, we can better kill the enemy, right?"

"That's true, but Lord Jiang still has to be careful, if someone leaks the military information and says that Lord Jiang did it, it won't be a second."

"Lord Liu is right, then I won't listen, and my duty time is almost up."

"Lord Jiang doesn't have to be so sensitive, in fact, I came here to discuss something with Lord Jiang."

"Lord Liu, please speak"

"Tonghua City has been held for more than 20 days, and the transmission of military information is too slow, and I don't know that the situation in Tonghua City is like this, and the Thorn City is extremely important, so General Li told me before that he wanted to send half of the offerings, plus the elite of the army, a total of 150 people, to rush to Tonghua City first, I want Lord Jiang to lead the team."

"Lord Liu, I'm low-level..."

"Don't be modest, Lord Jiang's ability, Tsing Yiwei is well known, that demon is not something anyone can run away"

"Well, when to go"

Jiang Cheng sighed, knowing that he was going to be pitted this time, and if he left Yongdu City, it would be useless to support the mountain, he could only admit it, otherwise he would be caught with pigtails.

"Tomorrow morning"

"Okay, then I'll get some more supplies or something, no problem."

"It's Nature"

Liu Ruotang replied, Jiang Cheng is willing to go to that kind of place, some supplies and the like, then it doesn't matter, if he doesn't agree, then he will offend people for no reason.

Early in the morning of the second day, one hundred and fifty people of the forbidden army took the first step, one person and two horses, alternately, the real leader of the team was a lieutenant colonel, a personal soldier of Li Yuanxiang, and the rest of the sergeants were mainly middle and low-level officers, they entered Tonghua City to help organize troops to resist, otherwise what is the use of relying on these more than 100 people, the organizational ability of the officers is the most important.

One man and two horses can march alternately, and the speed along the way is very fast, and on the first day they walked nearly two hundred miles into the hinterland of Tongzhou, where military mobilization has begun.

Villages and towns were training peasant soldiers, building walls, and guarding the roads, so if it weren't for the banner of the forbidden army, they would not have been able to leave.

The towns along the way were noisy, basically not let them settle in, and everyone had to camp in the open air, which was very hard, especially here in Tongzhou, the terrain was higher, and the night was very cold.

On the third day, everyone appeared more than ten miles south of Tonghua City, and they could already see where the army of the Liao State was, and there were military camps dozens of miles outside Tonghua City.

"Lord Jiang, the Liao State Detective is here, please clear the Detective Post, take more horses, we will rush into Tonghua City in one go"

"Okay, come with me"

In the distance, there were many rangers, all of them were the sentinels of the Liao Kingdom, and twenty worshippers dismounted, and in this short distance, their light skills were faster than those of horses.

"Kill"

Twenty people carried light skills to chase the enemy, there are enshrined archers and horses skillful, in the process of chasing the enemy can shoot arrows without stopping, and an arrow shoots out of the sentry and falls off the horse.

A fast man like Jiang Cheng also quickly caught up with the enemy's outpost, slapped the outpost off his horse with one palm, and then rode on the horse and took away their weapons and equipment.

"Captain Li, the outpost has been cleared, please give an order quickly"

"Let's go, go to the East Gate"

The captain ordered to deal with the fortified city of Tonghua City, which is rarely besieged on all sides, and is basically surrounded by three and missing one, and the captain has observed the layout of the enemy army and knows that the east gate is the one that is missing.

Everyone rode their horses and galloped, and the Liao army also sent cavalry to intercept it, and the one missing was not that no one was sent, but generally appeared in the form of ambushes, and now the ambushes appeared, and hundreds of cavalry began to intercept.

"Hard Punch"

The captain shouted, and then bent his bow and shot arrows, as did the rest of the sergeants, who knew how to shoot, and shot down the enemy in front of them.

"Worship to the sides, protect the sergeants, kill the enemy"

Jiang Cheng also shouted, so that twenty offerings were distributed on both sides, and the enemy had arrows shooting, Jiang Cheng took it casually, and then went back, and the enemy cavalry fell off their horses one after another.

The cavalry of the Liao State was immediately frightened, they already knew that there were masters among these people, although they couldn't understand what they shouted, but it was estimated that they had gone to call the masters of the Liao State to come.

Tonghua City had already seen the movement, put down the drawbridge, for everyone to pass, and gathered in front of the drawbridge.

"Dismount and bring the horses in"

Jiang Cheng ordered that horses were very important military supplies, especially war horses, and they could also kill horses and eat meat if necessary, so twenty people dismounted, and then counterattacked the pursuing cavalry.

Twenty innate warriors dealt with a group of cavalry, that is, like a wolf entering a flock of sheep, quickly killing a group of people.

"Lord Jiang, come back soon, the suspension bridge is up"

The drawbridge was hoisted again, the captain was shouting Jiang Cheng and them to evacuate, Jiang Cheng and others carried light skills one after another, treading water to cross the moat, although there were arrows shooting from behind, but Jiang Cheng did not hide at all, it was nothing for the innate martial artist to engage in a pair of internal armor, everyone had it, ordinary arrows could not kill them, and everyone entered the city smoothly.

The soldiers on the city walls immediately cheered, and some people entered the city, no matter how many, it was a morale boost to the defenders, letting them know that the court had not given up on them, and that reinforcements had arrived.

The general of Tonghua City is called Shitang, with Liao blood, and looks a little different from the Great Wei people, but he is a general who is extremely trusted by the imperial court.

Shitang met with the captain and Jiang Cheng, and also talked about the situation in Tonghua City, Tonghua City has more than 20,000 soldiers, more than 10,000 residents, has been guarding for nearly a month, the materials are sufficient, and now the casualties are not large, the main reason is that the Liao State did not attack the city with all its might, they all fought for a while and rested, and they are now mainly looting everywhere.

"We captured a few prisoners, and the captives said that last winter, there was an extremely terrible snow disaster in Liao, and countless livestock froze to death, and they were eager to loot, and they used to go to loot Daxia, but this year we came to Dawei"

Shitang also provided important news, most of the Liao country was nomadic people, animal husbandry was extremely important to them, and the outbreak of the snow disaster had caused them heavy losses, and if it had not been for the raids, many people would have starved to death this year.

"Before leaving, the marshal told me that the key to the war in Tonghua City lies in Tianxia Pass, as long as Tianxia Pass is not lost, and the soldiers and horses of King Pingliao cannot come, Tonghua City will not be lost."

"Tianxia Pass is the world's male pass, it shouldn't be so easy to lose."

"It's hard to say, but Tonghua City can't be lost first"

The captain shook his head, the Liao State did not attack the city with all its strength, it was just waiting for the people of the King of Liao, if they couldn't come, the Liao State might not be able to knock Tonghua City to death, and leave after looting.

If the Tianxia Pass is breached, and the tens of thousands of troops of the King of Pingliao go south and join the Liao Kingdom, then it is possible for the Liao State to eat the entire Tongzhou, or even go directly to Yongzhou, which will breed their ambitions and want to eat the entire Great Wei.

After discussing for a while, some soldiers left with everyone and went to the barracks, the barracks were under the city walls, Jiang Cheng and the others were also courteous, everyone had a separate room, and everyone else was to squeeze several people into a room.

Jiang Cheng walked around the neighborhood for a while, the order in the city was still good, there was no shortage of food and water, there were wells in the city, but there was a shortage of fuel and medicinal materials, and many wounded soldiers could not be treated, so they could only carry it hard, and it would be okay to carry it, but if it couldn't be carried over, there would be no way.

For example, there is no way to use fuel, now they are mainly concentrated methods, Beidi is based on flour, and the flour is made into hard flatbread, one weighs five or six pounds, and the hardness can be used as a stone, such a flatbread Jiang Cheng has the impression that it should be called a sac, but the shelf life is very long, and it can not be broken for several months.