"Eh, it's been a hard time on horseback." Yang Bing rolled over and dismounted, rubbing his inner thighs with a painful expression.

In the past ten days, in addition to resting at night, their group has basically been in a hurry during the day, and even when they eat, they take out dry food directly from the package on horseback to eat, which can torture Yang Bing and Ziyun, Yang Bing is still a little better, after all, there is nothing to say about physical fitness in the previous life, and he has already prepared in his heart.

But Ziyun, a little girl who had never ridden a horse, was offended, and she couldn't even get off the horse, and Yang Bing picked her down, so Ziyun was almost moved to cry.

"I said, General Wan Qi, how far do we have to go? Can't you find a post station to rest and rest? Yang Bing sat in the field and asked Wan Qike'er, who was standing not far away and looking at the map carefully.

"Hmph, I can't stand it, Young Master Yang, why don't I send someone to escort you and your good maid back?" Wan Qi Keer looked disdainful.

"Cut, if Lao Tzu had come a few years earlier, would this general's position have your business?" Yang Bing turned his head to Ziyun, who was limping on the side, and said, "That, Ziyun, don't be busy, come and sit down and rest for a while." ”

Ziyun didn't dare to look back, but stumbled and said, "Less, young master, I, I'm not tired, you can rest by yourself." If Yang Bing stood in front of Ziyun, he should feel very funny, but he saw that Ziyun's face was flushed, and he didn't dare to talk to Yang Bing at all, just because when Yang Bing helped her off the horse just now, Yang Bing's hand touched Ziyun's waist and buttocks.

"Report! General, there's an urgent report from the frontier! A herald with a dove in his hand ran up to Wan Qiker and took out a secret letter from the pigeon's lap.

Wan Qi Ke'er opened it and looked at it, her face immediately turned pale, and she immediately ordered loudly: "Everyone! Immediately straighten out, immediately set off to the frontier! ”

Yang Bing saw that the situation was wrong, and also walked over: "What's wrong?" ”

Wan Qi Ke'er glanced at Yang Bing, thinking that he didn't care about your business, but thinking that Yang Bing was also his deputy general now: "There is an accident on the frontier, and the Tatars have sent 20,000 iron cavalry to approach our territory in three groups." ”

Yang Bing pondered for a moment: "Can you show me the map and the secret letter?" ”

Wan Qi Ke'er saw Yang Bing's serious look, and without thinking too much, she instinctively handed over the map and secret letter to Yang Bing.

Yang Bing took it

Yang Bing took the map, squatted on the ground, and looked at the secret letter, which said that the eldest prince of the Tuwu tribe, Hatan, led about 10,000 troops to Jincheng, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the remaining 10,000 troops were divided into two groups and went to Yangcheng and Beiliucheng, which were not garrisoned by Ming Dynasty troops at all.

This made Yang Bing very puzzled, it stands to reason that at this time, the strength of the Ming Dynasty's frontier was at least more than 30,000, and Jincheng was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there was no crushing force, so it was impossible for the Tatars to take Jincheng.

"But why do they have to bring people there?" Yang Bing suddenly noticed that on the map, two red dots were marked on the adjacent Yangcheng and Beiliu.

"What do you mean by that?" Yang Bing took the map and asked Wan Qi Keer.

"Oh, this is marked with the second prince stationed there." Yang Bing heard Wan Qike'er's words, and glanced nervously at the map again.

I saw the border area, Jincheng is like the middle of the Great Wall, Yangcheng and Bei stay in the northeast of Jincheng, and the rear of Yangcheng and Beiliu is the only big road outside Jincheng.

Yang Bing's face suddenly became very ugly.

"Is this map accurate? Is there only one way to go to Jincheng? ”

"That's for sure." Wan Qi Keer said confidently.

"Then the matter is dangerous, Jincheng has now fallen into the encirclement of the Tatars." Yang Bing's serious expression shocked Wan Qike'er's heart.

Without waiting for Wan Qi Ke'er to speak, Yang Bing spread the map on the ground: "You see, from the northeast position, Yangcheng and Beiliu are actually the first line of defense in Jincheng, but the problem is here, the only major road outside Jincheng is only this one, and the secret letter says that the Tatars have divided 10,000 troops to go to Yangcheng and Beiliu, so Jincheng has been surrounded by these 10,000 troops and Hatan's 10,000 troops." ”

Wan Qi Ke'er disagreed: "But even so, they can't capture Jincheng, Jincheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you don't have 50,000 troops, don't even think about breaking Jincheng." ”

"Yes, having said that, haven't you noticed, directly behind Jincheng Yangcheng and Beiliu, there is a flat plain, and there are no large Tatar tribes marked on the map here, but on this plain, I just roughly counted, and there are as many as hundreds of small tribes." Yang Bing finally said the crux of the matter.

Just when he was observing the map, he found that on the map of the Ming Dynasty at this time, the Tatar tribe only had the big tribe of Tuwu, and the brother tribe of the same period, the Guilichi tribe, was not marked, which is why Yang Bing just wanted to ask Wan Qi Keer if the map was accurate.

Because in his understanding, the Guilichi tribe, which once dominated the grassland, has rapidly developed from scattered small tribes in recent years.

When Wan Qi Ke'er heard this, she snatched the map, and her face became nervous, she has been on the frontier all the year round, so she naturally knows that each of these small tribes has at least a thousand people, and just now Yang Bing said that there are hundreds of these tribes.

Wan Qi Ke'er is not a reckless man who can only charge brainlessly, she is also familiar with military books, and after listening to Yang Bing's words, she can see the seriousness of the problem at a glance.

"What should I do?" Wan Qi Keer instinctively asked Yang Bing's opinion at this moment.

Yang Bing shook his head: "Now, there is no good way, but to let people hurry up and send a secret letter, so that they don't deliberately defend Yangcheng and Beiliu, because I think the Tatars will definitely not attack Yangcheng and Beiliu, but gather the small tribes of the Tatars and sneak attack the rear of Jincheng." ”

"Let's let go of Yangcheng and let the soldiers stationed in Yangcheng move to Beiliu, Jincheng's troops will release an illusion on the surface, so that Hatan thinks that we are all paying attention to the front of Jincheng, in fact, we will secretly transfer Yangcheng's troops back to Jincheng to garrison the rear of Jincheng, in this way, once the fight starts, we will at least not be in a hurry." After Yang Bing finished speaking, seeing that no one was born, he looked up at Wan Qi Ke'er.

I saw Wan Qi Ke'er looking at Yang Bing blankly, she really couldn't understand, was this person in front of her really the waste Yang Dashao circulating in Kyoto?

In such an urgent situation, he was able to quickly formulate the transfer of troops, Wan Qi Ke'er thought that he could also come up with such a method, but it was definitely not as fast as Yang Bing.

"General? Checkmate? Yang Bing stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Wan Qike'er's eyes.

"Huh? Oh, that's what you say! Wan Qi Keer reacted and called a general commander.

On the paper, he wrote down the tactics proposed by Yang Bing: "You hurry up, you must send it to the hands of the second prince before tomorrow night!" ”

"Yes, General!" The herald received the order, turned and ran to his horse, and quickly ran away into the distance.

"Let's go quickly, we will shorten the next five days to three days." Wan Qi Ke'er didn't talk nonsense, got up and got on the horse, and glanced at Yang Bing with a very strange look.

"In that case, let's go." Yang Bing didn't refute it, he knew that in ancient times, especially in the Ming Dynasty, there could be no delay in the military, and if there was any mistake because of himself, it would really be a head.

After a brief rest, everyone embarked on the journey again.

Three days later, Yang Bing and his entourage came to Jincheng, a city in the border area.

As a border city in the border region, Jincheng is no less prosperous than Kyoto.

In addition, as an important line of defense against the Tatar invasion, the fortifications of Kinjo were not weaker than those of Kyoto.