Bai Sheng collected 20,000 troops out of thin air, and he was quite happy in his heart.

Although Zhao Kai seemed very disapproving, he felt that using such an army of 20,000 to fight with Western Xia was equivalent to beating a dog with meat buns, and there was no return.

But Bai Sheng has his own clever plan, of course these 20,000 people can't be used to fight face-to-face with Iron Harrier and Bubazi, but it is not useless, of course he will not explain his plan to Zhao Kai He, so he ignores Zhao Kai's subtle words.

An army of 20,000 caught up with Ling Zhen's artillery unit outside the gate of Tongguandong, and Bai Sheng pushed Zhao Kai out and asked him to come forward to integrate the two armies.

Even in the face of Ling Zhen and Jiang Jing and other brothers, Bai Sheng didn't want to reveal his true colors, because he thought that since Xixia Yipintang could deploy spies in Bianjing, of course, he could also lay an eyeliner in Tongguan.

What's more, there is also the information carried on the carrier pigeon he intercepted as a basis, just looking at the content of the information, you know that the carrier pigeon is definitely not directly flying to Xingqing Mansion, so it can be seen that on the road between the capitals of the Song and Xia countries, there must be an intelligence base of Yipintang.

Is there anything in Tongguan? He would rather believe it.

Of course, Ling Zhen knew His Royal Highness King Yun, and it was only fitting for Zhao Kai to eliminate Ling Zhen and the others' vigilance against the 20,000 troops behind.

It was only Zhao Kai himself who was depressed, he didn't know why Bai Sheng thought that he could let the business traveler in front of him lift his guard, but it turned out that Bai Sheng's statement was extremely correct.

His frustration was that Bai Sheng didn't allow him to tell anyone that the head in the back was Bai Sheng, let alone call out the real names of Ling Zhen and Xu Ning, who had changed their faces and wore civilian clothes, and he didn't tell him what he was doing this for.

But no matter what, the two teams finally got along in harmony, one after the other, and arrived at the east gate of Tongguan.

The "merchants" let down their vigilance against the 20,000 troops behind them, but it did not mean that the guards of Tongguan could relax their guards.

In fact, the guards of Tongguan were frightened into a cold sweat by the people and horses under the city.

On the one hand, I did not receive a notice of such a large-scale army transfer, and on the other hand, someone recognized the banner of the army below, and the nine big characters of "Pingnan Pioneer General County Lord Qiongying" were eye-catching and abnormal.

Isn't this Tian Hu's team? Why did you get to Tongguan?

Tongguan, as a battleground for soldiers on the ancient battlefield, is no longer important today, because its east and west sides are the territory of the Song Kingdom.

Unless Weizhou, Huanzhou, and Yanzhou in the west from south to north were broken through by Western Xia, or Shuozhou in the northwest was occupied by Liao, it was possible for Tongguan to come to the city.

Of course, if Tian Hu wanted to take Tong Pass, he would first have to cross the Yellow River and occupy Hangu Pass as a foundation, otherwise even if they came to Tong Pass through a secret shortcut, they would not be able to return in vain, because they could not feed the enemy and feed the war with war.

But now this scene outside the city has subverted the previous strategic theory, Tian Hu's army actually arrived under the city, what do they want to do? Do they really want to capture Tongguan?

The general of Tongguan was already calculating how long the soldiers, ordnance, and grain and grass in the city could resist the siege of the thief army, and came to the conclusion that it could only hold for three days at most, and this also counted the time when the enemy army cut down trees nearby to make ladders.

Since there is no theoretical possibility of Tongguan being attacked, the defenders here are extremely weak.

In the midst of the panic, the Tongguan guard received the secret decree and talisman shot by the army below, which confirmed that the army below was actually the box army of the Great Song Dynasty in disguise, so he ordered to open the city gate and let it go.

However, what was surprising was that as soon as the 20,000 troops entered the city, they turned against the guest, captured and detained the Tongguan guards, and seized control of Tongguan.

In the yamen of Tongguan, Zhao Kai asked to talk to Bai Sheng alone, and when there were only two of them, he was furious and slapped the table directly, "Do you want to rebel?"

Bai Shengyun said lightly, and Zhao Kai was speechless: "If I want to rebel, can't I directly lead the troops to fight Bianjing?

Occupying Tongguan in the name of Tian Hu was a strategy that Bai Sheng came up with temporarily, otherwise how could the 20,000 troops enter and exit from the east and west, how can they hide from the ears and eyes of the Western Xia spies?

As long as the army went to the west, it could only deal with Western Xia, and there was no other possibility. If you want to say that Tian Hu's troops went to fight Jingzhaofu and even Weihuan and Yan Sanzhou? If you say it, a fool will not believe it.

He didn't want the rabble of 20,000 to arouse the vigilance of the Western Xia military, so he could only make the illusion that Tianhu's army occupied Tongguan, as long as this illusion was known to the Western Xia, then there were various explanations for the 20,000 people moving westward.

All kinds of arguments were valid to prevent the border troops from returning to Tongguan to come to the aid of Tongguan, encircling the points to send reinforcements, and looting grain and grass.

Speaking of which, there is no way to do it, as early as when the capital and Di Lie made a plan, they didn't expect that Tian Hu's 20,000 infantry would come to mix, right?

Originally, Ling Zhen and the others pretended to be a large-scale business trip, and as long as they took out the emperor's secret decree, they could clear the customs, even if they attracted the attention of the Western Xia spies, as long as they were not discovered that they were transporting cannons and ammunition, there would be no big problem.

But with 20,000 infantry, it was different, this movement was too loud, even with Ling Zhen they would be suspicious, and the enemy would at least think that Ling Zhen was escorting a large amount of ordnance.

Therefore, Bai Sheng felt that he had to fight for Tian Hu to seize the pass, and he only needed to temporarily deceive the Western Xia spies for ten days and half a month, and it didn't matter if he was exposed when Tong Guan's army passed by, because by that time, it was estimated that more than half of the plan had been completed.

Zhao Kai asked Bai Sheng to explain, but Bai Sheng didn't explain to him, and the two uncles and sons-in-law fell into a stalemate, and no one paid attention to anyone for a while.

Zhao Kai felt very weak, weak, and pathetic.

He really couldn't do anything about Bai Sheng. In terms of martial arts, he didn't dare to be arrogant, in terms of power, there were all Bai Sheng's people outside, and he was even thinking about whether Bai Sheng would kill him.

But Bai Sheng was not as spicy as he imagined, he only persuaded him to eat some real beef steamed buns cooked by Sun Erniang, and drank a few glasses of wine with him, so he called him on the road together.

Zhao Kai suddenly had a kind of sadness that people were swordsmen and I was fish and meat, but he didn't dare to fight with Bai Sheng anymore, and only looked forward to seeing what Bai Sheng wanted when he got to the border.

The 20,000 men ate only one meal in the city, and then left only 1,000 soldiers to garrison the city. The original 2,000 defenders of the city were imprisoned.

Out of Tongguanxi, not far to come to the foot of Shaohua Mountain, this Shaohua Mountain and Huashan end to end, and the south of the Zhongnan Mountain belongs to the mountain range in Jingzhao Prefecture.

If the team wants to go to Jingzhao Mansion, Shaohua Mountain is the only way.

Bai Sheng knew that there was a group of people on this Shaohua Mountain, who were Shi Jin, the Nine Pattern Dragon, Zhu Wu, the Divine Machine, Chen Da, the Jumping Tiger, and Yang Chun, the White Flower Snake. It's just that he didn't plan to pay attention to these four people, for fear that extraneous branches would delay the plan of the Western Expedition.

But things in this world always come without thinking, just as the army passed by the foot of the mountain, a large stone that looked like a grinding disc suddenly rolled down from the mountain, and hit a carriage under Ling Zhen's department, and the carriage was immediately scrapped.

Xiang Chong, who was in charge of the escort artillery team, had a keen eye and found that there was a figure haunting the place where the boulder was falling, and the figure was shot with a flying knife.

How could he dodge this flying knife in a hundred steps? After a miserable shout, some people on the mountain immediately broke their mouth and cursed, and then some big stones rolled down, smashing down the mountain for a burst of chickens and dogs.

Of course, the soldiers under the mountain refused to suffer this dumb loss, and Li Yanxiang immediately counterattacked with hundreds of brothers, and immediately took fire up and down the mountain! By the time Bai Sheng, who was in the Chinese army, got the news, the two sides had already fought an encounter.

With this fight, the minions on the mountain suffered a big loss.

Although the minions on the mountain are familiar with the terrain, Xiang Chong Li Yan's subordinates are also trained in the deep mountains and old forests all the year round, especially in the recent period, after getting Bai Sheng's latest instructions, the soldiers in Mangdang Mountain are even more practicing "parkour", striving to be able to leap like flying in the complex mountain situation.

It's okay for these big stones on Shaohua Mountain to smash a carriage, but it won't work to smash these parkour masters, not only can't they smash anyone, but they were killed by the opponent's throwing knives and javelins.