And above the head of the eastern city, the flag is unfurled, and there is no one.

Under the city, tens of thousands of troops, black armor covers the sky and the sun.

Huang Yuanwu and Liu Yuan rode side by side on the war horses, looking at the city head of Dongcheng not far away, and were silent.

If you are not mistaken, this city is also an empty city.

"What's going on in Shuinan City?" Huang Yuanwu asked Liu Yuan beside him softly.

"Ding Jiang is in charge, the city is empty, and there is not a single defender in sight. Liu Yuan replied in a deep voice: "I was afraid of being tricked, so I evacuated with my subordinates as quickly as possible and arrived here." ”

Huang Yuanwu nodded lightly, and then spoke: "Attack." ”

"Queue, attack!" Liu Yuan immediately drew his sword and swung forward. The first echelon, which had already been prepared behind him, immediately lined up and moved forward slowly, as if facing a city with solid defense.

Huang Yuanwu's brows furrowed involuntarily.

The phalanx was constantly advancing, but above the head of the eastern city, there was no change, and no one was still visible, it seemed to be an empty city, without any defenders.

The hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Beiwang Mansion seemed to have all disappeared overnight, disappearing without a trace.

This incident seems to have happened suddenly, last night the scouts reported, and you can still see the defenders on the walls of the two cities, this morning, when the East Wangfu camped and attacked, the soldiers in the two cities suddenly disappeared.

Huang Yuanwu probably knew what was going on.

Since the hidden forces can use a large teleportation array to attack the garrison of the East Palace, they can naturally open the teleportation array and teleport all the soldiers of the North Palace. However, if this is really the case, then the ability of the forces behind the Northern Wangfu may be far beyond his imagination.

The teleportation array that can teleport more than 100,000 soldiers is unheard of by Huang Yuan Wu, and according to his understanding, the energy required by this formation is unimaginable. And he had never heard of any teleportation array capable of transporting hundreds of thousands of troops.

The phalanx had advanced to the city of Hedongcheng, and all the sergeants were in order, pushing the tower on the city wall, and many sergeants rushed in and occupied the city wall.

After a while, the gate of Hedong City was opened from the inside, and sure enough, there was not a single defender in the city, not even the people, and it was empty.

"Enter?" Liu Yuan turned around and asked what Huang Yuanwu meant. He is also very aware of the strangeness in this matter, this series of actions in the Northern Prince's Mansion is so strange that it can no longer be considered in a conventional battlefield way.

After occupying the two companion cities, it is impossible to predict what will happen next.

"Enter!" Huang Yuanwu said in a deep voice: "The army stays outside the city and does not move, I will take my personal guards in." ”

Liu Yuan was about to speak out immediately, and Huang Yuanwu continued: "General Liu, you lead the army to wait outside the city, I will enter the city, if I see the teleportation formation, I can confirm my guess, if I see it, we will give up this city, if you don't see it, immediately occupy Hedong City." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Liu Yuan to say anything more, Huang Yuanwu rode his horse straight and went straight to the main gate of Hedongcheng, and his hundred-man escort team immediately followed.

Seeing Huang Yuanwu, who had left, Liu Yuan's brows furrowed, but he was helpless. Huang Yuanwu is such a temperament, and he doesn't have a good way to say it. However, there should be no enemy troops in Hedong City, and now that Huang Yuanwu enters it, there will be no danger. Therefore, Liu Yuan stayed outside the city, gathered the army, and waited quietly.

Hedong City is not very large, nor is it the main accompanying city, this city is generally used to store grain, grass and materials and equipment near the imperial capital, and there are not a large number of people in the city, most of them are the families of some soldiers.

The purpose of the Qitian Empire's establishment of the accompanying city was to share the impact and pressure on the imperial capital. But after the new emperor ascended the throne, Shuinan City almost became the prince's entertainment place, as we all know, the new emperor of Qitian has two brothers, after he ascended the throne, let the two princes stationed in Shuinan City, the city should be the best equipment, in order to stabilize the heart of the two kings.

When the Three Kings rebelled, the two princes learned the news and fled back to the imperial capital as soon as possible, but they never expected that the imperial capital was the most dangerous place.

Now Yang Qin is on the throne, one of the two princes, Huaiwang Huang Yuchen.

Entering Hedong City, the major positions in the city have been occupied by many soldiers, the gate of the city lord's mansion is closed, and a group of soldiers are guarding the door, waiting for the arrival of Huang Yuanwu.

Along the way, I didn't see anything strange about it, and I didn't find the shadow of the teleportation array anywhere.

Walking to the front of the City Lord's Mansion, the gate of the City Lord's Mansion was closed, and there were two rows of sergeants standing around, and when they saw Huang Yuanwu coming, they all knelt on one knee.

Huang Yuanwu turned over and dismounted, waved his hand slightly, and walked straight to the City Lord's Mansion. A sergeant immediately came up to the side and gently pushed the gate of the City Lord's Mansion open.

This gate is not locked. Although he felt that the atmosphere was a little weird, Huang Yuanwu still walked straight in.

And the city lord's mansion in the east city is not big, unlike some big cities, the city lord's mansion is generally a courtyard with two entrances, and this mansion has only one entrance. After entering the gate of the mansion, there was the hall of the City Lord's Mansion in front of him, and the guards of Huang Yuanwu followed in, without speaking, they scattered and began to explore the entire City Lord's Mansion.

The courtyard was not large, and the search was quickly completed, and no teleportation arrays were found, nor anything suspicious was found.

Looking at the whole and east city, I didn't find anything strange, except for no one in the city, everything was normal.

After listening to the report of his guards, Huang Yuanwu stood in place with a frown, and after a few breaths, he immediately ordered all the staff to withdraw from Hedong City, destroy all the defense facilities in Hedong City, take away all the materials, and abandon the city.

With Huang Yuanwu's order, many sergeants began to act, and Huang Yuanwu rode on his war horse and went straight out of Hedongcheng.

Here, it was much worse than he expected.

No teleportation array was found, and there are only two explanations. First, the Northern Palace's secret arrangement of all the soldiers in Shuinan City and the evacuation through the teleportation array. However, the probability of this happening is very low, because the scouts of the Eastern Palace's palace have been staring at the two cities, and the large-scale military mobilization cannot escape their eyes. Second, the teleportation array naturally disappeared.

This explanation should be more appropriate. Although Huang Yuanwu didn't know how to do it, there was only one possibility.

The idea of giving up Fang Cai and abandoning Hedongcheng is mainly because of one thing in mind. Since the troops of the Northern Palace's army have withdrawn in a big way, it is necessary to defend them against counterattacks, although the Huang Yuanwu mission teleportation formations are all one-way, that is to say, if you want to teleport people to the city, someone must carve the formation in the city to achieve it. But for the sake of insurance, the defense of Hedongcheng City is not as strong as Shuinan City, and this is a place where the enemy has been entrenched for a long time, maybe there is something hidden that has not been discovered, and giving up is the best decision.

Huang Yuanwu led the guards out of Hedongcheng, and after Liu Yuan saw Huang Yuanwu, he finally let go of the heart he was carrying, and let out a sigh of relief.

"What's the situation in the city?" Huang Yuanwu walked up to Liu Yuan, and Liu Yuan asked.

"Empty, nothing, just a few simple supplies, and a small amount of food and grass. Huang Yuanwu replied softly: "I have ordered the abandonment of this city, and we will send troops to stay behind, which will do more harm than good." ”

Liu Yuan nodded lightly and said, "What's next?" Now that the two accompanying cities are in our hands, do you want to attack the imperial capital at this moment?"

"Wait. Huang Yuanwu shook his head and said: "The matter has not been clarified yet, if you attack the imperial capital, you must first find out the movements of the surrounding provincial armies, and the Northern Wangfu army suddenly disappeared, this matter is really strange." ”

"That ......"

Just as Liu Yuan was about to say something, a fast horse ran straight in the direction of the two, and a sergeant rode on the war horse and shouted: "Report!"

Huang Yuanwu frowned and looked at the sergeant. This scout rode to the front of Huang Yuanwu, immediately turned over and dismounted and knelt on one knee, and said in a loud voice: "Little prince, in Shuinan City, I found that the Northern Emperor was at the beginning, and General Ding didn't know how to deal with it, so I asked the little prince to decide." ”

"What?" Huang Yuanwu was stunned when he heard this, and immediately asked, "Where is he?"

"It's in the City Lord's Mansion, and it hasn't moved, and no one around has followed. The scout replied immediately.

"Let's go!" Huang Yuanwu's brows immediately furrowed, and he didn't explain anything to Liu Yuan, and went straight to Shuinan City with his escort team.

Things are a little strange, the army of the Northern Wangfu has already withdrawn, why is Huang Zhengchu still there? Didn't he evacuate with his subordinates? So what is his intention to stay here?

The war horse galloped, more than ten miles away, in a blink of an eye, and came to Shuinan City again, at this moment, Shuinan City has been occupied by the East Wangfu. In addition to the banner of praying for heaven, the flags on the head of the city have also been replaced with the battle flags of the East Palace.

The city gate was wide open, and all the key positions in the city were occupied by the soldiers of the East Wangfu, and at this moment Ding Jiang had completely controlled the entire Shuinan City.

All the way unimpeded, Huang Yuanwu rode straight to the front of the towering city of Shuinan City, the gate of the city lord's mansion was wide open, and Huang Yuanwu did not have the slightest intention of getting off the horse, and rode straight in.

Under the main hall, Huang Yuanwu dismounted, looking at the palace in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Only not long ago, he came here, in front of Huang Zhengchu, killed the general of the enclave Liu Tianyang, at that time, in this hall, the officers and soldiers of the North Wangfu sat in the entire hall, and Huang Zhengchu sat on the dragon chair, full of spirit.

Now, Huang Yuanwu can still think of the appearance of Huang Zhengchu at that time, and then there is the extremely contrasting pleading, all the soldiers of the Northern Wangfu under the hall don't seem to see Huang Zhengchu's expression and don't hear his words of pleading.

The hundred-man escort team followed Huang Yuanwu closely, stepped on the steps of the main hall, and walked forward slowly.

The door of the main hall was also open, and a team of soldiers from the East Wangfu were guarding outside the main hall, and Ding Jiang was also waiting here, and after seeing Huang Yuanwu, he immediately greeted him.