On the east bank of Yeshui, a tributary of the Hutuo River, the Liao people's brigade was slowly advancing along the mountain road, and still maintained a strict array during the march. The 30,000 troops and horses of the Xi Palace led by Xiao Gan (of which half of the auxiliary soldiers accounted for) have not only crossed the Hutuo River, but also left the Xiangzhou army that followed, and bypassed the south of Zhending Prefecture City, then turned south, turned a corner outside Hulu County, and advanced all the way towards Jingxing Pass.

The Xi army was actually not fast, and they only walked around fifty miles a day, but they followed their Han family group to run even slower, and they walked thirty miles a day, which was simply a snail speed. After following for a few days, they were thrown away. So Xiao Gan, who personally led the cavalry behind the hall, did nothing all the way, and could not even see a ghost behind his butt.

However, Xiao Gan still did not dare to be negligent at all, because his army was already an isolated army behind the enemy! From the perspective of military tactics, it was just to be killed. If you are not careful, there would be no rebirth, but the entire army would be wiped out.

There are some things that make Xiao Gan worry about. One is that his Xi army did not reach any grass valley along the way! Because the Zhending Prefecture had long implemented the policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields.

Another thing that worried Xiao Gan was the Zhending Group Training Army, commanded by Zong Ze, which has also developed rapidly in the past few months. Although it cannot be compared with the Xiangzhou army, it can already guard the county castle. Therefore, Xiao Ganduo has not broken through any city castle, so he cannot obtain enough supplies.

The grass valley collected by the army before crossing the water has now consumed 70% to 80%. I am afraid that the troops will soon kill horses for food!

If this situation continues and remains the case after the army enters Hedong, Xiao Gan's troops may have starved to death among the mountains in Hedong.

A few fast horses ran from the southwest along the relatively open mountain road to Xiao Gan's horse. The leader was Xiao Gan's cousin named Xiao Bodhisattva Nu, and reported on the horse's back: "Tao Shi, the front army has arrived at Tumen Pass!"

Tumen Pass is actually Jingxing Pass. Jingxing Pass has two concepts. In a broad sense, Jingxing includes Guguan from Hedong Road Pingding Army, Niangzi Pass, Jingxing County on Hebei West Road, and the entire passage between Tumen Pass.

In a narrow sense, Jingxing Pass refers to Tumen Pass!

"How is the situation when the Tumen is closed?" Xiao Gan asked hurriedly.

"The pass is dilapidated, there are no guards, and there are not many defenders. Xiao Xiangwen has already attacked. It takes half an hour to break through the pass!"

Jingxing has always been dangerous since ancient times, but no matter how dangerous the pass is, it is useless without defense! Because after the Song Dynasty pacified the Northern Han Dynasty, Jingxing Pass was no longer the forefront of soldiers coming and going. Later, the deployment of Liao defenses did not regard Jingxing Pass as a key point.

If the Liao people fought to Zhending Prefecture, of course they would go south to Kaifeng Prefecture in one go. How could they go to Jingxing Pass and enter Hedong? An impossible thing!

Therefore, after Zong Ze took over the Zhending Mansion, he did not regard Jingxing Pass as the focus of defense. Moreover, after more than a hundred years of peace, Jingxing Pass had become an important commercial channel connecting Hebei and Hedong. There were shops inside and outside Tumen Pass, and there were tax cards at the close. The tax cards were still under the jurisdiction of the Hebei Transportation Command. How could Zong Ze’s training take over?

Therefore, even if Zong Ze wanted to go to Jingxing to set up defense, he would not have the power. Besides, he could not have imagined that the Liao people would fight west from Jingxing Pass.

Therefore, the Tumen Pass among the Jingxing Pass is an empty city!

"Okay!" Xiao Gan breathed a long sigh, "As soon as Tumen Pass was broken, half of Jingxing would fall into the hands of a certain family!

The command to accelerate the advancement, and you must pass through Tumen Pass before tonight!"

"Here!"

...

"Di'er, where has Tong Xuanfu been?"

"Dad, I came to Jinzhou yesterday and Tong Xuanfu and his party had arrived at Linfen Guanshi. After calculating the schedule, I should be able to reach Taiyuan Prefecture in three or four days. However, Tong Xuanfu did not bring many soldiers, only less than 300 guards, as well as some staff and Jiyi, I'm afraid it would be useless to come to Taiyuan!"

About a quarter of an hour ago, Wang Ying asked this question, and the last time was half an hour ago... Since last night, Wang Ying, who was usually above the top and looked down on any warrior or eunuch, suddenly became concerned about the itinerary of Tong Guan, the eggless eunuch. Not only was he caring, but he also looked forward to it. He really looked forward to the stars and the moon, and hoped that Tong Da Xuanfu could arrive at Taiyuan Prefecture as soon as possible and take on the hot dispatch of the Xuanfu Envoy on Hedong Road.

As a son, Wang Di has never seen this warm expectation in his life. If he hadn't known why his father was looking forward to Tong Guan coming, he would probably think that his father and Tong Guan were the best friends!

What really made Wang Jian suddenly look at Tong Guan differently was an emergency military newspaper sent from the Pingding Army yesterday morning. Niangzi Pass, which was under the jurisdiction of the Pingding Army, was raided and occupied by the Liao army killed from Hebei! Subsequently, the Liao army, which was unknown, but certainly would not be missing, went directly to the Pingding Army's capital. I don't know if the Pingding Army, which had few people at all defended, had fallen into the enemy's hands now?

If the Punishing Army does not defend, then the gates of Taiyuan Prefecture will be opened. The fierce Liao soldiers will enter Taiyuan Prefecture.

Although Taiyuan, the capital of Hedong Road, is a powerful city, most of the defenders in the city have already gone to the fortresses on the Yanmen front line to garrison. It is not an exaggeration to say that Taiyuan is an empty city!

In the empty city of Taiyuan, with no strong soldiers inside and no rescue outside, Yanmen Pass on the northern line was also under the pressure of Liaozhu Yelu Yanxi personally leading the army. As the Xuanfu envoy of Hedong Road, Wang Ying did not feel that the blame was weighing thousands of pounds? How could he bear such a heavy burden?

Now I can only hope that Tong Guan can have some conscience and take over the "burden" of the Hedong Xuanfu Envoy before the fall of Taiyuan City.

In this way, Wang Ying could run away back to Kaifeng Prefecture to continue his official position...

But the question is, Tong Guan is not stupid, right? Why did he take the blame? A person like him cannot be "deaf and blind". I don't know that the Liao people have entered Jingxing Pass, right? If he already knows this, he just wanders on the road for a few days and then takes over as Xuanfu of Hedong after Taiyuan is lost. Wouldn't everything be fine?

"Sir, let's arrange a war guard!" Wang Di gritted his teeth, "The child has already called all the generals in Taiyuan Prefecture City."

"Arranging a war guard?" Wang Qi glared at his son, "Do you have any soldiers? Is there any useful general? When Tao Zili was transferred, he had already taken away all the military aircraft that could do business in the Hedong Xuanfu Department. He left only a group of old imperial guards with mixed qualifications. Relying on them to defend Taiyuan? Do you really think that Jiang Ziya is reborn as a father?"

"But, but... if Tong Daofu didn't come, his father's Hedong Xuanfu would not be able to remove him. He could not abandon the city, right?"

"What else can I do if I don't give up the city?" Wang Xian was so anxious that he was sad and sad that he told the truth. "If you want to blame this, blame Emperor Taizong! The good Taiyuan City was on the west bank of the Fen River, and it would be possible to burn the Fenhe Bridge for ten days and half a month. With this time, he might be able to help him, organize ten thousand teams to train, and collect some food in all villages and fields. But he was cautious, worried that someone would rebel based on Taiyuan and would have to burn it, and even built the Taiyuan New City on the east bank of the Fen River.

Now, the loyal ministers and filial sons of the Song Dynasty could not take it to protect their destiny... If Tong Daofu couldn't come again, he would have to organize the people to abandon the city and flee to the west bank of the Fen River!"

In fact, the original Taiyuan City was not all on the west bank of the Fen River, but stood along the Fen River, with two cities in the east and west. During the Wuzhou period, bridges were built on the Fen River water, and many buildings were built on the bridge, called Zhongcheng.

If this Taiyuan City is still there, it can be defended by the Xicheng. With the protection of the Fen River, it can temporarily block the Liao army that has come from afar without boats. As long as it is blocked for a period of time, Taiyuan City will receive reinforcements and its reserves will be abundant.

But now this strong city built in the Western Jin Dynasty has long disappeared! There is only one small Taiyuan located on the east bank of the Fen River. Although the city is strong, the four fields are not covered by rivers and are easily besieged.

Moreover, in order to strengthen the defense in the Yanmen area, Wang Ying also transferred a large amount of reserve materials from Taiyuan City. However, the summer taxes in various places have not yet begun to be collected, so naturally they cannot replenish reserves.

So once Taiyuan City is surrounded, it will be over for two or three months!

"Sir, you can't abandon the city!" Wang Di shook his head, "Liang Zimei has been punished by the words she has been pursuing since she was born. She will never use them. She will be punished by Haizhou editors and supervisors..."

Wang Qi gritted his teeth: "Haizhou editorial management is the Haizhou editorial management... Let's go and be with Liang Zimei for your father!"

Just when Wang Ying made up his mind to stay away from the officialdom and spend the rest of his life in Haizhou City, an unexpected good news spread to Taiyuan City in the afternoon of the next day.

Tong Guan speeded up his itinerary and was rushing towards Taiyuan Prefecture!

"Really? Where has Chief Tong been?"

"Pingyao, I've arrived in Pingyao this morning!" Wang Di said, "Official Tong rushed to Pingyao overnight last night, and didn't even go to Fenzhou City, so he went straight to Pingyao!

It seems that he will be able to arrive in Taiyuan Prefecture City tomorrow morning or even tonight!"

Wang Qi's tears were almost over, "I didn't expect that Tong Daofu was so loyal to the king's affairs, which made us scholars ashamed!"

He wiped his tears and asked again: "Where have the Liao people? Where have they fought?"

There was a report from Jiyi on the side: "Reported to General Xuan, the pioneer of the Liao bandits arrived outside Shouyang County last night. If the Liao people walked around the city, the pioneer might be able to approach Taiyuan Prefecture tonight."

"Hurry, hurry up," Wang Ying wiped the sweat from her forehead, "Go and hurry up and worry about the generals going to the inner hall to discuss matters. I want to arrange a war defense!"

He only said half of the sentence, and half of it was "No matter what, we must stick to it until Tong Guan takes over the blame for Taiyuan City."

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Chapter completed!