Chapter 71: Going to the Battle

The governor's office launched a large-scale move last night. Except for the three attacked houses, the other people had no influence. When they returned, although they encountered some early people, they hid aside when they saw that it was the army's actions. Although the meetings and discussions were endless, they were only spreading on a small scale. After the sky was dawn, Yingzhou City was no different from usual, and another busy day began, but two fur merchants and a medicinal merchant were missing in the city today to open stores.

The big mansion that originally belonged to the medicinal materials merchants was surrounded by people in front of the gate to watch the notices posted by the government. The noise was too loud last night, and the neighbors on both sides heard the shouts of killing, but no one dared to get up in the dark to check. As soon as the sky was dawn, someone was still thinking about whether to report to the government.

However, the government notice in front of the door made everyone feel relieved. The owner of this house was hiding the bandits and was captured by the government. Yingzhou has been under the rule of the Great Zhou for four years. Although some people complained that this medicinal material merchant is usually good, most people would not denounce the government's notice and investigate whether this medicinal material merchant has hiding the bandits.

A woman wearing a leather hat and a layer of veil on her face stood still for a while, staring at the closed door. She was the only woman who escaped from the house last night.

Although the woman's face was covered by a veil, she must be a stunning beauty judging from her slim figure. At this time, the beauty's face was filled with tears, and she said softly: "Brother, don't worry, I will definitely save you."

Although the woman wanted to go to the yard to check it out and see what the officers and soldiers had missed last night, she was just rational and restrained her steps and wiped her tears. The woman resolutely integrated into the ordinary Yingzhou citizens who got up early.

In Yingzhou Governor's Mansion, Wei Shikang was chatting with Yang Yong without a word. From time to time, the sound of whips came from next door, mixed with the screams of prisoners and the loud shouts of interrogators. Dozens of people arrested last night were being tortured and forced to confess.

After a while, a personal soldier walked in with a stack of confessions in his hand and bowed to the two: "See the young master, see the governor."

Yang Yong smiled and said, "Depending on your appearance, the other party can help you."

The personal soldiers replied: "That's right, these two groups of Khitans have been recruited. One of them serves Gao Baoning, and the other group serves Tiel people."

Wei Shikanten stood up: "Telle people? How is it possible? Could it be wrong?"

"Don't worry, sir, the other party cannot tell lies under our interrogation." Many of the methods of personal soldiers interrogation were taught by Yang Yong. These methods do not cause much harm to the body, but they can easily destroy people's hearts. This is the first time most people encounter this fresh interrogation method, so they are even less able to resist.

"Mr. Wei, it seems that it is incredible that Tieler people have a stronghold in Yingzhou. Can you tell me why you think so?" Seeing Wei Shikang so excited, Yang Yong asked in confusion.

Wei Shikang pondered for a while before saying, "Master Zhongxin, the Tielite people have been conquered by the Turks for a hundred years and have always been regarded as slaves by the Turks. The Tielites have long been dissatisfied with the Turks. However, given the strength of the Turks, they dare not resist for the time being. The Tielite tribes have always been kind to the Central Plains and have always had good friends with Yingzhou. The officials did not believe that Tielite would set up spies in Yingzhou, but they were just surprised."

"Why should Lord Wei be surprised? There has always been only interests between countries. It is said that Tiel is still a Turkic person. Even if Tiel leaves the Turkic one day and becomes an ally with the Great Zhou, it is not impossible to lay spies in the Great Zhou territory."

Wei Shikang carefully chewed Yang Yong's words of only interests between countries. The more he thought about it, the simpler he felt that the relationship between countries was fully expressed: "What the Lord said is exactly. The lower officials probably have no malice to our great Zhou. I followed the Lord yesterday just for a while, but the two sides had fought, and each had their own casualties. How to deal with it is a difficult task." After saying that, Wei Shikang lowered his head, showing that he was thinking about how to deal with Tiele's affairs.

But Yang Yong did not focus on Tiele and turned to his personal soldiers: "You said you had already called two places, are those Goguryeo people not there?"

"When I go back to the young master, most of them have already been recruited, but they are all small characters, worthless. The young man who caught the Goguryeo leader was hard and refused to speak. The subordinates were afraid that the torture would be too severe and he would be disabled, so there was no good idea yet."

"Don't worry, then take it slowly, no need to be punished anymore, just keep interrogating and keep not letting him rest until he can't stand it."

"Yes." The personal soldiers put down the interrogation record and left respectfully.

Yang Yong picked up the interrogation record and browsed it, and then he realized why Wei Shikang's intelligence was wrong. The people who were not on the previous list of these two places had just sneaked into the camp recently, that is, they explained themselves, mainly because they were worried about whether they would use troops to the outside world after the Great Zhou quelled the rebellion.

"Huh." Yang Yong suddenly made a surprise voice at a confession: "Governor Wei, Gao Baoning's camp is only 230 miles away from Yingzhou?"

Wei Shikang obviously knew the location of Gao Baoning's camp for a long time: "Sir, that's right."

"Governor Wei, since you know Gao Baoning's location, why don't you try to eradicate it?" As far as Yang Yong knows, since Gao Baoning fled to the grassland, he has violated the Great Peripheral several times every year. However, two years ago, Gao Baoning was unable to carry out large-scale invasions on the Great Peripheral, but the number of invasions has become more. Gao Baoning's power has declined and he is unable to make up for it on a large scale, so he can only make up for it by quantity. In this case, Yingzhou still allows Gao Baoning to be free and ill-fated. Yang Yong was really puzzled.

Wei Shikang smiled bitterly, as the saying goes, one moves the whole body, Gao Baoning is at the intersection of Khitan and Goguryeo. If he deals with Gao Baoning, it is difficult to guarantee that Goguryeo and Khitan troops will intervene. With the military strength of Yingzhou, there is naturally no problem to defend the city alone, and it is no problem to deal with Gao Baoning. However, if the military strength is divided against Gao Baoning, if there are too many people, he will be worried that Yingzhou will be lost. If there are too few people, he may not be Gao Baoning's opponent. Wei Shikang had to tell Yang Yong about the difficulties in the middle.

"Sir, don't you want to deal with Gao Baoning? Gao Baoning's repeated invasions is really a big problem for Yingzhou. If you have the chance, Xia Guan will definitely not let it go."

Yang Yong unconsciously tapped the table beside him with his fingers. Gao Baoning was the former governor of Yingzhou. His threat was far greater than that of the various races in the grassland. This person was connected to Goguryeo, Khitan and even Turks. It would be fine if he didn't come. Since he was at the border, he would never let him go freely.

"Governor Wei, how many troops can be dispatched in Yingzhou City at most?"

"What did the lord say?" Wei Shikang was stunned for a moment.

Yang Yong repeated the words just now, and Wei Shikang replied: "One thousand, Yingzhou City can only send one thousand people. Sir, you won't want to..."

"Yes, I want to completely solve Gao Baoning's problem. In fact, governor Wei had too many concerns about Gao Baoning before. Gao Baoning currently only has more than 3,000 subordinates. I only need your Yingzhou to mobilize 800 elite cavalry. I personally lead the team to raid Gao Baoning, which can cause Gao Baoning's troops to collapse."

"No." Wei Shikang was so shocked that he almost jumped up and raided Gao Baoning with 800 cavalrymen. No matter whether he could win or not, Wei Shikang could not let Yang Yong take the risk. "Sir, this move is too dangerous. I am willing to lead the team in person and ask him to take charge in Yingzhou."

"I have decided to do it, so there is no need to persuade me anymore. Wei Chong is very good, so he will follow me to go to war."

"Yes, the official is obeying the order." The senior official is to be punished to death. Moreover, Yang Yong is far more than one level now. Wei Shikang is frowning, and finally he couldn't help but say, "Sir, can you reconsider?"

Yang Yong shook his head and saw Wei Shikang's sad face, he couldn't help but comfort him: "Don't worry, this 2,000 officials are safe and sound against the 100,000 Turkic army, Gao Baoning is far inferior to the Turkic one."

Thinking of Yang Yong's young but his record last time was really brilliant, Wei Shikang finally felt a little relieved. Although most people think that Yang Yong relied on luck last time, he did not have the courage and ability, and even if he had luck, he would not be able to grasp it.

"Since the Lord has decided, then the official will prepare the troops for the Lord, and the official will retire!"

Although the Goguryeo man was a tough guy, he still confessed three days later under the fatigue interrogation of Yang Yong's personal soldiers. The result of the confession was shocking. This young man turned out to be Gao Jianwu, the second prince of Goguryeo.

A prince sneaked into Yingzhou, especially on the surface, Goguryeo had just reported to become a vassal state of the Great Zhou Dynasty. There was no doubt that he had major plans. Yang Yong's personal soldiers were greatly encouraged and continued to work hard. After several days of sleepless interrogation, Gao Jianwu's spirit of spirit has collapsed and he will admit his purpose in Yingzhou one by one.

At the beginning of the founding of the Kingdom of Goguryeo, it occupied a small piece of land in the Hunjiang River. The middle reaches of the Yalu River, and enemies on all sides: to the west are the east of the Han and Liaodong, Xuantu, the two counties of Xuantu, the south are Lelang, the two counties of Dafang, Fuyu to the north, and Woju to the east. Later, Goguryeo continued to annex the surrounding small countries, and took advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains to embezzle the four counties of Xuantu County of the Han Dynasty, Lelang and other counties. By now, Goguryeo has become a great country with armor of 300,000 and thousands of miles.

However, after Zhou destroyed Qi, Goguryeo was always worried about being attacked by the Central Plains, because two-thirds of Goguryeo's territory were Han Dynasty territory. If the Central Plains dynasty was unified, they would definitely find a way to regain the lost territory of the Han Dynasty. The war between Goguryeo and the Central Plains dynasty was inevitable. Therefore, Goguryeo had already started to accumulate troops and food a few years ago, actively responded to the battle, and lent troops to Gao Baoning to ensure that the strength of the Great Zhou was weakened.

This rebellion of Yuchi Jiong of the Great Zhou Dynasty originally gave Goguryeo a hope of taking the initiative, but the king and ministers both advocated caution and did not send troops immediately. Originally, Goguryeo was fighting against the snipe and clam, and the fisherman was benefiting. He thought that Yuchi Jiong was defeated too quickly. Before Goguryeo could figure out the situation, Yuchi Jiong had already been defeated and committed suicide. Goguryeo had to stop the battle.

Many ministers in Goguryeo were not willing to accept this opportunity, especially when they were represented by Gao Jianwu, who had always been ambitious. They were naturally weak in fighting against his brother Gao Yuan and had to make up for it by making merits. This time they had to sneak into Yingzhou in order to find out the truth and reality of the Great Zhou, so that they could provide Goguryeo with troops to Yingzhou at any time to provide information on the details of the situation.

Since Goguryeo had this idea, Gao Baoning needed to be eliminated even more. Gao Baoning not only understood the terrain of Yingzhou, but also had a certain prestige among the Qi remnants. Otherwise, if Goguryeo invaded Yingzhou in the future, Gao Baoning would be more unpredictable, Dazhou would be even more unpredictable.

In order to keep the raid from being noticed by Gao Baoning, Wei Shikang spent five days to transfer his troops to the outside of the city bit by bit. He wanted to transfer more people, but was stopped by Yang Yong. After these days of interrogation and the information obtained by Wei Shikuan in the past, Gao Baoning's strength was already very clear. His warable soldiers were only about 2,600, and 800 elite soldiers. In addition, Yang Yong's own personal soldiers, the raid was enough. If there were too many people, it would be easy to be exposed. If Gao Baoning got the news in advance, all his efforts would be wasted.

On the third day, Gao Baoning received news that the stronghold in Yingzhou City was removed. Although he was angry, he didn't care much. He just gritted his teeth and cursed Wei Shikang for a few words, and everything returned to normal. He had more than one stronghold in Yingzhou.

At a secret location dozens of miles outside Yingzhou City, eight hundred elite cavalry had gathered together. In addition to Yang Yong himself and his personal soldiers, the entire army had a total of 904 people. Everyone looked at Yang Yong eagerly. Yang Yong's identity was not kept secret in front of these 800 people. He could follow the young hero who defeated the Turks. Today, Tokyo Tsuna Xin killed the enemy together. There were few people alone in this honor.

Yang Yong pulled out his sword and raised it high: "Soldiers, Gao Baoning, this villain of Gao Baoning has repeatedly violated our borders, and now it has become a cancer on the Great Wall. If Gao Baoning is not removed, the people of Yingzhou will never have peace. Today is the time to remove this cancer. I swear to destroy Gao Baoning!"

"Swear to destroy Gao Baoning! Swear to destroy Gao Baoning!" Nine hundred soldiers all pulled their swords, pointing at the sky and shouting wildly.
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