After all the rebels left, Zhao Xingde sent someone to let Wang Tongdeng lead the cavalry over to join the camp.

As expected, when Wang Tongdeng heard that the regimental training camp had rebelled, he immediately became furious and wanted to lead the cavalry to chase the rebellious party back. However, he was still stopped by Zhao Xingde.

Zhao Xingde's reason is very sufficient, no matter whether the battle in the river is won or lost, if it drags on for one more day, the vitality of the Xia Kingdom will be lost by one point. Naturally, the mastermind of the chaotic party can't let go, but most of the soldiers who eat food are still confused for a while. Quelling the chaos should not only be thunderous, but also open up on three sides, and it should not be done as a matter of driving away fish from the abyss. In the final analysis, the largest component of the army is the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level. Although many people are lucky to quell the rebellion at the moment, and the role of releasing these rebels is not great, but in the future, when the situation changes, the effect will be brought into play. If one person is unwilling to be martyred for the rebellious party, the rebellious party will lose a single point of strength, and if 500 people are unwilling to fight for the rebellious party, the rebellious party will lose a battalion without a fight. These people will also influence each other, which will snowball the victory of the counterinsurgency army, and future battles may limit the collapse of the large rebel army to a very small cost.

Wang Tongdeng reluctantly accepted Zhao Xingde's explanation, and wrote a letter with him, and the government of the state was established to issue a "pardon for conscripts" to encourage the soldiers who were coerced by the chaotic party to abandon the secret and turn to the light.

This turmoil seems to be a test for Zhao Xingde by God, and the receiving regiment training camp has not encountered a similar mutiny since then. Because the regimental training camp was distributed on the long supply line from Wuhu to Huwen, half a month after Zhao Xingde arrived in Huwen, he only gathered more than 10,000 troops near Huwen. There was no time to wait for the other regimental training battalions to converge with Huwen, so Zhao Xingde led the army to march to the hinterland of the river, aiming directly at the capital of Kangguo. Along the way, new battalions continued to join the army, and the regimental training was eager, which raised the morale of the long-distance march. In terms of numbers and morale, the counterinsurgency army is like an iron ball falling back to the ground from a high place, and the closer it gets to Kangguo, the more powerful it becomes. Generally speaking, the more people marched, the slower the pace, but the speed of the Guardian Battalion's northward movement did not slow down with the addition of new battalions. Under Zhao Xingde's deliberate arrangement, this momentum was not only felt by every soldier, but also made the chaotic party unable to sit still.

At the beginning, the news that Zhao Xingde served as the head of the Huwen Xing camp was secret, and when Zhao Xingde initially integrated the soldiers and horses on the left side of Huwen City and swore to go north, the regent Chen Ang was still personally supervising the men and horses to besiege Dawan City, and Kang Hengming, who stayed in Kang Guo, did not take this group of rabble in his eyes, but just asked the iron gate to guard Hu Yanze not to let this group of men and horses pass through the Wuhu water. The Wuhu water is the natural dividing line between the hinterland of the river and Khorasan. Khorasan is mostly the vast desert Gobi Desert, because of the problem of water sources, Zhao Xingde's department can only march along the towering Alan Mountain, through the ancient village military city began to cross the Alan Mountains in the north and south of the Shede River Valley, Shede River is a tributary of the Wuhu River, the Iron Gate Pass is located on the north bank of the Wuhu River, after the Iron Gate Pass, it is the endless fertile field in the river, the Xia Kingdom has been operating for a hundred years in the prosperous place.

The terrain of the Iron Gate Pass is dangerous, in order to prevent the Ghaznavids from going north, the military government of all dynasties has repaired it, and it can be called a majestic pass that cannot be destroyed by a husband and a man.

Hu Yanze, the general of the Iron Gate, is also a veteran, with more than 20,000 people under his command, of which more than 5,000 are the sons of Zhaowu Jiu, whom Kang Hengming regards as his confidant.

Kang Hengming expected that whether Zhao Xingde was attacking hard or taking a detour, it would be impossible for him to break through Wuhushui before Chen Ang took Dawan City.

On May 15, Zhao Xingde led the guards to the front of the Iron Gate, he only sent a small number of troops to test the reality of the defenders in the first two days, and then did not move for several days, Hu Yanze returned to Kang Hengming, saying that Zhao Xingde was a timid general, please rest assured King Kang. However, only nine days later, the Guardian Battalion completed the construction of all the siege artillery forts outside the Iron Gate Pass, erected heavy artillery, and aimed the artillery bombardment at the city. The defenders also fired back artillery, but both the density of the shells and the accuracy of the shells were far inferior to those outside the city, and the angle of the fortifications built by the Huwenxing camp was very tricky, and even if the heavy artillery at the head of the city hit the fortifications, they often could not penetrate it, but bounced out along the slope of the fortifications. After five days of artillery battle, the casualties in the city were very different, the defenders of the Iron Gate Pass were also based on regimental training, and the morale dropped to the extreme, and the army outside the city used the gap in the artillery battle to dig a trench and zigzag to the city wall, on the sixth day, the Huwen Xing battalion launched a general attack on the Tiemen Pass, Zhao Xingde ordered the artillery to suppress the city head and set fire, and ordered a thousand thunderers to find the weak point of the city to enter the city, this thousand thunder throwers are the elite selected from the 50,000 troops of the Huwen Xing battalion, all of them are amazing, climb the city and climb halfway to throw the thunder on the city, A thousand thunder throwers concentrated on throwing thunder at this section of the city, the head of the city suddenly rained down, the defenders behind the battlements did not say that they could not stand still, they could not even stand, they were killed and wounded, and the rest were all holding their heads and running away, after the thunder throwers broke through the city wall, after only one day of fighting, the iron gate pass was declared to change hands.

The news of the fall of Tiemen Pass shook the river, and after Chen Ang, the king of Yong, heard the news, he returned to Kangguo from the city of Dawan in the starry night.

The day after the fall of Tiemen Pass, Kang Hengming issued a multiplication mobilization order, Xuancheng Zhao Xingde and Huwen Xingying as rebels, and all sergeants and regimental training soldiers were requisitioned to form a large army to protect Kangguo. However, before the Protectorate could react, many of the remaining sergeants in Cangcheng issued a proclamation, not recognizing Kang Hengming's conscription in the name of the Five Mansions, and requiring the shade households under their jurisdiction not to obey the orders of any officials other than the local sergeants. The Huwen Xing camp was tired from the long march, so it was necessary to make a short rectification on the north bank of Wuhu River, the infantry army was expanded to 60,000, and the cavalry led by Wang Tongdeng was also expanded to 5,000 people. The clouds of a big war are getting thicker and thicker, both the north and the south are fighting hard, and all parts of the river have calmed down, if Chen Ang wins, then in the short term, the military government will no longer be able to launch a large army to quell the rebellion, and if the Huwen Xingying wins, Chen Ang and others will undoubtedly lose the capital of the rebellion immediately, and the only way to defeat is to lose, and everyone's eyes are focused on this battle that determines the master of the river.

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In Luoyang, Kanto, the sound of drums, in the night, the military pigeon flew into the Luoyang regimental training embassy with the news brought from the distant river.

There are two large flags standing at the entrance of the regimental training embassy, one is the Kwantung regimental training flag, and the other is the tiger wing army flag. After Chen Ang's rebellion, the military government immediately declared him a rebel, and rarely appointed the crown prince Chen Zhong as the new commander of the Tiger Wing Army, although the current Tiger Wing Army under Chen Chong's direct command is only more than 100 cavalry, nominally it can command 5,000 Tiger Wing Cavalry, and the Tiger Wing Cavalry who really followed Chen Ang to make a rebellion is only about 2,000.

As soon as the pigeon came to rest on the platform of the loft, someone untied a feather tube from the pigeon's feathers and transcribed the small special ciphers on thin paper.

Chen Zhong personally took out the general's book from the black clip, his eyes swept over, the forbidden frowning brows suddenly loosened a little, he closed the military book, paced back and forth in the room several times, stopped, pushed the door out, and said in a deep voice: "Prepare the horse, go to the East Camp!" A moment later, Chen Zhong galloped out of the regimental training embassy surrounded by the guards of the Thirty Cavalry Tiger Wing Army.

A group of people and horses drove directly to the camp in the east of Luoyang City, where Wu Jue, the general of the camp in the east of the Guanguan of the Xia Kingdom, was stationed, and after the report, he went straight to Wu Jue's sleeping tent, and Wu Jue had put on his armor with a tired face.

The river is the fundamental place of the Xia country, when the elite soldiers who followed the founding emperor's expedition to the west, many of them stayed in the river, for more than 100 years, the river is almost all the time without war, the Anxi military division is not less than the Anbei military division, and the wealth in the river is not less than Guanzhong, if Chen Ang and others really occupy the river, there is also the capital to win the throne of the Xia country. Emperor Yuande was besieged in Dawan City, which put Chen Chong under tremendous pressure, and the attitude of the Korean Duke of Guanzhong and the Andong Army Si Quduan was ambiguous, and it seemed that they were waiting to see the success or failure, and the Protectorate and many nobles who were loyal to Chen Chong urged Chen Chong and Wu Jue to immediately send troops to Qinwang, first set Guanzhong, and even did not hesitate to send troops and horses from Guanzhong to expedition to Hezhong. However, under the tremendous pressure from inside and outside, Chen Zhong unexpectedly did not move, but while stepping up the training of soldiers and horses, he frequently sent envoys to the Kanto region to stabilize the civil and military ministers in Guanzhong. Wu Jue always felt that he seemed to be waiting for something.

"Your Highness is visiting," Wu Jue said, "Is there news about the battle situation in the river?" ”

Chen nodded and didn't speak, and handed the military report directly to Wu Jue.

"Protect the Guardian Camp and seize the Iron Gate!" When Wu Jue saw it, he exclaimed, "Zhao Xingde is really a good general!" He closed the military newspaper and sighed, "No one is talking about it this time!" ”

In the eyes of the military government, Zhao Xingde's achievements in the eastern part of the country have always been a little watery, but the victory of the rabble to seize the Iron Gate Pass is a great achievement that no one can deny.

"Exactly, if this next battle can be won, the river will be stable!" Chen nodded and said, "Just wait for the outcome of the next battle, and the rope around our heads will be loosened." ”

Under the reflection of the candlelight, Chen Chong's eyes flickered, Wu Jue pondered for a moment, and suggested: "This news should be released immediately to stabilize the morale of the army." ”

The Kwantung Battalion and the Luoyang Regiment combined for a total of 150,000 horses, which can be described as pivotal in the current situation. If this force is used in Guandong, it can immediately stop the Liao cavalry from sweeping the Song State, avoid the war of Jingkangnian from repeating itself in Guandong, and directly expand the territory of Xia State in Guandong. However, the problem is that no matter whether it is Kanto or Kansai, Chen Chong and Wu Jue can only have one direction, otherwise they will fall into the dilemma of being attacked from both sides, with the large territory of the Xia Kingdom, they still dare not try to fight on both sides of the east and west at the same time, and Luoyang, the land of the projectile in the eastern part of the country, cannot afford it.

For this reason, Chen Chongcai has always understood that the sword of the Kanto camp is more deterrent when it is in the scabbard than after it is pulled out.

However, ordinary people may not be able to understand his painstaking efforts, and there are even rumors that Chen Chong is indecisive and will abdicate in exchange for the life of Emperor Yuan De when Dawan City is broken.