Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1316 I Can't Watch Him Die
Li Kerou couldn't sit still in Jiedushi's mansion.

Sometimes I got up, sometimes sat down, sometimes sighed again, and sometimes walked around restlessly, in short, I was restless and restless.

Although Feng Dao was young, he was much calmer than him.This time, the old god is sitting on the ground opposite Li Kerou, looking through the files with a calm mind.

Occasionally, a small official came in and asked one or two things, and he quickly gave instructions.Clear thinking, decisive and precise, high office efficiency.

As an official, who should you be?If you really need to worry, that's also the matter of the warriors, and it has nothing to do with him.Because most of the benefits in this world are occupied by warriors big and small.Warriors eat meat, and their civil servants can only drink some soup, why is it so urgent?In a big deal, the broth turns into a vegetable soup, so what's the fear?

"Oh!" Li Kerou sat down and sighed heavily.

What worries him is not that Xia Jun is aggressively approaching Jinyang.

Regarding this incident, he felt dissatisfied, regretful, and sad in his heart, but at the same time, he understood what his brother did.

Hedong has raised too many soldiers, which is unsustainable.Even if Shao Shude doesn't come to attack, they will explode themselves.Unless you expand externally, you can plunder if you win, and consume it if you lose.But this method also has side effects, that is, if you lose too much and too hard, it is easy to suffer backlash: military chaos.

On the whole, it is still best to drop, this is the truth.

"Okay." Feng Dao was also unambiguous, and answered on the spot.

Yuan Jianfeng looked left and right, feeling a little uneasy, and said in a low voice, "It's not good to stay behind."

"Stay behind." Feng Dao sighed when he heard the words. He understood Li Kerou's mood very well, but he still persuaded him, "Situ may not listen to you."

What Li Kerou is worried about lies in Lanshi.

"Are you—" Li Kerou set up an awning, squinted his eyes to make a careful distinction, and hesitated: "Shi Shaoyong?"

"Feng Sima is old, otherwise I'm going to make a joke." Li Cunxian smiled embarrassedly, turned around and ordered: "Quickly open the door!"

Li Kerou was taken aback.In fact, this possibility is quite small.As Feng Dao said, if those thieves can hold Li Kening hostage, can't they hold Li Kerou hostage?but--

There are still thousands of soldiers and horses in the city, mainly Yier Army and Shenjie Army, less than 7000 people.

The expression on Feng Dao's face did not fluctuate at all, he only reminded: "General, since Li Chengyue is outside the city, the door should be opened."

Such a majestic and strong city that could be used as a capital, just fell into his hands?

"Stay behind is here!"

Li Cunxian was the righteous son of the King of Jin and the military envoy of the righteous son. There were more than [-] people in this army, and they were known as elites.If they don't mess up, Jinyang will be fine.

Speaking of this, he looked back and said, "Hedong's vitality cannot stand the toss."

When the defenders saw the general flag with the word "fu", they didn't dare to neglect, and immediately notified it.

"Stay behind." Feng Dao stood up, pondered for a while, and said, "I'm afraid that Situ will be held hostage by someone. Once you go, you will suffer."

By the end, his eyes were slightly moist.

Fu Cunshen raised his head and looked around, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.

Now that Yier, Tuqi, Tuzhen and other troops have accepted the reorganization, they are already Xia Jun, so everyone is also Xia Guan and Xia General, and they are colleagues with Li Chengyue and even Fu Cunshen.

"Who is here?" After the two looked at each other, Li Cunxian asked loudly.

A warrior saw them and shouted loudly from the top of the city.

In addition, there are some scattered cavalry, such as pro cavalry, flying cavalry, cloud cavalry, sudden cavalry, iron forest, Hengchong, etc., adding up to about 5000 cavalry.

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Li Kerou hurried to Loufanjian Mucheng.

"Alright." Li Kerou nodded, looked at Feng Dao again, and said, "After I leave, everything in the city will be entrusted to Cunxian and you, and there must be no trouble."

Ke Ning and Ke Rou are blood brothers, and he doesn't want to persuade him as an outsider, so he can only say: "Why don't you let General Yuan go with you, so that you can take care of you?"

"My brother was just fascinated by ghosts for a while..." Li Kerou said: "Those people around him are ambitious and stupid like pigs. My brother is bewitched by him, and I don't want to understand. There are some. I will persuade them, and most of them will Change your mind."

After a while, a general came up from the top of the city and said loudly, "But Li Liushou?"

In history, after Zhao Guangyi conquered Jinyang, he completely demolished this difficult city to prevent someone from separatist Jinyang from rebelling. Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Northern Han all started in Jinyang.

Jinyang City is huge in scale, divided into east, middle and west cities, and there are three independent cities in the city: Daming Palace City, Jinyang Palace City, and Cang City.Strictly speaking, Jinyang can be called six cities.

"Why didn't my brother come to see me?" Li Kerou asked, "Where's Zhou Dewei? Is he still in Lanzhou?"

Li Cunxian sighed and asked, "Do you want to prepare anything?"

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Two days after Li Kerou left, on the seventh day of April, a cavalry army came from far southeast.

Feng Dao sighed.

After finishing speaking, he turned around and moved forward, and entered Loujian Mucheng.

He dare not imagine.fifty thousand?One hundred thousand?or more?
Fortunately, the sage Wen Tao Wu Lue, Jinyang was able to surrender without a fight, so good!
"Take me to see Li Kerou!" Chief Inspector Fu Cun laughed and ordered.

"Stay behind!" Yuan Jianfeng held him back, shaking his head slowly: "No."

Li Kerou didn't listen, and walked forward, saying: "The soldiers may not be determined to make trouble, or they may be able to persuade you. You can send someone to detour to the west to see what is going on in Lanzhou. There has been no news for a long time. Zhou Yangwu is a believer , if he is still there, there will be no chaos in Lanzhou."

After the imperial decree, Li Kerou read it out in public, and all the generals obeyed.

Jinyang has 24 city gates.It is also very rare to have so many city gates, but considering the huge scale of the three cities of Jinyang, so many city gates seem almost the same.

What Feng Dao meant was that there was no need to engage in those fancy surrender ceremonies.

At this time, there were actually not many horses in the ranch.Poor management, war consumption, insufficient investment, and self-stealing have drained the last sliver of vitality of Loufan Ranch, just like this meeting in Hedong.

"The last general is Shi Shaoyong." Shi Shaoyong smiled wryly, and said, "Situ is in the city, please come in and discuss."

Li Kerou hummed.He is not stupid, how can he not see it?The whole camp and the city looked like a mess, and it didn't look like someone was calling the shots.

Li Kerou has completely calmed down.He gently opened Yuan Jianfeng's fingers, bowed and said, "General Yuan please stay outside for a while. If there is any disagreement, it's okay to leave. I don't blame you."

"I am Li Chengyue, you should recognize me." Li Chengyue, the general of the Chengtian Army, stepped forward on his horse and said loudly: "Fu Dutou Cunshen was ordered by Da Xiazi to lead a hundred thousand troops to defend Jinyang. Now that you have surrendered, you should know the importance of the military order, and open the door quickly without hesitation."

"Open the door!" A sergeant yelled.

Open the city gates and accept friendly troops into the city, that's all.

Under the current general situation, Feng Dao asked himself that he could still stabilize these warriors with his three-inch tongue.

"There is no need to prepare anything." Feng Dao said: "The general is also the general of the Great Xia Army, and the [-] soldiers of the Baoning Army are also the soldiers of the Great Xia Army. Just open the city."

As soon as Li Keroufu arrived here, his heart suddenly sank.

In the valley where the broken city is located, a camp has already been built, and many soldiers are looking around and looking around.

They divided into several groups, first went around outside the city, and after confirming that there was no ambush, they separated into several people and headed towards the city.

"It's really Li Chengyue!" Li Cunxian slapped the female wall, yelled, and said: "Good thief, before the king left, he hooked up with the Xia people, and now he is calling the door again, so shameless."

The soldiers of the Baoning Army moved quickly, and opened a total of two city gates in the north and south, namely: Daxia Gate and Yanxia Gate-Jinyang was called Daxia in ancient times, and it is actually quite normal to use Xia as the name of the gate.

This city is not big, but also somewhat dilapidated.It was originally the residence of Loufan Mujian, and it existed in the Tang Dynasty. Successive Hedong Jiedu envoys repaired it intermittently. When it was handed over to Li Keyong, it was already in a crumbling state.

If the Jin people piled up reserves in the city and recruited more young men to help defend the city, how many lives would it take to capture it?

The day before yesterday, Li Kerou also summoned all the generals to announce the surrender and change of flag. The generals and school had no opinion, and were even a little happy.Most of the sergeants had no objection, a few were restless and instigated a rebellion, but they were quickly suppressed, and Jinyang remained calm as a whole.

This doesn't look like order!

"General Zhou is recuperating in Lanzhou." Shi Shaoyong said, "Please stay inside to discuss important matters."

The surging cavalry rushed into the city along the open street.

"General Yuan" is Yuan Jianfeng, who is now the envoy of the Tucai Army, and it is indeed much safer to be guarded by him.

Li Kerou is staying behind in Jinyang now, so he has no problem being an envoy.What's more, he is actually not very good at military affairs, and now he is mostly just making a transition. In the future, this position will be given up to others. Everyone has a chance, provided that he wins the favor of the saint.

Li Kerou hesitated for a long time, finally gritted his teeth, got off the horse, and walked forward.

The order quickly spread to the city.

Jinyang city is high and deep, very strong.Around the city wall, there are five whole acropolises, which are the horns of the three cities of Jinyang. These five acropolis should have been destroyed by the five generations of military disasters in history. They still exist at this time, but they are empty and there are no soldiers stationed there. .

The Northern Song Dynasty rebuilt Jinyang City later, but the scale was far smaller than before.Not to mention the short and thin city walls, the city is only eleven miles around. There is no warehouse city inside the city, and no guard city outside the city. It no longer has the conditions to stick to it for a long time. .

After Feng Dao, Li Cunxian and others got the news, they hurried to the top of the city.

"Stay here and don't act emotionally." Yuan Jianfeng said urgently: "There may be riots in the city, and the consequences of going there are unpredictable."

"No, I have to go upstairs." After thinking about it, Li Kerou couldn't help it, and said, "I can't just watch my brother die."

As soon as the voice fell, the east gate was already opened.

Thinking about it carefully, the situation is still very stable.Although Shilingguan Town raised An Yuanxin's rebellious flag without knowing his life or death, the scope of influence was very small, and there was only some commotion in Yangqu County in the northern suburbs of Taiyuan, so it was not a big problem.

The entire Jinyang Waiguo has a circumference of 42 miles, which was second only to Chang'an and Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty.

"Stay here!"

Yesterday, a messenger came from the direction of Daizhou to convey the sacred order: based on the army stationed in Jinyang, supplemented by the remnants of the Chengtian Army, it will be reorganized into the Baoning Army, with Li Kerou as the envoy. There was a bugle.

A total of [-] paces and riders, all of which were relatively loyal troops withdrawn from Zhuzhou by the elder brother in the last time before his death-from this, it can also be seen that Hedong is completely undefended against the Xia people.

Among the Li family brothers, the eldest brother Ke Yong had just passed away, and the other brothers also withered one after another, and now there are only two of them left.In terms of emotion and reason, he can't just sit back and watch.

Li Kerou didn't delay too much. After tidying up in a hurry, he went to the barracks to find Yuan Jianfeng.

"You don't need to persuade me much." Li Kerou calmed down, his expression gradually became resolute, and said: "Even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire, I have to make it through."

Yuan Jianfeng took the reins of his horse and walked around in the valley.

Five hundred riders followed behind him, watching silently.They are all old warriors, and they still don't know what happened?

Li Kerou was worried about his brother's life and death, and at the same time, he also wanted to do meritorious service, so he entered the city alone, trying to persuade the rebel army.But they don't want to take risks, and they even feel like growing weeds, eager to try.

Yuan Jianfeng keenly sensed something was wrong with his sergeants, shouted, and led them to evacuate several miles away. At the same time, he flew to report to Jinyang and Daizhou - reporting to Li Cunxian is useless, it is better to report directly to the saint, maybe Can be simple in the heart of the emperor.

(End of this chapter)