Late Tang

Beat the drum to gather the generals and raise the hall to discuss matters.

There is a stone sculpture of Sirius with wings squatting in front of the general hall in Shamen town, which is lifelike.This was presented to Li Jing by the stonemasons on the island. This winged Sirius is more than one foot high, and two rows of white and sharp ivory fangs are exposed from the ferocious wolf's mouth, which makes the entire town general's mansion change. More majestic.It is also because of this winged Sirius that many people in Dengzhou who have seen this wolf now secretly call Li Jing the wolf master, the young wolf master.It means that Li Jing is as fierce and powerful as this wolf.

The four battalions of the Shamen Town War Battalion, Auxiliary Battalion, Reconnaissance Battalion, and Sailor Battalion, as well as the logistics capital, supply capital, medical capital, and military police are all directly under the capital. After passing through the sentry post of the Gendarmerie, he handed over his weapon and entered the meeting hall, which was gradually being called the Qinglang Hall.

All the military officers arrived, and other civilian staff members on the island also attended today's meeting.

Li Jing glanced at the hall, there were more than 20 battalion-level officers, more than 60 metropolitan-level officers, and more than 100 team-level officers, more than [-] people gathered together.The soldiers and horses in Shamen Town have taken shape, and the command layer of the Shamen Town Army has almost taken shape.

"First of all, I would like to congratulate you all and tell you a piece of good news. The residential area of ​​the new city has been completed, and all the battalion-level officers and bureaucrats sitting here will get a set of blue bricks and green tiles in Shengli Square for free. A large mansion. And all military officers at the military level will get a free set of seagrass houses in Fenghuangfang and Taishanfang. As for the team-level officers, they can also get a new house in six of them.”

When all the officers heard this, they couldn't help being shocked. Everyone was already eagerly looking forward to the completion of the new house, and they all wanted to change jobs and buy one at the first time, but they didn't expect that the general would be so generous. Set of free mansions.Wang Dong, the team leader of the First Team of Raiders, has already accumulated a lot of work points. This time, in the battle at the Phoenix Mountain Wharf, he beheaded another three ranks. Moreover, his team performed outstandingly and won a collective second-class merit. As for the rewards received by the whole army, he got almost fifty guan rewards in this battle, which can be said to have made a fortune. He was already planning to use the money to buy a house, but he didn't expect to get a house for free now.Although it is just an ordinary new house, not a seagrass house or a blue brick house, he has seen the ordinary adobe brick house before. Separate yard.

But the house is still very big, with six rooms at the front and back, enough for their husband and wife and even their parents, younger brothers and sisters to live in.Perhaps, with the money saved, he could buy a horse, since he himself had a donkey for transporting his luggage.But now many officers on the island have bought private horses. Although a good war horse cannot be bought, it is still possible to buy a better draft horse as a mount.That kind of horse, the team leader of the second team bought one yesterday and spent fifty pennies on it, but that guy looked like he had bought a war horse.

Wang Dong was still thinking about it, and Li Jing, who was at the top, had already coughed lightly, interrupting the small excited discussions of the crowd.

"Everyone, the battle at the Phoenix Mountain Wharf the day before yesterday demonstrated the prestige of our Shamen Township, and let countless people see the demeanor of our Shamen Town Army. Feng Zhang was beaten by us and fled, and now he is huddled on the South Island. Come out. Just now Zijun reported to me the reactions of all the superiors and the military battalions in Dengzhou. It turned out that although the military battalions had assembled urgently, there was no movement in the end. The facts show that we made the right bet this time, although We took a risky move, but the results showed that although we beat Feng Zhang badly, Governor Song still fully supported us with practical actions, and even Wang Jin didn't dare to make any changes."

Speaking of excitement, Li Jing couldn't help standing up and gesticulating.It turned out that he thought that there would be a fierce battle this time, but who would have thought that all parties bowed their heads and then retracted.The facts turned out to be even better than what he expected.

"General, since Feng Zhang is terrified, and Wang Jin and the others are too scruples to take action, why don't we take advantage of this opportunity, take advantage of his illness, and kill him, and go directly to Daxie village, and simply kill the old thief Feng. Fate." Wang Zhong, who had just become Li Jing's fifth brother-in-law, said loudly. He is not only Li Jing's sworn brother, but now also Li Jing's brother-in-law. , but he also holds a town-level military post in the town of Yuhou, the capital of Salmonella Town. Among the generals, he can be said to have a lot of weight.His words also represented the meaning of many military officers, and they all proposed to go to Daxie Island altogether.

Megan, who was only assigned a patrol and deterrent mission in the last battle, stood up and said loudly: "Although Fengzhang still has more than 90 ships left, he is also timid. Although there are many people, he doesn't care. General, if you fight south Island, Fengzhang's fleet will be handed over to our sailor battalion."

Duan Shan, the general of the Special Warfare Capital, also shouted: "Let us handle the task of opening the gates of the Daxie Walled City!"

One after another, the officers stepped forward to ask for orders, and the crowd was passionate.

Morale is available, but ideas are not.Li Jing shook his head slightly, and looked at Lin Wei. "What's your opinion, Chief Coach Lin?" The battle in the left wing of the Zhanbing Battalion made everyone look sideways, and by the way, the prestige of Lin Wei, the chief coach, deputy town general, and deputy general in the left wing, was greatly enhanced, completely stabilizing the others. The position of the second person in Shamen Town.But maybe because of this, Lin Wei became more and more low-key.

Seeing Li Jing's question, he hurriedly said: "It is not advisable to attack the South Island now. I have been to the Daxie Walled City. The wall is high and strong. Not only does it have an urn city, but the top of the city is also very well-defended. In addition, Feng Zhang was defeated, but he We still have 8000 troops and hundreds of warships. If we attack Daxie Village, it is likely to be a replica of the Battle of Phoenix Mountain, but at that time we were the attacking side, and Feng Zhang was the defending side."

Yes, Lin Wei was not dazzled by the victory.

Li Jing nodded, pressed his hands down, waited for the generals to calm down and said: "Everyone's idea is good, this time we beat Feng Zhang to a great extent, we have to take this opportunity to snatch Feng Zhang's territory. "

All the generals were excited, Lin Wei glanced at Li Jing, hesitant to speak.

"However." Li Jing smiled, "Vice-General Lin is right, Daxie Village is not desirable, if we fight Daxie Village, it would be arrogant, we don't have that ability yet. Moreover, it is not suitable to fight Daxie Village Of course, we can’t just let old thief Feng go. In the morning, Zhang Bingcao told me that our island has already exceeded 10 people. Shamen Town is just a small island, and it can’t accommodate so many people. Yes, ours The land is too small, this time, we just want to borrow some land from old thief Feng."

Li Jing suddenly pointed to Wu Qian at the end and said by name: "Lieutenant Wu, you just joined our Shamen town army. You used to be the town general of Heishanbao. Why don't you tell us your opinion. What do you think we should do now? advance and retreat?"

Wu Qian was deprived of command by Feng Ming during the Battle of Tieshangang that day, and was put under house arrest in the cabin. When the Lingbo caught fire, he was still in the cabin, and Feng Ming didn't even care about him when he fled.In the end, he tried his best to escape into the sea. After the battle, he was captured by Brother Zhen Donghai who cleaned the battlefield.When Zhen Donghai persuaded him to surrender, he was disheartened and surrendered without hesitation, and persuaded more than 1000 prisoners to surrender.Back in Shamen Town, Li Jing was very polite to him.The green brick and green tile new house in the city was directly given to him, and he was also invited to participate in today's military meeting.

Wu Qian stood up unexpectedly, he didn't expect Li Jing to ask him what he meant by surrendering.After hesitating for a while, Wu Qian said: "Looking at the reactions of all parties, all battalions in Dengzhou are now looking at the attitudes of Governor Song and Wang Changshi, but these two seem to be waiting for the reaction of Qingzhou. In general It is said that no one in the military camps in Dengzhou will act lightly until there is a response from Qingzhou. This is a good thing, and it shows that everyone is beginning to fear the general's force."

Li Jing nodded, "Well said, Captain Wu continues, what do you think we should do now?"

Wu Qian hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "I think the current reaction of Dengzhou is entirely because the general fought too well and too fiercely in the previous two battles. Not only did Feng Zhang be beaten to the ground, but also Dengzhou All parties were shocked. I think we should continue to expand the results of the war before Qingzhou reacts. Right now, Feng Zhang is frightened and only guards the South Island. The other islands are all empty. Island. If the general is brave enough, he can even directly occupy the large and small Heishan Islands to the west of Salmon Island."

Li Jing couldn't help but be moved by Wu Qian's proposal. His original idea was to take the opportunity to plunder the islands to see if he could lure Feng Zhang out to do it again.Unexpectedly, Wu Qian proposed to occupy the big and small Montenegro castles.

"Is such behavior really advisable? Will it go too far and cause a backlash from all parties?"

Wu Qian is now in a state of desperation, since he has surrendered, he should try his best. "I thought that the matter this time would be settled in the end. No matter how difficult it is to fight, Qingzhou will definitely send people to mediate. As long as Wang Jingwu and Song Jieshuai don't want to start fighting now, then they will definitely come to mediate us The dispute with Feng Zhang. Once the mediation starts, we will no longer be able to take action against Feng Zhang, otherwise we will not listen to the above, and may lose the support of the above. Therefore, if we want to expand the results of the war, we must rush Hurry up and do another vote before Qingzhou comes."

Li Jing was very surprised by Wu Qian. This man not only has a good command, but also has a strategic vision.After pondering for a moment, Li Jing finally decided to take another risky attack.

Immediately ordered, with Lin Wei as the commander-in-chief of the First Route Army and Wu Qian as the deputy general, lead the five capitals in the left wing to take the Black Mountain Fort, big and small.With Wuzhong leading the five capitals in the right wing as the Second Route Army and Zhang Lie as the lieutenant general, they immediately sent troops to plunder the Turtle Islands.Li Jing demanded that everything that could be taken away from the islands of Turtle Island be brought back to Shamen Town, whether it was money and food, workshop equipment, cattle, horses, pigs and sheep, or even the population of the people, all three should be taken away, and then burned.

Finally, with Lin Wu as the third route army, he led his troops from Shaobing Island, crossed the Pearl Water Gate, landed directly on the North Island of Daxie Island, and plundered the North Island, and also Sanguang North Island.Megan's sailor battalion and fleet are responsible for the transportation of troops and sea support for this robbery mission.Meanwhile, thousands of soldiers and fleets from Zhendonghai monitored Fengzhang's fleet outside the South Island, strictly preventing them from going out to sea.

"Let's go, let's give him a hard vote. Fengzhang has always treated us harshly before and never regarded us as subordinates, so there is no need for us to treat him as Shangfeng again. Since he is hiding in the South Island, Then let's not be polite in other places." Li Jing laughed loudly.

On the same day, apart from Li Jing leading the auxiliary battalion to stay in Shamen Town, the entire army of the Zhanbing Battalion, the Sailor Battalion and the Reconnaissance Battalion were dispatched, and even Zhendonghai was dispatched with a full force.Now Zhen Donghai has almost become a non-staff member of Shamen Town, although he is nameless, he is real.

Shamen Town attacked everywhere, but because Feng Zhang was defeated twice by Li Jing, he lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and later he shrank all the soldiers from the islands to the South Island.This made the other islands of Daxie Village extremely empty except for the South Island, completely undefended.According to the predetermined target, the soldiers and horses of the three routes attacked all the way, and the momentum was like a broken bamboo.Lin Wei's First Route Army, under the personal leadership of Wu Qian, the general of Heishan Baoyuan Town, took over without any effort.And because of Wu Qian's leading behavior, he has been in Heishan Fort for many years and has a lot of prestige. He came forward to appease the people of Heishan Fort, and many children of the people of Heishan Fort have now become prisoners of Shamen Town and locked up in Shamen Town. No one resisted.After the left wing was occupied, many craftsmen were brought in immediately, and they began to build fortifications on the big and small Heishan islands, preparing to completely occupy the two big islands.

The other two routes of soldiers and horses also went very smoothly. The Shamen Town Army occupied the islands one by one, and then searched and confiscated everything they saw, whether it was supplies or people.In the end, all the supplies, money and food were shipped out, that is, the population and animal husbandry. In the end, even the bricks, stones and wood of the houses were demolished. Set fire to the islands.During this looting, except for those merchants who were asked not to move by Li Jing, all the other places on the island were looted.

When Shamen Town attacked the North Island, which was only separated from the South Island by a long embankment, Feng Zhang tried to send troops to fight back, but the embankment was too narrow, and the thousand troops he sent formed a long dragon.Megan and Julie, who had been yelling that there was no battle, immediately led the fleet to catch up, using the many heavy crossbows and cannons equipped on the warship to bombard Daxie's soldiers. The archers on the boat shot at the big Xie soldiers, and finally succeeded in severely injuring the support soldiers, and defeated them back to the South Island. After almost a day and a night, the entire fleet finally returned with a full load.

(To be continued)