Late Tang

When Zhaowang's family who arrived from Dengzhou brought Qingzhou envoys to Qingzhou and asked Li Jing to go to Qingzhou to discuss the news, the three-way army in Shamen Town had already robbed and burned all the land except the big and small Heishan Island and Daxie Nandao. The other three forts and six garrisons outside.The raging flames burned half of the sky red, and billowing black smoke even covered half of Dengzhou.This time the Samana army was so ruthless that they didn't even let go of the Wuhu Islands, which had just been looted once before. They came again and burned all the empty castles and villages.

Looting everything, moving everything and burning everything is not the most ruthless thing. The most ruthless thing is that Li Jing came to the bottom of the pot and took away all the people on the islands.Although it is said that the people are the least valuable, the population is the foundation. If there are no people in a place, it is nothing.The three major archipelagos under the bustling Daxie Village had more than [-] people at its most prosperous time, but now, there are only tens of thousands of people left on the South Island where Fengzhang Laowo is located, and the rest are all concentrated in Li Jing's Salmonella and Montenegro Islands.

This was the deadliest blow. Even if Feng Zhang survived, he would be unable to deal with Li Jing after Qingzhou's mediation.His root has been cut, and there will be no further disturbances. This time, Li Jing has completely stabilized the strengths and weaknesses between the two.

The big and small Heishan Islands and several small islands around them are located to the west of Lijing's Shamen Town. They were originally surrounded by Daxie's North and South Islands on three and a half sides.Now that Li Jing occupied the big and small Heishan Islands, he was confronted with Fengzhang's North and South Islands from east to west, forming a confrontation around the Tangwan of Dengzhou Port.If it weren't for the fact that Turtle Island and Wuhu Island were separated by North Island, and the distance was too far, Li Jing would have wanted to simply occupy these two islands together.

After owning the large and small Montenegro islands, Li Jing's current territory has greatly increased.Daheishan Island is almost ten times the area of ​​Shamen Island, and Xiaoheishan Island has three big ones in Shamen Town. With the addition of the surrounding small islands, Li Jing's territory has more than ten times increased, and the strategic space is even bigger. .

Standing on the pier watching the ships returning to the port one after another, bringing back a full load of harvest, Li Jing smiled from ear to ear.It was at this time that Li Hui'er came up with Zhao Wang's family generals and brought Zhao Wang's message.

It came so fast, Li Jing thought to himself, fortunately they moved quickly, within a day and a night, they had already completed the robbery.

"I don't know who the messenger from Qingzhou is?" Li Jing asked Zhang Hong to bring a 50 taels of pig waist and silver collar and stuffed it politely into the hands of the general.The other party was also an old acquaintance, seeing Li Jing being so polite, he accepted it without hesitation.He smiled and said: "Brother Ji Yu's teacher Cui Sima is here. In addition, when I came, King Zhao told you to rest assured that the situation is very good this time. Song Jieshuai and Cui Sima will do their best to protect you, as will Song Governor and King Zhao. I fully support you. So please don’t have any worries. Cui Sima is the chief officer of this mediation. In addition, Song Governor and Wang Changshi are deputy, and Zhao Wang is invited to be the witness of the mediation. The mediation will be carried out in Dengzhou. Please and Feng Zhang all went to Dengzhou."

Hearing that it was the teacher Cui Boqing who came, Li Jing finally felt relieved.Of the four mediators, three were on his side, and it was on the territory controlled by the Jieshuai Mansion in Dengzhou, so Li Jing didn't have to worry about the others.

The general of King Zhao's family sighed, "Brother Ji Yu really showed his skills this time, he played beautifully. Feng Zhang was very proud before, and even King Zhao didn't give him much face. This time, he was completely discouraged by your beating. I heard that you have copied Feng Zhang's old story these two days. You are really cruel. I never saw it before. It turns out that my brother is the hero of the world. Let me tell you, I am with Zhao Wang, but I heard Zhao Wang's words Heaven keeps praising you. I have been with King Zhao for more than ten years, and this is the first time I see him praise someone like this. Ji Yu is No.1. The last time Feng Zhang sent troops to fight Shamen Town, King Zhao also went to the governor's mansion immediately , and contacted the Dengzhou battalions to send troops to rescue you, if Song Governor hadn’t made up his mind, I would have almost been able to join that surnamed Feng a few times together, so that he has been watching the sky with his dog’s eyes."

Li Jing didn't know whether it was true or not, but she was still a little grateful after hearing it.Although he knew that King Zhao's purpose of helping him was not so pure, but at least it was for him.

On the same day, Li Jing summoned the generals again, and first loudly praised the excellent performance of the generals.Then he said that King Zhao sent someone to invite him to Dengzhou to participate in mediation.The generals heard that Qingzhou Jieshuai Mansion and Wang Jingwu finally reached a compromise, not only did not attack Shamen Town, but sent people to mediate.And when the person in charge of mediation was Li Jing's teacher Cui Yunqing, all the generals breathed a sigh of relief.

Although everyone beat him hard these days, he beat Feng Zhang so hard that his teeth were all over the floor, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, he shrank in his shell like a turtle and dared not show his head.But apart from being refreshed, in fact, everyone has been hiding a worry in their hearts.That is to worry that things will eventually go in the direction they are worried about, that their actions will be classified as rebellion in the end, and then all the battalions and soldiers will come together to quell the chaos, and then everything that everyone has been fighting for will be over.

Now, everything is finally settled, just as the general said, their desperate and desperate bet this time finally succeeded, and they won the bet.Not only did no one say that they were rebelling, but they also sent a marching Sima to mediate.

Mediation, these two words mean that this war is just a dispute between the two armies.

"General, you have to be careful of Feng Zhang's dark hands. Finally, the general is willing to take the brothers from the Special War Capital to escort Dengzhou!" Duan Shan said loudly.Over there, Li Wei glared at him immediately, and shouted: "Whether the reconnaissance camp has the final say or you have the final say, I haven't said anything yet, you are the first. Go away, this escort mission is naturally mine. " Duan Shan was reprimanded by his boss, and immediately stepped aside in a dazed manner.Shamen Town is a place that pays most attention to the order of the upper and lower levels. Except for the usual military discussions and post-war summary, it is strictly forbidden to go up and down.

After a final debate, the officers finally decided that Li Wei and Duan Shan would select the most elite 3000 brothers from the reconnaissance battalion to accompany Li Jing to Dengzhou.And Megan will lead a fleet of [-] warships, escort [-] people all the way to Dengzhou Wharf, and be ready to meet at Dengzhou Wharf at any time.Lin Wei stayed behind on the island, while Wang Zhong and the brothers on the right side were ready to attack at any time.Once Li Jing was in trouble in Dengzhou, Wang Zhongzhuang led the warship loaded by the yellow beard in Zhendonghai to the Dengzhou wharf at full speed, and went ashore with the sailor battalion to pick up Li Jing.

Seeing this comprehensively prepared plan, Li Jing couldn't help chuckling, everyone really made a fuss over a molehill.But he didn't deny it, although it was a bit too motivating, but it was also everyone's loyalty to him, and this could also be regarded as a comprehensive coordination exercise.

On the second day, under the personal protection of two generals Li Wei and Duan Shan, Li Jing was accompanied by three other generals, Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, and Xuan Cheng.In their words, they were Li Jing's servants before, so this time they naturally had to do it themselves.In addition to Megan and Julie's sailor battalion, Xihe princess Li Huier and junior sister Yu Youniang and Xiao Yulou, three sisters who stayed together wherever they went, were also accompanying them.

Shamen Town is not far from Dengzhou Wharf, and it takes less than an hour to get there twenty or thirty miles away.When Megan's thirty large and small warships approached the Dengzhou Water Village.The Dengzhou water village was in a state of panic, drums and horns blared, and dozens of warships quickly sailed out of the dock, forming a defensive posture.

Megan looked very proudly from the bow, smiled and said to Li Jing: "Our fleet in Shamen Town is famous now, look at the nervousness of those in Wang Jin's family." Li Jing pouted, "Feng Zhang's fleet is known as Datang is number one in the north, but we destroyed [-] ships in a short period of time, destroying half of them. Which fleet do you think is not afraid to see us now? Especially Wang Jin has colluded with pirates to attack us before. Now I must be very worried that after we beat Feng Zhang hard, the next one will find them."

Wang Jin's fleet followed and escorted Li Jing's fleet all the way to Dengzhou Wharf, and finally returned to the water village with a sigh of relief.As soon as the ship entered the port, before Li Jing disembarked, he saw that the pier had been cleared, and there were groups of neat soldiers standing on the pier.On the pier, there are still a group of officials in light green and dark green robes, including a few eye-catching scarlet robes. These are officials of the fifth rank and above. In Dengzhou, there are only governors and a few senior assistants. Only then are you qualified to take the scarlet.

After getting off the boat, sure enough, those were all officials from Dengzhou. Facing Li Jing, a small town general who was only at the seventh rank, almost all the important officials from Dengzhou had arrived.From a distance, I saw Song Wen, Governor of Dengzhou, and the one talking to him was Cui Yunqing, the teacher whom I hadn't seen for several months, and the one standing a little distance away from them was Wang Jingwen, standing with him The one was Wang Jin, and the other one was the Daxie army envoy, Feng Zhang, who was beaten by him in recent days.In addition to them, there are also the Liucao affairs in Dengzhou, as well as the chief generals of several major barracks.

Li Jing was very surprised by such a big welcome scene.Li Jing hurriedly walked forward a few steps, and first gave Cui Yunqing a teacher-student gift, and then greeted Song Wen and others one after another.When he paid his respects to Changshi Wang Jingwen, the old man sneered a few times: "General Li Zhen has a great face, let so many of us wait here, people who don't know think that we are here to welcome the commander-in-chief of Ziqing Town Well, young people are easy to be proud. Look at Feng Bingmashi, as soon as he received the news yesterday, he rushed directly to Dengzhou."

Li Jing smiled lightly, pretending to be apologetic, and said: "I'm really sorry, yesterday my brothers all went out to sea to fish, and the harvest was good. I've been busy counting the harvest. I don't think so It is very rude to wait here for someone."

As soon as these words came out, Feng Zhang next to him suddenly let out a muffled snort, and a stream of blood spilled from the corner of his tightly closed mouth.He trembled all over, and shouted, "Little thief, you have deceived others too much, I will never die with you!" As he said this, he was about to rush forward, but Wang Jin who was next to him hurriedly held him back, and Li Jing stood there motionless , looking at Feng Zhang with contempt, "Remember you said something like this a few days ago, if you can kill people with just opening your mouth, then your opponents are probably dead. If you really are like today Bravery, don't run so fast that day."

Feng Zhangqi's face was as white as paper, and he almost passed out.Li Jing's words are really too poisonous, he wants to act good even if he got the cheap, his face was lost in front of everyone today, and he didn't know how to respond in the end, in the end, he just rolled his eyes and pretended to pass out, Avoid looking at the audience with different looks.

(To be continued)