Late Tang

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Li Keyong and Li Guochang's two troops combined totaled [-].Although there are less than [-] real elite Shatuo troops here, even so, it is enough to make Li Jing take a deep breath in his heart.The elite Shatuo soldiers, a cavalry force of ten thousand people, are truly invincible in Daibei.

"Where are the officers and soldiers?"

Except for the Zhendong Army, the imperial court still has six routes of soldiers and horses.

"Zhaoyi, Yicheng, Hezhong, and Zhongwu have 6000 soldiers and horses combined, of which Yicheng's army is [-], and the remaining three are [-] each. The Hedong army has [-], but some of them are stationed in each city, and they were defeated earlier. For a while, there are only [-] people assembled in the east of the river. In addition, the Tiande army has [-] soldiers in the west camp. In addition, Yu Gong also summoned Tuyuhun chiefs Helianduo and Bai Yicheng to send troops. Helianduo and Bai Yicheng led three troops. Thousands of Tuyuhun cavalry came to help, and there were [-] troops in the west camp."

Li Jing nodded. In Jinyang City, Taiyuan, [-] soldiers and horses from five towns have been assembled.Now there are [-] soldiers in the camp to the west, and [-] soldiers in the camp to the east.Calculated, the total force reached [-], completely superior to Li Keyong's father and son in terms of force.And the Zhendong Army has the largest number of troops in the seven towns with [-] troops.

"This battle, how do you think we should fight?" Li Jing raised his head and looked at Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang, Gao Siji, and Zhou Dewei, with a questioning look in his eyes.

Wang Yanzhang can barely read and understand the map now, but he still doesn't understand these strategies.Seeing that he didn't speak, he blushed and said: "We have an army of [-], and if you say that one force is reduced by ten, let's just go directly to the top of Mount Tai, take Weizhou directly, and then seize Shuozhou, the old nest of the Shatuo people. "

Li Jing didn't speak, but nodded encouragingly.

Gao Siji scratched his head and said: "In my opinion, what Wang Tieqiang said is right. With our strength, we can just copy Li Keyong's lair directly, and then attack Li Keyong with the troops from Taiyuan."

"Bohu, what do you think?" Li Jing turned to ask Liu Xun.

"What Tie Qiang and Cheng Wu said makes sense, but I think the tactic of besieging the city and fighting for aid used by the Duke of Youzhou in Youzhou is very good. To deal with Li Keyong, we can repeat the same trick. First encircle Weizhou, if If the soldiers and horses in Yunzhou and Shuozhou come to help, we can help. If they don't come, we can simply take Yuzhou, and then surround Yunzhou and Shuozhou, and fight all the way there." Liu Xun agreed The proposals of Wang Yanzhang and Gao Siji were accepted, but a little more was added.

Li Jing continued to nod with a smile, and asked Zhou Dewei again.

Zhou Dewei thought for a while, then pondered: "I think what you said is very good, I just want to add one thing. Before we send troops, we can send someone to inform Zheng Xianggong of Taiyuan and Yu Gong of Tiande, so that they can start at the same time Right now, Li Keyong is confronting Zheng Xianggong at Tianmen Pass in Taiyuan. As long as Zheng Xianggong can hold Li Keyong for a while, we can successfully copy Li Keyong's retreat. In addition, please ask the Tiande army Yugong to fight together, then Didn't Li Guochang go south to attack Yuzhou? Then let the Tiande army go to the Zhenwu army's back route, Shanyu Duhufu. We will fight on three sides. When Li Guochang and Li Keyong lose their lair, the morale of the army will inevitably drop. When they come back to seize it, we can set up an ambush halfway, so victory can be expected."

"Okay, what you said is very good. Each of you has hit the point. It is a good strategy to copy the back of the Shatuo people and besiege the city. Let me mention one last point. I think that even if Li Guochang and his son rebel, it doesn’t mean that all the people who represent the North are willing to follow. Some of them are just helpless. Or, some people don’t really care about loyalty, just to see who We can only offer a higher price. For these people, although we are not ashamed of their character, if we can win them over, we should still win them over."

Zhendong Army has always been rich, and Li Jing is also a generous person.If it can be bought with money, then Li Jing won't mind paying the money, because Li Jing has always believed that such an investment is absolutely cost-effective and can definitely recover the cost.

After going down the mountain and returning to the camp, Li Jing immediately summoned Li Zhen, Guo Chengan, Lin Wu, Wang Zhong, Gao Shunli and other generals.Taking out the strategy discussed on the mountain, Li Zhen and others are very satisfied with this plan.The next step is to improve the plan and discuss the details.

After the meeting, Li Jing immediately wrote more than ten letters in handwriting, and asked people to send them to Yu Juan of the Tiande Army and Zheng Congxuan of Taiyuan respectively.The other letters were sent to the leaders of the Hu tribe in Daibei, Helianduo of Tuyuhun, Bai Yicheng, Li Youjin, the governor of Shatuo, Mihaiwan, the chief of Sage, Shi Jingcun, the chief of the Anqing tribe, and Qie of the Tiele tribe. Qi Bizhang of the Bi Ministry, and Tuoba Sigong, the leader of the party leader of Youzhou.Li Jing was very forthright this time for the leaders of these foreign soldiers, and each of them gave a thousand taels of gold, and asked them to deal with Li Keyong together.Most of these tribal chiefs were vassals of the Tang Dynasty. Now there are only the Shatuo tribe, and the Shatuo, Sage, and Anqing tribes are still on Li Keyong's side.

In addition, Gao Wenji, the guard of Shuozhou, and Fu Wenda, the guard of Yunzhou, also sent a generous gift to invite them anyway.

At the same time, Li Jing led his troops to the south, and the Hengye Army in Dingbian City, Weizhou was the first to bear the brunt.Since Li Jing dispatched Li Juyi's Control Crane Battalion and the Flying Cavalry Battalion led by Guo Zhenshan who succeeded Guo Zhenhai, as well as the Silver Saddle Battalion led by Gao Siji and the Flying Cavalry Battalion led by Li Wei, Li Yuan sent Leading the Ranger Battalion, the five cavalry battalions quickly attacked.

Five battalions of 3000 cavalry are the strongest and most elite soldiers of the Zhendong Army.It took only two days for them to arrive at the gate of Yokoye Jun's house in Dingbian City, Weizhou.The Yokoye Army only had 500 troops, and at this time most of them were mobilized to follow Li Keyong to the sun. In the military city, there were only [-] troops left.

The 500 men and horses in Hengye Army City are basically Fan soldiers, and the guard is Kang Sheng from Shatuo.When he heard that a large army was coming, he already knew it was too late to withdraw.After he only sent a few envoys to report to Weizhou, he ordered to fight behind closed doors.

However, the messengers sent by the Yokono Army City were intercepted by the rangers sent by Li Wei not long after leaving the city. They were all shot and the letters were taken back.After the cavalry surrounded Yokoye Army City, they did not immediately attack the city, but left the Ranger Battalion to besiege the city, and the remaining three battalions immediately dispersed to clean up the entire area within [-] miles of the Army City.

When Li Jing entered Jin this time, he had issued an order earlier to forcibly remove all the Hu people in the territory of the rebel army.Those who dare to disobey the order will be directly arrested as slaves.This move is a way to draw fire from the bottom of the pot, directly cutting off the possibility of these barbarians continuing to make trouble from the source.Although doing so is too outrageous, it is very likely to cause greater turmoil and so on.But Li Jing doesn't care, this is someone else's territory, but it's not under his own rule.

He sent troops to quell the chaos, but the imperial court did not pay him food, which was not a small expense.These Hu people happened to be captured as slaves, and they were rewarded to the soldiers after they were brought back to Dengzhou.Arresting Li Jing, a Han compatriot, is a little difficult to accept, but Li Jing will not have any psychological obstacles in arresting these barbarians.The cattle and sheep of these Hu people happened to be used as army rations, and their money and rations were also confiscated as rewards for the soldiers.

No one objected to Li Jing's order, let alone objected.It is quite normal to fight and loot.Just like before the Zhendong Army, Guojingqiu committed no crimes, such a thing is unheard of.Right now the soldiers are going on an expedition, looting at the right time can boost the morale of the soldiers.At the same time, this is also an excellent way to hit the opponent's morale and weaken the enemy's strength.

But robbing is robbing, but even if the Zhendong Army robs, it is different from other armies.

The Zhendong army looted, and the army could not be chaotic. Every time it went down, at least one of them had to act together, and it was strictly forbidden to act alone.Moreover, the looted materials must not be kept privately, but must be returned to the public.Of course, Li Jing would not be interested in this loot. The last [-]% of the loot collected will be rewarded to the soldiers, and the rest will be stored for military use.And more importantly, robbery is robbery, and you can't kill people at will.Unless the other party resists, it is strictly forbidden to kill at will.It is even more forbidden to kill women with money. Once these are violated, they will be severely punished.Every time there is an action, the princes of Yu are responsible for military discipline.

Historically, Li Keyong fought the war against the Tang Dynasty for almost four years, and finally Li Keyong was defeated and fled to the Tatar tribe at the foot of the Yin Mountain.

This time, Li Jing is not willing to fight with Li Keyong for four years.

Two days after the cavalry surrounded Hengye Army City, Li Jing led the remaining 500 soldiers and horses to arrive.For a small military city with only [-] people, the [-]-strong army was effortless. With only one round of arrow rain, the Zhendong Army broke through the city gate and entered the city.Kang Sheng died directly under the rain of arrows, and the rest of the troops were also killed completely.

"Take away all the food, money, and people in the city, and then set fire to the city!" Li Jing didn't leave the city, let alone divide his troops to stay behind.In a place like Daibei, it is meaningless to stay too many soldiers, and if you stay too few, they might be killed by those Tibetan tribes.Just don't divide the troops, just kill the generals all the way.

There are not many people in Yokoye Army City, less than [-] people, most of them are family members of Yokoye Army.Some of these people resisted fiercely, but were killed on the spot.Some tried to escape, but were also shot to death by random arrows.The rest were afraid of the Zhendong Army, and were driven out of their homes honestly, and could only carry simple luggage.

However, when the Zhendong Army was catching sheep in a family's sheepfold, suddenly a ten-year-old child rushed out and knocked down several soldiers with a stick.Several soldiers who had been knocked down got up and were knocked down again.

One of the soldiers was still a gang leader, and immediately blew the whistle on his neck.

"Beep!~~~"

The sound of the iron whistle was so ear-piercing that Li Jing who was passing by couldn't help frowning.At this time, the whistle is blowing, and the sound is so urgent, this is the whistle that needs reinforcements.At this time, why do we still need reinforcements, is there any accident?

"Go, go and have a look." Li Jing waved his hand and took the lead to walk to the place where the whistle sounded.