Late Tang

When dawn arrived, Lingqiu City, the seat of Weizhou's government, had already been replaced with the banners of Zhendong Army and Li Jing.Beside these two flags, there is also a slightly smaller general flag, on which is written the official position of the leading general occupying Lingqiu City at this time.

"The Deputy Ten Generals of the Pioneer Silver Spear Battalion of the Zhendong Army's Yaya Commander Hengchong is the head of the general Li"

Among the four disciples of Li Jing's four disciples, Li Xiaocun was the fourth-ranked general of the Zhendong Army. In the last battle at Zhigu Pass, Li Cunxiao bravely won the whole army.At that time, the four young generals suddenly rushed out behind Zhigu Pass around the trail, and the defenders were caught off guard and rushed to fight.Li Xiaocun only had a hundred men brave the rain of arrows to kill the top of the city, and the generals guarding the pass came to fight, but Li Cunxiao captured him as soon as he made a move.After shutting down the soldiers and horses and trying to snatch back the general, Li Cunxiao's Hun Tie Lance hit one at a time, and no one could get close.

In that battle, as many as 110 people died under Li Cunxiao's iron spear, and more than ten officers such as the guard general of Zhigu Pass and the team leader were captured alive.

This battle completely established Li Cunxiao's prestige. After the battle, the soldiers who participated in this battle were astonished. They all told the legend of Li Cunxiao's bravery in the army, and some people gave him the nickname Li Hengchong.

After Li Jing heard this, he smiled and simply called Li Cunxiao Li Hengchong, and directly selected [-] elite cavalry to be led by Li Cunxiao, and they were all named Hengchong Capital.Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang, and Gao Siji were also rewarded, and each led an elite cavalry.

After breaking the barrier, the Zhendong Army did not continue to advance rapidly, but took a temporary rest.Li Jing just sent the cavalry from Li Wei's Flying Eagle Battalion to disperse and go to Weizhou to inquire about the news.

"Why don't the Duke take advantage of the victory to attack, and kill Lingqiu City before it comes to take precautions or escape?" Guo Chengan followed behind Li Jing, boarded the Zhigu Pass together and looked into the distance.

Li Jing smiled slightly, but didn't answer directly, but instead turned to Li Zhen, "Xing Xu, do you think we should attack right now?"

"At this time, attacking at this time can wipe out all the Zhu evil party members in Lingqiu City." Li Zhen said while twisting his beard, but after pondering for a while, he said: "However, the Duke of the county has captured this pass, but he is resting here for a while. The Duke of the county seems to intend to hunt like a pack of wolves. When he finds the prey, he does not rush up directly, but chases after him first, and then waits until the opponent is exhausted. Then there will naturally be some left behind, so that they can easily Catch the ones behind."

This explanation only explained the reason why Li Jing did not attack immediately from a tactical point of view. The real reason was that after Li Jing entered Jin, he had no intention of really fighting the Shatuo people.Although there are few Shatuo soldiers, the strength of the Shatuo people cannot be ignored.Although the Zhendong Army has been victorious in successive battles, it can't hide the fact that the Zhendong Army is still too young and weak.

This kind of weakness has always been made up for in the past either because the opponent is too weak, or because of excellent tactics and strategies.But this is Daibei, the territory of the Shatuo people.The Shatuo people's toughness does not need to be explained. Even if Li Keyong and his son are not in Datong now, these Shatuo soldiers are not so easy to deal with.If you fight hard, although you can definitely defeat them, it will also cause great losses to the Zhendong Army.

In the battle of Zhigu Pass, although Li Cunxiao and his team won the pass with 1000 people, and Li Cunxiao killed more than 100 people alone.According to the results of the battle, one thousand enemies were wiped out in this battle, and the Zhendong Army that participated in the battle also lost nearly 500 people.

Use one thousand to attack a dangerous pass guarded by a thousand people, and finally capture the pass city, wipe out the enemy, and exchange one for two casualties.From the perspective of others, this is a great victory.But in Li Jing's view, this is a huge battle loss ratio that the Zhendong Army has never encountered.Especially those Shatuo people only escaped more than ten riders in the end, and all the others did not surrender, and they fought to the last person.

Li Jing learned from several wounded Shatuo soldiers that it was Li Keyong's newly adopted son, Li Siyuan, who escaped in the end.Li Jing was greatly surprised when he heard this name.Li Siyuan, one of Li Keyong's thirteen Taibao, historically, he and Li Cunxiao were both adopted sons of Li Keyong, and they were brothers.Although Li Siyuan is not as brave as Li Cunxiao, he is still a brave and wise general.

In history, Li Siyuan was the real Li Hengchong.When he was very young, he followed Li Keyong to fight north and south, brave and fearless, and able to fight bravely.In previous battles, Li Siyuan often led the most elite cavalry to forcibly break through the enemy's formation. It is said that "Li Hengchong" was famous for his bravery. Zu Yelu Abaoji took advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River to surprise Yanzhou, ended the 40-year struggle between Liang and Jin, and finally invaded Bianzhou. It was Li Siyuan's troops who destroyed Houliang.It can be said that Li Siyuan made great contributions in the process of building the country after all the battles in the later Tang Dynasty.

And Li Siyuan is a rare honest, honest, loyal and upright person.However, under the tide of the Five Dynasties, even a loyal person like Li Siyuan had to be forced to become the leader of the rebel army under the impetus of the later tide of the times, and had to go on step by step, forcing Zhuangzong Li Cunxu to death , became Emperor Mingzong of the later Tang Dynasty.

Li Jing couldn't help but feel a little regretful that such a big fish was missed after winning the Zhigu Pass.Today's Li Siyuan is just Li Keyong's newly adopted adopted son, but Li Jing knows that this person is definitely at the level of the five tiger generals in the Jin army. Chair of Emperor Mingzong.

It was in this battle that Li Jing had to consider the fact that the Shatuo people's unyielding fearlessness forced Li Jing to consider the fact that if there was no numerical advantage, the Zhendong Army would not be as good as the Shatuo Army right now.Forcibly hitting, you must pay a lot of damage.

"Xingxu, what do you think is our purpose for entering Jin this time?" Li Jing asked.

Entering the Jin Dynasty is of course to respond to the order to suppress the rebellion, but things are not that simple.Li Zhen's evaluation of Li Jing in his heart, on the surface, this master seems to be a person who is not profitable, but in fact, although he is young, he has a very strategic vision. Many of his moves, the rest are very early in the next set. Big chess.Entering Jin is not only because of the emperor's will.Although Li Jing is quite loyal to the emperor on the surface, Li Zhen has long seen that it is only because staying loyal to the emperor is the most beneficial method for the Zhendong Army at the moment.If it wasn't like this, Li Jing would never have obeyed the emperor's will. From the original intention, he couldn't see the true loyalty to the emperor in Li Jing's bones.

What is the purpose of entering Jin to calm the chaos?

After thinking about it, Li Zhen felt that it was for fame and prestige.At present, although Li Jing said that the emperor valued him, but after all, his strength was not strong, not even a Jiedu envoy, and now he was just a defensive envoy, and there were all defensive envoys, observation envoys, and Jiedu envoys.

Especially now that Li Jing has offended the great eunuch Tian Lingzi, Li Jing is completely at a disadvantage if he wants to fight against him.If you want to change this situation, you need to increase your own strength.This strength not only includes soldiers, horses, money and food, but also reputation and momentum.

Li Jing was not from a wealthy family, although he was the disciple of Cui Yunqing and Yu Yu, and Song Wei's adoptive son, but this aspect was still insufficient.In this way, Li Jing can only rely on fighting to improve his reputation.It is precisely this way that Li Jing has been able to come to where he is today.

The Shatuo people's rebellion was unstoppable from the very beginning, and the court couldn't stop it even after successive changes of commanders.

If Li Jing can defeat the Shatuo people at this time, then the prestige of Li Jing and Zhendong Army will be truly famous in the world.At that time, even a great eunuch like Tian Lingzi had to be more cautious.

Li Zhen expressed his thoughts with some reservations.

"Since we want to strengthen the prestige of our Zhendong army by countering the rebellion, shouldn't this be the more appropriate attack?" Guo Chengan hesitated for a moment.

Li Jing smiled slightly, but did not express all his thoughts.

There are several ways to fight a war.At present, among the seven towns in the imperial court to quell the chaos, Li Jing is only one of the divisions. Although he holds the position of commander of the east camp, his status is far inferior to that of Zheng Congxun, even Yu Juan and Li Jun.Under such circumstances, if Li Jing really fought all the way through, and finally fought desperately with the Shatuo people who stayed behind in Daibei, even if Daibei was recovered, the credit would not be much.

The key to countering the rebellion is not to regain Daibei, but to defeat Li Keyong and Li Guochang.

Li Jing's goal is Li Keyong and his son. Now, he doesn't intend to waste his strength here.What's more, if he really occupied the backyard used by Li Ke here immediately, and he wasted his strength in vain, it is very likely that Zheng Congxuan and other soldiers in the middle will take advantage of it.

"After conquering Zhiguguan, the brothers are also tired. Let's take a short rest first, and collect the military rations on the spot. By the way, according to the previous arrangement, for Weizhou, we want three light, cattle heads and livestock, money, food, gold and silk Take the light, and all the common people and border residents will be removed." Li Jing said.

Li Jing's current idea is very simple, he just needs to lead the army all the way to coerce the past, and force the Shatuo soldiers in the northern cities to voluntarily withdraw.Then he easily regained the cities, and by the way, he robbed Daibei of all the cattle, sheep, horses, money, food and property.He even wants to move all the people from Daibei to Liaonan and Dengzhou.

As for whether the Shatuo people who stayed behind would withdraw and go to join Li Keyong and them to increase their power, Li Jing didn't care.

The first meritorious service in Jin Dynasty, regaining Daibei.This is Li Jing's goal. Moreover, since he wants to regain Daibei, he doesn't intend to fight head-on with the Shatuo people, but wants to take over these empty cities easily.First drive these people to join Li Keyong. It is best that after Li Ke can use these soldiers, he can beat up the soldiers and horses of the court. Otherwise, how to show the bravery and extraordinaryness of the Zhendong Army.

Li Zhen had finally figured out Li Jing's thoughts at this time, and couldn't help but wiped the sweat from his forehead lightly.My lord, this is to make life difficult for the soldiers and horses of the towns in Taiyuan. I hope God will bless these officers and soldiers, and they will not be beaten too badly.

(To be continued)