Late Tang

After encountering Li Siyuan outside Lingqiu City, the scouts of Flying Eagle Battalion returned to Zhigu Pass and reported to the battalion that Lingqiu City was abandoning the city and fleeing.Upon hearing the news, Li Jing just nodded with a smile, and rewarded each of the scout cavalry with wine and meat, and made them retreat after a reward.

At that time, all the generals of Liu Xun called for battle and sent troops to pursue them, but Li Jing only said lightly: "Let's talk when the rain stops."

Let's talk about this one, and wait until noon the next day, when the soldiers challenged one after another.Finally, Li Jing gave the order to attack in the afternoon.Li Cunxiao, who was the most active in the battle, led the Hengchongdu to take Lingqiu first, and Wang Yanzhang's Iron Gundu took Feigucheng. Liu Xun's Feijiandu and Gao Siji's Baimadu searched and cleared the remaining troops in Weizhou.

Li Jing knew that these four young generals were eager to fight, so although he agreed to their request, he only sent two hundred cavalry to them.The purpose is to prevent them from continuing to chase the Shatuo people after they attack.

Li Jing left [-] soldiers and horses to sit at Zhigu Pass, and the remaining nearly [-] soldiers and horses were divided into fifteen groups based on battalions, and scattered to the entire area south of the Sanggan River in Weizhou to implement Li Jing's plan Sanguang policy.

After the request for battle was agreed, Li Cunxiao immediately held the iron spear in his hand, stepped on the bloody BMW money hussy given by Li Jing, roared, and led his two hundred galloping horses to kill Lingqiu City.After rushing all the way to Lingqiu City, they realized that this city on the south of the Yangtze River had turned into an empty city, and no one had been seen.Li Cunxiao immediately wanted to pursue southward.

Zhao Li, Marquis of Yu, the capital of Hengchong, immediately stopped Li Cunxiao: "Where does the Yamen want to lead the troops?"

"Of course it's chasing the enemy soldiers."

"But Lingqiu soldiers and horses have already fled, and they may have entered Shuozhou at this time!"

"Then chase him to Shuozhou, no matter where he flees, he won't be able to escape from my Hun Tieqiang." Li Cunxiao said indifferently.

Zhao Li Nai is a veteran of Zhendong Army. He was previously selected to study in the officer's bodyguard battalion. He performed well in the bodyguard battalion and was personally praised by Li Jing.This time, when Li Cunxiao built Hengchong Capital, Li Jing deliberately transferred Zhao Li to Hengchong Capital as Marquis of Yu.Before taking office, Li Jing also called him to talk for a long time, and asked him to help Li Cunxiao with Yang Xin, the instructor of Hengchongdu, and Kang En, the deputy general, and sometimes he had to help restrain Li Cunxiao.After all, although Li Cunxiao already has a record of beheading hundreds of people, he is young after all.Some conceited, irritable bad temper.

"Yanei, before the troops were dispatched, the county official said that our mission in this battle is to capture Lingqiu City first. Now that Lingqiu City has been captured, what we need to do now is to guard the city, waiting for the county official to arrive." Instructor Yang Xin Immediately aside to persuade.

"Then just sit and watch them run away?" Li Cunxiao muttered with some dissatisfaction, but he remembered what Li Jing had said to him, telling him to listen to Zhao Li, Yang Xin and others. Although he was a little dissatisfied at the moment, he still didn't Continue to pursue.

"Then what do we do now?"

"Defend this city."

"What is there to defend in an empty city? If you like to defend it, I will leave it to you." After Li Cunxiao finished speaking, he led ten soldiers and rode out of the city.

Zhao Li said worriedly: "The yamen are not chasing the enemy, are they?"

Yang Xin smiled: "I brought ten people, how to chase the enemy? I guess they went hunting. Anyway, now that the Shatuo people in Lingqiu have escaped, there is probably no danger, so let him go. "

"It's better to let the left team follow up, just in case you run into Shatuo people." Kang En said a little worriedly, this Li Cunxiao is one of the four disciples of the county magistrate, and right now he is the most favorite of the county magistrate, so he must not come out. gone wrong.Zhao Li and Yang Xin thought about it, and they also thought it was okay.Immediately recruit the leader of the left team, Wang Meng, "You take the brothers from the left team and follow, remember to protect the yamen."

Wang Meng took the order and said hello, just now Li Cunxiao led the people from his left team, now he called all the remaining [-] or so people, mounted their horses and chased out of the city together.When he left the city, he could only see a little black shadow in the distance.Chasing wildly all the way, galloping on the muddy road for a long time, finally caught up with Li Cunxiao under a hillside.

Breathing the cool air, Wang Meng said to Li Cun out of breath, "Teacher and Marquis Yu ask your subordinates to come."

Li Cunxiao looked at the sixty people brought by Wang Meng, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he said in a low voice with a seductive tone: "Wang Meng, do you want to be a general?"

Wang Meng was stunned for a moment, he didn't understand, he thought Li Cunxiao meant something else, and immediately stammered: "In a battle in the yamen, a hundred people were beheaded, and my subordinates really can't compare."

"Just say whether you want it or not!"

"Well, I want to!" Wang Meng nodded, how can he not want to be promoted.The Duke of the county once said during a review that a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier.This sentence has now almost become the motto believed by all the soldiers of the Zhendong Army.Wang Meng joined the Zhendong Army in southern Liaoning. Although he was a soldier in southern Liaoning, he was brave and outstanding in combat, and had no previous bad records. Therefore, after the reorganization of Youzhou, instead of being demoted, he was promoted. head of the team.

Looking at Wang Meng's expectant eyes, Li Cunxiao smiled: "I finally asked the princess for orders, but I never thought that these damned guys ran faster than rabbits, leaving only an empty city. They ran away, ours The credit has also been lost.”

The other soldiers were also somewhat regretful, they were able to be selected from each battalion, and finally entered Hengchongdu, a very promising team in the eyes of the comrades, so they were naturally the elite of the elite.People with ability are always more ambitious than ordinary people.This time was originally an opportunity to make meritorious service, but who would have thought that it would be in vain.

"Fame is to be obtained immediately!" Although Li Cunxiao was young, he read out a sentence Li Jing said solemnly at this time, "The Shatuo people have lost their courage and are fleeing all the way south. Let's catch up now. Taking some heads back is also a credit."

Wang Meng said with some worry: "But Zhao Yuhou and Yang taught them that they both said that our task this time is to occupy Lingqiu City."

Li Cunxiao snorted coldly, "Is it the teacher's university or my official university?"

"Naturally, it is the largest in the yamen." Wang Meng immediately expressed his opinion.

"That's it. The county magistrate can't predict everything before sending troops. There is a saying that what is the general going out?"

"The general is out, and the king's fate has something to love!" Wang Meng hurriedly added.

"Yes, that's what it means. Now I am the boss of Hengchongdu. If you are willing to follow me, then listen to me. With these seventy or so brothers, it is enough. Now, it depends on whether you have the courage. "Li Cunxiao said excitedly.

Wang Meng hesitated in his heart, and finally thought about it, Li Cunxiao is the chief official of Hengchongdu, and also a business student of the Duke of the county, even if something happens, he will stand up for it.Besides, the temptation to be promoted through meritorious service is indeed great. After much deliberation, he finally nodded his head, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, brothers, listen to the yamen."

More than seventy riders set off again, this time all the way south.As we went south, some scattered figures began to appear on the road.Most of these are people who fled from Weizhou to the direction of Yunshuodai.However, some old and weak people end up falling behind.

Li Cunxiao and the others didn't even have the desire to stop these people, and they swept towards the south like a strong wind, leaving only the terrified eyes of the people on the road who had no time to retract.After nearly a day of galloping like this, they finally arrived at Taixi Mountain.

Taixi Mountain, which is the border of the two prefectures of Wei Dynasty, has high mountains and steep roads. The Eighth Route Army of later generations once ambushed the Japanese here and won a beautiful victory, which is Pingxingguan.

Taixi Mountain is located between Lingqiu in Weizhou and Fanzhou in Daizhou. It is not only the middle boundary between the two states, but also the middle boundary between the two counties.The terrain here is dangerous, and there is a small military stronghold stationed at the pass.The last time Li Ke captured Daizhou, he entered Yunzhou from Weizhou, then entered Shuozhou, and then went to Daizhou. Therefore, the military stronghold between Weizhou and Daizhou is well preserved.After Li Keyong took Daizhou, the 300 guards in the army camp surrendered to Li Keyong.Right now, Li Keyong has sent another 800 troops, and there are [-] people in Guancheng.

The four thousand weak and old soldiers who had retreated from Weizhou Lingqiu and Feigu were also resting in this small military city at this time. Difficult to walk.Many people were unwilling to leave their hometown in Weizhou.However, before Mrs. Liu left, she had people spread rumors everywhere, saying that Li Jing from Dengzhou was ruthless. Wherever he went, he not only took away all the people's property, cattle and sheep, but also forcibly recruited young women. Girls will be served as military prostitutes, while those young and strong men will be taken to Liaodong as slaves, and the old people will be robbed of all food and money and left behind.What they said was clear and sharp, and they also said that Li Jing had snatched [-] young and strong men and women from Youzhou to Liaodong before.

As soon as this rumor came out, it was confirmed by some businessmen that the Zhendong Army had indeed robbed [-] people from Youzhou to return to southern Liaoning not long ago.As a result, many people believed this rumor, and some people even began to spread rumors, saying that the Zhendong Army also captured those young men and sold them to Khitan, Bohai, Silla, and Dongying Bunu.They even killed and ate the young children they caught as military rations.

Panic spread, and in the end almost all the people in several cities in Weizhou fled with the retreating soldiers and horses. Only some people in the villages did not hear the news and stayed at home.

Another day at dawn, the Taixi military stronghold looming among the mountains appeared in front of my eyes. Between the valleys, there stood a small but very dangerous mountain city.Between the two verdant mountains is a high stone wall built with mountain rocks, on which there are more than a dozen tall arrow towers.

Li Cunxiao first boarded a mountain not far away, and carefully looked at the situation in the cottage.

"Yamei, there are 3 to [-] people in the army camp. Looking at the military tents, there are at least [-] soldiers and horses." Wang Meng looked a little ugly, and ran all the way for a day, but only saw such a result.Not to mention that there are four or five thousand soldiers in the army stronghold, even if there are only four or five hundred soldiers, with such a dangerous stronghold, it is definitely not something they can deal with.

Li Cunxiao sneered, as if he had a plan in his chest, and he had the chance to win.

(To be continued)