Late Tang

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Finally victorious, all the soldiers and horses in the towns breathed a sigh of relief, feeling relieved.

Although the war against the rebellion lasted for more than half a year, three envoys were replaced successively, three Jiedu envoys were killed, and more than [-] soldiers were killed in battle, but it was finally settled .

This time, the court and the towns paid a huge price for the suppression of the rebellion.Not to mention the first two commanders-in-chief, but now the soldiers and horses of Zhuzhen, the Zhaoyi Army Jiedu made Li Jun and the eight thousand Zhaoyi Army wiped out.The Yicheng Army Jiedu envoy Li Jun led all the soldiers and horses, leaving only a polished commander.The 2000 yellow-headed troops led by Cui Anqian of the Zhongwu Army and the Badu of the Zhongwu Army still have [-] people in total, and Tuoba Sigong, the governor of Xia Sui, now has only [-] cavalry left under his command.

The rest of the Heyang army Li Zhuo had only a thousand men left, and Helian Duo, the governor of the Tiande army, had [-] cavalry.Zheng Congyu's cavalry was wiped out by the Jiedu of Hedong, leaving [-] infantry.Zhenwu's army Yu Yu is in better condition, and there are still [-] cavalry and [-] infantry.

The soldiers and horses of the Nine Towns, except for the Zhaoyi Army and the Yicheng Army, which were wiped out, all other soldiers and horses were disabled.

Only Li Jing's suppression has almost no loss.There are 2 horses in the town, and since entering Jin Dynasty, the total losses have not exceeded [-] people.Even the three tribes of Sage, Anqing, and Qibi, as well as the brothers Gao Wenji and Fu Wenda, had no losses before the division of troops with Li Jing. Their current losses are only after the division of troops.

But in terms of credit, among the various towns, Li Jing's contribution to the township is the greatest.The four prefectures of Xinyun in the Wei Dynasty were all recovered by the town government. Li Guochang's previous [-] army was annihilated. Both Li Kerou and Li Kezhang were captured by Li Jing.

More Shatuo soldiers were annihilated, surrendered, and captured by Li Jing.Adding up the front and back, more than ten thousand Shatuo troops were annihilated, and more than ten thousand were recruited and captured.

Especially in the battle of Shuozhou City, Li Jing turned the tide and avoided the collapse of the army.

Holding a pen, Zheng Congxuan, who was writing the victory memorial and the merit memorial, was suddenly in a trance.I didn't feel it before, but now I'm really shocked when I count it.Li Jing's use of troops is like a puddle and an ox, every time it is just right, and he will never waste any troops.

Killing with one blow, and leaving with one blow, this seems to be the characteristic of Li Jing's use of troops. He never fights head-on with his opponent, and has a complete advantage in every battle.

This is really a young man who uses soldiers like a god. If Li Jing hadn't led his troops here, the counter-rebellion this time would never have been won in just half a year.He also wanted to ask the imperial court to hand over the post of Jiedu envoy to Li Jing. With someone like Li Jing present, the chaotic place in Daibei would definitely be peaceful.Unfortunately, he is too young after all.Being young is not a problem at all, but the problem is that he is young and has no support from a prominent background.

But in the end, Zheng Congxiang wrote down the credit for the suppression of the rebellion of the towns.Li Jing's first meritorious service in suppressing the rebellion was naturally Li Jing's. It was all written on it in one stroke. The year, month and day, and the military merits he made are all clear, and no one can erase them.Finally, Zheng Congxuan seriously asked the emperor to take up his post in the report of the victory, and proposed that Li Jing should take over the post of Hedong Jiedushi.

After the scriptures were written, Zheng Congxuan used the upper seal to call for his own soldiers to put the scriptures in a box solemnly and ask him to send them to Chang'an immediately.

Accompanying him to Chang'an was Zhang Chengye, the military supervisor of the town, who brought [-] cavalry to escort Li Guochang, Li Jinzhong, Li Youjin, Li Kexiu, Li Cunzhang and other captured rebel generals.

On the first day of February, the army returned to Shuozhou.

Li Jing returned the IOUs that Zheng Congxuan and others had borrowed from Li Jing for grain, grass and winter clothes to the town commanders, which made the commanders very happy. They borrowed Li Jing's supplies for a lot of money.But this time Zhu Zhen also suffered a heavy loss, and now that Li Jing exempted them from this debt, Zhu Zhen's attitude towards Li Jing has improved a little bit.

Li Jing's debt was exchanged for Zhu Zhen Jieshuai's favor, and he thought it was worth it.After all, this crusade sent troops, the contribution to suppressing the army was the greatest, and the casualties were the least, which inevitably made other generals a little jealous.It is also something that everyone is happy to let the benefits come out now.

After all, Li Jing will never lose money.On the contrary, this township made a lot of money.The trophies captured are countless, and the Shatuo soldiers and population they captured alone number in the tens of thousands.All the belongings of the Shatuo people also naturally fell into the hands of the governor.As well as the food and supplies that captured the cities, not only those in the government fell into his hands.Even the ones in the hands of those barbarians were basically copied by Li Jing.Yunwei took the place of the four states of Xin, and the population of the various tribes that were looted by Li Jing alone was as many as 20 young and strong. These people are a lot of wealth, and the property of the government and common people in the other four states also belonged to Li Jing. Li Jing scraped the land three feet, occupied it for half a year, and kept using those populations to develop minerals, etc. It can be said that the plundered money and materials are countless.

The other generals are also looting everywhere these days, but with the presence of honest generals like Zheng Congxuan, Yu Juan, and Cui Anqian, the soldiers and horses of the towns dare not go too far.But those Hu people, especially those Hu people who once took refuge in the Shatuo people, were more unlucky.Almost all of them broke their families to save their lives. For these, Zheng Congzhen just turned a blind eye. After all, the losses of various ministries are so great.

The only way to make up for the loss is to make a fortune on behalf of Beibei.

"It's a pity that Li Ya'er ran away. This person's ability is even higher than that of Li Guochang." In Shanyang City, Li Jing and Yu Yu, master and apprentice, were drinking tea and playing chess.Li Jing doesn't like playing Go very much, so he got a chess set to play.Originally, there was no cannon in chess, and many ways of playing it were different from the later famous chess. Li Jing added two cannons, and simply moved the rules of later generations.But at the beginning Li Jing won three hands, after that, Li Jing couldn't play too much.

One of Li Jing's horses was guarded to death by Yu Jin's chariot and horse. He frowned and couldn't think of a solution. In the end, he could only watch Yu Jin eat his horse.He grinned in distress.

"Teacher, Li Ya'er is just like the horse you ate me just now. He seems to have jumped out of our encirclement, but in fact he can't escape."

Yu Jian raised his eyes and said excitedly: "Why, you have a way to destroy him? But the Shatuo people fled into Mobei this time. Given our current situation, it is unrealistic to go on an expedition to Mobei. Li Ya'er is completely He is in exile and has no territory, so we can't catch him wherever he goes."

Li Jing also stopped, sat up straight and said to Yu, "Why should we let him escape beyond the Great Wall? According to my information, after Li Ke used [-] infantry to cover his cavalry to break through, he headed south all the way. First cross Shuozhou, then enter Lanzhou, and then cross the Yellow River from Hehejin."

After Li Keyong broke through, he ran too fast and fled directly to the west bank of the Yellow River.Moreover, Zheng Congxuan and others were unwilling to pursue them again. Anyway, the three Shatuo leaders Li Guochang, Li Youjin, and Li Jinzhong were all captured. Li Keyong is just a mere Li Keyong.Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the various towns in Shuozhou City don't even know where Li Keyong stomped.

"Li Ke has used the Yellow River. He can't run to Chang'an. He can only run northerly, to the northeast of the Great Wall. Only there can he have a chance of survival. To get to the northern part of the Great Wall, he has only two ways. One is to go alone. In the Duhu Mansion, cross the Baidao and cross the Yinshan Mountains. Either go to Fengzhou, cross the sky and the German army enters the Great Wall. But now Shanyu Duhu Mansion has my troops stationed there, he will never dare to go. Therefore, Li Keyong has only one way Let’s go, that is to cross the Yellow River near Fengzhou and go out from there.”

"You have an arrangement?" Yu Yu excitedly said.

Li Jing smiled slightly, the teacher only needs to wait a few more days, and he should be able to hear the good news.

In Feng'an City, Li Siyuan disguised himself as an ordinary horse dealer and drove a few horses into the city.Starting from outside the city, Li Siyuan kept secretly observing Feng'an City along the way.This is a small city with a population of about [-]. It is under the jurisdiction of the Tiande Army. It is located on the north bank of the Yellow River in Hequ, only tens of miles away from Fengzhou, the big city of the Tiande Army.But compared to the defense of Fengzhou City, it is much simpler.

Along the way, Li Siyuan carefully saw that there were only four guards at the city gate, and there was no one in the cave. The soldiers only had a set of leather armor and no armor.Their weapons are a spear and a horizontal knife, not even a bow.After entering the city, there were very few soldiers on the top of the city, and there were less than a hundred soldiers on the top of the south gate.The people in the city are very relaxed and have no defense at all.

Maybe it's because this place has Xishoucheng City in the west and Tiande Army City in the east, and the location of this place is very special. Feng'an and Fengzhou City are on the north bank of the Yellow River, or it can be said to be on the south bank.Because the Yellow River is divided into two in this section, and after encircling the three cities of Yongfeng, Fengzhou, and Feng'an, they will meet again in the lower reaches of Feng'an. Therefore, the three cities of Feng'an are even like a huge city. The same as the mainland.

Surrounded by these two rivers, plus the left and right Xishoujiang City and Tiande Army City, there are barriers of Helan Mountain and Lang Mountain to the west, and Yin Mountain to the north.Therefore, Fengzhou has always been the most important place in the meander.

However, since the Uighurs have not been able to pose a threat to Tang since the founding of the country, there are very few troops stationed in the Tiande Army.But now the Tiande Army and the Helian tribe on the north bank of the Yellow River have both gone out to Hedong and have not returned, so there is a moment of emptiness.

After Li Siyuan carefully looked at it for a long time, he returned to the south bank.

The south bank of Fengzhou is a desert, and there is an oasis tens of miles away to the southeast, where there is a lake called Hefuganquan, where many people gather.It became a town with countless people, but now, this town has become a dead town.

Thousands of people in the town were all dead. Last night, Li Ke used his troops to raid this oasis town. Because there were 3000 guards stationed in the town, they resisted desperately during the siege, and many merchants and people in the city spontaneously went to the city defense.As a result, the Shatuo cavalry caused a lot of damage. After Li Keyong broke the city, he directly slaughtered the whole city, and none of the more than [-] people escaped.

"How's the situation?" Li Ke asked in an irritable mood as he gulped down his wine.This journey has not been as easy as expected.The so-called wall is pushed by people. He came all the way from Shuozhou. Every time he passed by the cities and villages for supplies, those damn Tang people were not only not afraid of his black battle flag, but resisted desperately. Come to ambush and sneak attack.

Although Li Keyong won every time without exception, being chased and intercepted like this is also very annoying, and the accumulation of small things adds up, and the damage is also very serious.The 300 Shatuo Army came south and crossed the prefectures and counties. Up to now, they have lost nearly a thousand horses.In the battle last night alone, in order to take down this town, Shatuo cavalry had lost more than [-] soldiers.

"The situation is the same as the result of the interrogation of the prisoners last night. There are only [-] defenders in Feng'an City, and there are only [-] defenders in Fengzhou City dozens of miles away. I heard that there are [-] defenders in Xishoujiang City. There are [-] defenders in the German Army City. There is not much security in the city, and if it is attacked at night, it can be taken in one fell swoop. Moreover, there are many granaries in the city, and the grain in them is completely enough for our supplies." Li Siyuan said what he learned from his investigation Tell Li Keyong the truth.

Li Ke frowned, pinching his chin, and said to Li Siyuan: "I've always had a bad feeling these days, and we've been going so smoothly this way. How could Tang Jun let it go so easily?" Us, do you think they will prepare some conspiracy waiting for us?"

Li Siyuan also felt the same way, but now they are here, as long as they kill the Yellow River, they will be able to cross the Yin Mountain smoothly and completely get rid of the Tang army.At this time, it is impossible to change the course again.

"Maybe if you care about it, you will be chaotic." Li Keyong sighed. The escape during this period of time has greatly changed his personality.In the past, the sharpness must be exposed, and the domineering sharpness is gone, and the whole person is much more calm and restrained.In the past, Tang Jun was dismissive in his eyes.But now, he always felt that Tang Jun was too powerful. "Send the order, get ready, and capture Feng'an tonight. Siyuan, you choose five hundred elites as the striker!"

The moon is dark and the wind is high to kill people! !

In the late spring of February, the cold wind roared, blowing over mountain tops, treetops, rocks, and black soil.

Standing on the top of the mountain, Li Jing and Yu Jian looked at the mountains and rivers of Wuyuan, and couldn't help reciting a poem by King Luo Bin: Driving over Sanshui quickly, and looking at Wuyuan for a long time.Looking up, in the valley at the foot of the mountain, there is a dense tent, which is the town hall.

From a distance, the camp is full of stars, as if the stars have fallen into the valley.

"Li Keyong really wants to attack Feng'an?" Yu Yu asked.

"Yes, and definitely, if I'm not wrong, the attack will be today!" Li Jing said in a mysterious way, but in fact everything was under Li Jing's control.Li Siyuan went to Feng'an City to inquire about the situation, and the spies of Xiaoqisi had already recognized him.

Moreover, Xiaoqisi also found out that the small green city on the south bank of Feng'an had lost contact with the outside world. After Xiaoqisi lost several spies, he discovered that the Shatuo cavalry had occupied and slaughtered this small town.After contacting Li Siyuan to inquire about the information in Feng'an City, Li Jing immediately judged that Li Keyong was going to attack Feng'an, then replenished food and grass in Feng'an City, and then fled north to the desert.

"I hope this time we can surround and annihilate Li Ya'er in one fell swoop!" Yu Yu said.After Li Jing judged that Li Keyong was going to leave the fortress from the Tiande Army, Li Jing and Yu Yu led troops into the territory of the Zhenwu Army again. On the surface, Li Jing was talking about the Shatuo people who were going to clear the territory of the Zhenwu Army.In fact, as soon as they entered the Zhenwu Army, they immediately mobilized a large number of ships, and then directly transported them by water on the Yellow River. The water transport to Fengzhou was only a thousand miles away, which was much faster than Li Keyong.

When Li Ke used a detour all the way to the river, Li Jingzhong had secretly led his army to the Tiande Army City two days ago, and secretly sent the Zhenyu Army, Zhenwu Army, and Helianduo's Tiande Army to the city. They are arranged near Tiandejun City, Fengzhou City, and Xishoucheng City.

The mobilization of soldiers and horses was carried out quietly in the middle of the night, and they were all hidden outside the city, so until now no one knew that Li Jing and Yu Guan had led their troops here.

Although Li Jing knew that Li Keyong was hiding in Lvzhou City on the south bank, he did not attack. Instead, he waited for Li Keyong to break into their trap and ambush circle.

For Li Keyong, Li Jing is more afraid.The prestige of the world's number one cavalry is not in vain, and there is no doubt about the strength of the Shatuo people.Li Jing tried his best to avoid fighting them recklessly in several battles in Hedong.

After the Battle of Hedong, it can be said that there is no room for buffer between the Shatuo people and him.Li Jing has a hatred for the Shatuo people, but Li Jing doesn't move. Since he has done something, he must be killed and maimed, and the roots must be cut.

Historically, the Shatuo people eventually made a comeback, but Li Jing didn't want to give Li Ke such an opportunity.Because in history, Li Keyong has completely changed after his comeback. He is no longer just an immature and rebellious horse on the surface, but has completely become a wily and calculating old wolf.

After suffering the loss of being defeated and rushing to Mobei for the first time, Li Ke used a complete strategy to deal with Datang, and carried out the expansion of the Shatuo clan under the banner of loyalty to Tang all his life.Li Keyong like that is too dangerous, and Li Jing never wants to see it.

He once also thought about taking the Shatuo people for his own use, but now he has already figured out that the Shatuo people will never truly surrender to anyone.They are not even willing to submit to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so how could they submit to his little new Jiedu.

Since it can't be used for its own sake, and the two sides have become a deadly feud that cannot be resolved, then we must take advantage of the other party's recovery before he recovers, and kill him while he is sick.

boom!

A loud noise broke the tranquility of Feng'an City, and Li Keyong, who had just led his army across the river, suddenly changed his expression.

Hearing this violent noise, Li Keyong instantly understood many things. Li Siyuan's sneak attack failed.

This is a trap, counting the time, Li Siyuan just arrived at Feng'an City, and as a result, there was such a big commotion in Feng'an City.This is a response, a signal sent by the enemy.

Gai Yu's face turned livid, and he also understood that Tang Jun had set a trap here.

"Withdraw..." Li Keyong had just uttered the word withdraw, when suddenly there was a shout of killing, and two fleets suddenly rushed out at the same time from the upper and lower reaches of the quiet river, immediately blocking their intention to withdraw to the south bank.

Li Keyong's face was extremely livid, and when he turned his head and saw the two fleets approaching in the river, Li Keyong could only shout: "Kill!" He took the lead and headed northward to kill. (To be continued.)