Late Tang

Xuanwu Town, Henan Road, Bianzhou City.

Bianzhou Dezong was Yongping Army Yacheng at the time, and now it is Xuanwu Army Yacheng. Xuanwu Army has jurisdiction over the four states of Bian, Song, Hao, and Ying. It is located in the center of the world, an important town in the Central Plains, and it is extremely important to control the Bianqu Canal.As the Shuaifu Yacheng of Xuanwu Town, Bianzhou City has been expanded several times.

In the second year of Tang Dezong Jianzhong, Li Mian, the military governor of Yongping and the governor of Bianzhou, carried out a large-scale "reconstruction" of Bianzhou City; The wall expands to the south, enclosing the Bianhe River into the city.After the expansion, the perimeter of the city is 155 steps long and there are seven gates.Among them, there are Cao and Song gates in the east and north, Weishi gate in the south, Zheng and Liang gates in the west and south, and Suanzao and Fengqiu gates in the north and west.

Eighteen years later, in the 18th year of Zhenyuan, after Dong Jin took over as Xuanwu Jiedu envoy, two more water gates were added to prevent thieves from entering and exiting the city wall along both sides of the Bian River.

Han Yu, a famous official in the late Tang Dynasty, once said: "Chenliu is the largest town in the world today, with [-] soldiers and four prefectures. Since Tianbao, all the vassals have been officials of the emperor." After the Anshi Rebellion, both Chang'an and Luoyang were destroyed. There are many, but Bianzhou City began to prosper and prosper. As a royal screen, it became a military and economic center.

At this time, Bianzhou City had a population of more than [-], which was much more prosperous than Songzhou's Songcheng, and comparable to Luoyang.

In the north and west of Bianzhou City, there is also an inner city built in the city, with a circumference of four miles, which is the Yacheng of Xuanwu Jiedushi.

In the Jietang of Yacheng Shuaifu, Xuanwu Jiedu envoy Mu Renyu is listening attentively to the military intelligence report of his scout battalion captain.

After hearing the news that Zhen [***] Li Jing defeated the grass thief Wang Xianzhi in Yucheng, Songzhou, defeated [-] grass robbers in the first battle, beheaded more than [-] people, captured more than [-] people, and captured more than [-] refugees. , Mu Renyu not only did not have the slightest surprise, but instead frowned urgently and worriedly.

In the past few days, there have been rumors of a great victory in Zhen[***] circulating in Bianzhou, but Mu Renyu didn't believe it was true.Although Li Jing has won many big victories in the past two years, losing consecutive victories to Wang Xianzhi, Li Keyong and others, but he does not believe that Li Jing will be able to achieve such a great victory once he arrives in Songzhou.Although the grass thieves are just a group of rabble, but because of this, it is actually more difficult to defeat the grass thieves.They are like locusts, easy to defeat, but hard to hit hard.

But now that this great victory has been officially confirmed, Li Jing has indeed achieved such a great victory.Wang Xianzhi fled into Caozhou with only less than 3000 people, and joined Huang Chao again.Wang Xianzhi's [-] grass army was wiped out in one battle, which shocked him extremely.

Previously, the imperial court ordered the Twelve Towns to encircle and suppress the grass bandits, but Mu Renyu was not in a hurry to send troops after returning to the feudal domain from Chang'an.The grass thieves are so powerful, he is not willing to go forward and fight the grass thieves.Moreover, the grass thieves were divided into two groups. Wang Xianzhi's [-] grass thieves entered Songzhou from Yanzhou, and Huang Chao also entered Caozhou from Puzhou with tens of thousands of grass thieves, pointing directly at Bianzhou.Bianzhou might have made a mistake in saving Songzhou, so he finally turned his mind on Li Jing, hoping that Li Jing and Wang Xianzhi would fight a few battles first, and he would send troops when they were both defeated.

He has studied the Battle of Daibei, Li Jing led the town [***] like this, several times, the other generals were fighting hard, but finally it was Zhen [***] who picked the peaches and set up a big camp ].On the other hand, he is also waiting, waiting for the troops from Zhaoyi, Heyang, Yicheng, Dongduji, and Zhongwu towns to arrive.In addition, he is still waiting for food and grass from the court.

After waiting and waiting, no one expected that Wang Xianzhi would be so vulnerable.

Mu Renyu picked up an official document on the table, which was received a few days ago.It was Li Jing who sent troops to Caozhou to attack Huang Chao before sending troops to Yucheng to cooperate with Li Jing's offensive.When he received the official document, he just sneered and threw it aside.At that time, he only felt that Li Jing was still too immature, and when he first ascended to a high position, he actually gave orders to him, so he didn't take it seriously at all.But now, he regretted it a little.If troops were sent at that time, even if it was just for show, it would be regarded as a favor to Li Jing.

"Master, there is one more thing."

"Speak!" Mu Renyu stared at the official document written by Li Jing with a serious expression.Li Jing's handwriting is very good, not the common willow script, but a font that has never been seen before.The brushwork is erratic and fast, the handwriting is thin and strong, and it is very thin without losing its flesh. At the turning point, you can clearly see the traces of running Teton such as Tibetan front and exposed front. It is a very unique style of font.Mu Renyu was originally in the town of Heyang, and was the Xuanwu Army that took over after the former Xuanwu Jiedu Envoy Wang Duo entered the court for the second time. Although he has not been in Xuanwu for a long time, he has a good grasp of Xuanwu.Although he is handsome, but like most of the current Jiedu envoys, he is a civil servant.Moreover, he is a civil servant from a noble family, from a noble family, a Jinshi, and an official. He has been an official in Beijing for many years, and he himself has good handwriting. He likes Li Jing's handwriting very much, and even doubts that it is not Li Jing's handwriting. .

"Li Qilang went to Songzhou a few days ago and met Li Jing."

Mu Renyu's expression changed, this Li Qilang was the richest man in Bian Song Dynasty, with a fortune of tens of millions.After he arrived in Xuanwu, he had conflicts with Li Qilang very quickly. In the end, Mu Renyu was furious and prepared to take care of this bold businessman.Unexpectedly, he actually ran to find Li Jing.So what about looking for Li Jing, although Li Jing is the Duke of the state, but he is the envoy of Zhen[***] Jiedu, but he can't control the Xuanwu Army.

"Li Qilang asked himself to be his adopted son in front of Li Jing, but Li Jing refused."

"Perhaps Li Jing knew that Li Qilang had offended me." Mu Renyu smiled slightly.

"Li Jing confiscated Li Qilang as his adoptive son, but took him in as the seventh disciple, and also took Li Qilang's two family boys as the tenth disciple No. 11."

Mu Renyu's smile suddenly froze on his face, what does Li Jing mean by this?Everyone in Xuanwu knew about Li Qilang's feud with Mu Renyu.Li Qilang invited many people to come forward to make peace, but he didn't give face.Li Jing suddenly accepted Li Qilang as his apprentice, which is completely disrespectful to himself.And he actually accepted two of Li Qilang's servants as disciples, this matter.Mu Renyu pinched his chin and began to ponder. Could it be that Li Jing made this person angry because he didn't follow his advice to send troops to Caozhou?

When Li Jing first arrived in Songzhou, he borrowed food from him, but he refused.Could it be that because Li Jing was angry because he didn't borrow money from him and didn't send troops to support him later, did he deliberately accept Li Qilang as his disciple?

No matter what it was, Mu Renyu understood that Li Qilang could no longer move.Otherwise, Li Jing would definitely think it was hostility towards him.Li Jing is in the limelight now, he is forcefully intervening in his dispute with Li Qilang, if he reacts forcefully again, maybe Li Jing, an arrogant guy, will regard it as his challenge.Now that Li Jing is on the verge of a big victory, he has no confidence to fight such a lawsuit with Li Jing.

"Prepare a batch of grain, grass, cattle, sheep and fine wine, and send them to Songzhou Consolation Town [***] immediately." Mu Renyu thought for a while, and immediately decided to temporarily ease the relationship with Li Jing. He wants to wrestle with him, and it's not good for him.After explaining a few words to Sima Xingjun carefully, Mu Renyu wrote another letter to Li Jing himself, in which he briefly mentioned a few disputes with Li Qilang, and said that they will be a family from now on, and the past will not be mentioned again.He also thanked Li Jing for helping Songzhou out of the siege, and said that he had already mobilized his troops and was preparing to attack Caozhou in the near future.

After writing this letter, Mu Renyu sent letters to Heyang, Zhaoyi, Yicheng, Dongduji, and Zhongwu towns, asking them to attack Caozhou together.

The eastern capital of Luoyang.

Ximen Sigong, the military envoy of the Dudao camp recruiting the grass thieves, and Yang Fugong, the military envoy of the Dudao camp recruiting the grass thieves, were drinking tea together. The two of them capsized in the gutter. Difficult.As a result, on the surface, Tian Lingzi was beaten to death, but who knew that Tian Lingzi was extremely cunning, and quickly launched a counterattack secretly. Not only did he eliminate many of their confidants from the capital by purges the Shence Army, but in the end, he suddenly launched an attack, killing the two of them. Also drove out of the capital.Although they knew that they were only going out of Beijing temporarily, the two of them felt a lot of feelings in their hearts.

Back then, Tian Lingzi was just a little eunuch, and it was through the struggle between the Ximen family and the Yang family in the palace that they stepped down Han Wenyue and the others and seized power.Now they were even kicked out of the capital, and the two of them kept dawdling and refused to leave, and finally left the capital under the urging of the emperor.After leaving Beijing, I also slowed down all the way, and only left Tongguan a few days ago.

Originally, the two wanted to dawdle a little longer, but the day before yesterday they received an urgent report that Li Jing led the town [***] to defeat [-] grass thieves Wang Xianzhi in Songzhou, beheading nearly [-] and taking nearly [-] prisoners.When they received this news, the two couldn't believe it. After confirming that the news was true, Wang Xianzhi had only [-] remnants left and fled to Caozhou to join Huang Chao.Both of them were extremely pleasantly surprised. They originally thought that the suppression of thieves would last four to five years like the Pang Xun Rebellion a few years ago.Unexpectedly, Li Jing was so powerful that without waiting for other soldiers and horses, he wiped out [-] grass thieves in one battle with only one town of soldiers and horses.

All of a sudden, both of them thought that the grass bandits were a bunch of mobs, and perhaps one more fight would be able to wipe out Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao.At this time, they hurriedly speeded up, for fear that the road would be slow, and when they arrived, the thieves had already been wiped out.After driving fast for several days in a row, they arrived from Tongguan to Luoyang, the eastern capital, in three days.

As soon as they arrived in Luoyang, Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong immediately inquired about the details of the battle of Songzhou.Du Qiang has already found out the details of the battle, and told the truth one by one.After listening to Li Jing's series of layouts and battles, they were all amazed.This Li Jing is really extraordinary.But it is a pity that if Li Jing could take advantage of the situation to pursue, instead of giving the order not to cross the Bianhe River to pursue, Wang Xianzhi would have been beaten to death.

But this is also good, this time it happens that under their command, we can wipe out the grass thieves.

"Du Shuai, the Metropolitan Supervisor has sent an order to the towns with Yang Gongjun, asking them to move troops to Caozhou, encircle and wipe out the grass thieves, and capture Wang Xiancao and Huang Chao alive. Please, Du Shuai will send troops to attack immediately!"

During this period of time, Du Ke had been preparing food and training soldiers and horses. Hearing Simon Sigong's urging to send troops, he stopped talking and nodded in agreement. (To be continued.)