Late Tang

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"Father, I am willing to fight to the death with Li Jing here!" Gao Zhaokang lowered his head and said solemnly.

Gao Dexin finally couldn't control his emotions anymore, he took off his boots and smashed them directly on his son's head.

"Idiot, I always thought you were smart before, but why are you so stupid now? No matter whether Li Jing really has 50 troops, even if he brings [-] soldiers, do you think you can hold it? If Li Jing surrenders, or he packs up his things and takes the whole family back to Bohai immediately, at least the whole family can be safe."

Although Gao Zhaokang was unwilling, he remembered that last year he led three thousand elites to defend the mountain city of Weiba, but in the end Li Jing took the extremely dangerous mountain city of Weiba without a single soldier.After all, a sense of powerlessness arose in his heart, and finally heeded his father's words, planning to take the whole family, young and old, back to Bohai Kingdom.

While Gao Zhaokang asked people to prepare, he sent troops to surround the inn where Li Jing's envoys were staying, intending to kill them to relieve his hatred.But as soon as the people were surrounded, several generals from my father's hometown hurried over on horseback.

"The head of the family has an order, please stop immediately, and don't hurt the envoy!" The old general shouted loudly.

Gao Zhaokang said with a dark face, "Father doesn't care about these trivial matters!"

"My lord, things have changed. I just got an urgent report that Langu Mountain City has fallen. The Patriarch asks you to return to the mansion immediately to discuss matters." The family will report in a low voice.

Gao Zhaokang was shocked, why Tang Jun moved so fast.The Gao family still controls five mountain cities, four of which are in the Longtan Mountain area, but Langu Mountain City is in the south, not far from Daxing Island and the lower reaches of the Fuzhou River occupied by Li Jing.Although I never thought that Langu Mountain City could stop Tang Jun, it was too fast.Although there are only [-] armored soldiers in the city, there are thousands of young and strong soldiers, and [-] civilians.Taking advantage of the danger of the mountain city, Ren can guard for a month or two.

Returning hurriedly to the City Lord's Mansion, Gao Dexin had a gloomy expression on his face.

"Father!" Gao Zhaokang stepped forward to salute.

"Is Li Jing's envoy still there?" Gao Dexin asked.

"They're all still there, they've just been surrounded, and they haven't come in time to kill them."

"That's good." Gao De News breathed a sigh of relief. "Gao An, you go to the post house immediately, so as not to frighten the messenger and apologize, just say a misunderstanding."

After the family general left, Gao Dexin let out a long sigh, "Langu Mountain City has fallen!"

"I already know."

"But do you know how many people the Tang army took and how long it took to capture Langu Mountain City?" Gao Dexin lowered his head and tapped the ground with his sandalwood staff, "The former right vanguard of the Tang army, Zhao Ji, led five thousand flying bears. The army arrived at the foot of Langu Mountain City yesterday morning, and launched an attack without breakfast, took less than half an hour to take down the mountain city, and then ate breakfast directly in the city!"

"How is this possible?" Gao Zhaokang couldn't believe it, "It must be Che Ji, the guard of Langu Mountain City, who defected to the enemy!"

"Che Ji has followed me for many years. His ancestors have been the generals of my Gao family for generations. He did not betray the Gao family. He was killed in the battle with the Tang army!" Gao Dexin murmured, his eyes full of pain.

"The Tang army's offensive is too fast. Li Jing's striker will go to Jili City within three days. If we want to escape to Bohai Sea, it seems that it will not work. Halfway, we will be chased by the Tang army. We surrender Li Jing it!"

Gao Zhaokang shook his head: "Father, we can rely on the Khitan people. The Khitan people have risen rapidly these years. Although Li Jing is strong, I don't think he can be an enemy of the Khitan people. The Khitan people have always wanted to invade Liaodong. status, defecting to them will definitely get good results.”

Although Gao Dexin was injured and extremely weak, his mind was very clear.The Khitan is indeed very powerful, but the Khitan is a Hu tribe and has not yet fully civilized.If they go to these people, maybe the Khitan people will treat them well in a short period of time, but in the long run, these barbarians will never really treat them well.Especially since they had just been defeated by Khitan, they would not be taken seriously if they defected to Khitan at this time.

On the contrary, Li Jing, although it seems that he is not as strong as Khitan, but judging from Li Jing's previous experience, he is a person with great potential.Especially Li Jing is not alone, there is a more powerful Tang Dynasty behind him.Now that Li Jing is going north, he must also regain the old land of Anton, and even directly confront the Khitan people.If their Gao family took the lead in surrendering at this time, as the Goguryeo people who surrendered first, especially the descendants of the Goguryeo royal family, they would be treated kindly and reused.

Moreover, although Li Jing took away his son's wife, Li Jing's reputation has always been good. He is a man with great ambitions, so it is definitely better to go to him than to go to Khitan.

As for going to the Bohai Sea, he may not be able to escape Li Jing's pursuit.Secondly, unless the Gao family no longer intends to have a comeback, there is really no future to go to the Bohai Sea, which has already sunk into the west.

After Gao Dexin's careful analysis and explanation, although Gao Zhaokang was unwilling, he finally accepted his father's decision.Immediately went to apologize to the messenger, and presented the surrender form, etc., and formally surrendered to Li Jing.

The valley beside the road in southern Liaoning on the Shahe River, the camp of the Chinese army in the Northern Expedition.

The weather in July was extremely hot. After swimming in the sand river for half a day, Li Jing finally felt much refreshed.Lying on the hammock tied to the tree, he couldn't help smiling when he saw the victory report from the former army just sent by Gongsun Lan.

The former right forward Zhao Ji is worthy of being a famous general in Li Jing's memory. Not only was he the most capable general in the late Tang Dynasty, but even if he is placed in the forward position now, he still plays so well.

The former army and the left and right armies set off at the same time. Zeng Yuanyu, a general whom Li Jing valued very much, led the [-] elite army he brought from Chang'an, but in the end it was not as fast as Zhao Ji's new Feixiong army.

Zhao Ji first arrived at Langu Mountain City in the south of the five cities occupied by Gaodexin in Jili Prefecture. Zeng Yuanyu arrived half a day later than Zhao Ji.

Fei Xiongjun arrived in the morning, and Zhao Ji arrived in the afternoon.

It turned out that there was such a small time difference of half a day. As a result, when Zeng Yuanyu's [-]-spirited army arrived at Langu City, the flag of the Feixiong Army had already planted on the top of the city, and Zhao Cui had already taken down the mountain city and had breakfast in the city. Already spent the morning to count the captives, money, food, and common people in the city.

Lying on the hammock, Li Jing could imagine the wonderful expressions on the faces of Zeng Yuanyu and his Shen Jiejun when they discovered this situation.Speaking of which, the Shenjie Army is still a bit old-fashioned, and the training is not thorough enough. It seems that after the end of the Northern Expedition, the Shenjie Army will also be reorganized, and all the surnames in the forbidden army will be changed. .

But to be honest, Li Jing was quite surprised when he saw this battle report.

It only took half an hour for Zhao Ji to lead the Feixiong army to capture a mountain city with a circumference of several miles and built on a dangerous mountain.There are five hundred armored guards in the city, and more than two thousand young and strong.After the First World War, the Feixiong Army wiped out more than 300 armored soldiers, and more than [-] young and strong.However, the Feixiong Army had only more than [-] people killed in battle, and only more than [-] people were seriously injured.The death to death ratio reached an astonishing one to ten.

Zhao Ji's first battle was very good. After this battle, I believe that there is no general in the town [***] who suspects that Li Jing worked hard to recruit this half-century veteran, and even specially promoted him to be the leader of Feixiong.

Following Zhao Ji's capture of Langu Mountain City, Gao Dexin in Jili City immediately replied to Li Jing, handed over the list of surrender, and formally surrendered.

The two generals Zhao Ji and Zeng Yuanyu had already arrived in Jili Prefecture, and successfully accepted Gao's offer to surrender.

Jili Mountain City, Chengshan Mountain City, Gaoli Mountain City, Deli Mountain City, the last four mountain cities in Gao's hands were also accepted!

The entire Jili Prefecture has been fully controlled by Li Jing.

"This Gao Dexin is quite knowledgeable about current affairs. In this case, I sent a letter to the two pioneers to ensure Gao's property and safety. We must keep our word."

Gongsun Lan smiled lightly, "You take away wives, and you still dare to keep them, so you won't be afraid that the husband will come to kill you with a sword?"

Li Jing smiled, believing that the Gao family knew how to choose.The Gao family was very happy that Li Jing was willing to surrender. In the old place of Goguryeo, or in the old place of Andong, the influence of the nobles of Goguryeo is still great.Especially on both sides of the Yalu River, there are still many Goguryeo noble forces.Li Jing hopes to make good use of the influence of the Gao family, so that he can take these places more easily without having to fight every city and pool.

Three days later, Li Jing's central army arrived at Jili Mountain City. The left army led by Wang Zhong and the right army led by Lin Wu also reached Jili City one day earlier.

Zhao Ji, Zeng Yuanyu, the Gao family and the civil and military officials of Jili Prefecture went out of the city to welcome Li Jing. Gao Dexin and other generals bowed down to Li Jing one after another.When supporting Gao Zhaokang, Li Jing saw the hatred in his eyes, but only smiled back.

After entering the city, the first thing Li Jing did was to immediately announce that the old land of Jili Prefecture would be changed to Jizhou, with four counties under it, Bihe County, Shahe County, Fu County, and Zhuanghe County.Li Jing appointed Li Liang as the governor of Jizhou, Zhao Ji as the defense envoy of Jizhou, and Xiao Kai as the inspector.For the county magistrates of the four counties, Li Jing directly transferred four virtuous persons to take office, with Sikong Tu as the magistrate of Bihe, Wei Zhuang as the magistrate of Shahe, Luo Yin as the magistrate of Fuxian, and Han Wo as the magistrate of Zhuanghe.

As for Goguryeo's [-] soldiers and horses, Li Jing temporarily incorporated them into the auxiliary army.Gao Dexin was sent back to Dengzhou for medical treatment by Li Jing on the grounds of recovering from his injuries. Although Gao Zhaokang and other Goguryeo nobles were left behind to serve as military counselors, their family members were all sent back to Dengzhou as hostages.

Li Jing conferred not low ranks on these Goguryeo noble generals, but did not confer any substantive positions.However, although they were not given any actual positions, these people were resolutely brought by Li Jing in the barracks, and kept beside them in the name of military counselors.

After winning Jili Prefecture so smoothly, Li Jing immediately turned his attention to the land of Jian'an Prefecture occupied by the Lianca tribe of the Khitan Deira tribe! (To be continued.)