Late Tang

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Hitting people doesn't slap people in the face, but Li Jing wanted to bring this up, which made Gao Zhaokang's face turn white and then red, red and then purple, purple and then black, his eyes widened and he panted like a cow.The hands in the sleeves were tightly clenched into fists.If it wasn't for his father's coughing, he probably would have rushed forward to Li Jing's hateful face and beat him up just now.

Gao Dexin coughed, pulling his son back from the almost violent mood.

He looked at Li Jing's face, and felt that Li Jing's words were not deliberately provocative.Although they have already surrendered to Li Jing, Li Jing has no reason to provoke their Gao family like this.On the contrary, Li Jing should treat the Gao family kindly, this is the most polite way, and it is also the same as Li Jing's previous attitude.If it wasn't an intentional provocation, then Li Jing's words meant a real apology, and these words were meant to clarify and resolve old grievances.

Thinking of this, Gao Dexin cheered up and said with a smile: "The commander-in-chief is kind enough to take the place of Quanzi. In fact, it is her blessing that Princess Bohai can follow the commander-in-chief. These marriages are destined by nature. It can only be said that he and Quanzi There is no fate. How can the Gao family blame the Marshal for these things? To blame the Marshal is to resent God's will. It doesn't matter if you don't mention the past, or don't mention it!"

Li Jing smiled and nodded, "General Gao, how about you?"

Gao Zhaokang took a deep breath, "If the commander-in-chief is willing to give the Gao family some face, I will be willing to write a letter of divorce to Da Shi immediately."

"That's good!" Li Jing thought for a while, Gao Zhaokang's request to write a letter of divorce can be regarded as saving the face of some Gao family.Without a divorce letter, whether Dayue'er was snatched by Li Jing or eloped with Li Jing, it would be a disgrace to the Gao family.However, if there is a letter of divorce, it means that their Gao family took the initiative to divorce Dayue'er, which is considered a better face.

After Gao Zhaokang finished writing, Li Jing took it and put it in his arms.

"Now that some of our unhappiness in the past has been resolved, I have some requests. I wonder if General Gao can help?" Li Jing pondered for a while, and finally asked one thing that was on his mind.

"Please tell me." After finishing the letter of divorce, Gao Zhaokang seemed to feel a lot more relaxed, but he still didn't have much good looks towards Li Jing.

"It's like this..." Li Jing said softly to Gao Zhaokang.After Gao Zhaokang listened, his face was a little surprised, and he glanced at Li Jing: "The commander-in-chief is really willing to trust the general so much?"

"Hahaha!" Li Jing laughed loudly, "I have always been more trustworthy. The so-called doubting people is not necessary, and the employing people are not suspicious. Since I have appointed General Gao as the leader of the Korean army, I will no longer doubt it." When saying this, Li Jing glanced at Gao Dexin intentionally or unintentionally.

Gao Zhaokang's complexion became more and more ugly. Of course, he didn't believe that Li Jing would trust him, but Li Jing had the entire Gao clan in his hands, so he didn't have to worry too much about other things.No matter how dissatisfied Gao Zhaokang was with Li Jing, he couldn't really ignore the entire Gao clan.

The Governor's Mansion of Jian'an Prefecture is located in the area of ​​today's Gaizhou City.Located in the northwest of the Liaodong Peninsula, the landform is characterized by six mountains, three waters and one field. It belongs to the hilly area in southern Liaoning. The terrain is high in the east and low in the west, with mountains and hills in the east and southeast, and plains in the west and north.Known as Chenzhou in ancient times, it was already an important town in Liaodong where merchants gathered as early as the Han Dynasty.

During the Warring States Period, Yan State opened up the Liaohe River, and Gaixian County belonged to Liaodong County.After Qin unified the six countries, it still belonged to Liaodong County.During the Western Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Yugai County was established as Wen County in the north and Pingguo County in the south, all under the jurisdiction of Liaodong County.The former Yan, former Qin, and later Yan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms period belonged to Pingguo County in Pingzhou.After Beiyan was established in 407 A.D., Gai County was once separated by Goguryeo, and Ancheng was built.

After the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, the governor's office of Jian'an Prefecture was established here to control the northwest of the Liaodong Peninsula.

There are sixteen mountain cities in the entire Jian'an Prefecture. Although the scale of the mountain cities is far smaller than that of Beisha City, they are much heavier.These mountain cities control the road leading directly northward from the coast of southern Liaoning to the Central Liao Plain. A narrow coastal flat land is formed on the inner side of the two banks, and mountains are superimposed on the inner side of the flat land.Along the northeast coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, you can directly enter and exit the Liaodong Plain. Along this road, there are many mountain cities.

The whole road is connected along the boundary line between the flat land along the seashore and the mountains on the inner side of the land.

Starting with Langu Mountain City on the bank of Fuzhou River in Jizhou, followed by Chengshan Mountain City, Jili Mountain City in the middle reaches of Fuzhou River, and Maquanzi Mountain City.From here, you can go all the way north along the northeast road to Jian'an Mountain City.

Between Jili Mountain City and Jian'an Mountain City, there are Chengshan Mountain City East and West Mountain City, Fenying Mountain City, Chengzigou Mountain City, Dongshuangtai Mountain City, Chaoyangsi Mountain City, etc. along the road.In addition to the mountain cities on this road, there are also mountain cities on the east side of Jian'an, such as Chishan Mountain City, Sunjiawobao Mountain City, Yantong Mountain City, Dongsheng Mountain City, Languling Mountain City, Longfengyu Mountain City, Hailongchuan Mountain City, Ma Circle Mountain City and so on.

The entire Jian'an prefecture controls the important channel leading to the Liaohe River in southern Liaoning.It is also the vanguard base for the Khitan people to go south to the peninsula, and it is now occupied by the Lianza tribe of the Diela tribe.

The Lianla tribe is also the old tribe of Khitan Shili. After the Shili tribes were integrated into the Diela tribe, it is also a powerful tribe in the Diela tribe.Last year, they went south to fight in Jilizhou. After receiving the support of the Diela tribe, they repeatedly defeated Jilizhou, annihilated thousands of Goguryeo people, plundered tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of livestock, and reaped great harvests.However, under the pressure of the town [***], in the end, the Diela Department released Gao Dexin, who had only one Jili mountain city left, and voluntarily retreated to Jian'an city.

Later, there were many internal contradictions in Khitan, and the situation was tense. The soldiers and horses of the Diela tribe returned to the Tuhuzhen River Basin, and the Lianshi tribe also sent a thousand cavalry to accept the order of the Dielayi Lijin army to return to Khitan.

Right now, there are more than a dozen mountain cities in Jian'an, and there are still more than [-] cavalry from the Lianzabu.And if there is an emergency mobilization, the entire Jian'an Company Department can mobilize about [-] cavalry.If you add Yu Ding, [-] cavalrymen from each tent, each with two auxiliary troops, mobilize the entire clan of the assassination department, and join the army, young and old, you can get together [-] cavalrymen and [-] auxiliary troops. The number is astonishing. .

Moreover, there are also many Khitan tribes in Liaocheng, Yingzhou, Xincheng, Gaimu, Nansu, and Yanjin Prefectures, who are ready to support them at any time.

In July, Yelu Dala, the head of the Lianca tribe in Jian'an City, received an urgent report of the horse detection, and the Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty Town [***] in southern Liaoning finally led his troops northward.Among them, there are 15 horse troops, 30 infantry troops, 50 navy troops, and [-] auxiliary troops, making a total of [-] troops, which is known as [-] horses.Coming all the way north!

Hearing this news, Yeluda was very worried. Last year, he took the initiative to withdraw from the city of Jilizhou and retreated to Jian'an, just because he didn't want to face Tang Jun face to face so early.But now, what should come is still here.Just at this time, there was internal strife in the Seven Clans of Sanyelu, Diela, Yaonian and Dahe were fighting, and Yilijin and Khan Hende were already in constant conflict.Ma Duo, a soldier of the Diela tribe, withdrew to Tuhuzhenhe, and even the Lianla tribe sent [-] cavalry and [-] auxiliary soldiers to go there.

Moreover, in the current season, the Liaohe River is flooding, and the swamp of more than 200 miles in the west of Liaoxi is even more difficult for people and horses to move.The timing of Tang Jun's selection was very good. At this time, the reinforcements from Liaoxi and Liaodong City could not arrive quickly.

He can only hope now that the Goguryeo people can resist them like they did last year, and that Gao Dexin can continue to summon the Goguryeo ministries to resist Li Jing.

Yeludala ordered that the whole clan be mobilized immediately, and [-] cavalry and [-] auxiliary soldiers be recruited, and immediately transferred to the four cities of Fenying Mountain City, Chishan Mountain City, Sunjiawobao Mountain City, and Chengzigou Mountain City to strictly guard and defend.

On the one hand, they urgently sent people to ask for help from the Khitan tribes such as Liaoxi and Liaodongcheng, and also sent an urgent report to the Diela tribe to leave Jinyelupugu.

As soon as these messengers were dispatched, they immediately received an urgent report from Yelu Dachi, the defender of Fenying Mountain City on the front line.Zhen [***] has broken through Langu Mountain City, and is approaching Jili Mountain City.Gao Dexin knew that he would not defend himself, so he sent his son Gao Zhaokang to ask Yelu Dachi of Fenying Mountain City to join him.

"Gao Zhaokang said that there is no food and grass in Jili Prefecture and it is difficult to survive on its own. Although the Tang army sent people to surrender, Gao Zhaokang vowed to die and refused to surrender. He would rather defect to Khitan!" The envoy relayed Yelu Dachi's words.

"General, beware of cheating!" Feng Duo, one of Yeludala's counselors, is a Han Chinese who came across the sea from Dengzhou two years ago.Feng Duo, who was in his forties, was originally a member of the Feng clan in Qingzhou, and was originally an official in Daxie Village.After Feng was eradicated by Li Jing, he fled to Liaodong.Yelu Dala trusted Feng Duo very much, and he could be said to be close to him at ordinary times.

Hearing this, he asked, "What do you mean, sir?"

Feng Duo squeezed his goatee and said, "That Gao Dexin is very stubborn. Last year we fought him and only one mountain city remained, and he refused to surrender. Now that Li Jing has just broken through one of his mountain cities, he will not surrender Li Jing, but will come It’s a bit weird to defect to us.”

Yeluda laughed and said: "Sir, I don't know. Now there is a rumor that Gao Dexin's son Gao Zhaokang married the wife of Princess Bohai. She was stopped by Li Jing on the way back to Bohai to ask for help. She took her as his concubine. Now Li Jing has even given birth to a child. To Gao Zhaokang, this is the hatred of taking his wife. It is reasonable for him not to surrender Li Jing."

Feng Duo frowned, "Even so, the Gao family refuses to surrender to Li Jing, and they can go to other Goguryeo people instead of us. You know, if we hadn't attacked Gao Dexin last year, he might not have been so miserable. One hit."

"Even Gao Dexin can't stop Li Jing, so which other Goguryeo forces can stop Li Jing? If Gao Zhaokang wants to avenge his hatred for taking his wife, he has no other choice but to go to our Khitan. Sir, there is no need I'm too worried, is it possible that Gao Zhaokang was robbed of his wife by Li Jing, and now he can help Li Jing instead?" Yeluda burst out laughing, he didn't believe there were such useless men in the world. "Immediately send an order to General Yelu Dachi, asking him to immediately accept the surrender of Gao Dexin and his son. In addition, immediately send troops to immediately defend the Chengshan Mountain City and the East and West Mountain City held by the Gao family in the south of Fenyong Mountain City. These two mountain cities are guarding the road leading to our Jian'an Li Jing must not snatch the main road pass!" (To be continued.)