Late Tang

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The news that Cui Anqian, Du Wei, Zhang Zimian, and Yang Fuguang successfully wiped out the bandits led by Wang Xianzhi has been spreading for some time. The soldiers of the Northern Expedition in Jian'an City were very happy to hear the news.

The Northern Expedition camp even organized a large-scale polo tournament to celebrate this victory.In the long cold winter, the temperature on the Liaodong Peninsula has turned into ice. Li Jing estimates that from December onwards, the temperature will basically continue to be between minus four and five degrees to minus ten degrees.Moreover, the continuous low wind is dry and cold, and the cold wave and cold air continue. Jian'an City is located in Liaodong Bay, and there have been several strong winds and snowstorms.

Beginning in December, not only the rivers and the soil were frozen, but even the Liaohai Sea began to freeze over a large area.Many seaports are frozen over. According to experienced coastal fishermen, the ice in the Liaohai Sea will take at least two to three months to melt.

This year's ice is earlier than in previous years, and the ice is thicker, which means that this year's ice will melt later.

The freezing of Liaohai is not good news for Li Jing.But what made Li Jing not too depressed was that he had already prepared for this. Although Liaohai freezes every year, it doesn't mean that the whole Liaohai will freeze.The icing is mainly along the sea and freezes the ports.It makes it impossible for ships to go to and from the port, and the ice layer in the port is often very large, and it is impossible to operate on the ice.

But fortunately, Li Jing knew that there was also an ice-free port in the north.

Dalian Port, Qinhuangdao Port and Qingdao Port are all ice-free ports.

Dalian Port is Qingnipu, Qingni City, a non-freezing port in the north.Qinhuangdao is in the Shanhaiguan Pass of Pingzhou. It was originally outside the Yuguan Pass. The newly built Shanhaiguan Pass surrounded him and became the water city of Pingzhou. An important port in Pingzhou, Liaodong Peninsula.

There is also Laizhou, which was just exchanged with Tian Lingzi last year. The northern part of Jiaozhou Bay at the junction of Laizhou and Mizhou in the southwest is the later Qingdao Port. There is no sedimentation and generally does not freeze in winter.

The entire Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea are frozen over a large area, but Qingnipu, Qingdao Port and Qinhuangdao Port are not frozen at the moment.The town [***] water army and fleet, relying on the experienced crew in the army, can still sail in the three places.

However, the icing of the Liaohai Sea has increased the difficulty and risk of sea shipping. The time of sea voyage is longer, more careful, and the transportation volume has also been greatly reduced.

Fortunately, Li Jing and his subordinates had anticipated this result long ago and made many arrangements in advance.

There is no war on the Eastern Front, and the Northern Expeditionary Army has fought against the Bohai Navy and the Goguryeo people for a full month.

The generals originally advised Li Jing to return to Dengzhou for the New Year, but Li Jing did not agree.The army of the Northern Expedition is still in Liaodong, how can he, the coach, go back to Dengzhou alone for the New Year.Many soldiers of the Northern Expedition were from Dengzhou. If he, the coach, went back alone, it would definitely affect the morale of the army.

On the night of the polo final, snow began to fall again.When I opened the door early in the morning, the cold wind cut my face like a knife.

Li Jing was wearing a cotton sportswear with narrow sleeves and narrow trouser legs that Gongsun Lan tailored according to his design. When he came out of the warm fire pit bedroom and came to the yard, he couldn't help shivering and shivering.

After raising her hands and kicking her feet, and doing a set of warm-up exercises, Li Jing started to trot in the yard.He really wanted to go outside and run a few laps along the streets of the mountain city, but this would embarrass his guards, so Li Jing just ran in circles in the courtyard.After running a few laps, although his lips and nose were red from the cold, his whole body finally warmed up, and white steam rose from the top of his head.When running to No.20 lap, Gongsun Lan also came out wearing a cotton coat and ran behind him.She wore a ponytail on her head, a small padded jacket stuffed with cotton, and a padded skirt underneath, which looked pretty good.

Li Jing's Northern Expedition lasted more than half a year, and he never returned to the state once. Gongsun Lan took advantage of Li Wei's stay in Khitan to preside over the affairs of the Xiaoqi Division, and at the same time lived a married life with Li Jing in an open and aboveboard manner.The entire Northern Expeditionary Army, from generals to soldiers, now knew that this beautiful woman was the commander's concubine.

Women in their thirties are at their most mature and charming. This girl who was born as a dancer has a fair and delicate face that will never fade, and a graceful figure that will never get fat and deformed.Facing Li Jing, she never felt nervous, afraid, or in awe, but only relaxed and calm.

Facing Li Jing's proposal, she always answered with a smile, as if Li Jing was always telling her some funny jokes.

"Is Wang Xianzhi's army really wiped out?" Li Jing asked with a smile at Gongsun Lan while jogging backwards, the white steam in his mouth was like puffing out clouds.

"Hehe, Wang Xianzhi can die twice, maybe a third time!" Gongsun Lanjiao said with a smile. She has a stronger body than ordinary women. In order to please Li Jing.Maybe the first few times it was to please Li Jing, but now, jogging in the morning has become a morning exercise that she likes very much and is indispensable.

"Wang Xianzhi is dead, Shangjun is dead, and now even Wang Xianzhi's double is dead, and the independent Liu Yanzhang is also dead. Has anyone else escaped from the grassroots?"

"The commander-in-chief is really good at pinching and counting. Sometimes I really doubt whether the commander-in-chief is a god." Gongsun Lan nodded, "You guessed it right, the battle of Huangmei was indeed a great victory. The grass that was killed on the battlefield There are more than 5 thieves. However, although the fake Wang Xianzhi was killed in this battle, and several generals of the grass army were captured and surrendered, it is not too early to be happy. At least, according to the information obtained by our Xiaoqi Division, there are still quite a few A large number of grass thieves escaped from the cracks in the battlefield. The most numerous of them was led by Shang Junchang's younger brother Shang Rang, and went north to Huangchao. Another group, led by Wang Chongyin and Xu Tangju, entered the In Jiangxi, there is another large remnant led by Cao Shixiong, who entered Xuanshe. In addition, Bi Shiduo, Qin Yan, Liu Hanhong and others all surrendered to Gao Pian."

Li Jing frowned slightly. Because of his appearance, the long river of history seemed to have returned to the original point after turning a few small bays here.Although Zeng Yuanyu should have succeeded Song Wei's defeat of Wang Xianzhi's troops in history, but now Cui Anqian is serving as a recruiter, but he also wiped out this team of grassroots thieves.

No matter what the thieves do, in the end Monk Wang Xianzhi died, and the dragons had no leader. This once most powerful rebel army was completely wiped out just like in history.Now, it's finally time for Huang Chao's name to resound throughout the world.

Because of the result of this battle, Li Jing believed more and more that it wouldn't be long before people in the world would find that Huang Chao would be more difficult to deal with than Wang Xianzhi.And the peasant war at the end of Tang Dynasty is still going on!

It was a matter of time before Wang Xianzhi's troops were destroyed, but the appearance of Gao Pian and Sha Tuo's army in this battle made Li Jing feel a little worried.

There is no doubt about Gao Pian's ability. Now that the old team player King Nanzhao is dead, the new king has been convinced.The No.1 General of the Late Tang Dynasty has come to Jingnan from Xichuan. Historically, he will also serve as the Jiedu Envoy of Zhenhai and Huainan, becoming the largest warlord in the late Tang Dynasty, with one hundred thousand soldiers in his hands.It's a pity that this guy who wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, failed to seize the good time, and ended up being neither a loyal minister nor a rebellious minister who usurped the country. He just held a hundred thousand soldiers and missed it for nothing. With all the opportunities, in the end, I can only think about being a god, and I will not be guaranteed at the end of the day, and I will die a good death.

But this person is indeed extremely powerful, he has a bargaining chip that can change the whole situation at any time, but it has been useless.

Now, Sha Tuo Li Guochang, who was extremely arrogant before and overestimated his ability, led his Sha Tuo army to follow behind this famous general, which made Li Jing have a bad feeling.

A Gao Pian is already equivalent to a nuclear bomb. If a Shatuo tribe is added, what kind of possibility will their combination be?

Li Jing and Gao Pian have no feuds, but Li Jing and the Shatuo people are deadly enemies, and Li Jing knows very well that Gao Pian, like Song Wei, is from a family of the Divine Strategy Forbidden Army, and after the new emperor ascended the throne, he has already Standing past the team, he chose to follow the first prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Xie, and the first eunuch of the Tang Dynasty, Tian Lingzi.

And Li Jing and Tian Lingzi are also opponents.In some respects, Gao Pian and Li Jing are now on opposite sides.

The situation in the Central Plains changed rapidly, so quickly that it exceeded Li Jing's expectations.

During the New Year, Han Anguo and Xiao Dingbang went to Chang'an instead of Li Jing.At the Great Court Meeting on New Year's Day, the emperor gave a lot of rewards, and Li Jing also got a lot of rewards, added several idle official positions, and granted Li Jing the title of Minister for three generations of his ancestors.Li Jing's mother and wife both added orders, and even the seven concubines were all exceptions and added fifth-rank wives.As for Li Jing's three sons, the eldest son was granted the title of Zhengwu-rank Shangwendeng Kaiguo county son, and the other two sons were granted the title of Congwu-rank Shangjianguo county male.

An extremely human minister, posthumously gifted to three generations, conferred his wife and cute son, Li Jing can be said to have obtained almost all the honors he can get.

However, Li Jing was not overly happy, because at the Great Court Meeting, his teacher Cui Yunqing was transferred from Taining Army Jiedu Envoy to Lingnan East Road Jiedu Envoy, and Kang Chenghui was also transferred to Lingnan West Road Jiedu Envoy make.These two transfers are obviously demotions.The superficial reason is that Huang Chao went northward last year and ran rampant in the two towns.But Li Jing knew very well that the real reason should be Tian Lingzi's secret hands.The two of them are close to him, and now transferring them to Lingnan thousands of miles away is undoubtedly breaking his own arm.

Yang Zhizhi, the former Jiedu envoy of Shannan Dongdao, was transferred to the Jiedu envoy of the Taining Army, and Cao Quanzhen, the former general of the Tianping Army, was promoted to be the Jiedu envoy of the Tianping Army.Both of them belonged to Tian Lingzi, and together with Wang Jingwu, Li Jing's town [***] had been blocked on the Shandong Peninsula.

Seeing Li Jing frowning, Gongsun Lan said with some distress: "Ah, actually, you don't need to pay attention to the changes in the Central Plains for the time being. In today's world, Jiedu envoys change like a revolving lantern, and there are very few Jiedu envoys in a town. He has been in office for three years. Isn’t it great that we only need to focus on Liaodong right now?”

"The strategic defense you made last year was very good. Although it didn't win the battle head-on, the attack on Bohai and the Goguryeo people was more effective."

Last year, Li Jing did not choose to fight hard against the Bohai Navy and the Goguryeo Army in the end, but to defend strategically.The so-called strategic defense is not a passive defense, but an active defense.Li Jing first cleared the three prefectures of Jizhou, Jianzhou, and Anzhou Xinde, and moved all the people outside the cities to Jinzhou. Grass and management pressure.

At the same time, Li Jing dispatched most of the soldiers and horses of the navy and nearly half of the cavalry of the tenth army, which were divided into dozens of small troops.The guerrilla warfare began, and the small fleet of the navy followed the coastline and attacked the castles and villages behind the enemy forces along the coast, robbing their livestock, property, money and food, and even their population, and then burned their villages and castles.And along the Liaohe River, the Yalu River and other rivers, they broke into their hearts, attacked their villages, robbed them, and burned their village houses.

Those cavalry attacked on light cavalry, sneaked into various places, and adopted guerrilla warfare to attack their villages, attack their logistics transportation lines, rob and burn their food and grass.

At the same time, the town [***] is building strong walls and clearing the fields, while guarding the cities, it is also actively building roads, and from time to time it will organize sneak attacks, raids, and feint attacks.These non-stop small actions annoyed the Goguryeo and Bohai people and caused heavy losses.

Every time they mobilized their troops to pursue them angrily, the small troops sent by the Northern Expedition took advantage of the small number of lightly armed troops and fled without a trace.There were even several times when it seemed that they were finally going to catch these damn wolf-like Tang Jun, but in the end they fell into the trick of luring the enemy.

Fighting back and forth, the Tang army failed to hit them. Instead, they were sent chasing around, exhausted, and even lost a lot of soldiers and horses, as well as several small cities.They also tried to attack the mountain city occupied by the Tang army.But the Tang army defended the city very well. There were not only strong bows and crossbows on the city, but also all kinds of ancient gadgets, especially those catapults, which caused them the most pain.Those catapults are high above, and there is no shortage of stones on the mountain, so they often suffer heavy losses from the rain of stone bullets before they get close to the city wall of the mountain.

And at night, Tang Jun started feinting and agitated everywhere, making them unable to sleep well.When they ignored it, Tang Jun really attacked immediately.After they sent people to guard the camp every day, Tang Jun changed to a small group of harassment tactics, which made them miserable.Moreover, their logistics, food, grass, and heavy transportation have been harassed by the Tang army. After several times, the Bohai people and Goguryeo people who had no food and grass had to retreat.

The two sides defended the city respectively, and then small groups fought against small groups in this kind of bloody battle.

The Bohai people and Goguryeo people have more soldiers and horses than the Tang army in the northeast of the peninsula.But more soldiers and horses also mean greater logistical pressure.Especially the [-] Bohai Navy, their food and grass had to be transported from the distant Bohai Sea, but the long logistics line was hard to defend against the Tang army's harassment.The Tang army used warships to transport cavalry, and on the long-distance border, they could quickly deploy small groups of cavalry to harass their logistics lines.Then they were able to pick them up on the coast and evacuate from the sea before their siege and destruction of these hateful robbers.

The Tang army's raids did not stop until December when the Liaohai Sea froze. If the Tang army continued to attack for another month, the Bohai Navy would have no food to eat.

Li Jing stopped and took a few long breaths, "There is still a month or so until the thawing period, and our battle with them will begin again!" (To be continued.)