Late Tang

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Qingzhou, Yidu City.

This once prosperous city on the coast of the East China Sea is now in dilapidated condition. Before dark, the entire city has closed its gates, and no pedestrians can be seen on the street.Originally a large city with more than [-] people, now there are only more than [-] soldiers of Wang Jingwu, and more than [-] family members of a small number of soldiers.Except for the soldiers and their families, there are no other residents, neither ordinary people nor merchants.

This is a city in oppression, darkness, hunger and barbarism.

Yacheng, Jiedushifu.

In the festival hall, Wang Jingwu snorted coldly while holding a letter.

"Gao Pian, Gouyue, asked us to send troops to attack Li Jing, but he himself sat in the back and watched the show. Damn, he robbed Li Jing of so much money, food and goods, and gave us five thousand shi of food. Send it Borrowing horses and equipment, but he refused to borrow any. Damn, he didn't give equipment, money, food, and reinforcements. Let me beat Li Jing like this, is he out of his mind or is I stupid? Li Jing is so easy to fight, damn it."

In just a few years, Wang Jingwu's whole body is full of vicissitudes, his beard and hair are half white, his face is haggard, and even his belt is bent.He still coughed a few times from time to time, just like an old man who is dying.

When he was talking, Li Xi, Zhang Chan, Lu Hong, Wang Yanwen and other subordinates were sitting under him.Last year, there was also Xue Chong. Unfortunately, although this guy has been drunk all day since he came here, he is also the governor of a state. In the end, he ran into Huang Chao's damned former ally. The two sides fought, Wang Jingwu and others were defeated. Xue Chong Also died in the army.

For more than a year, life has become more and more difficult. They are called officers and soldiers, but in fact they are no different from bandits.Although the imperial court did not come to suppress him, they had already cut off the food and payment.The soldiers under his command fled, and many of his old generals also fled.

In the huge festival hall, only a few people sat sparsely.

When Gao Pian sent people to find them and asked them to attack Li Jing's territory, Wang Jingwu and others immediately refused.He robbed the Tianping army, the Taining army and Li Jing, but every time he robbed Li Jing's territory, he would be beaten terribly in the end.If Li Jing didn't want to really kill him, they would have been wiped out long ago.

However, when Gao Pian's envoy offered to provide them with military pay and food, Wang Jingwu and Li Xi were finally moved.Although they knew that they were acting as thugs for Gao Pian, but in their current state, they were already worse than robbers.The people on the site were either snatched by Li Jing or Huang Chao, and the rest also escaped.No one farms, no merchants, no taxes.

The military pay was not what moved them the most. What moved them the most was that Gao Pian's envoy promised that they would go first, and that Gao Shizhong would send reinforcements later.After defeating Li Jing, the five prefectures of Ziqing Town, Ziqi Qingdenglai were handed over to Wang Jingwu.This was the real reason why Wang Jingwu and Li Xi couldn't refuse. Even though they knew the possibility was very small, they still couldn't refuse.

However, Li Jing is not so easy to fight.They tried to attack several times, if they didn't run fast, they probably wouldn't be able to come back.

However, Gao Pian didn't have any of the military pay and reinforcements that Gao Pian had promised, so Wang Jingwu was so angry that he jumped up and scolded his mother.

They have already stabbed Li Jing's hornet's nest, and now they will face Li Jing's revenge.

When the morning fog rises, along the Zishui River, a troop of soldiers and horses is advancing rapidly.

In the early morning, Yidu City was still sleeping.

The defenders on the city dozed off with their guns in their hands, cursing in low voices that the time for succession had not yet come.In the vast white fog, no one noticed that a large army in the fog was approaching the city.

A sound of footsteps woke up the defenders at the top of the city, and the team leader in the city gate ran out quickly, but just in time to see the marching Sima Li Xi wearing armor, a cloak on his shoulders, and a long sword in his hand, leading a team with the same head. The armored soldiers came to the city.

"I've seen Li Sima!" The team leader was a little surprised and surprised, not knowing why this Sima came so early in the morning.

Li Xi's face was a little gloomy, and he didn't know what he was thinking.He nodded to the leader of the team, "Recently, the guards have to be strengthened. The city gate is now taken over by my people, and you can go back."

"This... Sima Ke has Wang Shuai's warrant?" the team leader summoned up his courage and asked.

Li Xi glared directly, and a tall servant behind him immediately slammed his gun on his waist. He went limp and fell to the ground, gasping for air in pain.

The hulking servant still refused to let him go, kicked him fiercely, and cursed: "You bastard with no eyes, the military order of the marching commander, what warrant do you need, kill you bastard."

"Okay, let him go." Li Xi said coldly, "Go down."

When the other guards saw the appearance of the team leader, whoever dared to say anything more, they all retreated from the city in a cold war.

After those people retreated, the servant who beat them just now smiled lightly at Li Xi and said, "Li Sima's prestige is not small, but this will save a lot of trouble."

Li Xi was cold and arrogant just now, but now facing this person, he put away the expression on his face, forced a smile and said: "General Li was joking, and I hope to turn around and say something nice for you in front of the county king. "

"Easy to say, easy to say."

"There's a signal ahead!" The man called General Li laughed.Li Xi looked up, and sure enough, he saw three piles of flames appearing in the fog.Turning to the back, he said, "Kaicheng!"

The suspension bridge was lowered, and the city gate slowly opened, but Li Xi heaved a sigh of relief, feeling a burst of relief.Ever since he was dismissed from the position of Jiedu Envoy of the Taining Army and became Sima of the Ziqing Town Marching Army, Li Xi felt that he was having nightmares every day.For more than a year, he didn't know how he survived.

I think his great-grandfather was the king of Xiping County, a famous general in the Xingtang Dynasty. For several generations in his family, there were many famous generals and high-ranking officials. In his generation, there were three Jiedu envoys in his family.Unexpectedly, he ended up in such a miserable situation.Officials are not officials, bandits are not bandits.

Originally, he still wanted to let the family work and transfer him to other places.As a result, until now, nothing has happened.Seeing that idiot Wang Jingwu got involved in the struggle between Tian Lingzi, Gao Pian and Li Jing, and became the pawn, the Li family was already preparing to change ships.

This boat was already leaking, and he was going to die if he didn't change it. He didn't want to die with that lunatic Wang Jingwu.

After finally contacting Li Jing's people, things went smoothly.Li Jing really couldn't stand Wang Jingwu, and wanted to turn this mad dog into a dead dog.Seeing the towns [***] entering the city one by one, rushing into Wang Jingwu Ya City who was still asleep, Li Xi couldn't help feeling happy that he had finally chosen the right path.In the contest between Gao Pian and Li Jing, he always believed that Li Jing would be the winner.

In the morning mist, there was finally a scream, someone found the town [***] into the city.

Li Xi sneered twice, so what if he found out, the current Pinglu Army has already lost its combat effectiveness, and compared with Zhen [***], it is completely vulnerable.He is now thinking that after making this choice, it means that he has turned against Tian Lingzi.In the future, the capital probably won't be able to go back, maybe he can find a way to find an official position under Li Jing.At least, the dignified Li Family of Xiping County is also a top wealthy family in Jingzhao, and Li Jing will never reject him.

Alarm bells sounded in the city, and then there was the sound of swords and swords, and more voices sounded.

The sound of gold and iron intersecting, shouts to kill, shouts to kill, arrows piercing the air, and screams...

The battle didn't last long, even though Wang Jingwu hid in Yacheng, there were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses guarding him.However, the surprise attack in Zhen[***] still quickly disintegrated the morale and confidence of the defenders, especially after the personal guards of Li Xi and Zhang Wanrong, the supervisor of the army, defected in the inner city at the same time, Qingzhou Yabing It was defeated directly, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit.

The soldiers of Zhen [***] rushed into the inner city, and what they met was not resistance, but one after another, they abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

Even Wang Jingwu's generals Zhang Chan and Lu Hong didn't put up much resistance. After seeing Zhen [***] entering the inner city, they directly led their troops to surrender.

When the red sun rose from the east, Wang Jingwu hid in Jieshuai's mansion and resisted stubbornly, refusing to surrender.

When the walls of the Shuai Mansion were knocked down and towns [***] poured in from all directions, Wang Jingwu climbed onto the roof of the Shuai Mansion, poured green oil on his body, and held a torch in his hand, facing the unwilling gods. After roaring several times, he set himself on fire.

Under the red sun, Wang Jingwu was like a huge torch, so dazzling in the morning light.

Wang Jingwu burned himself to death, Li Xi defected, Zhang Chan and Lu Hong surrendered.Qingzhou City then fell into the hands of Zhen [***], and on the same day, several other soldiers and horses of Zhen [***] also quickly attacked, taking Zizhou and other cities in a devastating manner, and the remaining Pinglu army did not surrender. Just beheaded on the spot.

It only took one day for Zhen [***] to attack everywhere and wipe out Wang Jingwu who finally occupied the eight counties of Ziqing.More than [-] Pinglu troops were beheaded and more than [-] were killed, and the rest surrendered. Together with the remaining [-] family members, they were all sent to Liaodong by orders from Li Jing.For the generals who surrendered, such as the Li family, they were sent to Dengzhou to recuperate temporarily, waiting for disposal.

After recovering the eight counties, Li Jing sent troops to the eight counties, and at the same time began to relocate the people to the eight counties.

Under Li Jing's rule, Qi, Zi, and Qingzhou were added, and Li Jing owned 63 counties in thirteen states.

At the same time, Pei You, Mei Gen, Zhu Li, Li Xu, Wu Qian, Zhang Liehuo, and Meng Yang, the generals of the navy, each led a fleet to sail to the sea, headed south along the coast, waving the skeleton flag, pretending to be pirates, and began They harassed the four towns of Huainan, Ganhua, Taining, and Zhenhai along the coastal prefectures and counties.

These pirates with skull and skull flags range from a group of hundreds to as many as a thousand. They drive extremely advanced warships, hold sharp weapons, wear solid armor, and even have tall horses.Like locusts, they attacked states and counties, not only robbing money and food, but also attacking official cities, and even robbing anyone they saw.As long as the villages encountered are often empty in the end, leaving no one behind, they are all taken away.

In just half a month, countless urgent calls for help were sent to the Yangzhou Marshal's Mansion.But every time the Huainan army arrived, the pirates had already left, leaving only a mess and empty villages and towns.

In Yangzhou City, Gao Pian hadn't slept soundly for half a month. He thought of many ways to deal with these pirates, but every time he failed to catch one of them.With a long coastline, pirates come and go without a trace at sea, there is no good way to deal with them.When a fleet was organized with great difficulty, when it went out to chase and kill a group of pirates, it seemed that it was about to catch up with the other party, but it fell into the trap of the pirates, was surrounded and ambushed, and the entire army was wiped out.

"Marshal, maybe we have provoked someone who shouldn't be provoked!" said Bi Shiduo, a general under Gao Pian's account. Beaten and defeated.After Wang Xianzhi and Shang Junchang died, he followed Shang Rang to Huangchao.As a result, he was defeated by Gao Pian in the Battle of Yuezhou, and he and a dozen generals of the Cao army surrendered to Gao Pian.Gao Pian trusted him very much, which moved him a lot.

The pirates encountered in Huainan were very clear from top to bottom. It was the revenge of Li Jing, king of Andong County, against Marshal Gao.

Bi Shiduo was well aware of Li Jing's strength, so he spoke out to persuade him at this time, because he was afraid that Gao Pian would suffer even more.

Gao Pian clenched his fists tightly, looked at the mountain of warning reports in front of him, gritted his teeth, and his eyes seemed to burst into flames!

"Damn Li Jing, I really underestimated him, I didn't expect him to dare to retaliate so violently!" (To be continued.)