Late Tang

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Sizhou, Linhuai.

In the middle of the night, at the Linhuai Wharf of the Bianshui Canal, about [-] Bian boats slowly arrived at the Linhuai Wharf in the dark. It is hard to tell what kind of cargo is loaded inside, but each ship has an extremely deep draft to reach the maximum load.

The quiet pier is brightly lit tonight, and soldiers and horses in Linhuai City are already patrolling and guarding far away, and no one is strictly allowed to approach.

"I'm coming!"

Before the fleet docked at the port, a light boat had already approached the pier first, and several people jumped off it and ran directly to the pier.

Zeng Yuanyu, the governor of the left army and the commander of the Huaisi camp, stood like a mountain in an iron armor and a cloak. Hearing this, he quickly led a group of generals behind him to move to the pier, and asked, "Which general is coming?"

The Huai-Si camp led by Zeng Yuanyu was going smoothly.

Beforehand, he didn't think that Daxingtai was planning to swallow the probation army, so when Li Jing ordered to attack Xuzhou, it was really beyond the expectations of the Huaisi camp.When this side started to move, it turned out that the Huai army moved first, attacked quickly, and took Haozhou in a blink of an eye.

At this time, Shi Pu in Xuzhou City also had an ambiguous attitude, and was actually wavering under the duress of the Qin Army and the Huai Army.

For Zeng Yuanyu, attacking Xuzhou is no longer the top priority, but the top priority is to prevent the Huai army from crossing the Huaihe River northward.

A series of urgent reports to Songzhou Daxingtai, Li Jing quickly replied, since Shi Pu has no intention of surrender, then Xuzhou can suspend the attack, first stop the Huai army to the south of the Huai River, so as not to attack Xuzhou, The Huaisi line battalion headquarters with not many troops was attacked from the back by the Huai army.At the same time, Li Jing also stated in the letter that he would immediately transfer troops to the south.

Today is the first troop, disguised as a merchant ship, coming directly from across Xuzhou.But to be honest, Xuzhou's Shi Pu may not know that this fleet may be the reinforcements of the Qin army going south, but even if he knew, he could only shrink back to the city of Xuzhou because he only had 1 people. act rashly.

There are three hundred Bian boats, these are all grain ships. These ships that specialize in canals actually have a larger load than sea ships. There are no strong winds and waves on the inland river, so the load is extremely large, and there are even a lot of large ships that are over [-] stone.This time Li Jing also gathered the ships collected in Songzhou, Caozhou, Huazhou and other places, and gathered [-] ships to transport troops south.Zeng Yuanyu estimated that with [-] ships, at least tens of thousands of reinforcements could be brought in.

"Back to the general, it was King Qin himself who led the troops here."

Hearing Li Jing's arrival in person, Zeng Yuanyu was stunned for a moment, and quickly stepped a little faster.

The fleet had already started to dock, and the first to disembark were the Secret Service guards led by Iron Egg King Tieqiang. They quickly disembarked, checked the pier quickly, and put on guard. Except for Zeng Yuanyu and other officers, no one else was allowed to approach.

After the Secret Service finished all the work, Wang Tieqiang sent several signals to the ships on the pier, and the five identical Bian boats all flashed the signal, and Zhao Jiang, an attendant on one of the ships, entered the cabin and reported to Li Jing: "The pier is safe. , Your Majesty, please disembark."

Although Li Jing doesn't like the current set of security measures, he also knows that it is no better than before, sitting in the cabin and waiting for them to get ready before getting up.

After getting off the boat, Zeng Yuanyu immediately led twenty or thirty officers to catch up to meet him.

"Failing to take Xuzhou under my post is really dereliction of duty, and I ask the king to punish me." Zeng Yuanyu immediately apologized as soon as he came up.He originally joined the Qin army halfway, and he didn't stay in the Qin army for a long time, but Li Jing relied heavily on him. In a few years, he has become the rear army governor of the five army governor's mansion. The capital of Sixing camp.Although he was already a high-ranking servant of Zuo Sanqi when he was in the imperial court, it was just a idle job.Although when he joined the Qin Army, he still had five thousand Shence Army Imperial Guards with him, but his current status in the army is still far higher than that of Li Jing's confidantes such as Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, Li Juyi, etc., and he is also extremely cautious.

Although his Huaisi camp took four states in a row this time, he failed to take Xu and Hao states as requested by Daxingtai, and he was still very disturbed.

Li Jing patted this brave general on the shoulder very kindly. Although he was not from a direct descendant, the strength of his troops was ranked among the top ten of Li Jing's subordinates. Otherwise, Li Jing would not have relied on him so much.

"General Yuanfeng is poor. This time, General Yuanfeng used only one division to go to the four prefectures of Mihai and Yisi. It can be said that he has worked hard. As for the matter of Xu Hao, Daxingtai did not think carefully." Li Jing laughed. road.

Zeng Yuanyu felt a lot more relaxed when he heard the words, and with Li Jing's attitude, his heart became more and more excited.Although this lord is a little too young, he is really admirable in terms of employing people and dealing with things. Just because Li Jing is willing to trust him and delegate power to him, it is enough for him to devote his wholehearted loyalty to him.

"How many soldiers and horses did Your Majesty bring?" Zeng Yuanyu asked softly.

Li Jing smiled lightly, and looked back at the troops who were constantly boarding the pier to assemble, "Twenty thousand elite riders!"

Upon hearing this number, Zeng Yuanyu was shocked and then overjoyed.With [-] fine cavalry, the Huai army is not to be feared, and Xuzhou will definitely be able to go down.

"Where is the Huai Army now?"

Back in Linhuai City, Li Jing didn't rest, and immediately called the generals who went south to discuss with the generals who went to Huaisi camp.

A man in black standing on the side immediately replied: "Our military intelligence bureau has investigated, and there are currently two Huai army units on the south bank. One is Gao Jie's unit that has just captured Haozhou, and his unit has just captured Haozhou. , The soldiers and horses were stationed in Zhongli, Haozhou, and Shouchun, Shouzhou, the important towns in Huaixi.

"The Huai army currently facing Linhuai is not under Gao Jie's command, but another nephew of Gao Pian's, Forty Lang Gaoyu, under him are generals Lei Man, Feng Shou, and Chen Qi. The troops are currently stationed in Huaidong The two towns of Xuyi and Shanyang, which are important towns, point directly at Sikou, intending to cross the Huaihe River along Sikou and enter Sixu."

Li Jing pondered: "Is there any news from Hu Douzhou?"

The man in black is the fifth concubine of the doctor of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Supervision Department, and he was born in a special warfare battalion. He took over part of Li Wei's previous position.Right now, he is in charge of the entire Military Intelligence Bureau and is responsible for military intelligence.

"According to the news, Hu Douzhou's First Fleet of the Lingbo Army, the Ninth Army of the Township Army, and the No.18 Army have all been wiped out. There is no news of the three military leaders Wu Qian, Lin Song, and Deng Huan. Before the garrison in Jianghai Town was wiped out , inflicted great damage on the Huai Army’s Liang Zan Department, and killed three times the enemy with [-] troops. Unfortunately, the Huai Army’s attack was sudden, and our army was not in a hurry to rescue it.”

Hearing this news, which confirmed the annihilation of Hu Douzhou's defenders, Li Jing's face was very ugly.This is the first time so far that the entire army of the Qin army has been beaten and wiped out. Even the township army lost two armies at once, which made Li Jing clenched his fists angrily.I still underestimated Gao Pian before, thinking that Gao Pian would not do it at this time.

The fifth concubine also lowered his head. Gao Pian made this move. The Military Intelligence Bureau also received a little bit of wind in advance, but he was not alert and did not pay attention to it. As a result, the Huduzhou garrison was annihilated and Haozhou was lost. It can be said that MI has a huge responsibility.Previously, the fifth concubine had asked himself to resign to plead guilty, but in the end Li Jing downgraded the salary of the main officials of the Military Intelligence Bureau and severely punished them, but in the end the fifth concubine was still retained.

Zeng Yuanyu asked with some doubts: "Gao Pian asked Gao Yu to also go north, so how many troops did Gao Jie and Gao Yu lead?"

The fifth concubine said somewhat uncertainly: "According to the information we have obtained, Gao Jie has [-] soldiers in Shouchun, [-] soldiers in Zhongli, [-] soldiers in Gaoyu Xuyi, and [-] soldiers in Shanyang."

Li Jing gave the fifth concubine a cold look, "You mean to tell me that Gao Pian just sent [-] soldiers to attack Hu Douzhou, and another [-] soldiers to attack Haozhou, and now he is gathering again in Chuzhou Fifty thousand troops?"

According to the fifth concubine, then Gao Pian mobilized 15 soldiers and horses at once. With such a large territory in Huainan, there must be troops left behind in other places, especially Yangzhou must have a heavy army.Calculated in this way, doesn't Gao Pian have 30 to [-] people?

But according to Li Jing's information, a year ago, Gao Pian had only 6 people in his hands, and Huang Chao had eaten almost 30 people.In the past year, Gao Pian did not recruit troops on a large scale. How could the Huai army expand to [-] to [-]?

No need to analyze, Li Jing also understands Fifth Shu's dereliction of duty, their information is not accurate at all.This time, Li Jing really had the idea of ​​adjusting the position of doctor in the Fifth Shu Military Intelligence Bureau.

"The Huai Army definitely does not have 30 to 15 people. According to my estimation, the Huai Army has about [-] soldiers. Even if he recruits a large number of auxiliary troops, the entire Huai Army has no more than [-] people. We have [-] soldiers in Hu Douzhou Adding [-] soldiers from the countryside to the Huai army killed [-] Huai troops, and this was after General Gao Pian Liang Yan led it. It can be seen from this that Liang Yan's [-] Huai army may have only about [-] real soldiers. In addition to the tens of thousands of new recruits who have not been trained, the remaining [-] are newly recruited auxiliary soldiers."

Li Jing analyzed lightly: "According to this calculation, Gao Jie's [-] soldiers are about the same. It may be better than Liang Yan, but it is not much better. As for the new Gao Yu, I don't think he has more soldiers. Elite soldiers."

"My lord, are we facing a group of paper tigers?" Zeng Yuanyu said.

"Almost." Although this is just his speculation, sometimes seeing is not believing, and speculation is not unreasonable.

Zeng Yuanyu lowered his head and pondered for a while, his eyes lit up, and he said in surprise: "Your Majesty, could it be that the Huai Army has secretly resorted to a subterfuge? In Gao Yu's hands?"

Li Jing nodded, it is very likely that this is the case.

Gao Pian's move was obviously to fight for Xu Si, but the current situation outside is that after Gao Jie captured Haozhou, he stationed his troops in Shouchun and Zhongli, pointed directly at Wokou and Yingkou, and made an attack The situation of Haozhou and Yingzhou.

But these are just illusions in Li Jing's view, because Yinghao Erzhou is now occupied by Huang Chao. Even if Gao Pian is crazy, it is impossible to provoke Li Jing and fight Huang Chao at the same time. It is unwise to fight on both sides. .

What's more critical is that if Gao Pian wants to go north, Xu Si is the place that must be contested.Gao Pian's generation of famous generals, it is impossible not to know this.

So based on all these, Gao Pian's real intention is ready to come out.Gao Pian made a trick and sent Gao Yu to go north, but in fact, Gao Jie's soldiers and the soldiers brought by Gao Yu had been exchanged. soldier.On the surface, Gao Yu is just a group of auxiliary soldiers, but now he has an elite army. He is stationed in Huaidong, seemingly inconspicuous, but he is a real attacking force. Gao Pian's real target is still Sizhou and Xuzhou .

But looking at the current situation, Gao Pian didn't plan to attack Xuzhou directly, but planned to attack Sizhou first.

"Fifth Lang, I will give the Military Intelligence Bureau another chance. You should go immediately to investigate and verify the speculation just now, and find out the truth of the Huai army. If there is another mistake this time, you don't need to order it, you can handle it yourself." Li For the first time, Jing yelled at Fifth Shu in a stern tone.

The fifth concubine was sweating on his forehead, his face turned purple, feeling extremely ashamed, he gritted his teeth and nodded in obedience, bending over to exit.

But after a while, the fifth concubine hurried into the hall again.

"What's the matter?" Seeing his hurried expression, Li Jing asked.

"Report to Your Majesty, the Military Intelligence Bureau has just received an urgent report from the secret agents in the west of Zhejiang. All of them fled the island. At present, the Zhen Navy has occupied Hudouzhou!"

Unexpectedly, Li Jing didn't expect that Gao Pian made a move, and Zhou Bao actually did the same this time.Hearing that Zhou Bao sent troops outrageously, and suddenly captured Liang Yan and captured Hu Douzhou, Li Jing, who had always been in a bad mood, couldn't help but smile slightly. (To be continued.)