Late Tang

In July of the sixth year of Qianfu, Yanmen of Daizhou.

Li Keyong, the king of Yanmen County, has been a little bit sad recently, and he returned to the Central Plains again. After the second rebellion against Tang Dynasty, this dangerous move not only did not cause Li Keyong to have an accident, but Li Keyong, who was no longer able to control the world, gave Li Keyong a promotion. Jue officially designated Dai, Xin, and Wei Qizhou in Daibei as Yanmen Town of Shatuo people.

Not long ago, Li Ke used a sneak attack on the Tatar tribe on the way back to Yinshan, and won a big victory.With the power of this new victory, they successively entered the two towns of Datong Army and Hedong Army to plunder and provoke, and robbed countless people of money and food.

In June, Li Ke used Xin to accept a room for his wife.

The newly recruited Mrs. Cao is extremely young and beautiful, and unlike Liu, she is full of the tenderness and consideration of the daughter of the Han family.With great difficulty, he persuaded Mrs. Liu to agree to officially welcome this woman into the door.Unexpectedly, at the wedding banquet that day, two female assassins got mixed into it, almost costing his life.Although relying on his own skills and the desperate protection of the guards, in the end there was no danger.But Li Ke was also hit by several swords on his body, and a lot of blood was lost.Dozens of his guards, who were guarding him, died to protect him.

Even his uncle Li Youjin, Deputy Jiedu envoy of Yanmen Town, was beheaded on the spot.

Li Keyong was shocked and frightened.

Not long ago, Liu Yuegang from Lulong Town was stabbed to death in Youzhou City, which also triggered a civil strife in Youzhou.This led to the demise of the brothers Liu Yue and Liu Yan. Then Liu Rengong won the support of Wang Jingchong and took the opportunity to seize Lulong.

It can be described as dazzling for a while, and finally Liu Rengong fled to his territory in Yanmen Town, but Lulong Town and Zhuozhou fell into the hands of Li Quanzhong.

Originally, Li Keyong had taken in Liu Rengong, and was about to use Liu Rengong's name to intervene in the affairs of Youzhou, Hebei.

Who would have imagined that this daring assassin killed Liu Yue, and in the blink of an eye he ran to his mansion to kill him again.

For a moment, Li Keyong was really shocked and angry.

Although the assassins were extremely powerful, the two women killed more than a hundred people including Shatuo's military envoy and Li Youjin, the deputy envoy of Yanmen Jiedu, on the day of the wedding banquet, but they still fell into the hands of Li Keyong in the end.It took a few days to find out the identities of the two, but they were finally found out.

The charming female killer in her thirties is called Aunt Lan, and the extremely beautiful woman in her twenties is called Murong Xue.It turned out that they were all the top killers of the Lijingmen under Li Tang's royal family. Later, they defected to Tian Lingzi. They were ordered to assassinate Li Jing, but in the end they turned to Li Jing instead.It was rumored that Murong Xue was Li Jing's woman, but she left Li Jing several years ago.After three years, he shot again, but it became a blockbuster. He killed Liu Yue as soon as he shot, and then went to Yanmen to kill so many people.

Although no matter how interrogated, Murongxue and the two refused to admit that they came to assassinate under Li Jing's order.But in Li Ke's heart, he had already determined that they were the ones Li Jing sent to assassinate him.

Li Keyong wanted to kill the two immediately, but was blocked by Mrs. Liu.

"Husband, since these two are Li Jing's people, why don't you keep them for now. Li Jing is powerful, so don't kill his woman lightly, so as not to arouse Li Jing's anger. According to my concubine's opinion, my husband might as well tell the whole story Emperor Ming Tang."

"Zuo Tianzi?" Li Ke sneered, touching a wound on his face, and his laughter turned into a painful gasp. "Emperor Li Tang even left Chang'an to Huang Chao, and now he has gone to Xichuan in a flash. It is useful to play a fart."

Madam Liu calmly said: "Husband, Emperor Li Tang really has no way to control Li Jing right now. But it seems that the teacher is famous, this assassination, we just need to tell the matter to the emperor, and then publicize it to everyone in the world, then We have our reasons first. Besides, in this way, everyone in the world will know that Liu Yue was also assassinated by Li Jing. Then, some people suspected that Liu Yue was assassinated by us before, and it will naturally disappear."

"What's more, we are not really afraid of Li Jing." Liu said with a light smile: "This is just a strategy. We can even send someone to talk to Li Jing, and we are willing to let Li Jing take money and food to redeem him back .And we took advantage of the fact that Li Jing was still in the south, trying to find a way to swallow Lu Long first. There is no rush for a gentleman to take revenge. As long as we can enter Hebei, we can curb Li Jing's current momentum."

Li Ke's anger still persisted, "What, it's impossible for me to send those two women back. My king almost died under their swords, and more than a hundred guards died, even my uncle died at their hands. How can we let them go? This king has already made up his mind, since Li Jing dared to send his own women to assassinate, I simply took them all and changed them into my king's female slaves."

"I don't believe it anymore. My Shatuo cavalry is invincible in the world, and my son is brave. He Li Jing has repeatedly bullied me. How can I give up?"

At this time, Liu couldn't help but sneered: "The concubine has already taken a fancy to the beauty of the two elders, right? I just married the second wife, and now I have to accept the third wife and the fourth wife?"

Li Ke found that there were many mistakes in his language, and he couldn't help but blush a little.

"My husband wants to take a concubine, and the concubine will not stop you. It doesn't matter how much you want, but since Murongxue is Li Jing's woman, my husband can't accept it. If you accept Li Jing's wife, it will definitely cause trouble. Angry Li Jing, this will be an endless battle. Even if we want to deal with Li Jing now, there is no need to make it so vigorous. Our key now is to enter Hebei. When Lu Long is in chaos, the alliances that have been planned before The matter of soldiers has been repeated again. The previous plan has failed, and now we have to deal with Li Jing, we have to plan again. During this period of time, Li Jing has managed to protect the environment and the people, agriculture, industry and commerce, and the development is very prosperous. And Li Jing this year Within half a year, Yichang Town, Taining Town, and Ganhua Town have been annexed one after another, plus half of Lulong and half of Xiaohuainan. The next step must be to go north to fight for Hebei, and we must make a countermeasure early. If we return the two assassins to Li Jing, we can temporarily stabilize Li Jing, why not do it?"

After some persuasion, Li Ke used his mind to move a little bit.Liu Yunniang's analysis is very accurate. Although Shatuo has also developed rapidly in the past six months and seized the land of Qizhou as the foundation, during this period of time, in addition to sending troops and horses to fight on the border between Datong and Hedong towns to grab some money and food , to recruit some soldiers and horses, in fact, there is not much development.Compared with Li Jing's development in the past six months, it is a world of difference.

"This doggy Gao Pian, who is also known as a famous general in the world, was defeated by Li Jing. He lost his troops and lost his generals. He couldn't stop Li Jing at all. And that Huang Chao, this grassroots bandit, was also an incompetent person. Seeing Li Jing's defeat Gao Pian, Ding Huaisi, didn't know how to seize the opportunity. Hey, a bunch of trash." Li Ke cursed angrily.Previously, Li Ke used the judgment that Li Jing went south to seize the opportunity to seize the land of Shandong. There were two major forces, Huang Chao and Gao Pian, and the battle between Li Jing and them would take a year or two.With this time, he, Li Keyong, can also arrange the layout calmly.

But who would have thought that Gao Pian was so indiscriminate that he earned his reputation in vain.But Huang Chao disappointed him even more. After a small battle with Li Jing, there was no more movement, leaving Li Jing to stop fighting, and instead led the main force to enter Chang'an.

However, the coalition plan against Li that Li Keyong placed high hopes on has almost aborted because of Liu Yue's death.

Counting on others is still unreliable after all.

In the end, to deal with Li Jing, he had to rely on himself.

"Old Kang, you should immediately write two letters on behalf of the king. One should be written to the emperor, explaining the matter of Li Jing's assassination of the king, and ask the emperor to uphold justice. The other letter should be written to Li Jing. The traitor has come to exchange, and two women can exchange one hundred thousand shi of food."

After making up his mind, Li Keyong didn't have any more ideas about Murongxue and the two women, and handed them over to Mrs. Liu to take care of them to avoid any accidents in the middle.Immediately shouted, called Kang Junli, Guo Chongtao, Li Siyuan, Li Sizhao generals to discuss matters.

On the second day of July in the sixth year of Qianfu, Li Keyong assembled an army of [-] Shatuo, personally commanded the troops, led Kang Junli, Li Cunshen, Li Sien and other generals, marched eastward from Yanmen in Daizhou, entered Weizhou, and stationed troops in Weizhou Kong After passing through the customs, make preparations to fly out of Taihang Flying Fox Xing and directly attack Li Quanzhong Yizhou in Yiwu Town.

The next day, Li Quanzhong, who had detected Li Keyong's offensive posture, quickly dispatched troops to strengthen Yizhou's defense and intercept Li Keyong.

On the same day, Li Ke used to find out about Li Quanzhong's rescue operation, and personally led [-] troops to storm Yizhou.Li Quanzhong did not dare to fight, so he garrisoned on the spot.

After seeing Li Quanzhong's timidity, Li Ke boldly organized the elite Shatuo cavalry into teams, and took turns to launch harassing attacks on the Yiwu army, making the Yiwu army busy with coping, and they were shocked several times a day. Rest and get tired gradually.Li Keyong also ordered general Li Sizhao to lead an elite infantry army across the mountains and ridges, and went around to the back of the Yiwu army from the trail.

Three days later, Li Keyong launched a general attack from the front, and Li Sizhao attacked from behind. The [-] Yiwu army led by Li Quanzhong's son Li Kuangchou was defeated. More than a hundred riders can take off.

On July [-]th, Li Quanzhong was shocked when he learned of Yizhou's defeat, and hurriedly assembled another [-] soldiers from You, Zhuo, and Ding to defend Yizhou.

On the eighth day, Li Ke used the two counties of Louting and Bancheng in the northwest of Yizhou, and an army of [-] troops approached the city of Yizhou.Li Quanzhong refused to hold on to the city, and Shatuo's army attacked the city violently.

Just when Li Quanzhong breathed a sigh of relief, Li Quanzhong's son, Li Kuangwei, who was guarding the military capital at the northwest gate of Youzhou, suddenly sent someone to report to him.

Li Quanzhong couldn't believe it, but when he saw his son's detailed description of the army's leading generals outside the pass, saying that the [-] Shatuo troops who came to attack from outside the pass were led by two generals, Li Siyuan and Guo Chongtao, Li Quanzhong believed it.Moreover, Li Kuangwei's letter also stated that the defected general Liu Rengong and his son were also found in the Shatuo army outside the pass.

It was only at this time that Li Quanzhong realized that he had been fooled by Li Keyong. Li Keyong led [-] soldiers and horses to attack Yizhou, but in fact it was a strategy to divert the tiger away from the mountain.Li Keyong's real goal is to take down the Northwest Gate of Youzhou, and their goal is not Yizhou but Youzhou.

It's just that it was too late to know at this time, Li Quanzhong was not very strong at first, and lost to Li Jing and Yingzhou at the beginning of the year.Last time, although the oriole took over Youzhuo Erzhou later, it didn't take it down without bloodshed.In addition, Youzhou has just been captured, so it has not been fully controlled.This time Yizhou lost [-] soldiers in the first battle.The [-] he personally brought this time was drawn from the front lines of Youzhou and Junduguan.

Now that Li Ke is descending from the sky with a surprise soldier, even if Li Quanzhong knows the opponent's plan, he is helpless and has no soldiers to send.

The last time he captured Lulong Town, although he got a big deal, it also broke his alliance with Chengde Town.Now that Li Keyong is calling, how can Chengdezhen send troops to rescue him?All of a sudden, Li Quanzhong felt a little regretful. The last time he sent troops to capture Lulong Town, it seemed that he did not take advantage of it, but a disaster.

In July of the sixth year of Qianfu, the emergency messengers sent by Li Quanzhong to Chengde and Weibo towns all returned.It brought back a result that he had expected. Neither Wang Jingchong nor Han Jian sent reinforcements to help.

Li Quanzhong was caught in a dilemma.

Li Ke divided his troops into two groups, one way to attack Yizhou through Feihuxing, and the other way to attack the army.

Li Quanzhong was defeated for a while, losing more than [-] yuan, and his troops are currently stretched.What's more terrible is that Li Quanzhong still couldn't move all the soldiers and horses to the front to face the enemy. Behind him, there were two guys, Wang Jingchong and Li Jing, who were watching. (To be continued.)