Late Tang

When Li Jing drove Li Quanzhong out of Hebei, Li Sizhao could only stand by because of insufficient troops, and Wang Jingchong of Chengde Town did not take any action.Seeing that Qin Jun took over Zhuozhou from Li Quanzhong's hands calmly and easily.

Just when Li Sizhao, Wang Jingchong and others were worried and fearful that after Li Jing drove away Li Quanzhong, he would point his sword at them next, they received a letter from Li Jing unexpectedly.

Li Jing sent an envoy to send them a personal letter, pointing out that the current national crisis, the fall of the two capitals, and the emperor Xishou, Li Jing is willing to put state affairs first, turn hostility into friendship with Shatuo and Chengdezhen, clear up misunderstandings, and go to the national disaster together.In the name of righteousness, Li Jing suggested that the three families should cease fighting.Moreover, Li Jing proposed that for the lone Shatuo army in Yizhou, Li Jing would appoint Li Sizhao as the military governor of the Datong Army under the order of the Grand Marshal, and his Yizhou soldiers and horses would be organized into the Datong Army.In addition, he ordered Li Sizhao to be the vanguard envoy of the King Qin's army in Hedong, and asked him to lead Yizhou soldiers through Chengde Zhenzhou, cross Jingxing, enter Taiyuan, and go to the tent of Marshal Zheng Congyu of the Hedong coalition army in Taiyuan to listen to the order, and together they went south to King Qin.

Li Sizhao's army was trapped in Yizhou alone, and his life became more and more difficult every day, and his food and grass were almost entirely dependent on Chengde's army.The army thought of returning, and soldiers fled every day.I thought that Li Jing was going to send troops to attack Yizhou, but unexpectedly, Li Sizhao was overjoyed.

It turned out that Li Jing had previously proposed that as long as Li Sizhao handed over Yizhou to the Qin army, he would let them go back to Yanmen through Puyin and Feihu through Taihang Mountain.It's just that this proposal is obviously a malicious intention. If they hand over Yizhou to Li Jing, and then return through the dangerous passage controlled by Li Jing, needless to say, Li Jing will definitely not miss this great opportunity, and will definitely ambush on the way them.

Therefore, both Li Sizhao and Li Siyuan rejected Li Jing's proposal without hesitation.But now, Li Jing proposed to let them go home from Jingxing, and had reached an agreement with Hedong Town for them on their own initiative, which made them finally moved.Zheng Congxuan is a gentleman, and since he is willing to give way, there will be no problem.

After Li Jing's letter was delivered, Zheng Congxun of the Hedong Army soon sent a letter, expressing that as long as Li Sizhao and others were really willing to go south to King Qin, he welcomed them to join Taiyuan via Jingxing.

After Li Sizhao read the letter, he immediately summoned Li Cunzhang, Li Sien, and Li Siben generals in the Yizhou army.

"Is there any fraud?" Li Cunzhang's qualifications are older than Li Sizhao's, and he was one of the first seven generals in Yunzhou who joined Li Keyong in the army. Before Yong left, he also appointed Li Sizhao as the chief general of the Yizhou infantry.Li Cunzhang didn't have much resistance to this, but he had suffered so much under Li Jing's hands, and when he heard Li Jing's plan, he was still a little subconsciously vigilant.

Although being able to leave this ghost place does make him happy.But he suspected that this was Li Jing's trick. After all, the relationship between Zheng Congxuan and Li Jing was much better than that with Shatuo.Li Jing and Zheng Congxuan were side by side during the Battle of Daibei, and their enemy was exactly Shatuo.The last time he rebelled against the Tang Dynasty for the second time, Zheng Congxuan had already led his troops to Hezhong, and he was about to arrive in Luoyang. As a result, Li Ke used his rebellion, forcing Zheng Congxuan's Qin Wang army to collapse.It's hard to say, Zheng Congyun didn't hate them in his heart.

"To be honest, this may indeed be a conspiracy by Li Jing." Li Sizhao, who was only five feet tall and looked exceptionally short among the generals, had a shrewd look in his eyes, "However, everyone has seen our situation now. , It is impossible to fight back to Yanmen with us. And if we continue to stay here, we will never be able to stay for a long time. Fighting alone, we can't even solve the problem of food and grass, let alone the army's morale is weak."

Li Sizhao weighed carefully, "As far as I know, the Khitan coalition forces are now attacking Bohai with 20 troops, and Bohai is at stake. Bohai is not only Li Jing's ally, but also Li Jing's barrier to the northeast. He is very clear about the reason why Li Jing sent a large army north to fight The Khitan coalition forces. It is precisely because of this that Li Jing let Li Quanzhong leave with 5 people in a dignified way. Now that Li Jing proposes this plan, it is obvious that Li Jing is a bit cautious. He wants to capture Yizhou, but he doesn't want us to die. Therefore, we have this opportunity to leave. Although this place may still be a trap, there is at least a [-]% chance of leaving. This is a risk, but right now, we have to take this risk, otherwise, we will be trapped and unable to survive. Next summer, we're screwed."

"Then why did Li Jing appoint Yiguang as the Jiedu envoy of the Datong Army?" Li Cunzhang frowned, still puzzled.

Li Sizhao's face was calm, and he said to the generals: "It's very simple, this is just a trick to pick people out. Now that King Jin is missing, and his life and death are unknown, the generals of Yanmen elected Siyuan as the commander-in-chief, temporarily in charge of Yanmen Town. Li Jing previously Please give Siyuan the title of Yanmen County King and Yanmen Jiedu Envoy. Firstly, I want us to think that Siyuan really betrayed King Jin and defected to Li Jing. Second, if King Jin returns in the future, I want to It caused suspicion between the King of Jin and Siyuan. Now Li Jing has increased his envoy to the same degree, the purpose is still the same, to make us Shatuo internal discord. But in fact, Li Jing did not pay anything, Whether it is Yanmen Jiedushi or Datong Jiedushi, these two feudal towns were brought down by our Shatuo army, so what has he to do with it?"

Having said that, Li Sizhao actually had to admit that Li Jing's simple trick had indeed had a great impact on them.After Li Keyong disappeared, Li Siyuan defeated the Datong army, captured Yunshuo and two states in a row, and imprisoned Duyuhou Li Cunxin, and became the commander-in-chief.

Li Sizhao and other generals in Yizhou couldn't help but have some doubts in their hearts. Is all this an expedient policy, or is it because Li Siyuan saw that the King of Jin disappeared and his wife was captured, and now he wants to replace the King of Jin with the prestige of the new Datong Army? Woolen cloth.Because of this, Li Sizhao and others did not publicly express their support for Li Siyuan's appointment as the commander-in-chief for a long time.

If King Jin really died in battle, maybe it would be better.But now that King Jin is alive or dead, Li Sizhao has to be extra careful.

"Yiguang wants to accept Li Jing's proposal, even the official position he asked for?" Li Si'en asked.As we all know, King Jin is not here, and now Li Siyuan is actually in charge of Shatuo.Li Jing asked Li Siyuan to be the envoy of Yanmen Jiedu, but he also single-handedly defeated the Datong Army and controlled Datong Town at the same time.If Li Sizhao accepted the Datong Jiedu envoy that Li Jing invited for him, it would undoubtedly be a challenge to Li Siyuan's authority.

What would Li Siyuan think?They had not publicly supported Li Siyuan's temporary command of Shatuo before, and now Li Sizhao was going to serve as the military envoy of the Datong Army. This would undoubtedly give Li Siyuan a lot of thoughts, and even the soldiers of Shatuo would misunderstand that the upper echelons were divided.

"I know that Li Jing just wants to create suspicion and strife among us, and finally wants us to split up. Logically, I shouldn't accept the position of Datong Jiedushi, but I need to accept him. It's not because I'm greedy for power, You are so familiar with me, you know that I am not such a person. It's just that King Jin hasn't come back yet, so we have to look after the family for King Jin."

"You doubt Siyuan?" Li Siben asked in surprise.

"It's not suspicion, but prevention! If Siyuan has no such intentions, that's the best. If it happens, if it happens, we can stop him." Li Sizhao said.Li Cunzhang and the others bowed their heads in silence, seeming to agree or bewildered.But in the end, no one said anything.

Maybe they can give it a try, if Li Siyuan is really self-reliant, then they really need to prepare early.If not, there is no harm in being careful.

The determined Yizhou generals immediately began to prepare for the evacuation. It would not be easy to withdraw tens of thousands of people to Hedong.At least the food along the way had to be prepared, and care had to be taken to prevent Li Jing from changing his mind midway and taking the opportunity to attack by surprise.On the other hand, Li Sizhao had to immediately send a messenger to Yunzhou to report the information here to Li Siyuan.

Li Sizhao and the others didn't know that the Qin army seems to be extremely powerful today, and that they didn't need a single soldier to drive Li Quanzhong out of Hebei. They didn't know that the Qin army was actually facing countless difficulties, and they didn't dare to fight them decisively. .What they saw was the rapid expansion of the Qin army's power, defeating Li Keyong, capturing Liu Yuniang alive, defeating Dongxi, driving away Li Quanzhong, and scaring Wang Jingchong away.

The current situation is like that although Li Jing is a fierce tiger, he is actually a sick and weak tiger. He looks mighty, but he is actually a bit strong on the outside, and even though Shatuo and Chengde Towns are hungry wolves, they are Several wolves stood together.The two sides have mutual scruples, and neither dares to be tough.

As a result, Li Jing, the tiger, howled in the forest pretending to be a tiger, and Sha Tuo, the hungry wolf, was the first to show timidity, not daring to hold on, and flinched first.

A few days later, Li Sizhao officially took over the positions of Jiedu Envoy of the Datong Army and Pioneer Envoy of the Hedong Camp. .The official position Li Jing requested for Li Sizhao was almost the same as that of Li Siyuan.

The Shatuo tribe lost the leader of Li Keyong, but now they have two leaders at once.

After accepting the appointment, Li Sizhao led 2 Shatuo troops and 5 civilians who were forcibly recruited to accompany the army. A total of [-] horses slowly evacuated Yizhou, entered Zhenzhou via Dingzhou, and finally entered Taiyuan, Hedong via Jingxing, and joined forces with Zheng Congxuan and others. The coalition forces of the various towns in Hedong joined forces and went to Zheng Congyu's tent to listen to orders.According to the agreement, Li Sizhao and others who had returned to Hedong could not immediately go to Datong Town to take office. He had to lead the army to go south with Zheng Congxun to counterattack Luoyang.

Now these Shatuo soldiers who followed Li Sizhao back to Hedong are in a state of distress. From entering Hebei aggressively at the beginning, to now leaving in a state of disgrace, the morale of the army has dropped to the extreme.The Shatuo army who arrived in the outskirts of Taiyuan looked three parts human and seven parts ghosts, but they finally left the days when they had to worry about their burdens and waited for the day, and their clothes could not be undressed.

Thinking of being able to leave the desperate situation in Yizhou, Hebei, these Shatuo infantrymen loudly thanked Changshengtian for his blessing.

Everyone is very clear that if they continue to stay in such a lonely and dangerous place like Yizhou, they will definitely have to die there in the end.

Li Sizhao's camp in Qincheng, Taigu County, Taiyuan.

This is Taigu County, south of Jinyang City, Taiyuan Prefecture. It is located in the south of Taiyuan, close to the borders of Fen, Qin, Lu, and Yizhou, but separated from Xinzhou controlled by Yanmen Town by the entire Taiyuan Prefecture.Although Zheng Congxuan puts state affairs first and is willing to trust the Shatuo people one more time and let Li Sizhao pass Jingxing, it does not mean that he is confused.Although he asked Li Sizhao to come back, he placed his soldiers and horses in the southernmost part of Taiyuan, next to the camps of Zhuzhen. If Li Sizhao wanted to break the contract and return to Yanmen, it would be almost impossible.

"Your Majesty, General Si Zhao and the others are leaving." In the camp of 2 auxiliary soldiers and civilians next to the Shatuo camp, and in the camp of artisans in the corner of the camp, Mi Rong slipped into the tent beside him with a lame leg. In the middle, he whispered to a scar-faced man with a sheep towel around his head.

There was a terrifying scar on the face of the scar-faced man with newly grown red flesh. It seemed that the wound had hurt his eye at the beginning. One of his eyes was slightly closed, cloudy and lifeless, but he was half-blind.He raised his head, but this person was indeed Li Keyong, the black crow who had been missing for many days.

I'm afraid no one would have imagined that Qin Jun and Jin Jun couldn't find him even though they broke through their iron shoes, and he had already arrived in Taiyuan at this time.And he actually hid in the Shatuo army, and he was still a craftsman in the civilian camp.

Li Keyong did not go west to Yanmen after he recovered from his injuries in hiding in the Weizhou Mountain Pass.The Qin army sent too many soldiers to search and intercept in that direction. Li Ke took the risk to go the other way, disguised as ordinary people, and followed many war-torn refugees into Hebei and then to Yizhou.

But when he arrived in Yizhou and was about to find Li Sizhao, he suddenly heard the news that Li Sizhao had reached an agreement with Li Jing to hand over Yizhou to Li Jing, and then exchanged it for the Datong Army Jiedushi, the Datong County King's He was able to return to Hedong from Jingxing guarded by Zheng Congxuan, and he will serve the court, send troops to serve the king, and serve under Zheng Congxuan's command.

Although he couldn't believe it, after secretly inquiring, Lao Kang and the others confirmed that the news was true.

After thinking for a long time, Li Keyong did not go to see Li Sizhao directly, but continued to hide his identity, and finally returned to Hedong from Yizhou with the Yizhou Shatuo Army as a civilian husband.Along the way, Li Ke kept his identity strictly confidential. Except for a few personal guards around him, no one knew that the old scar in the craftsman camp of the auxiliary barracks was actually their king!

Li Ke used to deliberately hide his identity, plus the horrible scar on his face, plus he took off the blindfold and pretended to be a craftsman, so until now, no one has discovered his true identity.

After adding that scar on his face, Li Keyong looked more and more ugly, adding a bit of fierceness to him out of thin air.

Throwing down the ax in his hand, Li Ke sat on the ground with a gloomy face, "No, it's not the time to reveal your identity yet."

The last defeat dealt a heavy blow to Li Keyong.Not to mention the defeat, he almost died, and now his wife and brothers have all fallen into Li Jing's hands, and his daughter and eldest son have also become Li Jing's hostages.

And the two adopted sons he trusted the most, Li Jing asked the court to confer official positions on their behalf one after another. One was the Yanmen Jiedu envoy, the other was the Datong Jiedu envoy. The king of the county, a king of Datong.One is the commander of Shatuo, and the other is the governor of Shatuo.

Have they betrayed themselves?Li Ke didn't know, and he didn't want to act recklessly anymore, because he couldn't afford to lose anymore! (To be continued.)