Horse on the World

Chapter 842
Li Qing, who walked down the altar, held a stick of fresh incense in both hands, walked to the incense table, bowed three times, and inserted the burning incense into the incense burner. The iron leopard was by his side, holding a tray in his hand. There are wine glasses and jugs, and on the incense table, there are all three animals.

Filling up the wine glass, Li Qing picked it up one by one, raised it high over his forehead, bowed to the ground, and then lightly poured the wine in the glass on the incense table.Poured another cup and held it in his hand, Li Qing said loudly: "Brothers, come on, cheers!" He raised his neck and drank it down.

Across the incense table, Li Qing stepped heavily on the position of the year, and slowly squatted down on the ground. It had just rained and the ground was extremely soft. Li Qing plunged his hands into the soil, scooped up a handful of soil, and threw it on the ground. side.

"My lord!" Iron Leopard handed over a marching shovel.

Li Qing shook his head and continued to dig down with his hands. The accompanying generals were unmoved. Iron Leopard knelt down on one knee without a word, and followed Li Qing to dig out the soil with both hands. Lu Dalin came, Tian Feng came, Wei Xin came, Lu Dabing came, Li Wen came, and everyone gathered around Li Qing, digging up the soil with both hands.

There was a slight pause in his hand, Li Qing felt something touched on his hand, carefully and slowly removed the dirt on it, a skull appeared in front of their eyes, seeing the remains of soldiers, several generals Quickly speed up, a moment later, a foot deep underground, a mutilated skeleton appeared in front of everyone, the bones of this fallen soldier were missing a left leg and an arm.

After pawing a few more times, they all stopped in shock, because under the soldier's body, they could already vaguely see the bones of the soldiers layer by layer.

A piece of white cloth was spread on the ground, and Qi Ba stretched out his hands. Although he was extremely careful, the bones still shattered.

Li Qing silently stared at the skeleton on the ground, two tears fell on the skeleton, and slowly stood up.

"Soldiers, start digging!"

On the edge of the Tuojiang River, pieces of firewood were stacked neatly and poured with grease, waiting to cremate the remains of these fallen soldiers. After the skeletons were put on the firewood stack, the firewood was lit. In the midst of the raging flames, these remains were gradually reduced to ashes.

In the battle that year, apart from the names of the dead in Dingzhou's soldier roster, the bones piled up here can no longer tell who is who. Each wing, each sentry is divided into roughly classified, the soldiers of each sentry are cremated collectively, the ashes are packed together, and then the names of these soldiers are marked on the outside of the urn, so that when they are transported back to Dingzhou in the future, these soldiers The relatives left by the soldiers can pay homage to them.

"My lord, it will take a few more days for the matter here to be dealt with. You should go back first! My lord takes care of everything every day, and I personally come here to pay homage to the dead soldiers. Those soldiers who know it will smile happily." Li Wen said softly. road.

Li Qing nodded, "Let's go, let the Iron Leopard stay here, and supervise the soldiers to dig up the bones here and cremate them. No one is allowed to be left behind. We must take every brother's ashes back to Dingzhou."

"Yes, my lord!"

After crossing the Tuojiang River, Li Qing returned to Quancheng under the escort of the Changsheng Battalion, and the ashes of all the soldiers here will be transported back to Quancheng by the Black Eagle warship, and then transported back to Dingzhou by land to enter the Hall of Heroes.

Although he only left for a day, there were already hundreds of various documents and military newspapers. After returning to Quancheng, Li Qing immediately started to deal with these government and military affairs. The military newspapers from Guo Quan's headquarters were very simple, basically They are all documents of victory. After Guo Quan joined the army of He Ping and Zhang Zhuyuan, the number has reached [-]. In Shenzhou, except for some local garrison troops, there are almost no regular troops. The children of the Zeng family were escorted by the soldiers of the Fengli camp, and they were dispatched to various places. They said that the local officials and gentry who had left the Zeng family in Shenzhou and other places were progressing very smoothly. General Shen has no place to stand. The officials sent by King Ning in the past were almost oiled on the soles of their feet after learning that the front line was defeated, and fled. A few diehards clamored to organize local defenses and the pitiful regular army to resist Dingzhou army, but in response to Liao Liao, with the arrival of these Zeng's children, these people were all killed by the local government, and their heads were sent to the Dingzhou army.

It took Guo Quan a very short time to join forces with Zhang Zhuyuan in Shenzhou City. Ge Zexin, the former governor of Shenzhou and the minister sent by King Ning, had already fled away. surrender.

By the end of April, the entire territory of Shenzhou had been surrendered to Dingzhou. With the help of Zeng's children to appease and appease the area, Shenzhou was unexpectedly calm. People of insight have already realized that Liaoshen is about to change hands. Over the years, Liaoshen has been the banner of the king of change at the top of the city. After you sing, I will appear on the stage. , Li Qing came again, everyone was a little numb.

Guo Quan will rest for more than ten days in Shenzhou, and then move his troops to approach Liaozhou.

The news from Qinzhou is a bit worrying. A large number of new troops transferred by Shang Haibo to Qingxing began to attack Guoshanfeng tentatively, while the other part advanced from Qingzhou to the southern hinterland. The troops in their hands were stretched thin, so they had to withdraw from Yaqueling, and the troops shrank to the area of ​​Xiaoai River, guarding the line of defense from Huting to Xiaoai River.In order to support Chen Zeyue, Wang Qinian's troops have already entered the whole prefecture, which also makes Guo Shanfeng's troops even more tense.Li Tuizhi in Yizhou has already started to mobilize all his staff so that when necessary, he can form a reserve army to support the mountain wind. The problem is that this will affect the spring plowing that has already started.

While in Minzhou, Qian Duo, Chen Zeyue's subordinate, raided Qingyang. Using Qian Duo's deep connections in Qingyang, he cooperated with the inside and outside, and pulled down Qingyang in one fell swoop. However, Liao Bin, who was stationed in Qingyang, escaped. On the fifty-mile defense line, according to the defense line, Zhang Aimin provided massive support, and the two sides began a tug-of-war, and for a while, a stalemate formed.

Then there are the government affairs reports sent by Lu Yiming and other cabinets. Through these reports, Li Qing learned that the national treasury is extremely depleted. Now that Zhouzhou is fighting in several directions at the same time, the money will be spent like flowing water. No matter how much money you earn, you can't stand up to such spending. Lu Yiming and others have begun to urge Li Qing to quickly end the Eastern War, so that The state no longer has to invest a lot of money in Liaoshen.

All of this made Li Qing extremely troubled. At Liaoshen's side, it seems that military expenses can only be raised by himself. Here, Lu Feng, Lu Dalin, and the tens of thousands of soldiers under Guo Quan's command add up. There are a total of nearly 20 troops. This is the main force to attack the south in the future. They will definitely not be able to withdraw. Liaoshen has been severely damaged over the years, and it is also quite difficult to raise enough military expenses. It seems that only some wealthy families can be used to solve the problem. It's urgent.

This matter is handed over to the Overwatch Council. They have a lot of ways to knock out money. Li Qing wrote a reply. It seems that it is time for him to return to Dingzhou. After the fall, Lu Dalin and Tian Feng are here to handle the initial work.

With Lu Dalin as the main force and Tian Feng as the deputy, they prepared to attack the south in two ways. Li Qing made a plan in his mind. The two generals are handsome talents who can stand alone, but there must be an overall command, and let Lu Dalin be the commander. At the same time, Tian Feng was given a certain degree of autonomy, so that they could give full play to their respective advantages and win the South as soon as possible.

After reviewing hundreds of documents in a row, Li Qing stretched his waist a lot. Being the lord is really hard work. There are endless meetings every day, and endless memorials. Now, more than half of his life is dealing with copywriting. Now, galloping on the battlefield, wielding a knife and fighting bloody battles, you are getting farther and farther away from yourself.

Opening the curtains, I saw that the sky was already slightly bright. I sat there reading the copy without realizing it, but it was already a night. When I opened the window, a cool breeze blew over, which made Li Qing's spirit involuntarily lifted.

A burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside, Li Qing frowned, such a hurried footstep, could it be that something happened again?

"My lord, my lord!" The door was pushed open, and Li Wen walked in, "My lord, there is a happy event!"

Seeing Li Wen's smile, Li Qing said with a smile: "There are so many happy events these days, what makes you so happy?"

Li Wen said with a smile: "My lord will be very happy if you tell me."

"Since it will definitely make me very happy, why don't you say it quickly, what a detour!" Li Qing blamed authentically, but he was thinking in his heart what would make him happy?

"General Tang Huhu has returned from Taiwan Island, and now he has arrived at the port of Quancheng, and the port is flying a horse to report." Li Wen said loudly.

"What did you say?" Li Qing almost couldn't believe his ears, "Who did you say came back?"

"General Tiger is back!" Li Wen shouted. "After General Tiger arrived at Anshun Port in Liaozhou City from Taiwan Island, he knew that the lord was still in Quancheng, so he asked General Deng for a warship and traveled all the way up the river. He just arrived this morning."

Li Qing was overjoyed, and started to walk out, "This tiger, who has been on Taiwan Island for so long, doesn't he know the danger of sailing at night? Cheng Ran is still so daring to walk by water at night!" Now that he has arrived , There must have been no rest last night, the ships were on their way overnight, presumably Tang Hu saw that they were getting closer to Quancheng, so he forced the sailors to sail at night.

"My lord, my lord, it's still cold outside with your cloak!" Seeing that Li Qing had rushed out of the door, Li Wen quickly picked up Li Qing's cloak and hurriedly followed.

"Guards, guards! Prepare your horse!" Li Wen shouted as he ran out.

When Li Qing ran out of the door, the soldiers had already led their horses and waited by the door. Dozens of guards stood by the side. Li Qing got on his horse and took the cloak from Li Wen's hand. Horses, gallop forward.

(End of this chapter)