Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 1593 Incorporation of Liangshan

Chapter 1591: Incorporating Liangshan

Li Jing didn't trust all the Liangshan generals who surrendered, so he let Chao Gai and Shi Jin, who had taken the initiative to surrender and could be absolutely trusted, take charge of the army.

Of course, if among the generals in charge of military power, there is not even one Liangshan surrendered general, wouldn't it be obvious that Li Jing does not trust the surrendered generals?

 Hence, Li Jing chose Lu Junyi, who was relatively more reliable, among the lowered generals.

 Compared to heroes such as Lu Zhishen, who came from an aristocratic family, Lu Junyi, who came from an aristocratic family, had to take loyalty to the emperor more seriously.

Chao Gai and Lu Junyi already had high prestige in Liangshan. After they took charge of the surrender, the Liangshan surrender quickly settled down and their sense of belonging to the Qin army doubled. They may not be able to return to their peak state for the time being, but they participated in the defense. There is absolutely no problem in the city.

With the war approaching, Li Jing decided to give them the same treatment as the regular army in order to get the Liangshan surrendered troops back home as soon as possible. It was this decision that allowed the 23,000 surrendered troops to return home completely.

The treatment of the regular soldiers of the Qin Army is the best among all princes. As long as they serve as soldiers, they will receive military pay every month. They will also distribute land to their families and enjoy a series of tax-free welfare policies. If they die in battle, they will receive generous pensions. , this is a treatment that many people want but cannot get in troubled times.

Therefore, whenever the Qin Army issued a recruitment notice, people from all over the country gathered to respond, but the number of places was always in short supply. After all, the Qin Army's establishment was limited.

As for Beihai County, since Li Jing arrived, it has only issued a recruitment announcement once, but only 10,000 people were selected from 100,000 strong men to join the army. It can be imagined how precious the quotas in the official establishment of the Qin Army are.

Liangshan Jiangjun naturally knew this, so he was even more grateful to Li Jing and cooperated more actively and proactively with the reorganization of generals such as Chao Gai, Lu Junyi and others.

The reorganization of the Liangshan surrender army is in full swing, and Wang Mang, who arrived in Liang State, has also received the news that Song Jiang was killed in battle and the main force of the Liangshan army was almost wiped out.

After learning the news, Wang Mang was furious and cursed: "Trash, Song Gongming, no, Liang Shanbo, they are all a bunch of trash."

Wang Mang had long expected that Song Jiang was no match for Li Jing, but he did not expect that Song Jiang would be so useless. He had no fewer troops than the Qin army, but he did not even last half a month before he was almost teased by Li Jing. The average one is easily defeated.

The various chain strategies used by Li Jing were not considered clever in Wang Mang's opinion. Such a long chain plan could not be without flaws. However, none of Liangshan's senior officials, including military advisor Wu Yong, saw it, and Li Jing gave them to Li Jing. After playing around and around, he finally jumped into the trap carefully woven by Li Jing.

Wang Mang didn’t know what to say about this. Is Li Jing too smart? Or are everyone in Liangshan too stupid?

Wang Mang has absolute self-confidence. If Li Jing uses such a strategy to deal with him, he will never fall into the trap. Instead, he will formulate strategies to turn defeat into victory.

What Wang Mang didn't know was that Li Jing just didn't have enough strategy to deal with Song Jiang, so he dared to use such an almost crazy show of ingenuity, because he was confident that even if there were flaws in his strategy, Song Jiang and Wu Yong wouldn't be able to find it.

But if the opponent were Wang Mang, Li Jing would naturally not use a strategy with obvious flaws. He would definitely make a tighter layout and would never let Wang Mang find out and implement it.

Below, Song Yu and Wu Yong saw Wang Mang commenting on Song Jiang and Liang Shan. Their expressions became extremely bad, but they did not dare to get angry. After all, people had to bow their heads under the eaves, and Wang Mang brought 40,000 elites. It is their last savior.

"Prime Minister Wang, although my lord is dead, the position of King Liang still needs to be succeeded by someone as soon as possible in order to stabilize the morale of the army as soon as possible."

With that said, Wu Yong pointed to Song Yu and continued: "My lord's brother, Song Yu, is both civil and military. Do you think he can inherit the throne of King Liang?"

Hearing Wu Yong's words, Wang Mang's eyes flashed with amusement, and he sneered: "Liangshan's army only has less than 10,000 soldiers left, what else is there to stabilize? Besides, how did the position of King Liang of Songjiang come about? You two have no idea. Do you want to continue the inheritance? Just rely on this mere 7,000 troops?"

Hearing what Wang Mang said, Wu Yong and Song Yu's expressions suddenly changed. Wang Mang was going to deny his position as King of Liang.

Song Yu suppressed the indignation in his heart and said bravely: "Prime Minister Wang, after all, my brother's royal title was conferred by His Majesty and recognized by the court. If my brother has no children, it is natural for him to succeed to his brother." ”

"hehe…"

Wang Mang smiled disdainfully and said: "The one your Majesty granted was Song Jiang. When he was canonized, he did not say that the title of Song Jiang could be hereditary.

Furthermore, even if the prime minister agrees to let Song Yu succeed Song Jiang as King of Liang, do you really think that Song Yu can secure this position? "

As soon as these words came out, Wu Yong, let alone Song Yu, had nothing to say. Song Jiang's ability to become the King of Liang was mainly due to the 40,000 troops in his hands, and now Song Yu only has 7,000 in his hands. It is naturally impossible to still want the king's title. After all, the price of the king's title is far more than this.

 In short, Song Yu cannot become the King of Liang.

"Although the position of King Liang cannot be inherited by Song Yu, Song Yu, you can continue to make contributions to the court. As long as you can make enough contributions to the court, the Prime Minister will personally request you to be granted the title in the future."

With that said, Wang Mang patted Song Yu on the shoulder and said with a slight smile: "From now on, Liangshan Army will be put to good use under the Prime Minister's command."

Song Yu glanced at Wu Yong and saw that the other party nodded solemnly towards him. He also understood in his heart that Wang Mang was determined to take over Liangshan. If he refused, he would probably die violently in a few days.

Song Yu endured the grievance in her heart and said with a wry smile: "Song Yu, thank you, Prime Minister Wang."

Looking at Song Yu and Wu Yong who looked respectful, Wang Mang smiled happily. Li Jing's heavy damage to Liangshan's main force was not unprofitable for him. At least if Song Jiang was still alive, he would never be able to recruit Liangshan's army so easily.

Not long after Song Yu and Wu Yong left, Zhou Yafu and Xun She came to the door aggressively because they received the news that Liangshan's remnant army had joined Wang Mang's command.

Zhou Yafu and Xun Shen were both Liu Che's confidants, so it was impossible for them to watch Wang Mang continue to pull the tiger skin of the Northern Han Dynasty to strengthen themselves, but they never expected that Wang Mang was so incompetent that he would kill them in just a few words. Sent away.

“Prime Minister Wang, don’t forget, you are still my right-hand man.” Zhou Yafu said meaningfully.

“Don’t worry, General Zhou, the truth will never be forgotten.” Wang Mang said seriously.

Zhou Yafu had nothing to say, so he turned around and left. The moment he walked out of the door, a cold light suddenly flashed in Wang Mang's eyes, but it was quickly suppressed by him.

Chen Qingzhi walked out from behind the screen and said, "My lord, now is not the time for internal fighting."

"I know."

Hearing this, Chen Qingzhi breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "My lord, Song Jiang died in the battle, and the main force of the Liangshan Army was almost completely wiped out. Now there are only 7,000 remnants left.

 The 80,000 troops expected to be dispatched before the war were now less than 50,000. It may be difficult to get rid of Li Jing. "

"Qi State dispatched 70,000 troops this time, plus our 50,000 troops, a total of nearly 130,000 troops, and Li Jing only has 40,000 Qin troops in his hands. Our army has three times the strength of the Qin army. How can we still not attack it?" Just Beihai?”

“It’s possible, but I’m afraid there will be heavy casualties.”

 Chen Qingzhi's words immediately reminded Wang Mang that he had finally saved some wealth, but he couldn't just spend it on siege warfare.

“The prime minister immediately wrote to Yuan Shao asking for help. He recruited tens of thousands of new soldiers and horses on the Bohai Sea. Although the new soldiers are still not strong in combat power, they are more than enough to serve as cannon fodder.”

 As for whether Yuan Shao will refuse? Wang Mang was not worried at all.

Li Jing has become a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of all the princes in Hebei. If he is not completely eliminated from Qingzhou, all the results achieved by the coalition forces in Hebei will be meaningless.

 So, no matter how unhappy Yuan Shao was, he could only send troops and horses to help Wang Mang first, and then return to Jizhou after completely pacifying Qingzhou.

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