The army of the hundred battles captured the three passes, almost without much effort, and the army rested outside the three passes for half a day that day, and set off the next day, and the troops pointed directly at Maocheng.

Before the army was about to set out, Li Congjing wanted to send another person to go first, and this person was not going to Maocheng, but in the opposite direction, in order to escort this person to complete the task, Li Congjing transferred all three hundred gentlemen out and accompanied him.

Since the attack on Huaizhou last year, in addition to looting military funds, he has always accompanied him, and has also played the role of charging into battle with Li Congjing, and its importance is self-evident. At this time, Li Congjing transferred all the gentlemen out, which shows the importance of this person's mission.

Dawn, the rising sun.

In front of the barracks, the three hundred gentlemen stood solemnly, and the war horses occasionally snorted, and Li Congjing personally saw them off.

"You are alone, there are thousands of difficulties and dangers, it is difficult to explain, but the task of this trip is so arduous that no one can take on its responsibilities except for you. When you wait for this trip, you should remember my words, avoid towns and villages, and let your rangers go all the way, but if there are enemy scouts, you must not lose one, even if you touch the people, you must not let go, so as to keep your whereabouts from being revealed. Li Congjing's expression was extremely solemn, and his voice was low, "Secrecy is the key to the success of this trip." ”

"Childe, rest assured, I will live up to your high expectations!" The gentleman commanded Meng Ping to assure.

Li Congjing nodded, looked at the person in front of him again, his voice softened invisibly, and said: "Now that Mo is in Zezhou, the military intelligence department is temporarily in command of you, Li Rong and Wu Changjian are in place, and after you arrive, you will organize and start acting." In addition, Meng Ping is also at your disposal. ”

The glow hit her face, Tao Yaoyao's cheeks looked red, she rubbed a handful of messy long hair, and said casually: "You have said these things, you don't need to tell them again." After speaking, he glanced at Li Congjing, and said, "When did you become such a mother-in-law?" ”

Li Congjing groaned, resisted the urge to beat Tao Xiaoxiao, and said to the fifth girl beside her: "The safety of Commander Tao is handed over to you, and when you see you next time, you can't miss a hair." ”

"Yes! Rest assured, general! The fifth girl was in good spirits, her pink fists clenched, and her tone was sonorous.

Li Congjing waved his hand: "Let's go!" ”

Tao Yaoyao waited to turn over and get on the horse, and before leaving, he glanced at Li Congjing and looked forward to it.

Seeing everyone stepping away, Zhang Xiaowu wondered: "Where are they going?" ”

Li Congjing spit out two words: "Huaizhou." ”

Zhang Xiaowu was stunned.

"All the commanders, the army is ready, do you want to set off immediately?" Meng San came over and asked.

Li Congjing turned over and said, "Open up!" ”

Two days later, the army arrived at Maocheng.

Ordered to set up camp and make preparations before the siege, Li Congjing asked people to bring Li Li up from Sanguan Town.

"You go and persuade you to surrender, if you can succeed, it will be a great achievement." Li Congjing said to Li Li.

"Sin will command!" Li Li hugged Li Congjing's fist, and accompanied by two Li Congjing's own soldiers, rode out of the camp, raised the flag and went all the way to the Maocheng City Gate.

Restraining the horse, Li Li shouted to the head of the city: "Li Li, the general of Sanguan Town, please ask Qian Fu from Maocheng Town to answer!" ”

shouted several times in a row, before the city gate was opened, a general went to the city wall, looked down at Li Li under the city, and casually hugged his fists and said: "General Li, don't come unharmed!" ”

"General Qian, it's been a long time." Li Li clasped his fists and shouted, "Come today, the commander of the Mengwang Division will order General Li Congjing to ask General Qian to abandon the darkness and turn to the light." That Li Jitao treasoned and surrendered to the enemy, he is a traitor and disloyal, and it is not worth dying for him, now that the king has arrived, and the pacification of Luzhou is only just around the corner, why doesn't General Qian welcome the king into the city? ”

Qian Fu snorted coldly, and even pointed at Li Li and scolded.

Li Li persuaded him with good words, but Qian Fu didn't listen, and finally drew a bow and an arrow, and shot down with an arrow, almost shooting Li Li off his horse, and said proudly: "The vertical son is not a man, how can he be a traitor, go back quickly and tell Li Congjing, if he has the courage, he will come to attack the city!" ”

"This Qian Fu relies on 800 town troops, and he will not surrender to death, the crime will be incompetent, please punish the general!" Li Li retreated in embarrassment and pleaded guilty to Li Congjing.

Li Congjing said nothing more and ordered the siege of the city.

The Hundred Battles Army, which had already been arrayed, forced towards Maocheng, stood in front of the city without attacking, and the catapult bombarded a section of its city wall according to Li Congjing's instructions.

After some time, the city wall collapsed for a while, and Meng San led people into the city through the gap.

After a fierce battle for half an hour, the soldiers of Maocheng killed Qian Fu and surrendered.

As usual, Li Congjing gathered the army and filled the battalion with a military armor equipment in the city, he didn't even plan to let go of the money, but Wei Dao reminded that the captured armor equipment was used by the army to attack Luzhou, and it was impossible to say that he could not rob the money, so Li Congjing gave up.

The Hundred Battles Army suffered dozens of casualties, and had to surrender hundreds of troops, rested outside the city for two days, reorganized and surrendered the army, and then led the army to the last target, Qinghe.

At Qinghe, Li Congjing did not order the bombardment of the city walls with catapults, but let the army fight a tough battle. In less than half a day, the green river broke.

Two days later, the army marched all the way to Luzhou and camped at the foot of the city. A day later, Li Shaocheng, who had conquered the three cities all the way, led his troops to arrive. The task, which was originally planned to be completed in 20 days, was now completed in almost half the time.

The two divisions met in one place, counted the casualties, and counted the seizures.

"After this battle, the army had to surrender two thousand soldiers, four hundred horses, some armor and equipment, and some rations. Our army suffered nearly 300 casualties, most of which saved their lives due to timely treatment, and less than half of them were killed in battle. After summarizing the data from all aspects, Weidao quickly cleared up the results and reported to Li Congjing in the big tent, "According to the prior military order of the commander, only one team of men and horses will be left in each town of Luzhou to maintain order, and the rest will follow the army." ”

Li Congjing took off his helmet and put it on the desk, disturbed his itchy scalp that had not been cleaned for several days on the march, and said: "Pass the order, the seriously wounded will be sent back to Qimen, and the lightly wounded will be placed on the spot for treatment." The two thousand soldiers were handed over to Peng Zushan and asked him to step up ideological education, and then they were reorganized into four commanders, which were temporarily under his control, and this matter was completed here in the past two days. ”

The towns and towns of Luzhou are generally the army of the Jin State, and now Li Jitao is a traitor, and the transformation of these people is not too laborious, and they can be used with a little education.

In this way, with the addition of 3,500 people under the seven commanders of the Hundred Battle Army when they left Qimen, the strength of Li Congjing's troops has now risen to 11 commanders and 5,500 people. Among them, the headquarters of the Hundred Battles Army is the main force, and the combat strength of the temporary war battalion is secondary.

In the next few days, the Hundred Battles Army was stationed outside Luzhou City, showing off their might, and transforming and reorganizing the soldiers under their noses, which can be regarded as an ideological offensive.

Li Jitao brought the main force of the Anyi army to Zezhou, and the Anyi army defending Luzhou was only more than 1,000 people, which could not pose a threat to the Hundred Battles Army.

Three days later, Li Congjing convened a meeting of the generals and announced the next course of action.

"Commander, this time you're going to attack Luzhou, right? Haha, the last general can't wait for a long time, just wait for the commander to give an order, and the last general will lead people to rush up! The generals gathered in the big tent of the Chinese army, and Meng San shouted excitedly as soon as he came in.

"If you want to attack the city, we will go first, what are you in a hurry to call?" Li Shaocheng laughed and said, the big victory in the past few days has made him feel quite good, and at this time, when Li Congjing has not yet spoken, he is competing to be the first.

Meng San was not convinced, "General Li, you are all horse troops, and my Meng San Department is the infantry army, of course the infantry army is here to attack the city, you can sweep the battle for me on both sides!" ”

Li Shaocheng pouted, "My horse army, you can fight on horseback, you can fight on foot, you are proficient in everything, don't believe you to try?" ”

Li Congjing originally sat in the back of the general press and did not move, but looking at this posture, all the way to attack the city and pull out the village, the morale of the generals was obviously high, at this time Li Shaocheng and Meng San actually entertained themselves, and had to stop them loudly, and said: "Okay, don't fight, who said that the envoy was going to attack Luzhou?" ”

Li Shaocheng and Meng San looked at Li Congjing in surprise at the same time, puzzled: "Don't attack Luzhou?" Where to attack Luzhou without attacking it? ”

Li Congjing scolded: "Look at your virtue, it's just to conquer a few hundred military towns, and you are proud of it, standing and not sitting, the big tent of the Chinese army is in a mess, not to mention the elite division, do you still have a little bit of regular army?!" ”

Li Congjing rarely scolded, and when he was angry, everyone immediately fell silent, silently divided into two rows, and no longer exchanged heads.

Morale is high, so arrogance is not beautiful, it is Li Congjing who beats one or two. Seeing that the generals were standing, Li Congjing spoke with a straight face: "Guanluzhou's defenders' lineup, its strength is only more than 1,000, and it is not difficult to conquer Luzhou with our army's siege equipment and sharp soldiers." But Li Jitao is defenseless for me to attack Luzhou, how do you know that there are no hidden soldiers in his city? ”

The city of Luzhou is thick, so naturally it is not something that a catapult can collapse.

Li Congjing continued: "Moreover, Zezhou is only a few days away from here, and Li Jitao will return to help, although the defeat will not be great, but this Luzhou will not be able to be captured. wasted so much effort, just to vent the meal and ate too much white strength? Besides, Dong Zhang can still besiege Zezhou, but the situation in Zezhou is still unsolvable. Once I go to attack Dong Zhang, Li Jitao can hit me in the back, so wouldn't he be in a dangerous situation? ”

Meng San's face turned red, and he clenched his fists and said angrily: "The last general is speechless, but he is punished by commanding him!" ”

Li Congjing said coldly: "There is no need to punish, but you have to remember that you are a general, and you must think twice before doing everything!" ”

"Yes, the last will remember!"

Originally the secretary in charge, because of the expedition added as the guard of the marching Sima, at this time came out to sing a double reed with Li Congjing, he said: "Is it feasible to lead the army to directly attack Li Dong's coalition army and cooperate with Zezhou inside and outside?" ”

Li Congjing shook his head and said: "It's not a secret that the Hundred Battles Army went on the expedition, how can Li Dong's coalition army be defenseless against our move?" Even if the precautions are not strict, whether or not we can defeat Li Dong's coalition army is a tragic victory, and it is not what I want! ”

"Then according to the command of the capital, what should we do?" Wei Dao asked.

Li Congjing said: "Zelu is well guarded, why do you and I want to bite these two places?" If you want to fight, I'll go to a place they don't expect! ”

"What do you mean?" Wei Dao also wondered at this time.

Li Congjing showed a sinister smile and said, "Huaizhou." ”