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Li Jing woke up very early, and when he opened his eyes, he found that Gongsun Lan beside him was in front of the dresser and applied yellow to the mirror. The silver wolf Xiaoyue was already wagging her tail and squatting in front of his bed, whining at him. Look at the hour, it is already the morning sun.

Li Jing secretly exclaimed that last night was too ridiculous and playful, and hurriedly got up and dressed and wore a hat, today is his big day to marry Zhang Hui, and there are too many things to be busy with.

It's always so troublesome to comb the loose bun, and Li Jing was impatiently annoyed a few times, planning to leave it at that. was about to put on the veil, but his wrist was pinched by Gongsun Lan, who came from the lotus step, "Sit down, how can you comb like this." She pressed Li Jing's shoulder, and Li Jing sat down obediently. Looking at the woman in the bright bronze mirror, her long and dense eyelashes covered her eyes, but Li Jing still vaguely saw the wetness in the corners of her eyes.

Gongsun Lan carefully moistened Li Jing's long and black hair with a twisted hot towel, and then combed it carefully with an ivory comb, and the soft green onion and white jade fingers ran through the hair, and the breath like an orchid swept faintly over the top of Li Jing's hair.

Li Jing closed his eyes, enjoying this rare sweetness and warmth. Gongsun Lan came all the way from Chang'an, but immediately knew about his marriage to Zhang Hui, this matter is afraid that it will have a great impact on her, and Li Jing can feel the pain from her hands.

The bun was carefully combed, and Gongsun Lan held it and looked at it, it was flawless. Thereupon. She smiled. The man who stared carefully at himself in the mirror. Li Jing in the mirror closed his eyes lightly. has been with Gongsun Lan for a long time, and the two have gradually developed a relationship.

"Okay, this is the groom official of Yushu Linfeng, graceful and proud!" Although Gongsun Lan said this with a smile, the hand that fell on Li Jing's shoulder involuntarily tightened a little, and even grabbed Li Jing a little painfully.

Li Jing sighed faintly: "In a few days, after returning to Dengzhou, I will also welcome you to the beginning." Give you a name! ”

There were cold teardrops falling on Li Jing's neck, and these words made Gongsun Lan's heavy mood suddenly lighten a lot.

chuckled, pear blossoms with rain.

"San Lang, you don't have to say it. The body of the crippled willow is able to serve Lang Jun occasionally, and he is already very happy to be favored. Now that I'm content, I don't need to say anything superfluous. ”

Li Jing was silent, so he could only wrap his backhand around the beauty's jade neck and turn around and kiss it lightly.

"Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong have already arrived in Chenliu. The Zhaoyi Army Jiedu made Du Xianquan lead 5,000 Zhaoyi Army, Heyang Jiedu made Li Zhuo lead 5,000 Heyang Army, Du Xian led 5,000 Dongdu Army, Zhongwu Jiedu made Cui Anqian lead 5,000 Zhongwu Army, and Yicheng Army Jiedu made Li Chong lead 5,000 Yicheng Army. The Xuanwu Army led 5,000 Xuanwu troops, and Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong each led 5,000 personal guards to converge. The six towns plus Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong fought 40,000 soldiers, including 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 foot soldiers. These soldiers and horses are very well equipped, and among the 40,000 people, 20,000 belong to the imperial court during this period to supplement the soldiers and horses in various towns, and the armament is excellent. ”

After being silent for a while, Gongsun Lan took the initiative to break the silence and reported the information collected by Meihuamen to Li Jing.

"Among the 40,000 soldiers, there are 10,000 cavalry, which is two and a half. Moreover, of these 40,000 people, 20,000 are actually Shence Army, it seems that they are very strong. Li Jing pinched his chin and groaned, the soldiers and horses of the coalition army exceeded Li Jing's expectations. Li Jing originally thought that the four towns of Zhaoyi, Heyang, Zhongwu, and Yicheng had participated in the Battle of Daibei four times, and they had all suffered heavy losses, and they thought that they would not be able to recover in a year, but now they could take out 5,000 soldiers to fight so quickly.

Gongsun Lan laughed: "You think too highly of them, 40,000 soldiers are called to the outside world, although there are actually so many of them, but they are not as elite as you imagined." The 20,000 divine troops, of which 10,000 are the personal guards of Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong, their strength is still good, and they are their henchmen. But the other 10,000 is not good, those are basically the subordinates of Tian Lingzi such as Ximen Sigong, but the forbidden army in that army is mostly the children of the wealthy families of Chang'an, or the rich are only exempted from service. As soon as they heard that Tian Lingzi was not only going to drive them to the Kanto, but also to go to the battlefield, those Shence troops in Beijing refused at that time. Although it is now all counted in all towns, in reality, it is not the case. ”

During this time, she was the actual deputy of the Zhenguo Army's Beijing Jinju Academy, and she has been staying in Beijing to explore intelligence, plant spies, and develop insider hidden stakes. The matter in Beijing was very clear, Tian Lingzi eliminated dissent, wantonly purged the Shence army, transferred tens of thousands of Shence troops to various towns, nominally strengthened the strength of each town, but in fact eliminated dissent. However, how could those people in the capital be willing to leave the capital, although their arms could not withstand Tian Lingzi's thighs, they had strategies and countermeasures. Soon, these forbidden troops in Chang'an came up with an idea and asked someone to replace it.

Many of the officers and men of the Shence Army who were transferred out of Beijing sent their family members out of Beijing under their names, and some even went directly to Chang'an Avenue to pull beggars home, give them a sum of money, and then let them go out of Beijing instead.

"Some time ago, the beggars in Chang'an were almost empty, and many prisoners were also bribed to go out in their places. In addition to the Shence Army in these six towns, about 30,000 Shence troops in Beijing were transferred out of Beijing this time, and about 30,000 vacancies were also found. The 150,000 Shence army in Gyeonggi was suddenly reduced by 80,000, and during this time, Tian Lingzi was recruiting troops day and night, and a large number of henchmen were planted. ”

Hearing such news, Li Jing couldn't help but be very surprised, "Instead of going out of Beijing, doesn't the imperial court know what to do?" ”

"Of course, I know the way, the whole Chang'an is in turmoil, how can I not know the way. But Tian Lingzi doesn't care about this matter, or he can't manage it, where can other people manage it. Besides, Tian Lingzi is grabbing the control of the Shence Army, as long as the position is vacant, how can he take care of such trivial matters as going out of Beijing. This time, Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong still had the 20,000 forbidden troops in the hands of the six towns, but in fact, the real army was only five or six thousand, and they were actually replaced by impostors. Gongsun sneered.

Li Jing shook his head when he heard this, "How can you still have combat effectiveness like this?" An army of beggars, householders, prisoners, slaves, etc., is probably worse than grass thieves. In this way, they still dare to send troops to Caozhou in a hurry? ”

"What don't they dare, they saw that you only relied on the strength of the Zhenguo Army to defeat 100,000 grass thieves in a battle, and they were envious. Now everyone is spreading that the grass thieves are just a rabble, homeless. Not to mention the six towns joining forces, even if it is a single town, they feel that they have the chance to win. What's more, they are more than these 40,000 horses. The Six Towns have mobilized as many as 60,000 auxiliaries to go on the campaign. For each soldier, there are two auxiliaries. Together, as many as 100,000 people, I estimate that Ximen Sigong and others must now think that one person can drown Huangchao Wang Xianzhi with a mouthful of spit. ”

40,000 soldiers, 60,000 auxiliaries! Li Jing nodded, this amount, as long as it can be stabilized and advanced step by step, it should indeed be enough to deal with the current Huang Chao. However, will they be steady? Li Jing was skeptical.

"What's going on over there? Any specific news? Li Jing asked.

Gongsun Lan nodded: "Huangchao's side has been attacking fiercely recently, they have already taken the city of Caozhou Prefecture Jiyin City and the city of Puzhou Prefecture Juancheng, and then scattered troops and horses to plunder the villages of Cao, Pu, Yun, Ji and Huazhou counties. After Wang Xianzhi's defeat, he fled to Huangchao in Caozhou. Now Huang Chao has begun to gather soldiers and horses, and the soldiers and horses of Slip and Jeerzhou have been withdrawn. Huangchao's current soldiers and horses are also expanding very strongly, mainly divided into three parts, one is gathered in Caozhou Jiyin City, led by Meng Kai and Lin Yan, with about 15,000 soldiers and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers. The other is concentrated in Juye in Yunzhou, located in the east of Jiyin, opposite to the north and south of Juyeze across Yuncheng. It was garrisoned by Ge Congzhou, Zhang Guiba, and Huo Cun, the three grass thief brothers, with 10,000 soldiers and about 20,000 auxiliary troops. The last road is led by Huang Chao, stationed in Juancheng, Puzhou, with about 20,000 soldiers and 50,000 auxiliary soldiers, and Xue Chong is currently besieging Yuncheng in Yunzhou. Wang Xianzhi led the remnants of his army to 3,000, and he was also in the Huangchao army. ”

Li Jing was a little surprised, "Huangchao actually has 50,000 soldiers?" 100,000 auxiliaries? It's unlikely, right? ”

Gongsun Lan smiled, "Of course, this 150,000 army has water. The so-called 50,000 soldiers is just Huang Chao's own statement, referring to the people and horses included in the grass army war camp, but in fact, although Huang Chao grabbed a large number of weapons, armor and other ordnance equipment and equipped 50,000 soldiers. But very few of these people are trained, and even fewer have real combat experience. The old battalion around Huang Chao that can fight is estimated to be about 10,000 to 15,000, and no more than 20,000 at most. And among them, if there are fewer cavalry, those who have horses are counted as cavalry, and they will not exceed 5,000. As for the 100,000 auxiliary soldiers, most of them only have a spear or a knife. ”

But even so, it still surprised Li Jing, according to this calculation, Huang Chao's strength was actually stronger than Wang Xianzhi before. The expansion of the power of these grass thieves is really shocking, but when I think about it, they have crisscrossed the eight states of the Central Plains during this period of time, and almost robbed all the eight states, so it is not enough to be afraid of such a number.

However, in this way, compared with the official army of the six towns, the strength of Huang Chao is not much different.

"Is San Lang ready to send troops to deal with Huang Chao?"

Li Jing squinted his eyes slightly, pinched his chin and fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Li Jing said slowly: "The order given to this marshal by the Ximen Metropolitan Supervisor is to enter Yanzhou from Songzhou to the east, go around into Yunzhou, and camp in Yunzhou and Yanzhou with Xue Chong, the envoy of the Tianping Army, and the Li Department of the Taining Army, responsible for intercepting the grass thieves fleeing eastward. Ben Shuai, you should obey the military order! (To be continued......)