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The news that Cui Anqian, Du Xian, Zhang Zimian, and Yang Fuguang had successfully exterminated the grass thieves led by Wang Xianzhi had been coming for some days, and the soldiers of the Northern Expedition in Jian'an City were very happy when they heard the news.

The Northern Expedition even organized a very large polo tournament to celebrate this victory. In the long winter, the temperature on the Liaodong Peninsula has turned into ice, and Li Jing estimates that from December, the temperature will basically continue to be between minus 45 degrees and minus 10 degrees. And the continuous low wind is dry and cold, the cold wave and cold air are continuous, Jian'an City is located in Liaodong Bay, and it has been several strong winds and snowstorms.

Since December, not only have the rivers frozen, the soil frozen, but even the Liaohai Sea began to freeze over a large area. Many seaports are frozen over, and according to experienced coastal fishermen, it takes at least two to three months for the ice to melt.

This year, the ice has frozen earlier than usual, and the ice is thicker, which also means that this year's ice melts later.

The freezing of the Liaohai Sea is not good news for Li Jing. However, what made Li Jing not too depressed was that he had been prepared for this, although the Liaohai Sea freezes every year, it does not mean that the entire Liaohai Sea will freeze. Icing is mainly along the sea, freezing the various ports. This makes it impossible for ships to travel to and from the port, which often has a large ice layer that makes it impossible to operate on the ice at all.

But fortunately, Li Jing knew that there was also an ice-free port in the north of Langdao.

The ports of Dalian, Qinhuangdao and Qingdao are all ice-free ports.

Dalian Port is Qingnipu in Qingni City, an ice-free port in the north. Qinhuangdao is in Pingzhou Shanhaiguan. Originally, it was outside of Yuguan. The newly built Shanhaiguan surrounded him. It has also become the land of Pingzhou's water city, and it is an important port for Zhenguo Army to connect the Jiaodong Peninsula, the Liaodong Peninsula and Pingzhou.

There is also Laizhou, which was just exchanged with Tian Lingzi last year, and the northern part of Jiaozhou Bay at the junction of Laizhou and Mizhou in the southwest is the Qingdao Port of the later generations, with no sediment accumulation and no freezing in winter.

The entire Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea are frozen over a large area, but at the moment there is no ice in Qingnipu, Qingdao and Qinhuangdao. The naval army and fleet of the Zhenguo Army, with the experienced crew in the army. It is still able to sail in three places.

However, the freezing of the Liaohai Sea has increased the difficulties and risks of maritime shipping, and the sea voyage has been longer, more careful, and the volume of transportation has also been greatly reduced.

Fortunately, Li Jing and his subordinates had already anticipated this result and made many arrangements in advance.

There was no war on the Eastern Front, and the Northern Expeditionary Army had already fought with the Bohai Navy and the Goguryeo at the end of a month.

The generals originally persuaded Li Jing to return to Dengzhou for the New Year, but Li Jing did not agree. The Northern Expeditionary Army is still in Liaodong, how can he, the commander, go back to Dengzhou alone for the New Year. Many of the soldiers of the Northern Expedition were from Dengzhou, and if he, the commander, went back alone, it would inevitably affect the morale of the army.

The night of the polo final. It started to snow sleet again. When I opened the door early in the morning, the cold wind cut my face like a knife.

Li Jing was wearing a cotton sweatshirt with narrow sleeves and narrow trouser legs cut by Gongsun Lan according to his design. When I got out of the warm fire pit bedroom and came to the yard, I couldn't help but shiver and shiver.

After raising his hands and kicking his feet and doing a set of warm-up exercises, Li Jing began to trot in the courtyard. He really wanted to go outside and run a few laps along the streets of the mountain city, but that would make it difficult for his guards, so Li Jing only ran around the courtyard. After running a few laps, although my lips and nose were red from the cold, my whole body finally warmed up, and white gas rose from the top of my head. When he reached the twentieth lap, Gongsun Lan also came out wearing a set of cotton clothes and ran behind him. She had a fallen ponytail on her head, a small cotton jacket filled with cotton, and a cotton skirt underneath, which also looked like it.

Li Jing went on a northern expedition for more than half a year, and he never returned to Dengzhou once, but Gongsun Lan took the opportunity of Li Wei staying in Khitan, presiding over the affairs of the Xiaoqi Division on the one hand, and living a married life with Li Jing openly and openly. The entire Northern Expeditionary Army, from generals to small soldiers, now knows that this beautiful woman is the outer chamber of the handsome.

A woman in her thirties is at her most mature and charming, this woman from a dancing girl has a fair and delicate face that will never fade, and a graceful figure that will never be deformed. In the face of Li Jing, she never felt nervous, scared, or in awe, but only relaxed and calm.

In the face of Li Jing's proposal, she always replied with a smile, as if Li Jing was always telling her some funny jokes.

"Is Wang Xianzhi's department really destroyed?" Li Jing asked with a smile at Gongsun Lan while jogging backwards, the white vapor in his mouth was like swallowing clouds and spitting out mist.

"Hehe, Wang Xianzhi can die twice, maybe he will die a third time!" Gongsun Lanjiao said with a smile, she has a stronger body than ordinary women, although she is jogging in such a cold winter, but this is not to please Li Jing. Maybe the first few times was to please Li Jing, but now, jogging in the morning has become a morning exercise that she likes very much and is essential.

"Wang Xianzhi is dead, Shang Junchang is dead, and now even Wang Xianzhi's stand-in is dead, and the self-reliant Liu Yanzhang is also dead, has anyone else escaped from the grass thieves?"

"Da Shuai is really able to pinch and calculate, sometimes I really wonder if Da Shuai is a fairy." Gongsun Lan nodded, "You guessed right, the battle of Huangmei was indeed a great victory, and more than 50,000 grass thieves were killed on the battlefield. However, although the fake Wang Xianzhi was killed in this battle, and several generals of the grass army were captured and surrendered, they couldn't be too happy. At least, according to the information we have gathered, there are still a considerable number of grass thieves who have escaped from the cracks in the battlefield. The largest group of them was led by Shang Junchang's younger brother Shang Rang, who went north to Huangchao. Another group entered Jiangxi under the leadership of Wang Chongyin and Xu Tangju, and the rest of the larger remnants led by Cao Shixiong entered Xuanshe. In addition, Bi Shiduo, Qin Yan, Liu Hanhong, and others all surrendered to Gao Yu. ”

Li Jing frowned slightly, because of his appearance, after turning a few small bays, it seems to have returned to the original point here. Although it should have been Zeng Yuanyu who succeeded Song Wei in defeating Wang Xianzhi in history, but now Cui Anqian, as a recruiter, has also destroyed this team of grass thieves.

No matter how this grass thief gets it, the most reluctant queen Wang Xianzhi and Shang Junchang are still dead. Rudderless ship. The rebel army, once the most formidable, was as completely destroyed as in history. Right now. Finally, it was the turn of the Yellow Nest's name to resound all over the world.

Because of the result of this battle, Li Jing believed more and more that it would not be long before people in the world would find out that Huang Chao would be more difficult to deal with than Wang Xianzhi. And the peasant war at the end of the Tang Dynasty is still going on!

It was a matter of time before Wang Xianzhi's troops were destroyed, but the appearance of Gao Biao and Sha Tuojun in this battle made Li Jing feel a little faintly worried.

Gao Yu's ability is undoubted, and now the veteran team player King Nanzhao is dead. The new king is convinced. The first general of the late Tang Dynasty has come to Jingnan from Xichuan, and in history, he will also serve as the envoy of Zhenhai Festival and Huainan Festival, becoming the largest warlord in the late Tang Dynasty, holding 100,000 male soldiers. It's a pity that this guy who wants to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight failed to seize the good opportunity, and as a result, he failed to be a loyal minister or a rebel minister who usurped the country. Just holding 100,000 soldiers, he missed all opportunities in vain. In the end, I can only think about being a god, and I can't protect myself in the evening, and I can't die well.

But this person is indeed extremely powerful, he has the chips that can change the whole situation at any time, but it has been useless.

Now, Li Guochang, who was extremely arrogant and overestimated his ability before, followed behind this famous general with his Shatuo army, which made Li Jing have a bad premonition.

A Gao Yu is already equivalent to a nuclear bomb, if you add a Shatuo clan, what kind of possibility will their combination be?

Li Jing and Gao Biao did not have a holiday, but Li Jing and Shatuo are mortal enemies, and Li Jing knows very well that Gao Biao, like Song Wei, is from a family of Shence forbidden army, and after the new emperor ascended the throne, he has already stood in line and chose to follow behind Lu Xi, the first prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and Tian Lingzi, the first eunuch of the Tang Dynasty.

And Li Jing and Tian Lingzi are also opponents. In some ways, in fact, Gao Biao and Li Jing are now on two sides.

The situation in the Central Plains changed rapidly, so fast that it was a little beyond Li Jing's expectations.

On the New Year's Day, Han Anguo and Xiao Dingbang went to Chang'an instead of Li Jing. At the New Year's Day court meeting, the emperor rewarded him lavishly, and Li Jing also received a lot of rewards, added several idle official positions, and posthumously crowned Li Jing to his ancestors for three generations, all of which were given the position of Shangshu. Li Jing's mother and wife both added a decree, and even the seven concubines all added five-grade wives unusually. And Li Jing's three sons, the eldest son was crowned as the son of the founding county of Zhengwupin, and the other two sons were crowned as the founder of the county from the fifth grade.

is a very popular minister, posthumously presented three generations, and named a wife and a cute child, Li Jing can get almost all the glory.

However, Li Jing was not too happy, because at the court meeting, his teacher Cui Yunqing was transferred from the Taining Military Festival to the Lingnan East Province Section, and Kang Chengzhi was also transferred to the Lingnan West Province Festival. These two transfers are obviously demotions. The ostensible reason is that Huangchao went north last year and ran rampant in the two towns. But Li Jing knows very well that the real reason should be Tian Lingzi's secret hand. The two of them are close to themselves, and now they are transferred to Lingnan, thousands of miles away, undoubtedly to cut off their arms.

Yang Zhizhi, the former envoy of Shannan Dongdao, was transferred to the Taining Military Festival, and Cao Quanxi, the former Tianping Army general, was promoted to the Tianping Military Festival. Both of these people are Tian Lingzi's people, plus Wang Jingwu, Li Jing's Zhenguo army has been blocked on the Shandong Peninsula.

Gongsun Lan saw Li Jing frowning, and said with some distress: "Hey, in fact, you don't have to pay attention to the changes in the Central Plains for the time being." For example, today, the festival envoy is like a marquee, and there are very few festival envoys who can serve in a town for three years. Wouldn't it be great for us to just pay attention to Liaodong now? ”

"The strategic defense you got last year was very good, although it didn't take the battle head-on, but the blow to the Bohai and Goguryeo people was more effective."

Last year, Li Jing did not choose to fight hard with the Bohai Navy and the Goguryeo Army, but strategically defended. The so-called strategic defense is not a passive defense, but an active defense. Li Jing first cleared the three prefectures of Jizhou, Jianzhou, and Anzhou, and moved all the people outside the cities to Jinzhou, and sent them to Dengzhou before the Liaohai Sea froze, thus relieving the pressure on the grain and grass and management of Liaodong.

At the same time, Li Jing sent most of the soldiers and horses of the navy army, as well as nearly half of the cavalry of the tenth army, which were divided into dozens of small forces. Beginning with guerrilla warfare, the small fleets of the navy attacked the castles and villages in the rear of the enemy along the coast, robbed them of their livestock, property, money and food, and even robbed the population, and then burned their villages and castles. And along the Liao River, Yalu River and other rivers burst into their hearts, attacked their villages, robbed them, and burned their village houses.

The cavalry were light cavalry, infiltrating the land, resorting to guerrilla warfare, attacking their villages, raiding their logistical lines, looting and burning their grain and grass.

At the same time, the Zhenguo army was clearing the wilderness on the strong walls and guarding the cities, while also actively building roads, and from time to time would organize sneak attacks, raids, and feints. These non-stop small actions annoyed the Goguryeo and Bohai people and caused heavy losses.

Every time they angrily transferred troops to pursue, the small troops sent by the Northern Expeditionary Army took advantage of the small number of people and fled without a trace. There were even several times when I saw that I was finally going to catch these damn wolf-like Tang Army, but in the end, I fell for the trick of luring the enemy.

Fighting back and forth, the Tang army did not hit, but they were transferred to chase everywhere, not to mention exhausted, and even lost a lot of soldiers and horses because of this, and lost several small cities. They also tried to attack the mountain city occupied by the Tang army. But the Tang army defended the city too much, and there were not only strong bows and crossbows on the city, but also all kinds of ancient gadgets, especially those catapults, which made them the most painful. The catapults were high on the mountain, and there was no shortage of stones on the mountain, so they often suffered heavy losses from the rain of stone bullets before they could get close to the walls of the mountain city.

And at night, the Tang army began to feint, agitating everywhere, so that they could not sleep well. When they ignore it, the Tang army will really attack immediately. After they sent people to guard the camp every day, the Tang army changed to a small group of harassment tactics, which made them miserable. Moreover, their logistical grain and grass transportation has also been disturbed by the Tang army, and after several times, the Bohai people and Goguryeo people who have no grain and grass have to retreat.

Both sides held their own cities, and then small groups fought against small groups in this constant bloodshed.

The Bohai and Goguryeo people in the northeast of the peninsula had more soldiers and horses than the Tang army. But more soldiers and horses also means more logistical pressure. In particular, the 50,000 Bohai Navy had to come from the distant Bohai Sea, but the long logistics line was unable to guard against the Tang Army's attack. The Tang army used warships to transport cavalry, and on the long mile-long border, it was possible to quickly send small groups of cavalry to attack their logistical lines. Then, before they could encircle and intercept these hateful robbers, they would be able to meet them on the coast and evacuate them from the sea.

The Tang army's raids did not stop until the Liaohai Sea froze in December, and if the Tang army continued to attack for another month, the Bohai Navy would have no food to eat.

Li Jing stopped and took a long breath of white air, "There is still about a month before the ice melt period, and our battle with them will start again!" (To be continued......)