Chapter 381: Gun Shoots the First Bird

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Of course, Li Jing was not a casual kind-hearted person, and the decisions he made were carefully considered and carefully discussed with the generals and strategists.

At the beginning, the Zhendong Army first defeated the Gao generals, and then defeated Li Quanzhong of the Left Route Army, and then besieged Li Maoxun in Wozhou. Lu Longjun's veteran Liu Yue and Fan Xinglong's right army did not fight, so they retreated a hundred miles and retreated to Lu County. After that, Li Jing went all the way north and approached the city of Youzhou, Liu Yue and others not only received Li Keju's letter of help but did not save him, but continued to retreat north.

After retreating to Xianzhou to the east of Lushui, Liu Yue and the others were not idle. While watching the movements in Youzhou, they were in full swing to contact the various departments of the Lu Army and gather soldiers and horses. Liu Yue's idea was very good, and let Li Jing attack Youzhou, a famous city in Hebei.

Li Jing and Li Keju killed each other, Li Jing was a good soldier, but he came from afar to attack, Li Keju was weak, but he occupied the Xiongcheng fortress Youzhou. These two sides are fighting each other, and the result is definitely a lose-lose situation. Whether it was Li Jing's capture of Youzhou after the most reluctance, or Li Jing's retreat halfway, they were all looking forward to seeing it.

If Li Jing defeated Li Keju and captured Youzhou City, there would definitely be a lot of casualties at that time. The Zhendong Army crossed the sea and went deep into Youzhou. At that time, they only needed to converge the armies and block Li Jing's retreat, so that they could close the door and fight the dogs, no matter how strong Li Jing's Zhendong Army was, it could fall into the encirclement of the hinterland of Youzhou, what could it do? Even if it is a strong dragon at that time, if it rests on the shallows. That's not as good as even small fish and shrimp.

At that time, Li Jing was cleaned up. Youzhou is also back under their control.

Either. Li Jing and Li Keju didn't capture the battle, or they withdrew directly, which was naturally better. At that time, as soon as Li Jing left, they joined forces to find out the little cub of the Uighur liar in Youzhou City and slaughtered it, and Youzhou was still theirs.

Everything went well, and the various departments of Lu Longjun were already a little dissatisfied with Li Maoxun's stealing of the position of commander. Now that this liar is dead, the position of this handsome man is naturally won by the strong. After Li Maoxun won the handsome position, he promoted a large number of generals in Yanzhou. This made many military leaders unhappy. At present, Liu Yue and Fan Xinglong called on all departments to send troops to drive Li Keju away, and everyone was naturally happy. Even if the position is very likely to be Liu Yue's, everyone will definitely not go in vain if they send troops.

By 25 September, the soldiers and horses of the Weiwu Army, the Zhenyuan Army, the Jingsai Army, the Xiongwu Army, the Liucheng Army, the Beikou Guard, the Yancheng Army, the Yuguan Army, the Flood Guard, the Hengshan Town Army, the Dawang Town Army, Pingzhou, Jizhou, Danzhou, Yanzhou, Guishun Prefecture, Xianzhou and other prefectures and counties had gathered 30,000 soldiers and horses, except for some who had stayed behind.

Liu Yue is now complacent, with such a large army in hand, how can Li Keju that kid compete with him for the position of Lu Long's marshal.

Whatever the excitement is. Liu Yue, who is already over half a hundred years old, feels that he is ten years younger.

It's a pity that he didn't rejoice for long. Fan Xinglong came in a hurry and told him a piece of news that he didn't want to hear.

"What? Li Keju, the rabbit cub, actually recognized Li Jing as his uncle, and married his sister to Li Jing's clansmen, and now Li Jing has entered Youzhou City bloodlessly? "Just now, I was pretending to be Sven, and leisurely learning from those scholars to drink Nalaoshzi new tea. The clear soup is full of bitterness, but the vassal is elegant so he has endured it, and when he heard the news at this time, he was so angry that even the precious purple sand teapot fell to the ground.

"What kind of thing is Li Keju, what qualifications does he have to give up Youzhou to Li Jing?" Liu Yue said angrily.

"It's not to let it, it's to rely on Li Jing from now on, and one percent of the annual tax in Youzhou Town has to be handed over to Li Jing." Fan Xinglong said.

"It's not for sale, what is it for sale!" Liu Yue has already regarded himself as the marshal of Youzhou, everything in Youzhou is considered his, this Li Keju actually dares to give away his things, it is really unreasonable.

What made him even more annoyed was that he sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, and the fisherman's plan to profit fell through. Li Jing and Li Keju not only didn't fight, but they also became uncles and nephews, is there anything more infuriating in this world?

But what made him even more angry was that before he could decide to fight back, Li Jing had already joined forces with Li Keju to send troops, and the same 30,000 soldiers and horses were killing Lushui.

Before sending troops, Li Jing sent an envoy to the city of Xianzhou and sent Li Jing's handwritten letter to Liu Yue and others. Li Jing's letter was kind to the generals and suspended the army, but the angry Liu Yue didn't pay attention to it at all.

Subsequently, on the first day of September, Li Ke's general Li Quanzhong led 5,000 soldiers and horses as the vanguard to the south bank of Lushui.

In the Peach Blossom Valley south of Yanzhou, Li Quanzhong's eldest son, Li Congwei, led a thousand soldiers and horses to take the lead in engaging the mighty army. As soon as the two sides fought, Li Congwei, who was known as the King of the Golden Head, was defeated by the mighty army, but fortunately Fan Xinglong led the army to respond, and killed with superior soldiers and horses for a while, driving the troops to cover up the killing, Li Congwei was outnumbered, retreated in defeat, and left nearly a thousand corpses, and Li Congwei led dozens of horsemen to escape.

Fan Xinglong covered up for more than 30 miles, and it was not until Li Quanzhong's other son, Li Kuangchou, led his troops to arrive, that he collected his troops and retreated.

Liu Yue was overjoyed to get this good news. Although these Hu cavalry in Yanzhou are fierce, they are nothing more than that. These soldiers and horses were also border soldiers who had always been stationed in the border areas, and they often fought against the Hu people, so they could not be compared to these Uighur soldiers.

On the night of the first day of the new year, it was pitch black and starlightless.

However, it is rare to be sunny, the breeze is blowing, and it is not cold, but it is sandwiched with bursts of late-blooming osmanthus fragrance.

Li Jing was blowing the mountain breeze while riding the black black war horse.

Li Wei of the Flying Eagle Battalion rushed back, found Li Jing in the marching cavalry, and quickly reported: "The grain and grass of Liu Yue's soldiers and horses are piled up in Sanhe City behind Xianzhou, with 100,000 stones of grain and 200,000 bundles of horse grass. ”

Sanhe is located on the edge of the Haihe River in the middle of the three rivers of Baoshui, Haihe and Gushui. It is a small city with a population of about 10,000 people. It is thirty miles east of Xianzhou City.

The information on Liu Yue's soldiers, horses, grain and grass accumulated in Sanhe City is not too secret. Because the location of Three Rivers City is next to the base camp of Xianzhou City, and it is in the rear. So Liu Yue and the others were not worried.

But. Li Jing has never liked to take the usual path.

Liu Yue: They felt that Three Rivers City was safe. That's actually the least safe.

After Li Jing heard the news that Liu Yue had gathered troops and horses, he was already ready to fight him.

Youzhou City doesn't need to be united, and Li Jing doesn't want Li Keju to be the only one. But Li Keju can't be too weak, too weak, and may be destroyed at any time. Then his hard work will be in vain. The best case, of course, is to balance. Let Li Keju and Liu Yue have similar strength to each other, it is best that Li Keju is slightly weaker, but not too weak. Such. If Li Keju wants to secure the position of Youzhou, he needs the support of the Zhendong Army.

The strength of the two sides is balanced, and this Youzhou will not want to end the chaos, and will naturally take advantage of Li Jing's chaos.

In this battle, Li Jing wanted to beat Liu Yue half to death and weaken his strength.

However, in such a battle, Li Jing did not want to fall too deep. Therefore, this will definitely be a quick battle, and after discussing with Li Zhen and others for a long time, Li Jing's battle plan is to raid the grain and grass warehouse in Sanhe. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses gathered together, and grain and grass went first. Just burn their grain and grass. These soldiers broke themselves.

Li Jing asked Li Keju's soldiers and horses to attack the two cities of Liaoxi and Huairou, while Li Jing's Zhendong army took Xianzhou directly. However, Li Jing is not willing to really consume Liu Yue. Therefore, it was the infantry led by Wang Zhong who attacked Xianzhou, and their task was only to make a feint to attract the attention of the city of Xianzhou. The real killer move is still the five cavalry battalions led by Li Jing himself.

In the middle of the night, Wang Chong punctually led the infantry of the Zhendong Army to launch a feint attack on Xianzhou City, and suddenly Xianzhou City was on fire, and the sound of killing shook the sky. Li Jing rode a horse and stood on a small hillside, taking in all of this.

Half an hour later, Li Jing saw that the time was almost up, and with a wave of his hand, five thousand soldiers and horses were like ghosts in the dark night, quietly bypassing Xianzhou City from one side and rushing straight into Sanhe City.

Along the way, Levi scattered the Flying Eagle Battalion, and all the Youzhou scout patrols he encountered were shot to death.

At the time of the third watch, Li Jing led 5,000 cavalry to the foot of Sanhe City. At this time, the city of Three Rivers was still in a deep sleep. The news of the battle in Xianzhou, thirty miles away, did not come here, and the road communication between Xianzhou City and Sanhe City had long been cut off by the Flying Eagle Battalion.

The walls of Trois-Rivières are also earthen walls, and the bricks are not covered, only two zhang high. At the head of the city, there was no arrow tower, only a few soldiers holding spears on it for the night.

Against such a small city, there is no pressure on special operations. They directly chose a slightly remote corner, took out the iron cone and nailed it directly into the earthen wall, and then stepped on the iron cone to quickly climb the city wall, and lowered the rope ladder to meet the soldiers behind to enter.

Li Jing took the soldiers and horses to hide two hundred steps outside the city, keeping an eye on the movement on the city.

About a cup of tea passed, three shaking torches suddenly appeared at the head of the city.

Li Jing smiled, the city has been taken.

Pulling out the general's hand, Li Jing waved forward: "Enter the city!" ”

The knights rode their horses and speared their horses, urging them to gallop, and the distance of two hundred paces was in the blink of an eye. At this time, the drawbridge and the city gate had just opened, and the cavalry rushed in.

The deployment of the Three Rivers City, and even the stacking of grain and grass, have already been investigated in detail by spies, and before leaving, Li Jing has already passed on this information to the cavalry below. And, according to these, different tasks were set for the cavalry.

Therefore, as soon as they entered the city, the cavalry immediately rushed to the location marked by their mission in an orderly manner.

Some of them killed directly at the gates, some killed at the barracks, and some rushed directly to the grain depot and forage storehouse.

He who snatches the door, he who kills kills, and he who sets fire.

Everywhere reflects the extraordinaryness of the Zhendong Army, that is, killing people and setting fires, they can also do it so methodically.

100,000 stone grain and grass and 200,000 bunches of grass ignited in an instant, and the entire Three Rivers City became a sea of fire. The sky above the three rivers was as bright as day by the fire, and even Xianzhou City, thirty miles away, could be seen clearly.

Liu Yue, who was supervising the battle at the head of the city, suddenly heard a burst of exclamations from the soldiers, and couldn't help but look up at the east sky when he heard the sound, only to see that over there, the fire was blazing, and the light was uncertain.

"It's Three Rivers City, and the grain and grass in Three Rivers City have been burned!" I don't know who shouted loudly, and the soldiers in the city suddenly panicked. The morale of the army has dropped greatly, and it is about to dawn, the sky is just slightly bright, but a cavalry suddenly comes out of the fog in the direction of Sanhe.

Li Jing burned the grain of Sanhe and led his troops back and joined the soldiers and horses besieging Xianzhou City.

"Surround the three queyi, get out of the way of the north gate!" Li Jing saw that the defenders at the head of the city were gradually exhausted, so he ordered loudly.

As soon as the military order was given, the soldiers and horses besieging the north gate gradually decreased. Liu Yue in the city thought that he was going to die here today, but after suddenly hearing that Beicheng had repelled the enemy's attack, he didn't care if it was a trap or not, and immediately ordered the whole army to break through the north gate.

As soon as the city gate opened, the Youzhou soldiers swarmed out, and many soldiers and horses rushed out of the city, trampling on each other.

Immediately, the south gate of Xianzhou City was breached, and then the other gates were also broken one after another. Many Youzhou soldiers did not have time to escape, and they all fell into the city and became prisoners. Liu Yue was the first to ride out of the north gate with his own military camp, followed by many fast generals who saw the opportunity.

However, before they could breathe a sigh of relief, a cavalry suddenly came out halfway through, but it was a white-horse-white-robed young general who shouted: "Liu Yue, if you want to pass by from now on, first ask the bright silver spear in my hand!" ”

As soon as he saw the silver spear and the white horse and white robe, Liu Yue suddenly remembered, isn't this person the son of Gao Shunli in Yanzhou, the Gao Siji, who is known as the white horse and silver gun. This kid's family surrendered to Li Jing after the defeat, and now they are still intercepting them halfway here. Liu Yue, who knew that Gao Siji was powerful, couldn't help but cry out bitterly, so he had to call the soldiers and horses to rush forward together.

The two armies flipped into a chaotic battle, and in the melee, Liu Yue took off the mountain armor that appeared on his body, and hurriedly exchanged armor with a personal soldier, so that the personal soldier fled to the southwest with a group of people, causing Gao Siji to lead the troops to pursue, but he took the other personal soldiers to the north and fled.

Gao Siji caught up with the fake Liu Yue and knocked it down with one shot, but when he was happy, he found that it was a fake, and immediately turned around to look for it, but he couldn't find Liu Yue again. I had to lead the newly reorganized cavalry of the Silver Saddle Battalion to kill the other Youzhou soldiers indiscriminately, and they cried for their father and mother, and finally collapsed and abandoned their weapons and begged for mercy.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Gao Siji returned to Xianzhou City, which had been completely taken by Li Jing at this time. Gao Siji reported that he ran away from Liu Yue and asked Li Jing for his guilt.

Li Jingha smiled: "It's just a Liu Yue, just run, it's not painful." You also go to rest and recuperate, and tomorrow morning, we will return to Youzhou. ”

Gao Siji was taken aback: "I'll go back to Youzhou tomorrow, now that Liu Yue is defeated, why not take advantage of this time to completely defeat them in one fell swoop?" ”

Li Jing smiled and did not reply. (To be continued......)