(Thank you for the three rewards of the world, the so-called fearless, and the dream dream, thank you!) ）

In November of the fourth year of Qianfu, after Huang Chao washed Guangzhou in blood, he issued a text to the world, accusing the Tang Dynasty of "eunuch erection of the handle of the dynasty, and the discipline of the scale beetle".

At the same time as the release of the text, Huang Chao also added a new title to his name as a sky-high general, "Millions of Righteous Army". Wang Xianzhi was originally a general of the Heavenly Supplement Average, and Huang Chao was a general of the Heavens. Wang Xianzhi is the commander of all the heroes in the sea, and Huang Chao claims to be the commander of the righteous army of one million. Wang Xianzhi's army was called the Grass Army, and now, Huang Chao has changed the Grass Army to the Righteous Army.

Huang Chao removed Wang Xianzhi's imprint little by little, and by now, he has become a veritable leader of the rebel army. In this army, there is no trace of Wang Xianzhi who made him despise several times.

A month after the bloody baptism in Guangzhou, Huang Chao left a few old and weak people such as general Lu Jingren and the sick and disabled, and led the righteous army up the Pearl River, all the way north to Hunan and the Central Plains!

After Huangchao captured Guangzhou, the harm caused by the peasant army to Datang had crossed the critical point from quantitative change to qualitative change. On the surface, Datang is still a scene of Zhongxing in sight, and Nanzhao, who has been committing border crimes for many years, finally stopped attacking. The Tang army even began to expand its territory again, and Li Jing won successive victories in Liaodong. But beneath these surfaces, there is already a great crisis.

After Huangchao crisscrossed the southeast, the southeastern wealth-based feudal towns that the imperial court had relied on over the years could no longer maintain large-scale blood transfusions for the empire. They were either overrun by the Yellow Nest, destroyed, or reinforced. The prosperous southeast began to resemble the Central Plains containment feudal towns, and tax revenues began to be withheld from the localities. to strengthen armaments. It was no longer possible to hand over large quantities to the imperial court.

The Guanzhong Imperial Court, which has always relied on the blood supply of the southeast feudal town. Now the largest supply comes entirely from the three towns of Zhenguo Army, Pinglu Army and Andong Dadu Hufu controlled by Li Jing.

The imperial court, which had lost a large amount of taxes in the southeast, weakened its effective control over the central plains. Huang Chao went north to the Central Plains again, and the towns in the Central Plains will inevitably be further out of control of the imperial court in the war with the rebels.

It is already an inevitable thing for Datang to enter troubled times.

Unconsciously, the three towns controlled by Li Jing are becoming more and more important to the imperial court!

Pingzhou, Shanhaiguan!

The Shanhaiguan built on the basis of the original Yuguan has already been built. Xinguan is bordered by Yanshan Mountain in the north and the Bohai Sea in the south. Xinguan City is not large, only eight miles in circumference, and it is a pure military fortress, which is extremely dangerous.

It took more than a year for the Pingzhou government and the military to work together, and with the full support of Li Jing, Pingzhou connected the northeastern border line of Pingzhou between Lulongsai and Shanhaiguan in the north on the basis of some of the original customs cities and built a Great Wall. After the construction of the Great Wall of 300 miles in the Yanshan Mountains, the entire north and east of Pingzhou have been impregnated.

And in the south of Shanhaiguan by the sea. It is also a water city where the navy is stationed, and the water city is built in Qinhuangdao, an ice-free port, in the Shanhaiguan Pass.

On the second floor of the east gate of Guancheng, Li Jing, accompanied by the generals, climbed high and looked into the distance, looking at the four fields.

The pre-battle preparations for the Battle of Liaoxi had been completed, and Li Jing personally rushed from Dengzhou to Shanhaiguan to the front line to fully command this important battle.

Outside Shanhaiguan, is Yingzhou, Liaoxi.

Yingzhou has always been an important military town of the Tang Dynasty in the northeast, and a political, economic and cultural center. At the same time, Yingzhou is also the starting point of the eastern end of the Grassland Silk Road.

The Tang Dynasty successively set up the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion and the Pinglu Military Festival Envoy in Yingzhou, where heavy troops were stationed and guarded, and at the same time managed the Khitan and Xi domains.

Yingzhou is also the only Zhengzhou established by the Tang Dynasty in the northeast, with jurisdiction over 340 miles east to Liaohe River and south to the sea, 700 miles to Pingzhou in the west, 270 miles to the Great Wall of Qin in the north and 400 miles to the Khitan boundary of wet water. 270 li to Andong Prefecture in the southeast, 700 li to Beiping County in the southwest, 70 li to the Khitan boundary in the northwest, 90 li to the Khitan boundary in the northeast, 400 li to the Khitan yatent, 5,000 li to Xijing, and 4,100 li to Tokyo.

Its jurisdiction is equivalent to the area of the Da and Xiaoling River, the Liugu River and the Daughter River in later generations, Chaoyang Jinzhou, Fuxin, Huludao, Hebei Qinglong County and some areas of Qinhuangdao.

Although Yingzhou is located in western Liaoning, the land here is fertile, and the Central Plains began to develop western Liaoning since the Han Dynasty, so it is not backward than Youzhou. After the Sui conquest of Liaodong, Liaoxi developed rapidly.

During Wu Zetian's time, the Khitan rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and captured Yingzhou, causing great damage to Yingzhou.

During the reign of Xuanzong, he vigorously strengthened his control over Yingzhou, and set up the Pinglu Army in Yingzhou, with 17,500 soldiers and horses.

However, during the Anshi Rebellion, the Pinglu Army in Yingzhou was also the base of An Lushan, and later the Pinglu Army opposed An Lushan and was forced to cross the sea and retreat to Shandong by Shi Siming.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the population of Yingzhou was greatly reduced, and there were Han Chinese, Turkic people, Silla people, Xi people, Tatar people, Goguryeo people, Uighurs, Sogdians, etc., and the Han people were no longer the main body. At the beginning of the Yizong Dynasty, the Khitans continued to invade Liaoxi, and Lulong Town in Youzhou had basically lost control of Liaoxi.

Youzhou Lu Longjun has been in civil strife, and it is no longer as strong as it used to be. Li Jing first took the opportunity to take Pingzhou and control the entry pass in western Liaoning. Now, Li Jing occupies the east bank of the lower reaches of the Liao River and takes control of the eastern part of Liaoxi.

Youzhou civil strife, Khitan also civil strife, such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, is a good time for Li Jing to seize Liaoxi. By capturing Liaoxi, Pingzhou would no longer be an enclave, and by capturing Liaoxi, Li Jing would be able to directly threaten the heart of the Khitans, which would help him defeat the Goguryeo people and seize the entire Liaodong.

Li Jing attached great importance to this battle, and it can be said that in addition to leaving some defenders in Ziqing Town, Li Jing mobilized 100,000 troops to participate in this operation.

If you don't move, you will be thundering.

This time, troops were dispatched from both sides, and the east and west sent troops to attack western Liaoning at the same time.

Pingzhou was the base camp of the Western Front, and Li Zhen, Lin Wei and other generals had made many preparations in advance, and at the same time, Li Wei, who had been on the grassland for a long time, finally returned to Pingzhou.

Levi has been on the grassland for more than a year, and the whole person has the feeling of being a grassland herdsman. After returning to Pingzhou and taking a hot bath, Li Wei carefully reported to Li Jing what had happened in Khitan and told Li Jing that the Khan wanted to strengthen his alliance with Li Jing.

"How does he want to strengthen the relationship?" Li Jing chuckled.

Li Wei took a sip of hot tea from the cup, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said with satisfaction: "After staying in the grassland for two years, it is either roast mutton or mare's milk tea, and I feel that I have a fishy smell all over my body." It's still the purest tea in our Central Plains, fragrant! ”

"This is a new tea variety, Wuyishan oolong tea, if you like it, I will give you two catties when I leave." Li Jing said.

Li Wei hurriedly thanked him, corrected his color, and began to report seriously: "Yao Yuan Zhende is very determined, although he has been defeated repeatedly, he has been defeated again and again, and he is resolutely unwilling to compromise with the carrying department. However, their current situation is not very good, the Diera tribe has controlled the power of Khitan soldiers and horses for generations, and most of the tribal children are familiar with the art of war in battle formations. The new Khan of Hind is not prestigious, and he is also inexperienced. ”

"The Khan of Hind was defeated one after another, and the morale of the army was low. He wants us to go to war on Diera immediately, and he wants to buy us ordnance and armor. ”

Li Jing listened carefully to Li Wei's report and asked, "Do you think the Khan of Hinder can hold on?" ”

If Hinde Khan can't hold on, then Li Jing doesn't need to waste too much energy on him.

"Although the Khan of Hinder suffered defeats, the Diera tribe could not completely defeat them for a while. In particular, the Khan of Hind will never give in to the Diera, and as long as we are willing to support him, he will fight to the end. Levi said with great certainty.

Gai Yu said on the side: "If this is the case, then we really can't give up the Khan of Hind, and we must fully support him." Youjide Khan and Diera have been working against each other, and the Khitan is in chaos. ”

Since the Khan of Hind has such determination, then Li Jing has to help him. It's better to be defeated again and again like this, even if he doesn't give in, it won't be long before his subordinates will succumb.

"What kind of support does the Khan need, and are there any specific requirements?" Li Jing asked.

Levi nodded, "The Khan of Hind has sent an emissary. ”

"Bring this messenger up."

The envoy of the Khan of Hind entered the account, and he was an uncle of Hinder, Yaorenbad, in his early fifties, completely bald, with very sharp eyes under the bright bald head, ruddy complexion, and the whole person was very brave.

"Yao Ran Bade, on behalf of the Khitan Khan, Yao Ran Trace has seen the honorable Tang Dynasty King Anton!"

"Excuse me!" Li Jing raised his hand and asked with a smile: "I don't know what the Khan of Dao Dao De needs, bring it up, maybe we can help!" ”

"Thank you, King of the Counties, I am here on behalf of the Khan this time, hoping to buy a batch of ordnance. If we could, we would like to buy 5,000 sets of iron armor, 10,000 sets of leather armor, 10,000 iron helmets, 10,000 spears, sabers, horned bows, and shields, plus 3,000 crossbows, 1,000 arrows, and 1,000 crossbows. Yao Yuan Bard was not polite to Li Jing, as soon as he opened his mouth, there was a long list, and the number of needs for various equipment was staggering.

This amount, even Li Jing's eyes couldn't help but flash.

"General Yaoranbad, there are a lot of these equipment, do you know the price of this batch of equipment?" Li Zhen asked on the side.

Yao Ranbad nodded, "I have inquired about some news, the arms sold by the Zhenguo Army are 100 pieces of iron armor, 30 pieces of leather armor, 5 pieces of spear, 20 pieces of sabers, 20 pieces of horn bows, 5 pieces of shields, and two pieces of iron helmets. Thirty crossbows, one hundred crossbows, and one hundred arrows in a bundle. This batch of equipment is worth 1.51 million yuan. ”

Li Rang added: "One million five hundred thousand, this is the factory price, if it is expedited, it has to be increased by one percent, if it is to be transported, it has to be increased by one percent, in addition, the saber and the Fuyuan crossbow are important weapons, generally not sold, if you want to buy, you must increase the price." Well, if you are willing to accept the delivery to your door within a month, I can get rid of the fraction and only charge 2 million. General Yaoranbad, what are you going to pay for these two million yuan? (To be continued......)