The cold wind has subsided, and the warm sun is shining.

Li Jing had made up his mind in his heart, and immediately led the army back to Huaibei to seize Xuzhou with Huang Chao. However, it is also very important for Huainan to capture Chu and Haozhou, and if you occupy Chu and Haozhou, you can resist the enemy south of the Huai River and directly threaten Yangzhou, so that Xu Si is stable, and Gao Biao cannot go north. With such an important territory, Li Jing decided to leave Zhao Li, the governor of the right army, to garrison Huainan, and appointed the commander of the Jianghuai camp to guard Shanyang in Chuzhou.

Li Wei, the lord of the Yingyang Army, was appointed as the deputy commander of the Jianghuai camp and the defense envoy of Haozhou, and the general of Zhongli Town. With the leopard cavalry army Qiu Shengong, he served as the deputy commander of the Jianghuai camp and the defense envoy of Chuzhou, and the general of Xuyi Town. Xuan Cheng, the leader of the Flying Bear Army, served as the marching Sima of the Jianghuai camp and the forward You Yi envoy, and the general of Dingyuan Town in Haozhou. He also took Li Xu, the commander of the Anlan army of the water division, as the judge of the Jianghuai camp, the general of Anyi and Yancheng towns, and the patrol envoy of the Huai River and Hangou.

The five generals were left behind, with Zhao Li as the main general, to control all the soldiers and horses in Huainan. Li Wei and Qiu Shengong were deputies, guarding Zhongli in Haozhou and Xuyi in Chuzhou respectively. Xuancheng guards Dingyuan, and Li Xu guards Anyi and Yancheng.

Li Jing left not many soldiers and horses to Zhao Li, Zhongli, Xuyi, Shanyang, Dingyuan, and Anyi had 3,000 soldiers and horses in each city, a total of 15,000, plus 3,000 mobile soldiers and horses in Zhao Li's hands, Li Jing only gave Zhao Li 18,000 people. The task is not light, you have to hold Chu and Haozhou, and rely on the three towns of Shanyang, Xuyi, and Zhongli to fight against the Huainan Gao Biao army.

However, Li Jing has confidence in Zhao Li, and there are not many soldiers. Zhao Li's attack was sharp, but the defense of the city was even more powerful, and he had the experience of facing 200,000 Huangchao troops to defend Chenzhou for ten months in history. Moreover, Zhongli, Xuyi, and Shanyang are all important military towns. In addition, the four generals Li Wei, Xuan Cheng, Qiu Shengong, and Li Xu who stayed behind were also veteran generals of the Qin army, and Li Jing was relieved to lead the army away.

Li Jing wanted to keep more soldiers and horses. But this time, he went north to snatch back Xusu Erzhou from Huang Chao. At this time, there were only 22,000 men in his hands. In addition, the township soldiers of the four armies newly mobilized from Shandong to the south added up to only 42,000 men, which is really stretched.

However, Zhao Li didn't think that there were few soldiers, and after receiving the order to stay behind, he patted his chest very confidently and said that 18,000 soldiers and horses were enough. Jing Xiang and Gai Yu both felt that Zhao Li's words were a bit exaggerated and underestimated, and they were a little worried, but Li Jing smiled and waved his hand in the face of their private worries. On defending the city. Among the Qin army, it is estimated that there is no one who can surpass Zhao Li now.

Before Li Jing left, he ordered hundreds of boats to be loaded with stones and driven to the Hangou Canal south of Anyi, and then scuttled the boats and sank all the hundreds of boats into the river, blocking the canal channel for nearly ten miles.

The road back to the north was very long, and the road was muddy and difficult to walk after the rainy season, so Li Jing chose to return north by water, and the navy warships transported the armies back north one after another.

Li Jing stood on the deck of the Sky Wolf with Megan, Julie, and Gongsun Lan, in the middle of the arch guard of the naval warship. It is surrounded by several boats and fighting ships. The five-story building ship is wrapped in iron armor. The silver ship paint makes this ship Li Jing's ship unique.

"This time the results are good." Megan said that although the tall Meghan is married, the huge size of her chest seems to be growing every day, and at the same time, she has inherited her mother's fair complexion, golden hair, and the blue eyes of her mother's family. Since marrying Li Jing, she has not changed much, and she has the same style and wildness. "Actually, I think that if we insist, it is very likely that we will take Shouzhou, Gwangju and even Tuzhou in one fell swoop this time, so that the entire south bank of the Huai River is under our control."

"That's not right." Julie said quietly, "You are just wishful thinking, Gao Biao is not idle, if anyone despises Gao Biao, he will inevitably suffer the bitter consequences that follow." Our troops going south this time are too small, even if we can take the opportunity of Huaiyin's great victory to swallow the empty Shouzhou and Gwangju in one fell swoop, but then we have to divide our troops to guard the prefectures and counties, then we will repeat Gao Biao's defeat just now, and we will be broken by Gao Biao, and we will gain nothing at the end, so we have to retreat to Huaibei, and it is even possible that Sizhou will not be able to hold it. ”

Julie's blue eyes are as strange as a cat's eye, and although she is as cold as an iceberg on the surface, few things can escape her observation. She and Meghan are like sisters, but the two have very different personalities, one is wild and the other is as cold as an iceberg. Megan is blonde and blue-eyed, and Julie has red, gold and blue eyes. Megan is sexy and hot, strong and fast-moving, with a sword on her back and a tight leather armor that never leaves her body. Julie, on the other hand, is dressed in a palace dress with large sleeves and long sleeves, with elegant manners but also implying deadly danger.

Gongsun Lan disagreed.

"Gao Yu is old, no matter how cunning he is, it is not as good as before." She chuckled and said: "I got the news that Gao Yu built a new army of 20,000 people in Guangling as his own tooth army, but entrusted the warlocks and traitors Lu Yongzhi and Zhang Shouyi as the left and right military envoys. And most of these two new troops, which are higher than the other Huai Army's first-class salaries and salaries, are rogue ruffians and rogue robbers recruited by Lu Yongzhi and the others. It can be seen from this that Gao Yu is indeed no longer what he used to be. ”

Li Jing looked at the three of them and said with a smile: "There is nothing to do on the road, why don't we play mahjong together, and if you lose, you will warm the bed for the prince and me tonight." ”

"What if you're the one who loses?" Gongsun Lan bit her red lip lightly and smiled seductively.

"If I lose, then the four of us will sleep together tonight." Li Jing said with a smile.

"Phew, you've got it all right." Gongsun Lan scolded with a smile. "If you want to lose, tell us about the Three Kingdoms tonight."

"It's a deal." Li Jingyu opened her hands, grabbed Megan with her left hand, and Julie with her right hand, and hugged them back to the cabin. Gongsun Lan laughed and scolded in the back and chased after him, and the four of them entered the cabin on the fifth floor, found the jade carved mahjong, and the four of them began to rub the mahjong in the cabin.

The three women are bent on winning Li Jing, but this mahjong was originally made by Li Jing in his spare time to find a jade craftsman, and they played for the mothers and women at home, this rule is formulated by Li Jing, how can several women have Li Jing's proficient, but after half a night, everyone's chips were lost to Li Jing, and after the most difficult time, Li Jing was asked to lose and take off his clothes to the account, and after the fight, the coats on the three beauties were gone, leaving only thin shirts and small clothes, and pieces of white and greasy appeared under the lamp, which was indescribably attractive.

"Touching the milk hood. Uniform. Nine Lotus Treasure Lantern. Huh, 88 times of service! Li Jing slapped the second cylinder in his hand on the table with a snap, and smiled proudly.

"Three ladies, 88 times of service, admit defeat and surrender, all three of you have to warm my bed tonight, hahaha."

Megan and Julie and Gongsun Lan are the three of you, look at me, I look at you. After watching it for a long time, I couldn't believe it. This Nine Lotus Treasure Lantern is the largest winning card, by a suit ordinal number of brands according to the 1112345678999 composition of a specific card type, see the same suit any of the ordinal cards that become a card, this kind of service full of Hu is rare to see once, who expected Li Jing to be Hu all of a sudden, so that the three of them completely can not turn over.

Thinking of what Li Jing said just now, if the three of them lose again, they will be slept together tonight, and the three of them couldn't help but have a few red glows on their faces. Even if all three of them are Li Jing's women. can do such a thing as three women serving a husband together, even if it is Megan and Gongsun Lan, who are more open-minded women. At this time, I couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Li Jing was thinking that tonight there was a chance to repay the blessing of the Qi people who slept with him, who expected that after a sinking embarrassing atmosphere, it was Gongsun Lan, who had always been more open, escaped with a gust of fragrant wind, and then Megan also ran away like a rabbit, and Julie also wanted to escape, but a wide robe and big sleeves affected her actions a little, and as soon as she got up, she was picked up by Li Jing, hugged into her arms, and hugged her to the couch.

The red candle shines high overnight, the red waves are turned, the spring night is bitter and short, sinking several times, and lingering until dawn.

After dawn, Julie was unusual, lying in Li Jing's arms like a tame kitten, not wanting to get up. As a result, Li Jing was aroused by her lazy expression, and she pressed down the beauty early in the morning, and did something that was not ashamed or boring in the middle of the morning.

In the next few days, the march was to take the waterway by warship, first from Anyi to the Hangou Canal waterway to Chuzhou Shanyang, then into the Huai River, and then from Sikou into Sizhou, into Surabaya, all the way to the north by waterway, through the Supre, the most Lu until the end of the Xiapi.

During the march of several days, Li Jing was all on the boat. Li Jing also rarely relaxed himself, and handed over military affairs to Jing Xiang, Gai Yu, Li Zhen and others, Li Jing played mahjong with Gongsun Lan, Megan, and Julie every day, fighting landlords, and occasionally playing backgammon and checkers. There are everyone hugging each other every night, but the only thing that makes Li Jing a little regretful is that although one of the three beauties will accompany him every day, the expected four people have never been able to sleep together, and even the matter of three people sleeping together has not been successful.

After the fleet arrived at Xiapi, Li Jing also knew that this rare and easy journey was finally over.

After getting off the battleship and boarding the dock, many military affairs came back to the dock.

As soon as Li Jing entered Xiapi City, Lin Wei immediately asked to see him.

"After the Qi army captured Xu and Suerzhou, Huo Cun, the puppet Xuzhou assassin, and Zhu Wenzheng, the assassin of Bianzhou, joined forces to send troops to Songzhou, and the puppet Qi Yingzhou assassin Zhang Guihou, the Maozhou assassin Shi Ge Congzhou, and the Suzhou assassin Zhang Guiba joined forces to attack Haozhou."

At present, Songzhou has been handed over by the Qin army to the new Xuanwu Jiedu envoy Xin Yan, and the new Xuanwu Jiedu envoy governs Song, Ying, and Hao Prefectures, but Ying, and Hao are in the hands of Huang Chao, and Xin Yan only governs Songzhou. Xin Yan transferred from Datong to Songzhou, bringing 5,000 troops, plus the 5,000 recruits that Li Jing helped him recruit in Songzhou, Xin Yan had 10,000 horses. However, although Xin Yan is the number one swordsman in the world, Songzhou is almost surrounded by Huangchao, and the situation is not optimistic.

Now Xuzhou, east of Songzhou, is occupied by Huangchao, and Songzhou is surrounded on three sides. Zhu Wen and Huo Cun sent troops to Songzhou, and Xin Yan sent his nephew mountain monk and the elder to break through to Sizhou to ask for help.

Xin Yan has no children, although the mountain monk and the patriarch are Xin Yan's nephews, but in fact, they are the same father and son as Xin Yan, and they learned a good swordsmanship with Xin Yan. Breaking through and seeing Li Jing, Chen said that the situation in Songzhou, Zhu Wen and Huo Cun had many thieves, and although Songzhou had 10,000 soldiers, most of them were new soldiers and insufficient equipment, so he begged Li Jing to send troops for help.

Li Jing nodded and said: "When this king was in Chang'an that day, he had to be rescued by Xin Shuai drawing his sword, and today Xin Shuai Songzhou is besieged, and it is all because this king asked the court to transfer him to Songzhou." Now that Songzhou is under siege, the king should immediately send troops to rescue him in public and private. The two of them worked hard, and rested here for the time being, and waited for a day or two, the king rectified the soldiers and horses, and immediately sent troops to Xuzhou. ”

While he was talking, Gongsun Lan hurriedly came to report.

"San Lang, the Military Intelligence Department suddenly received news from Huainan that the soldiers and horses stationed on Hu Tuzhou did not all die that day, and more than 500 soldiers survived."

Li Jing couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

Listening to Gongsun Lan's detailed words, I learned that Wu Qian, Lin Song, Deng Huan, and more than 500 soldiers were still there. Not only is it still there, but also first got the help of Qian Biao, the deputy general of Hangzhou Badu Shijingdu, and then Yang Xingmi of Luzhou rescued him, and he has been out of danger, and with the help of Yang Xingmi, he has arrived in Zhongli in Haozhou, entered the Qin military camp, and completely escaped from danger.

"Qian Di, Yang Xingmi." Li Jing whispered these two names several times, and couldn't help but show a smile. "You said that Qian Biao and Yang Xingmi are coming to Picheng and want to see me?"

Gongsun Lan nodded, "One of these two people is under Zhou Bao, and the other is under Gao Yu, is there any fraud among them?" ”

Li Jing just chuckled when he heard this, "I'm very interested in these two people, you can personally bring someone to meet these two people immediately." By the way, did they come together or separately? ”

"They came separately, and the two sides didn't know each other."

"Well, then send two teams of people to pick up Xiapi separately, and don't let them meet."

Gongsun Lan didn't understand why Li Jing was suddenly so interested in these two people, you must know that Qian Biao was only the deputy general of a township regiment in Hangzhou, Zhejiang at this time. And that Yang Xingmi is just a businessman. Although she also inquired about the details of the two before she came, she learned that this Qian Biao is also a character, the same age as Li Jing, he has been a hooligan and sold salt, and later joined the township soldiers, and now he has become the deputy general of a town, this time Gao Bao attacked Liang Zhang, he commanded Hangzhou Badu to annihilate Liang Zhang 20,000 with 20,000, although it was a surprise attack, but it was quite good to be able to achieve this result. But how to say it, Qian Biao is just a small deputy general at the moment.

She also knows a little bit about Yang Xingmi's background, and in her early years, she also sold illicit salt, went into the mountains to steal, and became a Shuofang town soldier after being arrested by the government. When Li Jing defeated Li Keyong in the battle of Daibei, Yang Xingmi led his subordinates to capture a group of Shatuo defeated soldiers, who went to the Zhenguo Army to receive a reward, and also wanted to join the Zhenguo Army, but was refused. Later, he became a deserter, returned to Huainan, and changed his face to become a businessman in Luzhou, but secretly recruited troops and trained a private army of thousands of people.

This time, Qian Biao and Yang Xingmi secretly released Wu Qian and other 500 captured soldiers, and the other rescued Wu Qian and others. Now, they came to Xiapi in person and asked to see Li Jing, and the purpose was not simple.

Li Jing just chuckled and didn't explain anything to Gongsun Lan. Li Jing was interested in Qian Biao and Yang Xingmi because he clearly remembered that in history, Yang Xingmi and Qian Biao, two former salt dealers, although they are not conspicuous now, will become a tyrant in the future, divide one side, open a national dynasty, and have a place in the five dynasties and ten kingdoms.

Yang Xingmi later possessed Huainan, Jiangxi, Xuanxi and other Jiangdong places, called Wu State, although the most Hou Wu State was usurped by Xu Wen, but it was still a hero. And Qian Biao was not simple, occupying Liangzhejiang, creating the Wu Yue Kingdom, and his Wu Yue Kingdom was passed on to the Northern Song Dynasty after the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, and then surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

These two people, but in history, they finally replaced Gao Biao and Zhou Bao respectively, and now they are thousands of miles away to ask for a meeting, how can Li Jing refuse to be thousands of miles away. (To be continued......)