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It was late at night, but Li Maoxun didn't feel sleepy. Under the candlelight, he frowned and sighed. He sent Liu Rengong to send a letter to Li Jing, in which he had already made great concessions, as long as Li Jing was willing to take a step back, then he was even willing to marry his daughter to Li Jing as a concubine. Moreover, Li Jing's proposal to borrow the four cities temporarily, he did not object. As a last resort, he really didn't want to go to war with Li Jing as an enemy.

It's just that his concession was obviously regarded as cowardice by Li Jing. The damn guy didn't hesitate to reject his offer, not even thinking about the threats implied in his letter.

Do you have to do it? But he really didn't have much confidence, although Lu Long's army had 90,000 horses, but in the hands of various large and small army leaders, he could really command only his initial 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the 10,000 horses recruited later. It was precisely because of these 20,000 horses that he was able to reluctantly sit in his current position. But against Li Jing, this point is obviously not enough. Although veteran military leaders such as Fan Xinglong and Liu Yue also sent troops this time, how reliable are these people?

While sighing, Liu Rengong asked to see him outside.

"Come in!"

"Report to the marshal, the big thing is not good, Gao Shunli's former army was defeated and surrendered, and Changzhou has been lost. Li Jing is leading 20,000 soldiers and horses to kill the city of Vaud, and the vanguard has reached the bottom of the coastal city, which is only more than 30 miles away from us. Liu Rengong reported with a panicked face.

This news is so shocking that Li Maoxun can't believe it at all.

"How is this possible, the Gao family father and son are not stupid people. How could 10,000 people be defeated in the blink of an eye? Li Maoxun's eyes widened. Asked in a trembling voice.

Liu Rengong reported what he heard. It is reported that Li Jing feinted to attack Gu'an City, but ambushed him with elite soldiers and horses on the south bank of the North River of Gu'an City, and built an embankment to store water upstream. After the cavalry of the front army passed, half of the infantry behind waded across the river, and suddenly attacked half-crossing, dug an embankment to release water, flooded the front army, and Gao Shunli was defeated and captured. Then the cavalry was also surrounded, and they surrendered closely. After Gao Shunli surrendered, he also took the initiative to take the lead and defrauded Changzhou City. ”

Li Maoxun was angry and anxious, frightened and frightened at the moment, and he was so angry that he rushed up directly and fainted to the ground.

Binhai City is between Changzhou and Vaud City, although the city is not large. At this time, there were 3,000 soldiers and horses. If you want to attack Vaud, you have to go down to this city first.

Li Jing asked Gao Shunli about it. There is a good way to break the city.

Gao Shun said: "Gao Pang, the guard of Binhai City, is a son of my Gao family, and in terms of seniority, he is my younger brother." Now I feel the great kindness of the county prince, and I can't repay it, so I am willing to persuade him to surrender in person, so that he can open the city and return. ”

Li Jing was naturally very happy to hear this, and immediately asked Zhang Hong to prepare a generous gift and letter to Gao Shunli. Gao Shunli took a few followers to knock on the gate and ask to see Gao Pet. After entering the city, he took out the gift given to him by Li Jing, which was a thousand taels of gold. He also took out Li Jing's handwritten letter, in which Li Jing specially added Gao Zhong as the deputy governor of the right front army. And said that as long as Gao Zhong led the army to surrender, the three thousand subordinates in the city would each be rewarded with ten yuan.

Gao Shunli said to Gao Chong: "In the current situation, Li Jing is a fierce dragon crossing the sea, and Li Maoxun is his opponent." Even if Li Maoxun can survive the current level, but after this battle, how can he restrain and command Lu Long's army? And then will it be well? It's better to take advantage of the current opportunity to think more. ”

Gao Zhong groaned, "Li Jing is really as good as his brother said?" You and my brother voted for him, but I'm afraid that it will be uncomfortable and reused, right? ”

"Definitely!" Gao Shunli shook his head, "Then Li Jing has only been around for a short time, and although his subordinates are strong, they are also mixed with various departments. There are not only pirates who recruited in the early years, but also the old troops after the defeat and annexation of their bosses, and even those powerful forces in southern Liaoning are also under his hands, in my opinion, Li Jing treats the generals and the soldiers and horses of various departments quite well. Besides, our Gao family is in Yanzhou, if Li Maoxun hadn't used the banner of Chen Gongyan to trick us into sending troops last time, how could we have followed him. At the moment, switching to Li Jing is not a betrayal, but Li Maoxun deceived us first. ”

The Gao family was not originally Li Maoxun's subordinate in Yanzhou, Li Maoxun was the Qingyi military envoy, and Gao Shunli was the Ningwu military envoy. Chen Gongyan, the envoy of the surrender army, was extremely popular in Youzhou, and he was once kind to the Gao family, so when Li Maoxun recruited them under the banner of Chen Gongyan, they did not hesitate to send troops. It wasn't until he invaded Youzhou that he found out that he had fallen for Li Maoxun. However, at that time, the wood was already in the boat, and it was admitted that it was a fali accompli.

Gao Chong was finally persuaded by Gao Shunli to live in Youzhou, a secession town, and he was used to seeing the city's head changing the king's flag, and it was not a big deal. Whoever is stronger, vote for whom, this is the law of survival under the law of the jungle.

Li Jing led his troops into Binhai City, did not break his promise, and immediately rewarded the 3,000 subordinates who were highly favored. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Jing took out all the stocks of money and grain from Gu'an, Changzhou, and Binhai City as a reward to reward the three armies.

After that, Li Jing transferred 2,000 men and horses from the left compartment of the Zhendong Army, mixed with Gao Chong's 3,000 soldiers and horses, and formed a new compartment. and transferred the officers of the Zhendong Army as deputies.

Li Maoxun lost Binhai City, angry and anxious, but he didn't dare to go out of the city to fight. He only sent flying horses to urge the other left and right soldiers and horses, so that Li Quanzhong and Liu Yue's left and right armies could rush to Vaud to converge. On the other hand, he secretly informed his son Li Keju that he should stick to Youzhou and not go out of the city.

On the other hand, Li Maoxun once again sent Liu Rengong as an envoy to ask for a visit to Li Jing, hoping that the two families would cease their war. He also offered to raise 2 million guan and 100,000 stone of grain for the Zhendong army, and was willing to temporarily lend the four cities leading to Datong from the Zhendong army to Li Jing. Moreover, he directly sent his daughter to Li Jingjun.

However, Li Jing was unmoved, although he had eaten the former army at the moment, he had not really hurt Li Maoxun. Let him go at this time, it is difficult to guarantee that after Li Jing enters Datong, he will not have other ideas. Immediately, Li Jing accepted the 200,000 yuan raised by Li Maoxun, but did not give Liu Rengong a reply.

That night, Li Jing directly divided the soldiers and horses into three divisions, besieging the city of Wozhou with the newly reorganized left front army, the right front army, and the 15,000 men and horses on the left side, and the other 8,000 Zhendong army into two divisions. Ambush on both sides of the city of Vaud. Be ready to deal with the left and right soldiers and horses in Youzhou at any time.

15,000 men and horses surrounded Li Maoxun and 10,000 horses in the city of Vaud. Attack on all sides. In the city, Li Maoxun did not come out, and on the third day of the attack, Li Quanzhong of the left army led the soldiers and horses on the left side had arrived. As soon as Li Quanzhong arrived, he immediately besieged Binhai City. At this time, Qin Ju led 3,000 Liaonan troops from Huichang to defend Binhai City, and Li Quanzhong immediately stormed the city as soon as he arrived.

Jiang Ju held on for less than half a day, and the head of the city was attacked by Li Quanzhong several times, although Li Quanzhong's soldiers and horses were driven down the city head desperately, but the united soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Jiang Ju asked Li Jing for help. Li Jing stood still. Li Quanzhong raised fire to fight at night, and the onslaught continued, and in the middle of the night, the south gate of Binhai City was finally breached, and Li Quanzhong led the army into the city.

At this time, Li Jing got the reward, and said to Li Zhen for a while: "Li Quanzhong came by the same way, day and night, he was already tired, and today he attacked the city for another day, and the left route army has not eaten yet. At present, the Left Route Army broke through the south gate of Marina City. It is the time of excitement that must be undervigilated. I'm waiting for this to strike. Just enough to defeat the exhausted Left Army in one fell swoop. ”

Li Zhen also nodded: "At this time, the Left Route Army is the most exhausted, and this is the time to start." ”

Immediately, Li Jing led 5,000 Chinese soldiers and horses, and five cavalry battalions of cranes, flying horses, rangers, flying eagles, and silver saddles, attacked. The army suddenly slaughtered under the coastal city, and at this time, most of the 10,000 Youzhou soldiers on the left route had entered the city from the broken south gate, and some were still outside the city.

When the 5,000 cavalry of the Zhendong Army arrived, the momentum was like a hurricane, like an autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and the wind swept across the plain.

In the blink of an eye, the Left Route Army outside the city had been broken through and defeated. Leaving a battalion head to continue to sweep away these routs, Li Jing led the crowd directly into the coastal city, Jiang Juzheng in the city led his troops to resist desperately, seeing that it was about to die, suddenly there was a burst of fire behind him, and the killing sound was loud. Li Jing had already led the cavalry into the city, slashing left and right, Li Quanzhong was caught off guard, and his soldiers and horses were scattered in the streets and alleys of the city, and they could not stop the charge of the cavalry of the Zhendong Army at all.

The Zhendong army was defeated, Li Quanzhong saw that the opportunity was not good, and immediately fell out of the city, Li Jing led his troops to pursue for a while, beheading more than 3,000 people, and Fang Nai retreated.

After this defeat, Li Quanzhong's Left Route Army retreated for more than 100 miles until it retreated to the city of Xuanzhou, and then slowly gathered the rout. After the final count, there were 10,000 horses in the Left Route Army, and only 5,000 men and horses were left in Xuanzhou City, which was half less. Among them, 3,000 were beheaded by the Zhendong Army, more than 1,000 were captured, and thousands of defeated soldiers were directly deserted.

Li Quanzhong thought of Li Maoxun, and took his two sons, Li Congwei and Li Kuangchou, to continue to go to Vaud to rescue. However, although Li Quanzhong of the Left Route Army was the main general, in fact, this route of soldiers and horses was composed of soldiers and horses from various departments of Yiding Prefecture. The soldiers and horses that were pulled up with great difficulty have now suffered such a big loss. At the moment, no one was willing to accompany Li Quanzhong to continue north, and Li Quanzhong had no choice but to stay in Xuanzhou City.

The Right Route Army led by Liu Yue and Fan Xinglong had already left Lu County and was halfway there, only a few dozen miles away from Vaud. Hearing that Li Quanzhong's troops were ambushed and defeated and retreated for hundreds of miles, he immediately returned the same way without hesitation, retreated to Luxian, and did not move.

Li Jing collected his troops and returned to Binhai City, and Jiang Jusuo led 3,000 united soldiers, but at this time there were only more than 1,000 left, and most of them were lost. Li Jing took off the gold lacquer mountain armor on his body and gave it to Jiang Ju, and gave him a hundred taels of gold, and a good horse lance, saying that he was not saving him when he saw death, but just waiting for the opportunity to kill. Jiang Ju was originally quite resentful in his heart, but now that he saw Li Jing rewarding him so much, he explained it gently. Although it was determined that Li Jing had the intention of deliberately depleting the Liaonan soldiers, there was no other way, and he had to accept it in the end.

Immediately, Li Jing ordered a heavy reward for the soldiers who died in the Liaoning Southern Unity Soldiers for the rest of their lives, each with a reward of 50 yuan, and for the soldiers of the United Army who died in battle, each person was rewarded with 80 percent.

Li Jing was about to arrange a banquet to reward the soldiers, when he suddenly visited the Malay newspaper and said that after the siege of Vaud for three days last night, the army had suspended for a night's rest. As a result, in the middle of the night, the Vaud soldiers, who had been unable to press their troops, suddenly opened the four gates and came out of the four gates. Directly attacking the camp of the army, all sides hurriedly met the battle. As a result, after fighting for a while, I found that there were not many soldiers and horses rushing out, and many of them were even ordinary people.

At this time, the generals realized that the soldiers and horses of Vaud were just attacking the west. They made a lot of noise, but in fact, they took the opportunity to break through from the north gate and fled to Youzhou. Wang Zhong and General Lin Wu pursued for a while, and after encountering a group of soldiers and horses fighting to the death, after annihilating this army of soldiers and horses, they were already unable to catch up. "Li Xunmao actually fled without a fight?" Li Jing couldn't help but be very surprised when he heard this.

The tanma replied: "After the two generals Wang and Lin entered the city of Vaud, they interrogated some captured Youzhou soldiers, and according to the confession of one of Li Maoxun's tooth soldiers, Li Maoxun seems to have fainted once when we captured Changzhou and when the former army of Youzhou was destroyed. Then Primorsky Gopang surrendered, and he fainted again. After the county prince defeated Li Quanzhong of the Left Route Army, Li Maoxun was angry and vomited three liters of blood and suffered a stroke and fell into a coma. By the time I woke up, I was dying. It is said that the retreat was Li Maoxun's confession before his death, and when the middle route army in the city of Vaud retreated, Li Maoxun was already dead. ”

"Dead? Is this true or false? Li Zhen hurriedly asked. I think that the battle between Li Jing and Duli Town at the beginning also pretended to be dead, and he turned defeat into victory because of this. It is necessary to prevent Li Maoxun from doing the same once.

Tanma replied: "The meaning of the two generals Lin and Wang seems that Li Maoxun is really dead." ”

"Hahaha!" Li Jing couldn't help laughing, this Li Maoxun, who was so bold at the beginning to seek the position of handsome, now the official Lu Long seems to have never sat down, so he is so angry? He couldn't help but feel a burst of amusement, this thing was also a little too impressive.

"Jungong, what should we do now?" Guo Chengan asked. Li Maoxun is dead, the former army has been defeated and surrendered, and the left army has also retreated for hundreds of miles, and now it does not dare to rise again. The Right Route Army was even more directly frightened, and it was hundreds of miles away, and it did not dare to take half a step south. As for the rear route army, Li Keju is still shrinking in Youzhou City.

Li Jing slowly paced around the circle with his back hand, and for Youzhou, Li Jing could only do this step now. Youzhou's strength is still there, but it hasn't been assembled for a while, and they haven't really contributed.

If Li Jing just taught Li Maoxun a lesson, it is estimated that the generals in Youzhou would be happy to see this result. But if Li Jing wants to seize Youzhou, he is afraid that he will touch all the Youzhou generals, and when the time comes, there will be no reconciliation to deal with.

But now, it's not time to stop yet. Li Maoxun is dead, but the debt is still there. It is only natural that the father and the son repay the debt.

"Under the city of Youzhou, let's also mourn Li Maoxun, and by the way, find Li Keju to settle the debt he owes us." Li Jing sneered. (To be continued......)