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"Although Daibei is bitter and cold, it is also a place where our generation has made meritorious contributions. Although the Central Plains is prosperous, it is not a place for heroes to indulge. Li Jing's voice was deep and very soft. Brother Xin is going to take office, and I have nothing to help with, this is 100,000 yuan of flying money, you can take it in Taiyuan or Fengzhou. It can be regarded as a little help from me to Brother Xin. ”

Xin Yan pinched this thin piece of flying money, but he sighed in his heart. Although love and righteousness can be worth a thousand gold, Li Jing still makes him grateful for helping him so much. At the beginning, it was just that the road was uneven, and he drew a sword to help, and he didn't mean to befriend the powerful, but Li Jing's help to him was real. not only helped him become the deputy ambassador of the Datong Army, but also personally invited 3,000 Shence infantry and 2,000 cavalry to the emperor for him.

If it weren't for Li Jing, I'm afraid that even if he took office, he would be a bare-bones marshal, and his subordinates Mi Haiwan, Shi Jingcun, and Qi Bizhang each led a state assassin history, and served as an important position in the shogunate, and each held thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, if it were not for the five thousand soldiers and horses that Li Jing helped him invite, he would have done nothing even if he took office.

"San Lang has made my brother grateful for his help to me, and I can't take this money."

Li Jing pressed Xin Yan's outstretched hand: "If my brother looks up to me Li Jing, don't return the money, although I Li Jing is old, I have a lot of money in my hand." I can't help you with anything else, but a little money is still fine. If my brother doesn't want to go, do me a favor. ”

"What's busy, just say." Xin Yan said happily.

"If the elder brother finds that the Shatuo people have crossed the Yin Mountain and entered Daibei, he will be killed immediately. If you find Rick with it, I want his head! Li Jing said that Li Ke used three words. The expression on his face was a little cold.

Hardship nodded. promised Li Jing.

Li Jing then met with Mi Haiwan, Shi Jingcun, and Qi Bizhang respectively. These three people were all under Li Jing's command at the beginning. Although now they have become the assassins of Daibei Prefecture, and they also serve as important positions in the Marshal's Mansion. But Li Jing still has the name of a Datong Army Festival Envoy, and they are still Li Jing's subordinates in terms of performance. To these three people, Li Jing sent them a batch of gifts, and then said some kind words.

"I will pay two pieces of money for the head of each Shatuo person, and the living Shatuo people, if they are warriors, will each be ten times. If it is a young and strong woman. Each six, if it is a Shatuo boy or girl, each three, the old and weak, each consistent. No matter how much you send, I will give as much as you want, and I will receive as much as you want. To these three people, Li Jing all said the same thing.

"In addition, the price of the Khitans is halved, and the same amount is required!"

The three of them patted their chests with excitement on their faces, saying that they would try their best to complete the task assigned by Li Jing. Then he took the 100,000 Guan Fei money that Li Jing handed over to each of them, and left excitedly.

"Dashuai, will this price be too high? In case they do send a large number of captives. Shall we all receive it then? Guo Chengan said with some concern. The price of a warrior is a lot. In this situation full of displaced people, even if you want slave workers, you don't need to pay such a price to buy Hu people.

"Secretary Zhang, you don't have to worry about it, it's not just a matter of getting some slaves." Li Jing took a glass of fruit wine and drank it, the wine was vermilion, this is bayberry wine, full of fermented flavor, very strong, so thick that it can almost solidify. But it is indeed very mellow, this is the wine he bought in the Chang'an Street Market, and the wine jar is also tattooed with the mark of Dengzhou Distillery. The merchants of Chang'an are really powerful, and they have sold Dengzhou's fruit wine to Chang'an on a large scale so quickly.

Li Zhen explained Guo Cheng'an's confusion on the side, "The marshal's move has a deep meaning, using money to buy the heads and captives of the Shatuo and Khitans, those three Hu generals are greedy for profit, and they will inevitably take the initiative to cross the border, but fight against the Shatuo people and even the Khitans." In this way, after reaching the most difficult time, it is not surprising that the Khitans will inevitably fight with the three tribes of Daibei. Dashuai's trick is very clever, with a little money, the three tribes can be driven to fight with the Khitans willingly, which is to share part of the pressure of the Khitans for us. When we start a battle against the Khitans in Liaodong, it will be of great help. ”

"Then this trick can also be used in Lu Long." Guo Chengan's eyes lit up, "The Lu Long Army is closer to the Khitans, and they have more soldiers and horses. If they make a move against the Khitans, the whole situation will inevitably change drastically. ”

"Not really." Speaking of Lu Longjun, Li Jing's eyes were full of worry. At present, the situation in the entire Youzhou has been completely changed, due to Tian Lingzi's tricks, now Li Jing has become the nominal envoy of the Lu Long Festival, and the imperial court has now appointed Chen Jingxuan, who sells cakes, to be the deputy ambassador of the Lu Longjun Festival and the envoy of the Festival, but have they forgotten that the Lu Longjun still has a festival to stay behind Li Keju. Even Li Keju can't be the lord of Youzhou, and there are many opposition military leaders. The already complicated situation in Youzhou, because of Tian Lingzi's messing, Li Jing has now lost control of the entire situation.

In particular, it was Chen Jingxuan who went to Lulong, and Li Jing thought that Youzhou, which had had more than 20 mutinies in the past 100 years, was now in a tense situation, and there was a possibility that another mutiny would occur at any time. This will break the effect that Li Jing has managed to take advantage of the situation in Youzhou, but he is now beyond his reach and unable to do anything.

"Chen Jingxuan will not be short of money, and besides, Youzhou is likely to fall into chaos next, and there is no strength left to deal with the Khitans." Li Jing sighed, since he is powerless to change, let it be put aside for the time being, and let Chen Jingxuan repay the strength of the proud soldiers and fierce generals in Youzhou. "What we need to do most urgently now is to return to Dengzhou first, and then prepare to enter Liaodong and compete with the Khitans to curb the southward momentum of the Khitans."

"The marshal has already ordered General Lin who stayed behind in Dengzhou to gather troops and horses to enter the front line of Weiba Mountain City for defense, and even at the right time, he can make a posture of sending troops to attack from the side, threaten the Khitans, give some solidarity to the Goguryeo people, and let them hold on for a while longer. On the other hand, the commander also sent an envoy to the city of Jili, ready to persuade them to surrender to us. ”

"Then don't worry about the situation in Liaodong?" Guo Chengan said,

"Not really," Mr. Li said. "The Goguryeo people of Jili City are not alone. They still have a lot of power in the area of the Wugu River and the Yalu River. The Black Bone City, Daxing City, Boyu City, etc., are all gathering soldiers and horses. ”

"These people don't need to worry too much." Li Jing said slowly. "The Goguryeo people in Liaodong are not monolithic, more often than not, they are actually more of a fighting relationship. In fact, I can smell the breath of victory, and veto these few families will not send troops so soon. And at the moment, although Jili City is indeed on the verge of collapse, the Khitans have not suffered much damage. There was a rout in the air now, and they would have thought more about it before they sent out. As for the Bohai State, it is even more unlikely that they will send troops all the way to help a land in Liaodong, which has already supported its own troops and has long lost their control. ”

"The situation on the Liaodong side. If we defend, it will be difficult for the Khitans to move south for a while. Li Zhen frowned and said, "But what I'm worried about is the grass thieves and Wang Jingwu's rebels, since they can defeat the Tianping Army and the Taining Army successively, it is by no means as simple as the princes of the court said." ”

"They may be really good." Li Jing said in a long voice, "But they are not our enemies, although we are also one of the soldiers and horses of the Twelve Towns this time, I believe that the thief army will not dare to face it head-on, at that time, we will return to Dengzhou directly." The merit of the extermination of the thief army. Let it be given to Song Dashuai. ”

"Dashuai thinks that Song Dashuai can't defeat the rebels? It's impossible, this is the encirclement and suppression of the Twelve Roads Domain. Even if we don't make a difference, but with so many feudal towns, one person can drown the thief army with a mouthful of spit. Guo Chengan couldn't believe it.

"No one can guarantee victory in any battle until it is over." Li Jing said indifferently: "Although Song Jieshuai was quite famous in his early years, he fought Wang Jingwu for more than half a year, and there is no result until now, so you can know what happened to the soldiers and horses in his hands now." It's not that Song Wei is old, but that the soldiers and horses in his hands can't completely obey his command. Now the twelve towns are encircled and suppressed, and the situation is the same as Song Wei commanding the various units of the Pinglu Army to attack Wang Jingwu. The thief army is only threatening the territory of Xuanwu Town now, and the soldiers and horses of other towns are afraid that they may not be willing to contribute so much. ”

Moreover, in these twelve road feudal towns, the Tianping Army and the Taining Army have now basically been disabled by the Grass Army, and the Yicheng, Heyang Army, Zhaoyi Army, and Zhongwu Army have been crippled in Daibei before. The twelve towns went to the six towns at once, and the remaining Dongdu Army, Xuanwu Army, Huainan Army, Probation Army, Zhenguo Army, Pinglu Army Six Armies, Dongdu and Xuanwu are all weak armies, Huainan and Reforming Army have not recovered until now due to the Pang Xun Rebellion a few years ago. Because of Wang Jingwu's rebellion, the Pinglu Army and the Zhendong Army's self-reliance are no longer vigorous. Speaking of which, the soldiers and horses of the twelve towns, the only one whose strength is well preserved is the Zhenguo Army.

But before the battle was fought, Li Jing had already decided that he would not take care of the grass thieves this time. Then the results of the suppression of bandits in these twelve towns are almost doomed.

"Your Majesty is still too young, and when Daibei won the first battle, he thought that the imperial court soldiers were strong. But after the victory of the First World War in Daibei, the imperial court paid a huge price of 60,000 soldiers, and several feudal towns loyal to the imperial court were almost abolished. And several feudal towns in the Jianghuai area have not recovered due to the Pang Xun Rebellion. Coupled with the fact that the Tianping Army and the Taining Army were disabled by the thief army, the imperial court did not have much advantage. Especially in the Central Plains, there is a famine, and countless people who have no food and clothes are all supplements to the thief army. This battle is not a battle that can be won by pointing the country on the sand table, and the battle is together, I am afraid that countless people will die in the sword soldiers. Especially when the imperial court mobilized so many towns to suppress bandits at once, as soon as the soldiers and horses in each town left the town, the imperial court had to be responsible for supplying the army, where did the imperial court come up with this money and grain now? The soldiers and horses of the twelve towns received at least 300,000 stone of food supply a month, plus the cost of transshipment, the rewards of the soldiers, military salaries, pensions, and so on. As long as the supply is not timely, I am afraid that no one from all walks of life will have the heart to kill the thief. If you can't get enough to eat, who wants to fight? ”

Fighting a war is more about logistics and grass. The more soldiers and horses the court mobilized, the greater the pressure on logistical supplies. This is also the reason why Li Jing was shocked when he heard that the imperial court had mobilized the soldiers and horses of the twelve towns in the Yanying Palace.

No matter how many grass thieves there are, they don't have to worry about logistics and grass, because they can grab wherever they fight, those who have the ability to rob them, and those who don't have the ability to die. However, if the officers and soldiers had no food and grass supply, there would be a possibility of mutiny immediately.

From the very beginning, Li Jing had no hope of victory in this encirclement and suppression plan.

Since it was a war that was doomed to failure, Li Jing had no intention of consuming it with them. From now on, he is already preparing to withdraw to Dengzhou. Li Jing, who is familiar with history, knows that the Huangchao Rebellion did not really destroy the Li Tang Empire, they were just a fuse. It was just that all the contradictions of Li Tang were completely detonated, and they flowed all over the world, and as a result, the delicate balance of the Li Tang Empire was broken.

When the Huangchao Rebellion broke out, the Tang Dynasty would enter the era of the remnants of the Tang Dynasty in which the real feudal towns were divided and attacked each other.

From now on, Li Jing has to prepare early to consolidate his strength.

It's not that Li Jing doesn't want to turn the tide and destroy the Yellow Nest. But Huang Chao and Li Keyong father and son are different, the biggest thing for grass thieves is to be able to run, their soldiers are inexhaustible, Li Jing is not a solicitor, it is inconvenient to move, and it is impossible to chase Huang Chao and others all over the world under the threat of the Khitans in southern Liaoning. And the current situation in Datang, even if one Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi are killed, there will soon be a second and a third. (To be continued......)