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After capturing Beisha City, Guo Chengan immediately sent a message to Li Jing to report the victory, and escorted Zhang Dewei and several generals in Beisha City to the military camp in Shamen Town. After Li Juyi stepped forward to verify Zhang Dewei's face, he nodded to Li Jing and said: "It is indeed Zhang Dewei, and I also know these others, all of whom are Zhang Dewei's henchmen in Beisha City." Congratulations to the general, congratulations to the general, the soldiers are bloodless, and take the city of Beisha. ”

At this time, Li Jing finally fully believed that the Guo father and son had really descended, and happily ordered to immediately move troops into Beisha City.

When he arrived at the foot of the Great Black Mountain with 6,000 soldiers and horses, Guo Chengan had already taken his two sons, as well as all the officers and civil servants in Beisha City, as well as those wealthy families of the big clans and so on, to greet him for a long time. Zhang Chengan knelt down in front of Li Jing's horse, raised his hands high, and presented the seal of Beisha City, as well as the population list of the city, and the detailed book of money and grain in the treasury to Li Jing one by one.

Li Juyi got off the horse and took it and handed it to Li Jing, Li Jing took it and looked at it and accepted it with satisfaction, dismounted and helped Guo Chengan and said: "Guo's righteous act to avoid a big war and save countless people from fire and water is a great merit, and I should be rewarded." Guo Gong and I entered the city together! ”

Saying that, Li Jing took Guo Chengan's hand and walked into the city together, seeing Li Jing so kind, Guo Chengan's originally anxious heart was also greatly relaxed, and he felt that this time the gamble was really right.

Along the way up the mountain, Li Jing looked at the city on the mountain, and couldn't help but marvel at this central fortress city in southern Liaoning, which had been established when Goguryeo invaded Liaodong during the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Beisha, also known as Beilu City, was first built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty 470 years ago. For hundreds of years. It has always been the military and political center of Goguryeo in the whole of southern Liaoning. The entire city is located on the ridge of the southern peak of the Great Black Mountain. The mountain stone is built of the city, the stone wall is as high as five zhang, and the circumference is ten miles, which is more than six times that of Dengzhou.

The stone wall is built along with the mountain, stretching for about ten miles, and the majestic shore is strange and handsome, and it is magnificent. The canyon inside the city is meandering, and the outside of the city is surrounded by cliffs. Encamped in the city, you can attack when you advance, and you can defend when you retreat.

In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had crusaded against Goguryeo three times, each time by land and water. Among them, the waterway is to cross the sea from Dengzhou and attack Beisha City directly. The Book of Sui records that in the tenth year of the Great Cause (614), he came to Hu'er and crossed the sea handsomely, and went to the humble and luxurious city, and the whole country of Goguryeo came to fight. Protect the child and behead the thousand-level" for this battle. The description in the history books is not detailed, only the big break is written, and more than 1,000 beheadings are written. For this battle of breaking the city, it is said that there were only 3,000 defenders in Beisha City, and the 30,000 Sui army led by Hu'er led ten times the defenders to storm for two days, and finally paid tens of thousands of casualties before breaking through Beisha City and beheading more than 1,000 people. Lai Hu'er is a famous general of the Great Sui, Rong Guogong, such a famous general has paid so much damage, you can see how strong this city is.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Taizong Li Shimin conquered Liaodong again, in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan (645), Tang Taizong appointed Zhang Liang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, as the governor of the Pyongyang Provincial Marching Army, and the Shuai Zhou Division crossed the sea to Donglai on the Shandong Peninsula, landed at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, attacked Beisha City, and after breaking through the city, captured thousands of Goguryeo people...... "May has been, pulled it out, and obtained 8,000 men and women." It can be seen that there were thousands of troops and horses stationed in Beisha City at that time.

Such a Xiongcheng fortress has actually been the center of southern Liaoning for hundreds of years. However, in the past hundred years, this former fortress has not been beautiful, and it has been turned into a lair of horse thieves several times, and its central position in southern Liaoning has been replaced by Duli Town, and even Qingni City has been pressing on their heads. But although Guancheng is dilapidated, it is still a ten-mile Xiongcheng on top of the Great Black Mountain.

If it weren't for the internal mutiny of the Guo family's father and son to take the city and sacrifice it, Li Jing asked himself if he wanted to capture such a fortress, even if many of Zhang Dewei's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were recruits, he would have to pay a great price. Originally, he didn't think about storming this city at all, but he didn't expect that God would give it to him, so that Guo's father and son could take it and give it to him.

Outside the ditch in front of the city gate, the remaining more than 3,000 soldiers after a night of civil strife in Beisha City stood there, quietly waiting for Li Jing.

Looking at these soldiers, Li Jing chuckled lightly and said, "Give each brother a reward of 5,000 and 10 silk horses!" ”

The Beisha soldiers shouted thanks, and everyone was a little surprised, they didn't expect Li Jing to be so generous and give so much reward as soon as he came.

Guo Chengan said: "General, these soldiers deserve such a heavy reward, and it is enough to give 51,000 yuan casually." ”

"The soldiers took this city for me, and a few dollars are not enough. Guo Gong rest assured, I am even more grateful to you, and I will never be stingy with rewards. ”

led the army into the city, Lin Wu and others led the battalions of soldiers and horses immediately and quickly began to take over the city gates and treasury barracks and other important places, without the slightest politeness.

"General, this is a detailed roster of ordnance, money, food, gold, and silk in Beisha City." As soon as he entered the city lord's mansion, Guo Chengan immediately took a pile of account books and presented them. Li Jing looked at it casually a few times, threw it aside, and said to Guo Chengan: "Guo Gong has made a great contribution this time, I want to ask Guo Gong to serve as my secretary, I don't know if Guo Gong is willing?" ”

The secretary is the shogunate under the important official positions such as the envoy of the festival and the observer envoy, and all the things that are written are the secretary, and the mouthpiece of the festival is a very important position. There is no such position in the general military envoys' mansions, and only the soldiers and horses envoys of important large towns have this position. Li Jing now has nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, and he is also preparing to appoint a secretary. Let Guo Chengan take this important position, which was also suggested by Li Liang before he came.

The Guo family is powerful in Beisha City, and if Li Jing wants to really control this Beisha City, then Guo Chengan must not be left in Beisha City. The best way is to give him an important position, transfer him out of Beisha City, and put him next to Li Jing to work, so that he can still have a bit of a hostage role.

Guo Chengan was extremely shrewd, and he understood Li Jing's intentions with a turn of his mind. However, Li Jing's methods were also expected, he was not dissatisfied, but rather happy, and this is an important position for the secretary. If it is in the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, in addition to the deputy envoy, the marching Sima, and the judge, the secretary can be said to be the fifth high-ranking position. And under Li Jing's hands, although it can be imagined that this secretary in charge must still be under the soldiers, cangcao, recorders, and staff officers, it can be regarded as a very important position. From now on. You can see it too. Li Jing is indeed a very trustworthy person. There was no intention of unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

"The old man is only afraid that he will be shallow, unable to take on this heavy responsibility, and live up to the general's expectations." Happy is happy, what should be done still has to be done, Guo Chengan pretended to resign again and again, and finally took over the post.

"It's better for the secretary to tell me directly, how many belongings Zhang Dewei still has left." Li Jing said.

Guo Chengan flipped through the account book and made the following appearance, in fact, how many belongings there are in Beisha City. He knows better than anyone else.

"Last night, after we took Beisha City, we immediately sealed the treasury of the prefectures, and there was no infringement in the slightest. According to the count, Beisha City now has 873,543 yuan, of which 500,000 yuan was a gift sent by Duli Town last time for Zhang Dewei to send troops, and there are also 370,000 horses of silk, more than 3,000 taels of gold, and more than 8,000 taels of silver. There were more than 380,000 stone of grain, 8,000 cattle, 50,000 sheep, and 3,000 horses and mules. In addition, there are more than 30,000 sets of knives and guns. More than 5,000 crossbows and 300,000 arrows"

This amount is slightly less than Li Jing imagined. However, he estimated that Guo and other rebels must have taken the opportunity to embezzle some last night. But he doesn't care about this, the water is clear, there are no fish. Anyway, it was already a surprise for Li Jing to get Beisha City for nothing, and now the other gains are additional surprises. Zhang Dewei is really poor, even if Guo and others take some money, but the inventory is only more than 800,000, which is really surprising. No wonder Duli Town gave him 500,000, so he immediately sent troops.

However, this nearly 400,000 stone grain made Li Jing a little surprised, now money and silk are nothing, what really matters is food. The harvest is about to be harvested this summer, but the fields in the north have already cracked like open mouths, and they are about to be harvested. Now the price of grain in Dengzhou has risen a lot, last year the rice was 200 Wen, and now it has risen to 300 Wen of Dou Mi, and if this continues, it is estimated that it is possible to buy 400 Wen or 500 Wen of Dou Mi, and it is even conceivable that it is difficult to buy grain with money.

"How many people are still in the city?"

"Originally, there were nearly 100,000 people in Beisha City, and with the bunkers and towns within 100 miles around the Great Black Mountain, there were more than 200,000 people in Beisha City. However, some time ago, Zhang Dewei went crazy and gave an order to kill Hu, killing tens of thousands of people in one go, and a large number of other Hu people fled. Now there are more than 11,000 households in the whole city of Beisha, more than 63,000 people, and more than 8,000 soldiers, but 5,000 of them were captured last night and are still in the camp waiting for the general's departure. ”

"How many fields are there in the city?"

"There are 360,000 acres of land, but only 160,000 acres are in the army, and the remaining 200,000 acres are owned by the people." Guo Chengan hesitated when he answered. Li Jing heard his voice, and estimated that the so-called more than 200,000 yuan was owned by the people, and it was estimated that the people accounted for a maximum of 100,000 mu, and the remaining half may be owned by these big families in Beisha City.

However, Li Jing did not have the idea of fighting the local tyrants to divide the land, and said with a smile: "The 160,000 mu military hoards will continue to be official land, and the other fields will not move." In addition, the fields of Zhang Dewei and those officers and soldiers who resisted and were destroyed this time should be confiscated. Half of them were not official fields, and the rest were distributed as rewards to the major families and soldiers who contributed this time. ”

"Thank you, General!" Guo Chengan became more and more unable to understand Li Jing, and after entering the city, he did not commit any crime against the people in the city, and as soon as he came, he rewarded the soldiers and various families, which was very large. After the reward, he has now been rewarded with such an important field. Those who are not tempted by small profits will be greater. It seems that Li Jing's ambition is not small.

"As for the imprisoned soldiers, I think that those who are loyal to Zhang Dewei and refuse to surrender will be beheaded and confiscated of their belongings. The rest of the soldiers, don't have to embarrass them, just release them all. However, Beisha City will not need these new people in the future, so let's go home. After a pause, Li Jing said again: "The terrain of Beisha City is dangerous, and it can be defended without too many soldiers and horses. Now that Beisha City belongs to me, then Beisha, Qingni, and Da Xie Yan will be united. Therefore, I thought that the present Beisha army could pick its elite and leave two thousand men and horses to form two battalions, one for the mountain infantry and the other for the mountain cavalry. In addition, I will also transfer General Wang Chong's green wolf battalion to stay in Beisha City. ”

Looking at Guo Chengan's expectant eyes, Li Jing said: "General Wang Zhong led the Green Wolf Battalion to garrison Beisha City, and the mountain infantry battalion is called the Wind Battalion. The newly built mountain cavalry battalion is called the Ranger Battalion, which is promoted by Liu Shouqian, the deputy tenth general of the Green Wolf Battalion, and I think the deputy tenth general can be served by Ma Shan, the captain of Beisha. ”

The original soldiers and horses of the city of Beisha were consolidated into two battalions. One cavalry battalion, one infantry battalion. Then transfer Wang Chong's green wolf battalion to garrison. There were only 3,000 men left in the whole of the city. The Guo family originally controlled most of the soldiers and horses in Beisha City, and Li Jing turned the two battalions of the brothers into one battalion, which was actually to prevent the Guo family from sitting and having a big difficulty at the end.

Gao Desheng and Ma Shan are both Beisha military captains, and their backgrounds are also from the Beisha City clan. Li Jing promoted these two people to serve as deputy ten generals of the infantry battalion and cavalry battalion, not only to win over the Gao and Ma families, but also to contain and disperse the power in the hands of the Guo family.

"In addition, Guo Zhenhai is known for his bravery, and I want to transfer you as the deputy tenth general of my crane cavalry battalion. I don't know if you'd like to! ”

Guo Zhenhai did not hesitate, although the Konghe Battalion is a new battalion, it is a large cavalry battalion of 2,000 people, and it can serve as the deputy ten generals of such an elite battalion. Even though he knew that Li Jing was doing this to weaken their power in Beisha City, he was still happy to agree.

"Okay, in the future, General Wang Chong's green wolf battalion will be stationed in Beisha City and be responsible for guarding Beisha City. Guo Zhenshan and Gao Desheng's Hurricane Infantry Battalion were stationed in Zhubao Town at the foot of the mountain, serving as a barrier to Beisha City. The ranger battalion led by Liu Shouqian and Ma Shan was stationed at the foot of the Great Black Mountain, responsible for patrolling and guarding between the fort towns and Beisha City under the mountain. Ladies and gentlemen, do you have any dissenters? ”

Guo Chengan and the newly attached people in Beisha City all heard that Li Jing had arranged it like this. As a result, all the soldiers and horses they had in their possession were transferred out of Beisha City. There is a battalion of green wolves sitting in the city of Beisha. Although those Tempest Battalions in Fort Town are still in their hands, how dare they do anything? If there is any change in the Wind Camp, the Blue Wolf Camp will immediately be able to arrest their families in the city.

Guo Chengan took the lead in clapping his hands and praised: "The general's arrangement is very appropriate, there is a green wolf battalion in the city, and the people in Beisha City are worry-free." After speaking, he took out a fold from his bosom and offered it to Shishi, and said: "In order to celebrate the general's takeover of Beisha City, I and the merchants of the big clans in the city have put together a gift and handed it to the general, please smile." ”

Li Jing opened the fold and saw that it read: "3,000 war horses, 300,000 stone of grain!" Just ten words, but Li Jing couldn't help but chuckle. Originally, he was going to extort 3,000 horses and 100,000 stone of grain for Zhang Dewei. I heard that Zhang Dewei was also ready to give this money, and in order to make up for his losses, he ordered the people of the city and the merchants to pay together. It seems that Guo Chengan put together the money as a gift, but he also gave an extra 200,000 stone of grain.

Li Jing was not polite at all, and Ha Luha accepted it with a smile.

After staying in Beisha City for three days, Li Jing left Wang Chong and Liu Shouqian in Beisha City and left by himself. In addition to the 1,000 soldiers and horses of the Green Wolf Battalion, there are also hundreds of gang leaders, all of whom will enter the Wind Camp and the Ranger Camp as team leaders. When leaving, Li Jing not only took away the new secretary Guo Cheng'an and Guo Zhenhai, the deputy general of the Crane Battalion, but also the people of the major families in Beisha City basically sent a few sons from the family to accompany him.

These sons sent by various families were nominally to join Li Jing's Silver Spear Guard Battalion as guards, but both sides knew that these were hostages handed over to Li Jing by Beisha City, and both sides tacitly agreed.

The soldiers and horses returned from Beisha City, and on the way, Li Jing held an alliance with the two soldiers and horses of Shicheng and Shiren Zhucheng, who had arrived belatedly. The leaders of the two cities were also important people in the two cities, and it was obvious that they were a little disappointed. Unexpectedly, when he came, he deliberately delayed a little, wanting to watch the limelight, but he didn't expect that Li Jing had already taken Beisha City directly into his hands, and he didn't make any effort at all, let alone lose soldiers and horses. This made them very remorseful, and if they had come sooner, they would have had a share of the pie. But now, they only got a gift from Li Jing that was worth only a few thousand yuan.

However, at present, Li Jing defeated Duli Town, forced them to sacrifice their daughters to form an alliance under the city, and successively won Qingni City and Beisha City, and the situation in the entire southern Liaoning has changed. For this emerging powerhouse in southern Liaoning, they can only flatter and praise, and never dare to have other ideas.

After the alliance, both sides returned home.

Li Jing led the army back to Qingni City first, where the eight and 5,000 soldiers and horses of Dengzhou ate and drank for many days, reaped enough benefits, and were waiting for Li Jing to sail to take them back to Dengzhou. After the eight soldiers and horses of Dengzhou crossed the sea, they only participated in a battle under Qingnipu City to attack Beisha City. Later, when Li Jing attacked Duli Town, the eight generals didn't go for all kinds of reasons, and Li Jing didn't care. They have been staying in Qingni City since then, and they didn't go to Beisha City this time. In fact, these people are also very regretful now, participating in the battle of Qingnipu, Li Jing divided a large amount of their materials.

If you had been more bold enough to participate in the battles of Duri and Beisha City, you would not have gained more benefits.

As soon as he returned to Qingni City, Li Jing immediately saw Zhang Hong, who was staying in Qingni City, he hurried over, panting and said: "Yanei, someone from Qingzhou is here, and I have been waiting for you for two days." ”

"Oh, do you know what's going on?" When Li Jing heard that it was someone from Qingzhou, his heart moved and he asked.

"It should be a good thing, let me tell you in advance, not one person from Qingzhou, but two people. On behalf of Song Wei and Wang Jingwu, respectively! ”

PS: The end of the third volume! Next, the protagonist will start to march into the Central Plains! (To be continued......)