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Li Jing sat at the foot of Mount Tai, although the soldiers and horses were stationed in the Qianfeng City, but the scouts of the horses were scattered in the states as early as possible. Huang Chao broke through Yuncheng, and Li Jing had already gotten the news the next day. Li Wei carefully reported the situation of the battle of Yuncheng to Li Jing and the generals, "Now Huangchao is carrying nearly 100,000 young men to Jeju, and he has made every effort to get the wealth and food of Juancheng and Yuncheng, and the momentum has recovered a lot. We judged that Huang Chao was about to converge with Wang Jingwu of Qizhou. ”

"Since the yellow thieves are going to Qizhou, they must first pass through Jeju, and my subordinates think that our army can immediately move north, go to Jeju, and intercept the grass thieves in Pingyin City." Staff Officer Gai Yu proposed that since he joined the Zhenguo Army, he now only holds the position of a staff officer, although it is said that it is the blood affairs of the Zanhua Army, but this staff officer belongs to the General Staff Department, and there are also marching staff officers, senators, counselors and other officials, even staff officers like him, there are five or six. This made him feel a strong sense of crisis, and he was always thinking of giving advice to gain Li Jing's trust and integrate into the Zhenguo Army.

Li Jing smiled slightly, but did not reply to Gaiyu's proposal, but asked Li Wei with a smile, "You said that Huangchao is now holding 100,000 young men and women hostage, and also carries a large amount of money, silk, grain and grass looted from Pu and Yun Prefectures?" ”

Levi nodded, the grass thief did bring a lot of gold, silk, money, food and people.

Asked someone to put up the maps of the four prefectures of Yun, Ji, Yan, and Qi and piece them together into a large map, and then Li Jing clicked on the name of Gaiyu and asked him to use red and blue to mark the location and action route of the officers and soldiers and the grass thieves. Although it was only a small task, Gai Yu was very happy, and his face was excited and immediately marked the situation of the enemy and us. Even Wang Jingwu of Qizhou, Song Wei of Zizhou and other departments were marked. Even the quantities are marked very precisely. It can be seen that he usually controls this information very carefully.

Li Jing nodded appreciatively to Gai Yu, and said to Gai Yu: "Staff Officer Gai is really meticulous and very good. "Gai Yu is Li Keyong's person, Li Keyong is not dead, Li Jing must dry him for a while now, and polish the temper of Gai Yu before he can be used with confidence. However, it cannot be blindly suppressed. A few words of praise and praise from time to time can also play an excellent role.

After praising Gai Yu for a few words, Li Jing pointed to the map and said solemnly: "The method of using soldiers, do not go to Gaoling, do not reverse the back hills, do not follow the north, do not attack sharp soldiers, do not eat bait, and do not return to the teacher."

contain, besiege the remnants of the division. Don't be forced to be poor, this method of using soldiers is also. The current grass thief. is fleeing to Qizhou in a hurry, which can be called a returning teacher and a poor man. For such a grass thief, I don't think it's the best plan to go to Pingyin City to intercept it first. ”

Huang Chao is not Wang Xianzhi, Wang Xianzhi has almost been broken since the Battle of Songzhou, and he fled in several battles. On the contrary, Huang Chao is very desperate, the battle of Juye, the defeat of the official army, and the dare to counterattack and sneak attack, you can see the huge difference between the two from here. If Li Jing really rushed to Pingyin City to intercept Huang Chao, and Huang Chao desperately broke through, the Zhenguo Army would also pay great casualties.

In the first battle of Juye, 80,000 Huangchao defeated the army and counterattacked the official army, but as a result, the enemy was strong with a weak enemy, and the crowd was attacked with less, and 20,000 officers and soldiers were killed and wounded. Li Jing now only has 25,000 men and horses, and he still has 50,000 young men, all the way to Pingyin, and he is also a tired army, and when the time comes, he will have to fight with Huangchao, and this loss will inevitably be not small.

What's more important is that he works so hard to fight the Yellow Nest, it doesn't mean anything to him at all. How could Li Jing fight such a battle.

"Is it just like that?"

"No, of course not!" No matter what, even if it is superficial work, Li Jing has to do it. It must not be said that he let Huang Chao go, but now the imperial court has even directly appointed the envoy of Lu Longjun, who knows if the ministers of the political affairs hall controlled by Tian Lingzi in the court of Ludao will suddenly reprimand without thinking, or even make any drastic decisions. In case Li Jing is to be transferred to other towns, or to enter the court or something, although Li Jing can refuse to obey the order, but now the relationship with the court is stiff, which is not a cost-effective thing for Li Jing.

Stretching out his hand and pointing on the map, "We won't go to Jeju to intercept, let's go to Yunzhou, first recover Puzhou and Yunzhou, and then enter Jeju to pursue the thief army." As long as we don't chase too closely, the grass thieves won't come back to fight, and then we will follow them and recover Jeju as well, and even close to Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi to leave Qizhou, and we can even recover Qizhou together at that time. ”

After the battle of Juye, the official army of the six towns in the west lost their grain and grass, and they could not leave Caozhou in a short time. After the defeat of Xue Chongyuncheng, the entire Pu, Yun, and Qi prefectures no longer had the strength of the official army. As long as Li Jing sent troops to walk around the states and counties, the credit for this recovery would be the Zhenguo Army. What's more, there are many scattered grass thieves in these three states, as well as many thieves from all walks of life who rebelled against the banner.

Money and food are needed to fight a war, and Li Jing doesn't plan to waste so much time in vain. At the same time as recovering Zhuzhou County, Li Jing just swept away these thieves and sent all those young and strong people back to Liaodong to work as free laborers. At the same time, he had already stared at the cities and counties of various prefectures, and was ready to move the money and grain that the grass thieves had too late to take back to Dengzhou. Moreover, after the battle of Songzhou, Li Jing also knew very well that if he recovered all the prefectures and counties, the merchants, wealthy families, etc., in the prefectures and counties, would also give him a sum of filial piety and labor according to the rules, and the amount of money in dozens of counties in several states would add up to a lot, and Li Jing would not let it go.

Although this is somewhat inconsistent with Li Jing's initial approach. But he also knows that this is just a general rule in today's world, and even if Li Jing does this, there is actually nothing. What's more, Li Jing knows very well that after this chaos, Tianping and Taining Prefectures are almost eroded, and then, even if the grass army is gone, the local thieves and others will still erode the place, this place is rotten, he doesn't take the money now, and it will be taken by others when he turns around.

changed the interception to the pursuit, but the result was hugely different, especially for the Zhenguo Army, the difference in interests before and after was huge. With such a change, not only do you not have to fight with the grass thieves, you don't have to suffer casualties, but you can also make great contributions and get a lot of benefits.

As soon as Li Jing said this, no one in the generals present was amazed. This is the style of the Zhenguo Army, and now the generals are almost used to it, and hard battles are almost never fought. If you want to fight, you have to fight skillfully. Fight a battle of interest.

Soon, the generals of the Zhenguo Army agreed on their opinions. Li Jing ordered Li Zhen and Guo Cheng'an to stay in Qianfeng City, and then ordered Guo Shunli to lead 2,000 Black Flag Army, Wang Chong to lead 3,000 Japanese troops to stay behind, and the 50,000 young men also stayed in Qianfeng.

Li Jing personally led 20,000 horses and horses from the five armies of Jinjia Shengjie Army, Yingun Jiaojie Zhong, Konghe Army, Tielin Army, and Xuanfeng Army, and marched westward along Wenshui and entered Yunzhou. When Li Jing arrived in Yunju, Huang Chao had already entered Jeju. Li Jing did not chase after him, but scattered the five armies and let them go to the cities of Yun and Pu respectively.

Four counties in Puzhou and six counties in Yunzhou. In the land of two states and ten counties, the five armies of the Zhenguo Army were swept away. At this time, although Huangchao evacuated from Erzhou, there were still many grass army defeats, as well as defeated soldiers of the official army, and there were even many hungry people looting everywhere. The landlords of the wealthy clans in the local townships have recruited villagers to form villages for self-protection. Smaller villages were mostly looted and burned. The mountains, forests, rivers and rivers of Erzhou are full of thieves who occupy the mountains.

The Zhenguo army swept through like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves. It was the first to recover ten county towns and reorganize order. Zhang Bang calmed the people, swept away the rogue ruffian riots, and restored the market. Immediately after, the Fifth Army dispatched troops and horses to sweep the mountains and forests of various counties and bandits in a carpet manner, and at the same time organized local wealthy merchants to take out grain to open porridge sheds.

Li Jing personally sat in Yunzhou, Yuncheng, and the 20,000 troops of the Zhenguo Army swept down, and the thieves who lost leaders such as Huang Chao were just a group of rabble, and under the sweep of the sabers and swords of the Zhenguo, they collapsed one after another, and they were either swept away or surrendered.

A large number of hungry people who had been displaced by famine and war were also temporarily resettled. Li Jing directly ordered that those bandits and outcasts who were doing chaos should be selected as men and women over the age of fifteen and forty years old, and they would be gathered together with the army and brought back to Dengzhou together.

In ten days, in just ten days, under the thunderous sweep of 20,000 Zhenguo troops, the local order in Pu and Yun Prefectures has been restored, and the bandits in the mountains, forests and grasses have also been exterminated, and those displaced people were first killed by Huang Chao in a battle with the official army, 60,000 or 70,000 were killed, more than 100,000 were taken away, and now more than 100,000 were taken away by Li Jing. In addition to those prefectures and counties, and some large villages, the rest of the villages in Pu and Yun Prefectures were empty.

Not only the population of Pu and Yun prefectures has suffered a lot of losses, but even Cao, Hua, Yan, Ji and other prefectures have also suffered great losses.

On the day Li Jing arrived in Yunzhou, the envoy of the Tianping Army took Cao Quanhui and some other wealthy officials and soldiers from Juyeze to meet Li Jing. I don't have a good impression of this incompetent festival marshal Li Jing, just perfunctory at will. Xue Chong originally wanted Li Jing to add him to the function of recovering Zhou County, but Li Jingli ignored him.

However, the next day, Xue Chong immediately sent 200,000 yuan of money, and brought many local officials of the Tianping Army, they also brought a lot of money, and naturally there was only one purpose, hoping that Li Jing would add a sum to them on the recovery list.

Regarding Li Jing's taking away more than 100,000 young people, Xue Chong's reaction was beyond Li Jing's meaning, not only did he not block it, but he was very happy. In his words, at present, the Tianping Army can't control these homeless people at all, Li Jing has taken it away, and there will be chaos in the local areas of the province again.

After ten days of continuous sweeping, Li Jing ordered the troops to be withdrawn, and the troops returned the ten cities of the two states to the hands of the local officials who had come out of the various places. Of course, almost all they got were empty cities, and all the money, food, and materials in the city that belonged to the government were taken away by the Zhenguo army with the army.

Faced with this situation, officials in various places not only did not dare to complain at all, but even took the initiative to contact the wealthy merchants of the big clans in various places to collect a large amount of labor and military expenses when the troops were withdrawn, and sent them all the way to ten miles away.

After the armies returned to Yuncheng to converge, when he heard the report, he saw the officers and soldiers of the various armies who had returned with a full load, and looked at the carts of supplies, Li Jing couldn't help but be surprised. However, Gai Yu, who accompanied the army, told Li Jing that all this was normal. Because the behavior of the Zhenguo Army is completely in line with the norm at the moment, and even the Zhenguo Army is doing better than other armies.

The Zhenguo army helped the local government to exterminate the bandits, but it was just to take some money and food from the government treasury. But if it is the army of other feudal towns, they will more or less rob the money of some big and rich families, and some of them are even more fierce and greedy than the bandits, and directly rob everyone, whether rich or common. It is really rare for an army like Li Jing's Zhenguo Army to only take some public money and help exterminate bandits, pacify the displaced people, and maintain order.

"This time, a total of 80,000 young men, 50,000 young women, about 500,000 stone of grain, more than 2 million yuan of money, and more than 800,000 horses of cloth! There are about 20,000 sets of armor and weapons, and there are about 5,000 heads of donkeys, horses, cattle, and large animals. Gai Yu was a little excited to report the results to Li Jing. The Central Plains is really not comparable to the frontiers of Daibei, and the two states and ten counties in the Pi District have made them scrape so much oil and water in ten days. This is still the case that the grass thieves have already robbed it again, especially the population, so many young and strong people, transported to Liaodong, can immediately change the appearance of that bitter cold place.

Hearing this harvest, Li Jing also smiled slightly, this harvest was somewhat beyond his expectations, mainly sent by those officials and local arrogance.

"In this way, the army carried 50,000 stone of grain, and the rest of the grain was temporarily hoarded in Yunzhou, and the cloth was also hoarded in the Yuncheng warehouse first, and then we sent ships to transport it away after we cleared the Jishui channel." With so much grain, it is difficult to transport it away at once, and Li Jing will never give up this grain. After the last, it can only be stored here. "It's the 20,000 sets of weapons, cheaper, sell them to Xue Chong, if he can't eat them, contact the Li Department of the Taining Army in Yanzhou and Zhang Tingshi in Songzhou and sell them to them. We don't need money for these weapons, just food or cloth, and if it's some other iron materials, we can do it. ”

Nearly 20,000 sets of weapons, most of them were in stock in the ten counties of the two prefectures, and there were also weapons in the hands of those bandits who had been exterminated. These weapons are too miscellaneous and too poor, Li Jing is not willing to take so many junk weapons back, so he simply digests them on the spot.

Li Jing couldn't look down on 20,000 sets of weapons, but Xue Chong needed them very much. The soldiers in his hands are almost all gone, and now he must rebuild the Tianping Army, this batch of weapons is needed, although Li Jing offered fifty yuan per set, not including the iron armor, which is obviously very expensive, but Xue Chong still asked for ten thousand sets in one go. However, he couldn't come up with so much money for a while, and wanted to give it on credit, but Li Jing refused.

In the end, Li Jing nodded to him and told him that he bought ordnance to reorganize the army, for the sake of local tranquility, and asked him to find the prefectures and counties below Tianping Town. After Xue Chong heard this, he immediately drew a scoop according to the gourd and apportioned it to the rich landlords and merchants below the city, and even the ordinary people also levied a sum of money each. 500,000 yuan is a lot of money, but if it is dispersed, it will still be forcibly requisitioned quickly.

Li Jing received 500,000 yuan, and immediately pulled out 10,000 sets of ordnance to Xue Chong, and even gave him an additional 100 sets. (To be continued......)