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On 10 February, Wang Jingchong led 7,000 cavalry to Cangzhou City.

As soon as he entered Cangzhou, he got the bad news that Lucheng, the northernmost city in Cangzhou, had fallen.

Lucheng is only a hundred miles away from Cangzhou City, Wang Jingchong was surprised and delighted when he heard the news, surprised that Li Jing's cavalry came so quickly, and happy that Li Jing finally stepped into the encirclement of the four towns.

The day after Wang Jingchong arrived in Cangzhou to take over all military and political affairs, the 50,000 infantry of the Chengde army finally arrived in Cangzhou. In the city of Cangzhou, there were 70,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and a full 80,000 army.

At this time, he had received news that 30,000 Wei Bo troops were coming to Cangzhou for reinforcements.

Then, that night, another news came from this that Jingcheng, sixty miles away from Cangzhou, had fallen, and the advance of the Northeast Army had approached Cangzhou, only thirty miles away from Changlu County in the north of Cangzhou.

Before Wang Jingchong sent his troops, he had ordered the two brothers to carry out the fortified wall and clear the wilderness in Cangzhou, forcibly evacuate all the people from the counties and townships near Cangzhou into Cangzhou, burn all the houses, fill all the wells, and not give Li Jing a chance to replenish.

The people who moved back from everywhere, and tens of thousands of Cheng German troops crowded Cangzhou City.

Although the lion city has a circumference of fifteen miles, it can carry a limited number of people, and now, the streets are full of people who have moved in, and the pressure on food has increased dramatically.

Wang Jingchong did not divide his troops to defend Changlu and Jingcheng counties, but directly shrank all his troops to Cangzhou and let Li Jing go south.

Meantime. Wang Jingchong ordered to be among the people who entered the city. Recruit young people who have practiced martial arts and bows and arrows. Charge into the city defense team, and award a heavy reward, encourage the German army and young men to kill the enemy, a Northeast Army head reward of 20 yuan, if it is an officer, the reward is heavier. Wang Jingchong raised a large number of troops, and the people of Cangzhou were strong, and they practiced martial arts. In a few days, he had already recruited 20,000 young men, armed with spears, horizontal knives, bows and arrows.

With 70,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and 20,000 young men, Wang Jingchong's confidence increased greatly.

Then what made Wang Jingchong a little strange was that he reorganized his army in Cangzhou City and waited for three days until the 14th, three days ago, he had already captured the Liao soldiers in Jingcheng, sixty miles west of Cangzhou. And there was no attack on Cangzhou. Changlu County, thirty miles away, has still not been occupied. In addition to the discovery of small groups of Liao army scouts. The Liao soldiers seemed to have paused in front of Cangzhou.

Wang Jingchong consulted with his counselors several times, but could not guess what Li Jing was thinking.

Li Jing only has seven days of food and grass, and it is said that Li Jingli is making a quick decision, but now that four days have passed, Li Jing has only captured the two cities of Lucheng and Jingcheng, but the army has penetrated into Cangzhou Baili.

Li Jing suddenly started this war, and there must have been a purpose.

Wang Jingchong and his counselors could think of nothing more than a few, one of which was to attack Youzhou. Second, take the land route south to Henan, rescue the eastern capital, and relieve the siege of Huangchao. Third, the real purpose of the false way to destroy Yu was to seize the Yichang Army, so as to connect Li Jing's northeast territory with the eastern territory of Henan through the coastal zone of Hebei. Fourth, plundering Hebei and robbing the population.

All four purposes are possible. Li Jing has now captured half of Lu Long, and if he attacks Youzhou at this time, it will be said in the past. But if you attack an important town like Youzhou, what you need is not cavalry, but infantry that is conducive to besieging the city. Moreover, Youzhou is the first important town in the north, and the siege may be long-term, so not only infantry is needed, but also more auxiliary soldiers and siege equipment are needed. Judging from Li Jing's strength allocation of 50,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry this time, this momentum of light cavalry going south is more inclined to the latter three.

To seize the Yichang Army is to seize territory and go south to Henan, and at this time, it must be aimed at the empty Taining Army and Tianping Army. When Ziqing Town was strong, it was also a place of fifteen states in the north, including De and Di in the north, Yi, Hai, Yun and Yan in the south. said that Li Jing was really going to rescue the Eastern Capital, Wang Jingchong would never believe it. Under the banner of rescuing the Eastern Capital, Li Jing is somewhat credible to grab the land.

However, this does not completely negate the latter possibility, perhaps Li Jing's troops this time were not aimed at attacking cities and seizing land, but for the purpose of plundering the population of Hebei. After all, judging from Li Jing's actions over the years, this guy's favorite thing is to rob people. I robbed it a few times in Youzhou at the beginning, which greatly damaged Youzhou's vitality.

Everyone knows that Li Jing now has territory, but what he lacks most is actually population.

Thinking about it, it seems unlikely to attack Youzhou at this time, so the remaining three purposes, to seize Yichang Town and go south to Henan, will inevitably need to pass through Cangzhou and open up this passage. If this is the case, the Cheng German army will stay here, and as long as it is carried out according to the previous plan, it can hunt Li Jing. But if Li Jing is just preparing to plunder Hebei this time, then the situation is a little complicated.

The counselors' ideas were good, but Wang Jingchong did not believe that Li Jing dispatched 80,000 soldiers and horses at one time, and the purpose was only to raid Hebei and rob the money, grain and population. After all, Li Jing's Liao soldiers are different from the soldiers and horses of other towns, such as the four towns of Hebei and Huangchao, although they are 102,000 horses at every turn, but their men and horses, except for the old battalion of tooth soldiers, are more hurriedly armed recruits, which sounds like there are many people. And Li Jing's soldiers, although most of them may not be as strong as their old battalion, but on the whole, they are well-armed, much stronger than their army.

Last time Li Jing robbed Shunzhou, he only dispatched 10,000 cavalry, and if it was just a robbery, there was no need to use 80,000 troops.

He thought about it, and felt that Li Jing's goal was still Yichang Town or Henan. But if this is the case, then Li Jing should go south quickly, after all, Li Jing only has seven days' food. He should directly avoid Cangzhou and go south to Henan.

Therefore, after the Liao soldiers quickly captured Lucheng and Jingcheng, they suddenly lost their movements, which is really puzzling. Could it be that Li Jing knew that he had sent troops to reinforce Cangzhou, and that he had already known about the plan of the four towns to encircle him, and was ready to withdraw?

This is possible, Li Jing has always liked to avoid the real and attack the weak, and rarely likes to fight hard, maybe Li Jing did want to seize Yichang Town before, and then go south. But now seeing the reaction of the four towns, they are afraid of difficulties and retreat.

But all this was just speculation, and he knew very little about what was going on in the north. He asked Zanhua, who was in charge of military intelligence, to send scouts in the direction of Lucheng and Jingcheng, but it would take time for these details to report back the news.

Before this, all Wang Jingchong could do was to wait in Cangzhou City.

On February 14, south of Huichang County, Zhuozhou, south of Juma Shuinan, on the border of Mozhou.

The two prefectures of Mo and Ying, south of Juma Water, have always been controlled by Lulong Town. After Li Keju's army was defeated, the two states were named Lulong Zhenxia, which was actually controlled by Li Quanzhong. After Li Quanzhong captured Yiwu Town, he handed over Mozhou to Liu Yue as agreed, but in fact Mozhou was controlled by Liu Rengong.

The two states of Moying are very important in Hebei, where the north is Juma water, the southeast is the canal, and the middle is Hutuo water.

The two states belonged to the Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period was the realm of the Three Kingdoms of Yan, Zhao and Qi, and the Qin Dynasty was the two counties of Julu and Shanggu. Hanzhi River Country, because it is named between two rivers. Wei placed Hejian County, Sui relocated Hejian, and Tang was Yingzhou.

On the south bank of the Juma River, a temporary camp.

Li Jing, who was dressed in armor, sat in the tent and listened carefully to Gongsun Lan to report the information he received and analyzed to Li Jing.

"Dong Zhangyanei has led the armed cavalry to capture Lucheng four days ago, and Gao Jichang Yanei has also led the Tun cavalry to capture Jingcheng three days ago."

"How did Wang Jingchong and the others react?" Li Jing asked as he stretched out his hand to roast on the brazier.

Gongsun Lan was wearing a Vermilion Bird-style full-body armor, and the silver-white plate armor was round and full of streamlining, setting off the coquettish face, making the whole person even more tempting. Without looking at the notepad, she replied directly: "As expected by the king of the county, Wang Jingchong really refused to give up Yichang Town, not only refused to spit out this piece of meat, but also planned to bite us. According to the exchange and analysis of the information sent back by the Military Intelligence Bureau, we have already come to the information that Wang Jingchong has almost taken out the entire Chengde army this time, and gathered 10,000 cavalry, 60,000 infantry, and 20,000 armed young men in Cangzhou City, and also sent 10,000 infantry to each of the two prefectures to attack and defend the north bank of the Yellow River. ”

"The other three towns?"

"Han Jian is dispatching 30,000 Wei Bo's troops to Cangzhou, and he is also drawing troops and horses, and then he will personally go north. Li Quanzhong also transferred 30,000 Yiwu troops to move closer to Youzhou, the purpose of which was to prepare for the attack on our back road Huichang and Yongnu with Liu Yue of Youzhou, cut off our way back, and surrounded us. ”

"Do you want to swallow our army of 80,000?" Li Jing chuckled, and the generals on the side also laughed.

Wang Puda, the secretary of the Ministry of War, smiled: "Dong Zhang and Gao Jichang have fought well, 10,000 cavalry have played 80,000 soldiers and horses, it is estimated that Wang Jingchong and others still think that the soldiers and horses of Jingcheng and Lucheng are our main force." ”

"They would never have thought that our main force is not far south of Huichang City." Lin Wei, the governor of the Chinese army, also smiled and nodded. The four towns in Hebei all received the news that Li Jing only brought grain and grass for seven days, and there was no logistics camp, so it was determined that no matter what kind of purpose Li Jing sent troops for this time, it would definitely be advantageous to make a quick decision.

But they never imagined that Li Jing had been dispatching troops for four days, but in fact, only two cavalry troops had been dispatched. His main force of 70,000 is only fifty miles south of Huichang at this moment.

"Tianxiong, this kid did a good job, and led the soldiers of the Flying Cavalry Army to kill all the scouts in the four towns, so that they couldn't figure out our reality at all." Li Jing was very satisfied with Yang Shihou. Since this dispatch, several disciples have proved that Li Jing's decision to vigorously promote them and appoint them as the commanders of the cavalry is right with their actual performance.

Guo Chengan reminded on the side: "Since Wang Jingchong has already joined the court, should we start acting?" ”

At this time, although the army was only fifty miles away from Huichang City, there was indeed not much grain and grass. (To be continued......)