Chapter 301: First Strike, Stronger
Ziqing Festival is in Qingzhou, the city of Ya, and the palace of Wang Jingwu, the commander of the Yanei, is jubilant and jubilant. The Yanai knew that Wang Jingwu's wife had just given birth to an eldest son to Wang Jingwu. Wang Jingwu is nearly forty years old, and although he already has a ten-year-old son, the eldest son was born to a concubine. At the beginning, it was also because his wife had given birth to two daughters in a row but had no children, that he accepted the concubine. originally thought that his wife would not have another child, but he didn't expect that he was pregnant with a child last year, and now he gave birth in October, and he gave birth to a big fat boy.
This son is not the same as the previous son, and in the big family, the status of the son-in-law and the concubine is very different. The son-in-law, especially the eldest son, will inherit the entire Wang family's business in the future, but the son-in-law can share some money at most, and has no status at all.
"Congratulations to the general, happy to the Linzi!" The midwife's face is smiling, and the roots are like chrysanthemums blooming layer by layer. can personally deliver the eldest son of the palace, and the reward that can be obtained will definitely not be less. Sure enough, Wang Jingwu, the general who controlled the Qingzhou tooth soldiers hereditarily from father and son, waved his hand, grinned and said with a big smile: "Give the midwife a reward of ten times, and all the servants and girls in the house today will be rewarded with five hundred yuan!" β
When the master of the family was so happy and bold, all the slaves sent countless kind words like honey.
Wang Jingwu was happy, and Liu Xun, the head of the guards outside, walked in: "Report to the general, Captain Wang Yanwen has returned from Dengzhou, saying that he has something urgent to see!" β
Frowning, Wang Jingwu waved his hand and said to Liu Xun: "Come back so soon." It is estimated that something has gone wrong with the matter entrusted to him. That's Yan Wen. The last time I was assigned, I was scrambling to go. Haikou boasted, but when he really got things done, he was far from even you, a fifteen-year-old school. Let him go to the study and wait! β
Wang Yanwen is Wang Jingwu's nephew, who is ambitious and talented, and he is impetuous, and he has never liked Wang Jingwu very much. However, the head of the guard named Liu Xun in front of him was very much liked by him. Liu Xun is only fifteen years old, but he is seven feet tall. Tiger back bear waist, born with divine power, can ride and shoot well, can open a three-stone strong bow, and lift a thousand catties of stones. But if this is really the case, it would be a big mistake to think that Liu Xun was just a brute force and reckless young man.
Liu Xun is a native of Mizhou, his family has been an official for generations, and his father is the commander of Heqiu County. History records that he is young and ambitious, and he is a good soldier! In the late Tang Dynasty, this was a very stylish general. First in the Qingzhou Tooth Army as a small colonel. followed Wang Jingwu, and later gradually emerged. He became Wang Jingwu's son Wang Shifan as an important general of the Jiedu envoy, and the later Wang family was defeated, and he attached Zhu Wen of Later Liang and became a general of Later Liang. Known as "one step and one hundred strategies", after Liu Yan's death, he was posthumously awarded the Zhongshu Order by the late Emperor Zhaoliang at the age of sixty-four.
Although he is only fifteen years old at the moment, he is extremely brave and martial, but he is extremely intelligent, and he has already impressed Wang Jingwu, and he has been promoted to the head of his guard battalion, and has always been with him.
As soon as he entered the study, Wang Yanwen immediately shouted anxiously: "Uncle, something is wrong."
Wang Jingwu was born in a family of military generals, more than seven feet tall, with a slender figure, a square face, a slightly dark complexion, thick eyebrows, big eyes, a wide mouth, and a curly face. When the whole person raises his hands and feet, there is always a unique momentum of a military general.
Seeing his unangry nephew so panicked, Wang Jingwu couldn't help but open his eyes, glared at him angrily, and as soon as he opened his mouth, his voice was like thunder, "What kind of panic does it look like, how did you go to Dengzhou?" β
Wang Yanwen shrank back a little fearfully, and said carefully: "It's really an accident, my nephew and Captain Zhang went to Dengzhou together." But when he went, Li Jing happened to lead his troops to Liaodong, and Captain Zhang personally went to Qingnicheng in Liaodong to ask to see Li Jing, but Li Jing's face was very big, but he just received the letter but did not see anyone, and did not reply. Later, after Li Jing won the battle, he returned to Shamen Island, and Captain Zhang asked me to come back to report. β
"What did you just panic about this?"
"Not only that, my uncle may not know what to do in Qingzhou, Li Jing is really powerful this time, he defeated Duli Town and Beisha City, and then took advantage of the death of Li Lingfu in Qingni City, successfully got Qingni City, and also took Beisha City in one fell swoop."
"It's just an overseas place, what does it matter."
"It's a big deal, Li Jing was only a few thousand soldiers and horses before, but after several victories, he is now a strong soldier, with more than 20,000 troops, not only hundreds of warships, but also thousands of cavalry, and now he has more than 20,000 soldiers and horses. And I have personally seen those soldiers and horses, all of them are iron armor and iron helmets, and the military is at its peak. In particular, the Divine Fire and Flying Fire that Li Jing's army has, one is used in naval battles, which can be burned on the water, and no warship can stop it. There is also a kind of flying fire, which can be thrown with a cannon, which can make a thunderous noise, and when thrown in the sea, it can blow up waves ten feet high. β
"That's true, you're not boasting?" When Wang Jingwu heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised.
"There's really no boasting, uncle, you don't know how to do it, the battles that Li Jing fought in Liaodong are now being sung throughout Dengzhou. What Li Jing's 3,000 cavalry captured the 3,000 cavalry of Duli Town without much effort. He once dared to kill directly under the city of Beisha with only 2,000 personal soldiers. And the night attack of 5,000 soldiers and horses in Beisha City, but he expected it early, and set up an ambush, annihilating 5,000 incoming soldiers in one fell swoop.
Speaking of all kinds of rumors he heard when he was in Dengzhou, Wang Yanwen said that he would be able to talk and be colorful, and he forgot what he really wanted to say.
When he turned around, he saw Wang Jingwu's gloomy face, and hurriedly said: "When I was about to come back, I heard that my uncle borrowed that Hong or something about the horse thief, and he wanted to transfer Li Jing to Ziqi to suppress the bandits?" β
"It is true." Wang Jingwu nodded.
"If there is such a thing, then which idiot came up with the idea, isn't this leading the wolf into the house!" Wang Yanwen said word for word what he remembered Zhang Xiaowei said. But he didn't see that Wang Jingwu's face was a little worse, and he said to himself: "Then Li Jing is now strong and strong, and he has always been Cui Yunqing's protΓ©gΓ©, and Cui Yunqing and Song Wei are firmly standing together." Now Li Jing took this opportunity to come to Qingzhou with a full 6,000 elite soldiers and horses, including almost 3,000 cavalry. And they must still have that kind of powerful divine fire and flying fire. I heard that there are only 800 horse thieves in Nahong, and Li Jing's soldiers and horses are so powerful, he has fought so many battles, and he has not yet paid for his defeats, whether it is the Liaohai pirates, the combined fleet of Duli Town, or even the horse thieves of Beisha City, they are not his opponents. Now to deal with 800 horse thieves, do you use 6,000 elite soldiers and horses to mobilize the army? Even I can see that Li Jing is not well-intentioned, and this is a false plan to destroy the enemy. He didn't bring so many soldiers to suppress bandits, but to Qingzhou! β
Wang Jingwu's face changed greatly, he glanced back at Liu Xun, and Liu Xun also had a very ugly face.
"You said that Li Jing brought 6,000 soldiers and horses? And three thousand cavalrymen among them? β
Wang Yanwen only found that his uncle's face was very ugly at this time, but he didn't understand what was wrong, and nodded: "Yes, Li Jing had already led his troops from Shamen Town three days ago, and they took the waterway, and set off directly from the sea by boat and then entered the Yellow River, went up the river, and came directly to Qingzhou." By the way, before Li Jing sent out his troops, he suddenly reorganized his soldiers and horses, and set up a military horn of the Zhendong Army. The Zhendong Army has one battalion in five capitals, one battalion in five battalions, and one army in five compartments, with twenty-five battalions and 25,000 men and horses. β
"Alright, you can get out of the city first." Wang Jingwu interrupted Wang Yanwen to continue.
After this nephew, who was a little brainy and obviously not smart enough, left, Wang Jingwu looked at Liu Xun and said, "Liu Xun, do you think things are really as Yan Wen said, I just made a stupid trick and am helping Song Wei to recruit a strong reinforcement that is enough to destroy us?" β
Liu Xun was puzzled: "General, I'm just a small guard, and it's not my turn to speak about these things." If the general really wanted to find someone to discuss the situation in front of him, the young general thought that he might as well go to General Li, the cavalry of Zuo Jinwuwei, who was in the city. I heard that General Li has a close relationship with the general, and he is very smart, so I might as well ask him for a plan. β
Wang Jingwu hesitated slightly, this Jin Wuwei rode Cao to participate in the military Li Zhennai was a general of the forbidden army who came to Qingzhou to escort a batch of tributes back to Beijing. This Li Zhennai is a descendant of Li Baozhen, a famous general in the Xingtang Dynasty, and his family has been an official for generations, but when it was passed on to his generation, the family was already a little down. He first studied literature, but unfortunately failed to rank many times, so he switched to the army, and now he is already the eighth horse of Jin Wuwei to participate in the military, and he is in charge of the miscellaneous livestock books and shepherds in the foreign government.
When he came to Qingzhou this time, Wang Jingwu had the heart to make friends, but he had a good relationship with him. Hearing Liu Xun's suggestion, he hesitated because Li Zhen was an outsider after all, and such a confidential matter would be troublesome if it was leaked out. "Liu Xun, tell me your own opinion first!"
"The last general thought that we had underestimated this Li Jing before, and originally thought that he was a small character in Dengzhou. But looking at him now, his strength has long exceeded our expectations. If what Captain Wang said just now was true, then the six thousand elite soldiers brought by Li Jing were quite terrifying. Song Wei has long been united with the Military Supervision Academy, and they have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Qingzhou, but although there are many soldiers, they are all new soldiers, so there is no need to worry. But Li Jing's soldiers are different, they are strong soldiers who can lay down a territory in Liaodong. If he joins forces with Song Wei, then my Qingzhou soldiers will be in danger. There will be a proposal at the end, it is better to take advantage of Li Jing's arrival, let's strike first, take advantage of the chaos, kill Song Wei first, and then face Li Jing. β
Wang Jingwu hesitated, and couldn't make this decision for a long time, so he said later: "You go and help me invite General Li Zhen to come, and I will ask him what he means." β
Liu Xun nodded, turned to leave, walked to the door and stopped and said to Wang Jing: "When the interruption continues, it will be chaotic, please make a decision quickly!" β
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