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Finally victorious, the soldiers and horses of all towns have a feeling of relief and relief.

Although this counterinsurgency battle lasted for more than half a year, three envoys were replaced, three envoys died, and more than 60,000 soldiers were killed, but it was finally pacified.

This time, the counterinsurgency was carried out at a great cost to the imperial court and the towns. Not to mention the first two marshals, that is, the current soldiers and horses of Zhuzhen, the Zhaoyi Army made Li Jun and the 8,000 Zhaoyi Army annihilated. The Yicheng Army also ran out of troops and horses led by Li Jun, and only a bare-bones commander remained. The 8,000 yellow-headed army led by Cui Anqian of the Zhongwu Army, the total number of Zhongwu Badu is now 2,000, and there are only 1,000 cavalry left under Tuoba Sigong under Xia Suijiedu.

There are only more than 1,000 people left under the command of Li Zhuo of the other Heyang Army, and Helian Duo still has 3,000 cavalry under the Tiande Army. Hedong Jiedu made Zheng Congyan's cavalry run out long ago, and there were 3,000 infantry left. The situation of Zhenwu Army Yu Xuan was slightly better, with 1,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry.

The soldiers and horses of the Nine Towns, except for the Zhaoyi Army and the Yicheng Army, which were wiped out by the whole army, and the other soldiers and horses were all disabled.

Only Li Jing's Zhenguo army had almost no losses. The Zhenguo army is 20,000 horses, and since entering the Jin Dynasty, the losses have not exceeded 1,000 people. Even the three tribes of Sage, Anqing, and Qibi, as well as the soldiers and horses of the Gao Wenji brothers and the Fu Wenda brothers, did not lose before they divided their troops with Li Jing, and their current losses are only after the division of troops.

But when it comes to merit, among the towns. Li Jing's contribution to the Zhenguo Army is the greatest. The four states of Xinyun in the Wei Dynasty were all recovered by the Zhenguo army. Li Guochang's previous 10,000 troops were annihilated. is also because of Li Jing's planning, so that he closed the door twice and beat the dog, captured Li Guochang alive, captured Li Quanzhong alive, and Li Cunzhang, Li Kexiu, Li Kerou, and Li Kezhang were all captured by Li Jing.

And there were more Shatuo soldiers who were annihilated, surrendered, and captured by Li Jing. Added up before and after, more than 10,000 Shatuo troops were annihilated, and more than 10,000 surrendered and captured early.

Especially in the battle of Shuozhou City, Li Jing turned the tide even more. The collapse of the army was avoided.

Holding a pen, Zheng Congyan, who was writing the report and the meritorious performance, suddenly fell into a trance. I didn't feel it before, but now I count it with a pen, and I'm really shocked. Li Jing's use of troops is like a blistering cattle, every time it is just right, and he will never waste a little force.

One hit kills, one blow and go, this seems to be Li Jing's characteristics of using troops, never fighting hard with opponents. Every battle is a complete advantage.

This is really a young man who uses soldiers like a god, if it weren't for Li Jing leading his troops to come. This counterinsurgency will not be won in just half a year. He also wanted to ask the imperial court to hand over the position of Hedong Jiedu to Li Jing, with a person like Li Jing, Daibei, a chaotic place, would definitely be stable. It's a pity that he is too young after all. Being young is not a problem, but the problem is that he is young and has no illustrious background to support him.

However, in the end, Zheng Congyan still wrote down the credit for the suppression of the rebellion in the towns. The first contribution to counterinsurgency is naturally Li Jing, who wrote it all on it one by one, which year, month, day, and military exploits were all clear, and no one could erase them. In the excerpt of the last performance, Zheng Congyan earnestly asked the emperor to pay tribute to him, and proposed that Li Jing take over the post of envoy of Hedong Jiedu.

After the excerpt was written, Zheng Congyan used the seal, called the head of the personal soldier, solemnly put the excerpt into the box, and asked him to send it to Chang'an immediately.

Accompanying him to Chang'an was Zhang Chengye, the military supervisor of the Zhenguo Army, who brought 300 cavalry and was responsible for escorting Li Guochang, Li Quanzhong, Li Youjin, Li Kexiu, Li Cunzhang and other rebel captured generals.

On the first day of February, the army returned to Shuozhou.

Li Jing returned the IOUs that Zheng Congyan and others had borrowed from Li Jing for grain and winter clothes to the town marshals, which made the marshals very happy, and they borrowed a lot of money from Li Jing's materials. But this time the towns also suffered heavy losses, and now Li Jing has exempted them from this account, which has made the town marshal have a better attitude towards Li Jing.

Li Jing's debt won the favor of the townsmen, and he thought it was worth it. After all, in this crusade, the Zhenguo Army had the greatest credit and the smallest casualties, which inevitably made the other generals a little blushing. Now let the benefits come out, and everyone is happy together.

Counting up, Li Jing will never lose money. On the contrary, this time the Zhenguo Army made a lot of money. The loot they captured was innumerable, and the number of Shatuo soldiers and people they captured alone was in the tens of thousands. and all the property of the Shatuo people, naturally also fell into the hands of the Zhenguo army. and the food and supplies that were conquered in the cities, not only in the government but also in his hands. Even those in the hands of the Hu people were basically copied by Li Jing. Yunwei Dynasty Xin four states, just by Li Jing plundered the population of the various tribes, as many as 200,000 young and strong, these people are a lot of wealth, in addition to the four states of the government and the property of the people are all owned by Li Jing, Li Jing scraped three feet of the ground, occupied this small half a year, and continued to use those people to develop minerals, etc., it can be said that the plundered money and materials are innumerable.

The other generals are also looting everywhere these days, but with honest commanders like Zheng Congyan, Yu Xuan, and Cui Anqian, the soldiers and horses in each town dare not go too far. But those Hu people, especially those who had taken refuge in the Shatuo people, were more unlucky. Almost all of them are ruined to save their lives, for these, Zheng Congyan also turned a blind eye, after all, the losses of various departments are so big, if you just count on the imperial court to pay for it, it is a dream.

Only by making a fortune in Daibei can we make up for the loss.

"It's a pity that Li Ya'er ran away, this person's ability is even higher than Li Guochang." In Shanyang City, Li Jing and Yu Xuan's master and apprentice were drinking tea and playing chess. Li Jing didn't like to play Go very much, so he got a chess deck to play. Originally, there were no cannons in chess, and many of the playing methods were different from the later famous chess, so Li Jing added two cannons and simply moved the rules of later generations. However, at the beginning, Li Jing won three handfuls, and after that, Li Jing couldn't get down to Yu Xuan.

One of Li Jing's horses was guarded to death by one of Yu Xuan's carts and horses, frowning and unable to think of a solution, and he could only watch Yu Xuan eat his horse. He grinned in distress.

"Teacher. Li Ya'er is like the horse you just ate me just now. Right now, it seems to be out of our encirclement. Actually, he couldn't escape. ”

Yu Xuan raised his eyes and said very excitedly: "What, do you have a way to kill him?" However, the Shatuo people fled into Mobei this time, and with our current situation, it is not realistic to go on an expedition to Mobei. That Li Ya'er is completely in exile, and he has no territory, so we can't catch him wherever he goes. ”

Li Jing also stopped. Sitting up straight, he said to Xuan, "Why should we let him escape to the outside of the fortress." According to my news, after Li Ke broke through with 15,000 infantry to cover his cavalry, he traveled all the way south, first passing Shuozhou, then entering Lanzhou, and then crossing the Yellow River from Hehejin. ”

After Li Keyong broke through, he ran too fast and fled directly to the west bank of the Yellow River, and the generals and soldiers in the east of the river couldn't catch up at all. And Zheng Congyan and the others were reluctant to pursue it anymore, anyway, Li Guochang, Li Youjin, and Li Quanzhong, the three Shatuo leaders, were all caught. It's just a Li Ke, what does he do. Therefore. Now the officers and soldiers of the towns in Shuozhou City don't even know where Li Ke has gone.

"Li Ke has used the Yellow River, he can't run to Chang'an, he can only run north, to the northeast, only there, he has a glimmer of life. To go to Saibei, he only has two roads, one is to take Shan Yudu Hufu, and cross the white road to cross Yin Mountain. Either go to Fengzhou and pass through the day when the German army enters the fortress. And now that there are soldiers and horses I have stationed in the Duhu Mansion, he will never dare to go. Therefore, Li Keyong had only one way to go, and that was to cross the Yellow River near Fengzhou and get out of the jam from there. ”

"You have an arrangement?" Yu Xuan said excitedly.

Li Jing smiled slightly, the teacher only needs to wait a few more days, and he should be able to hear good news.

In Feng'an City, Li Siyuan disguised himself as an ordinary horse merchant and drove a few war horses into the city. Starting from outside the city, Li Siyuan kept secretly observing Feng'an City along the way. This is a small and small city, about more than 10,000 people, belongs to the jurisdiction of the Tiande Army, located on the north bank of the Yellow River in the meanders of the river, only dozens of miles away from the big city of Fengzhou in the territory of the Tiande Army. But compared to the defense of Toyosu City, it is much simpler.

Along the way, Li Siyuan carefully saw that there were only four guards at the city gate, and there was no one in the hidden cave, and the soldiers only had a set of leather armor and no armor. Their weapons were a spear and a horizontal sword, not even a bow. After entering the city, there were very few soldiers at the head of the city, and there were less than 100 soldiers at the south gate. The people of the city were very relaxed, and they had no sense of defense at all.

Perhaps it is because this place has the West Surrender City in the west, and the Tiande Military City in the east, and the geographical advantage of this place is very special, Feng'an and Fengzhou City are on the north bank of the Yellow River, and it can also be said to be on the south bank. Because the Yellow River is divided into two in this section, after encircling the three cities of Yongfeng, Fengzhou and Feng'an, it will reunite in the lower reaches of Feng'an, so the three cities of Feng'an are even like a huge island land.

It is surrounded by these two rivers, plus the west surrender city on the left and right, and the Tiande military city, and the Helan Mountain and Wolf Mountain barrier in the west, and Yin Mountain in the north. Therefore, this part of Toyosu has always been the most important place in the river meander.

However, since the Uighurs were unable to pose a threat to the Tang after the establishment of the Uighur state, the Tiande army had very few troops stationed in this area. However, now the Tiande Army and the Helian Department on the north bank of the Yellow River have gone to Hedong and have not returned, so they have been empty for a while.

Li Siyuan carefully looked at it for a long time before returning to the south bank.

On the south bank of Toyosu is a desert, and dozens of miles to the southeast is a green state, where there is a lake called Fufu Dry Spring, where many people gather. It became a town with a large number of people, but now, the town is a dead town.

Thousands of people in the town were all killed, and last night Li Keyong led his troops to raid this green state town, because there were 200 defenders stationed in the town, who resisted desperately during the siege, and many merchants and people in the city spontaneously went to the city to defend. As a result, a lot of damage was caused to the Shatuo cavalry, and after Li Keyong broke the city, he directly slaughtered the whole city, and none of the more than 3,000 people escaped.

"How's it going?" Li Ke asked irritably, gulping down his wine. This journey was not at all as easy as expected. The so-called wall fell from the people to push, he came all the way from Shuozhou, every time he passed by the city and the countryside to supply, those damn Tang people were not only not afraid of his black battle flag, but desperately resisted, and even encountered several cities who took the initiative to send soldiers and horses to ambush and sneak attack.

Although Li Keyong won every time without exception, it was also annoying to be chased and intercepted like this. And it adds up. The damage is also very large. Five thousand Shatuo troops came south. Through the state and county, up to now, nearly 1,000 horsemen have been lost. In the battle last night alone, in order to take this town, Shatuo cavalry was reduced by more than three hundred.

"The situation is the same as the result of the interrogation of the prisoners last night, there are only 500 defenders in the city of Feng'an, and there are only 800 defenders in the city of Fengzhou, which is dozens of miles away. In the western surrender city, I heard that there were 2,000 defenders, and in the Tiande military city there were 1,500 defenders. There was not much security in the city. If you attack at night, you can take it down in one fell swoop. And there are quite a few granaries in the city, and the grain in them is more than enough for our supplies. Li Siyuan truthfully told Li Keyong what he learned from his reconnaissance.

Li Keyong frowned, pinched his chin with his hand, and said to Li Siyuan: "I always have a bad feeling these days, and we have been too smooth along the way." How could the Tang Army let us go so easily, do you think they would have prepared some conspiracy waiting for us? ”

Li Siyuan also felt this way, but now they have already arrived here, as long as they cross the Yellow River, they can successfully cross the Yin Mountain. Completely get rid of the Don Army. At this time, it is impossible to change the route.

"Maybe it's a matter of concern." Rick sighed. During this period of escape, his personality changed a lot. In the past, the edge will be revealed, and the domineering sharpness is gone, and the whole person is much calmer and more restrained. In the past, Tang Jun was disdainful in his eyes. But now, he always feels that the Tang Army is too strong. "Send the order down, get ready, and capture Feng'an tonight. Si Yuan, you pick 500 elites as the striker! ”

The moon is dark and the wind is high and the killing night is high!!

The cold wind of February roared over the mountaintops, treetops, rocks, and black soil.

Li Jing and Yu Xuan stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the mountains and rivers of Wuyuan, and couldn't help reciting a poem by King Luo Bin: Drive more than three waters, and look at Wuyuan for a long time. As far as the eye can see, in the valley at the foot of the mountain, there is a dense tent, which is the Zhenguo army.

In the distance, the camp is densely populated, as if the stars have fallen into the valley.

"Li Keyong really wants to attack Feng'an?" Yu Xuan asked.

"Yes, and definitely, if I'm not mistaken, the attack should be today!" Li Jing is a mysterious Tao, but in fact, everything is in Li Jing's control. Li Siyuan entered Feng'an City to inquire about the movement, and the secret agents of the Xiao Cavalry Division had already recognized him.

Moreover, the Xiao Cavalry Division also found out that the small town of Green State on the south bank of Feng'an had lost contact with the outside world, and after the Xiao Cavalry Division lost several secret agents, it was discovered that the Shatuo cavalry had occupied and slaughtered this small city. Then contacted Li Siyuan's intelligence in Feng'an City, Li Jing immediately judged that Li Keyong was going to attack Feng'an, and then replenish grain and grass in Feng'an City, and then escape to the desert in the north.

"I hope this time we can surround and annihilate Li Ya'er in one fell swoop!" Yu Xuan said. Since Li Jing judged that Li Keyong was going to leave the fortress from the Tiande army, Li Jing and Yu Xuan led the troops into the territory of the Zhenwu Army again, and on the surface Li Jing said that he was going to clear the Shatuo people in the territory of the Zhenwu Army. In fact, as soon as they entered the Zhenwu army, they immediately mobilized a large number of ships, and then directly transported them to Fengzhou by water, which was only a thousand miles away from Fengzhou, which was much faster than Li Keyong.

By the time Li Keyong made a detour all the way to the river, Li Jing had secretly led his army to Tiande Military City two days earlier, and secretly arranged the Zhenguo Army, Zhenwu Army, and Helian Duo's Tiande Army near Tiande Military City, Fengzhou City, and Xishou City respectively.

The mobilization of soldiers and horses was carried out quietly in the middle of the night, and they were all hidden outside the city, so no one knew that Li Jing and Yu Xuan had led their troops here.

Although Li Jing knew that Li Keyong was hiding in the city of Greenzhou on the south bank, he did not attack, but waited for Li Ke to use himself to break into their trap and ambush the circle.

For Li Keyong, Li Jing is more fearful. The prestige of the world's first cavalry is not in vain, and there is no doubt about the strength of the Shatuo people. Li Jing fought several times in Hedong, but tried to avoid fighting with them as much as possible.

After the battle in Hedong, it can be said that there is no buffer between the Shatuo people and him. Li Jing has a grudge against the Shatuo people, but Li Jing is not moving, since he has done it, he must be killed and disabled, and the grass must be cut to the roots.

Historically, the Shatuo people finally made a comeback, but Li Jing didn't want to give Li Ke such an opportunity. Because in history, after the comeback, Li Keyong has completely changed into a person, no longer just a rebellious and untamable horse who is immature on the surface, but has completely become a scheming old wolf.

After suffering the loss of the first defeat and rushing to Mobei, Li Keyong completely calculated a strategy for treating the Tang Dynasty, and carried out the expansion of the Shatuo clan under the banner of Zhongtang all his life. That kind of Li Keyong is too dangerous, and Li Jing never wants to see it.

He had also thought about taking the Shatuo people for his own use, but now he had already figured out that the Shatuo people would never really submit to anyone. They refused to surrender even to the Tang Dynasty, and how could they surrender to his small new Jiedu.

Since it can't be used for itself, and the two sides have become mortal enemies that can't be resolved, then we must take advantage of the other party's illness to kill him before he recovers.

Bang!

A violent sound broke the tranquility of Feng'an City, and Li Keyong, who had just crossed the river with his army, suddenly changed his face.

Hearing this violent sound, Li Keyong understood a lot of things in an instant, and Li Siyuan's sneak attack failed.

This is a trap, calculate the time, Li Siyuan just rushed to Feng'an City, and as a result, there was such a big movement in Feng'an City. This is a signal, a signal from the enemy.

Gai Yu's face turned pale, and he also understood that Tang Jun had laid a trap here.

"Withdraw" Li Keyong had just said the word "withdraw" when suddenly a shout of killing sounded, and two fleets suddenly killed two fleets at the same time in the quiet upper and lower reaches of the river, immediately blocking their intention to retreat to the south bank.

Li Keyong's face was extremely pale, and when he turned around and saw the two fleets approaching in the river, Li Keyong had to shout: "Kill!" "Take the lead and kill north. (To be continued......)