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August 15 of the 15th year of Xiantong is the annual Mid-Autumn Festival reunion. The Zhendong Army, which was preparing for the most difficult expedition, was also able to take a day off to celebrate the festival. The expedition is about to depart, and it coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival. Li Jing was also bold and generous, pulling out a large sum of money and grain from the treasury and distributing it to all the soldiers.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival, each soldier received 1,000 money, 2 buckets of rice, and 10 round cakes, and each person was given a new set of clothes, shoes and socks. Even ordinary people have four cakes per person, plus two catties of rice.

Round cakes, that is, moon cakes in the Tang Dynasty. Mooncakes originally originated in the Tang Dynasty as a food for the army. During the reign of Tang Gaozu, the general Li Jing won the victory against the Xiongnu and returned triumphantly on August 15. At that time, there were Hu people who were engaged in business to offer cakes to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to congratulate him. Gaozu Li Yuan took the gorgeous cake box, took out the round cake, smiled and pointed to the bright moon in the sky and said, "The toad should be invited to the Hu cake." After speaking, he gave the cakes to the ministers to taste together, and since then there has been the custom of eating cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Therefore, at this time, it became a custom to put incense on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival to worship the moon and put offerings. Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation, ordinary people will make round cakes, in addition to round cakes, watermelon is also an indispensable thing.

In the current year of the catastrophe, ten round cakes and dozens of catties of rice are already extremely heavy rewards for the soldiers. Even ordinary people can get four round cakes and two catties of rice, and the people of Dengzhou and southern Liaoning all praise Li Jing.

August 16, just after the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Zhendong Army began to send troops.

The first to go out was the 8,000 troops that marched south to conquer Wang Ying.

Li Jing was appointed by the emperor as the commander of the southern expedition and the northern camp. and the northern expedition to the east. But Li Jing lacks skills. Between Li Keyong's father and son and Wang Ying, Li Jing naturally chose to recruit Li Keyong in person. As for the army of the Southern Expedition, Li Jing appointed Pei You, the judge of the Zhendong Army with rich experience in the navy and high strategy, as the deputy commander, and actually acted as the chief general of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

In addition, Li Liang was transferred to the southern expedition to the north of the camp, Li Chun was the judge of the southern expedition to the north, and Xiao Dingbang, who was extremely influential in the south of the Yangtze River, was appointed as the secretary of the northern camp.

The south expedition camped in the north, and a total of three sailor battalions were dispatched: Nutao, Anlan, and Fubo. and five infantry battalions drawn from the Zhendong Army. Megan is the vanguard of the camp, Megan is the vanguard of the march, Zhang Lie is the left wing of the camp, and Wu Qian is the right wing of the camp. In addition, Zhang Chengzong was transferred to be the deputy commander of the northern camp of the Southern Expedition and the envoy of the soldiers and horses of the middle chamber, and Liu Shouqian was the deputy commander of the northern camp of the Southern Expedition and the envoy of the soldiers and horses of the rear wing.

In the early morning of the same day, the thick fog on the sea began to open, and the long-lost red sun rose.

Li Jing personally practiced for the army and gave wine.

At the wharf of Dengzhou Port, tens of thousands of soldiers and their families came to see them off, reluctant to give up.

Pei You was appointed by Li Jing as the coach of the Southern Expedition. The mood was overwhelming. It's not just this position that is exciting, but Li Jing's trust in him. Although under him as the main general. Li Liang, Li Chun, Xiao Dingbang, and even Megan, Julie, etc. are all Li Jing's henchmen. In particular, Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian, who are also deputy capitalists, are Li Jing's henchmen, but he is still grateful. Going out to the army, looking at the white sails covering the sky and the sun in the port, I suddenly felt that a soldier died as a confidant.

"This southern expedition will definitely live up to the trust of the county government, and it will definitely be successful and return triumphantly!"

Li Jing smiled heartily and patted the old man's arm: "Then I'll wait for your good news, but don't have too much pressure in my heart." This time, you went south in the name of counterinsurgency, but the main purpose was to open up the sea trade route and find a new way out for our trade in Dengzhou. You take 8,000 men out to sea, and hopefully you'll be able to bring back all these rabbits and cubs to me. ”

On the wharf, the generals of the Southern Expedition placed incense cases and knelt down, and the cases offered pigs, cattle and sheep and three livestock. After a prayer, thirty-six death row prisoners for heinous crimes were brought out from death row, and a row of executioners cut off their heads with a single sword, and walked to the front with the bloody heads, and dropped the blood on the heads to sacrifice the flag.

After the flag was sacrificed, the Southern Expeditionary Army officially set off. The soldiers boarded the ship in a neat line, and then the fleet lifted anchor and raised its sails, blew horns and drums and set sail.

More than 300 warships of the size of the three fleets were dispatched, and behind the battleships, there was a larger fleet waiting at sea at this time. When the battleship passed, it followed closely behind. This is the huge caravan that has recently gathered in the major ports of Dengzhou and southern Liaoning, with more than 3,000 sea ships, full of all kinds of goods, the most important thing is the goods produced in Dengzhou, all kinds of liquor, fruit wine, rock sugar, and canned food. The second is all kinds of weapons, as well as all kinds of furs transported from southern Liaoning, as well as cattle, horses, mules, donkeys and other large animals. In addition to this, there are hundreds of thousands of taels of gold. Even a large amount of salt from Dengzhou was also transported, and although Jianghuai also had salt, this time the fleet would go directly to the southernmost point of Annamjiaozhou. Dengzhou's salt is of the highest quality, and it will also be marketable.

On the second day of the expedition of the Southern Expeditionary Fleet, Li Jing also officially assembled the troops and horses of the Northern Expedition, and all the troops and horses of Dengzhou and southern Liaoning were assembled in Duli Port, and then Li Xu's Zhenhai Fleet who stayed in Dengzhou and a group of merchant ships transported 28,000 men and horses to Youzhou.

There were 28,000 soldiers and horses in the Northern Expedition, including 10,000 in the Zhendong Army, 3,000 in Duli Town, 7,000 in Liaonan, and 8,000 united soldiers who were called up to undertake the task of logistics and heavy auxiliaries.

Li Jing, the commander of the camp in the east of the Northern Expedition, was naturally the commander of the whole army, and Wang Pu and Wang Chong jointly served as the deputy commander. Li Zhen served as the marching Sima, Guo Chengan served as the judge, Zhang Hong served as the secretary, and Du Zhongwu served as the teaching envoy. And Li Wei, the tenth general of the Flying Eagle Battalion, was the vanguard soldier and horse envoy, Wang Zhong concurrently served as the left chamber commander and horse envoy, Wang Pu was appointed as the right chamber commander and horse envoy, and Li Jing was appointed as the middle chamber commander and horse envoy. Li Juyi is the commander of the front compartment, and Shi Shoucheng is the commander of the rear chamber. Guo Zhenhai is the envoy of the soldiers, and Lin Wu is the Marquis of Yu.

and Qin Zongshou, Qiu Shengong, Li Yuan, Cui Chengxiu, Gao Rong and other generals, and the young generals Liu Xun and Wang Yanzhang are the ten generals of Li Jing's personal guard battalion.

Li Jing set out on this expedition, still with Lin Wei, the deputy military envoy of the Zhendong Army, who has always been old and steady, as the remaining general, Dengzhou and southern Liaoning were guarded by him, with 10,000 elite soldiers under his command, plus 10,000 recruits and 4,000 unity soldiers just recruited.

Although there are not many soldiers and horses, Li Jing is very relieved. Dengzhou and Liaonan are not threatening at the moment. To the west of Dengzhou, Qingzhou is still busy quelling Wang Jingwu's rebellion, and there are twelve cities on the Denglai border, so there is no need to worry about the homeless people making trouble. In southern Liaoning, the battle between Jili Prefecture and the Khitans was fierce, and it could not threaten southern Liaoning at all for a while. And in southern Liaoning, there are four cities that block the footsteps of Jili City going south, and there are Changxing Islands and Changshan Islands on the left and right, Li Jing doesn't have to worry about a fire in the backyard at all.

The landing site of the army in Youzhou is still at the mouth of Zhangshui. However, this time, Li Jing did not choose the territory of Youzhou last time, but chose the territory of the Yichang Army on the south bank of Zhangshui. The southern border between Lulong Town and Yichang Town is Zhangshui. Li Jing landed directly on the south bank, precisely in the territory of Cangzhou, where the Yichang army was located.

The landing here was also chosen to avoid the possibility of Li Maoxun ambushing on the north bank. Although this possibility is very small, Li Jing also has to guard against it, after all, Li Maoxun is originally a crazy person.

The first to land was the reconnaissance capital and special operations capital of the Flying Eagle Battalion, which quickly landed in the middle of the night and then established a beach position on the coast. However, the feared thing did not happen, and there were no soldiers and horses on the north and south banks of the Zhangshui River. By the afternoon, the whole army had finally been transported ashore.

After resting for a day on the south bank of Zhangshui, Li Jing's soldiers and horses began to move forward, re-entering the territory of Youzhou on the same day, and arrived at the city of Huichang County in the Jiaojiang Triangle of Sanggan River and Juma Water in the afternoon.

Huichang County is one of the six county towns of Youzhou captured by the Liaonan soldiers last time.

At this time, the county seat of Huichang had already learned the news that a large number of Zhendong troops had landed again as early as yesterday. However, the news shows that the Zhendong Army landed in Cangzhou of the Yijing Army this time. This made the garrison in Huichang City sad and happy. It would be nice if the Zhendong Army really went to the Yichang Army this time, after all, Huichang had just been robbed, and now there are only twenty or thirty thousand old and weak people left in the originally prosperous city.

At this time, there was a battalion stationed in the city, but a battalion of the Youzhou Army only had 500 men. They had already sent this information to Youzhou City yesterday, but so far, they have not heard a reply.

Just when they were looking forward to the Zhendong Army going to the territory of the Yichang Army, at noon that day, countless smoke and dust were raised in the east of the city, followed by a long dragon of soldiers and horses marching all the way, with flags like the sea, spears like forests, and swords and snow than snow.

Liu Rengong, the tenth general who heard the report at the head of the city, couldn't help but turn pale, swallowed his saliva tightly, and sweat continued to flow down his forehead.

It was only by reaching out to hold the battlements that he stabilized his figure. I sighed in my heart why I was so unlucky! He was originally just a tomb robber, but he was later drafted into the army, because of his skill in tomb robbing, so he also knew some wood and soil work, especially good at digging tunnels. And those who robbed tombs were originally bold people. Last time, he followed Li Maoxun to attack Youzhou, and afterwards he was promoted from the head of the team to the general, and he can be regarded as Li Dashuai's descendant.

Then the last time the Liaonan soldiers robbed Youzhou, Liu Rengong arrived quickly with his own people, although they did not encounter the Zhendong army, but they were the first to recover the lost city. It is precisely because of his meritorious work in recovering Huichangcheng and his descendants that he was promoted to the tenth general of the battalion by Li Maoxun. Therefore, he was stationed in Huichang City, and based on the people of Pontus, he recruited 400 new recruits, built the Huichang Battalion, and became the ten generals of the battalion.

Finally nodded his head, he just had a small territory of his own, and there were five hundred brothers, Liu Rengong and Liu Gutou were excited, who would have thought that this damn Zhendong Army would not die and would cross the sea again, and this time, they killed directly under Huichang City, and now, he didn't even have time to escape. (To be continued......)