In Laba, in front of the stove of the fortress of Delhi Town in Tieli Province, Bohai, Li Jing was reading an article in a newspaper sent from the Central Plains.

The ink printed on the yellowed paper is very glaring.

"Taiwei Zhongshu ordered Tongping Zhangshi to all the soldiers and horses in the world to unify the Hedong Jiedu to make Taiyuan Yin Beidu stay in the Jin Dynasty King Li Ke used the gods to pass on the strategy, Tianfu loyalty, scheming and martial arts are excellent, and the ministers are commensurate with their hearts. Killing thieves is nothing more than a blade, and the rate of entering the battle is the first, which can be described as a heroic talent, and he is named a flying general. Since the unification of the army to the south, and the ministers to work together to drive forward, although in the bedtime, do not forget the Kou sin since the collection of the Jingque, both sides of the great merit, if the enemy is broken, Li Keyong is the first in it"

Li Jing snorted coldly and threw the newspaper on the table.

The article published above was copied by Yang Fuguang after he exterminated the rebellion of Huangchao and recovered Chang'an, and the newspaper copied it. Above, Yang Fuguang touted Li Keyong as the first hero of the recovery of Chang'an, and said many credits of his own brothers, and then praised the commanders of the allied towns together.

Li Jing doesn't like this article, but some of the things mentioned above are facts.

Huang Chao, a smuggler who completely shook the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, finally died. Under the siege of more than 20 towns and 400,000 allied troops, he was defeated and set himself on fire, and Chang'an City, which had been repeatedly warn, especially the three inner palace cities, had almost completely destroyed to ashes, and was destroyed along with Huang Chao and his Great Qi Dynasty.

And the Yang Fuguang brothers now also have a high prestige among the towns in the world by virtue of their exploits in recovering the two capitals. Li Ke used this Shatuo Hulu because he participated in the battle to recover Luoyang and Chang'an twice, especially the battle of Chang'an. He served as the commander-in-chief of the capital. And the number of wars. He led the Hedong Army to the front line, and after the war, he was publicly recommended as the first merit in exterminating thieves.

Now, Zheng Ji has no official position and is recuperating with Zheng Ningji, the son of the assassin.

Wang Duo, the old minister, was even more humiliated by Yang Fugong on the eve of Chang'an's imminent recovery, and now he has been appointed as an envoy of Yicheng Festival, but Yicheng Town was originally Kang Chengzhi as a festival marshal. Now that it has been directly incorporated into the Shandong Province of the Qin Domain, Wang Duo has gone into the wilderness like Zheng Zheng in disguise.

Zheng Congyan is not much better, Yang Fugong's brothers are now prestigious, Zheng Congyan is unwilling to go with them, how can he sit firmly in such a position in the Eastern Capital. As soon as Chang'an was recovered, Yang Fuguang had already come to the eastern capital in person, and officially announced that he would invite Zheng Congyan to go to Chang'an to serve as the imperial teacher, and the eastern capital of Luoyang, which was personally led by Yang Fuguang.

There are two Yang brothers, Yang Fugong is in Chang'an. Yang Fuguang is in Luoyang. Yang Fuguang accepted the Eight Towns Festival Marshal as a righteous son, and Yang Fugong is now desperately accepting a righteous son. In a short period of time, he received more than 200 righteous sons, and almost all of these righteous sons were generals of the Shence Army, and he sent these generals to various towns to serve as commanders of the army, and even accepted many small feudal town marshals as righteous sons.

From Guanzhong to Henan, from Hedong to Shannan and then to Jingnan, the Yang brothers are now extremely powerful and powerful, and more than 20 feudal towns in the Central Plains have fallen under their brothers. Although Tian Lingzi is still holding the Son of Heaven hostage in Xichuan, in fact, Tian Lingzi and the Son of Heaven's orders are really unable to get out of Sanchuan. Brother Yang Fugong has now become the representative of the center of the Tang Dynasty.

Tian Lingzi of Sanchuan, the Yang brothers of the Central Plains, and Li Jing who actually seized the East, Datang has now been divided into three major forces.

However, although Li Jing's main force is outside, the other two forces do not dare to take the initiative to trouble Li Jing. Tian Lingzi is far away in Sanchuan, and he can't fight with Li Jing with eight poles, so it is naturally impossible to trouble Li Jing again. Besides, now he wishes he could reconcile with Li Jing so that he can deal with the two dead eunuchs of the Yang brothers together.

As for the Yang Fuguang brothers, they have no intention of openly hostile to Li Jing now. Although they have won two capitals, they still need to digest and consolidate the results of the battle, stabilize their brothers' control over the towns, and make their alliance bigger and stronger. Their most urgent problem is to either enter Xichuan, destroy Tian Lingzi, and regain the Son of Heaven. Or, set up a son of heaven by yourself. If a eunuch does not have the Son of Heaven in his hands, it is like a widow sleeping, and there is no one on it, so he is always unsure. Even if there is a Son of Heaven in hand, it is just their puppet, and it is impossible to really let the Son of Heaven take power, but this is also necessary. The eunuchs themselves can hold power, gain power, depose the emperor, and support a new emperor, but they cannot be the emperor themselves.

The Yang brothers are still hesitating about whether to regain the Son of Heaven or set up a new Son of Heaven, and naturally they don't have time to trouble Li Jing at the moment. On the contrary, they are still very afraid that Li Jing will come to trouble them. Therefore, Yang Fugong has just just classified the actual map controlled by Li Jing into the territory of the Qin State in the name of the Son of Heaven, which can be regarded as a formal recognition of Li Jing's actual control over the Qin Domain. Although, Li Jing does not need the recognition of the Son of Heaven, let alone the recognition of the two eunuchs in the name of the Son of Heaven.

However, Li Jing really doesn't have the time to care about the affairs of the Central Plains now.

Since April, Li Jing has been fighting in the Bohai Sea.

Li Jing finally chose the advice proposed by the Tatar Jika, and he marched all the way north before the glacier thawed, and under the leadership of the Tatar, he encountered little decent resistance along the way. After taking Meizhou, with the efforts of the Meizhou guards, his brother Yizhou guards saw the situation clearly, and were also shocked by the name of the 400,000 Qin army and Li Jing, and finally surrendered to Li Jing. The Qin army successfully occupied Yizhou and seized a lot of food and supplies hoarded there.

Subsequently, just like dominoes, with the surrender of the defenders of China, Jian, Mei, and Yizhuzhou, in the northeast of the Bohai Sea, more places, more guards were empty, and more old and weak tribal soldiers chose to surrender to the Qin army. The tribal coalition thought that this rear had been captured by them for several years, and that the occupation of the rear of the Bohai Sea had been secured, so not only did the rear defense force be very small, but almost all of them were old men and children. There are not a few elite troops at all, and the result of this is that they have surrendered one after another, Li Jing in the shortest possible time, he has taken down the Bing Mansion, the Theorem Mansion, the Anbian Mansion, the Anyuan Mansion, the Dongping Mansion, etc., and occasionally encountered a few sporadic small-scale resistances in the middle, but they did not need the Qin army to make a move, and those tribes had already put down those rebellions for him.

When the elite vanguard of the Qin army appeared under the city of Delhi Town, Tieli Mansion, an important town in the rear, the elite tribal army in the city did not even know the news of the arrival of the Qin army. When they saw the old commanders and old captains of the old commanders of the provinces such as the Iron Hand Herry and the other mansions, the old captains arrived. It's also a little inexplicable.

Then Tieshou and the others said that they had come with the marshal of the Right Route Army. They didn't even suspect it. And he opened the gates of the fortress and let them in.

The northern fortress of Deli Town, which has been operated by the Bohai people for more than 200 years, has always been regarded as a northern advance base to deal with the Heishui Sect, and it is also regarded as a Xiongguan that can firmly block the invasion of the Heishui Department at a critical time. In the first fortress in the north of the Bohai Sea, a large amount of materials have been stored, and in recent years, the coalition forces have been continuously transporting grain, grass and equipment from all over the country to transport them here along the black water and difficult water, and then distribute them to the front line.

There are also 10,000 elite tribal soldiers stationed here. The Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces once claimed that the Delhi fortress would never fall.

But in fact, this fortress did not stop the enemy from breaking through for even a moment.

They were broken by the coalition army's own people, they personally let the coalition army that had surrendered to Qin enter the city, and then the city gate was captured, the surrendered tribal army and the tribal army defending the city tore each other apart, and fought fiercely in the city for a whole day and night, Yang Shihou, the vanguard of the Qin army, took the army to watch outside, watched quietly, and did not move at all. Wait until the killing noise in the city subsides. When it finally stops, when the sun rises the next day. The Qin army forwards lined up neatly appeared under the city with the black flying eagle flag.

Although there were 10,000 elites in the city, Lao He and them were more numerous, and they also entered the city with the earth-shattering thunder and thunderbolt fires issued by the Qin army, and even a tribal artillery trained by the Qin army on the road, as well as hundreds of flying thunder cannons.

10,000 tribal elites were almost killed by the Iron Hand, although they were also tribal troops. But most of the troops such as Lao Heri are from the Blackwater Tribal Alliance, while the defenders here are from the Murowei Alliance, and they don't have any burden in their hearts to kill them. Moreover, the Qin army had promised in advance that for every defender killed, they would get five golden dragons, and the more they killed, the more rewards they had. Under such an incentive, even a group of old men and young men are still extremely strong in combat effectiveness, not to mention, there are unintentional sneak attacks, and they are also equipped with many Qin firearms?

Herry and the other troops also suffered a lot of casualties, but they didn't care about it, and Yang Shihou didn't care about it. As soon as he entered the city, he cashed in the reward, boxes of gold coins of Panlong, silver coins of Tianluo, and copper coins of Flying Tiger were all brought up, and he did not issue paper money, and those tribesmen believed in real money.

With the real money in hand, the tribal soldiers were even more convinced and happy. At first, there may have been an element of forced surrender, but now, they felt that it was obviously more cost-effective to follow the Qin army. At least, in the coalition army, there has been no food and salary from above, and everything is robbed by itself. Unlike now, after they descended to Qin, they had already received a salary along the way, once a month, all of them were real real money and silver, and they bit a tooth mark. Moreover, the Qin army also agreed with them that every time they fought, they would have a reward for cutting off the enemy's head, and the captured enemy soldiers would also have a reward, and although the captured spoils of war would be handed over, they would also get a part of the reward. Even if they contacted and persuaded the coalition forces to surrender, they also had a reward.

It was driven by these real money that they led the Qin army to the town of Delhi in the rear as quickly as possible, and took the small half of the Bohai Sea territory east of the Kuhan River for the Qin army.

Subsequently, Li Jing led the main force to Delhi before the rivers of the Bohai Sea thawed. By the time the spring dawn began, the Qin army had already begun to march south and west along the Nanshui and Kuhan rivers.

By now, when the Bohai Sea had entered winter again, and the Nanshui and Kuhan rivers were frozen again, the Qin army had completely occupied Yingzhou, Bozhou, north of Shangjing, and Gaozhou, north of Yanyunfu. At the same time, the 50,000 soldiers and 100,000 people who were urgently recruited from the eight provinces of Rehe, Shanxi, Hebei, Beiping, Liaoxi, Liaodong, Andong, and Shandong in April have all made their way to the designated Da'an City.

The Qin army finally completed the encirclement of the Bohai coalition army on all sides, and throughout the summer and autumn, the Qin army and the Bohai people fought nine battles on several battlefields, but each time the coalition army hit its head and retreated with blood. When they finally found out that the Qin army had blocked their retreat, they tried to open up the retreat several times. But at that time, it was summer, and the originally flat and hard land of the Bohai Sea became a swamp with a network of water divided by rivers, full of water, swamps, and dense forests, and it was difficult for large troops to move, let alone fight large-scale battles in such places.

The Qin army occupied a good terrain, always based on mountain passes and river banks, and the Qin army even transferred sailors into the extremely wide and difficult water, and used fleets to supply and patrol. In the case of the Qin army's Shangjing, Delhi, Da'an, and Buyeo armies, 350,000 army forces, 50,000 naval divisions, plus 200,000 Bohai navy, more than 100,000 tribal troops, 400,000 Qin soldiers and civilians, and 300,000 Bohai people, and the favorable terrain and time they occupied, the Qin army firmly trapped the east-west allied forces in the Bohai Sea for more than half a year at the cost of more than 100,000 Qin troops, Bohai navy, and tribal troops, and successively annihilated nearly 100,000 allied troops. and the capture and surrender of more than 100,000 allied troops.

The total number of coalition troops of 600,000 was reduced by one-third in half a year.

On the surface, the casualties of the allied forces were not smaller than those of the coalition forces, but in fact, the more than 100,000 casualties paid by the allies, of which half were accounted for by the Bohai Navy, and the tribes' surrender was also a small half, and the total casualties of the Qin army in this half a year were only more than 20,000, accounting for one of the 200,000 soldiers of the Qin army.

There are at least 400,000 people in the tribal coalition army, of which there are 2560,000 warriors who can fight, and at least more than 100,000 elite tribal warriors. However, after half a year of losing contact with the rear, their supplies began to be somewhat insufficient. In fact, the Qin army itself is now undersupplied, in the past half a year, the Qin army has relied on the rear to supply, and on the other hand, it has also relied on fishing and hunting to make a living, and even the Qin army has slaughtered many horses, and the cavalry troops even slaughtered the reserve horses for meat.

For Li Jing, every day they continue to encircle the coalition forces, they themselves will have to pay a great price.

Now, winter has come again, the rivers and swamps have become a smooth road, there are still three or four months before the thaw, and the supply of the Qin army is more difficult. And more importantly, in such a season, it is a good time for the coalition forces to break through, and in the vast Bohai Sea, the huge encirclement network of the Qin army has become a sieve, and there are holes everywhere.

The real test is coming, whether it is for the Allies or the Coalition forces, life and death are here to fight! (To be continued......)