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At the foot of Mount Tai, by the Wenshui River, in the city.

The staff officers of the General Staff Department took the situation maps of the Tianping Army, the Taining Army, the Reform Army, and the Pinglu Army, and put them together on the ground. The generals of the Zhenguo Army, Wang Chong, Lin Wu, Wang Pu, Li Juyi, Zhou Dewei, Guo Shunli, Liu Xun and others, as well as Li Zhen, Guo Chengan, Li Rang, Du Zhongwu and other senior civilian officials gathered around and pointed at the sheepskin territory.

Li Wei of the Xiaoqi Division pointed to the map and was reporting the latest situation to Li Jing and the others.

"The official army and the grass thief king Xiancao, Huang Chao started a big battle in Juye, the official army of 100,000 horses, the grass thief 160,000 horses, the two sides first confronted each other for ten days, and then the grass thief took the lead in attacking the official army, as a result, the grass thief was defeated, and 30,000 were beheaded in the first battle. Who knew that on the night when the grass thieves were defeated, they suddenly regrouped, made a comeback, and attacked the soldiers and horses of the six towns at night. After the day and night battle, although the official army defeated the grass thieves again and beheaded more than 50,000 people, the official army also suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, and the grain and grass were exhausted, and they were unable to fight again, so they had to retreat to the city of Jiyin in Caozhou, and it was difficult to send troops again in a short time. ”

The casualties of the grass thieves were even greater, and Wang Xianzhi led 4,000 cavalry to abandon the Yellow Nest on the battlefield and fled to Rencheng in Yanzhou alone. Huang Chao collected the soldiers and horses and retreated to Juancheng, Puzhou, and there were still about 20,000 horses. After Levi reported the news, he said another thing.

"We also got a piece of information that after our army selected the front army to command Zhu Wen and the three rebels of Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun, they joined the Xuanwu Army and made a lot of achievements. I heard that he was also rewarded by Ximen Sigong, Yang Fugong, Cui Anqian and so on. But who knew that it was just after the soldiers and horses of the Six Towns defeated the grass thieves on the first day. Zhu Wen and the others were found by the marquis of the army because they stole a donkey from the auxiliary army and slaughtered it privately. As a result, the three resisted arrest, murder and defected, and joined Huang Chao's subordinates. It is said that the second night attack of the grass thieves to counterattack the Tang camp was the plan of Zhu Wen, a kid. ”

"Damn it, this donkey ball thing Zhu Asan, in my selection of the front army, dared to kill more than 100 prisoners of war without permission, and killed his colleagues in order to seize a military prostitute, and defected from the camp. It has only been a few days since he joined the Xuanwu Army. He defected again for stealing a donkey, and now he has escaped among the grass thieves. The slave of the three surnames, a natural anti-bone boy, Lao Tzu was really blind at the beginning, and even promoted him! As soon as Li Cunxiao heard Zhu Wen's news, his face immediately turned blue with anger, his face was swollen and red, and he slapped his knees and shouted loudly.

"What Zhu Wen and the three of them did was too bad, and the impact was extremely bad. I think. It was necessary to issue a bounty and even send someone directly to his homeland. The family was arrested and put to death. The control of the crane army knows the soldiers and horses, so Li Juyi said coldly.

"Sin doesn't have to be a family!" Li Jing didn't look up and replied lightly. His eyes were looking at the map of Henan, Zhu Wen left the Zhenguo Army, joined the Xuanwu Army, and defected so quickly to join the Grass Army, this result is a bit surprising. Zhu Wen in history, although he joined the army later than now, he was in the Huangchao Army from the beginning. Unexpectedly, Zhu Yan went around such a big circle, and he actually voted for the grass army after the last day. However, Li Jing doesn't believe the reason why Zhu Wen defected because he slaughtered a donkey and ate it without permission. He believed that there should be a story there, but it didn't have much to do with him.

The historical Zhu Wen made Li Jing jealous, but the current Zhu Wen is not worthy of Li Jing's attention. Even if Zhu Wen can really reach such heights in history, it will be in the future. For him now, even Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi are not the most important opponents at present. Even Li Jing knew very well that killing all the grass thieves at this time was not the best result for him and the Zhenguo Army.

Since Li Yu ascended the throne, the imperial court has fought several big battles, first the imperial court will be the Shatuo people Li Guochang and Li Ke who are strong in the north of the country, and Li Ke will be strangled by father and son, forcing Li Guochang to return to the imperial court, and Li Keyong will go away to Mobei. And the chief dragon of the Nanzhao Kingdom, who has been inseparable from the Tang Dynasty since he ascended the throne, was defeated again in Xichuan.

Even Lulong Town, Youzhou, the most powerful of the three strong clans in Hebei, which has always rebelled and descended, and listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement, has changed its commander three times in a row, and is now first divided and co-opted by Li Jing, coerced and lured, and now the position of the commander is in command by Li Jing, and the deputy ambassador is also held by the general of the forbidden army.

This series of actions, in the eyes of many people and officials in Datang, Datang has once again flourished. This time, it seems that Xiaozhenguan of the Xuanzong Dynasty is even stronger than Xiaotaizong, the grandfather of today's son. This has led many to believe that another Xianzong dynasty and Zhongxing are coming.

For example, today, among the three strong domains in Hebei, Youzhou Lu Longjun seems to have been conquered again, and the position of marshal is concurrently held by Li Jing, and the deputy ambassador and the senior positions of the marshal are also held by the forbidden army. In addition, Chengde Town was originally a strong town, but since the two towns of Yi and Ding were separated into Yiwu Town, and Cangzhou was divided into Yichang Town, its strength declined greatly and became the weakest of the three towns. Today's Chengde Festival envoy Wang Jingchong took over the position from his uncle eight years ago, and to his generation, it is already the fourth generation, the fifth Chengde Festival envoy. Wang Jingchong is not a Han Chinese, but a member of the Abusi tribe of the Hui tribe, and Li Keju of Youzhou is a person of the same clan and tribe. Now he is very respectful to the imperial court, and the official worships the same Zhongshu Sect under the Ping Zhangshi, inspects the school Taiwei, and also serves as the Zhongshu Order, and is named the Duke of Zhao Guo.

Weibo Town, another of the three towns in Hebei, has jurisdiction over the six prefectures of Wei, Bo, Xiang, Shan, Wei and Bei, with a rich place, a large population, strong folk customs and good military strength. Wei Bozhen had the military name of the Tianxiong Army in the early years, but it was later cut and only called Wei Bojun, and the current Jiedu envoy Han Jian. Han Jian's father, Han Junxiong, was a general of Wei Bo's army, and took control of Wei Bo after the soldiers mutinied four years ago and killed the then Jiedu envoy He Quanhao, who had harsh military discipline. After Han Junxiong became the envoy of Jiedu, Han Jian became the deputy envoy of Jiedu. Just this year, Han Jun died, and Han Jian had just become the envoy of Wei Bojun's festival and was officially awarded the title of the imperial court.

Even the three feudal domains of Hebei are now very respectful to the imperial court, the Shatuo people have been swept away again, and the Nanzhao has been defeated again, and countless people in the world think that the imperial court is in sight. As for the current rebellion of the grass thieves and Wang Jingwu, as well as the rebellion of Wang Ying in the southeast, they all think that they can be put down in the short term.

But Li Jing knows that this can only be regarded as a return to the past. Several years of natural disasters led to a great famine, followed by peasant uprisings. Tear apart the excitement on the surface of the court. Reveal the fact of the division of feudal towns in various places.

Li Jing believes. Even if the Yellow Nest is eradicated now, there will soon be more peasant uprisings. The people who cannot survive will inevitably rebel. What's more, the feudal towns in various places seem to respect the imperial court on the surface, but in fact, the current practice of the court's civil servants serving as the marshals has made it difficult for the marshals to really control the local feudal town army.

Especially the current marshals of the imperial court. Not only are civil officials filled, but almost all of them serve two or three years, which seems to be conducive to preventing the secession of feudal towns on the surface, but in fact, it has made the local generals of feudal towns bigger and bigger, and gradually have already hollowed out those commanders.

However, on the surface, Datang does seem to be very prosperous now, at least on the surface.

Li Jing knew that the cunning rabbit died, and the hunting dog cooked. With his contradiction with Tian Lingzi. Once the grass army is really wiped out, Tian Lingzi will definitely come to deal with him. But keep the grass thief. Li Jing can strengthen himself with peace of mind.

Before the grass thieves broke the current strength on the surface of the Tang Dynasty, the various feudal towns did not have the courage to attack each other. Even Li Jing only dares to develop to Liaodong at present, and does not dare to have the idea of Sihao moving troops to the Central Plains. No matter what the reason, the princes in the court and the eunuchs in Ouchi all thought that the Tang army was extremely strong at the moment. Especially after exterminating the Shatuo people, defeating the Nanzhao army, and subduing the three feudatories of Hebei, if anyone dares to make any moves, Li Jing believes that the imperial court will definitely immediately deploy troops to besiege him.

Especially Li Jing still has an opponent like Tian Lingzi, and I wish he had such thoughts.

The gun shoots the first bird, and whoever moves first will die. It is estimated that this is also the reason why Chen Jingxuan went to Youzhou to take office, and Lu Longjun has not had a big reaction so far. Even Lulong Town, Youzhou, now understands that the imperial court is in full swing at this time, and no one dares to stimulate the imperial court at this time, causing the towns to besiege.

"Dashuai, the grass thieves are divided into two parts, how to attack, and do we also divide our troops to attack?"

Staff Officer Gaiyu's voice pulled Li Jing back from his thoughts, and Li Jing looked at the map and shook his head.

Stretching out his hand to the map, he first drew a circle in Qianfeng City, "Our Zhenguo Army is stationed here, and we will send a letter to Xue Shuai and Li Shuai, so that the Tianping Army will stick to Yunzhou Yuncheng, and let the Taining Army stick to Yanzhou Xuanqiu!" ”

"And then?" Gaiyu was a little puzzled, such an arrangement had a big loophole, and the grass army could calmly cross the interception line, jump out of the interception, and escape to the east.

Li Jing didn't pay attention to Gai Yu's obvious hint, and just said with a smile: "The Tianping Army is stationed in Yuncheng and guards the Jishui route. Our army was stationed in Qianfu City and held the first line of Wenshui. The Taining Army was stationed at Yanzhou and held the Surabaya line. These three routes are the necessary routes from west to east, although the grass thieves have been defeated, but we must not be careless, carefully stick to the top. ”

Gai Yu nodded and went down to set up.

After the generals retreated, Li Jing left Li Zhen and Guo Chengan.

"Give the order to go down, pack your luggage, and prepare to evacuate." Li Jing said slowly.

"Evacuate so soon?" Guo Chengan was surprised.

"The grass thieves should be able to pass through our interception line within three days, so we don't have to stay here all the time. As soon as the grass thieves passed, we pursued them in the back and then returned all the way back to Dengzhou. Li Jing twisted his waist, "It's been more than half a year, and it's time to go back." ”

Li Zhen and Guo Chengan glanced at each other, and finally heard the meaning of Li Jing's words, Dashuai is going to let the grass thief go.

"Will there be any consequences for this?" Guo Chengan said worriedly.

Li Jing smiled softly, "The Tianping Army, the Zhenguo Army, and the Taining Army are stationed in three places, and the Grass Thief King Xianzhi and Huang Chao are separated, how do you think they will break through?" ”

"Huang Chao must have broken through from the Tianping Army's defense, entered Jeju from Puzhou through Yunzhou, and possibly went to Qizhou to join Wang Jingwu. And Wang Xianzhi, who had very few horses, either went east along Surabaya, passed through the defense of the Taining army, and went to Yizhou, or went south along Surabaya to Xuzhou. ”

"That's right, as long as these two aren't stupid, they won't bump into us. As long as they don't come to us, whether they break through from the territory of the Tianping Army or the Taining Army, it's none of our business. Li Jing smiled slightly.

"The commander is smart, that Xue Chong's Tianping Army and Li's Taining Army have long been crippled by grass thieves, and there are only more than 1,000 soldiers and horses in hand. The grass thieves will definitely break through from their defensive ground, and no one will dare to come to us to die! Li Jing praised it. Li Jing's interception arrangement is clearly to tell the grass thieves to let them break through to those two sides. (To be continued......)