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Qizhou, Licheng.

After Li Jing led the cavalry to Qizhou, he did not immediately march west, but temporarily rested in Qizhou.

Although Li Jing had already transferred 30,000 infantry soldiers, 20,000 township troops entered the newly taken land in Hebei to strengthen the defense. However, the land of the five states of Hebei is still a newly seized land, and Li Jing is not at ease to leave at this time, but is stationed in Qizhou and controls the two states of Dedi, echoing with the soldiers and horses between the rivers.

At present, Li Jing has 180,000 soldiers, and Hebei has transferred 60,000 soldiers, 20,000 auxiliary troops, and 10,000 sailors. Together with the 50,000 cavalry in Qizhou, almost all of the Northeast Army was transferred to Hebei and Henan.

At this time, there were only 20,000 soldiers left in the Northern Parallel Province, and only 10,000 soldiers in the Western Liaoning Province. In the two provinces of Andong and Liaodong, the garrison is now completely carried out by the united soldiers and the township soldiers.

Even in Shandong Province, the number of combat troops is only Li Jing's 50,000 cavalry, and in Dengzhou and other places, only unity soldiers and township soldiers are left.

It can be said that a big war in Hebei has affected the whole situation, and many of Li Jing's arrangements have been changed because of this.

"Is it to withdraw the 20,000 land and water troops in Hufu Prefecture at the mouth of the Yangtze River?" Wang Pu, the secretary of the military department, asked Li Jing tentatively.

At present, there are garrisons everywhere, and Li Jing's subordinates also feel that there are no soldiers available. At this time, the 20,000 soldiers and horses at the mouth of the Yangtze River, as well as the 10,000 soldiers and horses on Yuzhou Island in Haizhou, seemed a bit wasteful. These soldiers and horses were originally deployed to contain Gao Yu, prevent his troops and horses from moving north, and protect the trade routes in the southeast.

But now, it's clear. The center of gravity of Daxingtai has been placed in Hebei. Originally, there was little threat when he was in the Northeast. Therefore, there are sufficient forces to be transferred to the southeast. But at this time, the center of gravity shifted to Hebei. At the same time, facing the threat of the four towns in Hebei, the pressure is much greater.

Daxingtai deployed a full 100,000 soldiers and horses in Hebei at once, and instantly evacuated half of Daxingtai's troops. Coupled with the 50,000 cavalry deployed in Shandong, the northeast suddenly became empty. Although the situation in the Northeast is relatively stable at the moment, after all, there are still foreign tribes such as Khitan and Bohai, and Li Jing has to be careful.

Li Jing hadn't thought about the transfer of troops and horses yet, and immediately there were a bunch of other things waiting for Li Jing to deal with.

After the occupation of the five states of Hebei, a large number of people from the five states of Hebei began to move south. These people did not want to stay in the tense Hebei province. In addition, life was better under the rule of Li Jing, so a large number of people began to leave their hometowns.

After learning the news, Li Jing immediately consulted with the officials of Daxingtai. The most difficult result was to simply move the people of Moying Erzhou to the northeast. The occupation of Hebei was scorched by the implementation of a scorched earth strategy, and except for the main city passes, the rest of the people moved to the northeast. The establishment of a no-man's land not only enriches the population of Northeast China, accelerates the development of Northeast China, but also strengthens Hebei's defense. Anyway, Daxingtai considers the current situation in Hebei. I didn't think about what taxes and grain I had to collect from Hebei. At least, not now.

After this order was passed to Mo Ying. These days, people have been leaving Hebei one after another.

But what worries Li Jing and others is that not only a large number of people from Moying and Erzhou have left, but also a large number of people from Cangdedi. Moreover, they did not go to the northeast completely according to Li Jing's requirements, but went south in large numbers into Shandong Province.

Within a few days, tens of thousands of people had already entered Qizhou and other places in Shandong.

Li Jing had no choice but to order the containment of the people going south, distribute food, and arrange accommodation. And let Shandong Province and Liaodong Province organize ships to come to Qizhou to transport these people to the northeast. For these things, Li Jing, the officials of Daxingtai, and the officials of Shandong and Liaodong provinces were busy turning their backs on their backs.

But at the same time, worries about the evacuation of the people are also growing day by day.

Li Jing's original plan was to evacuate the people in the border counties between Moying Erzhou and Hebei Four Towns, but now, not only the border of Moying, but also Cangdedi began to leave in large numbers. In this way, if this continues, it is very likely that only the army will be left in the five states of Hebei. Although Li Jing did not expect the people in the newly occupied areas of Hebei to provide taxes, if the people were gone, it would be very unfavorable for Daxingtai to control the five states.

Everything is too much!

At the Daxingtai meeting, Li Zhen's proposal for this result was that since they were willing to leave Hebei, they would do as they wished. After all, the five states have nearly 600,000 people, and it is impossible to move them all. It was expected that about one-third of the people might be relocated, so Daxingtai arranged for the 200,000 people to move to the northeast, and then moved 50,000 households and about 300,000 people from the newly ceded area of the Bohai Sea to enrich Hebei.

Just when Li Jing was busy resting the army, replenishing casualties, and relocating the people.

The Central Plains is changing dramatically!

After Huangchao entered Luoyang, the soldiers and horses came out in all directions, Shang Rang captured Yuzhou, and Chai Cun captured Shaanzhou. At the same time, Ge Congzhou captured Ying, Hao, and Zhu Wen also attacked Song, Bian, and Zheng Prefectures.

For a time, Huangchao occupied Shaanxi, Yu, Ru, Zheng, Bian, Song, Ying, Hao, and Luoyang.

Huang Chao, who has been wandering around all the time, has such a large territory for the first time. The vanguard has already arrived at Huangchao under Tongguan, originally Huangchao heard that Li Ke used the second anti-Tang Dynasty, seized the land of Qizhou, and called himself the king of Shatuo, which led Hedong and other five towns to hurriedly return north, and was happy in his heart, ready to lead his troops to attack Tongguan and enter Chang'an.

At this time, news came that Li Jing broke the four towns of Hebei, beheaded 100,000 people, and led tens of thousands of cavalry to cross the Yellow River south into Henan.

At the same time, the Son of Heaven of Chang'an crowned Li Jing as the King of Qin and recorded it under the name of Emperor Taizong, and Li Jing became a member of the imperial family from then on. and crowned Li Jing as the marshal of the Kwantung Soldiers and Horses, commanding the soldiers and horses outside the Guandong.

Immediately afterwards, the emperor actually pardoned the four towns of Hebei and named the county king, and gave Li Keyong and the leaders of the Tatar and Xi two tribes all the county kings. and sealed more than a dozen princes in a row, and sealed several town marshals.

Immediately afterwards, Li Keyong, who had just been appointed as the king of Yanmen County and the envoy of Yanmen Town, actually shamelessly published an article, claiming that as a member of the Li Tang royal family, he would immediately lead his troops south to King Qin to crusade against Huangchao's rebellion.

As soon as Li Ke's article came out, some time ago, he also called the army the king, and the four towns in Hebei Province, which had formed an alliance with each other, actually responded immediately. Each one goes to the king's name. Accepted the title of county king from the imperial court. He also expressed his willingness to provide grain and grass to King Qin's soldiers and horses.

At this time, even those Hu people who were given the surname Li from the Tatars, Xi, Tuoba, Tuyuhun, Qibi, Sage, Anqing and other tribes shouted one by one to defend the Tang Dynasty.

I'm grass mud Maragobi!

When Huang Chao heard these news, he almost went crazy.

Nima, all of a sudden, all of them were kings, all of them were national surnames. There are also two royal families, how can Nima be so shameless.

Think about it, he has been fighting in the Yellow Nest for so many years, and he is just a self-styled Yellow King, and he is suddenly not calm.

As soon as this name was played, it was suddenly much weaker than the Tang family.

Thinking of this, Huang Chao did not stop doing anything, and immediately announced the establishment of a dynasty and the title of emperor.

At this time, I couldn't wait to be the emperor after arriving in Chang'an, so I simply called the emperor in Luoyang.

On the first day of the first month of March, the former Luodi and salt dealer Huang Chao. Dressed in a soapy dragon robe, he ascended to the throne in the middle of the Wucheng Hall of Ziwei Palace. With hundreds of war drums beating together, a new empire was born!

Because Huang Chao was a native of Caozhou, Tianping Town, and was the territory of the ancient Qi State in the Warring States Period, Huang Chao named the country "Great Qi". And because according to the theory of the five elements, Tang is Tude, Tusheng Jin, and Qi should be Jinde, so the era name is "Jintong".

Huang Chao proclaimed himself emperor in Luoyang and became the founding emperor of the Great Qi Empire.

With the veteran of the grass army, the second commander of the righteous army Shang Rang as the captain and the secretary of the order, with the old subordinate Zhao Zhang as the captain and servant, and the captured former Tang Zhedong observation envoy Cui Xuan and the former Tang Dong stayed behind to guard Liu Yunzhang as the Tongping Zhang, these four people are the founding prime ministers of the Great Qi Dynasty.

At the same time, Huang Chao also gave his henchmen Meng Kai and Gai Hong as the left and right servants, and knew the left and right military. Fei Chuangu was the privy envoy, Zheng Hanzhang was the imperial envoy, Tang Longchen Pei Wu and others were Hanlin scholars, and the general Zhang Yan was the head of the six ministries.

In addition to a set of teams in the Central Committee, Huang Chao appointed all eight generals under him as generals and envoys.

Zhu Wen, Chai Cun, Liu Tang, Ge Congzhou, Lin Yan, Huang Ye, Liu Shanfu, Wang Chongba eight generals, respectively, sat in Shaanxi, Yu, Ru, Zheng, Bian, Song, Ying, Hao eight states, the eight generals each added hussar generals, auxiliary generals, town army generals, champion generals and other military ranks, and each added a degree to make the name, the crown of the country.

Zhu Wen sat in Bianzhou, added the position of champion general, awarded the Xuanwu Festival envoy, and concurrently the history of Bianzhou, and named Zhu Guogong.

At the same time, Huang Chao gave his brothers and nephews eight titles as princes, and then, Emperor Huang Chao of Great Qi issued an edict to the world, enshrined Li Jing as the king of Lanling County, and Li Keyong as the king of Dingxiang County. The four towns of Hebei were also crowned the king of Huangchao County one by one, Han Jian was named the king of Wuyang County, Wang Jingchong was named the king of Changshan County, Li Quanzhong was named the king of Boling County, and Liu Yue was named the king of Shanggu County.

After sealing the king of the six counties, Huang Chao sent people to Zhongwu and Hezhong to surrender, and added Qin Zongquan as the Duke of Qin, Fengguo Army Festival Envoy, Zhou Qi as Zhou Guogong, Zhongwu Festival Envoy, Lu Yanhong as Lu Guogong, Loyal National Army Festival Envoy, Feng Wang Chongrong as Rongguo Gong, Hezhong Festival Envoy.

Huang Chao's edict was announced, and Li Jing naturally didn't take it seriously. In any case, Li Jing now has the strength not to look at Li Yi or Huang Chao's face. Besides, even if he really had to choose now, Li Jing would definitely prefer to choose the King of Qin who was given the title by Li Yu rather than the King of Lanling County who was given the title by Huang Chao.

Li Jing doesn't look down on Huang Chao, a smuggler of salt, and his subordinates are defeated, although Li Keyong is from the Shatuohu clan, but he thinks that although he said that he opposed Li Tang twice, he is the Li Tang royal family, these are the internal household affairs of the royal family, you see that now we are not reconciled with the emperor. Therefore, Li Keyong also looked down on the king of Dingxiang County who was sealed by Huang Chaofeng.

However, when the four towns of Hebei received this edict, their attitude became ambiguous, and they neither immediately responded nor immediately refused.

However, some people feel that the Qi Emperor, who has 600,000 troops and occupies Luoyang, is very powerful, and has voluntarily bowed down and called himself a minister.

The first one to surrender was not one of these warlords that Huang Chao had already rewarded, but Zhuge Shuang, the subordinate general of Li Zhuo, the former envoy of Heyang Jiedu. Zhuge Shuang once followed Pang Xun to do the revolution, and later joined the Tang Dynasty, and did a good job, becoming a assassin. Later, he performed well in the war against Li Keyong, and was previously appointed by the imperial court as the envoy of the Tiande Army, but the original envoy of the Tiande Army was Helian Duo, and now he is called Li Duo. Li Duo is a native of Tuyuhun, and he also beat Li Keyong with Zhuge Shuang at the beginning. However, although they had carried guns together, Li Duo would never hand over the position of the Jiedu envoy.

Later, the four towns rebelled, and the imperial court transferred Helian Duo to fight Hebei. The imperial court arranged Zhuge Shuang to go to Xia Yin as a festival envoy, Xia Yin is a good place, but it is also the territory of the old comrade-in-arms Tuoba Sigong, which is now called Li Sigong's territory. Li Duo refused to give way, and Li Sigong naturally refused to give way.

As a result, Zhuge Shuang has been wandering around until now, and he has not even implemented a real job.

Thinking of this, he simply became ruthless and took the initiative to defect to Huangchao.

Huang Chao was also very happy to see Zhuge Shuang coming to defect. Although Zhuge Shuang is not as good as Li Keyong and Li Jing, he is also a general, and besides, he is the first one to defect. Huang Chao was also very happy, and immediately crowned Zhuge Shuang as the envoy of the Heyang Festival and awarded the post of general of the town army.

With the beginning of Zhuge Shuang, Qin Zongquan and Zhou Qi also twisted Luoyang, indicating that they had eaten with Boss Huang.

Immediately afterwards, after thinking about it for a long time, Wang Chongrong felt that his identity was not safe with Li Tang, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and also lowered the Yellow Nest.

Li Jing, who is far away in Licheng, Qizhou, has officially accepted the position of King of Qin given by the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty at this time, for Li Jing, if he repeatedly refuses the title of King of Qin, it is not good, people in the world still think that Li Jing really wants to accept the title of King of Lanling County of Huangchao, or have other plans now.

Li Jing did not intend to abandon the image of the minister of the Tang Dynasty for the time being, so he officially accepted the title of King Qin and raised the banner. and publicly published an article to prepare to send troops to Luoyang.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, after a short period of rest, Li Jing's soldiers and horses had completed their rest, and a new round of troop adjustments was carried out.

On the sixth day of the first month of March, Li Jing officially sent troops to Jeju and Yanzhou, and at the same time, Zhao Li, the governor of the right army, led a group of soldiers and horses from Qingzhou to Mizhou and Yizhou, and Zeng Yuanyu, the governor of the army, went to Yuzhou Island, Haizhou, commanded the Yuzhou Department and Hutuzhou, and entered Haizhou, which was empty at this time, and entered Sizhou.

On March 8, Li Jing arrived in Yunzhou, the Tianping Army at this time by the previous battle of the death of the Jiedu Cao Quanxi's nephew Cao Cunshi for the time being, Li Jing led the army all the way to the west, although Cao Quanyang was unwilling, but when Li Jing personally led 20,000 cavalry to reach the city of Yunzhou, Cao Quanyang thought for a long time, and finally opened the city gate to welcome Li Jing into the city, and handed over the list of the Seal Soldier Talisman Treasury to Li Jing, very wise to choose the best road.

Next, the Qin army led by Li Jing swept through the eastern part of Henan.

Li Jing took Ji, Yun, Cao, Pu, and Hua five prefectures, approached the eastern capital, and the troops were under the city of Bianzhou.

And Zhao Li also took Taining Junmi, Yi, and Yansanzhou, and the troops came to the city of Songzhou.

Zeng Yuanyu led the army to take Haizhou and Sizhou, and the troops approached Xuzhou and drank the Mahuai River!

In just half a month, the Qin army of 80,000, the three armies of foot and water marched together, swept Qilu, and forced Luoyang! (To be continued......)