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Winter in the north is empty, vast, and bleak.

The wind howled in the field, and the frost-stained leaves fluttered suddenly in the cold wind, swirling and dancing with the wind on the dry ground.

Li Jing rode on the horse, raised his eyes and looked around, as far as his eyes could see, except for the long queue of cavalry behind him, between the entire heaven and earth, the clouds were low, and it seemed that they would soon fall above his head. Everywhere there was a vast expanse of unmelted snow, and the glaciers froze and froze.

A few crows landed on the ice-edged poplar trees by the river in the distance, spreading their wings and scraping.

In such a cold weather, looking at this ominous crow, the knights, whose noses were frozen and no longer felt, couldn't help but feel a desolate feeling in their hearts.

At this time, it was the first day of the first month of the sixth year of Qianfu, just resigned from the old year to usher in the first day of the new year, no one expected that on the first day of such a new year, in such a cold wind and snow, the north has been the court and the Hebei rebels confronted and fought, and the king of Andong County, Li Jing, the Daxingtai of Northeast Dao, would choose such a day to intervene in this war.

Li Juyi had just been transferred from the director of the Crane Control Army to the commander of the Jinjia Shengjie Army, although he was a little reluctant to accept the Crane Cavalry Army founded by his father, but after Li Jing's order was issued, he was still very happy to accept the order. In his opinion, the crane cavalry has always been the most elite cavalry among the armies in Northeast Province in his eyes, but the Jinjia Shengjie Army has always existed as the image of the first army under Li Jing. has always served as an important duty to protect Li Jing, which is completely equivalent to the Shence Army of Emperor Chang'an.

Being able to be transferred by his uncle to be the military master of the Jinjia Shengjie Army is not a promotion.

Li Juyi's more anticipated position is the position of marshal of one of the six towns and festivals. But he knew it in his heart. The king of the county employs people. Paying attention to the separation of civil and military affairs, and using literature to unify the military, in such important positions as the secretary of the military department, the envoy of the festival, the assassin history, and the teaching envoy, all of them are appointed literati, and it is impossible for military generals to hold these positions. Although he thought in his heart that the Jiedu envoy was the commander of the army, and he should use a military general who knew more about the army, the king of the county said privately that he was his uncle. From the public, it is his lord, no matter what, he has to obey the arrangement of the county king.

And in some ways, he himself admits that now under the rule of Northeast Province, both civil and military are emphasized, and the atmosphere is very good. Compared with other places, it is obviously much better than the simple emphasis on military and suppression of literature.

However, the position of the envoy of the Six Towns Festival is still vacant, and Li Juyi is not completely dead set on the position of this section marshal, in his heart. He is still hopeful for these six positions. This time, the festival commander suddenly mobilized the crane cavalry and the Jinjia Shengjie army to quietly go south during the Chinese New Year. Li Juyi shouted good luck in his heart.

According to the meaning of the big marshal, the four towns of Hebei actually dared to hype up the matter of supporting him as the emperor in the newspaper, which was obviously deliberately using him. And the marshal is so easy to use, if they don't teach them a lesson, they really think that the 200,000 Northeast Army are sick cats in the future. In addition, the imperial court's recent attitude towards the Northeast Army and the marshal also made the marshal feel some pressure. Now that he has accepted the gift of the northeast stage of the imperial court, he has to make some statements.

In any case, in order to teach the four towns of Hebei a lesson, or to give the imperial court a statement to reassure them temporarily, the commander has already decided that the Northeast Army should make a move in due course.

Although it was a cold winter and a New Year, Li Juyi couldn't help but feel excited when he thought that if he could make military achievements this time, he would be one step closer to the position of the festival of his dreams.

It is now the sixth year of Qianfu, and three years have passed since Qingni Town was destroyed and his family was destroyed and put into the command of his uncle Li Jing.

From the Crane Army to the Shengjie Army, he not only knows the soldiers and horses, but also has the title of Duzhu Ya, and also has the title of Marquis of Sanpin Qingni Founding County. Since Li Jing, the king of the county, has no brothers, in the army, Li Wei and Li Yuan, the two young nephews of Li Jing, as well as Li Juyi, the righteous nephew, can be regarded as the representatives of the Li family in Li Jing's army, and the eleven disciples of Li Jing are the most staunch supporters of the county king in the young Zhuang faction.

This year, Li Juyi was only eighteen years old, a promising age.

In this dispatch, Li Jing's plan was to fight a small-scale local battle and advance the boundary between the Northeast Army and Lu Long's Army from Baoqiushui to the south to the north bank of Lushui.

The four counties of Liaoxi, Huairou, Luxian, and Yongnu will be the targets of the Northeast Army this time.

Take the four counties north of Lushui, and to the west, the Northeast Army has reached the vicinity of the military capital pass in the northwest gate of Youzhou. To the southeast, the section of the canal after the convergence of the Lushui and Sanggan rivers until the north of the Zhangshui estuary will be occupied by the Northeast Army.

As long as it succeeds, in this way, Lulong Town will lose its land along the coast, and the territory of the Northeast Army will also directly connect with Cangzhou, the Yichang Army of Hebei, which is still under the control of the imperial court. The four towns of Hebei will completely lose their access to the sea.

Point to point!

Li Jing did not plan to directly kill Lu Longjun's lair in Youzhou, this attack was not only to show the court and the people of the world Li Jing's position now. At the same time, it is also to show their strength to the four towns of Hebei. Of course, if this operation is successful, it will bring many benefits to the Northeast Army. At the very least, if you have mastered more coasts, and if you swallow the land of the four counties at once, you will be able to approach the military capital fortress and Youzhou City at any time.

Between Youzhou and Danzhou, upstream tributaries such as Lushui and Baoqiu are all over the place.

In Liaoxi County and Huairou County here, there are also three prefectures of Yanzhou, Guishun Prefecture and Xianzhou, which house the Xi, Khitan and Uighur people who were originally located in western Liaoning and moved to Youzhou in the early years. To the west is the northwest gate of Youzhou, and to the south, is Youzhou City.

Lushui.

The Taogu Mountain outpost in the north of Liaoxi County.

Zhao Xiong, the envoy of Liaoxi Town, led more than a dozen personal soldiers and a capital of cavalry infantry, and was inspecting this outpost located in the northernmost part of Youzhou Town. This outpost leans on the Jundu Mountain on the left, and on the left is the high mountains, and to the west is the Junduguan Fortress. In front of it is a plain, surrounded by Yanshan Mountain on three sides.

The western half of Danzhou is surrounded by plains on three sides, and the eastern half is surrounded by Yanshan hills.

The Taogu Mountain outpost is leaning against the west mountain wall and guarding the passage to the south of Danzhou, and its west is Lushui.

Originally, this outpost was the flank of the Guardian Army. But now. Tan Ji two states lost. It has become the front line of the confrontation between the north of Youzhou and the Northeast Army of Danzhou.

This is just a routine patrol, facing the Northeast Army in the north, Youzhou Jiedu made Liu Yue unable to eat and sleep, especially after supporting Li Jing as emperor before and without Li Jing's consent, Liu Yue was even more worried. After the loss of Tanjiping Sanzhou, Youzhou Town has become a flat river, for Li Jing, who is guarding the first line of the Yanshan Mountain Range. There is no defense at all.

This outpost, Liu Yue did not hope that it could play any role in resisting in the war, he just hoped that this place could discover the changes of the Northeast Army as soon as possible and play an alarming role.

This outpost is now completely acting as a beacon Yantai site.

Before the New Year, the imperial court crowned Li Jing as the secretary of the Northeast Province, and the imperial court had full authority to manage the military, government and civil affairs of six towns, 21 prefectures and 100 counties in the Northeast Province. Subsequently, Li Jing received the decree, played a thank you table to the imperial court, and submitted a list of the main officials of Daxingtai to the imperial court. All approved by the imperial court. And then Li Jing's recital and the approval of the Son of Heaven and the prime minister were directly published in the Royal News.

This incident made the situation in the four towns of Hebei suddenly tense.

Li Jing's attitude. The four towns of Hebei were very worried that Li Jing would send troops south. Although the current cold winter does not seem to be the season to send troops, Liu Yue, who is close to Li Jing, does not dare to be careless, even during the New Year, he also issued strict orders to all armies to strengthen their vigilance.

The beacon tower reports every day, and there must be soldiers and horses patrolling the boundary river every day.

Zhao Xiong didn't think that Li Jing would really go south, especially during the Chinese New Year, but the military order of the Shuaifu made him dare not take it lightly, and he always felt uneasy in his heart these days, as if it indicated that something bad was about to happen.

In a short time before he was in his trance, his head had run to the river in front of him, and was inspecting a caravan of camels, horses, and mules.

His loud voice could still be heard from afar, "You businessmen, like us soldiers, can't stay at home with your wife and children on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but you still have to run outside." On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I was still running on the road, what business was so important? ”

In the blink of an eye, I saw Zhao Da, the head of the capital, walking over with a money bag and a bell, and said with a smile: "General, I just met a group of vendors, they went to Danzhou to collect leather goods, but the owner of the caravan fell ill and delayed for some time, and he couldn't go home in time before the year." This proprietor is not bad, not only did he pay the taxes in full, but he also had good wine in his pack, and he took two jars and gave them to us. It's freezing on this day, so let's leave them at the outpost for the night to avoid the wind and have a hot meal together. ”

Zhao Xiong looked at the sky, it was indeed not early, and it was too late to go back today.

"Is there anything else to eat besides the wine caravan?" Zhao Xiong asked.

"They still have canned food and a few cows and sheep!" Du Tou immediately said.

"Buy all of these, invite the caravan too, and let's spend the New Year together." Everyone has a good meal today, and we will go back to the county tomorrow morning. ”

There was a burst of cheers behind him, and several of his own soldiers immediately followed Dutou to the caravan and took them back to the outpost, while they went to pay the money to get the ox leg and the morning glory to carry wine.

"It just so happens that we still have a few fish that we caught yesterday, and we can cook fish soup and drink it." The leader of the outpost said with a flattering smile.

"Well, there is wine, meat, and fish, and this year is not bad!"

The caravan followed the soldiers, it was a small caravan, there were more than 20 people, there were ten camels, 20 pack horses, and more than 30 mules, all of which were full, and it seemed that the harvest in Danzhou was good. These people look very ordinary, just the kind of common skin-collecting merchants, inconspicuous.

Zhao Xiong looked at it a few times, and saw that there was nothing dazzling, and these people had the official certificate issued by Youzhou here, and their identities were very clear, so he didn't pay attention, said hello, and went back to the fort of the outpost.

There were originally ten soldiers at the outpost, and Zhao Xiong went out to inspect this time with ten personal soldiers and a hundred cavalry infantry, and the outpost suddenly had more than 120 people, plus more than 20 people in the caravan, and in the ice and snow, it suddenly became lively.

The slaughter of the sheep was the killing of the sheep, the burning of the fire, and soon a sumptuous dinner was ready, and with the good wine brought out by the caravan, except for a small bowl of the soldiers on duty, the rest of the people drank very happily.

Eating wine and drinking meat, bragging, and soon late at night, the banquet dispersed, and each returned to the house drunk.

The more than 20 people in the caravan were also arranged to rest in the stone fort of the outpost, and in the middle of the night, the merchants who were originally drunk opened their eyes one by one, their eyes were clear, and their eyes were bright, how could they still be half drunk!

Rising one by one, these inconspicuous merchants did not say a word in the dark, just gesticulating various gestures, and then quickly divided into several groups and disappeared into the night.

Behind the sentry outside the outpost, a merchant suddenly sneaked in, covered his mouth, and then a dagger painted with black paint slashed coldly and neatly through the sentry's throat, the sentry did not have time to make a sound, the light in his eyes dissipated little by little, his body temperature became colder, and he fell softly into the merchant's arms.

One after another the sentry posts were silently killed, and the leader of the merchants appeared, and after some gesture exchange, he nodded with satisfaction, took out a lighter from his bosom, and lit three torches in a row, and the three caravan men each held one and shook it in a circle towards the north bank of the river.

A moment later, three torches were also lit on the opposite bank.

Suddenly, a team of centaurs sneaked in.

"Has the outpost been cleared?" A young officer walked at the front, and the badge on his chest showed that he was the captain of the team, the captain of the nine ranks.

The leader of the caravan said in a deep voice: "Things have changed a little, the Liaoxi County town envoy Kaohsiung suddenly came to the outpost, he came to inspect with one hundred and eleven people, and he is now in the outpost. We have cleared the sentries of the outpost, and there are still a hundred more in the fortress. However, most of them are already asleep. ”

Hearing this unexpected change, the captain of the escort Rong frowned a little, and patted the arm of the merchant leader, "Good job, just enough to catch them all." ”

Although Zhao Xiong had more than 100 people, the new team leader also brought a team of 50 people. Although it was one enemy and two enemies, it had cleared the sentries before, which was considered an unprepared surprise attack.

"Wound the crossbow, surround the fortress, kill it in three teams, and those who resist will be killed on the spot!" The leader of the team ordered in a low voice, and then held the crossbow machine and rushed straight over.

The raid in groups of three, coupled with the armament of hand crossbows, was a complete one-sided slaughter.

When Zhao Xiong was awakened by the screams, less than half of the people were left in the outpost, and they were completely surrounded.

Waking up his guards, Zhao Xiong carried a knife and wanted to rush out of the room, but as soon as he rushed out of the room, they were greeted by a rain of arrows.

Zhao Xiong blocked left and right, but after the most Lu was still hit by several arrows, he fell to the ground, before he died, when he saw that there was the previous group of merchants standing in front of him, the most Lu Hou smiled bitterly a few times, and then there was no sound.

The merchant leader led the men to stab each of the enemy corpses in the outpost, and then came back to report.

The team leader nodded, "Tell the back, we have taken the Peach Valley Mountain outpost!" (To be continued......)