Chapter 796: Deterioration

This invitation looks so simple, but every time Li Quanzhong reads it, he feels that the tendons on his legs and stomach are a little tighter.

Li Jingdu is already the king of Qin, almost the uncrowned emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he is young, and before he is established, he has become the most powerful vassal in the world, and he is a very popular minister. Half of the East needs to look up to him, everyone is in awe of him, why did he call him to Yanjing for a banquet at this time?

Unconscionable.

He thought that although Zhuozhou was next to Youzhou, after all, it belonged to two states, and the two were hundreds of miles apart, and Li Jing asked him to travel hundreds of miles to have a dinner, which was really a bit confusing. Maybe Li Jing wants to hold a banquet? There is no good banquet, last time Li Ke used to attack, he directly retreated to Zhuozhou, he wanted Li Jing and Li Keyong and Wang Jingchong to start a war in Mozhou, who would have thought that it would be the result now, hey.

A few days ago, when Li Jing returned to Yanjing from Junduguan with a huge team, Li Quanzhong did not go because of his illness, but asked his eldest son Li Congwei to greet him on his behalf. I remember that after my son came back, he said that the scene was extremely spectacular, and more than 500,000 soldiers and civilians in the entire Yanjing City rushed to meet them 20 miles outside the city. In order to welcome the triumph of the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, almost the whole city was dispatched.

In the greeting of hundreds of people, Li Jing wore shining gold armor, and Liu Yunniang, the wife of Li Keyong, the fierce flying tiger black crow, was a legendary woman who wore a peacock woven gold cloak at that time, the cloak fluttered in the wind, and the inside was a red robe, which looked sassy and heroic. She is only twenty, but she is Ke Hedun of Shatuo, the princess of Jin, a female marshal who commands thousands of armies. But at that time, such a shining woman was just a foil for Li Jing.

Li Jing sent troops to Yanmen Town. In a short period of time. Even the five states of Yanmen. Defeated Li Kexiu, Li Kening, captured Liu's family, broke Li Keyong, the strong Shatuo was under the attack of Li Jing, it was simply vulnerable, and now, Li Keyong did not know whether he was alive or dead, and Yanmen Town was divided into two halves. Sha Tuo's princess was taken by Li Jing as a trophy and showed off to countless onlookers!

Over the years, the people who picked on Li Jing fell one after another.

Li Keyong led the Black Crow Army, once known as the strongest cavalry in the world, this twelve-year-old went to the battlefield, a one-eyed dragon that could shoot down two eagles with one arrow, once fought alone in eight towns, although defeated but still honored. When he returned to the Central Plains again, he made a comeback, and became the second king with a different surname to be crowned a prince today. Countless people once thought that he would be Li Jing's opponent.

But who would have thought. Li Ke used it quickly, and he lost it quickly. The second fight against Yizhou was a big defeat.

Within a year, he was defeated twice by Li Jing, and this time he was even defeated by five states in a row, and even his wife and children were lost.

It can be said that after defeating Li Keyong, Li Jing's prestige once again reached a new peak, an unprecedented peak. After his son came back, he still remembered the grand welcome scene and admired Li Jing.

Li Quanzhong has lived in Hebei for many years, and can be said to be a local. However, now it is Li Jing who has won the support of hundreds of people in Hebei, and he is not even a native of Hebei.

Does he want to do anything to me?

Li Quanzhong stared at the invitation and thought silently.

Please paste it with a beautiful thin gold font, which is a calligraphy created by Li Jing, but now it is no longer unique to Li Jing. Nearly half of the countless literati in the world are learning this thin gold font, and now you can see the characters of this font everywhere. However, the words on it are the most beautiful thin gold body he has ever seen, maybe this is really written by Li Jing himself.

Is this going to settle accounts after the fall?

I thought that the three armies of Qin, Jin and Zhao would fight in Mozhou, but it didn't. Li Jing unexpectedly sent troops to the north, but the Shatuo people who fought were as anxious as lost dogs. Then he thought that Li Jing would take advantage of the victory to fight to the end and completely wipe out Shatuo, but the result was still unexpected. Li Jing not only did not continue to use troops against Shatuo, but collected his troops and retreated to Hebei.

There is no movement to indicate that Li Jing will continue to beat Sha Tuo, a water dog, in the future, and things are a little unreasonable.

But since Li Jing is not going to fight Shatuo, a water dog, then the next unlucky one is very likely to be him. Compared with the remnants of Shatuo who are far away in Yanmen, Zhuozhou, which is right under Li Jing's nose, seems to make Li Jing more uneasy.

The Shatuo people are now cowering in Yanmen, Wang Jingchong is also retreating in Chengde, only he Li Quanzhong, who has lost the two states of Yiding, and now only retains one state of Zhuozhou, with few soldiers and few soldiers, but he is still the first to bear the brunt in front of Li Jing's royal city. The thought of this made him shudder.

If Li Jing really planned to deal with him, he must have prepared a detailed plan.

What should I do? Once again to show loyalty to Li Jing?

The last time Li Jing didn't annex Yiwu Town, it was because there were still two big enemies, Chengde Town and Yanmen Town, if Li Jing was too urgent, he would fall to the other party. But now, Li Keyong doesn't know life and death, and the Shatuo people are not enough to protect themselves. Wang Jingchong also retreated, and even if he really wanted to join forces with them again at this time, it would be useless.

No one can save Yiwu Town except himself!

But with the 30,000 soldiers in his hands and tens of thousands of young and strong people, how can he protect himself?

Looks like he had to attend this dinner!

Or maybe I'm wrong about Coco Lee, maybe the invitation was just a gesture of goodwill, or maybe it was just an ordinary dinner.

But this is Li Jing's invitation, that's Li Jing. If Li Quanzhong has learned anything over the years, it is that no one should believe it. Especially people like Li Jing, who seem to be full of benevolence and righteousness on the surface, but the means behind them can never be called benevolence and righteousness.

Just when Li Quanzhong in Zhuozhou was upset, helpless, and disheartened, in the palace of King Qin in Yanjing City, Li Jing was also thinking about how to treat Li Quanzhong.

Li Quanzhong, the former captain of Lulong, later became the head of the army step by step, until he seized the opportunity to seize Yiwu Town, at the peak, he once supported Yiwu Town on the left and Lulong Town on the right. This is a very cunning fellow, good at seeing the wind and steering. It can even be said that this guy is an unloyal guy, he used to be Li Keju's henchman, but when Li Keju needed him the most, he betrayed Li Keju without hesitation, colluded with Liu Yue, and drove Li Keju away after the most reluctance. Earned himself a piece of his own.

Later, it formed an alliance with the three towns of Hebei. With their help, the town of Yiwu was captured. It didn't take long. Ignoring the covenant, he brazenly sent troops to Lulong, captured the town of Lulong, and betrayed his allies.

This is a poisonous snake entirely, or rather a white-eyed wolf that is not well raised.

Now Li Quanzhong is superficially subservient to himself, but that is because he was attacked by Li Keyong and Wang Jingchong, and there is no way out. Essentially, this is still a white-eyed wolf. From this time, Li Quanzhong faced the attacks of Chengde and Yanmen. Without ventilating to Li Jing, he directly gave up Yiding and retreated to Zhuozhou, obviously because he wanted to make the three armies of Qin, Jin and Zhao fight, and he planned to watch the fire from the other side.

At the beginning, Li Jing sent troops to rescue Li Quanzhong, because he didn't want Li Keyong and Wang Jingchong to expand too quickly, and it was also a strategic need of the Qin army. But now, Li Quanzhong has no effect on the Qin army. The Qin army had just defeated Li Keyong. Now Wang Jingchong is frightened to avoid Chengde and is in the territory of Yidingzhuo. The Qin army had an absolute advantage.

Without the interference of Chengde and Yanmen Second Town, the Qin army can now free up their hands to clean up Li Quanzhong.

"Zhuozhou is the southern gateway to Yanjing, connecting the two states of Moying, which is extremely important to us. This place, we must not let people like Li Quanzhong control it. On the side of the couch, how can others be allowed to sleep soundly, not to mention, it is still a white-eyed wolf like Li Quanzhong squatting on the side of Yanjing. I thought that when we took advantage of the new defeat of Shatuo and Wang Jingchong's inability to intervene, we should send troops in one fell swoop, destroy Li Quanzhong, take Zhuozhou, and then seize Yiding Erzhou, so that we can control both sides of Feihu and Puyin, and truly firmly control the land of the five states in Daibei, and completely isolate and suppress the Shatuo people in Daibei. In this way, we can deal with Chengde Town with peace of mind in the next stage. "Jing Xiang, the envoy of the General Staff, made a proposal to Li Jing to the General Staff.

Wang Pu, the secretary of the military department, pointed to the sand table in Hebei and said: "We currently have 60,000 heavy troops stationed in Mo and Yingzhou, and this heavy army cluster has been monitoring Chengde Town. Last time, we sent troops to Daibei, and we did not use this army and horses, and only when Wang Jingchong attacked Bauhinia Pass later, did we make a posture of attacking Chengde Town, forcing Wang Jingchong to withdraw his troops. If we want to use troops against Li Quanzhong, then we can transfer 20,000 troops and horses from Mo Ying to attack from the south of Zhuozhou, and then transfer 30,000 troops and horses from Yanjing to attack from the north. ”

Li Rang, the head of the household department, said: "Li Quanzhong now has only one Zhuozhou, and there are only 20,000 soldiers, and no more than 50,000 young and strong people can be used. Moreover, Zhuozhou is a flat river, and there is no danger to defend. If our army uses 60,000 soldiers and horses to attack from the north and south, plus a naval division to coordinate. Then the end of the fighting is expected in a maximum of three months. It is estimated that the consumption of grain and grass is equivalent to 3 million yuan! ”

Li Jing stood in front of the sand table with his hands crossed, and now this part of Hebei is very smooth. However, when he first heard Li Rang say that it would cost at least three million yuan to fight this battle, Li Jing was a little hesitant. The Qin army fought Li Quanzhong, and there was indeed no pressure militarily. But military spending made him a little undecided.

In fact, to this day, there are wars almost everywhere in the whole world, even Annan, who is far away at the ends of the earth, is fighting, and even the big rear of Sanchuan, the Son of Heaven's West Hunt, is also in turmoil. There are few peaceful places in the chaos of feudal towns, rebels and bandits.

The world is in turmoil, and the serious consequences have begun to appear, most of the young and strong have gone to war, and there are too many delays in agricultural production in various places, and the result is that the fields are barren, and then famine is everywhere. Then the famine led to the displacement of people, and then the banditry continued, and the vicious circle became more and more intense.

Even the Qin Domain, although it had a relatively stable rear, had expanded too rapidly in the past year, adding dozens of new states, millions of people, and a shortage of food. Moreover, due to the continuous wars in various places, the economic pillar of the Qin army, industrial and commercial trade, has been greatly hit, orders have decreased, and the output of the workshop has declined, not only the owners and merchants of the workshop have suffered great losses, but also the workers have not started enough, and the income has also dropped sharply, and even the taxes of the Qin clan have also dropped significantly.

This is a chain reaction, Li Jing seems to have returned to the pre-liberation period all of a sudden, back to the time when he was in debt all day long.

Now it costs another three million to beat Li Quanzhong, and Li Jing, who used to throw one or two million casually without heartache, is reluctant.

"Is there a plan to take Zhuozhou without fighting?" Li Jing pondered for a long time, his eyes swept over everyone, and then he asked slowly! (To be continued......)