Chapter 594: Soldiers Don't Get Tired of Deceit
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Hitting people doesn't slap their faces, but Li Jing wanted to mention it, which made Gao Zhaokang's face white and red, red and purple, purple and black, and his eyes were glaring, panting like a cow. The hands in the sleeves were tightly clenched into fists. If it weren't for his father's cough, he estimated that he would have rushed forward just now and punched him directly at Li Jing's hateful face.
Gao Dexin coughed and pulled his son back from his almost violent mood.
He looked at Li Jing's face and felt that Li Jing's words were not deliberately provocative. Although they had already surrendered to Li Jing, Li Jing had no reason to provoke their Gao family like this. On the contrary, Li Jing should treat the Gao family well, which is the most courteous, and it is the same as Li Jing's previous attitude. If it is not a deliberate provocation, then it means that Li Jing's words are really apologizing, and these words are clear about resolving old grievances.
Thinking of this, Gao Dexinqiang was in good spirits and said with a smile: "The handsome old man has understood it on behalf of the dog, in fact, Princess Bohai can follow the handsome, which is also her blessing." These marriages are destined by heaven, and it can only be said that he has no fate with the dog. How can the Gao family blame the handsome for these things, blaming the handsome is resentful of heaven's will. Don't mention the past, don't mention it! ”
Li Jing smiled and nodded, "General Gao, what about you?" ”
Gao Zhaokang took a deep breath, "If the marshal is willing to give the Gao family some face, the last general is willing to immediately write a letter of resignation to the big family." ”
"It's good!" Li Jing thought about it, Gao Zhaokang asked to write a letter of resignation, which can be regarded as saving some of the Gao family's face. There is no resignation. Da Yue'er was snatched away by Li Jing. Or elope with Li Jing. It's a shame for the Gao family. However, if there is a letter of resignation, it means that their Gao family took the initiative to take a leave of absence, and it can be regarded as a better look.
When Gao Zhaokang's retirement was finished, Li Jing took it and put it in his arms.
"Now that some of our past unpleasantness has been resolved, and we have some requests, I wonder if General Lu Daogao can help?" Li Jing pondered for a while, and finally asked one thing in his heart.
"Please." After writing the resignation letter, Gao Zhaokang seemed to be much more relaxed, but he still didn't have much of a good face towards Li Jing.
"That's right," Li Jing whispered to Gao Zhaokang. After Gao Zhaokang listened. With a look of surprise on his face, he glanced at Li Jing: "Is the marshal really willing to trust the general so much?" ”
"Hahaha!" Li Jing laughed loudly and loudly several times, "I, who have always liked to trust people, don't use the so-called suspicious people, don't doubt the use of people, since I have appointed General Gao as the commander of the North Korean army, then I will no longer doubt it." When he said this, Li Jing glanced at Gao Dexin intentionally or unintentionally.
Gao Zhaokang's face became a little more and more ugly, of course he didn't believe that Li Jing would trust him, but Li Jing had the entire Gao clan in his hands. Don't worry too much about anything else. Even if Gao Zhaokang is dissatisfied with Li Jing, it is impossible to really ignore the entire Gao family.
Jian'an Prefecture Governor's Office. In the area of present-day Gaizhou City. Located in the northwest of Liaodong Peninsula, the geomorphological characteristics are six mountains, three rivers and one field, belonging to the hilly area of southern Liaoning, the terrain is high in the east and low in the west, the east and southeast are high mountains and hills, and the west and north are plains. In ancient times, it was called Chenzhou, and as early as the Han Dynasty, it was already an important town in eastern Liaodong where merchants gathered.
During the Warring States Period, the Yan State opened up the Liaohe River, and Gai County belonged to Liaodong County. After Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, it still belonged to Liaodong County. During the Western Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin dynasties, Wen County was set up in the north of Yugai County and Pingguo County in the south, all of which were under the jurisdiction of Liaodong County. The former Yan, the former Qin, and the later Yan during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty belonged to Pingguo County in Pingzhou. After the establishment of Northern Yan in 407 AD, Gaixian was once divided by Goguryeo, and Ancheng was built.
After the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, it set up the Jian'an Prefecture Governor's Office here, which controlled the northwest part of the Liaodong Peninsula.
There are sixteen mountain cities in the whole Jian'an Prefecture, although the scale of the mountain cities is far less than the scale of Beisha City, but the mountain cities are much heavier. These mountain towns controlled the road from the southern coast of Liaoning directly north to the Liaozhong Plain, and the inner side of the bank formed a narrow coastal flat, and the inner side of the flat land was superimposed with mountains. Along the northeast coastal road of the Liaodong Peninsula, you can directly enter and exit the Liaodong Plain, and along this road, there are many mountain cities.
The entire road is connected along the boundary between the coastal flat land and the mountainous land on the plain land.
Starting from Langu Mountain City on the bank of the Fuzhou River in Jizhou, then Chengshan Mountain City, Jili Mountain City in the middle reaches of the Fuzhou River, and Maquanzi Mountain City. From here, you can go north along the northeast road to Jian'an Mountain City.
Between Jili Mountain City and Jian'an Mountain City, there are Chengshan Mountain City, East and West Mountain City, Fenying Mountain City, Chengzigou Mountain City, Dongshuangtai Mountain City, Chaoyang Temple Mountain City, etc. In addition to the mountain cities on this road, there are also first-line mountain cities in the east of Jian'an, such as Chishan Mountain City, Sunjiawobao Mountain City, Yantou Mountain City, Dongsheng Mountain City, Languling Mountain City, Longfengyu Mountain City, Hailongchuan Mountain City, Maquan Mountain City, etc.
The entire Jian'an Prefecture controls an important passage from southern Liaoning to the first line of the Liao River. It is also the vanguard base of the Khitan people to the south of the peninsula, and is now occupied by the Lian tribe of the Diera tribe.
The Lian tribe is also the old tribe of the Khitan Shili, and after the integration of the Shili tribes into the Diera tribe, it is also a powerful tribe in the Diera tribe. Last year, he went south to Jili Prefecture to fight, and after receiving the support of the Diera tribe, he repeatedly defeated Jili Prefecture, annihilated thousands of Goguryeo people, plundered tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of livestock, and reaped a bumper harvest. However, under the pressure of the Zhenguo Army, Gao Dexin, who was only left in the mountain city of Jili, took the initiative to retreat to Jian'an City.
Subsequently, there were many internal contradictions in the Khitan and the situation was tense, and the soldiers and horses of the Diera tribe returned to the Tuhuzhen River Valley, and the Lian Raidan tribe also sent a thousand horsemen to accept the order of the Dierayi army to return to the Khitan.
At present, there are more than a dozen mountain cities in Jian'an, and there are still more than 3,000 cavalry stationed in the company. Moreover, if it is urgently mobilized, the entire Jian'an company can still mobilize about 2,000 cavalry. If you add the remnants of each account, 5,000 cavalry, one person with two auxiliaries, and the whole clan of the Lian tribe is mobilized, and the old and young join the army, you can make up 5,000 cavalry plus 10,000 auxiliary troops, which is a very amazing number.
Moreover, there are also many Khitan tribes in Liaocheng, Yingzhou, Xincheng, Gaimu, Nansu, and Yanjin Prefecture, which can be supported at any time.
In July, Yelu Dara, the patriarch of the Lianra tribe in Jian'an City, received an urgent report from Tanma, and the envoy of the Tang Dynasty Zhenguo Army in southern Liaoning finally led his troops north. Among them, there are 30,000 horse troops, 100,000 infantry troops, 20,000 naval troops, and 150,000 auxiliary troops, a total of 300,000 troops, known as 500,000 horses. Mighty all the way north!
Hearing this news, Yelu Da was worried, last year he took the initiative to withdraw from the city of Jili Prefecture to Jian'an, just didn't want to face the Tang army so early. But now, the time to come is still coming. At this time, there was civil strife in the Seven Divisions of Sanyelu, the struggle between Diera and Yaoran and Dahe, and the conflict between Yili Jin and Jinde Khan was already continuous. The soldiers and horses of the Diera tribe withdrew to the Tuhuzhen River, and even the Lianra tribe also sent 1,000 cavalry and 2,000 auxiliaries.
And at the moment, the Liao River is flooding, and the swamps of more than 200 miles in western Liaoning are even more difficult for people to travel. The timing of the Tang army's selection was very good, and at this time, the reinforcements from Liaoxi and Liaodong City could not arrive quickly.
He can only hope now that the Goguryeo people can resist them as they did last year, and that Gao Dexin can continue to rally the Goguryeo tribes to resist Li Jing.
Yelu Dara ordered the whole clan to be mobilized immediately, and 2,000 cavalry and 4,000 auxiliary troops were newly gathered, and they were immediately transferred to the four cities of Fenying Mountain City, Chishan Mountain City, Sunjiawobao Mountain City and Chengzigou Mountain City, and strictly guarded and defended.
On the one hand, he urgently sent people to ask for help from the Khitan tribes such as Liaoxi and Liaodongcheng, and reported to the Diera tribe to leave the Jianyelu Pugu.
As soon as these messengers were dispatched, they immediately received an urgent report from Yeludachi, the defender of Fenying Mountain City on the front line. The Zhenguo army has broken through the mountain city of Langu and is approaching the mountain city of Jili. Gao Dexin already knew that he was not guarding it, and sent his son Gao Zhaokang to ask Yelu Dachi of Fenying Mountain City to be attached.
"Gao Zhaokang said that the grain and grass in Jili Prefecture are useless, and it is difficult to survive on its own, although the Tang Army sent people to surrender, but Gao Zhaokang swore to die and refused to surrender, and was willing to defect to my Khitan!" The messenger relayed the words of Jerodaci.
"General, beware of deception!" Yerodara's advisor Feng Duo was a Han Chinese who had crossed the sea from Dengzhou two years earlier. Feng Duo, who is more than forty years old, was originally a member of the Feng clan in Qingzhou, and was originally an official in Da Xie Yan. After the Feng clan was eradicated by Li Jing, they fled to Liaodong. Yerodara trusts Feng Duo very much, and he usually doesn't leave an inch.
Hearing this, he said, "What does Mr. mean? ”
Feng Duo pinched his goatee and said: "That Gao Dexin is very stubborn, last year we fought him only had one mountain city left, and he refused to surrender." Now that Li Jing has broken through a mountain city for him, he does not surrender to Li Jing, but wants to come to us, which is a bit strange. ”
Yeluda smiled and said: "Sir doesn't know, now there is a rumor that it is the wife of the princess of Bohai married by Gao Zhaokang, the son of Gao Dexin, who was intercepted by Li Jing on the way back to Bohai for help, and forcibly robbed him as his concubine, and now even the child has been given birth to Li Jing." For Gao Zhaokang, this is the hatred of taking his wife. It is reasonable that he refuses to surrender Li Jing. ”
Feng Duo frowned, "Even so, if the Gao family refuses to surrender to Li Jing, they can also go to other Goguryeo people, and there is no need to come to us." If we hadn't attacked Gao Dexin last year, he might not have been so vulnerable. ”
"Even Gao Dexin can't stop Li Jing, which of the other Goguryeo forces can stop Li Jing? If Gao Zhaokang wants to avenge this hatred of taking his wife, he has no other way to choose except to defect to our Khitan. Mr. don't worry too much, could it be that Gao Zhaokang was robbed of his wife by Li Jing, and now he can help Li Jing in turn?" Yeroda laughed for a while, he didn't believe that there was such a man in the world. "Immediately send an order to General Yelu Dachi, asking him to immediately accept the surrender of Gao Dexin and his son. In addition, immediately dispatched troops to immediately garrison the Chengshan Mountain City and the East and West Mountain Castles in the hands of the Gao family in the south of Fenyong Mountain Castle. These two mountain cities are guarding the key road pass to our Jian'an, and they must not be robbed by Li Jing! (To be continued......)