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What should come is always coming, Li Jing was actually very excited when he heard Song Wei's order to send him troops to suppress the bandits. All along, all kinds of adventures, desperate development, in order to wait until the time comes, he has the strength to participate. However, he was slightly surprised that he was transferred to Zi and Qi Erzhou, not Qingzhou.

"Dare to ask Judge Lei, the marshal ordered me to send troops, who is he going to suppress?"

"Hong Balang!"

Li Jing frowned, how could he be this person. This man has appeared in the history books of later generations. However, in historical records, this person is a big thief in Hebei, and it is also said that he is a remnant of Pang Xun's rebellion. After the defeat of Xuzhou, it has been wandering around the Yellow River on both sides of the Zi, Qi, Di and other states to plunder. The reason why he really left a mark in the history books is related to Wang Jingwu. In history, in the first year of Guangming, that is, six years later, there was a giant thief Hong Balang who gathered in Qi and Di to cause trouble, and Pinglu Jiedu made An Shiru order Wang Jingwu to seek peace. As a result, after Wang Jingwu sent troops, he suddenly returned and expelled An Shiru, who was very useless at the end of the Tang Dynasty and was driven out by his subordinates in several towns, and stayed in Ziqing Town.

In the mutiny in Ziqing Town, Hong Balang was completely a soy sauce character. Li Jing didn't expect that he would jump out five or six years in advance, and history says that he made a big fuss in response to Huang Chao. Could it be that his appearance has had such a far-reaching impact?

"How is this person?"

"What, who does Brother Ji Yu think it will be?" Lei Gang asked with a smile.

Li Jingha smiled: "I heard that the smugglers over there in the Tianping Festival were making a lot of trouble, and I also arrested a Caozhou salt dealer who dared to come to buy salt from me. also let people escort them to Qingzhou. I wonder what happened to the road? ”

"Ji Yu is talking about that Shangli Shangjun. I've heard of this person too, and he has some prestige in the rivers and lakes. After the last person was escorted to Qingzhou, Song Jieshuai said that since this person was a citizen under Xue Jieshuai of the Tianping Army, he asked people to give him to Xue Shuai. I heard that Xue Shuai sent people to Caozhou again, and said that he would be a typical example in Caozhou and make an example of him. But who would have thought that this thief had a lot of accomplices, and he actually asked for the beheading on the day of the knife. Hundreds of thieves made trouble in the court and robbed him from his sword. Although Caozhou also sent arresters to go around and put up a list to arrest them, these people actually disappeared without a trace. Lei Gang chuckled, as if he were just telling a very ordinary little joke. This time Xue Jieshuai can be regarded as losing his face, it is said that Xue Jie is handsome to scold the Caozhou stabbing history, and then directly withdraw the person. ”

Li Jing couldn't help but sigh in his heart, these people would never think of who they let go. I can't imagine who will rob the law field. Dare to take hundreds of people to rob the law field of Zhou City, what a serious thing. But these people only tell it as a joke.

"The person who robbed the law field is probably Wang Xianzhi, Zhang Guiba and other Caozhou illegal salt dealers." Li Jing sighed.

Lei Gang was a little surprised. That Caozhou was under the rule of the Tianping Army, although it was a neighbor of the Pinglu Army. But Caozhou is close to the direction of Luoyang, and Dengzhou is one in the west and the other is in the east, separated by no less than thousands of miles. How could Li Jing know the Tao so clearly?

"I heard that it seems that it was indeed robbed by Wang Xianzhi, that Wang Xianzhi is the largest illegal salt dealer in Caozhou, and the Wang family in Caozhou and the Huang family in Puzhou are the two largest groups of illegal salt dealers in the Central Plains. Wang Xianzhi's subordinates are said to have ten extremely powerful thieves known as the Ten Vote Division, and I heard that the Shang Junchang you captured is Wang Xianzhi's No. 1 henchman. As for the others, they don't know their names and surnames. However, the name is scary, but in fact, it is just a group of smuggler salt dealers, and it can't be a climate, and once the officials and troops are dispatched, none of these group of clowns can end well. ”

This is the attitude of the Datang officials towards Huang Chao, Wang Xianzhi and others, they never thought that Datang would be messed up by this gang. Seeing Lei Gang's attitude, Li Jing also dispelled the idea of reminding them. Now I guess he can't listen to what he says. Let's wait for Wang Xianzhi to beat these people into fear, and then talk about it.

But for now, I need to inquire more about the news of Hong Balang.

"How many men and horses does Hong Balang have, I don't know how many soldiers and horses Song Jieshuai has mobilized this time?"

The corners of Lei Gang's somewhat embarrassed mouth twitched a few times, and said, "Hong Balang has eight hundred horses, and all of them have horses. ”

"Only eight hundred?" Li Jing was stunned for a moment, and when he heard that Song Wei sent a military order from Qingzhou to summon him to send troops, Li Jing thought that the thieves had gathered a crowd and had tens of thousands of outcast bandits under him. Unexpectedly, speaking of which, there were only 800 people at the end. Even if these 800 people are all old horse bandits, it is only 800 people. No matter how fierce the horse thief is, can he compare to the soldiers and horses of the imperial court?

"Don't underestimate this Hong Balang, this person is extremely fierce, and his subordinates are a group of outlaws. Burning, killing, looting, doing everything. At first, they were in the north of the Yellow River in Dizhou for chaos, the most soldiers and horses were known as three thousand, several times defeated the soldiers and horses of the Yichang army in Hebei, the last Yichang army commander Zheng Hanqing transferred tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to outflank and suppress, but the most Lu still let this person drill out of the encirclement, and the most Lu later crossed the Yellow River and fled into the territory of Zi and Qi Erzhou. Zi and Qi prefectures have sent troops and horses to clear and suppress, but several times they sent troops, but if there are few soldiers, they will be defeated by thieves, and if there are many soldiers, the thieves will flee far away, and several times to no avail, but many officers and soldiers will be injured by thieves. Now seeing that the Hong thieves have the possibility of gathering people in Zi and Qi Prefectures, no one in the Pinglu army is willing to fight. ”

"In this way, this time only my Shamen Town Army sent troops to ask for thieves?" Li Jing asked.

"That's true." Lei Gang explained: "Originally, Song Jieshuai didn't want to summon your troops to suppress bandits, but the last one was the tooth general Wang Jingwu, saying that you are both intelligent, and the army of Shamen Town is all elite and strong, and you can destroy the thieves." He also took out the fact that you defeated the one-eyed pirates and exterminated Feng Zhang, saying that you are young and have been promoted one after another, and now Song Jieshuai will be promoted to be a great Xie Yan soldier. I think that if you are promoted to the position of the Great Xie Soldiers, then you should be responsible for the suppression of bandits. ”

"Wang Jingwu means that if I don't go to suppress the bandits, then I am not qualified to serve as the envoy of the Great Xie Yan, right?" Li Jing sneered.

"That's exactly what he meant, so this time you must fight a good battle, exterminate Hong Balang, and completely silence other people who have objections to your promotion. Song Jieshuai is very optimistic about you, not only promoted you to the Great Xie Soldier in advance, but also added you the title of suppression envoy, but don't let down the heart of the Jieshuai. Lei Gang was afraid that Li Jing would not agree, so he said kindly.

"Don't worry, just eight hundred horse thieves, I don't care about it yet."

"I still don't know how many soldiers and horses Ji Yu is going to lead to fight?"

"I have a new crane cavalry battalion under my command, with 2,000 men and horses. I thought that to deal with the horse thieves, it was enough to have 2,000 men and horses in the crane battalion. Riding against riding is the best policy. Li Jing replied confidently.

Lei Gang hurriedly persuaded him: "There are too few soldiers, I advise you to bring more soldiers and horses." I've been in Shamen Town for a few days, and I've heard that you have more than 10,000 elite soldiers under your command, so why don't you bring some more? Even if you don't attack with the whole army, you can bring at least five or six thousand people. Don't be careless and be taken advantage of by thieves. ”

Li Jing shook his head, Hong Balang's command was full of horse thieves, coming and going like the wind. Only cavalry can quickly find them and destroy them. If there are too many soldiers and horses, the march will not be fast, and once the opponent finds them, it is very likely that they will flee far away, and it will be difficult to destroy them.

Lei Gang saw Li Jing's repeated insistence, and he almost jumped to his feet in a hurry, and hurriedly glanced at Li Jing, and said softly: "Please leave and right, I have a confidential report." ”

"Please come to the study and talk." Li Jing invited Lei Gang into the study, and as soon as Lei Gang entered, he immediately said to Li Jing: "Why don't you understand, in fact, this time Wang Jingwu proposed to let you go to suppress the bandits, because he didn't know the true strength of your command." He wants to take the opportunity to use the hands of bandits to eliminate or consume your strength, you don't know, in fact, there are famines everywhere at the moment, and there are many bandits in Ziqi and Qizhou, but it is not only Hong Balang and his gang of horse thieves. If you have fewer soldiers, it is easy to fall prey to bandits. ”

He looked left and right again, and then whispered: "Actually, the most important one is that Song Jieshuai and Cui Sima both feel that this is a rare opportunity. ”

"What chances? Don't? ”

Lei Gang smiled: "You're right, Wang Jingwu didn't have a good heart, but he made a stupid move." He wanted to transfer you to Ziqi, but he forgot that if you want to go to Ziqi, you have to go through Qingzhou first. ”

"False Path!" Li Jing couldn't help but exclaim, Song Wei and Cui Yunqing were really old and spicy. On the surface, Li Jing was not allowed to go to Ziqi and Erzhou to suppress bandits. But in fact, he planned to let Li Jing bring more soldiers and horses, under the banner of suppressing bandits to cross the border, and when he arrived in Qingzhou, he would give Wang Jingwu a straight heart. At present, Qingzhou Wang Jingwu's tooth army and Song Wei's Jiedu personal soldiers, Qingzhou unity soldiers, and the prison army's personal guards have reached a balance together. But if Li Jing joins the new force, Wang Jingwu will be defeated.

No wonder Lei Gang has always wanted Li Jing to lead more troops and horses, and that's why. The soldiers are afraid that they will not be able to defeat Wang Jingwu's tooth army.

This is indeed a good time to destroy Wang Jingwu, as long as he is willing to help Song Wei at this time, then Song Wei will have absolute strength. Should he do it, or rather, he should consider whether he should do it or not. Can this bring him benefits?

Seeing that Li Jing seemed to be hesitating, Lei Gang couldn't help but look anxious. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I always thought that the pair of the Marshal Mansion were in a very embarrassing situation because they could not get rid of Wang Jingwu and seize control of the Qingzhou Ya soldiers. In the other states of the five states of Ziqing, Song Wei has begun to occupy the situation of taking the initiative, but Qingzhou has been suppressed, and it is possible that Wang Jingwu will jump over the wall and mutiny at any time.

After pondering for a long time, Li Jing slowly opened his mouth and asked a sentence: "After the matter is completed, what reward is the Jieshuai willing to give to Ben Jiang and his brothers!" (To be continued......)