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The spring is cold, and the morning breeze is cold!

An army of tens of thousands of men set out in the early morning and rolled south. Li Jing rode the horse in the middle of it, but there was not much joy in his heart, but he kept frowning and pondering. The rebellion of the Shatuo people has been put down, and the army was supposed to return to the town. However, since this was the biggest battle and the biggest victory since the new emperor ascended the throne, the emperor suddenly sent an envoy a few days ago to issue a holy decree, allowing the three counterinsurgency troops and horses of the eight towns to go to Chang'an to carry out the ceremony of offering prisoners and receiving the parade.

If he could, Li Jing didn't want to go. However, the eunuch who came to issue the decree said to him with a smile on his face, and the saint made it clear that he wanted Li Jing to lead the Zhenguo army into the army. not only asked him to go, but also demanded that all the Zhenguo troops who went out to go to Chang'an.

The soldiers and horses who went to Chang'an, except for the 20,000 horses and horses of the Zhenguo Army, did not have this treatment in other towns.

Zheng Congyan originally wanted to stay in Hedong to deal with the aftermath, but as a solicitor, he naturally had no choice but not to go. After the last, Zheng Congyan's Hedong Army selected 3,000 soldiers to accompany him. The deputy envoy Yu Xuan also brought 3,000 soldiers and horses with him. In addition to the two of them, the two towns of Heyang and Zhongwu were accompanied by a thousand infantry. Helian Duo led the Tiande army with a thousand Tuyuhun cavalry. Tuoba Sigong led Xia Sui with 1,000 party soldiers. Sage, Mi Haiwan, Shi Qing, Shi Jingcun, and Qibibu Qibizhang each accompanied by 1,000 horsemen. Li Chong of the Yicheng Army became a handsome man. To avoid being ugly, though. After the envoy of the imperial court discussed with Zheng Congyan and others, he asked Li Chong to immediately send someone to transfer 1,000 soldiers and horses from the Yicheng army into Chang'an. As for the Zhaoyi Army, even the commander is gone, so no one in the Zhaoyi Army will go to Chang'an.

Eight towns and three tribes combined, a total of 34,000 soldiers and horses went to Chang'an.

In addition to these Tang Dynasty soldiers, they also had to escort Shatuo prisoners to accompany them.

Due to Li Jing's insistence, in addition to the Gao Wenji brothers and Fu Wenda brothers. In addition to the two divisions of Sage and Anqing, all the rest are not considered surrenders, but prisoners. From Li Guochang and Li Quanzhong down, they were all prisoners. Li Youjin and his thousands of Shatuo soldiers, Li Jing refused to accept that they were after surrendering, but captured soldiers. Together with the Shatuo people who were previously captured in the Wei Dynasty, Yun, and Shuo, plus those who were captured in Fengzhou, all of them were added together, and there were more than 16,000 prisoners. In addition, according to statistics, the heads of the Shatuo rebels captured by each town. There are more than 50,000 people.

When this number was reported below, Li Jing remembered that the corners of Zheng Congyan's mouth twitched at that time. The water of this number is very high. Basically, all the armies made some false reports, taking the heads of the common people of Shatuo as the heads of the Shatuo rebels.

Even the Zhenguo Army itself also made a false report, the Zhenguo Army fought several battles and killed more than 10,000 people before and after, but the report was 20,000, which did not include the military exploits of the 6,000 people planned by Li Jing to annihilate Li Jing. Li Jing calculated for himself that if the rebellious Zhenwu Army was eliminated, the remaining rebels in each town would be more than 20,000 people, and the false report would be doubled.

The generals of all towns knew it in their hearts, but no one said anything about it, and acquiesced. Anyway, even if the imperial court wants to investigate, there are indeed so many beheaded heads. This time, the losses of the soldiers and horses in the towns were very large, so they counted on getting more military merits to be rewarded.

It is impossible for more than 16,000 prisoners of war to be sent to Chang'an, Li Jing means that in addition to those officers, the rest can pick a strong two or three thousand people to be sent to Chang'an, as for the rest, Li Jing at first meant to kill people directly, and save a waste of food, but no one agreed. Even Zheng Congyan was unwilling to kill more than 10,000 people directly.

Later, Li Jing proposed that it would be in vain to hand over these prisoners to the Zhenguo Army. At the price of ten per person, he bought them all. Li Jing's reason was to buy these Shatuo people as slaves and drag them to Liaodong to open up wasteland and hoard fields and mines.

This proposal made the commanders of the towns very excited, this time the towns were in turmoil It can be said that the loss is huge, and when the court rewards them, I don't know how much Lu Dao can have. These tens of thousands of captives, even if they divide them themselves, it will be useless, and they will have to waste food. Selling it directly to Li Jing saved a lot of trouble. Although a soldier only sells ten yuan for money, which seems to be a little little, Li Jing said that the money obtained will be divided equally among the five towns of Hedong, Zhenwu, Yicheng, Zhongwu, and Heyang, and the Zhenguo army itself does not want it. As for Xia Suizhen and Tiandejun, Li Jing didn't say that he wanted to give them to them, although Tuoba Sigong and Helian Duo were very dissatisfied in their hearts, but they became the marshals of a town this time, which is not bad. These prisoners of war did not give them money, and they did not dare to say much. As for the three tribes, they are simply ignored.

After some discussion, 16,000 prisoners were selected, 3,000 were taken to Chang'an for sacrifice, and the remaining 13,000 were handed over to Li Jing. Li Jing paid 26,000 yuan to each family in the five towns, and Li Jing gave 2,000 yuan to each family in the five tribes. A total of 140,000 guan was spent and 13,000 Shatuo warriors were bought. Although there are not many elite Shatuo soldiers and even fewer elite cavalry, Li Jing still feels that this deal is a good deal.

He spent money to buy these captives, not really just to pull them to open mines, if you want to open mines and reclaim wasteland, you only need to recruit displaced people, as many as you want. The bigger reason for buying this batch of Shatuo people is that Li Jing is worried that these Shatuo people will stay in Daibei after the most Lu and become the foundation for the growth of the Hu people.

Before setting off from Taiyuan, Li Jing had already given the money to the towns, received the thirteen thousand Shatuo soldiers, and then directly sent them back to Liaodong. When Li Jing entered the Jin Dynasty, he had 20,000 cavalry in his hands, and after several consecutive battles, the Zhenguo army suffered little losses, with about 1,000 casualties. Later, the Zhenguo Army transferred some elite soldiers and horses from the army of the Gao Wenji brothers to supplement the establishment of 20,000 people.

In addition to these 20,000 horses, Li Jing also has a soldier and horse in his hands, that is, 10,000 soldiers and horses in the hands of Fu Wenda and Fu Wenshun. Originally, Gao Wenji, Gao Wenshun, Mi Haiwan, and Shi Jingcun were also attached to Li Jing. However, in the last imperial court's reward, the Gao Wenji brothers, Mi Haiwan, and Shi Jingcun all had to be sealed as assassins. Only the Fu Wenda brothers surrendered because they were defeated. So last time, only General Yunlu was sealed.

Gao Wenji's brother Li Jing can't take care of it. The Fu Wenda brothers are in an embarrassing situation now, and Li Keyong's father and son have not been defeated before, so the court still treats them very favorably. But now that the Shatuo people have been completely wiped out, he will be treated as a prisoner like Li Youjin if he is forced to surrender like this. The two brothers were quite smart, and they directly hugged Li Jing's thighs and insisted on being incorporated into the Zhenguo Army.

There is a team of soldiers and horses who have taken refuge in Bai, and Li Jing is willing to accept it after pondering. Later, even the soldiers under the Gao Wenji brothers were transferred away by Li Jing. In this way, the Fu Wenda brothers joined Li Jing with 10,000 original northern troops. The Gao Wenji brothers only took their respective families and left, and the Zhuhu Department was crowned as a assassin by the imperial court, so naturally they would not really take refuge in Li Jing, and Li Jing didn't care about it.

The 20,000 troops of the Zhenguo Army entered Chang'an, and Li Jing asked the Fu Wenda brothers to lead 10,000 northern soldiers to escort 13,000 Shatuo captives back to Liaodong.

The march of the army was not fast, with more than 30,000 men and horses, escorting 3,000 prisoners. There are also 50,000 sand heads, so they are walking very slowly. Until dark. It's less than fifty miles.

After the army set up camp, Li Jing washed his face and suddenly remembered the apartment he had captured. He was brought up, and Gaiyu was the highest-ranking Shatuo officer captured in the battle under the city of Feng'an. Gai Yu still has some understanding of this person Li Jing, Gai Yu is a family of tooth generals in Yunzhou, and he has been in the border for a long time, but he does not excel with bravery, but assists Li Ke with wisdom.

Kill Duan Wenchu and support Li Ke's seven generals in Yunzhou, among which there is Gaiyu. During this time, the Xiao Cavalry Division also searched for a lot of information about the apartment through methods such as interrogating prisoners. Gai Yu is a well-informed person, very resourceful, and good at speculating on Li Keyong's intentions. Li Keyong has a stern and impatient personality, and he does not allow a little delay in urgent matters, and as long as someone disobeys the slightest, he will be engaged in military law. Only Gai Yu can comprehend Li Keyong's intentions, be good at guidance, and persuade each other politely, so as to achieve the purpose of staff assistance. Li Keyong was sometimes angry with the generals, and Gai Yu saw that the momentum was not good, and wanted to dissuade him, but it was inconvenient to say it directly, so he pretended to stand on Li Keyong's side and reprimanded the generals, but Li Keyong happily exempted them from punishment. When Gai Yu admonished Li Ke, he often cited modern stories as examples to persuade him.

In Li Jing's view, Li Keyong is somewhat similar to Lu Bu of the Three Kingdoms, brave and resourceful, but this apartment is a bit similar to Lu Bu's strategist Chen Gong. Others say that Li Ke can't use it, but this apartment can.

In history, after Li Cunmiao ascended the throne in the Later Tang Dynasty, he posthumously presented Gai Yu as a Taishi.

It can be said that Gai Yu is the first strategist under Li Keyong.

When Gai Yu was taken to Li Jing's tent, Li Jing thought that this person had eaten Duan Wenchu's human flesh in equal shares with Li Keyong, and he should be a hideous-looking and evil person. However, the person in front of him had a somewhat withered face, he was not much shorter than Li Jing, and his body was very large, but he was obviously very thin.

This is not a hideous villain, but just a man in his forties, who always has a scribe air all over his body.

He knelt in front of Li Jing, tied his hands and feet behind him, and waited for Li Jing's hair. He had lost half of his ears in the battle, and his entire body was dressed in pitch black, just like the Crows, except that his clothes were ragged and he had several wounds and pus on his body.

The breath exhaled from his mouth was intertwined into a steaming white mist in the cold dusk, Li Jing looked at Gaiyu quietly, he was not panicked or afraid, although when he brought it in, he was pressed and knelt on the ground by Li Cunxiao, but the haggard head was still raised high, and his eyes looked at Li Jing calmly.

In the tent, Li Cunxiao, Fu Cun, and Yang Shihou all stared at this captive, not understanding why he could be so calm. On the other side, Liu Xun stood beside Gao Siji and Wang Yanzhang, trying hard to say something, but he couldn't open his mouth.

The breeze blew through and lifted the tent curtains, and the Zhenguo army clan fluttering high outside the tent fluttered in the wind.

Li Jing got up and stood up, and stepped forward slowly with a calm face.

"Boom!"

Li Jing slowly pulled out the jade sword at his waist with his right hand, and when he drew the sword, Li Jing's eyes were fixed on Gaiyu, and he still looked calm.

The sword light flashed like lightning, and the rope on Gaiyu's body broke and fell in pieces.

Li Jing held his sword and said loudly: "I, the Duke of Qi, the General of the Zhenjun, the General of Jinwu, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department of the Inspection School, the Dadu Protector of Andong, the Assassin of Dengzhou, and the Envoy of the Zhenguo Army, Li Jing, hereby ask you, are you willing to belong to the imperial court from now on, serve under the account of the Zhenguo Army, and atone for your sins?" ”

Lang Lang's voice sounded, but Gai Yu fell into a violent shock. His mind was in a mess, and his originally cold and calm heart began to beat violently at this time, and he couldn't keep calm again. Since Feng An was captured, his whole body has almost crossed. Every day that passed, it seemed to him that it was just one step closer to death. Because he no longer had hope of life, his whole person was very calm. When he was brought into the tent, he thought his time of death had come.

The moment the sword light slashed, his mind flashed through the experience of half his life. Learn literature and martial arts, and sell goods to the emperor's family. It's just that he doesn't have a chance, he can only rot in the border of Daibei, he is unwilling, he feels that the strength of the Shatuo clan in Daibei should be able to occupy a place in this troubled world, he assists Li Keyong, just hoping to show his ambitions in this troubled world.

He didn't expect that Li Jing would let him go at this time and recruit him into the Zhenguo Army. He was shocked, after this big battle in Daibei, Gai Yu thought he knew a lot about the Zhenguo Army and Li Jing. Li Jing, that's a mysterious man.

His heart was beating violently, and his original heart was disheartened, but at this time he couldn't help but be enthusiastic. He wanted to agree immediately, but he felt that he should refrain from it first. But when his mouth opened, the words that came out became, "I, I am willing to belong to the imperial court and serve the commander from now on!" ”

After saying this, his heart suddenly felt much lighter. Today, since a strategist like him can't live above the temple, it is also the best choice to defect to a shogunate like Li Jing.

Li Jing smiled, and Gaiyu really fell. He leaned over to help him up, and kindly patted the dust off his body.

"Since this is the case, then I will first wronged Mr. Gai to temporarily serve as the staff officer of the General Staff Department of the Zhenguo Army. But don't be busy with your duties for the time being, I'll let the military doctor treat your injuries first, and you will travel with the army these days, while recuperating your body. After the injury is healed, we will talk about other things. After speaking, Li Jing turned his head to Liu Xun and said, "Bohu, I will leave the specific things to you." ”

Liu Xun nodded and took over the task. Gai Yu was grateful again, Li Jing comforted a few words, and let Liu Xun lead him down. Li Cunxiao saw that the two were gone, and said very directly: "Why do you want to keep this person?" ”

"The sea is inclusive, and tolerance is great!" Li Jing smiled lightly, "If you want to strengthen your strength, you have to accept more talents, and if you turn talents away, you are giving others opportunities." Just a superficial nod, Li Jing didn't say any more. (To be continued......)