Wang Jingwu was defeated and retreated into the city of Qingzhou, and the gates were closed.

Song Wei, Li Jing and others led the Zhendong Army and the Unity Battalion to pursue and kill until under the city gate, and then Ming Jin withdrew his troops. The two armies camped five miles below the city, and Li Jing led the generals of the eastern army of Zhendong to meet with Song Wei, Zhang Wanrong, Kang Chengyu, Cui Yunqing and others.

Song Wei and the others all escaped death by the timely arrival of the Zhendong Army, and they had just witnessed the fierce and brave warriors of the cavalry of the two battalions of the Zhendong Army, and they were very satisfied with the generals at this time, and praised them loudly. Song Wei saw the generals one by one, said a lot of praise, and promised a lot of rewards, which he would only honor after returning to Qingzhou.

There was laughter in the Chinese military tent for a while, although the previous experience was really not good, but the current situation is very good.

Song Wei said: "Originally, I was worried that after Wang Jingwu was eliminated, the two states of Ziqi would be in chaos, but now that Zhang Chan and Lu Hong have already led their troops to come, they just happened to pacify the two thieves together." Everyone nodded yes, after all, Ziqi Erzhou is the nest that these two have been operating for a long time, and now that they have taken the initiative to come, they can catch it all.

"At the moment, it's better to take advantage of our army's new victory and attack the city directly!" Zhang Wanrong was very interested, although he was chased all the way and almost died. But now that the situation is reversed, he naturally won't miss such an opportunity to beat the water dogs.

Song Wei didn't speak, but looked at Li Jing, "How does Ji Yu think to eradicate Wang Jingwu and the other thieves?" ”

Li Jing thought about it, it is not very suitable to attack the city at this time, although Wang Jingwu was defeated, there are still more than 10,000 people, plus those left in the city, there are still 20,000 soldiers and horses at this time. The four-zhang high city wall of Qingzhou City, this is a town and a tooth city, and the defense is strong. It is also the base of the Qingzhou tooth soldiers. They can even muster more armed Tooth soldiers at any time. In the age of cold weapons. The most tragic and difficult battle was the siege war.

Although Li Jing came to help, he didn't think about compensating his own soldiers.

Immediately said: "Commander, supervising the military envoy, I feel that although we have won a new victory at the moment, we have fought a day's battle with the unity battalion, even our Zhendong Army has also traveled three hundred miles of long distance, and the soldiers are physically and mentally exhausted at the moment, and I think it is still besieged but not attacked for the time being." Let the soldiers rest first. In addition, we can also take advantage of this time to send envoys to all parts of Denglaiqing to recruit the elites who obey the orders of the commander, and on the other hand, we have to send local town troops to clear out Wang Jingwu's subordinates. ”

After thinking about it, Li Jing said again: "In addition, Qingzhou Chengjian, if we attack strongly, there will definitely be a lot of damage." His subordinates felt that it was better for the commander and the envoy of the prison army to issue a proclamation and shoot arrows into the city to inform the people of the city and the tooth soldiers. said that this time it was only Wang Jingwu and a few other major generals who rebelled, and they had nothing to do with the rest of them. They will not be held accountable. And the generals of the tooth soldiers are rewarded, as long as they can obtain the head of Wang Jingwu and others, no matter who it is, they can be given heavy rewards. And even if they are the generals of those tooth soldiers, as long as they are willing to do it, it will not only exempt them from responsibility, but also reward them according to the role they have achieved. In this way, the current situation of Wang Jingwu is not good, everyone can see that there will definitely be internal strife within the Qingzhou Ya Army, and if it is not good, someone will take the initiative to help us open the city gate. ”

Li Jing specially said that when he attacked Beisha City, he was also stationed under the fortified city, but he took Beisha City without sending a single soldier.

Cui Yunqing glanced at his proud protégé with some surprise, he has been an official for half his life, and he is the head of the Cui family, the largest family in Qingzhou, he has done a history of assassination in five states, and he has received hundreds of protégés, and Li Jing was just one of them in the past. When he was accepted, it was just to see that he was from a clean background, and people liked him. But I didn't expect that in a short period of time, this protégé, who was not inconspicuous at the beginning, has now achieved this achievement.

"Ji Yu said it well, this is called overwhelming people with power. Wang Jingwu is a rebellion, we occupy the righteousness, as long as the marshal gives an order, the soldiers and horses from all over our five states will come, but Wang Jingwu can only be trapped in the lonely city. Who wins and who loses, everyone knows in their hearts. Wang Jingwu's subordinates must have those who are unwilling to be exterminated and die with him at that time, at that time, as Ji Yu said, Qingzhou can be recaptured without spending a single soldier. ”

Although Song Wei and the others wanted to recapture Qingzhou as soon as possible, they thought about it and felt that what Li Jing said was very reasonable, the current situation was completely on their side, and the longer they surrounded it, the more difficult it would be for the people in Qingzhou City. "Well, okay, just follow what Envoy Li said. Judge Lei, you immediately write to all the departments of Ziqing Town, and ask them to immediately lead their troops and horses to quell Wang Jingwu's rebellion. If anyone refuses to obey the order, it will be Wang Jingwu's rebellion, and everyone will be punished. ”

Lei Gang personally carried a knife into battle yesterday when he was in danger, but he was stabbed in the leg not lightly or severely, and he is hating it now. At the moment, he said: "Please rest assured, I will do it, all Wang Jingwu and his family members who rebel against the party, don't think about escaping." ”

Song Wei snorted, opened his mouth, and stopped talking, but finally spoke: "This time it is all thanks to Li Jing and his brothers, otherwise Ben Shuai and all of you will become prisoners under the rank of Wang Jingwu." From now on, the commander officially reorganized the armies of Shamen Town into the Zhendong Army, appointed Li Jing as the military envoy of the Zhendong Army, and concurrently served as the defense envoy of Dengzhou. The soldiers and horses of the Zhendong Army were organized into five compartments, with five battalions in each compartment, with a total of 25,000 men and horses. The specific appointment of the officers was drawn up by Li Jun's envoy and handed it over to me for reading and reporting to the DPRK and China. ”

This is the essence of gratitude to Li Jing for their rescue, the military horn of the Zhendong Army was delivered to Li Jing without any discount, and Song Wei did not want to mix sand with the idea of moving anymore. not only made Li Jing a military envoy, but also let Li Jing draw up the positions of the officers at all levels below, which can be said to completely agree with Li Jing's self-reliance. This made everyone in the tent a little surprised, although they felt that Li Jing had made a great contribution this time, and it was okay to give him a military name, and there was no problem with letting Li Jing be a military envoy. But the officers of the Zhendong Army must be placed by them to control the Zhendong Army. But now Song Wei's approach really shocked them, in this way, this is equivalent to Song Wei accepting Li Jing and them are equivalent to the feudal towns in the feudal towns. It can be said that in this way, in the future, the Marshal Mansion of Ziqing Town may not be able to manage Li Jing.

And when they heard that Li Jing was added to the post of defense history later, everyone stopped talking. There are two kinds of defense envoys in Datang, one is the defense envoy. One is the defense envoy. The defense envoys are generally set up in the major capitals of the Tang Dynasty. Such as Taiyuan, Chengdu and other large cities. Generally speaking, they are soldiers and horses who govern the land of several states, and their status is slightly lower than that of the Jiedu envoys and the observation envoys, and many of the Jiedu envoys are promoted by the defense envoys of the capital. Just as Li Jing's other teacher Yu Xuan is now serving as the defense envoy of Fengzhou, Fengzhou is located in the Yellow River loop, bordering the grassland Hu people, and it is also the gateway to the north of the capital Chang'an, the status is very important, and the authority is no less than that of ordinary marshals.

Of course, this is just a defense. The Tang Dynasty also had a kind of defense envoy, that is, the defense envoy who only commanded the soldiers and horses of one state, and the defense envoy of this state was generally concurrently served by the assassin Shi to control the soldiers and horses of the state. However, some states do not have defense envoys, but set up regimental training envoys, who are also in charge of regimental training. Dengzhou Assassin Shi served as a regimental training envoy before, so Dengzhou did not have the position of defense envoy.

Li Jing's face did not change expression, but he couldn't help but be stunned in his heart. What does it mean for Song Wei to let him be the defensive envoy? Dengzhou has the position of regimental training envoy, which is concurrently held by the assassin Shi. He previously asked for the position of assassin and military envoy, Song Wei gave a military envoy position, and now he added a defense envoy position. Why didn't you directly appoint Li Jing as the assassin and regimental training envoy?

Could it be that Song Wei was not willing to hand over the position of Dengzhou Assassin to him at all? That's it. The assassin concurrently served as the regimental training envoy, in charge of the military and political power of Dengzhou, and he Li Jing was the defense envoy of Dengzhou and the military envoy of the Zhendong Army, and also governed the soldiers and horses of the state. What is the matter with the appearance of two military chiefs in one state at once?

In front of everyone, Li Jing didn't ask directly, but didn't say anything. After returning to his military tent, Li Jing discussed the matter with the generals, and Li Liang and Guo Chengan also felt that Song Wei was ready to break his promise.

"Don't worry, general, we might as well take a look. First send the list of generals and officials of the Zhendong Army, and then get things done on the side of the Zhendong Army. If Song Wei doesn't express his position in the future, it's not too late for us to ask. Li Liang said. Li Jing nodded, this matter will be put aside for the time being, anyway, Wang Jingwu has not been eradicated yet, so it is Song Wei who paid half of the payment first.

In the following three days, the Zhendong Army and the Unity Battalion only besieged and did not attack, and every day they used arrows to shoot some well-written notices into the city. Qingzhou City, on the other hand, was guarded all day long, and the city was full of patrolling soldiers.

However, the victory is constantly tilting towards the side of the Shuaifu, with the issuance of Song Wei's military order, Denglai Qingzi Qi five states, and various troops and horses began to come to Qingzhou to quell the chaos. By the first day of the fifth month, Qingzhou had gathered soldiers and horses from five states under the city, plus the Zhendong Army and the Qingzhou Unity Army, adding up to a total of more than 30,000 men and horses, including nearly 20,000 units of the Pinglu Army and more than 10,000 unity soldiers. Of course, there are also some soldiers and horses who did not come, such as the Dengzhou Navy Division did not come, and there are some others, most of them are soldiers and horses related to the Wang family, and they did not come.

More than 30,000 soldiers and horses gathered under the city, and there were soldiers and horses coming every day, and the drums and horns outside the city were whining, and the sound of drills was continuous. The tooth soldiers in the city are feeling more and more desperate, and now that they have a reputation as rebels, no one will come to their rescue. On the day when Wang Jingwu was defeated in Qingzhou City, Zhang Wanrong, the prison guard, was angry that Wang Jingwu's men shot him with an arrow, and as soon as he arrived at the city, he cut down Wang Jingwu's wife and daughter directly in front of the people in the city. Now that Wang Jingwu's wife and children are gone, he has lost again, and he has broken an arm, his temper has begun to be irritable, and he drinks every day to stop the pain in his arm, and he often whips soldiers at every turn after drinking, and there are many complaints in the army.

Many soldiers fled, and Wang Jingwu sent people to search for them and beheaded them on the spot. In this way, although the surface is suppressed, it has been surging.

A few days later, on the evening of the first day of the fifth month, Han Wei, the head of the Han clan in the city, secretly organized his family, secretly recruited and bribed the soldiers who defended the city, stole the city gate, and led the army into the city. More than 30,000 soldiers and horses from all walks of life poured in from the north gate, and Wang Jingwu personally led his troops to meet the battle. However, the general trend went away, and after the bloody battle in the middle of the night, he couldn't resist it, persuaded by Zhang Chan and Lu Hong, and fled from the West Gate with more than 10,000 remnants of the army, all the way to Zizhou.

Song Wei was escorted into the city by Li Jing with the Zhendong army, and after defeating Wang Jingwu, he ordered Li Jing's Zhendong army to pursue him. He left behind to pacify the chaos of Qingzhou City, but the rest of the armies took advantage of the fire to loot and take the opportunity to rob Qingzhou. There was chaos in the city, and there was no distinction between soldiers and bandits, Li Jing took the initiative to withdraw from Qingzhou with the Zhendong Army and pursued all the way.

After a night of pursuit, Li Jing caught up with Wang Jingwu on the bank of the Zishui River on the border between Qingzhou and Zizhou. Behind the rebels was the Zhendong Army, and in front of them was the river, and they were in a desperate situation for a while.

The two armies were very tired after running all night, but Li Jing's Zhendong army was all horses, and they were double horses. Therefore, in fact, Li Jing has always let the Zhendong Army have spare strength, waiting for Wang Jingwu's soldiers and horses to be tired and demoralized before launching a decisive battle. Right now, they are forced to the banks of the Zishui River, which is the result of Li Jing and Li Liang discussing it early.

The two armies stopped the confrontation after more than 200 paces, and the Zhendong Army was making the most difficult adjustments, preparing to give Wang Jingwu the most difficult blow.

At this time, Wang Jingwu, a rebel on the opposite side, suddenly walked towards the middle of the two armies, and he only brought a horseman with him by his side.

"I am Wang Jingwu of Qingzhou, please ask General Li Jiyu, the envoy of the Zhendong Army, to come out and see you!" (To be continued......)