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The eighth day of the fourth month of the sixth year of Qianfu.

On this day, Li Yi, the son of the Tang Dynasty, issued an edict to crown Li Jing, the king of Qin, as the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and on the same day he agreed to Li Jing's request, and worshiped Yu Xuan, the envoy of Tongping Zhangshi and Zhenwu Festival, as the envoy of Tianping Army. Worship Tongping Zhangshi, Lingnan West Road Festival Degree Envoy Kang Chengzhi for the Righteous Army Festival Envoy. Worship Tongping Zhangshi, Datong Army Festival Envoy Xin Yan for the Xuanwu Festival Envoy, edict to the world.

On the same day, the edict was established under the Northeast Dao Daxingtai, Andong Province, Liaodong Province, Liaoning West Province, North Parallel Province, Hebei Province, Shandong Province, Yichang, Tianping, Taining, Ziqing Towns, abolished and merged into the six provinces under the Northeast Dao Daxingtai.

After discussing with Daxingtai Wenwu for a long time, Li Jing finally made a decision, that is, to temporarily give up the five prefectures of Yun, Pu, Cao, Hua, and Song that he now occupies, and to retain only the six prefectures of Mi, Yi, Hai, Si, Yan, and Ji in the new land of Henan.

The land of Mi, Yi, Hai, Si, Yan and Ji was incorporated into Shandong Province.

It was a little reluctant to spit out the meat that had been eaten, but it was also a decision made after a long period of consideration.

The rapid expansion of the southward this time was completely beyond the expectations of Li Jing and others. Even on the Hebei side, the addition of five states at once is a bit unexpected.

After the excitement at the beginning, many problems ensued that Li Jing and others had to think carefully.

Before going south initially, Li Jing's goal was to open up the Hebei passage to the south, and then enter Henan, taking advantage of the emptiness of Henan, to grab a ticket and leave. Move some of the population and return to Liaodong to enrich it.

It's just that when it was so easy to get more than ten states in Henan. It is also false to say that you are not moved and greedy. Just after looking back. Li Jing also found that he really wanted to maintain this territory. Some people don't have the feeling of swallowing an elephant anymore.

Although there is no threat to the people who occupy the territory of these more than ten states in the land of Henan, after swallowing the eastern part of Henan, the center of gravity of Daxingtai began to be unstable.

The backyard of Liaodong is not stable, Hebei, a key passage, has not yet been cleared, and the four towns and Li Keyong are stuck between the northeast and Shandong, and once the two sides go to war again, the entire strategic situation is very unsafe for Li Jing, and there is a danger that the north and the south will be cut off. What's more critical is. When the Qin army's strength reached the north of the Huai River and the east of the Bianhe Canal, Li Jing had to face the combined attack of Huainan Gao Biao and the Luoyang Qi army in addition to Li Keyong and the four towns of Hebei.

On a battlefield, Li Jing is not afraid of any enemy, but if he is dealing with several extremely strong forces at the same time, Li Jing is also powerless.

The final resolution was to leave the Qilu hilly area, but temporarily abandon the Tianping Army, the Yicheng Army, and Songzhou, which were surrounded by Gao Pi, Huangchao, and Wei Bo.

On the other hand, Li Jing gave up the five states of Yun, Pu, Cao, Hua, and Song, which had no danger to defend. But in order to protect the eastern territory, Li Jing occupied the hilly area of Qilu. It was also decided that in the future, not only should we keep the territory of Huaisi in Hai and Sizhou, but also prepare to take Xuzhou, use Huaisi as a barrier, block Gao Biao's potential in Huainan, and completely stabilize the territory of Shandong Province.

However, even if he has decided to give up the land of Yun, Pu and other five states, Li Jing will not give it up in vain.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Li Jing made an excerpt to the imperial court, and Yu Xuan, the teacher Zhenwu Army Jiedu, was the Tianping Military Jiedu envoy, and governed the three prefectures of Yun, Pu and Cao. And with Kang Chengzhi as the righteous army festival envoy, he governed the three prefectures of Slip, Zheng and Bian. Please also use Xin Yan as the envoy of the Xuanwu Festival, and govern the three states of Song, Hao, and Ying.

Yu Xuan, Xin Yan, and Kang Chengyu are all marshals of a town at the moment, and Li Jing proposed to let them transfer to Henan, of course, for their own private purposes. First, these three people are very close to themselves, if they are appointed as the commanders of these three towns, then even if Li Jing gives up the territory of the five states he is occupying now, he will not actually fall into the hands of Huang Chao or Gao Biao and Han Jian.

Although Li Jing did not expect these three Tang clan elders to fall directly to him, as long as they did not fall to his enemies, then they would still be the Ping Domain and allies of Shandong Province. Moreover, the character of these three people is not the kind of person with great power ambitions, so there is no need to worry about making three rival warlords come out.

Originally, the three of them were already marshals of one party, and they were transferred to Henan, especially Xuanwu Town, but now there is actually only one Song Zhou in control. The Yicheng Army also has only one Huazhou control in hand, but Li Jing also thinks clearly, in fact, if Xin Yan is in Datong, Li Jing was originally left as a backhand, but now Datong has Zhufan actually controlling the states, and Li Keyong is rising, Xin Yan can't play much role in Datong at all, it is better to get him to Henan, and there is a lot of help.

With Li Jing's prestige now, Li Yi still needs to use the soldiers and horses in Li Jing's hands to deal with Huang Chao, so naturally he can't do anything. Even if this new transfer is a bit similar to derogation for Yu Xuan and the others, the Son of Heaven can't care about that anymore.

At the same time, Li Jing began to assemble and mobilize his troops and horses, dividing them into three clusters.

In the northeast, troops and horses were transferred from Liaodong Province and Andong Province to Liaoxi Province to guard against Khitan at all times.

On the other hand, Li Jing gathered the soldiers and horses of Hebei and Beiping provinces in Shunzhou and Hejian, and prepared for a big battle with the four towns of Hebei and Li Keyong.

At the same time, Li Jing was also mobilizing troops and horses from Henan and Shandong, preparing to concentrate on attacking Xuzhou.

On the one hand, Li Jing sent people to Xuzhou to meet Shi Pu and ask Shi Pu to hand over Xuzhou, and on the other hand, he sent people to Hu Douzhou, preparing to temporarily abandon Hu Tuozhou, the southeast base. After all, the stall is too big, and Li Jing's troops are a little insufficient. A lot of soldiers and horses have been transferred from Hu Tuzhou before, and now there are only 10,000 township soldiers and a naval division fleet of 1,000 people.

Since it is judged that Gao Biao may have abnormal movements, Hu Douzhou may become Gao Biao's first target. The temporary transfer of this force can not only prevent Gao Yu from attacking, but also transfer it to the Xusi battlefield to strengthen the combat strength of the Qin army.

In fact, for Li Jing's entire new strategic plan, he abandoned the five states of Cao and Song, but he wanted to attack Xuzhou, especially at a critical time when the Supervision Department had learned more and more about Li Keyong and the four towns of Hebei.

There are many voices that believe that the status quo should be maintained in Henan at this time, and then the main force should be dispatched to the north. First pacify the four towns of Hebei. At least take down the ruined Youzhou first. Take a good position.

But Li Jing still insisted on the current plan, and they had to obey.

And to implement Li Jing's plan, the most crucial thing is to take Xu Si.

If you can't control Xu Si, then it will be difficult for the Song Dynasty and even Hai, Yi, and Yan Prefectures to be truly stable.

Sizhou is already under Zeng Yuanyu's control, and everyone including Li Jing thinks that there will not be much trouble in taking Xuzhou.

Li Jing saluted first and then the soldiers, and ordered Zeng Yuanyu to mobilize troops and horses. marched to Xuzhou, and sent envoys to Xuzhou on the other hand, so that the probationary army could return to Pu. The optimistic estimate of the Qin army is that when Zeng Yuanyu's soldiers and horses entered Xuzhou, it is estimated that Shi Pu has seen the situation clearly and took the initiative to open the city and annex it. The recruits recruited in Song Cao Zhuzhou are estimated to be about the same, and they can be handed over to Yu Xuan and other three new envoys who rushed over.

After the situation in Henan is stabilized a little, the soldiers and horses of Henan and Shandong will be able to go north and fight a decisive battle with Sizhen and Li Keyong in Hebei.

This is the most optimistic estimate. But it's not always smooth sailing.

On this night, a very bad news was transmitted to Songcheng Li Jing by the fast horse.

Gao Biao made a move. Hebei Sizhen and Li Keyong haven't made a move yet, but Gao Yu, who has been silent for nearly a year, suddenly made a move.

If the tiger is not powerful, it will really make people think that it is a sick cat.

Gao Biao is worthy of being a famous general, he is steady and ruthless, no one expected him to be the first to make the first move, not even Li Jing. Although Li Jing discussed with his subordinates that Gao Biao might secretly form an alliance with the north, he only thought that Gao Biao might stab him in the back after Li Keyong made a move with the four towns of Hebei.

No one expected that he would be the first to do it, and if he didn't move, it would be amazing.

The Huainan Army sent troops in two directions, Gao Biao's nephew Gao Jie led 20,000 soldiers and 30,000 auxiliaries to raid Haozhou in the south of the Huaihe River of the Reform Army, while Gao Piao's general Liang Zhang led 20,000 soldiers and 30,000 auxiliaries to raid Hu Douzhou to garrison the Qin army.

Although Gao Biao and the Huainan Army have been silent for a long time, their performance this time still proves their fierceness. Gao Jie only took one night to capture Dingyuan City in Haozhou, and the next day he captured Zhaoyi City in Haozhou, and now he has directly surrounded Zhongli Town, the city of Haozhou Prefecture.

On the other hand, Liang Zhang also killed Hu Tuzhou

The news from Haozhou was two days ago, and the news from Hu Shuzhou was even more three days ago.

This bad news was like a dark cloud, hanging over the heads of everyone in the Songzhou camp.

Even Li Jing frowned. There is no need to speak, just looking at everyone's expressions, he already knows that from Cui Yunqing to Gaiyu, Li Zhenjingxiang, Lin Wei and others, everyone has almost decided that Hu Chuzhou's 11,000 people are estimated to be gone.

Hu Tuzhou was lost, and a large amount of money, food, and goods were lost with the loss of soldiers and generals, although it was a great blow to morale, but it was not the most serious.

What made Jing Xiang and the others extremely worried was that Gao Biao started so quickly this time, which exceeded expectations. And the speed at which they attacked the city was even faster, one city a day, and at such a speed, Haozhou was afraid that it had been lost at this moment.

And once Haozhou is lost, then the entire area south of the Huai River will be Gao Yu's territory.

Now that he is in Haozhou, he doesn't need to think about it, and Gao Biao's next step must be Xuzhou and Sizhou.

On the same day, in Xuzhou City, the Probation Army, in the Swallow Tower, Shi Pu and his wife enjoyed the spring here.

said that it was to appreciate spring, but in fact, Mrs. Shi saw that her husband's face was extremely bad, and she was in an irritable mood, so she wanted to find a way to come out with him to relax. It's just that Shi Pu at this time, where does he still have this thought.

It was not easy to drive away the marshal sent by the imperial court, and he worked hard to become the marshal of the probation army. But I haven't been happy for a few days, first Huangchao crossed the border, captured Sizhou, looted, attracted Li Jing to come, occupied Xiapi City, and didn't take it away.

Later, when the imperial court got the defense line of the water, he responded positively and sent two soldiers and horses to go, thinking that he would take the opportunity to clear out the opposition voices in the probation army and spend them first, so as to take the opportunity to strengthen the control of the probation army. Who would have thought that these arrogant soldiers would cause trouble as soon as they came out, and they actually caused a rebellion in Zhongwu Town, and it didn't matter if the 3,000 people themselves were slaughtered, even the group that went there before was dispersed in a hurry.

Immediately afterwards, Li Jing not only did not return the Xiapi he had occupied, but took away the entire Sizhou at once.

The negotiation has not yet come to a reason, and now Gao Biao in the south suddenly made a move and robbed Haozhou.

The probation army is in three fucking states, Xu, Si, and Hao, and there are only 20,000 soldiers and horses.

As a result, Li Jing robbed Sizhou, Gao Biao robbed Haozhou, and now Zeng Yuanyu of Sizhou and Gao Jie of Haozhou both sent envoys over and asked him to hand over Xuzhou.

Shi Pu really wanted to cry without tears, and when the festival was handsome, he was really fucking aggrieved.

But what could he do?

Everyone can see that the imperial court is estimated to be finished this time, and in this world, it seems that Li Jing is the most powerful. He now has all the soldiers and horses in his hands, and he is only 10,000 people in Xuzhou City.

With this little soldier, not to mention that Li Jing can't be beaten, even Gao Yu can't beat him.

But if he sent the probation army out of Lu like this, he was also a little unwilling. What's more critical is that there is not just one but two people who want Xuzhou at the moment. This Li Jing and Gao Biao, he can't afford to offend either of them.

surrendered Li Jing, it is estimated that Gao Biao still has to fight. Surrender to Gao Yu, this Li Jing will not let go of Xuzhou.

In fact, if he can give up this marshal throne, he will not be so embarrassed, no matter how he fights, just take refuge in one of them. But in the final analysis, Shi Pu is not a marshal sent by the imperial court, he is a real general of the probation army, and he relied on mutiny to ascend to the top.

At the beginning, I took such a big risk, and the army rushed to the original festival, and finally got into this position, and the ass was not hot yet, so how could I be willing to give it away.

Sizhou, Linhuai.

Zeng Yuanyu, the governor of the rear army of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the commander of the camp of Xu Sixing, got up early in the morning, put on his full body armor, climbed the city wall of Sizhou, and observed the enemy's situation. It had just stopped raining for a day and a night, and Gao Jie had already reached the south bank of the Huai River silently by taking advantage of the rain.

Haozhou had already fallen into the hands of Gao Jie, and had reached the opposite bank of Linhuai a day earlier.

Compared with the Huainan Army, the Qin Army can be calculated as the Northern Army. Although it is said that the old foundation of the Qin army started in Dengzhou, the expansion in recent years has mostly been from Henan, Hebei and even Liaodong. The northern army is good at riding and shooting, and the southerners are good at boating and driving, this sentence is not a lie.

Since ancient times, Huaisi can be said to be the dividing line between the north and the south.

When the southerners attack north, they will basically choose to attack in the spring when the rain is frequent, using the river water network.

The northerners attacked the south, and most of them chose the shallow season of the river in autumn and winter.

At the moment, it is the time of the transition of spring and summer, and from the perspective of the time, in fact, the Qin army is in a disadvantageous position.

However, the Qin army occupied Sizhou first, defending by the river, but it was in a favorable position.

However, although the Huai River is also dangerous, for the Huainan Army, the Huai River is not a dangerous matter, and it cannot stop them. (To be continued......)