When Li Jing drove Li Quanzhong out of Hebei, Li Sizhao could only stand by because of the lack of troops, and Wang Jingchong of Chengde Town did not take the slightest action. Seeing that Qin Jun calmly took over Zhuozhou from Li Quanzhong's hands.

Just when Li Sizhao and Wang Jingchong were worried and worried that Li Jing had driven Li Quanzhong away, when they were going to point their swords at them next, they unexpectedly received a letter from Li Jing.

Li Jing sent an envoy to send them a handwritten letter, proposing that now that the country is in trouble, the two capitals have fallen, and the Son of Heaven is hunting in the west, Li Jing is willing to take state affairs as the priority, and Shatuo and Chengde Zhen will turn the war into jade silk, clear up the misunderstanding, and go to the national disaster together. In the name of righteousness, Li Jing proposed a truce and a halt to the war. In addition, Li Jing proposed that for the lonely army of Shatuo in Yizhou, Li Jing would appoint Li Sizhao as the envoy of the Datong Army by the order of the generalissimo, and the soldiers and horses of Yizhou under his command would be organized into the Datong Army. In addition, Li Sizhao was appointed as the vanguard envoy of the Hedong soldiers and horses of the Qinwang Army, and asked him to lead the Yizhou soldiers to enter Taiyuan through Chengde Zhenzhou, and go to the marshal of the Taiyuan Hedong Coalition Army Zheng Cong to listen to the order and go south to the King of Qin together.

Li Sizhao's lone army was trapped in Yizhou, and his life became more and more difficult day by day, and almost all the grain and grass depended on the Cheng German army. The army is homesick, and soldiers flee every day. I thought that Li Jing was going to send troops to attack Yizhou, but I didn't expect the peak to turn around, and Li Sizhao was really a little overjoyed.

Originally, Li Jing had previously proposed that as long as Li Sizhao handed over Yizhou to the Qin army, he would let them cross the Taihang Mountain and return to Yanmen through Puyin and Flying Fox. It's just that this proposal is obviously harboring evil intentions, if they hand over Yizhou to Li Jing, and then return through the dangerous passage controlled by Li Jing, needless to say, Li Jing will definitely not miss this great opportunity. Will definitely ambush them halfway.

Therefore. Both Li Sizhao and Li Siyuan rejected Li Jing's proposal without hesitation. And now. Li Jing proposed to let them go home from Jingcheng, and had already taken the initiative to reach an agreement with Hedong Town on their behalf, which made them finally moved. Zheng Congyan is a gentleman, a gentleman is frank, since he is willing to give way, there will be no problem.

After Li Jing's letter was delivered, Zheng Congyan of the Hedong Army soon sent a letter, saying that as long as Li Sizhao and others were really willing to go south to King Qin. He welcomed them to join them in Taiyuan via Jingcheng.

After Li Sizhao read the letter, he immediately summoned Li Cunzhang, Li Sien, and Li Siben generals in the Yizhou army.

"Is there a fraud?" Li Cunzhang's qualifications are older than Li Sizhao, and he is one of the first seven generals in Yunzhou to raise troops with Li Keyong, but although his qualifications are old, he is under Li Sizhao in terms of ability, so before Li Keyong left. It was also the appointment of Li Sizhao as the chief general of the Yizhou infantry. Li Cunzhang didn't have much resistance to this, but he suffered so much under Li Jing. As soon as he heard Li Jing's plan, he was still a little subconsciously vigilant.

Although being able to leave this hellish place did make him happy. But he suspected in his heart that this was Li Jing's trap conspiracy, after all, the relationship between Zheng Congyan and Li Jing was much better than the relationship with them Shatuo. Li Jing and Zheng Congyan were side by side during the Battle of Daibei, and their enemy was none other than Sha Tuo. The last time he opposed the Tang Dynasty for the second time, Zheng Congyan had already led his troops to the river, and he was about to arrive in Luoyang, but Li Ke used a reversal to force Zheng Congyan's Qinwang army to collapse. It's hard to say, Zheng Congyan doesn't hate them in his heart.

"To be honest, this may indeed be a conspiracy by Li Jing." Li Sizhao, who was only more than five feet tall and looked extraordinarily short among the generals, had a shrewd look in his eyes, "However, now that everyone has seen our situation, it is impossible to go back to Yanmen with us." And if you continue to be here, you will not be able to stay for long. Fighting alone, we can't even solve the problem of food and grass, not to mention the army's morale is weak. ”

Li Sizhao weighed it carefully, "As far as I know, now that the Khitan coalition army of 200,000 is attacking the Bohai Kingdom, the Bohai Sea is in danger. Bohai is not only Li Jing's ally, but also Li Jing's northeast barrier, and he knows the truth very well. Therefore, Li Jing sent a large army north to meet the Khitan coalition army. It is precisely because of this that Li Jing will let Li Quanzhong leave with 50,000 horses and horses in a dignified manner. Now that Li Jing has proposed this plan, it is obvious that Li Jing has some tricks. He wants to take Yizhou, but he doesn't want us to die. That's why we have this chance to leave. Although this may still be a trap, at least there is a fifty percent chance that we can leave, which is a risk, but for now, we must take this risk, otherwise, we will be doomed if we don't survive next summer. ”

"Then why did Li Jing appoint Yiguang as the envoy of the Datong Army?" Li Cunzhang frowned, still puzzled.

Li Sizhao's face was calm, and he said to the generals: "It's very simple, this is just a trick. Now that the king of Jin is missing, life and death are unknown, the generals of Yanmen elected Hei Yuan as the commander and temporarily took charge of Yanmen Town. Li Jing had previously asked Siyuan to be crowned the king of Yanmen County, and the envoy of the Yanmen Festival. This was done to make me think that Si Yuan had really turned his back on King Jin and defected to Li Jing. Second, in case the King of Jin returns in the future, he wants to create suspicion between the King of Jin and the heir. Now Li Jing has given a certain envoy to increase the same festival, and the purpose is still the same, wanting to make us Shatuo internal discord. In fact, Li Jing didn't pay anything, whether it was the Yanmen Festival envoy or the Datong Festival envoy, these two feudal towns were all defeated by our Shatuo Army themselves, what does he have to do with it? ”

Having said that, in fact, Li Sizhao has to admit that Li Jing's simple trick did have a great impact on them. After Li Keyong disappeared, Li Siyuan defeated the Datong army, captured the two states of Yunshuo, and imprisoned Li Cunxin, the Marquis of Duyu, and became the commander.

Li Sizhao and the other generals in Yizhou couldn't help but have some doubts in their hearts, whether all this was an expedient measure, or did Li Siyuan see that the king of Jin was missing and his wife was captured, and now he is taking advantage of the prestige of the new Datong army to replace the king of Jin. Because of this, Li Sizhao and others did not publicly express their support for Li Siyuan as the commander for a long time.

If King Jin really died in battle, maybe it would be better. But now that King Jin doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, Li Sizhao has to have a few more thoughts.

"Does Yiguang want to accept Li Jing's proposal, even the official position he asked for?" Li Sien asked. As we all know, King Jin is not there, and now Li Siyuan is actually in charge of Shatuo. Li Jing asked Li Siyuan to be the envoy of the Yanmen Festival, but he also single-handedly defeated the Datong Army and controlled Datong Town at the same time. If Li Sizhao accepts Li Jing as his envoy to the Datong Festival. This is undoubtedly a challenge to Li Siyuan's authority.

What will Li Siyuan think? Previously, they did not openly support Li Siyuan's temporary unification of Shatuo. Now Li Sizhao is going to serve as the envoy of the Datong Army. This will undoubtedly make Li Siyuan have a lot of ideas, and he will even be misunderstood by the Shatuo soldiers to split at the top.

"I know that Li Jing just wants to create suspicion and infighting within us, and finally wants us to split. It stands to reason that I should not have accepted the throne of the Great Harmony Festival, but I needed to accept him. It's not because I'm greedy for power, you are so familiar with me, and you know that I'm not such a person. It's just that King Jin hasn't come back yet. We have to look after the home for King Jin. ”

"Do you doubt the source?" Li Siben exclaimed.

"Not suspicion, but prevention! If the heir doesn't have this heart, that's the best. If it was just in case, in case, we could stop him. Li Sizhao said. Li Cunzhang and the others bowed their heads and were silent, as if they agreed and seemed to be confused. But in the end, no one said anything.

Maybe you can give it a try, if Li Siyuan really has the heart to be self-reliant, then they really have to prepare early. If not. It is also careful and harmless.

The generals of Yizhou, who had made up their minds, immediately began to make preparations for evacuation, and it was by no means simple to withdraw tens of thousands of people to Hedong. At the very least, the food for the journey must be prepared. In addition, you have to be careful to prevent Li Jing from changing his mind halfway and taking the opportunity to attack by surprise. On the other hand, Li Sizhao had to immediately send a messenger to Yunzhou to report the information to Li Siyuan.

Li Sizhao and the others didn't know that the Qin army seemed to be extremely powerful today, and they didn't need a single soldier to drive Li Quanzhong out of Hebei, and they didn't know that the Qin army was actually facing countless difficulties, and they didn't dare to really fight with them. All they saw was the rapid expansion of the Qin army's strength, breaking Li Keyong, capturing Liu Yunniang alive, defeating Dongxi, driving Li Quanzhong away, and scaring Wang Jingchong away.

Today's situation is like Li Jing Although he is a fierce tiger, he is actually a sick and weak tiger, with a powerful appearance, but in fact, he is a little strong and middle-class, although Shatuo and Chengde Zhuzhen are hungry wolves, but they are several wolves standing together. Both sides have scruples about each other, and neither dares to be tough.

As a result, Li Jing, the tiger, pretended to be a tiger roaring in the mountains and forests, and Sha Tuo, the hungry wolf, was the first to show timidity, and did not dare to hold on, so he retreated first.

A few days later, Li Sizhao officially took over the position of the envoy of the Datong Army and the pioneer envoy of the Hedong Xing Battalion, and was given the titles of King of Datong County, Taibao of the Inspection School, General of the Right Leading Army, General of the Auxiliary State, and Shangzhuguo. Li Jing's official position for Li Sizhao is almost the same as Li Siyuan's.

The Shatuo clan lost Li Ke's dragon head, but now they have two leaders at once.

After accepting the appointment, Li Sizhao led 30,000 Shatuo troops, as well as 20,000 forcibly recruited soldiers and civilians, a total of 50,000 horses, slowly evacuated from Yizhou, entered Zhenzhou through Dingzhou, and entered Taiyuan, Hedong through Jingcheng, and joined forces with Zheng Congyan and other towns in Hedong, and went to Zheng Congyan to listen to orders. According to the agreement, Li Sizhao and others, who had returned to Hedong, could not immediately go to Datong Town to take office, so he had to lead the army to follow Zheng Congyan south and counterattack Luoyang.

Now these Shatuo soldiers who followed Li Sizhao back to Hedong are embarrassed, from the original momentum into Hebei, to now they are leaving in disarray, and the morale of the army has dropped to the extreme. The Shatuo army that arrived on the outskirts of Taiyuan was three points like a human and seven points like a ghost, but they finally left the days when they were worried about it, and they couldn't undress every day.

Thinking that they could leave the desperate situation of Yizhou, Hebei, these Shatuo infantry shouted to thank Changsheng Heaven for their blessing.

Everyone knows very well that if they continue to stay in a lonely and dangerous place like Yizhou, they will definitely have to die there in the end.

Qincheng, Taigu County, Taiyuan, Li Sizhao's camp.

This is Taigu County, south of Jinyang City, Taiyuan Prefecture, located in the south of Taiyuan, close to the border of Fen, Qin, Lu and Yi Prefectures, but separated from Xinzhou controlled by Yanmen Town. Although Zheng Congyan is dedicated to national affairs and is willing to believe in Shatuo people again and let Li Sizhao pass through the well, it does not mean that he is confused. Although he let Li Sizhao return, he placed his soldiers and horses in the southernmost part of Taiyuan, next to the camp of Zhuzhen, and it was almost impossible for Li Sizhao to return to Yanmen if he wanted to break the contract.

"Great King, General Sizhao, they are gone." In the 20,000-strong auxiliary militia camp next to the Shatuo camp, in the artisan camp in the corner of the camp, Mi Rong dragged a still somewhat lame leg into the tent on the side, and whispered to a scar-faced man with a sheep towel around his head.

The scar-faced man's face was covered with a terrifying scar with new red flesh, as if the wound had hurt his eye, one of his eyes was slightly closed, cloudy, but half-blind. raised his head, but this person was the black crow Li Keyong, who had been missing for many days.

I'm afraid that no one would have thought that he couldn't find him even if the Qin army and the Jin army stepped on the iron shoes, and he had actually arrived in Taiyuan at this time. And he actually hid in the Shatuo army, and he was still a craftsman in a civilian battalion.

After Li Keyong hid his wounds in the Ulzhou Pass, he did not go west to Yanmen. The Qin army sent too many soldiers and horses to search and intercept in that direction, and Li Ke took the risk to go the opposite way, disguised as ordinary people, and followed many refugees displaced by the war into Hebei, and then rushed to Yizhou.

It's just that when he rushed to Yizhou and was about to find Li Sizhao, he suddenly heard a news that Li Sizhao and Li Jing reached an agreement to hand over Yizhou to Li Jing, and then exchanged for the official position of the envoy of the Datong Army and the king of Datong County, and was able to return to Hedong from Jingcheng, which was guarded by Zheng Congyan, and would serve the imperial court, send troops to the king, and serve under Zheng Congyan.

Although he couldn't believe it, after secretly inquiring, Lao Kang and the others confirmed that the news was true.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Keyong did not go directly to see Li Sizhao, but continued to hide his identity, and then followed the Yizhou Shatuo Army all the way back to Hedong from Yizhou as a people's husband. Along the way, Li Ke kept his identity strictly confidential, except for a few guards around him, no one knew about Lu Dao, and the old scar in the auxiliary battalion craftsman battalion was actually their king!

Li Keyong deliberately concealed his identity, coupled with the horrific scar on his face, plus he took off his blindfold and pretended to be a craftsman, so until now, no one has discovered his true identity.

Since the scar was added to his face, Li Ke has become more and more ugly, adding a bit of fierceness to him out of thin air.

Dropping the axe in his hand, Li Ke sat on the ground with a gloomy face, "No, it's not the time to reveal your identity. ”

The last defeat made Li Ke hit hard. Not to mention the defeat, and almost died, and now his wife and brothers have all fallen into the hands of Li Jing, and his daughter and eldest son have also become Li Jing's hostages.

And the two righteous sons he trusted the most, but now Li Jing has asked the court for them to be crowned officials, one is the envoy of the Yanmen Festival, the other is the envoy of the Datong Festival, and both of them are also crowned kings, one is the king of Yanmen County, and the other is the king of Datong County. One is the Great Governor of Shatuo, and the other is the Grand Governor of Shatuo.

Have they betrayed themselves? Li Keyong didn't know what to do, and he didn't want to act recklessly anymore, because he couldn't afford to lose anymore! (To be continued......)