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At this time, the Son of Heaven Li Yi was like a drowning man, and the news of Hebei's victory appeared like a life-saving straw, which made him very excited.

It's a pity that Zhang Tai has just heard the news of Hebei's victory, and what he knows is just simple news, and the specific details are not clear at all, the emperor took his hand and asked for a long time, but he couldn't answer.

"Your Majesty, the news of Hebei's victory was reported by the Northeast Daxing Tai'an Jinju Academy, and the ministers have not yet figured out the specific situation." Zhang Tai replied.

Li Yi hurriedly opened the letterbox, and inside was a good news, which was written by Li Jing himself, which said that Li Jing led his troops to fight two battles between Zhuozhou Guiyi and Yingzhou River, defeated the Hebei rebels, and achieved a great victory in destroying 100,000 enemies and seizing the five prefectures of Mo, Ying, Cang, De, and Di.

However, the specific victory of Hebei was won, but it was not detailed. Li Yi's face was red with excitement, but his heart was a little empty.

Zhang Tai, who was still on the side, said loudly: "Zhang Hong, who entered the concert hall in this matter, must know that His Majesty might as well recruit him into the palace to ask." ”

Li Yi, whose hands and feet trembled with excitement, slapped his palms, "Aiqing is right, quickly spread the decree to announce that Zhang Hong, the chief of the Northeast Dao Daxing, will enter the palace to meet him!" ”

When Zhang Hong was admitted to the palace by the palace envoys, Tian Lingzi, Yang Fugong and others in the palace, as well as Lu Xi, Cui Xin, Dou Lu Yao and other ministers in the court, all knew the news and came to the palace to verify it.

Li Yi nodded to the ministers very excitedly, and then waited for Zhang Hong with them in the Yanying Palace.

Hebei is indeed a great victory!

Arguably. This is one of only two victories the court has won against the rebellion so far.

Another victory was supposed to be a back-to-back defeat of the Lulong rebels. Capture the land of Wu, Xin, Confucian, and Concubine four states. But Li Keyong rebelled again and seized the three states of the Wei Dynasty in the imperial court. If it weren't for the courage of the remaining soldiers in Datong and the return of soldiers and horses in the five towns, I am afraid that even Yun and Shuo Erzhou would be lost at this time, and even Taiyuan might be lost.

Although the imperial court has just decreed that Ulzhou in Datong Town, Dai and Xin Erzhou in Hedong Town will be cut out and assigned to Li Keyong as Yanmen Town.

But in fact, that is also the last resort of the imperial court.

However, it was the soldiers and horses of the Northeast Dao Daxingtai, and the imperial court issued eighteen holy decrees urging Li Jing to send troops. gave Li Jing the title of prince three times, and finally became the king of Qin, Li Jing refused to accept it, so that Li Yi thought that Li Jing was determined to sit on the wall and watch this time.

But he didn't expect that Li Jing led 80,000 soldiers and horses to the south at this time, and he won such a big battle at once, annihilating 100,000 enemies. Even if the number of this victory is reduced by half, it will be 50,000 heads.

At this time, the eunuchs and prime ministers of the North and South Ya surrounded Zhang Hong with the emperor, listening to him with a playful tone, detailing the details of Hebei's victory.

Zhang Hong declared to the emperor and his ministers. King Qin led a large army to raid the rebels in Guiyi, Zhuozhou, and annihilated 50,000 enemies. Then he entered Mo Ying. Decisive battle with Wang Jingchong in the river, 200,000 soldiers and horses on both sides fought in the river, and the king of Qin won a great victory, annihilating 50,000 enemies and defeating the Hebei rebels.

However, in fact, in the first battle of Li Jing's return to righteousness, there were only 20,000 rebels in Hebei, and the remaining 30,000 were auxiliary troops. And Li Jing didn't kill so much, in that battle, less than 3,000 were killed, the rest of the captured soldiers were 15,000, and the auxiliary soldiers were 32,000.

On the same day, after Li Jing captured Guiyi and defeated the rebels, he quickly divided his troops to seize Sanguan, and sent cavalry to pursue the routed soldiers.

Subsequently, Li Jing took all the grain and grass in Guiyi City and transferred it to Sanguan in Mozhou.

After arriving at the three passes, Li Jing stationed nearly 30,000 infantry from six armies in the three passes, and at the same time left 10,000 cavalry of the two armies in Mozhou to divide the counties of Mozhou, and stayed in Mozhou to be ready to support the three passes at any time to defend the soldiers and horses of Li Quanzhong and Liu Yue who were going south to block their southward movement.

Li Jing, on the other hand, led 40,000 cavalry directly into Yingzhou, but did not immediately attack the counties of Yingzhou, and did not even attack the important town of Hejian City, but let Li Congwei gather Yingzhou soldiers and horses to retreat to Hejian, and let him go to Cangzhou to move reinforcements.

Li Jing's 30,000 cavalry moved south from Shucheng in the northeast of Yingzhou, secretly reached between Lucheng and Jingcheng in Cangzhou, which had already been captured, and lurked.

At that time, Wang Jingchong, Liu Rengong, Li Congwei, and Le Xingda had all the soldiers and horses of Cangzhou, with 110,000 soldiers and horses, including 60,000 Cheng Dejun and 30,000 Wei Bojun, plus Liu Rengong and Li Congwei with thousands of soldiers and horses, and 20,000 young and strong auxiliary soldiers recruited by Cangzhou, which was more than 110,000 people. Among them, there were nearly 20,000 cavalry, 50,000 infantry soldiers, and 40,000 auxiliary troops.

Wang Jingchong abandoned Cangzhou and went to Hejian with the whole army.

They chose the nearest route, directly out of Cangzhou, through Changlu, then across the canal and Zhangshui, through Jingcheng, which had already been captured by Li Jing, and rushed to the river.

Wang Jingchong had 110,000 soldiers and horses, although less than half of them were elite. But in his opinion, although Jingcheng is occupied by Li Jing, the truth here has been clarified, and Jingcheng, located between Cangzhou and Hejian, is actually just Li Jing's 5,000 cavalry. Li Jing's soldiers and horses, which are closest to Jingcheng, are still far away in the northeast of Lucheng and Shucheng, which are dozens of miles apart.

And Li Jing's main force, judging from the news under their control at this time, has just entered Yingzhou from Mozhou. Judging from the battle report at that time, Li Jing should have stationed his infantry in Sanguan, and then dispersed the cavalry and began to attack the counties.

It was based on this judgment that Wang Jingchong did not make a detour back to Hejian from the south, but planned to pass through Hejian directly from Jingcheng. He didn't plan to attack Jingcheng, but he also thought that Jingcheng's thousands of soldiers and horses were no threat to his 100,000 army at all.

Wang Jingchong and others did not expect that Yingzhou had not yet fallen, not because Li Jing was unable to act, but because Li Jing deliberately did it, the purpose was to lure the snake out of the hole and deceive Wang Jingchong's army from Cangzhou City.

At this time, it was only the 10,000 cavalry left by Li Jing who captured Mozhou, and the 5,000 cavalry of Lucheng had already left the city and quietly entered Jingcheng by night. The remaining 30,000 cavalry were taken by Li Jing to the west bank of Zhangshui. Wait here quietly.

Li Jing's plan for this operation. It's a battle to break the army. The purpose of the whole battle. It was based on the annihilation of the main force of the German army.

Under the scouts and cavalry sweeps of the military intelligence offices of the various armies under the Military Intelligence Bureau, until Wang Jingchong's army began to cross the Zhangshui, they did not notice anything unusual, let alone that Li Jing had been waiting for him.

At noon on the day of the decisive battle, Wang Jingchong's 110,000 soldiers and horses passed through Changlu County and crossed the Yongji channel on the ice on the canal.

A huge accident happened. The Zhangshui River, which was originally covered with thick ice, suddenly shattered the ice surface for twenty miles after a loud noise.

The ice of the Zhangshui River was concentrated by Li Jing with a large amount of gunpowder, which was blasted here, and the ice was directly shattered.

As soon as this side of Zhangshui burst, the horn of the decisive battle had already sounded, and on the north and south sides of Zhangshui's broken glacier, a cavalry of the Northeast Army was killed. At the same time, another cavalry had already circled behind Wang Jingchong and crossed the Yongji Canal to kill all over the sky.

The cavalry of the Northeast Army was like three arrows to Wang Jingchong's army, and it would eventually form a Y-shape.

In the face of an overwhelming cavalry charge. Wang Jingchong and the others were caught off guard. Because Li Jing deliberately let go of the section of the Zhangshui River, which was already ice shattered for 20 miles, it only impacted from the left and right sides.

As a result, although Wang Jingchong had the intention to form a defensive formation. But after Li Jing ordered the cavalry to throw out the last bit of earth-shattering thunder in their hands, before it was dusk, this huge military formation collapsed. Countless people were driven by the cavalry to the water, and under the threat of iron hooves and swords and horses, although the ice on the river surface had mostly been broken, countless people rushed to the glacier.

Except for a few who were lucky enough to cross the river by stepping on the cracked ice, many more fell directly into the river in the broken ice.

Li Jing's tactics of 30,000 cavalry were very simple, just repeated impacts, like wolves, driving, driving, constantly driving, and then biting off a piece in the group from time to time and swallowing it.

Wang Jingchong's allied army of about 20,000 cavalry was once organized to counterattack, but the cavalry equipment of each town was too inferior to that of the Liao army, and the division belonged to various departments, so the coordination was far inferior. Coupled with the gap in the western Zhangshui that Li Jing deliberately opened, Wang Jingchong's army was disheartened, and in the end, the cavalry of his department could not reverse this defeat.

One after another, the Hebei soldiers were finally driven into the water, and the entire Zhangshui was blocked.

In this battle, after the last 110,000 soldiers and horses, Wang Jingchong and others left one-third of the soldiers and horses surrounded by Li Jing on the east bank of Zhangshui, and nearly 40,000 people were divided and surrounded by Li Jing. At dusk of the battle, these completely surrounded soldiers and horses surrendered in despair, and as many as 30,000 captives abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

At the same time, nearly 10,000 people of the Hebei Army that broke through finally drowned and froze to death in the icy Zhanghe River.

The soldiers and horses who escaped from Zhangshui did not flee here, and not far from the shore, the 10,000 cavalry originally stationed in Jingcheng and Lucheng suddenly killed under the leadership of Gao Jichang and Dong Zhang.

10,000 cavalry against 60,000 infantry.

No matter how you look at it, Wang Jingchong should have a great chance of winning. It's just that at this time, the frightened Wang Jingchong and the others had no intention of fighting again, and when they saw a large number of cavalry in front of them, they immediately turned around and went south.

The two generals Gao Jichang and Dong Zhang led the cavalry to chase and kill all the way.

After dark, Li Jing left more than 10,000 cavalry to clean up the battlefield, take care of the prisoners, and went to collect the unmanned Cangzhou, Changlu and other cities, and he personally led nearly 20,000 cavalry along the Zhangshui all the way south.

After Li Jing joined the pursuit, Wang Jingchong was completely defeated.

This pursuit was pursued all the way to dawn the next day, and it was chased to Wuqiang County in Yizhou, where 30,000 soldiers and horses of Han Jianshuai, the commander of Wei Bojie, were stationed.

With Han Jian's response, Wang Jingchong and others avoided the possibility of annihilation of the entire army.

But even so, after the last count, the 110,000 soldiers and horses who went out of Cangzhou this time only had more than 10,000 cavalry and more than 30,000 infantry fled into Wuqiang. In the First World War, nearly 10,000 cavalry, more than 20,000 infantry soldiers, and Wei Bo and Chengde and the 40,000 auxiliary troops recruited in Cangzhou were all gone.

With the loss of 30,000 soldiers and 40,000 auxiliaries, this battle not only greatly damaged the vitality of the German army, but also suffered a big loss to the Wei Bo army that came to the aid from the south. On the same day, Wang Jingchong hurriedly sent people to Dedi Erzhou and asked the two brothers to bring the 20,000 soldiers back to Yizhou. Having lost the three states of Mo Yingcang, the two states of Dedi are no longer defendable at all.

The results of this battle also far exceeded Li Jing's expectations. Li Jing thought that. With 40,000 cavalry in the field on the plains. Dealing with Wang Jingchong's 110,000 soldiers and horses, he should be able to eat one-third of the opponent's soldiers and horses, and the German army will be injured. But he didn't expect that Wang Jingchong had 20,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry soldiers, and he was so defeated in the end.

Wang Jingchong was accepted by Han Jian and retreated into Yizhou, but Li Jing did not go any further. Slowly gather the soldiers and horses. The defeated soldiers scattered on the front of more than 100 miles were captured one by one and escorted back.

When Li Jing returned, Cangzhou had already been captured.

Subsequently, Li Jing left a part of the cavalry to defend Cangzhou, and he led his troops back to take Hejian. Although Hejian said that more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were gathered, Li Jing only deliberately kept this piece of fat before, and now that Wang Jingchong is defeated, Li Jing comes back, and the cities of Yingzhou are almost all down.

At this time, Li Quanzhong and Liu Yue led 50,000 soldiers and horses to storm the three passes of Waqiao Pass. However, the three passes of Waqiao Pass are natural hazards, and there are 30,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry garrisoned. In a short period of time, where did the two fight down.

When Wang Jingchong was defeated and the news of Mo Yingcang's loss reached Zhuozhou, Li Quanzhong and Liu Yue immediately led their troops and horses back to their towns.

Wang Jingchong in the south also led his troops to retreat to Yi, Zhao, Shen, and Zhen.

Han Jian also led his troops back to Weibo.

The four towns suffered such a big loss this time, and they didn't dare to say anything about strangling Li Jing anymore, but began to go back to their respective homes to lick their wounds.

In this battle, the four towns suffered great losses.

Lulong Town lost Mozhou, plus a Guiyi County. The loss of almost more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, but the rest of this loss was the Mozhou assassin Liu Rengong, and Liu Yue lost only one Guiyi and more than 3,000 soldiers and horses. However, to the northwest of Liu Yue, the four states of Xinwu Rufei were taken away by Li Keyong, which can be said to have suffered the same heavy losses. At present, Liu Yue is only left in the land of Zhuo and Youzhou.

Chengde Town's losses this time were even greater, at first they quickly captured the three towns of Yichang, but who would have thought that not only did they vomit out all of what they ate, but also lost more than 5,000 cavalry and nearly 20,000 infantry. Not to mention the loss of troops, the most important thing is that the morale of the German army has fallen seriously after this battle.

Li Quanzhong also suffered heavy losses, not to mention the loss of Yingzhou, which he started, and the loss of almost 20,000 horses. This was a fatal blow to the new feudal town, which only owned three towns. Now Li Quanzhong is in the west of Shatuo Li Keyong, who has just seized the land of Qizhou, and Li Jing, who has entered Hebei strongly, in the east, he is sandwiched in the middle, leaving only the land of Yiding Erzhou, and life can be described as sad.

Weibo Town also did not account for half of the benefits, but it also lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

And Li Jing's 80,000 troops went south this time, fought two major battles in a row, annihilated more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the four towns, and captured more than 100,000 prisoners. But the losses of the Northeast Army were not large, adding up to no more than three thousand. The key to such a disparity in casualty ratio is that these two major battles are hardly hard battles, and almost all of them are pursuit battles.

After these two battles, the four towns each defended the city, although Li Jing won a big victory, but in fact, this time the light troops went south, and it was already a very unexpected surprise to capture the three states of Mo Yingcang.

Now that he thought about seizing more than 20 counties in Sanzhou, Li Jing's troops were already tight, so he didn't dare to attack the territory of the four towns again. After all, cavalry field combat is an advantage, but to attack a city is a disadvantage.

On the one hand, he sent troops to garrison the key passes of the three prefectures of Mo Yingcang, and on the other hand, Li Jing sent the captives back to the northeast, and on the other hand, he recruited Minzhuang to strengthen the city in Hejian, and took Hejian City and Mozhou Sanguan as Li Jing's stronghold in the northeast and the central town.

At the same time, 20,000 cavalry were sent all the way south to take Dedi Erzhou.

At this time, the Chengde army, which had just been defeated, could only watch Li Jing's soldiers and horses swaggering to take Dedi Erzhou, but they could only hide in the city and did not dare to move.

Immediately afterwards, Li Jing finally dispatched a group of soldiers and horses from Northeast China and Shandong to land in Cangzhou from the sea with melting ice. The newly transferred were 30,000 infantry troops from six armies, and 20,000 township soldiers.

Li Jing combined the 50,000 new soldiers and horses with the original 30,000 infantry, plus 10,000 cavalry of the two armies, a total of 90,000 horses and horses were stationed in the five prefectures of Mo, Ying, Cang, De, and Di, of which 10,000 cavalry were stationed in the river to maneuver.

The land of the newly seized five states was set up as Hebei Province, and the provincial administrative office was set up in Hejian, and Pei You was appointed as the governor of Hebei to temporarily lead the military affairs of Hebei.

Li Jing led 50,000 cavalry across the Yellow River to Henan. (To be continued......)