Chapter 757: Willing to Surrender
Facing the golden morning sun, a black eagle battle flag rose from the gate tower of Youzhou Yacheng, hunting and flying in the morning breeze, full of solemn atmosphere.
The black flying eagle battle flag, this is the military flag of the Qin army, the only one in all towns in the world. When Guo Chongtao saw this flag raised, he finally despaired and died. After the Flying Eagle Battle Flag was raised, two more flags were raised next to it, a purple banner with a Qin character on it. There is also a red official flag, a huge rectangular banner with the book Marshal of the Tang Dynasty, Qin Wang Li.
Li Jing, sure enough, Li Jing is here.
Guo Chongtao's heart was mixed, and his face was like ashes.
Just because he's conceited doesn't mean he's stupid. He is recognized in the Shatuo army, second only to Li Keyong. But he himself had to admit that even if Li Keyong, the flying tiger, actually commanded the troops, he was a few points inferior to Li Jing. Now that he was lured into an ambush in Youzhou by Li Jing's calculations, he still had the slightest heart to fight in his heart.
"Let's go!"
Guo Chongtao made a decision immediately, without the slightest drag. When he met Li Jing, even if he was equal and had a fair duel, he had no confidence. What's more, at the moment, Li Congwei and Lu Longjun are his multiples, and they fell into the ambush of the enemy, and they fell into the trick of luring the enemy and fought away. Now Li Jing is still playing yin with him, which is equivalent to Li Jing's lion fighting his rabbit, and the rabbit has no other idea than pulling his legs and running away.
The Shatuo army was extremely fierce, although he heard that Li Jing was in Youzhou City at this time, although he was frightened in his heart, he did not panic and dispersed, and still maintained a strong quality. Thousands of soldiers and horses immediately turned around and left, rushing to break through.
Li Congwei, Wang Sitong, Li Chengyue and other generals of Yiwu and Lu Long breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and if they continued to fight like this, everyone's old book would be exhausted. The military leaders of troubled times. If you have a soldier in your hand, you are the king of grass. But once the soldiers are gone. Then it's all gone. They're really worried. Li Jing wants them to fight with the Shatuo people.
Just now, he was thinking about getting out of the battle, but at this time, the Shatuo people were about to flee, but these generals of Yiwu and Lu Long had different thoughts. Especially the generals of Lu Long, Li Quanzhong is going to shed his skin if he doesn't die this time, and it is impossible for the Youzhou Lu Long Army to maintain the old state after this. These Lu Long army leaders can only become subordinates of other powerful towns, but no one wants to follow Li Quanzhong, everyone wants to follow the more promising Qin King Li Jing.
At that time, the generals of the Gao family in Yanzhou were defeated and captured and surrendered to Li Jing, and they thought they were very unlucky at that time. But now look at the Gao family under Li Jing, all of them are generals in command, and they are in high positions, which is much stronger than them. Now, General Lu Long also wants to defect to Li Jing. And now, it is a good choice to beat the Shatuo water dog and use the head of the Shatuo thief as a devotee.
In a flash, the generals of Lu Long, who were still struggling to support just now, suddenly beat like chicken blood at this time. Instead, like a mad dog, he bit the Shatuo army and chased after him.
Guo Chongtao led the army to retreat in a hurry. Behind Wang Sitong, Li Chengyue, and Yuan Xingqin rushed over, Li Congwei was not to be outdone at this time, unwilling to give up this opportunity to beat Shatuo Dog, and personally led the army to chase and kill. Li Cunxin couldn't resist it, and in the blink of an eye, a soldier and horse that was left behind was swallowed up. Guo Chongtao's retreat to the south was unfavorable, so he had to look west, and suddenly shouted a big earthquake, and Lu Longjun's three generals, Gao Xingjue, Lu Wenjin, and Zhang Juhan, blocked the way.
Shatuo generals fought to the death, and Liu Rengong led his second sons Liu Shouwen and Liu Shouguang to personally charge into battle.
The iron whistle sounded incessantly, and arrows rained down.
Liu Rengong couldn't rush over, and there was no way to get out.
At this time, soldiers and horses from all walks of life continued to gather and surround them. The Shatuo soldiers were tired and tired, and they no longer had the strength to fight again.
Liu Rengong, Li Cunxin and others were all surrounded, trapped like in an iron bucket, and everyone and Guo Chongtao looked at each other, relatively speechless for a while.
"It's better to come down." Among the generals, Li Cunxin was the first to speak, and said to Guo Chongtao in a slightly tentative tone.
Guo Chongtao's face was blue, but he was speechless. Although he lost this battle, he was defeated at the hands of the world-famous Li Jing, and it did not fall his reputation. The battle was fierce just now, and he didn't have time to think about many things, but when he thought about it carefully, his heart became more and more difficult to calm down.
The military capital pass had been captured by the Qin army, and Li Siyuan was defeated and fled back to Yanzhou. Now it's too late to regret not listening to Li Siyuan's words, since he led his troops into the pass, he was already doomed to failure. And what surprised him even more was that Li Quanzhong and Li Jing actually joined together, but thinking about the previous Li Quanzhong's capture of Lulong, the relationship with the towns of Hebei had broken down, and now it was almost wiped out by Yanmen and Chengde two towns, and it was normal to take refuge in Li Jing at this time.
It's really a pot of porridge, Liu Rengong killed Liu Yan and took Lu Long, and Li Quanzhong drove Liu Rengong away. After the most, Li Keyong and Wang Jingchong sent troops to attack Yiwu, but what about the most? Do the math, on the surface, Chengde Town won Dingzhou, and Li Keyong won almost the entire Yizhou. But in fact, Li Jing is the biggest winner, and he won Youzhou with almost no effort. What is even more critical is that after this chaotic battle, the plan of the four towns of Hebei and Yanmen Town, as well as the Khitan and Huainan joint attack on Li Jing, was a complete failure.
That's the biggest loss!
When all the towns coveted Lulong Town, only Li Jing watched the fire from the other side, but Li Jing was still the biggest beneficiary.
Looking at this series of events now, Guo Chongtao began to believe that this whole incident was a conspiracy. This is Li Jing's conspiracy, he sent a killer to assassinate Liu Yue, the marshal of Lulongjie, and then he did not move, and finally detonated the greed of the towns, and used the bait of Lulongzhen's territory to induce the anti-Li Jing alliance to fight, and then join the weak and leave the strong.
In the end, Li Jingbing took the important town of Youzhou without blood. Moreover, the anti-Li alliance was dismantled, and the four towns of Hebei were dismantled, and now they have become two and a half towns, Lulong Town has been destroyed, and Yiwu Town can only become a follower of Li Jing in the future, and can no longer pose a threat to Li Jing.
Chengde Town and Yanmen Town seem to have earned a state this time, but in fact, they have lost far more than they have gained.
The more Guo Chongtao thought about it, the more he couldn't help but admire Li Jing in his heart.
It's amazing, you don't need a single soldier, you only use an assassin, and as a result, you can achieve such a result.
How can such a Li Jing fight him?
He couldn't help but think of his lord Li Keyong, who turned out to be a hero in his opinion. An unbeatable tiger. But take a look at it now. Li Keyong performed well. But compared with Li Jing, he lacks a sense of overall situation and strategy. If he had Li Jing's overall view, he should have seized the time when Li Jing went south to fight Gao Biao and Huang Chao, and attacked Li Jing with all his might. But Li Keyong missed this good opportunity, he has been waiting to unite with the towns, both wanting to defeat Li Jing, but not willing to take too many risks.
Other than that. It's the same this time. If Li Ke was smart, after Li Quanzhong drove Liu Rengong away, he could not take Liu Rengong in, but should kill Liu Rengong, and then unite with other towns to recognize Li Quanzhong's occupation of Lulong Town, and reaffirm the alliance of the towns to strengthen the relationship between the parties. Instead of being like a mad dog, when he saw the bone of Youzhou, he rushed up one by one and bit each other regardless of it.
After this battle. Guo Chongtao suddenly saw the difference between Li Jing and Li Keyong.
Li Ke uses but has a little strength, so he has to oppose Tang. It is necessary to attack left and right, and it is extremely arrogant. On the other hand, Li Jing, who is now powerful, the head of each town, occupies a corner of the world, but he has always regarded himself as a loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty, showing the appearance of a loyal minister, and waving the banner of the Tang Dynasty everywhere.
Liu Rengong also had all kinds of thoughts in his heart at this time, and Li Cunxin's proposal to surrender made him moved. He is no stranger to Li Jing, he has been negotiating with Li Jing many times as Lu Long's envoy, and he can clearly watch Li Jing's rise over the years. In this battle, Li Jing captured Youzhou and Jundu Pass.
Although the battle was not very fierce, he knew that it was of great significance. After this war, Li Jing controlled Youzhou, the military capital pass in the west, Shanhaiguan in the east, the three passes in Nanzhen, and Hejian. It can be said that after the Anshi Rebellion, the situation of the Hebei feudal town was completely broken. Li Jing occupies the northern part of Hebei, which can be described as a high-rise momentum, and has a tendency to swoop over Chengde and Wei Bo. What's more, Li Jing not only occupies Youzhou, but he also occupies Liaodong, and has no worries about his back. He occupied Qingyanxu in Shandong again, and completely formed a semi-encirclement of the remaining two towns of Chengde and Weibo.
Everyone can see that the fall of Lulong Town also sounded the alarm for the three towns of Hebei to be annexed by Li Jing. But who can stop it? Wang Jingchong and Han Jian can't, Li Keyong can't, and neither can Khitan and Huangchao.
Li Cunxin seems to be a simple sentence, but in fact, it has fully explained a fact, even Li Keyong's adopted son can see that after this battle, in the land of Yan Zhao and Jin, Li Jing has been invincible. Maybe Li Jing can't completely annex the land of Yanzhao and Jin for a while, but this will be an inevitable result.
"General Guo, what do you think of Li Yuhou's proposal?" Liu Rengong asked with a smile. He had no objection to surrendering Li Jing, and when he defected to Li Keyong, he hoped that one day he would borrow Li Keyong's hand and then fight back to Youzhou. But now the situation is very clear, and there is no possibility of re-establishment in Youzhou Town. Since this is the case, following Li Jing is obviously stronger than following Li Keyong.
Guo Chongtao's gaze swept over Liu Rengong and Li Cunxin, and a meaningful smile appeared on his face. This laugh made Li Cunxin and Liu Rengong a little unnatural. If you want to descend, you can't be so impatient, some of them are too out of status. However, the two of them have no qualifications, after all, the other party is Li Jing, the marshal of the Tang Dynasty, His Royal Highness the King of Qin, who controls the most elite army and the largest feudal town today.
"It seems that the two of them have already made their own choices, if they oppose it, they are afraid that they may be stabbed if they turn around, right?" Guo Chongtao said.
Li Cunxin laughed twice, after all, he was only an eighteen-year-old boy, and although the Uighur man was precocious, he was still only an eighteen-year-old man. Guo Chongtao's words made him a little embarrassed. He has already made up his mind to defect to Li Jing, if Guo Chongtao refuses, he doesn't mind taking his head and offering it to Li Jing as a vote. It's just that these thoughts were said by Guo Chongtao in public, which made him still feel a little embarrassed.
"Stop! Since this is the case, it can be regarded as giving the brothers who followed Yu a way to live. Guo Chongtao said slowly, which moved the hearts of the Shatuo soldiers on the side, but Liu Rengong, who was the only one, secretly despised it in his heart. It's obvious that he wants to surrender, but he still has to pretend to be like this, and put gold on his face, shameless, very shameless. He looked at Li Cunxin again, and sighed secretly in his heart, Li Cunxin was still too tender.
However, Liu Rengong was not slow, and after Guo Chongtao said these words of surrender, he immediately shouted at the soldiers and horses besieged around him: "I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender!" (To be continued......)