Chapter 317: The Holy Decree Has Arrived!
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In Dengzhou Water City, Wang Jingwen took Wang Jin and dozens of generals from Qingzhou and Laizhou Water Divisions, all with gloomy faces at this time, their heads lowered, and they stood in a row on the dock of Shuicheng, waiting for Li Jing to come and surrender.
Everyone had already read the letter sent by Li Jing just now, and it was indeed Wang Jingwu's handwriting. Moreover, this letter turned out to be a blood letter, which shows the embarrassment of Wang Jingwu when he wrote this letter at that time. They had already heard the news from the Qingzhou Kuaima, Wang Jingwu and others made the first move, but failed to keep Song Wei and others, Li Jing led the Zhendong army to arrive, defeated the Qingzhou soldiers and Ziqi soldiers, and recaptured Qingzhou City. Moreover, Li Jing only pursued all the way with an army in the east of Zhendong, defeated Qingzi Qi soldiers and horses in Zishui, killed 3,000 and captured 3,000, and Zishui was bright red.
If it weren't for Li Jing's intervention, he took two hundred elites to gallop three hundred miles into Qingzhou, and told Song Wei that Wang Jingwu's plan was guessed first, and he came up with a counter-trick, how could Song Wei escape, and how could things fail. And it was Li Jing's maternal family Han who later opened Qingzhou City for Neiying, and the fiasco on the bank of the Zishui River was Li Jing's personal action. Everything is because of Li Jing.
But what can he do now? Just last night, Wang Jingwu's secret envoy had already arrived in Shuicheng and brought another handwritten letter from Wang Jingwu. In the letter, Wang Jingwu told him that with Li Jing in Dengzhou, there was no other way out for the sailors. Moreover. If you can get the Dengzhou Navy Division in exchange for Li Jing's promise, you will no longer send troops to Ziqi. They still have a chance, too. After the surrender. Whether Li Jing will really stop sending troops to Ziqi, Wang Jingwu does not dare to guarantee, but in the current situation, Li Jing finally retreated. If they dare to break their promise, Li Jing will not only be able to easily destroy the water division by then, but also be able to kill back to Ziqi, at that time, who can persuade Li Jing to withdraw from the army.
"The envoy of the Zhendong Army. The Dengzhou defense made General Li arrive! Zhao Jiang opened his throat and roared.
On one of the first ships to dock, groups of soldiers jumped onto the dock, and then quickly formed a team, running all over the dock, and immediately took over the dock. After the dock was taken over, several more ships docked, and more Zhendong troops went ashore and began to take over all parts of the water city one by one according to the set goal. Barracks, warehouses, and more.
waited until a full hour had passed, after the Zhendong Army had completely controlled the entire Water City. Li Jing's Sky Wolf was only under the escort of four ironclad sea falcons and four walkers. Slowly approaching the pier.
Escorted by the guards of the Silver Gun Battalion of the brigade, Li Jing boarded the dock.
"Wang Jingwen led the three naval divisions of Qing, Lai, and Deng, with a total of 5,000 men and horses, to surrender to the general!" Although Wang Jingwen was unwilling, he still knelt down in front of Li Jing with a general, and presented the general's seal letter, as well as the list of soldiers and the details of money and food.
The Wang family, who used to be high, has finally surrendered on its knees.
It is impossible for Li Jing not to be excited at this moment, but he is only happy for a while. Today's Wang family is no longer the original Wang family, although it is still resisting in Ziqi Erzhou, but its demise is doomed. Otherwise, Li Jing would not have spared Wang Jingwu's life, let alone choose to surrender instead of attacking. For Li Jing, the current Wang family is really not worth paying even a little more casualties. Even if he wants to let them go because of this, it doesn't matter, because they are no longer worthy of being his opponents. Let them go, and they won't be able to make waves.
The five thousand soldiers and horses had already disarmed, put down their swords, and all of them were squatting on the dock, the heads of black crows.
The ceremony of surrender was very simple, Wang Jingwen, Wang Jin and others handed over the official seals, as well as the list of sergeants, as well as various weapons, armor, money, food, gold and silk, and so on. The soldiers, who had just been dressed in a battle uniform and left everything else, were inspected and taken into the prisoner-of-war camp.
Dengzhou Shuicheng's family background is good, and although the Laizhou Sailor and Qingzhou Sailor did not bring money, food and other things, their warships, weapons, armor, etc. are also a lot of money. 5,000 men and horses surrendered together, nearly 10,000 sets of weapons and armor alone, and nearly 100 ships.
Among the surrenderers, in addition to Li Jing and the officers in the middle and front compartments, there were also Liu Xun and Li Zhen. These two people have been detained by Li Jing since they were recognized by Li Jing under Bochang City. When he returned to the city, Li Jing talked to the two in person, and neither of them was willing to follow them to Dengzhou at first. However, how could Li Jing let go of these two people, Li Zhen is known as one of the two strategists of Houliang, so although Liu Xun is a little younger now, he is also the first wise general of Houliang. To deal with the two of them, Li Jing used a very simple trick.
Li Jing told Li Zhen that he had released the rumor, saying that Li Zhen and Liu Xun had revealed Wang Jingwu's plan to Li Jing. Moreover, Li Jing also asked people to bring the families of the two to Dengzhou, Liu Xun's family is in Qingzhou, and Li Jing has found his family and brought it to the military camp when he captured Qingzhou again, and although Li Zhen's family is in Chang'an, he also sent a letter to Zhang Chengye in Chang'an and asked him to bring Li Zhen's family to him.
Although this ploy is somewhat overbearing, the effect is quite significant. Now no one will believe that Li Jing guessed Wang Jingwu's plan by himself, and will only believe that Li Zhen and Liu Xun betrayed Wang Jingwu, especially after Li Jing also deliberately released the news that his staff officer Li Liang was Li Zhen's younger brother, he was even more identified in this matter. Li Zhen could only smile bitterly, as for Liu Xun, his family was all picked up by Li Jing, so what else.
What's more, Li Jing is also good. Li Jing directly worshiped Li Zhen as the Sima of the Zhendong Army, and this position was much higher than Li Liang's staff officer who followed Li Jing earlier than him. In terms of speaking, in addition to the military envoys, deputy military envoys, and supervising military envoys, the Zhendong Army has the largest staff officers on the march. As soon as Li Jing came, he handed over such an important position to his little cavalry to join the military, which was already quite important.
For Liu Xun, because he is still young, Li Jing appointed him as the deputy tenth general of the Silver Spear Battalion, which is also a promotion compared to the original personal general. What's more, as soon as he came to enter Li Jing's guard camp, it can be seen that he values it.
In the end, both of them were convinced by Li Jing and joined the Zhendong Army. watched Li Jingbing take Shuicheng without blood. Both of them were amazed by Li Jing. Li Jing was not proud of Qingzhou's victory this time. Instead, he took the water city with the least losses. This is the wisest choice. Victory is not arrogant, many times it is more difficult to do than not be discouraged by defeat, not to mention that Li Jing is only a young man in his early twenties. On this point, both Li Zhen and Liu Xun have no regrets about their decision to join Li Jing.
After the surrender ceremony, Li Jing moved the headquarters of the Nutao Battalion to Shuicheng. The 5,000 surrendered soldiers were to be sent to the cities of Qingni and Beisha, where they would serve a year of free labor and then be released. As for Wang Jingwen and other generals. Li Jing didn't embarrass them. For Li Jing, let them go, they will not have the ability to retaliate against him again in this life. It's better to let them go back to Wang Jingwuna, and they can also add some blockage to Song Wei.
Until now, Song Wei has not handed over the position of Dengzhou Assassin to him as promised, which has made Li Jing a little unhappy. If Li Jing wants to grow, the conflict with Song Wei is inevitable. However, Li Jing doesn't want to have too much conflict with Song Wei now, but if he makes some trouble for him, Li Jing doesn't mind.
Some things can be made, and some things can't. There is no name for the history of thorns. Li Jing can really control the territory of Dengzhou. It's not enough to rely on the name of a defense envoy, not to mention that Song Wen, the assassin history, also serves as a regimental training envoy. This official position of commanding the soldiers and horses of a state has not been dismissed. Now that Li Jing and Song Wen are both military governors of Dengzhou, Li Jing can't let it go. As soon as you give in, then this defense is really worthless.
"We now have the Da Xie Islands and the two cities of Liaodong, and the territory is not small, is it too hasty to compete for the position of Dengzhou Assassin?" Lin Wei has always been Li Jing's most trusted right-hand man, and when he saw Li Jing talking to Song Xi like that just now, he said with some concern.
"If you should fight, you will fight, and what should come will come." Li Jing's current situation, if he wants to continue on this road, is inevitable.
As Li Jing expected, what should come will always come. Song Xi was half dead by Li Jing's words, and did not stay to watch the surrender, and returned to Dengzhou by boat, and said Li Jing's original words in front of Song Wen and the generals, and suddenly everyone's faces were a little ugly. Song Wen didn't expect Li Jing's wings to harden, and he was about to turn his face with him immediately. And the other generals are all old qualifications, Li Jing had nothing to do with them before, and everyone was happy to see Li Jing making trouble in Daxie. But now, Li Jing has become their boss in a blink of an eye, and now this junior has just said a few words to make them subordinate to Li Jing in the future, which makes them not very satisfied with Li Jing's attitude.
"What kind of thing is this Li Jing, but he's still a rookie, and he actually wants to ride on Lao Tzu's head to, don't think about it!" Some generals shouted and scolded, and many people behind them shouted and shouted.
Song Xi said: "The position of regimental training envoy concurrently held by the assassin has not been dismissed, then he is still the highest commander of the soldiers and horses in Dengzhou, even if he Li Jing has made meritorious contributions to quelling the chaos and added a defense envoy position, what qualifications do he dare to openly compete for the right to command the army." ”
"Let's go for him!"
"Yes, go find him!"
At that moment, Song Wen, who was extremely angry, took the generals of nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses under Dengzhou City, and went straight to Shuicheng by boat.
Song Wen and the others rushed to Shuicheng, and someone shouted, "Li Jing come out!" ”
Li Jing chuckled with a chuckle and took the generals of the Zhendong Army out of the camp: "Didn't this defense envoy say that tomorrow is the time for the generals and schools of Dengzhou to discuss the army, why is it here now, didn't General Song Xi bring the words completely?" He deliberately pretended not to see Song Wen, but only led him to him. At this time, the battle is for military power, but it is not the time to recount the old, otherwise, once the old is recalled, then how to fight.
Song Wen wanted to wait for Li Jing to explain to him in person, but who knew that Li Jing didn't see him, and his face turned red with anger. Song Wenqi's whole body stopped, stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Jing and said: "Li Jing, when the marshal asked you to be a defense envoy, did you make it clear that from now on, all the soldiers and horses in Dengzhou will belong to you?" ”
"The defense envoy is already in charge of a state's soldiers and horses, does this need to be said?" Li Liang said on behalf of Li Jing.
"But the assassin is also the regimental training envoy, and he is also in charge of the soldiers and horses of a state, don't you know this?" Song Xi also stood up and said loudly on behalf of Song Wen.
The people on both sides, the Zhendong Army naturally said that Li Jing was the defense envoy, and then the Dengzhou soldiers and horses would be under Li Jing's command. On the Dengzhou side, everyone would rather let Song Wen, the commander of the regimental training envoy, than see Li Jing suddenly climb on their heads. In addition to Li Jing being too young, the main reason is that Song Wen represents the handsome Song Wei, and now that Song Wei has just defeated Wang Jingwu, everyone knows who the boss of Ziqing Town is next. At this time, of course, it is necessary to follow Song Wei closely instead of him Li Jing.
Just as they were biting their hearts, another team of people suddenly came from the dock.
The leader was a eunuch of about fifty with a white face and beard, but on his side was Zhang Chengye, a prison soldier who had been away from Dengzhou for a long time.
As soon as Zhang Chengye saw that everyone was there, he said loudly: "The holy decree has arrived, please ask the angel to read the holy decree, and Li Jing will accept it!" ”
Song Wen and the others were stunned for a moment, but they didn't expect that there would be a holy decree sent directly to Li Jing, and they immediately knelt down together to welcome the decree. After placing the incense table, the eunuch read out the holy decree, and the decree was written in four and six, but everyone understood the content of the holy decree.
No one thought that the emperor would suddenly crown Li Jing as the champion general of the third grade, from the third rank of the general Jinwu, in addition to the three products of the Zhendong Marquis, the three products of the Andong protector, in addition to agreeing to Song Wen to Li Jing to ask for the post of Zhendong military envoy and Dengzhou defense envoy.
What's going on, why did Li Jing suddenly hear about it in front of the Son of Heaven, and he actually added so many official positions. No matter which position it is, the lowest is from the third grade.
Except for Li Jing, among all the people present, Song Wen was only a third-grade position, and Li Jing was suddenly ranked above Song Wen. What is the point of the command of the soldiers and horses in Dengzhou, which has just been fighting for a long time. Li Jing not only has the post of defense envoy, but now he has added the post of Marquis of Zhendong and the champion general. What's more, he also added the post of General Jinwu, although this is also a false title, but this is the meaning of the Minister of the Son of Heaven's Guard, not to mention, Li Jing also has an official who protects Anton, which is much more than his official position of assassin.
Suddenly, Song Wen felt dizzy, and he never thought that Li Jing, who was still begging him to go to Qingzhou and let him help arrange an official position, really turned into a dragon as soon as he entered the storm.
Li Jing was also a little dizzy, but he was happy and excited. At the beginning, Zhang Chengye was given 2 million yuan to go to the capital, although Zhang Chengye said that he could help him get a knighthood, but he never thought that he was actually a marquis. What made Li Jing even happier was not only the marquis, but also the vacant position of the champion general and General Jinwu, what made him really happy was that the emperor actually wanted to rebuild the Andong Protectorate and let him be the Anton Protector.
With this position, it means that the entire Liaodong is now Li Jing's territory. Although this territory is actually still entrenched by dozens or hundreds of ethnic groups large and small, since it has been divided into Li Jing's pocket, this territory is all his Li Jing's. (To be continued......)