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Feng Zhang returned defeated, and fled all the way back to Da Xie Yan, until he entered the city before finally breathing a sigh of relief. He summoned Feng Xun and asked how many warships had returned. Feng Xun cried with a sad face, and reported: "Because the ghost fire of the Li thief was too sudden and too violent, although we retreated in time, we still suffered great losses. My nephew had just counted 15,000 men, 137 ships, and now there were only about 8,000 left. ”

"How did you lose so many people? How many warships came back? Feng Zhang's face was like ashes, and his face was full of disbelief.

"None of the nearly 5,000 men who had gone ashore had not been able to return, and many of the other ships had been hit and burned, and none of the brothers and sailors on board had escaped. It is estimated that the total losses of the garrison, auxiliaries and soldiers were more than 5,000, and the sailors and crew members were more than 1,000 people. In particular, all the garrisons and families of Fort Montenegro went ashore, and the entire fort was destroyed. Speaking of this result, Feng Xun was also defeated, Wuhu Fort had been wiped out before, and now Black Mountain Fort was wiped out again. The Five Forts and Seven Forts of Da Xie Qi wiped out Wuhu Fort and Black Mountain Fort at once, and also included the Huangcheng Shu and Daqin Shu and Xiao Heishan Fort under the two forts. Five forts and seven garrisons went to two forts and three forts, and nearly half of the soldiers and horses were gone.

"One hundred and thirty-seven ships. Less than a hundred came back. Three of the ships were sunk and one was sunk. Only six of the eight fighting ships returned. Five of the other twenty Sea Falcons were hit and burned. The ship lost two ships. Five ships were sunk, thirteen of thirty yachts were sunk, and fifteen of the thirty-eight armed merchant ships were lost. A total of forty-three ships were sunk, and only ninety-six returned, with heavy losses. ”

Feng Zhang's mouthful of old blood spurted out, his face was like wax silver, and he staggered and sat down on the couch, almost fainting.

He ran it half his life. The site of Da Xie Qi is built like an iron bucket. In this way, he spent a lot of money and food to build this huge fleet and nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses. For a long time, he has relied on this strength to look at the coast of the East China Sea, and even the Wang family has vigorously wooed him, and he doesn't even need to look at the face of Dengzhou Thorn Shi. For a time, it has become the most carefree and powerful force in Dengzhou. Other military towns and barracks are eating empty salaries, but he has been secretly supplying soldiers and horses with the money and food he has collected. Constantly expand the army and build warships.

20,000 soldiers and horses. More than a hundred warships, what a force to be proud of.

But now, it was defeated twice by Li Jing, the first time losing 4,000 soldiers and 37 warships. This time again lost almost seven thousand men, and forty-three ships. In total, he lost 11,000 men and horses, and 80 large and small warships. Half of the men and horses and ships are gone, and this is no longer a stripping of meat, but a severed arm.

Where did Li Jing get the ghost fire, it was so powerful. Could it really be as the rumors say, Li Jing got the dragon king's dream to teach the dragon's wrath flame?

"Uncle, why don't you let me go to Dengzhou Water Village and move reinforcements."

Feng Zhang leaned on the couch a little weakly, half-closed his eyes, and waved his hand: "No need, Wang Jin refused to send troops before." Now that we have been defeated, he will not send troops. Anyway, pass on my military order, let all the brethren go ashore and hold on to the island of Daxie, and no one shall leave without my military order. From today, Da Xie Island will be closed to martial law with immediate effect, and no one is allowed to enter or leave Da Xie Island. Da Xie Yan closed the city gates all day, and imposed a curfew in the city every dark. It is strictly forbidden to gather and connect without permission, and once discovered, immediately beheaded. ”

"Uncle, let's just forget it?" Feng Xun looked surprised. He never thought that Feng Zhang was a person who was willing to suffer, let alone suffered such a big loss this time.

The muscles on Feng Zhang's face twitched a few times, his eyes were full of hatred, and he said in a low voice: "Of course we can't count it like this, but we have already suffered two losses from Li Jing in a row, and we can't fall in a pit three times again." We can't rely on ourselves in this matter, we have to pull the Wang family in. I immediately wrote to Wang Jingwu of Qingzhou, Li Jing made a rebellion, and asked him to transfer troops to quell the rebellion. ”

Since then, Feng Zhang gathered his troops and horses, gathered on Daxie Island, and held on to the city, and the ships of the naval division only patrolled the coast. When Li Jing learned about it, he didn't attack it, but just sent people to Song Wen in Dengzhou and Cui Yunqing, a teacher in Qingzhou.

The letters of Li Jing and Feng Zhang arrived in Qingzhou almost at the same time, along with the letters of Song Wen, the assassin of Dengzhou, and Wang Jingwen, the governor of Dengzhou.

After Wang Jingwu received the letter, he went to the Jiemarshal's Mansion in person, found Song Wei, said that Li Jing had rebelled, and asked the shogunate to transfer troops to quell the rebellion. Cui Yunqing had already received the letter sent by Li Jing's envoy, and she was naturally clear about the matter of Dengzhou. He immediately revealed the letters from Li Jing and Song Wei and Li Xiao, the king of Zhao, saying that Li Jing was not a rebellion, but that Feng Zhang had listened to rumors that Li Jing was the brother who killed his brother. That's why he secretly colluded with pirates to sneak attack Shamen Town, but the sneak attack failed, and then Li Jing found the lair of the pirates' remnants and wanted to attack. He was also afraid that Li Jing would learn about his collusion with pirates, so he sent a fleet to attack Li Jing, and Li Jing counterattacked in self-defense and defeated Feng Zhang's fleet. Feng Zhang was unwilling, and raised a large army to attack Shamen Town, but who expected to be defeated by Li Jing again.

"If it weren't for Li Jing's outstanding command, the brothers under him would have fought bravely, and they would have almost been broken by Feng Zhang. Feng Zhang, as the envoy of the Great Xie Yan, has repeatedly sent troops to attack his subordinates, and this kind of behavior is really unjust. Cui Yunqing refuted Wang Jingwu loudly in front of Song Wei.

Cui Yunqing and Wang Jingwu argued below, but Song Wei just sat on the top and listened without saying a word. Wang Jingwu is a martial artist, and leading soldiers in battles is naturally his strength, but he can argue with several civilian officials like Cui Yunqing, but it is not his strength. After arguing for a long time, he fell behind everywhere, but he saw that Song Wei just didn't speak, and it was clear that he was shielding. At that moment, he flicked his sleeves with hatred, turned around and walked out of the Jieshuai Mansion directly, without even saying goodbye.

After Wang Jingwu left. Song Wei sighed. "This Li Jing is your protégé. Why was he so bold that he tore up with Feng Zhang. After a pause, he added: "I remember that your student seemed to be just a solidarity soldier who had just been called up last year, when he killed several bandit leaders and reported them to Qingzhou, and I personally approved it and gave a generous reward." Last time, I heard Song Wen say that he transferred to the border army and became a general in the middle town. Why, it's just a blink of an eye. actually defeated Feng Zhang one after another. Song Wen said in the letter that Li Jing defeated Feng Zhang twice before and after, annihilated more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under Feng Zhang, and sank and captured 80 of his warships, which is also incredible. You are Li Jing's teacher, can this be true? ”

Cui Yunqing nodded: "I also just received a letter from Li Jing, and King Zhao also sent someone to send a letter, in addition, the general of Chishan Town, the envoy of Dengzhou Prison, the envoy of the Longshan battalion and the envoy of Dongmu Shou and so on all sent letters, and the content of the letter can basically confirm what Song Thorn Shi said is true." Li Jing did defeat Feng Zhang, and now Feng Zhang was beaten and shrunk on Da Xie Island. desperately wrote a letter to Wang Jingwu asking for reinforcements. ”

In fact, Cui Yunqing couldn't believe it when he first received Li Jing's letter, he didn't believe that his student chose to stay in Dengzhou in the first place. After joining the border army, he was able to poke such a big thing. Attacking the boss Feng Zhang, this courage is too big. What's even more unbelievable is that he actually lost Fengzhang in both battles and achieved such great results. If it weren't for the following letters, which basically confirmed the content of Li Jing's letter, he would have thought that Li Jing was bragging and joking.

After reading everyone's letters, although they were thousands of miles away, Cui Yun and I Qing quickly judged that it should be Li Jing who took the initiative to stir up trouble. Although he didn't get along with Li Jing for a long time, he was too clear about the audacity of his students. At the beginning, when he was just the head of a small unity team, he already dared to quietly lead people to ambush and assassinate Feng Yanqing, and Li Jing is now provoking trouble to attack Feng Zhang, which is not impossible. What surprised him was not Li Jing's boldness, but how Li Jing had such a powerful force so quietly that he could easily defeat Feng Zhang?

"How to deal with this matter? Now Wang Jinwu has a great intention of taking advantage of the matter to stir up trouble, and if it is not handled well, it may cause great trouble. Song Wei asked.

Wang Jingwu controls the tooth army in Qingzhou, and has always been a sharp sword hanging over Song Wei's head, making him constrained everywhere. However, he did not sit in the city of sorrow, the general took the opportunity to recruit unity soldiers and recruited 5,000 Qingzhou soldiers in Qingzhou, especially after pulling Cui Yunqing over, he got a large amount of money and food, so that he quickly turned this unity army into a force of his own. After mastering this Qingzhou army, Song Wei, with the help of Cui Yunqing's financial resources, quickly recruited and formed a 3,000-person pro-soldier battalion on the basis of the original 500 pro-soldiers.

Counting up, Song Wei now has 8,000 men and horses stationed in Qingzhou. Wang Jingwu has 5,000 soldiers, but if you add his private soldiers, there should be no less than 10,000. The two sides are equal, but many of Song Wei's people are newly recruited, and their strength is far inferior to Wang Jingwu. He and Wang Jingwu are now afraid of each other, but they wish they could defeat each other immediately.

Song Wei was worried that Wang Jingwu would use Li Jing's matter to provoke trouble, he was not ready now, and he did not want to start a war at this time.

Cui Yunqing guessed that Song Wei wanted to compromise and retreat, and this result must have been the most embarrassing betrayal of Li Jing. Li Jing is his protégé, and he has always been good to him, and after staying in Dengzhou, he will regularly send people to send gifts every month, and they are all very valuable. There are not many such protégés, even the Cui family of the largest family in Qingzhou, although there are many rich protégés, but there are no such students as Li Jing who are filial, rich, and have military power, and who are so powerful and can fight, he can protect such students.

Although Li Jing is a protégé, he is also a handsome subordinate. I look at Li Jing, although he is young, but he knows how to advance and retreat, understands proportion, and is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and he is really a young hero. And Feng Zhangjiu Town, Xie Yan, together with Wang Jin, almost controlled Dengzhou Port and the sea route. Dengzhou Port and the maritime trade route are almost half of the financial resources of my Ziqing Town, and they have always been in charge, in fact, they are helping Wang Jingwu to continuously transport military funds. Now Li Jing and Feng Zhang are at war, this is in the eyes of outsiders is the marshal against Wang Jingwu, if the marshal compromises and retreats at this time, then in the eyes of other people in the world, especially in the eyes of those who follow the marshal soldiers, what will they think? ”

"But after all, Li Jing provoked trouble first, and started a rebellion without permission, which is the crime of rebellion." Song Wei hesitated.

"A man's mouth has two skins, and no one can sew up another man's mouth. Feng Zhang said that it was Li Jing who attacked him first, and Li Jing also said that Feng Zhang colluded with pirates to attack him first. What's more, Feng Zhang has no evidence, but Li Jing has the one-eyed Jiao pirate captives in his hands, as well as Feng Zhang's nephew who is still under Feng Zhang's subordinates and surrendered soldiers. Many of these people are willing to stand up and testify for Li Jing, which shows that Feng Zhang is unreasonable in the first place. ”

"Is that really the case?"

"Yes and how, no? The truth is not the most important thing, the most important thing is what to do to benefit us all. Da Shuai is not a person, and this is not an ordinary case, it is related to the interests of many people who follow Da Shuai, so you have to be cautious. Cui Yunqing said very directly.

"What do you think we should do?" Song Wei is not a pedantic person, and he doesn't care too much about the so-called black and white truth. Otherwise, he wouldn't have argued with Wang Jingwu, so he would just be idle. His words just let Cui Yunqing express his position first, as long as he is willing to make up his mind, then Song Wei will be much more sure with his support.

Cui Yunqing smiled slightly and said, "The current situation, anyway, is a verbal fight with Wang Jingwu, and the charge of this rebellion must be removed first." As long as the matter is not a rebellion, then it is just a private killing of two friendly armies, although this is also unreasonable, but such a situation has been more numerous over the years, and it is not a big deal. The matter was determined to be a misunderstanding between the two armies, and then the marshal could transfer a few important people to Dengzhou to mediate between the two armies. In this way, it helped Li Jing a lot. Li Jing was originally my student and also a subordinate of Dashuai, so he must be more grateful, and he will be loyal to Dashuai from now on. ”

Song Wei nodded when he heard this, Li Jing's ability in these two battles was quite amazing, not to mention that he also had an army that could defeat Feng Zhang. If Li Jing can be loyal to him, then he will have a force of soldiers and horses inserted into the port of Dengzhou and the sea, and he can also get a share of the huge benefits of maritime trade, which can be used to alleviate the current shortage of money and food.

"Great goodness!" Song Wei clapped his hands and praised, "I think, I will take you as the main thing, and after going to Dengzhou, I will transfer Dengzhou Assassin Shi Song Wen and Dengzhou Governor Shi Wang Jingwen as deputies, and then ask King Zhao to come out as a witness." You are responsible for the mediation between the two armies, and you are solely responsible for the specifics, and try to get as many benefits as possible for Li Jing. This kid has won a big battle this time, showing a big face, we not only have to support him, but also have to find a way to get him some sweet rewards. ”

When Cui Yunqing saw this result, she also breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and finally came up with a powerful protégé, and she really didn't want to see him die young. (To be continued.) )