Late Tang

Li Jing's idea shocked all the generals, it was too bold to attack Wuhu Island.Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to react for a while.Setting up an ambush to Feng Zhang's fleet is already playing with fire.But now, Li Jing not only wants to annihilate Feng Zhang's squadron, but also wants to attack Wuhubao.Wuhu Fort is one of the five lower forts in Daxie Village. If the imperial court garrisoned the town, would it be tantamount to rebellion if they attacked Wuhu Fort?

Li Jing saw everyone's reaction in his eyes, and he had expected everyone's reaction a long time ago.This step is a bit big, and the generals can't understand it for a while, but he understands it very well.But this is not his whim, but the thought after careful consideration in his heart.

If Shamen Town wants to develop, it will never be able to cross Daxie Village.And Feng Zhang of Daxie Village has obvious hostility towards Shamen Town, Feng Zhang wants to remove his thorn in his side all the time.At first he was not given arms, and later even pirates were deliberately sent to attack Salmonella Island, and then he hijacked his arms and blamed Wang Jin, trying to cause conflicts between Wang Jin and him.Although he has resolved it time and time again, Feng Zhang's strength is much stronger than that of Salmon Town, and Feng Zhang still has some scruples at the moment, if Feng Zhang no longer has scruples, there will be more troubles in Salmon Town.

No one understands the vicissitudes of the late Tang Dynasty better than Li Jing. At present, those wealthy families in the Tang Dynasty still think that although the court can no longer control the place, and the Li Tang royal family has become puppets in the hands of the eunuchs, they still feel that, The aristocratic clans controlled the place, and the feudal towns checked and balanced each other. The Tang Dynasty could have at least a hundred years of rule, or even a longer period of rule.After all, since the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty has not relied on the balance between the feudal towns for more than 100 years to maintain it until today.

Although many people in the court shouted that the vassals and towns were separatist and the warriors were in chaos, but in fact, if there were no these dozens of vassals and towns to check and balance each other and maintain a wonderful balance between the world, how could the Li and Tang Dynasty survive to this day after the Anshi Rebellion? .Since it has been maintained for more than 100 years, it may not be impossible to maintain it for another 100 years.

This kind of thinking is the concept of the vast majority of people at present, even Cui Yunqing and Li Rui, who are at the top, have almost the same concept.

Only Li Jing knew very well that these people were just dreaming.The wealthy families of scholars and generals joined forces to indeed control the local feudal towns one by one.On the surface, the vassals and towns are fairly peaceful, and the gentry are entering the peak of family politics, even far surpassing the previous peak of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.They never imagined that while the wealthy family was singing drunkenly, the annexation of land in the Tang Dynasty was already extremely serious. Coupled with the continuous natural disasters, the people at the bottom were already overwhelmed.

However, the imperial court and local feudal towns are still trying their best to win over the people, but they don't know that no matter how strong the bow is, if the string is stretched all the time, it will break sooner or later.

And this timing, Li Jing is very clear.Just this year, another severe drought, two consecutive years of severe disasters, will put the entire Central Plains and the North in a more severe famine than last year.Last year's famine, the common people fled everywhere, barely survived.But this year's famine again, this is what really kills.Hungry people who can't even get food are vicious. If there are more such vicious hungry people, they will become a group of robbers.If someone incites it again, it will become a civil riot.

This is not Li Jing's concern, but a fact.In history, the most severe famine this year will be in the states of Henan Province, where hungry people will gather together as robbers one after another.Then, one of them, Wang Xianzhi, a well-known salt dealer in the rivers and lakes of Henan, will take the opportunity to revolt, and then Huang Chao, who has sold salt for generations, will follow up the rebellion. Together, they will start the last 30 years of chaos in the Tang Dynasty.

After these two people work together, the apparent balance of Datang will be completely disrupted, and even the last bit of peace on the surface will be gone.

Zhu Wen who feeds pigs, Wang Jian who steals donkeys, and other heroes at the end of Tang Dynasty will all appear on stage.

It's almost this time, will Li Jing still be trapped in the small Shamen Town, being suppressed by Feng Zhang?

impossible.

It's almost this time, in troubled times, shouldn't we do something?Do you want to watch Huang Chao, Qin Zongquan, and Sun Ru, the cannibal kings of the late Tang Dynasty, continue to rampage the world with their cannibal army?

He wanted to change all of this, and he didn't want to see the mighty Tang Empire collapse.

The Tang Dynasty is about to enter a precarious and chaotic world. At that time, only the soldiers and horses will have the territory, and only the soldiers and the territory can make their voices heard.

Feng Zhang was the first stumbling block in front of Li Jing. After desperately preparing for this period of time, Li Jing felt that it was time for him to make a move.Although soldiers and horses have not yet been trained, if they start first, they can make up for many shortcomings in this area.

During this period of time, Li Jing conducted a detailed investigation of Feng Zhang's strength.Finally, the summarized information showed that Feng Zhang had occupied Daxie Village for many years, and his management power was not small.On the surface, Fengzhang has 3000 soldiers and horses, but in fact, in addition to these 2000 troops, Fengzhang's Daxie Village has about a thousand soldiers from him and the generals.In addition, there are some soldiers and horses belonging to the auxiliary soldiers, about 2000 people.In addition, Fengzhang also has a crew of about 3000 people.In addition, he can also mobilize about [-] children at any time in an emergency.

Adding up all the strengths, Feng Zhang's men are over ten thousand.There are five forts and seven garrisons, more than 30 large and small islands in the three major archipelagos, and his warships total more than a hundred.

It is undoubtedly an unwise choice to confront Feng Zhang directly.Li Jing thought for a long time, if he wanted to kill Feng Zhang, it would be almost impossible to kill him head-on.The only way is to use other methods, and right now is a good opportunity. Although Feng Zhang cannot be killed, he can eat one of his fleet and one of his fortresses.If things were successful, Feng Zhang's strength would be weakened by one third.

The generals are right, this is a crazy plan, this is playing with fire.However, Li Jing knew his situation. If he went on like this step by step, he might not even be able to break through the Daxie village in his life, let alone participate in the competition in the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty?

After careful calculation, Li Jing felt that the plan to kill the current fleet and win Wuhubao might have a [-]% chance of success.But before starting this plan, he still needs to consider one more thing, that is, how to deal with the next thing after he really took this step.

The biggest possibility is that Feng Zhang tore his face apart and went to war directly.However, if the current fleet and Wuhubao can really be eaten up, if there is a real fight, Salmon Town only needs to defend Salmon Island, and it should be able to hold it.What Li Jing was most worried about was whether Wang Jin would get involved.And if Wang Jin got involved, would the troops belonging to Song Wei and Cui Yunqing in Dengzhou support him?

If Wang Jin didn't get involved, Li Jing wouldn't be afraid of Feng Zhang at all.If Wang Jin got involved and Dengzhou's soldiers and horses sent troops to support him, then Li Jing would have an overall advantage, and he was confident that he could take this opportunity to finally annex Daxie village in one fell swoop.

Playing with fire, if you succeed, Shamen Town may swallow Daxie Village.But if he fails, he probably can only follow the yellow beard and the others to flee to sea.

"If I want to rebel against Feng Zhang, do you dare to follow me?" Li Jing looked around at the generals and asked loudly.

The generals were surprised at first, and then they replied loudly without hesitation: "I will swear to follow the general to the death!"

Beginning after the mid-Tang Dynasty, the imperial court often changed commanders every three to five years in order to control the feudal towns, but the commanders did not transfer troops.The commanders of feudal towns often change, but the soldiers below will not change.Over time, the actual power of the feudal town often fell into the hands of the generals below.When the Jieshuai conflicts with the soldiers below, it will often happen that the commander-in-chief will be killed or chased away, and finally the general will be supported.

This kind of thing happened too much, and the soldiers of Datang got used to it.Therefore, when the generals heard that Li Jing openly said that he would rebel against Feng Zhang, everyone was only a little surprised.As long as you don't openly want to rebel against the Emperor of Tang, there is nothing to be afraid of.As long as the strength is sufficient, even the emperor's rebellion can be rebelled, and if they can't be defeated, they can be surrendered again. Isn't this the case in the three towns of Hebei for more than a hundred years, and the court has nothing to do with them.

"Write a letter to Mr. Huang and tell him that the plan has changed slightly, and ask him to find a way to delay it with Feng Ming for a day."

Wang Zhong laughed and said: "Perhaps that dude Feng Ming is not the opponent of Huang Dangjia at all, and Huang Dangjia killed them directly."

"That's naturally the best, but although Feng Ming is a dude, Wu Qian is a powerful person. We still have to be careful and be prepared."

Night fell again, and darkness enveloped the sea.

Li Jing, Megan, and Julie lived in the middle on the Ning Hai, while Wang Zhong and Lin Wuer each took a [-]-shi armed sea-going ship to separate the two sides, and Li Wei led the officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance capital on a speedboat. Living in the vanguard, nineteen pirates and dozens of speedboats braved the wind and waves under the starlight.

"Megan, I've bet all my wealth on this battle, and it's up to you to command." Li Jing said to Megan.

"General, I heard that you are a good archer. I am confident that your archery skills are not bad. Today we are fighting with bows, so what if there are thousands of people?" Megan laughed.

Zhu Li said coldly at the side: "Wuhubao doesn't have tens of millions of people, only 500 people. And I just got the news that before Feng Ming's fleet left, Wuhupu and Huangcheng garrison and Qindao garrison five Three hundred guards were transferred, and hundreds of fishermen and boatmen on Wuhu Island were recruited to supplement the fleet. Therefore, the Wuhu Castle in front of us only has [-] official guards. It’s only five hundred. What we really need to consider is not the soldiers on the island, but the castle. Last time your people opened the castle on Cat Island, this time we’ll see if we can do it again.”

"No problem!" Li Jing smiled lightly.

There are five main islands in the Wuhu Islands, namely Wuhu Island, North Huangcheng Island and Nanhuangcheng Island, as well as Daqin Island and Xiaoqin Island.Wuhu Fort was built on Wuhu Island, and Huangcheng was built on Beihuangcheng Island, and Qin Island was built on Daqin Island.Wuhubao usually has [-] garrisons, and each of the two garrisons has [-] soldiers. In addition, there are beacon shops built on each of the other large and small islands, adding up to [-] soldiers, and the entire archipelago has a total of [-] soldiers.However, the military officers on each island also have different numbers of household troops, as well as some civilian husbands who serve on the island on rotation.Add up, less than a thousand people.Before Feng Ming went to Tieshan, he went back to Wuhu Island and dispatched [-] garrison soldiers, and recruited hundreds of boatmen to supplement the crew.

The fleet went straight to Wuhu main island, and patrol yachts at sea spotted the fleet.Immediately signal to the fleet and ask where it belongs.

The forward Li Wei led the speedboat to approach directly without answering at all.This action caused the patrol boat to be alert and wanted to flee.However, the Scouting Capital's boat was fast, and it was approaching within a short while. Several iron cables were thrown forward to detain the patrol boat.

Li Wei's scouts approached the wharf of Wuhu Island first, and the people on the wharf shouted loudly: "Who is here, tell me your name!"

The patrol prisoner who was stabbed tightly in the back by a dagger had to stand up, waved his hands and shouted: "Captain Wang, it's me, Old Sun."

"Who are these people behind you?" Captain Wang asked while standing on the arrow tower with some vigilance.

"It's Daxie Village's deputy soldier and horse envoy leading the fleet. You should quickly notify Captain Zhang in the fort to come and greet you."

When Captain Wang heard that Feng had been found, he walked down the arrow tower with some doubts, and came forward with a few small officers on duty on the pier, but he was very vigilant and let the other guards stick to their posts.

"Where is the deputy envoy?"

Suddenly a person appeared behind Lao Sun and grinned at him: "Feng Xun is not here. Grandpa is Li Wei, the head of the reconnaissance team in Shamen Town. Remember it, and you don't have to be a fool in front of Hades!"

Wang Dui froze for a moment, his expression changed drastically, and he immediately touched the horizontal knife at his waist.

Li Wei's movements were faster, and he swung his right hand vigorously, and a triangular army thorn whizzed straight to the head of the king's team, killing him on the spot.

"kill!"

Following Li Wei's shout, more than a dozen scout soldiers on the first boat that came ashore picked up their bows and shot arrows one after another, and immediately shot at several arrow towers on the pier.The defenders were caught off guard, and several people were shot down immediately before they could figure out what was going on.

The screams of the defenders before they died were heard far away in the night sky, and the battle of attacking the island officially started.

One after another, the speedboats of the scouts quickly rowed towards the pier, and one after another, the scouts held bows and arrows and poured rain of arrows on the pier.The defenders on the arrow towers on the pier were cleared immediately, and the remaining few dozen soldiers couldn't hold back such a violent arrow rain attack, and fell one by one.In less than a moment, the two groups of soldiers on duty on the pier were all killed.

(To be continued)