Late Tang

"How is this possible? Wang Wanjun is already married to his uncle, so how can he marry my eldest brother?" Li Juli was the first to object loudly, "What's more, Wang Pu treats my second sister like that, how can my eldest brother marry his daughter. If you want me to say, directly take that bitch to sacrifice the flag, or directly throw it into the brothel."

"Sir, shut up!" Behind the screen, Mrs. Gao scolded. Although Li Juli had always been rebellious, he always obeyed Mrs. Gao's words and shut up immediately.Mrs. Gao continued: "If uncle is still concerned about the matter of my second sister, please don't feel guilty. Although Wang Pu's daughter was indeed engaged in my family at the beginning, since she has already married uncle, Then when she gets married and becomes a husband, she is no longer the Wang family, but the Li family. Although she is only a concubine, how can an uncle give a concubine to a nephew as a wife. Please don't mention this matter again."

This woman Wang Wanjun really made her husband very angry at the beginning, which made him secretly think that Li Jing was really in contact with Duli Town.Therefore, in the end, without waiting for Li Jing's soldiers to arrive, he marched alone, resulting in a big defeat.If possible, Mrs. Gao wanted to cut this woman into pieces.But now this woman is Li Jing's concubine, and this is a woman who is all over the country. Since Li Jing didn't respond to Gu Qingnicheng's side and kept her, he must be greedy for his beauty.

How could Li Jing be willing to give away such a woman?Mrs. Gao thought that this was just a gesture made by Li Jing, otherwise, why would he say that marrying her to his son and killing her directly would not be more reassuring to the Li family.But now Qingni City still has to rely on Li Jing, so even if she had some thoughts in her heart, she finally suppressed them.

Seeing such a big reaction from the Li family, Li Jing felt a little wronged.He really has never touched this Wang Wanjun, only met once in total.But everyone thought that this Wang Wanjun was already his woman.

Seeing this, Li Liang hurriedly said: "Why don't we tell Duli Town on the surface that the young city lord is going to marry Wang Wanjun, so as to calm their hearts temporarily. In private, we don't have to take it seriously, how about it?"

Mrs. Gao responded behind the screen, and the matter was considered settled.

Li Jing continued: "If you want to fight Duli Town, I think you have to settle Beisha City first, so as to avoid future troubles. Last time, Brother Zhongmou suffered a big loss. This Dulwich promised to retreat well on the surface, but in fact Hidden, and when Brother Zhongmou sent troops, he immediately came back and almost broke the Qingni City. We have to guard against this lesson. However, this Zhang Dewei is actually just a brave, greedy and shameless person. Not a concern."

"That's true." Li Liang nodded, "It's very easy to deal with this person. This time Zhang Dewei was defeated and returned. Chishangu's younger brother Zhang Dewu and the five thousand soldiers he led were all wiped out. He himself was also responding to General Gao Rong He was defeated and fled. He brought a total of 6000 soldiers and horses this time. He had already been beheaded and killed more than [-] people and captured more than [-] soldiers. Some of them are peasants. Calculated, the entire Beisha City now has less than ten thousand soldiers. He must be in a state of panic at this time. As long as he spreads rumors that we are about to lead our troops to attack him, he will definitely retreat to Daheishan, and he will never dare Come out again."

"The Shirenzhu Port City to the east of Beisha City and the Shicheng City to the southwest of Beisha City, these two forces, I remember, have over [-] troops, and they have always had a bad relationship with Beisha City. Looting. I think we can send people to bring some gifts, and ask them to cooperate, and make it look like the coalition forces are attacking Beisha City, so as to completely frighten them." Li Jing added a sentence later.

Li Liang sent people to spread rumors everywhere, saying that Shamen Town and Qingni City were preparing to retaliate against Beisha City's attack on Qingni City last time.An army of [-] land and water troops has been mobilized, and it has been agreed that Shirenzhu Gangcheng and Shicheng will send [-] troops each to encircle Beisha City.As soon as this news reached Zhang Dewei's ears, he was so scared that his face turned pale.In this attack, the real thing is that they lost all their money.He regrets it very much now, if after breaking through the outer city of Qingni City, he would make a lot of money and leave after looting.But he was too greedy, and wanted to swallow Qingni City in one gulp, but in the end, he lost all his capital.

Right now, only [-] soldiers and a few thousand civilians fled back to Beisha City.In addition, the soldiers and horses staying at home are no more than [-] people. If Li Jing's allied forces come to attack, how can he resist?Although Beisha City is a mountain city built on Dahei Mountain with excellent defenses, when he thinks of the flying fire used by the Shamen Town Army in Qingni City that day, he feels a wave of fear.Considering that the Mohe Assassin Department, the Buan Department of Baekje, and the Gaorong Department of the Goguryeo tribe defected and betrayed that day, he was shocked for a while.There are quite a few of these barbarians in his Beisha city, even in his army, there are many of these barbarians.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt uneasy, so Zhang Dewei gritted his teeth, summoned his confidants to the barracks, and suddenly attacked his barracks that night, killing all the barbarian soldiers and horses in the Beisha army, leaving no one behind. People were all arrested and beaten into slavery.for a while.Before Li Jing's coalition forces attacked, Beisha City broke into chaos first, bloodbathed the whole city, thousands of people died, and tens of thousands of barbarians were chained and imprisoned in slave camps.While cleaning the whole city, Zhang Dewei forcibly recruited the young and strong in the city to enlist in the army, and pulled up another army of 2 soldiers. However, although the number of troops had recovered, these troops, mostly recruits, were far from what they were at the beginning.Holding this large number of soldiers and horses, Zhang Dewei closed the city and closed all households, and put the whole city under martial law, anxiously waiting for the arrival of the coalition forces.

On the other hand, the envoy sent by Li Jing to Duli Town had a smooth meeting with the representative of Duli Town.In the end, the decision to exchange prisoners was reached, and in addition, Duli Town did not have much objection to Li Jing's marriage of Wang Wanjun to Li Lingfu's son, and finally agreed.

Subsequently, the two sides exchanged prisoners in the middle area between Qingni City and Duli Town.Li Jing exchanged nearly 5000 captives and two senior generals, Wang Gai and Pei You, for the bones of Li Lingfu and tens of thousands of soldiers.And there are more than 300 captives, including more than [-] in the Nutao Camp, about [-] from other coalition forces, and more than [-] from Qingni City.

On the second day after the captured soldiers came back, Li Jing immediately sent troops to Duli Town, making preparations all the time, claiming on the surface that he would attack Beisha City's army.

This time, Li Jing directly mobilized Qinglang, Tiebi, Tieqiang, Flying Eagle, Nutao, the Sixth Battalion of Zhenhai, as well as directly subordinate cavalry and silver spear guards, a total of 600 people, plus those old seamen from Nutao Battalion The thieves, and those just returned, Shamen Town dispatched a total of 8000 troops, 400 soldiers, and 1000 old pirates.On the Qingnipu side, this time, Qingni City was handed over to Madam Gao and Li Meng. The three brothers of the Li family all went into battle and insisted on participating in this battle of revenge. They brought half of the 1000 members of the Crane Control Army , and [-] infantry, a total of [-] people, the remaining more than [-] soldiers and horses, and more than [-] soldiers who have just returned, all stayed in Qingni City.

In addition to these people, Gao Rong, the Assassin, and Fu'an three tribes of three thousand soldiers who defected in the last battle of Qingni City also joined the battle.In addition to these three times, Gao Rong and the others even recruited another 5000 Fan troops composed of several small tribes during this period, so that the Fan army had a total of [-] people.When they participated in this battle, Li Jing paid them per head, each with a ten-gun employment fee, plus all food and drink, and even promised to reimburse the worn-out ordnance afterwards.And cut off the enemy's head, each reward is consistent, and the captives are also rewarded with consistent money.Although it is much less than the reward of at least five guan for each head in Shamen Town, these Hu people from various tribes in Liaodong are very happy.There is always a lot of money, not to mention that Li Jing promised them that the looted money and materials will be split [-]-[-]. They will hand over half to Li Jing and keep the other half for themselves.

A newly arrived leader of a small tribe with only two hundred cavalrymen smiled at Gao Rong, "That little white-faced Tang general is really a donkey. He has a lot of money for a fool. He offered such a generous reward."

A Salmonella town army heard it and reported it to Li Jing.Li Jing chuckled: "This group of barbarian soldiers are fools. A strong adult warrior can be hired to help me with only such a small amount of money. As many of them as there are, I will pay as much as I want."

Money can be earned again, but an elite veteran cannot be trained in a short time.

All ministries added up to 4000 soldiers and horses, and Li Juren mobilized another [-] young men to distribute them with spears, horizontal knives, bows and arrows. When you are healthy, you can go to battle and kill the enemy.

With 2 horses, they had already reached the city of Duli Town within half a day.The scouts urgently reported to Wang Pu, the city lord, who was reprimanding Wang Gai in the hall for his entire army to be annihilated, and Wang Pu, who was captured, almost jumped up. "How is this possible? Didn't Li Jing's envoy say that our two families exchanged prisoners and ceased fighting? Then Li Juren, didn't he want to marry Lord Wan? They came here just as they said."

Sitting at one end, Wang Gai curled his lips and said, "I think that Li Jing is more difficult to deal with than Li Lingfu. You can believe his words. He just defeated Zhang Dewei first, and then defeated me. Now his momentum is sharp. Under such circumstances, he How could it be possible to stop the troops so easily. But don't worry, Li Jing's soldiers and horses are indeed capable of fighting, but right now he is attacking me and defending. As long as we hold the top of the city and have flying fire to help out, what can he do to me?"

Wang Pu said with a worried face: "The flying fire is powerful, but it needs a huge amount every time. The last time I dealt with Li Lingfu, I used up all the ones I got out, and there is no stock right now. Even if we rush to make it, Not ten days and a half months. Besides, I heard that Li Jing not only has Shenhuo, but also used Feihuo to deal with Beisha City this time, and they seem to use it even more powerfully. They use canned cloth bags, each weighing only twenty or thirty catties , but it is more powerful than our forty or fifty catty ones. If Li Jing uses this thing to attack the city, I am afraid that the soldiers will be too timid and difficult to defend."

The alarm bell in Duli town rang, and representatives from all walks of life filed in. 36 decision-making representatives, 72 council representatives, and [-] wealthy families, the largest force in southern Liaoning, are a little panicked at the moment.Undoubtedly, although Qingnipu, the enemy of the past century, has just been completely maimed, but the tiger is going like a wolf.Li Lingfu died, but Li Jing attracted him again.

Two battles were fought between Duli Town and Shamen Town. In the first battle, the entire combined fleet was wiped out, and more than 1 people were lost.In the second battle, [-] cavalry went to reinforce Beisha City, but they only used the same number of soldiers and horses, and captured them all in one ambush.Shamen Town is simply the nemesis of Duli Town, invincible in every battle.

In particular, there is Feihuo in Duli Town, but they have already had Shenhuo, and now they also have Feihuo, and it is said that they are even more powerful than them.

Right now Li Jing is leading [-] troops to attack, which makes the representatives of the various families who have always been aloof and pretentious feel restless.

"Let's make peace!" The representative of the Zheng family was the first to speak. "I said a long time ago that we should not intentionally pick Li Lingfu, but some people insisted on not listening. What happened, we worked desperately and paid out countless bounties to buy off a few insiders from the Tibetan Ministry, but even though Li Lingfu was eliminated in the end, we ourselves There are countless casualties. Now Li Jing has been attracted again. It took a huge price of 300 million yuan to appease Li Jing and let him agree to the peace negotiation. Now, all 300 million yuan will be thrown into the sea. gone."

Immediately, some people echoed, accusing the city lord Wang Pu one after another, saying that if it wasn't for him, it wouldn't be like this now.These people forgot how when Li Jing wiped out Li Lingfu and the coalition forces, how they followed Wang Pu's butt and praised him for his bravery and bravery.

Wang Pu looked at those people coldly, and said with a chuckle: "Then what should you do now? Is it possible that you want to give me to Li Jing to calm your anger just like the last time you proposed to give Feng Shi to Li Jing?" ?”

The representatives sneered and blamed it, but Wang Pu was able to kill Li Lingfu and defeat the [-] coalition army last time, in their minds, he was still very capable.There are not many such people in Duli Town, and they must not be given to Li Jing.

"It's better to pay. I think Li Jing loves money. Last time I gave him 300 million, the war stopped immediately. Why don't we all bleed a little more and just use the money to get rid of him." Another representative said.

"Pay? How much are you going to pay, 100 million or 200 million? Li Jing asked for 300 million last time. This time, he must have a bigger appetite, and this time I fed him the money. There is no guarantee that he will not come again next time." Looking for an opportunity to ask for more, when will it end? What's more, there is not much money in the town right now."

"If it doesn't work, let's join together. Our 300 representatives, if one family pays [-] to [-] guan, there will be [-] million. If you can fight, it's better not to fight. Don't forget, the city owner, we are now What we are facing is Li Jing, not Li Lingfu. And the opponent has [-] soldiers, how many soldiers do we have now? If we get rid of those disgraceful cavalrymen who have just been exchanged for captives, we will not have enough [-] soldiers."

Seeing that everyone was afraid to fight, Wang Pu was extremely angry, but the will of the people was hard to disobey, and he, the city lord, had nothing to do.In the end, he had to send a representative out of the city to negotiate with Li Jing.

Facing the envoy, Li Jing only said one sentence: "Send 500 million yuan of money and food, and hand over the Duli Zhenfeng clan and Wang Pu clan to our disposal, and I will withdraw immediately. If not, one day later, I will The city will be attacked immediately!" After saying a word, Li Jing immediately asked the guards to send the envoy out.

(To be continued)