Late Tang

"Your Majesty, please calm down. After all, the yamen are still young, and it is inevitable that they will make mistakes." Li Zhen, who came back to his senses, quickly tried to persuade him, fearing that the relationship between Li Jing and his disciples would become stiff, so he was busy in the middle of persuading them to do something. Slow down.

"This is not a mistake, this is a crime!" Li Jing's anger did not subside in the slightest, "In the past, I treated them too much, especially Li Cunxiao and Wang Tiezhang, who had never been soldiers before joining my family. Promoting them to be generals is to backfire. They have not been polished by the army, and they have become generals directly. After one or two victories, they suddenly don’t know the heights of heaven and earth. They dare not even listen to my military orders. Dare to sacrifice indiscriminately. This time, such a big thing happened all of a sudden, if they don't teach them a good lesson, wouldn't they go against the sky in the future?"

Hearing what Li Jing said up to this point, the generals couldn't persuade him anymore.At the beginning, Li Jing really loved these four disciples too much.Liu Xun and Gao Siji were better. After all, before Liu Xun joined Li Jing's sect, he had served Wang Shifan as a servant general for a long time, and Gao Siji had followed his fathers on the battlefield many times.Only Wang Yanzhang and Li Cunxiao, who had never been honed by the army before, took the liberty to become generals, and after a few more victories, they suddenly felt a little smug.

Li Cunxiao dared to attack the Guancheng, which was guarded by thousands of people, with seventy people, and he dared to enter the city with eighteen riders to behead him, and that was the consequence.

Now that such a serious matter happened, Li Jing looked back and thought that it was all because of him.

The army is a special place. Li Jing has always talked about the purity of the army, which is to let the army always maintain the systems and spirits he formulated.A military camp is like a big melting pot. The new soldiers who entered the camp are hammered one by one, and finally those edges and corners are polished off, so that they become the standard soldiers of the Zhendong Army.

But because of the great reputations of Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang, Gao Sji, and Li Cunxiao in history, he broke all these old rules, not only rewarding them heavily, but even skipping his rank and directly promoting him to become a general who leads the army alone.It is precisely because of all these things that such a serious violation of military discipline occurred this time.

If Li Jing did not deal with it seriously, Li Cunxiao and others would not correct it. If there is a first time, there will be a second time, and then other generals will follow suit. In the end, military discipline will disappear.An army without military discipline can no longer be called an army.

The embankment of a thousand miles collapses in the ant's nest!

Lin Wu asked: "Do you want to pursue the Sha Tuo soldiers?"

Li Jing shook his head: "No need."

For Li Jing, fighting is not killing, nor is it robbery.War is a continuation of politics, and war must have a purpose to serve politics.This time, the main purpose of the Zhendong Army is to enhance its prestige and expand its influence.Therefore, after mastering this goal, in Li Jing's plan, the purpose of the war is very clear.The first one is to take advantage of the emptiness of Daibei, first recover Daibei, and then make this real military exploit.And to regain Daibei, if you can't fight, you can't fight, and maintaining your strength is the best.This war is not the Zhendong army's family, there are six soldiers and horses.

Li Jing's intentions are very clear. At this stage, trying to find a way to regain Daibei without bloodshed mainly depends on using power to suppress people, not desperately.After the Shatuo soldiers from Daibei were driven to join Li Keyong and his son, let the other Sixth Route soldiers of the imperial court fight a war of attrition with them.

Shatuo people are not easy to fight, and Li Keyong is not an idle person.Li Jing had already decided that he would wait for the court to suffer a loss first, and when both sides suffered losses, he would make his final appearance, and a battle would determine the outcome.

After Li Jing received the report this time, he only brought along the soldiers and horses who were originally in Zhigu Pass, and the rest of the [-] or so soldiers came before they had time to gather.

After more than [-] soldiers took over the Taixi Pass at this time, they began to clean up the remnants of the city, appease the people, and clean the battlefield to treat the wounded.

In this battle, Li Cunxiao, Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang, and Gao Siji participated in the battle successively. A total of [-] elite cavalry from the four capitals participated in this battle.By noon, the entire battlefield had been cleaned.

"Soldier statistics show that a total of more than 800 dead Shatuo soldiers were found, and more than 300 wounded Shatuo soldiers were not taken away. They collectively surrendered to our army." When Secretary Guo Chengan reported this number, he couldn't help but Surprised, nearly 800 of the 3000 people from the four capitals who participated in the war were killed.And this is still a battle with few enemies, this number of kills, if it is not considered that many of these Shatuo soldiers are actually old, weak and young recruits, this can completely shock everyone.

"What about our casualties?" Li Jing was not very happy about winning the Taixi Pass and killing more than [-] enemies.Because this is a meaningless war, for such a war, no matter how big the victory is, it is meaningless.

Guo Chengan glanced at the account book above, and said sadly: "Our army participated in the battle with heavy casualties in the four capitals. 800 people from the four capitals participated in the battle. In the end, 67 people were still alive, and none of them were seriously injured. The officers suffered casualties. Extremely large, Li Cunxiao, the capital of Hengchong, died in battle, and none of the other officers at the capital and team levels survived. By the way, Liu Xun's flying swords all had a senior soldier named Zhao Da. Six people were killed in this battle. One of them was a battalion tenth general of the Shatuo army. After he killed the Shatuo general, he was pierced through the left chest by the Shatuo soldiers. When cleaning the battlefield, he was found to be alive. After rescue, he was found Zhao Da's heart actually grew on the right side, although the stab was extremely heavy, it only bled a lot, but it was not fatal, he just passed out at that time, but now he has recovered his life."

"A warrior like this must be rescued at any cost. This is a treasure. A soldier who returned from a bloody battle with serious injuries can be worth ten new recruits." Li Jing paused, "I don't believe Li Cunxiao Just died like this, this kid didn't die so easily, you send someone to look for it carefully."

"Your Majesty, the burnt town general's mansion has been cleared out, and more than a dozen charred bodies were found. The burns were so bad that we couldn't tell their identities. They probably belonged to Li Cunxiao and the others," Guo Chengan reported.

"Take me to see!" Li Jing couldn't believe that Li Cunxiao, the tiger fighter, would die so early in a small military camp.

When Li Jing, Guo Chengan and others arrived, the original Town General's Mansion had already been turned into a pile of rubble, with black smoke traces and white ashes everywhere.The ruins have been cleared out, and more than a dozen corpses are placed together, all of which are charred and black, and cannot be identified.

Li Jing looked at the past one by one, and couldn't recognize anything at all, but he always felt that Li Cunxiao was not dead.

"Just these corpses?" Li Jing asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Li Jing frowned and let out a long sigh.Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly seemed to hear a slight vibration under his feet. He stopped quickly, but he didn't stop.Just when he thought he was hallucinating, he heard another very slight voice in his ears.

"Did you hear anything?" Li Jing asked.

"No!"

Li Jing made a gesture of restraining his hands, and he finally heard a little sound again.Regardless of the dust on the ground, Li Jing got down on the ground, emptied a soldier's arrow and placed it on the ground, listening to it.This time, Li Jing finally heard it clearly, it was intermittent knocking, and it came from the ground.

"There's a secret room down here, clear this area for me immediately, find the exit, and rescue the people inside." Li Jing said loudly excitedly in his heart, he was convinced in his heart that Li Cunxiao was right below.

At this time, other people also listened one after another, and sure enough, many people heard the movement inside.

Immediately, many soldiers were recruited, carrying their hands on their shoulders, and removed the stones, wood, etc. from the address of the town general's mansion, and the craftsmen accompanying the military engineering barracks quickly found the entrance. There was a big stone covering it, and the floor next to it The seams, if you don't look closely you can't see this at all.After prying off the cover, an underground secret room was finally revealed.

A soldier jumped in impatiently, and immediately there was a voice of surprise: "Mr. Jun, I found it. Li Yanei is indeed inside, and there are more than a dozen brothers."

When Li Cunxiao saw that the Shatuo soldiers who surrounded them suddenly no longer cared about the hostages in their hands and attacked forcefully, he knew that it was difficult to get out of the predicament.In the end, it was a brother under his command who accidentally discovered the secret room.In the end, they thought of a plan, found more than a dozen corpses and put them and Li Kexiu's three brothers in their clothes, and then set fire to the town general's mansion pretending to burn everything together.

They had nothing to do in hiding in the secret room, but who knew that the fire was so strong that it burned down the town at once, and the masonry and wood pressed the cover of the secret room, and they were trapped underneath.Originally, there was an air hole in the secret room, but that air hole became fatal when the town general's mansion was on fire, and the smoke continued to flow into the secret room, and finally everyone was fainted by the smoke.

Only Li Cunxiao was physically strong, he was half-drowsy and half-awake, insisting on the last sliver of clarity, until he heard a voice above him, he knocked on the wall with his weapon.

One person was rescued, but Li Cunxiao and his seventeen riders were only in a coma, and they were all alive.In addition, Li Keyong's three brothers, Li Kexiu, Li Kerou, and Li Kezhang, were only in a coma.

"Treat me immediately!" Seeing that Li Cunxiao was still alive, Li Jing let out a long sigh.Although he was a little reckless, he was still a capable general if he taught him well. If he died in this battle, it would be Li Jing's fault.

Adding 67 to 85, there were [-] people who were still alive in the end, but then there were five more seriously injured people who were not rescued.There were [-] fine riders in the front and back four cities, and only [-] wounded who were lying on the bed and could not move were left in the end.

At this price, three thousand Shatuo old and weak soldiers and a military camp were exchanged. Many generals felt that this was a big victory, but Li Jing felt bitter in his heart. This was a loss-making business!

(To be continued)