Late Tang

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Li Jing got up and left the table, Zhang Rui hurriedly called a young servant to follow him out.Once out of the hall, the April night breeze blows, and the whole person is immediately freed from the feeling of drunkenness, and his expression is much more relaxed.It was just an excuse to say that I need to change clothes.Li Jing was really a little overwhelmed with alcohol, so he took the opportunity to come out to catch his breath.It was the fifteenth day at this time, the weather was fine, and a bright moon was in the middle of the night sky, extremely bright and clean.

After waving the servant away, Li Jing simply strolled in the courtyard to sober himself up.Anyway, the purpose of coming to the banquet tonight has been achieved, so I am not in a hurry to go back.Starting from the beginning of Chang'an this time, the town of [***] moved extremely fast.

After the plan for the encirclement and suppression of the Twelve Towns was finally decided that day, soldiers and horses from all walks of life also left Beijing one after another.First, Zheng Congxuan, Yu Jian, Tuoba Sigong, and Hao Lianduo were the first to leave Beijing.Immediately afterwards, Li Guochang and Yang Fuguang led the [-] Shatuo Army and the [-] Shence Army to Xichuan.The next day, Xin Yan, Mi Haiwan and other three tribes set off back to the Datong Army. When Xin Yan set off, he also brought three thousand Shence troops, including two infantry and one thousand cavalry.The three thousand soldiers and horses were completely won by Li Jing in front of the emperor. If he was the new deputy ambassador of the Datong Army, if he had no soldiers, but the three governors under his command had thousands of soldiers and horses each. as.For this reason, Li Jing invited three thousand soldiers and horses from Li Xuan.In this way, the Datong Army also has [-] soldiers and horses.

Xin Xun got three thousand magic troops, and when Chen Jingxuan went to Youzhou to take office the next day, he also asked Tian Lingzi for three thousand forbidden troops. The three thousand he asked for were all cavalry.

Later, Huainan Jiedu Envoy Liu Ye, Xuanwu Jiedu Envoy Mu Renyu, and Dongdu Jidu Defense Envoy Du Ke also left Beijing and returned to various towns. The soldiers of the imperial army rushed back to the town with them.

Later, Zhaoyi Jiedu sent Du Shenquan back to the town, and because the Zhaoyi army's previous [-] soldiers and horses were wiped out, Li Xuan drew [-] forbidden troops to him.Heyang Jiedu envoy Li Zhuo, Yicheng Jiedu envoy Li Zhong, and Zhongwu Jiedu envoy Cui Anqian each received [-] forbidden troops.

Except for the four armies of the Pinglu Army, the Probation Army, the Tianping Army, and the Taining Army that were not in Beijing, among the eight towns in the capital that were going to suppress the bandits this time, only the emperor of Zhen [***] did not pull out the imperial army to give he.In the four towns not in Beijing, Song Wei of the Pinglu Army also got [-] infantry and [-] cavalry.

This transfer surprised Li Jing for a long time.In the end, it was Li Zhen who figured out the mystery inside.

This is actually just a continuation of the power struggle of the leading eunuchs within the Shence Army. Last time, Tian Lingzi took advantage of the power of the eight towns and three tribes in Beijing, and took advantage of the emperor's support to give the Shence Army in Gyeonggi a big blow. cleaning.These follow-ups now are nothing more than the result of the Shence Army generals of the Yang Fugong faction and Ximen Sigong faction who failed in the last struggle being pushed out of Beijing.Even Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong are now temporarily squeezed out of the capital, and their followers will naturally not have good results.

Tian Lingzi openly threw the losers out of the capital in the name of replenishing the towns with troops and strengthening the force to suppress bandits.It is estimated that in addition to the [-] cavalry he gave to Chen Jingxuan, the remaining [-] magicians were transferred out, and they were probably aliens.

Li Jing also had to admire Tian Lingzi's continuous moves, which were really steady, precise and ruthless, so fast that neither Ximen Sigong nor Yang Fugong had time to react.

There were already tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the towns that were supposed to be drawn by the imperial army, but in the end, everyone did not go directly to Songzhou. Instead, they went their separate ways as soon as they left Tongguan, and all went back to their respective towns first.In the end, even Mu Renyu, the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu who ruled Songzhou, returned to Bianzhou first, and only Li Jing couldn't get around, and finally arrived at the city of Songzhou alone.

Originally, Li Jing was also planning to bypass Songzhou, so he returned to Dengzhou first.But Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao didn't give Li Jing any face. He had just arrived in Songzhou, and Cao and Puzhou in front of him were already full of grass thieves, blocking his way forward.

Grass thieves are very strong now, Song, Cao, Hua, Pu, Yan, Yi, Ji, Yun, Qi, there are a lot of grass thieves in Kyushu.The officers and soldiers are now guarding the Xu, Song, Bian, Zheng, and Luoyang lines along the Bianqu. The west side of the Bianqu is fine, but the east side is almost rotten.The Tianping Army and the Taining Army had already been beaten and retreated into their respective Yachengs and did not dare to go out. There were only a dozen or so cities left in Kyushu, which were still leaning on the cities, but the villages were almost completely lost.Grass thieves and locusts rolled over like a crossing, and their power expanded rapidly like a snowball, and now they are known as one hundred thousand people.At the same time, after these grass thieves crossed the border, they almost robbed everything, causing the law and order in various places to be completely disordered. Killing and looting, the entire Henan Province is already in a chaotic war.

This reminded Li Jing of a saying, a single spark can start a prairie fire!

Now the best opportunity to exterminate the grass bandits has been missed. Now that these grass bandits have merged with the Qingzhou soldiers, they have weapons, people, and professional soldiers and generals, and they have completely grown up.Even Li Jing doesn't dare to say that he can exterminate these grassroots thieves by himself.Historically, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao never had the support of local warlords like Wang Jingguan to join forces at the beginning, nor did they win the victory over Tianping and Taining Army at the beginning.

Li Jing had to stop in Songzhou now. Apart from being blocked, there was another important reason, and that was that he didn't have enough food.A [-]-strong army consumes a lot of food every day.When departing from Chang'an, the imperial court did not give Li Jing much food.It was originally said that there would be supplies in the future, but after he sent troops, Yang Fugong, the military envoy, did not leave Beijing for a long time, so naturally there was no food supply.If it wasn't for Li Jing's own money along the way to buy food in advance in various cities ahead, they wouldn't even be able to reach Songzhou.

Now the nine states ahead are full of thieves, so there is no way to talk about supplies on the road, and Li Jing has no choice but to stay.

It seems that no matter how you look at it, if you want to go back to Dengzhou, you have to fight the grass thief.Fortunately, Songzhou is a big city and can supply supplies.But in the face of these thieves, Li Jing was still a little helpless.The grass bandit is said to be 4, but his rebel army has [-] to [-].And there are not many elites among them, but because of this, Li Jing feels that this battle is not easy to fight.Because grass thieves are basically playing crowd tactics, what grass thieves need most now is people.

But for Li Jing, every soldier in the town of [***] is very precious, fighting grass bandits, if a hundred of them die, the grass bandits will not be moved, but if one of the [***] is killed, Li Jing will be heartbroken .Finally, after much deliberation, Liu Xun came up with an idea for him, that is to recruit a temporary auxiliary army in Songzhou and distribute them with weapons.When fighting grass bandits, first let the auxiliary army stand on top, as long as the first offensive of these mob troops can be resisted, then the town [***] will fight back, and the enemy army will definitely be defeated. It can also greatly avoid the damage of our army.

Although this proposal was somewhat cruel, since Li Jing didn't want his soldiers to die, this was an excellent solution.After hesitating for a long time, Li Jing made a decision to recruit five thousand auxiliary soldiers.

Now that soldiers are being recruited outside the city, and the weapons and armors of the five thousand soldiers have just been settled, Li Jing is also in a much better mood.With the food and wages, the cannon fodder for the lead, and the weapons and armor for the cannon fodder, the next things will be easy to handle.

Li Jing was thinking about something on his mind, while turning around casually, but after a while, he got lost in Zhang's mansion.Walking and walking, I came to the back garden. It was almost May at this time, and the roses in the garden were in full bloom, which was very beautiful under the moonlight.At this moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a young woman in white clothes entered his field of vision.Looking from a distance, the whole person is as beautiful and charming as the rose under the moon.

He couldn't help but fix his eyes on her, and he couldn't help thinking, he had seen countless beauties, but this was the first time he saw such a beautiful woman.This woman looked only about thirteen or fourteen years old, she was neither coquettish nor plump, but rather like a rose flower that hadn't fully bloomed yet.At the age of thirteen or fourteen, she was just a young age, but in her body, the unique youthfulness of this age seemed so charming.

She lowered her fragrant shoulders, bent her body halfway, and lowered her head to sniff the flowers lightly. She looked so cute.

A pink face with a little bit of baby fat, thin eyebrows, like a crescent moon, slanted all the way to the side of the temples, looking at the shattered face, with a bit of wine Li Jing really wanted to step forward and knead a few.

Li Jing stood under the vine trellis, half drunk, looking at this lovely girl, and couldn't help being distracted.

The girl in front of the rose finally found Li Jing at this time.When Li Jing broke into the garden, she saw it, but she didn't make a sound, because she recognized this young and handsome man at the first sight. Peeped at that Li Jing.The girl at the age of thirteen or fourteen was in Huaichun season, and her heart couldn't help jumping up when she heard the maid said that Li Jing, the commander-in-chief of the [***] festival, had come to the house for a banquet.

Li Jing is young and brave, a well-known young hero in the world, and soon after he was crowned, he was already the Duke of the state wearing the seal of the commander of the three towns. Such a character has already been sung by the world, and countless restaurants and teahouses are full of stories about him. Even Zhang Hui, who stayed in the boudoir, had heard countless times of his heroic deeds.Like many other young girls, Li Jing's heroic image has long since become the girl's dream lover after countless people have added oil and vinegar.

After peeking outside the living room for a while, she was so excited that she came to the back garden to enjoy the flowers, but unexpectedly they could meet here.She tried her best to suppress her excitement, and only pretended not to know Li Jing's appearance, but occasionally she couldn't help but glance lightly out of the corner of her eyes, but she was also affectionate and shy! (To be continued.)