Late Tang

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The autumn wind is rustling, and the withered and yellow vegetation on the side of the gravel road is swaying with the wind, and the atmosphere of chilling permeates.

Li Juyi, the leader of the Crane Control Cavalry Army who had just been promoted to Qingzhou Defense Envoy, wore a helmet and armor, and wore the valuable, magnificent and mighty Sirius-style full-body plate armor bestowed by Li Jing. The bravery and heroism of the young general.

On the upper floor of the east gate of Shanhaiguan City, Li Jing led all the civil and military generals to review the cavalry that was about to go out.

Under the banner of the Tang character, the town [***] flag, the marching vanguard flag, the vanguard officer Li character flag, and the flags of each battalion and team in each compartment.

Lin's cavalry spear tips, the red tassels on the helmets of the crane-controlling cavalrymen, the colorful helmet tassels, red tassels, yellow tassels, black tassels, and white tassels!

Under the golden helmet fringe, Li Jing, who is the King of Andong County, had a calm and self-confident expression on his face. He lowered his head, his gaze was like a sword.

The sixteen army drums were beating, and the crescendo became shocking.

The five thousand cavalrymen pulled out their sabers one after another, raised their arms and shouted.

"Datang!"

"Datang!"

"Datang!"

Horses are like dragons, people are like tigers!Five thousand tigers are fighting fiercely.

With a smile on Li Jing's face, he stretched out his hand to gently stroke the short mustache under his jaw, looking very energetic.

With a wave of hands, the three armies are silent!

"Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, soldiers of Zhen [***], soldiers of the Crane Controlling Cavalry!" Li Jing shouted loudly, and the sound shook the audience.

"Soldiers and soldiers, Datang lost Liaoxi for a hundred years, wiped out Liaoxi, and regained Yingzhou, all in one fell swoop!"

All the officers and men shouted, "Sweep western Liaoning and recover Yingzhou!"

Li Juyi replied loudly: "Please don't worry, the king of the county!"

As the second son of Qingnipu in southern Liaoning, Li Juyi completely merged with the Li family into the town [***] after his father died.In Zhen [***], Li Juyi's situation is good. Li Jing and his father were sworn brothers. As Li Jing's righteous nephew, his status in the army is even higher than that of Liu Xun and other Li Jing's disciples.For a long time, he has been in command of the Crane Army, the most elite cavalry unit under Li Jing's command.Not only has he been leading the elite cavalry at a young age, he has become the lord of an army, and he has just been promoted to Qingzhou Defense Envoy, as one of Li Jing's senior generals.

This time, during the battle of Guan Jian in western Liaoning, Li Jing personally served as the battalion commander, and countless generals wanted to fight for the vanguard position.In the end, with such an important position, Li Jing let Li Juyi be the vanguard of the west camp, and Zeng Yuanyu was the vanguard of the east camp, overwhelming the generals.

Needless to say, this honor made Li Juyi excited.

At the east gate of Shanhaiguan, Wang Pu, Pei You and others followed Li Jing to stand on the upper floor of the east gate, looking eastward.

Far away, [-] cavalrymen drank the expedition wine, and the pioneer army on the west road was already covered in smoke and moved slowly eastward.

Earlier, there was a century-old grievance between Duli Town and Qingnipu, especially in the past, the fight became more intense, Wang Pu and Pei You even killed Li Juyi's father and brother.As a result, Li Jing and Pei Wang's family became feuds.After Li Jing occupied Liaonan, although he helped resolve it, the two sides have never had any contact.During a banquet, Li Juyi and Wang Pu clashed at the banquet, and even fought violently.Over the past few years, especially between the Wang and Li families, there have been several private fights, resulting in the casualties of more than a dozen children.

Li Jing had to relocate people from the two families to different places, which was also the intention when Li Juyi was transferred to Pingzhou.Today, when Li Juyi went to war, Li Jing sent Wang Pu Peiyou to see him off, which also meant to let the three families resolve their grievances.

"I want to marry Second Lady Wang on behalf of Li Sanlang!"

Li Jing looked at Zhengchen who was going away, and suddenly threw out a sentence, which made Wang Pu stunned.The grievances between the Wang family and the Li family are very deep.Back then, in order to deal with Li Lingfu, Wang Pu even took the concubine of the Li family who was married to his son as a concubine and killed her.Besides, both Li Lingfu and his son died in his hands.

"The grievances between the Li family and the Wang family must be resolved! You must agree to this matter." Li Jing said in a tone that could not be refused.Both Wang Pu and Li Juyi are the army masters and defense envoys of the town [***], and their respective families also have great influence in the town [***] and are widely involved.If the two continue to fight, it will be extremely detrimental to the internal stability of the town [***].No matter what method is used, Li Jing has to make peace with several families. "Junzhu Pei must also marry a woman from his clan to Junzhu Li as a concubine!"

Wang Pu and Pei You looked at each other, marrying their daughter and niece to Li Juyi.

"You don't have to worry too much about what will happen to the woman after she gets married. I will explain the details to Li Sanlang. It's time to settle this matter rather than end it."

After sending off the vanguard, Li Jing returned to the pass.Follow-up soldiers and horses will also begin to prepare for the expedition.

Huainan, Yangzhou.

In Gao Pian's study, Lu Yongzhi, who had just returned to Huainan, had just finished talking about his trip to Pingzhou.The depressing dullness in the study made Lu Yongzhi's forehead start to sweat.

Lu Yongzhi was able to become Gao Pian's confidant from a quack warlock, and gained his trust. In addition to having a hobby of alchemy with Gao Pian, it is more because Lu Yongzhi is good at guessing people's hearts.

Gao Pian, in his 50s, is at the peak of his life.After becoming the king of the county, the son of the general family has a smooth career.Although it is inseparable from his family background to get to the position of ambassador today, his own efforts also play a decisive role.Ping Dangxiang people and defeat Nanzhao, it can be said that they are invincible in battle and invincible in attack.There is no one who can make Gao Pianzai suffer from being dumb.

But right now, Gao Pian has stumbled.

Moreover, the person who made him stumble was just a little guy who he had never really looked at seriously before, and he was a latecomer.

In the past, if someone offended Gao Pian, he would either rely on his family background, official position, or even bully and unreasonable bullying.There is no way for others to suffer.But now, he saw that Li Jing came from behind and stole the limelight. In just a few years, he surpassed him, an important minister who had worked so hard for the court, and became the county king.Apart from anger and jealousy, I originally wanted to give Li Jing a blow and convince him to be soft.

But who would have thought that Li Jing would react so strongly.If he withholds goods, he robs people.

If it is said that Li Jing's strong reaction made him a little annoyed, then this time he took the initiative to lower his posture and planned to take a slow-down strategy first, but was rejected by Li Jing again with a sneer, it would be tantamount to being severely dumped by Li Jing A slap in the face.

Gao Pian has always been the only one who bullies others, but now he is so insulted by Li Jing!

Originally, he just wanted to suppress Li Jing's prestige, but now Gao Pian really hated Li Jing.

Li Jing dared to hit him in the face with a navy, which made Gao Pian very angry.

Gao Pian fought in the north and south, and fought even the most difficult battles. Even the king of Nanzhao, who had always been dissatisfied with the Tang Dynasty, fled when he heard his name.He didn't believe it, why would Li Jing, who was only in his early twenties, dare to do this!

Huainan Town has always been a big town in the world, with a vast land and wealth, and is the richest man in all towns.Now Zhenhai and others are all on his side. He doesn't understand why Li Jing dares to be so arrogant. Does he really think that Gao Pian dare not lead his army to Dengzhou?

Gao Pian has never been a timid person, when he gets angry, there is nothing he dare not do.Back then in Annan, he was framed by the court and dismissed from the military.But he didn't sit idly by, but before the arrival of the successor general, he brazenly led his army to launch a big battle against the Nanman, defeating 20 Nanman, and easily turned the extremely passive situation over.

Gao Pian originally planned to use Tian Lingzi and Lu Xie in the court to deal with Li Jing, but now it seems that Li Jing's backup in the court is not easy.

After Lu Xie stepped down, Gao Pian originally planned to calm down for the time being, so that he could look for opportunities to restrain Li Jing later.

But now, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop.

Since Li Jing wants to fight, is Gao Pian still afraid?

Thinking of this, Gao Pian slammed his fist on the table and shouted: "Since Li Jing wants to fight, then XX will fight him to the end. Immediately write letters to Zhenhai, Ganhua, Taining, and Tianping towns to let them They took action and seized all the goods related to Li Jing. I want to prevent Li Jing's goods from leaving Dengzhou Town. In addition, I want to lead a troop northward to meet that yellow boy in Dengzhou , Let the other towns also send troops to join us."

Gao Pian had already seen through the current situation. Li Jing was able to become the king, Li Jing was able to claim Dengzhou, and even dared to plunder his prefectures and counties, and annihilated Wang Jingwu, all because he had soldiers in his hands.

Li Jing has soldiers, does he have no soldiers?

Since Li Jing dared to send troops to plunder his prefectures and counties, he annihilated Wang Jingwu and seized Ziqing.Even Gao Pian dared to fight to Dengzhou. As long as Li Jing was killed, the court would call him domineering, but didn't he have to admit the truth?

Since the grass bandits raised their troops, Gao Pian has seen clearly the fact that the Great Tang Empire has long been strong on the outside but only on the inside.

Even though it was said on the surface, deep down in Gao Pian's heart he didn't think that this big battle could be fought.In his opinion, as long as he leads his troops to the north, Li Jing, a guy who was crowned king only by luck, would dare to face him in real battle?

In his opinion, as long as he goes north with the soldiers and horses of the towns, Li Jing will inevitably be frightened and ask for peace early.

In this way, he can teach Li Jing a good lesson and let him know who is the famous general of the Tang Dynasty.By the way, it is said that Dengzhou has rich reserves of money, food and equipment, and it happened to be taken back to arm the Huainan Army by the way.

As for the consequences of sending troops, as long as they win, what can the imperial court do with them?

Trying to get a bad reputation, Gao Pian must teach Li Jing a lesson this time, and let this ignorant guy know that Gao Pian is not so easy to mess with.

Lu Yongzhi's face turned pale. On the way back, he had thought about Gao Pian's various reactions, but he never thought that Gao Pian would have such a violent reaction.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that the handsome Gao Pian in front of him and the young Li Junwang in Shanhaiguan were really a pair of people with the same temperament.It's just that if the two sides are so stubborn, I'm afraid things will get bigger and bigger! (To be continued.)