Late Tang

When Li Jing got his teacher Cui Yunqing to arrive in Dengzhou, he rushed to the Arc de Triomphe to welcome him into the city.

The reunion of master and apprentice is very joyful.Li Jing brought his county king Yuren, and asked Cui Yunqing to board the car and return to the commander's mansion.When everyone arrived at the commander's mansion, it was completely dark.

Although it was dark, Dengzhou, a city that never sleeps, was still brightly lit.All the streets and alleys were lit with street lamps, and several main roads were lit up with colorful lights, adding a lot of color to the whole city.Especially in the Shuaifu area, it is the place where many yamen and generals and civil servants of the town government live together.Outside the gates of each mansion, there are bright red lanterns hanging high, illuminating the whole street brightly.

Li Jing called Zhao Jiang and told him to personally arrange the families of all the people to live in the Yingbin Building to rest, and then went to the Shuaifu Jietang with Cui Yunqing and Song Wen to drink tea and chat.

For the teacher Cui Yunqing to come to take up the post of Deputy Chief Protector of Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Jing still welcomes it from the bottom of her heart.Cui Yunqing served as the Governor of Duozhou, and in the past few years has served as the commander of several towns such as Taining, Lingnan Dongdao, and Jiangnan West Road.In particular, he is also Li Jing's teacher, and he has a background from a top wealthy family like the Cui family.In particular, Cui Yunqing is also a handsome literati, which is even more welcomed by Li Jing.

The town is located in the territory of sixteen prefectures, and the autumn offensive against Goguryeo is about to begin. This time, the goal of destroying Goguryeo is certain.If Goguryeo is destroyed, the town can at least add several states.With such a large site, Li Jing couldn't just rely on Li Zhen, Li Liang, Guo Cheng'an, Jing Xiang, Gai Yu and others. He needed more people to help manage civil affairs.

As for the arrival of Song Wen, Song Xi and other ten generals, Li Jing was also very happy.These people are Song Wei and Cui Yunqing's people, naturally they are also his people.Although not as credible as Lin Wei and others, but at least he is one of his own.The Liaodong War is about to begin, and it is a great thing to add ten generals who were originally at the level of military envoys.

Li Jing directly promised Song Wen and the others that he would immediately arrange for them to lead the army and serve as the hosts first, and would participate in the battle against Goguryeo.This news made Song Wen and the others very satisfied, and they were immediately given the actual position of the leader of the army. Although the unification of thousands of soldiers was not considered a promotion, at least it was a sign of Li Jing's trust in them.What's more, there is still a chance to go directly to the front line, which is what everyone is looking forward to.

After chatting with everyone for a while, Song Wen and others saw that Li Jing and Cui Yunqing still had something to say separately, so they all got up and said goodbye.

After they left, Li Jing invited Cui Yunqing into the study.

Even though it was July, the nights were muggy.However, there are ice cubes in Li Jing's study to cool off the heat, so he only feels cool, but not stuffy.Cui Yunqing felt the coolness of the study, and felt like enjoying it.

"Ji Yu, this time the imperial court transferred me to Anton, there are some twists and turns, I think you should have heard about it?" After everyone left, Cui Yunqing leaned on the rattan chair, relaxing physically and mentally, but she also felt exhausted.

Li Jing nodded. After Cui Yunqing left Dengzhou, in the past few years, he successively served as Sima Ziqing Town Marching Army, Taining Army Jiedu Envoy, Lingnan East Road Jiedu Envoy, Jiangnan West Road Observation Envoy, and Zhennan Army Festival. degree to make.Every time they are transferred, the boss is transferred away before he can sit still, and he is transferred like a revolving lantern.

Especially not long ago, Cui Anqian, the former envoy of the Zhongwu Army, suddenly resigned from power, and was then transferred to the central government to serve as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. This has a lot to do with the transfer of Cui Yunqing.

After all, one of the big reasons is that Cui Yunqing is Li Jing's teacher and Cui Anqian's kin.The more internal reason is that both Li Jing and Cui Anqian are at odds with Tian Lingzi.

Cui Yunqing's transfer from Jiangxi to Anton this time is even more complicated.

He was not transferred this time, but was suddenly transferred after he had just won a big victory.

At the beginning of the year when Li Jing was fighting in western Liaoning, Huang Chao also went north from Guangzhou to Hunan.

At that time, Prime Minister Wang Duo, who volunteered to fight, became the new commander of soldiers and horses, replacing Gao Pian's position and commanding all the soldiers and horses.

After Wang Duo took office, he went straight to Jiangling, and from Li Jing, Li Shi, the former military governor of Taining Army, was asked to leave, and Li Zhuo, the military governor of Heyang, was transferred to serve as the deputy capital commander, and then Li Shi was appointed as the Hunan observation officer. make.Before Li Zhuo took office, Wang Duo handed over 1 of the [-] troops to the Li family, and the Li family was stationed in Tanzhou, Hunan.

Wang Duo valued Li Xi, and Li Zhuo was the great-grandson of Li Sheng, the king of Xilai County, the famous general of Zhongxing Datang, but he didn't care that Li Xi was defeated by Huang Chao when he was in the Taining Army.Later, under Wang Jingwu's command, he was even more similar to a wandering bandit.Everyone regards Li Xi as a piece of grass, but Wang Duo still thinks that Li Xi is a treasure.

The Li family was stationed in Tanzhou, with [-] soldiers and horses in hand, plus the local soldiers and horses conscripted, the total number was [-].

One hundred thousand troops were stationed in Tanzhou, blocking Huang Chao's way to the north.

But in the end, when Huang Chao led the army to the city, Li Xi, who had boasted to Wang Duo, became a shrinking turtle, leading 10 people to hide in the city and dare not fight.

Facing this defeated general, Huang Chao stormed Tanzhou without any fear.As a result, Li Xi, who held [-] soldiers and horses, only held on for a day, and Tanzhou was able to break through Huangchao.Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Xi managed to escape from the defeated army just like he did in Yizhou back then, but the [-] troops under his command were massacred by Huang Chao. The surface of the Xiangjiang River drifted north along the Water Margin to the Yangtze River, forming a bloody and terrifying scene.

After Huang Chao won the biggest victory since he started his army, his army was in great momentum, and he recruited troops in Tanzhou, which was even better than when he was in Guangzhou.Claiming to have an army of 50, Huang Chao ordered Shang Rang to be the vanguard, and took advantage of the victory to advance to Jiangling, which was defended by Wang Duo.

Jiangling had already been breached by Wang Xianzhi once before, looting and killing [-] households.

At this time, Jiangling was still in decline.Wang Duo in the city was still worried about other things when the rebel army approached.

When Wang Duo served as the commander of the camp of various Taoists, when he was stationed in Jiangling, he left his wife in Chang'an, and then took Fang Mei in Jiangling City as a concubine.As a result, the matter was not kept secret, and Chang'an's wife was informed.Wang Fu is the Roaring Lion in the River East. Knowing that Wang Duo is hiding in the outer golden house, he can't help but bring along his servant girl and entourage.

Faced with the "two powerful enemies" that were about to arrive, Wang Xiangguo, who was frowning, said a famous saying to his staff: "Huang Chao goes north, and his wife comes south, what should I do?" It's easy, since Madam is so difficult to deal with, why don't you surrender to Huang Chao!" After saying this, everyone roared with laughter.

After laughing, Wang Duo still had self-knowledge, knowing that it would be useless to stick to Jiangling.Immediately 36 counts are the best count.Therefore, Wang Duo assigned 7000 soldiers and horses to Liu Hanhong, the commander-in-chief of Wang Xianzhi who had been captured by Li Jing, and asked the general to stay in Jiangling for him, and then fled with the remaining [-] people.

Liu Hanhong was originally a petty official in Yanzhou. Later, when he was ordered to arrest Wang Xianzhi, a salt dealer, he turned to Wang Xianzhi instead and became one of the commanders-in-chief.In the Battle of Songzhou, Liu Hanhong was captured by Li Jing, handed over to the court, and later surrendered to the court.In the past few years, he has become a general under Wang Duo.

As soon as Wang Duo ran away, the relationship between Liu Hanhong and Huang Chao was not at peace, and they could not join the rebel army.

Therefore, Wang Duo left Jiangling, and Liu Hanhong immediately sent troops to rob Jiangling city.

After Liu Hanhong robbed Jiangling City, he set fire to the city, and the people in the city had to abandon their homes and flee to nearby valleys.A large number of people froze to death and starved to death in the wild.

The famous city of Jiangling, after Wang Xianzhi broke through and destroyed the outer city, Liu Hanhong looted and burned the inner city again. Jiangling, which was twice designated as one of the five capitals of the Tang Dynasty, the southern capital, a Jiangling mansion with nearly a million people, was completely in ruins.

After Huang Chao rushed to Jiangling, he saw that Jiangling was in ruins, so he attacked Xiangyang directly.

Facing Huang Chao's attack, Liu Jurong, the newly-appointed governor of Shannan East Road, and Cui Yunqing, the governor of Zhennan Army who came to support him, decided to take the initiative to attack Huang Chao and went south to Jingmen to stop Huang Chao.

In the battle of Jingmen, Liu Jurong and Cui Yunqing joined forces to fight against Huang Chao. Liu Jurong also had five hundred Shatuo cavalry under his command.

Using Shatuo's elite cavalry, Liu Jurong and Cui Yunqing set up a plan, first deliberately driving the Shatuo people's mounts to the front of Huangchao's barracks.Huang Chao was very happy to get five hundred batches of excellent mounts, and the generals of the grass bandits put on new mounts one after another.Then Cui Yunqing led a light cavalry to attack Huang Chao's camp, leading Huang Chao to pursue him.

When Huang Chao chased to a forest, the Shatuo people in the forest blew their whistles, and Huang Chao and others lost control of their mounts and rushed directly into the forest.These horses are the mounts of the Shatuo people. At this time, they obeyed their orders and led the grass thief directly into the woods.Seeing this, the grass army behind rushed into the woods one after another, and as a result, Cui Yunqing and Liu Jurong set up an ambush here.The Tang army fought out on both sides, and the already chaotic Huang Chao army was defeated.

After the great victory in Jingmen, Huang Chao had nearly 30 troops under his command. After World War I, Huang Chao fled eastward with only more than [-] troops.

At this time, Wang Duo had been removed from the post of governor due to Jiangling's defeat, so Cui Yunqing proposed to Liu Jurong to hunt down Huang Chao.

Liu Jurong participated in the Pang Xun Uprising in his early years and was a general of the rebel army. Later, he surrendered to the imperial court and sealed off the town as an envoy.In the previous rebellion by King Ying of Western Zhejiang, Liu Jurong participated in the encirclement and suppression of the rebels, and made great contributions.This year, Li Fu had just succeeded Li Fu as the governor of the Shannan host.Liu Jurong is a good fighter in battle, and he has a clearer view of the situation.

Facing Cui Yunqing's persuasion, he replied directly: "The imperial court always likes to disappoint the soldiers who have made great achievements. They don't think of us until disaster strikes. Throwing the extra waste aside, and even finding someone to punish! Why don’t we leave these thieves behind, and they can become the capital for us to keep our wealth forever.”

Liu Jurong refused to chase, but Cui Yunqing had to.Because he is the Jiedu envoy of the Zhennan Army, his territory is Jiangxi.And the direction of Huang Chao's defeat was Jiangxi.

It is the responsibility of guarding the land, and although Cui Yunqing is a civil servant, she is not afraid of death.

But in the end, Cui Yunqing received an order as soon as she crossed the river.

After the imperial court dismissed Wang Duo and Li Shi from their official positions, they re-entrusted Gao Pian with the position of commander of the various roads and camps.At the same time, the imperial court transferred Cao Quanzhen, the governor of the Tianping Army, to replace Cui Yunqing as the governor of the Zhennan Army, and Duan Yanmo, the capital of Taining, was appointed as the governor of the Tianping Army.

Cui Yunqing, who had just made great achievements, achieved the great victory in Jingmen, and wiped out more than [-] grasshoppers, was transferred to the Deputy Chief Protector of the Anton Chief Protector's Mansion.

Huang Chao was very surprised, and easily got rid of the pursuers, took Ezhou in one fell swoop, and then swept Jiangxi and the 20 states of Rao, Xin, Chi, Xuan, and She in northern Zhejiang, and the momentum changed from weak to strong again. In a blink of an eye, the number of troops reached [-].

Huang Chao has 20 troops in Jiangxi, and the newly appointed Gao Pian is also mobilizing troops from various towns.

But this time, all Taoist camps were in charge of Gao Pian, so they sent envoys to follow Cui Yunqing to Dengzhou, and wanted to transfer Li Jing to lead troops south to encircle the grass bandits!

"When will Gao Pian be able to mobilize this king!" Li Jing sneered.From Song Wei, to Cui Anqian, and then to Wang Duo, no one has ever transferred Li Jing.Gao Pian also served as the governor for a short time last time, and he also did not transfer Li Jing.Now, as soon as Gao Pian comes to power, he will transfer Li Jing to the south.

This thing is obviously unusual.

Speaking of the war against bandits, Cui Yunqing was also very uncomfortable, and finally won the Jingnan victory with Liu Jurong, but in the end Liu Jurong supported the bandits, but the court transferred him again at the critical moment.So although more than 8 grass thieves were wiped out, in fact, all the people caught were the people who were coerced by the grass thieves, and not many real grass thieves were killed.More than [-] people in Huangchao fled eastward, but in fact their strength is still preserved.

"Cui Shangshu from the court sent me a letter." Cui Yunqing sipped her tea and said in a deep thought, "According to some rumors Cui Shangshu heard, it was Tian Lingzi who ordered you to go south this time. Many people in the group also agreed to this matter.”

"Lu Xie has regained his prime minister!" Li Jing sighed, Lu Xie and Zheng Tian were dismissed together, but now, Lu Xie has regained his prime minister and entered the Political Affairs Hall again, while Zheng Tian, ​​a more upright person, is still not available.With less Zheng Tian and more Lu Xie, Li Jing will definitely suffer in many things in the court.

"Cui Shangshu heard the news that Tian Lingzi and Lu Xie planned to intervene in the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate. You now control the territory of the sixteen prefectures, and without any accidents, you will be able to destroy Goguryeo within three years and truly control Liaodong. Tian Lingzi Scared of that, they're going to transfer you."

Hearing this news, Li Jing's heart tightened.This is what Li Jing has been worried about all along.If the court really ordered him to be transferred away, what should he do?To resist is to resist the decree, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

But it was only for a moment, and he was so angry that he settled down.

Now it is not the same as before, if two years earlier, or even a year earlier, the imperial court ordered him to be transferred, he might not dare to refuse.But now, he is sitting on the land of sixteen states, the backyard has been leveled, and the foundation has been established.Sitting thousands of miles away, there are 500 million people and 20 soldiers.Li Youcapital said no.

"First send me to lead the troops to the south to suppress the bandits, and then send people to take over Ziqing, Zhenyu, and Andong Dadu's guard mansions. Hmph, they are very thoughtful." Li Jing's eyes were like swords, and he smiled coldly Said, "It's a pity, I don't listen to the tune, and I don't listen to the announcement!"

Cui Yunqing took a deep breath, "Ji Yu, you have thought clearly."

Li Jing said seriously: "I know that many people will never die. If I back down, there will be an abyss behind me, and all I will be waiting for me is broken bones. I will not let them do what they want. This place is managed by me. Will not give up."

"Anyone who wants to grab it, first ask me, the town master, who has sharpened his sword for 20 yuan!" (To be continued.)