Late Tang

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Qizhou, Licheng.

After Li Jing led the cavalry to Qizhou, they did not go west immediately, but temporarily rested in Qizhou.

Although Li Jing has transferred [-] infantry soldiers, [-] rural troops have entered the new land in Hebei to strengthen defense.However, the land of the five prefectures in Hebei is still a newly won land. Li Jing is not at ease to leave at this time, but is stationed in Qizhou, controlling the two prefectures of Dedi, echoing the soldiers and horses in Hejian, one from the south and the other from the north.

Right now, Li Jing has 18 soldiers under his command, and Hebei has transferred [-] soldiers, [-] auxiliary troops, and another [-] naval divisions.In addition to the [-] cavalry in Qizhou, almost all the Northeast Army was transferred to Hebei and Henan.

At this time, in Beiping Province, there were only [-] soldiers left, and in Liaoxi Province, there were only [-] soldiers left.In the two provinces of Andong Province and Liaodong Province, the defense is now completely relying on the united soldiers and township soldiers.

Even in Shandong Province, only Li Jing's [-] cavalry are the only troops in the army. In Dengzhou and other places, only the united soldiers and township soldiers are left to guard.

It can be said that the battle in Hebei affected the whole situation, and many of Li Jing's arrangements were changed.

"Should we withdraw the [-] land and water troops from Huduzhou at the mouth of the Yangtze River?" Wang Pu, Minister of the Ministry of War, asked Li Jing tentatively.

Right now, troops are stationed everywhere, and Li Jing's subordinates also feel that they have no soldiers to use.At this time, the [-] soldiers and horses at the mouth of the Yangtze River and the [-] soldiers and horses on Yuzhou Island in Haizhou seemed a bit wasted.These soldiers and horses were originally deployed to contain Gao Pian, prevent his soldiers and horses from going north, and protect the trade route in the southeast.

But now, it is obvious that the center of gravity of Daxingtai has been placed in Hebei.Originally in the northeast, the threat was not great, so sufficient troops were transferred to the southeast.But now that the center of gravity has shifted to Hebei, facing the threats from the four towns in Hebei at the same time, the pressure will be much greater.

Daxingtai deployed a full [-] soldiers and horses in Hebei at once, and immediately evacuated half of Daxingtai's troops.In addition to the [-] cavalry deployed in Shandong, the Northeast suddenly became empty.Although the situation in the Northeast is relatively stable at the moment, there are still foreign tribes such as Khitan and Bohai surrounding them, so Li Jing has to be careful.

Li Jing hadn't considered the matter of troop mobilization yet, and immediately there were a bunch of other things waiting for Li Jing to deal with.

After occupying the five prefectures of Hebei, a large number of people from the five prefectures of Hebei began to move south.These people were unwilling to stay in Hebei where the situation was tense, and knowing that life was better under Li Jing's rule, a large number of people began to leave their hometowns.

After learning the news, Li Jing immediately discussed with Daxingtai officials.The final result was that the people of Moying two prefectures were simply relocated to the northeast.The scorched-earth strategy was implemented for the occupation of Hebei. Except for the main city passes, the rest of the people moved to the northeast.The establishment of no man's land will not only enrich the population of the Northeast, accelerate the development of the Northeast, but also strengthen the defense of Hebei.Anyway, Daxingtai considered the current situation in Hebei, and did not think about collecting taxes, money and food from Hebei.At least, not now.

After this order was passed to Mo Ying, people began to leave Hebei one after another these days.

But what worries Li Jing and others is that not only a large number of people from Moying and Erzhou left, but also a large number of people from Cangdedi.Moreover, they did not follow Li Jing's request to go to the Northeast, but instead went south to Shandong Province in large numbers.

Within a few days, tens of thousands of people have entered Qizhou and other places in Shandong.

Li Jing had no choice but to order the people who went south to take in, distribute food and arrange accommodation.And let Shandong Province and Liaodong Province organize ships to come to Qizhou to transport these people to the northeast.For these things, Li Jing, Daxingtai officials, and officials from Shandong and Liaodong provinces were too busy to turn their backs on their own.

But at the same time, worries about the people withdrawing from the south are also increasing day by day.

Li Jing's original plan was to evacuate the people in Jiejie counties in the two prefectures of Moying and the four towns of Hebei, but now, not only the border of Moying, but also Cang Dedi began to leave in large numbers.In this way, if this continues, it is very likely that only the army will be left in the five states of Hebei.Although Li Jing didn't expect the people in the newly occupied area of ​​Hebei to provide taxes, if the people were all gone, it would be very unfavorable for Daxingtai to control the five states.

Too much is too much!

At the Daxingtai meeting, regarding this result, Li Zhen suggested that since they are willing to leave Hebei, they should do as they wish.After all, there are nearly 60 people in the five states, and it is impossible to move them all.It is estimated that about one-third of the people may relocate. In this way, Daxingtai arranged the 20 people to the northeast, and then moved 30 households with about [-] people from the newly ceded area of ​​Bohai Sea to enrich Hebei.

Just when Li Jing was busy resting the army, supplementing the casualties, and relocating the people.

The Central Plains is undergoing drastic changes again!

After Huang Chao entered Luoyang, soldiers and horses went out everywhere, Shangrang attacked Guozhou, and Chai Cun attacked Shanzhou.At the same time, Ge conquered Ying and Hao from Zhou, and Zhu Wen also conquered Song, Bian and Zheng.

For a time, Huang Chao occupied Shan, Guo, Ru, Zheng, Bian, Song, Ying, Hao, and Luoyang.

It was the first time that Huang Chao, who had been running around all over the world, had such a large territory.The vanguard has already marched to Huangchao under Tongguan. Huangchao was happy when he heard that Li Ke used the second rebellion against Tang Dynasty to seize the land of Qizhou, proclaimed himself Shatuo King, and attracted the five towns including Hedong to return to the north. Attack Tongguan and march into Chang'an.

Just at this time, news came that Li Jing broke through the four towns in Hebei, beheaded [-] ranks, and led tens of thousands of cavalry to cross the Yellow River south and enter the land of Henan.

At the same time, Emperor Chang'an added Li Jing as the King of Qin, which was recorded under the name of Emperor Taizong, and Li Jing became a member of the royal family from then on.He also named Li Jing the Marshal of the Kwantung Army and horses, commanding the soldiers and horses outside the Kwantung.

Immediately afterwards, the emperor actually pardoned the four towns in Hebei and made them county kings, and he also gave Li Keyong and the leaders of the Tatar and Xi tribes all the titles of county kings.More than a dozen state princes were sealed in succession, and several town commanders were sealed.

Immediately afterwards, Li Keyong, who had just been conferred the title of King of Yanmen County and Jiedu Envoy of Yanmen Town, published a brazen statement, claiming that he, as a member of Li Tang's royal family, would immediately lead his troops south to King Qin to fight Huang Chao's rebellion.

As soon as Li Ke’s proclamation came out, some time ago he claimed to raise troops and become king, and the four towns in Hebei who formed an alliance responded immediately. Soldiers and horses provide food and grass.

At this time, even those Hu people who had been given the surname Li from Tatar, Xi, Tuoba, Tuyuhun, Qibi, Sage, Anqing and other tribes shouted to defend the Tang Dynasty.

I grass mud Mala Gobi!

When Huang Chao heard the news, he almost went crazy.

Nima, all of a sudden, all of them are kings, all with national surnames, and two royal families come here, how can Nima be so shameless.

Thinking about it, he has fought Huang Chao for so many years, and he is still just a self-proclaimed Huang King, so he suddenly became restless.

As soon as this name was issued, it was much weaker than Tang Shi.

Thinking of this, Huang Chao didn't stop doing anything, and immediately announced the establishment of a dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor.

At this time, he couldn't wait to proclaim himself emperor in Chang'an, so he simply proclaimed himself emperor in Luoyang.

On the first day of March, Huang Chao, a former unsuccessful son and salt dealer, dressed in a soapy dragon robe, ascended to the throne in the middle of the Wucheng Hall of Ziwei Palace. With the beating of hundreds of war drums, a new empire was born. !

Since Huang Chao was a native of Caozhou, Tianping Town, and was the territory of the ancient Qi State in the Warring States Period, Huang Chao named the country "Da Qi".And because according to the Five Elements theory, Tang was Tude, Tude was born, and Qiying was Jinde, so the year was named "Jintong".

Huang Chao proclaimed himself emperor in Luoyang, became the founding emperor of the Daqi Empire, and then enfeoffed all his ministers.

The veteran of the grass army and the second general of the rebel army Shangrang were the Taiwei and Zhongshu Ling, the old subordinate Zhao Zhang was the Taiwei and servant, and the former Tang Zhedong observation envoy Cui Jiao and the former Tang Dongdu who stayed behind Liu Yunzhang were the same. In a matter of peace, these four people are all the founding prime ministers of the Great Qi Dynasty.

At the same time, Huang Chao also gave his confidantes Meng Kai and Gai Hong the right and left servants to shoot and know how to control the left and right military.Fei Chuangu was the privy envoy, Zheng Hanzhang was the imperial envoy Zhongcheng, Tang Longchen Pei Wo and others were Hanlin scholars, and General Zhang Yan was the head of the six departments.

In addition to the central team, Huang Chao appointed all eight generals under him as generals and envoys.

Zhu Wen, Chai Cun, Liu Tang, Ge Congzhou, Lin Yan, Huang Ye, Liu Shanfu, and Wang Chongba were the eight generals, respectively sitting in the eight prefectures of Shan, Guo, Ru, Zheng, Bian, Song, Ying, and Hao. Add the military ranks of Hussar General, Fuguo General, Zhenjun General, Champion General, etc., and add the name of Jiedushi to each of them, and make them Dukes of the country.

Zhu Wen sat in Bianzhou, added the title of champion general, appointed Xuanwu Jiedu envoy, concurrently the governor of Bianzhou, and named Zhu Guogong.

At the same time, Huang Chao named eight of his brothers, nephews, and nephews as princes. Then, Emperor Daqi Huang Chao issued an edict to the world, and Li Jing was named the king of Lanling County, and Li Keyong was named the king of Dingxiang County.The four towns in Hebei were also crowned kings by Huang Chao, Han Jian the king of Wuyang, Wang Jingchong the king of Changshan, Li Quanzhong the king of Boling, and Liu Yue the king of Shanggu.

After conferring the title of king of the six prefectures, Huang Chao sent people to Zhongwu and Hezhong to surrender. Loyalty [***] Jiedu envoy, Feng Wang Chongrong as Rong Guogong, Hezhong Jiedu envoy.

Huang Chao's imperial edict was announced, so naturally Li Jing would not take it seriously.In any case, Li Jing now has the strength not to look at the faces of Li Xuan or Huang Chao.Besides, even if he really had to choose now, Li Jing would definitely prefer to choose the King of Qin bestowed by Li Zhang instead of the King of Lanling County bestowed by Huang Chao.

Li Jing despises Huang Chao, a private salt dealer and defeated general. Although Li Keyong is from the Shatuo Hu family, he thinks that although he has turned against Li Tang twice, he is from the Li Tang royal family. These are domestic affairs within the royal family. , look, now we are reconciled with the emperor.Therefore, Li Keyong also looked down upon Huang Chaofeng's Dingxiang County King.

However, when the four towns of Hebei received the edict, their attitudes became ambiguous, neither immediately responding nor rejecting it immediately.

However, some people feel that Qi Huang, who currently has 60 troops and occupies Luoyang, is very powerful and has voluntarily bowed down and proclaimed himself a minister.

The first one to surrender was not one of these warlords that Huang Chao had already rewarded, but Zhuge Shuang, the former Heyang Jiedushi Li Zhuo's subordinate.Zhuge Shuang once followed Pang Xun in the revolution, and later joined the Tang Dynasty, and he did a good job, becoming the governor.Later, he performed well in the crusade against Li Keyong. He was previously appointed by the court as the Jiedushi of the Tiande Army. As a result, the original Jiedushi of the Tiande Army was Helian Duo, and now he is called Li Duo.Li Duo is from Tuyuhun, and he beat Li Keyong together with Zhuge Shuang.But even though they had carried guns together, Li Duo would never hand over the position of Jiedu Envoy.

Later, the four towns rebelled, and the imperial court transferred Helian Duo to fight Hebei.The imperial court arranged for Zhuge Shuang to go to Xiayin as Jiedushi again. Xiayin is a good place, but it is also the site of old comrade Tuoba Sigong, now called Li Sigong.Li Duo refused to abdicate, and Li Sigong naturally refused to abdicate either.

As a result, Zhuge Shuang has been wandering around until now, and he hasn't even implemented a real job.

Thinking of this, he simply became ruthless and ran to Huang Chao on his own initiative.

Huang Chao was also very happy to see Zhuge Shuang coming to join him.Although Zhuge Shuang was not as good as Li Keyong and Li Jing, he was considered a general anyway, and besides, he was the first one to join him.Huang Chao was also very happy, and immediately appointed Zhuge Shuang as Heyang Jiedu envoy, and granted him the post of general of the town army.

With the beginning of Zhuge Shuang, Qin Zongquan and Zhou Ji also moved to Luoyang, saying that they had dinner with Huang Boss.

Immediately afterwards, after thinking for a long time, Hezhong Jiedu Wang Chongrong, who started his fortune through two mutinies, felt that it was not safe for him to follow Li Tang in his identity, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and demoted Huang Chao.

Li Jing, who is far away in Licheng, Qizhou, has officially accepted the position of King Qin bestowed by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty at this time. For Li Jing, if he repeatedly rejects the title of King Qin, it is not good. People in the world think that Li Jing really wants to accept Huang Chao The king of Lanling County is nominated, or has any other plans now.

Li Jing did not intend to abandon his image as a minister of the Tang Dynasty for the time being, so he formally accepted the title of King Qin and set up a banner.And publicly issued a call to action, ready to send troops to Luoyang.

On the fifth day of March, after a short period of rest, Li Jing's soldiers and horses have been rested and a new round of adjustments has been made to the deployment of troops.

On the sixth day of March, Li Jing formally dispatched troops and entered Jeju and Yanzhou. The department merged with Huduzhou, entered the empty Taining Army Haizhou at this time, and entered Sizhou.

On March [-]th, Li Jing arrived in Yunzhou. At this time, Cao Cunshi, the nephew of Cao Quanzhen, who was killed in the previous battle, temporarily stayed in the Tianping Army. Li Jing led the army all the way west. After leading [-] cavalry to arrive at the city of Yunzhou, Cao Quanzhen finally opened the city gate to welcome Li Jing into the city after considering for a long time, and handed over all the list of seals, talismans, and treasury to Li Jing, choosing the best way very wisely.

Immediately afterwards, Li Jing led the Qin army to sweep across eastern Henan.

Li Jing took the five states of Ji, Yun, Cao, Pu, and Hua, approached the eastern capital, and approached the city of Bianzhou.

And Zhao Ji also took Taining Junmi, Yi, and Yanzhou in succession, and marched to the city of Songzhou.

Zeng Yuanyu led his troops to capture Haizhou and Sizhou, approached Xuzhou, and drank the Huaihe River!

In just half a month, Qin's army was [-], and the three armies marched side by side, swept Qilu, and forced Luoyang! (To be continued.)