Late Tang

The cold wind has subsided, and the sun is shining brightly.

Li Jing had made up his mind, and immediately led his army back to Huaibei to rob Xuzhou with Huang Chao.However, Huainan's capture of Chu and Hao states is also very important. Occupying Chu and Hao states will be able to defend against the enemy south of the Huaihe River, directly threaten Yangzhou, and stabilize Xu Si, preventing Gao Pian from going north.With such an important site, Li Jing finally decided to leave Zhao Ji, the governor of the right army, to garrison Huainan, and serve as the commander of the Jianghuai camp, guarding Shanyang, Chuzhou.

In addition, Li Wei, the leader of the Yingyang army, served as the deputy commander of the Jianghuai camp and the defense envoy of Haozhou, and the general of Zhongli Town.Qiu Shengong of the Leopard Cavalry Army served as the deputy commander of the Jianghuai camp and the defense envoy of Chuzhou, and the general of Xuyi Town.Xuan Cheng, the leader of the Flying Bear Army, served as the marching commander of the Jianghuai camp and the forward You Yishi, and the general of Dingyuan Town in Haozhou.In addition, Li Xu, the leader of the navy Anlan army, was the judge of the Jianghuai camp, the general of Anyi and Yancheng, and the tour envoy of Huaihe and Hangou.

The five generals stayed behind, with Zhao Ji as the main general, controlling all the soldiers and horses in Huainan.Li Wei and Qiu Shengong were deputy guards of Zhongli in Haozhou and Xuyi in Chuzhou respectively.Xuan Cheng guards Dingyuan, Li Xu guards Anyi and Yancheng.

Li Jing left Zhao Ji with not many soldiers and horses. Each city of Zhongli, Xuyi, Shanyang, Dingyuan, and Anyi had 8000 soldiers and horses, making a total of [-] soldiers and horses, plus the [-] mobile soldiers and horses in Zhao Ji's hands. , Li Jing only gave Zhao Ji [-] people.But the task is not light, we have to defend the Chu and Hao prefectures, and rely on the three towns of Shanyang, Xuyi, and Zhongli to fight against the Huainan Gaoping army.

However, Li Jing has confidence in Zhao Ji, and there are not many soldiers.Zhao Ji's attack is sharp, but the defense of the city is even stronger. In history, he has the experience of defending Chenzhou for ten months in the face of 20 Huangchao troops.Moreover, Zhongli, Xuyi, and Shanyang are all important military towns.In addition, the remaining four generals Li Wei, Xuan Cheng, Qiu Shengong, and Li Xu were also veteran generals of the Qin army, so Li Jing led the army to leave with confidence.

Li Jing wanted to save more soldiers, but this time he went north and wanted to take back Xusu Erzhou from Huang Chao. At this time, he only had 2000 troops, plus the township of the four armies newly mobilized from Shandong to go south. There are only 4 soldiers and horses in total, which is really stretched.

However, Zhao Ji didn't think there were too few soldiers. After receiving the order to stay behind, he confidently patted the gun and said that eighteen thousand soldiers and horses were enough.Both Jingxiang and Gai Yu felt that Zhao Ji's words were exaggerated and underestimated the enemy, and they were worried, but Li Jing smiled and waved his hands in silence facing their private concerns.In terms of defending the city, among the Qin army, it is estimated that there is no one who can surpass Zhao Ji.

Before Li Jing left, he ordered hundreds of boats to be loaded with stones and driven to the Hangou Canal in the south of Anyi, and then the boats were drilled, and all hundreds of boats were sunk in the river, blocking the canal for nearly ten miles.

The road back to the north is very long, and the road is muddy and difficult to walk after the rainy season. Li Jing chose to return to the north by water, and the navy warships transported the troops to return north one after another.

Li Jing, Megan, Julie, and Gongsun Lan stood on the deck of the Sirius, surrounded by naval battleships, surrounded by several walkers and battleships escorting them.The five-storey ship is covered with iron armor and painted with silver ship paint, which makes Li Jing's ship unique.

"This time the result is good." Megan said that although the tall Megan is married, her huge chest seems to be growing every day. colored eyes.Since she got married to Li Jing, she hasn't changed much, she has the same amorous feelings and is unparalleled. "Actually, I think that if we persist, it is very possible to win Shouzhou, Gwangju and even Tuzhou in one fell swoop this time. In this way, the entire south bank of the Huaihe River is under our control."

"No." Julie said quietly, "You are just wishful thinking. Gao Pian is not taking it lightly. Anyone who underestimates Gao Pian will inevitably suffer the consequences. We have too few troops to go south this time. Even if we can borrow The opportunity of Huaiyin's great victory swallowed the empty Shouzhou and Gwangju in one fell swoop, but what followed was that we had to divide our troops to guard the states and counties, then in the end we would repeat Gao Pian's failure just now and be defeated by Gao Pian one by one. In the end, they got nothing, so they had to return to Huaibei, and they might not even be able to defend Sizhou."

Julie's blue pupils are as strange as cat's eyes. Although on the surface she is as cold as an iceberg, in fact few things can escape her observation.She and Megan are as close as sisters, but their personalities are quite different, one is unparalleled and the other is as iceberg.Megan has blonde hair and blue eyes, and Julie has red-gold and blue eyes.Megan is fiery, strong and quick, with a sword and a knife on her back, and her tight leather armor never leaves her body.Julie, on the other hand, wears a palace gown with long sleeves and long sleeves, her manners are elegant but implying deadly danger.

Gongsun Lan disagrees.

"Gao Pian is old, and no matter how cunning he used to be." She chuckled and said, "I got the news that Gao Pian built a new army of 2 Moxie troops in Guangling as his own army, but appointed quack warlocks, The villain Lu Yongzhi and Zhang Shouyi served as the left and right military envoys. However, most of these two recruits, who were higher than the other Huai army in terms of salary and treatment, were hooligans recruited by Lu Yongzhi. Scoundrels, rogues and robbers. It can be seen from this that Gao Pian is indeed no longer what he used to be."

Li Jing looked at the three of them and said with a smile: "There is nothing wrong with the journey, why don't we play mahjong together, and those who lose will warm the bed for my lord tonight."

"Then what if you are the one who loses?" Gongsun Lan bit her red lips lightly and said with a lustful smile.

"If I lose, the four of us will sleep together tonight." Li Jing laughed.

"Bah, you have a good idea." Gongsun Lan scolded with a smile. "You're going to lose, tell us about the Three Kingdoms tonight."

"It's a deal." After speaking, Li Jing opened her hands, wrapped Megan with her left hand and Julie with her right hand, and hugged them back to the cabin.Gongsun Lan chased after him with a smile and cursing, and the four of them entered the cabin on the fifth floor, and found the mahjong set made by Jade Carving, and the four of them began to play mahjong in the cabin.

The three women wanted to win Li Jing, but this mahjong was originally made by Li Jing in his spare time with a jade craftsman, specially for the mothers and women at home. The rules were all made by Li Jing. Several women are not as proficient as Li Jing. As a result, after half a night, everyone lost their chips to Li Jing, and finally Li Jing asked them to lose ** to pay the bill. After the fight, the coats on the three beauties were all After going, only thin shirts and small clothes are left, and under the lamp, pieces of white greasy appear, indescribable **.

"Self-touching bras, all the same color, nine lotus lanterns, blah, 88!" Li Jing slapped the second tube in his hand on the table, laughing triumphantly.

"Three ladies, after 88 years of service, admit defeat and surrender, all three of you have to warm my bed tonight, hahaha."

Megan, Julie, and Gongsun Lan looked at me and I for a long time, and couldn't believe it.This Nine Lotus Lantern is the biggest winning card, it is a specific card type composed of a suit ordinal card according to 111234567**99, if you see any ordinal card of the same suit, it will be a winning card, this kind of full big Hu is rare Once, unexpectedly, Li Jing got mad all of a sudden, making the three of them completely unable to turn over.

Thinking of what Li Jing said just now, if the three of them lose again, they will sleep together tonight, and the faces of the three of them can't help but blush.Even though the three of them were Li Jing's women long ago, even Mei Gen and Gongsun Lan, who are more open-minded women, couldn't help being dumbfounded at the fact that three women served one husband.

Li Jing was thinking about the opportunity to repay the blessings of Qi Ren who was sleeping with him tonight. Unexpectedly, after the embarrassing atmosphere passed, Gongsun Lan, who had always been relatively open, escaped with a burst of fragrance, and then Megan also ran away like a rabbit, and in the end Julie wanted to escape too, but she was a little affected by her toga and sleeves. As soon as she got up, she was picked up by Li Jing, hugged her in her arms, and hugged her. on the couch.

A night of red candles shining brightly, being turned into a red wave, life is short, sinking several times, lingering until dawn.

After dawn, Julie was uncharacteristically lying in Li Jing's arms like a tame kitten, not wanting to get up.As a result, Li Jing was aroused by her languid expression, and she pushed down the beauty early in the morning, and then did the shameless thing in the middle of the morning.

In the next few days, the march will be by water on a warship. First, it will take the Hangou Canal from Anyi to Shanyang in Chuzhou, then enter the Huaihe River, then enter Sizhou from Sikou, enter Sishui, and go north all the way. After passing through Supre, finally arrived at Xiapi.

During the several days' march, Li Jing was all on board.Li Jing also relaxed himself rarely, leaving the military affairs to Jingxiang, Gai Yu, Li Zhen and others to handle. Playing backgammon and checkers is a bit of fun for a while, and you are contented.Everyone embraces each other every night, but the only thing that makes Li Jing a little regretful is that although one of the three beauties will accompany him every day, the expected event of four people sleeping together has never happened. The co-sleeping thing failed.

After the fleet arrived at Xiapi, Li Jing also knew that this rare and easy journey was finally over.

After disembarking from the battleship and boarding the pier, many military affairs came again.

As soon as Li Jing entered Xiapi City, Lin Wei immediately asked to see him.

"After the Qi army captured Xu and Suzhou, Huo Cun, the governor of Xuzhou in the puppet Qi Dynasty, and Zhu Wenzheng, the governor of Bianzhou, joined forces to attack Songzhou. Haozhou."

The current Songzhou has been handed over by the Qin army to the new Xuanwu Jiedu envoy Xin Yu. The new Xuanwu Jiedu envoy governs the three prefectures of Song, Ying, and Hao, but the two prefectures of Ying and Hao are in the hands of Huang Chao. Songzhou only.Xin Xun transferred from Datong to Songzhou, bringing with him 1 troops, plus the [-] recruits Li Jing helped him recruit in Songzhou, Xin Xun had [-] horses.However, although Xin Yan is the number one swordsman in the world, Songzhou is almost half surrounded by Huang Chao, and the situation is not optimistic.

Now Xuzhou to the east of Songzhou is occupied by Huang Chao again, and Songzhou is besieged on three sides.Zhu Wen and Huo Cun sent troops to Songzhou, and Xin Yu sent his nephew Shanseng and Yuan Lao to break out of the encirclement and come to Sizhou to ask for reinforcements.

Xin Xun has no sons. Although the mountain monk and the elder are Xin Xun's nephews, they are actually like father and son with Xin Xun, and they have learned good swordsmanship from Xin Xun.When he broke out from the siege, he saw Li Jing and reported the situation in Songzhou. Zhu Wenwen and Huo Cun had many rebels. Although there were tens of thousands of soldiers in Songzhou, most of them were recruits and lacked equipment. He begged Li Jing to send troops for help.

Li Jing nodded and said: "When I was in Chang'an that day, I was rescued by Xin Shuai with his sword. Today, Xin Shuai is surrounded by Songzhou, and it is all because I asked the court to transfer him to Songzhou. Now Songzhou has The siege, the king should immediately send troops to rescue the public and private. You two have worked hard, and let’s rest here for a while. After a day or two, the king will rectify the troops and send troops to Xuzhou immediately."

While talking, Gongsun Lan rushed to report.

"Sanlang, the Military Intelligence Department suddenly received news from Huainan that none of the troops stationed on Hudou Island were killed that day, and more than five hundred soldiers survived."

Li Jing couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

After hearing Gongsun Lan's detailed explanation, it was only then that I realized that Wu Qian, Lin Song, Deng Huan, and more than [-] generals were still there.Not only is it still there, but first with the help of Qian Liu, the deputy general of Shijingdu, the eight capital of Hangzhou, and later by Yang Xingmi of Luzhou, he has escaped from danger, and with the help of Yang Xingmi, he has arrived at Zhongli, Haozhou, and entered the Qin army camp , out of danger completely.

"Qian Liu, Yang Xingmi." Li Jing recited these two names several times in a low voice, and couldn't help showing a smile. "You said that Qian Liu and Yang Xingmi are coming to Xiapi City and want to see me?"

Gongsun Lan nodded, "One of these two men is under Zhou Bao's command, and the other is under Gao Pian's command. Is there any fraud in them?"

Li Jing just laughed lightly when he heard this, "I'm very interested in these two people, you immediately take someone to welcome them. By the way, did they come together or separately?"

"They came separately, and the two sides didn't know each other."

"Well, then send two teams to pick up Xiapi respectively, and don't let them meet."

Gongsun Lan didn't understand why Li Jing was so interested in these two people all of a sudden. You must know that Qian Liu was only the deputy general of a township regiment in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.And that Yang Xingmi is just a businessman.Although she had inquired about the details of the two of them before she came, she learned that Qian Liu was considered a man of the same age as Li Jing. Bao attacked Liang Zuan, and he commanded the eight capitals of Hangzhou to wipe out Liang Zuan's [-] with [-]. Although it was a surprise attack, it was quite good to be able to achieve this result.But how to put it, Qian Liu is just a small deputy town general at the moment.

She also knew some details about Yang Xingmi. In his early years, he also sold illegal salt, went to the mountains to do robbery, and was captured by the government as a guard in Shuofang Township.When Li Jing defeated Li Keyong in the Battle of Daibei, Yang Xingmi led his men to capture a group of defeated soldiers from Shatuo.Later, he became a deserter, returned to Huainan, changed his face and became a businessman in Luzhou, but secretly recruited soldiers and trained a private army of thousands of people.

This time, Qian Liu and Yang Xingmi secretly released Wu Qian and other five hundred captured soldiers, and the other rescued Wu Qian and others.Now, they came to Xiapi in person again, begging to see Li Jing, the purpose was not simple.

Li Jing just chuckled and didn't explain anything to Gongsun Lan.Li Jing is interested in Qian Liu and Yang Xingmi because he clearly remembers that in history, Yang Xingmi and Qian Liu, the two former salt dealers, although they are not conspicuous now, will become the heroes of one side in the future and separate the other side. Founded the country and established the dynasty, occupying a seat in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Yang Xingmi later occupied Huainan, Jiangxi, Xuanxi and other Jiangdong places, and called Wu State. Although Wu State was usurped by Xu Wen in the end, it was still a hero.And Qian Liu is not simple, occupying the two Zhejiang provinces and creating the Wuyue Kingdom, and his Wuyue Kingdom was passed down to the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty before surrendering to the Song Dynasty.

These two people were heroes who finally replaced Gao Pian and Zhou Bao in history. Now that they have come thousands of miles to ask for an interview, how could Li Jing refuse them thousands of miles away. (To be continued.)