Late Tang

August [-]th, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Li Jing officially changed the name of Youzhou City to Yanjing, and transferred the Northeast Daxingtai to Yanjing.On the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, officials from the Shangshu Province, the Cabinet, the Staff Council, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the Supervision Department, the Judicial Department, and the Procuratorate held an open-air meeting in the suburbs of Yanjing.

At the meeting, Gai Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials of Daxingtai, read out the decree signed by Li Jing, announcing the formation of the eighth army including Xiaowu, and the eight generals including Guo Chongtao as the commanders.At the same time, a large number of former Shatuo and Lulong officers were appointed to the new military posts, and at the same time announced the transfer and appointment of officials from various states and counties in Beiping Province, Hebei Province, and Shandong Province.At the same time, a series of new policies and decrees were announced, and the three provinces of Beiping, Hebei, and Shandong were exempted from the one-year land tax and agricultural tax.

Afterwards, Li Jing personally read out the imperial edict delivered from Chengdu.

The Son of Heaven ordered Li Jing to be granted the title of Grand Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses, and the commander-in-chief of the world's soldiers and horses.In addition, Li Jing had previously asked the emperor to confer the title of general of the Qin army, which was approved in one case.

The imperial decree granted Li Jing the King of Qin, and Cui Yunqing, Lin Wei, Wang Zhong, and Li Zhen under Li Jing were the Dukes of the state.Nine people, including Wang Pu, Lin Wu, Pei You, and Li Juyi, were named county princes, and 36 people, including Jingxiang, Gai Yu, Guo Chengan, and Liu Xun, were named founding marquises.Under it, 72 founding uncles, 360 founding sons, and [-] founding men were added.Among Qin Fan, from Li Jing down, civil and military officials were all knighted.

The edict of the Son of Heaven also stated that Li Jing had already been included in the royal genealogy. According to the royal genealogy, Li Jing belonged to the fourth son of Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty, Weihuai Wang Xuanba, and according to his seniority, Li Jing was the uncle of the emperor.Therefore, in this imperial edict, the emperor specifically called Li Jing the emperor's uncle.

Although everyone in the world knows that Li Jing is not a descendant of the Li family, it was just that the imperial court included Li Jing in the genealogy of the Li Tang royal family in order to win Li Jing's heart.Now the emperor brought up the old story again, based on this, I don't know how he figured out that Li Jing's royal family is actually his uncle, so he called him Uncle Li Jing.Obviously, this is just an attempt to win over Li Jing.

However, after the edict was read out in front of a group of soldiers and civilians in the suburbs, the effect was good. Immediately, the soldiers and civilians in the suburbs called Li Jing the emperor's uncle.

In the emperor's edict, Li Jing's mother, wife and children were also named.Li Jing now has [-] sons, among which the eldest son is granted the title of King of Lanling County, and the other seventeen sons are all given the title of Duke of the County.

After the angels from Chengdu read the imperial edict, they will bring along the golden guard of honor bestowed by the emperor along the way.Yellow Yue, decorated with gold, was used by emperors in ancient times and used as a guard of honor in later generations.Lending a yellow ax to a minister means exercising the power of conquest on behalf of the emperor.There are many kinds of envoys of the imperial court, fake festivals: they have no right to deal with people in peacetime, but they can kill those who violate military orders in wartime.Chijie: You can kill people without official positions in peacetime, and you can kill officials below the fifth rank in wartime.Envoys Festival: Officials below Rank [-] can be beheaded in both peacetime and wartime.Fake Huang Yue: Can kill festival generals (including fake festivals, Chi Jie, envoy Chi Jie).

Fake Huang Yue can be said to be a great effort.At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, after the great ancestor Li Yuan took control of Chang'an, he used the puppet emperor to give himself the false title of Huangyue, and then added a series of official positions, such as the prime minister, Xiangguo, and Jia Jiuxi, until finally Yang Youchan abdicated the throne.

The fake Huangyue has such a desired title, but now the emperor has someone give it to Li Jing, and he also added Li Jing's Shang Shuling, and added a big character to the world's military marshal, and became the world's military marshal, and the commander-in-chief All the soldiers and horses in the world, the great governor supervises all the internal and external military forces.It can be said that he was already a little panicked.Especially for the post of Shangshuling, the Shangshuling of the central government is different from the Shangshuling of Daxingtai.

Only Li Shimin served as the Central Minister of the Tang Dynasty. Although the emperor later granted Guo Ziyi a title, Guo always refused to accept it.Now that such an inhuman position is granted to Li Jing, one can already know the situation of the emperor who is far away in Chengdu at this time.

It was Shang Shu Ling, Grand Marshal, and fake Huang Yue, and he also took the initiative to call Uncle Li Jing, which was amazing.

However, after these titles were read out from the imperial edict, the effect was indeed very great.Although Li Jing didn't care too much about these things, he clearly knew that he had soldiers and territory in his hands, and that was everything.But for stabilizing the hearts of the people in Hebei at this time, these titles are still very important.Without these, Li Jing was just attacking the feudal town of Lulong Town, but with these, Li Jing officially represented Datang.No matter how weak Li Tang is at this time, the name of righteousness is still there, and he is still the master of the world.

After reading the imperial edict, Qin Jun arranged a small but shocking military parade.For Li Jing, holding a military parade from time to time to show his powerful military power to the officials and people in the newly occupied territory has always been very effective.

The uniform infantry phalanx, the shiny and solid armor, the majestic, galloping cavalry unit, and the earth-shattering ballista firearms, people from all walks of life in Youzhou watching the military parade in the suburbs, No one looked at each other in blank dismay, shocked in their hearts.

And the spies sent by various forces in the crowd to infiltrate, after watching Qin Jun's momentum, were also troubled for a long time, thinking about how to report Qin Jun's sharpness back carefully.

For a whole day, the emperor's edict was announced in the morning, officials were promoted to ranks, and in the afternoon there was a grand military parade.In the evening, the rewards for the whole army were announced again. In addition, all the officials and servants were also given generous rewards. Even ordinary people in Youzhou were rewarded with two dou of rice per person.

In the evening, Youzhou City was full of King Wu, and even set up a night market of lanterns and fireworks, which was extremely lively.

The worries after the war were swept away, and there was joy in Youzhou.

Li Jing and the soldiers and civilians in Youzhou had a good day until they returned to the mansion in the middle of the night, and a group of counselors including Cao Ye and Li Zhen came to see them.

"The emperor recognizes the commander-in-chief as his uncle. This is to urge the commander-in-chief to send troops to serve the king." Luoyang and Chang'an fell one after another, and then Xuanwu, Zhongwu, Hezhong, and Fengxiang all fell into the puppet Qi camp. Although the emperor escaped Hurry up, flee to Jiannan, but life is not easy, and you have to worry about Huang Chao chasing you into Xichuan at any time.

Now all the towns in the world are either attacking each other, or they are waiting and watching. There are many people who are willing to work hard, but most of them are unwilling.The one who really has the ability to deal with Huang Chao is now Li Jing's Qin Fan who is the strongest.It's just that although Li Jing sent troops to Henan earlier, after finally seizing the three towns of Tianping, Taining, and Ganhua, he saw that he was already on the border with Huang Chao, but Li Jing gave up his troops to Tianping, Song Hua and other prefectures, and handed over to them. Yu Jian, Xin Xun and the others took a step back and ran to Huaisi to fight Gao Pian.Then, after defeating Gao Pian, the Huang Chao Department took the opportunity to attack Xu Su. Originally, the emperor and others were expecting a fight between Li Jing and Huang Chao. Who knew that Li Jing would leave Suzhou after conquering Suzhou, and Xuzhou besieged without attacking. Haven't fought yet.

Li Jing didn't want to fight Huang Chao, but the emperor who was far away in Chengdu wanted Li Jing to fight Huang Chao.If Li Jing didn't fight Huangchao, the emperor would not feel at ease even if he stayed in Changdu.But he has already fled to Chengdu, and there is no good place to escape.

On the one hand, he added an official to Li Jing, and on the other hand, he was also called Li Jing's uncle. He also wanted to impress Li Jing with his feelings.

Li Jing shook his head, "I'm very sober now, and I won't run to Huang Chao to fight desperately just because of a sentence from the emperor. Our focus is still in Hebei, and this will not change in the short term."

After Qin Jun successfully took over Youzhou, he hasn't made any big moves recently.Before, Li Jing dispatched [-] cavalry to go to Yizhou to relieve the siege with Li Kuangwei's [-] Yiwu army.Li Quanzhong got the [-] reinforcements and immediately came back to life.Li Keyong learned in Yizhou that the military capital Guan Shatuo was defeated, not only lost more than [-] troops, but even more important was that even Guo Chongtao, Liu Rengong, Li Cunxin, and Shi Jingsi, the four generals, fell into the hands of Li Jing. Can't help being surprised and angry.

He handed over the soldiers and horses of Yizhou to the generals Kang Junli, Li Kexiu, and Li Sizhao. He personally led 4 cavalry back to Weizhou along the Feihu Road, and then went north into Weizhou, joined Liu Shi and Li Siyuan, and regrouped [-] horses. Then seize the military capital.

But at this time Li Jing had already sent 2 horses to Junduguan, and Yang Shihou and Fu Cun had 3 horses to guard Jiancheng, the capital of the army, although Li Keyong came to attack in person.But after three days of bloody battle, only nearly [-] corpses were left behind.If it weren't for Liu Shi and Li Siyuan's persuasion, Li Keyong, who was extremely angry, would definitely continue to attack, and the death he paid would definitely be even greater.

In the end, Li Ke lost his general with the loss of his troops, so he had to lead his troops back to Guizhou.That day, Yang Shihou led five thousand flying cavalry troops out of the city at night to pursue them. They attacked Li Keyong's retreating camp by air, and once entered Li Keyong's middle army, Shatuo's soldiers were in chaos.At the time of Guan Jian, if Liu's Five Thousand Women's Battalion stationed several miles away hadn't arrived, Li Keyong almost capsized in the gutter.Fortunately, the Liu family led the female soldiers to stop the decline, and Li Keyong was able to regroup his troops and fight back.After all, Yang Shihou had few soldiers, and finally he was counterattacked by the Shatuo people, and he was beaten until dawn. Fu Cun, who had not seen him for a long time, led the army to meet him, and rescued Yang Shihou who had been surrounded by the rebels.

In the end, he withdrew to the military capital pass and counted the troops. Although Yang Shihou killed at least [-] Shatuo soldiers last night, only half of his [-] cavalry troops returned to the pass. The loss was extremely heavy, and even Fu Cun went to meet them. Thousands of troops were lost.

Li Ke didn't take advantage of this night. He didn't expect Qin Jun to dare to attack at night, but he was caught off guard.The most important thing is that apart from his 5000 troops at that time, most of the rest belonged to the second-line troops, not the elite of Shatuo, otherwise they would not have been beaten with a small number of people, and they would have been beaten into chaos.In the end, although the Liu family curbed the decline, they counterattacked back.But in the end, more than [-] people were still killed, and thousands of people were slightly injured. Even Li Siyuan's general An Xiuxiu was shot and killed in the melee. Li Keyong was shot in the left arm. thick.This battle can be described as demoralizing, and Li Keyong had to retreat to the city of Guizhou in a hurry.

In Yizhou, there was no Li Keyong in command. After Li Quanzhong received 5000 reinforcements, he and the Qin army generals Guo Shunli, Guo Zhenshan, and Li Kuangwei attacked the Shatuo army inside and outside.The two sides fought in Yizhou for three days and three nights. The Yiwu soldiers couldn't hold on and retreated from the battlefield first. Kang Junli seized the opportunity and released the last [-] cavalry reserve team to pursue Li Quanzhong's troops of the Yiwu Army.

As a result, in the middle of the chase, Shatuo's pursuers got into the ambush circle of [-] infantry under Pei You, the second Qin army who came secretly to help, and then Li Quanzhong also turned around and killed Kang Junli's most elite [-] reserve cavalry. Killing, half of the soldiers and horses were slaughtered, and less than half of them escaped.

The Qin army and the Yiwu army took the opportunity to launch a counterattack. The Shatuo army's defeat and escape quickly led to the collapse of the entire front. On the fifth day of the battle, Shatuo's nearly 4 horses lost almost half, and most of Yizhou was occupied. The city was taken back again by Li Quanzhong, and in the end only the three cities of Feihukou remained under his control. 2 people hid in the three cities and could not hide. Overcome the defeat and defended the three counties of Yizhou.

On behalf of the Qin army, Guo Shunli proposed to Li Quanzhong to counterattack Dingzhou instead of continuing to attack the three counties of Yizhou.Although Li Quanzhong did not want to be enemies on all sides, Wang Jingchong also intended to make peace with Li Quanzhong at this time, and was even willing to return half of Dingzhou to Li Quanzhong.However, Wang Jingchong's envoy was captured by the Qin Army Intelligence Bureau. Guo Shunli killed Wang Jingchong's envoy, and sent someone pretending to be a marching army to raid a city on the border of Yiding and robbed a batch of money and food.In the end, Li Quanzhong was moved by Guo Shunli's words, and turned around and went south with the Qin army to attack Dingzhou.

With the assistance of the Qin army, Li Quanzhong quickly recaptured six of the eleven counties in Dingzhou.Seeing that with more effort, Dingzhou could be taken back, at this time, Guo Shunli of the Qin Army suddenly evacuated Dingzhou and returned to Hejian under the pretext of insufficient food and grass.At this time, the Chengde army also launched a wave of counterattacks at the right time. In the end, the Chengde and Yiwu armies formed a confrontation, each occupying half of Dingzhou, Li Quanzhong occupied six counties, and Wang Jingchong occupied five counties.

Li Quanzhong in Yiwu Town is now somewhat immortal. Although he was assisted by the Qin army, he finally survived under the attack of Li Keyong and Wang Jingchong.But now the situation is not very optimistic.The Lulong town that was swallowed had originally only obtained Youzhuo Erzhou, but now Youzhou has been returned to Li Jing.In fact, he only got Zhuozhou, but because of the war he swallowed Lulong, he almost lost his fundamental Yiwu Town in the end.Up to now, there are still three counties in Yizhou in the hands of Li Keyong, and five counties in Dingzhou are in the hands of Wang Jingchong.

Looking back, what makes Li Quanzhong even more uncomfortable is that after this incident, Yiwu Town's vitality has been severely damaged, and even its former allies have been offended.Now, with the remaining troops and this dilapidated territory, he can't beat anyone. In the end, he suddenly discovered that he had unknowingly become Li Jing's younger brother.

Without Li Jing's support, with his current strength, he wouldn't even be able to keep this bit of territory. Li Keyong and Wang Jingchong could swallow him up at any time without leaving any scum.But Li Jing, how could he be a kind person?

Li Jing will never be a kind person, Li Quanzhong is very clear, what he is not sure now is, how long can Yiwu Town last like this?

In other words, how much value does Yiwu Town have for Li Jing? (To be continued.)