Late Tang

Wulao Pass. .

An Jinquan's emissary broke through several Liang Jun checkpoints along the way, and finally arrived at Wulao Pass.

"Hurry up and report, there is an urgent military message from the messenger of Xiahedong Army."

At this time, Yang Fuguang had left Wulao Pass a few days ago and returned to Luoyang. At this time, the guard in the pass was Yang Shouliang, Yang Fuguang's adopted son.Hearing that there was an urgent message from the messenger of the Hedong Army, he threw down the chess pieces in his hand, disrupted the chess game which was obviously about to be lost, stood up and said with a smile: "It seems that Li Keyong has already cut off Zhu Wen's head, take the I'm off to Bianzhou."

The Wulao guards who played against him didn't care about Yang Shouliang's rogue behavior, and said with a smile: "This black crow is very neat in doing things, so shall we send troops to Zhengzhou immediately and take it down in one fell swoop? It will save these crow soldiers from robbing Bianzhou and Zhengzhou in a while. This Zhengzhou will belong to our King Yang in the future."

Yang Shouliang and several other generals came to the front hall laughing, but saw the envoy from the east of the river looking mournful, and he was actually wearing sackcloth and filial piety.They were taken aback for a moment, and suddenly had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, when the Hedong envoy saw Yang Shouliang, he immediately knelt down crying, "General Yang, please send troops to Bianzhou immediately to avenge our King Jin!"

"What happened?"

"Jin Wang, Jin Wang, an old man, was murdered by the despicable Zhu Wen!" The envoy spoke intermittently about the changes in Bianzhou Shangyuan Station.This time, Yang Shouliang and the others were really shocked. Damn it, although Li Keyong is not liked by everyone, they have to admit that Li Keyong is really capable of this Shatuo Human.But this guy who had been defeated countless times by Li Jing without losing his life died in Bianzhou and was killed by Zhu Wen?

Li Keyong was going to kill Zhu Wen, and when the past few days passed, he had brought [-] elites with him, so why did he die in Zhu Wen's hands all of a sudden.That's not right, it doesn't make sense.

But in the end they still had to admit that this is the truth. Li Keyong is really dead. , Governor of Taiyuan, stayed behind in Beidu, regardless of the titles, this extremely fierce Shatuo general who participated in the conquest of the Xuzhou Rebellion at the age of 12, has become a town general at the age of 14, and has already rebelled. The guy who exploded, the guy who had been fighting with Li Jing for almost ten years and hadn't been wiped out, didn't die in the hands of Li Jing in the end, but actually died in the hands of Zhu A San, who didn't take a serious look at him.

But even at this time, they will never think that Zhu Wen is stronger than Li Keyong.In their thinking, Li Keyong was too careless and lost Jingzhou.Especially when I heard that even if Li Keyong was killed and nearly half of the generals of the Hedong Army were controlled by Zhu Wen, they were able to reverse the counterattack. When Zhu Wen was imprisoned in Yacheng and beaten violently in the city outside the state, this further verified their conjecture.It's not that Zhu Wen is very strong, but that Li Keyong underestimated the enemy.

Li Keyong's death was beyond their expectations, but it was just a surprise.Now what they have to consider is how to face this endgame.

Yang Shouliang frowned after swiping the Hedong messenger away.

"General, Li Keyong will die soon after he dies. It is estimated that Zhu Ahsan will have to go to see Li Ya'er in two days. Those Hedong troops are not weak, let's send troops according to the plan!"

Yang Shouliang pinched his beard and sneered a few times, picked up a cup of tea and drank it unhurriedly.

"No rush, no rush."

"Not urgent?"

Soon, some generals came back and laughed along with him. "The general's intention is that we should watch the fire from the other side, sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and wait for the angry Hedong army to fight with Zhu Ahsan to lose both sides first, and then we can easily clean up the mess?"

"Isn't it better?" Yang Shouliang smiled.In fact, he was thinking more than that. He was thinking that Zhu Wen must not be the opponent of the Hedong Army. After the Hedong Army wiped out Zhu Wen, it would definitely lose a lot.At that time, he made another move. First, he easily took down Xuanwu Town. Second, he also took a fancy to the Hedong Army led by Li Keyong this time.If he can swallow this leaderless elite, then his strength will be greatly increased.At that time, maybe he can also become the commander of Xuanwu Festival and control a town, instead of being just a general of Wulao Pass.

"Send a scout battalion to pay close attention to the movement of Zhengzhou, Bianzhou and Huazhou, especially the situation of the Cao and Song states to the east of Bianzhou, and even more closely monitor the situation." The east of Bianhe River is the territory of Qin Fan.Now Li Ke lost Jingzhou carelessly and was killed by Zhu Wen.The Hedong Army and the Bian Army had already fought the real fire. At this time, although Yang Shouliang wanted to reap the benefits of the fisherman, he had to prevent Li Jing from intervening at critical times.Even if they signed the agreement not long ago, they have to guard against it.

Yanjing, Qinzheng Hall of the Forbidden Palace.

Li Jing is issuing a military order, "Immediately form the Shannan camp with the Qin Zongquan Corps, Shangrang Corps, Ge Congzhou Corps, Zhang Guimou Corps, and the Fourth Corps. Qin Zongquan was the deputy capital of the Shannan camp and the governor of the Shannan province, with Ge Congzhou as the commander of the camp, Jiugui Mou as the staff officer of the camp, and Zhang Guiba as the supervisor of the camp."

"Order, from now on, the Shannan camp will immediately march to Shannan Road and capture the states. All civil and military officials in the camp and provinces will be selected and appointed by the camp and provinces, and reported to Yanjing for approval."

Since you want the horse to run, of course you can't let the horse stop eating grass.Li Jing intends to use these 10,000+ subdued troops to nail them between the various forces and add fire to them.But if you want them to be obedient, you have to give them benefits.The benefits Li Jing gave were simple, official position and rights.It is a great power to be an official in the camp and the province.The greater power is that Li Jing does not intervene between the camp and the province at all, and the appointment and removal of officials are all up to them.

This is a great thing for Shang Rang and others. In this way, they can use Li Jing's tiger skin to show off, but at the same time they will not be really controlled by Li Jing.Moreover, with Li Jing as the backer, he could exchange the loot for the needed military equipment and food at any time.

As for Li Jing, he doesn't have to worry about Shang Rang and others taking the opportunity to get big.It is not easy to sit in the cracks of various forces in Shannan.Especially since they were made up of four forces, even if Li Jing supported them, they couldn't really be big.Li Jing's calculations are more sophisticated than theirs, and he doesn't need to hire anyone, and even money and food are not free.You can direct these guys to contain all parties.As for camping and provinces, let's wait until they can really last until the end.

A few days later, Chenzhou.

Zhang Guiba, who was appointed as the military supervisor of the Shannan camp and the admiral of the Shannan province, summoned all the generals above the head of the Fourth Army and read the Qin Wangjun order in public.

After the order was read out, Qin Zongquan, Shangrang and others were all thinking.

Zhang Juyan, the marching Sima of Shang Rang's army, was the first to speak, "What does the King of Qin mean, that all the territory that will be conquered in the future will be considered as the territory of Shannan Province?"

"That's right, not only the territories that will be laid down in the future, but even the four states of Yingchenhaocai are included in the Shannan Province first. The territories that will be laid down in the future will all belong to the Shannan Province."

"King Qin no longer sends people here?"

"Well, the officials and generals under the battalion and the province are all appointed and removed by the province and the battalion, as long as they report to Yanjing afterwards."

After hearing this confirmation, everyone present couldn't help showing surprise in their eyes.What does this mean? It means that Li Jing has let them control one side, instead of strictly implementing the separation of military, political and law like other places in the Qin Army, which means that they have become a powerful military town in the Qin Army. .This is not without precedent in the Qin army. For example, Huaixi Town, Zhexi Town, Yang Xingmi and Qian Liu are all Li Jing's disciples, and their younger sisters are all married to Li Jing. With strong support, they are now divided into one side.Although it is named under the Qin Fan, it is actually a powerful feudal town.Now, Li Jing is also willing to let them enjoy such treatment, how could they be unhappy.

Although everyone is not an idle person, they already knew that Li Jing was willing to make such a condition because Shannan Road was not in their hands yet.If you want to control Shannan with reading power, you must first defeat Shannan.However, they didn't care about this.You can't still think about letting Li Jing help them fight it down, and then let them control it.

All they need is that Li Jing won't regret it later, and it will be enough for them to pick peaches again after they have laid down the territory.

"The king of Qin promises a thousand gold, so there is no need to worry about his reputation. Now that Li Keyong was killed by Zhu Wen in Bianzhou, the Hedong Army has already encircled Bianzhou. Liang Jun of Tang, Sui, Deng and other states in the south of Shanxi is taking orders. Give support to Bianzhou. The Shannan states controlled by the original Zhu Wen are now empty, everyone, this opportunity is once in a lifetime, so don’t miss it. As long as we conquer it, the territory will be ours.”

The territory of Shannan Road is very large. It originally belonged to one of the top ten roads, and later it was split into Shannan East and Shannan West. Shannan West Road is also Xingyuan Town, which belongs to one of the three rivers.The territory of Shannandong is very large, from the upper reaches of the Huaihe River to the lower reaches of the Hanshui River, all belong to the Shannandong Road.

Shannan Dongdao borders Huaixi Town and Eyue in the east, Zhongwu Town and Dongduji in the north, Jinshang and Shaanxi in the west, and Jingnan and Xingyuan in the south.It governs Xiangzhou, Fuzhou, Yingzhou, Fangzhou, Junzhou, Tang, Deng, and Sui, and owns the land of eight states.

In the early years, Yu Cong, Li Fu and Liu Jurong all successively served as the commander of the town.

Liu Jurong was also a general. He once joined forces with Cao Quanzhen and Cui Yunqing to attack Huang Chao, defeated Huang Chao at Jingmen, and beheaded [-] thieves.But in the end, Liu Jurong, Cui Yunqing, who was the governor of the Jiangnan West Road and the Zhennan Army at the time, proposed to take advantage of the victory to attack the thieves, saying: "The Li family in the court has many people who are in danger, and they are in danger. If you don't cherish official rewards, you will forget about it when things are peaceful. , it’s better to keep the thieves and make land for wealth.” Liu Jurong’s method of raising thieves’ self-respect finally made Huang Chao escape, and finally made a comeback and ran rampant in the world.

Like the former famous general Gao Pian, Gao Jurong later had no intention of killing thieves, but became obsessed with alchemy.He recruited an alchemist named Shen Tu, who was obsessed with smelting gold all day long.Although leading the important town in Shannan, there was no major move to crusade against Huang Chao.Up to now, he is getting older and older. He has been repeatedly defeated by Zhu Wen, who is a rising star, and has captured half of the Shannan East Road.

Qin Zongquan used to be a neighbor of Liu Jurong, and he looked down on Liu Jurong very much, and he had been in the territory of Shannan Dongdao for a long time.Now there is such an opportunity, Li Jing publicly supports them to fight Shannan.How could he not be tempted, Zhu Wen, who controls half of the Shannan East Road, is too busy to take care of himself at this time, while Liu Jurong, who controls the other half of the Shannan East Road, is still thinking about turning stones into gold all day long.

Take the Shannan East Road, send troops south, and go further south, but it is a rare peaceful place under the flames of war in the Central Plains in recent years. Jingnan, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Eyue are all grain-producing areas, and they are traditionally A land with few soldiers and weak troops.

If we can really seize this area, it is like Jingzhou in the Three Kingdoms period. Whoever can control this area will really connect Wuyue to the south, Shuhan to the west, and Central Plains to the north!

Almost without any hesitation, the Fourth Army quickly reached an agreement to immediately establish the Shannan Camp and Shannan Province.

"Pass down the order. Tomorrow, the four shifts will cook, and the fifth shift will set off. The troops will send troops to Tangzhou and attack Xiangyang directly!"

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