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What should come always comes. When Li Jing heard Song Wei's order to transfer him to send troops to suppress the bandits, he was actually very excited. He had been taking risks and striving to develop desperately, just to wait until this opportunity comes, would he have the strength to participate? But he was slightly surprised that he was transferred to Zibo and Qi prefectures, rather than Qingzhou.

"I dare to ask Judge Lei, the general of Jie, who is the one who wants to suppress me?"

"Hong Balang!"

Li Jing frowned. Why is this person? This person appeared in later historical books. However, in historical records, this person was a thief in Hebei, and some people said that he was Yu Ni in the Pang Xun Rebellion. After the defeat of Xuzhou, he kept robbing Zi, Qi, Di and other states on both sides of the Yellow River. The reason why he really left a note in history books was related to Wang Jingwu. Historical records were that in the first year of Guangming, six years later, a giant thief Hong Balang gathered in Qi, and the two states of Di were caused by disaster. Pinglu Jieduan An Shiru ordered Wang Jingwu to attack Pingzhi. As a result, after Wang Jingwu sent troops, he suddenly returned and was very useless to defeat the late Tang Dynasty. An Shiru, who was driven away by his subordinates in several towns, was expelled from Ziqing Town and stayed at his post.

During that mutiny in Ziqing Town, Hong Balang was a completely so-called character. Li Jing did not expect that he actually jumped out five or six years in advance. History said that he had made a big fuss when he responded to Huang Chao. Could it be that his appearance had already had such a profound impact?

"Why is this person?"

"What, Brother Ji Yu, who would it be?" Lei Gang asked with a smile.

Li Jing laughed: "I heard that the private salt dealers on the Balance Festival were making a big fuss. I had previously arrested a Caozhou salt dealer who dared to come to buy salt from me. I also asked someone to escort him to Qingzhou. I don't know what the result was?"

"Ji Yu is talking about the Shangli Shangjun. I have heard of this man, and there is some prestige in the green forests of the rivers and lakes. Last time, when someone was taken to Qingzhou, Song Jieshuai said that since this man was a citizen under Xue Jieshuai, the Tianping Army, he asked someone to give him to Xue Shuai. He heard that Xue Shuai sent the man to Caozhou again, saying that he would be a typical example in Caozhou to kill a warning. But who would have thought that this thief had many followers, and actually asked him to be on the day of the killing. Hundreds of bandits made a big fuss in the court and robbed him from the knife. Although Caozhou also sent constables to take charge, these people disappeared without a trace." Lei Gang said with a chuckling, as if he was just telling an extremely ordinary little joke. "This time Xue Jieshuai lost his face. It is said that Xue Jieshuai was so arrogant that he scolded the governor of Caozhou and then directly withdrew the person."

Li Jing couldn't help but sigh in his heart. These people would never have thought of who they let go. And they would never have thought of who would have robbed the Dharma field. How serious this is to dare to bring hundreds of people to rob the Dharma field in the city. But these people just used jokes to spread it.

"The person who robs the law is probably Wang Xianzhi, Zhang Guiba and other private salt vendors in Caozhou." Li Jing sighed.

Lei Gang was a little surprised. Caozhou was under the rule of the Tianping Army, although it was a neighbor of the Pinglu Army. However, Caozhou was close to Luoyang, one from Dengzhou, the other from the east, and the other from the east, not farther than a thousand miles away. How could Li Jing know so clearly?

"I heard that it seems that it was indeed robbed by Wang Xianzhi. Wang Xianzhi is the largest private salt dealer in Caozhou. The Wang family in Caozhou and the Huang family in Puzhou are the two largest private salt dealers in the Central Plains. Wang Xianzhi is said to have ten extremely powerful giant thieves known as the Ten Voters. I heard that the Shang Junchang you caught is the first confidant general under Wang Xianzhi. As for the others, I don't know the name. However, the name is scary, but it is actually just a group of private salt dealers, which cannot be achieved. Once the official army moves, none of these jumping clowns will have a good end."

This is what the Tang officials thought of Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi and others. They never thought that the Tang Dynasty would be messed with by this group of people. Seeing Lei Gang's attitude, Li Jing gave up the idea of ​​reminding them. Now he probably won't listen to what he said. It's better to wait until Wang Xianzhi is afraid of these people, let's talk about it.

However, we need to inquire more about Hong Balang's news at the moment.

"How many troops Hong Balang has? I wonder how many troops Song Jieshuai has mobilized this time?"

Lei Gang's mouth twitched a few times, saying, "Hong Balang has 800 people, all of them have horses."

"Only eight hundred people?" Li Jing was stunned for a moment. When he heard Song Wei sending military orders from Qingzhou to summon him to send troops, Li Jing thought that some thieves had gathered together and had tens of thousands of refugees and bandits under his command. Unexpectedly, after all, there were only eight hundred people in the end. Even if these 800 people were all horse bandits aged, they were only eight hundred people. No matter how fierce the horse thieves were, could they still compare with the military and horses of the court?

"Don't underestimate this Hong Balang. This man is extremely fierce, and his subordinates are even a group of desperate people. They burned, killed, looted, and did everything. At first, they were in a rebellion in Dizhou north of the Yellow River. At the most, they were known as three thousand soldiers and defeated the troops of Yichang Army in Hebei several times. In the end, Zheng Hanqing, the commander of the Yichang Army, dispatched tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress them. But in the end, they still let this person get out of the encirclement and crossed the Yellow River to escape into our Zibo and Qi prefectures. Zibo and Qi prefectures all sent troops to clear them out, but they sent troops several times. If there were few soldiers, they were defeated by the bandits. If there were many soldiers, the bandits would escape from the distance. They failed several times, but they injured many officials. Now, seeing that Hong bandits were in Zibo and Qi prefectures again, there was no one in the Pinglu army to fight."

"In this way, the only one who sent troops to fight against the thieves this time was my Shamen Town Army?" Li Jing asked.

"It's true." Lei Gang explained: "Supervisor Song Jie didn't want to summon your troops to suppress the bandits, but in the end, the general Wang Jingwu proposed that you are both intelligent and have both elite soldiers and powerful generals in the Shamen Town Army, and can destroy the bandits. He also showed you the matter of defeating the one-eyed dragon pirates and extermination of Feng Zhang, saying that you are young and have made exceptions one after another. Now, Song Jie is still promoted to become the envoy of the Great Xie Fort. He believes that if you are promoted to the Great Xie Fort Warrior, then you will be responsible for the suppression of the bandits this time."

"Wang Jingwu's intention is that if I don't go to suppress the bandits, then I will not be qualified to serve as the Great Xie Fort Army, right?" Li Jing said with a sneer.

"He means that, so you must fight a good battle this time to wipe out Hong Balang, and completely shut up other people who have objections to your promotion. Song Jieshuai is very optimistic about you. Not only will you promote you to the Great Xie Fort Army Envoy in advance, but you also have the title of silence envoy. Don't let down Jishuai's wishes." Lei Gang was afraid that Li Jing would not agree, so he said kindly.

"Don't worry, I don't care about the 800 horse thieves."

"I don't know how many soldiers Ji Yu is preparing to lead to fight?"

"I have a newly established cavalry camp under my command, with two thousand horses. I think it is enough to deal with a mere horse thief. The best way to deal with a 2,000 cavalry camp is to control the cavalry camp." Li Jing replied confidently.

Lei Gang hurriedly advised, "There are too few soldiers, so I advise you to bring more troops. I have been to Shamen Town for several days. I heard that you have more than 10,000 elite soldiers under your command, so why not bring more. Even if the entire army does not attack, you will bring at least five or six thousand people. Don't be careless, and be taken advantage of by the thieves."

Li Jing shook his head. Hong Balang's command was full of horse thieves, coming and going like the wind. Only cavalry can quickly find them and wipe them out. If there are too many soldiers, the march will not be swift. Once the other party finds them, it is very likely that they will flee far away and will be difficult to wipe out.

Seeing Li Jing insisting repeatedly, Lei Gang almost jumped up in an anxious manner. He hurriedly winked at Li Jing and said softly: "Please leave the left and right, I have a secret message."

"Please go to the study room to speak." Li Jing invited Lei Gang into the study room. As soon as Lei Gang entered, he immediately said to Li Jing: "Why don't you understand? In fact, Wang Jingwu proposed to let you suppress the bandits this time, but he didn't know that he wanted to take the opportunity to use the bandits' hands to eliminate or consume your strength. You don't know. In fact, famine is everywhere, and there are many bandits in Zibo and Qi states, but it is not just Hong Balang and a group of horse thieves. If you have fewer troops, it is easy for bandits to take advantage of it."

He looked around again, and then whispered: "Actually, the most important one is that Song Jieshuai and Cui Sima both think this is a rare opportunity."

"What opportunity? Could it be?"

Lei Gang smiled: "You are right. Wang Jingwu didn't have a good intention, but he made a fool of himself. He wanted to transfer you to Ziqi, but he forgot that he had to pass Qingzhou first to go to Ziqi."

"Destroy Guo by fake road!" Li Jing couldn't help but exclaim. Song Wei and Cui Yunqing were indeed still accustomed. On the surface, they could not be transferred to Zibo and Qizhou to suppress bandits. But in fact, they planned to let Li Jing lead more troops and horses. When they arrived in Qingzhou, they would give Wang Jingwu a straight heart when they arrived. At present, Wang Jingwu's tooth army in Qingzhou, the Jiedu soldiers controlled by Song Wei, and the Qingzhou united soldiers and the military guards and several troops in the military supervisors reached a balance. But if Li Jing's new force joins, Wang Jingwu will be defeated.

No wonder Lei Gang kept asking Li Jing to lead more troops, because this is the reason. The few soldiers were afraid that they could not defeat Wang Jingwu's Yajun.

This is indeed a great opportunity to destroy Wang Jingwu. As long as he is willing to help Song Wei, Song Wei will have absolutely strong power. Should he do this, or he has to consider whether he should do this. Will doing this bring benefits to him?

Seeing that Li Jing seemed to be hesitating, Lei Gang couldn't help but look anxious. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He always thought that the pair of the Jieshi Mansion was in a very embarrassing situation because they could not get rid of Wang Jingwu and seize control of the Qingzhou Yat-soldiers. In other states of Ziqing, Song Wei had already begun to take the initiative to gain an active advantage, but Qingzhou was suppressed, and Wang Jingwu might be forced to jump over the wall and directly kill the Jieshi Mansion.
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