Chapter 381
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Of course, Li Jing was not a casual and kind person. The decision he made was carefully considered and carefully discussed with the generals and counselors.
When the Zhendong Army first defeated the Gao family generals, then defeated Li Quanzhong of the left-wing army, and then surrounded Li Maoxun of the Wozhou Prefecture. The veteran Lulong Army Liu Yue and Fan Xinglong's right-wing army retreated a hundred miles before they fought and retreated back to Lu County. Afterwards, Li Jing headed north all the way and the troops were at the city of Youzhou. Liu Yue and others not only received a letter of help from Li Keju, but refused to help him, but continued to retreat northward.
After retreating to Xianzhou east of Lushui, Liu Yue and others were not idle either. While watching the movements in Youzhou, they were busy contacting the various troops of the Lu army to gather troops. Liu Yue had a good idea and asked Li Jing to attack Youzhou, a famous city in Hebei.
Li Jing and Li Keju killed each other, and Li Jing's soldiers were good, but they came from afar. Li Keju's troops were weak, but they occupied the fortress of the Xiongcheng Youzhou. The two sides fought each other, and they must have suffered losses. Whether it was Li Jing's final capture of Youzhou or Li Jing retreating halfway, they were all the legendary point guards they expected to see.
If Li Jing defeated Li Keju and captured Youzhou City, there would definitely be a lot of casualties. The Zhendong Army crossed the sea and went deep into Youzhou. At that time, they only had to join the army and block Li Jing's retreat, and they could close the door and beat the dog. No matter how strong Li Jing's Zhendong Army was, it would fall into the encirclement of the hinterland of Youzhou. What would be the case? Even if it was a strong dragon, if it was placed on the shallows, it would be worse than the small fish and shrimp.
At that time, Li Jing was dealt with, and Youzhou was also back in their control.
Either if Li Jing and Li Keju were not captured in a big battle, or if they were directly withdrawn, it would be better. At that time, when Li Jing left, they would join forces to catch the little boy of the Uighur liar in Youzhou City and kill him. Youzhou is still theirs.
Everything went smoothly. The Lu Long army units were a little dissatisfied with Li Maoxun's stole the position of the general. Now that the liar is dead, the position of the general is naturally obtained by the strong. After Li Maoxun won the position of the general, he promoted Guizhou to a large number of generals, which made many military leaders dissatisfied. At present, Liu Yue and Fan Xinglong called on each unit to send troops to drive Li Keju away, so everyone was naturally happy. Even if the position of the general was very likely to be Liu Yue's. But if everyone sent troops, they would definitely not go in vain.
By September 25, the Weiwu Army, Zhenyuan Army, Jingsai Army, Xiongwu Army, Liucheng Army, Beikou Guard, Yancheng Guard, Yuguan Guard, Hongshui Guard, Hengshan Jun, Dawang Jun, Pingzhou, Jizhou, Tanzhou, Yanzhou, Guishunzhou, Xianzhou and other prefectures and counties had sent troops to gather, and 30,000 troops had gathered.
Liu Yue is now full of complacent intentions, and there is such a large army in hand. How could that kid compete with him for the position of General Lu Long?
Wherever he was in his fifties, Liu Yue, who was over 50 years old, felt that he was ten years younger.
Unfortunately, he was not happy for long, Fan Xinglong hurried over and told him something he didn't want to hear.
"What? Li Keju actually recognized Li Jing as his uncle and married his sister to Li Jing's tribe. Now Li Jing has entered Youzhou City without any blood?" He just pretended to be gentle and leisurely learned from the gentry to drink the new tea. The clear soup was full of bitterness, but the art of elegance was so elegant that he kept holding on. At this time, when he heard the news, he was so angry that he even fell to the ground with the precious purple clay teapot.
"What's Li Keju? What's the right to give Youzhou to Li Jing?" Liu Yue said angrily.
"It's not about giving up, but about relying on Li Jing from now on. Youzhou Town has to pay 10% of the annual taxes to Li Jing." Fan Xinglong said.
"It's not worth selling, what's the point of selling!" Liu Yue had long regarded himself as the commander of Youzhou. Everything in Youzhou was considered his. It's really outrageous that Li Keju dared to give his things to others.
What made him even more angry was that he was sitting in the mountains and watching the tiger fight, and the fisherman's plan to benefit was dashed. Not only did Li Jing and Li Keju not fight, but they also became uncles and nephews. Is there anything more anger in the world than this?
But what made him even more angry was that before he decided to fight back, Li Jing and Li Keqi had joined forces to send troops, and 30,000 soldiers were also coming to kill Lushui.
Li Jing first gave a favor and then a soldier. Before sending the troops, he sent an envoy to the city of Xianzhou and sent Li Jing's handwritten letter to Liu Yue and others. In the letter, Li Jing spoke kindly to the generals, but the angry Liu Yue ignored it at all.
Then, on the first day of September, Li Ke raised his general Li Quanzhong and led 5,000 troops to the south bank of Lushui as the vanguard.
In Taohua Valley south of Yanzhou, Li Quanzhong's eldest son Li Kunwei led a thousand soldiers to fight the Weiwu army first. Once the two sides fought, Li Kunwei, known as the Golden Head King, actually defeated the Weiwu army. Fortunately, Fan Xinglong led his army to support him and fought back with his superior troops for a while, driving the troops to cover up the killing. Li Kunwei was outnumbered and retreated, leaving nearly a thousand bodies. Li Kunwei led dozens of cavalrymen to escape.
Fan Xinglong killed more than 30 miles until Li Quanzhong's other son Li Kuangchou led his troops to arrive, and he retreated.
Liu Yue was very happy to receive this victory. Although these Hu cavalry in Guizhou were fierce, they were just that. Their soldiers and horses were all the border soldiers who had always been stationed in the border areas and often went to war with the Hu people. How could these Uighur soldiers be compared?
On the first day of the New Year, it was pitch black and there was no starlight in the throne of the dragon.
However, it is rare to be clear, and the breeze is not cold, but instead it is filled with the fragrance of late-blooming osmanthus flowers.
While blowing the mountain wind, Li Jing rode the black war horse with black body all over.
Li Wei from the Flying Eagle Camp rushed back and found Li Jing among the marching cavalry team. He quickly reported: "Liu Yue's army and horses were stored in Sanhe City behind Xianzhou, with 100,000 stones of grain and 200,000 bunches of horses and grass."
Sanhe River is located on the Haihe River in the middle of the Baoshui, Haihe and Gushui River. It is a small town that is not too big, with a population of about 10,000. It is located thirty miles east of Xianzhou City.
The information about Liu Yue's troops, horses, food and grass was accumulated in Sanhe City, which was not too secret. Because Sanhe City was located close to the base camp of Xianzhou City and was in the rear, Liu Yue and others were not worried.
However, Li Jing has never liked to follow the ordinary path.
Liu Yue and the others think that Sanhe City is safe, which is actually the most unsafe.
After hearing the news that Liu Yue gathered his troops, Li Jing was ready to fight him hard.
Youzhou City does not need to unite, and Li Jing does not want Li Keju to dominate the whole family. But Li Keju cannot be too weak or too weak. He may be destroyed at any time. Then his efforts will be in vain. The best situation is of course to balance. Let Li Keju and Liu Yue have similar strengths to each other, preferably Li Keju is a little weak, but not too weak. In this way, if Li Keju wants to firmly take the position in Youzhou, he must need the support of the Zhendong Army.
With the strength of both sides balanced, Youzhou would not be able to end the chaos. Naturally, it would take advantage of Li Jing's chaos to make profits.
In this battle, Li Jing wanted to fight Liu Yue half to death and weaken his strength.
However, Li Jing was not willing to fall too deeply into such a battle. So this would be a quick battle. After discussing with Li Zhen and others for a long time, Li Jing's battle plan was to raid the grain and grass warehouse in Sanhe. Tens of thousands of soldiers gathered together. Grain and grass first. As long as their food and grass are burned, these soldiers will be destroyed.
Li Jing asked Li Keju's troops to attack the two cities of Liaoxi and Huairou, while Li Jing's Zhendong Army took Xianzhou directly. However, Li Jing was unwilling to really consume Liu Yue, so the infantry led by Wang Chong to attack Xianzhou. Their mission was just to attack the feint attack to attract the attention of Xianzhou City. The real killer move was the five cavalry battalions led by Li Jing.
In the middle of the night, Wang Chong led the infantry of Zhendong Army to launch a feint attack on Xianzhou City on time. Suddenly, there was a fire under the city of Xianzhou, and the sound of killing sounds shook the sky. Li Jing rode a horse on a small hillside, and saw all this.
Half an hour later, Li Jing saw that the time was almost right, and with a wave of his hand, five thousand soldiers and horses quietly bypassed Xianzhou City from one side and rushed straight to Sanhe City.
Along the way, Li Wei spread the Feiying Camp and shot all the Youzhou scouts and patrol soldiers who met.
At the third update, Li Jing led 5,000 cavalry to the city of Sanhe. At this time, Sanhe City was still asleep. The news of the battle in Xianzhou thirty miles away did not reach here. The road communication between Xianzhou City and Sanhe City had long been cut off by the Feiying Camp.
The walls of Sanhe City are also earthen walls, and there are no bricks, only two meters high. There is no arrow tower on the top of the city. Only a few soldiers are holding spears on it.
In dealing with such a small town, there is no pressure to fight special battles. They directly chose a slightly remote corner, took out an iron cone and nailed it directly on the earth wall, then quickly climbed up the city wall with the iron cone, and put down the rope ladder to contact the soldiers behind.
Li Jing hid two hundred steps outside the city, staring at the movements on the city.
After a cup of tea, three shaking torches suddenly appeared on the top of the city wall.
Li Jing smiled and the city was taken down.
With the general pulling in his hand, Li Jing waved forward: "The latest chapter of the son-in-law from the Qimen in the city!"
The knights rode their horses and speared their spears, urging their horses to gallop, and the distance of two hundred steps was reached in a blink of an eye. At this time, the suspension bridge and the city gate were just open, and the cavalry rushed in.
The information on the deployment of Sanhe City and even the pile of food and grass had already been investigated by spies. Before departure, Li Jing had already transmitted the information to the cavalry below. Moreover, different tasks were formulated for the cavalry according to these.
Therefore, as soon as they entered the city, the cavalry immediately rushed to the location marked by their missions in an orderly manner.
Some directly rushed to the various sects, some directly rushed to the barracks, and some directly rushed to the grain warehouse and the forage warehouse.
The one who grabs the door, the one who kills people, the one who sets fire.
The extraordinaryness of Zhendong Army is reflected everywhere. Even if they kill and set fire, they can do so well.
One hundred thousand stones of grain and grass and two hundred thousand bunches of grass were ignited instantly, and the entire Sanhe City became a sea of fire. The sky above Sanhe River was illuminated by the fire as if it were daylight, and even Xianzhou City, thirty miles away, could be seen clearly.
Liu Yue, who was supervising the battle on the top of the city, suddenly heard the soldiers' screams, and couldn't help but hear the sound and looked up at the east sky. He saw that there was a blazing fire and the light was dark.
"It's Sanhe City, the food and grass in Sanhe City are burned!" Someone shouted loudly, and the soldiers on the city were suddenly in panic. The morale of the army dropped sharply. It was about to dawn. As the sky was just dawn, a cavalry suddenly emerged from the fog in the direction of Sanhe. The first big clan was the three words "Zhendong Army".
Li Jing burned the food and fodder of Sanhe, led his troops back and joined the troops besieging Xianzhou City.
"Encircle three palaces and one, and get out of the north gate!" Li Jing saw that the defenders on the top of the city were gradually discontinued, so he ordered loudly.
After the military order, the North Gate besieged city gradually decreased. Liu Yue, in the city, thought he would die here today. At this time, he suddenly heard that the North Gate had repelled the enemy's attack, and he didn't care whether it was a trap or not, and immediately ordered the entire army to break through the North Gate.
As soon as the city gate opened, soldiers from Youzhou flocked out, and many soldiers and horses rushed out of the city behind them, trampling on each other and trampling on each other.
Immediately, the south gate of Xianzhou City was broken, and then other gates were broken one after another. Many Youzhou soldiers had no time to escape and fell into the city and became prisoners. Liu Yue led his personal military camp to ride out of the north gate first, followed by many quick soldiers and generals who saw the opportunity.
However, before they could breathe a sigh of relief, a cavalry suddenly broke out on the way, but there was a white horse and a young general in white robe who shouted: "Liu Yue, if you want to pass by from now on, ask me the bright silver spear in my hand first!"
When Liu Yue saw the silver spear and the white horse and the white robe, he suddenly remembered that this person was the son of Gao Shunli, Guizhou, and Gao Siji, who was known as the white horse and silver spear. The boy's family surrendered to Li Jing after his defeat, and he was still intercepting him here halfway. Liu Yue, who knew Gao Siji's greatness, couldn't help but screamed, and had to call on the troops to rush forward together.
The two armies fought and fought in chaos. During the melee, Liu Yue took off the Shanwen armor that appeared on his body, and hurriedly exchanged armor with a personal soldier, allowing the personal soldier to flee southwest with a team of people, which attracted Gao Siji to pursue him, but he led the other personal soldiers to flee northward.
Gao Siji caught up with the fake Liu Yue and shot him to the point of being happy. When he was happy, he found that it was a fake. He immediately turned around and looked for it, but he could no longer find Liu Yue. He had to lead the newly reorganized cavalry of the Yinan Camp to kill other Youzhou soldiers in a row, killing them so hard that they cried and called for mercy. Finally, they collapsed and abandoned their weapons and begged for mercy.
After cleaning the battlefield, Gao Siji returned to Xianzhou City. At this time, Xianzhou City had been completely taken down by Li Jing. Gao Siji returned to Liu Yue and apologized to Li Jing.
Li Jing laughed: "It's just Liu Yue, I just ran away, it doesn't matter. You go and have some rest. We will return to Youzhou early tomorrow morning."
Gao Siji was shocked: "I will return to Youzhou tomorrow. Now that Liu Yue is defeated, why not take advantage of this moment to completely defeat them in one fell swoop?"
Chapter completed!