Chapter 534
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Li Jing was at the foot of Mount Tai. Although the troops were stationed in Qianfeng City, the scouts had already spread to various states. Huang Chao captured Yuncheng, and Li Jing had already received news the next day. Li Wei reported to Li Jing and the generals carefully about the battle in Yuncheng. "Now Huang Chao was carrying nearly 100,000 young men and women to Jezhou, and got all the wealth, people and food in Juancheng and Yuncheng, and his momentum was restored. We judged that Huang Chao was about to meet with King Jingwu of Qizhou."
"Since the yellow thief is heading to Qizhou, he must first pass through Jeju. His subordinates think that our army can move to the north immediately, go to Jeju, and intercept the thieves in Pingyin City." Staff Guaiyu suggested that since he entered the town, he has only served as a staff officer. Although it is praising the blood service of the army, this staff officer belongs to the Staff Office, and there are also marching staff officers, senators, counselors and other Shangguans. Even if there are five or six staff officers like him, he feels a strong sense of crisis, and he always thinks about making suggestions to gain Li Jing's trust and integrate into the town.
Li Jing smiled slightly, but did not reply to Gai Yu's proposal, but asked Li Wei with a smile, "Do you say that Huang Chao has now carried 100,000 young men and women, and also brought a large amount of money, silk, grain and grass that have been robbed from Pu and Yun states?"
Li Wei nodded. The thief did carry a lot of gold, silk, money, food and population.
He asked someone to put the maps of Yun, Ji, Yan and Qi to piece together a large map. Then Li Jing clicked Gai Yu's name and asked him to use red and blue to indicate the location and operation route of the official army and the thieves. Although it was just a small task, Gai Yu was very happy and immediately marked the situation of the enemy and us with excitement. He even marked the number very accurately. It can be seen that he usually controls these intelligence very carefully.
Li Jing nodded to Gai Yu with appreciation and said to Gai Yu: "Staff Advisor Gai is indeed very meticulous in his work, very good." Gai Yu is a person from Li Keyong. Li Keyong is not dead yet. Li Jing must now let him go for a while and polish his temper to be more comfortable. However, you cannot just suppress it. Praise and praise from time to time can also play an excellent role.
After praising Gai Yu for a few words, Li Jing pointed to the map and said solemnly: "Do not approach Gaoling, do not rebel against the hill, do not follow the north, do not attack sharp soldiers, do not eat bait soldiers, do not return to the army
To siege the troops and leave the palace. Do not force the enemy to force the enemy. This is the method of using troops. The current thief is rushing to Qizhou, and it can be called the return troops and the enemy to defeat the enemy. For such thief, I do not think that taking the lead in interception to Pingyin City is the best solution."
Huang Chao is not Wang Xianzhi. Wang Xianzhi has been almost broken since the Battle of Songzhou, and he fled in the last few battles. On the contrary, Huang Chao is very desperate. In the Battle of Juye, he was defeated by the official army and dared to counterattack and attack. From this we can see the huge difference between the two. If Li Jing really rushed to Pingyin City to intercept Huang Chao and Huang Chao tried his best to break through, the Zhen** would also suffer great casualties.
In the battle of Juye, 80,000 Huang Chao defeated the army against the official army, but as a result, he attacked the enemy with a weak enemy with a small number of people, and killed and injured 20,000 soldiers. Li Jing now only had 25,000 soldiers, and brought 50,000 young and strong men all the way to Pingyin. He was also a tired army. He would fight Huang Chao again at that time, and the loss would definitely be quite large.
What's even more important is that it is of no significance to him to fight Huang Chao so hard. How could Li Jing fight such a battle?
"Do you just let Huang Chao go like this?"
"No, of course not!" No matter what, even the superficial skill is, Li Jing has to do it. We must never say that he let Huang Chao go. At present, the court has even appointed the governor of the Lu Long Army directly. Who knows whether the prime ministers of the government affairs hall, which are controlled by Tian Lingzi, will suddenly not use their brains to scold them, or even make some fierce decisions. If Li Jing is transferred to other towns, or to enter the court, even if Li Jing refuses to obey the orders, it is not a good deal for Li Jing to have a rigorous relationship with the court now.
He reached out and pointed on the map, "We don't go to Jeju to intercept it. We go to Yunzhou, first recover Puzhou and Yunzhou, and then enter Jeju to pursue the thieves' army. As long as we are not chasing too tightly, the thieves will not turn back to fight. At that time, we will follow them and recover Jeju, and even approach Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi to leave Qizhou. At that time, we can even recover Qizhou together."
After the six towns in the west, the government troops lost their food and were unable to leave Caozhou in a short period of time. After Xue Chong's defeat in Yuncheng, the entire Pu, Yun and Qi states had no power. As long as Li Jing sent troops to walk around the prefectures and counties, the regaining of the revenge would be the best for the town. What's more, there were many broken thieves in these three states, as well as many bandits who rebelled by the tree flags.
War requires money and food, and Li Jing does not intend to waste so much time in vain. While recovering the prefectures and counties, Li Jing happened to wipe out all the bandits and put all the young and strong back to Liaodong for free labor. At the same time, he had already focused on the prefectures and counties, preparing to move the money and food that the thieves had no time to take away back to Dengzhou. Moreover, after the Battle of Songzhou, Li Jing was also very clear that if he recovered the prefectures and counties, the merchants and wealthy families in each prefectures and counties would also give him a sum of filial piety and labor force as usual. The amount of money in several prefectures and dozens of counties would be large, and Li Jing would not let him go.
Although doing this is somewhat inconsistent with Li Jing's initial approach. But he also knew that this was just a common practice in the world today. Even if Li Jing did this, it was actually nothing. What's more, Li Jing knew that after this chaos, Tianping and Taining provinces were almost corrupt. Next, even if the Cao Army left, the local thieves would still corrupt the place. This place was rotten. If he didn't take the money now, he would still be taken by others.
The change of interception to pursuit, but the result is huge, especially for the town, the difference in interests before and after is large. This change not only does not have to fight against the thief or suffer casualties, but also can make great contributions and gain a lot of benefits.
When Li Jing said that, no one here admired the generals. This is the style of the throne. Nowadays, the generals are almost used to it. They almost never fight hard battles. If they want to fight, they will fight skillful battles and fight profitable battles.
Soon the generals of the ** town unified their opinions. Li Jing ordered Li Zhen and Guo Cheng'an to stay in Qianfeng City, and then ordered Guo Shunli to lead two thousand black flag troops, Wang Chong led three thousand to support the Japanese army, and the fifty thousand young and strong people also stayed in Qianfeng.
Li Jing personally led the Jinjiao Jiezhong, the silver spear, the cavalry army, the iron forest army, the five soldiers of the five soldiers of the front army advanced west along the Wenshui River and entered Yunzhou. When Li Jing arrived in Yunzhou, Huang Chao had already entered Jizhou. Li Jing did not chase him, but dispersed the five armies and asked them to go to the cities of Yun and Puzhou respectively.
The four counties of Puzhou, six counties of Yunzhou, and the five towns and ** armies swept away respectively in the two prefectures. Although Huang Chao evacuated the two prefectures at this time, there were still many defeated soldiers and defeated soldiers of the government. Three or five groups of people were in trouble, and many hungry people even looted everywhere. The landlords of the rich and powerful towns in various towns recruited villages and built villages to protect themselves. Smaller villages were mostly looted and burned. The mountains, forests, rivers and lakes of the two prefectures were everywhere.
The town swept by like autumn wind sweeping over fallen leaves. The first thing to do was to recover ten county towns and reorganize order. The people were opened to help the people, eliminate rogue riots, and restore the market. The five armies dispatched troops and horses to sweep away the mountains and forests of various counties in a carpet-like manner. At the same time, local wealthy merchants were also organized to take out grain to open a porridge shed.
Li Jing personally stayed in Yuncheng, Yunzhou, and there were 20,000 troops swept the troops. The bandits who lost leaders like Huang Chao were just a group of mobs. Under the swept of swords and swords of the town, they collapsed one after another, either wiped out or surrendered.
The large number of hungry people who were displaced and lost due to famine and war were temporarily resettled. Li Jing directly ordered the rebellious bandits and bandits, including men and women over fifteen years old and under forty years old, to gather together with the army and wait to take them back to Dengzhou together.
In just ten days, under the thunder of 20,000 towns, the local order of Pu and Yun prefectures had been restored, and the bandits among the mountains and forests were also wiped out. The refugees were first killed by Huang Chao and the government army and killed more than 100,000 yuan, and now more than 100,000 yuan was taken away by Li Jing. In addition to those prefectures and counties, there were some large villages, the rest of the villages were empty.
Not only did Pu and Yun provinces suffer a huge loss of population, but even Cao, Hua, Yan, Ji and other prefectures suffer a huge loss.
On the day Li Jing arrived in Yunzhou, the governor of the Tianping Army took Cao Quanzhi and other wealthy officials from Juyezhai to pay homage to Li Jing. He had no good feelings for this incompetent general, Li Jing, just casually and perfunctorily. Xue Chong originally wanted Li Jing to add him to the function of regaining prefectures and counties, but Li Jingli ignored him.
However, the next day, Xue Chong immediately gave 200,000 yuan of money and brought many local officials from the Tianping Army. They also brought a lot of money, so they naturally had only one purpose. I hope that Li Jing would add another sum to them on the list of recovery. Looking at the money, Li Jing did not refuse this time. After accepting the money, he waved his pen and added local civil and military officials from each prefecture and county to the credit book for regaining Yun and Puzhou.
Xue Chong's reaction to Li Jing's actions were out of Li Jing's intention. Not only did he not stop him, he was very happy. In his words, the Tianping Army could not control these refugees at the moment. Li Jing took them away, and there were no more troubles in the places where there were no more trouble.
After ten days of continuous sweep, Li Jing ordered the withdrawal of troops, and the troops handed over the two states and ten cities to the local officials who came out from all over the place. Of course, almost all the money, grain and materials in the city were taken away by the town and the army.
Faced with this situation, officials from all over the country not only did not dare to complain at all, but even took the initiative to contact the wealthy merchants from all over the country to collect a lot of military expenses and deliver gifts to ten miles away when the troops were evacuating.
After the troops returned to Yuncheng to meet, they heard the report and saw the soldiers of the various soldiers returning home. Looking at the truckload of supplies, Li Jing was very surprised. However, Gai Yu, who followed the army, told Li Jing that all this was normal. Because the behavior of the town was completely in line with the common rules at the moment, and even the town was better than other troops.
The town ** helped the local area to wipe out the bandits, but it just took some money from the government's treasury. But if it were other vassal armies, they would more or less rob the money of some rich families, and some were even more fierce and greedy than the bandits, and they would directly rob everyone, no matter the rich, the people. For example, the town ** of Li Jing's town ** only took some money from the public, helped to wipe out bandits, appease refugees, and maintain order, which is really rare.
"This time, a total of 80,000 young men and 50,000 young women were collected. In addition, the food was about 500,000 stone, more than 2 million stagnant of stagnation, and more than 800,000 pieces of cloth! There are about 20,000 sets of armor and weapons, and about 5,000 large animals of donkeys, horses, cattle, and cattle." Gai Yu reported the results to Li Jing excitedly. The Central Plains was indeed not comparable to those of the borders of Daibei. In the past ten counties, they actually scraped out so much oil and water in ten days. This was the case that the thief had already snatched it, especially the population, and so many young and strong people, transported to Liaodong, and they could immediately change the bitter and cold land.
Hearing this gain, Li Jing also smiled slightly. The gain was somewhat beyond his expectations, mainly given by the officials and local bold people.
"In this way, the army carried 50,000 stones of grain, and the rest of the grain was temporarily stored in Yunzhou. The cloth was also stored in Yuncheng warehouse first. After we cleared the Jishui channel, we sent a ship to transport it away." So much grain was difficult to transport it away at once, and Li Jing would never give up the grain. In the end, he could only store it here first. "That 20,000 sets of weapons are cheaper, so I will sell it to Xue Chong. If he can't eat it, he will contact the Li army of Taining Army in Yanzhou and the governor Zhang of Songzhou to sell it to them. We don't need money for these weapons, just grain or cloth, and if it is other iron materials, it's fine."
Nearly 20,000 sets of weapons are mostly in stocks from the two prefectures and ten counties, and the weapons in the hands of those destroyed bandits were actually collected from the defeated soldiers of the thieves and the defeated soldiers of the government. These weapons are too mixed and too bad. Li Jing was unwilling to bring so many garbage weapons back and simply digest them on the spot.
Li Jing looked down on 20,000 sets of weapons, but Xue Chong was very needed. He had almost all the soldiers in his hands, and now he must have to rebuild the Balance Army. These weapons are just in need. Although Li Jing offered to pay 50 stags per set, not including iron armor, which was obviously very expensive, Xue Chong still asked for 10,000 sets in one breath. However, he couldn't afford so much money for the time being, and Li Jing refused to do it on credit.
Finally, Li Jing pointed at him and told him that he bought weapons and reorganized the army for the sake of local peace. He asked him to find the prefectures and counties below Tianping Town to ask for it. After hearing this, Xue Chong immediately copied it and distributed it to the wealthy landlords and merchants below. Even ordinary people collected a sum of money. Five hundred thousand jin of money was a lot, but after dispersing it, it was still forced to collect it soon.
Li Jing collected 500,000 jin of money and immediately pulled out 10,000 sets of weapons to Xue Chong, and even gave him an additional 100 sets. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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