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Chapter 659

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On August 16, Li Jing held a grand military parade under the city of Liaodong. The war soldiers of the eight armies, plus the united soldiers of the four armies, and the village soldiers of the eight armies, a total of twenty armies, 100,000 troops gathered together on the east bank of the Liao River, and then drove all the way through the city of Liao River to accept the inspection by Li Jing and the generals.

After the military parade, Li Jing held a medal ceremony to the entire army.

More than a thousand soldiers who received merits at all levels, Li Jing and other generals awarded medals and awarded swords to the meritorious soldiers respectively.

The first-level martial cavalry medal, the second-level trench cavalry medal, the third-level sling cavalry medal, the fourth-level raft cavalry medal, the fifth-level vehicular cavalry medal, the seventh-level chute cavalry medal, the eighth-level feather cavalry medal.

There are also special Dragon Xiang Medals, special Tiger Ben Medals, special Leopard Tao Medals, special Eagle Eagle Medals, special Feng Xiang Medals, and special Tianlang Medals.

The medals awarded this time are made of gold and silver inlaid gemstones, which are very beautiful, elegant and precious. They are full of gold content, and all these medals not only represent honor, but also represent a lot of privileges.

According to different grades of medals, winners of the eighth-class medal will be called the Medal, and winners of the sixth-class medal will be called the Jazz.

The heroes can enjoy a royal allowance, and will not worship the officials, and will receive twenty acres of free land for the honor

The jazz not only enjoys a generous jazz allowance, but will also receive fifty acres of land for exemption from honors when they see officials.

Each honoree will also receive a great sword, a steel horizontal sword specially created by the Ordnance Department, a shark scabbard, and a golden sword hilt.

The award-winning jazz received the extremely precious Damascus transforming knife. These famous knives made of Uz steel are also decorated with jade, and the jade is made of Damascus knife.

More than a thousand soldiers who received medals, less than a hundred of them received special medals, and only more than three hundred were awarded the eighth level medal. The remaining ones were awarded a "Combat Medal". The battle medal was awarded to soldiers who fought ten times of heroic battle, and a reward of one bounty was rewarded at one time. The rest was glory and not worshipping the officials.

In addition, during this battle of Ping Liao, Li Jing also awarded the Liaodong Battle Medal, and all the soldiers participating in the Liaodong Battle were awarded one as a commemoration and rewarded for their heroic battle.

Every soldier who won the honors wore special honorary uniforms, wore honorary swords and generals, and wore medals to display them in front of the entire army.

After Gao Degui's death, the Goguryeo people on the head of Liaodong City are now without a leader. Although Gao Degui's son Gao Anwu succeeded the position of King Goguryeo, they obviously did not have much prestige. There were great enemies outside to defeat the city. In the inner city, Gao Anwu's life was very difficult.

At this time, he stood on the top of the city and looked at the Tang army parading under the city as if no one was away. The grand scale and grand momentum made Gao Anwu and others look gloomy. Khitan general Yelu Da proposed several times to lead the Khitan soldiers to evacuate.

During the two days of the truce in Gaozai Town, there were many more catapults under the city. Although there were only ten super catapults, the smaller catapults were more and more large and small. Now, more than 300 catapults of all sizes have been built on all sides of Liaodong City.

Looking at the army gathering in the city, the camps were endless, dozens of miles long.

Once the Tang army continues to fight, they probably won't last long.

The less the Tang army is in a hurry to attack the city, the more morale the soldiers in the city fall.

Outside the city.

After Li Jing reviewed the generals and awarded meritorious soldiers, he invited Zhang Tai to openly read the imperial edict to all the soldiers and the soldiers and the military and civilians. The 100,000 soldiers could not accept the emperor's will, and the crowd was in an uproar.

Zhang Tai was frightened when he looked at the scene. It was like a pile of dry firewood, and any spark could cause a fire.

But what made him feel relieved was that Li Jing did not intend to cause this fire.

On the stage, Li Jing announced to the entire army that he had accepted the transfer from the court, and made great contributions to loyalty and righteousness, and also asked the soldiers of each army to obey the new five commanders of the ranks. Then he publicly announced the disarmament of the 200,000 troops in the town.

All the Unity Army and the Township Army will be completely disbanded before the New Year after another three months of service.

The other 100,000 towns, each with 50,000 people and four armies, retaining two armies and ten thousand as war soldiers, while the remaining two armies were converted into united soldiers, disbanded and returned to the army, and trained in autumn and winter.

Li Jing announced the list of disarmament. Among them, the navy, the cavalry, the silver spear, the victorious army of the Jinjia, the Japanese army, the iron forest army, the black flag army, the Shenjie army, the flying bear, and the ten army of the selected front were listed on the list of disarmament.

Zhang Tai, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, was stunned when he heard this. The abolition of the Ten Army announced by Li Jing was the elite among his elite troops. After the ten armies were laid off, there would be nothing left in the remaining ten armies in the town.

He smiled bitterly in his heart. It turns out that Li Jing didn't let go of everything so easily.

Sure enough, Li Jing soon announced that he would stay here for the time being, waiting for Zheng and Cui to take over by the court. During this period, Li Jing would recruit the abolition of the ten troops as his marshal of Hebei, and wait to assign the responsibilities here, and accompany him to Hebei to take office together.

The soldiers who were already excited below immediately became much quieter. Among them, the soldiers of the Ten Army who were named were much more at ease. No matter where they were going, they would not be wrong as long as they followed the prince. Other ten armies separated and affiliated to the new five towns were much quieter. At least those who were laid off and the township soldiers sighed a little. Although they were the Tongjie soldiers and the township soldiers, their treatment was actually not bad, and they were even better than the Tooth soldiers in other places. Now that they have been laid off, they can't help but feel lost.

Li Jing went to the stage with the generals and said a lot of words to appease the morale of the army. Although many soldiers were not satisfied with the court's arrangement, the snake was headless. Li Jing abides by the imperial court's will in this way, and secretly summoned officers at all levels in the army to discuss matters and explain them to them to appease the morale of the army.

At this time, officers at all levels remained silent and supported Li Jing's decision. Although the soldiers below could not accept it for the time being, they could not do anything. The overall situation was still under Li Jing's control.

Although the situation may not change within two or three months. But when Li Jing was about to leave, the town was divided into five, and his enthusiasm just now became much deeper.

In the next few days, Li Jing simply canceled his immediate attack on Liaodong City and continued to rest.

On August 19th, the Khitan general Yelu Da led his troops out of the city north of Liaodong City at night, and Gao Anwu dared not stop him.

As soon as the Khitans left, the morale in the city became increasingly declining. When the Goguryeo people in the city saw the Khitans evacuate. Li Jing did not pursue him, but the people were moved. That night, Kaicheng escaped. In the next few days, the Goguryeo generals led their troops to leave every night.

After a few days, there were even people in the city who started to break through the door and leave in broad daylight.

Although Gao Anwu wanted to stop him, he had fallen a few times, which caused bloody conflicts between the soldiers and the defenders who wanted to leave, and even almost caused riots throughout the city. In the end, Gao Anwu had to leave. In this way, in just half a month, the soldiers and horses in the city had almost ran away. Even Gao Degui's former old subordinate, at this time, expected that Liaodong City could not be defended, and continued to lead troops to leave.

In early September, when the news of the assassination of the Chang'an emperor reached Liaodong, less than 30,000 soldiers were left in the city. The secret spies in the city reported that Gao Huiwu was completely unwilling to deal with military and political affairs, and he was drunk and dreaming every day, sinking into women's beauty, and completely abandoning himself.

After receiving this news, Li Jing immediately ordered the drum beaters to blow the generals, and at the same time sent people to deliver letters of persuasion to the Liaodong city, allowing Gao Anwu to surrender. He gave him three days to consider and attack the city within a deadline.

Li Jing has not siege the city these days, and has been waiting for news from Chang'an.

After waiting for these days, news from Chang'an finally came. On the surface, Li Jing had just received the news of the assassination of the Chang'an emperor.

But in fact, Li Jing has established a transportation line with Chang'an, and Kuaima has delivered messages every day in the morning and evening. From Chang'an to the city of Liaodong, Li Jing can receive news from Chang'an in five days. This communication line can almost reach the limit of the transmission of thousands of miles a day.

As early as half a month ago, Li Jing had already received the news that the emperor was assassinated and received a secret report from Li Wei. Everything was progressing as planned.

It is precisely because of this that Li Jing has been so leisurely and secure during this period.

However, the court had not made any public announcement of the assassination of the emperor at the beginning. Until not long ago, Li Wei and Gongsun Lan suddenly revealed the news of the assassination of the emperor in a secretly controlled Chang'an tabloid.

Li Wei not only disclosed the news of the assassination of the emperor through this tabloid, but also announced the news that the court had found out that the person behind the assassination was the three towns in Hebei. He even published many evidences that were originally preserved in the Six Gates.

A stone caused a thousand sensation, and no one expected that a small newspaper would actually reveal such a powerful piece of information.

Since the establishment of newspapers and distribution of newspapers in Dengzhou, newspapers have been continuously printed from east to west. In places like Chang'an, the capital city, there are certainly more promising newspapers. To this day, there are twenty or thirty newspapers of all sizes in Chang'an. At first, the imperial court ignored newspapers, and later controls, and later reopening, although the newspapers in Chang'an are more cautious and conservative, they have also become an important way for Chang'an officials and people to obtain a lot of news.

Qin Bao turned out to be just one of the small newspapers that could not be even smaller, with only three employees. The circulation was only 3,000 copies. However, when Qin Bao used the full version of the day to disclose the assassination case of the emperor that the court had been keeping secret, it immediately became popular.

Various newspapers reprinted the newspapers. On that day, Qinbao added 10,000 copies and sold them all.

The next day, when the imperial court came to investigate, Qin Bao and the other two were completely gone.

But the uproar caused by them became increasingly greater. The next day, more than 30 big newspapers and tabloids in Chang'an, and even weekly magazines, all published supplements and sub-names, and reported on the assassination of the emperor in three towns in Hebei.

At the same time, several newspapers also revealed the assassination of the vassal states in Chang'an during the Xianzong period.

Some well-informed people even logged out some information on the mobilization of some soldiers and horses in the court over the past few days.

After the assassination, Zheng Congyi, the governor of Hedong, Taiyuan Yin, and the left-behind capital of Beidu, summoned 5,000 Hedong soldiers, and assembled the Dangxiang cavalry of Xiayin, Tuoba Sigong, the Tuyuhun cavalry of Tiande, Helianduo, and three cavalrymen of Anqing, Sage and Qibi. They were heading towards Guizhou, Lulong Town, and had 20,000 elite troops.

At the same time, Cui Anqian, the Minister of Personnel, also rushed to Henan and gathered Xuanwu with Zhang Zimian in Xuzhou. Zhongwu 15,000 troops and marched towards the Yellow River.

At the same time, the newspaper also reported that the Shence army in Guanzhong was also mobilized frequently, and news came from Luoyang that the army of Hezhong, Heyang, Yicheng, Zhaowu and other troops were also mobilizing.

All of this seems to point directly to the three towns in Hebei.

The speculations of these newspapers further confirm the report of the assassination of the emperor in three towns in Hebei that Qin News had previously reported.

Some newspapers also pointed out that in fact, the three towns assassinated the emperor, because the emperor wanted to imitate Emperor Xianzong to reduce the vassals. They also announced the previous emperor's handling and mobilization of Li Jing and the town, claiming that the court's splitting the town was just the first step. After splitting the town, it was to deal with the three towns in Hebei, and the fact that the court appointed Li Jing as the marshal of the Hebei Dao Army, and the fact that Zheng Cong-secret and Cui Anqian were mobilized as various troops.

As for some people, the imperial court mobilized these troops to send them to Liao to reinforce and to fight against Goguryeo, no one believed it. With Li Jing and Zhenzhao's ability, the small Goguryeo was already at a dead end, so why did the imperial court send troops from thousands of miles to attack?

The newspaper editor insisted that this was just a false plan for the imperial court to destroy Guo. The three towns in Hebei saw the imperial court's plan, so they wanted to make a desperate attempt, etc.

It has to be said that these conspiracy theories have received the support of countless officials and people in Chang'an.

Even on that day, countless officials in Chang'an reported the remarks like snowflakes, and asked to send troops to conquer the three towns in Hebei immediately. Some officials also reported that at this time, they should temporarily stop splitting the towns and bringing them to Li Jing temporarily, and let him lead the troops to put down Goguryeo first, and enter the pass first to help the court to wipe out the Three Feudals of Hebei.

Tian Lingzi ordered the Jinwu Guard to seal off the newspapers that had overstateed the news, and at the same time ordered that all newspapers must be sent to Dali Temple for review before they were issued. Only after the review was approved can they be issued!

But no matter how the court handled these newspapers, at this time, the court could no longer conceal the secret assassination incident. Faced with the world's discussions and the surging emotions of officials, unanimously condemning the three towns in Hebei, Li Yan and Tian Lingzi needed to come up with a response immediately.

And at this critical moment, the Lu Long army marched Sima Li Quanzhong and suddenly attacked the Yiwu army.

Wang Jingchong, Chengde Army, Han Jian, Wei Bo Army, and Liu Yue, Lu Long Army, each sent troops to support them. Four troops raided the Yiwu Army, which had always been loyal to the court. The Yi Ding two states changed hands, and Hou Gu, the governor of the Yiwu Army, was defeated and killed by the raid.

It took only ten days before the four troops destroyed the Yiwu army in the two prefectures of Yi and Ding.

Subsequently, Li Quanzhong claimed to be the governor of the Yiwu Army and handed over the Mozhou of the two states of Ying and Mo to Liu Yue.
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