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In order to obtain the emperor's consent, Yang Fugong continued: "Your Majesty is determined to fight and pacify Hebei... The Privy Council believes that if the troops in various towns are mobilized to quell the rebellion, the expense of 15 million military expenditure is definitely not enough. Even if the troops are mobilized to participate in the war, if the quick battle is expected to be decided, and if you look forward to winning within one year, it is afraid that it will be difficult to achieve it. I believe that the court must be prepared to fight at least two or even more than three years. In addition, the imperial court must not be guarded against the traitors in the fleeing. The troops and horses of Jingnan, Henan, Shandong East and Shannan West Road cannot be mobilized to move north, and it must strengthen the defense of the traitors in the west."

"In addition, the troops and horses in the towns in Hedong and Guanzhong cannot leave the town. They need to remain vigilant to prevent unexpected changes and keep the capital safe."

Yang Fugong first pointed out all these difficulties to improve his own strategy.

"If the foreign troops are transferred to Hebei to suppress the rebellion, Dangxiang, Tuyuhun, Anqing, Sage, and Qibi's five troops can have 30,000 troops. In addition, if the foreign troops of Shatu, Tatar, Xi, and Uighur tribes are recruited, at least 50,000 to 80,000 foreign soldiers can be recruited within the year. The nine foreign troops alone can obtain 100,000 troops. Moreover, as long as these foreign soldiers agree to repay the wealth obtained from Hebei, they can even be exempted from the rewards for the supply of food and supplies."

Nine troops with 100,000 soldiers are definitely a combat power that cannot be underestimated.

It is a great thing to let the foreign soldiers deal with the rebels in Hebei, and the court does not need to pay food and grass. What the court needs to pay is to grant some official positions and titles to these Hu leaders and allow these foreign soldiers to obtain spoils in Hebei. To put it bluntly, they are allowed to rob the people of the city. However, since the land of Hebei is the territory of the rebels, this is not a problem.

The imperial court's troops remained unmoved, which could not only retain strength but also serve as a second line of defense. At the same time, it could also monitor the rebels and foreign soldiers.

Of course, in Yang Fugong's plan, these foreign troops could not be fully counted on.

In the entire detailed plan of the Privy Council, the absolute main position of the entire Hebei battlefield is still left to Li Jing's town [***].

In order to restrict Li Jing, the court would form a western camp in Hedong, with Zheng Congxian as the commander of the western camp, and Li Jing's teachers Yu Jun and Xin Xu as the deputy commander. They would control and command the nine 100,000 foreign cavalry, and would transfer 20,000 Tang troops from the three towns of Hedong, Zhenwu and Datong to participate in the war.

On the south side, Cui Anqian, Zhang Zimian and Du Qing were in charge of Luoyang, the eastern capital, and they were responsible for defense, not attacking. Cui Anqian was appointed as the commander-in-chief, and Zhang Zimian and Du Qing were appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief.

In addition, an east camp will also be formed on the east camp. Zheng Hanqing, the governor of the Yichang Army, will be the commander of the east camp, mainly the Yichang Army, and will mobilize the Tianping Army, Yicheng Army, and Taining Army to guard the towns to prevent the rebels from invading the south.

Finally, a north camp will be formed in the north, and Li Jing's teacher, Cui Yunqing, the governor of Ziboqing, will be the chief of the camp.

As for Li Jing, Yang Fugong suggested that Li Jing be added to Li Jing as the commander of all the commanders.

The entire plan, on the surface, was Li Jing as the commander-in-chief of Hebei to suppress the rebellion, but in fact, it used nine foreign cavalry as the main force to suppress the rebellion. In this plan, no matter whether Li Jing was willing to send troops to suppress the rebellion, the court could still quell the rebellion without mobilizing too many troops.

Except for the 20,000 Tang troops camped west of Zheng Cong-si, the other two troops transferred to Luoyang and Shannan Road, all of which were no more than 50,000. The remaining towns were all sticking to their own towns and did not need the court to provide support for the army.

In this way, the Privy Council's plan was no less than the original, but the number of people needed to supply was two-thirds less.

The imperial court supplied 50,000 troops with food and grass, but had 20 to 300,000 troops to suppress the rebels.

Although Lulong Town has been in turmoil in the four towns in Hebei, there are many soldiers and horses. In addition, the two major towns, Chengde and Wei Bo, the four towns have at least 200,000 horses and stances. The elite soldiers are no less than 100,000. Moreover, the four towns are recruiting soldiers and can arm 100,000 soldiers in a short period of time.

The people in Hebei are strong, and these young and strong people are also a fighting force that cannot be underestimated when equipped.

When calculating the military strength of the court, the Privy Council did not understand Li Jing's attitude, so in the end, he did not dare to take the town [***] as the main force, but instead used the nine foreign soldiers as the main force. The towns of the court remained unmoved, which was also a corresponding measure for Li Jing's possible rebellion at this time.

The Hebei rebellion has been more than half a month, but the court has not yet come up with a specific plan to combat the rebellion. The biggest reason is that Li Jing's attitude is ambiguous.

As early as Chang'an received the news of the Hebei rebellion, Emperor Li Yan discussed matters with Yan Ying, the Political Affairs Hall, and immediately sent an envoy to Liaodong to announce an order to Li Jing, ordering Li Jing to lead the town [***] into the pass to attack the Hebei rebels.

As a result, Li Jing replied to the envoy that he had handed over the military power of the town to the court, so he had no right to mobilize the town.

The envoy rushed back to Chang'an with this result. He heard Li Jing's answer and was in an uproar.

Li Yan always believed that Li Jing should be loyal to the court and to him, but now Li Jing's attitude is so ambiguous, and he obviously has the intention to wait and see.

This result can be said to have caused the monarch and ministers in the court to be hit hard. Although Li Jing did not follow the rebellion, this is a very bad signal. Li Jing's current attitude is no longer about entering the pass, but instead wants to wait and see. Next, Li Jing either holds troops and sits on the ground to watch. This is still a good situation. In the worst case, Li Jing is likely to collude with the rebels in the four towns of Hebei, like the rebellion of Li Xilie back then.

Although Li Yan was extremely angry in his heart and felt that Li Jing betrayed him, he was helpless. Li Jing held heavy troops and stayed in the distant Liaodong. The court was now separated from him by a rebellious Hebei, and there was no way for them at all.

Moreover, at this moment, the court did not dare to make any fierce moves to avoid stimulating Li Jing. If Li Jing was just waiting and watching, but he rebelled because of the court's actions, then the court would have really fallen into a nightmare.

Now the Privy Council’s plan to suppress the rebellion is not daring to use Li Jing’s town [***] as the main force to suppress the rebellion.

However, he didn't dare to leave Li Jing at this time.

Originally, the court was not very worried about Li Jing and Zhen [***], and felt that Li Jing had only been in Dengzhou for five years and had a deep foundation.

But now, when Hebei rebelled, the court discovered for the first time that they needed Li Jing so much, Li Jing's money, and Li Jing's soldiers. It was also the first time that Li Jing had such a large force and such an important position.

When Li Jing stopped offering sacrifices to the court and no longer obeyed the court's orders, the monarchs and ministers of the court were confused and found that they had no means to sanction Li Jing.

Especially when Li Jing's ambiguous attitude was now, the court sighed even more that Li Jing was completely intangible and could not fight. According to the news brought by Zhang Taihe and the envoy who later went to Liaodong, although the court had issued an order to relieve Li Jing's military power, promoted Li Jing's subordinates, split the town [***], and promoted him to the commander of the Five Towns.

But in fact, Li Jing still controlled the army and the territory of the sixteen states. Moreover, not only Li Zhen and others were loyal to Li Jing, but even Li Jing's teacher Cui Yunqing still supported him.

Li Jing did not obey the order, and the court not only had no choice but to do anything to him, but even dared not say anything to scold him. Once Li Jing was angry, he would directly raise the flags and rebel with his territories of the sixteen states. That would be a big deal.

Give Li Jing the position of governor of the four sides, the nominal commander of the Hebei battlefield, which is a very high honor.

However, Tian Lingzi, Ximen Sigong, Lu Xie, Dou Lu Zheng, Cui Han, Yu Cong, Li Wei and others all knew that this position was not enough.

Yang Fugong also knew in his heart that a small commander in all directions would never allow Li Jing to obey the orders of the court to lead troops into the pass to suppress the rebellion. But he did not dare to raise an overly high position. This could only be proposed by Emperor Li Yan.

Sure enough, when Li Yan heard the Privy Council propose that Li Jing be appointed as the chief commander of the all-round camp, he shook his head helplessly.

What Li Jing needs now is not the position of governor, but the court needs to take back the military power that was removed from him. Otherwise, Li Yan believes that Li Jing will never obey the court's mobilization and send one army and another soldiers.

Li Jing has chosen a good opportunity and is waiting for a price.

Li Yan began to regret it and should not have resolved Li Jing's military power so lightly.

However, at this time, it is impossible to merge the divided five towns again, and Li Jing cannot be allowed to serve as the commander of the five towns again. If this is the case, what is the face of the court? I am afraid that Cui Yunqing, Li Zhen and others will become more determined to be on the same side as Li Jing from now on, and I am afraid that Li Jing will never be able to touch Li Jing in the future.

Prime Minister Dou Lu thought about it and left the list, "Your Majesty, I think the five towns are classified as Northeast Road, and then Li Jing is appointed as the marshal of the Northeast Road, and control the troops of the five towns of the original town."

In the Tang Dynasty, there were positions such as the Grand Marshal of the World, the Grand Marshal of the World, the Deputy Marshal of the World. The Grand Marshal of the World was generally held by the prince, and the Grand Marshal of the World was generally held by the prince. In addition, the positions of deputy marshal of the Hedong and deputy marshal of the Hebei were granted generals to various war zones and unified command. For example, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi all served as deputy marshal. These positions of marshal were usually temporarily set up during wartime, and once the war was over, the positions would be revoked.

The Tao originally had administrative plans since the Northern Wei Dynasty, above the state. There were ten roads in the early Tang Dynasty, and later fifteen roads. However, now, the vassal states are also called one road. The system of the road nationwide has been chaotic, and there are forty or fifty roads in the world. Now Doulu official means to set the territory of the original town [***] into a new road, build the Northeast road, and then use Li Jing as a marshal. In this way, Li Jing's original troops can be controlled, and the court neither has to revoke the original order. Moreover, because the marshal was sent temporarily, the court can take it back after the war is pacified.
Chapter completed!