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On the eighth day of the fourth month of the sixth year of Qianfu.

On this day, the Emperor of Tang Dynasty, Li Yan, issued an edict to grant Qin King Li Jing the title of Marshal of the World of Military Forces. On the same day, he agreed to Li Jing's request and appointed Tongpingzhangshi. The Zhenwu Jiedushi Yu Jun was appointed as the governor of the Tianping Army. He was appointed Tongpingzhangshi. Kang Chenghui, the governor of the West Road of Lingnan, was appointed Tongpingzhangshi. The governor of the Datong Army, Xin Xu, was appointed Xuanwu Jiedushi, and the imperial edict was issued to the world.

On the same day, the imperial edict was issued to be established under the stage of the Northeast Road Grand Tour, including the Andong Province, Liaodong Province, Liaoxi Province, Beiping Province, Hebei Province, Shandong Province Liushou, Yichang, Tianping, Taining, Ziqing Towns, and merged into the six provinces under the stage of the Northeast Road Grand Tour Grand Tour Grand Tour.

After discussing with the civil and military officials of the Daxingtai for a long time, Li Jing finally made a decision, which was to temporarily give up the five prefectures of Yun, Pu, Cao, Hua and Song that he occupied now, and to retain only the six prefectures of Mi, Yi, Hai, Si, Yan and Ji.

The six prefectures were merged into the Shandong Province.

Although I was reluctant to let go of the meat I ate, it was a decision after a long time of consideration.

The rapid expansion of the south this time was completely beyond Li Jing and others' expectations. Even in Hebei, the newly added five states were unexpected.

After the excitement at the beginning, the many problems that followed also forced Li Jing and others to consider carefully.

Before he first went south, Li Jing's goal was to open up the Hebei passage to the south, then enter Henan, take advantage of the emptiness of Henan, and leave with a vote. Move some people back to Liaodong to enrich it.

But when he gained more than ten states in Henan so easily, it was fake to say that he was not tempted and greedy. But after looking back, Li Jing also found that if he really wanted to maintain this territory, some people felt that he was not satisfied with the feeling of swallowing an elephant.

Although there was no threat to occupying the territory of more than ten states in Henan, after swallowing the eastern part of Henan, the center of gravity of Daxingtai began to become unstable.

The backyard of Liaodong is not stable, and the critical passage of Hebei has not been cleared yet. The four towns and Li Keyong are stuck between the Northeast and Shandong. Once the two sides start war again, the entire strategic situation is very unsafe to Li Jing and there is a danger of being cut off from the north and south. What is even more critical is that when the Qin army's forces reach the northern part of the Huaihe River and the eastern part of the Bianhe River Canal, Li Jing has to face the great enemy of Li Keyong and the four towns in Hebei, which are also facing the joint attack of Gao Pian in Huainan and the Luoyang Qi army.

On a battlefield, Li Jing is not afraid of any enemy, but if he deals with several extremely powerful forces at the same time, Li Jing is also powerless.

The final resolution was to leave the hilly areas of Qilu, but temporarily give up the Tianping Army surrounded by Gao Pian, Huang Chao, and Wei Bo, Yicheng Army, and Songzhou, which were flat and unpredictable.

On the other hand, Li Jing gave up the five prefectures of Yun, Pu, Cao, Hua and Song, which were not dangerous to defend. However, in order to protect the eastern territory, Li Jing occupied the hilly areas of Qilu. He decided not only to preserve the territory of Hai and Si, but also to take down Xuzhou, using Huai and Si as a barrier, to block Gao Pian's power in Huainan, and completely stabilize the territory of Shandong Province.

However, even if he had decided to give up Yun and Pu and other five states, Li Jing would not give up in vain.

Therefore, after considering it for a while, Li Jing finally wrote a note to the court, using his teacher, the Jiedushi Yu Guan, as the Jiedushi of Tianping Army, and was under the jurisdiction of Yun, Pu and Cao. He also used Kang Chenghui as the Jiedushi of Yicheng Army, and was under the jurisdiction of Hua, Zheng and Bian. He also asked Xin Xi to be the Jiedushi of Xuanwu, and the three prefectures of Song, Hao and Ying.

Yu Jun, Xin Xi, Kang Chenghui are all the leaders of the town. Li Jing proposed to transfer them to Henan, of course for his own private reasons. First of all, these three people are very close to him. If they are the leaders of the town, then even if Li Jing gives up the territory occupied by the five states now, it will not actually fall into the hands of any Huang Chao, Gao Pian or Han Jian.

Although Li Jing did not expect these three Tang Dynasty veterans to fall directly to him, as long as they did not fall to their enemies, they would still be Pingfan and allies of Shandong Province. Moreover, the character of these three people is not the kind of person with great power ambitions, so there is no need to worry about making three hostile warlords out.

Originally, the three of them were already the commander of the same party, so they were transferred to Henan, especially Xuanwu Town. At present, there was only one Songzhou in control. Yicheng Army and only one Huazhou in control. However, Li Jing also understood that in fact, if Xin Xi was in Datong, Li Jing was originally reserved as a backup plan, but now Datong has the French to actually control the states, and Li Keyong's rise, Xin Xi did not play much role in Datong. It would be better to bring him to Henan and have a lot of help.

With Li Jing's prestige today, Li Yan still needs to use the troops in Li Jing's hands to deal with Huang Chao, so he naturally agreed. Even if this new transfer is somewhat similar to a demotion for Yu and the other two, the emperor no longer cared about those.

At the same time, Li Jing began to assemble and mobilize his troops and divide them into three clusters.

In the northeast, from Liaodong Province and Andong Province mobilized troops to western Liaoning to prevent the Khitan at all times.

On the other hand, Li Jing gathered the troops from Hebei and Beiping provinces in Shunzhou and Hejian, and prepared to fight against Li Keyong with the four towns in Hebei.

At the same time, Li Jing was also drawing troops from Henan and Shandong to prepare to concentrate his forces to attack Xuzhou.

While sending people to Xuzhou to see Shi Pu, Li Jing asked Shi Pu to hand over Xuzhou, and then sent people to Hu Douzhou, preparing to temporarily give up Hu Douzhou, the southeastern base. After all, the stall was too big, and Li Jing's troops were a little insufficient. He had transferred a lot of troops from Hu Douzhou before, but now there are only 10,000 township soldiers and one naval fleet, which are stationed, just a thousand people.

Since it was judged that Gao Pian might have any abnormal movement, Hu Douzhou might become Gao Pian's first target to attack. Temporarily transferring this force can not only prevent Gao Pian from attacking, but also transfer him to the Xu Si battlefield to strengthen the combat power of the Qin army.

In fact, for Li Jing's entire new strategic plan, he abandoned Cao Song's five prefectures, but wanted to attack Xuzhou, especially when the Supervision Office had learned more and more about the frequent changes of Li Keyong and the four towns in Hebei.

Many voices believe that at this time, the status quo should be maintained for Henan, and then the main force should be drawn to the north. The four towns in Hebei should be pacified first. At least, the already broken Youzhou should be taken down and occupied a favorable position.

But Li Jing finally insisted on this plan, so they had to obey.

The most important thing to implement Li Jing’s plan is to take down Xu Si.

If you cannot control Xu Si, it will be difficult for you to truly stabilize the states of Ying Song, Hai, Yi, and Yan.

Sizhou is already under Zeng Yuanyu's control, and everyone, including Li Jing, believes that there will be no big trouble for taking Xuzhou.

Li Jing was polite first and then the army. On the one hand, he ordered Zeng Yuanyu to mobilize his troops and advance towards Xuzhou, and sent envoys to Xuzhou to let Shi Pu, the governor of the Restoration Army, surrender. The Qin army optimistically estimated that when Zeng Yuanyu's troops entered Xuzhou, Pu had already seen the situation clearly and took the initiative to open the city to surrender. The new recruits recruited in the Song Caozhou were probably almost the same, and they could be handed over to the three new governors including Yu Guan.

After the situation in Henan was slightly stabilized, the troops from Henan and Shandong could go north and fight with the four towns and Li Keyong in Hebei.

This is the most optimistic estimate. But the facts are always smooth sailing.

That night, a very bad news was spread to Li Jing, Song Cheng.

Gao Pian took action. Before the four towns in Hebei and Li Keyong took action, Gao Pian, who had been silent for nearly a year, suddenly took action.

If a tiger does not show its power, it will really make people think it is a sick cat.

Gao Pian is worthy of being a famous general, and he is steadily and ruthless. No one expected that he would be the first to take action first, and even Li Jing did not expect that. Although Li Jing had negotiated with his subordinates, he believed that Gao Pian might form a secret alliance with the north, but he only believed that Gao Pian might stab the knife in the back after Li Keyong and the four towns in Hebei.

No one expected that he was the first to do it, and if he didn't move, he would be shocking.

The Huainan Army sent troops from two groups. Gao Pian's nephew Gao Jie led 20,000 combat troops and 30,000 auxiliary troops to raid the Haozhou in the southern part of the Huaihe River, while Gao Pian's general Liang Zhang led 20,000 combat troops and 30,000 auxiliary troops to raid Hu Douzhou to garrison the Qin army.

Although Gao Pian and the Huainan army were silent for a long time, their performance this time still proved their fierceness. Gao Jie only took one night to capture Dingyuan City, Haozhou, Zhaoyi City the next day, and now he has directly surrounded the Zhongli City of Haozhou City.

On the other hand, Liang Zhang also killed Hu Douzhou...

The news about Haozhou came two days ago, and the news about Hu Douzhou came three days ago.

This bad news was like a dark cloud, covering everyone in the Songzhou Camp.

Even Li Jing frowned. Without having to speak, just looking at everyone's expressions, he already knew that from Cui Yunqing to Gaiyu, Li Zhen, Jingxiang, Lin Wei and others, everyone had almost determined that Hu Douzhou's 11,000 troops were probably gone.

Hu Douzhou was lost, and the generals lost a large number of money, grain and goods. Although it had a great blow to morale, it was not the worst.

What made Jing Xiang and others extremely worried was that Gao Pian took action so quickly this time, which was beyond expectations. And their siege was faster, one city a day, and Haozhou was probably lost at this moment.

If Haozhou is lost, the entire area south of the Huaihe River will be Gao Pian's territory.

Since you have gone to Haozhou, you don’t have to think about it and know that Gao Pian’s next step will definitely be Xuzhou and Sizhou.

On that day, Shi Pu and his wife enjoyed the spring in Xuzhou City, in the Yanzi Tower, Shi Pu, the governor of Shi Pu, and his wife.

It was said that it was enjoying the spring, but in fact, Mrs. Shi saw that her husband looked very bad and was in a bad mood, she especially wanted to come out to relax with him. But Shi Pu did not have this idea at this time.

It was difficult to drive away the Jieshou sent by the court, and after great hardships, he became the position of transforming the Jieshou. But before he was happy for a few days, Huang Chao first crossed the border, captured Sizhou, and robbed Li Jing, and occupied Xiapi City, but he could not take it away.

Later, the imperial court made the water defense line, and he actively responded and sent two troops to go. He wanted to take the opportunity to clear the opposition voices in the Rebel Army and spend them first, so as to take the opportunity to strengthen the control of the Rebel Army. Who would have thought that these arrogant soldiers would cause trouble as soon as they went out, which actually caused chaos in Zhongwu Town. It didn't matter that 3,000 people were slaughtered by themselves, and even the group that had been sent before dispersed.

Immediately afterwards, Li Jing not only did not return the Xia Pi that he had occupied before, but instead took away the entire Sizhou.

The negotiations have not been made yet, so Gao Pian, who is in the south, suddenly took action and snatched Haozhou.

The three fucking states of the army were Xu, Si and Hao, and there were only 20,000 soldiers and horses.

As a result, Li Jing robbed Sizhou and Gao Pian robbed Haozhou. Zeng Yuanyu from Sizhou and Gao Jie from Haozhou all sent envoys to hand over Xuzhou.

Shi Pu was really in tears. When the festival was so handsome, he was so fucking frustrated.

But what can he do?

Everyone could see that the court was about to be over this time. In this world, Li Jing looked the most powerful. He now had all the troops and horses in his hands, which was only 10,000 people in Xuzhou City.

With just this little soldier, let alone can't defeat Li Jing, even Gao Pian can't defeat him.

But if he just sent the Insurgent Army out like this, he would be a little unwilling to do so. What's more important is that at present, it is not just one of the ones who want Xuzhou, but two. Li Jing and Gao Pian, he can't afford to offend either.

If you surrender to Li Jing, Gao Pian will probably have to fight. If you surrender to Gao Pian, Li Jing will not let Xuzhou go.

In fact, if he could bear to give up the position of Jieshou, he would not be so embarrassed. No matter how he fought, he would just surrender to anyone. But after all, Shi Pu was not the Jieshou sent by the court. He was a real influence on the generals of the army, and he relied on mutiny to rise to the throne.

At that time, he took such a great risk and rushed the former Jiedushi. He finally got into this position. His butt was not hot yet, so why would he be willing to give it away?

Sizhou, Linhuai.

Zeng Yuanyu, the governor of the rear army of the Five Army Governors' Office, got up early in the morning, put on his armor, climbed up the city walls of Sizhou to observe the enemy situation. It had just stopped after a day and night of heavy rain, and Gao Jie had already arrived at the south bank of the Huai River quietly under the rain.

Haozhou has fallen into Gao Jie's hands and has arrived on the other side of Linhuai a day ago.

Compared with the Huainan Army, the Qin army can be mentally calculated as the Northern Army. Although the Qin army's foundation originated in Dengzhou, the expansion in recent years has mostly been from Henan, Hebei and even Liaodong. The Northern Army is good at riding and shooting, while the southerners are good at boats and chariots. This statement is not a false statement.

Since ancient times, Huai and Si have been the dividing line between the north and the south.

When the southerners attack north, they will basically choose to use river water networks to attack during the spring rainy period.

When the northerners attack south, most of them choose the low-lying river water in autumn and winter.

The current season is the time for spring and summer. Judging from the weather, the Qin army is actually in a disadvantageous position.

But the Qin army occupied Sizhou first and defended by the river, but was in a good position.
Chapter completed!