During Laba, in front of the stove in the Deli Town Fortress in Tieli Prefecture, Bohai, Li Jing was looking at an article in a newspaper sent from the Central Plains.

The ink words printed on yellowed paper are very dazzling.

"The Taiwei Secretary Ling Tong Pingzhang served in the world's military and horse capital, the governor of Hedong Jiedu, Taiyuan Yinbeidu, stayed at the King of Jin, Li Keyong, the divine general, was loyal to the heavens, and had excellent plans and martial arts. The ministers and ministers shared their true feelings. Killing thieves is nothing more than killing them by hand, entering the formation and leading themselves to the forefront. He was named a flying general. He led his army southward and drove with his ministers with his strength. Although he was sleeping and eating, he did not forget the enemy... He conquered the capital, and both sides made great contributions. If he defeated the enemy and destroyed the evil, Li Keyong was the leader..."

Li Jing snorted coldly and threw the newspaper on the table.

The article published on this was copied by Yang Fuguang's article on the list of the rebellion of Huang Chao and the recaptured Chang'an. On it, Yang Fuguang praised Li Keyong as the first hero in the recapturing of Chang'an, and also talked about the many contributions of his brothers, and then praised the generals of the coalition forces together.

Li Jing didn't like this article, but some of the things mentioned above are facts.

Huang Chao, a private salt dealer who completely turbuled the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, finally died. Under the siege of more than 20 towns and 400,000 coalition forces, he was finally defeated and burned himself. Chang'an City, which was repeatedly fired by war, was almost completely destroyed in ashes, and was destroyed with Huang Chao and his Great Qi Dynasty.

The Yang Fuguang brothers now have a high prestige among the towns in the world by taking advantage of their merits in regaining the two capitals. Li Keyong, the Shatuo Hu, also participated in the battle to regain Luoyang and Chang'an twice, especially in the battle of Chang'an. He served as the commander-in-chief of the capital, and in many battles, Du led the Hedong Army to the front line. After the war, he was elected as the first merit of destroying the thieves.

Now, Zheng Ting has no official position and is recuperating with his son Zheng Ningji, who is the governor.

Wang Duo, the old prime minister, was even more humiliated and dismissed by Yang Fugong on the eve of the regaining of Chang'an. Now he has been appointed as the governor of Yicheng. Ke Yicheng Town was originally Kang Chenghui as the commander of the Jiecheng, but now it has been directly incorporated into the Shandong province of Qin's vassal, and Wang Duo has stepped down in disguise like Zheng Ting.

Zheng Congxian was not much better, and the Yang Fugong brothers are now in high prestige. Zheng Congxian refused to join them, so how could he stay in such a position in Dongdu? As soon as Chang'an was recovered, Yang Fuguang had already visited Dongdu in person and officially announced that he would invite Zheng Congxian to Chang'an to serve as the Grand Tutor, and Yang Fuguang would take charge of the Eastern Capital Luoyang.

Two Yang brothers, Yang Fugong, were in charge of Chang'an, and Yang Fuguang was in charge of Luoyang. Yang Fuguang accepted Jieshuai, the eight towns, as his adopted son, and Yang Fugong is now desperately accepting adopted sons. In a short period of time, he accepted more than 200 adopted sons. These adopted sons were almost all generals of the Shence Army. He sent these generals to various towns to serve as military commanders. He even accepted Jieshuai, many small vassal towns, as adopted sons.

From Guanzhong to Henan, from Hedong to Shannan to Jingnan, the Yang brothers are now extremely powerful and have a huge momentum. More than 20 vassal states in the Central Plains have fallen under their brothers. Although Tian Lingzi still held the emperor hostage in Xichuan, in fact, the orders of Tian Lingzi and the emperor are really unable to leave Sanchuan. The Yang Fugong brothers have now become the representatives of the central government of the Tang Dynasty.

Tian Lingzi of Sanchuan, Yang brothers of the Central Plains, and Li Jing who actually separatisted the East, the Tang Dynasty has now been divided into three major forces.

However, although Li Jing's main force is outside, the other two forces are not afraid to take the initiative to cause trouble for Li Jing. Tian Lingzi is far away in Sanchuan, and he can't fight with Li Jing for eight poles, so he naturally cannot cause trouble for Li Jing again. Besides, now he is eager to rebuild the old with Li Jing and deal with the two dead eunuchs of the Yang brothers.

And the Yang Fuguang brothers, they have no intention of openly hostile to Li Jing. Although they have captured the two capitals, they still need to digest and consolidate the results of the battle, stabilize their brothers' control over the towns, and make their alliance bigger and stronger. Their most urgent problem is to either invade Xichuan, destroy Tian Lingzi, and steal the emperor back. Or they have to establish an emperor by themselves. The eunuch has no emperor in his hand, just like a widow sleeping, and no one is above them, and they are always uneasy. Even if there is an emperor in his hand, it is just their puppet, and it is impossible to truly let the emperor in power, but this is also a must. The eunuch himself can take power, get power, abolish the emperor, and establish a new emperor, but he cannot be the emperor by himself.

The Yang brothers were still hesitant about whether to take back the emperor or establish a new emperor, so they naturally had no time to cause trouble for Li Jing. On the contrary, they were still very afraid that Li Jing would come to cause trouble for them. Therefore, Yang Fugong just included all the actual maps of Li Jing's control in the name of the emperor into the Qin vassal territory, which was considered to be a formal recognition of Li Jing's actual control over the Qin vassal. Although Li Jing did not need the emperor's recognition, nor did he need the two eunuchs to admit it in the name of the fake emperor.

However, Li Jing really doesn't have time to care about the affairs of the Central Plains now.

Since April, Li Jing has been fighting in the Bohai Sea.

Li Jing finally chose the suggestion proposed by Jika, a man from the Marine. Before the glacier was thawed, he marched north all the way. Under the leadership of the Marine, he did not encounter any decent resistance along the way. After taking over Meizhou, with the efforts of the Meizhou garrison, his brother Yizhou garrison finally saw the situation clearly, and was shocked by the names of the 400,000 Qin army and Li Jing, and finally surrendered to Li Jing. The Qin army successfully occupied Yizhou and seized a lot of food and food stockpiled there.

Then, just like dominoes, with the surrender of the defenders of Hua, Jian, Mei, and Yizhuzhou, in the northeast of the Bohai Sea, more places were empty, and more old and weak tribal soldiers chose to surrender to the Qin army. The tribal coalition thought that the rear of the Bohai Sea had been captured for several years, and thought that the occupation of the rear of the Bohai Sea had been stable. Therefore, not only did the defense forces in the rear were very small, but they were almost all old and children. There were not many elite troops at all. The result was that they surrendered one after another. In the shortest time, Li Jing took down the Rubin Mansion, The Theorem Mansion, Anbian Mansion, Anyuan Mansion, Dongping Mansion and others. There were occasionally several sporadic small-scale resistances in the middle, but the Qin army did not need to take action. The tribal surrendered troops had already pacified the resistance for him.

When the elite vanguard of the Qin army appeared at the city of Deli Town, a major city in the rear, the elite tribe army in the city did not even know the news of the arrival of the Qin army. When they saw the left-behind rich men and ten thousand men and ten thousand men and the arrival of the old rich men and ten thousand men, they were still a little confused.

Then Tiexhou and others said that they had been sent to the right marshal, and they had no doubts. They opened the fortress gate and let them enter the city.

The northern fortress Deli town, which the Bohai people have run for more than 200 years, has always been regarded as a northern forward base against the Hei Shui Mart, and is also regarded as a pass that can firmly block the invasion of the Hei Shui Ministry at critical moments. Here, a large amount of materials have been accumulated in the No. 1 fortress in the northern Bohai Sea. In recent years, the coalition forces have been continuously transporting food, grass and equipment from various places to transport them here along the Hei Shui and Unshui, and then transported them to the front line.

There have been garrisons here with 10,000 elite tribal soldiers. The commander of the coalition once claimed that the Delhi Fortress would never fall.

But in fact, this fortress did not stop the enemy's attack for a moment.

They were captured by the coalition forces themselves. They personally released the surrendered Qin into the city, and then were captured. The surrendered tribal troops and the tribal troops guarding the city fought each other. After fighting fiercely in the city for a whole day and night, the vanguard of the Qin army, Yang Shihou, led the army to watch outside, quietly, and did not move at all. They waited until the sound of killing in the city weakened and finally stopped. When the sun rose the next day, the Qin army vanguards in an orderly lined up appeared under the city with the black flying eagle flag.

Although there were 10,000 elite soldiers in the city, Lao He and his team had more people. They also brought the sky-shaking thunder and thunder fire sent by the Qin army into the city. There was even a tribal artillery trained on the Qin army and hundreds of flying thunder cannons.

Ten thousand elite tribes were almost killed by Iron Hand and others. Although they were both tribal troops, most of the surrendered troops such as Lao Heli were from the Blackwater Tribe Alliance, while the defenders here were from the Shiwei Alliance. They had no burden to kill them. Moreover, the Qin army had promised in advance that every time they killed one defender, they could get five golden dragons. The more they killed, the more rewards they rewarded. With such encouragement, even a group of old men and young men were still extremely powerful in combat, not to mention, they had a sneak attack without intention, and they were equipped with many Qin armies.

Heli and other surrendered troops also suffered many casualties. However, they didn't care, and Yang Shihou didn't care even more. As soon as he entered the city, he cashed in the reward. Boxes of Panlong gold coins, Tianlang silver coins, and Feihu copper coins were all brought up. He did not issue paper money, and the tribes believed in real money and silver.

The tribe soldiers were even more convinced and happy after getting the real money. At the beginning, there might be something forced to surrender, but now, they feel that it is obviously more cost-effective to follow the Qin army. At least, in the coalition, there was no food and salary, and everything was robbed by themselves. Unlike now, after surrendering to Qin, they had already received a salary along the way, and every month they issued it, all of which were real real money and silver, and every bite of teeth. Moreover, the Qin army also agreed with them that every time they fought, the enemy's heads they cut down had rewards, and the captured enemy troops also had rewards, and although they had to pay them, they could also get some rewards. Even if they contacted and persuaded the coalition troops to surrender, they would also have rewards.

Driven by these real money, they led the Qin army to the town of Deli as fast as possible, and helped the Qin army to take down the small half of the Bohai Sea territory east of the Huhan River.

Afterwards, Li Jing led the main force to Delhi before the Bohai River thawed. When the Spring News began, the Qin army had already begun to march south and west along the Nengshui and Huhan Rivers.

By now, when the Bohai Sea was in winter again, when the Nanshui and Huhan River were frozen again, the Qin army had completely occupied Yingzhou, Bozhou, and Gaozhou, north of the Shanjing Prefecture. At the same time, in April, the 50,000 soldiers and 100,000 civilians recruited from the eight provinces of Rehe, Shanxi, Hebei, Beiping, Liaoxi, Liaodong, Andong and Shandong were all successfully reaching the designated Da'an City.

The Qin army finally completed the four-sided encirclement of the Bohai coalition. In the whole summer and autumn, the Qin army and the Bohai people fought nine battles on several battlefields, but each time the coalition finally broke into a bloody retreat. When they finally found that the Qin army had blocked their retreat, they wanted to open up the retreat several times. But at that time, it was summer. The originally flat and hard land of the Bohai Sea turned into a swamp with water networks divided by rivers. There was water everywhere, swamps everywhere, and dense forests everywhere, and it was difficult for the large troops to move, let alone fight a large-scale battle in such a place.

The Qin army occupied a good terrain and always based on the mountain passes and river banks. The Qin army even transferred the navy into the vast and difficult waters, and used fleets to supply and patrol. In the total of the four armies of the Qin army, Shangjing, Delhi, Da'an and Fuyu, a total of 350,000 troops, 50,000 naval divisions, plus 200,000 Bohai Army, more than 100,000 tribal surrendered troops, 400,000 Qin soldiers, 300,000 Bohai civilians, and the advantageous terrain and time occupied, the Qin army used the price of more than 100,000 Qin soldiers, Bohai Army and tribes to surrender troops, and firmly trapped the east and west coalition forces in the Bohai Sea for half a year, and successively wiped out nearly 100,000 coalition forces, as well as more than 100,000 prisoners and surrendered coalition forces.

The total number of coalition forces with a total of 600,000 yuan was reduced by one-third in half a year.

On the surface, the casualties of the Allied forces are not smaller than those of the Allied forces, but in fact, the Bohai Army accounted for half of the more than 100,000 casualties paid by the Allied forces, and half of the tribal surrendered troops. In the past six months, the Qin army had only more than 200,000 casualties, accounting for one of the 200,000 Qin army soldiers. This number is really not worth mentioning for the huge number of 400,000 Qin army and 400,000 Qin army and civil servants, and is completely within the controllable range.

The tribal coalition still has at least about 400,000 people, of which 250,000 can fight, and at least more than 100,000 elite tribal warriors. However, after the interruption of the rear contacts in the past six months, their supplies began to be insufficient. In fact, the Qin army itself is not sufficient now. In the past six months, while the Qin army has been supplying supplies from the rear, they have also relied on fishing and hunting to live. The Qin army even slaughtered many horses and cavalry units even slaughtered horses and eaten meat.

For Li Jing, every day they continue to surround the coalition forces, they themselves have to pay a huge price.

Now, winter is coming again, and the rivers and swamps have become smooth roads. There are still three or four months left before thawing, and the supply of the Qin army is even more difficult. And more importantly, in such a season, it is a good time for the coalition forces to break through. In the vast Bohai Sea, the huge encirclement net of the Qin army has become a sieve, and there are holes everywhere.
Chapter completed!