On April 25, Li Jing led the troops of the fifth battalion of the Central Army of the East Army from the town to transport them from the sea to the east coast of Qingzhou. The army did not enter the Yellow River, but entered the Jishui River, one of the four major rivers of the Tang Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, Jihe was called Sidu together with the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Huai River. Du means a great river with its own source and ultimately an independent estuary. The Jishui originated from the Taihang Wangwu in the east of the river, then passed through the bottom of the Yellow River, entered Henan, and went eastward. Finally, it was similar to the Yellow River, passed through Shandong, and finally flowed into the sea from Qingzhou.

The Zhendong Army took a flat sand boat into Ji River, went upstream, and set out from Shamen Town. It took only three days to reach Bochang City in the northwest corner of Qingzhou. It was less than 300 miles away from Qingzhou Yacheng at this time.

Bochang City is a large county in Qingzhou with a population of more than 20,000 households. The county magistrate Fang Deshan is an old county magistrate who is over 50 years old and has some gray hair. He is a well-educated scholar, full of knowledge and brilliant articles. Unfortunately, he was not lucky enough to take the imperial examinations for more than ten consecutive exams and took them every year, but failed every year. In the end, he was disheartened and defected to the shogunate of the Jieshoushen in Ziqing Town and became a small staff official. This was also a choice for most scholars from the Tang Dynasty to become officials. They first became famous in the shogunate before they could enter the court smoothly.

Fang Deshan worked in the shogunate of Ziqing Town for more than ten years and was gradually promoted to a procurator. Until he was appointed as the commander of the Jieshou Yu V, he was very grateful to his literary talent and recommended him to be the magistrate of Bochang County. He had been in office for two years and had done very well here. He was honest in his official position, and he also did a lot of practical things. He had a lot of prestige in the local area. He was still in the hall on this day, but the county inspectors reported urgently that a large army had sailed not far outside the city, with flags like a sea and countless soldiers.

At this time, the news had already spread like wind. Many people nearby hid up the mountain with their food and carried their children in panic. There was also panic in Bochang City. Although it looked like that. That army was like an official army, and the soldiers were fine and good, not bandits. But there was no big difference between the bullheads and the crossing of the troops and the bandits. Wherever they went, they had to pay a sum of money and grain. Otherwise, those generals and officials indulged their soldiers, which was even more terrifying than bandits.

Fang Deshan hurriedly ordered the four cities to close, and sent a group of patrol officers to find out carefully to see which banner it was. Soon the spies came back and reported that the troops were camping, and the troops were all restrained in the camp. They dared not get too close, and only saw the banner with the three characters of Zhendong Army and the big banner with the Li characters.

"What about the generals who recognize the characters and flags?"

"It seems to be written that the Jiedushi Jiedushi vanguard general, the guerrilla general, was appointed as the cavalry commander, the commander of the army, Jiazhen and the commander of the Eastern Army!" The patrolman was a verbal person, but he almost breathed a sigh of relief on the official title on the long flag.

Fang Deshan thought carefully, Da Xie Fort, the military envoy. Could it be that Li Jing, the disciple whom benefactor accepted in Dengzhou? However, when did Li Jing become the military envoy of the Great Xie Fort, and he also added the military envoy of the Zhendong Army, and he had never heard of it. He brought so many people here, it should not be because of rebellion. After thinking about it, since he was a disciple of his benefactor, he should have brought people to send some wine and food to comfort the military.

At that time, some officials and staff from Bochang City, as well as some famous clan leaders from the city, gathered together three thousand stagnants of money, ten pigs, hundreds of sheep, three hundred grains, and dozens of carts of wine to go out of the city to send them to the military camp.

Li Jing was in the camp, and heard from Zhao Jiang that there were magistrates of the county magistrates in the city of Bochang, officials in the city, and some clan leaders who came to comfort the army outside the camp, and they smiled. Then they got up to see him.

Fang Deshan saw a young general leading a large number of officers out of the camp, and the teams of soldiers behind him were even tall and strong. He couldn't help but swallow his throat and whispered to explain his purpose. Finally, he looked at Li Jing and said, "I was originally the former general, Yu Gong's assistant. Two years ago, he was recommended by Yu Gong as the county magistrate. I wonder if the general is General Li Jing, a disciple of Yu Gong?"

"I am Li Jing, but I didn't expect that Fang Mingfu was an old friend of his family. It would be too rude to not go to take the initiative to visit him."

After seeing the courtesy again, the two of them became much more friendly. When the other people from Bochang came to see that the county magistrate actually had a relationship with the young general who was carrying a large army, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Fang Deshan said: "I am ignorant in Bochang, and I don't even know that Brother Ji Yu has become the Great Xie Fort Army Envoy and the East Army Envoy, and have such a mighty army under his command."

Li Jing chuckled: "The Great Xie Fort Army and Horse Envoy has just been promoted. In addition, I led my army to the next time because Song Jieshuai and Wang Ya will be transferred to our troops to the two prefectures of Zibo and Qi to pacify Hongbalang bandits, so I specially added me as the gate envoy. Because of the large number of troops, my troops were able to obtain the military name of the Zhendong Army."

As he was talking, another guard came outside to report that another team came outside the camp to escort many wine, beef, cattle and sheep, saying that he was here to reward the troops.

Li Jing and Fang Deshan were both surprised. This place was at the top of the northwest end of Qingzhou. Apart from Bochang, there were only Qiancheng County dozens of miles south, or Gaoyuan County in Zibo. "Who is here?"

"The person who came said that he was the command of General Wang of Qingzhou, and his surname was Li. He said that he was ordered by General Wang Ya and was specially waiting here to go to Ziqi to suppress the bandits and reward us with the troops."

When Li Jing heard that he was under Wang Jingwu's command, he frowned. He turned to look at Fang Deshan: "Brother Fang has found these people these days?"

Fang Deshan shook his head: "I haven't heard of these people these days, but today a caravan came to Bochang City and spent a lot of money to purchase a large amount of wine, beef, cattle and sheep. It seems that they bought it."

Li Jing was a little suspicious. Since he was a labor force, why wasn't he open and honest? Instead, he borrowed the identity of a merchant when buying things. Another key thing was that he had previously released the wind that he wanted to take a boat from the Yellow River to go upstream and go directly to Zibo to suppress bandits. Now the other party has found this place directly. It seems that things are not that simple. Li Jing said: "Please!"

While saying to Li Liang, Guo Chengan and others, "Please be careful later, I feel that things are not very simple."

Soon, Zhao Jiang led the people to the camp. He was the man in his thirty years old in his thirty dress dressed in a green robe. Behind him was a very young school, and there were about one hundred soldiers and more than two hundred men holding the cows and drinking wine.

The green-robed official commanded the people to put the rewards for the military, stepped forward a few steps, bowed to Li Jing and said, "Li Zhen, the Marquis of Yu of Qingzhou, was ordered by Wang Ya General, and prepared some meager gifts. He was here to wait for the Li Bingma Envoy to go to Zibo to suppress the bandits! Kowtow to the general!"

Li Jing had noticed it, and at this time he was serious and measured Li Zhen, but he felt that he was extraordinary and spoke very politely. He was also a civil servant, but he had a sense of a soldier. Looking at the guard school behind him, he was young, but his demeanor was even more extraordinary, especially those eyes, as soon as he came in, he looked at the situation in the camp and the positions of the guards from time to time. The hundred soldiers behind him were not simple either. Although he was wearing only a little worn battle robe and did not even wear armor, Li Jing had brought so many soldiers, how could he not tell at a glance that these people were elite veterans?

"Please sit down!" Li Jing said nothing.

Li Zhen stood up and refused to sit down, but just presented a reward list. Li Jing only took a look and accepted the gift. "You are so dedicated, I will thank Wang Ya General when you go back. You may work hard, why not go to Houchang to have a cup of tea first." As he said that, he attracted Zhao Jiang and led them over.

After the crowd left, Li Liang, the staff officer who had been standing behind Li Jing, immediately whispered: "Things are not right. I know the Yu Marquis just now. He is not the Yu Marquis of Qingzhou Yanei, but should be the military officer of the Jinwu Guard in the capital."

"How do you know? Maybe it's possible to admit your mistake." Li Jing also thought of a character at this time, but said a little unbelievable.

"It's impossible to be wrong. He is my cousin. How could he admit his mistake?" Li Liang said seriously.

Li Liang, Li Zhen, Jinwu Guard, Li Baozhen, Li Jing suddenly finally confirmed it. No wonder he always felt a little strange when he first met Li Liang. Now he figured it out. Li Liang is a condor brother of Li Zhen, both descendants of Li Baozhen, the famous general of the Xingtang Dynasty, the governor of Luzhou. The reason why Li Zhen always felt this way was that Li Zhen was not a simple person. In the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, Li Zhen was an important counselor under Zhu Wen of Later Liang. Li Zhen and Zhu Wen's other counselor Jing Xiang were known as the two counselors of Later Liang. Jing Xiang was once called the first counselor of Later Liang in history, and Li Zhen was as famous as him, which shows that this person is definitely not an idiot.

But Li Zhen is still in the Jinwu Guard. According to Li Liang, Li Zhen should now serve as the eighth-rank official of the military of the Jinwu Guard Cavalry. How could he suddenly appear here and pretend to be a small Yuhou under Wang Jingwu?

He reached out to call Zhao Jiang, "You go and invite General Pei immediately and ask him to immediately call the guard camp to surround Li Zhen and others. Remember, don't make any noise."

He turned around and said to Li Liang and Guo Chengan, "My gentlemen, what exactly is this?"

Guo Cheng comforted his heart and said, "I thought we were afraid that our plan to destroy Guo had been discovered by Wang Jingwu. In fact, it was because we sent too many troops this time. If Song Wei had not insisted, it would have been better to bring more than a thousand soldiers and horses to come, so that we would not have been alarmed. But now we are coming with six or seven thousand soldiers and horses, no one will be awakened, let alone the other party is a person like Wang Jingwu."

Li Liang also nodded: "I agree with Secretary Guo's meaning. The matter has been exposed. I guess Wang Jingwu must be anxious now. He may have said that he is going to attack Song Wei and the others first."

"That's right." Guo Cheng'an said: "These people come here, and it's very likely that they are here to delay us. If what I expected is not bad, Wang Jingwu's opponent's life will be in one or two days. Even if we arrive in Qingzhou as planned, if Song Jieshuai and the others are defeated, we will have no meaning this time."
Chapter completed!