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The spring is chilly and the morning breeze is cold!

The army of tens of thousands set off in the morning and rolled southward. Li Jing was in the middle of the horse, but he was not very happy, but kept frowning and pondering. The rebellion of the Shatuo people had been quelled, and the army would have returned to the town. However, since this was the largest battle since the new emperor ascended the throne and the greatest victory, the emperor suddenly sent an envoy a few days ago to issue an imperial edict, asking the three troops of the eight towns to suppress the rebels to Chang'an, perform a prisoner offering and a parade ceremony.

If he could not go, Li Jing was not willing to go. However, the eunuch who came to issue the imperial edict said to him with a smile that the emperor pointed out that Li Jing wanted Li Jing to lead the Zhenguo Army into the army. Not only did he ask him to go, but he also asked all the Zhenguo Army that went to war to go to Chang'an.

Except for the 20,000 troops and soldiers who went to Chang'an, all the troops and soldiers of the state went there, the other towns did not have this treatment.

Zheng Congxian originally wanted to stay in Hedong to deal with the aftermath, but as a recruitment envoy, he naturally had to go. In the end, Zheng Congxian's Hedong army picked up three thousand soldiers and accompanied him. Deputy envoy Yu Guan also brought three thousand soldiers and horses. In addition to the two of them, Heyang, the two towns of Zhongwu were all accompanied by one thousand infantry. Helianduo led the Tiande army to 1,000 Tuyuhun cavalry, Tuoba Sigong led the Xiasui 1,000 Xiang soldiers to accompany him. Sagemi Haiwan, Shi Qingshi Jingcun, Qibizhen Qibizhang three tribes to accompany him. Li Zong, the Yicheng army, became the bare commander. However, in order to avoid being ugly, the envoy of the court discussed with Zheng Congxian and others, asked Li Zong to immediately send Congyicheng army to transfer 1,000 troops to Chang'an. As for Zhaoyi's army, even the commander was gone, so the Zhaoyi army would not go to Chang'an.

The eight towns and three tribes combined, a total of 34,000 soldiers and horses went to Chang'an.

In addition to these soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, they also had to escort Shatuo's captives to accompany them.

Due to Li Jing's persistence, except for the brothers Gao Wenda and Fu Wenda, and the two divisions of Sage and Anqing, all the others were not considered surrender, but were captured. From Li Guochang and Li Jinzhong, all of them were captured. Li Youjin and the thousands of Shatu soldiers under him, Li Jing refused to accept that they were the soldiers who were captured after surrender. In addition, the Shatu people who were captured in Wei Dai, Yun and Shuo, and the captives in Fengzhou were all included, and the captives were captured by more than 16,000. In addition, according to statistics, the number of Shatu rebels captured by each town was as high as 50,000.

When the number was reported below, Li Jing remembered that Zheng Congyi's mouth couldn't help but twitch. The number was very watery. Basically, each army had some false reports, taking the heads of Shatu civilians as the heads of Shatu rebels.

Even the Zhenguo Army itself falsely reported it. The Zhenguo Army killed more than 10,000 people in several battles, but reported it was 20,000. This did not include the military achievements of the 6,000 people planned by Li Jing to annihilate Li Jing. Li Jing calculated it himself. If the Zhenwu Army that rebeled and surrendered again, the rebels killed in the other towns would be more than 20,000, which was twice the false report.

The generals of the towns knew it, but no one said it out loud, and they agreed. Anyway, even if the court wanted to investigate and count the heads they had cut down, there were indeed so many. This time, the soldiers and horses in the towns suffered a lot of losses, so they were counting more military merits.

It was impossible for more than 16,000 prisoners of war to be taken to Chang'an. Li Jing meant that except those officers, the rest of the officers were selected to take two or three thousand strong men to Chang'an. As for the others, Li Jing initially meant to kill people directly and save food waste, but no one agreed. Even Zheng Cong-sei was unwilling to kill more than 10,000 people directly.

Finally, Li Jing proposed to hand over these prisoners to the Zhenguo Army, of course it would not be in vain. He bought them all at the price of ten jin per person. Li Jing's reason was to buy these Shatuo people as slaves and take them to Liaodong to open up wasteland and hoard fields and mines.

This proposal made the commanders of the towns very moved. This time, the towns quelled the rebellion, and they suffered huge losses. After the imperial rewards, I don’t know how many of them could be. Even if they divided the tens of thousands of prisoners themselves, they would have no effect and would have to waste food. Selling them directly to Li Jing saves a lot of trouble. Although a soldier only sold tens of thousands of coins, it seems to be a little small, Li Jing said that the money he received will be divided into Hedong, Zhenwu, Yicheng, Zhongwu, and Heyang equally, and the Zhenguo Army itself would not want. As for Xiasui Town and Tiande Army, Li Jing did not say that he would give it to them. Although Tuoba Sigong and Helianduo were very dissatisfied, they became the commander of Yizhen. This time they became the commander of Jie. They did not dare to say too much if they did not give them the money from these prisoners of war. As for the three tribes, they were simply ignored.

After the last discussion, 16,000 prisoners were picked out and 3,000 prisoners were taken to Chang'an to offer prisoners, and the remaining 13,000 people were handed over to Li Jing. Li Jing paid 26,000 guan each of the five towns, and Li Jing gave each of the five tribes a bonus of 2,000 guan. A total of 140,000 guan was spent to buy the 13,000 guan. Although there were not many elite Shatu soldiers and even fewer elite cavalry, Li Jing still felt that the deal was quite cost-effective.

He spent money to buy these prisoners, not really just to pull them to mine. If he wanted to start mining, he just needed to recruit refugees, as much as he needed. The bigger reason for buying these Shatu people was that Li Jing was worried that these Shatu people would stay in Daibei in the end and eventually became the foundation for the growth of the Hu clan.

Before leaving in Taiyuan, Li Jing had already dumped the money to the towns, took over the 3,000 Shatu soldiers, and then directly sent them back to Liaodong. When Li Jing entered Jin, he had 20,000 cavalry. After several consecutive battles, the Zhenguo Army suffered minimal losses and suffered about a thousand casualties. Later, the Zhenguo Army drew some elite troops from the army of Gao Wenji's brothers and filled the 20,000 troops.

In addition to these 20,000 troops, Li Jing also had a military force, which was the 10,000 troops that Fu Wenda and Fu Wenshun were in charge. Originally, Gao Wenshun, Mi Haiwan, and Shi Jingcun were all under Li Jing's command. However, the last time the imperial court awarded the title. Gao Wenshun, Mi Haiwan, and Shi Jingcun were both awarded the title of governor, but only Fu Wenda's brothers surrendered because they were defeated. Therefore, they only had a dismissal position as General Yunhui last time.

Gao Wenji brother Li Jing doesn't care about it, but Fu Wenda brothers know that they are in awkward situation now. Li Keyong and his son have not yet been defeated, so the court still treats them very favorably. But now the Shatuo people have been completely destroyed. If he is forced to surrender like this, he will be treated like Li Youjin. The two brothers are still smart, and they directly hugged Li Jing's thighs and firmly wanted to incorporate them into the Zhenguo Army.

There was a soldier who surrendered to him. After thinking about it, Li Jing was willing to accept it. In the end, even the soldiers under Gao Wenji's brothers were transferred away by Li Jing. In this way, Fu Wenda and his brothers joined Li Jing with 10,000 original Northern Army. Gao Wenji's brothers only took their own servants away, and the Hu tribes were appointed as governors by the court, so naturally they would not really surrender to Li Jing. Li Jing didn't care about this.

The Zhenguo Army entered Chang'an with 20,000 troops. Li Jing asked the Fu Wenda brothers to lead 10,000 generations of northern soldiers and escorted 13,000 Shatuo prisoners back to Liaodong.

The army was not moving fast, with more than 30,000 people escorting 3,000 prisoners and 50,000 Shatu heads, so they walked very slowly until dark. They had only walked less than fifty miles.

After the army set off the camp, Li Jing washed his face and suddenly remembered Gaiyu, whom he captured. He asked someone to bring him up. Gaiyu was the most senior officer Shatuo captured in the battle under Feng'an City. Li Jing still knew this person. Gaiyu was a family of Yajiang in Yunzhou and was in the border area for a long time. However, he did not use his courage but assisted Li Keyong with wisdom.

Among them, the seven generals of Yunzhou who were killed by Duan Wenchu ​​who were Li Keyong, were Gaiyu. During this period, the Xiaoqisi also searched for a lot of information about Gaiyu after interrogating prisoners. Gaiyu was wise and wise, and was good at speculating on Li Keyong's intentions. Li Keyong was harsh and impatient, and he was not allowed to delay any delay when encountering urgent matters. As long as someone violated the rules, he would engage in military law. Only Gaiyu could understand Li Keyong's intentions, be good at tutoring, and persuade him politely to achieve the goal of assisting the staff. Li Keyong sometimes became furious with the generals and officials. Seeing that the momentum was not good, Gaiyu wanted to dissuade him, but was inconvenient to speak out, he pretended to stand on Li Keyong's side to scold the generals and officials. Li Keyong was happy to exempt them from punishment. When Gaiyu advised Li Keyong, he often used modern stories as an example to persuade him.

In Li Jing's opinion, Li Keyong is somewhat similar to Lu Bu of the Three Kingdoms, brave but has little strategy, but this Gaiyu is a bit similar to Chen Gong, the adviser of Lu Bu. Others can't tell Li Keyong, but this Gaiyu can do it.

In history, after Li Cunxu, the Emperor Zhuang of Later Tang, ascended the throne, he was posthumously awarded Gai Yu as the Grand Tutor.

It can be said that Gai Yu is the number one strategist under Li Keyong.

When Gai Yu was taken to Li Jing's tent, Li Jing thought that this man had eaten Duan Wenchu's human flesh with Li Keyong and others, and should be a hideous and evil person. However, the man in front of him had a bit of haggard face. He was not much shorter than Li Jing, and he was very big, but he was obviously very thin.

This is not a hideous evil man, but just a man in his forties and always has a essay scent on his body.

He knelt in front of Li Jing, his hands and feet tightly tied behind him, waiting for Li Jing's hair to fall. He lost half of his ears in the battle, his whole body was dressed in black, no different from the Black Crow Army, except that at this time he was ragged and had several wounds and abscesses on his body.

The breath exhaled from his mouth intertwined into a steaming white mist in the cold dusk. Li Jing looked at Gai Yu quietly. He was not panicked or afraid. Although he was pressed to kneel on the ground by Li Cunxiao when he brought it in, the haggard head was still raised high, and his eyes were also calmly looking at Li Jing.

In the tent, Li Cunxiao, Fu Cun, and Yang Shihou were all staring at the prisoner, not understanding why he was so calm. However, Liu Xun stood beside Gao Siji and Wang Yanzhang on the other side, trying hard to say something, but he couldn't open his mouth.

The breeze blew through and lifted the curtains, and the great tribes of Zhenguo who were flying high outside the tent drifted in the wind.

Li Jing stood up and walked forward slowly with a calm expression on his face.

"Clang!"

Li Jing slowly pulled out the jade sword on his waist with his right hand. When he drew the sword, Li Jing looked at Gai Yu, but he still looked calm.

The sword light flashed like lightning, and the rope on Gai Yu's body broke into several pieces.

Li Jing held his sword sincerely and said loudly: "My Duke of Qi, General of the Zhenjun, General of Jinwu, Minister of Justice of the Procuratorate, Protector of the Andong Protectorate, Governor of Dengzhou, and Governor of Zhenguo Army, I would like to ask you here, are you willing to submit to the court from now on, serve in the Zhenguo Army, and be atone for the sins?"

A loud voice passed by, but Gai Yu fell into a violent shock. His mind was in chaos, and his originally cold and calm heart began to beat violently, and he could not keep calm again. Since Feng'an was captured, he had almost stepped up. Every day, in his opinion, he was just one step closer to death. Because he no longer had hope for life, he became extremely calm. When he was brought to the tent, he thought that his death date had come.

The moment the sword light passed by, the experience of this half of his life flashed through his mind. He learned civil and martial arts and sold goods to the imperial family. However, he had no chance and could only be ruined in the north of Dai. He was unwilling to give up. He felt that the strength of the Shatuo clan in Daibei should be able to occupy a place in this troubled world. He assisted Li Keyong, just hoping to show his ambitions in this troubled world.

He did not expect that Li Jing would let him go at this time and would recruit him into the Zhenguo Army. He was shocked. After this battle in Daibei, Gai Yu thought he knew very well about the Zhenguo Army and Li Jing. Li Jing was a mysterious man.

His heart beat violently, and his originally discouraged heart was involuntarily warm. He wanted to agree immediately, but he felt that he should refuse first. But when his mouth opened, his words became, "I, I am willing to submit to the court and serve the general from now on!"

After saying this, he suddenly felt much more relaxed. Today, since a strategist like him cannot live in the temple, it is also the best choice to be able to join the shogunate like Li Jing.

Li Jing laughed, and Gai Yu fell down. He leaned over and helped him up, and kindly patted the dust on his body.

"Since that's the case, then I'll just be wronged by Mr. Gai as the staff officer of the State Army. But don't be busy performing his duties. I'll let the military doctor treat your injuries first. These days you will follow the army and take care of your health. After the injury is healed, let's talk about other things." After that, Li Jing turned to Liu Xun and said, "Bohu, I'll leave the specific matter to you."

Liu Xun nodded and took over the task. Gai Yu felt grateful again. Li Jing comforted him a few words and asked Liu Xun to lead him. Seeing that the two of them were gone, Li Cunxiao said directly: "Why should I keep this person?"
Chapter completed!