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"Father, I am willing to fight Li Jing here to death!" Gao Zhaokang lowered his head and said in a deep voice.

Gao Dexin finally couldn't control his emotions anymore, so he took off the boots on his feet and directly hit his son's head.

"Idiot, I always thought you were very smart before, but why are you so stupid now? Regardless of whether Li Jing really has a 500,000 army, even if he only brought 5,000 troops, do you think you can defend it? Either you just surrender to Li Jing, or you will pack up your things and take the whole clan back to the Bohai Sea immediately. At least, the whole clan can still get peace."

Although Gao Zhaokang was unwilling to accept it, he thought of last year that he led three thousand elite troops to defend Weibashan City, but Li Jing took down the extremely dangerous mountain city Weiba without any effort. He felt powerless in his heart, and finally he obeyed his father's words and planned to bring all the elders and young people back to Bohai Kingdom.

While Gao Zhaokang was preparing, he sent troops to surround the inn where Li Jing's envoy lived, preparing to kill them to relieve their hatred. However, just surrounded the people, several father's father's hometown rushed to arrive.

"The head of the family has an order. Please stop immediately and do not harm the messenger!" The hometown will shout loudly.

Gao Zhaokang had a dark face, "My father cares about these small things!"

"Young Master, things have changed. Just as I received an urgent report, Langu Mountain City was lost. The head of the family asked the young master to return home to discuss matters immediately." The general of the family reported quietly.

Gao Zhaokang was shocked, why did the Tang army move so quickly? The Gao family still controls five mountain cities, four of which are in the area of ​​Longtan Mountain, but Langu Mountain City is in the south, not far from the Daxing Island and the lower reaches of the Fuzhou River occupied by Li Jing. Although I never thought that Langu Mountain City could block the Tang army, it was too fast. Although there were only 500 armored soldiers in the city, there were thousands of young and strong people, and there were 20,000 people. No matter how dangerous the mountain city was, it could be guarded for a month or two.

He hurried back to the city lord's mansion, Gao Dexin's face was gloomy.

"Father!" Gao Zhaokang stepped forward to greet him.

"Is Li Jing's messenger still there?" Gao Dexin asked.

"Everyone is still there. I just surrounded me, but I haven't had time to kill me."

"That's good." Gao Dexin Yan breathed a sigh of relief. "Gaoan, go to the inn immediately, and give a good revenge to the messenger, and just say a misunderstanding."

After the general of the family left, Gao Dexin sighed, "Langu Mountain City is lost!"

"I already know."

"But do you know how many people the Tang army used and how much time it took to capture Lanjun Mountain City?" Gao Dexin lowered his head and knocked on the ground with the sandalwood stick in his hand. "Zhao Ju, the right vanguard of the Tang army's front army, led 5,000 Feixiong Army to the foot of Lanjun Mountain City yesterday morning, and then launched an attack without eating breakfast. It took less than half an hour to take down the mountain city, and then ate breakfast directly in the city!"

"How is this possible?" Gao Zhaokang was incredible. "It must be Che Ji, the guard of Langu Mountain City, who surrendered to the enemy!"

"Che Ji has followed me for many years. His ancestors have been my Gao family. He did not betray the Gao family. He was killed in the battle with the Tang army!" Gao Dexin murmured, his eyes full of pain.

"The Tang army's offensive was too fast. Li Jing's vanguard would have to go to Jili City within three days. If we want to escape to the Bohai Sea, it seems that it will not work. On the way, we will be chased by the Tang army. Let's surrender to Li Jing!"

Gao Zhaokang shook his head: "Father, we can join the Khitans. The Khitans have risen rapidly over the years. Although Li Jing is strong, I don't think he can be an enemy of the Khitans. The Khitans have always wanted to get involved in the invasion of Liaodong. With our Goguryeo royal family, joining them will definitely get good results."

Although Gao Dexin was extremely weak during injuries, he was very clear. The Khitan was indeed very powerful, but the Khitan was a Hu tribe and had not been fully civilized. If you join these people, the Khitans may be good to them in a short time, but in the long run, these Hu people will never be really good to them. Especially if they were just defeated by the Khitans, they defected to the Khitans at this time. They would not be taken seriously.

On the contrary, although Li Jing seemed not as strong as the Khitan, he looked at Li Jing's previous experience, but he was a very potential person. In particular, Li Jing was not alone. There was a stronger Tang Dynasty behind him. Now that Li Jing went north, he would definitely want to regain the old land of Andong and even directly confront the Khitans. If their Gao family surrendered first, then as the Goguryeo who surrendered first, he would be treated kindly and valued by the Goguryeo royal family.

Moreover, although Li Jing took away his son's wife, Li Jing has always had a good reputation. He is a ambitious person. Therefore, it is definitely better to join him than to join the Khitan.

As for going to the Bohai Sea, one may not necessarily escape Li Jing's pursuit. Secondly, unless the Gao family does not plan to rise again, there is no future to go to the Bohai Sea, which is already dusk.

After Gao Dexin's careful analysis and explanation, although Gao Zhaokang was unwilling to accept his father's decision in the end. He immediately went to apologize to the envoy, presented the surrender form, and formally surrendered to Li Jing.

A valley beside the Liaonan Road on the banks of the Sha River, the Central Army Camp of the Northern Expedition.

The weather in July was particularly hot. After swimming in the Shahe River for a long time, Li Jing finally felt much more refreshed. Lying on the hammock tied to the tree, he looked at the former military news that Gongsun Lan had just sent, he couldn't help but smile.

Zhao Yuan, the right vanguard of the front army, deserves to be a famous general in Li Jing's memory. Not only is he the most capable general in the late Tang Dynasty, but he still plays so well even if he is placed in the forward position now.

The left and right armies of the front army set out at the same time. Zeng Yuanyu, a general who Li Jing valued very much, led the 5,000 elite Shenjie army he brought from Chang'an, but in the end it was not as fast as Zhao Lu's newly led Feixiong Army.

Zhao Yuan was the first to arrive at Lankou Mountain City, south of the five cities occupied by Gaodexin, Jili Prefecture. Zeng Yuanyu was half a day later than Zhao Yuan.

Feixiong Jun arrived in the morning and Zhao Feng arrived in the afternoon.

The result was that there was such a small half day difference. When Zeng Yuanyu's five thousand Shenjie troops arrived at the city of Lankou, the flag of the Feixiong Army had already been planted on the top of the city. Zhao Yu had already captured the mountain city and had breakfast in the city. In the morning, he had already counted all the prisoners, money, grain, people, etc. in the city.

Li Jing was lying in the hammock, and he could imagine the wonderful expressions on Zeng Yuanyu and his Shenjie Army when they discovered this situation. Speaking of which, the Shenjie Army still had some habits of master soldiers and was not thorough enough. It seems that after the Northern Expedition, the Shenjie Army had to be reorganized and all the habits in these imperial guards were changed.

But to be honest, Li Jing was also quite surprised when he saw this battle report.

Zhao Yuan led the Feixiong Army to capture a mountain city with a circumference of several miles on the dangerous mountain. The armored guards in the city were 500, and the young and strong soldiers were more than 2,000. After the battle, the Feixiong Army annihilated more than 200 armored soldiers and more than 300 young and strong soldiers. The Feixiong Army himself died in battle, and only more than 30 seriously injured people. The death ratio reached an astonishing one to ten.

Zhao Yun fought very well in the first battle. After this battle, I believe that no general in the township was suspected that Li Jing had worked hard to dig up the 50-year-old general and promoted him to the commander of the Feixiong Army.

As Zhao Quan captured Langang Mountain City, Gao Dexin, in Jili City, immediately replied to Li Jing, handed over the chart of surrender, and officially surrendered.

Zhao Lu and Zeng Yuanyu had already arrived in Jili Prefecture and successfully accepted Gao's surrender in Xiancheng.

Jili Mountain City, Chengshan Mountain City, Goryeo Mountain City, Deli Mountain City, and the last four mountain cities in Gao's hands were also accepted!

The entire Jili State has been under the control of Li Jing.

"This Gao Dexin is quite aware of the current affairs. Since this is the case, I will send a message to the two pioneers, and we must ensure the property and safety of Gao's family. We must be confident."

Gongsun Lan chuckled, "If you take away someone's wife, and you dare to keep them, aren't you afraid that your husband will come here with a sword?"

Li Jing smiled, believing that the Gao family knew how to choose. The Gao family was still very happy to surrender. In the old land of Goguryeo, or in the old land of Anton, the Goguryeo nobles had a great influence. Especially on both sides of the Yalushui River, there were many Goguryeo aristocrats. Li Jing hoped to make good use of the influence of the Gao family, so that they could take over these places more easily without having to fight one city and one pool.

Three days later, Li Jing's central army arrived at Jili Mountain City. Wang Chongsou led the left army and Lin Wusou led the right army, and he had already arrived at Jili City one day.

Zhao Lu, Zeng Yuanyu, the Gao clan and the former Jilizhou civil and military officials went out of the city to welcome Li Jing's arrival. Gao Dexin and other surrendered generals knelt down to Li Jing one by one. Li Jing dismounted and helped Gao Dexin and others up one by one. When he helped Gao Zhaokang up, Li Jing saw the hatred in his eyes, but he only smiled back.

After entering the city, the first thing Li Jing did was to immediately announce that the original old land of Jili Prefecture would be changed to Jizhou, with four counties: Bihe County, Shahe County, Fu County and Zhuanghe County. Li Jing appointed Li Liang as the governor of Jizhou, Zhao Quan as the defensive envoy of Jizhou, and Xiao Kai as the censor. The county magistrate of the four counties, and Li Jing directly transferred the four sages to take office, Sikong Tu as the magistrate of Bihe County, Wei Zhuang as the magistrate of Shahe County, Luo Yin as the magistrate of Fu County, and Han Wo as the magistrate of Zhuanghe County.

As for the three thousand soldiers in Goguryeo, Li Jing temporarily organized them into the auxiliary army. Gao Dexin was sent back to Dengzhou for medical treatment by Li Jing on the grounds of recovering from his injuries. Although Gao Zhaokang and other Goguryeo nobles were left to counsel on military affairs, their families were sent back to Dengzhou, which was considered hostage.

Li Jing awarded these Goguryeo aristocratic generals a great rank, but did not give any substantial positions. However, although he did not give any actual positions, these people were firmly taken by Li Jing in the military camp and kept by his side in the name of counseling military affairs.
Chapter completed!