Chapter 624 Strong reaction
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Qingzhou, Yidu City...
This city, which was once prosperous on the coast of the East China Sea, is now in decline. Before the sky was dark, the entire city had closed doors and doors, and there were no pedestrians on the streets. The city, which originally had more than 100,000 people, now only had more than 10,000 soldiers from Wang Jingwu and more than 10,000 families of soldiers. Apart from the soldiers and their families, there were no other residents, neither people nor vendors.
This is a city in depression, darkness, hunger and savage.
Yacheng, the Jiedushi Mansion.
In the festival hall, Wang Jingwu held a letter and snorted coldly.
"Gao Pian, who said the dog, asked us to send troops to attack Li Jing, but he sat behind to watch the show. Damn, he stole so much money, grain and goods from Li Jing, and actually gave us five thousand stones of food. He sent us a note of borrowing war horses and equipment, but he refused to borrow any of it. Damn, he didn't give us any equipment or food, and there were no reinforcements. I asked me to attack Li Jing like this. Is he crazy or stupid? Li Jing is so easy to fight, damn."
In just a few years, Wang Jingwu was completely sloppy, with his hair and beard half white, his face haggard, and his belt was even hunched over. He coughed a few times from time to time, just like an old man who was about to die.
While he was talking, under him, Li Shi, Zhang Chan, Lu Hong, Wang Yanwen and other subordinates were sitting. Last year, there was Xue Chong, but unfortunately, although this guy has been living a life of drunkenness and dreams all day long since he came, he was also the governor of a state. As a result, he met Huang Chao's damn former ally. The two sides fought, and Wang Jingwu and others were defeated, and Xue Chong was also killed in the army.
Over the past year, Yu Zi has become more and more difficult. It is called the official army, but it is actually no different from the bandits. Although the court did not come to suppress him, it had already cut off food and salary. The soldiers of his subordinates fled, and even many old subordinates and generals fled.
There were only a few people sitting in the huge festival hall.
When Gao Pian sent someone to come to them and asked them to attack Li Jing's territory, Wang Jingwu and others immediately refused. He snatched the Balance Army, the Taining Army and Li Jing. As a result, every time he snatched Li Jing's territory, he would be beaten to a terrible surprise. If Li Jing hadn't wanted to really destroy him, they would have been wiped out long ago.
However, when Gao Pian's envoy offered to provide them with military pay, food and food, Wang Jingwu and Li Shi were finally moved. Although they knew that they were thugs for Gao Pian, they were already doing so even worse than robbers. The people on the territory were either snatched by Li Jing or snatched by Huang Chao, and the rest were all fled. No one farmed, no merchants, and no taxes.
The military pay was not what moved them the most. What moved them the most was that Gao Pian's envoy promised that they would go first, and Gao Shizhong would send people to reinforce later. After defeating Li Jing, the five prefectures of Ziqingzhen, Ziqi, Qingdenglai were handed over to Wang Jingwu. This is the real reason why Wang Jingwu and the Li clan could not refuse. Even though they knew that this might be very small, they still could not refuse.
However, Li Jing is not that easy to fight. They tried several attacks, but if they hadn't run fast, they would probably not be able to come back.
But Gao Pian agreed to have no military salary and reinforcements, which made Wang Jingwu so angry that he jumped up and cursed.
They had already stabbed Li Jing's hornet's nest and were now facing Li Jing's revenge.
When the morning fog rose, a soldier was advancing rapidly along the Zibo River.
Yidu City was still sleeping in the early morning.
The defenders on the city dozed off with guns in their arms, cursing in a low voice that the time for succession was not yet up. In the vast white fog, no one noticed that an army in the fog had approached the city.
A sound of footsteps woke up the defenders at the city gate. The head of the team in the city gate tower hurriedly ran out, but happened to see the marching Sima Li Shi wearing armor, cloak, and long sword in his hand, walking up to the city with a team of personal soldiers who were also armed with armor.
"I've seen Sima Li!" The team leader was a little surprised and surprised. He didn't know what Sima was here in the morning.
Li Shi's face was a little shy and so gloomy that he didn't know what he was thinking. He nodded to the team leader, "I need to be more vigilant recently. My people have taken over the city gate now, and you can go back."
"This... Sima Ke has a handwritten by Wang Shuai?" the team leader asked with courage.
Li Shi glared directly, and a tall servant behind him immediately hit his waist with a gun. He fell to the ground and sucked the air conditioner in pain.
The servant with a tiger-backed and bear-waisted waist refused to let him go, and kicked him hard, scolding: "The dog is not eye-catching, the military order of the marching Sima, what other orders are needed? Kill you a dog thing."
"Okay, let him go." Li Shi said coldly, "You guys go down."
When the other guards saw the team leader's appearance, who would dare to say more, they all retreated from the city wall in the cold war.
After those people retreated, the servant who had just beaten people chuckled at Li Shi and said, "Li Sima is quite majestic, but this saves a lot of trouble."
The Li family was very cold and arrogant just now, but when facing this person, he put away the expression on his face and smiled barely, "General Li was joking. I hope he could turn around and give a few good words in front of the prince."
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say."
"There is a signal ahead!" The man called General Li smiled. Li looked up and saw three fires appearing in the fog. He turned to the back and said, "Kaicheng!"
When the suspension bridge was lowered and the city gate slowly opened, Li Shi breathed a sigh of relief and felt a burst of relief. Since he was removed from the position of Taining Army Jiedu and became the Sima of the marching town of Ziqing Town, Li Shi felt that he was having nightmares every day. For more than a year, he had no idea how he survived it.
I think his great-grandfather was the famous general of Xiping County Prince of Xingtang. His family had many famous generals and high-ranking officials. By his generation, there were three military governors in his family. However, he was in the end so miserable. He was not an official, nor a bandit.
Originally, he wanted to let his home operate and transfer him to another place. As a result, things have not been done until now. Seeing that Wang Jingwu, the idiot, got involved in the struggle between Tian Lingzi and Gao Pian and Li Jing, and became the front pawn, the Li family had already begun to prepare for a change of the boat.
The ship had leaked water, and if it was not replaced, it would die. He was unwilling to die with the madman Wang Jingwu.
After finally contacting Li Jing's people, things went smoothly. Li Jing was indeed unable to bear it anymore and wanted to turn the mad dog into a dead dog. Looking at the rows of towns [***] entering the city and rushing into Wang Jingwu's Yacheng, Li Shi couldn't help but feel happy and finally chose the right way. In the battle between Gao Pian and Li Jing, he always believed that Li Jing would be the winner.
In the morning mist, a scream finally rang out, and someone discovered that the town [***] entered the city.
Li Shi sneered twice, and what if he found out? The Pinglu army has long lost its combat power and is vulnerable compared to Zhen [***]. He is thinking now that after making this choice, it means turning against Tian Lingzi. In the future, the capital city may not be able to go back. Maybe he can find a way to find an official position under Li Jing. At least, the Li family, the prince of Xiping, is also a top wealthy family in Jingzhao. Li Jing will never reject him.
The alarm bell rang in the city, and then the sound of swords intersecting, and more sounds rang out.
The sound of gold and iron mixed together, the shouts of killing, the sound of arrows breaking through the air, and the screams...
The battle did not last long. Although Wang Jingwu hid in Yacheng and was still under tens of thousands of troops. However, the raid from the town [***] soon destroyed the morale and confidence of the defenders. Especially after the Li clan and the military commander Zhang Wanrong, the two personal guards of the army commander Zhang Wanrong turned against each other in the inner city at the same time, the Qingzhou Ya soldiers were directly defeated and the soldiers had no desire to fight.
The soldiers of the town rushed into the inner city, but encountered not resistance, but surrendered one by one.
Even the generals Zhang Chan and Lu Hong under Wang Jingwu did not resist much. After seeing Zhen [***] break into the inner city, they directly led their troops to surrender.
When the Red Saint rose from the east, Wang Jingwu hid in the Jiemaster's mansion and resisted stubbornly and refused to surrender.
When the wall of the General's Mansion was pushed down and the town was pouring in from all directions, Wang Jingwu climbed onto the roof of the General's Mansion, his body was filled with oil, held a torch in his hand, and roared at God's unwillingness several times, and ignited himself.
Under the red saying, Wang Jingwu was like a huge torch, so dazzling in the morning light.
Wang Jingwu died of burning himself, Li Shi turned against him, Zhang Chan and Lu Hong and others surrendered. Qingzhou City then fell into the hands of Zhen [***], and said that the other troops of Zhen [***] also quickly attacked, and took down other cities such as Zibo and Zibo. The remaining Pinglu army either surrendered or was killed on the spot.
In just one day, the town [***] attacked everywhere and wiped out Wang Jingwu, who was finally occupied by the eight counties of Ziqing. More than 20,000 Ping Lu Army was beheaded more than 3,000, and the rest surrendered. Together with the remaining 50,000 families, Li Jing sent all the orders to Liaodong. The Li army and other surrendered generals were sent to Dengzhou for temporary rest and waiting for disposal.
After recovering the eight counties, Li Jing sent troops to garrison and began to move the people to the eight counties.
Under Li Jing's rule, Qi, Zibo and Qing were newly established, and Li Jing had thirteen prefectures and 63 counties.
At the same time, Pei You, Megan, Julie, Li Xu, Wu Qian, Zhang Liehuo, Meng Yang and other naval generals led a fleet to sail to the sea, heading south along the coast, wearing skeleton flags, pretending to be pirates, and began to harass Huainan, influencing the coastal prefectures and counties in Taining and Zhenhai.
These pirates with skeleton flags range from hundreds to thousands of people. They drive extremely advanced warships, sharp weapons, strong armor, and even have tall horses. They attack states and counties like locusts, not only rob money and food, attack government cities, and even rob people when they see them. As long as they encounter villages, they are often empty in the end, without leaving a single person, and they are all captured.
In just half a month, countless requests for help were sent to Yangzhou General's Mansion. But every time the Huainan army arrived, the pirates had already left, leaving only a mess and empty villages and towns.
In Yangzhou City, Gao Pian had not slept peacefully for half a month. He thought of many ways to deal with these pirates, but he failed to successfully catch one person every time. On the long coastline, the pirates came and went without a trace on the sea, and there was no good way to deal with them. A fleet that he had finally organized went to sea to chase a pirate group, and was about to catch up with the other party, but ended up falling into the trap of the pirates, surrounded and ambushed, and the entire army was wiped out.
"Master, maybe we have provoked someone we shouldn't have provoked!" said Bi Shiduo, a general under Gao Pian's tent. He was originally one of the Pians under Wang Xianzhi. He had fought with Li Jing's troops several times, and was defeated every time. After the death of Wang Xianzhi, he followed Shang Rang to Huang Chao. As a result, he was defeated by Gao Pian during the Battle of Yuezhou. He surrendered to Gao Pian with more than a dozen generals of the grass army. Gao Pian trusted him very much, which moved him greatly.
The pirates encountered in Huainan were very clear from top to bottom. It was the revenge of Prince Andong Li Jing to Gao Dashen.
Bi Shiduo knew Li Jing's power well, so he spoke out to persuade him, because he was afraid that Gao Pian would suffer a greater loss.
Gao Pian clenched his fists, looked at the mountains of alarm messages in front of him, gritted his teeth, and seemed to have fire erupted from his eyes!
Chapter completed!