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At this time, the emperor Li Yan was like a drowning man. The news of the victory in Hebei appeared like a life-saving straw, which made him extremely excited.

Unfortunately, Zhang Tai had just heard of the great victory in Hebei. He only knew simple news and the specific details were not clear at all. The emperor held his hand and asked for a long time, but he couldn't answer.

"Your Majesty, the news of the Hebei victory was reported by the Chang'an Jinzou Academy, the director of the Northeast China Railway. I have not yet understood the specific situation." Zhang Tai replied.

Li Yan quickly opened the message tube, and it was a good news, which was written by Li Jing. It said that Li Jing led his troops to Guiyi and Yingzhou Hejian in two battles, defeating the Hebei rebels, and achieving a 100,000 enemy defeat and captured the five prefectures of Mo, Ying, Cang, De and Di.

However, I didn't explain in detail how to win this Hebei victory. This made Li Yan's face turn red with excitement, but his heart was a little hollow.

Zhang Tai, who was still on the side, said, "Zhang Hong, who entered the Memorial Academy, must know that Your Majesty might as well call him into the palace to inquire."

Li Yan, who was trembling with excitement, clapped his hands and said, "You are right, please send an order to Xuanbeidao Grand Prix Director Zhang Hong to the palace to meet him!"

When Zhang Hong was taken into the palace by the envoys in the palace, Tian Lingzi, Yang Fugong and others in the palace, Lu Xie, Cui Han, Dou Lu Rong and other ministers in the court also knew the news and came to the palace to verify.

Li Yan nodded to the ministers excitedly, and then waited for Zhang Hong in Yanying Hall with them.

Hebei is indeed a great victory!

It can be said that this is one of the only two victories the imperial court has achieved against the rebellion.

Another victory should have been Li Keyong defeated the Lu Long rebels in a row and captured the four prefectures of Wu, Xin, Ru and Gui. But Li Keyong then rebelled and seized the three prefectures of Wei Daixin in the court. If it weren't for the bravery of the left-behind soldiers in Datong, they could have been able to support the troops in the five towns, and they would have been lost at this time, and even Taiyuan might have been lost.

Although the imperial court had just issued an order to cut off the Weizhou in Datong Town and Xinzhou in Hedong Town and divide it into Yanmen Town to Li Keyong.

But in fact, that was only the court had to do it now.

However, the soldiers and horses from Daxingtai, Northeast Road, issued eighteen imperial edicts to urge Li Jing to send troops. They also awarded Li Jing the title of king three times, and finally the title of King Qin Li Jing was unwilling to accept it, so Li Yan thought that Li Jing was determined to sit on the wall this time.

However, he did not expect that Li Jing led 80,000 troops south at this time, and he won such a big victory in one go, annihilated 100,000 enemies. Even if the number of winnings was reduced by half, it would be 50,000 heads.

At this time, the eunuchs and prime ministers of the North and South Yamen surrounded Zhang Hong with the emperor, listening to him with a show-off tone and telling the details of the Hebei victory in detail.

Zhang Hong declared to the emperor and his ministers that the King of Qin led a large army to raid the rebels in Guiyi, Zhuozhou, and annihilated 50,000 enemies. Then he entered Mo Ying. He fought with Wang Jingchong in Hejian. The two sides fought 200,000 troops in Hejian. In the end, the King of Qin won a great victory, annihilated 50,000 enemies, and defeated the rebels in Hebei.

However, in fact, in the battle between Li Jing and Guiyi, there were only 23,000 rebels in Hebei, and the remaining 33,000 were auxiliary troops. Li Jing did not kill so many. In that battle, less than 3,000 were killed, and the remaining prisoners were 15,000 soldiers and 32,000 auxiliary troops.

On that day, Li Jing captured Guiyi and defeated the rebels, he quickly divided his troops to capture the three passes, and sent cavalry to pursue the defeated troops in large numbers.

Then Li Jing took all the food, grass and supplies in Guiyi City and transferred them to Mozhou Sanguan.

After arriving at the Three Passes, Li Jing stationed six armies of nearly 30,000 infantry in the Three Passes. At the same time, he left behind two armies and 10,000 cavalry in Mozhou to capture the counties of Mozhou, and stayed in Mozhou at any time to support the Three Passes to defend against the troops of Li Quanzhong and Liu Yue who were heading south to block his journey south.

Li Jing, who brought 40,000 cavalry directly into Yingzhou, did not immediately capture Yingzhou counties, and did not even attack Hejian City. Instead, he allowed Li Kuanwei to gather Yingzhou troops and retreat to Hejian, and allowed him to go to Cangzhou to bring reinforcements.

Li Jing's 30,000 cavalry went south from Shucheng northeast of Yingzhou, secretly arrived between Cangzhou Lucheng and Jingcheng, which had long been captured, and lurked down.

At that time, Wang Jingchong, Liu Rengong, Li Kuanwei and Le Xingdao all the soldiers and horses of Cangzhou, with 110,000 soldiers, including 60,000 German troops and 30,000 Wei Bo troops. In addition, Liu Rengong and Li Kuanwei, there were 20,000 young and strong auxiliary soldiers recruited by Cangzhou, a total of more than 110,000. Among them, nearly 20,000 cavalry, 50,000 infantry soldiers, and 40,000 auxiliary soldiers.

Wang Jingchong abandoned Cangzhou and went to Hejian.

They chose the nearest route, went straight out of Cangzhou, over Changlu, and then crossed the canal and Zhangshui, passed Jingcheng, which had been captured by Li Jing, and rushed to Hejian.

Wang Jingchong had 110,000 soldiers, although less than half of them were elite. However, in his opinion, although Jingcheng was occupied by Li Jing, the facts here have been found out. Jingcheng, located between Cangzhou and Hejian, is actually just Li Jing's 5,000 cavalry. Li Jing's soldiers and horses, which are closest to Jingcheng, are still far away from Lucheng and Shucheng in the northeast, and are dozens of miles apart.

According to the news they controlled at this time, Li Jing's main force had just entered Yingzhou from Mozhou. Especially from the war reports at that time, Li Jing should have stationed his infantry at the third pass, and then scattered the cavalry and began to plunder the counties. Judging from the fact that Yingzhou only lost to the two counties, although Li Jing's action was fast, it would take a few days to reach Hejian, and it would take more time to transfer the troops to the Jingcheng area in the southeast.

It was precisely based on this judgment that Wang Jingchong did not detour back to Hejian from the south, but planned to pass through Hejian directly from Jingcheng. He did not intend to attack Jingcheng, but also believed that the thousands of soldiers and horses in Jingcheng did not pose any threat to his 100,000 army.

Wang Jingchong and others did not expect that Yingzhou had not yet fallen, not because Li Jing was unable to act, but because Li Jing did it on purpose, with the goal of luring the snake out of the cave and tricking Wang Jingchong's army out of Cangzhou City.

At this time, only the 10,000 cavalry left by Li Jing, who captured Mozhou, and the 5,000 cavalry in Lucheng had already left the city and quietly entered Jingcheng in the dark. The remaining 30,000 cavalry were taken to the west bank of Zhangshui by Li Jing. Waiting quietly here.

Li Jing's combat plan is a battle of the Po Army. The purpose of the entire battle is to start with annihilation as the main force of the German army.

Under the siege of the military intelligence departments of various military intelligence agencies under the Military Intelligence Bureau, until Wang Jingchong's army began to cross the Zhang River, they did not notice anything unusual, let alone Li Jing was waiting for him.

At noon on the day of the decisive battle, Wang Jingchong passed by Changlu County and crossed the Yongji Channel on the ice on the canal. Then, when all the soldiers and horses crossed the canal, the front army had already begun to prepare to cross the Zhang River through the ice.

A huge accident happened. The Zhangshui River, which originally had a thick layer of ice, suddenly shattered after a huge sound.

The ice layer of Zhangshui River was concentrated by Li Jing, and it was blasted here, directly shattering the ice.

As soon as the Zhang River exploded, the horn of the decisive battle was blown. On the north and south sides of the Zhang River, a Northeast cavalry broke out. At the same time, another cavalry had already gone around Wang Jingchong and crossed Yongji Canal to kill all over the sky.

The Northeast Army cavalry rushed towards Wang Jingchong's army like three arrows, and eventually formed the character y.

Facing the overwhelming cavalry charge, Wang Jingchong and others caught off guard. Because Li Jing deliberately let go of the twenty-mile-long Zhangshui River that had broken ice, it only rushed from the left and right back three sides.

As a result, although Wang Jingchong was determined to form a formation to defend himself, after Li Jing ordered the last bit of thunder in the cavalry's hands, the huge army collapsed before dusk. Countless people were driven to the Zhang River by the cavalry. Under the threat of iron hooves and swords and horses, although most of the ice on the river was broken, countless people crowded and stepped onto the ice river.

Except for a few people who were lucky enough to cross the river by shattering ice, more people fell directly into the river in the broken ice.

The tactics of Li Jing's 30,000 cavalry were very simple, just repeated attacks, like wolves, driving away, driving away, and constantly driving away, and then biting a piece of it from time to time and swallowing it.

Wang Jingchong's coalition forces were about 20,000 cavalry, and they organized a counterattack at one point, but the cavalry equipment of each town was too large than that of the Liao army, and they were divided into various departments, so they were far inferior to each other. In addition, Li Jing was deliberately relaxing the gap in the west of Zhangshui, which caused Wang Jingchong's troops to be distorted, and in the end the cavalry could not reverse the defeat.

One after another, the Hebei soldiers were finally driven out of the water, and the entire Zhang River was blocked.

In this battle, in the end, Wang Jingchong and others left one-third of the troops surrounded by Li Jing on the east bank of the Zhang River, and nearly 40,000 people were divided by Li Jing. At dusk, these completely surrounded soldiers surrendered in despair, and more than 30,000 prisoners abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

At the same time, nearly 10,000 people from the Hebei Army that broke through were drowned and frozen to death in the cold Zhang River.

The soldiers who escaped from the Zhangshui did not flee. Not long after they got ashore, the 10,000 cavalry who were originally stationed in Jingcheng and Lucheng suddenly emerged under the leadership of Gao Jichang and Dong Zhang.

Ten thousand cavalry against sixty thousand infantry and cavalry.

No matter how you look at it, Wang Jingchong should have a great chance of winning. However, at this time, Wang Jingchong and others were no longer interested in fighting again. When they saw a large number of cavalrymen in front of them, they immediately turned around and walked south.

Gao Jichang and Dong Zhang led the cavalry to chase and kill them all the way.

After dark, Li Jing left more than 10,000 cavalrymen to clean the battlefield, guard the prisoners, and went to collect the uninhabited Cangzhou, Changlu and other cities. He personally led nearly 20,000 cavalry to go south along the Zhangshui River.

After Li Jing joined the pursuit, Wang Jingchong was completely defeated.

The pursuit was chased until dawn the next day, and to Wuqiang County in Yizhou. Here, Wei Bojie's commander Han Jian was stationed here.

With Han Jian's support, Wang Jingchong and others avoided the possibility of annihilation of the entire army.

But even so, after a last count, there were only more than 110,000 soldiers and horses who left the city from Cangzhou this time, and more than 10,000 cavalry and more than 30,000 infantry fled to Wuqiang. Nearly 10,000 cavalry and more than 20,000 infantry soldiers were lost in one battle. In addition, Wei Bo and Chengde and the 40,000 auxiliary troops recruited in Cangzhou were all gone.

The loss of 30,000 combat soldiers and 40,000 auxiliary soldiers was not only severely damaged in this battle, but also the Wei Bo army who came to the south to rescue him suffered a great loss. On that day, Wang Jingchong hurriedly sent people to the two states of Dedi and asked his two brothers to bring the 20,000 combat soldiers back to Yizhou. Losing the three states of Mo Yingcang, the two states of Dedi were no longer able to defend.

The results of this battle were far beyond Li Jing's expectations. Li Jing originally thought that with 40,000 cavalry fighting on the plains, he could eat one-third of the opponent's troops and get hurt by the German army. However, he did not expect that Wang Jingchong had 20,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry soldiers, but he was defeated in such a big defeat.

Wang Jingchong was supported by Han Jian and retreated into Yizhou. Li Jing did not go deeper. He slowly gathered his troops and captured the defeated soldiers scattered on the front of more than 100 miles one by one and took them back.

When Li Jing returned, Cangzhou had been seized.

Afterwards, Li Jing left a portion of the cavalry to defend Cangzhou, and he led his troops back to take Hejian. Although Hejian had gathered more than 10,000 troops, Li Jing had just deliberately kept this piece of fat before. Now that Wang Jingchong was defeated, Li Jing came back, and the city of Yingzhou almost went down in one go.

At this time, Li Quanzhong and Liu Yue led 50,000 troops to attack the third gate of Waqiao Pass. However, the third gate of Waqiao Pass was a natural danger, and there were 30,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry guarding. In a short period of time, the two of them could not fight.

When Wang Jingchong was defeated and the news of Mo Yingcang's loss reached Zhuozhou, Li Quanzhong and Liu Yue immediately led their troops back to the town.

Wang Jingchong, who was in the south, also led his troops to retreat to Yi, Zhao, Shen, and Zhen.

Han Jian also led his troops back to Wei Bo.

After suffering such a big loss this time, the four towns no longer dared to strangle Li Jing, but began to go back to their houses to lick their wounds.

In this battle, the four towns suffered great losses.

Lulong Town lost Mozhou, plus a Guiyi County. It lost nearly 20,000 troops, but the rest of the loss was Liu Rengong, the governor of Mozhou. Liu Yue lost only one Guiyi and more than 3,000 troops. However, to the northwest of Liu Yue, the four states of Xinwu Rugui were taken away by Li Keyong, which was also a heavy loss. At present, Liu Yue was only left in the two states of Zhuo and You.

Chengde Town suffered even greater losses this time. At the beginning, they quickly captured the three towns of Yichang. But who would have thought that not only did they vomit all the food, but they also lost more than 5,000 cavalry and nearly 20,000 infantry. Not to mention the loss of soldiers and generals, the most important thing is that Chengde Army's morale fell seriously after this battle.

Li Quanzhong also suffered heavy losses. Not only did Yingzhou, which started, he lost nearly 20,000 people. This was an extremely fatal blow to the new vassal states, which only had three towns. Now, to the west is Shatuo Li Keyong, who had just captured the land of the seven states and formed a town, and to the east is Li Jing, who entered Hebei. He was sandwiched in the middle, leaving only the two states of Yiding, and life was difficult.

Weibo Town also did not take up any of the benefits, but it also lost tens of thousands of soldiers.

Li Jing went south this time and fought two battles in a row, annihilated more than 10,000 troops and more than 100,000 prisoners in four towns. However, the Northeast Army's losses were not large, and the total amount was no more than 3,000. The key to causing such a huge casualty ratio was that these two battles were almost not hard battles, almost all were chasing battles.

After these two battles, the four towns each defended the city but did not leave. Although Li Jing won a great victory, it was actually a very surprising surprise to capture Mo Yingcang's three prefectures this time. Originally, Li Jing planned to be able to severely damage Chengde in field battles, but he had never thought about siege the city and land.

Now that I think that I have seized more than 20 counties in the three prefectures and 20 counties, Li Jing's troops are already tight, so he dare not attack the territory of the four towns again. After all, cavalry field battles are an advantage, but going to attack the city is a disadvantage.

While sending troops to guard the passes of the three prefectures of Moyingcang, Li Jing sent the prisoners back to the northeast, and also summoned Min Zhuang to strengthen the city in Hejian, using Hejian City and Mozhou Pass as Li Jing's fortress strongholds in the northeast and a central important town.

At the same time, 20,000 cavalry were sent to the south and directly to the two states of Dedi.

At this time, the Cheng De Army, who had just been defeated, could only watch Li Jing's troops swaying to the two states of Dedi, but could only hide in the city and dare not move.

Immediately afterwards, Li Jing finally dispatched a group of troops from Northeast China and Shandong, and transported them from the melting sea of ​​ice to Cangzhou to land. The newly transferred were 30,000 infantry from six armies and 20,000 rural soldiers.

Li Jing divided the 50,000 new troops and the original 30,000 infantry, plus the 10,000 cavalry of two armies, and a total of 90,000 troops were stationed in the five states of Mo, Ying, Cang, De, and Di, and 10,000 of them were stationed in Hejian Mobile.

The newly captured five prefectures were set up as the Hebei Province, and the provincial capital was set up in Hejian. Pei You was appointed as the governor of Hebei and temporarily took over the military affairs of Hebei.
Chapter completed!