You also said that you have to pay a certain price! And now, the last thing this king wants to do is to pay the price. It has been nearly half a year since the battle to exterminate Yan, and the whole country has been dragged into the war, and it is very tired by now. If you want to attack Qingzhou in one fell swoop and completely destroy the Yan Kingdom, you will inevitably have to spend more money. Simply talking about destroying Yan, in fact, there is no special difficulty, the difficulty is that it may be entangled with Huan Wen in the future, and even a full-scale war may break out. This is not what this king wants to see now, so the matter of peace is also beneficial to us! Li Xin glanced at him and said lightly. His Royal Highness's worries are indeed reasonable, but what the minister is worried about is that once the Yan Kingdom gets a chance to breathe, there will be a time to make a comeback. At that time, if we want to eliminate it in one fell swoop, I'm afraid it won't be so easy! After pondering for a while, Tu Qi said.

"Don't worry, with the current momentum of the Yan Kingdom, even if Murong Ke has the ability to reach the sky, it will be difficult to recover. What's more, he doesn't have this opportunity anymore. After we have thoroughly digested the secluded land and made it truly our land, it will be easy to destroy the swallow at that time! Li Xin didn't seem to take his worries to heart.

Because he knew something that no one else even Murong Ke himself knew, if everything was going normally. As long as that thing happens as scheduled, it's nothing now, but a good time to recuperate.

Hearing him say this, Tu Qi didn't say anything more. After all, over the years, Li Xin's judgment has been very accurate, and basically nothing has gone wrong.

A few days later, the news that Datang and Yan Guo were about to become in-laws gradually became known to everyone. At the junction of the Three Kingdoms, the atmosphere of this war slowly faded, and Huan Wen also led the army to retreat, leaving only some soldiers and horses to continue to guard in Guangqi County.

Murong Ke's action was very fast, and as soon as he heard that Li Xin was going to let Princess Qinghe marry Li Yue, he was very ready and sent someone to send Princess Qinghe to Yuancheng County. Along with them, there were also officials and envoys responsible for sending off relatives, as well as the first batch of congratulatory gifts.

And Li Xin was also very satisfied after seeing the little girl, and he fulfilled his previous promise and officially issued the order to strike the army.

However, the necessary arrangements must be made to strike the troops.

First, he ordered Liao Chuan to lead 10,000 troops to retreat to Shanggu County and continue to defend Shanggu, but this time, his defense scope was more Yuyang and Beiping County, mainly to prevent the Yan army on the Pingzhou side.

Second, Liu Xiaohai was ordered to sit in Qinghe Kingdom, and at this time it was already ordered to be changed to Qinghe County. He was responsible for the defense of the Yan State on the Yellow River, and under his command, Shao Zisong garrisoned the Tanglin line, close to the sea side.

Lü Guang garrison Pingyuan County is just northeast of Qinghe County, and Pang Hui garrison Yangping County is located in the southwest of Qinghe County and directly west of Jibei County.

On the north bank of the Yellow River, a defensive line of nearly 500 miles, Li Xin arranged a total of 60,000 troops here to defend Murong Ke.

In addition, the most important thing is the land of Yanzhou on the south bank of the Yellow River. Among them, Chen Kang garrisoned Dongping County, Lu County, Rencheng County in the south of Jibei County, as well as the southern and western counties of Taishan County, with 30,000 troops under his command, specializing in defending the Yan army in the hilly areas of Shandong.

Zhao Ji had already retreated to Chenliu Xiaohuang County at this time, and the troops in his hands were replenished, because the 20,000 troops after Liu Xiaohai went south before were not brought back to the north of the Yellow River, but handed over to Zhao Ji's command on the spot.

He has a total of 60,000 troops in his hands, stationed in the counties of Xingyang, Chenliu, Jiyin and Gaoping, and has only one duty and purpose, that is, to defend Chen Kang's rear and guard against Huan Huo, Yuan Zhen and others in the south!

These are soldiers and horses arranged on the front line to defend against enemy countries. Roughly speaking, counting the 30,000 troops in Liao Chuan's hands, basically from Yuyang Shanggu in the north to Chenliu and other places in the south, the strength of the regular army has reached as many as 150,000.

Later, some of the more important counties in the Central Plains, such as Bohai County, Yan County, Wei County and other places, also placed a part of the regular army, adding up to about 30,000 people, most of whom were light cavalry.

They will be led by Peng Lin, who directly commands 5,000 cavalry and is stationed in Xindu County. Mainly because from here, no matter which direction you are rushing to, the southeast, northwest, the distance is not too much.

And the purpose of the existence of these 30,000 troops is to suppress the local area and prevent those remnants of the Yan army and local forces from wanting to sabotage secretly. With these 30,000 cavalry here, basically any unexpected thing will be dealt with effectively.

And Li Xin himself, at this time, arrived in Yecheng and temporarily lived in the palace. The first thing he did after entering the palace was to order the release of all the palace attendants from the palace and return them to good citizenship.

Especially for some old and weak people, Li Xin asked them to settle in the counties around Yecheng, and the local government was responsible for finding their families. If you really don't have a family, then you will settle down with the government.

When Murong Wei and the others retreated, it was impossible for all those people in the palace to be taken away, after all, the situation at that time was already very urgent. If you bring so many people, you will only slow down yourself.

Not to mention the palace attendants, even the royal concubines have many who have been left in the palace.

This means that the Tang army entered the city early, and the discipline is strict, otherwise, the palace does not know what it will be like now.

In Yecheng, Li Xin personally met with the officials sent over, and after giving them a special explanation, he let them each take office.

One of the first major things Li Xin did in these newly captured areas was to order the officials to start suppressing bandits as soon as they took office.

Although it is said that the war is over, after such a long war, many of the defeated Yan troops have fled directly to the remote places in the mountains, occupying the mountains as kings or falling into the grass. It is impossible for these people to make a living by cultivating honestly in the mountains, and they must be robbing the people and robbing houses and houses.

If they are not eliminated first, it will be impossible for the local government to settle down. Even if these people are not trying to subvert the Tang Dynasty, they will inevitably affect the rule of the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, and they cannot be ignored.

The people are the foundation of the dynasty, especially for a new regime, and it is even more important to win the support of the people. And let them feel a stable environment first, which is completely different from the atmosphere of Yan Country before, and it is the most able to gain the hearts of the people in a short period of time.