Chapter 102: Forcibly swallowing the Xichuan Army
"Your Highness, what is the crime of humiliation? His Royal Highness indiscriminately took the lowly position, and the lowly position was not accepted! ”
Li Ye was at the city gate in front of a group of people, and directly asked his soldiers to take Yang Xingqian, which naturally stunned everyone, and saw Yang Xingqian's resistance, and was also a little worried. However, Yang Xingqian's resistance was destined to be useless, Liu Kui and Zhao Xiong were both strong in martial arts, and there were many pro-soldiers, and Yang Xingqian was quickly taken down.
was taken down in front of so many people, Yang Xingqian naturally would not sit still, wanting to arouse the indignation of others behind him.
"Not convinced? Killing the good and risking the merits, underestimating the enemy on the battlefield, causing thousands of armies to be defeated by the hands of the rebels, what are you not convinced? Li Ye glanced at Yang Xingqian, who was obviously overindulged, and said coldly.
"What evidence does Your Highness have? If His Highness has no evidence, he must protest to the marshal. Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, why doesn't His Highness follow it. And the humble position is a general under the command of the marshal, even if there is a mistake, it should be dealt with by the marshal, not by His Royal Highness. Hearing that he had killed a good man, Yang Xingqian's heart jumped, thinking how could this matter be exposed? But he definitely can't admit it, and if he does, he's really miserable.
"This king is now a solicitor, responsible for the entire counterinsurgency matter, and in case of emergency, he does not have to report it, and he can act cheaply. To put it mildly, even if this king executes you for the two previous charges now, Chen Jingxuan can't save you. "Being despised by a small general, how could Li Ye endure it? He can't clean up the two brothers Chen Jingxuan and Tian Lingzi, and can't he clean up a small defeated general?
Hearing Li Ye's words, Yang Xingqian's neck couldn't help but shrink, and then he realized that Li Ye, the envoy, held his power of life and death, and if he angered the other party again, it was not impossible for the other party to really kill him. Thinking of this, he decided that the hero would not suffer the loss in front of him, and when he saw the handsome later, the handsome should be able to keep himself, so he no longer contradicted Li Ye, but accepted his fate.
Seeing that Yang Xingqian was honest, the officials of Shuzhou led by Sun Chen couldn't help but change their views on Li Ye, the king of longevity. You must know that Yang Xingqian has always been dissatisfied with Sun Chen's command before, even after the other party retreated to Shuzhou. Fortunately, Yang Xingqian knew that he would cooperate with Sun Chen to defend Shuzhou, after all, if the city of Shuzhou was broken, he would not have a way to live.
But this did not make the officials in Shuzhou have a good impression of Yang Xingqian, Shuzhou was besieged these days, Yang Xingqian was in his camp, singing every night, which had already caused dissatisfaction.
In the face of such a Yang Xingqian, the officials in Shuzhou were all right, but they didn't expect Li Ye to come and directly suppress the other party, and take down the other party strongly.
"Take him down, wait for the counterinsurgency to end, and bring him back to Chengdu Mansion to accept His Majesty's disposal." Li Ye commanded.
"Yes!"
The reason why Li Ye wanted to attack Yang Xingqian was not because of how much hatred he had with Yang Xingqian, but because he fell in love with the troops in Yang Xingqian's hands. Although there were only 4,000 remnants left in Shuzhou City at this time, Yang Xingqian still had more than 1,000 people in his hands, although there were not many, they were also veterans who had been on the battlefield, and they still had some ability to persist in the rebel siege.
The Tiance Army now has a lot of losses and needs to replenish its troops. Those captured rebels are not all willing to join the Tiance Army, after all, many people are willing to return to their hometowns to resume business, plus Yue Changxu's troops, there are tens of thousands of rebels who surrender or anyway, but according to Li Ye's guess, it would be good to be able to leave half of the people.
So Li Ye set his sights on those under Yang Xingqian. Of course, Yang Xingqian and Chen Jingxuan's cronies must be cleaned up, he doesn't kill Yang Xingqian now, but it doesn't mean that he can't clean up the little people below.
This counterinsurgency is his best opportunity to expand his army, and if he does not seize this opportunity, there will be no good excuse for future expansion.
Of course, Li Ye will not shout out the matter of annexing more than 1,000 Xichuan troops, and after Yang Xingqian is detained, the rest of the things will be very easy to do, and he may not be able to hide it from Sun Chen and others, but forgive them and they will not care about this matter. As for the aftermath, Chen Jingxuan knew, but at that time, the wood was already in the boat, and it was difficult for Chen Jingxuan to snatch back the 1,000 people from him.
"Shuzhou Assassin Sun Chen and sixty-seven officials from Shuzhou, see His Royal Highness King Shou!"
"Sun Thorn History, please get up, under the siege of tens of thousands of rebels, hold Shuzhou, Sun Thorn History is indispensable, and this king also admires it." Li Ye hurriedly stepped forward to help the other party up and said politely.
Li Ye's attitude towards Corporal Lixian made Sun Chen a little surprised and a little frightened, and hurriedly said, "Your Highness has a good reputation, and you just moved your mouth to defend the city, mainly because of the officials and soldiers below." And there is one thing, Sun Chen wants to ask His Highness for guilt. Due to the shortage of food in the city, he had to open the grain that needed to be turned over to the state treasury, and he was willing to admit this responsibility. ”
Hearing this, Li Ye was a little surprised, but he was not very clear about the matter, and it was difficult to draw conclusions. However, after hearing that he sold grain at a parity price, Li Ye couldn't help but admire the other party's old scheming, in this way, even if he had some responsibility, but the responsibility was not big, after all, the court did not lose anything, but a part of the grain became money.
This also made Li Ye realize that people who can do assassination history, as long as they are not completely dependent on relationships like Chen Jingxuan and his brother, are generally not fuel-efficient lamps. Although Sun Chen is not a good person, he can lead the whole city of soldiers and civilians to hold Shuzhou for so many days without surrendering, which shows that he still has some integrity, at least he is not confused in major matters.
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"Your Highness, what are your Highness's plans for this more than 1,000 Xichuan troops?" After pacifying a group of Shuzhou officials, Pei Rong couldn't wait to ask Li Ye.
"Eliminate Chen Jingxuan and Yang Xingqian's henchmen, and then integrate them into the Tiance Army. This time, the Tiance Army suffered a lot of losses, and it also needed fresh blood to replenish it, except for Yue Changxu's two thousand people, all the others were incorporated into the Tiance Army.
For the new formation of two capitals and the candidates for the heads of the two capitals, you will first draw up a list and then submit it to me. Li Ye thought for a moment and said.
Two more capitals were formed, and that was seven capitals, six infantry capitals and one cavalry capital. Although this violates the principle of the five-five system established by Li Ye, but this is also a helpless thing, according to his thoughts, he wishes that the more troops of the Tiance army are, the better, but also have to consider the reality of the situation.
Originally, according to Li Yi's request to agree to the establishment of the Tiance Army, there were only 4 Tiance Army, even if Li Ye turned each into more than 1,000 people, it was also within the permissible range. Subsequently, the formation of the cavalry capital has been regarded as a private expansion, and now two more capitals have been established, that is, seven capitals, if it becomes an army, the strength may reach 9,000 people, although it is not as good as the left and right Shence army and the Xichuan army, but it is also a not weak force.
"Yes, Your Highness."
Pei Rong also realized that this was an opportunity, and he couldn't intervene in the previous few heads, but this time he had a chance. Not to mention that both of them are his people, as long as one of them is, he can also make his voice heard among the generals of the Tiance Army.
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As Li Ye led the army into Shuzhou City, the news of the lifting of the siege of Shuzhou also reached Chengdu under the fast whip of the messenger. Hearing Li Ye's victory in the first battle, Li Yi, the emperor, was also very happy, it seems that his imperial brother is still good, you must know that before the good news came, he was ready to run away again. But now it's not needed!
Li Yi, who was in a good mood, was also very generous, not only rewarded Li Ye, Sun Chen and others, but also agreed to some of Li Ye's requests one by one, including appointing Yue Changxu, who had made great contributions in the counterinsurgency, as the defense envoy of Qiongzhou and the county man, and awarding Sun Chen, the assassin of Shuzhou, the title of county viscount. At the same time, it was also agreed that the Tiance Army would expand the three capitals (including the cavalry capital), which meant that the three capitals that Li Ye had privately expanded became the official establishment.
Of course, Li Yi also asked Li Ye to put down the rebellion within two months and restore the supply of Mengding mountain tea.
Li Ye's side naturally got a series of good news, but Chen Jingxuan was different. Due to the joint accusation of Yang Xingqian of killing Liang and taking meritorious deeds, the rebellion expanded, and his ineffective combat, he was ordered by Li Yi to be escorted back to Beijing for trial. At the same time, Zheng Zheng also pointed out in the recital that the Xichuan army was ineffective in quelling the rebellion, and Gao Renhou led tens of thousands of troops, but stopped at Xinjin.
Li Yi didn't care about the twists and turns, but saw that Li Ye had defeated 20,000 rebels, but Gao Renhou had not made much progress, so he was naturally very dissatisfied and reprimanded Chen Jingxuan in front of important ministers of the court.
It can be said that Chen Jingxuan this time can be said to have lost his wife and soldiers, and he didn't think about Yang Xingqian's more than 1,000 troops that were annexed by Li Ye at first. When he remembered, Mu had already completed the boat, and thought that the seven thousand army had been defeated by Yang Xingqian, even if the other party was his cronies, he could only execute the other party, but this was a later story.
Li Ye can be said to have made a lot of money this time, what he said above is visible, and for Li Ye, some things that cannot be seen or touched are the most important. His performance this time naturally entered the eyes of many courtiers, young and promising, although he was also a little unprofessional, but he was quite a wise gentleman.
As a prince, Li Ye is good at military affairs, and with the Tiance army, many ministers inevitably recall Taizong Li Shimin, who was a general of Tiance before he ascended the throne. Some people are also worried, if Li Ye becomes bigger, isn't it very likely that there will be fratricide? Since Taizong, there have been many such things.
However, they still forgot one thing, it is not the emperor Li Yi who is currently in charge of the imperial court, but the eunuch Tian Lingzi. Although its current strength is somewhat weakened, it would be a fatal mistake to ignore it.