After Li Jing received the edict, he didn't dare to slack off for a moment. He just took the Kunlun slaves who had followed him for seven or eight years, and hurried all the way to the Isthmus of the Tang Dynasty.

The boundary of Xiazhou is the natural danger of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in the east, and the Bashu is controlled in the west, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and is an excellent strategic location.

At this time, Xu Shao, the assassin of Xiazhou, was Li Yuan's classmate in Taixue Hall when he was a teenager. The two of them were like-minded and became close friends at an early age, and it has been nearly 40 years since then.

Xu Shao was also an official in the previous dynasty, and when he saw that Yang Guang had no way, he resigned and went into hiding. After Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, he was called to guard Xiazhou and worship the history of Xiazhou.

The Xiao Milling Army in the east attacked Xiazhou several times, but was defeated by Xu Shao's army, firmly guarding the Yangtze River gateway of the Tang Dynasty.

When he learned that Li Jing was coming, Xu Shao hurriedly went to the reception. But Li Jing obviously didn't mean to rest, he asked Xu Shao to take him to the barracks immediately.

In Li Jing's view, rescuing soldiers is like fighting a fire, and it cannot be delayed for a moment.

According to the Tang military system, Xu Shao wanted to check the talisman in Li Jing's hand. Li Jing took out the goldfish talisman, and Xu Shao buckled the other half of the goldfish talisman issued to him by the Ministry of War with it, tightly fitting, without a trace of gap.

Xu Shao immediately took Li Jing to the barracks in Xiazhou and let him choose soldiers.

Li Jing was not busy with the selection of troops, he first whispered a few words in Kunlunnu's ear, asking him to sneak into Kaizhou to detect the latest movements of the rebels.

Immediately afterwards, Li Jing issued an inspiring proclamation in the army - "The rebellion of the chief of Kaizhou has affected the people. Those who are willing to go with Ben Shuai to quell the rebellion and pass Ben Shuai's three-day test will each be rewarded with ten acres of land and promoted to the first class......"

The entire military camp suddenly exploded, and everyone was very curious about what Li Jing's test was.

Early the next morning, Li Jing officially released the first test content. He used the method of Yasheng Wu Qi to choose Wei Wushu - the soldier wore three layers of heavy armor, fired a twenty-stone hard bow, and walked a hundred miles in half a day. This capacity has extremely high requirements for the soldier's physique.

In that year, Wu Qi selected 50,000 elite infantry in this method to defeat ten times the enemy in the Battle of Yin and Jin, which made Wei Wushu famous all over the world. The art of selecting soldiers of Wei Wushu also began to be widely adopted by the soldiers of successive dynasties.

In view of the extremely high requirements for recruitment, more than half of the soldiers in Xiazhou failed this test.

For those who passed, Li Jing conducted a riding and archery test on them - the fierce horse was not saddled, and the soldier rode it, and the bow was 100 paces away on the horse, and the arrow was not missing. This is a cavalry test of skill, speed and strength, and those who pass it can become ten.

In two tests in a row, Li Jing selected more than 800 cavalrymen, and he organized these people together and trained them - as fast as the wind, as Xu as a forest, as invading as fire, as immobile as a mountain, as difficult as a yin, and as moving as thunder. ……

After a few days, Li Jing quickly trained into 800 elite cavalry, which is definitely the best of the best soldiers.

Fang Cheng trained the troops, and it happened that Kunlun Nu also rushed back, and he brought the latest news of the traitor.

The traitor is now far away from the lair and out to raid. Li Jing thought that the time had come, and he led 800 elite cavalry to walk the Shuyin path at night, and marched in a hurry for three days, without bloodshed, and eliminated the enemy's lair - Kaizhou!

The leader of the rebels, Ran Zhao, was shocked when he got his revenge, and he urgently ordered 5,000 cavalry to return to help as quickly as possible. Li Jing had already set up an ambush on the main road in the mountains.

Li Jing carried several Ming Di with him, and his archery skills were extremely accurate.

Before the battle, he ordered his soldiers to shoot their first arrows at the target of his chirping arrow.

Because the leader of the rebels wore the five-colored feathers of the crested ibis, it was very easy to recognize, and when he arrived at the ambush circle of the Tang army, Li Jing sealed his throat with an arrow with a Ming Di.

In less than a blink of an eye, hundreds of arrows flew together in the direction where Ming Di was. The leader of the rebels was instantly shot into a hedgehog and killed instantly!

The 5,000 rebel cavalry panicked because the dragons were leaderless, and under the fierce impact of the Tang army, they were quickly defeated and fled for their lives.

Expecting the enemy to be the first and winning by surprise, it took Li Jing less than a month to quickly put down the rebellion.

After that, he returned the 800 cavalry to the Xiazhou barracks, and he only took the edict and military talisman given to him by Kunlun Nu and Li Yuan, and returned to Chang'an to resume his life.

Li Yuan was repaid, and he was overjoyed. He ordered Taichang Temple to hold a banquet in the Wude Hall, and held a grand welcome ceremony in the palace, and ordered the officials above the three grades in the capital to celebrate.

During the banquet, Li Yuan, who was drunk and drunk, couldn't help but praise: "Li Jing used unpredictable soldiers, with 800 enemies and 5,000, he quelled the rebellion in less than a month. Even the famous generals of the ancients, such as Han Xin, Bai Qi, Wei Qing, and Huo Quai, are nothing more than that! ”

In the mind of Emperor Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty, a generation of generals of the Tang Dynasty has risen......