After the two of them went, Li Mao summoned Qian Duoduo to come in, and after Qian Duoduo went around the Operations Section and Intelligence Section of the Staff Office, he is now a life catcher;;;;;;;;;;;;; The capture will be set up separately, and each capture will lead a team of ** men and horses, engaged in strategic reconnaissance and special operations, and is the elite of the elite, and people who are not shrewd and strong, and have rich battle formations cannot act.

When Li Mao was in the northern expedition to the Khitan, he had broken up the armies and fought with the Khitan, Qian Duoduo led a team of men and horses to gallop across the grassland, and repeatedly performed miraculous feats.

After the end of the war, the armies returned to the camp one after another, but there was no trace of him, and it was not until more than a month after the end of the war that he returned to Youzhou and brought back a heavy gift to Li Mao: he captured the Khitan warrior Yelu Yelai.

With this credit, Li Mao has no reason to oppose him as a life catcher.

After becoming a general, Qian Duoduo led his headquarters to roam in the north of Yanshan Mountain, fighting against the remnants of the Khitan forces, and made great achievements.

This time to go to Ziqing, Qian Duoduo took the initiative to ask Ying to be the vanguard, Li Mao has not agreed, this time he summoned him, closed the door and talked secretly: "The southern expedition to Ziqing, there is no doubt that it will win, one is that the court has many generals and is popular, and the second is that Ziqing has been seriously consumed in these years, and it has nearly fallen apart. Although there are meritorious deeds to be built, there are no miracles that make you famous. There is another merit in front of you today, depending on whether you are willing to take it. ”

Qian Duoduo said: "Please give instructions to the captain." ”

Li Mao said: "I'm not talking to you as a lieutenant now, I'm talking to you as your father-in-law, although this feat is great, it is not glamorous, you think about it carefully, if you want to, you are willing, if you are not willing, don't be reluctant." ”

Qian Duoduo said: "Please ask my father to command." ”

Li Mao nodded with satisfaction, this kid is a good piece of steel in the end, and he has become a finished after exercising and beating.

Lan'er went back and sent Hanxiang to send soup to Shikong, Hanxiang was about to leave, she changed her mind again, snatched the soup can, and sent it herself, Shikong saw that she came in person, and had a plan in her heart, took the soup bowl, and said with a smile: "Duoduo just left, there is no one inside." Lan'er thanked her, twisted her thin waist and flashed in. Li Mao had just finished talking to Qian Duoduo, a little tired, lying on a special sofa chair reading an urgent official document, his eyelids were heavy, and he always wanted to take a nap;;;;;;;;;;;;; Suddenly smelled a faint fragrance, and suddenly his spirit was lifted, and when he looked up again, a shadow had already sat in his arms.

With the warm fragrance of nephrite in his arms, Li Mao's sleepiness suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Lan'er took the document from his hand, put it on the desk, took the tea bowl and poured it into him, and asked, "Are you sober?" Li Mao smiled: "As soon as I smell you, I will wake up." Lan'er didn't appreciate his compliment: "The people of the whole mansion have been summoned once, when will it be my turn." ”

Li Mao hugged Lan'er's thin waist and said with a smile: "I'm tired and can't sleep for days, what is the reason why you come to provoke me again." Li Mao's hand was not honest, and he had already walked back and forth on Lan'er's body while speaking. Lan'er's eyes were confused, and she said: "You can't sleep to prove that you're not tired, if you're really tired, you can sleep peacefully." I'll help you."

As she spoke, she slid down and was about to kneel down when she picked up her clothes, Li Mao hurriedly grabbed her and said with a smile: "Not now, you go back first." Lan'er lifted her hair in a bun and smiled reluctantly: "Then I'll leave first, I'm not in a hurry, but I have a lot to say to you in my heart." Li Mao nodded, watching her leave.

Zeng Zhen had already arrived outside the door, but he didn't go in because of the Shikong warning, and when he saw Lan'er leaving, he appeared, coughed under the corridor, Li Mao sat up straight, exhaled, and called her in.

"It's all explained"

"Confessed."

"Alright, let's go now. Remember, no one is allowed to ask about this matter except Advisor Tian. ”

Zeng Zhen took the order and left, Li Mao stood up, ordered the drumming to gather the generals, and set the plan for the southern expedition on the same day: send 30,000 troops, serve as the commander-in-chief, take Chang Mucang as the deputy marshal, Hu Nanxiang as the battalion commander Shi, Shi Xiong, Shi Xianzhong as the main and deputy vanguards, Yan Qin and Hao Jun as the main and deputy generals of the former army, Shi Kong as the general of the Chinese army, and Xue Lao General and Mu Dahai as the main generals of the rear army, send 30,000 troops, and go south with the Yingping army to attack Ziqing.

One day the army entered the territory of Chengde, Wang Yu after Chengde stayed, Wang Chengsu and Wang Chengsu, who were stationed in Hengzhou, and Wang Tingcuo, who was stationed in Hengzhou, sent people to condole, this time the imperial court sent eleven town soldiers to fight Ziqing together with the left and right gods, and Chengde was also dispatched, but Wang Chengsu and Wang Yu did not intend to use the edict to exert force, but only sent a veteran general to three thousand old and weak to go on a perfunctory errand, and the main elite were stationed in Hengzhou City to confront Wang Tingcuo.

There were dark clouds over Hengzhou City, and the bloody rain was coming, and Li Mao couldn't say anything, so he thanked the three for their reward and continued to supervise the army to the south.

Passing through Beizhou, Wei Zhou stayed behind Tian Congcong and Mrs. Liang Guo's consolation envoy to greet under the city, Weizhou Jiedu made Tian Huaizhi very concerned about the conquest of Ziqing, he ignored the opposition of Mrs. Liang Guo, led the capital to know the soldiers and horses Tian Rong, staff officer Wu Cifei, Du Ya Jiang Shize and other generals 200, led the Tianxiong army elite 70,000 people out of the town to fight, became the main force of the crusade against Ziqing.

Tian Huaizhi wanted to use this battle out of the town to justify his name, a "loyal" name in the imperial court, to avoid becoming the next target after Ziqing, this mood Li Mao can understand, at this moment it is difficult to say right or wrong, he is not worried about Jiang Shize, take it with him, Li Mao not only understands but also appreciates.

But what Li Mao couldn't understand was that since he let Tian Congcong stay in the future, why did he leave Shi Xiancheng Tian Congcong and Shi Xiancheng were incompatible, and the two got along in the same city, and it was inevitable that there would be chaos.

What made Li Mao even more incomprehensible was that Mrs. Liang Guo failed to stop Tian Huaiji from leading the main force to the expedition, whether her old man changed her mind and denied her original judgment of the general trend of the world, or whether Tian Huaiji had already mastered Wei Bo's real power, so that the old lady was powerless to interfere.

But Li Mao was still determined to remind the deceased.

"If there is chaos in Weizhou, the culprit must be Jiang Shize, and the biggest accomplice must be Shi Xiancheng. The reason that the rabbit is dead and the dog is cooking, and the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, not only in the past, but also in the present and future. ”

Li Mao passed this sentence to Mrs. Liang Guo through a special channel, and as for whether he could listen to it or not, it was beyond his control.

When Li Mao's soldiers and horses were still collecting boats in Bozhou and preparing to cross the river, Li Yu, who had moved to Wuning Army because of his meritorious service in pacifying Huaixi, had already joined forces with his soldiers and horses to make Li You kill into Yanzhou, and broke the Pinglu army in Yutai County, beheading more than 3,000 people.

Li Shidao followed Li Gongdu's advice and escorted Han Qiyue, the general of the defeated army, to Yunzhou to be beheaded.

Han Qiyue is Li Shidao's cousin, a senior general in the Pinglu Army, and his conviction and beheading caused a huge shock.

Li Shidao's orders for governing the army are unknown, the army is full of mountains, the stronghold is male, and he does not listen to Yunzhou's orders, all rely on Han Qiyue and others to try their best to maintain and bridge, Han Qiyue was killed, and no one can control the three armies, and Li Shidao's military orders become a piece of waste paper after leaving the military palace.

Wei Bojie made Tian Huaizhi see the opportunity, crossed the river from Yangliu, and went down to the village ninety miles away from Yunzhou, approaching the heart of Yunzhou. The Pinglu armies turned a blind eye and had no one to rescue them.

Yicheng Jiedu made Li Quanzhong enter from Puyang, broke Doumen City and Du Zhuangzha in a row, killed more than 10,000 people, and captured Puzhou City. Wanting to go east again, he was blocked by the garrison of Lishan Town, Li Quanzhong listened to the advice of the strategists, did not move, and urged Li Mao to cross the river to copy Lishan Town from behind.

Li Mao had the intention of delaying for three or five months, but when he saw that the Pinglu military was about to collapse as soon as the battle began, it was expected that it would not last, so he crossed the Yellow River.

The frontal enemy was the 1,200 elite cavalry stationed in Lishan Town, and the main general Ashina Beiben sat on a cold bench in Yunzhou, and was entrusted by Li Shidao to be reused in times of crisis, hoping to stabilize the situation in Puzhou with his bravery.

Li Mao did not want to fight Ashinabe, so he ordered Shixiong and Shi Xianzhong to camp on the spot, confront him, and send an envoy to meet Ashinabe. Ashina was reused again, and his wife and family were trapped as hostages in Yunzhou City, and they didn't dare to have two hearts for a while.

Li Maonai ordered the copper tiger head to rescue people, Zhao Jinglai was captured in Chang'an, was relieved of all duties by Li Shidao, and ordered to "recuperate" at home, at this moment the copper tiger head is Yang Qingguo and Mao Xiong, both of whom are Li Shidao's henchmen, but the building will fall, and the so-called henchmen are also unreliable.

Yang Qingguo and Mao Xiong respectively contacted Li Mao privately, asking to return to the imperial court and ask Li Mao to give him a way to atone for his sins.

Li Mao asked the two to send Ashinabei's family out of the city to prove their loyalty, and ordered Yang Qingguo and Mao Xiong respectively, and the two fought for Ashinabei's relatives, only to find that they were all fellow people, and after discussing with each other, they all felt that the general trend of Yunzhou had gone, and if they couldn't climb the new backer, they were afraid that they would die without a place to bury.

Lin Ying, the military envoy of the Longxiang battalion, was in Huazhou at the moment and sent an envoy to contact, but Lin Ying himself was also born in the head of the copper tiger, and many handles were held in the hands of the head of the copper tiger. Among the other feudal towns, there are not many people who can treat them as people, and even fewer are willing to reuse them, and only Li Mao of Youzhou can take refuge in it.

The two wanted to send Su Qing's family out of Yunzhou to redeem themselves, but they found that Su Qing had left Yunzhou to go to Dengzhou long before the war began.

Seeing that his family was safe and sound, Ashina Pei immediately led his troops to return to the imperial court, surrendered to Li Mao, and persuaded Li Mao to take advantage of the situation to take Gushan Town and control Chengwu County. Chengwu County is the place where Li Mao started and Su Qing's hometown, and the family interests are intertwined, so it is naturally not suitable to fall into the hands of outsiders.

Li Mao accepted his suggestion and ordered Shi Xianzhong to immediately capture Chengwu County and Gushan Town.

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