Ding Yanping hurriedly said: "Military advisor, the last general is willing to make meritorious service and ask for this general order." Li Jing laughed and said: "I can't ask for General Ding's willingness to go out." I expect a southeast wind to blow up tonight; General Ding can take advantage of the situation to raise fire, and there will be a big victory. Ding Yanping bowed down to receive the order, and then led the army down to prepare.

Ding Yanping led an army of 5,000 to the front of Sima De's camp quietly, and as Li Jing said; They just built a wooden village in a hurry, and the defense was not too tight.

In the middle of the night, the southeast wind suddenly rose, and Ding Yanping led the team to ignite the mountains and forests; The wind helped the fire, and the fire borrowed the power of the wind, and it swept towards Sima De's camp at once.

"It's out of the water! Walk the water! Hurry up and put out the fire" Sima De's army exclaimed in surprise, and hurriedly looked for something to put out the fire; But how can manpower control the wildfires? Not only did they fail to extinguish the wildfires, but they themselves were burned to death.

The sergeants saw that they could no longer care about putting out the fire, nor could they care about what enemy was not an enemy; One by one, they seized the camp and fled. Ding Yanping had already laid an ambush, and when he saw that the enemy rushed out like a headless fly, he didn't say a word and led people to rush up.

Sima De also couldn't control the defeat, and led people to retreat to the back of Piling. Li Jing led the army to arrive. Sima De fled in a hurry, and less than 10,000 of his tens of thousands of troops returned, and all the grain and grass were captured by the enemy.

Li Jing surrounded Piling and sent people to challenge, but Sima De was already frightened and could not hold out in the city. Li Jing asked Yang Lin to lead people to besiege Biling to deter Sima De, while he and Ding Yanping took 5,000 men and horses to take Jiangdu.

Li Baiyao and Yin Qian heard that Sima De's entire army had been annihilated, and they were so frightened that their faces were pale; I also heard that the enemy had arrived outside Jiangdu, and I was even more anxious like an ant on a hot pot, at a loss.

Li Jing ordered Ding Yanping to spread multiple flags on Dusong Ridge outside Jiangdu and set up joint camps; At night, the torch is tied to the trunk of the tree, and it is scattered among the mountains. From a distance, it looks like a joint camp for dozens of miles, with hundreds of thousands of troops hiding in it.

Li Baiyao and Yin Qian, two literati, were frightened; They were originally forcibly requisitioned by Li Zitong; I don't have a good impression of him; So the two of them discussed and decided to go out of the city and surrender.

The next day, Li Baiyao sent someone to meet Li Jing with a jade seal document and asked for surrender; Li Jing's soldiers occupied Jiangdu bloodlessly. He used Li Zitong's jade seal to spread the metaphor of Jingkou, Jinling and other places; As soon as these places saw that the river capital was finished, they all surrendered one after another.

Sima De of Biling received Li Jing's document and sighed and said to the generals: "The country is dead, and the king is outside; What do you think you should do? ”

The generals looked at each other, and no one dared to say much; Sima De said: "Since the army of the Great Demon Kingdom has arrived here, it means that King Fengming has been completely finished; I intend to surrender to the Great Demon Kingdom; What do you think? ”

The generals even said that they asked the general to call the shots and were willing to obey the general's orders. Sima De nodded, and asked people to come forward to contact Yang Lin to surrender the city. So far, Li Zitong's forces in Jiangnan have all been uprooted, and Li Zitong, the king of Fengming, has been defeated.

Since Li Mi's defeat, Li Zitong took his henchman Le Botong and military advisers Mao Wenshen and Li Mi to part ways, and quietly went south to return to Jiangnan to plot a comeback.

As a result, as soon as they arrived at the Yangtze River, they heard the people here talk that the river capital had changed hands and returned to the Great Demon Kingdom. Li Jing, the military advisor of the Great Demon Kingdom, is there to make an example of the people, distribute the fields, and call on everyone to return to their hometown; These people talked a lot, and they all yearned for it.

Li Zi was so angry that he almost vomited blood, so he thought about taking revenge and retaking Jiangnan with all his might. Military advisor Mao Wenshen hurriedly dissuaded: "The king can't be driven, we only have a few hundred people now, and we are not the opponents of the Great Demon Kingdom at all." And listening to these people's discussions, the hearts of the people have changed, and no one will respond to us; If you go, you will bring about your own destruction! ”

Li Zidao: "Then what should I do with the military advisor?" Mao Wenshen said: "Shen Faxing of Yuhang's rampant conquest is unpopular with the people, and we can go to Taihu Lake to recruit troops to try to make a comeback." There is also a suspicion between Shen Faxing and Du Fuwei, we sent some people to pretend that Shen Faxing's men and horses raided Du Fuwei, and they must let them attack each other, so that we can reap the benefits of the fisherman. ”

Li Zitong listened to his advice, and when he came to Taihu Lake, he quickly pulled up a team of 20,000 people; He then had people disguise themselves as Shen Lun's team and attack Du Fuwei. Du Fuwei was very angry and immediately countered and attacked Shen Lun.

Shen Lun was not Du Fuwei's opponent, he was defeated by killing and fled; Du Fuwei had just lost the battle, and he was more than capable of strength, so he silently retreated back and licked his wounds.

Li Zitong saw that the time was ripe and suddenly marched into Huiji, Shen Faxing's subordinate Jiang Yuanchao was killed, and Huiji was lost. Then Li Zitong attacked Wu County while the iron was hot, Shen Faxing was not an opponent, and fled with hundreds of people.

Li Zitong accepted all of Shen Faxing's territory, occupied a large area of land from Huiji in the east, Wuling in the south, Xuancheng in the west, and Taihu Lake in the north, and prospered again.

Li Jing won Jiangdu and arranged for Yang Lin to lead the army to garrison, while he and Ding Yanping led the army recruited from Jiangnan; With Sima De as the vanguard, Li Baiyao killed Zhu Can in Nanyang for the record.

Zhu Can said that he was against the king all the way, but he was better said to be a bandit; Liu Wuzhou and others just had no surplus food in the army, so they robbed it to make military funds; This guy is scurrying like a locust. Wherever they were killed, they plundered, and they never left until they looted all the local supplies, and burned everything that could not be taken away.

So there was famine everywhere in the places he occupied, and the bones of the people who died of hunger were piled up; There was really no food, so Zhu Can ordered his subordinates to cook women and children to eat. He also often said to his subordinates: "There is nothing better than human flesh; As long as there are people in this world; We don't have to worry about starvation. ”

Dengzhou was already ruined by him, and in order to participate in the battle of subduing demons, Zhu Can almost transferred all the young people in Dengzhou; As a result, there are no people in the land of Dengzhou.

The remaining general Zhu Pu had less than 1,000 men under his command, and when he saw the enemy, he didn't dare to resist at all and ran back to Nanyang. Therefore, as soon as Li Jing's army entered Dengzhou, it won a great victory with almost no obstacles; Almost no battle was fought to take the entire territory of Dengzhou.

Li Jing did not stay after seizing Dengzhou, and went straight to Nanyang, Zhu Can's old nest. Because Nanyang is Zhu Can's lair, he has not been robbed by him; However, Zhu Can's taxes were very heavy, the people were not able to make a living, and beggars were everywhere in the city.

As soon as Li Jing arrived in Nanyang, he surrounded the place, and then boiled meat in a large iron pot at the gate of the city, and told the people in the city to resist the tyranny by shooting leaflets and shouting words into the city, and promised to surrender out of the city, not only to have meat immediately, but also to give land.

Immediately the city was in turmoil; Especially the people who couldn't survive, or who were ruined by Zhu Can's family, they all used their brains to prepare to give Zhu Can a fatal blow.

Zhu Hao, who stayed behind in Nanyang, got a report and couldn't sleep at night; Hurriedly ordered his general Song Kang to go to the city to arrest the premeditated troublemakers.

All of a sudden, the air in Nanyang City suddenly became tense; People don't dare to speak when they meet on the street; Later, it was even more empty, and everyone hid at home and did not dare to come out.

Even so, Song Kang still led people to raid the homes of several wealthy families and made a lot of money; This time, the generals under Zhu Can followed suit; Nanyang City is a rumor of wind and trees.

The wealthy families in Nanyang couldn't bear it anymore, and they quietly discussed countermeasures in the home of the famous family Lu Qian; There was a wealthy man named Ma Yuangui, and he said to Lu Qian: "I heard that Zhu Can lost a battle in Shandong and was about to go back. Now that he is not in Nanyang, his power is weak; If we wait for him to come back, we won't be able to succeed again. If we join forces, we will definitely be able to defeat him by using the hatred of the Nanyang people. ”

The other rich people also followed: "Yes! Right! Right! You see how face-saving the businessmen of Shandong come out. I heard that in Shandong, even the demon king Cheng Zhijie can't deprive them of their property casually. Look at our daily precariousness, is this still a human life? ”

Lu Qian nodded and said, "I know what you said, I used to have an old relationship with the Duhe County Order of Yucheng County. This Du He is nothing more than a first-order county order; It is said that after going to Shandong, he has taken control of the Ministry of Commerce and has become a big member.

Shandong will pay attention to our Shandong; This is a rare opportunity; I hope you understand. If anyone attends, please sign it; If you don't want to participate, please stay with me first; I'll let you go when it's over. “

Everyone looked at each other and smiled bitterly, after the deed is done, hehe, if we don't sign it, we will all die.

"We agree! We agree! Everyone expressed their attitudes, and then signed the alliance list. Soon, a news spread rapidly in Nanyang, saying that Zhu Can had lost the battle and came back to move back to Dengzhou, where he had made his fortune.

According to Zhu Can's past style; Every time they leave a place, they are bound to loot it, and even women and children are taken captive for food.

At this time, Nanyang was in turmoil, and some people secretly conspired to overthrow Zhu Can's tyranny and welcome the army of the Great Demon Kingdom into the city.

Zhu Hao also got the news, and hurriedly summoned the civil and military forces in the city to prepare to refute the rumors. But on this night, Lu Qian led Ma Yuangui and others to gather thousands of private soldiers; Quietly came to the city gate.

"What for? It's curfew, so get out of here! ”

Ma Yuangui gritted his teeth and said: "Life and death, wealth and wealth will be raised again!" Kill the thief with me! "Kill!" His retainers also roared, and each sword slashed and the soldiers rushed forward.

The soldiers defending the city were caught off guard by their killing, and a large number of them were knocked down at once. Ma Yuangui led people to rush up and open the city gate; Lu Qian rushed to the castle tower and lowered the drawbridge, and then set fires everywhere.

Li Jing, who was outside the city, saw the fire at the head of the city, laughed and led the army straight to Nanyang City. Those in the city who couldn't survive, or whose families were ruined, took the opportunity to start an incident and fought with the defenders of Nanyang.