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Chapter 459: Yizhou

The fire in Quanzhou City burned for three days and three nights, and after burning almost everything that could be burned, it finally stopped, Chen Chong's move successfully prevented Li Qing from pursuing all military operations against Liao Bin, and nearly 100,000 troops were all put into the rescue except for the necessary vigilance troops, but the only thing they could do was to operate on the periphery of the city, as for the central location of the city, it was simply irretrievable. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

All the city gates have been opened, whether it is the residents in the city or the defeated soldiers, whether you can escape can only depend on your creation, the Dingzhou army has built a refugee shelter camp outside the city, equipped with a whole medical battalion, and Long Xiaotian has also tried his best to mobilize medicinal materials for treating burns from all over the city, and transport them to the city of Quanzhou in an endless stream.

After the troops tracking Liao Bin's half of the Dingzhou battalion finally figured out Liao Bin's whereabouts, they also returned to Quanzhou.

Ten days later, Li Qing set foot on the city of Quanzhou for the first time, which had been burned to a white ground, except for the ruins and broken walls in the city, there was almost nothing left, the scorched black walls, the occasional green smoke rising from the wreckage, the gusts of wind blowing up gusts of dust, the powder sprinkled, fell on the body, and in a moment, the whole body was stained with a layer of black foam.

Li Qing's face was very ugly, and from the mouths of some of the more senior officers he caught, he learned that all this was arranged by Chen Chong, and Chen Chong was also turned into ashes in the fire, which made Li Qing have nowhere to vent his anger, and his heart was extremely depressed. Combat boots stepped on the ground that still had residual warmth, looking full of devastation, not a few years, the whole state did not want to restore the old prosperity, this fire, burned countless wealth, but also burned an unknown number of lives, the people in the city of Quanzhou turned into ashes, so that the statistical work could not be carried out, and according to some surviving civilian officials in the state, in addition to nearly 50,000 troops, there are nearly 100,000 permanent residents, although the Dingzhou army is approaching, many people fled, but most of them still keep a fluke mentality, stay in the city, Most of them became the victims of the fire.

Li Qing only made a rough estimate, and couldn't help but tremble a little in his heart, this fire burned nearly 100,000 lives, and now there are less than 50,000 people in the refugee camps outside the city.

"Bastard!" Li Qing scolded in a low voice. After several years of attacking cities and plundering land, only this time was the most tragic, even in the battle of the barbarians, the barbarian Bayar in the end, but also to rule the people for the mind, choose the most beneficial road for the people, other places basically did not take much effort, the local economy did not suffer any heavy blows, and the recovery was extremely fast. And Quanzhou is completely the opposite, Liao Bin first snatched everything that can be grabbed, and then burned a fine light, Li Qing only calculated in his heart, Quanzhou in the next few years, can't help but can't help but make any contribution to the foundation of Dingzhou, but will become a huge burden.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Qing hated Liao Bin and Chen Chong to the bone, and now he knew that Chen Chong was Chen Guang's father, and after integrating all the information, he also learned that this operation was completely operated by Chen Chong, Li Qing finally understood why Chen Chong was so crazy.

Even if Chen Chong didn't run away in the end, although he had the opportunity to escape, but chose to die with the city, Li Qing was still extremely angry with him, compared with Bayar, these barbarians, Chen Chong seemed to be crazy, battlefield battles, death is commonplace, since your own son has embarked on this road, you must have this kind of psychological preparation at any time, because of his own selfishness, and pulling so many innocent people to accompany the funeral, it can no longer be described as madness, Li Qing found a word in his mind to describe Chen Chong's behavior.

"How long will it take you to recover?" Li Qing asked in a low voice.

Long Xiaotian beside him was slightly stunned, and immediately reacted, with a burst of excitement in his heart, Li Qing asked, not to have officially expressed to himself that he would be the governor of Quanzhou.

I thought about it a little in my heart, "The whole state has suffered heavy losses, at least three years, and at most five years, so that it can be cured a little!" ”

Li Qing turned around and stared at him for a while, Long Xiaotian, who was slightly uneasy under Li Qing's gaze, was about to say something, but Li Qing turned back again, "Three years, at least after three years, let Quanzhou no longer be a burden to Dingzhou." ”

Long Xiaotian bowed slightly, "I will definitely live up to the trust of the marshal." ”

Half an hour later, Li Qing appeared in Chen Chong's original residence, which was the birthplace of the fire, and had already burned into a white ground, Li Qing counted this place, and said coldly: "Set up a monument here, engrave the heinous crimes committed by Chen Chong's old thief on it, and let the world spurn him for generations." After speaking, he turned and left.

Dressed in scorched black, his face is also black and white, Wang Qinian came to Li Qing's big tent, these days, these two generals came to the front line in person, directing disaster relief and search and rescue work, and they were also tired enough.

"How's it going?" Li Qing asked.

"It's basically done, the cleanup inside the city has been completed, it shouldn't be possible to have many survivors, and now the army has been withdrawn outside the city."

"How many survivors have been found?"

"Less than a thousand! These more than 1,000 *** were spared by having wells at home, or hiding in a vat containing water. ”

Li Qing let out a breath of turbidity, "That's it, the army will rest on the spot, and assist Lord Long in relocating the victims in the near future!" ”

The battle of Quanzhou is over, although the losses are heavy, and the gains are disproportionate to the pay, but Li Qing's strategic goal has been fully achieved, and the northern front is progressing smoothly.

Time back to the beginning of May, Yizhou City, Qiu Zhi light horse Jane, came to Yizhou.

Yizhou strategic position is extremely important, Li control Yizhou, has been several generations, although rich, but because in history, Yizhou has always been the place of four wars, so the ancestors of the Li family have paid great attention to army construction, the martial spirit is extremely strong in Yizhou, the folk customs are also very fierce, compared with other state cities, generally do not allow the people to hang swords and bows, Yizhou is not forbidden to prohibit the people to carry weapons, the only prohibition is that the people have crossbows.

In recent years, the Central Plains has been full of bee smoke, and in the center of this whirlpool, Yizhou is cautious and on guard, but because of Li Qing's strong foreign aid, any force that wants to fight Yizhou's idea has to consider Dingzhou's reaction.

But when Qiu Zhi arrived in Yizhou, the situation had changed greatly, Yizhou had issued a war mobilization order, and everywhere in the state, you could see groups of soldiers moving, in the countryside, and there were even some people dressed in ordinary people's clothes, but with their own weapons, lined up in a neat formation, and were concentrating on a certain location.

This is a few years ago after Li Qing implemented the reserve system in Dingzhou, Yizhou imitated a measure, a large number of retired soldiers were placed in the countryside, training the people in the spare time, once needed in wartime, pulled out is a good combat force, although Yizhou paid a lot of money for this, but Li Huaiyuan did not care about it, compared with the big things that the Li family is planning now, this little money is simply not worth mentioning.

The standing army of Yizhou is only more than 30,000 people, but if we really talk about the war potential of Yizhou, they can now mobilize more than 100,000 troops at any time.

These farmers, craftsmen and technicians, after they are assembled, only need to change into military uniforms, and they are immediately a well-organized army.

Qiu Zhi is getting closer and closer to Yizhou City, but his mood is getting heavier and heavier, all of Yizhou's behaviors have only one point, that is, recently, Yizhou is preparing for a very large-scale war, Qiu Zhi is also a veteran of the battlefield, seeing these situations, even if he thinks about it with his ass, he knows where Yizhou's goal is. And Yizhou's mobilization of troops to this place is undoubtedly to move the cheese of Luoyang. Then Li Huaiyuan's attitude is very obvious.

"I've seen my uncle!" Yizhou City Gate, Yizhou Marshal Li Sizhi led his family to greet him, Li Huizhi was also smiling, followed by the third generation of the Li family, Li Zheng, Li Jun, Li Feng and others, and Qiu Zhi's son-in-law Li Muzhi did not arrive, this is not that Li Muzhi does not understand the courtesy, but because of the Qiu family, both sides are a little embarrassed, although the Qiu family is still nominally Wei Yuanhou's wife, but in fact it is just a secluded Hou Mansion, Wei Yuan Hou Mansion Inner Courtyard, but Li Qing's mother Wen is in charge.

"The third brother happened to go below to inspect, but he couldn't come to greet his uncle, please forgive me!" Li Sizhi smiled naturally and kindly, as if this was really a coincidence.

Qiu Zhi nodded slightly, but he felt a little bitter in his heart, not only for his daughter, but also for the purpose of his trip, Li Sizhi's attitude said it all.

Above the officialdom, there are a lot of meanings between the titles, it stands to reason that he is the Qincha from the capital Luoyang, representing the imperial court, Li Sizhi, as the marshal of Yizhou, should lead the Yizhou civil and military officials to welcome it is right, but now, Li Sizhi brings the Li family, and the title is also uncle, not Shangcha or Qincha, which has shown that the Li family does not recognize or does not pay attention to the current Luoyang court at all.

Although there were many thoughts in his heart, Qiu Zhi turned over with a smile on his face, turned over and dismounted, and walked in front of Li Sizhi, the Apocalypse sent himself, maybe he had expected this state a long time ago, and he was afraid that he would not even be able to enter Yizhou City, and he, whether in public or private, Yizhou could not turn himself away, it seems that the Emperor of the Apocalypse still reported some hopes to the Li family, if the Li family is obedient, then between the palms, Dachu can be pacified, if the Li family is opposed, it will take several years or even longer, Great Chu will still be caught between turmoil and war.

"I wish ......." what he was hoping for in his heart, Qiu Zhi couldn't say clearly. The attitude of Li Sizhi and the others is very clear, and now, his only hope is the old brother in Yizhou City.