Xuanwu Town, Henan Province, Bianzhou City.

When Bianzhou Dezong was the Yongping Army Tooth City, now it is the Xuanwu Army Tooth City, the Xuanwu Army has the jurisdiction of Bian, Song, Hao, Ying, the four states of the land, located in the center of the world, the Central Plains Town, control the Bianqu Canal, extremely important. Bianzhou City, as the Shuaifu Yacheng of Xuanwu Town, has expanded the city several times.

In the second year of the establishment of Tang Dezong, Li Mian, the envoy of the Yongping Army and the assassin of Bianzhou, carried out a large-scale "reconstruction" of Bianzhou City; This rebuilding is called Zhuluo Castle, and the main purpose is to expand the south wall of Bianzhou Castle to the south and enclose the Bianhe River into the city. After the expansion, the circumference of the city is 20 miles and 155 steps, and there are seven city gates. In the east of it, there are Cao and Song two gates in the north, Wei's gate in the south, Zheng and Liang two gates in the south in the west, and sour jujube and Fengqiu two gates in the north and west.

After 18 years, in the 14th year of Zhenyuan, after Dong Jin took over as the envoy of Xuanwu Festival, in order to prevent thieves from entering and exiting the city wall along both sides of the Bianhe River, two more water gates were added.

Han Yu, a famous minister in the late Tang Dynasty, once said: "Today's lower town, Chen Liuwei is the largest, with 100,000 soldiers and four prefectures. Since Tianbao, when the feudal wall is in charge, they are all the ministers of the Son of Heaven. After the Anshi Rebellion, Chang'an and Luoyang were destroyed a lot, but the city of Bianzhou began to prosper and prosper, becoming a military and economic center as a royal domain.

At this time, Bianzhou City has a population of more than 200,000, which is much more prosperous than Songcheng in Songzhou, comparable to Luoyang.

In the north-west of Bianzhou City, there is also an inner city built in the city, with a circumference of four miles, which is the tooth city of Xuanwu Jiedu.

Yacheng Marshal's Mansion Festival, Xuanwu Festival made Mu Renyu listen intently to the military intelligence report of his scout battalion captain.

I heard that Li Jing of the Zhenguo Army defeated the grass thief king Xianzhi in Yucheng, Songzhou, defeated 100,000 grass thieves in one battle, and beheaded more than 27,000. More than 40,000 prisoners. And after the news of the great victory of more than 50,000 displaced people. Mu Renyu was not only not surprised, but his brows were urgent and worried.

In the past few days, news of the victory of the Zhenguo army has been circulating in Bianzhou, but Mu Renyu does not believe it is true. Although Li Jing has won many big battles in the past two years, defeating Wang Xianzhi, Li Keyong and others in a row, he does not believe that Li Jing can achieve such a great victory as soon as he arrives in Songzhou. Although the grass thieves are just a group of rabble, because of this, it is actually more difficult to defeat the grass thieves. They are like locusts. It's easy to beat, but it's hard to hit hard.

But now that this great victory has been officially confirmed, Li Jing has indeed achieved such a great victory. Wang Xianzhi fled into Caozhou with less than 3,000 men and reunited with Huangchao. Wang Xianzhi's 100,000 grass army had been wiped out, which shocked him greatly.

Previously, the imperial court ordered the twelve towns to encircle and suppress the grass thieves, but Mu Renyu did not rush to send troops after returning to the domain from Chang'an. The grass thieves are overwhelming, and he is not willing to step forward and fight with the grass thieves. Moreover, the grass thieves were divided into two routes, Wang Xianzhi 100,000 grass thieves entered Songzhou from Yanzhou, and Huangchao also had tens of thousands of grass thieves from Puzhou to Caozhou. Pointing directly to Bianzhou. Save Songzhou, Bianzhou may be lost. Therefore, he finally hit Li Jing with his idea, hoping that Li Jing and Wang Xianzhi would fight a few battles first, and when they were both defeated, he would send troops.

He studied the battle of Daibei, Li Jing led the Zhenguo army to do this, several times, the other generals were desperate in front, but it was the Zhenguo army that picked peaches and set up a big camp after the most. On the other hand, he was also waiting, waiting for Zhaoyi, Heyang, Yicheng, Dongdugi, and Zhongwu Zhuzhen to send troops after the soldiers and horses arrived. In addition, he is still waiting for the grain and grass of the imperial court.

waited and waited, no one expected that Wang Xianzhi would be so vulnerable.

Mu Renyu picked up an official letter on the table, which he had received a few days ago. Before Li Jing sent troops to Yucheng, he asked him to send troops to Caozhou to attack Huangchao to cooperate with Li Jing's offensive. When he received this official letter, he just sneered and threw it aside. At that time, he only felt that Li Jing was still too young, and when he first ascended to a high position, he actually commanded him, so he didn't take it seriously at all. But now, he regrets it a little. If the troops were sent at that time, even if it was just for a show, it would be regarded as a favor to Li Jing.

"Dashuai, there is one more thing."

"Say!" Mu Renyu stared at the official document written by Li Jing himself, with a solemn expression. Li Jing's handwriting is very good, not a common willow font, but a font that has never been seen before. The pen is fluttering and fast, the handwriting is thin, to thin without losing its flesh, and the turning point can be clearly seen in the Tibetan Feng, Lu Feng and other Teton traces, which is a font with a rather unique style. Mu Renyu originally Zhenheyang, was the Xuanwu Army that took over after Wang Duo entered the court for the second time after the original Xuanwu Festival, although he came to Xuanwu for a short time, he had a good grasp of Xuanwu. Although he is a festival commander, like most of the current festival envoys, he is a civil servant. And he is also a Wenchen from a family of people, a scholar from a big family, a scholar and a scholar, an official in Beijing for many years, and he also writes a good hand, and he likes Li Jing's words very much, and even suspects several times that this is not Li Jing's words.

"Li Qilang went to Songzhou a few days ago and met Li Jing."

Mu Renyu's expression moved, this Li Qilang is the richest man in the Song Dynasty, with a family fortune of tens of millions. After he arrived at Xuanwu, he quickly had friction with Li Qilang, and Mu Renyu was furious, ready to clean up this bold businessman. Unexpectedly, he actually ran to find Li Jing. What about looking for Li Jing, although Li Jing is the prince of the country, he is the envoy of the Zhenguo Army, but he can't control the Xuanwu Army.

"Li Qilang invited himself to be his righteous son in front of Li Jing, but Li Jing didn't accept it."

"Maybe Li Jing knows about Li Qilang offending Ben Shuai." Mu Renyu smiled slightly.

"Li Jing confiscated Li Qilang as his righteous son, but accepted him as the seventh disciple, and also accepted Li Qilang's two domestic servants as the eleventh disciple."

Mu Renyu's smile stiffened on his face suddenly, what does Li Jing mean by this? Li Qilang and his Mu Renyu's festival was known throughout Xuanwu. Li Qilang invited a lot of people to come forward to make peace, but he didn't give face. Li Jing suddenly accepted Li Qilang as a disciple, which was completely faceless. And he actually accepted Li Qilang's two domestic servants as disciples, this thing. Mu Renyu pinched his chin and began to ponder, could it be that Li Jing made this person angry because he didn't send troops to Caozhou according to his words?

Previously, when Li Jing first arrived in Songzhou, he borrowed grain from him, but he refused. Could it be that because he didn't borrow his food, and later didn't send troops to deal with him, he made Li Jing angry, so he deliberately accepted Li Qilang as a disciple?

No matter what it was, Mu Renyu understood that Li Qilang could no longer move. Otherwise, Li Jing would definitely think that it was hostility to him. Li Jing is in the limelight now, he strongly intervenes in his dispute with Li Qilang, if he reacts strongly, Li Jing, an arrogant guy, will be regarded as his response. At present, Li Jing is riding a big victory, and he has no confidence to fight such a lawsuit with Li Jing.

"Prepare a batch of grain, grass, cattle and sheep wine, and immediately send it to Songzhou to comfort the Zhenguo army." Mu Renyu's mind spun around, and he immediately decided to ease the relationship with Li Jing temporarily, if Li Jing thought that he was going to wrestle with him, it would not be good for him. After carefully explaining a few words to the marching Sima, Mu Renyu wrote a letter to Li Jing in his own handwriting, in which he briefly mentioned a few words about the dispute with Li Qilang, and said that from now on they will be a family, and the past will not be mentioned again. He also thanked Li Jing for helping Songzhou out of the siege, and said that he had mobilized troops and horses to prepare to attack Caozhou in the near future.

After writing this letter, Mu Renyu sent letters to the towns of Heyang, Zhaoyi, Yicheng, Dongdugi, and Zhongwu, asking them to attack Caozhou together.

The eastern capital is Luoyang.

Zhudao Xingying recruited the grass thief capital supervisor Ximen Sigong and the capital road camp recruited the grass thief to supply the army Yang Fugong were drinking tea together, and the two capsized in the gutter, and they had previously attacked Tian Lingzi together with Li Jing's assassination. As a result, Tian Lingzi was a little anxious on the surface, but who knew that Tian Lingzi was extremely cunning, and soon launched a counterattack secretly, not only by purging the Shence Army to eliminate and transfer many of their henchmen out of Gyeonggi, but also drove the two of them out of the capital after the last attack. Although Zhilu Dao is only temporarily out of Beijing, the two of them also have a lot of feelings in their hearts.

I think that at the beginning, Tian Lingzi was just a little eunuch, and it was through the struggle between the Ximen clan and the Yang clan in the palace that they joined forces to step on Han Wenyue and a few of them and seize power. Now they have been driven out of Beijing, and the two have been rubbing and refusing to leave, and they only left Beijing at the urging of the emperor. After leaving Beijing, I also walked slowly all the way, and only a few days ago I got out of Tongguan.

Originally, the two wanted to grind a little more, but the day before yesterday they received an urgent report that Li Jing led the Zhenguo army to defeat the grass thief king Xianzhi 100,000 grass thieves in Songzhou, beheading nearly 30,000 and capturing nearly 100,000. After receiving this news, the two couldn't believe it, and when it was confirmed that the news was true, Wang Xianzhi only had more than 3,000 remnants left and fled to Caozhou to join Huangchao. Both of them were pleasantly surprised, originally thinking that this time the thieves would be fought for four or five years like the Pang Xun Rebellion a few years ago. Unexpectedly, Li Jing was so powerful, he didn't wait for other soldiers and horses, and wiped out 100,000 grass thieves in just one battle.

At this moment, both of them thought that the grass thieves were a group of rabble, and maybe one more battle would be able to destroy Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao. At this time, they all hurriedly sped up, for fear that the road would be slow, and when they arrived, the thieves had already been exterminated. After several days of fast horses, it has been from Tongguan to Luoyang, the eastern capital, in three days.

As soon as they arrived in Luoyang, as soon as they saw Du Xian, Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong immediately inquired about the detailed battle situation of the Battle of Songzhou. Du Xian has also explored the details of this battle and told the truth one by one. After listening to Li Jing's series of layouts and combat experiences, they were all amazed. This Li Jing is really extraordinary. But it is a pity that if Li Jing could take advantage of the situation to pursue, instead of giving an order not to cross the Bianhe River to pursue, it is estimated that Wang Xianzhi would have been wiped out.

But that's fine, this is just the right time to exterminate the grass thieves under their command.

"Du Shuai, the eunuch of Bendu has already sent orders to all towns with Yang Xiang's military envoys, asking them to move troops to Caozhou together, encircle and annihilate the grass thieves in one fell swoop, and capture Wang Xiancao and Huangchao alive. Please also, Du Shuai will immediately send troops to attack! ”

Du Xian had been preparing grain and grass and training soldiers and horses during this time, and when he heard Ximen Sigong urging the troops, he didn't say anything more, and nodded in agreement. (To be continued......)