Chapter 232: Mediation

When the news that the Zhaowang family, who had arrived from Dengzhou, would bring the Qingzhou envoy to Qingzhou and ask Li Jing to go to Qingzhou to discuss matters, the three-way army in Shamen Town had already looted all the goods and burned all the other three forts and six garrisons except for the big and small black mountain islands and the big Xie Nan island. The raging flames burned half of the sky, and the billowing black smoke enveloped even half of Dengzhou. This time, the Shamen army was very ruthless, and they didn't even let go of the Wuhu Islands, which had just been sacked once, and came back again, burning down all those empty fortress villages.

Snatching and burning all the people is not the most ruthless, the most ruthless is that Li Jing came to the bottom of the kettle and took all the people on the islands away. Although it is said that the people are the least valuable, the population is the foundation, and if there are no people in a place, it is nothing. The three major islands under the prosperous Daxiexia had more than 100,000 people at their peak, but now, there are only tens of thousands of people left in the South Island where Fengzhang's old nest is located, and the rest are all concentrated on Li Jing's Shamen Island and the Big and Small Black Mountain Islands.

This is the most fatal blow, even if Feng Zhang survives the moment, when he comes to Qingzhou's mediation, he will no longer be able to deal with Li Jing in the future. His roots have been cut off, and he won't be able to make any waves in the future, this time, Li Jing has completely stabilized the advantages and disadvantages between the two.

The Big and Small Black Mountain Islands and several small islands around them are just west of Li Jing Shamen Town, which was originally surrounded by Shamen Town on three sides and a half with Daxie North and South Islands. Now Li Jing occupies the big and small black mountain islands, but he suddenly confronts the east and west of the north and south islands of Fengzhang, and the confrontation has become around Dengzhou Gangtang Bay. If it weren't for the fact that Turtle Island and Wuhu Island were separated from the North Island and were too far away, Li Jing would have wanted to simply occupy the two islands together.

After owning the large and small black islands. Li Jing's current turf has risen sharply. Great Black Mountain Island is almost ten times the size of Salmon Island. Little Black Mountain Island has three large ones in the town of Salmen. Coupled with the surrounding islands, Li Jing's territory has increased more than tenfold, and the strategic space is even greater.

Standing on the dock and watching the ships returning to the port one by one, bringing back a full load of harvest, Li Jing couldn't close his mouth with a smile. It was at this time that Li Hui'er came to King Zhao's family with a message from King Zhao.

came so quickly, Li Jing said secretly. Fortunately, they moved quickly, and in a day and a night, they had completed the work of the robbery.

"I don't know who the envoy from Qingzhou is?" Li Jing asked Zhang Hong to bring a pig loin of fifty taels of silver collar and politely stuffed it into the hand of the general. The other party is also an old acquaintance, and when he saw Li Jing being so polite, he accepted it without shirking. said with a smile: "It's Brother Ji Yu's teacher Cui Sima who came, and King Zhao said when I came, let you rest assured, the situation is very good this time." Song Jieshuai and Cui Sima will do their best to protect you, and Song Tingshi and King Zhao will also fully support you. So don't worry about it, Cui Sima is the chief officer of this mediation. In addition, Song Thorn Shi and Wang Changshi were deputies, and King Zhao was invited to be a mediation witness. The mediation took place in Dengzhou. Please go to Dengzhou with Feng Zhang. ”

Hearing that it was the teacher Cui Jiqing, Li Jing was finally relieved. Among the four people who mediated, three of them were on his side, and they were on the territory controlled by the Marshal's Mansion in Dengzhou, so Li Jing didn't have to worry about anything else.

King Zhao's family general sighed: "Brother Ji Yu really showed his hand this time, he played beautifully, and he was very proud before, and he didn't even give King Zhao much face." This time, I was completely beaten by you. I heard that you have copied all the old bottoms of Feng Zhang in the past two days, which is really ruthless. I didn't see it at all in the past, it turned out that my brother was the hero of the world. Let me tell you, I followed King Zhao, but I heard King Zhao continue to praise you these days, I have been with King Zhao for more than ten years, and it is the first time I have seen him praise a person like this, Ji Yu is the first person. Last time, Feng Zhang sent troops to fight Shamen Town, and King Zhao also immediately went to the Assassin's Mansion, and contacted the battalions in Dengzhou to prepare to send troops to rescue you. ”

Li Jing didn't know if this was true or false, but he was still a little grateful after hearing it. Although he knew that the purpose of King Zhao to help him was not so pure, at least it was towards him.

On the same day, Li Jing convened the generals again and first loudly praised the excellent performance of the generals. Then he said that King Zhao had sent someone to invite him to Dengzhou to participate in mediation. The generals heard that the Qingzhou Jiemarshal's Mansion and Wang Jingwu's side reached a compromise with the most consequence, and not only did not crusade against Shamen Town, but instead sent people to mediate. And when the person in charge of mediation was actually Li Jing's teacher Cui Yunqing, all the generals breathed a long sigh of relief.

These days, although everyone is beating happily, Feng Zhang's beating is all over the ground to find teeth, his nose is blue and his face is swollen, and he shrinks in his shell like a turtle and does not dare to show his head. But in addition to being happy, in fact, everyone has been hiding a worry in their hearts. That is, they are worried that things will eventually go in the direction they are worried about, and they are worried that their actions will be determined as rebellion in the end, and then all the battalions will come together to quell the chaos, then everything that everyone has been fighting for will be over.

Now, when the dust has finally settled, as the general said, they succeeded in their desperate gamble this time, and they won the bet. Not only did no one say that they were rebels, but they also sent a marching Sima to mediate.

Mediation, these two words mean that this war is just a dispute between two armies.

"General, you have to be careful to seal your secret hand. The last general is willing to take the brothers of the special combat capital to escort him to Dengzhou! Duan Shan said loudly. Over there, Levi immediately glared at him, and shouted: "Is the reconnaissance camp Lao Tzu having the final say or you having the final say, Lao Tzu hasn't opened his mouth yet, you have taken the lead." Get out of the way, this guard mission is naturally mine. Duan Shan was scolded by his boss, and immediately retreated to the side. Shamen Town is the most orderly place, except for the usual military discussion and post-war summary, it is strictly forbidden to go down and up.

After the last argument, the officers decided that Li Wei and Duan Shan would select the most elite 100 brothers from the reconnaissance camp to accompany Li Jing to Dengzhou. And Meghan will lead a fleet of 30 warships, with 3,000 people all the way to the Dengzhou dock, where she will be ready to meet at any time. Lin Wei stayed behind on the island, while Wang Zhong led the brothers on the right side to be ready to attack at any time. Once Li Jing was in trouble in Dengzhou, Wang Chong was loaded by the Yellow Beard of Zhendonghai and rushed to the Dengzhou wharf at full speed, and went ashore with the sailors to pick up Li Jing.

Seeing this comprehensive plan, Li Jing couldn't help but chuckle, everyone really made a fuss. However, he did not deny it, although it was a little too exciting, but this was also everyone's loyalty to him, and this can also be regarded as a comprehensive cooperation exercise.

The next day, Li Jing was under the personal escort of Li Wei and Duan Shan, and Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, and Xuancheng, three generals, followed. In their words, they used to be Li Jing's family heads, and this time they naturally had to go out in person. In addition to Megan and Julie's sailor barracks, there were also Li Hui'er, the lord of Xihe, and her junior sisters, Yu Youniang and Xiao Yulou, three sisters who were together wherever they went.

Shamen Town is not far from Dengzhou Wharf, and it takes less than an hour to reach it by twenty or thirty miles. When Megan's thirty large and small warships approached Dengzhou Water Village. Dengzhou Water Village was panicked, drums and horns sounded in unison, and dozens of warships quickly sailed out of the dock, making a vigilant and defensive formation.

Megan looked very proud at the bow of the ship, and said to Li Jing with a smile: "Our fleet in Shamen Town can be regarded as famous now, you can see the nervousness of those people in Wang Jin's house." Li Jing pursed his lips, "Feng Zhang's fleet is known as the first in the north of the Tang Dynasty, but in a short period of time, we destroyed eighty ships, half of which were destroyed. What other fleet do you say is not afraid of us now? In particular, Wang Jin had colluded with pirates to attack us before, and they must be very worried that after we beat Feng Zhang, they would find them next. ”

Wang Jin's fleet followed and escorted Li Jing's fleet all the way to Dengzhou Wharf, and finally returned to Shuizhai with a sigh of relief. As soon as the ship entered the port, Li Jing had not yet disembarked, and he had already seen that the dock had been cleared, and a neat team of soldiers was standing on the pier. On the dock, there was also a group of officials in light green and dark green official robes, among which there were even a few eye-catching scarlet official robes, which were officials above the fifth grade, and only Thorn Shi and a few Shangzuo were qualified to serve in Dengzhou.

As soon as I got off the boat, sure enough, those were all officials from Dengzhou, facing Li Jing, a small town general who was only seven grades, but almost all the important officials in Dengzhou had arrived. From a distance, he saw Dengzhou Assassin Shi Song Wen, and then the person who talked to him on the side was the teacher Cui Yunqing, who had not seen him for several months, and on the other side, it was Wang Jingwen who was a little distance away from them, and it was Wang Jin who stood with him, and the other one with a pale face and a withered expression was the Great Xie Yan soldier and horse envoy, who had been beaten by him in recent days. In addition to them, there are also the six Cao Shi of Dengzhou, as well as the main generals of several major barracks.

Such a big welcome scene made Li Jing very surprised. Li Jing hurriedly walked a few steps forward, first gave Cui Yunqing a teacher-student gift, and then greeted Song Wen and the others. When he paid homage to Wang Jingwen of Changshi, the old man sneered a few times: "General Li Zhen has a lot of face, so many of us are waiting here, and people who don't know the way of the road still think that we are here to welcome the handsome man of Ziqing Town." Young people are easy to be proud. You see that as soon as he received the news yesterday, he rushed directly to Dengzhou. ”

Li Jing chuckled disapprovingly, so he said apologetically: "I'm really embarrassed, yesterday my brothers all went to sea to fish, and the harvest was good, and they have been busy counting the harvest, but I don't think that your superiors will wait here, it's really rude." ”

As soon as these words came out, Feng Zhang next to him suddenly snorted, and a wisp of blood actually overflowed from the corner of his closed mouth. He trembled and shouted, "Little thief, you have deceived people too much, and I will not die with you!" As he spoke, he was about to pounce forward, but Wang Jin next to him hurriedly dragged him down, Li Jing stood there motionless, looking at Feng Zhang with contempt, "I remember you also said something like this a few days ago, if you can say that you can kill people by opening your mouth, then your opponents are probably all dead." If you're really as brave as you are today, you shouldn't run so fast that day. ”

Feng Zhangqi's face was as white as paper, and he almost fainted. Li Jing's words are too poisonous, he has to be obedient if he gets cheap, his face is lost in front of everyone today, and he doesn't know how to respond to Lu Dao, and after the last time, he simply rolled his eyes and pretended to faint directly, so as not to look at the eyes of the people with different looks. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )