(Last night, another 4,000 words came out, but the Internet at home was not available, so I had to go to the unit this morning to change.) It's the last day of the month, and hopefully there will be more subscriptions! ）

The appearance of the three envoys and the envoys from the Bohai Sea at the military meeting in Ziqing really lifted the spirits of many people, at least it seemed so. The specific process will not be introduced, in short, the following strategy was formed after the meeting:

First, establish a core defense circle around Yunzhou, and be strictly on guard to prevent the story of Li Yuxue's night attack on Caizhou from being staged in Yunzhou. (This is the deterrent power of famous generals, it seems that Xue Ping has to accept his fate.) ）

Second, the soldiers and horses near Weibo in the north and the soldiers and horses of the states near the sea in the east were transferred to the southern front to defend against the attacks of the officers and troops from the three directions of Xuzhou, Huazhou, and Bianzhou. (From this point of view, Li Yu's strategy of attacking at sea is still correct.) Pathetic land generals. ）

Third, leave 10,000 people along the Yellow River to guard against Cheng Quan.

Fourth, a large number of mobile cavalry should be reserved near Yunzhou, on the one hand, to reinforce various localities at any time, and on the other hand, to prepare to attack and harass the rear of the officers and troops.

Fifth, strictly implement population control, train strong men as a backup, and investigate the spies of the imperial court.

Sixth, we should do our best to hoard grain, grass, and other strategic materials and make preparations for a protracted war. (The three prefectures of Huaixi, with no strategic depth and no nearby rescue, fought for four months, and if it weren't for Li Yu's surprise attack, it might have lasted longer.) The twelve states of Ziqing, across Qilu, adjacent to Weibo, and Hebei, can at least last more than two years, right? ）

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After the meeting, the generals hurried back to their stations after swearing an oath. Then the order of the Ziqing Jiedu envoy to order the reorganization of armaments and operations was sent to all military states, and the order also allowed the generals to plunder the outer towns as much as possible before the outbreak of war. Because the imperial court's inscription was too sudden, the commanders of the military states on the Jiaodong Peninsula did not even receive notice of this military meeting. Li Shidao planned to send Wang Zaisheng to Jiaodong to convey the spirit of the meeting, and at the same time monitor and interview the situation in various military states, supervise the compilation and training of strong men and collect grain and grass.

After the civilian, military and military generals dispersed, Li Shidao had a secret conversation with the envoys of the three towns. Nie Gang said that he was only ordered to talk about the matter of the horse, and the others could not make any promises on behalf of Liu Ji, so they could only promise to bring the words. Wang Chengqian talked a lot about the traditional friendly relations between Chengde and Ziqing, and promised to give Ziqing the greatest help after returning to Wang Chengzong. Traditional friendly relations, the old festival of the Wang family, Wang Wujun looked down on Li Na the most. Only Wei Bo's Tian family promised to give Ming Tian Ji'an after returning and help Ziqing's 3,000 soldiers to defend Cheng Quan.

The Ziqing general Cui Chengdu was a general of Ziqing, and was ordered to guard Puyang and defend against Li Guangyan. The general Xiahou Cheng was ordered to defend the city of Kao and defend the Xuanwu army. The general Wang Ji was ordered to lead the troops to Jinxiang to defend Li Yu. General Liu Wu led the troops to defend the core defense circle of Yunzhou, and took into account the right to defend the program. With Lin Ying as the history of Haizhou's assassination, defend Huainan. The family members of all the generals and generals who went out on the expedition stayed in Yunzhou as hostages.

It's just that before Li Shidao finished arranging, the officers and troops had already marched into the army. On the first day of October, Zheng Yuqing, the deputy marshal of the marching camp, Sima Hanyu of the marching army, and Liu Gongxuan, the envoy of the army, went to Xuanwu, Yicheng, and Wuning Labor Army. On the third day of October, Li Yu set out in Xuzhou Ximatai - the place where the legendary Chu overlord ordered troops, and Wang Zhixing, the soldiers and horses of the Wuning army, led the 55th Army to march in the direction of Pingyin, and Hou Weiqing led the 52nd Army to march all the way to Yutai. Li Yu personally led Li Dingjin, Li You, Li Zhongyi and others to lead the First Guards Army, followed by the 56th Army. Li Ting, the assassin of Chuzhou, led the army out of Chuzhou to force Shuyang, crossed the Shuhe River and camped.

Originally, Li Yu planned to send a forward, but the 52nd Army and the 55th and 56th Armies refused to give in. You must know that the 52nd Army was formed by the surrendered Huaixi Army, and the more such an army has, the more inferiority complex it has, and the more it wants to perform well in front of the new owner, such as the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Campaign, the first to enter Nanjing to occupy the presidential palace is a surrendered army. When the imperial court erected the Pinghuai West Monument, the 52nd Army was called a "thief" by Han Yu, and was deeply stimulated, and wanted to use military merits to counter the contemptuous eyes of the marching Sima, and it seemed that Han Yuren's marching Sima was still very effective. Emotionally, Li Yu was inclined to use the 52nd Army as the vanguard, after all, this was the army that followed him from Huaixi, but the Wuning Army did not do it. Wu Ningjun, who had always been considered a bad boy before, had just been reorganized, and the desire to show it was no worse than that of the Huaixi Army, and Wu Ningjun was a landlord, so why did he give up the lead to the 52nd Army from afar? The soldiers of the Wuning army had the habit of making trouble when they were unhappy, but Wang Shao made them obedient, and Li Yu never treated them badly after he came, and the officers and men of the Wuning army admired Li Yu and Li Guangyan from the bottom of their hearts, and they did not want or dare to make trouble. So the generals of the Wuning Army pushed the soldiers and horses of the 55th Army to make Wang Zhixing go to see Li Yu, and asked Li Yu to explain which of the 52nd Army and the Wuning Army was his own mother, and which was his stepmother (why is it so awkward?). ）。

Wang Zhixing, as his name suggests, is a smart figure with hair on his head, and after Wang Zhixing used all the tactics such as frontal engagement and roundabout side attacks, Li Yu was happy. Li Yu slapped the table and said:

"Don't fight, all the strikers."

As a result, the two armies were holding their breath and wanted to say goodbye to each other on the battlefield, and it seemed that how to coordinate the relationship between the two armies had become a difficult scripture that would give the chief general a headache, and the secretary in charge, Zheng Lu, was very worried about this, but Li Yu was very happy.

On the same day, Xuanwu Jiedu's deputy envoy Duzhi soldier and horse envoy Wang Pei led the 53rd Army out of Bianzhou to enter Kaocheng on the order of Li Guangyan. Liu Wei led the 47th Army to march out of Huazhou to Puyang for the front army, and Li Guangyan personally led Gao Xia's troops to follow. In Hebei, Cheng Quan also stationed troops outside Fucheng. Even Tian Ji'an sent troops to be stationed on the banks of the Yellow River under the banner of rebellion, and God knows whether he wanted to help Li Shidao or go to receive Li Shidao's state.

With the start of Li Shidao's expeditionary plundering of soldiers and horses by the loyal general Liu Wei, the imperial court's crusade against Ziqing Li Shidao's war officially began. Beginning on the fifth day of October, the official army was defeated one after another, Liu Wei pulled out four barriers in a row, Wang Pei cleared the periphery of Kaocheng, and even Li Tingdu won three battles and three victories, bullying the Shuyang defenders did not dare to open the city gate. Cui Chengdu, the presidential officer of Ziqing West, said with emotion:

"The morale of the officers and soldiers is so high, Ziqing is in danger."

Like other generals, Cui Chengdu also carefully read the imperial court's inscriptions, and received letters signed by Zheng Yuqing, Han Hong, Li Guangyan and others, the content of which was of course to persuade him to surrender. After Cui Chengdu read the letter, he burned it in front of the generals of the whole army. However, Cui Chengdu said privately to his eldest son:

"If the war is unfavorable, you can run and leave a blood for our family. Our whole family is still in Yunzhou, otherwise we will go directly to the court as a father. Li Shidao is mean and unkind, usually stingy, suspicious of the generals, and now he wants the generals to work hard for him, where is there such a cheap thing? These people know very well for their fathers, they are all profit-seeking people, as long as the court is willing, a bowl of soup and ten cakes can buy them, Shangshu (Pinghuai West, in order to appease Li Shidao, Li Yu gave Li Shidao to inspect the school work department Shangshu, has been deprived of his position as deputy ambassador of Ziqing Pinglu Jiedu. Out of habit and respect, Cui Chengdu also called him an official position. Ambassador Zheng remember who it is not? How can you rely on these people not to be defeated? ”

Cui Chengdu didn't know that Li Shidao was very worried about these generals, and in addition to detaining their families, he also sent his eyes and ears to monitor them. After Cui Chengdu's conversation with his son was reported to Li Shidao, Li Shidao immediately smashed a precious cultural relic, and Lao Yan was referring to the thing that was placed now. Li Shidao didn't know whether to be sad or happy, because from Cui Chengdu's words, there were many generals in Ziqing who were not loyal enough to him, or not loyal enough to everyone, and lacked a loyal heart. Li Shidao was very sad and indignant, and Li Shidao wanted to say:

"These guys always complain about me, saying that I only know how to mess with the servants in the house, and refuse to be nice to them, and I don't want to think about it, where are they comparable to my wife, Siniang and a few slaves, who are loyal to me?"

When Li Shidao was angry in the government office, he didn't expect that his wife was lying under Liu Wu's body and indulged in joy, nor did he think that Siniang was a man who betrayed him and entangled him. Tian Ji'an likes to bury people alive, and Li Shigu and Li Shidao both like to strangle people to death. After getting the secret report, Li Shidao had already prepared the rope that strangled Li Yingtan in his own collection for Cui Chengdu, but he was afraid that Cui Chengdu was leading troops outside and had been in the army for a long time, and there was no solid evidence that rashly strangling him would cause a mutiny. The Li brothers are skilled in murdering people, for example, Li Shigul killed his staff Duguyou, and sent Duguyou to Chang'an before, and when everything was ready, he gave the general Wang Xing a rope and waited for Duguyou to come back on the road. For example, if Li Shidao wants to kill Liu Yanping, he will give him a holiday first, and then prepare everything, and then Li Shidao will strangle Li Yingtan, he will first send Li Yingtan to Laizhou, where he is not familiar with his life, and first clean up the tooth soldiers who support Li Yingtan before he starts. Now, the best way to clean up Cui Chengdu is to learn from Li Shigu, send him far away, and then pull out his minions, and solve the problem with the last rope, but now Ziqing is surrounded by soldiers, and there is no place to send Cui Chengdu out, so it is better to transfer Cui Chengdu to a remote place first, although it is unlucky to change generals in battle, and it is not as good as the army's explanation.

But who is Choi Seung-du? What is Ziqing's deed, he doesn't know? When the Yunzhou side sent an envoy to send an urgent letter from Li Shidao calling him back to discuss a major matter, Cui Chengdu immediately realized that the situation was not good, and after politely sending the messenger away, Cui Chengdu immediately closed the Puyang City Gate, arrested all the generals he had always suspected, and then summoned the generals and said:

"I, Cui Chengdu, am a big boss, and I can't say nice words, so I'll ask you, do you want to die?"

This unfortunate question, such an unfortunate question, the generals replied in unison:

"I don't want to."

Cui Chengdu then asked:

"Do you want your family to die?"

The answer to him, of course, was "I don't want to". Cui Chengdu was very satisfied, and then asked:

"Are you willing to follow my old Cui Gan, neither let your family die, nor let yourself die?"

Now the generals knew what Cui Chengdu wanted to do, and shouted excitedly one by one:

"Yes!"

Such a good thing, of course, no one does not want to do so. There are even people who think: Now that I have thrown myself into the official army as early as possible and made some contributions, maybe I can also make some contributions like Hou Weiqing and be crowned a Hou Li! When the time comes, let's change the yellow-faced woman and marry a few Siniang like that, no, just accept Siniang!

When he was yy, Cui Chengdu spoke:

"Okay, since you all say so, then I'll do it, pass on my military order, withdraw all the defenders outside the city, don't want Dutun, don't want the fences in other places, close the city gates, let the officers and soldiers besiege the city!"

In this way, Li Guangyan effortlessly occupied all the barriers on the periphery of Puyang, and then began the siege of Puyang. On the first day, the soldiers of the Yicheng Army shouted to attack the city, and arrows rained down on the city, and many soldiers who had closed their eyes were surprised to find that what was shot at them was only the shaft of the arrow, where did the arrow go? The soldiers almost thought that the King Kong they had trained was indestructible. Li Guangyan, who saw that something was wrong, immediately ordered Mingjin, and sure enough, Cui Chengdu's eldest son sat in the hanging basket and issued a "war letter" on behalf of the soldiers defending the city. Li Guangyan couldn't help but laugh when he saw the war book, and shouted:

"Ben Shuai wants to see if you can attack or I can defend, as long as you can attack, Ben Shuai will let you go back to Yunzhou."

Sure enough, when the besieging troops and horses withdrew to only two or three thousand men, the defenders did not attack. However, the Ziqing army that came to the rescue was defeated four times by Li Guangyan and beheaded more than 3,000.

While all the other roads were marching forward, Li Yu was dumbfounded. Hou Weiqing and Wang Zhixing shouted fiercely, but there was no actual report of the results, which couldn't help but make the generals such as Zheng Lu and Li Dingjin, the secretaries in charge, a little anxious. Li Yu said slowly:

"Don't panic, don't panic!"

Outside Yutai City, Ding Shiliang was lying on the cold ground, wearing a cotton jacket given to him by Li Yu, and a wine bag he carried with him hanging from his waist. The wine bag was originally thrown by him in the Wencheng Gate when he caught Chen Guangqia, and Li Jincheng broke the Wencheng Gate and brought it back to him. Ding Shiliang fell to the ground, not moving, the honor of the 52nd Army depends on him.