After eliminating the third batch of reinforcements from the islanders and the accompanying Jiaodong Naval Division, Laoshan Wei returned to Rongcheng Bay to assist the Jimo Division, while Guo Rong led the remaining soldiers and horses belonging to the Changying Army back to Wendeng County.

Standing outside the county seat of Wendeng, looking at the western city wall that had completely collapsed under the effect of black powder, Guo Rong was distracted for a long time.

Looking at the empty Wendeng County like a ghost domain, Guo Rong's thoughts turned a thousand times.

It wasn't until all the school officers belonging to Changyingjun arrived and heard Zhe Muyu's prompt that Guo Rong came back to his senses from his state of trance and birth.

"Are you saying that in Wendeng City, except for the Changying Army, there is not a single living Tang people?"

Hearing Guo Rong's question, seeing Guo Rong's obviously unnatural expression, the generals and colonels present looked at each other, and finally Lu Xiaobing, who was still nominally commanded, walked in front of Guo Rong.

"The general actually had someone alive when he just broke the city, but after getting rid of the shackles and gaining freedom for a short time, he either threw himself into a a beam, or cut his wrists, so he ......"

Lu Xiaobing didn't say it in too much detail, or even completely, but it was enough for Guo Rong to understand what was happening in Wendeng City and suppress his anger, Guo Rong continued to ask.

"Anything else? Do you know the whereabouts of these missing Wendeng people? ”

Lu Xiaobing shook his head, he really didn't know about this thing, he attacked immediately after the battle, and he didn't have time to search for traces or interrogate prisoners.

Lu Xiaobing didn't know that no one knew, and at this moment, He Mang, who was staying in Wendeng County, hesitated for a moment and then spoke.

"General, after Commander Lu led the team to set off, according to the confessions of the captured islanders, I led the remaining sappers to search around Wendeng, and then found five large pits with a scale of nearly 100 zhang in the valley east of Wendeng City."

"There are countless bones in each of the pits, and judging from the exhumation of the exhumed bodies, the time of these remains should be between three months and six months."

"Although there are no accurate statistics, based on the range and depth and the density of the corpses, I guess that it adds up to no less than 30,000 people!"

"Take me to see it!"

With the leadership of He Mang, he arrived in the valley east of the city, looking at the dense bones in front of him, Guo Rong's face was pale, the green tendons on his forehead were exposed, and his fists were clenched and creaked.

If it were possible, Guo Rong really wanted to take the soldiers now, cross the sea by boat, and kill directly to the island country, killing the corpses of the island country all over the field......

It's just that, looking at the accumulated military reports and summarized intelligence in his arms, Guo Rong knows that now is not the time to enter the island country.

At present, the actions of the Hebei Domain, which was the core of the rebel army, have become clear, and the army of the Hebei Domain, which is numbering hundreds of thousands, has in fact been divided into three or four parts.

Most of Tian Ji'an's Wei Bo army plus Wang Chengzong's Chengde army, a total of nearly 250,000 soldiers and horses, after crossing the river, has surrounded the city of Bianzhou.

At this moment, the combined forces of Tian Ji'an and Wang Chengzong are building siege equipment, digging tunnels and other preparations before the siege.

Another part of the Chengde army under Wang Chengzong, about 780,000 people, was already on the verge of Cangzhou and Jingzhou, threatening the hinterland of northern Shandong.

Although this part of the rebel army did not besiege the city, in fact, it cut off the path for Guo Rong to lead his troops north, if Guo Rong wanted to go north, then there was only one possibility, that is, to fight through.

Among the towns of the Hebei Domain, the Lu Long Army, which has the largest territory, the largest population, the most prosperous troops, and the strongest strength, is divided into two routes.

According to Guo Rong's inference, one is to prepare to besiege Li Yu, and the other is to prevent accidents in Liaodong and Liaoxi, after all, the rebels are also having their own ghosts, plus the forces of all parties in Liaodong are now mixed.

On the other hand, he has gone south from Jixian County, and the number is about 150,000, but the specific goal is very unclear, but this is the Lu Long army with an unclear goal that makes Guo Rong the most headache.

With the size and strength of this Lu Long army, whether it is directly joining the Cangzhou battlefield or joining the Bianzhou battlefield after crossing the river, it is enough to form an overwhelming force.

Joining the Cangzhou battlefield is equivalent to swelling the number of rebels in the direction of Cangzhou on the eastern front to about 250,000, and if there are no additional reinforcements, I am afraid that the current Cangzhou and Jingzhou directions will not be able to hold out for a month.

If you choose to cross the river and besiege Bianzhou, the rebels in the direction of Bianzhou will reach a staggering 400,000!

Although in terms of military discipline and style, they cannot be compared with the newly formed forbidden army based on the Changying Army, but it is far from the kind of island country that has no body, no equipment, and no knowledge.

The total strength of the Xuanwu Army in Han Hong's hands was only 100,000, and there were less than 30,000 in Bianzhou City.

Before handing over military power, Han Hong's essence was still a semi-independent feudal town, just a pro-imperial feudal town.

Han Hong did accept the conditions of the Emperor Li Chen, and also reached a consensus with Guo Rong, but all this is to be able to see victory, if victory is at the expense of Han Hong, at least Guo Rong does not dare to guarantee that Han Hong will definitely not fall to the side of the rebels.

Even if Han Hong did not defect, the 400,000-strong army surrounded Bianzhou, and the rear hands left near Songzhou did not dare to approach at all, and without foreign aid, the fall of Bianzhou was only a matter of time.

And once there is a problem with the Xuanwu Army, the most important node in the Central Plains, it means that the situation in the entire Central Plains will completely collapse.

So no matter what, Guo Rong needs to provide Han Hong with enough confidence and support.

In addition to this, the threat is not only in front of you, but also in the background.

In fact, since June, Lingwu, Longyou, Jiannan, Jiannan, and Jiannan have all gathered the Tibetan people.

The Tubo people and the Hebei rebels cooperated to join forces to attack Datang It was expected for a long time, and in order to prevent the sudden attack of the Tubo people, measures including fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness were carried out.

The Tubo people did appear, but after they appeared, they did not attack, but stood still after pulling the shelf and began to confront, which made the four towns that held the western defense line like a fish in the throat and a mang in the back.

However, what is even more uncomfortable is that from June, the Tubo people showed more and more troops, until Guo Rong sat in Jimo to organize and train the new army, and received a report from the Chang'an Army, according to the information summarized by the four towns of Lingwu, Longyou, Jiannan, and Jiannanbei Province, the number of Tubo people who confronted them had exceeded 500,000!

The 500,000 Tubo people who did not move and did not move brought tremendous pressure to Longxi, Longnan, Jiannan and even the Guanzhong region, and the 12 guards that had just been formed were sent to various places as reinforcements as support.

In order to calm people's hearts, Emperor Taishang Li Yu even said that if the enemy came again, he would lead the army to conquer in person, and fulfill the promise of the Son of Heaven to guard the country and the king to die.

Even Li Yu thought about the royal conquest, Guo Rong could already imagine the current situation in Chang'an, shook his head helplessly, and looked at the bones of the people of Wendeng buried in front of him again.

"Mu Yu!"

"Dao!"

"Take pen and paper, take notes!"

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“…… Li Shidao is ambitious, and the island country has bad intentions ......, and only 100,000 heads are not enough to deter the island country,...... The land of the island country must be used as a springboard to spy on the ...... of our Tang Dynasty...... The island country will not be destroyed for a day, and the heart of death will not be ............ Chen Guo Rong thought that if he destroyed his temple, destroyed his clan, and had millions of corpses, he would make the island country fearful...... After recovering Hexi, revitalizing the Western Regions, and reproducing the glory of the Tang Dynasty, the minister Guo Rong asked to lead the army to land on the island country, pay respects in Heiankyo, and raise the ...... on Mount Fuji."

"Tut-tut, this kid Guo Rong has made great progress recently!"

In the main building of Xingqing Palace in Chang'an City, Emperor Li Chun sat next to the bed and read the letter that Guo Rong had just delivered for Emperor Li Xuan, who was lying on the bed.

Looking at the skinny, white-haired, and extremely weak old man in front of him, Li Chun's heart was full of mixed feelings.

In the eyes of most people, their father should have passed away a long time ago, and even Zhang Jiaxuan, who renewed his father's life, said that it was a miracle that his father could survive until now, and it all depends on God's will as for how long he can last.

Although it was a big rebellion, Li Chun knew that he had resented his father for controlling military power and financial power for a long time, and he once hoped that his father would die as soon as possible, but from the initial resentment and dissatisfaction, to now Li Chun's gratitude and love for his father remained.

From the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan to the fourth year of Yuanhe, the oil had long run out, and his father, who might die at any time, dragged his half-crippled body and carried it to death for five years!

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During these five years, he defeated the group of eunuchs who had mastered the Shence Army, which seriously threatened the imperial power, and disintegrated the Uighur forces in the north that threatened the Tang Dynasty.

He stabilized the pro-court feudal group in the Central Plains, eased the relationship between the wealthy families in Shandong, and rebuilt the Guanlong Xungui system that supported the Tang Dynasty;

He founded a powerful forbidden army, promoted a group of young, capable and talented generals of the forbidden army, and selected a group of young and promising civilian officials with a pioneering spirit and a practical spirit.

His reform has made a qualitative leap forward in Datang's science and technology and innovation, selected a future path for Datang, and left himself an incomparably rich legacy.

More importantly, he used his own way to teach himself how to become a real emperor, helping himself step by step to smoothly take over the real power of the Tang Dynasty and achieve a smooth transition of the highest power of the Tang Dynasty.

After handing over all the power into his own hands, the person lying in front of him was just an old man in his last years, however, Li Chun, who held the power of the entire Tang Dynasty, was unwilling to disobey any of his father's thoughts or thoughts that had lost power.

At this moment, hearing Li Chen's more or less ridiculous praise for Guo Rong, Li Chun smiled and nodded.

"Indeed, Guo Rong acts, and the marching army is accustomed to regular soldiers, which is very clear to those who know a little, so Li Shidao will put the power on the bright side in Qingzhou, and put the unsightly island people in the most remote Wendeng, thinking that if he controls Jimo, he can make the imperial court cast a mouse against him."

"It is estimated that Li Shidao never dreamed that Guo Rong, who has always sought stability, would play a trick once."

"Attract everyone's attention head-on, and then quietly divide the troops to advance from the flank, first accidentally defeated Wu Shaoxiang, who had already rebelled, and then attacked Jimo with skillful force, eliminating hidden dangers At the same time, before the Jiaodong army and the islanders united, they were separated, which was equivalent to hitting Li Shidao, the snake of the mountains, seven inches at once."

"The beginning and the end can't be echoed, the front and back can't be reconciled, Li Shi Dao'an, who was cut off by the waist, has an undefeated reason, I can see it, with the right fit, with the odd victory he can be regarded as playing clearly, and it is not in vain that his father spent five years, and even took tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops to let him experience, and did not live up to his father's trust."

"It's just that, father, I never thought that my father had been so favored, Li Shidao not only didn't want to serve the country but was so ambitious, if it wasn't for Guo Rong to find out something wrong from the clues, once Li Shidao's plan was realized, the consequences would be really unimaginable......"

Listening to Li Chun's analysis little by little, Li Yu nodded from time to time, with a bright smile on his face, in his opinion, Guo Rong was the biggest legacy he left to Li Chun.

Li Yu knew that Li Chun had not experienced the same desperate experience as himself, so it was impossible for Li Chun to trust Guo Rong unconditionally like himself.

But from Li Chun's ability to analyze Guo Rong's advantages and progress little by little, it has been proved that Li Chun recognizes Guo Rong in his heart, and it is enough to be able to do this.

Li Yu understands his son's lofty ambitions, and also understands that his son is not a jealous and jealous king, and to realize his grand ambitions, he needs the support of countless people like Guo Rong.

"Now that the remnants of Li Shidao's forces left in Jiaodong have been cleaned up, the island people have been purged, and the hidden dangers behind them have been removed, Guo Rong can finally rest assured and boldly fight the main force of the rebels in Hebei!"

Hearing this, Li Yu's brows tightened, and he suddenly spoke, interrupting Li Chun, who was a little excited and excited.

"In other words, Guo Rong has decided to transfer the main forces of Changyingjun and Zuo Wuwei to the west, and is preparing to have a decisive battle with the Hebei rebels near Bianzhou City?"

"Yes, Father, the detailed battle plan and objectives have been submitted, son and ......"

Seeing Li Yu's raised hand, Li Chun stopped his voice again.

"Guo Rong has handled the situation in Shandong very well, all we can do when the army is outside is to let Guo Rong fight a decisive battle with the rebels with peace of mind, Chun'er, do you remember the last military discussion before the expedition Guo Rong analyzed the three offensive routes that the Tubo people could choose."

"Remember, however, the plan of clearing the wilderness, resisting steadily, defending and counterattacking, and gaining time with space has been set, and the deployment of existing troops is enough to support it."

"Not enough, not safe enough, the behavior of the Tubo people this time is abnormal!"