Chapter 6: Li Keyong's dilemma

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When Yang Fuguang and Zhou Qi heard Li Ye's words, a different color flashed in their eyes, it seems that Li Ye seems to know about Qin Zongquan, which is very abnormal, it stands to reason that Li Ye is far away in Pinglu, and it is impossible to know the internal affairs of the Zhongwu Army.

Zhou Qi was still hesitating, Yang Fuguang had already set his eyes on Song Jiao, and finally took it back, when he introduced Song Jiao, Li Ye made it very clear that Song Jiao was the leader of his spies. It's the leader of the spies, not the leader of the scouts, and the name has a lot of meaning.

Combined with the other party's cultivation, it is not difficult for Yang Fuguang to think that the spies in Li Ye's mouth are likely to be in the rivers and lakes. But this is not unusual, he has heard of similar things, when Li Xian was alive, every time he went to war, he had the habit of using Jianghu monks to collect military information, and the same was true for Gao Yu.

It's just that Li Ye was able to find out the situation of the loyal army before he arrived in the Central Plains, obviously the layout was very early, and in connection with Li Ye's purpose of going out of Zhenpinglu, Yang Fuguang realized that Li Ye was probably going to play a big game of chess. Thinking of this, Yang Fuguang's evaluation of Li Ye in his heart couldn't help but rise another notch.

Sensing that Yang Fuguang looked at him differently, Li Ye smiled and said: "Yang Jianjun doesn't have to look at me, what I mean is obvious, I am talking about Qin Zongquan." ”

Seeing Li Ye's generous admission, Zhou Qi was quite surprised, but Yang Fuguang said: "King An is right, when the battle is about to come, we must work together, even if we can't share the enemy, we can't let our own family get rid of it." Since this is the case, our family will go to Caizhou to meet Qin Zongquan. ”

Zhou Qi was shocked: "The prison army is going to Caizhou, if Qin Zongquan has a bad heart, wouldn't he throw himself into the tiger's mouth?"

Yang Fuguang glanced at Li Ye and said with a smile: "Don't worry about the Lian Envoy, there is His Royal Highness King An to echo, the general trend is on our side, Qin Zongquan is a smart person, he will not go against the trend, at least at this time, he will not fall into the hands of others." ”

Zhou Qi hesitated and was in a dilemma, Li Ye said: "What the prison army said is right, with tonight's battle, I believe Qin Zongquan knows what to do." ”

Next, everyone discussed the details of the joint army, Li Ye did not mention the matter of grain at this time, after all, the grain of the Pinglu army is not short for the time being, and it is natural to wait until Dengzhou is really conquered, and then plan these things.

After discussing this, Li Ye did not stay in Xuzhou for long, and before leaving, he told Yang Fuguang and Zhou Qi that his envoy would arrive soon, and the future contact would be completed by the envoy.

On the second day, Li Ye left Xuzhou, and he asked Song Jiao to send the monks of the Tsing Yi Yamen to send a message back to Liu Dazheng, asking him to lead the army into Xuzhou, join forces with the Zhongwu army, and rush to Dengzhou according to the plan.

Li Ye himself planned to go to Dengzhou first to take a look at the defense situation of Dengzhou, which could be regarded as acting as a scout.

Cultivating to the ninth level of Qi training, as long as he doesn't fight head-on with the army, he is just waiting for the city to enter and exit, and the city defense army can't prevent it at all, so Li Ye doesn't have to worry about security, in addition, when he goes to see the defense situation in Dengzhou, he can see more than ordinary scouts and spies.

If you can meet Zhu Wen in advance, it is of course the best, and knowing yourself and knowing yourself can survive a hundred battles.

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Li Guochang is already old, a few years ago when he was still the envoy of Zhenwu Festival, he did not accept the control of the imperial court, invaded Linzhenzhou County without authorization, and was recruited by the joint forces of nearby towns, the war lasted for several years, hundreds of large and small battles were fought, and he worked everywhere, but in the end he was defeated, and he had to flee to the grassland to seek refuge in the Tatar Department.

It was also a loss that the Tang dynasty was weak and did not cross the Great Wall to pursue the Tatar department, which gave Li Guochang a chance to breathe. A series of battles have added a lot of new injuries to Li Guochang, coupled with the recurrence of old diseases, his body is collapsing day by day.

This time Huang Chao broke through Chang'an, the most important thing for the dynasty was to defeat the thieves and recapture the Jingshi, so Li Guochang's previous incident had been reduced to a secondary contradiction, and someone helped Li Guochang's father and son to say that Li Yan also thought that Shatuo soldiers were quite powerful and worth relying on, which gave Li Guochang the opportunity to atone for his sins and go to conquer Huang Chao.

At present, this war is the only chance for Li Guochang's father and son to make a comeback, but Li Guochang is too poor to personally lead the troops into battle, so Li Keyong has to lead the army alone.

Li Keyong borrowed 50,000 soldiers and horses from the Tatar tribe, and when he marched south, he stopped when he reached Daizhou, where he met the chief of the Shatuo tribe, that is, Li Guochang's brother Li Youjin.

Shatuo Department has been attached to the Tang Dynasty for many years, has been for the Tang Dynasty to guard the border pass, called the Northern Army, this time Huangchao raised troops, Chang'an was conquered, Li Yan and Zheng Ji urgently recruited the border army into the pass, crusade against Huangchao, the Northern Army was also recruited.

Originally, when Li Guochang and the Tang army went to war, the entire Shatuo Department was the target of the Tang Army, and later Li Guochang was repeatedly defeated, Li Youjin saw that he could not do anything, so he surrendered to the Tang Army.

If it weren't for Li Youjin's backlash at the beginning, Li Guochang's father and son would not have a chance to turn over today.

Now that he has this righteous name, Li Youjin can write to the court, let Li Ke help him with troops, and give Li Ke a chance to make a comeback.

To lead the army to fight, you must first have food, the Tatar Ministry borrowed soldiers from Li Keyong, but there was no food, and Li Keyong could not drive hundreds of thousands of sheep into the customs and rush all the way to Chang'an, so Li Keyong had to borrow grain from the feudal town.

Li Youjin had no food, and the grain of the border army was originally to be supplied by the Central Plains, so Li Keyong borrowed grain from the Hedong Jiedu envoy.

On this day, the general who had gone to transport grain returned.

"General, the grain has been brought back. "That is a young general, born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, mighty, and it is Li Keyong's most trusted general, An Cunxiao, who is only two years younger than him.

"How much food did you bring back?" asked Li Keyong as he quickly got up.

"Five thousand copper coins, five thousand corn hus. An Cunxiao replied.

"What?" Li Keyong was stunned, 5,000 copper coins and 5,000 pieces of corn, of course not too much, but too little, for 50,000 soldiers, this bit of grain was not enough to even plug the teeth.

Moreover, after Li Ke used Daizhou, there were more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and he gathered the warriors of the Tatar department, and now the number of soldiers and horses under his command has reached 100,000.

Li Keyong was furious: "Zheng Congyan, that old horseman, dare to bully me and insult me like this?!"

Zheng Congyan is the envoy of the Hedong Festival, Daizhou is also a subordinate state of Hedong, Li Keyong wants to enter the Central Plains, he must take the Hedong, and Hedong is also the most powerful Jiedu envoy along the way. The east of the river is the east of the Yellow River, the land of the Three Jin Dynasty.

Zheng Congyan casually took out some grain, but it was not only like this, it was obvious that Zheng Congyan had no serious plans to use grain for Li Ke.

At this time, a white-faced monk sitting in the tent, the old god was speaking: "When the old general was still the envoy of the Zhenwu Festival, he did not deal with Hedong, Kang Chengxun sat in Hedong, but also came to restrain Zhenwu, and later Kang Chengxun was forced to leave the town by Zhenwu, and finally died on the way back, Zheng Congyan succeeded as the envoy of the Hedong Festival, and naturally he would not give the general a good face." ”

This monk is Huiming, who came out of the Consciousness Xiao Temple, and went to Chang'an with Li Keyong before. At that time, Li Keyong and Li Ye fought in Huangli Township, if it weren't for Huiming to protect Li Keyong and go fast, I was afraid that Li Keyong would be captured by Li Ye.

Li Ke waved his hand and asked An Cunxiao to go down first, he returned to the main seat, looked at Huiming, and was still angry: "This time, I am leading the army to fight for thieves, be loyal to the country, and occupy the name of righteousness, how dare Zheng Congyan act like this? Is it difficult, he still wants to stop me from going south?"

Obviously, Zheng Congyan intends to do so. ”

Huiming lowered his eyes, his voice was flat, not in a hurry, "But it's no wonder that Zheng Congyan is there." Previously, when the old general sat in Zhenwu, he invaded Linzhenzhou County, greatly expanded his power, and finally fought with the imperial army. Although the current Huangchao is in turmoil in the Central Plains, and the imperial court agrees to recruit the general to go south to King Qin, who dares to guarantee that the general is different from the Huangchao? Perhaps, the general has the same mind as Huangchao, and wants to take advantage of this opportunity to occupy the Tang Dynasty. ”

These words are very harsh and heartbreaking, but when they come out of Huiming's mouth, they are very calm, and there is a convincing power in the calm.

Li Keyong was a little embarrassed, Zhenwu did not obey the orders of the imperial court and invaded Linzhenzhou County, which was a rebellion to put it bluntly. Moreover, at that time, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao were doing things in the Central Plains, which can be said to echo from the north and south.

But who would have thought that the official army fought Huangchao for several years, although it forced Huangchao to flow north and south of the river, and finally hid in Lingnan Guangzhou, but on the contrary, it became stronger and stronger, and the troops fought more and more, and in the end even broke through Chang'an. Li Guochang's father and son were good, sitting on the elite soldiers of Shatuo, but they were directly swept away.

So far, Li Keyong doesn't understand why the Shatuo elite, who is much more elite than the militia of Huangchao, would say that he was defeated.

In the Tang Dynasty, no matter how the official army won or lost the internal war, as long as it faced a foreign race externally, it would be able to casually overturn the other party. The grassland tribes thought they were very strong, but they repeatedly used troops in the south, let alone invaded the Central Plains, and even the border customs and towns could not defeat them, even when the Tang dynasty was at its weakest.

Later, the Khitan became strong and repeatedly invaded the south, and the Lu Long Army, which was sitting in Youzhou, fought one country with one place, and did not let the Khitan attack the Central Plains.

There is only one exception, that is, there is a serious shortage of troops, and it is often necessary to fight against one enemy in the Hexi and Western Regions. The Tang Army in the Western Regions can still fight bloody battles for decades, that's another story.

Li Keyong said angrily: "I will serve the country loyally, and I just want to atone for my sins, how can I be like that yellow thief?!"

After saying this, Li Keyong suddenly reacted, looked at Hui Ming and said, "What does the master mean is that Zheng Congyan thinks so?" He suspects me of bad intentions, so he doesn't give me grain?"

Hui Ming showed a hint of a smile: "The general is smart, and he can really understand it at one point." ”

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