v3 Chapter 6： The dilemma of Li Keyong

Yang Fuguang and Zhou Yan heard Li Ye's words, and there was a flash of color in his eyes. It seems that Li Ye seems to know about Qin Zongquan. This is very abnormal. It stands to reason that Li Yeyuan is in Pinglu and it is impossible to know the internal affairs of the Zhongwu Army.

Zhou Zheng was still hesitant, Yang Fuguang had set his sights on Song Jiao, and finally received it back. When he introduced Song Jiao, Li Zheng made it clear that Song Jiao was the leader of his spies. It is the spy leader, not the scout leader. This name is meaningful.

Combined with the practice of the other side, it is not difficult for Yang Fuguang to think that the spies in Li Zhe's mouth are likely to be among the rivers and lakes. However, this is not unusual. He has heard similar things. When Li Xian was alive, every time he went to war, he used monks and priests to gather military habit, as was Gao Ye.

It was just that Li Yuan could clarify the situation of the Zhongwu Army before he arrived in the Central Plains. Obviously, the layout was very early. Contacting Li Zhi's purpose of Zhenping Lu, Yang Fuguang realized that Li Yuan was probably going to play a big game. . With this in mind, Yang Fuguang's evaluation of Li Zhi in his heart could not help but rise to another level.

Perceived that Yang Fuguang saw his own eyes differently, Li Min laughed, "Yang Jianjun doesn't have to look at me. I mean it very clearly. It's Qin Zongquan."

Seeing Li Yan's generous admission, Zhou Zheng was quite surprised, but Yang Fuguang said: "Wang An is right. In the battle, we must work together, even if we can't share our enemies, we can't let our family get off the hind legs. In this case , Our family went to Caizhou to meet Qin Zongquan. "

Zhou Xuan was shocked: "If the Jianjun went to Caizhou, if Qin Zongquan had a guilty conscience, wouldn't he have ventured?"

Yang Fuguang glanced at Li Yan and smiled, "Lian Shi need not worry, His Royal Highness echoes. The general trend is on our side. Qin Zongquan is a smart man. He will not buck the trend, at least not at this time. People handle. "

Zhou Zheng was hesitant, and he was in a dilemma. Li Zhuan said, "Jianjun is right. With the battle tonight, I believe Qin Zongquan knows what to do."

Next, the people discussed the details of the joint troop expedition. At this time, Li Zhi didn't mention the food stuff. After all, Ping Lujun's food stuff was temporarily not available. When Dengzhou was conquered, it was justified to come back to plan these things.

After negotiating these things, Li Xun did not stop in Xuzhou. Before leaving, he told Yang Fuguang and Zhou Xun that his ambassador would soon arrive, and the future contact was left to the ambassador to complete.

On the second day, Li Xu left Xuzhou. He asked Song Jiao to send a monk from Tsing Yi to the gate, and sent a letter to Liu Dazheng, asking him to bring his army into Xuzhou and join forces with the Zhongwu Army. Then he rushed to Dengzhou as planned. Just fine.

Li Yan himself planned to take a trip to Dengzhou first to see the defense situation of Dengzhou, which was regarded as a scout.

Xiuwei has reached the ninth floor of Qi training. As long as he does not confront the army directly, he can only go in and out of the city. The city defense forces can't prevent it, so Li Huan does not have to worry about security issues. In addition, he went to see the defense situation of Dengzhou. There are naturally more than ordinary scouts and spies.

If you can see Zhu Wen in advance, it is of course the best.

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Li Guochang was old. In the past few years, when Zhenwu was entrusted, he refused to accept the imperial court's control and trespassed Linzhenzhou County without authorization. He was conscripted by the nearby towns. The battle lasted for several years, and hundreds of battles were fought. After being toiled, he was defeated and had to flee to the steppe for asylum.

It was also because of the cowardice of the Tang Dynasty that he did not cross the Great Wall and chased the crotch. This gave Li Guochang a chance to breathe. If he changed the court, he could not say that Li Guochang would have no choice but to be arrested and convicted. A series of battles added a lot of new injuries to Li Guochang, and the recurrence of old diseases, his body collapsed day by day.

This time Huang Chao broke Chang'an, the most important thing for the dynasty was to defeat the anti-thief and recapture the capital division. Therefore, the previous matter of Li Guochang has been reduced to a secondary contradiction. In addition, someone helped Li Guochang and his son talk about the item. Li Ye also believed that Sha Tuobing Quite combative and worthy of reliance, this gave Li Guochang the opportunity to redeem his guilt and conquer Huang Chao.

The current war is the only chance for Li Guochang's father and son to make a comeback. However, because Li Guochang was too poor to be able to lead a soldier himself, Li Ke had to lead the army alone.

Li Ke borrowed 50,000 soldiers and horses from the crotch, and headed south, and when he marched to Daizhou, he stopped. Here, he met the chief of Shatuo, the elder brother of Li Guochang, Li Youjin.

Shatuo has been attached to the Tang Dynasty for many years, and has been defending the borders for the Tang Dynasty. He has been calling for the Northern Army. This time Huang Chao started his troops. Chang'an was conquered. It was also called up.

Originally, when Li Guochang and the Tang army fought, the entire Shatuo Department was the target of the Tang army. Later, Li Guochang repeatedly defeated. Li Youjin surrendered to the Tang army. Although he pitted Li Guochang and his son, they at least kept it. Sha Tuo, Li Guochang's father and son were far away from the grassland after the war. Sha Tuo was still a tang army.

Without Li Youjin's backwaters today, Li Guochang and his son would not have the opportunity to stand up today.

With this righteous status now, Li Youjin was able to write to the court, let Li Ke use his troops to help himself, and give Li Ke a chance to rise again.

To lead an army, you must have food first. The crotch borrowed troops from Li Keyong, but the food was not available. It was impossible for Li Keyong to drive hundreds of thousands of sheep to enter the customs. He rushed to Chang'an all the way, so Li Keyong You have to borrow food from Fanzhen.

Li Youjin had no food. The frontier's food was originally to be supplied by the Central Plains, and Li Ke borrowed food from Hedong Jiedong.

On this day, the general who was going to transport the grain returned.

"General, the grain is shipped back." That was a young general, born with a tiger back and a mighty back. It was Li Ke's most trusted general, An Cunxiao, only two years younger than him.

"How much food to bring back?" Li Ke asked quickly as he stood up.

"Bronze coins are five thousand, and corn is five thousand." An Cunxiao replied.

"What?" Li Ke held it in his hands. Copper coins were 5,000 yuan and 5,000 millet corns. Of course, not too much, but too few. For fifty thousand soldiers, this was not enough to jam the teeth.

Moreover, after Li Ke used Daizhou, there were more than 50,000 soldiers and horses. He summoned the warriors in the crotch, and now his soldiers and horses have reached 100,000.

Li Ke was furious: "Zheng Congzhen's old husband, dare to deceive me so badly ?!"

Zheng Congzhen is the Jiedushi of Hedong, and Daizhou is also a state of Hedong. To enter the Central Plains, Li Keyong must go through Hedong, and Hedong is also the Jiedushi who has the greatest influence along the way. Hedong is the east of the Yellow River and the land of Sanjin.

Zheng Congzheng brought out some food gluten casually, it was not so much. Obviously, Zheng Congzheng had no serious intention to give Li Ke a food gluten.

At this time, a white-faced monk sitting in the account, the old **** was talking: "Before the old general was still Zhenwu Jiedushi, he did not deal with Hedong, Kang Chengxun sits in Hedong, but also came to restrain the Zhenwu. Later, Kang Chengxun was forced to leave town by Zhenwu, and eventually died on his way home. Zheng Congzhen succeeded Hedong Jiedushi, and naturally he would not look good to the general. "

This monk is Huiming, from the Temple of Consciousness, and used it with Li Ke to Chang'an before. At that time, Li Keyong and Li Zhi were in a battle in Huangli Township. If Hui Ming had not protected Li Keyong and walked fast, he was afraid that Li Keyong would be captured by Li Zhi.

Li Ke waved his hand to let An Cunxiao go down first. He returned to the main seat and looked at Huiming. He was still angry: "This time, I am Feng Feng leading the army to discuss the thief, to be loyal to the country, to occupy the righteous status, Zheng Congzheng How dare he act like this? Is it possible that he will prevent me from going south? "

"Obviously, Zheng Congzhen intends that."

Huiming looked down, his voice was dull, and he was not in a hurry. "But it is no wonder that Zheng Congzheng. When the old general took the town Zhenwu, he invaded Linzhou County and expanded his forces. He finally fought with the army of the court, in the eyes of the courtier. , Generals and sons are like anti-thieves. Although Huang Chao is in trouble in the Central Plains at present, the court agreed to summon the king to go south, but who can guarantee that the general is different from Huang Chao? Perhaps, the general is the same mind as Huang Chao and wants to take advantage of this Opportunity, to occupy the Datang River. "

The words were harsh and heart-throbbing, but speaking from Huiming's mouth, it was very calm. There was a convincing power in the calm.

Li Ke used a little distress. At first, Zhenwu did not comply with the imperial court order and invaded Linzhou County, saying that it was rebellion. And at that time, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao from the Central Plains were doing things, which can be said to be echoing the North and the South.

But who could have thought that the official army had beaten Huang Chao for a few years. Although it forced Huang Chao to run north and south of the river and finally hid in Lingnan and Guangzhou, it became stronger and stronger, and more and more people were attacked. In the end, it even broke through Chang'an. Li Guochang's father and son were better off, sitting on the hands of Sha Tuo's elite soldiers, and were even swept away.

Up to now, Li Ke couldn't understand why, because of the much more sophisticated Sha Tuo than Huang Chao's militias, he would be defeated if he could defeat.

In the Tang Dynasty, regardless of the victory or defeat of the civil war, as long as the foreigners faced the alien race, they could easily overturn the other party. The grassland tribes thought that they were very powerful, but they repeatedly used southward forces, not to mention the invasion of the Central Plains, and even the frontier Guanfan army could not fight, even when the Tang room was the weakest.

Later, the Khitan became strong, repeatedly invading south, and sitting in Youzhou, Lu Longjun, fighting one country and one country, but did not let the Khitan invade the Central Plains.

There is only one exception, which is that the troop strength is seriously insufficient, and it is often necessary to use one enemy to one hundred Hexi and Western Regions. The real price is one enemy ten, almost one enemy one hundred, and the Tang Army in the Western Regions who can still fight blood for decades is another story.

Li Ke said with annoyance: "I would loyally return to the country and only want to atone for my sins, wouldn't he be like that gangster?"

After saying this, Li Ke reacted suddenly and looked at Huiming and said: "The master meant that Zheng Congzhen thought so? He suspected that I was deliberate, so he didn't give me food?"

Huiming smiled: "The general is clever, and it works."