Without further ado, after the generals gathered in the commander's tent quickly, Li Jinquan immediately stated that he wanted to send elite troops out of the city and attack the Tang army camp.

The generals have been ordered to defend the city recently, and witnessed the Tang army coming and going outside the city day and night, feeling depressed. At this time, they were quite excited when they heard this and asked Li Jinquan for battle.

When the crowd was in high spirits, Li Jinquan didn't say anything, but he thought about it repeatedly.

Now the enemy and us are in a stalemate. If we send troops this time, it is obviously unrealistic to destroy the Tang army in one fell swoop. The only goal is to burn the catapults and wood. But how could Li Yuan and Liu Renzhan, the current commander of the Tang army, not guess what the opponent is thinking?

The famous generals of the Tang Kingdom will not even neglect the defense of the camp! Even if they try their best and lucky enough to attack the camp, regardless of whether they can achieve their goals, their own casualties will definitely be inevitable, and they will even go without returning.

But this does not mean that Li Jinquan opposes sending troops. Ming Hanrong's words are indeed incisive. Now the army is in panic. If the Tang army really waits for a hundred catapults to be put on the hem of the city, not to mention whether the Shouzhou City can withstand it, I am afraid that even the soldiers guarding the city will lose their fighting spirit. Therefore, it is imperative to send troops out of the city, but how to dispatch troops has become the primary problem.

It is natural to say that selecting strong soldiers and horses is not a matter of being considered by Li Jinquan, but in his eyes, this move is equivalent to a sheep entering the tiger's mouth.

Now in Shouzhou City, in addition to the newly recruited soldiers recently, there are only three soldiers, Li Jinquan's right wing of the Guards, Li Song's Baoxin Army, and Wang Shilin's Guangzhou Army.

On the right wing of the Guard Saint Army, these soldiers were almost all northerners who followed Li Jinquan from the Central Plains, and they were also the trump card for his survival. One person would be killed or injured, and his strength would be weakened accordingly. How could Li Jinquan bear to let them go and die?

Besides, Li Jinquan was always worried about Li Song and Wang Shilin. Although both of them expressed their intention to follow, it was hard to predict whether they had any other intentions. If their direct troops were damaged, who could guarantee that they would not take the opportunity to start a rebellion in Shouzhou City?

After repeated consideration, Li Jinquan finally ordered Li Song to personally lead the 8,000 Baoxin Army, and exit the city at dusk to attack the Tang camp, burning the Tang army's catapult and a timber at any cost.

This decision was carefully considered. Li Song was also a surrendered general in the northern country, and most of the Baoxin Army under his command were northerners. In terms of combat effectiveness, it was not inferior to the guards under Li Jinquan's command. This also aroused Li Jinquan's fear. Therefore, it was most appropriate to send Baoxin Army to the north. It could not only take on combat tasks perfectly, but it would not be a pity for death or injury.

As for Wang Shilin's Guangzhou soldiers, in Li Jinquan's eyes, they were just a mob composed of a group of southerners. They also acted as cannon fodder, but they were afraid that the cannon fodder would not be qualified.

"The last general will receive the order! It will live up to the expectations of the general!"

Under the eager eyes of the tent, Li Song, the governor of Luzhou, who was sitting upright on the right, did not hesitate, but immediately stood up and bowed and received this dangerous military order.

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In the evening, the sunset burning like flames in the sky rendered the huge Shouzhou City red.

At this time, the south gate had been opened and the suspension bridge was slowly lowered. Li Song rode a brown and red horse with complex thoughts, and came out one after another with the eight thousand Baoxin soldiers behind him.

Although these soldiers who used to guard important towns in Huaixi had rebelled against the Southern Tang Dynasty, they were still wearing the standard armor of the Southern Tang Dynasty. The battle flag they used was still the Baoxin military flag, not the strange sun, moon and star patterns. The meaning here was intriguing.

Although both surrendered generals who went south to the Central Plains were afraid of Emperor Li Jing, Li Song and Li Jinquan's experiences were very different.

Li Jinquan was successful in his youth and was adopted by Li Siyuan, the Mingzong of Later Tang Dynasty. Before he defected to the Southern Tang Dynasty, he had already been appointed as the governor of Jin State. The reason for the decline of the Southern Tang Dynasty was very ridiculous.

You should know that Li Jinquan was born into the Tuyuhun tribe. Although he was brave and good at fighting, he knew nothing about the Central Plains government orders. When he was the governor of the Anyuan Army in Jin State, he handed over all local government affairs to his confidant Ming Hanrong.

However, when the Ming Han Rong was greedy for money and had great power, he plundered the people and accepted bribes. He was rich in a blink of an eye, which made the people of Anzhou, the capital of Li Jinquan, live in a miserable life.

Soon, the deeds of the Ming Hanrong were spread to Kaifeng. Emperor Shi Jingtang of Jin State endured it and only personally selected an honest and self-disciplined official Jia Renzhao to replace him. Later, Li Jinquan's adviser Pang Lingtu also made a statement, saying that Jia Renzhao was honest and dedicated and had good abilities, and was much better than Ming Hanrong.

After receiving the news of the jealousy, Ming Hanrong immediately sent a killer to sneak into Pang Lingtu's house and killed his whole family. At the same time, he sent someone to poison Jia Renzhuo, causing Jia Renzhuo to die of a broken tongue, and then he naturally blamed the bandits.

But there is no airtight wall in the world. Soon Jia Renzhao's two sons fled to the capital to sue for grievances. The angry Shi Jingtang decisively ordered the general Ma Quanjie to lead his army to Anzhou to question and replace Li Jinquan. Ming Hanrong, who had a ghost in his heart, was frightened when he heard this, so he was as if he had persuaded Li Jinquan to rebel against the Tang Dynasty. He finally successfully persuaded Li Jinquan to rebel against Jin State and gathered all his soldiers to surrender to the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Although the Southern Tang gave Li Jin a series of names of the Holy General Army of the Duke of the Zhongwu Army, he did not give him any real power, and firmly controlled him and his soldiers to the border Shouzhou, and even placed 30,000 Qinghuai Army beside him. This kind of thorny practice made Li Jinquan feel deeply resentful.

On the contrary, unlike Li Jinquan who was "forced" to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, Li Song took the initiative to lead his army south when the Khitan destroyed the Jin Dynasty and had no master in the Central Plains. Most of the northerners under his command were fierce men who had fought with the Khitan.

He also surrendered with his troops, Li Song was very humble when he met the saint in Jinling and even took the initiative to express his willingness to hand over military power, which made Li Jing very fond of him. After thinking about it again and again, he finally decided to grant Li Song the governor of Luzhou and incorporate his troops into the Baoxin Army in Huaixi, which was still under his command.

Luzhou has a special significance in the Southern Tang Dynasty. In addition to being the governor of the Baoxin Army of the Southern Tang Dynasty, it is also the place where Yang and Wu Taizu Yang Xingmi made his fortune.

After all, Yang and Wu's "abdication" was obtained, so Liezu Li Bing left the title of Jiedushima for descendants of the Yang royal family and allowed them to worship the ancestral temple in Luzhou. However, at the same time, they also sent generals to serve as the governor of Luzhou, firmly controlling the military power of the Baoshima in hand to prevent the descendants of Yang and Wu from having strange intentions again.

This directly led to the fact that these two people who were in the position of Jiedushi and the governor of Luzhou must be incompatible.

Unfortunately, after Li Song took office, he happened to meet Yang Weiyue, the most domineering generation of the Yang family, now the governor of the Baoxin Army.

After Li Jing ascended the throne, the situation of Yang Wu descendants was significantly improved. Yang Weiyue not only had close contacts with officials in the court, but also married the younger sister of the queen Zhong. As his power increased, his desire naturally increased. How could he be satisfied with the false title on his head?

But Yang Weiyue was a royal family of the previous dynasty. If he dared to ask Emperor Li Jing for military power, it would be almost the same as seeking death. He was not so brave yet, so he turned his attention to the newly appointed Li Song.

Yang Weiyue originally thought that Li Song was in a difficult situation as a surrendered general and would definitely be easy to win over. Unexpectedly, Li Song was not stupid and knew that he should never get involved in this matter. So he often evasively, perfunctory, and always perform his duties honestly.

Over the past six months, Yang Weiyue failed to test it in every way, and finally became angry and began to make things difficult for him. Finally, at a banquet, one of Yang Weiyue's confidants pushed Li Song's five-year-old parent-child into the lake and drowned, and the murderer suddenly disappeared the next day.

Li Song was extremely sad and angry when he lost his beloved son. After many times, he came to Yang Weiyue to argue with him but failed, he had to submit a memorial to Jinling one after another and requested the court to investigate thoroughly. However, the ministers in the court learned that the matter was related to Yang Weiyue, so they dodged one after another, and no one was willing to speak for the surrendered general.

Some people even deducted this memorial, but instead falsely accused Emperor Li Jing of the surrendered general Li Song led his troops to force the residence of the Jiedu governor Yang Weiyue, which would cause harm to the local area and would be rebellious.

Li Jing was thinking about fighting in the south and north, and had no time to pay attention to it. He actually believed the court officials' request and issued an order to severely punish Li Song, not only deprived him of his military power, but also removed his family from Jinling to be punished, and asked him to immediately compensate Yang Weiyue's house for losses and come to his house to apologize in person.

After receiving the imperial edict from Jinling, Li Songzhong's last trace of belief in the court completely collapsed, and the northerners in Baoxin's army were also angry when they heard about it. At this time, Li Jinquan rose up and rebelled and sent an invitation to him. Li Song, who had already been despised of rebellion, was already completely disappointed and immediately summoned his old subordinates to respond. That night, he rushed into Yang Weiyue's mansion and beheaded and died.

Since arriving in Shouzhou, Li Jinquan's tyranny and stubbornness and suspicion, coupled with his confidant Hanrong's greed and jealousy, Li Song quickly noticed it and was disappointed. The two gradually became unfamiliar with each other.

Recently, the Tang army has repeatedly sieged the city fiercely, and Li Jinquan deliberately placed Li Song's guaranteed army on the most dangerous front line of the East Gate, and used it as cannon fodder like the previous Qinghuai army. In just a few days, it quickly reduced from more than 10,000 troops when entering the city to 8,000.

When Li Song was ordered to lead his troops out of the city to attack the Tang camp, he had already reacted. In addition to the strength of the Baoxin Army, Li Jinquan was nothing more than fear and continued to weaken his strength in disguise. At the same time, he was sure that the northerners of the Baoxin Army would definitely not surrender to the Southern Tang court.

Since that's the case, where should we go?

Li Song naturally had his own thoughts. At this time, he had sent an order to speed up his pace after leaving the southern gate and entered the dense forest where the Tang army commander Li Yuan appeared on that day. Since the battle in the south of Shouzhou City, the soldiers in the city have long known that there was a road to Bagong Mountain hidden in the dense forest.
Chapter completed!