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When Li Sizhao returned to his base camp, he immediately summoned his eldest son, Li Jichou, and his second son, Li Jitao, for discussion. Li Sizhao had several sons, but only these two were adults. Among them, Li Sizhao had followed him the longest and was very popular with the military. As expected,
He must be the successor of King Zheng in the future. After Li Jitao returned from Fan Yang, Li Sizhao assigned an army to him to command. In less than half a year, it was ready and had the spirit of a strong army. Therefore, Li Sizhao also assigned him this time.
Go out with the army.
However, Li Jitao was somewhat reluctant to attack the Yan army, which made Li Sizhao unhappy. Li Sizhao's idea was that his second son was still too young and still needed experience. At least he should understand that the benevolence of women cannot be tolerated in the struggle for hegemony among princes.
When the father and son met, Li Sizhao explained in detail the negotiation process with Li Siyuan and the differences between the two parties. He finally said: "Jinyang is rich and located in the center of Hedong. It is the foundation for hegemony. Gushi is unwilling to abandon it. Therefore.
, Gu Yu wants to discuss it again with the King of Han, and hand over Yizhou and Qinzhou to the King of Han. After the war, the two states of Zelu will also be under the jurisdiction of the King of Han, in order to seek Jinyang, I wonder what your two opinions are?"
Neither Li Jichou nor Li Jitao spoke, and looked at each other silently. After a moment, Li Sizhao said again: "But Yizhou, a remote place in Qinzhou, is afraid that the king of Han will not be enough, so he thinks about it alone, and wants to use grain and fodder as a weapon to force him to
King Han surrenders, do you two think it is feasible?"
Li Jichou suddenly said: "My uncle is suspicious. If my father threatens me with food and fodder, I might cause trouble."
Li Siyuan was the chief eunuch among the adopted sons of the old Jin King Li Keyong, so Li Jichou and Li Jitao always called him uncle. Li Siyuan's temperament was not like that of Li Sizhao. He was the kind of person who kept things to himself and was full of doubts when thinking about problems.
The fact that the three kings of Hedong were divided into Jin Dynasties was not only because Li Siyuan was very wary of Hebei, but also related to his temperament.
At that time, the King of Liang threw over a few edicts of the king, intending to create discord between the three Hedong generals and Li Keyong. Logically speaking, King Liang's move was quite obvious, but the effect was excellent. Li Keyong summoned
Li Siyuan, Li Sizhao and Zhou Dewei returned to Jinyang to "report on their duties". It was precisely because Li Siyuan was too suspicious that he conspired with Li Sizhao and Zhou Dewei to delay their return to Jinyang, which ultimately made Li Keyong and the three generals more and more suspicious.
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Therefore, when Li Jichang said this, Li Sizhao felt it was reasonable, sighed and asked: "According to Dalang's wishes, what can I do?"
Li Jichuan thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "The mountains and rivers east of the river are dangerous. They are one body. How can there be two masters? Father, it is better to take advantage of it when it is unprepared..."
Li Sizhao was startled, stared at Li Jichou and said: "Why is this? The three kings are divided into Jin, but they still belong to the Hedong lineage. They do not want to fight the enemy together, but fight among themselves. How will they gain a foothold in the future? Furthermore, the king of Jin yesterday said
He was defeated and died. Now only Gu and the King of Han are left, and even more so when they are of the same mind, how can we kill each other?"
Li Jichuo said: "My father's heart is east of Hedong, but my uncle has no such thoughts. The one who advocated attacking Yan was his uncle. After the small defeat, he was afraid of the former. It was his uncle. The one who sent troops to sneak attack without telling everyone was his uncle. After the defeat, he got involved in Jinyang."
He is still an uncle... but we don’t know whether the one who steals Hedong in the future will be his uncle?"
These heart-wrenching words made Li Sizhao's head beat incessantly. Li Sizhao thought for a long time. Finally, he was moved and hesitated: "I'm afraid it won't be easy to get along with..."
Li Jichuan smiled and said: "This is easy, we only need to do it tonight. Fight quickly and attack slowly, be prepared and take advantage of unpreparedness. Destroy the imperial food, collect the remaining troops, and conquer Hedong overnight! Tomorrow, the army will withdraw to Wu
Township, occupy the throat of Wu Township, sit back and watch the decisive battle between Liang and Yan, advance to capture Luzhou, and retreat to secure Jinyang. From now on, the surname of Hedong will be Zheng!"
Li Sizhao looked at Li Jichou, who was talking eloquently, and felt relieved, secretly thinking that we have a child. He then looked at Li Jitao, who was always silent next to him, and asked, "What do you think of Erlang?"
Li Jitao was absent-minded and made a sound, nodded, and then shook his head, which made Li Sizhao secretly angry. Li Sizhao ignored Li Jitao and immediately had a secret discussion with Li Jichen.
At dawn, Zheng Jun quietly moved towards the Korean army camp, which was only separated by a mountain ridge. When they arrived at the camp, the army shouted and rushed in. However, it was an empty camp with only dozens of old soldiers in it.
Sound sleep.
Li Sizhao was shocked, thinking that he had been tricked, and quickly retreated from the Korean camp. When he retreated, he found that it was a false alarm and there was no ambush. Li Sizhao asked the captured Korean veterans, but learned that Li Siyuan had already been there.
In the first half of the night, he led his army to retreat to Wuxiang.
This moment really made Li Sizhao so angry that his lungs exploded.
"Father, this old man is going to rob Jinyang! This thief dares to ignore the enemy and instead wants to steal our retreat. He is really a shameless villain! Father, we must not sit back and watch, otherwise we will inherit our foundation.
No guarantee!" Li Jichen said angrily, but when he said this, he forgot that what he did was even more cruel than Li Siyuan's.
"That's right, I'm sending an order to the whole army to pack up their gear immediately and withdraw at night! ...No, we'll leave at noon! Miao Jilie, I swear that I will never live with you!" Li Sizhao said bitterly.
Zheng Jun left the Shiyu camp in a hurry. In order to rush for time, he only carried simple luggage and provisions, and abandoned all other supplies. Li Sizhao originally wanted to leave a rear army to stop the Yan army, but at this time, which
Are the military leaders willing to stay? I asked several times, but everyone remained silent.
Li Jichuan asked himself to be the rear army, and vowed to fight well and never lose the reputation of Zheng's army. He also said that in this critical moment, father and son are close to each other, and only if he, the son, stays, can he supervise the army to death.
, if it had been anyone else, I'm afraid they wouldn't have tried their best. Li Sizhao was greatly moved and felt that his son was really sensible. But after thinking about it, he really couldn't lack this resourceful son by his side, so he rejected Li Jichuan's suggestion and simply
The second general, Li Jitao, was left behind and told him that he only had to hold off the Yan army for three days before evacuating.
Many of the elite soldiers of the Zheng army followed Zhou Dewei and were killed on the battlefield north of Xiangyuan. There were not many troops left, and Li Jitao himself only had 800 men. Watching the army leave Shiyu and disappear among the rugged mountain roads, Li Jitao
Suddenly I felt an inexplicable melancholy.
Li Jitao placed his soldiers on several highlands facing the enemy in front, and simply issued a military order, asking all ministries to block the attack for three days. Then he returned to the camp and did not come out for the whole day.
There was a lot of movement in the Shiyu camp, which naturally alerted the Yan army who was confronting them not far away. Zhou Kan ordered all the troops to be on alert, and then mobilized several battalion heads to attack several hills in front of the Shiyu camp to test the reaction of the other side.
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After a trial attack, the Yan army immediately discovered the weakness of the defenders, so they flew to Zhoukan. Based on the battle reports from all parties, the Xiangyuan battlefield headquarters judged that Li Sizhao and Li Siyuan had probably withdrawn north, and immediately ordered to increase the intensity of the attack.
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Li Jitao's troops stationed at several highlands in front of the Shiyu camp were different from the other armies of the Zheng army. They had a bit of the atmosphere of the Yan army. After this attack, they actually defended the top of the mountain until the sun went down, but the losses were not small. The battle ended
At dusk, the Yan army retreated, and the officers guarding the hills breathed a sigh of relief. They immediately gathered under Li Jitao's tent and asked for instructions on how to defend the battle in the next step. In fact, they felt powerless and felt that they could not hold on any longer.
Li Jitao was already drunk in the tent. There was no way to defend the war. He was fed several bowls of sober soup by several officers. He finally seemed to wake up, but got up and vomited all over the floor. Everyone was stunned and heard that Li Jitao
He burped and murmured: "Defend? How to defend? The Yan army is so powerful, but how can it defend? If they can't defend, they surrender..."
Early the next morning, when the Yan army pulled up the catapult, several mountain tops fell down before the catapults were fired. Li Jitao was made a prisoner while sleeping. Zhou Kan smelled the stench of wine on his body, frowned and shook his head.
Wuxiang was not far from Shiyu, but the mountain road was difficult to walk, so the march was slow. However, under Li Sizhao's desperate urging, Zheng Jun arrived at Wuxiang on the fourth day and saw Wuxiang City in the distance.
Li Sizhao ordered the army to stop.
Zheng Jun's sentry secretly approached Wuxiang, but saw that everything on the city was as before, with Zhang Gui's general's flag on top of the city. When Li Sizhao and Zhou Dewei raised their troops to the south, they left three generals to garrison Wuxiang. Among them, Li Shaohong was
Zhou Dewei's generals, Tang Li and Zhang Gui, belonged to Li Sizhao respectively. The sentinel looked at the city head for a long time and vaguely recognized that an officer stationed on the city was an acquaintance. He then bravely went around and asked the city head.
Soon, Zhang Gui appeared at the top of the city and explained to the sentry that Li Siyuan entered the city yesterday and tried to deceive the enemy, but he and Tang Li saw through it and had beheaded him.
The sentinel was overjoyed and immediately reported back to Li Sizhao. Li Jichang was afraid that this was Zhang Gui's trick after he surrendered Li Siyuan, so he asked Zhang Gui to bring Li Siyuan's head to see him personally.
Without hesitation, Zhang Gui took the heads of Li Siyuan, Ren Wan, Li Shaohong and others out of Wuxiang in person and came to greet Li Sizhao. Seeing these heads, Li Sizhao was overjoyed and ordered his army to enter the city.
A small force attacked back, and the city was deceived unexpectedly. How stupid do you have to be to expose the situation? Li Sizhao and Li Jichuan were thinking about the wonderful prospect of monopolizing Hedong, and asked Zhang Gui about the process with a smile.
Zhang Gui immediately told the story vividly and vividly, which was very interesting and aroused the laughter of Zheng Jun from Li Sizhao and Li Jichen to the military leaders from all walks of life.
When they arrived at the gate of Wuxiang City, Zhang Gui led Li Sizhao, Li Jichou and others into the city gate. On both sides were sergeants in full armor, equipped with swords, guns, bows and crossbows, all of whom stared at Li Sizhao and his party with eager eyes.
When Li Sizhao was wondering why Zhang Gui had so many sophisticated military armors, he suddenly saw a horse running towards him. The horse was extremely fast. The rider held a bright silver spear in his hand, and a thunderous roar sounded.
: "Han Jintong, you know something!"
Han Jintong was Li Sizhao's real name before he adopted Li Keyong as his adoptive father. No one had called him this name for more than 20 years. When someone mentioned this, Li Sizhao immediately felt excited and was about to get angry when he suddenly saw the person coming.
, I felt cold from head to toe.
This person is Li Cunxu again!
(Hey, why did I say "again"?) (To be continued...)