Li Jing did not trust all the Liangshan generals who had surrendered, so he let Chao Gai and Shi Jin, who had taken the initiative to surrender and could be absolutely trusted, take charge of the army.
Of course, if there is not even a Liangshan surrendered general among the generals in charge of military power, wouldn't it be a clear sign of Li Jing's distrust of the surrendered generals?
Therefore, Li Jing was promoted from general to middle, and chose Lu Junyi, who was relatively more reliable. After all, compared to heroes like Lu Zhishen, who came from a noble family, Lu Junyi had to take loyalty to the emperor more seriously.
Chao Gai and Lu Junyi had a very high prestige in Liangshan. After they took charge of the surrender, the Liangshan surrender quickly settled down and their sense of belonging to the Qin army was increased. They may not be able to return to their peak state for the time being, but participating in
Defending the city is no problem at all.
With the war approaching, Li Jing decided to give them the same treatment as the regular army in order to get the Liangshan surrendered troops back home as soon as possible. It was this decision that allowed the 23,000 surrendered troops to return home completely.
The treatment of the regular troops of the Qin Army is the best among all the princes. As long as they serve as soldiers, they will receive military pay, land will be distributed to their families, and they will enjoy a series of tax-free benefits. If they die in battle, they will receive generous pensions. This is in troubled times.
How many people want it but can’t get it.
Therefore, whenever the Qin Army issued a recruitment notice, people from all over the country gathered to respond, but the number of places was always in short supply. After all, the Qin Army's establishment was limited.
As for Beihai County, since Li Jing's arrival, it has only issued a recruitment announcement once, and only 10,000 men were selected from 100,000 strong men to join the army. It can be imagined how precious the places in the official establishment of the Qin Army are.
Naturally, Liangshan surrendered the army and knew this, so he was even more grateful to Li Jing and cooperated more actively and proactively with the reorganization of generals such as Chao Gai, Lu Junyi and others.
The reorganization of the Liangshan surrender army was in full swing, and Wang Mang, who arrived in Liang State, had also received the news that Song Jiang had died in battle and the main force of the Liangshan army was almost wiped out.
After learning the news, Wang Mang was furious and cursed: "Trash, Song Gongming, no, Liang Shanbo, they are all a bunch of trash."
Wang Mang had long expected that Song Jiang was no match for Li Jing, but he did not expect that Song Jiang would be so useless. He had no fewer troops than the Qin army, but he did not last even half a month, and Li Jing was almost playing tricks.
was easily defeated.
The various chain strategies used by Li Jing were not very clever in Wang Mang's opinion. Such a long chain plan could not have any flaws in the United States and Europe. However, none of Liangshan's senior officials, including military advisor Wu Yong, saw it, and they were all fooled.
Li Jing was tricked around and finally jumped into the trap carefully crafted by Li Jing.
In this regard, Wang Mang didn't know what to say. Is Li Jing too smart? Or is everyone in Liangshan too stupid?
Wang Mang has absolute confidence. If Li Jing uses such a strategy to deal with him, he will never fall into the trap. Instead, he will designate strategies to turn defeat into victory.
What Wang Mang didn't know was that Li Jing just had to deal with Song Jiang who lacked strategy, so he dared to use such an almost crazy show of resourcefulness, because he was confident that even if there were flaws in his strategy, Song Jiang and Wu Yong would not be able to find it.
But if the opponent were to be Wang Mang, Li Jing would naturally not use a strategy with obvious flaws. He would definitely not let Wang Mang find out that he was implementing it after a tighter layout.
Below, Song Yu and Wu Yong saw Wang Mang commenting on Song Jiang and Liang Shan. Their expressions became extremely bad, but they did not dare to get angry. After all, people had to bow their heads under the eaves, and Wang Mang brought 40,000 elites.
It is their last savior.
"Prime Minister Wang, although my lord is dead, someone other than King Liang still needs to succeed him as soon as possible in order to stabilize the morale of the army as soon as possible."
With that said, Wu Yong pointed to Song Yu and continued: "My lord's brother, Song Yu, is both civil and military. Do you think he can inherit the throne of King Liang?"
Hearing Wu Yong's words, Wang Mang's eyes flashed with amusement, and he sneered: "Liangshan Army has less than 10,000 soldiers left, what else is there to stabilize? Besides, how did the position of King Liang of Songjiang come about? You two have no idea.
Are you trying to push the numbers? Do you still want to pass on the legacy? Just rely on this mere 7,000-strong army?"
Hearing what Wang Mang said, Wu Yong and Song Yu's expressions suddenly changed. Wang Mang would not recognize the position of King of Liang.
Song Yu suppressed the indignation in his heart and said bravely: "Prime Minister Wang, after all, my brother's royal title was conferred by His Majesty and recognized by the court. Since my brother has no children, it is natural for him to succeed to his brother."
."
"hehe……"
Wang Mang smiled disdainfully and said: "Your Majesty is conferring the title on Song Jiang. When he was canonized, he did not say that the title of King Song Jiang could be hereditary.
Besides, even if the truth agrees and allows Song Yu to inherit Song Jiang's position as King of Liang, do you really think that Song Yu can secure this position?"
As soon as these words came out, not to mention Song Yu, even Wu Yong had nothing to say.
Song Jiang became the King of Liang mainly because of the 40,000 troops in his hands, but now Song Yu only has 7,000 left in his hands. It is naturally impossible to still want the king's title. After all, the king's title is far more than this price.
In a word, Song Yu cannot become the King of Liang.
"Although the position of King Liang cannot be inherited by Song Yu, Song Yu, you can continue to make contributions to the court. As long as you can make enough contributions to the court, I will personally request a title for you in the future."
After saying that, Wang Mang patted Song Yu on the shoulder and said with a smile: "From now on, Liangshan Army will be under the command of the prime minister and use it well."
Song Yu glanced at Wu Yong and saw that the other party nodded solemnly to him. She also understood in her heart that Wang Mang was determined to take over Liangshan. If he refused, he would probably die violently in a few days.
Song Yu suppressed the grievance in his heart and said with a wry smile: "Song Yu, thank you, Prime Minister Wang."
Looking at Song Yu and Wu Yong who looked respectful, Wang Mang smiled happily. Li Jing's heavy damage to Liangshan's main force was not without benefit to him. At least if Song Jiang was still alive, he would never be able to recruit Liangshan's army so easily.
Not long after Song Yu and Wu Yong left, Zhou Yafu and Xun She came to the door aggressively because they had received news that the remnants of Liangshan's army had joined Wang Mang's command.
Zhou Yafu and Xun Shen were both Liu Che's confidants, so it was impossible for them to watch Wang Mang continue to pull the tiger skin of the Northern Han Dynasty to strengthen themselves, but they never expected that Wang Mang was so incompetent that he would kill them in just a few words.
Sent away.
"Prime Minister Wang, don't forget, you are still my right-hand man." Zhou Yafu said meaningfully.
"Don't worry, General Zhou, the truth will never be forgotten." Wang Mang said seriously.
Zhou Yafu had nothing to say, so he turned around and left. The moment he walked out of the door, a cold light suddenly flashed in Wang Mang's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it.
Chen Qingzhi walked out from behind the screen and said, "My lord, now is not the time for internal fighting."
"I know."
Hearing this, Chen Qingzhi breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "My lord, Song Jiang died in the battle, the main force of the Liangshan Army was almost completely destroyed, and now only seven remnants of the army are left.
The 80,000 troops expected to be dispatched before the war are now less than 50,000, so it may be difficult to get rid of Li Jing."
"Qi State dispatched 70,000 troops this time, plus our 50,000 troops, a total of nearly 130,000 troops. However, Li Jing only has 40,000 Qin troops in his hands. Our army has three times the strength of the Qin army. How can we still not attack it?"
Just Beihai?"
"It's possible, but I'm afraid there will be heavy casualties."
Chen Qingzhi's words immediately reminded Wang Mang that he had finally saved some wealth, but he couldn't just spend it on siege warfare.
"The truth is that I will write to Yuan Shao for help. He has recruited tens of thousands of new soldiers and horses on the Bohai Sea. Although the new soldiers are not strong enough, they are more than enough cannon fodder."
As for whether Yuan Shao would refuse? Wang Mang was not worried at all.
Li Jing has become a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of all the princes in Hebei. If he is not completely eliminated from Qingzhou, all the Warring States achievements achieved by the coalition forces in Hebei will be meaningless.
Therefore, no matter how unhappy Yuan Shao was, he could only send troops and horses to help Wang Mang first, completely pacify Qingzhou, and then return to Jizhou.