Li Chi became more and more angry about the two prefectures in the north of Xuzhou. After all, these two prefectures were also under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou. He was first occupied by Tang Xian, but now he finally had the opportunity to get it back, but he was then
The Yanzhou Army took the lead. He was deeply trapped in the Yangzhou battlefield and could not draw too many troops. He had to worry that the Yanzhou Army would give him a blow from his flank.
"Oh... Why is the Yanzhou army always so lucky? First, I took it from the Qi army and had not fought to the death with the Qi army. I was almost ineffective. Even if I exchanged the Qi army with the Huaiyin Mansion, which occupied the governor, to use
It is also the original food of the Qi army. It’s hateful! And Tang Xian, if it weren’t for the Qi army being held back, could you occupy the northern part of Jingzhou? It’s so hateful that you actually gave up all the northern garrison to the Yanzhou army!"
Although he was constantly hinting himself that he wanted to let go of Pengcheng and Haizhou, Li Chi could not swallow the anger in his heart. You know, it was for the purpose of these two palaces or the entire Tang army's jurisdiction, but he was the third one.
Ten thousand elite soldiers were hidden in the northern part of Xuzhou. If I had known this, it would have been better to transfer it to the southern frontline early in the morning. At least, the Yangzhou strategy might be a different situation.
"Li Yan, I asked you to contact the Zhao army and navy at sea. What's the situation?"
"Report to the lord, they said that they had no intention of participating in the attack on the Qi army because they had no benefit." Li Yan said in a muffled voice.
"Damn it, there is no benefit? They have taken away one-third of the Yangzhou Navy, but there is no benefit? You didn't say that if we cooperate with us and take down the Yangzhou Navy, all these warships will belong to them?"
Li Yan said bitterly: "I said it, but the Zhao army ignored it at all. They also said that if they wanted the Yangzhou naval warship, they would still get it without our cooperation."
"I..." When Li Yan heard what he said after he returned, Li Chi added fuel to the fire, but gritted his teeth and finally did not scold him. After all, his strength was not as strong as the other party, and the other party made sense. Zhao's army did not dispatch the army to the point of dispatch.
, it has already cut off one-third of the Yangzhou Navy's strength. Do you still need to cooperate with the Xuzhou Army?
Of course, Li Chi didn't know that Zhao Xun had no intention of cooperating with others and annihilated the Qi army in one fell swoop. He even wanted to make the Qi army fight with the southern princes and fight constantly.
"Forget it, don't talk about it. Since these two palaces are now in the hands of the Yanzhou army, we will stop for the time being. After we pacify Yangzhou and the coalition of princes defeated the Qi army, we will settle accounts with them. Pengcheng and
Haizhou will be ours sooner or later." At this moment, Li Chi could only say a few harsh words, and he was really powerless to do anything else.
"Report... Report to the lord, many rebels have been in the territory of Yuhang Prefecture. The counties have involved tens of thousands of people. The governor of Yuhang Prefecture and the garrison commander sent an urgent report, asking for what to do." Just finished speaking in the northern part of Xuzhou
War, another urgent report came.
"What? Damn it!" Li Chi's face suddenly became extremely gloomy. Compared with the situation in the two northern prefectures in Xuzhou, this news made him even more angry.
It's strange that after taking over the four prefectures of Yangzhou, Li Chi was still extremely excited. Sui'an, Xin'an, Yuhang and Kuaiji were relatively prosperous places in Yangzhou. Therefore, when the Xuzhou army occupied these places, Li
Chi promulgated a series of good policies, such as tax reduction, labor service reduction, and commerce encouragement.
At the beginning, the people of these four prefectures had no dissatisfaction with Li Chi's rule. However, since Murong Cheng returned to Jiujiang Prefecture, the territory of these four prefectures began to be uneasy. Ordinary people were better. But those great gentry and merchants did not cooperate with the Xuzhou army, and there were even more. Many merchants never returned, leaving these four palaces and entering the jurisdiction of the Qi army. What’s worse is that above the local area, All kinds of rebels, rebels, and rebels who caused trouble and rebels appeared one after another to attack the rule of the Xuzhou army.
It was because of the two northern prefectures in Xuzhou that were impatient and now that they were causing trouble in this place, Li Chi was even more annoyed and immediately shouted with a ferocious look on his face: "Send orders to the prefectures, from now on, to those who cause trouble in trouble, from now on, to those who cause trouble. No matter who it is, you will be killed. Damn, the four palaces are under the rule of our Xuzhou army, not the Qi army. The owner of these four palaces is me, Li Chi, not Murong Cheng, a group of people who don’t know how to live or die, since they are looking for death, I’ll send them on their way.”
"Don't be angry!" General Li Yi, the general of the guard, persuaded him urgently.
"Stop the anger? How can I calm down the anger? You said? These people have rebelled repeatedly and did not obey the education. How do you let the anger deal with it? Since they don't want to live, then the anger will let them die." Li Chi looked back suddenly, cold and li roared.
Li Yi knelt down and said anxiously: "Master, please don't be angry! The rebellion in these four palaces is constantly in order to get the lord to order the killing of these rebel people. Lord, once you issue this military order, These tens of thousands of people were killed. Then, lord, you will completely lose the hearts of the people in these four palaces."
"Lord, since we occupied this place, the people's attitude towards us has improved a lot. Even if Murong Cheng returned successfully, these ordinary people were not dissatisfied with us. Although there were many rebellions in many places, they were all the great gentry and gentry. The Qi army organized in detail, and the ordinary people participating were just confused."
"A month ago, the first rebellion affected more than 20 counties, all of which were found in the four prefectures. But now, there are only a few three counties. This shows that under our benevolent and righteous policies, the people of these four prefectures have gradually become increasingly Begin to return home. If the lord executes all the participants this time, it will inevitably cause panic. Then, once the spies from Qi army provoke it, it will..."
"Well..." When Li Yi heard Li Yi's words, Li Chi immediately extinguished the anger in his heart, and a cold sweat appeared on his forehead. After thinking about it, he immediately understood the profound meaning of Li Yi.
"If you pass the order, you will only punish the evildoers, and the others will be taught and forgiven their sins. However, you must be strictly guarded."
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"Have the Xuzhou army withdrawn?" In Yanzhou city, Zhao Xun asked Sun Zhuang, who was in charge of intelligence.
"I have evacuated. I guess I saw that we have dispatched 20,000 troops and the two prefectures. These Xuzhou troops saw that it was too wasteful to be stationed in Chuzhou Prefecture, so I evacuated." Sun Zhuangchen Said.
Zhao Xun breathed a sigh of relief. In order to take over the territory of the Tang army, he returned to Yanzhou and took charge personally. He also dispatched the forefront troops defending the northern part of Yanzhou to Pengcheng and Haizhou to participate in the operation. Now that he has succeeded, he will naturally worry about it. Let it go. He knew that in Chuzhou Prefecture in northern Xuzhou, the Xuzhou army secretly deployed 30,000 elite troops.
Regarding the plan of the Tang army to govern the territory, we also talk about the invasion of the Qi army. At the beginning, the three princes discussed and jointly planned the Qi army. The three princes had their own goals. Since Zhao Xun learned that Tang Xian’s goal was northern Jingzhou, there was
The plan to take over the Tang army's territory. Of course, the initial goal was to take back the two prefectures in northern Yanzhou.
However, things changed. The Xuzhou Army did not join forces with the Yanzhou Army as Zhao Xun expected and exhausted the main force of the Qi army on the border of Xuzhou. Instead, they were preparing to sit and watch the Qi army and Yanzhou Army fight to fight to the death.
In this case, the Qi army entering Huaiyin Prefecture of Xuzhou cut off food, and Jingzhou and Yangzhou were also attacked by the enemy. Murong Cheng, who learned about the situation in his rear, naturally had to fight back. But the severity of the matter was different.
Instead of fighting with the Yanzhou army, Murong Cheng gave up the Huaiyin Mansion he occupied to Zhao Xun in exchange for food. As soon as he saw this, Zhao Xun had the intention to completely take over the four prefectures occupied by the Tang army. Not only Yanzhou
In the north, there are also in the northern part of Xuzhou. Use this to teach Li Chi a lesson.
Of course, Zhao Xun also knew that Li Chi had arranged troops in Chuzhou Prefecture. However, Zhao Xun didn't care at first. After all, Zhao Xun's purpose was to belong to the prefectures that originally belonged to Yanzhou. That originally belonged to Xuzhou.
Of course, Li Chi should have taken over the prefectures and counties. But now it is different. Li Chi was tightly restrained by the Qi army, and even the war began to be somewhat disadvantageous. Then, if he owned himself, he might be the Xuzhou army.
There is naturally no problem with the two prefectures occupied. Because Li Chi would never dare to provoke him at this time, and he was even afraid that he would advance eastward. If that were the case, it would be the most fatal blow to the Xuzhou army.
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This is the truth, but Zhao Xun knew that he could not wait until the Xuzhou army entered Pengcheng and Haizhou before taking action. If that were true, Li Chi would definitely fight with him for the sake of the two prefectures. And his troops were in hand
Most of them are in Yuzhou, so it is difficult to decide the victory or defeat with the Xuzhou army in a very short time.
Therefore, Zhao Xun fought in this operation at a rapid pace, unexpectedly. In fact, Zhao Xun did not have many people, and the "cross bandits" of about 10,000 were only more than 30,000 people. In northern Yanzhou
The two prefectures occupied by the Tang army were dispatched with a small number of men. Most of the troops were stationed in Pengcheng and Haizhou prefectures.
In fact, Zhao Xun was also worried that if the Xuzhou army really wanted to attack for the two prefectures, the matter would not be easy to solve. After all, there was still Tang army here and had not left yet. Fortunately, Xuzhou
The army was shocked by the surface actions of the Yanzhou army, and Li Chi did not want to add another enemy to him, so he gave up the two palaces.
"Lord, after taking over these four palaces, we have shortened a lot of troops above our strength. Do we still need to recruit new soldiers?"
Zhao Xun also knew about Sun Zhuang's inquiry. After taking over Yuzhou and Huaiyin Prefecture and taking over these four prefectures, the places that need to be guarded became much larger, especially Huaiyin Prefecture and this newly included area, which is particularly important.
But Zhao Xun also understood that with the implementation of the new policy, the old lands of Yuzhou and the Tang army would become peaceful places under their rule without too many regular soldiers guarding them. Therefore, recruiting too many soldiers is not conducive to the local area.
However, Huaiyin Prefecture in the southeast of Yuzhou and Pengcheng and Haizhou Prefecture in the northeast of Yanzhou were cut off from Xuzhou. We need to be guarded against the Xuzhou army and we must be on guard.
After pondering for a while, Zhao Xun said in a deep voice: "If I hand over Pengcheng and Haizhou to Zhao Jun in exchange for the soldiers, armor and food supplies we need, what do you think?"
"This..." Sun Zhuang was stunned, but he was in charge of intelligence. He really couldn't say anything about political affairs, especially such major issues that were related to the overall situation.
Seeing Sun Zhuang like this, Zhao Xun couldn't help but shook his head secretly. He understood that Sun Zhuang did not speak, not that he did not have his own ideas, but because of his identity. Sun Zhuang is a member of the Shadow Department and is responsible for intelligence.
It is stipulated that people from the intelligence department, regardless of their height, shall not be involved in military and political affairs, but shall only be responsible for intelligence and supervision matters. If they violate it, they shall be handled by the supervision departments within the various departments.
However, Zhao Xun has decided to do this. It is still extremely beneficial for his side to hand over Pengcheng and Haizhou prefectures to the Zhao army. It can not only open a gap for the Zhao army to expand southward, but also reduce pressure on himself.
Both the Zhao army and the Yanzhou army were under Zhao Xun's command. Therefore, Zhao Xun's decision was quickly implemented. Five days after Wei Dong took over the two prefectures, the Tang army began to evacuate. And in the two prefectures
Less than ten days after the Tang army withdrew, Wei Dong handed over the two prefectures to the Zhao army stationed in Qingzhou to take over. Of course, the Zhao army traded a large amount of grain and armor. In other words, Zhao Xun used himself.
expand your armament and strengthen your strength.
For the people of Pengcheng and Haizhou, both the Zhao army and the Yanzhou army were very welcome. They knew the new policies of the Zhao army and the Yanzhou army. Therefore, for a different lord, they
They are all welcome.
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"It's a loss... it's a loss. If we didn't have bordered the Zhao army, I really wanted to hand over the four palaces to Zhao army. Damn, Li Feng exchanged the territory of our two palaces for more than us.
The materials traded in the palace are much more sophisticated. The Zhao army's weapons were actually exchanged for the two palaces. The Yanzhou army is getting stronger and stronger now, and there is another tiger around.
Ah." Tang Xian couldn't help but sigh.
Zhao Xun used the transaction between the two governments, of course, not really exchanged for actual benefits. Therefore, Zhao Xun naturally got much more things. After all, many things need to be used, and there are unknown sources that cannot appear. Therefore, Zhao Xun put the materials in
The list is made public to the public with integrity.
Tang Xian, who was also the object of the transaction, was naturally the first to know the result. After all, these four palaces were the territory of his Tang army. Tang Xian had no idea about these four palaces. After all, these four
The palace is surrounded by the Zhao army, Yanzhou army and Xuzhou army, and it is difficult to expand and survive. However, the transaction did make him feel a little at a disadvantage. Although there is a lot of more food, it is more
The actual value of weapons, armor and equipment is not much higher. But after all, he paid for the four prefectures, while the Yanzhou Army only handed over the two prefectures.
"Lord, according to the current situation, I am afraid that the relationship between the Yanzhou army and the Zhao army will exceed our expectations." Tang Xian's military advisor Zhou Junyan frowned.
"What does the military advisor mean?" Tang Xian asked quickly when he saw Zhou Junyan so serious.
"Lord, with Zhao Xun's domineering hero, do you think he will do a loss-making business?" Zhou Junyan did not answer directly, but asked.
"Of course not! Looking at Zhao Xun's history of making a fortune, he has never been willing to suffer losses." Tang Xian said gritting his teeth. When he was in Qingzhou, Tang Xian suffered a great loss from Zhao Xun. He ate in Zhao Xun's hands
After losing, he was kicked out of Qingzhou by Zhao Xun.
Zhou Junyan shrugged and said, "Isn't that all? Since Zhao Xun is not the one who is willing to suffer losses, why did he trade so many things to the Yanzhou army? He didn't know that the four prefectures we exchanged for the Yanzhou army?
What is the price? We have never concealed the transaction with the Yanzhou army. I am afraid that even the Xuzhou army Li Chi knows what we are trading. Wouldn't Zhao army know?"
"Since you know, why do you still trade in a loss? There must be a problem with this. Based on the previous connection between the Yanzhou army and the Zhao army, my subordinates speculated that the Yanzhou army is very likely to have surrendered to the Zhao army. In other words, now
The Yanzhou Army is likely to be a member of the Zhao Army." Zhou Junyan explained with a serious expression.
"No...no!" Tang Xian said with a pale face. Zhou Junyan's words really shocked him. If it was true, it would be terrible.
Zhou Junyan smiled bitterly and said, "I hope it is not true, but the relationship between them is really hard to explain clearly. Even if the Yanzhou army has not surrendered to Zhao army now, I am afraid that in the future..."
After hesitating for a little, Tang Xian asked, "Is it really possible for Zhao Xun to become the supreme one? Then Li Feng, the leader of the Yanzhou Army, has chosen a target of surrender."
Zhou Junyan looked at Tang Xian and said slowly: "Lord, in the eyes of his subordinates, if he really wants to choose the most likely one among all the princes, Zhao Xun is really the most likely one."
Although he was unwilling to admit it, Tang Xian also knew that what Zhou Junyan said was not unreasonable. When he thought of submitting to others in the future and not continuing to do his best, he could no longer continue to live like this, killing and robbing him.
"No, even if that's the case, that's what happened in the future. Besides, I'll be the most influential in the future. What I want to do is to strive for courage..." Tang Xian couldn't help but roar in secret.
"Let all departments step up their training and prepare for the southern expedition. We need to take down the southern part of Jingzhou in the shortest time." Zhou Junyan's guess can only put greater pressure on Tang Xian, forcing him to be faster
The prefectures and counties in southern Jingzhou were captured.
A little later than Tang Xian, Li Chi also began to speculate on the relationship between the Yanzhou army and the Zhao army. Like Zhou Junyan, the result of his guess was the same. Although it was just a guess, Li Chi believed that the Yanzhou army had begun to turn to the Zhao army.
, but at this moment, he had no choice but to do anything about it.
As for Pengcheng and Haizhou prefectures, Li Chi has completely lost his mind now. He knew that it was basically impossible to get what Zhao Jun had in his hands. The only thing he hoped for now was that the Yanzhou Army had not yet
Submission to Zhao Xun, the two sides are just cooperative relations. Otherwise, that would be...
Like Tang Xian, this speculation can only bring greater pressure to him, forcing him to mobilize more troops to fight against the Qi army and strive to gain greater benefits...