Chapter 447: He Said He Came Over The River To Return
Chapter 447
Yang Qian took the letter from the messenger and couldn't help but frowned in confusion.
"It turned out that he was here to punish the general, but I remembered that he was supposed to be suppressing bandits in the north.
And it’s not a place under my jurisdiction, so why should you report it to me?”
"The leader of the bandits, Li Zitong, was defeated by General Lai in the Lianshui area. Li Zitong led more than 3,000 remaining troops to the south bank of the Huai River and entered the north of Jiangdu County."
"Li Zitong?" Yang Qian couldn't help but be stunned. This man seemed to be a veteran rebel.
Unexpectedly, he actually came to his own territory.
Yang Qian opened the letter and after some pleasantries, he told Yang Qian that Li Zitong was quite knowledgeable in military strategy.
Moreover, he acted cunningly and extremely slippery, and more importantly, he was well-received by the public. This was the third time someone had defeated Li Zitong.
Unexpectedly, this guy did not continue to wander around the Jianghuai River as usual, but instead forcibly crossed the Huaihe River and entered Jiangdu County.
Naturally, I didn't dare to neglect the situation, so I quickly sent my confidants to send a letter to Yang Qian explaining the situation.
Don't worry, if Li Zitong makes a big fuss in Jiangdu County, he won't be able to offend Yang Qian, a popular figure in front of the emperor.
Yang Qian glanced at the leaders of the surrendered soldiers who were listening with their ears open, and said with a hearty smile.
"Well, thank you for your help, general. I will reply to your general's letter right now.
As for Li Zitong, if he doesn't want to go back to the north of the Huai River when he arrives in Jiangdu, then he shouldn't go back."
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Three days later, the Jiangdu camp raised eight thousand troops, with Li Jing as general and two Jianghuai people, Du Fuwei and Fugong'er, as lieutenants. They crossed the canal and headed north with murderous intent.
Less than three days after the army was dispatched, Yang Qian received an envoy from Li Jing in Jiangdu.
Yang Qian looked at the letter in his hand in confusion, and it took him a long time to react.
"Li Zitong actually surrendered?"
"They said they came across the river specially to surrender..." The envoy who was sent back to report the news also nodded helplessly.
Qin Qiong copied the letter and read it for a long time, and couldn't help but shook her head with a bit of laughter.
After Li Zitong led three thousand remaining soldiers to cross Lianshui, he only stayed on the south bank for one day and then rushed straight to the foot of Shanyang City, saying that he would surrender.
Then, under the guidance of the officers sent by Shanyang County, they headed south along the canal.
As a result, he happened to encounter a large army led by Li Jing in Gaoyou. Then, Li Jing was helpless.
Damn it, I finally got an opportunity to make a contribution, and you guys actually surrendered like this...
As a result, Li Jing was helpless and could only accept the surrender of Li Zitong and others, and prepared to return the same way.
Of course, we did not forget to send someone back to Jiangyang to report Yang Qian's news, which could not be said to be good or bad.
Three more days later, Yang Qian finally met Li Zitong, another rebel leader from the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Take another look at Du Fuwei and Fu Gong'er, who came with them all the way and seemed to be chatting happily.
Yang Qian couldn't help but feel dumbfounded. Remembering that in history, this three-person CP seemed to have a story that had to be told.
Back then, Yang Qian was amazed. It was really hard to understand the grievances and hatreds of these heroes and rebel gangsters, as well as the saucy tricks they used to love and kill each other.
But I never thought that one day I would see the three of them together again, chatting happily.
Needless to say, Li Zitong, the leader of the thieves who came with three thousand soldiers and horses, and some of the leaders under his command.
The thieves who surrendered like Su Yong and others will be classified into a high-level repentance class.
The first, of course, is to isolate all kinds of connections between them and the surrendered pawns. The second is that all the descended pawns will be broken up and reorganized.
Breaking their original structure, these soldiers and horses no longer belong to the thieves leaders, but have become Yang Qian's subordinates.
In addition, when the soldiers arrived at the military camp, they had enough to eat and warm clothes, and there were specialized personnel to teach them military regulations.
In short, Yang Qian's army, in particular, established a military police team, according to Yang Qian.
A team dedicated to preaching and explaining military law, ranging from generals to ordinary soldiers. In Yang Qian's words, let military judges go to the grassroots level.
Let every soldier understand what is right and what is wrong.
In short, the military police have always set an example, and no matter who they are, they will be punished if they violate French military law.
The soldiers were convinced, and naturally they gradually gathered people's hearts and became an army with centripetal force and combat effectiveness.
In the days that followed, the northern part of the Jianghuai River was in constant war and war. As for Shandong and Hebei, it was even worse.
The land of Henan and Guanzhong are somewhat peaceful, while other places are also filled with smoke and dust.
Only the dozen counties in the south of the Yangtze River, including Jiangdu County, were a little better than the chaotic Sui Dynasty.
From the beginning of summer to the end of autumn in the eighth year of Daye, the strength of the Jiangdu camp had increased to 50,000.
In the Jiangdu Preparatory Camp, there are still more than 30,000 people who are still training hard or studying hard.
After more than half a year of hard work, and with the help of Yu Shiji and Lai Huer from the court, and after spending a lot of money and gifts.
Finally, Jiangdu County's iron cavalry increased from more than 2,000 cavalry at the beginning to more than 11,000 cavalry.
Yang Qian did not defend Jiangdu with heavy troops, but took the initiative and sent one or two troops every month to patrol the counties south of the Yangtze River.
In the counties south of the Yangtze River, military posts belonging to him, the arresting ambassador, were set up to deliver military intelligence and warning messages.
He completely abandoned the local government. Although it caused dissatisfaction among the counties, Yang Qian didn't care at all.
Because Yang Qian discovered that news from the government would always be delayed, ranging from several days to half a month before it could be delivered to him.
In this way, it is simply equivalent to giving those thieves and bandits time to develop and grow.
Therefore, after warning the county officials several times, but they still remained the same, Yang Qian simply established a separate military post in each county with about 500 troops stationed there.
They regularly inspected the counties in the prefecture. Whenever there were bandits and bandits somewhere, and if there were very few bandits, they would attack and kill them as soon as possible.
If the bandit force is large, then they will quickly report to the Jiangdu camp or contact the elite troops patrolling the counties.
As a result, with both the mobile army suppressing and the local military post monitoring, most of the banditry in Jiangnan was extinguished immediately, making it difficult to make waves at all.
And because of the tranquility in the south of the Yangtze River, the areas south of the Yangtze River had great harvests. A large amount of grain and various materials were transported to the north and south of the Yangtze River and up and down the Yellow River via canals.
This made Yang Guang quite gratified. He was indeed right about this kid, and Yang Qian also used his actual ability to let many ministers and people in the world see his ability.
The troops under Yang Qian's command not only kept the counties south of the Yangtze River very peaceful, they even crossed the Huai River many times and went to the north of Huai to help fight against thieves.
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