Li Kerou couldn't sit still at all in the Jiedushi mansion.
Sometimes he stood up, sometimes he sat down, sometimes he sighed, and sometimes he walked around irritably. In short, he was restless and restless.
Although Feng Dao is young, he is much calmer than him. Now the old man is sitting on the ground opposite Li Kerou, calmly reading through the archives.
Occasionally, a clerk would come in and ask about one or two things, and he would give instructions quickly. His thinking was clear, decisive and precise, and his work efficiency was extremely high.
When you want to be an official, who should you serve as an official? If you really need to worry, that is also the business of the warriors and has nothing to do with him. Because most of the benefits in this world are occupied by warriors, big and small. Warriors eat meat, they
Civil servants can only drink some soup, so what's the hurry? In the worst case, the broth will turn into vegetable soup, so what's the point of worrying?
"Alas!" Li Kerou sat down and sighed heavily.
What worries him is not that the Xia army is approaching Jinyang in large numbers.
He was dissatisfied, regretful, and sad about this matter, but at the same time he understood his brother's approach.
It is unsustainable to raise too many soldiers in Hedong. Even if Shao Shude does not attack, they will explode themselves. Unless they expand externally, they can plunder if they win and consume them if they lose. But this method also has side effects, that is, if too many soldiers are lost, they will be destroyed.
If there are too many and too harsh, it will easily lead to backlash: military chaos.
Taken together, it is best to lower the price. This is true.
There are thousands of soldiers and horses in the city, mainly the Yier Army and the Shenjie Army, with less than 7,000 people.
In addition, there are some scattered cavalry, such as personal cavalry, flying cavalry, cloud cavalry, sudden cavalry, Tielin, Hengchong, etc., totaling about five thousand cavalry.
A total of 13,000 cavalrymen were all loyal troops who were withdrawn from the various states in the last moments of my brother's life. From this, it can be seen that Hedong was completely undefended against the Xia people.
Li Kerou summoned the generals the day before yesterday and announced the surrender to Yi Ban. The generals had no objections and were even a little happy. Most of the sergeants had no objections either. A few were restless and incited rebellion, but they were quickly suppressed. Jinyang
Overall remain calm.
Yesterday, a messenger came from the direction of Daizhou, conveying the sacred order: based on the troops stationed in Jinyang, supplemented by the remaining soldiers of the Chengtian Army, they would be reorganized into the Baoning Army, with Li Kerou as the military envoy - the Baoning Army was the former commander of Hedong Town.
There have been military trumpets.
Once the imperial edict was announced, Li Kerou read it out in front of everyone, and all the generals obeyed.
Li Kerou is currently staying in Jinyang. There is no problem for him to be a military envoy. What's more, he is actually not very good at military affairs. Now he is mostly just making a transition. In the future, this position will be given to others. Everyone has a chance, provided that he wins the saint's position.
Happy.
If you think about it carefully, the situation is still very stable. Although An Yuanxin, the general of Shilingguan Town, did not know his life or death and raised a rebellion, the scope of the impact was very small. There was only some commotion in Yangqu County in the northern suburbs of Taiyuan, so it was not a big problem.
What Li Kerou is worried about is Lanshi.
"No, I have to go upstairs." After thinking about it, Li Kerou couldn't help it, and stood up and said, "I can't just watch my brother die."
By the end of the sentence, my eyes were slightly wet.
Among the Li family brothers, the eldest brother Ke Yong passed away just now, and the other brothers also died one after another, and now they are the only two left. He cannot sit idly by either emotionally or rationally.
"Stay behind." Feng Dao sighed after hearing this. He understood Li Kerou's mood, but he still advised: "Situ may not listen to you."
"My brother is just obsessed for a moment..." Li Kerou said: "The people he controls are all ambitious and as stupid as pigs. My brother is bewitched by him, and he doesn't think about it. It's true that I can try to persuade him.
Change of mind.”
"Stay behind." Feng Dao stood up, pondered for a moment, and said, "I'm just afraid that Situ will be kidnapped by others. If you leave, you will suffer the consequences."
Li Kerou was startled for a moment. In fact, this possibility is quite high. As Feng Dao said, those thieves can hold Li Kening hostage, but they can't hold Li Kerou hostage? But -
"You don't need to persuade me." Li Kerou calmed down, and his expression gradually became determined, and said: "Even if it is a sea of swords and fire, I have to go through it."
Feng Dao sighed.
Ke Ning and Ke Rou are brothers. As an outsider, he couldn't persuade him much. He could only say: "Why don't you let General Yuan accompany you to take care of you?"
"General Yuan" is Yuan Jianfeng, who is currently the envoy of the Cavalry Army. With him as his escort, it is indeed much safer.
"That's fine." Li Kerou nodded, then looked at Feng Dao and said, "After I leave, everything in the city will be entrusted to Cunxian and you. There must be no trouble."
"Okay." Feng Dao was also unambiguous and agreed on the spot.
Li Cunxian is the adopted son of the King of Jin and the envoy of the adopted army. There are more than 3,000 people in this army, which is known as the elite. If they don't cause chaos, Jinyang will be fine.
Under the current general trend, Feng Dao asked himself whether he could still stabilize these warriors with his sharp tongue.
Li Kerou didn't delay too much. After hurriedly tidying up, he went to the military camp to look for Yuan Jianfeng.
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Two days after Li Kerou left, on the seventh day of April, a cavalry army came from a distance from the southeast.
They divided into several groups and walked around outside the city first to make sure there was no ambush. Then they divided into several groups and headed towards the city.
"Open the door!" a sergeant shouted loudly.
When the defenders saw the general's flag with the word "Fu", they did not dare to neglect it and immediately reported it.
After Feng Dao, Li Cunxian and others received the news, they hurried to the top of the city.
"Who is coming?" Li Cunxian asked loudly after the two looked at each other.
"I am Li Chengyue, you all should recognize me." Li Chengyue, the general of the Chengtian Army, rode forward on his horse and said loudly: "Fu Dutou Cunjian, under the orders of the Emperor of the Xia Dynasty, led an army of 100,000 to Jinyang to garrison.
Now that you have surrendered, you should know the importance of the military order and open the door quickly without any hesitation."
"It's really Li Chengyue!" Li Cunxian slapped the female wall, sighed, and said: "What a thief, he hooked up with the Xia people before the king left, and now he comes to call for help, how shameless."
The expression on Feng Dao's face did not waver at all, and he only reminded: "General, since Li Chengyue is outside the city, the door should be opened."
Li Cunxian sighed and asked, "Do you want to prepare anything?"
"There is no need to prepare anything." Feng Dao said: "The general is also a general of Daxia, and the 13,000 soldiers of the Baoning Army are also soldiers of Daxia. Just open the city."
What Feng Dao meant was that there was no need to engage in those fancy surrender ceremonies.
Since Yi'er, Tuqi, Tuozhen and other troops have accepted the adaptation and become Xia troops, then everyone's identity is also Xia officials and Xia generals, and they are colleagues with Li Chengyue and even Fu Cunshen.
Open the city gates wide and admit friendly troops into the city, that's all.
"It's still Feng Sima who is mature, otherwise I will make a joke." Li Cunxian smiled sheepishly, turned around and ordered: "Open the door quickly!"
The order quickly spread to the city.
Jinyang City is huge in scale and is divided into three cities: East, Middle and West. There are three independent cities in the city: Daming Palace City, Jinyang Palace City and Cang City. Strictly speaking, Jinyang can be called six cities.
The entire Jinyang Waiguo has a circumference of 42 miles. In the Tang Dynasty, it was second only to Chang'an and Luoyang, which was the northern capital. In comparison, the circumference of Bianzhou City was only 20 miles, and many small counties were even only a few miles.
Jinyang City is high and deep, and is very strong. There are five acropolis around the city wall, which are at the corners of the three cities of Jinyang. These five acropolis should have been destroyed by the five generations of military disasters in history. This fashion
Yes, but it's deserted and no soldiers are stationed there.
There are twenty-four city gates in Jinyang. The number of city gates is very rare, but considering the huge scale of the three cities of Jinyang, so many gates seem about the same.
Historically, after Zhao Guangyi conquered Jinyang, he completely demolished this formidable city to prevent anyone from separatizing Jinyang again - the Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han and Northern Han Dynasties all started in Jinyang.
Later in the Northern Song Dynasty, Jinyang City was rebuilt, but the scale was far less than before. Not to mention the city wall was short and thin, the city perimeter was only eleven miles, there was no warehouse city inside the city, and there was no acropolis outside the city, so it no longer had the conditions to hold on for a long time.
It is no longer the majestic city that people looked forward to in the Five Dynasties.
The soldiers of the Baoning Army acted quickly and opened two gates in the north and south, namely: Daxia Gate and Yanxia Gate - Jinyang was called Daxia in ancient times, and it is actually normal to use Xia as the name of the gate.
The surging cavalry rushed into the city along the open streets.
Fu Cunshen raised his head and looked around, feeling filled with emotion.
Such a majestic and fortified city worthy of being a capital fell into his hands like this?
If the Jin people piled up reserves in the city and recruited more men to help defend the city, how many lives would they need to lose before they could capture it?
He couldn't imagine it. Fifty thousand? One hundred thousand? Or more?
Fortunately, thanks to the sage's literary and military strategies, Jinyang was able to surrender without a fight. How good is it!
"Take me to see Li Kerou!" Judge Fu Cun smiled and ordered.
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Li Kerou hurried to Loufan Supervisor City.
This city is not big and somewhat dilapidated. It was originally the residence of Loufan Pastoral Supervisor. It existed in the pre-Tang Dynasty. Successive Hedong Jiedushi made some repairs intermittently. When it was handed over to Li Ke, it was already in a shaky state.
appearance.
At this time, there were actually not many horses in the ranch. Poor management, war attrition, insufficient investment, and self-stealing and other behaviors had exhausted the last bit of vitality of Loufan Ranch, just like Hedong now.
A camp has been built in the valley where the ruined city is located, and many soldiers are looking around there, poking their heads.
As soon as Li Keroufu arrived here, his heart suddenly sank.
This doesn't look like order!
"The stay behind is coming!"
"The stay behind is coming!"
Some warriors saw them and shouted loudly from the top of the city.
Yuan Jianfeng looked left and right, feeling a little uneasy, and whispered: "It's not good to stay behind."
Li Kerou snorted. He wasn't stupid, so how could he not see it? The entire camp and the city looked smoky, and it didn't look like someone was in charge.
After a while, a general came up from the top of the city and said loudly: "But is Li staying behind?"
"Are you -" Li Kerou put up the awning with his hands, squinted his eyes to distinguish carefully, and hesitated: "Shi Shaoyong?"
"The last general is Shi Shaoyong." Shi Shaoyong smiled bitterly and said, "Situ is in the city. Please come inside to discuss."
"Why doesn't my brother come to see me?" Li Kerou asked: "Where is Zhou Dewei? Is he still in Lanzhou?"
"General Zhou is recovering from his injuries in Lanzhou." Shi Shaoyong said, "Please stay behind and come in to discuss important matters."
As soon as he finished speaking, the east door had opened.
Li Kerou hesitated for a long time, finally gritted his teeth, got off the horse, and walked forward.
"Stay behind!" Yuan Jianfeng held him back and shook his head slowly: "No."
Li Kerou had completely calmed down. He gently opened Yuan Jianfeng's fingers, bowed and said, "General Yuan, please stay outside for a while. If there is any disharmony, just leave alone. I don't blame you."
"
"Don't be emotional if you stay behind." Yuan Jianfeng said urgently: "There may have been riots in the city, and the consequences of leaving are unpredictable."
Li Kerou refused to listen and walked forward while saying: "The soldiers may not be determined to cause trouble, or they may be convinced. You can send people to take a detour to the west to see what is going on in Lanzhou. There has been no news for a long time. Zhou Yangwu is a believer.
, if he is still here, there will be no chaos in Lanzhou."
Having said this, he looked back and said: "Hedong's vitality can no longer withstand the torment."
After that, he turned around and moved forward, entering Loufanjianmu City.
Yuan Jianfeng reined in his horse and drove back and forth in the valley.
Five hundred riders followed him, watching silently. They were all old warriors, and they still didn’t know what was going on?
Li Kerou was worried about his brother's life and death, and at the same time he also had thoughts of meritorious service, so he went into the city alone and tried to persuade the rebels. But they did not want to take risks, and they were even eager to try as if weeds had grown up in their minds.
Yuan Jianfeng keenly felt that something was wrong with his sergeants. He shouted and led them to retreat several miles away. At the same time, he flew to Jinyang and Daizhou - reporting to Li Cunxian was useless. He might as well report directly to the saint, maybe