Chapter 321 Soldiers enter Dengzhou City and take over the governor's seal
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In the dawn of dawn, Li Jing's Zhendong Army was like a slowly blooming rose, a rose composed of steel and iron, with thorns shining.
In addition to the ten battalions on both sides of the left and right, they were also stationed in Liaodong, the three 15 battalions in the front, middle and back of the Zhendong Army were mobilized together with the logistics auxiliary soldiers and other battalions. They all landed on the Dengzhou Wharf, and then began to gather and arrange them on the wharf to form neat steel square arrays.
Lin Wei led the front wing to the dock first. The elite camp of the front wing had already set up a battle array to control the road leading to Dengzhou City. The Iron Wall Camp has also arrived ashore, one on the left and one on the right, on the two wings of the Black Bear Camp.
The middle wing was commanded by Li Jing himself. Liu Xun, deputy general of the Silver Spear Battalion and the personal guard of Li Jing, had already taken the Yidu Silver Spear Guard to get off the boat next to Li Jing. Several tall flag bearers spread Li Jing's flag. The two cavalry battalions of the Crane Control and Flying Cavalry were arranged in two arrays, just behind the Iron Wall Stage and Spear Square camp, and were adjusting the array. A large number of Zhendong troops were disembarking in a steady stream of ships and landing on the docks.
A total of fifteen battalions and 15,000 troops were transported from the Nutao Camp and climbed to the dock. From the dawn of dawn and until the sun reached the sky, the 15,000 troops from the three wings of Zhendong Army were still landing continuously, as if they would never be transported.
About 200 knights surrounded Li Jing. These people were a group of young and outstanding team leaders who had just been drawn from each battalion, and all of them had great military achievements and officers of both levels. This was a new battalion head. The officer teaching battalion had a total of 1,000 officers. In addition to the 200 officers who received six months of further study, there were also 800 outstanding sergeants who had reached the rank of sergeants. These sergeants entered the teaching battalion, which was not as good as the officers. However, they were also an opportunity to learn from the officers. Moreover, when the teaching battalion was critical, they also had to go to the battlefield. However, the officers of the teaching battalion were once every six months, and when the time came, they would return to their own battalion. However, the sergeants below would be promoted to non-commissioned officers and become third-level sergeant commanders in a year. After one year, they would be promoted to non-commissioned officers and become third-level sergeant commanders. After promotion, they were transferred to new positions.
This teaching battalion now has another nickname in the east army, called the military guard camp. Because half of the officers who entered were officers and half sergeants, officers would be promoted after they came out, and sergeants could also become non-commissioned officers and could serve as mate commanders, flag bearers and other positions. On the other hand, the military battalion was placed in the middle wing. When sending troops, they had to take on the task of Li Jing guard camp, so everyone called them the officer guard camp. The first batch of 200 teams, chief officers and 800 soldiers recruited, all of which had undergone the most severe assessment. At that time, countless people registered, and one thousand were selected from 25,000 people. That was a ratio of 25 to 1.
In the middle of the officer guard camp, a large flag was tightly protected. This was the flag of the Zhendong Army. The flag was embroidered with three huge characters of Zhendong Army. The guard flag was a huge honor. The flag bearer was Lei Meng, the strongest soldier in the Office guard camp. Lei Meng was nearly eight feet tall and he was fighting alone. Ten people were no match for him and he was extremely powerful.
Li Jing sat in a temporary camp tent set up on the dock, living in the center of the entire army. As the commander of the entire army, Li Jing generally does not stay in the front army directly, nor does he like to stay in the rear army directly. Instead, he likes to stay in the central army. When he is in the central army, Li Jing feels that everything is under control. And stays here. He can pay attention to the situation on the entire battlefield at any time and make adjustments to the situation at any time. He is in a high ground where he can see the battle situation and put the troops in the places he needs most depending on the situation.
Even when he watched Li Jing from a distance, Li Jing was so brilliant and dazzling at this time. Compared to the many times surrounding him, Li Jing was a little too young, but his general power was faintly revealed. The full set of armor and weapons he wore today were all the sets of armor collected by the emperor and weapons used by the emperor. The items used by the emperor were of course the most exquisite. Li Jing personally tried it, both armor and weapons were better than his own sets, so he took them to wear them without hesitation, instead of putting them at home for worship.
The armor is a gilded mountain armor, with golden light all over the body, which is both beautiful and dazzling, extremely exquisite. It has a crimson shirt inside, which can be worn in both cold and heat. Each of the wrong armor strips on the outside has been tempered and shining with light. It can be said to be a set of steel armor, which is light and fit, and has extremely strong protection.
His large cloak is made of countless gold threads, so heavy that even charges rarely float. Once he gets on the horse, he will almost completely cover the mount's hind legs. Ordinary cloaks cannot be used as a hook.
With such weight, a pair of shoulder-swalking kirins that were lying on their shoulders and corresponding to each other seemed to be ready to jump out at any time. In addition to the two kirins on their shoulders, Li Jing's helmet was cast into a phoenix with wings spreading phoenix on both sides. Under the tip of the helmet above, there was a slightly smaller lion with one claw and a roaring mouth. There was also a lion's belt around his waist, and a lion's head in the middle of the belt. The four lions were made of pure gold and were inlaid with ruby eyes. The shin armor, arm armor and iron gloves were decorated with complex cloud patterns. Each hook was plated with gold. The gilded steel mountain armor was polished repeatedly and bright in the sun.
Song Wen and Dengzhou generals stood under the city tower of Dengzhou, looking from afar as the east army on the dock landed continuously.
"A mighty army!" King Zhao Li Shi also climbed the city gate tower at some point. He looked at the army that was constantly unfolding on the pier, and a few lights flashed in his eyes and sighed.
Kong Wei, the ten generals of the Tuanjie Battalion in Huangxian, was also amazed when he looked at the army, but said tactfully: "What do Li Jing want to do? Now the governor of Dengzhou is still Liu Envoy, and they asked them to attack the rebels together before and they did not go out. The rebels surrendered last night did not come to ask Song Envoy. What is more excessive now is that he actually dares to lead troops to come. What does he mean?"
He wanted to arouse the anger of everyone, but everyone was indifferent when they heard it, but they looked at Li Jing's army with thoughts. Yesterday they stood firmly with Song Wen. That was because Song Wen was not only the governor of Dengzhou, but also Song Wen was also Song Wei's tribe and confidant. Li Jing was just a small military envoy, and the backstage was Cui Yunqing, the governor Sima, backstage. But overnight, Li Jing suddenly became a celebrity in front of the emperor, and now he was promoted and awarded a title. But it was different from yesterday. Song Wei suffered even defeats in Zibo, and they had heard that who knew which one of Song and Wang Jingwu could win, and who knew whether Li Jing would be the final winner by then.
Song Wen understood that this was Li Jing's demonstration to him. Five days had passed after Li Jing proposed the conditions that day. In fact, the letter from the Qingzhou Grand Marshal arrived last night. He also read the content of the letter. Lei Gang was also in his mansion, but he was still a little hesitant. He was a little unwilling to hand over the position of governor, and he also felt that it was not a good thing for the Grand Marshal to surrender Dengzhou like this. But judging from the current appearance, Li Jing was determined. If he refused, Li Jing would force him to take it. There were 20,000 troops under Dengzhou City, while Li Jing only had 15,000, but no one in Dengzhou City would think they could defeat Zhendong Army.
They may look down on Li Jing on the surface, but Zhendongjun was really shot from the sword and fire, so they can't accept it.
Song Wei gritted his teeth, got off the city and went straight into the governor's mansion, found Lei Gang and said, "Please ask Judge Lei to see Li Jing. Report the conditions of the general to Li Jing!"
"Have you figured it out?" Lei Gang asked. Only a few people now know about his arrival. Although this matter was passed by the General's Mansion and Song Wen did not require Song Wen's consent, Song Wen is Song Wei's confidant general. He did not want him to have any resentment towards the General in his heart.
"I figured it out." Song Wen was helpless. Even if he really wanted to fight Dengzhou, he would not be able to fight Li Jing. Instead of doing this, it would be better to go with the flow and give Dengzhou to Li Jing.
"That's good. Actually, you don't have any ideas. The general asked you to hand over the position of governor of Dengzhou to Li Jing. When we take back the two prefectures of Zibo and Qi, you will be allowed to choose one of the governors of the two prefectures." Lei Gang smiled. "We have to destroy Wang Jingwu first. As for Li Jing, let's talk about it after pacifying Wang Jingwu."
The relationship between Li Jing and the General's Mansion is now a bit subtle. But at least it is still on the same side. But Wang Jingwu is different. He has already rebelled openly, and that is endless.
Li Jing was surprised when he saw Lei Gang coming, but he felt as expected.
Li Jing looked at Lei Gang with a smile, and did not speak first, waiting for Lei Gang to express his own conditions.
Seeing Li Jing's confident look, Lei Gang had to tell Song Wei's conditions directly.
"The Grand Marshal asked me to come here to fulfill my original promise and hand over the position of governor of Dengzhou to Brother Ji Yu. In order to repay my brother for his contribution to quelling the rebellion, the Grand Marshal not only wanted to hand over the position of governor of Dengzhou to you, but also to facilitate the garrison of Zhendong Army, he would transfer all the troops of Dengzhou to other departments."
Li Jing nodded and it would be best to transfer other troops. Although there are tens of thousands of troops and thousands of united troops in Dengzhou, these troops are in large numbers and are not easy to manage. Staying there is no benefit for Song Wei and Li Jing, so it is better to transfer them away. In this way, Song Wei has enough troops to deal with Wang Jingwu, and Li Jing can also get the Dengzhou he wants.
"Does the Grand Marshal need any help from our Zhendongjun?"
Of course, Song Wei will not give him Dengzhou in vain, let alone Song Wei's voluntary transfer of Dengzhou troops, which is quite rare for Li Jing. Since Song Wei gave up one foot, he will be 1 foot. After all, at this stage, if you can get Dengzhou, Li Jing will be unable to expand in a short period of time, and it will take time to digest and control Dengzhou.
When Lei Gang saw Li Jing as such a good-minded, he felt relieved. He was afraid that Li Jing wanted to Dengzhou and refused to agree to Song Wei's conditions, so it would be difficult for him to get stuck in the middle.
"Three hundred thousand stones of grain, three million yuan, and three thousand sets of swords, guns, bows, arrows, armor, 300,000 arrows, and one thousand war horses." Lei Gang quickly put forward the conditions and said with a flattering smile: You also know that when Wang Jingwu fled Qingzhou last time, a fire burned the Qingzhou warehouse. Now the brothers who quelled the chaos are still relying on the 10,000 stones of grain temporarily borrowed from the families in Qingzhou to respond to emergency measures. But the fight against the thief cannot be achieved in one day."
"This is a naked blackmail!" Zhang Hong, the military officer, heard that he wanted so many things, thought that he had exceeded four million chunks. This is amazing. Although the Zhendong Army is now in large territory, it can raise more soldiers. Last time he tried to find a way to get the level of soldiers, he reduced the military expenditure a little. When Song Wei spoke, he wanted so much. This is really a robbery!
Lei Gang said: "Zhang Lushi is terrible. I will say in detail that this is not a blackmail. After the Song envoy took the soldiers of Dengzhou away, the military camps in Dengzhou will be the Zhendong Army. In addition to some money and food, there are many things that cannot be taken away, and these are also valuable. In addition, there are also."
"No need to say about Judge Lei!" Li Jing waved his hand. Seeing this, Lei Gang thought Li Jing thought the conditions were too high, so he hurriedly said: "If General Li is not a good player, you can discuss the specific method for this matter."
"Lei judged misunderstood my meaning. What I mean is that I don't have to say anything about this matter anymore. I agree to all the conditions proposed by Dayu."
"Really!" Lei Gang didn't expect things to go so smoothly.
Li Jing sighed and said, "The reason why I want to be the governor of Dengzhou is because I made a request to the Grand Marshal and agreed to it. If the Grand Marshal was unwilling at the beginning, then I could tell me directly whether I could wait. Since I agreed, I and my brothers would take it seriously. This is not because I have disrespect, but just because I have done my best. Since the Grand Marshal fulfills his promise, everything is easy to discuss. Now that the rebels are not pacified, I, Li Jing and Zhendong Army, are both part of Ziqing Town. If it weren't for the last time I rushed back to deal with the navy rebellion, we would also have to wipe out the rebel Fang Hui together."
"Since the general decided to transfer the Dengzhou troops to quell the rebellion, I naturally have no objection. Since the general needs some weapons, money and grain to quell the rebellion, I am even more obliged to do so. No matter what, Li Jing and Zhendong Army are all under the command of the general. Not to mention now, even if I take over as the governor of Dengzhou, Dengzhou and Zhendong Army will still obey the commander of the general in the future." After saying that, Li Jing turned to Zhang Hong and said, "According to Lei's judgment, prepare all the money, grain and weapons, and deliver them all before tomorrow."
Lei Gang was both surprised and moved, and felt that Li Jing was not like the kind of person they guessed. He immediately followed Zhang Hong to receive money, grain and weapons. Li Zhen smiled and said, "The county marquis just handled it very well. He was just a few million chunks of money. Not only did he buy a Dengzhou, but he could also get the temporary let go of Song Wei from the General's Mansion. It's worth it!"
On that day, Zhang Hong handed over all the money, grain, and weapons to Lei Gang. The next morning, Song Wen handed over the seal from the governor of Dengzhou to Li Jing. He then took the troops and united camps of Dengzhou, a total of 20,000 troops to Ziqi in a mighty manner.
Li Jing led the Eastern Army of the Town to Dengzhou City that day and divided his troops into Huangxian, Penglai, Mouping and Wendeng counties in Dengzhou. Riding on the Wild Horse King, Li Jing slowly entered Dengzhou City under the escort of the officer guard camp. The streets outside the city were filled with welcome people everywhere. Looking at all, Li Jing seemed to have returned to the scene when he first entered Dengzhou with Wendeng Tuanying Camp last year.
Chapter completed!