Chapter 378 Li Maoxun died of anger
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It was late at night, but Li Maoxun was not sleepy at all. Under the candlelight, he frowned and sighed. He sent Liu Rengong to send a letter to Li Jing, and he had already made great concessions in the letter. As long as Li Jing was willing to take a step back, he was even willing to marry his daughter to Li Jing as a concubine. Moreover, Li Jing proposed that the four cities temporarily lend him a temporary loan. If he had no choice, he was really unwilling to go to war with Li Jing.
However, his concession was obviously seen as cowardly by Li Jing. The damn guy refused his proposal without hesitation, and did not even consider the threat he implied in his letter.
Is it necessary to take action? But he really doesn't have much confidence. Although Lu Long's army has 90,000 troops, he is in the hands of all military leaders of all sizes. The only one he can command is his initial 10,000 troops and the 10,000 troops he recruited later. It is precisely because of these 20,000 troops that he barely settled in his current position. However, in the battle with Li Jing, this number of troops was obviously not enough. Although Fan Xinglong and Liu Yue and other old military leaders also sent troops this time, how reliable are these people?
Just as he was sighing, Liu Rengong was asking for a meeting outside.
"Come in!"
"Report to the general, the big thing is not good. Gao Shunli's army was defeated and surrendered, and Changzhou was also lost. Li Jing was leading 20,000 troops to fight towards Wozhou City. The vanguard had arrived at Binhai City, which was only more than thirty miles away from us." Liu Rengong reported with a panic look on his face.
This news was so horrifying that Li Maoxun could not believe it at all.
"How is this possible? The Gao family's father and son are not stupid people. How come ten thousand people are defeated in a blink of an eye?" Li Maoxun asked with his eyes wide open and a trembling voice.
Liu Rengong reported the news he heard, "It is reported that Li Jing was feinted to attack Gu'an City, but he ambushed the south bank of the north river of Gu'an City with elite troops, building a dike in the upper reaches to store water. After the cavalry of the front army passed, half of the infantry behind wade across the river. Suddenly, half of the infantry behind them attacked, digging the dike and releasing the water, flooding the front army. Gao Shunli was defeated and captured, and then the cavalry was surrounded and surrendered. After Gao Shunli surrendered, he took the initiative to act as the front and deceived Changzhou City."
Li Maoxun was angry and anxious, shocked and frightened at the moment. He was so angry that he rushed upwards and fainted on the ground.
Binhai City is between Changzhou and Wozhou City. Although the city is not big, there are 3,000 troops stationed at this time. To attack Wozhou, you have to go to this city first.
Li Jing asked Gao Shunli for advice and found a good plan to destroy the city.
Gao Shun said with great help, "Gaopang, the garrison commander of Binhai City, is my family member of the Gao family. In terms of seniority, he is my companion. Now he is grateful to the county magistrate. He has no choice but to repay him. He is willing to go and persuade him to surrender and let him open the city and return."
Li Jing was naturally very happy when he heard this, so he immediately asked Zhang Hong to prepare a generous gift and letter to Gao Shunli. Gao Shunli brought a few followers to ask for a visit to Gao Chong. After entering the city, he took out the gift given to him by Li Jing, which was a thousand taels of gold. He also took out Li Jing's handwritten letter, in which Li Jing specially appointed Gao Chong as the deputy commander of the Right Front Army. He also agreed that as long as Gao Chong led his army to surrender, the three thousand subordinates in the city would each be rewarded with ten cents of money.
Gao Shunli said to Gao Chong: "The current situation is that Li Jing is a dragon crossing the sea, so Li Maoxun is not his opponent. Even if Li Maoxun can survive the current level, how can he restrain the Lu Long's army after this battle? Will it be safe again when he arrives? Why not take advantage of the opportunity now and think more."
Gao Chong pondered, "Li Jing is really as good as what his brother said? You and my brother voted for him, I'm afraid they were uncomfortable and reused, right?"
"No!" Gao Shunli shook his head, "Then Li Jing's time to start a family is still short. Although his subordinates are strong and powerful, they are still mixed in various departments. There are pirates recruited in the early years, as well as old subordinates who have attacked and annexed the superiors, and even those forces in southern Liaoning were all under his command. I think Li Jing treats the generals and the troops of various departments quite well. Besides, our Gao family is from Guizhou. If Li Maoxun had not deceived us to send troops last time under the banner of Chen Gongyan, how could we follow him? Now, it would not be a betrayal to resign to Li Jing, but Li Maoxun was just deceiving us first."
The Gao family was not originally a subordinate of Li Maoxun in Guizhou. Li Maoxun was the envoy of the Qingyi army, while Gao Shunli sent fire to the Ningwu army to refine the starry sky. Chen Gongyan, the invoked surrendered army, was extremely popular in Youzhou and had been kind to the Gao family. Therefore, when Li Maoxun recruited them to send troops under the banner of Chen Gongyan, they sent troops without any hesitation. It was not until after they invaded Youzhou that they discovered that they were deceived by Li Maoxun. However, at that time, the trunk had already been completed and admitted that it was true.
Gao Chong was eventually convinced by Gao Shunli and lived in Youzhou, a separatist vassal state. He had long been used to changing the king's flag on the city wall. He was fickle and it was not a big deal. Whoever was stronger would be the one who was stronger. This was the rule of survival under the precepts of the weak.
Li Jing led his troops into Binhai City, but did not break his promise and immediately rewarded Gao Chong's three thousand subordinates. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Jing took out all the stocks of money and grain from Gu'an, Changzhou and Binhai City as rewards to reward the three armies.
Afterwards, Li Jing drew two thousand troops from the left wing of the East Army in Zhendong, mixed with Gao Chong's three thousand troops to form a new wing. The new wing was temporarily named the left wing, with Gao Chong as the envoy of the army and horses. He also transferred officers from the East Army in Zhendong as deputy.
Li Maoxun lost the Binhai City and was angry and anxious, but he did not dare to go out of the city to fight. He just sent flying cavalry to urge the other left and right troops, asking Li Quanzhong and Liu Yue's left and right troops to come to Wozhou to join. On the other hand, he secretly informed his son Li Keju, asking him to stay in Youzhou and not leave the city.
On the other hand, Li Maoxun sent Liu Rengong to the envoy to meet Li Jing again, hoping that the two families would quit. He also proposed to raise two million jin and 100,000 shi of grain to the Zhendong Army, and was willing to temporarily borrow the four cities leading to Datong by Li Jing. Moreover, he sent his daughter directly to Li Jing's army.
However, Li Jing was not moved. Although he had eaten the front army, he had not really hurt Li Maoxun. If he let him go, it would be difficult to guarantee that Li Jing would not have any other ideas after entering Datong. Li Jing immediately accepted the 200,000 yuan of advance payment raised by Li Maoxun, but did not reply to Liu Rengong.
That night, Li Jing directly divided the troops into three parts, and besieged Wozhou City with the newly reorganized left front army, right front army and left 15,000 troops. Another eight thousand town east army was divided into two parts, setting up ambush on both sides of Wozhou City, ready to deal with the left and right troops of Youzhou at any time.
15,000 troops surrounded Li Maoxun in the city of Wozhou and attacked from all directions. However, Li Maoxun in the city could not post his troops. On the third day, Li Quanzhong, the left army, had already arrived. As soon as Li Quanzhong arrived, he immediately besieged Binhai City. At this time, Qin Ju led 3,000 Liaonan united troops from Huichang to defend. As soon as Li Quanzhong arrived, he immediately attacked the city.
Jiang Ju held on for less than half a day and the city was attacked by Li Quanzhong several times. Although he fought to the death to drive Li Quanzhong's troops down the city, the united troops suffered heavy casualties. Jiang Ju asked Li Jing for help, but Li Jing stopped moving. Li Quanzhong fought at night and attacked fiercely until midnight. The south gate of Binhai City was finally broken, and Li Quanzhong led his army into the city.
At this time, Li Jing received the reward and pondered for a moment and said to Li Zhen: "Li Quanzhong came twice, walking day and night, and was exhausted, and today he attacked the city and fought fiercely for another day. Until now, the left army has not eaten yet. Now it is time for the left army to break through the south gate of Binhai City, and it is time to be excited, so we must be not alert. We should attack at this time, and we can defeat the tired left army in one fell swoop."
Li Zhen also nodded: "At this time, the left army is at its most exhausted time, and it is at its time to take action."
Immediately, Li Jing led five cavalry battalions of five central troops, including the control of cranes, flying cavalry, ranger, flying eagle and silver anus, to attack. The army suddenly rushed to the coastal city. At this time, most of the left-wing troops of Youzhou soldiers had entered the city from the captured South Gate, and some were still outside the city.
When the five thousand cavalry of Zhendong Army arrived, they immediately became like a thunderous storm, like the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, and the wind swept across the plain.
In a blink of an eye, the left army outside the city had been broken and defeated. A camp was left to continue sweeping the defeated soldiers. Li Jing led his troops directly into the Binhai City. Jiang Ju in the city led his troops to fight to the death. He was about to fail, but suddenly there was a burst of fire behind him and the sound of killing sounds rose. Li Jing had already led the cavalry into the city, slashing left and right, and Li Quanzhong was caught off guard. His troops were scattered in the streets and alleys in the city, unable to stop the charge of the cavalry of the east army.
Zhendong Army was defeated, and Li Quanzhong saw that the opportunity was not good and immediately fell out of the city. Li Jing led his troops to pursue him for a while, beheaded more than 3,000 people, and then retreated.
After this defeat, Li Quanzhong's left army retreated for more than a hundred miles and retreated to Xuanzhou City, and then slowly gathered the defeated soldiers. Finally, the left army had 10,000 troops, and only half of them were left behind in Xuanzhou City. Among them, three thousand were beheaded by the Zhendong Army, more than a thousand prisoners were captured, and thousands of defeated soldiers were directly deserted.
Li Quanzhong was thinking of Li Maoxun, and took his two sons Li Kuangwei and Li Kuangchou to continue to go to Wozhou to rescue the reborn peerless genius. However, although Li Quanzhong of the Left Army was the main general, the troops were actually composed of various troops from Yi Dingzhou. The troops that were finally pulled up were already so great. At present, no one was willing to accompany Li Quanzhong to continue northward. Li Quanzhong had no choice but to stay in Xuanzhou City.
The right-wing army led by Liu Yue and Fan Xinglong had already left Lu County, and were halfway through, only a few dozen miles away from Wozhou. Hearing that Li Quanzhong's troops were defeated by ambush and retreated a hundred miles, he immediately returned to Lu County without hesitation, and refused to move his troops.
Li Jing withdrew his troops and returned to Binhai City. Jiang Ju led 3,000 troops to unite the troops. At this time, only more than a thousand remained, which was mostly lost. Li Jing took off his Jinqi Mountain War Armor and gave Jiang Ju another hundred taels of gold. He put on a good horse spear. He said that he was not helping him, but he was just waiting for a chance to kill him. Jiang Ju was originally very resentful, but now he saw that Li Jing rewarded him so heavily and explained with sincerity. Although he believed that Li Jing had the intention to deliberately consume the Liaonan army, he had no other way, so he had to accept it in the end.
Immediately, Li Jing ordered a heavy reward to all the soldiers who fought for the death of the Liaonan Army soldiers, each of whom was rewarded with 50 stakes. For the fallen soldiers, each of them was rewarded with 80 stakes. The Liaonan Army soldiers, who were not at the same time, were immediately surprised, and the little resentment towards Li Jing disappeared without a trace.
Li Jing was about to arrange a banquet to reward the soldiers, but suddenly he visited the horse to report that the army besieged Wozhou for three days last night and suspended the rest for a night. As a result, in the middle of the night, the soldiers of Wozhou who had not been able to leave suddenly opened four gates and rushed out from the four gates. They attacked the army camps and rushed to fight in each case. As a result, after a while, they found that there were not many soldiers and horses rushing out, and many of them were even ordinary people behind them.
At this time, the generals discovered that the soldiers and horses in Wozhou were just attacking the east and west. They made a big noise, but in fact they took the opportunity to break through the north gate and fled to Youzhou. Wang Chong and General Lin Wu chased for a while, and encountered a soldier and horse who fought to the death after the palace was killed. After annihilated the troops, they could not catch up.
"Li Xunmao actually fled without fighting?" Li Jing was very surprised when he heard this.
The explorer replied: "When Wang and the two generals Lin entered the city of Wozhou, they interrogated some captured Youzhou soldiers. According to one of them, Li Maoxun's toothed soldiers, Li Maoxun seemed to have fainted once when we captured Changzhou before, when the front army of Youzhou was destroyed. Then Gao Pang of Binhai City surrendered and he fainted again. After the county duke defeated Li Quanzhong, the left army, Li Maoxun vomited three liters of blood in shock and anger, and fell into a coma. When he woke up, he was almost out of control. It is said that the retreat was Li Maoxun's explanation before his death. When the middle army of Wozhou City retreated, Li Maoxun was already dead."
"Diet? Is this matter true or false?" Li Zhen asked hurriedly. I thought that Li Jing and Duli Town had pretended to be dead, and he was defeated as a result. He had to be wary of Li Maoxun doing this once.
The explorer replied: "Lin, the two generals Wang meant that Li Maoxun was really dead."
"Hahaha!" Li Jing couldn't help laughing. Li Maoxun was so bold to seize the position of commander, but now the official Lu Long seems to have never been to sit there, and he is so angry that he is so angry. He can't help but feel funny, and this incident is a bit too embarrassing.
"Monday, what should we do now?" Guo Cheng'an asked. Li Maoxun was dead. The front army was defeated and surrendered. The left army was defeated and retreated for a hundred miles. He still dared not to emerge again. The right army was so scared that he was far away from the south that he dared to take a step. As for the rear army, Li Keju is still huddled in Youzhou City.
Li Jing slowly paced around the circle with his hands behind his back. Li Jing could only do this now. Youzhou's strength is still there, but it has not been gathered for a while, and they have not really contributed.
If Li Jing only taught Li Maoxun a lesson, the generals of Youzhou would probably be happy to see this result. But if Li Jing wanted to seize Youzhou, he would probably touch all the soldiers and generals of Youzhou. By then, he would not be able to reconcile.
But now, it’s time to stop before it comes. Li Maoxun is dead, but the debt is still there. It’s natural for the father to pay the son to pay the debt.
Chapter completed!