Two hundred and thirtieth chapters Hedong Jin King
The heavy rain in summer fell like a pour, making everything around it invisible. The turbulent river that winds around Chenzhou City surged again, no longer as calm as before, but was just rolling up turbulent waves in the wind and rain.
This heavy rain in late summer and early autumn seems to be to make the last effort to keep the last time before the season changes. It is just that the wind and rain are sweeping and slashing in the sky and earth, and they are flying white. The earth evaporates layer by layer of rain and mist, covering everything in the darkness. The wind and rain are stormy, just like the mood of the people of Chen and Song. No one knows when the end of the world that is about to destroy the Tang Dynasty will stop, and whether they can survive this storm!
Among the crowd, Luo Hou let out a long roar and came out first. The few behind him came out without looking back, but just went backwards. Then, Luo Hou's voice was "A man's career is really a success and a general is dead..."
Although the Cavalry Army was divided into two parts and took turns to fight, the number of people was small, with only 10,000 people, while the puppet Qi army had 100,000. After five or six rounds, the Cavalry Army had only half of its men and horses left, and the remaining people were injured and overdrawn.
In the previous battle, Yingtian Army also lost more than 10,000 people, with more than 20,000 armored men remaining, and 50,000 Songzhou Army set out to fight, but at this moment, less than 30,000 were the fierce battles of cold weapons, which shows how fierce the war was.
The puppet Qi army was naturally not having a good time, with twice the casualties than the Songzhou army. All the generals of the army were a little overwhelmed.
When it is getting late, and the sun sets and dusk, both sides will tacitly call for their own troops to withdraw their troops.
Duan Mingyu and the Seventh Prince both sighed, never expecting that the first large-scale battle would be like this. It is really not easy to win over this Tianqing!
Duan Mingyu was wearing a handsome suit and was covered with silver armor, and various ferocious beasts were carved on it.
"Dear generals, Huang Chao is in great power. Now the plan is coming out?" Duan Mingyu asked at the generals in the camp with blood all over the armored leaves.
"Jie Zheng, Huang Chao now has an advantage in both military strength and terrain. The last general believes that we should avoid the edge for the time being. We can retreat to Chenzhou City, and change from strategic offense to strategic defense. We can stalemate the enemy while cultivating our strength. If reinforcements arrive, we can also attack Huang Chao together!" Fang Wenzhong is worthy of being a long-time general, and in just a moment he came up with a plan.
Duan Mingyu said: "Chenzhou is already an empty city at this moment, and we will also snatch it away. But you should think carefully about how to meet your family members who have left behind the sacrificed robes when you return to Songzhou!"
All the generals were silent. Duan Mingyu said, "I have decided to attack Huang Chao's camp immediately. Even if I can't win, I have to breathe a sigh of relief for the dead brothers!"
"Report!"
"What's the important thing?" Duan Mingyu saw the soldier running in in panic, and naturally knew that there was something important to report.
"Hedong Jiedushi Li Keyong led a 70,000 army to support our army!"
The seventh prince Li Jie jumped up from his seat in an instant and could not hide his surprise: "What did you say? The King of Jin is here? Is it true?"
"It's true!"
King Jin was Li Keyong, the governor of Hedong. Li Keyong was the third son of Li Guochang, the ancestor of Xian of the Later Tang Dynasty. His mother, Qin. When Li Keyong was thirteen years old, he saw two wild ducks flying in the air and shot arrows at the same time. Everyone present was impressed.
Keyong was very brave when he was young, and the army called him "Li Yaer". When Li Keyong was fifteen years old, Li Guochang attacked Pang Xun. He joined the army and charged and fought in front of the generals. The army regarded him as "Flying Tiger Son". After pacifying Pang Xun, Xianzu was named Zhenwu Jiedushi, and Li Keyong was named Yunzhongya General. Now Li Keyong is already old, but he is still a veteran on the battlefield, in charge of Hedong (now Shanxi area), and has countless elite soldiers and generals under his command.
Later, he was ordered by Emperor Xizong of Tang to raise troops to attack Huang Chao and made many military achievements.
In February of the third year of Zhonghe, Li Keyong defeated Huang Ye, the general of Huang Chao in Shidi Valley. In March, he defeated Zhao Zhang at Liangtianpo, and Shangrang, and the enemy was thirty miles away. At this time, troops from all over the country came to Chang'an and fought with Huang Chao's army at Weiqiao. Huang Chao's army retreated into the city. Li Keyong took advantage of the victory and went to pursue the enemy, fought with the enemy at the Shengyang Hall of Wangchun Palace. Huang Chao's army retreated and fled south to Lantian Pass. Chang'an recovered, and Li Keyong ranked first in military achievements. Emperor Tang appointed Li Keyong as the procurator Sikong, and the subordinate of the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat, and the governor of Hedong, and appointed Li Guochang as the governor of Xingying north of Yanmen. In October, his father Li Guochang died. In November, Li Keyong sent his younger brother Li Kexiu to attack Meng Fangli of Zhaoyi, seized Ze and Luzhou. Fang Li was defeated and fled to Shandong, and formed the Zhaoyi army with Xing and Cizhou troops.
Now Huang Chao is defeated to Caizhou, surrendering Qin Zongquan, and attacking Chenzhou. Li Keyong naturally also killed here. Given that Li Keyong is so successful, the court specially named him King of Jin.
Duan Mingyu also knew that Li Keyong was loyal to the Tang Dynasty throughout his life, and the governors of the world wanted to replace Tang Zuo and then go faster, but Li Keyong did not have this intention. He always defended Hedong, did not become emperor at home, and resisted the Khitan Liao people outside, and was loyal and righteous. Until Li Keyong fell seriously ill and Zhu Wen of the Later Liang Dynasty destroyed Tang, Li Keyong still used the Tang Dynasty to be named Tian's fourth year.
Li Keyong was blind due to his early battles, which in layman's terms was the one-eyed dragon.
There was a story about Li Keyong at Duan Mingyu's time and space. Yang Xingmi, the founder of Wu Kingdom in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, was appointed as the governor of Huainan at that time. Hearing that Li Keyong's reputation was sought to see his appearance, he sent a painter to Jinyang as a merchant, but the painter was soon captured by the Jin army and exposed his intention to this trip.
Li Keyong was quite angry and summoned the painter and said: Since Yang Xingmi sent you to take photos for me, he must be his painting skills. I will give you this opportunity. If the painting is not as good as you, the place where you die. The weather was so hot that Li Ke held an octagonal fan in his hand. The painter then became wise and covered Li Keyong's blind eye with the corner of the painting. After looking at it, Li Keyong said: You are deliberately trying to please me and ordered the painter to re-paint.
The second painting was completed soon after, and Li Keyong was very happy after reading it. He admired the painter and sent him back to Huainan. In fact, many people have heard of this story, and all the creativity of painters using archery to cover up blindness defects is amazing. However, few people know that the protagonist of this story is Li Keyong.
At this moment, Duan Mingyu and the Seventh Prince were a little excited when they heard that Li Keyong was leading the army. With such a strong army, why worry about Huang Chao's undefeated!
The Seventh Prince Li Jie and Duan Mingyu said in unison: "Hurry and invite the King of Jin, let's go outside the tent to wait!"
Chapter completed!