When Yang Fuguang and Zhou Ji heard Li Ye's words, a strange look flashed in their eyes. It seemed that Li Ye knew about Qin Zongquan, which was very abnormal. Logically speaking, Li Ye was far away in Pinglu, so it was impossible for him to know the internal affairs of Zhongwu Army.

Zhou Ji was still hesitating, and Yang Fuguang had already turned his attention to Song Jiao and finally took it back. When he was introducing Song Jiao, Li Ye made it clear that Song Jiao was his spy leader. He was his spy leader, not the scout leader. This name is very meaningful.

Combining the other party's cultivation, it was not difficult for Yang Fuguang to imagine that the spy mentioned by Li Ye was probably in the world. But this is not surprising. He had heard of similar things. When Li Xian was alive, he would have the habit of using monks in the world and collecting military information whenever he was fighting, and Gao Pian was the same.

However, Li Ye was able to figure out the situation of the Zhongwu Army before he arrived in the Central Plains. It was obvious that he had made a very early arrangement. In contact with Li Ye's purpose of leaving Pinglu, Yang Fuguang realized that Li Ye might have to play a big game. Thinking of this, Yang Fuguang's evaluation of Li Ye in his heart couldn't help but rise to another level.

Realizing that Yang Fuguang's gaze was different when he looked at him, Li Ye smiled and said, "Yang Jianjun doesn't have to look at me. My meaning is very obvious. He is talking about Qin Zongquan."

Seeing Li Ye admitting generously, Zhou Ji was quite surprised, but Yang Fuguang said: "King An is right. When the war is approaching, we must work together. Even if we cannot share the same hatred of the enemy, we cannot let our family escape. In this case, we will go to Caizhou to meet Qin Zongquan."

Zhou Ji was shocked: "If Qin Zongquan was in Caizhou, if Qin Zongquan had a second thought, wouldn't he fall into the tiger's mouth?"

Yang Fuguang glanced at Li Ye and smiled and said, "Don't worry, Lian Envoy, you have the right to respond to His Highness An. The general trend is on our side. Qin Zongquan is a smart person. He will not go against the trend, at least he will not lose the blame at this time."

Zhou Ji hesitated and was in a dilemma. Li Ye said, "The military supervisor is right. With a fight tonight, I believe Qin Zongquan knows what to do."

Next, everyone discussed the details of the joint troops going to war. Li Ye did not mention food and fodder at this time. After all, the Pinglu army had no shortage of food and fodder for the time being. When Dengzhou was really conquered, it would be natural to plan these things again.

After discussing these, Li Ye did not stay in Xuzhou for a long time. Before leaving, he told Yang Fuguang and Zhou Ji that his envoy would come soon and the future contact would be handed over to the envoy to complete.

On the second day, Li Ye left Xuzhou. He asked Song Jiao to send monks from the Qingyi Yamen to return to send a letter to Liu Dazheng, asking him to lead the army into Xuzhou and join forces with Zhongwu Army. Then he could rush to Dengzhou as planned.

Li Ye himself planned to go to Dengzhou first to check the defense situation in Dengzhou, and acted as a scout.

With his cultivation reaching the ninth level of Qi training, as long as he does not fight head-on with the army, he will only wait for the city to enter and exit the city, and the city defense force cannot defend himself at all, so Li Ye does not have to worry about safety issues. In addition, when he goes to see the defense situation in Dengzhou, he can see more than ordinary scouts and spies.

If you can meet Zhu Wen in advance, it is of course the best. Only by being close friends can you win a hundred battles.

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Li Guochang was already old. A few years ago, when he was the governor of Zhenwu, he was disobedient to the court and invaded Linzhenzhou County without authorization. He was conquered by the joint forces of nearby towns. The war lasted for several years. Hundreds of battles were fought, and he worked hard everywhere. He was defeated in the end and had to flee to the grassland for protection of the Tatar tribe.

Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty was weak and did not cross the Great Wall to chase the Tatar tribe, which gave Li Guochang a chance to breathe. If the court was strong, Li Guochang would have no way out and was arrested for punishment. A series of wars caused Li Guochang to be injured a lot, and his old illness relapsed, and his health collapsed day by day.

This time Huang Chao conquered Chang'an, the most important thing for the dynasty was to defeat the rebels and regain the capital. Therefore, the matter before Li Guochang had become a secondary contradiction. In addition, someone helped Li Guochang and his son talk about Xiang, and Li Yan also believed that the Shatuo soldiers were quite powerful and worthy of relying on, which gave Li Guochang the opportunity to atone for his merits and go to fight against Huang Chao.

The current war is the only chance for Li Guochang and his son to make a comeback. However, because Li Guochang was in poor health, he could not lead the troops to fight in person, so Li Keyong had to lead the army alone.

Li Keyong borrowed 50,000 troops from the Tatar tribe and headed south. When he marched to Daizhou, he stopped. Here, he met the chief of the Shatuo tribe, Li Youjin, the brother of Li Guochang.

The Shatuo tribe has been dependent on the Tang Dynasty for many years and has been guarding the border for the Tang Dynasty and named the Daibei Army. This time Huang Chao raised an army and Chang'an was captured. Li Yan and Zheng Ting urgently recruited the border troops to enter the pass to attack Huang Chao, and the Daibei Army was also recruited.

Originally, when Li Guochang went to war with the Tang army, the entire Shatuo tribe was targeted by the Tang army. Later, Li Guochang was defeated repeatedly. Seeing that things were unsuccessful, Li Youjin surrendered to the Tang army. Although he cheated Li Guochang and his son, he at least saved the Shatuo tribe. After the war, Li Guochang and his son fled far away to the grassland, and the Shatuo tribe was still the Tang border army.

If it weren't for Li Youjin's rebellion, Li Guochang and his son would have no chance to turn around today.

Now that Li Youjin has the title of righteousness, he can only write to the court to ask Li Keyong to lead troops to help him and give Li Keyong a chance to make a comeback.

To lead the army to fight, you must first have food. The Tatar tribe borrowed troops from Li Keyong, but there was no food. Li Keyong could not have driven hundreds of thousands of sheep into the pass and rushed to Chang'an, so Li Keyong had to borrow food from the vassal states.

Li Youjin had no food, and the food from the border army had to be supplied by the Central Plains, so Li Keyong borrowed food from the Hedong Jiedushi.

That day, the general who went to transport grain came back.

"General, the food is shipped back." That was a young general, with a tiger-backed and bear-bearing waist, and was extremely powerful. He was Li Keyong's most trusted general, An Cunxiao, who was only two years younger than him.

"How much food will you bring back?" Li Keyong quickly stood up and asked.

"Five thousand stags of copper coins and five thousand hu of corn." An Cunxiao replied.

"What?" Li Keyong was stunned. Five thousand stagnes of copper coins and five thousand hu of corn. Of course, it was not too much, but too little. For the 50,000 soldiers, this little food and fodder was not enough to even plug the teeth.

Moreover, after Li Ke used Daizhou, he had more than 50,000 troops. He summoned the warriors of the Tatar tribe, and now he has reached 100,000 troops.

Li Keyong was furious: "How dare that old man Zheng Cong-chan bully me and insult me ​​like this?!"

Zheng Cong-si was the governor of Hedong, and Daizhou was also the prefecture of Hedong. If Li Keyong wanted to enter the Central Plains, he would inevitably go to Hedong, and Hedong was also the governor of the greatest power along the way. Hedong was the east of the Yellow River and the land of the Three Jins.

Zheng Congxian took out some food and fodder at will, but there was no such thing as this. Obviously, Zheng Congxian had no intention of using food and fodder for Li Ke seriously.

At this time, a white-faced monk sitting in the tent spoke, the old god said: "When the old general was the governor of Zhenwu, he did not deal with Hedong. Kang Chengxun was in charge of Hedong, and even came to restrain Zhenwu. Later, Kang Chengxun was forced to leave the town by Zhenwu, and eventually died on his way back. Zheng Cong-sei succeeded as the governor of Hedong, so naturally he would not give the general a good face."

This monk is Huiming, who came from Juexiao Temple and had been to Chang'an with Li Keyong before. At that time, Li Keyong and Li Ye fought in Huangli Township. If Huiming hadn't protected Li Keyong and walked quickly, he would have been afraid that Li Keyong would be captured by Li Ye.

Li Keyong waved his hand and asked An Cunxiao to go down first. He returned to the master's seat and looked at Huiming, still angry: "This time I am following the order to lead troops to fight against the thieves, fulfill my loyalty to the country, and occupy the title of righteousness. How dare Zheng Congyi act like this? Could it be that he will stop me from going south?"

"Obviously, Zheng Cong-sei planned that way."

Huiming lowered his eyes, his voice was dull, neither anxious nor slow, "But no wonder Zheng Cong-chan. When the old general was in charge of Zhenwu, he invaded Linzhenzhou County, expanded his power, and eventually fought with the imperial army. In the eyes of the court officials, the generals and sons were like traitors. Although Huang Chao was in trouble with the Central Plains, the court agreed to summon the generals to go south to serve the king, who could guarantee that the generals were different from Huang Chao? Perhaps, the general had the same intention as Huang Chao, and wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to occupy the Tang Dynasty."

This is very harsh and heart-wrenching, but when it comes to Huiming's mouth, it is very calm, and there is a convincing power in the calm.

Li Keyong was a little embarrassed. Zhenwu did not obey the imperial orders and invaded Linzhenzhou County. To put it bluntly, it was a rebellion. Moreover, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao were in charge of the Central Plains at that time, which was a response from the north and south.

But who would have thought that the government army fought Huang Chao for several years, and although it forced Huang Chao to travel around the country and finally hid in Guangzhou, Lingnan, the more they fought, the more their troops fought, and in the end they even broke through Chang'an. Li Guochang and his son were better, and they were surrounded by Shatuo's elite soldiers, but they were actually wiped out.

Until now, Li Keyong doesn't understand why Shatuo, who is much more elite than Huang Chao's militia, will be defeated if he says he is defeated.

In the Tang Dynasty, no matter how the outcome of the civil war was, the government army could easily turn the other side over as long as it faced foreign races. The grassland tribes thought they were very powerful, but they repeatedly used troops southwards. Not to mention invading the Central Plains, even the border vassal army could not defeat them, even when the Tang Dynasty was at its weakest.

Later, the Khitan became stronger and repeatedly invaded the south. The Lulong army, who was in charge of Youzhou, fought against one country in one place, but did not allow the Khitan to attack the Central Plains.

There is only one exception, that is, the troops are seriously insufficient, and they often need to fight against Hexi and the Western Regions with one or more. The real price of goods is to fight against ten, almost one or more, and they can still fight against the Tang army in the Western Regions with decades. That is another story.

Li Keyong said annoyedly: "I am loyal to the country and just want to redeem my sins. How could I be like that yellow thief?"

After saying this, Li Keyong suddenly reacted and looked at Huiming and said, "What the master meant is that Zheng Congxian thought so? He suspected that I had ulterior motives, so he didn't give me food?"

Huiming smiled: "General is smart, and he can understand at all."
Chapter completed!