Fu Tang

After Li Congjia saw the urgent report, he jumped up on the spot.

He was originally sitting there in a squatting position, this movement was actually quite difficult, especially since he was still wearing scale armor.

So his move also startled Zhu Ping, and his copper-bell-like eyes stared straight at Li Congjia.

Angrily, Li Congjia slapped the urgent report in front of him and said, "Zhao Kuangyin...he ran to fight Hezhou, and he is already preparing to cross the river!"

Zhu Ping also picked up the urgent report in a moment of horror and read it word by word. He looked up at Li Congjia with a pale face and said, "Master, what shall we... what shall we do now?"

Li Congjia took a deep breath and said: "I will recruit Li Ping to sit here. I will go back to Chizhou with you and try my best to help Jiangning Mansion. Don't panic at this time. There is still resistance in Jiangning Mansion. If you really can't resist, the saint will naturally I will choose to move the capital."

Li Congjia told others not to panic, but in fact, he was panicking to death. Hezhou and Jiangning Mansion are almost separated by a river. After crossing the Yangtze River, it is very easy for Zhao Kuangyin to take down Jiangning Mansion.

At least as far as Li Congjia knows, there is no general in Jiangning Mansion who can compete with Zhao Kuangyin!

Li Congjia's superficial calm infected Zhu Ping. After he calmed down, he said, "I'm afraid it's wrong for us to leave now. This side is not stable yet. If Zhou Guo counterattacks, I'm afraid we will lose ground."

Li Congjia also said directly: "Then you stay here, and Li Ping doesn't have to come here. If you have the ability, you can go to Luzhou and try to cut off Zhao Kuangyin's retreat. Even if we drag him, we will drag him to Hezhou." !"

Zhu Ping quickly asked: "How many people will the army chief take away?"

"Except for my guards, don't bring any of them, so keep things simple!"

Zhu Ping was surprised: "But...how can we rush to help the capital without troops?"

Li Congjia smiled and said, "I still have the Jinghuai Army, don't worry."

The Jinghuai army can be regarded as a team that has experienced killing battles. Although there is no way to compare with the regular army, it is better than nothing at this time.

After making arrangements, Li Congjia hurried to Chizhou, did not do the carriage, and rode away directly, gnashing his teeth with hatred while galloping.

He really underestimated Zhao Kuangyin. He originally thought that Zhao Kuangyin was going to beat him or Li Hongji. Anyway, they could always echo each other, but he never expected that Zhao Kuangyin would abandon the two of them and aim directly at Jiangning Mansion!

The two generals who had fought endlessly and victoriously outside, put people in the place closest to their capital under their noses. Li Congjia felt that his face was going to be swollen!

Li Congjia's return to Chizhou was very sudden. He did not enter the city, but went directly to the Jinghuai Army barracks he had chosen before.

Shi Xueting was very surprised when he saw Li Congjia: "Your Majesty?"

Li Congjia looked at him solemnly: "Zhao Kuangyin has arrived in Hezhou now."

Shi Xueting understood Zhao Kuangyin's intention almost immediately: "He wants to attack Jiangning Mansion?"

Li Congjia looked tired: "That's right, Shuzhou Qizhou can't move now, I can only take the Jinghuai army to Qinwang, how is it now?"

Shi Xueting talked to him a little bit, and Li Congjia was pleased to find that in just half a month, the Jinghuai Army was already on the right track, and the navy was formed.

As for the quality of the soldiers, Li Congjia originally wanted to take the route of elite soldiers, and then select the best group of special forces to form a team to go to heaven and earth, but the plan has not changed quickly, and he has no other way now.

Seeing Li Congjia's tired look, Shi Xueting said, "Your Majesty, take a good rest first, and I'll send out scouts."

After two or three days of rapid marching, riding horses and crossing the river, the whole person was indeed exhausted. After eating something hastily, he lay down in Shi Xueting's tent and fell asleep.

After Shi Xueting went out and made arrangements, he came back and found that Li Congjia was lying down with all his clothes on, sleeping in a sleepless state. He couldn't help shaking his head slightly, and stepped forward to help remove the scales.

When helping Li Congjia take off his clothes, he vaguely saw blood on the inside of the opponent's trouser legs. After a little hesitation, he helped take off the pants, and then found that the inner sides of Li Congjia's thighs had been worn out.

Shi Xueting took out the medicine and carefully applied it to Li Congjia, and wrapped it in a bandage by the way.

So Li Congjia woke up with a dazed look on his face and found that he was naked and had nothing on.

Seeing him sober, Shi Xueting put down the Chinese book in his hand and said: "Your Majesty doesn't care about your body too much, how can you hurry on like this? If you fall down, who will go to the King?"

Li Congjia watched Shi Xueting help him bring over his clothes, as well as the posture of helping him dress from inside to outside, blushed inexplicably, and stammered: "I... I can do it myself, you go Busy you."

Shi Xueting paused, but did not insist, put down his clothes and continued to approve the documents.

After putting on his clothes, Li Congjia felt confident, and he was no longer in the embarrassment just now, so he asked, "Have you sent scouts over? What do you say?"

Shi Xueting frowned and said: "The scouts said that the Jiangning Mansion is still singing and dancing to promote peace, and it seems that they are not preparing for war, and Zhao Kuangyin's whereabouts have not been found."

Li Congjia suddenly laughed angrily: "There is no response from the Jiangning Mansion? Zhao Kuangyin must have crossed the Yangtze River, and now he may have reached the territory of the Tang Dynasty. They didn't even notice it at all? They don't want to live, do they?"

Shi Xueting didn't say anything, and when he knew it, he couldn't believe it. Don't these officials have any sense of crisis?

Li Congjia took a deep breath and said, "Forget it, I'll write the notes."

Li Congjia frantically wrote a note and asked Babaili to send it over urgently.

As a result, there was no news after waiting for three days, and during these three days, no matter how many scouts Li Congjia sent, he could not find Zhao Kuangyin.

Of course, scouting should not be used to find the other party's traces at all. A country with the ability to control the country can receive front-line battle reports as soon as the enemy invades.

Now it can only be said that the management of Southern Tang has a big problem. Of course, maybe Li Jing is simply waiting to die. He wanted to surrender a long time ago, but Zhou Guo didn't agree.

But Li Congjia couldn't say this sentence, it would be a huge blow to morale after saying it.

In the past few days, Li Congjia could only watch Shi Xueting and the others drill soldiers. He was surprised to find that a gentle Shi Xueting in front of him became very cold and ruthless after being transformed into an instructor. In a word, those soldiers looked at him with fear, and even Tian Wuniang was very respectful.

Li Congjia couldn't help but find a gap to find Tian Wuniang and asked, "How are you doing? Is the food okay? Can the training level be tolerated?"

Tian Wuniang smiled shyly and said, "I'm okay, I'm different from them, but they're all just as miserable."

Li Congjia tilted his head and asked, "I think those people seem to be afraid of mages, what's going on?"

Tian Wuniang secretly looked around and said, "Master... Hey, I used to think he was a good person."

Li Congjia laughed suddenly: "Why? Now you think he is not a good person?"

Only then did Tian Wuniang realize that her words seemed to be ambiguous, she quickly waved her hand and said, "No, I didn't mean that, I just felt that he seemed different from before, maybe I didn't know him very well. The mage was training When I was a soldier, I was really fierce. Those who couldn’t complete the training were not given food, and those who were not convinced and made mistakes were punished physically. If it was more serious, they would be locked in a room with only one door. It is said that the inside is completely dark! People who have been there are very honest when they come out.”

Li Congjia thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't imagine what Shi Xueting looked like when he was super fierce, but he knew all about the system of punishing people mentioned by Tian Wuniang. of.

Li Congjia felt a little guilty, and comforted him: "Master is very reasonable, if you don't make mistakes, he will not punish you, right?"

Tian Wuniang nodded, and Li Congjia asked again: "How is your family doing recently?"

Tian Wuniang's complexion changed, and she said, "I haven't been back for quite some time."

Li Congjia heard the subtext, and couldn't help saying: "If you have any difficulties, just tell me, and I will solve them for you."

Tian Wuniang smiled bitterly, how to solve this kind of thing?Everyone in the Tian family felt that it was wrong for her to lead the army. Even if those songs are not from the Tian family now, there should be a place for the Tian family in the army. What?You mean Tian Wuniang?

The little lady is going to marry sooner or later, and those nephews of the Tian family don't treat Tian Wuniang as the Tian family at all!

Seeing Tian Wuniang's sad face, Li Congjia said, "Maybe I'm too selfish. I just think that since you have this talent, you shouldn't be buried. Who said that little lady can't lead the army?"

Tian Wuniang looked up at Li Congjia gratefully and said, "Well, I don't regret it, even if Father and the others don't understand me, I don't regret it either!"

Li Congjia was afraid that Tian Wuniang would retreat by herself, so he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this: "It's best for you to think so, and leave the rest to me."

Li Congjia strolled around Shi Xueting's camp and said: "If there are useful people in the Tian family who can pass the selection, let them join the army. But it's not okay to just want to lead the army when you come up. You can take it slowly. Ask later. Are they willing, and if not, don't blame me for not giving them a chance."

Shi Xueting put down the brush in his hand, made a pot of tea for Li Congjia and said, "I think so too, but there are many people in the Tian family who have high vision but low power, and I'm afraid few of them are useful."

Li Congjia shrugged: "If you don't have it, then you don't need it. I just want to give preferential treatment to the 'heroes'. Anyway, the real heroes are not them. Don't you know who saved their lives? How dare you pick and choose Four, just wait for the rest of your life to depend on others!"

Shi Xueting smiled and said: "A group of people who are not on the stage are worthy of your anger?"

Li Congjia looked at Shi Xueting with his head tilted and said, "Suddenly, I found that the mage's speech and actions now have a smell of smoke and fire. I don't know if it is good or bad."

Shi Xueting said seriously: "If you can save all living beings, what's the harm in Shi Xueting's entry into the world?"

Li Congjia leaned over and asked, "I heard that you were very fierce when you were training soldiers. I'll take a look tomorrow too."

Shi Xueting laughed: "It's no different from usual."

Li Congjia didn't believe it, since so many people said so, there must be something different, Li Congjia was very curious, he had never seen Shi Xueting's vicious appearance.

Facts proved that Li Congjia still couldn't see that when he was by his side, Shi Xueting was not so vicious even when facing the soldiers who made mistakes. Although he was still not talkative and unreasonable, his aura softened a lot.

This made the soldiers who were not familiar with Li Congjia wish he could come to watch Shi Xueting's training every day, so that their life would be much easier.

However, Li Congjia didn't have that kind of leisure. He seemed to have nothing to do now, but he was repulsed like crazy, and countless messages were sent to him every day, but there was still no trace of Zhao Kuangyin.

Li Congjia became anxious all over, and at this moment, the imperial court finally had a reply to his paper - Li Jing actually scolded him head and face!

He said that he shouldn't attack Shuzhou and Qizhou without his own initiative. If he hadn't gone to fight Shuzhou and Qizhou, Zhao Kuangyin might not have wanted to attack Jiangning Mansion, but then he said that he was too alarmist. There is a natural moat of the Yangtze River between the states, Zhao Kuangyin is not so easy to come here, and he is not allowed to disturb the morale of the army, otherwise his military power will be taken away!

After Li Congjia suppressed his anger and accepted the order, he sent someone to send the angel away.

After the angel left, Li Congjia turned his head and threw the imperial decree on the ground, his eyes almost spitting fire.

When Shi Xueting saw that his face was pale and his lips were purple with anger, he couldn't help feeling distressed, he had never seen Li Congjia so angry.

Seeing that he was just sitting there alone and sulking, Shi Xueting couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, if you are unhappy, just say it, don't hold yourself back."

Li Congjia didn't want to get angry in front of Shi Xueting at first, and he didn't know why, he just subconsciously wanted to restrain his temper, but when Shi Xueting's words came out, it was like adding fuel to the fire. On the verge of eruption, just now he suppressed himself abruptly, but now he is on fire!

Li Congjia raised his hand and overturned the case in front of him. He pointed angrily at the imperial decree on the ground and said, "This must have been written by Li Jingsui! Has his people penetrated into the three provinces? Can they all forge false edicts?"

Shi Xueting was quite helpless, Li Congjia had probably lost his mind now, and Li Jingsui would not dare to do such a thing, and he did not have the ability to control the three provinces, if he could do this, he could directly abolish Li Jing Take the throne yourself.

But Li Congjia is obviously on the verge of losing control now, but even at this time, he still chooses to trust his father.

It's not that Li Congjia chooses to believe, but he subconsciously chooses to believe.

After destroying the entire camp like a hurricane, Li Congjia finally calmed down. He sat there for a while, with a little sadness in his eyes: "Xue Ting, tell me, can this country still be saved?"

In this troubled time, as long as the general can take down the city and turn it into his own country, it should be the supreme glory, but now... such glory is being reprimanded, saying that he is a self-propelled soldier, and even that he disobeyed the imperial decree.

The hats were put on one after another, just to make him obedient and not move, but Li Congjia really couldn't let the enemy be at his door and watch them break into and rob.

Shi Xueting had never seen Li Congjia so sad, he sighed softly, lowered his eyes and said, "Perhaps the sage has his own thoughts."

Li Congjia shook his head: "At this time, every time we win a city, it is a huge boost to morale. Yes, Zhao Kuangyin threatened Jiangning Mansion, but that was just a threat. As long as they are determined to defend, Jiangning Mansion will be The national capital is not so easy to breach. But what are they doing? Covering their ears and stealing the bell? It seems that Zhao Kuangyin will not come if I don’t say anything, what is the difference between this and opening the door to let the robbers go?”

Shi Xueting looked up at Li Congjia and asked, "So what is your Majesty going to do?"

Li Congjia calmed down, took a deep breath and said, "From today onwards, this army does not need the designation of the Jinghuai Army. Prepare to be completely independent."

Shi Xueting raised his eyebrows and asked: "So Your Majesty is still planning to send troops?"

Li Congjia smiled wryly: "The enemy is about to attack the city, and they are still poking their heads into the sand as if nothing happened. What can I do? It doesn't matter if they die or not, but I feel sorry for the people here, and those who obey orders. Soldiers! If my grandfather was still alive, this would definitely not have happened!"

Shi Xueting was keenly aware that Li Congjia was very disappointed with Li Jing now. In fact, even Shi Xueting didn't know what happened in Jiangning Mansion to make Li Jing become what he is now?

After Li Congjia vented, he recovered from his depressed mood, and found that he had made a mess of Shi Xueting's camp, but he said before that he didn't want to mobilize people, so he didn't set up another tent, and slept in the same tent with Shi Xueting Li, now... embarrassing.

Shi Xueting didn't think anything of it, he was relieved when he saw that Li Congjia's mood had calmed down, and he cleaned it up a little bit by himself, he had never been in the habit of using a servant, even now that he became a military leader in the actual sense, he still Do it yourself.

Li Congjia hurriedly helped, and said awkwardly: "It was my fault just now, I shouldn't lose my temper casually."

Shi Xueting stopped his hands and looked at him tenderly and said: "Your Majesty is not wrong, no one can not be angry about such a thing."

"Will you be angry too?" Li Congjia asked suddenly.

Shi Xueting smiled: "I'm not a Buddha, of course I would be angry, but more often, I would control myself so that I would not be so angry."

Li Congjia sighed: "I want to control it too, but I really couldn't control it just now."

"I understand." Shi Xueting raised his hand, hesitated for a moment and patted Li Congjia on the shoulder and said, "Your Majesty, you can do whatever you want. There are always us and these three thousand sons to support you."

After hearing this, Li Congjia's confidence immediately increased, and then he heard Shi Xueting say: "It seems that there is no need to march in the short term. The conditions here in the camp are poor. Your Majesty, you should go back to Chizhou."

Li Congjia took this sentence as Shi Xueting felt that he was in the way. After thinking about it, his appearance was really... useless except to distract the soldiers who were training.

However, Shi Xueting actually just felt that his stay would have too much influence on him. Recently, his methods of training soldiers have softened a lot. This is not a good sign. Their time is too short and too hasty, and they want to train qualified soldiers We must be ruthless, otherwise we will let these people go to the battlefield to die!

Shi Xueting didn't want to be influenced too much, and it was difficult to drive Li Congjia away. After all, he was the real master of this army, so he could only tactfully persuade him to leave.

The brainwaves of the two people were completely different, but they actually got connected. The next day, Li Congjia packed up his things and went back to Chizhou.

Zhou Ehuang was also surprised by Li Congjia's sudden return. She didn't know that her husband had already returned to Chizhou and had lived in the military camp for many days, but she just felt that he came back suddenly.

Li Congjia's face was not very good-looking, but the imperial decree still had a great influence on him.

Li Congjia hesitated for a while, and then said to Zhou Ehuang: "If you have a chance, please send a letter to Situ."

Zhou Ehuang immediately asked, "What does Your Majesty want to know?"

Li Congjia recounted the previous incident very tiredly, even Zhou Ehuang was shocked: "A sage...how could a sage..."

Li Congjia waved his hand and said, "So I'm worried that something happened in the court, so father had to scold me."

He would rather believe that there was a change in the court, and he didn't want to believe that Li Jing, who was so energetic and wanted to regain the lost land from Zhou Guo, was the same person as the cowardly and cowardly Li Jing.

Zhou Ehuang's face was serious: "I'll write a letter to my father right away."

Li Congjia put this matter aside, turned around and started contacting Zhu Yuan and the others, only to find that within a few days, Li Ping had already captured Huangzhou, and Zhu Yuan had pushed the battle line to the vicinity of Luzhou!

Li Congjia hesitated for a moment, but still did not inform them of the imperial decree, but unexpectedly, the court sent someone to reprimand them!

Both Li Ping and Zhu Yuan felt a little nervous, and it was the same in history. Zhu Yuan won Hezhou, but was questioned that he would be taken away from the military power. He rebelled against the Southern Tang Dynasty in a fit of anger.

Li Congjia didn't know if Chen Jue was playing tricks this time, but he didn't dare to be careless at all, and wrote two letters directly to them, which meant to let them go and do it, and he would stand up to anything!

Only then did Li Ping and Zhu Yuan feel relieved, and geared up to repay Li Congjia's kindness. The two of them thought very simply. Li Congjia's reprimand must be because their victory in this battle was not good enough. As long as they won Luzhou and Zhou, He must be rewarded by the court!

Li Congjia looked at Li Ping and Zhu Yuanbiao's letter of loyalty, quite dumbfounded, and even praised them, it would be good if the court didn't punish them!

After a few days, Zhou Ehuang's letter to Zhou Zong received an answer, but what she didn't expect was that Zhou Jiamin and Zhou Wulang sent the letter!

And these two people brought someone over, Li Congjia was shocked when he saw that person: "Why are you here?"