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The next morning, as soon as Li Chenghua arrived at the government office, his subordinates hurried over and handed her a piece of information.

"Capital, this is a message from General Wang Qian from Feige, Lanzhou. They conducted a preliminary interrogation in Jincheng."

Jincheng County is the place where Li Ye started his career in Longxing. It is also the seat of the old government office of Neiwei. There are still more than a thousand people in Jincheng who are responsible for monitoring the Helong area.

Wang Qian conducted his first interrogation in Jincheng and obtained some important information.

Of course, Kongsberg would not disclose in-depth information. For example, he would never disclose information involving the Saint Society.

But the information related to the trafficking of girls was shallow information, and he told it all in order to save his life.

Li Chenghua unfolded the pigeon letter and read it once, and immediately ordered: "Find General Zhou quickly!"

Not long after, Huben Zhonglang hurried over to Zhou Xiao, bowed and saluted: "See you, Dutong!"

Li Chenghua handed him the pigeon letter, "This is the pigeon letter sent by Wang Qian from Jincheng. It contains a list of three people in Chang'an. You and your men will arrest them immediately!"

"I humbly obey my orders!"

A quarter of an hour later, thousands of internal guards divided into three groups and attacked Yanshoufang, Xinfeng County and Xianyang County. These are the three human traffickers involved in girl trafficking in Chang'an, which are the bosses of Kang Shibai. Of course, there are also Luoyang. Currently, we are mainly arresting three human traffickers in Chang'an, and Liu Guiqing from Yanshoufang is the first to be arrested.

Liu Guiqing was still feeding parrots in the corridor. He evacuated the more than 300 young ladies in his hands to the countryside, avoiding the interrogation of various counties the night before. He was quite proud of his foresight.

"master!"

The housekeeper rushed over with a look of horror on his face: "Hundreds of guardsmen are coming from outside, and they are rushing in!"

"ah!"

Liu Guiqing seemed to have fallen into the abyss, standing motionless.

"over there!"

Dozens of internal guards rushed over from both sides of the corridor. Liu Guiqing's legs went weak, 'Plop! ’ Sitting on the ground, shaking all over, unable to say a word.

Liu Guiqing was tied up and taken away by the internal guard soldiers. Soon after, his two sons and several grandsons were also taken away, including his wife and two concubines, who also participated in the discipline of the girls, and were all taken away.

The internal guards began an emergency interrogation. In order to survive, Liu Guiqing confessed like a quarrel. All the human traffickers who had cooperated with him were exposed and confessed by him.

Liu Guiqing was actually a middleman who picked up girls from upstream traffickers, trained them, taught music and dance, and then handed them over to Sogdians downstream, such as Kongsbo.

For three consecutive days, the internal guards conducted a large-scale manhunt in Jingzhao Mansion and even Guanzhong, arresting more than a hundred traffickers and rescuing more than a thousand girls and boys who had been hidden by them.

Liu Guiqing trafficked thousands of girls in twenty years and committed a heinous crime. Although he reported a large number of human traffickers, it was not enough to atone for his crime. Emperor Li Ye issued an order and Liu Guiqing's entire family was executed. Only one grandson was left and sent to Lingnan. The others included Luoyang. More than 300 traffickers, including criminals, were also beheaded.

This severe crackdown on human traffickers finally curbed the trend of trafficking in girls that had lasted for more than 20 years. As the news spread, human traffickers from all over the world were so frightened that they hid and changed their names. However, once they were caught by the government, they could not escape death. .

Although the human trafficker incident has come to an end, some deep inside stories have just been revealed. For example, the backstage of the trafficking of girls from the Tang Dynasty, the Holy Girl Society, has gradually surfaced.

In Liaodong, Guo Ziyi led an army of 100,000 people into the Bohai Kingdom and approached the old capital of the Bohai Kingdom, Shangjing.

At this time, Guo Ziyi had already contacted Li Chengshi, the navy commander, and learned that Li Chengshi had destroyed all the Japanese warships and annihilated more than 14,000 enemy troops, cutting off the Japanese army's escape route through the waterway.

Guo Ziyi was overjoyed. He immediately deduced that there were less than 40,000 Japanese troops in Beijing, and it was best to lure them out to fight.

Ren Tianling was very familiar with the terrain. He pointed at the map and said: "To the west of Shangjing City is the pastureland of the original Bohai royal family. The grassland is more than ten miles in radius and is surrounded by forests. It is very suitable for combat. Moreover, Shangjing City is not a completely closed city at present. The palace It is being expanded, and the city walls that are several miles long have been demolished, so the army can directly enter the city. "

Guo Ziyi originally wanted to ask them why their 60,000-strong army did not come back to avenge their families, but instead surrendered to the Khitan. The apparent reason was that they had run out of food, but there were still horses, cattle and other livestock in their camp, which could be killed for dry food. You can fight your way back to Beijing in a few days.

Guo Ziyi actually vaguely guessed that the soldiers of the Bohai Navy were still frightened by the Japanese army and did not dare to come back to avenge their families.

Guo Ziyi smiled and said to General Xi Wanli: "Let's use the old method and use a small number of troops to attract the Japanese army."

Xi Wanli understood immediately, clasped his fists and said, "I am leading 20,000 cavalry to ambush in the forests on both sides."

Guo Ziyi nodded, "Let five thousand heavy armored infantry go into battle.!"

Guo Ziyi looked back at Ren Tianling and said calmly: "I estimate that there will still be thousands of Japanese troops in the city. I will leave them to General Ren to deal with them."

Ren Tianling nodded, "I want to use their hearts and livers to sacrifice their dead relatives!"

In the early morning, the Japanese general Fujiwara Umeharu received the news and found a Tang army infantry of 5,000 people ten miles outside the West City.

With no way to retreat, Fujiwara Umeji immediately ordered that 3,000 men be left to defend the city. He personally led an army of 35,000 to the outside of the west city and annihilated the 5,000-man Tang army.

The Japanese army also bullied the weak and feared the strong. They would only dare to attack the opponent with only 5,000 men. If the opponent had an army of 50,000, they would not dare.

The 35,000 Japanese troops consisted of 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 samurai, with an additional 5,000 cavalry attendants.

The cavalry's weapons were mainly heavy rattan bows and short spears. The short spears were not their own weapons, but weapons seized from the Bohai treasury and equipped to the cavalry.

In the past few months, the Japanese army has been training the cavalry to fight with short spears, with remarkable results, especially the cavalry's short spear sprint, which was extremely lethal. After the enemy infantry was dispersed, the samurai group attacked and chopped off the enemy's heads with swords.

On the vast grassland, the 35,000 Japanese troops had lined up in front of them, with 10,000 cavalry wearing black rattan armor, holding short spears, bows and arrows on their backs, and riding ponies.

Ten thousand cavalrymen were in neat formation, and the twenty thousand warriors behind them were also wearing rattan armor and bamboo hats. Each of them had two swords on his waist, and they were full of murderous intent.

Finally, there were five thousand cavalry attendants. They also participated in the battle. They had no armor, wore linen clothes, held a short spear in their hands, and wore a short sword on their waists. They were barefoot and looked very simple.

It was not that there was no leather armor and leather boots in the warehouse of Shangjing, but their status did not allow them to wear armor and shoes.

Although there were many people, each soldier was very short, almost about 1.5 meters tall, and looked like an eight or nine-year-old schoolboy, but everyone's eyes flashed with a devilish fierce light.

The heavy armored infantry was completely the opposite. Each of them was more than 1.9 meters tall, and the main general Xu Zongran was two meters tall.

Xu Zongran was the Black Spear, who was named Duke of Bian, Champion General, and Kaifu Yitong Sansi. He was originally named General of the Left Guard and retired, but this time when Liaodong went to war, he repeatedly requested and was finally approved to change his title to General of the Commander-in-Chief and follow Guo Ziyi to the war.

Xu Zongran looked at the enemy's pony, sneered in his heart, turned back and shouted: "Although the enemy is small, they are all murderous demons. Don't underestimate the enemy, kill them all without mercy!"

Five thousand heavy armored infantrymen were solemn and held the hilt tightly. Xu Zongran shouted again: "Skirmisher style!"

A battle flag soldier raised the blue flag high and waved it vigorously.

There are many formations of heavy armored infantry, not all of which are like a wall. Different formations will be adopted for different enemy troops and situations.

For example, the wall soldier style is to advance like a wall. For example, the split soldier style will be divided into several small formations, with 500 people as a group, fighting separately.

There is also the round soldier style, which is arranged in a barrel shape. When surrounded by a large number of enemy troops, this formation is often used.

The current skirmisher style is that the large formation is loosely separated, which means fighting separately, but the basics will not change. No matter how the heavy armored infantry changes its formation, it will always be based on five people as the most basic combat unit.

Five thousand heavily armored infantrymen quickly expanded and dispersed, with five soldiers in a group, and each group was about two feet apart, so that the enemy cavalry and infantry could penetrate in, just like a huge fishing net. Once they got in, they would never escape.

So the scattered soldiers were also called the net soldiers.

"Woo--"

The Japanese horn sounded, and the commander Fujiwara Umeharu waved his sword, "annihilate the enemy!"

Ten thousand cavalrymen suddenly rushed out, overwhelming the Tang army, and 20,000 warriors raised their swords and charged. There was no formation, they were all in their own formation, shouting and rushing towards the Tang army.