Gao Xianzhi glanced at Qibi He and Huoba Guiren, who were on the left and right, he was in charge of Tongguan this time, commanding more than 200,000 troops, and none of them were the old departments of the past, although these two people were the old departments of Geshuhan, but they were rare and had a sense of the overall situation. There were very few generals in the Tang army who did not care about factional backgrounds, and Ge Shuhan was a typical representative of them, and the generals brought out by him were either his desperate supporters or enemies who did not share the same sky.

Therefore, it is easy for Gao Xianzhi to take over the 200,000 army, but it is not so easy to let the 20,000 elite Hexi veterans open their hearts. The tragic death of Ge Shuhan was stimulated by their fact that it was difficult to eliminate it in a short period of time, and Yu Chaoen did so much that the military spirit showed signs of instability.

What made Gao Xianzhi most fortunate was that when he went to Tongguan, he did not go through the road with Yu Chaoen, but deliberately avoided it for a day. It was true that he did not want to be in the company of the eunuchs, but by accident he avoided a big trouble. Otherwise, the anger of the old army in Hexi will be transferred from Yu Chaoen to him tenfold and hundredfold.

"Let's talk about it, how should our army deal with it next?"

Since Gao Xianzhi valued these two people, he was very willing to let them express his opinion.

Moreover, Che Bi He and Huo Ba Gui Ren are not the kind of people who hold back in their stomachs, and once they have any ideas and suggestions, they will be the first to say them.

Sure enough, Che Moga took the lead again.

"The rebels' large-scale attack on Shangyang Pass is nothing more than to lure our army south, and then they take the opportunity to attack Tongguan, which is wishful thinking. The last general suggested, why not treat others the way they do?"

"General Chebi means to attack the rebel camp? I'm afraid it's not appropriate, we have been trying our best to avoid confrontation with the rebels head-on, so wouldn't it be better to attack the enemy with our own shortcomings?"

Qi Bihe set his eyes on the fire and Quren who questioned himself, and said with a smile:

"What General Huoba said is very true, our army is indeed not suitable for a head-on confrontation with the rebels. ”

"Since you can't resist hard, you say that you are attacking the east and the west?"

"There are only two words in the suggestion, and that is 'harassment'. After more than a month of confrontation, we have also mastered the rules of the rebels' activities, their internal movements are frequent, and when thousands of people often act alone, it is time for us to change our response strategy, as long as the other side is alone, we will concentrate the superior forces and take a bite. Then by the time most of the rebels come to help, we will have already succeeded. ”

Just like this ambush, thousands of enemies were annihilated in World War I, and a large amount of corn was captured, which relieved the urgent need of the army to lack food.

Gao Xianzhi slapped his thigh.

This plan is very good, but it is not easy to implement, but there is a specific plan, which can be written down in detail, and Gao carefully refers to it. ”

Qi He bowed and agreed, and then stopped making a sound, just quietly drinking the tea soup on the desk.

Huoba Guiren seemed a little embarrassed, coughed dryly, and said: "This time the rebels are also strange, why did they transport tens of thousands of stone corn alone?"

Although tens of thousands of stone corn is not a small amount, it is only a drop in the bucket when it comes to supplying more than 200,000 troops. If it is normal, the number of luck will never be so small.

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional, and Gao Xianzhi immediately knew why he felt inexplicably uneasy before.

"Look at the map!"

The regiment drawn on the screen in the army commander is not a mountain and a rock, but a huge map, which covers Guanzhong, Hedong, Dugi Province and part of Shannan East Province, and Tongguan is the center of this map.

Gao Xianzhi got up and walked quickly to the map, and raised his hand from time to time to point on it, and for a while he was a little selfless, and even ignored the existence of Qi Bihe and Huo Ba Guiren.

Qi He was very surprised, Gao Xianzhi had never been so out of shape, could it be that he thought of something inappropriate? As soon as he thought of this, he didn't care about drinking tea and meditating, and got up and followed Gao Xianzhi to the screen map.

"Xianggong, Xianggong, but is there something wrong?"

But Gao Xianzhi didn't respond, but was still pondering in front of the map, all kinds of thoughts flashing through his mind, and he was doing deductions over and over again.

After a cup of tea, he finally had a reaction.

"Sun Xiaozhe is cunning, and his target may not be Tongguan. ”

"Isn't it Tongguan? Is it just for a Shangyang Pass?"

Huoba Guiren believes that Sun Xiaozhe cannot just make such a big move for Shangyang Pass, although Shangyang Pass is not unimportant, but it has not yet reached the point of using more than 100,000 troops to storm it. Besides, Ma Xuanren, the guard general of Shangyang Pass, has always been wise and brave, and the defense of the city is almost comparable to that of Tongguan, and the rebels want to break through easily, which is a fool's dream.

Gao Xianzhi shook his head and nodded again.

Qi He also felt that Huo Tu Guiren's words were reasonable, so he said: "Please make it clear to the Prime Minister of the High!"

Gao Xianzhi's fingers began to move north at Tongguan, crossing the Yellow River, which flows east-west, and finally stopping on the left bank of the Yellow River from north to south.

"Hedong City?"

The two of them, Che Bi He and Huo Ba Quy Nhon, spoke in unison almost at the same time.

Hedong City experienced a brief change of hands in Shanyue, but the pressure on Hedong suddenly eased as the rebels in Hebei Province suddenly turned to a disadvantage. As a result, the city, located in the southwestern part of Hedong Province, did not fall into the hands of the rebels.

Of course, it is said that the Huangfu Ke rebels, who are across the river from Hedong City, seem to have dealt with a lot of them, and cooperated with Hedong ** to kill many rebels.

Therefore, the generals of Tongguan, including Gao Xianzhi, ignored this pivotal city located in Hedong Road for a while.

"The corn you have captured today is not destined for the rebel camp at all, but if your calculations are correct, it is destined for the north bank of the Yellow River. ”

Huo Ba Guiren was puzzled and asked: "It's just 10,000 stone corn, how can it be used by the siege army after it has been transported? Hedong City is not an ordinary small city......

"Indeed, Hedong City is not an ordinary small city, it is not easy to conquer, and ten thousand stones of corn are not enough for the army to eat, but it is inferred that this is only one of a small number of times, and the reason why the rebels are like this is to hide people's eyes. ”

Qi He and Huo Ba Guiren were both stunned, and they quickly understood the meaning of Gao Xianzhi's words. It seems that Sun Xiaozhe is indeed cunning enough, and Tongguan is not easy to break through head-on, so he detoured to Hedong City. As long as Hedong City is firmly controlled in his hands, it is equivalent to cutting off the main passage between Guanzhong and Hedong Road, and it is really offensive and defensible. Then, step by step, they gradually encroached on the dangerous passes around Tongguan, until the defense of Guanzhong leaked from all sides, and the rebels could naturally pick out the weakest place from it and attack Guanzhong in one fell swoop to take Chang'an.

At that time, Tong's role in Guanzhong will no longer be so important. However, the main army hoarded in Tongguan was restrained by various worries, which undoubtedly strengthened the rebels.

"Huo Tu Nhon immediately led his troops to cross the Yellow River, waiting for an opportunity to attack a small group of rebels. ”

Gao Xianzhi expected that Sun Xiaozhe must have broken the men and horses attacking Hedong City into pieces to avoid revealing his whereabouts early.

"Che Bihe, your Xin'an army is on the south bank of the Yellow River, searching for rebel soldiers and horses, and if there are not many of them, immediately encircle and annihilate them. ”

The two of them were ordered to go back to prepare happily. Unexpectedly, only half a day later, Gao Xianzhi hurriedly recalled the two to the Chinese army.

Seeing Gao Xianzhi's extremely ugly face, both Qi He and Huo Ba Guiren's hearts trembled, it must be bad news.

"Ma Xuanren rebelled and voted for Sun Xiaozhe!"

After these words came out of Gao Xianzhi's mouth, the two of them were taken aback, and they felt incredible.

If it is still possible for others to rebel and vote for An Lushan, Ma Xuanren and his people Geng Jie do not know how to be flexible, and they only know how to fight and kill the enemy in their hearts, if it were not for Ge Shuhan to protect him, I am afraid that he would have been torn apart by his political enemies and swallowed bones.

How could such a person turn to the enemy after half a month of bloody fighting?

Qi Bihe was a general under Ge Shuhan, only more than half a year, and he didn't know much about these generals from Longyou, Hexi. Huoba Guiren is different, he has followed Ge Shuhan for many years, and he knows Ma Xuanren very well, so he asked tentatively:

"Is there a mistake? Is it the destruction of the city, not the surrender to the enemy?"

Gao Xianzhi's voice was very heavy, but extremely firm.

"There will be no mistake, Ma Xuanren colluded with the rebels and even ambushed and attacked the ** who cooperated with him outside the city. ”

"Qi Bihe, Huoba Guiren, you two don't go north, go south immediately, recapture Shangyang Pass at any cost, and later you will personally go to Shangyang Pass to investigate the battle situation and enemy situation. ”

Although Hedong City is important, for Tongguan itself, its importance is far less than the reality that Shangyang Pass is coming.

In other words, compared to Shangyang Pass, Hedong City is more important to Guanzhong, and Shangyang Pass is more important to Tongguan, and losing Shangyang Pass means that half of the rebels have stepped into Tongguan. Therefore, whether it is Shangyang Pass or Hedong City, Guanzhong cannot be lost.

In these two dilemmas, Gao Xianzhi chose Shangyang Pass, which had already fallen, and no matter what, he wanted to take advantage of the rebels' unstable foothold here to recapture it.

Originally, Gao Xianzhi's plan was foolproof, with the deployment of the existing troops, Shangyang Pass would not be lost, but the sky was not as good as the people, but Ma Xuanren, who was the most unlikely to rebel, actually rebelled.

As a result, all of Gao Xianzhi's deployments were completely disrupted, and the battle began to become unpredictable.

Sending the two most trusted generals to Shangyang Pass was already Gao Xianzhi's limit, and he wanted to sit in Tongguan to avoid the rebels' virtual and real mergers.

After thinking for a while, Gao Xianzhi returned to the front of the case, and wrote two letters, one was sent to the emperor Fu Ke who rebelled in Pujin Pass, and the other was to be sent to Feng Yi and handed over to Qin Jin.

Although it is difficult for the existing defenders of Tongguan to take care of Hedong City, in order not to make Sun Xiaozhe's plan succeed, they can only turn to these two people separately. Although he doesn't have much hope for it, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, he always has to try.