Luoyang, Mingtang.

Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties was founded in the first year of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and Yang Guang, as an emperor with a mixed reputation in history, his vision is commendable. It's just that he is too happy and ambitious, and he has made himself a tyrant and a thief.

Many of his layouts are of extraordinary strategic foresight.

Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties is one of them, when the development of Chang'an entered the top of the bottle, the new Luoyang City was built, and the two capitals system was implemented. Chang'an and Luoyang echoed each other, not only suppressed the Guanlong aristocracy, but also maximized the economy of Chang'an and Luoyang.

Later emperors, whether it was Li Shimin, Li Zhi, Wu Zetian or Li Longji, attached great importance to Luoyang.

The overall pattern of Luoyang City is designed according to the concept of "the unity of heaven and man", the imperial city surrounds the palace city from the southeast and west sides, and the tall buildings on the north and south axes are crowned with the word "sky", and the whole axis can be described as a word sky. Especially after Wu Zetian's construction of Luoyang City, the main hall of the central axis of Luoyang Ziwei Palace was changed to a single-storey tradition, which made the three-dimensional outline and style of the Luoyang Palace City Palace more brilliant and magnificent.

An Lushan changed his name to the emperor, naturally taking Mingtang as his own.

However, the fat man himself did not have much joy, but frowned all day long, his temper became more and more hot, and he did not feel like an emperor at all.

Because of the increasingly unfavorable situation, he was forced to become the emperor and use the rewards of various high-ranking officials to stabilize the morale of the army, and An Lushan was very unhappy in his heart.

And because he was too obese, An Lushan had a big boil on his back, the pain was unbearable, he couldn't sit and lie down, and even he could only sleep on his stomach, which was difficult to sleep.

Especially when he saw the news of Shi Siming's reinforcement and asking for help, he was even more angry and scolded: "Reinforcements and reinforcements, go to the fucking reinforcements, 50,000 people, can't beat 2,000, and still have the face to ask for reinforcements, why don't you find a piece of tofu and kill you?" Waste stuff, I'm pissed off. Before the expedition, he still said anything, just east of the river, the army ran over and easily captured. The result? Shame, shame on the dead. ”

I scolded and vented for a long time, until I was involved in the boils on my back, and then I was deflated in pain, and it took me a while to come back to my senses, and I said with a bit of anger: "Go and call the valley of desire, solemnity, and nobility." ”

An Lushan temporarily stabilized the morale of the army by claiming the title of emperor and rewarding the ministers.

Lust Valley, solemnity, and nobility, as the three strategists who An Lushan took as their arms, naturally also received a reward.

Tun Desire Valley is the prince and the prince, solemn, noble and prime minister.

"This is from Shi Siming, you see. I don't think Hedong can be defeated, that Guo Ziyi has something, these two wastes are not his opponents when they are twenty times his strength. Now Guo Ziyi has been named the envoy of the Hedong Festival, and he has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands. Throw their dogs' lives to the east of the river, and the east of the river will not be able to take it. ”

Tun Desire Valley handed the letter for help to Yan Zhuang and said: "When the judgment continues to suffer from its chaos, before Pei Min comes to the future, it is imperative to take Hedong; It doesn't matter whether you take Hedong or not now. Instead of sending troops, it is better to withdraw the army and strengthen our control over the Central Plains. ”

Yan Zhuang didn't read the letter, and handed it directly to Gao Shangdao: "But if Shi Siming is withdrawn and Guo Ziyi takes Hebei directly, so what?" Hebei is now our economic lifeline and our way out. If Hebei is lost, we will become a turtle in an urn. ”

Tun Yugu coughed twice, and said with a sigh: "Mr. Yan, haven't you seen Pei Min's intentions?" What Pei Min is best at is strategic layout, and every one of his actions has a purpose. If you don't move, you want to trap us in the Central Plains. Didn't the three of us discuss who Pei Min was waiting for before? ”

Speaking of this, he smiled bitterly: "Pei Min doesn't have many troops available now, and it's a shame that he arranged for Wang Zhongji to attack Arabia." Otherwise, with the Hexi and Longyou armies, we would have already become ghosts. ”

"Now he doesn't have many soldiers and horses in his hands, not only to deal with us, but also to guard against Li Heng, it is inevitable that he will be dwarfed. In this case, calling for foreign aid is the only way, and Jiannan Junge Shuhan is undoubtedly the best choice. ”

Gao Shang was in charge of intelligence work and said: "Ge Shuhan was picked up by Pei Min, and Li Heng had long been afraid of it, so he specially arranged for Huangfu Weiming to seize his military power. ”

"It's useless!" Tun Desire Valley said: "Ge Shuhan is both civil and military, sitting in Sichuan and Shu for ten years, what will Huangfu Weiming do to fight him?" It won't be long before Geshuhan will appear in the Xiangfan area and become a sharp knife inserted into the Central Plains, and we will be in danger at that time......"

An Lushan was distraught when he heard this, and said, "Then what should I do, why don't you just run away?" With that bastard in Chang'an, Lao Tzu is not at all down-to-earth in Luoyang, and he is afraid that when he wakes up, this head will not be his own. Just ......"

He didn't wait for anyone to answer, so he frowned and said: "This can't be done, Chang'an and Luoyang are so close, they go down the Yellow River, and they can't be killed in a day." I'm sure we'll get out of here, and that bastard will catch up with him like a smelly cat. ”

Gao Shang shook his head and said, "Run now, that's to cut off all the odds for us, and then let yourself live a little longer." ”

An Lushan said: "According to this situation, unless we can take Jianghuai in a short period of time and cut off the economic lifeline of the Tang Dynasty, we will die faster." Is this a choice between dying early or dying later? ”

At this time, Yan Zhuang, who had not spoken at this time, squinted his eyes and smiled: "Actually, Your Majesty doesn't need to be so pessimistic, you all ignore one point, Pei Min now has an Achilles heel, and I don't know if they have found it." ”

An Lushan looked at Yan Zhuang expectantly.

Yan Zhuang said mysteriously: "Guanzhong is short of food!" ”

An Lushan was stunned: "No, I remember that they transferred a large amount of grain from Longyou, which is enough for the soldiers and horses under his command to eat for several years." ”

Yan Zhuang showed a smile on his face and said: "This is the obstacle, Your Majesty has neglected one point, that food is not only eaten by the army, but also by the people of Chang'an." That's a million people, even if you exclude those who are rich and rich, and who save rice and grain at home, there are still hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. How many points, how many more? Huainan and Jiangnan are the granaries of Guanzhong, and we unintentionally cut off their canal grain routes. It is also impossible for them to transport grain to Sichuan and Shu, and enter the customs through the Shu Road. There is only one option, to use the Xiangfan waterway to transport grain from Wuguan to Guanzhong. ”

An Lushan Huo Ran said: "As long as we cut off this grain road, Guanzhong will be chaotic." ”

"Nanyang!" Tun Desire Valley became excited: "Your Majesty, please send troops to Nanyang immediately!" As long as we can capture Nanyang, the initiative is in our hands......"

Gao Shang got up and said: "As far as the minister knows, Nanyang Taishou Xu Shuji is cunning and deceitful, and he is an ambitious figure, he doesn't need to be attacked, he can be tempted. Your Majesty, I would like to go in person! ”