"Zhang Huan, the secretary of the special military department, is the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and immediately leads the Longyou Army to relieve the siege of Luoyang in the east, so as to comfort the people of the world, and admire this!"

Zhang Huan listened to the Empress Dowager's decree, so he respectfully kowtowed: "Minister Zhang Huan obeys the decree!" ”

The eunuch who came to announce the decree was Cui Xiaofu's henchman Lu Taiyi, after he read the will, he hurriedly stepped forward with a smile and handed the will to Zhang Huan with both hands: "Zhang Shangshu just left Chang'an with his front foot, and our family chased after him, it's not that the Queen Mother doesn't want Shangshu to rest, it's really Cui Qinggong's offensive is aggressive, even Pei Xiangguo has suffered heavy losses, and the Queen Mother has no choice!" ”

Zhang Huan took the will, glanced at Mrs. Lu and said with a smile: "Father-in-law Lu may not know yet!" Cui Qinggong has already conquered Luoyang. ”

"What?" Lu Taiyi's lips trembled, and he involuntarily took a step back, stunned.

Zhang Huan saw that his expression was a little exaggerated, so he smiled and said, "Does Gonggong Lu think it's incredible?" ”

Lu Taiyi woke up suddenly, he said in a panic: "Shangshu doesn't know, this Cui Qinggong gave the Queen Mother conditions, asking the imperial court to compensate him for 10 million stone of military food and 8 million yuan of money, and asked the Queen Mother to crown him as the King of Yu and the Right Xiangguo, replace Li Mian as the first assistant of the cabinet, and at the same time seal Henan Province, otherwise he can't guarantee the safety of Luoyang, but he has already captured Luoyang, so how should his conditions be increased?" ”

"Humph! King Yu, he can figure it out. Zhang Huan sneered and said, "Even if he doesn't increase the size, will the imperial court accept it?" Is the Queen Mother's order for me to conquer the East just talking? ”

"Nope! No! Lu Taiyi was so frightened that he waved his hand again and again, "The Empress Dowager couldn't accept the conditions he offered, so she begged Shangshu to ask Cui Qinggong, and now the Empress Dowager is counting on Shangshu's Longyou Army." ”

"I have my own measure in this matter, you go back quickly and report to the Queen Mother. Please ask her to immediately declare Cui Qinggong a national thief, whose name is not right, who will I, the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, go to conquest? ”

That night, Zhang Huan personally led an army of 180,000 to the Central Plains, and the army marched all the way east. Zhang Huan ordered to be stationed in the camp.

At this time, it was the second half of the first month, the spring was cold, there was a hint of spring in the night wind, the night was getting deeper, and Zhang Huan couldn't sleep. And he put on a garment, and came to the wall.

Wide view in the distance. The continuous mountains of Luliang Mountain are shrouded in a piece of starlight. Four hundred miles ahead is the Yellow River, and in half a month, the Yellow River will begin to thaw.

Zhang Huan stared silently into the distance, but his mind flew back to the old time, he was thinking about the loneliness of his youth, thinking about the first time he met the head of the family, thinking about the chance encounter when he traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to catch the exam, it has been almost ten years, and he is thirty-two years old. It's past the year of its establishment. But he still tried hard to climb to the top of the mountain, and how many years of struggle made his sweat and blood not shed in vain. He had already faintly seen the wonderful scenery of the mountaintop.

At this moment, Zhang Huan only felt that his mind had become infinitely broad, as if thousands of miles of rivers and mountains could be taken into his chest.

"Who?" Behind him, there was a low shout from the soldiers.

"It's me, He Lou Wuji, is the governor here?"

Zhang Huan turned around, only to see He Lou Wuji walking up briskly under the starlight.

"Why, can't you sleep too?" Zhang Huan asked with a smile.

"Yes! Tomorrow I was going to lead the troops north, and I was a little excited in my heart, and I wanted to come to talk to the governor, but I learned that the governor was on the city tower. ”

Zhang Huan looked at this young veteran who followed him when he started the army, and there was a trace of warmth in his heart, so he said to him gently: "This time you go north independently, on the one hand, you must take every step of the camp, fight steadily, and on the other hand, you must also make good use of the strange soldiers, especially to seize the Jingchengkou before the enemy, prevent the enemy from entering Hedong, Tuoba Qianli is your defeated general, I am not worried, I am worried that the Hebei army has not fought for decades, once the Hu people and iron horses go south, whether they can resist it, so you have a long way to go in the north." ”

He Lou Wuji nodded silently, he remembered something and asked: "The governor told me that I should not cross the Yellow River lightly until it is clear that Hu Ma is going south, but the governor is taboo in the mouth of the people of the world?" ”

"You are right, Huma's southward march is just an opportunity for us to enter Hebei, if you are in a hurry, it is easy to give people a handle, but if you are a step slower, it will inevitably make Huma rampant and ravage my Han family, so the key is to master the fire, not only to be able to justifiably send troops, but also to win the applause of the world, this is why I let you follow my instructions to act, do you understand?"

"I understand that I will send a small force first, and I can seize the fortress at any time. (UC eBook 'Premiere')"

Zhang Huan patted him on the shoulder and smiled lightly: "The idea is right, but it is still a little weird." ”

Uncanny? He Lou Wuji didn't understand what Du Du meant.

Zhang Huan didn't answer him immediately, he looked at the distant mountains with his hands behind his back, and said with a faint smile for a while: "Have you forgotten?" I am the secretary of the military department, and I have the right to mobilize the world's regiments to train troops. ”

Du Du meant that He Lou Wuji suddenly understood.

"Even if you don't come to me tonight, I'll explain it to you tomorrow."

Zhang Huan turned his head and stared at him and said: "Before I left Chang'an, I had ordered the eight thousand regiments of Taiyuan Prefecture, Changhua County, Loufu County, and Xihe County to assemble westward under the pretext of winter training. ”

He Lou Wuji nodded solemnly, "Please rest assured, I will resolutely act according to the instructions of the Governor." ”

Early the next morning, the Longyou army was divided into two routes, one was led by He Lou Wuji to march to Yan'an County, and the other was led by Zhang Huan, his most elite 80,000 Anxi army, marching towards Hejin.

At this time, the clouds of war were shrouded in the line from Guanzhong to Luoyang, and Pei Jun had ordered Li Baozhen, the marshal of Tongguan, to lead 50,000 Niu Wei to guard Shaanxi County to prevent Cui Qinggong from attacking Chang'an urgently.

Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing to the west of Mianchi were crowded on the official road, and more than 10,000 troops were escorting nearly 1,000 households in Luoyang and its surrounding counties, and officials and their families were slowly retreating towards Chang'an.

The sky is drizzling, the road is muddy, along the way, you can see groups of frightened refugees everywhere, they help the old and the young, panic and difficult to flee west, from time to time there are carriages overturning and blocking the road, suddenly curses, cries into a loud voice, but fortunately Cui Qinggong did not chase after the tail, a reassuring news quickly spread among the refugees, the Longyou army has sent troops to quell the chaos, Cui Qinggong did not dare to attack Chang'an.

Luoyang, the eastern capital, since the Sui and Tang dynasties, is the horn of Chang'an, the first largest city in the Central Plains, with a population of one million, it is close to the Yellow River in the north, Guanzhong in the west, Jingchu in the south, and the Central Plains in the east, so it is the great trend of the Central Plains in military geography, those who want to take the world must first get Luoyang as the foundation, Tianbao 14 years of Anshi Rebellion broke out, An Lushan is the emperor after taking Luoyang.

After Cui Qinggong destroyed Wei Deqing and defeated the Hedong army, his army swelled rapidly, reaching 300,000 people, almost occupying the entire territory of Henan Province, at the same time, his ambition also swelled immediately, no longer satisfied with a local warlord, under the persuasion of the strategist, his troops pointed directly at Luoyang, and offered the Tang court an unacceptable sky-high price in exchange for not occupying Luoyang, but this was just an excuse, and as soon as the conditions were sent, he personally led an army of 200,000 to attack Luoyang impatiently.

At this moment, the defenders of Luoyang are less than 20,000 people, and there are no sword soldiers for decades, in order to protect the safety of millions of people in the eastern capital, Yang Yuanhe, who stayed in the eastern capital, after learning that the Pei family's 50,000 reinforcements were defeated in Hanoi, he opened the city gate and surrendered to Cui Qinggong, on the 23rd day of the first month, Cui Qinggong's army entered the eastern capital Luoyang from the upper east gate.

Luoyang in the Wu Zetian era for a long time has replaced Chang'an to become the political center of the Tang Dynasty, for this reason, Luoyang also built a towering palace complex, the same imitation of Chang'an divided into two parts of the imperial city and the palace city, in the Anshi Rebellion, Luoyang's palace was seriously damaged, the round wall city, Shangyang Palace and most of the imperial city were burned, only a palace near Ning Bichi was retained, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Luoyang palace city was not rebuilt, just cleaned up the ruins, the Luoyang palace city was reduced to half of the original, despite this, the splendid palace complex still aroused Cui Qinggong's infinite reverie.

Because Cui Qinggong's army received millions of stone of grain prepared by the imperial court to relieve the victims of Henan after capturing Xingyang, and hundreds of thousands of military rations from the Hedong Army after capturing Yanshi, his military food crisis was alleviated, and Cui Qinggong listened to the persuasion of his advisers to take Luoyang as the emperor's industry after entering and occupying Luoyang, and gave up the original plan of large-scale looting of the city.

Despite this, due to Cui Qinggong's untidy military discipline, 100,000 troops were stationed in the city, and the military and civilians lived together, so that small-scale robberies of shops and rape of women were still endless, which made Cui Qinggong a headache, for this reason, he ordered the people of Daozheng, Daoguang, Qinghua, Lide, Chengfu and other five squares north of Luoshui and close to the palace city to the south of Luoshui, and divided these five squares into a military restricted area, 100,000 troops were stationed in it, and those who approached were killed, and Zhu Tao was named the eastern capital Yin, and maintained order in Luoyang City for him.

Cui Qinggong himself lived in the palace, there were originally more than 200 palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, he thought the number was too small, and ordered people to purchase 800 show girls in Luoyang and the surrounding areas to enter the palace, and set up dozens of concubines, except for not officially claiming the emperor, all the use and luxury are no different from the emperor.

After occupying Luoyang, Cui Qinggong did not dare to continue to attack to the west, on the one hand, his battle line was too long, and there was no preparation in advance, so he urgently needed to turn back and consolidate the results, on the other hand, he also knew the strength of the Longyou army, in this case, Zhang Huan was very likely to send troops to Luoyang, only by defeating Zhang Huan, the Tang Dynasty would really become his bag.

On this day, he suddenly received an urgent military report that about 10,000 forwards of the Longyou Army had appeared in the area of Longmen County. To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, xtcom, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading! )