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The snow is coming, and the road is getting harder. Cui Yuan'an, the deputy envoy of Jiannan Jiedu and the future affairs of Zhiliu, sat in the warm carriage like spring, and said to himself: "If you want to cross the Yellow River and ice Sichuan, you will climb the snow-covered mountains in Taihang." Although Li Taibai's career is rugged, his poems are handsome and graceful, which is breathtaking! When Xian Yu Zhongtong left Yizhou for Chang'an last year, it was inevitable that he would be uneasy because of the difficulty of the road along the way, right? ”

Thinking of Cui Yuan, who had been promoted to Jing Zhaoyin's former boss Xian Yuxiang and a slightly fat figure, he couldn't help but ripple with a trace of disdain in his heart. Although he is also a member of Yang Guozhong's party, Cui Yuan, who was born in the Qingzhou house of the Cui family in Qinghe, faced the vulgar and unliterate Yizhou wealthy businessman Xian Yuxiang, and it was inevitable that he would have a little arrogance and reserve of the children of the family in his heart.

The Qinghe Cui family is ranked among the five surnames and seven wangs, and it is one of the best first-class families in the Tang Dynasty. Although Qingzhou Fang is not a descendant, it is also one of the best among the Cui family houses in Qinghe. However, when the family is large, it is inevitable that there will be inequality between the rich and the poor. Cui Yuan has been lonely and poor since he was a child, although he has the dazzling halo brought by his surname, his life is actually not as good as that of ordinary people. If it weren't for the fact that the Cui clan in Qinghe has always attached great importance to culture and education, and the clan has a private school for the clan to enroll, Cui Yuan probably wouldn't even have the opportunity to study.

Cui Yuan's family is poor but ambitious, he loves poetry and books, and likes to read miscellaneous studies, especially the art of war. He not only dabbled in military classics such as "The Art of War", "Liutao", "Wei Xuanzi", "Sima Law", etc., but also traveled to the land of Qilu and Heluo with a sword. However, although Cui Yuan read through the military books, he always promised himself to be a scribe, and his ambition was to become a civil servant who entered and exited the Fengtai Luan Pavilion and held the authority of the world, rather than a martial artist who passed through the border towns and charged into battle.

In Kaiyuan, the sage issued an edict to search for relics, and Kaienke recruited talents from all over the world. Cui Yuan, who was in his twenties, took the exam for the strategy of shooting, showed what he had learned in his chest, and wrote a strategy to deal with border troubles smoothly, and finally won the middle class A department.

Cui Yuan originally wanted to use this to be appointed to the Ministry of War and be the head of the Nine Grades. But who knew that creation made people, and the member in charge of the selection of the Ministry saw that he was tall and had the style of a martial artist, so he actually selected Cui Yuan into Qianniuwei to serve as the halberd of the nine products.

Cui Yuan was conceited of literature and art but was awarded a military position, quite unpleasant, melancholy for many years, finally in the fourth year of Tianbao (745) to meet a nobleman, transferred to the local county Cheng, returned to the ranks of civil ministers, and then moved to the Ministry of Six Officials Wailang.

Seeing that the concubine was favored and the Yang family's chicken dog ascended to heaven, Cui Yuan's eyes were quick, and he did not hesitate to put down the face of the children of the family, and took refuge in Yang Guozhong, who was favored by the saints but had few henchmen.

After last year, Xian Yuxiang resigned and returned to Beijing, Yang Guozhong also led the Jiannan Jiedu envoy, Cui Yuan was recommended as the deputy envoy of the Jiannan Jiedu because of his many years of diligent service, and became the actual leader of the Jiannan Army, and was promoted to the feudal official of the Jiezhen side.

"I didn't want to take up a martial arts position back then, but who knew that in the end, I had to mix with a group of martial artists with different cultures, which was fate?" Cui Yuan laughed at himself. In the eyes of the world, he is a lucky person who was born in a famous family, rose to the top, and had a smooth future. But during this period, the hardships of studying, the ups and downs of the career, and the huge amount of effort are not enough to be humane with outsiders!

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。 Cui Yuan clapped his hands and sighed: "When you go to the top of the mountain, you know that the world is cold!" ”

Those who can make Cui Yuan feel cold all over his body, without him, the battle of Jiannan is also!

Although Yang Guozhong whitewashed and covered up the past last year's incident of Xian Yu rushing to the merit and defeating the Xi'er River, he could not reverse the tragic blow to the morale of the Jiannan army caused by the defeat.

After taking over the dispatch of Zhiliu, Cui Yuan originally wanted to spend two years dedicating himself to reorganizing his troops and horses, and then choose an opportunity to conquer Nanzhao. However, Yang Guozhong urged three times a day, forcing him to send troops in a hurry, and in June this year, he sent Jiannan soldiers and horses to make Li Mi lead the vanguard battalion south to Dadushui.

Although Cui Yuan did not dare to disobey Yang Guozhong's orders, he knew that the newly formed Jiannan Army was strong and strong, so he told Li Mi to fight steadily and steadily, step by step, and not underestimate the enemy.

Li Mi, who was familiar with the situation of the Nanzhao army, lived up to his trust, and when he encountered the Nanzhao army stealing the camp in the rain on the north bank of Dadu Shui, not only did not mess up the position, but instead rushed forward with surprise troops and surrounded and annihilated the enemy in one fell swoop.

By the time Cui Yuan and the king of Fengxin, Absi, led their army to Dadushui, Li Mi's vanguard camp had already set up camp on the south bank and set up a pontoon bridge at the ferry for the army to march.

Worried that Tubo would send troops to aid Nanzhao, Cui Yuan asked the Luo cavalry to reconnoiter around and at the same time, he ordered the army to practice while marching, slowly moving south and advancing in unison, so as not to give the enemy a chance to take advantage of it.

When he was young, Cui Yuan boasted that he had read all the military classics in the world, and he felt that he was not a good teacher with soldiers, so he despised the generals of the border towns. But after taking charge of the Jiannan Army, he was stunned to find that marching and arranging the formation was by no means an easy task, and it was not something that could be used freely by reading a few military books.

Fortunately, Cui Yuan knows the tragedy of Zhao Kuo's "talking on paper", so he doesn't seem to be as rigid as Xiang. He fully trusted Li Mi and Arbus, and let them lead the troops in the most convenient way for him. Only when there is a difference of opinion between the two will Cui Yuan intervene.

The reason why he is so relieved about Li Mi and Absi is that Cui Yuan is well aware of the little Jiujiu in Yang Guozhong's heart. Although Cui Yuan, who was born in a family, learned from fame and wealth, he adhered to the ancient precept of being well-received, relaxed and orderly, and not too greedy. And Yang Guozhong, a duckweed with no foundation, was once rich and noble by nepotism, and it was easy to swell excessively, and he couldn't wait to grasp all the benefits in his hands.

Judging from the current situation, after Wang Weld's rebellion, Li Linfu declined, and Yang Guozhong's succession as right minister was just around the corner. If Cui Yuan and Yang Guozhong get along, he will give priority to concentrating on how to stabilize the central court, and then ask for other things after a few years.

And Yang Guozhong's current plan is obviously that neither the phase nor the prince wants to lose it. And the Jiannan War, which lasted for nearly two years, was to put it bluntly, it was using the bones of Jiannan's soldiers to pave a road to the king for Yang Guozhong. Cui Yuan even suspected that Yang Guozhong's appointment of the money-greedy and lustful Zhang Qiantuo as the Yunnan Taishou should have been done intentionally, with the purpose of provoking a border provocation......

Therefore, the war in Jiannan has dragged on so far, Yang Guozhong neither pays attention to the national strength of Nanzhao, nor does he care whether Tubo will intervene, and he only has good news in his eyes.

The reason why Xian Yuxiang defeated Xi'er River was because he didn't understand Yang Guozhong's thoughts, and he was delusional about finishing his work in one battle and using his military exploits to earn a chance to become the king for himself. If it weren't for his kindness to Yang Guozhong, I am afraid that he would have been abandoned by the Yang family and reverted to a businessman, let alone Jing Zhaoyin.

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After figuring out Yang Guozhong's thoughts, Cui Yuan adapted measures to local conditions, and his requirement for the war was "stability". He did not seek to conquer the capital of Nanzhao, nor did he seek to survive to capture Luo Feng, but only to win a big victory over Nanzhao, complete Yang Guozhong's wish as soon as possible, and end the war that made people walk on thin ice as soon as possible.

Although the Jiannan Army could not be compared with the Qianxi and Youhe strong armies, if the group advanced slowly, the Southern Zhao Army really had no good way to deal with it. Ge Luofeng probably saw that there was no way to take advantage of it, so he ordered the Nanzhao army to retreat hundreds of miles and shrink in the area of Taihe City, trying to clear the wilderness with a strong wall, lure the enemy deep, and consume the southern army of Jiannan.

Cui Yuan listened to Li Mi's advice and stood still after penetrating more than 100 miles into the border of Nanzhao. He relied on the support of sufficient grain and straw in the rear, and safely incorporated the tribes in Nanzhao that did not submit to the rule of Ge Luofeng, but he never went south to Taihe City for a decisive battle.

During this period, Cui Yuan reported to Yang Guozhong every three or five times, saying for a while how many territories he had captured in Nanzhao, and how many southwestern tribes he had subdued, which coaxed Yang Guozhong, who was eager to be crowned king, to his heart.

Under Yang Guozhong's strict orders, Xian Yu and other henchmen intensified their looting, and continuously transferred grain, weapons, and military salaries to the front line to ensure that the Jiannan army had no worries about food and clothing. The fierce oil fire that was transferred from Hongnong Pavilion to Yizhou City also transported two carts to the Jiannan Army camp.

After not seeing the Jiannan army take the bait for a long time, Ge Luofeng, who couldn't afford to consume it, had to send envoys to the border between Tubo and Nanzhao with heavy gifts, and invited the long-awaited Tubo army to participate in the battle and attack the Jiannan army together.

But even with the help of 20,000 Tibetans, the Nanzhao army, which had fallen into the north, was still unable to swallow the Jiannan army, which was well defended and had sufficient armaments. The two sides fought viciously for half a day, and several charges by the Nanzhao and Tubo coalition forces were repelled by the Tang army with strong bows and crossbows and fierce oil fire.

After the morale of the coalition army was exhausted, the Tongluo cavalry, which had been recuperating for a long time, rushed out of the camp and killed, killing the Nanzhao army at the forefront and retreating one after another, losing nearly two percent of the soldiers and horses in a blink of an eye. If it weren't for the neatness of the Tubo army, the defeat but not the chaos, and the decline in the combat effectiveness of the Tongluo cavalry due to the lack of water and soil, the Nanzhao army would have suffered a great loss of vitality, and the casualties would have been even more severe.

After the victory, Arbus felt sorry for his soldiers and horses, and was unwilling to pursue; Li Mi proposed to promote peace by war, and sent an envoy to persuade Luo Feng to confess his guilt and return to the class of the Tang Dynasty. After Cui Yuan sent out the good news, he estimated that this battle could meet Yang Guozhong's requirements, and a big stone fell to the ground in his heart, so he agreed to the request of Absi and Li Mi, and ordered the Jiannan Army to stand by and wait for Yang Guozhong's orders.

In the battle, in addition to completing the set goal, Cui Yuan also had a big gain, that is, to encircle a tiger general.

Before arriving at Dadushui, Cui Yuan noticed Li Sheng of the Zhenyuan Light Cavalry in Li Mi's battle report, and felt that his origin was unusual. Therefore, after crossing the river, Cui Yuan recruited Li Sheng to come to the tent, intending to take the school exam and feel the truth.

After learning that Li Sheng had served as Wang Zhonghe's tooth soldier and Ge Shuhan's tooth soldier captain, Cui Yuanden looked at him differently; When Li Sheng listed the weaknesses of the Jiannan Army's insufficient training and pointed out the shortcomings of the Nanzhao Army's large armaments, Cui Yuan didn't say anything on his face, and secretly said yes in his heart; When Li Sheng recalled the Battle of Stone Fort, pointed out the restraint of the ear-piercing arrow on the Tubo chain mail, and described the huge power of the fierce oil fire, Cui Yuan was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

For example, Cui Yuan, who obtained the treasure, immediately incorporated Li Sheng and the Zhenyuan Light Cavalry into the tooth soldier sequence and transferred them to his direct subordinates. Li Sheng was promoted two levels in a row and once again served as a lieutenant of the dental army.

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