At dawn on the 21st of October, Ma Lu, who had been on duty on the city wall all night, rubbed his temples, yawned, and began to inspect the defense on the city wall with a few personal soldiers, calling up some soldiers who were sleeping on the city wall. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After the sun jumped out of the horizon, the sky was getting brighter, Ma Lan walked on the city wall and turned his head to look at the rebel camp outside the city, the rebel camp seemed quiet, some small figures like black spots did not move on the watchtower of the camp, and several flags of the Dayan Dynasty hung weakly, completely without the noise of the early morning in the past.

After walking a few steps, Ma Lu stopped, frowned and looked at the rebel camp and said, "Hey, no, why is the rebel camp so quiet today?" ”

A pro-soldier next to him was also puzzled: "That's right, in the past, before dawn, the noise of the rebel camp was heard far away, but today there is no movement at all, it's really strange!" ”

"There's definitely an article in this! What the hell are Shi Siming and Cai Xide doing? Ma Lan touched his chin, kept moving back and forth, and soon stopped and instructed the captain of the pro-soldier next to him: "You must find out what the rebels are doing, you take a few people out of the city on horseback to explore the vicinity of the rebel camp!" If the rebels send men out of the camp to chase them, flee separately and return at night!" ”

"No!" The captain of the pro-soldier said yes and led a few people down the tower.

Under the order of Ma Lan, the defenders of the city gate opened the gate for a horse to pass through, and closed the gate immediately after the captain of the army led several people out of the city on horseback.

Ma Lan and all the defenders on the city wall stood on the city wall nervously watching the captain of the pro-soldier team disperse with a few horses and slowly approach the rebel camp, to everyone's surprise, the captain of the pro-soldier and several other cavalry first looked at the camp for a while, and then approached the rebel camp again until they arrived at the camp gate, which made Ma Lan and the others stunned.

What's going on? Could it be that the guards on the arrow tower of the rebel camp are all dead? They just watched as the pro-soldiers were waiting for people to arrive at the camp gate, and turned a blind eye? What made Ma Lan and all the Tang troops on the city wall even more surprised was that the captain of the personal soldiers actually pushed open the camp gate and rode directly into the rebel camp.

After a while, one of the cavalrymen who had gone to reconnoiter with the captain of his own army galloped back to the city and reported to Ma Xuan: "General Qiyu, the rebel camp is empty, and the camp is full of tattered armor, weapons, flags, and tents discarded by the rebels!" ”

"What?" Ma Lan was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered a personal soldier beside him: "Ride a fast horse and report to General Li Guangbi!" The others followed me to the rebel camp to check on the situation! ”

"No!" The soldiers agreed with a bang.

Ma Lan led dozens of his own soldiers to gallop into the rebel camp, sure enough, the rebel camp was in a mess, flags of various colors and sizes were thrown everywhere, some tattered armor and damaged weapons could be seen everywhere, many camp tents were trampled on the ground and covered with mud, all kinds of military supplies were scattered everywhere, and Ma Lan even found a large amount of grain and grass in the place where the baggage was stacked.

Soon, Li Guangbi and other generals came on horseback, and Ma Lan waited for Li Guangbi at the camp gate, and Li Guangbi got off his horse and asked, "What happened when he fell to the ground?" ”

Ma Ling said: "At the end of this morning, the general inspected the city wall and found that the rebel camp was too quiet, so he felt a little unusual, so he sent people out of the city to investigate, but he didn't expect that the rebel camp was already empty, and there was no sound last night, the last general guessed that something must have happened to the rear of the rebels, otherwise the rebels could not have withdrawn quietly, Shi Siming and Cai Xide were worried that they would be pursued by our army when they retreated, so they had to quietly evacuate last night, judging from the large amount of baggage left in the camp, they withdrew in a hurry!" ”

Li Guangbi immediately ordered: "Let Xizuo find out the news immediately, and we must find out why the rebels retreated in a hurry as soon as possible!" And figure out the direction of the rebels' retreat! ”

"No!" The officer in charge of military intelligence gathering immediately agreed.

On October 22, the reason why the rebels retreated in a hurry has not yet been clarified, but Tanma has traced the direction and path of the rebels' retreat.

In less than ten days, Ma Lan pursued the rebels all the way, and regained the lost ground along the way, chased out of the Hedong boundary, and stopped when he entered Changshan, Hebei, Jingjing Pass was also recaptured by the Tang army, and the strategic situation of the battlefield on the middle line returned to the previous before, and the Tang army had turned passive defense into active attack.

On the first day of November, Li Guangbi and others finally learned the reason why Shi Siming and others suddenly withdrew their troops, it turned out that the Mobei Army raised the banner of counterinsurgency and raised troops to the south to capture the Great Wall Pass, and the troops were under Fanyang City, which directly threatened the rebels' lair, and Shi Siming and Cai Xide had to lead the army to rush back to help.

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Changan.

It didn't take long for Zhao Ziliangcai to send someone from Tongguan to capture Tongguan, and the news of the relief of the siege of Taiyuan and the end of the battle of Taiyuan soon came, Xuanzong was greatly relieved, and now it is beneficial to the imperial court, and Xuanzong is finally no longer worried about being afraid.

Immediately afterwards, the news that the Mobei Army had gone south to capture the pass of the Great Wall and was approaching the city of Fanyang was sent to Chang'an by Li Guangbi and fast horses.

On the sixth day of November, the news arrived in Chang'an and was learned by Xuanzong and the government and the opposition.

Although the Mobei Army only has 20,000 horses, the combat power of these 20,000 horses cannot be underestimated, and it has a natural geographical advantage.

Xuanzong was happy, and crowned Zhao Ziliang as a captain, and he was still the secretary of the military department; Li Guangbi was crowned as the secretary of the household department, and he was still the envoy of the Hedong Festival, Zhang Shouyu was a special jin, the right attendant of the military department, and the general of Huaihua; Although Guo Ziyi did not have a significant record, he withstood Gao Xiuyan's attack, which can also be said to be indispensable, General Jiayunlu, Shannan Jiedu made Lu Jiong crowned as a special jin, Yunlu general, Zhang Xun, Lai Yao and Yongwang have also been promoted, and other meritorious generals at all levels have also been rewarded.

On November 12, Zhao Ziliang was summoned to the pilgrimage.

Arrived in Chang'an on the 14th, stayed at Chang'an's house, and hurried back for several days to make Zhao Ziliang feel a little tired, so he asked the family to boil some hot water and take a bath and was about to sleep, but he didn't want the housekeeper to report: "Master, there are soldiers outside the door who said that they came from Tongguan to see the marshal, and there is an urgent military report!" ”

Zhao Ziliang couldn't get tired when he heard this, and said to the housekeeper, "You take him to the study to see me!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang sat down in the study and drank two sips of tea, and saw the housekeeper leading a soldier in, who was one of his personal soldiers.

"Meet the marshal, General Wang Can ordered me to send two urgent military information to the marshal!"

Zhao Ziliang took two letters and opened one of them, the letter said that Zhang Xun and others who defended Yongqiu were under great pressure after the rebel general Yin Ziqi became the commander of the attack on Yongqiu, and the rebel general Yin Ziqi's command and command ability was far from being comparable to that of Hu Chao, Li Huaixian and Yang Zongwang, Zhang Xun, Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun and others only had thousands of men and horses in their hands, and they had withstood the attack of the rebels for more than half a year. Under the attack of Yin Ziqi's rebels like a tide, there were faint signs that they could not hold on, and the situation in Yongqiu was quite worrying.

Another piece of information is that most of the Mobei Army under the leadership of Xue Song captured the pass of the Great Wall and approached Fanyang City, but they were all cavalry and could not attack the city without infantry, so they could only clean up the small towns around Fanyang. Xue Song chose to retreat to the Great Wall Pass to garrison in view of the fact that he had no reinforcements and worked on an expedition, and the army temporarily retreated to the north of the Great Wall, and sent troops to Shanhaiguan to prepare to cut off the connection between Fanyang and Pinglu.

Regarding the situation in the north, Zhao Ziliang was a little relieved, with the Mobei Army in the north, Shi Siming did not dare to go south to capture Hedong, what made him quite worried was the Lu Jiong Department in Nanyang and the Zhang Xun Department in Yongqiu.

After letting the soldiers who delivered the letter go down to rest, Zhao Ziliang walked to the wall of the study where the map was hung, and held an oil lamp to check the map to find the location of Yongqiu.

Now Yongqiu has become a lonely city, surrounded by rebel forces, but it is this lonely city that has restrained 100,000 rebels, which shows that Zhang Xun, Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun and others have very good abilities.

The next day, November 15, Zhao Ziliang entered the pilgrimage.

Today is the Great Dynasty Meeting, although the weather is very cold, Xuanzong doesn't want to get up a little, but the Great Dynasty will not go, now it is no better than the Kaiyuan period, the government is a mess, the traitors are arrogant, the state capitals of the world do their own thing, the imperial court's control over the local area has dropped significantly, and then lazy in political affairs, the Tang Dynasty will really be crumbling.

At the court meeting, the chief officials or adjutants of the yamen of the imperial court reported to Xuanzong on the handling of political affairs in the past few days, and what political affairs could not be decided by the yamen at all levels and had to be adjudicated by the emperor, and these were reported to the emperor one by one, and the emperor gave opinions or made decisions on the spot, and if the emperor could not come up with an idea, he asked the ministers for their opinions, and if the opinions were not unanimous, or the emperor himself could not make a decision for a while, it would be temporarily shelved.

At the end of the court meeting, Xuanzong asked Zhao Ziliang: "Zhao Qing returned from the front line of Tongguan, I don't know how the battle situation is now?" ”

Zhao Ziliang came out of the class and saluted: "Your Majesty, this court will have a lot of people, Wechen will only introduce the general situation of the enemy and me here, so that colleagues can also have a general understanding of the situation in the world, as for the specific situation and response to the deployment is a military affair, military secrets, no one else or don't know better, and after the court meeting is dispersed, Wechen and the military generals will report to Your Majesty in detail to discuss the response and deployment strategy!" (To be continued.) )