A series of military orders were quickly issued from Mobei City and sent to all parts of the grassland, and the 20,000 iron cavalry of the Mobei Army rushed to Mobei City from various garrisons in the grassland to assemble after receiving the order. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

On the sixth day of October, all the Mobei Army assembled in the military camp outside Mobei City, and a large number of strategic materials, grain, grass, cattle, sheep and horses also gathered in Mobei City from all over the city.

On the eighth day of the first month of October, Shan Yu, the deputy capital protector, the Mobei city lord, the Mobei army envoy Zhang Shouyu, the deputy envoy of the Mobei army, Xue Song, and a single cadre of the capital protection mansion and the city lord's mansion officials and colonels came to the camp outside the city.

The drumbeat of the emergency assembly sounded, and countless soldiers of the Mobei Army rushed out of the barracks in full clothes and ran to the stables, and rushed to the school field on horseback to assemble.

With a cup of tea, nearly 20,000 iron horsemen were all assembled, Zhang Shouyu, Xue Song and others walked up to the point platform according to their swords, and there was silence on the school field.

Zhang Shouyu stepped forward and said loudly: "Soldiers, do you know why you are gathering here today? Sixteen years ago, General Zhao Ziliang, the first commander of the Mobei Army, led the Hedong Army out of the border and swept through the grassland, sweeping all the tribes in the grassland, and the former powerful Turks, Xi people, Khitans, Hui people, and Qarluq people, these grassland overlords all disappeared into the river of history! Here, under the leadership of General Zhao Ziliang, we built Mobei City, and spread the Tianwei of our Tang Dynasty to the north of Hanhai! Sixteen years have passed, the former strong man has become an old man, the former young man has now become a strong man, and the doll has become a strong young man! We have dedicated our youth and blood to the Tang Dynasty here, and we have guarded the northern frontier of the Tang Dynasty! Last year, An Lushan rebelled and sent people to recruit us, we only have 20,000 people, and the rebels have more than 100,000, under the disparity in strength, I and the generals and officials decided to make a false and false accusation, pretending to belong to the rebels, but we will never send troops to the imperial court! Today is a special day, we have been waiting for this day for fifteen years, because fifteen years ago, our first commander of the Mobei Army, General Zhao Ziliang, predicted that An Lushan might rebel, and he agreed with us before leaving, when his messenger came, it was when our Mobei Army rose up to the south to participate in the counterinsurgency, this time has finally come, and we must fulfill the agreement! We rebel from time to time, we can't be with the rebels, we are the army of the Tang Dynasty, and it is our duty to defend the rule of the Tang Dynasty! Now I order that the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth battalions will stay in Mobei with me, and the other battalions will follow General Xue Song to the south to quell the rebellion! The army will set off tomorrow and quickly go south to attack the nest of the rebels in Youzhou! ”

"Roar, roar, roar······" All the officers and men of the Mobei Army shouted loudly with their weapons.

Early the next morning, the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth battalions of the Mobei Army, as well as a large number of war materials, cattle and sheep, were prepared.

Zhang Shouyu looked at the figure of the army in the distance, and couldn't help shedding tears, this time he went south to quell the rebellion, he really wanted to personally lead the troops, but Mobei could not be guarded by no one, and now the barbarians who remained on the grassland were not so peaceful, and the prestige of Zhao Ziliang left in Mobei fifteen years ago has gradually been forgotten by these barbarians with the passage of time, they want to drive away the Tang people, and want to rise again.

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In Taiyuan, the overwhelming shouts of killing came into the city from all directions, and the rebel soldiers outside the city were as dense as ants, carrying siege ladders, pushing wells and ballistas, and rushing to the city wall, and the Tang army guards and soldiers on the city wall stared nervously at these rebels who rushed over.

It has been nearly two months since the rebels besieged and attacked Taiyuan City, and it has been more than ten days since Ma Ling and Fugu Huaien arrived in Taiyuan with 20,000 soldiers and horses.

Unprepared, Shi Siming and Cai Xide's rebels were defeated, losing tens of thousands of people, because most of the infantry they fought this time, and there were very few cavalry, so they could not pursue them deeply, so that Shi Siming and Cai Xide could take a breather and quickly gather men and horses to besiege Taiyuan again.

In the face of the rebels with absolute superiority in the strength of Shi Siming and Cai Xide, Ma Lan and Fu Gu Huaien set up a formation outside Taiyuan City to fight with the rebels, the two sides killed from dawn to dark, Shi Siming and Cai Xide took turns to attack the Tang army commanded by Ma Ling and Fu Gu Huaien, after dark, the two sides of the war had to stop fighting, each retreated and returned, and in the face of the superior strength of the rebels, Ma Ling and Fu Gu Huaien had to lead the army to retreat into Taiyuan City to use the city wall to resist the attack of the rebels.

Another day passed, and despite the protection of the city wall, the Tang army still suffered a lot of casualties, while Shi Siming and Cai Xide's rebels did not care about this loss at all because of their large numbers.

That night, Li Guangbi held a defense meeting in the Jiedu Embassy, and all the generals in the army participated in it except for the generals who defended the city, including Li Baoyu and Yong Xihao, the generals who took office after Li Guangbi took office in Hedong, and Li Fei Yuanli, who led 3,000 troops from Anxi not long ago, in addition to Ma Lan and Fugu Huai'en, and some other generals with slightly smaller official positions.

Li Guangbi looked at the generals and said: "The rebels have been besieging the city for a long time, and although our grain and grass in the city can still support it for a few months, we can't help but plan in advance, what do you think?" ”

Ma Lan stood up and hugged his fists and said: "General, these days, the rebels' siege efforts have become stronger and stronger, and if it goes on like this, it will be quite unfavorable to our army, we can't always be beaten passively, and the last general thinks that we should seize the opportunity to counterattack!" ”

Li Guangbi nodded and said: "Yes, I have already thought about this problem, and there are two ways to counter the enemy!" First, our Taiyuan city wall is tall and strong, and thick, I think we can set up a catapult on the city wall, so that the catapult can be projected farther, not only to attack the enemy's catapult, but also to the rebel soldiers; Second, since ancient times, one of the siege tactics has been 'digging tunnels', and we have already discovered and destroyed the enemy's trenching warfare twice, so why don't we do the opposite? If the rebels can dig into the crypts, why can't we dig through the rebel camps outside the city? ”

Fugu Huaien clapped his hands and laughed: "Yes, Shi Siming and Cai Xide would never have imagined that we would also use this trick against him!" ”

The generals laughed: "Hahaha······"

After laughing, Li Guangbi said: "However, this matter still needs to be kept secret, we are not sure that there are no rebels in the city, so the entrance to the crypt must be hidden, easy to defend and easy to carry soil!" Also, be careful about secrecy! ”

All the generals said in unison: "General rest assured! ”

That night, Li Guangbi and other generals organized men and horses to disassemble and carry dozens of trebuchets to the city wall overnight, and completed the assembly, and the matter of digging the crypt outside the city also began, digging the crypt This kind of thing The soldiers of the army are not good at all, but the people do a good job, Li Guangbi just sent troops to carry out martial law on the periphery of the entrance, and the matter of digging the crypt was handed over to the people who were temporarily recruited.

On the morning of the tenth day of October, Shi Siming's rebels continued to attack the city, a large number of rebel soldiers poured into the city wall, Li Guangbi organized soldiers to fire arrows at the rebels under the city, and ordered the trebuchet to bombard the trebuchet of the rebels outside the city, the trebuchet erected on the city wall has the advantage of high terrain, the distance of throwing is much farther, and the line of sight is also good, the rebel trebuchet has not yet projected a few rounds, it was smashed by the trebuchet erected on the city wall by the Tang army.

"Good, good!" Seeing the rebels being destroyed one by one, the soldiers of the Tang Army on the city wall cheered loudly. Before the rebels had climbed the walls, all the trebuchets were smashed.

Seeing this, Li Guangbi immediately ordered the trebuchet to throw stone bullets at the dense rebels who rushed over in the distance outside the city, and suddenly one by one the stone bullets flew into the sky and fell among the rebels, and after a stone bullet landed, it hit a rebel, but rolled out of the distance and smashed over more than a dozen rebels, the impact of the stone bullets that continued to fall was too great, and the speed of rolling was too fast, and the rebel soldiers had no time to dodge, and the rebel soldiers everywhere they passed were smashed into meat sauce.

The Rolling Stones inflicted extremely heavy casualties on the rebels, and the rebel soldiers turned around in fright and began to flee, and the rebel generals Gao Hui, Li Riyue, Yu Wenjing and others killed dozens of people one after another, but they could not stop the rout.

Ma Luan, who was defending the city on the city wall, saw the rebels fleeing, and immediately suggested to Li Guangbi: "Now that the rebels have become a rout, it is better to concentrate all the cavalry in the city to go out of the city to chase and kill, and you will be able to win a complete victory!" ”

Li Guangbi thought so, and immediately ordered Ma Lan to concentrate all the cavalry in the city to go out of the city to chase and kill the enemy, Shi Siming and Cai Xide, who commanded in the rear, did not expect that the Tang army would cause such a great lethality by erecting trebuchets on the city wall, and now the heart of the army has been lost, and it is difficult to organize an attack, and he wants to gather the soldiers to fight again on a later day, but he does not want the Tang army to open the city gate, and thousands of cavalry from the city are killed from behind, and they are frightened, and they immediately beat their horses with Cai Xide and galloped away.

Ma Xuan led thousands of cavalry to chase more than 30 miles, annihilated more than 70,000 enemies before they had to return, the rebels were greatly injured after this battle, there were 300,000 troops before the siege of Taiyuan, Shi Siming and Cai Xide and others gathered the remnants of the defeated generals but only got 200,000, and tens of thousands fled without a trace.

After this defeat, Shi Siming and Cai Xide were deeply humiliated and vowed to regroup and break through Taiyuan to kill chickens and dogs.

On October 20, Shi Siming and Cai Xide's rebels made a comeback, and 200,000 troops took turns to storm Taiyuan, and Taiyuan City was in danger for a while.

However, on October 20, a fast horse came from Fanyang, bringing the news that the Mobei army had attacked the pass of the Great Wall and the soldiers were under Fanyang City. (To be continued.) )