April 23, Shaanxi County, County Guard's Mansion. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Ziliang convened the generals and officials to discuss the matter of attacking Hangu Pass, and after about a month of preparation, a large number of logistical baggage and heavy siege equipment were all transported to Shaanxi County, and the time was ripe for attacking Hangu Pass, and the conditions were sufficient.

The military discussion was just halfway through, and a good way to attack the city had not yet been discussed, when a lieutenant walked in from outside the door and reported: "Marshal Qiqi, General Lu Jiong has arrived outside the Marshal's Mansion from Shannan Jiedu!" ”

After capturing Shaanxi County, Zhao Ziliang sent someone to Nanyang to meet with Lu Jiong, and asked Lu Jiong to come to Shaanxi County or send a trusted and reliable person to Shaanxi County to discuss the strategy of besieging Luoyang from the west and south.

In terms of qualifications, Zhao Ziliang is much higher than Lu Jiong, although Lu Jiong has quite a lot of military merits, but compared with Zhao Ziliang, it is not enough to see, but it is not easy for people to run all over and come to most of Henan, Zhao Ziliang still decided to greet him, he got up and instructed the captain at the front gate of the Marshal's Mansion: "You go and bring him in!" ”

"No!"

After the captain of the front door left, Zhao Ziliang walked to the door of the lobby and waited, and after a while, he saw the captain of the front door leading a tall and burly veteran in his fifties to the lobby, this veteran is Lu Jiong, who is only more than seven feet tall (measured in the Tang Dynasty), with leather armor all over his body and a fluttering white beard, which is really good.

Lu Jiong didn't know Zhao Ziliang originally, but Zhao Ziliang's momentum when he stood at the door of the hall was not something that ordinary people could have, it was a kind of heroic spirit that looked down on the world, and his majestic body almost blocked the entire door, Lu Jiong was immediately sure that this was Zhao Ziliang!

Lu Jiong didn't expect that Zhao Ziliang would personally greet him at the door of the hall, this kind of courtesy was already extremely important and respectful to him in Lu Jiong's opinion, otherwise with Zhao Ziliang's status and prestige, there would be no need to do this.

Zhao Ziliang was about to walk down the steps, but Lu Jiong immediately bowed down at the bottom of the steps: "General Yunlu and Shannan Jiedu envoy Lu Jiong to meet the marshal!" ”

Zhao Ziliang walked down the steps and said with a smile: "I have long been looking forward to General Lu coming to Shaanxi County, I didn't expect you to come so quickly, hurry up, let's go into the lobby and talk!" ”

"Thank you, Dashuai!" Lu Jiong, who was helped up by Zhao Ziliang, followed Zhao Ziliang into the lobby.

Zhao Ziliang ordered someone to bring a chair to Lu Jiong at the lower position on his right side for Lu Jiong to sit, and introduced Lu Jiong to the generals and officials present.

After the greetings, Zhao Ziliang said to Lu Jiong: "Just now we were discussing how to attack Hangu Pass, and since General Lu is here, he also put forward suggestions and ideas."

Lu Jiong hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said to Lu Jiong and other generals and officials: "My idea is to attack Hangu Pass and Ruzhou at the same time, our army is here to attack Hangu Pass, and General Lu Jiong, Wang Sili and others led troops from Fangcheng to the north to attack Ruzhou, and at the same time ordered Yingchuan Taishou and defense envoy Xue Yuan to lead troops to assist, and ordered Yingchuan Defense Deputy Envoy Pang Jian to stay in Yingchuan, is General Lu Jiong's side the best preparation to move his troops north?" ”

Lu Jiong said: "Dashuai, Nanyang has already started to prepare before the end of the future, and when the end will return to Nanyang, he should be able to wave his troops north!" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked, "How many soldiers and horses can your troops send this time?" ”

"Leave 20,000 people to defend Fangcheng and Nanyang, and our army can send 100,000 troops!"

Zhao Ziliang thought about it for a while, nodded and said: "Okay, Xue Yuan should be able to make up about 20,000 people over there, and it should be enough to attack Ruzhou with 120,000 people, how are your 100,000 people going to be formed?" ”

Lu Jiong said: "Lingnan Jiedu envoy He Luguang, Qianzhong Jiedu envoy Zhao Guozhen, Xiangyang Jiedu envoy Xu Hao and others do not have many soldiers and horses in their hands, and the total is less than 12,000 people, but this time it is not possible to take them north, now we have counterattacked, the battle is good, there are many credits, and it is impossible to say that we do not take them, so we must leave a vacant seat for them among the 100,000 people, in addition to more than 7,000 people in our department, plus 20,000 people of General Wang Sili, I decided to leave 15,000 and another 5,000 men and horses that originally belonged to Bi Sichen to guard Fangcheng and Nanyang, and take away all the rebels who had surrendered before. ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "What I'm worried about is that the more complex the composition of the troops, the easier it is to lead to a decline in combat effectiveness, after all, you belong to the nature of the coalition army, if the military orders cannot be unified, not only can you not win the battle, but you may also be used by the rebels." You just need to know this yourself, and you must pay attention to doing a good job of unity in the army! In this way, I will give you a little more time to straighten out everything in the army and make all the preparations. Today, a month later, the battle against Tongguan and Ruzhou is going on at the same time! ”

Zhao Ziliang's worries are not unreasonable, although Xuanzong has already ordered Lu Jiong to lead the armies of Lingnan, Qianzhong, and Shannan Dongdao to fight against the rebels, but the official positions of He Luguang, Zhao Guozhen, Xu Hao and others are not under Lu Jiong, and these people are all from civilian backgrounds, civil officials have always looked down on military generals, and Lu Jiong wants them to completely obey orders, but it is not easy.

Lu Jiong said: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

"Okay, that's it. General Lu, you will stay here for two days first, I still have some things to discuss with you, and I will not delay your return to Nanyang to prepare for the army to go north! I will send someone to arrange room and board for you."

"Then everything will be handsome Lao!"

At this time, Wang Can walked quickly into the lobby and reported to Zhao Ziliang with a fist: "Commander, urgent military situation, on the eighth day of the fourth month, the rebel general Yin Ziqi led 100,000 elite troops to ambush the Lai Yao army that led the army to Beishan to reinforce between the Cai River and the Bao River south of Suiyang, and the Lai Yao army was defeated and fled back to Linhuai, and there were only less than 10,000 of more than 30,000 people left!" ”

"On the ninth day of the first month of April, when Yin Ziqi was ambushing the army of Laiyao, Li Yuan, the king of Wu in Suiyang City, Helan Jinming, the imperial envoy, and others led their troops to break through without authorization, and more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded, only King Wu and Helan Jinming and others fled to Pengcheng with dozens of followers and guards, and Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan and others had to lead more than 5,000 people to continue to hold on to Suiyang!"

On April 11, Yin Ziqi led his troops back to continue the siege of Suiyang, and fought fiercely for five days and nights. On the 16th, Suiyang City was broken by the rebels, and all the main officials and generals such as Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan, Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun were captured! Yin Ziqi persuaded Zhang Xun and others to surrender, Zhang Xu and others swore not to surrender, and on the 18th, Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan, Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun were all beheaded.

After Wang Can finished all the information he had obtained in one breath, the entire conference hall was so quiet that a needle could be heard dropping on the ground.

But soon, the generals and officials began to talk in a low voice, and many of the generals and officials present had friendships with Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan, Nan Jiyun, Lei Wanchun and others, and they were very angry that the rebels had killed these people, and they sympathized with and felt pity.

Zhao Ziliang was not in the mood to grieve and feel sorry for the deaths of Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan, Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun at this time, he immediately walked to the map hanging next to him to check it, stretched out his finger to the position of Suiyang, and then moved to the position of Yingchuan and said: "In the past, Ningling and Suiyang were in the hands of our army, and Yingchuan and Suiyang could also be reinforced by each other's horns, and Yingchuan could be safed with reinforcements from Nanyang Suiyang, but now Suiyang has been broken by the rebels, and the rebel Yin Ziqi can rest assured that he will wave his troops to the west to attack Yingchuan, Because Pengcheng and Linhuai currently do not have the ability to send troops, they can't contain Yin Ziqi, Yin Ziqi's more than 200,000 troops can pounce on Yingchuan at any time, Yingchuan's position is too dangerous, General Lu Jiong, I'm afraid that Xue Yuan won't be able to reinforce you, not only that, but I will also send Wang Sili's 20,000 people to reinforce Yingchuan! ”

Lu Jiong was a little reluctant to transfer Wang Sili's 20,000 elites away, stood up and said: "Marshal, Wang Sili's 20,000 people are the most elite in our army, if he transfers 20,000 people, then the combat power of our army will be greatly reduced. ”

Zhao Ziliang walked up to Lu Jiong and said, "General Lu, I know what you mean. Those of us who plan the overall situation can't just focus on the local vision, too narrow vision will hinder your vision, you look at the map, Yin Ziqi has 300,000 horses in his hands, and Xue Yuan is less than 30,000, once Yingchuan is broken, Yin Ziqi can be connected with An Shouzhong and Tian Qianzhen in Ruzhou in Yingchuan, and the pressure on you in the direction of Nanyang will increase more than tenfold! But if Xue Yuan has enough troops to defend Yingchuan, even if the soldiers in your hand are checked again, you can rest assured and bold to fight Ruzhou, I don't ask you to knock down Ruzhou, I only ask you to cause pressure and panic to the rebels in Ruzhou City, and I don't plan to let you storm Ruzhou, what do you think? ”

When Lu Jiong saw Zhao Ziliang say this, he didn't want to say anything more, so he had to agree: "Okay, since the marshal has arranged it like this, the last general will act according to his orders!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and asked Wang Can, "Is there any news from Wang Tian's side?" ”

Wang Can said: "A few days ago, there was news from General Wang, they had crossed Zhongtiao Mountain, Wangwu Mountain and Taihang Mountain to the northwest of Jiyuan, but the loss of soldiers and horses was more serious, 18,000 people when they set off, only 15,000 people when they came out of the mountains, and the food was almost eaten up, many soldiers died in the mountains because of the heavy rain that lasted for more than half a month because of the march in the mountains and forests, and there were many soldiers who threw away their armor because they wanted to reduce the burden, and they received news this morning that they were attacking Jiyuan City, It's just that the outcome of the war is not yet clear! ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately said: "Contact Wang Rare immediately, as long as there is news from them, report it immediately!" ”

Wang Can promised: "The last general understands!" ”

Wang rare this move is extremely important for Zhao Ziliang, An Qingxu rebuilt Hangu Pass to block the Tang army's plan to advance eastward, the strong attack on Hangu Pass will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, less than a last resort, Zhao Ziliang does not plan to attack, Wang rarely lost 3,000 people this time, if you can capture Jiyuan, the loss of these 3,000 people is worth it, once Jiyuan is captured, the back of Luoyang will be threatened by the Tang army, if the Tang army advances eastward along the north bank of the Yellow River, the Yan monarchs in Luoyang are likely to be blocked in Henan and cannot return north, If Jiyuan is lost, it will inevitably lead to panic among the Anqingxu monarchs and ministers in Luoyang, and the role of Hangu Pass will be greatly weakened, and it may be self-defeating.

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