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Yin Ziqi's 400,000 army consumed not a small amount of grain and grass and other food every day, and the distance between the garrison and Luoyang was not far, so the grain and grass were escorted from Luoyang to the military camp once every two days. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the night of February 12, Gao Shang and others had just launched a mutiny in Luoyang City, and in the early morning of February 13, the Dawang Banner was changed in Luoyang City and Li Tang's banner was hoisted.

An Taiqing, as a grain and grass escort officer, had to go back and forth to the military camp under Luoyang and Hangu Pass every two days. On the morning of this day, he took 5,000 men and horses to escort the carriage and horses to the outside of Luoyang City, preparing to enter the city to escort grain and grass back to the barracks.

The sun rises from the east, although the morning sun is mild, but it is still a little dazzling, An Taiqing squinted his eyes and looked ahead, and the team escorting grain and grass walked to the west gate of Luoyang, An Taiqing felt that something was wrong on the city wall, and the city gate was not opened.

An Taiqing couldn't help but rub his eyes, looked at it again, and wondered if he was wrong, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Laipi, look at the city wall, has you changed the flag?" ”

The pro-soldier Lai Pi looked up, and when he saw it, he was very frightened, and stammered: "General, general, it's not good, the city has been replaced with Li Tang's banner, isn't there something happening in the city?" ”

An Taiqing's face changed greatly, and he immediately stopped his horse, raised his palm and shouted: "Everyone stop, the pro-soldier team will follow me to find out the news!" ”

"Yes, General!"

An Taiqing left the brigade with hundreds of cavalry, came to the west gate of Luoyang, stopped and shouted to the city tower: "Is there anyone in the city? Come out and see you! ”

Soon after this shout, rows of sharp soldiers appeared, all of them in high spirits, and Gao Shang appeared on the city tower with a group of generals and officials.

Gao Shang looked at An Taiqing and said with a smile: "General An, don't come to harm?" ”

An Taiqing was annoyed for a while, and scolded: "What's your mother's head? Let me ask you, why did you change the banner of Chengtou? ”

"Hahaha・・・・・・" The generals and officials on the city tower burst into laughter when they heard this.

Gao Shang pointed at An Taiqing, and laughed happily: "I have seen a lot of stupid people, but I have never seen a stupid person like you, whose banner has been changed at the head of the city, it means who this city belongs to, don't you understand this truth, you still come out to mix?" Aren't you afraid of being laughed at and lose your big teeth? ”

An Taiqing's face turned green, and he scolded again: "Noble you old dog, and you dogs, why am I sorry for you?" Why do you treat me like this? You have the status you have now, and the food and spicy food are all given by my family, but now you have turned your back on the Lord and turned against the enemy, and your conscience has been eaten by dogs? You disloyal, unrighteous and shameless people, none of you will die well, take me to lead the troops to break through the city, and you will wait for a thousand knives to relieve the hatred in my heart! ”

An official at the head of the city stood up and pointed at An Taiqing and shouted: "An dog, An dares to insult me like this? Do you still have the face to speak of conscience? Your An clan was originally a lowly Hu person, if it weren't for the kindness of today's Tang Dynasty Emperor, would An Lushan Yan be able to sit on the throne of the Three Towns Festival? An Lushan, the dog thief, not only did not repay the kindness of the Son of Heaven, but also raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, as the younger brother of An Lushan, you rebelled against the Tang Dynasty with him, what face do you have to say conscience? If you want to say that you are disloyal and unjust, and you don't know how to be honest, your An clan is the first in the world! ”

An Taiqing was so angry that he jumped off his horse and scolded the city wall, and the two sides scolded each other.

Gao Shang brought his brother Gao Miao and instructed: "You lead three thousand cavalry to wait at the city gate, once the city gate is opened, you will lead the army to kill, first break the rebel army's grain transport team, give them a little color, but you have to remember, don't chase too far, the rebel camp is only a dozen miles away from here, once it is entangled, it will be troublesome, after defeating them, immediately lead the army back to the city, we will defend the city, the rebels have no way for the time being, and when they attack the city, the Tang army in Hangu Pass has already been dispatched!" ”

"Don't worry, brother, little brother understands!" After Gao Miao finished speaking, he immediately walked down the city wall to prepare.

When An Taiqing was scolding on the very city tower, the city gate suddenly opened, which made him stunned, but when he saw a large group of cavalry rushing out of the city gate hole, he immediately screamed, turned over and hit the horse and turned around and galloped, shouting while running: "Brothers, retreat, retreat!" ”

How could a group of more than 5,000 people, who were forbidden to stand still, and who were not very organized and disciplined, turn around in a short period of time? The cavalry that rushed out of the city gradually accelerated, and soon rushed to the front of this grain transport team, the grain transport team was in a panic, the main general turned around and fled, the whole team was completely uncommanded, the scene was a big mess, Gao Miao led the team to rush, was rushed on the spot, the corpse was thrown to the ground, and the others scattered and fled.

Gao Miao led the team to crush An Taiqing's grain transportation team and then accepted it when he saw it, and soon returned to Luoyang City with his men and horses, and the generals and officials on the city wall praised him.

An Taiqing fled back to the barracks with some of his own soldiers in embarrassment, Yin Ziqi and others were discussing the attack on Hangu Pass, and when they heard that An Taiqing only brought hundreds of people back to the camp in embarrassment, he felt a little bad.

When An Taiqing stumbled to the big tent, Yin Ziqi asked, "General An, didn't you go to escort the grain and grass?" Why did you return so quickly and make such a mess? ”

An Taiqing was like a mourner, and said with a decadent face: "It's over, it's over!" I just took the people and horses to transport the volume, but who knew that before I walked to Luoyang City, I saw that the flag was changed on the city, the Dayan flag was gone, and all became Li Tang's banner, I rode my horse to the city to call people, and Gao Shang and others appeared on the city tower, it turned out that this guy actually took most of the generals and officials in the city to commit crimes, and they all voted for Li Tang! ”

"What?"

The rebel generals in the tent suddenly changed color and panicked. Gao Shang led the officials in the city to surrender to Li Tang, which was equivalent to cutting off the retreat of Yin Ziqi, Niu Tingjie, Tian Qianzhen, An Taiqing and others, and also cut off the grain and grass of the 400,000 army. It is not a big deal to cut off the retreat, Yin Ziqi can take these 400,000 horses to retreat around Luoyang to Yichuan and Ruyang in the southeast, but without grain and grass, the 400,000 army will collapse in less than three days.

Niu Tingjie was the most flustered, and he shouted, "How can this be? This damn noble, in vain we trust him so much, how can he treat us like this? Now what? We only have two days of grain and grass in our camp, and after tomorrow, the 400,000 army will run out of food, and without the Tang army to fight, our soldiers will collapse by themselves! ”

Tian Qianzhen's face was shocked when he heard this, and he immediately shouted: "Quickly block the news, and you must not let the soldiers know that Luoyang City has surrendered to Li Tang, otherwise the soldiers will be in chaos!" ”

Yin Ziqi's hands on the desk kept trembling, and he said in a deep voice at this time: "I'm afraid it's too late, General An fled back in embarrassment with such a big move, and it is impossible not to be known. ”

The generals looked at each other, and the tent was suddenly terrifyingly quiet.

Yin Ziqi couldn't hold back any longer, and yelled: "Why don't you go quickly, do you want to watch the army under your command break up?" ”

When all the generals heard this, they all quickly ran out of the tent and conveyed the military order to their respective generals and colonels, which stipulated that all soldiers were not allowed to leave the camp without an order, otherwise they would be killed!

The rebel soldiers are not fools, everyone knows what the reason for this order is from above, many rebel generals have already received the news that Luoyang City surrendered to the Tang army, their back road was cut off, and the most terrible thing is that the grain and grass are only enough for two days to eat, thinking that there will be no food to eat in two days, the soldiers of the entire rebel camp are beginning to feel uneasy, the feeling of hunger, these soldiers never want to experience it again.

After the orders of the rebel troops were issued and the rebel high-ranking officials forcibly suppressed the signs of possible accidents, Yin Ziqi immediately sent people to invite these rebel generals back to the big tent to discuss the future actions.

Yin Ziqi looked at everyone: "Everyone, things have come to this point, we have no other way but to fight to the death with the Tang Army!" ”

Niu Tingjie hesitated for a moment and said: "General Yin, the news has spread, although the soldiers were suppressed by the military order, but now their morale is low, at this time the attack on Hangu Pass is more than worth the loss, I think we might as well withdraw for the time being, bypass Luoyang City to Bianzhou, Xuchang, Suiyang and garrison, as long as there are soldiers in hand these years, what are you afraid of?" ”

Tian Qianzhen was also a little moved, the situation was already obvious, if he stayed here at this time, he would only wait for death, there would be no food and grass, and there would be a danger of being cut off from the back road, this battle could not be fought at all, and the more he was killed, the faster he died!

Tian Qianzhen said: "I also agree with General Niu's idea, Hangu Pass was built by me personally, it is extremely strong, it can not only defend the west, but also defend the east, to lay this pass, it is not a matter of one or two days!" We can bypass Luoyang and retreat to the southeast, now Li Tang does not have many troops in the south, we can march to the south, as long as we capture the Jingxiang area, there will be no shortage of food and grass, there is a place to raise troops, we can be in that area, as long as a few of us are united, what can Li Tang endure me? ”

Yin Ziqi looked at An Taiqing and several other generals and asked, "General An, what do you guys think?" ”

An Taiqing has long been timid in his heart, without the support of Luoyang, this battle will not be able to go on at all, there are not many soldiers under him, as long as there are less than 20,000 people, and 5,000 people were defeated just now, there are less than 15,000 people, and more than 10,000 people can be withdrawn soon.

An Taiqing said: "General Yin, now this situation doesn't need me to say, the battle can't go on, Luoyang City's throw to Li Tang is not anyone's fault, none of us thought that things would turn out like this, now, I think it's better to preserve our strength, if we don't have soldiers in our hands, we are nothing, I also agree with General Niu's idea, withdraw for the time being, so as to make a comeback in the future, what do you think?" ”

Several other generals chimed in. (To be continued.) )ad_950