At dawn on the ninth day of the first month of April, the drums sounded in the camp on the east bank of the Henglus River, and the officers and men of the Tang Army came out of the barracks one after another to assemble in the school field, and the men began to make fires to rebel. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the morning exercise, the soldiers lined up to take turns to receive breakfast and three days of marching dry food, everyone had long known that they were going to go out to fight, and the well-informed army leaders and soldiers also learned that they were going to return to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion.

It was already midnight after breakfast, and all the soldiers and military leaders received orders from above, packed up and prepared for the expedition, only two quarters of an hour later, and after packing up, they were fully armed and carried the marching blankets on their backs and led the war horses to assemble in the school yard for roll call.

At three o'clock, everyone was ready, and the soldiers stood in a phalanx according to their respective teams on the school field, and Zhao Ziliang and the Beiting Dadu Protectorate, the Xingying Jiedu Embassy, the three Metropolitan Protectorates, the armies, and the main military and political officials of the town all arrived on horseback.

Lai Yao is the marching Sima of the expedition army, he is standing on the point platform with his sword, and saw Zhao Ziliang and his party of civil officials and military generals riding horses, so he immediately stepped down from the stage to greet him, and when Zhao Ziliang got off the horse, he stepped forward to report: "Qi Yu Jie Shuai, the 20,000 soldiers of the army have all been assembled in advance, and they can set off at any time!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded, and walked up to the point platform with a blank face, and the other generals and school officials followed in turn, and the point platform was quickly filled with people.

Zhao Ziliang stood at the front of the point platform, pressed his sword and nodded to Lai Yao: "Let's start!" ”

Lai Yao nodded in agreement, and said loudly in front of the 20,000 soldiers in the audience: "Attention to all - please ask Zhao Dashuai to give a lecture to the capital of the North Court and the envoy of the camp!" ”

With a "boom", all the soldiers stood up and put their weapons on the ground.

Zhao Ziliang stepped forward and let go of his voice and said loudly: "Soldiers, we are going to go on the expedition today, why are we going to go on the expedition this time?" Who are we going to fight? Many of you must already know, that's right, the original Fanyang, Lulong, and Hedong three towns made An Lushan openly rebel against our Tang Dynasty, and we are going out this time to fight him! ”

"Soldiers, what are you doing in the army for? Some people want to make money to support their families, some people want to show their ambitions, some people want to make contributions, no matter what you are for, you have all sweated and shed blood to protect the prosperity and strength of Datang, and you have all felt glory and pride as the people of Datang! Today, the mountains and rivers are broken, the people are displaced, and the land is starving! The land and parents and relatives who gave birth to us are being bullied by the rebels, the Tang Dynasty for which we have given our lives and blood to protect is being destroyed, and our glory and pride as the people of the Tang Dynasty are being trampled on! This is our shame as soldiers, and the shame of soldiers must be washed away with the blood of the enemy, are you willing to follow me back to the Central Plains to fight to the death against the rebels? ”

The overwhelming voice on the school field came: "Yes! Willing! Willing! ”

"Kill-kill-kill!"

Liu Wei, who was standing behind the military platform, wiped his tears and said to Dugujun and Gao Shi: "What an exciting moment and scene, the soldiers are angry and their morale is high, and they will definitely be able to win when they go to the Central Plains!" ”

Gao Shidao: "We are a righteous army, we are a righteous army, and our own combat power is comparable to that of a tiger and wolf, coupled with high morale, sophisticated weapons and protective gear, An Lushan's generation must not be an opponent!" ”

Dugu Jun continued: "There are peerless generals like Jieshuai commanding this army of tigers and wolves full of justice, who is the opponent in the world?" An Lushan and his ilk are only worthy of being overbearing in the Central Plains, which has not experienced war for a long time! ”

At this time, Zhao Ziliang finished his oath, drew his sword and pointed to the east, and shouted: "Pull out the camp and go to battle——"

Everyone in the school field collectively turned over and got on their horses, and all battalions and departments began to set off one after another, countless colorful military flags in the army were raised, and even Zhao Ziliang's handsome flag was erected by his personal soldiers under the military platform.

When half of the army had already left the camp, Zhao Ziliang walked in front of Liu Wei, Dugujun, Gao Shi, Zhao Hu and others and said, "Beiting will be handed over to you!" ”

Everyone clasped their fists and bowed and said: "Please rest assured, we will fulfill our duties!" ”

Zhao Ziliang walked off the military platform and turned over his horse, took the golden nail Zaoyang lance from the shoulders of the two pro-soldiers and inserted it on the victory hook, and trotted away outside the camp, Chu Ge, Li Sheng, Bai Xiaode, Fugu Huaien and other generals and Cen Shen, Zheng San and other officials also got on their horses and followed.

Outside the camp, almost all the family members of the generals were present, and Zhao Ziliang stopped and said to everyone behind him: "Say goodbye to your family, hurry up!" ”

Everyone rode their horses and ran to their families, Zhao Ziliang also jumped off the horse and walked in front of Chen Qingying, Nie Sanniang and a few children, and Zhao Shan's family also came.

Zhao Ziliang touched the faces of the two ladies, "The family will be handed over to you!" ”

The two women said: "Don't worry, husband, we and the children are waiting for you to return at home!" ”

Zhao Ziliang walked to his eldest son Zhao Lei and touched his head: "You are already an adult, after your father leaves, you must study and practice martial arts with your heart, and you must not be naughty to make your eldest mother and second mother angry, you know?" ”

Zhao Lei nodded and said, "Father, don't worry, the child knows!" ”

Zhao Ziliang walked in front of his brother Zhao Shan and sister-in-law Zhao Li and saluted: "Ziliang is going to Tiangao and the road is far away, I don't know when I can return, big brother and sister-in-law take care!" ”

Zhao Shan said: "Second brother should also take care, have a smooth journey!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded, turned around, turned on his horse, turned his head to look at everyone again, and waved his hand to the three hundred pro-soldiers: "Let's go!" ”

The relatives watched everyone gallop away, and they couldn't help but wave goodbye with tears in their eyes, until the army gradually disappeared.

In order to increase the speed of the march and speed up the journey, Zhao Ziliang ordered the whole army to march no less than 300 miles a day, and the marching speed of the detective and detective posts should be even faster, and the road should be explored and opened for the army in front.

20,000 troops on the way to Tingzhou, constantly accept the garrisons of various towns and towns to join the team, and so on to Tingzhou, 40,000 troops have all completed the assembly, the time only took ten days, but the continuous daily march of more than 300 miles makes the soldiers also a little tired, after the army arrived in Tingzhou, Zhao Ziliang ordered a day of rest, and then the army continued to march eastward.

Waiting out of the boundary of the North Courtyard, the road is difficult to walk, even in Xizhou and Yizhou are full of deserts and deserts, if you want to let the 40,000 army march more than 300 miles a day, this requires the commander to have a strong ability to coordinate and command, as long as there is a little problem on the road, it may delay the journey of the whole army.

In order to save time as much as possible, Zhao Ziliang ordered that only breakfast should be fresh every day, including steamed buns, meat, and soup, and only dry food that he could carry with him at noon and evening.

At this time, most of the soldiers and horses in the border towns of Anxi, Hexi and Longyou have received an order from the imperial court to transfer to Guanzhong, Zhao Ziliang's army has seen a small number of garrisons along the way through Xizhou, Yizhou, Guazhou, Suzhou, Ganzhou, Liangzhou and other places, which makes Zhao Ziliang quite worried, if the Tubo army attacks at this time, with the garrisons in Guazhou, Suzhou, Ganzhou and Liangzhou and other places now, it is only afraid that it will be difficult to resist the attack of the Tubo army. After being in a high position, he was greedy for pleasure, accompanied by beautiful wines and beautiful people all day long, and hollowed out all his body bones, which also caused Ge Shuhan, who was only in his fifties, to suffer a stroke on the way to Beijing.

Now that Hexi and Longyou are empty, the spies of the Tubo army are not vegetarians, and the high-level leaders of the Tubo Kingdom are not blind, they will not take this opportunity to fall into the well and gnaw a piece of meat from the Tang Dynasty? Once the Hexi Corridor is cut off by Tubo, then it will directly lead to the interruption of the Tang Dynasty's contact with Anxi and Beiting, and the merchant travelers and messengers who want to go to Anxi and Beiting can only take a long detour to the Mobei Plateau, through the vast desert and grassland, and will encounter various nomadic tribes on the way, although these nomadic tribes were cleaned by Zhao Ziliang in that year and were scared, but these nomadic tribes have always been unruly, killing and looting are commonplace, who dares to guarantee that they will not do anything to the merchant travelers and messengers?

Although Zhao Ziliang was worried about the prosperity, he did not have a good way at this time, and the top priority was how to quell the rebellion of An Lushan, which was too damaging to the Tang Dynasty, and the former Tang Dynasty was gone forever.

On the tenth day of June in the fifteenth year of Tianbao, the Beiting army arrived in Lanzhou after nearly two months of long-distance and rapid marching, which was already the fastest marching speed of the 40,000 army, but it was still a few days slower than the original plan, Zhao Ziliang saw that the army was exhausted, so he ordered to camp outside Lanzhou that night.

At dusk, the camp was filled with the smell of food, and the soldiers sat on the ground in groups chatting and smelling the fragrance of the fresh food, and they had not eaten fresh pasta, meat, vegetables and fruits for nearly half a month, which made all the soldiers look forward to it.

Zhao Ziliang led people to inspect the camping situation and then came to the big tent of the Chinese army, just sat down and drank a bowl of water to discuss the next marching schedule with Chu Ge, Bai Xiaode, Fugu Huaien and Li Sheng and others, at this time Wang Can hurriedly walked in with a letter and hugged his fists and said: "Jieshuai, Chang'an urgent!" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked calmly, "What's the news?" ”

Wang Can said: "Eight days ago, the saint was instigated by Yang Guozhong, and on the grounds of 'the thief is unprepared', he issued an order urging Ge Shuhan to go out of the customs to meet the enemy. The fourth year of junior high school. After receiving the summons, Ge Shuhan had to take his illness and lead the troops out to meet the enemy! ”

Speaking of this, Wang Can walked to the map hanging next to him and pointed to the ground to introduce the military situation: "The 200,000 army camped in the west of Lingbao, the rebel general Cui Qianyou led the troops to attack, Ge Shuhan put down the army to meet the battle, the two sides fought a big battle, Cui Qianyou fled with the old and weak and the remnants of the army was not in order, Ge Shuhan commanded the army, the forward Wang Sili led 50,000 cavalry, Pang Zhong and others led the army of 100,000 to follow, and more than 30,000 people waved their flags on the north bank of the Yellow River to help, and the army was lured to Lingbao and was ambushed by the rebels. Lingbao south is the mountain, the north is the Yellow River, in the middle is a narrow mountain road of about 70 miles, Cui Qianyou has already been carefully deployed here, after the army under the command of Ge Shuhan entered the ambush circle, the rebels threw countless rolling stones and trees from the mountain, the army of Ge Shuhan has no room to retreat, heavy casualties, the rebels took advantage of the victory to pursue, fled back to Tongguan only more than 8,000 people, Ge Shuhan gathered the remnants of the army and prepared to deal with the rebels, the rebels approached Tongguan after a little rest, the early years were promoted by Ge Shuhan and others to see that the general fire was pulled out and Guiren and others saw that the general trend had gone, tied up Ge Shuhan and dozens of Tang Army generals, opened Tongguan City and surrendered to Tian Qianzhen, the rebel general who was approaching Tongguan! (To be continued.) )