Since the defeat of Cui Qianyou, An Qingxu ordered the rebels to retreat north one after another, gathering in Yecheng, and the Tang army of all walks of life also won Gongcheng, Weizhou, Chaoge, Dangyuan, Liyang, the situation is very good, and at the same time, good news came from Hedong, Fugu Huaien led the army to attack the city day and night for half a month, and broke through Shangdang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Judging from the current situation, An Qingxu's move is a good move, in the case of an unfavorable situation, this can achieve the purpose of shrinking troops, preserving vital forces, and shortening the defense line, so as not to be broken by the Tang army, but An Qingxu also has disadvantages in taking this step, it greatly reduces An Qingxu's sphere of influence, and a large number of rebels gathered around Yecheng have brought huge pressure on An Qingxu to supply grain and grass, and a small territory means that there is less food and property that can be scraped. A small Yecheng city can accommodate nearly 200,000 troops, and it may be nothing if the time is short, and something will definitely happen after a long time. Zhao Ziliang saw this and decided to postpone the launch of a full-scale offensive, time can sometimes solve many problems.

Zhao Ziliang stood in front of the sand table and studied the deployment of troops and offensive tactics, Wang Can rushed in and hugged his fists and said: "Dashuai, there is bad news from the East Road army, Li Yuan, Lai Yao, Helan Jinming and others are eager for quick success, and in the process of attacking, they were defeated by Li Huaixian, with a loss of 60,000 soldiers, and the army retreated for thirty miles before gaining a firm foothold!" At present, Li Huaixian did not take advantage of the victory to pursue after the great victory, but gathered soldiers and horses to retreat north with a large amount of grain, grass and property, and retreated to the territory of Handan! ”

Zhao Ziliang turned around, frowned and said: "This Li Huaixian is not slippery, in the case of a big victory, not only did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but led the army to retreat in a big way, he knew that he was not the opponent of our army in the end, so he simply took advantage and left, this person is not simple!" ”

As soon as the words changed, Zhao Ziliang asked: "When An Lushan was alive, this Li Huaixian was just a general, his military rank and status were very low, there was no such person as him among the generals under An Lushan, Li Yuan, Lai Yao and Helan Jinming and others had nearly 150,000 horses, which was more than three times that of Li Huaixian in terms of military strength, and these three people were proficient in military affairs, how could they lose to Li Huaixian?" ”

Wang Can said: "Dashuai, Li Huaixian is violent, vicious, but extremely cunning, this person's ability to fight is not very good, but he is very good at drilling, in just a few years from a general to the position of a general, many people in the rebel army who are higher in status and military talent than him have died or surrendered, but this person is still alive and more tasteful." Li Yuan and Lai Yao are both good at using soldiers, but Helan Jinming is a straw bag, he used to be a royal historian, a civil official, and he was a Linhuai Taishou by chance, he didn't know anything about military affairs, and he didn't fight a few battles. These three people are together to command the army, Helan Jinming in order to fight for merit, often regardless of the overall situation, go their own way, plus Lai Yao has always been resentful of Li Yuan's previous few actions of not saving him, the contradiction between the two is not small, Li Huaixian is aware of the disagreement between these three people, and took advantage of Helan Jinming's greed and lack of military affairs to ambush Helan Jinming's department, resulting in the rout of Helan Jinming's department, Li Yuan's department was behind Helan Jinming's department, when the rout was defeated and fled, Li Yuan's army was scattered by the rout before he had time to mobilize to meet the enemy, And not far from the vicinity of Lai Yao because of resentment of Li Yuan, seeing Li Yuan's defeat but not saving him, Li Huaixian led the army to chase and kill more than 20 forces, Helan Jinming and Li Yuan's army lost a total of more than 60,000 people, both lost more than half of the people! ”

Zhao Ziliang pondered for a moment, then turned his head and shouted: "Lord Wang, send someone to inform Wu Wang Li Yuan, Lai Yao and Helan Jinming to come to Liyang and hand over military affairs to the deputy for the time being!" ”

Wang Wei, who was processing the official documents, promised: "No! ”

Wang Can realized that something might be happening, and couldn't help but say: "Dashuai······"

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Needless to say, you send someone to inform Chu Ge, Li Siye and others to come to Liyang within five days to prepare to hold a military meeting to attack Yecheng!" ”

"No!"

On the third day of the third month of March, the main generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army came to the camp of Marshal Liyang.

"Meet the Commander!" When Zhao Ziliang walked into the lobby, the generals clasped their fists and saluted.

Zhao Ziliang sat down on the main seat and said, "No courtesy!" There are two main things for you to come today, let's talk about the first thing first, the Eastern Route Army was defeated by the rebel Li Huaixian, losing 60,000 soldiers, and losing countless heavy grain, grass and ordnance, what is going on with this matter? Why did it lose so badly? His Royal Highness King Wu, you are the chief general of the Eastern Route Army, you say, what the hell is going on? ”

Wu Wang Li Yuan immediately stood up and said: "I waited for the order of the marshal to wave the troops to the north, this king and Helan Jinming and Lai Yao after discussion, decided to Helan Jinming as the front, our department in the center, since the palace of the Yao Department approached Puyang, after arriving in Puyang, Helan Jinming and Lai Yao were rushing to be the main attack task, Helan Jinming was particularly active, and made a military order, the king let Helan Jinming as the main attack, the king's department and Lai Yao Ju left and right to respond······"

Before Wu Wang Li Yuan's words were finished, Lai Yao stood up and said loudly: "Fart, Helan Jinming's wine bag and rice bag will not fight at all, you are worried that my meritorious service will steal your limelight, so I would rather let Helan Jinming be the main attacker, not only can use the rebels to frustrate his spirit, but also threaten him to force him to take it for his own use after he fails, and afterwards you can send troops to take Puyang in one fell swoop and make a great contribution!" ”

Li Yuan, the king of Wu, pointed at Lai Yao and scolded angrily: "You dare to slander this king, you are simply a gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain!" ”

"Enough! Ben Shuai asked you to come here not to let you quarrel here! Zhao Ziliang slapped the table and was furious, and after calming down the quarrel, he said to Lai Yao: "General Lai, the three of you are here today, you can confront each other in the court, but I hope you can let the other two finish speaking, if you think they are not right, after they finish speaking, you will refute it, if you interrupt others again, this commander will definitely be severely punished, understand?" ”

Lai Yao hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "The last general understands!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said to Li Yuan: "King Wu, you go on!" ”

King Wu hugged his fists and continued: "How do you know that Li Huaixian's gang has already secretly hidden soldiers and horses outside the city, and on the night of the third day of the siege, Li Huaixian's department suddenly killed from behind us, Helan Jinming's camp was the first to be raided, and the soldiers and horses of the department were defeated and fled, and countless routs poured towards the king's department, plus our department was also attacked by a part of the rebels at the same time, and was shocked by the rout without defense. ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Lai Yao and asked, "General Lai, what do you have to say?" ”

Lai Yao hugged his fists and said: "Dashuai, King Wu has always been jealous of my military exploits, in the past two years, my department has been in a difficult situation in Huaixi, and has been besieged and attacked by rebels many times, I have repeatedly sent people to King Wu and Helan Jinming for help, but these two people only want to preserve their strength, and do not regard counterinsurgency as the first major thing to do, they just want to absorb greater strength in this troubled world!" This time to march into Puyang, I have repeatedly asked to be the vanguard of the army, but King Wu is worried that I will make new contributions and overshadow his limelight, so I have not been allowed, but Helan Jinming, who does not know how to fight at all, should be the leading vanguard, Helan Jinming, this idiot is also eager for quick success, and it is in the arms of King Wu, as far as I know, the reason why Helan Jinming was successfully attacked by Li Huaixian's department was because he did not arrange guard posts around the camp at all! Also, it wasn't that I didn't save me afterwards, it was because my unit was also attacked by the rebels, although the scale was not large, but it was at night, and I was worried that the rebels would move away from the mountain, so I didn't dare to act rashly! ”

Helan Jinming stopped listening to Lai Yao's words, and said: "Lai Yao, you are too much of a deception, I, Helan Jinming, am also a festival envoy, you have repeatedly said that I will not fight, saying that I am eager for quick success and quick profit, greedy for merit!" It's just that I didn't send troops to reinforce your department in time the year before last, and you hold a grudge, you are retaliating! If I don't rescue you, I must have my own difficulties, do you want me to help you without leaving my own territory? Who in the world is so generous? ”

Lai Yao said angrily: "You fart, I'm not such a narrow-minded person!" ”

Zhao Ziliang knocked on the desk and shouted: "Enough, I have a headache when I hear you scolding me, all of them are party festivals and feudal officials, but here they are like shrews scolding the street, and they are not afraid of spreading it out to make people laugh!" I didn't bother to listen to you, the Department of Military Discipline and Military Justice of the Marshal's Mansion has sent someone to investigate, where is Gong Ren? ”

Gong Ren stood up and hugged his fists and said, "The end will be!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said, "Tell the big guy about the results of your investigation, what's going on?" Who the hell is lying? ”

Gong Ren said: "Dashuai, after the last general sent someone to verify, the defeat process is roughly as King Wu said, but that night to the Yan Department was indeed attacked by the rebels, and Helan Jinming is also suspected of being greedy for merit and dereliction of duty, after investigation, Wu King Li Yuan and Linhuai Jie Du made Helan Jinming are suspected of supporting the army and self-respect, the last general has sent someone to summon several witnesses from the army of these three generals, among these witnesses are both generals and ordinary soldiers, if the marshal allows, The last general could immediately order that they be brought to testify! ”

Zhao Ziliang pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Allowed!" Come on, please ask the two generals Wu Wang, Lai Yao and Helan to take shelter behind the screen for a while, and they are not allowed to make any sound, if any of these three people make a sound, they will be suspected of collusion! ”

"No!" Several armor soldiers came out and brought King Wu, Lai Yao, and Helan Jinming behind the screen to prevent the witnesses from meeting them.

Gong Ren quickly summoned seven or eight witnesses into the lobby to testify, and it was Gong Ren who was in charge of the questioning, and Zhao Ziliang and other generals only listened.

After more than an hour of questioning, Zhao Ziliang and all the generals understood, and it was already obvious that in this defeat, King Wu's responsibility was not great, but he and Helan Jinming have always been seriously suspected of supporting the army and respecting themselves.

"Li Yuan, Helan Jinming, you two are so bold!" Zhao Ziliang shouted loudly and shouted outside the door: "Come on, take these two people down and put them in prison, and send people to guard them strictly!" ”

"No" (To be continued.) )