After all, talking about war on paper is useless, harming others and yourself! In addition to Nan Jiyun and Wang Sili, Ma Lu and Li Guiren did not know much about the army and soldiers because they had no experience in the army, and they both overestimated the soldiers' ability to execute their orders, and did not give the generals and soldiers below them time to react and execute when issuing orders, and this was also a problem that they seriously ignored in the process of commanding the battle, which led to their frequent panic and confusion when facing the enemy.

In the afternoon competition, Wang Sili defeated Li Guiren with his experience in the army, and in the final, Ma Ling lost to Nan Jiyun because of his lack of experience, so Nan Jiyun won the first place in the list, that is, Wuju Banyan.

For Nan Jiyun, Ma Lu, Wang Sili and Li Guiren, Xuanzong likes them very much, they are not only strong in martial arts, but also proficient in battle formations, although Ma Luan and Li Guiren have no experience in the army and frequent mistakes in the command of the battle, but compared to other candidates, they are also very rare, Xuanzong has given them rich rewards.

Xuanzong left to beckon to Zhao Ziliang, and Zhao Ziliang immediately followed and saluted as he walked: "What does Your Majesty command?" ”

Xuanzong didn't stop, and asked as he walked: "Tomorrow is the semi-finals and finals of the Tianbang, how did you arrange it?" ”

Zhao Ziliang was quite surprised, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the relevant examination arrangements, Weichen has already written a chapter and submitted it, hasn't Your Majesty seen it?" Wechen is still wondering these two days, since the chapter has been sent to the palace, Your Majesty should have a reply to the instructions, why has it never been approved, Wechen still thinks that Your Majesty acquiesced, so he didn't ask His Majesty."

When Xuanzong heard this, his face changed, he stopped and turned his head to look at Li Linfu, and asked, "Li Linfu." What's going on? Why didn't I see Zhao Qing's book? ”

Li Linfu's face turned pale in an instant after hearing this, and he just remembered that after Shangshu Province received the recital presented by the courtiers that day, he happened to see the recital written by Zhao Ziliang about the martial arts palace examination, but because it was already the end of the shift, he was in a hurry to go home for dinner. So he casually took Zhao Ziliang's recital home, ready to go home to see, but accidentally forgot to stay at home, and now the emperor is questioning this matter, this is not trivial, once it is found out that he brought the courtier's recital home, it is terrible, where does he dare to admit that he brought the recital home? Thanks to his brain teaser, he immediately said, "Your Majesty." The old minister must strictly investigate this matter, and will not be lenient to those who are derelict in their duties and slack, please give your majesty two days to the old minister, and the old minister will definitely find out! ”

Xuanzong trusted Li Linfu very much, and waved his hand: "Okay, this matter will be handed over to you, and I will see the result in two days!" ”

Li Linfu hurriedly said: "Obey!" ”

Xuanzong asked Zhao Ziliang again: "I didn't see the chapter, Zhao Qing." Now tell me about the arrangements for the semi-finals and finals of the Tianli Rankings today! ”

"No!" Zhao Ziliang agreed and explained to the emperor and ministers: "Your Majesty, Weichen originally wanted the candidates to have a duel between attacking and defending the city. The candidates draw lots, whoever draws the city defense sign will bring 1,000 soldiers to defend the city, and the candidates who draw the siege sign will lead 3,000 soldiers to attack the city, but considering that the siege may cause a large number of casualties, after all, if you fall from the city wall, you will either die or be injured, so Weichen dispelled this idea. It was decided to let the candidates of the Tianbang have a duel in a field encounter, demarcate a no-man's land, temporarily block and isolate this area, prevent irrelevant people from breaking in, and let the contestants each bring 2,000 soldiers and horses. The same is 500 cavalry, 500 sword and shield soldiers, 500 pikemen, and 500 archers! The contestant and the generals he led have a map, but they only know where they are, and they don't know where the enemy is, so both sides have to send out the night to find out where the enemy is located, and then lead the troops to attack, the weapons and arrows on both sides are processed, and they will not hurt people's lives, but the recruiter must automatically exit, this area will not be too big, but the terrain is changeable and complex, and the winner must be divided within half a day, and the lottery will decide who must be the first to attack, otherwise it will be considered a loss, which is to prevent them from delaying time! Therefore, the semi-finals and finals of the Tianbang will take two days in total! ”

Xuanzong nodded and agreed: "Well, it's very good, your idea is very good, so let's do it!" ”

Zhao Ziliang saluted and said: "Obey!" ”

The four people who entered the semi-finals of the Tianbang were Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Cui Qianyou, and Tian Chengsi, for these four people, Zhao Ziliang knew their names in his previous life, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi needless to say, plus Fugu Huaien, the three of them are the three major heroes of the Anshi Rebellion, because of their existence, they recreated the Tang Dynasty and allowed the rule of the Tang Dynasty to continue.

And Cui Qianyou and Tian Chenghe, if Zhao Ziliang remembers correctly, they should be An Lushan's subordinates, and later followed An Lushan against the Tang Dynasty, Cui Qianyou died in the internal friction between An Lushan's son An Qingxu and Shi Siming, and Tian Chengsi surrendered to the Tang Dynasty at the end of the Anshi Rebellion, and was awarded the title of Wei Bojiedu, and later he was even more arrogant and domineering, did not listen to the orders of the imperial court, and became a veritable local warlord, and the Tang Dynasty's feudal town division also began from Tian Chenghe's period.

For the unstable factors of Tian Chengsi and Cui Qianyou, Zhao Ziliang originally wanted to find a chance to end them, and even killed An Lushan together, but after thinking about it, it is not possible to really do it, An Lushan is now the governor of Yingzhou and the military envoy of Pinglu, and he is not lower than him in terms of official rank, and as the military envoy of Pinglu, An Lushan is injured but has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, An Lushan is very good at sneaking around and patting horses, he is very good at pulling relationships, going through the back door, and often bribing important ministers of the court to say good things for him in front of the emperor, Therefore, he is very favored in front of Xuanzong, and he wants to kill An Lushan, unless it is an assassination, but he is afraid that it will not work. However, Zhao Ziliang is extremely disgusted with such a thing as assassination, where would he do such a thing? But things have to be thought about the other way around, this is still more than ten years before the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion in history, who knows what it will be like at that time?

Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Cui Qianyou and Tian Chengsi were divided into groups by lot, Guo Ziyi and Tian Chengsi drew a group, and Li Guangbi and Cui Qianyou drew a group.

First of all, Guo Ziyi and Tian Chengsi each led 2,000 soldiers and horses to face off in the specified area, because both sides didn't know where the other party was at first, so they had to send spies to explore each other's location.

The prescribed area is not large, and Guo Ziyi knew that Tian Chenghe's outpost would soon find out his position, so he took most of the soldiers and horses out of the ambush near the camp, leaving only a small number of soldiers and horses in the camp. Make the illusion that his main force is still in the camp.

Tian Chengsi's outpost really quickly found Guo Ziyi's camp, and after getting the news, Tian Chengsi immediately dismissed the soldiers, broke into pieces and gathered near Guo Ziyi's camp, and then immediately launched an attack, originally wanting to attack him unprepared. But I didn't expect Guo Ziyi to lead the king into the urn, Tian Chengsi just led two thousand soldiers and horses into the camp, and the outside of the camp sounded the sound of shouting and killing, first a rain of arrows fell, Tian Chengsi's soldiers and horses fell a large piece, and then Guo Ziyi led the army to attack, Tian Chengsi was killed and defeated, and the soldiers scattered and fled, this sentence Tian Chengsi lost. Guo Ziyi won and qualified for the finals.

Next is the duel between Lee Kwang-pil and Choi Qian-woo, both of whom are extremely cautious people and will not be fooled easily, these two have faced each other in previous battles, so they both have some understanding of each other.

In this matchup, Cui Qianyou has an advantage, that is, he doesn't have to make a move first. Lee Kwang-pil drew the lottery that he had to attack first during the draw, so he had to attack Choi Qian-woo first. Both of them are cautious people, and the more they make the first move, the easier it is to make mistakes and expose flaws.

Li Guangbi was attacked by Cui Qianyou's 500 cavalry on the way to lead the army, and the archery unit was almost completely wounded and wounded, and when Li Guangbi sent a cavalry unit in pursuit. Cui Qianyou's cavalry fled again, and when Li Guangbi's cavalry turned around, they found that Cui Qianyou's cavalry was attacking their own sword and shield soldiers, and when they were about to help, they were intercepted by Cui Qianyou's pikemen, and suffered heavy losses under the strong attack. Only a small number of them fled, and Li Guangbi's pikemen were shot and killed by Cui Qianyou's archers, and the losses were quite heavy. After the duel time came, Li Guangbi lost much more than Cui Qianyou, in this duel, Cui Qianyou gave full play to the advantages of the cavalry, adopted the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain, and then carried out various defeats.

Li Guangbi had been doing idle duties in the army before, and had never really led troops, and this fiasco made him realize his own shortcomings and lack of experience, so he concentrated on learning the experience of leading and commanding troops in the days to come.

Although the emperor and the ministers of the court and the central government could not go to the scene to watch in person, from time to time there were soldiers who came on fast horses to report the situation at the scene, so they could also get relevant news in time, and the situation of the two sides also opened the eyes of the emperor and the ministers of the court, although there were only two games, but everyone was using all means and stratagems.

On the last day of the final and the third place competition, first of all, Li Guangbi and Tian Chengsi led the troops to duel respectively, this time Li Guangbi's luck was still not good, he drew the lottery that had to be done first, and after finding out the enemy's position, Li Guangbi immediately led his troops forward, but this time he learned the lesson of being broken by Cui Qianyou yesterday, so no matter how Tian Chengsi harassed, he did not move, always let all the soldiers and horses gather together, and marched with the fastest marching speed of the long snake formation, Tian Chengsi did not have time to make corresponding deployments, Li Guangbi led people to kill, and killed Tian Chengsi by surprise, Tian Chengsi was defeated, and Li Guangbi won the third place.

In the end, it was Cui Qianyou's turn and Guo Ziyi's turn to have the final decisive battle, Cui Qianyou's bad luck drew a lottery that must attack first, he sent a large number of spies to explore the location and movement of Guo Ziyi's army, but he never saw the outpost turn, he knew that the outpost sent out was only afraid that they would be killed, which made him almost blind.

However, Cui Qianyou has been in the army for a long time, and did not show the slightest timidity, he checked the map, and decided to lure Guo Ziyi out, soon, he took a fancy to a place, which is very suitable for ambush, before he led the army to set off, he told the generals and soldiers that if they were attacked by the enemy on the way, they should not panic in their hearts, but they should pretend to be flustered, and then line up in a long snake formation to retreat quickly.

When passing through to the place expected by Cui Qianyou, Guo Ziyi's army really came out from the side to attack the front army of Cui Qianyou's army, Cui Qianyou immediately led his troops to flee back in a "panic", not far away, and a large number of Guo Ziyi's army rushed out of the woods to cut Cui Qianyou's panicked long snake formation into two, the Tang army participating in the acting were all long-trained elites, and completely implemented Cui Qianyou's tactics, when the long snake formation was cut into two sections, the first and last two armies immediately encircled, surrounded most of Guo Ziyi's army in the middle, and Guo's army was in chaos, The Cui army took advantage of the situation to cover up the killing, and the Guo army was defeated.

The result made Zhao Ziliang feel quite surprised, although Cui Qianyou had a good record in the Anshi Rebellion, even Ge Shuhan and Feng Changqing were defeated under this person one after another, but later he was repeatedly defeated by Guo Ziyi, but he didn't expect to abuse Guo Ziyi now, which is really unbelievable.

After listening to the report of the soldiers in front of him, Zhao Ziliang arched his hand to Xuanzong and said: "Your Majesty, the situation is obvious, Guo Ziyi lost, Cui Qianyou won, whether it is the heavenly list or the earth list, all candidates have a common problem, that is, candidates who have no experience in the army are basically inexperienced, and they are panicked when they really encounter changes, but this is not a problem, only by giving them time and enough experience, these problems can be solved, these duels also tell us a truth, people who have no real experience in leading troops, must not be a general, otherwise it will repeat Zhao Kuozhi's 'talking on paper' and cause a tragedy! ”

Xuanzong nodded and said, "Yes, this is very good!" ”

After speaking, a eunuch came over and reported: "Your Majesty, the governor of Yingzhou and the military envoy of Pinglu An Lushan have come to see you!" ”

Xuanzong raised his hand: "Xuan!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart: "An Lushan has come to Chang'an?" (To be continued.) )