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Li Zanhua, the eldest son of the former Khitan Emperor, Yelubei, is a celebrity in Luoyang.

Li Zanhua has admired Han culture since he was a child, and he is one of the few high-level Khitan people who is proficient in Sinology.

It can be seen how powerful the Khitan country was at that time!

The eldest son of the Khitan Emperor, not only has high military strength, has a good command of troops, has basically never lost a battle since he was a child, but also has such a high achievement in literature! A person with such great ability, a person with such good conditions, can't be an emperor! This Khitan country is really full of talents, and there is no place to put it, so I have to go into exile to do it!

Li Zanhua has been smart and talented since he was a child, and he knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but his greatest achievement is painting!

Among the large nobles in Luoyang City, there is such a thing as "Yang character Li painting".

That is to say, if you want to ask for the best word to write, then you naturally have to ask for "Yang Fengzi" Yang Ningshi, but if you want to pretend to others that the painting hanging on the wall of your house is the best painting in the city, then your guests will get closer to look at the inscription in the lower right corner, if it is painted by Li Zanhua, then the guests can really convince you, raise their hands and give a thumbs up: "This forced pretending is good, I will give 10 points!" ”

Most of Li Zanhua's paintings are human figures, and he is especially good at painting horses, and there are many unique books that have been handed down to this day in 2016. Local tyrants who have some capital in their hands can search for Li Zanhua or Yelubei's works on the Internet, and if they want to collect them, they should be careful, Li Zanhua's paintings are not cheap!

Li Zanhua's life is also magnificent, with ups and downs, and if you really want to talk about it in detail, ten books can't be finished. It's a pity that he is not the protagonist of this book, so his fate was decided after a few touches on the lips of several bigwigs in the court!

"Li Zanhua?"

Emperor Li Congke pondered.

The suggestion to send Li Zanhua back to the Khitan Kingdom to rebel and force Yelu Deguang to retreat to the Khitan Kingdom because of the threat to the throne was actually put forward months earlier. But since Li Congke knew that Li Zanhua was too talented, he was worried that if Li Zanhua's rebellion succeeded, wouldn't he drive away the jackal and another lion?

The most troublesome thing is that if Li Zanhua still can't grab the throne, it will not be a national dispute, but a beheading operation launched against Yelu Deguang personally, which will completely anger Yelu Deguang. Even if the Khitan army retreats, it is possible to launch a full-scale war again and invade the south on a large scale, which will become a deadlock in which the Tang Dynasty will not stop vowing after it is not destroyed, and everyone will have a lot less room for negotiation and maneuver in the future.

"Yes, Your Majesty, in fact, our purpose is not to let Li Zanhua go back to Khitan, but to detain him, and then let the wind out, saying that Li Zanhua himself wants to go back and take the throne."

"Just letting the wind out?"

"Of course, our purpose is not to snatch Yelu Deguang's throne, but to let Yelu Deguang return to the Khitan territory. When he retreated to the Khitan, he found that Li Zanhua was still in Luoyang and did not move, so he would naturally understand that this was actually just me forcing him to retreat. ”

"This plan is very good, so that the Khitan State will not start a life-and-death war with our country. Come on, go and arrest Li Zanhua and put him in prison! ”

"Your Majesty, wait a minute, after all, Li Zanhua may still be useful in the future, just put him under house arrest and isolation, eat and drink and serve, but you don't have to be put in prison, otherwise you will be accidentally killed by those stupid cell heads, but give the Khitans a tongue."

As a result, Li Zanhua, who unfortunately became a bargaining chip, was circled and temporarily lost his freedom.

Not to mention the grinding of the Tang Dynasty here, let's go back to the Taiyuan battlefield.

On September 13 of the third year of Qingtai, the decisive day of Taiyuan.

Early in the morning, the weather was still gloomy, the rain was dripping, sometimes big and sometimes small, and the cross wind also blew from time to time, blowing up the water vapor and haze all over the ground.

Heavy rain began yesterday afternoon, followed by the evening, causing the water level of the Fen River to rise sharply, and the great plains south of Taiyuan were full of waterholes, and the roads and fields were muddy.

Gao Xingzhou has now thrown himself to the ground for the five bodies that the emperor Li Congke admires!

This is the former world-minded and ambitious Li Congke!

You see the mobilization of this army, the Lulong Youzhou Army and the Chengde Zhenzhou Army blocked the back road of the Khitans, and Zhao Yanshou's Bianzhou Zhongwu Army also arrived in time and set up a decisive battle with Gao Xingzhou. There is also a Weizhou army of Fan Yanguang as a backup for a hundred miles in the rear! There is also Fu Yanrao's Heyang Army in Luzhou, and Pan Huan's Yaozhou Army in Jinzhou, which can be arrived within three days as a response to the third echelon!

What a big deal! It's been a long time since I've seen such a grand army mobilization layout!

Now, it's up to us to see what the first battle of the day looks like.

What Gao Xingzhou admires the most is that the decisive time of Emperor Li Congke's election is also wonderful! Just take advantage of the fact that it has just finished the heavy rain and the ground is full of mud, launch a decisive battle and take the initiative to attack the Khitans!

High, really high! There are also people around the emperor who can predict the weather!

Most of the Tang army was foot soldiers, and the Khitan army was an all-cavalry unit, and in this muddy and slippery weather, the probability of cavalry falling and being injured while running would be greatly increased, which would inevitably limit the various tactics of the cavalry.

The slippery and muddy environment was also bad for foot combat, but the impact was far less than that of cavalry. Generally speaking, arranging a decisive battle in this weather, the combat effectiveness of the Tang army decreased by 30%, while the combat effectiveness of the Khitan army decreased by 70%, which was the best moment for the Tang army to take the initiative to launch a decisive battle!

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the rain was a little lighter, and the 40,000 Tang Army foot soldiers, who had been rolling in the mud for a night, threw down all kinds of baggage materials full of camps, left Jin'an Dazhai, and under the guidance of 10,000 cavalry on the left, they began to walk along the left bank of the Fen River, lined up in a dense formation, stepping on the muddy earth with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and approaching the Hubeikou that was defeated last time.

At the same time, the 20,000 loyal troops of Bianzhou led by Zhao Yanshou also moved on time, along the right bank of the Fen River, approaching the south gate of the towering Taiyuan City.

A decisive battle on the main battlefield of Taiyuan, in which both sides invested a total of more than 100,000 troops, began!

Gao Xingzhou himself is a fierce general, but now that he is old and his official position is also high, his true character as a pioneer has not changed. At this time, he was at the forefront of the whole army, and in addition to a dozen cavalry guards and heralds, there were tens of thousands of Tang Army foot soldiers behind him.

Refreshing! It's so cool!

To be a military general, what you want is this feeling of destroying the city with tens of thousands of soldiers behind you!

Gao Xingzhou's face was pale, the raindrops fell on his face, hitting his eyes and nose, the front was misty and rainy, and there was a haze of white flowers, basically he couldn't see anything clearly, and he didn't know what the Khitan people were doing, it seemed that it no longer existed.

The ground is unusually slippery, and warhorses need to be very careful when walking on it. Not to mention the others, just now, among the dozen or so pro-soldiers around him, two of them accidentally fell, and one of the war horses broke his foot and had to withdraw from the battle, and the poor pro-soldier is now walking on the ground.

A war horse walked over slowly, it was a signal soldier sent by Fu Yanqing, the deputy envoy.

Fu Yanqing was leading 10,000 cavalry to move slowly on the left side of the infantry array at this time, and the speed was not as fast as the infantry brigade.

"Lord Fu, there are already hundreds of horsemen on Lord Fu's side who have fallen and been injured, Lord Fu asks the cavalry brigade to stop and rest in place, and wait for the rain to ease before leaving."

That's great!

In this kind of weather, the Khitan cavalry can't come out at all, so let's roll in the quagmire together!

"Order, the cavalry on Lord Fu's side are resting in place and ready to fight at any time."

"The order is to separate the first regiment and the second regiment and continue to advance, the third regiment and the fourth regiment will stop advancing two hundred steps, and the fifth regiment and the sixth regiment will stop advancing now."

The Tang army has 40,000 foot soldiers, and fighting a war is not child's play, and it is impossible to swarm all at once!

In Jin'an Dazhai, there is still a battalion of first-class officers with about 1,000 people. Above the lieutenant is the Lang general, and one Lang general leads five lieutenants, about 5,000 people to form a combat regiment.

Now the width of the battle line of the Tang Army has been stretched to almost a thousand meters, and the first regiment is on the left, the second regiment on the right, and the third regiment on the left and four regiments on the right.

Anyway, there are eight regiments in total, on the left side of the singular number and on the right side of the plural.

The order Gao Xingzhou had just given was to let the 1st and 2nd regiments continue to attack, and the 3rd and 4th regiments would respond at any time. As for the four regiments in the back, they either rushed up to grab meat after the breakthrough, or they waited for the front to be defeated and re-resisted as reserves!

"Recruit the envoy, the Khitan army is two miles ahead!" The detective from the front came to report.

Gao Xingzhou, a handful of officers of the supreme commander's corps, had already stopped advancing at this time, and on both sides were the first and second regiments of Tang Army foot soldiers who were passing by in an endless stream, stepping on dripping muddy water.

The Tang Army infantry in the front row was already submerged in the white mist at this time, and they walked with difficulty towards the Khitan army position in front!

The rain is getting heavier!