After a day of tentative contact, the Youzhou army thought that the Tiance army was nothing more than that, so they prepared to rest for one night, dawn tomorrow, and at the same time launch an attack on the two Tiance army positions built by the city in Julu County and Qinghe County, and smash the enemy in front of them with dignified soldiers!

In the direction of Ande County, only 10,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry were arranged to camp on the road to prevent them from sneak attacking.

However, in view of the fact that Tiance traitors have always only played sneak attacks, on this night, the defense of the three Youzhou army camps was very tightly arranged, and every soldier was waiting for him, sleeping with his eyes open, ready to deal with the sneak attack of the Tiance army at any time.

However, this day was passed peacefully, the sneak attack did not happen, and nearly 120,000 Youzhou troops couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts.

Then they began to bury the pot and cook with the idea of "worrying about Lao Tzu in vain", "I knew that it would be like this", and "the Tiance army would really only fight a sneak attack", and confidently looked forward to breaking through the defense line of the Tiance army in one fell swoop in the upcoming battle, and killing tens of thousands of Tiance veterans, soldiers, peasant soldiers, and the king of Jianning behind the defense line.

Then in one go, he killed the rich Dugi Road where there was gold and silver, wine and food, and beautiful people, burned, killed, looted, and carnivaled for ten days and ten nights!

Push back the time to more than three days ago, on August 21 of the thirteenth year of Tianbao, that is, on the afternoon of the day when Li Qi killed An Zhongzhi and An Shouzhong in succession, the two generals of the Youzhou Army, Chang'an Daming Palace, Zichen Palace.

On this day, the Tang Emperor received a lot of urgent war reports from all over the Tang Dynasty at the same time: in the direction of Anbeiting, the 50,000 Hui cavalry troops surrounded Gongyue City and Tingzhou in a hurry; Longyou Road, Guazhou, Yumen Pass, and Liangzhou were returned to the Kou at the same time, and the people suffered heavy losses; Shuofang Army, the northernmost direction of the river meander, the east and west of the three surrendered cities were besieged at the same time, 80,000 Hui soldiers and horses attacked very urgently; The most dangerous is still in the east direction of the river. The Hedong Army had no fighting spirit, morale was low, and Yanmen Pass was in danger.

The situation is so critical, Li Longji was also anxious at the beginning, but the same clue can be seen behind these urgent reports, that is, it seems that these places have already been prepared: in the direction of Anxiting Prefecture. Feng Changqing led his troops from Qiuzi more than 20 days in advance and waited in Xizhou; The 25,000 military horses of the Beiting Army have already done a good job of clearing the wilderness.

The Hexi Army and the Longyou Army also carried out emergency combat preparations more than half a month ago; At the same time of defending along the north bank of the Yellow River in the land of the meanders of the river, Shuo Fang's army was even more powerful, and at the first time of the Hui army, it organized an elite cavalry team of 20,000 people, led by an eighteen-year-old general named Hun Xuan, all the way to the tent of the king of Hui.

This gave Li Longji a very bad feeling, so many military operations. I, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, didn't even know that I didn't have to go through the emperor to do everything, you can make a decision in private, right? Co-authored I, this emperor is a decoration, right?

And Li Longji is not stupid, he used to be uninterested in political affairs, pursuing pleasure, drunk and dreaming of death, and now he takes a little effort to think about everything in detail, how can he not find out, the most important role in this is still Tiance Mansion!

Needless to say, the Anxi Courtyard Army. Xiao Qu's illness came out of the Anxi Army, and he and Gao Xianzhi are still brothers. There are many generals in Tiance Mansion, as well as Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi's personal guards, who are the elite of the Anxi Army before; And the Anxi Army's finances and weapon updates are mostly supported by the Tiance Prefecture Sihai Trading Company.

As for the Longyou Army, the Hexi Army, and the Shuofang Army, they have also received a lot of benefits from the Tiance Mansion over the years, and they have close contacts with each other.

In particular, Shuo Fangjun has simply become a subsidiary of Tiance Mansion, and Xiao Qu is sick as the herdsman of the right group of idle stables. In the past two years, he has privately equipped the Shuofang army with nearly 30,000 high-quality war horses and 30,000 sets of excellent armor, so the Shuofang army has the ability to dare to send 20,000 elite cavalry. The lone army went deep into the rear of the Hui and smashed back to the court of the Hui king; And the current Shuo Fang Festival makes Guo Ziyi recommended by Xiao Quai!

Li Longji was shocked, in the original two years of ignoring the government and relaxing his vigilance against Xiao Qu's illness, this Xiao Qu's illness actually did so many things, he even gave Yang Guozhong benefits, when he went to Nanzhao before, he gave Yang Guozhong 300,000 gold coins, and then I don't know why, King Jianning sent someone to secretly promise Yang Guozhong a lot of benefits.

Although at present, all that Xiao Qubing of Tiance Mansion has done is beneficial to the country's society, but Li Longji, who saw all this clearly, was scared into a cold sweat, and he was extremely frightened when he thought about it!

He Jianning King dared to rebel against me before, and he couldn't wait to act for me, and now he recommends Li Guangbi as the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, I want to rely on you King Jianning, and wait for An Lushan, the mongrel Hu rebellion to be quelled, this Tang Dynasty is almost seventy or eighty percent of the Jiedu envoys, all of whom have received the benefits of Tiance Mansion, and are closely associated with you Jianning King Li Qi, and even the position of several of them is still because of the recommendation of Tiance Mansion.

This has to be prevented, when I was still the king of Linzi, didn't I also make friends with generals on the one hand, and Wenchen on the other, and then launched a coup d'état in Tanglong to seize power in one fell swoop, and elected King Daddy Xiang as the emperor and himself as the crown prince?

As long as An Lushan's rebellion is quelled, the situation faced by Li Qi is a hundred times better than the situation he faced at the beginning!

The key to asking now is not whether Li Qi will do this, but that he has the ability, as long as he wants to do this, he will definitely be able to do it.

Thinking about these clearly, in the afternoon of this day, Li Longji summoned Yang Guozhong, Wei Jiansu, Wei Fangjin, Da Xixun, Cui Guangyuan, Pei Mian and other confidant ministers in Zichen Palace, and even Chen ~ Xi ~ Lie, who was excluded by Yang Guozhong, to discuss state affairs.

"Your Majesty don't worry, although the Youzhou rebels and the Huifu rebels are huge, they will not succeed. Now the Hui cavalry attacked in many ways, but they were all blocked by our Tang border army, and the 20,000 light cavalry of the Shuo army fought all the way to the Hui king's tent.

As for the Youzhou rebels, the world received the grace of the country but did the rebellion, unpopular, the Tiance army has built several lines of defense on the north bank of the Yellow River, not half a month, as long as the Youzhou army can not cross the Yellow River, its army will be chaotic. When the time comes, our counterinsurgency army will take advantage of the situation to counterattack, and the 200,000 rebels will surrender in the wind, and someone will naturally send the head of An Lushan obediently! ”

It was Yang Guozhong who spoke, the rebels in Youzhou were powerful, and they were like a bamboo all the way, and he no longer said that it would be within ten days. There are An Lushan's subordinates who will present An Lushan's head; Instead, they changed their tune, as long as the Tiance army held half of the northern line of the Yellow River, the rebels would surrender in the hope of the wind.

Yang Guozhong was full of confidence, but several other people beat the drum in their hearts, there were 200,000 Youzhou soldiers in the south, 10,000 veterans in the Tiance army, tens of thousands of newly trained soldiers and more than 100,000 so-called peasant soldiers, can they hold for half a month? However, at this time, the emperor was willing to listen to the words of relaxation. Naturally, they don't open their mouths to question it.

After a while, Li Longji, who had been frowning, spoke: "The ambition of the wolf son is just to take advantage of the fire to rob, if you can't take advantage of it, and the royal court is attacked again, I will issue another edict to surrender, and I will definitely surrender in the wind, which I don't think is enough to worry about." ”

Tang Dynasty for so many years. He constantly dealt with these nomadic peoples in the north, such as Turkic, Tiele, Xue Yantuo, Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, Khitan, Xi, Hui, Qarluq, etc. They are all virtuous, rebellious and impermanent, and if the situation is good, they will plunder, and if the situation is not good, they will surrender.

There had been a small-scale conflict with the Tang Dynasty before, which was a temptation, but the result was not to take advantage. Since then, he has been more submissive; Ge Lulu was too, he also fought with the Tang Dynasty during the time of Gaozong, and after he was defeated, didn't he become a mercenary of the Tang Dynasty for decades?

Even if I later came to the trouble of the Northern Xinjiang sixty or seventy years after the Turks, when they first rebelled. At the beginning, it was also overwhelming, and then they were defeated by Pei Xingjian one after another, didn't they start civil strife, and then Pei Xingjian surrendered, didn't the Turks just look at the wind and surrender? If it weren't for the improper handling of the prisoners killed by the Empress Wu later, this disaster, which had been a disaster for decades, would have been easily quelled.

Since before the Hui rebelled, the Anbei Ting Army, the Qarlu Army, the Longyou Army, the Hexi Army, and the Shuofang Army had already made preparations, and now the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to the Hui Hui, and the Hui Hui will naturally not fight to the death, and when the time comes, he will pass with a holy decree, saying that he will not blame the past, surrender and avoid death, and the other party will definitely surrender soon, Li Longji is full of confidence in this.

All the ministers also nodded in agreement, and Li Longji continued: "However, the 200,000 Youzhou army has been like a bamboo, and the prefectures and counties it has passed through have fallen to the wind, and now they have hit Zhaozhou and Jizhou.

Although the Tiance Army is brave and good at fighting, it only has 10,000 real veterans, and the other so-called war soldiers, peasant soldiers, have only been trained for three months, how can they stop the 200,000 battle-hardened tiger and wolf army?

In the direction of Hedong, the Datong army led by Gao Xiuyan attacked Yanmen Pass very urgently, Hedong Jiedu made Yang Guanghui was hijacked and killed by Youzhou mongrel Hu, Taiyuan Yin Wang Chengye had no ability to command the army, Yanmen Pass was not safe, Zhuqing can have a suitable candidate for Hedong Jiedu? ”

Wei Jiansu, Wei Fangjin, Da Xixun and others said in their hearts, didn't Tiance Mansion recommend Li Guangbi, this is the best candidate, not only experienced in a hundred battles, but also full of wisdom, Wang Zhonghe, the first general of the Tang Dynasty, said "It will win my soldiers (law) every day, Guangbi also", he is the most suitable candidate!

However, since the emperor proposed it, it was to deny the candidate of Li Guangbi, and they did not speak.

And when it came to this, Yang Guozhong was so excited that he almost jumped up, but fortunately, he had always been frivolous, and Li Longji and the ministers didn't care too much. I heard Yang Guozhong stand up and shout excitedly: "Your Majesty, it's all to blame for Tiance Mansion and King Jianning for this!" ”

"Oh?"

Yang Guozhong said angrily: "Your Majesty, do you want to say hello, that Xiao Quai, and Li Qi, the king of Jianning, knew that An Lushan would rebel, they sealed Changqing with the Anxi army in advance, the Longyou army stayed behind to guard Wang Sili, and Guo Ziyi, the Shuofang army, greeted them in advance, and asked them to prepare in advance, but they only did not remind Yang Guanghui.

Sit back and watch, and even deliberately connived at the Youzhou mongrel Hu to kidnap him, they arranged for Li Guangbi to take his place, their intentions can not be described as poisonous, and their means are not high! Your Majesty, we want to give Yang Guanghui justice, the minister asks for an order to reprimand King Jianning! ”

Da Xixun was already out of anger, and scolded in his heart: Yang Guozhong, this mad dog, still has a face, before the Youzhou mongrel Hu rebelled, didn't you also come to tell Your Majesty every day that An Lushan will rebel, and An Lushan has begun to rebel? Yang Guanghui is your confidant, don't you know how to remind your confidant, you are not only incompetent, but also shameless!

Da Xixun and Yang Guozhong had a small holiday, in the last year, Da Xixun presided over the imperial examination, Yang Guozhong's son Yang Xuan participated in the Ming Jing examination. But Yang Guozhong was born as a casino gangster, and now he is in power, how can his son study seriously. So it's basically a paper with a zero score.

Da Xixun was afraid of the power of the Yang family because Yang Guozhong covered the sky with one hand, so he had to let Yang Xuan reach the first, but he felt that he should make it clear to Yang Guozhong, so he asked his son Da Xifu to run and say to Yang Guozhong, although your son failed. But I let him get ahead of him.

Unexpectedly, Yang Guozhong was furious, pointed at Da Xifu's nose and scolded: "My Yang Guozhong's son is still afraid that he won't be able to pass the exam, can he use you rats to sell it?" ”

It is equivalent to Da Xixun flattering Yang Guozhong and being scolded by him, and after scolding, Da Xixun must also set Yang Xuan as the top three.

Da Xixun is also a capable person, at that time, he was angry, locked up at home and threw things, scolded Yang Guozhong for being a rat and dog, and the casino gangsters had been for an hour, and then came out and endured it. came to apologize in person, saying that he had done wrong, Yang Xuan was talented and brilliant, and he deserved to be the top three, Yang Guozhong forgave him very generously and did not belittle him.

But endure and endure, and this enmity is settled. Now every time he sees Yang Guozhong, he is a little worried in his heart, but Yang Guozhong is too powerful. Da Xixun can only slander in his heart.

"Maybe King Jianning has his reasons, and besides, the Youzhou mongrels are doing this, how can King Jianning predict everything in advance? The king of Jianning is quelling the rebellion in Hebei Province at this moment, and he is not at fault, and he should be praised, but how can he issue an order to reprimand. Li Longji frowned. Although he denied Yang Guozhong in his words, he actually agreed with it very much in his heart, Tiance Mansion is so calculating, and his heart can be punished!

After a pause, Li Longji asked again, "Tell me about it." Who is up to the task of serving as the envoy of the Hedong Festival? ”

Li Longji can't help it, he has ignored the government for more than ten years, to be honest, except for the few ministers in front of him, he almost doesn't know a few, and he almost doesn't know a few of the current government and politics, and he really doesn't know who can take on the heavy responsibility.

A few ministers, you look at me, I see that you are not good at talking, Yang Guozhong looked at Wei Jiansu with his eyes, Wei Jiansu hurriedly turned his eyes away, I usually listen to you, I can't help you this time;

So Yang Guozhong signaled to Cui Guangyuan with his eyes again, Cui Guangyuan just pretended not to see it, and said in his heart that your two henchmen are two straw bales, and they usually make trouble when they look at the house, but now they are sitting in the most important Hedong Jiedu to quell the chaos, and they are even worse.

Seeing that the two henchmen did not answer, Yang Guozhong simply ignored it, stood up and saluted, and said: "The minister recommended Du Qianyun, the envoy of the Jianning Yuanjun, as the envoy of the Hedong Festival, and he is in Chang'an at this moment. ”

"Can he be up to this heavy responsibility, defend Yanmen Pass, and keep Hedong without losing?" Li Longji didn't know who Du Qianyun was, so he could only ask Yang Guozhong for a guarantee at this time.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, Du Qianyun will live up to Your Majesty's trust!" At this time, Yang Guozhong can only die to the end.

Of course, he knew that Du Qianyun had fought against Nanzhao with Li Mi last year, but he escaped halfway, but he was one of the few henchmen who could lead troops, so he could only try his best to save it.

Yang Guozhong also thought so in his heart, guarding a Yanmen Pass, this is different from attacking Nanzhao, just defending a city, can't you still hold it?

The hall was silent for a while, Li Longji just stared at Yang Guozhong's eyes, Yang Guozhong also stiffened his neck, to be honest, Li Longji knew that Yang Guozhong had a few catties and taels, and he was really uneasy about Yang Guozhong's ability and what he did, but he could only believe in Yang Guozhong at this time.

After all, a person like Yang Guozhong who has no talent, no virtue, no prestige, and even has a lot of infamy, but can do something a little bit, will never pose a threat to himself, and now he temporarily relies on a person who has a little ability, and is reliable and assured, and I don't know who to look for.

So after a while, Li Longji nodded heavily: "Then appoint Du Qianyun as the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, sit in Hedong, expel Gao Xiuyan, and send another person to Jingcheng to pacify Hebei!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Guozhong's face was naturally full of excitement and pride, but the other ministers couldn't help but quietly shake their heads, and Gao Lishi, who had been standing beside Li Longji, couldn't help but look at the emperor quietly, showing a disappointed and helpless look.

However, this is only the beginning, and Li Longji's next step is to make Gao Lishi feel an incomparable sadness and fear.

Because what Li Longji came to discuss next was about the defense of Chang'an, and in fact, as long as the king of Jianning played, the rebels could hardly cross the Yellow River, and Chang'an was no threat, but the emperor was now solemnly discussing the defense of Chang'an, which was clearly guarding against the border towns, and it was mainly aimed at Tiance Mansion.

It didn't take long for the emperor's discussion with several important ministers to come to a conclusion, and Li Chengen, the general of the right Yulin, was sent to Liangzhou Hexi Jiedu to serve An Sishun's command; Yang Guozhong's other confidant Li Fu is the right Yulin general; canonized the left and right flying dragon army envoys Bai Xin and Yang Nanfeng Wuyuan County Duke, Guangping County Duke, and actually sealed 300 households;

Long Wuwei general Chen Xuanli is Ning Guogong, with 500 households, and Long Wuwei general Li Yide is the marquis of Xiangyuan County, with 300 households; The military envoys of Huazhou, Tongzhou, Puzhou, Jiangzhou, and Jinzhou were all rewarded.

On the second day, the Tang Emperor wanted to inspect the Beiya Forbidden Army, the Yulin Army, the Longwu Army, and the Feilong Army in Beiyuan. And the focus is on the Flying Dragon Army, which has now grown into two armies, each with 3,000 men on the left and right, and its combat power can beat all other armies in Gyeonggi Province......

After the discussion, Li Longji, accompanied by Gao Lishi and escorted by dozens of Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, rushed to the Ayaqi Palace. A few days ago, Yang Guifei, who was about to give birth in less than a month, was in a hurry to give birth after hearing the news that An Lushan rebelled and Xiao Qubing was killed.

After some rescue, although Yang Guifei's life was saved, the baby in her womb died of dystocia. It was a boy who had grown into everything, weighing four pounds and eleven taels, and looked very much like Li Longji when he was a child, but he died before he could open his eyes and look at the world.

Yang Guifei cried bitterly for a few days because of this, the weakness of dystocia, coupled with sad crying, her body became obviously emaciated and haggard in the past few days, and Li Longji also spent more time by Yang Guifei's side every day.

"Lux, Datang is so critical, the world is ****, the lives are ruined, the soldiers are in danger, you say, this person's heart, but I am still here?" (To be continued.) )

PS: Thanks for the monthly pass to beat the rabbit, there is still a chapter, and it may take a little time. Why should the first two words of Chen ~ Xi ~ Lie also be blocked!