readx; When he received the news that Hui Hui had sent troops to Shuofang, Li Qing'an immediately rushed to Beiting, which made him feel excited, which meant that Ge Shuhan had finally made up his mind that Hui Hui's attack on Shuofang would create an opportunity for Li Longji to seize Shuofang's military power, and Li Qing'an believed that Li Longji would not let go of this golden opportunity. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But Li Qing'an's purpose is only to create opportunities, he doesn't want Hui to really enter the Guanlong area and loot Guanlong, it doesn't matter whether Li Longji will let him send troops, he doesn't care about Li Longji's will for a long time, whether to send troops or not is decided by him Li Qing'an, of course he will send troops, this is also a good opportunity to clean up Hui, and it is also a key step to realize his grassland strategy.

Li Qingan was concerned about the timing of the troops.

On the endless grassland north of Jinman County, a small river meanders through, it is the beginning of April, it is the most brilliant spring season in Beiting, by the river, all kinds of nameless small flowers are swaying and blooming, and a large area of gorgeous colors covers the entire grassland.

In the past two days, there has been an additional barracks near the river, hundreds of tents are neatly ordered, and a tall wooden watchtower stands on the north side of the barracks, and the soldiers on patrol are watching the surroundings vigilantly.

This is Li Qing'an's temporary military camp, he has just arrived in Beiting, ready to go to Jinshan camp, just when he arrived in Beiting, the prince Li Yu's flying pigeon express letter was also sent to Jinman County, in the big tent, Li Qingan opened Li Yu's express letter.

The pigeon letter couldn't write many words, but in just a few dozen words, Li Qing'an experienced Li Yu's anxious mood, 'Quickly send troops back to Hui, it is what the government and the opposition are looking forward to', and the last ten words are enough to prove the eagerness of the Chang'an government and the opposition to ask Li Qingan to send troops.

Li Qing'an closed the letter and handed it to the military advisor Yan Zhuang casually, while he himself fell into deep thought, Yan Zhuang read the letter again, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, as we expected, the Holy Lord does not want to see the general send troops." ”

"What should I do now, as you see him?"

Yan Zhuang thought for a while and said: "I think the general should calm down, don't rush to send troops, and leave enough time for the saint, otherwise once the general sends troops, Hui Hui will immediately retreat north, in that way, An Sishun and An Lushan will have a chance to breathe, and it will be difficult to force them to rebel, it is better to wait a little longer, wait for the contradiction between the saint and An Sishun to intensify, and wait for An Lushan to reveal his ambitions, then the general will send troops back to Hui, and reap the benefits of the fisherman, and the general should still follow the established strategy." ”

Li Qing'an was silent, years of political struggle have made him no longer as passionate and impulsive as when he was young, he will think twice about many things, and consider them from various angles, so that the plan he made will be complete without regrets, of course, there is no absolute perfection, the key is to achieve the greatest benefits, and minimize the unfavorable factors.

When he instigated Ge Shuhan, he only took into account that Li Longji should first solve the Shuofang crisis and intensify the contradictions between the An brothers, especially An Lushan, the biggest hidden danger in the Tang Dynasty, whether he has the ability to rebel now, but his rebellious heart must exist, when Li Longji's fire of seizing power burns on his head, he will not hand over military power so honestly, he will definitely make some kind of gesture of resistance, exposing his ambitions, in that case, Li Longji's fire of cutting the feudal domain will not burn Anxi for a while, And he, Li Qingan, has the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

This is Li Qingan's idea for a few months, if he follows this idea, he will not immediately send troops back to Su, because sending troops too early will disrupt his plan, and it is very likely that Li Longji will kill Ge Shuhan first before he has time to clean up An Sishun, but now his mind has changed slightly.

From Li Yu's letter, he suddenly realized that this was actually an opportunity to achieve great righteousness, and that his dispatch of troops was what the government and the opposition were looking forward to, and if he immediately sent troops back to the government and solved the crisis of the southern invasion of the government, he would win the support of the government and the opposition.

If you compare this interest with the interest of forcing against An Lushan, there is no doubt that the former is more tempting, and the conspiracy to win the righteousness is the king, and the conspiracy of the latter is relatively inferior.

Thinking of this, Li Qingan sighed and said to Yan Zhuang: "The invasion of the south of the Hui is more or less because of me, if I don't clean up this mess in time and let the Hui people miser Guanlong, even if I win the country in the future, it will make me feel uneasy, and I will send troops back to Hui at this time, and solve the danger of Guanlong, which will allow me to win the righteousness and win the support of the Guanlong clan, so I thought about it again and again, and decided to send troops immediately to completely cripple the Hui people." ”

"No!"

Yan Zhuang still didn't approve of Li Qing'an's immediate dispatch of troops, he persuaded again: "In fact, it is not necessarily a bad thing to let the Hui people make trouble in Guanlong for a while, the Guanlong clan is like a merchant traveling in the desert, only when they are cut off from drinking water, the clear spring sent by the general at this time will make them grateful, sending troops too early will only dilute their gratitude, the general must pinch this opportunity!" ”

"But I'm worried that when it really comes to that point, the Holy Lord will let the Hedong Army come to help, or An Lushan's Hebei Army will come to help, which will dilute my role."

Yan Zhuang shook his head and said with a smile: "It may be possible for the Hedong Army to come to help, but An Lushan, I know him well, he will never go to aid Guanlong, or send troops to Mobei, he will only take the opportunity of the Hedong Army to help the west, send troops to occupy the empty Hedong, he has been looking forward to Hedong for a day or two." ”

Li Qing'an paced back and forth in the big tent with his hands behind his back, and those who are good at chess often see more than a dozen steps away, and those who are in a hurry can only see in front of them, although the chaos caused by the dispatch of troops to Hui has cast a layer of fog over the situation in the Central Plains, one thing is certain, after stabilizing the situation in Hezhong, his future focus will gradually shift to the Central Plains, and he must be sufficiently prepared.

At present, he can control a total of 240,000 troops, except for the 50,000 Hu soldiers in the third division of Jinshan, in fact, there are only 190,000, and nearly 60,000 of these 190,000 troops are from various countries in the Western Regions, including the Sogdian army in the river, so he can only use 130,000 Han soldiers, 20,000 garrisons in the river, 30,000 troops in Xiaye Chang, and about 20,000 other border troops scattered in various places.

He is not worried about food, he has enough food support in his hands, the key is the army, his battle line is too wide, and he has scattered too many troops, which is not conducive to him competing for the world, the reason why Dong Zhuo, the hero of Xiliang, dared to march into Chang'an was because he had 200,000 male soldiers in his hands.

In the era of cold weapons, it is still the army! Li Qing'an sighed secretly, although he occupies a vast area, but most of it is no man's land, the Hezhong area has been in turmoil for many years, a large number of young and strong people were captured as slaves by the big cannibals, and there is a shortage of young and strong men, which is also one of the main reasons why they can't make trouble, and other small countries in the Western Regions have few populations and no sufficient soldiers, although he has nearly 200,000 Han immigrants in his hands, but this is the foundation of his transformation of Anxi, and he will not use it unless he is forced to do so, at this point, he is very grateful for the advice given to him by his former staff Li Mi.

In Anxi, the Han people established a regimental training system, modeled on the nomadic people, and implemented the whole people as soldiers, so that every household had weapons and armor, hid soldiers in the people, and concentrated training during the slack time, on the one hand, to let them protect themselves, and on the other hand, in times of crisis, he could mobilize at least 100,000 troops.

Since last year, Anxi has begun to implement the regimental training method, and the results are very good, but the time is slightly short, and it will take time to form combat effectiveness.

"Is the general still hesitating?" Yan Zhuang saw that Li Qingan seemed to be distracted, so he asked with a smile.

"I'm thinking about gathering troops, but there are not enough troops!"

"This is to blame the general for being a little greedy."

Yan Zhuang smiled and criticized him kindly: "The general wants to fight back to the north and prevent Tibet in the south, and he wants to control the river, and he wants to fight Tochar and Xinde, and now he has found that the Central Plains has a chance, just like three heads and six arms, so how can the army be enough?" I suggest that the general shrink the defensive line, Tocharian should be put aside for the time being, and the Tubo side should not be stationed too many troops, so that there are at least 60,000 or 70,000 troops in his hands, and then some regiments will be mobilized to train troops to be stationed in Broken Leaf, and the elite soldiers of Broken Leaf will be transferred to Beiting, so that the general will have 100,000 available mobile troops in his hands, which is enough to deal with emergencies. ”

Li Qing'an thought about it, now is really not the time to fight Xinde and Tocharo, he will take a truce with Da Shi, once he fights Xinde, it will set off a war and confrontation with Da Shi, which will make him have no time to ask about the Central Plains, only wait for the situation in the Central Plains to stabilize, and then turn around and go south to Xinde.

Thinking of this, Li Qingan himself laughed, "Mr. is right, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, I am too greedy, okay!" I listened to my husband's words, temporarily transferred back to the army of Lychee Shouyu, and transferred the elite soldiers of Broken Leaf to Beiting. ”

"What about Hui Hui?" Yan Zhuang asked, "Does the general have to wait before fighting?" ”

"Nope! I don't want to wait any longer, we are too far away from Guanlong, it is difficult to grasp the opportunity, once the opportunity is missed, Guanlong will suffer misery, it will make me a sinner of Datang, I must do this. ”

Li Qingan resolutely made up his mind, and immediately turned around and ordered: "Pass my order, and immediately set off to the Jinshan camp!" ”

On the sixth day of the fourth month, Li Qing'an arrived at the camp of Jinshan and officially ordered the Tang army of Anxi to send troops back to Hui, and the general of the Tang army, Cui Qianyou, led the four allied troops of 60,000 and 6,000 Tang troops of Gelulu, Shatuo, Tongluo, and Huangjiasi, and 6,000 Tang troops to the depths of the grassland.

Li Qing'an then returned to Yizhou, and while he dispatched troops, he quietly watched the development of the situation in the Central Plains.

．．．．．． It took thousands of miles to send troops from Jinshan back to Wude Mountain, where the Suya tent is located, and it was not a day or two to arrive, and at the same time that the Anxi Tang Army sent troops back to Su, the situation in Guanlong also underwent subtle changes.

The original intention of the Hui army was not really to invade the Tang Dynasty, at first it was just to threaten with powerlessness to force the Tang court to send people to negotiate with them, so as to extort a sum of money from the Tang Dynasty to compensate for the losses suffered last winter, and then return to the grassland, after all, Gele Khan was very worried that Li Qing'an would take the opportunity to send troops to the empty grassland hinterland.

But the development of the situation often does not change with the will of the people, when the Hui army defeated An Sishun's 30,000 army in Dingyuan City, Gele Khan's ambitions began to swell, he realized that this time to go south will be a profitable good deal, he immediately divided his troops into two routes, one led by the servant Gu Huai'en, continued to besiege Lingzhou, and he himself personally led an army of 40,000 to continue south, preparing to loot the prosperous Tang Guanlong region.

In late March, Gele Khan led a large army to break through Yanzhou, Yanzhou Taishou Liu Yi committed suicide, the Uighurs poured into the city like locusts, and wantonly slaughtered the civilians who had taken refuge in Yanzhou, more than 10,000 men and the old and weak were killed, thousands of women were plundered into the barracks, the Uighurs ransacked the city of Yanzhou, and then they divided their troops into four routes, and plundered the property in the states north of Guannei Province.

The Yanzhou tragedy shocked Guanlong, and a large number of refugees from Xia, Yin, Qing, and Yuan fled to the south, and the people who fled on the official road could not see the edge at a glance, and the people of various ethnic groups such as Han, Dangxiang, Murowei, and Tuyuhun mixed together and fled for their lives to the far south.

At the same time, officials in various states and counties organized young people to resist, and one after another anti-Rong rebels rose up.

There is a strong party tribe living in Changze County, Xia Prefecture, the number of about 10,000 people, the tribal leader is called Fang Dangluo, is the leader of the party eight departments in the house, he has a son and a daughter, daughter Yingke, married to the party chief Tuoba Xiong as his wife, son called Fang Dang Yingyi, about twenty-five or six years old, too tall, infinitely powerful, known as the first warrior of the party.

Dangxiang is a branch of the Qiang people, Sui moved to the northern part of Guanlong, originally lived a peaceful nomadic life, but this time the Hui people invaded the south, but also broke the peace of the Dang people, in the Yanzhou tragedy, thousands of Dang Xiang people were also killed with the Han people, which also caused the anger of the Dang Xiang people, the big chief of the Party Xiang Tuoba Xiong ordered the Party Xiang to resist the invasion of the Hui people, and the Xiazhou Taishou Luo Xiyan also called on the people of all ethnic groups in the territory to resist the plundering of the Hui people.

On the morning of this day, Yang Yingyuan, the county commander of Changze County, came to the Dangxiangren tribe and found the tribal leader Fang Dangluo, hoping that he could lead his troops to participate in the anti-Rong rebel army in Changze County, but Fang Dangluo politely rejected Yang Yingyuan's plan.

"Yang County's determination to resist the Hui is admirable, but the party has always been a loner and is not used to fighting with other ethnic groups.

Yang County Ling had already persuaded another Tuyuhun tribe in the territory to join the anti-Rong army, but Fang Dangluo's refusal disappointed him, and he wanted to persuade again, at this moment, Fang Dangluo's son Fang Dangyingyi rushed in like a gust of wind and shouted: "Father, my sister sent someone to report that a Hui army of more than 10,000 people is attacking Xiazhou, begging us to help." ”

Fang Dangluo immediately stood up and said: "Yang County Order, the Tuoba Department is in danger, I want to go to the rescue immediately, I can't wait, let's go first!" ”

Yang Xian Ling didn't expect them to say that they would leave, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded, in the chaos, Fang Dang Luo and his son Fang Dang Yingyi turned over and got on their horses, Fang Dang Yingyi raised a big horn and blew it into the sky: 'Woo-' The sound of the whimpering horn echoed in the air, and the three thousand party cavalry quickly assembled, and Fang Dang Yingyi waved a big copper stick and shouted: "Go!" ”

The party cavalry immediately started and galloped north, stirring up billowing yellow dust.

(To be continued)