readx; The grassland in early summer is as green as the sea, as if a huge carpet is spread under the sky, the Yinshan Mountain Range in the south is like a huge sleeping dragon, stretching for thousands of miles, to here, it is the end of the mountain range, here is the southern end of the Mobei grassland, adjacent to the Yunzhong County of the Tang Dynasty, this area is rich in pastures, blue sky, white clouds, rivers are as clear as jade belts, a herdsman's tent is like a mushroom on the grassland, cooking smoke curls, sheep, hunting dogs, women milking cows in front of the cows, full of vitality. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Suddenly, like a sudden change in dark clouds, I saw a black line at the end of the endless grassland, there was a faint sound of muffled thunder, this is not thunder in the sky, but the sound of hooves galloping thousands of horses, the herdsmen were frightened and panicked, too late to pack up their things, they dragged their family to the north to flee for their lives, a moment, the black line is getting closer and closer, it turned out to be a 10,000-person cavalry, they came at a gallop, like the tide roaring, and the green grassland was swallowed up in an instant, but they did not kill the herdsmen who fled north, but roared past the tent and ran to the east, Looking at their equipment, it is obvious that they are all cavalry of the Tang Army, about 8,000 people, each with two horses, war knives, spears, bows and arrows, shields, neatly draped, and the horses are also carrying military blankets and sleeping bags used for long marches, although they did not pursue the herdsmen, but thousands of sheep on the grassland suffered, they were swept away by the roaring cavalry, and became their marching food and grass.

This army is twenty days ago from Juyanhai came to an Anxi Tang army, led by the general Lei Wanchun, they traveled night and night, along the way, relying on the herdsmen's sheep for food, has trekked thousands of miles, their goal is thousands of miles away from Youzhou Fanyang, at this moment they have arrived at the Mobei grassland parallel to Yunzhou, Hedong, and then hundreds of miles, they will turn the road into the pass, into the Hebei boundary, at this time, An Lushan army is in the east of the river, the pass, Hebei is empty, their strange army will determine the direction of the entire Guannei Dao war.

At this time, a group of scout troops rushed from the south and intercepted the army going east, and the scout captain rushed to Lei Wanchun to report: "Report to the general, the defense of Yunzhou, two hundred miles south of Yinshan, is empty, there are not more than 1,000 troops stationed, and there are less than 100 people in the passes. ”

The defenders of Yunzhou are Wu Yong, who surrendered to the Anxi Army, and the Anxi Army has a deep relationship, so far their families and relatives are near Yunzhou, and it is most suitable to enter the customs from here, Lei Wanchun pondered for a moment, remembering Li Qing'an's order, to create momentum without killing the enemy, he immediately ordered: "The army turned south and entered from Yunzhou!"

The 8,000 Tang army immediately turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the Yin Mountain, which was hundreds of miles away, and disappeared at the end of heaven and earth in an instant.

．．．．．．． Anxi stopped the operation after entering Yanzhou from Gyeongju, at this time they were less than 100 miles away from An Lushan's army, a day's journey, only 130 miles away from the Yellow River, Li Qing'an ordered the army to camp on the spot, he was not in a hurry to engage An Lushan's army, he was waiting for news from the north, An Lushan's army also stopped retreating, stationed near Yanchuan County, the two armies have been facing each other for ten days.

The Anxi camp is stationed in a higher terrain on the wilderness, covering a very open area, behind it is a shallow river, originating from a hill three miles away, the water flow is clear, enough for the whole army to drink water, the whole camp is surrounded by a thick camp fence, there are sentry posts as high as ten zhang at the four corners and on both sides, the field of vision is broad, the eye distance can reach more than ten miles, and a beacon tower was temporarily built on a mountain ridge twenty miles away in the east, so that the An Lushan army appeared thirty miles away, and the Anxi army camp can get the news, in addition to the sentry and the beacon tower, The Anxi Army, which has always attached great importance to scouts, also sent 100 teams of nearly 1,000 scouts to various parts of Guannei Province.

The camp is very lively, from time to time burst out of a burst of shouts and cheers, drums like thunder, in the middle of a long fifty zhang, wide thirty zhang open space, two polo teams are fiercely competing, around the crowd of soldiers, this is a game between the broken leaf polo team and the Beiting polo team, but also a polo contest between Lingxi and Lingdong, both polo teams represent the highest level of Anxi polo, attracting nearly 40,000 soldiers to watch and cheer.

Polo game is the tradition of the Anxi army, for a hundred years has been the best means to maintain morale when the Anxi army is fighting abroad, Li Qing'an is the best scorer of the Anxi polo team, expedition to the pass, in the confrontation with the An Lushan army, the soldier's life is boring, the polo game, can indeed invigorate the spirit of the soldier, for which Li Qing'an also introduced the league system of the Chang'an polo competition, starting from the inside of the battalion, and then layer by layer to the army, and finally seven polo teams to win the championship, the championship prize is extremely rich, Anxi silver dollar 3,000, Even as long as the low-level soldiers who participated in the game were rewarded with two silver dollars, it attracted a large number of soldiers to participate, and the Anxi Army's Guannai campaign almost became a polo league.

In the northwest corner of the polo field, Li Qingan and more than a dozen senior generals were also watching the game with great interest.

At this time, with the sound of a gong, the half game is over, and the players will change horses and rest before playing, and the current score is 4-3, and the Broken Leaf Polo team is temporarily ahead.

At this moment, I don't know who was the first to shout, "The general is down!" ”

Hundreds of people also shouted, followed by thousands of people shouting, and then tens of thousands of people and even the whole audience shouted: "The general is down!" ”

The generals around Li Qingan all laughed, "General, the brothers let you show your hand!" ”

Li Qing'an saw that the enthusiasm of the army was high, so he laughed and said, "Good! I'll give it a try! ”

He strode out of the arena and rode a horse, and in a moment, there was a sensation on the polo field, applause was like thunder, the drums shook the sky, and I saw a cavalry team galloping in, headed by a golden helmet and black robe, burly, and the war horse under the crotch was abnormal, it was their main general Li Qing'an, he held a club in his hand, raised it high, and the soldiers suddenly shouted, and the whistling sound resounded through the sky.

Li Qing'an was the first scorer of Anxi polo, and his record of shooting from 50 steps away has become a swan song, in the hearts of Anxi polo players, he is like a god-like figure, and the soldiers scrambled forward, waving their hands, and shouting hoarsely.

Li Qing'an galloped on the field, where he passed, the shouting wave after wave, the Arabian war horse galloped faster and faster, like a cloud driving the fog, he rushed into the center of the field, straight to the forty paces, at this moment, a red polo was thrown, straight to Li Qing'an's war horse, only to see him slightly sideways, swing out, only to hear a crisp sound, the polo flew out of a straight line, extremely fast, the force was strong, the ball into the net, suddenly cheered like thunder, forty steps to shoot, this is already a quality ball, but the cheers are not fierce enough, The soldiers were all looking forward to the legendary fifty-step shot, a shot they had never seen before.

I saw Li Qing'an turn the horse's head, the horse trotted to fifty paces away, the stadium was suddenly silent, everyone looked at their coach nervously, their eyes did not blink, the atmosphere did not dare to take a breath, at this moment, the dense drum beating, the more and more urgent, the hearts of tens of thousands of troops were about to jump out together, at this moment, the drum stopped abruptly.

A golden polo ball was whistling and flying, the angle of the ball was a little backward, and the bowler was nervous, the ball was obviously a throwing error, and he couldn't hit the ball at fifty paces, but Li Qingan didn't give up, the moment the ball was thrown, he began to adjust the angle, the war horse retreated from time to time, and at the moment when the drum stopped, his club was swung out.

Eye distance, feel, strength, and horse control in one go, "Bang!" There was a crisp sound, and with an exclamation from the three armies, the ball arced and shot towards the goal with great speed, and the polo shot into the hole with unmistakable accuracy.

The flag bearer raised the red flag, indicating that the ball was in the hole, and the court suddenly burst into a scream like the sky was cracking, and the excited shouts went straight to the sky.

This incomparable shot completely conquered the soldiers of the Anxi Army who worshiped polo, and the shouts were higher and higher, for a long time, and many soldiers who had just run did not see this wonderful scene, and they were so annoyed that they stomped their feet again and again.

Li Qingan raised his cane high, and the court once again burst into tsunami applause.

．．．．．． Different from the bustle of the Anxi army barracks, the camp of the Fanyang army hundreds of miles away was deserted, shrouded in a depressing and uneasy atmosphere, and the rumors of the Khitan attack on Fanyang released by An Lushan's withdrawal entered the barracks for some reason, and the news spread quickly among the soldiers, and people were panicked for a while.

In fact, in terms of straight-line distance, their current location is only dozens of miles away from Hedong, but a Yellow River has shortened the psychological distance of the soldiers, as if they are far away from Fanyang thousands of rivers and mountains, An Lushan brought this army, most of them are Hebei Army, are veterans who have followed him for many years, most of their homes are near Youzhou, although An Lushan asked the officers to explain to the soldiers again and again, the Khitans did not kill, but the soldiers are still worried, Hebei is empty, this is a fact that everyone knows.

Although the news of the Khitan attack on Fanyang was a hoax made up by An Lushan, the atmosphere was even more tense in the big tent of the Chinese army in An Lushan, and in the big tent, An Lushan walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, his brows furrowed, and he was extremely worried, although the Khitan invasion of Hebei was the news he made up, but he had just received an express report that a Tang army cavalry of more than 10,000 people had entered Yunzhou from Mobei and was heading towards Fanyang along the Sanggan River.

This news simply stunned An Lushan, killing the Tang army from Mobei, this is simply an incredible thing, there are only Hui and Turkic people in Mobei, how can there be any Tang army? This news was as if he had bumped into a ghost in vain.

He originally had an army of 200,000, in Hedong for a year, and recruited 100,000 people, a total of 300,000, in addition to the Hedong Army deployed in the states of Hedong, 200,000 Hebei Army he brought 90,000 troops to Guannei, and 30,000 in Tongguan to attack the city, in addition, the general Li Guiren led 50,000 troops to the south of Xiangzhou, the army pressed Henan Province, and 20,000 in Lulong to defend the Khitan, Youzhou only 10,000 garrisons, commanded by his third son An Qinghe, the weak soldiers, the army is very empty, if it is really the Tang army from Mobei to conquer the nest of Youzhou, He couldn't imagine the consequences.

In addition to An Lushan, there are also noble strategists, generals Shi Siming, Tian Qianzhen, Xue Song and general An Shouzhong, etc., the strange soldiers who fell from the sky also made them unbelievable, no one could have imagined that there would be a Tang army from Mobei.

Gao Shang sighed and said: "Marshal, if I guess correctly, this army is the Anxi Army, they should come from Juyanhai, I just calculated, after more than 20 days of marching, they can indeed reach Yunzhou." ”

"But how come they didn't encounter the Uighurs?" Shi Siming asked strangely.

Gao Shang said with a wry smile: "These Hui people were ambitious to attack the Tang Dynasty at the beginning of last year, but they were attacked by the Anxi army from behind and suffered heavy losses, and it is difficult to recover their vitality so far, I heard that they are cowering in the area of the Dule River, and the Anxi army does not trouble them, he has been thankful, where do they dare to provoke the Anxi army, so this Anxi army cavalry must come all the way unimpeded." ”

"Li Qingan is indeed courageous, and he actually sent a surprise army from Mobei to attack Youzhou, which is amazing!" Tian Qianzhen also said with great emotion.

At this time, An Lushan sighed and said, "You don't want to grow up with others, what should we do now?" You say, fight or withdraw? ”

Shi Siming bowed down and said: "Marshal, my subordinates thought that Li Qing'an and we would not fight, and it was very likely that he was waiting for the news of this strange army, but his news in Hebei was not as fast as ours, and he should not know it now, and his subordinates suggested that we should retreat as soon as possible before the news reached the ears of the soldiers." ”

"General Shi said it too simply, how to withdraw the troops?"

It was Tian Qianzhen who spoke, he and Shi Siming have always been mortal enemies, as long as Shi Siming's proposal he would basically oppose it, he slowly stepped forward and said: "Li Qing'an's garrison position is obviously well thought out, less than a hundred miles away from us, one hundred and thirty miles away from the Yellow River, as long as it takes one day to catch up, and it will take us at least three days to cross the Yellow River, that is to say, Li Qing'an will be killed halfway through our crossing of the river, I don't say that you can also imagine the scene at that time." ”

"So what do you say you should do?" Shi Siming said dissatisfiedly.

Tian Qianzhen looked back at An Lushan and said: "Dashuai, the humble opinion is to fight, after all, we have 10,000 more than the Anxi army, the strength is superior, we also have 10,000 Youzhou iron cavalry, the combat effectiveness is not lost to them, as long as the strategy is right, the soldiers use their lives, we may not lose this battle, Dashuai, defeat the Anxi army, we will be famous all over the world!" ”

Although Tian Qianzhen said impassionedly, An Lushan's blood did not heat up, he was worried, so he waved his hand and said, "You guys retreat first!" Let me think about it again. ”

．．．．．．．． Everyone retreated, An Lushan stood at the tent door and sighed, he really shouldn't have been impulsive, crossing the river to Guanneidao, now he has encountered the most difficult moment in his life, what should he do? He also wanted to compete with Li Qingan more than once, but at this moment, he was a little timid again, Anxi's Modao Army, Tianhuo Thunder, these are all strengths that he dare not face, but Tian Qianzhen is right, they really can't cross the river, crossing the river will definitely be defeated, maybe they can really fight with Li Qingan.

An Lushan thought about it left and right, and his heart was entangled to the extreme.

At this time, a soldier's report came from outside the tent, "Marshal, Mr. Gao asks to see you." ”

"Let him in!"

Just now he saw that Gao Shang wanted to speak and stopped, and then he reacted, he should listen to Gao Shang's opinion, although Gao Gao's strategy was not perfect, but after all, he successfully led Li Qingan out, the change in the situation is so strange, when Li Qingan was stationed in Pinggao County, he tried every means to lure Li Qingan out, but after successfully luring Li Qingan out, he regretted it again, how good it should be that Li Qingan is still in Pinggao County now.

After a moment, Gao Shang walked in and said with a smile: "Is Dashuai still having difficulty making decisions?" ”

"Yes! I really don't know what to do? To fight or not to fight this battle? An Lushan held his pumpkin-like head and lowered his head in pain.

Gao Shang persuaded him: "I'm just worried that the marshal hasn't seen the situation clearly, so I'm here to persuade the marshal." ”

An Lushan raised his head and asked, "Sir, tell me, what is the situation now?" ”

Gao Shang sighed slightly and said: "The marshal already knows that there is a surprise attack on Fan Yang by the Anxi army, so in a day or two at the latest, Li Qingan will definitely know, at that time he will spread the news, and his morale will be like a rainbow, on the contrary, our general will be exhausted, so, to fight or not to fight, the marshal must immediately make a decision to implement, if the marshal can't decide, then I will propose three plans for the marshal and let the marshal choose." ”

"You say, I'll listen."

"Let's talk about the next strategy first, that's Shi Siming's suggestion, withdraw the army immediately, the marshal can go first, according to Li Qing'an's current distance, our 80,000 troops can successfully cross the river 30,000, and the remaining 50,000 will either be killed or surrender."

"No!" An Lushan clearly objected: "I will never adopt this policy. ”

"Well, I'll talk about the middle policy, the humble middle strategy is to send 20,000 troops to pretend to be the main force to meet Li Qing'an's army, our army retreated north overnight, the Anxi army will inevitably pause for a while, half a day or a day, if it is one day, then we can get two days to cross the river, we can quickly retreat to Suizhou Yanfu County to cross the river, then the best ferry in the Jin Gorge, we can cross the 60,000 army in only two days, although the loss of 20,000 troops, but save the main force."

An Lushan did not express his position, and said: "Please Mr. say the best policy." ”

"Marshal, the best strategy is very simple, it is Tian Qianzhen's strategy, fight with the Anxi army, and use strength to compete for the first army in the world."

An Lushan pondered for a long time before finally said slowly: "I prefer the middle strategy. ”

．．．．．．． It was night, the moon was dark and the wind was urgent, the starlight was dim, the dark clouds covered the sky, the sky was beautiful, the earth was dark, an army of 20,000 people left the camp of the Fanyang army, and went to the camp of the Anxi army a hundred miles away.

Half an hour after this army left the camp, An Lushan's 60,000 troops quickly galloped to the north, they left the camp in a very hasty manner, all the heavy grain and grass and camp tents were not brought, and the soldiers only brought two days of dry food, and they traveled lightly and quickly.

But as soon as An Lushan's army made a move, it was immediately discovered by the scouts of the Anxi army, and they released dozens of carrier pigeons, and 100,000 hurriedly sent the information back to the camp.

The situation suddenly changed, and war was on the verge of breaking out.

(To be continued)