readx; Xu Shuji is different from Dong Qin in Hedong and Ji Guangchen in Luoyang, he is a civil official, formerly the Taishou of Huazhou, and when Li Heng was the prince of the East Palace, he was the right good praise doctor of the East Palace, and he had a close relationship with Du Youlin, the doctor of Zuo Shanzan, after the Du Youlin case broke out, the subordinate officials of the East Palace were purged by Li Linfu, Xu Shuji was spared because of the heavy bribery of Wang Heng, and was only demoted to the Lingchang County Order, but Xu Shuji left a way back for himself at this time, and he quietly hid Du Liangdi for Li Heng. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

With the passage of time, Xu Shuji, who was good at drilling camps, was promoted to Huazhou Taishou step by step, at this time, Li Heng forcibly ascended the throne as the emperor, and was spurned by hundreds of officials and Tianxia Prefectures and counties, but Xu Shuji saw unlimited business opportunities from it, he was the first to publicly express his support for Li Heng's local Taishou, and thus won Li Heng's trust, named him the envoy of the Huapu Festival, and successively gave him 30,000 troops as the foundation of his development, and ordered him to guard the gateway of Henan Province to defend against the southern invasion of An Lushan.

On the one hand, he wrote to Li Heng that An Lushan was so powerful that it was difficult to defend with only 30,000 troops, and on the other hand, he crossed the border without authorization, taking advantage of the emptiness of the Central Plains, and occupied the five prefectures of Bian, Cao, Song, Yan, and Xu, and quickly expanded the army from 30,000 to 70,000.

At this time, although Li Heng was dissatisfied with Xu Shuji's unauthorized actions, he had no choice but to acquiesce to Xu Shuji's expansion, and changed his Huapu Jiedu envoy to Huapu Bian, Song and Xu Qizhou Jiedu, so that his expansion became legal.

But once people's ambition is out of control, it will swell forever, Li Heng acquiesced to Xu Shuji's occupation of seven states, but Xu Shuji's ambition ran further, and his ambition shrouded Yun, Ji, Qi, Zi, Mi, Hai, Yi, Qing and other eight states, but unfortunately his military and financial resources were insufficient, making it difficult for him to expand for a while, just when he was ready to raise taxes and recruit troops and horses, Chang'an suddenly came with news that Li Qingan personally led the army to the east.

This news was like a sharp awl, which suddenly punctured Xu Shuji's inflated ambition bubble, and he began to panic.

The heavy rain that swept the Central Plains also affected Bianzhou and Huazhou, a team of cavalry rushed in the heavy rain, this is Xu Shuji in a hurry to return to Huazhou, Xu Shuji's base camp is currently in Bianzhou, but yesterday morning he received news that An Lushan's envoy has arrived in Huazhou, which made Xu Shuji impatient to rush back to Huazhou.

In the rain and fog, Xu Shuji slowed down the horse, he wiped the rain on his face and looked into the distance, Xu Shuji is about fifty years old this year, thin and small, with a long horse face with a small eagle hooked nose, giving people a sense of insidious and cunning of a small family.

In the vast heavy rain, he had vaguely seen An Lushan, the county seat of Lingchang County, and An Lushan's envoy from Hebei was waiting for him in the county seat at this time.

"Drive!" Xu Shuji whipped his horse, and the carriage rushed into the rain and fog, and galloped towards Lingchang County in the distance.

Half an hour later, Xu Shuji had already changed into a clean robe, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, sitting in the inner room of the county government and sipping tea, his personal soldiers had already gone to pick up An Lushan's envoy.

"Report to the envoy, the envoy has arrived!"

There was a report from the soldiers outside the door, so frightened that Xu Shuji hurriedly got up, the tea in his hand almost spilled out, he hurriedly stabilized his mind, put the teacup on the table, straightened his clothes, and quickly opened the door.

At the door, two pro-soldiers accompanied a tall and fat middle-aged man standing in front of him, Xu Shuji knew this person, who was one of An Lushan's henchmen and advisers, Zhang Tongru.

Xu Shuji immediately smiled enthusiastically: "It turned out to be Mr. Zhang, I haven't seen you for a few years, and Mr. Zhang's demeanor is better than in the past." ”

Zhang Tongru, the head of An Lushan's intelligence system, was sent to Huazhou by An Lushan two days ago, and the heavy rain soaked the hem of his robe, but it was difficult to hide the arrogant expression on his face.

"Hmmm! Xu Yuanjun is welcome, I am pressed for time, let's talk about business as soon as possible! ”

Xu Shuji's enthusiasm was in vain, he laughed dryly, and hurriedly said, "Please!" Mr. Zhang, please come in. ”

Zhang Tongru walked into the room with his hands behind his back, swept the corner of his eyes, and saw that the two pro-soldiers were also going to follow, so he said: "Xu Yuanjun, we don't need a third party to be present for our conversation. ”

Xu Shuji glanced at his own soldiers, and was a little embarrassed: "They are all my personal soldiers, there is absolutely no problem." ”

Zhang Tongru stretched his face and emphasized again: "I repeat, we don't need a third party to be present when we talk. ”

Xu Shuji scolded in his heart, but he was helpless, so he had to wave his hand to his soldiers and said, "You all retreat!" ”

The soldiers retreated, he closed the door, poured a cup of hot tea himself, brought it to Zhang Tongru and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang first drank a cup of hot tea to get rid of the cold, it was only July, and it was already full of autumn." ”

Zhang Tongru took the teacup, the arrogance on his face was slightly restrained, and said: "It has rained heavily in the past two days, Xu Zhijun came from Bianzhou, it must be difficult to walk on the road!" ”

"Yes! Be! The road is muddy, it is really difficult to walk, I have been in Henan Road for many years, this kind of heavy rain is very rare, maybe God favored me and stopped Li Qing'an from advancing eastward, haha! ”

"Is Xu Yuanjun afraid of Li Qing'an?" Zhang Tongru's eyes stared sharply at Xu Shuji.

Xu Shuji stammered for a while, but he didn't know how to explain it, of course he was afraid of Li Qing'an, he wasn't afraid of what he was looking for An Lushan to do, wasn't An Lushan just as afraid?

Although he thought so in his heart, he didn't dare to say it, so he had to sigh and say: "I just got the news that Ji Guangchen has been wiped out. ”

"What!" Zhang Tongru was taken aback, has Ji Guangchen been wiped out? He didn't even know that his eyeliner in Xingyang and Ji Guangchen's army was not notified to him, Zhang Tongru changed his mind, and he suddenly understood, he should have been notified, but Youzhou was notified, and An Lushan should have known.

Ji Guangchen was destroyed, Zhang Tongru was vigilant in his heart, according to their analysis, Li Qing'an should deal with Xu Shuji first, and then turn around and eat Ji Guangchen, but now Ji Guangchen was actually destroyed first, it seems that they all underestimated Li Qing'an's determination, and their plan had to be accelerated, thinking of this, Zhang Tongru said to Xu Shuji: "What King Yan means is that your army should be concentrated on the front line of Huazhou, not too scattered, and speed up the preparation for war, and be ready for a big war." ”

Xu Shuji was stunned, he had faintly heard the meaning of dealing with him, did he want him to be used as a bait? He was in a hurry, and opened his mouth and said, "Then, what about King Yan's army?" Didn't you promise me to attack Zhengzhou? ”

"Don't worry!"

Zhang Tongru stood up and patted his thin shoulder, and said with a smile: "Since you are already willing to surrender to King Yan, it is our Fan Yang Army, how can King Yan ignore you, King Yan's plan remains unchanged, when Li Qing'an's army attacks Huazhou, we will cross the river and march to Zhengzhou, attack Luoyang with the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, and force Li Qing'an to retreat westward, and then our two armies will attack, this time we will completely annihilate the Anxi army!" ”

Xu Shuji pondered for a moment, and now that he was helpless, he nodded: "Okay then!" I'm going to gather the army. ”

．．．．．．． In Heyin County, in the vast heavy rain between heaven and earth, the Yellow River roared and rushed, the sound was like a landslide and the ground cracked, Li Qingan led the horse to stand on the embankment of the Yellow River, the Yellow River seized the power of heaven and earth, and the rapids were mighty, which made his heart shake.

Li Qing'an once went to the source of the Yellow River, and the trickle of the river flowed through thousands of miles, and with its broad mind, it finally formed today's mighty river.

'You don't see, the water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky, rushes to the sea and never returns! ’

Li Qingan was shaken and moved by the river of his mother in front of him, and a sense of breadth and vastness that he had never felt before surged in his heart.

At this time, an umbrella covered the top of his head, Li Guangbi slowly walked to his side, stared at the other side of the river shrouded in rain and mist, and said in a low voice: "I just got the news that An Lushan's army of 80,000 people has passed Xiangzhou and is heading towards the Yellow River in the name of training. ”

"As we expected, An Lushan is not willing to be lonely!" A faint smile swelled up at the corner of Li Qing'an's mouth, he had long guessed that the situation in the Central Plains would not be so calm, and Xu Shuji would most likely have secretly surrendered to An Lushan, or that he recognized the puppet emperor set up by An Lushan.

"General, do we still want to march to Huazhou as originally planned?"

Li Qing'an pondered for a moment, and then asked, "How is Ji Guangchen's army being incorporated now?" ”

"Very good, after removing some injuries and old and weak, we have obtained 24,000 young men, and all the middle-level officers in the army have been replaced by the Anxi Army, which can fight."

"Good! Intensify your training, and within a month, let them be reborn! ”

"Don't you need them in this campaign?" Li Guangbi asked with some surprise.

Li Qingan shook his head slightly, he stared into the depths of the Yellow River, and said slowly: "If it were you, how would you fight this battle?" ”

Li Guangbi has already thought about it repeatedly, so he said: "If my judgment is not wrong, An Lushan hopes that we will attack Huazhou, and then he will cross the river to cut off our back road, maybe he will attack Luoyang and force us to retreat, and when we retreat, An Lushan's army will attack with Xu Shuji's army before and after, it is for this possibility that I will surprise my troops, so that Ji Guangchen's army will feign the main force to march into Huazhou, encircle but not fight, and when An Lushan's army crosses the river, our main force will suddenly attack, half-crossing interception, so that they are defeated in the Yellow River." ”

Li Qingan smiled faintly and said: "Your judgment is not wrong, it should be like this, the countermeasures are also very vicious, An Lushan's army will definitely be defeated, but I still don't plan to use it." ”

"Why?" Li Guangbi said in astonishment.

"It's very simple, this battle can't just seek one domain, but the overall situation."

At this time, Li Qingan turned his head and looked at Hedong, Xu Shuji was a clown, there was nothing to worry about, he needed this stalemate situation to fly for another half a year.

He pondered for a while, and then said to Li Guangbi: "You lead 20,000 troops into Bianzhou first, if I guess correctly, there is no garrison in Bianzhou at this time!" ”

(To be continued)