—— The Tang army divided into columns and marched quickly to the east.

Yang Xi acted with the front army, and made new arrangements at any time according to the situation investigated. Pang Zhong led the 20,000 horses in the forward, and kept a distance of about one mile from the 20,000 horses led by Yang Xi, and was responsible for the vigilance and avant-garde tasks of the entire team. has almost arrived near Luoyang, and may encounter a large group of rebels at any time, neither Yang Xi nor Pang Zhong dare to have any sloppiness or slackness.

All the members of the Einsatzgruppen were dispatched, and Yang Xi asked them to devote twelve points of energy to the battle, and not give the rebels any opportunity to take advantage of. He told Li Han and Liu Feng, who led the army, that even if all the men and horses led by him were damaged, they would investigate, detect, and block the rebels' sneak attacks.

In Yang Xi's thoughts, this attack on Luoyang should be the last large-scale military blow to the rebels, after this battle, the rebellion can almost be quelled, the scale of the remaining war cannot be very large, and he does not even have to be responsible, and the follow-up nest chaos task may only need to be commanded by other generals. In the last large-scale battle, you must press everything and try your best to give the opponent a fatal blow, and at the same time try to avoid being plotted and sneak attacked by the opponent, so as not to suffer heavy losses.

Yang Xi never felt that there was any inexplicable force protecting him, he could give his opponent a sudden blow, and the rebels could also give him the same counterattack, he could not tolerate such a situation.

Therefore, he was not in a hurry to arrive at Luoyang City soon, but tried to be as stable as possible and did not give the other party a chance to take advantage of it, so as not to waste his previous achievements.

"Report to Marshal Yang, the vanguard of our army has arrived a hundred miles away from Luoyang, and no large-scale movements of the rebels have been found!" A sergeant quickly ran up to Yang Xi to report the latest situation.

"Got it!" Yang Xile stopped his mount, checked the situation ahead, and then issued his new order, "Order General Pang to suspend his march and prepare to camp." ”

It was only about a hundred miles away from Luoyang, and it was almost a two-day trip, and it could be said that he had to be even more careful when he entered the range of the rebels' rapid attack in Luoyang City. He first had to find out where Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Li Siye, Yan Zhenqing, Cheng Qianli, Helan Jinming and other troops from the north and south had marched, and he hoped that these horses from the north and south would arrive near Luoyang at about the same time as him, so that the rebels would not be able to deploy heavy troops to deal with which side. If he quickly broke into Luoyang with a group of men and horses, the Luoyang rebels who had already been well prepared were likely to concentrate their superior forces and come so ruthlessly, so he might not be able to deal with it, after all, the current rebels are not defenseless, and their combat effectiveness is not bad. In a frontal field situation, these horses he leads may not be able to withstand it.

If the men and horses from several directions were close to Luoyang, the rebels would not dare to make a desperate bet and focus on attacking a certain direction.

What's more, the current Yang Xi also has another thought, that is, try not to let himself take risks, so as not to have accidents.

He knew that Li Fuguo, the eunuch who served as the supervisor of the army, although he was now low-key, did not dare to compete with him, the leading marshal with countless halos on his body, but Li Fuguo was paying attention to his every move, if there was any unexpected situation, this person would definitely immediately make a contribution to the imperial court, and Li Heng, the prince of Chang'an, would also take the opportunity to make a statement to Li Longji, who was already worried about his growing prestige, maybe he would beat him again, it would be troublesome.

Since the rebels don't want to give up Luoyang, and even Fan Yang doesn't want to abandon Luoyang, then under the current circumstances, they will definitely not escape from Luoyang, in this case, why bother?

It may be better to march slowly and slowly put pressure on the rebels.

After the order was delivered, Yang Xi also ordered the men and horses he personally led to stop advancing and prepare to set up camp.

Yang Xi then also issued an order, ordering Pang Zhong, Gao Shi and other major generals to discuss the military situation in his big tent after camping.

Just as Yang Xi ordered the sergeants to set up camp, several circulars came to him one after another.

A few copies were sent by Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi's department, another one was sent by Yan Zhenqing's department, and another one was sent by Li Siye. At the briefing sent by Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, Yang Xi and Li Jue reported their current situation and their whereabouts.

According to the report, Guo and Li did not encounter large-scale resistance from the rebels in the process of quickly moving south after capturing Fanyang, and they marched very smoothly all the way, recovering many counties, and the place they have now arrived at is about 300 miles away from Luoyang, and they will also march as fast as possible, striving to join Li Ying and Yang Xi under the city of Luoyang.

Judging by the speed at which they were traveling, when they received this information, Guo and Li should be two hundred and thirty miles away from Luoyang City, and in two days, they should be able to reach Luoyang City.

Yan Zhenqing's troops and Li Siye's troops were traveling at a similar speed, and when they sent out the information, they reported that they were about three hundred miles away from Luoyang City, and that they should have traveled sixty or seventy miles in the same day, and they would definitely be able to reach Luoyang in two or three days. Although there was no briefing from the other ministries, Yang Xi believed that the distance that these troops had arrived at should be about the same, one to three days away from Luoyang City.

It seems that the battle to attack Luoyang will start in two days.

At the time of receiving these briefings, the summoned generals arrived in Yang Xi's tent one after another. Because Li Jue still led the rear army to march and carried a large amount of baggage, and now it was nearly a hundred miles away from Yang Xi's front army, it was impossible to ask Li Jue to come over or go to Li Jue's tent to discuss the military situation, and Yang Xi could only summon these generals to his tent, and still discuss the military situation as Li Jue did before he arrived.

Although Li Fuguo, the eunuch of the prison army, had a lot of opinions on this, he did not dare to openly contradict Yang Xi.

After the generals arrived, Yang Xi also informed the generals of the situation he had just received, but just as he was discussing the follow-up arrangements with the generals, a sergeant hurriedly came in to report that he had received a secret letter from the flying pigeons in Luoyang City. Yang Xi immediately took it and opened it under the curious gaze of the generals. This look made him very pleasantly surprised.

"Generals, I have good news for you," Yang Xi said with unconcealed joy as he raised the secret letter: "A secret letter came out of Luoyang City, saying that An Qingxu is likely to take advantage of An Lushan's tyrannical impermanence to force him to abdicate, and even has the intention of directly seizing the throne at the expense of military advice!"

"Huh?!" The contents of this secret letter surprised the generals.

At the moment of the great enemy, An Qingxu still has such thoughts, wanting to snatch the throne from An Lushan? It seems that the rebels are about to fight among themselves, and this is a golden opportunity to break them! (To be continued.) )