Chapter 641: The Battle of the Shangdang III

readx; Shangdang County, Ashina Congli has returned from Changzi County, and is reporting the results of the rescue to An Qingxu, Li Guiren, Li Huaixian and other more than a dozen senior officials, An Qingxu has just arrived in Shangdang County today, when An Lushan's order has been transmitted to Hedong two days earlier, everything must obey An Qingxu's command, that is to say, the commander is no longer Li Guiren, but An Qingxu. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

An Lushan also knew that his son was slightly deficient in combat experience and strategy, so he asked the military advisor Gao Shang to follow An Qingxu, and Gao Shang sat behind An Qingxu, his status in the Yan army was very high, and sitting behind An Qingxu was undoubtedly to help An Qingxu's authority.

Li Huaixian also came, this is to give An Qingxu a face, as long as he is not under the command of Li Guiren, he can accept it, Li Huaixian sat on the very edge, with a gloomy face and did not say a word, An Qingxu had already warned him that if he wanted to leave the barracks alive, he would obediently shut up.

Li Guiren sat on crutches on the other side, his face was also ugly, not because Li Huaixian was there, but because An Qingxu replaced his position as the coach of the southern line, making it clear that An Lushan did not trust him, he was dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything, An Qingxu was the son of the world after all, and noblely brought An Lushan's killing sword, who dared to disagree, he could cut it first and then play.

Ashina told in detail what he had seen and heard, and asked the surviving team to tell everyone again, there was silence in the big tent, revenge, everyone understood that this was revenge, no prisoners of war were left, all were killed, this was revenge for Li Guiren for killing the wounded soldiers of the Anxi army.

Li Huaixian glanced at Li Guiren with great dissatisfaction, surrendering pawns and not killing, this is a consistent rule on the battlefield, but it was destroyed by Li Guiren, and now it is their turn, see what Li Guiren says.

Li Huaixian resented another thing, that is, Li Guiren killed too many people, and didn't care after killing, in order to prevent the plague from appearing, now he also had to send 3,000 people to participate in burying the corpses, and these 3,000 people could not return to the army, Li Guiren did something that people and gods were angry about, but let him participate in wiping his ass, fortunately, the plague did not break out, otherwise more than 100,000 people would all die, Li Huaixian hated it to the bone, if it was in his own military camp, he would have arrested Li Guiren and cut it down.

At this time, An Qingxu finally spoke, "Li Qing'an's strategy is very clear, that is, to break through each one, and now we can't disperse and station." ”

He glanced at Li Huaixian and Li Guiren, and said slowly: "We can only be divided into two major garrisons, one is General Li Guiren's southern battalion, which garrisons Shangdang, and the other is General Li Huaixian's northern battalion, where the garrison is stationed, and the rest of the small cities are not garrisoned. ”

Li Guiren said hatefully: "If you have the ability, you can fight a battle openly, what kind of hero is such a sneak attack?" ”

As soon as Li Huaixian opened his mouth to sneer, Gao Shang had already prepared, and as soon as he stretched out his hand and held him down, he was not allowed to speak, Li Huaixian had to swallow his words back, and looked at Li Guiren coldly, his heart was full of contempt.

Gao Shang said with a smile: "Li Qing'an has always been famous for his intrigues, if you let him not surprise the army, then he is not Li Qing'an, I have studied his combat characteristics, he likes to test first, then hit the side, and finally attack the main force, this time his routine is the same, the sneak attack on Changzi County can be regarded as a temptation, then his next step must be to play the edge, now the key is where is our side?" Did you think of it? ”

The noble analysis aroused everyone's interest, and everyone pondered, Li Huaixian said first: "Could it be the 40,000 Yin Ziqi army besieging Taiyuan?" ”

Gao Shang shook his head and said with a smile: "Yin Ziqi's army has little to do with the southern front, even if Yin Ziqi's army is killed, Guo Ziyi will have to guard Taiyuan, he is cautious and will not go south easily, so we don't have to worry too much about him." ”

An Qingxu also smiled: "Guo Ziyi's patience is amazing, Yin Ziqi only has 40,000 people, but he has 80,000 troops, Yin Ziqi is stationed in Taiyuan City 20 miles away to provoke, Guo Ziyi just does not move, it is really incomprehensible." ”

"Young marshal, it's actually very understandable."

Gao Shang said with a smile: "Guo Ziyi only has these 80,000 horses, he wants to keep it no matter what, not so much that he is defending Taiyuan, it is better to say that he is protecting his last bit of strength, the court has to rely on strength to speak, without strength, he is nothing, ridiculous This Guo Ziyi, he still thinks he can keep Li Shimin's descendants?" ”

The noble words aroused Li Huaixian's resonance, and he also smiled: "This Guo Ziyi really doesn't know the current affairs, Li Qingan already has an army of 500,000, what can his 80,000 army do?" Can he still rebel against the court? I don't think Li Qing'an took him to heart......"

Before Li Huaixian's words were finished, he was coldly interrupted by Li Guiren, "Mr. Gao, go around and around, where is the edge of Li Qing'an you said?" I'm still listening! ”

"Oh! I forgot the main topic. ”

Gao Shang smiled apologetically, and then said to everyone: "When I say Li Qing'an's border, I don't mean Taiyuan, it should be Hebei Zhaozhou, cutting off our grain route." ”

Only then did everyone suddenly realize, Li Guiren frowned and said, "But how can he go around behind us?" ”

"He can't, but Li Guangbi can!" Li Huaixian replied to him coldly.

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From Changping Pass to Zhaozhou, Hebei, you still have to go to Baicheng, directly from Bailu Mountain into Weizhou Gongcheng County, which is today's Huixian County, Henan, and then enter Xiangzhou, straight to Zhaozhou, which is the location of Handan, Hebei today, named after a big river water.

The territory controlled by Li Guiren was Zhaozhou, Xingzhou and Zhaozhou, and his main granary was located in Linwei County, which was heavily defended and heavily guarded, and the grain needed for this southern expedition was first transported from Youzhou to Linwei granary, and then transported south to Luzhou through Fukou.

If you want to cut off the grain road of the Yan army, the best location is the section from Handan to Fuyang County, the official road is about fifty miles long, the road is densely forested, and there are many excellent hiding places.

Tian Chengsi's army was mainly concentrated in Weizhou and Bozhou, and there were also a small number of garrisons in Xiangzhou, only a few thousand people, mainly concentrated in major cities such as Xiangzhou City and Ye County, and there were almost no troops stationed in Weizhou in the south.

That night, a cavalry of 2,000 people galloped quickly on the land of Hebei, and the leader was Li Guangbi, who came to cut off the Yan army's grain road on the order of Li Qing'an.

The 2,000 soldiers selected by Li Guangbi are all extremely elite, all of them are veterans of Anxi who have been in the army for more than five years, and most of them have followed him to attack Tocharian and Longyou Tubo, all of whom have experienced a hundred battles, and the horses they ride are all excellent Dawan horses, the horses are tall and majestic, and they are good at long-distance attacks.

Two thousand horsemen galloped through the dark night, their hooves wrapped in Anthy cotton, galloping between the forest and the meadows, without the deafening sound of horses' hooves, like a group of ghosts galloping in the moonlight.

The cavalry team is far away from Xiangzhou and Ye County, all the way to the north, it can be said that there is no rooster crying for thousands of miles, although the time has reached the vigorous early summer, but everywhere they passed, there is no one in sight, everywhere is a dilapidated village and an empty county seat, like a ghost domain, after the Anshi Rebellion, the land of Hebei has been a decay and dilapidated scene.

Li Guangbi's heart was heavy, and only then did he realize Li Qing'an's good intentions for several large-scale emigration, as well as the strategic bottom line of not allowing An Lushan's army to enter Hedong, An Lushan's army was like locusts, and everywhere they passed, they were swept away.

The cavalry team ran day and night for two days and two nights, and that night, the cavalry team came to a small place called Zhaoyi Town on the south bank of Fushui, which is the junction of the Taihang Mountains and the plain, and is a hilly and mountainous area that stretches for dozens of miles, and the town of Fukou on the other side of the river is the entrance of Fukou Town.

The mountains in this area are gentle, the forests are dense, and because the population is mainly concentrated in the eastern part of Fuyang County, the population in this area is very small, the environment has not been damaged, and there is a large forest that is reckless for hundreds of miles.

All this is clearly reflected in Li Guangbi's small sand table, he has a special sand table, which was a gift from Li Qing'an last winter, and the reason why it is special is because this sand table is made up of a hundred small sand tables one foot square, if necessary, he can only take part of it, for example, now, he only brings four sand tables, including all his marching routes.

Under the moonlight, the soldiers are resting in the forest, Li Guangbi found a vacant land, sat cross-legged on the grass alone, staring at the sand table in front of him under the reflection of the moonlight, according to the information provided to him by Li Qing'an, recently An Lushan has successively transported 500,000 stone grain from Youzhou to Yuxian, so during this time, the number of grain transportation teams from Fukou to Hedong will be greatly increased.

The scouts he sent had already gone to investigate the situation, Li Guangbi was thinking about the movements of the Yan army, after the sneak attack in Changzi County, the Yan army would definitely strengthen its defenses, and if it was successful in the sneak attack, it wouldn't be so easy, Li Guiren might not be good at using strange soldiers, but what about An Qingxu? Especially the strategist Gao Shang who went south with An Qingxu, would he have thought that he was going to attack the grain road?

Although Li Guangbi understands the difficulty of sneak attack again, he still has to take this step, he doesn't want to lose to Li Siye, especially Li Siye said that he came and went on the Yellow River, which deeply stimulated him, Li Siye's ridicule also represents the thoughts of many people, no one can understand why he has to retreat after crossing the Yellow River, obviously there is no army stationed in Xiangzhou, why he doesn't occupy it, not only outsiders don't understand, his own subordinates don't understand, Li Sheng also came from Qizhou to question him.

He was speechless, all this he was faithfully carrying out Li Qing'an's orders, Li Qing'an did not allow him to occupy Xiangzhou, did not allow him to attack Wei Bo, ordered him to retreat to Henan before the Yellow River thawed, and gave him a reason that the supply of military rations was difficult.

Is that really the case? Just as Li Sheng asked, they could store a large amount of grain in Xiangzhou, and they didn't need to transport grain from Henan, and they also had the only transport fleet on the Yellow River, which could transport tens of thousands of troops across the Yellow River in one day and one night, so why did they withdraw to Hedong and give up Hebei to An Lushan.

Li Guangbi couldn't answer the questions of the soldiers, let alone explain to the people of the world, so he got the nickname of 'Duke of the Yellow River', and from beginning to end, he only explained to Li Sheng alone, and even if he explained, there was only one sentence without a head and no tail, 'If An Lushan does not have the entire territory of Hebei, he will not divide his troops to garrison, and he will not be able to form a warlord division of Hebei.'" ’

This is Li Qing'an's original words, Li Guangbi did not fully understand, but now he understands, the prototype of Hebei's warlord secession has been formed, Shi Siming's department, Li Huaixian's department, Li Guiren's department, Cai Xide's department, Tian Chenghe's department, and An Qingxu's department, these army leaders are unruly one by one, they don't buy each other, and they all rely on An Lushan's prestige to maintain, if An Lushan has an accident, the Yan army will be divided.

Li Guangbi was still pondering, when a burst of footsteps came, and a personal soldier stepped forward to report: "General, the scout has news coming." ”

"Bring it on!"

A scout was brought in, and he knelt down on one knee to report: "Report to the general, we have found information. ”

"Say! What intelligence? ”

"About fifty miles away from Fuyang County, a team carrying grain and grass is coming south, consisting of about 500 wagons, all of which are forage, and a total of 1,000 cavalry escorts."

Li Guangbi pondered for a moment, this is just a medium-sized grain and grass team, and there is no grain, the value is not high, but his purpose is not to intercept how much grain and grass, as long as there is victory, more importantly, the longer he is here, the easier it is to be exposed.

"General Lee....."

The scout hesitated and said, "One of our brothers is missing. ”

"Are you captured?"

"I don't know!" The scout shook his head, "Maybe captured, maybe lost." ”

The adjutant general next to him was very worried, and said in a low voice: "General, if we are captured, our whereabouts will be exposed, it is better to withdraw first!" ”

"No!"

Li Guangbi resolutely ordered: "Let the brothers get on their horses and prepare to go!" “

The order fell like a mountain, and the two thousand cavalry turned on their horses, waded through the water, and galloped northward, and disappeared into the dark night in a moment.

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In a forest on the west side of the official road, An Shouzhong glanced up at the moonlight, which passed through the clouds, sometimes bright and sometimes dark.

"General An, I'm worried that the enemy won't come?" An officer next to him whispered.

An Shouzhong shook his head and smiled: "They should come, as long as they don't find us, didn't we catch a Tang Army scout?" Li Guangbi is in the army, there are not many opportunities like this! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a Yan army scout rushed over and said, "General An, the Tang army has been discovered, about two thousand cavalry, and it has reached twenty miles away. ”

"Good!"

An Shouzhong proudly ordered: "Ready to close the net!" ”

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(To be continued)