readx; The burning of the forage depot had an impact on An Lushan far more than the explosion of the gunpowder field, one winter, nearly half of his 300,000 war horses starved to death, and Khitan and Xi also used the excuse of their lack of forage to support their respective armies, if it were not for Shi Siming to borrow 800,000 loads of forage from the servant bone department, I am afraid that even An Lushan's Youzhou iron cavalry would have died out. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And because An Lushan was not good at the beginning of the uprising, even after losing the battle, his army was also sharply reduced by 100,000 people, the number of horses was insufficient, the number of soldiers was reduced, and he occupied the entire territory of Hebei, An Lushan changed his strategy, allowing his subordinates to have the right to recruit troops, without a cap, but the money and food for the recruited recruits were solved by themselves.

At present, there are a total of six generals with the right to recruit troops, Shi Siming, Li Huaixian, Tian Chengsi, Cai Xide, Li Guiren, and An Lushan's son An Qingxu, these six generals are each commanding heavy troops, Shi Siming led 80,000 troops to be stationed in Hengzhou and Dingzhou, Li Huaixian is still stationed in Youzhou, Tian Chengsi is in Weizhou, Bozhou, Xiangzhou, Cai Xide is in Cangzhou and Dezhou, Li Guiren is stationed in Zhaozhou and Xingzhou, and An Qingxu's army is stationed in Jizhou, Danzhou and Pingzhou.

With An Lushan's approval, these six people recruited troops and horses in the jurisdiction, and the money and food they needed were deprived from the people, and there were three or four out of ten people in Hebei who did not flee, and almost all of their money and food were stripped away by An Lushan's army, especially large families, who were knocked out of their bones and marrow, and had already become destitute.

Brutal people such as Cai Xide and others, the three counties of Nanpi, Rao'an and Gonggao were bloodied, robbing the people's property, gang-raping women, and arresting all the men in the three counties into the army as pawns, as old as sixty old men, thirteen or fourteen years younger, not letting go of any of them, so that Cai Xide's army increased from 50,000 to 80,000 at once, becoming the fourth largest force in the Yan army.

One winter, in addition to Youzhou still has a little vitality, the rest of Hebei counties mourn the people all over the wilderness, hungry and cold, the people have no food, digging wild vegetables, peeling bark, at this time Hebei Dao is like a skinny patient, except for an empty skeleton, the flesh and blood have long been sucked dry, can no longer squeeze out oil and water.

The soldiers of the Yan army began to be dissatisfied, and the Khitan and Xi people who worked hard for An Lushan were also dissatisfied, especially the Xi people, An Lushan promised them the noble daughter of Luoyang, but now they didn't even see the shadow of Luoyang, and the Xi camp began to stir.

An Lushan had no choice but to order each general to sacrifice thousands of women and send them to the camp of the Xi people to appease them, but the symptoms were not cured, An Lushan knew that the key was that Hebei Province could no longer support his hundreds of thousands of troops, and at this time the long winter had passed, and the time was ripe to send troops to Hedong.

In Yanwang's Mansion, the generals who came from all over the country gathered together, except for Shi Siming who was recuperating in Youzhou, and Li Huaixian himself was in Youzhou, and the rest of the generals came from other places.

In the middle of the hall of An Lushan, there is a huge sand table, five zhang long and three zhang wide, including Hebei Road and Hedong Road, and the sand table is covered with a silk yarn, so that people can not see the situation above.

An Lushan sat high in the middle, he wore a golden helmet, a golden armor shining, usually An Lushan does not wear armor, he wears regular clothes, and once he wears armor, it means that he is going to launch a military operation, his six generals sit in two columns below, and the hall is very quiet.

"After a winter of recuperation, it's time to send troops."

An Lushan went straight to the point, directly to everyone to pick out the purpose of today's meeting, everyone expected from An Lushan's attire, no one said a word, An Lushan nodded, his eyes glanced at Shi Siming, seeing that he had a yellow face and thin muscles, and his face was sick, he came to Youzhou to recuperate because he was sick, An Lushan was a little unhappy in his heart, so he asked: "Vice Marshal Shi, how is your condition?" ”

Shi Siming stood up with some difficulty, and arched his hand: "Back to King Yan, there is no big deal with the humble position." ”

Having said that, his tone was weak, and everyone could see that he was obviously dealing with An Lushan, not to spoil his interest and give him face, if he really wanted to let him go to war, An Lushan might not be willing, and more importantly, Shi Siming had already lost first, and An Lushan didn't believe him a little.

An Lushan frowned, his eyes unconsciously glanced at Li Huaixian, An Lushan's subtle change was immediately captured by Shi Siming, and he was secretly happy in his heart, this is exactly what he was looking forward to, let Li Huaixian go to Hedong.

Shi Siming also got a little bit of news from the Yanwang Mansion, An Lushan may attack Hedong in three ways, but how to send troops, what the route is, he doesn't know anything, he now urgently needs to buy An Lushan's cronies to become his eyeliner, and Li Zhu'er is the best candidate, he is extremely trusted by An Lushan, and is even qualified to stand guard on An Lushan's couch, An Lushan likes fat mature women, Li Zhu'er will look for people for him everywhere, and he is the big housekeeper of An Lushan's side.

And Shi Siming also inquired that this Li Zhu'er was very greedy for money, but he was very careful not to easily receive money from outsiders, for fear of losing An Lushan's trust, so Shi Siming was ready to start from Li Zhu'er's uncle Li Zui and let Li Zui become his bridge.

Shi Siming had already seen that An Lushan didn't want to send him, he didn't say a word, and sat crookedly aside, at this time An Lushan stood up and walked to the sand table with the support of his henchman Li Zhu'er, he waved his hand, and immediately came up with two guards, one on each side, and slowly lifted the silk veil covering the sand table, revealing the true face of the sand table.

"Come and have a look!"

An Lushan pulled out the small flag of Shi Siming that was originally planted in Jingcheng and replaced it with the small flag of Li Huaixian, Li Huaixian defeated Guo Ziyi's army last time, so that An Lushan was full of confidence in him, so that he did not even blame him for such a big crime as burning down the forage storehouse, but killed a low-level general as his scapegoat.

Everyone gathered around, An Lushan took the long wooden pole, and pointed to the north of Hedong: "Now there is the three-way army of the Northern Tang Dynasty in the east of the river, and the north is Yunzhou Daizhou is the Lei Wanchun Department, there are 15,000 troops, and there are fewer troops here, so there is no need to worry." ”

He moved to the south again, nodded heavily at Jinzhou, and said: "What I'm really worried about is that here, Jinzhou has deployed Li Siye's 50,000 Anxi army, these 50,000 people are Li Qing'an's elite army, in addition to them, there are 30,000 troops from Hexi and Longyou deployed in Jiangzhou, Luzhou and Zezhou, and there are more than 200,000 troops of Li Guangbi on the Henan side, and more importantly, we don't have boats to cross the river. ”

Speaking of this, An Lushan's eyes shot sharply at Cai Xide, Cai Xide lowered his head weakly, not daring to speak, An Lushan snorted heavily, and pointed the wooden pole to Taiyuan, and said to everyone: "Although Taiyuan has Guo Ziyi's 80,000 army, it is much easier to deal with than the Anxi army, so this time I decided to attack Taiyuan and strive to conquer Taiyuan within a month." ”

His gaze swept over everyone one by one, and finally ordered: "Our troops are divided into two routes, Li Guiren led 50,000 people from his headquarters to Fukou for the south road, feint to attack Luzhou, be sure to contain Li Siye's Anxi army for me, if his main force goes north to support Taiyuan, you will send troops to Luzhou Zezhou, burn and loot for me, and force Li Siye to go south." ”

He pointed to Jing Cheng with a wooden pole again, and said to Li Huaixian, Cai Xide and An Qingxu: "The three of you led the headquarters of 150,000 troops, and marched into Taiyuan, An Qingxu was the main general, Li Huaixian and Cai Xide were the left and right deputy generals, the southern attack was false, and your attack was real. ”

The crowd responded in unison: "Yes!" ”

"Good! Now each will return to rectify the soldiers and horses, and ten days later, the army will gather in Youzhou and officially start the army! ”

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The dust in Youzhou City was flying, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, a team of cavalry galloped outside the city, Tian Chengsi, Cai Xide, and An Qingxu each led their own soldiers to leave Youzhou City, and the atmosphere in the city that was soaked in a winter suddenly became tense, and many people realized that the big war was about to start.

In a bungalow in the south of the city, Ji Sheng is discussing with a middle-aged man about buying medicine, the middle-aged man's name is Wei Ruqun, a Han military doctor in the Yan army, thin and tall, he was originally the chief physician of a pharmacy in Youzhou, after the Miaoshou Huichun Tang incident last year, all the pharmacies in Youzhou City were implicated, the pharmacy where he was located was closed, the medicinal materials were forcibly requisitioned, and he himself was forcibly conscripted into the barracks as a military doctor.

Wei Ruqun was forcibly conscripted into the army at the age of forty, and he had no loyalty to An Lushan, coupled with the fact that there were many mountains in the Yan army, and the military discipline was not strict, everyone was thinking about looting and making a fortune, Wei Ruqun was also thinking about making a fortune, marrying his son and buying a house, and saving a sum of pension money for himself.

It's just that he is old and weak, and he has no chance to participate in the looting, so he can only rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, privately resell An Lushan's military wound medicine, usually sporadically sporadically sold to patients, risking being found to kill his head, and only saved three or four times in a few months, which made him very unhappy, and Ji Sheng was his first big customer, which made him doubly pleased, for fear that the business would not be negotiated.

"I have eight hundred pills in my hand, two hundred pairs of Jinchuang medicines, all of which are concocted with the best medicinal materials, if they are at market prices, these are worth at least three hundred guan, if Ji Gongzi can buy them together, I can be cheaper, two hundred and fifty guan, all of them will be sold to Ji Gongzi."

Ji Sheng took out two ingots of gold and said with a smile: "This is twenty taels of gold, give it to Mr., don't look for it." ”

Wei Ruqun was overjoyed, the other party actually gave gold, and it was twenty taels of gold, now gold and silver are the most scarce and precious things in Hebei, one or two silver or a piece of Anxi silver dollars on the black market can be exchanged for two pieces of money, the price of gold is more expensive, one or two pieces of gold can be exchanged for thirty pieces of money, especially large households, every household has a money cellar, thirty pieces of money weigh two hundred catties, you can't take it away at all, and you can't hide it, only exchange it for gold and silver.

Ji Sheng gave him twenty taels of gold, which may only be worth two hundred yuan in Chang'an, but it is worth six hundred yuan in Hebei, it seems that this person is not a businessman, why doesn't a businessman understand this?

But Wei Ruqun couldn't take care of it, these twenty taels of gold could save his family's life, he immediately accepted the gold, and shouted loudly: "Lu'er, bring the medicine bag for your father." ”

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(To be continued)