readx; An Lushan brought 3,000 people to watch the gunpowder test, these 3,000 people are his personal guards, but there are differences, of which 500 people are called inner guards, who are his personal guards, absolutely trustworthy, and can be guarded by his side when sleeping, and the other 2,500 people are called external guards, which can only be relatively trustworthy, and he can escort him in front of and behind his carriage when he goes out on patrol, but the distance from him must be fifty steps away. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Coming back from the gunpowder test site, the time is noon, taking a nap is An Lushan's habit of thunder can't move, generally have to sleep for an hour and a half, even if it is such a major event as discovering the secret of Tianlei, it can't stop An Lushan from taking a nap, the place to make gunpowder and the selection of gunpowder craftsmen, these things An Lushan handed over to Shi Siming to do, he himself snored like thunder in the car on the way back, the carriage returned to Youzhou City and stopped in front of his military office, dozens of soldiers carried the sleeping An Lushan into the house with rattan beds.

An Lushan took a nap, except for his five hundred inner guards who had to stand guard around the bedroom, the rest of the foreign soldiers went back to the barracks to have lunch and rest, An Lushan's military regulations are also very strict, soldiers only have one day off every half month, and it is strictly forbidden to go out of the barracks at night, and there is no task during the day, and they are not allowed to go out of the camp for a step, otherwise they will be severely punished by military regulations.

But the treatment of officers is slightly better, although they are not allowed to go out of the barracks at night, but they can find excuses to go out of the camp during the day, especially officers above the rank of captain, as long as it is not during the war, basically they can go out of the camp for an hour at noon and evening, go to drink and visit the Qinglou and the like, as long as they do not cause trouble, An Lushan will generally acquiesce.

An Lushan's maternal guards returned to the barracks, and several officers above the rank of lieutenant went out to drink, among them was a lieutenant named Chen Zhiming, but he said that he had a stomachache and did not go with him, and when the other officers left, Chen Zhiming went out to find a doctor to buy good medicine and left the camp.

Youzhou City is today's Yanjing, in the Tang Dynasty, it was the location of the Anton Protectorate, but also the location of the military office of the Fan Yang Jiedu envoy, after many years of operation in An Lushan, Youzhou City has become very prosperous and lively, especially preferential treatment of Hu people, a large number of Hu people poured into Youzhou City, so that half of Youzhou City are Hu people.

There is a pharmacy in the north of Youzhou City, called Miaoshou Rejuvenation Hall, which has several very powerful old famous doctors, so the business of the pharmacy is very prosperous, but in fact, this is the stronghold of Li Qing'an's internal guard in Youzhou.

Li Qing'an's internal guard is a new organization just established this year, in fact, it is the former intelligence agency, but now it has been expanded, he drew 10,000 elites from the army from all over the country, merged with the intelligence agency, and established a new internal guard, a total of 15,000 people, Nan Jiyun concurrently serves as the nominal internal security general, but in fact is directly responsible to Li Qing'an, there are two directors, the left general Hu Peiyun is in charge of the intelligence hall, 5,000 subordinates, distributed all over the country, in fact, it is the original broken leaf Han and Tang Society, and now the Han and Tang Dynasty will disappear, In the past, the rudders of the Han and Tang Dynasties were distributed all over the country, but now they have been changed to internal security intelligence branches.

The right general Qin Haiyang is in charge of the internal guard army, with 10,000 subordinates, and this 10,000 army can be called the most elite collection of the armies directly under Li Qingan, and they mainly cooperate with the intelligence hall to carry out various special tasks.

The information hall in Youzhou belongs to a first-class branch hall, under the jurisdiction of more than a dozen branches, distributed in Hebei Province, there are more than 400 members, most of them are covered by business, three religions and nine streams, and the headquarters is the Miaoshou Rejuvenation Hall.

Miaoshou Rejuvenation Hall has a history of 20 years in Youzhou, it is a well-known old brand, many years ago, even An Lushan also visited them for a doctor, and Li Qing'an's rise was only seven or eight years, so no matter what, people can't connect Miaoshou Rejuvenation Hall with Li Qing'an.

At noon, the flow of people in the Miaoshou Rejuvenation Hall is weaving, the people who come to see the doctor have formed a long queue from the morning, and by noon, the number of people has not decreased, but the number of people has increased, several people from the pharmacy carry the porridge bucket and the basket full of steamed buns, and began to distribute lunch to the people queuing up to see a doctor, each person has a bowl of porridge, two steamed buns, this is the rule of the Miaoshou Rejuvenation Hall, as long as the people who come to see the doctor, they will take care of a meal at noon, even if there are beggars mixed in to receive the meal, they don't care, it is a charity.

Captain Chen Zhiming hurriedly ran over with his stomach covered, he didn't line up, but slipped in through the small door next to him, attracting a lot of scolding.

Chen Zhiming entered the lobby of the pharmacy and gave a look to the shopkeeper Zhang who was greeting the patient, and the shopkeeper Zhang immediately put down what he was doing and walked towards the inner hall with Chen Zhiming, Zhang's shopkeeper is named Zhang Yue, more than fifty years old this year, he was the head of the Hebei Road branch of the Hantang Association at the earliest, and now he is the head of the Hebei Road branch of the Anxi Army Internal Guard Intelligence Hall, Zhang Yue is also a member of the Hidden Dragon Society, he only recognizes Li Qingan as the young master of the Hidden Dragon, and is the hope of realizing the great plan of the Hidden Dragon, as for whether it is the Hantang Association or the internal guard, it is not important to him.

Chen Zhiming is also a member of the Han and Tang Societies, as early as ten years ago, he joined the Han and Tang Societies, the Han and Tang Dynasties were not very well developed in the Fan Yang Army, due to An Lushan's reuse of the Hu people and the exclusion of the Han people, so the army has only developed less than two hundred members, Chen Zhiming is the leader of the Han and Tang Societies in the army, but the Han and Tang Societies have been turned into internal guards and few people know, and only a few core figures in the members of the Han and Tang Societies in Hebei Province know, and Chen Zhiming is also one of them.

The two walked into a quiet room in the inner hall and sat down, and Chen Zhiming said, "There is an extremely important piece of information, which must be reported to Chang'an immediately." ”

"What's the matter?"

"An Lushan has also made heavenly thunder, this morning in the northern suburbs of Lingyun Valley, I saw them test, the power is very great, the two-zhang high wooden frame was blown to pieces, An Lushan was ecstatic."

Chen Zhiming took another piece of white paper, briefly drew a sketch of the heavenly thunder he saw on it, and handed it to Zhang Yuedao: "Probably like this, I stand far away, and I can't see it very clearly." ”

Zhang Yue took the sketch, his brows furrowed, "How can this be?" ”

Of course, he knew what An Lushan's successful development of the Heavenly Thunder meant to the Anxi Army, and he asked urgently: "Who successfully developed the Heavenly Thunder?" ”

"It's a group of Taoist priests, I heard that it is a Taoist temple from Zhaozhou, there are more than a dozen Taoist priests, they have been regarded as guests by An Lushan, and they are strictly protected, and Shi Siming will set up a Tianlei camp to specialize in making Tianlei."

Zhang Yue pondered for a moment and said, "I will report this matter to Chang'an immediately, but I hope that our people can enter the Tianlei Camp, no matter how much it costs, they must do it." ”

"I know, I'll go get some medicine, I'll go back and find a way to arrange it, and I'll tell you how much it costs."

Chen Zhiming went out, Zhang Yue immediately took the silk paper dedicated to writing information, and took out a small book from his arms, this is the special code book of the Anxi Army, he used a thin pen, against the code book, wrote down two copies of information that no one could understand, and when the handwriting was dry, he carefully rolled it up, stuffed it into two small red letterboxes, got up and walked quickly to the backyard.

The backyard raised a cage of carrier pigeons, Youzhou City is very strict control of carrier pigeons, ordinary people are not allowed to raise, only to get the special approval of An Lushan, only allowed to raise carrier pigeons, Miaoshou Huichun Hall because it is a time-honored brand, and Fan Yangjun has a very good relationship, because Miaoshou Huichun Hall to buy medicine and cure diseases need to use carrier pigeons, so they got a special approval from An Lushan, allowed to raise carrier pigeons.

Zhang Yue took out two strong carrier pigeons from the pigeon cage, carefully buckled the letter on the pigeon's leg, he threw the carrier pigeon into the sky, and the two carrier pigeons fluttered and flew high in a daze, circling to the west.

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Chang'an City, at this time it was the sixth day of October, Li Siye's Anxi army returned to Xianyang the day before yesterday, Li Qing'an gave them a deadline of ten days, but they took Hanzhong in eight days, including six days on the road, with more than 1,500 casualties, but killed more than 4,000 enemy soldiers and captured 20,000 people.

This glorious battle, Li Qing'an did not block the news, but also specially ordered people to promote, this battle immediately caused a sensation in Chang'an, many Chang'an people did not even know that the 40,000 Anxi army stationed in Xianyang went to Hanzhong, eight days, and took Hanzhong, this is simply incredible, but it really happened, suddenly, all kinds of praise overwhelmingly flew to the Anxi army and Li Siye, the first army in the world, General Fei, the invincible god warrior army and so on.

At the suggestion of Li Qing'an, the political affairs hall specially issued a decree to reward the 40,000 Anxi army, reward 800,000 yuan, 200,000 silk horses, and pay heavy armor for the deceased soldiers, and promote 36 meritorious generals, among which Li Siye was named the champion general, the upper protection army, Gaochang County Gong, rewarded 10,000 silk horses, Zhao Chongjie was named the general of Yunlu, Jinchang County Bo, awarded the purple gold fish bag, and rewarded 3,000 silk horses.

Li Qingan also specially ordered that all the officers and men of the Anxi Army have a three-day holiday and allow them to enter Chang'an for entertainment, and for a time, Chang'an City became a sea of lively joy.

On this afternoon, Li Qing'an handled military affairs in the barracks outside the city as usual, and he just got the news that due to the loss of Hanzhong, Li Heng had ordered the withdrawal of troops from Jingzhou, and the 200,000 Jiannan Army was already on the way to withdraw to Bashu, but this did not mean that Li Heng would counterattack Hanzhong, Li Qing'an knew Li Heng very well, and he would never dare to fight on two fronts when he did not annex Li Mao, and declared war on Chang'an.

These days he is already thinking about using troops against An Lushan, Li Qingan knows that An Lushan's rebellion is inevitable in history, even if he kills An Lushan, his generals will take over his class and become Zhang Lushan, Shi Lushan and the like, but the Tang Dynasty has changed the direction of history because of his arrival, and there will be no more tragedy of the defeat of Tongguan and the fall of Chang'an, but he is not just satisfied with this, he wants to suppress An Lushan's rebellion in Hebei Province as much as possible, and to minimize the casualties of ordinary people, so that when An Lushan's rebellion is extinguished, In order to make Hebei Province recover as soon as possible, it will not become a turning point in the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty like the Anshi Rebellion in history.

To this end, he launched a large-scale migration, trying to move the people of Hebei Province out, and so far more than 400,000 households have been relocated, although it is less than half of the household registration in Hebei Province, but it has also greatly reduced the losses caused by An Lushan's rebellion.

It was already October, and by the end of November, the Yellow River would freeze, and the threat of An Lushan's army to Henan Province would be greatly strengthened, so Li Qing'an was considering increasing his troops in Henan Province.

At this time, a report from the soldiers came from outside the tent, "Report, General Hu of the internal guard urgently asks to see you!" ”

Hu Peiyun's urgent request to see must have happened to a big event, so he put away his official duties and ordered: "Let him in!" ”

After a while, Hu Peiyun hurriedly walked in, knelt down on one knee and saluted the first army to report: "My subordinates have urgent information to report to the general." ”

"Get up and speak!"

Hu Peiyun stood up and said, "My subordinates have just received urgent information from Youzhou, and An Lushan has developed a heavenly thunderbolt. ”

Li Qingan was taken aback, "Is this news exact?" ”

Hu Peiyun nodded, "It should be true, some of us witnessed An Lushan's thunder test. ”

Saying that, he handed a piece of translated information to Li Qing'an, Li Qing'an took the information with a solemn expression, this is actually what he is most worried about, An Lushan will also use gunpowder, gunpowder is not invented by him Li Qing'an, it was invented by alchemists as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but for a long time, people did not think of using it in the military, until the end of the Tang Dynasty It was finally used in the military, he Li Qing'an just used gunpowder in advance to the military, but this is like opening a door, no matter how tight, It can't stop the flow of air, as long as An Lushan has a heart, he will sooner or later find out that the thunder of the Anxi army is gunpowder, in fact, An Lushan does have a heart, he publicly offered a reward of ten thousand times to crack the secret of the thunder, under the heavy reward, someone will definitely raise the possibility of gunpowder.

Li Qing'an's plan was to exterminate An Lushan before he discovered gunpowder, but people were not as good as heaven, and An Lushan still discovered the secret of gunpowder at a critical moment.

Li Qing'an opened the information and hurriedly browsed it, and from the description of the intelligence and the artillery battle patterns, he immediately judged that An Lushan's gunpowder development was still in its infancy, and without two or three years of technology accumulation, it was impossible for them to develop such a super weapon as the earth-shaking thunder.

He pondered for a moment, and then said to Hu Peiyun: "You sent an order to Hebei, and ordered the people of the Hebei branch to find out the detailed information about the enemy's gunpowder development at all costs, especially those Taoist priests, and to find out their old roots. ”

Hu Peiyun understood Li Qing'an's intentions, he wanted to kill those Taoist priests, so he said cautiously: "General, I am worried that the recipe of Taoist priests must have been taught to An Lushan's military, and it may be useless to kill them." ”

"Nope! You don't understand. ”

Li Qingan sneered and said: "In fact, the formula is very simple, it is all in the Dan book, the key is the understanding and perception of gunpowder, as well as the accumulation of technology, I believe that since these Taoist priests are for money, they will not easily say their technical accumulation and perception of gunpowder, this is very important, even more than the formula, killing these Taoist priests can at least greatly delay An Lushan's development of gunpowder technology." ”

"Then I'll give an order and let the Hebei branch do it."

Li Qing'an still shook his head, "I don't need them to do it, I will send my First Falcon Battalion to let the Hebei Branch get detailed information as soon as possible, and in addition, let them find out how many Taoist temples in Hebei are good at alchemy, this is also very important, you go and carry out my order." ”

"Yes! Obedience. ”

Hu Peiyun left in a hurry, and at this time, Li Qingan ordered again: "Order Qin Haiyang to come to see me quickly." ”

Qin Haiyang is the head of the Anxi Scout Army, the current general of the Right Internal Guard, in charge of 10,000 Internal Guard Army, the military camp is in Baqiao, east of Chang'an, he received an urgent order from Li Qing'an, and hurried to the military camp.

He walked into the big tent, gave a military salute and said, "The last general, Qin Haiyang, see the general." ”

"General Qin, I have a task for you, the stakes are very high, I hope you will make a trip in person."

Qin Haiyang knew that if Li Qingan wanted him to go out in person, it would mean that this task was extraordinary, but he did not hesitate to say: "Please give the order of the general!" ”

Li Qingan nodded and said, "You can lead my First Falcon Battalion to Youzhou, and your mission is in this letter." ”

Li Qingan handed a handwritten letter to Qin Haiyang, Qin Haiyang took the envelope and put it away, and said, "Please give the name to the general!" ”

This is the practice of the Anxi Army, any special military action, there will be a name, Li Qingan pondered for a while, and said: "This operation, it is called Operation Falcon!" ”

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(To be continued)