readx; The situation was just as Li Longji feared, a 20,000-strong Guanzhong Army rapid force, led by the general Deng Jingshan, penetrated straight into Hanzhong from the meridian road, and cut off the grain route of Gao Xianzhi's army in Xingdao County, and all the 30,000 stone grain to be transported was intercepted. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Guo Yingyi, the Taishou of Liangzhou and the queen of Hanzhong, was shocked when he heard the news, and on the one hand, he organized the people to defend Nanzheng City, and on the other hand, he urgently sent people to report to Gao Xianzhi and Ge Shuhan.

Early in the morning, Gao Xianzhi hurriedly came to Li Longji's imperial tent and said to several guards in front of the tent: "Please report to the saint quickly, I have something urgent to see." ”

Gao Xianzhi was extremely anxious in his heart, the Guanzhong army had already occupied Xingdao County and cut off his own grain route, if Guo Ziyi spread the news to his army, and then attacked in a big way after the food crisis, his army would be defeated, there is no doubt.

At the beginning, he strongly advocated leaving 50,000 troops to guard the rear, and they went north with 100,000 troops, and there was no need to divide the troops into two routes, but Li Longji refused, he thought that the 100,000 troops could not take Chang'an, and insisted that the whole army go north, leaving only a few thousand people to run grain and grass.

But in fact, they marched slowly, and temporarily changed the route of the march, resulting in the loss of the lead again and again, and finally the Chang'an army calmly laid out, making the valley mouth like an iron wall, how could they rush out?

Gao Xianzhi understood that even if they rushed out of the valley now, they were no match for others, and Li Qing'an's 70,000 Anxi iron cavalry was enough to sweep the Jiannan army, which was good at mountain warfare and was by no means an opponent of cavalry on the plains.

Now he only hopes that Li Longji will be clear about the grim situation in front of him, and will not lose his entire army for his own desires, and it will be difficult for him Li Longji to protect himself at that time.

After a while, the guards ran out and said, "Gao Shuai, the Holy Lord ordered you to go in!" ”

Gao Xianzhi walked into Li Longji's big tent quickly, at this time Li Longji was drinking a bowl of bird's nest porridge, Gao Xianzhi walked two steps quickly, knelt down on one knee and said: "Minister Gao Xianzhi See Your Majesty!" ”

Li Longji didn't raise his eyelids, and asked lightly, "What happened?" Did you decide to go on the offensive again? ”

"Your Majesty!" Gao Xianzhi said with some trepidation: "Nanzheng Guo Taishou has news that the 20,000 Guanzhong army has entered Hanzhong from the Meridian Road, and our grain route has been cut off, and Hanzhong is in danger." ”

"Bang!" With a bang, Li Longji threw the porridge bowl to the ground, and the porridge bowl was broken into pieces, and he reprimanded sharply: "I have asked you to attack Luogu Pass five times, just because I am worried that the grain road will be cut off, but you refuse, what do you say to wait for the opportunity, what about the time now?" Where is the timing? Is it your time that we are cut off and have no way out? ”

"Your Majesty is angry! Your Majesty is angry! ”

Gao Xianzhi was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, and explained desperately: "Feichen is unwilling to do his best, but the time and place are extremely unfavorable to our army, Guo Ziyi's army and our army are similar in strength, according to the Xiongguan, only 5,000 bows and crossbows can shoot back my 30,000 army, even if the minister leads the army to desperately capture the pass, it will also lose more than half of the army, and when it comes to Guanzhong, how can it resist Li Qingan's 70,000 Anxi cavalry, Your Majesty, this is the case, if it is not 500,000 male soldiers, it can't defeat Guanzhong!" ”

Gao Xianzhi mentioned Li Qing'an, which made Li Longji think of Ge Shuhan all of a sudden, he hated it even more in his heart, he hadn't fought a battle so far, and he secretly came to Li Qing'an, this Gao Xianzhi is still useful, you have to clean up that Ge Shuhan first, thinking of this, Li Longji's face turned slightly pale, and he sighed and said: "Forget it, the matter has come to this, it's useless for me to be angry, so what do you say to do now?" Fight or retreat? ”

Gao Xianzhi saw that he had finally persuaded Li Longji, and his heart was a little relieved, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister thought that Guo Ziyi would not attack us before we ran out of food and panicked, and now our food can still support five days, and it will take three days to return to Hanzhong from here, we should withdraw the army immediately, and we must also inform Ge Shuhan to withdraw the army, this is the best policy, Your Majesty will work hard after returning to Shuzhong, and wait for the ministers to train hundreds of thousands of male soldiers, and then go out of Qishan to capture Guanzhong for Your Majesty." ”

Li Longji pondered for a moment, and there was really no way, so he had to nod and say, "Okay!" I'll listen to you again. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a rumbling drum in the distance, which frightened Li Longji to stand up, "This, what's going on?" ”

A guard rushed to the scene and shouted loudly outside the tent: "Your Majesty, Guo Ziyi's army has withdrawn from Luogu Pass, and the banner of Luogu Pass has been lowered. ”

Li Longji was stunned at first, then overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "General Gao, this is an opportunity!" Guo Ziyi's army actually retreated. ”

Gao Xianzhi sighed secretly, this is not an opportunity, this is Guo Ziyi's bait, why doesn't the saint understand! He persuaded bitterly: "Your Majesty, the Guanzhong army occupies Xingdao County and cuts off our grain route, Guo Ziyi can not know, he should be waiting for the pillow soldiers now, waiting for us to mess up, but he retreated, indicating that he was also worried that we would withdraw to Hanzhong, so he deliberately gave up Luogu Pass to lure us to continue to go north, once we were fooled, we lost the opportunity to withdraw our troops, and the grain and grass did not continue, that is the moment of our defeat, Your Majesty, you can't go to Guo Ziyi's dang!" ”

Li Longji was full of joy, but he was splashed with cold water by Gao Xianzhi, his face suddenly sank, and he said extremely unhappily: "General Gao, there are all kinds of possibilities for everything, you are just guessing, besides, even if he is a plan to lure the enemy, don't we just want to enter Guanzhong?" After entering the customs, are you still worried about having no food? If even Guo Ziyi can't be defeated, what's the point of me entering the pass in the north, I have already decided, don't be in a hurry to withdraw the army, go to Luogu Pass to have a look first. ”

"Your Majesty!"

"Say no more!" Li Longji interrupted Gao Xianzhi's words and said strongly: "I have made up my mind, do you still want to fight against me again?" ”

Gao Xianzhi sighed, and had to say helplessly: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

This time, Li Longji made up his mind and no longer paid attention to Gao Xianzhi's pleas, and he forced Gao Xianzhi's army to enter Luogu Pass.

An hour later, the Jiannan army entered the Luogu Pass, which could not be attacked for a long time, and entered the Luogu Pass not to the Guanzhong, but to continue to walk north for one hundred and twenty miles before reaching Zhanwu County, which was regarded as entering the Guanzhong, and Guo Ziyi's army retreated north to Zhanwu County, giving up all the passes along the way.

Perhaps it was providence, on the day that the Jiannan Army entered Luogu Pass, the sky began to turn cloudy, dark and heavy clouds pressed down on the city, the north wind rose suddenly, and a rainstorm was coming.

It is extremely dangerous to encounter torrential rain in the mountain road, and it is very likely to encounter flash floods or mudslides, which will be a catastrophe for the army.

In the evening of the same day, a late summer rainstorm swept down the valley of the South Mountains, and the heavy rain poured down, washing away the cliffs and mud on both sides, and the sediment was caught in the flowing water, and the rainstorm fell overnight and day until noon the next day, when the rain gradually became lighter.

Li Longji was so anxious, he almost didn't sleep all night, looking at the sky with his eyes, although he was the Son of Heaven, but God didn't give his son a little face, and the rain frightened Li Longji very much.

But Gao Xianzhi was secretly happy, the timely arrival of the heavy rain can be said to be an eye-opener from heaven, which helped him a lot, in order to prevent Li Longji from going north, he secretly sent his own soldiers to brave the heavy rain overnight to go to the steep mountain road in front of him to carry out secret operations.

In the afternoon, the rain finally stopped, and a ray of sunlight came through the clouds, sprinkling the heat back onto the valley of Junnan, and the hot air steamed, and the just cool weather became muggy again.

But Li Longji was in a good mood, and he didn't even need to inform Gao Xianzhi, so he directly issued an order, "The whole army will speed up and arrive in Zhanwu County in the afternoon." ’

At this moment, Gao Xianzhi hurriedly came to report, "Your Majesty, the minister has urgent information!" ”

"What's the matter?"

"The scouts sent by the minister just came to report that there had been a landslide twenty miles ahead, and a large number of boulders and mud and sand blocked the road, making it difficult for the army to move forward."

This news clouded Li Longji's sunny mood again, making him very depressed, and he asked after a while: "To what extent is the road blocked?" How long does it take to clean up? ”

"Your Majesty, because the road is very narrow, it can only accommodate a maximum of 100 people to clean up, according to the scout's estimate, it will take 100 people to clean up for three days before the road can be passed, and it is unknown whether there are similar mud and rocks blocking the road ahead."

Li Longji pondered for a long time, glanced at Guo Ziyi suspiciously, and then said to Yang Guozhong behind him: "Since it is only twenty miles, Aiqing and I will go and take a look!" ”

Yang Guozhong hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Obey the order, the minister will accompany Your Majesty." ”

Gao Xianzhi did not dare to delay, and immediately arranged a team of 1,000 soldiers to escort Li Longji and Yang Guozhong to inspect the disaster, the mountain road was slippery and greasy, and it was difficult to walk, Li Longji sat on the sliding pole and asked the soldiers to carry him to the landslide, Yang Guozhong followed behind, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and slipped to the ground twice, covered with muddy water, embarrassed, he secretly scolded all the way, walked for more than an hour, and finally came to the valley landslide, here is a narrow passage up the mountain, which can only accommodate three people in parallel, this narrow road is three miles long.

Just in the middle of the mountain road, sure enough, there was a large amount of mud stuffed with the road that was more than 20 zhang long, hundreds of huge rocks rolled down from the top of the mountain, strictly blocked in the mountain road, there were more than 100 soldiers sent by Gao Xianzhi to clean up, Li Longji looked at it for a long time, the situation was more serious than Gao Xianzhi said, this landslide may not be cleaned up in three days, not to mention that there may be mud and rocks blocking the road ahead.

"Your Majesty, what can I do about this?" Yang Guozhong asked in a low voice on the side.

Li Longji sighed and said, "What can it be?" Since God won't let me enter the customs, I can only obey Heaven's will and go back! ”

Due to the cut off of the grain route, the grain and grass of the Jiannan army could only be supported for another four days, Li Longji had no choice but to finally order the withdrawal of the army, and in the afternoon of the same day, more than 90,000 Jiannan troops retreated to Hanzhong.

On the same day that Li Longji withdrew, the army of Geshuhan in Baoxidao also withdrew to the south, but their withdrawal was very sad, and many Longyou soldiers in the army cried loudly, they went south this time, and they did not know when they would be able to return to Longyou and reunite with their families.

Tears of grief were shed, so much so that thousands of rear soldiers escaped halfway through the withdrawal and fled back to Longyou.

At the beginning of July of the first year of Zhenzhi, due to the surprise attack of the Guanzhong army in Hanzhong, Li Longji's army was forced to retreat south, and the army returned to Hanzhong, Li Longji sealed Liangzhou Taishou Guo Yingyi as the envoy of Hanzhong, led an army of 20,000 to guard Hanzhong, he immediately led the army into Bashu, in August, Li Longji arrived in Chengdu, officially established a new court in Chengdu, and named Yang Guozhong as the right minister in the order and the secretary of the ministry, Chen Xilie as the left minister's subordinate and the military department, Yizhou Taishou Cui Yuan was named the household secretary, Yang Shenjin was the criminal department of the book, and Shuzhou was the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, these five people are the same as the book under the door of the Ping Zhang, forming the political hall.

Gao Xianzhi is still the king of Annan County and the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, and he is crowned with the three divisions of Kaifu Yi, and Ge Shuhan is renamed the king of Lianghu County and the envoy of Jiangnan Xidao Jiedu, and he is also crowned with the three divisions of Kaifuyi, in addition, Li Longji also named Li Mao, the king of Jing, as the Tai Lieutenant, and Li Lan, the king of Wu, as the Taibao, and ordered the two to enter Shu to meet him.

In September, Li Longji changed Chengdu to Shujing, set it as the new capital, and officially re-ascended the throne, so far, the confrontation between the north and the south of the Tang Dynasty was formed, the world called Chang'an the Northern Tang Dynasty, called Shujing the Southern Tang Dynasty, almost with the Yangtze River as the boundary, the Tang Empire was divided into two.

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(To be continued)