readx; The blazing distress beacon fire in the night sky alarmed the Shangdang camp, Li Guiren sent the general Ashina Congli to lead the army to rescue Changzi County, when Ashina Congli led 10,000 cavalry to Changzi County, the Northern Tang Army had gone away, the battle had stopped, Ashina Congli saw a bloody scene like a slaughterhouse, the county was covered with more than 5,000 corpses of Khitan soldiers inside and outside the county, the heads had been cut off, and the blood flowing out of the neck cavity stained the earth red, because there were no residents in the county, in broad daylight, the whole county became a ghost town-like dead silence, Not a single living person, not even a wounded one. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Flocks of crows circled in the sky, making a piercing quacking, and although Ashina was numb to the sight of the dead, the bloody scene in front of him still made him feel a burst of creep.

"Is there a live mouth?" Ashina asked sharply.

A lieutenant bowed down and said: "General Hui, not a single one is alive, all of them have been killed, there are 5,340 people registered, and we have counted 5,330 corpses, only ten people are missing." ”

"Damn it, no prisoners of war!"

Ashina gritted his teeth and said, but he forgot that they themselves did not leave prisoners of war, which was the revenge of the Tang Army against them.

Ashina is about forty years old, burly, full of meat, he looks very vicious, he is a Turkic of the bone department, seven years ago led thousands of people to defect to An Lushan, An Lushan immediately congratulated the imperial court for him, saying that he killed the nomads who were preparing to invade the south, Li Longji did not distinguish between the true and the false, and immediately named him Quy Nhon general, rewarded purple gold fish bag.

Because of his strong martial arts and brave combat, he has always been deeply appreciated by An Lushan, but he lacks qualifications and has not been able to read to become a general.

Ashina is ruthless and ruthless, like other Beihu people, he regards the Han people as pigs and sheep, this An Lushan rebellion, he robbed a lot of wealth, and the women alone robbed hundreds of people.

The 5,000 Khitans in Changzi County, which the Tang army attacked this time, were not his subordinates, but belonged to An Shouzhong's rear army, because An Shouzhong returned to Zhaozhou to escort grain, Li Guiren ordered him to rush to help, but he didn't expect to see such a tragic scene.

At this time, a squad of cavalry rushed up, and an officer on his horse arched his hand and said: "General, we have found the surviving soldiers." ”

Ashina was in good spirits, and he hurriedly asked, "Where is it, bring it to me." ”

In a moment, ten Khitan soldiers were led up, led by a team leader, they came to Ashina Congli, knelt down and cried loudly, team is wiping tears and said: "Our brother was killed too badly, please be the master for us!" ”

Ashina Congli was upset by their cries, and scolded with a finger of the horsewhip: "Damn, what is there to cry about, get up and talk to me!" ”

The ten soldiers didn't dare to cry anymore, and Ashina asked them with a calm face, "How did you survive?" ”

The leader of the team is saluting and said: "General Bao, we are a patrol on the periphery, patrolling in the southern area, and on the way back to the city, we saw the attack of the Tang army, and we hid in the woods, so we were spared. ”

"Then let me ask you again, how many people are in the Tang Army?"

"About 10,000 or so, all cavalry, very fierce, I saw with my own eyes hundreds of brothers escaped from the camp, ready to flee into the woods on our side, but were caught up by the Tang cavalry, cut off the heads with a knife, some brothers knelt down and surrendered, and were also ruthlessly killed by the Tang army, they did not accept prisoners at all."

Speaking of this, the team seemed to see the situation of last night again, he was trembling with fear, Ashina Congli was extremely resentful, but he had no choice but to order: "Bury the body on the spot and return to the party!" ”

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Li Siye's victory brought great excitement to the morale of the Tang army, annihilating more than 5,000 enemy troops, and only more than 300 people were killed or wounded, this brilliant victory undoubtedly gave the Tang army great self-confidence, Li Qing'an immediately ordered to record merit with a head, each head was rewarded with 30 heads, and the soldiers who participated in the battle did not get the head were also rewarded with 5 points, for a time, Li Siye's subordinates were full of jubilation, which made other soldiers extremely envious.

In the big tent, hundreds of senior generals above the lieutenant general of the Anxi Army gathered together, Li Siye told Li Qing'an and other generals about the situation of this night battle, and the difference from last night was that Li Siye found that Li Guangbi was also present, which made him a little stunned, because Li Guangbi came from Changping Pass, must have passed through Changzi County, they did not meet on the road, although he was surprised, but Li Siye still continued to describe the battle situation last night to everyone.

"We were discovered by the other party when we were two hundred steps away from the opponent's military camp, if according to the training of our Anxi army, the enemy army is a hundred steps away, the soldiers must go out of the tent and line up, the bow and crossbow army has been deployed, but the situation I encountered is not like this at all, the Khitan soldiers did not sleep with the armor, many people were naked, these are nothing, more importantly, I found that the Yan army has no experience in night fighting, or has never had night combat training, the enemy army in the camp may not be prepared, but the Khitan army in the city is full body armor, The market was defeated in the last battle, and it was obviously not suitable for night fighting, which I think is a major weakness of the Yan army, and we might as well make full use of this weakness of the Yan army. ”

At this time, Li Qingan saw that Li Guangbi seemed to have something to say, so he smiled and said, "Does Guangbi have any different opinions?" Please speak! ”

Li Guangbi only arrived two hours earlier than Li Siye's army to report the military situation to Li Qing'an, he did come from Changzi County, but did not pass through the county seat, but led a thousand guards to bypass from 30 miles south of the county seat, and did not find that Li Siye had attacked Changzi County.

However, he did not approve of some of Li Siye's explanations, and when he saw Li Qing'an allowing him to speak, he got up and arched his hand to Li Siye and smiled: "First of all, I want to congratulate General Siye on his first miraculous achievement, killing 5,000 enemies, which greatly improved the morale of the Tang army. ”

Li Siye and Li Guangbi belong to the same level, Li Siye is the governor of Hezhong, and Li Guangbi is the governor of Tocharo, both are important forces in Anxi, after Li Qing'an left Anxi to the east, they had secretly competed with the envoy of Anxi Jiedu, although in the end Feng Changqing won, but their relationship is not the intimate unity that outsiders think, on the surface the relationship is very good, but secretly there is competition with each other.

Li Siye returned the salute with his fists and said in a deep voice: "Please advise General Guangbi!" ”

"I don't dare to advise, I just think that the Yan army stationed in Changzi County is not good at night fighting, but it does not mean that all Yan troops are not good at night fighting, you know, the Yan army stationed in Changzi County are all Khitans, and they are the Hu army that supports An Lushan, not the Fan Yang army of An Lushan, I think it is a bit premature to conclude that the Yan army is not good at night fighting."

Li Siye's face gradually sank, obviously showing a kind of unhappiness, he heard Li Guangbi's words, saying that he was just an excuse, his implication was to ridicule himself, and he was saying, isn't it just to kill five thousand Khitans, and he is not a regular army, so he can use such a swagger? This is his territory, and mocking him in front of so many of his subordinates is obviously not giving him face.

Li Siye arched his hand and said coldly: "How does General Guangbi know that it's not?" Could it be that General Guangbi and the Yan army had a large-scale night battle? I don't think so! One winter, I saw General Guangbi coming and going on the frozen Yellow River, and finally retreated to Henan Province, and we still counted on the Longyou army to take Wei Bo and kill Tian Chenghei's army back to Youzhou! ”

Li Guangbi is indeed a little unaccustomed to Li Siye's big blowing, but when he succeeded in sneaking up on thousands of Khitans, he was ashamed to say that the Yan army was not good at night fighting, as if he had become the main general of the attack on An Lushan, which made Li Guangbi extremely unaccustomed to it, and although Li Siye was the governor of Hezhong, the big food battles in the river were all fought by Li Qing'an, Li Siye had never fought a battle at all, and he took advantage of Li Qing'an in vain, so he thought he was the nemesis of the big cannibal, and boasted that he was the second person in Anxi in the court, which made Li Guangbi extremely disgusted.

He saw Li Siye ridiculing himself in public for crossing the Yellow River several times, but did not say that this was a major strategic deployment, he couldn't help but be furious in his heart, and was about to refute it, but when he saw Li Qing'an looking at him coldly, Li Guangbi had to hold his breath back to his heart, and without saying a word, he bowed his hand to Li Siye and sat down.

There was silence in the big tent, and everyone could hear that there was some kind of contradiction between the two generals, although their main general was indeed a little carried away, but after all, this was Li Siye's place, and most of the big tent were Li Siye's subordinates, Li Guangbi's provocation was undoubtedly provoked in public, but Li Qing'an sat on it, and no one dared to say anything, including Wei Boyu, the deputy general who participated in the sneak attack, he was even more angry in his heart, he wanted to get up and angrily reprimanded Li Guangbi, but he was stopped by Xi Yuanqing and whispered to him: "Pay attention to your identity!" ”

Wei Boyu glanced at Li Qing'an, he didn't dare to say anything, of course the contradiction between the two main generals will be reconciled by Li Qing'an, whoever jumps out now will be the scapegoat.

After a while, Li Qingan said coldly: "I was still saying yesterday that we can take advantage of the contradiction between Li Guiren and Li Huaixian, but I didn't expect that there were two Li Guiren and Li Huaixian in my army today, I don't know if this is An Lushan's luck or I, Li Qingan, have no way to lead the troops, or do I want to buy wine to make amends for the two of you, do you need it?" Come on, set me a drink! ”

Li Siye and Li Guangbi knelt down on one knee at the same time, and Li Siye pleaded guilty to Li Qing'an: "Despicable and arrogant and ignorant, I have the high hopes of the general, and I am willing to be punished to appease the anger of the general." ”

Li Guangbi also said: "Ignoring the overall situation and having selfish thoughts, I am also willing to be punished by the general, please calm the general's anger." ”

Li Qingan waved his hand and said to everyone: "It's late at night, let's go back!" ”

Everyone stood up one after another, saluted Li Qing'an, and left the big tent, and Li Qing'an said to Li Siye and Li Guangbi: "You also go back, I want to be quiet alone." ”

The two had no choice but to give a salute and go out, but despite this, the two still did not reconcile in front of Li Qingan, nor did they speak, so they left separately.

Li Qingan looked at the two of them walking away, and couldn't help shaking his head, they have all achieved this level of high-ranking officials, and both of them are still like stunned young people, and they don't know how to make superficial things at all, which makes him feel a little disappointed.

Especially Li Guangbi, although he is right, the Khitan people can't fight at night doesn't mean that Fan Yangjun can't fight at night, it's this truth, but he can say it to himself in private, but he prefers to make him unable to step down in front of Li Siye's so many subordinates, Li Qingan doesn't believe that he doesn't even know the most basic way of behaving in the world, which can only show that Li Guangbi has a deep prejudice against Li Siye.

Li Qingan slowly walked out of the tent with his hands behind his back, the moonlight was bright outside, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on his face, reflecting the elusive depth in his eyes.

Frankly speaking, he knows better than anyone the contradictions between these generals under him, and he clearly remembers the unconcealable joy in Li Siye's eyes when he transferred Duan Xiushi back to Guannei Dao as a punishment, and the relationship between Duan Xiushi and Feng Changqing was also not harmonious, after Feng Changqing replaced Duan Xiushi, the first thing was to purge some of the favorite generals promoted by Duan Xiushi.

In fact, Li Qing'an knows better than anyone that the culprit of the contradictions between these generals is him Li Qing'an himself, and the position of the envoy of Anxi Jiedu is still vacant, and he once said when he left Anxi that he would choose one of the generals in Anxi to take over his position as envoy of Anxi Jiedu.

The main generals of Anxi, Duan Xiushi of Broken Leaves, Feng Changqing of Xinde, Li Guangbi of Tocharo, Li Siye of Hezhong, Cui Qianyou of Beiting, and Lifei Shouyu of Hexi, these six generals are likely to take his place, but it is his procrastination that makes a competitive situation gradually emerge between these six people, coupled with some contradictions between them, so that there is a rift of mutual competition and mutual distrust between these six people.

It should be said that this is Li Qing'an's deliberate behavior, and before he finds a good way to prevent the division of the feudal town, he can't let one person dominate, and he can't let the relationship between these six people be too close, especially in distant Anxi, due to space constraints, the imperial court's control over the army is still relatively weak after all.

According to his plan, in the future, he will let Li Siye guard the river, let Li Guangbi guard Tocharo, let Feng Changqing guard Broken Leaves, and let Li Fei Shouyu guard Xinde, Li Qing'an thought of the way is to rotate every two years and send the imperial history to supervise the army, but this is not enough, but also to let the generals have contradictions, so that they will supervise each other and not buy each other, just like when Ge Shuhan told Li Longji to recruit private soldiers.

As a leader, what you fear most is the unity and harmony of your subordinates, and this has been the case since ancient times.

"General, I'm worried about the two of you!" Staff member Wei Qingping walked up to him and smiled.

Li Qingan smiled and said: "It's nothing, the relationship between the two of them has always been bad, and I won't mind if there is a little conflict." ”

Wei Qingping sighed and said: "I only now understand why the general must come to Hedong and personally command the battle, and only the general can suppress them and coordinate the cooperation between them, otherwise, the consequences will be very serious!" ”

"Yes! Although I believe that they will not ignore each other, there will definitely be problems in cooperation, if Li Guangbi is surrounded, Li Siye will be irreparably defeated as long as he arrives an hour late, so I must rush to command in person. ”

Li Qing'an said this, and smiled at Wei Qingping: "This is also a science to be the boss, don't look at them are not convinced by each other now, it seems that the contradiction is very sharp, but as long as I deal with it properly, the contradiction between them will become a driving force and let them compete with each other, didn't Li Siye kill the five thousand people in Changzi County today?" Tomorrow I will also give Li Guangbi a chance to cut off Li Quy Nin's grain and grass. ”

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(To be continued)