Yan Zhuang and Gao Shang followed An Lushan into the council hall, and in the center of the hall was a shrine with a statue of Ahura Mazda, the god of Zoroastrianism, on the shrine, which was called the god of Zoroastrianism.

An Lushan first respectfully put three pillars of incense in front of the god of Zoroastrian, bowed down, and the solemn and noble two also followed him to worship.

He turned around and sat on the tiger skin on the bearded bed, his legs spread across the golden knife horse, and he looked much more majestic than a mountain carving.

"Tell me, how to deal with Li Siye? I can't let him just sit down in the position of the envoy of the festival. ”

Yan Zhuang stepped forward and said: "Doctor, Li Linfu died of illness, leaving an empty position of right minister. Now the saint especially favors Yang Guozhong, and he must appoint Yang Guozhong as the right minister. The doctor might as well send a letter to a trustworthy person in the capital and ask him to help find out Yang Guozhong's heart. ”

An Lushan shook his head and said, "Where do you start with this?" This Li Siye has always had a good relationship with the Yang family, and now he is in the honeymoon period with Yang Guozhong, how can he deal with Li Siye with us? ”

"Doctor, as the so-called time is also at this time, Yang Guozhong didn't deal with Li Linfu before, so he secretly colluded with Li Siye and us, and now Li Linfu is dead. The last thing he wanted was for the wings of these people below him to harden and form a climate. If Li Siye became the envoy of the Hexi Festival, then he would slowly form this climate. Therefore, we should test Yang Guozhong's reaction, and if he is dissatisfied with Li Siye, we will provoke it and let him, the prime minister, help us deal with Li Siye. ”

"Then," Gao Shang added, following Yan Zhuang's words, "Then we watched the play from the side, watching him bite back and forth between Yang Guozhong and the Northwest Domain, and we just gathered our strength and waited for the time to come." ”

"Hahaha," An Lushan laughed proudly with this beard, and then pulled his beard and said loudly: "The emperor's old man has not lived for a few years, in order to gain his loyalty, Lao Tzu offended his son and offended the whole court." Once he kicked his legs to the west, Lao Tzu did not serve Li Heng Xiao'er, and directly led his troops south to seize his Tang court. ”

Gao Shang nodded secretly and stroked his beard, but Yan Zhuang stood aside and was secretly worried. That being said, you can fight for us a little bit, don't even be a bad old man.

"Master Yan, this letter will be written by you, and I will write it to Brother Jiwen, who is now in Chang'an, and tell him that if the errand is done, I will recommend him in front of the saint to be the squire of the military department and the middle of the imperial history."

Yan Zhuang replied with his crossed hands: "Oh! ”

An Lushan stroked his bulging belly and laughed proudly, and his squinted eyes shot a cold and greedy light, as if everything was under control.

……

In the corridor hall in front of the gate of Wuwei City, Liangzhou Mansion, the envoys of the Eighth Army under the command of the Hexi Jiedu envoy gathered together in anticipation, waiting for the new Jiedu envoy Li Siye to come.

The Eighth Army of Hexi was dominated by the Chishui Army, with 33,000 troops in charge, and Li Guangbi was the current military envoy. Nearly sixty percent of the Chishui Army were cavalry, which was the main combat force under the command of the Hexi Jiedu envoy. Like the rest of the Great Dou Army envoy Li Chengguang, Ning Kou Army envoy Wang Rare, Yumen Army envoy Yang Pre and others, there are only a few thousand soldiers and horses under his command.

These few people, mainly Li Guangbi and Sima Tian Liangqiu of Liangzhou, chatted around the two of them and inquired about the interests and hobbies of the new Hexi Jiedu envoy.

"Don't ask, I don't know much about this kind of thing, I only know that this Doctor Li is now concurrently serving as the Three Towns, and most of the troops in the entire Longyou Dao are concentrated in his hands."

"Dare to ask Envoy Li, how is this Doctor Li's army?"

Li Guangbi asked rhetorically: "Are you asking about his rewards and punishments, or about his battles?" ”

"Naturally, you have to ask both points."

"If you ask him if he is strict in his rewards and punishments, I don't know. But if you ask him about his conquest, according to my own analysis, Li Siye's conquest ability is far better than that of Dr. Ge Shuhan and Dr. An Sishun, and even better than Gao Xianzhi. may not be on par with the late General Wang. ”

Sima Tian Liangqiu smiled slightly, and asked Li Guangbi with a bit of deep meaning in his words: "It seems that Li Junenvoy has a lot of respect for this Doctor Li." ”

"I don't dare to say it, but Guangbi is a soldier idiot, and he loves to deduce battle formations in his life. I also used to recite the marching chronicles of Cen Shen, the secretary of the Anxi Jiedu envoy, and rehearsed countless classic battles of Dr. Li on the sand table, such as the Battle of Thirsty City, the Battle of Kangju City, and the Battle of the Kizilkum Desert with the Governor of Khorasan and Posilin. He is good at commanding long-distance raids with one man and one camel horse, and in the confrontation of battle formations, the infantry phalanx is positive, and the cavalry phalanx is surprising. The cavalry harassed the enemy from both flanks, forcing the enemy to speed up the attack, and as soon as the cavalry withdrew, the enemy entered the shooting range of the infantry phalanx......"

When a soldier talks about fighting, there is naturally no room for others to intervene. But few of the people around were able to listen.

"Look, it's coming!"

Everyone pointed over with the gesture of one of them, only to see several flags rising on the gradually undulating ground in the distance, the silver sword officer in the front was wearing silver step back armor, and appeared in their field of vision with the jump of the war horse, followed by the Yu Hou holding the door, and the horizontal blowing team on both sides was also wearing bright armor. The six-sided crimson daxu in the rear is fiercely displayed in the west wind, and Dr. Li is wearing a copper-colored mountain armor in the shadow of these dajiu.

Although it was still far away, their eyes had already caught the sturdy figure riding a black horse.

When the brigade came to their front, all the staff configurations of Jiedu's subordinates appeared in front of them, Cheng Qianli, the deputy envoy of Jiedu, Du Fu, the secretary of Hexi, Tian Zhen, and Cheng Yuanzhen.

The military envoys hurriedly walked out of the pavilion, knelt on one knee on both sides of the road, and said with crossed hands: "The generals of Hexi see the doctor!" ”

Li Siye pinched the horsewhip and raised his hand, the whole team stopped in place, his gaze swept over the faces of these Hexi military envoys, and his expression did not change at all.

"They all stand up and speak, which one is Li Guangbi, the envoy of the Chishui Army?"

The military envoys stood up from the ground, and Li Guangbi stepped forward and crossed his hands and said, "The subordinate is Li Guangbi." ”

"Very good, you and the military envoys get on the horse and lead the way in front, and we will go to your Chishui army camp to patrol the military formation."

"Whoa."

Li Guangbi turned over and mounted his horse at the forefront, and the rest of the envoys followed behind him, guiding the Jiedu envoy team to the west side of Wuwei City.

The Chishui Army was divided into three armies, left, center, and right, and the left and right armies were cavalry, which were stationed in the West Camp and the East Camp outside Wuwei City respectively.

Li Guangbi had long been ready to accept the parade of the Jiedu envoys, and all the cavalry on the left and right were dressed in armor outside the camp wall, and one man and two horses were waiting in formation.

Before the guard of honor arrived at the army, Li Siye rode out of the horse team, and ordered Cheng Qianli, the deputy envoy of Jiedu, to be on his left rear side, Li Guangbi on the right rear side, and the rest of the people were divided into three columns to follow behind them, marching slowly from the front of the cavalry divided into a phalanx, and finally starting to have the addiction of military parade.

His mood at the moment was surging with excitement. The 70,000 sons of Hexi are the size of the group army, and it looks more visually striking than the small formation of the Anxi and Beiting armies, all the cavalry are carrying the cavalry behind them, and when the west wind blows, the red flags are all waved towards one side, and thousands of flags are stacked on top of each other.

The first phalanx of cavalry was the mounted cavalry, and the horses were draped with horse armor, and the cavalrymen were dressed in uniform light armor, and the skirt armor was like scales overlapping in reverse directions, shining silver. They held the lance upwards in their hands, the blade pointing straight to the sky, and the red tassels fluttered in the wind like flames. If you want to arm such a heavy cavalry, the money spent should be a huge amount of billion, and only the Chishui Army has such 600 heavy cavalry in the entire Hexi Army.

Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Army's military tactical thinking has changed, and it no longer attaches importance to mounted cavalry, but favors light cavalry that is fast, flexible, mobile, and good at riding and shooting. It was also a transition from the aristocratic military clique to the plebeian class. Including the spear heavy fine version of the horse lance also began to be funded by the imperial court, these 600 heavy cavalry seems to be a tribute to the old era.