Datang's rice does not support idlers, and Datang's nobles will not be left to those who have ill-intentioned and wolf ambitions, nor will they be left to those wastes who only want to eat and wait for death.

After the end of the court meeting, the old nobles who had been neglected and suppressed for four or five years, did not participate in the rebellion, and were not completely abolished, were retained by Li Chun.

Here, they obtained a situation from Li Chun's mouth that made them extremely happy, Li Chun was ready to use the rebel forbidden army recruits as the main source, follow the model and standards of the Changying army, enjoy the treatment of the forbidden army, and rebuild the East Palace.

And these old nobles who have existed since the founding of the Tang Dynasty will become the actual commanders and managers of the six rates of the East Palace.

The total number of the Fourth Army of the Northern Ya, which is now the main force of the Tang Field Corps, exceeds 100,000, and the number of the 12 guards of the Southern Ya, which is the main guard force of Guanzhong and the mobile force of the imperial court, also exceeds 80,000.

Although the six rates of the East Palace are only the size of the six regiments of the forbidden army, with a number of about 30,000 people, they cannot be compared with the Fourth Army of the Northern Ya and the Twelve Guards of the Southern Ya, but they are still excited.

The glory of the founding period, the desolation of the Wuhou period, the decadence of the Xuanzong period, the degeneration after Anshi, and the loneliness of the Taishang Emperor period......

After experiencing glory and heroism, vicissitudes and sorrows, these nobles who have been inherited from the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the present day have once again mastered the military power.

For them, this is considered bitter and sweet, and they can see the moon when the clouds are open.

The Emperor Taishang weakened and suppressed, but did not kill them all, which itself has a strong political connotation, but after nearly a hundred years of decline, not everyone in the family of the old nobles can understand the deep meaning of this.

The Tang Dynasty established the country with martial arts, honored with martial arts, and noble because of martial arts.

For military generals, it is not a problem to be flamboyant, arrogant, and domineering, but the premise is that they can win the battle, and as long as they can win in the face of a strong enemy, everything is not a problem.

And the dish is the original sin!

If you forget the foundation of your foothold and lose your ability to take care of your family, then you can live honestly by relying on the legacy of your ancestors.

Being a bear and being dishonest is the way to die.

Fortunately, not all the old nobles have forgotten that they are martial artists, and not everyone has forgotten their housekeeping skills.

Of course, what is more important is that when the Emperor Taishang was still there, all the departments of the forbidden army, whether it was Guo Rong, Zhang Qiyi and other commanders of the four armies, or the other twelve generals, either followed the Emperor Taishang's East Palace to the bottom, or was promoted to the end of Weimo by the Emperor Taishang, or the Emperor Taishang like Guo Rong had the grace of knowing things.

In essence, these people can be regarded as the emperor's own descendants, so the emperor does not need to worry about the loyalty of the forbidden army at all.

The forbidden army left by his father Li Yu was strong and loyal, and the generals of the forbidden army left by Li Yu were loyal and capable, but for Li Chun, these people were not his hands after all, and they could not be like Li Chen's command.

As an emperor, like Li Tang's former emperors Taizong, Gaozong, Empress Wu, and Xuanzong, Emperor Taishang understood that his son Li Chun also preferred to have a private army of his own 100% outside the forbidden army.

More importantly, Li Chun needed such an independent army of soldiers and horses to be stationed in Chang'an, so as to form a relationship of checks and balances with the forbidden army.

As for the Emperor Taishang, in a sense, the new forbidden army of the Four Armies and the Twelve Guards, which had a higher degree of recognition of the Emperor's edict, was equivalent to the Emperor's private soldiers, and this was also the fundamental reason why the Emperor dared to hand over the power to Li Chun.

Of course, this relationship of checks and balances has nothing to do with trust.

Originally, some things were still in confusion, and no one dared to rashly guess the unfathomable Emperor Taishang's thoughts and purposes.

However, as Emperor Taishang took the initiative to hand over the military power to Li Chun and left Chang'an in person, Li Chun naturally understood that these old nobles who still had a certain amount of ability were the most valuable wealth left to him by his father outside of the forbidden army and courtiers.

In order to ensure the stability of this relationship of checks and balances, Li Chun, after summoning the old nobles and accepting the gifts left by his father, summoned the children of the clan who served in the forbidden army and were in Chang'an City at this moment.

Li Chun will take this part of the clan disciples who have been trained, experienced the war, and understand the tactics of the forbidden army as the core, and rebuild the left and right prison guards and the left and right Qianniu guards who have actually been deposed, and the main soldiers of these four guards will also be selected from the new recruits of the forbidden army who participated in the counterinsurgency.

At the same time that Li Chun successively summoned the old nobles and the children of the clan in the army in the Ganlu Palace, the counterinsurgency in Chang'an City was still going on.

In front of the well-trained and armed forbidden army to the teeth, and under the experience of being razed to the ground, including the Choi clan, the process of counterinsurgency was uneventful.

Approaching dusk, Gao Chongwen had already sent someone to deliver the news that the key targets that had been locked by the Eldest Princess's Mansion in advance had all been eradicated.

With the acceptance of the remnants of the old nobles, the forces that have the ability, ambition, and desire to threaten Chang'an City have completely disappeared, and the current Chang'an City has completely become Li Tang's strongest fortress.

With the purging of the core forces of the rebel party, the counterinsurgency has entered the stage of sweeping up the entire Chang'an City.

After leaving 3,000 elites to garrison Daming Palace, Taiji Palace, and Xingqing Palace, the Shenwei army of nearly 20,000 people under the command of Zheng Yongnan also entered the inner city of Chang'an from the imperial city and the palace city.

Under the command of Gao Chongwen, Zheng Yongnan and other three people, the temporary formation of the Shenwei Army, the left and right Jin Wuwei, the forbidden army recruits, and the patrol of nearly 120,000 horses composed of the temporarily recruited Minzhuang were all dispatched, and under the guidance of all the officials and errands of Jingzhaoyin, Chang'an County, and Wannian County, a round of thorough inventory was carried out in Chang'an City.

Approaching midnight, in the entire Chang'an City, more than thirty percent of the market has completed the inventory.

In the early morning of the next day, when the first rays of sunlight shone on Longshouyuan, he led all the soldiers and horses, Gao Chongwen, Zheng Yongnan, and Li Yuanyi, the three generals, back to the palace together.

Listening to the report of the three of them, Li Chun's face was full of smiles, and then he shifted his gaze to the map with six continents and four huge oceans depicted in the Manna Hall according to Guo Rong's memory.

That map is an ideal shared by myself and my father, and it is precisely because of this map that I can be patient enough.

Completely eradicating the hidden dangers of Chang'an, completely unifying the thoughts of the courtiers, making up for the six rates of the East Palace, and making up for the left and right prison guards and the left and right Qianniu guards, which means that the Tang Dynasty stationed in the Central Army will return to the peak state of the four armies, the sixteen guards, and the six rates.

However, Li Chun knows that this is only his first step!

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In just a few days, the situation in Chang'an City was full of twists and turns, and the emperor Li Chun, who had just held imperial power, took advantage of the news that the Tubo people had entered the prison and cleverly set up a trap to wipe out all the hostile and opposing forces in Chang'an City.

With the destruction of all the rebel forces, in addition to the left and right Jin Wuwei who stayed in Chang'an, the only Shenwei army left in Chang'an by the Fourth Army of the Northern Ya also set out from Chang'an and went up the Weishui River.

With the departure of the Shenwei Army, the recruits of the forbidden army returned to the forbidden garden, leaving only about 12,000 Jin Wuwei in the established forbidden army in Chang'an City.

In order to make up for the vacuum of Chang'an City's troops, and to prepare for the follow-up battle with the Tubo people, since the 21st year of the Zhenyuan Dynasty, the third large-scale expansion of the Li Tang Dynasty began, in addition to the reconstruction of the East Palace Six Rates, the left and right prison guards and the left and right Qianniu guards.

In addition, Li Chun issued an edict to recruit 100,000 new soldiers based on the entire Guanzhong, and at the same time re-recruit 30,000 old soldiers in Guanzhong.

Just when the rebellion was quelled and the Jinluo was intensively expanding the armament war, the east and west ends of Guanzhong had entered a critical moment.

First of all, Li Chun received a plan to change Guo Rong's plan to fight against the Hebei rebels in the Shandong direction, and Li Chun gave absolute support to Guo Rong's plan.

However, in the direction of Longnan and Chencang, the battle directly entered the white-hot stage.

After the Ming Xiu Plank Road, the dark Chen Cang, and the raid on the Dasan Pass, he was unexpectedly attacked desperately by the forbidden army stationed at the Dasan Pass, and almost had infighting.

However, under the common goal, after the Tubo Eastern Border Daojiedu made a compromise with Nyima Bazar and the Jiannan Daojiedu made Liu Pi, the remaining Jiannan, Tubo, and Nanzhao combined forces, numbering more than 80,000, quickly marched to the northern end of Chencang Road according to the predetermined plan.

After the army arrived in Weishui, it quickly divided its troops:

On the western front, along the Weishui River, it attacked the Dadan Pass behind the direction of Qinzhou in Longnan, and joined forces with the Tubo army in the front to flank the soldiers and horses of Longyou Road in the direction of Longnan.

The northern line, crossing the Weishui, penetrated behind the Longshan defense line.

The eastern line, along the Weishui River, went straight to the last barrier in the west of the Guanzhong Plain, Chencang.

After the army arrived at Chencang, it tried to attack the city, and if it could not fight down, it would use the advantage of troops to besiege Chencang, and then the army of soldiers and horses marched to the east (Chencang, Chang'an), north (Longxi), and west (Longnan) at the fastest speed, so that the hinterland of Guanzhong, the core of the Tang Dynasty, was completely thrown into chaos.

In the eyes of Liu Bi and Nima Bazaar, even if the Tang army was given a day, it would not be too late to mobilize troops and horses, and the entire Guanzhong was still like a girl who had lost her clothes, and there was no power to resist in front of the anti-Tang coalition army.

More importantly, behind their first batch of 100,000 soldiers and horses, there are still 50,000 Nanzhao soldiers, 100,000 Jiannan soldiers, and 100,000 Tubo soldiers who are marching in the direction of Guanzhong along the winding Chencang Road, and in less than ten days at most, the number of anti-Tang coalition troops entering Guanzhong from Dasanguan will exceed 300,000.

Although the strength of the anti-Tang coalition army occupies an absolute advantage, although more than half of the anti-Tang coalition army are feudal soldiers of Jiannan Province, although the other party has too much information because of the rebellion of Liu Pi, the feudal official of the Tang Dynasty, Guanzhong is not their home field after all.

Taking advantage of the one day that the forbidden army fought for at the cost of the total annihilation, the edict of the Emperor Li Chan completely suppressed the unrest of the entire Guanzhong, Longxi, and Longnan in a short period of time.

Long before the Tubo people attacked, the border armies of Longnan and Longxi had already formulated a strategy of gathering the people and clearing the wilderness according to Guo Rong's suggestion, and within the preparation period of up to half a year, almost all the people and soldiers and civilians in Longxi and Longnan had been gathered into strong cities, fortresses, and border forts.

And with the responsibility of the Emperor Taishang to defend the land, the words of not giving up an inch of land, and the perfect combination formulated by Guo Rong in the early days, completely blocked the way back of every city.

At the same time, also taking advantage of this less than a day, all the reconnaissance battalions and light cavalry of the Yulin Army stationed in Chencang with Emperor Taishang had already spread throughout the central and western parts of Guanzhong.

Although they did not engage in a large-scale battle with the anti-Tang coalition forces that entered the army, they firmly monitored their every move.

After taking the Dasan Pass, the news that no one on the other side was striding towards Chen Cang was transmitted back to Chen Cang at the first time.

Liu Bi and Nima Bazar saw the scouts of the Yulin Army who appeared around from time to time, but they reacted equally to these scouts.

According to the information obtained by Liu Pi and the Jiannan rebels, in the entire western part of the Guanzhong Plain, there were actually only 20,000 Yulin troops stationed in Chencang.

Although Chen Cang, who guarded the northeast of Dasanguan, was strong, and although the Yulin army was elite, in the face of a huge gap in numbers, the other party could only defend it and did not dare to go out of the city.

After a brief discussion, Liu Pi and Nima Bazar, who almost broke out in Dasanguan, reached an agreement at this time.

They believed that the purpose of the cavalry that appeared around them at this time was only to distract them, confuse their train of thought, and affect their marching speed, so as to buy time for Li Tang's court to mobilize troops and horses.

Under the domination of this thought, the two of them absolutely ignored the Tang cavalry that appeared around their army, and instead ordered all the soldiers and horses to march in stride, trying to reach the bank of Weishui in the shortest possible time.

However, Liu Pi and Nima Bazar miscalculated.

At the beginning of the surprise attack of the anti-Tang coalition army, the staff of the Yulin Army quickly became busy, and according to the existing situation, simulated the possible forbidden army route of the other side, and began to formulate countermeasures in various situations.

After determining that the other party began to accelerate its march to the north, two completely different preset plans were handed over to the general Zhang Yiyi by Pei Zhi, who was the chief of staff of the Yulin Army.

The first plan is to take Chencang City as the center, set up three camps in Qianhe, ten miles northwest of Chencang, Zhouyuan five miles north of Chencang, and Panwang south of Chencang, to hold the city and defend it, completely blocking the opponent's eastward route to Chang'an.

According to Pei Zhi's conservative estimate, in the absence of reinforcements, the Yulin army could hold out for at least twenty days just by relying on it, which was enough for Li Chun to complete the situation in Chang'an.

In the second plan, the Yulin army concentrated all the pack horses and ships collected in advance, went up the Weishui Shuo River, and took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's light enemy to advance and gain an unstable foothold to give the opponent a head-on attack.

If you can win the battle, you can buy at least five to ten days for Guanzhong, Longnan, Longxi and even the entire Guanlong defense line, the disadvantages are equally obvious, if you fail, lose the defenders, Guanzhong will open the door.

Undecided, Zhang Jieyi had to bring the two plans to the emperor.

After listening to Pei Zhi's explanation, Li Yu had a smile on his pale face, opened his mouth, and asked softly in a hoarse voice like sandpaper.

"Pei Zhi, let me ask you, what do you think is the chance of taking the initiative to win?"

"Sixty percent!"

Hearing Pei Zhi's words, Li Yu nodded and looked at Zhang Jiaxuan, who had guarded him for six years.

"Jiaxuan, I know you have stock there, how many more?"

Hearing the inventory, Zhang Jiaxuan's brows furrowed suddenly, and he looked at the Emperor Taishang with an indescribable sorrow.

At this time, the Emperor Taishang was already skinny, the whole person was as pale as paper, his eyes were deeply sunken, and Rao was lying on the bed and was angry.

"Your Majesty......"

Looking at Zhang Jiaxuan, whose expression was extremely complicated, Li Yu once again set his eyes on Pei Zhi and Zhang Yiyi.

"Pei Zhi, if I go to the expedition in person, can I improve your chances of winning?"

"Yes!"

"How much?"