Chapter 115: The Way of Two Deaths
Li Shimin's face was unwavering, and he even wanted to laugh a little.
Hou Junji muttered:
"Two more...... No, counting this Yan Zhenqing and Yongqiu Zhang Xun, it should be four. ”
"I'm really ...... Datang Will the stars be like clouds. ”
Wei Zheng was a little uneasy:
"The encirclement is already certain death."
"The rebels' civil strife has been destroyed."
"With such a good situation, how can Tongguan be broken? How dare you break it? ”
Wei Zheng is not a pure civil official, and Chang'an is still in danger.
And how the rebels will ravage the prosperous Chang'an for a hundred years after being blocked for half a year, Wei Zheng can't bear to think about it.
Facing Wei Zheng's sadness, Fang Xuanling pulled Wei Zheng over and whispered softly to comfort him.
Li Shimin stood straight, standing with his hands in his hands and not speaking.
Li Jing is studying this Zhang Xun in Yongqiu.
His eyes swept around the map, and finally Li Jing judged:
"This patrol guards Yongqiu, this place is too close to the traitors, and the terrain is open and difficult to defend."
"If you want to stop the rebels from going south, you should retreat to Songzhou, where two mountains and one city can remove the advantages of the rebels' terrain......"
As he spoke, Li Jing fell silent, because he remembered that Songcheng County, the seat of Songzhou Prefecture, was renamed by His Majesty.
Before Songcheng County was renamed, it was ...... Suiyang.
Zhang Xun ...... Is that Suiyang? ”
Li Shimin naturally thought of it, sighed slowly, and said in a low voice:
"Jiedu makes the military towns all in the frontier, and the southeast has been peaceful for a long time, and this patrol should be to recruit brave volunteers from the township."
"The volunteers were difficult to defeat the rebels, so they had to retreat from Yongqiu to Suiyang."
Li Shimin also said it superficially, and even had a guess in his heart:
The reason why this Zhang Xun retreated to Suiyang may be because he was burdened by the defeat of Tongguan.
As for how this Tongguan was defeated......
[For An Lushan, he sees the situation more clearly than Yan Zhenqing at this moment.
On the Northern Front, Shi Siming, who was fought by Guo and Li, almost became the commander of the light pole, and he was only spared.
The hometowns of the rebels under An Lushan's command are all in Hebei, so people's hearts are fluctuating, and they almost shouted to An Lushan to punish the national thief.
On the southeast front, the rebel general Zhang Tongyu was beheaded in the battle array of the commander of Shanfu County, and the rebel general Yang Chaozong was blocked by the Dongping Taishou.
And then Li Huaixian, who went to reinforce, ordered Fox Chao and other tens of thousands of rebels to be guarded by Zhang Xun of Zhenyuan County, and they were trapped and unable to move.
On the southern front, Nanyang Taishou Lu Jiong and Yingchuan Taishou Xue Yuan led 50,000 southern soldiers to fight fiercely in Jingxiang with the rebel general Wu Lingxun.
Later, there were even more people who came to support the southern front, and the rebels were even more unable to advance.
The western front is Tongguan, and being dragged here for half a year has already made An Lushan lose his temper.
In this desperate situation of An Lushan, Tongguan, which could not be broken for half a year, opened the city gate by itself.
At this moment, whether it is Yan Zhenqing or Guo Ziyi, or Zhang Xun and Lai Yao, they are all incomprehensible:
Why do people want to play fake games to give away heads?
And Ge Shuhan was also helpless, the decision to leave the customs was not made by him, but jointly decided by Xuanzong and the prime minister.
Yang Guozhong himself was the financier of Geshuhan, and the two belonged to the anti-An Lushan alliance before the Anshi Rebellion.
But with Ge Shuhan's move to force Xuanzong to kill An Sishun after gaining power, Yang Guozhong became vigilant:
He didn't want to follow in the footsteps of An Sishun.
And soon, Yang Guozhong received a secret report:
Someone asked Ge Shuhan to send troops back to Chang'an to kill Yang Guozhong, so that An Lushan could no longer use the slogan of Qingjun's side.
Ge Shuhan was noncommittal, but Yang Guozhong's courage was about to be frightened.
After obtaining Xuanzong's approval, Yang Guozhong recruited 13,000 troops to defend against the rebels, led by his confidant Du Qianyun.
This army made Ge Shuhan very uncomfortable, and Shangjuan Xuanzong included this army in the command of Tongguan, and killed Du Qianyun casually, not even bothering to make up the charges.
It was precisely because of these fighting methods of the two sides that Yang Guozhong's uneasiness rose to the peak, and in the end, he almost used all his strength to let Xuanzong order Ge Shuhan out of the customs.
This is the reason why Ge Shuhan "wept out of the customs".
In retrospect, the root cause of the climax of the Anshi Rebellion was also the collapse of trust.
Because of An Lushan's rebellion, Xuanzong no longer trusted anyone, so he beheaded Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing without thinking.
The deaths of Gao and Feng made it difficult for Ge Shuhan to trust the imperial court, so he would do whatever it took to seize power in order not to be constrained.
Ge Shuhan's behavior made Yang Guozhong no longer trust Ge Shuhan, and finally contributed to Ge Shuhan's exit.
All of the above eventually led to the intensification of the rebellion that could have been extinguished in half a year, and it became a wildfire that burned down the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty. 】
"The poor season is to see the ......," Li Shimin pondered silently.
Then he sneered:
"I can see it, this Chang'an is too comfortable."
"If you are in Luoyang, where there is no danger to defend......"
The eldest grandson Wuji whispered:
"Everyone, in the final analysis, it is still Yang Guo's loyalty skills."
"If this prime minister is like Zhang Jiuling and Yan Zhenqing, not to mention whether he will fight for power and profit like this, this rebellion will not arise."
But everyone understands the meaning:
If this court is really in Luoyang, the forbidden army should be rotten as usual, and if the rebels come over, Xuanzong will just run a few more steps.
And the court is so smoky because of the prime minister, why does the prime minister have problems......
Li Shimin's mentality is surprisingly good, and he boldly opened the microphone and said:
"What is the Anshi Rebellion? It is better to call it the legacy of LONGi. ”
Then he sighed:
"Now I know that the younger generations hate him for not dying 20 years early, and it is not a lie."
And my mind naturally remembered the sculpture of the city that never sleeps in the future.
It is known as the Taixuan prosperous era and the three-story platform of the Kaiyuan prosperous era.
It can be seen from all aspects that this Xuanzong was by no means so dim at the beginning of his reign.
This Xuanzong seems to be like himself, seizing power as San Lang, and then working hard to push this century-old prosperity to the peak.
Then he pushed it down with his own hands.
Then a deviant thought could not be suppressed in Li Shimin's mind:
This Xuanzong can't be crossed by anyone, right?
……
"This Xuanzong can't be crossed by An Lushan's biological father, right?"
Zhang Fei whispered to force this guess.
This statement can only make everyone laugh helplessly, and after laughing, they sigh.
"Such a good situation was actually caused by the selfishness of a few people, causing the Li people to suffer a military disaster......
Liu Bei simply couldn't accept this situation even more than Li Shimin.
Marching into Central Asia, spanning tens of thousands of miles, if there is no chaos, this Tang is fully capable of marching into Central Asia and competing with the so-called black-clothed food.
But in the end, the monarch and the ministers will calculate with each other, and the small chaos will turn into a big disaster, and the fortune of the country will be ruined.
Immediately, Liu Bei looked at Kong Ming, and Kong Ming replied to him with a puzzled expression.
Then he looked at his third brother and Zhao Liu, Zhang Fa and other civil and military officials, and a doubt arose in his heart:
Is it so difficult to treat people with sincerity and know people well?
Kong Ming is already planning with Zhao Yun:
"In this way, it is advisable to take the right place of Yongliang Long."
Zhao Yun quipped:
"Why is the military advisor so anxious at this time?"
Kong Ming said with envy:
"If the iron cavalry is successful, ten times the number of soldiers can also be deserved."
A true Iron Rider! Not the cavalry who only walked on horseback, or the rangers who could only harass the rush.
And this is one of their dilemmas today:
Chengdu produces money but not horses.
[Cui Qianyou, who was born in Bolingcui, may be the most controversial Tang Dynasty famous general. 】
Hou Junji doesn't care anymore, he just remembers another name.
Li Shimin was full of curiosity, this family finally served Tang and was loyal to the country?
But......
[In the Battle of Luoyang, Cui Qianyou defeated the famous general Feng Changqing.
Then with the prestige of victory, he forced the famous general Gao Xianzhi to flee without a fight.
In the battle of Lingbao, the defeat of the famous general Ge Shuhan can be said to be in the limelight for a while.
It's just that it's hard to say how much water there is.
The battle of Lingbao, in which Ge Shuhan was forced out of the pass, was a fiasco.
As we said earlier, at this time, Tongguan had 80,000 border troops transferred from the west of the Longyou River, and in terms of the quality of the soldiers alone, the gap between the two sides could not be opened.
Therefore, Lingbao's defeat brother Shuhan really has no way to shake the pot.
Moreover, before leaving the customs, Ge Shuhan had already predicted that Cui Qianyou would be ambushed in the match with Xuanzong.
Now that it's all predicted, isn't it okay to push forward steadily?
But it's a pity that Ge Shuhan, who has made the struggle against Yang Guozhong public, does not have this capital.
After leaving the customs, if Ge Shuhan wants to talk to Xuanzong, he must first send a letter to Tongguan, and then Tongguan will be transferred to Xuanzong in Chang'an.
But Yang Guozhong was on Xuanzong's side, and he could speak at any time.
For Ge Shuhan, the longer he drags on outside Tongguan, the more likely it is that his head will be hung on the Tongguan corner tower like Gao and Feng Erjiang.
Therefore, after Ge Shuhan came out of the customs, he tried to fight quickly, and then stepped into Cui Qianyou's ambush.
After the defeat of Lingbao, Ge Shuhan fled back to Tongguan, gathered the remnants of the army here and planned to defend Tongguan, but the Ministry of Fire Pull Guiren came without saying a word, and tied Ge Shuhan to An Lushan.
With the defeat of Geshuhan, Tongguan was quickly lost.
After Xuanzong received the news, he still emphasized when he went to court:
I want to capture An Lushan alive, hundreds of civil and military officials, and the people of Chang'an, all of whom must have the idea of serving the country!
But late that night, Xuanzong fled Chang'an with Yang Yuhuan and several favored sons.
The next day, when the civil and military officials of the court were in power, they found that the emperor was gone, and Chang'an quickly fell into chaos for a while, and the dignitaries and dignitaries rushed to flee for their lives.
The superiors ran away, and the soldiers who stayed behind looked at each other, and they all scattered and fled, and Chang'an waited for An Lushan to receive it.
In June 756, the rebels entered Chang'an.
It is said that when Xuanzong was running away, Yang Guozhong suggested that the treasury be burned, but Xuanzong refused on the grounds that the rebels would surely plunder the people because they had no money.
Later, Yang Guozhong suggested that the bridge in the west of Chang'an be demolished to stop the rebels, but Xuanzong refused on the grounds that he would leave the people alive.
Seriously, this should be a gold paste forcibly given to Xuanzong by later generations, after all, he fled late at night for fear of being discovered by hundreds of officials, how could it be arson and smash the bridge? 】
"The Xuan Sect is actually imitating the old things of the Xuanzong!" Li Shimin gritted his teeth.
He can accept an emperor who dies in battle, but he can't accept a king who abandons his subjects and abandons his people.
Why don't these descendants remember that I retreated from the enemy, and then fought hard and was ashamed?
As an emperor, he has no grand plans, but he flees faster than the people, what is the reason?
Hou Junji is lamenting Ge Shuhan's situation:
"If you win slowly, you die. If you fight quickly, you will die. ”
"There is no way to choose the way to die."
I scrapped a more out-of-the-box manuscript, so it was late.
(End of chapter)