Chapter 2 Tongguan "lost"

"Prime minister, I know your worries, you are afraid that Ge Shuhan will betray me. When the time comes, it is inevitable to lose a Xiongguan, and An Lushan will be cheaper in vain, isn't it? ”

"yes. If this is really the case, the gap between the strength of our army and the An army will be even greater, and when the time comes, An Lushan will definitely attack our department, because we occupy the richest land in the Central Plains. ”

"Yes. Minister, this is the worst-case scenario. But once this matter is successful, all of An Lushan's military deployments will not be able to escape our surveillance, and the most important thing is that An Lushan's chest has a sharp knife stuck in him at any time, as long as we stab him out when he needs it most, then great things can be accomplished, isn't it better than getting 100,000 male soldiers? ”

"That being said, I always felt that it was very risky."

"Prime minister. We are now competing for the world, in fact, it is like playing chess, and sometimes, when it is time to take risks, we must not hesitate. Otherwise, you may miss the opportunity. Now that Ge Shuhan has already served me, I am sure he will recognize the situation. In addition, you immediately send Feng Xiao to Tongguan secretly and tell Ge Shuhan that it is time to surrender. ”

"Yes." Li Bai took the order and left. Watching Li Bai's back disappear outside the curtain, Tang Chao sighed in his heart: Brother Li has experienced many hardships in his life, so he takes everything seriously, but he doesn't know that the essence of the art of war is a change, since I dare to believe him, and I also gave him a year's grain, grass and military salary, is there no way to restrain him?

However, these things, even if they are as close as Li Bai, they don't tell him well for the time being.

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Tongguan, Geshuhan Shuai Camp.

All the generals gathered in the army, which was a signal to go on the march.

There was a look of nervousness and expectation on everyone's faces, and it was really not a taste to be held in Guanzhong for too long.

Ge Shuhan's black face was full of majesty: "Everyone, General Gao Xianzhi did not move, Prince Li Heng no longer sent rescue troops, but Shi Siming's army under Tongguan City is gathering more and more, it has reached 200,000, and he has attacked again during this time, and the losses on both sides of us are very great, our army originally had 100,000 troops, but now there are only 80,000." Success or failure in this battle, you must work hard to move forward, even if you are defeated, don't panic, follow me, didn't Shi Siming say, as long as we surrender, he will not kill us. What is the prince doing to us, everyone knows that Lingwu obviously has a good general like Guo Ziyi, but he sent Gao Xianzhi, who can only stand still, to save us. ”

When all the soldiers heard this, they were all angry in their hearts, and some people thought that since this is the case, it is better to surrender.

This is the order that the Tang Dynasty asked Feng Xiao to pass on.

In such a situation, Ge Shuhan has really come to have to make a choice. Although he is a brave general and loyal to the Tang Dynasty, he constantly plays Li Longji, and Li Longji can't command Li Heng, and his soldiers and horses are only tens of thousands, so he has to have good words to perfunctory him.

In this way, Ge Shuhan believed in the judgment of the Tang Dynasty even more, and choosing to surrender to Shi Siming was indeed a wise choice. However, according to the meaning of the Tang Dynasty, if it surrendered directly, it was obviously easy to arouse Shi Siming's suspicions, so he had to fight.

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In Shi Siming's army, Shi Chaoyi quickly reported: "Father, brother Shuhan is about to leave the city, he wants to sneak attack us." Then he told Shi Siming about the spies' discovery.

Shi Siming didn't believe it at first, but soon there was an earth-shattering shout of killing outside the camp, and he hurriedly went out of the camp to take a look, only to see that Ge Shuhan's army had come all over the mountains.

Damn, how dare you sneak up on me?

Although Shi Siming changed his mind, this person was indeed a handsome person, and he immediately ordered the heralds around him to convey his orders, and fled all the way to the west.

Ge Shuhan was overjoyed, and immediately became greedy, and led his countless generals to rush to the back camp to arrest Shi Siming. What he thought in his heart was that if he surrendered to the Anghu people, his temperament was unpredictable, and he was worried about his life at any time, if he could defeat Shi Siming, then whether it was Li Longji or the Tang Dynasty, they would look at him differently.

As a result, Ge Shuhan accepted Li Longji's "imperial order" and left only 30,000 troops and horses to defend the city, and the remaining 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses followed him to pursue Shi Siming's department.

Originally, there was a huge disparity between the strength and weakness of the two sides, and Ge Shuhan couldn't succeed at all, but for a long time, his brother had been cowering in the city, and Shi Siming never dreamed that he would dare to rush out.

Under this kind of surprise attack, it is normal for Shi Siming to be defeated.

As soon as the brother led the troops out of Jiashan, in the sound of banging cannons, Cai Xide on the left and Tian Chengsi on the right led the army to rush out, and Shi Siming, who had fled, immediately collected the army and turned around, shouting like thunder.

Ge Shuhan was dumbfounded, damn it, what the hell is going on?

Knowing that the enemy could not be defeated, he hurriedly led the army back and wanted to return to the city, but in the shouting, An Shouzhong, the general under An Lushan, led the army to kill.

It was this army that put Geshuhan in the predicament of being attacked on all sides.

In fact, with the courage of Brother Shuhan, even if he can't win, there is still no problem in returning to Tongguan, but the arrival of An Shouzhong made him desperate.

However, he did not intend to surrender immediately, but led a large army into battle.

This is a real contest.

This was the contest between Li Longji's most elite troops and An Lushan that year.

Although this battle was not tragic, even the elite cavalry like Shi Siming could not take Ge Shuhan in one go.

I saw Ge Shuhan leading the troops to clash on all sides, and the blood-stained robes were stained.

It's not that he listened to the words of the Tang Dynasty and wanted to interpret the surrender drama more realistically, but that he did have the intention of repaying Li Longji in his heart. No matter how you say it, Li Longji's kindness to him is also profound.

The two armies fought, but Ge Shuhan's soldiers gradually couldn't resist it.

It turned out that the reason why An Shouzhong was able to come in time to surround Ge Shuhan was An Lushan's "imperial order".

Shortly before the Battle of Tongguan, An Lushan suddenly received accurate information that Ge Shuhan wanted to surprise Shi Siming.

The person who revealed the news to An Lushan was his advisor Yan Zhuang.

According to Yan Zhuang's report, he inadvertently went out hunting, and after catching the soldiers who had escaped from Tongguan, he pressed him to ask for the news.

In fact, this news was deliberately leaked to Yan Zhuang by the Tang Dynasty.

Yan Zhuang knew that this was the meaning of the Tang Dynasty, so he naturally wanted to reveal it to An Lushan.

An Lushan led the army to camp more than ten miles northwest of Tongguan, and was worried about not being able to capture Tongguan for a long time. In fact, he wanted to lead the army to join Shi Siming and attack Tongguan, but he was worried that he would be laughed at by his generals if he couldn't attack.

He is not a stupid person, after seeing the natural danger of Tongguan, he also understands a truth, even if he really sends a million troops to attack, he may not be able to fight down, after all, in that kind of place where "one man is the pass, ten thousand people are not open", the number of troops is not the key to determining the victory or defeat, he sent Cai Xide and Tian Chengsi to each bring 100,000 infantry to support, which is already his bottom line.

But now that he has such an opportunity, of course he can't let it go, and immediately sends his general An Shouzhong to lead troops to support.

Ge Shuhan led the army and several times his own troops to fight fiercely for two hours, and gradually could not support it, but Shi Siming suddenly raised his long knife and ordered to stop the attack.

"All soldiers, stop fighting immediately and stand by in place!"

As the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses of Dayan, all the generals, in the absence of An Lushan, are under his control.

As a result, Cai Xide, Tian Chengsi, and An Shouzhong all stopped attacking, and only scattered the army, surrounding Ge Shuhan like an iron bucket.

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In fact, Shi Siming had a deep strategy and deliberately made the discipline of the soldiers scattered around Tongguan lax, in order to lure Ge Shuhan out to sneak attack, and his previous rout was a disguise.

In fact, his real elite soldiers are stationed in the Jiashan area.

Shi Siming's original plan was just to achieve victory, not to capture his brother Shuhan alive, but An Lushan sent Cai Xide and Tian Chengsi to support, which made him want to annihilate his brother's department.

With his identity, it took so much effort to attack a mere Tongguan, and many generals had already said behind his back that he was incompetent. If he can't completely annihilate his brother with a force of 40,000 troops, he really has no face.

It's good now, An Shouzhong actually brought troops to help at such a time, it was a good opportunity for him to build a peerless feat, and now he has 500,000 soldiers and horses, ten times that of Ge Shuhan.

When he ordered to stop the attack, An Shouzhong was very dissatisfied, and rode in front of Shi Siming: "How did you do it, these are all rebellions, why don't you kill them all?" ”

There are many generals who think the same as An Shouzhong. A mere Tongguan actually resisted the millions of troops in An Lushan, which indeed made these armies who had always been invincible in the north feel humiliated.

Shi Siming knew that many generals were very dissatisfied with their position as generalissimo, and the most dissatisfied among them was this An Shouzhong, who understood that he was using the topic to play, so he snorted coldly, and roared like a tiger on the ground, not answering his question, but glaring at him with his eyes: "General An, you don't listen to my orders, leave your post without permission, and come to question me before the three armies, whether you are reasonable or not, you are guilty of killing your head!" I respect you as a general, don't pursue it, even if there is any right or wrong, in the future, in front of the emperor, he will judge and return to the army quickly, otherwise, I can kill you on the spot? ”

Of course, Shi Siming was not a threat, and the tens of thousands of soldiers lined up behind him were ready to accept his orders. An Shouzhong knew that as long as he didn't deal with it properly, it would be the end of blood splashing on the spot. He also knew that his qualifications were old, but his martial arts were not as good as Shi Siming, and it was not impossible for him to kill people before the three armies. After listening to Shi Siming's threatening words, he sneered a few times, and finally rode back to his army, and made up his mind in his heart: When the time comes to the emperor, I see if you can still have such a prestige?