When An Lushan heard the news of the defeat of Yangping Pass, he was furious, and ignored Sun Xiaozhe who knelt on the ground for three hours, and then let him get up under the pleading of the generals.

"Your Majesty, it's not that Weichen is unwilling to do his best, it's really the Tang Dynasty's martial arts, I can't resist it, plus Niu Chongshang was captured before, which greatly damaged the morale of our army, so the Tang Dynasty won by luck. However, Weichen remembered His Majesty's teachings that once the war was unfavorable, he must preserve his strength, so he led his troops to retreat, and only lost 7,000 soldiers and horses. ”

An Lushan looked up to the sky and drank the wine in the golden bottle, and his face was a little gentler: "Siming, what do you think?" ”

Shi Siming said respectfully: "Your Majesty." In my opinion, General Sun is indeed not to blame for this defeat. The Tang Dynasty has been gathering momentum in Chang'an for a long time, and now it has suddenly erupted, which is indeed not easy to resist. Moreover, with the situation of Yangping Pass at that time, the Tang Dynasty was the most elite troops, General Sun suffered this small setback, there is no need to worry, if Your Majesty can trust me, why not let me personally lead the troops, the minister is willing to make a military order, resolutely prevent the Tang Dynasty from leading troops from Yangping Pass to the north, threatening our rear. ”

An Lushan's eyes looked at Shi Siming like an eagle, and he replied after a while: "You are my good brother who intersects with life and death, how can I not trust you, as you asked, lead Sun Xiaozhe to command 100,000 cavalry, and then bring 200,000 infantry to be stationed in Yangping Pass. ”

"Yes!" When Shi Siming heard this, he hurriedly avoided the seat and knelt down, but he was extremely happy in his heart.

He has always been a generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses in name only.

Since the beginning of the army, Shi Siming has done the most difficult things, such as attacking Tongguan. Even if Tongguan is captured, it depends on the advantage of words, not how sharp the infantry under his command is.

Since the beginning of the army, An Lushan seems to have intentionally and unintentionally, taking all the invincible cavalry that Shi Siming had previously been in the north under his own command, not to mention trusting juniors like Sun Xiaozhe.

Just don't let him lead a large number of cavalry.

During this time, although he led his troops to rob the surrounding states and counties, the number of war horses he collected was only 20,000. And although these are called war horses, they are very different from the horses in the north, let alone compared with the war horses of the Hui and Turks.

Attacking Tongguan, if he really uses his death force, it may not take three months, but he also has his own wishful thinking, if he attacks too quickly, he will inevitably be sent by An Lushan to other battlefields to deal with ruthless characters like Tang Dynasty and Guo Ziyi, of course he is unwilling, so he repeatedly failed to attack Tongguan.

On the one hand, Ge Shuhan is indeed desperately holding on, and on the other hand, he also wants to preserve his strength, which is the reason why the attack on Tongguan is protracted.

It was only later that An Lushan gave him a death order after he was proclaimed emperor in Luoyang, and he really attacked with all his might.

But in his heart, it has never been a taste. Since they are brothers, why has An Lushan always been on guard against him?

But he couldn't pick out these words.

So he quietly contacted the generals of the Anjun army and waited for the opportunity.

During the Battle of Taohe, he had already gone to the table to impeach Sun Xiaozhe for his inexperience and risked underestimating the enemy. However, he had not captured Tongguan at that time, and his convincing power was not enough, and he could not shake Sun's position in An Lushan's heart, but this time Yangping Pass was defeated, not to mention the defeat, and even Niu Chongshang was captured by the Tang Dynasty.

……

Shi Siming's army, the Chinese army.

Shi Siming was wearing a silver helmet and silver armor, and the sword in his hand was unsheathed, pointing at Sun Xiaozhe's head: "General Sun, what do you mean by this?" ”

Sun Xiaozhe's face changed slightly, but he did not show weakness: "Generalissimo, of course I heard what Your Majesty meant, and asked me to assign 100,000 cavalry under my command to you, which is good, but it did not ask you to remove me from the post of commander." In the future, you will be my boss, but this army will have to be led by me. ”

All the generals were shocked, including Tian Chengsi and Cai Xide.

All the generals understand that who leads the army is nothing to the soldiers, but for the generals, it is very important, looking at Shi Siming's posture, he wants the overlord to take the bow and directly deprive Sun Xiaozhe of the right to command the army.

But Sun Xiaozhe is not a stupid person, knowing that this is a matter of life and death, he will not give an inch.

Shi Siming smiled, and suddenly drew his sword back into its sheath: "It's okay, Ben Shuai thought you wanted to support the army and rebel, since you are willing to accept Ben Shuai's leadership, I will not cure you of the crime of rebellion." ”

These words are eerie.

Everyone can see that as long as Sun Xiaozhe doesn't deal with it properly, it will be the result of the corpse on the spot.

"Xie Dashuai. If nothing happens, the last general will retire first. ”

Sun Xiaozhe's face was full of stupidity.

"It's none of your business, you can go out." Shi Siming replied coldly.

After Sun Xiaozhe left the camp, he immediately hurried to Xinzheng, Henan, to meet An Lushan again.

Shi Siming thought with a sneer in his heart: I thought this kid was stupid to the point of disobedience, but he softened this time, and he is not a stupid person.

Hmph, since you are willing to accept leadership, are you afraid that I can't concoct you?

……

Xinzheng, Henan, An Lushan camp.

Sun Xiaozhe's tears flowed: "Your Majesty, Shi Siming is already powerful without cavalry, and now His Majesty wants him to lead 100,000 cavalry, he is usually good at winning over people from the government and the opposition, and if it goes on like this, the kid is afraid that he will be difficult to control." ”

After An Lu woke up, he also regretted this decision slightly.

Shi Siming is his friendship for decades, and he can trust it, but he Dayan now only has 300,000 cavalry, and 100,000 of them have been forcibly levied by the people in the past few months, and he will have time to train in the future, which is greatly inferior to his original 200,000 elite cavalry. The 100,000 cavalry in Shi Siming's hands can be regarded as real elite soldiers, and like the 100,000 under his command, they are all real elite soldiers of Dayan.

Shi Siming, who has no soldiers, no generals and no cavalry, is not afraid of anything, but now it is different.

With Shi Siming's influence in the government and the opposition, if he once supports the army and stands on his own, it will be difficult for him to control.

However, the decree has been made, and it cannot be reversed immediately.

At that moment, he instructed: "Your words are remembered by the teacher. But you don't have to worry, now go back to the army first, pass on my instructions to all the officers above the rank of general, and I must listen to your orders in the future, even if Shi Siming wants to mobilize the army, it must be approved by you. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Sun Xiaozhe was overjoyed.

"And. Pay close attention to all movements in the army, and report as soon as there is any trouble. ”

"Yes."

……

At this time, Shi Siming was by his side, only his son Shi Chaoyi and a few henchmen and generals.

"This person in the Tang Dynasty is very powerful. Needless to say, the martial arts are extremely high, everyone knows it. But in Ben Shuai's opinion, his most powerful thing is not his martial arts, but his clever means. You only need to look at the fact that he occupied Chang'an to know that this man is calculating. Our Dayan spent countless money and grain and the army to fight with Li Longji's main force, but he picked up ready-made cheap, led the army to lightly armed, attacked Yangping Pass, and then occupied Chang'an with lightning speed, and plundered the treasury of the Tang Dynasty; Not to mention that he was in Jianmen Pass to oppose Wolf Zhengxuan and these people, and ascended to the throne of Emperor Nanzhao; Not to mention that he recently sent envoys to the Turks and Hui countries, and married the princesses of the two countries, which is even more confident, these are all manifestations of his good use of skills.

Third, this person has led troops for many years and has great experience in combat. Sun Xiaozhe still doesn't know where he lost today, can you find out the reason for his failure? ”

Shi Chaoyi hurriedly caught it: "Father, I think Sun Xiaozhe's failure was due to the carelessness of the enemy." ”

"How so?"

"He couldn't stand the excitement of the Tang Dynasty, and he ran two hundred miles to fight the enemy who was waiting for work, and it was already unfavorable at first; What's more, the generals under him did not have such fierce generals as Sheva and Rondo, and his own martial arts were far inferior to the main generals of the other party, and he was doomed to failure. ”

"Well, you have a point. But we haven't talked about the most important thing. In fact, from the current point of view, this battle is actually a game carefully designed by the Tang Dynasty, and Sun Xiaozhe thinks very highly of himself, so he naturally walked into the trap of others step by step. ”

"How is this a game?"

"It's not easy. Before this battle, the Tang Dynasty had been sending envoys to the north, and there was no time to train his men. And the cavalry was the weak link of the Tang Dynasty. And he deliberately bought tens of thousands of inferior horses, claiming that he had 100,000 cavalry, and was willing to fight a decisive battle with Sun Xiaozhe at Yangping Pass. Sun Xiaozhe's biggest mistake was to be deceived by the 60,000 new cavalry added by the Tang Dynasty, otherwise, even if he was defeated, he would not have been so embarrassed. ”

"Deception?"

All the henchmen were strange, but they clearly saw that there were many cavalry under the Tang Dynasty.

"Yes. What a powerful person in the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, the cavalry had already been successfully trained. All he was short of was a war horse. Although the newly purchased 60,000 war horses were inferior horses, the cavalry had already been trained and matured, and even though they could not give full play to the best combat power of the cavalry, seventy percent of them could be brought into play. Therefore, in terms of absolute strength, Sun Xiaozhe did not have an advantage in this battle. In addition, the 40,000 cavalry used by the Tang Dynasty to charge the battle were the elite soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles when he was the envoy of Lingnan Jiedu, the protector of Anxi and the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, although the overall strength of Sun Xiaozhe's department was slightly stronger than that of the Tang Dynasty, but coupled with the two points that Yi'er could also see before, it contributed to Sun Xiaozhe's defeat. Therefore, the troops I am stationed at Yangping Pass, with my permission, must not be sent lightly, not even to provoke. It is only because the morale of our army is now greatly depressed after this defeat, and the morale of the other side is strong. ”

After saying this, all the generals bowed and put away their contempt for the Tang Dynasty.

If the Tang Dynasty heard this, it would definitely be more wary of Shi Siming. But at this time, he had no time to deal with the matter of Yangping Pass, because he suddenly received the news that Wolf Zhengxuan was defeated by Niu Monk and Child at Jianmen Pass.