Chapter Twenty-Six: Strategizing

What a big fight! Straight to the death of the mountain of corpses, blood flowed like a river, broken guns, dead horses and broken flags, stretching for more than ten miles.

Li Longji and Guo Ziyi were at the north and south gates, although they resisted desperately, but they could not withstand the powerful impact of An Lushan and the Tang Dynasty, and finally lost the battle, retreated into the city gate, and defended according to the danger.

In this battle, the Tang Dynasty and An Lushan won a complete victory, killing more than 100,000 of Li Longji's subordinates and wounding countless people.

After this battle, the prestige of Wolf Zhengxuan resounded throughout the Central Plains, even Guo Ziyi, thinking of Wolf Zhengxuan's magic arrow, his scalp was a little numb.

This is a victory for the cavalry!

Li Longji's generals are actually completely comparable to the generals under Tang Dynasty and An Lushan, but the infantry can't compete with the really elite cavalry after all, and the elite of the soldiers and horses of the Tang and An families is also much better than Li Longji.

If Li Longji hadn't retreated to defend the fortified city, I'm afraid the entire army would have been wiped out.

Even so, Li Longji couldn't bear it anymore, hugged Lu Xun's body, and cried loudly.

"Your Majesty, Weichen deserves death!" Guo Ziyi led a group of generals to kneel in front of Li Longji together, "I have not been able to resist the impact of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

Li Longji handed Lu Xun's body to Li Lin, the Yongwang beside him, and stretched out his hand to support Guo Ziyi: "General, please get up, it's not your fault, I know, you have done your best!" ”

He naturally saw that Guo Ziyi had at least more than ten injuries on his body, although none of them hurt the vital point, but he could also peek into the bravery of this person's battle.

In addition to Li Longji's defeat, he comforted his subordinates, held state funerals for Lu Xun and Yang Jian, strengthened defense, and held Xuzhou to resist the follow-up attacks of the Tang Dynasty and An Lushan.

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In addition to An Lushan's victory, his general Li Guiren also grabbed the moat for a time, almost seized the city gate, fortunately Li Longji desperately died in the palace, and repelled his attack with the sharpness of the Heavenly Sword, otherwise, Xuzhou was almost lost.

But even so, he was already a complete victory, counting men and horses, and only 30,000 horse infantry were damaged.

In the tent of the Chinese army, only the strategists were noble and solemn, and An Lushan laughed: "Happy! Li Longji's one-armed child, today is a complete failure, if it weren't for the fact that there are many real generals under him, he would have died. However, sooner or later, I will capture him and make him completely subordinate to me, haha, I don't want to kill him. ”

"Your Majesty, although we won a big victory in this battle, we also relied on the power of the Tang Dynasty. If it weren't for him to contain people like Guo Ziyi, even if we won, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to win so cleanly. "Noble speaks first.

"You're right. But what I want to know is, did the Tang Dynasty go all out? ”

Yan Zhuang saw An Lushan's eyes looking at him, and hurriedly offered advice: "In the opinion of the minister, he did his best, don't you see that generals like Yang Jian and Lu Xun died under him?" However, the little one thought that Guo Ziyi was really not an idle person, and he was able to withstand the impact of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"You're right, too. So tell me, what do we do next? ”

"Weichen thinks that with our current strength, it is very difficult to capture Xuzhou alone, and now that the Tang Dynasty is here, once Xuzhou is occupied, our troops are not enough to deter the Tang Dynasty. We now only have 100,000 cavalry, which is the same as the Tang Dynasty, and the elite level is roughly the same, we have 300,000 infantry, although the number is far more than the 100,000 infantry of the Tang Dynasty, but in a small view, the elite degree of our infantry is not as good as that of the Tang Dynasty. I think the reason why the Tang Dynasty only brought 200,000 soldiers and horses was also intended to make us believe that he was really here to help in the war, not to grab territory with Your Majesty. Gao Shang once again expressed his opinion.

"What Aiqing said is ah, now the world is undecided, the Tang Dynasty must also understand that if we don't eradicate the power of the Li family first, then both of us are in danger of annihilation, of course I don't doubt him, but I have to guard against him, I want to send someone to invite him to my account now, do you think this is okay?"

Yan Zhuang hurriedly shook his hand: "Your Majesty, don't do this." Tang Dynasty this person's martial arts, according to small estimates, can already be regarded as the first in the world, it is said that he can also send out invisible sword energy, such a powerful person, and the small still remembers, he was on the eve of His Majesty's army against the Tang Dynasty, and he also went to Fan Yang to assassinate His Majesty, such a femme fatale-like person, must not let him get close to His Majesty's Wan Jinzhi, if our two armies have any action, we can send capable cadres to pass the word. ”

"Why, am I afraid of him?" An Lushan disagreed, since he was frightened under the assassination of the Tang Dynasty, he felt that his martial arts had reached a higher level, and he also wanted to compete with the Tang Dynasty.

Gao Shang said: "Your Majesty, Yan Zhuang's words are not unreasonable. Confucius said: A gentleman does not drink the water of the stolen spring, but the water of the stolen spring tastes sweet, which is much better than ordinary water, and this is because a virtuous gentleman like His Majesty should not approach such a femme fatale. ”

"Hehe, since you all say so, then I will postpone the appointment with the Tang Dynasty, but the current situation, although our troops are fine, they are not enough to occupy Xuzhou, let alone resist the attack that may come from the Tang Dynasty, we have to call Shi Siming over, what do you think?"

"Your Majesty's words are very true! When the situation in Xuzhou was unclear, General Shi Siming had 100,000 cavalry in his hands, which was unreasonable. Of course, Your Majesty, you didn't expect that Li Heng would advance the battle line to Xuzhou to fight a decisive battle with us at that time, which is also the reason why we were not fully prepared. The 100,000 cavalry each guarding Luoyang and Tongguan naturally cannot be moved. After all, this is the foundation of our Dayan Imperial Court. Since His Majesty believed in Sun Xiaozhe and asked him to lead 100,000 cavalry to defend Luoyang, there was no problem in the slightest. And His Majesty will continue to let Ge Shuhan guard Tongguan tightly, there is no problem, after all, he is now a traitor to Li Longji, and it is impossible to go back, we just need to monitor whether he is secretly communicating with the Tang Dynasty. Now our rear is extremely stable, the top priority is to transfer General Shi Siming's 100,000 cavalry to the front line in Xuzhou, when we have the ability to crush the Tang Dynasty and Li Longji, once Xuzhou is captured, and the Tang Dynasty agreed to march together, and when the time comes, Lingwu will be captured in one go, it is estimated that Li Longji can only flee in all directions, and cannot form a real resistance. Once Li Longji or the Li family's court is destroyed, it will be time for you to fight a decisive battle with the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, from now on, we must know everything about the Tang Dynasty well, otherwise, we may be taken advantage of by him, and the disaster will arise between the elbows and armpits. ”

"Not bad. I've always been worried that the Tang Dynasty will stab me in the back at any time. ”

"Your Majesty. You and Gao Shang have such worries, that is right, after all, everything should be considered, but we also have to know that now the Tang Dynasty also wants us to eliminate Li Longji one step earlier, judging from today's war, he is working together with us. ”

"Yes, yes. I believe it. But once I withdraw Shi Siming's army to the front line in Xuzhou, what if Li Bai, the sour ding, takes the opportunity to attack my Luoyang? ”

"Your Majesty. This matter is very simple, you only need to send an envoy to the Tang Dynasty army to express your worries, the Tang Dynasty is a person who knows the times, presumably he will also send a special letter of troops to Xuzhou to help the war, when the time comes, your worries, can't you be lifted? ”

"Brilliant plan! That's it, but this envoy, I'm a little embarrassed. His eyes narrowed, and he shook his noble and dignified face.

"If Your Majesty can trust me, Weichen is willing to go." Gao Shang preemptively knelt down.

"Good. I will order you to be an envoy and immediately go to the Tang Dynasty army to deal with this matter, and then do everything after you return to the camp. ”

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The north gate of Xuzhou, the military camp of the Tang Dynasty.

In this battle, the Tang Dynasty killed more than 70,000 enemies, collected tens of thousands of surrendered soldiers, and suffered 30,000 soldiers themselves, but finally defeated the most elite troops under Li Longji.

In the Chinese military tent, the Tang Dynasty first sighed: "Guo Ziyi is really a talent, his own martial arts are strong, not to mention, the soldiers under his command are in their own formation, and they echo from beginning to end, and the fighting spirit is excellent, if it is not for the two generals who are well commanded and brave in battle, even if we have several times his troops, we may not be able to defeat him, presumably, this is the reason why Guo Ziyi automatically went to the north gate to ask for war and wanted to provoke us!" ”

Both Sheva and Wolf Zhengxuan bowed respectfully and thanked the Tang Dynasty. They all knew that in this battle, there were several sneak attacks from Guo Ziyi, all of which were resolved by the emperor of the New Tang Dynasty for them. Of course, a master like them, since Guo Ziyi's previous sneak attack on Wolf Zhengxuan, is a defensive defense, and the possibility of being hit is extremely small, but the battle is full of many uncertain factors, even if they don't die, but the possibility of injury is almost unavoidable.

I don't know why, once the Tang Dynasty supervised the battle behind them, their hearts were very stable and they moved forward bravely. Rondo actually defeated the joint attack of Chai Rong and Guo Ai with a copper hammer, Wolf Zhengxuan defeated Bu Gu Huai'en, leading the army into a no-man's land, Sheva took the opportunity to defeat Yu Chaoen, forcing him to retreat, the Tang Dynasty took the opportunity to command the army to charge, under the power of his Xuantie Sword, after several hours of battle, finally defeated Guo Ziyi, drove him to the moat.

Wolf Zhengxuan was very angry and wanted to chase into the city to find Guo Ziyi for a decisive battle and punish this villain who attacked him, but Yang Jian and Lu Xun resisted and died under his elusive arrow.

Shewa first said: "Your Majesty, Guo Ziyi is really a talent!" If it weren't for Your Majesty here, we might have lost the battle. You're right, it's because of his soldiers that he wants to challenge you. ”

"Hehe, but how can he compare to Your Majesty, I believe this battle can make him sober." Wolf Zhengxuan's anger at him continued.

Tang Chao smiled: "The general has won the award, in fact, Guo Ziyi is not worse than me, but the soldiers under him, the equipment is really not good, if he has cavalry, we may not be able to win him." ”

"Your Majesty is humble! Even if he has cavalry, his training is far inferior to ours, and when the time comes, under the leadership of His Majesty, he will still not be an opponent. Wolf Zhengxuan praised him from the bottom of his heart.

Yes, he knew that if it weren't for the Tang Dynasty's timely action, his own life would have been lost in the hands of Guo Ziyi.

He has always felt that except for the Tang Dynasty, there is almost no one in this world who is his opponent, including Sheva, but now he knows that there are still characters like Guo Ziyi in the Central Plains.

"If you're polite, General Wolf won't say anything. Have you sent it, after Li Longji was the general of the north-south war this time, according to the report of his subordinates, why was Li Guangbi not among them? ”

He ...... Where did he go? ”

"Based on my guess, he may have gone to Lingwu to move the rescue soldiers! Also, after this battle, An Lushan should know that Li Longji is not easy to deal with, and when the time comes, he may move troops, and if I guess correctly, he will send someone to discuss with me. ”

Just as he was saying this, the voice of the herald came from outside the door: "The envoy of Dayan is noble and asks to see you." ”