The next day, Li Yu went to his sworn brother Ye Protector to talk about the past.

Ye Hu was not surprised by the Li Tang royal family's rebellion, after all, even he felt outrageous about it.

To be reasonable, the Hui are not strictly foreigners. Since the early years of Zhenguan, Hui Hui has established relatively close ties with the Tang Dynasty. In the twentieth year of Zhenguan, the Hui went south to cooperate with the Tang army to exterminate Xue Yantuo and establish the Hui Khanate. And sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty.

According to Ma Duanlin's "General Examination of Literature, Volume 345, Examination of the Four Descendants 347", Hui Hui wrote during this mission: "(Xue) Yantuo is not a big country, and he kills himself, and his subordinates are scattered and do not know what to do. Now each has a share of the land, and he is willing to return to the Son of Heaven, please put Tang Guan".

Probably means that Xue Yantuo is really self-defeating if he doesn't mess with his eldest brother, but I don't like to go back to him, I want to mess with my eldest brother.

As soon as Li Shimin heard that the little brother was so good, of course, it was very good, so he personally went to Lingwu to meet the envoy, and officially set up state capitals in the Hui Ministries, and Datang and the Hui began to gradually establish a friendly and mutual assistance relationship. During the Anshi Rebellion, Hui also sent troops many times to help the Tang court quell the rebellion, and even united with Anxi and Beiting to resist the attack of Tubo on the Western Regions many times, and once reopened the Silk Road cut off by Tubo.

And Hui Hui has always thought that he and the Tang Dynasty are the country of uncles and nephews, and the two countries marry each other's daughters, and the Hui Khan also calls himself a son to the Tang Dynasty. By the time of the Song Dynasty, the Uighurs had called the Song Dynasty their uncle and their nephews. It is also recorded in the History of the Song Dynasty and the Biography of Khotan that the khans of the Qarakhanid Dynasty called the emperor of the Song Dynasty "the uncle of the Han family".

Therefore, unlike ordinary foreigners, the Tang court allowed the Hui to plunder, which in the eyes of the Hui itself belonged to picking grass and beating rabbits. Now that Tang Ting has expressed remorse, he did not force them to help the boxing, which is not an unacceptable thing in itself. Besides, there is no need for a rift in the relationship between the two countries because of this trivial matter.

In Ye Hu's opinion, what his righteous brother Li Yu said was unbelievable at all. Your ancestor Li Tang said that the spirit will appear when the spirit appears, why is it so godly? If you want to be able to manifest your spirit, what did you do during the Anshi Rebellion? What did Empress Wu do when he called the "Yan Peck Emperor Sun"?

In line with the principle of seeing through and not saying it, Ye Hu said, "Ah, yes, yes, yes", and he didn't argue with Li Yu about anything.

A few days later, Guo Ziyi and Li Siye also came to Fengxiang. Li Qing also paid attention to the legendary Anxi god of war who "was the heir to the throne", and this general was even taller and stronger than Wei Chigong. Compared with Li Siye, Yu Chigong has become Zagu.

When Guo Ziyi saw that it was not Li Heng sitting on the main seat, but Li Shimin, whom he didn't know, one hand pressed on the hilt of the sword.

Li Shimin couldn't help but sigh a little, Li Heng had such a loyal and brave man and couldn't make good use of it, and even became suspicious and led to the defeat of Yecheng, he was really the first faint king in the world.

Li Yu, the king of Guangping, immediately went out to stop him: "General Guo, don't be rude!" This is my Majesty Taizong of the Tang Dynasty! ”

Guo Ziyi's other hand was still rubbing his beard, but when he heard that he didn't use the right force, he pulled off several of them.

This made him feel bad, and this beard had been raised for a long time to grow so long......

There was no extra time to feel sorry for his beard, and after he came back to his senses, he frowned and said, "Your Highness, don't be joking, where is Your Majesty now?" ”

"You say Li Heng? Li Heng is in prison. Li Xiaosan, who was standing on the side, said locally.

Following the voice, seeing Li Longji, Guo Ziyi was shocked, and hurriedly surrendered his hand to ask for peace: "Minister Guo Ziyi, see the emperor." ”

"No courtesy...... I'm not the coward who took refuge in Shu. Li Xiaosan waved his hand: "What Li Yu said is true, the one sitting on the main seat is really my Majesty Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and beside him is His Majesty Gaozong." ”

Li Siye behind Guo Ziyi immediately pulled him to salute, don't care what's going on, even if Li Yu can deceive himself, the Emperor Taishang will never do it, right?

I just don't know why this emperor looks so young.

“…… That's the basic thing. Li Yu spent a long time talking, and finally let the half-believing Guo Ziyi understand the ins and outs of the matter. I can't help but believe it, the divine soldiers descended from the sky, and suddenly a cart of bread people came out to control Li Heng, and beat him half to death, except for the ancestors of the Li Tang royal family, I'm afraid no one can be so merciful.

Now is before the war, and there are not so many courtesies and politeness, and after simply and perfunctorily saying that Taizong's manifestation is the luck of the Tang Dynasty, Guo Ziyi quickly entered the state and began to discuss and negotiate the issue of the battle.

Guo Ziyi was very worried about the lack of help from the Hui cavalry. At present, the enemy and us are evenly matched, and the elite Hui cavalry is urgently needed to play a decisive role at the critical moment. But when Li Yu said that Taizong would send troops to help, Guo Ziyi had no doubts, and immediately said that there was no problem.

So, on September 12, Marshal Li Yu and Deputy Marshal Guo Ziyi led 150,000 troops, known as 200,000, and marched to Chang'an.

The Tang army learned the lesson of being flanked by the rebels in Qingqu, increased its in-depth deployment, strengthened flank cover, and took Li Siye as the front army, Guo Ziyi led the middle army, and Wang Sili led the rear army. On September 24, the Tang army arrived in the west of Chang'an. In the north of Xiangji Temple, the east bank of Fengshui formed an army formation and waited for it.

Perhaps the rebel commander An Shouzhong felt that he had easily defeated the Tang army several times, and began to be proud of the enemy, so he did not choose to hold on to the city, but chose to line up north of Xiangji Temple and engage in field battles with the Tang army.

Li Shimin also decided to use this battle to test the training results of the new army, and selected a brigade of 5,000 line infantry to go to Germany to participate in the battle in the second year.

The two armies confronted each other until noon, and a group of elite cavalry rushed out of the rebel army, led by the rebel general Li Guiren.

"What kind of medicine is sold in this rebel gourd? Is it possible to use cavalry to attack our army's formation? Seeing the rebel cavalry slowly approaching, Li Siye put his hand on the pergola and gave an order: "Archer, prepare to release arrows!" Shoot them back! ”

It's no wonder that Li Siye didn't panic, the two armies fought normally, and the cavalry didn't frame it first, and went directly to the opposite infantry position A - unless it was absolutely necessary, this kind of loser tactic would not be used.

Li Guiren led the cavalry to roar, and when he arrived at the front of the formation, he did not rush directly as he imagined, but chose to provoke in front of the military formation, and constantly shot with arrows. Although this arrow did not cause any damage to the armored Tang Army, the insult was indeed quite heavy.

Not to be outdone, the Tang army returned fire with bows and arrows, and after several waves of arrow rain, Li Guiren left more than a dozen corpses in a hurry.

"General, I think they're here to tease." The soldiers around Li Siye couldn't help laughing when they looked at Li Guiren who fled in the wilderness.

Li Siye frowned, he had no idea what kind of medicine was being sold in the rebels' gourd.

For the generals of the rebel army, Li Siye can be said to know very well, everyone comes out of the same system, there is no reason for anyone to suddenly have a bad disease, unless it is said that the supreme commander has a bad brain. But now that An Lushan is obviously dead, An Qingxu has run away, it is impossible to operate here, so this situation is unpredictable.

After a while, Li Guiren went and returned with the cavalry, still provoking in front of the battle, and fled in a hurry after being shot into a hedgehog.

After going back and forth like this a few times, Li Siye's brows became deeper and deeper. Although he has been in battle for a long time, he has never seen such an abstract style of play.

Soon, Li Guiren reappeared in front of the Tang army with people. But this time, Li Guiren obviously did not continue the previous abstract play, but rushed into the Tang army's military formation with his elite cavalry. The Tang army may have been a little lax, and in an instant it was almost torn apart by General Li Guiren's formation.

But the cavalry was obviously no match for the infantry who had already completed the formation, and seeing that nearly half of his men were killed or wounded, Li Guiren shouted loudly and retreated with his soldiers.

"General, do you want to pursue?" The person next to Li Siye asked.

Li Siye squeezed the Mo knife tightly in his big hand, and he was weighing whether he should catch up and expand the results of the battle.

It stands to reason that the return of the defeated cavalry to their own camp will cause some disturbance, and if they seize this fighter to press on it, it is likely to expand the results of the battle.

As he pondered, the cavalry on the flank suddenly moved.

"Damn, who the made them move?" Li Siye's eyes were split, "Do they also want to learn from the rebels and send them with cavalry?" ”

Scolding and scolding, Li Siye didn't want the cavalry to go deep into the dumplings, so he had no choice but to order the front army to follow up and launch an attack on the enemy's position.

Li Siye led the army into the rebel front army, carrying dozens of catties of Mo knives in his hand, like a god descending to earth, like entering a no-man's land, no one could resist him for a round. Within half an hour of contact between the two armies, the rebels began to rout and retreated.

The red-eyed Tang army was so eager to fight for merit that it was completely unstoppable, and it completely ignored the rebel army formation in front of them.

When the Tang army was in front of the battle, suddenly the rebels began to gallop in the formation, and the sound of neat shouts and killings was earth-shattering. Tang Jun had never seen such a scene, and the horror spread like a plague in the army, and he couldn't help but start to retreat, and the formation gradually became chaotic because of fear. The rebels took advantage of the situation to cover up, and the Tang army gradually lost the advantage on the battlefield.

However, when the Tang army could not hold on and began to show signs of rout, the rebels began to loot the armaments and materials dropped by the Tang army, and no matter how much Li Guiren shouted, they could not stop it. Taking advantage of this stall, Li Siye shouted loudly: "Stop the for Lao Tzu!" ”

After all, Li Siye is a veteran general on the battlefield, and Ji Wei is still there, hearing his words, Tang Jun stopped running away as if he had found the backbone.

"If we don't fight to the death today, we'll all be killed by the rebels one by one! Brethren! Follow Lao Tzu! ”

As soon as the words fell, Li Siye pulled his armor, revealing his upper body muscles. He took the lead with his sword, shouting loudly, and after each roar, there would definitely be enemy soldiers killed in his hands. Wherever the blade of the Mo knife went, people turned on their backs.

"General! Be careful! Li Siye's own soldiers reminded loudly that he saw a rebel cavalryman in heavy armor rushing towards his general. The mace in the horseman's hand was already raised high, and there was a triumph in his eyes.

When Li Siye heard this reminder, he roared like a tiger, and he carried a Mo knife and aimed it at the armored cavalry who rushed towards him, and slashed it off with all his strength.

In the eyes of the surrounding Tang army, the cavalry was directly cut into two pieces by Li Siye and his horses! Not even the men and horses made even a scream!

"The General's Mighty !!"

Seeing that their generals were so brave, the Tang army shouted, broke free from the panic, and began to turn back to fight the rebels. After Li Siye rushed left and right, and after killing dozens of people in a row, the ranks of the Tang army gradually returned to strict order.

"Brethren! Array! Li Siye ordered loudly, and then the front army immediately formed a formation, lined up with long-handled weapons, and advanced like a wall.

"The Tang Dynasty is mighty!" Li Siye roared, every time Mo knife was cut down, it was a rebel's fresh life.

"The Tang Dynasty is mighty!" Tang Jun also shouted with Li Siye, this Tang Dynasty was mighty, and injected them with infinite strength.

Seeing this, Guo Ziyi immediately ordered the first section of the Chinese army to enter the battle, so as to prevent Li Siye from running out of manpower.

Li Siye's subordinates are all old brothers who came from the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate with him, and they have gradually grown into the elite of a hundred battles in the battle with Dashi and Tubo all year round. The formation of these men was like a meat grinder, steadily and efficiently rushing towards the rebel central army.

The commander of the rebel army, An Shouzhong, stood in the middle army, looked at the advancing Tang army, and did not panic, but calmly said to the herald beside him: "Give the order, let Li Guiren lead his troops to attack!" ”

On the back side of the hill east of the position, Li Guiren, who had just lured the enemy deep into the battle, was leading his subordinates to lie in ambush here, waiting for the commander's order to go to the battlefield to make a final decision.

After receiving An Shouzhong's order, Li Guiren immediately led his army out. However, their actions had long been detected by the scouts sent by the Tang army general Gu Huaien, and when they rushed out, they were caught and killed by the rear army of the Tang army.

Until the end of the day, the two sides were still inseparable, and they couldn't tell the winner at all.

"What about Taizong? What about His Majesty Taizong? Guo Ziyi asked Li Yu beside him.

Li Yu opened his mouth: "I don't say!" ”

Guo Ziyi took a deep breath, he was starting to regret it a little now, if he didn't listen to Li Yu's words and go back to borrow the four thousand cavalry, maybe he might not be in the current stalemate now.

"King, General!" The herald beside him suddenly pointed to the smoke and dust in the distance: "Look, what is that?" ”

Not only them, but the rebel An Qingxu also saw the thick smoke and dust in the distance.

Soon, even if the shouts on the battlefield shook the sky, strange music could be heard from the direction of smoke and dust, as well as dense drum beats. After another moment, whether it was Guo Ziyi or An Qingxu, they finally saw that from the smoke and dust, out of the smoke and dust, there were groups of soldiers lined up neatly and dressed in colorful clothes.

(Tomorrow morning, I'll have a meal, I'm so hungry...... Ask for a commuter pass)

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