At dawn on the ninth day of April, the beating of drums rang out in the camp on the east bank of the Hengluosi River.
The soldiers of the Tang Army came out of the barracks to assemble in the school grounds, and the cooks began to light fires to rebel.
After the morning exercises, the soldiers lined up to take turns to receive breakfast and three days of marching rations.
Everyone knew that they were going to fight.
The well-informed military leaders and soldiers also learned that they would return to the Central Plains to suppress the rebellion.
It was already Chen time when we had breakfast.
All the soldiers and military leaders received orders from their superiors and packed their bags to prepare for the expedition.
They only had two-quarters of an hour to prepare.
After packing, they were fully armed, carrying marching blankets on their backs, and leading their horses to gather at the school ground.
Roll call.
At three o'clock in the morning, everyone was ready.
The soldiers stood in square formations according to their respective teams on the school field.
Zhao Ziliang and the Beiting Protectorate, the Xingying Jiedushi Mansion, the three Protectorate's Mansion, each army, and the town All the main military and political officials arrived on horseback.
Lai Yi was the marching commander of the army.
He was standing on the stage with his sword in hand.
When he saw Zhao Ziliang and a group of civil servants and military generals coming on horseback, he immediately stepped down to greet him.
When Zhao Ziliang dismounted, he stepped forward to report: "The Festival of Initiation" Commander, all the 20,000 soldiers in advance of the expedition have been assembled and are ready to go at any time."
Zhao Ziliang nodded, and walked up to the ordering platform with his sword on his face expressionlessly.
Other officers from the general school followed suit, and the stage was quickly filled with people.
Zhao Ziliang stood at the front of the ordering platform, holding his sword and standing across from Lai Yi, nodding and saying: "Let's begin."
Lai Yi nodded in agreement and said loudly to the 20,000 soldiers in the audience: "Everyone please pay attention and ask Marshal Zhao, the Protector of the Beiting and the Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Camp, to give you a lecture."
With a "boom", all the soldiers stood at attention and put their weapons on the ground.
Zhao Ziliang stepped forward and raised his voice and said loudly: "Soldiers, we are going out today.
Why are we going out this time?
Who are we going to fight?
Many of you must already know.
Yes, Yuan Fan Yang, Lu Long, An Lushan, the governor of the three towns in Hedong, openly rebelled against our Tang Dynasty, and we are going to attack him this time."
"Soldiers, why do you join the army?
Some do it to make money to support their families, some do it to express their ambitions, and some do it to build a career.
No matter what your reasons are, you have all sacrificed your sweat and blood to protect the prosperity and strength of the Tang Dynasty.
You Everyone once felt honored and proud to be the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Now, the mountains and rivers are broken, the people are displaced, and people are starving everywhere.
The land that gave birth to us and our parents and relatives are being bullied by the rebels.
The Tang Dynasty that we have sacrificed our lives and blood to protect is being destroyed.
Our glory and pride as people of the Tang Dynasty are being trampled on.
This is what we are.
The shame of a soldier, the shame of a soldier must be washed away with the blood of the enemy.
Are you willing to follow me back to the Central Plains to fight to the death with the rebels?"
The overwhelming voices on the school field came: "Yes, yes, yes, yes" "Kill kill kill" Liu Tiao, who was standing behind the ordering platform, wiped away his tears and said to Dugujun and Gao Shi: "What an exciting moment and scene.
The soldiers are angry and have high morale.
When they go to the Central Plains, they will definitely win."
Gao Shi said: "We are the army of justice.
Therefore, those who have the right to defeat the unjust.
Our own combat power is comparable to that of tigers and wolves.
Coupled with high morale and sophisticated weapons and protective equipment, An Lushan's people will definitely not be our opponents."
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Dugujun continued: "With a peerless general like Jieshuai commanding this tiger and wolf army full of justice, who else in the world can be his rival?
An Lushan and his like are only qualified to run rampant in the Central Plains, which has not experienced war for a long time."
At this time, Zhao Ziliang finished taking the oath, drew his sword and pointed eastward, shouting: "Bring up camp and go to war!"
Everyone in the school grounds collectively got on their horses, and all battalions and units began to line up one after another.
Countless colorful military flags in the army were raised, and even Zhao Ziliang's commander's flag was erected by his personal followers under the stage.
After half of the army had left the camp, Zhao Ziliang walked up to Liu Tiao, Dugujun, Gao Shi, Zhao Hu and others and said, "I'll leave Beiting to you."
Everyone clasped their fists and bowed: "Please don't worry, Commander-in-Chief, we will fulfill our duties to the best of our ability."
Zhao Ziliang stepped down from the military platform, got on his horse, took the golden nails from the shoulders of the two soldiers and inserted them into the victory hook, then rode his horse and trotted away from the camp.
Chu Ge, Li Sheng, Bai Xiaode and Pu Guhuai Generals such as En and officials such as Cen Shen and Zheng San also mounted their horses to follow.
Outside the camp, almost all the family members of the generals who went on the expedition were present.
Zhao Ziliang stopped his horse and said to the people behind him: "Say goodbye to your family, hurry up."
Everyone rode their horses and ran towards their families.
Zhao Ziliang also jumped off his horse and walked to Chen Qingying, Nie Sanniang and several children.
Zhao Shan's family also came.
Zhao Ziliang touched the faces of the two ladies and said, "I will leave the house to you."
The two women said: "Don't worry, husband, we and the children are waiting for your return at home."
Zhao Ziliang walked up to his eldest son Zhao Lei and touched his head: "You are already an adult.
After your father leaves, you must study hard and practice martial arts.
Don't be naughty and make your aunt and second mother angry, you know?"
Zhao Lei nodded and said: "Don't worry, father, the child knows."
Zhao Ziliang walked up to his brother Zhao Shan and his sister-in-law Zhao Li and saluted: "Zi Liang has a long way to go and I don't know when he will be able to return.
Take care, brother and sister-in-law."
Zhao Shandao: "Second brother, please take care and have a safe journey."
Zhao Ziliang nodded, turned around, got on his horse, turned to look at everyone again, and waved to the three hundred retinue: "Let's go."
The relatives watched everyone galloping away on horseback, and they couldn't help crying and waved goodbye until the outgoing army gradually disappeared.
In order to increase the marching speed and speed up the journey, Zhao Ziliang ordered the entire army to march no less than 300 miles per day, and the reconnaissance cavalry and sentry posts should march even faster.
The road to Tingzhou has been completely built into a cement road, which is flat and clean.
There are town markets and tribes along the way.
Food, grass and water can be replenished at any time.
On the way to Tingzhou, the 20,000-strong army continued to collect troops from various towns and garrisons.
By the time they arrived in Tingzhou, all the 40,000-strong army had been assembled.
It only took ten days, but they continued to march 300 troops a day.
The soldiers were a little tired after traveling more than a mile.
After the army arrived in Tingzhou, Zhao Ziliang ordered a day's rest, and then the army continued to advance eastward.
Once you leave the border of Beiting, the road will be difficult to walk.
Even Xizhou and Yizhou are full of deserts and deserts.
If you want an army of 40,000 to march more than 300 miles a day, this requires the coach to have extremely strong abilities.
With overall command and coordination capabilities, as long as there is a small problem in any unit on the road, it may delay the entire army's schedule.
In order to save time as much as possible, Zhao Ziliang ordered that only breakfast should be fresh food every day, including steamed buns, meat, and soup.
At noon and evening, he could only eat the dry food he brought with him.
Only when passing through large towns along the way, the entire army would need to rest.
Only then will meals and vegetables be added, fruits, vegetables and meat added.
At this time, most of the soldiers and horses in the border towns in Anxi, Hexi and Longyou had received orders from the imperial court and were transferred to Guanzhong.
When Zhao Ziliang's army passed through Xizhou, Yizhou, Guazhou, Suzhou, Ganzhou, Liangzhou and other places along the way, The number of garrison troops seen was very small, which made Zhao Ziliang quite worried. , if Tubo raises troops to attack at this time, the current garrisons in Guazhou, Suzhou, Ganzhou, Liangzhou and other places will probably be difficult to resist the attack of the Tubo army.
Although Longyou and Hexi have been guarded by Ge Shuhan in recent years, Ge Shuhan Shu Han is a man who is brave and brave, but lacks intelligence and is not good at management.
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After attaining a high position, he was greedy for pleasure and drank wine and beautiful women all day long, which exhausted his body and bones.
This also caused Ge Shuhan, who was only in his fifties, to suffer from a stroke on the way to Beijing.
Nowadays, Hexi and Longyou are empty.
The spies of the Tubo Army are not vegetarians, and the senior officials of the Tubo Kingdom are not blind.
They will not take this opportunity to add insult to injury and take a piece of meat from the Tang Dynasty.
Once the Hexi Corridor is cut off by Tubo, then This will directly lead to the interruption of the Tang Dynasty’s connection with Anxi and Beiting.
Business travelers and messengers who want to go to Anxi will be interrupted.
Xihe Beiting can only take a long detour to the Mobei Plateau, passing through the vast deserts and grasslands, and encountering various nomadic tribes on the way.
Although these nomadic tribes were purged by Zhao Ziliang back then, they were afraid of being beaten.
But these nomadic tribes have always been unruly, killing and looting are commonplace.
Who can guarantee that they will not attack business travelers and messengers?
Although Zhao Ziliang saluted, he was worried about the prosperity of the country, but he had no good solution at this time.
The top priority was how to put down the rebellion in Anlu Mountain.
This rebellion caused great damage to the Tang Dynasty, and the former prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty would never be gone again.
Returned.
On the tenth day of June in the fifteenth year of Tianbao, the Beiting army arrived in Lanzhou after nearly two months of long-distance and rapid march.
This was already the fastest march of the 40,000-strong army, but it was still several days slower than the original plan.
Zhao Ziliang Seeing that the army was exhausted, he ordered to camp outside Lanzhou that night.
At dusk, the camp was filled with the aroma of food.
The soldiers sat in groups on the ground chatting and smelling the aroma of fresh food.
They had not eaten fresh pasta, meat, fruits and vegetables for nearly half a month. , which made all the soldiers look forward to it.
After Zhao Ziliang led people to inspect the camp situation, he came to the Chinese army's camp.
As soon as he sat down and drank a bowl of water, he discussed the next march schedule with Chu Ge, Bai Xiaode, Pugu Huai'en, Li Sheng and others. , at this time Wang Can hurriedly walked in with a letter and clasped his fists: "Commander, urgent report from Chang'an."
Zhao Ziliang asked calmly: "What's the news?"
Wang Can said: "Eight days ago, the Holy One was inspired by Yang Guozhong and issued an order to urge Ge Shuhan to go out to meet the enemy on the grounds that the thieves were unprepared.
On the fourth day of the lunar month, Ge Shuhan had to lead the troops despite being sick after receiving the order.
"Guan meets the enemy" Having said this, Wang Can walked to the map hanging next to him and pointed to the ground to introduce the military situation: "Two hundred thousand troops were camped to the west of Lingbao.
The rebel general Cui Qianyou led his troops to attack.
Ge Shuhan set up his military formation to fight.
There was a fierce battle between the two sides.
Cui Qianyou showed weakness and fled due to the irregularity of his old and weak troops.
Ge Shuhan's army fell into the trap.
The forward Wang Sili led 50,000 cavalry.
Pang Zhong and others followed with an army of 100,000.
More than 30,000 people waved flags and cheered on the north bank of the Yellow River to support the army.
The army was lured to Lingbao and was ambushed by the rebels. .
Lingbao is surrounded by mountains to the south, the Yellow River to the north, and a river of about seventy meters in the middle.
Cui Qianyou had already carefully deployed the long and narrow mountain road here.
After Ge Shuhan's army entered the ambush circle, the rebels threw countless rolling stones and trees from the mountain.
Ge Shuhan's army had no room to retreat and suffered heavy casualties.
The rebels Taking advantage of the victory to pursue, only more than 8,000 people escaped back to Tongguan.
Shu Han gathered the remaining soldiers and prepared to deal with the rebels.
After a short rest, the rebels approached Tongguan.
Huoba Guiren, the Fan general who had been promoted by Ge Shuhan in the early years, and others saw that the situation was over, so they kidnapped Ge Shuhan and dozens of Tang army generals. , opened Tongguan City and surrendered to the rebel general Tian Qianzhen who was approaching Tongguan":