Military orders were quickly issued from Mobei City to all parts of the grassland.
After receiving the order, the Mobei Army's 20,000 cavalry came from various stations in the grassland to Mobei City to assemble.
On the sixth day of October, all the Mobei Army gathered in the military camp outside Mobei City and stood ready.
A large amount of strategic materials, grain, cattle, sheep and horses also gathered from various places in Mobei City.
On the eighth day of October, the Deputy Protector of Shanyu, the Lord of Mobei City, Zhang Shouyu, the envoy of the Mobei Army, Xue Song, the deputy envoy of the Mobei Army, and a group of officials and generals from the Shanyu Governor's Mansion and the City Lord's Mansion came to the camp outside the city.
The drumbeat of the emergency assembly sounded, and countless soldiers of the Mobei Army rushed out of the barracks and ran to the stables, all dressed up, and rode to the school grounds to assemble.
In the space of a cup of tea, nearly 20,000 cavalrymen were all assembled.
Zhang Shouyu, Xue Song and others stepped onto the ordering platform with their swords pressed.
The school ground was silent and silent.
Zhang Shouyu stepped forward and said loudly: "Soldiers, do you know why we are gathering here today?
Sixteen years ago, General Zhao Ziliang, the first commander of the Mobei Army, led the Hedong Army out of the border and crossed the Mobei, sweeping across all ethnic groups in the grassland.
The once powerful The Turks, Xi people, Khitans, Uighurs, and Geluolu people, all the grassland overlords, have all disappeared in the river of history.
Here, under the leadership of General Zhao Ziliang, we built We moved to Mobei City and spread the power of the Tang Dynasty to the north of the vast sea.
Sixteen years have passed.
The former strong men have become old men, the former young men have now become strong men, and the children have become strong young men.
We We have dedicated our youth and blood to the Tang Dynasty here, and we have protected the northern frontier of the Tang Dynasty.
Last year, An Lushan rebelled and sent people to surrender us.
We only had 20,000 people, while the rebels numbered hundreds of thousands.
Due to the disparity in strength, the generals and officials and I decided to surrender and pretend to join the rebels, but we will never send troops to attack the court.
Today is a special day.
We have been waiting for this day for fifteen years, because fifteen years Before, General Zhao Ziliang, the first commander-in-chief of our Mobei Army, predicted that Anlushan might rebel.
Before he left, he made an agreement with us that when his messenger came, it would be me.
When our Mobei Army raised troops and went south to participate in countering the rebellion, the time has finally come.
We must fulfill our agreement to rebel from time to time.
We cannot associate with the rebels.
We are the army of the Tang Dynasty.
It is our duty to defend the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
Now I order "The 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th Battalions will stay with me in Mobei.
The other battalions will go south with General Xue Song to suppress the rebellion.
The army will set off tomorrow and rush south to attack the Youzhou rebel base."
"Hoar, roar, roar" all the soldiers of the Mobei Army raised their weapons and roared loudly.
Early the next morning, the Mobei Army's 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th Battalions, as well as a large amount of combat supplies, cattle and sheep, were ready.
Following Xue Song's order, the army began to head south.
Zhang Shouyu looked at the retreating army and couldn't help but shed tears.
This time he went south to put down the rebellion.
He really wanted to personally lead the troops there, but Mobei could not be left unguarded.
The barbarians remaining on the grassland now were not So peaceful, the power that Zhao Ziliang left in Mobei fifteen years ago has gradually been forgotten by these barbarians with the passage of time.
They want to drive away the Tang people and rise again.
In Taiyuan, overwhelming shouts of killing came from all directions into the city.
Outside the city, rebel soldiers were as dense as ants carrying siege ladders, pushing well orchids and ballistae towards the city wall.
On the wall were the Tang Army garrison generals and soldiers.
They stared nervously at the rushing rebels.
It has been nearly two months since the rebels besieged and attacked Taiyuan City.
It has been more than ten days since Ma Lin and Pugu Huai'en arrived in Taiyuan with 20,000 troops.
When they arrived in Taiyuan, it happened that the rebels of Shi Siming and Cai Xide were attacking.
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Taiyuan City launched a fierce attack.
At that time, the two men joined forces and immediately launched a surprise attack on the rebels.
Unprepared, the rebels of Shi Siming and Cai Xide were defeated and suffered tens of thousands of losses.
Since most of the troops they fought this time were infantry and very few cavalry, they were unable to pursue them in depth, which made Shi Si Ming and Cai Xide were able to take a breather and quickly gathered their troops to re-siege Taiyuan.
Facing the rebels of Shi Siming and Cai Xide who had absolutely superior strength, Ma Lin and Pugu Huaien set up a battle array outside Taiyuan City to fight the rebels.
The two sides fought from dawn to dusk.
Shi Siming and Cai Xide took advantage of their large numbers.
Taking turns to be pregnant with Ma Lin and Pugu The Tang army under the command of En attacked.
After dark, the two sides in a stalemate had to stop fighting and retreated.
Faced with the rebels' superior strength, Ma Lin and Pugu Huai'en had to lead their troops to retreat into Taiyuan City to take advantage of The city walls withstood rebel attacks.
Another day passed.
Despite the city wall protection, the Tang army still suffered many casualties.
However, Shi Siming and Cai Xide's rebels did not care about this loss because of their large numbers.
That night, Li Guangbi held a defense meeting at the Jiedushi Mansion.
Except for the generals who defended the city, all other generals in the army attended.
Among them were Li Baoyu and Yong Xihao, Li Baoyu and Yong Xihao, who had been under Li Guangbi since he took office in Hedong.
Li Fei Yuanli, who came from Anxi with three thousand troops, in addition to Ma Lin and Pugu Huai'en, there were also other generals with slightly smaller official positions.
Li Guangbi looked at the generals and said: "The rebels have been besieging the city for a long time.
Although our food and grass in the city are said to be able to last for a few months, we have to make plans in advance.
What do you think?"
Ma Lin stood up and clasped his fists and said: "General, these days, the rebel army's siege has become stronger and stronger.
If this continues, it will be quite detrimental to our army.
We cannot always be passively beaten.
The general believes that we should seize the opportunity Opportunity to fight back" Li Guangbi nodded and said: "Yes, I have already thought about this issue.
There are two ways to counterattack the enemy.
First, our Taiyuan city wall is tall, strong and thick.
I think we can set up trebuchets on the city wall.
In this way, the catapult can be projected farther and can not only attack the enemy's Catapults can also be used by rebel soldiers to attack; secondly, since ancient times, siege tactics have included digging warfare, that is, digging tunnels.
We have also discovered and destroyed the enemy's digging warfare twice, so why not On the contrary, since the rebels can dig underground, why can't we dig from inside the city to the rebel camp outside the city?"
Pugu Huai'en clapped his hands and laughed: "Yes, Shi Siming and Cai Xide would never have thought that we would use this trick against him."
The generals laughed: "Hahaha" After laughing, Li Guangbi said: "However, this matter still needs to be kept secret.
We are not sure that there are no rebels in the city, so the entrance to the cave must be hidden, easy to defend and easy to transport soil.
In addition, we must pay attention to confidentiality."
All the generals said in unison: "General, don't worry."
That night, Li Guangbi and other generals organized troops overnight to disassemble and transport dozens of trebuchets to the city wall, and completed the assembly.
They also began to dig caves outside the city.
The soldiers of the army did not know how to dig caves.
He was good at it, but the common people did a good job.
Li Guangbi only sent troops to enforce martial law outside the entrance, and left the digging of the cave to the temporarily recruited common people.
On the morning of the tenth day of October, Shi Siming's rebels continued to attack the city.
A large number of rebel soldiers rushed towards the city wall.
Li Guangbi organized soldiers to fire arrows at the rebels below the city, while ordering trebuchets to bombard the rebels' trebuchets outside the city.
The trebuchets set up on the city wall had the advantage of high terrain, and the throwing distance was much farther, and the sight was also good.
The rebels' trebuchets had not cast a few rounds before they were hit by the trebuchets set up on the city wall by the Tang army.
It's rotten.
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"Okay, okay."
Seeing the rebels' trebuchets being destroyed one after another, the soldiers of the Tang Army on the city wall cheered loudly.
Before the rebels could climb the city wall, all the rebel trebuchets were smashed.
Upon seeing this, Li Guangbi immediately ordered the trebuchet to throw stone projectiles at the densely packed rebels rushing towards the city far away.
Suddenly, the stone projectiles flew into the sky and fell among the rebels.
Each stone projectile hit one of the rebels after falling to the ground.
However, they rolled all the way out and knocked over a dozen rebels.
The impact of the continuous falling stone bullets was too great and the rolling speed was too fast.
The rebel soldiers had no time to escape, and all the rebel soldiers in their path were hit.
Became meat sauce.
The rolling rocks caused extremely heavy casualties to the rebels.
The rebel soldiers were so frightened that they turned around and began to flee.
Rebel generals Gao Hui, Li Riyue, Yu Wenjing and others killed dozens of people one after another but failed to stop the retreat.
Ma Lin, who was guarding the city on the city wall, saw the rebels fleeing and immediately suggested to Li Guangbi: "Now that the rebels are in retreat, it is better to gather all the cavalry in the city and go out to pursue them.
We will definitely win a complete victory."
Li Guangbi was convinced, and immediately ordered Ma Lin to gather all the cavalry in the city and go out to chase the enemy.
Shi Siming and Cai Xide, who were commanding from the rear, did not expect that the Tang army setting up trebuchets on the city wall would cause such great damage.
Now, The army's morale had been lost and it was difficult to organize an attack.
They were about to gather their soldiers and fight another day, but they didn't expect that the Tang army opened the city gate and thousands of cavalry came out from the city to cover them up.
They were so frightened that they immediately fought Cai Xide.
The horse bolted and fled.
Ma Lin led thousands of cavalry to pursue them for more than 30 miles, wiping out more than 70,000 enemies before they could return.
After this battle, the rebels were severely weakened.
Before the siege of Taiyuan, there were 300,000 troops.
Shi Siming, Cai Xide and others gathered the remaining soldiers.
The defeated general received only two hundred thousand, and tens of thousands more fled without a trace.
After this defeat, Shi Siming and Cai Xide felt deeply humiliated and vowed to regroup and attack Taiyuan and kill everyone.
On October 20th, Shi Siming and Cai Xide's rebels made a comeback, and an army of 200,000 took turns to attack Taiyuan.
Taiyuan City was in danger for a while.
However, on October 20th, a fast horse came from Fanyang, bringing news that the Mobei Army had attacked the Great Wall Pass and was approaching Fanyang City.
The danger of their old nest being destroyed made Shi Siming and Cai Xide no longer interested in attacking Taiyuan.
Lead the army to quickly return to Fanyang City to aid
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