At dawn on October 21st, Ma Lin, who had been on duty on the city wall all night, rubbed his swollen temples, yawned, and started patrolling the city wall with a few soldiers, laying some on the wall. cried the sleeping soldier.
After the sun jumped above the horizon, the sky was getting brighter.
Ma Lin walked on the city wall and turned to look at the rebel camp outside the city.
The rebel camp seemed quiet, with some figures as small as black dots in the crowd.
There was no movement on the watchtower of the camp, a few flags of the Yan Dynasty were hanging feebly, and the noise of the early mornings in the past was completely gone.
After walking a few steps, Ma Lin stopped, frowned and looked at the rebel camp and said, "Hey, that's not right.
Why is the rebel camp so quiet today?"
A soldier next to him also wondered: "Yes, in the past, before dawn, the noise of the rebel camp could be heard far away, but today there is no movement at all.
It's really strange."
"There must be an article in this.
What are Shi Siming and Cai Xide doing?"
Ma Lin touched his chin and kept walking back and forth.
He soon stopped and told the captain of the soldiers next to him: "We must find out the rebels."
What are you doing?
Take a few people on horseback and ride out of the city to investigate near the rebel camp.
If the rebels send people out of the camp to chase them, you can escape separately and return at night."
"Nuo" the captain of the soldiers agreed and led a few people down the tower.
Under Ma Lin's order, the city gate defenders opened the city gate for a horse to pass through, and immediately closed the city gate after the captain of the guards led several people on horseback out of the city.
Ma Lin and all the defenders on the city wall stood on the city wall and watched nervously as the captain of the soldiers dispersed with a few cavalry and slowly approached the rebel camp.
To everyone's surprise, the captain of the soldiers and several other cavalrymen dispersed.
First, they watched for a while one mile away from the camp, and then approached the rebel camp again until they arrived at the gate of the camp.
This made Ma Lin and others stunned.
What is going on?
Are the guards on the archery tower of the rebel camp all dead?
They just watched the guards waiting for them to arrive at the camp gate and turned a blind eye.
What made Ma Lin and all the Tang troops on the wall even more surprised was that the captain of the guards actually pushed away.
After entering the camp gate, he rode directly into the rebel camp.
After a while, one of the cavalrymen who went to investigate with the captain of the soldiers was seen galloping back to the city to report to Ma Lin: "General, there is no one in the rebel camp, and the camp is full of abandoned objects by the rebels."
Unused tattered armor, weapons, flags, and tents.”
"What?"
Ma Lin was stunned for a moment, and immediately told a soldier beside him: "Ride on a fast horse and report to General Li Guangbi.
The others will follow me to the rebel camp to check the situation."
"Promise" all the soldiers agreed with a roar.
Ma Lin galloped into the rebel camp with dozens of soldiers.
Sure enough, the rebel camp was in a mess.
Flags of various colors and sizes were scattered everywhere, as well as some tattered armor and damaged weapons.
Everywhere, many tents were trampled to the ground and covered with mud.
Various military supplies were scattered everywhere.
Ma Lin even found a large amount of grain and grass where the baggage was piled.
Soon, Li Guangbi and other generals came on horseback.
Ma Lin waited for Li Guangbi at the gate of the camp.
Li Guangbi got off his horse and asked, "What happened when he fell to the ground?"
Ma Lin said: "At the end of the morning, I inspected the city wall and found that the rebel camp was too quiet.
I felt something was unusual, so I sent people out of the city to investigate, but I didn't expect that the rebel camp was empty.
There was no sound at all last night.
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Out, the general will guess for sure Something happened in the rear of the rebels, otherwise the rebels would not have been able to retreat quietly.
Shi Siming and Cai Xide were worried about being pursued by our army when they retreated, so they had to evacuate quietly last night, leaving a large amount of baggage behind in the camp.
Look, they left in a hurry."
Li Guangbi immediately ordered: "Let Xizuo inquire about the information immediately.
We must find out as soon as possible why the rebels retreated in a hurry and the direction of the rebels' retreat."
"Nuo" The official in charge of military intelligence collection immediately agreed.
On October 22, the reason why the rebels retreated in a hurry has not yet been determined, but Tan Ma has tracked the direction and path of the rebels' retreat.
Li Guangbi immediately ordered Ma Lin to lead a group of troops to quickly recover the lost territory along the direction of the rebels' retreat.
In less than ten days, Ma Lin pursued the rebels all the way and regained the lost territory along the way, chasing them out of Hedong and into Changshan, Hebei.
After stopping, Jingjing Pass was recaptured by the Tang Army again.
The strategic situation on the central battlefield returned to its previous state.
The Tang Army had changed from passive defense to active attack.
On the first day of November, Li Guangbi and others finally learned the reason why Shi Siming and others suddenly withdrew their troops.
It turned out that the Mobei Army raised the banner of counter-rebellion and marched south to capture the Great Wall Pass and marched to Fanyang City.
This made the rebels The old nest was directly threatened, so Shi Siming and Cai Xide had to lead their troops to quickly return for reinforcements.
Chang'an.
Not long after Zhao Ziliang sent people from Tongguan to deliver the good news of the capture of Tongguan, the news of the relief of Taiyuan and the end of the Battle of Taiyuan soon came.
Xuanzong breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Now it was beneficial to the court, and Xuanzong finally stopped.
No more worries and fears.
Immediately afterwards, Li Guangbi sent a fast horse to Chang'an with the news that the Mobei Army had gone south to capture the Great Wall Pass and was approaching Fanyang City.
On the sixth day of November, the news arrived in Chang'an and was known to Xuanzong and everyone in the government.
The news that the Mobei Army had finally joined the counter-rebellion camp made everyone in the Tang Dynasty rejoice.
Although the Mobei Army only had 20,000 troops, its combat power should not be underestimated, and it also had natural geographical advantages.
Now Mobei Anyway, the rebels were besieged on three sides, with the south, west and north being attacked.
As a result, the situation in the entire strategic situation was completely reversed.
Xuanzong was pleased and conferred the title of Taiwei on Zhao Ziliang, who also served as the Minister of the Ministry of War; Li Guangbi conferred the title of the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and still served as the Governor of Hedong; Zhang Shouyu was granted the title of Tejin, the Right Minister of the Ministry of War, and the General of Huaihua; although Guo Ziyi had no notable achievements, But it can be said that he withstood Gao Xiuyan's attack, and he was promoted to General Yunhui.
Shannan Jiedushi Lu Jiong was granted the title of Tejin and General Yunhui.
Zhang Xun, Lai Ai and Yong Wang were also promoted.
Others were promoted.
The meritorious generals and commanders at each level are also rewarded respectively.
On November 12, Zhao Ziliang was called to the pilgrimage.
He arrived in Chang'an on the 14th and stayed at Chang'an's home.
After traveling for several days, Zhao Ziliang felt a little tired.
He asked his servant to boil some hot water and take a bath.
He was about to go to bed, but he didn't want the housekeeper to report: "Master, there are soldiers outside the door.
I came from Tongguan to see the commander-in-chief and have urgent military information to report."
After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang ignored his fatigue and said to the housekeeper: "Take him to the study to see me."
"promise" Zhao Ziliang sat down in the study and took a few sips of tea, then saw the housekeeper leading a soldier in, who was one of his own soldiers.
"Greetings to the Marshal, General Wang Can ordered me to send two pieces of urgent military information to the Marshal."
Zhao Ziliang took the two letters and opened one of them.
The letter said that Zhang Xun and others who were defending Yongqiu were under great pressure after the rebel general Yin Ziqi became the commander of the attack on Yongqiu.
The rebel general Yin Ziqi's command and control Their ability is far beyond that of Linghu Chao, Li Huaixian, Yang Zongwang and others.
Zhang Xun, Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun and others only have a few thousand troops at hand, and they have withstood the rebel attack for more than half a year.
Although they recruited some government officials and strong men from Yongqiu City to join them, the losses in defending the city in the past six months were also considerable.
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After Yin Ziqi's rebellion, Under the tidal wave of attacks by the army, there were faint signs of being unable to hold on, and the situation in Yongqiu was quite worrying.
Another piece of information is that after most of the Mobei Army captured the Great Wall Pass under the leadership of Xue Song and arrived at Fanyang City, they were unable to attack the city because they were all cavalry and no infantry, so they could only attack the small towns around Fanyang.
After everything was cleaned up, Shi Siming and Cai Xide quickly led their troops to return for reinforcements.
The two sides set up battle formations at the foot of Fanyang City.
The rebels relied on their strength in numbers to fight Xue Song's Mobei Army in three consecutive battles, with no outcome determined.
Xue Song chose to retreat to the Great Wall Pass to garrison in view of the fact that he had no reinforcements and had to go on an expedition.
The army temporarily retreated to the north of the Great Wall, and sent troops to Shanhaiguan to prepare to cut off the connection between Fan Yang and Pinglu.
Regarding the situation in the north, Zhao Ziliang was a little relieved.
With the Mobei Army in the north to contain it, Shi Siming did not dare to go south to capture Hedong.
What worried him was the Lu Jiong tribe in Nanyang and the Zhang Xun tribe in Yongqiu.
After letting the soldier who delivered the message go down to rest, Zhao Ziliang walked to the wall of the study room where the map was hung, held up an oil lamp and looked at the map to find the location of Yongqiu.
Now Yongqiu has become an isolated city, surrounded by rebel forces.
However, this isolated city has contained 100,000 rebels.
This shows that Zhang Xun, Nan Jiyun, Lei Wanchun and others are very capable.
The next day, November 15th, Zhao Ziliang went to the pilgrimage.
Today is the Great Court Meeting.
Although the weather is very cold and Xuanzong doesn't want to get up, he has to go.
Now it is no better than it was during the Kaiyuan Year.
The government is in a mess, the rebels are arrogant, the states all over the world are doing their own thing, and the court's control over the local areas has been lost.
If it drops sharply and continues to be lazy in political affairs, the Tang Dynasty will really be on the verge of collapse.
At the court meeting, the chief officials or adjutants of each yamen in the imperial court reported to Xuanzong how the political affairs had been handled in recent days, and which political affairs the yamen at each level could not make the decision and had to be adjudicated by the emperor.
These were reported to the emperor one by one, and the emperor If the emperor cannot come up with an idea after giving opinions or making a decision on the spot, he will ask the ministers for their opinions.
If the opinions are not unanimous, or the emperor himself cannot make a decision at the same time, he will put it aside temporarily.
At the end of the court meeting, Xuanzong asked Zhao Ziliang: "Zhao Qing has returned from the Tongguan front line.
I wonder what the current war situation is like."
Zhao Ziliang left the class and saluted: "Your Majesty, there are many people in this big court.
I will only introduce the general situation between the enemy and ourselves here so that my colleagues can have a general understanding of the situation in the world.
As for the specific situation and response deployment, it is a military and national matter. , military secrets, it is better not to be known to irrelevant people.
After the court meeting has dispersed, the minister and the military generals will report to His Majesty in detail and discuss response and deployment strategies
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