After Hou Tiancheng left, Zhao Ziliang thought for a long time and told Wang Can: "Wang Can, our intelligence system has been established for more than ten or twenty years, right?
During this period, how much manpower and material resources have I invested in it?
From now on, you give me Using all the resources of our intelligence system, I don’t believe that our intelligence system can’t even find out information about a small Tianxiang Tower.
If this is really the case, the capabilities of your intelligence system are too poor.
What else can you keep?
usefulness" Cold sweat broke out on Wang Can's forehead, and he said quickly: "In these years, our focus has been on court officials, local military affairs, people's livelihood, prices, etc., and we have never been exposed to things in the world.
We are all focused on this matter.
He seemed slow to react after it happened.
Please rest assured, Your Majesty, my subordinates will immediately arrange to investigate this matter with all their strength."
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Is there anything else you can do?
If not, go and do it."
"My lord, there is one more thing.
News came from the north this morning.
The rebel general Yin Ziqi personally led 100,000 troops to conquer Ye County.
To the southwest, he can attack Fangcheng and Nanyang.
To the northwest, he can attack Ruzhou.
Now Ruzhou only has With less than 10,000 horses, there is no way they can withstand Yin Qizhier.
Under the siege of a hundred thousand troops, Fangcheng and Nanyang were even more depleted of troops.
The two cities combined had less than 3,000 people.
There was another thing.
Cui Qianyou and Neng Yuanhao, who were being taken to Chang'an Tianlao, were captured halfway.
According to reliable information, they have appeared in Xiangzhou."
Zhao Ziliang frowned and said, "It was someone sent by An Qingxu who did it."
"Otherwise they would not have appeared in Xiangzhou.
Moreover, news came from Xiangzhou that Cui Qianyou and Neng Yuanhao were reactivated by An Qingxu.
Now An Qingxu has ordered Cui Qianyou to lead 50,000 troops north to attack Li Guangbi's headquarters, and ordered Neng Yuanhao to lead Fifty thousand soldiers marched south to Huaizhou, but Wang Rao only had 20,000 troops.
He had to defend all parts of Huaizhou and also guard against Neng Yuanhao.
The situation was extremely difficult."
The situation had deteriorated to this point.
Although Zhao Ziliang no longer commanded the troops, he was still very worried after hearing the news.
After thinking for a long time, he told Wang Can: "Send someone to convey my message to Chu Ge, Li Siye and others: Don't care."
We can gain or lose one city or one place.
When necessary, we can conduct a strategic retreat to preserve our vitality.
As long as we have 100,000 men in our hands.
The elite have a chance to turn defeat into victory.
Even if the rebels have a million troops, they are just a mob.
It is not a worry.
We can't let a bunch of mediocre people waste all the elites we have.
They are traitors.
I don't feel bad, but these We spent several years and countless efforts to get the elites.
If they want to be tortured, let them torture their own people, don't torture our people."
Wang Can said: "I understand, my subordinate will do it immediately."
On the ninth day of December, Li Siye led his troops to retreat to Luoyang.
Lu Jiong, Wang Sili and others who were stationed in Ruzhou were worried that they could not resist Yin Ziqi alone and would be besieged in Ruzhou, so they quickly led the remaining 10,000 troops to retreat to Luoyang. .
Marshal Yang Chengye of the Eastern Expedition ordered the Beiting Army to attack the rebels coming from the direction of Xingyang.
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In view of the fact that Yang Chengye's previous series of wrong commands had caused a lot of losses and the situation was deteriorating day by day, the Beiting Army did not accept the order.
Yang Chengye ordered Li Siye to He, Lu Jiong and others led troops to attack Yin Ziqi's tribe, but neither of them accepted the order and did not go to see Wang Chengye at all.
Wang Chengye could no longer control the army at this time.
All he could control was the 12,000 Yulin troops he brought from Chang'an.
However, the combat effectiveness of these 12,000 Yulin troops was not very good.
They were facing the rebels coming from the direction of Xingyang.
At that time, they were defeated by the rebel general Tian Qianzhen, and only 2,000 of the 12,000 Yulin army fled back.
On December 18, Chu Ge led 40,000 Beiting troops and 20,000 Central Plains troops to retreat to Hangu Pass without Wang Chengye's consent.
Li Siye also led 50,000 men to withdraw to Hangu Pass the next day.
When Wang Chengye saw that all the soldiers and horses in Luoyang City had been withdrawn, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
At this time, the rebels were approaching again.
He was worried that he would be surrounded in Luoyang, so he had to leave Lu Jiong, Wang Sili and others in a hurry and flee westward. .
When Wang Chengye left, he left a piece of appointment paper, appointing Lu Jiong as the Luoyang stay-at-home officer and Wang Sili as the deputy stay-at-home guard.
After seeing the official appointment documents, the two were so angry that they cursed their mothers.
They wanted to lead the army to withdraw, but they were worried about the court's investigation afterwards, so they held on for two days. sky.
On December 21, all the roads going south from Luoyang had been cut off by the rebels.
It was impossible for Lu Jiong and Wang Sili to lead their troops to retreat south.
However, they wanted to hold Luoyang with less than 10,000 troops.
It was impossible.
In desperation, Lu Jiong and Wang Sili wrote to the court to explain the truth and apologize, and led their troops to retreat to Mengjin.
On December 23, the rebels captured Luoyang again without any blood, and the people in the city were massacred.
In the first month of the seventeenth year of Tianbao, Wang Chengye fled back to Chang'an.
The people of Chang'an have been living in trepidation this year, fearing that the rebels will come back again.
Emperor Li Longji and his ministers are also worried about this.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month was originally the Lantern Festival, a holiday celebrated by the whole country, but on this day the emperor held a court meeting because Wang Chengye, the marshal of the Eastern Expedition, escaped from Luoyang in great embarrassment.
Emperor Xuanzong looked older and older.
He sat on the throne with a straight face, and all the civil and military officials paid homage together.
Gao Lishi immediately conveyed the decree, and the eunuchs conveyed the decree all the way outside the main hall.
After Wang Chengye heard it, he immediately entered the palace and knelt on the ground: "I am here to see your majesty, long live, long live."
Xuanzong slapped the imperial case and said angrily: "Long live if there are more ministers like you, I will be mad at you.
Why are you talking about long live Wang Chengye?
You have turned a great situation into this, and you still have face."
Why don't you kill yourself when you come back to thank the world?"
Wang Chengye was so frightened that he trembled all over and cried quickly: "Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers are incompetent, but the fact is that the generals and commanders in front are all arrogant and powerful generals.
These people are unruly and unruly.
They don't obey the command at all.
There is nothing we can do about it." " Prime Minister Fang Guan stood up and asked: "Marshal Wang, you are not afraid of embarrassment when you say this.
The inability to command the generals in front does not mean anything else.
It can only show that you are incompetent.
If he is a capable general, he will find a way to make his generals obey orders." , but the incompetent people will only shift the blame for the failure to the generals under their command, saying that they did not obey the command.
But among the generals who can fight, who are not a little arrogant?
If you have no ability to convince them, how can they listen to you?"
Cui Yuan stood up and said to Fang Guan: "Master Fang, what you said is a bit too much, right?
Marshal Wang is the Marshal of the Eastern Expedition appointed by His Majesty himself.
If he is incompetent, doesn't it mean that His Majesty has no knowledge of people?
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In my opinion, Not the king The general is incompetent, but the generals at the front are too arrogant.
If they disobey orders, they are disobeying military orders.
Disobeying military orders has always been a serious crime of beheading.
Your Majesty, please order to punish those generals who disobey military orders as a warning to others."
Xuanzong couldn't bear it any longer.
He slammed the table and pointed at Cui Yuan and said angrily: "You bitch, if I decree to punish the generals at the front, who will lead the troops to resist the rebels?
You are asking me to do this."
Are you forcing them to rebel?
How can there be such a stupid person like you in the world?
Or are you a spy placed by the rebels in the imperial court?
Drag this bitch out and kill him."
When Cui Yuan heard this, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty, all of us are loyal.
We all think about your Majesty and the country of Tang Dynasty."
"For the sake of me and the country of Tang Dynasty, why do you always bring disaster to the court with your suggestions?
What's the use of people like you if I come here?
Drag them out and cut them down.
I'll cut down Wang Chengye as well.
They're all trash.
Keep them."
What’s the use?”
Four soldiers walked in from outside the palace and dragged Cui Yuan and Wang Chengye outside.
The two were so frightened that they screamed and begged for mercy.
Generally speaking, the emperor rarely ordered to kill people in court.
Even if he wanted to kill someone, he would first be imprisoned in the sky prison before killing.
This way, there would be a buffer time in the middle to prevent himself from killing indiscriminately and violently in anger.
If you make the wrong mistake, there will be no room for regret.
Put the person you want to kill in jail and use this buffer time to weigh and think clearly.
Do you want to kill him or not?
Xuanzong was really angry this time.
Almost every time Cui Yuan did something and every time he made a suggestion, the court suffered huge losses.
However, this guy still had a group of followers in the court with considerable power.
This Xuanzong had to pay attention to his proposal every time.
This time Xuanzong didn't wait for other ministers to speak and wanted to kill this guy first.
Sure enough, someone stood up to plead for mercy.
The first was Prime Minister Cui Huan, "Please take back your Majesty's orders.
What Mr.
Cui Yuan said is an old man's advice for the country.
Your Majesty must not abuse innocent people."
Wei Jiansu couldn't help it any longer and immediately stood up and prostrated: "Your Majesty, please calm down.
Mr.
Cui Yuan just fulfilled his duty as a minister to advise Your Majesty.
As for whether Your Majesty will adopt it or not, it is entirely up to Your Majesty, but Your Majesty cannot punish him." , if Your Majesty kills Mr.
Cui today, who else will dare to speak to His Majesty in court in the future?"
Other prime ministers and ministers also stood up to plead for mercy.
Even those who were not in the same camp as Cui Yuan also stood up.
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After all, if someone is killed because of Jin Yan, once there is a precedent for this kind of thing, who knows who will do it in the future.
If Cui Yuan was killed again for something like this, people from the opposing camp would not only not help to plead for mercy, but would also add insult to injury.
However, this kind of thing is related to all the ministers of the court, so all the ministers stood up.
He fell to his knees and begged the emperor to take back his life.
When Xuanzong saw everyone kneeling down, his mind became clearer.
He knew that his mind was blinded by anger, but it was obviously impossible to take back his life.
This was undoubtedly a compromise with the ministers and undermined the emperor's authority.
Xuanzong waved his hand and said: "Come here, put Cui Yuan into the sky prison and keep him under strict guard.
No one is allowed to visit without my order.
Anyone who disobeys the order will be executed."