Zhao Ziliang's resumption of military power greatly boosted the morale of the Tang army officers and soldiers.
Even the Tang army generals and sergeants in Huainan, Huaixi, Hedong, Shuofang and other places were greatly encouraged.
This was a commander with high prestige and the trust of the army officers and soldiers.
In the words of Yan Zhuang, Prime Minister of the State of Yan, Zhao Ziliang alone can defeat an army of 300,000 people.
Zhao Ziliang's return greatly boosted the morale of the Tang army's officers and soldiers, but frightened the Yan army.
The front-line rebels bordering Hangu Pass began to fully shrink their defense lines, using the winter truce period to strengthen city walls, pass defenses, and reserves.
More supplies.
Xiangzhou.
An Qingxu, who learned that Zhao Ziliang had returned to take over the military power, immediately sent someone to find Yan Zhuang and asked: "Prime Minister Yan, didn't you find someone to kill Zhao Ziliang?
Why did he appear at Hangu Pass again and take over the military power again?"
Yan Zhuang cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen did find the best assassin to assassinate Zhao Ziliang, but Zhao Ziliang himself is highly skilled in martial arts and has a large number of personal guards around him, so it is difficult to succeed.
Wei Chen sent several waves of people, isn't it?
The assassination was discovered before it even started.
Even if he was killed on the spot during the assassination, there would be nothing the veteran could do."
An Qingxu looked horrified and said: "Now that Zhao Ziliang has taken over the military power again, the morale of Tang troops everywhere has been greatly boosted and they are sharpening their swords.
However, our Yan army officers are greatly frightened and their morale has plummeted.
What should we do?"
Yan Zhuang was also extremely worried.
After thinking for a long time, he had to say to An Qingxu: "Your Majesty, the only way to deal with the Tang army's attack is to do three things at the same time: first, continue to find assassins to assassinate Zhao Ziliang; second, use Li The plan is to pay a lot of money to bribe the important officials of the Chang'an court, especially those political opponents of Zhao Ziliang, and let them slander in front of that old guy Li Longji.
If this plan can be successfully implemented, we will not need to To deal with Zhao Ziliang himself, Chang'an will not let him go.
Third, the army is preparing for war.
Now there are more than 400,000 troops in Luoyang, which is more than four times the Tang army.
Even if they can't defeat Zhao Ziliang's 110,000 troops in a frontal field battle, can they still fight?
Can't we hold it?
As long as we can hold the front line of Luoyang, we, Shi Siming and Cai Xide, will concentrate our forces to capture Hedong and Huaizhou first.
After securing the northern part of the tripod, we will then move south and concentrate our forces to deal with Zhao Ziliang."
An Qingxu himself was weak by nature, and was pushed to the throne by Yan Zhuang and others.
At this time, he had no idea at all.
Yan Zhuang said whatever he said, and immediately agreed: "Okay, Prime Minister Yan is my support, and he is Dayan The Optimus Prime of the country, I don’t believe Prime Minister Yan, who else can I trust?
In this case, Prime Minister Yan just go ahead and arrange it.”
Yan Zhuang smiled, cupped his hands and said: "In compliance with the order, I will retire."
An Qingxu and Yan Zhuang's plan was good.
They used the superior forces in Luoyang to defend and block the attack of Zhao Ziliang's 110,000 elite troops, and then concentrated their superior forces in the north to attack Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi, where the Tang army was relatively weak.
Go down to Hedong and then raise your troops to go south, and attack Zhao Ziliang's headquarters together with the Yan army in Luoyang.
This deployment seems feasible from the overall strategy, but it is not in line with the actual situation.
Why is it said to be inconsistent with the actual situation?
The actual situation is that after Zhao Ziliang regained military power, the morale of the Yan army in various places dropped sharply, especially in Luoyang.
Now the Yan army in Luoyang is dominated by Gao Shang and Yin Ziqi.
Gao Shang is the prime minister of Yan. under There was a group of generals following him, such as An Taiqing, An Shouzhong, Tian Qianzhen, Niu Tingjie, Sun Xiaozhe and other generals.
They had 120,000 troops and horses, while Yin Ziqi had nearly 300,000 troops, although not all of them.
They are elite soldiers, but the victory lies in the strength of numbers.
In terms of overall military strength, the Yan Army has much more troops than the Tang Army, but the soldiers are not good and the generals are not brave.
From a war perspective, the attacking side should always be the one with the advantage, unless the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides is too large.
The side with strong combat effectiveness has fewer troops, but can launch an attack on the side with more troops and weaker combat effectiveness.
The Yan army could have used its absolute advantage in strength to attack the Tang army, but if it chose to defend, it would have given up the initiative and its morale would be low.
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Once the Tang army took the initiative to attack and defeated the first battle, the defeat would inevitably have a chain reaction.
A situation of total defeat formed.
An Qingxu and Yan Zhuang miscalculated the combat effectiveness and resistance will of their own army.
How difficult it would be for the army to resist desperately without claiming the right to justice.
No one could do this, not even a commander like Zhao Ziliang.
Neither can be done.
In addition, An Qingxu and Yan Zhuang also misjudged the unity of the Yan army generals in Luoyang.
In today's situation, the Yan army generals everywhere have basically supported their own troops.
The weaker the power of the Yan Dynasty, the more these Yan army generals have their own respect.
The generals will The more they think about themselves, because they all know that in these troubled times, only by having soldiers in hand can they be safe, have wealth, and live a good life.
Even if they want to surrender to the Tang army, the more soldiers they have, the more they can afford to negotiate terms with the Tang army.
Without soldiers and power, we can only be at the mercy of others.
Luoyang, government office.
The hall was full of officials and generals.
Gao Shang, who was appointed by An Qingxu to stay in Luoyang and was also the prime minister, naturally sat on the main seat.
Yin Ziqi sat in the first place under him.
Others such as An Shouzhong and An Taiqing , Tian Qianzhen, Sun Xiaozhe, Niu Tingjie and others sat in order according to the size of their official positions and the number of soldiers.
Gao Shang looked at the crowd and said: "Everyone, the emperor has sent a decree from Xiangzhou, asking us to defend the front line of Luoyang.
The emperor, Shi Siming, Cai Xide and others will concentrate their forces to seize Hedong.
Once Hedong is captured, he will raise his troops south to attack Zhao Ziliang with us.
Let’s take a look.”
Sun Xiaozhe sneered and said: "What a joke.
Now we have more than 400,000 troops on the Luoyang front line, but Zhao Ziliang only has 110,000 troops.
The Tang army is now huddled on the Hangu Pass line.
How can we hold on until the Tang army comes out?
The reason for coming to attack us is why we can’t take the initiative to attack the Tang army.”
Gao Shang smiled and said: "Since General Sun said that, why not take General Sun with his troops to attack Hangu Pass?"
"Uh" Sun Xiaozhe was embarrassed for a while and cursed in his heart, Damn, you think I'm stupid, let me go beat Zhao Ziliang alone, you people sit back and watch the fun, I'm not that stupid, I only have 20,000 people, What should I do if I lose all my money?
Sun Xiaozhe didn't care about his face and said directly: "Aren't we here to discuss what to do?
I just said it casually.
If the Prime Minister thinks what I said is wrong, just pretend that I didn't say it."
"No, no, no," Gao Shang waved his hand and said, "I didn't say General Sun was wrong.
What do you generals think of General Sun's suggestion?
Let's raise troops together to attack the Tang Army on the Hangu Pass line."
After hearing this, Niu Tingjie hesitated and said: "Isn't this good?
His Majesty asked us to defend.
If we take the initiative to attack, it will not only violate His Majesty's will, but may also disrupt the overall strategy of His Majesty and the court, causing serious consequences." " Gao Shang looked at Yin Ziqi and asked, "General Yin, what are you looking at?"
Yin Ziqi's official position is not the highest here.
An Taiqing, An Shouzhong and others are higher than him, but he has the most soldiers, and only he has the strongest record.
No one here has the highest rank.
Dare to despise him.
Yin Ziqi is actually very sad.
He is a very clear-headed person and has considerable military talents, but he is also a very loyal person.
He understands that Dayan is now in a weak position.
Although it has many troops, they are all a mob.
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The world The general trend is not in Dayan's favor, and no matter how hard he tries, it will be like nothing.
The strength of more than 400,000 troops looks quite scary, but Yin Ziqi knows very well that as long as Zhao Ziliang's army comes out of Hangu Pass, the army of more than 400,000 troops will inevitably be wiped out, because the Yan Army soldiers are naturally timid when they see the Tang Army soldiers, which is not a sign of combat strength. problem, but a problem of public sentiment and general trend The relationship between Tang Jun and Yan Jun is like the relationship between a policeman and a robber.
How could the robber not be afraid when he saw the policeman?
How could the robber have the courage to fight the policeman with all his strength?
Unless the policeman was already very ill.
The Tang army was originally just a group of sheep, while the Yan army was a group of wolves.
But with a leader like Zhao Ziliang, the Tang army immediately changed from a group of sheep to a group of lions.
The wolves saw how the lions still had the courage.
The inherent loyalty brought sorrow to Yin Ziqi.
He was not wrong, but his fault was that he became An Lushan's subordinate.
He must do his best to shed the last drop of blood for the An Lushan Dynasty.
Yin Ziqi didn't have any joking expression at this time.
He said seriously: "If I have to make a choice, I would rather take the initiative to attack, so that the initiative is at least in our hands.
If we choose to defend passively, even though we have more troops, we will definitely be Being eaten by the Tang army one by one, everyone should know very well that in our current situation, once we choose to demarcate territory, In defense, the soldiers will inevitably lose their morale.
No matter how strong the city is, it will be broken.
If we defend the city, we will not be able to replenish our troops.
However, the Tang army can besiege and attack the city outside the city, and can replenish troops at any time, which has the advantage of military strength.
I'm afraid that we will lose it soon.
Just now, General Sun expressed his willingness to take the initiative to attack.
Count me among them.
Is there anyone else who chooses to take the initiative to attack?"
After Yin Ziqi finished speaking, he looked at An Taiqing, An Shouzhong, Niu Tingjie and others.
At this time, Gao Shang said: "I support General Yin's decision.
If we take the initiative to attack, even if we cannot defeat Hangu Pass, we can still choose to retreat and escape.
However, if we defend passively, once we are surrounded and others do not come to rescue, we can only I'm afraid General Niu is dead, are you willing to be trapped and die in the city?"
"This" Niu Tingjie rolled his eyes and said, "I have the same idea as General Yin, but isn't it against His Majesty's will to take the initiative to attack?
What if the court investigates it in the future?"
Gao Shang glanced at An Shouzhong and An Taiqing and said: "As the saying goes, the foreign emperor will not accept your orders.
Your Majesty is in Xiangzhou, so how can you know the situation in Luoyang?
Even if you follow the order to defend the city, you can really guarantee that if you do, you will be able to defend the city."
If you cannot hold on, His Majesty will not hold you accountable for losing your city and land in the future."
"this" Not only Niu Tingjie, but also An Shouzhong, An Taiqing and others began to waver.
To be honest, they really didn't have the confidence to hold on.
If they could hold on, they would not have evacuated from Luoyang before, and they would have to wait until now.
After weighing for a long time, Niu Tingjie finally gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, I also agree to take the initiative to send troops to attack the Tang army."
After Niu Tingjie, several other generals also expressed support.
In the end, An Shouzhong and An Taiqing were isolated.
The two looked at each other and had to agree to send troops together.
After everyone discussed and bargained, it was decided that Yin Ziqi would be the leader of the army, and An Shouzhong and An Taiqing would be his deputies.
The troops would be dispatched after the spring of next year.
Gao Shang stayed in Luoyang City, and each ministry sent some troops.
A total of 20,000 people were gathered in Luoyang City under Gao Shang's command and command to reinforce the city's defenses
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