Yin Ziqi's 400,000-strong army consumes a large amount of grain, grass and other food every day.
In addition, the distance between the garrison and Luoyang is not far, so grain and grass are escorted from Luoyang to the military camp every two days.
On the night of February 12th, Gao Shang and others had just launched a mutiny in Luoyang City.
In the early morning of February 13th the following day, the king's flag was changed to Li Tang's flag in Luoyang City.
As a grain and grass transport officer, An Taiqing had to go back and forth between Luoyang and the military camp at Hangu Pass every two days.
That morning, he took another 5,000 men and horses to escort the carriages and horses to the outside of Luoyang City, preparing to enter the city to escort grain and grass back to the military camp.
The sun rises from the east.
Although the morning sunshine is gentle, it is still a bit dazzling.
An Taiqing squinted his eyes and looked ahead.
The team escorting the grain and grass walked outside the west gate of Luoyang.
An Taiqing felt that something was wrong on the city wall and there was no gate.
Open.
An Taiqing couldn't help but rub his eyes, looked at it again, and doubted whether he had seen it wrong.
He shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Scumbag, look at the city wall, have you changed the flag?"
The soldier looked up and was frightened.
He stammered: "General, general, no, the flag on the city has been replaced by Li Tang's flag.
Could it be that something happened in the city?"
An Taiqing's face changed drastically, he immediately reined in his horse, raised his palms and shouted: "Everyone stop, the soldiers are coming with me to find out the news."
"Yes, General" An Taiqing left the large group with hundreds of cavalry and came to the west gate of Luoyang.
He stopped and shouted to the top of the city: "Is there anyone on top of the city?
Come out and see me."
Soon after the shouting, rows of elite soldiers appeared on the originally deserted city.
They were all in high spirits.
Gao Shang appeared on the city tower with a group of generals and officials.
Gao Shang looked at An Taiqing and said with a smile: "General An, you are fine."
An Taiqing was annoyed for a while and yelled: "How big is your mother?
I ask you, why did you change the banner of Chengtou?"
"Hahaha" the generals and officials on the tower burst out laughing when they heard this.
Gao Shang pointed at An Taiqing and laughed happily: "I have seen a lot of stupid people, but I have never seen anyone as stupid as you.
Whoever changes the flag at the top of the city means that this city is...
Whose is it?
Don’t you understand this?
Why are you still fooling around?
Aren’t you afraid of being laughed at?”
An Taiqing's face turned green, and he cursed again: "Gao Shang, you old dog, and you guys, how can I, the An family, have failed you?
Why do you treat me like this?
The An family, you have your current status, you are popular and drink spicy food."
Yes, it’s all my home Yes, but now you have turned your back on the Lord and surrendered to the enemy.
Your consciences have been eaten by dogs.
You unfaithful and shameless people will all die a good death.
Come with me and lead the troops to attack the city, and you will be your general.
The hatred in my heart can only be relieved by being cut into pieces with a thousand swords."
An official on the top of the city stood up, pointed at An Taiqing and shouted: "An Gou, An, how dare you insult me like this, you still have the nerve to show your conscience.
Your An family is a despicable barbarian.
If it weren't for the kindness of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, An How can Lushan be able to serve as the Jiedushi of the three towns?
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Not only did An Lushan, this thief, not repay the emperor's kindness, but he also raised an army to rebel against the Tang Dynasty.
As a member of An Lushan's clan, you followed him to rebel against the Tang Dynasty.
How dare you say that you are unfaithful, unjust, and ignorant.
Integrity, your An family is the best in the world."
An Taiqing was so angry that he jumped off his horse and started to curse at the city wall.
Both sides cursed fiercely.
Gao Shang called for his brother Gao Miao and said: "You lead three thousand cavalry and wait at the city gate.
Once the city gate is opened, you will lead your army to rush out.
First, defeat the rebel grain transport team and give them some food."
Look at the color, but you have to remember not to chase too far.
The rebel camp is only a dozen miles away from here.
Once they are entangled, it will be troublesome.
After defeating them, we will immediately lead the army back to the city.
We will defend the city.
The rebels have nothing to do for the time being.
When they attack the city in a large scale, The Tang army at Hangu Pass has already been dispatched."
"Brother, don't worry, I understand," Gao Miao said and immediately walked down the city wall to prepare.
An Taiqing was scolding a lot of people on the top of the city gate when the city gate suddenly opened.
This made him stunned.
But when he saw a large group of cavalry rushing out of the city gate hole, he immediately let out a strange scream and got on his horse.
The horse turned around and ran wildly, shouting: "Brothers, retreat quickly, retreat quickly" How could a group of more than 5,000 people, who were forbidden to move and were not very organized and disciplined, turn around in a short time?
The cavalry that rushed out of the city gradually increased their speed and soon rushed to the grain transport team.
In front of them, the grain transport team was in a panic.
The general turned around and ran away.
The entire team had no one to command at all.
The scene was in chaos.
Gao Miao led the team to charge.
They were rushed to pieces on the spot.
The bodies were thrown on the ground.
Others People fled in all directions.
Gao Miao led the team to overwhelm An Taiqing's grain transport team and then put it down as soon as it was good.
He quickly returned to Luoyang City with his troops, and was praised by the generals and officials on the city wall.
An Taiqing fled back to the military camp in embarrassment with some of his soldiers.
Yin Ziqi and others were discussing the attack on Hangu Pass.
When they heard that An Taiqing only brought a few hundred people back to the camp in embarrassment, they felt something bad.
When An Taiqing stumbled to the big tent, Yin Ziqi asked: "General An, didn't you go to escort the grain and grass?
Why did you return so quickly and in such a mess?"
An Taiqing looked like he was mourning for his heir, and said with a decadent look: "It's over, it's over now.
I just took the men and horses to transport the cargo, but who knew that before I got to the bottom of Luoyang City, I saw that the flags on the city had been changed, and the Dayan flag was gone. , all turned into Li Tang's flag, I rode my horse to the city to call for people, Gao Shang and others appeared on the city tower, it turned out that this guy actually led most of the generals and officials in the city to commit crimes, and they all surrendered to Li Tang."
"What" The rebel generals in the tent suddenly changed their expressions and became confused.
Gao Shang led the city officials to surrender to Li Tang, which cut off the retreat of Yin Ziqi, Niu Tingjie, Tian Qianzhen, An Taiqing and others, and also cut off the food and grass for the 400,000-strong army.
Cutting off the retreat route is not a big deal.
Yin Ziqi can take the 400,000 troops to bypass Luoyang and retreat to Yichuan and Ruyang in the southeast.
But without food and grass, the 400,000 troops will collapse in less than three days.
Niu Tingjie was the most panicked.
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He shouted: "How could this be so damn noble?
We trust him so much in vain.
How could he treat us like this?
What should we do now?
We only have two days of food and grass in the camp.
After tomorrow, the 400,000-strong army will be gone."
If we run out of food and don't need the Tang army to fight, our soldiers will be defeated by themselves."
Tian Qianzhen looked shocked when he heard this, and immediately shouted: "Stop the news quickly.
We must not let the soldiers know that Luoyang City has surrendered to Li Tang, otherwise the soldiers will be in chaos."
Yin Ziqi's hands on the desk kept trembling.
He said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid it's too late.
It's impossible for General An to escape in such a mess without being known by others.
At this time, I'm just waiting for you."
If you can forcefully suppress them, you can give orders to the sergeants to stay in their tents and not come out, otherwise military law will be enforced."
The generals looked at each other, and the tent suddenly became eerily quiet.
Yin Ziqi couldn't bear it anymore and yelled: "Go quickly, do you want to watch the army under your command collapse?"
After hearing this, all the generals quickly ran out of the tent and conveyed military orders to their respective generals.
The military order stipulated that all officers were not allowed to leave the tent without orders, otherwise they would be killed.
The rebel soldiers are not fools.
Everyone knows the reason for this order.
Many rebel soldiers have already received the news.
Luoyang City surrendered to the Tang Army.
Their way back was cut off, and the most terrible thing was that Luoyang City surrendered to the Tang Army.
The only thing is that the food and grass are only enough for two days.
Thinking that there will be no food in two days, the soldiers in the entire rebel camp begin to feel uneasy.
The feeling of hunger is something these soldiers never want to experience again.
After the rebel military orders were issued and the rebel leaders suppressed any signs of possible trouble, Yin Ziqi immediately sent people to invite these rebel generals back to the big tent to discuss their future actions.
Yin Ziqi looked at the crowd and said: "Everyone, when things have reached this point, we have no other choice but to fight to the death with the Tang army."
Niu Tingjie hesitated for a moment and said: "General Yin, the news has spread.
Although the soldiers have been suppressed by military orders, their morale is low now.
Attacking Hangu Pass at this time is not worth the gain.
I think we might as well retreat temporarily.
Bypassing Luoyang City and stationing in Bianzhou, Xuchang, and Suiyang areas, as long as you have troops in hand, there is nothing to fear these days."
Tian Qianzhen was also a little moved.
The situation was already clear.
If he stayed here at this time, he would only have to wait for death.
With no food and grass, and the risk of being cut off, this battle could not be fought at all.
The more he fought, the more likely he would be killed. quick Tian Qianzhen said: "I also agree with General Niu's idea.
Hangu Pass was built under my personal supervision.
It is extremely strong.
It can not only defend the west, but also the east.
To conquer this pass , it is not a matter of one or two days.
We can bypass Luoyang and go to Retreat to the southeast.
Now Li Tang does not have many troops in the south.
We can march to the south.
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As long as we capture the Jingxiang area, there will be no shortage of food, grass and baggage.
That is the place to raise troops.
We can attack that area vertically and horizontally.
As long as a few of us are connected.
How can Li Tang stand up to me?"
Yin Ziqi looked at An Taiqing and several other generals and asked, "General An, what do you think?"
An Taiqing has long been timid.
Without the support of Luoyang, this battle cannot be fought at all.
He does not have many soldiers, less than 20,000, and he was defeated by 5,000 just now, leaving less than 10,000.
There are 5,000 people.
With more than 10,000 people, we can evacuate quickly.
An Taiqing said: "General Yin, I don't need to explain the situation now.
The war can't be fought.
It's not anyone's fault that Luoyang City surrendered to Li Tang.
None of us expected that things would turn out like this.
At this time, , I think it’s better to preserve our strength.
If we don’t have soldiers in our hands, we are nothing.
I also agree with General Niu’s idea of withdrawing temporarily and waiting for a comeback in the future.
What do you think?”
Several other generals also agreed
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