Since Cui Qianyou's defeat, An Qingxu ordered the rebels from all over the country to withdraw northward and gather in Yecheng.
The various armies of the Tang Army also seized Gongcheng, Weizhou, Chaoge, Dangyuan, and Liyang one after another with overwhelming force.
The situation was excellent.
At the same time, Good news also came from Hedong.
Pugu Huai'en led his army to defeat Shangdang after half a month of day and night siege.
Judging from the current situation, An Qingxu's move can be regarded as a good move.
When the situation is unfavorable, this can achieve the purpose of shrinking troops, preserving effective forces, and shortening the defense line to avoid being defeated by the Tang army one by one.
However, An Qingxu's move This step also has disadvantages.
It makes An Qingxu's sphere of influence It was greatly reduced, and a large number of rebels gathered around Yecheng, which put great pressure on An Qingxu to supply grain, grass and other military supplies.
A small territory meant that there was less food and property to collect, but a small Yecheng accommodated With an army of nearly 200,000, it may not matter in a short time, but it will definitely cause trouble in a long time.
Zhao Ziliang saw this and decided to postpone the full-scale attack.
Time can sometimes solve many problems.
Zhao Ziliang stood in front of the sand table and studied troop deployment and offensive tactics.
Wang Can rushed in and clasped his fists: "Commander, there is bad news from the army on the east road.
Li Zhuan, Lai Yi, Helan Jinming and others are eager for quick success.
During the attack, he was attacked by Li Huaixian's way was defeated by Li Huaixian, with a loss of 60,000 soldiers.
The army retreated thirty miles before it could gain a foothold.
Now, after Li Huaixian's victory, he did not take advantage of the victory to pursue the victory.
Instead, he gathered his troops and horses and retreated north with a large amount of grain, grass and property.
They withdrew all the way to Handan."
Zhao Ziliang turned around and frowned: "This Li Huaixian is very slippery.
When he won a big victory, he not only did not take advantage of the victory, but instead led his army to retreat in large numbers.
He knew that he was no match for our army in the end, so he simply took advantage and left.
People are not simple."
Changing the topic, Zhao Ziliang asked: "When An Lushan was alive, Li Huaixian was just a subordinate general with a very low military rank and status.
There was no such figure as him among An Lushan's generals.
Li Zhuan and Lai Yi The Eastern Route Army with Helan Jinming and others has nearly 150,000 troops, which is more than three times the strength of Li Huaixian.
These three people are proficient in military affairs, how could they lose to Li Huaixian?"
Wang Can said: "Commander, Li Huaixian is violent, vicious, and extremely cunning.
His fighting ability is not very good, but he is very good at maneuvering the camp.
In just a few years, he rose from a subordinate general to a general.
Many people in the rebel army who had higher status and military ability than him were dead or demoted, but this man was still alive and getting better and better.
It's interesting.
Both Li Zhuan and Lai Yi are good at using troops, but He Lan Jinming is a fool.
He used to be a censor and a civil servant, but he became the prefect of Linhuai by chance.
Helan Jinming knew nothing about military affairs and had not fought many battles together.
In order to gain credit, Helan Jinming often acted on his own regardless of the overall situation.
In addition, Lai Yi has always been resentful of Li Zhuan's previous actions of not saving his life, and the conflict between the two is not small.
Li Huaixian learned about the disagreement between the three people and took advantage of Helan Jinming's greed for merit.
Because he advanced rashly and had no military knowledge, he ambushed Helan's Jinming troops, resulting in the complete defeat of Helan's Jinming troops, and Li Zhuan's troops were defeated.
When Helan Jinming's troops were defeated and fled, Li Zhuan's army was dispersed before he could mobilize to meet the enemy.
Lai Ai, who was not far away, resented Li Zhuan and saw Li Zhuan's defeat but did not save him.
Li Huaixian They led an army to pursue more than 20 troops.
Helan Jinming and Li Zhuan lost more than 60,000 troops in total, and both lost more than half of their troops."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment, then turned and shouted: "Master Wang, send someone to inform King Wu Li Zhuan, Lai Yi and Helan Jinming to come to Liyang and temporarily hand over the military affairs to his deputy."
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Wang Wei, who was dealing with official documents, agreed: "Promise" Wang Can realized what might be going on and couldn't help but said: "Commander" Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "No need to say more, you send someone to inform Chu Ge, Li Siye and others to come to Liyang within five days to prepare for a military meeting to attack Yecheng."
"promise" On the third day of March, the main generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army came to Marshal Liyang's camp.
"Meet the Commander-in-Chief" All the generals clasped their fists and saluted when Zhao Ziliang walked into the lobby.
Zhao Ziliang sat down on the main seat and said: "Without courtesy, there are two main reasons why you are here today.
Let's talk about the first one first.
The East Route Army was defeated by the rebel Li Huaixian's tribe.
It suffered a loss of 60,000 soldiers and lost all supplies of food, grass and weapons.
Countless, what on earth is going on with this matter?
Why did it lead to such a tragic defeat?
His Highness King Wu, you are the commander-in-chief of the East Route Army.
Tell me, what on earth is going on?"
Wu King Li Zhuan immediately stood up and said: "We will send our troops to the north after receiving the commander's order.
After discussing with Helan Jinming and Lai Ai, I decided to put Helan Jinming in the front, my army in the middle, and Lai Qiu in the rear.
Approaching Puyang, in After arriving in Puyang, Helan Jinming and Lai Ai were both vying to be the main attacker.
Helan Jinming was particularly active and issued a military order.
I then asked Helan Jinming to be the main attacker, and my subordinates and Lai Aiju provided support."
Before Wu King Li Zhuan finished speaking, Lai Yi stood up and said loudly and responsibly: "Fart, Helan Jinming, a wine bag and rice bag, doesn't know how to fight at all.
You are worried that I will steal your limelight with my meritorious service, so you would rather let Helan Jinming be the main attacker.
You can either use the rebels to dampen his spirit, or you can threaten him and take it for your own use after his defeat.
Afterwards, you can send troops to capture Puyang in one fell swoop and achieve great success."
King Wu Li Zhuan pointed at Lai Ai and cursed angrily: "How dare you, a common man, to slander this king?
You are judging the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain."
"That's enough.
I didn't ask you to come here to quarrel here."
Zhao Ziliang slapped the table angrily.
After calming down the quarrel, he said to Lai Yi: "Come on, general, the three of you are here today.
You can confront him in court. , but I hope you can let the other two people finish what they said.
If you think they are wrong, wait until they finish speaking and then refute.
If you interrupt others again, I will definitely punish you severely.
Do you understand?"
Lai Yi quickly clasped his fists and said, "I will finally understand."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said to Li Zhu: "King Wu, please continue."
King Wu clasped his fists and continued: "Who knew that Li Huaixian had already secretly hidden his troops outside the city?
On the night of the third day of the siege, Li Huaixian's troops suddenly came from behind us, and Helan Jinming's camp was the first to be attacked.
The soldiers and horses under his command were defeated and fled, and countless broken troops rushed towards My troops came in, and our troops were also attacked by some rebels at the same time.
We were unprepared and were beaten to pieces by the defeated troops.
Such a big thing happened, and this guy Lai Ai didn't even dare to die.
"Rescue, don't send a single soldier to come to the rescue, sit back and watch our troops be defeated by the rebels."
Zhao Ziliang looked at Lai Ai and asked, "General, what do you have to say?"
Lai Ai cupped his fists and said: "Commander, the King of Wu has always been jealous of my military exploits.
In the past two years, our army has been in a difficult situation in Huaixi.
It has been besieged and attacked by rebels many times.
I have repeatedly sent people to ask for help from the King of Wu and Helan Jinming, but this time The two of them just want to preserve their strength , I don’t regard counterinsurgency as the top priority, I just want to gain greater strength in these troubled times.
This time I marched into Puyang, I repeatedly asked to be the vanguard of the army, but King Wu was worried that I would make new achievements and overshadow him. , so it has always been inaccurate , but Helan Jinming, who did not know how to fight, served as the vanguard.
This idiot Helan Jinming was also eager for quick success and played into the hands of the King of Wu.
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As far as I know, the reason why Helan Jinming was successfully attacked by Li Huaixian's troops was because he had no idea at all.
Guard posts were arranged around the camp.
Afterwards, it was not because I was unwilling to save anyone, but because my unit was also raided by the rebels.
Although the scale was not large, it was at night.
I was worried that the rebels would move away from the mountain, so I did not dare act rashly" After hearing Lai Yi's words, Helan Jinming quit and said, "Lai Yi, you bully others too much.
I, Helan Jinming, am also a military governor.
You have repeatedly said that I don't know how to fight, and that I am eager for quick success and greedy for success."
I don't want to rush in However, you are still holding a grudge for not sending troops to reinforce your department in time the year before last.
You are retaliating for me.
I must have my own difficulties if I don't rescue you.
Do you want me to ignore my own territory and help you?
Who in the world is like this?
Generous" Lai Ai said angrily: "You fart, I, Lai Ai, are definitely not such a narrow-minded person."
Zhao Ziliang knocked on the desk and shouted: "That's enough.
It gives me a headache to listen to you scolding each other.
You are all officials from one side of the country, and you are a feudal official, but here you are like a shrew scolding the street.
I am not afraid of spreading it and making people laugh.
I am too lazy to listen."
As you said, the Military Discipline and Military Justice Department of the Marshal's Mansion has sent people to investigate and find out where Gong Ren is."
Gong Ren stood up and clasped his fists and said: "The end will be here."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Tell everyone the results of your investigation.
What is going on and who is lying?"
Gong Ren said: "Commander, after the last general sent people to verify, the defeat was roughly the same as what King Wu said.
However, the Laibu tribe was indeed raided by the rebels that night, and Helan Jinming was also greedy for credit and neglected his duties.
Suspicion, after verification, Wu Wang Li Zhuan and Linhuai Jiedu He Lan and Jin Ming were all suspected of relying on their own troops.
The last general had sent people to summon several witnesses from the armies of these three generals.
These witnesses included both generals and ordinary soldiers.
If the commander allows, , the general can immediately order someone to bring them in to testify.”
Zhao Ziliang pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "With permission to come, please ask the two generals, King Wu, Lai Yi and He Lan, to take shelter behind the screen for a while.
They are not allowed to make any sound.
If any one of these three people makes a sound, he will be guilty of collusion." suspicion" "Nuo" several soldiers came out and took Wu Wang, Lai Yi and Helan Jinming behind the screen to prevent witnesses from meeting them.
Gong Ren quickly summoned seven or eight witnesses into the hall to testify.
Gong Ren was in charge of questioning, while Zhao Ziliang and other generals just listened.
After more than an hour of questioning, Zhao Ziliang and all the generals understood what was going on.
It was obvious that the King of Wu had little responsibility for this defeat, but he and Helan Jinming had always respected themselves. serious suspicion, it will not be serious for a long time The imperial decree was taken seriously, and a series of actions such as appointing private individuals in the army, concealing the number of soldiers and horses, drawing elite forces from the army to train new troops without reporting them to the imperial court, and maintaining strength in repeated battles all showed that These two people have bad intentions.
"Li Zhuan, Helan Jinming, you two are so brave."
Zhao Ziliang shouted loudly and shouted to the door: "Come here, take these two people down and put them in a prison, and send someone to guard them strictly."
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