"Your Highness, Your Highness, please slow down."
Eunuch Li Fuguo jogged behind, following Li Heng closely.
Since Li Heng failed in the Maweiyi mutiny a few years ago, and both his father and son were imprisoned by Xuanzong, Li Fuguo, the eunuch, has been taking care of him attentively.
His loyalty is evident.
Li Heng was grateful for his loyalty, and after restoring his position as crown prince, he treated him vigorously. promoted.
Li Heng ignored Li Fuguo at this time and walked faster.
Soon he arrived at the door of the emperor's palace.
The two eunuchs at the door saluted: "Meet His Highness the Crown Prince."
Li Heng immediately said: "Report to the Emperor quickly.
If there is any urgent military information, please report it to the Emperor."
"Your Highness, wait a moment" After a while, the little eunuch came out and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty invites you to see me."
Li Heng immediately stepped into the palace, walked to the imperial couch and saw Yang Yuhuan was there, and immediately bowed down and said: "My son, I pay my respects to the emperor and the noble concubine."
"Cough, cough, cough, come on, bring a stool for the prince."
Xuanzong coughed a few times and raised his hand to Li Heng.
"Thank you, father."
Li Heng stood up and carefully stepped aside.
The young eunuch brought a stool, and Li Heng carefully sat down.
With the help of the eunuch and Yang Yuhuan, Xuanzong went from lying down to half lying down, and his energy recovered a little, and asked: "What do you mean when the prince comes to see me?"
Li Heng bowed, took out two memorials from his sleeves and said, "Father, there are two pieces of news, one bad news and one good news.
Which one do you want to hear first?"
Xuanzong asked: "What is the good news?"
"The military marshal Zhao Ziliang sent someone to bring good news.
Yecheng was captured seven or eight days ago, beheading more than 80,000 people and capturing 110,000 prisoners.
Dozens of rebel generals and officials were captured.
An Qingxu and his subordinates Yan Zhuang and Cui Qianyou , Neng Yuanhao, Sun Xiaozhe and others retreated into Shi Siming's sphere of influence with thousands of remnant troops in Hebei Province, but were quickly surrounded and disarmed by Shi Siming.
An Qingxu and other rebel leaders were all executed by Shi Siming, and their troops were also annexed."
After hearing the news about this big name, Xuanzong was rarely happy for a while, and he was in a good mood, and said: "Okay, okay, after so many years, the An family has finally been destroyed.
Now there is only one Shi Siming left, who can hardly sing alone.
With Zhao Qing With the power of the family, the only way to destroy him is with a backhand."
Yang Yuhuan and the eunuchs and maids in the palace also bowed down and said: "Congratulations to your Majesty, congratulations to your Majesty, the day of annihilating the rebels is not far away."
"Hahaha" Xuanzong laughed, feeling very happy for a while.
After being happy, Xuanzong also knew that he was about to hear bad news, and asked: "What is the bad news?"
Li Hengdao: "There is an urgent call from eight hundred miles away from Longyou.
Seven days ago, Tubo raised an army of 200,000 to attack our various places in Longyou.
Due to the lack of troops in our various places in Longyou, the Tubo army was unstoppable all the way.
Now it has conquered Shanzhou City, and the entire A large area of Longyou Road also fell.”
Xuanzong did not expect that the bad news was that the Tubo invaded in large numbers.
The 200,000 Tubo army was not a small number.
The total number of troops sent to Longyou was less than 20,000, and there was no general with enough prestige and talent to lead him.
No wonder it was pushed forward so quickly by Tubo.
After much experience, Xuanzong felt that the situation was serious at this time, but he did not show it.
After pondering for a moment, he said: "The diplomatic strategy presented by Zhao Qing bought us several years.
Now the rebellion has been almost put down.
The Tubo army We are here too.
The Longyou Road is close to Guanzhong.
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Now that the Tubo army is invading in large numbers and threatening our country, it seems that we must dispatch troops to Longyou to defend the prince.
What do you think?"
Li Heng was a little hesitant.
After experiencing the Maweiyi Incident, his courage and vigor had been worn away over the past few years.
He hesitated and did not dare to say, "This" Xuanzong frowned and sighed: "If I ask you to say it, just say that I am already old.
After today, I don't know if there will be a tomorrow.
From now on, it depends on you.
What do you think?
Tell me."
There were faint beads of sweat on Li Heng's forehead, and he cupped his hands and said: "Since my father asked my son to speak, I will boldly express my opinion.
My son believes that internal troubles are no longer a concern, and that the Tibetan invasion is the most important thing for the court now."
Major events that should be taken seriously are now entering the Central Plains During the rainy season, almost all the counter-rebellion armies were resting and recuperating, and Marshal Zhao was also carrying out disarmament measures.
The ministers suggested that Marshal Zhao should stop the disarmament measures, and at the same time stop releasing prisoners to return to their hometowns.
He mobilized 200,000 troops to march westward quickly, and appointed a general to command.
Lead the troops to attack the Tibetan army."
After hearing this, Xuanzong had no special reaction and asked: "If 200,000 people from the Central Plains' anti-rebellion army were to be mobilized to march west to Longyou to meet the Tibetan army, who do you think would be the most suitable general?"
Li Hengdao: "Of course Marshal Zhao is the most suitable, but he also has to take charge of counter-insurgency matters.
There are many generals who can lead the army to fight against the Tibetan army, such as Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Wang Nanran, Zhang Shouyu, Gao Xiuyan, Pugu Huai'en, etc. everyone is A good general, I think that Guo Ziyi is mature and prudent and is the best choice.
However, he has never stayed in Longyou and Hexi.
Li Guangbi's talents are not inferior to Guo Ziyi's.
He has been in Hexi for a long time.
He understands the habits of the Tubo people and can take on the responsibility.
"This important task"
"Li Guangbi" Xuanzong nodded lightly and said: "He is a good candidate, but I am still worried.
As you said, Shi Siming is the only traitor left and is now alone.
It is not difficult to put down this thief.
So, let's put down your in-laws."
What's the point of staying in Hebei?
To pacify Shi Siming, he needs to go there in person.
Isn't it overkill?"
Xuanzong raised his hand to Gao Lishi who was standing next to him.
Gao Lishi immediately stepped forward and bowed: "Your Majesty" Xuanzong said: "He sent eight hundred li to Zhao Ziliang urgently to convey the order to Zhao Ziliang, ordering him to suspend the disarmament and personally lead the Beiting Army headquarters and the new Central Plains Army of 100,000 and 200,000 horses in total, quickly march west to Longyou to fight the Tibetan army. , As for the counter-insurgency matters in the Central Plains, I have other arrangements."
Gao Lishi agreed: "Your Majesty, the title of Grand Marshal of the World's Armed Forces is only a temporary title.
Since Zhao Ziliang is no longer responsible for counterinsurgency matters, should this title be taken back to the Marshal's Mansion or revoked?
Should these two items be added to the imperial edict?
" Xuanzong said: "No need, Zhao Ziliang is a smart man, he should know what to do."
"promise" A few days later, Zhao Ziliang received the imperial edict in Yecheng.
After reading the edict, he frowned and said, "Come here, gentlemen, please come and discuss this matter."
The soldier promised: "Promise" The staff officials came to see Zhao Ziliang soon after receiving the notice.
Zhao Ziliang motioned for everyone to sit down, and then took out the imperial edict and said: "Gentlemen, it's really hard to come by.
The imperial edict came from Chang'an, saying that the Tibetans broke the covenant and raised 200,000 troops.
A large-scale invasion of Longyou, Now even the city of Shanzhou has been captured by the Tubo people.
Most of the places in Longyou have fallen.
The situation is very critical.
The emperor ordered me to put down the affairs here and lead the Beiting Army and 100,000 Central Plains troops to rush westward to Longyou to put down the rebellion.
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There are also Disarmament measures are suspended, and prisoners cannot be released.”
The staff were shocked when they heard the news that the Tibetans had invaded Shanzhou City in a large scale and captured Shanzhou City.
Wang Wei sighed: "The internal troubles have not been eliminated, but the foreign troubles have arisen again.
Our Tang Dynasty is really in troubled times now.
What should we do?"
Zhao Ziliang asked: "What do you think, gentlemen, that I was ordered to immediately send my troops to the west?
Or am I writing to the emperor, suggesting that the emperor send another person to lead the front army to fight the Tibetan army?"
Cen Shen said: "Commander, if you compare An Lushan and his son with Shi Siming, they are far inferior to Shi Siming in terms of military and political talents.
Although there is only Shi Siming among the rebels now, Shi Siming is better than An Lushan."
Together, father and son both It is difficult to deal with.
If the commander leaves at this time, who will be in charge of the counter-insurgency?
There are so many troops gathered around Hebei.
If there is not a talented person to lead them, not only will they not be able to defeat Shi Siming as soon as possible, I am afraid that they will also be defeated.
Being used by Shi Siming to turn defeat into victory."
Chen Qing, the marching commander of the Marshal's Mansion, said: "Mr.
Cen is right.
Although external aggression is terrible, internal aggression is even more terrible.
If we don't get rid of Shi Siming as soon as possible, when he runs Hebei like an iron barrel, we will attack him again."
It will cost more.
We cannot give up half-way in countering the rebellion.
This time when the Tibetans attack, we don’t know whether they are really going to invade on a large scale or just march into Longyou to plunder.
Isn’t it true that the emperor transferred the general to fight against the Tibetans?”
Zhao Ziliang touched the beard on his chin and saw Gao Shang hesitating whether to speak, so he asked: "Mr.
Gao, what do you think about this?"
Gao Shang cupped his hands and said: "Commander, I dare to speculate on the emperor's purpose of issuing this decree: First, the emperor may think that since An Lushan and his son have been conferred, most of the rebels have been wiped out, and only Shi Siming is no longer a concern. , on the contrary, they believed that Tibet’s large-scale invasion was a serious problem; secondly, although it was not explicitly stated in the imperial edict, if the commander-in-chief was no longer responsible for counterinsurgency, Yi, then the marshal will no longer be the marshal of troops and horses, the marshal's palace will be automatically dissolved, the marshal's seal in the marshal's hand will be handed over to the court, and the portrait will be automatically taken back.
The emperor just took advantage of this opportunity to use it.
He said that he could quietly weaken the military power of the commander-in-chief.
If the emperor waits until the end of the counter-rebellion in the future and then explicitly issues an order to take back the military power of the commander-in-chief, it will be a loss of face."
Zhao Ziliang sighed: "After the counter-rebellion is over, there is no need for the emperor to issue an order to take back the military power.
I will write a letter and voluntarily hand over the military power.
Now the end of the counter-rebellion is still at the last step, but something like this happened.
This is what I thought in my heart, But I can’t stop what others think.
It seems that I can’t even obey orders, otherwise I will be suspected of being a soldier.”
At this time, Du Fu said: "Commander, my subordinates suggest that the commander fight for it and submit a letter to the emperor suggesting that another general be sent to lead the troops westward to fight the Tibetan army.
After the commander has completed the counter-insurgency affairs, he will not take the initiative to hand over the military power to the Tibetans to harass the border.
It's been a year or two.
Even if they occupy the entire Longyou Road, they still can't stand.
They just wait for the commander-in-chief to pacify Shi Siming, and they can attack Tubo as they want.
If they abandon Shi Siming now and deal with Tubo, wouldn't it be a small gain but a big gain?
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Zhao Ziliang thought about Du Fu's words, and finally wrote a letter to write down his thoughts and suggestions.
If the emperor did not adopt it, it would not be too late for him to march westward, and it would only delay him for ten days at most.
At that time, the Tibetans could not reach Chang'an.
So Zhao Ziliang immediately asked Du Fu to write a memorial on his behalf and sent it eight hundred miles to Chang'an
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