Chapter 370 Who's and Who's Game 6 Really.
Two days later, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the eight-hundred-mile urgent military newspaper galloped into the city one after another, and the news of the defeat of Xiangzhou spread to the palace at the same time, shaking the entire Chang'an City in the shortest possible time.
Kong Sheng's prediction came true, in fact, for the powerful people of Chang'an City, it is not the key to the problem, the key is that after this, will the good situation of the imperial court to quell the rebellion be reversed, and whether the date for quelling the rebellion of the thieves is far away, and even, whether the iron hooves of the thieves will make a comeback, and whether the people of Chang'an will suffer twice All kinds of rumors are rampant, and all kinds of worries have caused people's morale to fluctuate and prices to skyrocket.
Many powerful families were in a panic, loaded with furniture and wealth, and secretly prepared to flee Chang'an City again.
Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Li Siye, Wang Sili, Lu Jiong, Li Huan, Xu Shuji, Xu Ji, and Ji Guangchen, the envoy of Pinglu Soldiers and Horses, and Ji Guangchen, the envoy of Zheng Caijiedu, led hundreds of thousands of Tang troops to defeat the rebels of An Qingxu who fled to the area of Weizhou in the north of the Yellow River.
At the beginning, the Tang army won a great victory and captured An Qingxu's younger brother An Qinghe.
Guo Ziyi and others commanded the Tang army to pursue, and the garrison was in the southwest of Xiangzhou City.
An Qingxu threw the main force of the rebel army into a decisive battle, but was quickly defeated by the Tang army, and his strength was completely lost.
An Qingxu asked Shi Siming of Fan Yang for help, but Shi Siming only sent more than 10,000 people to the rescue.
The Tang army surrounded the city of Xiangzhou, and led the river to the north to irrigate the city.
The well spring in the city overflows outward, and the water on the flat ground is several feet deep, and there is an ocean.
The rebels lived on rooftops and trees.
The city ran out of food, and the phenomenon of cannibalism occurred, and catching a mouse could sell it for thousands of dollars.
The rebels dug up the crushed wheat straw from the earthen wall and washed the grass clippings from the horse manure to feed the horses, but they still resisted and refused to surrender.
But taking Xiangzhou City and killing An Qingxu is just around the corner.
When these military reports reached Chang'an City, they naturally fueled the blind optimism of the Manchu civil and military forces including the emperor and the Li Tang clan.
This was the key factor in Li Li's determination to end the counterinsurgency within two months.
But no one knows how suddenly the situation reversed in an instant, and the Tang armies surrounding Xiangzhou were defeated and fled Kong Sheng was also a little surprised when he got the news.
The defeat of Xiangzhou was expected by him, but the overall rout of the whole line, which will only appear next year, happened in advance, and now it should be the rout of Li Guangbi's official army all the way, and the defeat of the local war It seems that the trajectory of history has changed slightly, which is no longer under anyone's control.
It may be because of the change in details that the Tang Army's Xiangzhou defeat came ahead of schedule.
Nobody understood.
Li Jiao, the king of Chu, couldn't figure it out, and neither did the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.
When Li Jiao received the military report, he was shocked, and a beautiful jade teacup in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter, and the corners of his mouth began to twitch violently.
In this battle, Li Siye took the lead in the Beiting camp, charged into battle, and finally died of an arrow In this battle, Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and others were defeated like a mountain, and the 300,000 Tang troops lost their armor and collapsed, and in one night, more than 50,000 people were lost, which can be called the biggest fiasco since Li Heng ascended the throne and put down the rebellion As the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, Li Jiao's military reports were far clearer, more detailed and more specific than the reports delivered to the imperial court and the military department, and his news channels in the Tang army actually transmitted the news to the Chu Wangfu before the official military reports arrived, and the tragic results and battle conditions made him shudder.
Jiujiedu made the siege of Yecheng, that is, Xiangzhou, and Shi Siming, who had been in harmony with An Qingxu, sat back and watched An Qingxu being surrounded and did not save him, and suddenly sent hundreds of thousands of troops to attack and sent thousands of elite soldiers to block the Tang army's grain route.
The generals of the official army who had long been carried away by the victory did not take Shi Siming's people seriously at all, and as a result, under the light enemy, not only was the grain route cut off, but also directly led to a series of routs that were about to erupt Fan Yang's iron cavalry attacked the formation of the Tang army, tens of thousands of Tang troops were defeated, and the camp became a pot of porridge.
At that time, even Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, the world's famous generals, could not control the situation at all.
Later, Kong Sheng learned that the key to the rebels' victory was Shi Siming's sudden attack.
In this matter, An Qingxu used a means.
An Qingxu saw that the situation was critical, and felt that Shi Siming's march was slow and deliberately delayed, so he sent An Taiqing to send the puppet emperor jade seal to Shi Siming, and sent a letter willing to give up the throne.
Shi Siming was overjoyed, and his subordinates also shouted "Long live" Shi Siming, which directly fueled and inflated Shi Siming's ambitions.
Shi Siming is also a careerist who wants to be the emperor.
An Qingxu was at the end of his rope, and in order to save his life, he voluntarily gave up the position of the head of the rebel army to Shi Siming, which was a kind of wisdom.
The death toll reported to the imperial court was actually a very conservative number.
Along with the military newspaper, there was also a mourning report of Li Siye's death and a petition for guilt from Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi.
It's just that compared with the news of the fiasco, the death of Li Siye, a tiger general, was swallowed up by solemnity, and almost no one mentioned his name.
As the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses, Li Jiao had to bear the nominal responsibility for the defeat.
Although he was only in name, he did not come to the battle in person.
This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to Li Jiao, who is determined to win the position of prince by covering his merits and immortal fame.
Li Shi's face was heavy, and he didn't dare to say anything.
Li Kui and Ma Ping, who were attached to the important ministers of the Chu king's family, sat in the hall, their faces very solemn.
The atmosphere in the hall was dreary, and only the heavy breathing of everyone could be faintly heard.
This Kong Sheng actually has the ability of unpredictable prophets and clever calculations Li Jiao's hand tightly grasped the case table in front of him, and his face was pale.
He slowly raised his head to look at his eldest son Li Shi, and said word by word: "Shi'er, the military report has been sent to the palace."
Li Shi snorted and replied with sincere fear: "Yes, father, I have already been sent to the palace." ” The corners of Li Jiao's mouth twitched, and he slowly got up and said solemnly: "Everyone, Xiangzhou was defeated, the soldiers were lost, and this king, as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, is to blame."
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Li Shangshu, please immediately draft a petition for this king, and this king will personally enter the palace to face the saint, and ask Your Majesty to surrender his guilt."
Li Hua raised his eyebrows, but he got up and arched his hand: "Your Highness, the fiasco of Xiangzhou is completely the result of the improper command of Guo Ziyi and a few people, and it has nothing to do with Your Highness."
At this time, it is really not appropriate for His Highness to take the dirty water on himself.
In the opinion of the following officials, His Royal Highness might as well have a copy of Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi in the above table, and take the opportunity to seize the military power of these people, and then replace them."
Li Kuo's voice in the second half of the sentence became eerie.
Li Shi lowered his head and chuckled in his heart below, and said in his heart that the most insidious and ruthless person in the world is really not a military general but a civil servant, Li Kui These people are straw bags when they go into battle to kill the enemy, and they may not be experts in governing the country, but in terms of the yin people behind them, they are definitely the masters of the masters But there is no doubt that this is the most in line with the political interests of the king of Chu.
Li Jiao stared at Li Yu deeply, slightly hesitating.
Seeing Li Jiao's hesitation, Li Kui took a step forward and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, the so-called people who achieve great things are not informal, Guo Ziyi's group of people are proud of their achievements and control the military power, and they are nominally controlled by His Highness, but in fact, if they don't take the opportunity to take it, His Highness will suffer from it in the future."
Li Li took a deep breath.
In fact, he knew that what Li Kui said was very reasonable, Guo Ziyi and these people were nominally controlled by him, but in fact they were still the emperor's people, as long as the emperor gave an order, Guo Ziyi, these good generals in power, would be the biggest obstacle to the king of Chu and his family to the peak.
But in this way, if Guo Ziyi and these people can't be brought down, they will become enemies of life and death with Guo Ziyi and others.
And the emperor's recent attitude is really a bit ambiguous, and Li Li can't help but consider the consequences and negative effects of doing so.
Li Kui's Wenchen can come up with all kinds of bad ideas, but in terms of the overall situation, they are far from Li Li.
After weighing the pros and cons and thinking about it for a long time, Li Li finally made a decision.
He looked at Li Kuo and the others with blazing eyes, and waved his hand resolutely: "Everyone, I bother you to immediately split up and act in tandem with the ministers, you and I will enter the palace together to face the saint, impeach Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and others, this king will ask for a play, personally take command and go to Xiangzhou, and if you don't completely annihilate An Qingxu's chaotic party, this king will never return to Chang'an for half a step."
Li Kuo and the others were overjoyed, and immediately bowed down to make a promise, and retreated one after another to take their own actions.
Zhao Wangfu.
Li stood alone in the flower hall, staring at a painting on the wall inherited from the Confucian Confucian Kong Yingda: Helping the world.
Kong Yingda is the ancestor of Kong Sheng, and Kong Sheng is the descendant of Kong Yingda, a disciple of Confucius.
Even Kong Sheng didn't know that the Li family still had some relationship with Kong Yingda.
Li's gaze became brighter and brighter.
The battle report of Xiangzhou's defeat made him suddenly realize that Kong Sheng's various unpredictable abilities were beyond his imagination, and he remembered that Kong Sheng was a disciple of Sima Chengzhen, the master of the Shangqing Dynasty, and Li was secretly glad that he had formed a close friend with Kong Sheng, rather than a simple political alliance.
Or, Kong Sheng is a glimmer of opportunity for himself to compete with the King of Chu for the position of prince.
Li Department waved his hand suddenly, and shouted: "Come on, prepare the car, this king wants to go to the Yamen of Dali Temple in person to pick up Chang'an and wait to return home."
Everyone in Chang'an City rushed to tell each other, and people were panicked.
It's not yet closing time, but there are not many shops open on the street, which is very rare in the history of Chang'an City.
The carriages and horses of King Zhao's mansion openly walked in the market, and Li ordered people to raise the flag of King Zhao's guard of honor, and openly drove straight to pick up Kong Sheng.
At this moment, the Marquis of Chang'an's Mansion was full of joy.
If it weren't for the jealousy, Wu Xianwu would have sent people to set off firecrackers to celebrate.
After all, this is a fortunate thing for Chang'an Houfu, which means that Kong Sheng is safe and sound, but for the imperial court and the Tang Dynasty, this is definitely a heavy moment for the whole country.
As early as when the Zhao Wang Li Department went out of the house to meet Kong Sheng with great fanfare, Tang Genshui had already rushed to the Yamen of Dali Temple with more than ten escorts. oshow7 t1706231537: