"Have you heard that General Sun of the Yan Kingdom recently led his troops to fight fiercely with the Anxi Army in Yongleyuan and was defeated?"
"Nonsense, you must have heard one word wrong. It means "big defeat", not "big defeat"! The young gentleman who studies next door to me once said, "Don't look at the difference between these two words, but they have completely opposite meanings!"
"You are talking nonsense! I have never read a book, and I know that these two words have different meanings! It was General Sun of the Yan Kingdom who was defeated! He was defeated by General Wang of the Tang Dynasty. My cousin's nephew's third brother-in-law My uncle lives in Qiyang, and he has been setting off explosives for several days.
"It's just bragging, but how is it possible? That General Sun is one of the most powerful generals in the Yan Kingdom!"
"General Wang is also Feng Changqing's direct disciple!"
People argued and questioned, spreading an extraordinary news at lightning speed. The more it spread, the farther away it was from reality.
"General Wang is the great-grandson of the famous Wagang general Wang Junkuo. He has a big sword passed down from his ancestors. The blade is one foot long and four feet wide. With one cut, he can cut even the Zhenhe Tieniu by the Jingshui River into two pieces... ...." In the tea shop, the gentleman who said he was a literary scholar slapped the iron ruler, and foam flew up. The tea patrons around him didn't even bother to dodge. They all raised their heads, pricked their ears, and drank all the tea in their cups. , but didn't notice it at all.
"General Wang hated his lack of education. After he became an official, he tried every means to worship Li Jing and passed on a military book. This time, he used the clever trick in the military book to build an eight-door golden lock formation on Yongle Plain. Sun Xiaozhe is a reckless man who can’t see what’s going on. If he jumps in blindly, of course he will suffer a big loss!” In the family studies of wealthy families, the teachers shook their heads and privately exchanged their views on this battle. At the same time, they did not forget to flaunt their studies. The importance of respecting teachers.
Among the traders and soldiers, there is a widely circulated story that Wang Mingyun dug up the Jing River and flooded the Seventh Army. Although the Jing River was dozens of miles away from the battlefield, there was not even a big ditch in Yongle Plain.
What's more, they simply attributed the outcome of the battle to karma. They swore that Wang Xun's father used his book wealth to help a brothel girl escape from the sea of misery. Before the war, an old man once broke into Wang Xun's dream. , asked him to place the battlefield in Yongle Plain, and there must be extraordinary troops to help him. After Wang Xun woke up, he took a bath and burned incense, and led the army to fight. Sure enough, at the most intense moment of the battle between the two armies, the weeds on the ground suddenly knotted themselves into ropes, and Sun Xiaozhe was The Yiluohe under his command stumbled one after another...
The last one is obviously a story about "wedding grass to repay a favor" from the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was forced on Wang Xun. But everyone who heard it listened with gusto, and no one wanted to delve into it. It's no wonder that everyone just listened to the wind, and this is the rain. The result of the battle that took place in Yonglewon, Gyeonggi Province was really beyond people's imagination. Before that, there were many generals who supported the Tang Dynasty and defeated the rebels. For example, Yan Zhenqing in Hebei, Jiang Huai Zhang Xun and Shuofang's Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, but in those battles, the Tang army either hid behind the tall city walls and could not stand out, or encountered someone other than the main force of the rebels. Those who had used cavalry to fight against them like the Anxi army The cavalry, pitting elites against elites, went head-to-head with the enemy on the wild battlefield?!
That Sun Xiaozhe fought all the way from Yuyang to Chang'an, and defeated Feng Changqing, Gao Xianzhi and Ge Shuhan three famous generals! No matter who he met, there were no more soldiers and horses than the opponent. Only this time, with all the people
Ling Widow was actually beaten to a pulp!
What does this mean?
In the eyes of the very few people who know the truth of the battle, what can be tasted is too complicated. Is it difficult for the powerful crossbow to penetrate Lu Zhen? Is it that the fate of the Tang Dynasty is still unfinished? Or has the good luck of the rebels run out? Different people, from their own perspectives
angles, giving different answers.
No matter which answer is specific, the impact of this battle spread from Yongle Yuan to all directions like a whirlwind. Those Eastern soldiers and horses who were still under the orders of the Tang Dynasty all looked as if they had just drank a bowl of thousand-year-old food.
Like a soup made from ginseng, he quickly cheered up. Those county officials who had made up their minds to comply with the destiny of the capital because they were closer to the capital, also carefully hid the letters of surrender they had just written and hung up their heads.
The flag of Dayan that went up was lowered, and the official robe of the Tang Dynasty was put on again.
The situation turned from clarity to chaos, and they needed more time to think and wait and see before they could decide their next move. But the changes in the battle situation that followed became more and more shocking. The interview with Anxi of the Tang Dynasty, who had just won the battle in Yongleyuan,
Wang Mingyun, regardless of the fatigue of his soldiers, sent his general Sha Qianli to lead five thousand soldiers and horses to attack Fengtian City, and defeated it with one drum. Immediately, the Anxi Army general Fang Ziling led three thousand soldiers and horses to gallop for more than a hundred miles and captured the city close to Chang'an City.
In the nearby counties of Yunyang and Jingyang, two county magistrates who had defected to the rebels were beheaded in public, and then they took away all the grain and gold and silver in the official treasury and fled before the reinforcements from Chang'an City arrived!
Sun Xiaozhe was so angry that he cursed and transferred his troops back to Chang'an. Another warning message came from the west of Gyeonggi Province. General Zhao Huaixu of the Anxi Army led three thousand horse soldiers to attack Wugong City, and the troops were directed towards Xianyang. If Xianyang is lost again,
The city of Chang'an was stripped to the ground, with no clothes left. Sun Xiaozhe hurriedly sent his general Liu Yong to rescue him, but he didn't even find the Anxi Army.
Liu Yong was not willing to return empty-handed, so he chased him for more than fifty miles along the official road, and he caught up to the edge of the Wei River. Suddenly, a horn sounded from the valley on the roadside, followed closely by Song, the general of the Anxi Army.
Wu and Ma Baoyu rushed out hand in hand and directly broke Liu Yong's troops into two sections.
Immediately, Zhao Huaixu turned around and attacked from the front. Bao Bo and He Lusuosuo came from behind with more than a thousand cavalry from the Western Regions, cutting off the rebels' retreat. The three soldiers and horses surrounded Liu Yong's men and slashed wildly, killing many people.
Rolling, the Wei River turned red. Poor Liu Yong did not even have time to send out the scouts to move the reinforcements, so he became the ghost of Zhao Huaixu. The four thousand brothers under his command were almost wiped out. Only a few who were good at water jumped into the river.
Then he jumped out of the sky and ran back to Chang'an to deliver a letter to Sun Xiaozhe!
This time, Sun Xiaozhe was completely beaten. He was determined to mobilize all his troops to fight Wang Xun to the death, but he was afraid that he would accidentally get into the enemy's way again, and there was not even a single soldier left under his command to defend the city. He had to hold on.
Holding back his anger, he captured soldiers from Chang'an City to replenish his team, and at the same time sent people to ask for support from his immediate superior, Cui Qianyou.
Cui Qianyou had long been fed up with Sun Xiaozhe, an arrogant and domineering guy. He finally got an opportunity to beat the opponent, so how could he not take advantage of it? Xian righteously replied with a stern letter, scolding Sun Xiaozhe for underestimating the enemy's carelessness and damaging the military's might.
Then he gathered together the 100,000 troops stationed at Tongguan, and headed north in the name of wiping out the remnants of the old Tang Dynasty. The generals sent by Sun Xiaozhe to move troops were left behind to stare at the empty military camp.
Without the timely support of Cui Qianyou, Sun Xiaozhe was increasingly embarrassed and stretched with his troops. A few days later, he heard that the Anxi Army was coming in force. This time, Wang Xun personally led the troops and built a pontoon bridge to cross the Wei River. He rushed to Hu County in the southwest of Chang'an. Zhou Yonghao, the magistrate of Hu County, sent three waves of messengers to Chang'an City for help. However, Sun Xiaozhe was not sure of defeating the main force of the Anxi Army in the field battle, so he had to hide in Xiyuan with his close aides and attack the city. Foreign emergency military reports turned a blind eye!
Zhou Yonghao, the magistrate of Huxian County, was forced to open the city and ask for surrender from the Anxi Army. Wang Xun did not make it difficult for him. He comforted him with warm words, then collected the treasures in the treasury and slowly retreated to Liquan on the north bank.
After struggling like this for nearly a month, even the blind man could see clearly that Sun Xiaozhe had nothing to do with the Anxi Army. Now, the already unstable situation in Gyeonggi and Guan Nei suddenly exploded. He was still in a wait-and-see state. Some prefectures and counties in the Yan Kingdom directly killed the envoys sent by An Lushan and declared that they were incompatible with the rebels. Some prefectures and counties had already turned to the Yan Kingdom and began to re-examine their original choices. Especially those far away from Chang'an. In various prefectures and counties, the local wealthy families simply joined forces, expelled the governor and county magistrate, and sent envoys to Prince Li Heng, requesting him to appoint someone to take over the local military and political power as soon as possible.
Sun Xiaozhe was angry and resentful, so he had no choice but to write a memorial in his own hand and complain to the Emperor An Lushan of the Yan Kingdom. On the day when the memorial arrived in Luoyang, Cui Qianyou's impeachment notice for Sun Xiaozhe's death and humiliation of the country also arrived, and he was on duty. The minister did not dare to neglect, and sent him to the palace overnight to request the Holy Judge of Anlu Mountain.
An Lushan was enjoying singing and dancing in the harem when he was suddenly interrupted. Naturally, his mood was not much better. When he saw that his two trusted generals refused to work together to hunt down the enemy, but instead tried to hold each other back, he was so angry that he immediately kicked him. The imperial case was overturned and the memorial was torn to pieces. If the confidant eunuch Li Zhuer hadn't acted quickly, he would have almost smashed the jade seal directly into the lotus pond outside the window.
"Go, send someone to ask me if Sun Xiaozhe will still lead troops to fight? If not, come back to me as soon as possible, and I will seal the position of guard in Chang'an to others!" Looking at him, he knelt on the ground and shuddered. The trembling palace maids and eunuchs, An Lushan's eyes turned black for a while.
It has been almost two months since Chang'an was captured, but there is still no scene of the various prefectures and counties decorating with lanterns and festoons, turning around to greet the king's army. On the contrary, without the heavy task of defending the capital, the Tang army in various places immediately became much more difficult to deal with. The king's division of Yan State rushed over, but the opponent either turned around and left, or hid in a fortified city and closed the door without fighting. But just as the king's division turned around, the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty, who were uneasy about their fate, chased after them with horse tails. The king ordered The prefectures and counties that the division had just "pacified" suddenly fell into the hands of "Tang Ni" again.
If this continues, I don’t know how long it will take to conquer the entire Tang Dynasty! He abandoned his biological son Qingzong who was a consort in Chang’an and raised an army, not just to seize half of the country!
