Yan Zhuang and Gao Shang followed An Lushan into the meeting hall. In the center of the hall was a shrine. On the shrine stood a statue of Ahura Mazda, the true god of Zoroastrianism, known among the people as the Zoroastrian God.
An Lushan first respectfully placed three sticks of incense in front of the Zoroastrian God and bowed down. Yan Zhuang and Gaoshang also followed him to worship.
He turned around and sat on the beech bed covered with tiger skin, with his legs spread apart from the golden sword horse, looking much more majestic than a mountain eagle.
"Tell me how to deal with Li Siye? I can't let him just sit down in the position of Jiedushi in Hexi."
Yan Zhuang stepped forward and said: "Doctor, Li Linfu passed away due to illness, leaving the position of right prime minister vacant. Now that the saint loves Yang Guozhong especially, he must appoint Yang Guozhong as his right prime minister. Why don't you send someone to deliver a letter to a trustworthy person in the capital?
Ask him to help find out what Yang Guozhong is thinking."
An Lushan shook his head and said, "Where do you start talking about this? Li Siye has always had a good relationship with the Yang family, and now he and Yang Guozhong are in the honeymoon period. How could he join us in dealing with Li Siye?"
"Doctor, as the saying goes, Yang Guozhong didn't deal with Li Linfu before, so he secretly connected Li Siye and us. Now Li Linfu is dead. The last thing he wants to see is that the wings of these people below him become hardened.
Form a climate. If Li Siye becomes the governor of Hexi, he will gradually form this climate. Therefore, we should test Yang Guozhong's reaction. If he is dissatisfied with Li Siye, we will provoke him and let him, the prime minister, help
Let’s deal with Li Siye.”
"Then," Gao Shang added following Yan Zhuang's words: "Then we watched the show and watched him bite back and forth between Yang Guozhong and the Northwest Fanzhen. We just accumulated strength and waited for the time to come."
"Hahaha," An Lushan laughed proudly, then tugged at his beard and said loudly: "The emperor has only a few years left to live. In order to gain his loyalty, I offended his son.
I have offended everyone in the court. Once he kicks off to the west, I will not serve Li Heng's son and directly lead his troops south to seize his Tang court."
Gao Shang nodded secretly and stroked his beard, while Yan Zhuang stood aside and worried secretly. Having said that, Fatty An, you can give us some encouragement, don't even endure a bad old man.
"Commander Yan, it is up to you to write this letter to my brother Ji Wen who is currently in Chang'an. Tell him that if the errand is completed, I will recommend him in front of the saint as the minister of the Ministry of War and the imperial censor Zhongcheng."
Yan Zhuang crossed his hands and said, "Here!"
An Lushan stroked his swollen belly and laughed proudly, his narrowed eyes shone with a cold and greedy light, as if he had everything under control.
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In the long corridor in front of the gate of Wuwei City in Liangzhou Prefecture, the military envoys of the Eighth Army under the command of Hexi Jiedushi gathered together and waited eagerly for the arrival of the new Jiedushi Li Siye.
The Eighth Army in Hexi is dominated by the Chishui Army, with 33,000 troops in charge. Li Guangbi is the current military envoy. Nearly 60% of the Chishui Army are cavalry, which is the main combat force under the Hexi Jiedushi. Like other Da Dou Army envoys
Li Chengguang, Wang Nan, the envoy of the Ning invaders, and Yang Yu, the envoy of the Yumen army, only had a few thousand soldiers and horses under their command.
The group of people, mainly Li Guangbi and Liangzhou Sima Tianliangqiu, chatted around them and inquired about the interests and hobbies of the new Hexi Jiedu envoy.
"Don't ask. I don't know much about this kind of thing. I only know that Doctor Li is now in charge of three towns, and most of the troops in Longyou Road are concentrated in his hands."
"May I ask Ambassador Li, how is Dr. Li's command of the army?"
Li Guangbi asked: "Are you asking about his rewards and punishments, or about his battles?"
"Of course I have to ask both questions."
"If you ask him whether rewards and punishments are strict, I don't know. But if you ask him about his battles, according to my own analysis and judgment, Li Siye's battle ability is far better than that of Dr. Ge Shuhan and Dr. An Sishun, and even better than Gao Xianzhi. Maybe he is better than Dr. Gao Xianzhi.
The late General Wang is no different."
Sima Tianliangqiu stroked his beard and smiled slightly, and asked Li Guangbi with some deep meaning in his words: "It seems that Li Junjun has high regard for Dr. Li."
"I dare not say that I highly recommend it, but Guang Bi is a military fanatic and loves to deduce battle formations most of his life. I have also recited the Marching Chronicles of Cen Shen, Secretary of the Jiedushi Commander in Anxi, and rehearsed Dr. Li's classic battles such as Thirst's Throat on the sand table countless times.
The Battle of Kangju City and the Battle of Kizilkum Desert with the Great Eating Governor of Khorasan and Boshilin. He was good at commanding long-distance raids with one man and one camel, and used infantry in the battle formation confrontation.
The formation is upright, and the cavalry square formation is strange. The cavalry harasses the enemy from both wings, forcing the enemy to speed up the attack. As soon as the cavalry withdraws the enemy troops and steps into the shooting range of the infantry square..."
When the soldier fanatic talks about fighting, there is naturally no room for others to interrupt. But few people around him can listen.
"Look, it's coming!"
The crowd followed the gesture of one of them and saw several flags rising on the gradually undulating ground in the distance. The Silver Sword Officer at the front was wearing a silver step armor and appeared in their field of vision as the horse jumped. Behind him,
Following the Yu Hous holding door banners, the horizontal blowing teams on both sides also wore bright armor. Six large crimson banners behind them were fluttering fiercely in the westerly wind. Doctor Li was wearing a copper-colored mountain mantle in the shadow of these banners.
Although they were still far away, their eyes had already captured the strong figure riding a black horse.
When the brigade arrived in front of them, the entire staff of the Jiedushi envoy appeared in front of them. The deputy envoy of Jiedu was Cheng Qianli, the secretary of Hexi Zhang was Du Fu, the marching commander was Tian Zhen, and the military supervisor of Jiedu was Cheng Yuanzhen.
The envoys from the army hurriedly walked out of the pavilion, knelt on one knee on both sides of the road, crossed their hands and said: "The generals from Hexi are here to see the doctor!"
Li Siye held the riding whip and raised his hand. The entire team stopped in place. His eyes swept over the faces of the Hexi military envoys without any change in their expressions.
"Everyone stand up and speak. Who is the Chishui Army envoy Li Guangbi?"
The military envoys stood up from the ground. Li Guangbi stepped forward and crossed his hands and said, "This is Li Guangbi."
"Very good. You and the other military envoys will mount their horses and guide me from the front. Let's go to your Chishui Army camp to inspect the military formations together."
"Here."
Li Guangbi got on his horse and was at the front, with the other military envoys following behind him, guiding the Jiedu envoys' team towards the west side of Wuwei City.
The Chishui Army is divided into three armies: left, middle and right. The left and right armies are all cavalry and are stationed in the West Camp and East Camp outside Wuwei City respectively.
Li Guangbi had long been prepared to accept the inspection of the Jiedushi. All the cavalry on the left and right were waiting in armor outside the camp wall, with one person and two horses waiting in formation.
The honor guard of Jiedushi arrived in front of the army formation. Li Siye rode out from the cavalry and ordered Cheng Qianli, deputy envoy of Jiedu, to be on his left rear and Li Guangbi on his right rear. The rest were divided into three columns to follow behind them.
, marching slowly from the front of the cavalry divided into square formations, finally starting to enjoy the parade.
He was in an excited mood at the moment. The 70,000 men in Hexi were the size of a group army, and they looked more visually stunning than the small armies of Anxi and Beiting. All the cavalrymen were carrying cavalry on their backs.
When the west wind blows, the red flags all flutter toward one side, creating a spectacular sight with thousands of flags stacked one on top of another.
The first phalanx of the cavalry is the armored cavalry. The horses are covered with horse armor. The cavalry are all wearing uniform armor. The skirts and armor are like scales overlapping in reverse, shining with silver. They hold the horses in their hands.
The sword pointed directly at the sky, and the red tassel fluttered in the wind like a flame. To arm such a heavy cavalry would cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Among the entire Hexi Army, only the Chishui Army had such 600 heavy cavalry.
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Since the early Tang Dynasty, the military tactical thinking of the Tang army has changed. It no longer attaches importance to mounted cavalry, but favors light cavalry that are fast, flexible and good at riding and shooting. This is also a transition from an aristocratic military group to a civilian class. Including heavy spears
The high-quality version of the cavalry began to be built at the expense of the imperial court. These six hundred heavy cavalry seemed to be a tribute to the old times.