Chapter seven hundred and ninety seventh Yecheng decisive moment
Guo Ziyi said a lot of such things, and Li Siye watched in silence. When he was so thirsty and looking for water, Li Siye had already put a large cup of tea on the table, and Guo Ziyi reached out to pick it up.
Drink it all in one gulp.
When Guo Ziyi put down the tea bowl, Li Siye nodded and said: "Guo Sikong is right. The rebels are brutally killing the people and should be eradicated first. Please rest assured that Guo Sikong can go back to capture Yecheng. I can guarantee you that the rebels will never be allowed to rescue them."
Yecheng."
Guo Ziyi obviously couldn't believe it. He also prepared a lot of words to persuade Li Siye, but he didn't expect that the other party actually agreed. To say the least, wasn't this exactly what he came for? Why did he look solemn and dare not when the goal was achieved?
rest assured.
After Li Siye sent Guo Ziyi away, Dai Wang said to Li Siye from the side: "Is it possible that my lord really wants to follow Guo Ziyi's advice? Help the court defeat Shi Siming. The next person they will deal with will definitely be you, my lord."
Siye did not answer his words directly, but looked up into the distance and said: "From Huaizhou to Weizhou, and then to the front line of Xiangzhou, I saw Tang troops robbing and killing people all the way. So in my opinion, Tang troops and
The only difference between rebels is legal and illegal, there is no justice or injustice, to me they should all be killed."
Cen Shen had already rushed back from Shi Siming's rebel camp and reported to Li Siye the rebels' idea of using the Xuanwu artillery camp.
As soon as Cen Shen finished speaking, Yan Xiaosi immediately jumped to his feet: "He has a great idea, this person wants to take the artillery camp as his own! This is a powerful weapon of our Hexi Army, how can we give it to others!"
Li Siye thought for a while and said: "The Xuanwu Artillery is indeed the core force of the Hexi Army, but its army's transportation capacity is very high. It is a heavy baggage. It will slow down the retreat of the army when it marches. Once the battle is defeated, it will retreat.
No defeated army can take them away."
"The Battle of Yecheng is the same for me as it is for the imperial court and Shi Siming. We can only win but not lose. As long as we can achieve the final goal, it doesn't matter if we temporarily give up the artillery camp. Yan Xiaosi, you will use the artillery
Divide half of the battalion, leaving the light Xiao Xuanwu, and temporarily return half of the heavy artillery battalion with its organizational structure to Shi Siming. Please ask Mr. Cen to make another trip."
Cen Shen went to Shi Siming's military camp to discuss it again. When he heard that Li Siye had only given him fifty-three cannons, Shi Siming immediately became dissatisfied and claimed that he needed the entire Hexi Army's artillery camp to assist in the battle.
Cen Shen ran back and told Li Siye that Shi Siming seemed to want all the artillery battalions and would not let go at all. Li Siye sent him to negotiate terms. In addition to half of the artillery battalions, he also sent two thousand flying tiger cavalry to assist in the battle.
But he just refused to lend out all his artillery.
After constant exchange of conditions between the two sides, Shi Siming finally agreed to Li Siye's request and temporarily used Weizhou as the territory of the Longyou Army. Li Siye sent an artillery battalion and two thousand flying tiger cavalry to assist in the battle, and made way for the rebels to move west.
Jin entered a decisive battle with the Tang army.
Shi Siming's generals, such as Zhang Zhongzhi and Xue Song, thought that he seemed to have lost money. He exchanged such a large piece of Weizhou for dozens of cannons and two thousand cavalry. Even if Li Siye was not returned in the future, it would not be worthwhile for him unless he returned it then.
Able to recapture Weizhou.
Shi Siming laughed loudly: "Do you think I am just exchanging terms with Li Siye? Are you just coveting a few cannons and soldiers in his hands? What a mistake! An Lushan has always said that this person is very powerful, but in my opinion he is just mediocre.
Senior, otherwise I wouldn’t have been tricked by the imperial court to the point where I would think of independence. I told you about Li Siye’s three possible goals before, and I think I can rule out two of them.”
"If he still has the intention of being loyal to the imperial court, he will definitely refuse to send troops to help me. Supporting troops and rebelling are two completely different crimes. Then his next two goals are nothing more than to take advantage of the emptiness in my rear to move northward
, captured Beizhou, Jizhou, Shenzhou, Yingzhou and Youzhou, and the second was to sneak attack me from behind while I was in the decisive battle with the Tang army. Now I have found out his true purpose. I asked for help from him.
If he refuses to agree to the artillery camp or only borrows part of it, it means that if he wants to use the artillery camp for attack, he must go north to attack Youzhou. But if he is willing to borrow all the artillery camp, he must take advantage of the decisive battle between me and the Tang army.
At that time, the fisherman profited. Now his goal is clear. Zhang Zhizhong!"
"The end is here." Zhang Zhizhong knelt down on one knee and crossed his hands in front of him.
"I order you to lead more than 12,000 people to withdraw from Weizhou and hold Linqing City in Beizhou. I order the governor of Mingzhou to guard Linming City. I will build a strong wall and clear the country to prevent Li Siye from going north. When I defeat the Tang army near Yecheng, I will lead the army immediately.
If my troops go to Weizhou to attack Li Siye, then who else will be my opponent in the entire Central Plains?"
In early October, Shi Siming led more than 70,000 troops out of Weizhou and arrived in Xiangzhou. After receiving the artillery battalion assisted by Li Siye, he was still in no hurry to fight the decisive battle with the besieging Tang army.
It seems that An Qingxu's will is strong enough and he can persist even when he is running out of ammunition and food. Shi Siming also believes that he should squeeze his alliance to the extreme in order to drag the equally exhausted Tang army into the quagmire. He constantly sends small groups of cavalry
He secretly attacked the Tang army's baggage supplies and cut off the Tang army's food routes, which shook their morale.
Just like to bring down a huge giant, a lot of preliminary preparations must be done. Various traps and small means will weaken his strength. The more preliminary preparations accumulated, the easier the decisive battle will be for them. The balance of victory will be
It had already tilted before the decisive battle came.
After all, he was still uneasy about his decision, so he ordered Xue Song to lead more than 8,000 people as the rear wing of the army, specifically to prevent Li Siye from taking out chrysanthemums from behind.
Li Siye convened his generals for discussion in the military camp in Weizhou. He made the following decision in front of everyone. He sent Tian Zhen to lead an Anxi army of 10,000 people and an artillery battalion northward to feint attack Beizhou. The intensity of the attack should reach the point where the other side would ask for help.
On October 11, news from the direction of Beizhou reached Shi Siming's military formation in Xiangzhou. The soldiers asking for help knelt down and crossed their hands and said: "Report! Li Siye led his troops north to attack Linqing City. General Zhang Zhizhong ordered me to ask for help.
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When the generals heard this news, they all praised Shi Siming for his uncanny calculation and being able to predict Li Siye's next move. Shi Siming was secretly proud and thought to himself, where is this from? He wants to kill the army of the Seventh Envoy in Xiangzhou.
, and also went north to attack Li Siye and create a myth in his personal military career.
"Take the orphan's warrant and go to Fanyang to give justice to my son, and order him to mobilize troops from Yingzhou in the rear to come to Beizhou to block Li Siye. After I defeat the Tang army here and subdue An Qingxu, I will return to the army.
Go north."
The situation was so serious that he could no longer wait, and took the initiative to challenge the Tang army that besieged Yecheng. The Tang army quickly retreated to the north bank of the Anyang River, and occupied the favorable terrain first. With the Hedong Army and the incomplete Anxi Army as the front army, Guo Ziyi
Shuofang's army is the central army, and Wang Sili, Lu Jiong and others are the rear army. They are arranged according to the depth of the troops in front of the river beach.
Even if the Tang Army encountered the mutiny and exodus of Hexi and other three armies, the total strength was still as many as 120,000. On the other hand, because of Li Siye's restraint, Shi Siming's army could only muster more than 60,000 people to face the Tang Army on the battlefield. But the Tang Army was already exhausted.
Shi Siming's army actually had the reorganized Tongluo Qidan cavalry.
In the morning, the autumn wind blew from the north to the south, and the flags were hunting on the banks of the Anyang River. Shi Siming personally led the Luo Qidan cavalry to attack the Tang army's formation. Li Guangbi always stood in front of the formation, commanding the front army to use shields and infantry formations to intercept the enemy cavalry, with five rows of bows.
The crossbowmen took turns firing arrows at the charging enemy troops. The Tongluo cavalry's attack was blocked and retreated.
Suddenly bursts of white smoke erupted from the rebel formations in the rear. Li Guangbi felt an ominous premonition in his heart. The rumble of artillery had already resounded over the battlefield. The shells fell into the front army formation, and the elite Hedong soldiers were blown away by the explosion.
Turn, the tight formation becomes like a honeycomb.
The tighter and denser the phalanx, the weaker the resistance to artillery. They were able to restrain the cavalry to a certain extent. When the flying artillery shells fell into the Tang army's camp, Li Guangbi's cheeks twisted in shock and pain. Shi Siming laughed crazily and turned around.
Ma Tou led the cavalry to charge towards the Tang army's formation again.