Chapter 46 Chapter 46: The Anlu Mountain Rebellion, Fan Yang Feng Changqing and Lost the Eastern Capital in Repeated Battles

Fatty An's formation was astounding, before people could think about it, he was already sitting on an iron cart (铁车), leading countless infantry and cavalry, swirling smoke and dust thousands of miles away, clamoring to kill them.It was a very peaceful year, and the common people had never seen soldiers and horses, let alone words related to war such as modao, beheading, and clamoring. The people in Hebei were the first to bear the brunt, because those under the age of 60 had never seen what a "rebellion" looked like, so they packed their bags and prepared to abandon their homes and run away.Fortunately, the territory near Fanyang was originally under the jurisdiction of Anlu Mountain, so they left the city and surrendered without waiting for the bandits to make any effort.

Once Fatty An entered those cities that did not surrender, they would immediately be massacred.No one expected that a group of troops assembled in an emergency could achieve such a great victory so easily. The vanguard generals He Qiannian and Gao Miao of the rebel army led the iron cavalry of the Xi clan, captured the official horses of the post station, and went to Taiyuan first.Yang Guanghui, deputy left guard in Taiyuan, Beijing (Taiyuan was Beijing in the Tang Dynasty), went out of the city to meet them devoutly, and other places followed suit. And Mr. He Qiannian followed only twenty or so cavalrymen.

On Li Longji's side, someone reported the matter, but he was scolded fiercely. Anlu Mountain has captured countless cities in Hebei and Shanxi (the hometown of Datang), and two steps forward, it is Henan where the eastern capital Luoyang is located.Emergency documents from all over the country came, like a snowflake.Li Longji couldn't believe it at first, and when the whole province of Henan was in an emergency, he patted his thigh and shouted loudly. Put aside the work at hand, and all the Pingzhang prime ministers of the three provinces and six ministries will hold a meeting immediately!

It should be said that it is possible to come up with a good strategy by gathering the strength of everyone. However, the person who presided over the meeting was Yang Guozhong, who was at odds with Fatty An.Mr. Yang was very happy. It seemed that An Lushan really rebelled and rebelled, which proved that his words could make him face a lot and feel like a prophet. Yang Guozhong was proud of himself, and said with a smile on his face: "Finally, I have been proved to be right. How about it, are you convinced or not?"Mr. Yang looked resolute, "An Lushan is the only one who rebels, and the soldiers don't want to listen to him!" He stretched out two palms, showing off to everyone, "Ten days, not ten days! An Lushan's head It is about to be placed in front of you!" Yang Guozhong can die.

After listening to Mr. Yang's discussion, the ministers turned pale. No matter how bad they are, they all know that the defense line in the east was originally controlled by Fatty An. Now the defense line has turned into an anti-military force. How can you make people calm?Li Longji was not too willing to believe Yang Guozhong's words. He sent his special envoy Bi Sichen to rush to Dongdu, and Jinwu General Cheng Qianli ran to Hedong at the speed of light. .Li Longji still has a lot of information. For example, Ge Shuhan and Feng Changqing are one of the few generals who have seen the war.

But now there is only one person left to fight between the two. Ge Shuhan got sick on the way to Beijing, and came to Beijing standing up and lying down (fortunately, he did not die). Li Longji asked Feng Changqing (the envoy of Anxi Jiedu) to enter the court and asked about the strategy of begging the thieves.In the past, Li Longji would never linger on such a physically disabled and unattractive person for one more second.But now, he not only listened carefully to every word Feng Changqing said, but also asked him the best way to get thieves from time to time. Feng Changqing's strategy, "The minister (himself) goes to the east of the horse, opens the treasury, recruits brave men, picks up horses and sticks to cross the river, and counts the days to take the head of the rebellious Hu and offer it to the palace!"

A grassroots man named Changqing, at the most turbulent moment in China, was awarded the most difficult career, and became the envoy of Fan Yang and Pinglu.He set off immediately and went to Dongdu to recruit troops. In ten days, he got 60,000 troops, broke the Heyang Bridge, and adjusted the level to the defensive state.However, Feng Changqing frowned, because he found that most of the people who joined the army joined the army with the attitude of being desperate, not to mention the drive to "do not break Loulan, and never return it". It is really strenuous to have to rest several times even in the middle of walking ten miles.

It’s okay to live in peace for a long time. It’s okay for these unemployed vagrants to eat and drink in the army. It would be disgusting for two days to see others beheaded on weekdays.Anlu Mountain has already killed Bolingnan (Anping) in central Hebei. He Qiannian, who was originally in Taiyuan, also grabbed Yang Guanghui who had surrendered and came to see Anlu Mountain. When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous! This Yang Guanghui is An Lushan's enemy because his surname is Yang and he used to be attached to Yang Guozhong. The fat man had an emotional offensive with Yang Guanghui, first he pointed at him as Yang Guozhong and yelled at him, and then he was chopped off to commemorate his lost happiness.

An Lushan did not encounter any obstacles, so he sent An Zhongzhi (godson, Xi Ren) to lead elite troops into Tumen, and took Zhang Xiancheng (son of Zhang Shougui) to capture the prefect of Boling.After reaching Gaocheng (Zhengdong, Shijiazhuang), the prefect of Changshan went out of the city with Chang Shi to welcome him.An Lushan saw these two guys who came to offer the city, one named Yuan Luqian and the other named Yan Gaoqing.It looks very good, An Lushan gave Yan Gaoqing a lot of things, let him continue to guard Changshan.For safety's sake, Fatty An asked Yan Gaoqing's family to be kidnapped, and Li Qincourt led thousands of troops to guard Jingxingkou (the westernmost part of Hebei, with many mountains and dangerous terrain), in case the officers and soldiers who came to the west came to rescue them.

Traitorous and seeking glory, Yan Gaoqing and Yuan Luqian walked back together. On the way, Yuan Luqian asked: "What should I do in the future? Who are you with?" Yan Gaoqing pointed to her official uniform and looked at Yuan Luqian who looked puzzled, "Who gave this to me?" The godson rebelled, that's the real cheating. In order to educate An Lushan, Li Longji arrested An Qingzong and beheaded him for public display.In addition, Guo Ziyi, the military envoy of the right chamber of Shuofang, and Guo Ziyi, the prefect of Jiuyuan, were appointed as Shuofang's Jiedu envoy, and Wang Chengye, the general of Youyulin, was appointed Yin of Taiyuan.He ordered Henan Jiedu to administer Chenliu and other thirteen counties, and appointed Zhang Jieran of Wei Weiqingyi's family as Chenliu's Jiedu envoy.Those who are close to the army of Anlu Mountain all set up defense envoys, with King Rong Li Wan as the marshal and General Gao Xianzhi of You Jinwu as the deputy marshal, leading the army to conquer the Hulu.In order to motivate the soldiers, he took out money and silk from the inner government and recruited 110,000 soldiers in the capital, called "Tianwu Army".

The momentum is enough, the number of people is enough, but the quality is not up to standard. Like the troops raised in other places, the 110,000 soldiers of the Tianwu Army were mostly filled by the children of the market.In the twelfth lunar month of winter, Gao Xianzhi assembled 50,000 frontier soldiers in the capital, marched eastward, and stationed troops in Shan County (Shaan County, Henan Province). An Lushan is about to cross the river, and there is a headache right now, there is no boat. However, the fat man gave full play to his eclectic imagination and had rotten logs filled into the river.Someone asked, wouldn't rotten wood also float?It is meant to float up and block the flow of water on the river surface, not for people to step on it, let alone support people and horses to cross the river by buoyancy, but only for one purpose - to freeze the water. Things went very smoothly. An Lushan's army successfully crossed the natural danger on an ice bridge like a floating beam, and captured Jiongchang County.The bandit army is much more elite than the Tianwu army, but combat effectiveness does not mean discipline. Wherever they pass, people are devastated, and the people are in dire straits. They are robbed by this group of people, leaving only tattered clothes and blood. It is a miracle to survive. . Zhang Jieran, who arrived in a hurry, arrived in Chenliu only a few days ago, and An Lushan had already killed him. None of the people in the city had ever fought a war. Zhang Jieran knew that resistance was useless, so he surrendered after accepting the city. Next stop, Kaifeng. However, Fatty An didn't leave because he heard An Qingxu (also his son) say that An Qingzong had been killed by Li Longji. Crying, "What's wrong with me, you killed my son!" Fatty An cried for a long time, and when he finished crying, he suddenly said that he wanted to inspect the troops.Chen Liu's 10,000 soldiers and civilians who lined up saw a fat barbarian circling the field, and suddenly heard him angrily say, "Give back my son's life!" An Lushan issued an order for a massacre, and blood flowed all over the ground for a while, crying and crying.The bandits killed so cruelly that no one was left alive. An Lushan had Zhang Jieran's head beheaded and hung above the military gate, as revenge for his son.The crazy slaughter at An Lushan made Li Longji more and more uneasy. Finally, he came up with his own plan: let Shuofang, Hexi, and Longyou soldiers stay in the castle, and all other soldiers and horses went to the camp. The assembly will be completed within twenty days. I want to drive my own conquest! The emperor's personal conquest should have been a good thing that everyone cheered, but Li Longji quickly changed his mind. Seeing the twenty-four counties in Hebei surrendering one after another, he could only cry. "Aren't there any righteous men in the twenty-four counties?" Li Longji did not expect that after he finished asking this sentence, there would be a report saying that there were still 7,000 troops in Pingyuan and Boping defending Hejin!The prefect of Pingyuan knew that Anlu Mountain was about to fall, so he made preparations in advance. After finishing the city, the trenches were completed, the material was strong, the warehouses were real, and the soldiers and horses were trained to defend one side of the territory. Okay, Prefect of Pingyuan! Li Longji stroked his beard, "I don't know that Yan Zhenqing is such a hero!" However, relying on Yan Zhenqing alone is not enough. An Lushan has gone crazy. In order to vent his hatred, he attacked several cities one after another. was killed.The thieves fought and won victoriously, and An Lushan took Tian Chengsi, An Zhongzhi, and Zhang Xiaozhong as the vanguard, and easily reached the Wulao (for the importance of this place, please refer to the introduction during the Sui and Tang Dynasties). Here, An Lushan also encountered resistance, and the leader of the resistance was a cripple named Feng Changqing. The results of the battle are as follows: An Lushan cavalry easily trampled this group of mob into meatloaf. Feng Changqing immediately gathered the remaining people, fought again in the sunflower garden, and lost again.In the battle at the east gate, he was defeated again. An Lushan captured Dongdu, and the thieves entered through the four gates, killing and looting. Feng Changqing fought again at Dutingyi, and was defeated again; he retreated to Xuanrenmen, and was defeated again; then he retreated westward from the broken wall in the west of the garden. No matter how clever a daughter-in-law is, she can't cook rice without rice (if I have to put it more literaryly, it's "it's hard for a clever wife to cook without rice"). Feng Changqing's big defeat explained such a simple truth.This is how Luoyang, the eastern capital, fell, and Henan Yin Daxi Xun followed suit.Li Longji was very annoyed by Feng Changqing's defeat, so he cut his official position and asked him to work as a servant in Gao Xianzhi's military camp.The situation in Henan is very clear, but there are some people who just don't understand. Li Wei, who is left behind in Henan, is the one who doesn't understand the least. He looked at Lu Yi, the imperial censor who was also with him, and said, "I have a heavy responsibility for the country of Cao He. Even though I am invincible in power, I must die! (We have been entrusted with the state's grace and entrusted with a heavy responsibility. Although we know that we are invincible, why should I cherish this life?)" Lu Yi His eyes were moist. Together with Li Wei, he collected hundreds of remnants and prepared to fight An Lushan to the death. It can only be said that Li Wei and Lu Yi are two dreamers and patriots. They may know that this is a futile thing, but they are still unwilling to wake up.After listening to Li Yan's words, the scene was surprisingly quiet. It was obvious that no one was willing to die.Everyone returned to the barracks with serious expressions on their faces.Then, everyone packed up their bags and fled, leaving only Li Wei sitting in the mansion. Lu Yi went to work, he asked his wife to take the official seal, took a small road back to Chang'an, and sat in Taichung in court clothes.There was no one in the Luoyang government for a long time. If they saw him, they dared to come. They must be waiting for death, and they all ran away.An Lushan can only take this kind of silly approach as a joke.With nothing else to do, he asked people to arrest Li Wei, Lu Yi, and interview the judge Jiang Qing. He wanted to see if these three people who refused to come to see him would pee their pants nervously before they died. Lu Yi was turned to An Lushan.Looking at the gangsters, he suddenly went mad and said: "Everyone should know how to be obedient. I will not lose my integrity in death, so why should I hate you!" The three of them were fearless, and they would not change their integrity when they died. So stupid, so stupid. However, history is changed by such fools, who don't know how to submit, don't know how to be soft, who speak boldly when they are dying, and are loyal and courageous.Let me introduce again, Li Yu, who stayed behind in Henan, was born in Wenshui, Shanxi. The son of Shen, he is upright and upright, he is a clean and honest official, he is dedicated to his duties, and his father's style will last forever. In this world, there are many people who know that they can't do it, but they do it. Those who don't do it will end up with no benefit to history; those who do it will have to bear the misery caused by their own choices. Some people can't understand it all their lives.