Chapter 713
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Shangdu, Chang'an.
Because Huang Chao was the emperor in Luoyang, the strategic strategy of the Great Qi Empire was modified at this time. Originally, Huang Chao's plan was to enter Luoyang, but he did not intend to stay. He just took the money, grain and wealth from the Eastern Capital, and then concentrated all the Qi army and troops to attack Tongguan directly, and attacked Chang'an all the way into Chang'an, and drove the little emperor of Chang'an from the throne of the emperor.
However, although the Tang army in the Central Plains was shocked by the Qi army, the situation in Guandong also changed greatly.
Especially after Li Jing sent troops south and the four towns in Hebei were defeated, Huang Chao had to face a great threat. That is, if the attack on Chang'an is unfavorable and Li Jing is hit by the back, then Chang'an may not be obtained and Luoyang will be lost. Then hundreds of thousands of Qi troops may be surrounded in western Henan and be attacked in the abdomen.
To take Chang'an, first take Luoyang.
Similarly, if you have an affair with Luoyang, you will definitely win Chang'an.
Facing Li Jing, who was moving south strongly, even though he was holding hundreds of thousands of soldiers and had just captured the Central Plains, Huang Chao, was full of fear. At this time, he did not dare to leave Luoyang at all and advance westward.
Finally, we had to adjust our strategy to seize the prefectures around Luoyang, stabilize the eight passes of Luoyang, carefully defend against Li Jing, and at the same time sent a group of troops to attack Tongguan.
However, it was precisely because of this strategic adjustment that Cui Anqian, Du Qing and Zhang Zimian, and Zik asked these four generals to sit in Tongguan. In addition, the Shence Army sent troops to reinforce. For a time, several tentative offensive and defensive battles were conducted between the Qi army and the Tongguan defenders who attacked Tongguan. There were no big battles between them. Tongguan was still in the hands of the Tang army.
Li Jing won a great victory in Hebei, and then advanced to the Central Plains, captured twenty states in a row, and finally entered the east bank of the Bian River, which put great pressure on Huang Chao.
The arrival of the Qin army led to the Zhongwu, Fengguo, Zhongguo, and the towns in Hezhong, who had already surrendered to Huang Chao, and began to watch again.
In Hedong, the Hedong Army had already stopped confronting Li Keyong with the will of the Tang court. Zhenwu, Tiande and Xia Yin's army went south to Hedong again and pointed directly to Luoyang.
The originally precarious situation in Chang'an has entered a new strategic stalemate stage for a while. The six major war zones of Guanzhong, Hedong, Central Plains, Hebei, Huainan and Shannan have no spare time to implement major breakthroughs.
Although the Tang army is better than the Qi army in terms of strategic situation on the surface, in fact, the Tang army is divided into various divisions. The most critical Guanzhong war zone is actually weaker than the Qi army in Luoyang, and it relies entirely on the restraint of the Qin army in Henan and Hedong and other vassal armies against the Qi army.
Guanzhong had enough defense in Tangzhong, but he was unable to go east to attack Huang Chao.
To break this strategic deadlock, based on the discussions between the ministers in the court, a powerful new force must launch an attack on Luoyang, affecting the changes in the entire situation.
Looking at the whole world, it is not without people who are able to do this now.
Prime Minister Lu Xie told the emperor bluntly that when there are three people who can do this today, the first one is Li Jing, the King of Qin who is now on the head of Guandong soldiers and horses. He has strong troops and fought from Hebei to Henan. Recently, taking advantage of the emptiness of the towns in Henan, he entered very strongly and took over the three towns of Taining, Tianping, Yichang, and several other towns. Li Jing's troops have reached the east bank of the Bian River and confronted the rebels outside Luoyang of the pseudo-Qi. As long as Li Jing continues to attack, if he captures Bian and Zhengzhou and captures Wulao Pass, the east gate of Luoyang will be opened and the entire strategic situation will be completely changed.
However, no one can see clearly now. This person is strong and powerful, so the court cannot mobilize him at all. After Li Jing entered Henan, both the military officials of the original vassal states and the rebel generals of the pseudo-Qi army took the initiative to retreat and did not fight against Li Jing at all.
Even in an important city like Songzhou, the rebel Zhu Wen took the initiative to evacuate and hand it over to Li Jing. Li Jing did not have a normal attitude towards these rebels. Instead, he had already followed the Bian River and did not violate the river with the puppet Qi rebels.
The court has no way to command such a grandfather.
In addition to Li Jing, there are also key roles in Hedong towns. However, there is Li Keyong behind Hedong towns, which makes it difficult for each town to move south with peace of mind. Even if you go south, there is also a Hezhong Town Wang Chongrong, which makes the court not very hopeful for the reinforcements in Hezhong.
The remaining one is Gao Pian from Huainan. Although Gao Pian has been silent for the past year, the court has not forgotten the Prince of Bohai County. If Gao Da Mai can send troops north, whether it is to deal with Yinghao or Ru Deng, it will have a great deterrent to the situation in Luoyang.
Although Emperor Li Yan was unwilling to agree with these three forces that could change the current situation, he still had to admit that Li Jing, who was closest to Luoyang, was undoubtedly the most suitable one. Moreover, although Li Jing's behavior was very domineering, he often did not take the imperial court seriously, and even many things were very outrageous, such as changing the tax system, not offering sacrifices, and even setting up provinces and changing the official system. If it were during the Taiping period, the imperial court would never allow these things.
But now, the court can only turn a blind eye. What makes Li Yan love and hate Li Jing is that Li Jing is so domineering, but at the critical moment, he always stands on the side of the court. However, every time he wants Li Jing to move, he has to give this guy a lot of cheaper.
When he sent troops to Hebei, the court opened a large-scale camp for Li Jing, was granted the title of King of Qin, and was appointed as the Marshal of the Military and Horses of Guandong. Now that he has entered Henan, he has occupied the territory of various states.
If the court wants Li Jing to send troops to deal with Huang Chao at present, it is probably not that easy.
But no matter what, Li Jing is currently the strongest among the Tang army towns and the strongest deterrent to rebels such as Huang Chao. The key is that Li Jing is currently the first king of the Tang Dynasty, and he also holds the command of the troops and horses of the towns in his hand.
Especially in the Battle of Hebei, Li Jing defeated the four towns in Hebei with only 80,000 troops, defeating the enemy three times that of no less than 200,000 enemy troops, and captured the tiger's mouth, and bit off the five prefectures in Hebei.
This strength made the court look brilliant. The court still believes that although Huang Chao has many soldiers, they are all mobs, and there is still a gap with old vassal states like the four towns in Hebei. Li Jing beaten down the four towns in Hebei alone. If he dealt with Huang Chao, it would definitely not be a problem. Moreover, Huang Chao was defeated under Li Jing.
After Li Jing recovered Songzhou, ten days passed in a flash.
Li Yan asked with anticipation: "Where has the Qin King's army gone?"
Tian Lingzi held his head and replied, "I'm still in Songzhou."
Li Yan frowned slightly, "I will give you an imperial edict and give you the title of Li Jing to recruit all the envoys in the world!"
Songzhou, Songcheng.
After receiving the emperor's latest edict, Li Jing's mouth curled up slightly.
"The world is recruiting envoys. Is Your Majesty the troops and horses of all towns under my control?"
The eunuch who came to proclaim the imperial edict nodded.
Li Jing took the handsome seal from the eunuch and looked carefully, with a stronger smile on his face.
On that day, Li Jing wrote several commanders and sent messengers to rush to send orders to various towns.
"Transfer the Zhongyi Army in the east of Shannan, and the troops of the Xingyuan Army in the west of Shannan were stationed in Shangzhou to guard Wuguan, the southwest gateway of Chang'an!"
"Transfer the Huainan Army in Huainan, and the two Haijuns in Zhejiangxi Town to the north, and stationed in Dengzhou and Tangzhou to guard the southwest gateway, and at the same time, they are responsible for attacking Ruzhou in the south of Luoyang."
"Transfer the East Army of Zhejiang East Town, Xuan Shening **, Jiangxi Zhennan Army, Yue E Wuchang Army, and stationed in Shen, Guang and Shou in Huaixi, and are responsible for the attack on the rebels of Caizhou, Qin Zongquan, Xuzhou rebels Zhou Ji, and Yingzhou rebels Ge Congzhou."
"Transfer Xuzhou to influence the army and attack Haozhou."
"Transfer the Heyang Army in Huaiweijie Town, Zhaoyi Army in Zelu Town, and Hedong Army in Hedong Town to attack King Chongrong of Hezhong to protect **."
Several military orders were issued in succession, almost all the troops in Huainan, Jiangnan, Shannan, Henan and Hedong were mobilized.
But this was not over, and Li Jing then issued another military order.
"Transfer the Shatuo Army in Yanmen Town, Datong Town Wei **, Yinshan Tatar Army, Yanbei Xi Army, and Hebei to attack the rebels in the four towns of Hebei!"
Have the right not to use it, expired and invalid!
Although he knew that even the imperial edicts of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty were not binding at the moment, he, the commander who was recruiting envoys in the world, would not have much effect. However, Li Jing didn't care. He still picked up the chicken feathers as command arrows and issued more than a dozen commanders in a row to mobilize the troops of various towns.
The emperor had issued an order to transfer troops from various towns, but the effect was not very good. But this time, what made Chang'an fall into the ground was that after Li Jing's military orders were issued, nearly half of the vassal states began to send troops.
The first one to send troops was Yanmen Town. Li Keyong of Yanmen Town responded to Li Jing's order at the first time and mobilized his troops to advance towards Lu Long's army, and moved his troops to the gates.
The second roads in Shandong and Shannan West also entered Shangzhou southwest of Chang'an to guard Wu Pass.
The Zhendong Army, Ning**, Zhennan Army, and Wuchang Army also drove from Jiangnan to Huaixi.
The Heyang Army, Zhaoyi Army, and the Hedong Army also marched towards the Hezhong.
The Tatars and Xi army also responded to Li Jing's order and began to move.
Among the towns, there were only the Huainan army of King Gao Pian of Bohai County, and the Zhenhai army of King Zhou Bao of Runan County, and the Xuzhou Shipu's influence army were not in progress.
But even so, Li Yan, the emperor of Chang'an, was both happy and surprised when he heard this. He was happy that so many soldiers and horses came to attack Huang Chao, but shocked that his emperor's edict could not be transferred to the towns. As a result, Li Jing, a king with a different surname, recruited a commander, but was transferred to the towns.
After gritting his teeth, Li Yan asked: "The towns have sent troops, so where has the Qin King's army gone?"
Tian Lingzi lowered his head, narrowed his eyes slightly, and replied, "Li Jing is still in Songzhou."
Chapter completed!