Wugong County is located between Gyeonggi Province and Qizhou, Guannei Province, and Mawei Post is not far away.

It was the 19th day of the first lunar month. The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month just passed. In the peaceful years, every household was preparing Lantern Festival lanterns. Even poor families had to prepare two candle heads and a paper-paste lantern.

The dragon and lion dance team should start to be active from the thirteenth day of the first lunar month. At night, they visit each other and ask for some sporadic pastries. It would be even better if they could get a few pennies for rewards. This festive carnival atmosphere can be infected until the end of the first lunar month, making everyone feel happy.

But this year, Wugong County was dead and there was no movement.

When Li Longji passed by Wugong County, he had just passed the Mawei Slope Incident, and he had no intention of restraining his soldiers, so the imperial guards were very rampant in the county town. However, the imperial guards were still imperial guards after all, and they always had a bottom line in their actions. They just plundered some things and requisitioned some manpower, and did not hurt anyone. When Ye Chang passed by Wugong County, he did not commit any crimes. He also took time to register the people who were plundered by the imperial guards and sent them a white note with Ye Chang's name, promising to pay three times the original price after he got back.

But when Cui Qianyou's army was out of date, the people who did not escape from the county town encountered a disaster, half of the house was burned down, and almost all the property was robbed.

Now, the entire Wugong County Town has no breath, either he was killed or escaped

An Lushan didn't care about this. He grinned and smiled cruelly.

"Ye Chang must have never imagined that the traches he created could be used to transport more than 100,000 troops for me. In the past, if I had thought about martial arts, it would take more than ten days for the striker to reach martial arts. Even the traches had already arrived, and the team had not yet left Chang'an. But now that I had traches, I only took four days to get here."

"The king is very skillful, how can Ye Chang compare?" Yan Zhuang stroked his beard and flattered him: "Ye Chang can only do things for the Li family. He is so tired that he is still suspicious. However, the Li family wants to send the world to the king, and the verdict is determined..."

"Bon"

At the beginning of Yan Zhuang's words, An Lushan still listened with a smile, but after he finished speaking, An Lushan whipped it hard: "Apart from flattery, can't you come up with some useful strategies? I'm keeping you by your side, why are you doing this? You are too far inferior to Gao Shang, how can you be the prime minister?"

This whip was not a joke, but was slapped on Yan Zhuang's neck. A purple blood mark appeared on his neck, which made him grin and grin. However, he did not dare to show any unhappiness, so he could only lower his head and say, "Yes, yes, it's my fault..."

Because she lowered her head, An Lushan could not see the cruel look that had been seen in his eyes.

"Li Zhu'er, Li Zhu'er, what are you doing like a castrator?"

After whipping Yan Zhuang, An Lushan shouted again, and then he saw a man rolling over and kneeling in front of An Lushan: "King, King, the villain is by your side."

"Bah, are you scolding me for being bad at eyes?" An Lushan kicked him over, and his murderous intent was stern: "Zhu'er, you are so brave now."

"I dare not, I dare not, the villain is talking nonsense." Li Zhu'er twitched her face hard, crying.

Yan Zhuang next to him felt sad when he saw this. He couldn't help but feel sad about the death of the rabbit and the fox. Since An Qingzong died and An Lushan was injured again, An Lushan's temper has been very bad. Not to mention whipping and kicking, even killing people in anger has been killed many times. He killed three of his personal guards. Li Zhu'er originally served him since he was a child, but later he castrated himself into a close servant beside him, but An Lushan still shouted and beat and killed, which was merciless.

If this continues... it is not a solution.

Yan Zhuang felt very uneasy when he thought of his great plan, and now he was often shady.

An Lushan was full of anger and just wanted to kill someone to vent his anger. Li Zhu'er's begging for mercy did not make his anger disappear.

"King, someone is here, it seems... it is the messenger sent back by Cui Ganyou." Seeing that An Lushan really wanted to kill Li Zhu'er, no one around dared to plead for Li Zhu'er, Yan Zhuang spoke.

He is a favorable person. Don’t see An Lushan want to kill Li Zhuer, but he is just angry. In fact, An Lushan trusts Li Zhuer more than others. Yan Zhuang even heard that during this period, An Lushan needed Li Zhuer to serve at night. If someone else was changed, An Lushan would not be able to sleep well.

His words really diverted An Lushan's attention. An Lushan looked around and saw several cavalry coming from the west. After reaching his front, the messenger immediately jumped off and knelt down from afar and cried: "King, king, big things are not good. Ye Chang's traitor gathered hundreds of thousands of troops from nowhere. General Cui was surrounded and was fighting hard. Please go and rescue quickly."

"What?" An Lushan grinned, and his anger turned into astonishment.

In other words, someone suddenly changed into an army of hundreds of thousands, and An Lushan undoubtedly wanted to deceive himself, but Ye Chang... If Li Linfu scared An Lushan, then Ye Chang would make An Lushan unable to judge at all. This person's talent, intelligence, and military strategy were really not something he could guess.

Perhaps it was precisely this reason that when Li Heng extended a cooperation hand to him through Ji Wen, he immediately agreed. Ye Chang was rarely separated from the army. For An Lushan, this was the best opportunity, and perhaps even the only opportunity.

But he still underestimated Ye Chang. The emergence of the gunpowder weapon of grenades made his arrest of Ye Chang vain, and even Li Longji and others successfully escaped from Chang'an City. This time, the news brought by Cui Ganyou's envoy made all his plans fail.

"Hundreds of thousands...how could there be hundreds of thousands?" After pausing for a while, An Lushan came to his senses and said angrily: "Cui Ganyou must be lying to me, how could Ye Chang have hundreds of thousands of people? He added up all of them, even if Ge Shuhan's staff were included, there were only a few thousand people..."

"I dare not deceive the king. The villain was ordered from the battlefield to ask for help. As the villain saw, Ye Chang's troops were indeed more than tens of thousands." The envoy heard that something was wrong here, and hurriedly defended.

An Lushan pulled his sword and hugged his head and chopped it. The messenger flashed, but only half of it flashed, and was chopped from his shoulder to his chest. An Lushan's waist knife was bought from Liaodong at a high price. The best steel was made by famous craftsmen and was worth more than 300 jin. This is also an important export material in Liaodong, and it was even sold to Japan and other countries.

Blood was still there on the knife, and the messenger's body fell down. An Lushan turned to his companion and said sternly: "What the hell did Cui Ganyou do? Why did he lie about military affairs? Could it be that he had a private collusion with Ye Chang?

The two companions of the messenger were so scared that they knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. After hearing An Lushan's question, they dared not refuse to answer: "King, General Cui did not say anything. When we came, he was really surrounded by Ye Chang... He was originally going to use the people to consume Ye Chang's firearms, but he had not yet approached the city, and Ye Chang's ambushing soldiers rose up..."

Originally, Cui Ganyou's plan was to exaggerate Ye Chang's military power as much as possible. Now the main messenger has been cut down, and the two companions of the messenger were scared to death. They told the story in detail.

After hearing this, An Lushan realized that he had cut down the wrong person.

The messenger may have exaggerated words, but Ye Chang's military strength has increased greatly and is not inferior to him. This is an indisputable fact.

Even if he had twice the strength of Ye Chang, he didn't dare to underestimate him, not to mention that both sides had equal strength, and it is very likely that his strength was not as good as Ye Chang?

"Those people turned against each other... It's really hateful. People come and kill a hundred people to relieve my anger," An Lushan ordered.

Since he had an order, his subordinates dared not to enforce it. Many people even breathed a sigh of relief. Since he had killed people and vented his anger, at least he would not kill his subordinates indiscriminately today.

"Tell me, how should I deal with it now?" After An Lushan gave the order, he looked around his subordinates and asked.

Everyone was silent, and no one dared to speak out.

When it comes to leading troops to fight, An Lushan relies most on Shi Siming. If Shi Siming is not around, he will be counted as Cui Ganyou and others. Now Cui Ganyou is surrounded, what can these people do?

"Yan Zhuang, let me talk first, tell me what strategies you have to do with Zuxu Duozhi."

Yan Zhuang was named and had to cough twice, then said, "Cui Ganyou is the confidant general of the King of Yan, and his subordinates are also the elite of the King of Yan, so you must not help."

This is nonsense, the key is how to save it. An Lushan's eyes flashed with a cold light: "How to save it, you said"

"The king should send a brave general, lead the elite troops, set out immediately and go to rescue."

This is nonsense again, but Yan Zhuang really couldn't think of any better way except saying such nonsense.

An Lushan's eyes stopped on him for a while, Yan Zhuang's feet were already trembling. In the cold air of the first month, the clothes he was wearing were soaked in sweat. After a while, An Lushan looked at his side again: "My son, tell me what to do, these foundations will all belong to your brothers in the future.

What he ordered this time was his second son An Qingxu.

An Lushan has many descendants, but he only loved several people. His eldest son Qingzong was hit by Ye Chang with a musket, and he died after wailing for several days. He originally had high hopes for the eldest son and regarded him as his heir, but now he can only push his second son An Qingxu out. An Qingxu is a cowardly person than An Qingzong. Although he is skilled in bows and horses, he is introverted and he can't help but stutter.

After hearing his father's question, An Qingxu wanted to speak well and show it to the soldiers. But he felt nervous when he opened his mouth. After a long time of vagueness, he said, "This matter... maybe it's true, maybe it's fake, maybe it's up to the father to decide..."

His response made An Lushan furious: "It's a foolish son, so it's better to have many brothers. Why is it not you, but your brother who is harmed by Ye Chang?"

An Qingxu was originally introverted and clumsy, but when he said this, he was even more dull and could not even lift his face. However, he was anxious. His family knew his family affairs. When An Qingzong was in the past, An Lushan actually favored him very much, but as An Qingzong died, An Lushan's temper became worse and worse, and he became more and more fierce. His preference for him was now all turned to his half-brother An Qingen.

An Lushan didn't care so much, he said sternly: "Cui Ganyou is my favorite general, so I must save him. Even if Ye Chang has Taoist magic and immortal techniques, he will not be able to make hundreds of thousands of troops come out. This must be because he used the people to pretend to be soldiers and bluffing. I have 200,000 soldiers and soldiers. It is easy to defeat him. He sent the whole army to advance overnight. Zhang Zhongzhi, you can lead 10,000 troops and horses to pick up Cui Ganyou, and don't make any mistakes."

He realized that these subordinates were not reliable, and Yu Qian stopped asking for advice, but made a decision himself. In anger, he talked about the essence of the matter. Ye Chang really couldn't have so many elite soldiers. Although the momentum is now, it must be empty in essence.

However, if An Lushan has this kind of enlightenment, his subordinates may not have it.

Although Zhang Zhongzhi, who was named, left, he left An Lushan's sight and thrust hard: "This time it's broken."

He was one of the confidants of An Lushan who was inserted into the imperial guards. In this coup, An Lushan's people were able to sneak into Xingqing Palace, and he made great contributions. Because he was good at shooting and brave, he was highly appreciated by An Lushan after making such contributions and was left to An Lushan as a general. An Lushan once said that Ye Chang had Nanba and Zhang Zhongzhi, which shows his expectations for him.

However, because he participated in the coup on the first day of the first lunar month, he saw the grenade with his own eyes, and saw Ye Chang breaking a path without any hope. Zhang Zhongzhi's awe of Ye Chang is far better than ordinary people

"When the general gets the king and is sure to be of great use, why should the general be so worried?" said a person beside him.

"Wang Wujun, are you really stupid or fake? When you have great use in the future, there will be a disaster of killing in front of you." Zhang Zhongzhi glared at the person who spoke: "Have you seen what happened just now? When you learned that Ye Chang had soldiers and horses in his hands, the king asked for advice, but no one could answer."

Wang Wujun smiled. He was a Khitan, but he has been accomplices since his father and is also famous for riding and shooting.

"Why are you laughing at?" Zhang Zhongzhi was worried about his task at this time. Seeing that he looked disapproving, he couldn't help but scold him, "Do you have a plan to defeat Ye Chang? If you have it, say it quickly. If you don't, go to die with me."

"Didn't the king just now? Ye Chang was bluffing. If he really had any ghost-god skills, how could he have such trouble? He sent a god to take our lives at night, and the 100,000 troops would naturally be defeated without fighting. Since he did not have the magical skills of sprinkling beans into soldiers, his current military strength could only be faked by the people. Relying on the large number of people at the moment, it would be no problem to surround Cui Ganyou. But if he really fought with the elite troops of our army, he might not be our opponent.

While he said, he looked at Wang Wujun's expression carefully, but found that Wang Wu General said to him with a nose.

"You think you and the king understand what you said? If someone else is an opponent, it would be good to figure it out like this, but who is Ye Chang and the man is not talking about anything else. When the two armies are fighting and fighting at the critical moment, who can attack with grenades? Using the people to consume his grenades is the king's wishful thinking, that is, when he is insufficient, you can try it. Look, is the king still mentioning this now?"

"The general thinks that our army will be defeated in this battle?"
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