Chapter 72 Before the decisive battle
"Major, Luoyang City is now under the control of An Qingxu and Yan Zhuang. The generals and soldiers under their command are probably better than the defenders of Chang'an City in terms of quantity and ability. Besides, Li Guiren, An Shouzhong, Zhang Tongru and others have returned to Luoyang with their remnants. We must be very cautious in this battle!"
Long before leaving Fengxiang County, Guo Ziyi had already learned a lot about the situation in Luoyang. Now that Chang'an City is in his own hands, they can naturally breathe a sigh of relief.
But once you lose in Luoyang, all your efforts may still be wasted.
"Now my father and the Supreme Emperor are ready to return to Chang'an. No matter what, I have to take down the two capitals before they return! The Supreme Emperor is wise for a lifetime, and must not let him sit in Chang'an City and watch the rebels in the Eastern Capital to cause rebellion!"
At this time, Li Yu was decisive. He knew that he was just a prince. He couldn't help crying when he saw Chang'an City being tortured by the rebels. If the old man Li Longji, who created the prosperous Tang Dynasty, had seen that scene, wouldn't he be angry?
Li Yu is a filial son, not to mention anything else. Although the request he made is not simple, Guo Ziyi and others, as ministers of the Tang Dynasty, were obviously responsible for doing this.
At that time, Guo Ziyi gathered everyone around the map and started a discussion on a siege strategy. At this time, Li Qing just stood outside and looked coldly, and did not express his own opinions. It was not that he had no thoughts in his heart, but that he knew that it was not the time.
While the Tang army was planning to attack Luoyang, Li Guiren, An Shouzhong and others had already run to Luoyang City, and were kneeling in front of An Qingxu, the second emperor of Dayan, and talking about how Chang'an City was lost.
"Why didn't I even keep this for a day? What should I do? Prime Minister, can you still keep this Luoyang City?"
When An Qingxu heard that Chang'an City was lost in just one day, he shivered a little and looked at Yan Zhuang who was standing in front of him habitually.
After An Lushan died, the first person under An Qingxu was Yan Zhuang, who was named Prime Minister early in the morning.
Yan Zhuang is naturally not simple. It can be said that he helped An Lushan plan the anti-Tang incident and then led the charge of Li Zhuer killing An Lushan. Now he has finally been able to personally coordinate almost all the decisions of Dayan as the prime minister.
Once the Great Yan can destroy the Tang Dynasty, his status is even better than that of Li Linfu back then.
The reason why An Qingxu trusted Yan Zhuang was, on the one hand, that Yan Zhuang was the first to support him, and on the other hand, that Yan Zhuang's entire clan was caught by a prefect in Jingcheng at the beginning of the rebellion and killed them all.
So in An Qingxu's heart, Yan Zhuang had an irreconcilable grudge against the Tang Dynasty. If he fell into the hands of the Tang Dynasty, he would never have any good results. Therefore, he had no conditions for his trust in Yan Zhuang.
"Hmph, the reason why you were defeated in Chang'an was that you completely despise the enemy. The city walls of Chang'an were towering and the gates were solid. But you insisted on a formation outside the city to fight against the Tang army, which was fighting against the water. Wouldn't that have become a weakness of oneself and a strength of oneself?"
Yan Zhuang is now powerful in Dayan. Li Guiren and others dare not refute it at all, and they can only admit their mistakes to An Qingxu.
"Prime Minister, they..."
"Now the Tang army is in a strong counterattack. My Dayan is also working on people. Naturally, I made great contributions. I, the Emperor of Dayan, is in charge of Luoyang City, and there is no way to lose anything. Your Majesty is waiting in Luoyang. This time I personally led the army to join forces with the army returned from Chang'an City to set up defenses in Shaanxi County. Shaanxi County is the last line of defense for the Tang army to enter Luoyang. As long as Shaanxi County is in Luoyang, Luoyang can rest assured!"
Of course, Yan Zhuang also wanted to solve the Tang army as soon as possible. He was a person with a clear mind. He knew that Li Heng would never allow the emperor of Dayan to join the emperor of Datang in the eastern capital Luoyang. This was a great humiliation for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. They would continue to attack Luoyang with all their might.
If the Tang army could be defeated in Shaanxi County, not only Luoyang could be stable, but Chang'an City could be brought back again, but it would still make the Tang army unable to recover.
An Qingxu has been drinking fine wine and playing with beautiful girls in Luoyang City during this period, and has not paid much attention to the war at all.
Suddenly, he heard that Tang Jun took down Chang'an City in one day without any idea. No matter what Yan Zhuang said, he could only nod and seemed like a puppet.
In the end, according to Yan Zhuang's distribution, he and Zhang Tongru led 150,000 troops and set off to Shaanxi County the next day. They waited for Guo Ziyi on the only way for the Tang army to attack Luoyang, and they would inevitably eliminate more than 100,000 Tang troops in Shaanxi County.
The rebels and the Tang army were all ready, and another war was naturally inevitable.
At this time, Li Heng's letter had also been sent to Shuzhong. Li Longji learned that the Tang army had finally recovered Chang'an City more than a year later, and she burst into tears for a while.
Of course, he also wanted to return to the Xingqing Palace, which he was familiar with in Chang'an City. Although he is still strong now, the concubine who is by his side has long died in Mawei Post, which has caused the old man to not feel very good in Shu during this period.
Now that he learned that Chang'an City has been brought back, Li Longji rarely let out a sigh of anger in his heart.
He knew that his reputation for his life was basically ruined by his escape this time, and his descendants took back Chang'an City with their lives, so he had no face to go back and make decisions.
Just as Li Heng said in his letter, what is waiting for him to return to Chang'an City is the quiet years of retirement.
What Li Longji understood even more was that all this today was done by himself. If he hadn't trusted Li Linfu and An Lushan in a willful manner over the years, the Tang Dynasty would not have reached this point. But at this time, it would have been too late to talk about these things.
"Grand Emperor, when will we... set off?"
"Well! Pack your bags and set off tomorrow!"
With a long sigh, Li Longji, who once created the Kaiyuan prosperous era, accepted his fate. He knew that the stage of the Tang Dynasty would no longer belong to him in the future.
Chapter completed!