Chapter 95
For people like Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi, if Li Wen can always make actions that are beneficial to the Tang Dynasty, they will always support Li Wen.
Li Yi didn't know whether this was good or bad for him, but now he had no right to choose. At least these six or seven thousand surrendered soldiers solved the problem of many of his troops.
Although Li Ren was in crisis in the previous battle against the two capitals, the 5,000 cavalry he brought with him also lost nearly a thousand people, such losses were simply not worth mentioning compared to the Shuofang army led by Guo Ziyi.
With Guo Ziyi, the big Buddha, leading a large army in front, Li Wen can actually be said to have taken some tricks.
All his infantry were able to be preserved in Suiyang, and Suiyang had long been managed to become a solid piece due to the relationship between Xu Yuan and Zhang Xun and others. No one knew how many troops there were in Suiyang from the emperor to the generals of the Tang Dynasty.
During this period, Li Yan had already secretly raised a team of 30,000 people by recruiting surrenders and recruiting soldiers. In addition to the surrendered soldiers he brought back this time, in addition to his own cavalry, Li Yan could have 40,000 elite soldiers in Suiyang within a few months.
Unlike the rebels who had more than 100,000 troops before, although Li Yan also longed for troops, he also knew the principle that soldiers were more important than elites.
When he was summoning surrendered, Li Yan had already given Xu Yuan a request he had set for his troops under his command, which was a completely hard line.
This line can make a basic judgment on the soldiers' physical and ideological conditions, and those who cannot reach it will not let them enter their own team.
At the beginning, whether it was Xu Yuan, Nan Jiyun and others, they were very confused about Li Yi's idea, but after taking down the unqualified soldiers, they were surprised to find that the remaining soldiers were completely more effective than they did in training or killing enemies than before.
They didn't know where Li Yan learned his skills. But one thing they knew was that Li Yan was definitely a person who could do anything to the extreme. Even if such a person was ultimately defeated, it was God's will, not man-made.
After Li Yan returned to Suiyang, he immediately started to do one thing that he had done was to incorporate the 6,000 surrendered soldiers into his soldiers. Then he wrote a letter to Guo Ziyi and told him about the results he and Li Guangbi had obtained in Xiangzhou.
Although Li Neng knew that Li Guangbi would definitely report to Li Heng's colleagues about this, after all, without Guo Ziyi's coordination, Li Neng's plan would not be so perfect.
For Guo Ziyi, he can conceal some of his situation in the process, but he must not conceal the result of this matter.
In Chang'an City, before Li Heng returned, Guo Ziyi and Li Yu had already received three letters, one of which was a good news presented by Li Guangbi to Li Heng. After arriving in Chang'an City, it was placed in Li Yu's hands. Li Yu planned to submit it himself after his father came back.
The other two letters were private messages from Li Guangbi and Li Qing to Guo Ziyi. After Guo Ziyi read them, he burned the letter directly, but he would never forget the contents in them.
Li Guangbi introduced the whole story of the battle to Guo Ziyi in detail, and explained that before Li Xuan asked Guo Ziyi to contact him, Li Xuan must have had a complete plan in his heart. Even if Li Guangbi did not cooperate with him, Li Xuan would definitely think of another way to accomplish this.
Moreover, Li Yan was able to use the power of the servants who had already surrendered to the rebels to scare An Qingxu and Yan Zhuang directly from Xiangzhou. It was obviously a stroke of genius.
In the letter, Li Guangbi admitted to Guo Ziyi that Li Neng was indeed a general, but he did not comment too much about Li Neng.
Guo Ziyi understood that as Li Heng trusted the two most, he and Li Guangbi should work hard to quell the rebellion in the Tang Dynasty. His appreciation for Li Qing comes from Li Qing's performance in quelling the rebellion, and Li Guangbi is the same. Therefore, Li Guangbi only said that Li Qing is a general and has no other tendency. In Guo Ziyi's opinion, he did not want him to know his true thoughts.
In the letter Li Neng gave to Guo Ziyi, he introduced in detail how he cooperated with Li Guangbi to win Xiangzhou.
Of course, Li Neng habitually exaggerated some of the roles that Li Guangbi played in this, but he did not conceal the fact that he borrowed the Pugu tribe, but did not say how he reached an agreement with the leader of the Pugu tribe.
Li Neng and Li Guangbi hiding in a tacit understanding of how many enemy troops they captured. Li Guangbi just mentioned that he had captured Zhang Tongru, the left-behind Xijing who had already captured the rebels, and would escort the man back to Li Heng after returning to Taiyuan Prefecture safely and stabilizing the situation in Xiangzhou.
This was undoubtedly a big step in suppressing the rebellion. Li Yu was also overjoyed after learning about this, because Li Guangbi came here so suddenly, just balanced the issue of imbalance in the credit between him and Guo Ziyi, and let the rebels go back directly to the pre-liberation in a battle.
In Li Yu's opinion, the role played by Li Yu in this battle is just icing on the cake. After all, not only Li Yu, but also every general of the Tang Dynasty should have played a role in front of Li Guangbi.
Li Yu did not forget to wait until his father and grandfather came back to ask for credit for Li Yu, but Li Yu still couldn't understand Li Yu's behavior of returning to Suiyang, and he was a little resistant. After all, in his growing environment, he had never disobeyed Li Heng or Li Longji.
In a celebratory scene, Li Heng and Li Longji's car finally arrived outside the city gate slowly.
Li Yu, wearing armor, took almost all the officials in Chang'an City who could be counted as No. 1, and knelt on both sides of the city gate in the middle of the road to welcome the return of the most noble two of the Tang Dynasty.
Seeing the difference between the scale of civil and military affairs outside Chang'an City and the previous one, Li Longji's smile gradually solidified on his face. Wherever these few people went, why did the prosperous Chang'an City look a lot more depressed outside the city gate? How could Li Longji not know the reason, and he even understands who caused all this.
"Father, let me help you into the city!"
Chapter completed!