Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 383 Battle in Hebei ([-])

In addition to assimilating the Khitan people and the Xi people, Li Fei also ordered to expand the army again. After all, he wanted to garrison the Khitan and Xi people, to open up north, to defend Pingzhou City and Shanhaiguan, and to use troops against the Central Plains in the future. , The current military strength is absolutely insufficient, and military expansion is the only way.

Li Fei expanded five armies at once, bringing the total strength of Anton's army to 20.

Among the original five army commanders, Lu Xin was already a first-rank general, and now he has been promoted to a first-rank general.Wu Sheng and Zhang Shuo were promoted to generals of the first rank, and each of them could command two or three armies in battle, just like the commander of a group army.Luo Ying and Yuan Kui also went up one level each.

When Li Fei was in full swing in Anton, in the Central Plains, since Li Fei left Chang'an City with Anton cavalry, Suzong Li Heng's forbearance and fear were gone.

Suzong Li Heng was first a meritorious official in Dafeng to recover the two capitals.

First of all, the two most trusted eunuchs were appointed. Li Fuguo was the Duke of the Kingdom of Yi, and also the Sima of the Marshal's Mansion, who had the right to mobilize the world's soldiers and horses.Yu Chaoen was granted the title of Duke of Fengyi County, and opened the third division of Yitong.Guo Ziyi is the Duke of Dai, plus Situ.Li Yuli, the king of Guangping, became the prince.

Even the two eunuchs were made dukes of the state or the county. Li Fei, the first to break the two capitals, naturally had no reason not to be rewarded at all.

Someone suggested that Li Fei should be named King of Peking directly.

Originally, Li Fei was already the king of Beiping County, and it didn't make much difference to be named King of Beiping, anyway, it was just a false name.However, there was an ancestral precept in the Tang Dynasty, and the title of the opposite sex can only go to the county king at most.

Of course, it is not impossible to make an exception, it depends on what Suzong Li Heng thinks of Li Fei.

Suzong Li Heng resented Li Fei to the bone, and wished to kill Li Fei. He didn't want to reward Li Fei at all. He made an exception for Li Fei and directly named Li Fei the King of Peking, unless he was crazy.

That is to say, An Qingxu's rebel army has not yet been eliminated, so he has no choice but to appease Li Fei, otherwise he would directly declare that Li Fei is a rebel,
It is said that when Suzong Li Heng secretly sent envoys to Huihe, he hoped that the Huihe people would send troops to intercept and kill Li Fei on the grassland when Li Fei returned to Andong along the edge of the grassland.

But the envoy failed to reach the grassland in the end, and was tied up by someone who didn't know and was still in front of the palace gate. At that time, Su Zong was so angry that he broke a lot of things.

I thought that without the contact of the messenger, I would have missed the good opportunity to kill Li Fei in the grassland by the hands of the Huihe people, but then there was news that Prince Yehu of Huihe led 12 Huihe cavalry to intercept and kill Li Fei.

Before Suzong Li Heng could get excited, news came that 12 Huihe cavalry had suffered a disastrous defeat, with more than [-] casualties, failing to keep Li Fei on the grassland.

Suzong Li Heng was so scared that he knew the strength of the Huihe cavalry. After some battles, Li Fei's Andong cavalry was less than 12, while the Huihe cavalry had 10,000, but they were still defeated by Li Fei. Anton Iron Cavalry was so powerful that he was glad that he did not attack Li Fei in Chang'an City with an army of [-]+.

The fear of Li Fei made Suzong Li Heng even more obliged to appease Li Fei and reward Li Fei before completely annihilating An Qingxu's rebels.

Suzong Li Heng was not willing to directly confer Li Fei as the King of Beiping, so he only added Sikong, General Hussars, and a lot of Lutian, Shiyi, etc., which were comparable to kings. Lin Siming, Li Fei's father-in-law, who was in the court, was added the county duke.

Li Fei didn't pay attention to the rewards given by Suzong Li Heng, and Lin Siming didn't make trouble in the court. Suzong Li Heng must make Li Fei king of Beiping, and the matter passed so peacefully.

After the reward was over, the first thing to do next was to completely eliminate An Qingxu's rebellion.

Suzong Li Heng just dozed off and someone brought a pillow. The anti-army general Shi Siming refused to accept An Qingxu, and the Tang Dynasty had already recovered the two capitals, and the army was in full swing. He was afraid that the Tang army would go north to destroy him, so he killed An Qingxu. The envoys sent people to present the "Letter of Surrender" to the Tang court, and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with nearly 15 troops in the thirteen prefectures in Hebei under their control.

This was a good opportunity to disintegrate An Qingxu's rebellious army from within. Suzong Li Heng refused to miss it. Overjoyed, he immediately accepted Shi Siming's surrender and made Shi Siming the king of Guiyi County.

Deeply aware of the anti-military internal conflict, this is an opportunity to completely solve the anti-military. Suzong Li Heng ordered the assembly of Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Li Siye, Wang Sili, and Lu Jiong, the governor of Huaixi, Li Huan, the governor of Xingping, and the governor of Huapu. Xu Shuji, Pinglu military envoy Dong Qin, Zheng Cai Jiedu envoy Ji Guangchen and other nine military envoys led a total of 60 soldiers across the Yellow River to sweep the Hebei rebels.

Because of his deep distrust of generals and the feeling that the rebel army could be destroyed overnight, Suzong Li Heng did not continue to let Guo Ziyi command the soldiers of the nine Jiedu envoys, but did not set up a coach, and the nine Jiedu envoys each For the battle, Yu Chaoen is the supervisor of the Nine-Jiedu Envoy, and is responsible for contacting and commanding the nine Jiedu Envoys. That is to say, Yu Chaoen, the supervisor of the Nine-Jiedu Envoy, is the actual contact commander of the 60 army.

How similar is this scene to history.

Suiyang Zhang Xun, a genius who was famous for resisting the rebels in Yongqiu and Suiyang, could see at a glance that Suzong Li Heng's arrangement of the army was inappropriate.Although the rebel army lost two capitals and had internal conflicts, the remaining strength was still not weak. Although the 60 Northern Expeditionary Army was unprecedented, it was too prone to accidents without an effective command.

Zhang Xun hurriedly wrote a letter to Suzong Liheng, saying all kinds of disadvantages, hoping that Suzong Liheng would appoint a real commander-in-chief of the army, instead of just using an eunuch to supervise the army as a contact and transfer troops.

However, Suzong Li Heng had a deep prejudice against Zhang Xun. Not only did he not listen to his advice, but he also demoted Zhang Xun to the end on the grounds of falsely discussing the imperial court's deployment of troops.

Doesn't Suzong Liheng know the disadvantages?Can all the military officials in North Korea and Chinese fail to see the disadvantages?Of course not, but in their eyes, there is An Lushan first, and then there is Li Fei. The court must not let the generals have too much power. The defense of the generals is the most important.

Besides, the imperial court's 60 troops fought a battle with unprecedented strength, and the anti-army was at the end of the road. Even if the imperial court did not have a chief general, and the nine Jiedu envoys fought on their own, there was no reason not to win.

Suzong Li Heng and the Korean and Chinese military officials are full of confidence.

In this way, the nine Jiedu envoys each led their own subordinates, a total of 60 troops, crossed the Yellow River northward, and attacked the Anqingxu rebels who had fled to Hebei.

Such a powerful force is indeed not something that An Qingxu can resist now. Weizhou, Weizhou, etc. were quickly captured by the Tang army going north.

In June, various armies encircled An Qingxu and more than [-] rebels in Xiangzhou City.

A decisive battle to determine the fate of Datang and the survival of the anti-army began.
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