Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 385 Shi Siming Proclaims Emperor
When Yu Chaoen heard the bursts of cheers erupting after the reconciliation of An Qingxu's rebels inside the city and Shi Siming's rebels outside the city, he finally panicked.

Yu Chaoen panicked, the only thing he could think of was to fight the rebels and defeat the rebels as soon as possible.

Although the three Jiedu envoys in the north of the city were defeated, Li Siye was killed in battle, and less than 20 were brought back from the 40 army, but in Yu Chaoen's eyes, it was just the result of the incompetence of Li Siye and other three Jiedu envoys. There are still nearly [-] soldiers in Xiangzhou City, which is nearly twice the number of rebels, and they will definitely be able to defeat the rebels.

Yu Chaoen immediately ordered all Jiedu envoys to prepare for a decisive battle with the rebels.

The idea of ​​a direct decisive battle with the rebels is a good idea. Originally, only An Qingxu rebels had a limited number of people and could defend Xiangzhou City to the death.But with the addition of Shi Siming's 20 rebels, it is impossible for them all to retreat into Xiangzhou City and defend to the death. If a direct decisive battle is insisted on, the rebel army cannot be avoided.

It's a pity that Yu Chaoen is just an eunuch and doesn't have any military vision, so he takes it for granted.

The Tang army was newly defeated in the city, 20 troops were disintegrated, and less than [-] were brought back. It was Yu Chaoen's blind command, which caused the other Jiedu envoys to be close at hand, but they could not save them. The soldiers of the Tang army were all motivated Chills, low morale, and some generals were dissatisfied and resentful, among which Luzhou Jiedu envoy Wang Sili was the most.

When Wang Sili was in Tongguan, he witnessed Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing, and Ge Shuhan being killed successively by Bian Lingcheng and other eunuchs, and psychologically he hated the eunuchs.

The imperial court encircled and suppressed An Qingxu. The nine military envoys had an army of 60 troops, but they did not set up a commander. An eunuch was assigned to supervise the army of the nine military envoys, who was responsible for contacting and mobilizing the troops of the various envoys. What is this? Yu Chaoen has the right to do so Isn't it equivalent to the coach of an army of 60?
Among the nine Jiedu envoys, there are not only Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and other unworldly famous generals, choosing any one as the coach can convince the 60 troops to work together. Even if Shi Siming comes to help, the rebel army has no possibility of victory.There are also good generals like Li Siye and Lu Jiong who can be selected, but Yu Chaoen is a mere eunuch, what can he do!
How stupid the court is!

Wang Sili didn't dare to say what was in his heart, but his heart was extremely uncomfortable, with a hint of rebellion.

There were several other Jiedu envoys, all of whom were dissatisfied with Yu Chaoen and disappointed by the court's stupidity, but they didn't dare to speak out.

This is all mental instability.

Yu Chaoen had no vision, no brains, but Guo Ziyi saw it, and urged Yu Chaoen to wait for three or four days, and wait for a decisive battle with the rebels after he stabilized the morale of the army.

It's a pity that Yu Chaoen didn't listen to Guo Ziyi, and felt that Guo Ziyi looked down on him and cared too much about his business. He scolded Guo Ziyi, and it was enough for Guo Ziyi to lead his soldiers well.

The scene of Yu Chaoen yelling at Guo Ziyi was spread by the soldiers who were already chilled. This time, Tang Jun's morale became even more unstable, and it was like a piece of loose sand.

Under Yu Chaoen's insistence on going his own way, Tang Jun still directly fought the rebels the next day.

On the contrary, Shi Siming defeated 20 Tang troops in the first battle, blood flowed into rivers, and successfully rescued the besieged rebels in Xiangzhou City. Shi Siming also claimed that he killed Tang Jun Li Siye and many others. The famous hero, Tang Jun's native chicken Wagoer, made the morale of the rebels high.

The two armies fought a decisive battle under such circumstances.

Although the morale of the anti-army is higher and more united, the Tang army has an absolute advantage in numbers after all. In theory, the probability of victory or defeat for both sides is only five or five.

However, I don't know whether it was dissatisfied with the Tang Dynasty that the Tang court was too fatuous to let a eunuch with no military knowledge command an army of 60, or because of other reasons, it actually "helped" the rebels.

When the two armies were confronting each other and preparing for a decisive battle, the weather changed suddenly, the wind was strong, flying sand and rocks, covering the sky, and even the trees were uprooted, and the wind was blowing in the direction of the Tang army, so that the soldiers of the Tang army could not see.

The morale of the Tang army was already unstable, but now it is even more chaotic.

Shi Siming seized the opportunity and ordered the anti-army soldiers to beat the drums desperately to further deter the morale of the Tang army.

Before the actual battle, the Tang army collapsed and retreated one after another.

"The Tang army is over, kill it!" Seeing that the Tang army was timid, Shi Siming immediately ordered the rebel army to launch a full-line attack.

The Tang army collapsed at the first touch, soldiers, horses, etc. trampled on each other, almost a one-sided massacre. In just a moment, the Tang army was killed with corpses all over the field.

Although Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi are world famous generals, they also have an elite army with strong combat effectiveness, but under such a huge defeat, the army under their command was also dispersed by the defeat, and they were completely powerless to resist the rebels. He watched helplessly as the rebels massacred and fled the soldiers of the Tang Army.

There is no doubt that Tang Jun was defeated!
60 Tang troops besieged Xiangzhou. With their absolute strength, they not only failed to completely wipe out An Qingxu, but also suffered a disastrous defeat. Together with Li Siye, who died in the battle, a total of three Jiedu envoys died in battle, and they lost more than 30 troops successively. All the elites of a hundred battles were lost.

Guo Ziyi retreated to Weizhou, Li Guangbi and Wang Sili retreated to defend Weizhou, and the other Jiedu envoys also retreated to the south of the Yellow River with their remnants.

It is said that after Tang Xuanzong rebelled in Anlu Mountain, he made two consecutive stinking moves, which led to the fall of Tongguan, the rebels invaded Guanzhong, and occupied Chang'an City.But Suzong Li Heng kept making bad moves like him. During the first battle of the Tang army to regain Chang'an City, he let Fang Guan lead the army. En's actual command to mobilize the nine Jiedushi is another stinky move, and there will be a lot of stinky moves in the future.

All in all, the 60 army was defeated in Xiangzhou, and the little vitality accumulated by Datang's recovery of the two capitals was exhausted.

What's even more frightening is that the military commander is disappointed, and his disappointment with the court is more than ever before.

After Shi Siming defeated 60 Tang troops under Xiangzhou City, his prestige among the rebels rose to an unparalleled level, which was no worse than that of Anlu Mountain back then.

The so-called one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, An Qingxu is the emperor of the 'Dayan', the leader of the rebels in name.But after this battle, Shi Siming already had the prestige of crushing An Qingxu among the rebels, so how could he be willing to submit to An Qingxu.

An Qingxu was still putting on airs of Emperor "Da Yan" in front of Shi Siming, wanting to order Shi Siming, but it was a pity that he put on airs and was immediately reprimanded by Shi Siming face to face.

Shi Siming's eyes were fierce, and he didn't pay attention to An Qingxu at all, and even thought of killing An Qingxu.

When An Qingxu saw the fierce light in Shi Siming's eyes, Emperor 'Da Yan' immediately collapsed and became extremely frightened. It seems that he also realized that Shi Siming's prestige and strength are much stronger than him now. No longer willing to succumb to him.

Frightened, An Qingxu even privately suggested that Shi Siming build another "country". His "Dayan" became a vassal to Shi Siming, and he and Shi Siming changed their names to "brothers" without the etiquette of monarch and minister.

An Qingxu's retreat and fear made Shi Siming even more arrogant, and he became even more disdainful of An Qingxu.

"Brother?" Shi Siming smiled dismissively. At his age, An Lushan was able to call him a brother. What qualifications does An Qingxu have as a "little baby".

Shi Siming's ambitions have been raised early, and he has no plans to become emperors with An Qingxu and divide the rebels into two forces. He wants to command all the rebels alone.

Shi Siming followed his plan and sent someone to invite An Qingxu to come to "breed blood for an alliance" and become a "brother". An Qingxu didn't know Shi Siming's plan, so he took Sun Xiaozhe who was loyal to him, Cui Qianyou and others recklessly left.

This time, they directly fell into Shi Siming's trap. Before they saw Shi Siming, they were besieged by Shi Siming's elite soldiers. An Qingxu was shot, Cui Qianyou, Sun Xiaozhe and others were captured.

Shi Siming had a grudge against Cui Qianyou, and after killing An Qingxu, it was naturally impossible to let Cui Qianyou go, even though Cui Qianyou expressed his willingness to surrender to him repeatedly, he was still killed by him.

After killing An Qingxu, Cui Qianyou and others, Shi Siming took over the remnants of An Qingxu and became the new leader of the anti-army in name and de facto.

At the end of August, Shi Siming 'ascended the throne' to succeed the dead An Qingxu as 'Emperor Dayan', with the year name Shuntian.

The anti-army all believed in Shi Siming and gathered under Shi Siming's command. The anti-army reunited and defeated 60 Tang troops in the city of Xiangzhou before, and their momentum became vigorous again.

Shi Siming sent troops to sweep Hebei, and many of the places recovered by the Tang army were taken by the rebels. Even Qinghe County was lost, leaving only Weizhou and Li Guangbi where Guo Ziyi retreated, and Weizhou where Wang Sili retreated. Also quickly broken.

In the battle of Xiangzhou, the 60 army was defeated and the elite was completely lost. Someone must bear the blame.
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