Chapter 348 The situation has changed rapidly
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Wang Xiaojie led an army of 100,000 to Yu Pass, but he was not in a hurry to go north. On the one hand, it was a taboo for military strategists to go north. On the other hand, Fang Danqing had led the defeated troops to retreat to Yu Pass. Since Liucheng had been lost, there was no need for him to rush north to rescue. It would be better to take steady steps and advance step by step.
That morning, the spy brought Wang Xiaojie an important news. The Khitan had retreated north and the army was heading east. This news made Wang Xiaojie realize that the situation in Liaodong had changed. He immediately summoned several generals to discuss countermeasures.
Wang Xiaojie stood in front of a huge map and pointed at the Liaocheng area with a wooden pole and said, "This time the Khitan sent troops hastily, and it must have not brought enough logistics supplies. In addition, it was winter, and logistics supplies were inconvenient. Sun Wanrong must have wanted to use war to raise his troops and enter Hebei to plunder. However, he did not expect our army to come in time and defend Yu Pass. In this way, they would either retreat to their nests north or plunder in the Liaocheng area."
Fang Danqing next to him nodded and said, "There are millions of Goguryeo people in the Liaocheng area, and the harvest is good this year. If the Khitan army goes to Liaocheng to rob, it will inevitably get a lot of food to solve the concerns of logistics supply."
At this time, the chief clerk Zhang Shuo added: "I think the possibility of the Khitan withdrawing his nest is not high. Sun Wanrong wants to use his battle to promote his prestige and establish his prestige. If he withdraws his nest like this, he, the chief of Khan, will not be considered long, and he will definitely try every means to confront us."
Everyone was talking and talking. Wang Xiaojie glanced at the deputy general Su Honghui again. Seeing that he had been thinking and silent, he asked, "General Su, what do you think?"
Su Honghui sighed and said, "I am worried that this is the Khitans' plan to lure soldiers. A few months ago, the Tang army was defeated in a row and was defeated by the Khitans' plan to lure soldiers. I suspect that this time they used the same plan again."
Wang Xiaojie pondered for a moment and slowly said to everyone: "General Su's words make sense. The Khitan is advancing eastward in a large scale. How can I not worry about me cutting off their retreat from behind? It should be their plan to lure troops, but I can use this opportunity to defeat the Khitan and capture Sun Wanrong in one fell swoop."
Zhang Shuo asked quickly, "I wonder how the manager can use his plan?"
"It's very simple. I led 20,000 troops north and pretended to be trapped by the Khitans. The Khitans would inevitably surround them from all sides. General Su led 70,000 people to attack from the outside. Our two armies cooperated inside and outside and would definitely defeat the Khitan army."
Speaking of this, Wang Xiaojie stared at Su Honghui with sharp eyes. Waiting for his reply, Su Honghui nodded silently. He accepted Wang Xiaojie's plan...
Su Honghui returned to his tent. Before setting off, Wu Sansi repeatedly instructed him to make Wu Yizong the main general to fight against the Khitan, and to make the great achievements of extermination of the Khitan on Wu Yizong. Now Wang Xiaojie is preparing to use his strategies to wipe out the main force of the Khitan in one fell swoop. In this way, Wu Yizong will not make any contribution. How can he explain to Wu Sansi when he returns?
Su Honghui was really upset. On the one hand, the military orders were everywhere, and he could not disobey Wang Xiaojie's orders. On the other hand, the powerful and noble are ruthless. Once he offended Wu Sansi, his career and his glory and wealth in the second half of his life would be lost. What should he do?
At this time, a personal guard reported at the door of the tent: "General Su, someone sends a letter to the general, waiting outside!"
Su Honghui was stunned and hurriedly said, "Take him in."
After a moment, the personal guard brought a man in. The man stepped forward and bowed, "See General Su!"
"Who are you? Whose order is given to me to send me a letter?" Su Honghui looked at him and asked.
The man took out a letter from his arms and presented it to Su Honghui with both hands, "General Su will know at a glance!"
Su Honghui took a brief look at the letter and was shocked to stand up. It turned out to be the handwritten letter written by Wu Sansi to him. He quickly opened the letter and read it carefully. His heart suddenly became heavier. Wu Sansi emphasized in the letter again that Wu Yizong must make great contributions. If Su Honghui cannot do it, then he will be the first to clean up Xue Huaiyi's followers. Su Honghui suddenly felt huge pressure. What should he do?
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It was already early November, and there were only ten days left before Li Zhen’s wedding day. Li Quan also rushed back from Chang'an and worked hard to prepare weddings for his brothers, make clothes, arrange wedding chambers, wedding halls, rent carriages, find drum musicians, arrange courtesans and ceremonies, write invitations, etc., so busy that Li Quan was not stuck in the ground.
Li Zhen has been practicing polo in full swing these days. Due to the Liaodong war, the individual polo competition originally scheduled to be held in late October has been pushed and pushed again and again, and finally it was scheduled to be held in three days. Although Li Zhen has excellent polo skills, he has not touched the ball stick for a long time. He is a little awkward and needs to practice for a while.
‘Bang!’ With a crisp sound, on the right guard polo field, Li Zhen made a strong shot from fifty steps away. The polo made an arc and shot into the hole accurately. The inner guard soldiers watching the practice were applauded. He entered the hole with fifty steps, and even Dou Xianyun might not be able to win it.
Li Zhen waved the ball stick and felt that he didn't feel very good. The key was that his heart was a little confused. In ten days, he would be the groom and enter the bridal chamber and marry Di Yan as his wife. This made him nervous and expectant.
At this moment, a knight ran away from home. It was Zhang Li, the general. He was anxious and rushed to the side of the court and shouted: "General! Something happened."
When Li Zhen heard that his voice was a little wrong, he stopped the ball stick that was about to hit the ball, urged the horse to come up, and asked with a smile: "Look at you so anxious. What's wrong?"
"General, something happened. The Tang army was defeated in Liaodong, and General Wang... unfortunately died in battle!"
"ah!"
Li Zhen was also shocked. He grabbed Zhang Li's hand and asked anxiously: "What happened?"
"It was the urgent report written by the chief clerk Zhang Shuo. The Khitan army wanted to lure the enemy into the depths, but was discovered by General Wang and took advantage of the situation. He led 20,000 troops as the vanguard and entered the enemy. Su Honghui led 70,000 troops to support him. Then the two armies cooperated inside and outside to defeat the Khitan in one fell swoop."
Li Zhen's mind was turning rapidly. This was a good strategy. What went wrong? He asked anxiously again: "How could it fail?"
Zhang Li sighed and said hatefully: "The key is that Su Honghui did not go to pick him up. General Wang was surrounded instead. The two armies fought for a day, and only Zhang Shuo led thousands of people to kill him. General Wang was forced to a cliff and unfortunately fell off the cliff-"
Li Zhen felt sad and sad for Wang Xiaojie's death. He was also angry. Why didn't Su Honghui go to take over? This is a rebel against the enemy!
"How do you deal with the emperor now?" Li Zhen asked again.
Zhang Li shook his head, "I don't know either. I heard that the Emperor and the Political Affairs Hall are discussing matters urgently."
At this moment, two more eunuchs ran away from afar, and shouted from afar: "General Li! The emperor ordered you to go to the Political Affairs Hall immediately."
Li Zhen no longer had the intention to train polo, so he turned his horse's head and ran towards Yingtianmen.
The Tang Dynasty Political Affairs Hall is located in the Mingtang, and is a place for prime ministers to discuss military and national affairs. At this time, Empress Wu Zetian, several prime ministers, and more than 20 senior officials, including the ministers of various ministries, were urgently discussing the situation in Hebei.
At this time, the situation ahead was much more serious than what Zhang Li told Li Zhen. After defeating Wang Xiaojie, Sun Wanrong immediately led a large army to attack Miyun and had already captured Miyun County. The vanguard Luo Wu led thousands of Khitan cavalry to break into Hebei, burned, killed and looted all the way, and quickly headed south.
Wu Yizong, who led a 100,000 army to Zhaozhou, was scared by thousands of Khitan cavalry and led a 100,000 army to retreat south to Xiangzhou. Countless food and supplies fell into the hands of the Khitan army. Thousands of Khitan cavalry occupied Zhaozhou, and massacred tens of thousands of civilians in Zhaozhou, demonstrating to the Tang Dynasty.
Just now, Wu Zetian received another urgent report from Hebei that Su Honghui, who was guarding Yu Pass, had led 70,000 troops to rescue Youzhou and wanted to cut off the passage of the Khitan army into Hebei. However, the Tang army encountered the main force of the Khitan army that entered Hebei north of Youzhou. The two armies fought fiercely in the Liucheng area.
What made Wu Zetian extremely anxious was that Wu Yizong's 100,000 troops remained in Xiangzhou and refused to go north to support Su Honghui.
The reinforcements of the Khitan and Xi people were pouring into Youzhou. At this time, the food and supplies line of the Tang army in Youzhou had been cut off by the Khitan army, and Su Honghui's 70,000 Tang troops were in danger.
The government affairs hall was silent, and Wu Zetian was walking back and forth with his hands behind his back, falling into deep thought, and the ministers did not dare to disturb her thoughts.
After a long time, Wu Zetian looked up at everyone, and she sighed and said, "Dear friends, don't care about my feelings. Just say anything. The situation in Hebei is critical. I want to find a way to save the crisis in Hebei as soon as possible."
Di Renjie and Lou Shide exchanged a glance. Di Renjie stepped forward and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the problem is that we have reinforcements in Hebei, but the main general is not effective. I suggest that Your Majesty replace the main general immediately. As long as the 100,000 troops can go north to support Su Honghui, the situation will immediately turn around, at least not worsen."
Wu Zetian understood that Di Renjie was referring to Wu Yizong. He thought that Wu Yizong could compete with Wu Youyi, but he did not expect that Wu Yizong would be even more incompetent in competing with Wu Youyi. This really made Wu Zetian extremely disappointed with the Wu family. Now she could no longer count on the Wu family, so she nodded and asked, "I wonder who Di Qing recommends as the main general?"
Di Renjie originally wanted to recommend Li Dan as the main general, but he also knew that it was not far from time to time. Once the Li clan was recommended, it would definitely cause the emperor to be alert, which would not help the situation in Hebei ease.
He looked back at Lou Shide and said slowly: "I recommend Lou Xiangguo as the general manager of Hebei Road, and then command a hundred thousand troops to head north to attack the Khitan."
Di Renjie recommended Lou Shide, but Wu Zetian was not surprised. Lou Shide originally joined the army as a civil servant, and fought in Tubo in the west. He made many military achievements. He was appointed as the imperial censor and the Sima of the Heyuan Army, and was in charge of military farming.
Later, he was promoted to General Zuo Jinwu and the governor of Fengzhou. He also served as ambassador of the Longyou army the year before yesterday. Although he was the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, he was also a famous general of the Tang Dynasty and was of great use.
Wu Zetian asked Lou Shide again: "If Lou Aiqing is the head coach, who will be used as general?"
Lou Shide and Di Renjie discussed in advance and were already confident. He stepped out and bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, if I am the commander, I still need four generals. I need Li Duozuo, the general of the Left Guard, as the general of the rear army, to command logistics and supplies. I also need Shazha Zhongyi, the general of the front army, to lead the army to rescue Su Honghui first, He Jiami, the general of the Right Guard, and Yang Xuanji, the general of the Left Guard, as the general of the left and right army. With these four generals, I can defeat the Khitan and recover Hebei."
Wu Zetian said happily: "Since Lou is so confident, I will appoint you as the general of Hebei Road and the general of the general of the attack on the enemy. I will immediately lead a 100,000 army north and take over Wu Yizong's army at the same time."
"I obey the order!"
Wu Zetian fell to his heart slightly and asked the ministers again: "My dear friends, who has a good plan to defeat the enemy? Just speak freely."
At this time, Shangguan Wan'er turned around and bowed: "Wan'er also has two strategies to defeat the enemy, and offer it to Your Majesty!"
Chapter completed!