Chapter 8: Lighting the Painting

When it comes to Anshi's Incident, the one who impressed everyone the most was An Lushan and Shi Siming. This was the opposite side. The positive side was Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, the four major military gods, collided with each other, and emitted dazzling sparks.

Or remember the tragic tragedy of Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan, but there were two people who had many people ignored it.

The Yan brothers, to be precise, Yan Zhenqing and Yan Gaoqing were cousins. But without these two people first advocated righteousness in Hebei, the Tang Dynasty had long been a different look.

The most tragic one was Yan Gaoqing. During the Anshi Rebellion, Yan Gaoqing and his son Yan Jiming guarded Changshan and Yan Zhenqing guarded the plains. The two planned to kill Li Qincui, the general under An Lushan, and captured Gao Miao alive. How many years later, the seventeen counties in Hebei responded one after another.

At that time, there were only Fanyang, Lulong, Miyun, Yuyang, and Ji in Hebei. The six counties of Ye were still following An Lushan. Yan Gaoqing sent Ma Sui to Fanyang to summon Jia Xun and said, "An Lushan was rebellious and rebelled. Even if he had obtained Luoyang, he would eventually be destroyed. If the Duke killed all the generals who did not follow the orders, he would return to the country with Fan Yang and lose his roots. This was a great achievement."

Jia Xun thought it was right, but because of hesitation, he missed the opportunity. The matter was reported to An Lushan by Niu Runke. An Lushan sent his confidant Han Chaoyang to Fanyang, called Jia Xun to discuss secretly, took the opportunity to strangle Jia Xun to death, and asked the other general Niu Tingjie to lead Fanyang's army. He also asked Shi Siming and Li Lijie to lead the Fan Han infantry and cavalry to attack the two counties of Changshan, Boling.

This is also the best time for Yan Gaoqing, but he missed it.

Hebei is An Lushan's old nest. An Lushan was not relieved when he sent Shi Siming, so he asked Cai Xide to lead a 10,000 troops to attack Changshan again.

At that time, Yan Gaoqing was also neglected, believing that most of Hebei advocated justice and had countless soldiers under his command, and did not take the two invading troops to heart. He was discussing something with his subordinates. He asked his sons Yan Quanming, Jia Shen and Zhai Wande to the capital to present Li Qincup's head with He Qiannian and Gao Miao.

Zhang Tongyou cried and said, "My brother Zhang Tongru is a rebel general. He begged to enter Beijing with Yan Quanming to save the lives of his family."

Yan Gaoqing agreed, but his brother was like this, and his younger brother was also a villain. After arriving in Taiyuan, Zhang Tongyou immediately attached to Wang Chengye and asked Wang Chengye to detain Yan Quanming, and wrote another memorial to take the credit.

When Shi Cai's army arrived, Yan Gaoqing's battle was not good, so he asked Wang Chengye for help. Wang Chengye had already learned his achievements, but instead hoped that the rebels would capture Changshan as soon as possible, so he had troops to save him.

This was a small turning point. If Wang Chengye took into account the great cause of the country and sent troops to rescue him, it might be another situation. First, An Lushan's army captured Yan Gaoqing's son and forced Yan Gaoqing to surrender. Yan Gaoqing not only did not surrender, but instead cursed An Lushan. So Shi Siming killed Yan Jiming and began to attack Changshan. Yan Gaoqing fought hard day and night, but finally, because he had no arrows and food, he captured Changshan. The rebels indulged soldiers and killed more than 10,000 people.

In fact, because of An Lushan's tyranny, after the Anshi Rebellion, and the Tang Dynasty invited two major plague gods, Tubo and Uighurs, "The Uighurs entered Tokyo, killed and plundered, and thousands of dead were killed and plundered, and the fire was not extinguished. Shuofang, Shen Ce Army also included Tokyo, Zheng, Ru, and Bian, and they were all robbed. They stopped in March, and the houses were gone, and the people were all dressed in clothes and paper." "The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was trapped in the thief for a long time, and the palaces were burned, and one hundred cadres were deserted, and there were no foot rafters. There were less than a thousand households in the middle, and the leopards were beaten by hazel thorns, and the leopards were beaten by wolves (exaggeratedly, how could the leopards be

Wolves will not run into the city, but there will always be a few wild foxes)" "East to Zheng, Bian, reach Xufang, north from Qinhuai, pass through Xiangtu, people are cut off, and thousands of miles of depression (this area is originally one of the most concentrated population density in the world)" "Hanshan has withered, especially in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, passing Yiyang, Xionger, Wulao and Chenggao, and more than a thousand households have been married in the five hundred miles. There are no foot-roughs, no smoke, and the desolation is miserable, and beasts travel around and ghosts cry (there are at least 300,000 households in this radius of 500 miles, and only one thousand households are left, which has ravaged to this point)"

Changshan was captured, and Yan Gaoqing, Yuan Luqian and others were sent to Luoyang. An Lushan made him angry and asked, "You were originally a small household in Fanyang. I submitted a memorial to the court to appoint you as judge and promoted to prefect a few years later. What is the point of losing to you? And you actually raised an army to oppose me?"

He severely hit a rebellious heart.

Yan Gaoqing retaliated and said, "You were originally a Hu slave who shepherded. The emperor appointed you as the governor of the Three Dao Jiedao. He was extremely kind. What was the place to bear to you? But you rebel. I have been a minister of the Tang Dynasty for generations, and my wealth and official positions were given by the Tang Dynasty. Even if you report it, how could you follow your rebellion? I wish I could kill you for the country and I wish I could not kill you. What is the rebellion? Why not kill me quickly?"

An Lushan was furious and tied Yan Gaoqing and Yuan Luqian to the bridge pillar of the middle bridge and shaved them to death with a knife. Yan Yuan and the others were still scolding each other until they died. More than 30 people were killed by An Lushan.

This is so strong that Wen Tian later said that in "Song of Zhengqi", it was Zhang Suiyang's teeth and Yan Changshan's tongue. This Yan Changshan tongue refers to Yan Gaoqing.

After Yan Gaoqing was defeated, he led his troops to attack the prefectures and counties that did not surrender. He killed and stabbed the places where he passed. Ye County, Guangping, Julu, Zhao County, Shanggu, Boling, Wen'an, Wei County, and Xin wanted to succeed in the enemy. Only Raoyang Prefect Lu Quancheng did not surrender until Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi's army arrived.

Yan Gaoqing was defeated, and Yan Zhenqing, Shandong Pingyuan (Ling County), still erected a big banner. First, Li E, a native of Qinghe, was only twenty years old. He said to Yan Zhenqing: "The Duke was the first to sing the great righteousness. The Hebei counties regarded Duke as the Great Wall. Now Qinghe is the neighbor of Duke. The country usually gathered the southern coins of Jianghuai and Henan to support the northern army. It is called the Northern Cushion in the world. Now there are more than three million pieces of cloth, more than eight hundred thousand pieces of silk, more than three hundred thousand pieces of money, more than three hundred thousand hu of grain (one hu and ten dou, hu Dou is the capacity unit, stone is the weight unit, one hu is slightly more than one stone of grain). In the past, when we asked Mo Chu, all the armored soldiers were stored in Qingheku, and now there are more than fifty thousand things. There are more than seventy thousand households. I think its wealth reaches three plain counties, and the troops are enough to reach two plain counties. If you can lend me troops to control this area, take the two Pingyuan Qinghe counties as the core, and all the counties will follow their limbs."

Yan Zhenqing hesitated and said, "The Pingyuan soldiers have just been summoned, and have not been trained yet, so they are not able to protect themselves. They can't care about the neighboring county."

This is also a fact. The main reason is that Li E is too young, which makes Yan Zhenqing very suspicious of his ability.

Li E said: "Qinghe asked me to borrow soldiers from the public, but not because I had insufficient strength, but also wanted to see the clever meaning of the great wise men. Now, seeing that the public has not made up their minds, how dare I recklessly tell my next plan?"

Yan Zhenqing was very surprised when talking, so he agreed. Everyone else thought that Li E was young and energetic, and did not see the strong power of the rebels. He could only disperse his strength by borrowing troops and would achieve nothing. Yan Zhenqing also made sense when he heard that it made sense and began to repent.

After hearing this, Li E wrote a letter to Yan Zhenqing in the Pavilion, saying: "Qinghe County has separated from the rebels, surrendered to the court, and contributed food, cloth, weapons to help the official army. Not only do you not accept it, but you also have questions. I will go back to report, Qinghe County cannot exist in isolation, and must have some support. If you surrender to the rebels, you will become a powerful enemy to the west. Will you not regret it at that time?"

Yan Zhenqing was enlightened, so he went to the hall to meet Li E in person. He divided his troops into 6,000 troops and sent them to the border. He shook hands and left. Then he asked, "The troops have already gone, can you make your plans for the next step?"

Li E said: "I heard that the imperial court sent Cheng Qianli to 100,000 elite troops to attack the thief, but the thief was in danger and refused to go forward. Now we should lead troops to attack Wei County first, and take the prefect Yuan Zhitai, the prefect appointed by Lushan, restore the position of Sima Chui, and divide him into a certain force to open the thief. Let Cheng Qianli's army come out and jointly attack Ji County, north of Ye County to Youling, and go to Youling to the county occupied by the rebels. Pingyuan and Qinghe County lead other allied troops, join forces to join forces, and advance to Lin Mengjin south, defend the fortress, and control the rebels' road to escape north. It is estimated that the army of the official army's east expedition should be no less than 200,000, and Henan's west expedition troops were no less than 100,000. You just need to submit the court to request the Eastern expedition troops to defend (referring to Feng Gaoge's army in Tongguan, it can be seen that the heroes in the world are similar). In less than a month, the rebels will inevitably have civil strife."

Yan Zhenqing said: "Good."

So according to Li E's plan, the soldiers of the three counties fought bloody battles for one day, and defeated the soldiers of the Wei County, and the army was greatly boosted.

Once, An Lushan was forced to advance and retreat and lose his power, but all this made Li Longji kill Gao Feng and the other two first, and then forced Brother Shu Han to force his shortcomings to avoid the long-term war. Tongguan lost and became a bubble.

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"Alang, you'd better leave," said Yan Zhenqing's butler.

After Shi Siming pacified Hebei, he immediately put his eyes on Yan Zhenqing, and the other Yan became a big trouble in Anshi's eyes. When pacifying Xindu, he immediately asked his general Kang Wuyebo to lead the army to attack the plains.

At this time, the three counties of Pingyuan, Qinghe and Boping became lonely land, with food and grass inside and no foreign aid. Therefore, the old housekeeper advised Yan Zhenqing to escape, but he did not need to escape, but used the word "leave".

"I am ready to die for my country. The more I am at this time, the more I need ministers to serve. Why do I run away?"

The old housekeeper knelt down and cried, "Alang has three lonely cities. Even if Sun Wu is alive and Wu Qi is resurrected, he cannot turn the world around. Although Alang dies, it is okay for Alang to die. However, because Alang resists the enemy, the rebels must vent their anger on the people of the three counties. On the contrary, hundreds of thousands of people in the three counties will die innocently because of Alang. Leave the green mountains and is not afraid of burning firewood. Alang thinks three times. Since the rebels started to rebel, the Gong sang righteous solo, and the lonely army supported the Hebei rebel army in a year, and it has been a strange thing for several times. The Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world. The Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world. The Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world. The Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world. The Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world. The Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world. The Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world. The Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world. The Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world and the Gong is in the world. Why not go back to the east and the Gong is in the east and protect the people of the three counties from being affected by the fish in the pond?"

Shi Siming's massive killing did make many prefectures and counties lose the courage to defend the city.

This sentence hit Yan Zhenqing's heart, and he began to cry.

So he repeatedly told me to leave the plain and cross the river south.

Yan Zhenqing left in front, and the three armies of Pingyuan were unowned and surrendered to Shi Siming. So Shi Siming used a knife to kill people, and used Pingyuan surrendered troops to attack Qinghe, Boping, and all three counties were lost.

The war ahead could not be accurately transmitted back to the rear, but Wang Hua knew that Yan Zhenqing could not support her alone and was in a very dangerous situation. He wrote a couplet on paper in the form of Yan:

Both civil and military swept Yan and Zhao to create a wonderful achievement

A man is as upright and mighty as his character is

The handwriting is like the person, so it cannot be said that Wang Huaxin is so bad, but he still cannot be as strong as Yan Zhenqing. Therefore, no matter how his font is similar to Yan Zhenqing's style, he is not as arrogant as Yan Zhenqing himself.

Therefore, later Ouyang Xiu, Zhu Wenchang and Su Dongpo highly praised Yan Ti. Ouyang Xiu said: "The dots are like falling stones, the paintings are like summer clouds, the hooks are like Qujin, and the spears are like crossbows. They have elephants and are low and arrogant. Since Xi and Xian, they have never been like the Gong."

The key is a integrity. Without this integrity, you cannot write the samadhi of Yan's body.

This couplet is the best portrayal of Yan Zhenqing's life.

After writing, he immediately ordered someone to secretly find Yan Zhenqing and ensure that he keeps his life safe.

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But Eryan's tragic tragedy cannot be compared with the other two.

There are no two loyal ministers in the country, and there are only two loyal ministers.

Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan are also

In ancient Chinese history, only a few people such as Shi Kefa can compare with them.

Zhang Xun was appointed as a Jinshi and was appointed as the magistrate of Qinghe County, with the highest political examination. However, he did not want to be a powerful person, so he did not pay homage to Yang Guozhong. He was only appointed as a small county magistrate by Zhenyuan County. After taking office, he immediately killed the powerful South China Jin in the local Yuru Township. From then on, everyone was kind and did not dare to violate the law.

In the 14th year of Tianbao, Anshi's military service was launched, and his general Zhang Nengwu captured Song Cao and other prefectures. Yang Wanshi, the prefect of Qiao County, was frightened by the rebels' power, and wanted to surrender the city, forcing Zhang Xun to be the chief minister and welcome the rebels. After receiving the order, Zhang Xun cried to the ancestral temple with his generals and swore to fight against the rebels. At that time, Shanfu County Magistrate Jia Ben also raised an army to resist the rebels. After defeating Zhang Tongwu, he advanced to Yongqiu and joined Zhang Xun, with 2,000 soldiers (it was really rare. At the peak of the Anshi Rebellion, Anshi added a rebel army to approach one million heroes).

But at this time, the magistrate of Yongqiu County, Linghu Chao, a notorious figure in history, disagreed and wanted to surrender. So he led his army to defeat the Juyang army that went north to fight against the rebels, tied the captured soldiers in the courtyard to kill them. For some reason, he left the city and was tied to untied the ropes and killed the guards. He closed the city and refused to accept Linghu Chao. At the same time, he recruited Jia Ben and Zhang Xun into the city. After entering the city, the two killed Linghu Chao's wife and defended themselves according to the city.

At that time, King Li Zhi of Wu was the prefect of Lingchang and was ordered to fight against the rebels. After learning that Jia Ben and Zhang Xun had occupied Yongqiu, he appointed Jia Ben as the supervisory censor. Soon after, Linghu Chao led the rebels to attack Yongqiu, and Jia Ben led his army out of the city to resist the battle and died. So the troops were handed over to Zhang Xun. Zhang Xun reported the battle situation to Li Zhi, and Li Zhi also ordered Zhang Xun to take over the army and civilians of Yongqiu.

After Linghu Chao failed to attack Yongqiu, he led the rebel general Li Tingwang to order 40,000 troops to attack the city, which was shocked. However, Zhang Xun was calm and calm, allowing some troops to stay in the city, and the rest were divided into several teams to attack the rebels himself.

The number of troops in Yongbing City was very small, and the rebels were neglected and caught off guard. They fled. The next day, the rebels built more than 100 wooden buildings at the same height as the city and attacked the city from all sides. Zhang Xun ordered people to build fences on the top of the city to strengthen defense, then bundle grass and pour oil to throw them at the rebel wooden buildings, making the rebels unable to get close. Taking advantage of the rebels' advance and retreat, they attacked again, causing the rebels' wooden buildings to fail. After that, the enemy attacked us and defended us for more than 60 days, and hundreds of battles were fought. Linghu Chao was finally defeated and retreated.

After resting, Linghu Chao counterattacked again, but he had a headache. He did not expect that the small county magistrate was so fierce, so he advised under the city: "The world is gone, and you can hold on to the dangerous city, who do you want to do?"

Zhang Xun replied calmly: "I have promised loyalty and righteousness in my life. What is loyalty and righteousness in today's actions?"

Linghu Chao left in shame.

At that time, Zhang Xun was guarding the lonely city, and there was no news from the court. Linghu Chao once again besieged Yongqiu for more than 40 days. He heard that Li Longji had escaped from Chang'an and surrendered Zhang Xun with a letter. It was not his talent who was interested in Zhang Xun, which made Zhang Xun afraid of fighting. Hearing that even the emperor had fled, Zhang Xun had six generals under him, all of whom were dedicated to the founding of the government and persuaded Zhang to say that the military was defeated, and the emperor did not know the survival of the emperor, so he might as well surrender. These six generals were the main generals under Zhang Xun. Zhang Xun was afraid that things would change, so Yang Xun promised to set up a portrait of the emperor in the court the next day, leading the soldiers to worship, and everyone cried. So Zhang Xun took advantage of the encouragement of the soldiers and led the six generals to the front, and blamed them for righteousness and beheading them for public display. As a result, the morale of the army became stronger.

After guarding the city for many days, the arrows in the city were gone. Zhang Xun tied up more than a thousand grass men, put on black clothes, and fell to the city at night. Linghu Chao thought that Zhang Xun was going to attack the camp, so he ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows. After a long time, he realized that it was a grass man. Therefore, he got 100,000 arrows. Later, he fell to the city, and Linghu Chao's army laughed but did not use equipment.

So he used 500 dead soldiers to fall to the city and suddenly attacked Linghu Chao's camp. Linghu Chao's army was in chaos, burning the camp and fleeing. Zhang Xun led his army to pursue it for more than ten miles before returning. This was because the troops in his hands were too small, otherwise this battle might have completely destroyed Linghu Chao's army in an instant.

Linghu Chao was both ashamed and hated, and he also increased his troops to surround Yongqiu tightly.

He came up with another poisonous plan, pretending to talk to Zhang Xun, and secretly deployed a crossbow under the city. Zhang Xun didn't know, so he used the man-in-law Lei Wanchun to answer, and the rebels took the opportunity to shoot Lei Wanchun with the crossbow. Lei Wanchun was shot six times on his face, but he still remained motionless. Linghu Chao suspected that it was a wooden man and sent troops to reconnaissance. He was very surprised to find out that it was Lei Wanchun and said to Zhang Xun far away with emotion: "After seeing General Lei, I can only find that the army was strict, but it is like the way of heaven."

Zhang Xun replied: "You have lost all your morals, what qualifications do you have to talk about the way of heaven?"

Not long after, Zhang Xun personally led his troops to fight, captured 14 rebel generals and killed more than 100 people. Under Zhang Xun's threat, Linghu Chao had to flee at night and withdraw his troops into Chenliu, and did not dare to fight with Zhang Xun again. After a while, the rebels divided more than 7,000 cavalry in the field and entered Baishawo. Zhang Xun led his troops to attack at night and defeated the rebels. Returning to Taoling, he met more than 400 rebels, and all were captured by him. Zhang Xun separated these rebels, including the Guitanzhou soldiers and the Hu people, and Chen Liu in Xingyang threatened to dismiss the troops and let them go to their own business.

This practice is similar to Wang Hua's song, but Wang Hua is even more ruthless and does not let go of his troops, and they are all slaves. Because of the successive victory, more than 10,000 people left the rebels and came to join him, and their momentum was slightly increased.

Because he often defended the city, Yong soldiers had few grains left. At this time, Zhang Xun learned that Linghu Chao transported hundreds of rice from Juyang Canal and passed by Yongqiu City, so he sent troops to fight at night. This time, he killed countless rebels again, which also allowed Zhang Xun to obtain thousands of hu of salt rice.

Linghu Chao was so angry that he was angry. In October, Linghu Chao and Wang Fude had more than 10,000 troops attacked Yongqiu. Zhang Xun attacked, defeated him, and beheaded more than a thousand people. In December, Linghu Chao came again and asked Zhang Xun to repel him.

Linghu Chao and Li Tingwang attacked Yongqiu for several months, so they set up Qizhou and built Qizhou City in the north of Yongqiu City to cut off Yongqiu's food aid. At the same time, tens of thousands of troops were often sent to attack Yongqiu, and Zhang Xun had only more than 1,000 troops, but he could defeat the rebels every time. At this time, Wang Hua had already entered Chang'an, but generals from all over the country were dissatisfied with him, so he proclaimed himself king and continued to call Li Longji's reign. The same was true for the Henan Jiedushi Li Ju. He appointed Zhang Xun as the vanguard envoy. In this month, Lu County, Dongping and Jiyin all fell into the hands of the rebels.

. The rebel general Yang Chaozong led 20,000 infantry and cavalry generals to attack Ningling and cut off Zhang Xun's retreat. This worsened the situation. So Zhang Xun retreated from Yongqiu and defended Ningling eastward. At this time, he met with Xu Yuan, the prefect of Juyang. At that time, he had only 300 horses and 3,000 soldiers. However, when Yang Chaozong led his army to the northwest of Ningling, Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan and his general Lei Wanchun and Nan Jiyun decisively fought with Yang Chaozong, dozens of times a day and night, defeated the rebels, killed more than 10,000 enemies, killed more than 20 generals, and filled the Bian River.

This move really works. The attack in the city was ineffective and there was no food, so many soldiers were starved to death.

Seeing the low morale, Zhang Xun tied up his concubine and put it in the yard.

Nan Jiyun said in surprise: "Master, what are you going to do?"

This concubine is usually well-educated and elegant, and looks pretty. During these days, she sews military uniforms for soldiers and takes care of the wounded, which is very welcome to the soldiers.

Zhang Xun said: "It is better to let everyone eat it instead of starving to death."

"Master, it's absolutely impossible." Nan Jiyun burst into tears. When all the soldiers heard this, they all burst into tears. (This is the real situation where some people attacked Zhang Xun later. I don't know what these people thought, so I shook my head)

At this moment, many strange sounds came from outside the city. Lei Wanchun ran in and shouted: "People are left under the knife, and people are left under the knife."

Because he was hit by six arrows on his face, his face was particularly ugly and fierce, but at this moment he was excited. He picked up Zhang Xun and carried it to the top of the city. He saw countless troops coming from the south, holding a tube in his hand, constantly spewing out flames. The rebels fell down like straw.
Chapter completed!