Five hundred and seventieth chapters Qinghe Li calyx
From this day on in the South Tower, my temples are white from now on. Whoever chants and drinks wine together bears the book of a lifetime.
——Excerpt from "Good things are coming soon·Flying snow is coming across the river" by Lu Wei Lao (Song Dynasty)
This Qinghe Li E is very famous.
Bai Fu once heard Master Yan Zhenqing talk about this person many times. Master Yan Zhenqing spoke highly of him and praised him highly:
At the beginning of the Anlushan Rebellion, before Li Guangbi's Hedong reinforcements entered Hebei, Shi Siming, Cai Xide and other Yan troops swept across the land of Yan and Zhao.
At this time, Changshan fell and Yan Gaoqing died for his country. Yan Zhenqing, who was stationed in Pingyuan County, was alone and had no time to protect himself, so he was unable to counterattack the Yan army.
When Yan Zhenqing was alone, a young man named Li E came from nearby Qinghe County.
The purpose of his visit to Yan Zhenqing was to borrow troops from Yan Zhenqing.
Qinghe County is located in the southwest of Pingyuan County, more than 200 miles away from Pingyuan County.
Qinghe County was still in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang army in Hebei was too busy to take care of itself and was unable to reinforce it. Once Qinghe County fell, Pingyuan County would also be in danger.
In addition, there is a very large military supplies warehouse in Qinghe County, known as the "North Warehouse of the World", which is an important transit center for military supplies of the Tang Dynasty. It has hoarded money, grain, cloth, and silk collected from Jianghuai, Henan and other places over the years, and stored a large amount of military supplies.
, the purpose is to provide food, grass and baggage for Fanyang, Pinglu and other northern border armies.
The Yan army is coveting this and may attack Qinghe at any time.
Therefore, the gentry elders in Qinghe entrusted Li E to borrow troops from Yan Zhenqing.
At that time, Li E was just in his early twenties. He was not old, and his tone was not small, and he talked eloquently.
He informed Yan Zhenqing that there were still more than 3 million pieces of cloth, more than 800,000 pieces of silk, more than 300,000 pieces of money, more than 300,000 dendrobium of grain, and more than 500,000 sets of weapons and armor in Qinghe County's military warehouse.
There are 70,000 households and a population of more than 100,000. The wealth is at least three times that of Pingyuan County, and the military supplies are at least twice that of Pingyuan County.
Li E then explained his purpose of coming, hoping that Yan Zhenqing could allocate part of the troops to Qinghe County to join forces with Pingyuan County to resist the rebels.
Yan Zhenqing certainly knew the importance of Qinghe County, but he had no time to protect himself and was unable to mobilize troops to support Qinghe County.
Faced with Yan Zhenqing's hesitation and temptation, Li E was quite dissatisfied: "Old Qinghe asked me to come to you, not because I have no strength and just want to rely on your army to resist the rebels, but because I admire your righteousness and hope to work with you.
Tu Daye. Now that you don't even dare to give me an accurate letter, how can I tell you all my plans?
("Those who sent servants from Qinghe to serve the duke were not weak but borrowed the duke's teachers to serve as bandits. They also wanted to see the great sage's clear and righteous ear. Now I look up at the high idea, but I have no decisive words to make up my mind. How can the servant dare to speak rashly?
That’s what you did.”)
After hearing this lofty speech, Yan Zhenqing immediately looked at this Li E with admiration. This man has a big heart and is a man who can achieve great things.
Yan Zhenqing planned to allocate part of Li E's troops.
However, Li E's youth and frivolity made the officials and soldiers of Pingyuan County extremely disgusted. They all believed that allocating troops to him would accomplish nothing!
Yan Zhenqing could not convince the generals, so he could only politely refuse Li E.
Li E left angrily, returned to his residence, and immediately wrote a fierce letter to Yan Zhenqing: "Qinghe has not defected to the rebels, but has been holding on alone. Now he has voluntarily sent food, wages, weapons and supplies to Pingyuan County.
But not only did you refuse, you were also suspicious.
Let me make my words clear. After I return, it will be difficult for Qinghe to survive between the Tang army and the rebels, and they will definitely join one side.
By then, Qinghe will have become your strong enemy to the west, don’t you regret today’s decision?”
("Qinghe went and obeyed, and offered grain, silk, and equipment to support the army, but the duke refused to accept it and was suspicious of it. After the servant returned to his camp, Qinghe could not be isolated. He must have some support. He would be a powerful enemy to the west of the duke, and the duke was incompetent.
Regret?")
Li E's words were full of threats, and he had a tendency to surrender to the enemy. If he met a narrow-minded person, he would be charged with surrendering to the enemy and conspiring to treason, and he would be sentenced to death.
Fortunately, the newborn calf Li E met the kind and honest Yan Zhenqing.
A sentence in Li E's letter awakened Yan Zhenqing - Qinghe County can be both an ally and an enemy!
Rather than saying that the elders of Qinghe County are asking for help from Yan Zhenqing, it is better to say that they are giving Yan Zhenqing a chance.
Whether to make alliances or make enemies depends on your choice, Mr. Yan.
Yan Zhenqing had not thought through Li E's intentions before, and almost made a big mistake!
Yan Zhenqing suddenly woke up and rushed to Li E's residence. He responded sincerely and stayed up all night, holding candles and talking at night.
Only then did Li E lay out the strategy for resisting the enemy:
“I heard that the imperial court had dispatched General Cheng Qianli and 100,000 elite troops to march eastward from Naokou (southwest of present-day Linzhou City, Henan Province). However, the rebels held strong positions and tried their best to block the attack, making it impossible for the official army to advance.
I plan to lead my troops to attack Wei County (today's Daming County, Hebei) first, capture Yuan Zhitai, the puppet prefect of Yan appointed by An Lushan, and welcome back Sima Chui, the former prefect of the Tang Dynasty, and promote him as the leader of the rebel army in southwest Hebei.
Then they divided their forces to open up Laokou, welcome Cheng Qianli's army into Hebei, then conquer and restore Jijun (now Weihui City, Henan), Yejun (now AY City, Henan), and finally march north to Fanyang.
At the same time, the two counties of Pingyuan and Qinghe can lead the troops of the allied counties, gather 100,000 people, go south to Mengjin (now the east Yellow River ferry in Mengjin County, Henan Province), and then move westward along the river to divide their troops to defend the dangerous points and cut off the northward return of Anlu Mountain.
the road.
In short, the Tang army entering Hebei this time had no less than 200,000 troops; the Henan volunteers who went north to resist the enemy should also number 100,000.
As long as Mr. Yan goes to the imperial court and lets the Tongguan garrison stay strong and clear the country and not go to war, I believe that within a few months, the rebels will be divided, become suspicious of each other, and finally collapse from within."
(Calyx said: "I heard that the imperial court sent hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers to attack the thieves from Guokou. The thieves took advantage of the danger and refused to move forward. Now we should lead the troops to attack Wei County first. We will take charge of Yuan Zhitai, the prefect of Lushan, and recruit Sima, the old prefect.
Chui, the envoy, is the master of the southwest. He divides his troops to open Guokou and marches out thousands of miles away to fight against Ji. North of Ye and those who have not yet reached Youling County. In the plains, Qinghe Commandery's allies gathered 100,000 troops and faced Mengjin in the south.
Divide the troops along the river, guard key points, and control the route to the north. It is estimated that the official army will attack the east by no less than 200,000 people, and the Henan volunteers will attack the west by no less than 100,000 people. The public should act as a sign of the imperial court and not fight. It will not last more than a month, and the thieves will
There must be a change in the internal collapse phase diagram.”)
After listening to Li E's complete and detailed strategic plan, Yan Zhenqing couldn't help but raise his thumbs and praised: "Good!"
Since ancient times, heroes have emerged from youth!
Ambition does not lie in age, Li E is courageous and knowledgeable, and Yan Zhenqing sincerely admires him.
Yan Zhenqing made a prompt decision and ordered his subordinates to record affairs and join the army. Li Zejiao and Pingyuan County Magistrate Fan Dongfu led 6,000 Pingyuan Tang troops, 4,000 Tang troops from Qinghe and 1,000 Boping Tang troops from Li E, and immediately stationed in Tangyi (today's west of LC City, Shandong).
Attack Wei County.
After hearing the news, Yuan Zhitai, the prefect of Wei County in the puppet Yan State, sent his general Bai Sigong to lead more than 20,000 Yan troops to fight.
The Tang and Yan armies fought fiercely for a day and night in Tangyi, and in the end the Yan army was defeated. The Tang army killed more than 10,000 Yan soldiers, captured more than a thousand enemies, captured thousands of war horses, and countless military equipment.
After the defeat, Yuan Zhitai, the governor of the puppet Yan State, fled to Jijun. The Tang army then conquered Weijun and gained great prestige for a time.
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Talking about this matter, Yan Zhenqing said to Bai Fu: "Although the people who were ordered to rush to Hebei's aid were not Cheng Qianli, but Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi, Li E's judgment and prediction of the entire war situation was surprisingly accurate, especially the battlefield situation in Hebei.
Transformation, the Hebei Tang Army and the rebel army jointly put pressure on the rebels, which was even more mentioned in Li E's corpus.
If Ge Shuhan ensures that Tongguan is not lost, the outcome of the rebels will be as Li E expected - like a rat in a bellows, with no way to return to the north, no hope of advancing west, and besieged on all sides. In the end, it will definitely collapse on its own without a fight. "
Speaking of this, Yan Zhenqing sighed: "It's a pity that there are no words in the world. Tongguan, the most dangerous pass in the world, was finally lost. The ringworm and scabies disease eventually evolved into a serious problem for the imperial court. The rebellion can only be completely directed towards the other side.