When a person is forced into a dead corner and has no choice, he is helpless but happy.
At least at this time, you no longer have to worry about choices. If you walk along the road, you will not regret even if you are dead.
Li Kuo wrote a family letter as his junior nephew and sent his confidant to send it to Uncle Gao Shi, the governor of Jianghuai, who worked far away in Yangzhou. He hoped that he could take care of the two families for their family's friendship.
Mother and wife and concubine.
Tangzhou is not far from Jiangdu. Half a month later, Li Kuo received a reply from Gao Shi. In the letter, Gao Shi first praised Li Kuo's heroic deeds against the enemy, and then said that the old lady and others should not worry about Yunyun.
As for the imperial court's report, Gao Shi didn't know why he had not received it, so he didn't know that Li Heng ordered his encirclement and suppression.
This made Li Kuo feel a little relieved. As long as Gao Shi had not received the court's report, everything would have a turnaround.
Li Kuo was determined to completely understand his relatives' water and fire, so he wrote a letter to Gao Shi, expressing his longing for his relatives. He also made a prudent request, hoping that Gao Shi could come forward if possible.
His relatives were sent to Tangzhou City.
Half a month later, Li Kuo also received a reply. To Li Kuo's expectations, Gao Shi readily agreed. But he also said that now is the time to fight against the enemy, Jianghuai and other places are fully supporting the front line, and there is insufficient staff, and I hope it can
I will send Li Kuo's family to Tangzhou in a few days.
After receiving this reply, Li Kuo was overjoyed. After replying to Gao Shi, he finally came out of the shadow of the matter. At first, he thought that the rebels captured many places and caused the court's government to be inconsistent, which made Gao Shi not reported to him.
But when you think about it carefully, this possibility is extremely small. After all, now Jianghuai is actually in the hands of the Tang Dynasty court. It is understandable that some prefectures on Henan Road cannot receive the di report. How could Jianghuai Yangzhou not receive the di report?
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So there is only one explanation for the matter. Gao Shi received the newspaper but pretended not to receive it!
In this way, he could send his relatives to Tangzhou. If the court pursued him later, he could have deduced the responsibility for the matter until he did not receive the official newspaper. Such a killing of two birds with one stone is probably only Gao Shi.
Such a genius can come up with it!
After Li Kuo's heart was at peace, all his thoughts were focused on the safety of Tangzhou. Although Sun Xiaozhe had always kept a certain distance from Tangzhou City, Li Kuo really felt upset that he was so upset that he led 10,000 cavalry out of the city to take the initiative to go with Sun.
Xiaozhe fought in a field once.
Although there were many rebels, they did not take any advantage. Sun Xiaozhe obviously did not expect that Li Kuo would lead the crowd to take the initiative, and was in a panic for a while and was killed by Li Kuo to defeat the army.
Under the leadership of Li Kuo, Dou Qing, Xian Yucheng, Wang Xiaochun, Zhou Wuzui and other generals fought bravely. The soldiers worked together to defeat the powerful enemy and beheaded more than 3,000 people and captured more than 5,000 people.
Luoyang was shocked for a moment, and An Qingxu was very angry and ordered him to lead the defeated army back to Luoyang to report his duties immediately.
No matter how angry An Qingxu was, Li Kuo's battle inevitably aroused the fighting spirit of the people of the Tang Dynasty. The people of the already-deceased prefectures of Henan Province rose up to denounce the rebels.
It is almost May, and it is the season when wheat is ripe.
Outside Suiyang City, the golden wheat fields are endless. When the breeze passes, the wheat waves are rolling, which seems to be very pleasing to the eye.
However, the defenders in Suiyang City are not at all leisurely and enjoy the beautiful scenery.
Three months have passed since 100,000 rebels besieged Suiyang City. Although everyone still insisted on defending the city, the imperial army had not rushed to help for a long time. Every time at night, they would suddenly be awakened by the horn of the rebels' attack on the city.
Even the person who is beaten can't help but suffer such torture.
Many soldiers were timid, and some even escaped from the city while the night was dark. After Zhang Xun learned about this, he ordered his confidants Lei Wanchun, Nan Jiyun and others to lead fifty warriors to wait until they hid behind the city wall after nightfall.
, ready to capture the fleeing soldiers.
Sure enough, Nan Jiyun, Lei Wanchun and others captured more than a dozen soldiers who were preparing to escape from the city at night that night. After a round of interrogation, Zhang Xun determined that they were spies and ordered the swordsman to behead all the more than ten people.
The head was hung at the top of Suiyang City to serve as a warning to others.
Zhang Xun even cried in tears at the top of the city, expressing his willingness to live and die with Suiyang City.
Since then, no one dared to escape at night. Although everyone knew that there was little hope to persevere, they all stood on Zhang Xun's side and vowed to advance and retreat with Lord Zhang.
Yin Ziqi's siege overnight several times was bravely repelled by Zhang Xun's soldiers. The rebels had more than 100,000 soldiers but they could not do anything to Suiyang City.
"Mr. Zhang, the rebels are harvesting wheat outside the city as military rations. We cannot watch them be rude under our noses!" Xu Yuan bowed to Zhang Xun and advised: "The supply of food and grass for the rebels is now tight,
We will definitely be fully focused. If we attack at this time, the rebels will definitely flee in panic without being prepared in a panic!”
Zhang Xunluo thought for a moment and said, "What Brother Xu said is good, but the attack effect was not the best at this time. It's better to do this."
Zhang Xun walked to Xu Yuan's ear and whispered something. After waiting for Xu Yuan to finish his hearing, he couldn't help but praise him: "Mr. Zhang is such a brilliant plan. This plan will definitely damage the morale of the rebels!"
Ten miles outside Suiyang City, the rebel commander Yin Ziqi walked with a sad face.
He was ordered by His Majesty Emperor Dayan and commanded 100,000 elite troops to besiege Suiyang City for three months, but he had not even taken down the wall city. If he could not capture Suiyang City before the autumn, it would inevitably affect his overall situation.
His Majesty the Emperor will be very angry when the war is deployed, and he will inevitably suffer. (Note 1)
The worst thing is that there was a problem with the army's food supply. All of this was blamed on Li Kuo. If it weren't for burning the stored grain in Luokou Cang, how could the army's food supply be so tight now!
Damn it, I think he was the commander of the army and was forced to do the job of supervising the harvest of wheat straw, which was simply a price loss!
Yin Ziqi took out a white silk cloth from his cuff, wiped the sweat beads that oozed out of his temples, and looked at the Suiyang city not far away.
Humph, that boy Zhang Xun just defended himself by the geographical advantage. How dare he leave the city? He was so nervous that he was indeed a little bit full of weapons.
"Tell me the order and order everyone to speed up the harvest!" Yin Ziqi glanced at the soldiers working and robbed the crops in the wheat field, and ordered coldly.
"Get orders!" The personal soldiers hugged Yin Ziqi and happily took the order.
Seeing that everything was arranged, Yin Ziqi felt a little calm. At this time, he felt that the noon sun was dazzling, and a feeling of sleepiness came.
Yin Ziqi shook her sleeves, yawned, and stood up and walked to the shade of the not far away for a nap.
The sharp and low horn sounds fell into my dreams, which shocked Yin Ziqi.
"What happened? What happened?" Yin Ziqi subconsciously got up, rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked towards Suiyang City.
"Report to the commander-in-chief, Tang Jun suddenly started to blow horns and drums on the top of the city for some reason!"
When a personal soldier saw Yin Ziqi shouting loudly, he trotted to him and reported loudly.
"What the hell are they doing? They have the ability to go out of the city to fight. They are wearing high-end battle cards in the city all day long and are used as turtles with their heads, but now they are here to play this game with me!"
Yin Ziqi snorted coldly and ordered: "Don't worry, I'll tell you that the generals will order the soldiers to continue to collect the wheat!"
As soon as this order was issued, the rebel soldiers laughed at the self-inflicted behavior of the Tang people.
In a short while, they selectively ignored the sound of the horn on the city wall.
Not long after, the sound of the horn gradually stopped, but there were waves of golden drums coming from the top of Suiyang City.
Yin Ziqi snorted coldly and said, "Why, after playing the horn, you started beating the drum again? Can you change some new tricks? Let everyone make a pot and cook, don't pay attention to Tangren's tricks!"
Yin Ziqi glanced at the city wall with contempt and ordered in a deep voice
Note 1: Wengcheng: Wengcheng is a semicircular or square gate guard city built outside the city gate (and special cases inside the city gate) to strengthen the defense of castles or passes, which belongs to part of the ancient Chinese city walls.
The two sides of the urn city are connected to the city wall, and are equipped with defensive facilities such as arrow towers, gate gates, and scepters. The urn city gates are usually not on the same line as the protected city gates to prevent attacks from weapons such as attacking rams.
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