Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

After the Longyou Governor's Mansion successfully absorbed Mu Rong in the backyard, the Longyou Governor's Mansion once again had a stable source of information.

And Mu Rong was excited to find that he had an extra part-time job as an internal guard, and every time he provided information, he could give him a lot of experience.

Coupled with the financial support from the Longyou Governor's Mansion, Mu Rong has also become rich!

The miscellaneous family will be the great eunuch in the future!

With money and background, Mu Rong quickly became popular among the eunuchs who spread rumors.

Chang'an City was in the joy of celebrating the New Year. At this time, Chengdu City, where the Xichuan Jiedu envoy was stationed, escaped the flames of war in the Central Plains, but finally did not escape the flames of war.

Tubo pulled Nanzhao to attack Xichuan, Xichuan Jiedu envoy Wei Jiansu immediately ordered Xichuan to martial law, and recruited troops in Chengdu to resist Tubo and Nanzhao.

The land of Shu is rich and prosperous. Although Wei Jiansu failed in the political struggle in the imperial court, Li Heng was considered a nostalgic emperor and asked him to come to Xichuan to retire.

But no one expected that the southwestern frontier, which had been peaceful for many years, would once again become chaotic.

You must know that after the founding of Nanzhao, it has always been good with Datang, and even the king of Nanzhao took the initiative to claim friendship with Datang.

And Tubo's main attack direction has always been Hexi and Longyou. After all, there is a Nanzhao country in the direction of southern Xinjiang, and they are basically harassed by small groups of troops.

So after the fall of Chang'an, the emperor's first escape destination was Xichuan.

Unexpectedly, this time Tubo took the younger brother of King Nanzhao as a hostage and threatened Nanzhao to send troops.

The envoys of Nanzhao came to Xichuan City and conveyed to Wei Jiansu that Nanzhao was going to attack in spring after declaring war. Wei Jiansu ordered to kill the envoys of Nanzhao on the spot and urgently asked the court for help.

Wei Jiansu is also a soldier. He was a minister of the Ministry of War during the Emperor Tianbao's reign, and he was not an ordinary civil servant.

Although in Shuzhong, because of the difficulty of the road to Shu, the imperial court did not mobilize the elite of Shuzhong to go out of Shu to quell the Anshi Rebellion, so the soldiers under Xichuan Jiedushi are still full.

However, the soldiers of Shu were afraid of Nanzhao, and this time, Tubo and Nanzhao joined forces to attack Xichuan. The city of Chengdu was even more chaotic, and many big families even planned to leave Xichuan to escape.

All this is because of Tianbao's ten-year Nanzhao defeat.

During the Tianbao period, the whole of central Shu was under the control of the Jiannan Jiedu envoy. The Jiannan Jiedu envoy at that time sent troops to Xianyu Zhongtong. The Nanzhao king Ge Luofeng had sent envoys to plead guilty to the Tang Dynasty, willing to give up being king, and handing over to Nanzhao for occupation. Datang land.

However, in order to please Yang Guozhong in the imperial court and for his own military merits, Xianyu Zhongtong refused to accept the peace and still insisted on attacking Nanzhao.

However, Xianyu Zhongtong started his career by currying favor with Yang Guozhong, and his military ability was very weak. The 6 Shu elites were defeated by Nanzhao, and the number of dead was as high as [-]!

The coach Xianyu Zhongtong even brazenly escaped from the battlefield, Yang Guozhong blocked the military situation, and even reported victory to Li Longji.

The Nanzhao army built the heads of the Tang army into a Beijing temple and displayed them outside the city of Chengdu.

In the next thirteen years of Tianbao, Yang Guozhong, in order to avenge the defeat of Nanzhao, ordered Li Mi, then Xichuan Jiedu envoy, to forcibly lead [-] Shu troops to conquer Nanzhao without sufficient preparation.

In this battle, Nanzhao took the initiative to avoid the battle. Li Mi originally wanted to retreat, but the supervising army sent by Yang Guozhong firmly disagreed.

In the end, the expeditionary army ran out of ammunition and food, and a plague broke out in the army. The soldiers suffered heavy casualties. They were finally chased by Nanzhao and suffered heavy losses again.

The memory of these two battles in Shuzhong is deep. When it comes to Nanzhao, most people in Shuzhong still tremble.

In recent years, Nanzhao has gradually annexed the western Yunnan and southern Sichuan regions from a tribe. The Jiannan Jiedu envoys of the Tang Dynasty (later split into two towns in Dongchuan and Xichuan) all turned a blind eye to the annexation and development of Nanzhao, but ordered their subordinates to stick to it. .

Originally, the small countries around Nanzhao sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to ask for help, but they were even intercepted and killed by the officials in Huishu. Otherwise, the envoys of these small countries went to Chang'an to ask for help.

Although Wei Jiansu lost the political struggle, he was a prime minister after all, so he still has a big picture.

Since he entered Xichuan, he began to prepare his troops for battle.

Unexpectedly, Nanzhao really called.

Nanzhao came in a menacing manner, Wei Jiansu summoned the generals under his command to gather in the Jiedu envoy's mansion to discuss matters.

Wei Jiansu looked at the generals under his command, he, the Jiedu envoy of Xichuan, was also struggling.

The middle of Shu was rich and prosperous, and his predecessors were all famous and hot in Shu, but when Wei Jiansu entered Sichuan, he encountered the news of the joint invasion of Nanzhao and Tubo.

Wei Jiansu looked at the generals under his command who had to wear oversized armor, and was even more worried about their combat effectiveness.

Wei Jiansu threw away the letter in his hand and said, "Chang'an's decree has arrived."

All the generals immediately showed surprise expressions, and the fattest general among them asked: "Marshal Jie, how many troops will the imperial court send into Sichuan?"

Wei Jiansu raised his palm and shook it, and the fat general immediately said: "5 horses! With 5 horses, the last general will definitely be able to defend Chengdu City!"

Wei Jiansu wished he could kick his gang of wine bags and rice bags away, and it took 5 people to defend Xichuan. Why don't you say that you should return to Xichuan and give up the Chengdu mansion to the people of Nanzhao?
Holding his breath, Wei Jiansu said: "No one! The imperial court is still suppressing the rebellion, so there is no spare military force to support Shuzhong. This time we can only rely on ourselves."

The faces of all the officers were pale, especially the fattest general said: "Marshal Jie, does the court not know how powerful Nanzhao is? This time there is also Tubo, can we defend without the court sending troops?"

Wei Jiansu patted the table and said: "Xu Maozu! The imperial court has the imperial court's order, so where is the world not at war now? The terrain in Xichuan is dangerous, and I still have [-] troops in Sichuan. Could it be that we can't stop the Nanzhao people?"

This officer named Xu Maozu is the military envoy of the Xichuan Army and the number one military officer under Wei Jiansu's command.

To say that this Xu Maozu's experience is also bizarre, he was originally a wealthy family in the middle of Shu, because Yin Guan entered the army, he originally wanted to escape with his seniority.

But he didn't expect to meet Xianyu Zhongtong to attack Nanzhao, and Xu Maozu was the brigade commander in the army, but he didn't meet Nanzhao people along the way, and successfully brought his men back to Chengdu City.

Xianyu Zhongtong was defeated, and when he saw Xu Maozu returned safely, he boasted that Xu Maozu had killed hundreds of enemies in the battle, and made him the hero in the defeat.

Later, Xianyu Zhongtong was accused of committing a crime, but Xu Maozu was not deprived of his official position by the court.

When Li Mi took charge of Xichuan, he knew that Xu Maozu was an idiot, so he didn't reuse him.

When attacking Nanzhao, Li Mi let Xu Maozu stay behind, but unexpectedly let Xu Maozu escape back to Chengdu again.

This time the emperor lost face after the defeat, he covered up the truth of the defeat, and promoted Xu Maozu and other generals who had fled back again.

Xu Maozu became the military envoy of the Xichuan Army and presided over the training of Xichuan soldiers and horses for so many years. Wei Jiansu did not dare to imagine what the soldiers he trained would look like.

After discussing for a long time, Xu Maozu finally said that there was not enough manpower. After Wei Jiansu agreed to recruit another [-] recruits, Xu Maozu and the generals left.

At this time, a person came out from behind the screen.

Wei Jiansu sighed and said, "Hu Canjun, you guessed right, it's unreliable to defend against the Xichuan gang."

The player in front of him, Hu Yu, was the guide who followed Prime Minister Li Lin into the Chengdu Mansion to meet the Emperor.

After the emperor returned to Chang'an, Hu Yu did not leave Chengdu, but entered the residence of the Xichuan Jiedu envoy.

At that time, Wei Jiansu had only arrived in Xichuan not long ago, and there was a lack of talents under his command. Hu Yu could write and count, and he was able to express opinions on Xichuan, so he quickly gained Wei Jiansu's attention.

Now Hu Yu is the secretary of the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion and joins the army, in charge of the Jiedu Envoy's secrets, and is the top figure in the Xichuan Jiedu Envoy's Mansion.

Hu Yu had no expectations for the fighting power of the Shu army, so he said to Wei Jiansu:
"Jieshuai, my subordinates have already said that Xu Maozu's family is not even a guard dog. If you want to resist Nanzhao and Tubo, you need to recruit new troops!"

Hearing what Hu Yu said, Wei Jiansu showed a thoughtful expression.

Wei Jiansu was released to Xichuan because of his failure in the struggle. After seeing him lose power, many of his original staff also left him.

Hu Yu was the first one to take refuge in him after he entered Sichuan, and Wei Jiansu also regarded Hu Yu very highly.

And from a month ago, Hu Yu told Wei Jiansu that Nanzhao and Tubo were going to attack Xichuan.

At first, Wei Jiansu thought it was Hu Yu's scaremongering, deliberately attracting his attention.

He had served as minister of the Ministry of War and prime minister, so he naturally knew that Tubo had always attacked Tang from the north.

Wei Jiansu knew that Shang Qixin'er, who was in charge of Tubo's border policy, was enfeoffed in the Tuyuhun area. In recent years, Shang Qixin'er had attacked Hexi and Longyou many times.

After the Anlushan Rebellion, the imperial court dispatched elites from Longyou to enter the Guanzhong, and dispatched Li Tan, then king of Jianning, to Longyou. In fact, they wanted to gradually abandon Longyou.

The Tubo people are also out of their minds if they want to attack the fortified Dongchuan without eating the fat in their mouths.

But Wei Jiansu didn't expect that Hu Yu really hit the spot!
It's just that Wei Jiansu didn't expect that after Tubo Zanpu issued the mobilization order to attack Xichuan, the players who had been lurking in the Tubo King City informed Hu Yu of the news.

Relying on the "accurate prediction" of the situation, Hu Yu even advised Wei Jiansu many times that he wanted to start anew in Sichuan and train a new army.

Today's meeting with the generals finally made Wei Jiansu make up his mind. He said to Hu Yu:

"How much money does it cost to train the new army? The envoy will allocate it to you for this festival!"

"From today onwards, the Xichuan Jiedu envoy will set up another army of bravery and perseverance. This Jiedu envoy will personally serve as the envoy of soldiers and horses. Hu Yu, you will be the envoy of military training. From today onwards, enlist troops to train in Chengdu!"

"Subordinates have orders!"