Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 273 Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi

Because of Yan Zhenqing, Hebei gradually reversed its decline and began to see-saw with Shi Siming and Cai Xide.

On the east side, Shuofang Jiedu envoy Guo Ziyi joined forces with military envoy Li Guangbi to send troops to Hedong.

Although Guo Ziyi was Shuofang's Jiedushi, Guo Ziyi was originally the prefect of Jiuyuan County, and was in command of the Jiuyuan Army. He became Shuofang's Jiedushi for a short time, and the real Shuofang Army has always been under the control of Li Guangbi.

Jiuyuan County is located at the northern end of Hetao. It is a strategic place to guard against the nomadic peoples in Mobei. The Jiuyuan Army has 2 horses. Under the leadership of Guo Ziyi, it has been intimidating the grassland tribes all these years, and they are all battle-hardened The elite is no worse than the most primitive anti-army elite in Anlu Mountain.

And the more than 1 troops under Li Guangbi's command are also veteran elites. After uniting with Li Guangbi's troops, Guo Ziyi now has a total of more than [-] elites, and [-] of them are cavalry. A very strong force.

Guo Ziyi commanded the more than [-] Xinshuofang troops to go out from the east of Jiuyuan County, and went straight to Hedong Road. First, they fought fiercely with the rebel general Zhou Wanqing in the Jingbian area.

Zhou Wanqing was also a general under An Lushan's command. He was stationed in the Jingbian area to prevent Guo Ziyi from going east, and there were about 3 troops.

However, Zhou Wanqing's more than 3 rebels seem to be no worse than Guo Ziyi's Tang army, but among them there are only a few thousand elites, and the rest are miscellaneous troops with limited combat effectiveness.

On the other hand, every soldier of the Jiuyuan Shuofang Tang Army on Guo Ziyi's side is an elite who has experienced battles, and not only Guo Ziyi has amazing military talents, but Li Guangbi's military talents are also amazing. The strength of the Jiuyuan Shuofang Tang Army commanded by the two The rebellion against Zhou Wanqing is definitely a crushing advantage.

This is a crushing battle.

In just over an hour, the more than 3 rebels under Zhou Wanqing were defeated across the board. Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi took the opportunity to chase and kill them. After the first battle, the entire 3 rebels were wiped out, and even the commander of the rebels, Zhou Wanqing, was beheaded on the spot. .

After annihilating Zhou Wanqing's rebel army, Guo Ziyi continued to lead his army eastward, and fought with Gao Xiuyan, the general who stayed in Datong in Anlu Mountain.

Gao Xiuyan, as the deputy governor of Hedong appointed by An Lushan, guards Datong, forms a line with Fan Yang and Pinglu, and is an absolute hero.And its soldiers and horses are also very powerful.Not only are there nearly [-] of the most primitive anti-army elites, but also a lot of soldiers and horses have been recruited during this period, and now there are more than [-] anti-army under his command.

Although the number of Tang troops under Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi was smaller than that of Gao Xiuyan's rebels, the strength of both sides was only about half, and no one had enough advantages, so the beginning of the war was quite tragic.

After all, the Tang army was commanded by Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, two famous generals, while Gao Xiuyan was slightly inferior in military ability. The two sides fought fiercely on the third day, and the rebels gradually fell into a disadvantage.

On the fourth day of the battle, Guo Ziyi asked Li Guangbi and Pugu Huai'en to jointly command a superior number of Tang cavalry to encircle and wipe out the [-] cavalry of the rebel army.

Li Guangbi and Pu Gu Huai'en took the lead and charged bravely.

The anti-army cavalry was already at a disadvantage in number, and their morale was not as good as that of the Tang Army cavalry. They were quickly overwhelmed by the Tang Army cavalry led by Li Guangbi and Pugu Huai'en.However, Li Guangbi and Pugu Huai'en had a good layout. In the end, none of the [-] anti-army cavalry could rush out, and were wiped out by Li Guangbi and Pugu Huai'en's Tang cavalry.

The [-] cavalry of the rebel army were wiped out. Gao Xiuyan was terrified and retreated a hundred miles away.

Guo Ziyi ordered the whole army to chase after him without giving Gao Xiuyan any chance to breathe. They chased to a place only thirty miles away from Yunzhong, and the two sides fought again.Undoubtedly, Gao Xiuyan suffered another disastrous defeat and retreated to Yunzhong with only the remaining [-] remnants.

Guo Ziyi won three battles and three victories, besieging Yunzhong.

Yunzhong is also an important town not inferior to Jiuyuan County. The city is strong. Guo Ziyi knew that it would be difficult to capture for a while. In order to catch up with the other rebels in Hedong and take precautions when they learned of Gao Xiuyan's fiasco, he asked Li Guangbi to lead a 1-strong army alone. The people's army rushed southward and raided Mayi and Yanmen.

Guo Ziyi's decision was undoubtedly very correct. When Li Guangbi led his army to attack Mayi suddenly, the rebels in Mayi were caught off guard, and Li Guangbi took it down with ease.

After taking down Mayi, Li Guangbi knew the truth that soldiers are expensive and fast, and after leaving only a few soldiers and horses to garrison Mayi, he continued to kill Yanmen non-stop.

Although Yanmen is also a dangerous pass, guarding the east gate, the defensive rebel forces are limited, and Li Guangbi launched the most violent attack as soon as he got there.The anti-army soldiers guessed that Gao Xiuyan might have suffered a disastrous defeat. Under the unstable morale of the army, they only defended for an hour before being attacked by Li Guangbi into Yanmen.

When Li Guangbi went down to Mayi and Yanmen, Gao Xiuyan in Yunzhong City took advantage of Guo Ziyi's division of troops, abandoned Yunzhong overnight and fled eastward.

Gao Xiuyan's decisive move was somewhat beyond Guo Ziyi's expectations, and most of the cavalry under Guo Ziyi's command were handed over to Li Guangbi to raid Mayi and Yunzhong, and Gao Xiuyan was too late to hunt down Gao Xiuyan, allowing Gao Xiuyan to escape.

However, after Gao Xiuyan was defeated and fled, Guo Ziyi took advantage of the situation to recover Yunzhong.

After regaining Yunzhong, Guo Ziyi recruited some soldiers in Yunzhong, plus some captured anti-army soldiers, and then went south to meet Li Guangbi in Yanmen.

Li Guangbi also recruited some soldiers and horses in the Yanmen area. After the two sides reconciled, there were still about 6000 soldiers.

Guo Ziyi still divided his troops and asked Li Guangbi to lead a 1-man horse infantry to attack Jingjing to the southeast, with the aim of recovering Changshan, and finally relying on Changshan to recover Hebei.

And Guo Ziyi himself led the remaining [-] troops to continue south to Taiyuan and so on, preparing to recover the entire territory of Hedong.

Because when Yan Gaoqing called for an uprising in Hebei, there were uprisings in many prefectures and counties in Hedong, and at this time, Zhou Wanqing and Gao Xiuyan, the main force of the rebel army in Hedong, suffered disastrous defeats successively, and Hedong had no power to hinder Guo Ziyi.

Guo Ziyi's momentum was like a broken bamboo. Before the soldiers came to the city, the people in Taiyuan City revolted first, killed the generals who were left behind by the rebel army, and recovered Taiyuan City.

On Li Guangbi's side, he captured Jingjing with ease and approached Changshan City.

The people of Changshan hated the rebels, and when they saw Li Guangbi's soldiers approaching the city, they joined forces with Li Guangbi from inside and outside. In addition, Shi Siming and Cai Xide had very few troops staying in Changshan, so Li Guangbi took back Changshan that day.

Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi won successive battles, swept across Hedong, and regained Changshan. They echoed Yan Zhenqing and other rebels in Hebei, and directly threatened Fanyang Youzhou City. The situation seemed to be improving again.

However, at this time, in Tongguan, Tang Xuanzong once again made a bad move, which directly pushed the rebellion to the most tragic peak.
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