Nu Yalang of Tang Dynasty

After staying in Liangzhou for a few days, Zhou Jun finished handling the matters at hand and set out for Military Town to find Li Guangbi.

Riding a horse to the main camp in the military town, Sun Aying showed Wu Wei his badge.

Wuwei bowed and moved away the wood, leading Zhou Jun through the martial arts arena and to the commander's tent in the middle camp.

The soldiers responsible for guarding the tent heard that it was Zhou Jian who came to see Li Jun's envoy. He hesitated to speak, but finally let him go.

Zhou Jun walked into the dormitory behind the tent. Before he even opened the curtain, he smelled a strong smell of alcohol.

Frowning, Zhou Jun entered the dormitory. He kicked something while taking a step and heard a clang. He lowered his head and saw only a pile of wine cans lying on the ground, and Li Guangbi was sleeping among them with his clothes on.

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Zhou Jun stopped and looked at this thirty-year-old man.

In the past, Li Guangbi was high-spirited and scolded Fang Qiu, but now he was drunk and dreaming, using alcohol to anesthetize himself.

Sun Aying wanted to step forward and wake up Li Guangbi, but Zhou Jun moved a folding chair, sat on it, and said, "No, just wait."

After saying that, Zhou Jun sat in the tent and began to recall Li Guangbi's life in the history books.

Li Guangbi was originally a Khitan. When he was Empress Wu, his father Li Kailuo (the Khitan chief) came to surrender and became a subject of the Tang Dynasty.

In the fifteenth year of Tianbao's reign (756), Li Guangbi was recommended by Guo Ziyi to serve as the imperial censor, and moved to Hedong Jiedu as deputy ambassador, knowing the affairs of Hedong Jiedu and serving as the governor of Yunzhong.

When Changshan was recaptured, the county was massacred by the rebels. Ten houses were empty, and corpses lay everywhere. Faced with such a tragic scene, Li Guangbi burst into tears and did something that no one had ever done before. He got off his horse and marched towards the city.

The surviving people knelt down and vowed to fight against the thieves.

After that, Li Guangbi fought in the north and south, and despite being short of troops and food, he intercepted the main force of the rebels several times. Among them, in the battles of Taiyuan and Heyang, he faced Shi Siming, who had several times more troops than himself.

Resurrected from the dead, severely damaged the main force of the rebels, and gained precious breathing space for Datang's counterattack.

After the Anshi Rebellion, Li Guangbi was promoted as the "No. 1 of the ZTE" due to his military exploits. He was awarded an iron certificate, named in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and painted in Lingyan Pavilion.

However, such a hero was resented by villains, and his military power was evaded ever since, and he was even investigated several times.

In the end, Li Guangbi did not die on the battlefield, but he collapsed on the hospital bed and died of worry and anger.

When later generations commented on the relationship between Li Guangbi and the imperial court, they would often mention such incidents.

First, after Li Guangbi entered Taiyuan, in order to establish military prestige, he killed Cui Zhong, a high-ranking official in the court who did not respect military orders. This move aroused the dissatisfaction of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty. However, Li Guangbi later won a great victory in Taiyuan, and the matter was revealed.

, no one mentioned it again.

Secondly, in 757, Guo Ziyi, the Jiedushi of Shuofang and deputy marshal of the world's military forces, led the Tang Dynasty and Uighur coalition forces to attack the rebels and regained Chang'an in one fell swoop. After the rebels fled to Hebei, they used Yecheng as a stronghold to continue to fight against the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty

At this time, the eunuch Yu Chaoen was allowed to command all the troops as the military envoy Rong Xuanwei, leaving hundreds of thousands of Tang troops without unified management and unable to conquer Yecheng.

In 759, Shi Siming, who was entrenched in Fanyang, led his troops south to rescue Yecheng. The Tang army collapsed at the first touch and retreated across the board. Yu Chaoen blamed Guo Ziyi for the army's defeat. The imperial court seized the latter's military power and ordered Li Guangbi to punish the thieves.

Third, Li Guangbi was once again ordered to face danger and defeated Shi Siming in Heyang, thus resolving the Tang Dynasty's difficulties. Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty felt that the situation was very good, so he believed the eunuch's words and ordered the army to attack Luoyang. The time for Li Guangbi's report had not come yet, so the court reprimanded him and ordered him again.

Li Guangbi was unable to attack by force, so he had to fight with Shi Siming at Mangshan. The deputy commander of the army, Pugu Huai'en, did not obey the military orders, resulting in the defeat of Mangshan, the loss of Heyang and Huaizhou, and the war situation reversed.

However, the imperial court not only failed to hold Pugu Huaien accountable for his crimes, but instead replaced Li Guangbi as Marshal Li Guangbi, who was then driven to the southeast corner as deputy marshal of Henan.

Fourth, in the autumn of 763, Tubo launched a large-scale attack on Guanzhong, and Chang'an was in danger. The imperial court issued an order to the military envoys from all over the world, Guo Ziyi stayed at home, Pugu Huai'en intended to go to the east of the river, and Li Guangbi gathered his troops in the southeast and watched coldly. No one rescued Chang'an.

After the fall, Suzong fled.

On the basis of these four events, historians used this paragraph to analyze the relationship between Li Guangbi and the Tang Dynasty royal family:

Li Guangbi was ordered to face danger several times, attacking more with less and severely damaging the rebels. He could have expanded the results and pursued the victory, but in the end he failed to do so because of the emperor's suspicion. Later, Li Guangbi became discouraged and stopped taking action.

For the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, Li Guangbi always had a thorn in his heart. No one knows when this thorn was first buried. All they know is that he was dissatisfied with the Holy Inquisition, but had no choice but to be suspicious again and again.

, carried forward with heavy burdens despite being slandered and attacked, and finally died depressed in resentment and anger. If I could sum it up in one sentence - it is not so much that Li Guangbi was loyal to the Tang Dynasty, but rather that he was loyal to the people of the world.

But now, Zhou Jun had some realization.

The thorn in Li Guangbi's heart may have been planted when Wang Zhongsi was falsely accused of colluding with the prince to rebel and was escorted to Beijing.

After a while, the drunk Li Guangbi finally woke up leisurely.

Seeing Zhou Jun sitting upright, Li Guangbi first rubbed his eyes, then struggled to sit up, wanting to say something.

Zhou Jun interrupted Li Guangbi and said: "Sober up first. When you wake up, you can sit down and talk with me in detail."

Li Guangbi had no choice but to call his own soldiers to fetch water and change clothes. After doing all this, he sat across from Zhou Jun.

Zhou Jun waved his hand and asked Sun Aying and the others to go out.

When he and Li Guangbi were the only two people left in the camp, Zhou Jun said: "The king's protector is loyal and loyal, but the saint is ignorant and listens to the villain's slander, destroying the pillars of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Guangbi was shocked when he heard this. He was still a little drunk, but he was frightened and woke up.

Zhou Jun stared at Li Guangbi and asked in a deep voice: "Is it possible that the military envoy thinks what I said is untrue?"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Guangbi hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded heavily and said: "Every word Erlang said is true." Zhou Jun: "An Lushan is a traitor and traitor, but he is favored by the imperial court.

, he was moved to the post of imperial censor. However, the king guarded him in Dali Temple, where he suffered humiliation and almost died."

Li Guangbi patted his thigh hard: "The world is unfair!"

Zhou Jun was silent for a moment, and then said to Li Guangbi: "When I was in Chang'an, I visited Wang Duhu in the prison of Dali Temple. He told me that he had two good generals under his command who could take on big posts. One of them was Ge Shuhan, and the other

One person is you.”.

Li Guangbi struggled with his expression, and finally lowered his voice and said to Zhou Jun: "To be honest, when Wang Duhu left Chang'an, he wrote a handwritten letter and entrusted someone to deliver it to Guangbi."

Zhou Jun sat upright and asked, "What did Wang Duhu say in the letter?"

Li Guangbi: "The governor said in the letter that Lang will definitely come to look for Guangbi on Tuesday. I just need to wait."

Zhou Jun: "Wang Duhu knows that I'm coming to find you?"

Li Guangbi: "Zhou Lang once said that the imperial court's attitude towards Beifan was in the past. Wang Duhu and I were dubious at first, but after experiencing so many twists and turns, we are now convinced."

Zhou Jun didn't speak, just listened quietly.

Li Guangbi: "Zhou Lang once said that if the imperial court wanted to reduce the vassal state, there were only two methods, namely borrowing troops and fighting. An Lushan asked Beifan to borrow troops, and Wang Duhu refused, but the court asked Beifan to attack by force.

Although the Protector of Stone Castle made excuses to delay, he still got into trouble and was deprived of military power."

"Wang Duhu predicted in the letter that although he failed twice, the imperial court's plan to reduce the feudal vassalage will definitely not be given up. Next, the imperial court will let the northern feudal lord attack Shibao City again."

Zhou Jun nodded after hearing this, and that was indeed the case.

In the history books, Li Longji was in Tianbao for eight years, and once again issued an order to appoint Ge Shuhan as commander, and ordered the Northern Fan armies to attack Shibao City.

As a result of that battle, "the Tibetans defended it with hundreds of people, stored more food, and accumulated wood and stones. The Tang soldiers attacked it repeatedly, but they could not defeat it... and captured the Tibetan Iron Blade Xi Noluo and four hundred others, and the Tang soldiers died."

Tens of thousands, just as Wang Zhongsi said."

Li Guangbi said: "The governor said in the letter that since what is supposed to come will come sooner or later, it is useless to try to escape. It is better to think of countermeasures."

Zhou Jun heard this and wondered: "What exactly do the Protectors want to do?"

Li Guangbi: "Since the imperial court wants to reduce the feudal vassal and also wants Shibao City, then we will take Shibao City at a loss and make the imperial court feel at ease."

What Li Guangbi said was very strange, and Zhou Jun vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Li Guangbi: "The governor also said in the letter that An Lushan will rebel one day, and the Northern Fan is neighboring him, so he must keep elite soldiers and be on guard at all times."

When Zhou Jun heard this, there was a bang in his head, and he finally figured everything out.

He looked at Li Guangbi and asked in shock: "Does the Protector want to falsely report battle losses? Are you hiding troops from the people again?"

Li Guangbi nodded and said: "If the imperial court really orders the Northern Fan to attack Shibao City, my brother Shuhan and I will stage a tragic victory for the imperial court. Outsiders will see that Shibao City is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the Northern Fan will suffer casualties.

Countless. But in fact, we plan to report one of our elite soldiers as killed in battle, and then make them remain anonymous and return to the market to deal with the chaos in Hebei in the future."

Zhou Jun stood up and paced back and forth in the tent.

After a while, Zhou Jun asked Li Guangbi: "This plan does not seem to have been decided by the Protector. Who came up with the idea?"

Li Guangbi was stunned for a moment, recalled carefully for a while, and finally shook his head and said: "I don't know."

Zhou Jun sat down again and said to Li Guangbi: "It's not easy to change the war effort privately and hide the soldiers. There are many things involved. It's easier said than done. When marching and fighting, there are supervisors accompanying them, and after the war, there are military judges who take stock of the battlefield. You just want to hide a soldier for no reason.

Army, how can this be...?"

Zhou Jun's voice became smaller and smaller.

At this moment, he remembered two things.

The first thing is that in the history books, the Tang army attacked Shibao City and killed four hundred enemies and suffered tens of thousands of losses. This loss ratio would be unbelievable to all historians of later generations. No matter how dangerous Shibao City was, the defenders

No matter how fully prepared they were, how could the Northern Fan Tang Army, which had always been so powerful, sacrifice tens of thousands of people to kill hundreds of Tibetan soldiers?

So, is this possible?

Historically, Ge Shuhan and other key figures of the Northern Fan had made plans in advance. In order to retain their troops, they deliberately falsified the battle attrition and overreported casualties. This was in order to make the court think that the strength of the Northern Fan had been greatly reduced, thereby reducing the number of troops.

The purpose of the domain.

As for the post-war inventory... Anyone who has been to Shibao City knows that the corridor leading to the city gate is flanked by a cliff. If a person falls down, there is no way to find the body. After the war, there is no way to count the dead soldiers.

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The second thing is that in the Battle of Dafeichuan that year, the troops led by the ancestors of the Jin family really escaped the interrogations of the Tang and Tubo armies, disguised themselves, and moved from Anxi to Liangzhou.

Therefore, looking at it this way, it may be feasible to falsely report battle losses and reserve troops to deal with the future Anlushan Rebellion.

Thinking of this, Zhou Jun said to Li Guangbi: "Since you said this to me, you must have something to teach me... What exactly does the Protector want me to do?"

Li Guangbi took a deep breath and said: "Wang Duhu knows that Zhou Erlang is busy with the Dunhuang trade route. If you want to hide the soldiers of the Northern Fan, that is the best place to go."

Zhou Jun: "Changxingfang?"

Li Guangbi: "Yes."

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