"Hey, why did I find such a son-in-law? It's so destined to be my life!" Lin Siming is also a wise man. How could he not tell the murderous intention of Suzong Li Heng to him? How could he not know the whole story?

Needless to say, if Li Fei loses a battle outside and is punished, his father-in-law will definitely be found to be punished immediately. The lightest dismissal from office is the least afraid of being the one who directly takes his life.

The Lin Siming and the Lin family are completely tied to Li Fei's fate. Li Fei is finished, and they are definitely finished.

Lin Siming just wanted to find a son-in-law who passed on his family line. However, Li Fei became more and more absent. After going to Chang'an, he soared into the sky. Instead, the Lin family became Li Fei's foil and had to tie him up with Li Fei.

The more Lin Siming thought about it, the more sad the expression on his face was, but he was helpless!

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With the establishment of the new imperial court, various elite troops gathered in Lingwu, and from the downs of Emperor Suzong Li Heng, everyone was ready to start the battle to recover Guanzhong and Chang'an City.

At this moment, Li Fei defeated Wu Lingxun's more than 80,000 rebels in Nanyang, and released the news of the siege of Nanyang, and finally reached Lingwu after being spread in a twists and turns.

While greatly boosting the morale of the Tang army in Lingwu, it also made Suzong Li Heng, Li Fuguo Yu Chaoen and others gritted their teeth. Although they wanted to hear the news of the failure of the anti-military army, they did not want to hear that it was Li Fei's defeat of the anti-military army.

Suzong Li Heng could not wait any longer, so he immediately issued an order to start the battle to recover Guanzhong and Chang'an.

Immediately, the 230,000 Tangfan coalition forces began to attack the anti-army in Guanzhong and Chang'an City in three directions.

In this battle, the civil and military officials of the new Lingwu court were all confident, believing that their strength was much stronger than the anti-army, and they would definitely be able to crush the anti-army and recapture Guanzhong and Chang'an City with strong strength.

Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel!

Guo Ziyi, who should be the best commander of the army, not to mention being the commander of the army, even if he was divided into three groups, he did not become the commander of one of them, but was only treated as an ordinary general. Instead, he used Fang Guan, a prime minister with no military experience, as the commander of the commander of the army, and three people who had no outstanding achievements, to be the commander of the three groups. Just think about it and know how the war will develop.

The Northern Route Army was led by Li Guangjin, the Central Route Army was led by Liu Guizhe, and the Southern Route Army was led by Yang Xiwen.

Since the main forces of the anti-army were all gathered in Xianyang and Chang'an City, at the beginning, the three armies were progressing very smoothly.

First, the Northern Army and the Central Army soon met with Chen Taoxie, who was only more than 30 miles away from Xianyang, and prepared to attack Xianyang.

However, before they could start attacking Xianyang, An Lushan's general An Shouzhong led a main force of the anti-army to come forward, and the two armies started a battle in Chen Tao.

The two armies of the Tang army combined were nearly 150,000, while the anti-army army had only 110,000. No matter how you look at it, the Tang army had the advantage in strength.

The two armies set up their formation. Prime Minister Fang Guan was just a scholar. This was his first time leading troops to fight. He had no experience in the battlefield. But he claimed that he had read several military books and memorized the various tactics in the military books. He had ambition to lose millions of troops with one hand, and insisted on commanding the battle himself.

Fang Guan did not have his own tactics, and directly borrowed from a tactic used by the ancients in the military books he had read, which was to use two thousand ox carts to mingle among the army to attack the anti-military battle formation.

He felt good about himself and felt that using this tactic to deal with the situation at this moment, the enemy would definitely not be able to deal with it and would definitely be defeated.

Fang Guan not only used this tactic, but also used it openly, revealing his intentions in An Shouzhong's eyes in advance.

"Silly, the Tang army will be defeated in this battle!" An Shouzhong saw Fang Guan's arrangement through the telescope, instantly understood Fang Guan's intentions, and immediately sneered disdainfully.

An Shouzhong gave several orders in a row.

"Attack and annihilate the anti-army!" Fang Guan was so excited that his face was flushed and his chest was boiling. He felt that after this battle, he could recover Xianyang and point directly to Chang'an City. After he recovered Chang'an City, Fang Guan could also claim that he could lead troops no worse than Wei Qing and Huo Qubing.

Two thousand ox carts were mixed with more than 100,000 troops, thinking about An Shouzhong's anti-army on the opposite side and rushed over.

Faced with the fierce attack of the Tang army, An Shouzhong ordered the hundreds of prepared drums to be lifted out and placed in front of the formation. The hundreds of drums were beating at the same time, and An Shouzhong also ordered 110,000 anti-army soldiers to roar in unison.

The sound of drums and the soldiers' roars were shocking, and the momentum was as if even the earth was trembling!

Not only were many Tang soldiers in charge so scared that their faces turned pale, but the two thousand ox carts mixed in the Tang army were even more shocked when they heard the sound, and they rushed around uncontrollably like crazy, knocking a large number of Tang soldiers apart and trampling on them. In an instant, the Tang army's formation was in chaos.

Because the wind direction happened to blow towards the Tang army at this time, An Shouzhong ordered a cart of hay to burn it. The thick smoke instantly enveloped the Tang army in chaos. In an instant, the Tang army became even more chaotic. The cows and horses trampled on each other, and hundreds of people were injured by accident.

"Kill and defeat the Tang army!" An Shouzhong sneered and ordered the anti-army to take the opportunity to launch a fierce attack.

The result was self-evident. The Tang army was defeated, with corpses all over the ground, and the soldiers fled westward frantically. The fastest escape was the Uighur cavalry, followed by the Tubo soldiers. An Shouzhong also knew that the Uighurs and the Tubo army were here to fight with the wind, and did not pursue them deliberately. He only ordered the Tang army soldiers to be killed as much as possible. After a battle, the Tang army soldiers lost more than 40,000 troops, while the Uighurs and the Tubo soldiers lost less than 3,000.

A crushing defeat was like pouring a basin of cold water on the head of the passionate Fang Guan.

After suffering a crushing defeat, Fang Guan should have recognized himself and learned a lesson. However, Fang Guan was not convinced. He only blamed the wrong wind direction that led to the crushing defeat. He still insisted on commanding the army, and then brought the defeated soldiers to the Southern Army, and also had more than 100,000 troops to fight with An Shouzhong's anti-army again.

Fang Guan did not listen to the advice of experienced generals such as Guo Ziyi and Pugu Huaien, and once again copied a tactic used by the ancients to arrange troops from the military books. He also forced himself to order this war, and he would advance but not retreat, and those who violated the orders would be beheaded, etc.

He thought that such an order would lead the soldiers to fight to the death and dare not defeat and flee again. He threatened shamelessly that he would definitely defeat the anti-army this time, but he still looked full of passionate ambitions.

Don’t you know how disheartening it is to use the lives of soldiers as a joke?

Liu Guizhe, the commander of the Central Army, and Yang Xiwen, the commander of the Southern Army, were angry at Fang Guan's stupidity, and also angered that Suzong Li Heng actually asked people like Fang Guan to be the commander of the army to command the battle. They felt that the new court was just as corrupt and incompetent as the old court of Xuanzong, and there was no possibility of extermination of the anti-army, so they secretly had a strange intention.

It is obvious that a pig-like coach cannot win the war. After a big battle, the Tang army undoubtedly suffered another big defeat!

This time, not only did nearly 30,000 soldiers be killed or injured, but Yang Xiwen and Liu Guizhe were also completely disappointed with the Tang Dynasty and directly surrendered to An Shouzhong with his subordinates.

Not counting the Uighur cavalry and Tubo army, the 120,000 Tang army suffered a total of 70,000 casualties. In addition, Liu Guizhe and Yang Xiwen surrendered to the anti-army with more than 10,000 of them, and the Tang army disappeared in an instant.

Not only were there almost no new recruits recruited, but the total number of more than 40,000 elite troops drawn by Anxi Town and Longyou were also lost. However, the elite elites of Shuofang led by Guo Ziyi were good at attacking and defensive retreating and were basically preserved.

After two consecutive defeats, Fang Guan finally realized the reality. He was discouraged and returned to Lingwu to apologize to Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.

The first battle between Guanzhong and Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty ended in such a miserable end.
Chapter completed!