Chapter 439: Shi Siming's Recovery?
Even if Shi Siming and his son declined, as long as they were not dead, they were still bloodthirsty tigers that had eaten humans, rather than grasshoppers in the autumn.
The Tang Dynasty court had rebelled and accepted the request for surrender for less than a month. It ordered a large army to encircle and suppress, which made Shi Siming's rebellion extremely angry.
Under the instigation of Shi Siming, generals at all levels of the anti-army shared the same hatred of the enemy and were united as unprecedented.
Because they felt that since the Tang Dynasty court could not tolerate Shi Siming, they would inevitably not tolerate them, such anti-military generals. If Shi Siming was wiped out, they would not have much better outcome.
Furthermore, the anti-army was afraid of Li Fei, the King of Beiping, but now Li Fei ordered the Andong army to withdraw from Jianghuai, and they were only facing the army of the Tang court, rather than Li Fei's terrifying Andong army.
Li Fei's Andong army could not be defeated, but they did not take the army of the Tang Dynasty seriously.
The army of military governors in Yangzhou, Ezhou and Jiangxi combined had a total of 150,000 Tang troops. However, after a period of breathing, Shi Siming also developed to more than 60,000 anti-army forces, and his strength was not weak.
On December 29, the second year of Qianyuan, one day before New Year's Eve, 150,000 Tang troops fought against Shi Siming in Chuzhou for more than 60,000 anti-army battles.
Although the Tang army was large in number, none of the three Jiedu governors could conquer and fight well. Instead, they were very mediocre. Two of them relied on currying favor with Li Fuguo to become the governor. Most of the Tang army under their command were recruited soldiers not long after, and lacked training.
Although Shi Siming's anti-military army was small, the anti-military generals were all bloodthirsty and fierce. Moreover, Shi Siming was defeated from Hebei, and hundreds of thousands of elite troops were defeated by Li Fei, but there were still thousands of elite troops left.
The three governors of the Tang army relied on their large number of soldiers and thought they could crush a grasshopper like Shi Siming, so they were very arrogant and careless. They fantasized about the scene where they wiped out Shi Siming and continued to be promoted with great contributions.
Shi Siming did not take the initiative to defend, but took the initiative to attack, using the most elite thousands of anti-army as the tip of the sword, and suddenly attacked the army of Yangzhou Jiedushi, with a little tactic of breaking the surface.
The three military governors of the Tang army were not subordinate to each other. When the Ezhou military governor and the Jiangxi military governor saw the anti-army suddenly attack and only attacked the Yangzhou military governor but ignored them, they didn't know how to react for a while.
This has to be said that Li Heng, the Emperor Suzong, made another trick. Like the battle in Xiangzhou, he concentrated nine governors, but no chief general was set up, and only used one eunuch to convey military orders.
This time, the three governors of Yangzhou, Ezhou and Jiangxi were mobilized, and there was no main general set up to make them fight on their own, thinking that there was no problem in destroying Shi Siming with the absolute advantage of the number of troops.
It is said that one learns from one's mistakes and becomes wiser, but Suzong Li Heng does not believe that generals have reached their core. In order to restrict generals, the same mistakes have been made repeatedly.
Although the Ezhou Jiedushi and the Jiangxi Jiedushi quickly reported overwork, they did not immediately lead their troops to help the Yangzhou Jiedushi attack Shi Siming, but instead "sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight" on the side.
They thought to themselves, Shi Siming was a big rebel. He once called himself the "Emperor of Dayan". Anyone who finally defeated Shi Siming would be enough to be granted the title of Duke or even the prince! Among the three Jiedushis, the Yangzhou Jiedushi was the strongest, with 70,000 troops, and the two Jiedushis combined to only 80,000. Originally, the first merit was definitely the Yangzhou Jiedushi. Now the anti-army attacked the Yangzhou Jiedushi. If the Yangzhou Jiedushi was still exhausted before the anti-army, and they attacked again, wouldn’t they win the first merit with fewer troops than the Yangzhou Jiedushi?
Out of this kind of heart, the Ezhou Jiedushi and the Jiangxi Jiedushi "sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight" for more than an hour.
Without the help of the Ezhou Jiedushi and the Jiangxi Jiedushi, the Yangzhou Jiedushi himself was no more than Shi Siming's rebels. He was beaten to the point of being abandoned by Shi Siming's rebels, and he was defeated by Shi Siming's rebels. He was defeated on the whole line.
When the Ezhou Jiedushi and the Jiangxi Jiedushi realized that something was wrong, the 70,000 Tang troops of the Yangzhou Jiedushi had already been defeated.
Seeing that the largest Tang army was defeated, Shi Siming's anti-army morale was greatly boosted. Shi Siming deliberately drove the defeated troops of the Yangzhou Jiedushi to attack the Tang army under the command of the Ezhou Jiedushi and the Jiangxi Jiedushi.
The defeat can be contagious. When the defeated troops of the Yangzhou Jiedushi rushed into the Tang army under the command of the Ezhou Jiedushi and the Jiangxi Jiedushi, and Shi Siming's anti-army was chasing him from behind, the Tang army under the command of the Ezhou Jiedushi and the Jiangxi Jiedushi were also defeated together.
The army of the two major military governors was defeated before they even went on a battle.
When the two major military governors came to their senses, it was too late. They were so shocked that they turned around and ran away desperately.
The two major military governors also fled, and the morale of the Tang army became even more chaotic, and they hated their parents for not giving birth to two more legs.
The great defeats were everywhere, and the soldiers were really defeated like mountains. Shi Siming's anti-army continued to chase and kill them fiercely. The defeat of 150,000 Tang troops was like a slaughtered lamb. They were chased down in one day, and the Chuzhou area was killed so hard that it was a river of blood.
The three major military governors, 150,000 Tang troops were defeated in one day!
With the defeat of the three major military governors and the power of 150,000 Tang troops, Shi Siming's anti-army swept across Laian, Dingyuan, Fengyang, and Shouzhou around Chuzhou. Even the troops were approaching Yangzhou's city, scaring the remaining defenders of Yangzhou so that they could not leave the city. Half of Huainan was captured by Shi Siming again, and the anti-army also developed to a point of more than 100,000 people.
Suddenly, Shi Siming was resurrected as if he was full of blood, and was about to sweep the entire Huainan and rise again.
The south of the Yangtze River was shocked, fearing that Shi Siming would lead the anti-army to kill the Yangtze River.
The news reached the Chang'an City of Guanzhong, and Guanzhong and Chang'an City were also shocked. Suzong Li Heng was so angry that his face turned pale.
The people were in an uproar, and the 150,000 imperial army surrounded and suppressed the desperate Shi Siming's anti-army, and was defeated, which instantly swept half of Huainan.
You should know that Li Fei, the King of Beiping, only led 200,000 Andong Army to capture Hebei and recover Luoyang and other places. He defeated Shi Siming's army 600,000 to destroy, forcing Shi Siming to Chuzhou, and was about to be completely wiped out.
However, the court actually accepted Shi Siming's surrender at this time and also appointed Shi Siming as the governor of Chuzhou. Now, the three major governors have lost the 150,000 troops to Shi Siming's remaining soldiers?
What a tragic scene this is? Can the court be unable to wipe out the anti-army army without the Prince of Beiping Li Fei, even if the anti-army is at a loss?
The court is so incompetent?
The public's doubts made Emperor Suzong Li Heng so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.
At this moment, even Emperor Suzong Li Heng could not help but wonder whether the imperial army was so incompetent.
Li Fei's 200,000 Andong army could defeat Shi Siming's rebel army at its peak in less than a month, just like a stray dog, and could only stay in Chuzhou. The 150,000-strong army of the court could not even defeat Shi Siming, who was struggling to survive, and even allowed Shi Siming to rise again and sweep half of Huainan again.
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Chapter completed!