Chapter 137 Renamed Yang Ye(2/2)
Although the quality of An Lushan's military generals is different from that of Tang army generals, the number is quite large.
Zhang Hua obtained this information and was prepared for An Lushan.
Zhang Hua also asked someone to recruit troops to form the Yang family army for Yang Ye.
The Yang family army is not of high quality, but its advantage is that its military source requirements are not high and its scale can be very large.
Yang Ye's son Yang Yanzhao did not follow Yang Ye to travel over.
When Yang Ye came over, Yang Yanzhao was still a little brat with a snot on his nose.
Therefore, at present, Yang Ye is the only one in the Yang family.
Perhaps Yang Yanzhao of other ages fought in some parts of this world.
After annexing the various Hu tribes of Qinchuan, the tyrant An Lushan no longer disguised himself and established the Dayan Kingdom, with more than 200,000 troops, and continued to compete with the Tang army.
An Lushan killed the Hu leaders of various tribes, but did not settle the military generals of various tribes, and also took them as adopted sons or generals, with hundreds of good generals.
All tribes fear An Lushan, and with An Lushan's talent and effect, they surrendered one after another.
The tribe that really refused to surrender was blood-stained by An Lushan.
Below the bloated An Lushan, Liu Yao, Wang Mi and other groups of Huns and Han generals knelt down and surrendered to the Emperor An Lushan of the Great Yan, asking An Lushan to send troops to defeat Zhang Hua and avenge the murdered Emperor Liu Yuan of the Huns.
"When I defeat Li Longji, I will send troops to attack and destroy Zhang Hua and avenge you. Liu Yao, in the future, you will be my adopted son, and Wang Mi will be your commander."
An Lushan accepted Liu Yao and Wang Mi, the remnants of the Huns and Han Kingdom.
Liu Yuan was shot and killed by Sun Shangxiang. Liu Yao and Wang Mi were worried that Zhang Hua would attack them, so he led more than 10,000 people to An Lushan.
An Lushan killed a group of Hu leaders and did not attack Liu Yao or Wang Mi again.
Liu Yao and Wang Mi were Liu Yuan's generals, not lords, and An Lushan had no idea about them.
Liu Yao became An Lushan's adopted son, Wang Mi served as deputy general, and became a powerful army of An Lushan's forces.
Liu Yao is good at using troops, while Wang Mi is extremely powerful and is known as the Flying Leopard.
"Zhang Hua, wait for me. This kind of revenge is not a gentleman!"
After Liu Yao surrendered to An Lushan, he was replenished with the defeated generals to Zhang Hua.
All forces are recruiting soldiers and improving their strength as much as possible.
The Tang army is working hard to regain the lost territory.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was even more worried when he learned that An Lushan had set up a Hongmen Banquet, annexed dozens of Hu tribes' troops in one fell swoop, and recruited Liu Yao, the general of the Huns' Han Dynasty, and Wang Mi, under his command.
If An Lushan's anti-Tang coalition before was just a group of mobs, and the main force was An Lushan's pseudo-Tang army, then now An Lushan integrates the forces of dozens of tribes, it is even more difficult to deal with.
An Lushan had more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, including the rebels of the Anshi Rebellion, as well as the troops of the Hu tribes such as Khitan cavalry, Xiongnu cavalry, Qiang warriors.
Generals such as Li Daozong and Xue Rengui were transferred to the northern border to garrison.
At the same time, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang had to send troops to guard against Zhang Hua.
With 800 miles of Qinchuan and a flat horse, An Lushan could fully implement the tactic of a surprise attack on Chang'an for the second time.
Therefore, the Tang army still needs to leave a lot of troops in Chang'an City.
This is also the painful thing that made Emperor Xuanzong of Tang - the Tang army was unable to assemble all its forces to attack An Lushan.
Another painful thing is that the territory is reduced, the farmland is destroyed, and the grain produced can no longer afford to support so many Tang troops.
The more elite the Tang army is, the more resources it needs, and resources need territorial and population support.
"This cold winter may not be easy."
Prince Li Daozong of the Tang Dynasty served as the chief general of the Tang army in the northern border. Facing An Lushan's army of more than 200,000, he was on the defensive position and occasionally sent generals such as Xue Rengui to counterattack.
Li Daozong sought victory in a steady manner and successively regained two towns and dozens of villages in the northern border of the Tang Dynasty.
Originally, the Tang army could also choose to march straight into and directly attack Sanyuan Town where An Lushan stationed his troops.
But An Lushan had too many soldiers and horses. Once the Tang army advanced straight, An Lushan could divide a soldier and horse, intersperse and go straight to Chang'an.
This requires a group of Tang army generals to take steady steps and advance gradually.
"If the emperor is here..."
Li Daozong thought of Li Shimin.
If Li Shimin was in Qinchuan, how would he defeat the enemy if he didn't know?
According to Li Daozong's understanding of Li Shimin, it is very likely that Li Shimin would try to lure An Lushan out, and then directly use the Xuanjia Army to attack An Lushan's army and kill An Lushan.
But Li Daozong didn't know where his cousin Li Shimin was, so he could only assist Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was enough of political capabilities, but Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was eighteen streets worse than Li Shimin.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang dispatched troops in the rear and sent eunuchs to supervise the army, while Li Shimin was a military commander who could take action himself.
Li Daozong missed the years when he followed his cousin Li Shimin to fight all over the world.
"I wonder if I can see the emperor's brother in this life and fight together."
Li Daozong couldn't help but sigh at the heavy snow when he looked at the goose feathers.
In a certain part of this world, tens of thousands of Tang soldiers went out of the frontier, thousands of carriages followed, and the traces of the wheels rolled out were gradually covered with snow. Snowflakes fell on the Tang army's military uniforms, and a lot of snow fell on the saddles.
Tens of thousands of Tang troops crossed the frozen river and marched to the north.
The chief general of the Tang army personally commanded hundreds of cavalry, braved the heavy snow, and went deep into the enemy's territory to conduct reconnaissance.
The head general of the Tang army climbed the silver-clad hill. At the end of his sight, there were endless Turkic troops, and war eagles soared in the sky with snowflakes flying...
In the ancient Rushui River Basin, it also snowed heavily here, the river surface was frozen and the north wind was howling. From time to time, you can see families who were frozen to death and starved to death on the road.
Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and three Tang Dynasty governors attacked each other in the Rushui River Basin, resulting in wasteland. The civilians were displaced here, and almost all the food accumulated in the previous year was exhausted. In the cold winter, tens of thousands of people died.
In troubled times, wars can be fought, but they cannot affect production, otherwise the national strength will become weaker and weaker.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang defeated first and then won, defeating Wu Yuanji, the governor of Huaixi of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Chengzong, the governor of Chengde, and Li Shidao, the governor of Ziqing of the Punishment of Lu Ziqing, but Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's peasant army were about to end. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang could only concentrate all their troops to attack the alliance of the three governors of the Tang Dynasty, and wanted to steal Wu Yuanji's last grain and survive the cold winter.
Chen Sheng conscripted all the young and strong peasant army, sent more than 100,000 troops, and attacked the three major military governors Wu Yuanji, Wang Chengzong and Li Shidao.
During the separatist period of the late Tang Dynasty, these three Jiedu governors were vassals who ruled one side and had some confidants under their command.
The Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty can be understood as the prefecture governor and county magistrate at the end of the Han Dynasty, and did not pay much attention to the orders of the court. Moreover, after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty's military system, various places adopted the recruitment system, and the Jiedushi used local money to support the soldiers. Therefore, these soldiers only knew the Jiedushi, but not the emperor.
These three Jiedus joined forces and were unable to suppress the increasingly large number of peasant uprising troops.
In order to raise soldiers, they exploited the farmers very seriously, which led to a decline in the people's hearts. More and more farmers joined Chen Sheng's uprising army, and the other was getting worse. Chen Sheng's power became stronger and stronger. The three Jiedu governors lost their farmers, and no one farmed, and there was no food.
Without food, you cannot raise soldiers.
In the end, Wu Yuanji, Wang Chengzong and Li Shidao, the soldiers of the three governors fell to the point of fishing in the Rushui River.
They have no surplus food.
Wang Feng was mixed with Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's peasant uprising army, and was promoted from the commander to the captain, and became a senior leader of the rebel army. He followed Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to attack the last territory of the three major military governors.
Chapter completed!