Chapter 228: After All the Food Is Gone, the Birds Fly Back to the Forest

"This Tang, only three to five years, is like two different countries."

Xu Shu sighed.

This feeling is too split, and he can hardly accept it.

"Who said it's not?" Zhang Fei babbled:

"No matter how bloody you are, your head will be hung on the corner tower of Tongguan in the end."

Before that, Zhang Fei had great admiration and envy for the Tang Dynasty.

But at this moment, watching the soldiers fighting each other, with a posture of not stopping until the blood is dry.

But it made Zhang Fei feel a little cold all over.

The eyes of Emperor Suzong did not have the people of Chang'an, but only a chair at the highest point of the palace.

"Military Advisor, does the strategy of this little tyrant Zhuge make sense?"

Zhang Fei turned his head to ask Kong Ming.

Kong Ming had a map that had been spread out. For the time being, Kong Ming measured it with his hand without caring about Yide's messy address.

After going through the place names mentioned by Li Mi one by one, Kong Ming finally said cautiously:

"It is feasible, but..."

"But it cannot be done without elite soldiers."

Xu Shu took over the conversation. The two old friends still have a tacit understanding.

"If this strategy is implemented, it will be difficult to support food and grass. We need elite soldiers and generals to act according to the situation."

The meaning of the words is very clear. Even if it seems to be on the verge of despair, the Tang Dynasty still has no shortage of elite soldiers and generals.

Then Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi led the Hedong Army and the Shuofang Army, which are simply standard elite soldiers and generals.

Kong Ming nodded, and then moved his index finger slowly on the map:

"And if we follow this little fool... Suzong's idea."

Zhang Fei laughed, and was speechlessly glanced at by Kong Ming, and continued:

"First recover Chang'an, then attack Luoyang, so as to force the main force of the rebels back to Hebei."

"In this way, Suzong's troops will be suspected of exhausting the expedition."

"If the rebels gather in Hebei and still have the ambition of Xiangji Temple..."

Xu Shu concluded: "If so, the government army will surely fail!"

"No wonder this rebellion lasted for eight years, these Tang soldiers..."

Xu Shu looked up, and the last thing fixed on the light screen was a tall and naked fierce general.

His chest and abdomen were fleshy but not fat, and with his bulging beard and hair, he had a fierce feeling.

Holding a strange weapon called Mo Dao, he was slashing at a cavalry.

In front of him were the sea of ​​rebels, and behind him were his comrades who roared with him.

There are also small characters next to it: "General Shentong, General Modao, Li Siye".

Xu Shu exhaled lightly and shook his head regretfully: "It's the last gasp of a strong crossbow".

...

Kong Ming and Xu Shu could judge that such an order of suppressing the rebellion would only make Hebei more difficult to fight.

Li Jing and Li Shimin could naturally see it.

But both of them had no interest in talking at this time.

So what if it is difficult to suppress the rebellion? What if it will be pushed back by the rebels?

The emperor agreed and let the soldiers plunder the people. In this case, who is the enemy?

"If the king treats the people like dirt, then the people will treat the king like an enemy."

The voice was a bit dry, but Li Shimin didn't need to turn his head to know that it was Wei Zheng.

Fang Xuanling was gentle and didn't blame him. He just casually mentioned a sentence that everyone was familiar with:

"The people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least important."

Du Ruhui, on the other hand, looked through the past records and calmly raised Li Shimin's blood pressure:

"During the Mawei Slope Rebellion, later generations called Li Fuguo the confidant of Emperor Suzong."

"And when talking about the ugly posthumous title before, it was said that Li Fuguo was promoted to the position of prime minister, which seems to be during Emperor Suzong's reign."

Li Shimin's only reaction was to raise his eyelids and even laughed:

"Abandoning the true Zhuge and using eunuchs."

"Really my good sons and grandsons."

"Later generations said that the last emperor Liu Chan was a hopeless Adou."

"In comparison, he is simply a hundred times better."

Li Shimin felt that the blood in his heart had dried up.

In just three years, the elite troops were wiped out.

Warriors died in the dust, and loyal people were buried in the wilderness.

Righteous men died in battle for the country, and the emperor was busy selling out the people.

Ming had just ascended the throne, and the Zhenguan period had just begun, but he already felt that the royal family seemed to have to use drastic measures.

【Before the battle of Xiangji Temple, a small incident occurred among the rebels.

An Lushan, dead.

An Lushan himself suffered from diabetes mellitus. According to historical records, An Lushan had already developed symptoms of late-stage diabetes after conquering Chang'an.

He was blind and covered with poisonous sores.

High blood sugar can cause damage to the capillary walls of the retina, which can cause blurred vision in the early stage and blindness in the later stage.

Another characteristic of diabetes is the lack of insulin secretion, which leads to skin lesions, which in turn lead to poisonous sores; skin lesions can also make the patient's wounds more difficult to heal than ordinary people, increasing the risk of infection and sores.

And these characteristics can be matched by An Lushan.

After conquering Luoyang, An Lushan couldn't wait to become emperor, and the country was named Yan, calling himself the Xiongwu Emperor.

An Lushan, who became blind after being an emperor for less than a year, became more and more irritable, and he often beat and scolded his close followers, treating them as pigs and dogs.

Among them, the one who suffered the most was the eunuch Li Zhuer, a Khitan who was castrated by An Lushan himself. He was lucky enough to survive and later stayed by his side.

According to historical records, it was Li Zhuer who wiped An Lushan when he bathed in Huaqing Pool.

Faced with the blind and bad-tempered An Lushan, the rebels' approach was very simple: just kill him, isn't that enough?

The second son An Qingxu and the counselor Yan Zhuang conspired to kill him, and the two of them won over Li Zhuer.

Li Zhuer was full of resentment towards An Lushan, and the two sides almost hit it off.

In January 757, An Qingxu was guarding the tent door. Li Zhuer and Yan Zhuang entered with knives. Facing the sleeping and blind An Lushan, the two hacked An Lushan to death without much effort.

Then they dug a pit the size of a person under the bed, wrapped An Lushan's body in a blanket and threw it in to bury it.

Afterwards, Yan Zhuang announced to the public that An Lushan passed the throne to An Qingxu and he took the initiative to become the emperor.

What about the fate of the other main characters?

In 759, An Qingxu was killed by Shi Siming.

In 761, Shi Siming was killed by his son Shi Chaoyi.

In April 762, Xuanzong died of illness, and in May, Suzong died of illness.

The three protagonists of the An-Shi Rebellion ended up with a similar ending.

It reminds people of the final sigh of "Dream of Red Mansions":

It's like the birds have eaten all the food and returned to the forest, leaving the white earth so clean. 】

Li Shimin remained silent. Before the An-Shi Rebellion, he hoped that An Lushan would die quickly.

But when this traitor ended up in such an absurd death, Li Shimin felt:

It doesn't matter anymore.

As for the various sons killing their fathers and the strange time of Xuanzong's death.

Li Shimin could only raise a sneer at the corner of his mouth:

"When the food is gone, the birds will fly into the forest...hahaha."

Of course it can't be like this, after all, the Tang Dynasty still has nearly a hundred years to live.

Li Shimin's thoughts drifted away for a while.

The white-haired soldiers trapped in Anxi for fifty years, and Zhang Yichao who vowed to return to the Tang Dynasty on his own.

They are the only blood and character left in the Tang Dynasty.

Sun Simiao didn't say anything, but just concentrated on copying down the medical content carefully and thinking about it carefully.

The King of Medicine didn't care about these things.

Healing people, I have tried my best.

Healing the country, I don't have that ability.

Everyone in Ganlu Hall lost the will to speak, and seemed dead silent.

But everyone had different thoughts in their mind.

For civil officials such as Fang, Du, and Wei, they were already considering whether to persuade His Majesty to try to formulate a complete new strategy for training the prince.

And Li Jing, who was well versed in military affairs, had already seen the vague future of the monarchy falling into the hands of others and the military power taking precedence.

After all, the separatist regimes of the feudal lords had been mentioned too many times by Guangmu.

Changsun Wuji looked at Hou Junji beside him. This general, who had entered the Qin Wang Mansion since he was young and started his career as a staff member, was looking at Li Shimin with a worried face.

"Is Junji worried that everyone would not attack the Western Regions?" Changsun Wuji asked quietly.

Hou Junji was surprised: How did you guess it?

Changsun Wuji said "huh" lightly, and felt that this person's thoughts were all written on his face, without a single bit of scheming.

"You are all very ambitious. How can you be disappointed by the future, nor will you be disappointed after the event."

"The Western Regions must be in the hands of our Tang!"

The first half of Changsun Wuji's sentence was difficult to understand, and Hou Junji didn't quite understand it.

But he understood the latter part, so he became happy again.

[After the Battle of Xiangji Temple, Chang'an was recovered, and the Huihe planned to collect rewards.

Daizong Li Yu and the Huihe Crown Prince Yehu persuaded:

If we plunder Chang'an after we recover it, the people in Luoyang will definitely regard us as bandits and it will be difficult to capture it. We hope to fulfill the agreement after we capture Luoyang.

The Huihe people thought it made sense and agreed.

According to historical records, the people of Chang'an who escaped praised Li Yu with tears: Prince Guangping is really the master of Huayi!

The subsequent war was relatively smooth, and the Huihes were the vanguard and defeated the rebels in Shanzhou.

If Gao Xianzhi was still alive at this time, he would probably sigh: Am I right? Shanzhou really can't be defended.

As for what happened after the recovery of Luoyang...

"Old Book of Tang": When they recovered Tokyo, the Huihe entered the treasury to collect money and silk, and looted the market and villages for three days before stopping.

Later, Zizhi Tongjian recorded an incident that three days later, Li Yu entered Luoyang, and the Huihe people were still not satisfied. The surviving wealthy families in Luoyang collected 10,000 pieces of silk and gave them to the Huihe people, and the Huihe people stopped. 】

"Bang!"

A stone inkstone was grabbed and smashed against the light curtain, then penetrated the light curtain, touched the wall behind it and made a dull sound.

Everyone looked at the stone inkstone that rolled on the ground for several rounds and was intact.

Then they looked at Li Shimin who threw the inkstone.

Li Shimin had a cold expression on his face, but his words were not full of anger:

"They also knew it, but I thought they didn't know it."

"Compared to the rebels, this government army is even better than the bandits!"

Then Li Shimin narrowed his eyes, and really wanted to make Longji, Li Yu and the other three kneel in front of him and let him kick them one by one.

However... people who come a hundred years later can't be kicked, but the Huihe can be beaten now.

They are not virtuous, and they dare to speak so loudly to help the leader to suppress the rebellion. I think they still have too little experience of the power of the Tang Dynasty.

The crowd didn't have too much fun, no matter Chang'an or Luoyang, they were all the capitals of the Tang Dynasty.

What if they can save face by changing the robbery of Luoyang?

They are all outstanding people in the Zhenguan period, not such rats who deceive themselves.

[After the two capitals were completely recovered, Yan Zhenqing finally moved from Hebei to Chang'an. 】

The recent ones are too heavy, so the content is abbreviated. This part will probably be finished tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The rest will naturally be lighter. Wang Xuance, Su Dingfang, and the special episodes will be presented one by one, and the Three Kingdoms will also follow the established rhythm.