Chapter 669: The Yu Family's Army
Uncle Li Huang died, died in the second battle that he personally commanded alone, of course, all this is inseparable from his conceit and selfishness, if it were not for personal gain, he would not have led the Li family army to fight for merit with the Feng family army, if it were not conceited, he would not have been arrogant enough to go deep alone and even after an accident did not ask for help from the rear in time.
The retreating Huang Chao did not expect that the attack of the Feng family army would be so sharp and fast, and even caused him to fail to notify Zhang Guihou, who continued to pursue and kill the Li family army, in time, and nearly a thousand guards left behind to block the Feng family army that arrived later, and he actually took Lin Yan and more than ten meters of henchmen to climb down the mountain road without a road.
Without the backbone of Huang Chao, the guards are not the opponents of the Feng family army at all, just a frontal charge, they were scattered by Mao Hao with the winged cavalry regiment, when they caught up with the Li family's army, Li Jian was only a few dozen people left, and Zhang Guihou, the lone army, was outflanked from behind by the winged cavalry regiment and was wiped out in one pot.
It's just a pity that Lin Feng and Li Jian regretted that after they both rushed to Uncle Li's side, there was only a corpse left that was still hot, but it had lost any breath. At this point, a sudden and tragic battle of Xiaqingshan also ended in the defeat of the puppet Qi rebels and the Li family's army, and the Li family's army and even the entire ** were also dealt an extremely serious blow, because of the death of Uncle Li Huang.
On the side of the pseudo-Qi, almost all the troops were wiped out, because the upper-level figures were either annihilated or captured, and the ordinary soldiers below did not want to continue to go into exile, so they directly chose to surrender to the Feng family army. After a brief rest and inventory, Lin Feng temporarily left 3,000 winged cavalry and more than 1,000 lance cavalry in the area of Xiaqing Mountain to continue to pursue the remnants of the Huangchao and Pseudo-Qi rebels who escaped from the encirclement, and then 10,000 Feng family troops would arrive to replace them.
And Lin Feng and Li Xiaofeng and others took the lead in rushing back to Chang'an City after a day's rest, temporarily escorted by the few remaining elites, after all, death is great, and Uncle Li's funeral must be organized as soon as possible.
In this short period of time, Chang'an City has undergone earth-shaking changes again because of the return of the Son of Heaven to Beijing, especially the relationship between the various forces in the court, which has unexpectedly united the front with a very tacit understanding, and an unprecedented scene has appeared.
The two eunuch forces headed by Tian Lingzi and Yang Lianting, and the civil official group headed by Liu Yonghao, secretly jointly instructed Yushitai to impeach the dead Li Huangshu and Lin Feng. Because Uncle Li did not report to the imperial court after he made the decision to lead the army alone to pursue and suppress the puppet Qi rebels, and due to a command error, the 20,000 elite Li family army was wiped out. And Lin Feng was derelict in his duties as the deputy marshal, and failed to stop it in time and make follow-up preparations, resulting in the loss of an important member of the Li family of the Tang Dynasty, and even more so that the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses died on the battlefield, resulting in the overall morale of the ** decline.
However, the emperor did not implicate the two of them much, and personally participated in the ceremony to welcome the body of Uncle Li back to the city, and arranged a very large-scale funeral ceremony. Lin Feng was dismissed from his post as an observer envoy in Gyeonggi Province for dereliction of duty, and was replaced by his deputy, Zhou Chen.
In May of the same year, there was a riot on the border of Nanzhaoguo, and Li Xiaofeng was supposed to be led by Li Xiaofeng to suppress it by Jiannan Daojiedu, but since returning to Beijing, Li Xiaofeng, who was overworked, fell ill with extreme sadness, and since then he has been in a slump, and in desperation, the Son of Heaven convened the ministers to discuss, but everyone had a very tacit understanding that they did not mention the words Lin Feng and Feng's army, and finally after more than half a day of discussion, the hussar general, Zhenguo Gong Mao Hao led the headquarters of the winged cavalry regiment, and transferred 20,000 soldiers from the Feng family army led by Tang Yi to cooperate, Expedition to the border of Nanzhao.
Left Chang'an City with the winged cavalry, there was also the Modao Army, but the Modao Army was transferred and stationed in the Tongguan area, because the Central Plains area has recently suffered a famine again, the Yellow River has been flooded, and a small number of Diao people have appeared among many displaced refugees, and even want to learn from Huangchao and organize a large-scale rebellion.
At the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, a large-scale invasion occurred in Tibet, taking advantage of the fact that the first war had just passed, and the situation was initially set, the plundering of Shanzhou, Hezhou, and Taozhou was launched, and the imperial court still did not give Lin Feng a chance to come back. Yang Lianting's henchmen served as the supervising army and went to suppress the Tibetan rebellion.
In the blink of an eye, there were few people left around Lin Feng, and Lin Feng, who lived on the west side of the imperial city, in the Xiude Workshop outside the Fanglin Gate of the Forbidden Garden, gradually discovered the abnormality of recent days, and in the area of his own mansion, some unfamiliar faces often appeared.
However, in this regard, Lin Feng only smiled faintly, and did not take it too seriously, and still accompanied Li Xiaojun and the others as always. In the west of Chang'an City, Lin Feng purchased a very large manor, Lin Feng also used the military power in his hands to make a transaction, in exchange for a few sweat and blood horses from the hands of the Son of Heaven, and has entrusted the caravan between the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty, and bought more than a dozen sweat and blood horses of different sizes with a lot of money, and when he has nothing to do, he will take his family members to the manor outside the city for vacation.
But Lin Feng has never ridden a sweaty horse again, perhaps because of the pain brought to his heart by the previous battle of Xiaqingshan, he just likes to quietly watch a group of sweaty horses frolicking and playing, or galloping on the vast grass, or bowing his head to gnaw grass, drinking water by the river to quench his thirst, and occasionally, Lin Feng will spend a whole day washing and brushing the hair of a group of sweaty horses.
In the winter of the same year, the hussar general Mao Hao led the winged cavalry regiment to achieve a big victory again, in Queensland, Yaozhou built a complete defensive measures, but then did not lead the troops back to Beijing, even Mao Hao was left in the local area by a holy decree, but added an honorary title of captain, and the army led by Mao Hao, also known as the Yujia Army, due to the imperial court deliberately exaggerated its military exploits, but also to the local festival propaganda diffusion, for a time, the prestige of the Yujia Army in the entire Tang Dynasty, no less than the Fengjia Army in its heyday, Of course, it may also be due to the fact that this army was originally drawn from the Feng family's army.
The war of Meng Hong and others who went to the border of Tubo did not go well, due to the fingers of the eunuchs of the prison army, Meng Hong and others could not use their fists and kicks at all, coupled with the deliberate non-cooperation of the Shence army, it was only the first battle, ** returned with a big defeat, but a deputy general of the Shence army also got retribution, and was captured alive by the Tubo army because of the sudden folding of the war horse when he fled.
Originally, the Shence army wanted to kill it again, but Meng Hong refused to agree, and the eunuchs of the prison army were indiscriminately mixed in the middle, which eventually led to the disagreement between the commanders of the two armies.
For the defeat of the Tibetan counterattack, the imperial court did not punish it, but added the official position of Meng Hong and others, and added a title to the army. However, this did not make Meng Hong and the others happy, and even secretly complained about the imperial court, the meritorious officials did not give rewards but were demoted, and the meritorious generals received undeserved rewards!
At the end of the year, the war in Liaodong broke out, accompanied by the civil strife in Silla, as the Tang Dynasty of the upper kingdom naturally wanted to send troops to quell the chaos, Zhou Chen and Yin Bo, known as the first fierce general of the Fengjia army, both went out. Zhou Chen took his wife Zhen Ying and led the original Fengjia army of 15,000 light horses to Silla non-stop, while Yin Bo was transferred to Liaodong, crowned the envoy of Pingdong Jiedu, and led 20,000 cavalry to confront the king of Bohai County, who raised troops to rebel in the Yan area.
The two set off at the same time a year ago, but when the two went to say goodbye to Lin Feng on the eve of the expedition, they didn't see Lin Feng, it is said that Lin Feng happened to go to Xingzhou at that time, and only the housekeeper and some subordinates stayed in the house.