Lu Qi stood up and said to everyone: "The imperial court welcomes you to be obedient, after all, when everyone makes mistakes in Asia and Europe, the imperial court has always accepted those who have lost their way and returned with a generous and tolerant attitude. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 But, after all, you are people with a history of rebellion, and the court cannot fully trust you until you have done something to show your loyalty. If it were you, you would not have fully believed the converts just now. Therefore, the imperial court has several requirements for you. First, you can't take any of your family members with you when you go on the expedition; Second, from today onwards, the power structure in the army must be readjusted, the commanders of the various departments can no longer engage in a word, the imperial court sent a supervisory army to participate in the management of the army, but it only involves military discipline, the thinking of soldiers, the crackdown and investigation of those who intend to rebel and rebel, in addition to increasing the supervision army, each ministry also adds an adjutant general and a marching Sima. In case of major matters, the chief general must consult with the supervising army, the two lieutenant generals, and the marching Sima, and the majority of them shall prevail. But in battle, the command and order of the commander-in-chief are the main thing, and others are not allowed to interfere at will! This is to be done within three days; Third, three days later, all the troops rushed to gather here and accept the command of Guo Dashuai to prepare to go south to quell Li Zhongchen's rebellion! This official will accompany him as the overseer of the army, and any violation of military discipline or attempted rebellion will be under the control of this superintendent, which is the order of the regent! If you have any comments or ideas, please keep them, and wait until Li Zhongchen's rebellion is put down before writing to the regent! ”

After Lu Qi sang with a white face, Guo Ziyi stood up and sang with a red face, he smiled: "You don't have to be nervous, as long as you don't have two hearts in the future, don't worry, as the so-called time to see people's hearts, you have had the experience of rebellion before, and it is only normal for the court to guard against you, if you are not defensive at all, it means that the people in the court are all fools, and you are afraid that you will not be at ease if you return to the past, right?" Is there anything else you would like to say? ”

Pang Chong said on behalf of the other generals: "Guo Dashuai, we have nothing to say, we fully agree and will do this according to the requirements of the imperial court, Guo Dashuai and Lord Lu can appoint the supervising army, deputy generals and marching horses to our department at any time, and my family will also stay in Dengzhou, and come back to see them after the battle!" ”

After Pang Chong expressed his position, the other generals also agreed, saying that they would accept the arrangements and dispatches of the imperial court.

It was already dawn at the end of the meeting, Guo Ziyi asked everyone to leave, and the supervising army, deputy general, and marching Sima Hui quickly went over to report and asked them to do a good job of reception.

The generals walked out of the lobby full of concern, and a general named Wang Chi said to a person next to him: "Then what is the origin of Lu Qi?" Dare to come out and appear even if you look so ugly? ”

Lu Qi was sending the generals out to walk behind, and when he heard this, his eyes suddenly flashed with fierce light, staring at Wang Chi's back and secretly saying: "Wang Chi, it's not Lao Tzu's fault that Lao Tzu is ugly, you actually said in front of the public that Lao Tzu is ugly, so you don't save face for Lao Tzu, so good, see if Lao Tzu doesn't kill you!" ”

Lu Qi's appearance of wanting to eat people happened to be seen by Guo Ziyi, Guo Ziyi couldn't help but shudder, thinking that it was best not to offend such a person, if you offend such a person, you will only be afraid that you will not be able to sleep and eat in the future!

Lu Qi was extremely taboo for others to ridicule him for being ugly, and anyone who laughed at his appearance was killed by him, so people who were familiar with him did not dare to mention the topics and words of appearance in front of him, for fear of offending him.

Three days later, the various armies of the Dengzhou Army gathered under the city of Dengzhou, with a total of more than 25,000 people. After discussion, Guo Ziyi and Lu Qi decided to leave 5,000 men to guard Dengzhou City and the surrounding area, and they led 20,000 men south to march in the direction of Xiangyang.

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Xiangyang, Ge Shuyao was tired of holding the waist knife with a few soldiers patrolling the city wall, the city defense war for several months has consumed the foundation of Xiangyang City, in order to defend the city, he had to mobilize the young people in the city to help defend the city, many seem to be the city wall is about to be unable to hold, it is the young people in the city to help withstand the attack of the rebels.

Ge Shuyao, as the son of Ge Shuhan, was under a lot of pressure, because Ge Shuhan was not guaranteed at night, and after being captured, he knelt in front of An Lushan and begged to surrender, which made Ge Shuyao mourn and mourn at that time, and Pei Mian and Du Yanhong, who were still Ge Shuhan's former officials at that time, sighed when they saw it.

After Zhao Ziliang led the army to break through Luoyang, he found the body of Ge Shuhan who was killed by the Yan army in Luoyang Yuan, and immediately sent someone to Chang'an to find Ge Shuyao, and later he arranged for Ge Shuyao to go to Hedong to Li Guangbi as a deputy.

Ge Shuyao inherited his father Ge Shuhan's bravery, strong martial arts, good at charging into battle, like Ge Shuhan, his ability to command the army is not very strong, and he is far worse than Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi in this regard.

When Li Zhongchen leveraged the rebellion, it had already threatened the safety of the eastern capital Luoyang, and the imperial court urgently sent tens of thousands of soldiers from Fengxiang, Jingyuan, Chang'an and other places to recruit Li Zhongchen.

Before leaving, the emperor asked Ge Shuzhen: "Who is more clever in the art of war, you or your father?" ”

At that time, Ge Shuzhen replied: "Where do I dare to compare with the old man? I only want to eradicate the greedy wicked people like the long snake seal for Your Majesty, and then spend your life ordinarily."

The emperor encouraged: "In the last years of Tianbao, your father let the court have no worries. Today, I have used you, and the traitors of the East will not be worried."

At that time, the emperor saw off Ge Shuzhen in Dehuamen. At the beginning of the journey, the flagpole of the military flag was suddenly broken by the wind. People remember that when Ge Shuhan went out to meet An Lushan, he also broke the flagpole in this way, although he killed the soldiers holding the flag, but in the end he was defeated. What will be the result of his expedition?

At the beginning, the troops in his hands were almost the same as Li Zhongchen's troops, all the way through the pass, and successively recovered Ruzhou and other places, but a sudden natural disaster made the morale of the soldiers in the army plummet, and the soldiers thought that it was to anger the gods, so they were extremely frightened, Ge Shuyao thought that the morale of the soldiers had declined and people were sleepy, and instead of building a castle to defend and waste physical strength, it was better to brake on the spot, but the emperor wanted to survive, and issued an edict to let him enter Xiangcheng, so Ge Shuyao had to enter Xiangcheng, but Xiangcheng is a small city, couldn't hold it at all, and Ge Shuyao could only continue to move south.

Li Zhongchen pursued all the way, and Ge Shuyao had to return to the army to fight him. At the beginning of the battle, Ge Shuyao lost two games in a row and lost a large number of soldiers and horses, so he had to retreat south until Xiangyang.

Li Zhongchen was a typical speculator and risk-taker, and he always showed loyalty to the imperial court in front of outsiders. When the barbarian army rebelled, Daizong ordered the eunuchs to urge the feudal towns to send troops to the king. At that time, Li Zhongchen was playing polo, and after receiving the edict, he immediately mobilized the army to rescue him. The general of the overseer army pleaded: "The army must choose an auspicious day when it goes out." , Li Zhongchen said: "How can there be parents who are robbed by robbers, and they have to wait to choose a good day to rescue them?", so he sent troops to Qin Wang on the same day.

After that, there were difficulties on the frontier, and Li Zhongchen was always the first to arrive. In order to reward his loyalty, Daizong crowned him as an observer of Huaixi. And Li Zhongchen has also won the trust of the emperor and the court again and again, his official position is getting higher and higher, his power is getting bigger and bigger, his soldiers and horses are getting bigger and bigger, the territory under his jurisdiction is getting bigger and bigger, and his ambitions are also inflated.

In 767 (the second year of the Great Calendar), Zhou Zhiguang rebelled against Zhou Zhiguang in Tonghua Jiedu, and Li Zhongchen and Li Taiqing, the general of the Shence Army, were ordered to conquer. Soon after, Zhou Zhiguang was killed by his generals, Li Zhongchen led the army into Huazhou (now Huayin, Shaanxi), the soldiers were physically and mentally tired, he wanted to reward the three armies, but there was no financial reward, so he ordered the soldiers to be allowed to plunder the villagers and the people in the city, the soldiers were allowed to plunder the villagers and the people in the city, and the soldiers immediately began to plunder on a large scale after getting permission, so that the two hundred miles from Tongguan to Chishui were deserted.

The emperor suddenly wanted to cut the feudal domain, which seriously threatened the interests of Li Zhongchen, where was he willing to give up the rights in his hands now? So they immediately rebelled.

Ge Shuyao knew Li Zhongchen's personality and family history very well, so he decided to stick to Xiangyang, on the one hand, he mobilized the people in the city to assist in the defense, on the other hand, he sent people to Chang'an for help, and waited for more than two months without reinforcements coming, which made Ge Shuyao extremely desperate several times, he thought of giving up, but he suddenly remembered his father Ge Shuhan, did he want to become the enemy's prisoner like his father? Both father and son have become generals, this reputation is really bad! Therefore, Ge Shuyao decided to defend Xiangyang to the death, and would never surrender even if he died in battle, and he also told his younger brother that even if the whole family died, he would never surrender to the rebels.

The cold wind at night was like a steel knife blowing on his face, Ge Shuyao led people to inspect the city wall, and found that there was a figure shaking under the city wall, and he immediately shouted: "Who? ”

A soldier next to him quickly threw down a torch, and a figure appeared under the city: "General, it's me, I'm back from Chang'an!" ”

Through the torches on the ground, Ge Shuyao saw clearly that the person under the city was the personal soldier he had sent to Chang'an to ask for help, and he immediately ordered left and right: "Quickly put down the hanging basket and pull him up!" ”

The soldiers immediately put down the hanging basket with all hands and feet, and the man under the city stepped on the hanging basket and pulled it up to the city wall, Ge Shuyao pulled the soldiers in and took a look, and breathed a sigh of relief, "It's really you!" What about reinforcements? ”

The soldier said: "General, the reinforcements of the imperial court are led by the veteran General Zang Xiyan, and they have arrived in Gucheng, but they have been blocked by the rebel Li Zhongchen and cannot come for a while. However, the regent said that if Xiangyang really couldn't hold it, he would allow the general to lead the army to break through and join the reinforcements, and then try to quell the rebellion! ”

Ge Shuyao was surprised: "Regent? ”

"Yes, the regent is the king of Western Qin, the top boss of the old general!"