Life in Film and Television: Starting from the Jinshui Bridge

Chapter 197 The Anshi Rebellion broke out ahead of time
Ten days later, news of Fan Yang spread all over the world, and An Lushan was not willing to lead the neck, so he killed him and led his troops to rebel.

Under Fanyang City, the army of Anlu Mountain and the tens of thousands of horses led by Gan Shoucheng fought for a day, and Gan Shoucheng lost to Anlu Mountain's army mainly composed of Turks and Khitans. He fled back to Chang'an with dozens of soldiers on horseback.

After An Lushan defeated Gan Shoucheng, he immediately set up troops in Fanyang, sincerely played the banner of overthrowing the Tang Dynasty, and began the war to attack the Tang Dynasty.

Without the slightest precaution, An Lushan appointed Shi Siming as the vanguard general.

At that time, Hebei was under the jurisdiction of Anlu Mountain, and all city officials dared not fight with it. Before Shi Siming attacked the city, these officials all fled.

The materials and people in the city were left behind and returned to An Lushan.

So far, An Lushan's army and population have quickly swept across Hebei in the four years of Tianbao in a snowball-like situation.

The army under his command also rapidly expanded from 8 at the beginning to 18, known as an army of 20.

Among them, the most powerful military force is his Turkic soldiers, as well as Hu people from Tongluo, Xi, Khitan, Shiwei and other tribes.

An Lushan also secretly contacted the countries in the Western Regions, and the Huihe people used foreign aid to contain the Tang frontier army.

Let the Tang army not be able to get together and fight.

The long-term comfort made these defenders who had almost never been on the battlefield completely vulnerable.

It also led to the retreat of the Tang army that attacked and killed Anlu Mountain. At the end of the fourth year of Tianbao, Anlushan's army quickly captured Luoyang and Tongguan as in history, and the army approached Chang'an.

The sage couldn't sit still any longer, and fled Chang'an in a hurry under the persuasion of a group of officials headed by Lin Jiulang who were greedy for life and fear of death.

At this time, Liu Meng's Anzi, who stayed in Chang'an City, found Prince Li Yu through Li Bi.

He handed a letter from Liu Meng to Prince Li Yu. The meaning of the letter is very simple:
It is to let Li Yu not follow the saint to flee Chang'an, this is the best time for Li Yu to ascend the throne.

As long as Li Yu leads the Chang'an garrison and is surrounded by officials who have always supported him, he will ascend to the throne of God.

As long as Li Yu can stay in Chang'an for half a month, Liu Meng can lead the army to attack the camp of the rear army in Anlu Mountain, attack back and forth with the defenders of Chang'an City, and annihilate the rebels in Anlu Mountain in one fell swoop.

By that time, even if the sage returned to Chang'an, it would be too late for him to recover.

After reading this letter, Li Yu was inexplicably excited.

But he was worried that Liu Meng's army could defeat Anlu Mountain.

The person who sent the letter was Liu Meng's confidant who had been trained for nine years, and when asked by Prince Li Yu, he proudly said:
"His Royal Highness, it's not a villain bragging. Just the [-] soldiers trained by my master can easily defeat any Tang army ten times larger than myself!"

Speaking of this, he thought of the explosive kits, grenades and other big killers that Liu Meng had produced in this year;
Coupled with the equipment that was much harder and sharper than all the weapons and armor of the Tang army, he really couldn't think of any other army that could withstand the attack of the master's five thousand troops.

He took a deep breath and said to Prince Li Yu:

"What's more, my master still has a weapon capable of destroying an army of [-]. As long as His Royal Highness, believe in my master, he will definitely annihilate the Anlu Mountain rebels and ascend to the throne of God!"

After hearing what this Liu Meng's subordinate said, Li Yu was still very entangled and couldn't make a decision for a long time.

Li Bi, who was with Li Yu, saw His Royal Highness' concerns, and asked Liu Meng's subordinates to go down to rest first, and then called for officials who supported the prince to discuss together.

After some discussion, they came to a conclusion, regardless of whether Liu Meng was capable of annihilating the Anlushan rebels.

When the saint fled, Li Yu, as the prince, should stick to Chang'an City, even if it was just a show, so that the soldiers and civilians all over the world could see the prince's responsibility.

It can also lay a solid foundation for the prince to ascend the throne in the future.

Even in the end, when it is really impossible to hold on, it will not be too late to evacuate Chang'an.

And the famous generals who stood on the side of the prince, Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and others, also firmly persuaded the prince Li Yu to stick to Chang'an.

Under the persuasion of everyone, although Li Yu was afraid that Chang'an would fall, he had to make up his mind to lead the Chang'an defenders and the people to stick to Chang'an.

Of course, they didn't believe that Liu Meng, who had been a soldier, could annihilate An Lushan's army.

At this time, Liu Meng had already led his [-] soldiers and set off for Chang'an.

After nearly nine years of preparation, Liu Meng took advantage of the loopholes in the system and quickly accumulated more than 1000 war horses at a rate of ten horses per month. In addition to the war horses collected and purchased from various places on weekdays, as well as the war horses bred, the total raised Gathered two thousand cavalry.

The two thousand cavalry were all equipped with full-body armor produced by the space blacksmith, which had stronger protection capabilities and weighed only half of the heavy armor, which was enough to withstand the attacks of Tang's swords and guns.

Except for heavy weapons such as maces and giant hammers, it can be said to be invincible in the world.

Coupled with the result of Liu Meng's training with scientific training methods, these cavalry and infantry are all the strongest soldiers of this era.

The sharpness of the weapons and the toughness of the defense allowed this mere 5000 people to easily defeat ten times as many enemies.

In addition to the earth-made hand grenades and explosives provided to the soldiers, Liu Meng believes that the rebels in Anlu Mountain can be easily wiped out in a few days.

At this time, An Lushan was in the city of Luoyang, throwing a banquet for the generals and officials who rebelled with him.

I imagined that I would capture Chang'an City in one fell swoop, and kill the saint himself as emperor one day.

Little did he know that a powerful army was coming to Chang'an to end his eight-year rebellion in history.

Also because of the riot in advance, An Lushan was not killed by his own son because of his eye disease and tyrannical temperament at this time.

Ten days later, An Lushan's army attacked the city of Chang'an.

At this time, the gates of Chang'an City have been closed tightly, and the defenders are waiting in strict formation, neatly arrayed on the city wall.

The prince Li Yu, dressed all over his body, came to the outer city wall, looked at the guards on the wall, the unscrupulous people under the city wall and the people of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yu followed the suggestion of Li Bi and others, and said, "Lonely and Chang'an After the words "military and civilian coexistence and death" boosted the morale of the army and the people.

Persuaded by Li Bi and others, he got off the city wall and returned to the palace.

So far, the defense of Chang'an has begun.

Liu Meng's troops were rushing all the way, and the generals accompanying the army were the five people who followed Liu Meng to leave the army, Zhang Xiaojing and Xiao Gui, and several outstanding personnel who were promoted later.

Regarding the military system, Liu Meng is very simple and rude.

Two thousand cavalry, led by himself, there is no doubt about this.

(End of this chapter)