Chapter 63 Black Whirlwind
Guo Ziyi indeed planned to lead the central army to join Li Siye to see if he could take the advantage back from the rebels.
He did wonder if he would let Li Siye withdraw his troops first, so that the enemy's wave could not be exerted. He would wait for a day and a half to come again, which would be considered as disrupting the rhythm of the rebels.
But after thinking about it, Guo Ziyi decided not to do that anymore, because An Qingxu was in Luoyang at this time, and the distance between Luoyang and Chang'an City was not very far. The strategy set by Guo Ziyi and the others before was to take down Chang'an City as quickly as possible, and then slowly plan for Luoyang.
Once the delay in Chang'an City and a tug-of-war with An Shouzhong and Li Guiren and others was delayed, An Qingxu would be likely to lead troops to attack Guo Ziyi, which was the situation he least wanted to see.
Therefore, Guo Ziyi had already been calculating in this battle. Whether it was victory or defeat, he had to fight and decide quickly.
However, with the previous lesson, Guo Ziyi became smart while advancing towards the forward army. He asked Pugu Huaien to take a team of men to inspect the enemy's formation first. After all, if the enemy still has a large number of ambushers, with the Tang army's familiarity with the surrounding area of Chang'an City, as long as there is a little abnormal movement in the formation, it will definitely be discovered.
After Pugu Huaien left, Guo Ziyi faced the arrangement of the remaining generals of the central army and encountered an emergency situation from the enemy, and slowly advanced and waited for Pugu Huaien's news.
Seeing that there was only two or three miles away from the place where the two armies fought, the shouts could already reach the ears of the central army led by Guo Ziyi.
"After a stick of incense, if General Pugu doesn't come back, you will lead your army to help Li Siye and King Jianning. No matter what happens, just kill the enemy!"
Guo Ziyi was definitely not a man of Moji in war. Once Pu Gu Huaien didn't come back, he was almost certain that he had encountered an accident, which further confirmed that the enemy would have a second wave of ambushings. However, if they didn't know where the ambush was, no one would know if they didn't come out.
Just as Guo Ziyi finished speaking, a group of people in front suddenly rushed over. Guo Ziyi looked closely and saw that it was the dusty Pu Gu Huaien.
"how?"
"Deputy Marshal, the enemy was indeed ambushed by nearly 30,000 troops on the east side of the battle formation, among which 10,000 rebels were the most elite Yiluohe!"
The three words "Yi Luohe" made Guo Ziyi's eyes narrow suddenly.
They were once the most elite personal soldiers under An Lushan's command, and were known as the "Eight Thousands of Waking Rivers" in Fanyang and Youzhou.
At the beginning, the elites were selected by An Lushan and trained as their own fakes. There were indeed only 8,000 people. However, after An Lushan died, An Qingxu integrated this team into many other elites from Fan Yang in order to strengthen the reputation of Yiluohe, forming the current 30,000 Yiluohe.
Although the combat power of Yi Luohe is definitely incomparable to the previous eight thousand people, its combat power is still the most powerful among the rebels.
There was a sudden 10,000 ambush here. Once Guo Ziyi really encountered this ambush, it would be a very dangerous situation.
"Okay! Since that's the case, let's take a plan!"
Guo Ziyi knew that the battle between Yi Luohe should not be able to escape, so she planned to lead the army to fight the 30,000 troops to the death.
But before he could continue to give orders, Pugu Huaien opened his mouth again.
"Deputy Marshal, you don't know anything. If you rely on the little men and horses I brought, you will not be able to find them. When I was searching around the battle formation, I met King Jianning's men. King Jianning had already discovered these ambushers and led his army to destroy their plans. However, according to Zhang Xun, the five thousand cavalrymen were afraid that they would not be able to annihilate them, so King Jianning sent him to find the deputy marshal. King Jianning asked me to explain to the deputy marshal that he would allocate 10,000 troops to cooperate with King Jianning to eliminate these ambushers!"
When Pugu Huaien said this, almost all the main generals under Guo Ziyi were beside him. When he heard that King Jianning had discovered the enemy's ambush and began to take action, he showed a look of admiration.
You should know that as the Grand Marshal, King Guangping had just retreated from the central army to the rear army, but King Jianning took five thousand cavalry alone to face the most powerful Yiluohe in the most dangerous place. What courage did he have?
"King Jianning only asked me to allocate 10,000 troops?"
"Yes, according to what Zhang Xun said, if King Jianning's five thousand troops are used well, it will have miraculous results. After our central army distributed them 10,000 troops, we should fully cooperate with General Li Siye to wipe out the previous enemy troops. When the right time comes, King Jianning will contact the deputy marshal again!"
Guo Ziyi knew as soon as he heard this. Li Yan not only hooked up the ambush, but also arranged everything he would do next.
He knew even more that what Li Neng said was indeed good, but there was a prerequisite for defeating one by one, that is, Li Neng's 5,000 cavalry plus the 10,000 people he assigned to the past could calmly resist the 30,000 people including 10,000 Yi Luohe.
This is obviously a very big challenge. If these five thousand cavalry were Uighur cavalry, it would be quite possible. But if Li Yan had just trained cavalry for more than half a year, Guo Ziyi was really unsure.
Looking at the many pairs of eyes staring at him, Guo Ziyi took a deep breath and made his decision.
"Pu Gu Huaien and Guo Xi led 10,000 elite troops of the central army to reinforce Jianning. When they arrived at the ambush of the enemy troops in the east, they followed the arrangements of Jianning!"
When Pugu Huaien and Guo Xi, who was standing behind Guo Ziyi, heard this, they left the line to receive the order, and then turned around and dispatched troops. They obviously knew how dangerous it was for Li Qing to resist the 30,000 men and horses with five thousand cavalry, so they could not delay for a moment.
When Guo Xi and Pu Gu Huaien took the troops closer according to the place provided by Zhang Xun, a huge commander's flag was waving in the wind. Under the commander's flag, thousands of cavalry were adding their armor and the smoke and dust flying behind them, floating on the battlefield like a black whirlwind.
Above the flag of the commander, there were three big words "King Jianning". Guo Xi could understand at a glance. This was Li Qing who showed his identity as King Jianning, which led to the ambushers' efforts to hunt down, wanting to kill a famous prince to make contributions.
Chapter completed!