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Chapter 79 Missed Opportunity

After Li Yu arrived at the city, he brought the soldiers into the city. When he entered the city gate, the scene in front of Li Yu was shocked.

I saw a large area of ​​hundreds of people wearing white clothes and kneeling there in one go, some of whom were still sobbing in a low voice.

"Why is this?"

Li Yu looked from afar, quickly stopped the war horse, turned his head and asked Guo Ziyi.

Guo Ziyi understood at a glance, and went to Li Yu and said, "These people are all officials who were forced to be loyal to them after An Lushan and his son obtained Luoyang City. Now they feel that they are seriously guilty and apologize here."

When Li Yu heard this, he rode his horse closer and found that the leader was not his old acquaintance Chen Xilie? Looking back, he found that many of them were court officials who had been standing in Li Longji's court before.

For Li Yu, this scene was quite embarrassing, but he was just a marshal of the world's military and horses, neither the emperor nor the crown prince, and he had no right to deal with these people.

After thinking for a while, he ordered: "These people were sent back to Chang'an City first, and temporarily detained in prison in Dali Temple, and wait for their father to return before making a decision."

So Chen Xilie and more than 300 people were sent by Guo Ziyi to take him away from the gate of Luoyang and sent him to the prison in Chang'an City.

In fact, for such a fence-in-law, no matter from any perspective, he should be killed to serve as a warning to others.

But the Tang Dynasty is now in a situation where everything is in trouble. Once these people are gone, even the places that have not been taken down by the rebels cannot be managed. So Li Yu can only temporarily take such a compromise method and make a decision after his father comes back.

Because An Qingxu ran in a hurry, and they and An Lushan were preparing to use Luoyang as their capital, they have always treated Luoyang well for the people of Luoyang. When the Tang army entered Luoyang City, the people could spontaneously organize and cheer, which made Li Yu feel a hint of warmth and a sense of accomplishment.

During the march, Li Yu already knew that Li Heng was going to return to Chang'an City together in Fengxiang after Li Longji arrived, so he decided to temporarily garrison his troops in Luoyang to prevent the enemy from gaining a firm foothold and returning. After all, Luoyang is safe and Chang'an City is naturally safe.

Although the battle to recover the two capitals seemed simple, the battle was resolved within one or two days, and the two battles together killed more than 100,000 enemy troops, the process was very dangerous when you think about it carefully.

Li Yu knew very well that if Guo Ziyi had not used tricks several times and the desperate efforts of Li Li, Li Siye and others, they might have been entangled with the enemy under Chang'an City, so he would never dare to relax.

After all, after these two battles, the remaining troops were less than 100,000. Only when Li Heng and Li Longji returned to the court will the king-stricken army, who are still watching from all over the country, will they be dispatched.

After the army was stationed in Luoyang, Li Yu sent the news to Fengxiang and began to discuss the next action with Guo Ziyi.

"The Deputy Marshal thought that our army should guard Luoyang, or..."

Li Yu had actually thought about it himself and had to wait until Li Heng returned to Chang'an City before making plans. But this time, Guo Ziyi took the initiative to find Li Yu. Li Yu was also a person with a clear mind. At that time, he knew that Guo Ziyi might have other ideas.

"The current identity of the Grand Marshal is not the prince of the Tang Dynasty, but the marshal who commands these tens of thousands of troops. Our army has won consecutive battles and won't be afraid of the Uighur cavalry. Although the enemy's fear of the rebels' nests will not be able to destroy the rebels' nests, it is not difficult to suppress the rebels to their nests so that they will not cause harm to other prefectures and counties in the Tang Dynasty."

There were only two of them in Li Yu's room. Li Yu actually agreed with what Guo Ziyi said in his heart, but when he thought of his father, he still frowned.

"The Deputy Marshal's words are reasonable, but before sending the troops, my father and gentleman asked our army to recover the two capitals. Now that we have recovered the two capitals, the next plan is to wait for my father's next decision!"

"Master Marshal, we can wait for Your Majesty here, but this opportunity on the battlefield will not wait for us. It will take at least one month for Your Majesty and the Supreme Emperor to return to Chang'an City from Fengxiang. After this month, An Qingxu will definitely revive his strength in the Hebei territory. Now Li Guangbi has controlled the Taiyuan Prefecture in the hands of our Tang Dynasty. An Qingxu will most likely escape to the vicinity of Xiangzhou, so it is better..."

Before Guo Ziyi could finish his words, Li Yu waved his hand and said, "The Deputy Marshal said so much, but I can't bear to let my father and the Supreme Emperor return to Chang'an City by themselves!"

Guo Ziyi saw that Li Yu had already decided to pay attention, so she could only sigh and then bow and leave.

That night, when Guo Ziyi was sighing in the room, Li Qing came to ask for a meeting. Li Qing's arrival could be said to be both reasonable and unexpected to Guo Ziyi.

On the one hand, if Li Yi was low-key enough, he would not have come to Guo Ziyi. On the other hand, Guo Ziyi has already seen from the battles in the past few days. Li Yi is a natural general, and he can definitely see what he can see.

Li Wen, who was sitting opposite Guo Ziyi, did not hide his thoughts at all and asked directly: "This 100,000 army is stationed here?"

"The Grand Marshal has an order. We need to wait here for His Majesty and the Supreme Emperor to return to the court before we can make a decision."

"What does the marshal mean?"

Guo Ziyi was at this moment when no one listened to his thoughts. When Li Qing asked, Guo Ziyi found a map and spread it on the table and said to Li Qing: "An Qingxu led tens of thousands of soldiers to the north. He was the emperor of Dayan and would not run back to Fanyang in a mess. The near Taiyuan Prefecture is in the hands of our Tang Dynasty. Where he might settle down is Xiangzhou, Weizhou and other places. If our army can go out in full force and fight with the soldiers of Taiyuan Prefecture, even if he cannot kill An Qingxu, he can drive him to the hinterland of Hebei Road and cut off their thoughts of going south!"

After saying this, Guo Ziyi deduced the route of troops that he had already thought of long ago to Li Qing one by one on the map.

Li Yan had to admire Guo Ziyi. Although he had made some judgments based on the current situation and the history of his previous life in his mind, he was just a vague one.

After reading Guo Ziyi's analysis, I became a little enlightened. I thought that if someone was a famous general from time to time, what I was thinking about was different.

The Anshi Rebellion in his previous life lasted for eight years. When Li Qing saw this, he was not because of Guo Ziyi and other generals who were not good at fighting, but because Li Heng and Li Yu, two guys who were not good at fighting, had delayed too many opportunities.
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