Chapter 86 Psychological Warfare
According to Li Guangbi's ideas and Li Neng's additions, they decided to let Li Neng openly pretend to be a Uighur soldiers in the city to scare An Qingxu, and then do it according to the situation that the rebels didn't know.
This is almost entirely a psychological warfare. Why did the rebels lose under a good situation in Luoyang? Didn’t they just mistakenly regard Li Yan’s cavalry as the Uighurs?
If this is the case, when these people appear in front of the rebels again, if the rebels can still sit still, they will basically have no intention of taking back the territory that was lost in the hands of the Tang army.
That night, Li Neng almost kept explaining his plan to Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun. Nan Jiyun was okay. Although he was unwilling to wear the clothes of the Uighur generals, he at least knew that it was all for the Tang Dynasty and Li Neng. However, Lei Wanchun was a very decent person. Li Neng was very persuasive, and he felt relieved.
"This time, we are not pretending to be the Uighurs to believe it, but we are also angry. If the enemy comes out of the city and arrives on the pre-designed territory, we naturally don't have to pretend to be the Uighurs anymore. At that time, we can just let the soldiers throw away these armors directly, and use the banner of our Suiyang cavalry and armor weapons to kill the enemy!"
It was said to be five thousand cavalry, but in fact it had been a little damaged in the past period. This time, he only stayed in Suiyang for a few days. Naturally, Li Qing could not replenish his troops, so in fact, the number of cavalry he brought with him this time was only 4,500.
Li Neng didn't want to lose his troops and generals in this battle, so he brought less than 4,000 cavalry back to Suiyang. The energy required to train a cavalry was too great. As his team in this era, Li Neng knew that some losses he could not afford.
That night, outside Luzhou City, the city was still as quiet as usual, but in fact, Li Neng and his cavalry had already secretly left the city. After Li Neng left, Li Guangbi and his men and the ten thousand invaders left in the city, also took advantage of the night to leave the city.
An Qingxu, who is in Xiangzhou, didn't know all this. After the digestion of these days, he had basically accepted his failure in Chang'an and Luoyang. He thought that Xiangzhou was also good. Where to be the emperor of Dayan, he was still the one who was good at it. He had delicious food every day, and wouldn't it be enough to have Meiji accompany him at night?
However, Yan Zhuang and others were very alert. They knew that Guo Ziyi was a scheming guy. Although the scouts reported that Guo Ziyi and his team were still waiting in the area of Chang'an City and Luoyang for Li Heng and Li Longji who were returning to Chang'an City to drive, Yan Zhuang still did not dare to relax, for fear that Guo Ziyi would have a trick of building a plank road openly to cross Chen Cang secretly.
On this day, Yan Zhuang was watching the news sent to him from all over the place controlled by Dayan as usual, and suddenly a deputy general came in gasping for An Qingxu.
"Has the Tang army changed?" Yan Zhuang stood up and asked when he saw this attitude.
"The Prime Minister is the Uighur cavalry. They are coming to our Xiangzhou from the direction of Luoyang. Now they are only a few dozen miles away from the city!"
Of course, the deputy generals didn't know that the Uighur cavalry that had scared them before was pretended by Li Qing's cavalry, and they thought they had come here again, so they were naturally frightened.
"Oh? Send someone to keep an eye on them and immediately repay the news!"
After giving such an order, there was no panic on Yan Zhuang's face
He arrived at An Qingxu and informed An Qingxu of the news. When An Qingxu heard this, he had a lot of sadness on his face, which was originally joyful.
"Prime Minister, is it that the Tang Dynasty even wants to attack this Xiangzhou? If I lose again this time, what kind of face will I have to return to Fanyang?"
"Hmph, your majesty, don't panic. The so-called Uighur cavalry is just a fake. The Tang army really thinks that our army is full of fools? Since they have to do so, I can only use my own tricks. Let me not wipe out this team of ignorant cavalry in one fell swoop!"
"The Prime Minister really has this confidence?"
Yan Zhuang put his hands behind his back, looking mysterious at that time, and then whispered: "Before, the Tang army had only used these few thousand cavalry to defeat our army. Now that Li Heng and Li Longji are going to return to Chang'an, Guo Ziyi will not appear here with his army. Most of them just want to use these thousands of cavalry to scare us away, but these thousands of cavalry are the beginning of His Majesty's revival. There are still tens of thousands of troops in Xiangzhou. We want to eliminate thousands of half-baked cavalry from the Tang Dynasty, and it is not easy to capture!"
"That's right! It's definitely easy to get it! The matter is fully handed over to the Prime Minister. I'll wait for good news in this palace!"
An Qingxu was actually quite proficient in riding and shooting horses when he was young, but since An Lushan suppressed him, he had already let himself go. He just wanted to do nothing except enjoyment, let alone lead troops to fight in person.
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. This is what he is talking about.
Under the secret surveillance of the rebel scouts, Li Yi brought the five thousand cavalry almost swaying into the territory of Xiangzhou, which was simply aiming to attack the city.
The rebel soldiers gradually learned about the Uighur cavalry coming to attack the city, and people were in panic for a while.
However, just when Li Neng's cavalry was close to the city of Xiangzhou and their troops stationed in the city, Yan Zhuang appeared in the barracks and personally began to speak to the remaining rebels in Xiangzhou.
"You can tell who are the so-called Uighur cavalry who are about to come to the city? They are just a cavalry of thousands of people trained in Suiyang by King Jianning of the Tang Dynasty. They may be able to understand the ability of the war horses and cavalry, which is incomparable to our Fanyang cavalry, let alone the Uighur cavalry!"
"What? He actually pretended to be?"
"We were in Luoyang before, and it was dark and lanterns. I really didn't take a closer look at their faces to see if they were Uighur cavalry."
"It's not bad! If the Uighur cavalry really came, we would probably not be left with so many people. I wondered why only the whistle of the arrows they shot out at the beginning, but then it was gone. It turned out to be fake!"
Chapter completed!