One, the door tiger son is in the clouds
There are many paradoxical places in history, An Lushan and Shi Siming were born in Liucheng, Yingzhou (present-day Chaoyang, Liaoning), and Li Guangbi, who suppressed the Anshi Rebellion, was born in Liucheng, Yingzhou (present-day Chaoyang, Liaoning) like them, An Lushan and Shi Siming would never have thought that God would give birth to their nemesis by their side. And from 755 to 763 AD, there were three northeastern men born in one place, perhaps this is the mutual survival. This article introduces the life of Li Guangbi.
Li Guangbi is five years younger than An Lushan and Shi Siming, unlike An Lushan and Shi Siming, Li Guangbi's status is much higher, his ancestor is a naturalized Khitan chieftain, was given the surname Li by the Great Tang, since then their family began to fight in the Great Tang Dynasty, his father Li Kailuo in the early years of Tang Xuanzong became the general Zuo Yulin Tongzheng, Shuofang Jiedu deputy envoy, Jiguo Gong, was a famous general in the early years of Emperor Xuanzong. As a disciple of the general, Li Guangbi received a very systematic education from an early age, and he could read the Book of Han and ride and shoot, in sharp contrast to An Shi, who could not read a basket of characters. Moreover, Li Guangbi strictly abides by etiquette, and during the period of worrying about his father, he even endured not sneaking into his wife's room to live a husband and wife life. If we use an analogy with characters written by Wang Shuo and other Beijing-based writers, An Lushan and Shi Siming are old cannons born as civilians, and Li Guangbi is a big courtyard disciple.
Li Guangbi's military starting point was very high, and he was the general Zuo Lang of Zuo Wei's palace as soon as he appeared. By the early years of Zhitianbao (742–756), Li Guangbi had been promoted to Zuo Qing Dao, the commander of Anbei Province, and the Shuofang Governorate, and belonged to the beloved general of Jiedu. In 746, the 38-year-old Li Guangbi was appreciated by the commander Wang Zhongsi and was promoted to the rank of Hexi envoy, in charge of the Chishui army. Most people today don't know Wang Zhongsi, but if you rank all the envoys of the Great Tang Dynasty, Wang Zhongsi must be the undisputed number one, this article will not be expanded, and there is an opportunity to write an article to record this big bull. Wang Zhongsi admired Li Guangbi very much, and often said to others: "When I am transferred, Li Guangbi will definitely be able to take over my position." In addition to Wang Zhongsi's praise and call, Li Guangbi also used his battle exploits to become a famous general in the Tang Frontier Region. Three years later, in 749, at the age of 41, Li Guangbi was promoted to deputy envoy of Hexi Jiedu and made him the Duke of Jixun. According to the normal career path Li Guangbi is young and promising, it was also in this year that Gao Shi, who was 45 years old, finally passed the imperial examination to become the lieutenant of Dunqiu County, but compared to An Lushan, who was five years older than him, he was still a lot inferior. In 752, at the age of 44, Li Guangbi was promoted to deputy governor of Shan Yufu. Two years later, in 754, Shuofang Jiedu made An Sishun very fond of Li Guangbi, while recommending Li Guangbi as the deputy envoy of Shuofang Jiedu and wanted to marry his daughter to Li Guangbi, Li Guangbi did not like An Sishun, so he said that he was sick and resigned, of course, An Sishun was embarrassed to mention marrying his daughter to Li Guangbi. Geshuhan couldn't bear to let a fierce general like Li Guangbi be idle at such a young age, so he personally wrote to ask Emperor Xuanzong to summon 46-year-old Li Guangbi to enter the dynasty as an idle position.
The first general of Shi Siming
In the second year, at the end of 755, An Lushan led 150,000 elites to attack the Central Plains, and in just one month he broke through the important towns of Chen Liu and Xingyang, and Li Longji used the Tang Shuangbi Gaoxianzhi and Feng Changqing also failed to block An Lushan's troops, until Li Longji used Geshuhan to garrison Tongguan, and only then blocked An Lushan's rebels in Guandong.
At this point, the Great Tang began to carry out the counterinsurgency war in an orderly manner, first with Geshuhan blocking the main force of An Lushan at Tongguan, and then dispatching the Qinwang army from all over the country to surround An Lushan from all directions, and then sending an elite army from the north through Shanxi to cut off the connection between the rebels and the old nest Fanyang, taking the opportunity to steal the rebels' lair. This army needed a strong general to defend Shanxi and take advantage of the opportunity to attack Hebei. Li Longji consulted Guo Ziyi, the envoy of Shuofang, after all, the commander of the Northern Road Army was Guo Ziyi, and Guo Ziyi immediately recommended Li Guangbi, who was very famous in Hexi and Shuofang. Therefore, Li Guangbi was appointed as the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu and acting as the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu in Yunzhong (today's Datong), and also concurrently served as the Taishou of Wei County and the interview envoy of Hebei Province, of course, the Wei army and Hebei Province were still in the hands of the rebels, so that he could act cheaply after recovering Wei County and Hebei. At this time, the imperial court was quite reliable, and did not let Li Guangbi take office, but allocated five thousand elites from the Shuofang army to him.
Li Guangbi was also a soldier and a nobleman, and in a month he passed through Yunzhong (Datong) and then went to Jinyang (Taiyuan) to cross the Taihang Mountain from Jingxiankou into Hebei, and directly stole Changshan City. Shi Siming, who was busy attacking Raoyang at that time, led tens of thousands of troops to reflexively attack Li Guangbi, Li Guangbi closed the door and held it to death, and from time to time came a wave of sneak attacks, making Shi Siming helpless, Shi Siming's attempt to cut off Changshan's grain and grass was also dissolved by Li Guangbi one by one. In April, Guo Ziyi's 20,000 reinforcements also arrived at the Changshan battlefield. Shi Siming saw that Li Guangbi was so laborious to fight, and Guo Ziyi, a new force, came again, and if he couldn't fight, he withdrew. However, how could Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi let him withdraw from the battlefield so easily, so they pursued closely and defeated Shi Siming in the south of Jiumen City, and Shi Siming retreated to Boling (present-day Dingzhou, Hebei). In May, An Lushan sent Cai Xide and others to lead more than 30,000 horsemen to reinforce Shi Siming, Shi Siming saw that he was strong again, and immediately took the initiative to attack Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi again, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi were deep in the ditch high base, and fought a beautiful defensive counterattack at Jiashan, Hengyang (modern Quyang, Hebei), cutting off more than 40,000 captives and capturing more than 1,000 prisoners, Shi Siming himself had his helmets knocked off, his shoes were lost, and he was very embarrassed to hide back to Boling City with the remnants of the army. Li Guangbi took the opportunity to surround Boling City and attacked the city with his life. At the same time, the troops were divided to recruit the counties, and more than ten counties in Hebei returned to the hands of the Great Tang.
When Li Guangbi and Shi Siming died in Boling City, Geshuhan's Tong Pass was breached, Li Longji fled to Chengdu, Li Heng ascended the throne as the new emperor in Lingwu, Li Heng hoped that Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi could personally go to Lingwu to stand for themselves, so Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi had to abandon Hebei and go to Lingwu. Li Heng was very satisfied with Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi standing on his own team, and gave Guangbi Hubu Shangshu, and also Taiyuan Yin, Beijing Liushou, Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, became the envoy, and still served as the envoy. Li Heng was also desperate, he left Li Guangbi's elite subordinates in Lingwu, and then distributed 5,000 miscellaneous soldiers from Jingcheng and Hejian Qinwang to Li Guangbi and let him bring him back to the Jinyang front.
This army can't be beaten, forget it, the superintendent Yushi Cuizhong don't look like a literati, but he doesn't put the commander Jiedu Wang Chengye in his eyes at all, and often points at Wang Chengye's nose and scolds, making the whole army smoky and miasmatic. When Li Guangbi went to receive this army, Cui Zhong regarded Li Guangbi as Wang Chengye, not only did not salute in front of Li Guangbi but also resolutely did not hand over military power, Li Guangbi was not the parent of a habitual child at all, and took Cui Zhong down and tied him up with an order. As a result, on the same day, a eunuch came to Li Guangbi with a holy decree, opened his mouth and asked Cui Zhong where he went. Mr. Lee said Mr. Cui had been tied up by himself and was waiting to be cut off his head. The eunuch said with his nostrils facing the sky: "Quickly release Cui Zhong, and the imperial court promoted Cui Zhong to be the imperial history." This is the divine decree. As soon as Li Guangbi heard this, he understood what tricks the imperial court was playing, so he said to the eunuch coldly: "I suggest you not to declare the will, now I am killing a royal history, if you declare the will to promote him to be the imperial history of the emperor, then I will kill the imperial history of the emperor, if you declare the will to worship him as the prime minister, I will kill a prime minister." You look at it! "In fact, Li Guangbi's meaning is very clear, you don't need to use the imperial court to pressure me, Cui Zhong I am determined, no one is good, I know that you temporarily promoted him in order to save Cui Zhong, this trick is useless for me Li Guangbi, you yourself weigh whether it is worth it to kill a royal history by me Li Guangbi or even the prime minister by me?" The eunuch who delivered the decree was frightened by Li Guangbisen's cold gaze and fled, and Emperor Li Heng and his small court did not dare to beep again. The next day, Li Guangbi gathered the three armies to cut Cui Zhong in public, and from then on the army knew that Li Guangbi's words counted. Li Guangbi then informed Cui's family to come and collect the body.
In the first month of 757, Li Guangbi then returned to Jinyang (present-day Taiyuan) with his troops. Immediately, the combined forces of Shi Siming and Cai Xide of more than 100,000 people invaded Shanxi and killed Taiyuan. At this time, Li Guangbi had less than 10,000 rabble in his hands. Shi Siming was overjoyed when he heard about the situation in Taiyuan, and said to the generals: "Now that Li Guangbi has few troops and no combat effectiveness, as long as we defeat Taiyuan, we can attack Hexi and Shuofang to the west without worries." So he began to speed up his march to Taiyuan. The generals in the interior of the city were very frightened when they saw that the Yan army was powerful, and quickly suggested repairing the city wall, which made Li Guangbi smile: "Taiyuan City is forty miles long, and now the Yan army will be killed immediately, how can we repair less than 10,000 people?" Even if it is repaired, it will be tired into dogs, how to defend the enemy when it is attacked? Seeing that the generals were useless, Li Guangbi could only personally plan a defensive plan, and Li Guangbi first led the whole army and the people in the city to dig ditches and hundreds of thousands of large pits outside the city, of course, everyone did not know what was the use of doing so. When the Yan army came to the siege outside the city, Li Guangbi asked people to dig tunnels from inside the city to the outside of the city, and sent elite soldiers to raid the Yan army from the tunnels in the middle of the night, and as a result, when the Yan army attacked the city again the next day, they looked at the hundreds of thousands of big pits in front of them like tunnels in the city exit, they could only check these big pits one by one, and when they camped at night, these big pits also became mines, and the Yan army did not dare to sleep at all, so the Yan army began to take the initiative to retreat far away and did not dare to approach the city gate and camp. Then Li Guangbi placed the siege ground catapult at the head of the city, and cooperated with the crossbow to roll wood and thunder stone, forming a ground echelon attack on the Yan army's siege troops. The Yan army besieged for more than ten months, and more than 10,000 people died, but they did not attack Taiyuan City, at this time came the news that An Lushan died and An Qingxu became the new emperor of the Great Yan Kingdom, so he ordered Shi Siming and others to withdraw to Hebei for repair, and Shi Siming saw that there was no point in spending it here, so he withdrew to Fan Yang. And Cai Xide was not convinced, stayed behind to continue to attack the city, and as a result, after more than a month, Li Guangbi had already adjusted his subordinates from the original rookie chicken to have the power of a battle, so he suddenly killed Cai Xide from the city at the right time and defeated Cai Xide, and his head was cut off more than 70,000, and there were countless ordnance and food. The Yan army was completely intimidated and withdrew from Shanxi and returned to Hebei. During this small year of siege battle, Li Guangbi placed the command post under the southeast city wall, slept at the command post every day, and dealt with it immediately as soon as something happened, passing by his door without even looking. After all the Yan troops retreated for three days, all military affairs were dealt with before going home to rest. In order to commend Li Guangbi for holding Taiyuan and blocking the Yan army, so that the imperial court could prepare to retake Chang'an without worry, the imperial court made Li Guangbi Sikong, Shangshu of the military department, and Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, entered the title of Duke of Wei, and sealed 800 households.
September of that year was a very important moment in the Anshi Rebellion. After more than a year of active preparation, the Great Tang mobilized 150,000 elites, including more than 110,000 elite border troops from Anxi and Beiting to help, and also hired 5,000 people including Tocharian Yehu (Afghan army), 5,000 Khotan troops, 5,000 Uighur troops, and 40,000 southwestern barbarians and other mercenaries at a high price. The moment of the Great Tang's strategic counterattack against the Yan army had come. However, Li Heng and Guo Ziyi disagreed on the route of the march, and Guo Ziyi urged the whole army to enter Hebei after entering Shanxi in the east and directly attacked Fanyang, taking the old nest of the Yan army, and completely solving the battle in one battle. However, Li Heng advocated attacking Chang'an, and if victorious, he would go east to Tongguan to recapture Luoyang, and then gradually eliminate the Yan army after recovering the two capitals. Judging from the later results, Guo Ziyi's strategy is undoubtedly correct, if the battlefield is in the Yan military jurisdiction in this way, it can also retain a trace of vitality for the Great Tang to the greatest extent if it is broken, because at this time, the Great Tang has long been unable to pay the high military expenses of the army, whether it is the regular army of the Tang Dynasty or the military expenses of the mercenaries of various ethnic groups hired by them, they must rely on robbery for transfer payments. And along the march route of Chang'an and Luoyang and then north to Fanyang, even if you win the essence of the Great Tang, it will become a white land, and after this battle, the vitality of the Great Tang will be exhausted and the glory of the empire can no longer be restored. However, the temptation of the political significance of the restoration of the two capitals made Li Heng give up his longer-term plans, so the 150,000-strong army of the Great Tang Dynasty rushed from Lingwu to Chang'an.
When An Qingxu heard this, he immediately led An Shouzhong, Li Guiren and others to lead the most elite 100,000 troops of the Yan army to immediately march west to rescue Chang'an. The two sides broke out in the Xiangji Temple outside Chang'an City in the most violent, fierce, and highest-level battle of the century in the history of cold weapons, and the process will not be repeated. The Tang army of 150,000 against the Yan army of 110,000, from noon to Youshi the two sides fought to the death for a full 8 hours, the corpses were like a mountain, blood flowed like a river, the two sides were evenly matched, and after the casualties of more than half of the horses and horses, the two sides still fought to the death and did not retreat, forged ahead bravely, and did not collapse is a miracle. After the war, the Tang army suffered more than 70,000 casualties, the Yan army was cut off more than 60,000 heads, and more than 20,000 were captured. The Great Tang won a crushing victory, but the elite Beiting and Anxi border armies were completely lost, and the elite Yan army led by An Qingxu was almost completely damaged. There is a record in the "Zizhi Tongjian Tang Ji": "Since noon and unitary, 60,000 people have been beheaded, and many people have died in the trenches."
The Tang Dynasty gained the opportunity for a strategic counterattack at an extremely tragic price, and An Qingxu withdrew all the way east with the remnants of his army, and Shaanzhou and Luoyang were abandoned one after another until they fled to Ye County (邺郡, in present-day Anyang, Henan). However, the people of the Central Plains of Liangjing hoped that the stars and the moon would finally usher in Wang Shi, but their suffering had just begun, because at this time the Great Tang was unable to pay the army's food and salary, and could only condone them to plunder the people. Shuofang and the Shenze army also regarded Tokyo, Zheng, Bian, and Ruzhou as thieves, and they had been plundered, and in March, the house was destroyed, and the people were clothed and paper. "The Tang Army's harm to the people is no worse than that of the Yan Army, it is really the suffering of the people and the suffering of the dead people."
After An Qingxu retreated into Yecheng, he fought to the death, repelled the Tang army pursuing him, and stopped the one-sided decline, and generals such as Cai Xide, Tian Chengsi, and Wu Lingxun led troops to Yecheng to join An Qingxu, and An Qingxu gathered an army of 60,000 and regained his prestige. But at this time, An Qingxu was very embarrassed, his situation was that he was young and could not control these veterans of his father's generation, so he killed the general Cai Xide and annexed his men. However, at this time, the strongest strength in the Yan army camp was still not him, the emperor, but Shi Siming, who was entrenched in Fanyang, and this situation of strong branches and weak efforts made him very uneasy, so he sent Ashina Chengqing, An Shouzhong, and Li Lijie to the counties of Hebei to recruit soldiers and horses, with the intention of gathering strength and also testing whether Shi Siming was willing to submit to him, and even take the opportunity to kill Shi Siming. Faced with this situation, Shi Siming weighed it and let himself give up the army in his hands and the base of Fan Yang, he was 10,000 unwilling, but if he let him fight with An Qingxu, it would be very unwise to do so at this moment when the Great Tang was looking at the tiger, so he followed the advice of his subordinates to submit to the Great Tang under advantageous conditions. Shi Siming first sent people to Ashina Chengqing to say that he would never betray his brothers and was willing to obey An Qingxu's orders, and at the same time invited Ashina Chengqing and his party to enter the city, Shi Siming held a grand banquet to entertain the main generals, in fact, it was to isolate Ashina Chengqing and other generals from the soldiers, and then sent troops to disarm his subordinates, distribute all the soldiers collected by the counties with money, food, and grass to send home, and those who were willing to stay were scattered across the battalions for resettlement and integration, and then the generals were arrested at the banquet. Except for Ashina Seungkeiyuki, who was under house arrest, the rest were all killed. Then he sent someone to contact the Great Tang to express that the 80,000 troops of the thirteen counties under his jurisdiction were willing to submit to the Tang court, and contacted Hedong Jiedu to make Gao Xiuyan surrender together. Emperor Suzong of Tang Li Heng was very happy, and the pie was lost in the sky, and immediately named Shi Siming the king of Guiyi County, Fan Yang Changshi, Yushi Dafu, and Hebei Jiedu Envoy, and his son Shi Chaoyi and others as Lieqing, and sent Wu Chengen and the eunuch Li Sijing to pacify Shi Siming, and ordered him to lead his troops to attack An Qingxu. Under Cai Jing's plan to use the Song River to attack Fang La, he acted in a strategy of using thieves to fight thieves. But how could Shi Siming listen to the Great Tang, while he frantically sent his cronies to recruit the prefectures and counties of Hebei, on the other hand, he fought with the generals under An Qingxu to cooperate with each other to deceive the Tang court, and on the other hand, he also recruited troops to expand his strength. Although the Great Tang Imperial Court knew that Shi Simingyang was disobedient, it was helpless. Because at this time, their main contradiction was still An Qingxu in Yecheng.
In 758, the Tang Dynasty mobilized the Nine Roads Jiedu envoy to jointly conquer An Qingxu in Yecheng. However, Li Heng was worried that the generals would be more domineering if they made great achievements, so he sent Yu Chao Enlai to temper the nine festivals and march. At first, it was very smooth, defeating the main force of the Yan army in Weizhou, beheading more than 40,000 people, and then encircling Yecheng. But what Tang Jun didn't expect was that the remnants of the Yan army led by An Qingxu fought very tenaciously. From October 758 to February 759, the city had long been killed and eaten, a bucket of rice cost more than 70,000, a rat was worth thousands of dollars, and people washed the wheat husk and horse manure under the collapsed wall and ate them like feeding horses. But they just refused to go out of the city and surrender, and if they starved to death, they would have to fight the Tang army to death. Until March 758, Shi Siming led 130,000 rescuers to the outside of Yecheng. Under the combination of inside and outside, Shi Siming defeated the Tang army, and the envoys of each section successively returned to the town, and the soldiers plundered along the way, and the officials could not prohibit it, and it was only after many days of disruption that it was stable. Only Li Guangbi and Wang Sili reorganized the troops and returned with the whole army.
After Shi Siming relieved the siege of Yecheng, he killed An Qingxu and his four brothers, Gao Shang, Sun Xiaozhe, Cui Qianyou and other irons, as well as more than 3,300 pro-troops, annexed An Qingxu's soldiers, horses and territory, sent An Taiqing to lead 5,000 troops to capture Huaizhou (present-day Qinyang, Henan), and left Shi Chaoyi to defend Xiangzhou, and returned to Fanyang with his own troops. In April, Shi Siming proclaimed himself Emperor Yingtian of Dayan, changed Yuan Shuntian, made his wife Xin Shi empress, Shi Chaoyi as King Huai, Zhou Xian as prime minister, Li Guiren as a general, and Fan Yang as Yanjing.
In August 759, Shi Siming, who was self-consciously strong and strong, left his youngest son Shi Chaoqing to stay in Youzhou, assisted by Ashina Chengqing, Zhang Tongru, Xiang Gong, Gao Fengren and others. He ordered each county Taishou to lead 3,000 troops to assemble their tents, and the troops entered the counties of Kou Henan in four ways: 5,000 men from Linghu Zhangbu crossed the river from Liyang (present-day Jun County, Henan) and took Huanzhou directly, Shi Siming led the Chinese army from Puyang, Shi Chaoyi crossed the Yellow River from Baigaodu (northeast of present-day Huanyang, Henan), and Zhou Xian crossed the Yellow River from Huliangdu (southwest of present-day Puyang, Henan), and met under the city of Bianzhou (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). Shi Siming's march was very smooth, and he soon conquered Bianzhou, Puyang, Zhengzhou and other places, and his troops were directed at Luoyang.
At this time, the Tang court dumped all the blame for the defeat of the Jiulu Jiedu Crusade on Guo Ziyi's head, but at this time, Shi Siming's imposing killing had to be brought out to carry the thunder, so Li Guangbi was appointed to replace Guo Ziyi as the envoy of Shuofang and the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses. Li Guangbi still knew the importance and asked the imperial court to appoint the prince as a marshal, and he himself could be the deputy marshal to assist the prince, and the imperial court saw that Li Guangbi was sensible, so he appointed Li Guangbi, the king of Zhao, as the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and Li Guangbi as the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses. After Li Guangbi was ordered, he rushed to Luoyang with 500 men of Hedong cavalry and entered the Shuofang army at night. In order to prevent the rebels from attacking Luoyang, he believed that he "should be a tiger prison", so he led his troops east out of the Yellow River. Shuo Fangjun was accustomed to Guo Ziyi's leniency and feared Li Guangbi's harshness, so the left army made Zhang Yongji and the generals conspire with the generals to expel Li Guangbi and welcome Guo Ziyi back. Li Guangbi led thousands of cavalry east out of Xianshui, and Zhang Yongji rode alone to greet him, but Li Guangbi reproached him for not arriving on time, so he beheaded him. In August, Li Guangbijia concurrently served as the governor of Youzhou, Shi, and Hebei Jiedu Zhidu Yingtian Jingliu. However, Shi Siming's army was extremely strong this time, and the Tang army was almost crushed, and Li Guangbi knew that he could not fight hard, so he moved all the people around Luoyang to Guanzhong, came to a strong wall and cleared the wilderness, and then took the main force to hide in the three fortresses of Heyang north of Luoyang City to guard the Yellow River, and played a classic defensive counterattack. Li Guangbi's hand is very clever, the strategic significance of Heyang City is very important, stuck under the nose of Luoyang City, Shi Siming simply does not dare to let it go and go west, but after Li Guangbi steals his ass, he will have to be wiped out by the whole army.
On September 27, Shi Siming entered Luoyang, which was already an empty city, and found nothing, so he could only search for the Buddha statues in the temples in the city, send them back to Youzhou, and greatly expand his old residence in Luoyang, naming it "Longxing Temple". In October of that year, Shi Siming began to attack Li Guangbi, Li Guangbi began to use three fortresses as the base camp, and began to start a vigorous battle with Shi Siming, the most important thing is that Li Guangbi is not a dead guard, but also attacks from time to time, if there is nothing to do, he will write a letter to Shi Siming's generals to persuade him to surrender, what water attack, fire attack, and grain road on both sides are used to the extreme, and the fight is hot, and even Li Guangbi and mare are used to seduce the stallions in Shi Siming's army, resulting in later dynasties and successive military horses only using mares or geldings instead of stallions, It is to worry that the other party will use the mare to seduce their own stallion. The two sides fought ping-pong until April 760, and Shi Siming could only return to Luoyang without taking advantage of it, declaring the defeat of the battle of Heyang. The two sides fell into a strategic confrontation.
This confrontation was another year, and in February 761, Shi Siming doubted his life and moved to withdraw Fan Yang to fix it. Because Li Guangbi lost Shi Siming's temper, he actually let Yu Chao Enyu Gonggong give birth to the idea that Shi Siming was just like this, and the time was ripe for the Tang strategic counterattack to the imperial court many times, asking for the initiative to fight a decisive battle with Shi Siming. Although Li Guangbi strongly opposed it, he was ignored by the imperial court, ordered Li Guangbi to march, and also sent an envoy to supervise the battle, Li Guangbi knew that he would be cut off his head again, and he was very helpless to enter Luoyang. Li Guangbi knew that he could not be defeated, but in order to strive for victory as much as possible, he ordered the whole army to deploy a formation in the northern mountains with complicated terrain, but Li Guangbi was always disobedient, and his servant Gu Huaien did not directly confront Shi Siming at all, and set up a formation on the plain. Shi Siming and the Yan generals were overjoyed, it turned out that God was still on their side, so on the one hand they ordered their pawns to abandon their belongings and pretend to flee in the forest on the outskirts of the city, and on the other hand, they set up an ambush in the mountains of Beiqi. The Tang army formation was not yet completed, and many soldiers were greedy for money and materials, defenseless, and rushed to enter the city and plunder first. Shi Siming saw that the fighter was mature, so he launched the whole army to kill and beat the Tang army, and the Tang army was defeated, killing thousands of people and losing a large number of military equipment. Li Guangbi and Servant Gu Huai'en crossed the river to retreat to Wenxi, Yu Chaoen and Wei Boyu withdrew to Shaanzhou, Li Baoyu also abandoned the three cities of Heyang, and the rebels recaptured Huaizhou. The imperial court was terrified and mobilized heavy troops to garrison Shaanzhou.
But no one expected that Shi Siming, who was going to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to enter Guanzhong, was killed by his son. However, due to Shi Chaoyi's lack of prestige, the generals fell apart and were unable to advance westward. This gave the Tang Dynasty the opportunity to redeploy, and the imperial court believed that the defeat of Huangshan was caused by the discord between Li Guangbi and Servant Gu Huai'en, so they asked Li Guangbi to report to the imperial court, Li Guangbi came up and pleaded guilty, Li Heng was very satisfied with Li Guangbi's attitude, and said on the face that Li Guangbi was a meritorious servant Gu Huai'en was guilty, but he transferred Li Guangbi to Xuzhou to open up a new battlefield, but gave the task of attacking Shi Chaoyi to Gonggu Huaien, so always remember not to listen to what the leader said, but to see what he did. The attitude of the imperial court in this way represented that the imperial court trusted the servant Gu Huaien more than Li Guangbi in its heart.
After Li Guangbi arrived in Xuzhou, he easily defeated the Eastern Route Army of the Yan Army, and by the way, eliminated several rebel armies in Zhejiang, and stabilized the situation in Jiangnan. In the first month of 763, Shi Chaoyi was cornered and committed suicide. The remnants of the Yan army were recruited and placed in the three towns of Youzhou, Chengde and Weibo, and the Anshi Rebellion that lasted for eight years was quelled, Li Guangbi participated in commanding the army from beginning to end, and has always been one of the main generals of the Tang army to suppress the rebellion, showing outstanding military talents, commanding the Tang army to annihilate the living forces of the rebels, and made a leading contribution to quelling the internal strife, and the "New Book of Tang" praised Li Guangbi for "the first in battle merit" in quelling the Anshi Rebellion.
Sanji lived in Xuzhou and ended gloomily
In Xuzhou, Li Guangbi only decided on military affairs, and entrusted all other affairs to the shrewd judge Zhang Mi. The generals played things, and Li Guangbi mostly let Zhang Mi participate in the discussion. The generals served Zhang Mi, such as his colleague Li Guangbi, so the army was cleaned up, and Eastern Xia (generally referring to the east) was peaceful.
After calming the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court wanted to collect the military power in the hands of the Jiedu envoy, so it transferred Shangheng, Yin Zhongqing, Lai Yao, etc. into the dynasty, these people were afraid that Li Guangbi always stood on the side of the imperial court, so they obediently entered the dynasty, and as a result, Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Yu actually killed Yuan, as a result, the credibility of the Tang court was completely destroyed, and the consequences were very serious, and the world's jiedu envoys regarded the military power in their hands as the capital to save their lives, and no longer dared to hand it over to the imperial court, including Li Guangbi. At that time, the servant Gu Huaien colluded with Tubo to attack Chang'an, and the imperial court ordered Li Guangbi to lead troops to join Li Yu, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty in Shaanzhou, how dare Li Guangbi go, but he was dragged down, and the imperial court was also afraid that Li Guangbi could fight, not only did not dare to punish him, but repeatedly comforted Li Guangbi's mother and younger brother.
On August 15, 764, Li Guangbi died of illness in Xuzhou. The whole world was watching how the imperial court handled Li Guangbi's aftermath, and under internal and external troubles, the Tang court would never dare to chill the hearts of the world's military leaders, so Emperor Daizong gave him the imperial treasure for three days, posthumously giving him the nickname "Wumu". Soon after, Li Guangbi's subordinates escorted his coffin back to Chang'an, and Daizong sent Yu Chaoen to his mother Li's mansion in Chang'an to pay homage, and ordered Jing Zhao Yin Fifth Qi to take charge of his funeral. In November, Lee was buried in Sanyuan. On the day of the burial, Emperor Daizong ordered the officials to be buried outside the gate of Yanping. In the fourteenth year of the Great Calendar (779), Emperor Daizong rated the person who "the supreme virtue has come to the general and the efficacy is clear", and Li Guangbi, who was publicly recommended as the first meritorious hero of ZTE, was actually rated as the second class. In the first year of Jianzhong (780), Emperor Dezong of Tang commented that "those who will die since the end of Germany", and Li Guangbi and fifteen others were designated as meritorious ministers of the second class.
In the pacification of the Anshi Rebellion, Guo Ziyi was always promoted as the first, because Guo Ziyi could not only fight wars, but also be a leader and a courtier, and he could make the emperor not doubt himself, convince his colleagues, and let Tubo and Uighur fear him. However, if it is only about fighting a war, Li Guangbi calls it second, and no one dares to claim first. Li Guangbi suppressed Shi Siming with the defeat of the remnants of the army, so that the elite soldiers under Shi Siming had no room to play, and he relied on the strength of one person to win time and space for the Tang to counterattack. Some people harshly accused Li Guangbi of not being good at field battles, the Great Tang never handed over the elite to Li Guangbi, every time he was given a remnant defeated general, and he was forced to win every time with such a headwind, but a group of boring literati let Li Guangbi with such a remnant defeated general to fight with the world's elite An Shi rebels, thanks to Li Guangbi is not crazy, otherwise he will change the dynasty, so Li Guangbi will be publicly promoted as the first general of ZTE. Later generations of literati said that Li Guangbi is good at being a general and not good at being a minister, they are targeting Guo Ziyi, and there are few people who can achieve Guo Ziyi's comprehensive unity in five thousand years, there is really no need to embarrass Li Guangbi, he has done much more than 99.99999999% of people. There are also many people who say that Li Guangbi should not hide in Xuzhou in his later years, so what should he do, go to Chang'an to be beheaded? If the imperial court did not kill Lai Yao first, would Li Guangbi make a disobedient move? The Anshi Rebellion was played by Li Longji himself, and the division of the clan and town was also the blame of the Tang Dynasty, and no one can blame them. The only thing I am glad about is that Li Guangbi is not so loyal that he stretches out his neck for others to cut, at that time, I am afraid that he will not only not be able to save his head, I am afraid that his famous name will also be wiped out by the Tang Dynasty court, and the whole family will probably be pulled out and bloodied one by one, is that really worth it?
Hundreds of battles are fought against ZTE, and the enemy is expected to be wonderful. It's a pity that he hated death in the end, and he was sad not to see his white head relatives.