After Ge Shuhan got on his horse and left the post station, Huoba Guiren led his subordinates to kowtow and said: "You led 200,000 troops in a battle and the whole army was wiped out, what kind of face do you have to go to see the Son of Heaven! Besides, don't you see the fate of Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi? It is better to go east and surrender to An Lushan." ”

Ge Shuhan disagreed and wanted to get off the horse. So he tied his feet under the horse's belly with a wool rope, and those of the generals who did not want to surrender were bound up and sent to the east.

At this time, the rebel general Tian Qianzhen arrived, and Huoba Guiren surrendered to him and was sent to Luoyang together.

An Lushan saw Ge Shuhan and asked triumphantly: "You always looked down on me in the past, how are you now?"

Geshuhan bowed to the ground and replied, "I am a mortal who does not know saints with my naked eyes. Now the world has not yet been pacified, Li Guangbi led his troops in Changshan, Wu King Li Yi is in Dongping, and Lu Jiong is in Nanyang, if Your Majesty can spare my life and let me write a letter to recruit them, it will not take long to be pacified. ”

Hearing this, An Lushan was very happy, so he worshiped Ge Shuhan as the commonplace and Tongping Zhang.

Turning his head, An Lushan said to Huoba Guiren again: "You have betrayed your master, you are disloyal and unjust, and I cannot keep such a person." ”

After saying that, he ordered him to be killed.

Ge Shuhan, under the supervision of An Lushan, wrote letters to the other generals, and they all replied to reproach him for his betrayal.

An Lushan knew that it would have no effect, so he imprisoned Ge Shuhan in the Forbidden Garden.

Tongguan has been lost, so the defenders of Hedong, Huayin, Fengyi, Shangluo and other counties have abandoned the county and fled, and the defenders under them have also fled.

On the day of the loss of Tongguan, Ge Shuhan's subordinates went to the imperial court to report that the situation was critical, and Tang Xuanzong did not summon him at that time, but only sent Li Fude and others to lead an army composed of supervisors and children to Tongguan for reinforcements. At night, he didn't see the beacon fire that reported safety, and Tang Xuanzong felt afraid.

Renchen (the tenth day of the first month), Xuanzong summoned the prime minister to discuss countermeasures. Yang Guozhong because he also served as the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, after An Lushan rebelled, he ordered Cui Yuan, the deputy envoy of Jiedu, to secretly prepare materials in case of danger to Jiannan, so at this time he first proposed to take refuge in Shuzhong.

The flustered Tang Xuanzong agreed with his opinion.

On the 11th, Yang Guozhong summoned hundreds of officials to the court, looked frightened, and wept bitterly and asked them what their plans were, but none of them answered. Yang Guozhong said: "People have been suing An Lushan for ten years, but the emperor always does not believe it. Now that things have developed to this point, it is not the prime minister's fault to me. ”

The rearguard retreated, and the people in the capital fled in panic, not knowing where to hide, the shops were closed, and the city was in a depression. Yang Guozhong let Mrs. Han and Mrs. Yu Guo enter the palace and persuaded Xuanzong to take refuge in Shuzhong.

On the first day (12th), less than one-tenth of the hundred officials went to court.

Tang Xuanzong ascended to the Qinzheng Building and made a book saying that he would personally lead the army to conquer An Lushan, and no one who heard it believed it.

Tang Xuanzong also appointed Jingzhao Yin Wei Fangjin as the imperial historian and envoy, and Cui Guangyuan, a person from Jingzhao Shaoyin Lingchang, as Jingzhao Yin, and Xijing stayed behind, so that the general Bian Lingcheng was in charge of the key to the palace.

Tang Xuanzong pretended that the ambassador of Jiannan Jiedu, Yingwang Li, was going to the town, and ordered Jiannan Province to prepare the materials used.

On the same day, Tang Xuanzong moved to Daming Palace.

After dark, Xuanzong ordered Chen Xuanli, the general of Longwu, to gather the six armies of the forbidden army, reward them with money and cloth, and selected more than 900 horses in the stable, which were unknown to outsiders.

On the 13th, the sky was light, and Xuanzong only took Yang Yuhuan and her three sisters, the crown prince, the imperial concubine, the princess, the imperial grandson, Yang Guozhong, Wei Jiansu, Wei Fangjin, Chen Xuanli and his cronies, eunuchs, and palace people from Yanqiu Gate, and the imperial concubines, princesses and imperial grandsons outside the palace all abandoned and fled by themselves.

When Tang Xuanzong passed by the Zuozang Treasury, Yang Guozhong begged to be set on fire, and said, "Don't leave this money to the traitors,"

Tang Xuanzong said in a miserable mood: "When the rebels come, they have no money, and they will definitely collect it from the people, so it is better to leave it to them to alleviate the suffering of the people." ”

Hearing this, Yang Yuhuan had the heart to explain to Tang Xuanzong Li Longji: The things in the Zuo Zang Treasure House have been taken away by Nian Qing and Su Tong. But after opening his mouth several times, he finally swallowed the words.

Qing Tong, who saw Yang Yuhuan's thoughts, said angrily: "The female is not left." ”

On this day, there were still hundreds of officials who entered the court, and when they arrived at the gate of the palace, they could still hear the sound of leaky pots dripping, and the guards of the honor guard were still standing there neatly.

But when the palace door was opened, I saw the palace people fleeing in chaos, and there was chaos inside and outside the palace, and they didn't know where the emperor was.

The emperor's escape made everyone's hearts lose their backbone, so the princes and nobles and ordinary people began to be busy running for their lives, and the small people in the mountains and fields rushed to enter the palace and the mansions of the princes and nobles, stealing gold and silver treasures, and some even rode donkeys to the palace. There were also people who set fire to the Zuozang Dayumu Treasury.

Cui Guangyuan and Bian Lingcheng brought people to fight the fire, and recruited people to guard the acting government and county magistrates respectively, killing more than a dozen people before the situation stabilized.

Cui Guangyuan sent his son to see An Lushan, and Bian Lingcheng also dedicated the keys to the palace doors to An Lushan.

After Tang Xuanzong Li Longji and others passed the bridge, Yang Guozhong sent people to set fire to the bridge, and Tang Xuanzong couldn't bear to say when he saw it: "The officials and the people are taking refuge to survive, why should they cut off their way of life!"

So he left the inner chamberlain, Gao Lishi, and told him to come back after the fire was extinguished.

Tang Xuanzong sent the eunuch Wang Luoqing to go first and tell the county officials to get ready. When it was time to eat, they arrived at Wangxian Palace in Xianyang County, and Wang Luoqing and Xianyang County Commander had already fled.

The eunuchs went to conscript, but neither the officials nor the people came.

It was noon, and Tang Xuanzong had not yet eaten, so Yang Guozhong personally used the money to buy Hu cakes and present them to Xuanzong.

When the people in the vicinity saw that they were vying for coarse rice, mixed with wheat and beans, the emperors and grandsons scrambled to eat it with their hands, and after a while, they ate it all, and they were not yet full. Tang Xuanzong gave money to the people at the price and comforted them. The people wept when they saw this, and Tang Xuanzong couldn't help crying.

At this time, an old man named Guo Congjin said: "An Lushan harbored evil intentions and conspired to rebel for a long time, during which some people went to the court to denounce his conspiracy, but His Majesty often killed these people, so that An Lushan's treacherous plan succeeded, so that His Majesty fled." Therefore, the emperors of the previous generations wanted to extend the visit of loyal and good people to publicize the public, which is for this reason. I still remember that when Song was the prime minister, he dared to make a direct admonition, so the world was safe and sound. But since then, the ministers in the court have been taboo to speak out, and only blindly flatter and please Your Majesty, so Your Majesty does not know what is happening outside the palace gate. Those subjects who were far away from the imperial court knew that there would be today, but due to the strict palace restrictions and far away from His Majesty, the allegiance could not be reached. If it weren't for An Lushan's rebellion, things would have come to this point, how could I see Your Majesty and tell it to your face!"

Tang Xuanzong didn't feel the slightest displeasure when he heard the old man's words, but said: "It's all my fault, but it's too late to regret it." Then he comforted Guo Congjin and let him go.