Li Shi had already retreated to Chengdu, which was designated as the southern capital after the Anshi Rebellion, where Emperor Xuanzong took refuge for many years and built a large palace here.

The prosperity of Chengdu and the comfortable life of the palace finally made Li Shi breathe a long sigh of relief, but his arrow wound did not heal, and he spent most of his time recuperating.

At this time, Chang'an's important ministers and magnates also fled to Chengdu one after another, Li Shi appointed the scholar Jiang Gongfu as the left minister, Lu Qi continued to serve as the right minister, and the court began to operate again, but Lu Qi's opposition in the court was too great, and his right minister would not last long.

At this time, the news came that the Tang army was fighting for Xiangcheng with Li Xilie's army, and because the Tang army was cut off from food and grass, Ge Shuyao's army had to withdraw from the battlefield and retreat to Henan Province, while Liu Qia's army did not have the support of Ge Shuyao's army, and it was difficult to support it alone, and had to abandon Xiangcheng and return to Songzhou.

Li Xilie's army won the final victory and occupied Xuzhou, both sides were exhausted, and temporarily withdrew their troops, and Li Na was also limited in strength and stopped at Puzhou.

Ge Shuyao's army controlled Henan Province and Ruzhou, Zhengzhou, Huaizhou, and Shaanzhou, while Liu Qia's army controlled Songzhou, Bianzhou, Huazhou, and Caozhou.

Li Xilie's power expanded northward, occupying five prefectures, including Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Bozhou, Yingzhou, and Chenzhou, plus his Huaixi Laolai, An, Chu, and Tang, and his power expanded the most, controlling most of the Huaihe River Valley.

Li Na also succeeded in turning the tables, occupying the entire Shandong Peninsula and the five prefectures of Yun, Pu, Ji, Yan, and Xu, and the entire eastern part of the Central Plains became his territory.

Due to the mutiny in Chang'an, the three towns of Hebei also temporarily stopped the war with the Tang army, and Li Baozhen and Ma Sui each collected their troops and waited for news from the imperial court.

At this time, Li Shi suffered a lot of pressure, although the ministers still wanted to hide him, but he finally knew how serious the situation was, his imperial uncle Li was only in Chang'an, the crown prince Li Yu ascended the throne in Taiyuan, and three imperial courts appeared in the Tang Dynasty at once, which almost made Li Shi collapse.

For several days, Li Shi couldn't sleep at night, he couldn't explain to the people of the world, and he couldn't explain to the group and the sect.

Lu Qi said to Li Shi in Yangxinzhai: "Your Majesty, the top priority is to assemble the army, the Jiannan army is only 20,000 people, once the rebels move south, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to resist, we should first withdraw all the troops that can be withdrawn to Bashu." ”

Li Shi was silent for a long time, then sighed and said: "The situation is chaotic to this day, it is all my responsibility, I must make an edict and admit my mistakes to the people of the world!" ”

"Your Majesty, now is not the time to make an edict."

Jiang Gongfu next to him persuaded: "Now the morale can be boosted, once Your Majesty issues an edict, it will seriously affect morale, and after recovering Chang'an and Taiyuan, it is not too late to issue an edict." ”

Li Shi is just talking, he really feels that it is not the time to make an edict now, now put down the chaos one by one, and then admit his mistakes to the world.

"Let's stop the war between the Central Plains and Hebei first! I can only pardon them first and restore stability. ”

This was not a temporary decision by Li Shi, but the result of repeated discussions among the ministers, and now the imperial court could not afford to fight on two fronts, so it could only face the reality, recognize the vested interests of the feudal towns, stabilize the situation in the east, and then concentrate on dealing with the rebellion in Chang'an.

Lu Qi hurriedly said: "We are only temporarily admitting, but in the future, when the strength is restored, we will clean them up one by one." ”

"Lu Xiangguo doesn't need to explain anymore, I know what to do in my heart."

Li Shi immediately issued a decree to pardon Li Xilie, Li Na, Tian Yue, Wang Wujun, and Zhu Tao for their rebellion, and officially canonized them as princes.

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Li Shi issued another edict, named Li Huaiguang as the envoy of Hanzhong Jiedu, ordered him to lead the army to retreat to Hanzhong, appointed Ma Sui as the envoy of Shannan Dongdao Jiedu, ordered him to lead the army to retreat to Xiangyang, and ordered Han Rong to quickly escort the Jiangnan tax and salt tax to Chengdu through the Yangtze River.

Li Shi issued another edict, ordering Hexi Jiedu to make Guo Song lead the Hexi army into the king of Shu Qin, and Shuo Fang Jiedu to make Cui Kuan and Longyou Jiedu make Li Sheng also lead the army into the king of Chengdu Qin.

This actually ceded Longyou, Hexi and Shuofang to Zhu Jun, and Li Shi now urgently needs to gather an army, at least 200,000 troops, so that he can have the confidence to recover Chang'an.

Li Sheng's army marched all the way to Chang'an after conquering Pujin Pass, but they also encountered the dilemma of lack of grain and grass, the famous granary Guangtong Cang had Zhu Jun's 50,000 troops to defend to the death, although there were millions of stone grain there, but Li Sheng's army could not obtain, after two failed attacks on Guangtongcang, Li Sheng's army moved to the south of the Wei River.

Li Sheng originally hoped to get the support of the people, but to his disappointment, his army was strongly resisted by the people of Guanzhong, and was reviled everywhere, and even the peasants organized themselves to fight with them.

In the afternoon of that day, 20,000 troops rested in a willow forest near Luonan County, Shangzhou, and they received an edict from the Son of Heaven, ordering them to rush to Bashu immediately, but their army was short of food, and they had to find a way to replenish food before setting off, but there was no food in the various official warehouses in Guanzhong, so they could only come to Shangzhou to try their luck.

Deputy General Jiang Chun whispered to Li Sheng: "I don't understand the lowly position, we are here to quell the chaos and kill the thieves, but in the eyes of the people, it seems that we are the thieves and the rebels, which is incomprehensible." ”

Li Sheng is the Gan Yun of the year, he left Kongtong Mountain the earliest, left when Guo Song just went up the mountain, it has been 20 years, the vicissitudes of time have left deep traces on his face, and the memories of the past have gradually been buried by the wind and sand, perhaps the time together is too short, he and Guo Song only have the name of brothers, but there is no relationship between brothers.

Among the several senior brothers, he has the best relationship with the senior brother Gan Feng, and every time he goes back to Kyoto, he will go to the Qingxu Palace to visit the senior brother and worship the master.

Li Sheng is already in his forties, tall, with long hands and feet, thick joints, he has a square face, dark skin, a half-foot long beard on his chin, and a pair of bright eyes are extremely sharp, like an incomparably sharp sword, sharp and sharp.

Li Sheng was silent for a moment and said: "Zhu Zhu is very good at winning people's hearts, using tax cuts and small favors to reduce burdens and distribute land to envelop the people of Guanzhong, and the people of Guanzhong will naturally be deceived by him for a while, and after a long time, his brutal nature will be slowly exposed, and at that time, he will naturally lose the support of the people in Guanzhong." ”

"So what do we do now?"

Jiang Chun said again: "Although the Son of Heaven ordered us to go to Bashu, the grain in our hands is not enough to support Bashu!" ”

"Wait a little longer, look at the news of the scouts, I think Shangzhou should be different from Guanzhong, and I won't be disappointed again this time."

At this time, several scout cavalry rushed over, turned over and dismounted for the commander of the first brigade, and knelt down on one knee to report: "General Qiyu, it has been investigated clearly, there are 3,000 stones of wheat and 50,000 quintals of forage in the official warehouse of Luonan County!" ”

Li Sheng was overjoyed, and immediately shouted: "The whole army sets off and goes to Luonan County!" ”

Li Sheng's army took 1,500 stone of grain and 10,000 quintals of forage from the official warehouse in Luonan County, and then turned around and returned to Guanzhong, turning to the Meridian Valley for Hanzhong.

Li Sheng's Qinwang army went to Bashu, Li Huaiguang's army got the news that the crown prince Li Yu had ascended the throne in Taiyuan when he traveled to Tongzhou, he immediately turned around and returned to Taiyuan, Yuan Xuanhu promised him that he would be crowned the king of Fenyang County and the general, Li Huaiguang only now understands what is going on, in fact, he wants him to be loyal to the new monarch of Taiyuan.

The relationship between Li Huaiguang and Xiangguo Lu Qi is extremely bad, if Lu Qi is deposed, he may consider going to Bashu, but Lu Qi is still Xiangguo, Li Huaiguang decided to take refuge in Taiyuan Xinjun, and would rather be the head of the chicken than the queen of the ox.

Shuofang Jiedu made Cui Kuan at the same time received the edict of Chang'an Wen Emperor Li Wei and the Son of Heaven Li Shi, Li only named him the king of Pingliang County, opened the palace Yi with the three divisions, checked the military department of Shangshu, and Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, continued to serve as the Shuofang Jiedu envoy, and promised that Shuofang's military expenses were borne by the imperial court, but Li Shi's edict was very simple, so that he immediately led the army to Bashu and gave up Shuofang.

On the one hand, it is the temptation of high-ranking officials Houlu, and on the other hand, it is unconditionally for him to pay, Cui Kuan finally accepted the edict of Emperor Li Wei of Chang'an Wen after weighing it for a long time, and led the army back to Shuofang, he also has feelings for Shuofang, and letting him give up Shuofang is equivalent to giving it to the party, how could he agree.

In just a few days, the four Qinwang armies were finally left in Guanzhong, and only thousands of cavalry led by Guo Song, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu.

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