The situation in Chang'an City is chaotic enough, but Huang Chao, who is on the front line of Fengzhou, is also overwhelmed by the tireless continuous attack, so far, ** has been launching an offensive for nearly three months, and both sides have their own victories and defeats, but the number of soldiers on both sides has dropped sharply.

However, there is still a certain gap between the two sides, Huang Chao has to continuously send reinforcements to the rear because of the fire in the backyard, and he has to always pay attention to the situation in Dasanguan and Chen Cangdao behind him, plus the consumption of troops in the past few months, even if the troops in Liangquan County are all reduced, now there are less than 80,000 people in Fengzhou City, including the wounded.

And ** is completely different, although there are 50,000 or 60,000 people of the Feng family army who left Fengzhou and crossed the Qinling Mountains, but the main force of ** still remains on the front line in Fengzhou. Although the continuous attacks made the soldiers exhausted and even suffered heavy casualties, after all, there was an entire Tang Dynasty court behind them to maintain the war.

Especially those Jiedu envoys who sent soldiers and horses but were like grass on the wall, after seeing that the Tang Dynasty had completely grasped the advantages of the war, they all wanted to fly to the front line of Fengzhou to reap the merits of the war and show their loyalty. Even Tang Xizong, the son of heaven in Shu, also worked together with Liu Yonghao, who had monopoly power in the DPRK, and even Tian Lingzi of the eunuch group also made great efforts, lest there be any unnecessary accidents in this war due to the lack of troops and supplies in the rear.

Of course, the reason why the Tang Dynasty was able to do its best to cheer up in the rear was completely because of the unity of the monarch and the ministers, and all the members of the court, including Tang Xizong, wanted to return to Chang'an, Kyoto, as soon as possible, return to the gorgeous mansions, and enjoy the glory and wealth in the prosperous Chang'an City.

Moreover, Yang Lianting, who is the first superintendent of the Tang Dynasty, although he is not in the army, he can devote himself to Uncle Li and Lin Feng, any report sent to the Son of Heaven in Chengdu Mansion, Yang Lianting always hypes how to be brave and how to recover Chang'an is just around the corner, but each report has another thing in common, that is, in the end, there will always be one thing, asking for people, money, and food.

As long as we can definitely win the war, we will definitely be able to recover Chang'an, and Datang will still be able to afford that little money and food, and the more difficult thing is the soldiers, but with the timely 'assistance' of various festivals, all problems are almost solved. Even in the entire court, under the leadership of Liu Yonghao, all the officials also donated the treasures of their respective families to the imperial court, either as a reward in the future, or handed over to the household management, and after the people found a way to convert it into cash, as a military salary, it was continuously sent to the front line, and at the same time, there were also rewards from high-ranking officials.

With money to make, officials to do, and fame and fortune can be reaped, the soldiers of the best are becoming more and more brave in battle, and even those soldiers under the command of various places who originally had the idea of making up a number of points began to ignore the original idea, and joined the ranks of fame and fortune one after another.

After a few months, although the ** under the command of Li Huangshu suffered serious casualties due to the storming of Fengzhou, the number of troops did not seem to have decreased at all, and the total strength remained at the beginning of the war three months ago, about 130,000 people. Of course, the sixty or seventy thousand people who were injured or even killed in the siege battle are not completely ineffective, and now Fengzhou City is already in danger, ** Every onslaught will make Huang Chao's heart tremble, and it seems that it may be broken at any time.

And at this time, Huang Chao happened to receive Chen Cang's battle report, Yang Neng actually humiliated the general Shang Rang in public with grievances, and the exhausted Huang Chao couldn't wait to fly directly to Chen Cang with a sword and break Yang Neng's body into ten thousand pieces.

At the beginning, the reason why Huang Chao sent Shang Rang back to help Chen Cang was to let Shang Rang, who had experienced a hundred battles, be able to unite all available forces in the rear to completely wipe out the Feng family army in Wuzhangyuan to calm the fire in the backyard, but he didn't expect that not only the fire was not extinguished, but it also burned more and more.

In desperation, Huang Chao had no choice but to send his henchman Huo Cun again, with the holy decree and his own gold medal, and even his own personal sword, to hurry back to Chencang, and ordered Shang Rang to take over all military power except Chang'an City, and specially told Huo Cun not to punish Yang Neng for the time being, if Yang Neng dies without repentance, he can also correct the law on the spot to prevent future troubles.

After doing this, Huang Chao has already begun to arrange a way back for himself, and the two brothers Zhang Guiba and Zhang Guihou under his command continue to stick to Fengzhou and take over the defense of the entire Fengzhou and the military power of the whole city. transferred his henchman Li Yan to Dasanguan and defended it heavily to ensure that his back road could be unimpeded. Subsequently, a series of personal soldiers were sent to begin to collect flammable materials such as sulfur and arranged them in various important parts of the city to prepare for the final battle with **.

In Chang'an City, Zhang Li sent dozens of waves of messengers to Chencang and Fengzhou on the front line to report the situation, and at the same time, he also completely implemented the plan of sending troops to Tongguan.

On the day of the dispatch, Zhang Li had just arrived outside the east gate of Chang'an City, preparing to see off his henchmen and generals and tens of thousands of soldiers.

The Meixian garrison suddenly defected, led thousands of soldiers under his command to surrender in Kaicheng, the three thousand elites of the Fengjia army converged with the five thousand men and horses under the command of the Meixian garrison general have surrounded Fufeng, Chang'an's main road to Chencang and even the Fengzhou front line was completely controlled by the Fengjia army, and even a section of Weishui was controlled by the Fengjia army, and no news could be transmitted at all. Moreover, the messenger also told Zhang Li that there had been several waves of lucky messengers who tried to pass through the defense line by various means, but none of them succeeded, and all of them were intercepted by the Feng family's army.

Not only that, the messenger also reported some of the news to Zhang Li, it is said that the Fengjia army intends to abandon Wuzhangyuan, and no longer confront the 100,000 defenders of Chen Cang, and is ready to turn to the east, cross Meixian, attack Fufeng, seize martial arts, and approach Chang'an.

Zhang Li immediately panicked when he heard this, how could he dare to send troops to recapture Tongguan, you must know that from Wuzhangyuan to Chang'an, if there are no obstacles along the way, it will only take two days to march quickly, and at that time, Tongguan has not been defeated, and the Fengjia army will arrive at Chang'an City.

Zhang Li was not worried that the Feng family army would capture Chang'an, but was worried that the tens of thousands of people sent out to storm Tongguan would probably not be able to return to Chang'an by then. Although Zhang Li has never fought with the Fengjia army, but the sudden loss of the Meridian Pass, the Tongguan Pass was broken by a drum, the instant loss of the Xieyu Pass and the Luogu Pass, and the fact that the 100,000 defenders of the Wuzhangyuan General Chen Cang were frightened in the city, and even the deeds of more than 1,000 Modao troops in hundreds of thousands of troops during the decisive battle a year ago, although Zhang Li did not see these situations with his own eyes, but they were all things that really happened around him, how could he not be more cautious.

Weighing the pros and cons, in desperation, Zhang Li had no choice but to give up the plan to send troops to Tongguan for the third time, and he didn't care that morale would fall because of this, so he had to recall the tens of thousands of soldiers who were ready to go back to the city to strengthen the guards of Chang'an, and at the same time sent a large number of horse scouting activities throughout the Gyeonggi area to investigate all the movements of the Fengjia army.