After Lin Feng arrived in Wuzhangyuan, in the past ten days, the two sides of Datang and Pseudo-Qi were still very calm, but this was only for the area of Wuzhangyuan and Chencang. And Fengzhou in front and Chang'an in Kyoto in the rear, whether it is Huangchao in Fengzhou or Chang'an in the pseudo-Qi who stayed behind to guard Zhang Li, it is almost impossible to have a day of peace!

In Chang'an City, there are homicides almost every night, and of course, it is more appropriate to call it an attack. Every other day, on the boundaries of Chang'an County or Wannian County, there are one to three accidents every night, and the pseudo-Qi soldiers on duty at night are attacked by a group of unidentified black-clothed people, with a few dead and wounded, and dozens of casualties in one night.

This can make Chang'an stay in Zhang Li anxious, originally recently prepared to prepare some troops to retake Tongguan again, and wanted to send a messenger to Meng Kai outside Tongguan for help, but the sudden change in public security in Chang'an City made Zhang Li have to reconsider carefully.

However, the attacks in Chang'an City did not stop because Zhang Li did not send troops for the time being, but there was a situation of intensification, and in recent days, there have been attacks on fallen soldiers in broad daylight, and even some low-ranking officers have suddenly died at home from time to time.

Originally, Zhang Li postponed the date of sending troops just to temporarily free up his hands to investigate this matter thoroughly, but the more arrogant 'bandits' made Zhang Li realize the seriousness of the matter. As a result, Zhang Li completely shelved the plan to send troops to Tongguan, and directly distributed the mobilized troops near the various squares in Chang'an City, and even stationed them in the squares to prevent internal changes.

This is not that Zhang Li is irresponsible and does not retake Tongguan, but in his view of Chang'an, Chang'an's gains and losses are several times more important than Tongguan, since he is not sure to win Tongguan for a while, it is better to give up directly. And Zhang Li also gave himself a psychological comfort, losing the sesame seeds in order to hold the watermelon in his arms tightly.

Of course, the distribution of tens of thousands of heavy troops in and around the city did play a significant role, at least for the first few days, there were no more attacks on officers and soldiers at night. However, there are more and more cases of many soldiers being suddenly found dead at home, and these people still have one thing in common, that is, they have oppressed the people in the past or now, plundered property, and committed many evils.

For a while, there were rumors among the people in Chang'an City, saying that the evil deeds of the pseudo-Qi were now going to be retributed, first the soldiers below who did all the evil for the tiger, and then the low-level officers, and many bold people also privately asserted that the next must be those middle-level officers who will be retributed.

It seems that the rumors in the market are indeed true, and only a few days after the news spread, the people's expectations were realized, and a Zhonglang general from the fourth rank and two henchmen under his command who were on duty at the south gate of the west city wall Yanping Gate were killed on the street on the way home after changing shifts and drinking. The murderer was also three people, and he did not assassinate him in close quarters, but used a short crossbow to shoot, but the accuracy was exceptionally high, all three were shot in the neck, bleeding profusely, and died on the spot, and he was still in full view, and there were even two squads of guards around.

The news quickly spread to Chang'an County, who lived in the Buzheng Fang, and the angry Zhang Li couldn't bear it, so he immediately ordered the whole city to search and arrest, and it was necessary to arrest the three bold 'murderers', and even threatened to parade the three murderers along Suzaku Street at that time, and hang the heads of the three on the Mingde Gate wall at the south gate.

It's a pity that it took a total of 60,000 people to search for Chang'an and the imperial city guards, which took nearly five hours, and almost turned the entire Chang'an City upside down, and in the end, it was fruitless. However, Zhang Li was worried that his majesty would be provoked, so he arbitrarily instructed his henchmen to use thousands of personal guards to arrest the entire family of a minister who was at odds with him, and completely detained the other party for the crime of attacking the army, and even did not give the other party any chance to justify, and directly ordered the law to be corrected on the spot, and even the procedure of parading the streets was saved.

However, even if Zhang Li did this, it did not hide the original facts, and on the night of the city-wide search, the attack on the army occurred again, and it was not one, let alone one place, but all over Chang'an City, especially those where the defense was lax and civilians lived more.

That night, Chen Wansan and more than 40 Feng killed brothers all dispatched for the first time, under the information provided by Wang Teng, the commander of the Imperial City Guards, starting from the end of the time, before and after more than a dozen places where the garrison in Chang'an City was lax, and carried out an hour-long attack, plus the encounter on the road with a squad of soldiers or lone guys, an hour actually caused the casualties of the Pseudo-Qi garrison in Chang'an City to reach 1,000 people, of which more than half died on the spot.

The angry Zhang Li had just returned to Buzheng Fang, and he had just laid down with a dizzy head, when he was hurriedly interrupted by the guards, and after learning the situation, Zhang Lizhi felt that the blood in his whole body was rushing to his brain. Although the anger was abnormal, Zhang Li did not lose his mind, and after a moment of relaxation, he slowly calmed down, and then came to a positive answer in his mind, there was a spy in his army or in the court, and the status of the spy was not low.

Subsequently, Zhang Li went through a series of powerful figures in the court and the army one by one, but Rao racked his brains and couldn't figure out who the spy was, although Zhang Li wanted that the spy to be his rival Wang Teng, but Zhang Li couldn't even believe that Wang Teng, who was a relative of half of the emperor and held tens of thousands of guards in the imperial city, would secretly stab him in this situation, which was definitely self-defeating.

Zhang Li's decisiveness and wisdom also showed up in this critical situation, and Zhang Li, who was responsible for such an important task of staying in Chang'an, did not dare to continue to be careless. After a short period of careful consideration, a military order was immediately issued, and all the garrisons were reduced to the area around the city, and without Zhang Li's order, they were not allowed to leave the defensive range at will.

Of course, the current weather conditions provided Zhang Li with a lot of convenience, because the weather was already warm at this time, and the soldiers could sleep in the open without camping tents. Such a reduction in the number of troops has completely led to the inability of the spies and murderers in the secret to continue to commit crimes.

And not only that, Zhang Li also made another important decision, he related some recent situations to consider together, and decisively affirmed that the attack in the city had an important relationship with his original army to Tongguan, so Zhang Li re-put the matter of sending troops to Tongguan on the agenda, and extremely quickly, two days later, 35,000 troops were ordered, and Tongguan was sent to recapture Tongguan no matter what the cost was.