Although Yan Zhenqing retreated to Luoyang, he couldn't watch the rebels coming to the city.

Xingyang was originally the eastern gateway of Luoyang, and the loss of Xingyang, Luoyang's portal was opened, and it was directly violent in front of An Lushan rebels.

Since An Lushan led the army into Henan Province, he has won many battles, the morale of the army has been greatly boosted, and the arrogance has become more arrogant, so An Lushan did not have time to rest after capturing Xingyang, and sent his generals Tian Chengsi, An Zhongzhi, Zhang Xiaozhong, etc. as the vanguard, and led the elite troops to attack Luoyang.

Yan Zhenqing saw that the An army was making rapid progress, so he cut off the Heyang Bridge, stationed in the military prison, and resisted the enemy by danger.

Unfortunately, Yan Zhenqing's army suffered heavy losses in the previous Battle of Bianzhou, and the new army that was hastily organized was all untrained and extremely poor in combat, or unemployed vagrants.

Therefore, when the two armies fought against each other, this new army was immediately in chaos under the impact of the iron cavalry of the An Lushan rebels, and it was unable to form an army ≌ Zhenqing collected the remnants, and fought with the rebels again in Kwai Yuan and suffered a heavy defeat: then fought with the rebels in the east gate and suffered heavy losses. On the third day of the first month of September, Luoyang was lost, the rebels broke into from the four gates, burned and looted, did all kinds of evil, Yan Zhenqing led the remnants and the rebels to launch a tragic street battle in Luoyang City, first bloody battle in Dutingyi, defeated, retreated to Xuanren Gate, and was defeated.

In the end, he had to endure the pain from the dilapidated place of the west wall of the Luoyang Palace, and fled to Tongguan over the wall and abandoned the west of the city.

The eastern capital of Luoyang fell in this way, and the dangerous terrain around it became an ornament.

In less than two months after the third day of September in the first year of Zhide, An Lushan took the eastern capital Luoyang. For a time, the world shook.

Before that, the An Lushan rebels really divided their troops in Bianzhou as Zhang Xuān expected, all the way to Luoyang and all the way to Suiyang, trying to go straight into Lianghuai and occupy half of the Tang Dynasty.

Suiyang Taishou Xu Yuan with thousands of soldiers to stick to the city and Anqing Xu's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to contend with No, Yuan led the army to fight hard, waiting for the day of food exhaustion, to eat with rat fruit, according to the city not out. The day before the fall of Luoyang, Suiyang was finally outnumbered and captured by the Anqingxu rebels.

Xu Yuan was captured alive by An Qingxu and sent to Luoyang, Xu Yuan refused to surrender, was killed by An Lushan, and was martyred.

This is not to be mentioned later.

On the fourth day of September, autumn is high and cool.

An Lushan led the army to ride a high-headed horse into Luoyang City. The prosperous city of Luoyang has gone through the smoke of gunpowder between the two armies, the flames of war, the burning and looting of the Fanyang rebels, and the outer city has been deserted.

Dozens of Luoyang officials, led by a middle-aged man with fat head and big ears, hurried out of the city and knelt down in front of the horse's head in An Lushan.

An Lushan actually recognized that the person under his feet was Yin Daxi, Henan.

But An Lushan waved his horsewhip arrogantly and said indifferently, "Who is kneeling?" ”

"Xiaguan Henan Yin Daxi, welcome the king into the city and ask the king to spare his life!"

Da Xicheng knelt on the ground in fear, for fear that An Lushan, who was unrelenting in murder, would cut him.

Although he did not lead his army against the rebels.

"Daxi? Henan Yin? An Lushan snorted softly, "Get up, read it for your sake of abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, and this king will bypass your life." ”

An Lushan took Luoyang, and he had to count on someone to manage Luoyang City for him, so he generally would not kill the officials who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. People like Da Xi still have a certain use value for him.

"Where are Li Yuan and Lu Yi?" The corner of An Lushan's mouth lightly picked up the horsewhip in his hand and waved it vigorously, exploding in mid-air.

"If you go back to the king, Li Gong and Lu Yi should be in the mansion and have not fled." Da Xi said respectfully.

"Lead the way ahead! The king is going to meet them. An Lushan stabbed the big thorn.

When An Lushan's rebels entered the mansion, Li's mansion was already empty, only Li Lou calmly put on his court clothes and sat calmly in the public hall alone. On the other hand, Lu Yi arranged for his wife to flee from Chang'an from the middle road with the official seal in her arms, and she was in the imperial history platform. His subordinates are long gone.

An Lushan sent troops to arrest Li Yuan, Lu Yi and the interview judge Jiang Qing, and pretended to be a corporal of Lixian to greet them in person at the gate of Luoyang Palace.

"Two adults, An is polite!" An Lushan smiled all over his face and hugged his fists.

He and these two are also acquaintances, knowing that these two people have a good reputation and ability, if these two people can be allowed to surrender, it will be of great benefit to him in the next step of usurping the country and becoming emperor.

Li Wei didn't pay attention to An Lushan, but looked at Lu Yi and hugged his fists and said, "Lord Lu, Luoyang City is broken and fell into the hands of thieves, you and I are really ashamed that we failed to serve the country!" Lu Yi sighed, and also hugged his fists and said, "Lu is ashamed!" ”

"Lord Lu, please forgive the old man for going first. 、，

Lu Yi's shoulders trembled, his face turned red and he stared at Li Yuan, trembling and clasping his fists and whispering, "Master Li, go slowly!" Lu is here to accompany you! The two looked at each other and each raised his hand and laughed wildly.

After a moment, Li Yuan turned his head and glared at An Lushan angrily, and raised his hand to reprimand, "An thief!" Huer! The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty treats you well, you dare to rebel, such a disloyal and unrighteous person, God will punish him! An thief, the old man died in Jiuquan, and he hated to eat your flesh and drink your blood" "Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent! , Li Lou cried loudly, and then suddenly broke free from the rebel soldiers, and crashed headlong into the cold palace wall, bleeding on the spot, and his brain burst out, and he died.

Lu Yi hid his face and wept.

Lu Yiyang pointed to An Lushan's side of Daxi, Tian Chengsi, An Zhongzhi, Zhang Xiaozhong and others and angrily reprimanded: "People should know and be obedient." You are a minister of the court, and if you rebel from a thief, you deserve death! "An Lushan Dog Thief ......"

Lu Yi was about to scold a few more words, An Lushan became furious, pulled out the scimitar on his waist, and stabbed it fiercely, hitting Lu Yi in the abdomen.

The blood flowed profusely, and Lu Yi collapsed to the ground, but he still scolded until he died.

The two were so loyal that even if they were rebel soldiers, everyone present was moved.

As soon as Li Heng's brigade arrived in Qizhou, they got the news of the fall of Luoyang.

Li Tan and Chen Xian, the kings of Jianning, described it in the report: "The palace was burned, there was no one out of ten, a hundred cao was deserted, and there was no ruler. In the middle of the country, less than a thousand households, Jingyi Yingjing, shooting wolves.

There is a lack of military reserves and fresh manpower. East to Zheng and Bian, up to Xu Fang, north from grass, Huai Jing in Xiangtu, cut off for people, thousands of miles of depression ......" Li Heng tightly squeezed the report in his hand, his face was sè Tie Qing.

It doesn't matter if Luoyang fell, the problem is that An Lushan was impatient to ascend the throne in Luoyang and claim the emperor, and the country name was Dayan. He also publicly issued a letter against Li Heng, calling Li Heng a thief and calling on the people of the world to rise up and attack him.

How can Li Heng stand it?

"Damn the thief, damn it!" Li Heng roared in the big tent, and the angry shouts were endless. With the shì ministers, none of them dared to speak.

Yang Guozhong looked at Li Heng's face, hugged his fists and bowed down, "Your Majesty, Yan Zhenqing has been defeated one after another, resulting in the fall of Luoyang, and the people are not happy, and his crime should be punished!" Li Heng's eyebrows suddenly raised, and he looked at Yang Guozhong with an unkind expression.

Yan Zhenqing suffered defeats in a row, and let An Lushan drive straight in, Li Heng was of course extremely annoyed. But at this point, Li Heng also understood in his heart that it would be useless to hold Yan Zhenqing accountable.

If Yan Zhenqing is moved at this time, I am afraid that the temporary change will be even more unbearable.

What's more, he has no generals available now. If Yan Zhenqing is beheaded, who will guard Tongguan for the Tang Dynasty?

It's all come to this, Yang Guozhong is still busy framing others out of his personal heart, Li Heng is getting more and more angry in his heart, but when the national disaster is at hand, he can't attack, so he has to forcibly suppress his anger.

"Yang Xiang, An Lushan captured Luoyang, and the top priority was to order Yan Zhenqing to defend Tongguan and Bo Chang'an, rather than investigate his crimes. Huo Changqing, quickly spread my will, and ordered all the soldiers and horses in the world to speed up King Qin, and at all costs, exterminate An Lushan, a rebellious usurper traitor, in Luoyang City! ”

"Spread the message to Yan Zhenqing, just say that I said, if he doesn't give me a victory, if he loses to the rebels again, then he doesn't have to come to see me. Just outside Tongbi, let's die on the battlefield! Li Heng's voice was extremely cold, almost annoyed.

Since the opening of the war, the imperial court soldiers and horses have been defeated one after another, and they have not won a single battle.

No matter how strong the An Lushan rebels are, the imperial court soldiers and horses are so vulnerable?

"Report!" A palace guard hurriedly walked into the big tent and fell to the ground, "Report to Your Majesty, Zhang Xuān, the king of Yongning, led an army of 150,000 to the south to beg for thieves, and now he has arrived in Gyeongju!" ”

Li Hengmu was happy, Huo Ran got up and said, "Okay, good!" Spread the message to Zhang Xuān, come to King Qin quickly, and I will go to Longzhou to wait for him! Zhang Xuān almost at the same time received the news that An Lushan had taken Luoyang and established himself as emperor.

Although everything was expected, Zhang Xuān still sighed and remained silent for a long time.

The Tang army had been comfortable for too long, and it was impossible to compete with the fierce Fan Yang Iron Cavalry. But the combat effectiveness is so indiscriminate that it can only make people speechless.

Zhang Xuān looked around at the generals and said lightly, "Ladies and gentlemen, the An Lushan rebels took Luoyang and proclaimed themselves Emperor Dayan. And after the two Huai, the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River are also difficult to protect ≡ this, in less than two months, half of the Tang Dynasty fell into the hands of thieves, which is really suffocating! Feng Chong also sighed, hugged his fists and said, "Dashuai, Luoyang has fallen, and Zhenqing can only defend Tongguan." If Tongguan is lost again, Chang'an will not be able to keep it. And in this way, the imperial court ........."

Zhang Xuān smiled bitterly and turned his head to look at Guo Ziyi, "Guo Ziyi, is there any news from Your Majesty?" "Back to the marshal, His Majesty has sent someone to send an edict over, saying that he will wait for the marshal in Longzhou, and ask the marshal to lead the army to Longzhou to protect the holy car!" Guo Ziyi said loudly.

Zhang Xuān sneered in his heart, but said lightly, "Draft a memora for the king, just say that Luoyang is lost, Tongguan is in danger, this king immediately led the army to attack Tongguan day and night, trying to defend Chang'an, as for Your Majesty, please Your Majesty lead the army to Lingzhou, in Lingzhou should ensure that Your Majesty is safe and sound." ”！。