The color is deep, the half-moon is like a mirror, and a silver star hangs lonely in the western sky

Li Qing immediately stood on a hill, quietly watching the official road two miles away, behind him, more than a hundred personal soldiers and heralds lined up in turn, silently looking at their commander, his waist was straight, for half an hour, he did not move, many years of military career has baptized him into a real soldier.

In another half an hour, the moment that Li Qing has been waiting for for nearly two years will come, this is a gamble with heaven and earth to bet, if he loses, he is a sinner of Datang; But if he wins, he will regain control of the future of Datang, and he will use iron and blood to rewrite his five-year reform in Tianbao, which he failed this time and fell in front of a huge interest group.

A gust of night wind blew, and the black pine forest seemed to be undulating waves, pushing up the hillside layer by layer, emitting a strange whistling sound, as if to remind those who walk at night to be aware of the dangers hidden in the dark.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves came vaguely, it seemed scattered and chaotic, and then there was faint noise and laughter, more than a dozen rebel cavalry slowly galloped in front of the hill, they were Cui Qianyou's scouts, but at this moment they no longer had the vigilance that scouts should have, but they were idlers who came out to wander, they were talking about the women of Chang'an, laughing insolently from time to time, indeed, they were qualified to be so arrogant, 100,000 Tang troops were wiped out twice in their hands, the weakness of the Tang army filled their hearts with too much contempt, Guan had no army, Chang'an is nothing more than a woman who has been stripped clean in their eyes, and now it is time for them to enjoy it.

The scout team passed quickly, and more than 5,000 Anxi crossbowmen immediately entered the black pine forest silently, all the nests and resident birds in the black pine forest were cleaned up in advance, and they had considered every detail, this ambush was very important, and they could not be negligent.

The ambush was chosen in a crescent-shaped col. It is about three miles long, but the widest is not more than 50 zhang, about 300 steps away from the black pine forest, between the official road and the black pine forest is a ridge, overgrown with wild grass, and under the official road is a slope. It is about hundreds of feet deep, full of thorns and bushes.

In the black pine forest, five thousand crossbowmen are waiting for them, in addition to them, there are also ten thousand Mo sword troops, they are the second ambush, will intercept the return of the cavalry.

A night owl screamed from the top of the hill and flapped its wings towards the moon, signaling that the target was about to enter an ambush enclosure. The black pine forest suddenly revealed a murderous aura.

Li Qing's gaze immediately sharpened, and his lips tightened, like a string that could play the strongest note. He had already heard the rumbling of horses' hooves, not fast, but the rhythmic dull sound of the horses' hooves crashing on the earth was enough to terrify people three miles away.

Gradually. His eyes narrowed into a slit, he had already seen that the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, arranged in five columns, appeared at the easternmost end of the mountain col, getting closer and closer, and the first row had already galloped in front of Li Qing, although they were not as casual as the scouts. But their expressions were relaxed. Filled with the joy of victory.

Li Qing's hand had slowly raised. His sharp gaze was fixed on the densest mass of cavalry in the middle of the room, which looked like a scar on the trunk of a tree. In the slender team, a piece suddenly appeared, and it should be the position of the coach Cui Qianyou, who was waiting for Cui Qianyou's arrival.

Although he won two big battles in a row, Cui Qianyou was not happy at the moment, and even a little worried, his limelight was too strong, which had already made An Lushan feel uneasy, his consecutive victories and repeated defeats in Hedong were in stark contrast, everyone was silent, no one praised him, this was a silent protest.

Before leaving, he received a letter from Yan Zhuang, suggesting that he kill and plunder in Chang'an, although he didn't want to do this, but he also understood that Yan Zhuang was right, only self-destruction of his reputation could relieve An Lushan's suspicion, it is not difficult to imagine that if he was in Chang'an Lixian corporal and treated the people well, then he would be able to imagine his end.

"What is Cui Shuai thinking? It seems that I am not excited to enter Chang'an! Cui Qianyou frowned, and couldn't help but smile slightly: "Cui Shuai defeated the Tang Army twice, both with less and more, and achieved such an impressive record, why are you still sullen?" Is it because you are worried that you will not be able to defeat that group of Yulin Army? ”

Cui Qianyou shook his head and sighed: "I didn't pay attention to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, what I was worried about was the emperor of the Great Yan Land, when Wang Jian destroyed Chu and asked the King of Qin for countless good fields and beautiful houses, and then Xiao He was the prime minister and indulged in evil and self-destruction of feathers, both of them were for self-protection, but I led the troops into the customs today, but the emperor named me the king of Tang, does he really care?" ”

Tian Qianzhen was silent for a long time, and suddenly said in a low voice: "According to the Guan, the world wins, hasn't Cui Shuai thought about being self-reliant?"

Cui Qianyou didn't speak for a long time, and finally he slowly shook his head and said: "The Tang Dynasty is not exhausted, you just look at An Shuai's people's hearts and minds to call the emperor, if I stand on my own, my grandson will die and have no place to be buried, if possible, I hope the emperor will crown me as the king of Goryeo, stay away from the original, and create my own country." ”

Cui Qianyou sees very far, and his thinking is also very correct, but people who see too far often fail to pay attention to the crisis in front of him, after Ge Shuhan was captured alive and surrendered, although Guan's troops were empty, Cui Qianyou never imagined that there was a person who could see farther than him, and he was less than five hundred steps away from him.

Suddenly, there was a sharp whistling sound in the sky, almost all the cavalry looked up at the sky, and dense black dots appeared in the sky, and the black dots flashed with strange points of light, which looked extremely strange under a round of blood-red half moon, and all the cavalry let out an exclamation in unison, these black dots flew towards their heads, although there were many,

Not fast, it seemed to be some cans, everyone instinctively turned their horses' heads to avoid what they didn't think of happened, just above their heads, the black canisters exploded violently, bursting out of a dazzling light, accompanied by black smoke that went straight into the sky, and then the huge explosion and the neighing of the war horses resounded through the official road, the official road was in chaos, the war horses were terrified, some raised their front hooves and neighed desperately, some were spinning, and some even rolled down the slope with the cavalry.

But the sound and light were not fatal blows, thousands of pieces of iron shot out from the red flames, each piece of iron was quenched with great poison, and the Youzhou cavalry didn't even have time to be shocked, and pieces of cavalry and war horses fell to the ground, rolling painfully on the ground.

"The whole team! No chaos! Cui Qianyou shouted desperately. But the sudden loud noise and the blinding light of the fire frightened the horses, and the cavalry was already in disarray, unable to maintain their formation at all.

At this moment, two pieces of iron shot the hind legs of Cui Qianyou's mount, and his war horse screamed and sat down on the ground. Pulling Cui Qianyou off his horse, more than a dozen personal soldiers immediately guarded him with their bodies, allowing him to escape this catastrophe.

Cui Qianyou was shocked, he still didn't know what this flame was, after all, the battle of Rus was too far away, although he had seen gunpowder, but he didn't know that it would burst out with such a huge power.

"It's counted!" As soon as a thought popped out of his mind, he heard a banging sound, and Cui Qianyou was immediately bluffed. Gunpowder may be new to him, but he is more familiar with bows and arrows than anyone else.

"Get out!" Cui Qianyou hissed and shouted as hard as he could, and several personal soldiers held shields to protect him and ran back desperately. At this time, the arrows in the sky and earth were like a dark cloud covering the moon, and the long and narrow official road was suddenly covered with blood mist, and the screams were endless, in front of him. At the same time as the explosion sounded, nearly a hundred huge trees had been thrown down, blocking the official road, and there was only one way to retreat, and the cavalry trampled on each other, and even chopped each other to death with knives. In order to find a way to escape. Some of the soldiers abandoned their horses. Tumbling down the slope, it seems like a shortcut. More soldiers began to follow suit, rolling down with their heads in their hands, but what awaited them were the cavalry of the Anxi Army, who surrounded them like iron buckets and slaughtered these unarmed deserters.

Cui Qianyou's eyes were red, he was desperately guarded by hundreds of personal soldiers, and it was easy to rush to the intersection, but his heart was half cold, and he saw that the black ground in front of him was full of his own cavalry, but no one could get through, hundreds of huge trees were blocked on the road, and the front and back of this official road were blocked.

Arrows rained down, almost no need to aim, every burst of arrow rain is a group of people on their backs, the official road is crowded with desperate cavalry, on the other side of the hill, there are also bursts of shouting and killing, this is the rear army that did not enter the mountain pass, they also encountered an ambush, at this time, Cui Qianyou saw Tian Qianzhen was carried over by a few personal soldiers, he even had three arrows, and he couldn't live.

"Cui Shuai!" Tian Qianzhen used his last strength and said weakly: "It's the Anxi Army!" I should have thought that they were here a long time ago.

After that, he closed his eyes and died, Cui Qianyou slowly knelt down, he suddenly punched the ground desperately, jumped up violently, anger had made him lose his mind, he pointed above and scolded: "Li Qing! You son of a bitch, if you have a kind of fight, you will come out and fight to the death! ”

But at this moment, Nan Jiyun, who was standing at the edge of the forest, smiled coldly, pulled the strings like a full moon and loosened the ground, and a wolf's tooth arrow shot out like lightning, the tip of the arrow flashed with the grim smile of death, and an arrow shot into Cui Qianyou's mouth, and blood mist came out of the back of his head.

Cui Qianyou's screaming and scolding stopped abruptly, his eyes widened in disbelief, and slowly, he fell straight back to the ground, just sleeping with Tian Qianzhen.

"Push it out!" Li Qing gave the last order, and he immediately turned his horse's head and galloped to the other side of the hillside, when hundreds of wooden barrels rolled out of the pine forest, rolling like rolling logs and stones onto the official road where the cavalry was most densely concentrated, many of the barrels broke, and a viscous black liquid flowed out of them, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of burning.

Before the rebels could react, hundreds of rockets soared out of the black pine forest, drawing beautiful arcs and falling into the viscous liquid.

Boom! The ground burned violently, and quickly spread, the whole official road immediately became a hell on earth, nearly 10,000 undead Youzhou iron wolf rushed to the pig, desperate cries and screams made the moon can't bear to close its eyes, with the help of the night wind, wave after wave, began to spread to both sides, the thorns and shrubs on the slope were ignited, and slowly the black pine forest was also ignited.

Hundreds of rockets were fired as a signal for the Tang army to retreat, they quickly withdrew from the hill, to join the Modao army, which had already ended the battle, originally planned a tragic battle but did not happen due to a near-perfect ambush battle, the soldiers of the Anxi army silently rushed westward, until they walked out for several miles, behind them there was still a fire burning in the sky, and even the sky was red.

In the twelfth year of Tianbao, the most elite 30,000 Youzhou iron cavalry of An Lushan was ambushed by the long-awaited Anxi army on the way to receive Chang'an, and the 30,000 iron cavalry was wiped out in Huayin County, the commander Cui Qianyou and the deputy general Tian Qianzhen were killed, and the commander of the Anxi army, Li Qing, immediately ordered the general Xi Yuanqing and He Lou Yurun to pretend to be defeated soldiers who fled back, and opened the gate of Tongguan City, and the Anxi army entered Tongguan, and Sun Xiaozhe, the main general of Tongguan, could not resist. In the end, he led less than 1,000 people to flee back to Luoyang, and Tongguan once again returned to the hands of the Tang army.

The overall situation has been decided, Li Qing ordered Li Siye to lead 15,000 men to garrison Tongguan, and he himself personally led 5,000 cavalry to gallop away in the direction of Chang'an.

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The sky was already dark, and the officials of the Tang Dynasty, who had been worried all night, came to Daming Palace one after another

Cease. Everyone was worried that the rebels would come last night, but it didn't happen until dawn.

The sky is getting brighter and brighter, and there are more and more officials who come to Daming Palace to investigate the situation, the Danfeng Gate is still closed, everyone stands under the Danfeng Gate and discusses, neither eunuchs enter and exit, nor guards open the door, the situation seems a little weird. The emperor also did not show up, some thought that the emperor had gone to the imperial conquest, but more people vaguely guessed. Their Tang Emperor may have run away.

"Pei Shangshu is here!" Everyone dodged a way, the old minister Pei Kuan walked quickly, Yang Guozhong was gone, and Wei Jiansu was nowhere to be seen. Pei Kuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, became the highest-ranking courtier.

Pei Kuan stood in front of the palace gate and waved his hand to everyone, "Let's go back to the house first!" There's no point in everyone standing here. ”

He took more than 100 Ding to patrol the streets in the middle of the night last night, and happened to meet Duan Xiushi leading more than 1,000 soldiers to escort hundreds of county princesses out of the city, and he learned that the rebels were coming to Chang'an, and Li Qing was also coming from Fengxiang, and Duan Xiushi was the vanguard who came to help the royal family evacuate.

Pei Kuan immediately went to find Yang Guozhong. Absence! I went to find Colliers again. Not there either. Even his family was gone, and he finally realized: Li Longji had run away.

Although Pei Kuan is a good heart. But his ambiguous words aroused everyone's protests, and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites stepped forward and said: "Pei Shangshu, everyone is panicking now, you just make it clear, why is it meaningless?" ”

At this moment, a voice came from overhead, "Everyone, the emperor has been fortunate to go to Jiannan." ”

Everyone looked up together, only to find that there was a person standing on the city tower, looking lonely, it was Li Yu, the king of Chu, his words seemed to have stabbed a hornet's nest, Danfengmen was suddenly excited, and some people raised their arms and shouted loudly, "How can the emperor leave us and escape alone?" ”

Some people squatted on the ground and wiped their tears, "It's over! The emperor took all the soldiers away, and now we are doomed. ”

Noise, scolding, shouting, Danfeng in front of the door into a pot of porridge.

At this time, the small side door by the Danfeng Gate opened, Li Yu walked out slowly, and he glanced at the crowd: "Cui Guangyuan is here?" ”

Cui Guangyuan is the current Jing Zhaoyin, he is also in the crowd, and when he saw Li Yu asking him, he immediately stood up and said, "The minister is here!" ”

At this time, everyone gradually quieted down, and they all looked at the young prince silently, only to hear him say aloud: "I was ordered by His Majesty to stay in Chang'an to supervise the country, and now Chang'an is up to me, Master Cui, let me ask you, how many servants are still available?" ”

Cui Guangyuan bowed and replied, "There are about twenty or thirty people left." ”

"That's good! You will take these twenty or thirty people to each square to beat gongs and inspect, remind the people not to go out, and let the people know that the court has not abandoned them, and Chang'an is still in the hands of my Tang Dynasty. ”

Li Yu's words moved the hundreds of officials present, the national disaster was at the head, all the princes ran away, and only the eldest grandson of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty chose to stay.

"Long live the King of Chu!" I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and then more people also shouted, "Long live the King of Chu!" Long live the King of Chu! Although it is a taboo statement, but at this moment, the catastrophe is coming, no one cares, Danfeng immediately knelt down in front of the door, and even Pei Kuan knelt down, this kneeling means that they finally recognized Li Yu's position as the prince.

Li Yu's eyes were a little red, he hurriedly waved his hand, and said to everyone: "Everyone's love and care, Xiao Wang's heart is understood, but the rebels are about to enter the city, everyone should go home to appease their relatives!" ”

He said it three times in a row, but no one got up, Li Yu only felt a sour nose, two lines of tears slipped down his face, and he slowly took two steps back, "Plop!" He knelt on the ground and sobbed: "The love of the ministers is engraved in Li Yu's heart. ”

At this moment, the people kneeling on the ground had already felt it, the earth trembled slightly, and everyone immediately straightened up and looked at each other, their eyes showed a look of horror, it was time to come, finally came!

Just when everyone looked left and right and didn't know what to do, a rush of horses' hooves came from afar, and everyone saw clearly, it was several Tang soldiers galloping over, and now they can still see Tang Jun, it is really incredible, everyone's hearts are on their throats.

"There is His Royal Highness the King of Chu here!" The officer at the head strode up the steps.

Li Yu immediately greeted him, "The Lonely King is. Stay, he knows this officer, Xi Yuanqing of the Anxi Army, and his mind is in a mess, is it.

Xi Yuanqing gave him a military salute, stood up and said to everyone in a loud voice: "General Li Qing, the envoy of Anxi Jiedu, led 20,000 Anxi soldiers to fight a bloody battle with the rebels in the middle of the night yesterday, defeated Cui Qianyou, killed tens of thousands of enemies, and recaptured Tongguan. ”

As soon as the news came out, there was silence in front of Danfeng Gate for a moment, and suddenly the crowd erupted into an earth-shattering cheer, people hugged each other tightly, cheered, threw their hats into the sky, and tears of joy flew wantonly, in their most desperate moments, but they heard the most unforgettable good news in this life, and the situation was suddenly reversed.

Li Yu stood there in a daze, he couldn't believe his ears, really? Is Li Qing finally here?

At this moment, everyone heard it, there was a wave-like cheer in the distance, and the sound of banging on pots and bowls resounded throughout the city, Li Yu's eyes suddenly flashed with brilliance, he waved his hand and said loudly: "Go!" Go with the Lone King to greet our general!