In the Chang'an Palace, an urgent report was sent to Li Zhi's desk like snowflakes, and he didn't need to look at it to know that it was another chapter of the fall of a certain state and a certain place.

Although it was midnight at this moment, all the senior generals of Chang'an had already arrived, and they were all studying the route of the rebels. Li Ji said to the geographical map: "Now the main army of Li Yuanjing, the king of Jing, has broken through the defense lines of Weizhou and Hezhou, and the 20,000 rebels led by Li Ke, the assassin of Qinzhou, have converged in Fengzhou, and they have detoured to Jingzhao Mansion and Chang'an tonight. In addition, Ningzhou Assassin History, Xue Wanche, the commander of the horses, led more than 30,000 people to break through Gyeongju and Jingzhou. Lanzhou Thorn History, the Horse Commander Chai Lingwu has not moved for the time being, but the territory of Hezhong Mansion has been completely controlled, and it is operated like an iron bucket, and it may go south at any time. Fangzhou Thorn Shi Fang Yiai and Anzhou Thorn Shi Baling also went up the river, approaching Tai'an, if Tai'an fell, Chang'an was in danger. ”

Every time Li Ji mentioned a person's name, Li Zhi's face became gloomy, and he was obviously a lot haggard in the past few days. However, Li Zhi soon returned to normal, after all, he was a generation of emperors, how could he show his heart casually.

Li Zhi got up and walked down, and said, "Everyone, Aiqing, do you have any good strategies to defend against the enemy?" ”

Qin Yu hugged his fists and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen feels that now the enemy is outnumbered, and the border army cannot rush back to King Qin, Shangdu." The last general thought that he could take the initiative to attack and keep the enemy out of Chang'an, so as not to suffer the people. ”

Su Dingfang said, "Your Majesty, Weichen feels that this method is inappropriate. Now the overall situation is undecided, and the big men of other states, governments, and provinces are sitting on the mountain and watching, and the situation is delicate, and the slightest carelessness is a situation in which wolves eat tigers. Now that the enemy is outnumbered, the rebels are attacking from all sides, and our army has no natural danger to defend, how can we resist the enemy? If one side loses, Chang'an will be an empty city at that time, and the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Li Ji nodded and said, "General Su is reasonable, if you want to break this game, you still have to win by surprise." ”

Li Zhi was a little annoyed, these feudal officials ate the imperial grain but did their best at all. After discussing here for a long time, there is still no decent countermeasure, a group of rice buckets. Thinking of this, he was a little irritable, and returned to the study to stare at the geographical map of the Tang Dynasty alone. Countless ancestors threw their heads and spilled their blood to have the vast Tang Dynasty today, with so many delicate rivers and mountains, and countless heroes bent their waists. Could it be that I am so mediocre and incompetent, and the Tang Dynasty is about to be buried in my hands? Li Zhi shouted in his heart, hysterically shouting, "No, impossible, I don't want to be the king of the dead country." ”

Li Shuo didn't know when he appeared behind Li Zhi and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, my Datang is like a patient, if you want to recover, you have to endure some pain, and even break your muscles and bones, but after all, you won't die." Once healed, it is a dragon and a tiger, and the dragon enters the sea, and His Majesty is still worried about the difficulty of rewarding his ambitions? ”

Li Zhi bowed and said, "My nephew is pedantic, thank you for your teachings." ”

Li Shuo twisted his beard, and didn't care about the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, and said, "It's good to understand, it's good to understand." When your father chose you to ascend to this throne, I supported it. ”

Li Zhi was taken aback and did not speak.

Thick smoke billowed from the Hexi Wharf, and when he saw countless fireballs rolling down, Zhao Xianlong knew that the general trend had gone. But he was unwilling, he waited for more than ten years, just waiting for this day, but why did it end like this. He was not reconciled, and shouted, "Don't retreat, fight with them." ”

In winter, the weather is dry and dry, and the grass and trees are just a little bit, but in a moment, there is a sea of fire around it, and fire people can be seen rolling on the ground everywhere around the camp of the city guards. Wailing, crying for help, the sound is in your ears, who can still hear him Zhao Xianlong roaring something. The other people who were a little more powerful all thought about running for their lives, or putting out the fire for the brothers who got along day and night, and no one paid attention to Zhao Xianlong at all.

When the warships of the Jichuan Naval Division docked, they were only met with a small resistance and easily attacked the dock, and the camp was in a panic, who still had the heart to fight, they had already been burned by the fire and had no temper, and they were defeated like a mountain.

Zhao Xianlong in the camp looked at this scene with red eyes, his years of hard work were ruined, and he had no face to see the prince again. He pulled out the treasure knife given by the prince back then, and muttered, "I, Zhao Xianlong, used to be a stinky beggar on the street that everyone shouted and beaten, thanks to your trust and love, and now I am ashamed of your kindness to the prince, and I can only repay it with death." With that, he wiped the knife and killed himself.

Liu Wei was fighting the fire and cleaning the battlefield at the same time, and he sighed when he saw Zhao Xianlong, who was also a famous hero, but now he is in such a late situation.

A group of people walked down the hillside, and Chen Dehaha laughed and said, "Thank you Brother Liu for your righteous action, otherwise Tai'an will not be guaranteed." ”

Liu Wei said with a smile, "It's all for the Tang Dynasty, what is righteous or not, but I want to thank Brother Chen, if it weren't for your burning of the company camp, I, the sailor, would have to bury all of them tomorrow morning to feed the fish in this Wei River." ”

Chen De waved his hand and said, "Where is me, if you want to thank me, thank these heroes behind me, they volunteered to help you." ”

Liu Wei immediately bowed deeply and saluted, and said, "Liu Wei has thanked all the heroes of the rivers and lakes, if it weren't for you, my three thousand soldiers would have died on the battlefield." ”

Long Sen's bald head shone in the light of the fire, and he said, "General Liu can't help it, we are also the people of Datang, we can't just watch you shed blood and sacrifice, let us also go into battle together to kill the enemy, and contribute to the stability of my Datang." ”

Liu Wei held the dragon's hands tightly, not only grateful for the words just now, but also admired.

Liu Wei said, "Okay, since I am the Tang Erlang, I should go into battle to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, I will give you your names a few times, and when the time comes, I will repel the rebels, and I will personally write a recital to Your Majesty to ask for merit for you." ”

As soon as everyone heard this, they smiled happily, and the man should die in a hundred battles on the battlefield, and the horse leather shroud was returned.

Chen Dra Liu Wei said, "Tomorrow, the Anzhou army is estimated to be coming, do you have any good strategies to defend against the enemy, let's hear it." ”

Liu Wei smiled and said, "With Mr. Water Ghost here, I still have any good plans, I will listen to you." ”

Chen De's eyes rolled and he was speechless for a while.

None of the people who can sit in the positions of the state assassin history, the governor's mansion, and the Taoist platform are mediocre people, either the battlefield generals with outstanding military achievements or the princes and scholars, and the children of the poor family are very few, and the twists and turns in the officialdom are very clear than the door. Now that the situation in Chang'an is confusing, no one dares to rashly bet on being like the grass on the wall, I will shake it wherever the wind blows, and I just won't fall over. It's impossible for you to have a smooth past from my doorstep, and you have to make an example of Chang'an. Symbolically called for a while, just kill a few people and it's over, what should you do, what should you do, everyone has that tacit understanding with each other. It doesn't matter if you can take down Chang'an, you have to admit my personal feelings when you cross the border, maybe you can go one step closer and be crowned a prince. Can't beat it? I'm sorry, I'll beat you a water dog when I come back, and I can still make up for it, and I can still straighten up and speak in front of His Majesty.

The main role of the Northwest Battalion was to defend against the invading enemies of Tibet and Turks, and now it was a little powerless in the face of 100,000 people on all sides. They had no choice but to withdraw more than 80,000 people to Chang'an to ensure the safety of Gyeonggi. As long as Chang'an does not fall, Datang will still be that Datang.

This night's Chang'an is unusually quiet, there is no shouting and killing, no wailing, as if returning to the once prosperous Chang'an, the sky is also floating a symbol of the harvest of goose feather snow, the people in Chang'an City sleep unusually steadily, but they do not know that at this moment the soldiers have already come to the city, the war is about to break out. The soldiers on the city tower looked nervous, and countless rebels with torches continued to pour out not far from the city, like a fire dragon in the night, surrounding Chang'an.

Emperor Li Zhi and hundreds of civil and military officials climbed the city tower one after another, watching the large army outside the city approaching the city, Li Zhi stood without panic, his expression did not change, his eyes were extremely firm, and he turned to the generals behind him and said, "The safety of Gyeonggi is up to the generals." ”

Li Ji lifted the front swing with one hand, knelt down and said, "The last general will live and die with Chang'an." ”

Other generals and ministers also knelt down one after another, "live and die with Chang'an." ”

Li Zhi raised his hands weakly, "Everyone, Aiqing is flat." ”

(End of chapter)