The first snow is full of Chang'an, and the four seas gather in turmoil.

On November 11, the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754), there were still more than ten days before the winter solstice, and the exhausted Wang Zheng saw that when he rode his horse through the door of Anyuan Gate in Chang'an City, Bian Lingcheng had just left Youzhou.

Chang'an was disturbed by the time, rumors continued in the market, and it was rumored that Wang Yuanbao used Fei Langjun's life experience to slander Wang Zhengjian was instructed by the prince; It is also said that after the death of the proprietor Wang, the property of Ruyiju was wantonly embezzled by Mrs. Yuguo. And Wang Zhengjian smelled a familiar smell from the rumors: "The arrest of Wang Yuanbao is intended to be in the East Palace; Now that Wang Yuanbao is dead, the saint does not forget to use the topic to play ......"

In the court, Gao Xianzhi exposed Yang Guozhong's crime of covering up the defeat of Jiannan, and his words were conclusive; Yang Guozhong tried all kinds of quibbles, pleaded not guilty, and accused Anxi Jinju Academy of harboring ill intentions and planning to rob the prison. The sage, who was anxious to go to the Huaqing Palace to escape the cold and have fun, was overwhelmed and ordered both sides to prepare evidence for the court to discuss and decide during the winter solstice court meeting.

What makes the people of Chang'an even more concerned is that the sage went to Huaqing Palace this time, and uncharacteristically did not let the prince stay in Chang'an to supervise the country, but ordered him to accompany King Sheng to serve around. The government and the opposition have speculated about when the saint will officially issue an edict to make it easier to prince......

Although Wang Zhengjian was anxious to see Wang Fei, according to the system, he had to go to the Huaqing Palace to see the saint before he could return home. And what made him laugh and cry was that Mrs. Pei had already sent Wang Jue to wait outside Anyuanmen, called to greet him, which was really suspected of "surveillance......

"Fei'er is on duty in Huaqing Palace today, but she can kill two birds with one stone." Wang Zhengjian was full of thoughts about how to face Wang Fei.

When Wang Zheng was waiting anxiously outside the main hall of Huaqing Palace waiting for the summons of the saint, he suddenly saw Gao Lishi holding a scroll of music, lost his soul and staggered.

"Gao Weng, what's the alarm?"

"An Lushan...... Sacrifice the Horse ...... 3,000 cavalry...... Luoyang ......: "Gao Lishi, who was out of breath, handed the chapter to Wang Zhengjian.

Wang Zhengjian opened it and saw that Yin Da Xi Xun of Henan Province reported urgently, saying that thousands of cavalry had crossed the Yellow River yesterday and entered the suburbs of Luoyang. Da Xixun, who was not at ease, sent someone to ask, and only then did he know that it was Fan Yang Jiedu who made An Lushan enter the team to sacrifice horses. Da Xixun led his troops out of the city to investigate, but he did not see An Lushan, the king of Dongping County, but found that the driver responsible for sending the horses was extremely powerful, and all kinds of blades were readily available.

"An Lushan has been on the fold before? Can you confirm that he is in the sacrificial procession? ”

"Bian Lingcheng was ordered to comfort Youzhou, and a few days ago he went to the fold, saying that An Lushan intended to sacrifice a war horse, and a certain has been presented to His Majesty, but the saint and the concubine were busy arranging new songs in the pear garden, and they didn't have time to see it. The Inner Servant Province has no supervising army in Fanyang, so it is not clear whether An Lushan set off for Beijing. ”

"Tongguan!" Wang Zheng thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Guanzhong has been peaceful for a long time, and the defenders of Tongguan are only more than a thousand people. Please ask Gao Weng to show the saint as soon as possible, quickly send the forbidden army to help Tongguan, and at the same time officially issue an edict to refuse An Lushan's sacrifice of horses! ”

"Thank you, Wang Duhu!"

"If Your Majesty is gracious, I am willing to lead the troops to Tongguan!" Wang Zhengjian took the initiative to ask Ying, and he didn't care about seeing Wang Fei at this moment.

"I will tell Your Majesty." Colliers left in a hurry.

Yu Yang Mo came agitatedly, breaking the song of neon clothes and feathers.

In the pear orchard of Huaqing Palace, plum blossoms bloom, a faint fragrance, Li Longji plays the jade flute, Yang Yuhuan plays the pipa, and the disciples of the pear garden sing and dance lightly, and they are happy. Yang Guozhong served cautiously on the side, for fear of upsetting the concubine again.

When Gao Lishi sent Da Xixun's recital, Li Longji was suspicious, and Yang Guozhong was overjoyed. After Gao Lishi relayed Wang Zhengjian's judgment, Li Longji urgently summoned Gao Xianzhi, Wang Zhengjian, and Zhang Shouyu to Liyuan to discuss.

The two famous generals unanimously determined that An Lushan's sacrifice of horses was extremely suspicious, and his heart could be punished. Although Zhang Shouyu did not think that An Lushan would rebel, he also agreed that thousands of wolf-like cavalry from border towns should not be allowed to enter Gyeonggi. Yang Guozhong insisted on An Lushan's wolf ambitions, and repeatedly begged Li Longji to issue an edict to remove An Lushan from all officials and escort them to Beijing.

Li Longji pondered for a long time before ordering Gao Xianzhi to be the main general and Wang Zhengjian to be the deputy, leading the 5,000 flying dragon forbidden army to gallop through Tongguan, and at the same time issued an edict to refuse An Lushan's act of sacrificing horses.

When Wang Zhengjian and Gao Xianzhi flew to Tongguan, the 3,000 Luohe River had already traveled to Shaanzhou (now Sanmenxia City, Henan), and learned that the Feilong Forbidden Army had reinforced Tongguan, Tian Qianzhen realized that the fighter had been lost, so he tore off his camouflage and attacked Shaanzhou. In just one hour, Shaanzhou fell into the hands of the Luoluo River. After occupying Shaanzhou, the Luluohe scouts rode out in all directions, intercepting and killing the past travelers, and the east and west of the Tang Dynasty were isolated.

When Tian Qianzhen attacked Shaanzhou, in the city of Youzhou, Hebei, An Lushan deceitfully wrote an edict and summoned his subordinates to show the way: "The inner servant and young eunuch Bian Lingcheng sent a secret decree from the sage, and counted Yang Guozhong's crimes of bullying the monarch and covering up his defeats, and ordered a certain army to enter the court to crusade against Yang Guozhong. Those who dare not obey their orders will not be spared! ”

At this time, Fan Yangjun Zuo Duo was a general, and they all looked forward to An Lushan, and no one dared to say anything. An Lushan was overjoyed, gathered the soldiers and horses under the tent and the Xi, Khitan, Murowei and other departments scattered a total of 120,000, personally rode the iron opinion, and led the army south.

The rebels rode elite, smoke and dust billowed and the noise shook the ground. At that time, the mainland had been peaceful for a long time, and the people had not heard of the soldiers for several generations, and when they heard that Fan Yang had risen up, they were shocked from far and near. The rebels passed through the prefectures and counties, and the wind collapsed, and they kept the order or opened the door to meet the enemy, or abandoned the city and fled, or were captured and killed by the rebels, and there was no one who dared to resist.

At the same time, in the name of offering Khitan warriors and girls, Anqingzong sent troops to infiltrate Taiyuan, beheaded Yang Guangxiang, the deputy of the northern capital, and took Taiyuan lightly without blood.

After capturing Taiyuan, An Qingzong immediately released Gao Xiuyan from the prison, and then sent troops to slaughter hundreds of people from the Taiyuan Wang family. Hedong quickly fell into the hands of the rebels.

Shi Siming, the deputy envoy of Pinglu Jiedu who went to Beijing to participate in the Winter Solstice Dynasty Meeting, traveled to Hengzhou (now Shijiazhuang, Hebei) and learned that An Lushan had raised troops, and he immediately decided to lead more than 100 tooth soldiers to gallop southeast, avoid the rebel soldiers, board the ship from Qingzhou, and return to Yingzhou (now Chaoyang City, Liaoning) by sea.

When An Sishun, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, heard that the two towns of Fanyang and Hedong had rebelled, he was bitterly persuading Shuofang Jiedu, who had entered Beijing with him, to make Li Guangbi marry his daughter. Knowing that An Lushan betrayed the Tang Dynasty, An Sishun, who was like ashes, tied his hands and entered Beijing to ask for guilt, but persuaded Li Guangbi to return to Lingzhou as soon as possible to prevent An Qingzong from sneaking into the Hetao and monitoring the Hui Hui.

Longyou Jiedu made Ge Shuhan come to Chang'an to recuperate as early as a month ago due to leg disease. Hearing that An Lushan rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, Ge Shuhan urgently ordered Wang Sili, who accompanied him to Beijing, to return to Shanzhou, and then he rode straight to the Huaqing Palace under the protection of Liu Poyu, the captain of the Longyouya Military Academy, and met Feng Changqing who urged the horse to hurry halfway.

Qiuci is more than 6,000 miles away from Chang'an, and it takes a lot of time to come and go, so after the prisoner sacrifice in June, the sage ordered Li Siye and Xi Yuanqing to return to Anxi, but let Feng Changqing stay in Beijing, in addition to facilitating him to attend the winter solstice court, but also to show grace.

As soon as the two walked to the Huaqing Palace to look at the Beijing Gate, Ge Shuhan was suddenly blown by a cold wind when he got out of the car, and his legs suddenly broke down and he collapsed to the ground. After being helped up by Liu Poyu and Feng Changqing, Ge Shuhan sighed, gave up his heart to share his military merits, and returned with hatred. Feng Changqing entered the palace to face the saint and counsellor the military aircraft.

Tuozhi City is the farthest away from Chang'an, and Ashina Yang was shocked by the great changes in the river before he rushed to Qingzhou (now Qingyang, Gansu). He stationed on the horse for a while, and sent troops and horses to make Li Dingbang continue to travel eastward, but he turned his horse's head and went all the way to the west, and the dust was gone......

When the news reached Dadu Shui, Jiannan Province, Nanzhao King Ge Luofeng, who personally led the troops to confront the Jiannan Army, cheered; Contrary to the elated Nanzhao army, the Jiannan military camp was lifeless, and Cui Yuan, the deputy envoy of Jiannan Jiedu and the governor of the future, knew that the time had come to retreat......

In the city of Plateau Luo, the Tubo monarchs and ministers who had just recovered from the infighting spread out the map and pointed to the four towns of Anxi and the land of Jiuqu; In the Black Tiger City of Mobei, Prince Ye Hu and his younger brother Yidijian argued for a long time in their father's tooth tent, and finally Gele Khan decided to mobilize 10,000 cavalry to approach Shuofang and spy on the direction of the Tang Dynasty's civil war; In the far north, on the banks of the Jianshui (now Yenisei River), after Li Kun detected the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty and the changes in the Hui Dynasty, he was worried.

Shuofang Dangxiang, Tongluo, Fugu, Beiting Shatuo, Hezhong Ge Luolu, Zhaowu Jiu and other Tang vassals heard the news of An Lushan's rebellion against the Tang Dynasty sooner or later, each with its own heart and plan; The first to learn of An Lushan's rebellion was in the city of Talas for six years of thriving in the turk Shi, the special service Kudulu deciphered the encrypted letter sent by his sister from Chang'an, and immediately gathered troops and horses to prepare grain, but he was not in a hurry to send troops to the Suye River Valley, but to explore and wait and see. He firmly believed that the civil strife originating from Fanyang and Hedong would eventually spread to the west of the city, and that would be the golden opportunity to recover the city of Broken Leaves and rebuild the Turgish Khanate......

More than a month later, Abu al-Muslim, the governor of Khorasan, who was far away in Mulu City, received the news of the Tang civil war, and he was overjoyed to write a letter suggesting that the caliph Abbasid, whose capital was Baghdad, should step up his offensive against the Umayyad family, and that he would recruit troops and horses as soon as possible to help.

As the black-clad eater sharpens her sword, the slim Princess Anice, escorted by Sai Ifu-din, travels to the outskirts of Damascus to visit her Assasin. When the horse galloped like the wind, she suddenly remembered the dreamlike Tang Dynasty for no reason......

The wind and clouds suddenly changed, and the stone broke the earth.

On November 14, the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754), Li Mi, who was enjoying himself in the hot springs, received a note from the soldiers of Beiting, and hurriedly returned to Tingzhou after putting on his robe and hurriedly returning to Tingzhou.

"Fei Lang-kun, what's going on? Didn't you swear that you could weaken An Lushan? Li Mi, who knows everything about the shortcomings of the court, knows that the peaceful days full of flowers have been shattered by An Lushan's iron hooves, and the earth fire that has been dormant for a long time is about to burst into the sky, and no one knows how much blood Datang needs to shed to extinguish it. And before the rebellion was suppressed, he could no longer freely seek mountains and rivers and cultivate the Tao with a pure heart. After all, refining qi and knotting pills is just a small path of personal cultivation, and saving millions of people is the avenue of heaven and earth.

When Li Mi urged the horse to gallop, in the courtyard outside the Huaqing Palace, the depressed Wang Fei locked himself in the inner study and closed the door to thank the guests. He pondered for a long time, but he still didn't understand why he had spent a lot of effort and used his vision and knowledge far ahead of the times, but he still didn't prevent Datang from falling into civil strife.

Outside the study, Ashina Wenxia was eager to break in, but she was at a loss as to how to persuade Wang Fei; The bright and incomparable Ashina was gloomy and gloomy, and she bent her fingers several times to knock on the door, but stopped again, because she really didn't know how to appease her lover after entering; Aitengna, who was walking slowly, saw that the Ashina sisters were helpless, she bit her lip and thought for a moment, then pushed the door and entered......

(End of Volume III)