The people of the city were also killed and wounded, but fortunately they were not the target of the raiders; Wang Zhonghe's widow, Mrs. Liu, and his eldest son, Wang. The clansmen who shocked the famous Huazhou general Guo Ziyi were also disturbed, but when the crisis was in place, Wang Fei really had no time to visit them.

To Wang Fei's relief, although many Anxiya soldiers died in the sneak attack, Su Yejun did not find the bodies of Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing, and Wei Boyu.

"With the martial arts of the guards, you can protect the high privy and the handsome." Wang Fei ordered his subordinates to take a closer look, but the sneak attackers simply cleaned the battlefield, and the Suye army only found more than 100 grain trucks with the banners of the Wuguan defense envoys, and found nothing.

Worried about the battle situation at Tongguan, Wang Fei did not stay long, leaving only 200 sword and shield soldiers and 200 archers to garrison Huazhou and clean up the battlefield, and then led the main force to the east. Fearing a sudden encounter with the rebels, the scouts of the Suye army were scattered far away.

"There are thousands of soldiers and horses approaching in the east!" When there were still more than 70 miles away from Tongguan, there was an exclamation of scouts from the front, and Wang Fei hurriedly set up an ambush on the spot, preparing to test the quality of the rebel strikers first, and then decide whether to continue to advance east or retreat to Huazhou.

When the Tingzhou artillery was about to launch a fierce oil bomb, Li Sheng, who was watching the enemy in front of the formation, suddenly shouted: "Fei Langjun, looking at its banner, it seems that the front is the army of King Qin of Khotan." ”

"Stop!" Wang Fei was full of suspicions: "The king of Khotan, Wei Chisheng, is Ge Shuhan's cousin and Gao Yunzhou's uncle, known as loyal and brave, how could he abandon the pass and flee first?" And its military appearance sounds quite neat, and there is no defeat, it's really strange, is it a rebel disguise......"

Riding horses and sacrificing their lives to fight against jackals.

When Wang Fei couldn't figure out whether the front was friend or foe, in the north of Lantian County, more than 70 miles southeast of Chang'an, Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing led more than 1,000 remnants of Huazhou soldiers to hurry south.

"Before, because I was worried about dampening the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Chang'an, the family members of the marshal were all in Xuanyangfang. If you guessed correctly, the sneak attack on Huazhou must have been done by the East Palace, and the city may have changed at this moment. Feng Changqing couldn't help but persuade again: "As a privy envoy and deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, the marshal should take the protection of King Qin as the priority, and Lantian Pass will be handed over to a certain ......."

"Feng Er, the Huns have not been destroyed, why should they be at home." Gao Xianzhi did not hesitate to interrupt Feng Changqing's chatter: "Yunzhou has Khotanese soldiers and horses to protect you in Tongguan, and you have sent Wei Boyu to respond, so you should have no worries; Although Yunfan and Yunxi are young, there are more than 30 tooth soldiers left in the house, which is enough to ensure the evacuation of their mother and son. The top priority is to quickly reinforce Lantian Pass and block the passage of the rebels into Gyeonggi, otherwise Datang will be in danger! Of course, you can trust the ability to lead the army, but you have no official or position at the moment, how can you order the newly defeated soldiers to fight bravely? ”

"Hey......" Feng Changqing sighed and stopped arguing.

At the beginning of the day (more than 17 o'clock in the afternoon), the seemingly well-fortified Huazhou camp was suddenly attacked by the Wuguan grain transport team, and Gao Xianzhi, who was separated from the camp by one street, was about to lead the army to the rescue, the west gate of the city was suddenly opened, and thousands of cavalry poured in, or rode and shot or wielded, or slashed with knives or axes, and killed the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army by surprise.

"Falling River!?" In the battle of Shaanzhou, the three thousand rivers under the command of Tian Qianzhen left a deep impression on Feng Changqing.

To add insult to injury, there was an enemy in the Wyvern Army, who secretly launched cold arrows to sneak attack their colleagues, causing the Wyvern Forbidden Army, which had the strength to fight, into chaos.

The brave and incomparable Wei Boyu tried to lead the team to attack and rescue King Sheng. Helplessly, the Anxi Ya soldiers only had more than 400 cavalry, and before they could penetrate the array of the Luoluo River, Li Qi died tragically under the knife of the grain transport team, and the Pinglu Ya soldiers lost their armor and fled in all directions.

After a successful blow, the enemy cavalry turned to attack the Anxi army, Feng Changqing saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly ordered the tooth soldiers to retreat into the workshop to fight with the enemy in the streets, avoiding hedging with the enemy cavalry with superior numbers. Gao Xianzhi personally erected the deputy marshal Daxu, and summoned the remnants of the troops inside and outside the city to regroup and fight to the death with the enemy.

Relying on the fangqiang building, the Anxi soldiers withstood the enemy's fierce attack at the tragic cost of sacrificing more than 200 people. It was about the reason that the three drums were exhausted, and the sneak attack soldiers and horses who could not attack for a long time threw down more than a thousand torches, set fire to the Huazhou camp and evacuated like the wind, while the Anxi army was forced out of the city by the flames to hide.

"Four thousand rivers fell into Huazhou, how could it be ......" When Gao Xianzhi gathered the rout, Feng Changqing pondered: "An hour ago, Yunzhou Langjun secretly reported that Tongguan was safe and sound, Xi Yuanqing also said that everything was normal in Lantian Pass, and there was no change in the direction of Pujindu, how could the rebels fall from the sky...... Wuguan Grain Transport Team...... Wuguan ...... ...... in the river"

As soon as he thought of this, Feng Changqing dragged his tired body to carefully look at the remnants of the gathered soldiers: "I see, ...... so"

"Jie Shuai, just ......" Wei Boyu, who was blood-stained and scarred, was still respectful to Feng Changqing.

"Wei Beijiang, I bother you to take ten brothers to Tongguan quickly, quietly find Yunzhou Langjun, and then accompany him back to Chang'an to take care of Gao Jieshuai's family." Feng Changqing, who was cold-haired, realized that the turmoil in Chang'an City was about to rise.

"No!" Wei Boyu saw Feng Changqing's anxious expression, regardless of the pain all over his body, he got on the horse and left.

"Jieshuai, Wuguan is in danger, Lantian is in danger, and Chang'an is in danger!" Feng Changqing, who had a normal expression on his face, slowly paced to Gao Xianzhi's side.

"Why?" Gao Xianzhi frowned and said strangely.

"Li Dingbang's internal Goudong Palace and the external rebels were the culprits in the attack on Huazhou. A certain thought that the grain transport team was in disguise in Luoluohe, but when it was attacked, the Feilong Army stationed in Huazhou was in civil turmoil. At this moment, the soldiers and horses were checked, and the soldiers of the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army selected from the river were all gone, could it be that they all happened to be killed in battle? I don't believe there is such a coincidence. ”

"Really?" Gao Xianzhi pretended to glance casually, but did not see any of the river generals: "But Li Dingbang has never been to Huazhou......"

"Molasham! He frequently visited King Sheng and seemed to have other plans. Feng Changqing has already guessed the trick.

"Li Dingbang rebelled, Wuguan was naturally not protected, and Lantian Pass had become a pass to face the rebels. There is a mountain road between Shaanzhou and Wuguan, and the Luoluo River must have sneaked into Gyeonggi by taking the Wuguan Road and mixing in the grain transportation team. Gao Xianzhi immediately realized: "Unexpectedly, Xi Yuanqing was so clumsy, but fortunately, the fire in Lantian Pass was not extinguished." However, after the success of the surprise attack on Huazhou, the Luoluo River left quickly, and nine times out of ten he would return to Lantian Pass and flank Xi Yuanqing with the enemy forces in Kwantung. It's just that why is it so much trouble to drag down the river......"

"It is estimated that Li Dingbang's condition is that the rebels will help him snipe His Royal Highness King Sheng." Feng Changqing's thoughts became clearer and clearer: "I'm not sure whether this extremely vicious move is Li Dingbang's own idea or Ashina Yang's plan, but the prince definitely can't get out of it." ”

"King Sheng is not dead, and the crown prince's position in the East Palace is difficult to protect." Gao Xianzhi's heart is like a mirror.

"Jieshuai, for the sake of today's plan, the best policy should gather soldiers and horses and go to King Qin of Daming Palace to expose the prince's treacherous schemes; The middle strategy can retreat to the western suburbs of Chang'an and adapt to the situation. ”

"What's next?" Gao Xianzhi was noncommittal about the upper and middle strategies.

"Lead the remnants of the army to Lantian Pass, gather the nearby garrisons, fight to the death, and resist the rebels." Feng Changqing seemed to have expected Gao Xianzhi to ask this question.

"Lantian!" Gao Xianzhi turned to the south and said word by word in an unquestionable tone: "Donating your body to go to the country, seeing death as if you were going home." ”

"No!" Feng Changqing's eyes were filled with tears, and he accepted the order.

The mourning soldiers marched at night, and the mountain owls flew in shock.

Lantian Pass is located in the mountains and mountains more than ten miles east of Lantian County, and it is like two giant gates with Wuguan, firmly controlling the passage between Gyeonggi and Nanyang and Jianghuai. Lantian Pass is not as famous as Tongguan, and it is not as steep as Wuguan, but it is the last line of defense to defend the southeast of Chang'an.

On the same day, Yang Guozhong strongly recommended Li Dingbang to serve as the defense envoy of Wuguan, Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing thought that Li Dingbang was greedy for military merits and did not think much about it. However, in order to ensure that the flank of Huazhou was controlled in the hands of the Anxi army, they suggested that King Sheng send Xi Yuanqing, who acted steadily, out of the town of Lantian, and Yu Chaoen, the supervisor of Anxi, went with him.

Gao Xianzhi was very contemptuous of Yu Chaoen, who accompanied Xi Yuanqing into King Jingqin, he thought that there was no inner servant in the world who could be more greedy for money than Bian Lingcheng, but Yu Chaoen was not only greedy, but also extremely shameless, and as soon as he arrived in Jinggi, he brought the wealth collected from the river and Anxi to flatter King Sheng.

What's ridiculous is that Yu Chaoen's knowledge is too shallow and his eyesight is poor, he didn't understand King Sheng's love and the pattern of the marshal's camp and rashly asked to see him, but because the gift to Li Renzhi was too poor, he had to leave in a huff.

Gao Xianzhi has always looked at Li Renzhi, who is not used to having a low eye and a low hand, and there is no one in his eyes, but this is the only thing he thinks Li Renzhi has done very well. Feng Changqing was worried that the humiliated Yu Chaoen was plotting revenge, and ordered Xi Yuanqing to spy on him.

After the rebels captured the eastern capital and Shaanzhou, there were many battles outside Tongguan, while the front line of Lantian and Wuguan was calm. The strange thing is that the rebels have obviously followed the Wuguan grain transport team into Gyeonggi and attacked Huazhou, and the defenders of Lantian Pass not only did not notice, but lit a fire of peace as usual.

In order to ensure that the surrounding trends are controlled as soon as possible, Feng Changqing and Xi Yuanqing often contact flying pigeons. When the Huazhou camp was attacked, the carrier pigeons in the city either died in the war or fled in the chaos, Gao Xianzhi could not contact Xi Yuanqing, so he could only personally lead the troops to see what was going on. Along the way, Gao Xianzhi secretly hoped that the Lantian defenders could discover the rebel conspiracy as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

To Gao Xianzhi's great frustration, as soon as they passed Lantian County, they ran into Yu Chaoen, who was fleeing west in panic under the escort of dozens of soldiers.

"Privy Envoy Gao, more than an hour ago, a large group of rebels suddenly attacked Lantian Pass. The enemy broke through the pass with stone cannons and fierce oil fire, and the deputy envoy Xi died in battle. A handful of snot and a handful of tears of fish secretly flashed a little cunning in Chaoen's eyes.

"Lantian Pass is also lost?! How many centaurs are there in the enemy army? How far is it from here? Feng Changqing roared.

"The rebels have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, but they are in a hurry to meet the privy envoy, and they really don't know where the enemy army is going." Yu Chaoen is not ashamed.

"Hateful ......" Feng Changqing looked back at the remnants of more than a thousand Huazhou soldiers, thinking hard about how to resist the enemy.