Xuanzong didn't take the official letter, but said slowly: "You give me a thought." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Yang Guozhong shook his hand to open the cover of the official document and pulled out two pieces of paper from it. On the first piece of paper is the urgent recital of Qi Siyuan, the Taishou of Weizhou, Yang Guozhong hoarsely read in his throat: "The minister of Weizhou Taishou Qi Siyuan played, and the traitor An Lushan has raised troops to rebel against the imperial court, and now with 200,000 troops from Fan Yangping, Lu Hedong and collusion with Xi and Khitan and other departments, the 400,000 army has been waved over. When the minister wrote this recital, Yingzhou, Jizhou, Cangzhou, and Qizhou had already been broken by the rebels. In the near future, the rebel army will come to our Weizhou County. The minister predicted that the rebels' intention was to attack our Weizhou and march west to attack Luoyang, and the next target was the capital, hoping that the imperial court would already plan a strategy to suppress the thieves. The minister knows that Weizhou will not be protected, but please rest assured that the minister should defend Weizhou to the death, live and die with the city, never take half a step back, die with his body, and live up to His Majesty's holy grace. ”

The corners of Xuanzong's mouth twitched, the wrinkles on his face trembled, and the muscles on his face twisted every time he heard the name of a state capital. Judging from this report, An Lushan's judgment army has already won four or five state capitals, and by the time he receives this report, I am afraid that Weizhou has also been lost. In the small Weizhou, the defenders are only two thousand, how can they resist the army of hundreds of thousands of tigers and wolves.

"Your Majesty......" Yang Guozhong looked at Xuanzong's face cautiously, wanting to comfort Xuanzong a few words, but he felt how pale and powerless the words of comfort were at this time.

"What's written on that piece of paper?" Xuanzong asked in a deep voice.

"This is the rebels' march letter." Yang Guozhong had just stuffed the document into half of the official document file, but it was discovered by Xuanzong.

"Text? You give me another thought. ”

"Your Majesty, the text is full of An Lushan's nonsense and slanderous words against the court, and he made excuses for his rebellion, why should Your Majesty look at it, it will only increase your anger."

"Read, I want to listen." Xuanzong said coldly.

Yang Guozhong had no choice but to take out the text, hold it in his hand and stammered and began to read. The wind and snow were like knives, the cold was biting, Yang Guozhong stood there holding the text, his body shivering coldly, but he stammered reading the text. He didn't want to read the content of the text to Xuanzong, because the name on the text was aimed at him, so the more he read, the more frightened he became, and the usual witty and witty answers were all thrown out of the clouds at this moment.

Xuanzong listened to all the contents of the text with an expressionless face, his eyes were empty, and he gritted his teeth and said: "An Lushan, An Lushan, I treat you well, you treat me like this." How many people have reminded me that you want to rebel, I never believed them, but you still rebelled after all. ”

Yang Guozhong's lips turned purple with coldness, and he scolded in a trembling voice: "This dog thief and wolf is ambitious, His Majesty has a great favor for him, and he actually ......"

"Shut up for me." Xuanzong shouted loudly, anger erupted in his eyes, and he stared at Yang Guozhong fiercely and said, "Doesn't this matter matter to you?" You think I don't know? You see him as a thorn in the side, and you do everything possible to kill him, and although this is not a reason for him to rebel, you also have a great responsibility. And it is clearly written on this inscription, An Lushan wants to clear the king's side, and the name is for you Yang Guozhong, do you dare to say that you are not responsible? ”

Yang Guozhong's face was pale, he knelt down in the snow with a puff, kowtowed like garlic and said: "The minister should die, the minister did have some selfishness before, but An Lushan's wolf ambition is that if the minister does not deal with him, he will also rebel." That's just his reason. Your Majesty...... If Your Majesty really thinks that An Lushan is only here for me, Yang Guozhong, then Your Majesty will cut off my head and hand it over to An Lushan. If the life of Guozhong is exchanged for An Lushan's resignation, it is worth it if the minister dies. ”

Xuanzong frowned and was silent. Yang Guifei on the side looked at all the passing heads in her eyes, and suddenly fell to her knees. Xuanzong hurriedly said: "What is Concubine Ai doing?" The ground is cold, so get up quickly. ”、

Yang Guifei said quietly: "Your Majesty, An Lushan's text is not only aimed at his cousin, he is talking about everyone in our Yang family, of course, including the concubines. In this case, Your Majesty beheaded all of my Yang family and sent it to An Lushan, in exchange for his dismissal. ”

Xuanzong frowned and said, "What are these words?" Will I bow my head like a traitor? Will I kill all of your Yang Men in exchange for An Lushan's rest soldiers? In that case, what face will I have standing between heaven and earth? An Lushan, a dog thief, deceived me into trusting him in disregard of the emperor's grace, and I wanted to arrest him and bring him to Chang'an, dig out his heart in front of him, and see how dark it was. Guozhong, don't hurry up and gather the ministers. I will go to the palace to discuss countermeasures with my ministers. An Lushan's target was Luoyang, the eastern capital, and the capital was to take immediate action and send people to lead the army to immediately quell the rebellion. ”

Yang Guozhong nodded again and again, got up and walked away. Xuanzong's expression was calm, and he turned to Yang Guifei and said, "Aifei, I can't accompany you to enjoy the plum blossoms, I am going to the palace." Someone wants to mess up my country and prevent me from living an idle life, and I must take care of them. ”

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The bell rang with a 'clang'. In the heavy snow, the officials who were comfortably guarding the yamen and waiting for the next duty were alarmed by the piercing bell. The sudden summoning of the court in such weather is certainly not a good thing.

The apprehensive ministers braved the wind and snow to come to the Nanxun Palace, and they saw at a glance that Xuanzong was sitting on the throne in advance, waiting for their arrival. This is clearly unusual.

At the beginning of the court meeting, Xuanzong first asked Gao Lishi to read the rebellious text in public, and the ministers suddenly exploded. Soon after, the voices of scolding An Lushan came and went, those who spoke elegantly were fine, and those who spoke viciously even scolded An Lushan's ancestors for eighteen generations.

Xuanzong waited for the ministers to finish scolding, stopped, and then spoke: "I am ashamed of you, I have not seen through An Lushan's mind for so many years, but I didn't expect him to be a wolf of Zhongshan beside me. Now the wolf has shown his true colors, and his high-sounding essay is full of lies. However, Guozhong had already seen through his true colors and reminded me several times, but unfortunately I couldn't listen to Guozhong's words and couldn't take precautions early. ”

Hubu Shangshu Zhang Qiu and Qiong played: "It's not Your Majesty's fault, An Lushan, the dog thief, is hidden very deeply, and Your Majesty was deceived by him." This dog thief intends to kill Xiangguo with His Majesty. It is because Xiangguo saw through his treacherous scheme early that His Majesty must not be deceived by this traitor. ”

The ministers chimed in: "That's right, Your Majesty must not believe his words." ”

Yang Guozhong's mood has settled down a lot, and he was really shocked after hearing the news at first, but now he has learned Xuanzong's intentions, Xuanzong will never kill himself to fulfill An Lushan's intentions. His Majesty has never been coerced like this in his life, although he is already old, An Lushan's move has aroused the ambition of the emperor he has hidden for a long time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for saying such things, in fact, Guozhong has long been ready to be loyal to the country. If Guozhong's death can be exchanged for An Lushan's change of heart, what does it matter if Guozhong dies? Yang Guozhong arched his hand.

"Xiang Guo doesn't want to say that, how can he bow to the traitor. Your Majesty will not do anything that is painful to the enemy. The ministers said one after another.

Yang Guozhong was so excited that he almost burst into tears. Xuanzong waved his hand and said, "You don't need to mention this matter anymore, how can I do this." Now the rebels claim that the 400,000-strong army has moved south, and now they may have captured Weizhou. Their targets were Luoyang and Chang'an. It won't be long before the troops arrive in Luoyang, and now we have to think about how to send troops to exterminate the rebels immediately, and there is no need to talk about other things. ”

The ministers were suddenly solemn, indeed, this is the top priority. However, when this incident was mentioned, everyone suddenly felt that the problem was very serious, very, very serious. An Lushan's soldiers and horses are claimed to be 400,000, so there are at least 200,000 soldiers and horses. And the major state capitals east of Luoyang actually did not have many troops to defend them. Almost all of the forces of the Tang Dynasty were concentrated in the border towns under the jurisdiction of the ten major jiedu envoys. Inland prefectures and counties either have only a small number of soldiers and horses stationed, or only regimental training soldiers and horses, and all the soldiers and horses near Luoyang are only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, how can they resist the attack of hundreds of thousands of rebels.

"Your Majesty, there are only 20,000 garrisons in the Eastern Capital, and I am afraid that we will not be able to resist the enemy. It is imperative that the forbidden army in the capital be mobilized to reinforce Luoyang, otherwise it may be difficult to stop the rebels from advancing westward. "Zuo Xiang Chen. Xilie stepped forward and said.

"What's the idea? How can the forbidden army in the capital move? Isn't that a joke? How to protect the mobilization of the forbidden army? The more than 100,000 forbidden troops in the capital are shouldering the heavy responsibility of protecting His Majesty and protecting Chang'an. Yang Guozhong immediately objected.

Everyone nodded, Xiangguo was right, the forbidden army must not move, the more than 100,000 forbidden troops moved, so is there still the last hole card?

"The minister believes that troops and horses should be immediately dispatched from Hexi, Shuofang, Longyoujian, Nananxi and other places to Chang'an for reinforcements, otherwise it may be difficult to resist the bandits." A minister spoke.

"But far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and now the troops will be transferred, at least a month or two will be able to arrive, and by then Luoyang will have already been lost?" Someone retorted.

"Far water is also water, and it is better than no water at all. If you don't mobilize troops and horses from these places, how can you say that you can have troops and horses to resist the rebels? ”

"That's right, now the deployment of troops can at least defend the capital and ensure that the capital is safe." Some ministers said one after another.

Xuanzong frowned and said: "The transfer of troops must be transferred, but Luoyang can't ignore it." Let An Lushan take Luoyang, wouldn't it greatly increase the momentum of the rebels? ”

Yang Guozhong pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the transfer of troops is the transfer of troops, and before that, the generals should be mobilized to Luoyang. The soldiers and horses are slow to move, but if the brave generals are mobilized to arrive in Luoyang first, they can quickly recruit troops on the spot, and with a population of one million in Luoyang, they can easily raise a large number of soldiers and horses. With the recruited troops, at least they can resist the rebels and slow down the rebels. As long as the pace of the rebels is delayed, the troops and horses drawn from various places can arrive one after another, and the situation can be stabilized at that time. ”

Xuanzong was overjoyed and said: "Good way, delaying time is a good strategy." So who to send to Luoyang to recruit troops? ”

Yang Guozhong said: "The only generals who can win the battle in my Tang Dynasty now are Wang Yuan and Gao Xianzhi." You can only choose from these two people. The minister wanted to recommend Wang Yuan to Luoyang, but Wang Yuan was young after all, and the minister was worried that he would not be able to cope with this kind of big battle, so the minister felt that Gao Xianzhi was suitable. And as far as the minister knows, Feng Changqing, the deputy envoy of Anxi Jiedu and the envoy of soldiers and horses, is on vacation in the capital, and he and Gao Xianzhi have been the partners of the main and deputy generals for many years, so they can send him to Luoyang to recruit troops first, and after Gao Xianzhi arrives, the two of them can also cooperate and cooperate. It also saves a lot of time. ”

Xuanzong nodded and said: "I think it is appropriate, Gao Xianzhi is the victorious general of my Tang Dynasty, and with him leading the army to resist the rebels, I am also more down-to-earth." Although Wang Yuan has not tasted defeat, as you said, after all, he has not had enough experience. If he stays in Jiannan, he can also stabilize the border between Tibet and the Turks, so as to prevent the Tibetans and Turks from taking the opportunity to attack our Tang Dynasty. ”

Yang Guozhong nodded and said, "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Xuanzong made a decision, and the ministers also settled down, Gao Xianzhi could go to Luoyang to garrison, which was the most reassuring thing at that time. At that moment, Xuanzong immediately drafted a decree to draw a total of 200,000 troops from the five sections of the army of Shuofang, Hexi, Jiannan, Anxi, and Longyou to form the main force of the army of thieves. The sixth prince Rongwang Li Wan was appointed as the generalissimo of the thieves, Gao Xianzhi was appointed as the deputy marshal of the thieves, and the general of Jin Wuwei was added, and Feng Changqing was appointed as the envoy of Fan Yang Pinglu Jiedu to jointly lead the army to exterminate the anti-thieves.

Interestingly, Feng Changqing got the titles of two jiedu envoys out of thin air, and the titles of these two jiedu envoys are the two titles on the head of An Lushan. Because Feng Changqing wanted to go to Luoyang to recruit troops with his bare hands first, Xuanzong's move was also to encourage Feng Changqing, which means that as long as you do a good job, you can become the double envoy of the northeast border town of me alone in the future. It's just a blank check. At this time, he didn't forget to play a trick with his courtiers, and Xuanzong was also big enough.