After attacking Yanzhou City, Lu Chen stayed in this city, preparing for his next conscription plan. Ran Wen ???.? ｒ?ａ?ｎ?? After e?n?'o?r?g?, his army took control of the entire Yanhai Festival envoy's territory in just half a month.

Moreover, after seeing Lu Chen's terrifying strength. Those surrounding forces no longer dare to send troops to occupy Lu Chen's territory. There are even many forces that took the initiative to send people to congratulate Lu Chen with generous gifts.

For these forces, Lu Chen was naturally very enthusiastic and exchanged 'feelings' with them. After all, Lu Chen can be said to be a newcomer now, and it is very important to have a good relationship with neighboring forces.

In the time that followed, the area fell back to its former calm.

After completely controlling the territory of these two major festival envoys, Lu Chen immediately began to expand his army frantically. The purpose of his coming here is not just the territory of the two Jiedu envoys. He knew that no matter who was the victorious side in this Anshi Rebellion, it would be impossible for Lu Chen to be allowed to exist independently.

But Lu Chen didn't want to be bound by others, so he had the strength that no rebels such as Datang or An Lushan dared to provoke easily. Only in this way can Lu Chen establish an empire of his own here.

Therefore, now Lu Chen must take advantage of the fact that the two major forces have no time to pay attention to the war here because of the decisive battle near Chang'an City, and hurry up to develop his strength. Otherwise, once the winner is decided over there, it will not be so easy for Lu Chen to develop secretly like this.

Because Lu Chen brought a lot of gold and silver wealth with him on this expedition, the conditions he gave for conscription were very generous. In the end, it only took Lu Chen more than a month to reach his initial recruitment goal, 100,000 troops!

After recruiting these 100,000 troops, Lu Chen immediately sent almost all the generals to do his best to train them, and strive to train a team that can be pulled to the battlefield in the shortest possible time.

It is worth mentioning that during this period of time, the Xuanwu Army Jiedu envoy who fled before took the initiative to come to the door, expressing his willingness to submit to Lu Chen's men, and he only asked to go to a small city to be a city lord.

After learning of his idea, Lu Chen immediately agreed to him. However, Lu Chen also put forward a condition, that is, let him order all his former generals to be summoned, and Lu Chen wanted to requisition these soldiers.

Actually, there is no way to do it. After all, it is impossible for Lu Chen's current recruits to be trained in a short period of time. And the army led from Chang'an City must not be too scattered, otherwise once there is an enemy invasion outside, Lu Chen will not be able to gather the army in a short time.

Therefore, Lu Chen wanted to requisition the soldiers and officials of the Xuanwu Army to make the previous envoys, and let them temporarily govern those small and medium-sized cities. As for the large city, Lu Chen must have sent someone to manage it himself. After all, those small cities, even if someone rebelled, they wouldn't have much impact on Lu Chen.

However, just when Lu Chen was nervously training recruits. Song Cai sent someone to send a series of earth-shattering news.

Datang Express, managed by Song Cai, although its headquarters has moved away from Chang'an City and stationed in Luzhou City under Lu Chen's jurisdiction. But he still left two branches in Chang'an City. Therefore, Song Cai is still very familiar with the news in Chang'an City.

After Lu Chen opened the letter that Song Cai gave him personally, his expression gradually changed from confusion at the beginning, to surprise, and finally even to shock.

At the beginning of the letter, it was about the decisive battle between the hussar general and the An Lushan rebels in Tongguan.

At the beginning, according to the strategy of the hussar general, they should defend Tongguan, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. After all, their strength is clearly inferior to that of the rebels.

However, immediately, His Majesty, under the bewitchment of Prime Minister Yang Guozhong, issued four holy decrees to the hussar generals one after another. Urge them to hurry up and attack the enemy. In desperation, the hussar general could only send troops to attack An Lushan with less troops than the opponent.

Although at the beginning, they were surprised and achieved some small victories. But soon, the army of An Lushan's army reacted. In the next few duels, the hussar general could no longer take advantage of the slightest advantage. In fact, the hussar general is already very powerful. After all, his troops were originally small, and now he was able to not fall behind in a head-to-head duel, which already showed that his ability to lead troops in battle was stronger than that of the generals on An Lushan's side.

It doesn't end there, though. In a certain duel, the hussar general's marching route was actually known by the other party. Therefore, not far from the Tongguan Pass, these hundreds of thousands of troops encountered an ambush by An Lushan's army.

It can be seen from the description in Song Caixin that the battle was very tragic. In the end, almost all of the hussar generals' army of more than 100,000 people died in that valley. It is said that the blood gathered into streams, and it flowed far away before it seeped into the ground. The entire valley was almost filled with corpses. Even the hussar general is missing.

And after the news of this big battle reached Chang'an City, the people of the entire Chang'an City were shocked. For a time, both the royal family and the common people hurriedly packed up their things and fled from Chang'an. Everyone knew that without the hussar general, it would not be long before the enemy army would attack Chang'an City.

And Tang Xuanzong took Yang Guozhong, Yang Guifei and others, escorted by General Chen Xuanli, the leader of the forbidden army, to take refuge in Shu.

Sure enough, in less than a day, An Lushan's army invaded Chang'an City, and frantically burned and looted in the city.

Tang Xuanzong, who escaped from Chang'an City, encountered a mutiny unexpectedly when he fled to Maweipo. According to the information obtained by Song Cai, this mutiny was ostensibly initiated by the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard, dissatisfied with the Yang family, and demanded that Tang Xuanzong execute everyone in the Yang family on the grounds that the Yang family collaborated with the enemy. But in fact, according to some people's speculation, Chen Xuanli and the crown prince Li Heng are likely to be the masterminds behind the scenes.

Under the 'request' of many soldiers and soldiers, Tang Xuanzong was forced to have no choice but to order the execution of all the Yang clansmen, including Yang Guozhong and Yang Yuhuan.

However, after this incident, Tang Xuanzong sent the crown prince Li Heng to Lingzhou and other places, calling on all kinds of troops to resist the rebels.

Seeing this, a sneer appeared at the corner of Lu Chen's mouth. He understood very well that the reason why Tang Xuanzong did this should be that he was afraid that Li Heng would have a plan. After all, it can be seen from the incident of Ma Weipo that the forbidden army has almost been controlled by Li Heng and Chen Xuanli.