Chapter 1146: The Road to Escape with a Broken Heart
In the middle of the night, Jincheng County, which is in, is in chaos.
If the people of this place had not fled, they would have witnessed the most spectacular sight of their lives. The Tang Dynasty Emperor, who may have been destined for one side all his life, actually appeared in this Jincheng County Party! And not only the Son of Heaven, but also kings, princesses, and grandchildren...... Countless nobles described wolves as bรจi, and some even couldn't even stand on their feet when they got off the horse, and the low houses around them that they didn't look at in the past have become the object of everyone's scramble, but no one cares about having a bed to lie down and sleep, even if it is dirty and cramped.
Maybe because of the news that the rebels were approaching, the people also fled, Jincheng County was empty, the officials all fled cleanly, and the forbidden army under Chen Xuanli searched all the inside, but there was not even a ghost shadow.
From dawn began to flee for his life, he starved and starved until noon before he could barely eat a meal that was difficult to swallow, not to mention that the kings, princesses, and grandchildren who had never suffered in their lives were miserable, and Li Longji, who had settled in Jincheng County, was also tired and regretful. What I regret is that over the years, it is not only Du Shiyi who has accused An Lushan of rebellion, Fan Yang has repeatedly made such comments, and there have been Xi people who have made a special trip to Beijing to raise their opinions, Yang Guozhong has also accused An Lushan of himself again and again, but he just thinks that it is just a fat beard, and he has today with his own grace, where would he dare to do anything wrong.
Now that it has fallen to this point, isn't it all your own fault? Or, if he didn't use Ge Shuhan as deputy marshal to fight the rebels, but reactivated Wang Zhonghe...... That's right, he should have killed Li Heng a long time ago, so that he could use Wang Zhonghei without any scruples, instead of sending a messenger all the way to Lizhou to deliver wine! But now, it's too late!
When Chen Xuanli gently pushed the door in, he saw Li Longji sitting there woodenly, and the whole person looked ten years older than before! He began to follow this king when he was young, and saw him pass five levels all the way to the throne of God, and then created the prosperous era of Kaiyuan. For a while, he was stunned for a moment, and involuntarily retreated. He really didn't want to use the bad news to disturb Li Longji's mood at the moment.
"Xuanli?" Li Longji discovered Chen Xuanli, who had lost ground. He squirmed his chapped lips for a moment, and then smiled bitterly, "I didn't expect me to have this day." โ
Chen Xuanli knew that it was too late to retreat at this moment, so he could only step forward and kowtow, and then remained silent. Li Longji saw that he seemed to have something to say, so he sighed and said, "But what's the bad news?" โ
"Yes...... Many eunuchs and palace people have fled without a trace. Among them, there is Yuan Siyi, the inner attendant. Seeing that Li Longji's complexion changed greatly, but he didn't even have the strength to be angry, Chen Xuanli said cautiously, "Zhang Jieyu and several others are also missing. โ
Because the crown prince Li Heng was killed, Li Longji was also angry with Zhang Yunrong and others, but this time he fled west to Shuzhong, thinking of a day of husband and wife, he still took them, but he didn't expect that now they are just in Jincheng County, and these concubines he once pampered disappeared into the night! He also knew that the palace people who could keep up this time were really limited, and a few of their weak women might not want to leave him, but they were very likely to be bullied by the generals, but what difference did this make to him? As soon as he thought that his woman might be tossing and turning under other men at the moment, he only felt as if he had been stabbed a few times in the heart!
"Those who want to leave, don't force them to stay, let them go."
When Chen Xuanli was leaving, Li Longji just confessed such a sentence. However, where would Chen Xuanli really believe that the Son of Heaven was so generous because of the setbacks, and anyone could go, but he must do his best to restrain the generals in the army, and there should be no deserters, this is a matter of principle. Because after a deserter, it is likely to be a hundred or ten, even if it snowballs, more and more, as for the others, even if it is a noble clan, they will leave and leave, and he doesn't need to bother to chase them back. But now, after so many years of command, he has always thought that the forbidden army that can be like an arm and a finger, can it really be the same as before?
Zhang Yunrong and several other concubines quietly disappeared in the night, Chen Xuanli kept it a secret, and Li Longji didn't want people to know, but Yang Yuyao still got the news quickly. She has always regarded these maids who have followed the jade slave as thorns in the flesh, but even if they are from humble backgrounds, Li Longji is not a long-term lover, but they twisted into a rope to block her, so that she has no choice. Or this time, she finally took advantage of the death of Princess Yuzhen, and after the prince Li Heng was also offended, she gave them some eye medicine, but before she could cut the grass and eradicate the roots, the rebels had already beaten Tongguan, and the people were gone!
"Okay, okay, abandon Saburo at this time, and see what good fate they can have in the future!"
Yuqing saw Yang Yuyao laughing heartily, and she had to remind her not to be too ostentatious. On the day of the journey, she was keenly aware of the kind of oppressive feelings in the accompanying army, if it was normal, she was not worried about how these lowly military men would treat them with gold and dignity, but now it was not in Chang'an, but halfway through, she had to think about some kind of worst-case plan. However, when she tried to remind such a sentence, Yang Yuyao scoffed.
"Sister, you're too cowardly! Chen Xuanli is His Majesty's most trusted general, and the pioneer Guozhong also announced a high reward, if they make a fuss on the way, they won't get anything, and they may still be a dead word when they turn around and run into the rebels. But if we conscientiously protect us and go to Shuzhong, and we will have a reward and an official position when we turn back, who would be so stupid? โ
Thinking about Yang Yuyao's words, Yuqing also felt that it made sense, so she didn't say anything more at the moment. It's just that the little sister Mrs. Qin Guo is sick these days, and she can't rest assured, so she will go back immediately. However, when she settled Mrs. Qin Guo and went back to see her haggard daughter Cui, she thought that her husband King Guangping was also killed with Li Heng, and her heart suddenly felt a little more pity, and after stepping forward to comfort people for a few words, she whispered: "Okay, everyone is dead, don't cry." Hengzhu, you brought back your two sons, and your mother will support you for the rest of your life in the future! โ
"But they are still young, so they are running around on the road, I don't know if they can hold on to Shuzhong." Cui Shi cried so much that the pear blossoms brought rain, hugged his mother's arm and said in a mournful voice, "A-Niang, how can the saint be so ruthless, that is his son, his own grandson!" โ
"Enough!" Yuqing stopped her crying daughter sharply, and then said to her word by word, "Don't forget, you can marry the king of Guangping as a concubine, and it is also because your aunt has the light of the holy grace!" When a man dies, he dies, and your aunt didn't die like her husband back then, but she didn't have the same favorite harem? โ
Seeing that Cui's cry suddenly turned into a silent sob, as if Cui Shi was stuck in his throat, Yuqing couldn't help but be upset, and suddenly remembered the jade slave who had almost been forgotten by herself.
If it weren't for the jade slave, how could a court like the Yang family, which had long since fallen, have the scenery it has today? But if you can't survive this hurdle now, it's all over in one go!
Early the next morning, when Li Longji set off again, he gradually found that except for those clans who did not dare to leave the brigade at all, there were not many eunuchs and palace people at all, and it seemed that all of them had fled during the whole night, and even the forbidden army under Chen Xuanli's command felt that the number of people had dropped sharply compared to when he set off yesterday. However, he didn't even dare to ask Chen Xuanli such a question, for fear that the figures reported by the other party would make him feel panicked. After getting into the car, he found that his surroundings were empty, and he remembered that he was not used to dressing in the morning, and his heart was even more bitter for a while.
Yuan Siyi fled, and when he fled Chang'an in a hurry, he didn't take Gao Lishi with him. Compared with the ungrateful Yuan Siyi, Gao Lishi has been with him for decades, why did he drive people away because of his intercession for Li Heng? But now it's impossible to go to Chang'an City to get people out. Without him, I don't know what chaos will happen in Chang'an City!
Remorse and unwillingness gnawed at his heart like a poisonous snake. And on this day, there were no more people who stopped and hurt Chen An Lushan, and no people carried pots to send water and contribute to food, but only had time to bring gold beads and soft beads, but did not have time to bring food to eat, and the shortcomings were finally revealed.
I don't know how the news of the Son of Heaven fleeing Chang'an spread, and all the people along the way also helped the old and the young to flee to the mountains, even if Chen Xuanli ruthlessly let the forbidden army look for food, it was almost nothing. In the end, Li Longji, the son of heaven, could barely eat some leftover things from yesterday such as Hu Cakes, and the kings and nobles and the civil and military officials who followed them could still share some of the residues, and the others could only starve!
The nobles swallowed their anger and starved next to each other, but the soldiers below were starving on the one hand, and on the other hand, they had to be sent to be armed, and the resentment and hatred in their hearts gradually gathered, fermented, and sprouted. In the evening, when this long queue of miles finally came to another post house, Chen Xuanli, who broke in first, was faced with another embarrassing situation after urgently inspecting the wine warehouse and grain depot. The granary was empty, and there was not a drop of grain, as if the stock had been carefully cleared when the post chief had fled from the post chief to the post keeper, but the bulky wine in the wine store was still there. But when Chen Xuanli thought about it, he ordered someone to seal off the wine store.
I was hungry all day, and now I arrived at the post station, but I had to face the dilemma of being hungry all night, although Chen Xuanli had always ordered it to be forbidden, but in the middle of the night, someone still broke the lock of the wine cellar and moved out all the fine wine in a jar. The soldiers who heard the news quickly snatched the wine, and even when the wine jar broke, some people lay on the ground and sucked hard, as if this would fill their stomachs. As hundreds of jars of good wine were snatched up in the entire warehouse, the soldiers who were a little more drunk and blushing gradually boiled.
Some people miss the peace of the world in the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, some people miss the Qingming court of Yao Song Xianxiang, and some people miss Zhang Shouqi, Li Yi, Wang Zhongsi These famous generals, and some people scold Ge Shuhan for being famous. In the midst of shouting and screaming, I don't know who shouted, "It's Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong who are treacherous and traitorous to the country", for a while, Ying He's voice was one after another, straight into the sky!