From Xin'an, through Changshi Mountain and Cijian, more than 70 miles west, is Luoyang. From here, there is no steep mountain road and all kinds of natural hazards on the road of Kunshan North Road, and there is no shelter to Luoyang. In the evening, when Du Shiyi's rear army finally arrived in Xin'an and joined up with Fugu Huaien and Li Mingjun, he shook his head after a moment of contemplation when he heard Fugu Huaien ask if he would rush to Luoyang overnight in preparation for tomorrow's decisive battle.

"The soldiers and horses of Anbei Yatent City and the Shuofang army are the elite of the elite, not comparable to the rabble of Ge Shuhan before, and they have been destroying all the way here, and they are like a rainbow. But even so, the front was still an area controlled by the rebels, which was very different from the previous attack on the enemy when rescuing Chang'an, and it was not necessary to march overnight. The recovery of Luoyang is not in a hurry, even if our army is on horseback, not on foot, but we still need to cherish the horsepower, let the soldiers rest all night, and it is not too late to march tomorrow! ”

Li Mingjun hadn't seen Du Shiyi for many years, and he couldn't help but ask tentatively at this moment: "In case Marshal Guo has already arrived in Luoyang, there will be no response from Marshal at that time......

Fugu Huaien and Guo Ziyi are sons and daughters, and when they heard this, they said angrily: "You might as well say it directly, for fear that Lao Guo will rob the credit!" Don't use the heart of a villain to spend the belly of a gentleman, Lao Guo is steady with soldiers, he knows very well what the situation is in Luoyang City, you look at it, he will definitely meet with the big marshal under Luoyang City. ”

"What if the rebels cower in the city and don't come out?" Li Mingjun didn't seem to be at ease, so he asked again.

"Li Mingjun, are you deliberately trying to test the big handsome or what? Don't you know the news that the Hedong soldiers expelled Wang Chengye and sent troops south? When the time comes, the two armies will besiege Luoyang, and the soldiers and horses will sweep away the remaining rebels in Heluo, and An Lushan will sooner or later become a turtle in the urn. Fugu Huaien suddenly became impatient, he stared at Li Mingjun, and his eyes gradually became a little fierce.

Could it be that he guessed wrong, Li Mingjun and Du Shiyi have no connection, and this surrender of Xin'an is just a speculation, seeing the rebels in a big unfavorable way?

"Alright, Wynne, don't be so aggressive. General Lee's recent surrender is understandably apprehensive. You go to the army to make arrangements, Xin'an is too small to accommodate a large army, and it is not like the South Kunshan Road where there are many palaces to hide, so the local rebels need to desperately attack at night. ”

As soon as Du Shiyi's words fell, he saw the servant Gu Huaien solemnly bow his hand and said: "Don't worry, Dashuai, with me, if anyone dares to attack at night, it will be impossible to discipline that army!" ”

Seeing that the servant Gu Huaien turned around and left violently, Li Mingjun remembered the famous name of this iron warrior over the years, and couldn't help but whisper: "Xiyi has often told me these years that the handsome man is really a good eye, and he can always find out the general!" Needless to say, Xiyi and their three heroes in Yunzhou, there are An Sishun and Guo Yao and others in Longyou, and they transferred General Nan to Shuofang, and successively promoted Guo Dashuai and General Fugu in Shuofang, which is why Anbei Yatent City is now in an extraordinary situation. Others only saw An Lushan running Hebei like an iron bucket, and when he raised his arms, there were so many civil and military forces who followed the anti-Tang Dynasty, such as Xue Song, Zhang Xiancheng, and Zhang Tongru. ”

"Don't pat me on the back, I'm not An Lushan!"

Du Shiyi glanced at Li Mingjun, and seeing that he was a little surprised, he said lightly: "The generals under An Lushan are like clouds, and the few you mentioned are not top characters. Xue Rengui's grandson Xue Song is not as good as Shi Siming, Cai Xide, and Cui Qianyou, and Zhang Shouqi's son Zhang Xiancheng is even more needless to mention, just one straw bag, as for Zhang Renyuan, who built the three surrendered cities in Shuofang, his grandson Zhang Tongru is not as good as the three true henchmen of An Lushan, who are solemn and noble Ashina Chengqing. You should have tasted An Lushan's methods, I think when I was in Pinglu, I still relied on you and Xiyi, but what happened later? ”

"This time, I almost lost my head because I tore up the covenant." Thinking of the thrilling part, Li Mingjun also felt some palpitations, but what he was most concerned about at the moment was another problem. Although he hadn't spoken face-to-face with Du Shiyi for many years, when he thought that his younger brother Ah Liu had already lived a prosperous and healthy life, and the brothers no longer had to worry about the precariousness in the Xi family's hometown, he finally decided to ask directly.

"I just want to ask Dashuai one thing, after quelling the rebellion, do you really plan to loyally revive the Tang Dynasty and work for generations of emperors?"

Du Shiyi did not answer this question head-on, but asked rhetorically: "Have you forgotten, do you think that at the beginning, how did I arrange for you to clear your identity, first follow King Xin'an into the court, and then move to Pinglu?" ”

Li Mingjun looked directly into Du Shiyi's eyes, and after a while, he finally got up and said deeply: "I am deeply favored by the handsome, and I should follow the handsome." But I also learned a lot of things in Datang, such as the death of a cunning rabbit, the cooking of lackeys, and I hope that Dashuai can beware of those swords that attack secretly! ”

"Don't worry."

After seeing Li Mingjun leave, Du Shiyi sat in the study of Xin'an County, which was temporarily requisitioned, and had mixed feelings. Although the outer guards were all elite tooth soldiers, he couldn't help but feel a little lonely when he thought of Longquan who followed Wang Rong, Azler who stayed in Chang'an, Huya who followed Princess Gu'an to attack Yongqiu, Zhang Xing, who was leading the two armies of Tongluo and Fugu to attack Youzhou, and Li Guangbi who stayed in Anbei Ya Tent City. The generals who have followed him for many years have been able to take charge of themselves, and some of them have stayed in northern Xinjiang, some have stayed in Shuofang, and some have been stuffed into various official offices in the three provinces and six ministries in Chang'an.

There are many more people in the Western Regions, in Beiting, in Helong, and in Pinglu...... Fighting desperately for a better future.

At dawn, when Du Shiyi slept peacefully all night and stepped out of the study, he rearranged the armor and sword on his body, glanced at the rising sun in the east, and then strode out of the door. In the places where An Lushan passed along the way, some of the local Taishou and county orders surrendered, some fled, and some were killed, and the previous Xin'an Commander had already abandoned the city and fled. After Li Mingjun surrendered, the armies of Fugu Huaien and Du Shiyi arrived successively, and there were also local officials and people in Xin'an who came to the county party to pay respects, many of whom recommended themselves, Du Shiyi chose a temporary acting Xin'an order with acceptable talents, and then took all the soldiers and horses under Li Mingjun's command away.

The reason is very simple, Li Mingjun's thousands of soldiers and horses are all descendants, which can be used to recruit rebels in the future! At this time when Guanzhong was stable, Xin'an's defense did not matter.

Almost at the same time as Du Shiyi entered the army, Guo Ziyi also led the army to set off from Shou'an, although he did not make an appointment to meet under Luoyang City, but with his familiarity with Du Shiyi, how many miles of a day's march can be roughly calculated. And Hun Shizhi, who was entrusted with the important task of vanguard, was the hereditary governor of Gaolanzhou, who was a fierce general like Fugu Huai'en, and he was also devastated along the way, and the rebels were almost crushed at the touch of a button, and they did not encounter any decent resistance at all. According to the report of the scouts who infiltrated Luoyang, the soldiers and horses of Hedong expelled Wang Chengye, and Feng Cheng Qianli was the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and he was already heading south, so he never stopped thinking about it.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, how has there ever been such a thing as a soldier expelling a commander? If it weren't for the rebellion set off by An Lushan, how could the officers and men in the army dare to be so bold? But at the root of it, it means that the centripetal force of the imperial court has further decreased!

In Luoyang City, Ashina Chengqing, who went to see Li Guiren in person, only selectively informed An Lushan of his violent death. Sure enough, while being shocked, because he returned from his previous defeat, Li Guiren was still worried about whether An Lushan would cut off his head in a fit of anger, and now that the increasingly tyrannical monarch has died, Yan Zhuang and Ashina Chengqing represent the new monarch An Qingxu, who has not yet ascended the throne, to appease him in every possible way, and he is faintly relieved. In the end, when Ashina Chengqing handed over most of the remaining army in Luoyang City to him for command, Li Guiren was overjoyed and immediately said without hesitation that he would resolutely support An Qingxu.

Only in his heart, whether he is convinced of such a person as An Qingxu is another matter.

And with Li Guiren's support, An Qingxu was naturally overjoyed, and he trusted Ashina Chengqing and Yan Zhuang more and more, even if he heard that he wanted to withdraw from Luoyang and open up the passage to retreat to Hebei, he did not hesitate. Therefore, he didn't want to listen to the two of them, and sent Li Guiren to lead the army to Lingchang County, Huazhou, in the name of An Lushan, to crusade against Li Yi, the king of Wu, and then he quietly mixed with Yan Zhuang Ashina Chengqing in this army, and brought An Lushan's body with his skin, and then left Cui Qianyou, Tian Qianzhen and Sun Xiaozhe and the rabble they recruited to guard Luoyang.

Because all of them were orders issued in the name of An Lushan, Cui Qianyou and the three of them were nervous because they did not recruit the limited amount set by An Lushan, and they were recruiting troops east of Luoyang, and they didn't know the news that Li Guiren had lost the door and fled back to Luoyang, so they didn't notice that the Youyan army that went to conquer Lingchang was the last elite left in Luoyang.

It wasn't until Tanma came back in a hurry and said that Du Guo's two armies were less than thirty miles away from Luoyang, that Cui Qianyou realized that something was wrong. When he learned that one was regarded as An Lushan's nephew, and the other had always regarded himself as An Lushan's fake son, these two people had not been able to see An Lushan, he only felt a sigh in his heart, and then asked: "Who was the one who went to fight Lingchang before, and how many people were taken away?" ”

Regarding this problem, Tian Qianzhen had been anxious for several days because he was pulling strong men everywhere in Dengfeng, so he looked at Sun Xiaozhe, and Sun Xiaozhe was immediately annoyed.

"Look at what I'm doing, I'm getting together a lot of people in Yingyang, how can I care who leads the troops to fight Lingchang, the unlucky ghost who can't beat the three of us soldiers and horses in the horizontal and vertical rounds! The others raised troops from Hebei, and never fought a hard battle, only we had a hard fight with Anbei and Shuofang soldiers and horses, why should we be blamed for defeat! ”

"Now is not the time to talk about this!" Cui Qianyou snorted in annoyance, and seeing that Sun Xiaozhe's face was full of disbelief, he opened his mouth and said, "It's not right, I suspect that there are only three of us left in Luoyang City, and the other soldiers and horses have been taken away." No matter what contradictions there were in the past, the most important thing now is to be in the same boat, Ah Hao, Xiao Zhe, there is me in the city, I hope you two will enter the palace immediately to find out! ”