Time is like an arrow, and all of a sudden time has come to the ninth day of November in the fourteenth year of Tianbao. An Lushan, who was also the envoy of Fanyang, Pinglu, and Hedong, united with Tongluo, Khitan and other ethnic minorities to form a total of 150,000 soldiers, and finally rebelled.

Shan Fan would brag about raising troops, and An Lushan also bragged, but relatively honestly, he blew 150,000 soldiers into 200,000, under the banner of "Qingjun side". That means that Lao Tzu only beat Yang Guozhong, and the rest of the irrelevant people went away.

An Lushan's successive victories caused Tang Xuanzong, who was usually obsessed with sound, to go to the court to discuss countermeasures with the ministers. As the so-called upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, how can your ministers under Tang Xuanzong not follow suit? They can talk about eating and drinking for three days and three nights, and it is pure fantasy to talk about the strategy of retreating.

Tang Xuanzong couldn't help but be furious when he saw that none of his ministers were useful, but it was useless to get angry, and the way was still up to him.

After some contemplation and a few sleeps, he finally came up with it. His method is like this, since An Lushan wants Yang Guozhong, then if Yang Guozhong is packaged and married, won't An Lushan be able to withdraw from the army? This method is very weak, except for Yang Guozhong himself, and the other ministers think it is very good.

When Tang Xuanzong sent envoys to communicate this method with An Lushan, what he didn't expect was that An Lushan's appetite became bigger, not only as long as Yang Guozhong, but also all the women in Tang Xuanzong's palace. Especially Yang Guifei.

Tang Xuanzong shouted to An Lushan, who was thousands of miles away: "Don't say anything, just fight it out." ”

Those who bet with Liang Xingfa that An Lushan would not rebel lost a lot, and their feelings about the current situation were neither money nor mood. I can only pray that An Lushan will not enter Chang'an.

Liang Xingfa didn't expect to make another windfall before he escaped, and he couldn't help but sigh that Chinese people are really good at gambling.

However, Liang Xingfa's joy was still too early. He can't leave even if he wants to. Just when they were about to pack up and run to Shuzhong to have a happy life, Jiang Zhongxun overate because of his age and wealth, and suddenly suffered a stroke and hemiplegia. You can't leave him here as a sick person.

So, everyone had to put the packed things back again. But Jiang Caiping didn't want to bother everyone, so she said that she just stayed here alone to take care of her sick father, and the others went their separate ways.

Liang Xingfa was reluctant to go, no matter what, it was his quasi-father-in-law, who had no father and mother since he was a child, he had already regarded Jiang Zhongxun as his father in his heart. He suggested that Wang Lun and them should go first, and if they were fated, they would definitely meet again somewhere in the future, and continue to live a chic life as a companion of Hongchen.

Wang Lun said that he would not leave Liang Xingfa and they would go first, in his heart, the righteousness of buddies was more important than gold, silver and jewelry, so he wanted to stay and join hands with Liang Xingfa to tide over the difficulties. Li and **** are of course where Wang Lun is, where they are, who calls him the head of the family.

As for Wanda, he didn't want to go, but the reason for not leaving was completely different from Wang Lun's. Not because of righteousness, but because of money. He wants to stay here to run this inn with a lot of money, it is really easy to change his nature, and he dares to take risks no matter how much money he makes. As the saying goes, birds die for food, and people die for money. Moreover, he thought that even if An Lushan's attack on Chang'an City was nothing more than a change of emperor, ordinary people like him would live as usual.

Everyone is noncommittal about Wanda's lifestyle, and they can live their lives as they like.

Liang Xingfa and Jiang Caiping carried Jiang Zhongxun to the major medical centers in Chang'an City for medical advice in the days that followed. A lot of money was spent, but the condition did not improve. Jiang Zhongxun's screaming and screaming from illness every day was annoying.

The best Langzhong is in Chang'anli, the capital, so Jiang Caiping does not give up or abandon, and firmly believes that there is a prescription to cure her father Jiang Zhongxun.

Liang Xingfa really wanted to tell Jiang Caiping not to be so tired of looking for medical treatment, because stroke is not curable, even if it is more than a thousand years away. But forget it when you think about it, it's better to mourn than to die, so it's good to let her have some hope.

On December 13, An Lushan captured the eastern capital of Luoyang in just thirty-five days, and then proclaimed himself emperor in Luoyang. The country name was changed to Dayan.

Jiang Zhongxun's condition is getting more and more serious, he seems to have seen death beckoning to him, and his language function has long been lost. Jiang Caiping also washes her face with tears every day.

In the first month of the fifteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan's soldiers, who had a smooth journey, approached Chang'an City and attacked Tongguan, the last defensive gateway of the capital.

The general guarding the pass was Ge Shuhan, the deputy marshal of the soldiers and horses. He was appointed on a temporary basis and had been sick at home until then. So he was very reluctant to go out of the mountain this time, he didn't need him when he was not sick and useful, and now he only thinks of him when he is sick and his body is not very useful. But complaining is complaining, and out of a sense of responsibility for the rise and fall of the country, he did his best to hold on to the city.

However, there have always been contradictions between Yang Guozhong and Ge Shuhan. The main reason is that Yang Guozhong, who has no talent, is very jealous of the very talented Ge Shuhan, and suppresses and excludes him everywhere. After years of hard work, he finally squeezed him out, and made him depressed and had a serious illness and almost died.

Now Yang Guozhong saw that Ge Shuhan had won several battles one after another and was highly praised by the imperial court, so he couldn't change his **** and committed the old problem of jealousy. He said to Tang Xuanzong: "Ge Shuhan hiding in Tongguan all day is a manifestation of a turtle with a shrunken head, and he should be allowed to go out of the pass to face An Lushan head-on, eliminate An Lushan in one fell swoop, and return the country to a clean state." ”

Tang Xuanzong, who was very eager to eliminate the rebellion, did not know whether it was out of impatience or limited IQ, and made a stupid decision to let Yang Guozhong, a military idiot, command the war, which led to Ge Shuhan being ambushed by An Lushan in Lingbao, and the result was the annihilation of the entire army in an idiom.

Ge Shuhan, who had been angry with Yang Guozhong all his life, was arrested in Luoyang after being defeated. Grief and indignation, he decided to no longer be angry with Yang Guozhong, and simply surrendered An Lushan.

As soon as Tongguan was broken, An Lushan's army pointed directly at Chang'an City, and shouted to kick the emperor down. Tang Xuanzong fled to Shuzhong in a hurry with Yang Guifei and hundreds of civil and military officials, and let the Imperial Forest Army hold the gate of the city to ensure that those with power fled first and then it was the turn of ordinary people. If ordinary people dared to compete with the emperor and escape, they would all be killed. As a result, many ordinary people died first at the hands of the Tang army.

When An Lushan captured Chang'an City, most of the people had no time to escape, and some did not want to leave, feeling that it was not necessarily better to stay in Chang'an if they were unfamiliar with life elsewhere.

As a result, Chang'an became a city of hell, where An Lushan's subordinates raped and plundered, killed innocents indiscriminately, and felt that they had worked so hard to get into Chang'an and had the right to base their happiness on the pain of others. Whoever dares to run away will be killed directly.

It just so happened that Jiang Zhongxun, who was suffering from illness at this time, was no longer in pain, and went to the Western Elysium to enjoy it peacefully.

Even if Liang Xingfa and the others escaped now, it would be too late, because An Lushan's army was already full of streets and alleys. They closed doors and windows to discuss what to do.

Everyone was helpless, they couldn't fight, they couldn't escape, they could only hope that An Lushan's army would suddenly be kind and spare their lives.

"We can't sit idly by. An Lushan is brutal, and our safety cannot be guaranteed, so we must flee. ”

Wang Lun said: "Then open a bloody way to escape." ”

Liang Xingfa said: "No, that's self-defeating." Don't forget that there are weak women among us. Do as I say, we're going to fly out. ”

Wang Lun and Jiang Caiping shouted excitedly, "What did you say? Are you so scared that you go insane? We are human beings, not crows, where do we get our wings to fly? ”

Liang Xingfa said: "We don't have wings to make wings, we can't fly, we have to fly." ”

The people were willing to hear his high opinions.

He asked the crowd to find a lot of rattan, canvas, and firewood, and made two ordinary hot air balloons. This was also very surprising to everyone, and at the same time they wondered how such a thing could fly.

Liang Xingfa and the others carried the hot air balloon to the roof of the building, allowing them to witness the miraculous moment. Liang Xingfa and Jiang Caiping sat in the same hanging basket, and Wang Lun's family of three sat in another hanging basket. Wanda is reluctant to escape, he wants to live and die with the inn. And they did not force him.

After lighting the fire, two hot air balloons lifted into the air with the wind. You can see the dense crowd below, and you can see the brutal scene, many rebel soldiers are wielding knives to slaughter unarmed civilians.

Wang Lun and the others sat in the hot air balloon with great pride, they could also fly, and they cheered loudly. When the rebels saw two strange things floating in the sky, and someone was inside, they couldn't help but look up in amazement, completely forgetting the task at hand. All of them are dumbfounded.