"That's right! That's where I'm most worried...... Although Baqiao is less than twenty miles away from Chang'an City, the whereabouts of our army have been exposed, and the enemy in the city will definitely close the city gate and wait for help! ”

After Yan Shen, Xu Huang continued to express his opinion.

Xu Sheng saw that the coach Tai Shici was still smiling, hesitated slightly, and encouraged loudly: "Even if you have doubts about the ability of the Minister of Chinese and Martial Arts of Chang'an City, you should also believe in the strong combat power of our Tiger and Leopard Battalion soldiers......

"Since they were able to enter the city smoothly and lurk more than a month ago, they will definitely make a full estimate of what may happen, even if the defenders close the city gates and impose martial law on the whole city, they will be able to find a way to deal with it."

"Another important reason is that I am very relieved of the strategic and command ability of General Lu Pei and General Lu Jiu, both of them are different from those of us who go into battle to kill the enemy openly, to put it mildly, none of the people here, including the younger brother, have their ability to steal chickens and dogs, kill people and set fires."

Before the words fell, there was laughter.

The generals looked at Xu Sheng, and after thinking about it carefully, even Xu Huang, who had only heard of many deeds of the Tiger and Par Camp but had never seen the skills of the Tiger and Par Battalion, was much more relieved after laughing.

Tai Shici nodded slightly to his good partner Xu Sheng, signaling everyone to finish the soup in the bowl quickly, and then eat a full stomach and rest.

Near midnight, the urgent envoy sent by the city finally arrived, and everything that happened in Chang'an City was clearly displayed in front of everyone.

Lu Pei, with the assistance of several ministers in the city, set fires everywhere and deliberately created chaos, while Lu Jiu took the opportunity to personally lead the tiger and leopard battalion into the palace, and together with dozens of internal officials led by Zhang Dun, he killed more than 500 Li Dao's own soldiers guarding the palace. Take the first step to rescue the young emperor. Out of the city.

At this moment. Lu Pei and Lu Jiu were covering the young emperor, taking more than ten carriages provided by the caravan, and rushed towards the Baqiao camp.

Tai Shi Ci and the deputy generals, who were waiting for the news, were overjoyed, and after Yan Shen, who took the initiative to ask Ying, to obtain Tai Shi Ci's permission, he led the five thousand elite subordinates who had rested for three hours and completed the replacement of horses, lit torches, and under the guidance of the three urgent envoys, set off in the snow to meet them.

The remaining 17,000 soldiers all got up. Soon, more than 100 blazing bonfires were lit inside and outside the camp, and pre-war preparations were completed.

Not long after the bonfire was lit, the messenger cavalry sent by Guan Hai arrived quickly, and the 40,000 soldiers led by Guan Hai and Yang Feng had already crossed Huayin, and they would quickly drive after a night's rest.

Tai Shi Ci was immediately relieved, and after a brief discussion with Xu Sheng, Xu Huang and others, he issued an order to the generals to prepare to retreat east at any time.

Just after the ugly hour, the flickering light and the neighing of war horses appeared at the end of the official road across the river to the west of the camp.

The anxious Tai Shi Ci no longer had any hesitation, and led the fierce general Xu Huang and the five hundred guards of the two. Roll over your horse and rush out of the campfire with a bright camp. Go straight to the Baqiao.

Xu Sheng, who was left behind, quickly issued orders one after another, dividing the more than 10,000 elites who remained in the camp into three teams, passing through the gaps in the fence that had long been destroyed, and going to line up on both sides of the official road, ready to fight for the rescue army at any time.

The sound of horses' hooves, exclamations, and noises came from far and near, and thirty-two modified carriages were escorted by hundreds of elites, quickly crossing the Baqiao, and the one who took the lead was Yan Shen, the general who had just led his troops out of the camp to respond, Tai Shici and Xu Huang and others did not see the shadows, obviously they were still behind the team and did not cross the bridge.

When the convoy came to the wide road outside the camp, Yan Shen shouted to stop, turned over and dismounted, ran to the oncoming Xu Sheng, and reported in a low voice:

"When the convoy desperately rushed out of the city gate, it was fiercely attacked by the defenders on the city tower, many of the civil and military ministers who escaped together with the convoy died, and nearly half of the elite of the three hundred tiger and leopard battalions guarding the young emperor and the ministers and their families were killed and wounded, and the two attendants guarding the young emperor in the second car were shot dead on the spot, and the Lu Pei brothers, who were close to the young emperor, were hit by several arrows, and still desperately pushed away the coachman who was killed by the arrow, and fled at full speed in the carriage."

"At that time, the snow was very heavy, the sky was very dark, and no one knew how many dead and wounded, until I led five thousand soldiers to rush over to respond, only to find that the young emperor was shot into the neck by a stray arrow at some point, although he was still alive in time with the treatment of the military medical officer, but half of the trachea was gone, and the whole person was unconscious, and it seemed that the murder was more auspicious!"

Xu Sheng was shocked, and grabbed Yan Shen, who was sweating profusely: "How could there be such a mistake...... How good is that? What to do? What to do? ”

Yan Shen gently grabbed Xu Sheng's hand and persuaded in a low voice: "Now is not the time to be in a hurry, Brother Ziyi is in the back to discuss countermeasures with Zhao Qi and other surviving ministers, alas! Let's get ready to go, it is estimated that it will not be long before the enemy army will chase after us, so no matter what happens to the young emperor, we need to send it to Tongguan as soon as possible. ”

Xu Sheng nodded frequently, turned around and walked towards the war horse, and suddenly returned again: "How is Lu Pei?" ”

"This guy has a big life, two arrows in the shoulder blade and one arrow in the arm, but he lost a lot of blood by driving away all the way, and he passed out when he saw the team we answered! The medical officer had already bandaged him, and he was probably lying in the car and hadn't woken up yet. Yan Shen sighed after speaking.

Coach Tai Shici quickly arrived, without explaining a word, and directly issued an order to retreat east at full speed to Xu Sheng and Yan Shen, who were solemnly saluting.

Thirty-two carts, escorted by more than 20,000 elite cavalry, carried more than 20 surviving civil and military ministers and their families, and retreated eastward overnight in the snow.

More than half an hour later, the extremely angry Li Wei led tens of thousands of horses to chase to Baqiao without entering the city, but in addition to the ruined camp and the corpses all over the ground reflected by the bonfire that was about to be extinguished, where was there still the slightest shadow of the Qingzhou army and the young emperor who was robbed?

And at this point, the Xiliang army, which had been traveling dozens of miles in the snow at night, had already been exhausted and half dead, and Li Dao couldn't do anything even if he wanted to continue to catch up.

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Surrounded by civilian officials and military generals, Liu Cun, who was patrolling the defense of Tongguan under the cold wind and snowflakes, looked calm.

After several days of wandering around the Guanshang Pass, Liu Cun inspected the defense situation of the strategically important Tongguan, and preliminarily determined the expansion plan of the military camp in the Guannei, and officially announced that Zhang Rao, deputy commander of the newly formed First Army, who was good at defense, would lead the new Third Division under his command to defend Tongguan, and strive to repair, expand, and strengthen all the defensive facilities in Tongguan after the beginning of spring.

In fact, Liu Cun's heart was extremely worried and anxious, and almost all his thoughts drifted to and outside Chang'an City.

Knowing that the generals under his command would strictly follow the carefully formulated rescue plan, with the full assistance of the royalist forces in the city, at least eighty percent of them were sure to complete the rescue operation. However, Liu Cun was still nervous, always speculating on various changes that might occur in the operation.

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