The morning sun on the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of Zhonghe (881 AD) rose from the east as usual, but the appearance inside and outside Chang'an City had already changed greatly.

In the first battle last night, the 50,000 peasant army outside the city was defeated and collapsed. Zhu Wen was weak to return to the sky, so he had to take the remaining men and horses out of Bentong Pass and defect to his good brother Huo Cun.

Now Chang'an City is full of messes and dead bodies everywhere.

And the guards in the city are ringing gongs to inform the neighbors: After a night of bloody battle between King Ji and the thieves, they unfortunately suffered a fiasco, and the Huangchao thieves are about to enter the city in a few days, so everyone quickly pack up their things and flee for their lives.

All kinds of people in the city were in a hurry, rushing one after another, bringing the old and the young to the distance.

The people in the city, since last night after defeating Li Yan's troops in the west of the city, more than half of them have already arranged to leave the city, and there are not many left.

Li Bao stood in the camp in the south of the city of Zhu Wen outside Chang'an City, looking at the heroic posture of his sergeants and the prosperity of the army, he was very happy, and his so much investment was still rewarded.

Of course, the hot air balloon has a greater credit, but without the cooperation of these troops, the hot air balloon will only cause psychological pressure on the peasant army at most, but it will not be able to beat them away.

Now that he has succeeded in the first battle, he is also about to retreat, after all, this Chang'an City cannot be defended. Besides, he embezzled so much money in the treasury, and he had to find an excuse to cover it up, otherwise it wouldn't look good.

Li Bao nodded at Hu Sanbao, who immediately came over with a captured peasant army officer.

It was Li Yan who was captured, and last night Lu Thirty chased after his guards, and his guards took the unconscious Li Yan to the camp in the south of the city and found that this place was also being bombed by hot air balloons, so he had to hide in the nearby dense forest.

In the early hours of the morning, they thought they were all right and wanted to flee east, but they happened to be bumped into by the Wyverns patrolling outside the city. After being surrounded by the group, Li Yan decided to surrender because he didn't want his guards to be killed.

Li Yan was escorted by the generals to Li Bao, looking at this young prince of the Li Tang clan, he was a little ashamed of himself, this inferiority complex was due to Li Bao's natural nobility and graceful bearing.

Li Yan is just a down-and-out ruffian, if it weren't for the Yellow Nest incident, he might not have the honor to see Li Bao in his life. But due to the encounter of fate, the two surnamed Li had different fates.

Li Bao smiled, "General Li has been admired for a long time."

Li Yan snorted, "His Royal Highness King Ji doesn't need to pretend to be a good person, a certain skill is not as good as a person, and being captured is fate, but the Yellow King will definitely avenge a certain person." Do it! ”

Hu Sanbao looked at this Li Yan with such a hard mouth, he was angry, and when he raised his hand to teach him a lesson, Li Bao called out to him.

"San'er must not be rude, a tough guy like General Li is appreciated. What's more, we can even tolerate General Chai Cun, will we not be able to tolerate General Li Yan, who is also from the Li family? ”

"What General Chai hasn't died yet? Where is he? Li Yan asked in surprise.

"Oh, General Chai, he has already surrendered to Lone, otherwise how could Lone be able to deceive you for so long after he entered the city?"

Li Yan was even more surprised, although Chai Cun himself was a little unsociable, he was by no means the kind of half-hearted person. "You, you lie, you won't be fooled."

"Oh, yes?" Li Bao shouted behind him, "Liu Bagui, come here, confess to General Li." ”

With Li Bao's voice, a short and stout man came to Li Yan, "Liu Bagui has seen General Li."

Li Yan stared at the visitor for a long time and said, "You are not General Chai's personal guard, why are you here?" ”

"General Li has a good memory, he was ordered by the Chai military envoy to deliver a message to the general last year, and a certain is naturally here with the Chai military envoy who has surrendered to His Royal Highness King Ji." After Liu Bagui finished speaking, he smiled flatteringly at Li Bao.

At this point, Li Yan had fully believed that Chai Cun had already surrendered to King Ji, he was angry in his heart, gritted his teeth and said: "Chai Cun, you are a dog, you actually betrayed King Huang, betrayed a certain brother, I just hope that you will not die well!" ”

Li Bao ignored Li Yan's swearing, he continued: "Gu will not kill you today, on the contrary, Gu will give you a great achievement, if you don't want it?" ”

Li Yan listened to Li Bao's words, and wondered in his heart, what kind of medicine was sold in this Jiwang gourd, he said angrily: "If you want to kill, kill, don't make those Xuanxuan, a certain person is by no means the kind of person who is half-hearted and double-stabbed, and you don't think that a certain person will surrender to you, the Li Tang royal." ”

Li Bao laughed: "General Li, you think very highly of yourself, to be honest, I really didn't like you, let alone surrender you." ”

Li Bao's words made Li Yan's face red, and he stopped talking, just "hummed" and stopped.

"Lone will abandon Chang'an City and leave this time, this city will soon become an empty city, do you want to be in your own thoughts."

"What? You don't want Chang'an City anymore? Li Yan shouted in disbelief, his voice so loud that the surrounding sergeants looked sideways.

"Well, no," Li Bao said, nodding.

Impossible, this King Ji must be lying, he guarded the city for more than a month, during which the two sides fought each other, the blood flowed like a river, and last night it was even more bloody, this is all the credit of his clan prince, and this credit is so great, but he wants to take the initiative to give up the capital of the Tang Dynasty? Is he crazy?

Li Yan didn't know how to think about it, this question was too complicated, his simple head was really not enough, and in the end he chose not to believe that this clan prince must be playing tricks on himself. So Li Yan firmly chose not to believe it, he just held his head high and didn't say a word more.

Li Bao didn't care what he thought, and continued: "The army under Lone will leave Chang'an this evening, and Chang'an will become an undefended city at that time, and Lone will let you go, if you are interested, you should quickly contact Zhu Wen and let him take over Chang'an City, if you are all gutsless seeds, then leave quickly, and go back to Luoyang to find your Yellow King." ”

After speaking, Li Bao instructed Hu Sanbao to take Li Yan out and let him go.

Li Yan followed Hu Sanbao to the outside of the camp and saw that not only he had many captured peasant soldiers let go. He was a little at a loss in his heart, what was in mind of this Ji King.

He thought about Li Bao's words, and gradually moved a little in his heart, if it was really as he said, they would abandon the city tonight, then wouldn't this great achievement of conquering Chang'an be his own?

But he still has some brains, he is Zhu Wen's subordinate, and he has to give the credit to Zhu Wen at this time, otherwise when the time comes, he won't know how he died. He learned this little bit of thinking when he was a gangster again, and the gangster must know how to advance and retreat, otherwise he won't live long.

After making up his mind, Li Yan said to the guards beside him: "Just now, the king of Ji in the city said something to a certain person, brothers, our wealth is here, as long as we wait here until the evening, do you dare?" ”

The guards were all frightened by the Tang army, and at this time they finally escaped with their lives, and they wanted to leave quickly, but when the lord said this, they were a little hesitant in their hearts.

Li Yan looked at everyone and understood in his heart, but he knew that since this King Ji said that he would let himself go, and he really let himself go, then what he said later, he believed his words even more in his heart.

But the guards around him were the key to his foothold here, so he continued: "Brothers, this glory and wealth need to be won with our lives, why don't we follow the Yellow King's knife to lick the blood for a good future?" From last night to now, we are all people who have escaped death, this life has been picked up, what are you afraid of? ”

Everyone looked at each other, listening to Li Yan's words, and their hearts swayed a little.

Li Yan struck while the iron was hot and continued to repeat what Li Bao had told him. At this moment, the hundreds of people around Li Yan became excited.

Such a great contribution to conquering Chang'an is like falling from the sky, and it actually fell on the head of a certain class. At this time, it would be a fool if they wanted to leave again, and besides, they could hide outside the city first, and then enter the city to receive it after they were sure that the Tang army was gone, so that they could be safe and reap great credit!

Li Yan and the others had already made up their minds, and they immediately took action, and the top priority was to gather the peasant army scattered outside the city, as long as there was an army, they were not afraid of anything.

Another important thing is to send someone to inform Zhu Wen that this great merit of recovering Chang'an must be discussed with his own chief official, otherwise Zhu Wen may blame himself at that time.

As for whether Zhu Wen will believe in himself, Li Yan is not worried, now that Zhu Wen was defeated by the Tang army, if he still wants to mix in the peasant army, he will definitely believe in himself.

After all, the fiasco of being beaten by the Tang army and the desperate siege of the city, although there were heavy casualties, finally conquered the Jiancheng of Chang'an, these two results Huang Wang would believe that, Zhu Wen could figure this truth with his toes.

When Li Bao returned to Chang'an City, Zhang Qingping and Song Wentong of the Weizhou Army were waiting for him, Zheng Ningji and Yang Siqi had already led troops to escort Yang Yan in the early morning, Zhao Zhizhao and other civilian officials crossed Weishui, and they were all waiting for their large troops in Tongzhou.

Hu Sanbao came over to report, "Li Yan really didn't leave the surrounding area of Chang'an immediately, he sent people to start collecting the remnants of the army in the surrounding area, planning to take over Chang'an after we left." ”

Li Bao smiled, and then asked, "Have we delivered the chapter of the defeated city?" ”

Hu Sanbao nodded, "Yang Xianggong has already prepared the chapter, and it is estimated that he is already on the way to Xingyuan at this time." ”

Hearing this, Li Bao nodded with satisfaction, this should be about the same.

After Li Bao greeted the officers, and then began to pack his bags, it was time to say goodbye to Chang'an, the city of Longxing of the Li and Tang royal families.

When everything was cleaned up, it was already twilight, and Li Bao looked at Chang'an City in the afterglow of the sunset and felt a faint sadness.

Goodbye Chang'an, my second hometown, I will come back again.

Hopefully, by then, your majesty will still remain.

Goodbye to my Dragon City years! Goodbye, my youth!

(End of Volume 2)