In the thirteenth year of Tianbao, August 17, Boling, the city of Dingzhou Prefecture, Hebei Province.

The weather is fine, the autumn is crisp, and several government soldiers are standing bored on the city gate tower, and at the city gate, there are people coming and going.

In the past year, the Youzhou barbarian Hu soldiers have ravaged Hebei, the countryside is barren, and many Han people in Hebei have fled from Hebei, but after all, it is difficult to leave the homeland, and there are not a few who stay, and most of these who stay are the kind of people who have houses and fields at home.

They are different from those displaced people who have lost their land, these people have nothing anyway, they have nothing to worry about, since the bandits in Hebei are raging, they simply drag their families and flee to Henan Province, Dugi Province; If they also flee, the money will be taken with them, and the houses and estates, such as real estate, will be gone.

Hebei is not very peaceful, the big deal is to be more cautious, that is, there are even a few people, not without the idea that others have run away, they can just take the opportunity to occupy more land, and buy land at a great price in the polar regions, and then look forward to waiting for one day when Hebei is too peaceful, and they will change from a rich peasant or a small rich man to a big rich man, how good!

As for those who kill, rob, rape women, etc., although they are also afraid, as long as it is not their turn, they don't care so much.

Wu Youtian is such a small rich man, his grandfather is an ordinary farmer, the land is small and the land is thin, relying on the work of getting up early and working late every day, reluctant to spend a penny of careful calculation, frugality, plus good health, no one in the family is sick, and he has saved a little money and grain, which is passed on to his father.

Although he is not short of money, his life is more miserable than that of the poorest people in the village, and it is rare to eat meat once a year, but his hard work is even worse, so that he is decrepit before he gets old. He died before he reached the age of fifty.

It was because his father began to buy the villagers' land at a low price in the famine years, but he was reluctant to hire people, and as a result, he died of exhaustion, but he also passed on a family business to Wu Youtian.

In the past two years, Wu Youtian has spent almost all his family property in exchange for thousands of acres of land. At this moment, he came to the county seat to go through the procedures for the transfer of land deeds. Walking across the suspension bridge at the city gate, Wu Youtian couldn't help but scold, these officials of the government are really hateful, and the money to buy the land is not as much as the handling fee for the transfer of the land deed!

Wu Youtian's village is not far from Fucheng, and when he turns an intersection, he sees his own village, looking at more than 1,000 acres of fertile land in his own home outside the village. A sense of accomplishment arises spontaneously, and Wu Youtian is full of longing for the future.

At this moment, I felt the ground trembling under my feet, followed by the sound of thunderous horses' hooves, Wu Youtian was stunned for a moment, and after half a ring, he saw a cavalry team running away from the far black in the direction of the north, and the knights were all wearing mink hats on their heads. The white mink tail jumped and jumped, and one looked fierce. He shouted in excitement and rushed towards the crops on both sides of the road.

Wu Youtian was stunned for a second or two, and then ran away, but how could two legs outrun four legs, and before Wu Youtian could run into the village, he was caught up by these cavalry. He was picked up like a chicken by a stout knight and slammed into the saddle.

Wu Youtian was led by this knight and rushed into the small village where he lived, and then he was thrown to the ground heavily, and his mind went blank. Looking at these hideous-looking Hu knights in horror, they pushed open the doors of each family, burned and looted.

Everywhere there were screams of people being killed, and the heart-rending cries and screams of the captive women, and the happy laughter of these beasts.

Wu Youtian saw several Hu cavalry rushing into his house, and then there was the screams of Ah Niang and the cry of his wife begging for mercy, he shouted and was about to step forward desperately, but before he could take two steps, he was caught up from behind by a horseman, and the spear shaft was heavily pumped on his back and knocked him over.

Wu Youtian lay on the ground vomiting blood in his mouth, watching and listening to this group of beasts snatching the few money and silver coins in his family, ruining his wife, the hard-working and careful calculation of the three generations of grandparents, and the vision of the future life, under the butcher's knife of these Hu people who suddenly broke in, it seemed so fragile and powerless, and even a little ridiculous.

In this land of China, the Han civilization is too industrious, too hard-working, (this tradition is still preserved, so that the Chinese people often ridicule the Chinese in the United States as the most dedicated, accurate and hard-working representatives, is a group of robots who only know how to go to work and do not know how to rest), can always create too much wealth, and can always build a very beautiful homeland.

At the same time, it finally caused the surrounding aliens to salivate and covet it. When the Han civilization was strong, it was natural that all countries would come to the court, but once the Han dynasty in the Central Plains had a little problem and showed a little weakness, these vicious wolves who coveted it around would not hesitate to pounce on it and bite off a piece of meat.

The Han Dynasty was like this, the two Han Dynasty will be the Xiongnu and other alien races around the flat uniform, luring the wolf into the room, the result of the Three Kingdoms, the Central Plains Han population greatly reduced, plus the Western Jin Dynasty political ~ governance ~ rot ~ defeat, the Eight Kings Rebellion infighting continued, so there were five Hu Chaohua.

The Tang Dynasty was also like this, Tang Taizong almost beat all the surrounding foreign races hard, and also lured wolves into the house, as a result, after the Tang Dynasty and Tubo failed twice, the Turks who had always been docile rebelled, and then the Khitan, Xi also reversed, Gaozong Wuhou period, the border people in the northern Tang Dynasty can be regarded as suffering a great disaster, and millions of people were killed and taken captive.

By the time of Li Longji, the Tang Dynasty was strong again, and these Hu barbarians once again showed extreme submission, but once Li Longji began to get drunk and dreamed of death, the court began to be corrupt, and the Central Plains was empty, and these Hu people who were eyeing the north showed their fangs again.

Two days ago, An Lushan Fan Yang raised troops, his previous plan was to enter Dugi Province and Chang'an to burn and loot to stimulate the morale of the whole army, but from the beginning of the army, the morale of the whole army was not high, the morale of the army was floating, and many Hu soldiers had long been unable to hold back, so An Lushan acquiesced to start robbing in Hebei Province.

From the afternoon of 16 August, the 100,000-strong army began to burn and loot, and when the army saw blood, and with the stimulus of money and women, its morale suddenly became high, and at the same time it became more frenzied.

As a result, the entire Youyan land was suddenly full of smoke. Everywhere Hu rode across the country, and the people of the Han family along the way fell into the hell of the sea of blood, countless villages, towns and cities were swept away, how many old and weak Han families were cut down with a knife, and how many Han women were ruined by these Hu people, which was miserable!

At that time, the world was peaceful for a long time. The people have not heard of the war for several generations, and the land of Hebei is all under the jurisdiction of An Lushan. Those with poor integrity directly surrendered to An Lushan and accepted the puppet officials appointed by An Lushan.

For more than two days, no one could delay the footsteps of these Hu beast soldiers a little, and the vanguard of the 100,000-strong army galloped all the way to Boling.

Chang'an, Daming Palace, Li Longji, the son of the Tang Dynasty, has been extremely short-tempered in the past two days. The daily must-have singing and dancing fun has also stopped in the past two days.

A day and a half ago, he received a report from Lu Yi of Tiance Mansion. It was said that An Lushan had rebelled, and a day earlier, the Hedong Army's Taiyuan City and Shuofang Army's Dongshou Surrender City Eight Hundred Miles Expedited not only reported the same thing, but also reversed Hui Hui.

In the past day or so, the information from various places has been sent to Li Longji's hands like snowflakes, and the content is surprisingly consistent. An Lushan rebelled, 100,000 troops went first, 100,000 followed, 70,000 stayed behind, and Hui also raised 200,000 troops to rebel. The troops were divided into five routes and went south.

One way to the west, attacking the Beiting Army, the Gelulu Army, and the other four roads to the south, respectively attacking Guazhou and Yumen Pass of the Longyou Army; Ganzhou and Liangzhou of the Hexi Army; Shuofang's army was surrendered to the west, to the middle, and to the east; as well as Datong and Yanmen Pass of the Hedong Army.

In the land of Hebei, the 100,000 rebels of An Lushan are even more powerful all the way, and the vanguard has already killed Boling and approached Changshan, and the situation is already very critical.

But Li Longji still didn't want to believe it in his heart! He was bent on covering up his wrongdoing, but after the shock, as if a drowning person had grasped a life-saving straw, he deceived himself and thought that this was fake news fabricated by Tiance Mansion, in order to immediately force An Lushan to avenge Xiao Quai's illness.

Li Longji was still looking forward to it in his heart, and even prayed that Feng Shenwei would go to Youzhou with the holy decree and his own handwritten edict, so that An Lushan could be stabilized temporarily, even if An Lushan could not be deceived to Chang'an immediately, he would definitely be able to appease him for a while.

Gao Lishi hurriedly ran in and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Zheng Qing and Jiang Liang, who followed Feng Shenwei to Youzhou to announce the decree, are back!" ”

"Hurry up, hurry up!"

With a burst of shouting, Li Longji saw Zheng Qing and Jiang Liang who desperately escaped from Fan Yang, both of them were covered in blood, and the whole person was so tired that they were out of shape, there was no trace of blood on their faces, and their mouths were full of blood blisters, which were carried in on a stretcher.

As soon as the two of them saw Li Longji, their two pairs of eyes, which were already red, were bleeding all at once, and they said bitterly in an extremely weak voice: "Your Majesty, An Lushan is reversed, Feng Shenwei is overbearing, the 100,000 Youzhou army has sworn to the south, and we are desperately rushing back to report the news, and the other eight people are all killed in the battle!" ”

After saying these two sentences, the two of them couldn't support it anymore, and they lost consciousness at once, Gao Lishi hurriedly ordered someone to carry the two out and find the imperial doctor for treatment, and then Gao Lishi said to Li Longji, who was a little stunned: "Ah Lang, An Lushan is indeed the opposite......

Gao Lishi told Li Longji about the experience of Zheng Qing and Jiang Liang on the road, Feng Shenwei was called away, and then the ten Flying Dragon Forbidden Army were attacked by fifty of the Drag River, fortunately they have been vigilant, eight people killed the siege, four went to the school to punish the thief, four rushed back to report the news, and finally only escaped back to two, or because they met the Tiance Army on the road.

Li Longji subconsciously raised his hand, so that Gao Lishi didn't need to say any more, and then his whole person fell into a state of madness, his eyes were red, the green tendons on his temples jumped, and his expression was extremely distorted, which scared Gao Lishi half to death, but looking at him like this, he didn't dare to speak again.

The scene was terrifyingly quiet, and after a while, Li Longji had a crazy expression on his face, and he shouted: "Haha...... Youzhou Hu ...... It's really the other way around......"

"Youzhou Hu'er ......" Li Longji stood up with fire in his eyes, and then he saw a Wuzi steel treasure knife given to him by Xiao Quzhi on the shelf, Li Longji walked over in two steps, took out the treasure knife, and began to chop everywhere in the hall like crazy, countless porcelain, crystal, red coral more than a foot high, all kinds of furnishings flew up and cut into pieces, and the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army and the Dragon Wu Forbidden Army on duty outside heard the sound and ran in, and then hurriedly ran out.

Gao Lishi just hid in the corner and watched Li Longji vent, and then sighed imperceptibly, he was the same age as Li Longji, almost since Li Longji became the emperor, Gao Lishi was by his side, witnessing him from an extraordinary saint to a later drunken dream of death.

Colliers understands Li Longji's anger, His Majesty the Emperor has been too successful and complete in this life, and it can be said that he has gone from one success to another; And the Tang Dynasty is indeed at the peak of the strongest in his hands, and now Tubo is about to be pacified, it is the emperor's most successful and proudest time, his most favored An Lushan suddenly rebelled, and the momentum is so big, 470,000 troops, the entire Tang Dynasty does not have so many troops, it can't be said to be a chaos that lasts for a few years, more than ten years, the wisdom of a lifetime, the merits of a lifetime are ruined in one fell swoop, and no one can accept it!

Li Longji, who was extremely angry, slashed for a full five or six minutes, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, and gasped for breath with his sword.

Gao Lishi walked over cautiously, handed Li Longji a note, and whispered: "Ah Lang, Tiance Mansion knew early on that An Lushan and Hui Hui would rebel, so I made some plans in advance, and asked Ah Lang to take a look." ”

Li Longji took the song and didn't look at it, and asked casually: "What is the content?" ”

Gao Lishi said: "Tell the world, punish this rebellious minister and thief, kill the thief after the rebellion is pacified, abandon the secret and surrender to the Ming can not be blamed in the past, kill An Lushan and seal the county king, and actually seal 500 households; The one who killed Shi Siming was sealed as the Duke of the Kingdom and actually sealed 300 households.

Now Yang Guanghui, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, has been kidnapped, and the Tiance Mansion proposes to appoint Li Guangbi as the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and appoint Guo Ziyi, the deputy envoy of the Shuofang Army, as the envoy of the Shuofang Army, and Guo Ziyi will command the Shuofang Army, the Hedong Army, the Hexi Army, the Longyou Army, the Anbei Ting Army and the Gelulu Army to resist the Hui Hui, divide the troops out of Taihang, and attack Fanyang.

His Majesty personally drove the expedition, personally went to the front line of Wugao Pass, commanded the forbidden army, the Guannei army, 300,000 peasant soldiers in Dugi Province, and 10,000 Tiance troops, blocked the line of the Yellow River, and waited for the Anxi army and the Longyou army to return to the army of Tubo. ”

Li Longji said in disbelief: "There are 300,000 peasant soldiers in Dugi Province? ”

Gao Lishi nodded and said: "The internal guards have been paying attention to the situation in Youzhou before, Tiance Mansion has known for a long time that An Lushan is going to rebel, since three or four months ago when An Lushan's Youzhou army plundered the big families in Hebei, Tiance Mansion and Sihai Trading Company have been training workers and farmers in Dugi Province, and now they have been trained for more than three months, and they are barely usable. ”

Li Longji frowned, he remembered that after Xiao Quai's expedition to Nanzhao, Tiance Mansion had twice played An Lushan's rebellion, but he never believed it. It's just that do you really want to go to the territory of Tiance Mansion? There is also the question of whether these peasant soldiers, who have only been trained for more than three months, can fight.

Thinking like this, he couldn't make a decision for a while, but finally thought about it and said to Gao Lishi: "Yang Guozhong, Wei Jiansu and other ministers have been summoned to the palace. ”

Gao Lishi nodded, and was about to make arrangements, when he heard someone shouting outside: "Your Majesty, it's not good, Niangniang knew the news of An Lushan's rebellion and the death of King Lanling, and she was in a hurry to get angry, and now she is about to give birth!" ”

Li Longji was so frightened that his heart was about to jump out, and he hurriedly ran to the Ayaqi Hall where Yang Guifei was located......

On the other hand, when Li Longji of Chang'an had not yet made any reaction to all this, on the frontal battlefield of Hebei, five thousand An Lushan's vanguard cavalry had already killed Changshan City, Changshan was too guarded Yan Gaoqing knew that his troops were too weak to resist, and he personally led twenty horsemen out of the city to meet the rebel vanguard, and Cui Qianyou, a henchman under the command of An Lushan, was overjoyed, promised that the army was not as good as Changshan City, and sent someone to return to An Lushan. (To be continued.) )