After the successive sieges were repulsed, the rebels retreated directly to Shaanxi County. In the following period, Yang Xi continued to send scouts to investigate the movements of the rebels. Everyone expected that the rebels would continue to attack the city in various ways in the coming time, putting more pressure on the defenders of Tongguan and looking for opportunities to break through the city. However, it is very surprising that after the rebels retreated to Shaanxi County, there was no follow-up action, and Cui Qianyou, who led the army, did not have any intention of taking the initiative to attack Tongguan, and the rebels guarding Shaanxi County were only training the same as the Tongguan defenders.

The rebels were in no hurry to attack, which puzzled the generals of Tongguan, but the subsequent reports from the imperial court made them understand why the rebels were on the defensive.

When the rebels attacked Tongguan, the fighting in the north was also very fierce.

The newly appointed Shuofang Jiedu of the imperial court made Guo Ziyi lead his troops from Jingcheng to the east, and after contact with the rebels, he won successive victories.

Guo Ziyi led his left soldiers and horses to make Li Guangbi, right soldiers and horses to make Gao Jun, left Wufeng to make Gu Huaien, right Wufeng to make Hun Shizhi, defeated An Lushan Datong army envoy Gao Xiuyan's Zhenwu army, and then took advantage of the victory to pull out the Jingbian army. The Jingbian Army fought a battle and eliminated 7,000 rebels, which shocked An Lushan.

Guo Ziyi then captured Yunzhong and Mayi, opened up the Tanglin Pass, and opened the way for further eastward advance.

At this time, Changshan had fallen, and Changshan Taishou Yan Gaoqing was captured and killed by An Lushan. Li Guangbi, the new envoy of Hedong Jiedu recommended by Guo Ziyi, went out of Jingcheng and captured Changshan. The rebel general Shi Siming tried in vain to recapture Changshan, stopped the battle of encircling and attacking Raoyang, and rushed to Changshan.

The two sides held each other near Changshan for more than 40 days, and Li Guangbi could not support it, so he complained to Guo Ziyi. Guo Ziyi led the army to rescue Changshan, and joined forces with Li Guangbi, a total of more than 100,000 people, and defeated the rebels in a battle of nine gates. Right Wu Feng made Hun Shizhi's son, Zhonglang shoot Hun Lu to kill Shi Siming's general Li Lijie. Shi Siming led the remnants to flee in the direction of Zhao County. Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi left their troops in pursuit, and then captured Zhao County.

In order to alleviate the pressure on Tongguan, Guo Ziyi suggested to the imperial court at this time that he should gather a large army to take Fanyang in the north and go straight to the rebels' lair to cut off the rebels' road, but he did not get the permission of Li Longji, who was surprised and abnormal and feared that Chang'an would be lost. Li Longji ordered Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi to rescue in the direction of Chang'an and Luoyang to ensure that the Beijing division was not lost, but Guo and Li had no choice but to accept it.

Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi's troops besieged Boling after capturing Zhao County, but they could not attack it, so they had to retreat to Hengyang and prepare to return to Beijing to help. However, after hearing that Tongguan was held and the rebels retreated, they did not rush south, but stationed troops to rest.

The imperial court reappointed Li Guangbi as the envoy of Fan Yang Changshi and Hebei Jiedu, and retreated to Changshan with Guo Ziyi. , Shi Siming collected tens of thousands of troops and then followed up, An Lushan ordered Cai Xide to lead 20,000 people, Niu Ting, Fan Yang and other counties tens of thousands of people to rescue Shi Siming, but was defeated by Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi.

Yuyang Post Road is almost unique, and the rebel soldiers in Yuyang are all shaken, and An Lushan also moved to give up Luoyang and retreat to Fanyang. It's just that after the defeat of Lingbao's army, he saw the hope of capturing Chang'an, and he also pressed most of the men, preparing to occupy Chang'an after capturing Tongguan.

However, after Lingbao's victory, the attack was not successful, and tens of thousands of generals were killed under the city of Tongguan.

According to the information inquired, Tongguan City has been guarded by more than 100,000 soldiers, and the leading marshal Yang Xi is Yang Guozhong's youngest son. The defeat under Tongguan City had already chilled An Qingxu and Cui Qianyou, and An Lushan was also shocked, and his mind was shaken again after An Qingxu's report.

At this time, the offensive of the various units of the Tang Army in the north was still the same, and was encouraged by the reversal of the Battle of Tongguan, and the offensive was more fierce.

After Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi defeated Shi Siming's troops, they continued to march eastward, taking the initiative to find the main force of the rebels for a decisive battle, and the offensive was very fierce, preparing to recover the eastern capital Luoyang first, or directly capture Fanyang, but the imperial court did not agree to Guo and Li's plan to attack Fanyang, but ordered them to continue to march to the southeast, and the target was still Luoyang and Chang'an.

Yan Zhenqing's troops also took the initiative to attack after hearing that Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi's troops had won a series of victories, and prepared to join Guo and Li's two departments.

The rebels are fighting in the north, and the sense of crisis is becoming more and more apparent, while the war in the south is not going well.

Zhang Xun, the former Qinghe County Commander who was appointed by the imperial court as the Imperial Historian, led his generals Xu Yuan, Lei Wanchun, and Nan Jiyun to defend the Suiyang Canal to rush Yongqiu, and confronted the rebels with tens of thousands of troops with thousands of troops.

Subsequently, the imperial court took Li Ju, the king of Yu, as Chen Liu, the Taishou of Qiaojun, and the envoy of Henan Jiedu, and also commanded He Luguang, the envoy of Lingnan Jiedu, Zhao Guozhen, and Lu Jiong, the envoy of Nanyang Jiedu, and stationed tens of thousands of soldiers to resist the attack of the rebels.

The rebels gathered heavy troops to besiege Nanyang, and Li Ju led the army to relieve the siege of Nanyang, and the rebels had to retreat.

Subsequently, the imperial court appointed Li Qi, the king of Wu, as the envoy of Chen Liutaishou and Henan Jiedu, Li Luan, the king of Yong, as the envoy of Shannan Jiedu, and Li Ji, the king of Ying, as the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, and Shi Yuanwei, the deputy envoy of Jiangling, and Shi Cuiyuan, the magistrate of Shu County, presided over military affairs, summoned the army of King Qin, and resisted the rebels together.

In the imperial history, Cheng Qianli, Linhuai Jiedu, Helan and Ming also brought a lot of threats to the rebels.

The rebels failed to gain many fronts in the north, and the progress of the war in the south was unfavorable, and Lingbao failed to take advantage of the victory to capture Tongguan after the victory, which greatly damaged the morale of the army, whether it was An Qingxu or Cui Qianyou, Tian Chenghe, and Tian Qianzhen, they had lost the confidence to capture Tongguan, and they suggested retreating to Luoyang, or directly retreating to Fanyang, to avoid the edge of the army.

Many subordinates suggested this, and An Lushan's mind was even more shaken.

It's just that if you really want An Lushan, who is the emperor in Luoyang, to give up all this he got and return to Fanyang, he is very unwilling, and he still has the idea of capturing Chang'an. But the 100,000 soldiers and horses in Tongguan are not decorations, and the attack for more than half a year has not achieved any results, even if Lingbao defeated the 200,000 Tang army in the first battle, it has not fundamentally changed the situation, and it is difficult to capture Chang'an.

An Lushan's determination was difficult to make, so that all the rebel troops were hesitating, and Cui Qianyou's troops were only assembled in Shaanxi County in the end, in a dilemma.

The continuous receipt of the imperial court communication made Yang Xi very excited.

What made him excited was not only the war situation in various places, but also from these circulars, he saw many famous figures in history, including Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, two famous generals who made great contributions to the pacification of the Anshi Rebellion, as well as a generation of famous ministers and famous calligraphers Yan Zhenqing, famous generals Gu Huai'en, Hun Shizhi and Hun Mu father and son, Zhang Xun and other famous ministers who are almost mythical. In the future, he will definitely have the opportunity to deal with these people, and may even have a deep intersection with them, especially Yan Zhenqing, a character he respects very much, and he wants to make friends very much.

Yang Xi remembered that when he was forced to practice calligraphy by his father who liked calligraphy when he was a child, he practiced the most Yan Zhenqing's character stickers.

The father of later generations admired Yan Zhenqing's words very much, and also talked about the heroic deeds of Yan Zhenqing and his brother Yan Gaoqing from time to time, which also directly affected Yang Xi. In his mind, Yan Zhenqing's status is even higher than Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, who have contributed more to the counterinsurgency.

"Haha, it seems that the rebels really don't have the ability to attack Tongguan anymore, we can train with confidence!" After compiling a number of circulars sent by the imperial court, Yang Xi came to this conclusion at a military meeting.

All the generals should not be reconciled, and some people took the opportunity to praise Yang Xi for a few words.

Yang Xi ignored the praise of Tian Liangqiu and the others, but said to the generals with a mysterious face: "Everyone, the things to be discussed today are over, but this commander still wants to keep you for a while, and I will show you a new thing for the generals, I believe you will like this thing after seeing it!"

"What is it new?" Immediately someone was curious.