The prince looked at Li Longji's back in a daze, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

It was not easy for him to make up his mind that no matter how difficult the road ahead was, he would break away from his father's control and find a path of his own, and now it was so easy and not hindered by his father.

He's a little unaccustomed to it.

The prince did not stay long in Ma Weiyi, so according to Li Fuguo's words, he led all the soldiers and civilians to the north to Lingwu, full of spirit and momentum.

And after Li Longji arrived in Fufeng, he almost suffered another mutiny.

Chen Xuanli didn't expect Xiao Jiangyuan to be so accurate. It was only two days later, and the soldiers tasted the sweetness of the mutiny, but if it was not satisfactory, they all summed it up in this direction. This time, there was no Yang Yuhuan who could die for Li Longji, Chen Xuanli felt the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, and directly informed Li Longji and Xiao Jiangyuan of his worries.

Li Longji was also helpless: "Because I left my hometown and abandoned my wife and children, I have grievances and forgiveness in my hearts. ”

Xiao Jiangyuan thought for a while and said, "Please also ask General Chen to try his best to appease, at least for a few more days." ”

Three days later, 100,000 horses of spring color that Shu had to pay tribute to Chang'an at this time of year arrived in Fufeng.

Li Longji immediately understood what Xiao Jiangyuan meant. He summoned all the soldiers in the courtyard, rewarded 100,000 horses of spring color, and personally pulled the soldiers to put their hearts in their hearts, and finally appeased the army's heart, and got a sentence "The ministers will follow the saint in life and death, and they will never dare to have two hearts."

More than a month later, Li Longji and his entourage had only more than 1,000 people left, including 24 palace people, and finally arrived in Chengdu safely.

Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, they got the news of the fall of Chang'an, An Lushan, after the capture of Chang'an, tortured/killed the princess of the clan and the people who rose up to resist, regardless of the old and weak, women and children, the blood flowed on Suzaku Street, and the fishy smell was smoking, and it did not disperse for several days.

The temporary joy was instantly washed away.

After arriving in Chengdu, Li Longji and his entourage lived in the Changsheng Palace and Yanqing Palace in Qingcheng Mountain.

Qingcheng Mountain winding path is secluded, the cave is blessed, the scenery is a little less rough than Zhili Mountain, and a little more beautiful. The Eternal Life Palace and Yanqing Palace are built on the mountain, which is a good place to recuperate physically and mentally, but it reminds Xiao Jiangyuan of Shangyang Palace in the Eastern Capital.

Li Longji had only stayed for two days, and all the ministers and generals of Shu County came to meet him. At first, Li Longji didn't want to see him, but when he saw that there were many people who came in the hot summer season, he was stubborn, and he waited in a place where there was no shade outside the hall, and refused to leave no matter how much he persuaded him, so he compromised.

At the moment, he is just a frustrated and embarrassed emperor, what else is there to see? After meeting, they were not speechless, except for sighing and tears, or asking him what he planned to do in the future, when he would recover the two capitals, and what they needed to do...... And so on, knowing that you can't get an answer, but you have to do it as a cliché.

Perhaps it was because he saw the old emperor's discouragement, or maybe he found that General Xiao answered for the old emperor too many times, and the ministers and generals gradually stopped coming, and only occasionally sent their families to the Yanqing Palace next door to meet with several princesses and county lords, and offered some offerings to ensure that the two palaces had no worries about food and clothing.

Just when the days gradually settled down and calmed down, the guard Guo Qianren suddenly reversed!

As early as when he had just moved into the two palaces, Xiao Jiangyuan discussed with Chen Xuanli and decided that Li Longji's dormitory would be guarded by the inner flying dragon soldiers, and several princesses, county lords, Wei Jiansu and their families would be guarded by the dragon guards, and the periphery of the palace would be guarded by Guo Qianren, a local general in Chengdu.

Xiao Jiangyuan and Chen Xuanli didn't trust Guo Qianren because his eyes were too lively.

If you just take a closer look at the Immortal Palace and Yanqing Palace, it can also be said that you can understand the environment of the garrison, so that you can arrange soldiers and horses, but Guo Qianren is not only that, but he also always looks at the Inner Flying Dragon Soldiers and Long Wuwei, and when the officials and generals come to meet him, the eyes cast are also full of calculations. And after the officials and generals gradually stopped coming, he also wanted to send more people on the grounds that there were tigers and beasts in Qingcheng Mountain, but Xiao Jiangyuan refused: "I heard that General Guo's one person is ten brave, and now there are 1,000 people in charge of guarding the two palaces, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of people, even if there are tigers." ”

Although Guo Qianren's eyes are obvious and presumptuous, his actions are quite rigorous and blameless. Xiao Jiangyuan's every move now represents Li Longji, and it is not good to release the military power of a veteran as soon as he arrives in Chengdu, Chen Xuanli also agrees with this, so the two have to secretly guard against it.

It's just that the defense is far from enough, because Guo Qianqian has a total of 5,000 elite soldiers in his hands, except for the 1,000 stationed in the two palaces, the other 4,000 are stationed at the foot of the mountain twenty miles away. Xiao Jiangyuan thought that in the name of Li Longji, from time to time he would summon several other generals to lead troops to come for review, and there was no need to bring too many soldiers, as long as they combined with the Inner Flying Dragon Soldiers and Long Wuwei, the 1,000 elite soldiers who were enough to resist Guo Qianren could defeat and kill Guo Qianren before the arrival of the 4,000 soldiers and horses, and the 4,000 soldiers without generals would naturally be self-defeating.

didn't expect Xiao Jiangyuan to make a move yet, and Guo Qianren couldn't hold his breath anymore.

At this time, Guo Qianli had already sent troops to surround the entire Changsheng Palace and Yanqing Palace, and was attacking from various palace gates, and there were archers, Chen Xuanli had limited troops, so he could only protect Li Longji with Xiao Jiangyuan and retreat to the interior of the Changsheng Palace.

On the way back, Li Longji and others broke through the people of Yanqing Palace, only to know that they were under the leadership of the county lord Hezheng and used the passage between the two palaces to rush over. At this point, the forces of the two palaces were combined into one, and they finally resisted for a while at a palace wall.

"At the moment, although Guo Qianren's soldiers and horses are still 1,000 people, his 4,000 reinforcements must already be on the way, we don't have much time, think of a way!" Chen Xuanli said while directing the formation of troops.

Wei Jiansu looked worried: "Guo Qianqian has 5,000 elite soldiers in his hands, and all of us add up to only 1,300 people, and most of them are old and weak, women and children, and some of them have been killed and injured, how can we rely on ourselves?" ”

Xiao Jiangyuan was silent, and suddenly looked at Li Longji: "What do you think?" ”

Everyone immediately turned their eyes to Li Longji, who had been silent.

Li Longji understood that Xiao Jiangyuan wanted him to cheer up under high pressure, but he couldn't do it. He even felt that an emperor like him might have died a long time ago. For him, dying in the beautiful Qingcheng Mountain is not a good ending.

Seeing that Li Longji was still silent, Xiao Jiangyuan walked up to Li Longji, gritted his teeth and said, "If you want to die, I don't want to accompany you, and they won't be willing!" You are the emperor, so take your responsibility! We are all your subjects, and you deserve to protect us! When you were young, you were at ease with tens of thousands of coups/d'état, but now you are only fighting against more than 2,000 people, and you have nothing to do? I will not kneel down and beg you again, and if you will not, I will cut off your head and surrender to the rebels!" ”

Xiao Jiangyuan was very close to Li Longji, and his voice was extremely low, so the others didn't hear what she said at all, they could only see Li Longji's brows furrowed and relaxed, and a smile suddenly appeared on his lips: "You won't." ”

After a pause, Li Longji said again: "I didn't expect you to have such a time when you were upset and impatient. ”

Seeing that Xiao Jiangyuan's face was pale, the county lord of Hezheng stood up and said, "General Xiao, don't worry, grandfather must have a way." ”

As soon as the county lord finished speaking, the others nodded their heads and said to each other: "The saint is a forty-year saint tomorrow, even if there is a moment of confusion?" A wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts, and the saint is still wise and powerful! ”

"If the saint has any commands, just speak out, the ministers are willing to serve the saint and protect the saint!"

"The ministers are willing to serve the saint and protect the saint!"

After listening to Xiao Jiangyuan's words, Li Longji already had a plan in his heart, and when he saw everyone's feelings, he was even more shocked.

He can't die yet, he can't die.

At the very least, he had to do his best to protect them and protect her.

"There's only one way to try it right now." Li Longji said and looked at Xiao Jiangyuan, "Those four thousand people can be Guo Qianren's reinforcements, or they can be ours." ”

"How is this possible?" Everyone was puzzled.

"How could it be?" Xiao Jiangyuan asked rhetorically, "And look at the current Shu land, there are still the majority of loyal patriots, and there are not many people with wolf ambitions like Guo Qianren after all, most of them are just ready to move, and people with wavering minds like this are best influenced." ”

"We've just let out wolf smoke, and even if the soldiers stationed elsewhere rush over as soon as they see it, they'll come later than those four thousand, so it's better to try your best." And the main road of the county.

Wei Jiansu said: "This matter is easy to say, but it is actually very dangerous and difficult. First of all, people's hearts are the most uncontrollable, what if those 4,000 people just don't have two hearts for Guo Qianren? They have been soldiers under Guo Qianren for many years! Since Guo Qianren wants to rebel, won't he inform them in advance? ”

"Not necessarily!" Chen Xuanli took the time to shout such a sentence.

Xiao Jiangyuan immediately continued: "If Guo Qianren really informed everyone in advance, he would not have brought only a thousand people to attack the palace at this moment. ”

"Exactly!" The county lord of Hezheng's eyes lit up, "Grandfather is still the emperor after all, even if it is An Lushan, doesn't he also take Yang Guozhong's excuse to start a soldier?" Thinking about it, Guo Qianren didn't dare to directly tell all the people below that he wanted to rebel, at most tell a few henchmen in advance. If I were him, I would have taken the title of an escort and stayed here with these thousand people. When the four thousand see the smoke of the wolf, they will come. When they arrived, Guo Qianren came to the battlefield to kill chickens and monkeys as a deterrent, and when the time came, they were all reversed, and the 4,000 people had to follow if they didn't follow. ”

Wei Jiansu said again: "That...... Is there such a good lobbyist among you and me? Even if there were, how many soldiers and horses would we send to escort him out? If you really have the ability to break out, why don't you just escort the saint out? ”

"I won't leave yours behind." Li Longji patted Wei Jiansu's shoulder soothingly, "It's not because of anger. Their target is me, and if I run, they will chase after me, but you may not survive, and I may not be able to escape from them. But if it were someone else, because he was not the emperor, he might not be so important to Guo Qianren, and there would be no threat, but there would be a glimmer of life. ”

Xiao Jiangyuan said: "After all, no one should have thought that we would want to plot against Guo Qianren's soldiers to deal with Guo Qianren, this is not only a dangerous move, but also incredible, even Guo Qianren himself will think that it is impossible." ”

The county lord of Hezheng pondered for a while and said, "You can also use the passage between the two palaces to escape through Yanqing Palace." After we escape, the soldiers and horses assigned by Guo Qianren in Yanqing Palace will also come here, and Yanqing Palace will be a little safer. ”

Wei Jiansu asked, "Then who will you send?" If that person can really escape through Yanqing Palace, persuade the 4,000 soldiers and horses and lead the troops back, it is naturally good, if not, that person will definitely die. ”

"Hurry up, you can't stand it here!" Chen Xuanli said suddenly.