Although the people of Chang'an City were panicked, the people still believed that the rebels would soon be wiped out, and General Geshuhan was about to win a great victory.

The news of the loss of Tongguan was well covered, and Li Longji climbed to the top of the Qinzheng Building and announced that he would drive the expedition in person, but no one who heard it believed it. He moved into the Daming Palace that night and planned to escape with his confidants and ministers.

In order to make the plan more thorough, Li Longji appointed Jingzhao Yin Wei Fangjin as the imperial historian and envoy, Jingzhao Shaoyin Cui Guangyuan as Jingzhao Yin, and Xijing as the guard, and let the general Bian Lingcheng take charge of the key to the palace. Xuanzong pretended that the ambassador of Jiannan Jiedu, Yingwang Li, was going to the town, and ordered Jiannan Province to prepare the materials for the escape.

The emperor and his henchmen planned carefully, and after nightfall, Chen Xuanli gathered the dragon army in the square between the Chongxuanmen and Xuanwu gates, rewarded the soldiers with their property, and selected nearly 1,000 good horses in the flying dragon stable. In the early hours of the morning, the prince took the lead in the Qingdao rate, and the Longwu Forbidden Army escorted the Xuanzong team to flee from Yanqiu Gate, in order to prevent the news from leaking, the escape team was controlled in a small circle, and many concubines, princesses, and imperial grandchildren were left in Chang'an City.

When the fleeing team came to the Zuozang Treasury of the Son of Heaven, Yang Guozhong begged to set a fire to burn the silk and goods inside: "Don't give these things to the traitors. ”

Li Longji said in a sad mood: "When the rebels come, they have no money, so they will definitely collect it from the people, so it is better to leave it to them to alleviate the suffering of the people." ”

Yang Guozhong did not forget to pat himself on the back at this time, saying that His Majesty cherishes the people and is really a generation of saints, Li Longji just kept a bitter face and did not speak.

There was also a boy who had just turned fourteen years old in the prince's ranks, wearing the dark crimson official robe of the inspector major Fuqing, who was Li Chongyun, the eldest son of Li Siye. Originally, according to the urine nature of the imperial court, an inspector of his level was not qualified to participate in the escape at all, but Li Heng specially asked Li Jingzhong to find him and inform him to blend in with the team led by the crown prince to travel together.

In fact, there was no need for the prince to inform him, when Li Chongyun arrived in Chang'an, Li Siye wrote a long letter to Cao Anding, who joined the army, and asked him to send someone to bury nails in Tongguan, and once Tongguan was lost, he would immediately ride back on a fast horse to inform him to flee with the eldest son.

But the prince insisted on asking for this favor, Li Chongyun naturally couldn't help but know what to do, and waited for the team to cross the Weihe Bridge after leaving Longshouyuan. Li Heng deliberately stopped Li Chongyun and said, "Your Majesty has sent an envoy to announce the decree to your father, asking him to lead the army into Guanzhong to quell the rebellion. I am going to want you to follow the envoy to Hexi to meet your father, you only need to tell him about your relationship with the county lord of Yonghe, and then you will go to Lingwu in Shuofang to wait for us, and I will definitely ask Your Majesty to give you a marriage. ”

Li Chongyun's face was a little red, but he still bowed and crossed his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Li Heng patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "Silly boy, you still call him so raw." ”

He wanted to change his name to his father-in-law, father-in-law or something, but he couldn't speak.

The emperor's procession headed southwest, and Yang Guozhong ordered the soldiers to burn the Weihe Bridge, but Li Longji stopped him and said: "There are many people who are unwilling to be thieves, and they can flee from Chang'an for refuge and survive, why do you have to cut off their way of life?" ”

Li Chongyun seems to have grown older after the changes and chaos in Chang'an City these days. He, Cao Anding and Michagan rode their horses to a mound, looking at the emperor's fleeing procession, the soldiers walked on both sides, and the palace concubines and concubines cried in a low voice with their packages and bamboo canes in their hands.

Cao An settled beside him and said, "The prince must have ulterior motives for being so kind to you. ”

Li Chongyun nodded and said, "I know, he should just want Grandpa to assist him." But grandpa is grandpa, and I am me. ”

He turned his horse's head and looked at Chang'an City, where smoke was faintly rising in the distance, presumably it was already a human purgatory.

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The emperor sent the eunuch who announced the decree to hurry up, and it took only seven or eight days to arrive in Liangzhou and proclaim the decree to Li Siye.

Before March, Li Siye had already made preparations and began to transfer horses and soldiers from Anxi and Beiting to Hexi one after another. Now that he got the will of the imperial court, he immediately ordered Cen Shen and Du Fu to write a military order, demarcating the North India region and the Great and Small Bolu as the border towns of Tianzhu, Zhao Congfang served as the envoy of the Tianzhu Festival, and Wang Tao, the military envoy of the Quy Nhon army stationed in the Great and Small Bolu, led 3,000 troops into Hexi to participate in the counterinsurgency. He also merged the Longshuo army and the Yonghui army into a military town, Bi Sishen served as the envoy of Zhaowu Liuhoujie, and the original Longshuo army envoy Bai Xiaode led 5,000 troops into Hexi.

Zhao Chongxuan, the original envoy of Khotan Town, led 4,000 troops into Hexi, and ordered Yu Gou to serve as the envoy of these two towns.

He also ordered Feng Changqing, the deputy envoy of Anxi Jiedu, to lead 8,000 people into Liangzhou, appointed Wei Boyu as the envoy of the Jie Du of the Queen, and Duan Xiushi, the deputy envoy of the Beiting Jiedu, led 13,000 people of the Han Navy to Liangzhou, and appointed Zhou Yi, the judge of the Jiedu, as the envoy of the Beiting Legacy. In this way, the number of troops drawn from the four military towns was 33,000.

He also appointed Cheng Qianli as the envoy of Hexi Liuhou Jiedu, leaving him four corps and four guards with a total of 22,000 men in Hexi, and he himself transferred a total of 21,000 people from the three armies of Dadou, Jianxing, and Ningkou, as well as 26,000 Flying Tiger Cavalry and 7,000 Xuanwu Artillery Battalion.

Li Siye mobilized a total of 87,000 troops from the three towns, equivalent to half of the men and horses of the entire Longyou Dao, not including the 25,000-strong army that Li Guangbi took away, otherwise he could mobilize as many as 100,000 troops. It is necessary not only to meet the requirements of counterinsurgency, but also to ensure that Longyou can be held on to prevent the invasion of Tubo Dashi and other countries, and this amount has been carefully calculated by him.

He also sent a few people to join the army in Lanzhou, Shanzhou, and Hezhou to recruit brave soldiers to serve as auxiliaries, and gathered a total of 60,000 people before and after, and ordered them to transport grain and grass from Liangzhou to Lanzhou City, and the Flying Tiger Cavalry had also arrived at the Yellow River in Lanzhou one step ahead of the other, escorting the follow-up troops.

Soon after the envoys of the imperial court left, Li Siye's eldest son Li Chongyun also returned from Chang'an, and he was very happy to see that his son was safe and sound, and asked him to go and say peace to his mother-in-law, Twelve Niang.

When Li Chongyun came to the main hall from the inner house, Li Siye said quite complacently: "It seems that there is no omission in my arrangement, Cao Anding is thoughtful, but Chang'an City is afraid that it has fallen at this moment." ”

Li Chongyun thought of the prince's entrustment to him, and was a little ashamed, and only said: "Actually, I fled with His Royal Highness the Prince's team, and he asked me to come back to Liangzhou." ”

"Prince?" Li Siye said in surprise: "The emperor said that he wanted to marry you and the daughter of King Li Qi and the lord of Yi, but later said that you were young and postponed the marriage, so why did you have a relationship with the prince again." ”

Li Chongyun's voice gradually became smaller: "The son and the eighth daughter of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Yonghe, the county lord, met by chance, and after admiring each other, they have made a private agreement for life. When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince found out, he did not blame us, and said that he would persuade the saint to marry us in the future. ”

Li Siye's face changed slightly, he looked back at Mrs. Twelve Niang who was standing on the side of the door, and said to Li Chongyun: "Come out with me to test your equestrian progress." ”

Li Chongyun happily crossed his hands and said, "My son obeys." ”

The father and son galloped out of Liangzhou City on horseback, and ran for more than ten miles, coming to the ridge of the green grass in the west of the city. Li Siye grabbed the reins of the horse and asked on the slope: "How are the days in Chang'an, what are your feelings?" ”

"I don't have any feelings, but I often go out with the county lord of Yonghe like today, and I found that time was really short."

Li Siye suddenly raised the horsewhip, and whipped Li Chongyun down under the horse with a whip, he covered his arms in pain and got up and cried: "Why did Grandpa beat me?" ”

"Bunny! I call you puppy love, I call you puppy love! He raised his horsewhip and whipped Li Chongyun three times on his back.

Li Chongyun pouted his lips and argued with tears in his eyes: "When I was thirteen years old, the saint sent someone to give you marriage, and you agreed, and now at the age of fourteen, you are in love with the county lord, why do you object?" ”

Li Siye said angrily: "Can marriage be the same as falling in love!" If you don't fall in love with anyone, you have to be with the prince's county lord! Don't you know that the struggle within the royal family is bloody and cruel, even if the princess is just a funeral object! ”

Li Chongyun sat on the ground with his knees crossed, although his expression was no longer depressed, Li Siye could see that he didn't listen to his words at all.