Li Fuguo replied in a mellow voice in Guanzhong's official dialect: "Princess Qiyu, Li Chongyun's father Li Siye openly rebelled, and now the army has opened to Tongguan to capture Guanzhong. His father and son are both prosperous and lossy, no matter which dynasty or generation, the emperor will not allow a traitor's son to run alive under his eyes. Your Royal Highness Princess, if you can understand Your Majesty's distress, you should not stop me here as a little daughter, but should obey Your Majesty's righteousness and kill your relatives. ”

Princess Yonghe knelt on the ground with a plop and said sadly: "I ask Gorou to be gracious and allow me to meet my father, and when I meet my father and plead to no avail, my husband will kill him or listen to him." ”

Li Fuguo showed a sneering attitude towards Yonghe's plea: "Hmph, you only intercede for your husband, do you know that your father is sick every day, and he is lying on the sickbed and dying, that is, he is angry with your grandfather of the horse." You are a princess, you are the princess of the Tang Dynasty! Since you were born from the royal palace, you should always remember a sentence, children's private affairs should be placed after the Jiangshan Sheji, you should learn more from your sister and Princess Zheng, although she is a close relative of the Yang family, but when the Yang family was ambushed, she didn't even dare to say a single word Yang. ”

"Really?" The princess smiled sadly: "Gorou, don't think I don't know, who was the matchmaker in the middle in the first place?" It was the military power in Chongyun's father's hands that you took a fancy to at the beginning, so you pushed me to his side. Now his father has parted ways with you, and you want to destroy my love! “

Li Fuguo put his hands into his sleeves, squinted his eyes and said: "As a royal daughter, it is ridiculous to believe in such a thing as love. The slave maid advises you, you are lucky enough, I think that An Lushan's eldest son was beheaded in half, and even the county lord who married him was given death, Your Majesty has loved you enough, what do you want? ”

"Come, take the princess away, and execute Li Chongyun."

Four or five palace maids with big shoulders and round waists immediately gathered around, reached out and grabbed the princess's arms and calves, and carried her out of the dungeon, and the princess struggled and screamed, cursing all the words she had used in her life.

Li Chongyun sat cross-legged on the ground silently, Li Fuguo led the soldiers to him, and said: "You are very lucky, let Your Majesty know that you are not Li Siye's biological son, so you only need to die, otherwise even if you are chopped alive, you will not be able to dispel the hatred in his heart. ”

……

In June of the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, Guo Ziyi said goodbye to her relatives in the family house, and led her two sons to prepare for the Tongguan battlefield.

Guo Sikong was irritable when he heard this, and scolded loudly: "Don't cry! I have experienced hundreds of battles in my life, all of which are safe and sound, and this time I went to guard Tongguan, and I will still be fine. You are all at home and obedient to me, don't let the saints worry about it, and when I return safely in the future, you will also be safe and sound. ”

He put on his armor under the service of the steward, and his two sons were already waiting in the courtyard with their shackles, and the father and son came all the way to the gate of the house. The two thousand soldiers of the Guo family were ready to go, and Yu Chaoen and Guo Yuanzhen also led the Long Xiang Army and the Long Wu Army to order the Mao.

Yu Chaoen was also accompanied by a cart pulled by oxen, on which a corpse was wrapped in silk cloth.

Guo Ziyi greeted the two eunuchs very humbly, and said some scenes where they would definitely work together in the future, Yu Chaoen smiled hesitantly: "Guo Sikong is really approachable, there is no Sikong at all, we will be much more relieved to work under your hands in the future." ”

Guo Ziyi laughed teasingly: "Two fathers-in-law, whether Guo can defend Tongguan or not, the two of them need to work together to guard the mountains and rivers for His Majesty." ”

He saw the corpse in the car in a blink of an eye, and asked in surprise, "What's going on?" ”

"Oh." Yu Chaoen explained with a smile: "This is the dead body of the traitor Li Chongyun, the son of Li Siye, Your Majesty hopes that you can hang him on the head of the city of Tongguan, so that these rebels can see what the fate of the rebellion against the imperial court is." ”

Guo Ziyi's third son, Guo Xi, couldn't help muttering on the horse: "A mere corpse can scare the rebels? Doing so may anger Li Siye, but besides......"

"Shut up." Guo Ziyi stopped his son's complaint in time and motioned for the two eunuchs to set off on the road.

After he accepted and even announced his appointment in Chang'an, Li Guangbi had to resign all his duties and return to Chang'an, and the two of them, as ministers of the Tang Dynasty, had been the norm to alternate back and forth.

Before leaving the city, Guo Ziyi gave three letters to the emperor in a row, one was to ask the imperial court to surrender Shi Siming again, and after the surrender, he was ordered to go south to attack Li Siye to recover Luoyang, if Shi Siming was ambitious enough, this trick should be able to work. The second Song Shu asked the emperor to order Hedong Jiedu to make Deng Jingshan lead his troops south to Luzhou and Puzhou to prevent Li Siye from sending troops to enter the east of the river from Jingjingkou and attack Guanzhong from Pujindu and Longmendu in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

These three tricks were approved by Li Heng, and once they worked, Li Siye would suffer the enemy on his back and eventually be defeated in the Central Plains. Of course, the premise of all this is that he can hold on to Tongguan for a few months, and he believes that with the strength of Tongguan, he can definitely do it.

After Guo Ziyi entered Tongguan, Li Guangbi retreated gloomily, and the two saluted each other after meeting at the city gate, and exchanged a few complicated expressions in the eyes of both sides.

Tongguan changed horses, and the Lizi Daxu flag hanging on the head of the city naturally had to be changed. Seeing that his former boss had returned to regain power, the general Gu Huaien personally climbed the watchtower and pulled out the flag to replace him.

Guo Ziyi stepped forward to stop the servant Gu Huaien who pulled out the flag, and said to the generals behind him: "The change of generals in Tongguan will definitely arouse Li Siye's vigilance, and it will also make him change his strategy, we don't have to change the flag, so that he mistakenly thinks that it is still Li Guangbi who is stationed in Tongguan now, and he is firmly attracted to the city." ”

……

Li Siye personally led the army to assemble in Lingbao County, and the artillery camp and grain and grass baggage have also been assembled, in addition to sending people to challenge in front of the pass every day, he personally called Duan Xiushi and Xu Bin, ready to let them lead the Flying Tiger Cavalry from the Jingjingkou into the east of the river to capture Shangdang, and then conquer Puzhou, cross the river from Jinpu in Puzhou and enter Guanzhong, and attack Tongguan inside and outside.

However, the situation suddenly changed, and this change came from a corpse hanging from the head of Tongguan City.

He was telling Duan Xiushi about the offensive route in the military tent that day, Li Chongbao suddenly opened the curtain and broke into the big tent, knelt on the ground and said with tears on his face: "Grandpa, grandpa!" ”

Li Siye was quite displeased, glared at his son and said: "As a man, no matter what happens, you shouldn't be so flustered, why did you break into my military tent privately, what happened?" ”

"Grandpa, go and see, big brother, he is hanging on the city wall!"

Li Siye immediately got up and stepped out of the big tent, called for his own soldiers to prepare horses, turned over and rode towards the gate of Tongguan.

He looked up against the harsh sunlight, Li Chongyun was hanging from his neck by black iron chains, his skin was blue and black, and he seemed to have been pickled and dehydrated by quicklime.

Anger churned in his chest, and his hands tugged at the reins of the horse, and the horse was restless with pain from his strong pull, and jumped back and forth in front of the city gates.

"The eunuch dictatorship, I led the army to the king, why did you kill my heir?"

There was still Li Guangbi's big bow hanging on the city tower, but the two eunuchs, Yu Chaoen and Cheng Yuanzhen, poked their heads out from behind the female wall with bows and crossbows, and laughed arbitrarily and madly: "Li Siye, look who this is, he was originally a concubine of the Tang Dynasty, but because of a traitorous father, he fell into such a fate." After we catch you, a traitor, we will cut you in two and hang you on the wall of Tongguan, so that the envoys of the feudal officials who pass by here will see that those who covet the Tang Dynasty will eventually die without a place to be buried! ”

Yu Chaoen looked back at Guo Ziyi's big tent in the camp, and suddenly remembered a clever trick, and laughed loudly: "Li Siye, killing your son is Guo Sikong's handiwork, before his old man left the school, he used your son's blood to sacrifice the flag to the sky!" Then God will bless us and purge you and your remnants. ”

Li Chongbao roared after his father, pulled out the horned bow in his hand and shot it towards the city, and the two eunuchs were so frightened that they hurriedly crouched under the female wall, and the arrows swept over their heads and pierced into the pillars behind them.

"Knock on the siege!"