Chapter 363: Undefended Chang'an City!
If Li Chun's heart was still a little uneasy when he made the decision the day before, then seeing the letter sent by the Emperor Taishang himself from Chen Cang, a familiar sense of security instantly filled him, and all Li Chun's uneasiness had disappeared at this moment.
Lowering his head and reading the contents of the letter again, Li Chun's heart was full of mixed feelings.
The person who he can never see through, the person who is not a tall back, after all, he still resisted everything for himself and Datang.
It is said that Zhuge Liang did his best and died, but Li Chun thought that his father did his best when he was alive, and counted his death at the end of his life, which can be said to have burned everything into the Tang Dynasty.
Closing his eyes and calming his emotions completely, Li Chun focused all his attention on the situation in Chang'an in front of him, as the emperor, Li Yu had already done what he could to the limit, and he definitely couldn't waste the time that his father had won for him.
What he has to do now is the same as Guo Rong's attack on Huaixi and Jiaodong, and Li Chen's entry into Chencang, which is to clear hidden dangers before the decisive battle.
After reviewing his plan in his mind, with the support of his father, Li Chun was full of confidence in success.
Immediately afterwards, Li Chun pushed open the door of the hall and slowly walked out of the Manna Palace, and soon, Li Chun was bathed in the sun.
Feeling enough of the warmth of the sun, Li Chun stretched out his hand and summoned the two eunuchs who were his henchmen in front of him.
"Gong Jie, go to the mansion of the eldest princess of Dunhuang, and ask the eldest princess to observe the situation in Chang'an City instead of me according to the original plan, observe important places, observe important people, and do it when necessary!"
"Yes!"
"Wu Tuo, go to the Forbidden Garden immediately, tell the three generals Gao Chongwen, Li Yuanyi, and Zheng Yongnan, act according to the plan, and ask Han Yu and Han Changshi to mobilize soldiers, horses, manpower, and supplies to give them full assistance."
"Yes!"
Waiting for the two eunuchs beside him to leave, Li Chun looked ahead, looked at Chang'an City, and said to himself.
"There are two days left to be Shuori, let's have a showdown on Shuori, if you don't get rid of those people with evil intentions, how can you fight a decisive battle with Tubo, a great enemy of life and death!"
"Besides, let's take these ghosts as a sacrifice for my father!"
On August 28, the news of the loss of the customs reached Chang'an.
In the face of the sudden situation, after the Emperor Taishang left, Emperor Li Chun, who had been a puppet for several years, was obviously at a loss and had no way to deal with it.
The Zaifu, who presided over the government and made a promise, shrank their heads and tails one by one, and remained silent, looking like they had become shrunken turtles who were wise enough to protect themselves.
After losing the support of the bigwigs in the DPRK and China, the civilian officials of the main battle faction in the DPRK and China also lost their former sharpness, like roosters choked by the throat.
On the contrary, those who were suppressed surrendered and compromised are now arrogant, as if the Tibetans had become their saviors.
Since Wei Guanzhi, Jing Zhaoyin, Chang'an County, and Wannian County, who have always maintained toughness, have also put away their tough style, and the officials, fast catchers, and officials have honestly shrunk into the government office, and the bad guys and bad handsome guys have disappeared as if they had disappeared from the world.
The Beiya Forbidden Army stationed in the North Forbidden Garden of Chang'an City, the guards stationed in the south of Chang'an City, and the left and right Jinwuwei who were in charge of the palace and the Gyeonggi day and night patrol in Chang'an City were even more shrunk in the camp and ignored the abnormalities outside.
At this moment, an extremely abnormal phenomenon really appeared in Chang'an City - the Tang Emperor, the Dang Dynasty Zaifu, the Chang'an Imperial Court, Jing Zhaoyin, and the forbidden army, collectively disabled!
Under normal circumstances, this kind of situation that should never happen will definitely attract the attention of intelligent people, however, at this moment, in the eyes of the vast majority of people, this abnormal phenomenon seems extremely normal.
As for the reason, there is only one reason.
The Emperor Taishang, who was so weak that he could hang up at any time, but a cough could make everyone in Chang'an be frightened is not in Chang'an now!
Not only is it not in Chang'an, everyone knows that the Emperor Taishang is now in Chencang, where the Tubo people bear the brunt.
In the vast majority
From the point of view, the emperor will never come back to Chang'an in his life.
In the absence of the emperor, in the face of the situation of Chang'an's peril, the extremely abnormal phenomenon is not so abnormal.
Of course, normal is normal, for the sake of safety, the vast majority of rebels chose to be cautious and tentative, rather than rashly attacking, abnormal is not normal after all, what if this is the trap of the young new emperor?
Rao was like this, and as their temptation deepened, the situation in Chang'an began to develop in an unpredictable direction.
On August 28, Chang'an City was particularly depressed, but overall it was stable.
On August 29, there were already small-scale riots and fires in Chang'an, and the situation in Chang'an became extremely unstable.
It's just that because the scope of these riots is still small, although the imperial court and the government did not take action, the various cities and squares are within the control of the officials and Lizheng.
On 30 August, the situation in Chang'an City continued to deteriorate, and small-scale riots turned into large-scale riots, and more than one square in Chang'an City was already on fire.
With the complete deterioration of the situation, everything finally began to change.
On August 30, Emperor Li Chun, who had been in a daze in the palace for nearly two days, seemed to have finally come back to his senses, and he urgently summoned the three *** officials, the military department Shangshu, the left and right Jin Wuwei generals, Jing Zhaoyin, Taifu Siqing, and Wei Wei, and held a small-scale imperial meeting.
Compared with usual, the time of this temporary imperial meeting was not long, and the scale was not large, but the level of vigilance and security was very high, so that the content of this meeting was not reported at all.
It's just that although the content has not been revealed, those with ill intentions are not worried, after all, they believe that the emperor Li Chun, who suddenly returned to his senses, definitely did not just want to vent his fears.
All that is hidden needs to be enforced by measures after all.
Sure enough, with the end of the imperial meeting, after Li Jiang, the secretary of the military department, Gao Peng, the secretary of the Taifu Temple, and Cheng Yi, the guard of the guard, left the palace without any stop, and disappeared from the field of vision of the vast majority of people.
Half an hour after the end of the imperial front, starting from noon on August 30, the officials of Jingzhaoyin, Chang'an County, and Wannian County, who had shrunk at the entrance of the yamen for two days, were arrested and quickly left the nest.
At the same time, the left and right Kim Wuwei, who were in charge of the day and night patrols of Miyagi, Chang'an, and Gyeonggi, began to leave the garrison barracks in full armament and in a systematic manner.
Under the guidance of Jing Zhaoyin, Chang'an County, and Wannian County, the local snakes, the fast catchers, and the bad guys, the left and right Jin Wuwei quickly dispatched and began to patrol the city of Chang'an, rescue fires everywhere, and suppress riots of various sizes.
The orders given to the guards were very simple: those who participated in the riots and rebellions were to be killed, and their heads were to be hanged in order to deter the youngsters.
More than a dozen fires have been extinguished, and all the riots have been completely quelled, except that bloody human heads have been hung on the doors of various markets.
With the assistance of officials such as the officials of the Chang'an Prefecture, the arrest of fast people, and the bad guys, and with the assistance of the officials and citizens of Chang'an City, the situation that had become increasingly serious was quickly controlled.
After controlling the overall situation in Chang'an City, these Jin Wuwei began to search for people of unknown origin under the guidance of government officials, arresters, and bad people.
Since Jin Wuwei's dispatch, in less than two hours, Chang'an City has returned to its former calm, at least on the surface.
It's just that in the shadows, the schemes of the conspirators, careerists, greedy, and saboteurs lurking in Chang'an City have never stopped.
Although Jin Wuwei killed a considerable number of troublemakers hidden in the people under the guidance of the local snakes, more meticulous works, spies, assassins, and dead soldiers entered Chang'an City through various reasonable, unreasonable, legal, and illegal ways, and then quietly hid under the protection of their own sons.
Under the joint raid of Jin Wuwei and Jing Zhaoyin, the losses of the rebels were not insignificant, but this kind of fighting between you and me completely relieved them.
Li Chun can't compare to let Li recite!
This is the consensus in the hearts of all rebels in Chang'an City.
After all, whether it is the depth of scheming, or the grasp of people's hearts, whether it is the decisiveness and speed when making decisions, or the bloody and vicious when dealing with opponents, in short, Li Yu, who became the emperor after abdication, is too terrifying, and this fear has long been deeply implanted in the soul of the rebels under the repeated cleanup.
It's just that although Li Chun is not as much as the Emperor Taishang who makes them fear to the extreme, he will definitely not be a fool, because the rebels believe that the Emperor Taishang will not leave a fool to inherit the Tang Empire in his hands.
Judging from Li Chun's reaction after returning to his senses, this young emperor obviously inherited Li Yu's style, but this emperor woke up too late, and two full days was enough time for them to complete too many preparations, and the loss of a part of the peripheral cannon fodder would not be too big for the overall event.
It's just that, in the eyes of these rebels, the young emperor reacted too slowly, acted too late, if two days ago everything would have been fine, but now, it's too late!
Just when the elite of Jin Wuwei was quelling the riots in Chang'an City and rebuilding order in Chang'an City, the traces of Li Jiang, the secretary of the military department, Gao Peng, the Taifu Siqing, and Cheng Yi, the guard commander, who had disappeared, were transmitted back to Chang'an City.
Li Jiang went south into the garrison of the guards, and Gao Peng and Cheng Yi went north to enter the Forbidden Garden.
Along with their traces, there was another piece of news that the left and right guards stationed in the south of Chang'an City, and the left and right leading guards had left the garrison, and from the direction of the march, they were marching west along the south side of Weishui.
It's just that speculation is speculation, rumors are rumors, and witnesses are witnesses, in order to confirm this news, one team after another of knights went out of the city from the Kaiyuan Gate, Jinguang Gate, and Yanping Gate in the east and south of Chang'an City, and then rode west to the west.
These were actually so arrogant and domineering when they left Chang'an, but, on the surface, these arrogant and domineering guys never returned.
Although these guys never returned, when it was approaching dusk and the gates of Chang'an City were about to close, the flow of people entering Chang'an was slightly higher than usual.
Although there were more people, they were still within a reasonable range, and they were still allowed to enter the city after the guards checked that there were no problems.
With the smooth entry into the city and after leaving the city gate, these seemingly innocent people gradually separated, and it seemed that they were preparing to go back to their respective homes before the curfew, however, not all of them returned to their homes in Chang'an normally, or stayed at the post station.
A considerable number of seemingly innocent fellows quietly returned to their true master's house after making a detour.
It all seemed seamless, but what they didn't know was that in the shadows, a pair of eyes were staring at them, watching their every move, and at the same time completing a complete record.
The lurkers who entered the city before the gates closed at dusk brought back almost identical news for their true masters.
The left and right guards, the left and right leading guards had indeed left their garrison in Chang'an and marched westward, but they did not carry baggage and ordnance with them.
Logically speaking, this is not normal, but if you add another one, it looks a lot more normal.
Because while the left and right guards and the left and right led the army guards to go out, a lot of personnel and chariots were also drawn from the direction of the forbidden garden.
Those who are familiar with the Changying Army and the Forbidden Army can see at a glance that these auxiliaries who are responsible for logistics and baggage in the forbidden army are those who are pulling out from the direction of the Forbidden Garden.
In contrast, everything is very clear, the four guards of Nanya stationed in Chang'an City have really left Chang'an, and their goal can only be one, that is, the Tubo people who have entered the Kou!
After the news of the dispatch of the Four Guards Forbidden Army was confirmed, one stone stirred up a thousand waves.
After the four armies of the Northern Ya and the twelve guards of the Southern Ya were all formed into an army, they once frightened the ghosts in Chang'an City, but with the changes of time and the situation, everything has been completely different.
Changyingjun and Guo Rong went to Shandong, and Yulinjun went to Chencang with Emperor Taishang
, Shenwu Jun and the prince went to Longxi.
The left guard is now in Xiaoguan, and the right guard has been wiped out in Sanguan;
The left and right guards are stationed in Tongguan and Wuguan respectively;
Zuo Wuwei was also in Shandong, and Right Wuwei was stationed in Fugu Coal Mine;
Now, with the left and right Weiwei, the left and right leading the army to march westward, the forbidden army near Chang'an City has only left the left and right Jinwuwei and a lone Shenwei army.
And this army and two guards, combined, are about 30,000 people!
A huge Chang'an city, with only 30,000 soldiers and horses to defend, is really a drop in the bucket for a giant imperial capital with a population of one million like Chang'an, even if Chang'an is regarded as an undefended city, there is no problem.
Seeing the changes now, no matter what the various forces in Chang'an City thought before, but now these guys who were still hesitating suddenly became excited.
Then, they collectively focused on the only news from the palace that came out of the palace through normal channels today - tomorrow's court meeting will be held normally.
When the sleeves and clothes of the eunuchs who carried the decree became bulging, they revealed a very important message:
Emperor Li Chun, tomorrow at the court meeting of Shuo Ri, will announce some important decisions.
That night, the lights were bright in many mansions in the entire Chang'an City, and countless conspirators were partying tonight.
They invariably put the most important time node on tomorrow, the first day of the ninth month, the morning meeting of the New Year.