Walking back is much faster than when you just ran away.

When Bai Heng brought back the 300 Lin Jun and Jin Wuwei who were the vanguards, Li Yu's Luan Jia had already returned to the outside of Chang'an City.

During this period, Li Jie got into Li Yi's carriage, and he didn't know what to say.

When he stepped out of the carriage again, he seemed in a very good mood.

"Fourth Emperor Brother, Imperial Uncle, don't go back to the Sixteen Princes' Mansion, it's not safe there, go to Daming Palace with Your Majesty!"

Li Kan and Li Qia glanced at each other, their expressions were different, but they still agreed.

As for the youngest prince, King Mu Li Yi...

In order to prevent Chang'an from being unsafe, all the bloodlines of the Li family were taken by Huang Chao, and at the suggestion of many accompanying ministers, King Mu was escorted by a team of men and horses to Zheng Jin, the envoy of Fengxiang Jiedu, which was regarded as keeping a trace of national fortune for the Tang Dynasty.

He rode his horse and stood in front of the soldiers, holding up the fish talisman in his hand, "Everyone listens to the order, follow me to exterminate the rebel army in the city, and those who resist will not be killed!"

After speaking, he took the lead in re-entering Chang'an.

As soon as he entered the Jinguang Gate, when he heard the constant sound of fighting from Dongfang, Li Jie temporarily put his mind at ease.

This shows that some people in the city have begun to organize the city army to start resisting, and temporarily control these rebel troops in the east fang, and did not cross the west side of Suzaku Street.

The light of the fire, which was once visible in the distance, is also gradually decreasing.

Even if you can't completely suppress the other party, you should be able to hold on for the time being.

He lowered his head and pondered, and then called Bai Heng.

"Bai Heng, just now I discussed with Your Majesty, although Tian Lingzi is dead, but his henchmen are still there, and now you are specially appointed as the right Qianniu Wei Zhonglang General, and I have the right to go straight to Daming Palace and Taiji Palace with my Qianniu Knife, how to do it, do you understand?"

Bai Heng licked his chapped lips, and a fierce light flashed in his eyes,

"Lao Bai understands!"

Li Jie nodded with satisfaction, and handed over the Qianniu knife at his waist,

"Rebel, slash!"

Watching Bai Heng murderously follow Li Yi's Luan straight to the palace, Li Jie sighed.

Now the strength is obviously insufficient, and a Boye rebel army of less than 3,000 people can't handle it.

The Shence army in the entire Chang'an is less than 3,000, and even if you add the large and small military towns near Chang'an, the strength is not more than 5,000!

The emperor's private soldiers, who were once known as the 80,000 Shence Army, were killed and wounded in the Battle of Tongguan under the blind command of Tian Lingzi.

In the end, less than 10,000 people were left in Chang'an.

"You old king, you don't make people worry when you die!"

While Li Jie was walking on the street, he analyzed the troops that could be used to fight with a Yulin military captain, and the more he talked, the more angry he became.

At this time, there were only 3,000 people left in the Imperial City, and a large part of them were mixed in by the children of officials and gentry and wealthy merchants!

Not to mention that there is no combat effectiveness, and most of them are on empty salaries, and they can't find anyone at all.

Five thousand people each of the Beiya Yulin Army and Long Wuwei were stationed in the Taiji Palace and the Daming Palace.

In the struggle between the Sixteen Guards of the Southern Ya and the Northern Ya for more than 100 years, the power was greatly weakened by the eunuchs, and it has long since ceased to be the majestic style that swept the world in the past.

In addition to the 50000 Niu Wei and 1,000 Jin Wuwei as the emperor's close guards, the total strength of the other 14 guards was less than 10,000 people, and they were responsible for garrisoning the entire outer city of Chang'an.

So I pinched my fingers, and I, the leader of the Divine Strategy Army, commanded and recruited all the soldiers and horses so that there were more than 20,000 people who could really be mobilized....

Facing the Huangchao army, it is simply a drop in the bucket.

I remember when I was in school, someone on the campus network forum once suggested that if Tang Xizong had not fled to Sichuan, would he be able to resist the attack of Huangchao with the height and thickness of Chang'an City?

A lot of people participated in this discussion.

But almost 90 percent of people think it's impossible.

There are many reasons for this.

The most important point is that corruption is rife within the Shence Army, which is the Central Army of the Tang Dynasty, and the children of rich officials have almost no combat experience.

At the same time, a large number of troops were consumed in Tongguan, resulting in a shortage of troops to defend the city.

In addition, the military and civilians are not of the same heart, and they ran away more than half of them before the war, how can they hold it?

Less than 10 percent of those who think it's feasible have come up with a few poison schemes...

"Catching strong men is a way!"

There are nearly one million people in Chang'an City, except for women, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, how can they get together 108,000, right?

But first, these people have no experience in battle.

The second is to greatly damage the prestige of the court.

However, the second one was automatically ignored by him.

Anyway, I'm already planning to carry the black pot for Li Yi, just scold!

But where else are there people who can fight?

With a brigade of 100 people, he turned to the left and entered the boundary of the Xifang Department near Miyagi, where the mansions of most of the officials in Chang'an were gathered.

Although it was a little far away from the place where the East City was plundered, it was also brightly lit at this time, and almost every mansion was closed, and there was the sound of staggered blades inside from time to time, thinking that these officials were preparing to defend against the rebels.

The first is the mansion of Xu Yanruo, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and in my memory, the original owner and his son played very well.

Li Jie's eyes suddenly lit up, how could he forget about them!

Slamming open the gate with force, the captain held the token in his hand and shouted: "King Shou was edicted to lead the military affairs of Liuzhou and Chang'an, and he is also the lieutenant of the Shence Army, and now orders Xu Shaojian to hand over the twenty guards at home to quell the chaos with the army, without delay!"

Xu Yanruo was only in his forties, and he was amazed when he saw the young man who was being guarded by the Yulin Army.

"This is Tian Lingzi's position, how did he become this kid?"

Thinking of this, he bowed and saluted, "His Royal Highness King Shou, I don't know Your Majesty..."

"Xu Yushi rest assured, Tian Lingzi has already been ambushed, His Majesty is sitting in the Hanyuan Palace, vowing to live and die with Chang'an!"

Li Jie knew that Li Yi had just tossed around, and Xu Yanruo, who was closest to him, already had doubts, so he had to explain patiently.

"The sky has eyes!"

Xu Yanruo knelt down in the direction of Daming Palace,

"My Emperor Shengming, Datang is saved!"

Then, this official did not hesitate at all, and the entire mansion, including the nursing courtyard and the servants, and more than 20 sturdy men were all handed over, and they were very single.

"Thanks!"

Li Jie took the twenty men temporarily recruited from the Xu Mansion to continue to ask for people from house to house, and the progress was actually very smooth.

Whoever has a guard servant in the house, only heard that Tian Lingzi was killed, and now His Majesty has the determination to live and die with Chang'an, and they all obey the order.

He had a brief discussion with the captain named Gu Mancun, and for every 90 people gathered, two guards were assigned to form a brigade and go to Nananfang City to join the army in the city and quell the chaos together.

When the Ninth Brigade departed, everyone was stunned when they came to a mansion.

Unlike other mansions, there are two brand-new white lanterns in front of the gate of this mansion, floating in the wind and snow.

"Whose family is this dead?"

"Your Highness, this is Lu Xianggong's house."

"Lu Xiang is dead?"

Li Jie frowned,

A few days ago, he also teased that this person would not commit suicide because of humiliation, but he didn't expect Lu Xi to really have some literati backbone.

"Knock on the door, since you have caught up, why don't you hang up."

When I entered the door, I realized that it had only been an hour since Lu Xian committed suicide by taking poison, and the body was still hot.

Because there was no coffin, it was covered by a white cloth and placed on a table in the main hall, and the kneeling in front of the table was not as good as a person wearing filial piety clothes.

An old woman knelt in front of her and said in a sobbing voice: "His Royal Highness Xie came to mourn for Xianggong, Xianggong died unjustly!"

Li Jie nodded and asked them to get up, walked to the incense burner and put on three sticks of incense, and sighed a little in his heart,

"Zhongshu is a flat chapter under the door, which is equivalent to the prime minister of a country, just say that death is death..."

Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the backyard of the Lu Mansion, and in the pull of several servants, a black-faced young man rushed out with a horizontal knife.

"Don't stop so-and-so, so-and-so will kill the eunuch with his own hands to avenge his father!"

Without waiting for Li Jie to say anything, the guards rushed up and directly pressed the person to the ground.

"Bold, King Shou is here, you dare to come with a knife!"

The black-faced young man kept struggling on the ground, as if he hadn't heard the words of these people at all,

"Let go of so-and-so, I'm going to kill the dog!"

Mrs. Lu walked over in a few steps, slapped him twice, and said angrily: "Idiot, King Shou is here, and he has killed the field thief with his own hands, and he hasn't woken up yet?" ”

Hearing this, the person was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses.

"Tian Lingzi is dead?"

Then he began to kowtow to Li Jie, who was standing on the steps,

"His Royal Highness Xie avenged his father, Lu Yan is grateful!"

Li Jie motioned for the guards to let him go,

"It's not a pity for the thief to die, and I also ask Lu Gongzi to mourn."

Then he turned to Mrs. Lu and said: "Now that Chang'an has few soldiers, this king has been ordered to dispatch the generals of the whole city to resist the rebellion in the city, and ask the old lady to make it convenient." ”

"The old woman commands!"

Mrs. Lu turned her head and looked at her son again,

"Your Highness avenged your father, you will follow Your Highness in the future, don't let others ridicule me and the Lu family will not repay your kindness!"

Lu Yan bowed and saluted, "The child obeys!" ”

After speaking, he bowed to Li Jie, "Your Highness, you are personally recruiting soldiers from house to house, are you slow?" ”

Li Jie pondered,

yes!

Chang'an is too big, just this northwest corner, I am afraid that there are nearly 100 mansions, even if it is non-stop, it may not be able to finish before dawn.

Moreover, you have no idea which household has the exact number of people, in case there is a concealment and does not report the evasion of military service?

He looked at the black-faced young man in front of him who was as crazy as he had just now, but his face was calm like water,

"Do you have a way?"

"Exactly, the whole Chang'an, or the whole Datang, if you talk about this ability, you must be the worst marshal!

His Royal Highness only needs to recruit Qin Ruoshui, a bad handsome man in Chang'an, and with the ability of a bad person, it will definitely greatly improve the efficiency of recruitment. ”

"Bad people?"

The anti-incident campaign was called a bad person in the Tang Dynasty, and there was a bad commander, that is, the great man of the Han Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, the bad guys in this bad marshal's mansion are the secret spies of the imperial court, and they have the taste of the Ming Dynasty's Dongchang Jinyiwei spies, but the authority is not as big as that of the family.

If you ask the people who know the most about the various officials and the big landlords and rich gentry in Chang'an City, they can really only be them.

"Gu Mancun, you go and find this bad handsome Qin Ruoshui to see me, the sooner the better!"

In addition to this, it occurred to him that there were other questions to ask.

Seeing that he was ordered to leave, he turned around and found that Lu Yan seemed to want to speak and stopped.

"Master Lu, but do you have anything to say?"

Lu Yan bowed, "Your Highness, Qin Ruoshui can indeed complete this task, but there is a family nearby that you need to go there in person!" ”

"Oh, is there anyone who dares to resist the decree?"

"I can't talk about resisting the will, but this person is a little special..."

For some reason, Li Jie always felt that this guy's tone was a little gloomy, and he was not like the rampaging man with a knife just now.

He was a little impatient,

"Literati are grinding, you just say who it is!"

Lu Yan looked at Li Jie and blinked vigorously, and said in his heart, "You seem to be a scholar too, right?"

But he immediately replied: "It's the former left envoy of the Privy Council, Xu Guogong Liu Xingshen!" ”

"Yo, it turned out to be this dead eunuch!"

Li Yi was able to sit on the dragon chair, and this person was as indispensable as Tian Lingzi.

Even if Tian Lingzi defeated him in the end, he still couldn't put him to death, and could only stare at him helplessly living under his nose.

According to Lu Yan, although Liu Xingshen was protected by Li Yi, he was always on guard against Tian Lingzi's assassins, and there were more than 300 private soldiers in the house, and he almost didn't go out of the door all day long.

"What about Han Wenyu?"

The corners of Lu Yan's mouth showed mockery,

"Five years ago, Han Wen told the old man to return to his hometown, and it is said that he was killed by mountain bandits halfway through."

Met bandits?

Believe it!

Combined with his own assassination the day before yesterday,

With his heels, he could guess that this was Tian Lingzi's handwriting.

Li Jie touched his chin and thought about it, turned over and said with a smile: "Since it's him, then the king really wants to go to the meeting in person!"