Chang'an, Daming Palace, Xuanzheng Palace.

Wu Zetian once again convened the ministers to discuss the retreat from the enemy, and the officials from the family were ready to welcome Li Jing into Chang'an.

The officials from the poor family quarreled over how to resist Li Jing's army.

Some people advocate re-activating Lou Shide to resist the rebels, and some people oppose the use of Lou Shide, the reason is that the 100,000 elites of the Lantian Army were buried by Lou Shide, how can such a person be enabled, use Lou Shide to defend Chang'an, and Chang'an will definitely fall into the hands of the rebels.

In the eyes of many people, such remarks are groundless, but some people disagree, they think that Lou Shide is indeed at fault, but the crime is not to death!

Lou Shide has made outstanding achievements, and has repelled foreign invasions many times, if Lou Shide is allowed to defend Chang'an, Chang'an still has a trace of possibility to hold, so he resolutely asks Lou Shide to be a guard.

"No, Lou Shide lost 100,000 elites in Lantian, how can he use it again?"

"That's right! It is not that there are no generals who can fight well, if you continue to keep him, I am afraid that Chang'an will also fall, and when the time comes, the rebels will attack Chang'an, how can the princes deal with themselves? ”

"In this way, let's use Tang Xiujing! Tang Xiujing is also a distinguished war, and has resisted Turkic invasions many times, so he should have no problem coming to guard Chang'an. ”

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Controversy abounded, I don't know when, most of the officials from poor families in the court supported Tang Xiujing to be a guard, and they firmly believed that Tang Xiujing was the most suitable to be a guard.

Tang Xiujing is indeed a distinguished battle, compared with Lou Shide, Tang Xiujing is better at defense, and it is indeed more appropriate to let Tang Xiujing guard Chang'an than to let Lou Shide guard Chang'an.

In the end, after discussion, coupled with the tense situation, Wu Zetian decided to use Tang Xiujing, who had the highest voice, as the commander, and was fully responsible for the defense and combat deployment of Chang'an City.

Tang Xiujing took over this great task and asked Wu Zetian to pardon Lou Shide, he needed the assistance of a general like Lou Shide to be more confident in defeating the rebels.

"You want me to pardon Lou Shide?"

Wu Zetian frowned and asked.

With Lou Shide's loss of 100,000 troops in Lantian, it is not an exaggeration to behead the capital at this point, how can it be easily pardoned.

"God Emperor, General Lou has experienced a hundred battles, defeated the Tibetans and Turks many times, and has a wealth of battles, if we want to defeat the rebels, we can't just hide in the city."

"Once the city is broken, we will lose completely, if we want to defeat the rebels, we must find an opportunity to fight the rebels to the death, General Lou is better at this than me."

"Now is the time to employ people, why doesn't the God Emperor let General Lou make meritorious contributions, I can only hope to win if I cooperate with General Lou!"

Tang Xiujing saluted.

He knows his strengths and weaknesses, and Lou Shide can just make up for his shortcomings, and the two of them cooperate with each other, and they will play a greater effect than one plus one.

This is also the reason why he strongly asked Wu Zetian to pardon Lou Shide.

Without Lou Shide's cooperation, he Tang Xiujing alone would not be able to defend Chang'an at all.

At this time, Cui Xiang, the squire of the military department, stood up:

"General Tang, Lou Shide lost 100,000 troops in less than a day, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not have two hearts for the God Emperor, no one is sure whether Lou Shide colludes with the rebels, and if he opens the city and lets the rebels in, he will suffer!"

Tang Xiujing shook his head:

"Lou Shide has a noble character, to put it bluntly, even if I and everyone here surrender to the enemy, Lou Shide will never do such a thing!"

Cui Xiang was stunned!

Isn't this just referring to Sang scolding Huai, saying that he Cui Xiang spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain?

Tang Xiujing continued:

"Now that the rebels are coming to the city of Chang'an, Chang'an is now in no danger to defend, once the rebels attack the city, how long can they hold it?"

Manchu was silent.

For Tang Xiujing's words, they couldn't answer, if the rebels attacked the city, how long could they hold out?

It's really hard to talk about this topic, but according to the previous offensive and defensive battles in the Eastern Capital, it's great to be able to hold on for one day!

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you agree to pardon Lou Shide?"

Wu Zetian said.

The minister kept silent, and only the officials from the aristocratic gate lords opposed it, and they all felt that letting Lou Shide come out would not only not be able to hold Chang'an, but it was very likely that as soon as he was released, he would immediately open the city to attract rebels into the city.

Their purpose is not to hope that Wu Zetian can win, they have already prepared to open the city gate to welcome Li Jing's army into the city, anyway, there are their sons and nephews in the army in Chang'an City.

When the time comes, just let their sons and nephews open the city gate and welcome the king into the city, and then, they will instantly turn against and overthrow the rule of the God Emperor.

The officials of the Hanmen supported the pardon of Lou Shide, after all, once Chang'an fell, those of them who were attached to Wu Zetian would be liquidated, especially Lai Junchen and others, who did not want the hard-won high-ranking officials Houlu to lose.

In the midst of the noise in the court, Wu Zetian closed his eyes.

She felt deep despair, and couldn't help but think of Tang Gaozong, what would he do if he encountered such a situation?

and the despair of the strength gap between the rebels outside the city.

She originally thought that Li Jing's rebellion was nothing, and she only needed to send a general to lead the troops, and she would soon be able to put down Li Jing's rebellion.

But he did not expect that not only did he not succeed in quelling the rebellion, but he was beaten to the point of exhaustion by the rebels.

After some consideration and careful consideration, Wu Zetian decided to eliminate all difficulties, and finally decided to pardon Lou Shide's crimes, use Lou Shide again, and let Lou Shide assist Tang Xiujing to guard Chang'an, waiting for King Qin's division to enter King Qin.

After retreating from the dynasty, Wu Sansi chased him to the harem and said to Wu Zetian that in order to prevent someone from defecting to the rebels, open the door to the rebels at a critical moment, and first remove the clan gate lords from the army, especially the matter of defending the city gate, and hand it over to their Wu family.

Wu Zetian agreed to Wu Sansi's proposal, turned all the people in the army into civilian officials, stayed away from the army, and arranged the Wu family to enter the army.

Wu Zetian sent a lot of distress documents to all parties in the four seas in one day, most of which fell into the hands of Li Jing, Li Jing ignored this, he also wanted to take this opportunity to see who else in the world would respond to Wu Zetian's call.

The documents sent by Wu Zetian have all been lost, and at this time, no one will be stupid enough to continue to support Wu Zetian, unless there is a miracle, they will be able to reconsider, whose side should they be on!

The officials who received Wu Zetian's request for help immediately sent these documents to Li Jing, and by the way, he expressed his loyalty to Li Jing to the Tang Dynasty, as long as the King of Qin needed it, they could raise a knife to kill the enemy at any time.

Li Jing didn't pay attention to these wall grasses, just let them manage the place.

Without foreign aid, sticking to Chang'an is just delaying and waiting for death, Wu Zetian knows that the people in the world are unreliable, so he can only pin his last hope on Tang Xiujing and Lou Shide.