Luoyang, the main hall of Shangyang Palace.

An Lushan was like a trapped beast, roaring loudly in the main hall.

An Qingxu, An Shouzhong, Li Guiren, and Ashina Chengqing and other civilian and military generals were silent.

The reason why An Lushan was so angry was that Shi Siming, who was relied on by him as his arm, suffered a big defeat in Jiashan in Hebei Province, not to mention countless losses, and even took more than a dozen states in the central part of Hebei Province to rebel against Datang again, which directly cut the rebels' territory into two.

Now a huge problem has been placed in front of An Lushan.

Is it to continue to storm Tongguan? Or hurry up and surrender Yuyang?

An Lushan actually knows very well that there is no way out for Yuyang to surrender insurance.

Because the Youzhou domain alone is not enough to compete with the entire Tang Dynasty, whether it is manpower, material resources or financial resources, his only chance is to capture Chang'an and replace Li Tang.

Thinking of this, An Lushan hated Shi Siming even more.

An Qingxu, who had always been dissatisfied with Shi Siming, took the opportunity to fan the flames.

"Grandpa, Shi Siming is his intention, I heard that his elite soldiers did not participate in the war at all, he just wanted to give up the middle area of Hebei to the Shuofang army under Guo Shanyi, and then lead the army of Guo and Li to Henan Province to fight a decisive battle with us, so that he Shi Siming can preserve his strength."

"Shut up, Shi Siming is not such a person, I believe him."

An Lushan is actually already doubting Shi Siming's motives, but he will never show it in front of people, even his son An Qingxu can't, I have to say that An Lushan understands human nature.

After a pause, An Lushan asked An Qingxu again: "It's you, how did you do your business?" ”

"I'm about to report to Grandpa." An Qingxu hurriedly forked his hand and said, "My son has found an old hunter, saying that there is indeed a small road in the forbidden ditch to bypass Tongguan Guancheng, but even if Tongguan is bypassed, there are twelve cities on the mountain beam between the forbidden ditch and Tongshui, although most of these twelve cities are just small dungeons, but due to the steep terrain, it is extremely tricky to attack, and it is easy to suffer from the Tang army from Tongguan and Chang'an on both sides. ”

"Waste, this little thing can't be done." An Lushan reprimanded his son mercilessly.

This is also the cleverness of An Lushan's people, who will not reward their sons when they win battles, but will severely reprimand their sons when they suffer losses, so that they can give people a clear image of fairness.

Secretly, it will give An Qingxu a hint - you will succeed to the throne in the future.

Speaking of which, this hand is actually very clever, but An Lushan ignored a very important point, he is a Hu person, and his son An Qingxu is also a Hu person, who has never received Confucian education, and has never recognized the set of monarchs and ministers.

So after being reprimanded, An Qingxu didn't say anything, but he hated An Lushan very much in his heart.

An Lushan turned his gaze to An Shouzhong again: "Zhong'er, Ge Shuhan still refuses to go out?" ”

"Whoa." An Shouzhong sang with his fork in his hand, and said helplessly, "Cui Qianyou just sent someone to report, but Ge Shuhan is still cowering in Tongguan City and refuses to come out. ”

An Lushan frowned and said, "Let you send more old and weak, do you want to send them?" ”

"Back to Grandpa, it's all sent." An Shouzhong said, "The 7,000 people sent to fight outside Tongguan are all old and weak, but Ge Shuhan, the old pig and dog, was scared of being beaten, and would rather be scolded and shrunk than go out." ”

Hearing this, An Lushan couldn't help but scolded hatefully: "It's all to blame for the two dog thieves, Yan Zhuang and Noble." ”

An Lushan's cronies and intelligence agencies left in Chang'an were all in charge of Yan Zhuang and Gao Shang, but these two guys actually went to Chang'an to take the imperial examination because of an edict from Tang Ting, and as soon as they arrived in Chang'an, they denounced all his cronies, so that the intelligence agency he stayed in Chang'an was directly uprooted by Tang Ting.

So now there is no way to give Li Longji a hunger through internal response.

Otherwise, if you find a way to give Li Longji a greedy word, you will have a chance to let Li Longji issue an order to force Ge Shuhan to get out of the customs.

was discussing the matter, Sun Xiaozhe hurriedly walked in and forked his hand and said: "Jie Shuai, just now there were two more Han officials who wanted to run, and they happened to be bumped into by me, this will have been arrested, how to deal with it?" ”

"Let's go to the entrance of the vegetable market and cut it." An Lushan said angrily.

Ashina Chengqing said worriedly: "Jie Shuai, it's not a matter to go on like this. ”

An Lushan also felt that he couldn't go on like this, the current situation was already precarious, now it was only the Han officials who ran, and in a few days it should be the Hu officials who ran, and then it would be the turn of the generals to escape, and then it would be really a big deal, and Tang Ting only needed to send a team of Wuhou to capture him back to Chang'an.

At that moment, An Lushan said with a dark face: "Find some monks to spread the word, I want to be the emperor!" Country name - Dayan! ”

At present, only by ascending the throne and becoming emperor, and then rewarding the civilian and military generals under his command, can he reinvigorate the morale of the army, otherwise his hundreds of thousands of troops will soon collapse.

"Whoa!" Ashina Chengqing was overjoyed.

General An Shouzhong, Li Guiren and other generals were also overjoyed.

The happiest is An Qingxu, he is going to be the prince.

……

An Qingxu became the prince of Dayan, but his brother An Qingzong was beheaded by Li Longji.

Speaking of which, Li Longji has always had illusions about An Lushan, and always felt that An Lushan's rebellion was for a reason, and he didn't really want to oppose the Tang Dynasty.

And after An Lushan raised his troops, he only said that it was for the sake of Qingjun, which gave Li Longji room for reverie.

However, the news from Luoyang a few days ago completely shattered Li Longji's illusions, An Lushan, Hu Er, actually became the emperor in Luoyang and founded the country Dayan, which is simply unreasonable.

After receiving the report, Li Longji immediately ordered An Qingzong to be beheaded in Xishi for public display.

After beheading An Qingzong, Li Longji was still angry and determined to drive the expedition himself.

Yes, you read that right, the rebels were stagnant in Tongguan, and Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi were even more victorious in Hebei, so Li Longji felt that the Tang Dynasty was doing it again, so he wanted to drive the expedition in person and show Longwei.

Of course, the army of King Qin came from Jiannan, Shannan and the military states of Longyou Province to rush to King Qin.

By March of the 14th year of Tianbao, the total strength of the Qinwang army gathered near Chang'an had exceeded 100,000, of which 20,000 were still Uighur cavalry from the grassland.

That's right, in history, the Tang Dynasty only borrowed 4,000 soldiers.

But this time the Tang Dynasty did not borrow troops, but Hui sent 20,000 cavalry to King Qin.

Before the royal expedition, Li Longji also came to ask Lu Tianshi for advice in a fake way.

Lu Xiaoning did not try to dissuade or persuade Li Longji, what is the saying? You should never try to convince anyone, because you can't convince anyone.

Of course, Lu Xiaoning could also forcibly stop Li Longji in the name of the Heavenly Master.

However, considering that most of the people who gathered in Chang'an this time were Hu people from vassal states such as Hui, Qiang, Dangxiang, and Miyao, and these Hu people themselves had bad intentions, it was not so much King Qin as to spy on the truth.

Especially the 20,000 Hui light soldiers led by the Hui Ye Hu Prince, even more so.

So Lu Xiaoning didn't mind that these Hu people would suffer a big defeat with Li Longji.

After all, after these Hu people suffered defeat, the next step of integration would be smoother.

There is another reason, that is, the 200,000 Tubo people's army led by Li Siye has already reached Longxi, which is less than 1,000 miles away from Chang'an, and can be reached in ten days by a rapid march.

Therefore, Lu Xiaoning wanted to give An Lushan a shut-off and beat the dog.

Once Li Longji suffered a defeat in Luoyang, he asked Ge Shuhan to protect Li Longji and retreat to the old city of Hantongguan, allowing An Lushan's rebels to enter the pass from Tongguan.

When the rebels crossed Tongguan, Ge Shuhan led his army to dive down from the Tongguan plain and recapture Tongguan City.

At the same time, Li Siye's army had also reached Guanzhong and directly confronted An Lushan's rebels.

In this way, the rebels of An Lushan, let alone attacking Chang'an City, could not even loot the surrounding villages and towns.

At this time, the situation faced by the An Lushan rebels was that there were Chang'an Jiancheng and Li Siye's army in the front, Tongguan in the back was re-controlled by Geshuhan, Weishui and the Yellow River in the north, and Nanshan in the south, so once defeated, it was basically the end of the entire army, and there was no chance to escape.

As for whether the rebels will resist desperately after being cornered?

Lu Xiaoning was not worried at all, because he was Lu Tianshi.