Suiyang's wind and snow this year are still ravaging Zhang Xun's flesh and spirit, and Luoyang's wind and snow last year also frostbitten Feng Changqing's heart.

Facing the menacing army of An Lushan, listening to the news reported by the spies, Feng Changqing, who was in the eastern capital, couldn't wait to hit the wall with his head at this moment, I heard that there is an elixir in the world called "regret medicine", where is it sold, quickly weigh two catties to give me a taste!

"Because of the long period of peace, everyone is afraid of the rebels. However, things are going against the grain, the situation is changing, please go to Tokyo immediately, open the treasury, recruit bravery, and the handsome army will cross the Yellow River, and it will not take a few days to defeat the rebels, and take the head of An Lushan to present to the court! ”

It is this impassioned words, the emperor promised Feng Changqing Fan Yang, Pinglu two major festival envoys, although the confident Feng Changqing is good at using soldiers, but since there are only thousands of guards at the moment, he planned to recruit troops according to the government military system decades ago, so he ordered people to catch Zhuang Ding to catch a group of people, but these soldiers captured are all market gangsters and farm tools, and they are all hoes and farm tools on weekdays, and they are suddenly caught hard to hold a gun and a knife, not to mention wearing armor to kill the enemy, that is, many people until they go to the battlefield and die, their heads are still blinded" Why was it that I was farming at home, and suddenly I was arrested and became a soldier"? This kind of full number of soldiers is no longer the government soldiers of decades ago, although it looks like the base is huge, but if you want to fight with real knives and guns, how can you fight with the rebels. Feng Changqing's recruited soldiers are all white disciples, untrained, no combat effectiveness, his own family knows his own affairs, Feng Changqing, who has boasted of Haikou, can only lead his troops to camp in Wujiao City, do a good job of fortifications and be on guard, he is stationed outside Luoyang City, ready to resist the rebels. As for the defense of the inner city, it was handed over to the Turkic Bi Sichen who came first. Regret medicine is naturally not available, there is no way out except to fight at the moment, as for the benefactor Bian Lingcheng who recommended himself to the emperor, if he can get away with it, he will have to entertain him well.

Not surprisingly, on the eleventh day of the lunar month, the advance troops of Shang'an Lushan, the troops led by Feng Changqing were scattered and scattered, and the defeated troops were in Bishui, the rebel general Tian Chengsi charged with cavalry, and Feng Changqing deployed the infantry in a patchwork manner, one or two charged down, the Tang army was quickly defeated and fled, Feng Changqing could only collect the remnants of the army, and fought with the rebels in one breath, and was defeated.

After being dispersed for the third time, he fled back to Luoyang City with the remnants of his cronies. He can't leave the eastern capital of Luoyang, which is slaughtered, while arranging for his men and horses to continue to build fortifications, while sending his cronies to Shaanxi County for help, begging that the life-saving letter can be delivered to his good brother as soon as possible, if the transmission is correct, Gao Xianzhi will lead a large army to reinforce in a short time, he and Li Xianda, Xi Xun and others only need to hold on for a few more days, as long as Gao Xianzhi's army arrives, they will lead troops out of the city and attack inside and outside, and they should be able to contain Tian Chenghe's cavalry. It's a pity that things are not as good as Feng Changqing expected, his letter has not yet reached Shaanxi County, and An Lushan's army has already captured Luoyang City.

On the twelfth day of the lunar month, An Lushan fell into the eastern capital, the rebels clamored to attack from the four gates at the same time, the defenders of the city were embarrassed to use, and now the main backbone of Feng Changqing was beaten to the ground, in addition to him, the rest are civil officials such as Lu Yi, one and the other, the rebels tore open the door of Luoyang, along the way, the soldiers killed and plundered at will, Feng Changqing, who was unable to return to the sky, fought and retreated, and fled from Yuanxi again, this time it was no longer his letter to Shaanxi County, but he himself.

Henan Yin Da Xi Xun and the general Bi Sichen both surrendered to An Lushan, but civil officials such as Li Xin and Lu Yi in the imperial history who stayed in the eastern capital chose to repay the country with death. Though they were dead, they were still shouting:

"My generation has been favored by the imperial court, although I can't do it, but I should die for the country."

After the thieves entered the city, the two of them packed up hundreds of remnants, ready to fight with the rebels in the lanes of Luoyang City, the rebels claimed to have hundreds of thousands of people, at the moment there are tens of thousands of people who have entered the city, and they are all elites, these temporary patchwork integration of hundreds of people against those tens of thousands of people, it is simply vulnerable, the rebels are full of human blood steel knives chopped down, most of them are killed and fled, courage is one thing, strength is another.

Li Xin, who was desperately escorted home by his subordinates, was like his name at the moment, he was stunned and his heart was like ashes, and he dismissed those guards and sat alone in the mansion. Lu Yi also had the heart of death, he had earlier sent his wife to flee to Chang'an with a seal talisman from the trail, put on the royal royal clothes, and also sat alone in the imperial Taichung. An Lushan sent people to blast open their door, capturing Li Xin, Lu Yi and interviewing the judge Jiang Qing and others, facing An Lushan who persuaded him to surrender, Li Xi had no interest in talking, Lu Yi was scolding, counting An Lushan's crimes, and shouting to the rebels when he was dying:

"Whoever is a man should be a governor and be obedient, although I die, I will not lose my courtiership, what regret is there!"

Although An Lushan rewarded his loyalty, he was annoyed that he didn't know how to lift, and he could only kill them ruthlessly, and appointed Lu Yi's sworn friend Zhang Wanqing as Henan Yin, you don't look down on me, scold me, I will make your confidant and friend my official, you are dead, I will disgust you.

On the thirteenth day of the lunar month, in the face of An Lushan's army that captured Luoyang, Tokyo, Feng Changqing, who was defeated, had to lead the remnants to retreat to Shaanxi County, thinking that relying on the geographical advantages of Shaanxi County and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, maybe he could resist the enemy for a few days, who would have thought that Dou Tingzhi, the Taishou of Shaanxi County, had already fled to Hedong with his wife, concubines, children and grandchildren, wrapped in gold and silver treasures.

Fortunately, the hard-working Feng Changqing waited for his savior Gao Xianzhi, and the embarrassed Feng Changqing reported the battle situation to Gao Xianzhi, who came to garrison the place:

"Days of bloody battles, thieves can not be used, and there are no soldiers in Tongguan, if the rebels break through Tongguan, then Kyoto Chang'an is in danger, and there is no danger to defend the land of Guanshan, if you lead troops to station in Tongguan, and then resist the rebels according to the danger of Tongguan."

Although Gao Xianzhi has always looked down on this crippled man with a thin body and crooked mouth and slanted eyes, he also knows that Feng Changqing's battle is much more beautiful than his people, and he has been born and died side by side for more than ten years, he has a few catties and taels, and he can still weigh it, and now after listening to Feng Changqing's detailed report, he knows that what he said is true, and immediately decided to temporarily avoid the enemy's edge and retreat to Tongguan, Luoyang City has been lost, Tongguan can not be lost again, otherwise the old faces of the two people really have no place to hide!

Gao Xianzhi accepted Feng Changqing's opinion, he ordered to open the warehouse in the city of Shaanxi County, gave all the treasures of the cloth in the warehouse to the soldiers, and set fire to everything that could not be taken away, strategically abandoned Shaanxi County, and led the troops to retreat to Tongguan. Who would have thought that Cui Qianyou, who was not addicted to killing in Luoyang City, would resist the desire to loot, and rushed to Shaanxi County with elite cavalry. Gao Xianzhi Feng Changqing, who was pursued by the rebels, was taken aback, and the official army was crushed at the first touch.

The Tang army, which had lost thousands of lives, finally retreated to Tongguan, and Gao Xianzhi, who had not yet breathed his breath, immediately reorganized his troops, repaired and strengthened the garrison, especially beware of the cavalry on the opposite side, relying on the terrain to resist according to the danger. Later, he issued a military order, saying that there would be a large army of the imperial court to help him in the near future, and his morale gradually rose. An Lushan rushed Cui Qianyou to lead his troops to arrive, and for a while he couldn't gnaw at Tongguan, which was dangerous, and could only retreat to Shaanxi County. An Lushan then instructed his subordinate general Cui Qianyou to lead his troops to be stationed in Shaanxi County, and as for the surrounding counties of Linru, Hongnong, Jiyin, Puyang, and Yunzhong, many of them did not wait for the rebels' horseshoe to arrive, and they had already opened the city gate and surrendered to An Lushan.

Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, who were cowering in Tongguan, drank stuffy wine, thinking about the big and small battles of their lives, when they were so aggrieved, only others avoided them, where would there be a time to hide from others, this time this heel is planted, An Lushan is really not easy to deal with, hasty, you must know that this is the result, how can they not wade into this troubled water, and now there is no way to retreat, they can only discuss countermeasures while wiping away the tears of regret.

An Lushan is enjoying life, while sending people from all walks of life to continue to attack, he wants to be the emperor, and he has to be the emperor who is bigger than Chang'an City. I didn't dare to think about it before, but since I got those warlocks, he feels that the way of heaven is on his side, and I can also be the son of heaven, and the emperor will take turns to sit and come to my house this year.

An Lushan's beautiful emperor's dream is happy, but there are so many people who stir up the harmony that makes An Lushan very unhappy, one is called Guo Ziyi, and the other is called Yan Gaoqing, these two people especially make An Lushan angry, and they are so hot that they can't wait to eat their flesh and blood.

Guo Ziyi is a very fierce person, his father is Shouzhou Assassin Guo Jingzhi, Guo Ziyi joined the army in the early years with martial arts, you must know that the Chinese martial arts can be several times or even ten times more difficult than the Chinese lift, after the An Lushan rebellion, the emperor let this "idler" who was still in the period of filial piety take An Sishun's place, and Guo Ju, who was reused, was extremely fierce, a sixty-year-old man, he actually led the men and horses to fight, and the soldiers fought bravely, Lian Po Huang Zhong, but that's it. Guo Ziyi, who got on the horse, first killed the rebel general Zhou Wanqing, An Lushan sent the Datong army to make Gao Xiuyan enter the Kou Zhenwu army, and did not want to be defeated by Guo Ziyi again. An Lushan deployed Datong soldiers and horses to make Xue Zhongyi into the Koujing border army, Guo Ziyi sent the left soldiers and horses to make Li Guangbi, the right soldiers and horses to make Gao Jun, the left Wufeng to make Gu Huaien, the right Wufeng to make Hun Shizhi and so on to attack head-on, the Quartet of men and horses fought bravely, Xue Zhongyi's men and horses killed seven or eight thousand, followed by the siege of the clouds, the faction Gongsun Qiongyan led 2,000 cavalry to attack Mayi, and also successfully took it, Kaidong Pass. On the nineteenth day of the lunar month of this year, Xuanzong received these good news, and he was very appreciative of Guo Ziyi's appointment as the imperial historian for his merits.

"If Guo Ziyi, who resisted the frontal battlefield, cut some of An Lushan's meat, then Yan Gaoqing, who was in the rear, cut off An Lushan's arm, An Lushan's flesh is thick, and if you cut a little, you can grow back quickly, but if you break your arm, you can't regenerate."

In the snowy night, Mo Sheng took a sip of wine and sighed:

"I haven't seen Yan Gaoqing in this life, but I hope to meet in the next life!"

Zhang Xun had heard of Yan Gaoqing, but he was not familiar with it, Mo Sheng mentioned it, and he also wanted to know what kind of person could make Mo Sheng such a free and easy person so regretful. He picked up the wine jug and refilled a glass of wine to Mo Sheng, two people, you talk and I listen, I tell you what you hear, analyzing the entire battle situation and planning the future of Suiyang.

As for the snow slowly stopped, Tiangong seemed to be happy to hear it, and he forgot to continue to fall snow, looking at the two people in the broken house, poking his head out and listening to the commentary.

"Twenty-four counties, none of them are righteous?"

This is the emotion of Emperor Li Sanlang after hearing the report of Hebei County on the movement of the rebels. The momentum of the rebellion slowly exceeded the emperor's expectations, from the initial misinformation and unbelief, to the later inconsequential, until he saw the secret report of Yan Zhenqing, the plain guard, Emperor Xuanzong did not know that the snowball of An Lushan seemed to be rolling bigger and bigger.

"Who is Yan Zhenqing?"

A small role like Yan Zhenqing is naturally not worthy of the emperor's eyes, although the Langya Yan family is located in the Longxing land of the Sima family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but the Yan family is neither high nor low, it is the ceiling in the eyes of the people, and it is a big road commodity in the eyes of the emperor. Yan Zhenqing is from a prominent background, but he has no father at a young age, and he is not worried about eating and drinking in a big family, but after all, he has no father, which has also created his young and old, diligent and hard-working quality. In the twenty-second year of the opening of the Tang Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing ascended to the rank of Jinshi, and then successively served as the supervisor of the imperial history and the imperial history in the palace. Later, because he offended the powerful minister Yang Guozhong, he was demoted to Pingyuan Taishou, and his officialdom colleagues called him "Yan Pingyuan".

Before An Lushan rebelled, this Yan Pingyuan had already noticed that An Lushan would rebel sooner or later, so he took advantage of the heavy rain to repair the city and dig trenches, recruit dead soldiers and strong men, enrich the granary, reserve ordnance and baggage, and act secretly in his own county town to prepare for the war in advance.

An Lushan is no better than Tang Xuanzong, he knows Yan Zhenqing, after all, if you want to rebel, you can't do any less homework in the early stage, there are too many examples of losing all the games without noticing, and he is as meticulous as An Lushan, but he can't allow himself to make any mistakes. The Qin people have no time to mourn themselves, and future generations mourn them, he understands this truth.

Although Yan Zhenqing is only a small plain guard, and the wind and waves are not big, it is better to plan early than to be in a hurry before the battle. In An Lushan's database, Yan Zhenqing is a scholar, it is said that the ancestor is Yan Hui, the head of the seventy-two sages of Confucius, and the great-grandfather and father of Gaozu are all officials of the Li Tang Dynasty, but in addition to his good background, good knowledge, good character, good handwriting, and good to his mother, as for his marching and fighting skills, he is not enough to take to heart. Until An Lushan really rebelled, he directly gave Yan Zhenqing an ultimatum, not only asking him to surrender to himself, but also ordering him to lead 7,000 troops from Pingyuan and Boping to defend the Yellow River crossing. Yan Zhenqing got an ultimatum and knew that An Lushan had finally turned against him, so he was in a relationship with the thieves, and generally sent Li Ping, a soldier from the plains, to expedite the eight hundred miles, and set off on a starry night to broadcast the news to the imperial court.

Yan Zhenqing sent out the report was the first detailed report of the war received by the imperial court, Xuanzong read the report, only to know that after An Lushan rebelled, there was no one in Hebei counties who dared to resist, until Li Ping arrived at the imperial court, Xuanzong was overjoyed:

"Although Lone doesn't know what Yan Zhenqing looks like, he may be a righteous man with such a move!"

Yan Zhenqing, who was in Pingyuan City, naturally didn't know that the emperor on top praised him so much, he only knew that the war was tense and urgent, and then he sent his relatives and guests to secretly buy thieves' ultimatums, and then borrowed these ultimatums to come to the counties of Hebei, and united the counties to raise troops in various places.

An Lushan, who captured Luoyang, Tokyo, chose to stay in this prosperous and prosperous big city, he sent the general Cui Qianyou to troops in Shaanxi County, and Gao Xianzhi's Tang army held each other in Tongguan, and Zhang Tongyu, the younger brother of Zhang Tongru, was the Taishou of Suiyang, and Chen Liuchang Shi Yang Chaozong led more than 1,000 Hu cavalry rebels to the east to attack the city. As a result, those who did not want to attach the thieves in all counties raised troops to capture the thieves in the name of Li Yi, the king of Wu.

Among them, Jia Ben, the county lieutenant of the single father, has practiced martial arts since he was a child, has a strong blood, and is a sincere person, and he is eager to eat the traitor An Lushan alive, and he is also full of scolding for those dogs and lackeys under his hands, so he personally led the officials in the county town of the single father and the sect to attack the Suiyang rebels in the south, and killed the Suiyang Taishou Zhang Tongyu appointed by An Lushan. The rebel general Li Tingwang was preparing to move eastward, and when he heard the news, he was afraid that he would be taken by those people in the rivers and lakes who did not want to die, so he did not dare to go east, and began to pretend to be sick and grind foreign workers.

Yan Zhenqing, the Taishou of the Plains, issued an order to recruit warriors to fight against the thieves, and received a response from more than 10,000 people in a few days, so he publicly announced that he would raise troops to attack An Lushan, and the soldiers were indignant. An Lushan, who took Luoyang, Tokyo, was to deter the rebellion of the Hebei counties, and sent his subordinates to proclaim the heads of Li Xin, Lu Yi, and Jiang Qing to every county in Hebei. On the seventeenth day of the lunar month, Duan Ziguang's demonstration team came to Pingyuan County, Yan Zhenqing is not those soft bones, it is unbearable, he led people to capture Duan Ziguang, stripped him naked and beheaded him to show the public, Duan Ziguang never dreamed that he would really be light when he arrived in the plain. After killing Duan Ziguang and his party, Yan Zhenqing took out the heads of the three righteous men killed in Luoyang, Li Lu and Jiang, continued to bury them in a coffin, and then cried and was hanged, firstly, to comfort the heroic souls of the three heroes, and secondly, to gather people's hearts and boost morale.

As soon as An Lushan's side made Liu Daoxuan a puppet of Jingcheng by sea, he was killed by Jia Zai, the lieutenant of Qingchi County, who was loyal to Li Tang, and Mu Ning, the lieutenant of Yanshan County, who were loyal to Li Tang, and killed Liu Daoxuan not only later, but also captured more than 50 ships, and then the two took Liu Daoxuan's dog head to meet Li Wei, the elder historian. Li Wei was naturally loyal to the Li family, he sent someone to take the important courtiers under An Lushan's tent, Yan Zhuang's clan, and killed them one after another on the school field in front of all the defenders, and sent someone to send Liu Daoxuan's head to Yan Zhenqing's Pingyuan County on the same day. Yan Zhenqing then summoned Jia Zai, Mu Ning, and Zhang Tang, the lieutenant of Qinghe County, to Pingyuan County to discuss the fight against the rebels.

At the same time, Raoyang Taishou Lu Quancheng took the city to fight against An Lushan, Hejian Judicial Li Huan killed Shi Wang Huaizhong, the director of An Lushan, and Jinan Taishou Li Sui sent his Youyi general Zi Sixian to cross the Yellow River to kill An Lushan's Boping Taishou Ma Ji, each with thousands or tens of thousands of soldiers, and for a time jointly promoted Yan Zhenqing as the leader of the alliance, and the military unity was under his command to jointly fight against the rebels. An Lushan heard that Yan Zhenqing, a small fish, had made such a big splash, so he sent his general Zhang Xiancheng to lead more than 10,000 soldiers from Shanggu, Boling, Changshan, Zhaojun and Wen'an to besiege Raoyang and fight against the forces of Yan Zhenqing and others.

Yan Zhenqing's side is about to come in a storm, and his brother's side is about to have a bloody storm.