"Go to bed early and wake up early, take care of your body! Go to bed early and wake up early, take care of your body! ”

The husband's bangs and shouts penetrated in this cold winter night, cutting through time and space, and drifting far away.

"It's ...... the fifth watch"

The second lady, who was covered in snow, raised her head indifferently, she reached out to wipe away the tears that were about to overflow, and the cuffs had formed hard ice because of the snow and tears, sliding over her cheeks and hurting people, but compared to the hurtful ice and snow, Zhang Xun's reprimand was the cold that penetrated into the bones, making her breathless and broken.

returned to the mansion in despair, choked up for a while and was dazed for a while, and the second lady didn't know when, so she fell asleep so shallowly on the table.

Zhang Xun in the thatched hut didn't pay any attention to his own woman, he went back to the broken house, put down the things in his hand, sat down cross-legged, and continued to be angry inexplicably. Mo Sheng was not easy to persuade, firstly, the two were not too familiar, and secondly, they really couldn't speak, so they had to sit down cross-legged and open the fragrant food box.

In the food box are beautiful and delicious dim sum dishes, a total of eight kinds, all of which are contained in white disks, colorful and green, and the appearance alone makes people appetize. Although Mo Sheng is not good at tongue desire, but in such a weather, looking at these colorful and warm delicacies, he is also happy in his heart, those hot air with the fragrance of oil steaming up, straight to Mo Sheng's heart, Mo Sheng couldn't help but praise:

"Mrs. Zhang is really virtuous and helpful, it is really God's love to be able to take care of Master Zhang with such a good person, God's love!"

Zhang Xun looked at the dishes on the table, all of which he liked on weekdays, and then listened to Mo Sheng's emotion, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have made a big mistake just now. The food made by his wife holding up the lamp came even more in the wind and snow and the severe cold, but because of the "Lingbao War", he inadvertently sprinkled all his indignation on his wife, he thought of his second wife's rather stingy thoughts, and he was also a little ashamed and restless at the moment. Mo Sheng saw Zhang Xun's embarrassment, and knew that this person was afraid of being like himself, and he was also quite afraid of his wife. Mo Sheng doesn't make fun of it, the man's husband, because he has preference, he will be afraid. Mo Sheng can deeply understand the truth, only if he loves you, he is afraid of you, he is afraid of your suffering, he is afraid that you are tired, he is afraid that he is wronged, and he is afraid that you don't care.

The bamboo basket brought by the second lady is full of delicacies, and the one-foot-high bamboo tube is naturally filled with fine wine. The aroma of wine was smelled by Mo Sheng before the second lady arrived at the hut, and just by smelling that smell, he knew that this was Du Kang, who was not changed.

Du Kang wine is the world's famous wine, the spring water of making Du Kang wine is called Jiuquan, the wine spring water is clear and clear, the taste is sweet and pure, every summer, you can smell a natural wine spring fragrance. Du Kang wine is rich in aroma, the winemaker uses high-quality Guanzhong wheat to harvest high and medium temperature mixture, and selects glutinous sorghum as the raw material for winemaking, and takes "fragrant mud to seal the cellar, low temperature into the pool, long-term fermentation, mixed steaming and continuation, quantity and quality of wine, graded storage, aging esterification, careful blending" these techniques to brew, the wine pot in front of you has not yet been taken out, just smell its taste to know that it is absolutely the top grade, should be the second take of the wine, more than 25 years of aging.

"Good wine, good wine, don't change it! Hahaha".

Looking at this yellowish elixir, Mo Sheng had already disregarded any etiquette, poured himself a bowl first, drank it, and the aftertaste of the wine was endless, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed at the moment, slapping the table and laughing.

Zhang Xun was infected by Mo Sheng's pride, and he also let go of the little regret in his heart, and then laughed. He is not a cultivator, in this icy and snowy place, the wine is still warmed with charcoal fire to drink more comfortably, and at the moment while tasting the wine, he set up a small charcoal stove, while feeling more guilty about his incomprehensible feelings, and wasting his wife's thoughtfulness. After a while, the wine was already warm, Mo Sheng took the warm wine from Zhang Xunjing, drank a glass, and felt that it was not as enjoyable as ice.

"Mr. Mo, General Wang Sili is in front, General Pang Zhong is leading the army to follow, and the commander Ge Shuhan is supervising the army to chase after them, so cautious and cautious advance, I really can't figure out why the rebels still shed these thousands of lives in vain, what are their plans?"

The two continued the conversation just now, and Zhang Xun raised his own questions. Mo Sheng took another drink, and after admiring a good wine, he put down the wine glass, retracted his thoughts, and slowly answered Zhang Xun's question.

"Cui Qianyou has been planning in Lingbao for a few months, before the decisive battle, he hid the elite soldiers behind the battle, and only sent more than 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers to take prisoners, and the formation was chaotic, some were sparse and some were dense, some were front and some were behind, and the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty laughed at the rebels when they saw it. Seeing that the rebels were small and full of rabble, Geshuhan forgot his original intention and ordered the whole army to attack. The armies were given the order and attacked on all fronts. The cavalry in front of the Tang Dynasty cut melons and vegetables to harvest the heads of the rebels, and the enemy retreated, and I entered hundreds of miles, and finally entered the pass, which was lined with cliffs on both sides. The Tang army marched all the way, almost did not encounter decent resistance, and it was inevitable to relax, so it was lured into the pass by the rebels head by head, and the Tang army and horse battle line at this time pulled out a hundred miles, and nearly more than 200,000 horses were advancing on this pass. ”

"Oh, that's too bad!"

Knowing that the result was a fiasco in an ambush, Zhang Xun couldn't help but sigh. Mo Sheng didn't say anything, took a drink, and continued to talk about the battle situation after that.

Just when the cavalry of the front army continued to harvest the rebels, the main general Wang Sili inexplicably felt an ominous sign, he hurriedly reined in his horse and watched, at this moment he suddenly heard the sound of cannons on all sides, and countless rolling logs and stones on the mountains on both sides of the pass fell like hailstones, and the wood and stones were thrown down together. Because the battle line of the Tang army was too long, there was no room for turnover on the narrow pass, and the falling rocks and rolling logs carried the power of the terrain, falling like raindrops, and dozens of catties of heavy objects rolled down from the middle of the mountain, opening the mountain and cracking the stones, and the officers and soldiers of flesh and blood were killed and wounded one after another, and many were directly smashed into flesh and mud, and the entire army was suddenly attacked and was in a dilemma. Cui Qianyou led his troops around to the north of the Yellow River and flanked Ge Shuhan's own soldiers. The rebels built dozens of felt carts, painted dragons and tigers, and drove horses to attack the enemy's battle formation. Ge Shuhan himself personally led his own soldiers to kill from Gaofu and intercept the rebels' approach, but he didn't want the felt carts, cattle and horses to be frightened by those monsters that turned into dragons and tigers, and the formation was in chaos. Ge Shuhan, who was hit hard, saw that the general situation was not good, and even fell out in a faint move. The rebels realized that the plan had succeeded, so they used straw carts against the felt carts, accumulated grass on the road, set fire to the wind, dozens of lit straw carts were pushed down the valley, the flames burned the sky, the wind was fierce, the smoke was flying, the felt carts were burned, the time was as dark as night, the two armies could not be identified, the Tang army generals had to shout loudly to order their troops to line up and release arrows indiscriminately, and for a time the bows and crossbows were fired indiscriminately. The soldier's eyes were confused by the black smoke, he only knew how to shoot with a bow, but he didn't want the arrows to fly wildly, and many of them fell on his own heads. Tianxiao, Fang knew that the rebels had retreated early, so the Tang army hurriedly collected its troops and retreated, and because of the narrow road in the eastern part of the country, it was not conducive to retreating. Seeing that the time had come, Cui Qianyou, the commander of the rebel army, ordered the elite cavalry of Tongluo to detour back to the back of the Tang army from the valley in the south to kill them. At this time, under the front and rear attacks, the Tang army could not exert the power of the large number of people at all, and they were in a mess, scattered and fled for their lives, and tens of thousands of people fell into the Yellow River and drowned, and the cry of despair was earth-shattering. In order to escape for their lives, the Tang army on the Yellow River scrambled to squeeze onto the grain carriers, and due to overloading, almost all of the hundreds of grain ships sank to the bottom of the Yellow River. The remaining Tang troops had no choice but to tie up their ordnance together, use guns as oars, and row to the other side of the Yellow River, and in the end only one-tenth of the soldiers landed on the shore. There were originally three trenches dug outside Tongguan City, both two zhang wide and one zhang deep, originally to block the rebel cavalry, but they didn't want this to become a pit for their own people. The panicked Tang army fell into these trenches, and before they could get up, they were trampled down by the people behind them, and they were trampled into meat cakes by their own people. Seeing this, Ge Shuhan urgently ordered more than 100 horsemen under his command to rush to Shouyang Mountain, and then crossed west to Tongjin Station, issued a notice to collect the scattered soldiers, and after the Tang soldiers who fled in all directions entered the customs, Ge Shuhan counted the number of people, 200,000 troops, only more than 8,000 people remained. ”

"This ...... This...... This ......"

Zhang Xun "this" for a long time, he really couldn't think of a better expression of words, and he didn't expect that Tongguan, who had been holding on for half a year, and Ge Shuhan, a generation of famous generals with more than 400,000 yuan, would lose so hastily. He can accept the battle between the two armies, fighting to the death for days and nights, or he can accept the fierce siege of the rebels, but he can't accept hundreds of thousands of people being hung around like fish.

"Ge Shuhan is a famous general in vain, and he can venture into such an ambush and danger without exploring thoroughly, it is really a disaster for one person, and millions of people will suffer!"

Zhang Xun was furious, gritting his teeth and scolding. Mo Sheng listened to him scolding, knowing that he was angry at the moment, and it was not easy to persuade him.

"Wang Sili is also a waste rice bucket, didn't any of the spies and scouts sent out find the abnormality of the thieves' ambush! Towering mountains for thousands of miles, to have such a large layout, you can't hide it from everyone! ”

Mo Sheng didn't know how to answer, if there was really a spy who had insight into the thief's calculations, An Neng would have this big defeat. It's just that even Mo Sheng himself doesn't know, there are not a few people who have seen An Qingxu, Cui Qianyou and others move, tens of thousands of people have been camping in the mountains for several months, burning mountains and breaking rocks, repairing canals and changing water, and cutting wood, how can no one know, there is no impermeable thing in the world. It's just that Cui Qianyou has grasped the matter of secrecy recently, and almost half of his strength is guarding it to the death, those mortals who see that something is wrong have been wiped out, and those who are not mortals are high and high, because of the difference between immortals and mortals, it is inconvenient to meddle in this red dust fetters, so they can only watch from the wall. These outsiders who practice in the deep mountains have been far away from the world for an unknown number of years, more things are better than less things, and it is not easy to practice, so why bother to trouble themselves.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Ge Shuhan cleaned up the remnants of the defeated army and re-held the pass, thinking about continuing to deal with the rebels. The rebels rested for a while, and the rolling torrent of momentum rushed towards the Tang army. Seeing that the general was gone, the general Huo Turen and others promoted by Ge Shuhan made up their minds to surrender. He said to Geshuhan:

"The thief is the thief, please get on the horse."

After Geshuhan got on his horse, Huoba Guiren said:

"The public abandoned it with 200,000 people in a battle, what face will you see the Son of Heaven again! And don't you see Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqinghu? Please go east today! ”

At this moment, Ge Shuhan knew the intentions of his subordinates, and he naturally resisted, but the general trend was gone, and Huo Ba Guiren did not wait for him to hesitate, and ordered his cronies to ride with him, tied Ge Shuhan's feet to the belly of the horse, and escorted him to the east together with other generals who refused to surrender. At this time, the rebel general Tian Qianzhen arrived, Huoba Guiren surrendered, dozens of Tang army generals were sent to Luoyang, Tongguan fell in this way, and Chang'an was in danger visible to the naked eye.

Besides, the Tang Marshal Ge Shuhan who was tied to Luoyang by his subordinates, An Lushan was very excited after hearing that his subordinates had captured Ge Shuhan alive, and he ordered someone to take Ge Shuhan to his dormitory, and sat on the dragon chair and laughed proudly at Ge Shuhan:

"You've always looked down on me in the past, how are you doing now?"

Ge Shuhan, who suffered such a fiasco, had no heroic courage at this time, he was pulled off his spine and knelt down in front of An Lushan, lying on the ground to apologize, he only wanted to be able to survive a cheap life, and cried and said to An Lushan:

"I don't know Your Majesty with the naked eye, so much so. His Majesty is the Lord of Chaos, and the destiny of Heaven returns. Li Guangbi is in Tumen, Lai Yao is in Henan, and Lu Jiong is in Nanyang, and I will recruit them for Your Majesty, so that I can pacify the Tang army of the three parties in one fell swoop. ”

An Lushan was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately made this traitor's survival Ge Shuhan a commonplace, but ordered someone to drag the fire down and behead it to show the public, so as to show favor to Ge Shuhan.

"Could it be that all the generals under Ge Shuhan in the past are such traitors without a king and a father! Are they all willing to collude with Ge Shuhan and leave a stench for 10,000 years! ”

Zhang Xun cursed Ge Shuhan angrily, and also asked about the battle situation behind him.

"The world is naturally not all cowards like Ge Shuhan, those generals and officials who received Ge Shuhan's letter of persuasion, most of them replied to scold him for not dying for the country, and losing the dignity of the minister of the country, An Lushan originally pointed out that the old thing could be of some use, but he didn't want to backfire, and was disappointed, so he imprisoned Ge Shuhan in the Luoyang Forbidden Garden, and waited until he attacked Chang'an City and slaughtered the heavens in front of the Son of Heaven."

Putting aside the position of the second army of the Tang rebellion, from the strategic analysis alone, the battle of Lingbao was a typical ambush war, the Tang emperor misjudged the situation, was in a hurry, refused to take the policy of guarding the key dangers, long-lasting fatigue of the enemy, and waiting for the opportunity to attack, and prematurely ordered Ge Shuhan to go out of the pass to counterattack, resulting in the loss of both men and land, making the counterinsurgency war take a sharp turn. And the thief general Cui Qianyou was sharp and sharp, although he used human life as a bait to be angry with the gods, but the purpose of luring the Tang army to abandon the danger and go to war was indeed achieved, and at the time of the decisive battle, he pretended to be invincible and wanted to escape, luring the Tang army into the ambush circle, so that Ge Shuhan suffered an unprecedented defeat in his life, and his reputation as a victorious general was also in vain. ”

Mo Sheng's words were concise and to the point, summarizing the battle of Lingbao in which hundreds of thousands of people participated, leaving only Inspector Zhang with a look of chagrin on his face.

"Yes, in the first battle of Lingbao, His Majesty the Ming Emperor was anxious for quick success, Yang Guozhong was misleading, Ge Shuhan was inconsiderate, Cui Qianyou was scheming, Tongguan was lost, and the will of heaven was so!"

After a long time, Zhang Xun sighed to the sky, but these words sounded a bit evasive to Mo Sheng, and he was still a somewhat foolish and loyal Confucian in the end. Anyone with a discerning eye can know that the defeat of Tongguan, to put it mildly, is all the fault of the emperor Lao'er alone, if he is not suspicious, he will not be able to enter An Lushan for a hundred years. Now Zhang Xun knows all the cause and effect, but he still has to defend the emperor for three points, which is really unwise!

"Master Zhang is really a delicate person!"

Listening to Mo Sheng's slightly sarcastic words, Zhang Xun could taste the disagreement, but as a loyal and patriotic Confucian scholar, even if the emperor made all kinds of mistakes, he could not be arrogant, so he could only try his best to tinker, which is why the rebels had such a rolling situation, but he Zhang Xun still chose to go head-on, no matter whether the ending was a grasshopper shaking the tree or overcoming thorns, he always did not regret it.

"I would like to advise the generals to be careful not to learn from Geshu."

This may be the only lesson that Zhang Xun can sum up from the battle of Lingbao.

"Since the loss of Tongguan on the ninth day of the first lunar month, Chang'an has become an undefended city. However, for the sake of prudence, the suspicious An Lushan did not immediately attack Chang'an, but ordered Cui Qianyou to garrison Tongguan and investigate the movements of the Tang army. Unexpectedly, in the early morning of June 13, An Lushan had not moved, but the emperor fled in a hurry, and the remaining Jingzhao Yin Cui Guangyuan surrendered to An Lushan's army, and An Lushan then sent his henchman Sun Xiaozhe to lead his troops into Chang'an. ”

After saying this, Mo Sheng didn't speak again, just held chopsticks in one hand and raised a glass in the other, poured himself a drink, and reveled in the taste of wine and food.

Although Mo Sheng basically knew the process before and after the Battle of Tongguan through the energy of the Ink Guild, he didn't know much about what happened later in the Imperial City. From Yan Zhenqing's report to Beijing, to Yan Gaoqing and others to integrate forces and officially raise the flag, then Wang Chengye's presumptuous military exploits, to the loss of Luoyang, and the death of Gao Xianzhi to seal Changqing, until Tongguan is gone, Ge Shuhan was still captured alive, and the repeated rout of the front line is like snow in June, one cold after another. The rolling tide of An Lushan's rebels was unstoppable, and the old emperor of Chang'an City finally began to panic. Listening to the report read by Gao Lishi, he first couldn't believe that Ge Shuhan would be so pustuated, and then after repeated confirmation, he sorted out the twists and turns of the Tongguan front, and finally understood a reality, it seems that An Lushan's knife is really about to rest on his neck.

That night, after dispersing the group of civil and military officials who were noisy and shouting in the middle of the night, only the emperor and Gao Lishi were left in the majestic hall.

The first person in the world slowly fell silent at this moment, he was no longer angry, nor panicked, but became more and more calm, and Gao Lishi, who was waiting on the side, did not dare to make a sound, the Tang Emperor, who was becoming more and more dim and bloated, old and absurd, seemed to return to the light at this moment, and the dragon spirit and tiger gall eroded by the wine slowly began to wake up, and the rickety body became erect, the eyes became brighter and brighter, and the colder and colder, and the arc that seemed to be smiling at the corners of the mouth seemed to have returned to the past.

As the emperor's closest person, Gao Lishi has not seen this curve for many years. He knew what this curved arc meant, after all, all that accompanied this curved arc was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Li Xiaosan, who helped the first emperor overthrow a generation of empresses, eradicated the ambitious Empress Wei's crown prince, forced his aunt to death the new emperor, and later killed three of his own sons in one day, not to mention those battles to destroy the country with a wave of blood, everything happened after the person in front of him made that curve.

I just don't know if this time, this emperor, who has re-emerged, can turn the tide!

In June, Chang'an City was hot and uneasy, and the courtyard of the deep palace was inevitably vulgar, most of the people were still ignorant, and the officials were much more alert. The final victory or defeat of the Battle of Tongguan affected the lives of every court official, and while they waited anxiously, they arranged for their henchmen to prepare their furniture and prepare for the imperial capital. Under the undercurrent, the fate of Chang'an City is all pinned on the man who sits in the highest position in Daming Palace, I don't know if he can be like his idol "His Majesty Taizong", the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty, to solve this "bridge alliance"!

Gao Lishi lowered his head in silence, listening to the voice outside the hall, and the voice of "Got it...... Knowing ......" also seemed to be a little uneasy, and at this moment, His Majesty, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke:

"Gao Lishi, send someone to the Taishi Bureau to ask Taishi Ling Li Xianshi!"

Gao Lishi listened to the order, answered, bowed down and was about to retreat, the emperor raised his head and added:

"Let's go yourself!"

Hearing these meaningful words, the tall man who knew the emperor's heart immediately understood, and then answered the "promise" and went out of the palace gate!

At this time, the Daming Palace looked lifeless and crumbling under the scorching sun during the day!