Late Tang

When this sudden upheaval happened, Cui Anqian, the recruiter, was on the Guanlou in Tongguan, which was the last gate to guard Chang'an. It's almost white.Such an important Guanzhong portal, but the emperor only sent [-] Shence troops, and [-] of them were refugees and beggars who pretended to be impostors.

In the end, he didn't dare to leave these people on Tongguan, and arranged all these Shence troops to the forbidden ditch, and handed them over to Qi Kerang to command.Here, he, Du Wei, and Zhang Zimian led [-] soldiers and horses to guard the town.This day was as usual, Cui Anqian and his guards hurriedly inspected the fortifications of the Guancheng, and then talked with the defenders on the city with Li Fu for half an hour, and before he knew it, it was already evening.

Although Huang Chao's army has been coming to knock at the pass every now and then in recent months, the grass bandits don't send out many troops each time. With the danger of passing through the strong city, Cui Anqian and the others repel the grass bandits every time.

But what Cui Anqian didn't expect was that when the grass bandits came again, the battle was so fierce this time.

From the evening onwards, the defenders who closed the gate felt that today's situation was very wrong, because today's Huangchao Linyan's troops on the opposite side were uncharacteristically launching attacks in the evening, dispatching 2000 people each time, but they continued.

The attack of the whole year was like a tide, and in less than half an hour, another thousand-man team was replaced.Such a continuous attack has no intention of stopping at all.

General Zuo Weiwei and Deputy Envoy Zhang Zimian held up the binoculars to look at the front of the pass suspiciously.The grass thieves actually want to fight at night, and they only send so many people every time, which is obviously a tactic for fueling up.

Something abnormal is a demon. He was suspicious of this abnormal situation, and he had a vague premonition in his heart, so he turned his head and said to the messenger: "Fuck, something will happen tonight, pass my order, and the number of officers and soldiers on duty will increase." Doubling, and send out riders out of the city to investigate closely, and closely observe the movement outside the pass." After speaking, he hurried to the camp inside the pass.

Back at the general's mansion, Zhang Zimian told Cui Anqian and Du Qiang about the abnormal situation he observed.

"I heard that Li Jing had just won several consecutive victories in Huaisi. He first defeated Gao Pian, took Hao, Chu, and Shouhuainan states, and then captured Suzhou. Now he is besieging Xuzhou. The puppet Qi army defeated Suzhou. And Bianzhou Zhu Wen was defeated again by the three generals Yu Yu, Kang Chenghui, and Xin Xun. Now Suzhou fell into the hands of Li Jing, and Xuzhou was completely surrounded by Li Jing and Xin Xun. .”

Du Qiang also nodded. In the current situation, it is only a matter of time before Li Jing encircles Xuzhou.As soon as Li Jing took Xuzhou, Huaisi integrated China Unicom and took control.For the Huanghuai area, it is completely stable.Controlling the Huaihe River from east to west, and Biansi from north to south, it can be said that after these few battles, Li Jing has completely stabilized his position. Although Huang Chao controls the Luoyang area, he has lost the capital to compete for the area east of the canal.

"Perhaps it is because Huang Chao has repeatedly lost in the east, so he turned to try to move west." Du Ke analyzed the situation, "At present, the emperor is in the middle of Shu, and there is no one in Chang'an. Guanzhong is empty, and the Tongguan garrison There are only 3 to [-] people who can fight. What's more important is that we have run out of food, and Huang Chao must have known this news a long time ago."

Having said this, Du Qing couldn't help but let out a long sigh.The emperor left Chang'an and ran away, which dealt a great blow to the morale of the army.What's worse, they ran out of food.When the emperor left, he sent someone to draw a batch of money from Tongguan.

1000 million yuan is a lot of money.But these 1000 million coins are not real money, but boxes of banknotes.

If these banknotes were Dengzhou banknotes, they were newly printed by the imperial court.In just a few months, it is said that the imperial court has printed a full [-] million guan of paper gauze, with a denomination of one hundred guan and one thousand guan.

But compared with Dengzhou's banknotes, these banknotes are worthless at all.The price of grain in Chang'an is now [-] yuan per bucket of rice, and if you use banknotes, you may not be able to exchange [-] yuan for a bucket of rice.Although each soldier was allocated hundreds of banknotes, these banknotes could not even buy a piece of cake.

Cui Anqian and others also sent people to Chang'an several times to urge food, but now Chang'an is in chaos, and there is no one in charge.

"Someone guesses that Huang Chao has also found out our situation. He can't beat Li Jing in the east, and now he is going to attack Guanzhong." Zhang Zimian said.

Cui Anqian remained silent. Now that things have come to an end, how can Tongguan be defended.But what can he do, abandon Tongguan?This is completely a dead end, and Cui Anqian, a loyal courtier, can only sigh.

"Take out the last bit of food in the warehouse and distribute it to the soldiers." Cui Anqian sighed.

Cui Anqian took out the last bit of food in the warehouse and distributed it to everyone for a full meal.After everyone had a full meal, the Guanxia grass thief was still attacking without pain or itching.Zhang Zimian took the initiative to ask for a fight, "It's better to let a certain risky elite go out of the city to attack the bandit camp at night."

At the moment, even if they are guarded by the customs, they will not be able to guard for a few days without food.It's better to take the initiative to attack, if you can win, you still have a chance.

"The capital will go with you."

In the middle of the night, the closed gate of Tongguan was suddenly opened. Cui Anqian, Zhang Zimian, and Du Ke led all [-] troops out of the city, leaving only a thousand old and weak guarding the city, and the rest risked their lives to fight.

In this battle, Cui Anqian and the three of them seemed to regard death as home.

Tang Jun, who suddenly rushed out of the city, caught the grass thief by surprise at first. The grass thief did not expect that Tang Jun would dare to come out of the city with his entire army at this time.When the two armies fought, most of the thieves in front of the battle were young and strong recruits, but they were chopped up melons and vegetables, and they fled in all directions.Cui Anqian didn't chase them either, but just rushed straight to the camp of grass thieves.

To the surprise of Cui Anqian and others, they progressed very smoothly. The grass thieves were almost defeated at the first touch, and they quickly killed and shut down the grass thieves' camp.

Although things were a bit weird, at this time, Cui Anqian and the others had no choice. Even if they knew it was a tiger's den, they had to bravely break into it.

The three generals Cui Anqian and [-] soldiers finally rushed into the camp, but they soon discovered that it was just an empty camp.

The three generals looked at each other.

Where did the grass thief go?

Zhang Zimian yelled: "It's not good, the grass bandit sent people to pretend to attack the Guancheng, and most of them went to attack the forbidden ditch at night."

Cui Anqian and the others couldn't help but change their faces when they heard the words, they all thought of this possibility.

At this moment, Tongguan behind them suddenly burst into flames!

Forbidden ditch guard Qi Kerang, Wang Shihui, Zhang Chengfan and other generals had already rebelled and surrendered to Huangchao. At this time, they acted as the vanguard of Huangchao. Taking advantage of Cui Anqian's three elite soldiers, they attacked the remaining guards in Guancheng in one fell swoop. Captured Guancheng.

Cui Anqian and others were shocked, and led their troops to kill under Guancheng.

But at this time, the city was closed tightly, and the city was lit with fire.The soldiers and horses under Rencheng yelled to open the door, but no one answered. After a while, Qi Kerang appeared under the closed city, clasped his fists at Cui Anqian and said, "Cui Shuai, Du Shuai, Zhang Shuai!"

The three of them saw that the person in the city was Qi Kerang, they were shocked and angry for a moment, and they all understood what happened.

"Qikerang, why did you devote yourself to being a thief?" Cui Anqian was furious.

Qi Kerang said a little desolately: "Emperor Chang'an doesn't care about the world anymore, so why should we die for him? In the end, it's just begging for a bite to eat!"

Cui Anqian was speechless, with a gloomy expression on his face. Looking at the army behind him, he knew that Tongguan could not go back.

I can't go back to Tongguan, where should I go?All the soldiers were at a loss, the emperor abandoned them, and now the friendly army is also defecting.

Cui Anqian and others had no choice but to go back inside the pass, and there were grass thieves guarding the east.In the end, Cui Anqian had no choice but to go south with his troops, preparing to go to Shandong, and finally returned to Guanzhong from Wuguan.It's just that he wanted to leave, and the grass thief didn't intend to let them go.

Soon after, Emperor Huang Chao of Daqi personally led his army to the front line, and the white flags of Daqi surged to cover the sky and covered the field.

The three generals Cui Anqian led 30 men to rush from left to right, fighting from night to day, fighting while walking, and fighting until the next afternoon at You hour. The hungry officers and soldiers finally collapsed. In the mountains and plains, as many as [-] grass Under the siege of the army of thieves, it continued to collapse.

On the evening of June [-], Emperor Daqi Huang Chao led his army into Tongguan, and Qi Kerang, Lin Yan and others went out to greet him.

On the 22nd, the sad news of Tongguan's fall had already spread in Chang'an City.

When the princes, ministers and prime ministers who stayed behind in the capital heard the news, they all panicked.We gathered together to discuss for a long time, but there was nothing we could do.The meeting was only halfway through, and there were rumors that Huang Chao's striker had already entered Chang'an, and no one was willing to investigate the real situation at this time.

36 strategies, walking is the best policy.

Later, the news that the left-behind team of the capital appointed by the emperor escaped broke out, and the whole city of Chang'an was in an uproar.The last time the emperor fled quietly, it had already triggered a wave of fleeing officials and people in Chang'an.However, Tongguan was still in the hands of the imperial court at that time, and after such a long time, the mood in the city has stabilized a little.But now that Tongguan was lost, the officials who stayed behind fled again in a blink of an eye. Now all the remaining civil and military officials, relatives of the emperor, and ordinary people were shocked, and hurriedly packed their soft luggage, dragged their families with them, and fled. Hidden hiding.

Soon, this metropolis of the world fell into a state of lawless chaos. Soldiers who took the opportunity to make trouble, the city's hooligans, and the common people in the city broke into the royal palace, the state's treasury, and those officials. Their mansion began to be looted.

In fact, at dusk that day, Huangchao's forward Lin Yan's cavalry had just passed Tongzhou and entered Jingzhao, half a day's journey away from Chang'an.

In the afternoon of the second day, Lin Yan led [-] light cavalry to the city of Chang'an.

What Lin Yan didn't expect was that the capital of the world, the city of Baihui, had no soldiers at this time, just like the cities they passed through Tongguan in the past two days, without encountering any resistance .

The gates of Chang'an City have already been opened. Zhang Zhifang, the envoy of Lulong Jiedu who was ousted by the mutiny 30 years ago, has been working in the capital as a nominal general of Zuo Jinwuwei in the capital these years.After 30 years of silence, today, the former Marshal Lu Long, unwilling to be lonely, organized dozens of civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty who had not escaped from the city to welcome the arrival of the Daqi army in Bashang, the eastern suburb of Chang'an!

Lin Yan, who originally thought that there would be a hard fight, was a little stunned. After a long while, he finally confirmed that it was true.Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was taken down by him without bloodshed. (To be continued.)