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Capital, Chang'an.

It was February 20th, but Li Yan felt that Chang'an was still frozen in the cold winter, the sky was gloomy and the sun was no longer visible, the cold wind was sobbing, and the sound was desolate.

It was the emperor for six years. It was not until this time that he realized that the Tang Empire was not as indestructible as he had imagined. It was a tilted building that was ruined everywhere but could not find a pillar that could support it.

Huang Chao's manifesto was like the cold winter that had just passed, and it was spread to Chang'an with a biting coldness.

Li Jing summoned important officials to discuss matters in Yanying Palace. The four prime ministers, Dou Lu Wang, Cui Han, Yu Cong and Li Wei, came, but Lu Zhi was lying in the mansion because he was sick.

As soon as Dou Lun and Cui Han entered the hall, they couldn't help but burst into tears and choked. Who would have expected that the situation would be so bad?

Li Yan was also a little unconscious at this time. Although he wanted to cheer up, he was only the 18-year-old emperor. His eyes swept across the ministers, but he saw that everyone was lowering their heads. Finally, he couldn't help but look at Tian Lingzi, who had been extremely low-key in recent times.

Seeing the emperor's anticipated gaze, Tian Lingzi broke his silence and calmly submitted a message: "Please quickly select elite troops from the left and right Shen Ce army. I am willing to lead them to Tongguan to fight against the enemy."

At this time, Cui Anqian, Zhang Zimian, and Du Qing had already led 20,000 troops to retreat to Tongguan, and Tongguan was not a dangerous place.

However, Li Yan was very comforted when he heard this. Although Ah Father also had many bad things, he was still loyal to him at this critical moment.

However, at this moment, Li Yan couldn't live without Tian Lingzi. What's more, Tian Lingzi had never brought troops to fight, so when he asked him to go to Tongguan, Li Yan was still a little worried.

What's more important is that although there were many elite troops in Chang'an, since Tian Lingzi cleaned up the Shen Ce Army, he has rejected the generals and officers who refused to surrender to him, which has led to the current low combat power of the Shen Ce Army. There are also many people who have false names.

"The guards have not experienced real war for a long time, so it is probably difficult to stop Huang Chao."

Although there are commanders of the military commander like Cui Anqian in Tongguan, the total number of soldiers and horses in Tongguan is no more than 30,000. What about Huang Chao? It is known that the soldiers and horses of Huang Chao are 600,000. Although this is a bit exaggerated, it is said that Huang Chao has 400,000 troops and horses. Among them, there must be more than 100,000 elite bandits.

Now Huang Chao has just attacked Luoyang, the eastern capital without troops, and Liu Yunzhang, the left-behind Dongdu of the Tang Dynasty, actually led the officials and people of the Eastern Capital to the suburbs of the city to welcome the emperor, just like they used to welcome the emperor on a tour.

Huang Chao took down the eastern capital Luoyang without spending one soldier. He was also very happy. Instead of robbing and rape, he comforted the remaining people and asked him not to kill anyone. The military discipline of the "rebel army" was in a good manner, and the neighborhood and village were in order...

Although the fall of Luoyang was related to the court's orders to withdraw to Tongguan, the surrender of officials in Luoyang city still disappointed the court.

At this time, how could Tian Lingzi really be willing to go to Tongguan to resist the 600,000 thieves? He just made advancement and retreat. Therefore, when the emperor said this, Tian Lingzi immediately praised the emperor, "Your Majesty is wise and the holy heart is far-sighted! The thief army is powerful, and Tongguan may not be able to stop the thieves, but there is no other way. When the emperor was blocked and the rebellion of An Lushan, he visited Shu."

As soon as this statement was made, several important officials who had no masters immediately understood it.

Cui Han immediately followed suit and supported Eunuch Tian's plan. "At the time when An Lushan attacked Tongguan, there were only 50,000 people, but now Huang Chao has an army of 600,000."

Prime Minister Douluwang also immediately said: "Brother Shuhan led 150,000 troops to defend Tongguan. Now Huang Chao has 600,000 troops, but Tongguan cannot gather 150,000 troops. How can he defend it?"

Li Yan was stunned for a moment. He just said he was worried about the combat effectiveness of the Shence Imperial Army, but he did not express that he planned to give up Chang'an. Who would have thought that the topic had turned to giving up Chang'an and visiting Shuzhong.

These ministers actually gave up Luoyang and immediately gave up Chang'an.

At that time, the ministers said they wanted to give up Luoyang because they wanted to defend Chang'an. But now that they had not fought in the battle, they actually asked him to give up Chang'an again. Although Li Yan was young, it was difficult to accept it. Tian Lingzi did not notice the dissatisfaction in the emperor's eyes, but was still talking nonsense to persuade the emperor to go to Shuzhong.

Li Yan finally couldn't help it, and snorted coldly, saying to Tian Lingzi: "No need to say much, please send troops for me and guard Tongguan."

Tian Lingzi, who was drooling in his mouth, was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that the emperor would react so resolutely today, and directly rejected his proposal.

Tian Lingzi was stunned for a moment, but soon came to his senses. He thought about it and did not persuade the emperor.

With the current situation, he felt that waiting for a few more days, the emperor would be more anxious than himself.

You should know that Huang Chao had an army of 400,000, while Tongguan only had 30,000 troops now. As for the other aspects of the court, there were no other aspects of the army. Hezhong Town and Zhongwu Town had already established their own power, and the five towns of Hedong, Zhenwu, Tiande, Datong, and Xia Yin, which the court had previously mobilized, went south. As a result, they had just walked halfway, and Shatu Li Keyong, who was the commander-in-chief of Zheng Cong-sei, rebelled again.

Li Keyong, an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf, took advantage of the opportunity of the five towns to go south and captured the four states of Xin, Wu, Ru and Gui of Lu Long's army, and suddenly shot back and turned around to enter Wei Dai. Until now, Li Keyong has captured Wei, Dai and Xin and attacked Datong Yunzhou.

When the Daibei tribes, which had already gone half south, heard the news, they immediately returned to Daibei regardless of the safety of the court, Sage, Anqing and Qibi tribes.

Even Zheng Cong-si had to obey the requests of the Hedong soldiers and lead the army back to rescue Taiyuan. In this way, although Zhenwu, Tiande and Xia Yin were willing to go south, there were too few soldiers and horses, so they had to follow him back to Hedong.

The reinforcements from Hedong that the court most were expected to be gone, and the reinforcements from the southeast could not come, and there was no hope for reinforcements from Henan.

Tian Lingzi thought for a last moment and recommended three scapegoats to the emperor, Zhang Chengfan, the general of the left Shence Army, Wang Shihui, the general of the right Shence Army, and Zhao Ke, the envoy of the left Shence Army.

Li Jing appointed three generals to immediately select troops and horses, ready to go to Tongguan. At the same time, Li Yan finally appointed Tian Lingzi, the father who controlled the Shence Army, as the commander-in-chief of the left and right Shence Army and the troops in Guanzhong towns, to be responsible for various armies, and appointed another eunuch in the palace, Yang Fugong, as the deputy commander-in-chief.

In the next few days, the situation in the Tang Empire was as expected by Tian Lingzi, and was deteriorating continuously.

The Taining Jiedushi Zike Rang fled in Henan for a while, but finally failed to escape back to Taining. His way back east was blocked by Zhu Wen and Ge Congzhou. In the end, the Jieshou coach swam around the towns, gathered thousands of defeated soldiers, and fought with Qiufeng from each town. Finally, he had no choice but to retreat into Tongguan with the defeated soldiers.

On February 27, Huang Chao's army captured Guozhou.

Seeing Huang Chao getting closer and closer, the court became even more panicked.

On the 28th, the court ordered General Luo Yuangao, the left Shence, to be the governor of Heyang, with Heyang close to Luoyang, separated by a river. The court hoped that after he took office, he could counterattack Luoyang from the side and drag Huang Chao down. On the other hand, he also hoped that Heyang Town could block the Hebei rebel Wei Bo Town from the westward advance of the west.

At the same time, the emperor Li Yan issued an order to use Wang Chongrong as the governor of Hezhong, Zhou Ji as the governor of Zhongwu Army, Qin Zongquan as the governor of Feng**, Lu Yanhong as the governor of Zhong**, and Li Keyong as the governor of Yanmen.

These appointments not only whitewashed Zhongwu Town and Hezhong Town, which were rebellious, but also named the three military leaders of Zhongwu Town as Jiedu, and specially established two new towns, Fengguo and Zhongguo Town.

Moreover, even Li Keyong, who rebelled for the second time, was tolerated at this time. Not only did he not hold him accountable, but he also built the land of Xin, Dai, Wei, Xin, Wu, Ru and Gui, which Li Keyong now occupied, into Yanmen Town, and officially granted Li Keyong the Yanmen Jiedushi.

The court was still counting on using this small favor to make Wang Chongrong, Zhou Ji, Qin Zongquan, Lu Yanhong, Li Keyong and others who had already rebelled, serving the court again and dealing with Huang Chao for the court.

By this time, the position of Jiedu was already wholesale like a cabbage.

However, it is easy to issue imperial edicts, but after these imperial edicts are issued, it is hard to say whether the towns will really send troops by obeying the order.

Leaving from Yanying Palace, Li Yan leaned against the soft couch in the imperial study room, feeling exhausted.

There were a thick pile of memorials on the imperial desk, and almost all of them were persuading him to move to Shu.

This was a difficult decision. Li Yan was still persisting deep in his heart. He didn't want to give up Chang'an. Luoyang was already lost. Should he still lose Chang'an?

There was no talent available in the upper and lower courts.

Li Yan sighed long and felt extremely tired.

A burst of rapid footsteps sounded outside, and Li Yan frowned and opened his eyes. What caught his eye was Zhang Tai.

"Great victory, Your Majesty, Hebei!"

The words "Hebei Victory" fell into Li Yan's ears, causing the tired emperor to stand up suddenly.

"My dear, what is the great victory in Hebei?" Li Yan asked hurriedly.
Chapter completed!