During the period when the main force and the Fengjia army were completely converging, the two brothers Zhang Guiba and Zhang Guihou on the side of the Wei River also learned the news of the rebellion in Chang'an City, and the two of them withdrew to Chang'an City in an emergency, but in a panic, the 5,000 people who did the work of breaking off the rear for the retreat of the army were ambushed by the winged cavalry regiment and the lance cavalry regiment halfway when they retreated, and they were divided into two groups.

In the end, only 12 out of 10 escaped from the battlefield, and it can be said that the Zhang brothers who returned to Chang'an City did not bring any good news to Huang Chao, but smashed a hammer again on the head of the depressed morale.

Wang Teng's true whereabouts, Lin Yan did not tell Huang Chao the truth, but excused himself by saying that in the melee, the weak Wang Teng was killed by the rebels. In this regard, although Huang Chao wanted to know what Wang Teng was doing when he went to Tongjifang late at night, but the person was already 'dead', and no matter how angry he was, it would be useless. However, what Huang Chao is most concerned about is that with Wang Teng's 'death', all previous negotiations between his regime and the Jiangnan Jin Chamber of Commerce have come to naught.

As for the donation of 30,000 taels of gold to the treasury that Wang Teng said before, Huang Chao had long left it behind, because the fact in front of him was that the troops under his command could not last long only by relying on the grain and grass in the imperial city. In order to boost morale, Huang Chao has repeatedly distributed all kinds of valuable treasures and belongings in the palace, and even the largest Hanyuan Hall in the Daming Palace has been completely divided, and all that is left is the pillars that support the main hall.

Of course, with Wang Teng's disappearance for no reason, not only did Huang Chao's troops suffer a heavy blow, but now Chang'an City has become a complete mess. There are already many generals who hold the power of the army and begin to doubt the true purpose of Zhang Li's raising troops, Zhang Li was still doing things left behind in Chang'an, and the treatment of the descendants is naturally different from that of several other troops, and most of the grain, grass and military salaries are naturally in their hands.

Now, whether the previous rumors about Wang Teng and the Jin Chamber of Commerce are true or not, they have all become a thing of the past, and everyone has chosen to forget them completely, but forgetting it does not mean that what should have happened will not happen, even if it was just to quench the thirst of Wangmei, at least it can be seen. And now, everyone knows that the army has run out of grain and grass, even if it is Zhang Li's descendant troops, it will definitely not last long, but even so, the rest of the generals who control the army, since they respect Zhang Li as the first leader, their army will naturally reach out to Zhang Li to ask for it when it encounters difficulties in food and grass.

If there is one, there will be a second, and it will appear soon, and then there will be a third and a fourth, in just a few days, not only several forces in Chang'an City have mentioned the matter of military rations to Zhang Li, but even several generals with small-scale soldiers and horses under Zhang Li's command have also put forward requirements.

Because they are ostensibly people who belong to Zhang Li, but there is still a certain gap between them and Zhang Li's descendants in terms of actual treatment, Zhang Li's descendants have three meals a day, one porridge and two full dry meals, but those generals who follow Zhang Li, their troops are just the opposite, morning and evening are holding a bowl of 'porridge' with clear bottoms, only at noon can they eat a full meal, after a long time, how can they endure this gap.

And what's even worse is the other forces, the army under his command has reached the point of two meals a day, and it is still dry and thin, with the arrival of late autumn, the soldiers guarding the city at night will be hungry and shivering, because there is not enough energy in the body to keep out the cold.

As for meat, not to mention, since Shang Rang led the Shunjie army to be stationed in the west of Chang'an City, more than two-thirds of the gates of Chang'an City have been closed, and even the rest are only open for half a day, and the time has not yet been specified, and it may be closed at any time. Coupled with the current extremely chaotic situation, some small traders and hawkers who want to go into the city to make a living have also hid far away.

Although it is still the late autumn season, if it is in normal times, many traders are still willing to work hard before the winter, earn enough living expenses, and hide at home to spend the winter warmly in the cold winter. But now, no traders are willing to suffer anymore, because entering the chaotic Chang'an City, if you can't get it right, it will be a chicken and egg fight, and whether you can get out of the city alive is another matter, because it is said that there have been robberies in broad daylight in the city, although it has not yet spread to the whole city, but there has been an intensifying trend.

The situation in the city is also true, the east and west markets have long become desolate, and those woodcutters who rely on the mountains to cut wood outside the city have not entered the city, and would rather go hungry than venture into the city, but imagine how chaotic the situation has become.

As several forces exerted more and more frequent pressure on the food, Zhang Li's attitude became more and more hardened, and during this period, there was even a case of Zhang Li personally chasing and killing the messenger with a knife, which made the relationship between Zhang Li and the rest of the forces instantly stiffened.

After such a fuss, Zhang Li temporarily became clean, but Chang'an City was completely chaotic. More and more puppet Qi rebels poured into the city and plundered the territory they had been allocated. Whatever they saw, there was absolutely no second result, and they were all in their pockets, and later, some people even came up with a more damaging trick, because they could not eat enough, and it would be very cold when guarding the towering city walls, so they began to look for some relatively simple houses, and after demolishing them, they moved the timber to the city for the night guards to warm the fire.

Although the leaders of the various forces knew that this practice was to fish for the best of the water, they had no better way, after all, there was no food, grass and military salaries, and they could only resign themselves to the practice of the soldiers below without the slightest restraint. And in this way, it has increased the arrogance of the rebels even more, and what they have done has become more and more excessive, even in full view, they can pull away the women walking on the streets, and they can also commit murder on the street, regardless of whether the other party is an old man or a child.

Later, the more arrogant soldiers extended their claws to those large families who were defended by some guardians, organized in groups, and the mansions were quickly captured, but the booty was minimal, and the most was the countless lives lost for it.

A household, an alley, a street, an area, a square, just like that, the entire one hundred and eight squares of Chang'an City gradually turned into ruins under the gradual encroachment of more than 200,000 pseudo-Qi rebels. There were rubbles everywhere, and bloodless corpses that had become completely stiff were discarded here and there.

Many of the corpses had been stripped of their clothes, and of course, there were many women who had been humiliated in a brutal manner, men covered in wounds, old men with wrinkled faces and dry bodies, and young children whose faces were full of immature children.

But all this, as time continues to pass, in the eyes of the pseudo-Qi rebels who have lost the most basic humanity and conscience, these corpses quickly transformed into another role, and also added another role to this era.