With the advent of the end of autumn, the people of Chang'an City did not have as much food and clothing as they should be, and their families were happy, but quickly fell into a nightmare. The food is getting scarcer and less, the rebels in Chang'an City have no food and grass to supply the army, countless rebels began to pour into the streets, everything that can be eaten, or to put it closer, as long as it can be gnawed, it doesn't matter whether it can be eaten or not, but anyone who can chew and bite and swallow it to fill an empty stomach will be frantically divided by a group of hungry and crazy rebels.

The overall situation in Chang'an City is no longer under Zhang Li's control, and it can even be said that no one can control it anymore, even Zhang Li and the leaders of several rebel forces can only let the soldiers under their command do whatever they want, because even they can only make do with food that can barely swallow to fill their stomachs, at this time, they have no way to restrain the army, and all military regulations have become a piece of waste paper.

With the gradual encroachment of Chang'an City by hundreds of thousands of rebels, more and more rebels have been unable to find food in the city, as the first person extends his claws to the surviving people and even the corpses that have begun to decay, more and more people have joined this inhumane team, the huge Chang'an City has lost its former glory and prosperity, and has completely fallen into a hell on earth, almost in every corner, at any time there are scenes of cannibalism tragedy, extremely bloody and cruel.

The situation in the imperial city is much better than that outside, at least there has not been an incident of demolishing houses and eating people, because most of the people living in the imperial city are dignitaries, and the food stored in their mansions can still resist for a while, under Huang Chao's advance order, plus a series of rich rewards, it can be regarded as some food for the only less than 100,000 troops under his command, as long as they are thrifty, it seems that even the rebels outside the imperial city can be consumed.

However, due to the problem of food in the imperial city, there is also a ridiculous status quo, and the guy who collects all kinds of rare treasures on weekdays has changed his stingy temperament in the past and donated it very generously, but he has another purpose, to exchange more food for himself and his family, in order to be able to survive in this turbulent era.

On weekdays, the treasures that can be exchanged for a granary, but at this moment, they can only be exchanged for a few buckets of turbid rice, which are mixed with countless sand and stone chips, even so, there are still large pieces of treasures flowing into the Daming Palace, and then, Huang Chao will be rewarded to the troops under his command, in order that they can overcome the difficulties in front of them under pressure with themselves.

Just arrived in the middle of November, a rare blizzard suddenly came, completely covering the entire Chang'an City, as if I couldn't bear to look at the tragedy of the city, the blizzard fell for three days and three nights in a row, more than a foot of heavy snow covered up the mess of the city, as if to make some cover for the evil deeds of the puppet Qi rebels.

But the rebels of the pseudo-Qi didn't seem to want to appreciate it at all, even when the heavy snow had not completely stopped, they had once again poured into the streets, wandering around the snow-covered Chang'an City, looking for any 'food' that might be used to fill their stomachs, and the patches of white snow were dotted with scarlet, making Chang'an City soon unusually charming.

Although the cold winter has arrived, there are more and more pseudo-Qi rebels who no longer continue to stay in the city, trying their best to escape from Chang'an City, and in groups, they carried out a new round of sweeping and looting of any surrounding village.

** has been merged with the Feng family army as a whole before the winter, except for the 10,000 Shunjie army that has been stationed in the west of Chang'an City, together with the Feng family army led by Lin Feng, the total strength is close to 200,000, and it has finally reversed the disadvantage of troops in the war with the puppet Qi for several years.

In less than a month, more than a third of the rebels in Chang'an City have fled, and a large part of them have chosen to wander around Chang'an City, continuing to live without restraint, harassing villages within their reach again and again. And a small number of rebels, it is wise to choose to surrender to **, although after surrendering can only do some hard and tiring logistics work in **, but in their opinion, at least can solve their most basic food and clothing problems, in this troubled times, what can be more important than eating and drinking to save a life!

Slowly, the foundation of the rebels in Chang'an City completely collapsed, and several forces began to kill each other, sometimes for the sake of a frozen corpse, dozens of people on both sides would draw their swords against each other, fighting to the death. Moreover, among them, the generals who had already begun to take charge of the army began to defect to Huang Chao again, begging Huang Chao in the imperial city to see that he had no credit and hard work for many years, regardless of his previous suspicions, and re-accept himself.

Of course, whether these people fell to the ground sincerely surrendered or pretended to deceive the grain and grass is no longer the most important thing for Huang Chao, because at this moment, even Huang Chao has no food and grass, and he eats porridge every day, how can there be grain and grass to distinguish between those repeated villains who see the wind and steer the rudder.

Daming Palace is located in the area of Longshouyuan, and near the northernmost Chongxuanmen, it has been surrounded by 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Li family army for a whole month, and Huang Chao, who failed to decide to withdraw from Chang'an City in time, has already regretted a little, but in front of everyone, he can't show a cent, but recently, Huang Chao has secretly summoned Lin Yan and his only henchman, the Zhang family brothers, to discuss how to successfully overcome the current difficulties.

On the other hand, Zhang Li made a decision first, summoned the soldiers who were still willing to fight to the death, and prepared to withdraw from Chang'an City immediately, all the way to the east, storm Tongguan, and then go out of the customs to the Central Plains, completely away from the control area of the first place, and this method is also the idea that Wang Teng proposed to Huang Chao when Huang Chao just returned to the palace, as for its real implementability, Zhang Li can only do an experiment by himself.

The Benlei Pioneer Regiment originally stationed in Tongguan has been transferred back to the headquarters camp by Lin Feng, including Zhang Qi's Meridian Army in the Meridian Pass, Lin Feng also stayed with him as an independent legion, and the two locations were respectively transferred from other battalions to change the guard, and in Tongguan, there were also Li Jian's 10,000 Li family troops to defend together, totaling nearly 20,000 troops stationed in Tongguan, between the east of Chang'an and the Central Plains outside the pass, built an impregnable copper wall.