Chapter 39 Chang'an is finally in hand
readx;??“ This battle has been lost, let's retreat to Chang'an quickly! ”
Li Dao's first sentence when he found Guo Yan was like this. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The 100,000 army is no match for the more than 20,000 men and horses of the Lucheng army, will it be useful to retreat to Chang'an?
Guo Yan's thoughts, Li Dao naturally guessed thoroughly, and said: "Mr. Chang'an, at least I can show you and me a clear way, not to mention that Zhang Jina still has twenty or thirty thousand horses, which is enough for us to protect ourselves."
"That's the only way to do it for now."
Guo Yan sighed.
Guo Yan and Li Wei crossed the Bashui in embarrassment, and the gate to Chang'an City had been opened, and it was a matter of time before the Lucheng army approached the city.
Liu Bei temporarily garrisoned the army in Baling, and did not rush towards Chang'an, but carried out a short rest, one is to use the strict military appearance to deter the small of Chang'an City, and the other is Guo Jia's admonition: the urgency of sending troops must be Xiliang hugging a group, and the slow march of the army will make the generals of the Xiliang army scatter, and the generals of Xiliang will not agree, Liu Bei can naturally easily take Chang'an City.
Facts have proved that Guo Jia's strategic vision is not bad, and the news of the defeat of Li Dao and Guo Yan reached Chang'an City, and a new round of conscription plans immediately broke out in Chang'an City.
The Guanxi scholars in Chang'an City also contributed one after another, and shouted the slogan of "Defend Chang'an, Defend Your Majesty".
On the contrary, Li Ru, the actual controller of Chang'an, was surprisingly calm after getting the news again, especially after seeing Li Dao and Guo Yan who fled back in embarrassment, he didn't say anything, but just sent the two out.
After Li Dao and Guo Yan saw Li Ru, they frantically visited the Guanxi Shi clan in order to restore their previous strength, but the Xiliang Army respected their strength, and the tail wagging and begging of Li Dao and Guo Yan, who were almost wiped out, did not get the sympathy of the Guanxi Shi clan, but Zhang Ji, the weakest of the three, turned around and became the leader of the Xiliang Army, and the Guanxi Shi clan who visited Zhang Ji was in an endless stream with the Xiliang generals.
Li Ru guarded the deserted Shangshutai, and now no one cares about the mountain of concerts, and no one even asks Li Ru when he is sitting in a daze.
After a long time, Li Ru came back to his senses, since he returned to Chang'an, this was the first time he walked out of Shangshutai, looking at the guards around him standing guard sluggishly, and he was no longer in the spirit of the first time he had just entered Chang'an City, but exuded a kind of dazed panic.
I'm afraid it's not just them, the people and officials of Chang'an are probably all thinking like this!
Only yourself......
Li Ru thought of himself, and suddenly remembered the scene when Xi Zhicai found himself the day before Dong Zhuo's death, and thought of the transaction proposed by Xi Zhicai, and exchanged his life for Liu Xie's life, and thought that it was a wrong choice for Xi Zhicai to let him go.
But now it seems that he is going to exchange his life for Liu Xie's life at the moment!
Change?
Li Ru suddenly felt that maybe death was the best place for him, as for whether Liu Xie died or not, whether Liu Bei could become the next Guangwu Emperor, what does this have to do with him as a failed strategist?
Li Ru's discouragement made the generals of Xiliang even more panicked, especially the main battle faction dominated by Li Dao and Guo Yan.
Li Ru's frustration and the great loss of strength, Li Dao and Guo Yan have decided to abandon Chang'an and flee to Longxi and other places, but before that they need Zhang Ji to block Liu Bei's army.
Without Li Ru, convincing Zhang Ji would be the most important thing.
Li Ji and Guo Yan sent someone to invite Zhang Ji, but Zhang Ji refused under the pretext of being busy, and the two knew that Zhang Ji was putting on a face to show them, and now they had to rely on Zhang Ji to fight Liu Bei to the death to give them time to escape, and this face was really given to Zhang Ji.
Li Ji and Guo Bi Bei went to Zhang Ji's mansion to persuade Zhang Ji in person, but they didn't know that Zhang Ji had already set up a Hongmen banquet, so they waited for Li Ji and Guo Bi to come to the door, and Zhang Ji would open the city gate to welcome Liu Bei into Chang'an after he was captured in one fell swoop.
This is just Zhang Ji's own opinion, this is not the case in Xi Zhicai's plan, in his opinion, Chang'an City will return to Liu Bei sooner or later, but the little emperor in Chang'an City can no longer live.
Otherwise, whether Liu Bei can become Emperor Guangwu is one thing? Maybe someone might kill you.
Liu Bei's soft-hearted problem doomed him to not being someone else's subordinate, even if that person was the emperor.
Li Ji and Guo Yan entered Zhang Ji's door only to receive a message from a Xiliang sergeant: "Hurry up, Zhang Ji has set up a Hongmen banquet in the mansion, and is preparing to arrest the two and present them to Liu Bei?"
Li Dao didn't believe it, but he was treacherous by nature and suddenly proposed to go back to the house, and the steward who went to greet him naturally wouldn't let Li Dao leave.
At this time, Li Wei completely believed it, and immediately cut off the steward, and killed Zhang Jifu with Guo Yan.
After hearing this, Zhang Ji knew that this matter could not end well, so he immediately ordered Zhang Xiu to lead troops to chase and kill the two.
After Li Dao and Guo Yan killed Zhang's mansion, while returning to their respective mansions to transfer troops, they spread rumors to the generals of Xiliang: Zhang Ji wanted to arrest the generals of Xiliang and sacrifice them to Liu Bei to forgive his crimes.
The generals of Xiliang were in turmoil, and when they couldn't find Li Ru, they joined forces with Li Dao and Guo Yan, and fought with Zhang Ji chaotically.
The Xiliang army was fighting in Chang'an City, and his three subordinates were originally Qianghu cavalry, and the infighting gradually evolved from the beginning of the fight to a robbery.
The Xiliang army killed people when they encountered them, first plundered the shops, and then began to attack the wealthy families of the Shi clan, and finally I don't know who raised their arms and shouted and went to the palace to kill.
The first thing Li Ru did after regaining the power of the imperial court was to replace all the palace forbidden guards with the Xiliang army, so the Xiliang rebels called friends after they arrived in the palace, and when Liu Bei's army was about to come to the city, the Xiliang army guarding the palace also entered the palace, looting in the palace and causing trouble to the palace maids.
Not only were the palace maids humiliated, but even the white-faced eunuchs were also ruined a lot, and the eunuchs and guards who dared to resist were chopped into meat sauce by the Xiliang Rebellion.
When the Guanxi Shi clan heard that the Xiliang Rebellion Army had entered the palace, they immediately organized their own private soldiers to rescue them, but where were the private soldiers of the family who were the elite opponents of Xiliang and were killed without any power to fight back.
In the end, the Kansai scholars had to turn to Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Zhang Ji for help, but the three were fighting fiercely, and the officials who went to persuade were detained.
Zhang Ji, whose strength was sharply reduced due to the rumors spread by Li Dao and Guo Yan, hurriedly sent people to invite the Lu Cheng army who dominated the water, and Liu Bei immediately set off to Chang'an when he got the news.
When Liu Bei's army arrived in Chang'an, the flames were everywhere, Zhang Ji couldn't resist the joint siege of Li Dao and Guo Yan and escaped from the city, Zhang Ji went out of the city in embarrassment, Li Dao and Guo Yan were not much better than him.
Zhang Ji's headquarters suffered little losses, and Li Dao and Guo Yan were only able to defeat Zhang Ji, who had no intention of fighting to the death, by virtue of a large number of rabble.
Zhang Ji met the Lucheng army and immediately boosted his morale, with the headquarters as the vanguard to enter Chang'an City again, Li Dao and Guo Yan were defeated under the attack of the Lucheng army, and the two had no choice but to hijack hundreds of officials to save their lives.
Liu Bei ordered Zhang Ji to lead the army to confront it, and he personally led the army to the palace to rescue the driver, the fire in the palace was still dazzling, and the Xiliang rebel army had already fled a lot, and the palace was in a mess.
It took a night of hard work for Lu Chengjun to extinguish the fire in the palace, but the emperor was nowhere to be found, and Li Dao and Guo Yan also took advantage of the night to take hundreds of officials as hostages and escape from Chang'an City.
Since then, the Eastern Han Dynasty court has been completely ended, and Liu Bei, who was grief-stricken and angry, offered a reward for the arrest of Li Dao, Guo Yan and other generals of the Western Liang Rebellion, while silently looking for the whereabouts of Emperor Liu Xie.
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