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What embarrassed Feng Changqing was that among the four cities in the southeast, south, and northwest, only the east city gate, which he personally led people to defend, was the first to be breached. Of course, this is also because the rebels put most of their forces on the east city to attack, and the east city is the focus of their attack. However, Feng Changqing had to allocate his limited forces to the other three gates, and let the few veterans be diverted to the other three gates, which caused the recruits to lack the leadership of the veterans and became at a loss.

The east gate was broken, it was pointless to defend the city wall, and the rebels poured into the city from the city gate, but Feng Changqing was unwilling to admit defeat, and he decisively gathered nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses at the head of the city and retreated down the city wall to fight with the enemy. For a while, on the long streets, between the alleys, there were fights everywhere, and battlefields everywhere. The soldiers of the Tang Army used every street, every courtyard wall, and every house and courtyard as a barrier to fight the rebels to the death.

However, the disparity in strength caused the rebels to quickly push closer through the streets, and soon half of the city fell into the hands of the rebels. Feng Changqing still refused to give up, and ordered the whole army to retreat to Xuanren Gate, using the palace and palace as the place to refuse, so that the heart of Luoyang City was still in the hands of the Tang army. Although nearly 80,000 soldiers and horses were left with more than 10,000 people after a day's fighting, these more than 10,000 people were already elite soldiers.

An Lushan, who had already entered the city with the army, was furious. It's not that he can't break through Xuanren Gate, but An Lushan doesn't want to destroy the Luoyang Imperial City. He already saw this place as his throne, as his palace, and he didn't want to destroy it by extreme means such as burning the chariot. But Feng Changqing's insistence angered An Lushan, who ordered the captured Tang soldiers and civilians to be pressed outside the Xuanren Gate, and used these people as meat shields to cover the rebel attack.

Feng Changqing, Lu Yi, Li Cheng and others on the city wall all scolded angrily. Feng Changqing ordered his soldiers and horses to stop shooting arrows, and he was reluctant to shoot arrows into the bodies of civilians and captured Tang soldiers. In addition, in fact, Luoyang City has been lost, and the palace will not be able to hold it sooner or later, so why bother to resist fearlessly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we lost, I didn't expect that, in one day, Luoyang City has changed hands, I Feng Changqing is incompetent, I have the trust of the court, the expectations of the people of Luoyang, and the trust of the two." Feng Changqing sighed.

"General Feng, don't say that, in fact, we all know in our hearts that Luoyang City can't be defended. But even if we can't hold it, we can't keep it, and we have to make An Lushan pay the price. In fact, we did. In the first battle of Tiger Prison Pass, today's battle, although we were defeated, but the rebels also suffered a lot of losses, at least 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses were annihilated by us, which laid the foundation for the imperial court to suppress the rebellion. Lu Yi said in a deep voice.

"What Lu Zhongcheng said is, General Feng, you quickly break out with these 10,000 soldiers, go to Marshal Gao Xianzhi to meet, and inform the rebels of the troop situation. We look forward to you and Gao Xianzhi being able to fight back and recapture Luoyang. Li Cheng also said in a deep voice.

Feng Changqing said: "Li Taishou, Lu Zhongcheng, aren't you leaving?" Rushing out together, I'm sure I'll be able to break through. ”

Li Cheng and Lu Yi said in unison: "No, we won't leave." ”

Feng Changqing was surprised: "Why? ”

Li Cheng said: "General Feng, you didn't grow up in Luoyang, you don't understand our mood." Lu Zhongcheng and I were born and grew up in Si, drinking the water in the Luoshui River and eating the rice grains that grew up in Luoshui. When we became adults, we were all officials in Luoyang, and for decades, we guarded here. But now that she is occupied by An Lushan, we are powerless to save them, and the only option is to live and die with her. ”

Feng Changqing frowned and said, "What's the trouble with this?" ”

Lu Yi said with a smile: "General Feng doesn't need to persuade us, we have already made up this idea, this is our last long-cherished wish." Please also ask General Feng to complete. We have only one request, please General Feng must lead his troops to retake Luoyang, and not let him be ravaged at the hands of An Lushan. In addition, if possible, please play the imperial court, and say that the eastern capital stayed behind Li Cheng, and in the imperial history, Lu Yi died with the city, and died generously, without disgrace to the court and His Majesty. ”

Feng Changqing sighed, and said in a deep voice: "The two high righteousness, Feng Changqing is ashamed of himself. Feng Changqing can't be as free and easy as the two of you, because my responsibility has not been completed, and I can't die here. Farewell, two. ”

"General Feng, don't leave it at that." Li Cheng and Lu Yi smiled and said goodbye to Feng Changqing, just like an ordinary parting, without the slightest pain of life and death. The smiles on their faces were gentle and bright, which impressed Feng Changqing deeply.

Feng Changqing ordered the soldiers and horses to immediately evacuate from the west gate of the palace, and evacuate as quickly as possible along the Luoshui that passed through the city to the northwest exit of Luoyang. At the place where the river entered the city, the secret passages leading from the moat to the city were pried open, and everyone went out of Luoyang through the waterway under the city wall. After a skirmish with the rebels outside the city, Feng Changqing successfully broke through with more than 6,000 soldiers and horses, and was defeated all the way to the west.

Outside the Xuanren Gate, the rebels forced the people to slow down After all, the rebel soldiers hiding in the crowd were ready to attack the palace city wall in one fell swoop, just as they were about to launch, the Xuanren Gate gate opened, and Li Cheng and Lu Yi slowly walked out of the palace gate hand in hand.

An Lushan laughed and strode over when he heard the news, Li Cheng and Lu Yi stood up and didn't even look at An Lushan, while Henan Yin Da Xi Xun on the side came forward with a smile and saluted An Lushan.

"When you see An Shuai, why don't you salute? Do you want to die? A chubby little waiter with pigtails beside An Lushan shouted at Li Cheng and Lu Yi.

Li Cheng glanced at An Lushan coldly and sneered: "Salute this disloyal and unfilial traitor? It's up to you. ”

"Hey! It's pretty horizontal. The little chamberlain shouted.

An Lushan stepped forward slowly and said in a deep voice: "Li Zhu'er, give me a knife." ”

The little chamberlain named Li Zhu'er hurriedly handed a scimitar to An Lushan, and shouted at Li Cheng and Lu Yi: "Look at you." ”

An Lushan stepped forward and came to Li Cheng and Lu Yi, stared at the two of them with a pair of red eyes, and slowly said to Li Cheng: "Li Taishou, can you surrender me?" ”

"Fart." Li Cheng shouted angrily.

An Lushan's eyes burst with fierce light, and with a wave of his hand, the scimitar went straight into Li Cheng's abdomen, blood gushed out, and Li Cheng's body fell to the ground with a puff.

An Lushan walked up to Lu Yi again, put the tip of the bloody knife in front of Lu Yi's neck and asked in a deep voice: "Lu Yi, can you surrender me?" ”

Lu Yi straightened his clothes and said in a deep voice: "Dreaming." ”

An Lushan roared, his hand was sent forward, and the scimitar stabbed into Lu Yi's neck, and a stream of hot blood burst out, splashing An Lushan's head and face.

An Lushan turned around, and before he could ask, Da Xixun, who had collapsed to the ground and was so frightened that he was urinating, raised his hand and shouted: "I surrender, I surrender, I, Henan Yin Da Xixun, am willing to serve An Dashuai." ”

An Lushan walked over and slashed off Da Xixun's head with a knife, dropped the bloody scimitar, wiped the blood on his face with his sleeve and said, "You are also worthy." ”

After that, he strutted and walked towards the palace gate of the Luoyang Palace.

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Three days later, the army led by Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi, who had broken through from Luoyang, finally converged. Gao Xianzhi actually knew the news of the loss of Luoyang for a long time, because his soldiers and horses were delayed in the capital for a few precious days, and if he couldn't reinforce him, Luoyang City would definitely not be able to hold it with the newly recruited soldiers. Moreover, the army had already encountered a large number of fleeing civilians on the way east, and this situation must be a sign that Luoyang was about to be broken.

However, after seeing Feng Changqing, Gao Xianzhi was still very happy, because he Gao Xianzhi was worried that Feng Changqing would die in the battle of Luoyang, and now that he was not only alive, but also broke out with thousands of soldiers and horses, Gao Xianzhi was of course very happy.

That night, in the tent of the army, a serious military meeting was tensely held. Generalissimo Gao Xianzhi, prison generals Bian Lingcheng, Li Guangbi, Ge Shuhan, Feng Changqing, Cheng Qianli and other high-ranking generals attended the meeting. The topic of the meeting was to listen to Feng Changqing's detailed account of the composition and ratio of An Lushan's soldiers and horses, the number of people and combat strength, so as to make a decision on whether to counterattack Luoyang or retreat to Tongguan and hold on. This meeting is a meeting that will determine the success or failure of the counterinsurgency, so everyone takes it seriously because they understand the importance of the issue.

Of course, except for the prison general Bian Lingcheng, he didn't know anything about it, and he was troubled by the rough food in the army, which made him diarrhea.

At the beginning of the meeting, Feng Changqing gave a detailed account of the estimate of the rebels' combat strength obtained from several battles with the rebels. gave a few numbers that made Gao Xianzhi and everyone tremble.

"At present, the total number of rebels in Luoyang should be about 160,000, and there are rebel reinforcements one after another. If the rebels were to march west to attack Chang'an, the final number would be around 200,000. It is worth mentioning that these were originally the elite border town soldiers and horses of my Datang Dynasty, and their combat power was extremely strong. The rebel cavalry is about forty percent, nearly 80,000 cavalry, and the infantry cavalry is brand new, equipped with strong horses, strong bows and crossbows. There were no less than four or five thousand siege equipment. During the battle of Tiger Prison Pass, I also saw 3,000 heavily armored cavalry, which were extremely fierce......"

Before Feng Changqing finished speaking, everyone gasped. What a year of deliberate management has already armed the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of An Lushan to the teeth. The 150,000 soldiers and horses led by Gao Xianzhi only have 2,000 sets of siege equipment, and the number of cavalry is quite a lot, reaching 65,000 people, but most of the equipment is some old weapons and armor, and the combination of weapons and horses is also varied. The same is true for the infantry, only the weapons and armor of the 50,000 Longyou Army led by Ge Shuhan can be seen, and it is still the soldiers under Wang Yuan.

"This dog thief uses weapons, armor and food from the imperial court, and now it is used to deal with the soldiers and horses of the imperial court." Gao Xianzhi scolded.

"Yes, most of the 100,000 soldiers and horses I raised in Luoyang are new soldiers, and they can't compete with their elite soldiers and horses at all, so I can't hold on to Luoyang. The current situation is that even if An Lushan's soldiers and horses are not reinforced, he still has nearly 160,000 troops in Luoyang. It would be unwise for our 150,000-strong army to attack the fortified city garrisoned by 160,000 troops. Therefore, my suggestion is that we should immediately transfer our troops and horses to defend Tongguan. If the thieves want to attack Chang'an in the west, Tongguan is the only way to pass, let's wait for the attack in Tongguan as well, and it is unlikely that Luoyang will be recaptured at present. "Feng Changqing Road.