At the same time that Ge Shuhan's army was defeated and retreated to Tongguan, and the rebels finally entered Luoyang, An Lushan was overjoyed when he learned that Li Heng was dead, and Li Longji lost all the people's hearts. He was going to prepare for the emperor directly in Luoyang, but after Wu Yan said that Tongguan was unprepared and that Chang'an was just around the corner, he was immediately moved, and when he ordered Cui Qianyou to be the main general, Tian Qianzhen and Sun Xiaozhe were supplemented, and went straight to Tongguan to seize Chang'an. However, he never thought that in just half a month, bad news came one after another.

First learned that some soldiers and horses broke into Hebei and approached their old nest Youzhou, Changshan Taishou Yan Gaoqing took the lead in calling on all prefectures and counties in Hebei to respond, expel the rebels, and return to the Tang Dynasty. He successively sent Shi Siming and Cai Xide 100,000 to urgently lead the army back to quell the chaos, but a few days, there was also bad news from Chang'an, which should have been at his fingertips. Du Shiyi, the capital of Anbei, led his troops south with Guo Ziyi, the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, and at the same time relieved the siege of Chang'an, he defeated Cui Qianyou's army even more, and under Guo Ziyi's pursuit all the way, the soldiers and horses who finally fled back to Luoyang were less than 5,000 people!

As if these bad news were not enough, the news of death came from Hebei again, and the details of the unknown troops and horses in the north of Youzhou had been ascertained, it was the coalition army of Fugu and Tongluo, and the commander was Shi Zhangxing, the governor of Anbei. At the same time, Dubo Huaiyi Khan, who should have reached an agreement with him, actually brazenly stabbed the Khitan and Xi tribes into the territory, and frantically swept the Khitan and Xi tribes that provided him with a lot of soldiers.

The person who went to contact Dubo Huaiyi Khan was Hou Xiyi, if Hou Xiyi was here, An Lushan would immediately summon people to kill him directly, but Hou Xiyi was left in Pinglu by him! When Du Shiyi suddenly returned and really showed his sharp fangs, An Lushan no longer had any luck with Pinglu, who he had always thought was the backyard of Taiping. Hou Xiyi was Du Shiyi's subordinate at the beginning, didn't An Zhi have secretly communicated with the old master for a long time, but he has been acting in front of him? Because of this, An Lushan has been in a bad mood for several days, and he often punishes his subordinates with whipping, and everyone is in danger for a while.

In the Hanyuan Hall of Luoyang Palace, although An Lushan has not yet ascended the throne as emperor, he has always sat on the high throne that symbolizes the Son of Heaven as a matter of course. At this moment, he looked at the bloody scene below with a gloomy face. The elite tooth soldiers led by An Zhongzhi were holding leather whips, and they were whipping several people bound to the torture rack at once.

Among these people, there are both civil officials and military generals, the civil officials are noble and solemn, and the military generals are Cui Qianyou, Tian Qianzhen, and Sun Xiaozhe. No matter how majestic and full of arrogance they usually had in front of the lower heads, but now under the whip dipped in salt water, it was all thanks to the strip of wet cloth that they had bitten tightly in their mouths, so that they did not let out a ghost crying wolf howl. In the Tang Army, like the corporal punishment of the government, most of them are served with military sticks, but An Lushan doesn't like the dull sound of beating people with big sticks. In his words, there is no martial arts in the army, all of them have to ride horses, how can they ride horses to fight when they are beaten on the buttocks?

As a result, the punishment of flogging has almost become the main punishment in the Youyan army. At this time, after twenty strokes, whether it was a general such as Tian Qianzhen Cui Qianyou, or a civil official such as a noble and solemn person, or Sun Xiaozhe, who had a head and a face in front of An Lushan in the past, there was no good piece of meat on his back, the flesh and blood were blurred, and it looked extremely scary. An Zhongzhi personally untied one person with his own hands, saw them step forward and knelt down, and hurriedly stepped aside without saying a word, but when he glanced at the injuries on their bodies, he only felt that there was a faint pain in his back.

Just the day before yesterday, he had just been whipped more than a dozen times by An Lushan, who had a bad temperament, and now the wound is only closed. Originally, he was still lamenting that he was unlucky, but today he saw that a large number of civil and military ministers who were more favored and useful than him were also beaten like this, and he calmed down. Especially Yan Zhuang and Noble talked about it in the past, but now even every piece of flesh on his face seems to be twitching, and it hurts to look at it.

"Are they all complaining about this beating in their hearts?"

Hearing such a cold sentence, Tian Qianzhen reacted the fastest, and immediately lowered his head and said: "We are the generals of the defeated army, and we deserve to die in the first place, the handsome man has mercy and spared our lives, how dare you complain?" ”

After all, Cui Qianyou was not treated as a nephew by An Lushan like Tian Qianzhen, and his reaction was a little slower, and he hurriedly reflected on this defeat. And Sun Xiaozhe suffered so much for the first time, and grinned for a while before he answered vaguely. As for the solemnity and nobility, they don't have the good stature of these warriors. What's more, they are really unconvinced. These three generals were lucky to be able to escape with a life because of the defeat in the battle to capture Chang'an, and they should be beaten with dozens of whips, but why should they be beaten together?

Because of this, whether it was solemn or noble, the voice of admitting mistakes was small and reluctant, but what they didn't expect was that after their perfunctory confession, what came was An Lushan's angry roar.

"Solemn, noble, do you feel wronged? Feeling wronged? Isn't it? At the beginning, who was blowing the wind in my ears, saying that there are no more soldiers in the world to fight, as long as I raise my arms and exhale, this Tang Dynasty will change hands in an instant! Now, it's just Du Shiyi, under the repeated moves, the good situation was immediately reversed, and even in this land of Heluo, there were some volunteers who were out of nowhere, and they all came up empty several times when they sent troops to sweep, and there was an old guy from Wu Wang Li Yi who led the troops to fight against me! As Makusa, have you two come up with any ideas so far? ”

The more An Lushan spoke, the more angry he became, and he tried to stand up with his hand, but he was too fat now, so he stood up slightly but immediately sat back. Annoyed, he slapped the handrail and shouted angrily: "Get out, you two get out of now!" I don't want to see you in vain again! ”

Unexpectedly, just because of the attitude of admitting mistakes, An Lushan was so fierce, and Yan Zhuang and noble couldn't help but secretly regret it. They have followed An Lushan for so many years, and they already know that he is a stubborn and self-serving, what are they fighting just now? However, if they begged for mercy and explained now, maybe they would be beaten again, and the two could only stand up with sad faces, and the wolf retreated in embarrassment. For a while, there were only three defeated generals left in this empty Hanyuan Palace. With the solemn and noble lessons of the past, none of the three dared to speak rashly.

"Those two soft eggs are gone, let's say, the situation is like this, what do you think should happen next? Okay, all stand up and speak, Ah Hao, you speak first! ”

Facing the three generals who had been serious to themselves but had lost the battle this time, although An Lushan still kept a straight face, his tone was much more relaxed. This time Luoyang was defeated, Li Xin and other resistance factions disappeared without a trace inexplicably, he sent people to search door to door on the one hand, but on the other hand, he reused Da Xixun, who surrendered on his knees, and Chen Xilie, who returned to the Eastern Capital to retire after the resignation of the prime minister, and prepared to use these two well-known civil officials as prime ministers after becoming emperor, and the noble and solemn will also be reused. In his bones, he looked down on such civilian officials, but felt that only those generals who could fight must be firmly grasped.

If the defeat is like this, but he can still escape with his life, even if there is a burning pain in his back at this time, Tian Qianzhen has already put it out of the way. Hearing An Lushan still affectionately calling himself by his nickname, his attitude was only slightly stricter than before, and after standing up and muttering for a while, he actually knelt down on one knee again.

"Great Shuai, it is true that the war is unfavorable, but the Great Shuai has just been a little harsh on the two gentlemen Yan Gao. Compared with the generations of Da Xixun and Chen Xilie, who surrendered, Mr. Yan Gao and the two gentlemen have followed the marshal for so many years, and they have no merit and hard work, because they have never put forward good ideas about the status quo, so they are punished so severely, and even punished with the generals of the defeated army such as us, and the army must feel that the marshal is unevenly rewarded and punished. Therefore, the last general implored the commander to withdraw the order not to see them again, or send someone to give them corresponding rewards and comforts, or impose other punishments on the three generals, so as to calm the hearts of the army. ”

Isn't this full and holding on?

Sun Xiaozhe almost didn't jump up when he heard this, and was about to raise an objection, when out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the smile on An Lushan's face, and immediately shut up. And Cui Qianyou did not ignore An Lushan's satisfied expression, and followed Tian Qianzhen and said: "What General Tian said is extremely true, we are the generals of the defeated army, and it is a great luck to be able to escape death, and we are willing to be relegated to serve before the pawn army. ”

Both of them opened their mouths, and Sun Xiaozhe could only bow his head and say: "The grace of the handsome not to kill, I will wait for the five hearts, and please reward and punish him." ”

"An Zhongzhi, you go to see the solemnity and nobility in person, go and call a royal doctor to treat their external injuries, and then pick up some gold and silver treasures in the treasury, saying that I rewarded them. I said it in a hurry, and if they have any good ideas, they can still come to see me at any time, just like before. In addition......" An Lushan paused, and then said word by word, "the more unfavorable the situation now, the more exciting it must be." I have already decided to be the emperor immediately, the country name is Dayan, let the two of them immediately meet with Da Xixun and Chen Xilie, and get ready immediately! At the enthronement ceremony, I will reward the heroes and boost the morale of the army! ”

This is the mention of yì that none of the three people in the next three expected. But since An Lushan had made up his mind, no one dared to wring it with him, so he immediately applauded. Even An Lushan himself completely forgot that Tian Qianzhen didn't mention how to reverse the current unfavorable battle situation just now, and fantasized about the scenery when he was called emperor. Because of this, he was not too harsh on the punishment of the three people, except for the whip just now, he did not even demote the three of them to their military positions, but only ordered them to lead the remnants out of Luoyang, and strive to make up for the lack of soldiers in the shortest possible time.

There are so many people in Heluo, are you afraid that you won't be able to catch a strong man?