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In the second year of neutralization, 882 A.D.

That year, Li Jing was 30 years old, Zhu Wen was 30 years old, Yang Xingmi was 30 years old, Qian Biao was 30 years old, Ma Yin was 30 years old, Li Keyong was 26 years old, Wang Jian was 35 years old, and Wang Rong was 10 years old.

On the Samhan Peninsula, the queen of Silla, Kim Man, and the queen of Joseon, Jang Yingying, each side of the peninsula, were gearing up, preparing to get rid of each other, and at the same time, a large-scale peasant uprising broke out within Silla. From the Central Plains to the Guanwai, the dark clouds of war are hanging everywhere.

Near Chang'an.

The Son of Heaven, who was held hostage and controlled by Tian Lingzi, issued an edict again, conferred the order of the former prime minister Wang Duozhong, and appointed the commander of all the provinces and camps, and under Li Jing, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, he set up a commander-in-chief of the Tang Army, and at the same time, he issued an order to remove Yang Fuguang, the general political commissar of the Tang Army, from his post as the superintendent of the army in the world. At Wang Duo's suggestion, Tian Lingzi threw out a large number of official hats in the name of the Son of Heaven, most of which were given to the commanders of various feudal towns who fought against the Qi army, and most of them were people from Yang Fuguang's small alliance.

Tian Lingzi officially issued an edict appointing: Zhou Qi, the envoy of the Zhongwu Jiedu, and Wang Chongrong, the envoy of the Hezhong Jiedu, were the commanders of the capital.

Zhuge Shuang was made by the Heyang Festival, and Zhu Quanzhong was made by the Xuanwu Festival as the vanguard of the left and right.

Li Quanzhong, Li Xiaochang, and Tuoba Sigong were appointed to the north of the Beijing Division.

Zheng Congyan, the defense envoy of the eastern capital of Jidu, was the envoy of the capital of all the Taoist camps, and he also gave Qin Zongquan, Lu Yanhong, Wang Chucun, Li Keyong and other additional camps all titles.

These proposals of Wang Duo. Hetian Lingzi's concession. It still had a certain effect. At least. The Yang Fuguang brothers finally decided not to use force against Tian Lingzi for the time being before defeating Huang Chao first and recapturing Guanzhong, and the two sides would not use river water in their respective wells.

With the mutual concessions of the two sides, the decisive battle between the two eunuch forces did not take place, and on the contrary, the towns began to resend troops. Prepare to deliver the last blow to Chang'an's Yellow Nest.

Wang Duo, the new commander of the coalition army, led a part of the army drawn from Sanchuan to enter the Fuping Inspiration Temple near Chang'an, the Jingyuan army reached the western suburbs of Chang'an, a special army from Yiwu and Hezhong towns was stationed in Weibei, the two armies of Suining and Fengxiang were stationed in Xingping, and the two party armies of Baoda and Dingnan arrived at Dongwei Bridge again.

Yang Fuguang took his new Zhongwu Badu and stationed in Wugong.

Yang Fugong and his Shence army were stationed in Shayuan.

This time the situation was almost exactly the same as the previous battle of Guanzhong, the Tang army allied forces once again threatened Chang'an from the east, west and north, and the Great Qi Dynasty ordered the passage at this time, leaving only one Huazhou and Chang'an.

If you count from the battle of Longweipi planned by Zheng Jin, this is already the third siege battle of the Zhuzhen coalition army.

The towns stopped and stopped, advancing and retreating. Seeing that Huang Chao had only one breath left, the weaker their attack became. On the occasion of the imminent demise of the Yellow Nest. No one wants to fight the Yellow Nest to the death.

For the people of Guanzhong, the glory of being the people of the Son of Heaven at the feet of Gyeonggi has long been gone, and now all that remains is endless misery. Whether it is the Qi army or the Tang army, there is almost no one who is not a bandit.

In order to escape the war, the people in the Gyeonggi area, as long as they could escape, have almost all fled between the mountains and deep valleys, and built cottages to protect themselves. On the Weihe Plain, the fertile farmland that once gave birth to the Qin and Han empires has been abandoned for several years, because of the perennial abandonment, wild grass and artemisia are overgrown, and the great famine in Guanzhong has shrouded this mountain and river for several years.

In Chang'an City, where Huangchao is entrenched, the price of a bucket of rice has risen to 30,000 yuan. But in fact, the 30,000 yuan bucket of rice has long been priceless, and occasionally some officers steal some military rations, and basically they have already traded at the price of bucket rice and gold. This gold is not a copper coin, but gold. The exchange of grain-equivalent gold for food, and the same is often priceless.

The famine is getting worse and worse, the food is getting less and less, and more than a dozen armies are gathered on the Guanzhong Plain, but the daily food consumption is huge. After the last, the human flesh trade began to quietly rise among the various armies, and this human flesh trade was no longer an erotic trade, but a real human flesh trade. The goods sold in these human markets are all living people who have been captured for meat. Most of them came from the cottage villagers in the mountains and the people in the suburbs of Chang'an, and those sergeants directly negotiated the price of human fat and thinness, and those with more meat could be sold for hundreds of guan, and those with less meat could be sold for hundreds of guan. With such a high price, even if ordinary people have the courage to eat human flesh, they can't afford to eat it.

On the other hand, the coalition forces were in a slightly better situation because they could still get some supplies from places outside Guanzhong, and they were mainly sellers, and the armies captured the mountain people and secretly sold them to the Huangchao army in exchange for the gold and silver treasures they had looted. And the Huang Chao army was trapped in Chang'an, and they had already begun to eat human flesh, according to rumors outside, even Shang Rang and Huang Chao, the thieves, had already begun to eat human flesh.

The hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff, the original Qi army was originally composed of some robbers and outcasts, but now it has been trapped for several years, and it has already completely become a demon army. In order to survive, they even ate human flesh, and in order to survive, they are also actively planning to break the blockade, run rampant in the world again, and seize the plan of food.

By now, Chang'an has long been dead, which is also the reason why Huang Chao has been guarding Lantian Wuguan after losing Tongguan, and Wuguan in the southwest is their only way to retreat. But if you are not fully prepared, it is also difficult to escape from the dead place of Chang'an. More than 100,000 Tang troops surrounded them, and the Qi army wanted to leave, but they did not dare to leave the fortified fortress of Chang'an. The two sides confronted each other like this, consuming it, but in general, it was becoming more and more unfavorable to Huang Chao.

In February of the second year of Zhonghe, Huang Chao sent his brother Huang Ye to personally lead an army to counterattack Li Quanzhong's Tongzhou, preparing to grab some food and come back, and then see if he could recapture Tongguan or Pusaka, so as to kill Xianghezhong Town. Among the towns in Guanzhong and Henan, Hezhong Town is the closest to Chang'an and the richest.

If you are sure, you have to be sure, and if you are not sure, you have to be sure.

However, at this time, Wang Chongrong claimed to have 100,000 soldiers and horses. It's an exaggeration. But there are also 30,000 real elites. Abundance in the river. Its strength is far from being comparable to today's Qi army, and he is in danger of the Yellow River, and Li Quanzhong is guarding the flank, so as soon as this Qi army stretched out its head, it hit the iron wall, hit the head and broke the blood, and had to withdraw to Huazhou after the worst. Huang Chao's step of temptation has just been made. He was defeated because of the defeat of his troops.

By this time, Huang Chao and Qi Jun were almost crazy.

In May, Huangchao once again planned to launch a large-scale counteroffensive, with a large army to force Xingping, the Tang coalition army Jingyuan, Suining, Fengxiang three towns soldiers and horses to fight, but was beaten by a group of outlaws who had eaten human flesh and red eyes, and the three towns were defeated and retreated, and were forced to retreat to Fengtian.

Huang Chao won a small battle and robbed a batch of grain in the three towns. After a full meal, everyone burst into tears. It's been a long time since I've eaten such a fragrant meal. Immediately, they wiped away their tears, patted their bellies, and the main force attacked the two party armies of Baoda and Dingnan, which occupied the Dongwei Bridge, which had been defeated by the Qi army several times earlier, and this time was the same. They had no intention of fighting to the death with the Qi army at all, and they were immediately defeated, retreating north in a hurry on the one hand, and asking for help from Wang Duo, the capital of the Inspiration Temple.

After Wang Duo received the report, he did not bring troops up, but he immediately asked Heyang Jiedu to make Zhuge Shuang send troops to reinforce the party soldiers.

Zhuge Shuang was very happy this time, and immediately sent troops after receiving the order to contain the actions of the Qi army. Huang Chao immediately ordered Zhang Juyan to go south to intercept Zhuge Shuang's troops and protect the flank of Shang Rang's army. The two armies fought to the west of Tongguan, and as a result, Zhuge Shuang was defeated by Zhang Juyan, the leader of the Great Qi Army, and was defeated in Tongguan, the king of the Zhenguo Army, Li Quanzhong, and asked Wang Chongrong and Li Quanzhong for help.

Wang Chongrong also knew the truth of the cold lips and teeth, for fear that if Huang Chao really broke out and went straight to his Hezhong Town, it would be troublesome. He immediately drew out five thousand cavalry and went to the rescue. He agreed with Li Quanzhong that the cavalry of Hezhong Town would go out of Pu Han, the east side gate, cross the Yellow River to the west, go around the back of Zhang Juyan of the Qi army, and attack Li Quanzhong's Zhenguo army and the defeated army of Heyang from east to west to destroy this Zhang Juyan. As a result, Zhang Juyan had already had spies to detect the actions of the river and Zhenguo, Zhang Juyan reacted very quickly, he divided a small team of men and horses, bluffed, and deterred Li Quanzhong and Zhuge Shuang, the two defeated generals, in Tongguan and did not dare to come out, and he led the rest of the army to set up an ambush at the crossing of the Yellow River, and when the cavalry in the river was half crossed, Zhang Juyan's ambush protruded, and Wang Chongrong's five thousand cavalry were frightened of defeat and had to retreat to the river.

In this battle, Zhang Juyan showed great might, following the last successive defeat of Baoda, Dingnan and the three towns of the Zhenguo Army, this time he defeated the Zhenguo Army, the Heyang Army and the Hezhong Army, with a weak force, in the east of Chang'an, defeated the Tang Dynasty coalition army again and again, so that the main force of Shang Rang had no worries about the east, and effectively responded to the actions of the main force of the Qi army. For a while, his fame spread in Guanzhong and Kanto, and he became a famous general of the Qi Empire.

Fu Shangrang, the Taifu of the Qi Dynasty, took the opportunity to go all the way north, and the Guanzhong coalition army was defeated and retreated, and the Qi army chased all the way to Yijun Village.

Then, at this moment, something incredible happened.

In the second year of Zhonghe, the first snow came a little earlier than the coming and going, in the middle of summer in June, and as a result, heavy snow suddenly fell in Guanzhong.

This snow came a little early, too early. And not only early, but also big. In just a few days, the snow was more than a foot thick, and it was marching all the way to victory, and the army of Shang Rang, who was marching highly, had no preparation for the cold at all, most of them were even wearing thin clothes, and many people were even half-naked, as a result, a large number of Qi troops froze to death, and the direct non-combat attrition of three percent, and suddenly lost the ability to attack, so they had to hurriedly withdraw to Chang'an, and this time the original situation was very good and the great counteroffensive had to be abandoned halfway.

This June snowfall that happened in Guanzhong came inexplicably, not only causing heavy losses to the Qi army, but also to the Tang army from all walks of life. But relatively speaking, the Tang army took advantage of the weather to crush this fierce counterattack of the Qi army, and then, the Tang army, which had more logistics, began to counterattack Chang'an again.

The allied forces of the Western Front were defeated by the Qi army in the north, and once again attacked the outskirts of Chang'an.

After Huang Chao's Qi army escaped this sudden cold snap in Chang'an, it once again faced the Western Front coalition forces.

Huang Chao personally led the Qi army out of Chang'an, to meet the Fengxiang army, the two sides fought on the bank of the waterlogged river in western Beijing, Fengxiang Jiedu made Li Changyan although he successfully drove Zheng Zhen away, but when dealing with Huang Chao, he was a little incompetent. In a fierce battle, Li Changyan was defeated and retreated westward, and the Qi army once again advanced to martial arts.

Wang Duo was frightened, and he was in a hurry to defeat the two party members of Baoda and Dingnan, who were defeated by Huang Chao, and had just changed his name from Li Changxiao to Dongfang Kui. Eighteen thousand troops were ordered. But he struggled hard along the way. Constant procrastination.

However, at this time, although the Qi army rushed left and right, it seemed to be Ling Li, but it was already at the end of the strong crossbow, and it was difficult to continue. Their biggest fatal wound is that they don't have enough food and grass, and it's okay to fight back for a while, but it's impossible to change the fate of their destruction.

Huang Chao detected that Wang Duo had transported a batch of grain and grass from Sanchuan, and personally sent troops to grab grain, but as a result, he robbed hundreds of truckloads of grain in one fell swoop. But before he could be happy, Wang Duo immediately led his troops to kill and rob him. Huang Chao didn't have time to take away the food, and the troops were insufficient, so he had to bring a little bit with one person in the end, and the rest were all set on fire.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Fugong and Yang Fuguang brothers joined forces, and the soldiers and horses under the personal command of Er Yang reached 50,000 people, and at the same time, nearly 30,000 people were mobilized from Jingnan and Shannan to arrive. No matter how much he flutters. But I saw that the big net get tighter and tighter.

Chang'an West, Xianyang City.

"Brother thinks my plan is inappropriate?"

Yang Fugong looked at his brother Yang Fuguang and said. They are called brothers, but they are not really brothers. They are eunuchs who have been castrated into the palace since childhood, according to the customs of the palace, after entering the palace, worship the great eunuch as their father-in-law, the two of them are very lucky, and worship the Yang family, one of the four powerful eunuch families in the palace at that time. The two do not worship the same person, but their father-in-law worships the same person, so their relationship can be regarded as righteous brothers. In his early years, Yang Fugong had already relied on his father-in-law's relationship to become a lieutenant in the Shence Army early, and at that time Yang Fuguang was only a small overseer in the town.

But now, Yang Fuguang is no longer Wuxia Ameng, even Yang Fugong, and he has to look at this brother's face and act. Because, he only has 10,000 people under him, but Yang Fuguang has the handsome son of the Eight Towns Festival, and he also has more than 30,000 elites under his command.

Just now Yang Fugong proposed one thing to Yang Fuguang, that is, it is impossible for Huangchao to survive this year, after the destruction of Huangchao, they will lead the towns to exterminate Huangchao and recover the two capitals, and their Yang brothers will definitely increase their prestige at that time. He believes that today's son has completely fallen into the hands of Tian Lingzi, far away in Xichuan. And Tian Lingzi controlled Sanchuan, and it was too difficult to break into Sanchuan and recapture the Son of Heaven. But it can't be done without the Son of Heaven in hand, so he proposed that it would be better to simply abolish the Son of Heaven Li Yi and re-establish a Son of Heaven.

Yang Fugong has even thought about the candidate for the new son of heaven, Emperor Yizong has many sons, but when he set up Li Yi as the crown prince, he killed all the four elder brothers above Li Yi, who ranked fifth. Now Li Yi's son is still young and not in his hands, so it is impossible to set up his son. Yang Fugong planned to establish Yizong's son and Li Yi's younger brother. There are two most suitable candidates, Li Bao, the sixth brother of the emperor, and Li Jie, the seventh brother of the emperor, both of whom are the kind of smart princes.

Jiwang Li Bao is older and virtuous, and Shouwang Li Jie is also smart and virtuous, but Li Jie and Li Yi are compatriots of the same mother, and they are younger, only fifteen years old this year, Yang Fugong is more optimistic about Li Jie.

It's just that his proposal, but his brother Yang Fuguang doesn't seem to respond as enthusiastically as he imagined. He had been sitting there, silent for a long time, not knowing what Lu Dao was thinking.

"Brother, what do you think?" Yang Fugong asked patiently.

Yang Fuguang sighed after a long time, "My brother wants to abolish the current saint and re-establish the Son of Heaven, which is not unnecessary. It's just that we're worried about one person! ”

"Who?"

"Li Jing!" Yang Fuguang slowly said the name, and today, no one can avoid the name Li Jing. His strength, his prestige, is awe-inspiring.

Yang Fugong wants to abolish Li Yi and make Li Jie the Son of Heaven, in Yang Fuguang's view, this is not impossible. For more than 100 years, the Tang Dynasty has not known how many emperors have been established and abolished by eunuchs, or even killed. Today's Son of Heaven was still a good Son of Heaven, and he was not bad to their brothers, but now Li Yi has fallen into the hands of Tian Lingzi, and if he wants to take it back, he has to fight with Tian Lingzi. In the eyes of the two Yang brothers, this is a bit unattainable. Tian Lingzi is far away in Xichuan, Sanchuan is his territory, Sanchuan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is not much chance of winning if he goes there to fight. The most important thing is, how many people are willing to follow them to fight in Xichuan?

But without the Son of Heaven in hand, no matter how powerful the eunuchs are, they are congenitally insufficient.

Therefore, it is necessary to occupy the two capitals and re-establish a son of heaven.

But there is a very key question, Xichuan has a son of heaven, if they set up another one, how will Li Jing react?

Li Jing is the biggest vassal king today, his soldiers are strong and strong, Li Jing has not raised an anti-flag before, if they make two sons of heaven, Li Jing will also set up one when he arrives, it will also be a big problem. If Li Jing doesn't rebel for a while, it is still very important to them. As long as Li Jing still waved the banner of the Tang Dynasty for a day, they didn't have to fight the Qin army immediately for a day, and they could have time to unify the towns in Guanzhong, Henan.

"That's a problem, but now he doesn't care about our side, he's in Bohai now."

Yang Fugong is also very jealous of Li Jing, but he feels that Li Jing is not a problem now, after all, Li Jing has been developing in the north in the past few years, and he doesn't seem to have any intention of going south.

"It's better to add a new title to Li Jing and envelop him. As long as he doesn't interfere with us for the time being, that's fine. ”

"I hope so!" Yang Fuguang pinched his smooth chin. (To be continued......)