When this sudden upheaval occurred, Cui Anqian was on top of the gate tower in Tongguan, which was the last gateway to guard Chang'an. For such an important gateway to Guanzhong, the emperor only sent 30,000 Shence troops to come, of which 20,000 were impostors and beggars.

In the end, he didn't dare to leave these people in Tongguan, and arranged for these Shence troops to go to the forbidden ditch and handed them over to Qi Kerang to command. Here, he, Du Xian, and Zhang Zimian personally led 20,000 soldiers and horses to guard the town. On this day, as usual, Cui Anqian hurriedly inspected the fortifications of Guancheng with the guards, and then talked with Li Fu, the defender of the city, for half an hour, and before he knew it, it was already evening.

Although the Huang Chao Army has been coming to knock on the pass every few months, there are not many soldiers and horses sent by the grass thieves every time.

But what Cui Anqian didn't expect was that when the grass thieves were killed again, this time the battle was so fierce.

From the evening, the defenders on the pass felt that the situation was very wrong today, because today's Huangchao Lin Yan's troops on the opposite side were contrary to the usual, and launched an attack in the evening, dispatching one or two thousand people at a time, but it continued.

Waves of attacks were like a tide, and in less than half an hour, a thousand-man team was replaced. With such a continuous attack, there is no intention of stopping at all.

General Zuo Weiwei and Deputy Envoy Zhang Zimian raised the clairvoyant mirror suspiciously and looked at the front of the pass, where there was a fire, and noisy voices came everywhere. The grass thief actually wants to fight at night. And every time, only so many people were sent. It's clearly a refueling tactic.

If something goes wrong, it's a demon. He was suspicious of this abnormal situation, and had a faint sense of foreboding in his heart, so he turned his head to the herald and said: "it, there is going to be an accident tonight, pass on my order, double the number of officers and soldiers on duty, and send rangers out of the city to investigate, and closely observe the movements outside the pass." "Finished. He hurried to the camp in the gate.

Back at the camp general's mansion, Zhang Zimian told Cui Anqian and Du Xian about the anomaly he had observed.

"I heard that Li Jinggang won several battles in Huaisi, defeated Gao Biao first, took Hao, Chu, and Shouhuainan Prefectures, and then captured Suzhou, and is now besieging Xuzhou. The puppet Qi army was defeated in Suzhou. And Bianzhou Zhu Wen was newly defeated by Yu Xuan, Kang Chengxue, and Xin Yan. Now that Suzhou has fallen into the hands of Li Jing, Xuzhou is completely surrounded by Li Jing and Xin Yan, and the grass thieves are in an unfavorable situation in the east and have been defeated one after another. ”

Du Xian also nodded, the current situation. Li Jing besieged Xuzhou, and it was only a matter of time before he took it. And after Li Jing took Xuzhou. Huaisi integrates Unicom and controls it in hand. For the Huanghuai region, it is completely stable. It can be said that after these battles, Li Jing has completely stabilized his position, and although Huangchao controls the Luoyang area, he has lost the capital to fight for the area east of the canal.

"Or maybe it's because of the Yellow Nest's successive defeats in the east that they will start trying to move west." Du Xian analyzed the situation, "At present, in the West Xingshu of the Son of Heaven, Chang'an has no one in charge, Guanzhong is empty, and the defenders of Tongguan are only twenty or thirty thousand people. And what's even more critical is that we are out of food, and Huang Chao must have known the news for a long time. ”

Speaking of this, Du Xian couldn't help but sigh. The emperor abandoned Chang'an and ran away, which was a great blow to the morale of the army. What's worse is that they are out of food. When the emperor left, he sent someone to pull out a batch of money for Tongguan.

10 million yuan, a lot of money. But this 10 million yuan is not real money, but boxes of banknotes.

If these banknotes were Dengzhou banknotes, they were newly printed by the imperial court. In just a few months, it is said that the imperial court has printed a full 100 million pieces of paper yarn, and there are even 100 pieces of paper in denominations.

But compared with Dengzhou's banknotes, these banknotes are worthless at all. The price of grain in Chang'an is now 30,000 yuan a bucket of rice, and if you use paper money, 30,000 yuan may not be exchanged for a bucket of rice. Although each soldier was given hundreds of banknotes, these banknotes could not even buy a piece of bread.

Cui Anqian and others also sent people to Chang'an several times to urge food, but now Chang'an is in a mess, and they can't even find anyone in charge.

"It is estimated that Huang Chao has also found out our situation, he can't beat Li Jing in the east, and now he is ready to attack Guanzhong." Zhang Zi exhorted.

Cui Anqian was silent, the matter has come to this day, how can this Tongguan be kept. But what can he do, can he abandon Tongguan and go? This is a complete dead end, and Cui Anqian, a loyal courtier, can only sigh.

"Take out the last bit of grain in the warehouse and distribute it to the soldiers." Cui An sighed.

Cui Anqian took out all the last bit of food in the warehouse and distributed it to everyone for a full meal. When everyone has eaten a full meal, the grass thief is still attacking without pain. Zhang Zimian took the initiative to ask for battle, "It's better to let a certain adventure lead the elite out of the city to attack the thief camp at night." ”

At present, even if the gate is guarded, there will be no food for a few days. It's better to take the initiative, if you can win, there is still a chance.

"Pontus is with you."

In the middle of the night, the gate of Tongguan suddenly opened, and Cui Anqian, Zhang Zimian and Du Xian led 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city, leaving only more than 1,000 old and weak to defend the city, and the rest took risks to fight.

In this battle, Cui Anqian and the three of them all had some meaning of seeing death as home.

The Tang army, who suddenly killed out of the city, was caught off guard by the grass thieves at first, and the grass thieves did not expect that the Tang army would dare to come out of the city with the whole army at this time. The two armies fought, and most of the grass thieves in the front were young and strong with new moves, but they were chopped melons and vegetables by a meal, and they scattered and fled. Cui Anqian didn't pursue them, but just rushed straight to the grass thief camp.

To the surprise of Cui Anqian and others, they went very smoothly, and the momentum along the way was like a bamboo, and the grass thieves were almost crushed at the touch of a button, and they soon had already killed the grass thieves camp.

Although things are a little weird, at this time, Cui Anqian and the others have no choice, even if they know that it is a tiger's den, they have to break into it bravely.

The third general Cui Anqian led 20,000 soldiers and horses to finally rush into the camp, but they soon found that it was only an empty camp.

The three generals looked at each other.

Where did the grass thief go?

Zhang Zimian shouted: "Oh no." The grass thieves sent people to feign to attack the fortified city. Most of them went to attack the forbidden ditch at night. ”

Cui Anqian and the others couldn't help but change their faces when they heard this. I thought of this possibility.

At this moment, Tongguan behind them suddenly burst into flames!

The forbidden ditch guards Qi Kerang and Wang Shihui and Zhang Chengfan generals have already rebelled and surrendered to Huangchao, and at this time they became the vanguard of Huangchao, taking advantage of the opportunity of Cui Anqian's three generals to attack the remaining soldiers and horses in Guancheng and capture Guancheng.

Cui Anqian and the others were shocked, and led the troops to kill under the city.

But at this time, the city was closed. The city was lit with fire. The soldiers and horses under Ren Cheng shouted loudly to open the door, but no one answered, and after a while, Qi Kerang appeared under the Guancheng, and said to Cui Anqian: "Cui Shuai, Du Shuai, Zhang Shuai!" ”

When the three of them saw that the person in the city was actually Zikerang, they were both shocked and angry for a while, and they all understood what had happened.

"Zikrang, why did you become a thief?" Cui Anqian was furious.

Qi Kerang was a little lonely and said: "The Son of Chang'an doesn't care about this world anymore, so why should I give my life for him?" At the end of the day, it's just a bite to eat! ”

Cui An was speechless. With a gloomy expression, he looked at the army behind him. also understands that Tongguan can't go back.

Tongguan can't go back, where are you going? All the soldiers were at a loss, the Son of Heaven abandoned them, and now the friendly forces were also on the verge of defection.

Cui Anqian was helpless, he couldn't go back to the pass, and there were grass thieves guarding the east. Cui Anqian had to take the soldiers and horses south, preparing to go to Shandong, and then returned to Guanzhong from Wuguan. It's just that he wants to go, and the grass thief doesn't intend to let them go.

Soon after, the Great Qi Emperor Huang Chao personally led his army to the front line, and the white banners of the Great Qi were overwhelming, covering the fields.

The third general Cui Anqian led 20,000 of his subordinates to rush left and right, fighting from night to day, killing while walking, until the next afternoon, when the hungry officers and soldiers finally collapsed, and under the siege of as many as 300,000 grass thieves all over the mountains and fields, they continued to collapse.

On the evening of June 20, Emperor Huang Chao of Great Qi led his army into Tongguan, and Qi Kerang, Lin Yan and others went out to greet him.

On the 22nd, there was already bad news in Chang'an City that Tongguan was lost.

Several princes, ministers, and prime ministers who stayed in Beijing panicked when they heard the news. They gathered together and discussed for a long time, but there was nothing they could do. The meeting was only halfway open, and at this time there were rumors that the strikers of Huangchao had already driven into Chang'an, and no one was willing to go to the core of the real situation at this time.

Thirty-six strategies, go for the best policy.

Later, the news of the escape of the Jingshi left-behind team appointed by the emperor came out, and the entire Chang'an City was boiling. The last time the emperor quietly fled, it had already triggered a wave of Chang'an officials and ordinary people fleeing. However, Tongguan was still in the hands of the imperial court at that time, and after such a long time, the mood in the city stabilized a little. But now that Tongguan is lost, the officials who stayed behind have fled again, and now all the remaining civil and military officials, relatives of the emperor, and ordinary people were shocked, and they hurriedly packed up their soft luggage, dragged their families with their mouths, fled and hidden.

Soon, this metropolis of the world fell into a state of lawless chaos, and the soldiers who took the opportunity to make trouble, the ruffians in the city, and the people and citizens of the city broke into the royal palace, the treasury of the state, and the mansions of those officials, and began to loot.

In fact, at dusk on this day, the cavalry of Lin Yansuo, the vanguard of Huangchao, had just passed Tongzhou and entered Jingzhao, and there was still half a day's way from Chang'an.

In the afternoon of the next day, Lin Yan led 5,000 light horsemen to the city of Chang'an.

What Lin Yan didn't expect was that this capital of the world, Baihui City, at this time, there was not a single soldier, just like the cities they passed through all the way from Tongguan in the past two days, without encountering the slightest resistance.

Chang'an City has already opened its doors, and Zhang Zhifang, the envoy of Lu Longjiedu, who was ousted by the mutiny 30 years ago, has been doing an idle post in Beijing for all these years as a nominal general of Zuo Jin Wuwei. After being silent for thirty years, today, the former Marshal Lu Long, but unwilling to be lonely, organized dozens of Tang Dynasty civil and military officials who did not flee in the city to welcome the arrival of the Great Qi army in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an!

Lin Yan, who originally thought that there would be a hard fight, was a little stunned, and after a long time, he finally determined that this was true. Chang'an, the capital division of the Tang Dynasty, was taken down by him without blood. (To be continued......)