When this sudden upheaval occurred, the emperor sent Cui Anqian to be on the Guanlou in Tongguan. This was the last gateway to guard Chang'an. As the imperial envoy appointed by the court, Cui Anqian's hair was almost white for the past few days. In such an important gateway to Guanzhong, the emperor only sent 30,000 troops of Shen Ce, of which 20,000 were impersonated refugees and beggars.

In the end, he did not dare to leave these people at Tongguan, and arranged these Shence troops to go to Jingou and handed them over to the command of Zike Rang. Here, he, Du Qing and Zhang Zimian led 20,000 troops to guard the vassal states. As usual, Cui Anqian hurriedly inspected the fortifications of the city with his guards, and then talked with Li Fu, the defenders on the city for a short time. Before he knew it, it was already evening.

Although Huang Chao's army has been coming to knock on the gate every few months in recent months, the thieves don't dispatch many troops every time. With the dangerous city of Guanxiong, Cui Anqian and others have repelled the thieves every time.

But what Cui Anqian did not expect was that when the thieves came again, the war was so fierce.

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

A ** offense was like a tide. In less than half an hour, another thousand-man team was replaced. Such a continuous attack had no intention of stopping.

The General of the Left Wei Guard, Zhang Zimian, raised the Qianli Milestone in confusion, and looked at the front of the pass. There were fires and noisy sounds everywhere. The thief actually wanted to fight at night. And every time, he only sent more than a thousand people. It was obviously a tactic of adding fuel to the oil.

If something abnormal happens, it will be a monster. He was doubtful about this abnormal situation and had a vague premonition in his heart. He turned his head and said to the messenger: "Damn it, 80% of the incident will happen tonight. I will send me the order to double the number of officers and soldiers on duty. In addition, he sent a cavalry out of the city to investigate and closely observe the movements outside the pass." After that, he hurried to the camp within the pass.

Back at the camp, Zhang Zimian told Cui Anqian and Du Qing about the abnormal situation he had observed.

"I heard that Li Jing had won several consecutive victories in Huai Si, first defeating Gao Pian, taking over the three prefectures of Hao, Chu, and Shou Huainan, and then capturing Suzhou. Now that the pseudo-Qi defeated Suzhou, the pseudo-Qi defeated Suzhou. And Zhu Wen of Bianzhou was defeated by Yu Ren, Kang Chenghui and Xin Xi. Now Suzhou is in the hands of Li Jing, Xuzhou is completely surrounded by Li Jing and Xin Xi. The situation in the east is unfavorable and has been defeated one after another."

Du Qing also nodded. The current situation is that Li Jing besieged Xuzhou, and it is only a matter of time before Li Jing takes over. After Li Jing takes over Xuzhou, Huai and Si integrate China Unicom and control it. The Huanghuai region is completely stable. Control the Huai River from east to west and Biansi from north to south. It can be said that after these battles, Li Jing has completely stabilized his position. Although Huang Chao controls the Luoyang area, he has lost the capital to compete for the area east of the canal.

"It may be because Huang Chao lost consecutively in the east that he began to try to advance westward." Du Qing analyzed the situation, "At present, the emperor is lucky to Shuzhong, and there is no one in charge in Chang'an. Guanzhong is empty, and there are only 20,000 to 30,000 people who can fight in Tongguan. What's more important is that we have no food, and Huang Chao must have known this news a long time ago."

Speaking of this, Du Qing couldn't help but sigh. The emperor left Chang'an and ran away, which had a huge blow to the morale of the military. What's even more terrible is that they had no food. When the emperor left, he sent someone to pull out a batch of money for Tongguan.

Ten million guan is a lot of money. But these ten million guan is not real money, but boxes of paper money.

It would be better if these paper banknotes were from Dengzhou, but they were newly printed by the imperial court. In just a few months, it is said that the imperial court has printed a total of 100 million shiny pieces of paper, and the denomination is even 100 million shiny pieces per piece.

But compared with the paper banknotes in Dengzhou, these paper banknotes are worthless at all. The price of grain in Chang'an is now 30,000 yuan per dou of rice, but if you use paper banknotes, 30,000 guan may not be able to exchange for a bucket of rice. Although each soldier has hundreds of guannotes, these paper banknotes cannot even be bought with a piece of cake.

Cui Anqian and others also sent people to Chang'an to urge grain several times, but now Chang'an is in chaos and even the person in charge cannot be found.

"I guess Huang Chao has also found out about our situation. He can't beat Li Jing in the east and is now ready to attack Guanzhong." Zhang Zimian said.

Cui An was silent. Today, how can Tongguan be guarded? But what can he do? Should he abandon Tongguan? This is a complete death. Cui Anqian, the loyal minister, could only sigh.

"Take out the last bit of food in the warehouse and share it with the soldiers." Cui Anqian sighed.

Cui Anqian took out all the last bit of food in the warehouse and gave it to everyone to have a full meal. When everyone had a full meal, the thieves at the gate were still attacking without any pain. Zhang Zimian took the initiative to ask for the battle, "It would be better to let a certain adventure lead the elite out of the city to attack the thief camp at night."

At the moment, even if you are under the control of the pass, you will not be able to defend for a few days without food. It is better to take the initiative to attack. If you can win, there will be a chance.

"The president is with you."

In the middle of the night, the gate of Tongguan suddenly opened. Cui Anqian, Zhang Zimian and Du Qing led all 20,000 troops from the city, leaving only more than a thousand old and weak to defend the city, and the rest took a risky battle.

During this battle, Cui Anqian and the other two were all aware of being ready to die.

The Tang army suddenly broke out of the city and caught the thief off guard at first. The thief did not expect that the Tang army would dare to come out of the city at this time. The two armies fought, and most of the thiefs in the front were young and strong, but they were cut melons and vegetables and fled in scattered. Cui Anqian did not pursue them, but rushed straight to the thief camp.

To Cui Anqian and others' surprise, they were very smooth, and they were in a state of great success along the way. The thieves were almost at a loss. They soon rushed to the camp of the thieves at the gate.

Although the matter was a bit strange, Cui Anqian and others had no choice at this time. Even if they knew it was a tiger's den, they had to bravely break in.

Cui Anqian's three generals led 20,000 troops and finally rushed into the camp, but they soon discovered that this was just an empty camp.

The three generals looked at each other in a glance.

Where have the thief gone?

Zhang Zimian shouted: "Not good. The thief sent people to attack Guancheng. Most of them went to attack the ban ditch at night."

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

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

The defender of Jingou, Zike, met with the King's Army. Zhang Chengfan and other generals had already turned against each other and surrendered Huang Chao. At this time, they became Huang Chao's vanguard. Taking advantage of the opportunity of Cui Anqian's three elite soldiers, they attacked the remaining troops in Guancheng in one fell swoop and captured Guancheng.

Cui Anqian and others were shocked and led their troops to the bottom of the city.

But at this time, Guancheng was closed. The fires were spotted on the city. The soldiers and horses under Rencheng shouted loudly to open the door, but no one answered. After a while, Zike Rang appeared under Guancheng and clasped his fists at Cui Anqian and said, "Shishuai Cui, Shuai Du, Shuai Zhang!"

The three of them saw clearly that the person in the city was Zikejen. They were both shocked and angry for a moment, and they all understood what had happened.

"Zikejen, why are you joining the thief?" Cui Anqian was furious.

Zike said a little lonely: "The Emperor of Chang'an doesn't care about the world anymore, why should we die for him? In the end, we just want a bite of food!"

Cui Anqian was speechless, with a sad expression, and looked at the army behind him. He also understood that Tongguan could not go back.

If you can't go back to Tongguan, where are you going? All the soldiers were confused. The emperor abandoned them and now the friendly forces are turning against each other.

Cui Anqian and others were helpless and could not go back inside the pass, and there were thieves guarding the east. In the end, Cui Anqian had to take his troops south and prepare to go to Shandong, and finally return to Guanzhong from Wuguan. But he wanted to leave, but the thieves did not intend to let them go.

Not long after, Emperor Huang Chao of the Great Qi personally led his army to the front line, and the white flags of the Great Qi rushed over and covered the fields.

Cui Anqian's three generals led 20,000 troops to rush left and right, fighting from night to day, and fighting until the You hour of the next afternoon. The hungry officers and soldiers finally collapsed. Under the besieged army of thieves of up to 300,000, the siege of thieves was sieged all over the mountains and fields, they continued to collapse.

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

On the 22nd, the bad news of the fall of Tongguan was already heard in Chang'an City.

When several princes, ministers and prime ministers who were left behind in the capital heard the news, they were all panicked. They gathered together for a long time, but there was no solution. The meeting was only halfway through, and there was a rumor that Huang Chao's forward had already entered Chang'an, and no one was willing to focus on the real situation at this time.

Thirty-six strategies, the best strategy is to go.

Later, news of the emperor's left-behind team fleeing in the capital was heard, and the whole city of Chang'an was in a turmoil. The last time the emperor fled quietly, it had already triggered a wave of Chang'an officials and people escaping. However, Tongguan was still in the hands of the court, and after so long, the mood in the city had stabilized slightly. But now Tongguan is lost, and the officials who stayed behind have fled again in a blink of an eye. Now all the remaining civil and military officials, royal relatives, and civilians were shocked, and they quickly packed their luggage, dragged their families with their families, fled and hid.

Soon, the world's metropolis fell into a state of lawless chaos. The soldiers who took the opportunity to make trouble, the gangsters in the city, and the citizens of the city broke into the royal palaces, the national treasury, and the palaces of those officials, and began to rob.

In fact, at dusk that day, the cavalry of Huang Chao's vanguard Lin Yan's troops had just passed Tongzhou and entered Jingzhao, and it was still half a day away from Chang'an.

On the afternoon of the next day, Lin Yan led five thousand light cavalry to the city of Chang'an.

What Lin Yan didn't expect was that this world-class capital, Baihui City, had no soldiers at this time, just like the cities they passed through Tongguan all the past two days, without any resistance.

The gate of Chang'an City has long been opened. Zhang Zhifang, the governor of Lulong, who was expelled from power by a mutiny thirty years ago, has been working as a vacancies in the capital for many years. He has been silent for thirty years. Today, this former General Lulong, who was unwilling to be lonely, organized dozens of civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty who had not escaped from the city to welcome the arrival of the Great Qi army in Bashang, the eastern suburbs of Chang'an!
Chapter completed!