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The second year of Zhonghe, 882 AD.

In that year, Li Jing was thirty, Zhu Wen was thirty, Yang Xingmi was thirty, Qian Liu was thirty, Ma Yin was thirty, Li Keyong was thirty, Wang Jian was thirty, and Wang Rong was thirty.

Outside the pass, Yelu Abaoji was just a twelve-year-old boy at this time, and the royal family of the Bohai Kingdom had reached the late stage of its destruction. On the Sanhan Peninsula, Queen Jinman of Silla and Queen Zhang Yingying of Korea each occupied one side of the peninsula. Both sides were ready to get rid of each other and quickly. At the same time, a large-scale peasant uprising broke out in Silla. From the Central Plains to the pass, there were dark clouds of war everywhere.

Near Chang'an.

The emperor, who was held hostage by Tian Lingzi, issued an edict again, awarded the former prime minister Wang Duo's central secretary, and served as the chief of the capital of all the Daoxingxing. Under Li Jing, the Grand Marshal of the World, a commander-in-chief of the Tang Army, was established. At the same time, he issued an order to remove Yang Fuguang, the general political commissar of the Tang Army, from his position as the chief of the world's military commander. At Wang Duo's suggestion, Tian Lingzi threw out a lot of official hats in the name of the emperor, most of which were given to the commanders of the various vassal states who fought against the Qi army, and most of them were from Yang Fuguang's small alliance.

Tian Lingzi formally issued an edict to appoint Zhou Ji, the governor of Zhongwu, and Wang Chongrong, the governor of Hezhong, as the governor of Sima.

Zhuge Shuang, the governor of Heyang, and Zhu Quanzhong, the governor of Xuanwu, were appointed as the vanguard of left and right.

Li Quanzhong, the governor of Zhenguo Army, Li Xiaochang, the governor of Baoda, and Tuoba Sigong, the governor of Dingnan, served as the commander of the three sides of the north, east and west sides of the capital.

Zheng Cong-chi, the commander of the Eastern Capital Defense Capital, was the chief commander of the various road camps, and also gave Qin Zongquan, Lu Yanhong, Wang Chucun, Li Keyong and other additional camps to the chief commanders.

Wang Duo's proposals and Hetian Lingzi's concessions still had some results. At least, the Yang Fuguang brothers finally decided to defeat Huang Chao first and regain Guanzhong, and not to use force against Tian Lingzi for the time being, and both sides would not violate the river.

With mutual concessions between the two eunuchs, the decisive battle between the two eunuch forces did not occur. On the contrary, the towns began to send troops again, preparing to launch a final blow to Huang Chao in Chang'an.

Wang Duo, the new commander of the coalition, led a part of the troops drawn from Sanchuan to the Fuping Inspiration Temple near Chang'an. The Jingyuan army arrived in the western suburbs of Chang'an. A special troops from Yiwu and Hezhong towns entered Weibei. The two armies of Binning and Fengxiang were stationed in Xingping, and the two Dangxiang troops of the Baodahe Dingnan arrived at the Dongwei Bridge again.

Yang Fuguang led his newly-built Zhongwu Badu to station in Wugong.

Yang Fugong led his Shence Army to station in Shayuan.

The situation this time was almost exactly the same as the previous battle in Guanzhong. The Tang army's coalition towns once again threatened Chang'an from three sides of the east and west. At this time, the Daqi Dynasty ordered the passage of only one Huazhou and Chang'an were left.

If we count from the Battle of Longwei Pond planned by Zheng Ting, this is already the third siege of Guanzhong by the coalition forces of the towns.

The towns fought and stopped, and went in and retreated, and saw Huang Chao only breathing a sigh of relief, but their attacks became smaller. With Huang Chao about to perish, no one was willing to fight Huang Chao to death.

For the people of Guanzhong, the glory of the people under the feet of the emperor's capital has long gone, and now all that is left is endless dilemma. Whether it is the Qi army or the Tang army, there is almost no one who is not a robber.

The soldiers passed by like bandits. In order to avoid the war, the people in the capital area, as long as they could escape, almost all of them had escaped from the mountains and valleys, and built a mountain village to protect themselves. On the Wei River plain, the fertile farmland that once nurtured the Qin and Han Empires had been abandoned for several years, because of the years of abandonment, the wild grass and wild artemisia, and the great famine that had not been encountered in Guanzhong in a century has been shrouded in this mountain and river for several years.

In Chang'an City, which Huang Chao held, the price of a dou of rice had risen to 30,000 yuan. But in fact, 30,000 yuan of dou of rice had already been priced but had no market. Occasionally, some officers had stolen some military rations, and they had basically traded at the price of dou of rice and gold. This gold is not copper coins, but gold. Gold is used to exchange grains for grains, and it is also often priceless.

The famine is getting worse and worse, and the food is getting smaller and smaller. More than a dozen troops gathered on the Guanzhong Plain, and the daily food consumption is huge. Finally, human flesh transactions began to rise quietly among the armies. This human flesh transaction was not an erotic transaction, but a real human flesh transaction. The goods sold in these human flesh markets were all living people who were caught as meat. Most of them came from the mountain village villagers and the people in the outskirts of Chang'an. The soldiers directly judged the price of people's fat and thinness. Those with more meat could sell hundreds of trump cards, and those with less meat could sell hundreds of trump cards. At such a high price, even if ordinary people have the courage to eat human flesh, they still couldn't afford it.

On the contrary, because the coalition forces could still get some supplies from outside Guanzhong, the situation was slightly better. They were mainly sellers. The troops arrested Shanmin Township people and secretly sold them to Huang Chao's army in exchange for the gold, silver and treasures they had robbed. Huang Chao's army was trapped in Chang'an and had already started to eat human flesh. According to rumors outside, even the thief leaders such as Shangrang and Huang Chao had already started to eat human flesh.

The centipede worm died without being stagnant. The original Qi army was originally composed of robbers and refugees. Now that they have been trapped for several years, they have already completely turned into a demon army. In order to survive, they even ate human flesh. In order to survive, they are also actively planning to break the blockade, run rampant in the world again, and seize food.

Now, Chang'an has long been dead, which is why Huang Chao has been guarding Lantian Wu Pass after losing Tongguan. Wu Pass in the southwest is their only way to retreat. However, if they are not fully prepared, it is still difficult to escape from Chang'an's death. More than 100,000 Tang troops surrounded them, but the Qi army wanted to leave, but they dared not leave Chang'an, a solid fortress. The two sides confronted and consumed, but in general, it was becoming increasingly unfavorable to Huang Chao.

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

If you are sure of it, you must go up, but if you are not sure about creating it, you must go up.

However, at this time, Wang Chongrong claimed to have 100,000 troops. Although it was a bit exaggerated, the real elite was 30,000. The river was rich. His strength was far from comparable to the Qi army's partial army today. Moreover, he was under the danger of the Yellow River, and Li Quanzhong was guarding the flank. Therefore, the Qi army stretched out his head and hit the iron wall. After a bloody blow, he had to withdraw back to Huazhou. Huang Chao's test, as soon as he took action, he was defeated because his troops were defeated.

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

In May, Huang Chao planned and launched a large-scale counterattack, and used a large army to forge Xingping. The Tang coalition forces fought against the three towns of Jingyuan, Bining and Fengxiang, but were beaten by a group of desperate people who had long eaten human flesh and were frightened. The three towns actually failed and retreated and were forced to retreat to Fengtian.

Huang Chao won a small battle. He robbed a batch of grain from three towns. After a full meal, the entire army burst into tears. He hadn't eaten such delicious food for a long time. Then, they wiped away their tears and patted their stomachs. The main force attacked the two party Xiang armies, Baoda and Dingnan, which occupied Dongwei Bridge. These two party Xiang armies were defeated several times by the Qi army earlier, and this time they were the same. They had no intention of fighting the Qi army to the death. They collapsed as soon as they met. While retreating in a hurry, they asked Wang Duo, the governor of Lingyan Temple.

After receiving the report, Wang Duo did not lead his troops up, but immediately asked the Heyang Jiedushi Zhuge Shuang to send troops to reinforce the Dangxiang army.

Zhuge Shuang was very happy this time. After receiving the order, he immediately sent troops to restrain the Qi army. Huang Chao immediately ordered Zhang Juyan to go south to intercept Zhuge Shuang's troops and protect the flanks of Shangrang's army. The two armies fought west of Tongguan. As a result, Zhuge Shuang, a fence-leading scholar, was defeated by Zhang Juyan, a civil servant in the Great Qi army. He was defeated in Tongguan, the King of Ji, Li Quanzhong, who did not leave. On the other hand, he asked Wang Chongrong and Li Quanzhong for help.

Wang Chongrong knew the truth that he had lost his lips and had a cold 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 rescue. He and Li Quanzhong agreed that the cavalry in Hezhong Town would go out to Puyang on the east side of Guanzhong, crossed the Yellow River to the back of Zhang Juyan of Qi, and attacked Li Quanzhong's army and Heyang's defeated troops from the east to destroy Zhang Juyan. As a result, Zhang Juyan had already had a spy to detect Hezhong and Zhenguo. Zhang Juyan reacted very quickly. He divided a small team of troops and bluffed, and deterred Li Quanzhong and Zhuge Shuang, two defeated generals, did not dare to go out. He led the rest of the troops to ambush the Yellow River Ferry. When the cavalry in the river crossed halfway, Zhang Juyan ambushed the troops, and Wang Chongrong's five thousand cavalry were afraid of defeat and had to retreat to Hezhong.

In this battle, Zhang Juyan showed his power. After losing to Baoda last time, Dingnan and Zhenguo Army three towns, he defeated Zhenguo Army again this time. Heyang Army and Hezhong Army defeated the Tang Ting coalition forces in the east of Chang'an with a weak force, which made Shang Rang's main force have no worries and strongly supported the actions of the main force of the Qi army. He was once famous in Guandong, Guanzhong and became the famous general of the Qi Empire.

Shangrang, the Grand Tutor of Qi, took the opportunity to go north. The Guanzhong Allied Forces retreated step by step, and the Qi army chased him to Yijun Village.

Then, at this moment, something incredible happened.

In Guanzhong in the second year of Zhonghe, the first snow was earlier than the coming and going. It was midsummer in June, and it turned out that heavy snow suddenly fell in Guanzhong.

The snow came a little early, too early. Not only was it early, but it was also very large. In just a few days, the snow was more than a foot thick, and he was advancing all the way. Shang Rang's army was not prepared to keep the cold at all. Most of them were even wearing thin clothes, and many people were even half-naked. As a result, the Qi army was frozen to death in a large number of times, and the non-combat personnel were reduced by 30% and they lost their offensive ability and had to retreat to Chang'an in a hurry. This time, the counterattack was a big furious situation and had to give up halfway.

This June snow that happened in Guanzhong was inexplicably caused not only to cause heavy losses to the Qi army, but also to the Tang army in various ways also suffered heavy losses. But relatively speaking, the Tang army used the weather to smash the Qi army's fierce counterattack. Then, the Tang army, with more sufficient logistics, began to counterattack Chang'an again.

The Western Front Allied Forces took advantage of the Qi army's north and attacked the outskirts of Chang'an again.

After avoiding this sudden cold wave in Chang'an, Huang Chao's Qi army fought against the Western Front again.

Huang Chao personally led the Qi army out of Chang'an to fight against Fengxiang's army. The two sides fought a great battle on the banks of the Laoshui River in the west of Beijing. Although the Fengxiang Jieduan Li Changyan successfully drove Zheng Qi away, he was a little incompetent when dealing with Huang Chao. In a fierce battle, Li Changyan was defeated and retreated to the west, and the Qi army once again advanced to martial arts.

Wang Duo was frightened and was defeated by Huang Chao, the two Dangxiang people, who were defeated by Huang Chao, went to the rescue. They had just changed their name from Li Changxiao to the Baoda Jiedushi of Dongfang Kui. This time they refused to obey the order. Li Sigong, the governor of Dingnan, had a slightly better attitude and ordered 18,000 troops to send troops, but they worked hard along the way and continued to delay time.

However, although the Qi army rushed left and right at this time, it seemed to be Ling Li, it was already at the end of its strength and could not be sustained. Their biggest fatal flaw was that they did not continue their food and grass, and it was okay to fight back for a moment. But it would be impossible to change their destiny.

Huang Chao learned that Wang Duo had a batch of grain and grass from Sanchuan, and personally sent troops to grab the grain. As a result, he robbed hundreds of trucks of grain in one fell swoop. However, before he could be happy, Wang Duo immediately led his troops to rob it. Huang Chao had no time to take away the grain, and the troops were insufficient. In the end, he had to bring a little one and set the rest on fire.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Fugong and Yang Fuguang brothers joined forces, and the second Yang personally led the army to 50,000 troops. At the same time, nearly 30,000 people were mobilized from Jingnan and Shannan to arrive. Suddenly, the situation facing Huang Chao became more and more serious. No matter how he slapped, he was watching the big net get tighter and tighter.

West Chang'an, Xianyang City.

"Brother, do you think my plan is inappropriate?"

Yang Fugong looked at his subordinate brother Yang Fuguangdao. They were called brothers, but they were not real brothers. They were all eunuchs who were castrated into the palace since childhood. According to the customs in the palace, they became the eunuchs after entering the palace. They were very lucky and worshipped the Yang family, one of the four powerful families in the palace at that time. They did not worship the same person, but their adoptive father worshipped the same person. Therefore, their relationship was considered to be a Yicheng brother. In the early years, Yang Fugong had already become a high position as a Lieutenant of the Shence Army with his adoptive father's relationship, and at that time, Yang Fuguang was just a small supervisor in the town.

But now, Yang Fuguang is no longer the Ameng of Wu. Even Yang Fugong has to look at the brother's expression. Because he only has ten thousand people under his command, while Yang Fuguang has adopted son of the Eight Town Jieshuai, who also personally commanded more than 30,000 elite troops.

Just now, Yang Fugong asked Yang Fuguang something. That is, Huang Chao could not survive this year. After Huang Chao's demise, he led the towns to wipe out Huang Chao and recover the Yang brothers of the two capitals. He would definitely increase his prestige by then. He believed that if the son was completely in Tian Lingzi's hands today, he was far away in Xichuan. Tian Lingzi controlled Sanchuan, and it was too difficult to retake the emperor. But it would not be possible without the emperor. Therefore, he suggested that it would be better to just destroy the emperor Li Yan and re-establish another emperor.

Yang Fugong had even thought about the candidate for the new emperor. There were many sons of Emperor Yizong, but when he first established Li Yan as the crown prince, he killed all four brothers above Li Yan, who ranked fifth. Now Li Yan's son is still young and not in his hands, so it is impossible to establish his son. Yang Fugong planned to establish Yizong's son, Li Yan's younger brother. The most suitable ones are two candidates, the sixth brother, the king Ji, Li Bao, and the seventh brother, the king, the king, Li Jie, are both smart princes.

King Ji Li Bao is older and virtuous, while King Shou Li Jie is also smart and wise, but Li Jie and Li Yan are the same mother and younger, and are only fifteen years old this year. Yang Fugong is more optimistic about Li Jie.

But his suggestion did not seem to have responded as enthusiastically as he imagined. He sat there, silent for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.

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

Yang Fuguang sighed for a long time later, "Brother intends to abolish the current emperor and re-establish the emperor. This is not necessarily the case. It's just that we are worried about one person!"

"who?"

"Li Jing!" Yang Fuguang slowly said that name. Today, no one can avoid the name Li Jing. His strength and his reputation are awesome.

Yang Fugong wanted to depose Li Yan and make Li Jie the emperor. In Yang Fuguang's view, this was nothing wrong. For more than a hundred years, many emperors in the Tang Dynasty were supported and abolished and even killed by eunuchs. The emperor today was originally a good emperor and was not bad to their brothers, but now Li Yan fell into the hands of Tian Lingzi. If he wanted to take it back, he had to fight Tian Lingzi. In the eyes of the Yang brothers, both of them were a bit unworthy. Tian Lingzi was far away in Xichuan, and Sanchuan was his territory. Sanchuan was easy to defend but difficult to attack. If he went there to fight, he had no chance of winning. The most important thing is, how many people were willing to follow them to Xichuan to fight?

But without the emperor in hand, no matter how powerful the eunuchs have, they are inherently deficient.

Therefore, it is necessary to occupy the two capitals and re-establish one emperor.

But there is a very critical question. There is an emperor in Xichuan. If they set up another one, how would Li Jing react?

Li Jing is the largest vassal king now, with strong soldiers and strong horses. Li Jing has never raised the anti-bank before. If they created two emperors and Li Jing will establish one by one, it would be a big problem. If Li Jing does not oppose for a while, it will still be very important to them. As long as Li Jing is still under the banner of the Tang Dynasty one day, they will not have to fight with the Qin army immediately, and they can have time to unify the towns in Guanzhong, Henan.

"This is a problem, but now he doesn't care about our side. He is in Bohai now."

Yang Fugong was also very afraid of Li Jing, but he felt that Li Jing was not a problem now. After all, Li Jing has been developing in the north in recent years and seems to have no intention of moving south.

"It's better to add a new account to Li Jing and win him over. As long as he doesn't come and interfere with us for the time being, that's fine."
Chapter completed!