An Lushan has been watching the battle from a high place.
Seeing Li Longji's banner fall over and begin to retreat, An Lushan immediately realized that it must be the Yiluohe led by An Qingxu that defeated the Tang Army's central formation.
At that moment, An Lushan shouted excitedly.
"Li Longji ran away!"
"The Tang army was defeated!"
The next moment, the soldiers around An Lushan also started shouting.
"Li Longji ran away!"
"The Tang army was defeated!"
Then, more rebels joined in the shouting.
In the end, all the rebels began to cheer like a tsunami.
Accompanied by cheers like a tsunami, the morale of the rebels was greatly boosted, while the morale of the Tang army fell to the bottom.
As a result, the Tang army that Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Pugu Huai'en and other famous generals had struggled to support collapsed in an instant. Even if Guo Ziyi and the others shouted at the top of their lungs, they could no longer stop the decline.
"Commander, you can't do anything serious. Get out quickly."
Pugu Huai'en ran to Guo Ziyi and persuaded him: "If it's too late, we won't be able to leave."
"No, we can't retreat!" Guo Ziyi roared with astonishment, "If you pass my general order, even if you die, you will be nailed to me on the battle formation. No retreat is allowed. No one is allowed to take a step back. Anyone who disobeys the order cut!"
Pugu Huaien had no choice but to wink at Guo Yao who was behind Guo Ziyi.
Guo Yao secretly thought that he had offended his grandfather, and then struck Guo Ziyi on the back of the neck with his palm.
Guo Ziyi immediately groaned and fell to the ground. Guo Yao and Pugu Huai'en quickly stepped forward to help him.
Pugu Huaien looked around again and shouted sharply: "Commander Jie has given orders, the whole army retreats, retreats..."
In fact, there is no need to send orders at all, because the Tang army has collapsed under the fierce attack of the rebels. The first to collapse were the Uighur cavalry on the left, then the Qiang, Dangxiang, Mi Yao and other vassal states' infantry and cavalry on the right, and finally the middle. Seventy-eight thousand Longyou Heshuo's elite soldiers and hundreds of thousands of horses only hated my mother-in-law for having two legs, and fled westward all over the mountains and plains.
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Li Longji had abandoned his car and replaced his horse, and fled westward wildly surrounded by Gao Lishi and other cronies.
It is said that Li Longji's health is really good. He is already sixty-nine years old, but his physical fitness is no worse than that of middle-aged warriors in their forties or fifties. At least he will not fall off the back of a galloping horse.
Gao Lishi is one year older than Li Longji, but his physical condition is also excellent.
The two old men, surrounded by hundreds of Jinwu guards, fled along the official road towards Tongguan.
It didn't take long for the rebel cavalry to catch up. Moreover, these rebel cavalry were extremely skilled in archery. Along with the sound of arrows piercing the air, arrows from the Jinwu Guards were constantly falling from their horses.
In just a moment, there were only a hundred horses left in the Jinwu Guard.
The only good thing is that the mountain road is very narrow, so the rebels can't detour from both sides.
Otherwise, not to mention a few hundred Jinwu Guards, even tens of thousands of Jinwu Guards would be killed.
"My eldest father, please return to Tongguan quickly. My grandson, go and stop the pursuers behind you!" Seeing the rebels behind him getting closer and closer, a grandson of the emperor suddenly reined in his horse and turned back, and actually launched a countercharge towards the rebels.
"Prince Jianning, please wait a moment, I will go with you!"
Following the echo, a Jinwu Guard rode up to follow.
"We are also willing to go." More Jinwu guards reined up their horses and followed.
In the blink of an eye, more than fifty Jinwu Guards mounted a counterattack.
Li Longji glanced back while running and couldn't help but ask: "Who is this?"
Gao Lishi rode up to catch up with Li Longji and said, "The saint is the king of Jianning County."
"Li Tan?" Li Longji said happily, "Master Tian, my Li family still has a few decent descendants, and not all of them are dead weight."
It's a pity that Li Tan, the emperor's grandson, may not be able to survive.
Thinking of this, Li Longji felt sad, what a good grandson he was, just gone.
However, the counterattack by Li Tan and more than fifty Jinwu Guards was not fruitless. With their attack, the rebels' pursuit momentum was immediately halted, and Li Longji was able to escape calmly.
After Li Longji waited for dozens of riders to escape, he ran hundreds of miles all the way to Tongguan.
However, before Li Longji could breathe a sigh of relief, arrows suddenly rained down on Guancheng.
Li Longji hurriedly reined in his horse and ran away, but he was still hit by several arrows. Fortunately, it was not a big problem because he was wearing Mingguang armor.
But this surprise is not trivial. What is going on? Could it be that Ge Shuhan, who was stationed in Tongguan, had a grudge in his heart, so he accepted An Lushan's solicitation and went against the grain? If that were the case, he would really be dead.
Gao Lishi and other confidants were also at a loss, and now they were really desperate.
Immediately afterwards, the east gate of Guancheng slowly opened. Flags were waving in the corridor of the city gate, and the sound of killing was loud. It seemed that a cavalry was preparing to fight out from the pass.
Just when Li Longji didn't know what to do, a shout of kill suddenly came from the left side.
"God, do I, Li Longji, really want to die here?" Li Longji couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh.
The current situation is that Tongguan is blocking the road in front, and rebels are chasing behind him. As a result, an ambush is also coming out of the Yuanwang Valley on the left. Li Longji has only one way to jump north to the Yellow River.
Yes, if you don’t want to be a prisoner of the rebels, you can only jump into the Yellow River.
Li Longji gritted his teeth and closed his eyes. Just as he was about to urge his horse to jump into the Yellow River, he heard a faint cry in his ears: "Saint! Old minister Shu Han arrived too late to save me. He will be punished by death!"
Gao Lishi said with great joy: "The saint is not a rebel, but Ge Shujieshuai!"
When Li Longji took a closer look, he realized that the ambush troops fighting out of the Yuanwang Valley on the left were not rebels, but the Longyou Army. They just did not display the banner of Ge Shuhan, but the Longyou Army and An Lushan's Hebei Rebels The army is still easy to identify, because most of the Longyou army wears black hammer armor, and most of the Hebei rebels wear fine scale armor.
Before the rebels in the pass attacked, Ge Shuhan's Longyou Army arrived first, and then protected Li Longji all the way back into the depths of Yuanwang Valley. The rebels chased for a while and then withdrew their troops back to Tongguan.
Obviously, the rebels did not want to risk losing Tongguan.
Li Longji followed Ge Shuhan into the depths of Yuanwang Valley, and then climbed a long steep slope to Tongguanyuan, where he saw the old Tongguan City of the Han Dynasty, but the old Tongguan City had been abandoned for many years and the city walls collapsed.
Entering Jiuguan City, I saw the Longyou Army and a few people repairing the city wall.
Only then did Li Longji finally ask the question in his mind: "Brother Shuhan, how did Tongguan get lost?"
"Sage, the old minister was careless." Ge Shuhan said with shame, "After the sage led the army to leave, the old minister was worried about the lack of troops, so he put all the troops in front, leaving only a small number of troops to guard the back. The result was unexpected , the rebels actually sent a group of elite soldiers from the forbidden ditch to sneak around behind Tongguan, and launched a surprise attack at night, so..."
Seeing that Li Longji showed no sign of anger, Ge Shuhan continued: "While the rebels behind him launched a sneak attack, the rebels in front of Tongguan also launched a fierce attack with all their strength. The old minister saw that there was nothing he could do. For the sake of the country and the country of the Tang Dynasty, To make a plan, we quickly retreated to the old Guan City in the Han Dynasty with the remaining 3,000 Longyou troops."
Li Longji sighed and said sadly: "Brother Shuhan, brother Shuhan, your retreat has saved me, but the Tang Dynasty may be defeated because of your retreat, because once Tongguan is lost, the rebellion will The army can break through the pass, but now Chang'an's defense is extremely empty, and the Tang Dynasty is probably... really going to perish."
"Saint!" Ge Shuhan was so frightened that he fell to his knees.
This crime was too big, and his brother Shu Han really couldn't afford it.
"Get up, I don't blame you for this, it's because I underestimated the enemy."
Li Longji lifted Ge Shuhan up and said, "I deeply regret it."
Li Longji really regretted it. It would have been better if he had listened to Master Lu Tianshi's advice.
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At the same time, An Lushan also learned that Cui Qianyou had captured Tongguan.
"Hahaha, great things are coming!" An Lushan looked up to the sky and smiled. "Once Tongguan is passed, my hundreds of thousands of troops can invade the pass, and Chang'an will no longer be in danger! Haha, Yang Taizhen, I'm here too !”
When the two armies formed a circle before, An Lushan never left Yang Taizhen, but only used scheming.
But at this moment, An Lushan's heart really became hot, because the prosperous Chang'an City, the countless beauties including Yang Taizhen in Chang'an City, and the countless gold and silver jewelry were waving to him.
"Chang'an, I'm here!" An Lushan pointed his sword at Chang'an and looked up to the sky and howled.
After a pause, he shouted again: "Preach the decree that after breaking Chang'an City, the sword will not be sealed for ten days!"
The next moment, the hundreds of thousands of rebels behind An Lushan cheered like a tsunami again.
