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10, the most frustrating day of leaving the temple (below)

Cars and horses, and pedestrians and bows and arrows are all on their waists.

The emperor's carriage fled east, and under the guards of court officials and generals, hurriedly followed the south bank of the Wei River. From time to time, there were slaves with mounts left behind, and there were also poor physical strength, horses died on the road, or damaged carriages, and the carriages were abandoned on the road...

The road was full of powerful people running in a hurry, and there were the wailing sounds of women, children, elderly and weak along the way.

Liu Xie, sitting in the golden car, listened to the crying of the women, children, elderly and weak who were abandoned on the road, and curled into a ball in pain.

Although he didn't have to drive on foot, Liu Xie also suffered from the bumpy journey. Of course, what made the young emperor most painful was that the Han country, which could be revived, was once again in a precarious situation.

Three days ago, the news of the defeat of Yang Ding and Dong Cheng's army reached Chang'an City, which immediately caused panic throughout the city.

The people in the city fled in panic, and the treacherous people took the opportunity to cause trouble. The surrendered soldiers of the defeated army were ready to move. The ministers and ministers were exhausted to deal with it. The entire Chang'an City had fallen into chaos.

Yang and Dong, who escaped for life and gathered up a small number of defeated soldiers, were even more sensational in order to cover up their mistakes in advancing, exaggerating the number and combat power of Li Jue's army, which made the emperor and officials panic and helpless.

The west of Chang'an City, which had lost its Fengshui defense line, had already opened. The emperor and officials found in despair that the vanguard of Li Jue's army, who had taken advantage of the victory, could face the city and besiege Chang'an City again.

Song Guo, Fu Wan's 20,000 new soldiers were brought back by Fu Wan, and the other 10,000 soldiers were commanded by Song Guo, and they were still purged of Zuo Fengyi's remnants.

How to deploy defense in Chang'an City and can it block the attack of Li Jue's army?

These two issues have become the focus of debate between the monarch, minister, civil and military officials in the court.

Only a few court officials proposed to defend Chang'an City to the death. The soldiers of the outer town, who had been waiting for a long time, came to help. Most of the remaining court officials advocated abandoning Chang'an City and fleeing to Zuo Fengyi, avoiding the fierce army of Li Jue's army.

Of course, because the emperor is not a sign of resignation, the court officials cannot be called a escaping, but can only be called a hunting.

Among them, Yang Ding, a lieutenant general in the court, was responsible for the emperor's hunting.

As defeated generals, Yang and Dong were already lucky enough to escape from the battlefield. They were anxious and frightened. They had no intention of defending Chang'an to death. They only hoped to escape to Zuo Fengyi and save their lives.

In desperation, Liu Xie could only accept the opinions of most court officials and agreed to leave Jingdong to hunt.

Although it was an escape, it was the last 200 years of the dynasty. The imperial treasures, Fu Xindian Ceremony, and thousands of books and files needed to carry by the Chang'an court, plus the weapons and supplies of the army, as well as officials, people, slaves and other personnel who followed the emperor to hunt east, the east hunting team still evolved into a huge tide of chariots and riding.

In order to prevent Li Jue's army from pursuing, the court officials also proposed to send envoys to Li Jue's army to discuss peace with Li Jue, while urgently summoning Song Guo and Zhang Xiu led his army back to protect the army.

Liu Xie also followed the advice and ordered the edict at once.

Li Jue, who had just been in danger of winning and returned to Chang'an, was not confused by the emperor's envoys to discuss peace. After resting the army, he continued to march eastward to pursue the emperor's carriage.

In Li Jue's opinion, the current situation is already accused of being a traitor, and his strength is even worse than before. How could he leave the young emperor as a hidden danger?

Even if the emperor was willing to negotiate peace at this time and continued to enthrone himself as the Grand Marshal, the emperor who had no choice but to escape the disaster settled down and hated his old hatred. He issued an edict to mobilize the troops of Ma Teng, Yan Xing and others to come to suppress him.

Therefore, even if Liu Xie dies, it is better than running away.

Soon, Li Jue, who continued to march eastward, fought with Song Guo, Zhang Xiu and other generals. Although Zhang Xiu relied on his own bravery and led his troops to repel the vanguard troops pursued by Li Jue's army, he could not stand the large number of people in Li Jue's army, and the generals had to guard the emperor and continue to hunt eastward.

Zuo Fengyi could not defend himself anymore and could only escape eastward.

So, in this way, it gradually evolved into today's scene of "Hou Feihou, Wang Feiwang, thousands of riders and thousands of riders rushed to Weinan".

Liu Xie, who was huddled in the car, remembered in his mind that when he left Chang'an City, the close servants in the palace supported him with a pale face and Xie Cheng outside the Bacheng Gate. When he fled on Zuo Fengyi's official road, the woman who was abandoned on both sides of the road cried and cried, crying, "Is it like a wild man to abandon me?"

What's even more terrifying is that when the road was muddy and difficult to move, Yang Ding and Dong Cheng ordered the soldiers to drive the Guizhou people to carry firewood and pave the way forward. However, the road was not paved yet, and the rumor was that Li Jue's army had arrived in pursuit. In panic, everyone did not distinguish between the authenticity and rushed forward, rushing forward to speed up their escape.

So the pedestrians pushed and trampled on each other, and the cyclists and riders directly crushed the people of Guizhou who were paving the road. At that time, Liu Xie, who was ups and downs on the emperor's carriage, not only heard the noise of the noise of the people and horses, but also vaguely heard the creaking sound.

Afterwards, Liu Xie, who had recovered from the chaos, learned from the mouth of the servants beside him that the creaking sound was the sound of heavy wheels running over the fallen Qian's head and breaking the bones of the Qian's head.

Liu Xie covered his face and cried, and could no longer eat a bite of food that day.

The Han emperor, known as the lord of all people, had already rushed over the Guizhou people by car in order to escape his life.

This is a test of life and death for the young emperor who is obsessed with inheriting orthodoxy and vaguely takes the revival of the Han Dynasty as his mission.

"Can't it be that the virtue of the hand has declined and the destiny of heaven has changed, and I will no longer be your lord!"

A heartless torture hit Liu Xie's soul deep, leaving him speechless. He did not dare to express this fatal question, but this thing that was a heart-to-rough question to him was entangled in his mind, causing him to have a split headache and he could not rest for a moment.

Suddenly, there was another turmoil outside the car. Liu Xie, who had shrunk into a ball to relieve the pain, heard the pedestrians running and shouting on the road outside, and the horses neighed uneasy. Before he could react, the huge carriage of Jingen's car also moaned and stopped on the road quickly.

Liu Xie was led forward by the huge inertia of leaning forward and hit the corner inside the carriage, but he did not dare to scream out the pain rashly, but struggled nervously and straightened his body, which was slightly tender, and listened vigilantly to the movement outside the car.

Could it be that Yang Ding and Zhang Xiu’s two generals rebelled?

This is the rumors that Liu Xie has heard from some court officials recently.

The emperor rushed eastward to Hongnong's territory, seeking the protection of General Duan Wei, the Pingdong, who could rely on the dangers of Tongguan to resist the pursuit of Li Jue's army, but he placed everyone's lives on the edge of Duan Wei's knife and chopping.

It doesn't matter if the emperor and all officials are, because although Duan Wei did not send troops to rescue Chang'an in time, he has always done the image of a loyal minister to the outside world.

Facing the emperor who came to Dongshou, Duan Wei would only be respectful and never act lightly humiliated. Even if he took a step back, the emperor was insulted by Duan Wei, but he was humiliated alive than staying in Zuo Fengyi and being humiliated by Li Jue's rioters.

But Yang Ding and Zhang Xiu were different. Yang Ding had a feud with Duan Wei when he was in Dongying, and Zhang Xiu had a deep hatred with Duan Wei. If Duan Wei had not attacked Shan County, how could he have fallen to this point today?

It can be said that Duan Wei is listed by Zhang Xiu as the second largest enemy after Yan Xing in Hedong.

Therefore, unlike the emperor's court officials, and from Dong Cheng, Song Guo, Yang Ding and Zhang Xiu strongly opposed it and fled to Hongnong to the east.

But if you don’t go to Hongnong, where can you go?

To the east of Guanzhong, Hedong County and Hongnong County are the closest ones. Could it be that the Han emperor still needs to escape into Shangjun and seek protection from the Qiang, Hu and barbarians?

Under Li Jue's aggressive military attack, the emperor and the generals of Xiliang had no choice but to flee east. Even Yang Ding and Zhang Xiu, who were fiercely opposed to going to Hongnong, had a disagreement arise between them.

Yang Ding opposed going to Hongnong, but did not oppose going to Hedong. In his opinion, controlling the emperor in his hands was like an excellent guise. When he brought it there, he could arouse other people's ideas and then take the opportunity to bargain with others.

It would be great if they could use the identity of the emperor to attract the Hedong troops who had defeated Guo Si's army to advance westward, and then use Yan Xing's military strength to recover the lost territory in Guanzhong, so that they could regain a foothold and breathe.

Zhang Xiu firmly opposed going to Hongnong and Hedong. In his opinion, Ma Teng, Han Sui, Wei Duan, and Handan merchant reinforcements who were guarding Zuo Fengyi and waiting for the west to be heard without any news were all much better than going to join Duan Wei and Yan Xing.

Of course, the emperor and all the generals in the army abandoned the towering Chang'an, so why would he still defend Zuo Fengyi? Zhang Xiu, who had no support, had to follow everyone's chariots and riding teams all the way east.

But along the way, rumors spread that Yang Ding and Zhang Xiu wanted to hijack the emperor's car to return to Zuo Fengyi, and even surrender to Li Jue.

Everyone was worried and were wary of Yang Ding and Zhang Xiu's movements. Fortunately, there were close ministers around the emperor who could see the situation clearly.

The Shizhong Liu Ai and Yang Qi have explained to Liu Xie more than once the importance of uniting the generals in the army and working together to resist Li Jue's pursuit of the army.

Therefore, Liu Xie did not listen to radical strategies proposed by some ministers such as "we must follow the power in urgent matters", "will rather kill the wrong ones than let go", and "taking the move first" and the generals in the army have been going all the way over the past few days and joined forces to repel several waves of pursuers, but they are still peaceful.

However, people's words are terrifying, and three of them become tigers, and this thorn remains in the heart of the young emperor.

Now, the Eastbound Convoy suddenly appeared in chaos and noisy, and this thorn appeared in Liu Xie's heart again.

Notes in the article:

"Han Guanyi": The emperor's law carriage is called a golden chariot, which drives six dragons to control the world.
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