After An Lushan's rebels crossed the river and entered Heluo, Puyang Prefect Li Zhi, King of Wu, relied on his reputation as the Li Tang royal family and the brother of King Xin'an, Li Wei, torpedo. Since Puyang was on the east side of Lingchang, the rebels who rushed straight to Luoyang did not bet too much on his side at first, he actually defended Puyang.

But immediately after Cui Ganyou's rebels entered Guanzhong, they failed to siege Chang'an and returned and failed. Shi Siming and Cai Xide led their troops back to Hebei one after another to deal with the Anbei army. When they found that the Heluo rebels began to be different from the previous momentum, Li Zhi's command of Mu Zu and other generals tried their best to persuade the commander to set off Lingchang, echoing the Duguo army on the west and Anbei troops on the north.

However, the risk of doing this is too great. Li Zhi is ten years younger than Xin'an King Li Wei. At that time, Li Wei repeatedly politely gave him this title, but he was not as ease as his brother in war, so he was always hesitant. Until Princess Gu'an sent troops to contact him, promising to advance to Yongqiu and invite Li Zhi to retake Lingchang. Faced with such a request, under his command, he was excited to fight, thinking that Princess Gu'an and a woman could still be so brave, Li Zhi finally agreed.

But after the troops left Puyang, the march was quite slow. It was not until he heard that Princess Gu'an captured Yongqiu in one fell swoop, and Chenliu, Du Shiyi and Guo Ziyi had approached Luoyang. He really made up his mind to speed up, first go to Weinan, and then directly take the Baima in Huazhou Prefecture. However, An Shouzhong, who guarded the white horse, was not Yi and others. Although the soldiers of the rebel army were brave, there were no generals under Li Zhi who could do anything to show off. He suffered a small defeat as soon as he confronted him. Next, a villager who was familiar with geography offered a plan and used an ambush to fight An Shouzhong, but in the end he had lost his spirit and had to retreat to defend Nan County.

But just two days have passed, Li Zhi faced a worst situation that he had never expected - more than 40,000 main rebels rushed towards Weinan in a fierce manner

King Li Zhi of Wu had never seen such a big battle. He wanted to withdraw his troops and return to Puyang immediately, but this time there was no need to advise the generals under his command. The rebels almost appeared in the fourth field of Weinan with the scout's news. He had to bite the bullet and order to defend himself. At this moment, sitting in the study of Weinan County Party Committee, he could hear countless shouts of killing from outside. He held a scroll in his hand tightly, which was completely mixed.

Li Longji asked someone to wear plainclothes and walk on the road. After going through a lot of hardships, he sent such an urgent hand-in-chief of 100,000 yuan, and appointed him as the marshal to control Du Shiyi and Guo Ziyi and other armies. But now he is almost dead, so what can he use to control other people's troops? What's more, without the edict of the Secretary of the Central Committee, it is not a thing that can be put on the table. If Du Shiyi took Chang'an, he used the emperor to order the princes to attack and suppress the rebellion, and he was in charge of Chang'an and suppressed the emperor himself, that would be fine. But Du Shiyi clearly did not miss being the right prime minister, and could be comparable to Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, and personally led his army to quell the rebellion.

Thinking of him, Li Zhi raised his arms at that time, to defend his country, to fulfill his responsibilities as a clan of the royal family, not because he had such great ambitions. The King of Wu, who was killed for rebellion, was then subjected to the crazy purge and massacre of the Li family's royal family by Empress Zetian. If he had not been protected by his elder brother, he would have been no longer alive. Therefore, King Xin'an Li Wei, once governed Shuofang for nine years, was a famous general of the country, but he was either idle or prefect of the prefectures and counties. He also believed that it was natural to distinguish.

Now that such a hot thing is in his hands, there are overwhelming rebels outside the city. What should he do?

"King, Wei Nan is afraid he can't hold on."

A middle-aged man rushed into the study and saw Li Zhi sitting there in a dark expression, as if he hadn't heard his words at all. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly. He was Sima Puyang, the prefect of Puyang at the time. The reason why he followed Li Zhi, who raised the banner of uprising, was because of the loyalty and righteousness in his heart, and because Li Zhi was born in the royal family and was the younger brother of King Xin'an Li Wei. However, this Li Tang royal family certainly had some backbone and refused to surrender to the rebels, let alone the courageous army was not outstanding, and even the upper-middle-level army could not be said to be a middle-class person, and was a little indecisive in dealing with people and things.

I was about to survive this chaos that swept the entire north, but how could I expect the rebels to react so much to their arrival in Lingchang this time.

"Master, Master?"

Li Zhi finally woke up with a tremor. Looking at the middle-aged man in front of him, he forced a smile and took a deep breath and said, "If you can't hold on, break through, I will break the back myself."

When other civil and military officials who were guarding Guardan for most of the day, either covered in blood or described as embarrassed, learned that Li Zhi was going to lead the army to cut off the rear, no matter how they secretly commented on the king on weekdays, they couldn't help but feel deep respect in their hearts. After all, facing the overwhelming rebels, such behavior is undoubtedly a death sentence

Some people also tried to persuade the coach to change their minds, but Li Zhi, who was extremely soft in the past, seemed to have been determined to eat the weight and decided not to change his mind. In the end, he even said sternly: "If I follow you and others to retreat to Puyang, the rebels will definitely pursue me, the prince of the royal family. If I cut off the rear, they will be determined to capture or kill me alive, and you will have an extra way of life."

Just because of Li Zhi's words, the panic caused by the rebels' siege in the army was gradually shrouded in grief and anger. From generals to military and civilians, everyone was checking their simple equipment while shouting good to the King of Wu. Unlike the previous battle of Chang'an, Puyang and Weinan did not have decent armory for military and civilians to equip themselves. Most of the righteous men who joined the army had their own weapons. As for the strictly controlled contraindicated items such as armor, they would only be able to be unless their ancestors joined the army or had served as military generals. When it was time to break through, Li Wei looked around and saw that the army was mixed in colors, and there were none of them in the ten people with armor.

Most of the 500 Rebels who were willing to leave behind him were wearing armor. This was pieced together by other generals and officers in the army. Everyone who wore them knew that this was not to save their lives, but to be able to support them for a longer time in the chaos and gain more time for the robes. The armor on King Li Zhi of Wu was exactly what his brother Li Wei gave him before his death. The simple and dull armor was covered with various subtle scars, but each buckle was well maintained and was worn heavily on his body.

Li Zhi held a sword and waved his force into the air. He shouted countless times in the army. The west gate of the city was open for a while. Under the protection of the left and right guards, he used all his strength to shout out a kill.

The big banner of Li characters was raised high, and the fierce death warriors were filled with the rebels. Even An Qingxu, the central army, learned that it was Li Zhi who led the army to attack. Seeing Li Guiren grinning and personally led the elite of the central army to encircle and suppress, he couldn't help but whisper to Yan Zhuang beside him: "Aren't we going to retreat back to Hebei Road quickly to avoid Guo Ziyi and Du Shiyi coming to chase him? Why do we have to turn to Weinan? Just one An Shouzhong is enough to deal with the old guy Li Zhi."

Yan Zhuang's eyes flashed without answering, but Ashi Na Chengqing said lightly: "For morale, since Cui Ganyou, Tian Ganzhen, and Sun Xiaozhe retreated from Chang'an, my Dayan has been defeated one after another, and even Hebei is unstable. If you cannot win a battle in Weinan and attack Prince Li Zhi, the King of Wu, the morale in the army will never be boosted. The king should also know that with the 5,000 troops in An Shouzhong's hands, there are more than 40,000 troops here, which is our greatest reliance. If the morale of the army is not strong, even if there are nearly 50,000 people in his future, they cannot exert their strength. How can Cai Xide and Shi Siming support you?"

An Qingxu immediately understood this analysis. What Ashi Na Chengqing implied was that this was not only a battle to revitalize the morale of the army, but also to declare strength to the rebel generals in Hebei.

The rebel soldiers who were brave and brave enough to protect Li Zhi and fought to the death among the chaotic army. Everyone knew that the troops who broke through the chaotic army should have set off from the east gate of Weinan and retreated to the east, and all they had to do was to buy time. In just a quarter of an hour, the people around Li Zhi had dropped sharply to less than 300, and Li Zhi himself was injured in the chaotic army. However, he had never suffered such a big blow in his life, but he still gritted his teeth and endured it. The paper in his arms seemed to be hot, making his chest feel tingling.

"Old Li Zhi, since you are here to die, I will fulfill your wishes."

The roaring sound in front of him came to his ears. When Li Zhi looked around again, he found that there were only a dozen messy cavalry left beside him. At some point, the rebels' interception attack was even stronger than before. In a blink of an eye, the last little army was also divided and torn apart, just like a small stone thrown into the pond, and no longer had any splashes of water. Knowing that the next situation was about to die, Li Zhi couldn't help but laugh, glanced at the bloody sword in his hand. He suddenly raised the knife with his right hand and stretched it over his neck, but his left hand couldn't help but stumble into his arms.

After all, he should have destroyed this thing earlier, rather than holding on to the rebels if he could do it...

Li Zhi closed his eyes suddenly and pulled his right hand hard towards his neck. At this critical moment, he suddenly heard a commotion among the rebels. He first felt a little hope, and then realized that there were only more than ten people left by his side. Even if the reinforcements arrived, they would not be able to hold on until then. Instead of falling into the hands of the rebels and being humiliated, he chose to cut it with a resolute knife, but in a subtle change in his mind, his hand strength was slightly relaxed. When a person who had followed him for decades saw this, he even rose up and rushed towards him and pounced him off his horse.
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