Chapter 370 There is no more Concubine Yang in the world
The monarch and his ministers looked after each other with all their clothes on, and looked eastward at the capital gate to return on horseback.
When I return, the ponds and gardens are all the same, the lotus in Taiye is still the same as the willow.
Hibiscus is like a face and willows are like eyebrows, how can you not shed tears at this?
The peach and plum blossoms bloom in the spring breeze at night, and the sycamore leaves fall in the autumn rain.
There are many autumn grasses in the south of the West Palace, and the fallen leaves are all red and are not swept away.
The disciples in Liyuan have new white hair, and the prisoner Qing'e in Jiaofang is old.
In the evening hall, fireflies fly and think quietly, and the solitary lamp is exhausted before falling asleep.
The bells and drums are late and the night is long, and the stars are about to dawn.
The mandarin duck tiles are frosty and the flowers are heavy, and the emerald quilt is cold. Who can share it?
After so many years of separation between life and death, my soul never came to sleep.
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——Excerpt from "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi
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After hastily burying Concubine Yang and others, the army set off and continued westward.
Li Xuexuan suddenly stared at Bai Fu and asked confusedly: "Why are you so familiar with the Resurrection Pill?"
Bai Fu thought: "Master Zhongsi and I also wanted to borrow the Soul Resurrection Pill to get out of trouble, but unfortunately we were unable to do so."
Thinking of his master Zhongsi, Bai Fu felt sad. If his master were still alive, how could he have allowed An Lushan, a thieves like him, to capture Tongguan? Bai Fu felt great hatred.
Watching the army go away, Bai Fu said to Li Xuexuan: "Let's take action. If you don't take action, I'm worried that the imperial concubine will not be able to hold on."
Li Xuexuan struck out with a palm, and the wind of the palm pushed the grave flat. The two quickly dug up the grave and pried open the coffin. Concubine Yang curled up in the coffin, like a bouquet of sleeping begonia flowers...
Bai Fu took out the porcelain bottle left by Gao Lishi and dropped a few drops of blood-red liquid into Concubine Yang's mouth.
Immediately, he took out the silver needle and inserted dozens of needles into key points on the meridians. The grayness on Yang Guifei's face slowly faded away.
Li Xuexuan helped Concubine Yang up, imitated Gao Lishi's technique, put her right palm against the back of Concubine Yang's heart, pushed the palace to activate blood, and slowly injected the internal energy into Concubine Yang's body.
The true energy wandered near the heart veins, and Li Xuexuan discovered that there were several true qi protection around Concubine Yang's heart veins. If it weren't for these rays of true qi, the erysipelas would have already eroded the heart veins. By then, Daluo Jinxian would also
The imperial concubine's life cannot be saved.
Concubine Yang slowly opened her eyes, feeling melancholy. After a long while, she threw herself into Li Xuexuan's arms, burst into tears, and broke into tears.
Li Xuexuan felt the same and stroked his back with tears like beads.
After crying for a long time, Concubine Yang calmed down a little. She held Li Xuexuan's hand and cried: "Miss Li, this is what I really want to do. It's over."
Li Xuexuan said: "Don't hate His Majesty, he also has his own reasons."
Concubine Yang shook her head and sighed: "I don't blame him, nor do I hate him. As an emperor, he has to bear more than me. Since An Lushan's rebellion, his hair turned gray overnight, as if he had aged dozens of years.
I only hate myself for marrying into an imperial family. It is the most prosperous but also the most desolate."
Li Xuexuan stopped her tears and said: "Before the fall of Luoyang, Abbot Liao Kong of the White Horse Temple asked me to protect you secretly. I didn't expect this to be the final result.
Where to go now, does your Majesty have any ideas?"
Concubine Yang sighed: "After this battle, my entire Yang family has been wiped out. I grew up in Shuzhou since I was a child, so I might as well live here until my old age."
Miss Li, I beg you to take me to Emei, so that the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng can live his remaining life."
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Li Xuexuan closed the door, and Bai Fu, who was guarding the door, asked, "How is your Majesty?"
Li Xuexuan said: "The mood has calmed down, but she was frightened and fell asleep now. When she wakes up, we will set off."
Bai Fu took a few steps further and said softly: "The graveyard has been restored to its original state. It can't be seen that any manipulation has been done. But..."
"But what?" Li Xuexuan asked.
Bai Fu sighed and said, "But several hours have passed and no one has returned to open the coffin to save people."
Li Xuexuan's eyes flashed coldly.
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After Yang Guifei woke up, the three of them set out on the road.
For the convenience of the journey, Li and Yang changed into men's clothes and turned into two handsome scholars. Their skin was snow-white, which made them too handsome. They also applied some pot ash to make themselves darker. The two smeared the pot ash as if they were wiping.
When applying rouge, apply it carefully and evenly before applying it.
Bai Fu was secretly amused and thought to himself: "What a girl, she can even act ugly."
When passing by Yang Guifei's cemetery, Yang Guifei stopped for a long time...
Yang Yuhuan cut off a lock of green silk and buried it in the ground. After getting on her horse, she smiled brightly at Bai Li and said: "From today on, there will be no more Concubine Yang in the world."
Three people and four horses drove away from the dust.
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Along the way, riding horses together, Bai Fu learned the latest news about the war from Li Xuexuan:
Tongguan is a dangerous pass in the world. If one man is in charge of the pass, ten thousand people can't open it. Ge Shuhan garrisoned Tongguan, with deep trenches and high fortresses, and he held on to the danger. The Yan army was repulsed several times.
The Yan army that went south encountered strong resistance from the Tang army, and the military deployment of "going to Nanyang, taking Wuguan, and surrounding Chang'an via Lantian" failed to be realized;
The Yan army that marched into Jingchu and Jianghuai was disillusioned due to the tight defense of the Tang army, and its plan to plunder the important towns in Jianghuai;
Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi led the Tang army to victory in Hebei. People in various places revolted one after another, and more than a dozen counties announced their recovery. The land of Yanzhao returned to the hands of the Li and Tang court, and the connection between Fan Yang and Luoyang was completely severed.
An Lushan was besieged on all sides and had planned to withdraw its troops, abandon Luoyang and hide back in Fan Yang's home base.
The situation is excellent. As long as Ge Shuhan ensures that Tongguan is not lost and Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi attack Fan Yang, the Yan army will collapse.
However, at this juncture, Yang Guozhong and Ge Shuhan became jealous, jealous, and engaged in a tense battle, causing the entire favorable situation in the war to collapse instantly.
At Yang Guozhong's instigation, Xuanzong was worried that he would miss the opportunity to fight, so he ordered his brother Shu Han to lead his troops to march eastward, attack Shaanxi County, and conquer Luoyang.
Ge Shuhan was shocked and told Shu Xuanzong all night long: "Anlushan has been in battle for a long time, and the rebellion has been planned for a long time. This is a strategy to lure the enemy deep. Once our army attacks, we will fall into a trap. Our army will defend according to the danger.
Waiting for work in leisure, over time, the rebels will run out of food and grass, the people will lose their morale, and the morale of the army will be chaotic. At that time, wait for the opportunity to move, and a battle will be decided."
Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi also reported at the same time that as long as Tongguan held fast and held back the rebels, Shuofang's army would be able to attack Fan Yang directly, overthrow its lair and put down the rebellion.
However, as soon as the war situation dawned, Xuanzong could not wait for a great victory. He was extremely eager to regain face and wash away the shame by regaining Luoyang.
Xuanzong kept issuing edicts, urging his brother Shuhan to go out and fight for the decisive battle. "We will continue to send envoys to interest him and look at each other from behind."
Obviously, "the general will not accept the order of the king" cannot be taken seriously. If the order is not followed, the heads of Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing will be the fate of Ge Shuhan.
On the fourth day of the sixth lunar month in the fifteenth year of Tianbao, Ge Shuhan "went to grief" and "led the troops out of the pass" with tears.
The army left Tongguan and arrived at Lingbao Xiyuan three days later. There is the danger of the Yellow River in the north and the obstruction of Mount Xiao in the south. There is only a long and narrow pass in the middle. It is a branch of the art of war.
"In a situation like this, although the enemy is advantageous, I have no way to move out, so I can lure him away and let the enemy attack him halfway out, which is beneficial." When encountering this kind of terrain, although the enemy is advantageous to lure me, I will not attack. We should lead the army
Leave and let the enemy attack. When half of the enemy's troops are out, we can set up an ambush and attack him again.
Ge Shuhan obviously knew this art of war and did not dare to advance rashly. He ordered the army to spend the night at the pass.
If Xuanzong hadn't kept issuing edicts urging him to speed up his march, Ge Shuhan would not have rashly entered the pass. Instead, he would have followed the Art of War and forced the Yan army to fight decisively at the pass to avoid being ambushed. However, with the military order in hand, as long as
Can ignore the art of war.
Sure enough, after the Tang army led by Wang Sili entered the pass, the 50,000 forward troops were wiped out.
The 100,000-strong main force led by Pang Zhong collapsed without a fight. "Seeing the defeat of the front army, the rear army all collapsed. The Hebei army also collapsed when they saw it. In an instant, both sides of the bank were empty."
The 180,000 Eastern Expedition troops were wiped out in one day, leaving only 8,000 defeated soldiers who fled back to Guanzhong.
On the ninth day of the sixth lunar month, Cui Qianyu of the Yan army occupied Tongguan without any bloodshed.
After the fall of Tongguan, the defenders of Hedong, Huayin, Fengyi, Shangluo and other counties abandoned the city and fled overnight. The defense system protecting the capital was gone, leaving only Chang'an as an isolated city...
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June 12
"We appointed Jingzhao Yin Wei Fangjin as the imperial censor and envoy. Cui Guangyuan, Jingzhao Shaoyin Lingchang, was appointed as Jingzhao Yin to stay in Xijing. General Bian Lingcheng was in charge of the key to the palace. On this day, we moved to the north to fight. It was evening.
, ordered Longwu General Chen Xuanli to conduct a general survey of the six armies, gave generous gifts of money and silk, and selected more than 900 stable horses. No outsiders knew about it. At the dawn of Yiwei, the emperor was alone with his concubine, sisters, prince, concubine, lord, emperor's grandson, and Yang Guozhong
, Wei Jiansu, Wei Fangjin, Chen Xuanli and the eunuchs who were close to him, the palace people came out of Yanqiu Gate."
Xuanzong urgently appointed Wei Fangjin, the Yin of Jingzhao, as the imperial censor and envoy. He promoted Cui Guangyuan, the young Yin of Jingzhao, to the position of Yin of Jingzhao, who also served as a stayer in Xijing. He ordered the eunuch Bian Lingcheng to take charge of the keys to each door of the palace.
In the evening, Xuanzong ordered Longwu General Chen Xuanli to gather the Six Imperial Guards, rewarded the soldiers with a large amount of money and silk, and selected more than 900 royal horses for their escape.
At dawn on June 13, under the protection of the Forbidden Army, Xuanzong fled westward with his royal family members and a few ministers.
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"On that day, there were still hundreds of officials entering the court. When they arrived at the palace gate, they heard the sound of leaking, and the three guards stood up. As soon as the door was opened, the palace people came out in disorder, and there was a lot of noise from home and abroad. They didn't know where to go. So the princes and the people came out in all directions.
Fleeing, the poor people in the valley fought to enter the palace and the prince's residence, stole gold and treasures, or rode donkeys to the palace. They also burned the large surplus treasury in the left Tibetan area."
After the news of the emperor's escape came out, Chang'an, which was originally peaceful and prosperous, suddenly turned into an island of panic and chaos. No matter whether it was a wealthy family or ordinary people, everyone took their wives and children and fled in panic. The mob took advantage of the fire to loot, loot, burn and kill Chang'an City.
Chaos turned into a pot of porridge, people fell on their backs, and flames shot into the sky...