In front of the Ningbi Pool in the Forbidden Garden of Luoyang, the capital of the gods, Mount Anlu was sitting on the top of the palace wearing a crown and a yellow robe. Because of the hot weather, he simply took off his crown and threw it aside the table, and then put it in the yellow robe.
The mid laner lifted up, exposing his fat belly.
He held up the wine cup and faced the ministers, smiled and said loudly: "Now I have taken Luoyang and Chang'an. Although there are remnants of the imperial party in Hebei and Henan who are resisting stubbornly, but the officers and soldiers under my command are using their lives, Shi Zuqian has gradually pacified Hebei. Li Tingwang and Linghu
The tide is attacking Yongqiu in Henan, and Wu Lingxun has defeated Lu Jiong in Nanyang. After the north is pacified, I will personally lead the army south to dominate the world!"
The ministers and generals sitting below also held up their wine cups, raised their hands and said loudly: "Congratulations to Emperor Shengwu, may your Majesty rule the world for generations to come."
"Okay, okay, haha." While An Lushan laughed loudly, he looked at the many courtiers below. Some of them were really happy, such as the two counselors Yan Zhuang and Gao Shang, who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic. Others forced their faces to smile.
For example, the former Prime Minister Chen Xilie, the former Henan Yin Da Xi Xun and other surrendered ministers; there are also those who can't smile at all, such as Wang Wei and other literary celebrities who were captured and taken to Chang'an.
An Lushan put down his wine cup and gave these people a cold look, "Who are you trying to show off here? If Yan Zhuang hadn't asked me to be lenient with you scholars, saying that only in this way can we have a stable position, I would have taken a big saw to kill you one by one."
Sawed to death.
He raised his beard and said with a smile: "Today's banquet should be accompanied by singing and dancing. Fortunately, we invited from Chang'an the music and dance of the pear garden that the Tang Dynasty once cultivated vigorously. Let the Libu dancers dance for you, and the Zubu musicians will dance for you.
Play.”
He waited for half a cup of tea, but no dancing girls came up. He couldn't help but slapped the table and shouted angrily: "Where are the people? Hurry up and escort them here!"
An Lushan let it slip for a moment, but he didn't care about it, because the dancing dancers below were indeed brought to the stage with knives. An Lushan's personal guards drew half of the swords from their waists and stood up
He threatened them from behind the stage: "Jump!"
These dancers started to dance stiffly, waving their long sleeves, but their faces were full of tears, which made people feel sad. Many old ministers and literati couldn't bear to look at it, for fear that tears would burst out of their eyes, and they were secretly worried.
These beauties offended An Lushan and were brutally killed.
Fortunately, An Lushan had some problems with his eyesight recently and did not see the tears on the faces of these women. He shook his head and looked forward to the sound of the pipa in the music, which was really exciting.
But among the people present there was An Lushan's best friend Ping Lie, who was also a talented person who was proficient in music and liked singing and dancing. He slapped the table and said angrily: "Today is the birthday of Emperor Shengwu, but you people are here crying and crying.
Who are you mourning for?"
When An Lushan heard this, he waved to the dancers: "Come closer to me! There are also musicians! Come here!"
They walked up the steps with their heads lowered. They were only more than ten feet away from An Lushan. An Lushan stood up with his hands on the desk, bent over and looked forward. I saw tears on all the dancers' faces, including these.
The musicians were all in tears, and one of them was holding a pipa? His eyes were staring at him like an enemy, with an expression as if he wanted to bite a piece of meat from his stomach.
An Lushan patiently persuaded: "Go down? Keep dancing? Don't let me see another tear. Everyone must have a smile on their face. If anyone sheds tears but does not smile, I will have his head chopped off."
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Pipa musician Lei Haiqing suddenly rushed forward, swung his pipa and smashed it down on An Lushan's head. But An was so fat and flexible that he quickly dodged to the side. The pipa fell to pieces, but it failed to hurt An Lushan at all.
Two soldiers came forward and pressed Lei Haiqing's arms with both hands, but he stood upright and refused to kneel. He opened his mouth and cursed: "Lushan rebels! Are you betraying the Lord and abandoning your kindness, causing trouble in the world? You will eventually go to Abi Hell to suffer thousands of deaths."
Years of suffering from saws and axes, waiting for your death? The people of the world will also live to eat your flesh!"
An Lushan was so angry that he trembled all over and said angrily: "Cut off his mouth!"
The executioner stepped forward to carry out the execution? Lei Haiqing's face was covered with blood after being slashed twice? His teeth protruded? He still kept cursing after screaming.
At this time, someone happened to come to report the battle situation in Chang'an: "Report! Report from Chang'an!"
An Lushan spoke angrily: "Read it!"
"Your Majesty, Zhang Tongru, who was left behind in Xijing, came to report that Li Siye led his troops to the south and east. Fufeng County was lost, and Dashan Pass was lost. A few days ago, An Shouzhong and Li Guiren were sent to personally lead 60,000 troops to conquer, but Li Siye led Hexi
The main force of the army was repulsed, and more than 20,000 soldiers were injured."
An Lushan couldn't help but feel annoyed again. Was he repulsed? He was defeated. One-third of the 60,000 people who attacked did not come back!
Lei Haiqing, who had no lips, cursed loudly from the side: "An thief, haha, your rebellion will fail miserably, and you will be cut to pieces by a thousand swords!"
When An Lushan was furious, he said with a ferocious cold voice on his face: "Didn't you keep saying that I would go to hell and be cut into pieces by a thousand knives? Today, I want you to taste the feeling of being tortured first. Someone will tie him up for me."
In front of the theater hall, they will be executed in a hurry! Also, bring all these musicians, officials and dancers to me to watch the execution! To serve as a warning to others!"
At this time, suddenly there was a thunder in the sky, and the originally clear sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and huge raindrops began to patter down in front of the Ningbi Pond.
An Lushan was frightened by this change in the weather, but did not change his mind. He still shouted angrily: "Pull him down and execute him!"
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The city head of Yongqiu County in Bianzhou, east of Luoyang, was stained with blood, the city tower was badly damaged, and a mountain of corpses was piled under the low city wall. Zhang Xun, the magistrate of Zhenyuan County, stood on the city head wearing iron armor, accompanied by those who followed him
The generals Nan Ba and Lei Wanchun fired downwards with crossbows in hand. The rebels who were climbing on the siege ladder rolled down with their bloody eyes covered.
"Nan Ba, lead people to guard Ma Lian on the left side of the city!"
"Here."
Nan Jiyun personally twisted the windlass and lifted a thorny tree tree up with a rope. When another group of enemies rushed up on the siege ladder brandishing swords and guns, he suddenly released the windlass and caused the tree tree to roll down from the city wall.
The rebels who climbed up the ladder rolled down again.
The rebel general Linghu Chao angrily ordered: "Give it to me! Whoever can get Zhang Xun's head will be rewarded with a hundred gold coins!"
"Kill!" The thieves raised their swords and charged towards the city.
Suddenly, billowing dark clouds came from the west, low as black clouds, and sometimes thunder and lightning flashed like snakes swimming in them. In the blink of an eye, rain came pouring down, soaking all the soldiers above and below the city.
Linghu Chao urged his horse to come to the rebel general Li Huaixian. He raised his chin and crossed his hands and said, "Envoy Li, for some reason it suddenly rained heavily. The soldiers' armor is so wet that it is difficult to climb. How about temporarily withdrawing the troops and fighting again tomorrow?"
Li Huaixian replied simply and neatly: "Withdraw your troops!"
Zhang Xun and the other three people were still standing on the top of the city, with rainwater flowing from their robes and flowing on their faces like tears. Lei Wanchun stared blankly at Luoyang in the west and asked himself: "Where is Luoyang?"
What happened?"
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In February of this year, four prison cars were pulled by the rebels on the streets of Luoyang City. The shackled men in the cars were unkempt and had scabs all over their bodies. They looked in extremely miserable condition. The people looked at the prisoners in the car.
The people in the prison car couldn't help but stand at the gate of the square wall and secretly wiped their tears. A bold beggar chased after him and lifted the biscuits to the young boy in the prison car. The executioner who was escorting him waved his whip and knocked him to the ground.
The soldiers stepped over the Hu Pancakes one by one and walked along Dingdingmen Avenue towards Tianjin Bridge.
Wearing a yellow robe, An Lushan sat in front of the end gate of the palace city at the end of the Huangdao Bridge. The bed under him creaked under the pressure of his weight. The eunuch Li Zhuer personally held up the canopy, and two palace maids used it to support him.
The pheasant tail fan blocked his back.
The four prison cars stopped after crossing the bridge and lined up one after another. The executioners opened the prison car carrying Yan Gaoqing and pulled him out of the car.
Yan Gaoqing stood up first, but the executioner knocked him to the ground with a big stick from behind. An Lushan straightened up, looked down at Yan Gaoqing, who was covered in scars, and sneered: "My Judge Yan, we meet again.
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Yan Gaoqing turned her face to one side, with only perseverance and unyielding expression on her face.
"Yan Yu, I thought you were talented and learned, so I appointed you as the judge of Jiedu from Fanyang Hu Cao, and then appointed you to succeed Guanglu and Taichang Ercheng. I also used you to act as the governor of Changshan. I have nothing to do with you.
You, let me betray me?"
Yan Gaoqing replied with contempt: "My fifth ancestor of the Yan family, Yan Shigu, was a minister during the Wude Zhenguan period. My grandfather was the governor of Huazhou and my father was the governor of Haozhou. I have been favored by the Tang emperors for generations and will always abide by my loyalty, even if
You have to report to the official, should I still follow you in rebellion? Besides, you were originally a Sogdian slave shepherding sheep in Yingzhou. You only got where you are today because you stole the emperor's favor. What has the emperor failed you to do?