An Qingxu killed An Lushan as empress, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, with 60,000 beheadings at the Battle of Xiangji Temple and 100,000 beheadings at the Battle of Xindian.
An Qingxu knew that Luoyang could not be defended, and led hundreds of people to flee back to Hebei, and Tang Hedong jiedu had Li Guangbi lead 10,000 elites to pursue and kill. An Qingxu was in the place of mortality, so he said to his brothers: "The same is death, it is better to die in battle." Therefore, he and An Qinghe and three others led hundreds of family boys, and set up a plan to break the Tang army by 10,000, and Li Guangbi was defeated. Zelu Jiedu made Wang Sili's camp four or five miles away, and when he heard that Li Guangbi had been defeated, the army immediately broke up and fled in all directions.
An Qingxu dispatched eight teams of men and horses to issue a war report, claiming: The two armies of Li Guangbi and Wang Sili were greatly destroyed, and tens of thousands of surrenders and beheadings were made, and the camp curtain was like a curtain, and there was no lack of help and convenience from heaven, and moreover, the Uighur 100,000 cavalry had already withdrawn, and it was not difficult to make meritorious contributions. The generals who had previously collapsed were limited to assembling in Xiangzhou before the twenty-sixth day of this month, and then attacking Luoyang on the eighth day of the next month. When the rebels heard that they had defeated the official Li Guangbi, the morale of the army was greatly encouraged, and they all set out from Hebei to defect to An Qingxu, who received 60,000 soldiers and 10,000 cavalry within ten days. It seems that An Qingxu is not as wasteful as the Book of Tang says, which says that An Qingxu has always been cowardly, talking upside down, and is a puppet.
![The Tang Empire in the post-An Lushan era: Li Guangbi plotted a rebel army, and Shi Siming surrendered and rebelled[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)