 Subsequently, when Huang captured the imperial capital Chang'an around the new year 881 and forced Emperor Xizong to flee to Chengdu, Emperor Xizong recalled Zheng and made Duan the military governor of Jingnan.Duan Yanmo and the new eunuch monitor, Zhu Jingmei, soon developed an adversarial relationship.Zhu selected 3,000 elite soldiers and called them the Zhongyong Army, putting it under his own command.