Chapter 599 Making a wedding dress for someone else
Cao Cao didn't know before he was thrown out of the palace walls by the eunuchs. Zhang Rang had already taken the lead in launching a coup d'Γ©tat, sending people to occupy Shangshutai, deposing Yuan Shao and Wang Yun, and appointing Fan Ling and Xu Xiang to replace them.
At the same time, the manpower was divided to control the Son of Heaven Liu Wei, the Empress Dowager He, and Liu Xie, the king of Chen Liu.
All the eunuchs in the palace were also issued with various weapons such as knives, swords, bows and arrows, and nearly 3,000 eunuchs worked together to guard the palace.
"Death traitor! Dare to harm General He's life, and we will take revenge on General He. Cao Cao was furious, his eyes were as sharp as a blade, he hurriedly pulled out his sword, waved and shouted to take the lead, and rushed straight to the palace gate to kill.
"Shoot the arrows!" with an order.
"Whoosh!" The eunuchs on the wall drew their bows and pulled the strings, and the bows and arrows were shot indiscriminately, making it difficult for Cao Cao, who was sparse in martial arts, to get close to the palace gate.
"General He hit the blade of the sword himself to seek death, not our victimization. Zhang Rang was also depressed to death, and the baby couldn't say it because of the bitterness in his heart.
"Lord, go back first, and gather the Tiger Guards to attack. Dian Wei was busy protecting Cao Cao in the rain of bows and arrows, and persuaded him bitterly.
"What about Brother Ben?" Cao Cao turned his head to Yuan Shao to discuss countermeasures.
"Mengde, I'll go back to the house first to recruit the family. "Captain Yuan Shao is one step faster than Cao Cao.
Not long before this, Yuan Shao had arranged for more than 1,000 private soldiers.
Relying only on Dian Wei's courage alone is obviously not a wise move, but I am afraid that Dian Wei will not be able to take care of it, and he will be powerless.
"I'm also going back to the house to recruit the family? After Cao Cao was angry, he secretly gritted his teeth, and finally made up his mind to leave.
Soon Yuan Shao led more than 1,000 private soldiers outside the palace gate, and Cao Cao's hundred-man Tiger Guard, He Jin's generals Wu Kuang, Zhang Zhang, He Miao, Yuan Shu and other people converged.
He Jin was suspicious of Cao Cao's conspiracy with the eunuchs because of Cao Cao's decision to enter Beijing last time, and brought his generals Wu Kuang and Zhang Zhang.
Yuan Shao played conspiracy, although he also had thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, he was still very young, and he had not really exercised on the battlefield and commanded the battle, which was too bad.
Under the rain of arrows, the forbidden army fell to the ground in pieces, and the screams were endless.
In addition to the Tiger Guards, the other soldiers and horses not only did not obey Cao Cao's command, but also feared Cao Cao and kept him away from the palace gate, for fear that Cao Cao would rebel in battle.
Wu Kuang and Zhang Zhang were hostile to the people led by He Miao, thinking that He Miao was also a nest of eunuchs.
Cao Cao didn't want to see He Miao, people from all walks of life had ghosts in their hearts, they didn't work together, and the internal taboo was serious, so they let everyone work and not work.
"Captain Dian, the heavy armor is too heavy, and it is inconvenient to climb high. "The Tiger Guards are invulnerable to armor, but the palace walls dare not be damaged, and they cannot climb them.
Although Dian Wei and Xu Chu have the courage of 10,000 enemies, and they are majestic on the ground with their personal ability, they have no talent to lead generals.
Approaching the palace wall, the eunuchs set rockets to burn it, so that the Dianwei Tiger Guards could not get close.
"Take off your heavy armor!" and climb up with your sword. Dian Wei gave the order.
"No! The Tiger Guards are only a hundred people, and they can't stand a salvo of bows and arrows. Cao Cao hurriedly denied Dian Wei's bad idea.
"Fill in the soil and pile it into a ramp on the wall!" Bian Bing followed Yan Songjie and fought several victories against the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Thief.
"Good job! Do what Bian Bing said. Cao Cao was overjoyed.
"Who dares to be presumptuous here!" Zhang Rang shouted loudly.
"Your Majesty!"
"How dare you make such an earth-shattering act of betrayal, and still want to turn the palace upside down. β
The Son of Heaven was controlled by Zhang Rang, and Cao Cao and the others could only follow and cast a mouse bogey. I regret it in my heart, with the second brother here, it is easy to capture the palace. Why did you let the second brother go to Youzhou to change horses? It was August 25, and he hadn't returned yet.
In order to bring more war horses back to Changshan, Yan Songjie and three thousand tigers and leopards rode heavy armor to Youzhou on foot.
"Brother Benchu! Cao Cao was still in control of his emotions and cautious in the case of being more entangled.
The attack could not be carried out for a long time, and the battle was in a standoff.
"It is ridiculous that my brother commanded so many forbidden soldiers and horses, and he couldn't capture the palace guarded by eunuchs. Under the reflection of blood everywhere, Yuan Shu complained more and more about Yuan Shao's incompetence, and there was a bit of schadenfreude in his grief and indignation.
In fact, Yuan Shu has always been at odds with Yuan Shao, and the two brothers of the Yuan family are the masters of infighting. Yuan Shu had to say a few words from time to time to show that he was the future master of the Yuan family.
"Look at my move, someone is going to set fire to the palace gate!" Hu Ben Zhonglang raised Yuan Shu's head and squinted at the palace, his eyes were full of disdain, and the corners of his mouth moved slightly.
is uninhibited by nature, and Yuan Shu is a very bold person, so he dares to make such an act as entering the palace and setting fire.
Yuan Shu's words were like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
"The emperor and the queen mother are still in the palace. Arson damaged the majesty of the Han emperor! The world has been uneven ever since. Cao Cao's body shook violently, reminding Yuan Shu not to act recklessly, and to do such a desperate method.
The scruples in Yuan Shu's heart have been put down: "But the current situation is quite special, that is, in order to quickly rescue the emperor and the queen mother, I set fire to the palace gate." The art is bright and fair, and he is a person who dares to act. Nothing to worry about. Yuan Shu glanced at Cao Cao and retorted, choking Cao Cao's nose.
Cao Cao didn't expect that after Yuan Shu's gaze swept over him, he would ignore him as if he were air.
"Burn!" Yuan Shu gave an order, take care of your three seven twenty-one, the fire inside the palace gate is majestic, burning the night sky.
"The shaft is hateful, so that the Han family will not have face!" Cao Cao's face flashed with anger, and he forced the anger in his heart, clenched his fists for a long time, sighed secretly, and still let go.
Yuan Shu never expected that this fire would cause a big problem, making wedding dresses for others, and giving Dong Zhuo a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Zhang Rang couldn't have imagined that he had controlled the emperor, and before he had time to sit hot, he was about to face the danger of annihilation in the blink of an eye.
The sky-high flames seemed to scare him stupidly for a moment, and the whole person froze there in despair.
At this time, in the face of the flesh-and-blood fight of real knives and guns, he felt more and more empty in his heart.
The dense and endless wave of forbidden troops, even if one person and one spitting star, can drown him, if he does not flee now, he will kill himself.
"Yuan Shu set fire to the palace! This palace cannot be defended, and it will not be long before the palace gate is destroyed and there is no danger to be defended. β
In the palace, the air of despair was in the air.
It's over! It's all over, run for your life! Run anywhere, stay horizontal and vertical is death, anyway, it's also death, it's better to escape and avoid it.
The flames of the palace reflected half of the sky, and it could be clearly seen dozens of miles away.
Twenty miles west of Luoyang City, there is a fire in Luoyang City, and the location should be the Imperial Palace. "Tanma found a fire burning in the city outside Luoyang City, and quickly reported back to Dong Zhuo.
That was the fire that Yuan Shu sent people to set in the middle of the palace gate.
Dong Zhuo restrained the war horse, put his hand on the canopy and looked into the distance: "It is indeed the palace, and the sky-high fire reflects half of the sky." β
But seeing that Li Ru and Dong Zhuo were keenly aware of the anomalies in this, they reacted first: "There is something big in the palace!"