Chapter 106: Luzhi rescues the Queen Mother
Because the palace gate was suddenly opened, the eunuch forces who tried to come to control the situation, and He Jin's escort troops, directly entered the extremely chaotic battle, and there was no room for buffer calculations.
Even Yuan Shao, who was known as the temporary person in charge of He Jin's safety tonight, was driven to the shelves, and after the first wave of bows and arrows were fired, he hurriedly roared out his classic lines: "The eunuch murdered the minister, follow me into the palace and kill the evil party!" ”
Wu Kuang, who came with Yuan Shao, should have burned the palace gate in front of him at this time, but since Zhao Yun opened the door, Wu Kuang had no master for a while, so he directly followed Yuan Shao to kill it.
Cao Cao was relatively careful, and when he saw that Li Su and Zhao Yun had just escaped from it, he just shouted and charged, but in fact, he let others rush first, and he quickly ran to Li Su's side and helped him, and asked in a tortured tone: "Why is Boya in the palace tonight!" Did you see the general when he was called to the palace? You may be involved! ”
"Why did Meng De say this!" Li Su was still relatively reluctant under the sword just now, but when it came time to share the responsibility, he came back with all his energy and spirits, entered a state of flow, and even his fear was swept away.
Li Su's mind was racing, and he immediately thought of a way to shirk all responsibility: "I was called by the Queen Mother!" The Queen Mother heard that the general had summoned foreign troops to Beijing, and she was afraid that it would be inconvenient, so she summoned me to give instructions for consolation, and there was nothing else to do! The general was summoned to the palace, I didn't even know! Or when I came back from the audience, I was blocked in the Qingzuo Gate and was not allowed to let go, and I learned that the general had also entered the palace!
Now I want to come...... Most of the murder of the generals by the Ten Standing Servants was for the sake of foreign soldiers. Then, when the Queen Mother summoned me, someone from the Ten Standing Attendants must have eavesdropped. Seeing that I said that the soldiers and horses I led had been handed over to Lu Shangshu, and that the Queen Mother might as well go directly to Lu Shangshu if she wanted to dispatch them, the Ten Standing Servants must have felt unfortunate, so when I had not yet left the palace, I asked the Queen Mother to recruit a general in the name of the Queen Mother, so that I had no chance to warn the general! ”
This passage is relatively long, and seeing that the general guards next to him who had not yet rushed in were looking at him with fierce eyes, Li Su also spoke quickly, almost seven or eight words a second to spray this cause and effect, so as not to misunderstand them violently.
If this is used as a bait for the ten permanent servants, it will be useless, and you can't be negligent for a second in the palace.
At this time, there was another tiger Ben Zhonglang next to him, and Yuan Shu also came with the rear team.
Now the capital guards directly under the general are theoretically divided by the five official Zhonglang generals, the left and right Zhonglang generals and the tiger Ben Zhonglang generals. But at present, the position of Zhonglang is vacant, so Wu Kuang, Zhang Zhang, and Yuan Shu are divided into left and right, and Hu Ben is in charge. Yuan Shu wasn't on duty tonight, so he came too late.
He didn't know the cause and effect in front of him, but he had always looked down on people who were born poor and lowly than Yuan Shao, and he didn't have a good impression of a young man like Li Su, who was rapidly promoted. You were still in the palace before the general's death, but you didn't work hard to save the general, do you want to say that the ten permanent servants can testify for you? ”
Li Su was simply angry, Cao Cao's words were reasonably suspicious, but Cao Cao was suspicious by nature and not necessarily malicious, Yuan Shu was unreasonable.
But if you really want to ask for moral cleanliness, Li Su didn't "sacrifice himself to save others" in the palace, and he can still be sprayed.
He gritted his teeth and retorted, "I really haven't seen the general!" If you see it, you will naturally sacrifice yourself to save others! As for what she said when she was summoned, the Queen Mother can prove it for me! ”
Speaking of this, Li Su also suddenly had a thought: How do you care how these guys attack the palace, it's about Lao Tzu's shit, everything Lao Tzu in the past two days was originally passive! It's not in the plan, it's a forced defense to see the move!
Zhao Yun helped you kill the gatekeepers and opened the gate with the strongest defense in Nangong, which is worthy of you!
Taking advantage of the mention of the Queen Mother, Li Su cleverly changed his words, blocked the possibility of Yuan Shu continuing to beep, and directly ordered Zhao Yun: "Zilong, go!" Hmph, there are two Zhonglang generals who are in charge of the Beijing army here to attack, and I will not be involved with a foreign envoy who has handed over the military power!
Let's go to Lu Shangshu to find a way to save the Queen Mother! Saving the Queen Mother is to save herself, and the Queen Mother can testify for us! ”
As soon as Li Su said this, he immediately squeezed Cao Cao and Yuan Shu - does it matter if the general has a queen mother? Li Su was summoned by the Queen Mother, and directly took loyalty to the Queen Mother as the highest priority, and you He Jin henchmen are fighting each other, so we won't participate!
Yuan Shu also wanted to stop him for questioning, but was stopped by Cao Cao: "The highway can't be built!" Boya's words are clear and inferior, and if we stop him, we will be at a loss! ”
Li Su finally took Zhao Yun to leave this place of right and wrong safely, and immediately rode his horse to find Lu Zhi.
However, I have to say that after Li Su left, the progress of the combat situation on Nangong's side was still not fast - the palace city of Luoyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty was very large, even if the largest south gate was opened, Yuan Shao and Wu Kuang rushed into the vicinity of the Chongde Hall at the first time, and started hand-to-hand combat with the eunuch armies, killing more than 100 people.
But after the Chongde Palace, there are Zhongde Palace, Jiade Palace, Xuande Palace, Jiande Palace, Zhangde Palace, Wende Hall - this is just a string of main halls located on the central axis of the South Palace, and there are several times on both sides of the main hall every time......
The location of the crime scene where He Jin was killed just now is the Jiade Hall of the third entrance, the emperor usually goes to the inner court in the Zhangde Hall of the fifth entrance, and Li Su just met the Empress Dowager He, which is already a sleeping palace next to the Wende Hall near the harem on the innermost side, which is the sixth floor of the South Palace.
When Li Su came back from the south of the Jiade Palace, he originally deceived the two inner gates by bluffing those gatekeepers, but when Yuan Shao attacked, each inner gate still had to be attacked with human lives, but the difficulty was much lower than that of the outermost Qingzuo Gate.
So much so that Yuan Shao led his soldiers to kill until midnight, and two hours passed, and he also hit the location of the crime scene where He Jin was killed, and there were three people in Nangong behind.
If you want to hit the place where Empress Dowager He lives in Wende Palace, it will take at least three or four more hours at this speed, and it will definitely be dawn the next day.
So much so that later, because the frontal forces could not be used, only Yuan Shao and Wu Kuang fought frontally.
And Yuan Shu has always been at odds with his brother-in-law, and he was too lazy to see Yuan Shao's stinky face, so Yuan Shu used the excuse that Yuan Shao was incompetent in attacking the door, and took his own subordinates under the command of the Tiger Ben Zhonglang General to try to make a detour and tear down the palace wall. Wu Kuang was afraid that Yuan Shu, who would take the lead by tearing down the wall on the road, had to set fire to the palace gate between the Jiade Hall and the Xuande Hall - it is estimated that the two entrances in the back still have to be set on fire one by one.
The butterfly effect of Li Su and Zhao Yun failed to prevent the palace from being set on fire locally, it was nothing more than that the scale of the fire was smaller than before, and the attack speed was also accelerated by a day.
But even if Yuan Shao captured the entire South Palace overnight, the Ten Standing Servants could still coerce the Queen Mother and the Young Emperor to retreat to the Deyang Hall of the North Palace through the overpass between the North and South Palaces.
Although the scale of the North Palace is not as large as that of the South Palace, in addition to the main hall Deyang Palace, there are still many harem leisure halls, such as Heyingchun, Yongning Yong'an, and Jingfu White Tiger......
In history, the battle of Beigong had to be fought for another day, and the offensive and defensive battle of the entire palace lasted for three nights and two days, but with Li Su, it was shortened to one day and two nights, or even faster one day and one night.
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When Li Su followed Zhao Yun out of breath and ran to Lu Zhi's mansion, he had already seen some fires and smoke pillars in the palace behind him, and he knew that Yuan Shu and Wu Kuang were incompetent.
But now there is no time to care about them, Li Su for his own interests, the most important thing is to ensure: even if it is disturbed by the butterfly effect, Empress Dowager He still has to ensure that she is saved! Even Empress Dowager He's priority is higher than that of the little emperor.
The little emperor didn't know what Li Suzhao was doing in the palace tonight, and only the Empress Dowager He could testify for him. The interests of the Han Dynasty are as important as Li Su's own sexual naming and innocence.
People don't destroy the heavens and the earth for their own sake! At the critical juncture, you can only give priority to yourself!
Fortunately, in the original history, Lu Zhi rescued the Empress Dowager He on the way to the North Palace when the Ten Standing Servants tried to rob the Empress Dowager He through the overpass - this incident is so famous that even "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was written.
According to the description of the romance, it should be that the Empress Dowager He saw Lu Zhi scolding the ten permanent servants below, and then broke free from the control of the eunuchs when crossing the overpass, jumped out of the window and fled for her life. And Lu Zhi caught the Queen Mother below, so that the Queen Mother did not fall to her death, so she was not robbed with the emperor.
Li Su felt that Lu Zhi must know how to get to the sandwich wall between the north and south palaces and be familiar with the location of the flyover connecting the two palaces, otherwise he would not have been able to do this at all.
Therefore, after the two met, Li Su went straight to the point and reminded: "Gong Lu! It's urgent! The general was murdered by the Ten Standing Servants, and Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and Wu Kuang were very anxious to attack Nangong. I'm afraid that when the ten permanent servants can't stand it, they will retreat to the north palace with the emperor and queen, and Lu Gong knows the geographical situation in the palace and has a way to intercept and rescue the hostages who were held hostage by the ten permanent servants at the overpass of the north and south palaces? ”
When Lu Zhi saw Li Su, he was also taken aback by his bloody face: "The virtuous nephew is so bloody that he can get rid of it?" Leave it to me later, nephew go down and heal quickly! ”
Li Suyi gritted his teeth: "Don't worry about me, it doesn't matter if I have a little injury, Lu Shangshu will quickly lead the troops to rescue them to prevent them from escaping!" By the way, it's best to bring some soft things such as quilts in case you need to save people! ”
Li Su didn't dare to bet that the Queen Mother jumped off the building again this time and was caught by Lu Zhi, this kind of thing is too accidental, in case the Queen Mother He falls directly into a meatloaf and dies, it is better to be like a firefighter saving people, and it is better to rush to cushion some soft things at that time.
Lu Zhi was right to think about it, but now it was midnight, and the five hundred cavalry under Li Su's temporary command were all sleeping, and there was no designated military camp in the city, and these foreign soldiers lived in several separate places.
In addition, Lu Zhi wanted to prepare the quilt, so he ordered Li Su to wash and rest first, and set off two hours later.
In Lu Zhi's words: "It is impossible for Yuan Shao to attack the vicinity of Wende Hall so quickly, it's not that I look down on the speed of attacking the Wende Hall like him, who has never led troops, it would be good to be able to reach the Wende Hall at dawn."
Our men and horses can't always stay in the wall between the north and south palaces, otherwise the personal soldiers of the ten permanent servants will not dare to take the overpass to withdraw when they see the watchtowers and Wei Que on the overpass and on both sides, or they will look at His Majesty and the Queen Mother more closely, but it will be bad. ”
When Li Su heard it, it really made sense, Lu Zhi was worthy of being a famous general who had led soldiers for many years, and his tactics were very stable and the arrangements were well organized.
Li Su obeyed his arrangement, washed away the blood, rested a little, and waited for everything to stop, before taking advantage of the last darkness before dawn, quietly killed Mimi under the guidance of Lu Zhi to the entrances at both ends of the wall between the north and south palaces.
Not everyone can enter the sandwich wall, and there are doors on both sides. But since Lu Zhi spent two hours preparing, of course he brought the equipment to hit the door and the flying ladder to climb the wall when he came, so he cleanly killed all the guards guarding the small doors at both ends of the wall within a few minutes, and controlled the corridor inside the wall.
"There is no shouting of killing in the Wende Palace, Yuan Shao's waste should still be in the fourth or fifth entrance. We all waited for two hours to come out, and they didn't make it to the last entry of Nangong. Lu Zhijing listened for a while and couldn't help laughing.
But he was not careless, and signaled most of the cavalry to withdraw from the wall, leaving only a few dozen people to pretend to be the original guards, and the quilts and other things he brought were rolled up and hidden in the corners of the wall without being in a hurry to spread them out. lest the flaws be seen by the sentries on the overpass and Wei Que immediately after dawn.