Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Pursuit
Dong Zhuo fled, Luoyang was ruined, and he was made an official.
Just after the Tiger Prison was laid, this continuous news reached the ears of Yuan Shao and others.
Dong Zhuo finally chose to burn Luoyang, destroying this huge cake by force, and was unwilling to let the Kwantung princes take advantage.
Touching the holy decree in his hand to seal himself as General Anton, Yuan Shu smiled slightly. Presumably, the other princes also got what they wanted!
Looking at the direction of Luoyang from afar, Yuan Shu knew that the jade seal of the country was still there, but Yuan Shu was not very interested in this thing. He is enough to be hated now, and if he has the heirloom jade seal again, I'm afraid everyone will want to kill him first.
Dong Zhuo has been in Luoyang for so long, if you want to say that the jade seal has not been found, in history, Sun Jian found it as soon as he arrived, and the ghost believes it! It was hung up soon after getting the jade seal, it must be Li Ru's black-hearted trick.
Yuan Shu didn't want to get angry. For him, the money that Dong Zhuo obtained from plundering Luoyang was more attractive than the jade seal.
The construction of Yangzhou is too expensive, Yuan Shu spent half of his savings in half a year, even if he needs to spend less and less now, but his own savings are still insufficient. This amount of money is just enough to make up for his losses and maintain the development of Jiangdong.
However, Li Ru's goods also set up an ambush, so I'm afraid it won't be good to go up like this, what should I do?
Yuan Shu's eyes rolled and looked in the direction of Cao Cao's camp. Isn't such a perfect substitute for the dead standing in front of him?
Sure enough, Yuan Shao immediately summoned all the princes to discuss the matter. These princes have all obtained the title they want, and in addition to the fact that they have spent many months here, they have lost a lot of troops, and none of them are willing to march again. Only Gongsun Zan and Cao Cao were willing to send troops, and Yuan Shu also chose to set off with them.
Coming to the huge city gate of Luoyang, looking at the sky-high fire in the city, and the screams of the people who were lucky enough to survive this disaster, Yuan Shu sighed deeply: "The whole army enters the city!" ”
The three symbols of the Han Dynasty, the emperor, the jade seal, and the national capital, have now been destroyed, and the remaining two have also become playthings in the hands of the princes.
After Yuan Shu entered the city, he ignored the screams around him and directly led his subordinates to Dongguan Palace in the palace first. Dongguan is the main library of the Eastern Han Dynasty, where the wisdom of the entire Han Dynasty for hundreds of years is collected.
Yuan Shu had already asked Guo Jia to order the spies hiding in Luoyang to protect this place and wait for him to receive it.
In fact, if you want to talk about classic books and scrolls, I have a lot of shares as the sister-in-law of the Yuan family, and they have all been collected by Yuan Shu together and established a collection room in Yangzhou.
But how can the Yuan family's collection compare to the entire country? The books of Dongguan can be said to be all-encompassing, and there are many fragments of the hundreds of schools of thought. Yuan Shu happily harvested this knowledge, and secretly said in his heart: The wisdom of these ancestors must not be lost.
Yuan Shu asked Sun Jian to send his soldiers to pack the books and take them away, and then went to meet with Gongsun Zan and Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was obviously not thinking about Luoyang, which had become a ruined wall, and said directly to Yuan Shu and Gongsun Zhan: "Highway, Bo Jue, now that Dong Zhuo has fled westward, are you two willing to go with me to pursue?" ”
Gongsun Zhan didn't want to chase Dong Zhuo, he just wanted to fight the autumn breeze and stand on the merits, and he didn't want to fight Dong Zhuo, so he refused directly. Yuan Shu also had his own plans in his heart, and he also directly refused.
Cao Cao saw that neither of them wanted to go together, so he sighed lightly and turned around and left, leading his army to pursue alone.
Not long after Cao Cao's attack, Yuan Shu said to Gongsun Zhan: "General Bo Jue, I am a little worried that Cao Cao is chasing Dong Zhuo alone, and I am ready to go to help him, and Luoyang will be handed over to you." ”
Gongsun Zhan couldn't wait for one less person to share the credit, and said directly: "Please rest assured on the highway, you must guard Luoyang, and you should be careful on the road." ”
Yuan Shu nodded and left, then left 20,000 foot soldiers and led his elite cavalry to pursue Dong Zhuo.
"Lord, why don't we stay in Luoyang and go to help Cao Cao?"
Sun Jian didn't understand why he and the others didn't take the credit for Luoyang, so they went to hunt down Dong Zhuo with Cao Cao.
Yuan Shu smiled slightly: "Wentai, Luoyang is just a ruin, what's important?" Dong Zhuo took away all the gold and silver treasures he had stolen this time. I, Yuan Shu, as a loser, have lost half of my family fortune in the past half a year, and if I don't make some money, Yuan Hao will probably look for me again. ”
Sun Jian thought of Tian Feng's old-fashioned and serious face, and his heart trembled: "The lord's words are reasonable. ”
Sun Ce said on the side: "But my lord, what should the Son of Heaven do?" We can take the opportunity to rescue the Son of Heaven! ”
Yuan Shu looked at his righteous son, and then looked at Sun Jian, who also looked puzzled, and said helplessly: "You don't really think that we can defeat Dong Zhuo with our ten thousand elite horses, right?" The Son of Heaven is his lifeblood, aren't we looking for death when we go to save the Son of Heaven? It's better to take advantage of it, anyway, there are many princes waiting for me to suppress the array, and Dong Zhuo doesn't want to entangle with us more. ”
Li Ru didn't expect that there would be more than one army chasing him, and he would chase and kill him in two ways. Maybe he was too distraught to think about it. At this time, he was like a walking corpse, quietly preparing for death.
Cao Cao met Xu Rong who was ambushed halfway as Yuan Shu thought, and was chased and killed by Xu Rong all the way, constantly fleeing. And Yuan Shu just escaped Xu Rong, who went to chase Cao Cao, and went straight to Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo was complaining to Liu Xie in the car, when he suddenly felt a tremor in the earth, and hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”
Lu Bu's eyes narrowed and looked into the distance: "Father-in-law, the princes of the Kanto region are chasing after you!" ”
"What?" Dong Zhuo suddenly became terrified: "What about Xu Rong? Why didn't Xu Rong stop them? ”
Lu Bu was also confused by the second monk at this time, but he was still clear about Xu Rong's character, and it was impossible to betray, so there seemed to be only one possibility: "Xu Rong should be defeated!" ”
Dong Zhuo was even more scared, Xu Rong was the most well-guarded general under his command, and he was defeated so quickly with an army of 20,000, could it be that all the princes of Kwantung caught up?
"Run, run!" Dong Zhuo hurriedly said, and then remembered something: "Feng Xian, after you and Li Dao Guo Yan led the army, you must resist it!" ”
Li Ru, who was in the other carriage, sighed lightly when he heard this. Although he was also surprised that the pursuers came so quickly, he understood that Xu Rong must not be defeated so quickly, and there must be something wrong with it. However, listening to Dong Zhuo's tone, he was already a frightened bird, and he probably couldn't listen to what he said, so he simply kept silent.
When Lu Bu heard this, his heart twisted. If it wasn't Yuan Shu who was chasing, he might be willing to go up and stop him. But obviously feeling the breath of Dian Wei, and seeing tens of thousands of elite horses, Lu Bu instantly gave up the idea of going to block.
I am not sure that I will be able to take down the other party, in case I am entangled, the Kwantung princes will catch up, but I can run away, what should I do with the soldiers under my command? Lu Bu was reluctant to use his elite soldiers to do such a thankless task.
Li Dao Guo Yan saw that Lu Bu had coped with the situation, and naturally he was not willing to stop it with all his might, the Flying Bear Army was arranged by Xiangguo as a personal soldier, and the soldiers under his command burned and looted in Luoyang for more than half a year, and now they have lost their past fierceness. For the sake of those untouchables and officials, it is not cost-effective to have nearly 10,000 elite horsemen on the opposite side of the death!
The three people with their own ghosts carried out the water release very tacitly, ignoring the backward people and hundreds of officials, and followed the large army fleeing in front.
As for those treasures, Dong Zhuo, the boss, doesn't care, what else are they doing? Not their own anyway.