Chapter 676: Mutiny in Luoyang City
Luoyang's twelve city gates, four in the south, from east to west are Kaiyang Gate, Pingchang Gate, Xuanyang Gate, Jinyang Gate, three in the west, from south to north are Guangyang Gate, Ximing Gate, Chang Gate, two in the north, from west to east are Daxia Gate, Guangmo Gate, three in the east, from north to south are Jianchun Gate, Dongyang Gate, Qingming Gate.
The advantage of having many gates is that it is convenient to pass, and it is also the need to show the majesty of the Son of Heaven, but the disadvantages are also obvious, and it is much more difficult to defend.
Now Sima Shi finally understands that it is easier to control a single Xuanyang Gate, but it is not a simple matter to control all the twelve city gates in Luoyang, and at least the number of troops required is a fairly large number.
Although Sima Shi holds an important position in the Central Protector Army, but in the forbidden army system, the Central Protector Army is responsible for presiding over the election of military attachés and supervising and supervising, and does not have the power to directly control the troops, so the forbidden army that Sima Shi can directly command does not, and what he is leading now is mainly based on the 3,000 dead soldiers that the Sima family has secretly cultivated for many years.
Although Sima Shi is confident that the combat power of these dead soldiers under his command will definitely not be inferior to any regular army, if these dead soldiers are evenly distributed to the twelve city gates to defend, they will definitely be much weaker.
Therefore, Sima Shi had to rely on the original army to defend the city gate, like the Xuanyang Gate City Gate ordered Li Zheng to belong to their Sima family in advance, Sima Shi is still ready to entrust them with heavy use, at most, to promise them some benefits first, so as to make them sell their lives, anyway, if the mutiny is successful, it will not hurt to promote them to an official.
Sima Yi has secretly accumulated strength for so many years, accumulating thick and thin, just for this moment, in fact, their father and son understand that once they raise troops, they are destined to have no turning back and can go again, if they succeed, they can rule the world and command the Quartet, if they fail, it will be the death of the clan, and the whole game will be lost.
In fact, the cost of launching a coup d'état is extremely large, although Sima Yi has endured it for so many years, he will definitely not take it lightly if he is not completely sure.
Sima Yi's ambition has never stopped, when Sima Shi poisoned his wife Xiahou Hui, Sima Yi also supported it, because Xiahou Hui had already gained insight into the conspiracy and ambition of their Sima family, and from the perspective of preventing micro problems, Xiahou Hui must die, and Sima Yi could not leave such a big hidden danger.
Xiahou Hui died in the second year of Qinglong, and in the autumn of the same year, Zhuge Liang died of illness in Wuzhangyuan.
Even if there is no persecution from Cao Shuang, whether Sima Yi can still be his auxiliary minister in peace seems to be an unknown number, but judging from Sima Yi's deliberate coup d'état, this possibility is very small, after all, an ambitious person is unwilling to lie in the crowd.
Perhaps Sima Yi would have adopted a more moderate approach to his ends, rather than being as violent and bloody as he is now.
But now, he has to use such a method, Cao Shuang gave him a chance, what Sima Yi has to do is to seize this opportunity, and if he doesn't succeed, he will become a benevolent.
Sima Shi's task was to control the city gates to the south and west of Luoyang, and the city gates to the north and east were given to his uncle Sima Fu to seize.
Sima Fu is Sima Yi's younger brother, line three, the word Shuda, because Sima Yi's eight brothers have a word in the table, so the people of the time called Sima Bada.
Of course, Sima Bada is not all developed, from a historical point of view, only Sima Yi and Sima Fu, who followed his footsteps, are truly developed.
Sima Yi can be called an Oscar-level actor, and Sima Fu is not far behind, even surpassing, especially after Sima Yi's death, Sima Fu sang the role of a red face alone, whitewashing Sima Zhao and Sima Yan.
At the time of the Gaopingling Incident, Sima Fu was the vanguard, and made great contributions to Sima's usurpation of Cao Wei's world, after Sima Zhao killed Cao Chao, Sima Fu hugged the corpse and cried bitterly, saying that he was wrong, when Sima Yan usurped Wei Lijin, he said to Cao Huan that the minister was Wei Chen for life, but in a blink of an eye, Sima Yan named him the king of Anping, and treated him as the founding father, so he is a drama spirit, not bad at all.
Sima Fu has a son, Sima Wang, who is three years older than Sima Shi, and Sima Fu, is also Xiaochang military, this time Sima launched a coup d'état, Sima Fu actively responded to Sima Yi, and brought out all the family soldiers, desperate.
Due to the thorough preparation and the fact that these city gate orders were taken care of by their superiors in advance, the process of Sima Jun's control of these city gates was carried out very smoothly, and by the time dawn, all twelve city gates had fallen into the hands of Sima Jun.
At dawn, many merchants and people who were eager to leave the city came to the city gate only to find that the city gates of Luoyang were all closed, and the army defending the city was heavily guarded, and the city gate showed no sign of opening.
Immediately, Luoyang City fell into chaos, although Sima Yi sent someone to post a notice to calm the people early, but it still could not alleviate the anxiety of the people.
Everyone actually knows that this Luoyang is about to change!
What are the people afraid of, they are afraid of war, the city gate is on fire, the pond fish are affected, a large-scale war, the real lintel is the common people, Xing, the people suffer, die, the people suffer.
The people of Luoyang City, compared with the people in other places, must be richer in life, the most upright, can do without worrying about food and clothing, many people who do business can also buy some industries, but when the war comes, the industry is gone, the house is gone, and even the life is gone.
The people outside the city can still find a chance to escape the war, but the people in the city want to escape, want to leave this place of war, but unfortunately the twelve gates of Luoyang City are not opened, and they can't escape if they want to.
Seeing the chaos in the city, the worried people could not find any way out, so they could only watch and pray that the war would end soon.
At this moment, Sima Yi also stepped on the assault car he was most accustomed to riding, leading the team of dead soldiers, starting from Sima Mansion and heading towards the arsenal located in the northeast of Luoyang City.
In addition to controlling the twelve gates of Luoyang, Sima Yi's primary goal was to take the arsenal of Luoyang City, which would also be a key point in the success of this mutiny.