Chapter 33: The Chang'an Coup (I)
Kang Peng didn't need to save Cai Wenji's mother and son at all, because not long after Kang Peng pretended to be poisoned, Jia Xu estimated that someone might take the initiative against Dong Zhuojun to shake Dong Zhuojun's foundation, and specially arranged ten masters of the Dark Moon Group to secretly protect Cai Wenji's mother and son in the 800 Tiger Camp, and also arranged four personal maids from the Swallow Group for Cai Wenji, but in the raid near Zhao Yun's house, after sacrificing two Dark Moon Group masters and a female soldier of the Swallow Group, finally rescued Cai Wenji's mother and son from the assassins, and captured two assassins on the spot, but Cai Wenji was also hit by a feather arrow, and Dong Peng was frightened.
The news spread, Chang'an City shook again, in just a few days, Dong Boss, Jia Xu, Cai Wenji and Dong Peng were assassinated, even the blind can see that this is someone who wants to carry out a coup d'Γ©tat, for a time, rumors spread in Chang'an City, some say that Cao Cao Liu Bei took the opportunity to raise troops to attack, some say that there are generals in Dong Zhuo's army who are dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's move to kidnap Emperor Xian, so they assassinate Dong Zhuo to support Emperor Xian, some people say that Emperor Han Xian personally participated in directing the coup, and some people say that the new ministers want to overthrow Dong Zhuo's self-reliance, There are even people who say that Gaozu Liu Bang can't bear to see the decline of the Han family and want to take the life of Boss Dong, in a word, the people are panicked, and the army and the people are frightened.
It is understandable that rumors are spreading among the people of Chang'an, no matter how prosperous and rich Chang'an City is, a military turmoil comes, these prosperity and wealth can be smashed in an instant, but the most frightened people are not the people of Chang'an, but the participants in the coup - Dong Cheng, Cai Yong and Chen Gong and others composed of the Restoration Party, and now the Restoration Party has affirmed that the instigator of the assassination of Jia Xu and Cai Wenji is not to support the Han Chen who wants to support the emperor, but the new minister who tries to seize the power of Dong Zhuojun, and this powerful minister dares to assassinate Dong Zhuojun's military advisor and mastermother, It proves that he already has a lot of power in his hands, at least part of the army, and is sure that he will seize power after the successful assassination, so he dares to take such a risk.
After sending the injured Cai Wenji and Dong Peng back to the palace, Cai Yong asked his wife to go into the palace to take care of his daughter, and hurriedly returned to the palace with Chen Gong, looking for Dong Cheng and others to discuss countermeasures, who knew that Cai and Chen had just entered the palace of Emperor Han Xian, but they saw a person who surprised them - Lu Bu sat in the palace, and there were several low-level generals of Dong Zhuojun, Emperor Han Xian and Dong Cheng and others were talking to Lu Bu intimately.
Seeing Cai Yong and Chen Gong coming in, Dong Cheng and the others laughed and said: "Bo Hoo, Gongtai, the big thing is good, Wen Hou has decided to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, accept the appointment of Long Live, and help Long Live with us to regain control of the government and rejuvenate my Han Dynasty." Dong Cheng recruited Lu Bu very smoothly according to the instructions of Emperor Han Xian, Lu Bu hesitated for a long time and then made a condition to seal the king of Wen after the fact, Dong Cheng immediately agreed without even blinking an eyelid, plus Emperor Han Xian rummaged through the cabinet to find a large number of treasures treasured in the red room to bribe Lu Bu, and Lu Bu finally agreed to join forces with the restorationists.
"Wenhou Yizhi, it's really a good opportunity for me to rejuvenate the Han Dynasty." The worried Cai Yong, Chen Gong and others celebrated that the Restoration Party finally had an army! But Dong Cheng asked again: "Two adults, I just heard that someone assassinated Lord Cai's daughter and grandson, how are the injuries?" Did you find out who did it? β
Cai Yong hurriedly told Cai Wenji about the assassination, and Chen Gong said: "Long live, Wen Hou, my lords, now that things have changed abruptly, we should not hesitate, we must do it immediately, otherwise we will wait for a lot of hard work, just to make a wedding dress for the main messenger who assassinated Jia Xu and Miss Cai, and we are still worried about our lives." β
"What do you mean by that?" Emperor Han Xian, Dong Cheng and others asked in surprise.
"I have already guessed who the mastermind of the assassination of Jia Xu and Miss Cai's mother and son is." Chen Gong said coldly: "His wishful thinking is very loud, take the opportunity of us to assassinate Dong Zhuo, secretly get rid of his political opponent Jia Xu in military affairs, and then kill Miss Cai, who has a strong personality, blame us, and then support Dong Zhuo's other sons to succeed to the throne, he can control the military power with the reputation of an auxiliary minister, and finally win the victory......"
After listening to Chen Gong's words, Emperor Han Xian, Dong Cheng and others were already sweaty jackets, and Lu Bu was also secretly frightened, his father-in-law pretended to be assassinated to trap and kill the Quanzhi Restoration Party and stabilize the rear in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect to lead out such an ambitious big fish. But Chen Gong hurriedly said: "Long live, my lords, without further ado, if we don't do it again, this dog thief will definitely blame us for the assassination of Jia Xu and Miss Cai in order to prevent the matter from being exposed, and get rid of us first." β
"So how do we do it now?" As in history, Dong Cheng and others were more than loyal to Emperor Han Xian, but their plans were insufficient, even if they mastered the army, they didn't know how to coup d'Γ©tat, in fact, the mastermind of this coup was already Chen Gong, who had just defected from Dong Zhuo's army.
"It's unitary time now." Chen Gong said: "Please take the family and reliable people in the palace to stay in the palace to protect the emperor, and I will go home to pack up weapons and horses, arm the family, and prepare more firewood, grass, sulfur and other fire-starting things." As soon as the time came, General Wu Zilan and Wang Zifu immediately set fire to the houses and shops in the city, calling on the people to help the Han and kill the thieves; Lord Wu Shuo and Master Chongji prepared more rockets and set fire to the Chang'an granary to contain Dong Zhuo's old army and military system. The rest of the people, and I rushed to Dong Zhuo's palace in the name of the protector, and wiped out the dying Dong Zhuo and Jia Xu, and when Dong Zhuo's army was leaderless, long live and then ascend to the heights, come forward to grasp the situation, and promise the title of lord to Dong Zhuo's generals, Lu Bu responded first, and the chaotic Xiliang army will inevitably fall under the command of Wan Sui in order to survive. β
"What about Zhao Yun's new military system?" Cai Yong frowned and asked, Cai Wenji was assassinated before she arrived at Zhao Yun's house today, and her plan to win over Zhao Yun fell through, but Fan Juan was hurriedly sent to Zhao Yun's house, and there was no chance to win Zhao Yun's cooperation.
"Then I can only ask Wen Hou." Chen Gong turned to Lu Bu and said slowly: "Wen Hou, the fortune of my Han Dynasty is already in your hands, as long as you can contain Zhao Yun's army, my Han Zhongxing is expected, after the matter is completed, Wen Hou will become famous, famous in history, and famous for eternity, naturally it will not be a problem." Wen Hou, Chen Gong begs you, please be sure to help long live and rebuild my Han foundation. Speaking of this, Chen Gong knelt down towards Lu Bu, crying bitterly, Dong Cheng and others saw this, and they all knelt down to Lu Bu and kowtowed, including Emperor Han Xian, who left the dragon chair and bowed to Lu Bu.
"People of the world, it feels really good to kneel in front of me." A thought flashed through Lu Bu's heart......
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At the same time, at Zhao Yun's house, Zhao Yun, who was chased and beaten by Ma Yunlu because Fan Juan was sent into the house by Cai Wenji, finally ushered in a savior, and his family came to report that Fa Zheng was visiting, Zhao Yun hurriedly dodged Ma Yunlu's fist, resisted Ma Yunlu's grasp and helped Ma Yunlu to sit down, and said dejectedly: "Madam, Xiaojuan's matter will definitely give you an explanation for her husband, you are pregnant, don't move much, I'll go to see the guest first, and I'll talk about it when I'm busy in the past few days." β
Zhao Yun finally got rid of the entanglement of Ma Yunlu, who was crying and scolding, and rushed to the living room to see Fa Zheng, Fa Zheng shouted as soon as they met, "General Zilong, something is wrong, I have found out what happened in the past few days, and I have also found out the murderers of the assassination of the military division and the four princesses, they are also the main messengers of the assassination of the king, our army is in danger this time." β
"Dangerous fart! When the king appears publicly, those clowns who jump off the beam will disappear immediately! Zhao Yun, who was in an extremely unhappy mood, scolded in his heart, but Zhao Yun pretended to be surprised according to Kang Peng's instructions: "Master Fa, how can you say this?" Who assassinated the military advisor and the four princesses? β
"It's all instructed by Emperor Han Xian!" Fa Zheng said solemnly: "In order to regain power from the king, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty instructed Dong Chenghe Fu Wan and others to poison the king first, and then assassinate the military advisor and the four princesses, in an attempt to leave our army leaderless, and he came forward to seize the power of the king. And Fa Zheng also found out that it was Chen Gongxiao'er who was behind his back to give advice to Emperor Xian, and at Shen Shi this afternoon, Wen Hou quietly entered the palace, I don't know what they talked about with Emperor Xian! β
"Is there such a thing?" Zhao Yun pretended to be shocked, Zhao Yun knew that Lu Bu knew the inside story, and he didn't take Lu Bu's entry into the palace to heart, Chen Gong had betrayed Kang Peng, and Zhao Yun already knew about it, and now Kang Peng couldn't bear it, just to lure the Restoration Party to do it first, so that Kang Peng could justifiably catch them all, and also find out the real mastermind behind the assassination of Jia Xu.
"It's true!" Fa Zheng said with a heavy expression: "Wen Hou once killed his father and betrayed Ding Yuan, and he was dissatisfied that the king did not make him his heir, it is difficult to say that he will not have a different heart, General Zilong, you are the only person in our army who can match Lu Bu, and the life and death of our army can all be on your shoulders." β
Zhao Yun hesitated, to be honest, Zhao Yun was also very worried about Lu Bu's position, as early as the defeat in Maicheng, Zhao Yun learned from Pang De that Kang Peng was also very uneasy about Lu Bu, this time Kang Peng pretended to be sick, and he also carefully arranged the arrangements to prevent Lu Bu's rebellion before pretending to be poisoned, in case Lu Bu's position suddenly changed in this operation, then things would be a little bad.
"General Zilong, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years." Fa Zheng observed his words and looks, and saw that Zhao Yun was a little shaken, and immediately said: "I hope Fa Zheng's guess is wrong, but Fa Zheng is here to inform General Zilong that once it is found that there is an abnormality in Wen Hou's troops, General Zilong must closely monitor it just in case." β
Zhao Yun pondered for a long time, and finally nodded slowly......
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In King Kang's mansion, after the injured Cai Wenji hastily bandaged the wound, he arranged for his personal maid to take care of Dong Peng, but he quickly rushed to check the effect of the antidote test sent by his father, the fake antidote carefully prepared by Ji Ping was very deceptive, and the dog Cai Wenji used to test the poison had been jumping around after taking the poison and the antidote at the same time, without the slightest sign of poisoning, obviously the solution was effective, Cai Wenji was so excited that she burst into tears, regardless of the injuries on her body, and took the antidote to Zhao Kangpeng overnight.
When he came to Kang Peng's bedroom, Kang Peng was still lying on the bed pretending to be unconscious, and as soon as Cai Wenji entered the door, he asked Hua Tuo, who had been guarding Kang Peng's side: "Wenhuahou, how is the king?" β
"The king has been unconscious." Hua Tuo looked dejected, and said in a low voice: "Xiao Hou has tried countless antidotes, but none of them have any effect. β
"Hmm." Cai Wenji nodded and said in a low voice: "You go out first, I want to stay alone with the king for a while." β
After Hua Tuo went out, there were only Cai Wenji and Kang Peng in the room, Cai Wenji sat on the edge of Kang Peng's bed, gently stroked Kang Peng's furry ugly face, tears rained down, and whispered to himself: "Old ugly ghost, how many times have I said you, women outside are unreliable, you just don't listen, now it's okay, you have finally suffered a loss, if you listen to me, you won't be like this." Speaking of this, Cai Wenji finally couldn't suppress the feelings in her heart, and cried loudly on Kang Peng's fat belly, "Xianggong, you can't die, I'd rather let my son never succeed to your throne than die, I want you to stay by my side forever......"
Cai Wenji revealed her true feelings, and after crying on Kang Peng's body for a long time, Cai Wenji held back her tears, took out the antidote given to her by her father from her arms, and said in a low voice: "Xianggong, this is the antidote that my father gave me, I have tested it with a dog, it should be able to detoxify you, God bless, this antidote must work on you." β
Cai Wenji poured a cup of hot water for Kang Peng, tried the heat before bringing it to Kang Peng, slowly opened the antidote, and sent it to Kang Peng's mouth with fear, but when there was still half an inch away from Kang Peng's lips, his hand stopped in the air, Cai Wenji knew his father's attitude towards Kang Peng, and he was always not sure about the authenticity of this antidote, and after the hand holding the antidote trembled in the air for a long time, Cai Wenji finally withdrew his hand.
"No, no one has tested it personally, and I don't feel comfortable letting you eat it." Cai Wenji whispered, gritted her teeth and divided the antidote into two parts, took one and put it to her mouth, and raised her head to take it......
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In the blink of an eye, the time is approaching, the clear summer night is cloudless, the stars and the moon are shining, Chang'an City after martial law is very quiet, only to hear the neat footsteps of the patrolling Dong Zhuojun soldiers echoing on the street, Dong Cheng lay on the crack of his own door to observe for a long time, and found that the Dong Zhuojun patrol team just now had turned the corner of the street, knowing that the second patrol team would pass after a pillar of incense time, he turned around and whispered to the family members who had already stood in the compound: "Ready to do it, after tonight, you are the heroes of my Han, There is endless glory and wealth waiting for you. β
The door of Dong Cheng's house opened silently, and more than 300 Dong Cheng's family members came out and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
Wu Zilan was the first to deploy the restoration party in place, when the sound of the first change sounded, Wu Zilan took the lead in throwing a large bundle of thatch to the shops in Chang'an Market, and his family members followed, when the family members splashed sulfur and other igniting objects, Wu Zilan grabbed a wind lamp and shouted: "Kill Dong thief, to help the Han room!" β
"Kill the Dong thief to help the Han room!" Wu Zilan's family members shouted one after another, but their voices were quickly replaced by a neat shout, "Kill the thief." Wu Zilan's team was surrounded by lights, and countless heavily armed Dong Zhuojun soldiers swarmed out, led by a general of Dong Zhuojun, it was Gao Shun, Gao Shun shouted: "Wu Zilan plotted rebellion and rebellion, don't worry about killing!" β
"Kill!" Dong Zhuojun's soldiers, who were like wolves and tigers, instantly drowned Wu Zilan and his party.
At the same time, Wang Zifu, who was two miles away, heard Wu Zilan's first shout in the night sky, and immediately shouted: "Set fire!" The torch in his hand was thrown, and when the torch was still in mid-air, the two personal servants beside the prince suddenly pounced on the prince's suit and pressed the prince's suit to the ground, and one of them shouted, "The prince's suit rebelled and usurped, and the crime deserved death." The prince next to him was dumbfounded, and before they could wake up, countless Dong Zhuojun soldiers had already burst out of the darkness, surrounding them and slashing them all until they turned into pulp, and the fire that had just been ignited was quickly extinguished.
When Wu Shuo and Chong Ji rushed to both sides of the Chang'an granary, they had already heard Dong Zhuojun's shouting in the city, "Kill the thieves, there are night walkers, and there will be no forgiveness!" Wu Shuo was still a little hesitant, but Chongji knew that the matter had been revealed, and shouted in his heart: "Quickly release rockets to burn the granary and make them mess up." And his family Ding Rocket just put on the bowstring, and there was already a team of Dong Zhuojun on both sides, and he was shocked and wanted to raise his knife to meet it, but he was stabbed by several Dong Zhuojun soldiers at the same time, and was immediately nailed through the body and lifted into the air, and everyone around him was besieged by more than ten Dong Zhuojun soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles, and all of them were killed in an instant. Wu Shuo on the other side of the granary was knocked unconscious and captured by Dong Zhuojun's soldiers, and the rest were either killed or captured, and none of them escaped the net.
Emperor Han Xian's palace, the water level of the water leak bell just arrived on the scale, the killing sound outside the palace stood up, the imperial physician Ji Ping, who was responsible for protecting Emperor Han Xian, took his two sons Ji Miao and Ji Mu to the palace wall to check, and saw the dense torches outside the palace reflected in the night sky, I don't know how many Dong Zhuojun has surrounded the palace, the most dense place of torches, Dong Zhuo's third brother Dong Man is showing off his martial arts and pointing a gun at the palace wall and shouting, "Jiping dog thief, dare to poison my eldest brother, I must cut you with a thousand knives to vent the hatred in my heart!" β
"Quick, release the arrows, don't let them enter the palace." Ji Ping was so frightened that he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to release arrows, trying to hold on until the reinforcements arrived, but the gate of the other palace was quickly pushed open, and the two eunuchs with a group of eunuchs tore open the throat of the male duck and shouted, "General Dong, we are Feng Bin and Feng Guo of the big and small yellow gates, you come in and kill Ji Ping and the thief." Dong Man laughed, waved his hand, Dong Zhuojun soldiers swarmed into the palace, Ji Ping on the palace wall saw that the general trend had gone, sighed, first pulled out a knife to kill his two sons, and then killed himself with a horizontal knife, fell down the palace wall and died.
On Chang'an East Street, Zhao Yun silently listened to the report of his subordinates, "Report to the general, Wu Zilan's team has been completely annihilated by our army!" β
"Report to the general, the prince's uniform was captured by our army."
"Report to the general, the palace has been controlled by our army, and Emperor Xian is under the protection of General Dong."
"Report to General Zhao, the granary danger has been solved."
"Report to the general, several small units in our army have all been disarmed, and the leading general has either killed or captured, and none of them have escaped ......the net."
After a long time, Zhao Yun never heard the news of the Lu Bu troops who were responsible for monitoring Dong Cheng and Chen Gong's team attacking King Kang's Mansion, so he couldn't help but be secretly shocked in his heart, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to check, but the person sent there brought a piece of news that made Zhao Yun speechless - Lu Bu's troops actually let Dong Cheng and Chen Gong's team attacking King Kang's Mansion pass through the defense area without taking any blocking measures, that is to say, the defense of King Kang's Mansion was already only defended by Kang Peng's 800 personal soldiers!