Chapter 117: Combined Forces
"Lykira..."
Commodus froze in place, watching as Lekira descended the stairs step by step, standing in front of Commodus.
She reached out and gently covered Commodus's left chest and heart, feeling the powerful heartbeat of her fingertips, a sign of a man's wildness.
"Your Majesty, through astrology, I found that the luck of the empire is gradually fading, although there is only a little bit of luck that disappears every day, and it is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, but after a long time, it will be a threat."
"Huh?"
Commodus didn't listen to what Lekira was saying, but reached out and grabbed Lekira's hand that covered his chest.
He put Lykira's hand under his nose, sniffed, closed his eyes tightly, and felt the other party's breath: "Well, it smells good." โ
Immediately, he suddenly opened his eyes, hugged Lekira's whole person in his arms, lowered his head, buried deep between Lekira's twin peaks, and inhaled hard, intoxicated by the body fragrance emanating from Lekira's body.
โยทยทยท Your Majesty? โ
Commodus's inner desire was stirring, and his reason could no longer overcome his heart's desire for Lekira.
The thought of desire was frantically burning his sanity, completely destroying what little sanity Commodus had left.
And Lekira's inquiry at this moment aroused the beast in Commodus's heart even more, and he roared and picked up Lekira's whole person.
"Ah, Your Majesty, you?!"
Lekira exclaimed, stretched out her hands to break Commodus's restraints, but she didn't move, her strength was just a joke in front of Commodus, weak.
For so many years, as the owner of the astrological house and the national teacher of the Roman Empire, she has never shown her true face, just because her identity is very sensitive.
The Roman Empire supported its dominance with brutal force, and as the national teacher of the empire, Lekira's qualifications and prestige could not convince the public at all, so she would hide behind the scenes and become the emperor's minister.
But she knows very well how great her charm is for men, and one day, Commodus will definitely be desperate to get herself.
Instead of letting Commodus lose his mind and become a tyrant who will eventually lead to the decline of the empire, it is better to hide behind the scenes and control the empire through Commodus!
The splendor of the Roman Empire must not come to an end in its own hands!
Thinking of this, Lekira had been put on the bed by Commodus, and his whole body was pressed up, a spring breeze all night.
The next day, Commodus issued a decree to put the empire in order to strengthen its rule over the surrounding vassals, and then gathered his army and stationed it on the border of the Egyptian provinces, ready to listen to orders.
In the past few days, troops have been dispatched and heavy troops have been stationed on the border, causing panic within the empire, and they don't know what kind of madness Commodus has made.
During Octavian's time, the Imperial Senate was expanded to 600 members, most of whom were held by Octavian's cronies.
On this day, the Imperial Senate suddenly initiated a resolution, which was jointly endorsed by the 10 Grand Elders, who took the lead, unanimously passed the military control of the Egyptian provinces.
The content of military control included obedience to military service, increased taxes, increased labor, etc., and the Egyptians suffered unspeakably, and such a targeted high-pressure policy would inevitably break out into civil strife over time, leading the Egyptians to rebel against the colonial rule of the Roman Empire.
Lykira did this through Commodus because she discovered through astrology that the crisis of the decline of the empire originated from the Egyptian provinces, and two demon stars were born, so she hoped that when the empire was still at its peak, she would force the Egyptian provinces to rebel, so as to concentrate strong forces and destroy the rebellion in one fell swoop.
Not to mention the North African side, the situation is changing, after Ma Chao and Zhao Yun and others converged, they began to continue to lead the army south, through the trail in the Beibi Mountain, and quickly rushed to the pass from the Beibi Mountain to Luoyang.
There is a large pass here, and the guard army has a total of 5,000 people, led by 1 cavalry captain, and the defensive ability is not weak.
Xu Shu set up a plan, shot arrows and letters into the pass, and falsely claimed that the Liaodong Gongsun led an army of 100,000 to the south to crusade against the traitor Dong Zhuo, which aroused the vigilance of the defenders in the pass.
Subsequently, the siege of the pass was not attacked, and the vigilance of the defenders in the pass was raised again, so as not to let them take it lightly, and every night, they took turns to go into battle, beat gongs and drums, and pretended to attack the city at night.
After a long time, the defenders in the pass have not been able to sleep well for several days, and their morale is sluggish, Zhao Yun began to storm the pass again, and the defenders who have not been able to rest well, in a fit of anger, used all their strength to block the siege, Zhao Yun led the army again, and fled in a hurry.
The cavalry lieutenant was furious, and immediately led the army out of the city to pursue Zhao Yunjun, and just rushed out of the pass not far away, there was a bang, Pang De and Gongsun Zhan killed the ambush soldiers from the left and right, and immediately took down the cavalry captain's army.
Picking up the head of the cavalry captain, and then Gao Shun led the army to attack the pass, the morale of the defenders in the pass was completely lost, so they had to switch and surrender.
The pass of 5,000 people took only 5 days before and after, and it was successfully taken, and the inventory of the spoils of war found that there were countless ordnance, grain and grass in the pass.
Spreading out the map, Zhao Yun said: "Now, our army has successfully captured the gate to Luoyang North, which is only a day's journey away from Luoyang City, General, how to march next?" โ
Ma Chao looked at the map carefully and muttered: "When our army was still in Yanshi, we found a large number of soldiers and soldiers of Zhu Jun who had fled, I don't know where General Zhu Jun is now?" โ
Xu Shu pointed to a place on the map and said, "If nothing else, Zhu Junjun must be here." โ
Everyone saw that it was the east of Luoyang, which was originally the only way for Yanshi to go to Luoyang, but was later blocked by the fire that burned the sky.
"It's possible."
Zhuge Liang said: "After the defeat of Zhu Jun's army, there is a great possibility that it will be blocked in this place, and the retreat will be cut off by Dong Zhuo's army, and there will be a large number of defeated soldiers who have fled. โ
Liu Xiu's mausoleum and his party, Zhuge Liang showed extremely powerful Taoist skills, coupled with his previous good planning, the generals present did not dare to despise what he said.
"Well, our army won't go to Luoyang for the time being, let's go here first!"
Ma Chaojun rushed to the east of Luoyang in half a day, here, dozens of miles away from the red land, the earth showed a red color, it was a world melted by the high temperature of the fire, there were fiery red scenes everywhere, there were no living creatures, not even a green grass could not be seen.
Scouts were sent to look for the traces of Zhu Jun's army, and after a short time, they found the target, there was a military camp in front of them, and the two armies were attacking each other.
Ma Chaojun immediately rushed over, and when he looked at the military flag, it was indeed the two armies of Dong Zhuo and Zhu Jun who were fighting.
When the two armies were fighting, Ma Chaojun came out of the thorn and killed it, and 3,000 white horse soldiers quickly broke into the battlefield, arrows rained down, and Dong Zhuo's soldiers were shot and fell off their horses.
Soon, Ma Chao and Zhu Jun joined forces and drove Dong Zhuojun out.
After the war, Zhu Jun led people to greet Ma Chao in a hurry, and said with great joy: "With Ma Mengqi here, there is no fear of Dong thief!" โ
Ma Chao just smiled slightly, and ordered someone to bring a few people over, Zhu Jun looked at it and was suddenly shocked, the few people brought over were none other than his two sons, Zhu Fu and Zhu Hao!