Chapter Seventy-Seven: Dong Zhuo's Death
Dong Zhuo dreamed a few days ago that a golden dragon descended from the sky, loaded himself into the sky, and soared in the sky.
Looking down at the earth from mid-air, a heroic feeling suddenly arises.
The feeling of riding on the top of the golden dragon's head made Dong Zhuo unforgettable for a long time, so he found someone who could interpret dreams to help him interpret his dreams.
The man said that this was a good omen, indicating that Dong Zhuo's identity would change dramatically, and Dong Zhuo was overjoyed after hearing this, and immediately rewarded this person.
At this time, Dong Zhuo was already above the emperor, and Liu Xie himself was supported by him, so he didn't think much about it, after all, even Dong Zhuo didn't dare to carry out such a thing as usurping the throne easily, and he didn't even ask Li Ru and other strategists how to obtain the throne, because he knew that once he did this, Chang'an would inevitably be attacked by a group.
But what Dong Zhuo didn't expect was that when he thought that this matter had passed, Situ Wang Yun suddenly asked to see him.
"What happened to Wang Situ?"
Dong Zhuo asked casually, and Lu Bu's tall body stood on Dong Zhuo's side.
"Master Dong, I'm here to convey His Majesty's edict."
Saying that, Wang Yun respectfully handed an edict to Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo didn't expect Emperor Xian to write an edict, you must know that Emperor Xian is just a ten-year-old child now, and he usually lives in the palace, how could he suddenly think of writing an edict to himself?
Receiving the edict from Wang Yun's hand, Dong Zhuo's expression immediately became gloomy, if Emperor Xian made any moves, then it must be instigated by such courtiers, he was unfortunate that a child who was raised by himself would have these thoughts.
However, when Dong Zhuo opened the edict, his expression immediately recovered, and then he burst out laughing.
"I don't know what your majesty's edict is, but my father-in-law is so happy."
Dong Zhuo saw Lu Bu asking, but he didn't answer, but looked at Wang Yun and said, "Your Majesty's order, Dong Zhuo will naturally obey, and I will go to the palace on time at noon." β
"Then Wang Yun will leave first."
After speaking, Wang Yun got up and left, and Dong Zhuo gathered all his henchmen.
"What, Your Majesty wants to give up the throne to the lord?"
Li Ru was the first to stand up in surprise, at first he heard Dong Zhuo's urgent summons, and thought that there was some military situation, but he didn't expect that it was Emperor Xian who wanted to give up the throne to Dong Zhuo.
"My lord, I'm afraid there is a deception in it."
When complimenting Dong Zhuo one by one, Li Ru felt that there was a problem, Emperor Xian was just a ten-year-old child, how could he know about Zen Rang and other matters, he didn't arrange for him to do this kind of thing.
"Wen You doesn't need to worry too much, His Majesty's edict has written that he received a dream from his father and brother, thinking that the great man has exhausted his strength and should be handed over to a virtuous person, and the one they chose is me. Your Majesty's dream is on the same day as my dream, and this must be true. β
"Lord, how can dreams be taken seriously, besides..."
Before Li Ru's words could be finished, he was interrupted by Dong Zhuo.
"Wen You doesn't need to worry, this trip to the palace is accompanied by Feng Xian, and there are three thousand flying bear elites under my command, is there any danger?"
Li Ru couldn't find the words to refute for a while, so he left first.
While Dong Zhuo was bathing and changing, Li Ru hurriedly wrote five letters and sent them to Dong Zhuo's commanders, Niu Fu and Li? Yo 9 .?curtain 7 ???? Alliance? Eggplant Hail? Jacket Punch? γcabinηειζζΆη
Li Ru's thought is not unfounded, even if Emperor Xian received a dream from his father Emperor Han Ling, Emperor Xian's brother Liu Bian was poisoned by Dong Zhuo's order, and Li Ru himself watched his subordinates pour poison into Liu Bian's mouth, how could he choose Dong Zhuo to accept the throne?
And although not many people know about Dong Zhuo's dream, he didn't deliberately hide it, and it was easy for anyone with a heart to find out, and this so-called coincidence could be easily created.
But what Dong Zhuo said is also good, now there are less than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Chang'an, among which the most elite 3,000 flying bear army is firmly in Dong Zhuo's hands.
Most of the commanders of Jin Wuwei and the city defense army are Dong Zhuo's old troops, so what are their plots? Can it be useful just by relying on dozens of customers and hundreds of families?
Li Ru's letter was taken out, and Dong Zhuo was ready to complete it.
Although the edict said that the succession ceremony was at noon, Dong Zhuo left the Taishi Mansion early.
Li Ru is Dong Zhuo's chief strategist, but he only serves as Dong Zhuo's staff and does not come out, so he has no official position, so he has no right to participate in this Zen ceremony, so he can only watch Dong Zhuo's team leave from afar.
"Qianli grass, He Qingqing, ten days, no life."
"Qianli grass, He Qingqing, ten days, no life."
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When Dong Zhuo sat in the carriage, he was in a very happy mood, and when he heard the nursery rhymes from the children on the side of the road, he also felt like a heavenly sound, and he also specially grabbed a handful of coins and threw them in front of them, which was regarded as a reward for them.
By the time Dong Zhuo arrived in the palace, Lu Bu had already asked the Jinwu Guards to guard around the ceremony, so Dong Zhuo did not let the Flying Bear Army take over the defense here.
The stage was very high, and Dong Zhuo walked up step by step.
From a distance, he saw Wang Yun Wang Yun standing in front of him with an edict in his hand, and Lu Bu was standing beside Wang Yun with a Fang Tian halberd in his hand, as if he was monitoring Wang Yun's every move, which made Dong Zhuo very relieved.
"It seems that I still have to exercise in the future, and these comfortable lives actually make me a little out of breath when I climb these steps."
Dragging his fat body, Dong Zhuo finally came to the ceremony stage.
But when he looked up, he found that there was no emperor on the ceremonial stage, only Wang Yun and Lu Bu, as well as Lu Bu's Jin Wuwei.
"Wang Yun, what does this mean, why is Your Majesty here. Your Majesty is not in the way of the Zen Concession Ceremony. β
Dong Zhuo asked Wang Yun sharply, but Wang Yun, who had been cowering in front of him all this time, did not flinch.
"Bold Dong thief, you and other rebellious ministers and thieves still dare to covet the Han artifact, today I will be edicted to kill you here."
"Be bold, Feng will take this person down for me first."
Dong Zhuo didn't expect that things were completely different from what he thought, and he was immediately angry, eager to tear Wang Yun up now.
It's just that what Dong Zhuo didn't expect was that Lu Bu didn't move at all after listening to his words, and suddenly his head that was burning with anger immediately calmed down.
No, Lu Bu has already betrayed himself.
In the end, it was Dong Zhuo, and soon he analyzed the origin of the matter from the current situation, and at this time, he didn't want to ask Lu Bu why he betrayed, but hurriedly turned his head and shouted in the direction where the Flying Bear Army was: "The Flying Bear Army listens to the order, give it to me..."
When Dong Zhuo shouted, Wang Yun also said to Lu Bu at the same time: "Feng Xian doesn't do it yet. β
After listening to Wang Yun's words, the Fang Tian painting halberd in Lu Bu's hand immediately flew up, and before Dong Zhuo's words were finished, his head fell to the ground.
The Flying Bear Army was far away from the ceremony stage, and they didn't hear the words on the stage, but the scene of Dong Zhuo's head falling to the ground was clearly visible, and the Flying Bear Army immediately panicked and ran towards the ceremony stage.
The Jin Wuwei around the stage immediately drew his sword and confronted the Flying Bear Army.
Lu Bu also knew the strength of the Flying Bear Army, and he didn't want to fight him head-on, so he quickly picked up Dong Zhuo's head on the ground and shouted below: "Lu is a thief, Dong Zhuo is disobedient and brutalizes the people, so he will be punished by me, do you also want to go with him?" β
The Flying Bear Army has a mixed number of soldiers, nearly half of which are Dong Zhuo's old troops, and some of them are from the Northern Army and the Bingzhou Army under Ding Yuan.
Except for Dong Zhuo's old department, the rest of the soldiers were actually not particularly loyal to Dong Zhuo, and now that Dong Zhuo is dead, they will naturally disarm and surrender.
The remaining Flying Bear sergeants saw that someone took the lead, and the number was still increasing, and they also surrendered to Lu Bu together, after all, Lu Bu's murderous reputation was well known in Dong Zhuo's army, and now that Dong Zhuo was dead, what reason did they have to continue fighting.
The plan on the palace side went well, and while Lu Bu asked the soldiers to watch the Flying Bear Army, he asked the city guards to inform the city guards to close the four gates of Chang'an, and the next thing they had to do was to purge Dong Zhuo's forces left in Chang'an.
Li Ru walked on the street uneasily, he always felt that what happened today was a ploy, but he always couldn't think of the key point.
"Qianli grass, He Qingqing, ten days, no life."
Several children on the side of the street were still singing this nursery rhyme, and Li Ru suddenly broke out in a cold sweat after listening to it, and he figured out everything at once.
Qianli Cao is a Dong character, Shiri Bu is a Zhuo character, this nursery rhyme is to say that Dong Zhuo is going to die.
Combined with today's incident, Li Ru knew that the purpose of their trip was to kill Dong Zhuo, and the key figure was Lu Bu.
Chang'an, which seems to be an impregnable wall, has actually reached the hands of Lu Bu, although there is also a Li Su who was used by Dong Zhuo to monitor Lu Bu, but what if this Li Su of Lu Bu's fellow townsman was persuaded by Lu Bu to surrender?
Looking up at the position of the sun, it was already noon at this time, and it was estimated that everything they were going to do had already been done, and what Li Ru had to do now was to escape from Chang'an City as soon as possible.
Seeing that there were suddenly a few more knights running on the street, Li Ru immediately realized that the other party's conspiracy might have been achieved, and he knew that it would be difficult for him to leave Chang'an City.
With Lu Bu's order, all four gates of Chang'an City were closed, and no one could enter or leave anymore.
Having said that, one of the knights who gave the order did not return to his fate, and he left Chang'an City alone on official grounds while relaying Lu Bu's order, and the knights who were with him did not care about it.
This person is naturally one of Qin Hua's eyeliners in Chang'an, that is, one of the members of the Nighthawk.
In recent days, Nighthawk and Shadow Guard have had a fierce quarrel, and some people have even been seriously injured, so their surveillance of Chang'an has been lowered a lot, but they didn't expect such a big thing to happen today, so this person has to send this news to Liangzhou anyway.
This person's name is Xu Kui, and he is from Jincheng, Liangzhou.
Because Qin Hua did a lot of things that were beneficial to the people when he was the county guard of Jincheng, and Xu Kui's family also received Qin Hua's great favor, so he was determined to go to the soup for Qin Hua.
Xu Kui had joined the Liangzhou Army before, but he was not selected when he was selected to trap the camp, and he didn't want to be just an ordinary soldier, until a general found him and asked him if he would like to join the direct army of the state pastor.
Xu Kui naturally agreed, but he didn't expect that this so-called direct force was not a force that followed Qin Hua's side, but a force scattered all over the place to listen to information for Qin Hua.
However, Xu Kui did not give up this job because he couldn't follow Qin Hua's side, because when he received training, his teacher told him that intelligence is a key point in winning a war, and only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one win a hundred battles.
If we want our state shepherds to win every war, then we need to collect all the information about the enemies of the state sheriffs, so that we can know ourselves and our opponents when fighting the enemy.
The horses galloped for most of the day, and the horses were already foaming at the mouth.
Xu Kui knew that even if he could weigh it, his horses wouldn't.
So Xu Kui was ready to go to a nearby county town to take a break, how to change a horse would be better.
Before coming to a restaurant, Xu Kui ordered a few side dishes to fill his stomach.
Suddenly, he noticed a mark on one of the corners of the table that resembled the seal character "eagle".
Xu Kui had an idea, and immediately called the shopkeeper over and handed a copper coin to the shopkeeper.
"This is..."
The boss was a little puzzled, so many dishes and one copper coin was not enough, and suddenly his eyes lit up, because he found that this copper coin also had a mark similar to the mark on the table.
"I wonder what happened to Your Excellency?"
"I'm from Chang'an, and I urgently need to go to Wuwei, I don't know if there are horses here?"
"Come with me."
After speaking, the shopkeeper took Xu Kui to the stable, and selected a strong and good horse to lead to Xu Kui.
With the horses, Xu Kui didn't stay any longer, and immediately got on the horse and galloped away.
At this moment, a person dressed as a sergeant of Dong Zhuo rushed out drunk, grabbing the shopkeeper's clothes.
"This is my horse, you dare to steal it?"
As soon as the soldier finished speaking, he felt a pain in his abdomen and fell to the ground.
The movement outside was heard by his buddy, and as soon as he wanted to come out to check what was going on, he was slit his neck from behind by a guy in the store.
"You've been eating and drinking for nothing for so long before, even if you're unlucky this time."
The shopkeeper is naturally also Nighthawk's person, and Nighthawk has strongholds in various cities, but most of them can only open a small shop on the street like this.
It is still very rare for a Nighthawk like Chang'an to enter various levels of organs, and Liangzhou does not have so much financial resources and energy for them to be placed in important positions, which still requires their own efforts.
After this experience, Xu Kui also knew that Nighthawk basically had strongholds in various places, and most of them were in downtown areas, so whenever his horses failed, Xu Kui would find a nearby Nighthawk stronghold and change horses, and what he was looking for was the mark on the table in the restaurant and the copper coin he gave to the shopkeeper of the restaurant.
If you don't look closely, you would think it's a pattern, but only those of the Nighthawks can easily identify it.
Under Xu Kui's continuous hurry, in less than half a month, he came to Wuwei and personally reported Dong Zhuo's dead secret report to Jia Xu.
At this time, Qin Hua was in a bad mood, so he took several of his wives and concubines, as well as Dong Bai, to go out for a spring outing.
According to the course of history, Dong Zhuo is still some time away from his demise, and there has been relatively nothing to do in Liangzhou recently, so Qin Hua took advantage of the good season of spring to take his family to Liangzhou, and it was also to observe the lives of the grassroots people and see if there was anything that needed to be changed in his decree.
"Deliver this letter to the lord quickly."
Jia Xu handed the finished letter to a guard, then looked at Xu Kui and said, "I want to go to Sili, are you willing to go along?" β
"My subordinates are willing to go."
Xu Kui immediately happily agreed.