Chapter 59: The Jade Seal of the Country
However, it was said that Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, and sent 5,000 iron horsemen to arrest wealthy households in Luoyang everywhere, and caught thousands of them in total, and put small banners on their heads, which read "Anti-thief and anti-party", and then pulled them outside the city to kill them all, and then confiscated their property and robbed them nakedly.
Dong Zhuo and the others kidnapped the Son of Heaven and the concubine, and then put Li Dao and Guo Yan in charge, driving millions of people in Luoyang City, just like driving horses, all the way towards Chang'an.
There is a small group of soldiers in the middle of each small group of people, who is responsible for supervising and escorting, and the people who move a little slower will be killed mercilessly by the soldiers, and there are constantly dead people along the way.
With such a large migration team, there was no way to provide food and other material materials on the way, and countless people died of starvation.
Li Dao and Guo Yan indulged the soldiers to rape the wives and daughters of the people, wantonly robbed the people's food, and the cry shook the heavens and the earth.
Cao Cao found Yuan Shao in the big tent, and the other princes were also present.
"Alliance leader, now that the Dong thief has gone west, he can take advantage of the situation to pursue him." Cao Cao clenched his fists and suggested.
"The princes' soldiers and horses are tired, and rash marching may lead to an ambush left by Dong thieves." Yuan Shao shirked.
The other princes also chimed in, saying that they should not act rashly or so on, in fact, they had already begun to plan their own interests, but they were embarrassed to say it, and in their opinion, such a thing as chasing Dong Zhuo was unnecessary.
Of course, Cao Cao could see it, so he didn't say more, he went out of the camp tent, led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in his headquarters, led Xiahoudun, Xiahou Yuan and other Eight Tiger Cavalry, as well as Li Dian, Le Jin and other generals, and pursued Dong Zhuo's army in the starry night.
On Liu Bei's side, Li Chuan had already transported all the books he had snatched back to Liu Bei's camp with the soldiers, and he specially called Hua Xiong.
"Zijian, it's time for you to make meritorious contributions." Li Chuan smiled and patted Hua Xiong's shoulder.
"Huh?" Hua Xiong looked confused, and he didn't understand why Li Chuan said that.
"Later, we will go to pursue Dong Zhuojun and collect the Xiliang soldiers along the road, and then it will depend on whether you have enough face." Li Chuan said with a smile, this is also the reason why he didn't let Guan Yu kill Hua Xiong with a knife, this guy is still very prestigious among the Xiliang soldiers.
"It's okay! In addition to the prestige of Dong Xiangguo and the military advisor, I can't compare, ordinary soldiers will still listen to my orders. Hua Xiong's meaning is self-evident, and he insanely implies that he is the first fierce general in Xiliang.
"Lack of river, you are a great gift!" Liu Bei, who was on the side, was already bright-eyed, and what he lacked most now was soldiers.
"Xuande Gong can thank Zijian so much!" Li Chuan smiled, he estimated that Cao Cao should have been almost hammered by the ambush soldiers!
After Dong Zhuo was defeated, Hua Xiong followed his promise and joined Liu Bei's men and worked for Liu Bei.
Liu Bei and others took their headquarters to pursue the Xiliang army.
But said that Cao Cao's side, when he led the troops to Xingyang, he caught up with Dong Zhuo's elite soldiers who stayed behind, and Lu Bu was seriously injured and did not recover, so Zhang Liao could only lead the troops to break the rear.
As everyone knows, Li Ru has already arranged a plan to ambush the pursuers.
Zhang Liao put his soldiers and horses into battle, Xiahou Tang Pegasus killed Zhang Liao, and the army also covered the past under Cao Cao's order, and the soldiers and horses on both sides started a fight.
Xiahoudun and Zhang Liao fought for less than a few rounds, Li Dao led the army to kill from the left, and Cao Cao hurriedly called Xiahouyuan to meet the enemy.
The shouts of killing sounded on the right, Guo Yan led the army to kill, and Cao Cao hurriedly called Cao Ren to meet the enemy.
But the sudden attack of the three-way soldiers and horses was unstoppable.
Cao Cao's army was defeated and fled towards Xingyang.
Xu Rong had already followed Li Ru's instructions and ambushed the army next to the mountain dock outside Xingyang City, when Cao Cao came to the foot of the barren mountain with the remnants of the defeated army, ready to bury the pot to make rice, Xu Rong led the army to kill, and a shout of killing sounded around him, Cao Jun is everyone hungry, so do you still have the strength to fight? They had to flee in all directions and were killed.
Cao Cao hurriedly ran away, and was shot in the shoulder by Xu Rong with an arrow, Cao Cao endured the pain, turned over the hillside, and galloped wildly, fleeing for his life.
Just when Cao Cao was frantically pursuing Dong Zhuo and then being bombed, the other princes had no intention of helping Cao Cao at all.
After they enter Luoyang, they will more or less go to loot something, even if they don't give orders, the soldiers under them will rob themselves, which is an unspoken rule after victory, or how can there be generals in order to motivate the soldiers, often say that they have captured this into looting for three days and other words, saying that it sounds good is looting, and to put it bluntly, it is to do whatever they want, which is actually a way to vent the anger of the army soldiers.
When he led a team of men and horses to search for things in Luoyang, a sergeant suddenly pointed to the distance and said, "Look, there is a strange light there." ”
Sun firmly looked at it, and there was indeed a five-colored light on the south side of the old hall, and he secretly wondered in his heart: There will be no strange treasures in the world, right?
When they rushed over, they found that the five-colored light came from a well.
"Go, go down the well and salvage it and see what's there." Sun Jian told the soldiers to light torches and commanded.
"General, it's the corpse of a woman." Said the soldier who went down the well.
"Fish it up." Sun Jian said expressionlessly.
Looking at the corpse of the woman on the ground, it must have been a long time since she soaked in the well, but the corpse had not yet decomposed, this was the dress of a court woman, with a bag under her head.
Sun Jian took the bag and opened it to see that there was a small vermilion box inside, which was still locked with a gold lock, and it didn't look very old.
Sun Jian split the golden lock with a knife and inspected it himself, but he didn't expect that it was actually a jade seal inside, which scared him so much that he almost shook it and almost threw the jade seal out, which made him very excited.
The jade seal is four inches in circumference, engraved with the shape of the five dragons twisted, and there is a corner missing next to it, and it is inlaid with gold, and there are eight seal fonts on it: "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity." ”
"Lord, today God has bestowed the blessing of the Lord's Ninety-Five! It seems that we can't stay here for a long time, we should return to Jiangdong quickly, as long as we crack the treasure secret of the jade seal, why worry about the great cause! Cheng Pu's face showed a look of great joy, and then he glanced coldly at the soldiers around him.
"Tomorrow we will say goodbye to the princes and return to Jiangdong." Sun Jian can't wait to return to Jiangdong to do a big job.
"My lord." Cheng Pu was already signaling to Sun Jian with his eyes, he wanted to kill all the soldiers present.
"Not necessarily." Of course, Sun Jian understood Cheng Pu's eyes, but he waved his hand, then looked at the soldiers around him and said, "You are all my henchmen, you must not leak the news, and those who violate the order will be beheaded." ”
Sun Jian couldn't imagine that this soft-heartedness would actually bring death to himself, he may not understand that only the dead can truly keep it secret.
There is a soldier in Sun Jian's barracks, he was originally Yuan Shao's fellow countryman, and when he saw that Yuan Shao was the leader of the alliance, he had already had the intention to go over to Yuan Shao, but because he did not have the foundation to advance, he was afraid that after the pass, he would be treated similarly to Sun Jian's camp.
But today, he had the foundation to advance, and secretly ran out of Sun Jian's camp at night to report to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao was really overjoyed, gave him some rewards, and made him a petty official.