Chapter 26: The Great Fire of Luoyang

After Dong Zhuo returned to Luoyang City, he convened his ministers and began to discuss the relocation of the capital, but as soon as Dong Zhuo proposed to move the capital, he was opposed by Yang Biao, Huang Wan, Xun Shuang and others.

However, after Dong Zhuo forcibly decided to move the capital, he was opposed by Shangshu Zhou Bi and Wu Qiong, the captain of the city gate.

After demoting Yang Biao, Huang Wan, and Xun Shuang to commoners, and beheading Zhou Yu and Wu Qiong, Dong Zhuo ordered Li, Guo Yan and other Xiliang warriors to lead 5,000 Xiliang iron cavalry to capture the rich people in Luoyang City, and then casually found an excuse to behead these rich people to show the public, and their wealth naturally fell into Dong Zhuo's hands.

In order to leave a ruined Luoyang city to the princes of the Eighteenth Road in the real sense, Li Ru ordered the Xiliang army to forcibly relocate the people of Luoyang to Chang'an, and then under Li Ru's personal order, the Xiliang army set fire everywhere in Luoyang City, and the main setting place was the Han Palace in Luoyang City. And after doing this, Li Ru was not satisfied, and asked Lu Bu to lead the Bingzhou army under his command to excavate the tombs of the emperors of the Han Dynasty, and take out the gold and silver treasures in them and transport them to Chang'an.

When Li Ru got into the carriage and left Luoyang City, a raging fire had already burned all over Luoyang City, and the flames were soaring to the sky, almost dyeing the sky red.

Looking at Luoyang City, which had turned into a sea of fire behind him, and the people of Luoyang outside Luoyang City who were dragged their families and mouths under the drive of the Xiliang soldiers, or carried them on their shoulders, or found a small cart to push all their belongings in the direction of Chang'an City, even with Li Ru's vicious heart, he couldn't help but make a little wave in his state of mind.

There is a distance of hundreds of miles from Luoyang to Chang'an, and in this era, these people are forcibly relocated to Chang'an under such conditions, and I don't know how many people will die on the road.

After getting into the carriage, Li Ru lowered the curtain, used the power of the soul, and began to concentrate on what to do after arriving in Chang'an City to make Dong Zhuo more advantageous in the next situation, and at the same time, how chaotic the princes of the Eighteenth Route also needed to make a good calculation.

Although Li Ru is confident that as long as the princes of the Eighteenth Route arrive in Luoyang City, they will have a gap with each other, but Li Ru is not willing to pin everything on the enemy, and if he does not do something to divide the princes of the Eighteenth Road, it is not in line with Li Ru's style of doing things.

Thinking of this, Li Ru took a blank edict from his side, dipped his pen in ink and wrote it, and wrote several edicts in a row Li Ru stopped, and then sent these edicts out.

After Dong Zhuo mastered the government, he naturally needed to deal with some government affairs, but Dong Zhuo was born as a martial artist, how could he deal with these complicated affairs? So Dong Zhuo handed over these things to Li Ru, the first strategist under his command, to deal with them, and Li Ru also helped Dong Zhuo handle these things in an orderly manner, so that people couldn't find fault.

The result of this is that Dong Zhuo handed over everything to Li Ru, and the current power of Li Ru is very large, with Dong Zhuo's acquiescence, Li Ru can already write some edicts casually, and there is no need to send them to Dong Zhuo after writing, Li Ru can handle it himself.

I have to say that Dong Zhuo trusts Li Ru very much, and it is precisely because of Dong Zhuo's trust in Li Ru that he can get Li Ru's dedicated assistance to have today's power.

After those edicts were sent out, Li Ru returned to the carriage and continued to Chang'an.

The fire in Luoyang City burned almost the entire Luoyang City, and the fire was so strong that even the Tiger Prison Pass fifty miles away was faintly visible. When they found that there was a firelight in the direction of Luoyang, the princes of the Eighteenth Road were not good. immediately ordered to storm the Tiger Pass, and the guards of the Tiger Pass, Hua Xiong, Xu Rong and others, had already received Dong Zhuo's order and abandoned the pass. And before Xu Rong left the Tiger Prison Pass, he also left some flags in the Tiger Prison Pass, and successfully coaxed the Eighteenth Route Princes, making the Eighteenth Route Princes think that Xu Rong and others were still in the Tiger Prison Pass.

By the time the princes of the Eighteenth Route found out that the Tiger Prison Pass had become an empty pass, Xu Rong and others had already led the Xiliang Army on the road to Chang'an.

After perceiving the fire in the direction of Luoyang, the princes of the Eighteenth Route immediately urgently deployed troops to attack the Tiger Prison Pass, and under the leadership of Guan Yu Zhang Fei and Yan Liangwen Chou, the four generals who were urgently transferred by Yuan Shao, the Tiger Prison Pass, which had long been left without many defenders, was easily taken.

After taking the Tiger Prison Pass, the princes of the Eighteenth Road, who didn't have time to share the joy in their hearts, hurriedly left a road of soldiers and horses to garrison the Tiger Prison Pass, and then hurried towards Luoyang City.

Dong Zhuo relied on the Tiger Prison Pass, a powerful pass in the world, to block them for a long time, and it should be said that he wanted to celebrate by easily winning the Tiger Prison Pass at this moment. But looking at the sky-high flames in the direction of Luoyang City, no one had the intention of celebrating.

When the princes of the Eighteenth Route drove their troops to the outside of Luoyang City, they were all stunned, Luoyang City, the capital of the Han Empire, most of the Eighteenth Route Princes had come, and even Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others had fled from Luoyang City before they raised troops against Dong Zhuo.

And what appeared in front of the princes of the Eighteenth Route at this moment was not the prosperous imperial capital of the past, but a city shrouded in fire.

Although the princes of the Eighteenth Road are still some distance from Luoyang City, just looking at the sky-high flames above Luoyang City and the distorted space between them is to know how fierce the fire in Luoyang City is.

On the way to Luoyang City, the princes of the Eighteenth Road still comforted themselves in their hearts and said that Dong Zhuo should not set fire to Luoyang City, after all, Luoyang is the capital of the Han Dynasty, if Dong Zhuo really burns Luoyang City, it is not a trivial matter, and it will inevitably be hated by many people.

However, when the princes of the Eighteenth Route rushed to the outside of Luoyang City and saw Luoyang covered by raging fires, they understood that Dong Zhuo had really set fire to Luoyang City.

Looking at the Luoyang City in front of him, which was burned by fire, Sun Jian was the first to move, instigating the blue-veined giant tiger, and rushed to Luoyang City with his soldiers and horses, and at the same time shouted: "What are you waiting for, why don't you hurry up and put out the fire?" ”

Since Sun Jian has started to act, the remaining princes of the Eighteenth Route will not be idle, and they have brought their soldiers and horses into all parts of Luoyang City, and began to find ways to extinguish the fires in Luoyang City, as for Dong Zhuo, no one cares about his whereabouts for the time being.