Chapter 54: Emperor Han Xian returns to the east
Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty fled from Chang'an under the protection of the 'civil and military officials' and returned to Luoyang, which shook the world.
However, the princes are all watching, not to mention Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others, even if Cao Cao prides himself on caring for the Han family, in fact, he doesn't take Emperor Han Xian in his eyes at all, and all the princes in the world regard Emperor Han Xian as a puppet.
Just because Emperor Han Xian was Dong Zhuo who killed the young emperor, a traitor who killed the puppet of the young emperor, how can you make the princes respect it in their hearts.
If it weren't for the fact that ordinary people didn't know too much, and still only recognized the son of heaven of the Han family, the princes wouldn't even give Emperor Han Xian their face on the surface, so they would just show it to the ordinary people, block the tongue of the world, and not give other princes an excuse to besiege themselves.
The princes are all waiting and waiting, all waiting for the actions of the other princes, no one dares to be the first to be the first bird easily, and even some people wish that Emperor Han Xian would be killed by someone on the way back to the east, in that case, the world will really become an ownerless world.
Hanzhong County.
Because of the proximity to Guanzhong and the close attention to the situation in Guanzhong, Liu Yu was the first to get the news.
He quietly asked Guo Jia: "Fengxiao, what do you say we are holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes?" ”
Guo Jia was taken aback at first, thought about it but said: "It's not proper, if the eldest brother has taken Guanzhong, this move is wonderful, but now the eldest brother only has five counties, and except for Hanzhong, all of which are barren and small counties, the total population is less than one million, there is Liu Zhang in the south, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao in the east, Cao Cao Bingfeng and Shangyong County are only two counties separated by Shangyong County at this time, and the eldest brother is also preparing to seize Guanzhong, if the eldest brother is in charge of the Son of Heaven at this time, Guanzhong Li Dao and Guo Yan will be like a great enemy, and the two will definitely suppress their hatred and reunite, and Yuan Shu is not very capable, but his ambition is great, he will definitely drag the eldest brother back, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Zhang and other princes will also guard against the eldest brother, and it is difficult to get it in Guanzhong. ”
Liu Yu sighed in disappointment: "That's a pity." ”
Guo Jia paused, and said: "But the eldest brother can send a team of soldiers and horses to protect the Son of Heaven, one is the eldest brother is a relative of the Han family, it should be so, the princes dare not suspect that there are others, and the other can also make a great contribution, in the name of the Son of Heaven, earn more official positions." ”
Liu Yu had a flash of inspiration, the name of the official position or something is secondary, and it is the most important thing to let Emperor Han Xian confirm his name as 'Uncle Huang', when the time comes, 'Uncle Liu' will become him Liu Yu, and Liu Bei's wife will be 'younger' than him, won't he never become 'Uncle Huang'.
Also, he can be sure that Cao Cao will definitely want to move Emperor Han Xian to Xudu as he did in history to 'coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes', and he can't let Cao Cao go too smoothly.
Then Liu Yu called Zhao Yun and ordered him to lead 3,000 iron horsemen to escort Emperor Han Xian's return to the east.
Xu Du.
After occupying Yingchuan, Xingyang, and Runan, Cao Cao moved his core from Yanzhou to Xudu.
Knowing that Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty had returned to the east, Cao Cao, at the suggestion of Mao Jue, really tried to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes. On the grounds that Li Dao and Guo Yan were pursuing Emperor Han Xian, they set up troops to march west to protect Emperor Han Xian.
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Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, under the protection of Yang Feng, Dong Cheng, Yang Biao, Zhu Jun and other civil and military officials, just arrived in Huayin County and before he left Tongguan, he was caught up by Guo Yan first and besieged at the foot of Huashan Mountain.
Originally, Yang Feng, Dong Cheng and others had less than 10,000 horses, and they were no match for Guo Yan's tens of thousands of troops in any case.
When Guo Yan was attacking Yang Feng and Dong Cheng, Li Dao also led the army to catch up, Li Dao undoubtedly also wanted to snatch Emperor Han Xian, and even wanted to take the opportunity to kill Guo Yan, but he was not polite and directly joined the melee.
The three armies were fighting at the foot of Huashan, Yang Feng and Dong Chengbu were the weakest, and whether it was Li Dao's army or Guo Yan's army, they would cut down their soldiers, with less than 10,000 horses, and more than half of them were lost in an instant.
Fortunately, taking advantage of the scuffle between Li Dao and Guo Yan, Yang Feng and Dong Cheng still had the opportunity to protect Emperor Han Xian and Yang Biao and other 'civil and military officials' to highlight the encirclement.
There is a general under Yang Feng, named Xu Huang, the word is clear, and he makes a big axe, which is quite brave.
Xu Huang beheaded Li Dao and Guo Yan each a general, led the army to fight a bloody road, protected Emperor Han Xian and others took advantage of the chaos to highlight the encirclement, went straight to Tongguan, and soon passed Tongguan and entered the Hongnong County area, as long as Hongnong passed, you can return to Luoyang.
During the scuffle between Li Dao and Guo Yan, they learned that Emperor Han Xian had taken advantage of the chaos to flee again.
Li Dao said to Guo Yan: "If the Son of Heaven returns to Luoyang and gains a firm foothold, he will definitely announce to the world that the princes will fight you and me together, and I will not be protected by the two of us and the three clans." ”
Guo Yan also felt that it was inappropriate to let Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty flee back to Luoyang like this, thought about it, and simply said: "In this case, you and I will join forces, chase after the general, kill the Son of Heaven, and divide Guanzhong equally." ”
Li Wei smiled and said, "Okay, that's right!" ”
The two immediately joined forces, also out of Tongguan, chased the Han Emperor, and passed along the way, looting along the way, and hundreds of people suffered.
Yang Feng, Dong Cheng, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and others learned that Li Dao and Guo Yan's army were chasing after them again, and they couldn't help but panic and desperately fled eastward.
Along the way, from time to time by Li Dao, Guo Yan's army bite, to the death to fight can retreat, originally nearly 10,000 troops, less and less, and grain, grass, tents are all lost.
That night, Emperor Han Xian and Empress Fu could only stay in a dilapidated thatched house, so that the outside could only eat corn rice to satisfy their stomachs, but the corn rice was rough and difficult to swallow, and Emperor Han Xian and Queen Fu wept silently.
Empress Fu was quite virtuous, comforted Emperor Han Xian softly, and only said that everything would be fine when she returned to Luoyang.
In order to prevent Li Dao and Guo Yan's army from catching up again, in the early morning, before dawn, Emperor Xian of Han set off and continued to march eastward.
Of course, the journey could not be smooth, the closer to Luoyang, Li Dao and Guo Yan were also a little anxious, abandoned the footsteps, and only led thousands of iron cavalry to pursue, this time Emperor Han Xian could not run faster than them, so he was caught up again at the foot of Ji Mountain.
Yang Feng and Dong Cheng only had more than 2,000 soldiers left, of course, they couldn't stop Li Dao and Guo Yan seven or eight thousand iron cavalry, the army was scattered, and Li Dao and Guo Yan personally led some iron cavalry to chase the carriage of Emperor Han Xian and Empress Fu.
Emperor Han Xian was terrified, and he didn't know if he would be able to escape this time.
Just as Li Dao and Guo Yan's iron cavalry were chasing closer and closer, and Emperor Han Xian was gradually a little desperate, he rushed out from the west with an iron horse, and the leader was a young man with a white horse and a silver gun, who was Zhao Yun.
"Changshan Zhao Zilong is here, and the thief dares to run rampant!" Zhao Yun burst into drinks, and Pegasus directly took Li Dao and Guo Yan.
Li Dao and Guo Bi were shocked, when they first fought against Lu Bu, the two of them plus Fan Chou and Zhang Ji were still invincible, and Zhao Yun was undefeated in five hundred rounds with Lu Bu under the Tiger Prison, and his courage was by no means the two of them.
Then they joined forces to face Zhao Yun, and in just a few rounds, the two led the army to flee.
After Zhao Yun left 500 cavalry to protect Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, he led the remaining cavalry to chase and kill for a while, and then turned back after killing more than 1,000 thieves.
At this time, Yang Feng, Dong Cheng and others also found Emperor Han Xian, and saw the elite iron cavalry around Emperor Han Xian, both of them were shocked, and after Emperor Han Xian said that this was Zhao Yun's army, the two suddenly said: "It's Liu Yu's subordinates?" ”
Emperor Han Xian's eyes lit up and asked, "But what about the Han clan relatives, the Marquis of Hanzhong, Liu Yu, and Liu Shimin?" ”
Yang Biao said: "Back to Your Majesty, it is Liu Yu, the Marquis of Hanzhong." After a pause, Yang Biao said again: "This Zhao Yun is also a famous general in the world, and in the past, he fought with Wenhou Lu Bu for five hundred rounds under the Tiger Prison Pass. ”
Emperor Han Xian nodded, and at this time, Zhao Yun also led the army back.
Zhao Yun dismounted and bowed: "Zhao Yun greets Your Majesty." ”
"General Zhao, please get up quickly." Emperor Xian of Han personally stepped forward and helped Zhao Yun up, he sighed with emotion: "The princes of the world, only the Marquis of Hanzhong sent troops to rescue me, I am very relieved, if it is not for General Zhao to arrive in time, I may have suffered an accident." ”
Zhao Yun said: "Your Majesty, please don't say that, my eldest brother is a relative of the Han family, and it is often said that protecting the Han family is a lifelong responsibility, and the Son of Heaven is in trouble, how can he not come to the rescue." If it weren't for the important things in Hanzhong, my eldest brother hated not to come in person, he had a sentence to bring to His Majesty, Li Dao and Guo Yan The two thieves forced His Majesty to come here, hateful and hateful, he will slash these two thieves one day, present their heads, and snow Your Majesty's difficulties today. ”
Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was moved, over the years, he was first bullied and oppressed by Dong Zhuo, and then by Li Dao and Guo Yan, but he only felt that it was the incompetence of the Han clan that caused the world to have frequent thieves, and no one really protected the Han family. In the entire Han clan, perhaps only Liu Yu is the one who can resist and reshape the prestige of the Han family.
Moved and thinking like this, Emperor Han Xian blurted out: "In the past, when the Yellow Turban was conscripted, my father praised the bravery of the Marquis of Hanzhong many times, and today the Marquis of Hanzhong sent troops to save me from the predicament, which can be called the 'imperial uncle', I want to crown the imperial uncle as the king and summon the imperial uncle into the court." ”
As soon as Emperor Han Xian's words came out, he was shocked on the spot.
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