Chapter 18: The Severed Dragon's Body Hidden Snake Couch

Pang Tong covered Lu Bu's mouth in the past, turned back to everyone, and said, "Colleagues, come and get together under our tent." "The tent of the two is small, and it is crowded at the moment. Zhang Liao's face was full of anger, and he said, "Song Xian did it? ”

Lu Bu's face was pale and he didn't say a word. Pang Tong nodded and said, "Today, Dong Zhuo sent me and Lu Bu's fellow villagers to talk about the matter, and asked us to defect, and I was scolded by my brother, and the matter was settled. I know that there are many Dong Zhuo's strategists, and he will definitely make a living, so let my brother persuade Lord Ding, who expected that he was bumping into Song Xian to commit murder, it must be Dong Zhuo's instigation. ”

Although the civil and military officials were silent at the moment, they all burst into tears. Zhang Liao sobbed and said: "Attack the city tomorrow!" Avenge Lord Ding! Everyone responded, but was stopped by Pang Tongyun: "No! ”

Lu Bu came to his senses and said, "Why did the virtuous brother say this? The others were also suspicious.

Pang Tong said: "Shall I wait to send me to death, or to take revenge?" If I didn't kill the old thief, but I took my life, I want to be laughed at by the world and laughed at by the old thief! The crowd was silent.

Pang Tong continued: "I have a plan, my brother Tiding and Song Xian will go to Cheng, waiting for the opportunity to kill all these rebels. ”

Lu Bu shouted: "No, how can you take the head of my father-in-law, brother Xian, you want me to be an unfaithful and unfilial person!" ”

Zhang Liao said: "Don't be irritable first, what Shiyuan said may be the best policy." The others were silent. Lu Bu had no choice but to say: "Why do you want to be like this! He hugged Ding Yuan's head and cried for a while.

On the fifth watch of the next day, before dawn, I saw that Lu Bu had two heads tied under the horse, and Pang Tongyi rode afterward, and the two were killed from the village. Zhang Liao was behind and said angrily: "Anti-thief, how dare you kill your father-in-law for the sake of glory, and heaven and man will kill together!" By the time the surrounding soldiers noticed something unusual, Lu Bu and Pang Tong had already rushed out of the stockade.

The two came to the east gate of Luoyang and shouted: "I am Lu Bu, and I have come to see Taishi Dong with the head of Ding Yuan!" ”

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed when he learned of this, and personally went out to greet him at night. However, because Lu Bu had rejected Li Su, he still had a large number of guards to support him, and there were nine-foot-tall fierce generals like Hua Xiong by his side. When Pang Tong saw him come out, he dismounted with Lu Bu. Lu Bu threw away the halberd, dismounted and bowed: "He refused Li Su in the future, but in fact, everyone in Bingzhou knows that I am friends with him, and I am afraid that the soldiers will report to Ding Yuan, and the matter will not be possible." Therefore, I made a loud noise, so that the guards could hear what he said to Li Su, and dispel Ding Yuan's concerns. Fang just and my virtuous brother Shi Yuan killed the killer. The other head is Song Xian's. I don't know who asked him to oppose Ding Yuan, but he didn't know the good intentions of the Taishi, but instead told Ding Yuan about it, and wanted to frame the Taishi, but Shi Yuan saw through it. Therefore, kill these two people to see the Taishi! ”

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed and said: "I have served me first, what worries do I have from now on!" He turned to Li Ru and said, "Look, I said that Song Xian can't discuss it, right?" ”

Li Ru arched his hand and said, "My lord is wise! ”

Dong Zhuo personally helped Lu Bu up, and then helped Pang Tong up, and said, "The two of you are extraordinary, and they will definitely help me achieve great things." He grabbed Lu Bu's hand again and said, "Feng Xian is the hero of the world, why not be my righteous son, and get rich together in the future?" ”

Pang Tong frowned, knowing that his expression had changed, he immediately suppressed the fire in his heart. He thought, "Why is this old version again, it's really infuriating." ”

I saw Lu Bu bow down and say: "My father-in-law is above, and I will be worshiped by Lu Bu!" Pang Tong listened to it in his ears and felt pain in his heart.

Dong Zhuo helped Lu Bu up again, held hands and said, "Okay, you will have a share of the great cause in the future!" ”

After laughing, the generals had to laugh, and Pang Tong reluctantly squeezed out a smile.

Later, another spy confirmed that Lu Bu was killed out of the camp, Dong Zhuoshang was relieved, so he chose a day to worship heaven and earth with Lu Bu and became a righteous father and son. Pang Tong and Lu Bu stayed in his mansion, and Pang Tong thought to himself: "So close to this old thief, I will definitely get rid of your group of scourges!" ”

One day, Dong Zhuo took Lu Bu and Pang Tong to the racecourse and ordered someone to bring the red rabbit horse. Dong Zhuo sighed: "This horse is more than a year old, and no one can sit on it so far. I wanted to ride it, but as soon as I got on the horse, it was thrown off the ground on one of its hind feet. One of my generals tried to domesticate him, but he was thrown off the ground by this horse and trampled to death with his hooves. After that, no one dared to ride. ”

Pang Tong shook his head and said, "I can't ride this horse." He knew that an extraordinary horse should also be matched with an extraordinary man, and if he sat on it, he would probably fall down.

When Lu Bu saw this horse, he liked it very much, stepped forward to stroke the horse's face, and said, "Chitu, Chitu, would you like to gallop with me on the battlefield?" Dong Zhuo ordered someone to saddle the horse, Lu Bu stepped up, and sat steadily, Chitu was very quiet. Lu Bu galloped out of the horse and ran a lap around the racecourse. Dong Zhuo was secretly surprised: "Chitu is so docile when he sees Fengxian, this is the destiny of heaven." ”

Pang Tong laughed and said, "Brother is really brave!" ”

This was heard by Hua Xiong behind Dong Zhuo, and he was very displeased.

Pang Tong has been looking for an opportunity to kill Dong Zhuo and others, but he found that Dong Zhuo was very worried. Only the guards who follow him all the year round in his mansion can hold weapons, and Lu Bu and other generals are not allowed to approach with weapons, except for Hua Xiong. Hua Xiong has been working hard with Dong Zhuo since he was young, and the two are like brothers.

Pang Tong and Lu Bu had a heart of revenge and wanted to condemn the danger of the Han family. When kneeling at the east gate that day, the two of them couldn't wait to eat Dong Zhuo, but there were many fierce generals behind this old horseman, and Dong Zhuo himself was born as a military general, so it was impossible to get it easily. After slaughtering Dong Zhuo, it is not possible not to hold the military power, his subordinates Li Dao, Li Ru and others have wolf ambitions, and Hua Xiong can suppress the soldiers and horses of the Liangzhou headquarters. Dong Zhuo's death will only cause his entire party to lead their own military power and cause chaos in the world. Pang Tong was at a loss, and he was unhappy for a while.

One day, Lu Bu broke in, Pang Tong was reading a book, and he was startled. Lu Bu said: "The old man ordered someone to tie up his father's head and throw it into the small river in the east of the city, so that he would never turn over!" I'm going to strangle him with both hands!" ”

Pang Tong frowned when he heard this, and immediately ran over and pulled him into the house and closed the door. Pang Tong said in a low voice: "How can my brother mess up his ambitions!" We are not only avenging Lord Ding, but also for the people of the world to make decisions and not let this old thief and henchmen make trouble. You're so rough now, how can you become a big deal? ”

Lu Bu hung his head and was silent, with anger on his face, Pang Tong persuaded him with kind words on the side, and then dispelled his thoughts. However, that Dong Zhuo is indeed hateful, no wonder Lu Bu is angry.

Two days later, on the second watch, Pang Tong and LΓΌ Bu quietly came to a small river in the west of the city, and they watched for two hours, and found that there was no one guarding the soldiers. Pang Tong watched from the shore, and Lu Bu identified the location he left behind and went into the water to look for it, but who knew that the stone had been found, but the head was not there. Half an hour later, still nothing. Pang Tong was in a hurry on the shore, looking at the darkness around him, as if a devil had suddenly appeared, and his palms were full of sweat. After a while, Lu Bu climbed onto the case and sighed in his heart: "Father-in-law, the child is not filial, so that your head will be gone, and there will be no corpse to die." You have a spirit in heaven, forgive the recklessness of the child. He couldn't stop crying, and knelt on the ground with Pang. The two of them got up and were about to leave, when suddenly, an object rushed up from the bottom of the water and floated on the surface. Lu Bu saw that it seemed to be a round object, so he went into the water and swam over. He touched it closely, and it was really a human head.

Pang Tong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "God has eyes. ”

Lu Bu quietly put Ding Yuan's head in a wooden box and buried it in the backyard of his mansion. A week later, the two ordered messengers to send the boxes mixed in the caravan to the outside of the village. After Zhang Liao got the head, he immediately packed up the camp and returned to the state.

Dong Zhuo expressed the merits of Chen Lu Bu and Pang Tong to the emperor, and begged Lu Bu to be named Zhonglang General and Duting Marquis, and Pang Tong to be named Lieutenant Cheng. How dare the young emperor disobey, so he issued a holy decree to give him a seal.

The two of them were under Dong Zhuo's account, although they were high-ranking officials and marquises, they were like sitting on pins and needles, sighing at the sky at night, thinking that Ding Yuan's revenge would not be avenged, and they could not be loyal and filial, and they were depressed. On the evening of the same day, Dong Zhuo held a banquet in the courtyard of the mansion and invited his generals to gather for a banquet. Pang Tong had an idea, and came down to the stove room at night to observe, but unexpectedly, the guards were tight, and secretly shouted: "This Dong Zhuo is really scheming. So I had to dismiss the idea.

From then on, Pang Tong deliberately befriended the person in charge of guarding the stove. These pawns saw that Pang Tong was polite, and he was an official, and they also hoped to climb his relationship, and as time went by, he could go in and out of the stove room casually, but it was more difficult to start, after all, there were so many people watching inside.

Under the Mid-Autumn Moon in August, Dong Zhuo's mansion was lit up with lanterns and a feast was held in the courtyard. Pang Tong has been waiting for a long time at this time, and he sees that the stove room is busy at night, so he is not allowed to enter. He was not in a hurry, waited for a wine cart to pass, and hurriedly pretended to call out to the cart man, and said, "Manager Sui asked you to go." "The men didn't see who it was, and it was dark at night, and they didn't hurry when they heard the order. After Pang Tong saw them leave in the dark, he took a deep breath, hurriedly lowered his body and went over to open all the wine jars and pour in the poison powder prepared in advance.

Sui Ren is the head of Dong Zhuo's mansion, and all servants need to obey him. He was busy with the banquet that day, and when he saw the servants coming to look for him, he said aloud: "I haven't called you, go to work, don't you see that I am busy!" ”

A few people couldn't say anything, so they had to leave and continue to deliver wine.

In the courtyard, the generals took their seats, and the maids poured wine. Pang Tong and Lu Bu have also taken their seats. Pang Tong told Lu Bu about the plan in advance, so Lu Bu would not drink this wine. I saw Dong Zhuo raise the wine bottle and laughed: "On this festive season, I, Dong Zhuo, have thanked you, if you don't have everyone's help, how can you have today's blessings." ”

Pang Tong's palms were sweaty. Lu Bu pressed the table with one hand and the cup in the other, and really wanted to see the wine in his heart. Unexpectedly, one person got up, it was Li Ru, holding a cup and saying: "If there is no Master Dong, I can't wait for this title." Everyone here is now in a high position, how can you not toast your adults together? ”

Pang Tong shouted in his heart: "I want you all to be poisoned!" ”

Suddenly, a man fell to the ground, and it was the servant who came to serve the food. His face was purple and poisoned, and he rolled on the ground in pain. Pang Tong frowned, and shouted in his heart: "This guy secretly drank wine, and after the poison is drunk in the water, it will take half an hour for it to become poisonous." This is a big deal for me! ”

The people present were shocked when they saw this, and they did not dare to touch the wine and dishes. Dong Zhuo ordered someone to investigate the matter, and only then did he know that the wine was poisonous. He called Sui Ren over. That Sui Ren was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord spares his life, the wine is well stored in the wine cellar, and there are guards with handles, who dares to poison it?" He remembered what the servants of the people who set the wine had said, so he called to inform Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo ordered someone to call him. Several of the servants turned pale with fright, and they also knelt on the ground, even claiming that they had nothing to do with them, but someone broke them up.

Dong Zhuohu was hesitant, and he didn't know who would do it, so he looked around at everyone and said angrily: "Who dares to poison!" ”

And they were all indignant. Pang Tong gritted his teeth, and suddenly, Lu Bu got up and shouted angrily: "You are an important minister, and you are blessed by my father-in-law, who dares to do this, confess quickly, and leave the whole corpse." If it is found out, the nine clans will be exterminated! "He's domineering, and everyone else feels a little chilled when they don't do it. In the end, no one would admit their guilt, Dong Zhuo was furious, and ordered someone to push the servant who carried the wine and the person who guarded the wine cellar out of the door and beheaded him, and Sui Ren was razed to the three clans.

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Note: The three armies, the three armies in ancient times refer to the front, middle and rear armies. In the front army, the pioneer battalion was generally responsible for opening roads (building bridges, building roads), reconnaissance, coping with small-scale battles, and bringing some military supplies. The Chinese army is the large army in which the commander is located, and most of the combat arms (cavalry and infantry) that fought at that time. The rear army is mainly the main military materials, craftsmen, and a large number of civilian workers in the whole army (at that time, all the chores in charge of the army were civilian workers, and when there were not enough soldiers, civilian workers also had to fight).

Remarks: Five watches

The ancients divided the night into five hours, and each hour of the night was called "more". One night is the "five watches", and each "watch" is two hours now. The first is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and the second is from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m...... And so on.

A watch starts at dusk from 19-21 o'clock

A watch is in the time, called dusk, also known as sunset, sunset, sunset, evening and so on.

The second watch is set to be faint and not quiet at 21-23 o'clock

3rd watch 23-1 a.m. the next day

When the third watch is in the sub, the name is half of the night, also known as the middle of the night, the middle of the night, etc.

Four more 1-3 points

When the fourth watch is ugly, the famous rooster crows, also known as the wild chicken, the second hour of the twelve hours.

5 more 3-5 o'clock

When the fifth watch is in Yin, it is called Pingdan, also known as dawn, morning, day, etc., which is the time when night and day alternate.