23. The death of He Jin

The general He Jin immediately took Cao Cao and Yuan Shao to the palace together, and the group did not go out, but they ran into Yuan Shu who came in from outside. It is said that although Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao are both members of the Yuan family, the two have always had contradictions, although they have not reached the point of life and death, but the relationship between the two people is quite bad.

Yuan Shu saluted He and said, "Where does the general want to go?" ”

He Jin said with a smile: "The Queen Mother summoned the highway and went to the palace with me!" ”

Cao Cao, who was on the side, took the opportunity to speak: "The general wants to get rid of the eunuchs, and the world knows it, how can the palace not hear it?" At this extraordinary time, why should the general be in danger with his golden body? Cao Cao was kind and persuaded He Jin not to go to the palace.

He Jin said: "Forgive those eunuchs, what can I do?" Meng De was indeed timid before the big thing. He Jin didn't forget to pout his lips after speaking, to show his disdain for Cao Cao, but he didn't know that he was not far from death. Cao Cao sighed in his heart after hearing this, saluted He and turned to leave.

Yuan Shao was also a little worried when he saw Cao Cao leaving: "Why don't you let me bring five hundred soldiers and enter the palace with the general, so that I can have no worries." ”

Yuan Shu also took the opportunity to say: "My Tiger Ben Army has already imposed martial law on the palace walls, don't worry about the lord." ”

Since there are so many bodyguards here, He Jin also puts his heart in his stomach. led everyone to see his sister Empress Dowager He as if he were on an expedition.

In front of the inner palace gate, there was already a small yellow door waiting here, and he sent the queen mother's edict: "The queen mother and the general have confidential matters to discuss, only the general is allowed to be in the inner palace, and all the idle people are waiting outside the palace." ”

He Jin thought about it carefully: Yes, what kind of system does it become to enter the queen mother's inner palace fully armed? How can anyone bring an army brother and sister to meet each other? The general still wanted this face, and then refused the unnecessary dissuasion of the Yuan family brothers, and entered the palace with his head held high.

There are three inner palace doors, He Jin walked into the second floor, and suddenly heard the sound of the palace door closing behind him, his heart moved slightly, and when he looked up, the inner door of the third floor was not opened, He Jin felt inappropriate, and hurriedly withdrew, but it was too late at this time!

When he turned around, he saw more than ten eunuchs such as Zhang Rang and Duan Qi standing a few steps behind him. Turn your head and look at it again, it's not good! I saw that more than 100 eunuchs actually had a bright knife in their hands, and surrounded their general's legion in the middle.

I only heard Zhang Rang's soft voice to the general He Jin and said: "The general is not harmed, we have no other intentions, just begging for the general's life, begging the general to raise his noble hand, let me and others breathe, may the general put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground!" ”

What kind of character is He Jin? He knew very well that there was no reason to beg the slaughtered person to spare his life? Therefore, He Jin reprimanded proudly: "Where is the Queen Mother? These things will be reasoned after General Ben has seen the Queen Mother. ”

The eunuchs chuckled, and the soft voice came, and He Jin only felt that the wind was blowing and his spine was cold. "According to the order of the Queen Mother, why did he forget his roots and deceive, and wanted to misbehave, so he was captured on the palace wall, and I don't know if the general was bound?"

He Jin regretted a lot in his heart, but he couldn't show a timid look at this moment! So He Jin pretended to be calm and shouted: "Bold! In front of this great general, how can you wait for the eunuch to speak? The white blade is relative to the minister of the country, are you not afraid of destroying the nine clans? ”

"Our family is no longer humane, and there are nine clans for the general to exterminate? What grievances do we have with the general? So that the general will take revenge, and want to cause me to wait for death and then hurry! Heaven is clear, you traitorous butcher still want to live to this day? ”

Between the words, several steel knives almost wanted to reach his body, He Jin was shocked, and he opened his mouth to call for help! At this moment, I remembered that I had left the Yuan brothers and all the guards outside the palace just now! I really knew that this was the case, why did I regret not listening to Cao Cao's words in the first place!

At this time, he suddenly remembered that he had a sword on his body, but before he could pull out the sword, he didn't know how many steel knives had already slashed at his body! Just like chopping dumpling filling, it took a while to process the general He Jin into a mess of meat puree.

On the one hand, he had already frightened He Jin's brother He Miao, he had always had close contacts with Zhang Rang and others, and it was Zhang Rang who told him personally, asking him to invite the general to come by the order of the Queen Mother, so that the eunuchs could ask for their lives in person, but now it was his brother who died. At this time, he only had one thought left: go to the Queen Mother, and save his life. Who knows how the Ten Standing Servants were willing to let him go, as soon as he turned around, he was stabbed into the heart from the back with a sharp knife.

At this time, the two Yuan brothers outside the palace had already sensed that something was wrong, and ordered their subordinates to knock on the palace door and shouted: "Quickly ask the general to leave the palace, there is something urgent in the palace!" ”

Zhang let the eunuchs now only have a bit of luck, since ancient times the snake has no head, and now the other party's head has been executed, and the rest hope that the holy decree can make them comply. So he sent a small yellow gate to hold He Jin's head and climb the palace wall to proclaim: "He Jin rebelled, beheaded by the holy decree, and the rest were exempted from crimes, each in his own position, and another was promoted." ”

Who knew that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's desire to get rid of the eunuchs was not a day ago, but there was no general order from He Jin, and now that he saw the bloody head of the general, where could he hear Xiao Huangmen muttering something? Just tore open his throat and shouted: "The eunuch killed my general, lost the reason of heaven, and all the soldiers went into the palace with me, repaid the blood debt, and swore to avenge the general!" ”

Over there, Yuan Shu had already commanded the Tiger Ben guards to set a fire at the palace gate, and the palace gate was burned down after a while, and the Xiyuan Army, which specialized in guarding the Beijing Division, and the Tiger Ben Forbidden Army, who were responsible for guarding the palace, rushed into the palace gate together, and killed the guards and eunuchs in the palace!

Zhang Rang and a few people saw that the general trend had gone, so they ran to the Empress Dowager He and said: "The Yuan family plotted to kill the general He Jin, and now he has attacked the imperial city. The Empress Dowager He was shocked when she heard this, and hurriedly hugged Liu Wei and ran out of the palace with Zhang Rang and others, Zhang Rang and others not only kidnapped the mother and son of the Empress Dowager He, but also Liu Xie, the king of Chen Liu, and took them away in the car.

Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu led people to attack the palace and found that Zhang Rang and others had fled with the emperor and the queen mother. The two didn't dare to slack off, and they chased after them when they ordered their troops. This chase escaped and ran out of Luoyang City. At this time, it was dark, and Zhang Rang and others did not dare to light the lights, so they went straight forward in the dark, and people kept falling behind along the way. Seeing that they were about to reach the bank of the Yellow River, there were only a dozen people left in the team at this time, except for Zhang Rang and Duan Qi.

Seeing that the torches of the chasing soldiers behind him turned into a long dragon, Zhang Rang and Duan Jue's faces were like ashes. The two knew that the general trend had gone, and Zhang Rang said to Duan Qi fiercely in his heart: "I can't escape death today, I want to take the emperor to jump into the river together!" ”

Duan Jue was startled when he heard this, but at this time he also became crazy. So the two beckoned their subordinates to snatch out the young emperor of the Han Dynasty Liu Wei from the arms of the Empress Dowager He in the car, and the Empress Dowager He was shocked: "What does Zhang want you to do?" ”

"Queen Mother, we can't survive! And so he took the emperor with him! Hahaha! After Zhang Rang finished speaking, he laughed and hugged Liu Wei from his hands and walked towards the river.

At this moment, a person burst out of the oblique thorn, this person had a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and was dressed in bright armor! This person is none other than Dong Zhuo's general Hua Xiong. When Empress Dowager He saw that someone was coming, she immediately shouted: "This general quickly save the emperor!" ”

Hua Xiong listened and looked at Zhang Rang, and he was holding Liu Wei and wanted to jump into the river. Hua Xiong urged the war horse tightly, and the war horse neighed and flew behind Zhang Rang, and finally snatched Liu Wei back before he jumped out. Zhang Rang screamed in mid-air, and his body fell into the tumbling Yellow River, and only a splash disappeared.

Duan Jue beckoned his subordinates to snatch Liu Wei here at this time, but was slashed into two sections by Hua Xiong's long knife. So far, the leader of the ten permanent servants, Zhang Rang Duan Jue, has all died, plus He Jin and He Miao, who died before, and the relatives and eunuchs have all been wiped out in one day!