35. Burn Luoyang City

Dong Zhuo doesn't care who takes the task, he only depends on whether you complete it well or not. So Zhang Ji took the initiative to take over the task, and Dong Zhuo did not doubt him, so he handed over the task of escorting to Zhang Ji.

Li Ru on the side rolled his eyes and looked at Zhang Ji with a smile on his lips. "Interesting, it seems that there is a master under this Zhang Ji's command, and he can see my plan from the clues! No matter who you are, you'd better not get in my way, or don't blame me for being rude! Hey! Li Ru thought secretly in his heart.

Jia Xu was drinking tea when he suddenly felt a chill behind him. The heart said, "Who is paying attention to me again!" That's it, I've had enough time here in Zhang Ji, it's time to start over in a different place. ”

Dong Zhuo's army was opened, and before leaving, Dong Zhuo issued an order for the soldiers to loot in the city for two hours, and as for the things and people that could not be taken away, there was no need to keep them! After looting, he had to set fire to Luoyang City. At this time, after a day's rest, the alliance of princes had already marched to Luoyang in the early morning.

Yuan Shao was eager for revenge and urged the army to keep accelerating. The coalition army did not rest all the way, and ran until it was still thirty miles away from Luoyang City. Taking advantage of the rest of the army, Yuan Shao sent all the scouts to the direction of Luoyang to check. Before the scout had gone far, everyone saw billowing smoke rising from the direction of Luoyang, and bursts of miserable cries came from there!

The princes looked at each other, "Isn't this Dong thief crazy?" Dare to burn Luoyang City, this is the capital of the Han Dynasty! Isn't he afraid of God's wrath? ”

Yuan Shao pointed in the direction of Luoyang with his hand, trembling and speechless, he said fiercely for a while: "Order the whole army to enter the city to put out the fire!" The princes of all walks of life listened to the order, and all ran separately to Luoyang City. At this moment, Luoyang City is full of devastation, full of burning houses and poor people running around.

Yuan Shao and several princes camped outside Luoyang City, not to mention it, but Sun Jian, one of the princes who entered the city. He came straight to the Han Palace with three generals and hundreds of soldiers, and he always felt that there was something here that attracted him.

Sun Jian took a few people into the palace and found that many palace maids and eunuchs were running around with their heads in their hands, and at this time, several large halls in the palace were also on fire. Sun Jian asked his subordinates to organize these palace maids and eunuchs to put out the fire, while he himself walked to the harem with three generals and more than a dozen personal guards.

Passing by the backyard of a palace, one of the guards suddenly said, "General, there was a glow in that well just now!" When Sun Jian heard this, he immediately stopped, led everyone to the well, and looked inside. It was found that it was a dry well, and there was a body of a palace maid at the bottom of the well.

"Quick, go down and two people and pull this corpse up!" Sun Jian commanded. Immediately, two guards stood up, tied a rope around their waists and tied them down. It didn't take long to fish up the body of the palace maid. Huang Gai and Cheng Pu found a yellow cloth bag on this corpse and handed it to Sun Jian. Sun Jian lifted a corner and looked inside, and was overjoyed at the moment. Because in the yellow cloth bag in his hand is a large seal, and there are four big characters on it: Commanded by heaven! This thing is the lost heirloom jade seal!

Sun Jian dared to stay for a long time when he got the jade seal, and hurriedly returned to the camp with people. and instructed the third brother's family to find an opportunity to gather all the guards who knew about the matter, and strictly forbade them to contact others. How do you know that one of these guards is Yuan Shu's spy, and as soon as he returned to the camp, he quietly left the team and went straight to Yuan Shu's tent. In this way, the news that Sun Jian got the jade seal was known to Yuan Shu.

The number of people counted by the three generals here was actually one less, and he immediately knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly told Sun Jian. As soon as Sun Jian heard the urgency, he gathered his men and horses to return to Changsha without saying goodbye.

As soon as he left the camp, an army blocked his way. The leader was not someone else, but Yuan Shu, he stared at Sun Jian: "Where is Wentai?" ”

"General Hou, I just received a letter from home, my mother is seriously ill and afraid of dying soon. I hurried back to see her old man for the last time. Sun Jian said sincerely.

"Hehe, Wentai Mingren doesn't say secret words, I won't stop you if you want to leave, but the jade seal of the country must stay!" Yuan Shu sneered.

"Jade seal? What jade seal? How can I give you something like this? Sun Jian replied with a calm face.

"Wentai, do you dare to swear?" Yuan Shu stared at Sun Jian and said.

"This ...... How don't you dare! If my grandson Jian gets the jade seal, he will make me die under the arrows! Is that okay? After the general! Sun Jian finished swearing and said angrily at Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu was also unwilling to fight with Sun Jian at this time, so he asked his men to get out of the way and let Sun Jian pass. Watching Sun Jian walk away, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he immediately asked a strategist to discuss. One of them said: "The general can send one person to inform Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao at this time, thinking that Liu Biao is a relative of the Han clan, he must be extremely concerned about this matter." At that time, he will definitely fall out with that Sun Jian, and the general can reap the benefits of the fisherman! ”

"Very good! That's a great plan! According to Mr.'s words! Yuan Shu stroked his palms and laughed after hearing this, and immediately sent someone to deliver the news to Liu Biao according to the words of the strategist.

At this time, Cao Cao came to the camp and said, "Everyone, you can't let Dong Thief escape so easily!" I'll get up and catch up! ”

However, the fact is that after listening to Cao Cao's words, no one from the princes responded. It turned out that Luoyang City was burned down, obviously the big Han was exhausted, and the princes each had their own little abacus, but they were not so concerned about Dong Thief at this time. Even the alliance leader Yuan Shao had other thoughts at this time, and even his uncle's blood feud was not avenged!

Cao Cao looked at the people in the big tent and suddenly felt disheartened. Pointing at the people sitting with his hand, he said fiercely: "Okay! If you don't go, I'll go myself! He ignored the crowd and walked out by himself. Liu Bei saw it really at the last seat, and sighed secretly in his heart: Cao Mengde is really a loyal and righteous person! So he turned his head and asked Han Fei, "Zicong, aren't we going to chase after us?" ”

"Go! Why not! Han Fei said with a smile.

"Then I hurry up and stop Cao Cao, just go with him." Liu Bei said that he was about to get up and chase Cao Cao. Han Fei held him down and said, "Lord, slow down, let's take a slow step!" And it's time for this coalition to be disbanded! The lord can ask the two generals to bring all the men and horses, and after this battle, we will go back to Jizhou directly! ”

Liu Bei listened to Han Fei's words, although there were some things that he hadn't figured out yet, but with his trust in Han Fei, he did as he was told.

Cao Cha's movements were very fast, he returned to his camp and chased them out with the two brothers Cao Ren and Cao Hong! Just after Cao Cao led the army to pursue for an hour, Liu Beijun reorganized his men and horses, and also chased in the direction where Dong Thief fled!