Chapter 689: The City is Broken
At night, in the palace, there were bursts of crying: "Your Majesty, the concubine's father has been killed by Cao thieves, and now he wants to harm the concubine's family, ask Your Majesty to be the master......"
Liu Xie's expression was ugly, and he waved his hand and roared: "Do you think I don't want to protect the Dong family?" But my words didn't work! The edict can't even get out of the palace, where did Cao Cao make me the emperor! Traitor! Dong Zhuo and his ilk ......"
"This thief will be removed!" Liu Xie gasped, and after venting, he sat on the couch in despair, and comforted Dong Guiren: "If I don't save the Dong family, but the Dong family is outside the imperial city, and now it has fallen into the hands of the chaotic people, and I have no heart to save it......"
There are only palaces, arsenals, granaries, gardens and the official residences of the three princes in the imperial city, and there is no other residence, even the princes and princes are not qualified to live in the imperial city, not to mention the Dong Cheng people.
"Your Majesty!" Dong Guiren wept.
At the beginning, her father Dong Cheng single-handedly planned the abolition of the queen and the murder of Zhang Liao, but he didn't want to add himself to it. Queen Fu is gone, but she, a noble Dong nobleman, has no support now, and the secret joy in her heart has long turned into fear.
Dong Guiren wept, and Liu Xie was also depressed in his heart.
He has always felt that he is hiding behind the scenes, strategizing, and can sweep away one powerful minister after another, Zhongxing Han, but how could he have thought that the result turned out to be the situation in front of him, what went wrong? What should we do now?
Liu Xie was thinking about how to deal with the matter in front of him, when he suddenly heard a noise outside, and couldn't help but be startled, and was about to let people investigate, but a little eunuch hurriedly reported: "Your Majesty, it's not good, the thieves have attacked the city!" ”
"Huh? The rebels have entered the city? Liu Xie was shocked, got up straight from the couch, and felt a little weak for a while.
He said angrily: "What is Cao Cao and Liu Bei doing? There is also Yu Poison, the imperial city of 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses, but the city was attacked by the chaotic people! Impotent! What incompetence! There are also those rebellious people, I have issued an edict to restore the post of General Zhang Liao, and ordered them to withdraw their troops, and they actually broke the city overnight! ”
Liu Xie couldn't have imagined that Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Yu Poison couldn't hold it for even a few hours, and didn't it mean that the edict was sent out, and the rebels had stopped attacking the city?
Crisis! Liu Xie felt that an unprecedented crisis had hit! It is even more dangerous than in Chang'an, when Wang Yun went out to top the tank in Chang'an, Li Dao Guo Yan also begged for forgiveness at first, but now Zhang Liao's old department wants revenge!
At dusk, on the city tower, Liu Xie was keenly aware that this time, he, the son of heaven, was also one of the revenge targets of Zhang Liao's old department. No matter how he hides it, many people know that he is one of the masterminds behind the murder of Zhang Liao, how could Zhang Liao's angry old subordinates let him go?
This can be seen from those old Zhang Liao troops and the rebellious people attacking the city overnight, if there is still a son of heaven in his eyes, how can he forcibly break the city after receiving the edict?
What should I do? Leaving the Imperial City now? Or stay?
Liu Xie was extremely anxious in his heart, and it was difficult to make a decision for a while, and the situation was dangerous to stay, and he would die for life, but if he left, where could he go? Who can be trusted when this happens?
"Quickly summon Liu Yu, Yang Biao, Liu Bei, and Yu Poison to see me in the front hall!"
Liu Xie took a deep breath and hurriedly ordered the little eunuch.
Liu Yu and Yang Biao are the most credible, but now that the chaotic people are breaking the city, Liu Yu and Yang Biao's loyalty is useless, they can only give advice, the key is to rely on soldiers and horses, only with soldiers and horses in hand, he can have a sense of security. Now in the imperial city, what he can rely on is Yu Poison, and Liu Bei can barely be trusted. But if there is only poison, he is not at ease, take Liu Bei, and the two check and balance each other, he will be safer. As for Cao Cao, he didn't think about it at all.
"You take care of Dong Guiren, don't have a little difference!"
After Liu Xie instructed a group of palace people, he couldn't comfort Dong Guiren anymore and hurried to the front hall.
Under the moonlight, the little eunuch trotted with lanterns in front, and the shouting and killing outside was clearly audible, getting closer and closer, and Liu Xie's steps were more urgent.
I didn't want to reach the front hall before I arrived at it, and dozens of people came quickly.
"Your Majesty." The first person with a strong voice was Cao Cao.
"General Cao!"
Yu Poison and Liu Bei didn't arrive, but they didn't expect to meet Cao Cao first, Liu Xie couldn't help but change color and exclaimed.
"Your Majesty." Cao Cao said in a deep voice: "The chaotic people entered the city, and it was difficult to distinguish the night, for fear of hurting Your Majesty, and the ministers came to ask Your Majesty to temporarily go elsewhere to avoid danger." ”
"Cao Qing." Liu Xie hurriedly said: "General Wei and General Huaiyi have not arrived, Taifu and Taiwei must have been in the front hall, you can go to the front hall to discuss countermeasures." ”
"The situation is critical, how can you hesitate?"
Cao Cao waved his hand, and Liu Xiefen said: "Come on, escort out of the city!" ”
"General Cao!" Liu Xie saw that Cao Cao was so domineering, and was about to retreat, but he had been driven by two guards, he couldn't help but be shocked and angry, but he couldn't struggle at all, seeing that it was difficult to resist, he was depressed and depressed, he gave up the struggle, and was carried out more than ten steps, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly shouted: "General Cao, and Dong Guiren, Song Guiren......
"Your Majesty, don't worry, the harem will accompany you." Cao Cao sighed.
Under the moonlight, Cao Cao's face was also quite ugly, and the chaotic people broke the city unexpectedly for him, but he didn't expect Zhang Liao's old department to play a conspiracy with him, pretending to be an edict to cease fighting, but suddenly launched an attack in the middle of the night, and the offensive was extremely fierce, first the sound of the east and the west, the momentum was huge, and then there was an internal response from the south of the city, and the guards reacted, and they had broken through the city, which really caught him off guard, and even Cheng Yu did not expect it.
He didn't know that the black hands behind the scenes, whether Li Ru or Jia Xu, were all top masters of conspiracies, and they were all ruthless and unscrupulous people to achieve their goals, Li Ru's "overthrowing plan" had been repeatedly calculated and planned for a long time, this civil unrest seemed to be accidental, but it was actually inevitable, not to mention that Zhang Liao was really in danger this time, life and death are unknown, both Jia Xu and Li Ru are extremely angry, and since they have been launched, they will not give Liu Xie, Cao Cao and Liu Bei any chance to compromise.
It's just that the "overthrowing plan" borrowed the shell of the civil unrest, it was too confusing, and it was launched too quickly, and it took only a day to go from chaos to the destruction of the city, and even Cao Cao and Cheng Yu did not really realize the decisiveness and ultimate goal of the promoters behind the scenes, and there was no room for mitigation and negotiation at all.
In fact, even if Cao Cao can realize this, the result will not change much, although Zhang Liao is not in this game, it is actually a collision between part of Zhang Liao's military strength and Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Yu Poison, and Cao Cao's side is completely defeated.
The strength is already poor, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Yu Poison can't unite together, and Liu Xie is pointing fingers at them, even if Cheng Yu is resourceful, how can he have the power to return to heaven.
In August of the second year of Jian'an, the chaotic people set off a storm in Luoyang, and that night, the imperial city of Luoyang was breached, and there were no chaotic people entering the city, and all the soldiers who entered the city were the old soldiers of Zhang Liao.
On the wide avenue of the imperial city under the moonlight, the camp advanced like a mountain, the cavalry camp invaded like fire, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Yu Poison were defeated in successive battles, and the soldiers were scattered.
After the city was broken, Cao Cao made a quick decision and fled east with the Son of Heaven and some courtiers, targeting the county of Kwantung Prefecture.
In Cheng Yu's words, Zhang Liao is not dead, in charge of the overall situation, Kanto is like a quagmire, it is not easy to stretch, but Zhang Liao is dead, Kanto is promising, Zhang Liao's forces in Kanto are relatively scattered, the foundation is not deep, and Cao Cao's roots are basically in Kanto, as long as he arrives in Kanto, he can rely on the momentum of the Son of Heaven to order Yuan Shao, Lu Bu, Sun Ce and other princes to obtain the support of the county family, and then join forces vertically and horizontally, first sweep away the remnants of Zhang Liao in Kanto, drive tigers and wolves, unify Kanto, and then wave troops to the west.
For Cao Cao, only Zhang Liao was the great enemy, and as for Lu Bu, Sun Ce or even Yuan Shao, he could deal with it calmly.
Luoyang is the foundation of Zhang Liao, staying in Luoyang is like a dragon trapped in the shallows, and returning to the Kanto is Jiaolong entering the sea.
And Liu Xie, the son of heaven, had to follow Cao Cao after a few years of stability, and was started on another escape.
The situation in Luoyang changed so quickly that many people, including some courtiers hiding at home, couldn't react at all, but when they woke up one night, the sky had changed, which was unbelievable. 8)