Chapter 357: Dong Zhuo's death
As the minister of the family, Yang Zan and his brother Yang Biao are both characters with superb acting skills who can win the actor, he listened to Yan Xing's words, all of which he expected, but he pretended to be frightened, fell to the ground with a plop, didn't speak for a long time, and after a long time, he sighed and said: "I really can't imagine that Lord Xiangguo would make such a beastly act!" β
Yang Zan saw that there were still ministers of the court who had not yet dispersed around him, so he hurriedly took Yan Xing's hand and said, "Yanming, please go into the cold house for a while." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
Yan Xing was about to ask Yang Zan for advice on how to recapture Yang Xiu from Dong Zhuo, but was invited by Yang Zan and happily went.
When he arrived at Yang Zhan's mansion, Yang Zhan invited Yan Xing into the secret room and placed wine for hospitality.
Yan Xing told Yang Zan everything that had happened in the recent period.
Yang Zan sighed and said: "The daughter of Xiangguo and the wife of the general, which is shameful for the people of the world. People in the world don't laugh at Xiangguo, laugh at me and the general. I am old and incompetent, and I am insignificant, but it is a pity that the general is a hero of the world, but he also has to suffer this humiliation, and he is despised by the general! β
Yang Zan fanned the flames like this, completely igniting the anger that Yan Xing had suppressed in his heart these days, he was angry at the crown, and scolded him: "The hatred of taking his wife is not shared, I Yan Xing swears to kill Dong Zhuo's old thief, and I am ashamed of Xue!" β
Yang Zan hurriedly persuaded: "General, don't say it, if your words reach Dong Zhuo's ears, it will affect the old man!" β
Yan Xing glared at Yang Zan angrily and said, "Yang Shangshu, the eldest husband was born between heaven and earth, how can he be depressed and live under the people for a long time and be the servant of the thief and be robbed of his wife and daughter by the thief!" β
Yang Zan took the opportunity to say: "The general has this ambition, the old man is very pleased, with the general's talent, not Dong Zhuo can limit, once Dong Zhuo dies, how can the position of the general be limited to a mere Zhonglang general, even to achieve the position of Jin Liang of the Xiangyang puppet court, it is not known." β
Yang Zan spent a lot of money on Yan Xing, Yang Zan understood Yan Xing's thoughts, although Yan Xing was defeated by Jin Liang's halberd, but he admired Jin Liang so much, Yan Xing's private wish is to become the second Jin Liang one day, not only Jin Liang's force but also Jin Liang's power to dominate the dynasty.
Yan Xing couldn't help but laugh at the thought that killing Dong Zhuo would not only recapture Yang Xiu but also be promoted to a knighthood, and even expected to be with Jin Liangyi for a long time, but he was not a decisive person, he had to rely on Li Ru's strategy to betray his father-in-law Han Sui, this time he was ready to get rid of Dong Zhuo, and he couldn't make up his mind completely, he still had a little scruples and hesitated: "How can Dong Zhuo be my father-in-law, I am Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, if you kill him, I'm afraid the world will talk about it." β
Yang Zan smiled slightly, and explained happily: "General, your surname is Yan, and Xiangguo's surname is Dong, this is not a biological father and son, and there is no nurturing grace. At that time, when Dong Zhuoduo loved the general's wife, he took the general's righteous son to heart, since he was unkind and unjust, why did the general care about anything. β
Yan Xing stepped forward and bowed down and said, "If it wasn't for Shangshu to mention it, Yan Xing almost misled himself." β
Yang Zan carefully observed Yan Xing's expression, saw that his eyes were firm and murderous, and knew that he had made up his mind to kill Dong Zhuo, so he said: "If the general kills Dong Zhuo and supports the Han family, he will be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, and he will definitely leave a name in history and be famous for centuries; If the general is obsessed and continues to follow Dong Zhuo and act for the tiger, he will be a usurper and a traitor, and he will definitely be recorded in the annals of history for 10,000 years, and the general should think about it. β
Yan Xing thought of Jin Liang, who was praised by the world from all over the world, and remembered that he was now being served by Dong Zhuo and his beloved wife was occupied by Dong Zhuo, this comparison, Yan Xing felt that such days could not be endured anymore, he stood up, walked in front of Yang Zhan, knelt down and said: "Yan Xing's mind has been decided, please Yang Shangshu don't doubt it." β
Yang Zan finally tried to say: "Dong Zhuo has more than 200,000 Xiliang soldiers, most of the people in the court are his cronies, we are weak, if we can't kill Dong Zhuo, you and I will be dead." β
Yan Xing pulled out his saber, lifted his robe, stretched out his arm, and slashed it down, blood dripped into the wine, Yan Xing drank it, and said angrily: "If the husband dies, he will die, and even if he dies, he will no longer be enslaved by Dong thieves, I will kill Dong Zhuo, if I violate this oath, people and gods will abandon it!" β
Yang Zan saw that Yan Xing had sworn a blood oath, and immediately sent someone to invite Situ Wang Yun and Shang Shuservant Sun Rui to discuss the matter together.
Shi Sun Rui offered a strategy and said: "Dong Zhuo's old thief has the intention to usurp the Han for a long time, but I am afraid that his reputation is not good, and he hopes that the Son of Heaven will let us, we can enter the palace to see the Son of Heaven secretly, and ask him to send an edict to Dong Zhuo to discuss the matter of Zen concession, and then we will ask the Son of Heaven to issue a secret edict to General Yan Xing, so that General Yan Xing's men and horses are ambushed on both sides of the palace gate, and when the messenger leads Dong Zhuo into the palace, he can rush out and kill Dong Zhuo." β
Wang Yun groaned: "Who will be sent as the messenger of the Son of Heaven to Hangu Pass?" β
Shisun Rui thought about it and said: "Hu Ben Zhonglang will Li Su and follow Dong Zhuo for many years, but Dong Zhuo has always suspected Li Su and Jin Liang of fornicating with Jin Liang because Li Su is in the same county. Li Su is a tiger general, guarding the palace and guarding the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven sent him to go, it is natural, and Li Su is Dong Zhuo's old department, Dong Zhuo will suspect that Li Su and Jin Liang colluded, but he didn't think that Li Su was secretly friendly with us, so Li Su went to the edict of the Son of Heaven, and Dong Zhuo would not fortify. β
Li Su participated in the secret discussions of Wang Yun, Shisun Rui, Yang Zhan, and Yan Xing, and swore that he had no two hearts at that time, and when he left Yang Zhan's mansion, he contacted Shi A on a single line, and transmitted the information that Wang Yun, Yan Xing and others were preparing to launch to Jin Liang who was in Jiguan.
Li Su contacted Shi A on a single line, and Shi A compared this information with the information obtained through other channels, and found that the information was true, so he passed the collected information to Jiguan, and Jin Liang, who had been waiting for many days in Jiguan, got the information, so he made a careful troop transfer, and began to march to Luoyang when Luoyang changed and the Xiliang army was dispersed.
Speaking of Li Su, he took Liu Xie's edict of the Son of Heaven the next day and rushed to Hangu Pass.
On the third day of Dong Zhuo's arrival at Hangu Pass with Yang Xiugang, he was not familiar with the newly repaired Hangu Pass, so he reported that the messenger of the Son of Heaven was coming.
Dong Zhuo saw that it was Li Su, and unceremoniously asked Li Su what edict he had here.
Li Su respectfully presented the edict, and Liu Xie, the ten-year-old son of heaven who had long colluded with Wang Yun, Yang Zhan, Shisun Rui and other ministers of the family, pretended to say in the edict: "I feel that I am young and weak, not enough to be in charge of the society, the Lord Xiangguo is young and strong, and his prestige is added to the four seas, and he is more suitable for being in charge of the society than me. β
Dong Zhuo was overjoyed, but he was afraid of the opinions of the ministers of the family, and hurriedly asked, "What does Wang Yun mean?" "Wang Yun is the leader of the ministers of the family, as long as he agrees to the Zen throne of the Son of Heaven to himself, then his throne can be done steadily.
Li Su said with a smile: "Wang Situ has already ordered someone to build a meditation platform, just waiting for the lord to come." β
Dong Zhuo was overjoyed, so he ordered his henchmen Li Dao and Guo Yan to stay in Hanguguan, Zhang Ji and Fan Chou to stay in Hongnong and Shaanxi County, Dong Zhuo brought his confidant general's nephew Dong Huang to accompany him, and returned to Beijing on the same day, and promised Yang Xiu, who saw him off, before leaving: "If I am the Son of Heaven." Make you a concubine. Yang Xiu knew that everything was going on in an orderly manner, and secretly said in his heart Dong Zhuo, old thief, your death is not far away, but he pretended to be extremely happy on his face.
On the way from Hanguguan to Luoyang, Dong Zhuo encountered several bad signs. was all perfunctory by Li Su in a hurry, and what Dong Huang wanted to say was ignored by the ecstatic Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang City, and the civil and military ministers headed by Wang Yun, Yang Zhan, Shi Sun Rui and others lined up on both sides to welcome Dong Zhuo. Originally, when Dong Zhuo went to Hangu Pass, because he wanted to entrap Yan Xing, he allocated all the Jincheng people in Yan Xing's headquarters to Yan Xing, and Yan Xing also had three or four thousand men and horses in his hands. When Dong Zhuo was not in Luoyang, Yan Xing was barely a famous general, and once Dong Zhuo returned to Luoyang, Yan Xing had to temporarily leave his men in the barracks. He instigated the black horse, carried the Zhangba snake spear, and followed Dong Zhuo's car as a bodyguard.
Dong Zhuoyi was full of ambition, did not get out of the car, and let the carriage enter the palace. Dong Huang wanted to bring 3,000 flying bear troops into the palace, but was blocked by Wang Yun for violating etiquette, Dong Zhuo thought that Luoyang was under his control, and he was unguarded. He asked Dong Huang to lead the 3,000 flying bear army to stay outside the palace gate, and he only brought more than 20 personal guards into the palace.
Dong Zhuo entered the palace. When he had just arrived at the door of the Chongde Hall, the main hall of the palace, the palace door closed suddenly. Dong Zhuo's heart suddenly cooled, he suddenly remembered that He Jin was killed by the Ten Standing Servants in this way, could history repeat itself.
Dong Zhuo called Dong Huang to come to the rescue, Dong Huang's 3,000 flying bear army was full of ironclad cavalry, looking at the heavy palace gate and the towering palace wall and sighing that they could not penetrate, and hundreds of people had already broken out on both sides of the Chongde Hall in the palace, each with weapons to kill Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo fixed his eyes, it turned out to be Wang Yun, Yang Zhan, Shi Sun Rui and others' family soldiers.
Dong Zhuo smiled disdainfully, this time he brought his righteous son Yan Xing, and his strength alone was enough to kill these hundreds of people cleanly.
Dong Zhuo shouted backwards: "Where is my son Yanming, come and kill these traitors for me!" β
Yan Xing rode his horse and rushed out from behind Dong Zhuo's car, shouting loudly: "Kill Dong thief by edict!" Saying that, the horizontal horse raised the spear and stabbed Dong Zhuo directly, Dong Zhuo hurriedly dodged, and Li Su rushed out next to him and waved his sword to stab Dong Zhuo, Yan Xing went empty with a spear, followed by another spear, which just stabbed Dong Zhuo's throat, Li Su waved his sword and cut off Dong Zhuo's head.
Yan Xing ordered the people to open the palace door, he held a spear in one hand, took out the secret edict given to him by Liu Xie from his arms in the other, rode his horse to the front of the three thousand flying bear army, and shouted loudly: "Kill the thief Dong Zhuo, don't ask the rest!" β
These three thousand flying bear army are the most loyal and brave to Dong Zhuo, just like loyal dogs to their masters, they saw Dong Zhuo's head, they were depressed, and they were at a loss for a while, but Yan Xing put away the edict, rushed forward on horseback, and stabbed Dong Huang to death with a spear.
As soon as Dong Huang died, the 3,000 Flying Bear Army was leaderless, and the generals such as Yan Xing, Li Su, and Wu Zhang, as well as the family soldiers of Wang Yun, Yang Zhan, Shisun Rui and others, combined with nearly 14,000 soldiers and horses, surrounded the 3,000 Flying Bear Army in front of the palace, and in a fierce battle, the 3,000 Flying Bear Army was all annihilated.
At this time, the Luoyang guard was Dong Zhuo's younger brother Dong Min, Yan Xing rode his horse to Dong Min's military camp, Dong Min thought that Yan Xing was still Dong Zhuo's cheap son, and he didn't take precautions, Yan Xing took advantage of Dong Min's unpreparedness, stabbed Dong Min to death with a spear, while holding Dong Min's head, he raised the secret edict of the Son of Heaven, and shouted: "Kill the thief Dong Zhuo, only remove the first evil, and don't ask the rest!" β
Because the elite men and horses of the Xiliang Army suffered a lot of losses in the previous battle with the Jinliang Central Army, Dong Zhuo recruited most of the young and strong men in Luoyang and Chang'an in the past three years, and almost all of these people were pulled to the Xiliang Army, and they all hated Dong Zhuo's cruelty and inhumanity very much in their hearts, and when they found out that Dong Zhuo had been killed, the general trend of the Xiliang Army had gone, and they all did not hesitate to defect.
Those veterans of Xiliang, who had followed Dong Zhuo for many years and were loyal to Dong Zhuo, saw that the lord was dead and the general trend was gone, so they were disheartened and wanted to throw down their weapons and surrender.
Seeing this, Yan Xing was overjoyed in his heart, if these Xiliang veterans were willing to surrender to him, then he would integrate more than 200,000 people in the Xiliang army, and he was not afraid that he would not be able to do such a great cause as Xiangyang Jinliang.
Yan Xing was secretly happy in his heart, only to hear dozens of voices from the Xiliang veteran formation: "Yan Xing is a slave with the third surname, how can you listen to his words, if you put down your weapons, you will be killed by Yan Xing immediately, Wang Yun and Yan Xing want to kill our Xiliang people, have you forgotten Yan Xing's Jincheng soldiers and our enmity?" β
"Wang Yun and Yan Xing want to kill the Xiliang veterans" rumors spread throughout the camp at once, these Xiliang veterans in the past three years, because their generals and Yan Xing have never been on good terms, Xiliang veterans and Yan Xing's Jincheng soldiers have also been in friction, Yan Xing came to recruit the Xiliang veterans is a chess difference, not to mention that dozens of Xiliang agents developed by Shi A have been planted in the Xiliang army to spread rumors.
The rumor that the three of them had become tigers made the veterans of Xiliang feel like they were dead, and they raised their swords and guns one after another, facing Yan Xing.
Yan Xingzheng was about to patiently explain that he and Wang Yun, Yang Zhan, Shi Sun Rui and others did not have the heart to cut down the Xiliang soldiers, and before he could open his mouth, some of the Luoyang soldiers who defected couldn't hold back their hatred for the Xiliang veterans, because the Xiliang veterans followed Dong Zhuo to Luoyang, and burned and looted all kinds of evil in the Luoyang area, many Luoyang people were deeply affected, and even the wives and children of these Luoyang soldiers were not spared. When Dong Zhuo was alive, he could still suppress these Luoyang soldiers and did not dare to make a mistake, Dong Zhuo died, these Luoyang soldiers adhered to the principle of revenge and revenge, brandished knives and guns, and killed those Xiliang veterans.
A scuffle broke out inside and outside Luoyang City, and all the centaurs who originally defended Luoyang participated in this scuffle.
If there were no dark agents led by Shi A to make waves from it, this melee would not have broken out, Wang Yun, Yan Xing and others would have taken the Xiliang Army as their own without much effort, and at the same time, because of the threat of the Jinliang Central Army from the north, Wang Yun would not announce that he would cut down the grass and eradicate Li Dao, Guo Yan and others as in history, and these ministers of the family who can bend and stretch will even reach a cooperation agreement with Li Dao and Guo Yan in order to resist the threat of Jin Liang in the north, and it will be more difficult to take Luoyang Chang'an at that time, Jin Liang took this situation into account, So he buried a lot of chess pieces when he evacuated the Tiger Prison Pass three years ago, and now it is time for these chess pieces to play a role, because of the role of those flags, the two forces in Luoyang City are inseparable.
Dozens of miles north of Luoyang City, at the Mengjin Ferry and Pingjin Ferry of the Yellow River, 4,000 Xiliang troops were stationed, and they built many beacon towers just to prevent the surprise attack of the Jinliang Central Army.
In normal times, if Jin Liang sent troops to attack, two thousand Xiliang troops could block the Yellow River Naval Division of Gan Ning, the general under Jin Liang, for several hours, and in a few hours, tens of thousands of horses would be sent to Luoyang City, completely blocking Jin Liang's central army on the Yellow River and preventing the central army from landing on the south bank.
But now there is a big chaos in Luoyang City, Yan Xing's Jincheng soldiers, Luoyang soldiers and the family soldiers of the ministers of the family have a total of more than 40,000 people, and more than 30,000 Xiliang veterans are mixed together, the killing is inseparable, these two thousand Xiliang troops are Xiliang veterans, their commander heard that the old lord Dong Zhuo was killed by Yan Xing, Wang Yun and others, and wanted to avenge Dong Zhuo, and also wanted to enter Luoyang City to loot the mansions of those family ministers, so he led 3,600 men and horses to Luoyang, leaving only 400 men and horses in the two ferries and beacon towers along the Yellow River.
Although the Xiliang army was only 400 men and horses left on the south bank of the Yellow River, Jin Liang did not want to storm the past with great fanfare, because he had just deduced from Guo Jia and Fu Zhu that the 3,600-strong Xiliang army had just left less than two hours, and if Jin Liang attacked at this time, it would lure the Xiliang army to turn back and guard, and it would also let the news of the surprise attack of the central army spread to Luoyang City, which would make the two sides that are now inextricably separated shake hands and jointly deal with the central army, which was not conducive to the central army's rapid capture of Luoyang City.
Jin Liang sent Gan Ning and Dong Xi to lead 2,000 elite sailors, disguised as ordinary merchants, divided into several groups, and the 2,000 elite sailors were hidden in the cabins of merchant ships.
When the Xiliang defenders on the beacon tower on the south bank of the Yellow River were interrogated, Gan Ning ordered someone to reply: "We are all merchants from Bingzhou, and because of the strong wind and waves of the Yellow River, we have come here to take refuge." So he bribed the Xiliang soldiers who guarded the beacon tower with his belongings.
When those Xiliang soldiers saw that they were all smiling and giving away their belongings, they were soft-hearted, and let the more than 20 merchant ships dock on the south bank of the Yellow River.
The melee in Luoyang City lasted all day, and in the evening, because of the defection of all the Luoyang locals, the Xiliang veterans became an away battle, although they were far more brave and good at fighting than the Luoyang soldiers, but they were forced out of Luoyang City due to lack of support, led by Dong Zhuo's distant nephew Dong Yue, along the plank road, ready to retreat to Hangu Pass.
In Luoyang City, Yan Xing gathered his men and horses, and found that more than 40,000 people who had gathered had been killed in the melee just now, and the remaining 30,000 people were injured and tired.
And the Xiliang general who led the garrison of the beacon tower at the riverside checkpoint to Luoyang was also lost in Luoyang City, and more than half of his 3,600 men and horses were lost, and the rest followed Dong Yue and stopped on the plank road, ready to march to Hangu Pass.