Chapter 278: Empress Dowager He's Secret Tryst
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The 2,000 Flying Tiger guards were the main guard, and they used strong bows and crossbows to dominate the position, and with the help of 3,000 craftsmen commanded by Zheng Hun to drive thunderbolts and ballistas, and with the assistance of 2,000 students from the Central University Hall and 4,000 scouts from Jin Lingqi carrying stones and arrows, they repelled Lu Chongqi's attacks again and again. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zheng Tai didn't take his younger brother Zheng Hun to heart, he thought that Zheng Hun, who was good at magic and skill, was a waste in the thinking of a traditional Confucian scholar, and he didn't tell his brother about this rebellion at all, until Zheng Hun commanded more than 3,000 craftsmen to use thunderbolts and ballistas to assist the Flying Tiger Guards to defeat the family alliance below and lose troops, he remembered to persuade this fellow brother to surrender.
Zheng Tai put on a hypocritical smile, repeatedly persuaded Zheng Hun to lead the troops to surrender, and promised that if Zheng Hun surrendered, he could immediately become the secretary of the Ministry of Works.
Zheng Hun disdained Zheng Tai's persuasion, and he shouted loudly and solemnly: "Xian Ting Gong has the grace of knowing me Zheng Hun and the grace of reinvention to the Han Dynasty, only a leader like Xian Ting Gong can lead us to the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, lead the people of the Han Dynasty to live and work in peace and contentment, and let me show what I have learned all my life, and if you villains of the family who sit and talk about the Tao without learning and are greedy and despicable and despicable and eat corpses steal a high position, they will definitely tear the Han apart and their wives separate!" Big brother, you still haven't woken up, the decline of the Han Dynasty is all the fault of the family, why can't we give up some power, support more poor landlords, and let the Han regain his life?! ”
Zheng Tai had a gloomy face: "Zheng Hun, you have followed Jin Liang's dog thief for five months, and you have listened to his words and put aside the interests of our family!" Since ancient times, the interests of the family are supreme, you actually gave up for the benefit of our Xingyang Zheng family for the sake of Jin Liang's foolish loyalty, and our Xingyang Zheng family has no clansmen like you, I will drive you out as the head of the family! ”
As soon as Zheng Tai's words landed, he heard a familiar voice coming from a distance: "The Zheng family in Xingyang will continue to exist, and the head of the family is no longer you, a rebellious dog thief, but our master Zheng Hun, the secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!" ”
Zheng Tai turned his head to look, and saw Jin Liang riding the red rabbit horse like a fire dragon, like a red 'color' hurricane, leading the strong 40,000 hurricanes behind him, and in an instant, swept over, and the murderous aura brought by the soldiers of a hundred battles made Zheng Tai tremble, and he suddenly regretted it in horror.
The guards on the central castle cheered thunderously, they originally thought that as long as they had to hold on for ten days and half a month, they didn't expect the lord to personally bring reinforcements, and they rushed back in one day's effort.
Zheng Hun knelt at the head of the city gratefully and thanked Jin Liang. Jin Liang's short sentence expressed two meanings, he will continue to keep the Xingyang Zheng family, will not completely eradicate the Xingyang Zheng family, and in recognition of Zheng Hun's loyalty, Jin Liang will recommend Zheng Hun as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Zheng Hun also trembled, but his trembling was the trembling of excitement, the trembling of the death of those who were appreciated and confidant, which was completely different from the panicked trembling of his brother Zheng Tai.
Zheng Hun and Zheng Tai, the two brothers, in the past life, Zheng Hun was obsessed with the art of craftsmen, and he has always been inferior to his brother in his career, but in this critical choice, Zheng Hun chose the right one, he became the head of the Zheng family and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Zheng Tai's tragic end was doomed.
Jin Liang just wants to use the experience of the Zheng brothers to warn the people of the world that those who follow me will prosper and those who disobey me will die!
Jin Liang's 40,000 army approached step by step, and the 20,000 'spirits' in front of him exuded a murderous aura that soared into the sky, and everyone's expression was full of indifference to death and the desire to take the enemy's 'life'
Lu Chong originally led more than 64,000 rebels to besiege the Central Castle, but they attacked the Central Castle, fought for a long time, lost more than 8,000 people, and could not enter the Central Castle for half a step.
Most of these more than 50,000 rebels are private soldiers of the family, and they are blindly trained in the family manor by some famous generals of the family who have lost their reputation, and they are also practiced once every five days, except for bullying some tenants who cannot pay the rent in time, and helping those family brothers to bully men and women, they do not have any decent actual combat experience.
Lu Chong and others used "the secret edict of the Son of Heaven to crusade against the rebels of Jinliang", but just a few hours ago, the Son of Heaven, Liu, who had fled into the central castle, issued a holy decree, announcing that Yang Biao, Liu Hong, Zheng Tai, Bian Rang, Lu Chong, Gao Ran and others were plotting against the rebels, and the soldiers and civilians of the world could discuss them, and the morale of the rebels was immediately greatly reduced.
Yang Biao, Liu Hong, Zheng Tai, Bian Rang and others are all in the army, they all have to see with their own eyes that the central castle was breached, and the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother were in their hands, they were relieved, but they didn't expect that Liu Wei, the Son of Heaven, would directly denounce them as traitors. Yang Biao and others boasted of being righteous and clear, and they were like the Donglin Party members who did dirty things in the late Ming Dynasty and felt that they were kings and others were villains, and of course they would not think that there was anything wrong with leading the troops to besiege the palace. I didn't expect such a move to be 'sexual' in the eyes of Liu Bian, the son of heaven. They immediately retorted: "The Son of Heaven was coerced by Lu Chong to make such a disobedient holy decree, justice is still in our hands, soldiers, attack the city, and rescue the Empress Dowager of Heaven as soon as possible!" ”
During the four months that Jin Liang took charge of Jizhou, he actively carried out education for all, and often sent propaganda teams to various places to do propaganda to enlighten the people's wisdom, although it was not directly aimed at those big families, but those tenant farmers, slaves, and private soldiers who were oppressed, trampled, trampled on, and exploited by the big families. After listening to those propaganda, they gradually realized that those high-ranking family magnates were not born to ride on their necks and, and they were not born to suffer, once they buried their dissatisfaction with the family in their hearts. The words of Yang Biao and the others were like farts to them, these rebel soldiers saw it very clearly, for the sake of the people of the world and for the sake of the Han Dynasty, the army led the army to fight desperately with Dong Zhuo on the front line, but you sons of bitches and ministers of the family demolished people's platforms in the rear, and kept saying what loyalty, benevolence, and righteousness, now the heavens say that you are a traitor, what face do you have to claim justice in your own hands.
Yang Biao, Liu Hong, Zheng Tai and others were full of confidence before the rebellion, but now their rebellion is not only unpopular with the people, but also unpopular with the army.
Lu Chong immediately shot at home. Standing in front of the formation, he looks calm on the surface, but he keeps vomiting blood in his heart.
Lu Chong didn't expect Jin Liang to come back so quickly, he didn't expect the central castle to be so difficult to attack, what he didn't expect was that there was a secret passage between the palace and the central castle, after the palace was breached, the queen mother escaped to the central castle with a height of four feet and a fortress shape through the secret passage.
Lu Chong and the others had made up their minds to rebel a day earlier, and Lu Chong had lured the generals loyal to Jin Liang among the 6,000 soldiers and 6,000 auxiliaries under his control, and then gathered all the private soldiers of more than a dozen families. A total of more than 64,000 horses and horses were gathered together with Gao Lan's 20,000 horses, and captured the four gates of Xiangyang, and then quickly returned to the army and attacked the palace.
Wu Chong, the captain of Yulin, was caught off guard and died in battle. The first palace wall of the palace was lost, and Wang Yue led the Tiger Ben army and the remnants of the Yulin army to withdraw to the second palace wall.
Zhang Ning, the commander of the inner guards, led a thousand female guards to escort the Empress Dowager He Lian, the Son of Heaven Liu Wei, the Empress Tang Yue, the Princess of Wannian Liu Hua and a large number of female officials retreated along the tunnel to the central castle. Some female officials were the daughters of those rebellious families, and they tried to snatch the Queen Mother, but they were immediately beheaded by Zhang Ning.
Jin Liang's general's palace is in the center of the central castle, the palace is close to the central castle, and the palace is built on the old residence of Zhao Zhong, the ten permanent servants, Zhao Zhong's house has a wide secret room below, Jin Liang also collected a large number of gold and silver treasures from it when he first arrived in Xiangyang. Later, when Zhao Zhong's mansion was converted into a palace, Jin Liang did not let the people who repaired the palace move the secret room, but sent thousands of his henchmen to use the night time to dig for half a month in succession to build a secret passage from General Jin Liang's mansion to the secret room of the palace. Jin Liang originally wanted to make it easier for him to hide his eyes and ears and have a secret meeting with the Empress Dowager He Lian, but he didn't think of guarding against rebellion at all.
When Jin Liang asked those henchmen to build a secret passage, he only let them dig from the general's palace and dig into the underground secret room of the palace, and let them strengthen the tunnel, and then beat them back.
Jin Liang's wives and concubines also thought that Jin Liang was building a tunnel leading to the outside of the city, so they didn't pay much attention.
In this way, the only people who really knew that this secret passage led from the palace to the general's mansion were Jin Liang and the Empress Dowager He Lian.
When Lu Chong and Gao Ran led more than 60,000 horses to surround the palace, the Empress Dowager He Lian had to reveal the secret and lead Zhang Ning and others along this secret passage to the general's mansion.
The Son of Heaven Liu Wei asked the Queen Mother He Lian with a puzzled face: "Queen Mother, how can there be a secret passage leading to the General's Mansion here?" Mother, how do you know that there is a secret passage leading to the General's Mansion? ”
Liu Bian's question is the question of everyone on the scene, how can the Queen Mother He Lian answer it, she can't admit her personal relationship with Jin Liang in front of so many people, she rolled her eyes, and remembered some of the words that Jin Liang had fooled her before: "You think about Wen Hou's actions in the past few months, what do you think of Wen Hou's ability and knowledge?" ”
Shang Li, one of the six female officials in the palace, is equivalent to the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites outside the palace, and the person who holds this position is not someone else, it is the famous female Cai Yan, Cai Yan's relationship with Jin Liang is well known, she is virtuous and does not avoid relatives, and said generously: "Queen Mother, Weichen feels that Wen Hou's ability and insight are rare in the world, and there is no other in the world!" ”
Empress Dowager He smiled mysteriously and said: "This palace might as well divulge a heavenly opportunity to you, why Wen Hou's insight and ability are rare in the world, all because Wen Hou received a gift from heaven, five months ago he was struck by lightning, and the lightning was the apocalypse lead given to him by the gods, and Wen Hou knew a lot of things that we mortals could not understand at that time, like this telescope." Empress Dowager He handed the telescope made of crystal polished by Jin Liang to the female officials present.
Everyone played with the telescope and believed that Jin Liang had a heaven-given ability and insight, and Empress Dowager He said: "Wen Hou predicted in advance that there would be such a disaster this year, so he built this secret passage in advance. ”
Everyone was convinced of Empress Dowager He's words, Empress Dowager He breathed a long sigh of relief, and Zhang Ning, the only one who knew the secret of Empress Dowager He and Jin Liang, only snickered and did not debunk it.
Wang Yue in order to cover the Empress Dowager, Tian retreated to the castle of the Central Army, and continued to lead the Yulin Army and the Tiger Ben Army to resist Lu Chong's crazy attack, a few hours later, the Yulin Army and the Tiger Ben Army suffered heavy casualties, Wang Yue took some of the family ministers they had just taken hostage from within, and fled in battle, and then retreated into the mansion of Taifu Lu Zhi.
Lu Chong is Lu Zhi's nephew, he did not dare to lead the troops to attack again, and under the pressure of Jin Liang to return to the army at any time, he led the troops into the palace, and now the palace is empty, digging three feet into the ground, now the secret passage, running along the secret passage, now the way out has been blocked by the big stone, unable to rush out, so he had to hate to climb out of the secret passage, and turned to attack the central castle.
Wang Yue led the troops to kill the 1,000 men and horses left by Lu Chong outside Lu Zhi's mansion, and then took the more than 600 remnants of the army, scattered them into dozens of units, and infiltrated the mansions of those rebellious families to carry out assassination and revenge. Since Wang Yue changed from a swordsman to an assassin, he has become more and more proficient in assassination, although his 2,000 tiger soldiers were beaten by the rebels with superior forces on the frontal battlefield, but he was a professional in climbing over the wall and crossing the house, flying over the eaves and walking the wall to carry out assassination.
After Wang Yue's tiger camp assassinated dozens of family brothers, Yang Biao, Liu Hong, Zheng Tai, and Bian Rang received a report from their families, and they were furious in their hearts, and ordered Lu Chong to allocate 5,000 men and horses to search the whole city under martial law, and later Jin Liang's soldiers came to the city, and Lu Chong scored 20,000 horses from the Fifth Division to defend the city, so that Lu Chong only had less than 60,000 men and horses left to attack the city, and within half a day of siege, more than 8,000 people had been killed by the strong bow and hard crossbow of the Flying Tiger Guards and Zheng Hun's thunderbolt crossbows, and the remaining private soldiers of the family were like dirt and 'color', and they avoided the battle passively.
Lu Chong saw that Jin Liang led 40,000 'elite' soldiers into the city without hindrance, and rushed all the way to the central castle, he knew in his heart that the general trend had gone.
Jin Liang held the halberd in his hand and rode forward: "Lu Chong, your uncle doesn't look down on you and doesn't support you, I single-handedly promoted you to your current position, why do you want to betray me?!" ”
Lu Chong took a deep look at the central castle, where there was Du Xiuniang, who was haunted by his dreams.
On the first day Du Xiuniang entered Xiangyang, she was bumped into by Lu Chong, who was patrolling the city, and Lu Chong had the intention to take Du Xiuniang away, but was told by the people in the convoy that this was Wenhou's woman, you can't move, and Lu Chong retreated with hatred.
In the following months, Lu Chongxian's more than a dozen wives and concubines he had collected before were like dung compared to Du Xiuniang, and when he remembered Du Xiuniang Chenghuan under Jin Liang's crotch, he hated Jin Liang to the bone marrow.
When Jin Liang officially took Du Xiuniang as a concubine, Lu Chong arrived uninvited and spent the whole wedding banquet with a smile.
Zheng Tai noticed Lu Chong's strange expression at Jin Liang Du Xiuniang's wedding banquet, and after Jin Liang led the troops to the battle, Zheng Tai repeatedly tested Lu Chong with words, and learned that Lu Chong hated Jin Liang because of a woman, so he instigated Lu Chong to betray Jin Liang, and Lu Chong listened to Zheng Tai's words in order to get Du Xiuniang.
Jin Liang knew that Lu Chong had a bad reputation for being addicted to alcohol, and he had recently heard that he had committed the illegal act of robbing people's daughters, but he thought that he was Lu Zhi's nephew and mastered part of the army, so he did not immediately take measures against him
Jin Liang hated such a guy who murdered himself because he was worried about his wife, more than he hated Zheng Tai and others who tried to snatch his authority.
Although Lu Chong's martial arts were good, he also knew that he was not Jin Liang's opponent, so he hurriedly rode his horse and ran to the rear, but saw that the rebel soldiers were afraid of Jin Liang and refused to step forward to meet him, so he formed a supervision team in the rear.
Lu Ming, one of Lu Chong's righteous brothers, usually boasted of his martial arts and bravery, thinking that Jin Liang was just a waste of fame, but when he faced Jin Liang, he was so frightened by Jin Liang's murderous aura that he closed his eyes in horror and slashed at the red rabbit horse.
Jin Liang was furious, he hated others for hurting the red rabbit horse, especially the person who slashed the knife at himself, Jin Liang's legs clamped the horse's belly, the red rabbit horse jumped lightly, sideways dodged Lu Ming's big knife, Jin Liang's stone dragon big knife slashed through Lu Ming's body, Lu Ming even led the horse, and was split into two pieces by the stone dragon big knife.
Lu Ming's younger brother Lu Liang saw that his brother died so miserably, his eyes were red, and he pounced on his horse with a spear, from Jin Liang's side. Pierced Jin Liang's right rib.
Jin Liang has been defeated in a hundred battles, and his battle intuition is very sensitive, and he doesn't need to see it with his eyes. There was an icy murderous aura on the right side of my intuition.
On Jin Liang's side, the stone dragon's broadsword flew to the ground to hold the spear that stabbed him, and the stone dragon slid down along the barrel of the gun. Slashed at Lu Liang's wrist.
Lu Liang's martial arts were above Lu Ming, he shook his hands, wrapped his spear, and in an instant, knocked the stone dragon big knife away.
Knock it open, knock it open, the stone dragon broadsword took advantage of the momentum of Lu Liang's knocking, followed the direction of being knocked open by Lu Liang, and flew to the ground and slashed towards Lu Liang's horse's head. The sharp crescent of the stone dragon's broadsword easily slashed off the horse's head, and the horse fell to the ground with a bang, and Lu Liang fell forward violently.
Jin Liang's hand shook, the stone dragon broadsword was lifted upward, and the sharp crescent moon was impartially horizontal in front of Lu Liang, and Lu Liang swooped down, unable to dodge. His eyes showed remorse and despair for a moment, the thick neck fell on the sharp crescent, and the head and body parted without any resistance, and Lu Liang became a dead ghost in a different place like his war horse.
Jin Liang couldn't help but admire his stone dragon broadsword, this crescent moon was too sharp. Lu Liang died so happily that there was no pain at all.
Jin Liang's movements were extreme, although he felt that he had made many moves, but in Lu Chong's opinion, in the blink of an eye, his righteous brothers all died tragically under Jin Liang's halberd, and they were miserable one by one. 8