(25) **** righteousness is ready to go, and Luoyang City is in crisis
At dusk, the army of Huangfu Song, which had been speeding up for several days, finally entered the Sili area. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"Zilong, the weather is getting colder and colder, you must tell the soldiers to pay attention to keeping warm." The 30,000 troops were not allowed to enter the village to disturb the people according to Huangfu Song's order, and they all camped at the foot of the mountain, Lu Bu looked at the sunset that was gradually sinking down the mountain, turned around and ordered Zhao Yundao: "Ensure the health of every soldier." "Scoundrel!" Yuan Ruonan walked over with an expressionless face, ignoring the snickering movements of the guards around him and Lu Bu's embarrassed expression, raised his hand and stuffed a red cloak into Lu Bu's hand, "Don't always worry about others, you wear less than anyone else." With that, he turned around and walked away. Lu Bu held the cloak in his hand, recalling Yuan Ruonan's charming smile during the day, a warm current gradually surged in his heart, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but bend up.
Zhao Yun patted Lu Bu's shoulder and brought her back to reality from her contemplation: "Big brother, Miss Yuan is a good woman like no other!" Lu Bu nodded, and then suddenly came to his senses: "What do you mean?" Zhao Yun turned around and stretched lazily: "You know better than me in your heart." As he spoke, he put away the smiling look on his face and handed Lu Bu a look full of meaning. Lu Bu nodded knowingly, opened his palm and counted, "One, two, three!" As the three words blurted out, the two of them rushed towards the woods behind them like arrows from the string, and the speed was so fast that the guards present were overwhelmed.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the two of them had rushed into the woods, and with a "crackling" sound, two middle-aged men dressed as farmers were thrown out of the woods like balls. A group of guards immediately stepped forward and tied the two of them tightly, and the two of them replied with sincere fear: "The general spares his life, and we are the ones who deliver the letter." When the accompanying soldiers heard this, they immediately went forward to search, and sure enough, a letter was found on the two of them.
Lu Bu walked out of the woods with a grin on Zhao Yun's shoulder, stretched out his hand to take the letter and looked at it, and immediately his heart sank: "Good guy, Zhang Jiao is fast enough." He immediately ordered: "Come, take these two men to the camp and hand them over to Lord Huangfu, and the rest of the people will keep a close eye on the movements around the camp." Zhao Yun saw that although the accompanying Yulin guards were fierce, they were not as well-trained as their own soldiers and horses, so he turned his head and said to Lu Bu: "Big brother, why don't I take the patrol battalion to patrol within a radius of five miles from the camp." Lu Bu thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, order Ling Ming and Ziming to strictly guard the camp." ”
As soon as Lu Bu walked into the Chinese army's tent with two prisoners, Huangfu Song walked over with an edict.
"General Fenwei, you've come just in time." Because Lu Bu is the future concubine, Huangfu Song is not very shy about him in some things, only to see him hand the edict to Lu Bu "Luoyang came with news, the general He Jin captured several people from the chaotic party a few days ago, and after interrogation, it was learned that these people belonged to an organization that called itself Taiping Dao, and their leader Zhang Jiao called himself a great sage and good teacher, and he had agreed with the people of the eight states to act at the same time on March 5. Lu Bu was surprised as he took the edict: "What a coincidence, the last general has just captured the messenger sent by Zhang Jiao to various places. ”
Lu Bu quickly read the edict, and couldn't help frowning and worried: "Zhang Jiao's henchman **** Yi sent to Luoyang has not been caught, once Zhang Jiao rebels, the **** Yi hidden in Luoyang City will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble and lead his subordinates to attack the imperial city to respond to Zhang Jiao." After pondering for a moment, Huangfu Song said in disbelief: "There shouldn't be such a possibility, right?" You must know that in addition to the 50,000 Yulin Guards in Luoyang, there are also 50,000 Praetorian Guards, they are well-trained and well-equipped, and it is too sensational for these farmers to attack the imperial city alone. Lu Bu walked to the map and analyzed for Huangfu Song: "The Sili area is close to Jizhou, and it is believed that Jizhou is the birthplace of Taiping Road, once Zhang Jiao rebels, in order to ensure the stability of Gyeonggi Security, the general will transfer all the Yulin Guards to Hangu Pass, Dagu, Guangcheng, Yique, Yuyuan, Revolving Gate, Mengjin, and Xiaopingjin to deploy defenses, I expect that the general will personally sit in the defense of the capital of the governor of Duting, and His Majesty is unwilling to hand over the power of the Praetorian Guard to the general to control, which causes the armed forces in the Sili area to be unable to command and effectively resist the enemy. ”
Although Huangfu Song is old, but after all, he is also a battlefield general, after listening to Lu Bu's words, he also said thoughtfully: "So Luoyang defense will be handed over to the ten permanent servants of a party, these people do not understand the military is difficult to do a good job in city defense, and the general's troops are stretched, leaving a hole in the front line of Beibi Mountain, if Jizhou Zhang Jiao is desperate to break into the division from Beibi Mountain, Luoyang's **** righteousness will definitely cooperate with foreign countries to chaos Luoyang, by then the imperial capital will fall, my Han has lost the backbone, and there is always a technique to return to the sky can not be used." ”
Lu Bu nodded: "Fortunately, we still have 30,000 troops in our hands, and it shouldn't be a problem to garrison Beibi Mountain." Huangfu Song immediately took the case and said: "Okay, the old man immediately pulled out the camp and went to Beibi Mountain, if the general leaves Beijing, Luoyang will have no general to guard, General Fenwei, your red rabbit horse travels thousands of miles a day and asks the general to return to Luoyang quickly, I personally sent a letter to my old friend Zhonglang General Lu Zhi, and asked him to contact the ministers of the DPRK and China to fully assist you in controlling the situation." ”
"Wait." Yuan Ruonan walked in with a bowl of broth, "General Fenwei, take me back to Luoyang with you." In front of his elders or colleagues, Yuan Ruonan would still give Lu Bu some face and not call him a scoundrel, "My father is alone in Luoyang, I don't worry, I have to go back." Looking at Yuan Ruonan's resolute expression, Lu Bu nodded and said, "Okay, but your horse is not strong enough, and you have to wronged the girl to ride with me to be faster." Seeing Lu Buyan's sincere and unflinching expression, Yuan Ruonan didn't think much about it anymore, and immediately agreed.
In front of Tiandang Mountain in Jizhou, thousands of people holding farm tools and wrapping their heads in yellow scarves looked at Zhang Jiao, whose hair was scattered on the high platform, with burning eyes.
"Brothers and sisters! It's time for relief! Zhang Jiao waved the Thunder Fire Scepter in his hand and raised his arms and shouted: "The Emperor of Heaven has decreed that the Han Dynasty will be ended by us, everyone, at this moment, please shoulder your mission!" The crowd in the audience cheered wildly: "Hooray, hooray!" Banzai! In front of him, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao turned around and knelt down in unison and said: "We are willing to follow the great sages and good teachers, sweep away the filth of the world, and save the people from the dire situation!" ”
Everyone knelt down and bowed down in unison and said: "We will swear to follow the great sage and good teacher to the death, and we will have no regrets in life and death!" Zhang Jiao shouted excitedly: "Okay, all the believers listen to the order, immediately march to attack the official fortresses in Jizhou, and wear the great sage order to inform all parties to take action immediately!" ”
Due to Tang Zhou's informant, Zhang Jiao's plan was completely exposed in front of the imperial court, and in desperation, Zhang Jiao sent out a great sage order ordering all localities to act in advance. Zhang Jiao called himself "General Tiangong", and Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were respectively "General Digong" and "General Rengong" in the northern Jizhou area. Within a month, wars broke out in 28 counties in seven prefectures across the country, and the Yellow Turban Army was like a bamboo, and the prefectures and counties were lost, and the officials fled, shaking Kyoto.
In the early morning of this day, the twists and turns of various places are like snowflakes on the Chongde Palace, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military people are panicked, the Han Ling Emperor is anxious to spit a mouthful of blood on the dragon robe and fall unconscious, the government has to be discussed by the Empress Dowager Dong and the Empress He Lian'er will discuss the politics together with the Manchu Dynasty civil and military.
"Hundreds of teams of various sizes such as the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, Youzhou Cheng Zhiyuan, Boling Zhang Niujiao, Nanyang Zhang Mancheng, and Montenegro Zuo Zhangba, etc., called the Yellow Turban Army, suddenly attacked overnight." Zhang Rang said profusely, "A group of anti-thieves are mainly based on the giant deer Zhang Jiao brothers, with hundreds of thousands, and now all the 28 counties in seven states across the country are in the midst of war. ”
Empress Dowager Dong is old and mediocre, and she has already trembled and unable to speak in the face of such a crisis, but Queen He Lian'er said to the Manchu ministers with a little calmness: "Raising troops for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, now the anti-thieves are like a bamboo, I don't know if you adults can have a strategy to break the enemy." As soon as the words fell, Bei Zhonglang took Lu Zhi out of the class and said: "Qi play the queen's mother, the nest of the anti-thieves is Jizhou, and the top priority is to quickly send troops to control the key roads in the Sili area, and at the same time search for the remnants of the rebels in the capital, and take the lead in stabilizing the situation in the Gyeonggi area." Cai Yong, the speaker of the class, said: "The minister seconded the proposal, but at present, the military power of Luoyang is divided into two, and the minister proposes to unify the military power into the hands of the general, guard the pass with the Yulin garrison, and maintain law and order with the forbidden army, and gather all forces to stabilize the situation in Luoyang." ”
The reason why Zhang Rang can still be arrogant until now is because of the 50,000 forbidden troops in his hands, how can he easily let go at this time? Immediately played: "Queen Qi, although the old slave is not good at military affairs, but it is still okay to maintain law and order, 50,000 horses are enough to stabilize the situation in Luoyang, besides, Your Majesty is seriously ill, such a big thing should be discussed after Your Majesty recovers!" He Jin, who had long been hopeless about this matter, did not say much, and after hastily calming everyone's emotions, he went out of the class and said: "The queen mother, Hangu Pass, Dagu, Guangcheng, Yique, Yuyuan, Revolving Gate, Mengjin, and Xiaopingjin are the main roads in and out of the Sili area, and the minister asked for orders to lead the army to Duting to coordinate the defense of various places. The queen nodded: "In this way, there will be General Lao." He Jin was in a bad mood, so he didn't say anything more at the moment, and led Cao Cao and Yuan Shao to retreat and prepare to go to the front line on the hour.
Empress He turned her head to Zhang Rang and said, "The affairs in the city are left to your lordship." Zhang Rang responded with his fists clenched: "The old slave will definitely do his best to protect the children of the royal family." It's a pity that just when Zhang Rang swore to express his loyalty, Xu Fengzheng, the regular servant, was talking with **** Yi in the house.
instructed the servants in the house to set up the wine and food, and Xu Feng and **** Yi sat down. Yi raised his glass and said: "This subordinate is disloyal and has caused a catastrophe, if it weren't for the help of my lords, I'm afraid I would have died at this moment." At present, the Yellow Turban Army is like a bamboo, and it is very likely that this posture will attack Luoyang to establish a new dynasty, so Xu Feng is more respectful to **** Yi at this time than usual: "General Ma's words are wrong, since we have sworn allegiance to the great sage and good teacher, we should do our best for it." ”
This Xu Feng is Zhang Rang's hand, and is regarded as a confidant by Zhang Rang, although he is a small and regular servant, but he has the power to conduct daily exercises and distribute ordnance in the Luoyang Forbidden Army.
"General Ma, He Jin will lead his troops to the front line of Hangu Pass to garrison in the near future, and there will be no general in Luoyang City, and the general will take the opportunity to attack the imperial city and kill the faint king, and it will be a great achievement at that time!" Xu Feng raised his glass and flattered, "After the matter is completed, I hope that the general will say a few good words for the old slave in front of the great sage and good teacher, and the old slave has thanked the general first." ”
Yi confidently drank a glass of wine, and said to Xu Feng with a smile: "Don't worry, my lord, what my lord has done, the great sage and good teacher have long been aware of it, and I will definitely thank you in the future." While speaking, Xu Zhengfang walked in dressed as a forbidden army: "Senior brother...... General Ma, the 1,300 dead soldiers of his own side all disguised themselves as forbidden troops and infiltrated Luoyang City, and now they are placed in the abandoned military camp in the north of the city provided by Lord Xu. "Where's the weapon?" Yi smiled and drank a glass of wine.
"I took the warrant of Lord Xu, and on the grounds of strengthening defense, I took out 700 spears, 600 short knives, and a number of shields and crossbow arrows from the armory of the forbidden army. Xu Zhengfang said confidently. While speaking, Cui Jin ran in sweating profusely: "General, I just received news that the general He Jin has already driven in the direction of Duting with the main force of 50,000 feathers of forest guards. When Xu Feng heard this, he couldn't help but say with joy on his face: "Oh, in this way, our plan can be implemented immediately." ”
"Okay, without further ado, we'll do it tonight." Yi ordered, "Lord Xu, later, Lord Lao Fu will bring more than a thousand dead soldiers under me into the imperial city." Xu Feng got up and said: "What is within the division, why do you need the general to do your work, I will immediately arrange for my henchmen to seal up and start to handle this matter." Xu Zhengfang stepped forward and hugged his fists and said: "General, once something happens in the imperial city, we must try to drag down the tens of thousands of forbidden troops guarding the city defense of Luoyang, otherwise there will be no chance of victory." When Xu Feng heard this, he frowned and thought for a moment, and then replied: "In this way, tonight I will personally go to the guard office to close the four gates on the grounds of night drills, prohibiting anyone from entering and leaving, and at the same time delaying the movement of the forbidden army. ”
Yi clapped his hands with satisfaction, stood up and said murderously in the direction of the imperial city: "Faint Monarch, your great Han world is about to end in the hands of the great sage and good teacher. ”
In the back garden of the imperial city, Princess Wannian was holding a dagger alone, recalling the conversation with Lu Bu in the back garden that day, and bits and pieces of memories came to her heart.
"Ning'er, what do you want?" Empress He walked behind Princess Wannian and asked softly. Princess Wannian came back to her senses, saluted Queen He, and replied with a little worry: "Queen Mother, Ning'er is a little scared, even my father is sick, I ......" Seeing a layer of tears in Princess Wannian's eyes, Queen He took Princess Wannian into her arms in distress, gently stroked Princess Wannian's back and comforted softly: "It's okay, Ning'er don't be afraid, your uncle has already taken the five battalions of the Right Yulin to Duting to station, and the weapons are on the hour to guard the Beijing Division." It was only because of the negligence of the imperial court that the rebels gained momentum for a while, and my Han with a million armor and fierce generals were like clouds, dealing with a few grass cowards, no problem. Speaking of this, Queen He looked down at the dagger that Princess Wannian had been holding tightly in my hand, and said with a slight smile: "Besides, didn't your brother Fengxian say that he will protect you for the rest of your life?" ”
"Mother, you are bullying people again." Princess Wannian, who was originally worried about the Yellow Turban Army's successive victories, couldn't help but blush because of Queen He's words, "Ignore you." As she spoke, she broke away from Queen He's embrace and turned around and ran towards the palace, Queen He looked at the back of Princess Wannian with a slight smile, until the shadow disappeared in her field of vision, the anxious look in Queen He's heart gradually appeared between her eyebrows, and she turned to Zhang Rang behind her and ordered: "Lord Zhang, you must strengthen the guards of the imperial city, and you must not let the chaotic party attack the imperial city." Zhang Rang thought for a while, then looked up and said to Queen He: "Then the old slave will send thousands of forbidden troops into the palace to strengthen the defense." ”
At dusk, Xu Feng, a confidant of Zhongchang Servant, took Zhang Rang's transfer warrant and led more than 1,000 heavily armed sergeants from Shangyang Gate into the imperial city.
"Stop!" The call of the general He Miao couldn't help but make everyone present chuckle in their hearts, **** Yi pressed the hand of Xu Zhengfang and Cui Jin who wanted to draw the knife, and signaled not to act rashly. I saw Feng Gu walking forward with a smile: "General He, I will enter the imperial city to strengthen the defense on the order of Lord Zhang, and if there is any offense, please see the general." ”
He Miao snorted coldly and didn't bother with the sealing, but walked straight to the **** Yi and looked at the **** Yi with interest: "Which battalion of the forbidden army are you subordinates?" Ben has been in charge of recruiting soldiers for the forbidden army, why haven't I seen you? Worried that **** Yi would reveal his identity, Feng Gu hurriedly stepped forward: "General, it is normal for a group of recruits recruited in the west of the city in accordance with the general's military order three days ago, general, we still have to go to the various dormitories to set up defenses, so you can be more accommodating." As he spoke, he stuffed a few ingots of gold in his sleeve into He Miao's hands.
He Miao nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand and said, "Let go!" As soon as the words fell, Wu Kuang, He Jin's henchman who stayed by He Miao's side, stood up: "Wait, General He, I think these people are very suspicious, it's better to investigate carefully." He Miao scolded with an angry face: "Presumptuous, you are the master general, I am the master general." He Miao moved out of his official position to oppress people, although Wu Kuang was angry in his heart, it was difficult to express it, so he had to say to He Miao with a dark face: "In this way, please ask the general to go alone to inspect the city defense, the general's military order to the last general is to protect the princess of Wannian." As he spoke, without waiting for He Miao to answer, he turned around and walked towards Fengyi Pavilion with his subordinates. Leaving He Miao to stay in place with an embarrassed expression.
"Bastard thing, I'm going to clean you up sooner or later." He Miao scolded hatefully. Then he turned to Feng Gu and said, "Don't go quickly, I want your head if something goes wrong!" "Yes, yes, yes!" Feng Gu nodded and led his subordinates to walk quickly towards the imperial city.
On the city gate, Xu Feng shouted strangely: "All the soldiers listen to the order, tonight will be a night drill, all the soldiers must close the four gates and strictly guard their posts, no one is allowed to enter the city." ”
"Fart! How come I don't know about night drills? He Miao, who was holding his breath, stepped forward with a few guards and asked, "Who gave you the order?" Seeing He Miao coming, Xu Feng couldn't help but be a little worried, but seeing that He Miao had just brought a few guards, he made up his mind immediately, and then turned around and said with a smile: "General, I have been ordered by the general." Hearing that the other party learned from Wu Kuang to take out the eldest brother to pressure himself, He Miao couldn't help but feel a little unhappy in his heart: It's a general again, where is Lao Tzu? Thinking of this, He Miao patiently asked, "Where is the handwriting?" You're not going to tell me it's only by word of mouth, are you? "Haha, the general said with a smile, of course there is a handwritten letter, which is in the guard." Xu Feng smiled and said, "Please also ask the general to move to the guardhouse." As he spoke, he took the lead towards the city.
"Just go!" He Miao snorted and followed.
"Come on, take General He down!" As soon as he walked into the gate of the guard, Xu Feng turned around abruptly, and with the gate closed, an order came out of Xu Feng's mouth coldly: "Except for General He, kill them all!" ”
In the blink of an eye, several accompanying guards became dead souls under the chaotic knife of Xu Feng's henchmen, and He Miao was gagged and knelt in front of Xu Feng after being tied up. A forbidden soldier said: "My lord, it is too troublesome to keep him, it is better to kill him with a knife." Xu Feng looked at He Miao's frightened eyes proudly, and shook his head while playing with the few ingots of gold found from He Miao's body: "No, this person is our talisman, keep it for the time being." ”
"Report to your lordship." The guards outside the door pushed the door and walked in, "More than 100 horsemen appeared under the city, and the first general claimed to be the general of Shi Fenwei and asked to enter the city. Hearing Lu Bu's name, Xu Feng couldn't help but shudder, and a few ingots of gold crackled and fell to the ground: "What? The plague god came at a good time. ”