Chapter Forty-Four: Erzhu Kills the Heavens
Er Zhu Zhao was drunk like mud and fell on the tiger skin chair, Xie Sichun looked for Gao Huan and the others everywhere but didn't find them, so he hurriedly came to the big tent and shook Er Zhu Zhao vigorously, and said loudly: "General, wake up quickly, this He Liuhun has run away!" Wake up, you! I didn't wake up for a long time, and when I saw an earthen cup of water on the side, I picked it up and poured it all on Er Zhuzhao's face.
Er Zhu Zhao woke up drunk and hazy, jumped up and scolded when he touched the water on his face: "Damn, you are hairy, this is Lao Tzu's urine!" Xie Sichun was surprised: "How would I know that this is ...... It's ......"
"What's going on?" Er Zhu Zhao now wanted to kill Xie Si Chun, but he still couldn't help but ask.
Xie Sichun came back to his senses and complained: "General, this He Liuhun fell asleep while you were drunk, and he ran away by himself." ”
"What? This grandson ran away? Erzhu Zhao rushed together, pushed away the two beggar women on the side, and shouted: "I said I should have killed him on the spot, but now he has run away, how is it good?" ”
This Xie Sichun was also sweating profusely, and said tremblingly: "I didn't know that he was such a chicken thief, he was actually slipped away by him, and he didn't go far now, we sent someone to chase him and maybe we could catch up." ”
So Er Zhuzhao personally led the team and selected thirty fast horses to chase Gao Huan and others.
Gao Huan rode the frog treasure horse step by step, walking on the road with difficulty, and suddenly a few horseback figures came behind him, Gao Huan was startled, thinking that it was the pursuers and quickly hid in the grass on the side of the road.
I saw these people approaching to take a look, but it was Sun Teng, Gao Yue and others, Gao Huan hurriedly came out to join them, Sun Teng cried with joy: "I said why your horse is missing on the side of the road, I thought you were arrested, third brother." ”
"Am I that good at catching? Hehe, I haven't reunited with my eldest brother and fourth brother yet, I can't bear you, I can't let you die. Gao Huan comforted.
"If you can't give up your brother, will you give up me?" I only heard a woman's voice in the darkness in the distance, and saw that there seemed to be more than a dozen horseback attendants behind the woman, and everyone was shocked and thought it was Er Zhuzhao's pursuers.
When I got closer, it turned out to be Yuan Ruyi and her women's army, and I saw that she was wearing a battle armor and a female helmet, a heroic heroine and a beautiful girl. Gao Huan watched with tears in his eyes, marrying this little wife in this life is worth it!
"Don't stop, Erzhu Zhao's pursuers will catch up soon." Yuan Ruyi said with a straight face: "Official, come with me, I know that there is a shortcut to return to the barracks as soon as possible." So everyone followed Yuan Ruyi's women's army and trotted all the way into the dark night.
Everyone came to a small river, this small river is not wide, three or four meters there, the river is flowing loudly, Gao Huan and others dismounted and waded through the water, the river is at most waist-deep, and no one can drown. As soon as everyone came to the other side, they saw a fire in the place where they had just crossed the river. Er Zhuzhao stood on the edge of the river and said loudly: "Why did the virtuous brother say goodbye without saying goodbye? Didn't you say that you and I would go to the capital together and share the wealth? ”
Gao Huan got on the horse and bowed his hand to Er Zhu Zhaoyi, and replied: "Not only did I say goodbye, I was afraid that the general's subordinates would misunderstand me, so I rushed back to the barracks overnight, you can rest assured that I said that I will definitely let you pass, as for sharing wealth, I am afraid that there is no such blessing, I will lead the army back to Yecheng." I won't mess with the generals. ”
After saying that, Gao Huan raised his hand, and everyone rode away on horseback. Er Zhuzhao scolded remorsefully: "After leaving this house today, there will be endless troubles in the future." After that, he looked up to the sky and sighed, so he had to take the men and horses back to the camp.
The next day, Gao Huan led 100,000 horses to withdraw from the camp tent, packed up the baggage, and the handsome army retreated to Yecheng to the northeast, leaving the defensive position to the defenders of Luoyang, Emperor Xiaozhuang was very dissatisfied with Gao Huan's retreat but also helpless. Now is not the time to judge Gao Huan, because Er Zhuzhao's army has already moved forward and is heading directly towards Luoyang.
In the palace, Emperor Xiaozhuang and Emperor He sat on the royal bed, and below were Shen Ziming, the general of the defending army, and others, Emperor Xiaozhuang said in a little panic: "According to Aiqing's words, it is still possible for our army to defend Luoyang, and there is no chance of winning a battle out of the city?" ”
"Back to Your Majesty, that's exactly the case, now that the vanguard rebels of Zhu Zhao here have all been killed under Luoyang City, our army has limited strength, if the resistance is scattered and easy to be broken by each of them, it is better to guard the palace city and wait for reinforcements from other places to come to support." Shen Ziming replied angrily.
Hearing that Erzhu Zhao's army was pressing the border, Luoyang City had already become a mess, especially the magnates and ministers, they were all afraid that Erzhu Zhao would also come to a tragedy, so they all fled from the city with their families and belongings. Now this Luoyang City is ten rooms and eight or nine empty, Luoyang, with a population of several million, is as black as a dead city at night, and there are less than 300,000 troops and people left in the city.
Emperor Xiaozhuang was very reluctant to decide to let the Praetorian Guards garrison the palace, but fortunately, there was enough food and grass in the palace to support it for a while. However, as the official army contracted and retreated, Er Zhu Zhao's army had already approached the periphery of the Dao Imperial City step by step.
Er Zhu Zhao rode a big horse and took Xie Sichun, Er Zhu Shilong and others to the outside of the imperial city, Er Zhu Zhao stepped forward alone and said loudly: "I, Er Zhu Zhao, have something to say to the emperor, let him come out to see me!" ”
On the city tower, Shen Ziming was originally reluctant to deal with him, a chaotic minister and thief, but a eunuch had already flown down to report to the emperor, and Emperor Xiaozhuang also wanted to see this Erzhu Zhao, and wanted to use the Great Dao education to make him retreat. So the emperor and Concubine He came to the city tower together.
"Aiqing, why did you lead the army into the city to besiege the palace?" Emperor Xiaozhuang pretended to reprimand Er Zhuzhao.
"Why am I besieging the palace? Let me ask you, how did the King of Heaven die? Er Zhu Zhao came up and went straight to the point.
"This ...... He was killed by a gangster, I don't know why? Emperor Xiaozhuang pretended to be innocent.
"Okay, you dog emperor, originally you were just a dog next to my uncle, my uncle thought of your loyalty and helped you to the throne of the emperor, but you took revenge and designed him to die, you are simply a pig and a dog, vain as the son of heaven, I came today to be the Qingjun side of the eyes and ears, and asked you to abdicate the throne." Er Zhu Zhao was already so angry in the city that he scolded indiscriminately.
On the city tower, Emperor Xiaozhuang's face was red and white, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak. immediately walked downstairs with Concubine He.
At this point, it is impossible to talk about the matter, and it is impossible to communicate. There is only one way to open it. So Erzhu Zhao ordered to attack Miyagi day and night. The two sides have been fighting back and forth for nearly half a month, but they still haven't been able to capture Miyagi. Just as the two sides were at a stalemate, Xie Sichun came out again to give Er Zhu Zhao an idea.
"Look, General, the enemy forces have somehow all been evacuated." Shen Ziming, the defender on the city tower, listened to the scout's report and looked at the mess of siege equipment and clothes and sundries under the city. The enemy was not defeated and retreated inexplicably, there must be something wrong with this, Shen Ziming hurriedly went to report to Emperor Xiaozhuang.
After listening to Shen Ziming's words, the emperor said very happily: "This is just like this, it must be because he can't attack for a long time, and he is afraid that he will be robbed by others, so he led the army to evacuate in a hurry." Imperial Concubine He and other ministers also stood up to congratulate the emperor. The gravity that pressed on the head suddenly disappeared in an instant, and everyone seemed to be very relaxed. Banquets were even held in the palace to celebrate the victory. Only Shen Ziming was worried.
Sure enough, on the fourth night of the evacuation of Erzhu Zhao's army, the defenders of the imperial city lazily watched the lights in the city. Suddenly, someone shouted that there was a fire in the inner palace, and Shen Ziming, who was defending the army, immediately led people to put out the fire.
When everyone's attention was focused on the fire in the imperial city, dozens of black-clothed and masked people opened the palace gate, and the Erzhu Zhao army who was ambushed outside the city took advantage of the situation and swarmed up, occupying the entire palace in less than half an hour.
Then Erzhu Zhaoshuai's army entered the city, imprisoned the emperor and the Hanshan Temple outside the city, and then plundered the city. The city suddenly had a scene of hell on earth, with countless palace maids and concubines who were ****, and countless people and ministers were killed indiscriminately, including the son of Emperor Xiaozhuang.
Erzhu Zhao's troops ransacked Luoyang for half a month before they withdrew from Luoyang and stationed in Wen County, near Luoyang.
After Gao Huan learned that Emperor Xiaozhuang was imprisoned, he hurriedly sent Sun Teng to Erzhu Zhaojun to pretend to celebrate, but in fact, he took the place where Emperor Xiaozhuang was imprisoned and wanted to rescue him. However, as soon as Sun Teng walked halfway, he learned that Emperor Xiaozhuang was escorted to Bingzhou by Er Zhuzhao, so he hurried back to Gao Huan to discuss countermeasures.
Murong Heng persuaded Gao Huan to write a letter to Er Zhuzhao in person, asking him not to act rashly and not to bear the infamy of killing the king. When Er Zhuzhao received Gao Huan's handwritten letter, instead of ignoring it, he said angrily: "What is He Liuhun? Dare to point fingers at me. Originally, he wanted to get Emperor Xiaozhuang back to Bingzhou to humiliate him himself, but now even Gao Huan interceded for him, this emperor couldn't stay, so he secretly ordered the generals who escorted the prisoner car: kill Emperor Xiaozhuang and Emperor He on the spot.
After Er Zhu Zhao finished all this, Xie Sichun knew, but it was too late, this infamous Er Zhu Zhao was on his back. I wonder if many of our young people have this common problem: the more others don't let you do it, the more you have to do it, and the more others love it, the more you want to destroy it?
Although Xie Sichun had greeted Er Zhu Zhao's eighteenth generation ancestor in his heart, he still had to find a way to remedy the bad impact of this incident as much as possible, and he felt that he was more wronged than Er Zhu Zhao's father.
"Now that this is the case, what do you want me to do?" Er Zhuzhao sat on the stage with a brutal face, looked at Xie Sichun and said.
"So far, we can only falsely pass on the holy decree, and say that the secret decree issued by the Queen Mother wants us to abolish Emperor Xiaozhuang and set up a new monarch. Then I just need to find a new emperor and press the matter down. "Xie Sichun is also a fast brain, and his ideas are actually very correct, but it's a pity that Er Zhuzhao, a reckless man, is self-defeating every time and has not achieved enough success.
"The Queen Mother? Which Queen Mother? Er Zhu Zhao deliberately made a hard effort to downstairs the two concubines of Emperor Xiaozhuang, these two concubines are ten million times stronger than those beggar women in the army, since entering Luoyang, Er Zhu Zhao feels that his aesthetics and taste have been greatly improved, and now at least two concubines or princesses serve and sleep every night, such days are more enjoyable than being an emperor.
"As for which queen mother it does, does it matter? Things have come to this point. Xie Sichun was a little angry.
"How are you talking to me?" Er Zhuzhao was also a little mad.
"Don't dare to ...... down" Seeing that Xie Sichun had softened, Er Zhuzhao no longer gave him an ugly look, and waved his hand impatiently at him: "Don't go down and do this soon!" ”
Xie Sichun came out of the palace with a gloomy face, and said in his heart: This Zhu Zhao doesn't take himself seriously, I helped him get to where he is today, and he humiliated me like this.