Chapter 25: Dong Zhuo is coming
"Alas, the worst fears have happened." Liu Meng put down the text in his hand and sighed.
Liu Meng had let Dian Wei stay outside the General's Mansion since he failed to kill He Jin that day, and if he found a large number of messengers leaving the palace, he secretly followed him out of the city, intercepting a copy and returning to him.
"It seems that it is time for a showdown with Cao Cao." Liu Meng said to himself, and after speaking, he asked Dian Wei to invite Cao Cao to come.
Liu Meng has made the worst plan since that day, that is, He Jin will still lead foreign soldiers to Luoyang according to what happened in history, so Liu Meng arranged for Dian Wei to investigate in advance, he knew that the distribution of the text was the precursor of Dong Zhuo's entry into Luoyang, but unfortunately he had already fallen out with He Jin, and he couldn't stop it.
After a short time, Dian Wei led Cao Cao to come.
"What is the so-called matter of Fengyi letting his brother come?" Cao Cao said, but his eyes were staring at Dian Wei, with his eyes, he naturally found that Dian Wei was a tiger general, he had never seen Liu Meng since he met, he smelled an unusual smell, guessing that Liu Meng asked people to find him today must not be drinking, there should be something big happening.
"Brother, let's take a look at this article and talk about it." Liu Meng handed the text to Cao Cao.
"He Jin Pifu lured the wolf into the house, transferred foreign soldiers to Beijing, if there is a dissenting intention, cholera will occur, such a chaotic country thief only hates that day did not kill him." Cao Cao was furious after reading it, and threw the text on the ground.
After scolding, Cao Cao calmed down and said, "How did Fengyi get this text?" He was a little puzzled, why Liu Meng knew in advance that He Jin would send a document and let people intercept it.
Liu Meng had already thought of his rhetoric, and said: "I was afraid that he would take revenge on him that day, so I asked people to inquire outside the general's mansion, but I never thought that there would be such a gain." ”
After Cao Cao heard this, he no longer doubted it, but said that Liu Meng was delicate.
"This article has been sent, it's too late to stop it, I think there will be foreign soldiers in the near future, Fengyi can have a countermeasure?" Cao Cao said.
"Brother, with all due respect, the only countermeasure I can think of is to run away with the saint." Liu Meng said helplessly.
"Running with the saint? Now you and I have 5,000 Yulin troops in our hands, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses outside the city who are guarding the Beijing Division. Why should we run away? Cao Cao was a little shocked when he heard Liu Meng's words.
"Brother, do you know Dong Zhuo?"
"I've heard that this person broke Zhang Jiao, and he was one of the great heroes who exterminated the Yellow Turban, and now he is named the History of the Xiliang Thorn, and it seems that Fengyi also went to Guangzong to help in the war at that time." Cao Cao had no contact with Dong Zhuo, but he had only heard about it.
"As my brother said, at that time I was ordered to go to Guangzong to help in the war, when I first arrived, Dong Zhuo fought with Zhang Jiao many times and was defeated, and then I offered a plan to break Guangzong City, but then Dong Zhuo bribed officials, concealed my merits, and monopolized this credit, how enthusiastic is such a person about power, if he comes to Beijing with troops, what does my brother think?"
Cao Cao was silent, of course he knew what would happen if such a person entered Luoyang.
"The situation is in crisis, I don't hide my brother, although the Yulin Army is in the hands of you and me at this time, but at the critical moment they will still obey the orders of Queen He and Zhang Rang and others, when I came to Luoyang to report on my work, I scattered the troops and horses of my headquarters and scattered them in the city, they are all henchmen, and this can be done." Liu Meng and Cao Cao had a showdown.
When Cao Cao heard that Liu Meng had come to Beijing, he buried his secret hand, and a fine light flashed in his eyes, and said, "Could it be that Fengyi had already expected that there would be today?" ”
"Brother said with a smile, how can I know what happened today, isn't that an immortal who has become an unknown prophet? I just feel that the feet of the Son of Heaven are also Longtan Tiger's Den, so if something happens, talk about it to protect yourself. ”
"That's right, but forcibly taking away the Holy One is never the work of the subordinates, and we should inform the Ten Standing Servants that they will definitely encourage the Holy One with their greedy character of fear of life and death, and then it will be justified." Cao Cao said, but Cao Cao was suspicious of Liu Meng at this time, of course he didn't believe in the theory of ghosts and gods, but he knew that some wise people could indeed predict the prophet, otherwise how could there be a plan to anticipate the enemy? Such a wise man is clumsy, and now he wants to take away the emperor, Cao Cao will naturally doubt his motives.
If Liu Meng knew what Cao Cao thought, he would definitely cry out for wrongdoing, everything he did was not for his own selfish desires, but unfortunately he couldn't read minds, so he didn't know what Cao Cao thought.
Liu Meng also felt that what Cao Cao said was reasonable, and it should not be a short time before Dong Zhuo led the army to Luoyang, and he was not in a hurry, so he went with Cao Cao to see the Ten Standing Attendants.
Not to mention how Liu Meng and Cao Cao said that they were ten permanent servants, Dong Zhuo has been very nourishing recently. The first horn of the big thief made his exploits chase after Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, not only erasing the stain of his previous repeated defeats, but also crowned him as the history of the Western Liang Thorn.
He has always been ambitious, after becoming the history of Xiliang Thorn, he is recruiting troops to expand his strength, and he has a heavy army in Hedong, and now he has 200,000 heavy soldiers, and his wings are full, which leads to his ambition to be greater, this day he came to the eyes of the imperial court, Emperor Ling died, and Dong Zhuo, who knew the factional disputes in the imperial court now, felt that this was the time for him to rise.
So Dong Zhuo asked his son-in-law Zhonglang to guard Niu Fu in Shaanxi, and he led an army of 150,000 himself, bringing Li Ru, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou and others to raise troops to look at Luoyang and march. The army received He Jin's letter halfway through, and Dong Zhuo was even more overjoyed: "This is God helping me succeed." ”
Dong Zhuo is overjoyed not that the division is famous, but that he can go straight to Luoyang with the text of the court, Dong Zhuo's original intention was to take advantage of the opportunity of the factional struggle in the imperial court to forcibly capture Luoyang, he only cares about power, and does not care about reputation, now with He Jin's Wen, there is no need to forcibly attack, and there is no need to increase casualties Dong Zhuo How can he not like it? In a hurry, he asked Li Wei to lead the army to continue to advance towards Luoyang, and he himself took Li Ru to lead five thousand flying bear cavalry to Luoyang.
Liu Meng also didn't expect Dong Zhuo to increase his power faster because of his help, which led to his greater ambition, and he actually led the army to set out to forcibly capture Luoyang earlier than in history, and now he is still convincing the Ten Standing Servants with Cao Cao.
"I didn't expect He Jin to be like this, this is going to be until we die, it seems that we have to strike first." Zhang said.
"Lord Changshi, it is now important to persuade the Holy One to move away as soon as possible." Liu Meng said.
"This is a bad word, if you don't kill He Jin, how can he let me leave?"
This is that Liu Cao and the others are not thoughtful, they just want to let the Ten Standing Servants persuade the Young Emperor, forgetting that even if the Young Emperor agrees, He Jin will not let go of Zhang Rang and the others, so the First Time of the Ten Standing Servants is to consider their own safety, not the overall situation.
"But the last time he killed He Jin, he couldn't succeed, which made him very suspicious, and it was difficult to kill him." Jian Shuo said.