Chapter 1221: Recovering Luoyang
readx; Zuo Liangyu was about to stop Zhu Changxun's "holy drive" fight, but was stopped by Jin Tongwu with Zhu Youzhen's secret edict. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ₯ top novel, Zuo Liangyu's heart sank, remembering the Ming Dynasty emperor's rebellion against the rebellious vassal kings in history, because they belonged to the same royal family, there was indeed a tradition of "not killing". Like in the "Battle of Jingyan", Zhu Di, the king of Yan at that time, often charged into battle, because Emperor Jianwen explicitly ordered that no harm was allowed, so Zhu Di fought hard for four years and experienced many defeats, but he was unscathed.
Later, during the Xuanzong period, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of the Han Dynasty, rebelled, and Xuanzong personally captured him, but he was not killed on the spot, but was imprisoned for several years. It wasn't until Zhu Gaoxu himself died that Xuanzong who visited the prison tripped, and Xuanzong was furious, so he detained him in a large copper vat and starved to death, so that he left a whole corpse.
Later, Yingzong launched the "Change of Seizing the Gate" to re-ascend the throne, when Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu was not dead, and Zhu Qizhen did not kill him, but waited for him to die after more than 20 days. The only vassal king who rebelled and was killed was Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning of the Wuzong Dynasty, who was only captured alive and given death. In the final analysis, everyone is surnamed Zhu, and even if they want to be killed, it must be ordered by Emperor Lao Tzu himself. Without a will, which civil and military general has the courage to dispose of the vassal king on his own, isn't that tantamount to rebellion?
In the midst of such a moment's hesitation, these hundreds of people had already gone far. Zuo Liangyu saw the bright yellow sedan chair disappear from sight, and suddenly felt that Ronghua and wealth flew away as if he had wings, and he couldn't help beating his chest and regretting it.
Jin Tongwu didn't care about Zhu Changxun's escape at all, but nervously pointed to King Fu's mansion and said, "Look, there's a fire in the mansion!" This must be Zhu Changxun's arson, as long as we extinguish the fire, it will be a great achievement! β
Since entering the city, Zuo Liangyu has been led by Jin Tongwu, and now he has no choice but to obey his words and follow everyone into King Fu's mansion. There was already a big chaos in the house, although Zhu Changxun ran away, there were still many eunuchs, palace maids and servants left, and when they saw everyone breaking in with a bright steel knife, they were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy.
Jin Tongwu saw that the fire broke out in the back house and there were no armed rebels, so he shouted: "If you want not to die, you must help me extinguish the fire, move quickly!" β
Then everyone hurriedly got up, and each found a basin and a barrel to fetch water to put out the fire. Jin Tongwu ordered ten soldiers to guard the gate, and went straight to the fire with Zuo Liangyu and others, but saw that the warehouse in Fuzhong was on fire, and the smoke was billowing out.
Jin Tongwu was in a hurry, because Li Dingguo had told him that the real purpose of the sneak attack on Luoyang was not to arrest Zhu Changxun, but to obtain materials from Luoyang. And the materials in King Fu's mansion are piled up, if they are burned by the fire, they will be busy in vain. Therefore, he immediately ordered everyone to put out the fire, and he himself rushed into the fire.
Fortunately, the palace warehouse was too big, and Zhu Changxun retreated too hastily, although he ordered his subordinates to set fire, but only one granary was lit, and the fire had not yet spread. Jin Tongwu and others hurriedly took isolation measures, and ordered hundreds of people to break the ice surface from the artificial lake in the palace to get water, and kept pouring water to put out the fire, and soon extinguished the fire.
At the same time, the cavalry under Li Dingguo's command also rode into Luoyang City. They were not in a hurry to destroy the rebels in the city, but made their way to the other three gates through several avenues. After the reconstruction of Luoyang City in the early Ming Dynasty, it was not big, the length and width were less than three miles, and the war horse passed through it with a Sahuan. At this time, the rebels were already defeated, and they didn't care to see how many officers and soldiers were chasing after them, so they just fled with their heads bored, and they really didn't have time to get out of the city gate, so they jumped off the city wall. When the officers and troops arrived at the three city gates, Zhu Changxun's "holy car" and most of the rebels finally escaped.
Li Dingguo and Ma Qianxue were draped all over their bodies, and they rode their horses side by side to Jianchun Gate at the east gate of Luoyang. One is a white-faced silver gun, calm as water; One is a powder-faced white pole, which is beautiful and powerful, which is really a perfect match. Seeing that most of the rebels were out of the city, Li Dingguo did not chase after him, but ordered the soldiers to quickly occupy the three city gates, lock the gates, and pull up the drawbridge.
At this time, there were still thousands of rebels left in the city who did not have time to escape, and Li Dingguo did not rush to kill them all, but let people shout gongs along the street: "Zhu Changxun rebelled against the imperial court and has been expelled from the city, those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will be killed!" β
Seeing that the general situation was gone, the remaining rebels threw down their weapons and fell to their knees and surrendered, and the officers and troops quickly took control of the situation. Of course, there were also individual rebels, even including some ruffians and hooligans in Luoyang City, who took advantage of the chaos in the city to loot people's property, and even killed people and raped women. Ma Qianxue is responsible for dealing with such scum, as long as she is caught, she will be beheaded immediately without even asking.
And Li Dingguo mainly did two major things. The first was to consolidate the city's defenses, with 3,000 of the 5,000 officers and soldiers immediately marching into the city to defend them, and 1,000 of the remaining 2,000 men as reserves, and the other 1,000 to maintain order in the city. Among them, Anximon was blown up by explosives, and manpower was also organized to carry out emergency repairs.
The second thing is to put out fires. In addition to the Fuwang Mansion, there were many arsons in the city, but the biggest fire was in the Anximen area. Luoyang City is small and dense, and if the fire is allowed to spread, the whole city will soon be reduced to rubble. Because the fire had already been completed, it was quite difficult to extinguish it manually, so Li Dingguo immediately made a decision to take isolation measures, and to put it bluntly, all the houses near the fire point were forcibly demolished.
In normal times, the demolition of private houses is of course unthinkable. But now is an extraordinary period, and everyone in Luoyang is afraid of being slaughtered, who dares to stop the demolition of the house? As a result, the demolition went smoothly and a "blank space" several feet wide was quickly cleared. The fire burned here, and there was no combustible, so it could not spread.
At this time, Jin Tongwu and Zuo Liangyu also extinguished the fire in King Fu's mansion and rushed to join Li Dingguo. When Li Dingguo saw Zuo Liangyu coming over, he immediately stepped forward and gave a deep salute and said: "General Zuo went deep into the tiger's den to break Luoyang, and Dingguo admires it very much!" I'm about to pass a message to Jingshi and Shengshang Feige, how about General Zuo and I play a joint performance? β
Zuo Liangyu is not stupid, he hurriedly hugged his fists and said with a smile: "Zuo Mou He De and how can he be, it is all General Dingnan's strategy, and after entering the city, General Jin will guide him all the way, Zuo Mou is just a pawn." But I beg the general to say a few good words for Zuo in front of the saint, and let the saint forgive me for the sin of abandoning the city, and Zuo will be grateful! β
Li Dingguo smiled and shook his head and said: "General Zuo has been overly concerned, the first credit for recovering Luoyang belongs to General Zuo, and the saint is discerning, how can he blame General Zuo." Knock, isn't that Lord Zhu Governor's Mansion here? It's most appropriate for the three of us to play together, what does Master Zhu think? Dingguo and these horses will probably soon be transferred to other places, and the ground in Luoyang will depend on Lord Zhu to do his best to maintain it. β
Zhu Dadian, who was belated, blushed and said: "General Dingnan is still not proud of his achievements under the great victory, he really has the style of a general!" The lower official is a person who treats crimes, and he should only be the head of the general of Dingnan! β