Chapter Ninety-Nine: Poisoner Li Ru, Target Luoyang
The poison of the human heart can wreak havoc on the world. Li Ru has always known this truth. Since he became Dong Zhuo's military advisor, Li Ru has never slackened, it can be said that Dong Zhuo's achievements today are inseparable from his calculations, and now it is time for him to plan a way out for Dong Zhuo.
"Wen You, there is a battle report from Gangshui Pass. Hua Xiong was killed in battle, Lu Bu was defeated, and now Bishui Pass is already in danger. We originally put the 50,000 army in the Bishui Pass, and now as long as the Bishui Pass is broken, the back checkpoints will be as if they are imaginary, and the leader of the alliance army will drive straight into Luoyang. In Dong Zhuo's study, the two sat opposite each other. At this time, Dong Zhuo, where is there still the high spirit of entering Luoyang City for the first time, he looked at Li Ru opposite dejectedly and said, his words were full of unwillingness.
After listening to Dong Zhuo's words, Li Ru glanced at Dong Zhuo, who was dejected, opened his mouth to speak, and then lowered his head again, a hesitant look flashed on his face from time to time, and it seemed that it was a little difficult to decide.
"Prime Minister, Confucianism has a plan to save the situation, but if you do this, it will really hurt the peace of the heavens, and Confucianism doesn't know whether to talk about it or not." Raising his head again, Li Ru seemed to have made a decision in his heart, and looked at Dong Zhuo with a resolute face and said.
"Now it's all in this situation, and it doesn't matter what the sky is and what is not the sky. Wen You has any plan, as long as I can avoid this catastrophe this time, I will definitely work hard in the future to create a hegemony in the future. As soon as Dong Zhuo heard that Li Ru had a way, he swept away the malaise just now, and between his expectations, his heroic spirit was undoubtedly displayed.
Looking at Dong Zhuo in front of him, Li Ru seemed to see the domineering hero who was full of ambition in his heart before the army and wanted to lead the Liangzhou army to dominate the world.
Gritting his teeth and abandoning the last bit of mercy in his heart, Li Ru looked at Dong Zhuo with burning eyes and said, "Prime Minister knows, if the richest thing today is Luoyang City?" A large number of ministers of the clan have gathered in this Luoyang City, and it is also the place where wealth circulation is the most prosperous. It is also because of this that those princes under Bishui Pass will gather troops to attack the prime minister. ”
"Wen You wants to pocket the belongings of those powerful families in Luoyang City? But what if you get it? Those princes and allied forces are staring at me. Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang City, and he didn't do much about it, after Li Rugang said those words, he immediately came to his senses, but he couldn't figure it out, what does the looting of those powerful clans have to do with keeping his foundation.
"Since those princes are coming for the wealth of Luoyang City, the prime minister will give Luoyang City to them. We took the little emperor in Luoyang City, the ministers and those people to move the capital to Chang'an. Just leave them a useless Luoyang City, and the alliance of princes will be self-defeating! After Li Ru said this, a trace of guilt flashed on his face, but he sighed in his heart for his poisonous plan.
"Well, move the capital to Chang'an, this method is good. It's just what kind of Luoyang City is useless? After getting Li Ru's explanation, Dong Zhuo's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he seemed to have seen a glimmer of life.
"The prime minister only needs to leave them a Luoyang city with no wealth, no population, no little emperor, no ministers, and no palace. Those troops in Bishui Pass can be transferred back, and they only need to leave a few abandoned sons to make a show, and the prime minister can let people take the heads of the Yuan family and hand them over to Yuan Shao. This can also make those princes feel jealous in their hearts and buy some time for us to move the capital. Now that they have said it, Li Ru has unreservedly presented the entire poisonous plan in front of Dong Zhuo.
It seems to be showing the coming blood, and the sunset in Luoyang City today is red, blood red.
When the water was closed, Sun Ling, who was sleeping in the tent, suddenly opened his eyes. Feeling the throbbing in his heart, Sun Ling looked at the direction of Luoyang City in a daze, and suddenly seemed to remember something. Sun Ling stood up suddenly, and hurriedly rushed out of the camp and ran towards the Badao Battalion station.
"Dian Wei asked the Badao Battalion to get ready, Zilong, you go and call Fengxiao and them, we will attack Luoyang City tonight." Coming to the station of the Badao Battalion, Sun Ling ignored Dian Wei and Zhao Yun with surprised expressions, and broke into the camp tent and spoke.
For a long time, Sun Ling's image in Zhao Yun's mind has always been unfazed, and he has never seen him have such a frightened look. Without asking too much, Zhao Yun hurriedly opened the tent and ran out.
"You don't want to go! Human life is at stake, do you think I'm joking with you?! Seeing that Dian Wei was still looking at him in disbelief over there, Sun Ling was angry from the heart, lifted his foot, gave him a blow to his buttocks, and yelled.
"Damn! How long is your head, how can you forget such an important thing! Seeing that Dian Wei was frightened away by his anger, Sun Ling walked anxiously in the tent alone, patting his head from time to time, and muttering to himself angrily.
While Sun Ling was anxiously waiting, Guo Jia and the others followed Zhao Yun to the tent. Looking at Sun Ling, who was in an anxious mood, several people in the tent also looked at each other, not knowing why.
"Lord, the three military advisors have arrived!" Zhao Yun saw himself and the others walking in like this, Sun Ling didn't seem to notice, and reminded him loudly.
Just as Zhao Yun reminded him, the soul-nourishing jade pendant hanging from his waist shot out a white ray, which disappeared into the mind of Sun Ling, who was restless and walking around.
"I called you here late at night because we are going to attack Luoyang City tonight!" With clarity regained in his mind, Sun Ling took a deep breath, rubbed the jade pendant on his waist, and said to a few people.
"Lord, haven't we already made a plan for coming this time, and we are just watching from the sidelines and not making a move? Why did the main guild think of running to Luoyang late at night? Sun Ling's strange performance just now was seen in the eyes of everyone, Guo Jia was puzzled in his heart, so he asked out loud.
Ignoring Guo Jia's question, Sun Ling looked at Xun You, who had once held an official position in Luoyang City, and asked, "Gongda, how many people are there in Luoyang City?" ”
Xun You saw that Sun Ling did not answer Guo Jia's question, but instead asked about the population of Luoyang City, and after thinking for a while, he spoke: "Lord, when I was in office, the population recorded was nearly one million, and the rest of the population that was not registered, I don't know. ”
"Grass and mud horses, more than a million people!" After hearing Xun You's answer, Sun Ling scolded. Then, despite the surprise of several people, he turned around and kicked the table behind him.
After kicking this kick and calming the anger in his heart a little, Sun Ling looked at Guo Jia and said, "Didn't Fengxiao want to know, why did I suddenly want to attack Luoyang?" ”
"Please be informed!" Seeing Sun Ling lose such a big temper for the first time, Guo Jia also knew that things were not so simple, put away his grinning expression, and asked solemnly.
"Dong Zhuo's cheap goods that should be cut by a thousand knives want to burn Luoyang and move the capital to Chang'an! Do you imagine that a population of more than one million, burned down, coupled with a forced rush to move to Chang'an, how many people can survive in the end? I'm to blame for this, I didn't think of it in the first place. Thinking of the people who died tragically in Luoyang City and on the way to move the capital because of this incident, Sun Ling felt that his body was cold at the moment.
A few people in the tent didn't care about it, why did Sun Ling know about it. All they could think of now was the wails of millions of people and the thick fire, ravaging Luoyang.
"No wonder! Jia said why Bishui Pass has been in danger, but there has been no movement in Luoyang City, it turns out that this is the case, it turns out that this is the case! Who came up with this plan? What a poisonous strategy! Guo Jia was stunned and muttered to himself.
Originally, Guo Jia saw that Bishui Pass was in an emergency, but Dong Zhuo of Luoyang City did not react for a long time, and he was also puzzled for a while. Now that I know that Dong Zhuo wants to burn Luoyang and move the capital to Chang'an, I have figured it out.
Luoyang City is the first city in the world today, both in terms of wealth and population. As long as Dong Zhuo obliquely holds the young emperor and the ministers, and relocates these wealth and population to Chang'an, he can try to make a comeback and continue to compete for hegemony in the future. If there is another fire, the alliance of princes who are chasing Dong Zhuojun behind will see the ruins of Luoyang City, Guo Jia can fully imagine what kind of scene the alliance of princes will be at that time.
As long as there is no pursuit of the alliance of princes, Dong Zhuo can completely establish a powerful minister with him as the center and control the young emperor in Chang'an.
"Is the lord trying to save those people? But can we do it alone? It is better for the lord to tell the princes about this, and let them rescue those people together. Although Zhao Yun was inferior to Guo Jia and the others in terms of strategy, he also guessed Sun Ling's mind at this moment, and opened his mouth to suggest.
"No way!" Without waiting for Sun Ling to answer, the three military advisors retorted in unison.
In Zhao Yun's puzzled gaze, Guo Jia explained to him: "The current alliance army seems to be strong, but in fact, they have their own goals, if they learn that Luoyang City is in trouble, the alliance will inevitably collapse in an instant." At that time, Dong Zhuo will definitely give up moving the capital and send troops again.
If the alliance army is defeated, according to Dong Zhuo's brutal temperament, it will definitely get worse. When the time comes, the people of this world will be ravaged again. This matter must not be known to those princes in advance, otherwise we will be the sinners of the ages. ”
After Zhao Yun listened to Guo Jia's explanation, he broke out in a cold sweat. Just now he just wanted Sun Ling to ask the princes for help, so he didn't think of so much. Now think carefully about what Guo Jia said, if Sun Lingzhen recognized his suggestion, wouldn't he have caused a big disaster.
"Lord, this matter is Yun reckless, Yun is willing to accept the punishment!" As he spoke, Zhao Yun's face was full of shame, and he squatted down on his knees, and was about to kneel down to Sun Ling.
Sun Ling didn't expect Zhao Yun's reaction to be so big, and before his knees were about to hit the ground, he flashed to his side and stretched out his hands to hold him up.
"Zilong is concerned about the affairs of the people in this world, so he has such thoughts, how can I punish you. Don't worry, even if there are only more than 2,000 soldiers of the Badao Battalion, I will save the people of Luoyang City. After helping Zhao Yun up, Sun Ling smiled and patted his shoulders and said comfortingly.
In fact, Sun Ling had a sentence in his heart that he didn't say to a few people, that is: he really can't save those people, he will go to assassinate Dong Zhuo!
As long as Dong Zhuo dies, there will be chaos in Dong Zhuo's army, and then the Badao Battalion will have a chance to attack. It's just that this matter is too dangerous, and Sun Ling didn't bring it up in front of several people, worried that they would resolutely oppose it.
It was late at night, in the puzzled eyes of the soldiers of the alliance army in the camp, Sun Ling led the soldiers of the Badao battalion who had been prepared, and left the alliance camp in the direction of Yuzhou.
Before leaving, Sun Ling greeted the princes and said that it was boring here, and he wanted to bring his troops back to Yuzhou. Most of the princes were not surprised by Sun Ling's attitude. Judging from Sun Ling's performance along the way, he was indeed lacking in interest, and it was only in the battle with Lu Bu under the Bishui Pass that he showed enough interest, thinking that they also regarded Sun Ling as a martial idiot.
And in the eyes of the princes, Bishui Pass has not moved in the past few days, and it is expected that in the face of the hundreds of thousands of troops of the alliance army, Dong Zhuo will also be powerless to return to the sky. Thinking of the fruits that were about to arrive, everyone wished that there would be fewer people like Sun Ling to share with them, so there was no repeated persuasion.
But there are always people who are exceptions, and they have a half-believing attitude towards leaving the Badao Battalion in order to return to Yuzhou. Cao Ying, who was thinking hard in the tent alone, and Fan Jian, who was discussing something with Xiang Longtu in the tent at this time, these two were guessing the real purpose of Sun Ling's trip at this time. It's just that if they want to break their heads, it is impossible to think that Sun Ling is going to save people and save more than a million people.