Chapter 249: The Great Fire of Luoyang
Liu Ze, who was entering this time, didn't care much, and hurried to Luoyang.
Luoyang was already in a sea of fire, the flames were soaring, the smoke was billowing out, and except for a very few people who were crying there, there were hardly any people to be seen.
At this time, an army came from the south, the banner was unfurled, and the book "Changsha is too guarded by Sun", it was Sun Jian who killed it.
Sun Jian also saw Liu Ze's banner from a distance, hurried over, jumped off the horse and bowed his hand to salute and said with a smile: "It's still Runde's cavalry fast, I'm hurrying slowly, or one step later than Runde." ”
Liu Ze smiled and said politely: "Brother Wentai is far away outside Dagu Pass, so he came so quickly? ”
"After Dong Zhuo's rat escaped, Zhao Cen raised the pass and surrendered, and our army was able to take Dagu Pass without blood." Sun Jian looked around at the ruins and ruins, the flames were rising, and he said hatefully: "I can't imagine that Dong Thief is so hateful, the crime is monstrous, and he burned the capital of the Huanghuang Emperor, and he is a sinner for the ages!" ”
"It's useless, Brother Wentai, let's put out the fire first." Liu Zeti said.
Sun Jian nodded, and immediately ordered his subordinates to separate up to extinguish the fire.
Liu Ze also ordered the archers to dismount and put out the fire. At this time, Pan Feng introduced Zhang Long, the commander of the Jinying Wei Luoyang Branch, to meet Liu Ze. As early as a few months ago, Liu Ze ordered the Jinying Wei Luoyang Branch Office to pay close attention to Dong Zhuo's movements and take extraordinary action when necessary.
"Zhang Long, are the personnel of the Luoyang Branch Office safe?" Dong Zhuo was tyrannical and forcibly relocated the people, and the intelligence officers of Jinyingwei were mixed in the three religions and nine streams on weekdays, and they were inevitably within the scope of Dong Zhuo's forced relocation and encountered troubled times. Personal safety is hardly guaranteed.
Liu Ze didn't ask how the military situation was in the first sentence of the meeting, but asked if the personnel were okay, Zhang Long said movingly: "Thank you for your concern, under the command of the Luoyang Branch, there are no casualties, please rest assured." ”
"Didn't you have a conflict with the Xiliang soldiers?"
"Conflict is inevitable, but with the ability of the Golden Eagle Guard, it is still easy to deal with a few guerrillas." Zhang Long's words were full of confidence, what is Jin Yingwei, he is the most elite subordinate of the lord. In troubled times, can you be considered coarse if you don't have a little survivability?
Liu Ze nodded. Every member of the Golden Eagle Guard is an elite who has been trained by death, and he has never doubted the ability of the Golden Eagle Guard.
"Is Cai Yong's family okay?" Liu Ze is most concerned about the Cai family's affairs.
Zhang Long said with a guilty face: "Cai Gong's family was escorted to Chang'an by Dong Zhuo's heavy soldiers, and his subordinates almost wanted to secretly rescue Dong Gong's family, but they only hated that the Xiliang soldiers were very well guarded. Failed. On that day, the Xiliang soldiers were urging urgently. It's like a prisoner. Cai Gong's entire collection of books and a piano were left in the mansion, and his subordinates had secretly taken the scrolls and piano and put them in a safe place. ”
Liu Ze looked happy and said hurriedly: "Where is that piano?" Take it for me to see. ”
Although Zhang Long didn't understand why the lord was so concerned about a piano. But he still ordered someone to quickly take the piano.
Liu Ze saw it, and sure enough, it was the phoenix tail Jiaoqin, and he couldn't help but sigh. I think the last time I saw the phoenix tail Jiaoqin, it was six years ago, and the sound of the piano still echoed in my ears, but the Yiren had gone, leaving me melancholy. This phoenix-tailed Jiaoqin and 10,000 volumes of books are Cai Yong's painstaking things, that is, he never fell behind when he was in exile and wandering all over the world, which shows how arrogant and brutal Dong Zhuo was when he forcibly moved hundreds of officials out of Beijing that day, it stands to reason that Cai Yong is Dong Zhuo's most favored person, and he has been treated like this, not to mention those officials who are not on good terms with Dong Zhuo, when they leave Beijing, they completely enjoy the treatment of prisoners.
"Ziyi, inform Feiyan in Chang'an that you must protect the safety of Cai Gong's family at any cost." Liu Ze commanded.
Pan Feng took the order. Liu Ze asked again, "Zhang Long, how is the situation in the palace?" ”
Zhang Long reported truthfully: "The palace room of the Zongmiao has been burned down by Dong Zhuo, and all the gold and silver treasures in the palace have been looted by the Xiliang soldiers, and only the royal books and books have been abandoned by the Xiliang soldiers, scattered all over the place, and trampled on. We disguised ourselves as Xiliang soldiers and infiltrated the palace, but we snatched back a lot of classic books and scrolls. Unfortunately, most of the books were destroyed by fire. ”
Liu Ze sighed, it's terrible to have no culture, Dong Zhuo is a big old man, and a group of Xiliang soldiers under his command are even more barbaric, in their eyes, only gold and silver jewelry are valuable, those precious royal classics and those rare ancient books and rare books, which can only be regarded as bamboo for burning fire. According to historical records, at the time of the Luoyang disaster, Situ Wang Yun took great pains to protect a lot of royal classics and archives, but now it seems that with Wang Yun's own strength, he still can't take away all the files of such a vast rank. This catastrophe is not only a catastrophe for the people of the world, but also a catastrophe for Chinese civilization.
"You did a good job, hand over these books to Mr. Wenhe later, and he will keep them in a unified manner." In Liu Ze's eyes, these things were far more precious than gold and silver treasures. "Luoyang has become a scorched earth, after the matter is over, the Jinyingwei Luoyang Branch Office will all be evacuated. All of them should be withdrawn to Xuxian County, and a reliable intelligence network should be densely established in Xuxian County. ”
Zhang Long was very surprised, Xu County is just a small county under the rule of Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, neither a state city nor a county government, why did the lord transfer all the forces of the Luoyang Branch Office to Xu County? However, Zhang Long did not ask, since the lord did this, there must be a reason for the lord, and he acted according to orders.
Liu Ze didn't explain, and secretly sighed, it seemed that he was preparing for the Three Kingdoms War, and Xu County would undoubtedly become the political center for the next few decades.
Later, the princes from all walks of life also joined the fire-fighting team, but due to the fierceness of the fire, the fire was not extinguished until the afternoon of the next day, and the entire Luoyang City was already in ruins, unrecognizable, and there was no sound of chickens and dogs within a hundred miles.
Liu Ze was arranging for his subordinates to set up camp in the village, Bao Xin and Qiao Mao hurried over, looking panicked, and before Liu Ze could ask, Bao Xin grabbed Liu Ze's arm and said, "Runde, something is wrong!" ”
"What's the alarm?" Liu Ze was inexplicably surprised.
"Meng De and Yuan Che Cai had a dispute in the camp, Meng De said, 'Dong Zhuo robbed the Son of Heaven and went west to Chang'an, the car drove a lot of baggage, and the day was only dozens of miles, if our army chased him lightly, we would be able to break Dong Thief and save the Holy Driver.' Yuan Che rode and said that the armies were tired and had no strength to chase them. Meng De was angry, and he led the people of his headquarters to chase Dong Zhuo, I couldn't wait to catch up, I was afraid that Meng De would go deep alone and fall into Dong Zhuo's ambush, so I just waited to come over and beg Runde to save him. Bao Xin said anxiously.
"Only now only Runde's light horse can save Mengde." Qiao Mao also said.
Liu Ze was not worried that Cao Cao would hang up, otherwise the history of the Three Kingdoms would have to be rewritten, but it was true that Cao Cao was ambushed by the Xiliang army this time. Liu Ze was very puzzled, it stands to reason that Cao Cao is the kind of person who is scheming, and he should not make such a rash and risky action, maybe it was Yuan Shao's attitude that angered him, so he pursued Dong Zhuo regardless of it. Think about that Yuan Shao is really fucked, saying that the army is tired, this reason is too far-fetched, the coalition army is stationed in Gongxian County without firing an arrow, and without firing a single arrow, it will get to the point of exhaustion, wouldn't it make the listeners laugh off their big teeth.
Looking at Bao Xin and Qiao Mao's pleading appearance, Liu Ze didn't know what to say, he couldn't tell them that Cao Cao would be ambushed by the Xiliang soldiers, but he promised not to hang up? Among the coalition forces, only a few of them are friendly with Cao Cao, and there is no one to ask for anything else.
Liu Ze had no choice but to respond, and ordered Zhao Yun's entire army to attack immediately. Seeing that Liu Ze agreed, Bao Xin and Qiao Mao were also relieved and looked happy.
It was precisely because Cao Cao was angry after arguing with Yuan Shao that he led his troops to pursue Dong Zhuo, and led Xiahoudun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Le Jin, Li Dian and tens of thousands of horses to chase in the direction of Hangu.
Walking to a barren mountain, Cao Cao saw that the forest here is deep and dense, and the terrain is steep, so he ordered the drink to stop, waved his whip and asked, "Where is this?" ”
When a sergeant saw the boundary monument, he reported: "General Hui, the name here is Drinking Horse Stream." ”
Cao Hongben was in the back team, and when he saw that the front team was not moving, he stepped forward and said, "Why can't my brother stop the horse?" ”
Cao Cao Yao pointed to the front and said: "The mountains here are treacherous, if Dong Zhuo ambushes a group of soldiers and horses, we will be captured." ”
Cao Hong looked at it and said, "I'll lead an army to explore the road first, and my brother will walk slowly behind." ”
Fortunately, there was no Dong Zhuo people and horses in the Drinking Horse Stream, and after Cao Cao passed through Guò here, he accelerated the trip, and chased out hundreds of miles, looking at the banner in front of him, and the dust was flying.
Cao Hongxi said: "It must be Dong Zhuo's car in front of him, and the Son of Heaven is also among them." ”
Cao Cao drew his sword and shouted: "All the armies obey the order, whether they succeed or not, just today, swear to fight the thief to the death, and sacrifice their lives for righteousness!" ”
Xiahoudun took the lead and led his troops to rush forward. But listening to the rumbling of war drums, a group of men and horses blocked the way, it was not someone else, it was Duting Hou Lu Bu. Lu Bu commanded the wolf cavalry formation and completely blocked Cao Bing's way.
Lu Bu laughed and said: "Sure enough, as Li Ru expected, I didn't expect that someone would dare to come and send him to death!" ”
Cao Cao greeted him and said sharply: "Treason and traitor, kidnapping the Son of Heaven, a hundred deaths are not redeemed, and you don't get off your horse and surrender early?" ”
Lu Bu sneered and said, "I thought it was who, it turned out to be you Cao Apu!" Xiangguo treats you well, but you take care of Xiang's grace in vain, plot to assassinate in the front, and rebel in the back, how is it different from the villain? ”
"Dong Zhuo killed the monarch and destroyed the country, mutilated living beings, was unkind, and was full of evil. Cao is a Hanchen, how can he stand with a thief? Your three surnames are slaves, and aiding and abusing is also the way to die! Cao Cao scolded in front of the battle.
As soon as Lu Bu heard others scolding him for the three family slaves, he became angry, his face was pale, he raised Fang Tian's halberd, and the wolf riders behind him looked at him and pressed them up in unison.
Xiahoudun rushed forward with a spear and fought with Lu Bu.
Just after a few rounds, the shouting of killing on the left was loud, Li Dao led a soldier to kill, and Cao Cao urgently ordered Cao Ren to lead his troops to meet the battle. As soon as the battle was fought over there, Guo Yan led the army to attack from the right again, and Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Yuan to meet the enemy. (To be continued......)