37 The Rise of Li Dao
The traces of his heart have already shown that Li Su simply ordered the housekeeper to bring in wine and food, and in the small study with Li Ru, while drinking a little wine, he talked about his heartfelt feelings and plotted big things.
From Li Ru, Li Su finally understood the truth of the whole matter.
In fact, there were only 3,000 light cavalry under the city of Luoyang, including 1,500 Xiliang elite cavalry led by Li Dao, and 1,500 Southern Xiongnu elite cavalry led by Yu Fuluo. As for the brigade, it is still on the way from Hangu Pass to Luoyang.
Li Su is very clear about the strength of the late Tai Lieutenant Dong Zhuo's account, he has been running Hedong for many years, throwing out a lot of money, and has been staying in the fat position of Hedong Taishou for several years, and built a 3,000-strong Xiliang elite cavalry, which is the core of the Xiliang army. Luoyang was in turmoil, he took 2,000 elite cavalry and 1,000 sharp soldiers, rushed to Luoyang day and night, leaving 1,000 elite cavalry to hand over to Li Dao to guard the old nest in Hedong.
After taking control of the court, the elite cavalry under his command absorbed and merged the elite of the five schools of the Northern Army, the eight captains of the West Garden, and the Yulin Langzhong, expanded to 3,000, and handed them over to Niu Fu to command, and then brought them to Hedong to quell the rebellion.
Now, most of these 3,000 elite cavalry fell into the hands of Lu Bu, when Li Dao sent people to ask Lu Bu for food, Lu Bu behaved very generously, not only provided sufficient grain and grass, but also ordered a group of 500 elite cavalry escorts, and finally brought people and horses with food, and gave Li Dao a brain.
This favor is really great, Li Dao is worried that his subordinates have many foot soldiers and few cavalry, and now he has 1,500 elite horsemen at once, and when facing the Southern Xiongnu Yu Fuluo and Bai Bojun Guo Tai, he has a lot of confidence.
It was Li Dao's idea to take Hangu Pass and Guo Tai, but later Li Ru participated in it and persuaded Li Dao and him to personally risk mixing in Guo Tai's Baibo Army to enter the pass, and finally succeeded in persuading Wang Fang to join, and at the critical moment, he stabbed Xu Rong in the back and easily took Hangu Pass.
Now that the troops are in Luoyang, Li Ru entered the city first, and Li Dao led the elite cavalry to arrive later, in order to let Li Ru persuade Li Su, open the gate of Luoyang, and conspire for a great cause.
Li Ru's confession can be described as extremely honest, he has long known that Li Su is a person, and he values profit over righteousness, don't look at Li Su's promise, but Li Ru in order to be foolproof, or through these words, he conveyed the message he wanted to convey to Li Su, one is to trust unreservedly, the second is that the strength of the coalition is strong, compared to Dong Zhuo's strength when he entered Luoyang at that time, it is even stronger, in order to enhance Li Su's confidence, and the third is to let Li Su understand that he is very important and plays a great role.
It's just that Li Ru and the wise man may have a mistake, he didn't expect that Li Su's life in Luoyang has begun to be a little difficult, even if he didn't come to persuade him, Li Su has already made up his mind to unite with Li Dao, who led the army to the east.
Li Su now finally understands what it means to "gather like things, and people to divide into groups", a rude martial artist like him is only suitable for being with rude martial artists, and it is difficult to get along with those gentle scholars and doctors, no matter how hard they try.
After settling Li Ru to rest in the mansion, Li Su began to do what he had to do in full swing, and went to the station of the Tiger Ben Guards in a majestic manner, gathered all the soldiers, as well as the generals under the tent, and ordered the soldiers to guard the surroundings tightly, and said his plans in public, so that the generals under the tent could express their position on the spot.
Those who were unwilling to comply, there were only a few people, Li Su looked at them coldly for a moment, directly lowered his chin, and spit out a word: "Kill!" β
Pity these unlucky ghosts, before they can figure out what is going on, they have been besieged by the people who are sharpening their knives, and they have died in different places.
Next, Li Su personally sat here and waited for the time to come.
Just after the ugly time, as soon as the Yin hour arrived, Li Su led 1,500 tiger guards, fully armed, and silently slaughtered the Guangyang Gate in the west city of Luoyang.
There are also a lot of guards under the command of Wu Qiong, the captain of the city gate, which can be scattered at the twelve city gates in Luoyang, and they must be divided into several groups to guard in turn.
"Quick, array, open the door, signal!"
Li Su struck a successful blow and issued an order in an orderly manner, before Luoyang City could react, a deafening sound of horses' hooves had sounded on the galloping road outside the city, and it was the Xiliang Jingqi who had already made an appointment to wait outside the Guangyang Gate.
In the dark night, Li Su was covered in armor, followed by the same murderous soldiers, took the lead, and took the lead in galloping close to Guangyang Gate, where Li Su was already on his horse and waited for a long time.
Now that he has taken refuge in Li Wei's command, Li Su immediately adjusted his role, took the first step, bowed on horseback, and said loudly: "Subordinate Li Su, meet the general, fortunately, Guangyangmen is under control." β
"Good!"
Li Wei flicked his horse whip, let out a loud scream in the quiet night, the long halberd was on the horse, looked up at the towering city tower of Guangyang Gate, nodded and said indifferently: "Our army took Luoyang, Ziyan made the first contribution." β
Li Su was waiting for this sentence, thanked him, turned his horse to the side of the road, and said loudly: "General, please enter the city!" β
Li Dao was not polite, and directly urged the horse to step forward slowly, and when he crossed Li Su, Li Su rode his horse to follow, half a horse behind Li Dao.
In the cave of the city gate, two rows of torches were lit, shining like daylight, Li Wei held a halberd, rode through the horse calmly, and appeared in Luoyang City, ambitious and heroic.
Previously, when the marshal Dong Gong led the army into the imperial capital Luoyang, he was ordered to guard Hedong, failed to come, and now, Dong Gong is dead, and it is his turn to complete Dong Gong's unfinished will, Luoyang, the Han Dynasty, after all, must be controlled by the Western Liang Army.
Behind the two of them, the four of them rode in a row, passing through the city gate one after another, and appeared in Luoyang City.
According to the laws of the Han Empire, without an edict, he led an army to step into the vicinity of Luoyang within 30 miles, and the crime was unforgivable. But now, this law has long been trampled on by the Xiliang Army and the Bingzhou Army, and no one has taken it seriously.
Li Wei led the Western Liang army into the imperial capital Luoyang, so leisurely, just putting on a show, and the next thing was the moment when he declared his force to Luoyang and the world.
Thinking of before, he had grovelled to the court with Zhang Ji and others, begging for forgiveness, and now, he will use force to let the court and let the Son of Heaven understand that whether to pardon or not is not up to them, but by him Li Dao.
Li Jile in front of him stopped the war horse, Li Su behind him, Jing Qi, and also stopped the war horse, looking at his back, I saw him raise his head and take a few deep breaths, with incomparable intoxication, and sighed: "Luoyang, the breath is really drunk without alcohol." β
Before Li Su and the others could answer, Li Dao's face turned cold, and he swung his halberd until he reached Luoyang City, and shouted: "Kill!" β
A group of Xiliang elite riders echoed in unison, as if in front of them, it was not the empty Luoyang Street, but the enemy who did not share the hatred of the sky.
The sound of horses' hooves sounded suddenly, not long after, that is, the streets and alleys in Luoyang City, soon, exclamations, screams, crying, hahadaxiao sounds, intertwined, accompanied by the smoke of the fire that rose to the sky, when the sky was about to brighten, constituted a tragic picture.
Luoyang, the imperial capital of the Han Empire, when the late Taiwei Dong Zhuo came into power, the fierce battle only took place in the east and west cities, but this time, the inner city of Luoyang, the imperial city of Chengping for more than 200 years, has become the battlefield of the Western Liang army to declare force.
Five days later, LΓΌ Bu, who was far away in Anyi, east of the river, ushered in the imperial envoy of Luoyang.
He was officially worshiped as the pastor of the state, the general of Zhenbei, and the marquis of Guannei, and in Li Su's letter, he already knew that Li Daobai was the general of Yangwu, Guo Taibai was the general of Yangyong, Li Su was the general of Yangzhong, Guo Yan was the general of Yanglie, and Yu Fuluo obtained the position of the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu as he wished, and now, he could finally lead the army back to Meiji justifiably.
In addition, Fan Chou, Wang Fang, Hu Zhen, Yang Ding, Han Xian and Yang Feng and others all worshiped as Zhonglang generals, and each had soldiers and horses under his command. Zhang Ji, who had already led the army to attack Chang'an, worshiped as Jing Zhaoyin, the general of Zhenxi, and his subordinates Zhang Xiu and Duan Xuan also worshiped as Zhonglang generals, becoming the western barrier of Luoyang.
Ma Teng and Han Sui, who were far away in Xiliang, were also worshiped as General Andi and General Anzhu respectively, and nominally speaking, they also became the backup of the Xiliang Army.
Such a series of dazzling general names made Lu Bu puzzled, such as from a common sense point of view, he and Zhang Ji's Zhenbei and Zhenxi generals, compared with Ma Teng and Han Sui's generals Andi and An Zhuan, and even Li Dao, Guo Tai, Li Su, Guo Yan's Yangwu, Yangyong, Yangzhong, and Yanglie generals, the rank is higher.
But in the blink of an eye, he was relieved, now the imperial court is in the hands of Li Dao and the four of them, they want to worship the official position of Weishenme, it is not just a matter of one sentence, even for him, what Zhenbei general, what Guannei Hou, are all virtual, the only real thing, only the state pastor.
From Li Su's letter, Lu Bu also learned that Cai Yong is still in prison, but his life is fine, and he may eventually be sentenced to exile.
Among so many official changes, what surprised him the most was that Wang Yun was still an official worshipping Situ and did not die in this earth-shattering change.
Interesting!
This matter is indeed very interesting, before Li Dao and others entered Luoyang, the power of the court was faintly in the hands of Situ Wang Yun, from which it can be inferred that the death of the old captain Dong Zhuo, how to say it behind it is inseparable from his plan, now Li Dao and others are under the banner of asking for an explanation for the late captain Dong Zhuo, but after entering Luoyang, they have nothing to do with Situ Wang Yun, how to look at this matter, it is a little weird, is there another story behind it?
In the candlelight in the room, after reading Li Su's letter, Lu Buyin couldn't help but upturn the corners of his mouth, smiled dumbly, put these thoughts behind him, and refocused on Cai Yonglai.
Cai Yong's exile to the border is still Lu Bu's proposal to Li Su, and in his letter, he did not hide his desire for Cai Yan, Cai Yong's daughter, so that once Cai Yong migrated north, Lu Bu could use this name to kidnap Cai Yan and go north to Taiyuan.
The whole Jihua can be said to be a ring after a ring, not worrying about Cai Yong and Cai Yan not complying, and Lu Bu has been staying in Anyi at this time, in addition to steadily implementing his "looting" Jihua, a big reason is that Cai Yan has been in Hedong Weijia and has no intention of leaving.
Lu Bu was waiting, waiting for the best time to kidnap Cai Yan. In his opinion, the fate of the Han Empire has been decided, and his own fate has begun to change.
"A happy life is earned by yourself, isn't it!"
Lu Bu blew out the lights and candles, and slowly walked out of the study, outside, the sky was full of stars and moons, silently full of vitality, just like Lu Bu's state of mind at the moment.