The layout of the Luoyang Imperial City is much more complicated than the general city, in fact, only the east side of the city includes the Upper East Gate, the Middle East Gate and the Gate of several city gates, but because the Middle East Gate and the Gate are smaller, the East City Gate in the usual sense is the Upper East Gate.

The inner city of Luoyang Imperial City also includes two parts, divided into the South Palace and the North Palace, the South Palace is the administrative place of the emperor and the ministers, and the North Palace is the living place of the royal family.

After entering from the upper east gate, Yang Rui quickly arrived outside the east gate of the North Palace under the guidance of Wu Qiong, and along the way, Wu Qiong also ordered his subordinates to set fire everywhere to attract the attention of the defenders of Dong Zhuo's camp.

Although Yang Rui didn't know Wu Qiong and Zhou Bi, but these two people knew Yang Rui, when Dong Zhuo first entered Beijing, Yang Rui was also one of the four people who dominated the world, so most of the officials in the capital knew Yang Rui, including Yang Rui at this time to get the identity of the deputy leader of the group of heroes to discuss Dong, and almost everyone in the Luoyang Imperial City knew it.

Because of this, after Yang Rui entered the Upper East Gate under the banner of Yuan Shao, Wu Qiong and Zhou Yu did not have the slightest suspicion, and when Yang Rui stabilized the situation at the Upper East Gate, he first had to look for the Young Emperor Liu Wei and the Empress Dowager He, which was very consistent with what Wu Qiong and Zhou Yu thought!

Yang Rui is for the task, and Wu Qiong and Zhou Bi take the rescue of the young emperor as the primary goal, which has a lot of twists and turns, which involve a lot, and Yang Rui naturally can't think of it at this time.

As far as the public is concerned, after rescuing the young emperor, the heroes will become famous for discussing Dong. Dong Zhuo abolished the young emperor and established Chen Liuwang, which was the main interface for the heroes to send troops. If you can rescue the young emperor Liu Wei. The heroes are the teachers of righteousness, if they lose Liu Wei and let Dong Zhuo's Chen Liuwang really become orthodox, then the nature of the group of heroes to send troops will also change.

Wu Qiong and Zhou Bi were aware of this, so they had been doing their best to protect the safety of the Young Emperor Liu Bian, and when they saw that Yang Rui's troops were far from being able to control the Luoyang Imperial City, the first thing they thought of was to rescue the Young Emperor Liu Wei first! Moreover, Wu Qiong, Zhou Bi and others have been plotting for a long time to rescue the young emperor Liu!

Of course, there are some private reasons that are unknown for the time being, which also makes everyone regard rescuing the young emperor as their primary goal. In this regard, it was not until much later that Yang Rui also learned a general idea.

"I'm Wu Qiong, open the city gate quickly!"

Let's say that while Wu Qiong sent people to set fire everywhere to attract the attention of Dong Zhuo's camp, he quickly brought Yang Rui's troops to the direction of the east gate of the inner city of the North Palace, and shouted towards the city gate.

"Squeak Quack"

After Wu Qiong shouted a few times, the east gate of the North Palace had already opened!

Yang Rui was still worried that the inner city gate would be difficult to break, and when he was preparing for a bitter battle, he didn't expect to open the city gate so smoothly, and then he no longer hesitated, leading Gao Shun, Zhang Ning, Wu Anguo, Chen Lin and other generals. and a group of soldiers rushed into the East Gate Tower of the North Palace as soon as possible.

Unlike when the control of the outer city went to the east gate, the control of the east gate of the north palace was obviously a lot easier. And there was not much movement, which surprised Yang Rui for a while, but Wu Qiong, Zhou Yu and others have been planning for this for a long time, who let the two sides take the rescue of the young emperor Liu Wei as the common primary goal!

On the east gate tower of the North Palace and the city walls on both sides nearby, there were about five or six thousand soldiers placed by Wu Qiong, and Yang Rui sent Wu Anguo to lead 10,000 5-level iron guards to guard here to ensure the smooth retreat.

Previously, when he was at the East Gate of the outer city, Yang Rui had already noticed that Wu Anguo led his troops to fight, even if it could not be compared with the soldier bonus attributes of Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, the combat power of the soldiers led by Wu Anguo was also very strong, and the effect was not much worse than that of other roads! It is precisely because of this that Yang Rui is relieved to leave Wu Anguo to guard the east gate of the inner city of the North Palace!

"Quick! Fast! Quick"

Still under the leadership of Wu Qiong, Yang Rui led the remaining iron guards and warriors to quickly walk towards the place where the young emperor Liu Wei and the Empress Dowager He were under house arrest.

Until the moment he found the young emperor Liu Wei and Empress He, Yang Rui even didn't believe that this trip would be so smooth! In the nest of Dong Zhuo's camp, facing N troops many times his own, Yang Rui easily saw the goal of this trip with the help of Wu Qiong, and even had the opportunity to ask Empress Dowager He about the people in the palace who managed the headdress and crowned female officials.

When Yang Rui asked this question, he naturally thought of Diao Chan, a possible character, but the answer he got was not ideal, and the Empress Dowager He couldn't answer such a detailed question for a while, just knowing the general location of these female officials.

According to what the Empress Dowager He said, Yang Rui ordered Zhang Ning and Chen Lin to lead most of the troops to take the young emperor Liu Wei and the Empress Dowager He to the east gate of the North Palace to wait, while Yang Rui himself and Gao Shun led 1,000 guards to search for people in the place where the Empress Dowager He said.

However, after arriving at the courtyards where the female officials lived on the northeast side of the North Palace, Yang Rui found that the female officials who managed the headdress and crown were not Diao Chan alone, and the other female officials also lived in the surrounding courtyards, so they couldn't find Diao Chan at once, so Yang Rui coerced all the female officials he could find and went towards the east gate of the North Palace.

After all, it was just a whim, and he didn't have much hope of finding Diao Chan, and it was in the Luoyang Imperial City, which is the Longtan Tiger's Den, Yang Rui certainly didn't spend too much time on Diao Chan's affairs, and when he arrived at the east gate of the North Palace, Zhang Ning and the others had only arrived for a short time.

However, at this time, the east gate of the North Palace had fallen into a fierce battle, and it was already a little difficult for Wu Anguo to lead a group of iron guards to defend it, and the newly arrived Zhang Ning and others could be regarded as re-stabilizing the situation and firmly controlling the east gate of the North Palace in their hands.

This is already the situation in the inner city of the North Palace, and it is conceivable that the situation at the east gate of the outer city guarded by Zhang Liao must be even worse, so Yang Rui ordered everyone not to fight, quickly gathered the troops, evacuated the east gate of the North Palace, and took the young emperor, the queen mother and more than 30 female officials to the direction of the east gate of the outer city.

The young emperor, the queen mother, female officials and others walked slowly, and Yang Rui placed Gao Shun and Zhang Ning to lead more than 6,500 warriors to guard behind, and Chen Lin also accompanied them; Yang Rui, Wu Anguo and other guards and guards cleared the obstacles all the way and rushed to the front.

Wu Qiong's previous actions of setting fires everywhere had a certain effect, and after Yang Rui and the others left the North Palace, they saw that there were a lot of fire points in all directions of the outer city, which actually attracted a lot of forces from Dong Zhuo's camp to put out fires everywhere!

However, before he rushed out of the distance, the shouting and killing sound at the city tower of the Upper East Gate was already clearly visible, and it was much more lively than when Yang Rui entered the Upper East Gate before, obviously the Dong Zhuo camp forces in Luoyang City had begun to fight back with all their might! Yang Rui immediately urged his subordinates to attack with all their might, and the speed of returning reinforcements increased again.

"Guo Yan is here, Hugh has succeeded in the murder!"

Just as Yang Rui and the others were advancing rapidly, a slash suddenly came out of the oblique stab, and slashed at Wu Anguo, who was rushing to the front, and the momentum was very turbulent!

Fortunately, Wu Anguo is not easy to get along, he took the opportunity to hold the long handle of the sledgehammer horizontally, and dangerously set up a knife that seemed impossible to dodge, but after only a little passive one or two moves, Wu Anguo was already entangled with Guo Yan, hammering back and forth, and he couldn't tell the difference for a while.

Seeing this, Yang Rui hurriedly divided a group of about two or three thousand iron guards to help fight against the troops brought by Guo Yan, while Yang Rui himself took the remaining troops and still headed towards the east gate of the outer city. The closer he got to the Upper East Gate, the more he could feel the urgency of the situation, and Yang Rui didn't have time to delay Guo Yan and his party!

"Kill!"

"Ahh

When Yang Rui finally approached the upper east gate, he found that the situation here was more critical than imagined, at this time, Zhang Liao and a small group of people had been compressed to the vicinity of the city gate tower, and the surrounding city walls were already crowded with soldiers from Dong Zhuo's camp, constantly compressing the activity space of Zhang Liao's people inward!

Although the Iron Guard is brave and under the bonus of Zhang Liao's auxiliary skills, there are only one or two thousand people left at this time, and Zhang Liao himself is also fighting with two Dong Zhuo's camp generals in the outermost position, and the skills of these two generals are not much weaker than Zhang Liao's.

Without saying a word, Yang Rui led the remaining more than 10,000 iron guards to the city wall, which was regarded as temporarily stabilizing the situation at the most critical moment. With the addition of Yang Rui and the others, the vicinity of the city gate tower was charged again, and Dong Zhuo's camp was driven to the city wall again.

However, Yang Rui's lack of long-range soldiers in his hands has become the biggest flaw, and there are a lot of archers mixed in the crowd of opponents, although the soldiers of Dong Zhuo's camp are at a disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat at this time, these scattered archers continue to shoot arrows, causing casualties to Yang Rui's troops all the time!

Therefore, it can be said that every moment of guarding the east gate is exchanged for injured soldiers, and at present, the number of soldiers in Yang Rui's hands is very limited, so after Yang Rui went to the city wall, he led the crowd to find the north side of the city wall and tried his best to break through, attacking in exchange for more defensive space!

Near the section of the city wall on the south side is the place where Zhang Liao and the enemy generals fought, and with Yang Rui's current strength, he can't help much, but is likely to put himself in it. Wu Qiong, who was traveling with him, also took his soldiers to bypass the fierce battle between Zhang Liao and the opponent's enemy generals, and tried to break through to the southern city wall, but the effect was not obvious.

At this time, it seems that all Yang Rui can do is wait for Gao Shun, Wu Anguo, Zhang Ning and others! (To be continued......)