Chapter 234: Merging Ding Yuan
Originally, the young emperor Liu Wei had already been frightened into the six gods, but now when Dong Zhuo asked him in this tone, he became even more panicked, and replied stammeringly: "I ...... I am ...... It's ...... me."
Hearing the incoherent answer of the Young Emperor Liu Wei, Dong Zhuo frowned, and then asked, "What happened?" How did you get here? ”
Liu Wei couldn't help crying at this time, but because of the might of the troops brought by Dong Zhuo, he didn't dare to disobey his wishes, so he cried and explained to Dong Zhuo that they were taken hostage all the way out of the palace, but he sobbed and talked while talking, and he didn't say anything why, Dong Zhuo's brows furrowed even tighter when he saw this.
At this time, Liu Xie, who was next to him, saw that his brother had been scared like this, and Dong Zhuo wanted to interrogate him like a prisoner, so he couldn't stand it, so he pointed at Dong Zhuo and shouted at him in a childish voice: "Bold, who are you?" How dare you be so disrespectful to Your Majesty? Why don't you kneel when you see the Son of Heaven? Do you see that we are young and want to usurp the throne? ”
Dong Zhuo heard Liu Xie say so seriously, there are so many soldiers next to him, not to mention that there is an outsider like Wenmin, if it really spreads out and everyone in the world thinks that he wants to usurp the throne, then he really can't eat and leave, so he hurriedly knelt down to the young emperor Liu Wei and said: "Minister Dong Zhuo to see His Majesty the Emperor, His Royal Highness King Chen Liu." ”
Liu Xie finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Dong Zhuo kneeling, since he had already knelt, he would definitely not hurt the two brothers again, although his attitude was a little worse before, but now as long as he can save the life of the emperor's brother. didn't care so much, so he answered Dong Zhuo's question instead of Liu Wei and killed He Jin, who he knew. What kind of turmoil happened in Luoyang, and how they were held hostage by the eunuchs, out of the palace, until they reached the bank of the Yellow River, those eunuchs saw that they were desperate and jumped into the river to commit suicide, and then they met Yun Zehou Wenmin, and then they walked back to Luoyang under the escort of Yun Zehou. The people around him, including Dong Zhuo and Wen Min, were all surprised to see Liu Xie talk about such a complicated matter so well at such a young age.
Especially Dong Zhuo. After comparing the performance of the two, he felt more and more that the young emperor Liu Wei was unbearable, and thought that there was still some appearance of the son of heaven in this appearance, but it was his younger brother Liu Xie. Don't look at his young age. The mind is a lot smarter and more mature, and he is very Mingjun, and his mother was killed when he was a child, and he was brought up by the Empress Dowager Dong, and he and the Empress Dowager Dong can still have a little kinship.
No matter what Dong Zhuo's mind was turning in at this time. Now the most important thing for them is to escort the emperor back to the palace, although these troops brought by Dong Zhuo are violent. But as long as they don't rebel, in the eyes of the two brothers, Liu Wei and Liu Xie, they have a lot of security than the weak Wenmin, so in the end, when Wenmin asked whether they were willing to stay in Dong Zhuo's army and return to the palace with Dong Zhuo's army or continue to follow him, they chose to stay in Dong Zhuo's army without hesitation.
After listening to their choice, Wenmin could only shake his head helplessly, it seems that it is very difficult to change history in the game, especially the plot that has been opened like this, it is almost impossible, but think about it, if Wenmin finally mixes up the plot of Dong Zhuo's rebellion, then how can others play this game?
After hearing Liu Zhuo's answer, Dong Zhuo also smiled, and said proudly to Wenmin: "Thank you Yun Zehou for escorting Your Majesty here, now Your Majesty has decided to go with me, Yun Zehou You should please go back, when I return Your Majesty to the palace, I will definitely show credit to Your Majesty for you." ”
During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Wenmin had some grievances with Dong Zhuo, and now of course he didn't want to stay in Dong Zhuo's army, so he planned to take the young emperor Liu Wei and Liu Xie off their horses and leave here. But just when Wen Min just hugged his younger brother Liu Xie down, Dong Zhuo next to him spoke again: "Yun Zehou, now we don't have any extra horses in our army, I think you can give this horse to Your Majesty, Your Majesty is already on the horse, are you really embarrassed to let Your Majesty come down again?" ”
Now how does Wenmin think of Dong Zhuo's unshaven fat face, why is it unhappy, and he can't wait to immediately pull a big ear scraper and ask him to send Ryoma out? That's impossible, even if Wenmin is willing, he may not necessarily agree, so Wenmin replied: "General Dong, what are you talking about?" I heard that your Xiliang is the best horse-producing place in the Han Dynasty, and the civilians there have herds of horses at home, and each person in the army can even be equipped with a war horse for cooking, and our southern horses are hard to find, and all the war horses in my Yunze army now add up to less than one percent of General Dong's, no matter what, it is not my turn to send horses to Your Majesty, I don't believe that you hundreds of thousands of people, you can't even draw a horse? Saying that, Wenmin hugged the young emperor Liu Wei, who was already crying, and stuffed it into Dong Zhuo's arms, then rode on the dragon horse, and said to Liu Xie, the king of Chen Liu, next to him: "Your Highness, if you encounter anything in the future, just send someone to tell me, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it!" Then he turned his horse's head and left.
At this time, the young emperor Liu Wei, who was sent to Dong Zhuo's arms by Wenmin, finally sobered up a little, opened his hazy eyes, and saw that what appeared in front of him was an ugly face with a scruffy beard and obesity.
Dong Zhuo saw that he looked so unbearable, and he was even more displeased, now that Wenmin, an outsider, had left, he didn't need to worry about anything anymore, so he immediately shouted to Liu Wei: "Your Majesty! Please respect yourself, what kind of body is it to shout so much? ”
Being taught such a lesson by Dong Zhuo, Liu Wei suddenly stopped screaming, and stood beside him silently, but he couldn't stop sobbing, looking very helpless, or his younger brother Liu Xie saw his brother's pitiful appearance, walked over to hold his brother's suffering, and gave him some comfort.
Then Dong Zhuo ordered the army to put on a guard of honor for the Son of Heaven, escorting Liu Wei and Liu Xie's brothers back to the palace, with great fanfare all the way, he wanted the whole world to know about his Dong Zhuo's escort skills, and begged for a reward in a good name, and at the same time he could also show the majesty of Xiliang Tieqi and deter some people who were dissatisfied with him.
Dong Zhuo's goal has been achieved, and anyone who knows a little bit about military affairs can see that this Xiliang Iron Cavalry is definitely stronger than any army in the capital Luoyang, and more importantly, the kind of momentum they have that is polished in blood and fire is something that no army in Luoyang has, so even if some people are dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's arbitrary attribution of all the credit for the escort, no one dares to stand up and blatantly oppose it.
Because the two major forces of eunuchs and relatives were almost wiped out in this firefight, the power in the court almost fell into a vacuum, many positions were vacant, and the operation of the court also came to a standstill, so after getting the Son of Heaven back, the first thing Dong Zhuo and the princes and ministers of the court had to do was to quickly reorganize the new order.
As the hero of the escort, plus his army has also controlled the entire Luoyang, so Dong Zhuo gave himself the position of a prince, and then gave the remaining three princes and nine kings and other important positions to his subordinates, and those other princes who were ordered by He Jin to lead troops did not get any benefits, and even the literati who escorted the Son of Heaven for a distance before did not receive any reward.
Dong Zhuo's behavior of eating alone certainly caused dissatisfaction among the other princes, especially one of them, Ding Yuan, who was the highest among all the princes who came with troops, and his status as the highest administrator of a state was higher than Dong Zhuo's, so now he saw that Dong Zhuo climbed directly on his head, and he didn't give himself any benefits, so he immediately became angry, and returned to the barracks without saying a word, ordered all the soldiers and horses, and went to Dong Zhuo's military camp to call for battle.
And Dong Zhuo is now the time when he is full of majesty, in his opinion, the entire court is under his control, and now the emperor is still young, he is completely a puppet, and he has the final say on all major events in the world, as for whether to continue to support this puppet emperor in the future or simply usurp the throne and stand on his own, that is something that needs to be considered in the future, and now there are people who dare to blatantly oppose themselves, provoke their authority, and even directly lead troops to the military camp to call themselves out, which is simply a slap in the face. But it just so happened that now was the time for him to establish authority among the princes, so Dong Zhuo planned to make an example of killing chickens and monkeys, so he used Ding Yuan's chicken to warn those restless princes.
So Dong Zhuo also ordered all the soldiers and horses, and Ding Yuan's Bingzhou army set up a formation, ready to decide the victory, Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Bingzhou Iron Cavalry are very famous local cavalry units during the Three Kingdoms period, these two troops belong to the border army, and fight with foreign races all the year round, not at all like these county soldiers in the mainland, they are all baptized by war, the two armies are so open to face each other, the whole battlefield is filled with an atmosphere of iron and blood.
I saw Ding Yuan standing in front of the Bingzhou army on horseback, pointing at Dong Zhuo on the opposite side and shouting: "Dong Zhuo Pifu, you manipulated the court situation with the skill of escorting, and replaced the court up and down, inside and out, with your people, and now I suspect that even the Son of Heaven has been held hostage by you!" Today I will do the right thing for heaven and get rid of you, a traitor! (To be continued......)