Chapter 170: Yuan Shao's hesitation
Just when Wei Xuan led the army to approach Luoyang, there were a large number of refugees along the way, and when they asked, they were all taken out of Luoyang, it turned out that the incident had happened for two days, and now the people in Luoyang City were panicking, and people kept fleeing from Luoyang. But the general process is that the general He Jin was killed by the eunuchs, and then the captain of Si Li and the tiger forced Zhonglang to lead the troops into the palace. Ordinary people couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong, and knew that the Jingshi had been reorganized, and Yuan Shao dared to lead troops into the palace, although in the eyes of the Shiren group it was a last resort, in the eyes of others, it was actually equivalent to a rebellion. Some well-informed people also knew that the foreign soldiers and horses summoned by the general He Jin were about to enter Beijing, so those who could escape were trying to find a way.
After another day, Wei Xuan finally came to the outside of Luoyang City, saying that it was outside the city, but in fact it was only the outer city of Luoyang. Before approaching the city wall, Wei Xuan remembered Pei Ye's advice, so he ordered the army to camp and immediately sent scouts into the city to check the situation. There are still defenders at the Luoyang City Gate, but seeing that thousands of heavily armed soldiers and horses are coming, they naturally gallop to report the backbone behind them. No one dared to stop it??????????????? Stop the guards from entering the city.
As Wei Xuan worried, Dong Zhuo, who arrived near Luoyang three or four days earlier than Wei Xuan, had been paying attention to the situation in the capital, and on that day, the two brothers of Yuan Shao, as well as Wu Kuang, a subordinate of the general He Jin, and the younger brother of Dong Zhuo, the commander of the Che Cavalry General, who was also a direct subordinate of He Miao, led the army and the Yuan family's private soldiers all the way from the South Palace to the North Palace, and then Zhang Rang and others were also prepared to take the Empress Dowager He, the emperor and others hostage and flee.
At that time, Shangshu Lu Zhi was present, and he desperately stopped and saved the Empress Dowager He, but he was too late to save the emperor and Liu Xie, the king of Chen Liu. Yuan Shao and the others may be unintentional or deliberate, anyway, they are busy doing their own things, arranging people and horses in the city, but no one cares about the emperor's whereabouts.
As a result, the opportunity was given to Dong Zhuo, he heard about the affairs in Luoyang City, and hurriedly led the elite to Pishan to meet the emperor and King Chen Liuwang and a large number of ministers, with Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses as the backing, the scholars present were finally no longer afraid of Zhang Rang and others, Zhang Rang and others were shocked by Dong Zhuo's prestige and knew that the general trend had gone, so they committed suicide and were killed, resulting in the eunuchs inside and outside the Great Cold Tide Palace almost slaughtered.
It's just that I don't know if Yuan Shao was negligent or didn't take Dong Zhuo in his eyes at all, the result was that Dong Zhuo directly entered Luoyang City with soldiers and horses after receiving the Yellow Emperor, and then drove away the local soldiers and horses in Luoyang, and completely controlled the inside and outside of the Luoyang court.
Wei Xuan stopped outside Luoyang for a while, and soon many lootings about Dong Zhuo leading troops into Beijing were also inquired about.
It turned out that Dong Zhuowang saw the smoke billowing over Luoyang that day, only to learn that a major change had occurred in the imperial court, so he hurriedly ordered to march, and the next day before dawn, Dong Zhuo arrived at Xianyang Yuan, and heard that Zhang Rang and others had abducted the emperor Liu Wei on Beimangshan, so he rushed to Beimangshan.
At the foot of Beimang Mountain, the frightened Liu Wei cried when he saw Dong Zhuojun galloping over. Dong Zhuo finally rescued the emperor in Beimang, and then returned to the palace.
On the way back to Luoyang, Dong Zhuo saw a mighty welcoming procession. Cui Lie saw that the emperor was safe, and proposed to let Dong Zhuo lead his troops to retreat immediately and avoid it.
Dong Zhuo sneered in his heart and pointed at Cui Lie and scolded: "I ran three hundred miles day and night, what are you saying to avoid now?" Believe it or not, I'll cut off your head! ”
Most of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were some literati, Dong Zhuo had a sideways face, and the murderous aura displayed on his body after a hundred battles was very terrifying, so naturally he didn't dare to continue to stop him. Then, Dong Zhuo retorted to the ministers: "As ministers of state, you ministers cannot correct the royal family, causing turmoil in the country and the Son of Heaven being exiled, how can you have a reason for me to withdraw from the army!" ” 。
The ministers were speechless, and then, Dong Zhuo entered the welcoming procession, first met Liu Wei, and then reached out to hug Liu Xie, the king of Chen Liu, from Min Gong's arms, Liu Xie refused, Dong Zhuo had to go with Min Gong and enter the city together. Dong Zhuo asked Liu Wei about the incident, the emperor was incoherent, but the younger Chen Liuwang could express it clearly, Dong Zhuo knew that Liu Xie was raised by the Empress Dowager Dong, called "Dong Hou", and Dong Zhuo thought that he was of the same clan as the Empress Dowager Dong, so he was happy and hoped that Liu Xie could become the emperor.
When he entered Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo still had to lead troops into the palace, and some ministers asked Dong Zhuo at the scene: "Why did you bring troops into Beijing without permission, and now that the holy driver has returned to the palace, why do you want to expel the officers and soldiers of the palace province, don't you want to rebel?" ”
It is said that Dong ??????????????? Zhuo sneered at the time: "The court is rolling and the princes have done nothing, and they have made the Son of Heaven outcast, but they want Zhuo to have a foreign minister to escort him, and you still have the face to say that I, Zhuo suspects that there are still eunuchs in the palace, and I have to do this for the safety of the Son of Heaven." ”
Wei Xuan also sighed after listening to the scout's report, and despite his careful preparations, he was still a step slower after all.
In desperation, Wei Xuan had to take Dian Wei, Xu Chu and more than 20 cavalry into the city to find Yuan Shao, and when he arrived at Yuan Shao's mansion, he knew that Yuan Shao was in Taifu's house at this moment.
So Wei Xuan rushed to Yuan Kui's mansion again, and waited for his subordinates to bring him into the conference hall, and found that it was not Yuan Kui but Yuan Shao who was sitting in the main seat, and there were more than a dozen people, most of whom Wei Xuan also knew, such as Cao Cao, He Hao, Xu You and others, seemed to be discussing. Come to think of it, now that the court is in chaos, Yuan Kui has too many things to deal with.
Without waiting for Wei Xuan to come forward to salute, Yuan Shao had already stood up from his seat and asked, "Zhongdao, why are you here?" ”
Wei Xuan was dumbfounded, and said in his heart that I was ordered by the general to lead troops into Beijing, and Dong Zhuo and others were ordered to stop marching, but no one informed me, where am I going if I don't come to Luoyang?
But he said: "Xuan was ordered to lead troops into Beijing, but most of Xuan's subordinates were infantry, so they came to eat." ”
Yuan Shao suddenly, when everyone remembered that no one had informed Wei Xuan, the general He Jin had already been killed by the eunuchs, and then the two sides were red-eyed, where could they take care of Wei Xuan.
At this time, Cao Cao nodded towards Wei Xuan and asked, "How many soldiers and horses did you bring to Beijing this time, and where are you stationed now?" ”
Wei Xuan replied: "Six hundred cavalry and three thousand infantry, camped outside the east gate of Luoyang. Xuan was ordered by the general to lead troops into Beijing, but when he was about to arrive in Luoyang, he heard bad news, and he didn't know whether to bring troops directly into the city, so he came to Si Li to ask for an idea. ”
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Cao Cao was overjoyed when he heard this, and turned to look at Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao was also very happy, he was happy because Wei Xuan did not make an assertion and respected him as a lieutenant.
Hearing that Wei Xuan had so many soldiers and horses, Cao Cao, who was originally going to sit down, blew up again and said to Yuan Shao: "At the beginning, Dong Zhuo was ambitious, and he completely controlled the palace province as soon as he entered Beijing, but now it happens that Zhongdao has brought troops to arrive, plus some of Yuncheng's men, I think it should be possible to expel Dong Zhuo." ”
Yuan Shao was a little hesitant when he heard this, he and Yuan Shu originally controlled the palace province after they led the troops into the palace that day, and they were very happy when they were mountain people, but after the killing, they were actually a little panicked in their hearts. This is obviously bullying the young Son of Heaven, the emperor who has grown up can tolerate such a thing, for his own sake, and for the sake of the Runan Yuan family, Yuan Shao has thought about being a powerful minister in his heart.
As a result, Dong Zhuo came with his troops and greeted the emperor before everyone, and they retreated under pressure.
In Yuan Shao's view, although Dong Zhuo is ambitious, but after all, he is just a martial artist, and now it is Yuan Kui who is recording Shangshu Shishi, and he can slowly win over Dong Zhuo, even if he can't win over, he can slowly get out, compared with the eunuch group, Dongzhuan has no foundation in Luoyang, if he starts a war directly, if he loses, he will lose everything, and the Yuan family will have no way out.
Cao Cao glanced at Bao Xin, and then at Wei Xuan, who was looking for a position,??????????????? I felt a little bad in my heart, obviously Yuan Shao hadn't realized Dong Zhuode's threat yet.
Sure enough, I heard Yuan Shao say: "Since Zhongdao has arrived, stay first, and the army will stay outside the city for the time being, and then I will go to see my uncle and ask him to come forward and ask Dong Zhuo to withdraw from Luoyang." ”
Seeing Yuan Shao fantasizing about reasoning with Dong Zhuo and letting him withdraw by himself, Wei Xuan also hurriedly stood up and persuaded him: "Si Li, no, the heart of the former general is well known to passers-by, the previous imperial court recruited him as a young man, he refused because his soldiers and horses were reluctant to him, and then worshiped him as the governor of the state and he had to lead the troops to take office, and finally even stayed in Hedong for a long time, just waiting for the situation in Beijing to change." Xuan heard that Qiao Dongjun and Wu Meng Duwei strictly abided by the general's edict to stay, only the former general drove straight into the suburbs of Luoyang, and the imperial court ordered him to lead his troops to Hanoi to crusade against the Southern Xiongnu Yufu Luo Department, but he turned a deaf ear. Then there will be troops to welcome the Son of Heaven. Originally, welcoming the Son of Heaven back to Beijing was also a credit, but did he actually expel all the troops guarded by the Beijing Division and replace them with his own people, what is he going to do, can't Si Li still see it? ”
Yuan Shao smiled bitterly: "Zhong Daozhi's worries, Shao and the others have also discussed it before, but Dong Zhuo's soldiers are strong and strong, and they have been on the battlefield for a long time, even if the soldiers and horses of the Jingshi are added to Zhongdao, I am afraid they are not his opponents." However, he has no foundation in Luoyang, and most of the soldiers and horses under his command are two-week people, so he will naturally retreat after a long time. ”
Wei Xuan asked eagerly: "How many soldiers and horses did the former general bring with him to Beijing this time?" ”
Yuan Shao shook his head, Wei Xuan looked at the others again, and the others also shook their heads. Wei Xuan was surprised, Dong Zhuo had led troops into Beijing for two or three days, and he directly drove Yuan Shao's brothers out of the palace.
After pondering for a while, Wei Xuan said again: "There are a total of four roads that were ordered to lead troops into the capital this time, except for the former general and Xuan, what happened to the other two?" ”
Bao Xin stood up and sighed and said: "Xin was ordered to go back to his hometown to recruit troops, recruiting more than 1,000 elite soldiers, I heard that the general had an accident, and he was in a hurry to go, so he only brought more than 100 cavalry, and is now stationed outside the east gate of Luoyang. Although the number of people is small, one can be ten! ”