Chapter 148: Burning Luoyang
When Lu Bu fled back to Luoyang, it was already the second half of the night.
The plan was to retreat secretly, and in the end it became a flight, which was an unexpected result for Lu Bu.
After arriving in Luoyang, he first told Dong Zhuo all about the situation in the Tiger Prison.
"What did you say?"
"The Tiger Prison is gone?"
Dong Zhuo asked in disbelief.
It's still there during the day, it's gone at night!
He was going to withdraw from Luoyang after dawn, but now that the Tiger Prison Pass was lost, their plans were completely disrupted, and he hurriedly asked: "Wen You, what should I do?" ”
Li Ru was also a little anxious, and thought for a while and said: "Go to Chang'an as soon as possible, General Niu entered the palace to hold the emperor hostage, General Dong led the troops to gather the Manchu ministers, take them away together, and take them away, General Duan protected Xiangguo, and went out of the city to Chang'an first, Li Meng, Yang Ding and Wang Fang, the three generals, plundered property and food in the city as much as possible, and waited until the emperor and the Manchu ministers went out of the city, and General Zhang Ji was responsible for burning the Luoyang Palace. ”
The eyes of Niu Fu and the others fell on Dong Zhuo.
"Don't do it yet!"
Dong Zhuo said anxiously.
"Yes!"
Niu Fu and several other generals responded in unison.
All the soldiers and horses were basically collected by them near Luoyang, and now they decided to abandon Luoyang and leave, they simply led their troops into the city and carried them out according to Li Ru's plan.
Dong Zhuo hurriedly went back, asked people to pack up their things, and said, "Fengxian, you must protect me from leaving." ”
Lu Bu patted his heart and promised: "I, Lu Bu, am killed in battle, and I must protect my father-in-law to Guanzhong." ”
"Good!"
Dong Zhuo said loudly.
After a while, Dong Zhuo, under the protection of Lu Bu and Duan Xuan, took his family and first walked out of the Luoyang City Gate and went back to the west overnight.
Liu Xie in the palace, as well as various families and ministers, were directly awakened by the Xiliang soldiers.
Dong Yue didn't take into account their feelings, and directly led his troops to break through the door and drive them out of the city to gather.
Cai Yong's family is also among them.
Fortunately, the scene is chaotic now, there are many people, Fang Rui and them, as well as the mother and son, have not been discovered.
"Father, what should I do?" Cai Yan was worried.
Cai Yong said: "If something really happens, I will let Fang Zhuang and them protect Your Majesty, the Queen Mother and you to leave." ”
Cai Jing listened to it and sobbed: "I don't want to leave my father!" ”
Fang Rui walked over and reassured: "These are all in Yang Zhonglang's plan, please rest assured, there will be nothing for the time being." ”
Yang Zhao had already told Fang Rui in advance about his plans after leaving Luoyang, as well as what might happen, and in the face of this situation, Fang Rui was very surprised, and let Yang Zhonglang guess correctly.
Hearing Fang Rui's words, Empress He's mother and son breathed a sigh of relief.
In the plan, it means that it is safe now.
Yang Zhonglang will definitely come back and take them away.
"I've seen sir!"
At this time, Wei Ning brought a few guards from the Wei family over, and said with concern: "It's okay for you to be fine, from now on, I will protect you, in addition, I have a good relationship with General Dong, I have already told him, I will not embarrass you." ”
Cai Yong didn't like his kindness, nodded slightly, and said, "It's troublesome." ”
"Sister, look, there's a fire in the palace."
Cai Jing suddenly pointed into the city.
The people who saw this scene, not only Cai Jing, but the others looked up at the same time, only to see the flames soaring into the sky, quickly spreading in the city, reflecting half of the dark sky.
"Those thieves, hateful!" Cai Yong was heartbroken.
The mother and son had a sour nose and sighed helplessly.
"Let's go!"
A lieutenant with thousands of soldiers came to drive them away, lit torches and drove west overnight.
Those people in the family are all pampered, how did they endure this kind of hardship?
They still wanted to resist and didn't want to leave, but when they saw that Xiliangbing's weapons had been unsheathed, they were all stunned, so they could only obey the arrangement and had to go.
At this point, it's almost dawn.
All the assembled people had been driven away by Dong Yue's troops, and gradually moved away from Luoyang, and after a while, a group of soldiers and horses hurried from the direction of Tiger Pass.
It was Yuan Shao and them.
When the coalition forces arrived in Luoyang, Dong Zhuo and the others were all gone.
"Alliance leader, Luoyang is on fire!" The scout, who had gone to explore the way, ran back at this time and said.
Yuan Shao could see that the sky above Luoyang was reflected red by the firelight.
The scout said again: "The traitor Dong Zhuo has taken His Majesty hostage and fled to Chang'an. ”
Hearing this, Sun Jian thought for a while, and first said, "Come into the palace to put out the fire!" ”
Then he was the first to rush out, led his subordinates, and immediately broke into Luoyang, but the emperor was held hostage and left, and it no longer matters whether he saves the fire or not, the important thing is to hunt down Dong Zhuo.
"Hurry up and put out the fire!"
The other princes reacted instantly.
What they want to do now is also to enter Luoyang, not to chase Dong Zhuo, the purpose is to break Luoyang, and now that they have reached it, it doesn't matter whether they chase Dong Zhuo or not.
After the coalition forces rushed into Luoyang, Luoyang, which was originally extremely chaotic, was even more chaotic at the moment, but the only person who really put out the fire was Sun Jian, who was the first to rush in.
The fire in the palace, which spread to the outside, burned down the houses of many residents.
Sun Jian asked people to put out the fire, and on the other hand, he opened up a fire road to the palace, and came to the courtyard in the south of the Jianzhang Palace to save the fire in the palace.
"My lord, there's something in the well."
Cheng Pu asked people to go to the well next to him to fetch water, but found that there were five-colored millilights in the well.
Sun Jian took a closer look and ordered, "Go down and salvage quickly." ”
Huang Gai said: "I'll go down!" ”
After a while.
He dragged the corpse of a palace woman up, and on the hands of the corpse, there was also a jade seal.
Sun Jian picked it up and looked at it for a while, only to see eight seal characters carved at the bottom - ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity.
"This heirloom jade seal is also!" Han Dang was surprised.
Cheng Pu said: "At the beginning, the eunuchs made a rebellion, hijacked the two highnesses out of the palace, and the jade seal of the country was lost in the chaos, and it was actually in this well, and now the jade seal of the country takes the initiative to let the lord get it, and there must be a difference between nine and five, and the subordinates think that they should not stay here for a long time, and they should leave quickly, and plan another big thing!" ”
From the eunuch rebellion to the present, so much time has passed.
The corpse didn't even decay and didn't stink?
They were all surprised, thinking that it must be the heirloom jade seal, and they chose Sun Jian, deliberately letting the body remain until now.
Sun Jian clenched the jade seal of the country, a trace of color flashed in his eyes, and said: "I have this intention, after dawn, I will say goodbye and let's go." ”
With that, he put away the jade seal.
But as soon as the jade seal was put away, there was a sound of footsteps outside.
Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers arrived at the same time.
"I heard that Wentai has found something in the well, can you let me see it?" Yuan Shu said first.
"A corpse."
Sun Jian pointed to the ground and said, "If you want it, just take it." ”
Yuan Shu said coldly: "Who asked you to ask for a corpse?" What about the jade seal? Hand it over! ”
He said this very directly.
Sun Jian's face sank when he heard this, and he didn't know if he was seen by them, overheard, or guessed by them.
How could he hand over the jade seal in his hand?
Sun resolutely refused to admit it.
Even if he fights to the death, he will take the heirloom jade seal to kill.