Chapter 15 Rebelling against the edict, Cao Mengde fled east with the edict
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There was a hurried sound of horses' hooves, but it was Cheng Yanjin who hurriedly came to see Yuan Ke with two thousand soldiers and horses.
"Lord, there is a mission!"
He had just been resting, so he was in a bit of a hurry.
"Don't talk nonsense, immediately lead people to block the city gate, and search for Cao Cao, the commander of the cavalry."
Yuan Ke said sharply.
He was quite angry at this time, and it was mentioned in the "Eight Hundred Miles Urgent Document" that the Son of Heaven sent someone to hand over the secret edict to Cao Cao tonight, and asked Cao Cao to call on all the princes to crusade against him.
"No!"
Cheng Yanjin immediately let people give orders.
It was too late.
At the east city gate, Cao Cao saw Xiao Guizi, and after taking the edict from the other party, he immediately rode over.
He understood that as long as Yuan Ke reacted, he would never recover.
"Open the city gate quickly, Captain Bendu is on the order of Da Sima to go to Luoyang on business."
After that, he took the forged warrant from his bosom and threw it to the armor who was defending the city.
The armorer opened the warrant and found that it was printed with the seal of the captain, and began to hesitate.
"Why is this seal of yours a lieutenant?"
The armorer in charge of the guard asked.
"Da Sima has just taken office, and he doesn't have his own seal, so I use the seal of the Tai Lieutenant, so I can open the city gate quickly, and don't delay Da Sima's task, otherwise, you will look good."
Cao Cao shouted.
"Okay, my lord, calm your anger, and we'll open the gates at once."
After that, the armor soldiers of the East City Gate let them go.
When Cheng Biting Jin came with his troops, he found that Cao Cao had already left the city.
"Damn it!"
Next, he immediately sent people out of the city to arrest Cao Cao in three directions, and at the same time, he personally came to find Yuan Ke to restore his life.
"Enter the palace!"
Yuan Ke heard that Cao Cao had run away.
I'm in a bad mood.
He couldn't catch Cao Cao, but he wouldn't let go of the other participants, for example, the Son of Heaven served Xiao Guizi.
In the evening, after Xiao Guizi returned to the palace, he found a reason to return to the palace on leave, and the guards didn't think much about it, which was quite dereliction of duty.
"Your Majesty, things are all right."
"That secret edict was handed over to Cao Cao."
"He should have left Chang'an."
Xiao Guizi replied to Liu Xie.
"Okay, it's all up to you."
Liu Xie said.
"Your Majesty, if Yuan Ke discovers the truth, how will we deal with ourselves? After all, that edict is stamped with the seal of your Son of Heaven. ”
Xiao Guizi asked.
"Don't be afraid, even if you find out that it was me who did it, then Yuan Ke doesn't dare to do anything to me for the time being? He is fledgling, and he has not yet reached the point of killing the emperor and standing on his own, at most he will beat and reprimand me. ”
"For the sake of the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, I can endure these hardships."
Liu Xie gritted his teeth and said.
"Your Majesty is wise!"
As soon as the words of the two came to this, Yuan Ke came in with his troops.
Many armor soldiers smashed the door of their palace open, and after that, they rushed in, and the leader was the newly sealed [Great Sima] Yuan Ke, and behind him, Lan Yu also came.
"Your Majesty, what a means of secretly Chen Cang, the ministers are ashamed of themselves."
"It's just that Cao Cao left with the secret edict, what should you do?"
"Who's going to save you?"
Yuan Ke sneered.
"Yuan Aiqing, I don't understand what you mean by this? I'm resting tonight. ”
Liu Xie began to pretend to be confused and pretend to be garlic.
"Really? Lan Yu, who left the palace tonight? ”
Yuan Ke asked.
At this time, Lan Yu understood that tonight because of his carelessness, he had missed a big event, and he was terrified.
As soon as he heard Yuan Ke's words, he immediately replied tremblingly: "Yes, it is the close attendant next to the Son of Heaven, and he has taken leave of absence from the palace." Just came back again. ”
He threw himself to his knees.
"Lord, tonight is my dereliction of duty, kill me."
He took the initiative to admit his mistake.
"Come on, drag Xiao Guizi and all the palace maids and eunuchs around Your Majesty down and kill them all. In the future, there will be no more maids and eunuchs in Changle Palace, and you can give Your Majesty some food on time. ”
"Understood?"
Yuan Ke will not kill the Son of Heaven for the time being.
[Coercing the Son of Heaven to Order the Princes]
Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven, is a trump card and useful.
However, if you don't kill him, it doesn't mean that there is no way to clean up Liu Xie, a yellow-haired boy.
What a son of heaven is just an ordinary person dressed in the emperor's coat, once the imperial power can't protect him, he is not even a fart, he can only be a mermaid.
"No!"
After that, Cheng Biting Jin led the armor to kill all the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace.
The heads of hundreds of people fell to the ground, staining the palace with blood, and as a result, Liu Xie had no eyes and ears in the palace.
"Anyone who is an enemy of my Yuan Ke will only die."
Yuan Ke looked at Liu Xie with pity.
What bullshit Son of Heaven is nothing in his eyes, and after that, he instructed Lan Yu: "Go and vacate the Imperial Library, from now on, this great Sima will assist the Son of Heaven in the Imperial Study to deal with political affairs." ”
"No!"
When Lan Yu heard this, he immediately went to do something.
Since ancient times, all power struggles have been accompanied by sacrifice and killing.
"Yuan Ke, you, what are you going to do? Overnight at the court? You, you are so perverse, rebellious, are you not afraid that everyone in the world will turn against you? ”
Liu Xie said loudly.
"Your Majesty, you have issued all the edicts against me, do you think I Yuan Ke still need to be afraid of anything now? I will defeat all the princes and make you completely despair. ”
"The Han family is exhausted."
Yuan Ke was unmoved.
He wants to teach Liu Xie a lesson.
After that, he put Liu Xie under house arrest in the palace and did not allow him to enter and leave freely.
As for him, he came to the imperial study.
"Go and call Jia Xu, Li Ru, Liu Wenjing, and the eldest grandson Wuji."
The edict of rebellion handed over to Cao Cao by the Son of Heaven is very important, and he must plan in advance to see how to break the situation.
At this time, he had an illusion that after he killed Dong Zhuo, it seemed that the plot that was originally attributed to Dong Zhuo befell him.
It is recorded in the history books that Dong Zhuo was in turmoil, and after Cao Cao failed to sacrifice a knife to kill Dong, he returned to his hometown and raised troops, openly announced a crusade against Dong Zhuo, conspired with Sheji, and Yuan Shao, the Taishou of Bohai, was the first to stand up and respond, and after that, there were Gongsun Zhan, Sun Jian, Wang Kuang, Qiao Mao and other sixteen princes of the Sixteen Roads would ally in [Sour Jujube], and everyone elected Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance to crusade against Dong Zhuo and rejuvenate the Han Dynasty.
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Sitting on the dragon chair representing the imperial power, Yuan Ke's face sank like water, but he was not flustered, he was not afraid of anyone.
He has peerless force, and he has elite soldiers and strong generals, and he is not afraid of the crusade of the Kwantung princes.
It's just that he has one thing to consider, that is, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, one of them is his uncle and the other is his father, and he doesn't know how they will choose?
Fighting in the same room is something he doesn't want to see, but if Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu crusade against him for their own interests, then he won't be polite to them.
Half an hour later, the eldest grandson Wuji and others came.
On the road, they had just heard the news that the Son of Heaven had secretly sent someone to send the edict of the crusade to Cao Cao and that Cao Cao had fled Chang'an, and they also understood the seriousness of the problem.
"Meet Da Sima!"
"It's all here."
"Let's find a chair to sit in."
Yuan Ke said.
"No!"
The eldest grandson Wuji heard the words and sat down separately.
"You have heard about it, Cao Cao left Chang'an with the edict of the Son of Heaven, this general understands, soon all the princes of the world will come to crusade against us, for this reason, this general must start first, you don't know if there is a good plan to resist the enemy?"
Yuan Ke asked.
"Da Sima, for the sake of today's plan, can only take the initiative to attack, take Luoyang first, and then hold the Tiger Pass and block the westward advance of the princes' armies."
"The Tiger Prison Pass is a dangerous place, easy to defend and difficult to attack, tens of thousands of soldiers, with a fierce general, you can trap all the princes outside the Tiger Prison Pass, not an inch, to drag on for a year and a half, the princes' army food and grass are exhausted, you can easily break it."
The eldest grandson Wuji arched his hand and said.
"Good!"
"It's a brilliant plan, and it coincides with my thoughts."
"Chen Qingzhi and the eldest grandson Wuji led an army of 50,000 troops, stationed in the Tiger Pass, remember, hold on to it, take defense as the top, and Yu Qian and Li Ru led an army of 30,000 to be responsible for sitting in Luoyang, one to appease the people of Luoyang, the second to rebuild Luoyang, and the third, to respond to the Tiger Pass at any time."
Yuan Ke said softly.
"No!"
The eldest grandson Wuji and Li Ru arched their hands and said.
"Lan Yu, Liu Wenjing, led an army of 30,000 and stationed troops in Suzhou to prevent Ma Teng and Qiang Rong from making chaos in Liangzhou."
"As for General Ben, he will personally go to Merge State."
Yuan Ke, as a person who came over, understood that Han Sui and Xiliang Taishou Ma Teng were not fuel-efficient lamps, and the two of them had not become brothers with different surnames at this time, nor did they start an army.
It's just that he is ready to strike first, such as the strong Qin to sweep away the Six Kingdoms, the land of the Three Qins, must be stable, for this reason, before dealing with the princes of the Kwantung region, he must lead the army to solve the hidden dangers in the rear first.
"And the state of Han Sui?"