July 4, 252 AD.
After learning that a coup had taken place in Luoyang, General Sima Zhao, who hurried back with an army of 100,000, was blocked as soon as he arrived at the east bank of Sishui River.
My father and brother were killed, and my relatives were placed under house arrest.
Sima Zhao could bear this tone. He originally wanted to lead his soldiers into Luoyang, capture the young emperor Cao Fang, and then cut him into pieces.
But——
He seems to have underestimated Cao Fang.
Cao Fang is 20 years old this year, but he has been the emperor for five years and is no longer the submissive King of Qi he used to be.
After all, he has experienced too much in these years.
When he was only three years old, he bid farewell to his biological parents and became the adopted son of Emperor Cao Rui of the Wei Dynasty. Later, he was granted the title of King of Qi and became the heir to the throne of the Wei Dynasty.
However, in 238 AD, when Cao Fang was only six years old, her adoptive father Cao Rui was captured during a military expedition and became a prisoner of the Han army. Then there was a dispute over the successor in the court.
At that time, he was still young, and at the age of six, he could do nothing and could only let it go. Later, with the support of Situ Weizhen, King Cao Yu of Yan ascended the throne and became the third monarch of the Wei Dynasty.
I thought that the crown prince must have no fate with him, so it would be a good thing to be his own little prince. However, he thought that only half a year later, his adoptive father came back. With the support of Sima Yi, he removed King Yan from the throne. Pushed down.
Adoptive father Cao Rui returned to the throne of Wei, and Cao Fang returned to his former position and continued to be the first choice for the crown prince of Wei.
Five years ago, her adoptive father passed away, and fifteen-year-old Cao Fang inherited the throne.
The young emperor was faced with internal and external troubles. He was surrounded by Han and Wu from the outside, and there were many factions and clans inside. Although Cao Fang was the emperor, he could not do anything to the Wei dynasty. Instead, he assisted the general Cao Shuang and marginalized him. Lost Sima and his son.
Cao Shuang belongs to the clan, and Cao Fang originally wanted to rely on the clan's assistance. As an emperor, it was easy for him to do so. As for the major affairs of the government, it was left to Cao Shuang and the others.
However, less than five years later, Sima Yi launched a coup, and Cao Shuang and other members of the clan were killed. Now Cao Fang feels that she has become a real loner.
What's more, Sima Yi didn't care about him as the emperor at all.
Perhaps because he had been suppressed for too long, Cao Fang actually fought back this time, and directly hit the vital point, killing the scheming Sima Yi and his eldest son, the one-armed censor Sima Shi.
Sima Zhao led his army back for revenge. On the way back, he already knew the entire story of the coup.
Half a month ago, on the eve of his capture of Hefei, news suddenly came from the Luoyang Palace that Emperor Cao Fang had suffered a serious illness and fell into a coma.
As the prime minister of the dynasty, Sima Yi learned after confirmation that the emperor was really seriously ill, so he hurried to the palace with his eldest son, the imperial censor Sima Shi, overnight.
Sima Yi never dreamed that he would be plotted against by a twenty-year-old kid this time.
In the emperor's palace, Sima Yi looked at the pale and sleepy emperor, so he came to the couch and wanted to visit Cao Fang, but just when he was sitting in front of the couch, looking at Cao Fang as if he was dead.
Suddenly a dagger stabbed out quickly and directly into Sima Yi's heart. Sima Yi was dumbfounded. It turned out that Cao Fang was pretending to be sick. As for his pale face, it was because he soaked in cold water for several hours the night before to make himself sick.
It looks like this.
It was also for this reason that when the imperial doctor was in politics, he only felt that the emperor was hot all over, and his body temperature was as high as that of others. Then Cao Fang pretended to be comatose, thus frightening the imperial doctors who were diagnosing the disease.
And he was waiting for an opportunity, waiting for Sima Yi to enter the palace. According to his understanding of Sima Yi over the years, Sima Yi knew that he was seriously ill and would definitely enter the palace to confirm.
This is an excellent opportunity.
Although Sima Yi was resourceful, he was already seventy-three years old at this time. Cao Fang believed that he could still kill him when he was unprepared.
Sima Yi was suddenly assassinated by Cao Fang. Sima Shi, the imperial censor who followed him, never imagined that this would happen. But during his panic, the servants who had been ambushing the emperor's palace suddenly came out from all around.
, they couldn't help but waved their swords and looked at Master Sima.
Because the thing happened so suddenly, could Sima Shi have thought that Cao Fang was pretending to be sick and wanted to kill them and his son?
In just a few breaths, Master Sima was hacked to death by the servants.
Moreover, they killed Sima Yi and his son in front of more than ten court ministers.
Everyone was shocked.
Cao Fang, who had Sima Yi and his son executed, ignored the physical weakness caused by soaking in cold water and immediately announced to the officials present that Sima Yi and his son had deceived the emperor, used power and ruined the country, and had been executed. The rest of the people, if they did not want to die, had to obey the emperor.
instructions.
The emperor, who had always been weak and generous, suddenly became so decisive in killing. No one of the ministers present dared to seek death at this time. Besides, there were dozens of servants in the palace holding sharp swords, and soon the ministers all sided with the emperor.
Then Cao Fang used officials who were reused by Cao Shuang during the Cao Shuang period and were demoted after Sima Yi came to power. In just two days, the whole of Luoyang changed.
Xia Houxuan, the Taichang Qing, was originally the general who conquered the west. After the Gaoping Ling Incident, Sima Yi seized the military power and was appointed Taichang Qing. After Cao Fang killed Sima Yi and his son, he appointed him as the general.
Shangshu servant Li Feng tried to please Cao Shuang and Sima Yi before Gaopingling. As a result, neither party trusted him. At this moment, Cao Fang directly granted him the title of Zhongshu Ling.
Shangshu Chen Tai was an upright man and the son of Sikong Chen Qun. Cao Fang urgently needed to stabilize the government after launching the coup, so he directly named him prime minister.
Many of the remaining officials who were originally loyal to Sima Yi soon turned to Cao Fang. After all, Cao Fang was the emperor, and Sima Yi and his son were killed. It was meaningless for them to continue to be loyal.
As the saying goes, when a tree falls, the monkey will scatter.
When Sima Zhao learned all this, he was furious and grief-stricken. Looking at the Wei army on the west bank of the Sishui River, he had an indescribable feeling.
A month ago, these soldiers and horses regarded him as a general, but now, they have become enemies. They came to the west bank of Sishui River to block his march to Luoyang.
"General!"
A small colonel whispered: "The scouting horse has reported that Cao Kai, the king of Jinan, has led 30,000 Qingzhou troops to Jingxian County. Zhuge Dan, the governor of Yangzhou, has led 20,000 troops and has passed Chenliu. General Guanqiu Jian of Zhennan has led 30,000 cavalry.
Yanshi is coming to kill..."
Listening to the report from the primary school, Sima Zhao turned pale.
Cao Fang is going to kill them all... Sima Zhao secretly muttered, and then said to the small school: "Send the order to the whole army, be careful and be vigilant, and cross the river tomorrow!"
"No!"
After accepting the promise, the principal left the military account, leaving Sima Zhao alone in a daze.
A hundred thousand troops faced off against the entire Wei army, and Sima Zhao became less and less convinced that he had any chance of winning, but he had to attack Luoyang.
Because among the hundreds of relatives of the Sima family, he is the only one outside Luoyang City at the moment. If he does not rescue them, these relatives will soon be killed by Cao Fang.
After all, if he were Cao Fang, he would do the same thing.
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This chapter has been completed!