Chapter 106 Lu Zhi rescues the queen mother
Because the palace gate was suddenly opened, the eunuchs who were trying to control the situation and He Jin's escort troops entered the extremely chaotic battle, and there was no room for buffering the plot.
Even Yuan Shao, who claimed to be temporarily in charge of He Jin's safety tonight, was driven to the shelves. After the first wave of bows and arrows, he yelled out his classic line in a hurry: "The eunuch murdered the minister, follow me to the palace and kill the evil party!"
Wu Kuang, who came with Yuan Shao, should have burned the Qingsou Gate in front of him at this time, but since Zhao Yun opened the door, Wu Kuang was in vain for a moment, so he followed Yuan Shao in and rushed in.
Cao Cao was relatively careful. Seeing that Li Su and Zhao Yun had just escaped from the inside, he just shouted and charged, but in fact he let others rush to Li Su first. He quickly ran to Li Su and helped him, and asked in a torture tone: "Why is Boya in the palace tonight? Did you see that when the general was summoned to the palace by Xuan? Is there any involvement with you?"
"Why did Meng De say this?" Li Su was quite sensible under the sword just now, but when he was quarreling and placing responsibility, his energy and energy came back, and he entered a state of flow, and even his fear was wiped out.
Li Su's thoughts were heard and immediately thought of the words to shirk all responsibilities: "I was summoned by the Queen Mother! When the Queen Mother heard that the General summoned foreign troops to the capital, she was afraid that she would be inconvenient, so she summoned me to comfort and instruct me, and there was nothing else to do! I didn't know that the General was summoned into the palace! It was still when he came back from the audience, he was blocked in the Qingsou Gate and was not allowed to be released. I realized that the General had also entered the palace!
Now I think about it... the Ten Generals murdered the General, mostly for the purpose of foreign soldiers. Then, when the Empress Dowager summoned me, someone must have eavesdropped on me. Seeing that the troops I led were handed over to Secretary Lu, the Empress Dowager would rather find Secretary Lu directly to Secretary Lu. The Ten Generals felt that he was not lucky. Before I left the palace, he forged an order to recruit the General in the name of the Empress Dowager, so that I would not have the opportunity to warn the General!"
This passage is quite long. Seeing the general guards next to him who had not yet rushed in staring at him, Li Su also spoke quickly, and sprayed the cause and effect in almost a second, so as not to go crazy and misunderstand.
If this is regarded as the bait of the Ten Eunuchs, it will be useless. You can't neglect it for a second when you are hanging out in the palace.
At this time, the other Hu Ben General Yuan Shu was also coming with the back team next to him.
Now the general's direct subordinate guards in the capital are theoretically owned by the General of the Five-Secret General, the Left/Right General and the Hu Ben General. However, the position of the Five-Secret General is vacant, so Wu Kuang, Zhang Zhang and Yuan Shu are divided into left and right positions, and Hu Ben is led. Yuan Shu is not on duty tonight, so it is too late.
He didn't know the cause and effect before, but he had always looked down on people born in poverty and humbleness than Yuan Shao, and had no good feelings for young people like Li Su who were promoted quickly. Seeing this, he interrupted Cao Li's conversation and asked directly: "Who can testify for your words? Before the General's death, you were still in the palace, but did not strive to rescue the General. Could it be that you want to say that the Ten Eternal Attendants can testify for you?"
Li Su was so angry that he was just angry that Cao Cao said it was reasonable and suspicious, but Cao Cao was suspicious by nature and might not be malicious. Yuan Shu was just making trouble.
But if you really need to be morally clean, Li Su can still be criticized if she does not "sacrifice herself to save others" in the palace.
He gritted his teeth and retorted: "I really didn't see the general! If I saw him, I would naturally sacrifice myself to save others! As for the situation mentioned during the summoning, the Queen Mother can prove it to me!"
Speaking of this, Li Su suddenly realized his thoughts: No matter how these guys you guys attack the palace, it’s all my fault. Everything in the past two days is passive! It’s not within the plan, and it’s a matter of force to defend yourself when you deal with the move!
Zhao Yun helped you kill the scattered gate guards and opened the gate with the strongest defense in Nangong. It is worthy of you!
Taking advantage of the mention of the Empress Dowager, Li Su cleverly changed his tone, blocking the possibility of Yuan Shu continuing to talk, and directly instructed Zhao Yun: "Zilong, go! Humph, there are two generals in charge of the Beijing army attacking here, and I, a foreign envoy who handed over the military power, will not get involved!
Let’s go to Lu Shangshu to find a way to save the empress dowager! Rescuing the empress dowager means saving yourself, and the empress dowager can testify for us!”
As soon as Li Su said this, he immediately ran Cao Cao and Yuan Shu. Is it important for the general to have the empress dowager? Li Su was summoned by the empress dowager and directly took loyalty to the empress dowager as the highest priority. You He Jin's gangsters argued with each other and we would not participate!
Yuan Shu also wanted to stop him and ask questions, but Cao Cao stopped him: "The road should not be rash! Boya's words are clearly distinguished. If we stop him, we will be in a disadvantage!"
Li Su finally took Zhao Yunran away from this place of right and wrong, and immediately rode his horse to find Lu Zhi.
However, after Li Su left, the combat situation in Nangong was still unfast. The palace city in Luoyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty was very large. Even if the largest south gate was opened, Yuan Shao and Wu Kuang rushed into the surrounding area of Chongde Hall, which was the first to enter, and engaged in close combat with the eunuchs, killing more than a hundred people.
But after Chongde Hall there are Zhongde Hall, Jiade Hall, Xuande Hall, Jiande Hall, Zhangde Hall, Wende Hall - this is just a series of main halls located on the central axis of the Nangong Palace. Every time you enter the main hall, there are several times the left and right side halls on both sides of the main hall, such as the Mingguang Xuan Room, Golden Horse, bronze Horse, and Zhang Xian Qingqing Shou'an Phoenix Yellow Dragon...
The location of the crime scene where He Jin was killed just now was the third Jiade Hall. The emperor usually went to the inner court in the fifth Zhangde Hall. Li Su had just met Empress Dowager He, and he was already a bedroom next to Wende Hall, which was closest to the harem. It was the sixth floor of the Nangong.
When Li Su came back from the south of Jiade Hall, he originally deceived the goalkeepers to open two inner doors by bluffing the gatekeepers, but when Yuan Shao attacked, each inner door still had to make a lot of life and attack, but the difficulty was much lower than that of the Qingsou Gate at the outermost point.
So much so that Yuan Shao led his troops to midnight. Two hours passed, and he was at the scene where He Jin was killed. There were three Nangongs behind him.
To fight to where Queen Mother He lives in Wende Hall, at this rate, it will take at least three or four hours, and it will definitely be dawn the next day.
So much so that because the frontal forces were unable to be used, only Yuan Shao and Wu Kuang fought against the frontal forces.
Yuan Shu had always been in a quarrel with his gangster and was too lazy to see Yuan Shao's bad face. Yuan Shu used the excuse of Yuan Shao's incompetence to attack the sect, and took his own troops from the General Tiger and Ben to try to detour and break the palace wall. Wu Kuang was afraid that Yuan Shu would take the lead by taking the lead, so he had to set fire to the palace gate between the Jiade Hall and Xuande Hall. It was estimated that the two people in the next two had to set fire to the fire one by one.
The butterfly effect of Li Su and Zhao Yun ultimately failed to prevent local fire from being set on the palace. It was nothing more than the scale of the fire being smaller than before, and the attack speed was accelerated by one day.
But even if Yuan Shao captured the entire Nangong overnight, the Ten Eunuchs could still carry the Empress Dowager and the Young Emperor through the overpass between the North and South Palaces and retreat to the Deyang Palace in the North Palace.
Although the size of the Beigong is not as large as the Nangong, in addition to the main hall, Deyang Hall, there are still many leisure halls in the harem, such as He Welcome Spring, Yongning Yong'an, Jingfu White Tiger...
In history, the Battle of Beigong had to be fought for another day. The entire palace offensive and defensive battle lasted for three or two days. With Li Su Wuji, it was shortened to one or two nights, or even faster one day or one night.
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When Li Su followed Zhao Yun and ran to Lu Zhi's mansion panting, he had already seen some fire and smoke pillars in the palace behind him. He knew that Yuan Shu and Wu Kuang were incompetent in the battle.
But now there is no time to care about them. For his own benefit, the most important thing is to ensure that even if he is disturbed by the butterfly effect, Empress Dowager He still needs to ensure that he is saved! Even Empress Dowager He has a higher priority than the young emperor.
The little emperor didn't know what Li Suzhao did tonight, but only Empress Dowager He could testify for him. The interests of the Han Dynasty were as important as Li Su's own reputation and innocence.
If you don’t punish yourself, heaven and earth will be destroyed! In critical moments, you can only give yourself the priority!
Fortunately, in history, Lu Zhi rescued Empress Dowager He while the Ten Generals tried to rob Empress Dowager He through the overpass to the Beigong - this incident was so famous that even "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was written.
According to the Romance, Empress Dowager He should have seen Lu Zhi scolded the Ten Eunuchs below, and then broke free from the eunuch's control when passing through the overpass and jumped into the window to escape. Lu Zhi caught the Empress Dowager below, so that the Empress Dowager did not fall to death, so she was not kidnapped with the emperor.
Li Su felt that Lu Zhi must know how to go to the wall between the North and South Palaces and be familiar with the location of the overpass connecting the two palaces, otherwise he would not be able to do this at all.
Therefore, after the two met, Li Su reminded directly: "Mr. Lu! It's urgent! The general was murdered by the Ten Generals. Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and Wu Kuang attacked Nangong very anxiously. I am afraid that when the Ten Generals could not bear it, they would take the emperor and empress to the Beigong. Can Mr. Lu know the geographical situation in the palace, and there is a way to intercept the hostages taken by the Ten Generals at the Tianqiao Bridge of the North and South Palaces?"
When Lu Zhi saw Li Su, he was also startled by his bloody face: "Is the nephew who is so bloody? Leave it to me later. Nephew goes down to heal his wounds quickly!"
Li Suyi gritted his teeth: "Don't worry about me, it doesn't matter if my minor injury is a big deal. Shangshu Lu quickly leads troops to rescue the enemy to prevent them from escaping! By the way, it's best to bring some soft things like quilts and other soft things, and if you save the person, you need to use it!"
Li Suke didn't dare to bet that the empress dowager jumped off the building and was caught by Lu Zhi this time. This kind of thing is too accidental. What if Empress Dowager He fell into a meat pie and died, it would be like a firefighter to save people. It would be better to grab some soft things to cushion at that time.
Lu Zhi thought it was right, but now it was midnight. Li Su temporarily commanded the 500 cavalrymen to sleep, and there was no rated military camp in the city. These foreign soldiers lived in several places.
In addition, Lu Zhi was about to prepare for the bed, so he ordered Li Su to clean and rest first, and set off after two hours.
In Lu Zhi's words, "Yuan Shao can't attack near Wende Hall so quickly. It's not that I look down on him as fast as a person who has never led his troops. It would be great to be able to reach Wende Hall at dawn.
Our troops cannot always guard the walls of the north and south palaces. Otherwise, the personal soldiers of the Ten General Assistant were on the overpass and on the two sides. When Wei Que saw it, he did not dare to walk the overpass to retreat, or to take His Majesty and the Queen Mother more closely, which would have ruined the matter."
When Li Su heard this, it made a lot of sense. Lu Zhi is worthy of being a famous general who has been in charge of many years. His tactics on the front line are very stable and his arrangements are well organized.
Li Su followed his arrangements, washed away the blood, rested for a while, and waited for everything to take advantage of the last darkness before dawn, quietly rushed to the entrances of the two ends of the wall between the North and South Palaces under Lu Zhi's guidance.
Not everyone can enter the wall, and there are doors on both sides. But since Lu Zhi spent two hours preparing, he brought the equipment to hit the door and the stairs to climb the wall when he came, so he cleanly killed all the guards guarding the small doors at both ends of the wall within a few minutes and controlled the corridor inside the wall.
"There is no sound of killing in Wende Palace. Yuan Shao's trash should be in the fourth or fifth place. We waited for two hours before coming out, but they didn't reach the last entry in Nangong." Lu Zhijing heard it for a while and couldn't help laughing.
Chapter completed!