With this thought in mind, I arrived at the backyard. The sky was getting darker now, and the wind was blowing the bamboo leaves. However, I saw that this place was quite quiet. I walked in along the corridor and saw several small buildings. The garden was overflowing with musk orchids. I climbed up the stairs.
Diao Chan was a little emotional at first, but she calmed down at this moment, and smiled and said to the people who greeted her: "I want to meet the next two empresses."
"The two ladies are waiting in the hall," the maid said respectfully.
Diao Chan followed and saw two women sitting leaning against each other in the small hall, surrounded by several maids waiting on them. The treatment was not bad.
"The folk girl Diao Chan has met the two empresses."
After a simple greeting and sitting down, Diao Chan looked at the two women in front of him quietly, his eyes shining with strange light.
The two queens are actually only about 20 years old, and their appearance is beautiful. This is nothing on earth. In terms of pure beauty, how many mortal women can compare to the dragon girl incarnation?
What is rare is that both of them have nobility. Not all women with power can do it. They have to combine their knowledge, temperament, and physique, which means they are rich in qualifications.
In the human world, she is a virtuous wife in a comfortable home, and in the immortal world, she is the seed of a loving heart.
At a glance, Tang Ji had a faint shadow. This shadow had the head of a chicken, the jaw of a swallow, the neck of a snake, the back of a turtle, and the tail of a fish, and was filled with red and yellow aura.
"It's a pity that Tang Ji was originally the queen of the young emperor. The young emperor was demoted to King Hongnong and was killed. After only guarding the mausoleum for a few months, Fengge had already declined to golden red. If it was still there, it would disappear. This was the disqualification of the young emperor. If it weren't for the Han Dynasty
I still have a name, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to maintain it at all.”
Looking at Fu Shou again, Diao Chan shook her head secretly: "This is just a red young phoenix, it looks like a golden pheasant."
The golden pheasant has all kinds of colors, is gorgeous and noble, and has two long feathers on its tail. It is considered noble, but compared with the queen's status, it looks even more abject.
Fu Shou was the concubine of Princess Yang'an and the cousin of Emperor Xian. Because she was a noble person when she entered Yeting, she was supposed to be the queen two years later. Unfortunately, on the day she entered the palace, Emperor Xian fell to his death.
As a queen who was hurriedly crowned, she could not even condense the phoenix, she was just a red phoenix.
Looking at the fourth level of consciousness from Diao Chan's "Mystery of the Moon", the two women are far inferior to the Queen Mother, two levels behind, but they are more talented than ordinary women. It is the best of a female sorcerer to remove the fetters.
Seedlings, and what’s more important than their qualifications is... they have good temperaments.
Historically, King Hongnong composed his own tragic song before his death, and Tang Ji danced with him and sang the tragic song. Before drinking poisonous wine, he said to his wife, "Your Majesty is your concubine. She is no longer the wife of officials and people. Fortunately, she loves herself." Tang Ji agreed and returned to her hometown.
, her father, Tang Mao, the prefect of Kuaiji, wanted to remarry her, but Tang Ji refused under her oath.
When Dong Zhuo's remnant general Li Ji attacked and killed Wang Yun, he captured Guandong and got Tang Ji. When he saw her, she was shocked and wanted to marry her, but Tang Ji would rather die than obey, which made the marriage impossible. It was not until later that Shangshu Jia Xu heard about it.
After telling Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, it was announced that Tang Ji would enter the palace with Hanjie (certificate that she was a female official), and then he would be honored in court as Princess Hongnong.
Fu Shou followed Emperor Xian on foot during his several escapes and never left her. Once, because several bolts of fine silk (common currency) she was holding were wanted by the rebels, they beheaded the attendants and threatened the queen with blood spattering on her body.
She refused to let go, because Emperor Xian was so poor that the clothes he wore were rotten, and he even relied on dates and chestnuts as food. This was the little wealth she could keep for her family.
When Emperor Xian's plot to kill Cao Cao failed, she was pushed out as a scapegoat by both the imperial party and Cao Cao's group. When she walked barefoot to her husband again and cried and asked, "Can't you save me?", Emperor Xian sadly said, "I am.
I don’t know when my life will end.” He watched helplessly as his wife was killed.
Tang Ji and Fu Shou didn't know they were being looked at carefully. They only looked at the veiled girl secretly. They noticed the red phoenix-winged snake pattern on the girl's forehead. They were curious but did not dare to ask more questions. Shenwei made people sigh in their hearts.
"If I hadn't met my lord, my situation wouldn't have been much better... Even if I get great luck, what happens after the great luck?" Diao Chan withdrew her inspection, lowered her head and saluted briefly: "I am here to honor the Queen Mother and Ambassador Liu.
I am lucky enough to welcome you two empresses, so please forgive me if I was rude in the process."
"Don't dare, don't dare, if you hadn't come to rescue us, we would have been in trouble." Both of them hurriedly returned the greeting.
They were both close to each other in age, and had similar origins regardless of whether they were concubines or concubines. They were able to talk to each other for a while, which made the two women feel relieved. They looked at each other and said secretly: "If a girl with such a talk comes forward, it will not be the Xiliang rebels. I
After being ordered to be rescued by the Queen Mother, it will probably be true..."
"I wonder how the sisters in the palace are doing?" After a while, he couldn't help but ask.
Diao Chan's expression was slightly restrained: "The two empresses are secluded in the mausoleum. We don't know yet that the emperor has moved westward, accompanied by maids and officials. All the palace's belongings have been loaded into cars and transported with them, and they have already left for Chang'an."
"ah"
"But several nobles and princesses have already been kidnapped in Xuchang..."
After chatting like this for a while, the candle light gradually dimmed. Just as Diao Chan was about to leave, the maid Ying'er hurried in: "Miss, my dear, the officers and soldiers are coming to kill me. Let's leave quickly..."
Diao Chan was startled and instinctively thought: "Who leaked the news?"
Looking back and glancing at the two queens, seeing their expressions of shock and fear, Diao Chan came back to her senses and shook her head, knowing that they were not new arrivals.
"My dear ladies, please don't panic... Ying'er comes up with me, what does General Wenyuan say?"
A group of people climbed up to the attic and took a look, and saw three Xiliang infantry troops from the north crossing the official road and surrounding this side. Their soldiers were neatly equipped and their momentum was arrogant...
Specially here to encircle and suppress, this enemy is not even enough to fill the gap between the teeth, it can directly kill most of the 500 sharpshooters of Shesheng Battalion in one round, and most of them will definitely not survive after ten breaths. Will Dong Zhuo be stupid enough to come to deliver food? Or is it?
A test? Or a purely accidental robbery?
The maid Ying'er didn't understand this and just urged: "General Wen Yuan said he would act according to the opportunity, but please ask the young lady to take the two empresses to escape first to avoid accidentally attracting more enemies."
Diao Chan clenched her hands, frowned and thought for a moment, then looked back and asked, "What do you two ladies think?"
Tang Ji and Fu Shou looked at each other and shook their heads, their eyes filled with sincerity: "With the kindness of protecting me, there is no reason for me to escape alone."
Diao Chan didn't say much, she just signaled to the maid Ying'er to repay her accordingly.
"Miss—" the little maid was about to burst into tears and refused to move.
"Uh... Miss Cicada, is there a beacon burning on that mountain?" Fu Shou's eyes flashed at this time, pointing to a red and black smoke in the far distance to the east: "My father is a scholar, and he once took his daughter up the mountain to see it.
…”
war
Diao Chan looked in shock. Under the dawning sky, streaks of red and black beacon smoke rose into the sky, running through the mountains like dragons: "Do you know what kind of signal it is?"
"That's three accumulated firewood," Fu Shou said with certainty. In the critical situation, he didn't care about etiquette and elegance, and stretched out his hands to gesture: "Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to produce such thick smoke..."
"Large-scale invasion... Oh, no, it's the rebel soldiers." Tang Ji also understood, with joy on her pretty face: "Who else will be in Guanzhong besides the Xiliang rebels? Did Liu Shijun lead the coalition forces to enter the Pass?"
Diao Chan was dubious. She knew that her lord sent General Guan to attack Gong County. Could this be bigger than Hulao Pass?
She was so suspicious, but there was a voice deep in her heart telling her that it was true.
"call--"
The secret interrogation disk in her arms became slightly warm at this moment, causing her body to tremble.
Diao Chan resisted not checking in front of the girls, and waved to Ying'er to report the good news. She went into the inner room, hurriedly took it out and looked at it. She stared at the words on it and read it several times. She felt happy in her heart.
explode.
"The Hulao has been broken, and ten thousand cavalry have defeated them. They are approaching Luoyang in the evening... General Guan's side note: Gongxian County has also been broken."
"The secret book of the former Ministry of Refugee Camp has been approved to be activated. All veterans from Hebei are summoned to initiate reserve service. Please pay attention to the national arsenal and look for opportunities to obtain weapons."
"You are familiar with the military, political and civil conditions in Luoyang, and have given you appropriate dispatch authority. You can act expediently in Luoyang according to the situation. You must ensure that the city of Luoyang is basically intact, and at the same time, try to avoid casualties among the people..."
"I'm putting pressure on you, but I know you can do well. This is your natural stage. I hope to see you by my side in the sunshine tomorrow morning."
This last sentence is a rare informal warning, and the content is a bit teasing.
This made Diao Chan burst out laughing, with tears in her eyes.
"Miss, miss?" Ying'er opened the door and came in.
"It's okay..." Diao Chan turned her back, calmed down, and still felt a little unbelievable. She stared at the continuous flames outside the window for a long time before letting out a heavy breath.
Hulao Pass has been broken, the army has gathered, and there is hope for the Han Dynasty.
This is just as promised...
The lord is cunning and has been making careful preparations from unknown time. How could he not succeed?
"It's time." Diao Chan immediately made up her mind, and without hesitation, she took out a scroll and silently used the method. With just one flick, the golden light on it was extinguished in an instant.
Slowly unfolding, this five-foot-long, two-foot-wide book is densely packed with names, and there are thousands of them: "This is the list that my lord entrusted to me in the past. All the loyal and capable warriors in the former refugee camp are here. Only I can control it."
With the method of activation, you can now ask General Wenyuan to preside over the activation."
"Ah?" Ying'er was surprised. She had vaguely heard that there was a trump card, but it was hidden by her own lady until now, and she only saw the real thing now. She was shocked and puzzled: "Didn't the lady say that this is a big sacrifice and should be used only in critical situations? That one
Old man...well, I mean the lord has already entered the customs..."
The beacon conveys a kind of power, even if the little girl loves to fight against injustice, she usually secretly calls "that old man" with dissatisfaction, but eventually changes her name to "Lord".
"He's not an old man." Diao Chan knocked on her head, her eyes flashing, and countless memories of the past two years were instantly fixed on a young and handsome face.
How great would it be if this was really my Han family hero...
Diao Chan felt a little sour and melancholy in her heart, but she came back to her senses in a blink of an eye and said: "Now is the most critical moment. My lord breaks through the barrier quickly, and thief Dong will most likely jump over the wall in a hurry..."
Just like in history...
But how could I allow this to happen again?
After working so hard to obtain the promise of this earthly hero, I am overjoyed to have evolved to this stage, but I cannot expect more. Even if I am in danger, I must trigger this... national riot.
"This is Chan'er's personal suggestion to the lord. Of course, this temporarily organized rebel army is just to assist the army... It does not expect to defeat the Xiliang army, and it does not even require a head-on battle. But if it can cause chaos in the rear, Dong Zhuo must
Defeat is certain."
"My lord broke through Hulao Pass. I don't know what method he used. He must have used up most of the chips. It is difficult to replicate. Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, Sun Jian and Taiping Dao will soon wake up from the shock and besiege them... Luoyang has been surrounded for two hundred miles.
Forced to move with swords and guns, the three million angry people would not think carefully about what was going on. They would suddenly realize that the Xiliang army was so... vulnerable."
"An army of one hundred thousand and a mighty gate in the world. It was said that it only needs to be defended for ten days, but it was not even defended for six days? When everyone feels that this army is vulnerable, the morale of this army will drop sharply, and it will feel that it is vulnerable...
If the military morale is greatly reduced and there is no will to fight, the army will be really vulnerable."
"This is how things go up and down..." Diao Chan said for a moment. Seeing that the little maid didn't understand what she was hearing, she immediately laughed and said no more.
"The military will be responsible for the specific war, gathering the old rebels, and obtaining weapons. We all listen to General Wenyuan, but some news can be passed on to me."
"We contacted some Chinese volunteer societies... and instigated various secret lines to publicize that the Dong thief would jump over the wall in a hurry. Hmm, let me think about how it would jump..."
"The first thing is to send five thousand iron cavalry to arrest thousands of wealthy households in Luoyang. They will put flags on their heads and write a big letter against the officials and traitors. They will kill them all outside the city and take their money."
"The second thing was to drive millions of people from Luoyang to Chang'an, with one team for each citizen and one team for the army, dragging each other back. Countless people died in the ravines."
"The third thing, Zhuo Linxing, taught all the sects to set fire, burned the houses of residents in two hundred miles, set fire to the ancestral temples and palaces, the north and south palaces, the flames connected with each other, and the Changle palace was reduced to scorched earth."
Diao Chan spoke one sentence after another, with a bit of reminiscence, and the maid Ying'er turned pale as she listened: "Burn... burn two hundred miles of Luoyang?"
"Well, I know there will be people who don't believe it at first, but after the first thing happened... no one wanted to die, especially when dawn had arrived. Who would be willing to be buried in a shipwreck? King Zhou set himself on fire, and his followers
How many people are there?”
"To add the fourth thing, Chang'an has been captured by Liu Yan, the shepherd of Yizhou. Thief Dong knew that he would die, and wanted to bury all the soldiers and civilians in Luoyang for two hundred miles..."
The maid Ying'er was startled: "Being buried with the Xiliang army? Would Thief Dong do this?"
"Yes, including the Xiliang Army. This last one is really a rumor, but when the crisis collapses, some people will believe it... and this kind of burial is true to a certain extent, because Chang'an has no food, and 200,000 remnants of the army have gone there.
How long can we survive in Chang'an? Many Xiliang soldiers actually felt something, so they committed all kinds of outrageous atrocities on the road in an attempt to seize their chance..."
Diao Chan's voice was calm and her eyes were cold: "It's not a pity for them to die. It's best not to survive. Maybe let them bite the master before death and reduce the loss of the master. It can be regarded as a residual contribution."
"That's all, go ahead and pass my orders to all the secret agents immediately and tell them - start it, or you will die if you die."
Diao Chan looked at the moon silently.
Death means death. Whether it is them or themselves, it is finally time to sacrifice.