Also at noon on the third day of the third lunar month in winter, a group of horse dealers came to Chang'an West City.
Chang'an West Market has long been accustomed to seeing horse dealers and herds of horses, just like warriors have been accustomed to seeing cutters and missing bows. After all, the winter market in Chang'an in previous years was also the most prosperous time of the year in the West Market. In the stables of Chang'an traders, a
More than 20,000 geldings are often sold every month, so the West Market is also known as the Horse Market.
But when this group of horse dealers arrived, people couldn't help but be surprised. They brought so many horses. Just hearing the neighing and tramping of the horses reminded people of the scene when Bafu went on an expedition. Looking at the horses
Groups of people entered the market, shoulder to shoulder, like a trend. People couldn't help but talk about it: there seemed to be tens of thousands of horses, and I didn't know where the caravan came from.
This group of people walked deep into the West Market, and another group of people came out to greet them. They drove the horses to a fenced plain east of the Weishui River, and then dozens of people went to rest in a shed at the southwest corner of the city wall. They all lost.
When Si heard that such a group of horse traders had come, he sent someone to inquire about their origins. Only then did he learn that they were all businessmen who had come all the way from Lingzhou under the orders of Mu Lu Bu of Liangzhou.
These people said that when Lu Bu, the herdsman of Liangzhou, heard about the defeat in Guandong, he thought that Chang'an must be short of horses. He discussed with the eunuchs, saying that Liangzhou was barren but only had many horses. It was better to gather horses from the people in the state and sell them to the country.
.This can not only alleviate the country's urgent needs, but also relieve Liangzhou's difficulties. After saying this, he took out the document stamped with the seals of Lu Bu and the Sheyuan official to prove his words.
Junshu looked through the documents and his expression gradually softened. He asked them how many horses they had brought, and the merchant replied, 10,200 and seven. This made Junshu look troubled. According to common practice, the state and the private sector trade
, the Junshu Division should have been responsible for it, but the horses were extraordinary, and now there were tens of thousands of them, and the financial expenditure was probably not something that the Junshu Division could afford. He thought for a moment, and said to the horse dealers, this matter only
It can be reported to the Sili Mansion for processing by Prime Minister Chen.
The horse dealers showed that they were indeed like this. They said that Lu Shijun had already given instructions and written a document. They planned to rest today and go to Sili Mansion early tomorrow morning with a document to ask for an audience. After hearing this, the officials were very happy.
Relaxed, after telling them the location of Sili Mansion, he waved and left.
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After he left, Jia Xu asked Li Siam who came to meet him: "What did Yang Biao say?"
Li Xian whispered: "We have made an appointment and we will do it today."
Jia Xu nodded slightly and asked: "How confident are you that you can seize the door without armor?"
Li Xian said: "It is not difficult to seize the gate, but it is difficult to guard it. I wonder where Lu Bu's reinforcements are located and when will they arrive?"
Jia Xu pinched his beard and smiled and said: "The army has descended to Pingling. It's only two hours' journey from here. It'll be there in three-quarters of an hour by horse. Can you insist?"
After Li Xian heard this, he immediately agreed and said: "In this case, I will definitely defend until the army comes to help!"
In the evening of that day, the Liang people left the market in batches and gathered secretly on the outskirts of the city. They put on black clothes to conceal their movements, took out the swords and bows prepared in the accompanying carriages, and then dispersed to the shadows in the north and south outside the city.
At this time, snowflakes began to fall from the sky, falling on the Liang people one after another, giving them a chill, but they were not anxious, but looked at the outline of the huge and majestic city not far away, holding their hands tightly
The hilt or hilt of a sword.
Although no one mentioned it, each of them remembered the bloody battlefield of Longshouyuan and the years of struggling to survive in Wudu. Those days were like tonight, with the earth and mountains covered in one.
In the dark silence, there was no sound in all directions, except for the sound of the wind and the swaying of dead branches.
In the silence, voices gradually began to mix in, and then turned into noise. As the voices became louder, Liang people also saw blazing fires burning in the city. There were more than one fire, like spring buds sprouting green.
, appeared all over the east, west, north, and south, and eventually turned into blazing flames and powerful and swaying smoke pillars in Xijing, which can be seen within a radius of thirty miles.
This was the time to take action. The Liang people cheered up, pulled out their knives and swords from their waists, and rushed towards the twelve city gates of Chang'an.
The fire was blazing in front, accompanied by countless cries for help, as if a dark cloud was rushing over. The soldiers at the city gate had no idea that the disaster was coming. They were either asking about the cause of the water leakage or looking for sandbags. At this time, they
I encountered a burst of locust-like arrow feathers.
The Liang people immediately showed their bloodthirsty faces, waving sharp cold fronts in the firelight. Except for Qingming Gate and Xuanping Gate, almost instantly, the ten city gates of Chang'an completed changing hands. And the rest
The two city gates only held on for a moment longer and then fell.
After seizing the city gate, a few Liang people hurriedly put on Han armor. Those who had no armor to change held torches and set fire around the city gate, spreading chaos to the entire capital.
Zhijinwu Qianzhao was guarding the palace at this time. When he saw fires raging in the city, he noticed that someone was causing trouble. He immediately summoned his eight hundred halberd-bearing and two thousand guards officers to go out of the palace to check the situation. However, by this time, most of the people had fled outside the house.
As a result, the streets were bustling with people, which put him in a dilemma. He sounded the gong loudly to clear the way, and the guards maintained order and ordered the people to take refuge in the palace. He led a hundred cavalry and went straight to Sili Mansion to ask for an audience with Chen Chong.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at the Sili Mansion, the Sili Mansion was even more chaotic. Many officials in the mansion were surrounded by the gates, their clothes were disheveled, and they were quarreling constantly. Thanks to Li Yi and Chen Deng, they could barely maintain order. This was
Ling Qianzhao had a bad premonition. When Li Yi saw Qianzhao coming, he immediately stepped forward to grab the reins of the horse and said to him in a tearful voice: "You're well-come, Qianzhao. We need you to take charge of the overall situation."<
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When Qianzhao saw Li Yi's miserable expression, he immediately realized that something was wrong and asked anxiously: "What happened?"
Li Yi looked at the knight behind Qianzhao and hesitated to speak. Qianzhao immediately dismounted and urged him to speak quickly. Li Yi suppressed his crying and whispered: "Longshou was deceived by Yang Xiu just now and fell into Lu Bu's trap by mistake.
He has been killed!"
Qianzhao was shocked, and Li Yi pulled him to the front of the mansion. He saw people crowding around a headless corpse with a figure similar to Chen Chong's. There were more than ten arrows stuck in the body, and his clothes were stained with blood.
There is a lake of flesh and blood between the neck, and the only thing that can be identified is the broken little finger on the left hand. And next to the corpse, there are more than ten heads, all of which are the guards who traveled with Chen Chong.
When Chen Deng saw Qian Zhao coming over, he looked extremely embarrassed and explained to him: "It is said that except for Wu Yu who escaped and disappeared, the heads of the others who traveled with Long Shou this time were thrown here. Zijing
, now we are in big trouble."
Seeing this situation, Qianzhao was stunned for a moment and couldn't speak for a long time. After a while, he asked blankly: "How could this be so?" Then he asked: "Where is the head of the dragon head?"
It is true that there is no Chen Chong's head, but no one can explain the reason. It turns out that these corpses were delivered by a coachman. This coachman was also temporarily entrusted. He didn't know the whole story and stayed at the door with a look of sincerity and fear on his face. He could only reply:
: "The missing head, they said, will be handed over to Liangzhou Mu, and then they will ask for credit from His Majesty!"
When Qianzhao heard the words, he couldn't help but scream loudly, like an ape crying for blood. He said in pain to everyone: "The country is full of thieves, hateful! Hateful!" Everyone was infected by his sadness, and the discussion stopped. Li Yi asked again.
Said: "But what should be the current plan? Now the city is full of arson, and there must be a lot of thieves causing trouble!"
Chen Deng said numbly: "Listening to the cries of killing outside the city, I'm afraid Lu Bu has led his troops to attack. The dragon's head is about to die. What can we do? Is it possible to rob and kill the emperor?"
Qianzhao thought for a while and reluctantly said: "Time is urgent. There should not be many thieves at the city gate, otherwise the city would have been besieged long ago. If we leave now, we can still fight our way out through Qingming Gate." Everyone immediately responded.<
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Before setting off, Qianzhao learned that Li Yi and others had not informed his family of Chen Chong's death. They were all embarrassed, but since life and death were at stake, they had to put aside their worries and inform Cai Yan, Chen Kui, Chen Chen and others about the matter.
, and asked him to go with him.
When Cai Yan heard the news of Chen Chong's death, he felt sad and shocked. He wanted to take a step to see the body, but before it was far away, he fainted from heartache. But Chen Kui and Chen Chen showed expressions of relief. Chen Chen said: "
We are all old people, and running all the way, I am afraid that I will escape death and become a drag on you. If we stay here, maybe we can survive thanks to Ting Jian's legacy, so there is no need to bother. If we can really escape,
Just take A Zhang with you."
After that, they brought out Chen Zhang, who was only three years old. Qianzhao took Chen Zhang's hand and looked at the child's blank eyes. His heart ached and his thoughts were numb. He could only summon a piece of silk and pull Chen Zhang out.
The chapter was wrapped around him to show that we would live and die together. He whispered to Chen Kui and others to take care of them, stopped looking at their expressions, and immediately led the crowd to ride away.
At the same time, Lu Bu has led the masses to rush across the Wei Bridge and head straight to the south of Chang'an City. On Longshou Plain, Jia Xu is leading 3,000 Liang people to fight against the remaining 10,000 Northern troops in Chang'an.
Meng Jian led the Northern Army to confront the Liang people. Seeing that it was dark at night and there were many shadows of people on the opposite side, he was not sure how many enemies there were. So he did not order a charge, but asked his soldiers to shoot arrows at the enemy row by row. In fact, he did not order a charge.
, the Northern army mostly wore heavy armor and held long spears one foot long, while the Liang people were wrapped in cowhide at most and held four-foot-long swords in their hands. They fought head-on. It was impossible for the Liang people to compete with the Northern army. Archery was of course
It caused a lot of casualties, but the Liang people were not defeated in the end.
When the thundering hoofbeats of Lu Bu's men rang out from the north, the morale of the Northern Army was greatly reduced. In addition, the Liang Army shouted loudly, claiming that King Qin was asking for thieves and would not kill those who surrendered, so many soldiers fled again. The situation was over.
Meng Jian was desperate, so he made a last-ditch effort and led his men into the enemy formation, killing several people with his own hands. But in the end, it was in vain. When he got slightly tired, some Liang soldiers surrounded him and kept firing arrows. Soon, he was just
What remains is an unrecognizable corpse.
Lianzhao finally broke through the door, and the Liang army took control of the entire Chang'an. In the first half of the night, the people were in chaos and fear, but they crowded at the city gate like ants, praying for refuge and leaving the city, but the Liang army did not do anything.
If anyone tried to leave the city, they would be blocked and killed, leaving the people in the city to howl and cry.
In the second half of the night, a steady stream of Liang troops came from the west. The sound of the armor shaking was like the sound of waves. The people were terrified. Chang'an finally fell silent again. The only sounds in the wind were the falling snowflakes and the sound of burning fires. By dawn, the fires had already burned.
Naturally extinguished, Lü Bu led the crowd into Chang'an from Xiping Gate. As far as he could see, everything was devastated. As a result, half of the residences in Chang'an were reduced to ashes, and only the palaces were left intact.
But before Lu Bu had an audience with the emperor, he got some disturbing news from Jia Xu: Yang Biao failed to set up an ambush, and Chen Chong was hit by an arrow and disappeared.