At dusk in midsummer, the city of Luoyang is in order. It is getting late. As night falls, this city, which was founded because of politics, gradually loses its prosperity during the day. Every household closes the door, closes the windows, and falls into a dead silence.
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There are many signboards on the street, and the night wind blows, and there is the occasional sound of bamboo horses, and the jingling of bells. The twelve gates in the outer city of Luoyang have very few people coming and going. After a while, they will have to be closed and the whole city will be sealed off.
At this moment, a line of soldiers covered in armor suddenly appeared outside the Pingcheng Gate. They stepped neatly on the bluestones on the street, made a clanging sound, and rushed towards the Pingcheng Gate.
The captain of the city gate guarded one side with his men and horses, and had long blocked the people from entering. When he saw them coming, he waved his hand and said: "Open the city gate wide and let them in."
How much power does He Jin have in his hands at this time?
Among the three ministers and nine ministers, only a few people such as Liu Yu, Yang Ci, etc. did not openly support him. When the three were alone, the censor Zhongcheng changed his banner, leaving only Shangshu Ling and Sili Xiaowei. While other important departments, or
It is said that most of the officials in Luoyang City have taken refuge under him.
As soon as He Jin died, the news spread. Almost half of the city of Luoyang began to move, either exchanging news, or at a loss, or dispatching troops, or waiting to see what happened. The three officials, nine ministers, and various departments quickly communicated
, large groups of soldiers and horses continued to enter the city.
The former city gate captain was Zhao Zhong's younger brother Zhao Yan, but now He Jin had replaced him with one of his own. When Yuan Shao's army arrived outside the south city, the city gate captain opened the city gate and let his troops in.
Under the leadership of Yuan Shao, He Jin's staff and military generals quickly integrated into the coalition army composed of the Southern Army and the Yuzhou rebels. They either led troops and horses, made suggestions, or served as vanguards. For example, Sun Jian led the soldiers to lead the battle.
One entered Pingcheng Gate.
Tens of thousands of troops entered one after another and walked uniformly on the street. The people in every house heard the dense footsteps. For a while, the people in the city opened their windows and looked out to see the situation outside.
When they saw groups of soldiers on the streets, the people felt horrified. Why were there so many soldiers in Luoyang City at the end of dusk (around 8 p.m.)?
Naturally, the common people were not as well-informed as the officials, not to mention that it was already evening, the sun had completely set, and the streets were only dimly lit, like the dawn of dawn, and no one knew what was going on.
But this tense and frozen atmosphere reminds people that this is a special period. Every Luoyang person has dug out a sword from home. The Han people are martial arts. As a commoner in Guizhou under the emperor's feet, he can live in it.
No matter what, people in the city are much richer than people in the countryside. It is reasonable to have one or two swords at home.
The army headed towards the palace like a torrent.
Passing through the Zhuque Gate, you will arrive at the square outside Sima Gate. Sima Gate is still in the hands of the Huben Army and the Yulin Guards. Huben Zhonglang General Xu Liang and Yulin Zhonglang General Wu Dan are commanding soldiers to fight with the eunuch soldiers at Quefei Gate.
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After Sun Jian arrived, he could vaguely see the two warring parties with the help of the palace lights near Quefei Hall. One side was an ordinary soldier wearing orange clothes and armor, while the other side was extremely well-equipped and covered in black armor.
strong soldier.
Having lived in the military for a long time, Sun Jian recognized at a glance that the former was the Southern Army, and the latter was the Yulin Guard and the Huben Army.
"kill!"
Sun Jian drew out his ancient ingot sword, pointed his finger forward and shouted: "Kill those in uniforms of the Southern Army, they are the eunuchs' followers."
"kill!"
The soldiers under the vanguard army rushed towards the group of Confederate soldiers like ghosts.
"Retreat, retreat, retreat!"
Feng Fang, the commander of this group of soldiers, saw that enemy reinforcements had arrived and immediately shouted anxiously: "Go back to Jiademen."
Feng Fang was Cao Jie's son-in-law, a staunch eunuch partisan, and the soldiers under his command were also the troops he brought back from Shenyuan Pass (I made a mistake in the previous article, it was not Xia Mou, but Feng Fang).
It's just that Feng Fang's soldiers were small after all, and it was already very difficult to fight against the Yulin Guards and Huben Army. When they faced Sun Jian's army, they could only retreat steadily.
Soon Feng Fang withdrew from Zhangtai Gate and ran back to Jiade Gate. Sun Jian chased after him and was stopped when he reached Jiade Gate.
Jiade Gate is the strongest gate in the entire palace, because it is the residence of the emperor and is very dangerous.
Sun Jian was unable to enter. Firstly, he had no siege equipment. Secondly, when the eunuchs on the tower saw the army approaching, they ordered the soldiers to shoot with bows and crossbows. They were repulsed by the offensive of the eunuchs and soldiers.
At this time, Yuan Shao's army arrived from the rear, and Yuan Shaoxun, Zheng Tailu Zhi and others came to the front to inquire about the situation.
Sun Jian said: "The eunuch has closed the door tightly, so we can't get in."
Yuan Shao looked around, gritted his teeth and said, "It's better to set fire to it."
"set fire?"
Lu Zhi said in astonishment: "Set fire in the palace is a capital crime."
"We can't worry about that anymore. The Emperor and the Queen Mother are still in the palace. They cannot be kidnapped by the eunuchs and must be attacked."
Yuan Shao said loudly: "Give me the order to set fire."
Historically, it was Yuan Shu who did this, but Yuan Shu is in Changsha now and was not involved in this matter at all.
Wu Kuang, Zhang Zhang and others immediately ordered their soldiers to bring anointed firewood, pile it up outside Jiade Gate, and lit a fire. In just a moment, the wooden gate burst into flames.
At this time, the palace was in chaos. There were soldiers, eunuchs, and maids everywhere in the East and West Palaces. Most of Yuan Shao's soldiers were waiting in the square outside Jiade Gate to wait for the gate to burn, but the remaining half of the soldiers were searching for the eunuchs according to his orders.
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Lines of soldiers kicked open the palace doors. The innocent eunuchs and maids on duty in the palace felt baffled at first, but soon the unreasonable soldiers killed everyone on sight, and the screams kept coming, resounding throughout the night sky.
Dongguan is a place where classics are stored. Several honest little yellow gatekeepers are on duty. One of the little yellow gatekeepers likes to read and stays up late at night to read. Unexpectedly, the door is kicked open at this time.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Before they could ask what happened, the soldiers who rushed in saw that their jaws were beardless, and without giving them a chance to explain, they hacked an eunuch to death with a single blow.
Hot blood splattered, and the soldier's face and body were covered with splattered blood, but he sneered devilishly and looked at the next innocent person.
The eunuchs in the Dongguan were all frightened and wanted to escape after a while, but the door was blocked and they could not escape at all.
At some point, the lamp was knocked over and the flames ignited the bamboo slips.
In the Zhongde Hall, several palace ladies were on duty.
After the soldiers rushed in and saw that there were no eunuchs inside, the small group turned and left.
But several soldiers saw the palace maids in thin gauze clothes, frightened and pitiful because of the sudden incident, looked at each other, and walked towards them with a ferocious smile...
Such things happened almost everywhere in Nangong, and the order of the entire palace was in chaos. Killings, insults, screams, and wails were constantly heard.
The raging flames spread from the East View to the East Palace. When some soldiers saw the fire, they simply set fires everywhere to create chaos.
The rising flames ignited half of the sky, and the thick smoke and firelight could be seen for miles.
At this time, far away in the east city of Luoyang, in Liu Bei's military camp stationed near Hongchi, Wang Jun was reporting all the situation to Liu Bei vividly.
As one of the regular attendants, he was certainly involved in the murder of He Jin. In fact, after He entered the Jiade Gate, he was quickly taken into the side entrance of the Jiade Palace by the small yellow gate leading the horse, and then many regular attendants and ambushes
They swarmed up and pulled He Jin out of the carriage, immediately restrained him and took him into the Jiade Hall.
Although He Jin shouted for help at that time, the eunuchs were all around the Jiade Hall, and although the Yutang Hall, Lantai, Age and other places behind were guarded by tiger troops, it was a pity that the imperial palace of the Han Dynasty was too big, and every palace and palace
They were hundreds of meters apart and could not be heard by other palace guards.
Therefore, He Jin's cry for help was meaningless. After he was controlled, he was dragged into the Jiade Palace. The eunuchs loudly scolded He Jin for his crimes. In He Jin's frightened eyes, each of them stabbed him fiercely with a sword.
Stab him to death with random swords.
It was Zhang Rang who chopped off He Jin's head. After that, Wang Jun immediately ran out in the name of asking for help from Liu Bei's army, before He Jin's people noticed this and the city gate did not prohibit them from accompanying him.
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"What? Zhang Rang killed the general?"
Liu Bei's expression changed with horror. He never thought that the eunuch would actually murder the general.
"Well, I tried to persuade Zhang Rang. Unfortunately, he insisted on going his own way and couldn't listen to the advice. But it is true that the general was the same. He threatened the Queen Mother before, but now he secretly mobilized his troops to deal with Xuande. Now that he is dead, it is his own fault.
You can’t blame others.”
Wang Jun sighed and said this.
He was not stupid. He didn't say that Liu Bei was an upright man. He just said that killing the general was a serious crime in itself. He followed the words taught by Chen Mu and told Liu Bei that all this was Zhang Zang's idea and had nothing to do with him or Chen Mu.
Liu Bei looked anxious as he walked back and forth in the tent and said, "What should we do? If the general dies, the soldiers under the tent will inevitably mutiny. I'm afraid there will be chaos in Luoyang now."
"Brother, it's not good. There are scouts coming to report. Suddenly, a large number of soldiers and horses from the south of Luoyang entered the palace."
Zhang Fei suddenly got into the tent and shouted: "It seems to be the soldiers and horses of Yuan Shao, the lieutenant of the Central Military Academy."
Guan Yu immediately made a decision: "Brother, Yuan Shao must go into the palace to kill the eunuchs to avenge the general. At this time, we can no longer hesitate. We should go to the palace immediately, first to stop the killing, and secondly to save the emperor."
"Yes, the emperor is still in the palace, I must save him!"
Liu Bei heard Guan Yu's reminder and stood up. He became even more anxious and quickly touched the armor next to him.
Chen Mu said helplessly: "Brother, Yuan Shao has tens of thousands of troops. If we go in now, we may not be able to gain favor. Dian Wei can arrive with his army tomorrow, and it won't be too late to go by then. Even if Yuan Shao is crazy, he probably won't be able to win.
Dare to kill the emperor and the queen mother."
Liu Bei said angrily: "Fourth brother, why are you so ignorant? The army has entered the palace and the troops are in chaos. If you are not careful, accidents may occur. If you hurt the empress dowager, the empress dowager, and the emperor, then what will happen to me in the future?"
Going to see the late emperor?"
After that, he put on his armor, stepped on his double swords, and quickly left the camp.
The main force is still in the hands of Dian Wei Qianzhao, and Liu Bei only has a thousand cavalry. Although these thousand cavalry are elite, they are still difficult to compete with Yuan Shao's tens of thousands of troops.
Chen Mu originally wanted to wait until the dust settled tomorrow morning before picking peaches, but it was a pity that Big Brother was disobedient.
But this is probably what Chen Mu expected.
Big Brother and Guan Yu are both loyal to the Han Dynasty. Others can say that the emperor, the empress dowager and the empress dowager are the benchmarks of the Han Dynasty in their hearts, especially the young emperor Liu Bian.
Therefore, when he heard that the emperor was in trouble, Liu Bei and Guan Yu had to go. Chen Mu knew that this was the most likely outcome, so he had no regrets.