The next day, the afternoon of September 10th.
Outside the north gate of Luyang County, north of the moat, about 200 steps away from the moat, two tall figures, Yang Feng and Han Xian, were riding on horses. Both of them were looking at the north gate of Luyang County. The autumn wind blowing from the north blew the yellow cloaks symbolizing the "yellow sky" behind them.
Two thousand elite infantrymen of the Baibo Army lined up behind them. They all stared at the north gate of Luyang County opposite with their eyes wide open, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
Behind the two thousand Baibo Army infantry, there were more than 10,000 Yellow Turban thieves from Yingchuan, Yuzhou, wearing common people's clothes, holding swords, spears, bows and arrows in their hands, and wearing yellow scarves on their heads. This group of yellow scarf thieves, like the infantrymen of the White Wave Army, all stared at the north gate of Luyang County, which was more than a hundred steps away, with a strange look.
What made the more than 10,000 Baibo thieves and the Yellow Turban thieves in Yingchuan, Yuzhou a little stunned was the scene of the city gates being opened wide, the suspension bridge lowered, and three or five old soldiers sweeping the floor at the city gate. On the tower of the north gate of Luyang, there is another person wearing a royal robe, who is suspected to be the little emperor, sitting at the top of the city, accompanied by two ministers wearing court robes. The three of them seem to be eating and drinking.
This scene... doesn't require Sima Yi's high IQ at all. Let Bai Boze's Yang Feng and Han Xian see it and know that something is wrong!
Now that the army is approaching, the emperor and the court in Luyang City must either run away or close the city to defend... How come the city gate is opened wide, and the emperor even invites two ministers to eat and drink on the gate tower?
Isn't this...isn't this crazy?
Thinking of "going crazy", Yang Feng suddenly thought of something and turned around and asked: "Gongren, I heard that the emperor seemed to be frightened crazy by Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Guo Fan and Zhang Ji. When he went to court, he kept saying Nonsense, does this happen?"
"This..." Dong Zhao, who was stunned by the scene in front of him like everyone else, hurriedly rode forward and reached Yang Feng and Han Xian. He even rubbed his eyes, as if he suspected that he was dazzled. .
"The emperor is crazy!" Han Xian was better informed than Yang Feng. Seeing Dong Zhao's hesitation, he rushed to answer, "I still have eyes and ears in the court, and I have heard about that little... The emperor was talking nonsense. What he said in the court was that he dreamed of Emperor Gao. Emperor Gao also handed him three volumes of heavenly books. He used the methods taught in the heavenly books to divine and observe the sky, and calculated that Zhang Ji would be killed by Liu Jingzhou this year. If you kill him, Guo Fan will lose his head next year, Li Jue will kill his whole family the year after that, and Yuan Gongdao will become emperor next year!"
"Ah? Are you so crazy?" Yang Feng turned to look at Dong Zhao again, "Gongren, did the emperor really say that?"
Dong Zhao nodded: "I said it, but..."
"But what?" Yang Feng frowned when he saw Dong Zhao like this, "Gongren, are you hiding something from me and General Han?"
"No, no, it's just that Zhang Ji really died two days ago! When he sent his army to attack Rangcheng, he was shot to death by Liu Biao's man!"
"What? Really dead?"
"Konghito, are you kidding?"
Yang Feng and Han Xian were shocked and looked at Dong Zhao with wide eyes.
Dong Zhao smiled bitterly and nodded: "You two, how dare I joke about this matter? But Cao Sichen believes that the emperor is deceived."
"Damned?"
"Can this be covered too?"
Yang Feng and Han Xian looked at each other, their expressions a little solemn. They were born as Yellow Turban Thieves...Yellow Turban Thieves must be superstitious. They believe in "Heaven is dead and Huang Tian shall stand", and they believe that Zhang Jiao has received the teachings from immortals. Therefore, the story about Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty dreaming of the little emperor seems to be true!
Liu Bang seems to be a god too, what kind of son of the Red Emperor is he? From the early Han Dynasty to now, it has been practiced for four hundred years. This magic power must not be weak, right?
"It's just that he was fooled!" Dong Zhao said firmly, "In my opinion, this emperor is still a little crazy... Otherwise, if both of you are already surrounded by soldiers, how could he still dare to do this?"
"That's right!"
"It's a bit crazy! But... Gongren, you have to tell us the truth. Did the Emperor say when General Han and I will die?"
"No, absolutely not!" Dong Zhao quickly shook his head, "You two can absolutely rest assured, Zhao is guaranteed with his life!"
Yang Feng and Han Xian both breathed a sigh of relief. Han Xian asked Yang Fengdao: "General Chariot and Cavalry, do you think we should send troops to attack?"
Yang Feng glanced at the open north gate of Luyang City, shook his head and said: "Now we don't want to hold the emperor and the princes hostage... This is a loss-making deal! We already suffered a lot by taking the emperor to Hedong. , do you want to lose again?"
Han Xian shook his head: "No, no, the Emperor is of no use to us except to waste food!"
"That's it!" Yang Feng said, "As long as the emperor keeps the food and property sent by Liu Jingzhou to us, he can run away with the court and go anywhere!"
It turned out that they thought that Liu Jingzhou's tribute team to Liu Xie had arrived in Luyang, and they didn't know that Liu Qi took Huang Zhong, Gan Ning and five thousand elite soldiers to escort the property and food northward... these The false news was of course told by Dong Zhao to Yang Feng and Han Xian.
So now that Dong Zhao heard Yang Feng's words, he quickly echoed: "Yes, yes, all the good things sent by Liu Jingzhou's people belong to both of you. Cao Sichen doesn't want any of them."
Yang Feng nodded: "Then let Lao Gongren go and talk to the emperor... Let the emperor escape on his own, so as not to hurt the friendship between monarch and minister."
Dong Zhao glanced at the north gate of Luyang City, and it seemed that he had no choice but to go!
It's true that the emperor is here. His troops are pressing down on the territory. Why don't you run away?
Thinking of this, Dong Zhao could only sigh, and then rode forward. Soon he reached the suspension bridge on the moat, and did not dare to go any further.
He first looked at the elderly people who were sweeping the floor...I don't know whose family they belong to? Shaking while sweeping the floor!
Then Dong Zhao looked up at the little emperor on the top of the city. The emperor was drinking and eating something with Zhong Yao and Yang Xiu. The three of them looked very happy... This emperor He is crazy. Are Zhong Yuanchang and Yang Dezu also crazy?
Can this madness be extraordinary?
Just when he was undecided, the little emperor on the top of the city had already seen him and waved to him: "Is the person coming here Dong Shizhong?"
Dong Zhao had no choice but to bow his hands on horseback and salute: "Reporting to Tianjia, I am none other than Dong Zhao... Tianjia, I went out of the city with Cao Sichen yesterday, and went to Xu County on Cao Sichen's order. I didn't want to be halfway there. Met the General Chariot..."
"No need to say it, I know it! I can pinch and calculate, everyone knows it!" Liu Xie looked at Dong Zhao's serious way of telling lies, and quickly waved his hand to tell him not to deceive you again - this matter is going to happen. The last powerful and serious emperor had to be beheaded. However, Liu Xie was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see Dong Zhao commit a crime, so he stopped letting him talk.
"Gongren," Liu Xie continued, "General Chariot and Cavalry asked you to deliver the message, right?"
"Exactly, General Chariot and Cavalry said that he came here for the money, food and property in Luyang City. Even if the emperor and the officials leave, he will never pursue them."
"Oh..." Liu Xie nodded, thinking: That means Cao Cao set up an ambush on the south bank of the Nishui River! You can't go here. If you go, you won't be the emperor of Luoyi!
"Gongren," Liu Xie asked again, "didn't Yang Feng and Han Xian realize that I was using a trick?"
"No, I didn't see it." Dong Zhao did not dare to tell the emperor that Yang Feng and Han Xian were crazy!
"Tianjia, what plan are you using?" Dong Zhao asked again.
"The empty city strategy!" Liu Xie said with a smile, "I used the empty city strategy! Now that Luyang City is empty, I deliberately asked people to open the city gate. Yang Feng and Han Xian must be suspicious and dare not enter the city... Mr. Dong, do you think my plan is brilliant?"
"This..." Dong Zhao couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this, "Tianjia, if generals Yang and Han are not fooled, what should we do?"
Liu Xie said with a smile: "Then let them come into the city and have a look! Dong Shizhong, tell Yang Feng and Han Xian to let them enter the city if they dare! I will use magic to summon the sky stone to take their lives!"
Why are you still playing magic?
Dong Zhao thought to himself: This emperor turns out to be really crazy!
Thinking of this, Dong Zhao had no choice but to turn his horse around and go back to report to Yang Feng and Han Xian.
Seeing Dong Zhao leaving, the young emperor Liu Xie yawned - he had not slept for more than a day and a night! Since noon yesterday, he, Zhong Yao and Yang Xiu had been in the workshop of the general supervisor, supervising the construction of the trebuchet.
However, even though he, the emperor, personally oversaw the night shift and demolished many decent mansions to collect materials, by noon today, only twelve small trebuchets had been built, and they were all moved on The top of Luyang City is placed on both sides of the tower at the north gate of Luyang City.
These twelve counterweighted trebuchets were very primitive. Liu Xie and the "slingers" he selected were not very good at "playing". They didn't know how to adjust the range of the trebuchets, and they didn't know how to aim. I can only stare at the distance of seventy or eighty steps and make a "face target".
Fortunately, Zhong Yao came up with a strategy of "opening the door to lure the enemy" which was quite useful. He really lured Yang Feng and Han Xian's soldiers outside the north gate. If they wanted to attack the north gate later, they could just use "Heaven" to lure the enemy. Hit them with rocks!
"Yuan Chang, Dezu," the little emperor said to Zhong Yao and Yang Xiu next to him after yawning, "you each command six trebuchets... When I point the emperor's sword forward, Start throwing rocks!”
Zhong Yao and Yang Xiu both look like "the emperor's confidants" now... They must be pretending! But there is also some belief in the little emperor. Although neither of them really believed that the little emperor was educated in dreams by Emperor Han Gao and Emperor Guangwu in turn, the little emperor did calculate Zhang Ji's death and created an opportunity to throw stones.
Especially the latter, what a real skill! Zhong Yao and Yang Xiu saw with their own eyes that the little emperor used his abacus to calculate how long the pole of the trebuchet should be, how many stones should be placed in the basket, and how many stones should be packed in the leather case. Both Zhong and Yang were well-read and had a photographic memory, but they stared at the little emperor doing calculations with his abacus, and they didn't understand anything!
Although they didn't understand it clearly, both of them knew that the little emperor was very capable of "divine calculation"! So both of them planned to stay with the little emperor for a while to see if they could learn the little emperor's "divine calculation".
"only!"
After hearing the emperor's order, they all stood up, bowed respectfully, and then went to command the trebuchet behind the two rows of straw mats erected on the wall to the left and right of the city gate tower.
