Li Ru Tian Jing was about to lead his troops to the north gate of Weiyang Palace when he saw thick smoke billowing from the palace. He estimated that the location was the front hall where the Grand Master was. Seeing this scene, Li Ru secretly screamed, "It's terrible." He knew He was a step too late. Wang Yun in the palace had already taken action, and he was not the only one to rebel. With such a scene, the Tiger Guards and Lu Bu must have rebelled together. If he entered the palace at this time, could he still save the overall situation?
He suddenly thought: The Grand Master's whereabouts are unknown, but the Emperor is still in the palace. If he retreats at this time and gives up the Emperor to Wang Yun, he, the old members of the Grand Master's Mansion who are hunting down Wang Yun's gang members in the city, will definitely... Being liquidated by Wang Yun, there is still a chance to recover at this time. If you retreat, you will put your life and death in the hands of others!
He figured this out and immediately said to the soldiers: "There are traitors in the palace who are causing rebellion. Fortunately, there are armored guards around the Grand Master, so there is no danger for the moment. As long as we step forward bravely and kill all the traitors, we will be safe." If you have the merit of protecting the country and driving safely, you will be rewarded with thousands of dollars and thousands of households! Please encourage me!"
The soldiers also raised their weapons in unison and hurried to the front hall. But just as they reached the north gate, there was a burst of swishing arrows from the gate, and more than ten Liang people who were about to enter the gate were shot down. , Li Ru glanced at the gate and saw dozens of people, and shouted: "There are few of them! Run over!"
At this moment, the rebels on the gate threw another rolling log under the gate. The rolling log fell from the four-foot-high gate wall, and suddenly crushed the people who entered the gate, and they howled miserably. With the sound of the rolling log, a total of eight people were suppressed by the rolling log. Although there was not much blood, one person was flushed and passed out. The remaining seven people were howling under the rolling log, obviously in pain.
What's even more terrible is that this rolling log is five feet high. It is extremely inconvenient for the armored warriors to climb over. The Liang people behind have no choice but to put down their weapons and move the rolling log out together. At this time, the reverse on the gate The thief continued to shoot arrows and wounded many people. Li Ru recognized that the person guarding the gate was Cao Xing, and he said loudly: "Uncle Cao Du, there are still 6,000 soldiers in the capital, all of whom are loyal to the grand master. No matter how you fight, can you fight one against ten?" It’s better to find your way back as soon as possible. As long as you behave anyway, I, Li Wenyou, will guarantee with my life that not only will I not hold Uncle Du accountable, but I will also let the grand master make you a school captain! General!"
After Cao Xing listened above, he only said one sentence in response: "How dare I ask Li Shizhong, is General Chariot and Cavalry here?"
The Liang people had already heard the rumors about Huangfu Song, and they were greatly embarrassed at this time. They all looked at Li Ru and waited for his reply. Li Ru originally wanted to reply: "What does this have to do with chariots?", but before he could say anything, he heard Cao Xing say: "As long as you invite chariots to come and lecture, as long as you can see chariots, I won't say anything. Stop immediately!"
How could Li Ru dare to agree? Seeing his reaction, Liang Ren couldn't help but hesitate to continue the attack. At this moment, a man in the palace held an edict and galloped to the front of the North Tower on a flying horse, facing the cold light of the sharp blade. Before rolling the log, he waved the edict in his hand again and again and said loudly: "There is an edict in the palace! The emperor has an edict!"
Everyone recognized him as Shang Shulang Zhong Yao, and Cao Xing on the palace also stopped. Zhong Yao did not wait for the reaction of Li Ru and others, and opened the edict in public and read: "The country was divided by Dong Zhuo's rebellion for several years, separatist regimes were established, and forgery was established, causing the people to suffer, and the military to be arrogant. Situ Wang Yun, Hu Benzhong General Lü Bu is now resigning to punish the evildoers. He will only punish the chief evildoers such as Niu Fu, Li Ru and others. He will not blame the soldiers. I hope the world will know my virtue of living a good life."...
After he read the edict, he strode up to the Liang people and showed them the edict. The Liang people all recognized the emperor's seal at the end of the edict and were silent for a while. After a while, someone asked: "I wonder how the Grand Master is doing now?"
Zhong Yao pointed to the front hall that was still burning in the distance, and replied slowly and clearly: "Dong Zhuo led his troops to resist stubbornly, and was burned to death in the front hall by Dutinghou."
After a long silence, some people threw down their weapons, and some people held their weapons and wanted to move forward to continue fighting, but then they were stopped by more people, and the situation was finally brought under control. The only fly in the ointment was that Li Rutian Jing saw that the situation was unstoppable. Miao, he immediately ran to the imperial prison with about thirty cronies.
Cao Xing walked down the city gate and asked Zhong Yao: "Aren't you going to pursue him? Although Li Wenyou helped Zhou to commit evil, he is also a wise man. If we let him wait to reorganize Dong Zhuo's remaining troops in the city, we can't compare one to ten!"
Zhong Yao said: "Situ has the emperor in his hands. He just has great righteousness. It will not help the troops in his hands. We can't stop them now. The top priority is to bring in reinforcements."
"Where are the reinforcements?"
"Chengmen School Captain Dong Cheng!"
After talking to him, Zhong Yao quickly rode south. When many people from Liang City saw the fire in the palace, they spontaneously gathered together and advanced towards the palace, allowing this man to ride. Running on the city road, he soon left Zhangcheng Gate. Before coming, he learned from Lu Bu about Dong Zhuo's arrangements during his lifetime. He knew that Dong Cheng and the three thousand original garrison were now stationed on Longshou Plain, so he went there directly. Go.
Dong Cheng, the captain of the city gate school, also saw the thick smoke in the city, but he knew that he was excluded from this purge. No matter what happened in the city, it had nothing to do with him, so he didn't bother to think about it. It's just that his subordinates were all As a result, the commotion continued, and he had no choice but to come forward to appease them one by one, saying: "We warriors are just arrows in troubled times, just letting others shoot them. How can we make our own decisions? Just wait and see."
While they were talking, it was already midnight in the evening. At this time, a small soldier led Zhong Yao in and said to Dong Cheng: "Captain, your Majesty has an edict for you."
Dong Cheng was keenly aware that this was not Dong Zhuo's military order, and looked up at Zhong Yao. Zhong Yao said to him: "The situation is urgent. I hope Lieutenant Dong can understand the overall situation." After that, he handed the order directly to him. Dong Cheng, Dong Cheng walked under the firelight and opened it to read. He couldn't help but turned pale and asked Zhong Yao: "Is this serious?"
"Absolutely true!"
Zhong Yao said anxiously: "The principal is a member of the emperor's clan. How can we stand by and watch at this critical moment? Is the principal willing to sit back and watch the Han Dynasty perish?"
Dong Cheng hesitated upon hearing this. He turned back to look at his deployment, pulled Zhong Yao aside, and whispered: "Liang people are not afraid of death, and most of my men are new soldiers recruited from Guanzhong. Now I am hastily leading my army to serve the king. How can I fight?" Pass?"
Zhong Yao was about to persuade, when there was another noise from the army. They pointed at the city and shouted: "It's on fire again! It's on fire again!" When the two heard this, they couldn't help but look towards the city. There was only one person in Chang'an City before. Black smoke mixed with a faint red light could be seen, as if it contained a powerful sign of dawn. But at this time, the fire in the city was getting bigger and bigger, and the flames were sweeping towards the sky, like an infinite shout, mixed with rockets flying back and forth. It turned out that it was later The Liangren began to shoot at each other with the Tiger Guards. …
Zhong Yao couldn't wait any longer and said: "Captain, the situation is like this now. There is no room for hesitation. If the two sides are fighting, only one side can survive. Those who sit back and watch will be regarded as rebels. I have been controlled by Dong Zhuo for several years, but today Captain Dong can decide on his own without making a decision. Do you want to regret it after your death!"
Dong Cheng remembered what he had just said, "A warrior's body is like an arrow." He was suddenly enlightened like a thunderbolt. He said repeatedly: "Be taught!" Then he immediately summoned his troops and hurried to the city to serve King Qin.
At this time, the city was in chaos. Lu Bu had led more than 700 Tiger Guards to the North Palace, and Li Ru had led 4,000 Liang people. The two sides fired rockets at each other in front of the Weiyang Palace, causing a huge fire. The fire was very intense. It was about to affect the surrounding houses. The residents originally wanted to stay in their houses and wait for the war to end, but under such circumstances, they had to escape from their houses and flee. At this time, Liang Ren was outside the palace and Mingren was inside. These The people directly disrupted Liang Ren's formation.
Just at this time, Dong Cheng and others came from the south holding torches high. The people saw a fire dragon that was about to hit the Liang people's right wing. They all panicked and shouted: "The Liang people are defeated! The Liang people are defeated." Got it!"
This shout directly caused the imbalance of the battle situation. Li Ru knew clearly that the new army coming was Dong Cheng's new army, which did not have much combat power. But under such circumstances, not many people listened to his command. The Liang people who originally knew that the grand master was dead and were not determined to fight completely collapsed and ran towards the north like an avalanche. But this time, Li Ru could no longer escape and call for reinforcements.
Lu Bu took advantage of the situation and launched a counterattack from the palace, driving the people in the city and Liang people north together. After more than an hour, he returned with his sword sealed, holding the heads of Li Ru, Tian Jing and others in his hand, and the remaining The more than 700 tiger guards below were all bloody, as if they were hungry ghost Shura crawling out of hell. And along the way, more people were trampled to death and burned to death than were hacked to death with swords.
The fire in the city is still burning, corpses fill the streets, and the bricks and stones are filled with wailing sounds, but no one cares about these now.
Situ Wang Yun led the emperor out and met Lu Bu, Dong Cheng and others first. On the spot, Lu Bu was appointed as General Fenwu. During the holiday, he was promoted to the third division of Yibi. He was promoted to Marquis of Wen. He also appointed Dong Cheng as General Jianping. During the holiday, Yibi Sansi was promoted to the title of Zhenghou, and at the same time appointed Zhong Yao as a court lieutenant. He went to the imperial prison to rescue the arrested members of Dong's gang.
The prison was full during the day. Li Ru transferred most of the Liang people out. Only about forty jailers were left in the prison. When they realized that the situation was not good, they fled immediately, even taking the keys to the prison. They were all taken away. After Zhong Yao discovered this, he was very helpless. He had no choice but to borrow fifty soldiers from Dong Cheng. They jingled and chopped in the prison all night before freeing all the captured Qingliu.
Xun You was among them. He was imprisoned in prison for a month. The broken ribs had healed on their own, leaving only some sequelae, namely a dull pain in his chest when he walked. When he saw Zhong Yao, he smiled and asked: "On the ground, How is the matter?" Zhong Yao replied: "The Dong thief has been eliminated." Xun You laughed when he heard this, and he happily said: "The great man can still be prosperous!"
But soon, when he walked out of the prison, what he saw was Chang'an City, which was almost in ruins. A question appeared in everyone's mind: Is the big man really happy?
This answer can only be answered by history. .
