Chapter 490 Four News
It is said that there was a melee in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an overnight. The Qinglong Army fought successively and attacked from both sides. The Northwest Army finally collapsed completely. Huang Gai's cavalry rushed back and forth until the sky was dim, and the battlefield was full of corpses, and there were countless surrenders from the northwest army. Li Jue, Guo Si, Li Ru and other leaders of the Northwest Army were missing. The Hun cavalry was taken away from the battlefield by Liu Bao, who surrendered. Chen Long put away the electric shock baton in his hand, secretly shouting that he was lucky. If he hadn't walked through the tunnel tonight, he would have almost lost Chang'an, and the people in the city would have been tortured by the Xiliang army just like in the official history.
A young general emerged from the morning mist. He was white-faced, beardless and handsome. He was Zhong Yao's youngest son Zhong Hui and Zhong Shiji. Chen Long was overjoyed. He didn't expect that Zhong Hui was about to become a man of talent. This boy was a great general. He was absolutely capable of both civil and military skills in official history, but his ambition was easily inflated. Zhong Huihui's men rescued Liao Hua and Hu Yanyuanhai and returned to the city. However, they saw a person in the distance outside the east gate, walking unsteadily along the official road. When he took a closer look, he saw that it was the guard general Wang Fang whom he had recognized since he was a child.
Chen Long's mind was racing. This surprise was no small matter. It was really unexpected. Why did Wang Fang, Diao Chan's chief of guard, still appear here? A chill immediately shot up Chen Longhou's spine. The battle in the eastern suburbs had just come to an end when his backyard caught fire again. Chen Long didn't care about riding the horse, he just lifted up and reached Wang Fang. As expected, Wang Fang's arms were empty, and he had obviously been chopped off.
It turned out that Diao Chan was kidnapped by Li Ru last night. Li Ru killed all her guards, leaving only Wang Fang alive, but still cut off his arms and threw him into the moat together with the bodies of his brothers in the guard. Wang Fang lost his arms, how could he still swim? Fortunately, he fainted from the pain and did not sink to the bottom. He floated on his back and drifted with the river to the east side of the city. When the sky gradually became brighter, Wang Fang suddenly woke up from the pain. He was extremely tired and painful both physically and mentally. He wished he could just drown in the moat. But she remembered that she must inform her lord that the mistress was kidnapped by Li Ru. She no longer cared about the pain and struggled to paddle with her legs. With some martial arts skills, he climbed ashore.
Wang Fang was covered in blood and wet, but his lips had long lost the color of his blood. With his strong will, he stumbled towards the east gate. With every step he took, his broken arms on both sides felt pain in their bones, as if they were undergoing endless torture. Wang Fang's eyes were blood red and he clenched his teeth. He wanted to see his lord even if the blood flowed dry. Suddenly, his eyes flashed, and the lord actually appeared in front of him. Wang Fang could hardly believe his eyes. There was a bang in his head in ecstasy, and he fainted to the ground.
Seeing Wang Fang's miserable condition, Chen Long felt pain in his heart. He quickly picked up Wang Fang and picked up Qinggong and returned to the city. Zhong Hui and others followed him into the east gate and continued all the way to Zhong Yao's Inn.
In a clean room in the backyard of the inn, Chen Long finished bandaging Wang Fang with his own hands. When he saw that there were only two short meat pegs left on Wang Fang's arms, he couldn't help but mourned greatly in his heart, and his eyes were already filled with tears. After a night of bloody fighting, he discovered that his beloved wife didn't know what had happened, and he felt unspeakably anxious. Chen Long walked out of the clean room and saw Zhong Yao and Zhuge Liang waiting for him at the door of the study.
Chen Long knew that they had something to say, so he entered the study room in one quick step. Zhong Yao followed first, followed closely by Zhuge Liang. Although Kong Ming's expression was still calm, his brows were obviously slightly furrowed, as if he was worried.
Although Chen Long was also upset, he forced himself to calm down first. When he rescued Wang Fang and entered the house, he had already asked Zhong Yao to find out the news. There would definitely be news when he came back. Therefore, Chen Long did not bother to ask Zhuge Liang first and said directly: "Yuan Chang, if you have any news, tell me quickly."
Zhong Yao was originally the chief of intelligence in Chang'an. The intelligence network had already been deployed. Today, it was fully mobilized and some situations were immediately investigated. Zhong Yao opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly stopped. It was obvious that there was too much news and he needed to organize his priorities. Chen Long turned around and sat in the chair. Zhong Yao then said, "My lord, I just heard a lot of news, but four of them are the most important." Chen Long frowned and nodded.
"First, they were searching along the perimeter of the city wall and the moat just now, and found that the entire Mistress's escort team had been killed." Zhong Yao obviously knew that this news was the most important, and he quickly spoke it out first.
Although Chen Long had already had a premonition, when the facts were presented in front of him, he still couldn't believe it. He couldn't help but stand up and stomped his feet a few times. Zhong Yao said: "My lord, please don't be upset. I have divided the troops into two groups. One group will go around to find the whereabouts of the mistress, and the other group will return to Xiangyang to check what happened."
Chen Long said: "It's enough to divide the troops into two groups. Although I don't know what actually happened, I believe that Chan'er did come to me with Wang Fang and others. Chan'er's life and death are unknown, and Wang Fang and others were probably captured and killed. It should be He was kidnapped by the enemy." Zhong Yao was silent because he really hadn't found out who was the one who kidnapped his mistress.
Chen Long knew what he was thinking, shook his head and said: "When Wang Fang wakes up, he will naturally know who is kidnapping the mistress! But I have already vaguely guessed in my heart that if this person dares to touch Chan'er even half a cent, I will ask him to repay it a hundred times!" Zhong Yao said hurriedly: "My mistress and auspicious people have their own destiny! My lord, please don't worry."
Chen Long forced himself to calm down again and sat down again while thinking of a way. Zhong Yao continued: "The second news is that Emperor Xian has appeared."
Chen Long was suddenly startled and said: "Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty? Where is he?"
Zhong Yao continued hurriedly: "The news came from Yanzhou's informants that Cao Cao was building a palace in Taishan County, Yanzhou, and asked his son Cao Pi to supervise the construction, claiming to welcome the Emperor of Heaven. The palace has been really busy recently. I heard that Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was coming. Ce granted Cao Cao the title of King of Wei, and it turned out that Cao Cao sent people to kidnap the emperor."
Chen Long felt agitated in his heart. Cao Mengde finally got his long-cherished wish and succeeded in coercing the emperor to order the princes. How should I deal with it? The ideal of quickly unifying the world seems to have become elusive. I don’t know what to do. Should I kidnap Emperor Xian of Han again?
Zhuge Liang seemed to have thought of a solution on this issue and was eager to speak, but Chen Long asked Zhong Yao: "What is the third message?"
With two pieces of bad news in a row, Chen Long's mood was extremely bad. Zhong Yao said hurriedly: "The third piece of news is that a large number of Western Qiang refugees have appeared in Hanzhong, with a population of tens of thousands. They have repeatedly clashed with local people and robbed food. The leader is called Li Hu from Badi. Without Ma Chao, I am already a little overwhelmed."
This one seemed irrelevant, but Chen Long was surprised. Hanzhong is the leader of Xiliang, eastern Hubei, Longxi, northern Sichuan, and southern Gansu. Its geographical location is very important and must not be lost. What's more, this Li Hu is not suffering from scabies. According to official history, he is the ancestor of Li Xiong, the founder of the Han Dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and the rise of the Ba Di people started from Hanzhong's food grabbing.
Zhong Yao saw that his lord's face was very bad, so he said without stopping: "The fourth message is from the pseudo-emperor Zhong's Yuan Shu, who sent someone to deliver the message. Huangfu Song and his son in Tongguan have been attacked by Zhang Xiu and others for many days and can no longer support themselves. , has sent people to Yuan Shu in Luoyang to ask for help, hoping to pass through the suburbs of Luoyang and defect to Cao Cao after passing through Chenliu. However, Yuan Shu did not want to become an enemy of the Qinglong Army, so he secretly made an appointment with his lord to attack Tongguan together, annihilate Huangfu Song, and then guard Tongguan together. , it’s good to make an alliance.”
Chen Long cursed in his heart. He didn't even have the slightest affection for Yuan Shu. Sooner or later, the dead bones in the tomb would be cleared away, and he wanted to drag the Qinglong Army into the water with him. Standing up, Chen Long stopped Zhuge Liang who wanted to speak with his gestures. He tightened the dagger around his waist and said, "I don't want to hear any more news! After passing my order, the fourth captain of the special warfare division and Lu Master, the only thing I want to do now is to find a way to save my Chan'er!"
Zhuge Liang and Zhong Yao were both startled. The surrounding situation was so complicated, but the master wanted to save his woman. Is the word love really more important than the country? But seeing Chen Long's resolute expression and not daring to say anything, the most depressing thing was that Zhuge Liang was kicked out by Chen Long before he could say anything after entering. In this crisis at the east gate, Zhuge Liang, as the leader of Chang'an appointed by his lord before leaving, had an unshirkable responsibility. Therefore, little Zhuge felt worried and had to walk out of the study first and go to inform Lu Chang.
As soon as the two of them entered the courtyard, Lu Chang, who was guarding between the backyard and the inn, ran in and said to the two of them: "There is a man outside the door who claims to be an envoy from Jiangdong Sun Ce and wants to see the lord!"
If you want to know what happens next, listen to the explanation next time.
