458. The decisive battle is reopened
Luoyang West Garden is the legendary place for Emperor Ling to hide treasures and enjoy pleasure and indulge in lust. Its dissatisfaction is comparable to King Zhou’s wine pond and meat forest.
There have been few descendants of powerful emperors who have never enjoyed it at will, but the degree is not enough. This style of conduct gives historians room to play. Because as emperors, their talents are covered up by those romantic anecdotes, and instead become foolish monarchs under the cover of the prosperous times. The most obvious of them are the "Emperor Ming of Tang" and the former emperor "Emperor Ling of Han".
"The country is always destroyed by weak, while the Han Dynasty is destroyed by strong." This statement is not unreasonable.
Emperor Ling of Han was even worse than Li Longji's governance skills. In the late Tang Dynasty, the border was unstable, and there were still famous generals in charge of the overall situation. However, when the Han Dynasty entered its old age, the warlords in the four places were in power. Although they were still strong in their troops and horses, they checked and balanced the four barbarians, but due to the extortion of heavy taxes and natural disasters, people's livelihood declined and wars broke out everywhere.
The place of Xiyuan is already terrible due to the Ling Emperor. But now, this Xiyuan has ushered in a person with even more reputation in later generations!
Dong Zhuo, who started out in a short time and was at the top of the emperor, has now truly achieved "below one person and above ten thousand people" and achieved an achievement that he could never imagine when he was young!
Dong Zhuo, who came from the northwest desert, was born to pursue the way of killing and using his fists to solve problems... or to say, to solve civil servants. Fortunately, he has such a personality, otherwise it would be difficult for him to survive in the battle against foreign tribes and gain an indestructible reputation in the military.
Unfortunately, historical records are a pen in the hands of historians, and historians are also civil officials. If Dong Zhuo does not act according to the "right way", he will naturally not be tolerated by the mainstream officialdom and aristocratic families, be beaten to be an alien, praise and criticize merits and demerits, and it is normal for him to use the Spring and Autumn style to modify it in historical books.
However, Dong Zhuo is not in the mood to consider the issue of "fame behind his back". He has more important things to do now.
The matter of moving the capital to Chang'an was agreed, and many of the ministers opposed it.
The next day, Dong Zhuo inspected the army and inspired all the generals. He then criticized the civil officials and killed dozens of important officials in the court, with many members of the barbarians!
Most of these people who have been destroyed by the whole clan are nobles from aristocratic families, who are often entrusted with heavy taxes and have rich families.
Of course, only the upper class of the Eastern Alliance Army knew what devastating blow Dong Zhuo's killing this time had caused to their "intelligence network" and "funding channels"!
The blood feud was formed, and Dong Zhuo believed that he was ready to move the city, and everything was waiting for "gathering under the city" tomorrow.
But once the killing method was released, it was a situation of never ending. A big battle opened in such an atmosphere!
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On the day of moving the city, Luoyang West Garden.
In the eyes of some people, this huge garden is not much the same as that of the people. In fact, it is also the place where Emperor Ling "works hard to govern" and recruits soldiers and brave men.
The "Eight Captains of Xiyuan" are famous all over the world, and now there is a hero like Yuan Shao, which is not of no use.
At least, in Yuan Shao's own eyes, this "old place" that made him stand out from his family as a concubine's son definitely has extraordinary significance.
"If the people in the family had not regarded this place as the place where the late emperor had taken the "protagonist" in those days, I would not have been like today. Unfortunately, the inner court was unstable and the late emperor died early, otherwise..."
Yuan Shao had already hidden in a small building at this time. He looked at the west garden on the other side of the river from a distance. He waited for Dong Zhuo's convoy to set off, and then rushed out to regain the "King of Hongnong" and then led the army outside the city to annihilate the narrow valley of the ancient road of the imperial tomb in the western suburbs. The Xiliang army was wiped out in one fell swoop.
It was already after noon when Yuan Shao and Wen Chou came to Xiyuan, and it was the time for the weather to be hot.
However, there were no cicadas in the north at this time, so that the city of Luoyang under martial law was silent, as if the ghost realm had descended on earth.
Yuan Shao and the other two were wearing ordinary Xiliang cavalry uniforms. In a small courtyard, hundreds of elite soldiers who had already entered the city in batches a few months ago. These people were personally commanded by Wen Chou and were the most elite personal guards under Yuan Shao. Each of them had the ability to be ten.
"Master, the time is almost over, the eldest son's arrangement..."
Just when Wen Chou was impatient and worried, a scream beside him attracted his attention and answered his doubts.
"Look! The fire is on the rise!"
Looking at the scandal, several smoke and dust suddenly burst out from the distant city, and fire rose up in the inner courtyard of the palace, the city gate, and even the west garden in front of you.
There were crying and shouting in the air, and the smoke and dust rolled, as if a fire was spreading rapidly.
In February, the sky is dry and the wind is strong, which is when fire is flooded. This fire is under the bonus of the heavenly time, and the momentum is even more vicious. A discerning person can tell at a glance that it is not an ordinary fire.
Wen Chou silently calculated the distance and direction of the wind in his heart, and then his heart sank.
When he found that the fire was in the main passes in Luoyang City, it was not the agreed West Garden and the Shangshu Mansion Villa where Yuan Fang rescued the fire was located, he was shocked.
"No, this fire head is far away and scattered strangely, unlike the secret message sent by the inside!"
As soon as Wen Chou finished speaking, fires rose everywhere in the city, smoke and dust gradually became a siege, and the fire in the West Garden also rose into the air at this time!
"Here you come!" Yuan Shao and Wen Chou froze at the same time, staring at the corner gate in the direction of Xiyuan.
The two of them watched quietly for a moment, and then they heard the noise of people and horses in the West Garden. It seemed that there were hooves and the sound of sledgehammers hitting hard objects came from far to near, and even the ground was swaying slightly.
"Open the access and protect Gong Dong from the city to meet General Lu!"
As Yaoyao listened to the shouts in the garden, Wen Chou involuntarily held the weapons in his hand tightly.
The sound was not enough for three breaths, and the huge high wall facing the opening of the city wall in Xiyuan suddenly fell. A group of hundreds of craftsmen and auxiliary soldiers rushed out, and in a short time before the people on the other side of the river could react, they cleaned the gravel ruins and created a spacious path!
More than ten riders rushed out, and one of them was no less tall than Wen Chou, but he was old and no longer strong, and his figure seemed a little obese.
This person is not someone else, but the current leader of Xiyuan, and even Luoyang, Dong Zhuo and Dong Zhongying!
Now Dong Zhuo is riding a horse and carrying a sword to fight first. Although he hasn't been in battle for a long time, his bravery and majestic posture when he was young is still there, which makes people see the sharpness he was when he was on the battlefield at a glance!
"Oops!"
Seeing this, Yuan Shao's eyes suddenly shook.
They didn't have much staff, and the plan they made was to regain the target by raiding Dong Zhuo's "convoy" in the middle of the "convoy", creating chaos and the enemy's trunk.
But now, Dong Zhuo was obviously prepared and did not walk the side door that could only pass through the two cars side by side!
Now, the plan has deviated from the beginning and things are tricky...
Yuan Shao was not worried about his situation at this time, but instead cared more about Yuan Fang, who only brought two "newcomers" on the other side to save people...
Chapter completed!