Chapter 839 Humerus
When Dong Huang came back drunk again, not only the leg of lamb in his hand had been given away, but also the armor, knife and belt on his body were all gone.
Dong Huang was in a good mood after winning the support of his sons. After drinking wine, he gave away whatever he touched.
Fortunately, there were generals around him, otherwise the confused Dong Huang might have given away all the Prime Minister's seals.
But even so, Dong Huang, who returned to the curtain behind the curtain, was still not satisfied, and said proudly to Li Meng beside him:
"Today I know how valuable people are!"
Li Meng immediately stood up, raised his wine glass and congratulated Dong Huang:
"King Qin, he will be the emperor tomorrow, and that will be different from mortal beings like us."
After saying that, he drank a big gulp of wine.
Although Dong Huang drank too much, he still understood what Li Meng meant and waved his hand and said:
"My uncle once told me that this person has achieved enlightenment, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. Brothers, don't worry, I have become a dragon and ascended to heaven. There are places for you on those dragon beards and tails. Haha! Come and drink!"
The generals under the curtain were overjoyed. What they wanted was Dong Huang's words.
So, people shouted to kill Zhentian from the front, people were drinking and drinking, and everyone was thinking about the future.
After Li Meng felt at ease, he spoke more openly.
As a member of the Li family in Longxi like Li Jue, Li Meng never felt that he was inferior to his elder brother, he only thought that he was not with the right person.
So he raised his glass to toast Dong Huang again:
"Since the world has been in chaos, there are countless people who have rebelled and brought chaos to the world. However, the Liu family has lost its destiny. Neither the Ling Emperor nor the current little emperor looks like a human king. Therefore, the chaos in the world cannot be pacified. Fortunately, God has blessed us. Ten thousand people surrendered to the Dong family to stabilize the country. Now that the prime minister has passed away, the Han family has lost the hearts of the people and cannot inherit the ancestral temple."
As he spoke, Li Meng turned to his colleagues and said sincerely:
"But there are successors to the Prime Minister's career. Dong Dalang was appointed at the critical moment, and he has the merit of making decisions. Today we will eliminate the Han Dynasty first, and then we will control the country. The next day, we will fight to the death with the Taishan bandits. When the time comes, we will serve the country with our lives and eliminate the chaos. , renew with the country, work hard to rectify the country, and become a famous general of the country haha.”
After speaking, he drank it all in one gulp.
And over there, everyone heard this and all cheered. Even Dong Huang walked down with emotion, filled Li Meng's glass of wine himself, and then sighed:
"General Li still understands me and understands me."
Dong Huang's "eyes were moist" when he said it, and he said with emotion:
"People say that I, Dong Huang, am a dandy. This is just the criticism of the world. I was raised by my uncle since I was a child, and I have the ambition to serve the country. However, the imperial minister is incompetent, and everything is just for the family's personal gain. . As loyal ministers and good generals as we are, there is no way to serve the country.”
As he spoke, Dong Huang forced his tears out:
"I used to be stubborn and didn't understand the truth, but later I met a great scholar who told me that nothing in the world is more important than the people, even the country and the monarch should be ranked behind. I suddenly realized that as long as we obey the will of the people, That’s right, that’s great loyalty, isn’t it?”
Dong Huang's words stunned the generals into silence.
No, everyone just said some nice words, are you serious about coming?
In fact, one thing Dong Huang said is right, that is, Dong Huang is not a purely naughty person, he has Dong Zhuo's cunning.
He knew very well that his reputation in the past was too bad, but that was not because Dong Huang himself had to be like that, but because he knew that his role towards his uncle was to be a ruthless butcher's knife.
Why does he hate his younger uncle? It's because he has finished his own journey.
From a political point of view, Dong Zhuo needed a moderate who was hostile to the Han and an extremist who disowned his relatives, so that Dong Zhuo could mediate in the middle and use whomever he wanted to express his attitude.
Now that my uncle has become a moderate, doesn't Dong Huang just have to be a vicious dog?
In the past, Dong Zhuo was fine, but now that Dong Huang himself is about to ascend, his past reputation will become a drag on him. Not only are the generals in the army jealous of his character, but even outsiders will subconsciously regard him as a being who cannot be cooperated with. .
Therefore, Dong Huang needs to make some amends.
The first step to restore your reputation is to clear away the stigma of rebellion.
But he forgot what kind of group of people he was facing.
The Liangzhou generals below, except Li Meng who may have heard something interesting, are all rough men. I only think that Dong Huang is even more elusive.
Because they couldn't figure out what Dong Huang meant, these people didn't dare to talk any more, and they all began to eat wine and meat in silence, waiting for the good news to come.
No matter what, there were killing sounds and flames shooting into the sky. Victory was right in front of them, and everyone's faces were filled with red light.
If fame, wealth and honor were just on this night, in that palace city, wouldn't it be something that could be achieved easily?
It is true that the Liangzhou soldiers outside the palace gate fought well.
Each of the four gates of Weiyang Palace has a Sima Gate. Only the east gate and the north gate have palace gates, also known as the East Gate and the North Gate.
Among them, the East Palace is the most important. It is the passage for princes to enter the palace when they come to court, and it is also the direction of the main attack of Liangzhou soldiers this time.
Previously, it was reported that the palace palace had been destroyed, and it was the East Palace in question.
At this time, the Liangzhou soldiers who were the first to break through the East Palace had already penetrated deep into the palace complex along the corridors between the palace walls.
But the eight-meter-wide corridor became the death place for these Liangzhou soldiers.
Arrows were shot down continuously from the top of the corridor, and the Liangzhou soldiers who entered the palace suffered heavy casualties. Even the first generals who had been given meat by Dong Huang died in the battle.
This fierce general who had just boasted in front of Dong Huang: "The last general can do nothing but kill people." Because he rushed too fast, he was directly fired by the Yulin army on the corridor and turned into a hedgehog.
His men were loyal and fought hard to recover the body, but they did not dare to attack the corridor. Then they fired some arrows at random and retreated to the east tower.
Although the Liangzhou soldiers here have retreated, the officials and the young emperor in the palace are also suffering.
Just now, the people who went to Fudao came back and reported that they were also surrounded by Liangzhou people on Fudao, and now they were really isolated in the palace.
At this time, the little emperor himself couldn't bear it any longer. He walked back and forth anxiously and asked:
"Where are the Hedong soldiers? Why haven't they entered the city yet?"
As he spoke, he repeated it again:
"Why haven't you entered the city yet?"
Now that Liangzhou soldiers have conquered the East Palace, they can directly attack the front hall as long as they break through the corridor. It can be said that it is no longer a question of whether we are determined enough, but that we must immediately find a way to break out.
All the ministers also understood this truth and were all anxious.
At this time, Zhao Wen came up with an idea:
"There are two complex roads in Weiyang Palace, leading to Changle Palace in the east and Jianzhang Palace in the west. When Red Eyebrows broke into Chang'an, they burned down Jianzhang Palace in the west. After that, Jianzhang Palace has never been rebuilt. But the path of recovery is still there. Now, the only way to survive is probably there.”
But Zhao Wen's words did not make the people present happy, because of course they knew what that corridor looked like.
It was not so much a sky street as it was a platform extending outside the palace. There was nothing in front of it, and there was a cliff several feet high below, which made them unable to run.
The emperor also knew that passage and asked with a frown:
"It's two or three feet above the ground. If you fall, you'll turn into a pulp. How can you escape?"
Zhao Wen naturally had a solution when he said this. He pointed to the yellow ribbons hanging from the palace pillars and replied: "We can tie them with these yellow ribbons and slide them outside the palace."
This is indeed a solution, but the risks involved are still too high. The average age of the ministers present is fifty or sixty years old, and they are usually served by others. How can they have the strength to grab the yellow ribbon and slide down?
But Zhao Wen's method was just for the emperor, because he was young and strong, so this was the biggest chance of escape.
Liu Xie was not a hesitant person. He dared to take risks when he should. Without hesitation, he immediately changed out of his loose robes and put on tight clothes such as hakama.
Then he strode towards Beique.
The Yulin men behind him grabbed their yellow ribbons and chased after him, while the ministers behind him hesitated and did not dare to take the risk.
Instead, Zhao Qian, who had been silent, opened his legs and said:
"What other choice do you have? To put it bluntly, isn't it better to fall to death than to die under the axes of Liangzhou people?"
After saying that, he panted and followed.
But even with these words, only a dozen ministers followed the emperor, planning to slide down the Fudao side.
The rest probably already have other ideas.
Here, the little emperor ran and quickly bypassed the North Tower and reached the Fudao.
But just looking down, Liu Xie fell silent, and the courage to refuse was no longer there.
Zhao Wen, who had taken the initiative to make this suggestion before, just gasped and leaned over.
From the look on the emperor's face, one could tell that he was frightened.
There was no other way, so Zhao Wen could only ask Yu Linlang to tie the yellow ribbon first, then tie the other end around his waist, and then said to the emperor:
"Your Majesty, I will go down first."
Liu Xie had a dull face and nodded dully.
Over there, Zhao Wen walked to the break of the complex road, which already extended outside the palace. As long as he went down from here, he could leave the city from the west gate in a few steps.
Zhao Wen tiptoed on the edge, and five or six Yulinlangs over there grabbed the yellow ribbon and slowly lowered it down, and then Zhao Wen landed slowly like this.
Looking at the emperor above, Zhao Wen smiled:
"Your Majesty, don't worry. Close your eyes and don't look down. You will land on the ground soon."
But as soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, the silk cloth tied around Zhao Wen's waist broke. Then, under the astonished eyes of Liu Xie and others, Zhao Wen fell straight to the ground.
In the end, the liver and brain were wiped out.
Liu Xie was completely stunned. He looked at the veteran minister who died tragically and cried:
"My humerus minister is gone like this?"
……
Time goes back to the beginning of the chaos, before the West Market burned down.
Ten miles west of Ba Ling, where the Hedong soldiers camp was set up, three Hedong generals were sitting and drinking together in the tent.
These three people are now the three principals of the Hedong Army, namely Hedong Mayan, Fan Xian, and Lantian native Liu Xiong.
These three people respectively represent the three factions of more than 20,000 Hedong soldiers.
Among them, Ma Wan represents the powerful military families in Hedong, while Fan Xian represents the wealthy families in Hedong. As for Liu Xiong, he is a Guanzhong native who originally supported the Linfen defense line.
As for the angel who seemed to be able to play tricks on Hedong Army at the beginning, why did he disappear?
In fact, from the beginning to the end, the angels around the emperor never controlled the Hedong Army. These people just took this opportunity to retreat from the Linfen defense line, and then go to Guanzhong to seek wealth.
And once they achieve this goal, the angel will naturally be no longer needed.
Of course, they didn't do anything to the angel. Even if they put him under house arrest, they still provided him with good food and drink.
At this moment, the three generals in charge happened to be talking about Chang'an.
As the only Guanzhong person among the three, Liu Xiong has always emphasized that the Hedong Army's entry route must avoid Lantian in the south, because he and his troops are from the Lantian area, and it would be ugly if they were robbed by his own people. .
Therefore, in order to maintain internal unity, the three of them took the team directly to Balingxi and began to build a camp based on pavilions here.
Ba Ling is the tomb of Emperor Wen of the Pre-Han Dynasty. There are nine mausoleums in total surrounding Chang'an. Each of them is a satellite city on the edge of Chang'an and can protect Chang'an.
The Baling Mausoleum is located on the passage into Chang'an from the east. After entering the pass from Hangu Pass, it goes all the way to Tongguan along Taolinsai, Nuxiang, and Huangxiangting. Then from Tongguan to Huayin, Zheng, Xi, Hongmen, Xinfeng, Bashang and Zhidao, you can enter Chang'an.
Therefore, at this time, the Hedong soldiers not only occupied the favorable terrain of Baling, but also interrupted Chang'an's eastern passage, allowing them to advance or retreat.
The few people discussed for a while and once again emphasized that no matter who wins or loses in Chang'an City, as long as they enter Chang'an City, they will grab a wave first and then see who wins.
Anyway, with their strength of almost 20,000, no matter which side they are in, they have to supply them well.
At this time, there was a report from outside that smoke was seen burning in the direction of Chang'an, and it was getting bigger and bigger.
Now the three of them couldn't sit still, knowing that something must have happened in Chang'an.
Among the three, Fan Xian had the highest level of insight and immediately said:
"Chang'an must have been in chaos. Let's head west quickly now, control the city gate first, and then see the situation."
The other two people naturally understood that this was a God-given opportunity and did not object.
So the three of them quickly sobered up, put on their armor, and then headed for Chang'an with the Hedong soldiers.
When they arrived near Chang'an, they happened to meet the emperor's messenger who risked his life to escape from the city, so they learned from that person that Chang'an was now in chaos and Dong's soldiers were besieging the palace.
Fan Xian didn't say anything. He only asked someone to help the messenger down to rest. Then he turned to the other two generals and said:
"Two brothers, our luck has come. This time we don't want to be greedy for small profits in the city. We are going to fight a few games to make a big one. Let's go directly to snatch the emperor over. When the time comes, this heaven-shaking wealth will not be lost. Is it ours?”
The two hesitated for a moment, wondering if this was too risky. After all, instead of directly clashing with the Liangzhou soldiers, it was better to grab a fight in the city first.
The second general is very simple and thinks that instead of thinking about the big one, it is better to fill his hands and pockets first and then see the situation.
So the two rejected Fan Xian's plan and decided to go directly to the city to rob.
At this time, Fan Xian was so angry that he cursed "You can't make plans with Shuzi", but he could only accept it bitterly.
In this way, the speed of the team accelerated again, and everyone in Hedong was very interested.
After all, this kind of opportunity to make a fortune only comes once in life.