Chapter 1 Night in the West Garden
It was late at night and the breeze came slowly, the leaves were whispering, and the September night was already a little chilling. Unknown insects kept shouting in the grass full of dew. A bright moon hung in the air like a silver plate, pouring the clear light like water on the earth.
The wide and flat school ground is covered with fine sand and stones, and under the bright moonlight, it is like a layer of snow. The school ground is surrounded by barracks and weapon frames, and further away are jagged rockery, trees, palaces and tall walls. It is obvious that this place was once a royal garden. As for the school ground and barracks in the middle, it was obviously later renovated.
This is Xiyuan. Xiyuan was originally a royal garden located twenty miles west of Luoyang City. In the fifth year of Zhongping, Emperor Liu Hong transformed the Xiyuan, removed rockery, cut down trees, and built schoolyards and barracks. In August, he recruited strong men here and formed the Eight Army of Xiyuan, with Jian Shuo, Yuan Shao, Bao Hong, Cao Cao, Zhao Rong, Feng Fang, Xia Mou, and Chunyu Qiong as the Eight Clerks of Xiyuan, and the eunuch Jian Shuo as the head of the Eight Clerks of Xiyuan to command the troops and horses of Xiyuan to check and balance the General He Jin.
However, the following year, in April of the sixth year of Zhongping, the emperor Liu Hong, who was only 33 years old, died in the Nangong Jiade Hall due to excessive indulgence and was posthumously named Emperor Xiaoling. His eldest son Liu Bian succeeded to the throne with the support of his mother's uncle General He Jin. Qian Shuo, the captain of the Shangjun Academy, wanted to make Liu Bian's younger brother Liu Xie the emperor, so he secretly joined forces with the Ten Constant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant Attendant, and secretly reported it to He Jin. He Jin ordered the Huangmen to arrest Jian Shuo and easily executed him. After Jian Shuo's death, General He Jin took control of the Eight Army of Xiyuan.
It was Yin time. In the woods behind a row of barracks in the northwest corner of the West Garden, the moonlight shone through the mottled crown. Zhang Zhaohu's long hair was dispersed, sitting blankly on a stone bench, looking confused.
It has been two hours since he has not yet come back to his senses, as if he is in a dream. There are constant streams of memories in his mind, all of which belong to the original owner of this body, Zhang Liao.
That's right, it was Zhang Liao, one of the five good generals of the Three Kingdoms period.
After a long time, Zhang Zhaohu rubbed his face hard and breathed a sigh of relief. He was originally a minion in the county government in the 21st century. In order to pursue a female high school history teacher, he sneaked into the campus to play basketball. He flew to dunk and grabbed the basket and wanted to turn around to give the goddess a chic smile. However, he didn't expect that the basketball rack would fall down and the basket was stuck on his neck.
When he woke up again, he found that he had appeared in an old barracks for no reason. In addition to the strange memories that emerged, his body was also unfamiliar. He was six or seven years younger. The memories that kept popping up in his mind told him that he was in the late Han Dynasty, named Zhang Liao, who was only twenty-one years old and was in Bingzhou.
When encountering such a thing, even Zhang Zhaohu, who was always mentally profuse, could not be able to do so at this time. He knew that in the late Han Dynasty, the storm was in turmoil, the building was about to collapse, bandits were rampant, the bones were buried, nine out of ten houses were empty, drums and horns were fighting, wars were fired all over the sky, heroes were competing for the world, and three points were divided into the world.
It was September 15th, the sixth year of Zhongping. Zhang Zhaohu knew that the sixth year of Zhongping was a destination and a starting point. Emperor Ling died, the new emperor succeeded to the throne, and the ten generals were in chaos. General He Jin died. Dong Zhuo entered the capital and deposed the emperor, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other princes fled. Soon after, they raised their troops one after another, and a chaotic era began.
The memories that kept coming to his mind told him that two months ago, he was sent to Hebei by General He Jin to recruit soldiers. In the continuous rain, he spent more than two months traveling through Henei County, Hedong County, Wei County and Julu County, recruiting 1,200 new soldiers and arrived in Luoyang yesterday.
After arriving in Luoyang, before he could go to the General's Mansion to submit orders, he received the military orders from the Taiwei Mansion, and was confusingly taken to the west garden by a group of Qiang and Hu soldiers.
Zhang Liao of Xiyuan naturally knew and was very familiar with it. After the formation of the Eighth Army in Xiyuan last year, Jian Shuo recruited heroes everywhere. In order to get along with Jian Shuo, the governor of Bingzhou, Ding Yuan, sent his subordinates to Luoyang to take 500 troops to Luoyang and return to Jian Shuo. After arriving in Luoyang, Jian Shuo was overjoyed. Both of them were appointed as military marquis, each in charge of a 500 troops.
In April this year, Emperor Ling Liu Hong died, Qian Shuo failed to seize power and died. General He Jin took control of the Eight Army in Xiyuan. Ding Yuan hurriedly ordered Zhang Yang and Zhang Liao to turn to He Jin, so Zhang Liao became a central army with a strong root.
At that time, the older generation of party members and celebrities experienced the two party corruption disasters of Emperor Huanling and Ling, and they disappeared one after another. The new generation of scholars, led by Yuan Shao, gathered under the command of General He Jin, the top military figure, to promote the general to fight with the Ten Constant Attendants.
As a result, the struggle between the general He Jin and the Ten Constables became more and more intense. He Jin appointed Yuan Shao as the Sili School Captain, and was the main force in the fight with the Ten Constables. But at the same time, He Jin's sister, Empress Dowager He who ruled the affairs behind the curtain, and his younger brother General Cheqi, and actually the second-ranked military figure, He Miao, also defended the Ten Constables, which made He Jin feel embarrassed.
At this time, Yuan Shao, the new Sili Captain who was highly valued by He Jin, offered a plan to He Jin and summoned all kinds of powerful generals to the capital to intimidate Empress Dowager He and the Ten Generals.
He Jin was in a dilemma, so he adopted Yuan Shao's suggestion and summoned three troops from Bingzhou Governor Dong Zhuo, Wumeng Duwei Ding Yuan and Dongjun Prefect Qiao Mao, who was the prefect of Dongjun, to Beijing! He also sent five generals to recruit soldiers from various places to promote their momentum. The five generals were Wang Kuang, the chief officer of the General's Mansion, and Bao Xin, the cavalry commander, to recruit soldiers from Mount Tai. The fake Sima Zhang Yang in Xiyuan, Zhang Liao went to Bingzhou to recruit soldiers, and the commander Wuqiu Yi went to Danyang to recruit soldiers.
Zhang Liao was one of the five generals sent by the General's Mansion. It was before he set out that he was appointed as a fake Sima and took half of the box.
However, when recruiting soldiers back to Luoyang, it was not the celebration of General He Jin, who greeted him, but was taken care of by a group of aggressive Qiang and Hu soldiers. After arriving at Xiyuan, he found that the guards in Xiyuan were much tighter, and the soldiers guarding around were all Qiang and Hu soldiers. Even the 500 old subordinates who stayed in Xiyuan when he left Luoyang to recruit soldiers could not be seen.
Originally, Zhang Liao keenly realized something was wrong, but he didn't know the reason. However, Zhang Zhaohu, who had traveled over, knew that this was Dong Zhuo coming to Beijing!
This is a sad story. As soon as I crossed over, I fell into the tiger's den and wolves.
The invisible school chased the goddess, flew to dunk and smiled, but the rebound was clattered and he fainted and woke up again.
Chapter completed!