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Lu Bu's 40,000 army approached step by step, and the 20,000 elite cavalry in front exuded a murderous aura. Everyone's expression was full of indifference to death and desire to seize the life of the enemy. Such a temperament must be achieved by veterans who have fought in the sea of ​​corpses and blood.--./--./

Lu Chong originally led more than 64,000 rebels to besiege the Central Castle, but they attacked the Central Castle for a long time and lost more than 8,000 people. They could not enter the Central Castle half a step. Lu Chong now had to withdraw his siege of the Central Castle and form a formation to deal with the Lu Bu Jingqi, who was pressing step by step.

Most of the more than 50,000 rebels were private soldiers of aristocratic families. They were locked in the aristocratic manor and were trained by some famous generals of aristocratic families who had become famous every five days. Apart from bullying some tenants who could not pay rent in time and helping those aristocratic families bully men and women, they had no decent practical experience.

Lu Chong and others used the rebellion to "under the secret decree of the emperor to attack Lu Bu's rebel traitors." But just a few hours ago, the emperor Liu Bian, who fled into the central castle, issued an imperial edict, announcing that Yang Biao, Liu Hong, Zheng Tai, Bian Rang, Lu Chong, Gao Lan and others were plotting against the rebel traitors, and the military and civilians in the world could fight it together, and the morale of the rebel army was immediately greatly depressed.

Yang Biao, Liu Hong, Zheng Tai, Bian Rang and others were all in the army. They all had to see the Central Castle being broken and the Emperor and the Empress Dowager were in their hands. They were relieved, but they did not expect that Emperor Liu Bian would directly accuse them of being traitors. Yang Biao and others claimed to be righteous and pure, and like the Donglin Party members who did dirty things in the late Ming Dynasty, they thought they were gentlemen and others were villains. Of course, they would not think that it was wrong for them to lead troops to besiege the palace. They did not expect that such a move would be in the eyes of Emperor Liu Bian. They immediately refuted: "The Emperor was coerced by Chen Dao and issued such an imperial edict that went against his will. Justice is still in our hands. Soldiers, siege the city and rescue the Emperor and the Empress Dowager as soon as possible!"

During the four months since Lu Bu took over Jizhou, he actively carried out universal education and often sent propaganda teams to various places to inspire people's wisdom. Although he did not directly target those aristocratic families, those tenants, slaves, and private soldiers who were bullied, ravaged, trampled, and exploited by the aristocratic families. They had heard of those propaganda and gradually realized that those noble families who were above the aristocratic families were not born to ride on their necks, and those who were poor were not born to suffer.

Dan they buried their dissatisfaction with the aristocratic family. Yang Biao and others' words were like farts to them. These rebel soldiers saw clearly that Feng Xiangong was leading the army to fight with Dong Zhuo on the front line for the sake of the people of the world and for the Han Dynasty. However, you ministers of the aristocratic family who were raised by the bastards broke up their positions in the rear and kept saying that they were loyalty, benevolence and righteousness. Now the emperor said that you are traitors, and you still have the face to claim justice in your own hands.

Yang Biao, Liu Hong, Zheng Tai and others were full of confidence before the rebellion. Now they found that their rebellion was not only unpopular with the people, but also unpopular with the army.

Lu Chongfeng immediately stood in front of the formation, looking calm on the surface, but he kept vomiting blood in his heart.

Lu Chong did not expect Lu Bu to come back so quickly, and he did not expect that the Central Castle was so difficult to attack. What he most unexpected was that there was a secret passage between the imperial palace and the Central Castle. After the palace was broken, the Empress Dowager escaped through the secret passage to the central castle, which was four meters high and the shape of a castle.

Lu Chong and others decided to rebel a day ago. Lu Chong lured the six thousand war soldiers he controlled and the six thousand auxiliary soldiers who were loyal to Lu Bu together, and they caught all the private soldiers from more than a dozen families. A total of them gathered more than 64,000 troops and Gao Lan's 20,000 troops to join forces inside and outside, captured the four gates of Yecheng, and then quickly returned to the army and attacked the palace.

Yulin's Captain Wu Chong was caught off guard and died in battle. The first palace wall of the palace was lost, and Wang Yue led the Hu Ben Army and the remaining Yulin Army to retreat to the second palace wall.

The commander of the Grand Inner Guard Wu Xia led a thousand female guards to protect the Queen Mother He Lian, the Emperor Liu Bian, the Empress Tang Yan, the Wannian Princess Liu Yan and a large number of female officials retreated to the Central Castle along the tunnel. Some female officials were female relatives from those rebellious families. They tried to snatch the Queen Mother, but were killed by Wu Xia.

Lu Bu's General's Mansion is in the center of the central castle, and the palace is next to the central castle. The palace was built on the old house of the ten eunuch Zhao Zhong. There is a wide secret room under Zhao Zhong's mansion. When Lu Bu first arrived in Yecheng, he collected a large amount of gold, silver and treasures from it. Later, when Zhao Zhong's mansion was converted into an imperial palace, Lu Bu did not let the people who repaired the palace move the secret room, but instead sent thousands of his confidant soldiers to dig for half a month in the night to build a secret passage from General Lu Bu's mansion to the imperial palace secret room. Lu Bu originally wanted to make it easier for him to hide his eyes and meet with the Queen Mother He Lian, but he did not think of guarding against rebellion.

When Lu Bu asked those confidant soldiers to build secret passages, he only asked them to dig from the general's mansion and dig into the underground secret room of the palace, and after they were asked to strengthen the tunnel, they sent them back. When these people asked, Lu Bu said that this was leading to the outside of the city. When there was a change in Ye City, it would be so that our family could escape, so these confidant soldiers stopped asking.

Lu Bu's wives and concubines also thought that Lu Bu was building an authentic tunnel outside the city, so he didn't pay much attention.

In this way, only Lu Bu and Empress Dowager He Lian truly knew that this secret passage led from the palace to the general's mansion.

When Lu Chong and Gao Lan led more than 60,000 troops to surround the palace, Empress Dowager He Lian had to uncover the secret and lead Wu Xia and others along the secret passage to the general's mansion.

Emperor Liu Bian asked the Empress Dowager He Lian with confusion: "Mother, how can there be a secret passage here leading to the General's Mansion? Mother, how do you know that there is a secret passage here leading to the General's Mansion?"

Liu Bian’s question was a question from everyone on the scene. How could the Empress Dowager He Lian answer? She could not admit her affair with Lu Bu in front of so many people. Her eyes rolled and she remembered some of the words Lu Bu had fooled her before: "Think about Wen Hou's actions over the past few months. What do you think of Wen Hou's talents and insights?"

Shangli, one of the six female officials in the palace, is equivalent to the Minister of Rites in the cabinet outside the palace. The person who holds this position is not someone else, but the famous talented woman Cai Yan. The relationship between Cai Yan and Lu Bu is well known. She is not afraid of relatives and said generously: "The Queen Mother, I think that the talent of Wen Hou is rare in the world and unparalleled in the world!"

Queen Mother He smiled mysteriously and said, "I might as well reveal a secret to you. Why is Wen's knowledge and talent rare in the world unparalleled? It is all because Wen's gift was given to him by heaven. Five months ago, he was struck by lightning. That lightning was the aura lead given to him by the gods. Wen Hou knew a lot of things that we mortals could not understand, like this telescope." Queen Mother He handed the telescope made of crystals given to her by Lu Bu to the female officials present to see.

Everyone had played with the telescope and believed that Lu Bu had the ability to teach him the world. Queen Mother He said: "Wen Hou predicted in advance that there would be such a disaster this year, so he built this secret passage in advance."

Everyone believed in Empress Dowager He's words, and Empress Dowager He breathed a sigh of relief. Wu Xia, the only one who discovered the secret of Empress Dowager He and Lu Bu, just smirked and did not expose it.

In order to cover the Queen Mother, Wang Yue withdrew to the Central Army Castle and continued to lead the Yulin Army and the Huben Army to resist Lu Chong's crazy attack. A few hours later, the Yulin Army and the Huben Army suffered heavy casualties. Wang Yue took some of the ministers of the aristocratic families they had just taken from the cabinet as hostages, fought and fled, and finally retreated to the mansion of the Grand Tutor Lu Zhi.

Lu Chong was Lu Zhi's nephew. He was afraid of being a scoundrel and did not dare to lead troops to attack again. Under the pressure of Lu Bu returning to the army at any time, he led his troops into the palace and found that the palace was empty and dug three feet into the ground. He discovered that the secret passage was running along the secret passage and found that the way out had been sealed by a big stone and could not rush out. He had to climb out of the secret passage hatefully and attack the central castle.

Wang Yue led the troops to kill a thousand troops left outside Lu Zhi's mansion, and then took the more than 600 remaining soldiers, scattered into dozens of scattered groups, sneaking into the mansions of those rebel families to engage in assassination and retaliation. Since Wang Yue changed from a swordsman to become an assassin, his assassination business has become more and more sophisticated. Although his two thousand Tiger soldiers were defeated by the rebels with superior forces on the front battlefield, he was the most professional.

After Wang Yue's Huben Camp assassinated dozens of children from aristocratic families, Yang Biao, Liu Hong, Zheng Tai, Bian Rang received a report from his family and was distressed. He ordered Lu Chong to distribute 5,000 troops to conduct martial law in the city. Later, Lu Bu's troops were at the city, and Lu Chong scored another 20,000 troops from the 5th Division of Gaolan to defend the city. In this way, Lu Chong had only less than 60,000 troops left in the siege. Within half a day after siege, more than 8,000 people had been killed by the strong bow and hard crossbow of the Flying Tiger Guard and Zheng Hun's thunder chariot and crossbow of the remaining private soldiers of the aristocratic families were all looking like earth and passively avoiding the battle.

When Lu Chong saw Lu Bu leading 40,000 elite troops into the city without any obstacles, he rushed to the central castle. He knew in his heart that the situation was over.

Lu Bu stood with his halberd in his hand and rode his horse forward: "Lu Chong, your uncle doesn't like you and doesn't support you. It's me who promoted you to his current position. Why did you betray me?!"

Lu Chong looked deep at the Central Castle, where Du Xiuniang, whom he was dreaming of.

The first day after Du Xiuniang entered Yecheng, he was caught by Lu Chong, who was patrolling the city. Lu Chong wanted to kidnap Du Xiuniang, but was told by the convoy that this was Wen Hou’s woman, and you couldn’t move, so Lu Chong retreated with resentment.

In the following months, Lu Chong found that the dozen wives and concubines he had collected before were like dirt compared to Du Xiuniang. When he thought of Du Xiuniang's love under Lu Bu's crotch, he hated Lu Bu to the bone.

When Lu Bu officially took Du Xiuniang as his concubine, Lu Chong arrived uninvited and forced a smile to spend the entire wedding banquet.

Zheng Tai noticed Lu Chong's strange expression at Lu Bu's wedding banquet. After Lu Bu led his troops to fight, Zheng Tai repeatedly tried Lu Chong with words. When he learned that Lu Chong secretly hated Lu Bu, he encouraged Lu Chong to betray Lu Bu. In order to get Du Xiuniang, Lu Chong believed Zheng Tai's words. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to shuhaige.) to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)-Remember!
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