Seeing that everyone was pale, Lu Bu laughed loudly to relieve everyone's nervousness and fear: "Everyone, don't worry, for the sake of this, it is to enter Luoyang City first to see if He Jin was killed. Then we will adapt to the situation. No matter how dangerous the situation will be, I, Lu Bu, will do my best to protect our soldiers in Bingzhou."

All the soldiers admired Lu Bu's martial arts very much, but now they are even impressed by Lu Bu's strategy of guiding the country. Some people even have the idea of ​​how good it would be to let General Lu be our Lord of Bingzhou.

Seeing that the generals became more respectful to Lu Bu, Ding Yuan's jealousy for Lu Bu became even deeper.

That night, Ding Yuan left hundreds of infantry to guard the Xiaopingjin camp, and all 8,000 cavalrymen were raised and quietly approached Luoyang City.

As the Jinwu, Ding Yuan took hundreds of elite cavalry including Lu Bu into the city on the grounds of seeing the general in secret. After entering the city, Lu Bu led Gao Shun, Wei Xu and others to quickly control the North Gate.

Eight thousand Bingzhou cavalry divided into more than a dozen strands, wrapped their horse's mouths and horse's hooves, and quietly entered Luoyang City.

As the leader of Jinwu, Ding Yuan had already conducted a detailed investigation into the situation in Luoyang City and knew the defense of the city's imperial guards. He then took the Bingzhou cavalry to hide in the deserted forests in Luoyang City, waiting for changes in the palace.

Early the next morning, He Jinjin met the empress dowager. He thought that military and political power was in hand, and the eunuchs would not dare to harm him, so he refused to listen to the advice of the chief clerk Chen Lin and others, and insisted on entering the palace. Seeing that this damn person was going to die, Yuan Shao stopped persuading him. He Jin held his head up and walked into the palace with a proud look.

When they arrived at the Gate of Jiade Hall, Zhang Rang, Duan Gui and other eunuchs rushed out and surrounded He Jin. Zhang Rang cursed He Jin: "What are the crimes of Empress Dowager Dong? You want to poison her to death?! On the day of the funeral of the old lady, you were just a butcher. We recommended your sister to the emperor to give you the glory and wealth of today. You didn't want to repay your kindness but wanted to harm him!" He Jin hurriedly ran away, but was locked by the eunuchs. The armed eunuchs in ambush all out and cut He Jin into two sections.

Yuan Shao and others were waiting outside the palace gate. He had not seen He Jin out for a long time, and shouted outside the palace gate: "Please get in the car!"

Zhang Rang threw He Jin's head out of the wall and forced Empress Dowager He to issue an imperial edict: "He Jin has been punished for rebellion! All the others are forgiven."

Yuan Shao treated the imperial edict as fart and shouted loudly: "The eunuchs murder ministers! Kill the evil party members to help the war!"

He Jin's general Wu Kuang set a fire outside Qingsou Gate.

Ding Yuan saw the fire from afar, was ecstatic, raised his sword and shouted: "Kill the eunuch! Take revenge on the general!"

The eight thousand cavalrymen in Bingzhou were divided into eight essays, like the eight essays, which instantly surrounded the palace. The soldiers of Bingzhou were all majestic and mighty, and were full of murderous aura, which scared Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers.

Yuan Shu shouted loudly: "Ding Yuan, can you rebel?!" The Yuan brothers did not take Ding Yuan seriously at all. In their original plan, He Jinjin's palace would die. Once He Jin died, the Liu Han royal family was only left with orphans and widows. Their uncle Yuan Weigui was the Grand Tutor to take charge of the Secretariat, so he could put the Empress Dowager and the Young Emperor in charge of the government. The great khan became the Yuan family, and he could deal with Ding Yuan at any time.

Seeing the Yuan brothers' expressions, Ding Yuan compared Lu Bu's speculation about the Yuan brothers, he no longer had fear of the Yuan brothers. He laughed and said, "I am ordered by the General to kill eunuchs. It is just right. What is a rebellion? On the contrary, you are attacking the palace city. Do you want me, the general, to bring you to justice!"

Seeing that Ding Yuan’s eight thousand iron cavalry was arrogant, Cao Cao and Mengde saw that the Xiyuan New Army, led by his side, had not been in battle for a long time. If they had to lose, they walked forward with a smile and walked forward to smooth things over: "Mr. Ding, be careful, since you and I are avenging the general and killing the eunuchs, why have to fight for the will? It is better to kill the traitor first and then talk."

Lu Bu followed Ding Yuan and looked at the smiling short and fat man with his eyes squinted (Note 1). Fang Tian's painting halberd had trembled slightly with the boundless murderous aura in his heart.

Lu Bu really wanted to kill this mortal enemy in his destiny immediately, but he knew that he still needed the guy in front of him to contact the 100,000 troops of the Guandong princes to resist Dong Zhuo and resist Yuan Shao in the future. If he killed Yuan Shao and Cao Cao now, from a distance he would offend all the gentry in the world, he would definitely be unable to move forward in the future. From a near distance, no one could help him resist Dong Zhuo's army.

Ding Yuan turned his head to look at Lu Bu. Lu Bu shook his head gently. Ding Yuan understood what Lu Bu meant, turned to Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others and laughed: "Since we are all sincere in serving our country, then join forces to kill the eunuchs!"

Seeing that Ding Yuan had no unfair intentions, Yuan Shu was afraid that Ding Yuan would make too many contributions to killing the eunuchs, so he took the lead and led his troops into the palace gate. When he saw the eunuchs, he would kill them all, both young and old. Yuan Shao and Cao Cao also led the close troops from the new army in Xiyuan to join the palace, and Lu Bu also divided his troops into several groups and attacked the palace.

After the red horse he rode before was struck by lightning, Lu Bu finally found a green-maned horse to ride. Although the green-maned horse was a good horse, it was a bit difficult to lift Lu Bu, a powerful and powerful general. Fortunately, Lu Bu has not met Guan Yu or Zhang Fei, now fighting with him.

Lu Bu rode a green-maned horse and galloped all the way to the palace. When he saw the little eunuchs running around in panic, Lu Bu felt so pitiful that he was too lazy to lift the Fang Tian Painting Halberd.

Lu Bu knew very well that Emperor Ling of Han was not a complete tyrant. The reason why he valued eunuchs was actually to use internal officials to fight against the monopoly of the external aristocratic families and clans on the government. This was the same as the Ming Dynasty emperors reused eunuchs to fight against the Qingliu Donglin Party many years later. These eunuchs were actually the emperor's pawns.

Lu Bu saw an old eunuch in front of him with a fat brocade robe and jade belt running with difficulty, and several small eunuchs were supporting him, as if they were a big fish.

Lu Bu galloped on his horse, and within a few breaths of the green-maned horse rushed to the eunuch. Lu Bu raised the Fang Tian Painted Riven, crossed the man, and shouted loudly: "Ephesian, what's your name?"

The few little eunuchs next to him were quite loyal to the old eunuch. They all raised their swords and guns to protect him, but they were quickly killed by Lu Bu's personal guards Qin Yi, Chen Wei, Li Hei (1) and others, leaving only the old eunuch kneeling on the ground and trembling, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy: "My name is Zhao Zhong, General, please spare your life!"

Lu Bu nodded. He remembered this guy. Among the ten regular attendants trusted by Emperor Ling, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong were the most valued. Emperor Ling of Han even openly attacked and said, "Zhang Changshi is my husband, Zhao Changshi's mother."

Lu Bu shouted sternly: "Do you know where the household registration, terrain, laws and other books are there? Take me here!"

Zhao Zhong was extremely frightened when he saw the painting halberd pointing straight at his throat. He didn't even think about why Lu Bu asked him to find those things, and he was busy leading the way in front.

When he arrived at the palace where the classics were stored, Lu Bu ordered Chen Wei to lead two hundred soldiers who were slightly literate to check the documents about national household registration, terrain, laws and other books and archives one by one, and moved them to the carriage in categories.

Lu Bu ordered the greedy Wei Xu to lead 800 soldiers to loot the gold and jewelry and cultural relics in the palace.

Before entering the palace, Lu Bu sent people to collect carriages from merchants in Luoyang City, and obtained hundreds of carriages. In addition, hundreds of carriages in the palace were combined together to bring all these items back to the Bingzhou Army camp.

Lu Bu didn't want Dong Zhuo to destroy those things that could not be transported at once but were very valuable, so he asked someone to dig a hole and buried them.

When Lu Bu asked someone to loot the palace, each palace sent someone to guard it, so that Yuan Shao and his party would never see it. He also arrested several eunuchs to chase and cry in the palace to numb Yuan Shao and others. When Yuan Shao and his party woke up and started looting the palace, the convoy of the Bingzhou army had already returned to the camp.

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Note 1: "The Age of Wei" says: "The King of Wu is short and the gods are heroic."

Note 2: "Jiuzhou Spring and Autumn": Bu Su sent Qin Yi, Chen Wei, Li Hei and others to pretend to be guards of the palace gate, holding a long halberd. Zhuo went to the palace gate, and Hei and others used a long halberd to hold a chariot, or fork a horse. Zhuo exclaimed Bu, Bu Su put his armor in his clothes, held a spear, and then stabbed Zhuo in response to the sound and fell into the car.
Chapter completed!