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Chapter 544

Li Su contacted Shi A single line, and Shi A compared this information with the information obtained through other channels. When he found that the information was indeed true, he passed the summary information Fei Ge letter to Jiguan. When Lu Bu, who had been waiting in Jiguan for many days, got the information, he made careful mobilization of troops. He just waited for the Luoyang incident and the Xiliang army collapsed.

Speaking of which, Li Su, on the next day, took Liu Xie's emperor's imperial edict and rushed to Hangu Pass with a quick horse.

Dong Zhuo and Yang Xiu had just arrived at Hangu Pass on the third day. Before he was familiar with the newly built Hangu Pass, he reported to the emperor's envoy to come.

When Dong Zhuo saw that it was Li Su, he asked Li Su bluntly what edict he had when he arrived here.

Li Su respectfully submitted an edict, and Liu Xie, the ten-year-old emperor who had been colluding with Wang Yun, Yang Zan, Shi Sun Rui and other ministers of aristocratic families, pretended to say in the edict: "I feel that I am young and poor, and I am not enough to control the country. The prime minister is young and strong, and has a prestige in the world. It is more suitable for the country than me. I want to meet the civil and military service, and abdicate in the prime minister. I ask the prime minister to come to Beijing quickly and receive the great treasures."

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed, but he was concerned about the opinions of the ministers of the aristocratic family and asked hurriedly: "What does Wang Yun mean?" Wang Yun is the leader of the aristocratic family. As long as he agrees to the emperor abdicate the throne to him, his throne can be done steadily.

Li Su smiled and said, "Wang Situ has ordered people to build the Zen platform, just waiting for the lord to come."

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed, so he ordered his confidant general Li Jue, Guo Si stayed at Hangu Pass, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou stayed at Hongnong, Shaanxi County. Dong Zhuo took his confidant general Dong Huang, and returned to Beijing today. Before leaving, he promised Yang Xiu, who was seeing him off, and said, "If I am the emperor, I will make you the imperial concubine." Yang Xiu knew that everything was going on in an orderly manner, and he thought to himself that the old thief Dong Zhuo, your death date is not far away, but he pretended to be extremely happy on his face.

Dong Zhuo encountered several bad signs along the way from Hangu Pass to Luoyang. All of them were perfunctory by Li Su. Dong Huang wanted to say something, but he was ignored by the ecstatic Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang City, and civil and military ministers led by Wang Yun, Yang Zan, Shi Sun Rui and others were lined up to welcome Dong Zhuo to welcome Dong Zhuo. Originally, when Dong Zhuo went to Hangu Pass, he wanted to win over Yan Xing, so he allocated all the Jincheng people of Yan Xing's headquarters to Yan Xing, and Yan Xing also had three or four thousand people. When Dong Zhuo was not in Luoyang, Yan Xing was barely considered a famous general. Once Dong Zhuo returned to Luoyang, Yan Xing had to temporarily throw his troops in the barracks. He instigated the black horse, carried the snake spear, and followed Dong Zhuo's car as a bodyguard behind him.

Dong Zhuo was full of ambitions, and did not get off the carriage and allowed the carriage to enter the palace. Dong Huang wanted to bring the three thousand flying bear army into the palace, but was blocked by Wang Yun for violating etiquette. Dong Zhuo thought that Luoyang was all under his control and was not prepared. So he asked Dong Huang to lead the three thousand flying bear army outside the palace gate, and he only brought more than twenty personal guards into the palace.

Dong Zhuo entered the palace. When he had just arrived at the entrance of Chongde Hall, the palace gate closed violently. Dong Zhuo's heart suddenly felt cold. He suddenly remembered He Jin back then, who was killed by the Ten Eunuchs in this way. Could history be repeated?

Dong Zhuo quickly called Dong Huang to rescue him. Dong Huang's three thousand flying bear army were all iron armored cavalry. He sighed at the heavy palace gate and towering palace walls and could not invade. Hundreds of people had already broken out on both sides of Chongde Hall in the palace, each carrying weapons to kill Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo looked closely and found that it was the family soldiers of Wang Yun, Yang Zan, Shi Sun Rui and others.

Dong Zhuo smiled disdainfully. This time, the prince brought his adopted son Yan Xing, and with his own strength, he was enough to kill these hundreds of people.

Dong Zhuo shouted backwards: "Where is my son Yanming? Come and kill these traitors for me!"

Yan Xing rode his horse out from behind Dong Zhuo's car and shouted loudly: "I am ordered to kill Dong thief!" As he said that, he raised his spear and stabbed Dong Zhuo directly. Dong Zhuo quickly dodged, and rushed out next to him, Li Su waved his sword to stab Dong Zhuo. Yan Xing left with his spear, and then another spear was stabbed Dong Zhuo's throat. Li Su waved the sword and cut off Dong Zhuo's head.

Yan Xing ordered people to open the palace gate. He took out the secret edict given to him by Liu Xie from his arms with a spear in one hand, and rode his horse to the three thousand flying bear army formation, shouting loudly: "I will kill the thief Dong Zhuo in accordance with the edict, and do not ask the rest!"

These three thousand flying bears were the most loyal and brave to Dong Zhuo, just like a loyal dog to their owner. When they saw Dong Zhuo's head, they were depressed and at a loss. However, Yan Xing put away the edict, rushed forward, and stabbed Dong Huang to death with a spear.

As soon as Dong Huang died, the three thousand flying bears army had no leader. The three thousand flying bears and other generals, including Yan Xing, Li Su, Wu Zhang, and Wang Yun, Yang Zan, Shi Sun Rui and others, combined nearly 14,000 troops and horses to surround the three thousand flying bears in front of the palace. After a fierce battle, all the three thousand flying bears were killed.

At this time, the Luoyang garrison was Dong Zhuo's younger brother Dong Min. Yan Xing rode his horse to Dong Min's military camp. Dong Min thought Yan Xing was still Dong Zhuo's cheap adopted son, so he was not careful. Yan Xing took advantage of Dong Min's unpreparedness and stabbed Dong Min to death. While holding Dong Min's head, he raised the emperor's secret edict and shouted loudly: "According to the imperial edict, kill the traitor Dong Zhuo, only the evil ones will be eliminated, and the rest will not ask!"

Because the elite troops of the Xiliang Army suffered a lot in the previous battle with the Lu Bu Central Army, Dong Zhuo recruited most of the young and strong men from Luoyang and Chang'an in the past three years. Almost all of these people were brought to the Xiliang Army by strong men. They hated Dong Zhuo's cruelty and indifferentness in their hearts. When they found that Dong Zhuo was killed, the situation in the Western Liang Army was hopeless, they turned against each other without hesitation.

Those veterans of Xiliang who had been loyal to Dong Zhuo for many years saw that their lord was dead and were disheartened, so they wanted to abandon their weapons and surrender.

Seeing this, Yan Xing was overjoyed. If these veterans of Xiliang were willing to surrender to him, then he would integrate more than 200,000 Xiliang troops, and would not be afraid of not being able to achieve great achievements like Lu Bu in Yecheng.

Yan Xing was secretly happy in his heart, and only heard dozens of voices from the formation of the veterans of Xiliang: "Yan Xing is a slave of the three surnames. How can he believe his words? If everyone put down their weapons, they will be killed by Yan Xing immediately. Wang Yun, Yan Xing wants to kill us Xiliang people. Have you forgotten the grudge between Yan Xing's Jincheng soldiers and us?"

The rumors of "Wang Yun, Yan Xing wants to kill the veterans of Xiliang" spread throughout the camp. In the past three years, because their generals and Yan Xing have always had conflicts with the Jincheng soldiers of Xiliang. Yan Xing came to recruit veterans of Xiliang just because they had a chess game, not to mention that the dozens of Xiliang agents developed by General Shi were stationed in the Xiliang army to spread rumors.

The rumors that the three of them became tigers made the veterans of Xiliang feel desperate and raised their swords and guns to face Yan Xing.

Yan Xing was about to patiently explain that he and Wang Yun, Yang Zan, Shi Sun Rui and others did not have the intention to eliminate the Xiliang soldiers. Before he could open his mouth, some of the Luoyang soldiers who turned against each other could not suppress their hatred for the Xiliang veterans, because the Xiliang veterans followed Dong Zhuo to Luoyang and burned, killed and looted in the Luoyang area and did all kinds of evil. Many Luoyang people were deeply harmed, and even the wives and children of these Luoyang soldiers were not spared. At this point, Yan Xing could no longer control the Xiliang veterans. Dong Zhuo was still able to suppress these Luoyang soldiers and dare not act rashly. Dong Zhuo died. These Luoyang soldiers adhered to the principle of complaining and revenge, waving swords and guns to kill the Xiliang veterans.

A melee broke out inside and outside Luoyang City, and all the people who were originally defending Luoyang participated in this melee.

If the military intelligence agents led by Shi A were not in trouble, this melee would not have broken out. Wang Yun, Yan Xing and others would have no effort to take the Xiliang army for themselves. At the same time, because of the threat of Lu Bu from the north, Wang Yun would not announce the elimination of Li Jue, Guo Si and others as in history. These ministers of the aristocratic families who could bend and stretched would even reach a cooperation agreement with Li Jue and Guo Si in order to resist the threat of Lu Bu in the north. It would be even more difficult to take down Luoyang Chang'an. Lu Bu considers this situation, so he buried many chess pieces when he evacuated Hulao Pass three years ago. Now it is the time for these chess pieces to work. Because of the role of those flags, the two forces in Luoyang City are indisputable.

Four thousand Xiliang troops were stationed at the Mengjin Ferry and Pingjin Ferry of the Yellow River dozens of miles north of Luoyang City. They built many beacon towers just to prevent the raid of Lu Bu's Central Army.

Normally, if Lu Bu sends troops to attack, two thousand Xiliang troops can block the Yellow River Navy of Ganning, the general under Lu Bu for several hours. In a few hours, tens of thousands of troops would be sent from Luoyang City to completely block Lu Bu's Central Army on the Yellow River and prevent the Central Army from climbing to the south bank.

But now there is a chaos in Luoyang City. Yan Xing's Jincheng soldiers, Luoyang soldiers and the family soldiers of the aristocratic ministers had a total of more than 40,000. They fought with more than 30,000 Xiliang veterans, and they were in a difficult position to separate them. These two thousand Xiliang soldiers were all veterans of Xiliang. When their commander heard that the old lord Dong Zhuo was killed by Yan Xing, Wang Yun and others, he wanted to avenge Dong Zhuo, and wanted to enter Luoyang City to loot the residences of those aristocratic ministers, so he led 3,600 troops to fight towards Luoyang. Only four hundred troops were left at the two ferries and the beacon towers along the Yellow River.

Although the Xiliang army had only four hundred troops left on the south bank of the Yellow River, Lu Bu did not want to attack with great fanfare, because he had just inferred with Guo Jia and Ju Su that the Xiliang army with 3,600 troops had just left less than two hours. If Lu Bu attacked at this time, it would lead the Xiliang army to turn back to guard, and it would also allow the news of the Central Army's surprise attack to reach Luoyang City. It would allow the two sides, who are now indistinguishable, to shake hands and talk and jointly deal with the Central Army, which would not help the Central Army to quickly seize Luoyang City.

Lu Bu sent Gan Ning and Dong Xi led two thousand elite sailors to pretend to be ordinary merchants and divided them into several strands. The two thousand elite sailors were hiding in the cabin of the merchant ship and rowing on the deck. All sailors were wearing white sailor uniforms, flowing downstream from Jiguan, and leaning towards the two ferries.

When the Xiliang defenders on the beacon tower on the south bank of the Yellow River were interrogated, Gan Ning ordered people to answer: "We are all Bingzhou merchants. Because the wind and waves of the Yellow River are strong, we came here to avoid it." He bribed the Xiliang soldiers guarding the beacon tower with their property.

When the Xiliang soldiers saw the visitor, they smiled and sent their property. They were lenient with people, so they let the more than 20 merchant ships dock on the south bank of the Yellow River. (To be continued...)
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