35. Fire Luoyang City
Dong Zhuo didn't care who took on the task, he just looked at whether you completed it well or not. So Zhang Ji took the initiative to take on the task, and Dong Zhuo didn't doubt that he was there, so he handed over the task he escorted to Zhang Ji.
Li Ru, who was beside him, turned his eyes and looked at Zhang Ji with a smile. "It seems that Zhang Ji has guidance from the clues, and he can see my plan from the clues! No matter who you are, it's better not to block my way, otherwise don't blame me for being rude! Hehe!" Li Ru thought secretly in his heart.
Jia Xu was drinking tea when he suddenly felt a chill behind his back. He said to himself: "Who is paying attention to me again! Forget it, I have stayed enough here at Zhang Ji. It's time to change the place and start over."
Dong Zhuo's army set off. Before leaving, Dong Zhuo issued an order to plunder the soldiers in the city for two hours. As for those things and people that they could not take away, there was no need to keep them! After the plunder, they had to set fire to Luoyang City. At this time, after a day of rest, the coalition of princes had already set off to fight in Luoyang in the early morning.
Yuan Shao was eager to take revenge and urged the army to accelerate. The coalition forces did not rest all the way, and ran to a place thirty miles away from Luoyang City. While the army was resting, Yuan Shao sent all the scouts to check in the direction of Luoyang. Before the scouts could go far, everyone saw thick smoke rising from the direction of Luoyang, and waves of miserable crying came from there!
The princes looked at each other, "Isn't this Dong thief crazy? He actually dared to burn Luoyang City. This is the capital of the Han Dynasty! Isn't he afraid of being punished by God?"
Yuan Shao pointed to Luoyang with his hand, and was so trembling that he couldn't speak. After a while, he said fiercely: "Order the whole army to enter the city to put out the fire!" All the princes heard the order and all rushed to Luoyang City. At this moment, Luoyang City was already devastated, with fire houses everywhere and poor people running around.
Yuan Shao and several princes set up camp outside Luoyang City without mentioning it, but only talked about Sun Jian, one of the princes who entered the city. He led three generals and hundreds of soldiers to the Han Palace. In the dark, he always felt that something was attracting him here.
Sun Jian brought a few people into the palace and found that many palace maids and eunuchs were running around with their heads in their arms. At this time, fires were all on several halls in the palace. Sun Jian asked his subordinates to organize these palace maids and eunuchs to put out the fire, and he led the three generals and more than a dozen personal guards to the harem.
When passing by the backyard of a palace, a personal guard suddenly said, "General, there was a ray of light coming out of the well just now!" Sun Jian immediately stopped when he heard this, led everyone to the side of the well and looked in. He found that it was a dry well, and there was a corpse of a palace maid at the bottom of the well.
"Hurry up, go down and pull the corpse up!" Sun Jian ordered. Two personal guards immediately stood up, tied a rope around their waists and tied it down. They didn't take a long time to catch the corpse. Huang Gai and Cheng Pu found a yellow cloth bag on the corpse and handed it to Sun Jian. Sun Jian lifted a corner and looked inside, and was very happy. Because the yellow cloth bag in his hand was a large seal, with four big words on it: Become the command from heaven! This thing is the lost jade seal of the kingdom!
Sun Jian did not dare to stay for a long time after obtaining the jade seal. He hurriedly brought his people back to the camp. He also ordered the three generals to find an opportunity to gather all the personal guards who knew about this and strictly prohibited them from contacting others. However, one of these personal guards was Yuan Shu's spy. As soon as he returned to the camp, he quietly left the team and headed straight for Yuan Shu's tent. In this way, the news of Sun Jian's jade seal was found out by Yuan Shu.
The three generals here checked the number of people, and they immediately realized that something was wrong and hurriedly told Sun Jian. When Sun Jian heard the news, he gathered his troops and returned to Changsha without saying goodbye.
As soon as he left the camp, a army approached him to block his way. The leader was not someone else but Yuan Shu. He stared at Sun Jian and said, "Where is the Wentai?"
"The General, I just received a letter from my family. My mother was seriously ill and was afraid that she would die soon. Then I rushed back to see her for the last time." Sun Jian said sincerely.
"Hehe, the wise man in Wentai doesn't say secret words, and I won't stop you if you want to leave, but the imperial seal must be left!" Yuan Shu sneered.
"Jade seal? What jade seal? How can I give it to you without this?" Sun Jian replied with a calm face.
"Wentai, do you dare to swear?" Yuan Shu said with a close eye on Sun Jian.
"This... how dare not! If I, Sun Jian, get the jade seal, I will be killed by arrows! Is this OK? The next general!" Sun Jian said angrily at Yuan Shu after making a poisonous oath.
Yuan Shu was unwilling to fight with Sun Jian at this time, so he let his men make way and let Sun Jian go. Seeing Sun Jian go far, he became more and more angry as he thought about it. He immediately asked a counselor to discuss it. One of them said: "The general can condemn one person to inform the governor of Jingzhou Liu Biao at this time. Thinking that Liu Biao is a relative of the Han clan, he must be very concerned about this thing. At that time, he will have a quarrel with Sun Jian, and the general can reap the benefits of the fisherman!"
"Very good! This plan is very wonderful! I will follow the words of the gentleman!" Yuan Shu laughed after hearing this, and immediately followed the advice of the adviser and sent someone to convey the message to Liu Biao.
At this time, Cao Cao came to the camp and said, "Everyone, you can't let the Dong thief escape so easily! We should raise our troops and chase us quickly!"
However, the fact is that after hearing Cao Cao's words, no one responded to the princes. It turned out that Luoyang City was burned, and it was obvious that the Han Dynasty had its own little plan. The princes each had their own little plans, so they were not so concerned about Dong Thief at this time. Even the leader Yuan Shao had other thoughts at this time, and even the uncle's blood hatred was not avenged!
Cao Cao looked at the people in the tent and suddenly felt discouraged. He pointed at the people sitting with his hand and said ruthlessly: "Okay! If you don't go, I'll go!" After that, he ignored everyone and walked out. Liu Bei looked at the last seat sincerely and sighed in his heart: Cao Mengde is indeed a loyal and righteous man! So he turned to ask Han Fei and said, "Don't we go after Zicong?"
"Go! Why not!" Han Fei said with a smile.
"Now, I call Cao Cao quickly and go with him." Liu Bei said as he was about to get up to chase Cao Cao. Han Fei held him down and said, "My lord, let's wait, we should be one step slower! And the coalition forces should be disbanded at this time! The lord can ask the two generals to bring all their troops, and after this battle we will go back to Jizhou directly!"
After hearing Han Fei's words, Liu Bei had not figured out some things, but based on his trust in Han Fei, he followed the instructions.
Chapter completed!