Chapter 18 The chaos in the capital

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In May, the Yellow Turban Uprising led by the Zhang Jiao brothers swept over more than ten counties in the Central Plains. In less than two months, seven counties in Nanpi, Pingyuan, Chenliu, Xuchang, Qiaocheng, Wancheng and Runan fell, and Beihai and Puyang were in a row.

The court was shocked. Huangfu Song led his army out of Luoyang to attack Xuchang, Lu Zhi led his army out of Yecheng to attack Pingyuan, and Liu Yan led his army out of Dai County to attack Nanpi, and set up a large army to attack Zhang Jiao in three directions.At the same time, the imperial edict ordered the magistrates of each county to work hard.

When Jin Xuan saw the opportunity approaching, he was like a civil servant and military general discussing affairs.Study the overall strategy: The northwest of Wuling is Yong'an, which is the territory of Liu Yan's father Liu Qi (King of Sichuan), who is now in charge of seven counties; the northeast of Wuling is Jiangling, which is the territory of Liu Biao (King of Jingzhou), which is the territory of Xiakou to the north of Changsha, which is also the territory of Liu Biao.Both of them are important officials of the royal family and cannot compete with them for the time being.The counties in Jiangdong, from Changsha to the east are Yuzhang, Luling and Poyang, and Poyang is a strategic location. You can attack Lujiang to the north, Kuaiji to the east, Yizhou and Wucheng, and along Wucheng to the north, you can attack Jianye.

If you get the eight counties of Yuzhang, Luling, Poyang, Kuaiji, Yizhou, Wucheng, Jianye, and Lujiang, plus the four counties of Wuling, Changsha, Lingling and Guiyang, a total of twelve counties, then the land of the world will be one-quarter.

Lingling, Guiyang, Yuzhang, Luling, Poyang, Kuaiji, Yizhou and Wucheng are all inner counties. You only need to heavily station the four counties of Wuling, Changsha, Jianye and Lujiang, and you will be in charge of the offense and defense.

Then go west to Yong'an, take seven counties in Sichuan, and five counties in Jingxiang, north.

Then divide the world equally.

There are currently 180,000 troops in the four counties, 30,000 troops stationed in Wuling and Changsha, 5,000 troops stationed in Lingling and Guiyang, and the remaining 110,000 troops divided into 60,000 troops to capture the counties in Jiangdong. I led 50,000 troops north along Lujiang, Shouchun and Xuzhou to meet Puyang Qiaogong.Then he stationed troops in Hefei to cooperate in taking down Jiangdong.

Zhuge Liang, Guo Jia and others had no objection to this strategy.

Allocated personnel: Pang Tong and Zhang Liao led 30,000 troops to garrison Wuling, and Xu Shu and Wei Yan led 30,000 troops to garrison Changsha.

The former deputy general of Guiyang, Bao Long, led 5,000 troops to garrison Lingling, and the deputy general Chen Ying led 5,000 troops to garrison Guiyang.

Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Huang Zhong, Xing Daorong, Gan Ning, Lu Su, Jiang Wan and Ma Liang led 60,000 troops to capture the counties in Jiangdong.

Jin Xuan, Guo Jia, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei and Taishi Ci led 50,000 troops north to pick up Qiao Xuan of Puyang.

While the Jin Xuan army was taking Jiangdong east, the vigorous Yellow Turban Uprising in the Central Plains launched a cruel battle with the Han army.

Local powerful forces rose one after another, and the prefects in various places held their own troops. The Han emperor's imperial edict reached only more than ten counties.

The brothers Qiao Xuan and Qiao Mao had already received Jin Xuan's letters. After hearing the war in the Central Plains, they had already made preparations.

It was heard that Zhang Liang raised a large army of 100,000 to attack Puyang, and led 30,000 troops from the county to escort Jia Xiao, escorted the food and supplies and supplies to leave Puyang, and took the route notified by Jin Xuan to pass through Xuzhou and Shouchun to Hefei, and joined the army with Jin Xuan.

Zhang Liang went to Puyang without fighting. Puyang was almost an empty city, and the money and grain had been moved clean by the Qiao brothers.

Zhang Jiao and others had no war laws and only knew how to loot, and the people were disappointed.

The three armies of Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao were respectively exterminated by Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi and Liu Yan, who joined forces with local tyrants.

The three Zhang Jiao brothers were all killed, and the rest of them moved to Runan, Pingyuan and other places, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.

In Luoyang, the power struggle between Zhang Rang and He Jin has entered a white-hot stage. Under the deliberate provocation of old ministers such as Wang Yun and Cai Yi, the struggle between the two major forces has reached a life-and-death level.

The ten regular attendants held the power and discussed with each other: but those who did not follow themselves will be killed.

Zhang Rang and others asked the Yellow Turban soldiers for gold and silk, but those who refused to follow the report were dismissed.

Huangfu Song and others refused to give in, and Zhang Rang and others all reported to dismiss his post.

The emperor also conferred the title of Zhang Rang and thirteen other people as the title of Marquis.

The government is getting worse and worse, and the people are complaining.

As a result, the world became more and more chaotic, and the snowflakes in the seal were in a hurry, and all the ten regular attendants hid and refused to report.

In July of the fourth year of Zhongping, Emperor Ling was seriously ill and wanted to summon the general He to enter the palace to discuss the funeral.Zhang Rang reported: If you want to establish a cooperation, you must first punish Hejin to eliminate future troubles.

The emperor said that because Xuan He entered the palace.When He Jin arrived at the palace gate, Sima Pan Yin said to He Jin: You cannot enter the palace.Zhang Rang wanted to murder the prince.

He Jin was shocked and rushed back to his private house and summoned all the ministers to kill all the eunuchs.

A man on the seat stood up and said: The eunuch's power starts from time to time of conflict and quality; the imperial court is very wide, how can he be punished?If the situation is not secret, there will be disaster for extermination: please pay attention to it in detail.

He Jin looked at it, and was Cao Cao, the commander of the military academy.He Jin scolded: How can you, junior, know the great affairs of the court!

While hesitating, Pan Yin arrived and said: The emperor has collapsed.Now Zhang Rang and others discussed, and secretly refused to issue a funeral. They forged an edict to announce that He Guojiu entered the palace, and wanted to stop the future troubles and appointed Prince Xie as the emperor.

The mission has not been completed, and the mission has come. He will enter quickly to determine the future.

Cao Cao said: Today's plan is to first correct the throne and then conquer the thief.

He Jin said: Who dares to fight against the thief with my lord?

One of them stood up and said: I wish to borrow 5,000 elite soldiers, cut the pass into the city, enthrone the new king, kill all the eunuchs, wipe out the court, and make peace in the world!

He Jin looked at it, and was Yuan Shao, whose courtesy name was Benchu, and he was now the Sili School Commander.

He Jin was overjoyed and ordered five thousand imperial guards.

He Jin led more than 30 ministers including He Yu, Xun You, Zheng Tai and other ministers, and entered one after another, and took the coffin of Emperor Ling, and supported the crown prince Bian to ascend the throne.

All the officials had finished calling, and Yuan Shao entered the palace to accept Zhang Rang and others.

Zhang Rang and other governors were anxious and panicked and told He Hou: Those who planned to frame the general at the beginning would not do anything to the ministers.Now the general listened to Yuan Shao's words and wanted to kill all the ministers and others, begging the Empress to beg for mercy!

Empress Dowager He said: Don’t worry, I will protect you.

How to enter the imperial edict?The Empress Dowager secretly said to He Jin: I and you are from a humble background. If you were not Zhang Rang and others, how could you enjoy this wealth?Why do you believe in others' words and want to kill all the eunuchs?

After hearing this, He Jin came out to the officials and said: There is no need to harm him.

Yuan Shao said: If we do not cut off the weeds and remove the roots, it will be the basis for losing our lives.

He Jin said: My intention has been decided, please do not say too much.

All the officials retreated.

Although Zhang Rang and others saved their lives, their hearts were unstable.

The fake queen mother ordered Xuan He to enter the palace and secretly hide his armor and soldiers.

He Jin walked straight in.

When he arrived at the gate of Jiade Hall, Zhang Rang and others came out and surrounded him, and He Jin was shocked.

Zhang Rang sternly blamed He Jin and said: You are a junior who is the emperor who recommends to the emperor, so that he is honored and noble; he does not want to repay the consequences and wants to conspire to kill each other. Do you say that we are very turbid, who is the pure one?

He Jin was anxious and wanted to find a way out. The palace gates were closed and the armor came out together, and He Jin was cut into two sections.

After Zhang Rang and others killed He Jin, Yuan Shao had not seen him in and out for a long time, so he shouted outside the palace gate: Please get in the car!

Zhang Rang and others threw He Jin's head out of the wall and announced the edict: He Jin's rebellion has been executed!All the other followers will be forgiven.

Yuan Shao shouted loudly: The eunuch murdered the minister!Kill the evil party members to help the war!

Yuan Shu led his troops into the palace, but he saw the eunuchs, who killed them regardless of their size.

Yuan Shao and Cao Cao cut the pass and entered.

Zhao Zhong, Cheng Kuang, Xia Yun and Guo Sheng were driven to Cuihua Tower and chopped into meat paste.

The flames soared into the sky in the palace.

Zhang Rang, Duan Gui, Cao Jie, Hou Lan led the Empress Dowager, the Prince and King Chenliu to introspection and walked into the Beigong from the back road.

At that time, Lu Zhi abandoned his official position and had not left. When he saw the incident in the palace, he put on his armor and held a sword and stood by his Excellency.

The Empress Dowager jumped out of the window, and Lu Zhi was spared first aid.

Yuan Shao ordered the soldiers to come and kill the families of the ten eunuchs, regardless of their size, and they were killed.

While saving the fire in the palace, Cao Cao asked Empress Dowager He to take charge of the major issues and sent troops to pursue Zhang Rang and others to find the young emperor.

Let’s talk about Zhang Rang and Duan Gui robbing Shao Emperor and King Chenliu, and they rushed to Beimang Mountain overnight.

At about the second update, there were loud shouts from behind and people arrived; Min Gong, a lieutenant from central Henan, shouted that the traitor should stop leaving!

Seeing that things were urgent, Zhang Rang jumped into the river and died.The emperor and King Chenliu were not sure of the reality and did not dare to speak loudly, and hid in the messy grass by the river.The army and horses scattered everywhere, not knowing where the emperor was.

At dawn, Situ Wang Yun, Grand Marshal Yang Biao, Central Army Captain Yuan Shao, a group of people and hundreds of people were looking for the emperor's place and then driving.Both the king and the ministers cried.

The carriage was driving for less than a few miles, and suddenly there were flags covering the sun, dust covering the sky, and a man and horse arrived.All officials were disappointed, and the emperor was also shocked.Yuan Shao suddenly asked: Who is it?

In the shadow of the embroidered flag, a general flew out and said sternly: Dong Zhuo, the governor of Xiliang, is here to protect him.

Dong Zhuo stationed outside the city, and brought armored horses into the city every day, rampant in the streets and the people were in panic.

When he goes to and from the palace, he is slightly unscrupulous.

Dong Zhuo's soldiers were lured to lure He Jin's brothers' subordinates and they were all in control.

Since then, Dong Zhuo has taken over the power of Luoyang, and no one dares to speak out.

Situ Wang Yun and Shangshu ordered Cai Yisheng to make a statement, and retired and took his family to Changsha.