"Jian Ziying's decisiveness dares to challenge thieves to relieve disaster." [Western Expedition Fu]
Dong Zhuo understood immediately, stood up and cursed: "Young dog, how dare you plot against me!"
Lu Bu had no time to listen to his nonsense. The spear in his hand came out like thunder and lightning. Dong Zhuo was unable to dodge and was stabbed by the spear. With Lu Bu's supernatural power, the spear directly penetrated the armor and came out. Dong Zhuo screamed in pain, Just as he was about to call the guards outside the door, Li Su saw that Lu Bu had succeeded, and followed closely behind him, slashing off Dong Zhuo's head with a sword.
This series of actions seems to take a long time, but in fact it only takes place within a few breaths.
After Dong Zhuo's head fell to the ground, Tian Jing realized what he was doing. He screamed strangely and wanted to call the guards to avenge Dong Zhuo. However, Dong Zhuo had previously ordered him to dismount and walk, so he had no choice but to run away and ran towards the door. At this time, Liu Ai drove his horse He stopped Tian Jing in front of him, and he pulled out his sword and struck Tian Jing on the head. Tian Jing was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and the crown on his head was cut off by the blade of the sword. Liu Ai has always looked gentle and humble. , has he ever looked as ferocious as he does today?
Seeing that the palace gate was blocked, Tian Jing stopped struggling. He laughed twice in despair and turned back to Dong Zhuo. Liu Ai, who was chasing him, stabbed him to death with a sword.
The old man had already jumped out of the car, and he and another slave rushed towards Dong Zhuo's body. Before he could make any reaction, the word 'Lord' had just escaped his lips, and he was killed by Li Su and others. Lu Bu and others killed three people in a row. The people showed no mercy, and the rest were horrified, and no one on the sidelines dared to step forward. The troops inside and outside the palace gate were in awe, as if they were panicked and at a loss what to do.
Seeing that the overall situation had been decided and the villain was dead, Lu Bu raised the edict of pardon and shouted: "Your Majesty has issued an edict. Dong Zhuo is cruel and unruly, causing trouble in the country. He is against the principles of people and ministers. He has the intention of tampering. He will be punished now." , to report to the world. The rest are all driven by coercion, and there is nothing wrong with them. I forgive you for their innocence. Anyone who dares to be unfair to Dong's thieves will be executed!"
After saying this, he ordered people to hold the edict in their hands, gallop down the road, and loudly chant the content of the edict. Now all the soldiers inside and outside the palace could hear it clearly. The soldiers knew that they were not blamed, and that Lu Bu had been punished for killing Dong Zhuo. How could there be any dissatisfaction with the emperor's edict? Even some die-hard Xiliang loyalists were killed on the spot by Lu Bu, Li Su and others, and could no longer resist. The soldiers all shouted long live, and the shouts shocked both inside and outside.
The people in the city suffered terribly from Dong Zhuo's violence. When they heard that Dong Zhuo had died, the whole city suddenly became excited. Everyone walked from their homes to the main road, and the alleys were almost empty and filled with shops. Although the main road was wide, it was almost empty. There was a danger of overcrowding. Hundreds of thousands of people in the city sang and danced in the streets to celebrate the traitor's death. The ladies of Chang'an even sold their jewelry and clothes to buy wine and meat to celebrate.
The soldiers, civilians, and soldiers all over the city shouted long live, and the voices gathered into layers of sound waves, constantly impacting the tallest building in Chang'an City, the Weiyang Front Hall on Longshou Mountain.
Mu Shun, the Shang Pharmacist, and Ma Gaishun, the Beigongmen Sima, hid near Beiyemen. When they saw Dong Zhuo falling from his car and dying, they carefully ran to the palace road to the side and rushed to the announcement room to report the good news to the emperor. .
Lu Bu didn't notice this detail. After he sent someone to announce the edict to the whole city, he quickly led Li Su and a group of others to rush to the camp of Hu Zhen in the north of the city with another pardon edict in hand. Killing Dong Zhuo was only the first step. , only by truly mastering the Hu Zhen tribe, which has the largest number of people in Chang'an, can it be considered a success.
In the Xuanshi Palace, the emperor, Yang Qi, Wang Bin and others sat speechless, speechless to each other. They looked calm and calm, but in fact they were extremely worried inside. Even the emperor who was a time traveler was secretly worried about whether his butterfly wings would
Change the outcome of Dong Zhuo's murder.
Suddenly, Beigongmen Sima Gaishun and Shang Yao Superintendent Mu Shun stumbled in and knelt on the ground. Mu Shun gasped and said: "It's done, it's done! Dong Zhuo is dead!"
Everyone was shocked at first, and then heaved a sigh of relief. Among them, Yang Qi was a steady person and confirmed: "Did you see it with your own eyes?"
"The servants and Gesima were hiding near Beiye Gate and saw with their own eyes that Zhonglang's general Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo! The accompanying guards heard Lu Bu's announcement of the imperial edict to punish thieves and did not dare to move! They kept shouting "Long live the mountains"!
Praise His Majesty for his sage!"
"That's it." The emperor stood up suddenly. Now that Dong Zhuo is dead, there will be no threat to his life in a short time. His voice could not contain the excitement in his heart, "Uncle!"
Wang Bin, the captain of the chariot, led Beigongmen Sima Gaishun, the servants shot Yang Zhong, and Yang Ru, who was sitting at the end, immediately stood up and saluted the emperor and said goodbye.
Several people walked out of the announcement room and went straight to the prepared car. Wang Bin drove the car himself. The car did not have the graceful demeanor of daily travel. It drove out of the front hall as if fleeing. There were nearly a hundred guards behind them. Some of these guards were from the past.
Feng Che Lang, who was friends with Wang Bin, and some palace gate guards who followed Gaishun and were replaced by Li Su. These people rode horses that Feng Che Lang had unloaded from the chariot and drove around Wang Bin.
Running fast, not to mention anything else, the momentum alone is enough to intimidate others.
The chariot drove all the way to the Nangong Gate. When the palace gate Sima saw the galloping chariot and more than a hundred cavalry behind him, he wanted to intercept it, but he saw his colleague Gai Shun holding up half of the imperial edict with his brocade bag exposed, and shouted from a distance.
: "There is an edict! Retreat quickly!"
The palace gate Sima knew that the matter was urgent and quickly led the people to disperse without even daring to stop them.
After leaving the palace gate, he ran out of the city gate in the same way not long after. After a while, he saw a military camp with tents one after another. This was one of the few armies stationed outside Chang'an City. Most of the soldiers were
It was composed of the Chang'an Huya Battalion originally trained by Gai Xun. It was not a direct lineage of Dong Zhuo. The leader of this army was Zhonglang General Xu Rong.
Xu Rong, a native of Xuantu, Youzhou, Emperor Xiaoling summoned the best soldiers and generals from all over the world to Luoyang in August of the fifth year of Zhongping to form the Eight Academy Lieutenants of Xiyuan. Xu Rong was selected among them because of his merits. Later, Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, reorganized and dispersed Luoyang.
Xu Rong, a member of the imperial army, obeyed the imperial edicts and went out to isolate himself from the gentry. He soon gained the trust of Dong Zhuo and led troops several times to defeat the attacks of the Kwantung Army such as Cao Cao and Sun Jian.
The result of strong military achievements is bound to attract the jealousy of villains. Xu Rong is neither the Liangzhou faction nor the Bingzhou faction, so he is alone. After Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, he sent troops to plunder and resist Guandong. Naturally, he was not able to take his turn.
, allowing him to guard Chang'an with three thousand men, it was just because Dong Zhuo saw that he only obeyed the imperial edict, that is, Dong Zhuo's order.
Xu Rong was a person who only obeyed the imperial edict and was still afraid of the authority of the imperial court. Moreover, he was not a direct descendant of Dong Zhuo, let alone a native of Liangzhou, so he had no reason to die for Dong Zhuo. When Mu Shun came out with the imperial edict and announced that Dong Zhuo would be killed, the emperor
After being merciful and only punishing the leader of the thieves, not the accomplices. After being surprised, Xu Rong immediately reacted and led several captains in the army to readily accept the imperial edict and hand over military power without any resistance or dissatisfaction.