Three hundred and fortieth chapters coalition against Dong
The snowflakes of the twelfth lunar month are floating, the messengers from Qiao Mao are running, and the messengers from Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou and Xuzhou are also running to reply.
Although letters were exchanged frequently, no one wanted to stand out, including Qiao Mao, who sent the message.
Qiao Mao was the prefect of Yanzhou Dongjun. In July, he was summoned by He Jin and led 20,000 troops to Luoyang. Later, He Jin went back on his word and sent an order to retreat. Although he stopped, he did not return to Dongjun and kept stationing troops there.
Chenggao County is a hundred miles east of Luoyang.
In a similar situation to him was Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi, but Wang Kuang was more honest. After receiving the order, he returned to Huai County, Hanoi County, which is on the north bank of the Yellow River and more than 150 miles away from Luoyang.
Neither of them dared to take the lead in crusading against Dong Zhuo, for fear of being destroyed.
Therefore, it is said that the strong wind knows the strong grass, and the rough wind knows the honest minister.
Although Boss Cao was thirty-five years old at this time, he was still a young man. In the late twelfth month of the twelfth lunar month, Cao Cao set up a banner in Jiwu County, Chenliu County to challenge Dong, and marched westward with 5,000 men and horses.
He was the only army at this time that openly raised troops to attack Dong Zhuo. It was only more than 400 miles away from Luoyang. The cavalry stationed around Luoyang could rush over and destroy him in just four or five days.
After another six or seven days, Cao Cao marched more than 160 miles northwest. When he arrived at Suanzao County at the junction of Chenliu and Sili, he received a letter from Zhang Miao, the prefect of Chenliu, asking him to stop on the spot and wait.
Allied forces came to join them.
When Zhang Miao and his brother Zhang Chao, the prefect of Guangling in Xuzhou, led an army of 50,000 and arrived at Suanzao, it was already the first month of the first year of Chuping.
Chuping was the newly changed reign name at the Zhengdan Festival in 190, and was the second reign title of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.
In the next few days, Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, Yuan Yi, the prefect of Shanyang, and Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, successively arrived with troops. Qiao Mao also returned to Yanzhou from Chenggao. Suanzao gathered in Yanzhou. The Xuzhou coalition army had 150,000 people, and seven of them died.
As an alliance, they elected Yuan Shao, the prefect of Langya, as the leader of the alliance, raised the banner, punished the national traitors, and supported the emperor.
Announced an army to attack Dong!
Although Yuan Shao didn't come, it didn't stop them from recognizing Yuan Benchu as the boss.
This place is three hundred miles away from Luoyang and one hundred and sixty miles away from Liyang where the Anping Army is stationed.
There was a lot of momentum, but when Liu Xiang heard the spies' report, he felt that these people were all idiots.
Especially Qiao Mao.
Twenty miles to the west of Chenggao is the Xuanmen Pass, which is the eastern gateway to Luoyang. Taking advantage of the friendly forces, they sent out surprise troops to seize the pass, and used their 20,000 troops to occupy the pass and defend it, dragging the enemy troops who came to attack into
If your troops are exhausted, you can wait for subsequent allies to arrive, defeat the enemy in one battle, and then take Luoyang directly.
Great things can happen!
Even if there is no twists and turns, more than 40 miles east of Chenggao is Aocang, which is the largest granary in Henan Province and an important supply base supporting the war on the eastern and northern fronts.
Don’t you understand the principle of food and grass going first before the troops and horses are moved?
Attack it sneakily!
What the hell is it like to retreat two hundred miles with troops and horses to join the Jujube Alliance?
Tell Dong Zhuo, get ready quickly, I'm going to beat you up?
Liu Xiang was shocked by his thinking, and quickly transferred Guan Yu to lead the former army and stationed in Liyang, and transferred Zhang Liao to lead the left army to station in Dunqiu County, Dongjun.
Strengthen the Yellow River defense line.
When the Anping Army was mobilized, the Jujube Allied Forces stopped moving forward. The message was sent to various places, and other troops began to respond.
Wang Kuang, the governor of Hedong, raised 20,000 troops in Huai County.
Kong Zhi, the governor of Yuzhou, mobilized 30,000 troops and raised troops in Yingchuan.
Later general Yuan Shu killed Zhang Zi, the governor of Nanyang, annexed his tribe, gathered 50,000 troops, and launched an army to attack Dong.
The funniest thing is that Liu Biao sent 50,000 troops to gather in Xiangyang, claiming that he was responding to the coalition forces to challenge Dong, but Xiangyang was behind Yuan Shu's army and had no relationship with Sili.
It doesn't look like he's asking for Dong, but he actually wants to kill Yuan Shu and take back Nanyang County.
But no one cared about Liu Biao's true purpose. As long as it could build momentum, the coalition would accept anyone who came. The only drawback was that the leader of the alliance, Yuan Shao, did not come and only sent a letter to express verbal support.
No matter what, the Kwantung Alliance gained momentum and its 300,000 troops showed off their power.
If they had not stationed troops and held back, Liu Xiang would have been frightened by them.
Dong Zhuo was really frightened. An army of 300,000 men threatened Luoyang from the east and south. The nearest place was only more than a hundred miles away. He was a little panicked and quickly summoned his staff to discuss countermeasures.
Everyone discussed for a long time and decided to move the capital.
Moving the capital was not a temporary decision. Last year, we had the idea of moving to Chang'an, and we specially recruited civilians to repair the city and palaces.
The next day, Dong Zhuo announced in the court that he would move the capital, dismissed Taiwei Huang Wan and Situ Yang Biao, and beheaded Zhou Ao and Wu Qiong. This suppressed the opposition of the officials.
"Everyone is restless." After going to court, Dong Zhuo was angry. Externally, the Kwantung Allied Forces wanted to attack him, and internally, the courtiers were opposing him. He was suffering from internal and external troubles, and his anger was rising.
Risk.
These people have to be given a shock!
Thinking of this, he asked: "Who is King Hongnong's doctor?"
"It is Li Ru who is the prime minister."
"Send an order to give him poisonous wine and order him to deliver it to King Hongnong." Dong Zhuo snorted coldly, "Aren't you going to help Liu Bian return to his throne? I'll kill him first and see who else you can use to rebel against me."
In the sixth year of Chuping, on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Dong Zhuojiu killed the young emperor Liu Bian.
Emperor Liu Xie issued an edict. The current situation was turbulent and a war was about to break out. Therefore, it was impossible to build a mausoleum. He was buried in an empty mausoleum on the outskirts of the city and was given the posthumous title of King Huai.
The cemetery where Liu Bian is buried was originally built by Zhao Zhong for himself. Due to the turmoil in Luoyang, Zhao Zhong abandoned his body in the wilderness and the place became vacant.
Dong Zhuo had no objections and was eager to move the capital.
"Liu Ai, I order you to take His Majesty and all the officials first. Niu Fu, move everyone in Luoyang and surrounding areas to Chang'an, burn down the houses, block the wells, and clear the fields."
"Follow the order!"
As soon as the two left, Cai Yong came to ask for an audience.
"This old man doesn't come here often, please come in." Dong Zhuo was a little surprised. He kept Cai Yong by his side mainly to contain Liu Xiang. He couldn't beat or scold him, so he simply left it alone and did whatever he wanted, as long as he didn't leave.
Cai Yong walked into the main hall smoothly, bowed and asked, "I heard that the Prime Minister is moving the capital?"
He had not been to court since the day Dong Zhuo claimed to be Prime Minister. He was upset and the news was delayed a lot.
"Bo Zhe is also here to persuade me?" Dong Zhuo frowned, a little confused as to what to do. He couldn't kill this man. The Kwantung Allied Forces were having a riot right now. If Liu Yicheng attacked again, he would have to prepare to escape.
"That's not true." Cai Yong was now helpless about the government affairs. His daughter and son-in-law wrote to him many times to persuade him not to interfere with anything. He decided to listen to the advice, but it was useless to interfere anyway.
With this in mind, he expressed his intention: "I would like to ask the Prime Minister how to arrange the Dongguan and Lantai collections of books. These books cannot be damaged."
"Hahahaha." Dong Zhuo had a generous heart and was not against himself. Okay, okay, great, it saves a big problem. He said happily: "Bo Zhe can deal with it how he wants to deal with it!"
"Then the Prime Minister will have to send me a car."
"Okay, can I allocate 500 large vehicles to you?"
Cai Yong shook his head: "It's far from enough. The places where books are collected in the palace include Dongguan, Lantai, Shishi, Renshou Pavilion, Xuanming Hall, and outside the palace there are Taixue, Piyong, Lingtai, and Hongdu established by the late emperor.
There are also a lot of books there. I made a rough estimate, and it would take at least eight or nine thousand carts to use them."
"How...how much?" Dong Zhuo felt that he had heard wrongly?
He knew that there were a lot of books in the palace, so he directly allocated five hundred carts. Such a fleet could haul a million kilograms of weight, hundreds of thousands of scrolls of bamboo slips, and silk books.
As a result, Cai Bojie read the book ten times. Are there so many books?
He couldn't help complaining: "Where can a certain family find so many big cars for you? Luoyang still has to immigrate and move the capital. How can there be so many vehicles to haul books?"
"Since Emperor Wu, over three hundred years of continuous collection, sorting and editing, there are tens of millions of volumes of books, but there are only a few more. This is the hard work of our predecessors and cannot be destroyed. It will be reviled by future generations and will be infamy for thousands of years." It is not for this purpose.
Cai Yong had left Luoyang long ago for these books. Wandering among the sea of books every day was truly a great joy in life.
Dong Zhuo was also scratching his head. This problem cannot be solved. Wealth, food, and population are much more important than books.
"Bo Zhe, the matter of moving the capital is extremely complicated, and the nearest enemy army is only more than a hundred miles away from Luoyang. They can attack the city at any time. I really can't take care of it."
He presented facts and reason to convince Cai Yong. He didn't want to make the relationship too tense, so he couldn't provoke Liu Yicheng now.
Whether the Kwantung Allied Forces can arrive at Luoyang at any time is a matter of two opinions. If Liu Yicheng is really anxious, he will definitely be able to arrive at the city at any time. When he rescued him in Liangzhou, it was an attack of more than 400 miles in two days and nights.
Now his nearest garrison is only a hundred miles away from Luoyang, and the Yellow River has not yet been unsealed. Maybe when he opens his eyes tomorrow, he will rush out of the city with his cavalry.
That’s a piece of shit!
Just wait to be surrounded by the Kanto people!
Dong Zhuo looked at Cai Yong with a little worry. He also knew the reputation of this book lover, and was afraid that the old man would get angry.
"Xiangguo doesn't want it anymore?" Cai Yong didn't mean to be angry.
Dong Zhuo rubbed the beard on his chin. This reaction was wrong.
"What do you mean, Uncle?"
"If the Prime Minister doesn't want these books, it's better to give them to my son-in-law and let him find a way to get them back. It's better than destroying them."
Dong Zhuo laughed angrily: "Haha, wait for me here. Well, you Cai Bojie, you are worthy of being my uncle. Even for your son-in-law, you are quite good at finding opportunities. Take advantage of the situation. You, this is terrible.
Isn’t that what a gentleman does?”
Cai Yong sighed and said: "If the Prime Minister can take him away, I won't say anything, but seeing that it is about to be destroyed, I can't bear to part with it. It is the hard work of the predecessors for more than three hundred years, and it is a treasure that records the wisdom of sages. How can
Are you willing to destroy it?"
He bowed his head to the ground with great solemnity and said in a mournful voice: "I beg the Prime Minister to leave this treasure in the world so that it can be passed down to future generations. The sages and sages can speak with great righteousness and cannot be extinguished!"
"I gave these treasures to Liu Yicheng, so what can he give me?" Dong Zhuo smiled slyly. A pile of waste can be exchanged for a lot of good things. Cai Bojie had to remind him, otherwise it would be wasted.
"I am willing to go to Chang'an with the Prime Minister as a hostage and will never escape." Cai Yong could only pressure himself. He could not help his son-in-law agree to other people's conditions.