Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

On the other side, the White Horse Volunteers led by Zhao Yun quickly passed through the entire Luoyang.

Unlike Zhang Fei's mission, Zhao Yun's destination was "Dongguan".

"Dongguan" was the library of the Han Dynasty palace, located in the Nangong Palace in Luoyang. It contained a huge number of books handed down from the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, and the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Especially before the papermaking technology was improved and paper was not widely popularized, bamboo slips were destined to be difficult to copy, so that a large number of precious books were only available in originals.

It can be said that the countless books included in "Dongguan" are the crystallization of all the wisdom of Chinese civilization at this moment.

In addition, what Li Ji particularly valued was that the Dongguan also contained archives on the population, topography, fields, etc. of various parts of the Han Dynasty.

The Luoyang Imperial Palace is a general name. In fact, the Luoyang Imperial Palace is now divided into the South Palace and the North Palace. The South and North Palaces are not in the same place, and the distance between them is more than seven miles.

Today, the North Palace is the imperial palace where the emperor and his concubines sleep. In the South Palace, apart from the "East Pavilion" which is used to store books, it is usually where the emperor and his ministers come to pay homage, discuss government affairs, or work.

Therefore, the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry led by Lu Bu headed straight for Beigong in the north of Luoyang, while Zhao Yun headed for Nangong in the south of Luoyang.

Similar to Beigong.

All the elite Sili troops who were originally responsible for garrisoning in Luoyang were transferred to Hulao Pass, and were replaced by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry who were responsible for guarding the imperial palace.

Now that Luoyang is in chaos, there are also many Western Liang cavalrymen who have taken advantage of the chaos in the Nan Palace to commit robbing and looting.

Zhao Yun only had 3,000 cavalrymen when he entered Nangong. It was impossible for him to blockade Nangong like the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry did. He could only kill the chaotic soldiers and carefully identify the direction of Dongguan.

Li Ji may never have entered the Luoyang Imperial Palace or visited the "Dongguan".

However, Li Ji's father-in-law, Cai Yong, was once ordered by Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Hong, to revise the "Dongguan Hanji" in the Dongguan.

For Cai Yong, the location of Dongguan was more familiar than the way home.

Li Ji, who had long been eyeing the books in Dongguan, asked Cai Yong to draw a map of Dongguan before leaving Wujun. Now that Li Ji handed the map to Zhao Yun, it came in handy.

Although the vision was unclear due to the obstruction of darkness, Zhao Yun, who entered Nangong, carefully identified the location and found the direction of Dongguan. He led the White Horse Volunteers straight to Dongguan.

However, before Zhao Yun arrived at the East Pavilion, he saw a fire lit up there.

This made Zhao Yun extremely anxious, so he left the main group and relied on the speed of the Night-Shining Jade Lion to rush to Dongguan first.

There was undoubtedly chaos in Dongguan at this moment.

More than a dozen Xiliang rebel soldiers were searching for valuables in the Dongguan Palace. However, the Dongguan Palace, which looked magnificent, only had a huge collection of books. How could there be valuables stored there?

In such anger, these Xiliang rebel soldiers simply started setting fire to vent their anger, and Zhao Yun who happened to arrive happened to catch them.

"You deserve to die!"

Seeing that there were already three or four fires burning in the East Pavilion, Zhao Yun was undoubtedly extremely angry. He shot and killed two soldiers with two arrows from a distance, and then rode the Night-Shining Jade Lion directly into the East Pavilion.

With a swing of the Yajiao spear in his hand, more than a dozen Xiliang rebel soldiers were killed almost instantly.

Soon, seeing that the fire was about to break out, Zhao Yun simply used the corpses of the Xiliang rebel soldiers to throw them at the fire to put out the fire, and only then was he able to barely control the fire in the East Pavilion.

Until this moment, the White Horse Volunteers, who were slightly slower, arrived one after another and assisted Zhao Yun in completely extinguishing the fire in the East Pavilion.

After the fire was put out, Zhao Yun gave the order. "Move!"

"Move all the books in the East Pavilion away!"

Of course, even with three thousand white horse volunteers, it would be impossible to move all the books in the East Pavilion out of the Nan Palace in a very short time.

Zhao Yun only had one night left.

After daybreak, the other princes entered Luoyang one after another to control the situation, and it was impossible for Zhao Yun to move the books from the East Palace openly.

However, Li Ji was naturally prepared for this and had prepared hundreds of carts in Luoyang in advance through the Mi family.

Perhaps preparing other things would arouse suspicion, but for a businessman, preparing more carts is too inconspicuous.

Moreover, these carts had long been stored in a warehouse not far from Nangong.

Therefore, while Zhao Yun ordered the White Horse Volunteers to quickly move the collection of books, he led 500 people to connect the carts to the war horses, and then pulled the carts back to the East Pavilion.

It was not until this moment that the allied princes who were blocked by Gao Shun arrived in Luoyang one after another.

However, these princes almost all headed towards the North Palace, trying to find the emperor, and did not pay any attention to the South Palace at all.

The collection of books in the East Palace is as many as hundreds of thousands of volumes, covering everything, including various schools of thought...

However, the White Horse Volunteers led by Zhao Yun were all strong warriors who could draw bows. They ran back and forth between the Dongguan Palace and the carts, and could hold more than ten scrolls of bamboo slips at a time.

By the time dawn came, the entire East Pavilion had been emptied, replaced by hundreds of carts filled with bamboo slips.

Immediately, Zhao Yun took advantage of the last cover of the night and followed Li Ji's order to leave the Nangong Palace directly, completely avoiding the Beigong Palace where the shouting and killing had been going on all night, and went out of Luoyang's Suzaku Gate, choosing to leave Luoyang directly.

Unlike Zhao Yun who worked as a porter in Nangong all night, the elite troops led by the allied princes fought with the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry who relied on the walls of Beigong for a whole night.

It was not until now, when it was almost dawn, that everyone realized that the walls of the North Palace were already completely red.

However, even after fighting for a whole night, the princes who still failed to break into the North Palace were still unwilling to give up, and they even wanted to directly demolish nearby houses to build temporary siege equipment for the attack.

The gate of Beigong Palace suddenly opened slowly, and Emperor Liu Xie, wearing a black dragon robe, appeared in front of the princes, guarded by Lu Bu and Zhang Liao on his left and right.

At this moment, the nine-year-old Emperor Liu Xie was pale and his eyes were panicked, but he still managed to remain calm and spoke.

"Why are you attacking the palace? Are you trying to imitate the traitor Dong and start a rebellion?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the princes all changed.

In the end, Yuan Shao stepped forward, performed the etiquette between a king and his subject, and then spoke.

"Your Majesty, we have heard that Dong Zhuo has disrupted the government, committed many perverse acts, and offended the emperor, so we have come here to purge him."

Liu Xie nodded, glanced at Lu Bu beside him, and then spoke again in a childish voice.

"My dear ministers, you have good intentions, but now the traitor Dong has been killed by Marquis Wen, and there are no more traitors in Luoyang. My dear ministers, please withdraw. I will reward you according to your merits during the court meeting tomorrow." (End of this chapter)