The first general of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 75 Luoyang Upheaval

Wei Tao and Cao Cao are vigilant people. In fact, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others faintly feel that something is wrong at this time.

Now that the Yellow Turban bandits have gone to the outskirts of Luoyang, there is no movement.

And just seeing the yellow turban bandits immediately closed the four city gates of Luoyang, which is a bit of a fuss.

With the closing of the four gates of Luoyang, the people of Luoyang are a little flustered. The memory of the Yellow Turban incident in Luoyang a year ago and the random killing and arrest of officers and soldiers is still fresh in the memory of the people of Luoyang.

But if there is no order, even officials like Yuan Shao and Cao Cao who nominally command the entire Xiyuan school lieutenant have no right to mobilize the army.

As for mobilizing the army based on personal orders, at least at this time, even Yuan Shao and Cao Cao didn't have such a thought.

"Although the general enters the palace, even if he can see His Majesty, I'm afraid it won't be too long. If we wait outside the palace gate, firstly, we can see the General earlier, and secondly, we can know how His Majesty is going to make a decision."

"it is good!"

Hearing Cao Cao's words, everyone who felt wrong in their hearts agreed.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

As soon as they walked outside the mansion, they heard bursts of horns raised to the sky, and everyone's hearts were suddenly shocked.

"What happened, go and see!"

The person who was sent away rushed back quickly, but there was an uncontrollable look of panic on his face.

"It's not good, the yellow scarf thief really hit Luoyang!"

"Yellow turban bandits? How many are there?"

The people present are not ordinary people, even at this time they can still remain calm.

"I don't know how many people there are, but it is said that the yellow scarves came from the south. Now the south gate is under martial law, and everyone is within a hundred feet."

"It's just a yellow scarf, I'll go and have a look!"

At this time Yuan Shao came out and said.

Yuan Shao is nominally in charge of the captain of the Xiyuan school. With his words, everyone naturally has no objection. Everyone wants to find out about the Yellow Turban bandits as soon as possible.

Everyone's identities are different, especially Yuan Shao and others are the captains of the West Garden, mastering the army. Although the guards at the city gate were unwilling, they did not dare to forcefully stop them, and let them go up to the city wall.

Looking outside the city wall, everyone couldn't help shaking their heads secretly.

"What is my opinion, it turns out that they are nothing more than mere bandits."

Yuan Shu couldn't help but speak, and his words were full of laughter.

"It doesn't take a lot of soldiers and horses for this small number of bandits. 1000 people are enough to capture them all under the horses. The city guards are really getting more and more useless. This bit of banditry can't be dealt with. I don't know that the court spends so much money to support it. Come and do something."

There are indeed a lot of yellow scarves under the city, but if you look carefully, you will find that those yellow scarves are disorganized and obviously a mob.

Of course, if that's all it is, it's nothing. After all, the Yellow Turban Army and the imperial army are more likely to rely on several times or even ten times the number of troops to collapse the imperial army.

But there are not many yellow scarves at the moment, only three to four thousand people, and they can be wiped out even in field battles, let alone siege battles, and Luoyang is the most important city in the world.

Three to 4000 people stood at the bottom of the city, it was very sparse, it looked very small, and the horns sounded so solemnly, it was really ridiculous.

But Wei Tao, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao didn't smile.

"The commander of the Yellow Turban is often quite capable. How could he do such a thing? I'm afraid there is a fraud in it. Could it be that the Yellow Turban's plan is to attack the West, attracting the surrounding Yellow Turban army, but acting secretly in the city?"

After thinking for a while, Yuan Shao's face suddenly darkened.

"This matter must be reported to the general!"

But Yuan Shao knew that each army had its own rules and regulations, just like the city guard army, but in fact, he didn't know that the Yellow Turban Army outside the city was not a threat at all.

But none of the generals are willing to go out to suppress bandits, but stick to one acre of land.

It is precisely because the duty of the city guards is to guard Luoyang's important land, and they cannot send troops without orders.

Now the only one who can control everything is General He Jin.

Before He Jin broke into the palace in a hurry, all the eunuchs and eunuchs naturally wanted to stop him, but with He Jin's military posture, even Zhang Rang couldn't act rashly, so he had to let He Jin meet Liu Hong.

Of course, this also made Zhang Rang hate him even more, and secretly made another note to He Jin.

Liu Hong's physical condition is indeed not very good, but it is not as weak and shameless as Zhang Rang said, and He Jin has a relationship with Liu Hong, so Liu Hong will not avoid it.

Naturally, He Jin reported the matter to him. Of course, in He Jin's mouth, they are all young people, and there will definitely not be any turmoil.

Liu Hong was first shocked when he heard that the Yellow Turbans were in turmoil in Luoyang again, and then he was relieved when he heard that a small group of Yellow Turbans was nothing to fear, and then he had an extra thought of coming to command in person.

Liu Hong was originally an absurd emperor, not to mention things like selling officials and nobles, and even setting up a palace market in the palace, making eunuchs and maids pretend to be customers, and himself pretending to be vendors, and other ridiculous things.

However, Liu Hong had never played with this matter of commanding battles. He was also moved by hearing how majestic Lu Zhi and others were fighting outside on weekdays.

In fact, He Jin doesn't have much ability. The position of the generals is more because his sister became the queen.

So He Jin thought that Cao Cao and others said that the Yellow Turbans outside the city were just a small group of troops, and after thinking about it, he respectfully invited Liu Hong to come and fight in person.

It is conceivable that Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others were surprised when they heard about this.

"General, if the Yellow Turban took advantage of the opportunity, wouldn't it be possible to endanger His Majesty?"

"It's okay, Your Majesty is about to fight. I have ordered the whole city to be under martial law, and no one is allowed to move around at will. I don't think there will be trouble with the Yellow Turban. Also, didn't you say that there are only three to 4000 people outside the city, and they can be broken at will? What's going on?"

He Jinhu said with a straight face.

"Your Majesty is just happy, you don't want to spoil the fun!"

Hearing this, Yuan Shao and others were helpless, so they had to follow He Jin's order to gather troops and horses, and Liu Hong followed the team to wait for the city.

Climbing up the city wall and looking down, I saw that the yellow scarves were scattered.

"It's just a yellow scarf. If you dare to offend my majesty, you really want to die. Where is the captain of the city gate?"

There are civil and military officials behind him, Liu Hong stands in front of him, he really has the demeanor of a general, Liu Hong is obviously quite into the drama, and immediately said sharply.

"Nowadays there are yellow scarves disturbing outside the city, you lead three thousand soldiers and horses into battle, can you wipe out the yellow scarves in one fell swoop?"

"No! The subordinates take orders!"

There were only three or four thousand stragglers outside the city, the captain of the city gate was naturally not afraid, and it was Liu Hong's order, so no one could say that he left his post without authorization.

Being able to be a school lieutenant naturally has some skills in itself. Leading a wave of troops to attack is to disperse the yellow scarves of the stragglers.

Because of the high city wall, there was not much blood and blood, Liu Hong only saw the imperial army defeating the Yellow Turban like a shattered one, and immediately burst out laughing.

"The yellow turban is nothing more than that! By the way, I heard that there are still yellow turbans outside the east gate? Come, come and conquer them with me!"

Seeing that the victory here has been determined, Liu Hong is full of spirits and enthusiasm, and is ready to conquer the new batch of yellow scarves gathered at the East Gate.

There are 7000 to [-] people gathered in the Yellow Turbans at the East Gate. Although the number is a bit larger, they are still stragglers.

This time, the generals at the East City Gate might have gotten the information, and without waiting for Liu Hong to issue orders, one of them immediately came out to challenge Liu Hong for a fight.

"There are riots and bandits outside the city, please fight, only 3000 men and horses will surely kill them, and dedicate their heads to you!"

Things about Liu Hong's absurdity and nonsense often came from the palace, so it was the same if this person was not called His Majesty, but it was exactly what Liu Hong wanted.

"Well, there are many yellow scarves outside the city, but you can win?"

"I wish to issue a military order. If you are not victorious, please behead someone's head!"

"Okay! Come on, bring a pen and paper!"

Liu Hong was obviously addicted to playing, and even gave orders like a real general.

"Your Majesty is like this, why don't the princes of the court persuade him?"

Wei Tao led the team to the south gate and then to the east gate, saw countless banners waving, and mobilized wantonly, but it was just for Liu Hong's fun.

Even if he knew that Liu Hong was ridiculous, he still couldn't help but say it.

"What's more, the purpose of the Yellow Turban is not clear now. If there is any change, wouldn't it disturb His Majesty? Your Majesty is now recovering from illness, and it should be time to take care of your body. Why is this so?"

Wei Tao naturally didn't care about Liu Hong.

In fact, Wei Tao was not loyal to the emperor Liu Hong at all. Even if he was loyal, people like Wei Tao were loyal to the entire Han nation, not the Liu family.

But I have to say that the situation inside and outside Luoyang is weird at this time, so it is naturally inappropriate to make Liu Hong so absurd.

"Zi Yu, your majesty, why did you listen to someone's advice when you were interested together? Don't you hear about the 'dog official'?"

Contrary to Wei Tao's expectations, this time it was Yuan Shao who answered him, and everyone including Yuan Shu and Cao Cao looked gloomy.

It turned out that once an eunuch dressed up a dog, wore a virtuous crown, court clothes, and a ribbon, and swayed to the court. When Liu Hong saw it, he blurted out admiration: "What a dog official."

The civil and military officials were naturally unwilling to be insulted by this, but all those who disagreed were either exiled or beheaded by the eunuchs for the crime of lying.

So far, although they knew about Liu Hong's absurd actions, most of the civil and military officials let them go. Over time, many important court officials were also used to it, just like Liu Hong. No one persuaded him to let Liu Hong act absurdly.

Wei Tao could only shake his head and smile helplessly, even Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were like this, what else could he do?
With such an emperor, if the great Han is still alive, then I am afraid it is really a rare thing.

Just when Wei Tao was sighing, something happened suddenly!

(End of this chapter)