Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 383 Ma Chao Appears
Zhou Cang ordered the guards in the palace to close all the palace gates, resisted to the death, and waited for Qianniuwei to come to the rescue. He led a team of palace guards to block Han Xiandi Liu Xie in the bedroom. There will be no storms.

When Li Song left Xuchang for Yecheng, he ordered Jin Wushu to command Qianniuwei, patrol Xuchang, lead [-] troops, and set up camp five miles away from the city. Xu Du sent an army into the city to meet Zhou Qing.

They continued to fight until dawn, and Geng Ji, Wei Huang and others had no one to help them. Someone came to report that Jin Yi, Ji Ben and his son were all killed. Geng Ji and Wei Huang rushed out of the city gate. After a fight, he was captured alive.

More than a hundred people under his command were killed, Jin Wushu entered the city, put out the remains of the fire, collected all five clansmen, old and small, and sent people to report to Li Song.

"Report to Tang Gong! General Jin flew to report! The young servant Geng Ji, the prime minister Si Zhi Wei Huang, the former imperial physician Ling Jiben and his son, and Jin Yi launched a rebellion and attacked Xuchang." Li Song, who was playing at Tongque Terrace in Yecheng, Get information from Jin Wushu.

"What? How about the Son of Heaven? Is there any damage?" Li Song was shocked.

"I report to Duke Tang, Zhou Cang, a man of five senses, will lead the bodyguards to guard the palace to the death, and personally guard the emperor. The emperor is safe and sound!" The visitor said:

Li Song let out a sigh of relief. It has only been a month since the rebellion of the Hejian man Su Bo was quelled, and there is another problem in Xuchang. Are these people full of food and doing nothing?
"Mr. Tang! I thought that there might be more than these people. There might be other accomplices among the officials, so we have to guard against them! It is better to take precautions early." Dong Zhao said.

"You're right! Send an order! Let Jin Wushu behead Geng Ji, Wei Huang, and their clans. As for the officials, they will be secretly monitored. I will talk about it when I return to Xuchang, and I will reward Zhou Cang." Li Song ordered road.

"No!" The visitor took the order and left, and Pegasus passed the order to Jin Wushu.

Jin Wushu took Geng and Wei to Shicao, and Geng Ji yelled, "Li thief! I can't kill you in my life. I will die as a ghost to attack the thief!" The executioner stabbed his mouth with a knife, bleeding all over Land, swearing endlessly to death, Wei Huang suddenly said with his cheeks: "Hateful! Hateful!" He gritted his teeth and died.

Jin Wushu killed all five clans, old and small, and sent people to secretly monitor all officials.

After Li Song returned to Xuchang, he immediately ordered all civil and military officials to be summoned to the teaching ground, and set up a red flag on the left and a white flag on the right.

He looked up at the sky, the sky was clear, and he looked down at Baiguan and said: "Geng Ji, Wei Huang and others rebelled and set fire to Xudu. Among you and others, some came out to put out the fire, and some of you closed the gates to get out."

"Among you who have gone out to fight fires, you can stand under the red flag; those who have never gone out to fight fires, you can stand under the white flag." After finishing speaking, Li Song closed his eyes and waited for the officials to make a choice.

The officials thought to themselves that the firefighters must be innocent, so many people ran under the red flag, and only one of the three stopped under the white flag.

After the hundred officials were selected, he smiled slightly and said, "Take all the officials under the red flag." The Qianniu Guard guarding all around rushed towards the officials under the red flag like beasts, and took them all down.

"Duke Tang, I'm innocent! Why did you take me!" All the officials shouted for injustice.

Li Song stood with his hands behind his back and said, "You didn't really go to fight the fire, but to help Geng Ji and other thieves, push them all out and behead them."

Among these people, there may be people who think like Geng Ji and others, and some are clever, thinking that those who stand under the red flag will have no problems, but what they didn't expect is that as long as they stand under the red flag, the red flag will be They are reminders.

Li Song didn't have time to find out who the accomplices were bit by bit. Even if he did, there would be no guarantee that there would be no fish that slipped through the net, so he might as well kill them all.

Qianniuwei pushed out hundreds of officials and beheaded them. More than [-] people died. After dealing with these people, Li Song said: "Those who stand under the white flag will be rewarded."

"Thank you Tang Gong!" The survivor thanked him.

At that time, the king must have died of arrow sores, so Li Song ordered people to bury him generously and treat his family well.

Later, he ordered Pei Yuanqing, the governor of the Yulin army, Zhong Yao to be the prime minister, and Hua Xin to be the royal doctor, so the sixteenth rank of the Marquis and the seventeenth rank of the Marquis of Guanzhong were all given gold seals and purple ribbons; Sealed with tortoises and black ink ribbons; five senior officials with fifteen ranks, bronze seals with new ink ribbons, appointed nobles and appointed officials, and the court changed another group of characters.

After solving these problems, within a few days of Taiping, there was news from Liangzhou that Ma Chao raised his arms among the Qiang people, and gathered [-] troops to attack the counties and counties of Liangzhou controlled by Li Song.

Tan Daoji, Chang Yuchun, and Chen Qingzhi's troops divided into three groups, and Ma Chao's army was defeated. Only Hanyang County was in Ma Chao's hands.

"Now that Jicheng is under siege, what should we do?" Wei Kang, governor of Liangzhou, looked at his subordinates and asked. Ma Chao attacked Jicheng for three days, and Jicheng lost a lot of troops, and there was not much food and grass left, so it couldn't last long. .

So Wei Kang hurriedly summoned everyone to hold an emergency meeting. Before Ma Chao attacked Jicheng, he cut off the news that Jicheng was leading to the outside. A, Ma Chao is more anxious than them.

"For today's plan! We should send people to Chang'an to ask for help, and at the same time send people to General Chang Yuchun's garrison. Ma Chao is besieging Jicheng. There is such a big movement. It is impossible not to know why they don't see any movement." Yang Fu said.

It was only then that everyone remembered that Duke Tang sent three generals in a row, leading [-] soldiers, to garrison Liangzhou to prevent Ma Chao, but now they can't be seen, which is very suspicious.

"Could it be that they were defeated by Ma Chao and fled Liangzhou?" Wei Kang's subordinate Zhao Ang asked.

"It's hard to say, but judging from Ma Chao's current posture, it might be possible. Anyway, it's better to send someone to find out." Yang Fu said.

"I don't know who to send to Chang'an for help?" Wei Kang asked, since he planned to send someone for help, he naturally needed to choose a suitable person.

"This subordinate is willing to go to Chang'an to ask for reinforcements!" Wei Kang saw that it was Yan Wen.

"Okay, the matter of asking for help will be handed over to Bo Jian." Wei Kang said with a salute.

Now there is a shortage of food and grass in the city, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on much longer. If you don't ask for help, Jicheng will be in trouble. Fortunately, Ma Chao leads the Qiang soldiers and horses. strengths.

"Wei Inspector, I'm leaving for Chang'an right now, and I ask General Yuwen to send troops to rescue." Yan Wen said with a salute.

"It's not easy to go out of the city now, and it won't be too late to go out of the city quietly after three o'clock at night!" Yang Fu said.

After some discussion, Yan Wen was sent to Chang'an to ask for help, and Zhao Ang went to inquire about Chang Yuchun and the others. After three o'clock, the two lurked out of the city.

(End of this chapter)