Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Soldiers Enter the Palace

With the example of Xiping's stone carvings, Yanbei seems to have a great affection for the ruined Luoyang City, and his subordinate Gao Ran was ordered to scatter all his subordinates to search for anything useful in this ruined imperial capital. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

It's valuable, this one is the least important, but it's good if you can find it.

The most important thing is the object with the object engraved...... Whether it is a stone inscription, a brief case, or a book or a book, even a bird seal must be collected.

Of course, the order they received was only to search for Taixue, Lingtai, Biyong, Lingtai, Yushitai and Dongguan on the periphery of the Imperial Palace in Luoyang City.

These are just the outer cities of Luoyang, and eight out of ten of Luoyang City are within the imperial palace. But Luoyang City is too big, even if it is only one-twelfth of these elves, it is enough for more than 3,000 people under Gao Guan's subordinates to search carefully.

Under the Pingcheng Gate, the tearful Lu Zhi adhered to the duty of a courtier, knelt down under the south gate of Nangong, and no longer continued to enter the city. Chen Qun followed Lu Zhi and knelt aside, not knowing what to think. Li Damu, who was ordered to escort them, looked bored, carrying a knife and leading the riders to wander left and right under the palace gate.

Yan Bei estimates that this guy who doesn't understand must not understand why Lu Zhi is kneeling at a burnt gate, right?

"Mr. Zigan, don't you go in?"

Although it was only just six words, it made Yanbei look at Lu Zhi and Chen Qun kneeling in front of the palace gate on the way from Yushitai to Pingcheng Gate, and pondered for a long time. Of course he wants to enter the palace! Not to mention anything else, the Taicang and arsenal of the imperial palace are in the southeast corner of the imperial palace, and you have to pass through the south palace to reach it.

Even if Dong Zhuo would definitely empty the arsenal Taicang before leaving, Yanbei still wanted to see what fish had slipped through the net.

What's more, this is the Imperial Palace!

For a man of humble status like him, this palace, even if it was an abandoned palace, still had great allure for him.

He wanted to see what the place where the emperor lived.

"This is the Imperial Palace."

Lu Zhi didn't say anything else, even if the emperor was gone, this was still a palace for him. Dong Zhuo can enter the palace, that is Dong Zhuomu has no father, but he can't enter the palace.

"I want to go in......" Before Yan Bei's words were finished, Lu Zhi glared at him with a pair of cold eyes and shouted, "Zhongqing! ”

Even Chen Qun on the side got up and wanted to say something to Yanbei.

The Imperial Palace, is it said that you will enter it?

But Yanbei smiled unconsciously. He was smart enough, he expected Lu Zhi to react like this as early as when he spoke, he hurriedly waved his hand and turned down, led his mount to Lu Zhi's side and said softly: "Mr. Zigan, Yan insisted on entering Luoyang, one is to repair the mausoleum of the former emperor of Luoyang that was destroyed by Dong Zhongying, and the other is to enter the palace...... His Majesty's Taimiao, no one has cleaned and worshiped this year. ”

At this time, Yanbei pretended to be a first-class loyal minister. As if he had never been involved in the rebellions that spread all over the world.

Lu Zhi was stunned, thinking about what Yanbei said, and looked back and forth between Yanbei and the dark palace gate.

Yes, no one worships Taimiao this year.

When the first emperor was still alive, Lu Zhi was also invited to worship the temple with the emperor of Luoyang during the Chinese New Year, at that time he always hated the first emperor and did not care about such a major event as worshipping the ancestors and praying for the blessing of the world. But now that Luoyang is in ruins, he feels nostalgic for the old days.

"You have a point, but ...... We enter the palace? Lu Zhi looked left and right, still feeling inappropriate in his heart, and looked at Yanbei. He could feel that Yan Bei had already planned in his heart, and Lu Zhi, who was listless before, actually stood up at this time and looked in good spirits, and asked Yan Bei, "How did General Zhongqing plan?" ”

Yan Bei shook his head and said, "Yan has never entered the palace, and I don't know the location of each palace, but ...... It is not wrong to enter the palace to sweep the temple and send troops to search for the artifacts left in the palace. ”

Lu Zhi frowned, a little angry in his heart, but still asked quietly, "Then what?" ”

"Send these artifacts to Hangu Pass, and let Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses deliver the things to Your Majesty." Although Yan Bei felt that this idea was very stupid, he knew in his heart that people like Lu Zhi would eat this set, which was probably a gentleman who could be bullied. After saying this, Yan Bei said his true thoughts, "Of course, entering the palace also has a little selfishness on Yan's part, and I hope to send troops to search the arsenal to see if I can find some weapons." ”

Of course, the weapon Yan Bei was looking for was not something like the Qinglong Yanyue Sword Fang Tian Painting Halberd, nor was it the lance that Dong Zhuo gave him as a meritorious reward or the treasure armor he was wearing...... What he wanted was a real weapon.

Even if it's a fire, it's a weapon that can't be burned. For example, delicate objects such as the trigger of a strong crossbow and the clasp of armor.

Although these things are only small bits and pieces, they must be the most exquisite structures in the world that can appear in the palace arsenal. Although he had many craftsmen in Liaodong, there were very few people who really built ordnance from generation to generation, and most of them made agricultural tools for generations. It's okay to have those people make some swords, but it's a little worse to make armor. If you make a strong crossbow, you can only polish the parts according to the existing structure of the utensils, and the quality and practicality are much worse.

He has no shortage of manpower, and what he lacks most is this knowledge.

And he believed in ...... Even a fire could not burn out the most delicate trigger parts made of copper and iron on the crossbow machine...... As long as Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses are missing, wait until next year, his Liaodong armaments will be updated!

For Yanbei's rhetoric, Lu Zhi agreed, indeed just like Yanbei thought, this old man ate this set, and said to Yanbei with a red face: "In the middle is His Majesty's royal road, let's take the road on both sides, General Zhongqing must restrain the soldiers, don't mess with the etiquette." ”

"No!" Yan Bei smiled, as long as Lu Zhi Lao Shangshu didn't stop him outside the palace gate, let alone take the back road, it was no problem to knock the palace wall into a gap with a car to let him go! Yan Bei took Ma Langsheng and shouted to the soldiers behind: "Listen, let's walk from the double road on both sides and enter the palace!" ”

Lu Zhi, who used to often go in and out of the palace, led the way, and the group took many detours, and only a team of cavalry followed them to the Taimiao Temple to worship the ancestors of the Liu family. However, at this time, the Taimiao Temple was even inferior to Yanbei's Zongmiao in Liaodong, the nine temples of the Son of Heaven were all burned down, and even the tablets were gone, and the group just worshipped at the ruins.

This made Yanbei feel bored.

At the end of the ceremony, Lu Zhi cried as if he had lost all his strength, and asked Yanbei for a team of soldiers to clean the temple. Yan Bei agreed, and after asking Lu Zhi about the general location of the various palaces in the palace, Yan Beili sent people to Zhao Yunjiao outside the city under the majestic Vermilion Bird Que, and asked them to drive the soldiers and horses into the palace, and ordered Gao Lan, who was searching on the periphery, to camp on the spot tonight, and after searching Taixue, Lantai, Jinshi and other places in two or three days, he also led the troops to enter the palace from Yongmen.

Batches of baggage were brought into the palace, and soldiers searched everywhere...... The most important thing is to unclog the wells of the various palace rooms in the palace.

They can leave nothing else, the search can be slowed down, they have a long time to search, even if it is enough to dig the whole of Luoyang three feet into the ground, but they don't have enough water. There was dry food in the baggage, but if there was no water, once the Hangu Pass defenders marched east, they would be finished.

But fortunately, just an hour later, a soldier sent back the news that two wells in the East Palace were only blocked by stones, and they could be dredged soon.

This made Yanbei feel at ease, it is not terrible to have stones in the well. He was afraid that there would be dead people in the well...... As a last resort, he didn't want to drink water that had soaked in the dead.

He hadn't figured out what the plague was all about, and it would have been terrible if the soldiers had contracted the disease because of the blind river at such times.

During the time when he was waiting for the soldiers and horses to move, Yan Bei kept raising his head to look at the towering Vermilion Que beside him. There are four ques in Luoyang City, and the Vermilion Que that stands in the middle of the north and south palaces is the highest one.

Listening to Lu Zhi, before it was burned down, in Yanshi City, forty-three miles away, you could see the Deyang Hall and the Vermilion Bird Que lushly connected with the sky, which was a very magnificent scenery.

But now there is nothing left, and all that is burned down is a one-zhang high stone tower and broken tiles all over the ground.

Zhao Yun didn't let Yanbei wait too long before leading the soldiers and horses into the palace, and he could still see that the ruins of the palace in the past seemed to be nothing special to the handsome cavalry generals, and galloped all the way to a place away from Yanbei before dismounting and arching his hand: "General, what are your orders?" ”

"Follow this compound road to the north is Yong'an Palace, and after Yong'an Palace and then to the north is the arsenal and Taicang, take your people and follow me to the arsenal to have a look." Yan Bei saw that the soldiers and horses were assembled on the compound road, and he didn't talk nonsense, so he turned over and waved to his subordinates after buttoning up his belt: "Why didn't Jiao Touch come, send someone to tell him, organize people to board the palace wall to set up defenses, and release the ...... to explore the horses."

"General, Jiao Sima ......" Zhao Yun glanced at Yan Bei in embarrassment, sighed and didn't speak. Xiahou Lan, who was a military leader next to him, was not used to speaking ill of people like Zhao Yun, so he arched his hand and said to Yanbei: "General, Jiao Tan has drunk too much wine outside the city, and he is going crazy with alcohol!" ”

"What?" Yan Bei's whipping hand paused in the air, looked at Xia Houlan with an angry face, and said, "Lao Tzu is almost out of water to drink, he is drinking?" No...... Who let him drink when he was outside, and where did he get his wine in the wilderness? ”

Jiao Touch, I want to die!

Yan Bei's long and narrow eyes patrolled back and forth unkindly, and finally put his hand in front of Xiahou Lan's eyes, and said in a cold voice: "As a military leader, you are drinking outside the army, how should you be punished?" ”

Xiahou Lan didn't expect Yan Bei to be so angry, he was just upset when he saw Jiao Touch drinking and crying outside the city, and he didn't want to hurt Jiao Touch, and he panicked when he heard Yan Bei ask this, "General, this ......"

"I ask you how to punish it!"

"Army, military stick......" Xiahou Lan swallowed her saliva, glanced at Zhao Yun, and carefully said a number that was enough to kill people, "Fifty!" ”

Not to mention that Yanbei had already ordered his subordinates to drink alcohol in the army, especially when fighting outside. At this juncture, the western soldiers are eyeing at Hangu Pass, and if they are not careful, they will throw their lives in the ruins of this imperial city, as the other Sima guarding the outside of the city, Jiao Touch is actually drunk...... Still drunk?

Yan Bei asked Xia Houlan, "Then what are you still doing here?" ”