Chapter 57 Xiping Stone Carvings
In the Central Plains, although LΓΌ Bu suffered some losses in his own troops after attacking the coalition camp at night, his success established the impression that LΓΌ Fengxian was brave and invincible among the coalition forces. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but the real winner of that battle was Gao Shun.
Gao Shun intercepted the blind cavalry of Bao Xin's department on the side of the road, and the cavalry team suffered heavy losses under the strong crossbow blow, and Bao Xin was pressed by the dead mount, and finally the army was defeated and captured.
After getting enough benefits, Lu Bu no longer continued to wander in Yanshi City, leading the troops to sink all the way behind him to resist the horses, and retreated to Hangu Pass without looking back.
Gongsun Chan has been fighting several battles in Mengjin and Guo Yan for several days, but they are all petty fights, and both sides are looking for an opportunity to defeat each other in a battle to determine the situation. Sun Jian on the South Road felt helpless against Xu Rong's strict defense.
Sun Jian is brave enough, but Xu Rong is not a mediocre hand, not to mention that there is a fierce general like Hua Xiong to lead the army, so that Sun Jian can not advance an inch for a while, and can only hope that the other two soldiers and horses will form a squeeze on the pass, so that Xu Rong can not take care of the enemy on his back before he can retreat to Hangu Pass.
Yanbei did not pursue along the road of LΓΌ Bu's retreat, but marched the three routes of soldiers and horses in unison on the land of Kwantung, with the Lu Yi Department as the left road and went straight to the south, as a killer weapon to assist Sun Jian to defeat Xu Rong, and Cao Cao led his troops to the north to help Gongsun Zhan deal with Guo Yan.
The soldiers and horses of the headquarters drove to Luoyang with great fanfare, followed by the herald ordering the soldiers and horses left behind at the revolving gate pass to enter the west...... Old Shangshu Lu Zhi wanted to go back to Luoyang to have a look, and now he could be satisfied.
Luoyang, the eastern capital, although Yanbei, who led the troops forward, can still see the glory of the capital city in the distance on the towering city wall, but now Luoyang City is only this city that can tell the glory of the past, the once prosperous countryside is scorched earth, and the crows that are not afraid of people perch on the trunks of those burned dead branches, staring at these uninvited guests who break into the place of death with black bean eyes.
As the troops entered Luoyang, all the troops had dispersed under the orders of Yanbei, and Zhao Yunjiao led two troops as a precursor to set up camp in the west of Luoyang City. Su Muyan, Sun Qing and the scouts who survived continued to carry out dangerous activities for Yanbei to detect the enemy's situation...... Of course, they were also responsible for finding things that hadn't been destroyed by the fire and that had survived to this day.
Some of the things they could use, but the Liangzhou soldiers just forgot to take with them.
Luoyang is now like a hollowed-out treasure trove, although there have been many thieves before and after, but after all, there will be some bits and pieces left for future generations to pick up.
For example, when it came to the books left behind on the way to move the capital, Sun Qing picked up a small box in the unwanted wilderness west of Luoyang.
Looking at the dusty imperial capital, Lu Zhi couldn't help but burst into tears. This old man, who has been loyal to the Han family for most of his life and needs to be supported to walk, pushed away Chen Qun, who was supporting him, and stumbled under Luoyang City alone, holding his dry palm on the green bricks of the city wall, as if groping for the laughter and laughter under the world's heroic city in the past.
Chen Qun was a young man, and when he saw the appearance of the highly respected Lu Zhi now, his eyes were blurred, and he clenched his teeth tightly, and he followed Lu Zhi step by step, walking towards the inside of this dead city.
The city was in ruins, with bustling markets and opulent houses burned to the ground, and the wood-and-stone houses could not withstand the fire, leaving only the ruins and corpses everywhere.
Some are charred black, others are only bones.
Their story can be traced back to Yanbei's unimaginative mind...... Some people were reluctant to leave their hometowns and died under the sword soldiers of the Liangzhou people. There were also some people who fled from the westward migration after the fire in Luoyang, with no food or wells within a radius of 200 miles, and the rivers were all controlled by the army, and these people were starved to death of thirst last year.
"Ziyi, you've been to Luoyang." Yanbei walked in this lifeless and majestic city, and the black ash on the ground made him reluctant to even get off the horse, tilting his head and asking Tai Shici, who was deeply touched: "There have been great changes here, right?" β
Tai Shi Ci seemed to have lost the desire to communicate, just nodded slightly, and pointed to a remnant of the horse tether stake to Yan Bei without asking: "This used to be the Imperial Historical Observatory, and every year the state officials have to report their local political achievements here, and I destroyed the state seal here." β
Perhaps it is because people who have seen the glorious period of Luoyang have more feelings when they see the dusty capital now, and Yanbei is not interested in the stories of the past here. He just felt a little lucky.
This city was the most majestic and the easiest to defend and difficult to attack in his life.
"You know what I'm thinking?" Yan Bei raised his horsewhip and turned his head to the towering city wall behind him, and said conclusively: "Dong Zhuo's initial relocation was to defend Luoyang City to fight against us, even if he burned Luoyang later, there are still some clues from the traces left, the military camp in the city has not been burned down, and the road to the city has not been destroyed...... Dong Zhuo wants to play with us here. β
Although it is a bit unpleasant to mention the war at a time when everyone is in a depression, Yanbei doesn't care so much. He did not lead his troops here to pay homage to the ruins of the imperial capital of the Han Dynasty, but to fight such a battle for the sake of righteousness.
Otherwise, he prefers to go to the inner city of the Goguryeo royal capital to visit the ruins of the royal capital of Dongyi Xiongguo.
What's the point of looking at the ruins of your own national capital, for fear that you don't know, and then whip yourself on the back to remind yourself how incompetent?
The only feeling that this Luoyang ruin can bring to Yanbei now is that they are all waste...... From the emperor to the common people, they are all a bunch of waste. Each of them claims to be heroes and heroes, but in the end, they can't even defend the capital of their own country.
If it's not waste, what else could it be?
Passing through the wide and long street, there are still Xiping stone carvings symbolizing the correct scriptures and righteousness of the world standing in front of the charred Taixue Gate. Forty-six large-scale and majestic stone scriptures, even with black ash, were even broken into a few pieces...... But in Yanbei's eyes, this is still the world's treasure.
Luoyang's countless Confucian doctors, who spent eight years correcting the scriptures, were abandoned here. Now that Taixue has turned into nothingness, they are still here?
Yan Bei summoned Li Damu and asked him, "Do you know what this is?" β
What can Li Damu know? This guy who knows how to cut people with a knife glared at Yan Bei with big eyes and replied to Yan Bei very seriously: "Big stone! β
"Big rock...... Well, big rocks. Yan Bei was stunned for a while, and then said to Li Damu: "Okay, it's okay, you lead a team of cavalry to follow Lu Shangshu and Chen Changwen, although there is no one in this city, you still have to be careful of accidents." β
Li Damu glanced at this stone forest again, this is not a pile of big stones, then shrugged his shoulders, buckled the ring knife at his waist and led the order to take care of Lu Zhi.
Watching Li Dayan lead the cavalry away, Yan Bei asked Tai Shici, who was pursing his lips and smiling, "Ziyi, what do you think?" β
"What do you think?" Tai Shi Ci was asked by Yanbei, and only after a few breaths did he say: "General, we will stay in Luoyang for a while, right, my subordinates want to copy these stone scriptures and bring them back to Liaodong." β
Yan Bei let out a long breath, and sure enough...... Is this what normal people think?
As a horse bandit in Liaodong, Yan didn't think it was a good idea to copy a copy and leave, he frowned and looked back and forth between Tai Shici and the stone scripture stele forest, and said slowly: "Ziyi, I want to bring these stone scriptures back to Liaodong......"
"Huh? Is this, this okay? "Tai Shi Ci can see the greed in Yan Bei's eyes, anyone who has studied the scriptures and righteousness will have studious greed under the stone forest inscription before this Taixue, right? But he couldn't imagine how Yanbei came up with the idea of bringing these stone tablets back to Liaodong, and Tai Shici said with a sad face: "This ...... Is it the imperial court that has learned everything, general? β
"The Central Plains is getting more and more chaotic, and our three-way soldiers and horses may not be able to hit Chang'an City, do you understand what I mean?" It is difficult to admit that he did not have the confidence to defeat Dong Zhuo, but in Yanbei's opinion, this is the truth, he is not from the Central Plains, and their roots are in Liaodong. Yan Bei said slowly: "We, Wentai, and Bogui, none of us are from the Central Plains, and it is impossible for anyone to confront Dong Zhuo here. In the future, the two hundred miles of Luoyang will become a place of four wars where the disputes are particularly fierce, and it is too dangerous for such a treasure to stay here. β
"Ziyi, let's bring them back to Liaodong and stand in front of the Liaodong Academy!"
Without waiting for Tai Shi Ci to respond, Yan Bei decided this matter in his heart, and said to Tai Shi Ci: "Do it tonight, Ah Jin, you take someone to dig out these stone tablets and even the stone seats under the ground, cover them with cloth and wrap them on our baggage carts." β
"General, this ...... This is also too hasty, the road is long, and if there is a bump in the stone, it will be damaged. β
"Yes, so we can't go overland, and I'm not worried about passing through the territories of the Kwantung princes on the way." Yan Bei pursed his lips and said: "In this way, it will take more than half a month for the fast horse to return to Liaodong, so that Fu Zhu will send a fighting ship from Shuizhai to the Mengjin Ferry, and we will use the fleet to bring back these stone carvings, all of them back!" β
These treasures, these treasures that may not have been touched in the life of Yanbei's identity, are now abandoned in this empty city like garbage...... Can Yanbei not be tempted?
Tai Shi Ci didn't think about anything else at this time, in all fairness, he didn't think that it was a bad thing for the Xiping stone carvings to fall into the hands of Yanbei, he was just thinking about whether this matter would have a bad impact on Yanbei. Just looking at Yanbei's fanatical appearance now, he knew that for Yanbei at the moment, if other princes wanted to intercept these stone scriptures...... Yanbei even did not hesitate to fight!
"General, if we want to bring the stone carvings back to Liaodong safely, at least we need to hide them before the fleet arrives."
Yan Bei nodded, of course he had to hide these things.
"Also, Ah Jin, we don't have much water left, you can take someone to find a well in the city to dredge it and see if you can get water. Those wells were blocked by Liangzhou cubs...... If it can't be dredged, you can only go to the Luo River outside the city to get water. β
Yan Bei raised his eyes and looked at the lifeless Luoyang City around him...... It may not only be these stone carvings that he wants to hide, but there may be more treasures in this majestic city that are covered in dust and waiting for him to retrieve them!