At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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The waiter only took one look, then screamed, rushed over to have a look, and immediately yelled out at the top of his voice.

"Your Majesty is gone! Your Majesty is gone! Your Majesty is gone!!!"

Li Jue and Guo Si were taken aback, they stepped forward quickly, kicked the servant to the side, and when they saw it, their expressions changed dramatically.

"This... this... this is really the Son of Heaven..."

"The Son of Heaven is dead?!"

Of course Li Jue and Guo Si knew Liu Xie, and they wouldn't forget what Liu Xie looked like after not seeing each other in the past few years. They looked at each other, so surprised that they couldn't even speak.

They have absolutely no idea what's going on.

Liu Xie was lying on the ground like this, already dead, his chest was wounded by a sharp object, a terrible wound, blood flowed all over the place, and his expression was extremely frightened, as if he had encountered something terrible.

How could this be?

The emperor is dead?

And they died before they rushed over.

How is this going?

Li Jue, Guo Si, and the rest of the soldiers were stunned.

Except for the servant who was still howling non-stop, Li Jue got bored and chopped the servant to death with a single knife.

Quiet is quiet, but their hearts are not peaceful, they have not found the reason why the emperor died, let alone what is going on.

What about taking away the Son of Heaven?

The emperor is dead, how to grab it?

At this moment, Jia Xu has arrived in the imperial city under the protection of the army, and transformed himself into a commander who puts order out of chaos.

With a wave of his hand, the rest of Duan Yao was divided into two parts, one was to put out the fire, and the other was to protect him and come to kill Li Jue and Guo Si's "rebels" in the imperial city.

The imperial city was in a mess, there were dead people everywhere, and there were rebels running around everywhere. The rest of Duan Yan's troops immediately rushed to fight with them, and quickly killed Li Guo's rebels scattered in various palaces. , all the way to the direction of Weiyang Palace to kill the past.

Li Jue and Guo Si finally realized that something was wrong. There might be something wrong with them standing here. The emperor died strangely. If there is a problem, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, and they should leave immediately.

As a result, when they rushed to the gate of Weiyang Palace, the rest of Duan Yan's troops also arrived, and happened to bump into Li Guo's rebels. Seeing the white cloth strips tied to their arms, they immediately knew that this group of people were rebels.

"Shoot arrows!!"

The leading officer gave an order, and all arrows were fired, and Li Guo's rebels were caught off guard and shot down.

Guo Bang was even more unlucky, he was shot on the front door by an arrow, the arrow pierced his head, he fell straight to the ground and died, without being able to utter a word.

Many of the troops brought by Li Jue were scattered during the attack on the palace, and each went to fight for property and women. There were not many soldiers around him, and they were not the opponents of Duan Yu's remaining troops. They were attacked by a rain of arrows. There are not many people left.

A group of people ran back in a panic, and were overtaken by the rest of Duan Yan. The two sides fought fiercely face to face. Li Jue was still fighting in the corner alone.

Of course, Li Jue's stubborn resistance could not last long, and he was soon surrounded by Duan Yan's remnants with a strong sense of revenge, and hacked to death with knives.

Li Jue and Guo Si died in the deep palace just like that.

The rest of Duan Yao's troops rushed in immediately, wanting to see if there were any remnants of evil, but like Li Jue and Guo Si, they found the dead emperor Liu Xie and a servant beside him.

Frightened, they withdrew from the palace one after another. Just at this time, Jia Xu rushed over.

Hearing the death of the emperor, Jia Xu's complexion changed drastically, and he stumbled into the Weiyang Palace. Seeing Liu Xie's tragic death, he burst into tears.

"It was Li Jue and Guo Si! It was Li Jue and Guo Si who killed His Majesty! They killed the king!!!"

Jia Xu cried in the dark, his face was full of sadness, but his face was full of sadness, but he still couldn't redeem the fact of the emperor's death.

Although the emperor hadn't shown his face for a long time, his sudden death exceeded the psychological expectations of all the soldiers, and they were all petrified.

The emperor of the Han family in the world for 400 years died.

And die in front of them.

He was killed by Li Jue and Guo Si.

But the key point is that Li Jue and Guo Si are also dead.

The big soldiers couldn't think of so much, and asked Jia Xu what to do.

Jia Xu just waved his hand, let them go, let them find their own way of life, because everything is over, if they don't leave, they will definitely die here.

go home.

Jia Xu finally said this.

The soldiers looked at each other and left Weiyang Palace in twos and threes as if fleeing for their lives. Of course, they did not return to their hometown immediately, but stayed for a while.

The reason for staying is also very simple. They need money and need to spend money before they can go home.

Where do these things come from?

The first is the treasury.

Then there are people.

When night fell completely, the flames in Hongnong City not only did not go out, but burned more and more cheerfully. The flames and the rumors of the emperor's death almost accompanied each other and spread in Hongnong City. not be affected.

And the fact that a fire broke out in the palace, and the palace complex was ablaze, exacerbated the chaos in Hongnong City.

The army was out of control, completely out of control. Stimulated by the night and the fire, and no one could command and restrain it, the army completely collapsed, fled in all directions, and killed and looted in groups of three or four. Hongnong City was only in the In an instant, it turned into Shura Purgatory.

There is no doubt that this is indeed Shura Purgatory.

During the curfew, Li Shu's family has already fallen asleep, Li Shu's family can't light the lights, the sky is dark, the house is dark, and you can't see anything, and you have to get up early tomorrow to make a living, so naturally go to bed early, and go to bed early, and you can comfort yourself because A stomach that protests from not being full.

People who have money to light lamps can eat enough, but they don’t live the nightlife until late. At this time, everyone is doing their best to survive. Even if they talk at night by holding candles, they are also talking about future livelihood issues and the country. Big things have nothing to do with pleasure.

And at such a time, a sudden change occurred, the fire started, and began to spread in the city.

The big soldiers fled in all directions, looting people's houses with knives in groups of three or four, and they wouldn't even rob you just because you were an official, and wouldn't stop killing you just because you were a scholar.

Ordinary Li and Shu have a lot of money, and all the rich are powerful officials!

They deeply understand this.

So it was them who killed them.

Chapter 523 The Epitome of the 520 Three Era

For these officials who are powerful and have a lot of wealth, Liangzhou soldiers have not been coveting them for a day or two.

They didn't dare before, because they wanted to maintain order, but now there is no order. The temperature of the fire and the darkness of night have fueled their ambitions.

So of course they will not be let go.

They frantically poured into the homes of the rich and powerful families they could see, killing, robbing, and taking all the good things they saw as their own.

The men are killed, and the women are either killed or taken away for pleasure.

The property in the house was looted, all the gold and silver wares were taken away, and books and albums were burned by the ignorant soldiers.

The more wealthy and powerful the more they were targeted, the more wealthy and powerful the more they were targeted, and they were organized by a large group of riot soldiers with steel knives in tacit understanding. Attack these mansions by means of siege.

Break through the gate, break through the defense, kill all the guardians, rush into the inner hall, trample the people who used to be high above their feet, hack them to death with a wild laugh, and vent their crazy desire and hostility.

They destroy everything without mercy, and all of this will bring them a strong desire to destroy.

Some high-ranking and powerful households quickly summoned a large number of guards and servants to fight against them, but this would only lead to more chaos, and the number of chaos was increasing. Genocide.

Although some officials have high positions, but there are not enough guards and servants, they are even more unable to resist. They can only run away with their lives, and then they are caught and hacked to death.

A Hongnong city turned into a sea of ​​flames just this night, and countless people howled, cried bitterly, ran away, and were killed in the sea of ​​flames.

Officials at all levels howled and reported their names and angrily scolded these big soldiers, but it was of no use at all. The maintenance of order was lost. When order collapsed, the more they reported their names, the faster they died.

The chaotic army is full of violence, and they use steel knives to solve everything.

In the past, the high-ranking people were ended in an unimaginably ugly gesture. Parents, wives, children and clan members were killed and injured.

Under the erosion of violent flames, Hongnong County completely collapsed.

What happened in Luoyang and Chang'an happened again in Hongnong, and it was more thorough and cruel, because this time there was no commander or restrainer, it was purely spontaneous.

For three full days, the rioting soldiers finished looting the inside of the city, and even the outside of the city. The manors and villages in the suburbs were swept up one after another, and then they fled separately.

Basically, they all go west. Except for those whose hometown is in the east, no one dares to go east, and they all go west.

Although illiterate, they knew that Guo Peng was much scarier than Ma Teng and Han Sui.

This group of people burned, killed and looted all the way, destroying the only human smoke that Duan Yao worked so hard to leave to the land of Kansai.

Many manors and villages in Hongnong County were completely destroyed. The farmers and tenants either died or became refugees. They either hid or were taken away by the rebel army. Their fate was miserable.

The last piece of productive land in the Kansai land turned into scorched earth.

Ordinary residents in Hongnong County, central government officials, tyrants, and homes of scholars were almost completely destroyed by the rioting soldiers. Hongnong County was completely burned, palaces, towers, residential houses, and various buildings were also burned.

The once peaceful Hongnong County followed in the footsteps of Luoyang City and turned into ruins.

The people in the ruins were dead and injured, and charred and carbonized corpses could be seen everywhere, but there were not many living people.

The fire was extinguished by heavy rain three days later. The rain was mixed with charred matter and blood and flowed on the ground. No matter how you looked at it, it looked strange and miserable.

It takes many years to build such a city, but it only takes three days to destroy it.

No one can make an accurate count of how many people died in this city, because too many people died and too many people disappeared, and it is unknown how many people were burned to charcoal and could not be identified.

The burnt and scorched Hongnong City seems to be the epitome of this era full of conspiracy, killing and despair.

There is no justice, no order, no humanity, no feelings, only desire and killing.

All in all, there are still living people in Hongnong City, they are crying, howling, walking on the road in despair, looking at the charred everything, smelling the scorched smell, and their eyes are empty.

There are men, there are women, there are old people, and there are young children.

The gloomy sky, the dense raindrops, the ruined Hongnong City is crying weakly, powerlessly complaining about this gray and cold era.

This is the era of "magnificent waves" and "heroes emerge in large numbers".

Guo Peng was not the first to know about this "unexpected disaster" in Hongnong City, but Zhang Ji was the first to know about this disaster.

The soldiers who escaped from Hongnong City all wanted to join Zhang Ji to survive, so they hurried to let Zhang Ji know about it earlier than Guo Peng.

Among them were soldiers who saw Liu Xie's body with their own eyes, so Zhang Ji knew very well that Liu Xie was killed by Li Jue and Guo Si.

Duan Yan also died at the hands of Li Jue and Guo Si. Jia Xu led them to destroy Li Jue and Guo Si, but after seeing Liu Xie's body, Jia Xu collapsed.

The soldiers described Jia Xu as hopeless and asked them to run for their lives, but Jia Xu did not run for his life.

Later, they saw that the Hongnong Palace was on fire, and it burned very violently, but Jia Xu was never seen.

Although he didn't say it clearly, Zhang Ji understood that what the soldiers meant was that Jia Xu had lost all hope because of the death of the emperor, and was buried in a sea of ​​flames in the Hongnong Palace.

Zhang Ji froze on the spot and didn't speak for a while. The generals around him looked at Zhang Ji in horror, not knowing how Zhang Ji would react or what decision he would make.

Li Jue and Guo Si...

"I knew... I should have killed them..."

Zhang Ji's hands trembled slightly, and his tone trembled a little too. He trembled and said such words, and his whole person was in a bad mood.

The emperor died, the second of Liangzhou's three giants died, Hongnong's central court collapsed, Hongnong County was destroyed by fire, and many important people were killed and injured...

The imperial court... is gone...

Zhang Ji couldn't accept this fact, and Zhang Xiu, his nephew who was by his side, couldn't accept it either.

There is a war ahead, the old nest is destroyed, the army supplies are all over, and there is no rear.

Can this battle continue?

Originally there were tens of thousands of troops in the entire Chang'an city. It was not so easy for the Ma-Korean coalition forces to capture Chang'an, but Zhang Ji had no rear, no supplies, and no retreat in an instant. Chang'an on the front line suddenly became a deadly place. .

dying?

Zhang Ji couldn't accept it, but what was even more frightening was that before he could react, the news leaked out, and the entire Chang'an army became restless, uneasy, and even chaotic to a certain extent. Zhang Xiu had no choice but to replace the faint The dizzy uncle led the army to suppress the rebellion and forcibly controlled the situation.

But the matter has come to this point, Zhang Ji cannot be allowed to continue to be dizzy and not make a decision, this decision must be made no matter what.

So that night, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu talked in private for a while.

"Duan Yan is dead, Jia Wenhe is dead, the emperor is gone, Hongnong is burned, everything is over, we only have tens of thousands of lonely people, guarding an empty city, no supplies, no food, sooner or later If it is going to collapse, there are strong enemies outside, Axiu, what should we do?"